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== Documents ==
== Documents ==
* [[Noisedroid/FAQ]] has a bunch of links about getting the build working and putting it on the target device.
* [[Noisedroid/FAQ]] has a bunch of links about getting the build working and putting it on the target device.
* [[Noisedroid/Hacking]] Other stuff.


== Status ==
== Status ==

Revision as of 07:36, 19 March 2009

Noisedroid is an Android build for the HTC G1 ("G-phone", "HTC Dream", "Googlephone").

Documents

  • Noisedroid/FAQ has a bunch of links about getting the build working and putting it on the target device.

Status

2009-02-17 After a weekend of hacking, the upstream sources build and can be installed (shot 1, shot 2) on a commodity G1 rooted with the engineering bootloader. GL-ES is done in software instead of using hardware acceleration, so the UI is pretty unusable. The Bluetooth and wifi drivers are missing.

2009-03-15 Another productive weekend, built and running more tip-ish kernels and TI wlan driver to give a working WiFi interface; phone calls, GL-ES accelerated drawing, and Bluetooth are all working.

Goals

  • Update this document
  • Android built using best available free software (but more Ubuntu than Debian -- if free software doesn't work well enough, use the proprietary while helping the free software improve.)
  • Reproducible, documented, build processes.
  • Make it easy to use your own IMAP, XMPP, calendar, and other servers, using encrypted network protocols whenever possible, as first-class citizens in the Android environment.
  • Tor mode for anonymized networking.
  • Easy tethering over USB, Bluetooth, and wifi.
  • Easy access to language interpreters (Python, Ruby, sqlite, Javascript, etc).
  • Documenting Android and working with the G1 for non-Google non-Android free software hackers.
  • Make phone system image (with appropriate SIM) compatible with OpenBTS