We decided to give you something to play with as we have accomplished some nice things.
Alpha 5 contains:
- Working accelerometer
- Full-screen mode (long press power button -> full screen mode -> hide button in statusbar and enabe fullscreen e.g. for games)
- Visual hilight when clicking Menu / Home / Back buttons
- A helpful tools package installed by default
- and probably some more things too – check out our issue-tracker for the details
Here it is:
Filesystem image and md5sum.
This page may be updated with more information soon.
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so its been quite a few months now any new updates on this?
We have development code for gen7 atop cyanogenmod (together with gen8). It’s open for volunteers.
what are you busy with gen 8 while the people with gen7 are stuck with donut ?
We are always asking for more people to join and help. We’re currently a very small group of people.
Just a tiny reality adjustment for you and everyone else thinking that they are entitled to something from us: We do this in our precious and limited free time.
Since you have such a small team would it not make more sence to work on one project at a time?
That’s what we do, there are people who have gen7 only and people who have gen8 only. A tiny fraction have both. People tend to work on what they have.
good stuff. do you think you are getting close to a beta release soon?
hey thats a nice one you got there
but can i please ask this question
are you gonna make a 3g tethering just like the original archos for this one
keep up the good work!
can’t wait for a fully working and easy to install version!
I can boot the regular Archos code, or the Angstrom, but Froyo just hangs on the “openAOS” screen.
I’ve loaded the alpha5 code, together with the zimg and the initfs.
Why would it just hang on the “openAOS” screen?
Thanks!
Dennis
Never mind, fixed. Now everything seems to work except Froyo will not open the SD card – - where all my stuff is, of course.
On mine, it appears that the OS thinks the internal hard drive is the SD card, so it won’t recognize the actual SD card, does anyone know how to fix this?
Known bug, will be fixed in Gingerbread.
Hi,
I just installed moboplayer and can watch videos on froyo alpha 5. still don’t know how to get it to see videos from my local network, but it feels like it is doable.
thanks guys!
i gotta way just reboot your archos then run to the recovery menu and then developer menu>access hdd to computer or something like that then just plug it to your computer making sure you have ext2 volume manager installed and thats it
More to come?
beta version?
Awesome job ! Thanks, Everything works almost perfectly !!
“poweramp” does play mp3 files!
Only one thing missing: can’t get it rooted
Thanks!!!
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uhm… the openaos source seems to be at least 5 months old. why is that?
That’s not correct, there is constantly work ongoing. Always depends where you look.
I am actually looking for a way to unpack the archos firmware, or if somebody can give me already unpack one.
It’s described well on the wiki.
You may need Linux for that. Download and install Ubuntu 10.04 or above.
Thanks Guys!
hi guys, sorry but im kinda a noob about this but, how do i install this?
Is there a guide somewhere? I realy wanna try this
This is not intended for the average noob, sorry. If there will be something intended for a broad audience then it will be of course easy to install.
hey dude i’ll try to make a video about the the entire thing and tell you how to do it (SHOW YOU!!!!) “with voice”
Can anyone help me to install this release to my Archos, but I really need a lot of help as I am so new with these stuff and the wiki is hard for me to understand.
This is not intended for ‘newbies’ sorry. Wait until there is a more stable version and an easy installer. thanks!
oh this one one is allmost perfect but my problem is the usb
i cant plug my archos to the computer without the recovery way
is there a fix for that thanx
i have problem my wifi doesnt work what i need to do ?
Make sure that you are also able to boot the original Archos firmware from the boot menu. Else wifi will NOT work.
Can you elaborate? I left both the original and the SDE firmware file in the root but was still unable to use wifi. I am currently switching to Donut when I need that function.
a) This is still alpha grade so there might be some things not 100% smooth
b) The donut firmware has to be booted at least once and WiFi has to have been on before you install Froyo. That way it should work. If it still doesn’t check in on our chat and we’ll try to help you.
I am having the same problem with the wifi and i am able to boot the original archos firmware
Hi Guys,
That’s a nice build, much faster than the original android 1.6! But Voice search is not working and I use it a lot on my cell phone!
Could you please help me?
You are free to file an issue over at our issue tracker, but don’t expect it to be very high on our list.
Please also read the page on how to file issues there.
thank you, again
Great guys! keep up the good work
Can we play music now (besides the Dr. Mad’s short ringtones)?
I think ogg/vorbis should work. Other codecs are so far not supported (this is also a licensing issue).
What about FLAC?
I installed poweramp and it now plays mp3′s!! It’s a 15 day free trial and then you have to pay for it…
Really? I installed and right after it says “trial is expired”.
My one does not see FLAC files at all
I second the woo!
I haven’t installed *yet* but I really can’t wait to try it out…
Hello
The application “Arctools 0.42 not working : ” Error 25 : File copy failed – Archive file cannot be accessed, please chek that your device is not mounted on USB”
Archos 5IT 500GBb
Thank you.
Such questions best asked on the mailing list.
Ok sorry ….
accelerometer works upside in game mode, I checked in 3 games.
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thx :]
wooooooooooooow
now we can play games thanks