Android on X50v (and maybe others in future)

[doomcookie]

This looks like a really cool project. I don't code but I'm willing to help out in anyway you need me to. I've been using Linux for about a year now.

Here's the readme for getting a Linux kernel booting on the x50v, http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:...Faxim%2FREADME

The server that normally has it is down, so I used the google cache to resurrect it. There's a mirror for all the files listed in the readme (I think) here. http://projects.linuxtogo.org/~law/a...0706/aximx50v/

A lot more information is available here.
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/x50vHowTo

[Obsidiandesire]

Thanks for the info, I may try it now =]

[doomcookie]

I just got Linux booted on my X50v. GPE loaded and I did the calibration. Seems to work pretty well, though it's already locked up once. I think this should be run off of WM2003 if we're going to run it off of an operating system. WM5/6 have too many issues with filesys.exe, which could be the cause of my lockup.

To get it to boot I had to alter the default.txt so that the kernel pointed to the proper filename. Other than that I just followed the guide (though I used gparted to set up the partitions).

The default.txt, readme.txt, and haret-0.4.8.exe can be found here. http://projects.linuxtogo.org/~law/aximx50/

[Obsidiandesire]

Cool, how simple would it be to put android on this? I'm willing to take the "brick risk" in doing this if noone else is

[ultraprimeomega]

Originally Posted by Obsidiandesire Cool, how simple would it be to put android on this? I'm willing to take the "brick risk" in doing this if noone else is

finally i got my laptop to dualboot SATA drivers for some reason did not come in windows xp

Ok i think we are trialling away from android or maybe not(its hard to tell were we are going) but remember linux is not android but its a good model on what we want to reach. and risking too soon may not be a good idea for now. as for linux i never tried on the axim, how is it?

wovens. getting the kernel would mean that we are just running android on top of linux. it maybe a good idea

As for the 2700G it maybe a long time to get to it(i even forgot about it )

And for a web site i say yes but we would need a blog for news and a restricted forum(just came to mind ) or a regular forum like this or continue here on till it gets long and people would not bother on reading. We are set for now to get android on the Dell Axim x50v. For everyone here the axim is not a smartphone but it was made by HTC so we need a vote stay, leave, or stay plus have a main site. Vote!!!!!!!!!

Remember we need to get programmers. to at least see if these ideas are good and help them, now as i see this i feel like changing my college plan and get some programming class. and i could not find my friend, it seems that he went to a different path, the path of a cracker and not a hacker.

[doomcookie]

Support for things in the Linux kernel is probably going to be useful. The screen seems a bit flickery, touch sensitivity is a bit buggy (I can't seem to make it click half the time), there is no wireless support, no sound support (I think), no battery monitor support (I think), but it's certainly a good starting point.

From what I can see, haret uses the Axim's display mirroring mode to make everything fit on the screen properly. We're either going to need to write a new bootloader and display driver, or continue using haret. We could probably take source from haret in the making of our own boot loader. I can't help but wonder if we couldn't try something like GRUB.

I think we should keep the project here for a bit. At least until we can find some people to help us code, lol.

[ultraprimeomega]

Originally Posted by doomcookie Support for things in the Linux kernel is probably going to be useful. The screen seems a bit flickery, touch sensitivity is a bit buggy (I can't seem to make it click half the time), there is no wireless support, no sound support (I think), no battery monitor support (I think), but it's certainly a good starting point. From what I can see, haret uses the Axim's display mirroring mode to make everything fit on the screen properly. We're either going to need to write a new bootloader and display driver, or continue using haret. We could probably take source from haret in the making of our own boot loader. I can't help but wonder if we couldn't try something like GRUB. I think we should keep the project here for a bit. At least until we can find some people to help us code, lol.

so first we need a bootloader
second see if we just run android or load linux kernel and set android on top
after that is up to were we are on running android fully or partly with or without limited or all drivers

so for now we just use this site for brainstorm and creating a team

Anyone with more ideas so this keeps on going

[Obsidiandesire]

Yes, bootloader is a priority, see if we can load android ontop of linux, then see if we (being the programmers) can write our own kernel for Android.
I think this should be the order of priority (so far)

Bootloader, Linux, Linux with android, Android, display drivers, touchscreen drivers(theoretically u could navigate android with the HW buttons), getting windows to recognise it (may have to write our own activesync program?, then sound/wifi/bluetooth etc (of which the API's, google have provided us with ) Userfriendliness is the last priority, infact I think we should stay away from creating a UI for a while, and make it mainly commandline based OS until that's stable (with onscreen keyboard obv)

as for a website/forum, Tinyportal + SMF seems good at the moment as it's free, simple to use, has a blog, and all the essential features of a good forum. I think .co.nr is a free domain name redirecter without ads (one linkback button on the main page is needed) and same for 110mb.com

Whenever we feel that this gains enough attention (About 10 pages worth?) then perhaps we should move to the other forum but stay here also?

I'm rather happy about getting into such a great project!!
and Luckily, i'm still in high school (last year) so I can still choose programming as my career path. I've got a little knowlage of Ruby (RPG maker XP) so perhaps I could start learning Java also.

Hopefully we can get some big development (even if it is just ideas + stuff) done on the project this weekend!

[doomcookie]

I host my own website already. I'll set up a subdomain and a tinyportal/SMF site if you'd like. It's free for me since I already have storage/mySQL/apache and all. Plus I already run tinyportal/smf on my site.

Let me know if you'd like me to do so. The url would be subdomain.cookieofdoom.com, or I could get a domain.

Android already has a gui, and Linux is already controllable through a command line. Using Linux i was able to ssh through USB to my axim. USB support seems pretty stable from what I've seen.

[Obsidiandesire]

That seems good, I think the subdomain would suffice until we get a little more attention.

First things first, we need a sort of name for this project rather than "android on X50v", i mean, i came up with ROSS, but in all honesty it's a bit odd..