jakemaheu | # 31 | 2008-12-08, 21:15 | Report

So, I've read the website-- Can someone give me a quick startup guide?

I know how to flash an image (I did the V2 Android already)-- but the ext3 filesystem thing confuses me.

--Jake

solca | # 32 | 2008-12-08, 21:18 | Report

If you are willing to help yes, firstly I would generate a debugging kernel for N770 with console output to screen so you can tell me where it ends. plz tell me when you are ready?

b-man | # 33 | 2008-12-09, 00:50 | Report

Here's how you can easily partition/format your memory card on your device.

First, make shure you have e2fsprogs installed and do the following as root:

Assuming you want a 356MB partition for user-space, and the rest of your memory card for Android, enter the following in the displayed order

Then reboot, this will make a fat32 filesystem on the first partition for some user-space (mmcblk0p1), a empty partition on mmcblk0p2, a linux83 filesystem on the third partition (mmcblk0p3), and a empty partition on mmcblk0p4.

After you reboot, make shure that your internal memory card is not mounted and do the following to format your memory card so Android has a proper filesystem to run on.

Then mount your /dev/mmcblk0p3 device to /opt, untar your Android OS to /opt, umount /opt, and flash your kernel, enjoy!

Thesandlord | # 34 | 2008-12-09, 01:52 | Report

Hey, just wanted to say that it works on my N810. Hopefully the tearing problem will be solved.

Apps work for the most part, lots of random crashes, but system seems beta quality stable. Even the OpenGL apps work, which is kinda amazing.

For the most part, it is much smoother than Meamo, although a bit more annoying (No full screen button, no close button, etc).

Two questions:

How does WiFi work? I can't add a network without a crash

If I flash a Maemo kernel, such as the rotation one, will I get everything back, or will I have to reflash?

I can't wait for a 100% release!

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b-man | # 35 | 2008-12-09, 02:30 | Report

Wow, OpenGL works!?!?, that is amazing!

Wifi drivers work, but some people are reporting that for some odd reason, Android has a hard time "bringing up" network services at boot time.

Also about your kernel question, if you use a linux desktop, you shuld be able to flash the kernel without effecting maemo. However, if you use Windows, you might need to reflash.

solca | # 36 | 2008-12-09, 03:08 | Report

qole, looking into this, Maemo 5 kernel does have impressive support for RX-51 hardware, including Free/Open Source wireless drivers (wl12xx) which is neat! but it doesn't have much of value for N8x0 that is not already in the OMAP tree.

It failed to compile for a N810 target too, hopefully Nokia will fix this.

Thesandlord | # 37 | 2008-12-09, 03:08 | Report

Ok, after playing around for a while, I have found a few "problems." Hopefully this will help some people.

Kernel Version: 2.6.28-rc7-omap1
Build number: nit-eng 1.0 TC3 eng.solca.20081208.021935 test-keys

The time does not work, it just stays stuck at what it was at boot.
Crashes after about 5 minutes, no matter what.
Calculator and Notepad don't work, while pictures, music, API demo, settings, browser, contacts, dialer do work. Not sure about the other apps.

solca | # 38 | 2008-12-09, 03:14 | Report

It seems after serious debugging I find the WiFi problem, it seems the stlc45xx driver is returning bogus signal levels for some APs to the Android WiFi service which crashes and restarts the whole environment.

I have reported this to the stlc45xx mailing list so it gets fixed there and in the meantime I'll code a fix for this bug in Android too.

tmlind | # 39 | 2008-12-09, 04:16 | Report

Heh Well we're trying to move all the driver development to the
proper driver mailing lists instead of carrying them in the
linux-omap tree. If the drivers just sit in the linux-omap tree,
they won't go anywhere and won't get properly reviewed either.
That's why they're called "legacy", not because they are too old.

The goal is to make things usable with the mainline kernel. For
audio, there's a way better framework already called ASoC.

Somebody just needs to write the N800 driver for it. N810 already
works with ASoC! See sound/soc/omap in your kernel tree.

Regards,

Tony

chyang | # 40 | 2008-12-09, 15:17 | Report

hi, just curious to know which miniSD is /dev/mmcblk0p3?
It seems that I only copied the root file system to the external SD card, and it works now. So it seems that /dev/mmcblk0 be the external minisd? Or does the kernel has the capability to try different miniSDs?

NITdroid is far better in functionality and usability! the clock is working, the gui is pretty fast! The stability is the only thing needs to be improved. Every time i tried to enable the wifi, it restarts the GUI. And I observed frequent reboot after some time idle.