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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
How to create partitions on SD card directly in Android Terminal!

OK... help for those who have any problems with partitions... you can use standard fdisk tool within Android, as you would in any other Linux distro :)

I had problems with installing to partitions, they were not recognised and android allways installed into IMG files. So I just booted the Android and did following:

1) Open Terminal App

2) issue su command (followed by enter)

3) issue fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0

4) when prompted type p to see what partitions I had on the SD Card and take the note of cylinder count, you will need it (See EDIT #2)

5) use d and number of the partition to delete them (you can delete all partitions, because Android runs in BusyBox :) )

6) use n followed by p and partition number to create new partition

7) use t to change the partition type to hexcode b for FAT32 for first partition. Do not forget to state the size of the partition as +size to leave at last 69631 cylinders of space for other partitions! (See EDIT #2 again :D )

8) use n, p and number of partitions with size of +32768 (256MB) for two ext2 patritions

9) use n and p with number 4 for Swap partition.

10) to change the partition type to Swap use t again with hexcode 82 for partition number 4

11) use w to write changes (you can allways use q qo quit without saving changes

Do not forget to backup all the things on your SD card, because it will

destoy them all

!

After that put your card back to the PC. Windows should promt you to reformat Partition 1 to FAT32 again... (you can check Computer->Manage->Disk Devices to see all partitions were created correctly)

Then load all the data from backup back to the card and go again for Instalation... At this time it should ask you to chose the install to partition or file...

Nice one... Worked for me like charm :D:D:D

Now I am gonna test how Android works again :D

EDIT:

1) Formating 1st partition to FAT32 is propably not an option in android this way, because it is still used to host android files, so you have to do that in Windows again

2) Use Sizes in Cylinders not MBs... othervice you can get partition end not on cylinder boundary warning and windows tending to mess up partition table, so as an example what I did on my 4GB SD:

P1 (FAT32 type b) Starting cylinder default ending cylinder 421696 (3,22GB)

P2 (Ext2 type 83) Starting cylinder default ending cylinder +32768 (256MB)

P3 (Ext2 type 83) Starting cylinder default ending cylinder +32768 (256MB)

P4 (Swap type 82) Starting cylinder default ending cylinder default (32MB)

3) Never take off your SD card while Android is running! Try to avoid resets at all costs, even when Android hangs up, it is normally possible to turn it of in legal way! You have been warned, taking the SD card off without switching your phone off of android will Break all filesystems!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
CLID still could not be changed (Issue)

Hi All...

I know that the devs have hard times to work on all those wonderful builds, but there si still one thing that prevents me to use Android all the time... :(

My operator (VodafoneCZ) defaults CLID setting to Hide to all... So I have to go to the Call setup and change the CLID to Show to all... but in the moment I do that the radio crashes immediately and I lose all the contact with the network.

What I mean is, that I do not want to call others with "secret" number but when I try to change that I am not able to call at all :(

Is there anything I can provide to you to help with that issue? Is there anyone, who had that issue too? I had it in all the builds around, but It seems, that no Dev so far took a look at that... :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] pentagramII:
I've got really strange problems :/ Wifi is working but i cant to open any webite/ market or anything else...

The second problem... Voice calls... Not working too, im pressing phone number and try to call... NOPE... the phone app force closes. Any suggestion?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Sulphy:
No support for 02 UK

Got it installed on NAND, but does not pick up the O2 UK network... got pretty much all the others... pity!!! oh well....! maybe next version might have some luck.... *sigh* back to the iPhone slavery
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
That would be nice, except iGO is not a free app. Same goes for CoPilot. Because Google navigation is free, that is all that is included

@a.s.j; Nice guide and that is going to make life a lot better. I'll add it to the FAQ's. Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zzoinks:
First off, thanks to you for all your work in getting things this far. It's really breathing new life into my again Kaiser and keeping me from getting the urge to drop more $$ on a newer phone.

As for specific Java apps, I was hoping to try out Opera Mini Beta 5. It's my favorite browser so far under WinMo.

Also - I see that the "Genie Widget (a.k.a News and Weather app)" is supposedly included but I can't find it. I installed to a partitioned SD card, not nand. Is there a standalone .apk to install it?

Thanks!

-Brett.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jessnuman:
ok, have a tytnII in uk

Trying the 2.1 build on sd card, copied over the andboot dir to fat32 4gb sd card

But, after running Haret, starts up linux, keeping the camera button down, but getting this

Hold dpad center to launch installer

[ 5.474311] TS Calibration 3200 3955 255 4 4091

sh:2 unknown operand

losetup: /dev/block/loop1: No such file or directory

Failed

Failed to reach system.img on SD Card

Looked at FAQ but that not helping ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
With Alfa4 sou have to look at the screen... there is moment during boot where android says: Hold down D-Pad button to run the installer...

So just do what it asks... it does not use Camera button anymore :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] neoblast:
hi im having some problems with android on my tilt. Ive nand flashed it, but market and some other apps always crashes. I dont know what i have to do and ive searched on this thread to find a solution without success.

If you have any idea what the problem could be, please tell me! ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] havulm:
I understand, but I didn't use anyone's work, I was just quoting a different user slm4996 who brought the work from mssmison on Vogue to the Tilt. I guess he did himself ask before he used it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] R3TR3C:
Any ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] havulm:
By the way, the maker of said build is aware of your work:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jessnuman:
sorted, when i used the correct button, :)

all installed a treat

running pretty well too
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] B1nny:
is it also possible to try running this android version of the SD card, on a HTC Touch-Dual??
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
Did you flash the NBH file first? You don't install anything to do with android untill you flash your phone. Then when the flash is complete, you pull the battery.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
HW Keyboard fancy bug with ","

Hi, while trying to do mount -o remount,rw blablalba I've found strange behaviour...

on first use of , it just starter to run with writing bunch of "," until I pressed other key and after that I was not able to write any "," again until reboot... can anyone confirm?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] R3TR3C:
Yes ofcourse I did. I flash the .nbh via my SD card and then when it says complete I pull out the battery for a minute or two. Only problem is instead of the linux boot it just sits at my splash screen and when I flash over USB it tells me that the current image name is "". It seems like it isnt flashing anything.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] B1nny:
i got it running in my niki!!!!

its laggin but running!

ill upload pics soon, i gotta eat :P
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] katwork:
I noticed the same thing. Found it here though the Clock app doesn't show the weather for me like it did in previous alphas. Clock always says "Weather information currently unavailable."
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] decipher:
im trying my first android nand flash i have flashed the nbh and when i hold the center button i dont get a install just says install buttons and #1 is fix permissions. what did i do wrong? thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] B1nny:
right now im going to make some pictures of it, and make a little film for youtube.

ill post this in the NIKI section
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] slm4996:
My apologies if needed

I would like to apologize if I have offended anybody, I did not re-compile anything. I simply edited the tar to include updated init and build scripts and newer wireless scripts.

If anybody has an issue with it I will immediately remove my link and download package.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
I've noticed this happens if there is a problem with the install files on sd card, best fix is to reformat the sd card, copy the install files again, note there should only be 2 folders and a readme file on root.

andboot

taskiller

readme.txt

If you wish you can copy your nand installer nbh file to root as well.

I use kaisimg-panel2-480-15-02-10.nbh which I renamed to KAISimg.nbh, since I find it best to flash from SD.

flash the installer, remove the battery when update is sucessful, replace the battery, press power button, watch the screen for the d-pad message, ( or hold d-pad centre down), the install menu should now show correctly.

Hope that helps some. :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] B1nny:
here is a link to my thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5651107#post5651107
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] decipher:
Got it running thanks now im just trying to change the density in terminal. While running terminal i hit su etc commands and hit return after each line then exit and nothing happens what do i need to hit? or did wrong in terminal

Thanks. Almost there.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] knytphal:
One thing that I have to do - even still though I've flashed the build to NAND - is to ensure that the first thing I do after rebooting the device is to make a phone call right away. I usually just call voicemail. Otherwise, outgoing calls will not work after the first incoming call. It'll just show the dialing screen and immediately end the call.

Try that....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] CYDVicious:
How do you change the LCD Density in the terminal, and is it permanent at that point or something needed every boot?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
You did everything correct, and yes it sounds like it did not take the flash. Try flashing back to winmo via sdcard to make sure the flash is working. and try again.

Once you edit the file (per the FAQ's), you have to reboot for the changes to take affect. So it will stay that way untill you change it again
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] vinceweis:
I also had this happen. I pressed the Fn button twice to lock the Fn and it then seemed to behave normally so I did not have to reboot. I did have to get used to immendiately pressing the back arrow (del) to stop the commas and enter the command. Using the double press of the Fn made it a little easier.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] lupick:
End Button issue

Hi

I've a problem whne I want to hang a call on my Kaiser.

Instead of using red button I've to use the power button!!

Anyone has got the same issue???

I'm using board-kaiser-keypad.atttilt=0 on default.txt in order to have the right mapping on the keyboard.

thank's

L.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] plutarcian:
hi. same thing is happening to me too. its getting stuck at the splash screen. can u provide the link to the nbh file? just to be sure ? and to make things clear, i just copy the kaisimg.nbh (according to my panel and resolution ) and the androidinstall.tar in the root of my sd and flash ( reset with camera ) right ??

the how to says all files are in the zip file from the first post but the nbh aint there. i think we just confused/mixed some files

thanks again
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] nyunyu:
Is this message normal?

Showed right after I clicked on Install.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] manu33xtro:
Hi,

Well, WiFi is ok but same problem : impossible to have access on any web or market...

PentagramII : maybe a wrong version of zImage : I have same problem with zImage-16-02-10 of Vilord... I use one before :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mnjm9b:
Eureka!!!

OK...

so just in case anyone cares.

I finally got this to work.

After formatting and reformatting, downloading and redownloading, upgrading downgrading and re-upgrading again. installing hardspl, changing my radio, trying several different default.txt files. and never getting past "Go Go Go..."

It ended up being that the files were getting corrupted when I transfered them via FTP to my phone.

I reformatted one last time and transfered the files via USB and all is good.

it installed flawlessly.

I did however need to manually set the LCD Density to 160.

and I also couldn't get the internet to work or Market or sync google until I manually entered DNS #'s

***EDIT*** If you think your wifi is connected but you get no internet, try entering your router settings IP address in browser to see if it works.

I just added my ISP's DNS into my phone's wifi settings as just entering the routers address didn't seem to help. even though it usually does.

as others have said...this is slow. even after killall mediaserver and turning off animations. I have used bloated HERO versions that seem to be faster?

I am betting that nand would be faster but I must wait for bluetooth for that. (I cant be without tethering my head to my phone...lol )

but I am still very impressed. GOOD JOB Polyrhythmic!!!

now if I could only get Advanced Launcher to work on this.

I am really obsessed with keeping programs arranged in category folders.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] the-nj:
wired problem

hey

after installing NAND on my kaiser now i have wrong pixels everywhere...

what can i do top change that?

and half the programms are missing...like settings i dont have them anymore...and there is no terminal programm...

how do i get them back?

i restored the /data partition that i used before?

should i just reinstall it without using the databackup?

thanks

nick
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] manu33xtro:
Look for your kaiser version 1, 2 or 3 : behind the battery you have the version like 130 for example : take the good version in : http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/files/?C=M;O=D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] supperbas:
Ey I was wondering, does any of you guys have problem with the Alarm?

For some reasons it looks like that when the phone enters sleep mode for a couple of hours it won't wake up for the alarm anymore :S

But this is not always the case, it almost looks like it's random when it will or won't go off.

A second note is that it seems that this build works quite slower compared to a2 this might has to do with quite some background processes that randomly start in the background while I never opened similar processes.

Maybe it's just me, but I was wondering if anyone else has the same kind of problems.

Still the build works great! and you're doing an awesome job here!!

Kaiser, Sdcard, fat32, alpha 4 (uninstalled facebook apk, and exchange apk)

// edit

Ooh and I also have a short 'lag' when I press the power button, the screen goes black but if I press a button within a second or 2 seconds it 'wakes up' again.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] plutarcian:
hey all. managed to install on nand . does anyone know how to put a custom resolution like 250*360 . and wifi connects but doesnt browse and work on market or let me register on google
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] :
Thanks for your reply. I will now try A4 and see if there a notable changes for me!

Thanks for al the hard work!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
I am sure you did this, but I will cover it again to make sure. (sorry if I am telling what you already know/did)

Download the alph4 version, unzip it to your PC. Copy the andboot folder to your sdcard. The file androidinstall.tar needs to be in the andboot folder. Copy the kaisimg.nbh to the root of your sdcard. Reset the phone, while holding the power button and camera button. The flash screen will apper; press power to flash. Once it is completed, pull the battery for 1-2 minutes. Put the battery in and turn on the phone. It should be the linux boot text you are used to. Press and hold the center D-pad and you should get the install menu. Select NAND install and you should be good to go.

One thing and I did put this in the walkthrough; Always download the files to your PC first, unzip/edit them as needed, then transfer them to your phone/sdcard. If you download/unzip/edit the files on your phone, you can get messed up files.

If it still does not work, reformat your sdcard twice and try again. The only reason a nbh flash would not work is becasue the sdcard is not working or the nbh file is bad.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] plutarcian:
thnx for the reponse. i figured it out by hit and trial. there is one thing i dont understand though. if i try to boot it without sdcard it keeps givning me a message about waiting for sdcard. i thought we could boot it off nand alone???

thnx for the help
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] slm4996:
The card is not actually being used to load info, You can remove it later if you want. I do not know why the "waiting for sd" card message never times out but could that be done?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Ok after 24 hours my battery is still good, Polymod is still working wonderfully, WiFi, GPS, data, calls all working fine, sleeps, wakes, charges, just Works....

Some minor issues, still needs to have an SD inserted to boot, but any SD will do, in fact I have a 4Gb one in just now for music while I type this, strangely WiFi seems slower than 3G, not sure why this should be so, still checking that out.

All in all, I see no reason why I would want to go back to winmo now, I don't use bluetooth, or camera, so I'm not concerned by the lack of those services, reboot might be useful if I ever really had to, but so far it actually seems more stable than the usual WM6.5 roms I was used to.

Installation is pretty easy with the latest dzo nbh's, nice to have d-pad functioning like it's supposed to, speed is good, FC's are less common also.

Just one question really, swap, haven't had a chance to really investigate yet, so I'm asking out of sheer laziness, is it used? As standard I mean, I'm guessing it would be possible to set up a swap partition on SD, however that'd tie us to a partitioned SD, what about a nand swap partition? is that possible?

Anyway with that food for thought, I'm gonna just go play with my new old phone a while... :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] LamaForce:
Ey, I have problems with installing this version on ext2. I use a 1gb card and my question is if this card is big enough. The problem is as follows:

I run Haret, get into the install menu, select both of the ext2 options and run install system after that. Than the screens shows formating and some other text for a few minutes and after this it says "format failed" and something that there was too less space.

When I try to run it normal, so just from fat32, everything is ok.

I have partitioned it like this

fat32 443mb

ext2 265mb

ext2 265mb

But can't imagine this is the problem, because i have even tried it with every partition having 325mb of space and got the same error. I have tried very often to get it running, partitioned it very often, read loads of stuff on the net so this is my last hope to get this running ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] alim274:
HELP!! I flashed the ruu.nbh Nand provided link in the first post but the bootloader is stuck. I cannot get past anything. I cant even flash to another ROM. PLEASE HELP!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jrmurph:
The main Kaiser development thread has a sticky post at the top with links to all the information you need to recover from this. There is one specifically in there for recovering from stuck bootloader.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] XGX5309:
I love how so far this is only just a rough version, but from NAND it already is more responsive than WinMo. I LOVE it!! I would donate if I weren't a broke college student!! Please keep up the hard work, it's very much appreciated.

On a side note... is there any way to calibrate the screen when installed to NAND, the screen calibration tool keeps crashing.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] knytphal:
A few things that I noticed this afternoon.

I have to power my phone off while at work and when I turned it back on I also got the acore force close message. I'm not too worried about it as everything seemed to come back just fine after a bit.

Does the call log not get saved on a power down? I see that it's back to being empty after powering up.

This last thing may be related to the acore force close, but I'm not positive - I had to go into the settings to select my locale (English US) as the time display was incorrect.

Anybody else seeing these issues? They're not deal breakers - well, it would be nice to have the call log saved.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ajclai08:
Even with some native android phones with less ram and certain ROMS they need a SD card..even too boot properly. Apps2SD is also a option that requires a partition, but theres ways of doing that without leaving android. The point of the Swap partition is to free up the nand, having a swap on it would be pointless because the 256mb the kaiser has is basically partitioned hardware wise anyways. If anything, a fast SD card is what keeps the Kaiser alive. Most Androids ship with a SD card too so it's basically tied to the OS for more functionality,caching, even some bigger sized apps like games install files onto the SD. Sure, everything running from the on board memory will be fast, but the kind of boost a SD cards give the device is much more than just storage.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] knytphal:
Well, something to add to this I guess - I noticed that my exchange and facebook sync accounts needed to be added again. They were still in the system, they just weren't working.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kaboofa:
Has anyone else had issues getting DNS to work under WiFi with 2.1a4? Whenever I try to ping something by hostname I get "ping: bad address", but if I ping by IP, the packets get through.

I have tried using:

setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8

setprop net.tiwlan0.dns1 8.8.8.8

setprop dhcp.tiwlan0.dns1 8.8.8.8

adding nameserver entries to /etc/resolv.conf
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] knytphal:
Hmmm.....had the browser lock up the system on me, did a soft reset, now I'm in an android.process.acore force close loop. Not my most lucky day I guess.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dyetheskin:
does nand need any sd partitions,can it help if they're needed?