Re: [12-3-09]Android CDMA TouchPro: TEXT and TALK(RAPH800) Ported!!!
So I'm pretty much brand new to this, but I was able to get wifi and CDMA data to work on my Sprint Raph800. Wifi is flawless, but CDMA is intermittent (most likely due to me being in my basement). I simply added Sprint's PPP info to my startup.txt as follows:
ppp.apn=internet.com ppp.username=none ppp.password=none wifi.mac:my:ma:ca:dd:re:ss
The CDMA works the vast majority of the time, but I do suffer from the sleep issue if I touch the screen whilest Rx/Tx data over CDMA (not over wifi). This, combined with the fact that regardless of my battery state and charging status it always shows 5% battery charge and that the screen is almost always dimmed, says to me that the main problems with the intermittent data Tx/Rx and the sleep while doing data Tx/Rx is not only a poor signal, but also a power management issue. Subsequently, I think power management is a very important area to look at. I haven't done any coding or any extensive *nix in probably 5-7 yrs, but I generally pick things up almost instantaneously, so if someone could hook me up with the source code for this, I'd love to collaborate in an effort to get this working properly for everyone. (Can't promise I'll be of much use though, haha)
Also, I'm curious if anyone's gotten GPS to work on Sprint CDMA Touch Pro Android builds? And on that thought, I can't help but keep wondering why from what I've found no one has tried porting the Hero's Android Radio and Power Management Controllers over to the Raph800. I would think it'd be fairly easy since (aside from I/O [keyboard, display, digitizer, and cover-mounted buttons]) these 2 devices have exactly the same core HW in terms of Radio, processor, memory, etc according to every spec and data sheet I've been able to find thus far. (I haven't seen the code, so I may be oversimplifying it, I just don't see why the same HW and basically the same OS shouldn't be able to use the same 'drivers')
I also got it to run within a directory to keep my µSD card neet and tidy. Simply put the rootfs.img in the true root of the µSD card then make a new directory (I used /sdcard/Android) then put everything in there except the rootfs.img and edit your startup.txt to show
imgdir=/android
rather than
imgdir=/
This is especially useful not only for organizational purposes when using WinMo, but also to elliminate the possibility of file conflicts. Also, I got the # prompt at exactly the same point as you did when I initially made this change to my startup.txt and stupidly neglected to actually move any of the files to that /Android directory, so you may have some files out of place or something.
Hope that helps.
-nog
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