We just heard from JBMM about this cool concept device by AlphaUI.
It seems to be a keyboard strapped to the back of the device. A technology called BackTyping. But see for yourself.
Apparently they are about to launch a Beta test of their hardware for the A5IT.
So if you live anywhere near Paris or Burssels. (They won’t ship by mail and I can’t justify the costs flying there! While I want this soo bad to try it with all our Froyo/MeeGo/Angstrom images!)
We had some early development snapshots already, but for an real alpha version we said we want to fix at least WiFi and SGX. For WiFi we even had an bounty and I guess this image is best proof that the bounty has been earned. Furies did the work on it. Thanks to AndAppStore for sponsoring the bounty!
Well we don’t want to make the tension unbearable here is the image:
If you ‘just want FroYo’ – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
If you don’t plan to give us feedback – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
If you expect everything to work – this is not for you! Wait until it’s stable and usable.
After this has been said, thank you very much you seriously want to help us with this. We appreciate this very much as we really need every help we can get!
If you notice anything that doesn’t feel right, please file an ticket and
use Android 2.2 Alpha2 as the target milestone
and Android 2.2 – alpha1 as the version
Please do the same if you want some feature included or something improved
First boot will take very long! Keep your USB cable connected.
First the rootfs gets unzipped (You can unzip it on your PC that’s much faster!)
The Android cache is compiled – this can also take a while, just watch the boot logo while this happens.
Please join the mailing-list to discuss this image!
Want to see if someone is online right now to ask a question or discuss? Join us on IRC!
¹ please note that the default Ångström image needs to be modified to work with this kernel! adding the command ‘fbset -nonstd 0′ could fix at least part of the issue during boot process. Expect updates on this soon.
Sorry the downtime lasted way longer than anticipated.
But now we should be able to run the servers in an even better environment.
We apologize again for the inconvenience!
Stay tuned for FroYo Alpha1 real soon now!
PS: Some notes from our server migration:
BEWARE of cgroups-bin on debian! It breaks lxc! Mount cgroups manually or through fstab! (The error message in this context was ‘lxc-start: No such file or directory – failed to rename cgroup /mnt/cgroups/cpu/20945->/mnt/cgroups/cpu/openaos’ – once we purged cgroups-bin it worked instantly)
For certain reasons the location where our servers are will be inaccessible for some time. We have arranged for a temporary housing location but the servers need to move physically and the network routing has to be switched to the new location.
We expect a downtime of 1-3h duration on Friday (2010-09-03) if everything goes according to plan. Will begin not later than 11:00 UTC.
If it doesn’t it may very well take until Monday, but let’s hope for the best..
This post will be updated with an more acurate time estimate if we receive further information.
None of the openpma.org or openaos.org services will be available during the time. Sorry, we don’t have the resources to arrange for uninterrupted service.
We apologize for the inconvenience!
update: We have feedback from the NOC. It looks good. Most likely moving physically will take longer than switching the routing. update2: Duration and beginning updated. For status updates (not only during the downtime ) please check our twitter feed
