Comments on DINGUX: Booting the GA330

boboo do your have a unbriking tool for gemei a 33...

2011-03-08T18:34:42.019+01:00

boboo do your have a unbriking tool for gemei a 330 ? i had bricke my own with a hxf tool mistake tring to make a custom menus in firmware...

and uploaded the 1.1 firmware of gemei a330 (edited) in my gemei but when the update finish my gemei die.... and i gone wild with anger of myself for bein so such dumbass... for doing that...

please help me...

an plus.. i am graphic designer and had made some sketches of a (hypotetic) new version of gemei a330 thats a call "gemei victory" or cherfully GEMEI V

look at my drawings on the link... and please answerme...

youre my last hope.... for reviving my gemei...

http://img200.imageshack.us/f/gemeivfinalmentenomexom.jpg/

i will be wating your answer on my email...

frozenhalf2007@gmail.com

@Nero Asked CC about the SDK. There's already...

2011-02-19T02:07:11.512+01:00

@Nero

Asked CC about the SDK. There's already an unofficial SDK released. See http://code.google.com/p/mp4sdk/downloads/detail?name=A330-SDK-Setup-20101106.exe&can=2&q=

@Neno I already have an unbricking tool for the G...

2011-02-18T22:36:27.002+01:00

@Neno

I already have an unbricking tool for the GA330 (since I've already bricked one of the two provided by CC), however, I haven't been able to make it work and I'm trying to sort it out with CC (Chinese new year, communication slow you know). I'll release it (with CC permission) as soon as I make sure it works.

Don't know anything about the SDK, will ask.

Booboo would like to ask about the SDK for the GA3...

2011-02-18T19:13:03.176+01:00

Booboo would like to ask about the SDK for the GA330, and a also about a tool to unbrick for the GA330.
Thank you for your attention

Dmitry-san, he would not port DIngux himself, but ...

2011-02-17T14:02:09.216+01:00

Dmitry-san, he would not port DIngux himself, but rather make drivers that would make Dingux porting actually possible.

As for buying the Gemei, I am rather pleased by itself. I mean, the system can play NES, SNES, Genesis, GBA, and NeoGeo (even in multi-player), can play some videos (even those that you downloaded off YouTube), just about every music file, can read e-books, txt files, and html files...

Even without Dingux, the Gemei can hold its own by itself.

- Ziggy Zigzagoon

Well i buy my gemei a330 (i havent dingoo a320 and...

2011-02-17T02:05:32.330+01:00

Well i buy my gemei a330 (i havent dingoo a320 and others), and i loved, because:can play 1080p videos (i wrote a word document comparing gemei and dingoo a320), The record i much better than nokia 5310 record, the translations of the picture software in the a330 surprise me (i didnt expect so many translations)....

But at now i'm only whaiting a descent srt sutitle (without cut subtitle and acentuate the subtitles), tv-out with suport at 720p and maybe 1080p (only suport 420p,476i,576i) and acess a memory stick and read movies from it (i try but the gemei start loading the battery and cant detect the memory stick :( )

Hi, booboo! At first I want to thank you for your ...

2011-02-16T19:42:02.297+01:00

Hi, booboo!
At first I want to thank you for your work!
I'm reading your blog for a very long time.
Because I'm planning to buy Gemei a330. I want it veeeeery much, but i don't want to buy it if there's no dingux ported( I don't understand anything about booting problems and other HW&SW things, so I just want to know will you port dingux on a330? Is it possible? Is it reasonable to buy Gemei a330 while there is no dingux?

@Lucas The CC1800 is capable of decoding FullHD (...

2011-02-16T19:24:43.106+01:00

@Lucas

The CC1800 is capable of decoding FullHD (the Gemei HD8900 does), but I don't think it'll ever be supported in dingux, since it requires extensive use of the OMIP, sort of a video decoder coprocessor, for which I don't have any info, and I doubt it'll ever be released (though I'll ask CC about this).

Well i try the usb in a hub with +5V pluged in the...

2011-02-16T19:07:31.151+01:00

Well i try the usb in a hub with +5V pluged in the gemei a330 power (but gemei was loading your battery and didnt see the memory stick, i try this with a external HD with a energy cable pluged in the power gemei a330 font, and my gemei a330 was loading your battery by the HD (and didnt work :( )....

Is dificult to spoke but should be pocible in dingux watch a 1080p video with the tv out in 1080p? (i know the component video suport 1080p)

@Lucas According to CC, the GA330 USB port is OTG...

2011-02-16T17:33:37.284+01:00

@Lucas

According to CC, the GA330 USB port is OTG and functional, except it doesn't have +5V power.

So yes, you could connect a memory stick as long as OTG supported in the dingux kernel and you provide your own +5V external power (for example via a powered USB hub).

Difference to the A320: better and faster emulation, mostly due to existing ARM assembly optimized emulation cores and the native 24 bit framebuffer. Don't know how much faster this would be.

And another thing what the USB otg will do in geme...

2011-02-16T16:45:33.760+01:00

And another thing what the USB otg will do in gemei a330/dingux ?

Is pocible the dingux read files from an external ...

2011-02-16T16:44:25.907+01:00

Is pocible the dingux read files from an external memory stick? (i have the mini usb to usb cable, more a hume with energy, i test on the gemei a330 this i a haven't sucess :(

If dingux was completly done on gemei a330 (in the final version) what should be the diference of the dingux in a320? (something new like multiplayer suport and maybe tv out with 1080p resolution for playing videos)

...I meant "Ziggy Zigzagoon," my "h...

2011-02-16T00:19:15.570+01:00

...I meant "Ziggy Zigzagoon," my "hacker" name.

@c6 Ok, I shall call you "c6" :-)

2011-02-15T20:47:13.269+01:00

@c6

Ok, I shall call you "c6" :-)

@Jorge (start with the third: Linux Kernel Develo...

2011-02-15T20:45:57.825+01:00

@Jorge

(start with the third: Linux Kernel Development)

@Jorge There's no "direct" nor &quo...

2011-02-15T20:45:20.419+01:00

@Jorge

There's no "direct" nor "standard" way to read out the flash via USB. I can't tell for user in the case of your SoC, but anything different wound't make sense: the ROM code needs to be absolutelly error free, and getting it simple helps a lot, so any kind of USB boot mode in a SoC will be necessarily simple, as in the CC1800. In fact, the CC1800 is an excellent example of the bare minimum you need: get CPU info, upload and execute. If what you need is to read then NAND, you'll have to compile your code to do so via USB and upload and execute it.

Books... mmm... these are the three I have about the linux kernel and they're pretty good:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0596005652/ref=oss_product
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0132396556/ref=oss_product
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0672329468/ref=oss_product

@booboo I've have the SoC pin out, but yes it...

2011-02-15T18:29:07.483+01:00

@booboo

I've have the SoC pin out, but yes it is hard to do something like a Linux port with just that.
I wanted to know if it is possible to do a backup of the firmware of this type of devices reading the NAND while connected trough USB.

Any recommended books for the novice.

I know this is off-topic, but please read my reply...

2011-02-15T18:11:21.951+01:00

I know this is off-topic, but please read my reply to your comment in your last post. That has important information about why I got such a long name.

@Jorge Muñoz Unless you have the SoC datasheet an...

2011-02-15T15:40:06.916+01:00

@Jorge Muñoz

Unless you have the SoC datasheet and programmer's manual and/or some BSP, I'd forget about it. You'll never reach a decent hardware support just by reverse engineering.

The CC1800 is an ARM926EJ-S. The extremely preliminary kernel I was handed uses the Atmel AT91SAM9260 as a starting point.

Good luck and you can resolve these difficulties ....

2011-02-15T15:28:52.917+01:00

Good luck and you can resolve these difficulties ...
Thanks for the big work

Thanks for the update, hope all goes smoothly. I...

2011-02-15T14:55:42.658+01:00

Thanks for the update, hope all goes smoothly.

I'm planning on getting some development done on a SoC also used on this kind of devices; the Actions ATJ2259C.

I'm in a very early stage and thinking of first making a tool to backup the firmware for the device, hope you can advice on were to start.

BTW is the CC1800 a MIPS chip or is it ARM9 ?

Saludos.

Happy to see this project is still moving forward....

2011-02-15T14:36:39.406+01:00

Happy to see this project is still moving forward.

Thanks for the update. Good to know. ;-)

2011-02-15T14:18:45.428+01:00

Thanks for the update.

Good to know. ;-)