Announcement: Android-x86 1.6-r2 is released

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Chih-Wei Huang

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Mar 19, 2010, 12:15:34 AM3/19/10
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The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the second stable release
of 1.6 to the public. The live cd iso and usb image are available from

* http://www.android-x86.org/download
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/android-x86/files/
* http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list

Test reports (success or fail) are welcome as always. Please send the
reports to the Android-x86 discussion group. If you are working on
Android for x86 platform, welcome to join us. See the below contact
information.


Key features

In addition to the features in previous stable release, 1.6-r2 contains
the following new features

* Camcorder works. You can record video and sound.
* An experimental support of 3G USB modem
* mksh, a better shell is added to replace android's dumb sh
* busybox is added to provide useful command line tools
* Touchscreen calibration (back port from eclair-x86)
* Third party apps are updated
* A lot of bug fixes.


Released Files

* Live CD iso: android-x86-1.6-r2.iso

sha1sum: 907e69f3e10d1024b1677098b337e87253e87593

* Live USB image: android-x86-1.6-r2_usb.img.gz

sha1sum: b55494f9f4ea2e67062afd921ddee56e64e46b5d

The images have all symbols stripped so they are much smaller
compared to previous releases.


Source code

As uaual, the source code is available in the main git server,

$ repo init -u git://git.android-x86.org/platform/manifest.git -b donut-x86
$ repo sync

as well as the SourceForge mirror:

$ repo init -u
git://android-x86.git.sf.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest.git -b
donut-x86


Read www.android-x86.org for how to compile the source code.

To contact us

* Google group: Android-x86

http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86?hl=en

* IRC channel at irc.freenode.net #android-x86


PS.
The website of Android-x86 project is http://www.android-x86.org
We are nothing to do with the clones androidx86.org or androidx86.com.

--
Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

r4ph

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Mar 23, 2010, 12:01:23 AM3/23/10
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helo Chih - Wei ..

I'm rafael , just download the iso and run it live on my asus 1000HE
via memory Card ( SD). it's nice to see it run smooth on my ASUS.

But there are some problems or bugs , here they are. :

1. The Wifi Reception is too weak sometime is lost... compare to
jolicloud (ubuntu) I have run, it have 3 bars signal ( full is 4
bar).
2. The webcam still doesn work for capturing images, but the video one
is running well.
3. The app store goes nothing, there are no list in it . But if I run
it form Virtualbox, goes well :)
4. There is problem also on waking up from standby, the screen is
flickering .. many times.

I hope my info can helps

Great job bro! ..

rafael

On Mar 19, 11:15 am, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhu...@android-x86.org> wrote:
> The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the second stable release
> of 1.6 to the public. The live cd iso and usb image are available from
>
>   *http://www.android-x86.org/download
>   *http://sourceforge.net/projects/android-x86/files/

>   *http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list

> Readwww.android-x86.orgfor how to compile the source code.


>
> To contact us
>
>     * Google group: Android-x86
>
>          http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86?hl=en
>
>     * IRC channel at irc.freenode.net #android-x86
>
> PS.

> The website of Android-x86 project ishttp://www.android-x86.org

Sharad P. Katti

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Mar 24, 2010, 2:28:25 AM3/24/10
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Hi,

I have downloaded and tried the image on Intel Atom Z510 based board, I would like to build the image from the code, could you please let me know from where I can get the source code for this release.

Thanks & Regards,
~Sharad.


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gabriele vidali

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Mar 24, 2010, 8:51:02 AM3/24/10
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tried on asus eeepc 900 and no problems
the only problem is wifi connection when it recovers from sleep mode (which is set after a very short of time)

Gabriele Vidali
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2010/3/24 Sharad P. Katti <sharad...@gmail.com>

Rafael Estevez

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Mar 24, 2010, 8:52:17 AM3/24/10
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yes wake up problem, me too :) 
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Shaun Mbhiza

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Jin Chiu

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Apr 1, 2010, 2:51:12 PM4/1/10
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Where do we find the NDK for 1.6R2?

On Mar 25, 1:22 pm, Shaun Mbhiza <mbhiza.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> are u on linux thenhttp://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/getting-the-...


>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Sharad P. Katti <sharad.ka...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have downloaded and tried the image on Intel Atom Z510 based board, I
> > would like to build the image from the code, could you please let me know
> > from where I can get the source code for this release.
>
> > Thanks & Regards,
> >  ~Sharad.
>

> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Chih-Wei Huang <cwhu...@android-x86.org>wrote:
>
> >> The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the second stable release
> >> of 1.6 to the public. The live cd iso and usb image are available from
>

> >>  *http://www.android-x86.org/download
> >>  *http://sourceforge.net/projects/android-x86/files/
> >>  *http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list

> >> Readwww.android-x86.orgfor how to compile the source code.


>
> >> To contact us
>
> >>    * Google group: Android-x86
>
> >>          http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86?hl=en
>
> >>    * IRC channel at irc.freenode.net #android-x86
>
> >> PS.

> >> The website of Android-x86 project ishttp://www.android-x86.org


> >> We are nothing to do with the clones androidx86.org or androidx86.com.
>
> >> --
> >> Chih-Wei
> >> Android-x86 project
> >>http://www.android-x86.org
>
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