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USB HOST working !

Just confirmed working usb host mode on the magic 32b using hacked up version of the hero host patches posted to android-kernel google group by Andrew de Quincey, applied on top of current cyanogen. Y cable for external power required.
No where near ready for production (word to wise, dont try to mount a 32gb partition while each usb register operation is debug logged) but at least we now know the hardware can do it.
Chris

Can you provide the link with the patch?

pagubg said:
Can you provide the link with the patch?
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When I get rid of the hacked up part... supposed to be asleep right now.

Andrew's patches are at
http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel/browse_thread/thread/c8471573d7553331
The one for 2.6.27 will apply to current cyanogen 2.6.29.6 if you remove the diffs for the battery file which will fail incomplete.
However there is a bug that was causing one of the structure to get corrupted so some function pointers for phy setup never got called leading to inability to detect anything on the USB bus below the built-in hub. I did an ugly fix to verify the hardware works. I suspect for a real fix the hcd_to_msm7201() function needs an internal cast to (char *) or just some extra () or something to make the arithmetic come out right (it seems to be multiplying the size of the structs instead of adding them).
Of course you loose your adb when you play with this...

Installing Linux on a PC Using Inspire

Ok, so I know that this phone can be used as a USB drive. I'm trying to install Linux on my computer, but I don't have a CD or USB drive available other than my phone. Would it be possible to install Linux using my phone?
Thanks

You would need to figure out a way for the computer to read the phones SD card as an ISO which can be done on a standard SD card using Unetbootin or something similar. However if you put it into the phone the phone itself may not see it as a usable drive and want to format it.

+1 for Unetbootin, it makes the drive bootable. However older versions would format the drive first... I think the newer versions don't, but don't hold me to that. Also it installs to the root directory of the drive so it would suck to remove it later.

No CD drive? Are you using a "slim" laptop?
If you have a floppy drive, you could do the "oooold school" install with 40+ floppies, ha ha ha.
If you have access to a second PC, couldn't you network 'em via an ethernet cross-over cable (or hub) and install over the network?

I'm gonna recommend going and buying a $10 thumb drive.
Then, as long as you're running Linux anyway, I'm gonna shamelessly plug Fuduntu.

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
Then, as long as you're running Linux anyway, I'm gonna shamelessly plug Fuduntu.
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What ever happened to RedHat? Is it still around these days?

At risk of total thread derailment:
Red Hat still sponsors the community development of Fedora and actively deveopes and supports RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux).
Fuduntu is a Fedora spin, for which I'm a dev (very junior though I may be).

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What ever happened to RedHat? Is it still around these days?
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Its still around- a popular distro of it is fedora- it just seems most people, especially working with android go debian based instead of anything else like rpm(redhat)
Edit- and I should have refreshed the page before I responded.

di11igaf said:
Its still around- a popular distro of it is fedora- it just seems most people, especially working with android go debian based instead of anything else like rpm(redhat)
Edit- and I should have refreshed the page before I responded.
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Fedora 14 user here.

Returning to the original idea
Well, maybe you could format your card with one of the tools Linux provides to create bootable USB drives.
The problem starts when you turn on your computer to boot from the drive, as you would have to force your phone to USB drive mode and I'm not sure if the detection process will be fast enough so the PC catches the phone as a pen drive.
However, if you have no other choice at the moment (when I formatted a netbook I preffered to buy a 8GB pendrive and forget about any other trouble) you might give it a try. If it works please post back...

[Development] CyanogenMod porting

I and some fellow developers (especially thanks manveru0, skywalker01, other users for testing, reporting and other help) are trying to port AOSS to our device, working with CyanogenMod 7 for now.
You can check out this thread, repositories, and this post for changelogs, bug reports and so on.
Github repositories:
https://github.com/abbradar
https://github.com/manveru0
Feel free to check them out and fork!
Current status of porting:
Working:
Screen (w. touch features, w. backlight)
Buttons
Radio (w. 2G/3G, Internet is working)
Bluetooth
WLAN
Rotate sensor
Handset button
USB
Battery sensors
Camera
GPU acceleration
Not working:
GPS (does not lock)
Audio (both input and output, will be tough)
Camcorder (because of audio)
Storage-related (external SD not working, internal with no USB storage, vold misconfigured)
USB tethering/MTP (will require some programming)
Host access point (similar to USB tethering)
Light sensor
Buttons force feedback
Contacts on SIM card
Not tested:
Other sensors (compass, magnetic)
HDMI (should not work, as logs say)
FM radio (should not work)
Another bugs:
CyanogenMod settings doesn't work (fixed by
Random reboots sometimes
Sometimes - very long resume from sleep (30 seconds approximately)
Keyboard is very small
Dialer is laggy (because of audio)
USB connected notification is shown without USB cable attached
APN database is not working (enter settings manually)
Vibration strength is very weak
Regressions: (worked before)
Nothing for now
Visualized changelogs (with CM9), made and hosted by CastagnaIT in dedicated thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492165
Last testing build (will be updated after major improvements or after some time): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22394052&postcount=284
skywalker01's testing builds: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22969855&postcount=394
User tomsteel1 have made good-looking banner images for our work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22506050&postcount=350

Wow this sound really good. Thanks for your work. I write that i would support a cyanogenmod with a donation (and other people too). Maybe you can initate something in the gt9001 thread in the cyanogenmod forum.

jeahh, keep up the good workkk

OK, I'll continue my work later this week according to ideas in the first post.

Owwwiiiii !!!! I like it !

Made few modifications to the kernel to make its log readable. Further trying to make bootimage mount /system. By the way, isn't /system image size in my configuration too small? (~140MiB) Do we have some source of information on partition sizes?

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While helping manveru0 with developing of his awesome CWM mod and kernel, I've tried to compile CM for our device. So far, we have those problems as for now:
1) Resulting type of image - CM builds *.img files in output, and system/data/cache partitions, too - we should find some option in Makefiles to change output to raw ext4 image, as in Odin images. I was able to create ext4 image manually, but that is not an option for frequent builds, and I don't want to write a script if there is option avaliable (though, I think I will write it for now)
2) Booting. Right now, boot.img from builded CM loads adb, and I can send some basic commands to the phone, but it cannot mount /system and because of that "adb shell" doesn't work, so I cannot check what is going wrong during boot. My current idea is to insert /system/bin/sh into boot.img for testing.
I have nearly no time for work now because of university, but I will try to make some test builds later. We have all our work in github repositories:
https://github.com/abbradar
https://github.com/manveru0
So feel free to check them out and fork!
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I comming back as soon as I have more time, see other posts

After groking sources of Android's init for some time, it seems we should implement exporting partition table to /proc/mtd to continue or we'll have to modify lots of cyanogenmod's sources. Alternative to this is to try using stock binary "init".

Yeah man, keep on porting. I love CM Rom...
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Finally! Thank you both YardE and manveru0 for all your efforts for developing something to i9001. I'm definately one of those willing to donate for your work!

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I'm definately one of those willing to donate for your work!
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+1 to donating

i love u!!!

Let's wait with donating till we really have something usable ~_^. Okay, good news to you guys - I was able to build good enough bootloader to mount partitions! So we have adb shell and stuff now. The next step is to try to load actual system.

I've also been able to found out format of out images (system.img and such) and there is utility to convert them to raw ext4 images - simg2img.
Looks like the first two tasks in porting were completed. ^_^
I was able to boot till CyanogenMod's splashscreen! \(^_^)/ It hang ups on it, though, but I can read error messages though adb now and shell is working.

Oh god YES! I was finally able to boot it! Hurrray!

That sounds great! Perhaps you can post some screenshots to give a first impression to us ;-)
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I was just uploading one. Made from my notebook web-camera, so quality is ****ty, but this is a proof-of-concept:

This is results of first testing: nearly nothing works out-of-the-box, including sound, proper backlight, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, video accelerator and phone. Looks like this will need lots of further tweaking, however, I'm glad I've got to make it this far! ^_^

AWESOME
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This is results of first testing: nearly nothing works out-of-the-box, including sound, proper backlight, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, video accelerator and phone. Looks like this will need lots of further tweaking, however, I'm glad I've got to make it this far! ^_^
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dude you got it working everything else will fall in place sooner or later!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!

Guys on Russian forum asked me for posting test build, so I'm uploading it on mediafire now. I'll repeat - this build doesn't have ANY practical usage, it's only proof of concept and having it on phone is nearly the same as having no phone at all..
Link to the build: http://www.mediafire.com/?6i9q54xhkvt984i

usb support that works

Hi:
on another site, it has boiled to using this as a really good solution that works for usb support..
according to http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/296505-functional-usb-host-touchpad.html
use this for power supply w/o cord mess:: http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered-Battery-Charger-Adapter/dp/B006DVMW92
use this to connect to TP:: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270823070399?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
thread is some 500 posts.. you need to type some lines to mount and unmount flash drive etc..
but supposedly it works..
anyone here have this rig going?

hmm, interesting. I have one of these too but don't have my uber usb converter set with me (currently deployed) but when I get back to the states I'll check it out. Considering WebOS and Android both run on top of a linux kernel I suppose if you have the right modules loaded for whatever you're doing then it could work.
Only one way to find out.

wil try the OTG USB Converter
Setting up a linux env in [and android, and native WebOS]. This looks like exactly what I'm looking for to adb etc. Yep, my linux config will be [hopefully] be to build an android dev environment. Gave it 20gig [lionshare]... that looks like a handy converter. Not trying the solor thing yet.
Rob

What is handheld_core_hardware.xml

I have a kobo arc that does not support USB OTG so I rooted it and downloaded an app that checks if it supports OTG and if it does not it will try and fix it. It says android.hardware.USB.host.XML not readable but handheld_core_hardware.XML ok
So what does that mean? Does it mean I can plug in keyboards? because of the handheld bit, but cannot plug in a mass storage device I really would test it out, but I don't want to waste money on something that potentially may not work. Please answer if someone may know tried to look for an answer, but I keep getting something to download it.

How is that helpful?
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