Nokia N9 gets Nitroid Alpha Release 4 “Despite” (Android 4.0.4_r2.1)
The folks working on Nitroid for Nokia N9 now have the Alpha 4 release available. You will be needing PR1.3 for this.
.Instructions available in the link above
What is working:
- based on Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) v 4.0.4_r2.1 (IMM76L)
- Google Applications (GApps), PlayStore (Android Market)
- dualboot kernel (without reflashing), ability to choose OS after power on.
- N950 supported (see http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=134.0)
- 3D drivers, OpenGL, hwrotation (“fake” default portrait mode for landscape-oriented displays), livewallpapers
- touchscreen (multitouch)
- hw buttons (volume, power), Nokia N950 keyboard
- ECI accessory (headset buttons)
- USB networking
- lcd off in sleep mode, colour profiles, electron beam effect (demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFMTofYt_2g)
- alarm driver, RTC
- mounting MyDocs as “SDCard” [realized; NOT FIXED, but HACK EXISTS]
- basic video decoding (sw) and playback, youtube
- wifi (only basic functionality: able to connect to AP, linkspeed/RSSI (signal strength) indication. no tethering).
- basic CellMo functionality: network registration, USSD, SMS, data (GPRS/EDGE/3G), signaling. Actually, ofono/ofono-ril stack is used: all things that it able to do on the n900.
- bluetooth (scanning, can pair devices. I’m able to send files between SGS2 and N9. I didn’t test deeper.).
- battery status, charging indication
- sensors: accelerometer, compass
- audio: playback (audio routing to: loudspeaker, headset or earpiece), jack switch in kernel (h2w), beta-quality microphone support (shazam/soundhound, skype, some sound recorders)
- lights HAL (lcd brightness, hw keyboard lights(Nokia N950) )
- root access (via adb shell; su/Superuser.apk)
- fakeGPS (ability to trick system and set any location as GPS fix), no real GPS support yet!a lot of minor and major bugfixes since alpha_3.
Known bugs:
- little gfx glitch while horizontal scrolling
- voicesearch broken
- voicecalls are still WIPNot working/ Work in progress:
- Cleanup source code, commit all changes, allow AOSP-like builds.
- RIL/ofono: connectivity problems on some operators. Advanced features: PIN/PUK (un)locking, roaming etc.
- Android USB drivers: adb, mtp etc.
- sensors (als, proximity etc)
- sensors: compass (calibration)
- lights HAL (led)
- audio (a2dp, microphone (attempt to record mono/8000Hz crashes mediaserver), voicecalls
- HW video decoding (DSP)
- vibra (postponed. It’s very likely Android to get support for input/forcefeedback devices in JB 4.1)
- camera
- GPS. GlonASS also
- NFC (n9 share the same nfc chip with crespo: pn544 from NXP. I suppose we could use crespo’s HAL/kernel modules with minimal changes, no need to write it from scratch. However, it doesn’t work atm ( userland problem ) ).
- a lot of other things
Cheers nikhil for the tip!
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Immaa get maaa N9 tommorow!!!!!
Enjoy it’s a really great phone
first things first you’ll need to install PR 1.3
Just a waste of time, Meego is far better OS than android and still want the S..t OS because of apps.
But cant blame for their hard work, coz people need options and choices.
lol apps is the only reason i would want android on the N9. The Meego OS kills any version of android easily.
You are absolutely right, MeeGo is better than android (at least in my opinion), the UI is better, it is really genius, the only reason that makes me install android on my N9 is apps nothing more, because with android apps my N9 is perfect:)
i saw the nokia n950 and the x7 on transformers 3!!
Aaaa, that mean that was an n950 when he was in the helicopter, ha?
this is off topic : KDE is worried about the future of Qt. I hope someone can purchase Qt from Nokia to defend its freedom.
http://dot.kde.org/2012/07/09/kde-rely-qt-protect-qts-freedom-contribute-it
This is what came to my mind. Now, after Nokia cancelled Symbian/MeeGo/Meltemi, do they have any reason to develop Qt further ?
even i’m very excited with jolla news, i still prefer meego phone in nokia brand.
i don’t say jolla can’t make better phones than nokia, but i live in a 3rd world country, i doubt jolla can distribute its products to my country in short time, nokia still have numbers of shops here (even one by one morphs to samsung shops).
or i hope sony, lg, panasonic & toshiba (or even nokia) are intrested in using jolla OS.
Or… as Jolla is already being nutured somewhat by Nokia, they can also use their distribution channel. There is a whole world of possibilities out there
..useless for me without voicecalls
This team does a really good job.
I thank them.
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Here is not mention if it’s fixed camera or not…or how about phone call is it posible now.