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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
This thread heats me up and I have been trying OpenMoko but with disappointment. Reason why I tried OpenMoko but not OPIE II as seems OPIE II requires partition of SD card with made OpenMoko easier to try (correct me if I am wrong).

It could be simply my ignorant, but OpenMoko disappointed me because

(i) OpenMoko has no screen alignment calibration software and I always click on the wrong key

(ii) lacks of supported software, I don't even know how to backup my personal data that ActiveSync offers

(iii) I have locked my device and I can't use it any further (was taking out battery and hard reset - thanks god it went back into WindowsMobile otherwise I could have bricked mine)

(iv) bluetooth not working for me (I believe this should work for someone since the interface convinced me that it should work)

(v) practically I can't even play music in the media player....and the list goes on and on and on....

Though, it was really a nice try and good linux drivers should provide advanced users to compile Andriod with this...

Just my three cents, and may I repeat, this might all because of my ignorant but not the software's problem.

Philip

P.S. Still believe that the Taxist 2.03 rom is the best!!! Particularly with PointUI's Home and SCLPC++ ...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
the images be it openmoko android opie gpe icewm or e17 will not work perfectly as noone is looking into it to remove the bugs afaik only 1 person is looking at the kernel

therefore i'll repeat it the project needs more developers.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] excogitation:
You're wrong - and also right.

If you're referring to those packages - you don't have to partition the SD-card.

You're also right, because you can just use haret.exe + default.txt (startup.txt) + zImage (kernel) and a second (ext2) partition where you put the rootfs

You can ssh in (or telnet in after setting up the proper USB drivers if you're on Windows) and run ts_calibrate.

Yep. Don't know if there's a software for synching from Linux PDA to Windows contacts (should be possible to sync with Evolution or the like in Linux though).

Because of your misaligned touchscreen?

Or did you just try to reboot or power off - because that'd be expected behaviour then (you need to Hardreset to get back to Windows).

According to Magician status bluetooth is working - I'm fairly certain that the userspace is missing though.

I can play music with OM. (newer kernel and modules I think - or just audio settings (alsa mixer))

But you're right. It is not ready for End Users.

At least these points need to be taken care of:

1. gsm (userspace)

2. sound

3. suspend

4. localization

5. bluetooth (userspace)

6. speed

A native bootloader would also be a nice thing to have.

Yes it is really nice to play with. (you might even get hooked (on Linux)). It made me smile from ear to ear making my first call in Linux

(though I didn't contribute in any way).

Just my two cents.

Well put, evildarknight (have we met on #htc-linux yet?).

The project definitely needs developers.

There are occasionally people showing interest in Linux on Magician (on #htc-linux) - but as you said only one person is working on it - at least as far as I know.

I met some who were able to build different images - but haven't heard of anyone actually advancing anything (apart from pH5, of course).

The problem is that the device is getting older - so there's even less interest I suppose.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
Agreed, made me smile to, my phone was ringing in another ring tone when I expected no call, I was wondering what the phone was doing.

And yes, certainly, the GSM call was a big success. I could imagine the hard work went through by the team.

Agreed too, though I refrain myself from buying another device yet. After all I think all windows mobile devices hardware are more or less the same - as long as the good software and OS can be ran in good speed. WM5 or WM6 or WM2003se only makes a difference to me with the software it supports; the OS itself made no difference to me.

My 1 cent leaving you with no place to go less, and we do only count by integers here my friend. :)

Philip
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
For an end user like me, I think Android would save old devices and shine them. I believe if Magician users are willing to pay a small fee, say around US$10 for some good and stable system.

So if 5000 users also this way, US$50K could be good money for a small but experienced team to work on it at leisure, both for self-satisfaction and saving the planet by telling people not to trash their old phones. ;)

Philip
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] excogitation:
I really like the Magician (though it only lies around at the moment) but it lacks fast internet like 3G, UMTS or wifi.

Devices like the iPhone or G1 - which now set the standards tend to rely more and more on an active internet connection (depending on your use of course) ... you get my point.

:-) :-) :-)

I would certainly pay 10$ - maybe we should start a fund-raising campaign - but I highly doubt we will find more than a few. (this thread doesn't even have 5k unique visitors)

If you can raise 50k - you can pay a professional programmer ~ 6 months - that'd certainly get a lot done.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
$50K

$50k ok sound like a good idea

someone should get a good team with a quotation to get a real idea about the price then we can advance to something and spread the word through the net to get the $10 per person that's feasible

there are far more people out there with a magician sleeping somewhere than you may think.

:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] khaledvic:
photos !!

there some photos for working linux on magician

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ph5/with/1194094827/
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] LordZ:
Android on Magician

I will shure donate 10$ for this, I will like to use Linux on my Magician
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
You can definitely try on OpenMoko and get back to windows without problem; though I wonder you would like it with all those limitation illustrated in our last conversation.

Believe Android is our best bet.

This 10$ campaign might not work out here, but this thread will show those who can work on this how desperate we are - provided if Android really compiles with those Linux drivers written.

-Philip
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] daniel15:
so, what's happenin' with this project?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
Nothing's happening yet... :(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] RxenDrav:
under construction...wishing best for us...:D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] schlot:
Just came accross this thread, as I have a spare Magician and would like to use linux on it. As Android seems to be the best approach, I would like to see it running on a Magician!

I also would be willing to make a donation if the project is started. It would be a shame to keep this nice piece of hardware unused due to lack of common interest ;-)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] cruzzmz:
there is hope

Somebody managed to port android on P525 from scratch ... wz no HaRET or zImage ... as for magician, we have that done already ...

now the challenge is compiling android kernel .... maybe the fella can at least give a step by step tutorial
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] schlot:
sounds very cool, please keep us up to date when there are any news!

thanks!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
the git for the kernel is there

http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=ph5/kernel.git;a=summary

should contact ph5 for details

from where i am i never find him on irc
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] excogitation:
Android on Apache

Seems someone got it running on an Apache which runs on a PXA270 chipset which is similar to our Magician's PXA272 chipset.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
Read it, and it seems that if anybody who would do the trail and error compilation work well could get this done.

Philip
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] brachialis:
i would gladly donate to anyone who gets android running on my magician!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Prerna:
Hi, same here, provided the main basic functions work!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Sokol:
Hi all

New builds for HTC

here
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] philiplam:
That's not magician my friend, but could be another good start for porting Android with Linux drivers.

Philip
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ziziplanet:
Yes, build somebody please or attac the www.htc-android.com forum to build this!!!:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] iRiKi:
I find it strange, not for magician but the filenames and directory point to it:

/unstable/autobuild/magician

Angstrom-console-image-glibc-ipk-2009.X-test-20090401-magician-testlab/

console-image-magician.tar.bz2

modules-2.6.21-hh20-r25-magician.tgz

etc
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] MusikMonk:
I think he meant that it's not an Android rom cause it is a Magician rom.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Sokol:
This is new bulds of Angstrom on Magician
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Sokol:
This is new buld of Angstrom on Magician
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] schlot:
Once again, I googled for recent changes regarding Magician/Linux development.

Looking at the new official Kernel 2.6.29 from kernel.org, I saw that there are many options for HTC magician. So there is active development for magician in the official kernel tree?!?

Even the ChangeLog for the newer release candidates of 2.6.30 feature HTC Magician Audio device support.

Unfortunately, all the well-known project pages and wikis for HTC Magician are dead or not maintained for a long time.

Does anybody have information about the recent development status for this device? Where can I get a GCC Toolchain to build the kernel and try it on a Magician? What type of bootloader can I use (e. g. U-boot, BLOB, ...)?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] MusikMonk:
@schlot:

Currently the only running discussion about linux on magician is over here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=408069

And "cest73" is updating the wiki at:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=MagicianXanadux
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PabloPL:
I tried with arm-linux-gnueabi-4.2.2 and with 2.6.29-rc3 kernel. It build fine, booted but i get "segmentation fault" while trying to run init (probably because kernel was without android specific patches, where i can find it - for 2.6.29??). I can only run busybox with it.

I also tried to compile 2.6.25 and 2.6.27 but i get "white screen" after "jumping to kernel" like on some linux images for magician ( probably because i have Samgung LCD on my magician) or it couldn't detect SD card (driver was compiled into kernel - not as module).:(
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PabloPL:
I downloaded linux kernel 2.6.29 and applied Android patches on it. It builds fine. I took rootfs from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=455648. It detects SD card, mounts it but while trying to run, init shows many messages like

init: untracked pid 428 exited

And at end its display

init: critical process 'servicemanager' exited 4 times in 4 minutes;
rebooting into recovery mode

And after this phone reboots. Do anyone have idea what could I do wrong??:(

I could send a patch aganist vanilla linux kernel, config for building zImage or already builded zImage.

Thanks:)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
the android kernel is not equal to the offcial linux kernel

there are major differences between the two

google called android as being based on linux kernel

simple patching is surely has little chance to work

your best bet is to download the android kernel sources and port it

most linux drivers work has been done by ph5

need only to rewrite them for android kernel

but anyways i may be mistaken :D
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PabloPL:
If You look into linux kernel (eg 2.6.29) , You will see that there are already options for Android. Look for the last option in Device Drivers section, in configuration of kernel;).
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Sokol:
i know the 2 ukrane guys, work and develop kernel for HTC macigian.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] canu7:
The differences between the official Linux kernel 2.6.27 and the last Android kernel are minimal. Some little changes on some specific parts (bluetooth stack, ipv4 networking, etc).

But I think the best is to work with the same version of the kernel than google (2.6.27, I guess)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] forum.anoop:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I am also facing this same issue. Am trying to port Android OS to davinci DM6446 board. I downloaded the linux-2.6.29 (that has the android already patched). Used the default davinci_dm644x_defconfig file and built it. Since there is no davinci support in this kernel code :(, many interfaces including the network is not detected (no network controller EMAC-driver found). So, I flashed the android filesystem to davinci's harddisk, and told to boot from harddisk - but on running the 'init', i also got the same errors -

init: untracked pid 428 exited[/code]

init: critical process 'servicemanager' exited 4 times in 4 minutes;

rebooting into recovery mode[/code]

U have mentioned that, u applied the android patches on linux kernel. May i know, from where can i get the Android specific patches

[patch files]

for linux -2.6.29, so that i can apply them to the davinci patched linux 2.6.29 kernel and try.

Thanks in advance...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] PabloPL:
Hi

This is the way I got the patches (i've found this metod somewhere over network)

$ mkdir android
$ cd android
$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/kernel/common.git kernel
$ cd kernel
$ git checkout --track -b android-2.6.29 origin/android-2.6.29
$ git format-patch v2.6.30-rc1

And after that, you will find in android directory many patches. Apply them. Not all are required. i'm not sure, but one of patches which you must have is ashmem and binder., and enable them in kernel config.

On Magician i had i white screen while booting if i applied some patch - something with low level printk.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] jevenstr:
any news about this project ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] ksp3r:
Anything happening here?? I am really interested in this project:):)....im willing to help but i dont have alot of experience...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Hertog6:
Isn´t it a good idea to bring al this talking about Android on the Magician (and maybe porting tries) on a SF page or somewhere else ?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] header2k:
Could someone test this way to open Android ontop of Angstrom on the Magician?

EDIT:

I haven't got a kernel with "loop"-module - I could recompile it (but not today :)).

EDIT2:

It doesn't escape the splashscreen, bt it is a start.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] const:
Hello,

Just got interested in this project - Linux on Magician.

Does it have a webpage? Is it /moin/moin.cgi/Magician @ www . handhelds . org ? Looks a bit outdated.

Couldn't find any sources, neither in this thread nor on web page. There should be source, that is Linux after all, right? :)

Regards,
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mihai3d:
Hello everyone

is there any progress with android on the magician?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
ok b_w_johan was trying to compile the android kernel for magician it seems that there is no proper defconfig file for magician to compile the kernel the one i have recommended failed miserably and i don't have enough cores left in my head to sort out the problem!!! any ideas someone!!????
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] header2k:
How about that one?:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.c...linux-handhelds-2.6-2.6.21/magician/defconfig
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
ok give me some days
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Prerna:
are you serious? i mean, Android would be a real treat in a device like this given the powerful proc.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Reedim:
Any news?

-Reeedim
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] tweakradje:
Cotulla is very much into Android these days. I hope he will release an Android ROM for Magician rather then releasing G10 wm whatever ROM. If someone can he is the man. I will be happy switching to Android 2.1 on my magician.

Cheers
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] mero0100:
i accept any rom but during our life or our children life
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] chansthename:
I can guarantee that there will be an android rom out of cotulla in the future, I highly doubt it will be for the magician though.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] evildarknight:
b_w_johan is not answering my emails i am currently in exams and is revising and all the stuff i'll try to compile a kernel when i'm in holidays in November :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] merlin tm:
Any news about it? Cotulla do not forget about Magician? :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] header2k:
He said:

But Cotulla is going to make Generation 10 based Roms for the magician

P.S: Cotulla is working for WP7/Android on the hd2 at the moment.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Hakim Rahman:
did you know it...??? :rolleyes::rolleyes:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] asim.sidz:
Any progress? It's 2014!! 6 years have gone..
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] troffers:
Hey everyone,

I've just picked up my new Pixel 2 today and it's great but...the At A Glance widget doesn't seem do anything except show my calendar. Long press doesn't do anything and there is no options for it in the home settings.

Any suggestions?

Edit: ignore this. I've just had updated my apps and it now seems to be fine
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] PixelFan:
I'm having an issue as well. It is only displaying the day, month, and weather. I have things on my calendar but it never displays them. My appointments will show up in the notification bar but not on the home screen. Any ideas?

I've already long pressed and made sure my calendar events were enabled.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] boosting1bar:
I'm having the same issue on on Pixel 2XL
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] troffers:
I think what worked for me was allowing Google Now access to my upcoming events and location info. If you go to the Google Now screen and play around with the settings there it should work.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] PixelFan:
So I added a test event in the calendar app and it worked. So am I to assume that only events created within the app will show?
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] PixelFan:
I contacted support and they verified my theory. It will only display events created within the app. If it gets added via the web or any other means, it will not show.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] BAZZI_US:
So, if a colleague creates an appointment and invites me as guest, the event is shown in my calender (as usual) but At-A-Glance won't show it??

And how do you toggle the weather to be shown or not to be shown? Long press only offers me calendar events and traffic info.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] KHANrad_SIN:
Regarding the weather. Try going to your google now feed and hitting the 3 dots in the top right corner. Then look for "customize feed" and hit that. Then scroll down and under "weather" hit "view all settings". Then where it says "weather updates for your location" turn it on. If it is already on, turn it off then back on. Now go back to your google now feed and pull down to refresh the feed. Now go back to your home screen and you should see the weather. As far as turning it off I think you can just turn off the "weather updates for your location" setting but I think you need to reboot to make the weather disappear.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] rsbenedict:
That's dumb. I rarely if ever create an appointment from my phone. I usually do it from the web on my desktop. It should read from your Google Calendar regardless of where you enter it from.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] foosion:
My at a glance widget displays events added via the web, not just created within the app. It only displays the events starting shortly before the event. However, the widget appears to behave differently for different people.

Support is not the most reliable source of information.
[Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers] Suraj Padmasali:
I had this issue with my brand new Pixel 2, But I fixed it. To fix it first go to the Google app page in setting then go to the storage, manage space and then clear all data. After disable it enable it and it should start work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SirMerkel:
Hi all,

I've just moved from a OnePlus 3T to a Note 8 and I'm loving the device so far. However, I'm having a problem with chromecast - the device is detected and I'm able to cast media from BBC iPlayer etc, but the controls don't appear on the notification panel. Does anyone else have this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keoxkeox:
Greetings,

I have an extra S4 mainboard laying around so I decided to use it to turn one of my non-smart TVs to a motion controlled TV (Will use front and back cameras together for 3D triangulation and IR blaster for manipulating the TV). Anyway I bought one 5V to 3.7V step down board ([ aliexpress ]/item/18650-lithium-battery-protection-board-3-7v-3-6V-4-2V-lithium-battery-charging-board-1A/32804861065.html) and connected it instead of the battery and everything worked fine for a while. Then the phone entered into a boot loop. After wiping cache partition in safe mode it has turned on properly only to start looping in 30secs.

So I want to diagnose what the problem is, I have checked the logs in the safe mode but they were all huge and did not know where to look at.

In this regard I have couple of questions:

1) Does this sound like a temperature problem or power management problem? How to distinguish them other than feeling around ICs with my finger (and no they were not extremely hot)? Or how to determine the cause for the arbitrary looking power cycles.

2) How can I transfer logs to my PC, even though it power cycles. Fortunately USB debugging is enabled

3) How can I detect power cycle related entries in the logs? If I share can you guys help me?

4) S4 battery has 4 contact points 1st being V+ and 3rd being GND. I thought others were `Not Connect`, was I right?

5) Assuming I can sort this problem out, is there a way to make phone turn on as soon as I feed power through battery connectors (without pushing the on button, I can add a capacitor and connect incoming power to switch by soldering but I would prefer a SW solution if possible.).

I do not believe the problem has to do with the step down board as I have measured its output as 3.9V and it has a current limiter in it.

I would extremely appreciate any input/help/comment, thank you all
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] xPr0metheus:
Currently playing a game that is not recognized by my phone as such, hence I cannot record videos of it. Is there any way to force the recording settings to appear?

Gesendet von meinem SM-G955F mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] MINTED7:
add the app manually from game launcher, long press it in game launcher, and select list at game.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers] ars0n:
? i leave mine in game mode 24/7 you can do so by using the quicktile performance tile and select game mode...