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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
Hey poly, would you mind explaining more about how using default-s.txt changes sleep behavior from that of default.txt? The main reason I ask is because I tried default-s.txt, and any button would wake up the phone - not just the side power button.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] wzzp144:
Help to put files after SD Partition!! plz help

Okay i have created my partition with my SD card. Now where do i put the /conf, /media, /taskiller folder? should i also add them in the root of fat32?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
What are the benefits of the ext2 partition? Is it simply speed or reliability as well? if your not experiencing any issues is it worth the effort?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
@Pandemic187: default-s.txt I created so inexperienced Android users could try zImage3 easier. Since you understand how the files work, you can use the zImage and default.txt that works best for you. Right now I'm working with Newbie16 on zImage6 with pm.sleep_mode=1, it suspends pretty well but segfaults on boot 30% of the time, we're debugging it.

@zzoinks, Biglittlewhateva: No, I've never had those problems, and I use both apps often.

@wzzp144: Follow the instructions in the README.

Partitioning is faster and more stable. If you know what you're doing, it's really easy and worth the time to do.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] vengeance2009:
I spent a good amount of time last Saturday trying to get this work. Today I got it working and I have to say even without a camera and bluetooth...this is still better than Windows Mobile. Much faster and much smoother. I love it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
TX for the reply. I think I will format my SD. It will take me a while, I have to consider what WinMo stuff resides there and I have it packed full. I will report the results. I've had a few minor issues, no stability or speed problems but, some apps do not work and the ringtone issue is annoying as hell.

In one of the screenies you show being connected to a PC. How is that achieved? Is that a dev tool setting?

Last question (for now): after reformatting, are there any special steps I should take? Can I just copy ALL the files from the Android install back or should i start fresh as if it was a first run? TX in advance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] fizzy15:
usb charge using laptop - phone making sound

:confused::confused: hi all.. have a small problem but don't know how to solve...

everytime connected to pc for charging, the phone making sound.. end up I has to turn it to silence... any help will be appreciated..:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
@Biglittlewhateva: That's ADB - Android Debug Bridge, available for Windows and Linux. Lots of tutorials on the internet if you're not scared of the console. As for partitions, you can copy all the files you were using back onto the SD, the system.sqsh and data.img will get installed to the partitions during the install process, and you'll run just as before, but faster. I suggest keeping a backup just in case the install doesn't go perfectly.

@Fizzy15: When you connect to PC it will make the notification sound because if we had a real Android device, you'd be able to access the SD card directly from the computer. EDIT: Go into Settings --> Application --> Development and uncheck USB debugging. That should fix it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mayad79:
Screen orientation

Excellent, I just found out that if you uncheck screen orienatation under settings the screen will correctly rotate back and forth with the slide out keyboard. Perfect.

Also, If you want to conserve battery throughout the day: place the phone in edge thru windows, then bootup eclair. But, to switch to 3g you must go back thru windows.

Thanks again.

Future donater, promise.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ycode90:
Partitioned and booting agian now. ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] fizzy15:
the sound still there

:confused::confused: hi, has follow the instruction, but still there are sound at the phone.. but if charge directly from charger no such sound.. plz help

@Fizzy15: When you connect to PC it will make the notification sound because if we had a real Android device, you'd be able to access the SD card directly from the computer. EDIT: Go into Settings --> Application --> Development and uncheck USB debugging. That should fix it.[/QUOTE]
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
Thanks a bunch, you've been a great help. I will let you know if this resolves some of the odd things I've had happen.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
@polyrhythmic: hey, I didn't see it before, but zen had posted a bunch of apps that got taken out of the recent build. Not sure why, maybe to save space, but I have the calibration app. If you want, I can post it, or send it to you and that way you can throw it in there if need be. All the best, and thanks again.

Matt
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ycode90:
Rebooted. Partitions are a must , way faster and no errors after reboot to winmo . :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
I too repartitioned and have seen vast improvement. It also took care of my no ringtone problem. polyrhythmic you did an outstanding job on this. It is the best version of Android on my phone to date.

The repartitioning didn't fix the wallpaper/pictures page from showing blank images. And, if I go to Dev Tools/Development Settings it crashes Dev Tools (not that I would use it, just putting it out there). Also, I still cannot get GPSTest to find a satellite but, I am indoors and not going to stand outside in 20 degrees to test it. I'll try it again when I have to be outside. ;) It is confirmed working for you guys? Maps cannot get my location either. Seems my GPS isn't picking anything up.

I just noticed my phone is reporting an uptime of 350832 hrs. 25 min. ???????????
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] polyrhythmic:
@krazyc1d: Thanks! I do have that file, I guess I just hadn't uncompressed it. It'll go in the next release.

Sorry, wrong setting! Go into Settings --> Sound and Display and uncheck SD card notifications. That will fix it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] macgar32:
I have the same problem with GPS...

I have found if I open up Google Maps in Windows Mobile and get a lock before launching HaRet that GPS works in Android...But still not getting Speed and Direction.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
I will give that a try. I'm messing with Google Nav now, see how it behaves. I don't think it is going to get a lock either. :(

I have noticed that when I boot back to WinMo (happens with all Android builds on my phone) it causes the time to increase by 5 hours. If Android reports it is 1 am WinMo will say it is 6 am. Happens every time without exception. Does this also happen to all of you?

Update: This time, when booting back to WinMo, time was off by 3 hours 20 minutes. Weird.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] macgar32:
Installation Resolution

For those who like to use the Market make sure when you create your first install to change your resolution to 320 x 480.

You can change it back on next boot to allow you to see all of the applications
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
@ macgar32 That worked here too. It allowed Maps to get my location and let Google Nav as well. I didn't test to see if it followed speed and direction, I will try that tomorrow. Oddly, I still cannot get the weather app to use my location, still have to use a custom local. TX for the tip. ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] pentagramII:
Is there any way to run this version of android on FAT-partitioned card?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] lohtse:
Firstly thank you for your effort.

Have to say it is very much welcome and appreciated...

Have been wondering for sometime why people are loving Android and now can sort of see why...

Having played with it for a day or two (switching back to wm when required) I have to say am impressed by it but I still find it very lacking from my personal point of veiw... Also I have to try so many different apps to find the ones that will fit the screen correctly so am finding it a little annoying but can live with it...

I will keep it on SD card and use it from time to time as there are some very useful apps available which aren't for WM. I also look forward to having Camera working to as I use the camera quite a bit when out working etc.

Please keep up the great work and expect a little donate soon..

regards

Lohtse
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] davebu:
this build seems great, use sprint hero for my main phone and love some of the wallpapers on this rom, cant find them all in the media folder or stored on the phone, can you send them to me or somethin?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
So I am playing around with the zImage6 on my vogue a little, and am noticing that if I press the end button it will sleep. However, if I let the screen dim naturally, it will not sleep, and then I cannot get it to sleep after that, ever. Anyone else noticing this issue at all?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] carcomp:
I'm off do download the android SDK today. If YOU know anything about the battery driver, please PM me with your info. I'm the kind of person who likes to be pointed at a file (or object, or group) and told "heres the file that is broken. Fix it". I don't want to learn the history of filesystems.

I'm gonna try to tackle the battery issue.

Also, why does car-mode or whatever keep getting included on the kaiser? It never looks right on the kaiser native resolution, yet that is what gets called out in the default.txt.

Either include it and use 312x416, or leave it out ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] gogol:
Hi,

Is there any step-by-step instruction how use Android on Kaiser?

Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Newbie16:
After it sleeps can you wait a while, it won't suspend straight away, hopefully it'll make things like the alarm work
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] gogol:
I found this:

http://www.androidonhtc.com/kaiser/install

Probably it would be nice to put it in the first post :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
That works, thanks. I found that it sleeps randomly now. So for instance, I lit the screen up, and my volume was set to silent for some reason. I turned up my volume then pressed the end button and it magically slept!!!! joy. I will go through today and see how it does and let you know what my drain looks like. It didn't look too promising seeing as how after 15 minutes of being off of the charger; the battery information read 88% charged. And after 30-45 minutes of being off it reads 84%. We shall see!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Newbie16:
I added zImage6_b, it spends more time suspended.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
Awesome, I will try it out! Are you on the Kaiser or vogue? My instinct tells me kaiser because of the thread, but I wasnt positive. Great work. Also, what do you have for the pm.sleep_mode on your default.txt?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Newbie16:
I have a kaiser, if you use this cmdline make sure to change the panel type.

set cmdline "pm.sleep_mode=1 ppp.nostart=1 board-htckaiser.panel_type=2 mddi.width=320 mddi.height=480 no_console_suspend board-kaiser-keypad.atttilt=0"

I've been playing with a G1, and it isn't faster than the kaiser, seems to be about the same. I love the kaiser's controls on the front panel, the G1 is a lot harder to control and the chin gets in the way when i'm typing stuff. A stock G1 runs at 384mhz and the kaiser runs at 400mhz, so it shouldn't have trouble with android.

But my kaiser's lcd panel has touch issues, a small dead region at the bottom and the G1's lcd feels a lot nicer to use in comparison. Apart from the LCD i think the kaiser is much nicer.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] enatefox:
carcomp, I believe the power driver is pm.c from the source. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but grabbing the latest tree from dzo, here's where you can browse the applicable files:

http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/mobile-linux/kernel.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-msm;h=9867a4fb607d5f331da7c9986239e2ef0e82fd0b;hb=19820846da63c46161c619f2cae85df83258611e
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
holy battery drain batman! I need to try zImage6_b quick, 6 is dropping fast with this setup!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
Please excuse the stupid questions but I have read the readme for partition setup over and over and even tried to follow the posts in many of the android threads to find the answer, either I'm blind or just not getting it, but I cannot get it to boot from an ext2 partition.

I loaded linux (Ubuntu) on my PC and with my 4gb sd card created a 2gb Fat32 partition, and two 1gb ext2 partitions. Originally I placed everything on the sdcard root (fat32) and ONLY the system. file on the 1st ext2 partition; tried to boot and nothing; I don;t even get to the 1st [VolDwn] option.

So I copied everything to /sdcard/android on the fat32 and on the first Ext2 partition and booted. It seams to boot and I hit [VolDwn] a lot and even get to the "hit any key to boot"; but it then always freezes at the A N D R O I D /bin.shi can't access tty ... part.

So here is what I don't understand, do I place anything on either of the Ext2 partitions during initial setup, or do I leave them blank? What is the sequence of [voldwn] and [EndKey] presses to get this to boot? And do I really need 2 Ext2 partitions?

[edit] One more question, having a multi-partition sdcard, is there a way to access the ext2 partition in android? I can see the FAT32 partition, but I can't find the ext2 partitions.

Thank you very much for everyone's help; and hopefull this will answer questions that others have as well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Biglittlewhateva:
No doubt. I left GPS and Data on all night and when I woke my battery was at 1% :eek: It was so weak when my alarm went off it caused the phone to reboot. :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
have you tried the zImage6_b? I am looking to download that and get that running soon hopefully. Let me know if you have made any progress with it. Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
hey did i miss something, but the zImage6_b is a text file... anyone else?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kr4zyc1d:
I am an idiot. I think. I was having some issues downloading it and with my phone. Sorry.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Pandemic187:
@pentagramII: Yep, just put all the Android files in a folder called android on the root of your FAT partition, and it should boot just fine. The 2x ext2 and 1x FAT32 partition setup is faster, but having just 1 FAT16 or FAT32 partition will work.

@j101399j: First, there's no need for your ext2 partitions to be that large. I have a 4GB card and I made my 2 ext2 partitions 256MB. I'm not sure the exact guidelines on size, but if you look at polyrhythmic's readme for this newest release, he says to create 2 128MB ext2 partitions. In any case, put your Android files only on the FAT32 partition. Then run HaRET, and you should be good.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] prerak4021:
contacts

guys i kno this is dumb question but i jus cant seem to get it..

how do i sync my contacts from my SIM ..or can i just use my contacts from the SIM Card?

i disabled the SIM PIN ..nd still im not able to see my contacts? this is the only thing stopping me from using this rom..

can someone help plz?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] h0mer:
No, currently you can't sync your SIM-contacts. However through a few tricks it's possible. First of all you should copy all your contacts from your SIM to your phone memory (in Windows Mobile). Then you basically sync your contacts from phone memory to your Google account.

After that you boot to android and set up your google account. It should sync the contacts automatically.

Regards,

h0mer
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] prerak4021:
ALright thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aalexandrou:
Hi everyone. A quick question from a complete newbie. I am trying to boot into android for the first time. I saw that it takes some time, but is it supposed to take longer than one hour? I get to the point where it says "creating data area" and then i just get lines and lines and lines and lines of code...

How long should the first boot take?

Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] alias_neo:
Thanks a lot for the Menu key thing, as I'm new to android entirely, and am used to seeing some feedback on the screen (like "press menu to add" or something, i thought it simply wasn't loading, I can confirm my data is now working.)

As for other problems, I have a few questions I wonder if you could confirm or give solutions:

1) I partitioned my card and ran setup, it was pretty fast, couple of seconds, how do I know my device is actually using the partition arrangement correctly? It doesn't seem to run any differently than when it was on FAT32 (except I get the settings not hanging now).

2) The @ and ! keys when I pfress the blue Fn key are switched on my keyboard, is it because i'm UK english? I changed the locale correctly but that makes no difference.

3) Programs like the google quick search (on home screen) say "Audio error" and Shazam says "Could not tag". I upgraded my radio and am currently running the latest from the radio thread, I can make and receive calls no problem and I have system sounds.

4) A lot of stuff doesn't fit on the screen properly, like text in Car Home and input dialogues where the keyboard is on screen etc. Is this normal or fixable?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] a.s.j:
You had to change htc-board-atttilt from =1 to =0
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] riceboyler:
My first boot took about 7 minutes total. Is your SD card fullish? It could be that it's running out of room to build the file system.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kendav911:
Where can I get zImage6_b? I am having severe battery drain. It does not even make it 8 hours. I went out and bought a new extended Battery and no different.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aalexandrou:
Hi. Thanks for responding. I am using an 8GB card that has about 3GB free.

But the process took more than an hour and i stopped it.

I then tried a blank 2GB card. It started booting, at some point the screen when dark and then a strange multicoloured graphic/animation came up, and then i kind of stuck there. It felt like it was a screensaver of sorts

I reset and restarted, and it has been going for about 10 mins, and all i get is loops of lines of code ending with: adsp module audrectask has been registered.

These lines of code are different than those i used to get on my other card.

Will keep trying.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kendav911:
I have gotten that a few times and rebooting into WM and restarting the linux boot process has fixed this for me. Just don't hit any of the keys while it is at the prompt or the boot will be done for.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aalexandrou:
hey Ken,

Thanks for coming back. I formated my sd card and tried again.

I am now looking at the android, but the screen will not respond.

Rebooting as we speak...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] j101399j:
@Pandemic; Thank you very much for explaining. I thought becasue the readme says one partition is system (my system file is 200MB), and one for data (my data.img is always 256MB); plus I did not know if I could access the partitions or not, I made them really big to have plenty of room. Since they are blank and the system file goes on the Fat32; I can shrink them for more space. Since my data.img is 256MB, the 128MB partitions will not be enough; or does the data.img expand across the 2 ext2 partitions?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] relic120:
Works okay

It looks great and does what it say, but there are strange bugs like icons that don't really fit on the screen, in Music player and somewhere else I saw it too. Of course there will be bugs so not complaining, its freaking Awesome that this is running on my old crappy kaiser and in some ways it runs a lot better than winmo. Thanks guys
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kendav911:
Give it a second or two then click on the android. That is the beginning of setup. remember this is beta software and does not run as fast as you are acusotmed too in most cases.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aalexandrou:
Thanks a lot Ken!! It works!!

So when i reboot to go back to WM, to return to android all i need to do is run the boot program again?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dr3w2k:
Having problems partitioning my SDcard. Booting to a Linux Live CD and using cfdisk to create the partitions. 2GB card...1st partition is FAT32, 2nd is 256MB ext2, 3rd is 256MB ext2. Format the ext2 partitions under linux and then format the FAT32 under windows. When I put the card back in my phone, it says "Do you want to format...blah blah". If I say no, I cannot access it. If I say yes, I get an error and then when putting hte card back into my PC all of my partitions are gone.

What am I doing wrong?? :confused: