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cheers for the info guys! :-) i shall grab myself a 4 gigger then

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quick update: i am making progress on googleapps working on n900 :) this hack im doing may even work on n8x0 also (ill test that at later date) but if i can get this to load and work ill look at gettin market up to as it maybe possible

UPDATE 2: ok i have google apps partially working, gmail/contacts/calender wont work but the market DOES load and work or seemingly work as i get the unable to install error myself now, so about to repartition my microsd and check this out :) will be back with a 3rd update soon. am going to also need a few fairly experianced users to test this before i release it publicly, drop me a message here or in irc if pos

update 3: still having issues, these goog apps tend to make device slower it seems, still looking at it though

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ok, final update of the night, im uploading a rootfs momentarily which has google apps in it, also going to put up a link to adb as this is required to get the apps going (ive not managed to get it downloading anything but ill let others examine that also. more update with instructions coming up soon

Link: http://blog.nitdroid.com/NITDroid-N9...ETA-GAPPs.tbz2

ADB: http://guug.org/nit/nitdroid/adb.bz2

instructions for install:

WIPE YOUR SD CARD!!!!!
make sure your ext3 partition is under 2gb in size.
extract the above linked archive to the card as per tutorials
make sure you have your usb cable handy as its required

next download ADB (link above is for the linux version of the app.)
and extract it (bunzip2 adb.bz2)

now connect the usb cable to pc and n900 and boot up n900 (it'll likely boot itself) select android in bootmenu and once you get to the android text you should be able to bring up usb networking like below:
then run the following command

followed by the following in the new shell
your best off ignoreing any errors appearing on device at the moment as they will be quite a few of them,

once you have ran those commands type sync then once that completes type exit and pull battery on n900.

reconnect battery and boot back into android, you should either get a prompt of what to use to perform a task (choose setup wizard BUT DO NOT cick the always use box)

once setup wizard loads tap the android then skip and skip again (dont setup an account) then next through all the screens until you get desktop.

then you can go setup wifi before heading to accounts and sync screen (this will take a bit to load)

disable auto-sync(unless you like a painfully slow device)

add an account > google> enter details as needed, and wait for device to catch up at end, any errors hit wait. once done you should be able to open market and try downloading, the speed of market is slow (think thats the wifi driver ) but it seems usable.

please test and let me know - i would not recommend people with little skill try this as its long winded and not stable

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Are there any major changes in the installation procedure?
By Google apps, do you mean GMail, GCal etc. or just Market?

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all the google apps are their but properly unstable build at min, market seems to work i just havent got anything to download yet, its quite a major change in installation due to the apps being a bit of a bodge at the min (im writing instructions now )

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their new rootfs and howto is above :) anyone feeling brave wana give it a go :)

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Sure, why not? I'm not doing anything useful anyway :p

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should also mention in here that if anyone who is doing development for nitdroid want some ftp space to store files lemme know and ill sort you some out :)

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Just a question though, do you really need to use a <2GB partition?
I'll try with a bigger one I think :)

EDIT: Used a 1.95GB partition, after all I don't want to re-do this in case it doesn't work..

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lol i tried with 1.8gb one lol

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Great news. I'll test this out soon.
Where to I start typing ifconfig and such?
Is that to be done in a linux terminal or do I type on the N900?

It was not mentioned where to type.

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the ifconfig is linux pc, most will try and do dhcp on usb net which wont work

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adroid N900 how to install (with Vista) ?

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Easiest would probably to follow my tutorial here http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

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@DJ_Steve: Looks like the tar package is broken, I have downloaded it twice but tar won't untar it :(

EDIT: Sorry for double post.

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that'll be me will upload again

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Awesome, can't wait to try it out :)

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ok it should be up

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I used a 4GB card, then shrunk the partition in GPartEd to 1.9GB. I figure once the problem is fixed I can easily expand it to 3.8 or whatever it was. GPartEd can resize ext2 and ext3 partitions nondestructively.

I read somewhere (the same place they said to shrink your partition) that the 2GB is a kernel limitation. I don't know why they would do this, or why some few people are not having the issue if that's so.

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steve could you please be more specific about the adb? i dont know what to do

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@f2thak: What are you taking about?
Why would you come here and post such an out of place message?

Is it windows/Both that has no Wifi or the VM?
If it's windows, just re do your connection setup.

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During installation it does tell you that your network connection will be reset.

@DJ_Steve: I couldn't skip through the steps yesterday so I had to try and sync my google account.... it seemed to work but then it hanged. I eventually had to pull the battery, and now the cell phone module doesn't seem to work in Maemo. Any suggestions? Also Android wont start now, it just flashes the logo indefinitely.

EDIT: Nevermind the phone module started working magically just now.

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yes and Ive turned off my computer, restarted it, disabled and enabled wifi and uninstalled virtualbox... nothing works
internet works thru cable but wifi no longer works!

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What a heck that related somehow to NITDROID DEVELOPMENT?

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I was following instructions to install this on my N900 and came across that problem..

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i folow the instructions, but when android loads, its telling me that the system in not responding, clock in not responding etc. so i cant click on start the wizard, i just click wait, and waits for another message of not respondingnes :)

did i do anything wrong?

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Reinstall the drivers for your wireless card, that should solve the problem.

How is your card partitioned? Did you follow all instructions(including editing the database)? Remember you could try the "older" version without Google apps, it's quite stable and the only difference is no Gapps. Check out the instructions here http://wiki.nitdroid.com/index.php?title=N900-install

EDIT: Also this should be in the NITDroid help topic http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56524

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Hi guys
finaly my microsd arrived and I'm installing android on it.
Quick short question:
which of the two partitions shoud be under 2G?
The fat32 or the ext3?

thanks
dabozz

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The ext3 one.

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toja i think you need job as official nitdroid support lol

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ok'ay... hello everyone here (again) !!!
as i've not been here for quite a loooong time, can someone tell me what are the new improvements ???
cause' i've seen a new tuto page with finally a dual boot kernel... so i'm quite confused lol
Help please ? :D

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lol mainly dualboot, newer updated site, SOUND SUPPORT (speakers at min but headset is in progress as i type) also have overclock patched dualboot kernel. . i uploaded a unstable test reralease with partial google apps also yesterday but i dont recommnd it unless you know what your doing

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ok'ay, i'll be the tester for that, since that is what i was actually triying to make it work with your old release lol, where can i have it ??

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look a couple pages back qws uploaded last night

it is properly unstable and nor likely to work though

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okay found, buuut... do i really need a 3gigs memcard ?? cause' i only have a 1gig lol

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no but the theory was make sue the ext3 partition is under 2gb in size

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ok'ay, i'll do that tonight so ;) thx !

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Sure, why not? :)
Maybe we can have a help IRC-channel(with a webchat embeded in the wiki, in a page)?

Also, I'm hoping I'll get the new Gapps rootfs working in a couple of hours :D

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toja we have an irc channel : freenode room #nitdroid though i am considering a #nitdroid-help room too what ya reckon