:)Well... I will never buy a htc phone again.

Thanks for your explanations!

On 12 abr, 19:43, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh and - the kernel source is available @http://developer.htc.com/
>
> But - It feels like they almost went out of their way (HTC that is) to make
> it harder to use...
>
> Its a branch of 2.6.27 if i remember correctly, with lots of 2.6.29 patches
> pulled into it, merged with a load of HTC's own changes - all thats fine ...
> BUT - its had *all the revision history stripped*.. So trying to port the
> hero specifics from it into the AOSP kernel is nearly impossible... and .29
> is needed for android 2.0+
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can't build a "from scratch" ROM for the Android Dev Phone 1, Android
> > Dev Phone 2 or the Nexus 1 either. Lots of the chips in your phone are made
> > by companies who refuse to open source a thing - with no (viable)
> > alternatives available...
>
> > Thanks,
> > Kiall
>
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:34 PM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> why they dont release a hero kernel + anything needed to build the
> >> system from scratch?
>
> >> f***!
>
> >> On 12 abr, 17:40, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > You might be interested inhttp://
> >> github.com/kiall/android_vendor_communityandjnwhiteh and
> >> > lokX's branches - between the 3 of us, we have 2.1 building
> >> > for a hero and my branch also has a mostly working Dream 2.1...
>
> >> > But you need lots of proprietary binaries - list of them/script to
> >> extract
> >> > them @
> >>http://github.com/kiall/android_vendor_community/blob/eclair/hero/unz...
>
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Kiall
>
> >> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:32 PM, David Turner <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:43 AM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > >> And that blobs, can't be extracted from existing ROMs?
>
> >> > >> Probably, but frankly I have no idea what the Hero uses and how to
> >> > > integrate the corresponding binaries into an AOSP tree.
> >> > > You were asking why it's so difficult, I just provide an answer :-)
>
> >> > >> On 7 abr, 18:28, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >> > Because you don't have all the drivers. Some hardware is supported
> >> > >> through
> >> > >> > proprietary binary blobs that run in user space. For example the
> >> OpenGL
> >> > >> ES
> >> > >> > hardware support library.
>
> >> > >> > That's why, even you need to extract them from a device or from the
> >> > >> recovery
> >> > >> > images at developer.htc.com when you want to make an AOSP build
> >> that
> >> > >> runs on
> >> > >> > an ADP1.
>
> >> > >> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:52 AM, debuti <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >> > > There are two types of ROMs to the Hero, the ones with sense
> >> (coming
> >> > >> > > from HTC or customized by users, but with sense anyway) and
> >> laggy, and
> >> > >> > > the ones compiled from sources with missed capabilities
> >> (Bluetooth,
> >> > >> > > glitches, etc).
>
> >> > >> > > My question is, since we've got the sources for Hero kernel
> >> (http://
> >> > >> > > developer.htc.com/), and the AOSP project, why noone did compile
> >> a
> >> > >> > > fully-working-without-sense-then-faster-1.5-AOSP Rom for Htc
> >> Hero?
>
> >> > >> > > OR
>
> >> > >> > > why it is so difficult to compile a working 2.1 Rom if we have
> >> the
> >> > >> > > kernel, hence the drivers?
>
> >> > >> > > Thanks!
>
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