Confirmed: No multitouch support in the driver for Samsung Galaxy
Monday, August 17th, 2009Samsung has the source code of the linux kernel from the GT-I7500 Galaxy released. This make it possible to searching the sources about multitouch support.
After reading the function static void melfas_ts_work_func(struct work_struct *work) and comparing (more…)
Tags: android, kernel, linux, multitouch, Samsung Galaxy
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Source code from Samsung Galaxy is out
Monday, August 17th, 2009Today, Samsung has released the source code of the GT-I7500 Galaxy. In the zip file is the full source of the used kernel, bluez and some scripts. (more…)
Tags: Add new tag, android, kernel, open source, Samsung Galaxy
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Reading the logs of Android on your computer
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Sometimes i need to see the system log from my android mobile. As root on android i can see this in the terminal with dmesg. But i want to see it on my desktop computer.
The Android SDK has the solution. Simple (more…)
Tags: android, linux, log, logcat, sdk, shell
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Get DDMS working on 64bit Fedora
Thursday, August 13th, 2009The Dalvik Debug Monitor Service (DDMS) is a debugging tool. It is designed for dalvik, the java based virtual machine used in Android. DDMS comes with the Android SDK. This sdk is only for 32bit platforms created, but most (more…)
Tags: android, androidSDK, dalvik, ddms, debug, fc11, fedora, linux, x64, x86_64
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New Information about open source from Samsung
Thursday, August 13th, 2009There are some news about the source code for Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy.
From the mailing list of the android kernel development, i was pointed to (more…)
Tags: android, kernel, linux, open source, Samsung Galaxy
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The answer from Samsung about source code for the (multitouch)touchscreen
Monday, August 10th, 2009Today i received the answer from Samsung about source code used for the Galaxy linux kernel.
The email support tell me (more…)
Tags: android, kernel, linux, mobile phone, multitouch, open source, Samsung Galaxy
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Under Investigation: Multitouch for Samsung Galaxy
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Short: It seems like this is unpossible today. No driver, unkown hardware support.
The full story
After a working backup and restore for the Samsung Galaxy, i planned to show multitouch on it. But this is really harder to implement. (more…)
Tags: android, driver, G1, kernel, linux, Magic, mobile phone, multitouch, open source, Samsung Galaxy
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Full backup/restore for Samsung Galaxy with nandroid
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009After a long work i have created a new recovery image. This containts a new gui and a full working nandroid backup and restore. The backup and restore is tested and it works great. The only issue is, that the date of the files from /data is from the backup day. But this does not happens.
The new gui
I have created a new gui for the recovery image. (more…)
Tags: androidSDK, nandroid, recovery, Samsung Galaxy
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Fix a new firmware update the compass issue?
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Hello,
the compass of the Samsung Galaxy has some problems with north/south. This is not fixed in the I7500VIAIG6 update from last Wednesday. But the authors from WikiTune have received an email from Samsung, that a new update will fix it.
source: UPDATE: Samsung Galaxy Compass
Tags: android, compass, firmware update, Samsung Galaxy
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Better Nandroid in a few days
Monday, August 3rd, 2009The last recovery image with nandroid backup for Samsung Galaxy has some issue. The backup is not complete and the script has some problems on different partion between HTC and Samsung.
In the next days (more…)
Tags: android, nandroid, recovery, Samsung Galaxy
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