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

[mikezpc]

Originally Posted by robj19

I said out loud OMG he did it when i saw this post. and someone behind me said he did what? LOL Verry good work!!

lol i know i did the same thing
very very exciting! cant wait

[LiquidX]

Originally Posted by MrPippy

Hi everyone, thought I'd introduce myself. I got a RHOD400 last week and I've been working with WiFi for the last few days. Tonight I was able to connect it to my network and surf the web a little .

It's very experimental at the moment: I had to choose a network and set the network parameters from the command line (with wpa_cli), and Android doesn't realize where the connection is coming from. Since the Touch Pro 2 uses the Broadcom BCM4325 WiFi chip (unlike the TI chip used by every other HTC phone up until now), our current Android build needs some fixes. This shouldn't be hard though, since the Nexus One and Motorola Devour (among others) use Broadcom WiFi--I actually compiled this driver from the Motorola Devour source code.

Hopefully within a few days we can release a build for everyone to try--there's been some nice improvements since 95civic's last release. makkonen and phh ported a new touchscreen driver that works really well, I brought over some HTC patches that increase the amount of RAM we can use (70 MB more), and it'll be great to see this WiFi working properly.

Thanks have been given, but since you other guys are obviously not civic, and he controls the first post, where will you guys be posting the updates? Are you just going to have him do it, or will it be located elsewhere. I just want to make sure I can get my hands on it asap when its released

[dub24]

First off I would like to thank everyone working on this project. I have been wanting to switch to Android but can't find the right phone hardware. If we could get it on the TP2 that would be amazing.

Secondly, whats holding back the SMS from working? I just hate "losing" any texts sent to me when I'm in Android

Thanks again to all the Dev's

[ChristopherJLee]

i've been watching this thread closely, hopefully we can get a good version of android working before the developers lose interest when the new winmo7 phones come out. the only thing i'm interested in is the android apps, they seem to be almost on par with the iphone apps

[dishe]

These things take time. Vogue port wasn't stable until long after the hardware was considered obsolete.

Don't worry about WP7. It definitely has an appeal, and I'm sure many people will try to port it to our handsets, however it doesn't appeal to everyone.
Many of the devs are still undecided as to how they feel about it...

http://www.mopocket.com/2010/02/wind...-pocket-pc.php

Wow, amazing news! Civic and pippy don't be too abashed to ask for donations, this is great work!

Can't wait for a release!!

[TheChucklesStart]

This is awesome! Any thoughts on setting up a repository and a nightly/weekly build system?

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by TheChucklesStart

This is awesome! Any thoughts on setting up a repository and a nightly/weekly build system?

I don't think there are any out of tree patches for the RHOD400 at this point, so the linux-msm repository and glemsom's autobuild system should be sufficient for now.

[S_C_B]

First of all, 95-civic, thanks for using your skills for good and not evil.

Question/Problem -
Anyone else getting the "Recent Applications" screen pop up every 5 seconds? It's happening to me.

[Yellowman1]

Originally Posted by 95-civic

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of communication recently. I've been tied up at work to say the least. It will be at least another week until I can really dive back into this. Good news is that it looks like Mr Pippy and several other devs now have rhodium's in hand. I've been looking over the recent code additions and it looks like they have already identified and merged some of the code fixes I've implemented in my custom build into the main project. I'll see what I can do to help them get up to speed on anything they are missing. If anyone is interested in building their own RIL please PM me and I'll write something up.
Sorry for the slow progress here on my end, life has been busy!!!

Originally Posted by MrPippy

Hi everyone, thought I'd introduce myself. I got a RHOD400 last week and I've been working with WiFi for the last few days. Tonight I was able to connect it to my network and surf the web a little .

It's very experimental at the moment: I had to choose a network and set the network parameters from the command line (with wpa_cli), and Android doesn't realize where the connection is coming from. Since the Touch Pro 2 uses the Broadcom BCM4325 WiFi chip (unlike the TI chip used by every other HTC phone up until now), our current Android build needs some fixes. This shouldn't be hard though, since the Nexus One and Motorola Devour (among others) use Broadcom WiFi--I actually compiled this driver from the Motorola Devour source code.

Hopefully within a few days we can release a build for everyone to try--there's been some nice improvements since 95civic's last release. makkonen and phh ported a new touchscreen driver that works really well, I brought over some HTC patches that increase the amount of RAM we can use (70 MB more), and it'll be great to see this WiFi working properly.

I just want to say a big "Thank you" to 95-Civic, MrPippy (& everyone else working on this project that hasn't come out openly yet) =D> =D> =D>. I have 95-Civic's original Android port working as well as expected on my Sprint TP2, so I am sooooo looking forward to a working build that has voice, data, sms (& whatever you guys are able to achieve). Having said all of these, I want you guys to know that I am willing to donate up to $50 (more, if my portfolio doesn't "tank out" in this economy, ) towards you guys getting voice, data, sms (& whatever else) working in this port. You guys are doing a great job & we appreciate your time and effort in doing this for all of us.