AOSP 2.1: How functional will this be?

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Basically, how quick could we expect a straight AOSP port of 2.1 and how functional will it be? I know that the 2.2 build is missing camera, 4G, and MMS, but will we have those same limitations since the source code of 2.1 is already out?

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Nah--we've got the libraries for 2.1 from the original ROM; all we need is access to flash what we desire, and we can put together an AOSP 2.1r2 build in short order (24 hours or less) that's fully-functional.

Originally Posted by Shidell

Nah--we've got the libraries for 2.1 from the original ROM; all we need is access to flash what we desire, and we can put together an AOSP 2.1r2 build in short order (24 hours or less) that's fully-functional.

When you say the libraries I assume you mean because we already have 2.1 on the evo.

I know with the hero it was a bitch to get the camera, cause HTC has not release the .29 kernel source, so we were stuck with the .27 until toast finally built his own .29 kernel. He is such a stud. By the way it was prolly less than a month ago they got the camera in a 2.1 full aosp rom.

I would think it would not be anything like this though.

Originally Posted by Roman G

When you say the libraries I assume you mean because we already have 2.1 on the evo.

I know with the hero it was a bitch to get the camera, cause HTC has not release the .29 kernel source, so we were stuck with the .27 until toast finally built his own .29 kernel. He is such a stud. By the way it was prolly less than a month ago they got the camera in a 2.1 full aosp rom.

I would think it would not be anything like this though.

I think we have a lot more support coming over to the Evo than we had with the Hero. Shouldn't be that long, but its just a matter of getting that kernel source. Your right though, with Toast on our side I dont think anything is impossible. The good thing about Android is you can flash another image in no time at all, so if you wanna see what its all about (Without Camera, MMS, and whatever it was) then you can flip back and fourth just to see the difference. Apps2SDK will be a big plus since we wont be needing to go to the market everytime to get all of our widgets and things back. My mouth is watering as im less than 43 hours from getting her juiced and ready to go!

Thank you for asking this question! (I was going to but was too lazy.) Unfortunately I'm going to wait to get the Evo until there is a way to get AOSP 2.1 (or fully functional 2.2) on it. I hate Sense with a passion. So, good luck everyone and may you quickly make our dreams come true!

Originally Posted by Stunna4life888

Shouldn't be that long, but its just a matter of getting that kernel source.

We already have kernel source

We tried the 2.1 camera libs in 2.2 (hint came from the fact that Toast saw that the froyo N1 ROM does not replace the camera library as part of its update from 2.1 to 2.2, indicating that the library itself works unmodified between 2.1 and 2.2), but it failed due to a prelink map mismatch: the N1's froyo build expects the camera lib to load itself at location "XYZ" (in memory), as it was built that way for performance reasons, and works that way on the N1. However, the HTC library (different camera) does not load itself at the same location the N1 expects it (call it "ABC"), and was not stripped with the apriori prelink utility. So the framework refuses to load the library because it can't load it where it expects it should be loaded from.

I didn't try an AOSP 2.1 ROM yet, so it feasible that it may load it properly... However, due to the fact that the EVO has hardware that is not supported in Android 2.1 (FFC, 720p video, wimax, HDMI out, etc), HTC has rolled their own framework modfiications. If the camera lib requires any of those modifications (99% guaranteed, it *does*), the library won't be able to find those modified APIs, and will still fail.

Re: AOSP 2.1: How functional will this be?

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Are any devs working on this?

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Originally Posted by TheBiles

Are any devs working on this?

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Yessir. At work now but as soon as I get home I am going to recompile my AOSP build for the Evo and pray that it works. As Maejrep said I don't expect the camera to work (either front or back). I know 4g won't work. But I'm hoping I can get a basic build working and then go from there.

Originally Posted by chuckhriczko

Yessir. At work now but as soon as I get home I am going to recompile my AOSP build for the Evo and pray that it works. As Maejrep said I don't expect the camera to work (either front or back). I know 4g won't work. But I'm hoping I can get a basic build working and then go from there.

I appreciate it! However, it sounds like the same things will be broken in that build as the Froyo build. Kind of disappointing, since I at least want the rear camera working. I don't care about MMS/4G/front cam.

Originally Posted by TheBiles

I appreciate it! However, it sounds like the same things will be broken in that build as the Froyo build. Kind of disappointing, since I at least want the rear camera working. I don't care about MMS/4G/front cam.

Well we will just have to see. That's the thing. The cam theoretically should work however we don't know yet. With the front cam and the HD recording you never know what they did to the libraries. I've been thinking and I don't see why it won't work. I guarantee you 4g won't work off the bat. We might be able to hack that in though.