yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] hovax615@hotmail.com:
help?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/

can this help out anyone i'm not super tech saavy...but this guy is explaining a couple things on here about the android...and also

If you really want to get serious, pedal your steam-engine over to the Open Handset Alliance site(http://www.engadget.com/tag/OpenHandsetAlliance/) where you can download the SDK for a variety of platforms. You might want to get cracking on that code, too, as Google has created the Android Developer Challege(http://code.google.com/android/adc.html), a contest meant to spur production on the devices, with a sweet $10 million pot that will be divided amongst winners. If you're not ready to jump into that game just yet, check out the gallery and view some videos after the break -- you'll see and hear more info about Android than you can shake a stick at.
[HTC Excalibur] nb1001:
oh wow, this looks really exciting.
[HTC Excalibur] egosumpaul:
Definitely! I wish I have the knowledge to help you guys... After many tries with different distros of Linux I moved to Ubuntu 8.10 weeks ago and I would like to do the same with my loyal Excalibur.

Great job.
[HTC Excalibur] egosumpaul:
Never late. Downloaded the zip file, put files on the sd card, follow instructions... and, wow!

I wish someone feels interest in acomplishing this challenge. Looks great.:D
[HTC Excalibur] gab0:
i wish i have something to help you with... but i'm too noob yet to help... btw keep on working on the project, i think its a greeeeat idea!
[HTC Excalibur] Pummel454:
Just Double Checking

As it is right now...we can download and instal Android...but can't use any of the apps? :confused:
[HTC Excalibur] orb3000:
Keep up the good work guys!!

Would be nice to have a final working version!

Cheers,
[HTC Excalibur] tidixon:
^^^ wishful thread bumping
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Is the first post or post 76 the most recent one?

Edit: Nevermind, I just downloaded both and found out for myself xD
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Was gunna ask why it was trying to load for almost half an hour, but I read a little and got the fix.

Thanks =D

This project will be great if it ever gets finished.

This is the only thing I see right now that is breathing new life into the Excalibur (although NRG's Energy rom is a fresh breath for 6.1 ^-^)

Thought I should bump this post, as no one answered him at all.
[HTC Excalibur] kash2k7:
anyone kno where i can get a usb driver for my dash to install cab
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
So has there been any new developments on this lately?
[HTC Excalibur] skaroger867:
facade is a good program to look into if you want a new look
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Link? I tried googling it, but no real results came about.
[HTC Excalibur] skaroger867:
http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows_mobile_smartphone/facade

they got some reaelly nice themes for this program. not to mention the support for today screen plug-in's. its worth looking into, so much you can customize
[HTC Excalibur] artilheiro.mz:
gonna get myself a hands on a excalibur again, just to see this project going forward and test it for myself

any tests needed to be done, im up for the challenge, i know my way around linux but not to the point of developing drivers and such.

any help needed im here. gonna have a excalibur in 2 weeks time

cheers
[HTC Excalibur] gpod:
Heh, at least Snake works! But seriously, does anyone know where to find a list of the shell commands that do work, except for ls (linux mounted my sd-card, but then android didn't find it?!)? This is great stuff; it's like a live linux distro for my phone! I hope someone, somewhere can cook up working drivers, or at least maybe get a different flavor of linux to work...
[HTC Excalibur] gpod:
Hmm, I played around with some of the apps, wrote a note, changed the wallpapers and then rebooted. Afterwards the note was still there and the changes had been saved. At least this has more persistence than a live linux distro...
[HTC Excalibur] skyline247:
This is magnificently awesomely super duper spandanarific!!! :D I ran Haret, and after a few (well maybe a better term quite a few) it booted into android. One thing I hate is clutter, and to me, the Windows Mobile homescreen seems so cluttered, no matter which ROM I use, although, the new Energy ROM is more the way I like my homescreen than any of the others. After loading Android, WOW, no clutter. Seems so organized. Beautiful, just beautiful!

On my main (home) comp, I am running Ubuntu 9.04, so apprised of the whole Linux thing. If I could have it on my phone as well it would be great. So, have there been any developments on the drivers end? I am moderately versed on the workings of Linux, but not apt well enough to write drivers. I have been looking into learning, but it seems WAY too complicated. I am still pushing along, but afraid I will be of no help.

Awesome job BruteSource, starrwarrior, and all that have trudged along on this. One day the Exalibur, also, will be free of Microsoft's tyranny. :D lol.
[HTC Excalibur] superg05:
wow you guys have done a great job
[HTC Excalibur] gitto:
Download android

Hello guys, i have a question: how can download Android? if is possible the new version because i would try it.

Thanks !!
[HTC Excalibur] skaroger867:
look at the first post, it gives you the orginal site and directs you to post #76 to get it "running" on your dash.

a bit of advice if your gonna try this is be patient and dont expect much. the snake game works tho
[HTC Excalibur] srimpo:
is this still being developed?
[HTC Excalibur] CacoPelao:
I believe its not, but if u have any interest on it, just try to get in contact with the people that started this project and try yourself to get something out of this.
[HTC Excalibur] smjfosho:
after i type in root for the login and nothing for the password, a linwizard logo comes up then nothing happens.

what do i do after this?

thanks in advance
[HTC Excalibur] CacoPelao:
I believe you download the wrong files... you need to get to page 7 o 8 (don't really remember) and download te android image.
[HTC Excalibur] smjfosho:
after you type /init1 what do you do?

do you press something? or should it start loading automatically?
[HTC Excalibur] CacoPelao:
just leave it for about 30 seconds to a minute a half and you would see the android splash screen... once you see the splash screen just leave it, it will start android.

(first time loading takes some minutes)
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Hey genius ppl ,

wish i could have been of some help on this project ,

but u great ppl please dont abandon this project ...

if could be of some monetory help i can ,

but lets revivie our good old dash
[HTC Excalibur] emrebilmuh:
You guy absolutely right i'm here to help you but don't know how. I am a linux user at the system admin level but didn't dig in its code. But inform me if there's anyway(testing or maybe in the code :p) to help you.

Where are the other people???
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
keep this project alive

Hey guys, i wish i had brains like most of the ppl out here,

I really want to see android on my DASH,

please keep this project alive,

geniuses please give a hand and give a rebirth to our beloved DASH.
[HTC Excalibur] tidixon:
you know what would be sweeeeet, the google voice dialer app on android... on a tmo dash. or better yet, a google voice voip app on the dash.
[HTC Excalibur] Pratikkaushik:
i get white screen on my excalibur everytime i try to start android on my device.

can anybody tell me why is it so and how to correct it.

and all of you the genius ppl please revive the project, if you can.
[HTC Excalibur] rafaelgsm:
anyone knows how if possible to install the ethernet gadget drivers for xp ?? thanks in advance :P
[HTC Excalibur] X-Stranger:
Probably this can help us: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wing-linux/wiki

Project is oriented to make Android working on OMAP850, however I do not see Excalibur support at their pages...
[HTC Excalibur] rafaelgsm:
ok , this is my first pics about android... the interface is very cool ... but this rom is not functional yet :( we should work in this project... lets go!!! :)
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
yessss , my dream is to get that interface with a functional rom.

the sourceforge link is pretty cool, but as said there is no suppprt for excalibur, but i guess the suppprted list is growing.

keeping my fingers crossed.

.....
[HTC Excalibur] uccellino:
Thanks for the link :)

The thing is, the Wing is based on the same chipset from what I know... so maybe there is hope! ;)
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
hey Uccellino,

i get to see that you are a forerunner in the excalibur android project,

i just wanted to give my appreciation, and best wishes ,

I wish i could be of some help, but am an absolute noob , though i can be a tester though .

All the very best and just waiting for my dash to run on android.
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Hi,

great to see our dash running on android,

by the way which image did u use?

would be grateful if you could post the link of the image you used ........

thanks and regards
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Eureka,

I was just able to boot android on my dash,

but it looks very diffrent, from the one showed in the,

previous post by rafelgsm , the UI is totally diffrent.

.......
[HTC Excalibur] rafaelgsm:
mr drnayeem :

i use the image file that is posted in this forum... you can show the pics of your Android OS???

thanks in advance ... and excuseme my english jojojojo im from colombia
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Hi everybody,

Now that we have a keymaped android that boot on a Dash,

And we also have http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wing-linux/wiki from where we can get the GSM drivers, and wings has the same chipset,

cant we make our android working ??

.............
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
android issues

Hi,

Now lets tabulate, how we need to go about....

Issues unsolved ( which i could make out )

Issue Probable Cause

1. Phone not working GSM Driver

2. Bluetooth support Driver missing

3. Wifi support Driver missing

4. SD Card Driver missing

5. Camera support Driver missing

6. Battery ( Power ) Driver missing

well so the only problem we have now is missing driver........

now a we know HTC wings had a similar chipset and android is up and running on it we can just get the drivers from the wings android forum and i guess we can have our excalibur running on android soon .............

Am not a linux expert but am trying to give some help to the genius ppl out here .

kindly correct me me if am wrong ............
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
hi rafalgsm ,

actually i could not get past the boot screen with the command /init1 so i tried,

startx which stared the x windows but the GUI was not of android but of a Linux desktop,

I cannot post the screenhot, but try that once...............

Lets revive this project ..... we have unicello too ...............
[HTC Excalibur] aznwannabe358:
I pledge $20 bucks to the first fully functioning android rom on the dash! I'm sure im not the only one that would. Good luck to all the smart ppl.
[HTC Excalibur] uccellino:
LOL! :rolleyes: Just a little status update - a completely working build is still a bit of a dream :o but it looks like the Excalibur can be integrated into the Wing-Linux project - they are very helpful people. I think though that a build working with GSM is very likely in the next week or so from my testing with the HTC Herald codebase - Android recognizes my SIM card. Oh, this version is based on Android 1.5 too = cupcake :) From what I understand, sound seems still to be a problem. Will keep you posted.
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Hey good to hear that,

I guess with genius ppl like you around, excalibur will be on android soon,

Am not a coder or a programmer, but can definately be of help as a tester,

all the very best and cheers to you all
[HTC Excalibur] aznwannabe358:
Status Update? Still praying for the day that the dash runs perfect on android.
[HTC Excalibur] uccellino:
Hi,

I've submitted a patch to add support for the Excalibur to the Wing-linux project. The next release of this should be out within a week. With this version, you'll be able to easily install and run Android. Unfortunately GSM drivers are only partial, the biggest problem is audio and power management at the moment. In theory, GPRS and SMS should work though :) So things are moving along.

Please, if any developers are out there, check this project out! They're a really friendly group and it is easy to get into the development. Now really is the time :D
[HTC Excalibur] wtcaldwell:
Anyone need an extra Dash for testing?

I have a pretty much bricked Dash from T-Mobile (was encountering the "shut off" after 3 minutes on a call syndrome). I started trying to flash it w/ andriod to no avail.

If someone is interested in it for a testing piece, email me at: tcs.pcs @ gmail dot com.

Not trying to fill this thread with offers like this, but thought it might be useful for someone. I think I even have 2 batteries.
[HTC Excalibur] drnayeem:
Hi Uccellino,

U made my day ,

Its great to hear that,

I really appreciate ur hard work.

Thanks for the same.

Keeping my fingers crossed and waiting....
[HTC Excalibur] johnnylavah:
i would rather have android running perfectly on the dash...but hey, the dash running perfectly on android would work, too...
[HTC Excalibur] jdshifflett:
ROFL, that made my night
[HTC Excalibur] aznwannabe358:
Whoops my bad :D Bad ya'll got what i was saying.
[HTC Excalibur] jeph36:
Wing-Linux official support

Check out the Wing-Linux project page! It says the Excalibur/S620/Dash/whatever-you-call-it is now officially supported in the latest build as of yesterday/today. Not that I had anything to do with it, I have just been an interested bystander so far. Though now that it is semi-working I might have to actually get involved with that project as a relatively new-to-embedded-Linux programmer. I just need to figure out how to incorporate that into value-added work on my other embedded Linux project which is not going much of anywhere at present :eek: ... and also is vying for my spare time.
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
The Pre-release for Excalibur came out 2 days ago. Here is the link - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wing-linux/files/
[HTC Excalibur] aznwannabe358:
each day the dash keeps getting better! woot woot
[HTC Excalibur] carlosantonio18:
Full Working Android w/ Phone?

so has anyone has been able to run android w/o problems (i.e All the drivers are in w/ phone functions)?
[HTC Excalibur] HTCS621Smartphone:
i just checked out the Link whats this 40 MB has anybody tryed it yet on S62X ??
[HTC Excalibur] schmatzler:
The latest version works partly.

No audio driver yet, WLAN and Bluetooth are also not working.

What is working is the GSM and data connection. You can send SMS and brow the web.

And: no camera yet.

Its no replacement, just a simple toy for the people who want to play with it.
[HTC Excalibur] cafterg:
No GUI

It is partly working, however, it has no Graphical User Interface. Therefore it is hard to use because I don't know much about commands.
[HTC Excalibur] uccellino:
From steady progress, audio is on its way, should hopefully make it into the next release. GUI should be working fine however some problems have occurred with different display versions. Do keep checking back - it just keeps getting better and better ;)
[HTC Excalibur] luisfebar:
GREAT!!!! congrats PLEASE Keep us ADVISED :eek:
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Just tried Wing Linux 0.4.2 on my Dash. Looks great but most of the things still do not work at the moment.

Working:

Detects Phone network but cannot call.

Can create and type messages but cannot send.

Dashboard.

Alarm Clock.

Browser.

Dev Tools.

Galley.

Settings.

Spare Parts.

And Explorer.

Not working:

Dialer.

Wifi.

Camera.

Camcorder.

Calender.

I have attached the screenshots below ;)
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Some more screenshots :)
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
And some more :D

This is a great progress of the Linux Wing Project. Its this is out of its development then our smartphones will get a second life for sure ;)

All Thanks to Linux Wing project :)
[HTC Excalibur] luisfebar:
OMG NOTHING MORE TO SAY :eek:
[HTC Excalibur] adulel08:
terrific! great work to all those working on this project! I CANT WAIT!!
[HTC Excalibur] turtle1981:
Im hesitant to try this as well however is this going to be available for the first gen dash...
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
I'm gonna be starting some Android dev, maybe I can help... Any updated download links? :)
[HTC Excalibur] luisfebar:
:D man you are always helping us :D thanks man . I have a hosting if needed for something.
[HTC Excalibur] zeritooverride:
Did you do anything special to boot it? I got the latest from Wing Linux (same as the one you used). I have been trying for a while now to boot it but all I get is shifting colors on the screen and then it stays black :S. Im trying it on a old 512MB card.
[HTC Excalibur] Greg530:
Just wanted to say I'm so glad the Excalibur still has such a strong community! You guys rock!
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Previously when this thread was famous 0.4pre4 was out. But I did not try that on my Dash. On November 21st, 2009, 0.4.2 released. This is the one that I have tried and posted the images in my previous post. More features that seem to work but it still needs serious development. ;)

Yes, there is a little trick you must keep in mind.

I too first got just the black screen and some text with it.

Uninstall the Wing linux from your Dash and remove the cab files too.

Now copy the rootfs cab file and the excalibur cab file found in the main archive and paste it on to the root of your SD card using ActiveSync.

Now run the rootfs cab file 1st and then install the excalibur package.

Now after all thats done, reboot your phone.

Go to Programs and run the Wing Linux application which you just installed.

Now it should run with no problems...

When you see a blue screen during installation to enter some values. Just wait (Automatically decides the option within a few seconds) and just press Enter on default memory allocation.

Old is Gold, Gred.

This smartphone is still a legend! :cool:
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
Is this compatible with the newest version of the 3vo series rom
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Kingissa, this OS will be compatible with every version of rom that you use on your device. Linux is not a software - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
Well i tried all the suggestions to make android work from the previous post, i am using the wing linux cab made for the excalibur and it still does not work
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Ok. Just erase all the linux files from your phone and read the instructions on this site and as well as on my post. ;)

That should get it to work. :)
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
About how long does the first boot take because its been an hour and a half of the screen changing colors every 5 minutes and nothing happening
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Screen changing colors? Can you post a screenshot of that?

It generally takes around 3 minutes to load Android.
[HTC Excalibur] turtle1981:
Hey quick question.. Is it as easy as flashing the rom to android as it was with flashing to wm 6.5? Or Is there more involved... Because I would really like to get the brains of an android on my dash. Also how stable Is the android for the htc dash? Its the only dash I have and so I was curious as to how it works and if I should go ahead and replace wm 6.5 with android.. Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
By The way this is for anyone trying to build there own kernel. These are the patches we have so far needed to get the screen and keyboard working with the lin wizard kernel, here just for future development.

A working kernel with these files built in is already included on the first post.
[HTC Excalibur] spikey911:
What can we do with it once we get it installed? Can we run linux apps, or must they be written specifically for the phone?
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
yah i was able to get into the terminal...thought this had gui but oh well works fine
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Got the console to appear fine most of the time and was able to get X11 up and running with xinit on a t-mobile dash. It seems there is no input mapped, so I couldn't really do anything. The usb networking works well and I could establish a telnet session to my device. I was unable to kill X via telnet so I had to remove my battery to stop it from running. Glad that Linux is finally booting on the dash!
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Whoa... how did you start x? with just startx? i havent been able to all i get is a black screen.... thats great news.. Ya linwizard was written for the wizard so it expects touchscreen for input, i a have been loking for a dpad controled on screen cursor to use... but no luck.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Sorry for double posting but I cant really double quote using opera mini....

You can run any linux app that will build or a prebuilt bin. and it would have to fit in ram and the ramdisk.

Which reminds me can someone try and mount the sd to see if thats working or not.
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Just run "xinit" rather than using the "startx" script, that didn't work for me either. Just running "X" itself also works but obviously has no window manager if you do that.

Also, mounting an mmc card appears to work fine and I was able to get an accurate directory listing in addition to reading data from some files on the card.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
sweet, did you try to write? and how are you working around having no \ mapped? can you test switching terminals? ctrl should be tab err i cant remember now its in the boarcd c file but you wouldnt know what the adresses for the keys were.. hmmm well I know the soft keys are f1 and f2 i thought back was esc and sym was ctrl alt is alt but maybe not the actual left_alt... any good with the setkey app?

Actually do you have any messengers.. if so could you msg me? aim blink0ne8d2 yahoo kok187 msn gentoon@gmail.com
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Hey Brute Just wondering, I read in your signature... what is the opera mini default browser tweak?
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Just means i am using the mortscript tweak to use opera mini as my system level default browser instead of pie(yuck)
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh okay thats cool man, could you show me how to use that or send me your script over please... because I would like to do that too.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Funny jdog as i was going to post the same, a link or the script would be cool, did have a search but no such luck, i use Opera Mobile as default but could see others making use of the script :)
[HTC Excalibur] LeoArg:
Please, post screenshots or pictures.

Thank you
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
As Mentioned in a earlier post you cant take screenshots as there is no app included with linwizard, but you can see some screenshots of it working on wizard at the linwizard website.
[HTC Excalibur] LeoArg:
ok, thank you
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Anyone want to try and figure out how to map the dpad?
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Heres a link to the thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=384271

Now lets get back to the topic at hand :)

Good news is we got a few linux orientated people to help with the project so far, and one of them discovered that X (the gui) is working just needs to be started with xinit. For now that just means we can see the pretty desktop, because we have no touchscreen we have no way to control the cursor. So the next step is setting up some kind of manual cursor control with the dpad( as soon as we figure out how to map it, maybe from tracing gpio)
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Thank you, and I will try to see if I can help out with the Dpad cursor...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Weird.. site was down..

Okay so starwarrior has been making some good progress on the 5way navigation (dpad) he has traced the information we need to map it. Just have a few kinks to work out. We still have no way of navigating inside gpe since its been set up for touchscreen.. so if anyone has any ideas please feel free to post them here.