Alright!. I have successfully installed NITdroid and installed an android application on it. But there's one problem. Whenever I choose to power off android, it restarts. Is this normal? Is there another way to power down the tablet??
I've successfully flashed my N800 with NITdroid. I'm a newbie in the Linux world so I will offer a few of my findings and mistakes so that others might find useful:
*one problem with open source stuff is lack of documentation or I should say thorough documentation.
In the nitdroid_complete.sh:
"echo NOTE: This program should NOT be run as root.
echo It has specific parts that need to run as root."
What does this mean? confusing huh? What I found out is that... I'm logged in as my own username, but the shell script uses sudo (so the user will be root after the sudo command). There's this $USER variable that refers to the current user. So essentially I'm running part of the script on my username/Desktop while other stuff is running on root/Desktop, one way or another. An easy fix is to replace $USER with your current username in the .sh file. Save and run as: sudo ./nitdroid_complete.sh so everything will be in your own home / Desktop folders.
I have this N800 from the early days so the internal SDK card (the one besides the battery) has only 128MB of memory. I thought I should flash/install the OS into the external SD card since the internal one is less than 512MB. So that's my mistake #2.
Make sure you use the internal SD w/ at least 512MB of RAM and remove the external SD. My internal SD shows as /dev/sdc1 and the external shows as /dev/sdd1 if plugged in.
First boot of android, showing a few force close exception due to MMS, Alarm, etc.
Then black screen. Took out battery and reboot, much better now. Wifi works like a charm. However, the soft keyboard crashes all the time. So install this one instead: http://code.google.com/p/netgents/
Now I got some hacking to do on it, besides my G1... ^_^
In the nitdroid_complete.sh:
"echo NOTE: This program should NOT be run as root.
echo It has specific parts that need to run as root."
What does this mean? confusing huh? What I found out is that... I'm logged in as my own username, but the shell script uses sudo (so the user will be root after the sudo command). There's this $USER variable that refers to the current user. So essentially I'm running part of the script on my username/Desktop while other stuff is running on root/Desktop, one way or another. An easy fix is to replace $USER with your current username in the .sh file. Save and run as: sudo ./nitdroid_complete.sh so everything will be in your own home / Desktop folders.
What are you talking about?
That part of the script just lets you know NOT to run it as "sudo ./nitdroid_complete.sh". The commands that do run as root need to do so and they don't actually run on "Root/Desktop". The sudo commands actually are for things like mounting, unmounting, and partitioning. Those REQUIRE root privileges.
$USER simply makes it so that you DON'T have to modify the script.
tl;dr: Ignore him. The script is doing what it is supposed to.
Alright!. I have successfully installed NITdroid and installed an android application on it. But there's one problem. Whenever I choose to power off android, it restarts. Is this normal? Is there another way to power down the tablet??
Pouble Doast!
Yes, that is normal. NITdroid has some bugs; that's one that is being worked on. ^^
I got it installed on my N810. Everything was very smooth and quick. Nice instructions.
I did not have to do the adb part. My sliding keyboard works like a charm.
A few questions more related to the Android: Calendar doesn't work, Contact Synch doesn't work either. Anyone having the same problems with Calendar?
I have got both N800 hardware and N810 hardware. When I tried to follow the NITdroid installation instructions, it works okay for the N800, but failed on N810. The obstacle I got on N810 is similar to what sarathmenon described: 'When I start the tablet, it shows the Nokia logo, with the picture of a spanner inside the tablet, and does not proceed further." Any clues?
My N810 hardware is currently running Chinook. Should I upgrade it to Diablo first, before I attempt to install NITdroid?
I have got both N800 hardware and N810 hardware. When I tried to follow the NITdroid installation instructions, it works okay for the N800, but failed on N810. The obstacle I got on N810 is similar to what sarathmenon described: 'When I start the tablet, it shows the Nokia logo, with the picture of a spanner inside the tablet, and does not proceed further." Any clues?
My N810 hardware is currently running Chinook. Should I upgrade it to Diablo first, before I attempt to install NITdroid?
Thanks for your kind attention!
Alex Leung.
@atwleung: What is the hardware revision of your tablet? You can get it by running cat /proc/component_version on xterm in the tablet.
