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

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by mcss

So this is where we roll back and wait for makk's guidance

What? No! No rolling back! Forward, forward!

Cell tower triangulation... bluetooth working as well as it is for anyone (which is, admittedly, not well)... sounds like the new build is pretty good.

Unless that 3d issue is more than just a transient problem aleet is having. Or the power collapse is more than just a transient problem Yibrushn is having. (I've had it not work on one boot and then work again on the next. Not exactly sure why.)

Alright, I guess I better try it out myself. Get another data point to add to the mix.

Edit: 3D works. Power collapse does too, but didn't until I let it fall asleep without turning it off with the End key. that was strange.

Anyway, it looks fine to me.

[akastixx]

if anyone interested in pillaging the sqsh files, use this: http://download.nicksoft.info/linux/...shfs-tools.zip. it will allow you to extract everything from it (in windows) and create a sqsh if you so choose. you just drag your file to the exe or use right click>open (with) and it will create a squashfs-root folder with all the unsquished goodness.

the guy's site is http://www.nicksoft.info/

[qwerty3656]

Hi - new to this forum. My wife has a G1, runs donut (1.6) and it works great. I would like to find a good stable version of donut to install on my son's Raphael. Seems like everyone here has moved on to Eclair. Can you point me in the right direction for latest Donut ROM? My Son's ROM is CDMA if that matters. Thanks

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by akastixx

if anyone interested in pillaging the sqsh files, use this: http://download.nicksoft.info/linux/...shfs-tools.zip. it will allow you to extract everything from it (in windows) and create a sqsh if you so choose. you just drag your file to the exe or use right click>open (with) and it will create a squashfs-root folder with all the unsquished goodness.

the guy's site is http://www.nicksoft.info/

Neat. Though I'd beware of trying to make a new squashfs file from Windows. Windows tends to trash the unix-style permissions on the files, and when you repack it, it won't boot correctly.

Still might be useful for tearing apart the system and finding out how it ticks.

Originally Posted by qwerty3656

Hi - new to this forum. My wife has a G1, runs donut (1.6) and it works great. I would like to find a good stable version of donut to install on my son's Raphael. Seems like everyone here has moved on to Eclair. Can you point me in the right direction for latest Donut ROM? My Son's ROM is CDMA if that matters. Thanks

Unfortunately (depending on your perspective) Donut is no longer particularly stable or robust on the raphael. It's been left behind, and most of the dev work has gone into the eclair port. You can try playing with the files from the Raphael Donut page on XDA-Developers, and pairing that with a newer kernel as linked on page 1 of this post. (Don't bother with the rootfs -- donut won't boot off the new rootfs).

The new kernels do not use the same wireless driver, so wireless will not function. 3d may or may not work, given the changes that have been committed since Donut was left behind. Frankly, I'm not even sure it'll boot.

This htc-linux branch (Diamond, Raphael, Rhodium, Topaz, Blackstone) is in the strange position of having the eclair version more stable and full-fledged than Donut. Unlike pretty much every other device that'll run Android. That said, give it a try and report back. Donut is still more responsive, for one thing.

[bubbleMower]

I'm new to Andriod on my device, I gotta say it is great! The only thing I can't working is tethering, has anyone done this? My Windows PC doesn't even recognize a USB device as being attached, although it does charge off of my PC.

[LuckyLui]

On the logcat it tells me.. W/Batterystatsimpl( 16: couldnt get kernel wake lock stats... idk what it means just passing it down lol

[makkonen]

Originally Posted by bubbleMower

I'm new to Andriod on my device, I gotta say it is great! The only thing I can't working is tethering, has anyone done this? My Windows PC doesn't even recognize a USB device as being attached, although it does charge off of my PC.

You have to be attached to activesync at the time you start android for it to be recognized by the computer. No one has successfully gotten tethering working, but anyone with a good grasp of linux networking should be able to. A proxy or an ssh tunnel forwarded over ADB would probably be the way to do it in Windows, as I don't think anyone's gotten ethernet over usb working there.

Originally Posted by LuckyLui

On the logcat it tells me.. W/Batterystatsimpl( 16: couldnt get kernel wake lock stats... idk what it means just passing it down lol

That's interesting. Wake locks are what keeps the phone from going into power collapse mode. Sounds like maybe that info isn't getting passed along correctly -- but the wake locks are generally working correctly (i.e. it does go into power collapse, and comes out of it when you need it to). Not sure about this.

[hamagc]

Originally Posted by akastixx

if anyone interested in pillaging the sqsh files, use this: http://download.nicksoft.info/linux/...shfs-tools.zip. it will allow you to extract everything from it (in windows) and create a sqsh if you so choose. you just drag your file to the exe or use right click>open (with) and it will create a squashfs-root folder with all the unsquished goodness.

the guy's site is http://www.nicksoft.info/

like makk said, windows has a problem making the rootfs. i was unpacking using the unsquashfs and i was able to unpack the squash file no problem and view everything, make changes. but when the time came to repack the squash file (using mksquashfs) i could get it to come out to the same size file but it was different. i could get the new file (with no changes) to boot but always got stuck at the nexus boot screen where it would loop and never get past.

if you can find a way to repack the file on windows and get android to run it please let us know.

[artlan]

Originally Posted by hamagc

like makk said, windows has a problem making the rootfs. i was unpacking using the unsquashfs and i was able to unpack the squash file no problem and view everything, make changes. but when the time came to repack the squash file (using mksquashfs) i could get it to come out to the same size file but it was different. i could get the new file (with no changes) to boot but always got stuck at the nexus boot screen where it would loop and never get past.

if you can find a way to repack the file on windows and get android to run it please let us know.

This won't work for making MASSIVE changes to the system, but this will give you a write-able system on the phone. (replaces the .sqsh file with a ex2 system. Do note however that this takes about 4x the space though as .sqsh is a nicely compressed system. Mine now takes about 200mb) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581429
I also had to use RootExplorer to copy some things into the System\Lib folder. Astro wouldn't allow it. Didn't try with my EStrong one yet.

[hamagc]

my main interest was playing with the mms.apk. will this method allow me to do so?