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[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
I know UrukDroid does do some paritioning during Advanced Setup, so i apologize for how clueless this is going to make me seem, but: how can i verify that squashfs is on mmcblk0? I mounted my tablet from recovery, giving me access to the 14GB media partition, 1GB, & 512GB partitions as well. I checked for /dev/mmcblk0 on the 512GB parition however the /dev/ partition is empty. I thought i read online somewhere that this doesn't mount till boot, so should i flash the UrukDroid kernel back, & check through adb if it's there? Or am i missing something?

I would go into the IRC & ask, but i'm about to head out for a few hours so i figured as soon as i got home i could verify that squashfs is intact & spend as much time as needed to get this working.

~ Thanks in advance, & sorry for the dumb question.
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Uruk won't touch mmcblk0, so the squashfs should be there. Googling the errors points to hardware failure, which is possible, but I'd get into the chatroom as soon as you can.
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
Looks like I might be kinda screwed =\ The only thing we were really able to find out was that the image was being accessed, but obviously not booted.

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[Gen8 Android Development] SamSan:
The latest build is unusable.... Nothing works... Connected to Wifi... When I open broswer it restarts or hangs.. No market... Nothing works except it boots without problem..! :D
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Dude. Relax. It's an alpha image that you contributed nothing to.

First off, the browser only hangs on some images. I fixed it by pinging google as root. The market isn't supposed to be included, as it's friggin illegal, just add them from the cm7 gapps zip. The only things NOT working are bluetooth, sdcard info, and suspend.
[Gen8 Android Development] SamSan:
Broswer hangs when I click it.. By default it tries to open google-android page. and its stucks/restarts.

It looks very promising. works very smooth as compared to latest version from archos. but my expectation was too high.. thats why I replied in that way.

Is it possible to remove the applications like.. Phone, Messages etc?
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Sorry, I know you were just excited. ;) You just have to remember there is only ONE person really working on this ROM, most companies have at least 20 people on a development team.

Like I said, I managed to fix the browser crash accidentally, I couldn't ping from terminal as normal user, so I pinged as root, and it started working. It will be fixed in the future though from the start.

You can probably just delete the APKs for phone, messages, etc. from /system/app. It will still have the modules and libraries for them, but they won't show up in the Apps Drawer.

I know it's hard to be patient. I want this to be perfect too, but it either takes time, or money, and we don't have any money. :)
[Gen8 Android Development] supagforce:
New image is available people :)

http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/

Direct link http://download.openaos.org/bubu/gen8/android/openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz

Use This boot menu

http://www.openaos.org/archives/773
[Gen8 Android Development] vantoman:
now it's ready for a daily use :) , all the games are working fine ; it's faster than the stock archos firmware . i just can believe myself :D
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
really?:)

I also saw it direct at the Bubu download archive:)

i will test it:);)
[Gen8 Android Development] sibere:
Just tried it.

Still slow on not very responsive on my A70S

Not waking up from sleep. I had to reset my device to get back to stock/urukdroid.
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
Is anyone else unable to get it booted? I can't be the only one with the "superblock" error & unable to get past the boot logo
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Ah, okey:) I tested it too;) The touchscrren isnt good yet, the other thinks are "between" stock and uruk:) so we are on the right way:)

Install Urukdroid on the openAOS Boot Menu;)

On that way you can try the lastest version of CM without change anything on your Archos:)
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Hehe, BuBU used my method to fix the browser crash. Feels good to be finally contributing again...
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Cool,cool:)

What do you think about the touchscreen?

couldnt we use our touchscreen drivers from uruk?:)
[Gen8 Android Development] vantoman:
the only problem i'm facing is the videos is not working ; but everything else is working just fine
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Are you using the July 5th multiboot? There shouldn't be any problems. Is it misaligned?
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Of course:) Yep unfortunality its misaligned,

but actually i mean the miserable touchscreen respondness...
[Gen8 Android Development] gbohm:
does anybody have sleep of death problems too?

deep sleep and i can't wake it up anymore

newest aosmenue+img of course

sent from my droid (not the one you are looking for)
[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
yea this version i have the sleep of death problem.

it hangs alot and is pretty unresponsive

but hey its still a work in progress..

so its going to happen.

:)
[Gen8 Android Development] lilpac1987:
Hey got same problem!! Is it normal that the screen is working right when the archos is upsidedown?? Because on the side with the Archos Label the creen don`t switch in landscape orientation?? But the Rom is really fast!! Well done bubu and other devs who working on this Rom :D
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Go into Settings, Cyanogen Settings, Display, and enable 180 degree rotation. Then it will rotate to the default orientation.
[Gen8 Android Development] gbohm:
added it to the faqs

sent from my droid (not the one you are looking for)
[Gen8 Android Development] msiviter:
Can't get it to boot!

I've tried many slightly different methods my latest has left me with the SDE but no bootable "Archos" just the Angstrom/Ginger-bread/Gingerbread combination in the AOS boot menu.

Both "Gingerbreads" don't boot

My method:

Format device

install SDE aos file

in Developer menu flash the boot menu files

Drop the renamed gingerbread img file into root and edit the list file in Notepad++

reboot

Tried deleting entries from list file so it writes it's own entry, Gingerbread appears by itself in boot menu but doesn't boot

Can't download the menu.lst from the first post as Filesonic gives error "non premium users can only download one file at a time"!

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Matt
[Gen8 Android Development] gbohm:
did you test my lst and name the img openaos-gingerbread?

sent from my droid (not the one you are looking for)
[Gen8 Android Development] msiviter:
2Qs?

In Notepad++ where is the option to select Unix line breaks that posts refer to?

openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz is simply renamed to openaos-gingerbread.img into the root directory, right?
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
The sde firmware doesn't include the stock archos OS, so if you did a full device format, you probably need to reflash the stock firmware to get the archos squashfs back. CM7 mounts it to steal modules, so it's necessary to have a functional stock OS at the moment.

As far as the menu.lst, don't make one, and put the image on storage named exactly: "openaos-gingerbread.img". The menu.lst will be created automatically with the Archos, Angstrom, and Gingerbread lines.
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
Just let the menu.lst be created automatically.It will have entries for Archos, Angstrom, and Gingerbread(if openaos-gingerbread.img exists). If you need more entries, you can edit it with root explorer without worrying about line breaks.
[Gen8 Android Development] gbohm:
no unzip it

sent from my droid (not the one you are looking for)
[Gen8 Android Development] msiviter:
Off to the pub but many thanks for your replys, they all make perfect sense. I'll try tomorrow (with a hangover)!!!

Matt
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
All instructions to editing the menu.lst are in my new full openAOS boot menu instructions thread;):)
[Gen8 Android Development] msiviter:
My successful method:

Format device

install Archos SDE .aos file

Install Archos firmware

in Developer menu flash the AOS boot menu files

Drop the renamed gingerbread .img file (the .img.gz unzipped with winrar) into root (I didn't edit list file)

reboot into developer edition

Thanks

Matt[/QUOTE]

Feedback: overall pretty good, the sdcard location in Fs needs sorting then it will be my daily driver. Then it will need ability to boot to developer mode by default as Urukdroid does.

Good work Guys.
[Gen8 Android Development] AlaskaPardus:
sorry for my silly question, but what is the best way to install gapps??? i know where to download the gapps.zip from cyanogen, but i can not download cause there is no sdcard mounted.... ok, downloading from stock rom is possible, but i can not copy them to /system in cm7.......would be nice to install it via recovery like if possible!? or is there a better and safer way???
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
i didn't even format and SDE i had installed anyway

it's amazing! market works. gmail works. restored almost everything i had with titanium backup. even maps installed from titanium backup.

and it looks so much better.
[Gen8 Android Development] pbarrett:
What's it like playing a video?
[Gen8 Android Development] danielsf:
Hi, now that its more stable would someone be able to make a video of what its like to run this rom please? Then maybe upload it to you tube and post a link here please?

p.s I would like to install it myself and make a video but my archos 70it is currently at archos being fixed (hopefully) :(
[Gen8 Android Development] cjdalessio:
So I figured out the odd keyboard issue I had before: I had to go select the proper English dictionary AND the input language (set both to en_US for me) - I'd not set the dictionary last time.

I'm now observing very odd behavior with respect to /data/app and /sdcard among others - from terminal, I see stuff in /data/app and most of the apps properly show up in the drawer as well - however, if I pull up /data in a file explorer (I've used the one that comes with CM and can't even get to /data, and I've used the eStrongs explorer so far) it's empty. Same holds for /sdcard EDIT: it's due to ownership. doing adb push to /data/app ended up with the apk owned by root:root and it needs to be system:system - that still doesn't explain why file explorer can't even see it yet.

Is there any compelling reason to not mount the actual removable microSD card to /sdcard here? I know it gets extra tricky if you have many ROMs, but for most of us this virtual thing makes changing versions difficult since each new .img loses all the settings, etc. from your old one. I know we wouldn't likely want to mount the internal space to /sdcard. EDIT: So far seems to be working for me (i blew away the original, then mounted the sdcard to /sdcard) EDIT2: so it shows up but doesn't really work. :) I changed that to mounting at /mnt/sdcard and same thing - shows up but doesn't really work. I tried updating vold.fstab and it doesn't even mount on boot (yet... I may have missed something)

We'll see if it gets ugly. :)

C
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
The 8/16 GB internal Memory are by default on Archos mounted as /sdcard and /storage, so that it is usable from sw that needs an sdcard on "normal phones".

And that you don't see anything inside Data is a right thing.

Only root is allowed in there, so you have to use something like rootexplorer.

And for data, when we have a stable ( non alpha ) release we probably have out own data partition.
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
There is no way to flash via recovery currently. If you use the latest image, you should be able to download with the browser. Even if you can't, the Internal storage is mounted as /storage and /mnt/storage, so if you download the gapps.zip on stock firmware, then it will be in /storage in CM7. http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip This is the best zip to use. Put an apk for root explorer and that file on your internal storage, then boot into CM7,use root explorer to unzip to /system. Reboot.
[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
that easiest way i found is extract the gapps.zip then transfer it to /storage use root explorer, navigate to / storage/gapps folder

multi select all the apps in the folder

navigate to /system/app

then paste

reboot

now your archos should begin the start up wizard

works fine for me.
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
in case someone sees more in the log, this is the not working video-decoding, for example playing video in youtube

D/TIOMX_CORE( 1525): Found component OMX.TI.Video.Decoder with refCount 0
I/TI_Video_Decoder( 1525): TI Video Decoder
D/TI_Video_Decoder( 1525): VIDDEC_SendCommand: Received request from omx client to change state to 2
I/OMXCodec( 1525): [OMX.TI.Video.Decoder] allocating 6 buffers of size 31182 on input port
I/OMXCodec( 1525): [OMX.TI.Video.Decoder] allocating 6 buffers of size 460800 on output port
D/TI_Video_Decoder( 1525): Handle request for state transition: 1 => OMX_StateIdle
D/TI_Video_Decoder( 1525): VIDDEC_InitDSP_H264Dec():7191 LCML_InitMMCodec Failed!...80001009
D/TI_Video_Decoder( 1525): VIDDEC_HandleCommand():2584 LCML Error 1
E/OMXCodec( 1525): [OMX.TI.Video.Decoder] ERROR(0x80001009, 2)

removing libOMX.TI.Video.Decoder.so from /system/lib gets the sound playing in youtube but the video stays black
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Could the "soft buttons" in the navigation bar be a little bigger, or at leasy wider? Perhaps the background could be totally black so it's in-keeping with the navigation bar please?

Apart from that, and being un-able to mount to PC which I assume isn't implemented its actually working pretty well!

Isn't detecting wireless networks?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
and at the same time dspbridge shows an error (dmesg)

wcd_call_dev_io_ctl: Incompatible dspbridge ioctl number
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
@SWFlyerUK:

Sure it is detecting wifi's, but only if they are below channel 11.

Anoying thing that was fixed by archos some time ago.
[Gen8 Android Development] AlaskaPardus:
Thanks to all. Now i have my gapps.
[Gen8 Android Development] cjdalessio:
They're huge on my 101 so i have to assume you have ssomething smaller. They're a good size on my phone though... 3.2" mdpi. Not sure it'll be a priority, and even how it should work as a feature (adjustable size or just different based on...something) isn't clear. Certainly not yet. :)
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
isn't that an option in ADW launcher settings anyway?
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Thanks for the responses regarding my questions.

I noticed someone mentioned GApps well how do you get that on here without WIFI?

Regards.
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Without wifi?:D

Actually we have wifi:)

...
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
you should try to solve wifi first. there is actually no useful google app the works without internet connection anyway.

the only reported problem relating wifi some mentioned: wifi has a problem with channel > 11. what's the symptoms with your wifi?
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Hi guys,

Thanks for the response, when I go into the Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wifi (On) > Wifi Settings > Quickly Scans then nothing appears, on Archos Android there is between 5-10 networks in my area. But none showing on GingerBread?

Regards.
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
My wifi works propabla....

Anyway: try this app: http://market.android.com/details?id=org.kman.WifiManager

If even this app dont work, you should reinstall the boot menu and then Cyan;):)
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
I've had to re-format my device just this instance, so will reinstall the boot menu and Cyan.
[Gen8 Android Development] compyy:
Android Honeyomb 3.2 source code:

http://groups.google.com/group/andr...1c225a11f5/6410b44798c19d61?#6410b44798c19d61
[Gen8 Android Development] gbohm:
that is as usual just the parts they had to open becaus of gpl

was the same then with all honeycomb sources

sent from my droid (not the one you are looking for)
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
WELL

I finally fixed my issue lol. Turns out having default Archos firmware installed is a must. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but i decided to start from scratch & followed this:

& i'm now at the homescreen. I guess having UrukDroid installed instead of stock Archos is what my problem was. I just wanted to post this in case anyone else had the same issue.

EDIT:

Has anyone had luck getting a build of ChromiumOS to boot? Just curious before i go messing around with images.
[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
This was covered in other places, but just so everyone knows: CM7 mounts the stock Archos filesystem to steal modules from it, without the stock firmware being installed and updated, it will fail to boot. You need to install the latest stock firmware, then the latest stock SDE, before installing the multi-boot menu.
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
When I asked about it before I was told it was fine to have UrukDroid, so I just wanted to leave a note to any other users that may have the same problem.

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[Gen8 Android Development] msticninja:
It is fine to have Urukdroid. But you still have to update to the latest firmware.
[Gen8 Android Development] compyy:
How to install Market and Apps?? in This release ?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
does the camera work for someone?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
i got extern sdcard automounted by changing /etc/vold.fstab

from

[B]#[/B]dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:[B]e624[/B]/block/mmcblk2
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /block/mmcblk2

to

dev_mount sdcard /mm/mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc1c1:[B]aaaa[/B]/block/mmcblk2
[B]#[/B]dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /block/mmcblk2

and reboot

this for 101 tablet, may vary for other tablets
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
new market running

deleted data from preferecences / applications / all / market

downloaded (search for "xda new market 2011 samsung nexus s" ;-)

adb push com.android.vending-1.apk /system/app/Vending.apk

adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/Vending.apk

adb reboot
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Still no luck for me on Wifi.

After a total Archos wipe, a reinstall of OpenAOS boot menu and Gingerbread, when i go to the Wifi Settings, I see Scanning...... appear for about 3 seconds then dissapear, I've got it set under advanced to 14 channels and still no luck?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
have you installed stock archos too? after holding down volume+ and power on do you see "Android", "Development Edition" and "Recovery" to boot?
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Yep, the Android kernel is in there, the OpenAOS boot menu only displays when I select the developer edition to boot, I assume thats normal?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
yes, but as i understand you need more than the archos kernel and initramfs (two of them to get to the development edition in first place), but also a whole archos install (i downloaded 2.1.81 and installed from www.archos.com), because the gingerbread takes parts of that to function properly
[Gen8 Android Development] SWFlyerUK:
Before I had just the developer edition in and removed the android kernel from the recovery menu, this time I have both in and the problem still exists so I can only assume that not having the android kernel in makes no difference, hmm.

Thanks for the idea though.
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
i may be wrong but i think you MUST install Archos stock first.

if you remove the kernel you remove only the entry from the boot menu and the possibility to boot in stock archos, but the archos system stays in the internal 500MB part of the internal ram - mmcblk0

development edition (or uruk) was on internal mmcblk1 or if on external on mmcblk2
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Wrong thread...:D:)
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
so and whats the right thread for installing gingerbread on gen8 and getting wifi to work?
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
Noo, i dont mean this thread^^

I post my post in this thread (the wrong thread for that post:D:))

Thats way i edited my post:);)
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
ah, sorry ;-)
[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
does anybody know what you need to change in build.prop to get ALL market apps to show up? im only getting about half, and they are all the ones i dont want!

let me know.

thanks
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
I forget which part is actually important to get it working, but i just followed the tutorial here to get the Market with all the apps working ( at least i think it has them. I forget which apps are "protected" )

Or, edit the following lines in the build.prop to appear as:
[Gen8 Android Development] Lenn:
The fingerlrint line is important;)

I would prefer to use a fingerprint from a tablet like Galaxy Tab/Nook Color or the Xoom...

Not from a phone:)
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
do you have one for gingerbread 2.3.4? the one for galaxy tab on uruk is for froyo only.
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
I was thinking about that too, but was feeling kind of lazy & didn't want to find the build.prop from the Tab. Doesn't the tab still show phone apps ( instead of tablet apps ) anyway? The nook Color one has to be changed because it won't show all apps either, & i didn't think using the Xoom info would work because the lowest OS version it had was 3.0 instead of Gingerbread.
[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
could you see if google maps is there?
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
No =\ Streetview enabler is, but no Maps. I'm going to replace the build.prop with the exact one from my EVO & see if that makes a difference.

EDIT:

Horrible idea. Forgot about the screen density / wifi info so it failed. Restoring the image now so I can get it fixed.

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[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
can you get on irc?

http://www.openaos.org/chat

ive tried the evo one and its a no go
[Gen8 Android Development] Veritas06:
Sure, logging on now.
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
for those who have like me 512MB image allready full, which gets you error messages when installing programs (this allready at about less than 60MB free):

if you are on linux you can easely copy the .img file back to pc harddisk (in recovery), and resize the image on pc with:

# make a filesystem check
e2fsck -f openaos-gingerbread.img

# resisze the image
resize2fs openaos-gingerbread.img 1024M

and put the image back on the archos, boot and you are done

this method should be data-lossless, but if you want to get sure, just make a copy from the image before resizing.
[Gen8 Android Development] jackson0829:
Why my CM on A101 got up-side-down orientation and could not read Chinese file name?

Hello,everybody :

I have successful to install Multi-boot and Cyanogen (openaos-gingerbread-gen8-20110708_183154.img.gz)

in my ARCHOS 101!

But do not know anything wrong cause both Multi-boot and Cyanogen home page image got " up-side-down orientation" and could not read Chinese(GB-5) file name in file manager even I already changed the "SETTING" language to Chinese(GB-5)?

Anybody can help me to solve the problem?? Thanks in advance
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
can someone please talk to bubu and kindly ask him to include

<*> Kernel .config support

[*] Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz

in the next kernel?
[Gen8 Android Development] woti23:
... Multi-Boot Screen: no chance for now to get it right

... Home Screen: go to preferences / cyanogenmod / display preferences / auto orientation ... and check all 4 checkboxes ( 0 .. 90 .. 180 .. 270 degree)
[Gen8 Android Development] compyy:
Hi Len,

is someone documenting all the recommendation and small fixes in this post and somewhere else ??

and reporting to BUBU ?