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[Touch Cruise Android Development] whitealien:
I don't know, but it does not work with default img file in bundle pack. I just tested it. You still need to use modem to get connection, but you can also setup APN in settings then you will have 3G icon in taskbar, which actually shows data activity its not just dead icon, which is strange.

Connection without modem works only with mssmisonsystem.img image file. Dunno why? :confused: Can it be that I started haret with active data connection? Hmmm... but then it would not explain why it does not work on another image files.

Another thing is that connection to google account with mssmisonsystem.img image does not work. When I used default image everything was working fine, was able to get into google acc.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] :
Could we be seing the HTC Sense UI on future android builds for non-android devices? That would be awesome :-)

Thanks in advance
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
For any of you guys that can't access paid apps on market because of where you live, can you try installing this app and see if it does helps? It probably won't, but I just tried it and it seems to be stuck on a "doing stuff" screen.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
If you look closely at the startup scripts you will see fsckdsk... which is running a disk check on the sd card.. the .rec files are like the .chk files in windows... probably from a forced reboot or power off or something.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thanks man.. deleted them safely enough.. I cant remember a forced reboot, but there you go.. anything can happen in a day.. :)

No-one came back to me about rebooting android, is this at all possible? rebooting android without rebooting the device?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
What do you get when you try to download paid apps briggs?

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Just to reiterate, anyone having data/calls or any connection issues, try 1.59.44.02 radio - I've tested a few and this one is the most reliable for me. Fixed my outgoing/incoming calls and no data issues.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Just tried a test purchase and it goes all the way to the google checkout screen, so I guess its working. I've got pretty much everything thats meant to be working, working.. so happy days here.

I would say at this point, if you're pulling your head out to make it work, my default.txt is the one in my signature and I'm using Rukako's lightning fast Deadlink V2 rom with a 1.59.44.02.

If all fails, try this set up and let me know if it fixes the issues. :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I am in Canada so by default I can't access paid apps.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] freddycs:
Android version

I have few questions.... 1st is regarding the Android version. I am using 2 micro SD card for testing. 1 is loaded with system.img from mssmisonsystem.img, and another card is using system-nkhero-2009-07-24.img.

If I go to the setting page and inside about phone, i find that the one with mssmisonsystem.img is indicating model number as Google ION, firmware version 1.5 and for another version the model number is htc dream (i couldn't remember which system.img....)

so far i have no problem using ADB with mssmission version but not for htc dream version, as no device is detected when i plug in the usb to my pc. and google maps is not working properly as when i select locate my location, it just navigate to other place..... and i'm not able to download any application in android market, it just shows it is downloading. I can browse the internet and to sync to my google account.

and...does anyone know is there any application that capture screenshot in Android?

edit: with the latest mssmisonsystem.img (dated 26-Jul-09), the android version is htc_dream version. I'm still not able to get adb connection to work with this version. However, the graphic is fantastic, i manage to get 18.0fps in neocore!!!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
Have you try the apps market enabler?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Michel82:
I'm trying to gain some android application development skills and am busy to create some simple applications that solves some of the issues people are having over here (like reboot and screen rotation). My first tries haven't been very successful yet.

I did find an application in the market though that claims to be able to reboot your phone into different stages (i.e. recovery, bootloader or normal). It doesn't seem to work on my POLA100 but maybe it'll work for you. Its called quick boot.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kulen:
It seems to me that vilord is preparing something mean :-)

It's been a few days since he announced that his polaris has come and not a sound from him since then.

I would say he's preparing some big entry.... hopefully :-)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Battery life seems to have improved in the new builds, I managed to get almost a full day out of mine yesterday - had background sync turned off though which is defeating the object a bit
[Touch Cruise Android Development] freddycs:
Latest mssmisonsystem.img dated 26-Jul-09

here's the highest score i ever get in neocore.... 18.0fps
[Touch Cruise Android Development] 188236:
battery

Three things:

1

Thats my experience also. When background sync is turned on, I can use my Polaris as a hand-warmer in winter :-)

When background sync is turned off, the battery is lasting quite a while...

2

Something else: Slowly the test-versions are coming to a point where you can really work with them. (When I rember my first experience with Android I can rember that I was glad when Android was booting and it was possible to make a call...) Thank you to all the developers which put a lot of work into that!!

Because everthing is running quite smooth: Are there any plans to built a Android-ROM-File for permanent (no WinMO) use?

3

In the footnotes of the bally3-posting I learned that the data.img is no loger necessary for ION-builds:

Do I have to backup system.img then? And can I delete the data.img? And whats about Hero-Builds?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
@188236 About Hero rom, on G1 they already are slow for the moment and we must play with swap on SD card so i think it's not for our Polaris right now
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Leryan:
new files are available

But what should i do with libhtcgeneric-ril.so file? :confused:
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
/sdcard/initrdupdates/lib/libhtcgeneric-ril.so on your sd card I think. Not sure if /sdcard/ is necessary.

And I think this file has something to do with making/receiving calls.. so not sure if you will be able to tell a difference.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Posted by dzo:
[Touch Cruise Android Development] mikfaina:
Hi I'm back sorry a lot of work,

Well I downloaded last bundle and copied all the content into an empty sd card but I can't make Android to start. When I started Haret I get a freezed phone in the screen HARET: booting Linux.

Anyone have this problem, this is imputable to the cocked rom I istalled (3LIT) maybe the HARDSPL?? no matter which versione of zImage it freeze
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Try Rukako's rom and 1.59.44.02 radio and a fresh android install on a formatted card.

and please post these requests in the Bug Testing and Reporting Thread.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Just to test the difference with background sync on and off, I started Android with a fully charged battery this morning at 8.30am with background sync on. Didnt make or receive any calls, just email notifications and a sms received.

By about 1230pm the phone shut down whilst I was reading my emails.

Roughly four hours light use (see above) with background sync on and almost 10 hours with moderate use (received emails, made two calls and sent/received a few texts). with it off. I'd say it may even have stretched to 12 hours with the same light use.

I wonder whether the background sync could be modified to make it less intensive, it does seem like the cpu is doing quite a lot even when the screen is off, as the user earlier mentioned you can almost use the phone as a hand warmer with b/g sync on.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] dzo:
This ril only fixes stuff that was broken on vogue, your sms should be working fine.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] freddycs:
not able to make outgoing call

hi briggs81, i guess i'm joining you now as i have just switch to another mobile carrier, where now i'm not able to make outgoing calls... so i guess it has nothing to do with our phone setting... it is because of the carrier....
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
Well, that's not good lol.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] freddycs:
:( nothing we can do right now....
[Touch Cruise Android Development] iseeka:
i am having upside down screen with most bundles, etc or no start

tried also different roms..

searched on forums with no luck

can anybody help?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] radem205:
Check if your mtype is set to 1723 (in default.txt).
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
Just a little information : The donation thread is always open HERE, and DZO ( the man who port android for non android HTC phone for the first time ) would be happy to receive a Device to help us port camera and improve battery management.

So if you want to help us you can give a little donation.

Thanks to all people who spend time to port Android to our device.

F.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] iseeka:
yes it is

#alloctest 0x2000

set RAMSIZE 0x08000000

set MTYPE 1723

set KERNEL zImage

set initrd initrd.gz

set cmdline "board-htcpolaris.panel_type=0 ppp.apn=wap.cingular ppp.username=none ppp.password=none pm.sleep_mode=1 mddi.width=324 mddi.height=432 no_console_suspend board-htcpolaris-battery.battery_capacity=1350 clock-7x00.mddi=0xa51 mddi_client_vogue.vsync=0"

boot
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I wanted to test something in landscape mode, but quickly realized I didn't know how to force a screen rotation.. so we probably can't do that yet I assume right? Or am I dumb? (Be gentle.. if that's the case).
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
At the begining of the android project long press on the camera button made rotate the screen to landscape mode but we have lost all special key mapping.

ps: the camera button have 2 states short and long press, 2 levels.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Whilst theres a lull here, can some of you gys post some battery stress tests on here please.

I'm looking for full battery tests for the following:

sleep only - no background sync.

sleep only - with background sync.

full use - (used constantly) - no background sync.

full use - (used constantly) - with background sync.

and if you can, all the above with and without modem connection.

Thanks, also take note of any heat issues with the constant use if their are any.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] iseeka:
i am currently with

Radio: 1.59.46.12

Android bundle: android-1.5-2009-07-23.zip

System.img: system-nkhero-2009-07-24.img

zimage: zImage-27-07-09

initdr.gz:initrd-29-07-09.gz

MTYPE 1723

i am UPSIDE DOWN, but just the video, polaris thinks is correct (sorry for my english)

can i try with another mtype value? what else can i do?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
you should stop standing on your head! It will be much more comfortable.

Unfortunately I'm not really sure what might be causing the upside-down video... i can only suggest downloading all the bundles and zImages you can find and step back through them until you find one that shows video right, then we can check what caused the differences.

So far I've only seen right-side-up on the polaris I've got.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kulen:
So, you got Polaris? nice to hear :)

Your signature with delivery expected is a little confusing. I was afraid that something else was in your post and you're still waiting. :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
Whoops! Yeah it arrived on the weekend, and we've been getting acquainted. Tonight I'm continuing my work on two things, first is the key-mapping stuff, second is the GSM radio.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Mormy:
I use my Polaris as my "work phone", so I must wait until saturday to do this test, but I'll try someone ;)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
check the type of polaris you have... it's on the label under the battery... pola100 or pola200... set panel type 1 for pola100 and panel type 3 for pola200... remove the vsync=0 line from your default.txt
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
full use - (used constantly) - no background sync. = 12+ hrs

full use - (used constantly) - with background sync. = 6-7 hrs

Maybe not constantly but mutiple phone calls, gps, and quite a bit of email/checking the forums.

Background sync is definately killing the battery quickly. Mine stays hotter with bg sync on as well.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
Jessie or myself will look at it shortly. Shouldn't be much trouble to add.. just been busy with other stuff.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
1. ditto

2. yes, there are plans but it may be a while before everything is complete.

3. Data.img is created for you... DON'T DELETE IT!... unless you want to lose all your settings. We used to have to download a precreated data.img with the rest of the files... but not anymore. Don't mess with the system.img either.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
a new zImage (zImage-27-07-09) may help with the adb problem. I made some changes to how usb is handled... it's working better for me now. GPS is broken (no sat. icon in the notification area) for me in the latest mssmision img but not in any of the other imgs.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Mormy:
Hi, life02. I have a O2 Orbit II, so a Pola200 (I check under the battery too), but panel type 3 never worked for me. I always obtain a blank screen (really white).

Usually I have type 0.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
type 0 will not get as good power savings as type 1, 2, or 3... but it is possible we'll need to create a new type 4. life02 and I are in the process of getting info from martin about what information will need to be gathered to be able to do this.

On my pola200, it is type 3... but on my vogu100 most verizon folks i have heard are on type 2 and i'm on type 1... so there are always exceptions.

I have posted a new initrd with an updated RIL. I've still got plenty more work to do, but this is preliminary...

it no longer requires you to enter apn information inside android to connect for syncing and so on.

It also will no longer dial itself, so if you disconnect with modem, it will turn off data and you can leave "background sync" turned on and still get the power savings.

but on my phone it seems to be a bit spotty, so if someone could test it out for me in a better service area?

I also think I might have broken MMS by doing this, so it is only a stopgap until I get a more clean solution worked out.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
But if i don't want to be always connect because of my data plan?

You don't read default.txt apn settings anymore?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] radem205:
Thanks for your effort, but when I connect using the modem app I don't see the 3G icon, but internet works. When I start the browser I get the message that loading will keeping on when the connection is established (but internet works). Syncing isn't working I think due to the missing 3G icon (android thinks I haven't a data connection).
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Works fine, disconnected radio and reconnected again fine - thanks :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thats very impressive battery stats life02!

I get that with minimal use :(:(
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
Pressing disconnect on the modem app twice really kills the internet connection... no more data icon in notification area.

I will test today with background sync turned on but turning the modem off when not needed. Google apps are working.... although I lost my data icon after a few connects/disconnects (I am connected now)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] iseeka:
thanks for your effort, i have a pola100, but changes didnt helped.. still upside down
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
glad the connection stuff is working for a few people... its actually not working at all for me now :)

I'm going to go a different direction tonight... have android do most of the connecting and disconnecting, and have the modem scripts only do a few things: tell it yes or no for connections, force resets of the radio, and possibly control the pppd side (although I'd rather if android did that too).

I'll keep y'all posted!

ps: imfloflo, with today's update you can only connect when you want to by using modem to connect and disconnect. hopefully with tonight's update you'll be able to control it from either modem or through background sync, but you won't be forced to do both (which is how it was before today)

Edit: and to answer your other question, for today's update it reads only from default.txt, tomorrow's update, if it works, will read only from the android APNs.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
glad to see you're getting your fingers into the innards of this Jesse :)

For some reason I'd changed my sleep mode to "0" so that probably explains the lousy battery life :rolleyes:

I've changed it to "3".. lets see how we go... with calls working right for me now, I'm using android pretty much full time. The only thing that bugs me is that at work I have to set it to vibrate and I dont get the vibration so miss the call.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] :
Not the carrier, but the SIM itself

Hi, I'm Having Briggs problem... I have 2 lines from the same carrier, one SIM card was recently changed to a USIM (for 3g services), with this SIM card, I cannot make outgoing calls, but if I put the old simcard, then I'm able to make outgoing calls; both with the same carrier.

I'm still pending to take ADB logs with both simcards but my own computer is not available, and my office's computer have a lot of USB port restrictions. So at latest this weekend I could post logs with Old SIM and logs with new USIM.

JM
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
juan, have you tried using the new initrd? The old one wasn't setting up the sim pin properly, but the new one, in theory, should be setting up sim pins...

As for power saving modes for GSM devices:

0 -> no power collapse at all, as power collapse suspend is broken/hasn't been written yet

1 -> power collapse without suspend, the best we've got right now

2 -> suspend only, not as good as power collapse

3 -> sleep only, afaik it just turns of a couple things, but is still better than mode 0
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
oh yeah and i've got some not so good news... I don't have any problems with dialing out... i hate diagnosing things from across the world from where the problem is at, because it is hard to see what is really happening... I tried with both an att sim and a t-mobile US pre-paid sim, no problems for either one.

so i guess it is good news for me that it works, but not good for fixing the problem.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] radem205:
I don't have the problems of not dialing out too, but it seems that sms isn't working anymore (before it was working). When sending an sms it says the message was send, but the message wasn't delivered.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I did one quick test and i still can't dial out. Have only tried once though.. will try later.. tried the latest files
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
Anyone try the Hero build yet?

I have tried the full version bit "touchflo" doesn't load up. just the notification bar and the lock screen, with a few force closes, which is probalby why touchflo doesnt show up :P
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vilord:
I was worried about MMS, I didn't even test SMS 'till now...

But it does seem to be working between my two phones at least.

There was a bug in the code until now that as soon as the SMS was sent it would incorrectly get a GENERIC FAILURE, but fixing that bug shouldn't keep the message from sending.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] imfloflo:
STOP with the hero build, the hero build already lag on HTC G1 so on Polaris :s

A skin will be cool but that's all.

Except if a dev success to make hero rom faster.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I am talking about the Hero build that was just released a few hours ago for Vogue, I don't really care about what happens on the G1. Dev said the lite version of Hero rom should work fast and be good enough for daily use, while normal full version probably just good for playing with for now.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] aaa408:
hi, all

could you please explain how to build one of the latest kernels and system.img for polaris? i saw 2 how to about kernel (one was saying about applying some patch which i think is not exist anymore) and did not find anything about images (ram fs one and system.img)

thanks in advance ...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
What hero build a few hours ago? :eek:

ps. Found it here but lite version seems to be removed.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
It is borked, along with the full. He is reuploading the lite one as I type this.

Back up everything on your card I suggest before starting to use it..
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Thanks, I'm using a fresh card to test it, my current setup is WAY to valuable to break.. took me ages to get it working and looking the way I wanted it :rolleyes:

Have you tried the full one yet? its just finished downloading.. but the data.img is taking ages to download... would have been better to compress it.. it would have compressed to about 30-40mb.

update: Just spotted the lite one come up.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bally3:
Seems like msmissons pulled the link.

did you get it working briggs? I'm stuck on the tc screen after 10 mins. Going to try the zip file I just downloaded in a few mins..
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I didnt get a chance to download the new lite one, and i should have because i was thinking "watch him take it down and i don't get it" lol.. so no luck yet. i will play with a bit later if possible.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
Extra character in URL, try this? http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1VP7E1AA
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
Same result with new package.. just black screen with notification bar i can't use, and lock screen works! not too worried though, didn't expect it to work anyways yet hehe
[Touch Cruise Android Development] life02:
It just reboots on me after the two splash screens.

NM... Didn't read the other thread: res must be 320x480 at 160 and move you ringtones/notifications etc out of /sdcard/media to just /sdcard/notifications etc.. Once you download the main package you must use my included initrd system.img and data.img.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
Still doesn't work when you do that either :P

earlier i had it working once (before he updated the lite one). I was able to go through the google set up etc, it rebooted, just repeated logo again though. I gave up after that.

Now im just messing around wtih it, continuously rebooting lol
[Touch Cruise Android Development] briggs81:
I would give the rogers build a shot, it is pretty quick. Have not done much with it yet. Mission says you have to use his initrd with the rogers build, and screen re MUST be 320 x 480 with lcd.density of 160. If you use any other initrd the boot up screen just keeps repeating.

Hero stuff is still no go for me, but like i said, i didn't expect it to work yet anyways..
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Michel82:
Just noticed that my GPS seems to be off by a few 100 km to the south with nkhero didn't noticed this with my previous system (msmison). Any1 else having the same issues?