Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

What happens if after typing "root" you type "ls /home/user/MyDocs"? Check that the .deb file is actually there.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

i think im on the right tracks now :D


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ sudo gainroot
Root shell enabled


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # cd /home/user/MyDocs
/home/user/MyDocs # dpkg -i bzip2_1.0.5-3+0m5_armel.deb
Selecting previously deselected package bzip2.
(Reading database ... 23576 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bzip2 (from bzip2_1.0.5-3+0m5_armel.deb) ...
Setting up bzip2 (1:1.0.5-3+0m5) ...
/home/user/MyDocs #

am i on the right tracks?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

quick question is this code ment to be like this ----------->>>

cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2

or like this --------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>

cd /home/user/MyDocs bzip2 -d nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yes mate now try the install nitdroid bits and you should be good to go

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

im stuck at this part... i keep getting an error


cd /home
mkdir /and

is it ment to be like that or like this

cd /home/mkdir /and

i keep getting

mkdir: cannot directory '/and': file exists

and body got a fix or how do i type it?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

got a new problem this time [i bet you guys are getting sick and tired of my errors but i dont wana fook it up and stuff... hopefully you guys will get what i mean]

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ root


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# cd /home/user/MyDocs bzip2 -d nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2
Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs# cd /
Nokia-N900-42-11:/# mount /home /and
Nokia-N900-42-11:/# cd /and
Nokia-N900-42-11:/and# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar
tar: can't open '/home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar': No such file or directory
Nokia-N900-42-11:/and#

its this part thats going wrong

Nokia-N900-42-11:/and# tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar
tar: can't open '/home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar': No such file or directory

im clueless as ever. plus this is my first time doing something THIS extrema [yeah my life is boring haha i dont do this kind of stuff :D] please help

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

you have two commands on one line here, a "cd" and a "bzip2". Only the cd did anything
so do them as two commands
Its written as two line because you need to type two separate lines

the tar fails because you didnt do the bzip2 in a way that actually did anything.

Oh! and where people have been putting "nitdroidarchivename" you actually need to put the right name. It will be the name of the file you downloaded for the bzip2 and the same name without ".bz2" on the end for the tar command

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

see at this part

would it be

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

That seems reasonable, if a bit old (Think most would install N12_UMay.tar.bz2 as its a much later build)

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

ok cool... only problem is i dont have it :( were could i find N12_UMay.tar.bz2

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

there's a link in the wki where it says "image :http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/"

There are 7 ish big files in there, you want the newest.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

this 1

Saturday, May 07, 2011 11:15 AM 64579012 N12_UMay.tar.bz2

and thats it right? once its done just do the code alover again (step 4) and then hopefully it will work.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yes, from step 4 in the wiki

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

is this what was suposed to happen when i run this code?

Nokia-N900-42-11:/and# dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 23683 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07 (from .../nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb) ...
Setting up nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07 (rc4) ...
Copying 2.6.28.NIT.07 essential modules to Maemo...
Running depmod...
Creating item file for multiboot
sh: /dev/mmcblk0p2: unknown operand
Nokia-N900-42-11:/and#


that ( sh:/dev/mmcblk0p2: unknown operand )part was that suposed to happen... do i got to step 5 now?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

its a while since I did this, but, yes the unknown operand doesnt look right!

Did you go straight through step 4 in the same xterm?

The error is only for the multiboot so it might be fixable! and might be fixed by step 5.

Do the first command in step 5 and see if you get a blank file in leafpad. If it is blank then that means more fixing is required!

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yeah i did that and it was a blank page on leafpad :/ what do i need to fix? is it something to do with the kernel or something because every thing was running smoothly till i hit this wall lol.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Not certain at this point :(! depends what has actually been missed out due to the error you got. As far as Im aware the install should have no errors, but it may depend on what else you have installed of course. e.g. the "apt-get install nitdroid-installer" you did first should have worked cleanly.

Didi you have a look at any youtube videos? This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q1bi...eature=related covers install of 0.0.9. You should get similar output from each command i.e. some produce big long lists other produce no output at all.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yeah!! thats the 1 i was watching when i was confused. :O how the heck! wait! does leafpad to ages to open up and show words on it? because whn i typed it up (my phone was a lil bit slugish when i was getting the other stuff) it took its time and showd me a blank page... what if you manuly wrote the stuff on leafpad... would that work?

also! would it be because iv put

the d/11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06 part?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

leafpad might take a second or siz I guess. File stil shouldnt be empty though!

Well yes typing the whole file in should work if its just the file contents thats missing

THis is what my file has in it
Yes its quite a big IF!

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

well... shall i try it? see what happens? i hope it wont fook up the phone tho.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Erm!

do
and post the results. If there is a file starting 00- in there then pressing 0 at the multiboot menu shoudl always get the thing booted back to maemo

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

this is what i got.

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# ls /etc/multiboot.d
00-Maemo-2.6.28-omap1.item
11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item
README
examples
Nokia-N900-42-11:~#



will it boot nitdroid? hopefully

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

erm!

WHat do you get for?
If that folder has the right contents... ie at least a file called "vmlinuz-2.6.28.NIT.06"

and

If you put in what I said my file was into 11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item withouth spellign mistakes and you DONT have a micro cd card then it might! (past my area of experience at the "Unknown operand" error)

PS make sure you reboot with the keyboard open or you may just go back to maemo.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yeah!! i did a reboot :D but then i pressed 2 for NITdroid and it said somethng press any key to panic :S how do i fix this? any ideas?

oh btw in red writing it said
cannot flash kernel guru meditation required [and some numbers :S]

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

reboot again and press 0 (this worked for me)

PS what what the result of the ls I posted?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# ls /etc/multiboot.d
00-Maemo-2.6.28-omap1.item
11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item
README
examples
Nokia-N900-42-11:~#


so on the boot menu i press 0 and it will be A-OK right?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Should go back to maemo

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

so how do i fix the problem? do i run the whole code al over again from scratch?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

The output of
may show there's no kernel to boot nitdroid from, it should have "vmlinuz-2.6.28-omap1" though which is put ther ewhen multiboot is installed I think.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yeah iv got that... iv got another underneeth that 1

-rw-r--r-- 1root root 1751048 May 22 21:17 vmlinuz-2.6.28.NIT.07

i thinks its a problem with a kernal... os how would i fix the problem :'(

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

ah! you need to chaneg the file you edited with leafpad. Change the

to say
(as this line is what tells multiboot which kernel to use)

may as well change the 06 to 07 in the line starting "ITEM_NAME" as well

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

so that means doing all of step 4 again or do i just skip to step 5 and try it?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Sorry! Just the editing of the file as I posted above (and save it of course). Then reboot and see it nitdroid works :)

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

yeah this time it started loading the bios of the nitdroid then BALM!! it went back to the "hit any key to panic" :/ any ideas man! slowly getting it to work

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Erm!
Iif you dont have a micro SD card installed, then it sounds like the error from the "dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb" has caused bits to be miissed out.

You could try the
again.
Youll probably have to edit the file with leafpad again as per step 4. Problem is you may just get the same error as last time!

You sure you did everything as root?
Did the tar command produce any errors?

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

well... im trying step 4 from scratch and iv got an error >_>

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# cd /home/user/MyDocs
Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs# bzip2 -d N12_UMay.tar.bz2
bzip2: Can't open input file N12_UMay.tar.bz2: No such file or directory.
Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs#

why is this not working for mee!!! i think NITdroid hates my guts or my phone hates me lol. so what do i do now:mad:

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

if i do dpkg i get this error

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 23931 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07 rc4 (using .../nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb) ...
Android not found. MUST be mounted on '/and'
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Android not found. MUST be mounted on '/and'
dpkg: error processing /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb
Nokia-N900-42-11:~#

dude im not sure what to do anymore :( im sooo lost. been trying to get nitdroid for a week and im going no were fast (only came on yesterday because i lost all the codes :/ )

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

As it says "Android not found. MUST be mounted on '/and'" you need to do all of step 4 .well you can only do the bzip2 line once so skip that, but all other steps are required.

In this case you missed "mount /home /and", but just do all the steps, skipping the bzip2 line/

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

when i had problems with nitdroid i did the following steps

But you have to backup your data first>

1.if possible, uninstall nitdroid with the official uninstallation tutorial
2.format your mmc (32 GB) internal memory from pc
3.format your Memory card from pc
4.reflash the n900 fw with maemo Flasher (it may work with the pc suite also (i think both do the same.

i hope this helps you all instead of breaking your heads about thing like those.

Re: The Grand Nitdroid Thread - Rubbish Sound Quality while in A Call Achieved
 

Well, yes you could reflash and start from scratch. (that way should work 100% of the time I think) But its not very convenient if, lke me, youve got CSSU and lost of other things already installed.