[project]Port android to meizu M8

m8 bios

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Hi alen_cn,
thanks for the link, it seems to be a resumé like in the document that comes in the bios package.

But it is still not clear to me what the changes are against a normal 'bios'

and i can not select this option when going to the upgrade menu :



I only get this option :

Maybe i am missing something or the option is just been removed in newer software?

to evow04
u can find every rom version here since m8 was born
??????? - ???? ROM

in the orign post,a version of 0.8.1 was metioned. may be we should try older. i have never seen the "boot clean" option

can sb make haret run in system mode?

m8bios download link
http://downfile.8fan.cn/m8/rom/m8/bi...IOS_090115.rar

the poster said, only early 4 blocks need this update....

Originally Posted by evow04

Hi treepid,
edit:
Tecnui, you are right there is a so called m8 download package, but
could you give me some background info?
Is this an original meizu package or...?
Cause translation seems to provide a bad to understand text.

Next to this, the screenshots provided in the download package do not
look like my upgrade screen, i have no selection box :s

So can some provide me information about it?

If this package is usable i think i should manage to rewrite a part of the firmware to provide an other boot option like uboot so it can launch android orso.

You are talking about the M8 Bios update, right?
I do not know if it is Meizu, but most likely it is. M8 fans has been around for pretty long and has a big fan support. So, it probably is.

But the Rar contains these files:
-M8 BIOS升级教程.doc
-mzboot.bin
-mzupdate.bin
-xip.bin

I dont know if any of that helps, but I hope in some way it does. heres a download link to the M8 bios RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting . Good luck

Edit: sorry did not realize that this was posted already good luck

Originally Posted by evow04

Hi treepid,

For extracting files from the firmware you will need to download this first;
firmware_to_files.exe

It contains the needed tools to proceed and a small how-to document.
how it works :
extract the package to a folder, copy the firmware you want to extract in it.
run the dump_xip.bin.bat file, make the option you want,
and wait until the proces gets done.
That´s it!


acidrain,
i do not think so, because the hardware is made for using only one sim.
To run 2 sim´s at the same time you would need 2 gsm modules inside.

Tecnui,
thank you!
I am going to have a look onto it!


edit:
Tecnui, you are right there is a so called m8 download package, but
could you give me some background info?
Is this an original meizu package or...?
Cause translation seems to provide a bad to understand text.

Next to this, the screenshots provided in the download package do not
look like my upgrade screen, i have no selection box :s

So can some provide me information about it?

If this package is usable i think i should manage to rewrite a part of the firmware to provide an other boot option like uboot so it can launch android orso.

I extracted ALL the firmware versions from 0.3.0.1 to 0.9.2.6 and the only file with match *boot* is boot.lv

Hi guys, thanks for the help here!

treepid, i was allready affraid of it, cause on the few i did i got the same.
But when dumping the 'bios' firmware i only found nk.exe inside ,
so maybe (still not sure of it) every firmware package overwrites a part of the bootloader.

treepid, thanks for the work you put into it!

Tecnui, no need to excuse yourself

wooyea, i also never seen the boot clean option, maybe it was included with the first batch of devices that got launched?

If i got time i will install the oldest available firmware on my m8 and try to enter the upgrade menu again, maybe it show up then?
(ofcourse anybody else may try this too;-)

About the Haret software,
it would be nice to see it working, but like mentionned here :
http://www.meizume.com/modding-devel...html#post95078
you would need to start completely over to create haret that runs on windows ce 6 or you would need to create a win ce 5 .

So.. we can forget haret for now due the fact it is to much work.

Currently i am focusing on using the serial debug cable to download an other bootloader, if this doesn´t work i will try to open my m8 to find jtag pins on it.

I am truely flabergasted by seing the amount of work you guys are putting into this project, but one question has come to my mind.
My girlfriend just having gotten her HTC Hero and me thinking that the OS is so much more awesome than just the normal Android - Would it even be possible to make the Sense UI run on the meizu?

edit: 20k views, i must say, you guys are becoming quite popular

RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting

Dont know if this could be of any use ?

Originally Posted by evow04

Hi guys, thanks for the help here!

treepid, i was allready affraid of it, cause on the few i did i got the same.
But when dumping the 'bios' firmware i only found nk.exe inside ,
so maybe (still not sure of it) every firmware package overwrites a part of the bootloader.

treepid, thanks for the work you put into it!

Tecnui, no need to excuse yourself

wooyea, i also never seen the boot clean option, maybe it was included with the first batch of devices that got launched?

If i got time i will install the oldest available firmware on my m8 and try to enter the upgrade menu again, maybe it show up then?
(ofcourse anybody else may try this too;-)

About the Haret software,
it would be nice to see it working, but like mentionned here :
http://www.meizume.com/modding-devel...html#post95078
you would need to start completely over to create haret that runs on windows ce 6 or you would need to create a win ce 5 .

So.. we can forget haret for now due the fact it is to much work.

Currently i am focusing on using the serial debug cable to download an other bootloader, if this doesn´t work i will try to open my m8 to find jtag pins on it.

I think nk.exe is the Windows CE kernel.

Good luck guys, I have faith in you You will probably faster than Meizu, because JW said on the bbs today, they can probably release Android at the end of next year...

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

Good luck guys, I have faith in you You will probably faster than Meizu, because JW said on the bbs today, they can probably release Android at the end of next year...

"next year" !? omg!

Originally Posted by raangu

"next year" !? omg!

JW also mentioned that there would be a lot of BETAs(leaks?) before the final. so, that "next year" version is the final stable release.

Originally Posted by evow04

and searching for
SECPOLICY_UNSIGNEDAPPS
SECPOLICY_UNSIGNEDPROMPT
SECPOLICY*
in the registry, does this returns anything?
maybe meizu changed the name

ps nice2know_u , i saw you have an active account on the meizu forum.
maybe you could ask it there how make haret signed or how to disable the security policy?

ps2
can someone explain what this is about?
(ת)s3c6410µÄlinuxÔ´´úÂë - ×ÛºÏÌÖÂÛÇø - [÷È×åÂÛ̳]

Seems like a Linux kernel for s3c6410, and a bootloader(namely "U-boot") for
"Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
processors", but this bootloader is likely required to be burned into the device's rom. Maybe you can find some drivers from the kernel

Originally Posted by yunfan

JW also mentioned that there would be a lot of BETAs(leaks?) before the final. so, that "next year" version is the final stable release.

hahaaa "final stable release", i would first like to see the final stable of wince from jw

Originally Posted by victl

...Linux kernel for s3c6410 ... "U-boot"...
device's rom... find some drivers from the kernel

Hi Victl,
Somewhere on the previous pages i posted a link to the Uboot source code (also in a rar format : uboot-1.1.6.rar ), Same as a link to the android source and compiled kernel for the S3C6410.
So to find it, that will not be a problem and even then, the current Linux kernel does offer support for the s3C6410 processor.

The difficult part is to (i will give it in a good order)
1/ backup the original flash chip with ce bootloader (eboot)
2/flash with uboot
3/rewrite drivers for m8

To gain this someone should do the following:
a/desolder the flash chip and dump it
b/find jtag pin on the mainbord and dump with the jtag tool from Samsung
c/update the m8 with custom ce software to open an option to select uboot
d/find out how to go in the eboot tools through serial debug port to try dumping the current flash

I find it strange that so few people have been trying to do the above,
option a : is very hard, but lots of companies have done it in china for the iphone, so maybe there are still not enough m8 users to try.
option b : same as option a, i guess most people are affraid to touch the hardware
option c: if updating the bootloader was still possible we would have done it allready, but some how nobody know how to acces the menu in the above screenshots at beginning of this page
option d: it is possible, i allready made a howto debug cable topic, but for some reason i can not upload/acces commands in eboot through it, most likely because of a pin that is not connected correctly, but for this i would need a 10 pin usb connector, or a better soldering iron to direct solder on my current connector cable (my current solder iron is to big to do this fine job, and only buying a new for this job that i will do once sounds very stupid)

So if anyone has a beter solder iron and needed skill to solder that fine he/she could try to solder on an old spare usb cable an try it out,
so this is a call to every m8 owner there in the wild : who can/is willing to help on this test serial to usb port or can solder it? (or other options like Jtag)
it could help us all!

Originally Posted by Coninsan

Would it even be possible to make the Sense UI run on the meizu?

Yes ofcourse, you can do pretty much everything with software you want!
if it needs to be a shell over windows ce you could find a starting point here : Google Vertaling
For android, we will need to wait to have android running first ;-)

Originally Posted by Coninsan

edit: 20k views, i must say, you guys are becoming quite popular

I did notice it to, it seems that a lot of us would like to have it, so now we just need a lot more users to help on it ;-)

treepid,
thanks for the manual, i just checked my hard disk and it seems that i am having at this moment about 14 Gb´s on data/tools concerning the m8/s3c6410, you can find amazing lots of info/documents/tools on :
www.pudn.com - more than 600,000 source codes
To do this you will need to register, upload 5 source files, like manuals, php, source, .. what ever and then you are allowed to download 200 files from them, so you can just use the search button for s3C6410/SMDK6410/6410 to find lots of packages!

ps treepid on the nk.exe i am still not sure, it is indeed a part of the kernel, but expanding the m8 bios files provided an nk.exe aswel :s

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

release Android at the end of next year...

Mmm reading this in combination of the previous post that the first batch of m8SE will contain android makes me thinking that android will never be released for m8, why would the launch android for a device that is allready + 2 years old then?


yunfan,

"next year" version is the final stable release.

we all know J.W.´s messages : do not believe to much of it ;-) so i would not hope on it, then again Meizu could finally beginning to understand that some software that is opensource could mean that much developpers will help them for free on building a stable and good os.

first like to see the final stable of wince

me to, today i grabbed my old nokia n72 cause the m8 did not stop leaking the memory so everything started to slow down and crash.
It made me really mad and anoying that i got some mindspins to get the tmobile pulse with android on it to dump the m8 somewhere in the trashbin!

oops i just have stolen some text from here :
S3C6410 Android porting step by step! - China Linux Forum

I am feeling like a bad boy

Porting android on s3c6410
Environment: ubuntu 8.10
Board: XX6410
Kernel version: linux 2.6.24, android 1.0
1.Copy files
Create working location: /mydroid and copy the following files to this location:

Filename
Description
samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0.tar.bz2
Kernel
kandroid-1.1.2.1-20080530.glibc.gz
libiconv-1.12.tar.gz
Toolchain
090227-android-cupcake-rootfs.tar.bz2
Cupcake root file system
u-boot.bin
DNW
Bootloader

Below is the list of files:

tommy@tommy-desktop:~$ mkdir mydroid
tommy@tommy-desktop:~$ cd mydroid
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ ls
090227-android-cupcake-rootfs.tar.gz libiconv-1.12.tar.gz
DNW samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0.tar.bz2
kandroid-1.1.2.1-20080530.glibc.tgz u-boot.bin
2.Installing Toolchain
Please follow the commands below and install the tool chain in the directory mentioned below:
installing libiconv
tommy@tommy-desktop:~$ cd mydroid
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ tar xvf libiconv-1.12.tar.gz
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ cd libiconv-1.12
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/libiconv-1.12$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/libiconv-1.12$ make install
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/libiconv-1.12$ vi /etc/ld.so.conf
include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/local/lib
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/libiconv-1.12$ ldconfig


installing toolchain
tommy@tommy-desktop:~$ cd ~/mydroid
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ tar xvf kandroid-1.1.2.1-20080530.glibc.tgz
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/arm
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ sudo mv kandroid-1.1.2.1-20080530.glibc /usr/local/arm
3.Compiling Kernel
Kernel source is compressed by the name of ‘samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0.tar.bz2’. This is patched for s3c6410 so you don’t need to do this step. Extect this bz2 file by executing command. After extracting the kernel tarball file ‘samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0’

tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ tar jxvf samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0.tar.bz2
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid$ cd samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0

Define the path of toolchain for cross-compiling. Open file Makefile in this folder ( samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0 ). Go to line 197 and set:

CROSS_COMPILE := /usr/local/arm/kandroid-1.1.2.1-20080530.glibc/bin/arm-android-linux-gnueabi-

Set the configuration values for the kernel. At first, copy the default configuration files which is located in arch/arm/configs/ to be the configuration file.
tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0$ cp arch/arm/configs/smdk6410_android_nfs.config ./.config

Change default configurations by excuting ‘make menuconfig’

tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0$ make menuconfig

please select ‘Boot options’, enter value for ‘Boot options’: boot from nfs file. Follow the below syntax :

root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=<server‘s IP>/<Root Path> ,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 ip= <the board’s IP>:<server’s IP>:<DNS’s IP> :255.255.255.0::eth0ff init=/init console=ttySAC0,115200

Please change ip config to suite your PC’s configuration
My values:
root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.11.2:/nfsroot/090227-Android-cupcake-rootfs,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 ip=192.168.11.3:192.168.11.2:192.168.11.2:255.255. 255.0::eth0ff init=/init console=ttySAC0,115200s

Please select 'Power management' , set 'Power_Suspend=y'

Finally, make the kernel image file by executing:’make zImage’,copy the image to the tftp root folder.

tommy@tommy-desktop:~/mydroid/samsung-s3c6410-android.1.0$ make zImage

.......
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image .....................

read the rest on the above link ;-)

Hello guyz!

Thank for all you work!
i would like to know if you are nears to android for M8?
because all you write here is like chinese for me
lol

bbee, thanks.
To answer your question in short : no, in long : you will need to read the whole topic

We still need more developers (hardware and software related) to help on this

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Maybe that will help you:

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It is a tool for extracting xip.bin into files,evow04 may have got it.
Another "Mpack" with sourcefile may help.
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