Monthly Archive: April 2012

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libhtc_ril.so and segfaults

If you try to get a new Android version, in this case CyanogenMod9, working on your old phone you have to deal with binary blobs. One of these blobs is the library talking to the radio, libhtc_ril.so. I wanted to document what I learned about libhtc_ril.so. I’ve wanted to get the library version matching my baseband version working with cm9. This resulted it several segfaults....

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CM9 on Marvel (HTC Wildfire S)

After Qualcom released new graphic blobs for ARMv6 I was able to get CyanogenMod 9 working on my HTC Wildfire S pretty well. There are still some problem which need to be fixed. GPS isn’t working, if you have GSM/3G turned on the battery drains pretty fast. I’m currently trying to get the camera working. There is also a wakelock bug with bluetooth in the...