Re: Is there still HTC Universal development?

@GoxBoxLive: Did you read my XDA-devs PM? ----- Original Message ---- From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> To: GoXbox Live <goxboxlive@gmail.com> Cc: htc-pxa@handhelds.org Sent: Friday, 30 May, 2008 9:18:42 PM Subject: Re: [Htc-pxa] 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. Here is a working config (assumes that your build dir is /stuff/build and that the openembedded stuff is in /stuff/org.openembedded.dev, see GettingStarted on OE for getting that OK): /stuff/build/conf/local.conf: BBFILES = "/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/*/*.bb" DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1" MACHINE = "magician" #ANGSTROM_MODE = "glibc" /stuff/build/env: export PATH=/stuff/bitbake/bin:$PATH export BBPATH=/stuff/build:/stuff/org.openembedded.dev /stuff/autobuild/build: #!/bin/bash cd ../build . ./env ANGSTROM_MODE="uclibc" bitbake initramfs-bootmenu-image if [ $? -eq 0 ] then bitbake base-image&&bitbake console-image&&bitbake x11-image&&bitbake gpe-image fi /stuff/autobuild/autoupdbuild: #!/bin/bash mtn --db=/stuff/OE.mtn pull monotone.openembedded.org org.openembedded.dev cd /stuff/org.openembedded.dev && mtn update cd /stuff/autobuild ./build To build go to /stuff/autobuild, and run ./build to simply build, and ./autoupdbuild to update your OE sources, and build. > > >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. > >-- >If life is a stage, I want some better lighting. >_______________________________________________ >Htc-pxa mailing list >Htc-pxa@handhelds.org >https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/htc-pxa __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
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