Photos courtesy of Simon via Wes’s Facebook Sorry Wes WesGarner Developer Interview by Dan Lesser of AndroidSPIN We’re pleased to present our next developer interview for our regular “Down with a Developer” series.  Wes Garner is known by everyone in the Android developer community.  He was responsible for the team that created the OpenEclair ROM for [...]

I am happy to announce that after numerous closed betas, the OpenEclair team has officially released the new v1.3.0.1 of the OpenEclair ROM. See the credits, links, and info below. Contributors Developer – Wes Garner - Twitter Developer – ctso - Twitter Porters – Brian Cook, Piotr Maksymiuk (Movi) Complete OpenEclair Credits List: http://short.to/18h0a — LWPs break [...]

The OpenEclair team has been pretty quiet to the general public for a while now, but the developers, wesgarner and ChrisSoyars, have been hard at work getting the new version 2.0 of OpenEclair ready for public consumption.  With the help of a select few Alpha testers, the team has been working though many issues and [...]

Thanks to a lot of hard work by WesGarner and ChrisSoyars, 3D is now working in the latest OpenEclair beta. The closed beta is currently going through additional testing, optimizations, bugfixes, but as you can see from the screenshot from NeoCore (below), we are now able to get a very solid score of 26 frames per [...]

A new version  of OpenEclair has been release for public consumption.  I don’t have any real details about the contents of the new release.  I’m guessing it was a late night release and no one has updated the forum thread yet. It includes all the standard features from the previous releases and more: Features: – [...]

The OpenAndroidTeam has released an update to the OpenEclair ROM taking it to version 1.2.1. You now have many ways to get support and downloads for OpenEclair, including: OpenEclair.org domain or the OFFICIAL OpenEclair Support forums on AndroidSPIN. You can also follow the @OpenAndroidTeam twitter account for the latest updates. v1.2.1 includes: Change Log OpenEclair [...]

The OpenAndroidTeam has released an update to the OpenEclair ROM and it even includes the Multi-Touch Google Maps from the Nexus one. v1.1.5 includes: OpenEclair v1.1.5 – No Wipe – Kernel: CPU Frequency modifications by Eugene – Kernel: Overclocked to 580MHz by default. – Kernel: Bug fixes from Nexus One MSM Kernel – Compcache: Upgraded [...]

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Chris Soyar’s decided it was time to try and get the community together and work on a community ROM.  The first goal of this team is to create the best Eclair ROM available.  The outcome was OpenEclair and the OpenAndroidTeam and it hasn’t stopped since. I’m hoping [...]

OpenEclair Version 1.1.1 STABLE has been released.  Many people have been reporting FC’s, problems with the Android Market and keyboard issues, as well as problems with the live wallpapers.  Too many bugs had been reported so the team has reverted back the JIT.  It also appears that they have removed all the wallpapers except 1. [...]

We’ve installed and are currently testing the new OpenEclair Version 1.1 STABLE.  We’ve taken plenty of screen shots so you can see what your letting yourselves in for.  Let us know how it’s going for you in the comments.

OpenEclair Version 1.1 STABLE is out and ready for download.  Most if not all of the major bugs have been worked out and I can say that it seems fast during my initial testing. Change Log OpenEclair – v1.1-STABLE – 02/01/2010 – New Apps2SD (disables Apps2SD on MT3G) – Added Passion Google Apps – Fixed [...]

OpenEclair Version 1.1 release candidate 1 is out and about and ready for download.  The release candidate currently does not have a working camera but that should be fixed real soon. No change log has been posted yet but the release was done late last night and more details will be forthcoming once the team [...]

OpenEclair and the members of the OpenTeam have now setup the releases in the AndroidSPIN database.  Version 1.0 is now available and an update is expected real soon according to Chris and Wes.  We are all very excited to be involved in this project and hope that more and more developers will join as this [...]

ctso is trying to change the way the developer’s of the community approach the development and release of ROMs, and it’s for the better.  The OpenEclair thread over on XDA is looking nice and organized, but that’s only the front end we see.  Let’s hope that ctso and the rest of developer’s already on board [...]

WesGarner has released another update to his WG-DOnut ROM. WG-Build Y has been updated with more enhancements to make your experience even better.  The new build also includes some of the Beta code that is being used for the OpenEclair project Now Active Issue Tracker: WG-Build and WG-Kernel Issues: http://code.google.com/p/wgbuild/issues/list Build Y2-2.6: AndroidSPIN CFS with 10MB [...]