It’s booting. It’s not pretty, but it’s booting. All I can see are lines, which seems to indicate a framebuffer format issue. The lines are actually throbbing, though, which looks to me like the CyanogenMod 9 Cid boot animation. 🙂 For what it’s worth, adb shell works. Here you can see the kernel version: [aorth@ndechu: […]
Update (Nov, 2012): I’ve posted a much more functional version of ClockworkMod Recovery here. It has a much better user interface and is much easier to work with. I’ve just finished porting ClockworkMod Recovery to the Huawei U8185 (Ascend Y100). It took a bit longer than expected because I didn’t have a stock ROM to […]
z0mg!!!1 I’ve “rooted” the Huawei U8185 (Ascend Y100)! I say “rooted” (in quotes, as opposed to rooted) because it was extremely retarded and didn’t involve anything tricky, l33t, etc. The bootloader is unlocked so flashing a modified kernel and copying /system/bin/su and Superuser.apk is trivial. Trivial as it is, there’s still no easy way for […]
Last year I posted a confused rant about SIM Toolkit being broken on CyanogenMod 7 on the Samsung Galaxy S. I’ve since learned more about the issue and come to realize it wasn’t Google or CyanogenMod’s fault: it was Samsung’s. Vanilla Android itself supports SIM Toolkit, and Samsung’s stock ROMs support it, so what gives? […]
I recently posted a project proposal on the Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list. The idea is that I’d like to promote understanding of embedded Linux/Android devices, collaborative development processes/tools, and hacker culture in young Kenyan developers. It’s called Project Mjanja (“hustler” in Swahili). To paraphrase my post on the mailing list, the gist of […]