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Chinpokomon is offline Chinpokomon
2008-12-24 , 08:00
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Originally Posted by costin View Post
After few more hours of playing with 770 - most apps work, the browser is the exception, if I start it - it all dies.
I spent a little more time on this tonight. I installed busybox:
Code:
# mkdir /data/busybox
# /nit/bin/busybox --install
I then modified my /init.rc to include this directory in my path. I put it at the end, so the system/bin files get picked up first, but if there was something missing, it no longer causes me as much grief.

The flash card I'm using had 4 partitions: 1 vfat, and 3 ext2. As per installation instructions, I reformated one of the partitions as ext3. I think this should be reconsidered. Ext3 partitions are not ideally suited for flash drives at all, since the journal is busy doing its thing.

I also cleared the 4th partition and made it swap. This is not suited for flash drives either, but I am overlooking that for the moment since this device is memory constrained. I added to the end of the boot section of init.rc, swapon -a, and added the swap partition to an /etc/fstab file. Swap is now on as clearly evidenced by cat /proc/swaps, but that doesn't prevent all lockups. I tried to initially create it as a swapfile in /sdcard/swap/swap.img, or thought I might be able to create a swapfile on a yaffs2 partition to make the wear a little more level, and although I was able to create the file there, swapon wouldn't mount it.

Code:
# free 
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        61208        56400         4808            0          360
 Swap:       383992        21312       362680
Total:       445200        77712       367488
I don't think this is the biggest contributor to stability for me. What seems to have worked was disabling animations, limiting the system to Max 1 App Process, and Immediately Destroying Activities in the Development Settings screen.

The browser doesn't seem to be a problem for me, which is why I quoted costin in the first place. I do not have any (repeatable) problems. I can start the browser and view the "page cannot be found" screen. Unfortunately because the 770 doesn't have wifi yet I don't have a way to really test this... tunneling over USB maybe? ADB has a ppp command, but I can't really figure out what I'm supposed to do there. Of Linux, GPRS Phones, Serial Cable, Irda, Bluetooth and USB looks promising, but the USB connection is going the wrong way. For some reason, it seems everyone wants to connect their PCs to their Cell Phone radio stack and not the other way around.

I have experienced lockups, but after the aforementioned changes, most things have improved significantly and I can't say it is a result of doing X or Y. When I can't get ADB to connect to the device anymore, it is usually because the USB port on my PC is somehow messed up; use the following to fix it:
Code:
$ sudo modprobe -vr ehci_hcd && sudo modprobe -v ehci_hcd
 

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