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isocoma 2011-09-25 06:44
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
I had bailing out errors too, but closing all windows except for the xterm I was working from fixed it. Installed and runs great, thanks!

mike6 2011-10-03 14:02
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
first of all,thnks for the great work!!!!I'm trying to install nitdroid but when the sd card is formatting to ext3 it stays there for more than 30 minutes.can anyone help me?i'm sorry for my english.i hve the n900 almost 2 years but it's the 1st time i'm writing to the forum!thanks again

Kevstacey 2011-10-03 17:57
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Download image and kernel to /home/user/MyDocs

install leafpad & rootsh from repositories

install nitdroid installer via xterm:
root
apt-get install nitdroid-installer
once installed, do NOT run it

open xterm and type:
root
cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d N12_UMay.tar.bz2
cd /home
cd /
mount /home /and
cd /and
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/N12_UMay.tar
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

edit the boot file via xterm:
type: leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11 and then press tab

ITEM_DEVICE=$(INT_CARD)p2

this installs to memory card
for those who have not yet installed correctly, i thought i'd post the easiest way of doing it :D

vivek5000 2011-10-08 15:24
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
can you please help me with steps how can I install Nitdroid N12 without having Nitdroid installed previously?

vivek5000 2011-10-11 10:54
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
The Autoinstaller 0.2.8-8 seems to be havin some issues.

I have tried installing Nitdroid N12 using Autoinstaller around 5 times, however there seems to be some problem. I have installed after formatting the phone using vanilla image on N900 firmware site.

However, the 6th time, I tried installing NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov using previous old Autoinstaller 0.0.7.

And it got successfully installed and Nitdroid was also running properly.

After that I tried to upgrade Nitdroid 0.0.8-Popov to N12 Umay using two methods :

1. Downloaded new autoinstaller, and uninstalled previous Nitdroid. And installed new Nitdroid N12 using same autoinstaller. However, against during boot up when I select Nitdroid the same Kernel not syncing error started.

2. Again vanilla flashed and then freshly installed NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov and followed procedure of xuggs to upgrade to N12 as given on his website :
http://xuggs.blogspot.com/2010/12/ni...xmasdroid.html

After installation again I get the same kernel issue.

Can someone please help me on the same. Why is Nitdroid 0.0.8 getting installed using old installer, but the new one is not getting installed?

Why am I getting kernel not syncing error? Do I need to have any kernel preinstalled on N900 to install Nitdroid N12 Umay.

Please request you to help me.

Your kind help and support is highly appreciated.

Fabry 2011-10-11 13:41
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by vivek5000 (Post 1105298)
can you please help me with steps how can I install Nitdroid N12 without having Nitdroid installed previously?
I haven't tried Nitdroid-Installer 0.2.8-8 yet, but the guide published on first post of this thread is working and with its steps you will install Gingerbread 2.3.4 (Nitdroid N12) using Nitdroid-Installer 0.2.7

ltch 2011-10-12 21:01
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Thank you! This is the only thing that got N12 working for me. 0.2.8-8 really messed up maemo, and didn't install android right (kernel panic).

vivek5000 2011-10-13 17:49
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ltch (Post 1107850)
Thank you! This is the only thing that got N12 working for me. 0.2.8-8 really messed up maemo, and didn't install android right (kernel panic).
What got ur N12 to start running as I am also getting kernel panic error?

Weedalot 2011-10-13 20:50
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Hey guys, Will it ever make proper calls? because it gets the call out and receives them but you cant hear a thing and no one can hear you... is there a fix and will there ever be one?

Joseph9560 2011-10-19 08:25
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedalot (Post 1108419)
Hey guys, Will it ever make proper calls? because it gets the call out and receives them but you cant hear a thing and no one can hear you... is there a fix and will there ever be one?
Probably never. e-yes is tired of Nitdroid and I doubt anyone else seems to be interested for further development.

e-yes don't have any plans to update the port except for maximum of one new version.

jerden69 2011-10-21 04:54
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
I gotta say thank you Fabry for the tutorial it was the easiest and best one I have come across in the sea of others out there. Using your one got it installed and also I got to the main screen!

I did have the problem of the logo just hanging there but after I plugged in the adapter for a few mins it came on.

I am having another problem though:

I get as far as signing in and it runs for a min or two and then says cannot connect to Google server please connect via wifi so I click the wifi button and boom an error pops up "The Aplication Google services framework (process com.google.process.gapps) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." with the button force close.

If I skip this option a whole bunch of similar errors come up about bluetooth the launcher mms etc and asking me to force close. It seems nothing loads for me. The only thing I can do is restart the device and go back to maemo.

Is there something I need to add through maemo to the SD card to get the applications to work? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for your great tutorial Fabry.

trisha02 2011-10-21 05:11
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
can anyone plz help me in accessing whatsapp in nitdroid.i tried with gsm and it says unable to connect.no network connection.

Promo 2011-10-30 15:12
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Hello all,

How do I prevent the Nitdroid N12 installation to write to the internal memory (which shows up as an sd card in Nitdroid) of the N900 or delete it? Of course i want to keep Maemo intact.

Thank you!

Joseph9560 2011-11-07 11:22
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Promo (Post 1115982)
Hello all,

How do I prevent the Nitdroid N12 installation to write to the internal memory (which shows up as an sd card in Nitdroid) of the N900 or delete it? Of course i want to keep Maemo intact.

Thank you!
You may want to mount external mmc as a SD card for nitdroid. There is some vfat or some file named similar that you need to edit.

serpentcatcher 2011-11-13 13:47
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
hey! am stucked in the downloading part..i have already the file downloaded in MYDOCs and it says downloadigN12_UMay.tar.bz2..

what to do?

prekshi50 2011-11-13 21:46
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Fabry-can yo solve ma prob ? plz...

i had followed all the instruction commond of install of n12 emmc but during installation it stops nd says the "file already exist on sd" ???



can yo tell me wht to do......i m usein 2gb micro sd.......

whtz the problem

serpentcatcher 2011-11-14 06:25
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by prekshi50 (Post 1123095)
Fabry-can yo solve ma prob ? plz...

i had followed all the instruction commond of install of n12 emmc but during installation it stops nd says the "file already exist on sd" ???



can yo tell me wht to do......i m usein 2gb micro sd.......

whtz the problem
same problem here :( I am completly stressed out trying over and over again.

prekshi50 2011-11-14 18:11
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
@serpentcatcher-We have to wait till any experts reply.....




@all-guys waiting for yo to reply.....plz reply soon.....

dductran 2011-11-18 09:01
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
i have tried installing it yet it doesnt work.

i downloaded the files through computer then transferred it too MyDocs and installed it through xterminal, and it worked, at the end it says 'you have sucessfully installed nitdroid... reboot'

but when i reboot, and press number 2, it loads to the android loading screen. it loads but then after awhile, something goes wrong and it is just stuck on a deadloop on the android screen and my l.e.d keeps flashing red :S

what did i do wrong??
can someone please help me??

thank you in advance :)

vivek5000 2011-11-18 10:12
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dductran (Post 1125374)
i have tried installing it yet it doesnt work.

i downloaded the files through computer then transferred it too MyDocs and installed it through xterminal, and it worked, at the end it says 'you have sucessfully installed nitdroid... reboot'

but when i reboot, and press number 2, it loads to the android loading screen. it loads but then after awhile, something goes wrong and it is just stuck on a deadloop on the android screen and my l.e.d keeps flashing red :S

what did i do wrong??
can someone please help me??

thank you in advance :)
I am also facing same problem and kernel not syncing error..

Fabry 2011-11-18 12:54
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
I suspect that you are using a SD Class 10

Please read from post #68

vivek5000 2011-11-18 19:14
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabry (Post 1125479)
I suspect that you are using a SD Class 10

Please read from post #68
No I am using Class 6

monkeyman 2011-11-20 20:41
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Install "Linux kernel for power user", reboot and then install ""Linux kernel for power user (boot image for multiboot)"?

monkeyman 2011-11-23 01:49
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
I figured things out.
I installed the NITDroid 2.7 installer before I installed the dependencies and when I tried to use it I was provided the list of dependencies which had not been met in app manager. I then used "apt-get install" in x-term for each of them and now have all of the dependencies met. Just need to figure out how to partition my MicroSD card.. Don't have an external card reader for MicroSD so I'll need to do it within the N900... if only fdisk were available.

EDIT: Found the problem. I installed Power Kernel and Multiboot myself before runnning the NITDroid installer and apparently NITDroid installer likes to handle these dependancies itself.
I used Settings>Clear Device and flashed my N900 to remove the Power Kernel then downloaded and ran the installer again. 2.6.8 stopped at Formating ext3 so I upgraded the installer to 2.7 and worked like a charm (but installed popov 0.0.8).
Only problem now is finding any software whcih works with this version from the Android Marketplace (Adobe Flash Player 11 does not and many of the games don't make it through install, killing themselves in that process) beyond Open Office Reader....

jschan 2011-11-23 02:13
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeyman (Post 1127628)
I figured things out.
I installed the NITDroid 2.7 installer before I installed the dependencies and when I tried to use it I was provided the list of dependencies which had not been met in app manager. I then used "apt-get install" in x-term for each of them and now have all of the dependencies met. Just need to figure out how to partition my MicroSD card.. Don't have an external card reader for MicroSD so I'll need to do it within the N900... if only fdisk were available...
sfdisk instructions are @ http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

noname711 2011-11-26 17:29
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Doesn't work for me. I am using nitdroid.manifest from post #1, I got it in that damned /home/user/MyDocs directory but it seems ignoring it, it just wants to download its own and then it wants to download nitdroid 0.0.8 Popov instead of 0.1.2 UMay(this is logical if it has its own manifest file).

eachna 2011-11-28 16:29
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
I have read through the thread but I'm still getting a bailout message.

To start:
Installed the latest nitdroid installer in the repos using apt-get (to get dependencies). Used dpkg to install the real latest installer at the start of this thread.

Manually partitioned my 16 gig class 6 micro SD card, as detailed in the wiki, using cfdisk.

Downloaded the manifest file attached to this post and put it in ~/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ directory. Called the installer using the file command flag. It does find the manifest file.

Manually downloaded the kernel and nitdroid packages on my linux box. Copied over using scp to ~/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ directory.

Removed the checksums from the manifest (as some people said this worked for them).

Here is the initial bailing out message:

Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p1 (vfat) ...done
Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p2 (ext3) ...done
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done
Extracting N12_UMay.tar.bz2 ...done
Installing ...FAILURE. Bailing out.

Here is the error when looking at the end of the install log:

[snipped the files extracting from N12_UMay.tar.bz2]

--- END [tar xv]
*** DONE
*** Installing
--- RUN [dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/]
dpkg-split: error reading /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/: Is a directory
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ (--install):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/
!!! ERROR:1 dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/
*** ERROR - CLEANING UP THE CRAP


What is the point of failure here? Is it failing when the kernel should be installed? Is it finding the directory the kernel is in, instead of the kernel itself? If the tar extraction is ending properly, does that mean all the android packages were properly copied to the micro SD card?

Any help would be appreciated.

Fabry 2011-11-28 17:53
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by noname711 (Post 1129288)
Doesn't work for me. I am using nitdroid.manifest from post #1, I got it in that damned /home/user/MyDocs directory but it seems ignoring it, it just wants to download its own and then it wants to download nitdroid 0.0.8 Popov instead of 0.1.2 UMay(this is logical if it has its own manifest file).
You have done something wrong.
It seems that it not find the local manifest and so it revert to use default manifest (from internet but it was made for 0.0.8 Popov)

Gky007 2011-12-01 07:39
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
but this install nitdroid in my eMMC. :( not in SD Card.

Fabry 2011-12-01 17:20
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Nitdroid-Installer 0.2.7 installs on SD
Nitdroid-Installer 0.2.8 installs on eMMC

This guide is for 0.2.7

Honza. 2011-12-03 00:26
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
How can I install newest android version(2.5.7) with 0.2.7 installer? I tried today, but it installed 2.3.4 with actual manifest file. I want to install on microSD. Thanks for ideas.

Fabry 2011-12-03 01:23
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Yes if you change the manifest it can install newer version.

Honza. 2011-12-03 14:16
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Do you know how? I changed manifest to instal newest kernel (7rc7) but N12 is still the same, it installs 2.3.4 version.

Fabry 2011-12-03 23:55
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
You need to point manifest to a full archive of 2.3.7 somewhere.

I don't know if this archive
http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/..._2.3.7.tar.bz2
is complete or only an update (to install over 2.3.4)

Raimu 2011-12-04 00:31
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabry (Post 1132875)
You need to point manifest to a full archive of 2.3.7 somewhere.

I don't if this archive
http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/..._2.3.7.tar.bz2
is complete or only an update (to install over 2.3.4)
It says update. I think you're supposed to copy the 2.3.7 over the 2.3.4. dir structure.

Fabry 2011-12-05 19:25
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
If it is an update probably it can be installed with this manifest:

Code:
#
# Manifest file for NITDroid
#

# Root filesystem tar balls
rootfs                http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/N12_UMay.tar.bz2                                        a5846b46bce11bebbe3d3b0dab1663d6
rootfs                http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/experimental/N12_update_2.3.7.tar.bz2        77e64cd44e8c1aff289ca550645739bd

# Deb packages
package                http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_7-rc7_armel.deb                22b5eb2a0047bf131898a90774a70912

Honza. 2011-12-05 20:09
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Thank you for help. Now I'm trying to enable swap. persist.swap.swappiness=1 in default.prop has no effect. Many people writes about speed improvement with swap on.

eachna 2011-12-16 01:52
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by eachna (Post 1130138)
I have read through the thread but I'm still getting a bailout message.

To start:
Installed the latest nitdroid installer in the repos using apt-get (to get dependencies). Used dpkg to install the real latest installer at the start of this thread.

Manually partitioned my 16 gig class 6 micro SD card, as detailed in the wiki, using cfdisk.

Downloaded the manifest file attached to this post and put it in ~/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ directory. Called the installer using the file command flag. It does find the manifest file.

Manually downloaded the kernel and nitdroid packages on my linux box. Copied over using scp to ~/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ directory.

Removed the checksums from the manifest (as some people said this worked for them).

Here is the initial bailing out message:

Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p1 (vfat) ...done
Formatting /dev/mmcblk1p2 (ext3) ...done
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 ...done
Extracting N12_UMay.tar.bz2 ...done
Installing ...FAILURE. Bailing out.

Here is the error when looking at the end of the install log:

[snipped the files extracting from N12_UMay.tar.bz2]

--- END [tar xv]
*** DONE
*** Installing
--- RUN [dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/]
dpkg-split: error reading /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/: Is a directory
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/ (--install):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/
!!! ERROR:1 dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/.nitdroid/
*** ERROR - CLEANING UP THE CRAP


What is the point of failure here? Is it failing when the kernel should be installed? Is it finding the directory the kernel is in, instead of the kernel itself? If the tar extraction is ending properly, does that mean all the android packages were properly copied to the micro SD card?

Any help would be appreciated.
I posted this a couple weeks ago and it appears to have been overlooked. I'm still not able to get this to install. I would appreciate any help getting this working, and thank you in advance.

lucianjustme 2012-02-10 13:36
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by eachna (Post 1138097)
I posted this a couple weeks ago and it appears to have been overlooked. I'm still not able to get this to install. I would appreciate any help getting this working, and thank you in advance.
i want to download android Gingerbread and install it on my n900 but i cant find it.. nitdroid.com is down..can anyone help me? thx

biketool 2012-02-26 11:55
Re: [How To] Nitdroid-Installer: install GingerBread N12 UMay
 
So I have tried the Nitdroid installers both from on the repos and the update installer listed on this thread. As long as I hand format the SD card and make a nitdroid.manifest as the thread instructs I can get the required files to download.
Once I have downloaded rootFS and kernel either by installer or with another computer and dropped into .nitdroid I will always get a checksum error, it seems that no matter what I do the nitdroid installer will add a md5 value even if I have hand trimmed these off, even if I am pointing the installer at local files a check after failure will show that the installer has added the bad hash values to the nitdroid.manifest file.
If network is turned off then the installer will fail unable to download a nitdroid.manifest.


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