Linux kernel for Android update 2009-11-29

Well, I've spent some time with the update of 2009-11-22 testing WIFI. For that part everything is really fine but I found Android quite unresponsive and got a lot of messages telling me that this or that application was not responding. That's past now thanks the kernel update of 2009-11-29 21:25.

The installation of the kernel is quite simple:

• download the tar.gz file and unzip it to the root of the SD card (on RAPH)
• edit startup.txt to point to the fresh zImage (zImage.20091129_212534 instead of zImage)

My observations after a few minutes of using:

• far more responsive than the older kernel
• incoming calls do not hang my phone

I'm looking forward testing the battery life as part of the announcements of that kernel were that the overheating had dissapered, sign of fixed powersaving options.

More to come….