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Updated Gingerbread image for gen8

Friday, July 8th, 2011

BuBU has built an image based on the latest openAOS and CM code:

  • improved bluetooth (BT HID confirmed working)
  • workaround for web browser crash
  • default homepage is openaos.org
  • Archos community bookmarks
  • other

The latest image is openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz (md5sum).
Confirmed working with boot menu version featured here.

If you are new please be warned that this is still experimental and bugs are expected, for installation instructions continue reading here.

Gen7 code compiles but is not ready for public images. If you want to build it yourself for gen7 or gen8 here are some instructions.

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Posted in gen7, gen8 | 11 Comments »

gingerbread, another update

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

< _BuBU> dm8tbr: time for new anouncement? :D
< _BuBU> openaos-gingerbread-20110628_122823.img.gz
< _BuBU> ATTENTION !! new zImage/initramfs.cpio.gz are required (else accelerometer will not work the right way on A101
< _BuBU> so:
< _BuBU> – accelerometer should work
< _BuBU> – both sdcard and storage should be mounted
< _BuBU> – bigger home/menu/back buttons..
< _BuBU> – update from upstream cyanogenmod (so regression or improvements expected)
< _BuBU> for the accelerometer you may have to active 180 degrees into cyanogenmod display settings

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Posted in ArchDruid, gen7, gen8 | 19 Comments »

Gingerbread CM now for Archos – Proof of concept

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Bubu sat down and made Cyanogenmod Gingerbread Android 2.3 working in his spare time. This is a proof of concept so don’t expect too much.

Currently working:

  • SGX/EGL 3D acceleration
  • WiFi
  • Touchscreen
  • adb
  • Android Market

Not working:

  • Audio
  • Bluetooth
  • Accelerometer
  • accelerated Video decoding
  • Suspend
  • TS calibration on A28/A32/A43

Known problems:

  • general instability / random crashes
  • Touchscreen has problems on the A101
  • hard to use on resistive TS models due to missing calibration

We’re looking for help to take this further. As this can’t be done by one person alone.

If you want to try it. It currently works on gen8 with latest openAOS boot menu:

http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/openaos-gingerbread-poc_2011062301.img.gz
http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/openaos-gingerbread-poc_2011062301.img.gz.md5sum

You need to gunzip and copy it into the root directory of your device, then add it to your menu.lst.

Sources are here:

https://gitorious.org/openaos-cyanogenmod
(Currently this is only vendor/archos/gen8 and device/archos/gen8, so you need to first “clone” the master branch of CyanogenMod)

Join us on IRC if you want to have a chat about it. This also has potential for the A5IT/A48IT but it needs volunteers that will help to make that happen.

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Posted in ArchDruid, gen7, gen8 | 11 Comments »

Here we come again, alpha3 of FroYo for A5IT

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

It’s been a while, we all were very busy and as nobody new stepped up to help with things this alpha3 took longer than it was expected. It would have taken even longer but we decided to make a cut and release what we have so far.

The following tickets were resolved on our way to alpha3:

Ticket Summary Resolution
#103 Continuous reboot worksforme
#104 most recent initramfs/zImage seems to break MSC under Archos Android fixed
#112 live wallpaper make device hot (also in standby) worksforme
#72 Audio not working fixed
#111 browser crashed occasionally duplicate
#115 lsusb showing wrong ID and ADB not working worksforme
#117 Native ABI mismatch from package file fixed
#94 strace from alpha1 broken fixed
#95 update busybox+busybox config fixed
#113 adobe flash 10.1 plugin not supported duplicate
#114 Full Screen Feature Needed: Same Feature Like in 1.6 (Full Screen For All Appz) duplicate
#89 dpi 195 is correct, but results in large ui elements and text fixed
#118 permissions on /mnt_data/download restricts market defect
The following tickets sadly didn’t get fixed/resolved yet. If you see one where you could help. PLEASE do so!
Ticket Summary Type
#107 Menu Line Missing: Even after duplicating lines defect
#126 need to provide encrypted storage for some apps enhancement
#93 sitting idle with power disconnected turns off defect
#92 brief press of power button does not put unit to sleep defect
#100 openvpn support enhancement
#109 Wifi unable to stop defect
#110 browser crashed occasionally defect
#116 GPS not working defect
#71 Accelerometer not working defect
#73 Bluetooth not working. defect
#84 Add IPv6 module enhancement
#122 Notification bar in Google Maps defect
#123 Sleep Error defect
#77 Touch Screen Calibration App enhancement
#101 external sd card does not get automounted on boot defect
#120 AppsLib does not recognize the device as an Archos device defect
#121 Change mount location of internal storage defect

and for the beta1 target:

Again: Send patches! Discuss on the mailing list! Show some support by investing some time into this. Things don’t do themselves magically.

Keep in mind:
  • In general this is still alpha grade code so don’t expect wonders in stability and functionality.
  • If you find an issue that is not yet reported then file a new issue! If you do not report it we don’t know it and nobody can notice it and try to resolve it!
  • This is still not really intended for the average end user. If you are one, don’t come complaining that “stuff doesn’t work”. Just be happy that some ‘stuff’ works. ;)
  • Please note that we had to disable the Android root console on cdc-acm-serial1 due to stability problems. You should use ADB instead!
  • We require a working installation of the regular 1.6 Archos firmware as FroYo depends on a few files found in it!

Alpha3 is tested and works together with this zImage and this initramfs.
Please install those or preferably most recent before reporting bugs.

Oh yeah, if you just want the image: here it is and the md5sum.
Everyone else please follow the guide on the wiki which will help you install the most recent release.
Special thanks to Janis605 for creating the wonderful boot animation for us!

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Posted in ArchDruid, gen7 | 18 Comments »

JBMM announces a bounty for 3G/UMTS drivers for gen7/gen8

Monday, September 20th, 2010

We’ve been in contact with JBMM over this for a while now on a certain subject. Now they went public and have announced a bounty for the first person to bring an full featured driver for a mobile-broadband-USB modem to gen7/gen8.

We don’t know yet how this will look on gen8 or if maybe Archos did some more work on gen8 than on gen7, but we are eager to see how things develop.

This is more than just compiling a few kernel modules, this needs also actual Android-support.

Here’s the full announcement and in english courtesy of google translation.

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Posted in bounty, gen7, gen8 | No Comments »

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