Android 2.3 Bull release notes
This page lists important information on the Android 2.3 Bull milestone release.
Features
If not specified otherwise it is for gen7 and gen8
- Not loosing settings and apps when upgrading in the future.
- Error message in bootmenu when something fails.
- Charging works for all devices now.
- Sleep working, however not when using adb. (It is disabled by default now)
- For gen8 updated to latest kernel from archos firmware 2.4.81.
Known problems
Please do not open tickets for these things listed here. We're already aware of them and if you open tickets we need to spend time looking through them and closing those duplicate/invalid tickets, while we could otherwise spend time fixing the actual issues.
If not specified otherwise it is for gen7 and gen8
- USB Mass storage access from PC to the device. ticket:240
Please boot the original firmware or go into recovery to access device storage. You can also use microSD cards to transfer data to the device. - Hardware rendering.
- Video recording for camera (gen8)
- Microphone
- Bootmenu upsidedown (gen8)
Before reporting problems, please also check if there is a ticket open towards the next milestone release: Android 2.3 C (click on the 'Active Tickets' link)
Resolved tickets
For details as to e.g. the reason why the ticket was closed please click the respective link.
ticket:116 GPS not working
ticket:127 Provide an upgrade path between images
ticket:143 Browser crashes on default homepage
ticket:145 Mount data partition with option to ignore owner/permissions
ticket:180 Phone dialer application is available on the FroYo Alpha5 for gen7 Archos devices, console
ticket:181 Camera application is available on the FroYo Alpha5 for gen7 Archos devices, applications console
ticket:186 hdpi / mdpi -- Donut VS Alpha5
ticket:189 /etc/passwd and /etc/group are missing entry for user 'root'
ticket:199 Mounting sdcard fails in vold.fstab
ticket:203 Device can't come out of deep sleep (suspend to ram)
ticket:212 Cannot write on disk on Cyanogen7
ticket:215 Anoa TouchScreen Input Scales from Upper Left on Archos 32 - Board A32-V5
ticket:224 root is missing in RC1 of bull + GEN7
ticket:233 screen off animations
ticket:236 applications names not displayed in app drawer
ticket:241 A43 gen8 does not charge via USB
ticket:71 Accelerometer not working
ticket:118 permissions on /mnt_data/download restricts market
ticket:207 Stock browser crashes after selecting 'More->Settings'
ticket:208 In all apps im dont have sdcard!
ticket:211 Headphone not used
ticket:230 High battery drain in standby
ticket:249 I installed Anoa, but can't start Donut
ticket:228 A70iT-USB-Connection doesn't work
ticket:245 Default Apps
ticket:213 market download
ticket:232 Archos 43it stays suspended
