Guys,
I have a CM802 Android 2.2 tablet that I would like to support external USB devices. My problem right now is that the default ROM doesn't seem to have USB host drivers, and I have no idea where to look. Can you guys point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
I don't know your hardware, but your android version should have no support for both usb host mode and USB otg. If you upgrade and hardware is ready, maybe. But very likely you'll need the kernel USB modules sources and a dev to compile them especially for that build. That's why on my se xperia x10 such feature is still missing ...
The hardware has support for it, and I don't care what version of Android I end up with, as long as there's support. I also don't mind installing them myself, but would like some direction as to where to find the modules.
have you tried going to the manufactures website?
Wrycu said:
The hardware has support for it, and I don't care what version of Android I end up with, as long as there's support. I also don't mind installing them myself, but would like some direction as to where to find the modules.
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You will need to compile a proper kernel with support for it. There have been a few on the site that have done it for a few devices but it is not an overly popular mod
Well, I have just seen a site where they sell the android 2.3 version of the same device which seems to have the USB otg support. In any case, the first step must be one upgrading at least to android 2.3...
lucaoldb said:
Well, I have just seen a site where they sell the android 2.3 version of the same device which seems to have the USB otg support. In any case, the first step must be one upgrading at least to android 2.3...
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the kernel would have been made to support it on that device. After building 2.3 from android source code I can say that it is not there by default.
Thanks, I agree that is not supported by default but maybe they had actually patched a kernel with those modules, though such kind of sites are not very reliable...
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the kernel would have been made to support it on that device. After building 2.3 from android source code I can say that it is not there by default.
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Can you guys link me to the modules or whatever? Again, I'm perfectly willing to build the kernel from source myself, as long as I can have a little direction.
Any help? Links, information, tutorials.. whatever you can give me would be awesome, Internet <3.
Oh, and sorry for the double post.
Hi Folks,
I'm not sure exactly where to put this question but here goes. It looks like my monitor (HannsG HT231HPB) touch screen capabilities are not supported by default by my TV box (Stoga Kbox MXIII Amlogic S802) and I want to get it going. I'm not really interested in maintaining functionality of this TV box. My objective it to get an app that needs android 4.2 or above to run on it in conjunction with my touch screen. The app uses a touch screen to control music software. I have numerous questions as follows.
1) If I need to alter a couple of lines of code of existing parts of the kernel is there a way to inject these updated changes i.e. update ko files or something?
2) If this is not possible can I compile and update just the kernel or a module?
3) If I've got to recompile the whole lot, bearing in mind I don't need the existing functionality of the software on the TV box, can I just use the basic Android OS such as Kitkat and just worry about what I need just to run app, touch screen and USB.
4) If that is not possible how likely are similar source codes for devices likely to run on another device. There are various incarnations of MXIII boxes and I can't find the source code that seems specific to my box.
5) Any other ideas!
I know this is a bit general and convoluted but I've already wasted a lot of time on this and could do with reducing options.
Thanks in advance
Mark
Hi
Did U find something to make it works ?
I've the same configuration (MXIII + HANSSG HT231) and impossible to use touchscreen.
Thanx for your help
MacCarel said:
Hi
Did U find something to make it works ?
I've the same configuration (MXIII + HANSSG HT231) and impossible to use touchscreen.
Thanx for your help
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No in short. I think the problem is a couple of lines of the Kernel. If they are not there you will get no reaction on touchscreen no matter what you try. The only solution is to alter a couple those lines of code and rebuild/compile the kernel. Therefore you need a compatible kernel for device and work out how to do this. I've stopped trying for now but I was looking at trying to find a custom ROM based on a different compatible kernel and hope it has support built into kernel automatically. Good luck..
Announcing Sailfish for the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact!
This is not Android!
This should be thought of as a development experiment. It may be useful if you are a developer and want to write/port apps the the Sailfish operating system. It is not an end-user product, however, if you wish to experiment and try something different then feel free!
Please do not contact Jolla Care or Jolla Developer Care, as this is not the Jolla phone.
Special thanks to:
rss351 and locusf for the collaborative effort in porting SailfishOS to the Z3 compact
Everyone from the SailfishOS team/community, sledges and mal- in particular.
All Cyanogenmod devs, since SailfishOS uses drivers from Cyanogenmod to talk with the phone's hardware
Known issues:
Bluetooth isn't turned on, cause i've put no effort in for that so far
Camera doesn't work, cause it's not hooked up to interface.
No recovery inside hybris bootimage (you need to flash manually to return to cm/use recovery)
Sensors dont work (auto-adjust brightness, etcetera)
The Jolla account/store functionality is not enabled. This is being worked on by Jolla. In the meantime: use openrepo's warehouse (see bottom of this post)
What works:
Booting, basic usage of the OS itself (browsing, etc)
Texting, calling, data over mobile network (2g and 3g tested, 4g should work but is untested)
Wifi (both 2,4 and 5 GHz)
Power management seems to work fine (not tested much though)
Looking around and getting a feel for SailfishOS
Using your phone to develop and debug SailfishOS apps.
Installation guide/checklist:
Insert default warranty void message here. Your warranty is now void
Make a backup (just to be sure)
Depending on what you need from your phone, this may not be a rom suitable for daily driving with. But installation is non-destructive to your existing rom, so if you're curious, give SailfishOS a try
I have not tested this on locked bootloaders, but since I needed to modify the kernel, I guess that you need an unlocked bootloader.
Note this is not an official Sailfish OS build, and the Xperia Z3c is not a Jolla phone, so please don't report bugs to Jolla. If you want to report a bug, this thread is perfectly fine for that.
BEWARE: this image is NOT optimized for security. The phone boots in development mode by default. There is a root shell on telnet port 2323. This is not secure and will give anyone who wants it remote access to your phone. When the port matures this will be fixed.
The Sailfish OS image does not provide recovery, and since the Xperia Z3c does not have a recovery partition, you need a bootimage with recovery on it to flash cm/stock/sailfishos upgrade. I highly recommend using Nut's Xperia files for this. Use the boot.img from your Cyanogenmod installation.
The Sailfish OS image is based on a recent version of Cyanogenmod 12.1, so update your Cyanogenmod installation while you are at it. Use cm-12.1-20160523-NIGHTLY-z3c.zip if you encounter issues with other versions. Using another rom is not guaranteed to work, even if this rom is based on Cyanogenmod.
You can find the required zip in this Mega folder: https://mega.nz/#F!ucoRnDjD!WAHNWgxLQX5SK1Vdu8MRWw
Use your favorite recovery (but not CM's recovery since that checks for signatures, which this image does not have) to flash the zip.
If you want to return to Cyanogenmod, extract boot.img from your cm-12 zip and flash that with fastboot. Alternatively you can restore a previous backup. There is no need to re-flash Cyanogenmod because it was not removed by installing SailfishOS. You can remove the /data/.stowaways/sailfishos/ folder afterwards to reclaim disk space.
FAQ
You can find a FAQ which mentions most common user questions for SailfishOS here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general/qa-sailfish-n4-thread-devices-t2727330 . It's mainly aimed to the Nexus 4 and 5, but it's fairly applicable for all other ports as well.
Contributing
If you think this is awesome, and want to help fix the issues currently open: come by in #sailfishos-porters on irc.freenode.net!
Sources
You can find all used source code (may not be up-to-date to the latest image, but all key components are there) here: https://github.com/xperiasailors/
Installing OpenRepos warehouse
OpenRepos warehouse is like what F-Droid is versus Google's Play store. An unofficial, community-driven repository of open source apps.
Go to settings->developer options and set a password. Then open a terminal or connect over ssh to your phone (ssh [email protected]_of_phone).
Download the latest version of the warehouse app from here: https://openrepos.net/content/basil/warehouse-sailfishos
When you are asked to terminate packagekit anywhere in the steps below, answer yes.
Code:
$ devel-su
# zypper rr adaptation0
# zypper in <location_of_rpm_you_downloaded>
After this Warehouse app will be in your app launcher.
Impressive work! :good:
Sent from my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact using XDA Labs
Just having a go now.
Edit: just stayed on sony screen. Would it be because I came from SLiMM 1.8 ROM and not from a CM based ROM?
mrrflagg said:
Just having a go now.
Edit: just stayed on sony screen. Would it be because I came from SLiMM 1.8 ROM and not from a CM based ROM?
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Probably, yes.
SailfishOS uses libhybris for hardware communication, which in turn uses the existing Cyanogenmod installation for drivers and proprietary blobs. But hybris is compiled against a certain Cyanogenmod version, so using other roms as a base might fail.
I've updated the TS and put the exact CM version I used in there, that should work fine.
There are any news? The project is in development?
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There are any news? The project is in development?
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No news, I don't spend much time on this port, every now and then I fiddle around with it an evening.
I'm currently trying to get AOSP based Sailfish port because Cyanogenmod for Z3c seems unmaintained, but progress is very slow.
Thank you for the info. Do you know when a version (sailfish port) comes out?
Hello! Thanks for your work. May i know the progress ?
it would be great to see a real "european" OS coming out of the dust...
i hate the thought that any company from the other side of the atlantic are wheels in the monster of patriot act...
@maikoool Any news about new build or something?
Yes, look here:
https://nokius.net/SFOS/scorpion/PreAlpha/
But still no Cam, no BT, No Sensors and No video playback
AFAIK is the 'scorpion' the Z3 Tablet compact, so not the Z3 compact. The base images will probably be the same.
I've recently rolled a build using AOSP 5.1 from the Sony Xperia developer pages, but my Z3c has developed an issue where the top and bottom of the screen don't function, so I cannot test properly.
Aries is device name, right? What's scorpion ?
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Aries is device name, right? What's scorpion ?
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Aries = Z3 compact, Scorpion = Z3 Tablet compact
I'm waiting eagerly to see SFOS on aries Do you know anything about our device support on jolla's list ?
Hello there,
I am looking for a Android TV box with vanilla stock android. Are there any available and for sale? I tried searching everywhere but could not find any. The reason I am looking for one is, because I am looking for a development machine and deployment machine for apps. The machine will have to work with different hardware (USB) and I will have to recompile the kernel and need to modify HID drivers anytime.
Most distributions on AMlogic devices make use of custom kernels and some modifications are just plain bad and half done, not to mention the half rooted quirkiness on some devices with modified rom versions.
So is there an TV Box like device available with clean vanilla android out of the box? I really hope someone could help me with my search.
Thanks in advance and really appreciate this community.
Hello everybody. I love this community and I have been lurking for a long time.
I have noticed on a foreign language forum that some people were offering a custom rom for my android 9 TV box.
The chinese box is based on a s905x3 CPU and has a mediatek wifi chip for which it is hard (if not impossible to find the wifi drivers).
The site claims that the image was made by modifying the stock rom that came with the box. Is this possible or do all custom roms need to be build from the source?
The custom rom I want to make is going to replace the launcher with kodi.
I am prepared to build the whole rom from source but I do have a couple of questions.
Since the mediatek wifi drivers cannot be found how would I go about including the binary for the wifi?
I have noticed that the box that I have uses a .ko (kernel object) module to drive the wifi chip.
Can I include these kernel objects in build? It is a shame that the kernel is built as a 32bit system. Would that mean that I can only compile a 32bit kernel if I were to reuse those kernel modules and binaries?
Another idea is to perhaps use the kernel from coreelec in my build since it seems to include a lot of drivers.
Is it possible to use a kernel from something like coreelec but use the source from AOSP for the rest of my build?
Is there anything else that I should be aware of?
Thank you all!!!!
Can anyone give me any hints to any of the questions?
Essentially I want to swap out the stock launcher for Kodi. What is the easiest way to do so?