Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

Hello friends,

I currently have Nitdroid v0.0.9 installed on my 16GB memory card. I want to upgrade to Gingerbread.

Please give instructions on how to Install Nitdroid Gingerbread on Memory card step by step for a first time beginner.

I understand we have to do the foll: (please correct where wrong)

1. Download the foll :
a. Nitdroid Gingerbread - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/gingerbread.tar.bz2
b. Nitdroid Kernel - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/nitins...nal1_armel.deb
c. Gingerbread Update1 - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/...pdate1.tar.bz2
d. Gingerbread Update2 - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/...pdate2.tar.bz2

2. Copy the above downloaded files to: /home/user/MyDocs

3. Open Terminal & type :

root
cd /home/user/MyDocs

bzip2 -d gingerbread.tar.bz2
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
cd /and
rm -rf *
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread.tar

cd /home/user/MyDocs

dpkg -i nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb


Please guide with further steps.
All, please confirm if above steps are right if installing it to memory card with Nitdroid v0.0.9 already preinstalled.

Also, what do I do with the Updates 1&2 which I dowloaded above. Further, there are few new updates as foll:

Update 3: superuser - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/...eruser.tar.bz2

Update 4: Update 4: On-screen keyboard (size) - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/LatinIME.apk
(copy to /system/app/ directory (from Android root))

Update 5: Update 5: FakeGPS - http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/gps.nokia.so
(copy to /system/lib/hw/ directory (from Android root))

How to install all these 5 updates ??

Kindly confirm..

Thanks a lot..

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

I have Nitdroid v0.0.9 on my emmc and would also like to know how to upgrade!

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

Why would you post the same thing in two different forums? :)

For the updates as well you can do the same except you don't have to remove anything.

So you download these files in /home/user/MyDocs/
gingerbread_update1.tar.bz2
gingerbread_update2.tar.bz2
gingerbread_superuser.tar.bz2
LatinIME.apk
gps.nokia.so

Follow these steps first to uncompress the bz2 files:
# root
# bzip2 -d gingerbread_update1.tar.bz2
# bzip2 -d gingerbread_update2.tar.bz2
# bzip2 -d gingerbread_superuser.tar.bz2

Now mount /and change directory to /and:

# mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
# cd /and
# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread_update1.tar
# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread_update2.tar
# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread_superuser.tar

You will notice the files getting copied after every tar command above that you execute.

The last ones are not tar files so u can just move them to the respective location:

# mv /home/user/MyDocs/LatinIME.apk /and/system/app
# mv /home/user/MyDocs/gps.nokia.so /and/system/lib/hw/

Finally change directory and unmount:

# cd
# umount /and

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

Thanks xuggs..

The reason I posted here as well is there are many Nitroidians who dont visit the Nitdroid forums.. Hence, to help those people..

Cheers !!

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

Where might one find the equals key? "="

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

press the blue arrow on the keyboard and the comma key :)

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

That'd be handy if it worked in gingerbread, I only get a semi-colon :-(

Edit: It's not on the symbols page either unfortunately.

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

you can use the virtual keyboard for all the symbols you need in android :D
just press the symbols button. i think its around the bottom left.

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

There is a key mapping patch file out there which fixes.. obviously: key mapping.
It is posted in nitdroid: http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=991.0


Edit: Wrong Link. But this is still good: http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?...;boardseen#new

Re: Beginners Guide to Install Gingerbread ( Nitdroid 0.0.9 already installed ) !!
 

thanks xuggs & vivek.

With ur guide i can able to install gingerbread in my N900 but there is only one problem i found is about CALLS. I attend a incoming call where i couldn't hear anything from caller & there was only noice was listen by caller(hisssss sound).

Is there any update to fix this problem?

Also i'm here in UAE(Dubai) & using du network (3G)...

abbas