Hi folks,
last week i read news about i new hardware vendor from Berlin who is going to release his thin and lightweight device in this summer. As i like the specs i asked them if they are willing to support the community in developing a SF port for their new device? They answered that they like the idea but doesn't have the manpower to realize it. So my thought is weather all interested people should become a group which is going to realize SF on this device, maybe together with Jolla similar to the Sailfish X project?
Here some some specs of the
Carbon 1 Mark II
Size: 153.5 x 74 x 6.3 mm
Weight: 125g
Screen: 6.01" 2.160 x 1.080 AMOLED
ROM: 128GB
RAM: 8GB
SOC: Mediatek Helio P90
iFixit-Score: 9/10
https://www.carbonmobile.com/
Is someone familiar with the Mediateks Helio P90 SOC?
How is interested in supporting this idea?
Has someone a connection to Jolla for answering if they are also interested?
Best regards
nfs22 said:
Hi folks,
last week i read news about i new hardware vendor from Berlin who is going to release his thin and lightweight device in this summer. As i like the specs i asked them if they are willing to support the community in developing a SF port for their new device? They answered that they like the idea but doesn't have the manpower to realize it. So my thought is weather all interested people should become a group which is going to realize SF on this device, maybe together with Jolla similar to the Sailfish X project?
Here some some specs of the
Carbon 1 Mark II
Size: 153.5 x 74 x 6.3 mm
Weight: 125g
Screen: 6.01" 2.160 x 1.080 AMOLED
ROM: 128GB
RAM: 8GB
SOC: Mediatek Helio P90
iFixit-Score: 9/10
https://www.carbonmobile.com/
Is someone familiar with the Mediateks Helio P90 SOC?
How is interested in supporting this idea?
Has someone a connection to Jolla for answering if they are also interested?
Best regards
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As long as the source code is provided in full, it should be relatively easy. $900 for any Helio P90 is way overpriced though.
The main issue with Mediatek CPUs is that they tend to not release all relevant source code. If we get past that, we should be fine.
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I found this device. It is a full PC with an ARM Brodcome 700MHz CPU, 128 or 256 MB of ram and it is going to cost 25/35$. It is designed to run Linux (Debia,Arch,Fedora and more)
I was just wondering if it is possible to run Android on it. The possibilities are endless.
raspberrypi.org
I saw your post and i am quite amazed why none of the guys said anything about Raspberry Pi .I am waiting the time to buy a few of them ,maybe 2 or 3 .If you search the ebay you can see they sell the beta raspberry boards and the price now is too high from the bids..Official site http://www.raspberrypi.org/
This is the third thread I have seen about Raspberry Pi.
You should search before spamming.
I'd love to team this up with a touch screen and see what we could build. Seems like for ~$60 you could have a dedicated android appliance for all types of things!
killall said:
This is the third thread I have seen about Raspberry Pi.
You should search before spamming.
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Not when I opened this thread. I used the search several times to be shoure that my question haven't answered before. I have seen pi mentioned in some threads.
crhylove said:
I'd love to team this up with a touch screen and see what we could build. Seems like for ~$60 you could have a dedicated android appliance for all types of things!
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Yes this is one way to go an inexpensive hand made tablet although it would cost more then 60$
If you give 35$ for the Pi and then another 15-20$ for the sd card you allready have 50-55$ and unfortunately the touch screen without multi touch costs over 80$ .If you know anywhere to buy cheaper please inform me .
Will it run Crysis?
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Will it run Crysis?
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Does your phone?
I just ordered a replacement screen for my Dell streak that was $35. It's a great little screen with responsive touch. Not sure how to connect it to VGA or hdmi or whatever though...
Been following this for a long time, and looks like a great idea! Nice idea about putting android on it, but linux would be cool too!
seems like cool product to buy. If it runs linux its fine by me and the interesting point of installing android on it is also nice
hey
This thread is the longest, so i will post here.
manufacturing of the first 10 000 units has begun....
[linkie]
i'm mightygoose on the boards over there too.
Super cheap Google TV implementation?
I'm going to start trying to get this running as a Google TV as soon as I get one. This is a perfect platform for it.
The way I would like to use pi
I would like to see android for this little board, who needs touch if you plan to use it on a tv or larg format display. Just give me an android build that can use a mouse with, like android x68. I have seen a youtube vid of android x86 used on netbooks. I just think that would be great; too bad we cant get them retail yet but we will have it soon, then i hope to see lots of development for this great toy.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
looks like they have a release date of February 20th.
Reading on the Raspberry Pi website it has been revealed that in can be run on 4 X AA Batteries, not really sure how long it would last though.
Also with regards to the small touchscreen, they're not as exspensive as you would imagine, I have already purched a controller for an LCD Screen I salvaged from an old P4 Prescott Laptop, encased them both in a Pine frame and have a very cheap 15.6" LCD PC Monitor.
Take a look here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/njytouch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
And finally on the original topic of porting Android onto the raspberry Pi you can't use Android-x86 as the Broadcomm chip doesn't support the X86 Architecture - help is at hand though as they have released a datasheet to help people port software onto the Pi.
Copied from RaspberryPi.org = "There’s another big piece of news today. We’ve been leaning (gently and charmingly) on Broadcom, who make BCM2835, the SoC at the heart of the Raspberry Pi, to produce an abbreviated datasheet describing the ARM peripherals in the chip. If you’re a casual user, this won’t be of much interest to you, but if you’re wanting to port your own operating system or just want to understand our Linux kernel sources, this is the document for you. You can download a PDF here. Huge thanks to Gert, JamesH, Gray and Dom for, once again, going above and beyond for us. We really appreciate it."
Download Link for the PDF: http://dmkenr5gtnd8f.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf
Best Regards.
leba837 said:
And finally on the original topic of porting Android onto the raspberry Pi you can't use Android-x86 as the Broadcomm chip doesn't support the X86 Architecture - help is at hand though as they have released a datasheet to help people port software onto the Pi.
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Isn't Android already running on ARM Cortex Ax or am I missing something?
Me likes very much
This should be awesome, as I'm interested in getting one too
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Raspberry PI officially released
Hello all.
Recently looking at all those innovative cheap non-chinese smartwatches I've got an obsession on picking ones for some random development.
How about we gather some little info on devices ready for custom upgrades and firmwares. Certainly this doesn't include android wear devices as they are ready for development.
Almost all cheap smartwatches do not allow installation of custom apps and some can't even show the time without being connected with your phone!
But some of them allow firmware upgrading/flashing... So I'm looking for any device having some native sdk or compatible with arduino toolkit or anything else.
1. A perfect example of what am I looking for is sony smartwatch mn2. They already have:
- open smartwatch project with it's ported arduino toolkit
- star wars game on mn2
I would probably pick those but they're pretty old and lack some sensors.
2. The second one is weloop tommy. (suggested by qkall and raicg)
These have a huge standby time (I guess more than the first pebble), waterproof but they have accelerometer inside only and no touchscreen. I guess the price is huge comparing to others.
Still there is an opensource project around with a custom firmware.
As I understand a huge work is done and the device was carefully examined and all that pin-out stuff was collected to make it working and you're pretty ready to go with development of your own features.
My next possible targets are mt2502 based watches as there are some stuff (mediatek linkit) around on mediatek site.
I'm unsure if this sdk will allow to do something with randomly picked mt2502 watches.
So I'm interested in any info if someone tried this or had any other success on development/moding of their watches.
Thx.
I feel like I'm being a bit slutty with this today... but the Weloop Tommy might be interesting to you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma...s/weloop-tommy-smartwatch-looks-best-t2864444
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma.../weloop-tommy-smartwatch-faq-updates-t2995858
https://hackaday.io/project/4510-open-source-sportsmart-watch
gvma said:
Hello all.
Recently looking at all those innovative cheap non-chinese smartwatches I've got an obsession on picking ones for some random development.
How about we gather some little info on devices ready for custom upgrades and firmwares. Certainly this doesn't include android wear devices as they are ready for development.
Almost all cheap smartwatches do not allow installation of custom apps and some can't even show the time without being connected with your phone!
But some of them allow firmware upgrading/flashing... So I'm looking for any device having some native sdk or compatible with arduino toolkit or anything else.
A perfect example of what am I looking for is sony smartwatch mn2. They already have:
- open smartwatch project with it's ported arduino toolkit
- star wars game on mn2
I would probably pick those but they're pretty old and lack some sensors.
My next possible target are mt2502 based watches as there are some stuff (mediatek linkit) around on mediatek site.
I'm unsure if this sdk will allow to do something with randomly picked mt2502 watches.
So I'm interested in any info if someone tried this or had any other success on development/moding of their watches.
Thx.
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NO.1 SUN S2 has firmware available new watch with decent specs. Here is some firmwares for it http://en.001phone.cn/download-19.html I bought mine on gearbest.com but right now they're selling a crappier version probably preproduction stuff
qkall said:
I feel like I'm being a bit slutty with this today... but the Weloop Tommy might be interesting to you:
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They are nice but their price is huge when you think about their hardware.
spriteboost said:
NO.1 SUN S2 has firmware available new watch with decent specs. Here is some firmwares for it I bought mine on gearbest.com but right now they're selling a crappier version probably preproduction stuff
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I didn't mean any watches that have official firmware binaries.
I'm talking about totally customized firmwares, original firmware sources, sdk toolkits for mt6260/2502 soc or arduino toolchain port.
I want to pick some cheap smartwatches like u8/u80/20$-45$ and do some coding.
I wonder if someone who have mt2502 device would check the mediatek sdks on the possibility to build custom firmware (look for mediatek labs linkit one sdk, that SoC has mt2502 cpu and complete IDE).
Also most cheap devices use mt6260 but I didn't find much info about it.
I'm glad that someone answered me and thanks for you replies!
u8 customization
I just received 2 U8's in the mail. I'm keeping one in a new state, but the other is ready for the lab...where do we begin?
Pacman8521
I suggest to you the weloop
The great on weloop smartwatch is the battery time, up to 21 days! And it's waterproof!
One user has a open firmware project of weloop Smartwatch: https://hackaday.io/project/4510-open-source-sportsmart-watch
Take a look, it's open firmware.
I got some infomation about mtk2502
it seems have rtos sdk,I am not sure if we can flash our custom firmware to the target watch
www dot seeedstudio dot com/wiki/Rephone#Eclipse_IDE_for_RePhone_Kit
how do you guys think?
Hey guys,
Remix IO+ is now available on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...paign=PR&utm_source=Press1029&utm_medium=news
Remix IO+ specs:
CPU: RK3399 64-bit big.LITTLE ARM® architecture: Dual Cortex™-A72 + Quad Cortex™-A53 2.0GHz+
GPU: Mali T864
Memory & storage: 4GB RAM / 32GB eMMC internal storage (microSD card slot expands memory up to 128GB)
Ports and connections: 2x USB Type-A 3.0, 2x USB Type-A 2.0, HDMI 2.0 (Outputs up to [email protected]), VGA, Wi-Fi 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Gigabit Ethernet port, 3.5mm audio jack, 9V/2A power supply
System: Remix OS based on Android Nougat
This upgrade puts Remix IO+ on the short list of best devices you can connect to your TV.
Please help us share with a friend who you think might be interested!
How long before Jide abandons this product like they have the Ultra Tablet?
"There's a sucker born every minute!"
P.T. Bzrnum
Hey Tom. I realize that there is a sentiment that we have abandoned the Ultratablet. The challenge for a startup is to know what to work on, where to direct limited resources while also trying to survive as a startup. In this Ultratablet section of XDA, I have started a new thread that will help us collect current software related issues and for us allocate our resources to providing fixes for a future update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-ultratablet/notice-ultratablet-issues-bugs-t3493596
Thanks in advance for your continued patience with us.
tomlogan1 said:
How long before Jide abandons this product like they have the Ultra Tablet?
"There's a sucker born every minute!"
P.T. Bzrnum
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I can't say I trust kickstarter anyway - too many scams and no-shows.
And I definitely don't trust a company that uses/needs it to start a device - If you need crowd funding to develop a device then you have almost no ££$$ in the bank to support after-sales problems.
A company that's not willing, or not able, to out their own money into the development smells like a "fly-by-nighter".
Kickstarter is all wrong, to me - it's lots of small people chancing their money when a company should be the "chancers".
For this box it'll be Ugoos or Vorke, for me, not Remix.
Update:
It's a little worrying - their KS thing said "Ships in March"... now the pre-order page says "Ships in June". I trust them about as far as I trust a politician... which is to say NEGATIVE trust.
Missed our Kickstarter campaign? Pre-order now at the early-bird Kickstarter price of $129!
(Retail Price: $179)
Ships in June.
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Meh - I'll pay the extra $50 just to see it if it a con or not, let the early adopters find the problems and issues an failures. And scams.
I saw, also - their KS thing got them over half a million dollars! What sad-act company NEEDS KS to fund a device!??
RemixOS_Jason said:
Hey guys,
Remix IO+ is now available on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...paign=PR&utm_source=Press1029&utm_medium=news
Remix IO+ specs:
CPU: RK3399 64-bit big.LITTLE ARM® architecture: Dual Cortex™-A72 + Quad Cortex™-A53 2.0GHz+
GPU: Mali T864
Memory & storage: 4GB RAM / 32GB eMMC internal storage (microSD card slot expands memory up to 128GB)
Ports and connections: 2x USB Type-A 3.0, 2x USB Type-A 2.0, HDMI 2.0 (Outputs up to [email protected]), VGA, Wi-Fi 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Gigabit Ethernet port, 3.5mm audio jack, 9V/2A power supply
System: Remix OS based on Android Nougat
This upgrade puts Remix IO+ on the short list of best devices you can connect to your TV.
Please help us share with a friend who you think might be interested!
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Why would anyone trust Jide ? Why spend more money on a product that will not be supported? Do NOT support Jide until Jide supports its current base.
PROMO DE
HEDT processors and platforms are some of the hardest to get when it comes to reviews. Given how new we are to the scene we're actually not surprised that we didn't receive samples... but the tests still needed to be done somehow. Thankfully a friend now at AVADirect (Shannon Robb) was able to offer up the hardware and conduct these tests for us! The results are fantastic for Android team builds - if you were thinking of upgrading, this shows it's a great time to consider it.
Link to Article:
https://www.xda-developers.com/test-ryzen-intel-amd-core-x-threadripper/
Hi all,
Is LineageOS planning on continuing support for Shield through the new releases in 2019? I understand that there's some rumors circulating about the chipset specifications as well as the question of the new Pro retaining all hardware and only having an overclocked CPU, so I assume this all needs to be looked into before discussions begin. Would be great to get out of the "walled Garden" sooner than later.