Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

e-yes: howto donate your work?

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http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/4174...ns-to-dev-null
:)

It's better to feel your work is just needed to people, than to think they value it as "couple of euros".

P.S. GayPal sux too:D

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then till now: THANX THANX THANX to e-yes.

the bright shining light of glory shall never go away from e-yes.

(no wonder, meego isnt ready. you are not involved...)

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I have some issues:
- I have it installed on a MicroSD card. (Sandisk Class2 I believe)
- Fresh install of Gingerbread. (tried both mido's and clean e-yes build)

1. It just reboots sometimes. (when changing wallpaper, when trying to chande minimum frequency in SetCPU etc)
2. I leave it on the charger and sleep. When I wake up, phone is off with zero power left.
3. I cannot play any videos. Not even with Rockplayer or vplayer. (0.0.8 & 0.0.9 worked fine with Rockplayer)

Would this change if I install it on the eMMC? (maybe coz it's faster?)
Also, what is currently the most stable build for everyday use?
(I want to use Skype, 3G for internet and video/music playback)

##UPDATE##
- I've now removed my MicroSD install and installed it on to eMMC. So far so good. (no weird reboots)
- I'll try battery charging and video playback soon.

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I guess e-yes already knows it but yet few things I have noticed
the keyboard keymap is not working correctly for symbols and virtual keyboard is too tiny.
many apps eg ucweb, 3d app launcher etc doesn't cover full screen rather a portion of the screen with rest of the area as black.
Is the kernel with sd card support be used with gingerbread as well?
Thanks e-yes for such a wonderful job.

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Got gingerbread working while at same time transferring my 0.0.8 from sd to emmc.
I don't what happened, but now my /home directory is full. I suspect I may have mounted too many things linked to /home or something when copying from sd card to emmc?

I have run the mount command in xterm and I believe the relevant sections I have are:
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/mmc1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home

I believe the last one there is where the android files got set up.
Is there any other/better ways of checking this?
Am I supposed to unmount things at the end? what would happen if I typed unmount all in xterm-Does that also unmount the emmc, would it fix itself upon reboot? why is the sky blue? Why does Beavis and Butthead make me laugh? What is the meaning of life?

there is any linux experts who could lend a hand I'd be very grateful. Any other other things to try would also be appreciated.

Thanks for all the great work so far

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What do you mean by install gingerbread on fresh 0.0.9?? Sorry I am a bit confused with this...

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

i was replying to question only :)

anyway u can install the custom image

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Still connected in your holidays too e-yes.

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Miss superuser access?
Look here for new update:
http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?...44.msg4496#new

:)

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OK I think I narrowed my problem down to this line:

/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home

Could somene a bit more learned in linux please confirm that this is not the n900s own internal storage before I attempt to unmount this. Also, will the command "unmount /dev/mmcblk0p2 " do the trick?

The full text of the line as it appears when the mount command is entered is:

/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writebac k)

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/dev/mmcblk0p2 mounted to /home it is of course Maemo's optFS partition on internal eMMC.

The unmount command is umount without 'n', but why do you want to unmount /home ?

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

As I understand it, /dev/mmcblk0p2 is where /home is located. /home includes many configuration files, etc and /opt (where all the "optified" stuff is located). If you unmount it, you'll likely have problems (a lot of stuff will stop working).

It should be 2GB in size, so depending on what you installed in maemo and what you copied over for nitdroid, you could have filled it up. Best thing to do is to delete the nitdroid files.

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OK thank you- I will leave that well alone and not touch it.

I don't know why my /home thinks it is full though. When looking on midnight commander is says there is space there, but on the disk usage app it is full and the characters are all squares ( yeah- very weird) and app manager won't let me update anything cos it says /home is full.

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You have installed nitdroid on /and which is bounded to /home so you have installed nitdroid on /home and naturally the free space on /home is decreased by amount consumed by Android.

The original /home contains only 3 directories (lost+found, opt and user) and no file:
All other files and directories you see in /home are for Android

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Thanks fabry. I'll go see if there is anything big in there I can delete and see if that solves it. According to conky though, there is 105.02mb free, that is what's so puzzling why it is telling me there is no space when there is

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I can confirm reboots that jakiman mentioned. Also random reboots are frequent.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

hey

u can use my custom emmc to increase home partition to 5 dr 8 giga
and u won't have any problems about space anymore

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Sounds like maybe the partiton has gotten corrupted? If you are using power kernel, I think there is a setting to fsck (scan) the partitions on boot. You may want to look into that.

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That would be because it is an ext3 (I think) partition, ext2/3/4 by default reserve 5% of the space for superuser use, so the superuser has space to work with to fix any problems caused by the partition being filled up, it also gives some space for the driver to work with to minimise fragmentation (though you typically want more like 10-15% for that), fragmentation doesn't cause as much of a performance impact on a SSD as it does on a hard drive, but you probably don't want it getting too bad. You can reduce or remove the reserved space using the tune2fs utility if you want to, but it is probably best to leave it as it is

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Thanks everyone. I guess it really is that full then. So I have choices to increase the /home partition, move android back to an SD card, or another one I thought of was to simlink a bunch of the android stuff out of the android folder and into mydocs somewhere.
I think I'll give the increasing the partition. I'l go read up how to do that. Will it mean wiping anything though? Also- I'll try to find out how to scan the boot partitions. IS there an easy way to do that too?

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Update- the fsck command tells me I need to unmount before I do the scan or else it can cause damage.
So- I might need to unmount it after all in order to check it out. Is it safe to unmount it for a scan- has anyone ever done this before? I am sure I read that it can be done by plugging into PC too- I might give that a go.

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You can unmount MyDocs safely, but /home will be tricky, you won't be able to unmount it if anything is using any files on it and since /home also contains /opt where files from most apps are, it will be quite tricky to get it in a state where it can be unmounted. Before unmounting /home, you'll have to unmount /home/user/MyDocs because it is mounted on part of the /home filesystem and you'll have to unmount /opt since /opt is bind-mounted from /home/opt, if you can do that without it complaining about anything then you should be able to unmount /home. I would try it myself to see if it is possible, but I've just sent my N900 off for repair, so I can't.

One way to do it would be to find the startup script that mounts the partitions and edit it to do a fsck first before mounting them, but if you mess it up you might stall the boot process there and be stuck not being able to boot Maemo, if you are running NITDroid from an SD card, maybe you can run a fsck from that, I haven't tried NITDroid yet so I'm not overly familiar with it, but I should think that is a possibility. Also, I think backupmenu has an option to do a fsck of your /home partition, but again I haven't used that so I'm not 100% sure.

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Sounds too tricky to be doing at this time of night:) I've been reading and it has been mentioned there exists a way to re-partition things without the need to plug into a PC. I only have a windows PC so the gparted thing wont work. OR is there some way that gparted will work using n900 only now, and that is what people are talking about? I haven't managed to track that down. If anyone has a link or knows what to get could you please let me know. Anything that will work to increase the /home partition without deleting any data will do.

thanks

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

For N900 exists parted (it is a console tool) if you want to try but it is necessary before to umount /home and MyDocs to do partition resizing.

If you have only a windows pc, it isn't a problem because N900 is an USB device and USB works well with virtual machine.
I have repartitioned my N900 by GParted with a virtual ubuntu on Windows Seven Host.

For faster solution you can also

• Backup optFS (with backupmenu) to MyDocs
• Backup MyDocs to PC (simple file copy)
• Flash a modified vanilla image to N900
• Restore MyDocs from PC
• Restore optFS (with BackupMenu) from MyDocs

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I've just been away getting Mido's new backup menu. I will give one of those solutions a try tomorrow after work. Better get to bed for now. Thanks for all your help:)

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

hey

u caan simply incresse ur /home partition to 5 giga by ustom EMMC and it's very simple

if u want 5 giga for /home , u can use this custom EMMC image
http://www.mediafire.com/?j6srnaxwr3notaf

and if u want to increase it to 8 giga , u can use this custom EMMC
http://www.mediafire.com/?5o1hkuuwhn8hh1c

BUT BEFORE USING EMMC IMAGES , DON'T FORGET TO UNPACK THEM FIRST

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If you are familiar with flashing, there is a rescue boot kernel you can temporarily flash. It gives you access to all the partitions on the next boot. I used an Ubuntu live cd, and re-partitioned the emmc to include an extra partition for nitdroid. Didn't lose any files either. I posted how to do it at the nitdroid forums in the install to emmc thread, 2nd or 3rd page I think.

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BEFORE UNPACKING SMTH, REMEMBER - NO SUPPORT.

P.S. @mido.fayad may be you start another thread (at least?)
As I said before, no problem with distribution, but provide support by yourself.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

e-yes :) >>>>> i think u misunderstand me >>>>> it's not NITDroid image

it's custom nokia EMMC image to increase mmcblk0p2 to 5 or 8 giga

and it's very useful with NITDroid as it fixes space problem

and i packed them to be able to upload them as they more than 255 mega

but nitdroid image only 105 mega


P . S : @ e-yes : i hope u don't misunderstand me
and without ur great efforts , we won't able to see this wonderfull GinGerBread :)

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Sorry, my bad... i thought you are distributing 009+ginger-over.
So many information/messages/etc around for last few weeks.

Sorry again;)

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I know im asking sumthing lots of ppl have, but i couldnt find the answer.
Any Idea when can we start making calls on any version of android??
and if we will ever get the calling facility or not???
im having great troubles using maemo in landscape mode all d time.

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Virtual keyboard is fixed

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12073980/220787083.jpg

via e-yes

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NO ONE knows the answer to that question.

But sounds like you obviously bought the wong phone.
Sell your N900 and buy an Android phone right now.
That is the right answer for you.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

but that sure would be nice to simply be able to flash a tripleboot image of stock kernel + power kernel46 + gingerbread. why is nobody doing this? i could prob hack my way thru it but you pros could prob. do this in a fraction of the time

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it's good that whatever difference in thinking has been solved otherwise what would had happend to NITDROID

By the way thanks to all behind NITdroid for making it almost sucessfull on N900
only next we want is working CALL and SMS

Once again thanks to all dev and supporter

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

hi all,

I can't seem to get wireless working on my clean install of gingerbread.

I have manually typed in my SSID and entered my Wifi type - WPA2 and password and it doesn't store. Also, phone doesn't see any other networks.

I can use 3G no probs. :confused:

thanks all

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I can't find the thread right now but I read somewhere that there is a bug in Nitdroid with WPA2 connections. You can either wait for this to be fixed in Nitdroid or you can change your router's settings to WPA and you should be able to get wifi to connect in Nitdroid but you will be reducing the security of your entire network so keep that in mind.

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My router is already on WPA1 but Nitdroid not sees it

On my room I relieve (with PC) about 10 AP, Maemo sees about 7-8 AP but Nitdroid sees only 3-4 AP

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What channels are visible and what channels are not?