Month: February 2010

XDANDROID Eclair, now with Bluetooth

Today I pushed a commit to enable bluetooth in the Eclair rootfs repository. The build service has already assembled an image, so you can grab it and give it a shot. This currently only works for devices with Texas Instruments bluetooth, such as Raphael and Diamond. It does not yet work with Rhodium, which uses a Broadcom chipset.

The commit was a simple few-liner to the Eclair init.rc to add an Android service which handles pairing and connecting to other Bluetooth devices. The Bluetooth chip in the phone was working already (and enabled in Donut), so it was just the Android userspace service which was missing.

As it is now, the bluetooth device appears to inhibit deep sleep for the phone, which in turn causes noticeable power drain. This will be something to take a look at down the road to see if deep sleep can be enabled with bluetooth on. It’s probably a low-priority issue at this point, since bluetooth is not essential, and users who do wish to use it can enable and disable it manually.

Eclair rootfs Build Service Moved (to subdomain)

Just a quick update: the XDANDROID Eclair rootfs Build Service has moved to a subdomain on the same server. It’s a better solution than sticking it in a userdir. Previous links will be redirected to the new location, so you don’t need to do anything.

Also, for the record: I cannot guarantee that the oldest builds in that list will remain for any specific amount of time. As the server continues to build from the git repository, those images will pile up and I’ll probably have to clean some out eventually.

As one final aside, I’d like to plug the VPS provider I use to run this build service (and all the other services the machine hosts): Linode. It’s a very popular and extremely high-quality host. The prices are reasonable, the staff are friendly and almost always available, and they have near-perfect reliability. If you need a host and one of their datacenters (Fremont, Dallas, Atlanta, New Jersey, or London) is a good location for you, check them out.

Thanks.

Introducing the XDANDROID Eclair rootfs Build Service

With many devices to support and a frantic development pace, the XDANDROID port is very lively these days. As a consequence, we now need to keep development as centralized as possible. In an effort to help alleviate some of the confusion in image building, I’ve created a repository for the rootfs image. This gives us a nice home to work out of with the rootfs itself and ultimately allows testers or more adventurous end-users to work with the latest changes, without requiring all new release bundles. If you wish, you can skip this blog post and go straight to the build service.

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