Sunday, January 10, 2010

Space physics for android

This is a fun 2D Physics game but not comparable to the fun I used to have with Cryon Physics on my previous IPhone.   I believe developers have issues with memory management with this type of game as the more objects you create the slower the game will perform.

IPhone 2D Physics engine is written in C++ and memory management although vulnerable to memory leaks is still better managed than Dalvik VM's garbage collection on an android device.

Flashed my Galaxy with IK5

Seems the battery is better. I didn't find much difference over the IK4 except for the missing Samsung keyboard.  Both IK4 and IK5 seems to leave plenty more ram in place. 

Immediately after flashing with Odin, I checked the memory and it was a whopping 44MB.  Later in the day it was around 30-36MB which is much better than the 14-25MB I was getting with II5.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Samsung Galaxy and Eclair 2 now possible

Thanks to mustymod,  finally we can try Eclair on Samsung Galaxy I7500

As of today 7th Jan 2010 the following works/ or not.

Working devices:
- GSM (call, text, data, no CDMA support)
- Base devices (touchscreen, sound, sd-card & usb)

Devices will be implemented:
- WIFI (work in progress)
- Sensors (accelerometer, light, compass)
- Camera

Installed Extra Programs:
- Market
- Google Maps
- GMail
- GTalk
- Youtube


----------- News Flash ----------

mustymod is not happy (claims to no longer be motivated) as PayPal is not accepting donations as per his post on http://mustymod.wordpress.com/

 So it looks like the project is on hold.  On the other hand it seems another good developer drakaz might be up to the task.