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

[brooklynstar220]

Thx man I appreciate it man.

[sfreier]

Originally Posted by SeanNoxious

This was in response to a response made about my original question. It's pretty difficult for me to keep up with this because there is not a dedicated metropcs thread for either the touch pro or touch pro 2 android port but i am tryign to read through all the fragmentation. From what "i read" in the other thread, it offered suggestions but there were no definitive A) use these settings B) data works, I understand it's still in dev and the metro information is getting set aside because of it's limited userbase. I posted a reply in the other thread and will report back and hopefully update the wiki with definitive how to settings. So i'm going to go **** around with this while i actually have time to do it right now and get back to you guys.



Is anyone in this thread currently involed with the dev side of this port? I would love to get involved i have programming experience and phone hacking/development experience. I think that maybe if we could get a pseudo diagnostic winmo native rom and find out what and how winmo uses the camera and gps ..etc it would make the port of those features easier. Though, these are judt ideas coming from no knowledge base of the port or how the roms and cooking them actually works.

SeanNoxious if you figure this out please let me know! I've been messing with settings for months now and still no go data with metropcs

[SeanNoxious]

Originally Posted by sfreier

SeanNoxious if you figure this out please let me know! I've been messing with settings for months now and still no go data with metropcs

Will do found some shit for the hero i will try to port to the touch. Might go talk to some boys over in the android section lol

[hamagc]

ok so i thought i would try playing with the apn again today and test out the mnc 210 instead of 995.

i found out how to replace the apns-config.xml file using root explorer but i need to mount r/w to do anytihng. when i get into system/etc and click the mount r/w it does nothing. doesn't make it r/w, it stays as r/o.

something wrong? or just not fully compatable?

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by hamagc

ok so i thought i would try playing with the apn again today and test out the mnc 210 instead of 995.

i found out how to replace the apns-config.xml file using root explorer but i need to mount r/w to do anytihng. when i get into system/etc and click the mount r/w it does nothing. doesn't make it r/w, it stays as r/o.

something wrong? or just not fully compatable?

Click the mount r/w? Not sure what that means. Have you tried looking at it from the terminal? You need to be root to look at pretty much anything, and it may be trying to mount that without the proper root privileges.

[hamagc]

ya in root explorer there is a button that says mount r/w that is supposed to allow you to make the system foler read/write instead of read/only. when running android we have root access don't we?

i have looked at it through terminal but have no idea how to replace the file. this was along the lines of what i was trying to do when i desquashed the system but could never get it to boot when i resquashed it.

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by hamagc

ya in root explorer there is a button that says mount r/w that is supposed to allow you to make the system foler read/write instead of read/only. when running android we have root access don't we?

i have looked at it through terminal but have no idea how to replace the file. this was along the lines of what i was trying to do when i desquashed the system but could never get it to boot when i resquashed it.

Well we "have" root access... but you have to understand about permissions within linux - just because the access is available, doesn't mean the command your executing has been given those elevated privileges. That program your running is probably not running with elevated privileges, which is why it's not working.

I'd just try to do it thru the terminal. Should need to unsquash/resquash that way.

[hamagc]

hmm, well thats no good. is there a way to give it the needed permissions? from reading on others using this program, it seems to work right for them (on an offical android device of course lol)

let me see if i can get terminal to replace this for me. any suggestiongs?

should or shouldn't need to unsquash/resquash? stupid windows won't let me resquash it properly to boot in android.

[makkonen]

squashfs doesn't support writing. The format of the system file is fundamentally incapable of being in R/W mode. That's why you have to either go to an ext2 system or unsquash/resquash to make changes to it.

It's a bummer.

[hamagc]

damnit!! let me try doing with as an ext2 and see if i can make my changes then. thanks makk!