Android/Linux for CDMA Touch Pro 2 Rhodium Updated 5-20-2010

[RSD]

I moved everything to "andboot" and tried to run and it did not. It required zImage, initrd.gz and of course haret.exe in the root.

Also, now it is unable to connect to network. It was working with stuff in the root of the storage card before.

I am doing it correctly?

Thanks!

..Ramesh

[CaliBoyPhillip]

Originally Posted by RSD

I moved everything to "andboot" and tried to run and it did not. It required zImage, initrd.gz and of course haret.exe in the root.

Also, now it is unable to connect to network. It was working with stuff in the root of the storage card before.

I am doing it correctly?

Thanks!

..Ramesh

I don't think you need to move anything to a folder called andboot, just move every single file to the root of your sd card. lol I'm currently trying to run the latest Android on my TP1, ran into issues lol its better on the TP2...

[cflynt]

Originally Posted by RSD

I moved everything to "andboot" and tried to run and it did not. It required zImage, initrd.gz and of course haret.exe in the root.

Also, now it is unable to connect to network. It was working with stuff in the root of the storage card before.

I am doing it correctly?

Thanks!

..Ramesh

If you are using the current initrd.gz from the autobuild site, it has native support for EVERYTHING in the andboot directory, including haret.exe. That is actually how I run mine. It will still create a few files like the file checks and some cache directories in the root directory, but the rest of Android will stay in the andboot directory. You don't need any special switches or anything to run it out of this directory. If all you are running is Android, I would just recommend you use the root directory, but if you still want to have some WM stuff on your Storage Card then doing the andboot keeps things a tad cleaner.

[drynaps]

Originally Posted by RSD

I moved everything to "andboot" and tried to run and it did not. It required zImage, initrd.gz and of course haret.exe in the root.

Also, now it is unable to connect to network. It was working with stuff in the root of the storage card before.

I am doing it correctly?

Thanks!

..Ramesh

If you have the newest initrd file then you will be able to have everything under the andboot folder.

[martyzidek]

android market, internet and data now works on my cmda us cellular phone.. jsm a company by me who is part us cellular said android phone will be out this month or next.. well android i couldnt get no where last week.. checked last night.. data is now working.. so def android phone coming out soon as they now support the data..

[slow4g63]

Glad I can be a small part of this!!

Looking forward to the progress!! ... downloading the new image now and going to do the processor speed code.

**edit** downloaded the 86MB file in 2mins, not too shabby!

[gambit07]

I have a question, when (hopefully not if) we get sound, where will it come from most likely? Will it come from the kernel site? Will it be an update from Pippy? Just wondering if anybody knows. Thanks!

[cflynt]

Originally Posted by gambit07

I have a question, when (hopefully not if) we get sound, where will it come from most likely? Will it come from the kernel site? Will it be an update from Pippy? Just wondering if anybody knows. Thanks!

Good question, and there is a lot of confusion with that issue. The quick answer to your question is it will most likely be in the Kernel. The Kernel houses most of your drivers.

Now as far as the Pippy role. MrPippy is one of many developers working on Android/Linux stuff. It is thanks to 95Civic for getting the desire to make Rhodium CDMA data work, they already have CDMA working with other devices. Just Rhodium for some reason was handled differently. 95Civic managed to make the phone work, which is more than most had accomplished, mind you most didn't have a CDMA Rhodium to play with. Then 95Civic ran out of time to dev, and in came MrPippy, whom was already a major developer for what Android is today. And he had just gotten himself a CDMA Rhodium, hence desire to fix it. So he managed to figure out that the RIL which controls our radio was a lot different, so to get us going he modified the RIL. It was so different that it in current state can't work with the other RIL's till it gets merged in, hence why we have to run a separate rootfs.img where the RIL exists, than all other devices. And why anytime a new rootfs.img comes out with changes, like the Wifi Tethering that Stinebd accomplished we have to go in and implement the RIL MrPippy changed into it in order for us to use it.

So the jist is, yes MrPippy rocks for getting us going, but don't forget all the other developers out there that have worked their tails off to get us where we are today, INCLUDING MrPippy, who continues to develop as well as all the others. I do in fact believe that MrPippy is focussing a lot of his attention on sound, hence some of the commits for H2W which is our audio jacks. As well as some other developers. They all work together and then we come up with a working product.

Unfortunately the adsp chips in the Rhodium are very different I guess than most other devices, hence why we don't have sound to this day. Every day they make a little headway but there is a lot to be done from my understanding. So it very well could be awhile unless a major breakthrough happens, which often does.

Hope that novel answers your questions in more ways than one, I just didn't want you guys thinking that MrPippy was the ONLY one that gives us anything of value. There are numerous developers that do this for us, and without them we wouldn't be having this thread at all.

[gambit07]

Thanks! Sorry I didn't mean to diss the other devs out there certainly, I was just only aware of pippy working on the tp2 specifically. Anyway I guess we'll just have to keep holding our breath.

In other news my TP2 is successfully running at 691.2 mhz! works awesome, the slide down menu specifically is smooth for once and has no stutters which is awesome. Also programs seem to open up quicker and everything generally feels more responsive. Awesome improvement, I'll try higher speeds soon.

[cflynt]

Originally Posted by gambit07

Thanks! Sorry I didn't mean to diss the other devs out there certainly, I was just only aware of pippy working on the tp2 specifically. Anyway I guess we'll just have to keep holding our breath.

No worries, that's not how I took it, I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew that more than MrPippy is bringing us this great stuff. No doubt he is the bomb for giving us the CDMA Rhodium data, hence we wouldn't be having this discussion without heh. Just wanted credit to goto all developers.