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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
For HaRET users, you should be using the zimage-eclair from Feb 20 on AndroidHTC at Sourceforge, as linked in the OP. It was correctly posted that NAND users can update their kernel and init by flashing a newer NBH for their device. Flashing the .NBH will not affect data or the installed Android system.

@DukeNukeMX: There's a Quake that works with OE 1.2.2, I'll find it for this next release so you can try it out.

I had to recompile OpenEclair 3 times, my CPU is purring now (thank goodness) and unfortunately Android refused to boot after I aborted the last install halfway through... so I reflashed WM (MBarvian's Solace is about as good as it gets but DAMN I'm glad I'm not on WM anymore) and I'm flashing back to Android to test this new build. It DOES have Dark and Light themes and (many) LiveWallpapers are working!

EDIT: It took me a lot of reboots and reflashing to figure out that it was my SD card causing the problems, the Installer wouldn't load because it was hanging when trying to detect my SDcard partitions (even though I run from NAND it does the autodetect on every boot, whether you run the installer or not). So if your device won't boot past where it's supposed to load the installer, it's probably your SD. This note needs to go in the Wiki. I do have the system installed and booting now!!!! :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kendav911:
Test as you need to we are just waiting till you say it is good. Great work. Will be donating when I get paid.:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ponack:
Tease. :P
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] filipefumaux:
Headphone + wallpappers

Guys,

I've some questions:

1st: Does anyone knows how to put wired headphone to works?

2nd: How can I put more wallpapper to select? I just have a single option on default rom.

I've a HTC Polaris(cruise)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] wwnmt:
NAND

Moved to nand flashing thread.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mnjm9b:
I had this problem when I was first testing your build.

took me forever to figure out it was the damn card....

sometimes its the easy stuff. lol
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Thanks, I can't wait to try it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
Ok polymod 2.1 gamma is released! Enjoy! I'm going to eat some wings then I'll take some screenshots of the dark theme and post more details and answer questions etc.

PLEASE READ THE INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE OP OR YOU MAY GET DATA CORRUPTION.

Cheers! :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] supperbas:
Thanks a lot man!!

What's the main difference between the zImage and the -eclair?, is the zImage newer? because I saw the -eclair was 4kb bigger but the modification date was the same

Once again thanks a lot man =]
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] leadpipecinch:
installed and messing around with it right now...running off sd card and holy crap is this build snappy...loads quicker than any build. thanks a lot!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
Dark-themed screenshots added in the first post!

@supperbas: The zimage-eclair has Hardware 3D support enabled for Eclair in the kernel. The regular zImage only has HW3D support for Donut builds.

@leadpipecinch: Glad you like it :) I find it very fast as well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
So...should I have an option to install this? Because it doesn't look like I do.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
.tgz archive support was added to the AndroidHTC Git repo on 14 Feb, so any recent .nbh/init.gz should support it. I personally installed the dark theme as released using the .NBH from 20 Feb to make sure the .tgz support works.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
But this still works using HaRET right? Because that's what I'm using. If so, can you tell me what files (kernel, initrd.gz, etc.) might make me not have an install option?

EDIT: Oops, you said INITRD. I'll have to try to figure out which one I have...

EDIT2: OH SURE, I had an initrd.gz from February 13th. Go figure. It works now.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
Any initrd.gz before 15-Feb would cause you to not have an install option for .tgz . This this 20-Feb basefiles package from SourceForge should have everything you need, just make sure your default.txt is using zimage-eclair .
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cmus:
I also get no option to install. I used the KAISIMG-PANEL2-480-TILT-20-2-10.nbh from the sourceforge page.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
@cmus: try using the KAISIMG-PANEL2-480.nbh from the kaisereclair folder, I use KAISIMG-PANEL2-320.nbh and it works for installation.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cmus:
from the kaiser eclair folder, still get no install option with the 480 version, 320 has worked. I will play with this version for a while and let you know how it goes. Hopefully the guys in the vogue forum will get the market issue worked out soon and 320 will be fully usable.

thanks for all your work.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
Good to know, sorry about that! I'll let vilord know, perhaps he accidentally left something out from the 480 .NBH . You can flash back 480 after installing with 320 and everything should run just fine.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
Wow, talk about quickness. This build is FAST! And the animations are smoother than ever. Still no network location for me though, dang!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
I get the network location working usually from a fresh boot, as in the dark-theme screenshot. From what I understand, it's buggy because we have our RIL sending Decimal when the NetworkLocation code expects Hex, so that's why it works for some numbers and not others. Vilord and jnadke (and maybe others) are working on updating the RIL, but once they do it should be a simple update for this build.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] xxaznxx27:
nand

delete please:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] DJHile:
AWESOME! Just downloaded the newest build.. getting ready to run it here shortly... I'm looking forward to it! Props for the timely update. I plan to donate after testing her out!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] RuuddieBoy:
Are you sure that should work? I extracted the whole zipfile you linked to to my andboot directory, edited default.txt to use zimage-eclair, and now my HaRET won't run anymore.

I can start HaRET but when I press the 'Run' button I see the normal 'Booting Linux ...' loadingbar getting full, after that my screen gets brighter and then my phone freezes. Only thing I can do is resetting the phone with my stylus.

Btw how to check if it's installing the right version? I currently have both androidinstall.tar and androidinstall.tgz in the andboot directory, as said to do in the readme (doesn't say anything about removing old file). Will HaRET boot the .tgz version and ignore the old .tar version?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] cmus:
wifi is very buggy. It connects to my network but loses connection frequently. Market will not work with wifi either.

also, first launch of Maps caused the whole system to freeze and I had to soft reset. subsequent launches seem to work but my location is never found.

The system is very fast though. If the wifi bugs can get sorted out I would probably use this build.

thanks for all your work
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] lggyxx:
build is very good. i havent tested wifi or anything but im getting good 3g and prompt service..couple of things

My cellphone turns sleeps a little 2 fast for me..even though its on 2 minutes. when its at the home screen it just closes on me

How can i make vibrate work for text message, i would like for it to vibrate when it is silent..--EDIT..For those who didnt know..the WIndows key is menu..so u can press go to messages..hit the menu (Windows key) and hit vbrate..

also how can i use free gps without it using my data plan..

how can i get rid of android keyboard..everytime i turn it off..it goes right back on :-\

thnx
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] YevgenyEfter:
So I have to change in default.txt from zImage to zImage-eclair?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] xxaznxx27:
only issues i've found. thanks again!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] sora-p:
2.1 gamma with SD cards

Thanks polyrithmic! This is the fastest and hopefully the most stable build I have ever used.

Some people look confusing, so I try to post this comment. This is my first post on xda-developers, so pls look over any mistakes. ;)

Small tips for mates trying SD card install with HaRET.exe:

1) Download the basefiles package as polyrithmic suggested in #2045.

sorry, I could not paste the link here because I'm new commer :(

2) Rename or remove "andboot" folder in your SD card if you have.

3) Unzip the haretinstall.zip in your SD card. Then you can find new "andboot" folder.

4) Open the "andboot" folder and *DELETE* "default.txt", because it is not for Kaiser but for Vogue.

5) Rename "default-kaiser.txt" to "default.txt".

6) Edit the "dafault.txt"

before: set KERNEL zImage

after: set KERNEL zImage-eclair

7) Download the newest build, unzip it and copy "androidinstall.tgz" into "andboot" folder in your SD card.

8) Run "HaRET.exe" on WM, and hit "run".

9) Install & Enjoy! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] lggyxx:
delete this
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] GriloVirante:
It also seems to me that there is somethign running in Winmo that hampers correct launch of android. To me sometimes resetting, running windows, turning off phone properly in windows and then re turning on and launching android resolved. But not always. I'm currently trying by killing all processes running in Winmo before launching Android. This is done by adding the kill *.exe line at the beginning of your default.txt or startup.txt, see below:

kill *.exe
set RAMSIZE 0x08000000
set MTYPE 1723
set KERNEL zImage
set initrd initrd.gz
#
# The following kernel parameters are useful
# ppp.nostart	- Set ppp.nostart=1 to disable starting the ppp connection on boot
# msm_sdcc.msmsdcc
(....)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Installed the latest build, and having no problems so far. I was able to get SNESoid, Genesoid, an Nesoid working perfectly. The only problem I had was that I couldn't press more then one key at a time. Fixed this by assigning the directional buttons to WASD.

Getting to the point where I'm going to replace Windows Mobile all together with Android, but I gotta test the GPS to see how it works. I haven't used my Camera in weeks, and I use Bluetooth only for stupid things.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] st_voss:
Yes, exactly.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
Ah, nice. I just care about this a lot more than camera or Bluetooth, so it would be really awesome to see IMO.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
Hey... just to be sure... Flashing to NAND does not affect SPL? So I can rever to WinMo in case of problems??? Cause at this moment I am using Patrition SD setup.. but I am getting tired by having to check the cart at every attempt :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
Flashing to NAND completely removes Windows Mobile. So you can get Windows Mobile back, but only if you re-flash - in other words, it won't be there anymore if you reboot.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
Well of course reflash :D:D:D I am just asking if SPL stays intact.. if so... I am going for new tests ASAP :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nicke85:
Wooooow looks great I instaled last Dark version on ext2 on Card and work perfect..:)

What is with Bluetooth and Camera fixs!?:o
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jaffarbp:
Battery life ?

Is it just me or anyone else cannot squeze out more then 9h of battery life even on sleep ? (running on fat32 sd card, no partitions)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
So this is the right config for the kaiser 130 (gsm only), right?

#alloctest 0x2000

kill *.exe

set RAMSIZE 0x08000000

set RAMADDR 0x10000000

set FBDURINGBOOT 0

set MTYPE 1553

set KERNEL zImage-eclair

set initrd initrd.gz

#

# The following kernel parameters are useful

# ppp.nostart	- Set ppp.nostart=1 to disable starting the ppp connection on boot

# msm_sdcc.msmsdcc_fmax - The maximum frequency (in Hz) used by the SD controller

# pm.sleep_mode - The mode used when the phone is off

# 0=Power Collapse Suspend, 1=Power Collapse, 2=Apps Sleep,

# 3=Slow Clock and Wait for Interrupt 4=Wait for Interrupt

# Default is 1, use 1 for best power savings

# board-htckaiser.panel_type - Panel type used to power the panel off and on

# 0=Don't power off the panel (Default)

# 1=Sony 2=Topoly 3=Topoly (probably just the same as 2)

# lcd.density - Defaults to 160, 128 shows more on screen

#

set cmdline "ppp.nostart=0 pm.sleep_mode=1 mddi.width=240 mddi.height=320 no_console_suspend board-kaiser-keypad.atttilt=0"

boot

Any suggestions?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mashimarooo154:
The Dark is downloading......no patience to wait :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Beackman:
Man, i not using your build, but i'm see your progress and congrats i give it a try when i in home. cheers and great job.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
Any chance for having the scroll mouse working?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] sora-p:
@robuser007

That is totally the same with mine. It should work. :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] YevgenyEfter:
So there is no such a problem with the graphics driver as there is in windows mobile? Do I understand it correct?

Another question: I read in openEclair thread that the cpu is overclocked. This port is based on it, so is the cpu overclocked here too?

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
Wifi doesn't work very well, I get an ip (CLI), but I can't ping to my network/the internet.

Which settings should we use?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Woodham:
Hey. This is looking really good. I'm looking at installing Android on my TYTN2 for the first time very soon. I've flashed several different WM roms and understand the proces pretty well.

However, I can't seem to find any information on these "panels" used for this Android rom. Is there a way of working out which one I need or is it a trial and error sort of thing?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
The best thing is to start with SD install and test what panel setting is good for you... AFAIK it depends on Kaiser model number, so for example for me it is panel type 1 with KAIS130... but I am not 100% sure...

So just go ahead and try before flashing...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
Same here (and this is my first time having a problem with wifi), I was connected and my phone received an IP address, I have no cell service in my house so it is easy to test WiFi; I had a stong connection and I was unable to connect to anything. Other then that this build is great.

Currently running off HaRET with no partitions on sdcard. I need windows for TomTom and iGO; so I can Nand flsh yet... I'm gonna try a partitioned card next and see if WiFi improves.

@Poly, great build, love the new animations and colors :D

When you flash Nand, it does not mess with HardSPL; so yes, SPL stays in tact; it is just like flashing another rom. My recommendation, get an extra sdcard and put a windows mobile rom on it; that way if something gopes bad on install, just put the extra card in and flash back to windows.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] filipefumaux:
This build runs pretty fast for me. Even I using it in SD/Ext2.

Im thinking about to help these guys. Do know how, but I'll.

A thing that annoying me its unsupported wired headphones.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Polarfuchs:
Hm where are the new files?

On first page it says I shall download from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidhtc/files/

But there are only the files from 20.03.2010
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
I already tested NAND flash... Cool... speedy... it even mapped APN setting automatically... I love it :D

I also already reverted to WM because I need to use WifiRouter ATM and the CLID issue still exists, so when I tried to change the CLID setting it crashed the radio :(

I need this one to be solved before definetely switch to Android... but I like it way way more than WM...

Please go on with this work and please consider taking a look at CLID issue that I reported few times...

EDIT: BTW - I had to pull out the batery on every boot :( Even trying to restart from android menu hanged... is there any way to fix?

I'd like to help, but I am not able to do much stuff, my laptop went to Manitou and on my work laptop I have Vista and I can not install any "unsupported" software :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Ruz:
Hi Folks,

I've been playing about with this for a couple of weeks now, and am quite impressed. I tried 2.1a4 first, on a plain FAT32 SD card, and I've just updated that to the latest 2.1g that Poly let loose yesterday/this morning.

The new release feels much quicker - although that might be partly because I hadn't selected zImage-eclair in default.txt previously (and I assume that meant I didn't get the benefit of improved graphics rendering?).

I have a couple of questions which I've tried searching and googling for with no joy, so I thought I'd throw it out to you experts here :)

1. When I plug the USB cable in from my Win 7 x64 system, I get the 'USB connected' notification, but this then repeats periodically. I just tried it and it repeated 6 times with roughly 20 second intervals. In this test it stopped after that - although the phone did go to sleep and I then unlocked it. Since then it's no longer showing the USB icon in the tray, but it's not beeping every so often either. On previous tests with both 2.1g and 2.1a4 it continued beeping notifications at me every minute or two.

Is this normal? If not how do I stop it? I don't care about SD card access, I just need it to charge with beeping every minute or so. I've disabled USB debugging which made no difference. Is there an (easy) way to disable the notification and just have it charge silently?

2. Am I likely to see any real performance benefit from either a) installing on NAND rather than SD, or b) using EXT2 if I continue to boot off SD? I know there are theoretical performance gains to be had, and I wondered whether they actually make much difference in real world usage.

Thanks @Poly and the other devs/contributers for this :)

Ruz
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] RuuddieBoy:
Thanks a lot, got it working now!

This build is indeed extremely fast, really nice. But too bad I have the same issue as a few other people had: My wireless is really really slow. I receive an IP addres and I can open google.com; sometimes it'll load half the page and sometimes it won't even load anything. It never even loads the full page. I also can't use Market or any other internet-accessing program. My wireless has a WPA2 protection btw, maybe that's relevant to know in fixing this bug.

Btw, was there a way to completely disable 3G to make sure you don't get charged for internet use? I understood just deselecting 'Data Roaming' doesn't cut it. I now just renamed my APN's address to be sure it can't reach that. I currently don't have a plan with unlimited internet as that's fairly expensive in Canada :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] sora-p:
@RuuddieBoy I usually use "Modem" to turn off and on 3G. It works fine for me. Instead, you can install "APNDroid" from the market. With it, you can switch APN setting easily.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
This is normal, and it drives me nuts too. Go into setting, sounds & display, and uncheck the sdcard notifcations option. That should kill the sound. Also if you use dual mount sd widget, you can access your sdcard; but it is not a free app (Well amost free:D)

IMHO (and what I found), Fat32 speed is a 5; EXT2 is a 6+ and Nand is a 8-9; with an Android phone being a 10

open modem and disable the connection, the only problem is you cannot receive mms if you do that. But it will keep you from accidently using data. Also make sure to uncheck background data, locations and syncing as well. Also go in and delete your APN settings as well
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
The best way to find out what panel type you are is to run from SD first, that way you can try the different panel settings before committing yourself to a Nand flash, that said, you can reflash another nbh as easily.

You could work out which manufacturer made the panel you are using, but that would require disassembling your device, so experimentation is easier.

Usually it's obvious if you have the wrong panel type, the screen may look messy, distorted or just wrong.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] reiteravi:
nice one indeed

but wifi intermittent
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] holmebrian:
im having the same problem not being able to connect to internet

plus i cannot setup my google account it says this:

can't establish a reliable data connection to the server

the wifi cuts out every time i try this

the 3g is not working either

plus the only network operators that show up are:

Cingular

Cingular

voicetro wireless

ATT does not show up at all
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mnjm9b:
it has been hit or miss on installing any of the polymod builds.

and even with a successful install (no errors of any kind. such as I/O errors)

after a reboot I almost always get stuck at:

android_power; wakeup

I have searched, but the only solution I have found is that a re-install is required.

I am still wondering if this is a SDcard issue.

does anyone have this problem with nand?

on the other hand. when it was running I found it to be super fast and after it sat over night... in the morning it seemed even faster.

WIFI was still a bit sketchy (random drops). but it worked.

and then I powered down...crap

trying to reinstall flooded me with I/O errors again.

so I really think it is the sdcard.

I don't have a second card to test at the moment but I will report back later.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
I find it better to Shutdown rather than restart, since there are known issues with the restart/reboot. If you find yourself with a frozen device, then a battery pull seems to be the only way, I regularly shut down when I'm at work, it's never failed to reboot yet.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] st_voss:
It's ok to use zImage-eclair from 20.03.2010 with the polymod 2.1g update.

The kernel part from sourceforge and the polymod Eclair builds are developed

independent from each other. Just two different things that complement each other.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ArvinSR:
Great Work

Kudos to u, polyrhythmic. Really fast response to input, appears to be really stable, using it for about an hour or two now and no issues yet. Congrats again on your great work. It is very much appreciated.:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Ah, loving the dark theme, just installed, and it's already faster than 2.1b, it's looking spangly gorgeous, I may just transfer my mainboard into my customised matt black case :)

New userbar, free for use in your sigs :)