We’ve had a busy time and are happy to have the next release – Alpha 2 – for you to play with over the weekend!
Important note: This needs up to date zImage and initramfs to work properly! See further on in the text.
Here’s the Image for you and here’s a md5sum if you want to verify it.
Make sure that your Menu entry contains the words ‘froyo’ or ‘android’ OR the line in menu.lst ends with ‘|0′ – this is needed for now to address the framebuffer fix (see previous post).
We need more developers! There’s plenty of work and not many people! In addition Al Sutton will not be available for the coming weeks. So go ahead, send patches! join us on IRC! file issues! find solutions! help us! etc. etc. pp.
ReleaseNotes/ChangeLog:
- resolved issues:
- #75 Power management not working correctly
- #81 Adb driver
- #83 Fix USB gadget
- #86 make sure modules.* files don’t end up in initramfs
- #87 One blanked the screen doesn’t come back
- #88 cannot change backlight
- #90 SSD not detected
- #91 enable GRE in kernel
- #98 No Russian and other translations & inputs
- #99 Battery always reports 75%
- #76 SD Card not recognised
- #78 Improve status bar
- #85 WiFi Settings overwritten on boot
- #102 maildroid application using a subset of available screen – invalid (broken app)
- #80 Powers off randomly – duplicate
- #82 adb not available – duplicate
- unresolved issues (rescheduled for Alpha 3):
- #92 brief press of power button does not put unit to sleep
- #71 Accelerometer not working
- #94 strace from alpha1 broken
- #95 update busybox+busybox config
- #77 Touch Screen Calibration App – The calibration tool works, but the resulting data is not yet applied.
- #89 dpi 195 is correct, but results in large ui elements and text – decision postponed needs further consideration and discussion
- Keep in mind:
- If an app appears in a large black box, it’s broken! Notify the author that they should fix it for ‘hdpi-large’. See #102
- Yes, sound still does NOT work. #72 Audio not working – moved to Alpha 3 (and fixed in git, so it will be in Alpha 3).
- Battery indicator is not that good/accurate yet. #105 Update Battery code with new algorithm for higher accuracy.
- Currently the initramfs breaks USB in Archos firmware. Sorry, debugging has priority over that. We hope to fix it soon, check the blog for updates. #104 most recent initramfs/zImage seems to break MSC under Archos Android fixed in more recent initramfs/zImage. Please follow this guide to set things up.
- In general this is still alpha grade code so don’t expect wonders in stability and functionality.
Alpha2 is tested and works together with this zImage and this initramfs.
Please install those or preferably most recent before reporting bugs.
