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dj_steve	2010-03-13 , 10:06
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probably because 90% of winmobile phones are made by htc so porting android to htc isnt particually hard as they released the first android phone

(which i have). havent made much progress myself yet still arguing with alsa and making it compile

dj_steve	2010-03-13 , 10:08
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Originally Posted by Cpasjuste

I'm sorry i did read a few pages but i can't read all the 27 pages ... so i have a question : are you guys trying to boot the nokia kernel patched with android patchs, but with the maemo rootfs ? If so, wouldn't it be easier to boot the patched android kernel with an android rootfs hosted on an microSD partition ?
Else i did successfully boot android on the pandora gaming console, and latest kernel use dss2 too. What i did is select the old omap-fb driver instead the dss one in the kernel configuration ( you have to disable the dss2 driver in kernel config before beeing able to see the omap-fb driver ) then patched it with the previous omapfb patchs posted here.

Well, i'm interessed in having android on the n900, could someone sumarize the current progress to see if i can help ?

currently we have a working port but it is very slow and as far as i know bluetooth/sound/calls dont work, but i dont have a n900 so i am not sure - you best off checking the www.nitdroid.com site for info

mrdally204	2010-03-13 , 10:11
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Hey dj, good to hear from you again. Don't mind Callensunny, I think he is jealous they can run it and not us yet. I feel his pain as well

Keep at it, ALSA is bound to give in eventually. I'm surprised we have not received any word from the people in #nitdroid. I can see if they were disinterested, but I was hoping for them to say they were and not ignore us

Edit, you mentioned its running slow on the N900, how does it run on the older hardware?

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Cpasjuste	2010-03-13 , 10:12
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Originally Posted by dj_steve

currently we have a working port but it is very slow and as far as i know bluetooth/sound/calls dont work, but i dont have a n900 so i am not sure - you best off checking the www.nitdroid.com site for info

Thanks, i just followed your sig link on your previous post

I'll help soon.

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dj_steve	2010-03-13 , 10:13
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Originally Posted by mrdally204

Hey dj, good to hear from you again. Don't mind Callensunny, I think he is jealous they can run it and not us yet. I feel his pain as well Keep at it, ALSA is bound to give in eventually. I'm surprised we have not received any word from the people in #nitdroid. I can see if they were disinterested, but I was hoping for them to say they were and not ignore us

was taling to bri3d and luke-jr other day like, alsa seems to be a general pain to compile apprently but we need its code or sound will never work (due to the ASoC drivers required for sound on the nxx0 series.

UPDATE No 1: ok compile is now proceeding properly with all alsa libs included, once this builds i will be trying the new rootfs and seeing what happens, hopefully it should work and may even have sound to boot

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Callensunny	2010-03-14 , 06:02
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Originally Posted by dj_steve

probably because 90% of winmobile phones are made by htc so porting android to htc isnt particually hard as they released the first android phone (which i have). havent made much progress myself yet still arguing with alsa and making it compile

That's a really good point.

Originally Posted by dj_steve

was taling to bri3d and luke-jr other day like, alsa seems to be a general pain to compile apprently but we need its code or sound will never work (due to the ASoC drivers required for sound on the nxx0 series.

UPDATE No 1: ok compile is now proceeding properly with all alsa libs included, once this builds i will be trying the new rootfs and seeing what happens, hopefully it should work and may even have sound to boot

WOW, that sounds like a really big step to me. Glad we are making progress.

Cpasjuste	2010-03-14 , 14:26
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On the nitroid page, you guys talk about a static build of busybox. Where should i find it ?

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dj_steve	2010-03-14 , 14:26
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google does usually help. their a few dotted about

Cpasjuste	2010-03-14 , 14:29
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I do ask for a good reason ...

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dj_steve	2010-03-14 , 14:30
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i dont have a n900 so i cant help in that respect, (n8x0 and n900 are diff cpus etc)) bdogg64 most likely has a build in the rootfs he uploaded a few pages back though

UPDATE: ok have had to go backwards somewhat, downloading a fresh version of the android 2.1_r2 source as i was getting piles of random java compile errors with the eclair branch, so ill be patchign and merging alsa back in again once this downloads (this is where i need a decent internet connection lol)

Last edited by dj_steve; 2010-03-14 at 15:36.