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

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Originally Posted by mcss (Post 1836822)

arrrghhh, you've had the speakerphone working? It has yet to work for me :( Any ideas how you got yours to work?

Doesn't work in-call in recent builds. Used to work, not exactly sure what broke it tho. I was more referring to the speakerphone in reference to the device playing slacker radio, rings, etc... Sorry to misconstrue :P

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

Gotcha... Either bluetooth audio or speakerphone is the only thing holding be back from full time android. I've no idea where to start debugging/helping out on this one.

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

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Originally Posted by jocala (Post 1836652)

No particular reason. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how this distro works. Thanks for the tip!

If you're wondering how the rootfs is built, check out this script from the git repository.

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

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Originally Posted by mcss (Post 1836920)

Gotcha... Either bluetooth audio or speakerphone is the only thing holding be back from full time android. I've no idea where to start debugging/helping out on this one.

Bluetooth pairing would probably be a big one too since I know some headsets don't pair (probably due to secure pairing using 0000 passcodes I suspect). I know Jabra and possibly some plantronics ones don't seem to play nice though they are seen correctly by the phone.

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

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Originally Posted by makkonen (Post 1836466)

More a feature than a bug, if it's what I'm thinking of. It allows you to flip back and forth from the android display to the console. Sometimes you can see interesting stuff there. (Not often.)

I think the battery life is especially abysmal on RAPH500, since something's causing it to never sleep. Unless that's just mine.

I've never had that happen. What I do is set up ssh, and then forward ssh over adb, and connect to that. It's pretty robust -- connections will stay up for hours on end if I leave the phone connected.

Instructions on setting up ssh (dropbear) are linked somewhere on here. to forward a port with adb just do

Code:

adb forward tcp:9999 tcp:22

that makes localhost:9999 redirect to <your phone>:22 (which is ssh. you could also do it with regular telnet, but you'd have to reset the telnetd to listen on all interfaces, which it doesn't, by default, for security.)

Never considered that. Glad to hear it's faster... wish I could get a free speed increase on mine. :)

First of all, I wouldn't recommend it. It's a bunch more work, and it's not any faster or more stable. Pretty much a waste of time.

Secondly, if you're committed, then open up rootfs.img, and look at the init script. There's a whole portion of logic committed to booting off of partitions if they're there. You'll have to manually copy over some of the files, since I don't think it's set to automatically do that, and then move your system to another location (installedsystem.sqsh, as listed in that file).

I'm not going to lay it out any further, because, like I said, to me it seems like a waste of time.

I tend to agree on the ext2 partition; more trouble than it's worth. i spent some time trying to get it working before I realized I was going to have to do a bunch of semi-esoteric code edits. It's pretty acceptable as it stands, and I think ext2 would only be notably helpful once we have it running on nand (since it self optimizes usage). Running the more vanilla method makes it easier for me to stay current and test faster as well. I am seriously going to have to get a new battery though, since it's just getting worse and worse. My wife used to carry this phone before me and she is (apparently) really hard on phone batteries.

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

Ok, so my phone power collapses correctly me thinks, the "Breathing LED" comes on. I can wake it from its slumber if I dont let it sleep to long but after its been collapsed for about 3-4 minutes it refuses to awaken. I have tried calling it, texting it, and pushing every button on it to try and bring it back from its apparent Coma. A breif search has not yeilded any other info.

I am running the most recent all in one pack from the front page of the thread, I am assuming this is the most stable one to play with. If you need/want debug files let me know and I will post them by the end of the day.

Thanks

Update:

Tried to do a debug dump but the debug file is empty...

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

I thought the ramconsole might have moved, but it looks like it hasn't. So I'm not sure why it's failing to report. The file shouldn't be empty unless it throws an error -- if it's reading the wrong thing, the file should be full of gibberish.

Also I'm not sure what's up with sleep. Seems to be working ok for some -- not working at all for me. Working strangely for you.

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

There is a new rootfs announced; not sure if it's helpful or not:
(haven't tested it myself yet)
http://is.gd/d4hLG

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

New rootfs is for froyo. Has no use until new build is released.

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

umm... well actually it works really well. Fired it up and it is really fast so far.