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[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Sorry, that is one thing I don't do and support, but the kernel source is free available on gitorious. There is even a guide how you can compile your kernel here http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/SettingUpMultiRootGen8#Buildingyourownkernelfromtheopenaosgitsource look at https://www.gitorious.org/archos-buildroots/gen8/blobs/master/scripts/ubuntu_dependencies.sh to see what dependencies you need to install.

So make your overclocking changes and compile your own.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] danielsf:
Ok fair enough, thanks a lot for the info, I have some basic compiling skills, so I will give it a shot. Thanks you :-)
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
that's great news :)

thanks divx118! you're doing a great job. Any news on the crackling sound on deep sleep?

My 101 stopped lighting up the screen after it's off, don't know why :( I always have to reset after the lights off. Ill try reinstalling bull later today to see if I can solve it.

Is there any nightly build or something like it where I can include your usb changes to my new install?
[Gen8 Android Development] mmoalem:
hi there all - this might not be openaos specific but maybe someone here knows...

i have a sony arc s with a custom ICS rom on it. the gmail version is 4.0.3 or something like that. i have a widget that shows my gmail emails in a window in the launcher which i can set to whatever label i want. i find this great as i can watch 2 or 3 gmail labels in side by side.

now i dont know if this is specific to the launcher (trebuchet) that came with the rom or it is part of the gmail 4 version but i would love to have this widget on my a70IT. any idea if i can install gmail 4 on it and how or maybe a way of copying the widget from the phone to the tablet?
[Gen8 Android Development] coen22:
No, you need android 4 ics for that

For android 2.3 the latest version is 2.3.something
[Gen8 Android Development] grim-a101:
Hello by there divx118.

Just a little question about the working USB Host port. Did you get it working by updating the kernel with the archos one, did you make a modification into the kernel or is the kernel OK and modification into CM?

Just out of curiosity, if it can give me a clue for Ubuntu once I'll get there :D
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
I patched CM7 to insmod the right modules at the right time. See my commit https://www.gitorious.org/openaos-c...mmit/5693531e06a2e4fb6b28e2b618019ad9c9ccfa89

Kernel was ok.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] grim-a101:
Thanks for the info, I'll look into that once I get a working rootfs
[Gen8 Android Development] CalcProgrammer1:
I don't think that will work for the Ubuntu kernel, the Ubuntu kernel is pretty different. One thing I just thought of is that the A101 has two USB host controllers (correct me if I'm wrong, but it has the host port and the OTG port as well, maybe we need to enable the host port controller in the config).
[Gen8 Android Development] grim-a101:
Replying to that one in the Ubuntu thread :)
[Gen8 Android Development] freeandnot:
Unstable on archos 70 internet

its working only for 5 min on my archos 70 internet hdd250giga I was desperate to find any roms for my archos like this rom working normally i try all all the same problem

1 you feel the tablet so hot when u use this image rom

2 no market and u cant install alot of program like face book or google play

3 you cant setup google account

4unstable and make auto restart when u browse the internet and open wifi

5 you hear always that the hard disk working without stop even if u close the screen

i hope if some one have the problem and fix it to tell me how will be great

coz that rom i can read hebrow and arabic without any problem its great rom but if its working normally:confused:
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
Read the faqs on the openaos page.

You can have the market and google account.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Send me an A70 HD version and I may be able to solve HD specific problems. BTW number 2 and 3 is not correct. http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/Android...ngGingerbreadthefirsttimeandinstallgoogleapps

Edit: Getting slow at my age philocritus beat me.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] mmoalem:
hi again - does it support a 3g dongle? do i need to follow the old urukdroid instructions on setting it up?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
It should support the 3g dongles that are also available under stock android.

However there is nothing done on the CM7 side, I also cannot test because I don't have one.

If adb is enabled disable it first.

For now to turn the hostport on do on the commandline:

$ su
# usbsh
# usbsh guest start

Fix to switch host automaticly will be available in the next release.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] Slurm:
Hi divx118,

have you already found the reason for that clicking noise when the device is in standby?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
No not yet, it is hard to find out where it comes from. My best guess this far is that some voltage gets turned off/on when going into/coming out of standby that is causing the click.

It is also hard to debug with adb, going into standby disconnects the usb serial connection, so I have todo it with log files and terminal app which slows the process down.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
It seems I solved the cracking sound by patching the standby function in the alsa module. http://dev.openaos.org/ticket/223

As always it will be in the next release, which will hopefully follow soon. :)

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] minidou-77:
Thank you so much !

You're really doing a great job here ;-)
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
Thanks for your hard work divx118.

For the a101 this rom is now by far the best one!
[Gen8 Android Development] joaoalex:
After Stand by, the device didn't respond anymore

About 3 days ago i have a problem with this rom.

After put device in stand by this didn't respond anymore. Make some noise/beep when i press the power button, but didn't wake up the screen.

Someone have this issue?

How can i debug this issue?
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I have this as well. Still haven't figured it out.

Since the noise is really annoing I'm turning off the tablet after using it so it doesn't go standby.

divx118 already found a solution(the noise problem) for it and is going to release a new version soon, so no point going on a debuging spree until we test the new version.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
If you have adb you can try todo the following command on the shell

echo 100 > /sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness

Just a wild guess, maybe the screen is on, but brightness is still at 0 or too low to show.

I see if I can reproduce the problem.

BTW airplane mode is also fixed --> next release.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
When posting the next release, could you do two initrams?

One with menu, and one that directly boots into CM7 so that we could use kboot?

How is accelerated video going forward?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Only youtube/mp4 this far. Didn't do anything more on it. It needs some patching to parse the video files so the right codecs get selected. However that will take some time and knowledge.

I indeed planned on making a second init script for kboot.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] joaoalex:
"I figured out that this depends on the brightness level, if its below ~10-20%."

thanks divx118.

The problem was the brightness level, unfortunately we can't put the device in standby with low level. May be you can resolve this issue in new release.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Thanks for the feedback, I will see what I can do about it.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
To all the people who have the problem of the tablet not coming out of standby when the brightness is set too low.

1) Which device do you have ?

2) How do you set the brightness level ? for example by going into Settings -> Display -> Brightness

I can't seem to reproduce this problem on my A101IT.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
1) I have the A101IT(guess it's the 8gb version but I think it doesn't matter)

2) below 25% the problem occours.

I tested it after joaoalex reported the problem and I managed to solve the problem(I had it already)

I didn't try to reproduce after it got solved so I don't know if it happens everytime I lower the brightness.

BTW i had it on the lowest bightness setting available.
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
As there is a APK for that brightness Problem ( RootDim formerly superdim ) in the market, the fix should be easy.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Yes, it will probably an easy fix, but I first need to see what goes wrong on our device. BTW in the mean time I could reproduce it on mine. I had forgot to turn on adb so no debug output, however atleast it is also happening on mine :).

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
About the video parsing problem:

Is there anything we could do on our end? logging? coding?

If I can help in any way I'll be glad
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Troubleshooting and coding to make it work would be nice.

How to set up your buildenvironment is here http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/AndroidBuildEnvironment

Join irc://irc.freenode.net/openpma (or the webclient http://www.openaos.org/chat ) if you encounter any problems setting it up and building your own image. I have my irc client on 24 hours a day, so just drop your question there and I or someone else can hopefully answer it.

BTW I use Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit as build environment, but any other distro should probably work too. I didn't risk to update to 12.04 I know there were some problems in the past on it.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
I'll setup by build env and check out with you when I get home.

I have a ubuntu 12 build, but if it brings problems i'll just downgrade to 11
[Gen8 Android Development] grim-a101:
I'm on 12.04.

Just be sure to use arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.5 and not arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.6

4.6 doesn't work, well it compiles fine but zImage never boot for me, while with 4.5 it boots just fine
[Gen8 Android Development] it's:
Just a quick question:

I installed it on my 43IT and I find the interface a little bit smallish. Is there a line in build.prob file which I could simply change or somehing like that?
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Yes in build.prop, uncomment #ro.sf.lcd_density=195 and make it for example ro.sf.lcd_density=220

EDIT: higher number makes the interface larger lower number makes it smaller.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] ArcSmurf:
Took a copy of your code and did a build - pleased to say the popping sounds has been resolved, but am still noticing the device waking up every minute or so and had 50% battery drain overnight(10 hours) which seems very high.

Folloowing you comments on chat - what do you need me to do with the output from adb command?

---------- Post added at 11:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:42 AM ----------

Did some more playing - if wifi is on and press the on/off button the device(A70S) wakes up after about a minute, and then again after about 3 minutes. After this seems to stay asleep.

If wifi is off and the press the on/off button is seems to be behaving but still has a high battery drain.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
You are right, I noticed that too. You can take a look at it and see why it is waking up. I did also a test, however I have only one battery left in my A101 the other one is blown, so I took it out to prevent damaging the display.

Mine lost about 70% in 15-16 hours.

This evening I will have some time to look at the issue. BTW I pushed a little fix, so usb mass storage (to mount your micro sdcard on your pc) will be enabled on startup last night. You can update your code with

sudo openaos-setup --sync openaos

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] grim-a101:
I don't know that much about CM7, but this could be the wifi policy no?

When you are on the wifi properties (where you can see the AP) press menu, then advance parameters. You should find the wifi policy. You should be able to set the wifi off when the screen goes off.

It's all from memory and could be all wrong, just an idea that comes to my mind.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
By default it is set to go off when the screen turns off. I don't however believe it is the wifi that is the problem you see it turn on and off, because the device goes to sleep and comes out of it. I think it is something else. I see if I can enable some more debugging info in powermanagement to see what it is.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
Have you try enabling airplane mode now that your solved it? I was thinking maybe it's looking for radio signal so it keeps comming up.

Having no signal It's a known battery killer on phones.

BTW I resized the file system but haven't had time to sync the sources. I'll be back to it when I get home.
[Gen8 Android Development] ArcSmurf:
I had a check of the sleep policy and it was set to "Never", have now changed to go off when the screen goes off.

This seems to have stopped the device waking up so often - will keep an eye on battery drain.

Syncing code, so will do a new build and give it a go.
[Gen8 Android Development] bostro:
Hu guys!

I've hust flashed the Bull Release, 09/04/2012

It works really fast; i had one times the freeze of the desktop after the stand-by, but i read it's a known problem.

But i noticed my usb port doesn't work, i can not connect to the pc via mini-usb, neither i can read from the standard usb port a usb key!!!

I haven't read other problems like that, so i don't understand if it's a problem of my installation or not.

I have ad Archos 101 IT 16Gb
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
it's a know problem.

I usually use es file explorer to access my pc via wifi, or miui file explorer to mount an awesome ftp server on my tablet :P
[Gen8 Android Development] Mavasilisk:
Bull is really good. Performance is awesome. Cpu governors, JIT, smooth scrolling in web browsers and others. If you want to share data with your PC just install some network sharing app (sharing speed is around 1.8mb/s to 2.4 mb/s) or just boot into recovery and start the USB from there or boot stock firmware. I suggest you the sharing app.

Hope to see next release soon.
[Gen8 Android Development] bostro:
Yes, but i don't know why but hotspot wifi to share the network in my Mint (and i tried in Ubuntu too), after some seconds stops working... :-(

But this doesn't mean that this rom si awful, it's a new life for my tablet! :)
[Gen8 Android Development] Mavasilisk:
I had the same problem as you once, i uploaded a movie and the hotstop had stopped. Tried to change the port etc but a simple reboot solved the problem.
[Gen8 Android Development] ArcSmurf:
Been playing with a build I did on Friday over the weekend, that I was able to install onto its own partition with the help of CalcProgrammer on chat(only thing that doesn't seem to work is the mounting of the data.img as its using the boot partition).

Anyway, apart from that battery life, performance and usability have been spot on - i still get an odd wake up after pressing the power off - but it only seems to happen once - divx118 what was the adb command you suggested in order to work out whats waking it up and will see if can narrow it down.

I do seem to get an odd crackle on sound on the startup of some games/apps but it doesn't happen consistently so will keep an ear on it :-)

I was not able to use the SD card via USB, but am sure I had this working(may have been when booted from the image rather that partition - but as others have pointed out there are other methods from transferring files.

Keep up the good work.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Should be easy to fix. /data is defined in init.rc I would suggest to make a seperate partition on the sdcard for it and mount that as /data.

"adb wait-for-device logcat" gives you normal debug info for android userspace. The wait-for-device is there so it starts as soon as adbd starts on android.

"adb wait-for-device shell cat /proc/kmsg" shell gives you the linux command line on your android device and "cat /proc/kmsg" prints the output of in this case /proc/kmsg which are the kernel messages on your commandline.

adb --help and google linux commands will be of help here.

You can also do something like

adb wait-for-device shell cat /proc/kmsg|grep PM" which will give you only the messages that contain "PM"

Didn't notice it yet, however I didn't try many apps yet. Just some basic things.

I only tested it with the image file on internal storage.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] koba:
Hi, what's the best config for watching flash video's? The videos are stuttering and the sound is not sync, sometimes the device crashes! Thx for your work!
[Gen8 Android Development] jackson0829:
Hi,divx118:

After installed your latest "Bull" released version(2012.04.09) in my Archos 101,

The touch screen is not responsive (like "resistance type" touch screen ) !!

When can be solved those bothersome issue ??
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
What model is yours?

My A101IT never had that problem. We always had multitouch
[Gen8 Android Development] jackson0829:
My Model is A101IT and previous UrukDroid 1.64 without such issue

(multi-touch is smoothly)!

I suppose the presetting of touch screen response time is not correctly?

but I do not know how to correct it?

Can somebody teach me how to correct "touch screen response time"

in presetting?
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
that's very very weird.

CM7 always felt more responsive on everything than urukdroid.

Did you try reinstaling everything?

The setting are correct when you install, so you should be fine after that
[Gen8 Android Development] jackson0829:
I re-installed twice but got same results (touch screen is not responsive)?

Maybe my A101's touch screen defective recently ?

(Sometime it happen touch screen unstable symptom during Urukdriod 1.64

working!)
[Gen8 Android Development] rocky58:
Me too...all is ok!
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
Try booting into the official archos firmware and see if it works.

It's the "Archos" option on your openaos boot menu.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Try from scratch, so delete or rename your data.img and openaos-gingerbread.img then copy a new openaos-gingerbread.img.gz onto your device and try again.

Youtube app from market should work fine.

It can be that on the very first boot it uses software rendering, because sometimes the omap_vout module errors out. After that it will be fine.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] Mavasilisk:
How to apply the fix for the cracking noise from here:

https://www.gitorious.org/openaos-c...mmit/bd16fa1820fc790708e7e775e9e1ffa5ee3ae0ff

Can I copy-paste it somewhere or I cant until next release?
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
Easy, install the toolchain in your 64bit Linux, download the sources for Android and Archos and compile the complete thing as described in http://dev.openaos.org/wiki/AndroidBuildEnvironment.

Or wait.
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
Just a heads up about the crackling sound.

It's mostly fixed with the most recent fix but it does still happen sometime.

I can reproduce it by using google music on headphones. It goes of at the beggining of some songs.

I looked at the logcat and I'm getting suspicious at dsp manager. It seems touchpad devs also had the same problem.
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Nice, any link to a ticket for the touchpad regarding this issue. Or some other info.

BTW I also noticed that playing music through buetooth speakers brings back the crack when going to standby. Only a reboot resolves it again.

I think you are right with dsp manager playing a role in this.

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] philocritus:
here it is:

http://code.google.com/p/cmtouchpad/issues/detail?id=83
[Gen8 Android Development] Funkyfin2000:
Hi guys,

Done this install on gen 8, all went perfectly, copied the 512mb data.img file....

got Gingerbread on the boot for choice to run.....but now it just hangs on OPENAOS screen...

any ideas? Everything else worked perfectly and to the letter.....

Any ideas? Does it take a long time to boot?

Rich

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This appears to be because i don't have the original archos firmware on the device?

Therefore, how do install firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos on to be able to progress the install?
[Gen8 Android Development] Funkyfin2000:
All working now, although how do you make it ALWAYS boot in to the gingerbread? rather than having to go to developer menu!?
[Gen8 Android Development] joaoalex:
Problem with Android downloads using usb 3g

Hi,

I have a problem with a downloads if i use a 3G usb dongle.

I use the follow script with pppd command to access internet, and this works fine for Opera, dolphin, etc and i can make pings and connect with success.

#!/system/bin/sh

usbsh guest stop

usbsh guest start

sleep 25

/system/bin/rmmod /lib/modules/usbserial

/usr/bin/usb_modeswitch -v 0x19d2 -p 0x2000 -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/19d2:2000

insmod /lib/modules/usbserial.ko vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0031

sleep 25

/system/bin/pppd /dev/ttyUSB2 460800 debug mtu 1280 mru 1280 file tether &

setprop net.dns1 208.67.222.222

setprop net.dns2 208.67.222.200

But if i use market store the Downloads doesn't work. If i use Android stock browser i have an error: " ... No internet connection..." , but i can access internet sites with no problem

I'm trying to use iptables to forward traffic but i have an error:

iptables v1.3.7 can't initialize table 'filter' ...

I also try setting this command setprop ro.radio.use-ppp yes whith no results.

Someone can help to inform android about internet status???

Thanks

PS: I love this rom
[Gen8 Android Development] divx118:
Thanks for the info on how to use a 3G USB dongle. I didn't however look into this yet. Probably it needs some configuring in some settings somewhere to let android know you can also use a dongle.

What you can try is search the internet (if you didn't already done it), I heard about this issue before on other devices. Maybe there is a simple solution to workaround this.

For now I don't have a USB 3G dongle and also I am a bit short on free time lately. However there are more people, hopefully they can help you.

@philocritus: thanks saves me some googling.

@joaoalex: Read FAQ

divx118
[Gen8 Android Development] mmoalem:
hi there - would love to know how you got the dongle to work - a step-by-step will be greatly appreciated...