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A preview to ‘Bull’ – next openAOS Android release for gen7/gen8

Monday, December 5th, 2011

The first ReleaseCandidate has been done a while ago and we got some very important feedback from the testers – thanks again to everyone who filed tickets! We’re working hard with our limited resources to make this a great release, sadly this takes time.

As the RC is not advertized nor supported you haven’t read about it here on the openAOS blog. Still we figure we should show you what’s cooking now that we’re closing in. This release will still be based on Cyanogenmod 7 and will support Archos gen7 and gen8 devices (including A48IT).

Thanks to leijae for the video!

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Posted in ArchDruid, gen7, gen8 | 13 Comments »

Anoa – First Gingerbread Release for Gen7 and Gen8, based on CM7

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

We’ve worked hard for it and now openAOS Android Anoa, the first beta grade release is here!

We give you Android 2.3 Gingerbread for gen7 and gen8 hardware, based on Cyanogenmod 7.

The images can be found on our new download server in the release directory.

If you haven’t set up your device to boot multiple operating systems yet then please follow the respective guides for gen7 (A5IT, A48 coming soon) and gen8 (A43, A70, A101).

Please keep in mind that this is not a full replacement firmware it is a community created Android 2.3 adaptation in beta stage. It should work OK but there are still many things missing (e.g. media playback, USB storage). If you find something that is clearly broken then please check if it has been reported yet and if not then please create an issue. DivX118 also summed it up nicely in a forum post.

A list of things adressed in this release (not complete, compared to older preview images):

  • fix browser crash
  • workarround for wake up from deep sleep issue -> disabled deep sleep (increases power consumption though)
  • fix for finding right sdcard device for vold
  • both internal storage and SD card should be visible now
  • new bookmarks (for archos scene)
  • power menu was not easy to get on gen7
  • new CM7 bookmark for G-apps (for more info see also our wiki on this topic)
  • used latest CM7 code
  • headphone switch (not complete yet)
  • lot’s of other things…

Many thanks to all the people who have spent their precious free time on this release: BuBU, divx118, illifant, …

If you are interested in helping and submitting patches, please check the developer pages on openAOS Android and consider joining our IRC channel and the openaos-android mailing list.

Why the release name Anoa? You may ask… Well we felt like bringing back easy to remember names so people know what they are running. Or would you rather try to remember: ‘the stable release of openaos android that came out for gen7 and gen8 and the images were the first ones built in week 33 of 2011 and is based on CM7′? Because that’s actually all encoded in the filename. Anoa it is then! :-)   But don’t get too used to it, the Bull is probably right around the corner… ;)

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Posted in ArchDruid, gen7, gen8 | 25 Comments »

New week, new boot menu version

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

BuBU made significant improvements to the gen8 boot menu, so we’ve decided to make a blog post.

Note that this is still work in progress so you should actually follow (and link to) the boot menu guide on the developer wiki.

http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8

Most notable recent improvements:

  • new advanced menu which appear in OS selection (which lead to a new menu with debugging (serial stuff), recovery, reboot, disable rooted device, disable comcache)
  • other important feature is check validity for /file.img if does not exists it shows a list of available *.img under storage and it magically fix the menu.lst with the selected entry
  • fixed the touchscreen issue (under debian/other OSes)
  • difference between standard and debug is that the menu for serial appears early in initramfs
  • for both debug/standard you can switch serial… if you selected NONE initially.. u can go back in advanced menu > DEBUGGING to change to Ether or if u selected Ether you can got to same place to change to Both (or None or whatever)
  • Booting off partitions including µSD card partitions
  • IPv6 support in kernel

We plan to bring as many features as possible to the gen7 boot menu too in the near future so stay tuned.

Please report all problems on IRC and or to our issue tracker!

Here are the files for the impatient who know what they are doing:

https://openaos.org/wp-upload/gen8/2011-07-05/

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Posted in gen7, gen8 | 6 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 »

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