porting the Android (liquid) to ACER s200 F!???

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Hi guys,

As we all know, the Acer Liquid has been released, and the hardware is mostly like the ACER s200 F1, I'm just thinking if possible to porting the android 1.6 from Liquid to F1? since the hardware is compatible

thanks
michael

I am very interested in that. Unfortunately i don't have the expertise in this. I will be very glad to see that happen.

I hope in that!!
Some people have androide working on Omnia
http://www.androidomnia.com/
So it's very possible i think!

Guys operating systems are not programs or simple cabs that you plug and play, yes the acer s200 and the liquid share almost the exact same hardware exept for the screens, but theres a BIG DIFRENCE the acer s200 has a win ce kernel and the liquid has a linux kernel, you can not swap kernels, the only way the acer s200 could run android is if someone compiles a linux kernel for it and then assemble drivers for android, its not as simply as you make it sound.

Sincerly
Rafyvitto

I Agree!
LCD Screen Drivers are a real pain in %#$^#(*@
Bluetooth and Sound may be Inoperabe at first also
as for GPS, Camera we got a chance here as SnapDragon has Intergrated support
So a dump of Liquid OR the Source of Liquid (when It will be released) Will Help A LOT!
After all Android is FREE!

Originally Posted by sugardad

I Agree!
LCD Screen Drivers are a real pain in %#$^#(*@
Bluetooth and Sound may be Inoperabe at first also
as for GPS, Camera we got a chance here as SnapDragon has Intergrated support
So a dump of Liquid OR the Source of Liquid (when It will be released) Will Help A LOT!
After all Android is FREE!

Unless acer releases there Android kernel source we wont get any far, were gonna have to assemble drivers and stuff.

Yes I'am sure some one out there will be able to leak the sources, just a matter of time, as for always hacking is free but it's playing with our patience...


I just get my S200 today, I used to cook rom for Omnia, will try to do the same for this piece of tech ;)

Rafyvitto, are your rom multilanguage? or english/russian only?

Also for the android port, maybe someone will try the stupid thing to directly flash a liquid dump in his S200, just to see, sometimes hacking is fun and a kind of pocker party.

In the very basis of logic, if the hardware is the same, if we inject in the nand ( sorry coming from console hacking world) the data of the liquid, the bootprocess must be identical beetween the two devices, I know acer is a brand that always try to reduce costs, so in my mind they should have kept many things identical beetween the two phone hardware,
even the touchscreen controler might be the same, there must be a controllr outthere that can handle both kind of touchscreen (capacitive & resistive ).

What could really help us in the porting :
- HQ shots of the two phones motherboard, to view in detail what are the differences, this could help to point out where to begin.

- if the hardware is nearly identical, interchanging the nands of the two phone
(must have good soldering competence ),

This could lead to interesting findings.

In the very basis of logic, if the hardware is the same, if we inject in the nand ( sorry coming from console hacking world) the data of the liquid, the bootprocess must be identical beetween the two devices, I know acer is a brand that always try to reduce costs, so in my mind they should have kept many things identical beetween the two phone hardware,
even the touchscreen controler might be the same, there must be a controllr outthere that can handle both kind of touchscreen (capacitive & resistive ).

Try to compile the kernel, there's the source at codeaurora.org. I've tried, but it seems that a newer toolchain (than 2009q3 by codesourcery) is required... As I pass all my exams, I'll try it better

However, I personally don't see any features that put android over winmo... If we had a capacitive ts, than it would be viable.

Well the kernel source of Acer Liquid has been released. Hope someone will manage to port android to Acer neotouch, because windows mobile really suck.

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFi...cer&SC=EMEA_17

kernel is a little incomplete so far.. also for liquid is hard to have a custom rom,so we need all support of best developers