nbimg is a command line tool which allows to convert HTC Splash Screen images from NB to BMP and create NB splash screens from BMP format. Any splash screen size is supported (yes, it works for Diamond or Athena at 640×480 resolution too). === nbimg v1.1 === Convert NB BMP splash screens === (c)2008 Pau Oliva - [...]

kornel has requested to post some instructions on installing ubuntu netbook remix on HTC Shift. First, for those who still don’t know what UNR is, a picture is worth 1000 words: Here are the instructions: 1) Go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources. Click on Third Party software. Click Add…, and add the following: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src [...]

I have just released HTCFlasher version 3, get it while it’s hot!! HTCFlasher -formerly known as HERMflasher- is an open source tool which allows you to flash ROMs on most current HTC devices. It has some extra features that the original HTC RUU doesn’t have, like for example it can present a serial prompt [...]

shiftbuttons is a program that monitors the two right side hardware buttons on HTC shift, and launches any desired program when a button is pressed. Typical usage is to start it as daemon (-d option) when you start your X session, and map each button to the desired function. For example, you can go into Gnome [...]

I have found some free time (long night) to implement a kernel module which converts the axis reported by the HTC Shift G-Sensor accelerometer (see previous post!) into a Joystick input event device. Download gsensor-joy-1.1.tar.gz Install Instructions Download the tarball, extract it to some temporary directory, compile and install it: # make # make install Load [...]

The “feature” commercially advertised as G-Sensor in HTC Shift turned out to be a STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL 3-axis inertial sensor [datasheet], which of course can be accessed through linux i2c/SMBus interface Actually there’s a Linux kernel module for the HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D (mdps) by Yan Burman, which is the same accelerometer [...]

I am proud to release hsect, the HTC Shift Embedded Controller Toolkit Features: Turn on and off WLAN Turn on and off Bluetooth Enter and exit CE (ARM) Bootloader mode (SPL) Enter Radio Bootloader / OEMSBL* Reboot Windows CE Switch To CE / SnapVUE Change the LEDs* * features only available via command line This means you don’t need to boot Vista anymore [...]

Here’s my first attempt to make the HTC Shift touchscreen working under Linux Feel free to send me patches and ideas to improve the driver Update: htcpen submitted to review for inclusion into Linux kernel. Update2: htcpen has been included into the git input tree, it will be merged when 2.6.27 opens up. Download htcpen version [...]

The HTC Shift HDD is 40 GB, exactly 40000536576 bytes. The Host Protected Area starts at 0×88FE00000 and is exactly 3GiB, from linux dmesg output: sda: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 71826615 sectors (36775 MB) native capacity is 78126048 [...]

After a dozen of reboots and hangs trying to figure out what was preventing the suspend / resume to work on HTC shift I finally managed to get it working (both, suspend to ram and hibernate are working ) The pm-utils offer a nice interface for hooking your own scripts which are called during the [...]

Previously I used Wubi-installer to install Ubuntu 8.04 on my HTC Shift, but this time I wanted to partition my Hard Drive and use separate partitions for Ubuntu. Here’s what I did… First, resize the Vista partition: You don’t need Partition Magic or gparted to do this, vista itself can do it. Right click on my [...]

I recently got an UMPC HTC Shift (also known as HTC P9500, HTC Shangrila or HTC Clio). You can install Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 using Wubi Installer, so you don’t need to partition the Hard Drive. Installation is pretty straight forward, just choose the installation size (I would recommend no less than 7Gb) and click “next”, [...]