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answers are in bold inside your quote :)

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Thank you Steve,
Your answers are very clear and now I can install NITDroid without doubt.

I admire your hard work and effort on this project.

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ok anyone feeling brave today want to test a autoinstaller script ? should be safe but also possible it could screw up maemo to point of needin a reflash. need testers tho

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Do you want to deprecate my instructions already? Just kidding ;)

I'll try it, just joined on IRC :)

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YES, I am brave, show me :) , I'll be your tester,

bun

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http://downloads.nitdroid.com/Autoin...r/installer.sh

run in rootsh and chmod +x installer.sh before ya try :)

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run ./installer <size> where size is the size you want fat32 partition to be eg. ./installer.sh 2048 would make 2048mb fat32

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permission denied
sudo gainroot
chmod +x installer.sh
./installer.sh

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that should work aslong as you change perms first move it to a linux partition too (mv installer.sh /

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ok, thanks

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okay i don't want to sound stupid but is "NITDroid-N900-0.0.4-2.tbz2 " froyo or do i need to use "nitdroid-0.0.4-1-froyo.tar.bz2"

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

all the 0.0.4 is froyo

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Thank you i wanted to be sure

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I'm trying the installer script now.
It comes to the flasher part
Looks lie it hangs on the flasher part.


unmounting android partition
umount: cannot umount /and: Device or resource busy
rmdir: '/and': Device or resource busy
Preparing to flash Kernel
Version 0.4.4 started
Waiting for messages

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yep thats a crash, i dont think kernel world work neway as i dontthink its possible to active r&d on device, a better ver of the script is being worked on though

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After running the script that stopped with the flashing, I did a flash from my pc with:
flasher-3.5 --enable-rd-mode --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset,no-ext-wd -f -k NIT-zImage -R

I had to create the bootmenu file. It wasn't created with the script.
Android came up on first boot. I thought I saw something about it had to reboot a couple of times before it would start....
The wifi worked and connected to my WLAN.
I tried youtube but always got the message cannot play video...

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yea youtubeis slightly dodgy, builds not perfect but good to see the main part works - as i said theirs an edited ver coming soon

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DJ_Steve has now written a script, which is now in a usable state.
(I made a few edits to make it work though)

Please read the entire post before doing anything.

NOTES:

• This may kill your cat/dog/computer/N900, it's your responsibility!
• You must add extras-devel in your repository list, read more here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel (Instructions at the bottom, read the warning on top first)
• You will also need to flash the kernel manually, read more here: http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?t...stall#Flashing

Note about flashing, here's how to install flasher(on Windows):
Short instructions:
(Commands are quoted, you should not type the quotes however)

• Enable extras-devel
• Open App manager, install rootsh
• Open Xterm, type "root" then "cd /"
• Now type "apt-get install wget"
• Then type "wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/autoinstaller/installer.sh"
• Then you need to type "chmod 777 installer.sh"
• At last, type "./installer.sh <size of FAT32 partition in MB>"
• Read warnings in terminal, and wait!
• Flash
• Reboot with keyboard slid out
• Choose the "Android" item
• (Hopefully) Enjoy NITDroid.

Now, if you're happy with NITDroid and want to aid development, please consider donating:

Please feel free to donate to my(DJ_Steve's) work - GBP Donate(£)/USD($) Donate

PS: this post is made on behalf of DJ_Steve
PS#2: Hope you aren't annoyed with the colored title text :D

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./installer.sh gives the error:
-sh: ./installer.sh: not found
(For the record, its there.. and I even opened in leafpad and changed an error in the script)

If I don't apply chmod 777 I simply get a Permission Denied error. What on Earth is going on :S

"sh installer.sh" also doesn't work, echos the first few lines then gives a crapload of errors

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I read the post, have some questions about the part Flash.

1) mind to post the link for the latest image, http://downloads.nitdroid.com/Autoin...-zImage-latest or http://newsycat.com/android/n900/zImage-0.0.3-a ?
2) I have a windowXP box. I also have a linux Mint box, which one is less prone to fail? I am a windowXP boy :)

Edit: I take a look at the script, apparantly all the files need to be flashed will be dl and stored in MyDocs. Do I just flash the 3 files from MyDocs will take care of it?

TIA,

bun

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guys i had to post somewhere but didnt wanna clutter the dev thread. not really needing help (yet) because havent had the time, or drive, really, to install android to my phone.

having said that, i want to give the most incredible amount of kudos to all the lads behind this project (and ladies, if there are any?)
im not that aware of who is heavily involved (only a couple of really obvious names like djsteve and e-yes stick out) but im sure there are loads of people helping out (such as toja with his guide above).

to all you guys (apologies to the ones i havent mentioned because im sure there are heaps of you:( ), thanks a hell of a lot. not only are you doing a massive, incredible thing for the community, youre also supporting people who may not have the same experience you do. pretty rare to find a community of people who are that willing to help out other members. again sorry for cluttering up this thread with a semi-irrelevant post but i had to say it. i appreciate all the time effort and hard work that has gone into this project and its one of those things that makes me so glad i chose the n900.

cheers guys, keep up the fantastic work, were all loving it so far :)

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great work guys, silly Q:

does the phone work?

Edit: no

wifi does! (after a few boots)

plus the net is fast!

edit: I go to play music, but it says i have no sd card?

i really dont like having to use the keyboard 'up' button to close apps either

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Just run the script, then you will need to flash zImage manually as I wrote in my previous post.

This is what you want to flash via your computer: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/Autoin...-zImage-latest
It's only the kernel so it's small. Also take a look at the flashing section in my guide, you'll need to add a few commands

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i downloaded the autoinstaller.sh and give 777 rights.
autoinstaller.sh have -rwxrwxrwx rigts now.
But if i start the script with "./ autoinstaller.sh 128" the shell give me out "-sh: ./: Permission denied"
what is the problem?

mfg

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

you have a space between ./ and the file command should be like below

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if i type without space it show me:
-sh: ./installer.sh: not found :(

PS: i have the installer.sh in / where ist the bin or etc Folder, thats correct or?

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try this >

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your my hero, thanks, it works ;)


EDIT, after he show the warned message it shown a error.

: not foundsh: line 18:

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try opening the fiile in nano or something and find out whats on line 18 (dont include blank lines)

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Erm.. I'm sorry if this has been answered already but, When android boots and the wallpaper appears no icons appear and the menu bar isn't there either. It used to start working when I pressed sym&shift but now nothing...

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Press the Ctrl button a couple of times, it should "come back".

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I've tried that too and nothing happens at all.. Except holding the power button I get the status menu.. =/ I think I remember someone having the same problem and deleting the contents of a certain folder helped, but I can't find the post grrr

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this is line 18: "read -p "Press any key to Continue or CTRL-C to terminate Script" msg"

if i continue the script it show me:

line 141 doesn't exist and the "then" is line 25 and not 141

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i get the same error

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Same as above. Even doing all the steps in the script manually I couldn't get the damned thing to work. Ah well.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

I just reformatted and extracted back to MicroSD.. All good now :)

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Well. I officially give up.... 4 different MicroSD cards, 3 different Android version, 2 different computers, 2 different kernels, 3 different installation guides, 3 different formatting programs...

and still.... not working.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 Help/Tutorial Topic
 

ill let TOJa have a look at those errors as he heavily edited script to get it working ;)

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Would be great if one of you with errors could join #NITDroid-help @freenode, you can use the web irc client, here: http://nitdroid.com/index.php?title=Irc
Please note I'm not in there yet, you'll probably have to wait an hour or two, but you can just keep it open and do something else while you wait :)

EDIT: A newer version of the installer is available from the same url: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/autoin...r/installer.sh

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Very good job!
I'm doing the process now and seems to be perfect. This is the best way to port Android to the N900.
Thanks!