Hi!
I have upgraded my Uni with 128MB RAM. I understand that there is extra provision for additional RAM on UNI. Can anybody confirm that the two 64MB RAM chips from Blue Angel can be used on the free space available on Uni and can it be upgraded to 256MB RAM.
Feed back and guidance needed in this respect.
Regards,
Haque
People seem to be saying it's not possible. That 128MB is the maximum. However I remember being around in the forum when people were saying you couldn't upgrade to 128MB and others found a way to do this.
I think this would need a reply from someone who knows the hardware better. (Me, I'm still wondering what the two blank spaces could be used for... and for when someone builds a small GPS chip that can be plugged somewhere inside my Uni!!... dream on!).
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...I'm still wondering what the two blank spaces could be used for... and for when someone builds a small GPS chip that can be plugged somewhere inside my Uni!!... dream on!).
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Those blank spaces are for GPS chip, which HTC didn't include. You can install the chips but it will not work because a radio rom with GPS FW has never been released for Uni.
regards
tomal said:
Those blank spaces are for GPS chip, which HTC didn't include. You can install the chips but it will not work because a radio rom with GPS FW has never been released for Uni.
regards
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Damn, I saw that Tomal replied and hoped that I will come to this thread and he'll say something along the lines of 'Yes, we successfully installed 2 128Mb RAM chips and I am testing them now with a new ROM, will let you all know how it went and offer an upgrade to people who want to get one'
Even my Elf can pinpoint my location on Google Maps, my Uni can't. Outrageous
Some time ago I have a chat conversation with one russian guy (Mo3ulla) and he has 256 RAM on the Uni (bga chips from notebook) and running Windows CE (custom port, never comes to public), so it seems it's possible, but not for public
A light!!
Well,
If that is actually true there is hope that can be done!!
Hope someone can publish this soon!
I´ll ask mo3ulla
Thanks for the tip,
Interesting reading this thread - especially this post
I don't know if the guys are still around - it was only 18 months ago.
Well i would think someone will get the way around to get it done .....
Win_XP said:
Some time ago I have a chat conversation with one russian guy (Mo3ulla) and he has 256 RAM on the Uni (bga chips from notebook) and running Windows CE (custom port, never comes to public), so it seems it's possible, but not for public
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May be you are right.
But if something is not published publicly then it may not be fully true....just my thought.
Mamaich did the original work on patching the Kernel to allow access to the 128mb ram, if bigger chips are available for the two slots then there is no reason why the memory can't be further upgraded, it would however require another kernel update to allow access to the extra memory.
The same goes for the GPS slot, if someone was willing to install the GPS chip and patch the radio stack, there's no reason why the Uni couldn't have a GPS chip.
The only problem you have is that the Uni has been around for far too long now and all the Guru's have moved on to other devices.
Try convincing someone to spend months patching an old device to have the features already available in newer devices............ you would be better inserting a new mainboard into the Uni chasis........
Cheers,
Beasty
Thanks for your clarification Beasty!
Well, I would love to convince a master to do this hard task, just want to know who can be a candidate.
And on the other hand we should rise a nice donation so we can encourage him!
I offer myself to rise the money to convince him/her
So any recomendation is welcome!
Later I´ll set up a new thread for the donation in case this makes any positive progress.
Cheers,
I'd certainly donate towards anyone getting GPS inside my Uni if it helped. However, I think as Beasty says, I don't think it's going to be money, but someones time.
Time is not a problem as long as somebody really want to go deep in it
I can wait the longest as it takes and I´ll be just a happy pacient Uni user!
$ can incentivate
Let´s how all this move forwards...
You will be hard pushed to find a candidate willing to take on this task for you.
There are not many developers here who are capable of both the hardware and software modifications required.
Don't get me wrong, there are some very good devs in these forums, but this sort of mod requires a lot of low level hardware and software knowledge.
Your best chance if you really are serious about trying to find someone to do this is head over to Darkforces and make a post there.
Really you would need Mamaich, Ivan or Helmi (to mention a few.....if you can track them down) as they are all more than capable of what you want.
To be honest though, you probably have more chance of getting HTC to do it for you..............
It would still be easier to port a new mainboard into the Uni housing (more than enough room in there for most of the current devices on the market to fit............... perhaps you should also consider this as it is a more practical move than trying to upgrade a dying device.
I love my Uni as much as the rest of you guys here, but there comes a point when you just have to move on.
Over the years we have patched the hell out of the kernel and drivers for the Uni and to be honest the code is quite a mess now, far from optimised.
Good luck and keep this thread updated with any news you have on progressing this issue as I would be very interested if you found someone willing to take on this challenge.
I know first hand how messy all the drivers and patched oem files and XIP are in the Uni and it will be a monumentous task.
Cheers,
Beasty
Beasty is right, as we all know, but if we take in account what was written in Orb's thread about Uni vs new devices there are a lot of us that are not satisfied with the performance/cost of the latest, me included.
How can it be possible to release a device and i can't even play avi with it?
Runing the same apps on both devices, I can't notice a real improvement in terms of speed. memory we know that's short...
My HD is nice, but as I told, I would prefer the Uni with 256, even being a lot bigger.
Unfortunately we (Uni) suffer from oldness, and we will have to move on...
ultravox said:
Beasty is right, as we all know, but if we take in account what was written in Orb's thread about Uni vs new devices there are a lot of us that are not satisfied with the performance/cost of the latest, me included.
How can it be possible to release a device and i can't even play avi with it?
Runing the same apps on both devices, I can't notice a real improvement in terms of speed. memory we know that's short...
My HD is nice, but as I told, I would prefer the Uni with 256, even being a lot bigger.
Unfortunately we (Uni) suffer from oldness, and we will have to move on...
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I agree the current Qualcomm chipsets are not up to par, mainly down to driver issues rather than the hardware. Don't forget our Uni's run off an Intel XScale and not a Qualcomm.
1st quarter of next year should see some decent releases of the new hardware Tegra and Snapdragon with 12mp cams, 1 ghz cpus and video recording at 720p, perhaps then the Uni will finally have a decent replacement.
I must say though that my Rhodium is no slug, the keyboard is nice and big more than enough ram (GPS is functional, though not great it does the job satisfactorily) I can't really say I miss the Uni that much after switching over to the Rhodium................ each to their own.
Hold out till next year and be tempted with the new hardware.
Cheers,
Beasty
Does the Qualcomm have a serial or USB port (USB host)? I have no idea but I know that much older chips did have (Intel StrongArm in HP Jornada for example - but was not used and also PXA250 have it). If yes and if it can be found somewhere on the PCB of the UNI, then this can be used for GPS connection, or something else. Just an idea....
kerda said:
Does the Qualcomm have a serial or USB port (USB host)? I have no idea but I know that much older chips did have (Intel StrongArm in HP Jornada for example - but was not used and also PXA250 have it). If yes and if it can be found somewhere on the PCB of the UNI, then this can be used for GPS connection, or something else. Just an idea....
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Both the Qualcomm and XScale can support USB host, they just require the correct drivers, the functions are available just need to be accessed via a driver. The problem the Uni has is that it has no built in GPS Chip, there is a placeholder on the mobo for a GPS chip, it was just never added. There were rumours that some of the very early Uni's (G3) had a chip but not activated.......... Personally I have never seen proof of this.
You can still use external GPS on Uni (as many do) via BT or USB/Serial connection. You do not need USB Host service for this function.
Cheers,
Beasty
Why try to upgrade Uni while has HTC X7500, X7501 and X7510
Let buy them...! (":')...!
See :
http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=474
hunter79 said:
Why try to upgrade Uni while has HTC X7500, X7501 and X7510
Let buy them...! (":')...!
See :
http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=474
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Because we like our Unis....?
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Magician's new born bother in November, our solid new hope for WM5.
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,43089
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Even though it looks so very similar to our Magician, they are not related. This is a copy made by another manufacturer, so I doubt they share the same hardware. Different hardware = different drivers = Atom WM5 no go on the Magician
Plus the Atom has 128 MB ROM, needed for WM5. 64 MB just is too small, considering that WM5 takes 85 MB on the Jasjar
Koksie said:
Plus the Atom has 128 MB ROM, needed for WM5. 64 MB just is too small, considering that WM5 takes 85 MB on the Jasjar
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Microsoft claims it will work on 64MB. Something to do with executing in place.
HBK said:
Even though it looks so very similar to our Magician, they are not related. This is a copy made by another manufacturer, so I doubt they share the same hardware. Different hardware = different drivers = Atom WM5 no go on the Magician
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Quanta Atom is actually the HTC Athena.
Look likes we finally got some clarity on this new device. It's by HTC.
Chances of portability are again better, but there may be differences in the camera, audio, and memory configuration that will need to be sorted out if one is to port the ROM image over to the Magician. Hopefully the hacker(s) won't end up bricking their device.
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4306.html
The HTC Athena (Quanta Atom) is reported to have the following features:
Windows Mobile 5.0
XScale PXA272 at 416MHz
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
GSM/GPRS/EDGE
FM Radio
2.1MP camera
slimmer dimensions than HTC Magician
I just saw that too. I was finding it kinda weird that another company could get away with a rip off design like that
I agree that this could change things a bit. It looks like the hardware is basically the same as the Magician, so theoretically the ROM could run on the Magician, although of course a few things wouldn't work. But irl the chance of running the ROM from a different phone seems very small...
I read somewhere that the T-Mobile version of the Qtek S110 (128MB) would get WM5 as well.
That one is identical to the magician (except for the memory!)
I still think our best bet for the present would be the Raptor ROM (short of it not existing). A forbidden topic though.
That aside, certainly, if the 128MB Magician gets WM5, one would see no impediment in its function on current Magicians.
kneeslasher said the R-word!
No, seriously I can't see the R-ROM ever happening. It's been 14 days now, so even the most optimistic among us surely can smell a rotten rat by now.
There has been no official word frm HTC about WM5 for any of the present devices, so I think the S110 update is just wishful thinking.
Can't wait for someone to prove me wrong, though
GSM doesnt working
Info:
http://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/gpe²-on-a-htc-tornado/
Download the necessary files (zimage etc etc)
http://linuxtogo.org/~florian/index.php?path=gpepe/tornado/
can any one help in installation through a windows based computer
dark_prince,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333116&highlight=Linux
does this mean we can eventually get android on the tornado?
No. Android require 128 mb of ram
I don't think so.
Yesterday I ran Android on my development board with 64mb ram.
But I think the tornado is too slow for this. My board had 400mhz it made no fun to use.
This news are years old, and have been posted 1000 times before, next time use the search feature of the forum.
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does this mean we can eventually get android on the tornado?
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It does run.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560629&page=3
Tornado is fast enough, really. Menu changes very quick. The problem is key/joystick mappings.
*Driver found on post #2*
Hi Leo users,
As seen before on the MSM-72XX platform, HTC once again denied us of a fully working 3D graphics driver from Qualcomm. Why? I know it was a patent issue on the MSM720X chipset based devices.
It doesn't matter anyway, since it doesn't help us getting the Leo work the way it should.
Now, some users are already looking into this issue, and i'd like to combine all efforts in one thread, to make it a centralized discussion.
As with the MSM-based driverpack, there WILL be a driverpack for QSD-based devices, made by me, or others. However, it'll take a while, since I'm not able to test it myself. The MSM driver team only has 2 members with a Leo, so i'm depending on them to do my testing for me.
To set the tone of this discussion, look at this benchmark comparison, made on 15-11-2009.
Let the discussion begin!
Oh and a small p.s.: Please keep it on topic, posts like "OMG!!1! It's so slow!" are pretty useless. Thanks.
News
There's alot of interest in improving the graphics performance on the HD2. Chainfire is working on a fix already. Very good news.
You can find the patch here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=592663
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wow...Neo is back for the Leo...AWESOME.
I know my HD was twice as quick after installing your drivers...can't wait for the final version of the driverpack.
Well, I'll repeat my question from the other thread: has anyone looked at what drivers are shipped with an Acer neoTouch, and does that tell us anything useful about what's going on with the HD2?
did you sign the last petition on MSM drivers to HTC? HTC seems least bothered about that. It seems we have to work out something ourselves. Let's get it work.
Shasarak said:
Well, I'll repeat my question from the other thread: has anyone looked at what drivers are shipped with an Acer neoTouch, and does that tell us anything useful about what's going on with the HD2?
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I haven't gotten my hands on them yet. So if someone wishes to share, please do.
corepda said:
did you sign the last petition on MSM drivers to HTC? HTC seems least bothered about that. It seems we have to work out something ourselves. Let's get it work.
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Petitions towards HTC don't work. The past proves that. We will have to do it ourselves. (again)
I'll wait before buying my HD2...
Thank you Neo !
Another question: can we say anything useful about the state of 2D video drivers on Leo? I'm a bit concerned at the suggestion that one needs to run CorePlayer in GDI mode. If CorePlayer's QTV overlay mode doesn't work on Snapdragon that's not necessarily surprising - different GPU, after all - but if it can't use DirectDraw either, does that suggest a problem with 2D driver support?
Shasarak said:
Another question: can we say anything useful about the state of 2D video drivers on Leo? I'm a bit concerned at the suggestion that one needs to run CorePlayer in GDI mode. If CorePlayer's QTV overlay mode doesn't work on Snapdragon that's not necessarily surprising - different GPU, after all - but if it can't use DirectDraw either, does that suggest a problem with 2D driver support?
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Well the current version of Coreplayer has support for the MSM-based devices. The Snapdragon SHOULD have backwards compatibility with the MSM platform. You could try and run GFXboost by Chainfire, which enables QTV on the MSM platform at all times. Maybe it works on QSD devices too.
Warning: GFXboost does not work on HTC HD2. After installing it, Leo does not see SD card. Hard restart is needed to get it fixed.
We've seen on the other thread the the OpenGL test runs faster when the screen is dimmed, so is there something other than the Opengl driver we can play with?
Thanks for letting us know about Gfxboost, maybe Chainfire could make it work on the HD2 too in time if needed.
tomksoft said:
Warning: GFXboost does not work on HTC HD2. After installing it, Leo does not see SD card. Hard restart is needed to get it fixed.
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QFE! Don't use it until Chainfire looks at it first!
In other news: check out the first post for a GLbenchmark comparison between a HD2, TG01, samsung OmniaHD and a Blackstone. Sadly, the HD2 places 3rd in the ranking, after the TG01 and on the first place: the OmniaHD. Obviously the Blackstone is the slowest, but hey: they Omnia HD only runs on 600 Mhz!
NeoS2007 said:
check out the first post for a GLbenchmark comparison between a HD2, TG01, samsung OmniaHD and a Blackstone.
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It will be fair if you replace Blackstone with Acer s200.
NeoS2007 said:
In other news: check out the first post for a GLbenchmark comparison between a HD2, TG01, samsung OmniaHD and a Blackstone. Sadly, the HD2 places 3rd in the ranking, after the TG01 and on the first place: the OmniaHD. Obviously the Blackstone is the slowest, but hey: they Omnia HD only runs on 600 Mhz!
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That's the influence of the PowerVR GPU, presumably. Slower CPU but better GPU.
EDIT: actually no, it looks like the Omnia HD is even managing to outperform the Snapdragon phones on the CPU benchmark. That's scary!
Does it get any sort of boost from having a lower screen resolution? Might also be a Symbian vs WinMo thing.
Here you go this a dump of the open Gl ES drivers of my acer neotouch s200, hope it helps, attach below:
ps: there are also other drivers included, not really sure if they are usefull.
also i can play any open gl es 1.0/1.1/2.0 game from xtrak to electopia, these drivers are even able to render Inofx.GeoRally.EX.v1.0 from the dell axim v51, of course they don't render it perfectly but im able to see the car rendered in 3d no textures tho and some of the menu elements.
rafyvitto said:
Here you go this a dump of the open Gl ES drivers of my acer neotouch s200, hope it helps, attach below:
ps: there are also other drivers included, not really sure if they are usefull.
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Dll files are missing in that dump.
Did you follow the correct procedure after you dumped the rom?
prepare_imgfs.exe Part02.raw -nosplit
viewimgfs.exe imgfs_raw_data.bin
edit: and pls include the d3dm dll files.
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Dll files are missing in that dump.
Did you follow the correct procedure after you dumped the rom?
prepare_imgfs.exe Part02.raw -nosplit
viewimgfs.exe imgfs_raw_data.bin
edit: and pls include the d3dm dll files.
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These are from the OEM folder, for cooking purposes, let me dump my rom, il post the dll's as soon as im done.
rafyvitto said:
These are from the OEM folder, for cooking purposes, let me dump my rom, il post the dll's as soon as im done.
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Sorry about that , and thanks in advance.
Hi!
Is someone working on a new windows version for Uni? Where are the CHEFs? It's been some time now that we have no new version for our beloved Uni. It seems that either the CHEFs are busy working to bring something good for the Uni or have the great CHEFs departed the forum. Please, do come up and let us test something new, to enjoy a new build of WM6.5 or WM7.
Looking forward to have something tempting for our Uni.
Yes, it would be nice to have a new ROM!
Tomal still active, I read a post from Thingonaspring too.
Hope they have something on the oven
Things are slowing down big style on this forum though, Im just starting to go through all the roms to find the best to suit my needs and stick with it. the only thing i was considering was the 128mb upgrade IF its worth doing, not sure on that one though. anyone who has had an upgrade would like to comment i would be grateful.
Jay
@responderman
If you want to find out what 128mb is like, just flash a 128mb rom to your 64mb uni. It'll work fine and you'll be able to see the benefits of having no pagepool (it's a lot quicker). The only drawback is that with no memory management the phone will crash a lot when memory fills up. So just do a test, see what you think then flash back to 64mb rom.
thingonaspring said:
@responderman
If you want to find out what 128mb is like, just flash a 128mb rom to your 64mb uni. It'll work fine and you'll be able to see the benefits of having no pagepool (it's a lot quicker). The only drawback is that with no memory management the phone will crash a lot when memory fills up. So just do a test, see what you think then flash back to 64mb rom.
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Hi Thingonaspring,
Thanks for the heads up, I shall try that.
Regards
Jay
So, If WM7 gonna be able to run on uni?
Coz am thinking of changing to HD2 when WM7 is released, unless we can get it for uni
Simon_WM said:
So, If WM7 gonna be able to run on uni?
Coz am thinking of changing to HD2 when WM7 is released, unless we can get it for uni
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I guess no as the minimum specs are too high for WM7.
*****
this is not good, looks like i will be getting HD2 then.
That's not good at all, but I like the QWERTY keyboard and form factor of my Universal, so I will stay with it HD2 is good hardware platform, but it's not for me.
true,
Uni has good features, like a Full QWERTY key board.
which the HD2 dosen't do,
Although HD2 has bigger screen, Bigger Memmory, Better Camera, Touchflo 3D G-Senor
Whic are the main things i really now like :/
Win_XP said:
That's not good at all, but I like the QWERTY keyboard and form factor of my Universal, so I will stay with it HD2 is good hardware platform, but it's not for me.
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Same here, no keyboard is no interest for me, even if it´s a 1ghz processor...
I have a Rhodium and it´s great but still miss the great form factos of unbeatable Uni!!
I'm going to be doing some development these coming months on changing the BGA pinned qualcom cpu 's on the MT3G over to a hummingbird chip.
While i understand the instruction sets are different i still believe there may be a way to accomplish this.
I was wondering 2 things, does XDA-Dev have a hardware modding forum ?
And does XDA-Dev have a forum specifically for the MT3G1.2 ?
Since the Black 1.2 has a different touchscreen/processor(while it might not be completely different)/and more ram.
This would be very helpful
Thanks!
David
...does XDA-Dev have a hardware modding forum ?
And does XDA-Dev have a forum specifically for the MT3G1.2 ?
Answers:
None that I'm aware of.
You're in it.
Binary100100 said:
...does XDA-Dev have a hardware modding forum ?
And does XDA-Dev have a forum specifically for the MT3G1.2 ?
Answers:
None that I'm aware of.
You're in it.
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Thanks for that concise reply
The reason for my asking this, it seems there is a separate forum for each individual phone available from HTC, (i dont work for htc) ,however since the mytouch 1.2 does infact have different hardware what is stopping us from making a separate forum for that as well
Thanks again!!!
David
bugmenever said:
I'm going to be doing some development these coming months on changing the BGA pinned qualcom cpu 's on the MT3G over to a hummingbird chip.
While i understand the instruction sets are different i still believe there may be a way to accomplish this.
I was wondering 2 things, does XDA-Dev have a hardware modding forum ?
And does XDA-Dev have a forum specifically for the MT3G1.2 ?
Since the Black 1.2 has a different touchscreen/processor(while it might not be completely different)/and more ram.
This would be very helpful
Thanks!
David
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This will be quite interesting, please keep us up to date
bugmenever said:
...what is stopping us from making a separate forum for that as well
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I've asked this a couple of times but I imagine it's because it's still technically a MyTouch.
The problem that I see is that it's exactly like a traditional 32A device but with a 32B radio and spl. So most roms found in the MyTouch forum won't work on the MyTouch 1.2 device unless it's specifically made for it. So most MyTouch 1.2 roms are actually in the G1 forum. So yeah... that's why I think there should be one a MyTouch Fender forum... but alas... I'm not an administrator.
erm...i don't think you will be able to replace a BGA Chip since you just cannot solder BGA chips by yourself...
you gonna need to take of the old one which is the first problem, bc if you heat it up, other parts will also fall off if you dont know what youre doing
the 2nd one is that it's not sure that the other qualcom chips are pin-compatible
the 3rd one would be simmilar to the first one, you cannot solder BGA chips without an reflow oven or simmliar tools, and that tools definately would cost you more that a brand new android phone, plus you need VERY MUCH experience to solder BGA chips...
arthofer said:
erm...i don't think you will be able to replace a BGA Chip since you just cannot solder BGA chips by yourself...
you gonna need to take of the old one which is the first problem, bc if you heat it up, other parts will also fall off if you dont know what youre doing
the 2nd one is that it's not sure that the other qualcom chips are pin-compatible
the 3rd one would be simmilar to the first one, you cannot solder BGA chips without an reflow oven or simmliar tools, and that tools definately would cost you more that a brand new android phone, plus you need VERY MUCH experience to solder BGA chips...
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It's now very easy to solder bga and f/s bga with the new heat guns and solder tools that have recently been made available
they are not that expensive either, you can build a makeshift one for about 50 bucks
also check out
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34hz8_hand-soldering-bga-components-using_tech
The pinning is a different problem (its more of a numismatic issue if anything), however as long as we can get the board to recognize the instruction sets in theory it should work.
This has also become increasingly easier now that the snapdragon and hummingbird firmware source has been made available to the public.
(arm 7 and arm 8)
Binary100100 said:
I've asked this a couple of times but I imagine it's because it's still technically a MyTouch.
The problem that I see is that it's exactly like a traditional 32A device but with a 32B radio and spl. So most roms found in the MyTouch forum won't work on the MyTouch 1.2 device unless it's specifically made for it. So most MyTouch 1.2 roms are actually in the G1 forum. So yeah... that's why I think there should be one a MyTouch Fender forum... but alas... I'm not an administrator.
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Thats kinda lame. =/
Also by the way, the processor in the black mytouch 3g 1.2 and the fender are different, the stock clock is the same speed however the 1.2 model 's chip has different microcode.
yeah you can use the board to solder down a BGA chip for a custom circuit, but there will be NO WAY that you replace the original BGA chip in the phone with your own one
also, "making the board reognize instruction sets" is a pretty big step for one sentence...
arthofer said:
yeah you can use the board to solder down a BGA chip for a custom circuit, but there will be NO WAY that you replace the original BGA chip in the phone with your own one
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You sound pretty sure of that. BGA / F/S BGA chips are pretty much just like any other chips, the only difference is the pins are smaller, it will be nothing more than a tight squeeze. As long as the pin layouts and the voltage settings match on the data sheets, i most certainly can change and replace the chips with my own.
also, "making the board reognize instruction sets" is a pretty big step for one sentence...
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We wont know until we try. It's all in the pneumatics.
i've gotten a little further with this today, i successfully was able to dismantle a mt1.2 de-solder and then re-solder the existing FBGA cpu. -Rebooted the unit and all is working fine !
I'm going to do some more research on the rom and some neocore and other tests to make certain i haven't done any damage whatsover to the unit.
Then go hunting for a snapdragon and hummingbird vendor.
Or take the parts out of a existing unit.
This was no small task by any means and i do NOT recommend anyone trying this unless they are experienced with soldering (soldering BGA) and have _proper ventilation_.
I hope to have some more information for you guys all soon.
Its my ultimate goal to make this project cost affective so anyone can do it in there free time with little overhead cost.
Kind Regards,
David
I would love to see how this goes.
On a separate note bugmenever - do you think it is possible to increase the ram on a phone?
anwoo said:
I would love to see how this goes.
On a separate note bugmenever - do you think it is possible to increase the ram on a phone?
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I did this with a chinese touch MP4 player and it worked, i just put the same ram on top of the other and it really worked! maybe you can do the same with Phones too!!
I'm very experienced with soldering so I would love to see where this goes.
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So let me see if I'm understanding this correctly...OP wants to swap the old 528 MHz Processor with a Hummingbird or Snapdragon 1GHz Processor?
If you actually manage to pull this off, I will be amazed and be tempted to try it myself.
crzygrmn said:
I did this with a chinese touch MP4 player and it worked, i just put the same ram on top of the other and it really worked! maybe you can do the same with Phones too!!
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Erm...what do you mean by "put the same ram on top"?