Gingerbread CM now for Archos – Proof of concept

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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Boot-menu for gen8 – preview

June 10th, 2011

BuBu was hard at work for the last few weeks and now we have something working to show.

We’ve added gen8 support to our boot-menu. It looks and feels almost the same like on gen6 and gen7.

UPDATE: HowTo here: http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8

Sources are here:

http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8-kernel

http://gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8

Those are our patched versions of the Archos official git.

And here are binaries:

http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/

Currently known issues:

  • No TS support on A70S, A70H, A101 inside the boot-menu
  • TS support in boot-menu removed also from other models due to problems
  • currently some problems with cdc-acm debugging, work in progress
  • Vol+/- is reversed on A101

Pictures:

Disclaimer:

If it screws up your device, don’t come whining, you’ve been warned. If something doesn’t work, just reinstall original firmware or SDE.


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Debian with lxde desktop on archos gen8

May 23rd, 2011

With thanks to the post from katleastudio on xda to get me started, I created a debian lxde rootfs.img that works with the angstrom kernel from SDE. I documented the steps which can be found in the wiki entry Debian gen8 . There is also a download available for the rootfs.

Note: I tested this on an A101IT , but it should also work on other gen8 devices. For devices with resistive touchscreen it will need an additional calibration tool.

Things that work on Debian:

- Wifi

- Sound

- Video playback (no acceleration yet)

- Battery monitor

- Package manager

There is however still a lot to do like getting dsp, sgx , usb ports, bluetooth etc. It is just a nice image to play around with and get to know more about linux and your archos.

Below are some screenshots.

Enjoy and if you have any questions about the guide irc is the place to be.

divx118

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Archos joins gitorious, makes things easier for developers.

April 2nd, 2011

Archos just opened a gitorious account and are uploading all the open source licensed code (mainly GPL) to it.

Don’t wet your pants though, Android sources won’t be in there. ;-)

What will be there is the content of all the tar-balls from their webpage. So for developers that want to check out the code things just got a lot easier.

end-of-blurb, have a nice weekend

Thomas

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Linux 2.6.37.2 for gen7

March 26th, 2011

Nicktime put some more work into it and updated his work to now target Linux kernel version 2.6.37.2

You can find the current status on the openAOS developer wiki:

http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/Gen7Linux2.6.37.2

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