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Stanford University School of Education - Google Mobile Device

Contents 1 About 2 Sooner Hardware 3 Android Operating System 4 Development 4.1 Developing in Ubuntu 4.2 Developing in JAVA / OS independent 4.3 Hacking the Google Sooner Phone 5 FAQ 6 External Resources

About

This wiki was created as a repository for all information relating to the Stanford University School of Education project with the Google Sooner Mobile Device. Current Projects include:

• MathED
• PocketSchool

Sooner Hardware

• Picture phones
• EXCA300
• HTC Innovation
• AKA: Google Sooner
• Battery
  • Made by Simplo
  • Model EXCA160
  • Rating 3.7 VDC 960mAh
  • Li-ion Polymer Battery

• ARM Linux Machine Registry http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/
  • 1438 Sardine sardine Brian Swetland
  • 1439 Halibut halibut Brian Swetland
  • 1440 HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 / ADP1 trout Brian Swetland
  • 1441 Goldfish goldfish Brian Swetland

Sardine is the board type that is considered the Android Sooner Phone

• White Phone
  • Google White Phone
  • EXCA300
  • DV DC 1A
  • FCC ID: NM8EXCA
  • P/N: 99HDH000-00
  • Made in Taiwan

• Black Phone
  • Google Black Phone
  • EXCA300
  • DV DC 1A
  • DVT Sample
  • Not FCC authorized sample, not for sale
  • P/N: 99HDH001-00
  • Made in Taiwan

• HTC G1
  • Google G1

• mc3-rc22a Emulator
  • mc3-rc22a Emulator Phone

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Android Operating System

• The Sooner mobile devices appear to have different versions of the OS
• Android Operating Systems

Development

• Appears the version we want to use is android_m3-rc22a. The later beta version appear to work as well, but rc22a has the emulator that matches the Soone Mobile Device.

• SDK - Working
  • Version m5-rc15
    • Linux Ubuntu
  • Version m3-rc37a
    • Linux Ubuntu
  • Version m3-rc22a
    • Linux Ubuntu
  • Version m3-rc20a
    • Linux Ubuntu, Not in Windows 2003

• SDK - Not Working
  • Android 1.0 SDK, release 2
    • Linux Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista/2003
  • Android 1.0 SDK, release 1
    • Linux Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista/2003
  • Android 0.9 SDK beta
    • Linux Ubuntu

Developing in Ubuntu

This works on a Ubuntu Guest Virtual Machine!

• Setting up the System
• Install Ubuntu Ubuntu
  • The version of Ubuntu shouldn't matter. However, our Dev enviornment was tested with Ubuntu 8.10 Server
• Once Ubuntu is installed with the default settings we'll need to edit some system settings to allow the OS to talk with the Sooner Mobile Device.
  • touch /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
    • Add the line SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666" where 18d1 is the item listed under lsusb
    • chmod a+rx /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
    • Run this as root /etc/init.d/udev restart
• Java for Development
  • apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
  • apt-get install sun-java6-bin
  • sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
  • Type java -version and javac -version
    • It should state Java(TM). The output for javac will just list the version number.
• The Ubuntu OS should now be able to detect the device
  • Plug the phone into the computer.
  • Type lsusb
    • Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    • Bus 001 Device 012: ID 18d1:deed
    • Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0e0f:0002
    • Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
  • The device ID of 18d1 is the HTC Sooner Device
• Install the Google Android SDK
  • From the Android SDK installation directory i.e. /android_sdk_linux_m3-rc22a/tools run ./adb devices
    • It should list something similar to

1       53590a1587035cc9        device  0

• To access the Sooner Phone type ./adb shell

Developing in JAVA / OS independent

• Ensure you have java installed
  • From the command line type java -version and javac -version.
  • The Java SDK should be Sun's version.

Hacking the Google Sooner Phone

• Hacking

FAQ

Hard reboot

Warning this can damage your phone

Hold Menu+Home+Power

Boot Loader

Warning this can damage your phone

Hold SYM+Power. After the phone reboot release Power but on onto SYM.

Windows Mobile

Already tried. Ended up with a bricked phone. Contact Stephen Wong for more details.

External Resources

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Android Developers Developers site which also hosts the SDKs.