[Miscellaneous Android Development] spiderman1961:
Installation instructions

First some considerations:

A. Porting Android on Omnia (born for WinMobile 6.5) is a pure gamble: to complain of minor malfunctions, claiming a perfection that there is not even on the native device is totally out of place.

It's part of game: in almost all cases, these small hitches, which does not at all preclude the daily use of the terminal, are solved with a simple reboot.

B. Please

follow the installation procedure to the letter

, without neglecting any detail, otherwise block the installation or malfunction with lag and other troubles of the terminal.

C. The installation must be done with telephone

SIM and microSD inserted!!!!!

D. It is recommended to install remaining disconnected from the Internet and with the antivirus disabled

INSTALLATION STEPS FOR OMNIAII WITH2GB OF INTERNAL MEMORY​

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LINK TO ILLUSTRATED INSTALLATION GUIDE​

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1. Connect device to PC through USB under WinMobile ("Settings Samsung / Usb Connection / "My Storage")

2. Open MiniToolPartition wizard

3. Delete all partitions in "My Storage".

4. Create three new partitions:

5. FIRST PARTITION: FAT32, LOGICAL, 500mb, label "DISK"

6. SECOND PARTITION: EXT4, LOGICAL, 1250mb, label "disk"

7. THIRD PARTITION: LINUX SWAP, LOGICAL, 200MB, no label

PARTITIONS FOR USERS WITH OMNIA 8GB (Credits to Lagunostrum)​

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FIRST PARTITION: 6390 Gb, FAT32, LOGICAL, label "DISK"

SECOND PARTITION: 1250 Mb, EXT4, LOGICAL, label "disk"

THIRD PARTITION: 196 Mb, LINUX SWAP, LOGICAL, no label​

IMPORTANT: For users with Omnia 8Gb, you must change the startup.txt​

At line [Set CMDLINE "rootdelay = 2 root = / dev/mmcblk1p2 init = / init"] change as follows:

Set CMDLINE "rootdelay = 2 root = / dev/mmcblk1p6 init = / init"​

DO NOT create Linux partitions SWAP MORE 'BIG 200 Mb,

ACCORDING TO MANY DEVELOPERS, SUCH DIMENSIONS SLOW THE DEVICE​

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8. Close MiniTool Partition Wizard

9. Start Ubuntu in Virtual Machine (those who have not can disconnect the phone from Windows and, after running Ubuntu, can connect with the procedure described below)

10. Click on the menu "Virtual Machine", select "Removable devices", select GTI8000, select "Connect" to connect Omnia to Ubuntu

11. Open "Gparted" or other utility Ubuntu to partition the disk

12. Right-click on "ext4" and "remove" the partition, right-click again to "ext4" and choose "Format as ext4" (with tests carried out, it is more snappy rom installed on a formatted partition from Ubuntu in "ext4 "with respect to a partition" ext4 "formatted by MiniTool)

13. Right-click on "linux-swap" and format as "linux-swap" (for the same reason as above)

14. Close "Gparted"

15. Click on the menu "Virtual machine / Removable devices / Disconnect" to disconnect and reconnect the phone automatically from Ubuntu to Windows (

do not disconnect the USB cable!!!!

)

16. Close Ubuntu

17. Set the date on the PC on September 2011 (if it does not work in September 2010)

18. Open Image For Windows and choose "Restore (Normal)"

19. Navigate to the folder where you saved the ROM and select it

20. Click "Next" and flag the ROM to be installed

21. Click again on "Next" and choose where to install the ROM: Of course it will be the EXT4 partition (Linux native)("disk"), 1250 Mb created with MiniTool and reformatted under Ubuntu

22. Click "Next" and continue until screen will warn you that all data on the target partition will be deleted and be replaced by those of the ROM: click OK and continue

23. On next screen, leave options settings as you find them

24. On next screen click "Start" and start the procedure.

25. After installation, close Image For Windows and set time PC correctly.

Copy the files "haret.exe", "startup.txt" and "zImage" in DISK. (ie the root of the "My storage" WinMobile).

These files must remain in DISK (ie the root of the "My storage" WinMobile).

26. From WinMobile, with a File Manager, navigate to "haret.exe" and click it to start Android.

27. After first boot of Android,

DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE

, wait for SO fully started and

RESTART the phone

At the end of the second boot you can enjoy Android on OMNIAII

28. Set Playstore on "

do not automatically update applications"!!!!

!!!

Choose carefully what to update because recent apps are the most greedy of ram (block the phone) and they bring very little improvement.

ESPECIALLY DO NOT UPDATE GAPPS (CarHome, Facebook, Gmail, Latitude, Places, Maps, Navigation, Genie Widget, GoogleSearch, VoiceSearch, Talk, Twitter), otherwise they will not be opened.WHILE I WRITE I HAVE JUST TESTED FACEBOOK: slow on GALAXY ADVANCE OF MY WIFE, but splinter on my old Omnia