Do you have a (micro)sd card in the phone?
If so, did you create the 2 partitions mentioned before?

Look for the fdisk solution or the gparted solution in the first post, or on the wiki. (wiki.nitdroid.com)

good luck

ok, I solved.

Any ideas as to why when I get to the boot screen where you suppose to enter a number (shows me choice of options 2 and 5...)???

I can't enter a number from the keyboard...only can enter letter characters...

I've followed latest instructions on the other thread....

Thanks!

It sounds like you're using The old bootmenu? You should install the new one from jay c. It's posted how to instal in steves post #2142. In the new bootmenu you can type numbers. If you used the old method to install you're probebly in RnD mode wich you don't need (i'm not sure, but i think you can't be in RnD mode with the new version) to be with the new version. I would wait for steve to release the new rootfs before going any further with the nitdroid install. When released i would use his instructions to install. I did it with the giude from that post (#2142), and it's pretty much just a copy past job. Copy from website and paste in xterm
Here is the link to that post if you want to try it out anyway. The wifi is not working at the moment (8th/july-2010)...
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=2142

Help me, n900 bricked, NOT Responding, just Nokia logo with a box bellow, after switching to R&D!

noob question:

per these instructions


when i try

bzip2 -d NITDroid-N900-0.0.5-1FroYo-GAPPS-Fixed.tar.bz2

i get

NITDroid-N900-0.0.5-1FroYo-GAPPS-Fixed.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file



what gives? (well other than i know jacksh*t about linux...)


EDIT: i like having a conversation with myself. re-did the whole process from scratch and so far so good. must've been an interrupted download leading to a corrupted file. oh, dj-steve et al, you guys kick arse!

hi guys..i'm confused in which way do i need to follow in order to install android..

from the wiki (http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install)

or from the 1st page of development page (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49811)

or from the 30th page of development page (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=296)

or from the page 215 of development page (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=2142)

or from help/tutorial first page (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56524)

sorry for being so stupid..but yes..i'm a bit dumb...i dont know which way to follow to install android froyo with the latest rootsh kernel (working wifi)

appreciate if someone can point it out..thx

As far as I can tell, you can't install froyo with working wifi yet. There's an update coming soon, supposedly today.

But an overview of installing Android is basically thus:
1. partition the microsd card (FAT32 partition1, ext3 partition2)
2. Extract rootfs to ext3 partition on microsd
3. Install bootmenu
4. Flash kernel

What you're seeing is that the various instructions are for different stages of the project-in-development. Once the rootfs changes (which we're waiting for now) the instructions change. Once the bootmenu changes (which just happened twice this week), the instructions change. Once the kernel changes (I think this is also going to happen soon), the instructions change.

But the basic framework for all of these steps don't change. You're probably always going to have to format your microsd card (once it's done you'll just have to erase the ext3 partition when you update). You're always going to have to know how to extract the rootfs. You're always going to have to install bootmenu (once they get a good, stable version (this one seems good to me) you'll probably be able to leave it).

And so on.

So in short my advice is to wait until the latest is ready. ToJa (I think it's him) will make an autoinstaller right after that and many of us will help him test it.

many thanks my friend..but what version are you currently using?

some users reported that they got the wifi works..how is it possible then?

i thought the android version now is quite stable with the availabilty of marketplace or market app i supposed..from the page 215 (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=2142)

pardon my stupidity..=/

Should i get a class 10 microsd or should i just stay with a class 6, is it capped at any certain point in which higher might not necessarily feel faster?

let me know, it'll definately persuade my purchase!