New Android 1.6 (Donut) firmware from Samsung is out
Monday, February 22nd, 2010After the rumors from last week it is finaly clear, Samsung put a new firmware for the I7500 Galaxy to the web. The greatest thing this is a Android Donut release. (more…)
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The long way to port the Samsung I7500 Galaxy kernel from 2.6.27 to the latest N1 kernel
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The standard Galaxy kernel based on a very old 2.6.27 version and their are lot of changes after this kernel. So i planed to upgrade the kernel to the version which used the N1 Google phone. I prefer to start from the Samsung update3, because it is the latest and i hope the wlan driver has the needed fixes.
I created a diff between the andoid-msm-2.6.27 and update3. The diff-file is 9mb big and shows that 800 files are different.
These subprojects must be ported to the new 2.6.29 kernel, also many other files:
arch/arm/boot
arch/arm/configs
arch/arm/include/asm
arch/arm/kernel
arch/arm/mach-msm
arch/arm/mm
drivers/base/power
drivers/bluetooth
drivers/char
drivers/cpufreq
drivers/dpram
drivers/i2c/busses
drivers/input
drivers/leds
drivers/media
drivers/mfd
drivers/misc
drivers/mmc
drivers/mtd
drivers/net
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/
drivers/serial
drivers/spi
drivers/usb
drivers/video
include
init
kernel
lib
mm
net
scripts
security
sound
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The community-port of android 2.1 Eclair for Samsung I7500 Galaxy
Thursday, February 4th, 2010After a long time without any news from Samsung to upgrade their Samsung i7500 Galaxy from the old 1.5 android version to a newer one, the community will make this job. (more…)
Tags: community port, eclair, firmware, Samsung Galaxy
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Diffs between update2 and update3 for Samsung Galaxy Kernel source
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The diffs between the Galaxy kernel source from Samsungs update2 to update3 are very small. (more…)
Tags: kernel, Samsung Galaxy, source
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New firmware IH8 is out
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Today Samsung release a new firmware update for the Galaxy. And this is really needed after the last update. The new firmware version is I7500XXIH8 with CSC I7500VIAIH4.
WARNING: Wipe/factory reset is needed. All data will be lost! Make a backup before updating! (more…)
Tags: firmware update, Samsung Galaxy
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Howto: Compile a linux kernel for Samsung Galaxy
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009A howto for compiling a linux kernel for the Samsung Galaxy was requested. If you interested read this article. (more…)
Tags: android, kernel, linux, Samsung Galaxy
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Samsung Galaxy recognize more as one finger
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009After this comment from my multitouch article, i compiled a new kernel and flash it on my Galaxy. After a few test here the results:
one finger test:
<4>[ 882.901393] x 249, y 66, z 53, finger 1, width 0
<4>[ 882.923068] x 222, y 72, z 0, finger 0, width 0
two finger test: (more…)
Tags: android, kernel, linux, multitouch, Samsung Galaxy
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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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