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thats easy fix, reextract 0.0.6 rootfs to the card and it'll work fine

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

In x xterminal write:
followed by:
Certify yourself that you are connected to the internet before doing that command!
That will install the packages: wget and bzip2 and your issue should be fixed! :)

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

------------------------------------[HELP]------------------------------------
oh boy...

I had android running. I was multibooting between android and maemo without a problems

I noticed in Android I have a message that sd card is corrupted (top left corner). I clicked on it and it asked me do you want to reformat it. I thought...yea, lets give it a try we will see what hapends.

Nothing happened, I installed few more apps all was good and then when I rebooted to go back to maemo... and I can't!

On multibbot screen I chose maemo, I get output that reflash was sucessfull, it boots up again and I end up in a boot menu again.

The funny thing is that android boots up without a problem. Now I have a message in top left corner that SD card is blank!

Reflash or you gusy have any ideas?

ps. I am really forced to use Android now, am I ;)

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

NITDroid mounts the emmc as an sd card. If you have formatted it, you have formatted the phone. You will need to reflash.

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

Lessol learned, the hard way...

for others
DO NOT REFORMAT YOUR SDCARD FORM ANDROID

:D

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

more accuratly you will need to reflash emmc not maemo

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

Thanks again, easy for who? haha. Unfortunately, I don't know what that means. Any chance of translating it into a step by step of what I need to do fix it? Then hopefully this blank screen with the cursor will be gone and I will be up and running.

I'm sure some of you may think, If he doesn't know what he's doing then maybe he shouldn't be doing this - and maybe they're right.

Cheers for everyones help and patience though.

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

Just repeat step 6. Extract the tar once again.

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

@browncaravan you need to do this in xterm:
code:
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and
cd /and
rm -rf *
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/NITDroid-N900-the-flying-world.tar

That should do it for you ;)

I take you already did download the newest rootfs -the flying-world- (0.0.6)...

If not get it here:
http://downloads.nitdroid.com/NITDro...ing-world.tbz2

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

Hi Guys

I had to reflash my device after I 'formated sd card' under android and wipe out my maemo, like I said Lesson learned BUT I was playing a little bit with that phone before I did that and to be honest maybe becasue it was running android for hours (I didn't have time to falsh it) or maybe because sd was 'removed' system was running more smooth and phone wasn't so warm.

Even guitar hero was running better then before. Just wanted to share
TIP: Install Task killer. when system starts to slow down just kill all the tasks and it will work much better ;)

BTW does sd card class impacts the system performance?

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

i finally got it working! :) time for a celebration!

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I just have a few general questions, guys...
1) For those who have overclocked, are the menus 100% usable (as if Android was the native OS)? That is, no lag, no freezing etc etc?
2) Also for those who have overclocked, what sort of battery life do you get under Android? Does it scale the CPU more efficiently now? Not sure if anyone has actually had a go at running their battery down but I'm curious...not much point in installing Android if it is going to burn through half my battery in 2 hours...

Anyway if anyone can shed some light I'd be very appreciative.
Cheers

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

It is 100% usable without overclocking, but:
-it crashes quite often
-you don't have gsm
-battery management is very basic and power draw huge
-you don't have enough buttons to decently handle the UI unless you quit your volume buttons...

Only point in having it right now is getting an idea of how android looks and feels + testing some apps.

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

Can I ask you a couple more qestions?:o
What class is your microSD card? I read a class6 card performs much better than others and just wondered what you had?

Also, do you have an approximate time for how long a battery would last? Even hazard a guess if you haven't got any concrete number?

Thanks for the speedy response

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

Class 4 4GB but the OS performs decently. No major lags whatsoever.

It's very hard to approximate since it dies on me every 20-30 minutes (playing a lot around the UI and settings) and reboots use a lot of power.

Given a more fixed activity (gaming) I have not had such issues but the device ran quite hot. I'd guess 4 to 8 hours with moderate usage... but it's a very wild guess.

EDIT: and by 100% usable I don't mean that all apps will run, only a handful, but the general OS is there.

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

Stuck in airplane mode...
Every time I boot the airplane mode is on. This doesn't affect connectivity in any way (except for the apps that won't let me do anything because of it) as I can still connect to wireless networks. However the airplane mode stays on.

Once I click on it it grays out until I leave the menu. Tried from the power button menu where it is displayed as being off. Once clicked here, it grays out until reboot.

I tried to overwrite the file system in hope of getting rid of it (repeated step 6) but it's still there and so are my apps.

Any ideas?

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

I got problem with my memorycard. I installed nitdroid with my new 16gb card, partitioned it to 2gb. Now i flashed n900 back to running maemo. But I cant/dont know how to partition and format the memcard. Im stuck with maemo showing me the size of my memcard is 2gb instead of the 16?

Help would be appreciated.

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

Just got my HTC LEO/HD2 to boot on Android so I'm in love with it again (I got a N900 after that due to WM). So I just saw how I can get NITDroid on here but I'm stuck at "mke2fs -j -m0 -L NITDroid /dev/mmcblk1p2"

It gives me this note: The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?

Sorry I'll do a search after this...

Thanks guys..lookin' forward to it!

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

Top job. Thanks for that - I'm all up and running. This is where I find out there the next update is out in a day or two and I have to do it all over again, haha. I may require assistance, as and when that happens. Cheers again.

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

Sounds like the partition did not work as it cant find the drive try the step below again. Note only change is from the original post u actually remove the symbol < > on boh sides of your number this should create the partition corectly.

umount /dev/mmcblk1p1
sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF
,<SIZE>,C
,,L
,,
,,
EOF

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

Or you could simply download that file from here: http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...4&d=1281222395

Instead of painfully creating it ;)

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

How big is your SD card and what size partition did you specify for the FAT?

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

i had succesfully install android and love it..
but, i just found out when i boot to maemo that my maemo has a quite serious problem...i cannoy open music in media player, cannot see picture in photo...both apps say that its empty although the files is still there when i open with file explorer..
can someone help me solve this???

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

ive tried out a couple of versions now, and all seem to work fine.

with this version the flying world, i cant seem to find facebook in the market. anyone else? if its not there, where can i download the latest apk?

alos, never seem to be able to find astro file manager either. ? anyone?

cheers ®

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

I can't type numbers from the virtual keypad for some reason...
Just numbers, every other character works without issues.

Anyone else experienced this?

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

Yes me too...also can't type the numbers!

AlphaX2

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

Very awkward. Have you done any key modifications lire remaping volume buttons and such?

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

Ok, totally weird! I reinstalled the android kernel properly via terminal and re-extracted the .tar and nor the physical keyboard is working, including the number, but... virtual one still doesn't type in the numbers...

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

the number issue on VKB is known, not critical to fix yet, and google for facebook apk should find ya the apps :)

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

Any workaround though?

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

nope not at min

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

How ab swype?

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

try and see :)

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

I have installed the latest version of nitdroid in my n900 but i can't put the bluetooth neither the wifi to work!
Anyone can help me?
Thanks

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

I've updated to the latest version of NITdroid and multiboot 0.2.9. And that all works as advertised. No trouble there. I also followed Jay-C's latest instructions to automatically pull the latest titan kernel in to the mix automatically. That also works. But here's my issue; I can boot into the power40 kernel just fine, but I'm used to using kernel-power-settings to manage my overclocking settings. kernel-power-settings was uninstalled when I uninstalled kernel-flasher, per the instructions, and I can't reinstall it because of conflicts with multiboot. I've been overclocking since before kernel-power-settings existed, so I'm comfortable with the old school way of managing the clock settings, but I've been spoiled by power-settings (plus I'm lazy), so I'd rather not have to hunt down those old instruction if I don't have to. Is there a work around for getting power-settings to work with multiboot 0.2.9?

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

Same issue here. Let me know if you get a solution - I am working on it from this side as well.

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

Tried both swype and better keyboard. They don't type the numbers in either.

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

Hi all, I need some help:

I successfully installed the latest Nitdroid build. I was able to boot to Nitdroid and Maemo. I encountered a problem when I stupidly took out the battery while it boots to Maemo. now whenever I tried to turn on the phone it's just the nokia logo and the white light on lower left stays lit then phone will turn off, same thing happens when I slid out the keyboard and turning it on.

now my question is (since I don't want to reflash the device), how can I flash Nitdroid and Maemo kernels so that the boot menu appears?

Thank you very much


EDIT: ok I solved it .... what I did was (just a weird choice of troubleshooting ...) reflash my device with an old nitdroid kernel:

flasher-3.5 --enable-rd-mode --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset,no-ext-wd -f -k NITDroid-N900-zImage-latest -R

and then redid the steps of dj_steve.

I thought I'm gonna have to reflash the device again whew!. now I can breath back. I saved my apps.

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

You also need to find astro file manager on google, i couldn't find it in market either only a plugin to copy/paste/move things in astro. Can't remember where i found it but did it on google ;)

Good hunting :)

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Any one know where can I find multiboot-power37.tar.gz?

Link seems to be dead.