Noisedroid

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Category:Project Noisedroid is a free build of Android for the G1 ("G-phone", "HTC Dream", "Googlephone") aimed at personal freedom, privacy, and anonymity.

mailto:noisedroid@lists.noisebridge.net

https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisedroid

Documents

• Noisedroid/FAQ has a bunch of links about getting the build working and putting it on the target device.
• Noisedroid/Nights are coworking periods in the main space on Thursday Evenings at 7:00pm.
• Noisedroid/Shows highly speculative Android Show-and-Tell events.

Status

2011-03-23 Revived after 25 months to offer Noisedroid/Nights. Like the idea of doing a custom CyanogenMod fork and will look in to it, but for the time being, going to leave the previous Android build in stasis. Does anyone still even run it? - Azi

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.
• OTR supported IM
• recovery mode that supports more than update.zip/file chooser for binary updates
• Easy tethering over USB, Bluetooth, and wifi.
• hostap mode for wifi (adhoc is done)
• 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
• Add android market installer for rooted phones (like jf updater)
• where possible break out key features for mainstream/commercial android market stuff (e.g. otr im/sms engine)
• create alternate market/cloud options for diy'ers untrustful of googlecloud
• make contact with & attempt to collaborate with others working along similar lines, e.g.: http://nathanialfreitas.s3.amazonaws.com/Guardian022709.pdf
• TorProxy and Shadow for Android from cl.cam.ac.uk

Devices

The following ADP1 phones have been donated to Noisebridge:

• IMEI 351677030049076 -- checked out to Andy Isaacson
• IMEI 351677030049175 -- checked out to David Molnar