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#

• Instructions

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

• 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.

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.