[android-porting] Re: How to create custom ROM image.

2012-06-09 Thread Ronnyek
Basically, you can follow the tutorials at: http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html which explain how to go about setting up an android rom build. If you are building for specific hardware, you'll likely need to either use a pre-built kernel, or port that over yourself. Once you

[android-porting] Re: Android 4.0.4 IMX53 wifi GUI issue

2012-06-09 Thread Ronnyek
Sorry I dont have your answer for you, but how well does the os itself perform on the IMX53? On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 5:35:43 AM UTC-7, swaraj wrote: Hi, I am building android 4.0.4 for imx53 board. I'm stuck with wifi porting issue. I'm able to scan and connect using command prompt,

[android-porting] Re: How to disable certain services?

2012-06-04 Thread Ronnyek
Edit the init.rc file which may be in your init ramdisk or just in the root of the boot partition. You can disable a service by adding a line beneath last configuration option for the service called disabled. This will temporarily disable the service. or rather prevent it from automatically

[android-porting] Re: interfacing egalx touchkit monitor to beagleboard on android

2012-06-04 Thread Ronnyek
Over hdmi? I've got a little 7 hdmi monitor with integrated egalax touch screen, but it just does audio/video over hdmi, touch panel controlled by usb. What you should be able to do is create idc file (http://source.android.com/tech/input/input-device-configuration-files.html) for egalax

[android-porting] Android port occasionally hard freezes during postDelayed reschedule

2012-05-31 Thread Ronnyek
I'm working with an android 2.3.1 port for some hybrid freescale imx53 hardware and running into some problems. I've got code in an app running in the os that does effectively the very same thing as below. private Runnable mUpdateTimeTask = new Runnable() { public void run() { final

[android-porting] Re: splash screen

2012-05-31 Thread Ronnyek
Which splash screen? On most hardware that are at least 3 diff places you can do it. 1) Bootloader u-boot allows you to supply a RLE bitmap to use as a boot image. 2) Linux kernel will let you use simple bitmaps as splash images 3) You can modify stock progress indicator in bootanimation.c

[android-porting] Re: How to use DLL's on Android

2012-05-29 Thread Ronnyek
Android's core is a linux kernel and hybrid linux / android userland. You could probably make things work (IF YOU HAD TO) with mono etc if these were .net dll's, however I think the amount of work involved would be considerable. Also I am unaware of what licensing restrictions would be

[android-porting] Re: Configure DHCP for Ethernet from user application

2012-05-24 Thread Ronnyek
,EthernetManager,EthernetConfiguration etc Ronnyek On Monday, May 21, 2012 6:14:27 PM UTC-7, CTurner wrote: Hi all, I have a FreeARM Tiny210 development device running Android 4.0.3. The Android system has ethernet support, and came prepackaged with an Ethernet Settings application

[android-porting] Boot errors w/ ServiceManager, how to debug further?

2012-05-18 Thread Ronnyek
Trying to bring up a new linux kernel on this hardware... and I've noticed that I get the ServiceManager exited 4 times in 4 minutes error. For troubleshooting the kernel itself (which I dont htink is the problem here) I turned on earlyprintk support and kernel debugging. For troubleshooting

[android-porting] Re: LCD Display problem

2012-05-18 Thread Ronnyek
Tejeswini, Is this a touchscreen and if so, do the touches correspond with the ui elements on the screen? You can flip orientation etc at a hardware on the lg4573, but these changes wouldnt likely affect orientation of a touchscreen if you were using one. section: 6.2.15

[android-porting] Re: ICS ethernet

2012-05-18 Thread Ronnyek
The only thing I see here thats appears to be specifically related to ETH is the fact that it probed for ipv6, and found no routers (really not that out of the ordinary). and the network state going up and down. The failures to write mmcblk0 may be where browser is trying to write to a cache or

[android-porting] Multitouch functionality in Browser / Gallery

2012-04-29 Thread Ronnyek
Hello... I've managed to get a multi-touch driver installed for our hardware, and it appears to work in applications like say OfficeViewer and MTTest.apk (to test multi touch point functionality), however I've noticed that Browser.apk doesnt seem to allow you to pinch resize/zoom... with the

[android-porting] Re: Touch Screen problem in Blaze

2012-04-29 Thread Ronnyek
Depends on how you intend on using your hardware... If this touchscreen is always going to be present with your version of android, you might consider just building into the kernel. If you just want to support touch screen, but want to leave it as a module... you can fire insmod from init.rc

[android-porting] Device hangs at random, how to troubleshoot

2012-04-11 Thread Ronnyek
Hi, I've got hardware we've managed to get android 2.3.4 running on based on freescale IMX processors. I've noticed that the devices themselves have been hard crashing every now and then, and trying to identify the cause. I've investigated memory usage of the primary apps, and logcat output,

[android-porting] ehmm.. what would cause recovery.img to not be built?

2012-01-12 Thread Ronnyek
I made sure to set kernel_no_image :=false, and threw the kernel in the folder it was looking for. Is there anything else I need to look at? Extremely frustrating ot try and find more information on, as everyone trying to build a recovery image tends to want to build something custom like

[android-porting] Develop against newly modified API

2012-01-05 Thread Ronnyek
I've made changes to our api to add features etc... and would like to be able to have developers develop against this in some fashion. My question is I know that when I build and make api current, it likely builds a jar, but is there an easy way to specify this in say eclipse to take advantage of

[android-porting] Re: i really want to port at least gb to my gateway mx6650

2011-12-29 Thread Ronnyek
Maybe I misunderstood your question... but couldnt you use one of the pre-existing android x86 distros? http://www.android-x86.org/ There has been a ton of progress and development into that project, and if nothing else you could use the source for that as a base, swapping out kernel video

[android-porting] Re: Ethernet Patch, but problems with dhcpcd

2011-12-07 Thread Ronnyek
/disconnected events and try to refresh dhcp and/or arp broadcasts? If so, can you point me in the correct direction so I can try seeing where patching may have gone awry there. Thanks in advance! On Nov 30, 10:34 am, Ronnyek wwe...@gmail.com wrote: As a followup, (make sure if anyone runs across the same

[android-porting] Re: Run script at startup to configure eth0 with a static IP address

2011-12-07 Thread Ronnyek
Seems like the service you start there, is not what is generating those errors, unless there was just a typo in code. Also I wouldnt expect to see errors with dhcpcd, unless you were firing up the eth0 interface with netcfg eth0 dhcp. I intend on building a list of patches based on those of the

[android-porting] Re: Ethernet Patch, but problems with dhcpcd

2011-11-30 Thread Ronnyek
to start dhcpcd with those command line arguments enabled. simply adding -o6 (for the option for domain_name_servers solved my problem. My Service line looks like the following... service dhcpd /system/bin/dhcpd -BKL eth0 -d -o6 Hope it helps anyone! Weston On Nov 29, 2:27 pm, Ronnyek wwe

[android-porting] Re: Ethernet Patch, but problems with dhcpcd

2011-11-29 Thread Ronnyek
Nicu, I am actually using your patches... I am not 100% sure if its patched in completely (I've noticed it appears the settings/ethernet stuff should show the dhcp settings regardless if its in dhcp or static (if its been set) and mine does not. Regarding the dhcpcd.conf, should I have any

[android-porting] Develop in eclipse or intellij

2011-11-28 Thread Ronnyek
I dont know if this is the the correct place to ask, but I figure people on this list must be trying it... I tried following this: http://source.android.com/source/using-eclipse.html So I could have nice pretty projects and intellisense etc etc etc. It seems that there is something missing...

[android-porting] Ethernet Patch, but problems with dhcpcd

2011-11-24 Thread Ronnyek
Hello all... I've recently integrated ethernet support from this url: http://blog.linuxconsulting.ro/ It seems that its all working well, however I've noticed that net.dns1 and net.dns2 never seem to take the dns server addresses from the dhcp lease. I've attempted to modify a script

[android-porting] Building and Modifying ok, but where to go from here?

2011-11-11 Thread Ronnyek
Thanks to all that have helped in the past helping me solve my problems getting these android builds going... I've been able to make my modifications and get things going accordingly. My question is... keeping track of these changes and making it so my fellow coworkers can continue to grab my

[android-porting] Re: .NET web Services on android

2011-11-08 Thread Ronnyek
You're much more likely to get a response form android-dev mailing list... this list is more for porting of android to new hardware etc. On Nov 6, 4:04 pm, Phyllipy Chagas phyll.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm just starting with android development, and I'm trying to access a .NET web service

[android-porting] Re: Set os screen orientation from code

2011-11-08 Thread Ronnyek
at it again On Nov 3, 10:48 am, Ronnyek wwe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm patching up the os for misc diff functionality... one bit I couldnt tell for sure if I needed to. We lack accelerometer support, but would like to have options as far as physical screen orientation. Ultimately we'd

[android-porting] Set os screen orientation from code

2011-11-03 Thread Ronnyek
I'm patching up the os for misc diff functionality... one bit I couldnt tell for sure if I needed to. We lack accelerometer support, but would like to have options as far as physical screen orientation. Ultimately we'd like the ability to select orientation via system preferences... but set it

[android-porting] How are people handling porting of OS update functionality.

2011-11-03 Thread Ronnyek
From what I have seen ( I could be wrong about thiss..) it would seem that the typical os update functionality is something that is provided by a boot loader. (drop an os upgrade on root of sd card, reboot into special mode, and perform the upgrade). Are companies building their own bootloaders,

[android-porting] missing external projects in new repo

2011-10-26 Thread Ronnyek
Just started to get custom builds going for our freescale boards again... the old manifests pointed at platform/external/alsa-lib.git, platform/external/alsa-utils.git on androids source repository. I understand this isnt part of the core android build, but is there any plans to be hosting this

[android-porting] Package initlogo.rle via make files vs repacking boot.img

2011-10-23 Thread Ronnyek
I'm new to porting, but have had really pretty good success and am now on to minor polish etc. I want to include a initlogo.rle so as to replace the blinking android _. I understand whats required of me to create the rle file itself, and how to unpack/repack the boot.img, but is there anyway to

[android-porting] lightweight minimalist hardware for android

2010-04-30 Thread Ronnyek
I suspect android MAY be overkill, but are there any lightweight/ inexpensive hardware that will do the minimal functionality etc? I'd like to see about the viability of using android in small, low power embedded devices that dont need 3d etc. I'd LIKE the following Basic display, no need for