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Open Letter to Wondermedia Technologies

Posted on November 28, 2010

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!)

Dear Wondermedia Technologies,

Congratulations on your WM8505 system-on-a-chip. In 2005, a "$100 laptop" was a …

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Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003

Posted on November 24, 2010

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 …

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Unbricking WM8505-based tablets

Posted 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 …

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Google Group for VT8500/WM8505 kernel development

Posted 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 …

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WM8505 Linux kernel development (Eken M001 & others)

Posted on August 01, 2010

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 …

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Recent Posts

  • Open Letter to Wondermedia Technologies
  • Froyo (Android 2.2) alpha for Eken M001 & M003
  • Unbricking WM8505-based tablets
  • Google Group for VT8500/WM8505 kernel development
  • WM8505 Linux kernel development (Eken M001 & others)
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