a cosmological pedestrian
Maybe you already know that I worked since January 2012 on porting CM9 to the HTC Wildfire S (Marvel). It took quite a while to figure out how Android is working and how to get the the OS correctly talking with the hardware. Today I’ve released ALPHA3 of my work which is a pretty stable version. The Wildfire S is not a supported Android 4.0...
I’ve had the problem that the device didn’t want to switch into deep sleep mode if radio was on. What is deep sleep? To make it simple we break it down. Your device has 3 modes. The fisrst is “Screen On and Awake”, “Awake” and “Deep Sleep”. If you use your device it you’re in the first mode and you need a obviously a lot...
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....