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I did something and tried booting up and now it says:
getbootstate: Invalid selection
Choose boot option:
2) MMC
9) Start a shell

and I am unable to type numbers :(

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from all my booting tries. I could see one thing. "error -110 read error" something.
so, do i have to change permission or anything on the memory card. if so how?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

Getting the same issue. The error is further up, however, and I believe my error is different to yours.

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I did get this error:
getbootstate: mounting mtdblock4
mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock4 on /mnt/new_root faild: No such device
Command exited with non-zero status 255
real On 0.03s
user On 0.0.0s
sys On 0.01s
Choose booting option:
2) MMC
9) Start a shell




Please help me, i dont know what i can you now, beacause i dont have numbers

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

same prob with mine also.
can someone write diff steps which need to be done using ubuntu live cd. its been 2 days since i am trying to get nitdroid :(

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

You need to slide the keyboard close and then unplug the battery so the phone turns off. Plug the battery in again and put the backcover on quick after that and it should boot maemo ;)

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I am able to boot Maemo. I want Android :(

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Do we still have 2 GB partition limitation?

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i have a 128 partition 1

and a 7 gb partition 2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

i havent tried above 2gb yet. alsol those errors above look like bootmenu is courrpt as its trying to mount wrong partition

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now i try ITEM_DEVICE="$mmcblk1p2" and its better

but was is: getbootstate: Mounting
on /mnt/new_root failed: no such Device
Comand exited with no-zero status 255

???

EDIT: Now i shrinking the partition under 2gb, i testing in 30min

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{EXT_CARD}p2

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mine is the same ${EXT_CARD}p2 but still I get error :(

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Ok now i have deleted my partitions completely. Can u plz tell me the commands using fdisk rather than gparted and then how do i extract, sudo tar or just tar. (I am on Ubuntu Live CD)

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

I installed Android 2.2 ,, On my N900

but I can't access the Gallery/Music... it says SD Card unmounted or not present

Anyway to get it work?

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The First Post in this topic contains instructions for fdisk. These are the instructions I followed, using the terminal, from the gparted cd. I did use the gparted cd, but not gparted. I followed the instructions exactly. I had to do it more than once even though I was careful.

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Ok i usef fdisk and was able to create the partitions. Now when I boot and select Android, these messages come:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I did reboot and tried twice but in vain :(

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before this line it says:

/sbin/preinit: line 368: /sbin/fiasco-do-update: not found
/sbin/preinit: line 368: cannot open /dev/console: no such file

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

I got that when I failed to properly extract the rootfs.

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as far as i see we all get pretty much the same Problem here ;-(
I really do hope that it isn´t because of our SD Cards, especially because of the fact that mine is absolutely new.
I am not in a rush, i can wait to find a solution.
Hope we find a fix for this ;-)

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This may be old news, but I just worked out that NITDroid can be shutdown without pulling the battery using the same key combination as on native Android devices.

Hold down the power button and then half press the camera shutter button.

Is it possible to run an app from the command line? I've got the Audible Beta but it keeps hanging on the splash screen. I expect this is related to the external flash card issue

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dev tools > terminal em*

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Hi all,

Jumping on the bandwagon here...

I followed this guide: http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

Upon first boot I got an error about

/dev/mmcblk1p2 not being found

Followed by:

I think I followed the guide exactly, but I only have 1 partition on my mem card. It's a 1gb card, with 1 ext3 partition taking up all of the space.

So I went in to the boot menu file and changed p2 to p1:

ITEM_DEVICE="${EXT_CARD}p1"

This change got me by the original problem and I got much further into the boot process.

I got up to the point of the android boot animation, but then it just played on repeat for 10 minutes before I shut it down.

Do you think my partition scheme could be causing this? Anyway to debug at this point?

Thanks,

J

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potentianalyl yes, try deleting boot.log on mem card then try boot again and get and uplaod the new boot.log

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HOHO, thanks dj_steve, just tried it again on a whim and it worked this time. Didn't change anything, just worked.

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Alas, all is not right in androidville. Once I got in, all of the programs crashed as soon as they loaded. There was an icon of a memory card in the status bar with a warning icon overlaid.

I'm going to rework the memcard with 2 partitions and see what happens.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

i never saw that error but mem card is normal on froyo

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Hrmmm no joy.

Boots up and immediately the screen is inundated with message boxes.

.

Also get errors for Clock, Calendar Storage, Bluetooth Share, Android keyboard, Messaging, and many others.

The touch screen works, i'm able to navigate menus and desktops, but I can't launch any programs :).

I'll attach a boot log in case its enlightening at all. Hrmm too big to upload, paste bin'ing it.

http://pastebin.com/pttQj2eJ

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Egh... sorry to flood this thread.

My previous post was using the highest versioned e-yes rootfs I found earlier.

I switched over to the dj_steve rootfs from a couple pages back and was able to get a bit further.

Still seeing lots of app crashes, web browser, messaging, but I was able to load up settings and try to connect to wifi (blocked by DHCP bug).

Will keep my eye out for update :)

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So... I've decided to try today. But I've stuck on very beginning following the tutorial from wiki.

PC Windows XP 32 bit
VirtualBox. I can't find anywhere option to add .iso of mint as the hard-drive.

Another one question I couldn't find version 4.2. I've seen 4.1 only. Sorry if I missed some post but is like the official link from that wiki is always up-to-date?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

every new release is in first post from steve in the dev thread
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...light=nitdroid

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Ok, I managed how to configure VirtualBox.

Just to let people know who facing the same issues.

I don't know maybe I'm using newer version but that option to add CD drive was available later under the settings before you started the Linux. Also didn't let me run Linux with 512 ram. 800 seems to be ok.

Another one thing make sure that you have USB VirtualBox driver installed. Just let windows to find it automatically and it works (this is unusual for windows I know :) )

You can also select N900->usb from the settings before you start Virtual machine.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

trying to attach my N900 to linux mint (thru virtualbox), get this error:

(have sd card in N900, and connected via USB in mass storage mode)


any help really appreciated, thanks

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ok do it like this, have it plugged in let windows recognize it, pause the virtual machine, and then mount it, now resume.... if you get that error, retry above. Unplug it now and then reconnect again, it should pick up the device now, I would suggest doing it with a mass storage device instead of the n900, however the n900 should work. I had that same problem before for a few hours before I figured it out.

Also the easiest way of doing this hassle free is to do this...
1.connect to the virtual machine with a mass storage reader, like I described above.
2. "sudo su"(enter), then "gparted"(enter), keep terminal open
3. select the card, create partitions (100mb fat32 for the first, and then whatever else above 2gb for the other in ext3). apply
4. I have the android package files on my mint desktop, download them, or copy them over with a usb drive, etc.
5. in terminal enter "mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt", this mounts your mc partition, now we set up to copy...
6.cd /mnt (enter)
sudo tar xjvvpf ../home/USERNAME/Desktop/NITDroid-N900-0.0.3-1-Demo.tbz2 (enter)
it will begin to copy some files over....
umount /mnt (enter)
wait to process...and done....that should be it, It took me hours of poor instruction translating to get it down to a few mins.

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I'm still having no luck getting Flash Player to run. I put it in /system/app/ and it won't run. I check the applications in settings and it says it's there, but still calculating, size 0.00. Anyone?

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Did you place it onto /system/app then reboot as steve said?

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lmao...........

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ive gotten 1 step further.. got windows to install virtualbox USB drivers...

when I hover USB devices, it says no usb device attached, but my SD card reader says 'captured' ?

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Have you thought about trying for a copy of microsoft virtual PC??
That works just fine.

If you're having this much trouble with it, why not try something else?
Qemu?
LiveCD with NITdroid files on USB flash.
Knoppix.

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would if i knew how :D


edit: my only prob is attaching a USB device and getting files onto it