[3/6/2010] Google Android for TP2 CDMA [In Dev]

[alexm]

civic great work, but i am having the same problem as above...

[JDM_SOHC]

Hmm i've read and done the steps and I still have the sim error on my sprint tp2..

[acbyrd]

I was curious to see if anyone else was able to set up a dev environment using Ubuntu in VMware. I tried just now for about the last 2 hours and, after getting Ubuntu running, I was trying to download and install alot of the packagesm but it was telling me that many of them could not be found. For Ex. git-core and sun-java5-sdk. Any help would be greatly appreciated as there is nothing on the website that says anything about this.

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by acbyrd

I was curious to see if anyone else was able to set up a dev environment using Ubuntu in VMware. I tried just now for about the last 2 hours and, after getting Ubuntu running, I was trying to download and install alot of the packagesm but it was telling me that many of them could not be found. For Ex. git-core and sun-java5-sdk. Any help would be greatly appreciated as there is nothing on the website that says anything about this.

the required version of the java sdk is no longer available via apt for Ubuntu Jaunty, I think. You have to manually get it, install it, and then make sure your Android build tools point to it. but...

Unless you're building an entire Android system package, and I can't see why you would, you don't need... really any of those things. You need git, and you need an arm toolchain, but downloading the whole android source package to get that is a bit excessive.

I'm going to try to copy and paste my instructions from the wave here. The formatting will probably be off, but it might get you closer to up-and-running. (on preview: Yeah, the formatting's pretty bad -- the bits that are for the command line aren't distinguished from the bits that are explaining what else you need to do.)

Preliminaries

Install a linux build environment. Ubuntu is recommended. Installing in a virtual machine (Virtualbox is free and easy to install) is a good way to do so without disturbing your existing system.
Make sure git (distributed version control tool) is installed

Obtain Kernel Source

git clone git://gitorious.org/linux-on-qualcomm-s-msm/linux-msm.git
(or one of the clones of the repository, listed on the side of the page at http://gitorious.org/linux-on-qualcomm-s-msm/linux-msm)

git checkout -b htc-msm-2.6.27 origin/htc-msm-2.6.27
(if you get an error that says fatal: git checkout: branch htc-msm-2.6.27 already exists, just ignore -- it means you've already got the correct branch)

git checkout htc-msm-2.6.27
(if you get an error that says Already on "htc-msm-2.6.27", just ignore -- you're already on the correct branch)

Obtain the ARM toolchain

wget http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/package3696/public/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-2008q3-72-arm-none-linux-gnueabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 -O - | tar xj
add arm-2008q3/bin to your path (export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/arm-2008q3/bin)

Obtain the Module Sources

git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/system/wlan/ti.git
wget http://compcache.googlecode.com/files/compcache-0.5.4.tar.gz -O - | tar xzvf
Edit compcache-0.5.4/Makefile:
Modify KERNEL_BUILD_PATH to point to your kernel source

To Compile the Kernel

make ARCH=arm htc_msm_android_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- zImage
cp arch/arm/boot/zImage <your device's sd card>

[jeneric]

Originally Posted by acbyrd

I was curious to see if anyone else was able to set up a dev environment using Ubuntu in VMware. I tried just now for about the last 2 hours and, after getting Ubuntu running, I was trying to download and install alot of the packagesm but it was telling me that many of them could not be found. For Ex. git-core and sun-java5-sdk. Any help would be greatly appreciated as there is nothing on the website that says anything about this.

I set mine up a few days ago and ran into this. You can install it manually but installing it from another repo was much easier. Check this post out, I was able to install it from the repo he lists.

[pthr3e]

Thanks

[[ACL]]

Has anyone been able to replicate MrPippy's wifi success?

insmod returns an error when i try to load bmc4329.ko "invalid parameters"

Anyone know how i should insmod the driver?

I don't know if the 4329 even takes any parameters. This is what i used as an example

module_loaded("bcm4329") || log(insmod("/system/lib/modules/bcm4329.ko", ""), "Loading bcm4329.ko module");
This is from the wifi tether google code.

[nasa1303]

doesn't the current cdma build for tp2 allow phone calls? why would we want the gsm version without being able to make calls? if i am wrong about the phone calls on cdma let me know i haven't really used it much on my tp2 because i just got it. i did use the tp1 build and liked it because i could actually use data and market, make calls and text.

[LiquidX]

Originally Posted by nasa1303

doesn't the current cdma build for tp2 allow phone calls? why would we want the gsm version without being able to make calls? if i am wrong about the phone calls on cdma let me know i haven't really used it much on my tp2 because i just got it. i did use the tp1 build and liked it because i could actually use data and market, make calls and text.

Yes you can make phone calls, he was just saying that if you wanted to see what kind of progress the gsm community is making, which can also lead to progress on our end that you can check out what they got working. The features that they are fixing such as screen calibration, hardware integration that is non radio related, things such as that.

[acbyrd]

Originally Posted by LiquidX

Yes you can make phone calls, he was just saying that if you wanted to see what kind of progress the gsm community is making, which can also lead to progress on our end that you can check out what they got working. The features that they are fixing such as screen calibration, hardware integration that is non radio related, things such as that.

Is there a reason why we can't implement the things that the GSM guys are doing that involve the hardware like the keyboard rotation, etc. that are not related to the radio just by using portions of the build they have already fixed?