Re: Is there still HTC Universal development?

On Fri, 30 May 2008, GoXbox Live wrote:

> A working Qtopia image for universal is allready available. It's a while
> ago i created a image with phone support for Universal. I even used it as
> my main phone for a while. The last Qtopia image available should be working
> very well, also power handling. The cam doesnt work though.

A few weeks back, exco and I investigated building a newer image for the
Magician, and then seeing what fixes needed to be made.

My current problem is actually that my Universal's battery has suddenly
dropped in capacity. I was using GoXbox Live's Uni Qtopia image as my
primary phone, but then suddenly the battery life was terrible; later, I
realized the problem was my hardware, not the software.

My time is very fragmented lately, so sometimes it seems like I'll
definitely have enough time to work on this, and sometimes not, but I'm
always on #htc-linux as paulproteus. I'd be happy to help test, or
provide a build machine, or just chat more.

Because Angstrom built a Magician image that didn't work in mysterious
ways I think exco and I got discouraged. But I think those issues could
actually be fixed pretty easily, and I haven't tried building a Universal
image lately. The GTK-based OpenMoko stack is basically abandoned
upstream, it seems, so Qtopia will be the Way Forward until Android
totally takes over, probably.

That's the braindump from me.

-- Asheesh.

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