"Earth Rotation" live wallpaper on my HTC Magic

The latest update to the "Earth Rotation" live wallpaper runs well on OpenEclair v1.0 running on my HTC Magic 32B. Amazingly, these animated wallpapers don't appear to have much, if any, impact on the phone's system performance.

...and I've sorted out how to make a much better quality video. Yay!   

"Starfield 3D" live wallpaper on my HTC Magic

[UPDATE 2010-10-07: The Starfield live wallpaper appears to have disappeared from the Android Market at some point. It can still be found via Google on various file download sites. If you need any help locating it, send me an email. TS]

OpenEclair v1.0 (Android v2.1) allows HTC "32B" (G1 and Magic) owners to use the new animated "Live Wallpapers" on their phones. These have become fully functional only in the past 4-5 days on the very latest Eclair ROMs from XDA.

Even better, users can also see and download new Live Wallpapers from the Android market. Below is a video of my first Live Wallpaper download - "Starfield 3D" - running on my HTC Magic seconds after install.

"Open Eclair" version of Android 2.1 appears

The source code for Android v2.1 ("Eclair") was released in early January and the people who like to play with such things have gone to work in a big way. One of the results has been the "Open Eclair" project.

Based at XDA, this project has now produced it's first major release ROM, v1.0, for the "32B" class of HTC Dream and Sapphire phones. These phones are marketed variously as "T-Mobile G1", "HTC Magic" (Google phone flavour - a 32B), and "T-Mobile MyTouch3G".  The HTC Magic 32A, sold by Rogers in Canada and in Hong Kong and Singapore, isn't completely firmware compatible with the 32B class (G1 and Magic/MyTouch) and any ROM for 32B requires some additional modifications in order to run on a 32A phone.

OpenEclair allows "32B" phone owners to access new Android v2.1 features like the "Live Wallpapers". The 3D Gallery is only partially functional due to incompatibitilies between the existing video drivers for 32B phones and the later version of video drivers written for different hardware. The driver source is not Open Source, so users will have to wait for the source to be come available, the drivers to be reverse-engineered, or for an Over the Air (OTA) update to the stock version of their phone systems at some point in the future. The video camera is also not functional, though a solution has been found for the still camera.

Overall, OpenEclair delivers "32B" phone owners an almost-complete set of Android v2.1 functionality on their phones today.