Dirty Harry Wiki: Android Gingerbread and ICS

Android Gingerbread#

After an earlier attempt to install Android Froyostone, which wasn't very successful , I gave it another try. This time with Android 2.3 , codename Gingerbread.

Resources#

Findings#

Good#

it's stable, no hangs yet (so that's definitely better than Froyostone).
power consumption is much less, while with Froyostone the battery was empty after 10 hours, with Gingerbread I get an estimated 45 hours with one charge, that's about the same as with WMO.
very responsive, much better than WMO

Less Good#

USB (under Linux) does not work yet:

Apr 17 17:43:16 gneisenau kernel: [ 1016.680709] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Apr 17 17:43:16 gneisenau kernel: [ 1016.827079] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-5:1.0
Apr 17 17:43:17 gneisenau kernel: [ 1017.827874] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HTC      Android Phone    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Apr 17 17:43:17 gneisenau kernel: [ 1017.829637] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Apr 17 17:43:17 gneisenau kernel: [ 1017.836351] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

some more investigation required.

no GoogleMaps installed, must be somewhere on the Market I guess , yup , installed, perfect, Google Maps Navigation , fine !
no VideoCamera app (video not supported ?), yes there is, it's a 2 in 1 app, for both camera and video, but no moving images, video does not work.
GPS does not work, when I start Google Maps Navigation, it keeps telling me that it is searching for GPS, still so after half an hour.
I applied the GPS fix , copying libgps.so and lib.bravo.so (but did not help, after reboot, I get the same files again. This must have something to do with the fact that I run the SD Card version, the complete iso image is restored after reboot ?)

Miscellaneous #

For enterprise EAS access, I installed Touchdown from Nitrodesk (If everything works out well I will probably buy the "non nag" version).
Installed QuickSSHD again, but can't access the IP address, probably due to USB not working yet.
Installed Terminal Emulator (so you can shell from your phone).

ROMs tried#

Now, I loaded a new ROM from http://android.hd2roms.com/

AmeriCanAndroid AOSP HD2 GB233 CM7 (APR 18)#

AmeriCanAndroid AOSP HD2 
GB233 CM7 (APR 18)

by AmeriCanAndroid
Rom type: SD
Version: GB233 CM7
Updated: 19 Apr 11, 10:25
Base: CyanogenMod7
Android ver: 2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
Kernel: AmCanAndroid r4.18

Does not boot.

MccMBoxmaX GS v1.0 beta (18 APR)#

MccMBoxmaX GS 
v1.0 beta (18 APR)

by mccmjoon76
Rom type: SD
Version: v1.0 beta
Updated: 19 Apr 11, 20:55
Base: Desire S
Android ver: 2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
Sense: Yes

Does not boot.

BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA_GINGER (12.Apr)#

BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA_GINGER
(12.Apr)

by boyppc
Rom type: SD
Updated: 12 Apr 11, 11:55
Android ver: 2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
Sense: No