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Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

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Originally Posted by makkonen (Post 1575969)

True enough. 33mhz 68040 processor was my first. No FPU. What a dog.

What, a Performa/LC Series? Brings back memories....ours only had a 768mb HDD.

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

boy oh boy, dead today huh? still messing with mms. tried an mms.apk from hero. still sends, still won't receive.

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

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Originally Posted by docnas (Post 1576935)

hey peter mind request? If u r good with linux and can work with the radio and such can u please help out in the touch pro 2 android port? we are really defficient in people who can work on it. i myself unfortunatly dont know linux or coding so can only provide moral support ( and google wave invites if anyone needs them).

Is this project working off google wave ?

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

Sometimes I dont get email alerts so I find myself refreshing this page atleast once an hour or twice an hour lol. I believe the main guys behind this are on wave, I am not so I cant join in on the fun!

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

I just gotta say, I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl running Android on my TP. I just got a replacement from Sprint (NOT GETTING INTO IT HERE), and it's remarkably stable and useful in its current configuration. It's almost as cool as an iphone (without the Apple/AT&T tax) being able to download apps from the market!

I look at it as giving Android a trial before running it "for reals" when I get the Supersonic later this year.

Look for a donation coming your way, makkonen, and even more if we can get the camera and the inconsistent screen tap/drag issue fixed. You're the best!

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

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Originally Posted by peterm20 (Post 1576872)

9 hours is really good i started with maybe 80% and got 4.5-5 hours with me downloading stuff from market and texting.

I've been really wanting to contribute to this project but I don't know C++ or java so I can't code. The only thing I can bring is linux experiance lol. I've compiled my own base systems but I can't find the CDMA libarys (RIL) to make the radio work. If I borrow stuff from the XDA build I get the radio to work but then there is no real point I figure except its the most upto date 2.1 code. But anyway you guys are doing great work with this.

If you've got any experience with git, you can get the RIL here; there are instructions on how to build it in the wave (though it's kind of annoying -- you have to download and compile all the android sources in order to build it -- that's ~10GB and about as many hours of compiling). Alternately, you should be able to just pull it out of the rootfs -- I think it's in lib/ or lib/donut/. Making whatever system you're building look in the right place -- that I'm not quite sure of.

I don't really have any experience with C/C++/Java, either; school taught me some Pascal, some Haskell, and a tiny bit of Perl (...what a lineup of weird languages). But... I do have a grasp of general programming ideas and a willingness to jump in and try to figure stuff out. That's all it takes -- although I'm slower at getting things done than some others because I have to look up the correct syntax for anything I write. :-)

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Originally Posted by jaqual (Post 1577036)

What, a Performa/LC Series? Brings back memories....ours only had a 768mb HDD.

Performa 638. 350mb HD. In a testament to the build quality -- it's still in use. As a TV (until the TV card went on the fritz) and as a contact manager (because my father won't move his contacts to the new computer -- and fair point, he's had like 6 new computers, and they've all gotten trashed, but the Performa-rolodex keeps chugging along). But I digress.

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Originally Posted by mykie (Post 1577626)

Thanks!

It is feeling really usable at the moment. The battery life almost competes with WinMo (not really saying much), there's few consistent crashes (except turning off wifi -- my solution is not to turn on wifi), and the interface is just... smarter. The Market ecosystem is thriving (I don't think I'd describe anything about WinMo as 'thriving').

I have been getting weird audio artifacts in calls occasionally, which prompts a reboot; but I got those in WinMo fairly often, too. I never use BT or the camera, so those don't bug me much. Lack of GPS is a bummer, but I still have WinMo to switch back into if I need it. It's a pretty nice little multiple OS situation.

One more piece of good news: as of this morning, every kernel change from the special cloned cdma repository has been merged upstream into the main repo. Which means that from here on out, you should be able to keep up to date with the autobuild kernels without any loss of functionality. Welcome to the bleeding edge. (Last time I checked, the main repo had broken 3d, but that's for everyone, not just CDMA.)

The kernel here is still probably the best, but if something new comes along and I don't have a chance to wrap it up, the autobuilds should work.

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

does anyone know how I can download from the market? I can browse apps but they never download. Any tips

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How long does it take to bootup initially? It's been 15 minutes.

Re: Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro (RAPH800)

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Originally Posted by celsius0010 (Post 1578022)

does anyone know how I can download from the market? I can browse apps but they never download. Any tips

There was a problem a few weeks (maybe just a week) ago where the market just stopped downloading, but that was a market issue, not an android-htc issue. (i.e. it affected real android phone users, too.) So... give it a little while, and try again, to make sure it wasn't just a one-off problem. If it still fails, try creating a new data.img and starting from scratch. If that doesn't work either, then I don't know.

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Originally Posted by stevenxpham (Post 1578185)

How long does it take to bootup initially? It's been 15 minutes.

If it takes more than 10 or 15 minutes, something's probably wrong. After 2 to 3 minutes, it should finish the scrolling console text, show 'A N D R O I D', then half a screen of text, then go blank, and, assuming you were running TF3D, it should go to the boot animation (the red blue green yellow X). That should stay up for maybe another 3-5 minutes, then the welcome screen should pop up.