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[Touch CDMA Android Development] zato1:
worki

i installed the necessary files for android to work and it did on the first try. my issues are: no landscape mode - it happens when i bring up the keyboard but it doesnt stay in landscape mode, which i want.. and the text for my buttons is huge and overlaps, I cant get the text to be smaller or at least go to landscape mode to see if that helps. Other than that android is freakin sweet. thanks to everyone that has been workin super hard to get this runnin on our phones. i show android to everyone i see :p
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Grondinm:
well i am using the version form nov5th and i was happy to be able to play some of my music(as it did not find it all) now i'm worried about my sd card curupting...today is my first full day test with android...if theire is a way to make android faster and not curupt sd cards i'm all for it but talks of partitioning a flash card scare me as i have had bad experiences with partitioning external/flash drives. maybe i did something wrong at the time but...maybe i will just use a diff card for android that way no data loss if anything happens...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
Will this help?

http://www.aleph1.co.uk/pipermail/yaffs/2005q3/001356.html

It's my personal opinion that we should use yaffs if possible, since it's what google uses, for one thing. They obviously chose it for a reason (probably in part to make hacking the G1 et al more difficult.)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] xgumbyx:
Gmail App

Thanks for creating this for the Vogue dzo, for the most part its working great. One thing I can't figure out is where the Gmail App is (or how to get it). The Mail App does pop/imap but does not do any sort of push email which is a major plus to have on a phone in my opinion. is it hiding there somewhere? Can I download it from somewhere? All my google attempts thus far have come up empty.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
On Screen Keyboard?

Look what I found

An on-screen keyboard for Android... Enter your text on-screen and select copy. Then paste this text to any text input area by long-press or holding down on the track ball...

http://andappstore.com/AndroidPhoneApplications/apps/4642

I havent tried it yet, gonna try it soon.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] spamftw:
Just tried installing it, it seems the resolution isn't right for our device. I just posted a coment on the developers profile, hopefully he's willing to help
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
This doesn't seem like an ideal solution. Having to copy and paste I think would be a nightmare.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
well considering how everything is functioning right now, it may not be ideal, but its in the right direction.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
id still prefer martin's keyboard until an official one is released.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
I've just put a new build on the website, this mounts the filesystems as ext2 with noatime. Hopefully this will cause less wear on the card.

There are a few minor changes to the kernel too. Power collapse has a flashing red led now. The soft keyboard only vibrates for a fixed time now.

Still no working camera yet, the driver is in the git repo if anyone wants to play with it though.

The system image is read only now so patching the RIL and keymap won't work any more.

If you already have a data.img don't put data.gz on your card or it will erase your settings.

default.txt now sets the memory size to 128M, haret was only detecting 112M before.

The ram console now lives at physical address 0xe0000, so to get a debug log do "pwf dmesg 0xe0000 0x20000" in haret.

enjoy,
[Touch CDMA Android Development] JM-PDA:
Dzo, you are the best!

Thanks for the new "android-12-11-08.zip" build and the update summary.

Now downloading it as we speak.

You also answered my question about being able to reuse my data.img file.

I love using Android on my HTC Touch.

All the best to you!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
INSTANT MESSAGING APP :D

Hey Guys, I sent the guys over at meebo.com an email asking them if we could have the .apk file for their instant messaging app since we dont have access to marketplace. They went ahead and sent me the .apk file!

I would recommend signing up on the meebo.com website and setting up your aim/msn/yahoo accounts into your meebo account so that its much easier to use on android. Just one login allows you to log in to all your messaging apps at once. Plus you can use meebo anywhere that has a browser so its pretty cool :)

Here is the email they sent:

"Hey! We're not posting the .apk file right now, but we will probably

begin posting at the various non-Google affiliated market web sites.

For now I've just attached the apk to this email. Enjoy.

Also, we just released a new version to the market. The changes are:

* Stays connected longer (still not perfect, but we're working on

making it better, please bear with us)

* Lets you close IM windows

* Notifications are more specific

* Phone numbers, email addresses and links in the IM window are clickable

There are many features we're planning on adding. These are the ones

we'll be working on over the next few weeks:

* Ability to set your away message

* Ability to set your buddy icon

* Saving account information and auto-sign on

* Configuration of sounds/vibrate when receiving an IM

* Adding/removing/blocking people on your buddy list

* Viewing other people's entire away message

-Mark"

So Perhaps at some point this will end up on slideme.org but for now here is the file!

http://jonsingh.com/android/files/meebo.apk

Its a bit weird logging in, its hard to read the fields(but doable), but once you log in, its awesome!

-Jon
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jakub_w:
does this mean the ril you sent the guys for bell mobility won't work anymore?

so back to no more receiving text messages?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
No, I updated the ril, it should work fine on Bell.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] d1rtyd33z:
screen gestures

Would it be possible to implement some of the TouchFlo gestures in the touchscreen driver for Android? The number of hw buttons could then be reduced... Or, would it be possible in userspace to watch the touchscreen and perform macros based on pre-defined "swipes"?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
The newest version works great. To be honest one of my biggest annoyances was the constant LED. I would always have people saying "hey, your phone is doing something funny" when they see the LED lit red while it was off.

The meebo app someone posted is awesome. The text entry is just as bad as it is elsewhere in the OS, so that's no big deal, but I am going to test it out today and see if running google talk all day drains my battery... Maybe finally I can be signed onto gtalk like my blackberrying friends...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] DanPonjican:
Just installed the android-12-11-08.zip pack. I boot it up and most everything seems to work (getting the error on gmail register attempt) but I can't seem to get it to power back up after using the red end key to power down.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
has anyone else tried the meebo app? I can't seem to figure out how to get it to notify me... all I get is a little bit of a crack, like it is trying to play some sound, but it doesn't. Other than that it's great.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ingenue007:
i still can't figure out why it won't dial out my internet. dvo says his default.txt will dial out the internet.

i have sprint.

is this the correct for default.txt

set cmdline "ppp.username=MYUSERNAME@sprintpcs.com ppp.password=MYPASSWORD"

?

and i can't seem to find the rt password. i've used my MSL number and ##778# to access that screen, but the supposed password is a bunch of gibberish i can't read. i can't use android w/o internet!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
As far as I know, Sprint will not dial a connection no matter what settings you put. Still one of the things to work out. But if you launch IE before you launch Android you should be good.

Did you try pressing the phone's actual power button at the top of the phone?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] prodigy2m:
Error with new And.

I get error extracting system in ext2. I don't know why. That never happened before.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
I had this problem also, I did an actual reboot of the phone (held down the end call button) and then restarted Haret, and it seems to be fine now. Also, trying changing your notification volume and ring volume before launching it, see if that helps.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
I got back from lunch and it won't wake up. Could be the new version or it could be because I was running meebo. Rebooting...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] spamftw:
Hey all, I'm late for class so I have to run, but I thought i'd post the status of a keyboard app.

I had seen one on slide2me (i believe that's what it's called) however the resolution wasn't right for the touch

I contacted the developer and here's what he said.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

I have released a version of the aKeyUI app which should suit the screen resolution of the HTC Touch...

Available at:

http://android-app-collection.googlecode.com/files/aKeyUI_Touch.apk

I'm not sure of the HTC Touch exact screen resolution, so you may want to tweak the height values in the layout/main.xml file:

I have released the source-code for this app available at:

http://android-app-collection.googlecode.com/files/aKeyUI.zip

nice guy right,

hopefully this works, as the current on screen keyboard isnt 100 percent finger friendly.

final note, this keyboard isn't a keyboard replacment, rather a keyboard app that allows copying of typed text.

peace,

spamftw
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
SlideME 2.2 is out

slideme.org

seems a bit cooler, i got excited when I hit menu because I saw Android Marketplace, but it didnt work :( QQ
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
yeah so the resolution is still off on the sides, and i dont think we actually have the means to copy and paste it into any other program because we dont have a keyboard to ctrl-v or whatnot
[Touch CDMA Android Development] craig0r:
i'm wondering if there's some sort of authentication that needs to take place for the Marketplace. If there is, we might benefit from someone with a G1 giving us a tcp dump.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Praiz2ELoHiM:
I went to the site and when you click Download SAM... it only says v2.0 still.

Where did you find it? Got a direct link?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
i'm interested in how to find it as well
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ingenue007:
how do you guys find apps w/o marketplace?

like i want to download any cut and translate, but can't find the .apk files for it?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
Martin, do you have any plans with using HaRET 0.5.2? Or do you have any issues with it?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
Actually, I replaced 0.5.1 with 0.5.2 in the latest build, for booting it doesn't really make any difference though.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
I went straight to slideme.org on the android browswer, and did a download directly, it let me install it from the browswer...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Nickman1:
This program wont install for some reason. Other apps have installed without any issue. Any thoughts?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
It's for the open source build but that doesn't include maps so either we have a good looking dialer or we have maps.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
i say go with the good looking dialer and just add maps to the list of things to get working
[Touch CDMA Android Development] spamftw:
actually, if you hold the middle button paste comes up in any app that accepts text. I think it will be a great help
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
oh i did not know that, thanks!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
i dont see Gmail application, is it part of the new build? or ....
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
Oh yeah this app is actually really cool, just as soon as someone fixes the width issue...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
anyone got info on Gmail apk?

got a link ?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
btw, anyone can help whats suppose to be edited in the default.txt for a Sprint phone?

how do i get the login/pass info?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jim256:
right now it doesnt matter, but supposedly you just use your login credentials at sprint.com when you log in there.

username@sprintpcs.com and password.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
thats what i gathered from my readings, but just wanted to make sure

you know any info on Gmail application?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
the mail app is included in this build... if you dont have it, i would copy the files over again... unless the mail app is different from the gmail app... which i dont think is the case.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
The gmail app is not in the current build. The gmail app allows for push gmail. It is not open source and thus not in the sdk.

There is a standard email app that you can use to access any pop or imap email account (which includes gmail) at set intervals.

Please read the thread then read it again before posting. All these questions have been asked and answered many times.

Cheers
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jim256:
dzo, any info on how the camera is coming along?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] derekwilkinson:
Is there anyway we can get the original keyboard from the earlier builds back? (like the one now except portrait).
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
It's getting there, I can talk to the sensor chip over the i2c bus and get data from the video front end using the adsp. I'm quite busy with work at the moment so don't have a lot of time right now. Maybe next week I'll be able to finish it.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Nickman1:
Thanks dzo.

And Thanks for the great work. I am currently running the 11/12 build. I am trying to test the SD card stability to the limits. I'll let you know if it dies on me.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] quickslvr624:
i feel stupid asking, but why can i not find the llatest build on the website (myhtcphone.com - right?) ...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
http://cs-alb-pc3.massey.ac.nz/vogue

thats the link for the raw files

the link you posted will be updated with a CAB installer soon
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
soon as in as soon i have time to put a new cab together. ive been busy with the site. dont know if anyones noticed the tiny 'improvements' (as i like to think they are) in the site. the big improvement I am working on is the forums with the help of bugzy and a couple of other people.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
thats why i used the keyword, soon ;)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] xgumbyx:
I've been using an email app called ExMail that replaces (or rather sits beside) the default email app. The difference is that ExMail can do IMAP Idle (essentially the same as Microsft's and Google's implementation of "push email") while the default app can not. In your previous release Exmail worked fine. in your new release, Exmail crashes and the "Force Close" message appears.

I don't know how I can help test this or if I even can, but the app can be found at http://jasta.dyndns.org/android/Exmail.apk

Thanks for any help on creating a more stable email app capable of (what we now mislabel as ) push email
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
Hi,

To find out why it's crashing, open the terminal (in dev tools) and type:

su

then type:

logcat > /sdcard/crashlog.txt

Now start the app and wait for it to crash.

The crashlog.txt file should tell you what is going wrong.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] xgumbyx:
Well, it looks like bad news. After needing to reboot and then deleting some files in wm6 to free some SD Card space I am starting to have issues with my SD Card also. I can no longer delete certain folders (been sitting with the "busy" icon now for 7 hours trying to delete files). I hadnt tested much with the ext2 release and had only tested the ext3 release for about 2.5 days.

I'm trying to see if I can format the card on my PC but my PC is having issues recognizing the card (possibly unreleated).

Gumby
[Touch CDMA Android Development] erick10:
I have a Sprint Touch and its not working for me. When I run haret.exe it loads up but it gets stuck I guess in bootloader I guess. I can only get the onscreen Keyboard with the vibration. I dont think I did something wrong. Data and System are both in the root of my SD and the other files are in a folder inside the SD card.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
Try moving all the files to the root of your SD card or try my cab installer at http://www.myhtcphone.com
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
ooooh blue !! nice
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
just curious, what it will take to get internet dial on demand working

i think thats the 1 thing thts left so that dont have to boot back to WinMo
[Touch CDMA Android Development] erick10:
Thanks ill try your cab instead
[Touch CDMA Android Development] sfleury:
I think it will take one of us North Americans to get off our butt and fix it ourselves.

From what I have gathered it is working fine for Martin, and he has moved on to other issues like the camera.

My suggestion is either fix it and accept our gratitude when you do or suffer in silence like the rest of us until someone else does.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] erick10:
Sorry guys, the cab didnt work either. I wanted to see the android development on my phone. It just doesnt get passed the bootloader. It crashes and have hardreseted again to see if it fixed the problem but negative lol. My touch is running orginal wm 6.1 rom.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
interesting, wonder why US phones internet on demand doesnt work, while others do

boooh
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
What Touch are you using? What cell provider? What ROM? What radio version? What SD card?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jim256:
I agree, that is pretty strange.

DZO,

is internet really working on-demand for you? I wasn't even aware of this..
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
i was assuming everyone running these builds was having internet ondemand issues

wonder if its anything to do with the default.txt configuration, mine is default as it came in the build, but i dont know what to edit it with
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
When a sprint user boots android it says cannot access tty, job control turned off.

It shows the username and password, it just doesn't seem to use them. :confused:
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
It doesn't really connect on demand but it does start the connection without needing a preexisting one and never seems to drop. It's probably because the signal strength where I am is very good. Have you tried running the /setupmodem.sh script by hand to see why it doesn't connect?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] exabrial:
Internet on demand doesn't work here either... I used the credentials from the ## screen. US, CDMA, Sprint. It *does* work if I dial in winmobile, then launch android.

DZO, I *might* be able to get you a cdma touch to work with, but with no service obviously. Would that be any use to you?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jim256:
I gotta admit that I really don't have too much experience w/ linux, albeit some. I would be more than happy to try out your suggestion of course with a little more guidance.

Thanks.

Just wanted to point out real fast that dzo has a cdma touch, we all do. That is what the vogue is :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] exabrial:
When I run ./setupmodem manually from the terminal it says,

username= password=
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
mine connects after booting from WinMo, and internet works

but after some idle time, it stills working

would be nice to have it work all the time (as long as there's signal)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etx:
I'm a long time linux user, but android isn't working on my touch anymore as the memory card went bad. This is the second memory card to bad on my touch, I'm convinced something is wrong with the hardware that corrupts the card, and with android running from the card a lot more i/o is going on than normal WinMO use.

Anyways, I will try to pickup a card this weekend and have a look. DZO, are you just launching pppd on the tty? I haven't used that since the 90's dial up days!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Praiz2ELoHiM:
On-topic off-topic

Hearing so many people have issues with their SD cards...

I came across a deal on woot. Not sure if you all are familiar with it... but they are one day deals... change each day. Today's deal (11/14/08) is a 2GB microSD for $2.59. Shipping is standard $5... and stays at $5 for up to 3 items.

http://www.woot.com/

Check it out if you need a new card. Comes with microSD and SD adapter
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
how do i upload music in android? it picks up the pictures on my storage card but not the music?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ahash:
Martin,

Thanks for all your hard work in getting Android to run on the Vogue. It has been interesting to watch the progression of the OS port. I'm an HTC Touch user on the Sprint network and I would also like to know why some of us have to start an Internet connection in Windows Mobile before starting Android. Running setupmodem.sh in Android's terminal, I get the following output:

Initialize Modem

grep: /proc/cmdline: Permission denied

grep: /proc/cmdline: Permission denied

Username=, Password=

/bin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege

lo	Link encap:local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1	Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING	MTU:16436	METRIC:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0B)

ppp0	Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

inet addr:174.146.21.192	P-t-P:68.28.113.69	Mask:255.255.255.255

UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST	MTU:1500	METRIC:1

RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

RX bytes:54 (54.0 B) TX bytes:69 (69.0B)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
i can beat that. send me $5 and i'll send you a 2gb microSD card. i have about 10 of them lying around.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] etiger13:
I get that too. looks like it connects but this line has me wondering:

/bin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
try typing:

su

before /initmodem.sh

It's probably just using a different type of authentication for Sprint, you will have to try other pppd options, look at the script to find out how it works.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dzo:
I had another look at this and it looks like the RPC is coming from the GPS, you must have the GPS enabled at startup somehow. My RPC code can't handle GPS messages, they are too long so it crashes. Try changing the wince GPS options.

p.s. no this doesn't mean I can get the GPS working easily, those messages are some kind of raw data from the hardware, it will probably not be easy to get nmea from them.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] derekwilkinson:
@Sprint users

Internet is working fine for me. I've never had any issues. I used my username (username@sprintpcs) and a blank password in the default file.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bugzy:
which username?

the one that shows in WinMo's settings info? or the one you use to login to the sprint.com website? or explain how I can find out
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ingenue007:
does it only work fine rt after a boot into android and does it stay fine? my internet works, but it won't stay connected after going idle; android won't dial out. that's the problem.

someone in the US must be able to figure this out!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] erick10:
Sprint Touch, Im using Sprint, SanDisk 2gb card, Radio and Rom from the lates original Sprint Rom