[android-porting] info required on Google nexus phone

2012-07-24 Thread preetam m.n
Hi All, I would like to know the difference between the hard ware of the google nexus phone that is release recently and the previously available Samsung google nexus phone. Thanks in advance. Regards, Preetam -- The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do --

[android-porting] Re: Why does init reset dmesg output when it starts?

2012-07-24 Thread Weston Weems
Uhh... I think thats kind of the point of dmesg heh... its supposed to contain information about the boot, and additional kernel output since the boot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmesg there are logs that may contain similar information in /var/log, as well as being able to wrap services in

[android-porting] Re: Surfaceflinger dying

2012-07-24 Thread Weston Weems
As far as I know, surface flinger, and the requisite graphics libraries/services have changed quite a bit, especially in the timing dept. (All part of project butter, which you can read/watch more about in the project butter google io session on youtube. Weston On Monday, July 16, 2012

[android-porting] Porting to unknown (unsupported) device

2012-07-24 Thread Kevin K.
Hi all, One of my friends bought a 7' tablet (running Android 2.3.3) from China few months back and he doesn't use it anymore. No support is provided by the manufacturer (Factory images are not available). Device configuration (exact info about hardware, etc.) is unknown. Can I still make

[android-porting] Re: need to restrict the use of my library to only my application

2012-07-24 Thread zoli_k
Hi, SurfaceFlinger checks the permissions based on the PID, UID of the caller process. You could do similar trick, alternatively extend it for checking the caller process name. However, if your customer want's to hack the device and extract your library he/she may succeed depending on the

[android-porting] How to get ALSA and MTD packages from new git repository

2012-07-24 Thread Mangesh
Dear List, Currently I am building the android gingerbread 2.3.5 without ALSA and MTD-UTILS and getting following ERROR, make: *** No rule to make target `out/target/product/imx53_loco/obj/lib/libaudio.so', needed by

[android-porting] How to identify if code is running on emulator or on real device

2012-07-24 Thread Shafali Gupta
Hi, I just need to identify whether code is running on device or on emulator. please suggest something which works for AOSP 4.0. Thanks Shafali -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting