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[Gen8 Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
I can install CM7 just fine. I followed the Gapps instructions perfectly and i download the zip, and then reboot. Upon reboot the files install, and the market opens. I then get some more account confirmations and when I try to reopen the market it says connection failed. Internet works fine though, I dont really understand what I am doing wrong.
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
i'm starting to have problems with my wifi. i check the defualt os, it works, then go through multiboot and check archos os, it works, when i go into cm7 though it's stuck on "connecting" and the router to connect to says "not in range" i'm sitting right next to the router.
[Gen8 Android Development] coen22:
which device do you have? my archos 101 works even better with cyanogenmod:D

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Is there a place to download nightly builds for archos gen8??
[Gen8 Android Development] deliverywong:
If my archos101 installed UD1.6RC, is it possible to install this cyanogenmod and keep my current UD?
[Gen8 Android Development] doodoo28s:
Yes its possible just change initramfs.cpio.gz an zImage, but you can´t Dual Boot.
[Gen8 Android Development] deliverywong:
Thanks Doodoo28s, will try it.
[Gen8 Android Development] Profy_X:
Is it possible to boot direct gingerbread instead of a dual boot with official firmware?how can i do this?:confused:

PS:sorry i'm new to Android systems so I don't know to much about it have more experience with Windows Mobile :D
[Gen8 Android Development] devwithzachary:
Just delete the android kernel from the developer menu and it will boot straight into the other os installed
[Gen8 Android Development] Profy_X:
can you develop a bit with more details please ,maybe a tutorial would be great if you have some time..thank you in advance!:D
[Gen8 Android Development] devwithzachary:
reboot Archos device and hold down "Vol-" button after screen went black

Go to "Recovery Menu" and then "Developer Edition Menu"

choose "Remove Android Kernel"

reboot
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
But that's not what he asked.

He wants the => ( orginal Android ) and ( GB without Multibootmenu )

and that is not possible ATM.
[Gen8 Android Development] Profy_X:
No what i want is just gingerbread and no other,no original firmware,no developer firmware just gingerbread!By the way i installed and followed the tutorial but i'm stuck at openAOS and don't know what is wrong :confused:
[Gen8 Android Development] devwithzachary:
You cant completely remove the stock android you can only install custom roms in the developer firmware 'slot' so basicly the best you can do is to remove the kernel so android cant boot and it has to boot the developer firmware 'slot'
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
You need stock firmware installed, because we copy some files over from that. As said you can remove the android kernel. This will not remove the image file from archos firmware, so the bootmenu can still copy over the files that are needed. However if you did remove the image file from archos before setting up the bootmenu and booting Gingerbread once it will hang on the logo.
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
A101it it just recently started acting up
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I installed the bull RC1 and I'm very impressed!

I used urukdroid and I'm planning to keep bull as a main OS.

Problem is, I installed bull and I have very low memory.

I've moved apps to sd, erased some files, deleted apps, but nothing seems to work.

I'm wondering it the previous internal memory instalation of urukdroid hasn't been left sitting around somewhere.

I got this suspicion since I found two separate dalvik-cache folders. :S

any sugestion?
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
As the bull is using its own /data directory inside of the 512MB image, you have to live with the limitation or modify the initram yourself to get a bigger partition for data.
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
what about using any kind of a2sd script? It should work, but is the internal flash memory(the one with 16gb) fast enough to hold the data folder?

I'll read a bit about the initramfs, I've never edited it, so i'll have to research a bit.

does anyone have some post or link that helps me along?
[Gen8 Android Development] FrEcP:
well app2sd script is wokring with sd cards wich are normaly much slower then the internal memory - so ofc it should be fast enough...

anyway as data partition is mainly holding apps (and cache) its just a matter of initial loadingspeed for the apps. Once they are started and in memory there is no problem anymore anyway.
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
i'll try and see what I can do.

from my experience with the desire, moving the data folder should be fast enough as long as we keep dalvik on internal.

although the dalvik space ocupation makes it very tempting to move it :P

Thanks for your quick reply FrEcP, i'll report my findings.
[Gen8 Android Development] satyriasis:
Programs

Hasn't noticed anyone that we are missing a lot of programs in the market? Example Facebook...

Maybe i missed something, but i cannot find anything in the thread related except for the OP where the dolphin browser is mentioned.
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
@Philocritus:

Why the hassel? Just resize the img to 1 or 2 GB and you are done.

@satyriasis:

Tried marketenabler?
[Gen8 Android Development] dtr145r:
alot of apps are missing its a known issue.

i way i found to get around this is go back to stock archos firmware and install astro file manager. install the apps you want on gingerbread then open astro and back them all up. load gingerbread again, install astro and install the apps
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
i'll try that!

gotta go read the wiki :P

kinda new to the initramfs editing and image resizing
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
I fixed my wifi issue but just deleting my first image and installing a new one.

also, i went ahead and tested Netflix, to my suprise it works perfectly. if you need a video just ask i'll pop one up on youtube...
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
You were right fzelle, I just needed to resize2fs the *.img file...

I fell pretty naif now lololol

thanks :)
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
As this stated now where, don't think like this ;-)
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
Has there been any update on getting the usb working?
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I got two problems on my A101IT using bull RC:

1- deep sleep keeps cracking a strange sound, and device never comes out of deep sleep. I always have to reset.

2- no games work :( they just show the splash screen and hang there untill I press home or get a FC.

I'm wondering if this is just me, cause nobody complained and deep sleep is reported as solved :S
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
1 - I thought I was having that problem also, but I found that if I press the power button once, then wait a couple of seconds and press it again, then it comes out of deep sleep.

2 - I haven't had any problems with games. But I've only checked Angrybirds and that Racing game that comes with the Archos by defualt.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Leijae is right about sometimes having to press the button twice. Still looking into that issue when coming out of deep sleep. Also the device sometimes keep toggling sleep/wakeup. You can hear that by the popping sound every 15 seconds.

However if you can't get out of deep sleep at all. You didn't flash the new zImage and initramfs. zImage (kernel) contains the fix for getting out of deep sleep.

divx118

BTW leijae I hope you don't mind http://www.openaos.org/archives/798 Thanks for making the video :)
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
weird, those were the two games I tried, to no avail :(

I also press a second time just in case, but no luck :(

I'll try reinstalling the initram and zimage.

EDIT: I remembered that maybe I haven't installed the latest official firmware. maybe that could be the problem.

EDIT2: Do I need modules-2.6.29-omap1.tar.bz2 for anything? think not but better confirm...

thanks
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
divx118 I don't mind. That's what it's there for!
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
No, they are just there if someone wants to use the kernel (zImage) for something else.

@leijae :)

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] LifTeD_JK:
First Time Install

Hey guys,

First thank you all for your hard work. I came to Android with out an IT background so I'm doing my best to read and learn everything I can. I finally installed the SDE today and wanted to try out CM7, but when I go to the recovery and try to flash the zimage and initramfs it says there is no img. I'm using a Linux Mint machine and followed the directions a couple of times, but no go. I did leave it compressed in the img.gz file. I saw someone had to extract it to get it to work, but when I tried that it said there wasn't enough space.

This is on my 101it.

I have a year of experience with a rooted HTC but Archos seems to be much different than HTC. Not sure if it's just the terms and file types or if the structure is that much different.

Any help in the right direction would be much appreciated.
[Gen8 Android Development] LifTeD_JK:
Sorry guys I figured out my issue. I was trying to flash the initramfs with the GB image rather than the zimage.
[Gen8 Android Development] toxicstone:
Iv done the installation with the two files like i always do and it works like always, but when i copy the cm7 image and reboot to developer edition it just keeps looping in archos logo so i need to reset to get it to work normal again.

I dont know if it has to do with that the Zimage file from the server was in .txt so id copy the stuff inside with notepad and open another Zimage file that was correct filetype and changed and saved, the filesize was changed to be the same as on the server so it seems to work but i dont know.
[Gen8 Android Development] lohtse:
Tried this on my archos32.... BUT the screen display is off(icons off screen etc) and screen cal is sooooooooooooo off it is unusable....Did cal at start but still is way off by around 15mm above the icon you wish to click...

Any way to fix this???
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
It is very easy to get a corrupted zImage (kernel) and that is what happened to you. Try to use right click and save as. Then if downloaded you can check md5sum of your zImage with the one at the download location so you know for sure the file is correct. (if you don't know what md5sum is I suggest google it. On windows you can use for example http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/, but there will be lots of others.)

@lohtse: We don't spend any time on the A32, because none of us has one. If you or somebody else want it working correctly on it join our team and make it work. :)

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I installed the latest official firmware and reinstalled cm7 bull and all is fine now :)

games and deep sleep are now working :)

only the crackling sound on deep sleep is still a nuisance but you guys know that.

does anyone have a youtube that works? or an alternative to using the browser?

seeing youtube on the browser sucks :( it's slow as hell :(
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Nice to hear.

About youtube, on my build I have it working. However, there are still some problems with dspbridge (hardware accelaration for video)

If I will not have sorted that out until final bull release I will atleast make it so that software encoding works for youtube vids. Then you will have watchable youtube vids.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
Sounds stupid, but please don't release bull without hardware accelerated video.

Everyone does video with archos, and if that doesn't work as with the stock bull will get bad reviews, which will be bad for you.

Invest a week longer and get great results.

Did you here anything from the archos guys regarding http://www.jbmm.fr/2011/12/ce-soir-je-peux-deja-vous-parler-du-nouveau-archos-7-v2-gen8/

as this probably means a new kernel and maybee new possibilities.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
It is not that with a week later I got hardware accelerated video on the same level as archos. Probably need more time then that and also more help if it is possible at all.

Remember Bull isn't the final build.

If I could get atleast youtube to work before releasing official bull it would be an extra bonus, it wasn't set as an target yet for bull, but for a later release maybe C...

Official Bull will be at the same level as RC Bull, but then with the major bugs fixed that came forward from testing RC Bull like charging over USB A43IT. The toggling of deep sleep/wakeup. And some other small things.

BTW I am not afraid of bad reviews :) and they certainly won't be bad for me as I just do this for fun and learning new things.

I however agree with you, without accelerated video on CM7 it has actually not much more to offer above original firmware.

About the 70B, I didn't hear anything yet. Just noticed that it is a different firmware download. They also didn't push anything to their gpl git yet. However once they do I will check it out.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
will it be through the youtube app or through the browser? flash will work?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
youtube app, If clicked a youtube movie in the browser it will open the media player.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] rocky58:
Thanks a lot for your work....this RC ROM, despite some things don't works, is very stable and responsive.

The things I don't like are:

- USB not working

- HDMI not working

- CAMERA not working

- some other things I don't remeber now.......:confused:....

...ah yes...the speed the battery goes down (in a very faaaaaaaaast mode) :eek:

BTW Thanks, thanks, thanks......so......when we must expect a new version?????

Excuse for my english!

Grazie!!!!!!!! :D
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
i can't seem to get either of these to boot. I have the multi-boot installed, and it sees the zips and creates the appropriate entry. if i select it though it shows the openaos screen for a few seconds and then boots the stock android.

i read someone else with this issue but saw no solution. any ideas?
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
try uncompressing the file then putting it on your device
[Gen8 Android Development] coen22:
Is there a place where I can download nightly builds
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
There are no nightly builds.

But you can download the source and build it yourself.
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
no go... it just restarts the device. i modified the menu.lst to reflect the iso name, the other entries work fine and it is set to |/dev/sda1| , as the debian iso is - and that boots fine. i have redownloaded... not sure what else... ?
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I had this problem after a reboot as well.

I went into the advanced setting in the wifi screen and selected the 14 channels policy.

that solved it.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Can you start original firmware archos from the bootmenu? Or do you have it removed, if so that would explain it, because we copy some files over on boot from the original firmware which we cannot include in the image. (legal issues.)

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
yes i can start the original fw from the boot menu.

i read that in the faq. I had UrukDroid installed, so i formatted my card and reset android & media storage from the recovery menu(as well as flashing the multiboot intramfs & zimage), i assumed that put it back as it was? i then updated the firmware OTA from within Archos android, and it worked fine. I also reflashed the SDE before starting the multiboot/aos install.

multiboot installed fine, i have options for Archos, Debian (which I added) , and then gingerbread, as well as advanced.

booting to "Archos", checking my listed firmware, it says i have: 2.4.80 (Android 2.2.1)

any ideas? I don't care about data on it so if i have to wipe it some other way that's fine. thank you very much for your help :)
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Hmm strange, never heard of this issue.

However a few questions to see if we can fix this problem:

Which device do you have? A70IT hd or A101IT or A70IT flash etc...

Do you have adb or can you use serial debugging (http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8#Debugging) if so can you post the output of the debug window.

Also did you check the md5sum of the image file so that it isn't corrupted (sorry if you already mentioned it I didn't read everything)?

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
A70IT Flash

md5sum verifies: dc4e5cb12e08b9e0ea8737c9f15f31ae *openaos-gingerbread-bull-gen8_114401.img.gz & 69de961dc1a9ae051fc59c2b9164729d *openaos-gingerbread-anoa-gen8_113301.img.gz

I will get ADB set up and get that for you. thanks again :)

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i wasn't sure which debug command to run, so here is logcat

the other two returned nothing, was that the right one?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
This is not from starting up gingerbread, but I guess from starting original firmware or am I wrong?

logcat output is fine. you could also type cat /proc/kmsg which would give you the kernel messages.

I need the output from starting gingerbread when it fails.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
how do i get that output? it's doing the 2.4.81 fw update now, i will do this right after.

when it fails it just brings me back to the boot menu, how do i get adb working without being booted into stock android?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
You can start adb with "adb wait-for-device shell logcat" before pressing the power button to select your image. So it will immidiately start when adb starts on the device. If it doesn't start there is probably something wrong with the bootmenu, else we get logcat output and see what is failing.

You can also use two command windows and do in one the command from above and in the other "adb wait-for-device shell cat /proc/kmsg" to see the kernel messages at the same time.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
if i select gingerbread, it simply does the restart and goes back to the menu, if i choose stock archos it boots as normal, and then once the os comes up it gives me the logs. nothing comes while i am at the menu - also, gingerbread gets nowhere near booting, which is when the stock one starts adb and gives me the info.

should i try reflashing the boot manager then? why does it work selecting debian/stock but not gb, any ideas?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Ok, we are making progress then. If it really doesn't start and debian starts it can't be much.

Can you post what is in menu.lst, this file should be in the root of your archos.

What is the filename of your image file?

Is it still packed, if it is it should be around 60MB if it is unpacked it should be 512MB?

If it is packed the filename should end with .gz if not the filename should end with .img.

In menu.lst must always be the filename without .gz on boot it will check if the image has a .gz extension if so it will try to unpack the image if it fails to unpack it will reboot.

If the file has no .gz extension and the file is still packed it will try to mount a packed image which fails and results in a reboot.

If all the above is correct you can try to reflash the initramfs and zImage from http://www.openaos.org/wp-upload/gen8/2011-11-06/ReleaseCandidate_UNSUPPORTED/

One thing just in case, because this is very important. Always safely remove the drive, after copying an image or after you copied initramfs and zImage. Also check md5sum from the zImage, it can be easily corrupted when up or downloading. However if this would be the case (corrupted zImage) normally it doesn't boot at all.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
sorry thought i responded yesterday :( I don't know what happened to it so i'll get it back on here soon, i have to get the menu.lst again.

i can confirm the filename is right though,(openaos-gingerbread.img/.gz) and i have both the img and gz file on the drive. the filesizes are correct as well, and i did md5 the img file.

i wasn't sure i had safely removed, so i made sure to do it this time. i recopied everything and reflashed the zimage/intramfs. still the same.

i have tried the menu lst two ways: the way auto generated, and then i changed it so the gingerbread entry looked just like the debian one but with rootfs.img changed to the correct name, and changing the number at the end. is that wrong?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Can you post your menu.lst? At the end should be |0 instead |1, However for gen8 it is not so important.

The line for gingerbread should be something like:

Also notice the /init it is different for debian in debian it is /sbin/init

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] danielsf:
Hi, would it be posable for the stable version, when it comes, to have a kernel that supports OC'ing to 1.2ghz please?
[Gen8 Android Development] wozhere:
Finally can post in this subforum :p Thanks divx118, tried to PM you before being allowed to post in dev subforums. Any chance of fixing the bull in Winamp when doing a Shoutcast search on radio stations not to have a FC?

Great ROM & loving it, thanks again.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Sorry I don't respond immediately to pm's or forum posts, my time is limited. However for winamp there is a ticket, so it is a known issue. It won't be fixed for upcoming release Bull, we try to make it happen on the C release no promises though.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
openaos doesn't supply overclock kernels, but the source for the kernel is on gitorious so it is easy for someone to make one...

Building the kernel is explained at the wiki http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8#Buildingyourownkernelfromtheopenaosgitsource

It is up to date with the archos kernel from the latest firmware. We just have a few patches in it to support booting other linux distros and a few other things added.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] wozhere:
Thanks divx118, your ROM is superb. Since you have hacked the device drivers and ICS is open sourced, maybe we can expect an alpha ICS version even if it is not %100?

ICS on the old HTC G1 (528MHz CPU & 256MB of RAM)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19648827
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Update see first post

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] rapunzel11:
Wow, thanks a lot for this nice christmas gift.

-youtube working

-mic and voice search working
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Youtube is with software rendering, so it has some glitches still working on hardware rendering.

I have some progress, but it is not stable enough. That is why I enabled the software rendering.

BTW it only works for gen8 and not gen7.

mic and voice search isn't fully tested. There could be still some bugs.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
thanks divx118, this is one sweet christmas gift :)

now flashing :P
[Gen8 Android Development] leijae:
Does the USB on the 101 work yet? Merry Christmas everyone!
[Gen8 Android Development] akmalhisyam:
the icons in the status bar looks pixelated..is there any way to make it looks nicer?
[Gen8 Android Development] rapunzel11:
No it doesn't. At the moment I use Wireless File Transfer Pro It's free on market. Very easy to use. I've made a shortcut on my A70it and a bookmark in my browser. Otherwise you can boot into Archos firmware, transfer your files and reboot into bull RC. I think UrukDroid is at the moment the best solution for daily use. But i like it to have Cyangenmod on my phone and on my tablet. Divx118 and the whole team from openaos working hard on it. Don't forget the Archos 101iT and the 70iT was one of the first android tablets for the masses with a capacitive, multi-touchscreen. (The Samsung Galaxy Tab has costed more than the double). One year and a half later we can call it a dinosaur. And divx118 works on a rebirth of the dinosaur.

Happy holidays to all of you and a great new year!!!!!