Bluetooth and Android?

[Technix2002]

Looks like possible Bluetooth progress (or rumor has it, maybe someone can verify this?):

Originally Posted by docnas

I had checked the irc logs repeatedly today and was feeling preety gidddy hearing cotulla say that he actually was porting it over according to the last thign i read from him he was able to get tetris working :P
On top of that we have viruscrazy saying he had gottten bluetooth working and to top it off it seems ACL Natemcnutty and Lmiller seem to be on the cusp of getting nand to work so it was preety exciting today ...

From this thread: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/tp2-android-development/140761-magldr-being-ported-rhodium.html

[JustusIV]

This is a shameless bump. Anyone have any more information on Bluetooth?

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by JustusIV

This is a shameless bump. Anyone have any more information on Bluetooth?

It doesn't work yet, and it's one of the hundreds of things devs are trying to fix.

[JustusIV]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

It doesn't work yet, and it's one of the hundreds of things devs are trying to fix.

Yeah i am aware it doesn't work yet I am also aware the devs are working on a lot of stuff and am grateful for everything they do. Was just hoping for any information. I have seen mention of BT a few times reading through other post but was just wondering how it was coming along.

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by JustusIV

Yeah i am aware it doesn't work yet I am also aware the devs are working on a lot of stuff and am grateful for everything they do. Was just hoping for any information. I have seen mention of BT a few times reading through other post but was just wondering how it was coming along.

jb is working on it semi-privately... Seems like he might have the interface up and it pairs, but it doesn't route audio correctly, which we knew would be an issue because the sound code is a hacked-mess. They're completely rewriting it for .35, so it should be a lot cleaner - BT may have to wait until then anyways, as it'll be much, much easier to troubleshoot/resolve issues on sound routing.

If jb does start a public thread like he did with cam, I will certainly repost it here if someone doesn't beat me to it .

[JustusIV]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

jb is working on it semi-privately... Seems like he might have the interface up and it pairs, but it doesn't route audio correctly, which we knew would be an issue because the sound code is a hacked-mess. They're completely rewriting it for .35, so it should be a lot cleaner - BT may have to wait until then anyways, as it'll be much, much easier to troubleshoot/resolve issues on sound routing.

If jb does start a public thread like he did with cam, I will certainly repost it here if someone doesn't beat me to it .

You da man! and JB the man!

what is .35? the jack?

[rpierce99]

Originally Posted by JustusIV

You da man! and JB the man!

what is .35? the jack?

Linux kernel version 2.6.35 is in the process of having our phones changes ported to it, we are currently running on kernel 2.6.27

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by JustusIV

You da man! and JB the man!

what is .35? the jack?

jb mostly .

.35 as in the kernel, not the 3.5mm jack .

Currently we run .27 (2.6.27) and we're moving to .35 (2.6.35).

If you look at this wiki article on Android version history you can see how on native Android devices they run a particular kernel. We need to move to a newer kernel base, for a ton of reasons.

Heh, rpeirce99 beat me to it .

[JustusIV]

Thanks for the info. Learn something new every time i come here. :P

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by JustusIV

Thanks for the info. Learn something new every time i come here. :P

Alright, one of our amazing devs (the same that brought us the camera, viruscrazy aka Jerome) has sent an update via the mailing list. I am reposting it here, verbatim.

Originally Posted by Jerome

Hi,

Some of you already know that I was working on Bluetooth for the rhodium these days. It's now working at full speed (4Mbps) and I've been able to make a call using a BT headset (need to make a last test to check that both uplink and downlink works, right now, I made test by calling voicemail).

In the mean time, I've made my diamond to work at full speed and make a call to my voicemail through the BT headset (also need to test in both ways).

Please find attached the 3 patches required for bluetooth on rhodium (well, these patches are only the kernel side patches, I will do the patches for the userland side).

* For the brf6350 bluetooth modules (diamond, raph, ...), there only a small change to do in the rootfs :

in /init.cfg/init.froyo.rc (or init.gingerbread.rc, but haven't tested because not yet switched to gingerbread), change the following lines:

service hciattach /system/bin/hciattach \
-n -s 115200 /dev/ttyHS1 texas 115200 flow

with :

service hciattach /system/bin/hciattach \
-n -s 115200 /dev/ttyHS1 texasalt 4000000 flow

(need to use texasalt to load the firmware file bcm6350.bin already present in the image).

Regards, Jerome