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[Touch CDMA Android Development] defianceX7:
Update on my issue - to clarify, I've been using all new downloaded files from the google code page, so it's not a file mix issue. I kept trying it, and noticing that the "xxx in/xxx out" numbers kept changing, and if I looked at the data file on the card afterward it was a correlated size (ie, 95 in would result in a 95 meg file, etc). So it seemed to be "breaking" at random points in the extraction. With that in mind I figured if I kept trying, maybe it would work. And it did - about the 5th time in a row I tried booting the same data.

Anyway, so I got it booted, turned on gps, and it locked up the first time I hit the 'my location' button in google maps, and thereafter it would not run for more than 5-10 minutes without a lockup.

I turned off the gps settings, and now it's running fine, just without gps.

More on the data image issue: I then remembered that I changed sd cards a while back and just copied everything over to my new card - so the old install never had to extract on the new card. So, I pulled out my old sd card - a 256 meg standard micro sd - and tried it. Viola! it extracted first boot and ran fine (though still with the GPS lockup issue). For reference, the new card is an 8gig class 6 sanyo sdhc.

So it looks like my problem with the repeated extraction failures comes back to the card. I don't think the card is bad; I've been using it on the old software, playing music a LOT, etc, and never had an issue with it... But for some reason I just can't extract an image to it.

Is it possible there's some issue that would impact one type of card and not the other, and only impact during extraction? I've now tried each several times, and the sdhc card has so far never managed on the first try, it always takes 3-4 tries - and the old sd card has never failed on the first try. But again, after extraction, android runs perfectly (except gps), so I'm pretty confused...

anybody else using a class 6 sdhc card and able to extract fine?

Anyway, trying the new init now on the sdhc to see how it works :)

Anyway, on the GPS, I doubt that's software - I've had issues with the gps on this phone in windows as well. I spent nearly a week to unlock it in windows with no luck, so I'm guessing that problem has nothing to do with android.

Oh! ONe more note - on my sdhc card, each attempt to extract usually takes 10-15 minutes to extract. The old sd card, it actually goes over 20 minutes. Not a problem, just wanted to reinforce that it does take a while :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] defianceX7:
Yep, it now runs through the first boot on the sdhc card first try. And MUCH faster than before - even if it was working before, this is still a great update just for the sake of faster first boot! :D
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
I've added an updated initrd.gz on the google code page. This makes any build compatible with the gps updates by symlinking libgps.so to the ramdisk. So any older builds (like thedude builds I had posted) don't have to be rebuilt to enable gps support.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
Just a quick note on your google code site: You have symlinkinitrd.gz listed under "Addon". It should be "Init", correct?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
Fixed. Thanks!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
lol, so clumsy sometimes :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] prairiefire:
If we used a data.gz image from the June 23 build, and just downloaded the latest initrd.gz (symlinkinitrd.gz) do we need to delete our data file and have it automatically create a new one for us to see the latest GPS changes?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
can you or someone else please copy and paste the command line with the lcd density in it so i can see what i'm doing wrong??
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
@ jaredkelly: I just pulled the line from what is written in the info portion of the default.txt, and added =128 to it. make sure your default.txt file is written well, sometimes the " " get messed up and then it doesn't work.

Regarding GPS:

newest initrd/system.img allow me to open maps multiple time and each time get a lock and new position on the map. however, while the map is open, it does not update the gps position, even though the icon is solid a not blinking as if it is still locked on. pressing the "my location" button does not update the position either.

Great work, this is further than I thought we would be by this summer!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
yeah that is problem i'm experiencing....i pulled the line from the info portion as well and it's not working for me so i wanted to see what someone's default.txt looks like exactly so there is no mistakes
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Ideal2545:
so just my observations with battery life and enabled gps so far,

i disconnected my phone at 6:30am, with android on and gps enabled.

at 7am, i went into google maps and turned it on to see if tracking was working(not yet)

now its 9:45, and battery life at 75 percent according to spare parts.. so far... its not as bad as i thought it would be.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
Thought maybe this was my issue, but I changed it to 160 and that definitely changed the way it looked, but not for the better. With 128 everything is fuzzy. It's usable, but it's fuzzy enough to cause me a headache. As I recall, when I used android on this phone (vogue) back before I had my diamond, it was not this bad.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] KERKEDAGAIN:
Updated Google Maps..

@msmission:

I noticed vilords .img has the Google Maps 3.1.1. When on your themed build I was unable to update because I got an error saying "package error". I love the themed build but the new Gmaps seems to have a lot more streets n bug fixes. Should I wait 'til thats included in your future build/is there a way to update I'm not aware of/or has it already been updated?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] amad99:
I am having issues downloading from the market app. It says install unsuccessful? Does anyone have this? I googled but couldn't find anything that helped. I'm running on newest files and bell vogue with NFS's rom.

Thanks in advance!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
amad, are you using a new data image or one from a while ago?

jaredkelley: Make sure that your editor didn't make two lines out of the boot command, it has to be just one very very long line.

all: I'll be pushing an updated initrd at lunch with the symlinking from mssmison as well as two fixes:

1. It will make sure market can write to the app folder to install applications

2. It will do a file system check on your SD card at bootup.

You will not need to replace your data, system, zImage, or anything else for these things to work. Generally the only time you need to remove your data.img is if it gets corrupted and you see strange errors... none of the updates we're pushing will require it (we will tell you if that changes)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
I don't know the answer, but can tell you from experience that letting the new initrd create the data.img takes no more than 10 minutes. I was really surprised at how quick it went. I set my phone down and went away, thinking it would take around a half an hour only to find that when I returned a few minutes later Android was already booted!

Good work vilord.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
I heard from a little birdie that we have a fix for the tracking issue. Do you know when you guys will incorporate that into the published builds?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] amad99:
I think it is new... this is the 1st time ever installing android and it made a data file on its own...
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
can someone post the old initrd.......the new one isn't working for me
[Touch CDMA Android Development] drprince89:
which of the two did you try? I tried the one for different system images and had to rename it before i could use it but it works fine so far.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
new initrd posted that repairs the filesystem on bootup.

jaredakelly, what's not working in it?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] jaredakelly:
downloaded the new initrd

it gets to "creating a new data store"......sit there for a while.....then it says "failed to mount /data........blah blah......job control turned off"

man i'm not having any luck :confused::(
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Snakehn:
:mad: Man i haven't been able to run this at all, i keep getting "no partition found on SD card"
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
what do you have your resolution set to? I do lcd density 128, with 320x428 resolution and it's perfect.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
With the new initrd, just get continuous "exec format error" for like 20mins so far as it checks each file. Anyway to bypass this...?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
ARgh... thought the exec errors were fixed...

I'll rework this in a couple hours linked "static" so it shouldn't get those anymore... I will post when complete
[Touch CDMA Android Development] dragonxyz:
Thank you!

Sweet! Thank you for the updated initrd w/dosfsck on sdcard. Fixed a bunch of errors, mounted SD writable and now Market download is working again.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] ljmeli:
I saw some people saying the lcd.density at 128 was an issue...(it did work fine for me, but hey you never know) or if you prefer the default (ie - 160) you can adjust the 'mddi.width=320 mddi.height=428' to 'mddi.width=320 mddi.height=480' fits on screen perfectly
[Touch CDMA Android Development] FutureSEAL16:
EDIT: I have everything working perfectly now. Thank you so much for this. I apreciate it.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
320x480 is the original resolution of the G1

240x320 is the resolution of the vogue.

the aspect radio isn't the same, G1 is 1:1.5, vogue is 1:1.333

if you scale it to 320x428 it will have the same horizontal resolution as the G1 and still maintain aspect radio.

if you scale it to 320x480, things will not be square, the vertical will be squished more than the horizontal.

Oh yeah, and once we stop munching on cupcakes and start eating up the donuts, we'll be running lcd.density at 120 and resolution at 240x320 and it'll look beautiful
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
njacobs, what system.img are you using?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
The latest one posted with xbin etc from 4 or so hours ago.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
Just tried latest intrid and zimage with your system.img from 23/6 and it worked fine.

Also tried redownloading the latest image and had same issue as before. So must be something to do with the system.img

Cheers
[Touch CDMA Android Development] srwalter:
The builds on http://dasbrennen.isa-geek.org/~srwalter/gps/ have been updated with my second major GPS release, which I consider "beta" quality and ready for general consumption. I haven't noticed any weird behavior on this build (where weird behavior could be crashes, applications hanging, or failing to get a lock under good signal conditions). Enabling and disabling GPS from the Settings menu should no longer be an issue, either. Enjoy!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
Nice.

Cheers!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Snakehn:
alright i give up on this Android thing, i've been battleling all day trying to get it to boot and same thing, "couldn't find partition on SD card"

tried reformatting the card, tried different android builds, now i tried to run ubuntu live to format from there and the stupid Ubuntu CD hangs.

I'm out LOL
[Touch CDMA Android Development] frad:
I don't know what it is... but whenever i try to run android the process of booting into it freezes all the time... and not consistently in the same place.... sometimes when creating the data source... sometimes after... sometimes before.

I really want to use this, but its getting harder and harder to actually even boot into android now... not sure what the prob is.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
:D

-zImage is the kernel, the low-level stuff that talks to the sound driver and graphics driver and handles power management

-system is android itself, so you can have thedood's 1.5 system or you can have an ion system or you can have a 1.1 system

-initrd.gz this is the system launcher and it currently handles data connectivity and drives (so you can get to your data and your sd card)

-default.txt is just a settings file used by haret to initiate the kernel and attach the system launcher

-haret.exe is the windows application that reads default.txt and launches the kernel and initrd

-data.gz is a compressed data.img, this is your data storage.

And all of them go in the root of your storage card :)
[Touch CDMA Android Development] aven_soulgazer:
If I use DZO's system file and data with TheDude's default, initrd and zimage it'll boot up android 1.1. When I click Togga though it just tells me wait... and never goes any further than that. Not sure what to do. With thedood's system I can get online I just can't login to the google stuff.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] hexto:
Don't use Togga, use Modem
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bangout:
when ever i try and boot this up it stops with the words "android_" at the bottom and it wont do anything else except if i plug in the charger it will register and say charging. all of this is before it goes to the splash screen with the shine android words.

using latest files and using dzos data.img
[Touch CDMA Android Development] hexto:
Thanks. Sorry for my noobness.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] aven_soulgazer:
I only see Togga when using DZO's newest system and data and TheDood's init default and zimage
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
for android 1.1, you need to have an active data session *before* you connect.

so bring up internet explorer and search for something and while the data arrows are showing up top, bring up android and then go to togga and connect.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] aven_soulgazer:
When did it go back to that? Togga used to connect even if there hadn't been a previous data connection. At least I swore that had been the case.

With the new new 1.1 files I'm having the same problem with it freezing at saying android before going to the boot menu. I made and ate two sandwhiches while waiting for it to boot. So like 10 minutes or so.

Edit:

I had gotten the 4-22-09 version to boot up and connect to the internet using togga

Ok so 04-05-09 worked for me logging into google. Now time to try Ion.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
For your vogue, you need to use the old zImage, try always using the zImage that I made for mssmison's thedude image...

Also, Togga is for 1.1 only and with the 1.1 initrd (won't work in 1.5) and modem is for 1.5 only and the new initrd.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] okcoolthnx:
This happened to me. Most likely your data.img has been mangled with the shuffling of Android builds. Hopefully all your contacts are synced already, so I would recommend a clean install of DZO's latest build, then after setting up the Google sync services, reset and install either TheDude's stuff or Vilords themeless build.

Remember, it's important when switching builds, to change the default.txt appropriately.

It's hard to believe and I never would've thought it would happen, but us vogue users have not one, but THREE stable builds of Android to chose from for our phones; so experiment carefully!
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bangout:
thanks, ima try that out real quick. i'll let you guys know what happed.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
Does this mean that this build will work the the zImage-gpu (around 4/25 or something) on Martin's site? Some other Sprint users and I have had way better performance with that kernel. There's something about the new ones that bogs the phone down after a day or so of use.Hope we get this worked out as I'd like to stay up with the latest developments.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] vilord:
Yes, it should work with the zImage-gpu

But I think that vibrate was still broken in zImage-gpu, so ymmv.

The reason the phone is bogging down is due to memory usage being high, I'm looking into that in between my real work this morning.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
Awesome. I'll stick with this kernel then. the vibrate issue is much more critical as it will completely drain a battery in a short period if you forget to disable vibrate notifications.

Performance seems to come back after a while if you let the phone sit. I am assuming that Android finally closes them,freeing up memory. I've been looking for an "app manager" of sorts to kill apps on demand. Anyone know of any on the market?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] bangout:
Finally. Got it working using dzo fresh data image and the dudes zimae.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
Firstly set max app processes to 3 or 4. that will close the oldest app after 3 are opened. That helps lots.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] nic_kline:
mssmison's solution is what helped the most for me. I set it to 3 and it stays pretty snappy. There's also a "close everything" app in the market place that helps a bit.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Pandemic187:
I can't get data working on this thing. I downloaded a 1.1 build, copied fresh files onto my SD card (all of them), booted into 1.1, set up my APN, got a data connection, successfully signed into Google services, rebooted, and then I copied the default.txt, zImage, initrd.gz, and system.img contained here, booted up Android again, and tried to connect. No luck for me.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] mssmison:
I've found the ion builds, both vilord's and mine don't work the first time on data. after rebooting it works for me everytime.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] aven_soulgazer:
I still can't get Ion or DZO's newest version to run but TheDude's will. Not sure what to do.

My first post about togga was for v1.1 trying to login to google on my data file so I could try running Ion.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] oxsolid:
Highlight

3am thoughts

Seriously, this forum has become the highlight of my day. I must check it every hour... (it is amzing the rate of progress you all are making)

@KERKEDAGAIN

I just grabbed another touch for my fiancee (who also makes fun of me for the above mentioned reason...)

@katmandu

i had tried "appmanager" to store a backup of my programs on my sd card so i didn't have to redownload them, but when i reinstalled and then moved the files into "AndriodApps" it didn't auto reload them like i thought... i was able to download "io file manager" and manual reinstall the apps from the backups i had made, but i think it installs them to the "standard location" instead of running them from that SD folder... i decided that i'm just going to redownload them from the store though anyway (when i think were closer to a final release) since the store will track updates for you (but it wont do that if you load off of an app backup)

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FYI

zImage has no extension at the end of it... windows vista added a nice ".txt" at the end of the download for me... how thoughtful

just booted up the new version... its working great...i noticed that some of you are having trouble getting this to run, i think that there are 3 main things that it could be (or things you could try to fix it)

**1**corrupt files (delete everything, and redownload/install the 5 main files [you can keep your default.txt if you know its good])

**2** Bad SD Card (get new SD Card or try and reformat)

**3** something incompatable with the software and you particular phone (the radio upgrade has been mentioned, but it could also be just somehing flukey... like you have a buggy phone)

-ox
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
Fails ever time for me trying to create new data.img (Starting with freshly formatted 8g card)

/init: line 62:/bin/e2smk: not found

etc

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
[Touch CDMA Android Development] stoked:
Running vilords build from yesterday. No issues really except I was hoping to be able to remap some of the buttons, I did search the other thread, and seems like I'll have to edit the files manually.

I was trying to get Shazam to work, it seems to record the audio, but can't seem to connect to the Shazam servers for some reason, anyone else able to get it to work? Voice search and voice dialing don't seem to work either.

Setting the phone into silent mode works, but is it possible to have vibrate notification?

If bluetooth support for handsfree is added I don't think I'll have to run my Touch in Winmo ever.

PS. Forgot to thank vilord, dzo, and everyone else for getting this running.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] tatnai:
There is screen calibration in spare parts, dig around. better yet, settings can be placed in default.txt, read the Linux on Vogue thread and you can copy and paste settings others have listed (delete the pmax value first, though).

Double click camera button to rotate screen. does not always seem to work, but exiting out of the program will return you to landscape if it didn't seem to work; or simply double press camera button after exiting program.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] skajaqueda:
I am having a problem with the new initrd.gz files that were posted yesterday/this morning. I deleted my data.img to let initrd.gz create a new/clean one for me, but I noticed that when it was booting, it did not pick up my username/password from the default.txt. I can usually see "username=*********@vzw3g.com" and "password=vzw" during the boot process, but with the new initrd.gz I see "username= " and "password= ". Modem will not connect with the new initrd.gz. If I switch back to an initrd.gz before the system linking and filesystem checking, it works perfectly. What am I missing or doing wrong?
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
It's never final! That's the beauty! lol
[Touch CDMA Android Development] njakobs:
LOL ok worked out what was going wrong. Was downloading files straight out of google chrome and for whatever reason it was corrupting them, file sizes where right. Downloaded out of Opera and now ever thing works fine.

Thanks
[Touch CDMA Android Development] katmandu421:
I don't think any third party apps including shazam are actually able to "hear" anything, just like the voice search and dialing.

For the "silent-vibrate" function: Now that we have GPS I HIGHLY recommend "Locale". It allows you to create all kinds of profiles that are triggered from GPS locations, including setting the phone to vibrate but silent. You can also change backgrounds, etc and there are even plugins to send sms based on location and show to-do tasks when you are near locations, such as the supermarket. Wow, good stuff!

I tried this yesterday with the initial beta-beta GPS build but it didnt seem to work. Today with srwalter's newest zimage and system he posted recently it is working great. I got into work today and saw that my phone had been set to vibrate-silent automagically!! I can't wait to explore the power of this app-GPS combo. It's the reason I've been eager to get GPS running. Android's power is in all of the location based apps and services that have been developed. It's a game changer for sure.

As always, a huge thanks to the dev team!

EDIT: for a simple silent-vibrate toggle, there is a widget on the market, don't remember the name, something like ringer toggle widget. It's pretty slick for a simple manual solution and for those unexpected situations when you need to silence the phone.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] qwho:
I download all the files from chrome every time and I don't have any issues.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] Rotund:
GPS Problems

I have a Verizon XV6900 on Verizon's network. It's running with the official patch for WinMo. I am getting the GPS logo to appear when I open Maps or run Locale, but I have yet to get it to actually get my location. I've stood outside w/ a clear view of the sky, and nothing. Will I need to unlock the GPS in WinMo first? Anyone w/ the Verizon version get GPS to work yet?

PS: Thanks for everything. I'm loving my phone thanks to everyone's hard work.