Gingerbread on N900

[jerryfreak]

surprised thsi wasnt posted here first

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/26/nokia-n900-mixed-with-gingerbread-baked-at-425-degrees-for-16-1/

[flipalong]

e-yes said on twitter and facebook that he was planning to release gingerbread on n900 by new years. (non stable version i think)

[porselinaheart]

surprised thsi wasnt posted here first

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/26/nokia-n900-mixed-with-gingerbread-baked-at-425-degrees-for-16-1/

it was posted on TMO first, there was a thread with the vid, as well as some of e-yes twitter posts floating around just before Nitdroid 0.0.9 was released. My question is why it took this long for engadget to get the story, since they are usually frothing at the mouth when it comes to new android info/updates.

[chivar]

http://www.mobilesider.com/topic/windows-7-running-on-nokia-n900

but do ou believe this?? video was taken down wasn;t able to check

[flipalong]

http://www.mobilesider.com/topic/windows-7-running-on-nokia-n900

but do ou believe this?? video was taken down wasn;t able to check

damn it got taken down.
if it is real, itd probably be at 1 or 2 frames per second which is highly unusable and useless.
someone managed to get mac os x but it ran at 2 fps.

[porselinaheart]

do u mean windows 7 or windows phone 7?

don't think win 7 runs on our n900s, i've seen some vids purporting to show this , but they're just fakes using remote remote desktop viewers.

[Ele-Mental]

Where is the the How-to?

[kingoddball]

I'll make it nice and easy!


root
cd /home/user/MyDocs

bzip2 -d gingerbread.tar.bz2
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
cd /and
rm -rf * (this removes all the files from the old installation)
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread.tar

cd /home/user/MyDocs

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


This works.
All works. Apply the patches using the same method as installing gingerbread (.tar blah blah).

I have no issues.

[Crogge]

Can you overclock the latest Nitroid release btw?

[slender]

I'll make it nice and easy!


~$ root
Nokia-N900:~# cd /home/user/MyDocs
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# bzip2 -d gingerbread.tar.bz2
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# cd /and
(!Check that you really are in /and dir!)
Nokia-N900:/and# rm -rf * (this removes all the files from the old installation)
Nokia-N900:/and# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/gingerbread.tar
Nokia-N900:/and# cd /home/user/MyDocs
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# dpkg -i nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

This works.

All works. Apply the patches using the same method as installing gingerbread (.tar blah blah).

I have no issues.Sorry had to add those paths. Let´s hope that nobody manages to rm -rf their mydocs dir :)

[kingoddball]

No OC, yet.
There is no root access in 2.3.1 at this point.

Edit: Thanks Slender!

[e-yes]

Hmm... Update 3: Superuser
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http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=1044.msg4494#msg4494

[Thomashamka]

I copied installation instructions and made it bit easier to install. Like problems you might get and how to get over it. GINGERBREAD install. Ill make same but on NITDroid 0.0.9

http://gingerbreadn900.blogspot.com/

[LTman]

Where can you dl gingerbread.tar.gz

[Kenny1001]

Where can you dl gingerbread.tar.gz
www.google.com

[Dante son of Sparda]

OK guy, I wont to start new theme so I'll try here.
I just successfully installed Gingerbread on eMMC from this tutorial
http://wiki.maemo.org/Nitdroid_easy_install_on_EMMC#Installing_Nitdroid
every step I've done and here is a problem. My Gringerbread wont boot, when load finish (black screen like bios on PC when booting) and after that I got error message
"ROOT FILESYSTEM MMCBLK1P2 NOT AVAILAIBLE
GURU MEDITATION #00000025.62017712
PRESS ANY KEY OF PANIC"

What I left out??
This is first time that I want to change OS on mobile so help me please to resolve this problem. Thank you in advance.

[jedi]

OK guy, I wont to start new theme so I'll try here.
I just successfully installed Gingerbread on eMMC from this tutorial
http://wiki.maemo.org/Nitdroid_easy_install_on_EMMC#Installing_Nitdroid
every step I've done and here is a problem. My Gringerbread wont boot, when load finish (black screen like bios on PC when booting) and after that I got error message
"ROOT FILESYSTEM MMCBLK1P2 NOT AVAILAIBLE
GURU MEDITATION #00000025.62017712
PRESS ANY KEY OF PANIC"

What I left out??
This is first time that I want to change OS on mobile so help me please to resolve this problem. Thank you in advance.

Did you try this? http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=887734&postcount=79

[Dante son of Sparda]

No I'm not, it not telling me that mem card is corrupt like in that post just it wont boot from any reason. I have edited .item file and put there to boot from mmcblk0p2 partition. In boot menu there is 2 nitsroid bla bla on mmcblk0p2 (eMMC) but when it start booting there show mmcblk1p2 (MMC) and I don't know how to change it.

[jedi]

No I'm not, it not telling me that mem card is corrupt like in that post just it wont boot from any reason. I have edited .item file and put there to boot from mmcblk0p2 partition. In boot menu there is 2 nitsroid bla bla on mmcblk0p2 (eMMC) but when it start booting there show mmcblk1p2 (MMC) and I don't know how to change it.
Pah sorry bad copy/paste. Should've been something like this http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=897299&postcount=371

All I did was google the Guru mediation number (hint hint!)

[Switch_]

Did you try this? http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=887734&postcount=79

Don't think that is relevant in this instance because of the install to eMMC, not MicroSD.

Sounds like the boot file is not configured correctly, the step for leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11<tab key> hasn't been completed or it is being pointed to the wrong partition. I believe (although it's been a while since I played with NITDroid) that you have a problem with the line ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
and might need to change the partition number (p2) to maybe p5 or even p3.

[ammyt]

change
ITEM_DEVICE:mmcblk0p2
to
ITEM_DEVICE:${INT_CARD}p2
and tell me if it won't work :cool:

[Dante son of Sparda]

Pah sorry bad copy/paste. Should've been something like this http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=897299&postcount=371

All I did was google the Guru mediation number (hint hint!)

Thanks dude, I did it, you are genius. I just changed something in .item file from link and now I can boot Android 2.3.1. Without updates working wifi, google login, web, market and music player. That's all what I tried for now.
Thanks one more time

[jedi]

Thanks dude, I did it, you are genius. I just changed something in .item file from link and now I can boot Android 2.3.1. Without updates working wifi, google login, web, market and music player. That's all what I tried for now.
Thanks one more time

Credit to Switch_ - it's his post I linked to, and he also gave the answer here ;)

I just googled. Badly.

[Dante son of Sparda]

change
ITEM_DEVICE:mmcblk0p2
to
ITEM_DEVICE:${INT_CARD}p2
and tell me if it won't work :cool:

No, it's not that. It was there but i changed and it works.
so everybody who have similar problems do this:

# root
# leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item

then copy/paste this in there:

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.06"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.06
ITEM_MODULES=ext3
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3
EOF

That works for me now.

[ammyt]

No, it's not that. It was there but i changed and it works.
so everybody who have similar problems do this:

# root
# leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item

then copy/paste this in there:

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.06"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.06
ITEM_MODULES=ext3
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3
EOF

That works for me now.

You can't just invite people to do whatever you did that simple.
People and you should do what you did if you don't have a microsd card in your n900.
If you have an microsd card plugged in your n900, you should keep it as:
ITEM_DEVICE:${INT_CARD}p2
please, be sure before guiding anyone.

[Dante son of Sparda]

OK, somebody not understand. I don't have MicroSD and I think I don't need it. I just installed Nitdroid on eMMC copy/paste that what I said and right now I'm writting from Android on N900 eMMC.
Everything works well just there is another problem. Android says that my SD card is damaged, how to fix that?

[Dante son of Sparda]

One more question, how to close something when I open? For example web, Player etc.

[Dante son of Sparda]

Any answer??

[funkmunk]

Just half press the camera key to close any app..

[Dante son of Sparda]

OK that is fixed, damaged sd are also fixed after few restarts, now I have to fix airplain mode but I cannot access to /and/data..it says can't cd to /data. what's wrong?

[funkmunk]

OK that is fixed, damaged sd are also fixed after few restarts, now I have to fix airplain mode but I cannot access to /and/data..it says can't cd to /data. what's wrong?

Did u read the Wiki properly?? No offence...

[Dante son of Sparda]

yep but like I told you, I can't access to other folders in /and just cd /and and that's it. I will check again.

[anapospastos]

You have to mount it to /and first. Read the wiki and after ask. Also do not post the same question again and again because it is a forum, not a chat to get an instant reply.

[mehdi.gl]

Gingerbread is working on my n900 but I can't make calls !! :(
Also I configured a 3G connection and I don't know how to use this connection when the browser is open. !!


Please Help me !
Thank you in advance

[bman]

change
ITEM_DEVICE:mmcblk0p2
to
ITEM_DEVICE:${INT_CARD}p2
and tell me if it won't work :cool:

it works but when you take the card out it doesnt...?