BETA ICS 4.0.X Brought to you by Team DRH is NOW AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE! (And if you don't know where elsewhere is you don't deserve it )
February 2nd
IceCreamSandwich is now available brought to you by the genius's that make up Team DRH! Due to the Teams wishes no direct links shall be posted so if you want it you will have to do one of the following:
1. Go over to -that other site-, find the Gtab section and the ICS Beta thread and download it, OR
2. wait for it to be officially posted on XDA here (which I have no idea when it will happen.)
and that's all I have to say on the matter. This here post can be found later in the thread but I'm quoting it here as well for convenience:
fosser2 said:
When the beta build gets released to SD please keep direct links off of XDA. I know that its not exactly protocol around here to link to SD but XDA will get the full rom in the development section. SD will have it first.
PS: links are live! you all know where to get it
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January 15th
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Sorry I haven't updated in a while! been a bit busy but I come bearing wonderful news! in the last 2 months development has shifted entirely from Honeycomb to IceCreamSandwich and rather than the .36 kernel it's being built with the .39 kernel. While this may sound like it would take a lot longer it really isn't due to the source code for ICS being released so the devs don't have to jump through hoops trying to get stuff to work.
The reality of it is that it's a heck of a lot easier to get ICS working than it would be to have continued with HC3.2. and ICS IS working. Fosser2 said that there's a possibility that a public beta build MIGHT be released next week if everything goes well. (so we can cross our fingers and hope). I believe everything BUT the camera is working now so they are likely just polishing some things up and making sure it won't kill out tablets before releasing anything publicly.
Here's a couple videos made by one of the alpha testers to wet your whistles.
ICS on GTab UPDATE!
ICS on gtab with sound!
I'll keep this thread more updated if anything new comes to light
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Old Updates from Honeycomb
It appears that the folks over at Slatedroid have gotten the the .36 kernel to boot into Linux and Honeycomb 3.2 on our tabs! This is great news cause this will give them the ability to see what they need to change in the kernel to get full Hardware Acceleration!!! For the ones that don't know, the .36 kernel is the magical kernel that gives honeycomb hardware acceleration on our chips. He's a quote from the dev thread:
UPDATE 11/24
So Ch3vr0n5 over at SlateDroid has posted that they are accepting 20 applications for alpha testing the .36 kernel. Space is limited so make sure to read this thread over on SD if you wish to apply
http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/25230-bl-12-26363-development-alpha-testing-112411/
This is what we've been waiting for. alpha means we are getting VERY CLOSE to public release!!
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Update 11/20/11
Hey, due to BLT24 not having time to keep this thread updated I've taken over. Just keep the same format as it's easier.
Anyways on the newsfront a fellow by the name of dwagner has fixed the long press power button issues so now it does what it's suppose to. One step closer to a public release
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Update 11/15/11
Im so sorry that I haven't updated for almost a month now. My computer went kaput and I am no longer able to keep up with the updates I am working right now to get this thread handed over to someone else so that it can continue to keep people informed. Again I'm so sorry for the inconvenience, you can head to the last page of this thread to see updates from Pawnty, or you can click the link at the bottom of this post to head over to the original thread
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Check-in 10/20/11
Well the Dev thread has been very quiet lately. Don't worry though, they are still very hard at work on this kernel. Right now they are working on different hardware drivers and tweaks. Hopefully it will be ready in the next coming weeks! Keep watching! I am still actively following the Dev thread and IRC!
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Update 10/05/11
We have ALL the nvidia proprietary drivers working in the .36 kernel now. The streak image would have been useful if it had the same accelerometer as we do , but it doesn't.
I'm not sure what sound chip the streak 7 has, but if it was the same as ours it would be useful.
Each manufacturer has the ability to use whatever sensor devices they want. This also changes how they are connected to the tegra2.
Update:
Wake from sleep fixed, I was trying to get the lowest power sleep mode to work, but it seems to be an issue in the bootcode embedded in the tegra2. There is a workaround but the bootloader needs to support it, which is why I was trying the hannspad 1.3 bootloader.
lp1 isn't bad however, my tab slept all night and woke up with a full battery.
There is a really annoying error on the i2c bus at the moment causing the capacitive keys not to work. (really, really annoying)
The heat issue seems to be wifi related, others are not having the same issue.
Once the i2c issue is fixed then most of the kernel issues are done.
Sound is likely a mix of kernel and rom issues.
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Reminder:
guys, can you make sure people dont use my hannspad kernel on the gtab.
.36 doesn't use the ODM like .32 does, so things like gpios, buses and regulators look a lot more device specific now.
I'm concerned you could do some damage by using it.
obviously happy for you to use the rom, its roughly based on VC9,with some Adam changes and pulls from the a500, but you really need a gtab kernel,to play with it.
I've used some of treznorx changes in my repo, (hell I've even been that lazy i haven't bothered changing his file names yet)so there's obviously shared ground, and I'm happy to pay it back how I can...
it looks like mohan has a pretty solid gtab kernel built now.
have fun ..
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Update 09/28/11
Yes that is currently how we are testing the kernel by injecting the kernel into the Vegacomb ROM and making a change in init.harmony.rc; however, once we get closer to a polished product we will give tlbardeljr and anyone else who is interested notice so they can starting tinkering away at 3.2 for a future release. We should have an alpha test version out in a week or so but don't hold us to that
Cheers
Also the flashback team have finally responded!! Here is a quote:
"Give it a few weeks when this kernel is complete the Flashback team or other modders will probably make a 3.2 port."
Flashback: We are all ready tabletcraze just have not been posting here because dont want to distract from your work. (awesome job to all of you!)
I do expect there will need to be framework changes. Newbe and the vega guys are digging through these now so a lot have been fixed already.
If there is anything you guys want me to do now just let me know.....otherwise I will go back to staying out of your hair so you can continue the awesome work.
So keep a lookout for a flashback update soon after this kernel releases!!
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Update 09/26/11
Great work from Kushiels over in the Adam camp getting sound code working well! Actually, great work from everyone who has contributed by way of code,testing,building,gathering info,cheering the devs,etc! The gang on our IRC channel have all done a fabulous job getting everything to where it is today...
I have sound on both speakers...volume buttons fixed...working on volume level and a new sensors library right now....
todo :
wakelocks,
PM,
fix long hold on pwr button,
fix USB so it works without workaround,
fix battery fuel guage,
fix media buffering,
fix mmc so it static maps to avoid SD card issues at boot,
and last but not least the crappy camera...
It will soon be time to get this in the hands of our ROM developers to do preview and perform their magic.
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Thanks bluecobras09 for the update!
Update 09/22/11
Touch screen is fully functional
Still no sound but they are close!
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Update 09/21/11
Wifi working
Youtube full HD video working
still no sound
touchscreen wonky but working
Market Working
Seems like we're moving into alpha territory!
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Update 09/19/11
Honeycomb 3.2 booting to desktop then Freezes
Mouse working
No touchscreen yet
2.6.36 based on Raymans github
Update #2
No more Freeze, stable desktop
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Update 09/10/11
Ok, I have been gone for a while dealing with stuff but the dev team has been trucking along and we have new contributors. Currently I think we are actually moving to a 2.6.38.3 base instead of 2.6.36.3 because it just likes our tablet much better. Yay! rootfs Ubuntu is booting and touchscreen works with wifi so I feel we are closer to our end goal, booting android and having full HW acceleration. Hope to post a more in depth update later when I get a few minutes to get back into the game. Check page ten (I think) for a youtube video showing Ubuntu running.
YouTube video of xubuntu booting on gtab/.38 kernel HERE!
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Update 09/08/11
A new .38 kernel was found that plays a lot nicer with our tabs with Linux. We were able to boot Backtrack 5 with it and have working touch screen, WiFi, and even Bluetooth. We are working now to see how it does with android!
Stay tuned, some exciting things are happening!!!
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Update 09/05/11
"Still working on it. Mayday-Jay has been doing a lot of work on the kernel and he is able to get the Gtab working on the BackTrack5 correctly.
Yesterday, I got a few debug logs from the 4950 and Pershoot's .43 kernel. With those, we think we will be able to bridge the gap and have something that will boot on Android.
The biggest hurdle right now seems to be related to the clocks since the frequencies are different from 2.6.32 and 2.6.36.
If anyone is playing with the kernel and got some debug logs or more information, do not hesitate to send it to us."
"Hi Icewyng,
Thank you.
Sure, please find in attachment dmesgs of stock and kernel from this thread"
We finally got dmesgs!!! Now this thing gets a lot easier!
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Update 09/02/11
That just means we are working hard... or hardly working...
Still just trying to get things like ADB working. Mayday is about to go on vacation so he will be spending time on the kernel and Icewyng has been working steadily. As for me, I have been busy with some life stuff but I have still been compiling and testing. We are at the point where hopefully one of us will make that "breakthrough" we are all working towards so hold on to your seat... the ride is about to get bumpy.
Cheers =)
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Update 8/25/2011
We know that we are hanging on init.rc and have a few ideas one how to proceed. Mayday_Jay (Give him and Icewyng a big thank you because they have made this project viable) is working on getting all the developers a proper update.zip that will help those with out a usb to serial converter get some useful debug information.
Don't fret when it takes a couple days for us to update. If you want bleeding edge news, join us on the kernel dev irc channel which is found further on in the thread. We are still working!
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"PROGRESS!
Just wanted to post an update:
There has been some progress so far. Mayday-Jay has been able to start the kernel in Linux (with Backtrack 5) but the touchscreen was not working. He is trying to compile the Kernel and give Android a shot.
There is still some way to go but I think we can expect the Kernel sooner than later. "
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I Will update this thread as updates come out there.
If you want to follow the development yourself, you can find it HERE
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It appears that the folks over at slatedroid have gotten the the .36 kernel to boot into Linux on our tabs! This is great news cause this will give them the ability to see what they need to change in the kernel to get it to boot. For the ones that don't know, the .36 kernel is the magical kernel that gives honeycomb hardware acceleration on our chips. He's a quote from the dev thread:
I Will update this thread as updates come out there.
If you want to follow the development yourself, you can find it HERE
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Actually, it's not a port of VegaComb 3.2 (Honeycomb 3.2) they are working on as the title suggests.
They are just in the beginning stages of trying to convert the Adam .36 kernel that Rayman did. Rayman had to rewrite various drivers for the Adam hardware (which is similar to, but not the same as ours) to get it working on the Adam. Hopefully they can do the same for ours.
Update 08/25
@aabbondanza
yes you are right atm but none of our honeycomb ports are built to use hardware acceleration(even though they can be changed to do so). So that means our only option for testing is vegacomb. So if they get it to boot vegacomb then that will be our first rom with HW ACC and the others can rewrite their already made honeycomb ports to use the new kernel
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Update 08/25
@aabbondanza
yes you are right atm but none of our honeycomb ports are built to use hardware acceleration(even though they can be changed to do so). So that means our only option for testing is vegacomb. So if they get it to boot vegacomb then that will be our first rom with HW ACC and the others can rewrite their already made honeycomb ports to use the new kernel
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Granted, a VegaComb 3.2 port would be great, but, no one has gotten it to work on the gTab and no one has announced that they are working on a VC 3.2 port.
Our current HC roms are operating on .32 kernels that don't fully support HC, while Rayman has created a .36 HC kernel that supports full h/w accelleration on the NI Adam (another close cousin of the gTab as the Vega is).
Even the guys over at Slatedroid who trying to convert the Adam .36 kernel discussed trying to use the Vega release as a starting point but decided that since the Adam kernel now supports full hardware accelleration & that Rayman had offered assistance if needed, that would be easiest route to getting this working on the gTab.
IMO, the first step in achieving full accelleration is going to be switching a .36 kernel. Once we have a working gTab .36 kernel then we should look forward to newer versions of Honeycomb & or Icecream Sandwich.
Yes you are right sorry I guess that I didn't understand your last post lol Thank you for going into more detail
Any updates / progress on this?
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Any updates / progress on this?
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I've been following them on their IRC and things look good, they got the usb/serial cable to work last night and today they are working on getting a logcat so they can find out what stopping them. Things are looking really good so hang in there and i'll keep you updated!
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I've been following them on their IRC and things look good, they got the usb/serial cable to work last night and today they are working on getting a logcat so they can find out what stopping them. Things are looking really good so hang in there and i'll keep you updated!
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Thank you very much!!
Update 09/02/11
bump!
isn't anyone else excited! ?
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isn't anyone else excited! ?
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Title is still kind of misleading. Kernel programming is no simple task. They are at the very beginning stages. I'll be much more excited when they start making progress. Hats off to them though because I surely couldn't do it. At this point they appear to be wavering between continuing to work with the Adam kernel or maybe switching to the Vega one.
Update 09/05/11
BUMP!
i dont plan on retiring my gtab for another 10 years! rooting for yall
Just thought I'd drop by.
A few people had success with getting a working kernel for Backtrack 5 ( I know Mayday-Jay has a config that works great with it) but we still have some way to go to get Android working on 2.6.36 with the Gtab.
If anyone wants to help out, let us know! The more people we have, the better the chances to get this thing on the road quickly!
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Update 09/10/11
excited
How do we go about as a community to contribute financially to this team??????
MX Video Player apk v1.3 beta2 Download for Android
Working 720p play videos download in youtube ....
working 720p @ 30fps !! Gtablet android 3.0.1
I should receive my gtablet this week and I'm following this thread daily. Hope they can achive their goals and release a nice kernel.
PS: I thought gtablet was a really famous tablet with lot of improvements thanks to xda users. But it seems that there is not too much development lately... am I wrong?
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Here's an idea, maybe something else can contribute or confirm it might works..
the Nook honeycomb image is actually running on top of a 2.6.29-omap kernel, which indicate that only some parts might require 2.6.36.3 functions.
I know that the main problem for me porting it, was the libc.so which uses kernel calls not found in our existing 2.6.32.9 kernel. so it crashed due to some cache functions not implemented.
- could the missing cache functions be implemented into our 2.6.32 kernel?
- can the Nook edition with a working libc.so (hopefully without FPU function compiled) be used to replace our xoom image libc.so which crashes?
So to make an early edition can we merge the ARMv5 libs (i assume it is from the emu) and use this with xoom edition and then keep our libnv* environment which is compatible without our nvrm_daemon (which no one can fix, although a proper kernel work for booting 2.6.36.3)
ideas.. but if its possible to put into "real life" is another story.
and how many can do experiments?
Artem wrote he is on the 2.6.36.3 kernel, but since we might have an option to go around, maybe also worth considering, if display driver lacks nvrm_daemon support.
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I'm not a developer but I can do some beta tests for you if you want.
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I'm not a developer but I can do some beta tests for you if you want.
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obviously...same here...;-)
I am able to write basic scripts, xml etc.. and have a brain...
Jp
i tries all this out now.. and got passed some link references between libs but the "libc.so" issue came coming back..
so it did not work..
im closing the idea here :-( not worth spending time on, so only the solution with updating kernel and rewriting drivers must be the way forward.
May be I should wait for ubuntu 11.04 or some other linux OS for folio 100
Toshiba &Google is not so kindness. Are they only want to earn more money, right?
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i tries all this out now.. and got passed some link references between libs but the "libc.so" issue came coming back..
so it did not work..
im closing the idea here :-( not worth spending time on, so only the solution with updating kernel and rewriting drivers must be the way forward.
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Yup, I also think that waiting for updated kernel + drivers from the new Toshiba folio 200 is a more feasible approach...
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Yup, I also think that waiting for updated kernel + drivers from the new Toshiba folio 200 is a more feasible approach...
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If, and its a big if, the 200 has the same hardware.
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If, and its a big if, the 200 has the same hardware.
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correct,
we already know it has different resolution . and probably better display now, and no hardware buttons on the side, so no I2C used for this..
i think its very different, as it probably also got 802.11n wifi now, which we dont have and need different ar6000 driver.
i think its a long road downhill for folio100 if the 200 edition should be anything close as source for porting.
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correct,
we already know it has different resolution . and probably better display now, and no hardware buttons on the side, so no I2C used for this..
i think its very different, as it probably also got 802.11n wifi now, which we dont have and need different ar6000 driver.
i think its a long road downhill for folio100 if the 200 edition should be anything close as source for porting.
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Please, I'm no expert in this, so bare with me for asking questions.
Honeycomb uses a different kernel than Froyo ok.
For Froyo we have the source for all (hardware) drivers ?
Can the "android" part of Honeycomb (from for example Xoom) be put on
a kernel with required hardware drivers or are there stuff in the "android"
stuff that is hardware dependant ?
Is it hard to port drivers between kernel versions ?
Just trying to understand the many tasks need to get Honeycomb on Folio.
/Martin
The problem in this case is there is no honeycomb kernel sources out there.
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The problem in this case is there is no honeycomb kernel sources out there.
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xoom kernel source is available, koush used it to make his clockworkmod work , and it works fine, and its also used for oc'ing.
but its pretty much the tegra2 source we can get from nvidia. but alot of porting to do.
So, What we are still missing is?
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So, What we are still missing is?
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all of it!
Lol, guess all we can do now is wait for some ice-cream or get us a native honeycomb tablet.
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Hey, Asus just released his kernel honeycomb version:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=gHh4q7I8dvWJzhdV
Choose Download and then Android.
I have started porting the kernel:
https://github.com/DerArtem/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb-folio-nvidia
great news
i dont know how to compile or port stuff but i can say that i love my folio and i love all the devs that are working hard to port honeycomb on our device! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
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I have started porting the kernel:
https://github.com/DerArtem/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb-folio-nvidia
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really great news!!!
thank you!!!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you a lot !!!
I hope you do 3G Modem Support to !
Just thought some might be interested in this (so sue me, i had to ask it):
http://nookdeveloper.zendesk.com/en...-updated-1-2-source-code?page=1#post_20056491
We will be publishing the updated source in the coming weeks. Thanks for your patience.
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It will be interesting to see what their new source brings, and what we can use from it. Here is hoping that it is sooner rather than later...
EDIT: Well, i am happy to say it didn't take long.. have at it here: http://images.barnesandnoble.com/PResources/download/Nook/source-code/nookcolor-source-code.zip
Awesome news! The faster we can get dalingrin the updated kernel source the better!
Does complying with the gpl allow for a reasonable delay? Because once you get into grey areas like that, what's reasonable? 2 weeks? 3 months?
Obviously they have the source already, so I don't understand when companies release it some time afterwards.
Aye. I hate the "weeks" portion.. given that its out, i dont think its unfair to demand it now. As it is though, i think the GPL gives 60 days (??) for them to publish the code though, so it may be a while.
Not sure if I don't understand the complexities or everything all the devs here do, but what are the possibilities of the deeper-blue Honeycomb ROM being updated to use a modified version of the 2.2 Nook Color kernel instead of the current 2.1 Nook Color kernel? I assume this would help in getting some items like Flash video etc working properly in the Honeycomb ROM.
Or is the goal still to wait for whenever the 3.0 honeycomb full source is released? Just thinking out loud. Interested to see what others have to say.
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Not sure if I don't understand the complexities or everything all the devs here do, but what are the possibilities of the deeper-blue Honeycomb ROM being updated to use a modified version of the 2.2 Nook Color kernel instead of the current 2.1 Nook Color kernel? I assume this would help in getting some items like Flash video etc working properly in the Honeycomb ROM.
Or is the goal still to wait for whenever the 3.0 honeycomb full source is released? Just thinking out loud. Interested to see what others have to say.
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There isn't much an updated kernel will do to help the Honeycomb SDK.
I don't see any schedules mentioned in the GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
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I don't see any schedules mentioned in the GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
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They will do whatever they want until someone sues. What if we lost?
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I don't see any schedules mentioned in the GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
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I may have been wrong (and will happily say its not the first time); but i did do some reading and found this: http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/User:ashawley/Making_copyleft_work_with_implied_compliance
Not sure if it is totally relevant though..
Source Code
I got this:
Dear Brandon Bennett,
Thank you for your inquiry.
Barnes and Noble will post the updated source code in the near future.
There is still no specific date yet. The link will be posted under terms
of service on the website.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may have
caused and we look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Ella
Customer Service Representative - Digital Support
Barnes & Noble
http://www.bn.com/
Visit our NOOK Support site for the latest updates and downloads at:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/support/
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Hopefully the source will help dalingrin, verygreen and fattire cut through the current mysteries with the .32 development kernel for CM7.
Seems like a lot of progress was made without B&N's help (smart developers), but even if only a few optimized drivers can be poached that is better than nothing.
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I got this:
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Thanks for the info. The nook dev board had another update:
Well, if history is a guide, we released source of 1.0 about 2-3 weeks after launch...
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As i replied, the anxious part of me does not understand any delay really, other than trying to keep the source code away from us "hackers" for as long as possible. The code is obviously in use, so why not release it?
Ah well..
There are probably lawyers hemming and hawing over them releasing it. They probably are trying to ensure that they haven't violated some other patent/copyright in their code which they actually might get sued over.
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There are probably lawyers hemming and hawing over them releasing it. They probably are trying to ensure that they haven't violated some other patent/copyright in their code which they actually might get sued over.
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Perhaps, but the code is already shipping - its not to say an update can't get pushed out, but just because we can't see the source, doesn't mean current violations are excused.
As it is, the linux kernel is GPL; they can't not release it. So again, i am still frustrated at the hold up...
Probably just the usual corporate speed. They don't like to publish anything before they have to, if only for liability and exposure. Probably the last thing on the rollout list, too.
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Hopefully the source will help dalingrin, verygreen and fattire cut through the current mysteries with the .32 development kernel for CM7.
Seems like a lot of progress was made without B&N's help (smart developers), but even if only a few optimized drivers can be poached that is better than nothing.
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We are actually very close to having a good .32 kernel already. Some of us have been using .32 full time I think. Verygreen did most of the work on the port. He scrapped my .32 work and started over.
We only need a few updated drivers from them and we'll be good. So I expect a prompt release once we have B&N source.
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We are actually very close to having a good .32 kernel already. Some of us have been using .32 full time I think. Verygreen did most of the work on the port. He scrapped my .32 work and started over.
We only need a few updated drivers from them and we'll be good. So I expect a prompt release once we have B&N source.
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Rock on good sir.. That sounds most exciting indeed!
Perhaps a silly question, but to the end user- what will the difference be between the current and .32 kernel? Faster/better/stronger/able to make cappuccinos?
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We are actually very close to having a good .32 kernel already. Some of us have been using .32 full time I think. Verygreen did most of the work on the port. He scrapped my .32 work and started over.
We only need a few updated drivers from them and we'll be good. So I expect a prompt release once we have B&N source.
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I was actually using it for a while. Just needed more clock/governor steppings and the weird "broken SD" and battery fixed, as you already know. It is flying though.
Edit: forgot about sound
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I was actually using it for a while. Just needed more clock/governor steppings and the weird "broken SD" and battery fixed, as you already know. It is flying though.
Edit: forgot about sound
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The clock/governor issue is because only the performance governor is compiled into the kernel right now. The broken SD warning is mostly fixed and I believe the same for the battery.
Hi,
I haven't had my A43 for long, but I bought it as a hacking toy rather than a productive tablet, so I've been reading these and other forums with interest. I thought I'd post where I'm at, and I'd really appreciate it if people could correct me if (when!) I make mistakes. Ultimately I'd like to see a really solid and full-functioned Gingerbread ROM for this tablet (and maybe ICS later, I'm not interested in Honeycomb since the source isn't available).
It seems that all of the kernels available for the Gen8 tablets are based on Archos' 2.6.29 - that includes the CM7 port, OpenAOS, UrukDroid etc. My chosen first task is to get a newer kernel up and running. I'm not confident to do that "blind", i.e. by uploading builds through the SDE menu and hoping it does something intelligent! So, I started looking for a serial console, and I'm pretty sure I've found it.
Looking at the rear of the board (i.e. the bit that is at the back of the tablet when it's all closed up), there are two test points. One of them is definitely carrying UART traffic, only problem is that it's at 1.8V logic levels and running at 1.0Mbps. It'll take me a day or two to organise something that will talk with those parameters.
I've already had a setback, I soldered some standard ribbon cable to those test points and when I went to close the tablet, the test points ripped off the board! This led to all manner of trouble trying to connect (thinner) wires to the remaining bits of test point, but I've managed it now. Probably more photos to come.
Is this interesting to anyone? If there's no interest I won't keep spamming the forum with updates
You can take a look here http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/Gen8Resources For other kernels then the 2.6.29.
The guys could use some help , most of the time they can be reached on irc #openaos on freenode
Maurice
RobBrownNZ said:
I haven't had my A43 for long, but I bought it as a hacking toy rather than a productive tablet, so I've been reading these and other forums with interest. I thought I'd post where I'm at, and I'd really appreciate it if people could correct me if (when!) I make mistakes. Ultimately I'd like to see a really solid and full-functioned Gingerbread ROM for this tablet (and maybe ICS later, I'm not interested in Honeycomb since the source isn't available).
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Welcome to the world of hacking
RobBrownNZ said:
It seems that all of the kernels available for the Gen8 tablets are based on Archos' 2.6.29 - that includes the CM7 port, OpenAOS, UrukDroid etc. My chosen first task is to get a newer kernel up and running. I'm not confident to do that "blind", i.e. by uploading builds through the SDE menu and hoping it does something intelligent! So, I started looking for a serial console, and I'm pretty sure I've found it.
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Some work had been started to implement the archos patches and use newer kernel version.
Search the web... there's some efforts, especially for the A43.
As divx118 pointed out openaos.org is the best starting point.
RobBrownNZ said:
Looking at the rear of the board (i.e. the bit that is at the back of the tablet when it's all closed up), there are two test points. One of them is definitely carrying UART traffic, only problem is that it's at 1.8V logic levels and running at 1.0Mbps. It'll take me a day or two to organise something that will talk with those parameters.
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See this post over here for some related info about UART connection on A101:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16923184&postcount=35
BTW, concerning UART testpoints on A43... you got them.
http://www.openaos.org/archives/757
Google might be your friend
RobBrownNZ said:
I've already had a setback, I soldered some standard ribbon cable to those test points and when I went to close the tablet, the test points ripped off the board! This led to all manner of trouble trying to connect (thinner) wires to the remaining bits of test point, but I've managed it now. Probably more photos to come.
Is this interesting to anyone? If there's no interest I won't keep spamming the forum with updates
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Yeah handle with care... it's good that you managed to solder a new wire.
Try to fix the connection mechanically with some glue.
I can confirm, the testpoints easily rip off
As you see there's interest, keep on posting....
We need more hacks over here.
Best regards,
scholbert
Well, that's a bit embarrassing... openaos.org has a ton of stuff that I hadn't seen before. It'll take me a while to dig through all that
Thanks divx118 and scholbert.
OK, I got up and running. I've got an FT2232H breakout running into a board of my own with 74LVC2T45 level shifters. My boot log is attached.
Termite (http://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm) allows arbitrary baud rates and doesn't require editing inf files, which is nice, although it's pretty basic in every other way!
Okey i dont have experience with hardware^^
Could you please tell me what is going on here?
I saw that you wanna get a newer linux kernel as our 2.6.29 but how do you want to get it with hardware modding?..
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I saw that you wanna get a newer linux kernel as our 2.6.29 but how do you want to get it with hardware modding?..
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Oh, it's quite simple. If the kernel that I'm working on doesn't boot correctly, so that it doesn't start the adb daemon (for USB debugging) or the LCD for displaying messages, then I can't see what's going wrong. And that happens to me a lot!
By having a serial console, I can see the messages from the kernel as it's starting up, without it having to boot and run those other programs.
So "hardware hacking" is probably a bit of a grand title. But "tacking on a serial console" just doesn't have the same ring to it
Thanks for clearing it up for me!
It looks interesting, i will stay tuned
@RobBrownNZ: You can also join us at IRC #openaos on freenode or use the webplugin http://www.openaos.org/chat
Note: that most people are on european time.
Maurice
thanks RobBrownNZ
i have this Archos..
if you want some test, i am here
(i wait all blacks/france...)
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(i wait all blacks/france...)
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Yessss... we don't have the best record against you in World Cups. It'll be interesting to be sure!
I've been looking through so many kernels that it's doing my head in, but I've settled on 2.6.35.7 from arowboat.org. That's a good mainstream choice for Gingerbread, and an older kernel will hopefully have less differences with the 2.6.29 from Archos.
divx118: I'm on IRC, but being in the southern hemisphere, and having 2 young children, is going to prevent me from participating much! Hopefully we'll be able to chat occasionally though.
I had a look at the openAOS resources page. Hidave's and Prahal's kernel work seems to be aimed at Linux more than Android, and I think they're very brave going for version 3+ kernels. Nicktime is doing something similar to me with 2.6.37, and seems to be doing pretty well. I thought about asking him if I could join in, but I want to learn as much as I can from this so I'll battle on alone for now
So I've got comparisons of the .config files from 2.6.29 and 2.6.35 (after I configured 2.6.35 to have "similar" settings to 2.6.29), and the build logs. I'll get the muxes and serial ports fixed up first which should give me something to boot, hopefully that won't take long at all.
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divx118: I'm on IRC, but being in the southern hemisphere, and having 2 young children, is going to prevent me from participating much! Hopefully we'll be able to chat occasionally though.
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Sorry didn't look at the nicknames before posting.
And for the family, that is a known issue. It seems only people with little free time want to join development.
Just for your info, if you didn't know. I am working with bubu and illifant on the gingerbread port, but then with the 2.6.29 kernel.
Maurice
nothing for linux hack webtop for Razr!?
I click this thread with such high hope... T_T
Just wait a couple of hrs......
I hope this means what I think it means...!!
!!!!!
YES.
Waiting for good news..
I am stinky with anticipation on this!
I've started to work on it. I should release a preliminary version tonight or tomorrow, it depends on my dear ****ty ADSL connection
Okay, I said "just wait a couple of hours" making you all think it would have been out today, but I was working on the overclock module so I've been a lil' bit late. I've posted it so that some other dev will examinate the situation and write the needed few lines of code for making it to work as expected.
Sounds very good Kholk, don't overrush... Your already working so much on custom tooling for the RAZR!!!
But you made me very curious!
b.o.n.s said:
Sounds very good Kholk, don't overrush... Your already working so much on custom tooling for the RAZR!!!
But you made me very curious!
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Right? Both his o/c and his webtop app!
Wait, does that make me bi-curious??
Opening a thread for Webtop Mod, I wanna know what do you expect from it prior giving it to you, so I can set it as you all want.
is possible to have a dump of original webtop!?
some one have try the hack for Atrix/photon?
If you want a dump of the original webtop, download the Fastboot ROM in the ROMs thread.
The WebTopMODs for ATRIX/Photon shouldn't work as expected as they're meant to be used with Tegra2 (VFP), not with OMAP4. They're different.
Mine is meant to be used on OMAP4, its binaries are compiled with full OMAP4 support.
Chromium on Razr Webtop?
I've gone through your Netty enhancement (very impressive results, I might add!) and am thrilled with the results so far... BUT, upon installing Chromium using the apt-get functionality, I'm running into errors - something along the line of the application not properly reporting the timestamp back to the system. End result is that the application runs perfect for about a minute or two - then the system kills the app.
Have you had any success in getting Chromium running? That's by far my #1 want at the moment.
(And note - I'd post this in your development thread for the mod, but the system won't let me do so until I reach 10 posts... I think that's a feature.)
First of all, I know that this might not be the right forum for this, but since this id is new I am not allow to post the thread on the development forum. Now that I got that out of the way. I think a lot of you would really enjoy this video =)
We have started an effort to port HTC View to AOKP ICS. It's far from fully working. But we hope to get some of the basic functionality working in the coming weeks before we release the rom. So stay tuned!
Video 1
http://youtu.be/mW8qLrse4pc
Video 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9IllruYZA
List of things that are working so far.
WiFi, touch screen, captivity buttons(no back light), GPS, sound, HW accelaration? (not sure, as we don't know how to test it), internal sd card
List of things that we're working on before a rom release.
1. On screen button has weird look on some apps, it shrinks to a very small icons.
2. HD movies don't play, Omx codec issue?
3. Touch screen seems to be un-responsive in some game apps.
4. BT doesn't work at all (not as important)
5. Pen doesn't work at all (not as important)
If you have any ideas on how to fix these issues or provide some ideas what could be the cause of the issue (for example, you encounter the issue in other devices and know where to look for the issue) Please let us know by posting on the thread or PM us so we could speed up the release.
This thread is now close and has been moved to development forum as there is a pre-alpha rom for download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1673430
That looks great, i dont have an evo view, but a flyer bu i see that you have been able to avoid the graphic seizure we have on the flyer roms, i think maybe you and drew garen could colaborate some of your work, but idk, im not a dev or anything, but looks great
Drew Garen ROM
Same here hope you can collaborate with drew to get the graphical seizure issue worked ot between the two of you - I'll post this in Drew Garen's Dev thread.
We're open to share our experiences, if someone post specific questions regards to a specific problem like graphical seizure issue mhkabir98 mentioned. We could provide some ideas. But keep in mind that we're still talking about 2 different devices so there might be areas where they will differ.
Can you elaborate or maybe post a short video of what you mean by graphical seizure?
if i get the time i will eventually take some pics and tape it so you can see it
Wow, looks great so far. Hope to see WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS working soon.
I'm willing to test if you need it. I don't really use my View for anything important right now.
awesome man! pumped!
looking good! thanks for sharing the progress. sounds very promising. as a view user, the idea of getting ics before the flyer makes me grin.
schadenfroh said:
looking good! thanks for sharing the progress. sounds very promising. as a view user, the idea of getting ics before the flyer makes me grin.
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your name fit's very good to your comment xD
freak4dell said:
Wow, looks great so far. Hope to see WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS working soon.
I'm willing to test if you need it. I don't really use my View for anything important right now.
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Got sound to work. Graphic is much better now, there are no red boarders anymore. Wifi is so close to working.... thanks for the offer, will probably need help when we test app compatibility.
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Got sound to work. Graphic is much better now, there are no red boarders anymore. Wifi is so close to working.... thanks for the offer, will probably need help when we test app compatibility.
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funny,
i think the Flyer is at the same stage too
you're in a competition and reached the same breakthrough around the same time, cool!
you should work with Garen on the wifi solution, there are always room for programmers to fix things.
This is awesome!!! I had kind if given up.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
wow i might have to dust off my view now lol
wifi works now. will post a video later with the latest
I will happily donate for this, thanks for your hard work!
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I will happily donate for this, thanks for your hard work!
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thanks. that's encouraging
Update video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9IllruYZA
That's looking great -- awesome work!
Got a newbie question. Since we're building this rom from HTC HC kernel source + AOKP source tree. Does this consider porting or building a rom? What is the difference?
yncconsulting said:
Got a newbie question. Since we're building this rom from HTC HC kernel source + AOKP source tree. Does this consider porting or building a rom? What is the difference?
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my personal opinion which is: porting if you have no compatible drivers available or framework already working on the platform.
- If HTC did not develop any drivers and framework for ICS and for our view/flyer, it becomes a port.
- If you use drivers from another device because HTC did build it, its a port.
- If you take panel device kernel driver and adapt it to this device, its a port. but changes are development.
porting is using existing source or drivers and make it work on another device.
kernel is an exception since all of it is opensource and everything build a custom kernel.
framework in aokp builds are modified aosp sources, where most is compiled from source with changes to source (which becomes a port, like you see old games ported to new devices)
but those i made, are nearly 100% ports, i did smali changes, a few library hardcoding changes into binary files, and only a few kernel changes.
i would call my changes 100% porting.
even if i ported a camera driver from desire hd, which again is not build from scratch.
a rom build is very common as i see it, when guys combine files after their choice and changes some graphics + apk's changes. that is a definate rom build. if you got not development c/java/smali involved) it cannot be a port or a developer rom, its a rom mod(ified) of an original with changes.
its not easy to define "build" .
a modified rom build, or compiled build from source.
not a direction on the term, but just my opinion on this.
(previously already mentioned that ports never are any good, and ICS builds from source are better.)
some people porting are better than others.