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is there some way of putting Linux to P525???
greetings!!!
LInux P525
Hello,
I'm currently looking for a way to do that, I tell you as soon as I have done some test on mine.
Step 1: find out what hardware it uses
Step 2: get a desktop or laptop up and running with linux (any distribution), and compile a kernel that fits the device
Step 3 (and above): I'll leave that for you to figure out
or just FORGET IT.
there's no reason to think about linux on p525.
Linux P525
This device is runinng on a Intel XScale PXA270 which is apparently already support by some "embeded distribution".
I think it's a good start for testing.
And It's a good idea to have an open source OS on your mobile
Vagrantin said:
This device is runinng on a Intel XScale PXA270 which is apparently already support by some "embeded distribution".
I think it's a good start for testing.
And It's a good idea to have an open source OS on your mobile
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and lack of 2/3 of drivers + almost no useful apps, yeah...
few months ago, someone has successfully implemented this before... I did not do that as I think there are less software in Linus and i am just a normal user, not an expert like you guys..Are there many games/software for Linus now? If so, i will consider to try....
P525 linux
Good point
Lets have look and tell you where i'm stuck
P525 linux
yle said:
few months ago, someone has successfully implemented this before... I did not do that as I think there are less software in Linus and i am just a normal user, not an expert like you guys..Are there many games/software for Linus now? If so, i will consider to try....
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Yeah embeded OS have some good improvement, but probably no games in there(as far as I know).
P525 linux
Hi everybody,
here a good thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-390107.html
It's a begining with haret
guys emm.i've got ubuntu linux running on my lappy and i needed to flash my uni...is it possible to flash the device using linux? has anybody found/made a software for that ?
damac said:
guys emm.i've got ubuntu linux running on my lappy and i needed to flash my uni...is it possible to flash the device using linux? has anybody found/made a software for that ?
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There is a GPL's linux software HERMflasher for flashing hermes/trinity (working), and similar code for magician (untested).
I guess that the hermes code may be adapted for the universal with some
minor effort.
well i do know how to program but i do not have the detailed knowledge of flashing especially of universal, so i don't think i'll be able to mod it..
Again i don't want to brick the only phone i have [].. by testing this util..hehe
Thanx a lot anyway....
cr2 said:
There is a GPL's linux software HERMflasher for flashing hermes/trinity (working), and similar code for magician (untested).
I guess that the hermes code may be adapted for the universal with some
minor effort.
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damac said:
well i do know how to program but i do not have the detailed knowledge of flashing especially of universal, so i don't think i'll be able to mod it..
Again i don't want to brick the only phone i have [].. by testing this util..hehe
Thanx a lot anyway....
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the magician ver should work
Midget_1990 said:
the magician ver should work
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If the uni is not locked. Otherwise it may be easier to flash from the SD.
http://linuxtogo.org/~ph5/htc-tools
Sorry, the current htc-tools version is magician-specific.
But we are working on flashing the linux ROM, so it'll work eventually
damac said:
guys emm.i've got ubuntu linux running on my lappy and i needed to flash my uni...is it possible to flash the device using linux? has anybody found/made a software for that ?
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Old threat, but the first which came up doing a google search, therefore see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398302
for the HTCFlasher (sppecial deb install files available)
pvanbrakel said:
Old threat, but the first which came up doing a google search, therefore see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398302
for the HTCFlasher (sppecial deb install files available)
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sorry I just found out that this program does bnot support the nbf file but the nbh file, so no supoort for the universal If there is a option, I like to hear it.
Pieter
damac said:
guys emm.i've got ubuntu linux running on my lappy and i needed to flash my uni...is it possible to flash the device using linux? has anybody found/made a software for that ?
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I can think in this 2 threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=251584
And:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344181
Hope it helps,
hmm I didn't find the right info in these link. This is more about getting linux on your uni. But the question is how to flash a uni in a linux enviroment
Pieter
Damn!
Is there a way to flash an HTC Magician via Ubuntu? I still am unable to find any method..
hello,
their seems to be a few posts on this being ported to BA recently. ow ive got linux running on my BA fairly well (havent got round to setting up gprs etc yet though but thats a different matter) and id be willing to try and get a port of android working, if someone can extract the 3 img files in the android sdk as ive not managed to do that yet ? anyone want to try and help or am i talking of a lost cause
ok, ill post this incase anyone is watching. i made some progress getting andriod running but i keep getting seg fault tryingto run it, any1 who could provide insight let me know pelase
Unfortunately I can't help you but I'll be keeping a VERY close eye on this thread!
Good luck, I'm sure there are a whole load of people who'd buy you a beer if you succeed.
Steve
glad to see someones watching . ill have another play around over weekend see what i can come up with
it will be interesting to see how android works on BA keep up with the good work
Nice.
I like my BA and I don't wont to change it until an open linux mobile is avaible (an open Iphone could be great).
Maybe a sub-forum called "Blue angel linux" could help.
I'm bored or a problem with the actual BA linux is the acces to the wifi chipset?
And this seems noise. And I don't want to pay for having linux on my BA!
http://www.a-la-mobile.com/news/press/pr080114.html
aperles said:
I'm bored or a problem with the actual BA linux is the acces to the wifi chipset?
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Not the access, but a nice gui/setup.
remember linux is designed primarily for people who know what their doing. yes theirs guis now which help but you stil need command line to use linux properly. except on the iPhone and android from what ive seen
actually there was an earlier thread regarding android. and with 921+ adding 200+ views here, We bet there are people that are REALLY interested porting this.
hope we get it up and running.
anything for our BA.
even alternatives to WM6 are welcome.
well im not having a lot of look, it seems to be segfaulting pretty much constantly. think its down to the busybox shell though so im going to find a newer one and try that later, does anyone know what version of the arm feature set the BA uses. (because from reading http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973) android only seems to work on devices using ARMv5 featureset. whatever that means)
UPDATE: thats not a problem, the pxa263 in the BA is ARMv5TE so thats ok - gotta love wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale)
Further update: ok been reading up a bit more and im doing the risky thing of building my own kernel for android see if i can get round these damn segfaults
ok just thought id post up so people done think ive given up here . still havign issues compiling the linux kernel with the android addidtions. mainly because i ahvent got a proper linux machine at home (only virtual pc on this computer)...dont suppose anyone uses linux and has a decent knownledge of compiling kernels on here ??
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ok just thought id post up so people done think ive given up here . still havign issues compiling the linux kernel with the android addidtions. mainly because i ahvent got a proper linux machine at home (only virtual pc on this computer)...dont suppose anyone uses linux and has a decent knownledge of compiling kernels on here ??
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I've compiled kernels under Linux before, but not for an embedded system like the angel's.
Where did you get the tarballs for everything? And what distro of Linux did you install?
Really, real machine vs virtual machine, in this case, shouldn't matter. It might, but shouldn't.
not so much the fact im using a virtual machine, its the fact im only on a 2mb connection so downloading linux cd images takes ages and since debian is the only distro ive seen which has arm crosscompile tools that work that means 2 dvds or 9+cd images. most of the tarballs ive had to rip direct from the android sdk emulator. i could host them somewhere if someone wants to try and help me out getting a kernel running - after that i think most of android should fall into place on its own, but getting openbinder support in the kernels proving difficult
EDIT/UPDATE: ok just tried installing the arm crosscompiliers on my development dedicated server and it seems to be compiling a kernel as i type (hopefully) so looks to be some progress happening here
Been following your thread with interest.
I should be getting a new PDA from work, so then I could take the risk of bricking my trusty and battered Blue Angel.
Any chance you could post some links to the various bits you are using? Not a step by step (unless you have the time) but the starting points so others can attempt to duplicate your efforts in parallel?
Good luck - I'm rooting for you!
ok, im just tarballing up the files on my webserver now, didnt have any success with kernel, looks like im going to have to take the blueangel drivers etc from the kernel posted on handhelds.org and manually merge the config files into the android kernel image to get it to compile. unless anyone can suggest a way to do that easily (windows or linux routine i dont mind)
the main sites ive used to help out ive listed below
http://benno.id.au/blog/ << somewhere on their theirs a link to the android root filesystem image. (http://benno.id.au/android/system.tar.gz and http://benno.id.au/android/data.tar.gz)
http://nemustech.blogspot.com/2007/12/android-porting-to-real-target-hw.html
http://euedge.com/blog/2007/12/06/google-android-runs-on-sharp-zaurus-sl-c760/
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BlueAngelKernel
the three above above links help even though their not scriptly related to android on blueangel
the rest of the files are in http://radiodmp.net/android-files/ - the 365mb file contains the 2 arm cross compilers and also both the newest blueangel linux kernel and the android kernel - as said above these need merging (android kernel needs to be the one that is the final kernel as its newer i believe
edit: ive just put the system and data tars linked above into the folder on my server also to save people time.
hope that helps
if anyone wants any help drop me a message and ill try and help out. will of course keep trying to sort it myself too
Any update on this?
Actively watching this thread and just wanted to know. I'd love to be able to play with Android.
good to see ppl interested. ive not had time to try and merge the kernels yet, hopefulyl might get chance this week
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good to see ppl interested.
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Still watching, still interested!
Keep it up.
Steve
ok managed to hack together the two kernels, compiling it as i type - hopefully it'll workon my BA
what i must know for makin my own roms?
Where to start!!! There is so much to know, i think if you are interested in this you should get googling and searching the forums, here isn't a bad place to start http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=611. You can easily modify the ringtones and apps in a pre-built rom by unzipping the androidinstall.tar and deleting the apks you don't use from /system/app/ and ringtones you don't want from /media/ and re-zipping using 7zip but i get the feeling you want to do more then that. Get searching and hopefully see some of your work on the forums sometime!!!
Nees i linux? or i can do it under Windows?
Michga said:
Nees i linux? or i can do it under Windows?
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Linux is very handy for compiling from git repositories etc... and it is also easy to set up the eclipse IDE for android developing in linux. People also seem to have more sucess with setting up ADB in linux which is very handy when developing. That being said the android kitchens will also run in windows and 7zip is for windows when it comes to creating the final tar installer so it's certainly not impossible. I think you will find most of the developers will have used linux for one thing or another. You can always run it in a virtual machine using virtualbox from within windows.
working ADB on linux (Ubuntu or Suse) with Kaiser?
Must I know Java for developing??
i dont using Virtualbox, but VMWare..
Michga said:
working ADB on linux (Ubuntu or Suse) with Kaiser?
Must I know Java for developing??
i dont using Virtualbox, but VMWare..
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VMWare is fine, Virtualbox is just an opensource alternative. ADB works fine on ubuntu with Kaiser, i'm guessing it works on Suse too but i don't use it. Look here for more information : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010. If you want to develop apps then you need to know java, a lot of the source code (i.e. libs and the kernel) are written in C.
so its bad for me.. when im 16 year old and i dont know Java and C i cant developing it.. but thanks for advice
At 16 you have a lot of time to learn, start now, I regret not taking the opportunity to learn coding when I was younger, do it, and do it soon
My Ubuntu 11.10 do not recognize the Archos gen 9 with MTP support
Have you a solution ?
Hey cajl!
cajl said:
My Ubuntu 11.10 do not recognize the Archos gen 9 with MTP support
Have you a solution ?
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Partially yes... see my post over here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24344675&postcount=7
Still investigating, as pointed out there. Guess i'm gonna solve it soon.
There's a lot of information floating around, but should be solved more essential in my opinion.
Maybe tonight
Regards,
scholbert
I see your post
but i waiting a simply process
cajl said:
I see your post
but i waiting a simply process
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MTP requires additonal packages, but i guess installing some packages would be simple enough
Unfortunately there's no Archos Gen9 "out of the box" support if you're on Ubuntu 11.10, because they still use libmtp 1.1.0.
You'll need some fiddling or update your Linux host...
Regards,
scholbert
Thanks scholbert
i will be use that
although I asked some questions before in some threads related to this one, some people replied that Archos is having their internal memory as ex4, and windows doesn't read the ext4 format, but the question here is, ''does ext4 supported by linux '', although it's the best extension or format with linux, it's not working, although Android is based on linux kernel, but Android support for linux is POOR., waiting for something to get over that problem.
thanks in advance.