Hello everybody! Today I'm happy to announce a new testing release of the Goldelico Replicant 4.2 distribution. The free GTA04 Android/Replicant port improved quite a bit during the last few months. I'll try to summarize what happened since our last testing snapshot:
* RIL: improved modem power-on sequence * RIL: basic incoming and outgoing SMS support * RIL: software routing in voice calls (A3 + A4) * RIL: basic USSD support * RIL: basic DTMF support * Kernel: resolved modem suspend issue As you can see, the main effort of this release was to integrate the core functionality in the Radio Interface Layer (RIL), in order to improve the GTA04 phone functionality. Most of the features expected from a phone are now implemented and working/demonstrable. The RIL (and especially the mobile network status reporting) is not very stable yet, though. So, you might have to play around with the Flight-Mode/Data-Enable toggles, in order to make it work. Also, the sound quality in voice calls is not very good, this is due to non-optimized software-routing code and it will improve quite a bit (on A4 devices) once we get the voice hardware-routing configuration right. If you appreciate what you see here, I'd like to kindly ask you to consider making a donation to the GTA04 project. The GTA04 project is run by Goldelico, who is sponsoring my work on this project. Your donations will help to keep our efforts going and support projects such as Android porting, Kernel upstreaming, project representation at conferences and more. Donations can be made here: https://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation === Download === http://download.goldelico.com/gta04-replicant/4.2/20150205-replicant+VoiceCall.tbz === Installation === The installation of this single-partition system is very easy and plays nicely with other installed OSes (multi-boot): * mount an empty SD card partition to /media/roofs * download 20150205-replicant+VoiceCall.tbz * sudo tar xjvf 20150205-replicant+VoiceCall.tbz -C /media/rootfs/ * sync * unmount the SD card and boot your GTA04 with it Alternatively, you can make use of the new 'makesd' script [0] to prepare a SD card for you: * DEV=/dev/sdX ./makesd -v latest replicant === Documentation === http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-replicant/ === Changelog & Issues === http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-replicant/issues/ http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-replicant-device.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/replicant-4.2 http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/3.12-replicant4 === Get involved === We're a small team, always looking for your support, be it code, testing, documentation or donations. If you'd like to get involved, please have a look at the documentation page. -- Munich, 2015-02-09 Kind regards, Lukas Märdian [0] http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-makesd/
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