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Good going. Does the player perform better with the G2 firmware? Any instructions on how others can do the same?

It has newer recovery and seems to work a little faster. Archos G2 10" has 1024x600 resolution screen, so I had to replace kernel with N50's one to get 800x480 resolution. Archos has different screen orientation or different G-sensor config, so the screen was weird when rotating. I fixed the screen rotation by adding a line to default.prop as it has N50:

ro.sf.hwrotation=270

But the touch layer remains in same orientation. I googled that it's hardcoded in services.jar. The problem is that Archos has odexed system and N50 - deodexed, so I can't just replace services.jar from N50 to Archos firmware. Later I'll try to deodex Archos firmware and try to replace services.jar, or maybe someone in this thread will help me to solve this problem some other way (maybe I'm not right about services.jar)

This is the photo of device running this firmware:



Instructions how to flash Archos firmware:

1. Download the image file from my Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4546860/update_g2.img
2. Flash it to the device with the flasher provided in this thread.

OR

1. Download the Archos firmware from official site: http://arnovatech.com/support/firmware/ ... update.img
2. Unpack it with rk29-ultra1.7
3. Unpack N50 firmware (0950) with rk29-ultra1.7 and get kernel.img from it
4. Replace the kernel
5. Add a line ro.sf.hwrotation=270 in default.prop (touch will be not rotated)
OR
leave it as it is to see the weird screen orientation (it's even better because touch layer and the screen will work together)
6. Repack the firmware and flash it to device

This firmware has the following bugs:

- screen orientation is proper but the touch layer is rotated to 90 deg, it means when you are in landscape mode, touch is in portrait and vice versa.
- device can't sleep. It turn off the screen for a second and than wakes up again. This is endless.
- it seems that hardware volume buttons and software volume buttons have no effect on volume.

The Archos firmware is already rooted, has busybox, su, Superuser.apk.

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Lifestream (in russian)

Later I'll try CUBE 9GT firmware with SDK 2.0

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Lifestream (in russian)

Keep the great work up atleast we have a alternate firmware.

great work yareg, the n50 may have a bright future ahead of it... it seems to have peaked a bit of interest on these boards at least.

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Music ---> Meizu M6TS 4GB, Fiio E5, Audio Technica ATH M50, Fiio S9.
Other ---> Window N50DT, HP Touchpad, HTC Desire, Dingoo A320, Gemei A330, OpenPandora.

I wonder if honeycomb is ever possible to port over?

if the source is released it's about as possible as porting over CM7 at the moment. ie, very unlikely.

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Music ---> Meizu M6TS 4GB, Fiio E5, Audio Technica ATH M50, Fiio S9.
Other ---> Window N50DT, HP Touchpad, HTC Desire, Dingoo A320, Gemei A330, OpenPandora.

Admin plz, we are creating a very nice community around this device, lots of people are coming to this forum and writing here because here we have lot of stuff and most of all have not received the device yet, so this community can only grow.

Is possible to make order to those treads? Can we have a section with some sticky posts?... I think that this is a right request for what we all are creating...

Thx to all...

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Andre

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Andreapraiano,

you said that you work on firmware too. I've made some improvements to Archos firmware, but still unable to set the right gsensor position. I've tried to edit build.prop:

ro.sf.gsensor.position=1 - no effect
sensor.accelerometer.flip_xy=1 - no effect

Maybe you know the answer?

And check this out - Window N50 shows 1303 score in Quadrant with my improvents on Archos firmware, on Chinese firmware - only 1207.

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Lifestream (in russian)

Is this Quadrant std? I got over 1300 on my first (and only run).