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[Touch Cruise Android Development] w04g005:
This thread is for all Polaris owners who are (maybe) fed up of WM.

At this moment there even exists a port of Android ION for Windows Mobile

http://code.google.com/p/vogue-andr...+Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount

The developers got the phone and the mobile networks working. This means we are at the moment able

- to call and answer the phone

- download apps from the appstore

- syncronize our contacts with google-

- send&receive sms, e-mails.

- Wifi partialy working

- GPS partialy working

But a lot of functions

don't

work. These are:

- no Bluetooth

- no Camera

- short battery life // imporve with lastest kernel

There are developers working on fixing these problems.

DEVELOPERS ARE:

dzo

donation link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=M%2eJ%2eJohnson%40massey%2eac%2enz&lc=GB&item_name=Vogue%20Android%20Donation&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_SM%2egif%3aNonHosted

UPDATE:

02.09.2009: MAking some things clear:

29.07.2009: Other developers now also develop for our Polaris

Quote Bally3:

"We will consider sending a second Polaris to one of the other active developers if it should help the development process and if enough donations are received to purchase one. Please do not post pledges of donations to this thread, it is better to post what you have donated so that there is a record of what has been donated rather than pledge a donation that may not be made honoured later, pledges of donations will not help the development process - Thank you for your understanding".

29.07.2009: Vilord has received the Polaris

13.07.2009: We (Bally3) found a developer who is willing to port Android on our Polaris

I've asked vilord to let me know who donates and how much. The only problem is that he has only the e-mail adresses from the people who donated.

I don't want to publish the e-mail adresses.

13.07.2009

I'm proud to say that at the moment YOU donated 235$ ! I'm very happy to be part of such a great community. Bally3 and me want to say THANK YOU.

Now vilord is looking for a Polaris on ebay.

I will post any updates here.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] w04g005:
another post reserved to list the huge numbers of donatings ;-)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] milli260876:
Why not just buy a G1 if your fed up of winmo ....?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] w04g005:
this is a very stupid question...but i will explain it to you!

Maybe i started this thread because I own a htc polaris which can run ANDROID

Second reason could be that a new G1 costs about 300€ and i will donate only 15$!

Maybe there a a few reasons mor but i think it is enough....please if you DON'T like the idea you don't have to post here.

But i'm open for any suggestions.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] LinkZ:
I'm not able to change my phone until next year so if we could get a better version of android working for the polaris that would be excellent. I'd be willing to donate $15
[Touch Cruise Android Development] fets:
I have Cruise / Polaris ; I Love it .. that's why I bought a second one, for my father.

I enjoy GPS with iGO8, but I'm fed up with WM 6

Right now I use Adroid 1.5 ION to call & browse the web .... and WM for the GPS ; if I buy a G1, exit iGO8 and/or GPS.

Morever, my phone cell operator slates the G1 (Dream) wich isn't so pretty as G2 (Magic) ; if I have to buy another phone, it should be G2 (Magic) or G3 (Hero) ... but it's the other phone cell supplier and costs too much.

So, 30 $ for a bootable Adroid on my phone and the one of my father, with wifi, camera, MMS & GPS fonctionnal, I buy immediately !!

Regards.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Dan_q8:
add 15 bucks from me!

I'd definitely pay $15 for this.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] x86:
Count me in for another $15 definately for a full working version, pls PM me when u need the cash! = ready :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] RgR:
This is a great idea! Count me in for 25 USD.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] pananza:
The notion of a bounty is good. But even if we raise lets say $500 it still does not guarantee a working Android on the Polaris. The devs are already working as hard as they can and are probably spending hours after hours on this (albeit not on the Polaris). And still even the other models lack WiFi, GPS, Camera etc...

I just don't see any developers come running and manageing this just because we raise some money. A developer does these things to satisfy personal curiosity, as a personal challenge to better his skills or to gain "kudos" in the scene.

And except for a big challenge there is simply not much gain for a developer to take on such a large task. To do what you ask even a skilled developer must lay down 100's of hours.

But hey, I'm happy to support the cause with say $15 if you think it will make any difference.

(In order for this to work someone that both we and the devs trust, like a forum moderator, must create a paypal account that we can send money to. Also if this never happens the money goes back to the donator. It's something different to say you are willing to donate, and actually pay the money. This way the developer knows what he's getting.)

As a side note we could also try rentacoder.com or similar services. If you specify exactly what you need then developers from all around the world can bid on the job or we can specify a max bid.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Deleted member 831172:
I also would like to have a working version for my HTC Touch Cruise.

I will donate $ 20 USD.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
20$ more from me if you have a fully-fledged working Android port for Polaris.

Add me to the list.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] dib_uk:
count me in

$20 from me also
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
$20 for a fully working android from me
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
and like someone else said. we need actual money ready and waiting somewhere. just saying we will give something is not enough.

if a trusted person can make a paypal account and start picking up donations we can bring ppl in.

we can even give starter cash to the developer for first bigger brakethrough. i have 1 guy in mind that would probably love to do something like this and i doubt this would be too difficult for him but there wouldnt be much of a gain for him unless we can pay him.

we'll see how things go.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] nemiers:
Didnt we need to start with finding people who will do this port?

This is like a virtual money collection which does not make any sense,

as there are no people doing this port job....
[Touch Cruise Android Development] nemiers:
And what it is the time line?

p.s. sorry I quoted this by mistake :(
[Touch Cruise Android Development] w04g005:
OK that seems to be the only possibility...I'm thinking also of an mod or a person with over 1000 posts ;-)

I'm staying in contact with bally3.... when we found someone everybody can decide if he wants to give the money to this person!

I was interested in how much money we can collect and it seems we are a really GREAT community. Thanks to all people
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
I'll second that w04g005, I'm really impressed how fast we raised the amount, so a big THANK YOU to all and WELL DONE folks! :)

To answer some of the questions here, the reason for doing it this way is that we need a dev with a Polaris in his hand so that he can make the changes needed to make things work on our device.

GPS, camera and even bluetooth are either already working on the other devices or are already in progress but it WI-LL take a dev with one of our devices in their actual hands to make these changes. As far as I know (and please correct me if I'm wrong) there are are no Polaris-specific drivers that need to be written, just changes to code to make existing ones work on the Polaris.

But I'll re-iterate what I've said before, please be under no illusions of promises, guarantees or timelines. The only unspoken guarantee we have is that devs will do to the best of their abilities to help us. As pananza pointed out devs dont do this for money, but they do need a device to speed up the development.

I've made a proposal in the main thread, please have a read and post your comments. As I've said before, I'm open to all suggestions.

But as an added tasty selling point: How great is it that they're already discussing the best way of making an Android rom already? That could quite easily be us soon :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I will throw $25 U.S. at this.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
I've cleared it with Vilord and he's happy to make the purchase.

If everyone can start donating to his link: VILORDS DONATIONS

I've asked vilord to let me know who donates and how much, if we dont make the target before the phone is sold or the auction finishes, then he will look for another one for around the same price.

Can everyone make their donations as soon as possible please.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] osomanos:
Count me in with $15. I am sending it rigt now.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Dan_q8:
15 bucks from post #7 paid. :o)

15 bucks from post #7 paid. :o)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] :
my $20 from post #11 are paid too.

If this is useful for anyone, I managed to boot Android (ION files) with 3lit3 VIII full version but disabling Manilla today plugin, softreset and then haret... but still no calls. I still have to format my SD card and start over again...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
juan, are you having trouble making all outgoing calls too? I think that'll be the first thing I work on, I'm hoping a t-mobile prepaid card will have the same symptoms as the t-mobile contract cards are having here in the US
[Touch Cruise Android Development] :
Hi Vilord,

thanks for your prompt answer. I will follow the recommendations from bally3 and format my sd card and try again... hopefully, I will be able to do it tonight and post the results, together with the default.txt and radio details.

Thanks !
[Touch Cruise Android Development] :
Test, still no call, no data only sms.

Hi Vilord,

This is my result from yesterday's test to make a call formating my SD card.

I'm using 3Lit3 VIII full, with Radio 1.65.30.09

I made a hard reset, and full format of my 8GB SDhc card as FAT32.

booted again on windows to let connection wizard to define my connections again.

Soft reset and insert card again with the files from ION and the following default.txt

#Polaris

set RAMSIZE 0x08000000

set MTYPE 1723

set KERNEL zImage

set initrd initrd.gz

set cmdline "ppp.apn=internet.itelcel.com ppp.username=webgprs ppp.password=webgprs2002 mddi.width=320 mddi.height=480 pm.sleep_mode=0 board-htcpolaris.panel_type=0 mddi_client_vogue.vsync=0"

boot

After boot windows again I opened IE and google searched for anything just to setup data connection.

Moved to file explorer and ran Haret.

Now in android, skipped the Google account setup because data connection was not ready.

Went to settings and wireless connection to define my apn settings. (filled with Name, APN, user, password, MCC and MNC everything else left blank)

Tried to navigate on browser but nothing happened, tryed to make a call but did not work, red screen again as call hung up.

Turned off device and booted in windows again. Made 2 calls and started data connection with IE, then ran Haret again.

Again in Android, still could not make any call and now the attach logo of 3g appeared but all in gray (showing no connection available) when tried to web browse same error connection.

Tried to call without success again.

It is may be useful to highlight that My polaris is Quad band GSM and UMTS 850, 1900 and 2.1. GSM network is at 1900 and UMTS network is at 850 in Mexico, Telcel (334 020) network. I don't know if something additional should be considered.

By the way, I do see the attach to a UMTS network (gray signal bars, and some of them in white) and I'm able to send and receive SMS. this time I did not disabled Manilla before running HAret.

I hope this could provide some hint.

JM
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Hi Juanmre,

Moving the above post to the Android Bug-Reporting thread please can you continue the discussion there, so we dont end up with multiple support threads running.

Thank you.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] RgR:
I just payed my 25$. Good luck!!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Dan_q8:
quick check

Hi,

Just wanted to check that this will be the thread that is used for the Android ROM when it gets going, so I can set up RSS?

Thanks

Dan.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
@Bally3 Why you don't close this thread, and remove donation link.

The Polaris has been ship? so not necessary anymore no ?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kulen:
These are Polaris Android development threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452108&page=189

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=473102&page=27

You should also follow Kaiser and Vogue development:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=396782&page=662

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=523692&page=111
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Dan_q8:
Latest site

Yes, one of the links hasn't been updated since April.

This looks like the latest one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452108

And this is the wiki:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Polaris_Linux

Currently they both show just the haret stuff running inside windows.

I'll keep an eye on those two, looking for full ROM's, if there's any others please let us know.

Thanks

Dan.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
I didnt start the thread and so cant close it - sorry.

Also donations are still coming through and I believe if enough come through we may be able to afford a second device that we can ship to say.. dzo.

But I'm open to suggestions as always and if you feel we should close this thread, by all means do so :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
@bally3 Oh no no i will not close it. if you says donations are still coming and if we can ship a device to dzo it would be awesome to have 2 very competitive android devs on our device.

Did you speak with dzo, is he ok to have another device to work on cause he already work on few device.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
I havent spoken to anyone as yet, its just a thought - at the moment its a case of "dont stop the donations if they come".

I want to be careful not to undermine anyone's efforts here, especially life02's whose efforts recently are the only reason we're even enjoying the recent builds you'll all agree. This is why I put it to him first to make sure he's happy with my suggestion, which he is.

At the moment we have Life02 with a POLA100 device and vilord will have a POLA200 device soon which means we're covered for both devices. If dzo agrees it would help the development (he already has a Kaiser) and we have enough donations, we'll send one to him as well.

Apart from that, if anyone has a tatty polaris device they dont use anymore and wish to donate it, I'm sure we can always find a dev who can make use of it.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] sjonniesw:
$20 for a fully working android from me
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
We already buy one device for a dev but we let the donation thread open like that we can ship another one to another famous android devs ( dzo ).

Like that he can help us to port camera, battery improve, working on Polaris.

F.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] radem205:
I was wondering if Vilord has received the Polaris now? Because we don't hear anything from him since he picked up the phone a couple of days ago!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Relax, sending him a phone isnt a contract of "drop everything and work for us".

The man has many priorities, he will get things moving soon enough. Remember he's still a vogue user and as such cannot be expected to put Polaris first.

We've seen many developments this last few weeks and I can understand we're all anxious to see more, but the things that need fixing, wifi, bluetooth etc, arent going to happen over-night.

Dont worry.. he's not forgotton about us... Its just that thanks to Life02, we dont really have that much that doesnt work than the other devices. In some ways we're doing better - as the sms fix for vogue from dzo showed yesterday.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kulen:
We don't expect miracles or him to change his priorities. And it's not that we are not thankful to him for doing this.

But "I got it and it is in good condition" would be nice. Just to keep us in touch.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
I'm happy to say that dzo has also agreed that he would be able to help us if we could also send him a Polaris.

We all know what dzo's contribution to the Android project on all our devices has meant and I'm delighted that he wants to help us further.

I accept that raising money for a second device will not be easy, but we can but try. As before please post here what you have donated.

If you think donating for a Polaris for dzo would be a worthwhile, please donate to dzo's donation link and mark your payments with "POLARIS DONATION" and I will ask dzo to keep me informed to how much we have raised and then look for a device.

dzo's donation link

Many thanks.

Lastly, please do not post donation pledges here. Donation pledges whilst I agree are mostly honourable, do not help the project in any way as none of the developers are doing this for the money although they may have donation links and I actively encourage them to do so to allow anyone who wishes to show their appreciation by way of a donation, to do so. Appreciate your understanding.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
dzo reported he received a US $20 donation.. keep em coming :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
come on folks.. we've already got wifi on the Polaris near enough working, dzo can fix the camera amongst other things and we could be onto a fully working kernel in no time.

Please donate to his link which is in my signature.

Thanks.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] reiteravi:
just moved 20 - didnt mention polaris though
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thats ok, dzo pm'd me he has received it. Thank you for the donation :)

He has also received a donation of $20 dollars from my friend cbandarrinha (thanks for the support!).

I believe that takes the donations to dzo to $55.

With wifi still being struggled with and camera not working, theirs a lot dzo could help us with.

Keep em coming! ;)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] freddycs:
Just donated $15 to dzo

i have just donated $15 to dzo, though the amont is very small, and this is my first ever donation i made in this forum. thanks to all the great work that you have done! hope that we can get a fully functional Android for our Polaris soon.

thanks to all the dev and testers too... :)

and thanks to bally3 for your great spirit of leading this project alive... i still recall there was once the developement is about to die when all the dev have left Polaris and move to newer devices. bally3 have pulled in vilord, dzo then life02... wow... everything is different now.

thanks to life02 and vilord too for your contribution~ thank you!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Another $10 from Mormy, thats $80 so far.. nearly I'd say we're nearly half way there :)

Keep em coming.. I smell great changes a-foot.. especially with compcache working and SenseUI reportedly working almost at the same speed as on the Hero now.

... And just think what that'll be like on a flashable rom.. <Homer Simpson drool..>
[Touch Cruise Android Development] salvmason:
$15 from me too.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] sjonniesw:
15 from me too
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
Thaks for the donation @salvmason & @sjonniesw
[Touch Cruise Android Development] RgR:
My second donation: $13,59 (converted from euro's), good luck!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thank you again RgR :)

we're getting there, slowly but surely.. once we have wifi up and running, bluetooth and camera - already working on the vogue thanks to dzo will be quickly ported. My guess is between those and the radio and power fixes being applied by vilord we should be well on our way to a flashable rom.

btw, Vilord is currently on "vacation" (though he probably wont class it as such) but will be around soon I'm sure. Our devs definitely deserve a break for the efforts they have put into this project! :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Leryan:
15 $ from me.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thanks Leryan :)

We've raised about $140 so far .. we need a minimum of $200 dollars so we're only $60 dollars or so of the minimum.

Just to tantalise you further.. <link removed as jacx rom doesnt work>

working wifi.. just needs a few tweaks.. :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] salvmason:
others $30 from me.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thank you very much salvmason! :)

$170 dollars ...$30 dollars more and we're looking good.. dzo is heading to the uk in september so I can purchase one for him and send it to him locally .. save postage too.

All good stuff :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
make camera work perfect (max Mpix resolution and frames) and you get 50 eur from me the first moment i use it. have donated to you before for android but didnt even try the android since everything works excellent on WM 6.5 BUT camera.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
@bbezja1 we don't want money after all is working we want money to buy a device to dzo (master) like he can help us to port camera GPS and bluetooth working and perfect what is already working
[Touch Cruise Android Development] waldofr:
Hi,

just added my $15 contribution.

I'm rather active in testings than discussions, questions of time...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thanks waldofr :)

That makes $185 dollars. .. almost there!

** My treat to you guys.. a hero build with working wifi will be uploaded by tomorrow :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
is there gonna be a PolaRoid rom eventually? or is it staying at haret? it seems that "porting" is very dependant on what runs on WM.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
nobody would say no to donation for his hard work. amirite? or are we just supposed to give 10$ each so he can start sweating his ass off and get nothing from it? =)

need DZOs words of wisdom
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
@bbezja1 dzo is a very good personn go kaiser forum and read what he has done when people bought him a device.

You can donate when you want when the final release comes out too :) to thanks his great work and all other devs too.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] waldofr:
I also did a $15 donation to vilords yesterday (followed wrong link on first post)...

...might complete the dzo donation (just suggesting)...

...or kept as my contribution for vilords's achieved work.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
bbezja, once we have a fully working kernel i'm sure we'll have a bootable rom shortly afterwards. These things are all being looked at and have been discussed before, but we ARE short of developers so it will take time.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
not to worry. you should be able to ask paypal to reverse it back to you or you can ask vilord to reverse it back to you or foward it on to dzo, whichever you feel comfortable with. or pm me and i will ask sort it. :)