This letter is my plea and suggestion to Wondermedia, although the theme applies to similar tech companies as well.
(If any fluent speaker can translate this into Chinese for me, I'd very much appreciate it!)
Congratulations on your WM8505 system-on-a-chip. In 2005, a "$100 laptop" was a …
Update 25/11: Now supports M003 as well, and it appears the M002 may be able to boot from the M001 build.
Update 27/11: New build posted, now with better functioning Wifi!
Android 2.2 on dirt cheap WM8505 tablets. I said it may not be possible. Since then …
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 …
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 …
Have started tidying up a Linux kernel for Eken M001 & similar devices (tablets and netbooks), based on the source release that came from VIA last week.
Very, very, early days yet. http://github.com/projectgus/kernel_wm8505.
[Not all of the WM8505 functionality is available in source form yet, in particular …
(One more Eken post and I'm going to have to rename this blog to Project M001!)
EDIT: Everything here is somewhat out of date now. Jacob Stoner has released a Debian build with X11 & touchscreen support. The links are all posted on the slatedroid forum.
Debian on the WM8505 netbooks …
"Derek" posted up a comment yesterday:
I have a EKEN M001, which will not unlock the screen by pressing MENU.
I have tried reseting the EKEN M001 by pressing the Reset button on the back ofthe MID, but te screen stays unlocked.
The top of the screen says: “Demo …
See here for my review of the M001.
This teardown shows the V006 revision of the board, a quick serial port install, and includes some console/dmesg output. The main difference between V005 and V006/V007 board revisions seems to be relocating the USB WiFi dongle to a better position …
IMPORTANT EDIT: There is now an Alpha release of Froyo hacked onto the Eken M001. This isn't the same as full support, but it's a step in the right direction!
Over the past couple of evenings I've been looking into porting Android 2.x (eclair or froyo) to the Eken …
This is part one of an 3 part mini review of the Eken M001 tablet, from a tinkerer's perspective.