Sunday, February 5, 2012

Siri Server Survey


 Siri Server
So everyone, we're conducting a survey to find if anyone is interesting in us hosting a server for Siri (for devices other than the 4S). Below you'll find the survey, please fill it out to let us know if anyone's interested! Thanks

Monday, October 24, 2011

VoodooLauncher Update


 VoodooLauncher
  • VoodooLauncher Released (v1.13)
These changes include:
  • Support for OS X Lion (10.7.x)
  • Automatic startup script

Thursday, July 28, 2011

VoodooLauncher Release

 VoodooLauncher
  • VoodooLauncher Released (v1.12)
These changes include:
  • Support for i386 and x86_64 architecture
  • Removed Info.plist extra keys
  • Permissions setting fixed
For the next update:
  • Set VoodooLauncher to add itself to Login Items
  • Include VoodooHDA PrefPane

Sunday, April 17, 2011

iDroid Updates


iDroid Updates
  • iDroid Installer Sterling Scorpion Updated from v2.0.002 to v2.0.003 (4/17 Completion)
  • iDroid Installer Mercury Crab Updated from v4.0.002 to v4.0.003 (4/17 Completion)
  • iDroid Installer Titanium Oyster Updated from v2.2.010 to v2.3.020

These changes include:

From the iDroid Project's Site: (http://www.idroidproject.org/forum/announcements/idroid-11-04-pepparkaka-release-announcement-2058/)

This is the iDroid Project's third release of Android Gingerbread for iDevices, built from the community source code repos at http://www.github.com/iDroid-Project

This release is for iPhone 2G,  iPhone 3G & iPod Touch 1G and is available as a binary package or via Bootlace.

Special thanks go to ddominator for his persistence & help with libsensors testing.

IF YOUR DEVICE IS NOT STATED ABOVE THEN IT IS NOT SUPPORTED - WE DO NOT HAVE ETA'S ON OTHER PORTS AT THE MOMENT.

You DO NOT need a new version of OpeniBoot to boot this - If your openiboot install is capable of booting later MoJo releases, then it will be able to boot this

Changelog

Kernel Changes
  • New Accelerometer driver from Intel (iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G) [nickp666]
  • Preliminary Ambient light sensor support - No support in Android yet but working at kernel level (iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 1G) [nickp666]
  • New SPI based Zephyr2 Multitouch driver (iPhone 3G) [ricky26] - iPod Touch 1G missed out because ricky loves to forget it exists - I'll fix this myself, but not before this release
  • Preliminary PMU suspend support - Fixes iPhone 3G audio popping issue (doesnt add much to battery life at this point) [ricky26]
  • Minor kernel configuration optimisation (iPod Touch 1G and iPhone 2G) [nickp666]
Android Changes
  • All repos updated in line with upstream, thus we are now running Android 2.3.3 [nickp666]
  • New libsensors which presently adds Accelerometer support - this will be expanded later to support the Ambient light sensor, I just ran out of time. [nickp666 & ddominator]
  • Tweaked keyboard animation values [ddominator]
  • Various un-noteworthy updates and changes to external projects

NOTE: Launcher2 (The standard Android launcher) DOES NOT SUPPORT ROTATION, so dont moan that the accelerometer doesnt work if thats your test* :P

The system menus only also rotate in 2 directions, not 3, so holding your phone upside down will not yield the correct angle* :P
*Above points verified by running ezGingerbread on my G1 
 

Sunday, March 6, 2011

iDroid Installer - Major Updates


iDroid Updates
  • iDroid Installer Sterling Scorpion Updated from v2.0.001 to v2.0.002
  • iDroid Installer Mercury Crab Updated from v4.0.001 to v4.0.002

These changes include:

From the iDroid Project's Site: (http://www.idroidproject.org/forum/announcements/idroid-11-02-pepparkaka-release-announcement/)

This is the iDroid Project's second release of Android Gingerbread for iDevices, built from the community source code repos at http://www.github.com/iDroid-Project

This release is for iPhone 2G,  iPhone 3G & iPod Touch 1G and is available as a binary package or via Bootlace.

Special thanks go to ddominator (and those who helped him - Popple3, Lopi etc) for all his hard work with the software buttons.

IF YOUR DEVICE IS NOT STATED ABOVE THEN IT IS NOT SUPPORTED - WE DO NOT HAVE ETA'S ON OTHER PORTS AT THE MOMENT.

You DO NOT need a new version of OpeniBoot to boot this - If your openiboot install is capable of booting later MoJo releases, then it will be able to boot this

Changelog
This is a relatively minor release in comparison to previous ones.
  • All repos updated in line with upstream, thus we are now running Android 2.3.2
  • New software button emulation (Button savior is now completely removed, and buttons added to the status bar and notifications bar)
  • SD Emulation hack re-instated - /private/var/sdcard on the iOS side as before
  • New custom boot animation by ddominator - we are open to community submissions for artwork!
  • Reconfigured keyboard animation values - should reduce input lag considerably
  • Various un-noteworthy updates and changes to external projects

Those of you that track us (or me) on github, will have noticed a lot of changes to the ramdisk (and its associated binaries), these changes have not made it into this release, however I am gearing up to drop our current ramdisk set up and completely automate builds, this will enable us to run nightly builds in the near future.

Friday, January 28, 2011

iDroid Installer - Mac and Windows Updates


iDroid Updates
  • iDroid Installer Sterling Scorpion Updated from v1.0.017 to v2.0.001
  • iDroid Installer Mercury Crab Updated from v3.2.024.1 to v4.0.001

These changes include:

From the iDroid Project's Site: (http://www.idroidproject.org/forum/announcements/idroid-11-01-pepparkaka-release-announcement-%28gingerbread-preview-release%29/)


Changelog

This is an entirely new version of Android with our changes and fixes forward-ported.

What state is this in?

I have worked extremely hard to bring this port up to the same state as the previously release "MoJo" series.

This release actually fixes a number of longstanding bugs in our previous releases (for example, ringtones now work), there are however a couple of minor points that are missing from this release that were in the last of the MoJo series - These are not permanent issues, they are there simply because I dont have time to work on them at the moment - hence the 'Preview' release.

  • There is currently no SD emulation - the hack we used to use has been reverted and for good reason, android now natively has sd emulation functionality, however for it to work we need to bring our dated kernel in line with more current versions - I had a brief go at this but a lot of our core drivers need rewriting in order for this to become a reality and at the moment I simply dont have the time to work on an epic refactor of our kernel (Although I will pick this up in a few weeks)
  • There is currently no support for the accelerometer in the userland, the kernel driver still works but our old libsensors does not - this will ultimately be a good thing as I now know how I can also implement the ALS, so the rewrite will be worthwhile

This port should be pretty much on par with the froyo port with the exception for some fixed bugs of course, therefore the airplane toggle still applies for sim pin unlocks etc etc

I have opted NOT to put our soft button notification bar back into gingerbread, due to some recent advancements in button emulation apps - the free version of button savior has been included in this release (with permission from the author) as a temporary measure to give you soft buttons - please do not report bugs with this to us, instead report them to its author.

I have completely removed ADWLauncher from all future builds, it has served us well, but instead (thanks to ddominator for finding/testing the values for me) disabled the animations for Launcher2 which results in it being usable.

Like the rest of the Android community, we have now switched to ext4 images, this journalled filesystem results in significantly reduced corruption and data resiliency at the expense of additional writes to the NAND flash - as the rest of the android community is now using this fs, we are too. if you are paranoid about NAND wear then I suggest that you DO NOT USE these images (Neither I nor the project will be held accountable for any NAND damage - this is entirely at your own risk) and instead copy their contents to ext2 images instead although given that the rest of the world is using ext4 I wouldnt forsee that this is a particular issue.

It is almost certain that your first boot of these images will show a lot of ftl messages and will lag somewhat - PLEASE LEAVE IT TO DO THIS - we now roll out clean userdata images rather than prepopulated ones (this should fix some issues with UUID's etc)

Please also immediately disable the UI animations in Settings > Display > Animations, I'm sure by now I dont need to explain why this is - we still have the same kernel after all :)

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

iDroid Installer Updates


iDroid Updates
  • iDroid Installer Mercury Crab Updated from v3.2.023.2 to v3.2.024
  • iDroid Installer Sterling Scorpion Updated from v1.0.015 v1.0.016
  • iDroid Installer Holiday Edition for Windows Released - To download Holiday Edition go to: http://www.andersentechwiki.net/holiday
This release includes (Holiday Edition):

  • iDroid Mojo 1.0.5 Image
  • LauncherPro
  • Different Wallpapers
  • DoubleTwist Media Player
  • FaceBook
  • AdvancedTask Killer
  • RockPlayer


These changes include (for all):

From the iDroid Project's Site: (http://www.idroidproject.org/forum/announcements/idroid-mojo-1-0-5-release-announcement/)

Android

  • Software button emulation (Send, Home & Back) - Pull down the notification bar and you'll see them
  • Added 06.15.00 baseband ultrasn0w unlock
  • Adhoc patch applied to wpa_supplicant
  • Seperated iPhone and iPod build configurations
  • Heavily dieted iPod touch 1G builds (A large amount of telephony based apps removed from builds - dialer is left in because androids MID target is broken and until we fix it, removing dialer causes stability problems - big thanks go to rekoil for sending me an ipt1g so that I can work on it)
  • Initial refactoring/tidy up of radio interface libraries
  • DNS Fix merged back into main init.rc
  • SD Emulation property set merged back into main init.rc
  • Minor bugfixes to ADWLauncher
  • Added busybox and symlinked common commands
  • Added bourne again shell (Bash)
  • Switched from Gallery3D to Gallery (Gallery3D is useless without hardware acceleration, and this one works!)
  • Switched default shell in terminal emulator to Bash

Kernel

  • Implemented wm8991_set_bias_level that Wolfson didnt (iPhone 3G audio codec)
  • Fixed a missing include in composite.c
  • Restored volume button functionality (Now that we have software buttons)