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
Hello
I have a android phone which seems not to be very famous, therefore it is basically impossible information about how to root it (it is a prestigio pap7600duo).
I wonder if anyone knows any guide about rooting
I am not referring to a tool like oneclick, but to something that explains how the process works, with the problem that can arise, why a device cannot be root at the moment, so that i can try to find to root it.
Does it depend on the processor? on the hardware? on the custom software installed?
I work with linux and i'm a java programmer if this can help, and have a a background in C/C++ development
thanks in advance
Rob
Hi. As the title says, can anyone guide me on how to build ROMs and Kernels on Windows? I have searched and read articles on the net, and they just got me very much confused.
Steps that I took are:
- Installed VM and followed all steps and imported builduntu. This method seems to be not yielding anything.
- I also download Git Desktop for Windows. I have set up an account in Github, made a repo and synced with the desktop equivalent, but I don't know how to clone a repo.
- I seem to follow steps but does not yield anything.
So guys, please help me in this.
And Thanks in Advance!
@MitoTakatori first you should search how to install Linux on a Virtual machine. Which is, Linux running on top of Windows. From there you take the next steps as everything will be done in the Linux Virtual machine you install.
Hey guys! I am pretty new to a lot of this rooting and custom ROM installs. I recently picked up an Asus TF300T from a friend at work which i have root(the easy part). The reason why i was looking into this or even a laptop was because i wanted to start tinkering with pen testing with Kali Linux. After a lot of research, trying to retain what information i could, i have found there is an image for Kali for armel. This brings 2 questions to mind that i cannot find the answers to. 1 - Even though the CPU on my Asus tablet is ARMv7 will armel images work? From what i have found, i would want to use an armhf image to flash to the device due to the version of the CPU. And 2 - Is there a distro(i have been unsuccessful finding one) that has the drivers required to make a smoothing working environment? During the course of my research into this issue, i have found there are some distributions of Ubuntu that currently work with my tablet. More specifically Ubuntu Touch(i think?). This got me thinking, since both Kali and Ubuntu are both Debian based distros(i could be wrong, please correct me if i am) could i take the section of the file system from Ubuntu Touch that has the drivers for my tablet that allow it to work correctly and replace it with the section of the file system for the ARM image of Kali? I should mention that i have been able to get Kali to install and run with Linux Deploy. However, i feel it is slower than i was anticipating. And all the tools are there, they just do not open for some reason. Which is a whole different issue that i haven't figured out yet. I was hoping that perhaps one of you may have an idea if the two questions i have posed will work, or could maybe shed some light on how to go about accomplishing what i am trying to do. Or if any of you know of a version of Kali that will work on my tablet or maybe even one someone has already built for this particular model. Any guidance, tips, or knowledge on this subject will be very much appreciated. I understand going out and buying a laptop or a tablet with an image supported on Kalis website would be the ideal and most efficient solution, but i have a bad habit taking the hard way to gain some more information and knowledge haha. Thank you all for taking the time to read this and thanks in advanced for any responses .
Kyle
Hello everyone! I've been kinda desperate trying to get any Android OS, I hope you guys could help me out
Like it says in the title, I try to boot Bliss OS from Live CD, detects Android x86 in the partition, but then my laptop just reboots, is there a way to fix it? Or is my laptop just not supported?
I really really hope I can get some help, I'm not sure what info you need so just ask me and I'll provide what's necessary, many thanks in advance!
CPU: AMD Turion X2 RM-72
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
HP Pavilion dv5 1137la
I know it's and old laptop, but I hope there's a way to make this work
gabrieljim said:
Hello everyone! I've been kinda desperate trying to get any Android OS, I hope you guys could help me out
Like it says in the title, I try to boot Bliss OS from Live CD, detects Android x86 in the partition, but then my laptop just reboots, is there a way to fix it? Or is my laptop just not supported?
I really really hope I can get some help, I'm not sure what info you need so just ask me and I'll provide what's necessary, many thanks in advance!
CPU: AMD Turion X2 RM-72
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
HP Pavilion dv5 1137la
I know it's and old laptop, but I hope there's a way to make this work
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We aren't able to determine specific device compatibility without user testing. In order for us to attempt to help you have a successful boot of Bliss OS on your device, you will need to try different .iso's in order to find out which kernel is compatible with your hardware. Please go to the official support thread for further help: https://forum.xda-developers.com/bliss-roms/bliss-roms-development/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657
You will need to share what .iso's you have tried when posting. I suggest looking at older Nougat(7.1.2) builds which use the 4.4 version Linux kernel for best possible compatibility. When looking for potential .iso's to test, the kernel version is contained in the .iso's file name(_4.4_ or _4.9_ or _4.16_ etc.)
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We aren't able to determine specific device compatibility without user testing. In order for us to attempt to help you have a successful boot of Bliss OS on your device, you will need to try different .iso's in order to find out which kernel is compatible with your hardware. Please go to the official support thread for further help: https://forum.xda-developers.com/bliss-roms/bliss-roms-development/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657
You will need to share what .iso's you have tried when posting. I suggest looking at older Nougat(7.1.2) builds which use the 4.4 version Linux kernel for best possible compatibility. When looking for potential .iso's to test, the kernel version is contained in the .iso's file name(_4.4_ or _4.9_ or _4.16_ etc.)
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Thank you! I'll start checking some of these out then, I'll post anything I learn here
ElfinJNoty said:
We aren't able to determine specific device compatibility without user testing. In order for us to attempt to help you have a successful boot of Bliss OS on your device, you will need to try different .iso's in order to find out which kernel is compatible with your hardware. Please go to the official support thread for further help: https://forum.xda-developers.com/bliss-roms/bliss-roms-development/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657
You will need to share what .iso's you have tried when posting. I suggest looking at older Nougat(7.1.2) builds which use the 4.4 version Linux kernel for best possible compatibility. When looking for potential .iso's to test, the kernel version is contained in the .iso's file name(_4.4_ or _4.9_ or _4.16_ etc.)
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The 32 bits version with 4.4 worked, but got stuck at boot logo, I guess this laptop is just uncompatible