Hi Abhinayak! Thanks for your quick answer. Yep, I did lots of search. There is nothing more about this phone. It has been sold in Europe, mainly in spain, at 139 euros by a company called "funker":
http://www.funkertech.com/funker901.htm It had also been introduced in Thailand by i-mobile, portraying it as one of their best phones: http://www.i-mobilephone.com/form/tha/F_MobilePhoneDetail.aspx?brand_id=10&series_id=5&id=954&lang=en Both "brands" got it from yuhuatel design house, a chinese based phone design company. http://www.yuhuatel.com/english/i-nid.php And I bought it at (yup, believe it) U$S 11,51 from ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380140198668&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT I live in Uruguay, South America. This will be -if I dont render it useless- my phone, as my old phone is quite battered. I found actually two utils: One that wrote the NAND based on several separate files (which are plain, non signed, easily mountable / readable ext2 and ext3 images) which also has the ability to pack all those files into a .bin image, and a second utility that uses that bin image with all the files inside, to write the nand. One was from funker company, the second one I found in an anonymouse sharing file service, thru googling. I alredy peeked around inside the ext2 images, and i can see the /ext/ initr.d etc. I can confirm that the phone works with a qtopia based linux. It is very similar to the qtroll GREENPHONE. I am NOT a proficient linux user, much less a linux coder. I do work as programmer but with .net languages. Anyway, I think I understand what you say. I can only hope that someone with the necesary knowledge and one of this phones to bite the android apple :) Or if anyone feels with enough resources (mainly time and interest), I am here to perform whatever test / errand required on my phone. Regards, Enrique. On Aug 13, 2:17 pm, Abhinayak Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > WOW ! That's really one of the very few emails I have seen where someone did > all the background work ! :) > > I have been working with phones for sometime now and that is actually a lot > of useful information !! > > first you should figure out if someone has already ported android to PXA270, > since its an intel architecture, it might involve some work. If no one has > ported ( or is working on) this to PXA270, you would have to start looking > around for a tool chain that can compile for this processor. > > The source code is available openly, so once you have the toolchain sorted > out, you would start by looking at compiling both the user space android and > the kernel. > > Another important aspect would be to look at the bootloader you have and if > it expects some of specific images to be at some specific location(it > probably does) and then look at the possibility of replacing it with a > bootloader that you can use with android. > From your description, it looks like its the bootloader that handles the > flashing of images, this might be good or bad, but we don't know yet. We > need to figure out if the bin files that you flash in have to have any > specific header/format as well. For this you might want to search online for > people putting custom linux images on this phone. Since the signatures are > not validated, I am pretty sure someone would be doing that, you just need > to find who that person is and get this information. ( simple enough, right? > ;) ) > > Also, I did a quick search and > foundhttp://nemustech.blogspot.com/2007/12/android-porting-to-real-target-... > porting android to PXA270 that might help as well with the basic > compiling portion. :) > > Since you do seem to have all the images with you, it should be safe enough > to experiment...have fun! :) > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:32 AM, sigmax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > I've been looking around for some info about android for any phone, > > other the T-mobile and HTC developer platform. > > > I have a linux based phone, the yuhua Inid, sold in spain as Funker > > f901 and in Thailand (where I got it) as i-mobile 904. > > > IT has an Intel PXA270 processor at 400mhz, 64mb RAM and 128mb Flash > > NAND ram, touchscreen, 2mpx autofocus camera with light. It seems to > > cope ok with minimum requirements for android phone. The process to > > get its nand flash rewritten is suspiciously similar to that of HTC > > android enabled phones: > > > First of all, I have to install an USB driver with the following > > label: "Intel PXA27X USB Serial Driver Installation Disk" > > > On the phone, then I got to press and hold a buttonl, plug it in the > > usb port, and it is recognized as a serial port. I have an utility, > > downloaded from the phone-brand website, installed on the PC that > > allows me to load different libraries and files, and from there they > > get uploaded into the NAND on the phone... > > > Actually, the utility reads either a large .bin file (which as I coud > > see, is comprised of the different libraries and files, all packed > > inside) or each file separately. The files are open, no key / > > encription or whatever is used. > > > Mi linux and phone development knowledge is close to null. So please > > excuse me if I am just writing obvious things. > > > The individual files that this "phone upgrading thingy" loads and > > burns into the phone need to be loaded under the following titles: > > Kernel, root FS, Program FS, User Data FS, User Local, Tat, Grps2121, > > patch, SysParm_Ind, SysParm_Dep. OR else I just select a huge BIN file > > wich seems to have inside 7 files packed in it, that get stuffed (it > > takes 30 minutes) into the phone. > > > Can anyone tell me if they recognize any useful information from > > this ? Is there a way I can install android on this phone ? What kind > > of info is needed (I can search!) ... anyone is willing to help > > me ? :) I would really love to see this phone get revamped with > > ANDROID, and actually I know that the yuhua design house, is actually > > about to sell a "from the beginning, android phone" which is > > suspiciously the same as this one. I can only add that I am willing to > > test anything you throw at me on the phone. > > > Regards, > > Enrique. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
