Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Oh and another one

How can i switch The keyboard language

thank you

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

@ing500, glad you got wifi working. Did you see e-yes post solution for you? Thank him, he is one of the nitdroid developer that made this all possible.

You can change language here, menu>Language & keyboard>Select language. How to change keyboard language is beyond me. Try forum.nitdroid.com, it is more technical there.

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

help please

Nitdroid experience and minor issues...
 

Android Market:

I have upgraded to PR 1.3 and installed Nitdroid, using the installer except for partitioning the SD card which had to be done manually.

WiFi work flawlessly, even with encrypted WPA/PSK links. Cool !

My question is regarding the Market that is "seen" from the n900's Nitdroid. Some applications are missing, if compared to the Market from a formal Android phone. For instance Flash player is nowhere to be seen on the N900 Nitdroidmarket.

I know Google validates the SIM card in order to present information on the Market (i.e. which country is your SM card from) and it seems it is also validating if you are using an "official or approved Android device" or an "out-law Android device" (to call them somehow and make the difference point clear...)
Can someone comment on this please?

Another interesting issue: I installed the "Market Millionare" game application, (this one was indeed available at the Nitdroid's market) but, when launching the application for the first time, It already had a username set up. As if the application had been cloned from another phone (already configured app, that is), if you get the idea... This was kinda weird. Comments? who has seen something similar?

Thanks in advance for your comments and hints. Best regards.

febb

Re: Nitdroid experience and minor issues...
 

@ febb

Haven't seen anything like that in my setup, but haven't tried that particular app. I have purchased apps, and had them show up in new installations as downloadable (purchased). In other words, my purchased apps are tied to my gmail account.

Try this fix for the market, or browse the nitdroid forums for other market fixes.

Re: Nitdroid experience and minor issues...
 

@lemmyslender

Thanks for the hint. I did the whole procedure as stated on the video tutorial and it indeed opened the Market to (almost) all applications.

There were only a few apps that are nowhere to be seen, such as Flash Player for Android...

And some others are there, such as YouTube (standalone app) that do not install no matter what: (unsuccessful installation on the notification bar).

I had some errors on some apps stating that my Kernel (Nitdroid Kernel, installed 1 week ago or so with the installer) has NO support for IPv6... go figure !...

Have you had similar issues with the "opened" (so so say) Market ?

On other issue, today, I ran again the "Market Millionaire" application and, again, my id has been changed. It is as if the Adroid-ID or phone-id (on this N900 install) is the same as the one on some other(s) phone(s)...curious. Could some of you download the Market Millionaire and test if you get the same results.

Thanks in advance. Kind regards.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I think the market thing varies from person to person depending on carrier and location. I don't have a real android phone to compare with, so I can't tell if there is anything missing. I think some things may be. But there are far more apps than before the fix, so I'm OK with that.

I installed both Market Millionaire Classic and Enhanced. Classic had a user of "ak" and Enhanced had a user of "NOK". Haven't seen anything like that before, but haven't installed any other apps that keep track of stats like that. Might be a problem on their end?

Already have Flash installed (download at nitdroid?) Youtube won't install for me either, but there is already a version installed. Won't play videos though. But I think youtube is problematic anyway.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Aha !... The user "Nok" is the one I set up this afternoon, after launching the app and had some other user already set-up again. (I don't recall).
Could you please try changing the "NOK" user to some of your choosing...and lets see if I "see" that user on my phone ...

Interesting stuff here...isn't it !! ?

That issue (the Millionare Market) seems to be related to NitDroid.

I do have a Nexus One with Android 2.2.1 and the same app installed. It has never behaved strangely as the Market Millionaire on the N900. My wife has an iPod touch, the same app installed and it also behaves correctly. So, the issue seems to be somehow directly related to Nitdroid...don't know if the problem is on the Nitdroid side itself or on the Millionaire Market servers tough.

There must be some ID that is kind of hardcoded on Nitdroid...or, the app servers fail to uniquely identify each phone for some reason. This may have huge security implications. beware of that ! (This is Nitdroid only !)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Get flash player here. You may have to dl to a folder and install with any file manager

After installation, test with http://m.kongregate.com/games/BryceS...mbler-mobile-2, not youtube. Youtube has problem.

Warning, it is a very addictive game, pics here, thread #46

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but is there a way to transfer your contacts from Maemo to Android on the N900?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I guess maemo to maybe google/facebook/twitter/outlook then back to android.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I tried the autoinstaller it got stuck at 2nd format "Format .... ext 3"

I tried to the manual partition thing..
but I am getting this msg
when I do the following;

sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF
,<YOUR NUMBER IN MB>,C
,,L
,,
,,
EOF

"sfdisk: bad input"

I have no idea how to proceed.
I really want to install the Nitdroid.
any help is welcome!
Thanks

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

1) typo
2) did not umount SD
3) root?
4) reboot and start fresh on xterm/root

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

There are 2 posts, with different approach, successfully installed nitdroid on internal flash, reportedly running "10 X" faster, details here , looks like booting into nitdroid using internal flash is eminent :) . I have not tried it.... yet. read the article at your own risk :o

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I tried again got the same respond
maybe I can create this partition on the mem card with a PC and just use the autoinstaller?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I wouldn't say 10x faster, but definitely faster (8GB class 6 @ 805Mhz vs Internal @ 700Mhz).

I'm all set with a separate partition on the internal memory for nitdroid (or perhaps MeeGo at some point). Should be easy to reinstall, just format the partition, and untar a new filesystem. Currently have 2 nitdroid boot options, sd or internal, both work. As long as you are familiar with flashing, and linux (I used Ubuntu and gparted), it wasn't too bad to set up.

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I did the following;

sudo gainroot

umount /dev/mmcblk1p1

sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF
,<6100MB>,C
,,L
,,
,,
EOF

and at the end
got this;

sfdisk: bad input

How should I proceed? the Autoinstaller gets stuck also..

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Can you read/write to your SD card under maemo? Maybe your card is damaged and becomes read only. Situation like that, I would
1) reformat under window into FAT32 and tried again,
2) or panasonic low level formatter (google download and install under window, then low level format your SD, that should work)

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Your input is wrong, there should be nothng in front of 6100, i.e.

it should be

,6100,C

try that, it will work

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

That step I was able to pass with your suggestion! thank you!!!.. but now I type;

umount /dev/mmcblk1p1

mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk1p1
mke2fs -L NITDroid -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk1p2

and I get The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?

what am I doing wrong here?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

check your partitions with
reboot/xterm/root
cat /proc/partitions

if you see mmcblk1p2, then you are succeed, proceed to auto-installer, it will take care all those format etc
if not, repeat partition, sometimes one has to do it more than once

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I finally have it running..
Thank you for your help!
I notice that the phone feature not working..
I have it on a class 2 8GB micro sd card. I am thinking to buy a Class 10 microsd (also 8GB) Do you guys think I will notice speed difference? and do I need 8gb card? or maybe just 2gb enough for it?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Wow, good to see you got it going, hope you enjoy it.

Regarding speed:

What I read: class 10 and class 6 or even class 4 will make a difference compare to class 2
What I experience: speedwise, 1G = 2G, and is faster than 4G, and is faster than 8G, yes, the size of the card. I have 8 cards, I made them all nitdroid and that is the results, kind of interesting

Either the QA of SD 'class' is random, or more likely, I dont know what I am talking about.

Go play, you spent almost a whole afternoon to do it, congrat!

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Today I am trying to install it on another MicroSD card.
I created the partition and when I install it
here is what I get;

Downloading nitdroid.manifest ...FAILURE. Bailing out.

Yesterday I didn't get this..
Anyhelp is welcome..

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

you need to go online n make sure the connection is ok!!

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

when i'm into droid the red light always blinkking n my n900 turn of automatically
my battery is fully charged
why is it happen?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

wow guys i just installed and I love it . .

only one question do i have to be connected to some wireless connection to make everything work or the phone connetion can work as well . .

thanks

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Phone/connection works and place call too, you just cant talk :( ... yet :)

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I wonder if it can be install into emmc (via chroot or sth else)

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

i can't use phone connection! it's like i can't turn off airplane mode!!

some help!?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

It has been done, and reportedly faster, see above few postings. I have bit tried it yet.

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

You can use the phone, it makes calls and receives calls, you just cannot talk yet. The airplane thing is a bug FROM FROYO, NOT FROM NITDROID, as a lot of nitdroid users mistakenly assumed. In 0.07, turn off the airplane is NOT strict forward, see 1st post. In 0.08, just click the icon or reboot. It works for me.

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

Not to mean to ignore you, I just dont have a solution... yet. Red light 'sometime' blink is when you just experienced a battery crash, usually because the nitdroid does NOT read the battery accurately.

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

If you want to see more on your screen, you can edit the file

/and/system/build.prop under maemo,
============
...

ro.sf.lcd_density=240
wifi.interface=wlan0

....
============

and play with the number 210. As N900 resolution is more than nitdroid, you can easily adjusted to higher resolultion, sort of like changing the monitor resolution of 1280 X 800 vs 1024 X 768 vs 800 X 600, I always prefer 1280 on my monitor, I hate 800 X 600. However, because of the N900 screen size is not 21", you would have to play with your preference.

280 crash some
240 is the default
210 is my choice
180 if you have very good eyes

When the number is not 240, some games/website may have black borders. I just want to see more. some pics for your enjoyment, working.... just wait :) pics attached are 180, as you can see, you see a lot more on the web page, however, on some games, you will see black borders.

enjoy,

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

The above are 180s, these are 210s, my default setting. It is difficult to demonstrate the difference as the TMO posting change the pics somewhat. You can see on the search website, 8 rows displayed on 210 vs 9 rows displayed on 180, so does the other pics too. And somegames display alright, and some will have a black borders. Again, it is just personal preference whatever you choose. And yes, you can make it smaller, but can make it bigger. It crashed with 280 or above, more frequent.

enjoy,

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

These are the default 240, just compare the search page, you see only 6 rows compare to 8 rows of 210 and 9 rows of 180.

because of the hi resolution of N900 display, the modification does not make it pixelated, still looked very sharp to the nake eyes :)

enjoy,

bun

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

thx for reply :D

actually yesterday i can use the nitdroid n i can use it to connect to the internet n the battery is show the correct actual value
i dont know why its happened
n then i turn off the phone to use the maemo
n today when i want to use nitdroid again, the red light issue coming out again :(
:confused:

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

I saw that i can receive text and I also set some but no one got it . .

so no voice call and no sending sms right?

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

@bun
how to make screenshot from nitdroid like that??
thx

Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation AND PR 1.3 UPGRADE!
 

same here dude

but, once i send the message n my friend receive it, but when i want to send it again, he doesnt receive it :p

nope for the 0.0.9 :p