NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[chunnel]

I have run the port via haret from the Project Android thread. That appears dead at this point. However, without Bluetooth capability this is not practical for me. Neither thread seems to have that working. So, do you see that as a possibility? Or has everyone given up on that working?

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by chunnel

I have run the port via haret from the Project Android thread. That appears dead at this point. However, without Bluetooth capability this is not practical for me. Neither thread seems to have that working. So, do you see that as a possibility? Or has everyone given up on that working?

Please, don't fill this thread with drivel.

Use search, there's a thread dedicated to BT. Kernel fixes are there, but buggy and userland fixes need to still be employed to route audio correctly.

Really do hate when people say the project is dead when it is far from it...

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Please, don't fill this thread with drivel.

Use search, there's a thread dedicated to BT. Kernel fixes are there, but buggy and userland fixes need to still be employed to route audio correctly.

Really do hate when people say the project is dead when it is far from it...

thanks bro ..

[natemcnutty]

ACL, I've been trying to find a way to get recovery loaded from our NBH. There are only two things I can think of.

First, cat an image of recovery out to the sdcard and then cat it onto the end of the payload. I'd have to figure out padding to get it to write to the correct offset, and I'm not sure if it would mess anything else up since we'd be writing blank or padded values to that protected area of NAND.

The other alternative is that we include recovery.tgz in initrd and have init check /recovery to see if recovery is there yet. If not, extract it from the initrd and launch into it. This way we can still update recovery, but it gets deployed if it doesn't exist.

What do you think?

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by natemcnutty

ACL, I've been trying to find a way to get recovery loaded from our NBH. There are only two things I can think of.

First, cat an image of recovery out to the sdcard and then cat it onto the end of the payload. I'd have to figure out padding to get it to write to the correct offset, and I'm not sure if it would mess anything else up since we'd be writing blank or padded values to that protected area of NAND.

The other alternative is that we include /recovery in initrd and have init check /dev/block/mtdblock1 to see if recovery is there yet. If not, deploy it from the initrd and launch into it. This way we can still update recovery, but it gets deployed if it doesn't exist.

What do you think?

I dont know about this padding stuff. From what wozzer told me it looks like this thing can end up in different locations so its impossible to predict where. So right now only testing will answer our questions.

I tried in the past to embed the recovery in the initrd, but its simply too big. This is a potential solution if we use LK, but we are too far from that right now.

Another temporary option is to build a small recovery kernel( make a new defconfig) and just disable all the unneeded options. If we can bring the kernel down to 1 meg, then recovery can fit fine in intrd. We just need a kernel to help us hop into the real kernel.. im open to ideas, this is new grown for all of us.

[MassStash]

latest compiled, latest "gsm" ril, service.....? just booted, with 3g icon..... service, but no data this first boot....
Golden: data working ad well now after reboot

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by MassStash

latest compiled, latest "gsm" ril, service.....? just booted, with 3g icon..... service, but no data this first boot....
Golden: data working ad well now after reboot

WOOT! With the latest GSM RIL, I don't get data on first boot, but I DO have data after a reboot! This is so exciting

[jadenq]

When i try to install programs from market place i am get this message.
"Installation error"
any ideas?

[natemcnutty]

Originally Posted by jadenq

When i try to install programs from market place i am get this message.
"Installation error"
any ideas?

Yeah, I'm getting some weird results right now too. Gmail, Google Maps, and Youtube apps installed fine, but Voice Search and Car Home failed. Trying to get the terminal app installed to dmesg.

Edit: Must have been the number of apps that all started downloading at the same time. They installed just fine the second time I tried them. Everything is working for me.

[m4f1050]

Nice!!! Will this work on the Sprint GSM side? Makes me want to go get a Simple Mobile sim card for when I don't have Boost Mobile signal!!!