yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pananza:
Decided to scratch everything and start afresh with the latest 2009-08-07.zip bundle.

Android boots fine and this is the fastest version I've tried to date. Got a wooping 23 fps in Neocore. But this is also far more unstable that previous versions.

Working:

OpenGL (23 fps in Neocore)

Calls

3G data

Market

Not working:

I've experienced two Android restarts so far (suddenly I'm back at the animated android loading image)

When receiving text messages or trying to send them the application Messaging (process com.android.mms") crashes.

Battery is never getting above 94% even after charging the whole night.

Syncing of mail and calendar works, but contacts don't.

Also a lot of other applications seems to crash a lot.

(Camera + WiFi ofcause)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] meknb:
Im having problems with the latest build pulled from git. Im just getting a white screen i've tried various default.txt but still the same problem. Im using the latest initrd and system and rootfs.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] gigi-muschi:
I try mssmison full hero build,but not work.Boot fine,appears HERO logo and HTC logo,then (after 1 minute) auto-reboot and again,and again....

why?:mad:
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] sipospeter:
music playback by headphones

is there any chance that i can get the music playing through my headphones? it always comes from the loudspeaker, no matter if i plug them in.

just to report: i downloaded latest 1.5 bundle called android-1.5-2009-08-08.zip which says that it can make wifi running on kaiser. i tried with polaris' default.txt but starting and receiving calls didn't work with that, so i tried the kaiser .txt and although wifi is not working, phone functions seem to work very well now.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] sipospeter:
ok, i made some research in the forums and wiki pages and it seems that audio routes are not perfectly ported yet. were there any builds in the past which were able to put the audio to the headphones when they got plugged in?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
I tought i remember there was some build where headphone was working but don't remember when or the day.

Like the bluetooth headphone.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] worstenbrood:
btw, dzo's test kernel for polaris really rules, battery lasts much longer !

http://cs-alb-pc3.massey.ac.nz/vogue/files/zImage-polaris
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
Unfortunatly I can't start ADB caused (I think) by a wrong USB cable. I thought I had the correct USB cable (delivered with the phone), but in WinMo I can connect to the pc, but in Android it detects nothing when I connect to the pc (Windows XP).

Do I have to buy another USB or do I something wrong?

In the past the phone was recognized by the pc and asked for drivers, but now it does nothing :(
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pananza:
Hero packages

Just downloaded and tried the latest Hero package (http://vogue-android.googlecode.com/files/zen-hero-090809.zip). But as always I'm unable too boot these. I'm stuck in an endless Android restart sequence.

First Linux boot's seemingly ok. Then the Andorid logo appears with a little sound, then the HTC logo comes with another sound. After a few seconds the screen goes black and the Android logo and sound is back. This just continues in a loop. I've deleted the data file without any luck.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
The loop bug appear on HTC G1 too when we don't erase ext3 and Swap partition so maybe you need to retry with a fresh SD and new files
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] freddycs:
have you tried to reformat your SD card?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pananza:
No, but I have tried deleting all Android specific files and folders (and done a checkdisk in Windows). I have severel GB with other stuff there I don't want to loose. So before I format I'd atleast have to copy everything somewhere else.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] freddycs:
Maybe you can give a try to see if reformating of SD card helps. I have encounter this problem before when trying on some Hero build. but when i tried other version it is fine.

one more thing, i just notice that i have bad sectors in my 4GB micro SD card, not sure if it is because of Android?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Maybe someone could create Polaris page on this web site http://htc-linux.org/wiki/
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
If you think it will help the project... go for it.. but we already have a wiki page no-one is wanting to update apart from exco and the devs, so I doubt you're going to get too far with keeping it updated :)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Yes i know but if it can show other people we are motivate ans show the progress done.

If other devs wants to help maybe. dunno ?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
During a couple of weeks (maybe months) I noticed that the call function isn't optimal yet. Very randomly I got no sound (like everything is muted) during calls and then I can't hangup the call (so a soft reset is needed).

Are there any of you having this problem too?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Leryan:
similar, problems with hanging up.

One thing I've noticed:

1. If I hang up a call first - everything is OK

2. If I hang up a call last - call ends only after some time out. No reaction to hardware key, and no reaction to onscreen button also.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] :
Hello!

I managed to get the Sense UI booting on my phone!

Visit http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=548114 for more information!

Cheers! :D
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] sipospeter:
good stability with 08/20 files

just sending out some report:

yesterday morning i downloaded the new rootfs, system.img and initrd.gz (uploaded on 08/20) from the vogue-android page and i found that replacing these with the ones from the 08/08 ion bundle my polaris is as stable as it should always be. i didn't make any reboots in the last 30 hours, and data connection is still alive and usable in all aplications, also starting and receiving phone calls are working perfectly.

while i slept (for about 9 hours) i left the device turned on letting it constantly synchronize with my google account and also let the weatherbug widget refreshing itself every hour by 3G connection. when i last cheked the battery in the night, it was 52 percents, and in the morning it showed 41. i still don't know how exact is the battery indicator but if this 11 percentage drop is true then i think it's awesome.

i know wifi and bluetooth is higher priority but these are not important for me as i have a big amount of monthly data available and rarely use bluetooth. (and i can live without the camera, too.) what i mostly care about is what i already wrote in this forum: when i plug in my headset the output channel doesn't change, the sound still comes from the loudspeaker. i use my device as an mp3 player on a daily basis so it's very important for me. tunewiki is also available for the platform, which is the best audio player i've ever seen. if this issue could be solved, android on polaris would be near perfect for me.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
looks like this thread is being neglected and marcelkordek has disappeared.

imfloflo, can you delete this thread please as it has no merit or value without moderation or updates. Unless you can change the OP to someone else, in which case change it to yourself then we'll get someone else to take charge of it.

If not, please delete it and we'll start a new thread with someone who wants to maintain it.

Thanks
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Ok so if someone really motivate want to take care about the thread post here
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Kiiv:
I'm the only one who always have the problem of the full reload of the UI when I come back to home screen?

Even if I come back with home button or with back button, from setting or application, the UI reload entirely... It's very boring :(

It's the most annoying bug for me at the moment.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
It's a Hero bug, don't use the home button but only back button to return to hte home.

back button should work ( this tips works on my G1 )
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Kiiv:
Yes, you already say that to me on the other thread ^^

But I have the problem even if I only use the back button... So maybe I'm the only one with this issue and it exists a solution, I hope :o

Mais merci d'essayer de m'aider ;)

(But thank you for trying to help me ;))
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] DJ_Steve:
ok, i know their are people working on this again, but if someone can give me info on how to setup the build environment etc i would not mind trying to help out also
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] meknb:
Try here http://www.androidonhtc.com/get_involved you need to be running linux or mac.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] dubbeld00:
Great to have this new topic for testing and bugs :)! And nice to see so much users over here (2 pages in one day).

Also great news, 4 hours ago, DZO made sound working on the kaiser (think this is also working on our device). Also screen rotation is working (left handed only) which is not really something we want to see, but usefull for the kaiser :)). Also they reported that SMS is working (don't know if it was already working).
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Great just waiting f00bar/rogro82/bally3 release :) to test it.

DZO make great progress with the kaiser device in their hand, who want to send him a Polaris :p
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
I think the only thing we have to figure out ourselves is the button mapping (EGPIO) which is different than the Kaiser. But for now Rogro doing a great job and I think he can convert every commit of DZO in the future to a working polaris version!

Some finetuning and we have a good working polaris version :)! I look forward to it!!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] worstenbrood:
indeed ! works just great, looking forward to a fully working flashable version ;)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
The button mapping works great for me. Just the wheel button had problem
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] dubbeld00:
Think you have to wait for a flashable version (if it ever comes here)... Lots of initializations are still done by Windows Mobile (SIM + GPRS at the moment). Also the green flashing led is still a setting of WinMo.

But I also think we have to focus on EGPIO + IRQ.. (To be honest, I really don't know why, but DZO is also using it above the GPIO implementation of MSM). Saw that Radem explained it in the other thread (thought it was you?) the only difference I see (implementation wise) is that you can do egpio(3,4) instead of multiply 3 by 16 (hex) and add the 4 bits gpio(3*16+4).
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
unfortunately it wasn't me (I wish I had the clue :) ). But maybe the following article will explain something about GPIO's (I don't know for sure but "never shot, is always missed":) )

http://www.unixresources.net/linux/clf/embedded/archive/00/00/30/66/306640.html
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] berczo:
Hello all !!! Great Work guys !

I have official WM 6.1 with 3d drivers

- first booting is slow, but next ones are much faster;

- no problem with camera gallery

I have questions:

- is possible to go back to WM from Android or i must make a SoftReset?

- is possible to import contacts from my WM PDA database ?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
Hello all !!! Great Work guys !

I have official WM 6.1 with 3d drivers

- first booting is slow, but next ones are much faster; (is normal)

- no problem with camera gallery (gallery works fine, but camera itself doesn't work (result in crash))

I have questions:

- is possible to go back to WM from Android or i must make a SoftReset? (no, haret disables Windows Mobile, so you have to make a softreset)

- is possible to import contacts from my WM PDA database ? (not yet)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Maybe a new version of PIM Backup will be release with compatibility between WM save and Android that will be awesome.

Btw, No more radio version problem with the lastest commit?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
Which radio version problem do you mean? And the latest commits from dzo are not implemented yet in the latest zimage of Rogro.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] agtmxx:
i haven't stable boot with sim inside, wihout sim is oll ok.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] berczo:
I have NO PROBLEM during booting Android WITH SIM card.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] dubbeld00:
There was an incompatibility of the SDcard implementation on kaiser... Kaiser should have a radio > 1.70 to make it work... but an hour later DZO already released a new version (PIO mode) which is working on all radio's...

[guessing mode]but our 1.59 version of radio doesn't have to differ with the 1.70 of the kaiser. Version numbering is all messed up between devices (as far as I know). Kaiser doesn't have a 1.59 version, while it's the latest polaris radio (even later released than the kaiser one I thought) [/guessing mode]

So it should work alright, and it is not depending on what radio you use... what might be the problem while booting android, is other hardware beside PHONE + active g3/gprs, like WIFI or bluetooth (also a guess). You should be able to boot with every radio as far as we know (since my device has the older 1.5? version, and someone reported that the 1.59 version is working).
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pt-1:
Simple question,

does the wheel itself work on yours ..?

Has anyone got examples on how to Configure ..?

Maybe also worth to Update the Header of the post with date/time when new Updates are posted on page 1.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
The wheel don't work properly for me.

A question about DATA.

If i enter good ppp.username and password my android will be able to connect to my operator.

Does it use DATA connection ?

Cause i don"t want to use all my data for this month with android , but only want to test phone and sms, no sync or internet.

If there is a sync driver avalaible is it possible to sync our polaris under Android and use USB to have internet on it like WM?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
A lot of questions.. I see :)

I also tried importing contacts and experienced issues with the sim card, does anyone know whether the Kaiser is still experiencing this issue.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] excogitation:
not rogro82 - anyhow:

YES.

Don't connect trough Togga (don't setup a data connection before booting to Android).

As soon as usb networking is working in Android it will be possible.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
Here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3197789&postcount=2174 you can read importing contacts is working on the kaiser, but indeed it doesn't work on the polaris.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
Ok so i can enter ppp username and password without any android data connection when i boot.

It's just to avoid the alert popup message which says android can't run phone.xxxxx.xxxx. package appears every 15 seconds
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] T1663R:
wow great progress, i tryed a few games from : http://www.androidfreeware.org/

and some worked ! :D

this one is working best and is a lot of fun :

http://www.freeware4android.com/2008/11/22/aiminesweeper.html

download :

http://www.artfulbits.com/downloads/aiminesweeper_1.0.2.apk
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rcravero:
Last zimage..

It boots ok but no way to get network connection

I got this message:

errors while searching the network

I have H3G (3 Italia) SIM Card.

Radio: 1.59.44.02
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Fab985:
same radio, same sim (3 italia) call working good (without audio) but i can play music

one question: how install .zip file? i've found opera mini 4.0 for android but it's .zip file. Obviously i've decompressed it but isn't .apk file
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] imfloflo:
You should add the number of the post and the our of the zImage release cause rogro28 release more zimage the same day ;)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] berczo:
With all last files i cannot register to network ... have anyone the same problem ?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
Yes, I have the same problem. Some can establish a data connection and some don't. I think this will be solved in the future, but for now you can't do anything to let it work I guess.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Michel82:
To answer my own question about the differences between the Android on G1 and the Android from the SDK and especially the google specific syncing stuff:

As android is completely open source i've found that certain google specific programs (*.apk) are closed source and not released as part of the SDK. I do wonder though if it is possible to add these programs nonetheless, cause some of them are pretty much primary android functionality for me. Especially the syncing with my google account and Gmail are the core reasons why i would ditch winmo in favor of android.

File not found: /system/app/AlarmProvider.apk

File not found: /system/app/Calendar.apk

File not found: /system/app/Camera.apk

File not found: /system/app/GDataFeedsProvider.apk

File not found: /system/app/Gmail.apk

File not found: /system/app/GmailProvider.apk

File not found: /system/app/MediaPickerActivity.apk

File not found: /system/app/PimProvider.apk

File not found: /system/app/ApiDemos.apk

File not found: /system/app/Sms.apk

File not found: /system/app/SyncProvider.apk

File not found: /system/app/YouTube.apk
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] adabra:
closing applications

Hey,

it's good to see the progress of porting Android to Polaris... Nice work!

Can someone let me know how to close an application? The call end (red) button just goes back to the previous screen (or page in the browser).

Or is there a way to switch between the running apps? Or a kind of "list of running applications/processes" ?

Thanks
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] adabra:
RE: closing applications

To answer my own question, this is what I found:

There is no such thing as "closing the application" or "auto exiting

the app" in the android application model. Please see here for more

info: http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.html

In particular, our model is that for the user all applications are

always running all of the time, and we very explicitly do NOT want the

user to ever have to deal with things like closing applications to

free up resources. The system will take care of killing application

processes when their resources are needed elsewhere, and you work with

the system to ensure that when the user returns to your app it is

restored to its last seen state.

If you want your app to reset each time the user returns to it, then

use android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true for the main activity of your app

-- see http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/R.styleable.html#And...

If you want the user pressing the back button to close your app...

well, first, this is strongly discouraged, because it is inconsistent

with how other applications work. One standard convention we use,

though, is to have a menu option to return to the first activity of

the app. This can be done by calling startActivity() for your root

task, with the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP set in the Intent -- see

http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/Intent.html#...

source: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/92170d3f55eb2510
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Tenshy:
It was fixed by using the latest zImage

Hello !

I can't boot android (Kernel Panic)... But when there isn't sim card it says there isn't ext2 partition. Then it says it can't mount /data

I'm using 01/19/09 rogro82's zImage and Android Vogue package found on the first page of this thread. I'll try the latest rogro82's zImage...

Do I need to format my SD card ?

Well I just can see the keyboard when pressing the camera button \o/

Thank you for your job ! I would really enjoy using Android on my HTC touch cruise !

PS : Excuse my mistakes, I really speak english really bad... and you can't hear me speaking...
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] cortk:
"Telefone isn't disconnecting when pressing red button"

Is that a bug? On the G1, you press the POWER button to end the call, and last time I checked, pressing the power button on Polaris also ends the call. Their back button, which is mapped to our end call button, only goes back and doesn't end calls.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] jokz:
My polaris:

-udk diamond r7 ita(no 3d drivers)

-radio 1.59.44.02

-android of today(20/01)

not works:

-send sms message

-red button to close calling(already known)

-ringtone during incoming call

-mp4 video play in black/white and low resolution(because of 3d drivers?)

The rest is simply amazing, faster and much better of everythings else!

During running android,what's happen to wm?

Thank you:)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] cortk:
How did you get the rest of the sound except ringtone to work whilst the phone's front speaker still works for calls?

I use the 20/01/09 big sound and small sound zimages from rogro, as well as the system.img from dzo.

Small sound, call initiated on other phone:

- the call ends abrubtly after some time on the other phone

- voice can't be heard on any of the phones

- end call doesn't work after the call ends abruptly on other phone.

Small sound, call initiated on Polaris:

- only very tiny speech on Polaris, generated from back speaker

- microphone still doesn't work (voice can't be heard on any of the phones)

Big sound, any call:

- no sound on either end

Note: After testing, returning to the old zimage where there was no music/ringtone but there was speech, speech can still be heard loud and clear on either end, and there would be no disconnection problems.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] jokz:
I not got it.Ringtone and all audio file does not work.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] xonx:
SD Card not properly recognized (unknown partition table)

Hi,

I have a Polaris and i'm having problems booting Android.

It says it can't find the partition table on the SD card:

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

mmc0: new SD card at address b368

mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 ST128 124160Kib

mmcblk0: unknown partition table

Failed

No partition found on SD card

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

Any idea on how to resolve this issue?

Many thanks,

Cosmin

PS: I'm using latest zImage from RoGro82 released on 20.01.2009 and the Vogue package from 19.01.2009
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pt-1:
RoGro82 released a new zImage.

Is it sufficient just to upload this into the root of the SD Card or do you also need a new Android Vogue package ?

I am using the one from the 19.01.2009 (data.img) from the beginning of this post.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] berczo:
Hi, i am using the newest zlmage by rogro82 from 22.1. and i still have no network connection :confused:

I am using package of Android from 19.1. too ...
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] cr1960:
I think efforts to fix SMS and Audio have caused problem with data connection.

If you use original zimage with original android 19/01/09 zip then data works fine (after you connext with 'togga').
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] floenk:
Hi!

Ok, just tried the latest Rogro Image (22.01.).

Working:

Audio

Internet Connection

Buttons

Not Working:

SMS

Calls (simply nothing happens, just some static noise)

Using the official o2 Germany 6.1 Rom...

I´m looking forward to using Android as an WiMo replacement. It´s just so much slicker.

Ciao,

Micha
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] CyberCSK:
Hi,

I use the latest zimage. After Android boots I get the message

"The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

This message comes again after 5 sec, when I click "Force close".

My SIM is a vodafone germany.

Any ideas?

I use the following line in default.txt:

set cmdline "ppp.username=vodafone ppp.password=vodafone msm_sdcc.msmsdcc_fmax=32000000 pm.sleep_mode=0 board-htcvogue.panel_type=3"
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] marcelkordek:
SMS works with the latest system.img from dzo. You must disable your sim pin in winmo than start haret. SMS, CALL and GPRS/UMTS works great for me =)

Thanks Rogro for your new zimage, works great!!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] radem205:
@marcelkordek: You don't get audio during calls, right?