Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Has NITDroid got battery/power management fixed?
When I boot to nitdroid and play for around 5 mins, back into maemo a part of my battery has already gone (1 to 2 tabs). I know it flashes a kernel twice, but that can not take much power.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Post MB 2.9 install how are we meant to overclock - it seems as though several of the packages conflict with kernel-power-settings and without those utils I see no way of OCing.

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I'm not convinced that is a NITDroid problem; I think the action of rebooting just eats that much power. Whenever I make settings changes in the Black Plastic Theme control panel in Maemo and choose the Auto-reboot option, I lose more than 10% of my battery during each reboot.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

HOLY SH*T!!!!
Once phone and GPRS/3G data connection works, i think it will be time to spent (a huge amount :D) of money into this proyect. Cant wait! Thank you guys!

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Everything works great here with the update,

Just curious, what did the patch files do exactly ?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Well I have to say the new version of multiboot both delights and annoys me - it truly breaks titans kernel all to hell by removing several of the dependencies required for fcam drivers and overclocking in general.

On the plus side its easy to configure.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Well, I did something wrong. All of a sudden xterm said it couldn't find the files for the new NITDRoid kernel or the maemo kernel after downloading and following Jay-Cs post. I turned off the N900 and now I don't have anything to boot, not even Maemo. Phone says to press a button to panic. Wow, I can't believe that happend. That is the first time that I have messed up my n900 since I got it. Sad part is that I didn't do a backup. Now THAT was stupid. I got over confident that everything would just work since I have been able to get aall other NITDroid installs on the first try.

Reflashed.....What a pain to see the N900 Welcome screen at 1:06AM... sigh

Last backup on 7/16/2010....that means I lost my new contacts from a family trip on 7/31/2010....

Goes to bed....guess I didn't need to call them anyway....

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

well i am just waiting like many others, i suppose for the phone part to work , i be jumping ship soon as i can... hopefully soonish

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Guys, can someone help me here? I tried to put Nitdroid and I bricked my phone. It's on the N900 multiboot screen and gives me 30 secs and it just reboots and reboots without any luck. I just want to get Maemo back :( Please help! I have a 16GB SD card, really bad with Linux. i don't think i can do this at all. Just want my phone back.....

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Press 0 in multiboot to boot Maemo.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

when the multiboot screen comes up, make sure your keyboard is open and press zero. that should boot you back into maemo.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

......lol.

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is that ZERO or the letter O?
sorry...
i can't even tell if my battery is low or not :((((

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

I'm letting my battery charge on my external charger for a bit first..can i use the USB plugged onto it?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

no, use the proper charger

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

I'm on travel and always use the Usb cable via laptop for charging..is my battery drained when i have my USB plugged onto laptop, light is SOLID orange, then it will load the multiboot and fades away and i guess it charges abit again and loops again...etc.. oh boy this is frustrating :(

P.S. So I would be pressing the "P" key if i'm not mistaken?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

yes, the P key. if the orange light is on, its charging. leave it for 15 minutes then and give it another go.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

*RELIEF* Ok i saw something else but faded away. Now it's charging with the slow orange blinker. I had it plugged on my laptop earlier and it was charging and looping so wasn't going anywhere. Now that I know to press P/zero key, i'll give it another try (cross my fingers) within 15 minutes..

In the meantime, is it ok to format that 16GB SD card from my PC? I don't even know what's on there when i started the steps 1-5 (that's where i got stuck and gave up)...

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guys no luck...still charging..it would accept my "0" but then the screen just dissappears and seems like it just shuts off. Should I take out my MicroSD card and try booting? I want to remove that multiboot!!!

it would say booting - please wait ....and shuts down...i guess it needs to charge more or something?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

that is actually a bug in kernel power, not in multiboot.

power39 was suppose to add support for multiboot by introducing the kernel-power-bootimg package, which replaces kernel-power.
however, kernel-power settings still depends on kernel-power, meaning you cant install it with kernel-power-bootimg!!!

nothing we can do in multiboot to fix that :(

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

so now oc on maemo doesnt work ? not worried about fcam but would like maemo oc and nitroid ! still on titan v37...

edit , cheers jay-c for info bit stuck then cant have both until titan updates again :(

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

sorry mate to hear that.

the problem is you did not finish the installation.
multiboot without any kernels wont do you any good...

sorry

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Try removing the battery for 10 seconds.

When you press 0 multiboot reflashes the kernel if it needs to and reboots the phone. Leave the SD card in, I don't see it causing an issue.

Also, when you are doing this, make sure that the usb cable is not plugged in. Mine behaves strangely if it is.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

You can also start up without the sd-card, if you put out the kickstand. If all the tips don't work - I hope you've an update - than only flash a fresh maemo and install nitdroid and multiboot again - if you do everything in the right way, it's running very well.

---
Another question:

Is there a way to get android saving it's data (cam, wallpaper, apps things etc.) to the vfat mmc partion, than to the Maemo /home/user/MyDocs ?!

Cause I hate this disorder at my main maemo folder ... there is normaly everything clearly sorted. ;)

AlphaX2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

OHMYGOODNESS i'm so glad i'm back in Maemo (no offense to NITDroid as i'm just too dumb to set it up). My battery is very LOW as suspected. Now how do I remove this multiboot???

I have it plugged onto my USB for simply charging now...need the extra juice!

Thanks SimonGie for walking me step by step through this. I really appreciate the assistance! I unplugged the USB and removed battery for 10 secs and it booted!

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Welcome back! ;)

I THINK but I'm not quite sure - removing at package manager, should be the most common way.

EDIT: Or use the nitdroid-uninstaller, should also work with multiboot 0.2.9 and also removes the nitdroid kernels.

Can anybody confirm this please?! :confused:

AlphaX2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

yep package man should work

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

?? kernel-power-bootimg does not replace kernel-power, it just provides the zImage without fiasco header (e.g. for kexec). kernel-power contains the fiasco'ed zImage that is always deleted by the flasher after flashing. kernel-power-settings depends on kernel-power-flasher.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Thanks bud! Ok is it Enhanced boot loader for Maemo that I'm uninstalling from Application Manager? Just want to make sure before I hit the button LOL!!!

OOps, also have kexec-tools and Maemo 5 PR12 kernel for multiboot...

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

So how is it possible to solve the problem?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Yes the "Enhanced boot loader for Maemo" is the right one. You can read there in the subtitle: "Maemo ULTimate BOOTloader - so it is Multiboot.

Kexec can also be removed, and I think also the packages "Maemo5 PR12 kernel" and "nitdroid-kernel" should be no problem.

OR: Ur run the nitdroid-uninstall script - cause it's also removing multiboot and kernel packages! ;)

AlphaX2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Hey man i'll stick with GUI from now! I've learned my lesson. I'm definitely not ready to do Linux ;)

OH OH, i can't seem to remove any of them! LOL maybe gotta try that "SCRIPT" lol! here i go again!

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Yeah my mistake.

kernel-power-settings depends on kernel-power-flasher, which conflicts with multiboot.

So result is can't install kernel-power-settings.

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Okay so here is a short how-to:

1. download the nitdroid-uninstall file from here, and copy it to /home/user/MyDocs - so its were all your standard maemo folders are (i.e. downloads , documents ect.)

2. start xterm in maemo

3. or 4. 5. 6. This is it! - Hope not the Jacko way! :D

AlphaX2

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

can you fix it jay-c ? possible to maemo oc and your multiboot ?

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

stuck here!
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and -o noatime

mounting /dev/mmcb1k1p2 on /and failed: No such file or directory

I think i got it!!! I just put this after sudo gainroot!

dpkg -r multiboot multiboot-extras

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

+1 on that ;)

@jay-c why did the multiboot need to change, is that so the new kernel .32 will work when it comes?

Well could always turn back to 0.2.5 untill that wont work and the 0.2.9 is needed to boot NITdroid ;)

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Try it without mounting sdcard, It should work as i think multiboot only installs on maemos emmc/rootfs?

Did you partition your sdcard befor it went wrong and did you 'mkdir /and' befor it went wrong if not thats why it tells you that it doesn't exist :)

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Is there no possibility to fix this?
I don't want to loose the overclocking feature in Maemo :(

Re: [Android] NITDroid V2 & Multiboot Development And Announcement Thread
 

Yes I did do those steps I believe. I think it's the first 1 or 2 steps about my SD card. That's where i gave up. Now it doesn't read my 16GB SDcard. I just took it out and reformat it as it looks ok from my XP machine but doesn't recognize it on Maemo file explorer. Any clues?