Gingerbread Android Patches

March 2012

The patch for doing no telephony AND no UI is finally ready.This reduces the running system considerably. The patch can be downloaded here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24888185/headless_android.patch

This patch (taken from Karim's presentation) removes all the UI elements from starting, plus removes Bluetooth, telephony, and other non-essential elements from the system. I now have a process list that looks like this:

root      1964  1     744    340   8005ac1c 6fd0c3ac S /system/bin/sh
system    1965  1     816    252   80313b44 6fd0b6fc S /system/bin/servicemanager
root      1966  1     3872   564   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/vold
root      1967  1     3868   572   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/netd
root      1968  1     820    320   800d4fa4 6fd0b844 S /system/bin/dispd
root      1969  1     676    256   8034ab44 6fd0c0cc S /system/bin/debuggerd
root      1970  1     83412  27152 800d4fa4 6fd0b844 S zygote
media     1971  1     23264  5084  ffffffff 6fd0b6fc S /system/bin/mediaserver
bluetooth 1972  1     1264   564   800d4fa4 6fd0c59c S /system/bin/dbus-daemon
root      1973  1     824    312   803c9edc 6fd0b45c S /system/bin/installd
keystore  1974  1     1752   424   8034ab44 6fd0c0cc S /system/bin/keystore
radio     1975  1     4444   668   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/rild
system    2020  1970  127348 28064 ffffffff 6fd0b6fc S system_server

January 2012

I've got my first set of changes that are very minimal, but actually still run. You can download the patch file for Gingerbread here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24888185/headless-android-no-tel.patch

This patch mainly just takes out the automatic running and packaging of the telephony code.

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The process list from this patch set ends up being:

root      2221  1     744    340   8006d5a0 6fd0c3ac S /system/bin/sh
system    2222  1     816    252   80343750 6fd0b6fc S /system/bin/servicemanager
root      2223  1     3872   588   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/vold
root      2224  1     3872   576   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/netd
root      2225  1     820    320   800e9ea4 6fd0b844 S /system/bin/dispd
root      2226  1     676    256   8037b6ac 6fd0c0cc S /system/bin/debuggerd
root      2227  1     83416  27160 800e9ea4 6fd0b844 S zygote
media     2228  1     24364  5300  ffffffff 6fd0b6fc S /system/bin/mediaserver
bluetooth 2229  1     1264   564   800e9ea4 6fd0c59c S /system/bin/dbus-daemon
root      2230  1     824    312   803fd98c 6fd0b45c S /system/bin/installd
keystore  2231  1     1752   424   8037b6ac 6fd0c0cc S /system/bin/keystore
radio     2232  1     4444   672   ffffffff 6fd0bdac S /system/bin/rild
system    2280  2227  183356 34260 ffffffff 6fd0b6fc S system_server
root      2290  2     0      0     8007cacc 00000000 S z1xx_workq
app_1     2338  2227  93116  17260 ffffffff 6fd0c51c S com.android.inputmethod.pinyin
system    2342  2227  124540 20708 ffffffff 6fd0c51c S com.android.systemui
app_15    2345  2227  94368  17252 ffffffff 6fd0b6fc S com.android.launcher
app_11    2404  2227  94692  17856 ffffffff 6fd0c51c S android.process.media