Android on Magalhães

[Guilherme Batista]

Magalhães is a portuguese computer develeped by jpsacouto that was part of a program called e-escolinha. This program give to students of the basic education the oportunity the opportunity to have a computer.

Now, many of the students who received the first version of Magalhães not know what to do with a computer with old hardware and that is untapped. I also has reveived a Magalhães and I want t install android on it.

I have tryed boot with a stick usb, but when it runs android some pieces of hardware like sound card and video card doesnt work. I think that this is a problem with the drivers.

the manufacturer's website:

http://www.portatilmagalhaes.com/especificacoes-de-hardware-do-portatil-magalhaes/

http://www.jp-ik.com/pt/home/sobre-a-empresa/magalhaes-o27272/

[pstglia]

Hi Guilherme,

Can you tell the complete specs (brand and model for video card, sound, etc )? Then link you posted don't give these details.

A video card with opengl es 2.0 support (currently intel and some radeons) is needed for many apps (nvidia is still under development). If your card doesn't support this, you can try booting vesa mode.

About the sound card, most of them are supported. In some cases,adjustments are needed (like a module parameter)

Regards,

pstglia

[Guilherme Batista]

Hi pstglia,

Im sry for haven't written early but the true is that I wasn't notified that someone answered my topic.

The video card is a Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family.

About the sound card I can't know it's brand without open the hull.

I want also know what are the pieces of hardware that should i bought to build an android pc, 100% functional.

I want build an android pc to connect to a TV and do something like a smart TV. And I thought in use some pieces of Magalhães to build it.

Is this possible?

Regards,

Guilherme

[pstglia]

Hi. I'm afraid your experience won't be possible or will be very limited with this hw:

1) I checked your video card doesn't support OpenGL ES 2.0 (it supports OpenGL 1.4, which I believe is correspondent to OpenGL ES 1.0) . Many apps depends 2.0 to operate. 

For this reason, maybe you'll be limited to VESA mode (you can select it on grub menu).

It would be good having a OpenGL ES 2.0 compliant card (Intel gpu is a good option - some AMDs will do it)

2) The 900Mhz Celeron processor... I'm not sure if can be used. 

If I remember, the released build with Android-x86 uses some instructions set like SSE3 (if this processor is a Celeron M 353, it does not support that)

But you can give a try on it anyway. Try to boot it and check logcat / dmesg outputs.

Also, try booting in Vesa mode.

Regards,

pstglia

[Guilherme Batista]

Thank you for the advice.
For now, I'm still using Windows.
And about build a pc optimized for android, is it a posibility?
Regard,
Guilherme

[pstglia]

And about build a pc optimized for android, is it a posibility?

Currently Intel IGPs provided with Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Haswell are good choices. For instance, a low profile pentium G2030 would do fine (this proc+igp about us $63 on Amazon)

Some AMDs GPU's also do ok (like 5450).

Just keep in mind Android-x86 is a wip. Many features/apps works (youtube, web browsing, gmail, etc), but some others still don't (like Netflix, some OpenGL apps, recent ARM-specific apps). 

Depending what you want, something like an Android Box / stick is more suitable.

 

Pstglia

[Guilherme Batista]

Ok thank you.
I will try first the apps, that i want use on the Pc on a virtual machine. If it works i will start building the Pc. But If an android box is cheaper I will think more about that.

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[Rob]

I don't know about the CPU, but I have Android 4.4 running on my old netbook (Gigabyte M912M) that has an Atom N270 CPU (1,6GHz, is supposedly comparable to a 1,2GHz Celeron M) and a Intel 945 GPU. Android is surprisingly smooth with this setup and most apps work well. Some games, especially with 3D graphics don't work or are slow and video playback is hit or miss. Google Maps is slow as hell. HD videos are choppy and some apps, like any twitch.tv, app wont load video, probably because of a missing codec and hardware support. So as a media device you might need a better GPU and CPU.