Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Many reasons. One of them is whether the app is locked and your device offer lock. They have to match in order for you to see the app.

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

@Bun
How'd you get blutooth working? Airplane mode is off, wifi and gprs are working sort of but Bluetooth will not switch on just hangs on turning bluetooth on.
Wanna try my Bluetooth GPS out.
Cheers

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

My Bluetooth just worked ; )

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Did you install the bluetooth patch for 0.0.8?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

thanks, it worked :)


Maybe this is a known issue that i missed but on my nitdroid USB functions dont work, i plug it into the PC and nothing happens, i can still charge but thats about it

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

This is a great project and dual booting android made my lady go "ooh".

However i've decided to uninstall Nitdroid as it just is too unstable on my handset.

Positives:
- Has given me a taste of android without purchasing a new handset
- Experiencing a good email client
- I've now seen the hype about the market place and am not impressed. I'd rather have the extras and extras devel on maemo.
- NitDroid works very well. Boot time is fast, browser is good and the contact book looks beautiful.

Negatives:
- Unstable. Charging is a pain. Sometimes the phones charges and it doesnt at other times. I've had to switch to Maemo just to charge the battery.
- Lots of app's still dont work (google maps).

Overall its a great experience as a phone geek. Must for everyone to taste it.

Thanks for all the work Nitdroid team.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I have tried close to 250 apps, only 3 does NOT work. Admittedly, one has to try different versions.

To run google maps on current nitdroid, you can use BT GPS, thread #4 or apply a patch, thread #49. I have google earth running which I think is more complicate than google map, pics thread #362, only Earth 1.0 works, 1.1 refused to install. Yes, that is one of the 3 apps I tried does not work.

I agree with you on most of your other points. Sorry to see you go, come back someday :)

BTW, for those need space to load maps, say Mapdroyd, I installed nitdroid on 6G space, and it just worked... so far. and there is ADWlauncher 1.15 released, dl the cm5 version and rename to ADWLauncher.apk and copy into /and/sys/app. Difference? read changelog.


very useful links:http://www.androlib.com/android.stat...cher-FEjB.aspx, daily list of android market apps, just saw the title have NOT tried it yet.


bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

NiTDroid was progressing very slowly until those last updates and it went crazy.
I just had a look at the Change Log, which is now beautifully arranged and easily legible.
But I must offer some feedback, Please change where it reads "Vibrator ... Not Available". lols and rollseyes.
I think "Vibration" is more suitable and professional.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I know there is a reason why nitdroid still NOT in the mainstream, thanks ameego :)

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

NITDroid is good project, I am able to get a taste on it and the scrolling UI is wonderful, no screen tearing like Maemo, but for flexibility Maemo smoked android away. Nevertheless thanks everyone who helped in creating NITDroid and this has helped us N900 owner to get extra games.

Personally I will be happy to see GPS working in order to use better navigation software compared to those in Maemo.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I have tried to format manually but upon launching the auto-installer it still stalls painfully at formatting /dev/mmcb1k1p2

Is there a way to tell the autoinstaller that the SD is already formatted??

Many thanks.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

You only have to manually partition the sd, formatting is fine, done by the auto-installer.

After you did your partitions manually, reboot, xterm/root, cat /proc/partitions, you should see your partitions correctly, then proceed with nitdroid installer. If not, re-do your partitions till correct. Sometimes, I have to do twice. I have NOT need to do it 3X yet :)

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I am using a 2gb card.

How big does my 1st FAT partition need to be?

I think this is my mistake, I was just trying to format the whole thing as a single EXT3

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

The fat partition has no size limit.

The ext3 must be under 2 gigs =)

I did exactly 2047mb, and it installed fine. The rest of the 8gb card I assigned to fat.

Same thing worked for installed in internal memory too.

Speaking of using the internal memory, does anybody know if it is possible to use swap if it is set up in the internal flash drive?

(not mmc, apparently swapping from an mmc partition would reduce the card's lifetime by a very sizeable portion)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Yeah I'm not having a win. Have tried a variety of shapes and sizes and it still just sits there on formatting ext3 (same error as reported in page 1 of this thread)

I guess I will just have to wait for the autoinstaller to be updated.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

That is the advice from the masters. I have tried 6G ext3 and works fine, so far. In fact, works better than fine, it runs slightly faster (dont know why), and if it crashes, it reboots by self rather than just frozen and requires to remove the battery. Do 2G plus ONLY if you can afford an occasionally reboot, if not, stick to the masters recommendation, under 2G :)

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I tried with a larger-than-2gb configuration and got this humungous kernel panic when it was supposed to boot for the first time, so I thought the "master's recommendation" (lol) was "uncircumventeable"

In any case 2g is working fine for me, I don't think it would get much faster than it already does cause it's in the eMMC =)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Please dont, we will take you thru'

1st, start from the beginning. Get a SD card you can affort to be erased. Got it? Ok, assume it is the 2G card you are talkin about,

Type exactly the following, do me a favor, double check all typing before hitting the enter, as fixing a mistake usually takes more time for the diagnosis and whatnot,

bootup maemo
take care the repository, enable extras-devel etc...

xterm
sudo gainroot
umount /media/mmc1
sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF
,100,C
,,L
,,
,,
EOF


(wait for it to do partitions... )
...
Re-reading the partition table ...

reboot
xterm
cat /proc/partitions
looks like this,

........mmcblk0
..100 mmcblk0p1
........mmcblk0p2
...

proceed from Installation on thread#1

good luck,

bun

Cannot find nitdroid!!!!! :(
 

Cannot find nitroid in extras devel...and cant even download using xterm...pls helppppppppp :(

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

hey this might be helpful to u................http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/a...installer.html

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Thanks Gurbir...i have just added the repo...its updating...lets see if it works...keeping my fingers crossed!!! :)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

BRAVO.
After a few installs (...some contacts lost in the way because I'm stupid enough to install without a fresh backup of Maemo...) Nitdroid seems stable (with its issues obviously) in my phone.
GREAT. GREAT WORK GUYS.
Only the blinking red light-battery empty is a little annoying for me, (prevents for booting Nitdroid, causing a boot-loop), but charging the phone until GREEN LIGHT with main adaptor and then booting Nitroid solves it for a while.
I thought Maemo team was formed by ONE programmer. But if THREE brave guys are doing this, the updates for Maemo are developed by a team of ZERO coders.
Only waiting for mic to work (phone WITH voice), more stable BME and internal GPS to boot in NITDROID by default.
THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS GUYS.
If you want Vsync, auto portrait-landscape in desktop, smooth transitions etc, take a look at Nitdroid (Is it soooo hard to code it for Maemo, Nokia? No problem, we have Nitdroid)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

bro u have to wt for repo to update....it takes time

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

yup..done that around 10 times now...given it as much time as it needs...the prob is..im getting an error saying connection timed out...and its not updating at all...i had this prob with another repo i added some months back called geebox..that has never updated too...so any other ideas???

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

ha ha ha....i knew u would suggest this..so i already tried...the .deb file is not installable...has something missing... u can check this link...im facing the same prob...this guy force installed the dependencies but is facing probs later...any ideas? http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=233.0 ...hold on..im installing the dependencies separately...lets see what happens,,,

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

it is instalable.....................first u have to add extra devels.then update........then click on that file and it will install.............or use apt-get

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

did i just brick my phone??? :O i installed the multi boot dependency multiboot_0.2.10_armel.deb and updated it...now when i start my phone...i see the nokia hands logo and a msg saying press a key to select...with the number 30 beside it...i tried pressing all the keys but nothing happens...and the phone switches off automatically after some secs...whats wrong???

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

sorry...the nokia hands vid DOESNT show...i get the msg BEFORE that...

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

any help? any one? not able to start up the phone at all...switches off on the 'multi boot' screen...

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

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remove the battery wait for couple of minutes and put it back and let me know wat happens.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

did that...no change...the same thing.. :(

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

yay..fixed it...seems like the hidden option is to press and hold 0 which is the maemo boot option...woo..scared me!!!

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Try pushing 0 or b key when it asks to press a key
Edit: Missed by that much...

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

thanks a ton anyway beatty...u guys rock!!!!!!!

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

You can always reflash the N900, it has an amazing unbricking mechanism.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

in NITDroid, the SD card detected is the 32gb emmc?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

Apparently, yeah. Don't know how to access REAL sd card.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

0.9?
will it come soon?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation
 

I am experiencing right now, problem to install this.
My internet is connects, but I can't download the damn NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar.bz2 file.
All the treads I found about installing in manually, only refers if you already have nitdroid, what I don't.
I am tryign this for around 5 hours, believe me, I am really tired..