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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ravsingh:
ohhh... LOL

thanks for letting me know...

cheers tom
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Hi!

To me, Android combines the things I love about Windows Mobile with the things I actually enjoyed with the iPhone OSX. Windows Mobile has some great functionality along with a great amount of usefull applications which truly unlocks the full power of a mobile phone. On the other hand, it feels and looks quite dated and here Android comes in.

Android, a operating system for mobile phones that was designed from the ground up for being finger friendly. No more need for a stylus for example and we can throw in capacative touch screens as well.

The iPhone has the same advantage off course, but since Apple is controlling EVERYTHING related to the market apps and what users can use the iPhones for, the whole iPhone experience is kinda limiting.. That combined with the fact that it doesnt even have multi-tasking, the iPhone can hardly be called a smartphone.

Android on the other hand is based on Linux and is Open Source. While it is still young, the Market already have some truly amazing apps, and is truly an "internet phone OS".

So yeah, I think Android is the best operating system for Mobile phone out there, and it will become so much more within a year as well. (Cupcake, new phones, better availibility, even more and better 3rd part apps)!

;)

Oh, and I almost forgot the mention the FANTASTIC intergration with Google services such as Gmail, Calendar and Contacts. You get a true push experience. The moment a new email hits your gmail inbox, it gets synced down to your phone as well. Same goes for calendar events and contacts too... I love it and I cant really go back to the old polled solution along with wired sync. (USB-cable + ActiveSync)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Btw, someone over at the htc-android forums got internet working "kinda" in Android :)

Check it out here! Would be great if someone could try it out so we can confirm that it's working :)

Cheers!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Internet on HTC diamond/raphael has been working for a couple of month now trow USBnet

On the mobile you have to setup a dns server with the command "setprop net.dns1 208.67.222.222" and "setprop net.dns2 208.67.220.220" for a second dns sever.

On the host side(Computer running linux) you have to turn on masquerade with

"echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" and "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE"
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
HI all,

I've downloaded the 19/03/09 pack of android from balsat's site, but I don't know how I can let it start on my DIAM 100; I downloaded all the files, but for examples I don't know where I must put Android_fs.

I would be happy if someone can say me how to do because I'd like to test this new upload :p

thanks to all

richs '92
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
The file you have downloaded is for a partition install, you need this file, extract the "tmp" dir to your "internal storage".

run "internal storage/tmp/haret.exe, and once haret popup press the "run" button!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
thanks very much for the quick reply, however I have alredy download it but you are very kind and so I ask you if you can say me where I should put those additional app and what they need :D

thanks

bye
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
oh excuse me I read wrong , you are very kind and I don't need anyting ,

thanks :D

bye bye
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Copy the apk files to "internal storage/newapps"
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
thanks very much for the help , but now I'm looking at the package and there is also files that I think need to let wifi, gps,sound work but they aren't .apk files ,

so where must I put them ?

thanks a lot , xda is the best , this project is fantastic !! ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Hmm the only file you need to get Android booting is this
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] c4software:
No Any new things in Power Driver ?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] nulall:
Tried to run the newest (20090316) RAPH800 build from connect-utb, but booting stops at this line:

"[ 0.010000] console handover: boot [htc_fb-1] -> real [tty0]"

any idea what i need to fix?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
That happens sometime... sometimes it keeps on booting after 4-5 min, sometimes it dont.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
hi all, I have a problem :

when I copy the file system.e2img which is in tmp folder to the device's internalò storage, it says me that I can't copy it because the parameter is not correct :mad:

what's wrong ??

I tryed also to copy it individually (extract from the tar.gz archive)

thanks to all who will reply
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] getabc:
try to copy it with ActiveSync Explorer
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] richs1992:
thanks very much,

with active sync I can do it

bye
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saudoo:
Diam100 with a "kinda" stock 3 Rom.. We're both from denmark. Bought it last summer. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
The kernel isn't that stable yet, once in a while my keys don't get detected right!

Try running Android a couple of times, and check if it's a permanent or random error as i suspect!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saudoo:
Arh! That did it. It is, however, wierd that I never once was able to use the buttons before. Must have been due to old releases, unstable kernels etc. etc.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] AskTheAdmiN:
I just heard about this thread!

I would love to have Android running on my Fuze. I just found this thread and would love to help out anyway I can. Where are we @? What are the main issues?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] NoBody20013:
you are here to read - not to lead.... :eek:

oh... have you seen the first post on the first page? i heard there might be one or two links which can tell you the status.... might be...heard from a friend...but nobody else asked this question before... so... sorry :confused:

:cool:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saudoo:
AskTheAdmin... There's a wiki page that states the current progress:

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=RaphaelLinux

Alongside with that, you can visit the IRC channel. And I bet they got a SVN setup aswell... :P But I have no idea really!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Soaa-:
Ah hah! I found the mtype for the DIAM500. It's 2040. Problem now though, is that under this mtype, the internal storage doesn't fire up, so the images don't get mounted.

= Android fails to start.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Srem:
i got a diam300, is this the same as diam100?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] meinereiner:
TV out and Android?

Hello,

does anybody know if there is any support for the TV out function of HTC Touch Pro (Raphael)???

Its a good way for demonstration but before I buy such a cable I'd like to know if that would work with android running?

Has anybody tested it already?

Hope that someone can help me!

meinereiner
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Herbalisation:
android is not a permanent install at this point in time. when you close android windows mobile is there waiting for you. so you can fiddle around with what theyve done for android, and use the tv-out via windows mobile.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] meinereiner:
Thanks for the fast replay.

The point I don't know is what happens if you start Android.

For example: If there is a incomming call there is no pop up for windows (or am I wrong) if Android is running. That's why I think there is no actions made by Windows. And that why I'm not sure if I can use the TV out to show the Android view even if I started TV output before starting Android.

Or am I wrong?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
This is how it works:

When you launch haret and run it, it shuts down Windows Mobile completely before booting into a Linux environment and then starts up Android. This means that Windows Mobile isnt running in the background at all.

Regarding wether or not the TV output will work in Android, all I can really say is that it wont work as of yet. I would reckon you would need to write a Android app for that. To be honest though, its not really high priority getting TV-OUT working :)

Hope that cleared things up!

Kind Regards
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
In other news, I've put together a second .apk pack for those who want some more goodies to fiddle around with in Android!

Check it out here
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] RachelRosen:
Hi,

I'd like to run this thing with an "original" Qualcomm 7200A development device currently running WinMob.

I suppose that this device is quite close to the Diamond (and it has a VGA screen...).

Where can I start ?

If I try to start the "package" as is, is starts to boot and hangs in :

console handover: boot [htc_fb-1] ->real [tty0]

While the script file contains:

set mtype 2039

set kernel zImage

set initrd root.cpiogz

set ramsize 0x6000000

set ramaddr 0x10000000

set cmdline "root=/dev/ram0 init=/init console=tty0 mem=76M msmsdcc_id=3 imgdevname=/dev/mmcblk0p1 imgdevnum=1 imgdir=/tmp msmts_calib=0x81.0x393.0x358.0x7D msmvkeyb_toggle=hide"

boot

Thanks !

RR
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
You can start by telling which device u a using!?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Marcellus_pnz:
He said, that his device is "Qualcomm 7200A development device" with installed Windows Mobile.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
I have never hear about Qualcomm making mobiles, i though the only was making chips for mobiles and stuff.

Maybe you can link me the phone?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] TaC:
A development device IS NOT a mobile phone.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] jdegroot:
True enough. Speaking of that, though, what is your highest priority right now, untouab1e? What are you currently working on? Audio routing? I'm just wondering what brilliance to look forward to next!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neilson:
And just how do you know? He might be able to make/recieve calls with no issues.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] TaC:
You understood me. It's a senseless discussion.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] RachelRosen:
Do you know if there is somewhere some kind of tuto explaining how to start working with Haret to get from a "new" device the information needed to parameter Haret as a bootloader to try to use the Android pack ?

Thanks !
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
The Android porting project has been a bit slow recently. After some analysis I have narrowed down one of the key reasons for this being the fact that its been hard for new developers to join the project as documentation on current progress is lacking.

Therefore, after some discussion with others, a development section has been set up over at htc-android.com.

Its important to stress that the reason for creating the section is due to the fact that the topic over at XDA is flooded with unncessary posts and we dont have any other place that really discusses the matter.. The porting of Android to the HTC Diamond and Raphael is something that is difficult to fully coordinate in one forum topic. Therefore, in order for it to work this time, I hope that people can keep posting in the proper forums and not spam the development forums with questions such as "Does it work yet?" "When will it work?", etc..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saudoo:
What about locking normal users out of the forum, only being able to view the topics? I mean... If somebody wants to help out with the development, he/she probably already made contact to you guys. And by doing so you know what user to add permission to write in the forum.

But I'm glad that you're able to eliminate this Achilles heal, without much of a pain. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
There should be no need to lock anyone out of anything. Everyone who wants to contribute should be more than welcomed to do so :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Spike1506:
As soon as 3G works I would love to test it! Is there something normal users can do to help you guys?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] jaymit:
Yeap I would love to help if theres any testing, etc that needs to be done? :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] patp:
Hi RR,

Do you have any documentation for the dev device? One of the problems in getting Android sound working is lack of knowledge about the ARM9 core. Maybe you have something useful?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] wildta:
If I eventually wanted to put Android on my HTC, which phone do you think would be better? Raphael or Diamond? Or are they so similar that it doesn't matter?

Just curious because I'm thinking about updating my Vogue to one of those. I've been trying to gauge the development-side of both phones and am having a hard time judging.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] jamesd256:
The answer to the first question is the same whatever operating system you have, the diamond is a slimmer Raphael without a keyboard and slightly different memory / storage. Your choice is based on hardware alone, not the OS.

The development is the same on both - it doesn't work, as mentioned in the title.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] wildta:
Thank you!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Android runs much better on the Vogue than on the Raphael or Diamond :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Spike1506:
But is there something we as normal users can do? :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] defsquad:
Installation issues on a DIAM110

So i've searched, and read this forum and the forum on htc-android, and also hit up the irc channel on freenode to get help with this.

The general consensus is that my Diamond (DIAM110) for some reason has the internal storage formatted as an extended/logical partition instead of a primary partition. I'm told that's what the errors mean as seen in the snapshot i took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smesser/3408587152/

So, per my post here: http://htc-android.com/viewtopic.php?p=1214#p1214, I've tried reformatting the internal storage to be a primary partition (windows xp's computer management shows that it is a primary partition, however, diskpart nor with EASEUS Partition Tool Home Edition would see the internal storage to let me partition it with those tools, for some reason it doesn't see a removable disk as a partition that can be set as primary or what not.

I'm using the latest build 02-22-09 and 02-22-09-ALTERNATE from Edvard's Connect-UTB site.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

-def
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] AdamHC:
The best thing we can probably do as normal users is just not make any posts which don't contribute to the Android project. Theres nothing I can see that a normal user would be able to do to actually help. But if we don't post it makes it easier for the developers to find the things they are looking for and not clog up the thread ;)

...And now I've posted :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mak213:
ok bill nye the science guy i think liek 2,000 ppl before u have posted the same thing we know this alrdy if you were watching the forum 24/7, the ammount of ppl replying have decreased dramaticly we are all just awaiting a newer build to make us happy campers :) until then we wait

btw wat ever happen to the daily builds heh ;p
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Please dont stop being active :) Feel free to check out htc-android.com forums and check up on the development, or the get android running forums, or keep this topic alive. Posting questions or problems that has been answered a gazillion times before on the other hand... I think we can do without those :)

People's interest and moral support is important!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Heh, I will let Balsat answer for the daily builds, but I can hardly see the point of building identical builds every day.. hah!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mak213:
eh ya ur correct but weeklys would be nice
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] apazul:
Hi:

Who know how is the status of this developent ??

I don't see anything concrete.

Thank for all.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Untouchab1e:
Oh my.. Please, read the first post in this thread and check out the wiki..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
I make a build daily, but atm there is errors on the images so there is no point releasing it!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Dav0:
Hey, I'll run linux soon al my FUZE from SD maybe...

...U can try: http://distrowatch.com/

I have some images, but haven't tired jet...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Dav0:
...actually, I'm running UBUNTU on my laptop.

And, have searched a lot on linux, except to use ADROID on a Raphael. I think I have a new assingment. Let's get started!

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mobile/releases/hardy/
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
What about Debian? u can find some Debian stuff on my site!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Dav0:
Well, i'm downloading an image...

...to explore more with linux on the RAPHAEL...

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mobile/releases/hardy/

...i hope this work on the device, I'm going to use an USB image to boot...

...UBUNTU Linux is 10^6 faster than Windows XP, and more useful. Has more freewares and the system runs leaner. I have more than a year with a partition on my hard drive with UBUNTU, and I can tell you it's far away too much better than Windows...

I hope to help you, I have to wait another 45 minute of downloading... :D

Well, let's see your site, is quite interesting since UBUNTU is debian based!!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kimbrojw2:
how do you put your phone info into android so i can start texting?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Unimaginative:
Can those images be booted with Haret? The two builds present are for Intel processors, not ARM.

I always thought Ubuntu MID Ed was intended for netbooks and the like, not PPCs.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Verbato:
Yes, you are right. These are meant for i386 cpus. Like my UX280P :D

I'm still waiting for a working linux-kernel (& image) for my Raph though.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] parth6512:
is the rapahel version going to be out soon? this windows is driving me nuts...anyother oher linux version that has phone featues enables?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Android is up and running again :) Check it out!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] sibbor:
Any chance on getting changelog included for the daily builds? That would be frickin' awesome!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
The latest changes on Android can be found here
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] parth6512:
Is it possible to extract those files from windows platform?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] duuri:
hi tried last version but won't work hangs by android screen :(

i copied all files from android-images.tar to tmp folder on sd card and renamed default.txt_raphael to default.txt.. i have really bad day today:eek:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Yes winzip and winrar can extract the files.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Try a couple of times, there is still some issues with the kernel, sometimes it hangs doing boot.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saudoo:
I can confirm the hanging at the boot logo... It is however a fine logo...

I hangs.. blinks.. and hangs some more.. I have tried it three times now.. and I did do a soft reset after I had transfered the files to my phone.. But nevermind.. It'll probably be fixed in a new build, sometime in the future.

Edit: With ActiveSync on and off... with the cable plugged in and without it plugged in... I'm trying build 06-04-09 in a sec. I will be letting you guys know if it's any good, getting past the boot logo.

Edit2: Yeah that worked a lot better. I kinda missed the new logo though. I'm glad that you have implemented a battery status reader, or what ever it's called. You know.. That little thing by the Network status that tells how much power you got left on your cellular. A little thing that troubled me though, was that it looked like the battery was getting drained very quickly. I believe it looked like the battery status reader thingy was loosing bars rapidly... But I might just as well have seen the first bar dissapearing and then imagined the rest! :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] balsat:
Try to use this root.cpiogz insteed of the on in android-images.tar.gz
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] c4software:
Lastest build, 07-04-09, and your root.cpiogz. same its Hang on the Android Logo. Its seems not really hang, its look inifinite loop.

PS: It works with the 06-04-09 version
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Willis111:
I have a diamond 500. It's a telus cdma touch diamond. The partitions on it are somewhat different than what appears to be on the cdma sprint and gsm versions of the phone. Atm all my data exists in an extended partition inside a primary partition sdd0/5 mmcblk0p5?. I haven't seemed to find a way to set up the default.txt to be able to auto mount the sd card but I was talking to lavender.t about it and

This allowed me to mount my sd card no problem and then manually mount the images although atm it seems that I'm not able to use the on screen keyboard in the android image on my phone, there is no input in the command prompt when I try and type it and I'm too lazy to reboot to *nix just to test out some android image that doesn't even work on my phone.

Should work for mounting all sd cards on all versions of diamonds. I have seen 1 or 2 people saying they were having the same trouble as I. Not sure if you would want this on the wiki, it's good for testers but I'm sure there's a *nix manpage for it as lavender.t might have just directed me to if he weren't such a nice guy.

Edit:

As far as my sd card, I recently upgraded to windows 7 and I can't repartition the mmc w/windows 7, I think vista was letting me but it isn't really important. I used parted/gparted and removed all partitions from the card and then rebooted the phone letting the phone partition and format the card and it comes back as mmcblk0p5 every time. I've tried using gparted to remove the partition replacing it w/1 primary partition that would contain all my data making it the "default" mmcblk0 but the card isn't detected at all in winmo and is also not being passed along to windows 7 when I plug the phone into my computer when the card is partitioned as such. I can recreate the same structure using gparted and have winmo/win7 recognize it.