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Did you get kodi to work on lg smart tv??as you mentioned somewhere previously that it can be done and i nderstand u might not have the time to do it.But,i just want to know the status of kodi.
While it’s possible to build Kodi for Wayland and get it running on WebOS, it won’t be of much use due to lack of support for hardware decoding. WebOS uses OpenMAX for decoding. OpenMAX standard is a complete mess and pretty much every single manufacturer has their own incompatible implementation.
Kodi right now has OpenMAX implementation for Raspberry Pi. In the past, there also was a semi-working implementation for Nvidia Tegra chipsets.
Kodi developers aren’t willing to work on a WebOS version mainly due to LG’s unwillingness to support anything but web apps on WebOS, even though it’s fully capable of running native apps.
And even if they did decide to make a WebOS version, it would take a significant effort to port Kodi to WebOS as WebOS TVs run on different vendor chipsets (some use LG in-house, some use Realtek) and each would require a separate OpenMAX port.
In short: Don’t bother with WebOS and just use Android. If you don’t want to replace your TV with an Android based one, get something like a Shield TV box to make your TV truly smart.
Enter Did you manage to get bluetooth working on andex pie build with netflix with your asus t100ta? I have the same hardware and everything works except bluetooth. What is the best android build that works on your asus t100ta. Thanks
IIRC, I never got bluetooth to work properly on the T100TA on any build (including my own custom builds). It did work somewhat with firmware, but it still wasn’t stable enough to be usable. And that was back when Android was still using the Bluez stack.
I have no idea what’s the situation with Bluedroid, I guess it’s no better or even worse than with Bluez.
Even though I still have the T100TA I no longer do any development work or build testing on it.
My current target device is the Surface Pro 5.
Do you have Linux distro or Android-86 that can be use in Intel Atom GMA 3600 cedarView? I have try so many distro but no luck at all.. they all have problems
Problem is that GMA 3600 isn’t based on Intel’s IP. It is based on PowerVR SGX545 mobile GPU from Imagination Technologies, who aren’t exactly known to be very open source friendly.
AFAIK there isn’t any fully working driver available on Linux for these GPUs. There used to be an Intel binary blob driver available (released in 2012) but I don’t think it will work with anything modern.
And since both these GPUs and Atom chips which use them are largely obsolete by modern day standards I don’t we will ever see full Linux support for these chips.
Yups. I’ve been searching and found nothing except from that year of 2012
Recently got an Acer Aspire One with the dreaded Cedarview Atom and it’s integrated PowerVR GPU goodness for servicing (owner wants to sell it). Did some research and it seems the only OS which runs on these without major issues is Windows 7 32-bit, which is a shame as those systems do work with 4 GB DDR3 RAM sticks. Windows 7 x64 can boot but there are no stable 64-bit drivers available for the GMA, only one old beta release which causes BSODs with 4GB RAM installed.
Windows 10 can boot but again no usable GPU drivers, even for the 32-bit version.
Software support for these Atoms is awful, no currently supported OS can run properly on them.
Ive had this site bookmarked for years mainly for the pmagic is there a chance on recent rasbex/raspand? also dont know if you care but i recently ‘fixed’ the win 11 boot.wim to bypass sec boot/efi/tpm checks easy to install to legacy vms 🙂
Hello, sorry, your comment got buried in a truckload of spam. It seems some bots got clever enough to get around the math captcha.
I’ve uploaded some new Raspand builds in January (server is down right now, but it should be back shortly). As for Raspex, I don’t use it myself, so I don’t have any builds of it on hand.
As for W11, I’m not sure bypassing checks is still relevant, unless you have an older processor. Pretty much all virtualization options that I know of support TPM 2.0 emulation and/or pass-through.
hi, I saw your engagement (https://hackaday.com/2022/08/03/hackable-20-modem-combines-lte-and-pi-zero-w2-power/comment-page-2/#comments).
I am not a professional but I know the basics
I have a UZ801 v2.1 4g stick and I’am tired of its limited web interface and recurrent connection lost and sudden reboot.
I’m searching for a good and easy software update that resolve the problems with more advanced use.
thanks
Hello.
I was just about to post a teaser. These 4G sticks will be the third entry in my “Unusual Linux Devices” mini-series.
I will post the whole story, instructions on flashing and how I got everything working. extrowerk did a fine job explaining the basic flashing process. But nothing about more advanced things like kernel tweaking, firmware, etc.
There’s more information in OpenStick’s Chinese wiki but the machine translation isn’t very good and some of the information isn’t entirely clear. And some is incomplete and even misleading.
For example, they claim that the UZ801 modem does not work due to “unclear switching logic”, this isn’t true at all, at least for my V3.0. All it needed was the correct firmware.
In another page they say that the firmware files in debian.zip are meant for a particular model and you may need to replace them (a very important step required to get WiFi and modem to work well) but they don’t explain how and where do get these files from.
I will try to clarify the information up a bit in my blog post.
Some thoughts regarding your particular device:
From pictures posted online, I can see that your UZ801 V2.1 looks similar to my V3.0 but with green PCB rather than blue.
It will work with Debian, but will require additional steps to install the correct firmware for Modem and WiFi. Also, the entire configuration for routing, WiFi, 4G, etc will have to be done manually.
Do check back later. This comment is already long enough.
P. S.: About spontaneous reboots, mine does that too. Need to find a way to get the kernel output from UART to find if there’s a crash.
But if you say that reboots also occur on stock firmware, I suspect a hardware issue, likely power-related.
Waiting for the article about the Stick and hopefully a Github or Gitlab repo.
From my side I have 2 flavors of the stick: UFI003_MB_V02 (one piece already flashed on Debian, no Modem working and no stock firmware) and UZ801_V2.1 (2pieces).
For UZ801, I have kept one running on the stock ROM that show me that the 4G modem is working with my SIM card at least in France
thank you for your time, hope will find a better firmware update
Hello
I want Exton Android 11
Can You Upload Exton 11 on https://raspis.eu/
Tanks a lot
my email is [redacted]
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I will upload the newer builds to Raspis in near future, but I cannot say exactly when.