ICS on PP+

[AmEv]

So, a while ago, my dad got a new phone from work.
Samsung Stratosphere.

Replacing a Palm Pre Plus.


Just got word that they're letting them keep the old phones, as they're of no use to his workplace.

Being the modder I am, I thought, 'How can I improve this?'


Well,

• WebOS source code was released, along with (hopefully) drivers
• WebOS is no longer receiving official HP support
  (Essentially, it's now a dead OS)
• WebOS rides on the Linux kernel
• ICS source code is available
• Android rides on the Linux kernel
  
• If I mess this up at all, HP has a free "Whoopsie!" button, and I know how to use it.

So, I may soon have myself a 16GB pocket multimedia device.

I've almost got ICS source downloaded right now.

I know, WebOS fans that crawl here, you want WebOS the other direction. I can't do that.
All I'm trying to do is give life to older hardware.

[TLHarrell]

My Thunderbolt isn't even on ICS yet. Good luck. Basically, there's a lot of dev work that needs to be done to mesh the source and the phone's hardware. It's not merely flashing the software onto the device.

[AmEv]

I figured as much.


Having the source for both will make things a LOT easier, though.



Part of the reason I want Android is because the physical keyboard sucks.

[AmEv]

ICS source finally downloaded...


I think I may have accidentally grabbed all of Android.

[AmEv]

Well, let's see how fast my computer can compile Android from source....

[TLHarrell]

Not very fast. That's a ton of compiling. Go borrow Fuga's folding rig.

[AmEv]

2-4GB? Yah.

Besides, I ran outta disk space on one drive, and I gotta copy it over.

[AmEv]

Bring this project back up, and wow. This is NOT going to be easy.

Thankfully, I've got a lot I can work with.

So far, this is stuff I've found:

root@palm-webos-device:/# cat /proc/partitions                                  
major minor  #blocks  name                                                      
                                                                     
 179     0   16056320 mmcblk0                                                   
 179     1       4096 mmcblk0p1                                                 
 179     2      32768 mmcblk0p2                                                 
 179     3   16018944 mmcblk0p3                                                 
 254     0     466944 dm-0                                                      
 254     1     262144 dm-1                                                      
 254     2      57344 dm-2                                                      
 254     3      40960 dm-3                                                      
 254     4   15040512 dm-4
root@palm-webos-device:/# df -h                                                 
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on              
rootfs                  441.7M    416.1M     25.6M  94% /                       
/dev/root                31.0M     11.3M     19.7M  36% /boot                   
/dev/mapper/store-root                                                          
                        441.7M    416.1M     25.6M  94% /                       
/dev/mapper/store-root                                                          
                        441.7M    416.1M     25.6M  94% /dev/.static/dev        
tmpfs                     2.0M    152.0k      1.9M   7% /dev                    
/dev/mapper/store-var                                                           
                        248.0M     32.1M    215.8M  13% /var                    
/dev/mapper/store-log                                                           
                         38.7M      7.9M     30.8M  20% /var/log                
tmpfs                    64.0M      5.5M     58.5M   9% /tmp                    
tmpfs                    16.0M     44.0k     16.0M   0% /var/run                
tmpfs                   246.4M         0    246.4M   0% /media/ram              
/dev/mapper/store-var                                                           
                        248.0M     32.1M    215.8M  13% /opt                    
cryptofs                 14.3G      1.2G     13.1G   9% /media/cryptofs         
/dev/mapper/store-media                                                         
                         14.3G      1.2G     13.1G   9% /media/internal
root@palm-webos-device:/# mount                                                 
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)                                                    
/dev/root on /boot type ext3 (ro,data=ordered)                                  
/dev/mapper/store-root on / type ext3 (ro,data=ordered)                         
proc on /proc type proc (rw)                                                    
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)                                                   
/dev/mapper/store-root on /dev/.static/dev type ext3 (ro,data=ordered)          
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)                                                   
/dev/mapper/store-var on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=writeback)             
/dev/mapper/store-log on /var/log type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)           
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)                                             
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)                                                   
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw)                                               
tmpfs on /media/ram type tmpfs (rw)                                             
/dev/mapper/store-var on /opt type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=writeback)             
cryptofs on /media/cryptofs type fuse.cryptofs (rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=0,group_
id=0,allow_other)                                                               
none on /dev/cgroup type cgroup (rw,cpu)                                        
extractfs on /var/luna/data/extractfs type fuse.extractfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,user_
id=0,group_id=0)                                                                
/dev/mapper/store-media on /media/internal type vfat (rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,c
odepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8)

Best part? I've even got some kernels (and, thus, source) I can mess with.


What's interesting is WebOS is eerily similar to desktop Linux.