Samsung Galaxy S2

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Samsung Galaxy S2

Postby nullie » Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:32 am

I've managed to install alarm onto my Samsung Galaxy S2.

Base image I've used - http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM ... est.tar.gz

http://gitorious.org/i9100-proper-linux/i9100-uboot - uboot
https://github.com/nullie/sgs2-arch/blo ... r/boot.cmd - uboot config

https://github.com/nullie/android_kerne ... g_smdk4210 - kernel (Cyanogenmod, just fixed framebuffer driver compilation)
https://github.com/nullie/sgs2-arch/blo ... 10/.config - kernel config

https://github.com/nullie/sgs2-arch/blo ... -chroot.sh - chroot into alarm from android

Usb otg works in host mode. You can connect usb hub to otg, but usb 1.1 devices won't work behind it. It's probably limitation of samsung driver for usb controller, which doesn't support split transactions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpos ... tcount=155

To make wifi work, you need to install kernel modules, copy required firmware from phone to /lib/firmware/, nvram from phone to /etc/wifi/, and configure module loading:

/etc/modules-load.d/wireless.conf
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dhd')

/etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'options dhd firmware_path=/lib/firmware/bcmdhd_sta.bin nvram_path=/etc/wifi/nvram_net.txt')

I can't write full howto, because I switched to other project, but I'll try to answer your questions.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S2

Postby benob » Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:38 pm

I haven't researched the problem but is it possible to make phone calls through the RIL? I use arch in a chroot in android, but self hosting looks like even more fun.
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Re: Samsung Galaxy S2

Postby nullie » Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:39 pm

I don't know. Probably cyanogenmod people know how to make phone calls.
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