Linux/Android working on Titan

[EGOvoruhk]

How are you guys calibrating your screen? I'm having a hell of a time opening programs on the scroll menu

Can someone post some known controls? Thanks!

[EtherealRemnant]

You have to use the stylus for everything on Android right now... but to calibrate the screen, press and hold the camera button to bring up the onscreen keyboard, then take your stylus (still holding the camera button) and tap the very bottom left corner of your screen and the very bottom right corner of the screen. Then release the camera button and close the keyboard.

That at least aligns the keyboard decently... there is currently no way to totally fix alignment issues though.

[00CericaRuss]

As far as key mapping.. i figured out the file to edit in the system.img and I'm trying to get a keymap via HaRET, but I'm getting fairly inconsistant results.
If anyone can get a good reading of the GPIO's from our keyboard/hardware buttons, I can try to cruft up a new file and add it in.
Also, I found the file for setting the timezone.. it's currently set to GMT.

lmk if anyone can be of help, or if the tytn/whatever else that has a keyboard that works with android and has a working system image and I can try to get that file from it an try to get the keyboard layout for it.

-Russ

[00CericaRuss]

i really meant kaiser.. looking for their files as we speak

[EtherealRemnant]

I tried getting the GPIOs for the Mogul and it was rather inconsistent too. Some GPIOS registered on more than one key for me... was that your result too?

I also remember some keys that inexplicably gave no GPIO response... even without ignoring any GPIOs... so I gave up on it, especially since Android wasn't actually booting on our devices yet anyway.

Also, has anyone else had issues running this on top of no2chem's pre-8? I had it working fine on pre-7 but I flashed pre-8 and now it boots, but I can't launch any apps, it just freezes... could have been a fluke. I'll redownload it tomorrow at work and see what's up.

[00CericaRuss]

I did see inconsistant results w/HaRET where some buttons would show up in the console, and some wouldn't, and some would show the exact same thing as the others. I haven't messed w/phones in about 3 or so years, and I'm in the process of moving (less than 2 weeks from now) so my available time is a bit limited.

As far as I've played w/android on my 2gb sdhc (grabbed the kernel (zImage) from a post somewhere in the middle of this thread) and it runs great.
I have noticed if you hit the power key and say power off, the buttons stop working.
Also, I've noticed some webpages just don't load.
Wifi disables itself when you boot android (if you had it running in wm61)
Other than that, the os is great, fast, smooth and almost worth running full time.
Once we get a few things ironed out, and maybe some good knowledge dumps, we could probably get this running on our phones much better.

on a sidenote, is it possible to mount the zImage as a loop device? what fs type is it?
As for timezone, mount -o loop data.img tmp then edit /timezone in there.
As for keymaps, mount -o loop systemimg tmp then take a look at /usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl
I could be wrong on that, but you never know.. I couldn't find anything comperable in the kaiser files.

I'm currently running nexvision's iphone rom... one of my hardware buttons took a crap so i decided to get off my rom that built from nu2's kitchen just to test. but .. android boots and runs great

[unvivid]

Alright, I d/l the zip file and manually updated the initrd and zImage files to get the keyboard alignment fixed. I get the the invalid argument error when booting but hey hey I've got console! Couple of questions:

1. Am I a complete idiot? How do I type with symbols on the keyboard? (note, this is one question, not two )

2. Is anyone here familiar with the zImage compression? I want to extract it on my box and edit the conf files and possibly expand the file support to work on my stock 512 card. I don't understand why it isn't mounting the card but I'm sure with a couple of tweaks any card would mount fine.



I also noticed people talking about the Red "Cyclone" or loading bar. That bar should only come up if you d/l the files seperately. The default.txt is different for those files and loads android directly. Which, unless you have vogue memory...

[ryanbg]

Originally Posted by unvivid

Alright, I d/l the zip file and manually updated the initrd and zImage files to get the keyboard alignment fixed. I get the the invalid argument error when booting but hey hey I've got console! Couple of questions:

1. Am I a complete idiot? How do I type with symbols on the keyboard? (note, this is one question, not two )

2. Is anyone here familiar with the zImage compression? I want to extract it on my box and edit the conf files and possibly expand the file support to work on my stock 512 card. I don't understand why it isn't mounting the card but I'm sure with a couple of tweaks any card would mount fine.



I also noticed people talking about the Red "Cyclone" or loading bar. That bar should only come up if you d/l the files seperately. The default.txt is different for those files and loads android directly. Which, unless you have vogue memory...

1. Do you even have the keyboard working?
2. Isn't it just Gzipped?

[00CericaRuss]

Originally Posted by ryanbg

2. Isn't it just Gzipped?

it is gzipped, but I'm unable to mount it... not sure what the fstype is.

anyone compile a kernel yet? If so, you could probably see what it is via the output of the compile

[ryanbg]

Originally Posted by 00CericaRuss

it is gzipped, but I'm unable to mount it... not sure what the fstype is.

anyone compile a kernel yet? If so, you could probably see what it is via the output of the compile

I think I read somewhere it's ext2 but I am not sure. Try that.