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[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rapax:
I'm having trouble with the qtopia image. It seems to have installed correctly, and it boots ok. But then all I get is the basic black screen witht the four icons at the bottom, 'unlock' at the bottom left, and a 'no network' message across the middle. It shows no reaction to either the touchscreen or button presses. The only thing I can do is soft reset. What am I doing wrong here?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hakkinenvthh:
Try to reset, perhaps u have to do it many times. Or try to format ur sd card, sometimes it helps
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rapax:
I've reset it several times now, then fdisk'd the SD card, re-created the partitions, reformated, re-installed. No difference. Maybe I'll try a different SD card today.

EDIT: Ok, I've installed it using a different 512MB SD card now. More or less the same. Black screen, 'no network', four icons and 'unlock' at the bottom left. The only difference seems to be that now the icons flash an orange background when tapped on. But still, nothing happens. Something is really weird here. Do you think it might be due to the WM5 ROM I'm using? I'm currently using 3.5_Ivan.

Can some of you post what ROM you're currently using?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fgarpe:
I have the same problem, I'm waiting for the next image I thing something is wrong
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hakkinenvthh:
I'm using the ROM WM5 Tmobile unbranded and everything is ok. Did u edit file qpe.sh? Try to flash the ROM Tmobile (it's great) or try to format ur SD card by using this software

http://www.mediamax.com/sirhak/Hosted/VAIOSoft Recovery Manager.rar

Good luck guy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] WizP:
For those of you having te unlock problem try the following.

When booting up wait till the device has completely booted i.e. the clock has disappeared.

Press the power button once.

Move the stylus to shut down Qtopia - Note not shutdown the device.

When you get to the shell do the following

nano /etc/init.d/qpe.sh

change the entry ficgta01 to htcuniversal [ctrl] is the email button on your uni keyboard.

[ctrl+o] to save

[ctrl+x] to exit

then execute qpe.sh

/etc/init.d/qpe.sh start &

This should get you working in unlocked mode.

I myself have a slight problem which I think is to do with the radio. When Qtopia loads up everything seems to be working fine. The very shortly after the device registers on the GMS network then Qtopia restarts and continues this cycle indefinitely. Anyone any ideas or getting something similar?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] m1ke420:
does the qtop and the moko cabs work in wm6? when i install them i get an error on boot up of the application. it says error undefined mtype.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rapax:
Ok guys, thanks for all the help. The editing of qpe.sh did the trick. Now qtopia is working nicely. Very nicely in fact.

Some small questions remain:

There's no landscape mode, right? Everything works in Portrait mode, but it's a bit weird to have to tilt your head to read everything while working with the keyboard.

So far, it only detects and connects to the local GSM network, even though I have strong UMTS reception here.

How do I turn on Bluetooth and WLAN? There's Bluetooth field in the settings, but that doesn't seem to do anything, and I can't find anything about Wi-Fi.

Apart from that, I'm very positively surprised. I'm strongly looking forward to the day when I can use this as my main OS on the device.

And now...I'm off to try syncronizing my Uni with my Linux machine...wish me luck.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Are you using HTC Universal?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Updated Qtopia image

HI.

Updated a new Qtopia image. There are a lots of improvements in it now.

The phone libs are cleaned up and works a lot better.

I havent made a cab file of it because of the language problems. I have no idea how to let it support other languages than english so i have added the exe file and the compressed image.

But installing it and running it is easy as with the cab file.

Just place the exe file and the tar.bz2 file in the root of your SD card (vfat partition, size at least 128MB) and hit the exe file. It will start the linux install process.

You will not get linux startup icon under programs because of the missing cab file. Maybe i should upload both, so you can choose wich version you want to run. But just so you know, both images containes the same.

Addons in devtools

Bluetooth script

IRDA script

WiFi script

UMTS (doesnt work)

Qtroadmap

Qtroadgps

ImLife (IM)

Some of it arent stable yet, but it's a preview.

Read the README file before you ask here at the forum if you have problems running it.

http://www.linuxtogo.org/~htcpxa/htcuniversal/images/O.P.I.E-II/

¨

AS ALLWAYS, YOU USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISC, IT MIGHT BREAK YOUR DEVICE, BUT AFAIK IT HASENT HAPPEND YET. WE DO THIS JUST FOR FUN AND WE DONT SEE THE POINT OF NOT SHARING THIS WITH OTHERS
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rapax:
Installed beautifully, and runs very smoothly. Thanks.

Is there wiki specifically for Qtopia on Uni yet? Somewhere to look for specific features etc., instead of having to bother you guys with questions all the time?

For instance: The screen dims automatically after a set time, but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off manually, like pressing the power button in WM5/6 does. Is there no such thing, or am I just too blind to find it?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] dan99:
Device LOCK

For example, and can not unlock the device, describe more precisely how to do this.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
I have allready described that. Do a search and dont be so lazy.

Or, the easiest way, add a sim card to the uni.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] dan99:
about nano / etc / init.d / qpe.sh I had read.

enter the command, I see an empty box on the screen editor. Where is the corresponding line is not clear. Sorry translate.google.com

Sorry, did. I do not know how.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Rapax:
Crtl-W opens the search function in nano. Then just type 'ficgta01' and hit return. You'll probably find the term twice in the qpe.sh file.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] EQUANCY:
OpenMoko

Doesn't work correctly.

Just stay Registering nothing else.

Menu's haven't any name : just like 

I don't know I must to do.

Thanks.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Thats the old image. The gta01 stuff is away in the new uploaded image.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] dan99:
After one call received subsequent longer hear me.

The microphone is not working.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] EQUANCY:
OpenMoko dream is over then...

No body know why?

I've 4 times restarted but still same

Just stay Registering...

and Menu's and dialogs have not any name

just illegal characters such as :
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hakkinenvthh:
Media player doesn't work and it hasn't a web browser. Has it a terminal? And can I sync my Uni with PC? Sorry because of many questions. Thanks for ur great work, goxboxlive. Nice to sharing!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Yes it does, have you tested wav files and ogg?

No it doesnt, Qtopia hasent any yet, you can make one for it.

No

No idea, use google to find the answer.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] m1ke420:
Yes i am using an HTC Uni and also just tried the new image you placed and still same error.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hakkinenvthh:
Thanks for ur answers. How can I make a web browser for Qtopia? I can install some packages ipk but it doesn't work in Qtopia (the destination is the folder QtPalmtop, not Qtopia). Can I make a terminal for Qtopia? Thanks in advance, sir goxboxlive. Nice weekend!!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
wm6 is causing it. It doesnt work with linux.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Old Opie packages doesnt work with Qtopia. Qtopia4 is quite new, and there isent anay other packagaes for it.

You can write the code yourself for webbroswer. Look at Qtopie Docs for howto make a application ni Qtopia 4. It's c++.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] thinktank:
I just installed Qtopia, and I understand that is still in early stage, but it looks very promising. I hope that in future it will get web browser and support for internet wifi/umts/gprs-connections. Keep up the good job!

I have only one question: I use Qtopia in HTC Universal, is there any way to switch screen from potrait to landscape mode?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fgarpe:
Good work!

Hey Goxboxlive!,

I'm testing the latest Qtopia image and I think there is a very good work.

Only one question, what happens with GPE?, I like Qtopia, but I love GPE,

When I can see the latest improvements in GPE?

Thank you very much.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Yes there is, but most of the menus in Qtopia lacks support of it, and the touchsscreen goes crazy (it doesnt rotate as the screen does).

You have to edit /etc/init.d/qpe and add 270 to the line that has Rot in it in the HTC Universal section.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Hi.

Well i havent done much work with it. This is because i like Qtopia most and since we have sms working in Qtopia i havent made any new images of the other GUI's.

I don like gpe so much because i think it is so slow. OpenMoko is also kind of slow in landscape mode, faster in portrait.

But i can try one day.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cr2:
GPE was created by the people who didn't want to release GPL-licensed

Qt software or pay the money to Trolltech for a commercial license.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] hakkinenvthh:
Hey man, can I add a terminal for Qtopia? And how? Thanks in advance!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
I have answered this before, no you cant add any terminals to Qtopia. It doesnt exist yet.

And i told you lats time, if you want one now, you have to create it yourself. So go ahead an contribute and make us a terminal for Qtopia.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Pandur:
I´m new with Linux, but what about this?

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?action=details&pnm=opie-console
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Not compatible. You havee to rewrite qt-2 to qt4 wich is more complicated than writing a new one.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Terramoto:
cant set the network :( i've installed the rndis drivers on xp i edited the:

iface usb0 static

to

iface usb0 dhcp

but it doesnt get any gateway :\

any help? btw in the xp on network connections e doesnt show the rndis connection
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
¨This was working for me at work: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/WindowsXpUsbNetworkHowTo?action=highlight&value=rndis Look in the "Windows XP side" section.

Why do you use a dynamic ip adress? Use the default static on and set the winxp usbnet adress on winxp to the gateway adress in your interface file.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Terramoto:
working, xp problem :D

but cant install packages :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
O, then yo are doing somethin wrong. Search at google to find the answer.

tip: Qtopia hasent any other packages available for the gui. Yo can install packages from Angstrom, but there will be no Qtopia applications available.

So go a haead and help us out and start writing apps for Qtopia.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Zapdos:
Hi all,

Can anybody upload the openmoko-boot.cab file for the image (i took the image out of /~htcpxa/htcuniversal/images/x11-GPE folder)? I have a german device so the auto-install.cab won't work.

Edit:

Mkay.. The image can't be decompressed properly.... :(...

Ok... Now I decompressed the biggest file of the openmoko-linux.cab archive and renamed it to tar.bz2 and installed in on my 512 flash.

Now all i need is the startercabinet. Renaming the ~1M-File of the openmoko-linux.cab archive didn't work ^^

Btw.: When i start qtopia i cant open anything. The buttons react by showing the pressed-animation but nothing happens...

Thx,

Zap
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
The README file is a good start for you i think.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SOG:
What can Linux Do?

Hi guys, I have read alot about Linux, the wiki, and on how to install, and to load Kernel...etc, but I have tried to search for "What can linux on my phone do?" or "what can linux does" but it seem like I can't find such topic, or maybe my Keyword is just wrong :p

I know it's a lot easier to flash a linux OS into the phone with the new .cab files, but I am still thinking about it since I really do love my HTC Universal , and still not sure how to keep all the phone book, and as I know the certain parts like the SMS functions has not finish yet...

My main problem is Could someone please tell me what can Linux do on my HTC Universal? I mean beside a phone and a PDA, what else can I do with it? like installing other Linux softwares? are they compatible?

Thanks, and have a great new year everyone. :D

Jason
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Zapdos:
Which one?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cr2:
We are working on 2 GPS apps, they are for the vector (roadmap) and raster map (qlandkarteM) navigation.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SOG:
Hi CR2, I mean can it run like linux softwares? like Linux Instant messenger? or can run other linux phone's software? or it need to run it's own custom made softwares because of the address of the CPU is unique on it's own? might sounds like a silly question but I am really not sure :p thanks. :rolleyes:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] tim_programmer:
interested in more details of the status

Hi guys

i'm interested in a little more details on the status i would love to contribute at some point soon (atm a little bit busy with university stuff) also just want to say a quick well done for all the work so far... looks like it's coming on great!

on the status page over on handheld the cameras are still a work in progress but you say the drivers are there, what seems to be the remaining issue there?

also sdio you are waiting on a kernel release why is this? is the linux sdio project on sourceforge no good?

how far are you along with the DoC?

also these 2 questions should probably be given a new topic but you guys may well be able to give the answers anyway.

the audio routing... is it possible to route the sound i/o of the phone to make it available to linux rather than straight to speaker/mic (i know back on the himalaya the sound control was set by a bit and basically switched speaker/mic between os and phone).. so in theory could be made to act as an answer phone should a program be written for the task?

also external USB host status is marked as unknown? surely if you have kernel support for usb host its just a matter of getting the usb dongle with a mini usb plug one end and a usb a receptacle on the other..i have one somewhere from an AVR micro-controller board which switches between client and host by using the dongle?

thanks and keep up the good work
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cr2:
The drivers are vendor-written (mvista) for an old kernel version and are quite a hack job. Merging them with the recent kernels is not a simple drop-in.

SDIO is an integral kernel part starting with 2.6.24.

There is a test raw readonly chardev driver, which needs some minor fixes.

Universal is much more flexible than himalaya, you can reroute the sound to and from any destination.

One USB host port is used for UMTS. You need to analyze the motherboard wire routing

to find out if another port is connected to the miniUSB socket.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] tim_programmer:
Hi cr2

thankyou for the reply that all makes a lot of sense i will look into usb host on the port... maybe a quick message to the guy who worked out jtag will sort the issue as he already has a stripped pcb

i'm sure being able to access devices such as ubs serial adaptors could come in handy :-)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Koshu:
Hallo,

is there a way to run Qtopia in landscape mode? I have installed it on my uni and it looks nice but writing SMS on the keyboard, while the screen is in portrait mode isn't really comfortable.

Thx
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Trolltech is about to add suport for it in the source soon. I'll make a new image when it's avaliable.

It will support dynamic rotation.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Koshu:
can't wait to see it.

accordingly to Trolltechs developer Site it's already supported:

http://troll.no/developer/knowledgebase/253/

Or am I wrong?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
Thaks i didnt know, i added it to my configure file and i'll test it. It didnt fail under configure.

You are able to rotate the screen manually. In the startup script /etc/init.d/qpe you will find a line in the htcuniversal section that ends with Rot0, change it to Rot270 and the screen will be rotated on next start, but it will be unusable since the touchscreen doesnt understand that it is in landscape mode. But maybe adding this to configure will help.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Koshu:
Did it work?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
no, but it improved the rotation of the TS input. But it segfault after a few sec.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Koshu:
well, looks like we have to wait a bit longer. But thank you for trying.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] yodap:
some things don't work :(

Hi all!

I've just installed linux on my uni (with opie GUI), it works fine, but i've got some problems...

-Bluetooth won't turn on (tried to switch bt on in wm6 before booting linux, then the blue led is flashing, but opie says that bt is off... :S)

-Keyboard is not working (i can type text only with on-screen keyboard)

-And I didn't found a wifi manager to connet to AP-s.

These prolems are intresting, because this site tells me that these things above should work! : http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Universal

I'm new to linux so i think (hope) that i do something wrong... Thanks!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
I have no idea wich opie image you are tusing. but if there is some of mine the keybaord should work straight away. Anyway, Opie is obsolete and i am not creating any further image of it for universal.

This is because opie isent suplied with a phone app and sonce we have phone apps in two other images i think that will be enough.

So i will recommend you to either go for Qtopia (OPIE2) or Openmoko.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] yodap:
yepp, I installed now both of them (qtopia and openmoko), but i liked opie's interface more. These are too simply :D And i still can't turn wifi on... The "wrong" version of opie was the 1.2, i loaded it from xda's ftp.

Thanx!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] goxboxlive:
ok, the images at xda ftp is old, and should be deleted.

Use our host place instead.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Zapdos:
Hi,

Do i have to use Linexec to Boot Linux from SD?

Greetz,

Zap
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] yodap:
Ok, thanx. I will install opie from your host. If i can have a question what are the biggest linux gurus using? (on the universal :D)

Thank you!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] debian-on-uni:
wifi with openmoko

Hello yodap,

This worked on my mda pro with openmoko:

- Open terminal

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up

iwlist wlan0 scan

iwconfig wlan0 essid "my-essid"

ifup wlan0

Note: i don't use encryption, you can try: "iwconfig wlan0 key open (WEP-KEY)" after setting the essid, I don't know if wep is supported. wpasupplicant is installed but I didn't get it working.

Now i open the webbrowser and surf the web.

The resolution 640x480 is a pleasure but the browser is slow.

To hardware hackers:

Is it possible to install linux to flash rom, if you access the bootloader?

Why can you acess the flash rom but not the first sector on it?

Is it possible to boot from storage card or via activesync

Is there something like a bios on universal?

I'm very exited getting this all working

Greets
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] debian-on-uni:
openmoko on german mda pro

Someone asked how to install openmoko on german universal.

Jemand fragte wie man openmoko auf einem deutschen Geraet installiert:

Der Installer erstellt normalerweise im Ordner storagecard eine Datei. Da dieser Ordner auf (deutschen Geraeten) nicht existiert wird er angelegt. Kopiere einfach nach der Installation den Inhalt des Ordner Storagecard in den Ordner Speicherkarte. Da der Installer diesen Ordner anlegen muss brauchst du 34mb freien Speicher => Hardreset hat bei mir knapp gereicht. Diese Ordner kannst du dann selbstverstaendlich loeschen. Ansonsten alle Schritte wie in der Anleitung ausfuehren.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Zapdos:
Hi,

Does anybody know how to type '|' with the uni?

Do i have to setup a script or something?

Thx,

Zapdos
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] commander_tux:
Zapdos:

I'm kind of needing to be able to pipe commands too. 'iwlist wlan0 scan | less' in particular. The only solution I've found is to disable encryption on one of the wifi routers, connect from the universal, then SSH in from my desktop and do what I need to. It's actually really nice, aside from the wifi choking to death every few minutes. I've got an acx100 PC Card that works like a charm in linux on X86, so I hope the ARM driver improves come next release. (Currently running the latest OPIE II image)

Anyways, is there any way to access the console while inside of Qtopia? In order to turn on wifi, I have to kill the GUI. When I run '/etc/init.d/qpe start' the interface starts up, but the modem always dies and screen locks. The script in the development section of Qtopia for Wifi does nothing for me.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] cr2:
We obviously need some primitive qt4 GUI to be written for wifi lowlevel control.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] debian-on-uni:
new opie

Hey,

Anyone else tested new opie 1.2.3?

Seems to be cool, has gui interfaces for bluetooth, wifi, a pim suite with a DrawPad. you can lighten and darken the screen or rotate. The GUI is intuive and fast, and has also a console. It even seems to have a buggy suspend. I like it most for now, but didn't got bluetooth (propably with bluez-utils) wlan(?) phone(openmoko-dialer?) working yet.

Greets
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] domi007:
WiFi Questions

Hi EB!

I have some questions about WiFi and Linux in Universal, because I'm writing some articles about WEP-crack, and I need a hardware for demonstrations:

1. I know, that HTC Universal has a built-in WiFi card, with TexasInstruments' acx100 chipset. This chipset, with a PatcheD acx100 driver (acx100.sourceforge.net) is able to use packet injection. So the question is: how can I install this driver on Uni? Will I have to compile it? If yes, how (libraries needed, gcc for Uni...)? By the way: what driver is included in Universal-Linux?

2. I know, that with a registry-hack, the Uni can say: "I'm a Wireless B AND G device." How does it work on Linux? If i want to use a G hotspot, under Linux? Is it possible?

Thank You!

DOMy
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] bkortleven:
Hi guys!

I just tried loading (as far as I can tell) the latest image onto my Uni, but the 'Unlock' statement doesn't go away...

I tried searching this post and checked everything that was responeded to this question, but I cannot seem to get past the message...

While browsing and searching through 190+ pages isn't that easy, I just want to ask once again: How can I unlock my phone...

I'm using the 20-Jan-2008 12:07 OPIE-II image and loader from linuxtogo, and it looks good, I just cannot get into it :(

Thanks for repeating just this one more time...

Sorry about the re-asking this question... tried them all, nothing seems to work.

Thanks for helping me out!

Bram
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] domi007:
I think, first you have to use in Windows the Sim-Unlocker (See XDA-Wiki for more informtion) and then you can use Linux without any Net-Lock.

But that information is only my thought.

DOMy