The re-entrant coder

OK, so I promised some more details on the current port of Android to the HTC Diamond. As I referred to before, there is a porting effort underway to get Android running on the HTC Diamond (both the GSM and CDMA version). Most progress is chronicled on the (ever excellent) XDA-developers.com site, but there are several changes.

Running Android on your HTC Diamond means installing 3 different things to the internal storage of the Diamond (or an SD-card for the Topaz  and Rhodium):

1. A Linux kernel (found here)
2. A rootfs for booting the kernel and Android (found here)
3. An Android distribution (found here).
4. Oh, and a configuration file for configuring the Android build (you are probably best off getting the first version out of the full build linked below).

If you’re not familiar with booting Linux or Android, you may want to download everything in one package, which can be found in this thread on XDA. After downloading, unzip everything in the root of the Internal Storage (for HTC Diamond) or in the root of your SD-card for all the other models. Copy the startup config for your device

A few attention points:

• Disable the PIN-code on your SIM-card! The current ported version does not handle SIM PIN-requests properly (it gives a pop-up but does not unlock the SIM properly) No longer applicable, with the current rootfs PIN requests are handled properly.
• On the HTC Diamond, change the file in <tbd> (while running Windows Mobile) and look for the line with cc-cache=100 in it. Change this to cc-cache=20. This prevents Android from pre-loading a lot of applications upon startup, slowing down your phone
• The clock will start drifting a bit, about half an hour a day. This is annoying, but the developers are aware of this.

For me, this is the end of the line, as I have sold my HTC and instead opted to go the Android route entirely, buying myself a SonyEricsson Xperia X10

Related posts:

1. How-to install Android on your HTC Touch Diamond