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

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

why cant we use gitorious again?

We can. We should. We do.

Originally Posted by matthewb57

I agree. There are several free Git hosting sites for public code it seems (gitorious is one of them I gather) and we should use the "Android on HTC" wiki as a place to put all the updates and FAQs and such.

My offer for hosting was more just to replace the current megaupload hosting for the compiled builds. I don't know much about Git, but I assumed it was only a source code versioning system, and did not contain compiled builds. If it can contain compiled builds for download (packaged for the end users), then everything is covered already.

If someone wants to take up cleaning up and bringing the Android on HTC wiki up to date, that's noble... I feel like it fell by the wayside a long time ago. There's so much data on all these ports in so many different places, it's exhausting. (there's the xda-devs wiki, the android on htc wiki, the androidhtc wiki at sourceforge, the wave, the xdandroid and android on diamond threads at xda-devs... I could go on.)

Hosting builds is a very useful service, and probably the only hosting that needs to be offered. Gitorious doesn't fill that niche. Glemsom's site has the kernels covered, and Stinebd has just made an autobuild site for the rootfs (I assume those aren't much use for rhod400 at this point, if 95-civic has his own changes in the rootfs), but it is nice to be able to wrap up whole device-specific packages.

Originally Posted by Eschelon

If someone else (other than civic) has formally announced that they are currently working to rip open the RIL in order to enable CDMA data, then you and I and everyone else has missed it

Until someone else comes forward with an announcement that they're working on a CDMA Android port, then I stand by my original statement that civic is currently a one-man army (which he is)

Sure, he could release his work so far. But he hasn't yet. So there's nothing untrue about what I said

I'm pretty sure phh has made some changes in the RIL to try to enable cdma data (not successfully, but it's something). MrPippy now has a rhod400 and has put some effort into getting the wifi driver up to speed, as well as just looking around at the state of things.

There haven't been any FORMAL announcements , but there are other folks out there putting in effort. That's the nice thing about open source... the whole community can just jump in and get to work. Speaking of which...

Originally Posted by LiquidX

Once again, this isn't totally true, if we could get a hold of civic and his source code for the changes he has made, we have others devs that are offering to help, they just need his changes so they aren't doing over what he has already accomplished.

Originally Posted by rdwing

how can we get more devs involved? maybe if this was more than a one man war we might get somewhere

Seconding that. I don't know how many out-of-tree patches 95-Civic has made to get things to the point they're at for CDMA, but having them available for everyone else to see can only help. It's Linus's Law: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

[00_MACKIE_00]

Honestly it sounds like theres enough people working on this or have potential to work on this, why don't everyone work together and start it and once Civic gets active again he can join in with what he knows?

someone just needs to take it and run with it.

[robj19]

I think we will get a shock of some work being done soon...Sometimes silence is deadly. Civics silence to me seems like he's preparing to surprise us.

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by robj19

I think we will get a shock of some work being done soon...Sometimes silence is deadly. Civics silence to me seems like he's preparing to surprise us.

I think work will probably pick up soon. Arguably the two most active kernel developers right now (MrPippy & phh) both ended up with Rhodiums within the last couple days -- good things ahead.

[00_MACKIE_00]

Originally Posted by makkonen

I think work will probably pick up soon. Arguably the two most active kernel developers right now (MrPippy & phh) both ended up with Rhodiums within the last couple days -- good things ahead.

Are we talking GSM or CDMA?

[makkonen]

GSM (phh) / CDMA (MrPippy)

[00_MACKIE_00]

Originally Posted by makkonen

GSM (phh) / CDMA (MrPippy)

cool then..

[LiquidX]

Originally Posted by makkonen

GSM (phh) / CDMA (MrPippy)

I have to admit, that does induce excitement =D>

[mikezpc]

Originally Posted by makkonen

I think work will probably pick up soon. Arguably the two most active kernel developers right now (MrPippy & phh) both ended up with Rhodiums within the last couple days -- good things ahead.

Originally Posted by makkonen

GSM (phh) / CDMA (MrPippy)

sure hope so, and hopefully my issue will get resolved.
for those who missed it, i have a sprint tp2 flashed to metropcs and it wont connect to metro, even when making a call and then lunching haret, just before the animation starts the call gets dropped. with the stock locked radio it's not picking up any networks, with the sim unlocked radio it picks up att and tmobile and i tried using a working sim and was able to make calls however i couldn't hear anything (and i do have the newest version from post 1)
does anyone else have the TP2 fully unlocked ? anyone experiencing similar issues ?

Thanks

[madoc]

Originally Posted by makkonen

I think work will probably pick up soon. Arguably the two most active kernel developers right now (MrPippy & phh) both ended up with Rhodiums within the last couple days -- good things ahead.

Aw yeah.

Having close to fully fucntional dual boots on their TP1s didn't expedite their Rhodium migration. Had to happen sooner or later, glad we're there!