BlueAngel

HTC BlueAngel

Introduction

This Wiki is a whiteboard for the project to run Linux on the HTC BlueAngel PDA phone. Support for this phone is still in heavy development. While basic PDA functionality is allmost complete(feature_list). There is no custom bootloader for the HTC BlueAngel, so linux has to be booted via HaRET.

Common port status: 18.05.2007)

Hardware support status code: B

Component	Status	Comments

Boot process (all ticks required for D status)
Boot process

Boot-critical hardware (all ticks required for C status)
Basic hardware
USB to host		RNDIS works
SD-MMC		There is no ASIC3 SDIO host support in the kernel
Display

Basic PDA hardware/use (all ticks required for B status)
Buttons
Touchscreen
Suspend/Resume		Does not work on board id 4 and 6
Battery control
APM status
Backlight
GUI launching - GPE/OPIE/Qtopia/Openmoko

Advanced PDA hardware/use (all ticks required for A status)
Sound	Part.	Recording is not working
GSM-module		GPRS working with DPRAM module
Flash memory	Part.	PXA Flash detected and could be read
IrDA
LEDs
Bootloader	—

Full hardware support (all ticks required for A+ status)
Bluetooth		BT Headset not tested
Wifi		Suspend/resume doesn't work yet. Use PCMCIA Insert/Eject to work. WPA does not work.
Camera/Video	—

Legend: - full support, — - doesn't work, WIP - work just started, Part. - partitial suppport, more work needed.

The phone / pda is sold as

The Blue Angel is a Phone / PDA Hybrid from HTC which is rebadged and sold under many names across the world.

(O2 XDA IIs, O2 Germany XDA III, T-Mobile MDA III, QTEK 9090, iMate PDA2K, Orange SPV M2000, Siemens SX66, Vodafone VPx/V1620, Vodafone Germany VPA III, ePlus PDA III, Audiovox XV6600 and NZ Telcom Harrier)

Mailing list for the HTC-PXA device's

Join our mailing list at hh.org. #mailing-list

Forum thread for the HTC Universal at xda-developers

Link to the forum thread

HTC Linux at IRC

irc://irc.freenode.net #htc-linux

IRC log: #htc-linux