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[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Here is the latest version which fixes a few issues in the initial release.

http://rapidshare.de/files/40717876/linwizard-excalibur.zip.html

What is working:

All keys except for directional arrows

X11

USB networking via gadget driver

SD cards

Attached is a zip file with the kernel image, an initrd, and haret to boot it.

login is root with blank pass and type "startx" to bring up the GUI

Special key mappings:

hangup- esc

tzones- alt

mail - ctrl

sym - shift
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
You don't replace it or flash it, droid goes on storage card

Read the thread and it'll tell you how...
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
The replacement version hasn't come out yet and you cannot install Android on the root of your phone. You will have to wait ;)
[HTC Excalibur] greenpoise:
Is there a page for this project aside from the forum? I recently got an HTC so I am new to this but this is perfect! Great initiative and work! I have tried to read all the threads so bare with me with this question, how far is this project? and where is Android distributed? What kind of contributions (programming and no programming) can be made and where?

Thanks!

Dan
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
i cant post a screen because i got no capturing device to do so.

But i still dont understand why its not starting up
[HTC Excalibur] :
No what I meant by screenshot was by using your camera and then taking a picture. Not by ActiveSync.
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
i understood what you meant but i actually dont have a camera but the screens that i get are blueish purple :( <---like the color of the frowning thing
[HTC Excalibur] Auzern:
Everything is here - http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wing-linux/wiki ;)

Does it say anything? Like an option to enter some value or some progress text?
[HTC Excalibur] Kingissa:
No it does not ask me or tell me anything
[HTC Excalibur] Vonrottes:
sorry for not looking through all the pages but whats the news on this one, or is it the same as wing linux 4.2?

Really would like to see a linux/droid port that is 100% and boot-able.
[HTC Excalibur] Dpat09:
Help

my phone keeps on saying when opening the defult.txt script. "error , Please set start of ram (RAMADDR):confused:
[HTC Excalibur] 80x86:
do we have another way to boot linux from C720W except haret
[HTC Excalibur] corolla90:
this project dead? i would love android on my dash lol
[HTC Excalibur] llazzaro:
hello! I am computer science student, I will like more technical information about this phone.

I tried android, is a little slow and also the battery is eaten when I run android.

I will really like more information about integrated circuits, etc.

thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] htc s620:
can some one put screen shoots???
[HTC Excalibur] C0dy:
What's there to take screenshots of? It's a stock Cupcake build. Also, the screenshot apps I've tried won't install, and you can't access ADB with this.
[HTC Excalibur] mtyspider:
Hope the project is not dead and people are still trying to work the magic
[HTC Excalibur] nmihailov:
I think that the project is dead ;(
[HTC Excalibur] veveve:
The project is die, doesn't it?

:((((((((((((((((((((((((((
[HTC Excalibur] orion3k:
Hm, Wing Linux seems be very ok. I tried Linux from first post in this thread and phone just freeze every time i tried to start Android, but i downloaded this:

Wing Linux 0.4.2

sourceforge.net/projects/wing-linux/files/Wing%20Linux/0.4.2/wing-linux-0.4.2.zip/download

Main page of project:

wing-linux.sourceforge.net/trac/

Still problem with drivers, but it works... smooth! Applications doesn't work at all, but file explorer opened my 8Gb MicroSD card. Also in settings I can find that I'm connected to my mobile operator. And if my friend call me, I'm given error "blah blah.phone couldn't start", so cellphone have really connection. WiFi and BT of course are dead, but i think that every is on good way...

Wait! I Forgot. Screen is ideal matched.

regards,

orion3k

*PS sorry for the links but I'm new user and can't publish URLs.
[HTC Excalibur] tamtang79:
The project is die, doesn't it?
[HTC Excalibur] fwood:
just tryied today.:

wifi = none

sound=none

but it seems fast, i dont know if cpu runned in overclock mode by omapclock (@252 mhz) or if was @ standard clock....however android runned well on sd card! hope it will be in further develope! it's pretty nice :D
[HTC Excalibur] JohanXDash:
this looks very promising.

any progress so far?
[HTC Excalibur] crz6662:
And here I thought my S620 was dead. Would be interesting to see Android on it but I would think it would be extremely slow. My old G1 was painfully slow at 528mhz compared to my overclocked Moto Defy (1000mhz) & overclocked TMO SGS2 (1.89mhz). I can't imagine what it would be like on the Dash.
[HTC Excalibur] B@je:
i remember about this a while back with cupcake on the Dash. i remember you had to partition the sdcard and use the haret bootloader, through some fiddling i got the cell radio to work but i stopped there.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Well done sir...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Yes starwarrior is doing awesome, we have keyboard support in x now which is great.

We need to get the arrow keys working next to be able to navigate the gui now, starwarior successfuly mapped the dpad but unfortunately mapping it(or any key including the omap keypad qwerty keys) the the keyboard arrows doesnt work, this is a major bug and needs to be sorted before the gui is usable.
[HTC Excalibur] jdhelstrom:
so how long does this take to boot? i got the terminal screen, something about tabs, something about the kernel, then a bunch of white lines like television static on a black screen, then my screen just fades to white, and its been sitting like that for a while now. Didnt get a login or anything.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Did you try to restart your phone?
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
woo hooo.. can has android? i'm getting tired of windows mobile.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
You might have to try a few times, make sure your doing it right after a soft reset and tou dont have anything running.
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
wow this is really developing into something...ran this on the dash and was successfully able to load it along with the gui.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Yah it is, this project is going the right direction :)
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
You were able to navigate in the gui?

Thanks for the support guys, lately starwarrior has been doing all the work, so kudos to him!
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
no i was not able to navigate in the gui...but the enter key and the center button on D-Pad and the end call button worked in the gui. sry about the confusion.
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
this just makes my phone freeze... i run haret and it takes a poop.

got it to boot... goes through its little "hi i'm linux" thing then takes a poop on a black screen.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Did you follow the step a soft-reset no running programs?
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Kinda of funny how people do not follow instructions lol... They just try things without following instructions...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Ya those type of people wont really have any use for this type of project anyways, so its really a good thing :)
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
No Problem, sorry for double post, as I cant figure out how to double quote in opera stil.

But ya, navigation in the gui is still hard, untill we figure out why we cant map the keyboard arrows to anything. but with the new keymap the cli interface is very usable. Starwarrior is also planning on editing the userspace image (initrd) to add a keyboard shortcut to launch an xterm window inside of matchbox (the gui). I have been experimenting with commands like startx & sleep 30 && xterm but it doesnt work, im pretty sure i need to define the display like startx & sleep 30 && DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm im sure this would work, but we have no : mapped lol. so we will have to wait till starwarrior uploads the new userspace with the shortcut.
[HTC Excalibur] kraze10458:
ill be all over this linux thing when your done with it windows is so slow

keep it UP!
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Minor update here:

Just replace the previous INITRD file with this one.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/clkbzf

What is changed / fixed?

switch tasks in matchbox with alt+p alt+n

open an xterm in matchbox with alt+x

esc (call end) to close a task

Still trying to figure out the directional keys and why control does not work as expected.
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
sure did. no dice.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Nice thanks for this I will check this out and see the changes...
[HTC Excalibur] ptheabstract:
do we have a sourceforge page yet?
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
I havent had time, and no access to a comp yet, since im still visiting family. I really could use some more people to help with the project. if your interested please email me or pm me. Gentoon@gmail.com
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
hey i dont have my actual comp. but i am willing to help...i can offer help with a website...dont know too much programming to help out with the port of linux...i can test the software with every tweak cuz i am on a comp all the time...so let me know however i can help.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Okay were getting closer to an official project so I was stuck between Excalinux or yaok (yet another omap kernel) for a name, what do you guys think?
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
What about TuxDash? Just throwing in an idea :)
[HTC Excalibur] jamesmartinez:
If all goes well and gets approved, it should be up on SourceForge in about 3 days.

I'll start the kernel work here in a few minutes; my dive into a pool of jello.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Good idea but I'd like to stay away from the carriers name for the device.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Then back to your idea ExcaliTux :)
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
I like that.

UPDATE: this is unofficial but starwarior is messing around with android stuff, he already has a our kernel working with the android patches and is working on he userspace. So we might be moving away from the linwizard userspace... this is a big if since there is alot of things we need to make work.
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
ExcaliTux does sound good.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
oh right on haha thats what I am talking about ANDROID all the way...
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
wahhhhhh hooooo.. make sure there's donation box. I'm dying to have android on my phone. i feel like i'll be happy to keep this dash till the next generation of android phones comes out... that g1 keyboard SUCKS.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Well yesterday starwarrior made some progress with the android userspace, he actually got the gui to load, had a look into the home screen and the dpad even worked.. but he ran into a problem with the hw clock resetting itself to 1970, which caused everything to freak out and freeze, so he is getting this problem resolved. Does look good so far though, looks like this will be our new userspace, even when we get this working we still need to find someone to write all the gsm drivers for any of the phone functions like calls, gprs, mms, and texting to work, we also will need a working sound driver. So there is still much work to be done. But we are moving along nicely!

Also I am not sure if I will be online for a month or so since my only way online right now is my dash, and i need to come up with the 85 dollars for my bill, hipefully I can find some way to come up with the funds soon.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh sounds good that he is making progress... well if you guys need any help let me know I will be more then willing to help out... :)

And I am sorry to hear about your bill... I know its tough having to pay all that every single month...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Ya normally its no problem, but I lost my job.
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
i can feel you on that one. jobless for a year now and peckin along with the unlimited phone plan.
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Big news today!

They say images are worth a thousand words, so there are two to go with this post.

You can play with Android too! Here's how:

Download and extract this zip file to the root of your sd card-

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tdxhgv

once extracted, run haret-0.5.2.exe and then select "run"

You will see some white fuzz on your screen and eventually some yellow console text, if you just get a black screen, remove your battery and try again.

Once instructed type "/init1" at the console to start Android.

/ is mapped to "," on the keyboard

1 is generated by pressing alt+q

***Android will take a while to start the first time, please be patient and don't press anything***

D-pad works in Android, use the back key to move return to the home screen.
[HTC Excalibur] faus_zayas1:
holy crap

star warrior you are a mad genius ha....
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
how long dose it take to boot android?

is it nomal that it says android init cannot find '/system/bin/sh', disabling 'console'
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
im guessing this wont mess with wm on the dash since its booting from the sd right?
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Correct, after removing your battery and powering back up you boot back into windows mobile.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
No it wont change anything in wm.

Ricky the images arent being mounted it appears. same is happening for me. Starwarrior is looking into it though.
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
I'll third those problems ricky is having.
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
iv just been talking to him on msn

hi says

ah yes, i see now no journal found

it means the system.img file is basically corrupt somehow
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Fixed here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tdxhgv
[HTC Excalibur] coquipr:
asome thing u did here starwarrior, im just installing to my sd card in dash to try it out. thanks
[HTC Excalibur] the3dman:
Thankyou!!!!

This is an awesome project. I wish I could help more, but I am just a dumb moocher lol. So thank you to all the smart programmers who make stuff for the people out there like me.
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
Amazing work starwarrior, it loaded up perfectly for me and now im just messing around with it.

Im curious though, how far can you go with this on the excalibur? I haven't looked to deep in to andriod but i thought it was built mainly for touchscreen.

Anyways love the work so far, keep us updated on the progress.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Actually there is a demo video from a Google developer using a non-touchscreen phone.
[HTC Excalibur] pfunkside:
mad kudos on everyone who is/has worked on this.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
How long should I have to wait on the white fuzz screen and do i need anything other than the contents of starwarrior's zip file
[HTC Excalibur] CacoPelao:
X2

love this project, and the best part is that we can try it with no installation needed... :D
[HTC Excalibur] the3dman:
Great Work

Mine only took about 10 secs to load to the prompt.

No You do not need anything other than the zip.

I have tried this and have confirmed to be working great so far. Thankyou so much, and I hope this project gets finished so we can all give MS the boot.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
I have run it twice and still have not seen the prompt to type the init command. The first time it stayed on the black screen with what looks like illegible writing the second time it faded to a white screen and has been sitting there for like 5 min. I am going to try pulling the batery again.
[HTC Excalibur] coquipr:
when hit /init1 system said cannot find system bin disabiling. any idea?
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Everything thats needed is in the file, shoud only be a few seconds on the corrupted screen, then you should see yellow text... might need to try a few times, helps to have at least 20mb of ram free before you start haret.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Use the second link starwarrior posted and make sure the two .img files are in your storage card root
[HTC Excalibur] coquipr:
use second link to download and all files are in sd card but still no luck when loading. still said cant find disabiling.i will keep trying
[HTC Excalibur] coquipr:
got it to work. had a folder inside sd named android with the stuff in it had to move it out and worked now. looks beautiful. thanks for d help bro.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
This is amazing man, good work on this... big props for sure...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Thats what putting the files in the "root" of the sd card means...

I cant boot after the first succesful boot, init is trying to mount everything when it is already mounted... Everything is in fact mounted where it should be as well... This is weird.

Anyone been able to boot it more than once?
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Ummm I have had the same problem... this is weird...
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Okay well at least we know its not an isolated problem, and this is why we are testing. We will have yo wait till starwarrior comes on tomorrow as he is sleeping now. I know he is able to boot more than once so im sure he can figure it out.
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
thanks looks good but

things id like to be working to :-

1 wifi

2 gprs

3 sdcard

4 simcard

5 sound

6 battary

7 bluetooth
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
woo hoo...

step 1. get android to work.

step 2.

step 3. PROFIT!

good work brotha.. good work.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Am I the only one to try this that hasn't got it to work. I either get stuck on the black screen with what looks like illegible text that starts out in one pattern then some of the "text" dissappears and then it just hangs there or that screen fades to a kinda white/grey looking screen and then just hangs there.

Is no one else experiencing this. I even tried doing a hard reset prior running it and had like 23mb of RAM and still no dice. Do I need a certain amount of free space on my SD Card?

P.S. Is there anything I can add to the default.txt to have it dump a log of the errors or somthing?
[HTC Excalibur] mjpuczko:
i did everything as stated above (new download files, on root of storage card) and when i run the .exe, i get the 'text' then a black screen that just sits there. i've reset my device & tried running again with no luck. it's been at the black screen for about 2 minutes now.

i closed activesyn & freed up RAM, that helped. looks like it's booting android now!

booted fine! i really hope this gets working for the dash. i have some basic network/programming knowledge if help is needed. i would love to beta test this too.
[HTC Excalibur] mossimo53:
worked great! had some problems in the beginning but that was cuz of my own stupidity....i cant read early in the morning...anyways starwarrior...amazing work and anyone else who was included in the development of this.
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
just got a chance to actually play with this..

very cool.. booted fine as long as i didn't **** with it while it was doing it's thing.. totally looking forward to more progress.

man is this not optimized for our screen size.

seems like we could make it take advantage of a higher dpi
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Yah thats true... dang this is awesome... everyone is hopping on this new android thing haha... hopefully we can get everything working... cause if we get calls working, sms working, data connection working, bluetooth, etc... then we are on a roll...
[HTC Excalibur] mjpuczko:
yeah, it'd be sweet to start making calls, etc!

i like the looks of it a lot. and for running off the sd card, it seemed quite responsive.
[HTC Excalibur] gbriden:
Downloaded Fine

Unzipped to dektop and copied to phone memory card root directory fine.

loaded EXE file and ran INIT command loaded about half way and stopped.

unplugged USB cable retried and I was running ANDROID in about 2 mins the boot time a bit slow but once in it was VERY stable.

REALLY needs some sort of Exit or something removing batt sort of a pain but really it's BETA and looks good now it will be cool to watch as each feature is activated.

THANKS everyone looking forward to the day I can switch away from windows not that it's bad just want NEW....
[HTC Excalibur] paxton:
This has made my day. Thanks to all parties involved, looking forward to watching development continue.

I knew there was a reason why I didn't toss my dash on ebay!
[HTC Excalibur] mjpuczko:
yeah. someone at work asked why i wanted to do this. um, because i can & it's new and awesome.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
lmao wouldnt we all. this was just a test to see if we could use the android userspace, writing drivers for all the gsm stuff to work in linux is very difficult and will take a lot of work.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
If you guys need some help with this let me know okay :)
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
We could use someones help right now with the gsm stuff, so if anyone here knows about ril, tty, etc... please feel free to get ahold of starwarrior or myself. Right now we can only send basic AT comands to the modem.
[HTC Excalibur] chucuflu:
can someone upload the files to gigazize or zshare cause cant download from Sendspace!!.. plz plz plz!!! thanks in advance!!
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Truly I can't wait till we can actually get this android thing as an OS on the dash... That would be amazing...
[HTC Excalibur] Kasona:
Okay, I just tried this out and it looks awesome so far!!! I'm really excited about this and will be watching to see how it develops.

The first time I booted it, it worked great! I played around with the interface, used the terminal a bit, etc. I then rebooted back into WM (pulled battery, started up) and tried to boot back into Android but got the same issue as above, see the first initialization msg, garbage flash on screen, then blank screen.....and nothing else happens.
[HTC Excalibur] Kasona:
Well, so after rebooting again, I tried again and booting Android worked again! so, not sure what was up the second time I tried, but after another reboot, it's working
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
Like me and starwarrior have posted here numerous times, black screen will happen usually 1 out of 10 boots or so, you just have to pull the battery and try again.
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
works perfectly for me.. every time.. waiting patiently for the next update.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
I have been trying all day and still have never had it work. I get the black screen like 8 out of 10 times and the other times it hangs at like a white/turing gray screen that looks like it is trying to work but nothing ever happens.
[HTC Excalibur] BruteSource:
that means your img's ar not in the root of the memory card most lkely (when you get the white screen after init) this means not in a folder, just placed on the memory card
[HTC Excalibur] rejon:
New links for sources?

Could someone post a link to the sources for running this android homebrew on the dash/excalibur please? I'm in china and links to the sendshare/rapidshare don't work...gulp...

Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
They are on the root of my Card. I don't know why it won't run for me. I have removed the files and placed them back. I have even done a hard reset and tried running it before restoring my backup and still no dice.
[HTC Excalibur] mactron:
Is it normal that the image isn't really clear it's like moving all the time?
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
try this move the hole excalibur-android.zip to your phone frist then extract it there

hope this helps
[HTC Excalibur] mrnagrom:
is this compiled off the recently released source?
[HTC Excalibur] starrwarrior:
Yes, the Android stuff is compiled from the recent code release from Google.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Oh right on thats cool...
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Sorry still no go, thanks for the tip though. By the way I am using v.5 of your ROM. I wonder if there is anything in that version that is preventing ot from working.
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Now I even placed my SD Card in my friend's Excalibur and it launched Android but it will not work on my phone. Could it be a matter of the hardware. I know mine is one of the ones made in Taiwan.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Are you sure you are putting the android program in the root of the SD card...
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Yes, As I said earlier. I put my SD card into a friend's Excalibur and it ran on his but not on mine. From my SD Card!!

His phone happens to be one that was made in China vs. mine that was made in Taiwan. Maybe there is a hardware difference?