Hi from Brad Cox

[BradCox]

Hi. Just joined this group seeking clues for building custom extensions to the Android Java middleware and flashing the result to a Samsung WIFI Tablet (GT-P7510). This is to support an in-house demo of the extensions. There's no plan to port them to other devices.

I'm hoping for clues for completing the install/flash process. I'm following Koush's "brain hurts" tutorial and am stuck on a broken link for his "dump_image" program, the fact that the /proc/mtd he mentions doesn't exist on this device, and lack of knowledge of what the partitions that *do* exist actually hold. That is, /dev/block/mmcblk0p[0..10] are probably the partitions, but what do they contain and which ones to preserve?

 

[Rush]

Hello and welcome to Android Forums.

Thanks for stopping in to join us. I'm not quite sure if you are talking about the rooting process with your device, or something steered towards the Android development. So, here is a link to the Application Development - Android Forums - and another to our Home Page. From here you can choose which section of the forums or device you are interested in.

I hope your stay here will be useful.

 

[BradCox]

Thanks for the response, Rush.

The project involves extensions to Android permission-handling mechanisms; i.e. to java code in the Android middleware. I think that means the ability to compile/load a custom kernel via the ClockworkMod I have now, or possibly a new ClockworkMod based on the extended kernel. That's why I'm following Koush's tutorial. No apps or kernel changes are involved, just to the extended java middleware.