Casio G'zOne (casio-ca201l)

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Casio G'zOne
Manufacturer Casio
Name G'zOne
Codename casio-ca201l
Released 2013
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Original software Android
Original version 4
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus (MSM8960)
CPU 2x Qualcomm Krait 1.5 GHz
GPU Adreno 225
Display 480x800 TFT
Storage 16 GB
Memory 1 GB
Architecture ARMv7
Features
USB Networking
Works
Flashing
Touchscreen
Works
Display
Partial
WiFi
FDE
Mainline
Works
Battery
3D Acceleration
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
GPS
Mobile data
Internal storage
SMS
Calls
USB OTG
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
HDMI/DP
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader


Contributors

  • peremen

Maintainer(s)

Users owning this device

How to enter flash mode

  • Hold Power + Volume Up + Tactile: Recovery
  • adb reboot-bootloader on CWM recovery boots the device into fastboot
  • For C811: flash CA-201L's aboot to get this combination working

Names/Differences

There are three devices released under the similar name, which can boot the same kernel. To make naming even worse, the firmware of Korean and US variant shares no common codename among them, while crossflashing of devices is possible. Both Korean and US variants were available outside of the respective market, while Japanese variant was not seen often on the Internet.

🇰🇷 KR 🇺🇸 US 🇯🇵 JP
Marketing Name (Model) G'zOne (CA-201L) G'zOne Commando 4G LTE (C811) G'zOne TYPE-L (CAL21)
Possible Codename DVE072, DVE073, GG3L DVE068, GG3
Final Firmware Android 4.0 Android 4.1 Android 4.0
FM Radio
HDMI Output
Buttons 4 (Back, Home, App Switch, Menu) 3 (Back, Home, Menu)

Components

While Casio's website was active, they offered kernel sources as patches against the Code Aurora source tree, instead of full source tree for the device. Sources were available for Korean and US variant, not for Japanese variant. Downstream kernel boots only when built with Android GCC 4.4.3.

  • NFC: ST ST21NFCA, mainline driver available.
  • Audio: "Sound processor" Audience eS310, Amplifier Yamaha YDA160. No mainline driver available.
  • Touch: Atmel mXT224E, vendor driver provides two different touch configuration (normal and glove mode).
  • Display: Driven by LG4573B, mainline driver only available for SPI, vendor driver for DSI.
  • Backlight: TI LM3530, mainline driver available on apq8064-next.
  • Sensors: Connected to DSPS, remoteproc not available yet.

Mainlining

Because of lower version of downstream kernel, it does not boot when compiled with gcc newer than 4.4. Instead of fixing downstream 3.0.8 kernel or using downstream 3.4.0 kernel, we go directly to the mainline kernel. Currently the phone can boot 5.19.0-rc7 from apq8064-next branch, other parts of the device needs to be further investigated. The kernel can boot with both device native fastboot and lk2nd experimental-tmp branch.

See also