Linux/Android on CDMA Touch Pro -- Now working on Verizon! And with GPS!

[wstidolph]

I tried deleting the data.img, still hangs on boot.

Re-installed the XDANDROID.01.03.10, overlaid a recent rootfs before booting ... and it still hangs on running haret.exe.

Copy the original rootfs back into the freshly-reinstalled/android directory,and reboot, and it boots up. Very confusing ...

[debarron]

Originally Posted by wstidolph

I tried deleting the data.img, still hangs on boot.

Re-installed the XDANDROID.01.03.10, overlaid a recent rootfs before booting ... and it still hangs on running haret.exe.

Copy the original rootfs back into the freshly-reinstalled/android directory,and reboot, and it boots up. Very confusing ...

I believe you need to have everything in the root of the SD card with the working rootfs.img. I was not able to boot until I moved everything to the root of the SD card instead of in the Android directory.

[wstidolph]

@debarron ... thanks, I'll try shifting back to root of the SD card ... but, it's frustrating that I do the initial install into /android and it *works*, it's only when I replace the rootfs in that dir that it stops working!

Anyway - I moved the existing (running) android out of /android and up to root, rebooted it from there to ensure it still worked, replaced the rootfs.img and ... it boots. Sigh ... is there something done in making XDANDROID (and not in autobuilding rootfs-*.zip) that makes it tolerate being in /android?

[debarron]

Originally Posted by wstidolph

@debarron ... thanks, I'll try shifting back to root of the SD card ... but, I do the initial install into /android/ and it *works*, it's only when I replace the rootfs that it stops working! Is there something done in making XDANDROID (and not in autobuilding rootfs-*.zip) that makes it tolerate being in /android?

That's beyond my knowledge...but I know I was getting the same error about unable to find system.img until I moved it all to the root of SD. The autobuild rootfs may have /sdcard hard-coded in somewhere instead of ./ for current directory. Just my guess.

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by hamagc

ok changed the mms.apk file back and no dice. still stuck at splash screen. looks like it may be because i'm doing it all through windows? but i took a step today. not the leap i was hoping for but a step. if you have any ideas makk, let me know.

I don't have any GOOD ideas, but you can make sure

echo 2 > /sys/devices/platform/msm_hsusb/usb_function_switch

is in your custom shell commands in eclair.user.conf (enables adb on windows); then grab droid explorer, connect up, and pull up the logcat console while you're booting to see where it's failing.

Or install virtualbox and ubuntu. It's more painless than you'd think.

debarron and wstidolph: I didn't mention it because I didn't really think many people were using the subdirectory here, but the rootfs got changed recently so that the default folder it looks to is not android, but andboot. Unfortunately, the current initrd isn't aware of this change, so it's a bit of a mess.

Long story short, you can make it function the old way by putting

rel_path=android

in your cmdline parameters in your startup.txt. This sets it to look in the old location.

(The reason it got switched is because some android apps were creating an android folder when they ran, and so, if you had your files in the root of the sd card, on the next boot, it would see the android folder, look there, find nothing, and fail to boot. Once this is all sorted out, it'll work better, but it's a little ugly at the moment.)

[peterm20]

Originally Posted by makkonen

hamagc: make sure you're doing everything as root. make sure you're using the right version of squashfs -- I think it won't extract if you're not. You can also try this to build it:

sudo unsquashfs system.sqsh
#make changes
sudo mv ./squashfs-root ./system
sudo genext2fs -d ./system -b 100000 -a system.ext2
mkdir ext2mount
sudo mount -o loop ./system.ext2 ./ext2mount
sudo mksquashfs ./ext2mount newsystem.sqsh

I'm Lazy I've made bash script for that I can tar them up if anyone would want a shortcut to making the sqashfs app.

[aadcrasher]

i am using a sprint touch pro, and i cannot get my data to work. i read the fix in the FAQ but i dont know where to put the #777 for the sprint pcs network.

thanks in advance

[karafa]

I've got clock issues it seems. I lose a minute in time every four hours or so. If I go to bed and wake up it's always at least two minutes off. Is there a fix for this..?

What's the command to add to startup.txt to make it wake from sleep on any button press? It's kind of counter-intuitive to me to have to reach up to push the power button to answer a call.

Where does overclocking stand on the Raph800? Do I need to apply this patch I see floating around, or can I just add something to the startup.txt with this build?

I don't know if it's just me, but things in android seem kind of sluggish to me recently. Since around the mic fix and correct battery reporting. Anyone else notice that?

[makkonen]

I just woke up this morning and noticed my clock was 10 minutes slow. Cycling the setting for network time did nothing (didn't really expect it to, but hey, worth a shot). Something with the clocking changes in the last week, I guess (I don't remember exactly what kernel I'm running). No fix that I'm aware of, except finding the bug in the kernel and squashing it.

Overclocking should work out of the box, but I haven't tested it. I believe the cmdline setting is acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=xxxxxx (people have had luck with 610000, one person said he was running stably up at 720000).

Things have seemed sluggish to me, lately, as well, but I couldn't tell if that was just slowdown after it being booted for a while.

Originally Posted by aadcrasher

i am using a sprint touch pro, and i cannot get my data to work. i read the fix in the FAQ but i dont know where to put the #777 for the sprint pcs network.

thanks in advance

For Sprint goto APN in Networks settings create a new APN name it Android and APN: internet - leave everything else blank. Back out- and select the new APN. And wait about a minute or two and the 3G signal will pop-up >meaning you now have a working internet connection.