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Open Letter to Wondermedia Technologies

By angus on November 28, 2010

This letter is my plea and suggestion to Wondermedia. If they open up their resources to the community, vendors will be able to ship better products and they will sell more units. At no extra cost to them.

Posted in Talky | Tagged android, eken m001 tablet, linux, open source, shanzhai, wm8505 | 10 Responses

Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003

Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003

By angus on November 24, 2010

Over the past few days I’ve hacked together a very rough alpha of Froyo (Android 2.2) for my Eken M001 $99 tablet.

Posted in Techy | Tagged android, eken m001 tablet, wm8505 | 52 Responses

Unbricking WM8505-based tablets

By angus on August 30, 2010

I seem to be getting at least two unsolicited questions a day from people who have inadvertently bricked their Eken M001/M002/M003 or Flytouch/noname tablets . So here’s a quick post with what I know about unbricking. You should also try slatedroid, and hassle whoever is making custom firmwares to remove the unnecessary bootloader reflash steps. [...]

Posted in Techy | Tagged android, eken m001 tablet, wm8505 | 48 Responses

Google Group for VT8500/WM8505 kernel development

By angus on August 18, 2010

There’s been a lot of fragmented discussion about developing kernels for these SoCs, including a big thread of comments on my previous blog post. So I’ve decided to create a Google Group to act as a mailing list for people interested in Linux kernel development on these devices: http://groups.google.com/group/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel. This is intended for people interested [...]

Posted in Talky | Tagged eken m001 tablet, linux, wm8505 | 1 Response

WM8505 Linux kernel development (Eken M001 & others)

By angus on August 1, 2010

Have started tidying up a Linux kernel for Eken M001 & similar devices (tablets and netbooks), based on the source that came from VIA last week.

Posted in Techy | Tagged android, eken m001 tablet, linux, wm8505 | 28 Responses

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