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datjomp

2010-07-10 00:59

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Well I got it working, thanks for the guide:)
Now I just have to learn this new os...
I just seem to get stuck in the opened app.
For example if I open the browser from the appmenu.
How do i close the browser window and come back to the desktop?
Is there a "Home" command?
Maybe a litte Nitdroid get around guide could be something for noobs like me.

A bit over my head all this but im curious aswell:D
Thanks all you guys included in this project

DarkPand0r

2010-07-10 01:05

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Did you hold down U then press the Power button?

OptX	2010-07-10 01:11

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by datjomp (Post 746747)

Here is a short one :

Quote:

keyboard has been remapped as follows:
left + right arrows = duplicate volume controls
up arrow = home (hold for tasklist)
down arrow = back
backspace = backspace

datjomp

2010-07-10 01:18

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkPand0r (Post 746749)

Did you hold down U then press the Power button?

When i start it up i press U and press blue arrow 3 to enter the suggested option in the guide. Thats option 4, right?

I can see all the stuff but i cant go back from the appwindow.
Probably same basic stuff i should do but this is all new to me.
I´ll poke around and see if i get the hang of it:)

datjomp

2010-07-10 01:27

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by OptX (Post 746751)

Here is a short one :

Thanks! That will be enuff for tonight

jamiefuller

2010-07-10 06:26

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Firstly, this as awesome, I first attempted to install thing last night and within minutes I had android booting with (almost) no issues.

The guys involved in this are heros!

However...

I'm suffering a tiny problem thats causing a huge issue.

I, like a few others , cannot access the home key.

left and right arrows adjust the volume...check
down key to access the menu...check
up key to access home....nope!

I have scowered the topics and seen some other people with this issue but no replies to them. I imagine people simply think they havn't read the instruction. but I am definatly pressing the "up arrow" and not getting "home"

I've tried every key on the pad, including the vol+/- and camera button. I've also tried all keys shifted and fn'ed.

I checked out the keymap file (omap_twl4030keypad.kl) but wouldn't know if it was right or wrong..

any Ideas kind people?

OptX	2010-07-10 07:50

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Same here :( Home is lost. But that is not so bad for what we got :)

belaial

2010-07-10 08:42

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Hi

First off! Great work all the Dev's!

I am trying to install this now for the first time, and I will admit I ain't a PRO on Linux but it did not seem to impossible so I started the new guide posted last night and I think I made it so far as to this line, where I get stuck

*EDIT*

I did the partition thing first, since the guide stated I should.

======

Nokia-N900-02-8:/# mount -o noatime,rw /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 on /and failed: Invalid argument

======

I guess I messed up somewhere is the partioning? any tips on some commands or something that could help me check I have done everything right?

is it safe to reboot the phone after I did the install dualboot menu? Even tho I don't have the SD card setup and working?

It's an 8 GB card btw.

Thanks in Advance!

IzzehO

2010-07-10 08:48

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by belaial (Post 746961)

Hi

First off! Great work all the Dev's!

I am trying to install this now for the first time, and I will admit I ain't a PRO on Linux but it did not seem to impossible so I started the new guide posted last night and I think I made it so far as to this line, where I get stuck

======

Nokia-N900-02-8:/# mount -o noatime,rw /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 on /and failed: Invalid argument

======

I guess I messed up somewhere is the partioning? any tips on some commands or something that could help me check I have done everything right?

is it safe to reboot the phone after I did the install dualboot menu? Even tho I don't have the SD card setup and working?

It's an 8 GB card btw.

Thanks in Advance!

Happened to me too. From what I can tell it happens because sfdisk can't re-read partition table and ugly things happen (as this was the only difference between mine working, and not working). Reboot the phone and start over.

belaial

2010-07-10 08:53

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by IzzehO (Post 746963)

So it's safe to reboot even tho I installed the dualboot menu? it will still find the Maemo and boot that I hope :rolleyes:

I did this part

cd /home/user/MyDocs/
wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/Jay-c/...t-0.1.1.tar.gz
cd /
tar xzvf /home/user/MyDocs/multiboot-0.1.1.tar.gz

Alot of files gut unpacked and I guess that also installed it?

But still Safe to reboot? :)

dj_steve

2010-07-10 09:09

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

you need keyboard open to see the boot menu otherwise maemo boots by defult. and yes its safe to reboot jus dont choose nitdroid item :)

belaial

2010-07-10 09:15

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_steve (Post 746988)

you need keyboard open to see the boot menu otherwise maemo boots by defult. and yes its safe to reboot jus dont choose nitdroid item :)

Awesome Steve! thank you!

belaial

2010-07-10 09:32

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

So my error seems to be in that I don't have this thing called mmcblk1p2

if i run df -h I get this output (Looks aweful when posted, hope it's readable)

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.9M 162.4M 61.3M 73% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.9M 162.4M 61.3M 73% /
tmpfs 1.0M 72.0k 952.0k 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 88.0k 168.0k 34% /var/run
none 10.0M 84.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /home
/home/opt 2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2.0G 354.1M 1.5G 19% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 3.4G 23.6G 13% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 5.9G 32.0k 5.9G 0% /media/mmc1

I went into Mint Linux to look at the SD Card and I had a FAT32 and a EXT3 partition on it, but I aint got that mmcblk1p2 that the failing command gets stuck on.

Seems I still messed up the partition part somehow? it would seem I can't read / does not discover my ext3 partition?

dj_steve

2010-07-10 09:36

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

how big is your microsd

belaial

2010-07-10 09:43

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_steve (Post 747011)

how big is your microsd

8 GB

ext3 partition aint over 2 GB

TNiga

2010-07-10 09:45

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Isn't there any kind of task switcher in nitdroid? And should up arrow work?

dj_steve

2010-07-10 09:46

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

sounds like the ext3 hjasnt been created, i would try partitioning again. and up arrow should indeed work unless they removed it in froyo lol.

belaial

2010-07-10 09:52

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_steve (Post 747019)

sounds like the ext3 hjasnt been created, i would try partitioning again.

Should the SD Card be totally unpartitioned when used in the N900 ? I mean, should I go into Mint Linux and make all the space unlocated so there are no partiotions on it when I start?

dj_steve

2010-07-10 09:54

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

should not matter, you could even partition on mint itself and format

belaial

2010-07-10 10:11

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_steve (Post 747024)

should not matter, you could even partition on mint itself and format

hmm, I seem to get some errors in creating the ext3 partition.

And Mint wont allow a bigger resolution.... argh! So can't see if there are more error info down there....

Need to cool my head with some Futurama and milk :D

*Back and EDIT*

I have no clue what is going on, I have tried all things I can imagine now, if I make 2 fat32 ones, they both work fine, but however I try, I can't create a ext3 one, it always comes up with error messages in Mint Linux, Card is brand new, just got it yesterday, formated the whole card to fat32, no errors so the card seems just fine.

Any tip at all whan I can try?

Siggen

2010-07-10 12:10

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by belaial (Post 747042)

Try to use these instructions from the wiki

http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

jamiefuller

2010-07-10 12:51

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

anybody figured out how to taskswitch without the up arrow? or maybe a different keymap? I'm having to reboot everytime I want to change apps =(

unclepecos

2010-07-10 12:51

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

I took the plunge seeing how much excitement there has been here ith nitdroid. Followed dj-steve's latest instructions to partition and install all directly from my n900 and boots up fantastic! You guys rock!

I'm posting for some help with setting up the buttons. The volume up/down and back buttons work fine using the direction arrows right/left and down respectively. However, home button doesn't seem to be working as arrow up. Is this a problem on this latest build or did I miss some step on setting up key maps?

unclepecos

2010-07-10 12:54

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

jamiefuller, i'm glad to see that it wasnt only me having the problem with the home key.

tuliobaars

2010-07-10 14:59

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

No, DjSteve! I did using the correct files for N810. But, i guess, as is the same os, can have kinda solution for both =D

For N8x0 devices the NITdroid v2 isn't going to work, i guess

BTW, i really dunnot see a way to dual boot NITdroid and Diablo....

It is going to be really good if someone could help me, considering a load of users get the same problem.

Today i've tried for 5 times, all unsuceful, but keep trying.

(Sorry for my English, but i'm trying to improve it!)

Thanks in advance

sepehrsfmech

2010-07-10 15:19

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

guys, when i want to partition, umount /dev/mmcblk1p1, it said no such file...

and then some guy said that mmcblk1 will turn into mmcblk1p1 after partitioned.
when i did umount /dev/mmcblk1, it said invalid argument, what do i do?

btw this is for nokia n900

belaial

2010-07-10 15:40

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Siggen (Post 747140)

Try to use these instructions from the wiki

http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

Have tried those also 3 or 4 times over =/ same issue still, tried doing it on the N900 and in Mint Lunix... Guess I will have too Google and see, or get a new card... again :o

Dousan

2010-07-10 15:42

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by sepehrsfmech (Post 747285)

Try follow this link:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=141
As i remember it i got the same error as you when i did it but proceeded anyway. That worked for me, i could see that it had partitioned the card when i checked it in xterm. You can get the help to what code to write in sfdisk on the n900 to check the partitions i cant remember it right now ;)

contro

2010-07-10 15:59

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by sepehrsfmech (Post 747285)

I am having the same problem I tried different names

umount /dev/mmcblk1
umount /dev/mmcblk
umount /dev/mmcblkp1

etc keep receiving same error message:
umount: cannot umount /dev/mmcblk : no such file or directory

This is a brand new 16 GB class 6 microsd I formatted the card with the filesystem app on the n900 (standard built-in app)

I am thinking the name of the microsd is not the same as yours.

Can anyone tell me how to find the microsd card name via terminal in n900?

I figured out what the name was....

Also I can see that the card is there just want to format it so I can get the Froyo installation going.

I'd like to format the card 10GB Fat32 and 1.9 GB EXT3 is there additional instructions that I have to complete to preform this?

Stonik

2010-07-10 16:02

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

I'm also currently installing the latest NITDroid, let's see how it goes. I'm pretty excited as an Android phone was my second option for a new device. Now it seems I can get both, thanks to the awesome people of the community.

contro

2010-07-10 16:21

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Ok I made it this far:

/home/user # umount /dev/mmcblk1p1
/home/user # sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 <<EOF
> <140100>,C
> L
>
> EOF
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 490432 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk1p1 0+ 15325 15326- 15693816 b W95 FAT32
/dev/mmcblk1p2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/mmcblk1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/mmcblk1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
trailing junk after number

sfdisk: bad input
/home/user #
/home/user #

did i put the size to high?

ArchiMark

2010-07-10 16:22

Kudos & Questions

KUDOS to dj_steve, Jay-c, and anyone else contributed to this great effort!

Got it installed and booted up OK this time....

OK, I found settings app and adjusted display timeout to 30 minutes. However, while using device with app open, screen just went black and then it's like it goes to sleep...almost impossible it seems to wake it back up again...

I'v tried tapping on screen, disconnect AC charger cord and then plugging back in again, etc....eventually, I seem to get to see display again, but I assume there's a better way....

Any suggestions???

Also, in middle of using Market app, screen went black and then after I tapped on screen a few times, device rebooted on its own....

Any suggestions???

Thanks!

UPDATE - Don't know what changed, but now, display doesn't go black on me at all, stays on...weird...

Also, find that using the up arrow key to get to home screen, works sporadically, not consistently....can't find way to close app windows easily...

Any suggestions?

belaial

2010-07-10 16:52

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Siggen (Post 747140)

Try to use these instructions from the wiki

http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

Could this mean anything?

This text shows up in terminal after I try to format the card with the ext3 partition.

geneven

2010-07-10 17:08

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

It works for me, wireless too.

Slow even with animation off. Twitter crashes. I'm sure the best is yet to come.

Stonik

2010-07-10 17:55

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Works for me too. For wi-fi I had to disable mac address access list from the router. There's something wrong with the market in here too, it just doesn't download anything.

But generally I'm very impressed. Not that much because of Android, but you guys are amazing.

sepehrsfmech

2010-07-10 19:21

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingoddball (Post 720291)

This thread has been started to help members install Android on their N900 and to (attempt) to help answer questions and solve some issues.

This is not a thread for Bugs - All bugs should be report @: bugs.nitdroid.com

You will need to download the N900 Flasher-3.5 software

Download Android (Eclair-2.1) RootFS:

You will need a modified kernel.
Android ONLY Kernel You can not boot back into Maemo with this.

Code:

flasher-3.5 --set-rd-flags=no-ext-wd,no-lifeguard-reset --enable-rd-mode -f -k zImage-NITDroid-0.0.1 -R

DualBoot Kernel Boots Maemo, Android AND has overclocking enabled!

Code:

flasher-3.5 --set-rd-flags=no-ext-wd,no-lifeguard-reset --enable-rd-mode -f -k zImage-NITDroid-0.0.3-a -R

Now onto setup and installation!!
First, You need a computer running Linux, Linux VM or download a liveCD of: Debian, Mint Linux, Ubuntu or many others.

At this point, please keep the Android partition under 2GB.
Don't worry about the smaller size as Android has access to your 27GB on you N900 :cool: :D

Open a Terminal window and type:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:2.../terminal1.png

Code:

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb



o

n

p

1

<press enter>

+128M



t

c

n

p

2

<press enter>

<press enter>



w



sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdb1



sudo mke2fs -j /dev/sdb2 -m0



If you receive an error saying "mounted.... "



type:



sudo umount /dev/sdb1



Again if you get a mounted error for: mke2fs



sudo umount /dev/sdb2 (for mke2fs line)



mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt





Download the android file to your desktop



cd /mnt

sudo tar xjvvpf ../home/USERNAME/DesktopNITDroid-N900-0.0.3-1-Demo.tbz2





umount /mnt

One you have completed that on your PC.

Open up Maemo, package manager, download BOOTMENU, rootsh and nano

Or (sudo)
apt-get install bootmenu-n900
apt-get install nano
apt-get install rootsh

Once done, Open up XTERM on N900

Type:
[code]
root

cd ..
cd ..

cd etc/bootmenu.d/

type:

nano android.ext.item
Nano will open.
Type exactly:

Code:

ITEM_NAME="Android (external SD, partition 2)" 

ITEM_ID="android2" 

ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p2" 

ITEM_MODULES="mbcache jbd ext3 fat vfat" 

ITEM_FSTYPE="ext3" 

ITEM_FSOPTIONS="noatime"

CTRL (touch screen button)
Press W
Press Y

exit
Reboot

Have the keyboard slide OPEN (showing keyboard)
Select the android.

The device should begin to boot start android.
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...26tbs%3Disch:1

THE BACK COVER MUST BE IN PLACE OR THE SYSTEM WILL CRASH

I will provide you another little tutorial/guide to disable to keyboard flash that comes with RD mode if you do not like the blinking/active keypad lights.

Crack open xTerm:

Code:

root

cd ..



cd etc



nano pmconfig



Change "sleep_ind 1" to "sleep_ind 0".

sleep_ind 1 is generally the last line of pmconfig.

You do not need to use nano, I just like it's simplicity :)

Then reboot.
The keyboard may flash on the sides during bootup, this is fine.

Twitchers!

Installation video's:
part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YPDufJc88
part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjJ6_uarmA

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:j...id-on-n900.jpg

Yes, you may press the "Thanks" button ;)

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...ges/thanks.gif

Edit: Please be mindful that none of this would be possible without all the hard work provided by: e-yes and dj_steve.
Thanks for your hard work getting Android to work! THANKS!

in my country newsycat wont open...
can you upload the dual boot kernel somewhere else/?

Stonik

2010-07-10 19:55

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

The NITDroid browser scored around 13 500 ms in SunSpider Javascript test, by the way, although there were a few programs running in the background (too stupid to shut them down at this point). :)

lostinmirkwood

2010-07-10 21:32

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Installed, Working Great with WiFi!

Thanks DJ_Steve

moepda

2010-07-10 22:07

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Quote:

Originally Posted by contro (Post 747356)

Ok I made it this far:

/home/user # umount /dev/mmcblk1p1
/home/user # sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 <<EOF
> <14100>,C
> L
>
> EOF
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 490432 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk1p1 0+ 15325 15326- 15693816 b W95 FAT32
/dev/mmcblk1p2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/mmcblk1p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/mmcblk1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
trailing junk after number

sfdisk: bad input
/home/user #
/home/user #

did i put the size to high?

i used 13100 on 14.8gb card and same error , not sure why thogh , anyone can guide ??

contro

2010-07-10 22:17

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic

Thought I was the only one...

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