My previous Gingerbread-related post painted a grim picture of the progress I had been making up to that point. Little work had been done on stabilizing the system. Lots of features and hardware support were broken. In general, there was a ton of work to do.
Well, that work is getting done. Slowly, I’ve been working through the long list of issues and knocking out whatever I can in reasonably short time. We’re moving towards a completely unsupported prerelease system image meant for testing, probably within the next couple of weeks. Again, that would be completely unsupported and not an official release. We would not advertise it on any official release channels (wiki or forums).
With that out of the way, here’s a list of major fixes since my last post:
- The severe drop in 2D performance has been fixed
- The SD card is now visible within Android again
- Screen backlight issues that I posted about are actually kernel-related auto-backlight issues on Raph/Diam/Blac only
- Gingerbread’s strange sleep of death has been resolved
- UPDATE: Audio is working
- For developers: build system changes have been pushed to the repositories to allow you to build the system (gapps needs to be updated to generate working system images, though)
For users interested in following the technical development discussion, please join our IRC channel (and #htc-linux for kernel development) and the xdandroid-dev mailing list. The bulk of technical discussion occurs in these two places. Thanks!