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power management is a pain in any linux based os, and cpu is built to run at 500-600mhz so shouldn effect its life any but yes will effect batter- no major problem as nitdroid hasn got phone support yet

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Hey Steve - Whilst you're here...
Is there any reason why 'Advanced Launcher" wont work? I'm trying to get back to the pull tab. I hate ADW. Or can you point me into the direction of a standard launcher? (original PullTab)

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what advanced launcher never heard that one. you should be able to grab launcher2 out of one of older rootfs. need to put it in system/app nd delete adwlauncher

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You wont need to delete ADW. Download from MarketPlace or google: Home Switcher. Works great. Working on NITDroid, but the Advance Launcher is crashing.

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check adb for info on crashes

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All guys workin on NITDROID: Gr8 work. Thanks a lot!!
I am having lots of screen flicker in gallery view. It stops when I put a finger on the ambient sensor. Is this a bug? I do not know where to report it. So I post here.

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yep thats a known bug, report at bugs.nitdroid.com

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Hello,

How do I get the Android Market to show all applications? I am trying to download games such as Raging Thunder 2 lite and other highend android games? I know it has to do with the identification of the N900 but is there a way around that?

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Could somebody shed some light about how long the first boot takes? Mine has been running for 10 minutes (the animation stopped and restarted), so I moved the battery out. I tried it again, same thing, now i removed bootanimation.zip, so I have an android logo, same thing (animation goes for one sec, then stops for 4 secs and then continues after a flicker). Is there perhaps a log file I could check what's going on? Thanks

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i installed android but how i minimize applications?

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just press button on the side of ur nokia, function light up the screen on N900. Then u will get back to home screen on ur NITdroid.

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how can I see all the minimized applications?

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Could somebody help me? I installed nitdroid in accordance with the installation manual, but after i choose it in the menu, it doesn't boot :( all i get is the matrix animation flickering sometimes.

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Press the camera key on top of your N900, that should do it :)

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Dousan: it's only shows my 5 desktops, not minimized apps
plus I dont know why my n900 is getting really hot when I use nitdroid! i don't run an oc kernel. why is that?

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Hi,
I'm new to this linux stuff and Nitdroid.. i would like to ask if someone WITH A LOTS OF PATIENCE could explain me step by step how to install Nitdroid in the N900!?
And i would like to know if this works in the Windows 7... if it doesn't can i install it with some live cd of linux? using the terminal?
Could anyone PLEASE help me?
I've seen various guides and even the auto installer of the site: nitdroid.com and it doesn't work because the links inside the installer.sh are invalid!
Please help me! :D
Thanks in advance :)

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It should take 5 mins at max to boot so if its taking longer there definately is a problem. Normally, reboot and it will work the second time. if it is constantly giving issues it may not have extracted correctly so its probably worth wiping the ext3 and re-extracting as in post 2.

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Have you tried to only press it half down (what you would do to focus)?

The battery is draining much faster in NITdroid, i think it's something to do with not being optimized for running on N900. I'm no expert on this matter and i think steve did some explaining in one of theese threads i just can't remember wich one :)

@zylor i think the installer.sh is outdated. Use this link instead it's easy to use and just copy paste from web to xterm. All done on N900 no need for pc ;)
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=759371&postcount=1

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not sure about the minimized apps but the phone gets hot as the cpu runs at 100% all the time

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post 1 of the annouce thread gives you a full detailed guide that can be done on the N900. Have that open on ya pc and follow each step carefully and you should have no problem.

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This is what i was refering to:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=883

I didn't remember it quite right though :o

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Hi, i need some help.... after rebooting with my keyboard open, i selected to boot the Nitdroid -> some commands flashed up -> the screen became blank with a "-" dash at the top left corner .... the dash just stays there until i had to pull out my battery to reboot ..

please help... thanks.

EDIT: I followed the exact steps in the first post but to no avail ... anyone please help?

Thanks.

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Read this answer:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=523

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i have installed nitdroid and it works
but i can't start my meamo by pressing the ''b'' button

It says:

E: videoep: xcb connect failed
E: videoep: xcb connect failed
E: videoep: xcb connect failed
Starting PyMaemo optification.

but after that nothing happend
does anyone know how solve the problem?

tanx

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Try pressing 0 and see if that boots it for you.

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Hi,
I have a very hard time with formating sdcard:( I getting this while using gparted

GParted 0.5.1

Libparted 2.2
Format /dev/sdb1 as fat32 00:00:01 ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdb1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sdb1
start: 63
end: 208844
size: 208782 (101.94 MiB)
set partition type on /dev/sdb1 00:00:01 ( ERROR )
libparted messages ( INFO )

Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.
Can't write to /dev/sdb, because it is opened read-only.
Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdb has been opened read-only.

========================================
Create Primary Partition #1 (ext3, 1.73 GiB) on /dev/sdb

========================================
I don't know what to do:(

EDIT:
I didn't see that tiny switch:P was on "lock" position:)

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anyone can recommand an android usb networking tool to connect my n900 to internet via pc?
how can i get root access in android terminal emulator?

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Sooo a bit unsure what I did wrong now but.

I was running Version 0.0.5-3 just fine and where tempted to test out the new Version 0.0.6, so I did the upgrades in the guide for Version 0.0.5-4, no error during install, but I could not get it to boot... I then tried just to replace the Version 0.0.5-4 with the new 0.0.6 but same result.

When I select the new multiboot option (in my case 5) for the new kernel and all I just get a reboot and back to the selection screen I go.

Any clues where to start looking? I can't see any error messages that would appear and Maemo boots just fine.

I also checked that the file you create for multiboot contains all it should.

Thanks in advance for any help you might have!

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic - Updated
 

Check that the kernel is in boot/multiboot (should be 0.5)

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After i finally got rid of NTDroid and the Boot screen, my device seems to be messed up: The internal music player doesn't find any songs and all music libaries are gone, how to fix this?

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Nokia-N900-02-8:/boot/multiboot# ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Dec 30 09:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 736 Dec 30 09:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1743284 Jul 21 13:30 vmlinuz-2.6.28.NIT.05


is what I found in there, I guess that is correct?

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Yeah, that's correct. Can you check your item file for me. This is in etc/multiboot.d

You should have one something like NITdroid-2.6.28.NIT.05.item. Make sure that file is there and post the contents for me please?

If is not there, tell me what you do have please.

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hi,

I got NITDroid working on my N900, everything was alright... however, after the battery gone while using NITDroid, the phone switched off itself.

strange thing starts here: firstly I tried charge it under NITDroid mode, but it didn't charge; so I switched back to Maemo and charge the battery to FULL, then reboot the phone into NITDroid, problem happens: as soon as I see the main UI, it indicates battery 0% and need to be charged, and the notification light flashing RED. Nothing happen when I connect the charger and phone gone to dead after a few seconds.

I took the battery out and retried a few times, even used another battery from 5800, but all the same: it looks like the NITDroid just remembered the battery status as EMPTY (even after battery recharged FULL under Maemo) and I just cant charge it under NITDroid...

thank you in advance!

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Every time I seen an issue like this, a reboot has fixed it. If it doesn't it's likely that some files have not extracted correctly. Follow step 2 in the announce thread to wipe SD card and reinstall.

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Sure thing, File is there containing

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.05"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.05
ITEM_MODULES=ext3 fat vfat
ITEM_DEVICE=${EXT_CARD}p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3

files name is : NITdroid-2.6.28.NIT.05.item

Other files in folder is

Maemo-2.6.28-omap1.item
Maemo-2.6.28.10power37.item
NITdroid-2.6.28.NIT.02.item
NITdroid-2.6.28.NIT.03.item
examples

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Yeah, tried, no errors at all, just loops back to the bootmenu again.

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how to delete the installation files? the installation failed due to insufficent drive space, and now my rootfs seems to be full because i cannot update any programs everytime i try it says not enough free space! help me pleeeaaassee !

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This was directed at bonabest

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Seems like you were in / not /and when you extracted the rootfs. Essentially, you have filled up the mameo root and removing the un-needed files is going to be a right pain as files would have extracted into already existing folders.

Only real way to fix this is re-flash.

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Well that is all correct too. Strange as I have only seen the boot loop with nitdroid if the kernel hasn't been there or the item file is wrong. Just to check, you are using the most up to date version of multiboot???

If so, I think that something has gone wrong during installing. Remove the kernel from /boot/multiboot and re-do

This will replace the kernel for you so we can see if that was the issue. If this doesn't fix it I think you are going to need to do a full re-install of NITDroid.