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[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
You need 3 partitions, in this order, on your SD card :

- FAT32

- ext2

- ext2

If you want, you can add a swap partition after them. But you have to configure it in the *.user.conf file (in conf folder) corresponding to the build you use. I don't know what you have to turn on in this file exactly.

The .img (or .sqsh) file will be extracted on the first ext2 partition when you will run haret and, when prompted, push volume down key to start the installation process. It will ask you if you want to upgrade the system, push vol down again to accept.

After that it will ask you if you want to save your data then if you want to wipe them.

Data are placed on the second ext2 partition. If you are installing a new build it's recommanded to wipe data. You can save your data and restore them if you just want to test an other build.

Other solution is to have your principal system on the partition and when you want to try a new build just run it normally without running the installation process. It will create you a system like if you don't have any parition. Just remove the .sqsh file and data.img to run again the system on the partition.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Nielsomat:
Awesome, thanks Kiiv! Will try it out as soon as I get my new class 6 card. Should make for an even faster system :)

antos79: I think the resolution this pack gives us is the best we can get. As far as I know all devices running Android out of the box have different screen sizes than our beloved polaris which is why most applications wouldn't fit without some interpolation. I wouldn't mind being wrong on this one though :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
I'm using the zImage6_b right now and everything works fine,I'll wait to see how this one affects the battery.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] micuzzo77:
2 quick question:

1) does anybody has Bluetooth working?

2) where i can download zImage6_b ?

thanx a lot
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
1) I'm afraid we'll not have it working for the moment

2) http://ponack.net/poly/suspend_update-9Jan2010.zip

By the way, I'm experiencing a very strange behavior with the files in the SD Card: it seems that the Gallery and Music applications have problems with folders that contain many files. I had a Music folder with more than 200 files and wasn't listed in the app. I deleted some and they appeared surprisingly. Now I have a picture folder (under \SDCard\Pictures) and it's not shown in the Pictures app. But the thing is that they're shown and browsable in file explorers like ASTRO, so they are accessible.

I also have seen that the Music app often fails to start, but it doesn't thrown a "force close", but comes back directly to the desktop without any error message.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] micuzzo77:
thanx man!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
With the zImage6_b use this default.txt:

set RAMSIZE 0x08000000
set MTYPE 1723
set KERNEL zImage6_b
set initrd initrd.gz
set cmdline "board-htcpolaris.panel_type=3 pm.sleep_mode=1 mddi.width=320 mddi.height=480 no_console_suspend board-htcpolaris-battery.battery_capacity=1350 clock-7x00.mddi=0xa51 lcd.density=160 ppp.nostart=1 msm_sdcc.msmsdcc_fmax=32000000"
boot
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
Hi

I haven't encountered any of the problems you mentioned earlier.With the configuration I've posted,only the first time the gallery loaded the files a little slower.One or two times happened to see a keyboard "force close" or "wait" message.

BTW,which zImage,roofs and default.txt are you using?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
<-- METHOD 1 --> (using Live CD)

This is a free solution as long as you have a blank CD, a CD burner, and the previously mentioned SD reader.

1. First, download Ubuntu (free download of a linux OS).

2. Burn the ISO image to a cd. (ImgBurn or Ashampoo are free solutions).

3. BACKUP everything from your microSD (partitioning will wipe your card clean).

4. Once that is done, place the CD in your computer and reboot.

5. It'll start up asking you to select a language. Pick one (probably english).

6. Choose "Try Ubuntu without installing to your computer" (make sure you pick this option so you don't go installing Ubuntu to your computer). It'll load Ubuntu on your computer temporarily.

7. - 13. Steps found below

<-- METHOD 2 --> (dual booting)

This is a free solution as long as you have the previously mentioned SD reader.

1. First, download Ubuntu (free download of a linux OS)

2. Next, download Wubi to the same folder as Ubuntu (Wubi's website)

3. Follow instructions here to install Wubi: http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php

4. BACKUP everything from your microSD (partitioning will wipe your card clean).

5. Reboot your computer, picking Ubuntu instead of Windows on the boot screen. [Screenshot]

6. Login to Ubuntu. Now we will need to install the partition editor:

-Go to Applications and click "Add/Remove Programs"

-Search for "Gnome Partition Editor"

-Check the box next to the name and apply the changes

-That will install the partition editor you need.

7. - 13. Steps found below

<-- STEPS 7 to 13 -->

7. Plug in your microSD to your computer. Click on "System" and pick "partition editor"

8. From the drop down, select your SD card (probably second option on there). Make sure you select your SD card and not your hard drive. Check the size of the partition you are working with because this can mess up your computer if you format your hard drive instead of the SD card.

9. Right click on the partition and select "Unmount" then Delete the existing partition.

10. Create a new partition (FAT32 format) and allocate a certain amount of space.

11. Create a new partition out of the unallocated space (EXT2 format) and give it the rest of the remaining space. If you did it correctly, you should see two primary partitions, one as FAT32 with most of the space and one as EXT2 with a smaller portion of space (depending how much you want to give to each partition).

12. Apply the changes and it should say it was successful.

13. Close the window then click the top right corner (power icon). Shut down the computer. (Method 1 should remove the CD at this point). Reboot your computer. (Method 2 can uninstall Ubuntu like any other program at this point to undo the changes to your computer). You are done

<-- METHOD 3 -->

Follow instructions here to use Paragon Partition Manager:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=512873
[Touch Cruise Android Development] xmen06:
i am going to be crazy !

I have format the sd with 3 partitions

Fat32 with the unzipped pack

Two ext2 partition

When i start the haret prog the screen is multicolor and nothing happen

I have a polaris 100
[Touch Cruise Android Development] antos79:
Have you set board-htcpolaris.panel_type=0 in your default.txt?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] antos79:
Thank you Nielsomat for your explanation. So the only android rom which supports polaris resolution (240x320) is the Tattoo one (1.6 donut)...is it right?:confused:
[Touch Cruise Android Development] xmen06:
I have managed to make it work it is damn pretty fast thx all i have modified the default.txt type
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
Congratulations! The good thing about learning to do something is that you can later spread the word :P
[Touch Cruise Android Development] gaiter:
Telfort nl

Works like a charm, but can't seem to get the telfort settings right.

so can only connect to the net with wifi

Anyone succeeded with this?

Thx.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kevinmayer86:
you can try changing the screen resolution on your default.txt

change

mddi.width=320 mddi.height=480

to

mddi.width=240 mddi.height=320

and i haven't been able to get wifi to work on this version. is it just me? i'm running a POLA100

edit: I was able to get wifi working. I was using the most recent version of rootfs, when i should have been using rootfs-2010-01-06a from http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidhtc/files/
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
I think '0' is deprecated, for some no sleeping screen reason, isn't it?

Try with '1' for POLA100.

@antos79 : Normally, after android 1.6, all builds should support 320x240. But in this resolution, you don't have all market applications available, so it's a personal choice to make ^^

To complete what kevinmayer86 said, if you set a resolution of 320x480, set lcd.density to 160.

If you set a resolution of 320x240, set lcd.density to 120.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] ezman:
anybody got any ideas on this prob above :confused: why wouldn;t i be able to get 3G or any data at all. I am on voda uk using the APN: internet with username:web and password:web - works on WM6 but not android! How can this be?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] antos79:
Thank you Kiiv. I've tried to boot android with 320x240, lcd.density=120 and I've to say that it's a lot better!! I didn't tried to install any market application, but I think the screen appearance is IMHO a more important issue.

I've also tried the panel_type=1 but I didn't see any difference...maybe i'm not looking for the right issue...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vestlink:
Im with you.

Every thing works great with those settings.

Will try installing from Market later as I can't get it to work with my Win7 86_64 via USB

Nico
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
More problems:

- Audio input not working! (Shazam, any audio recorders).

- Some apps suddenly close. I noticed that those apps are the ones that read from the SD card intensively, like Music and Pictures.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] DesertsStorm:
Tried searching but found no reasonable answer, although there are many people experiencing that:

mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: Invalid argument

Failed

Failed to Mount SD Card

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Do I have to reformat/partition my 8GB MicroSD card somehow so it could be mounted?

P.S. I have Polaris 100.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] dwizard:
Same here.

Can anyone comment about this, did any of you get 3G working?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
It's not to late, I've tested this build! But I've got a big problem :/

At boot time, every time the process want to write something on the SD card, it says that the filesystem is read-only -_- So it doesn't want to update my system! I'm stuck with the tattoo one...

I don't know what to do, I've got the problem with all sqsh files... If someone already had this problem...

I don't want to format my SDCard again, it will be the last choice if you don't have any other idea :/
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
Yes, it does for me!

I don't know why, but I also have problems with the file system. I have lots of pictures and they're not shown into the Gallery. But it's strange enough that with ASTRO, every folder is there :(
[Touch Cruise Android Development] ezman:
i've tried a few different zimage's - still the same result - wonder what it is :confused:
[Touch Cruise Android Development] scripttec:
i had a similar problem like you...

first at all everything worked fine (3G signal, UMTS/HSDPA data connection), but then it suddenly stopped working. everything!

no more signal; android said "sim card not allowed"

reboot to WM and everything was fine again, so it was no network (3 AT) issue

booted Eclair again - still same problem, no signal anymore

only "fix" that helped for me was to delete the data.img on sd card.

after it (new creation) it was working normal again :confused:

yes, can confirm both problems :(

the cam is also not working on my device (pola100) and it seems that there's a problem with gps.

the gps-test app is working, but never gets a fix position; same with google maps.

anyone else noticed this?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] jokz:
Strange problem to me: I can connect with wifi, can surf the http website but no https and cannot syncronize nothing because of connection.

Also I insert manually the correct apn but doenst works, the connection does not start at all.

Any idea?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
I've noticed that if I change the screen resolution to 240x320 lcd.density=120,I see only grey squares in galery,when I revert to 320x480 lcd.density=160 everything goes back to normal and another problem is that I cannot set the walpaper from the gallery "the application Camera(processcom.android.gallery)has stopped unexpectedly.Please try again"
[Touch Cruise Android Development] sintaq:
hi all..

1st of all..this Eclair rock!

my phone was able to received call but was not able to receive SMS. other than that, seems all the features(wifi,alarms etc) are working.i'm still exploring and will report back. thanx!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] luzbel_es:
This release its nice but I have same issue. I have a lot of music but it found only 1 album. Really strange. Anyone knows what is the state of the deployement of Bluetooth module? Thanks for all. I love this andorid!! :D
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vestlink:
Screen not aligned.

Does any of you have problems with the screen not being properly aligned?

I have tried to align the screen, but the application wont start

Nic
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
first of all many thanks, your package is very usefull for noob like me

I manage to boot and make it work with french settings

But when i have to put my pin number : it says incorrect pin, your device is locked

Maybe i've mess during the long install

When i try to erase the data file, the next boot doesn't ask me for parameters and i just land into pin window, for the same result :(

maybe i 'bve to boot my debian and try to erase some ext2 stuff....

On the other side, this kernel seems to be very smooth and nice

Thank you for your help
[Touch Cruise Android Development] scripttec:
disable the pin in WM and you should be fine...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Nielsomat:
Quick question regarding this build: does camera or 3g/wifi localisation work for anyone?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
thank you , i guess it works despite of lower security....

but i d'ont know how to do this, can you help a little bit more

thank you
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Nielsomat:
chourmovs: you can disable SIM PIN through WM's phone settings. E.g. boot into Windows Mobile, go to Settings -> Personal (or System, not quite sure) -> Phone.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
You must have wrong lcd.density setting... Read previous posts for the correct value...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] roomer11:
Nope.. not for me.. cannot get it to connect to 3G or surf the internet on 3G, tried numerous SFR APN settings but to no avail. :(
[Touch Cruise Android Development] raist1976:
APN doesnt' work here either ... something's wrong.

Maybe because I didn't create dedicated partions on the SD card ? but I doubt it...

I have SFR 3G illimythics... (not full internet, but can surf without probleme on wm6.1). Would it be a problem specific with SFR and android ?:confused:
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
Perfect it rocks now, thx

Hope this post will be updated often to grant us last advances :D
[Touch Cruise Android Development] miclaus_man:
Android

It is really so good this Android???!!! I can see no reason to flash my phone, as I can see no reason to install Linux on my desktop computer... Please let me know some reasons...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Nielsomat:
Internet access over 3G works fine for me, I was referring to the localisation ("you are here X") feature which doesn't work for me. Neither in Google Maps, nor in 3rd party apps (various weather widgets).

How I got Internet access working:

I first deleted all existing APN: Settings -> Wireless -> Mobile Networks -> APNs -> For each click on it, then select "Delete APN" from the menu (invoked by the button under hang up on the polaris).

Then I created a new APN. Ask your carrier for the details you have to enter, oftentimes only the APN name is needed. Save the APN and make sure it is selected.

Activate flight mode (press & hold hang up button until menu appears) and wait until your are disconnected.

Disable flight mode again, wait a few seconds and you should be good to go.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
i'm trying it for 2 days now

android may be a good alternative for person who want to eye candy their polaris for just the cost of 400 mb on their sd card

Animtions are even smoother and everything is working well for me except gps and camera

it really beat the boring windows mobile on style, ergonomic and ease of use , that's a little bit surprising

Let's try and report bugs

I've noticed that it consumption is greater than on carvalo's rom, even with all wifi ,gps and 3g turned off

What can i do to fix this or improve it
[Touch Cruise Android Development] miclaus_man:
;)

Just quit using it and flash pcar's
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
i"m on last pcar with 1.59.xx.xx radio

maybe yu joke or i don't understand
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
Ok, the problem come from the last rootfs on sourceforge! So don't use it! ^^

Everything works fine for me : data connection, wifi, GPS, call... But the problem with sleep mode on 2.x build drain the battery drastically!! No more than a half day without wifi! I came back to Donut v242 for now. Waiting for the next release :)

But the OS is much more complete than 1.6, it will be something good :)

@miclaus_man : read this if you want
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
Have you tried the zImage6_b?On my device with this kernel the battery lasts for 2 1/2 days with rootfs 06.01.2009with wifi turned off
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
great i've just installed it

I noticed that rootfs 07.01.2009 didn't work for me

i stay tuned !!!
[Touch Cruise Android Development] manu33xtro:
Hi everybody,

You should see the following site :

This is the must for all users with polaris.

I use every day :)

Just one thing : impossible to use with nand...

Thanks again to polyrhythmic ;)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] pvoveris:
I've been able to load it up on my Orbit II and it runs pretty well. The only thing I am having difficulty with is getting the browser to zoom, anyone have a hint as to how to do it?

Cheers,

Peter
[Touch Cruise Android Development] SuperJMN:
Double tap on the screen and tell me if it works :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] flaviusio:
Hi everyone,

Does anyone have any knowledge and time to develop a nand bootloader for polaris like the one this guys are trying to do here: Kaiser
[Touch Cruise Android Development] pvoveris:
Thanks, but it was one of the first things I tried, but no, does nothing. The screen is responsive as I can select links, but I cannot get it to zoom in at all other than going into the menu and specifying a size. Otherwise, slow tapping, quick tapping, nothing. Also, does not automatically rotate the screen either.

Cheers,

Peter
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vestlink:
density is set to 120
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
Yes, it's the one I'm using :/ The phone does not turn in sleep mode with this build. There is no problem with Donut build.

@vestlink : And you are in resolution 320x240 ?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] fusione:
Windows sucks
[Touch Cruise Android Development] vestlink:
Yes that is my resolution...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] johndaniel:
help needed pls

iam having htc polaris i hav downloaded the eclair pack and saved to my sd card and now when i boot into haret it give me a error that "cant find system..img"wat hav i done wrong here and wat should i do to make this eclair anaroid run.pls help someone.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] rhov23:
I made it work yesterday on my Pola100 Changed Paneltype value to 1

And copied everything to the root of my device's sd (Not the catalogue, but everything in the eclair catalogue directly on the root, not subfolders though)

U must check if u have pola 100 or 200.

It works smooth as butter here. Only camera doesnt work. Everything else I've checked has worked smoooth, and I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO ANYTHING CALLED WM 6.5 or earlier.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] micuzzo77:
don't forget BT...it still does not work :(
[Touch Cruise Android Development] KeRmiT80:
i love this version but have 3 problems:

-no camera, can't find even the application shortcut???

-no music! i mean with astro browser i can see files in sd card, but with 3 different players none recognised even 1 music file

also i cannot set any ringtone, i have media folder in sd root readable by astro but not from the system or any other progs.

-i cannot import contact from sim, i can read sim select all but cannot import.

and off course if i receive a call it shows the number and name, but if i search in contacts...empty

anyone has the same problems?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] micuzzo77:
pay attention that the name of the files inside the file "defoult.txt" are the same of the one inside the root folder.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] bbezja1:
the problem is what it tells you. you either do not have "system.img" file or its named wrong.

system-24-11-2009.img IS NOT system.img

system.rar IS NOT system.img

etc

oh and phone might show you system.img but it is actually system.img.img because it doesnt show the extensions. use activesync and name the file correctly
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
Strange :( I've never got this kind of prob in any build.. Sorry, I've no idea..
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
I had the same i think

After importing my sim contacts, i didn't see any contact in contact tab :cool:

So here is my solution

go in your display preference on contact, develop your account and check "display all contacts"

it's done for me :)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] edmc73:
i had the same problem, i rename the folder media by "Ma musique" because i'm in french language and it's work !

Try this.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] miclaus_man:
Eclair

I just gave it a chance, but... I had run Android on my Polaris, but looks not so good, it has a small resolution. Bluetooth, camera, GPS, Youtube doesn't work. Also when I connect it to USB pot on my computer, it made big noise every few seconds, even I disabled developer mode. It takes 1% battery power every 5-10' when connected to WIFI when in standby mode. So, I decide, pcar 28014 3D is the best for Polaris! If somebody wants Android, just buy an Android phone - check Nexus One...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] KeRmiT80:
i tried renaming media to My Music but nothing...

now i'm trying for the first time to use the partitions method to see how it works...

i made 3 partition i put all the files in the firsto of fat32 and the installation process is ok, booting right now...

now my question is: can i delete the files in the fat32 partition or i still need some of them?

if i change zimage do i have to format and reinstall again?

i made a 120 mb and a 350 mb ext2 partitions...any suggested size?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] Kiiv:
I think for a first try you had to use a more stable build than Eclair. Camera, GPS and many other things work very well on them... Battery too!

If you can judge an OS by using it 10', as you wish... Stay in the dark :D

But yes, Android on Polaris is always a "work in progress", but I'm using it for about 6 months now, and everytime I came back under winmo, I cried... Just typing a text message is a pain :/
[Touch Cruise Android Development] miclaus_man:
Eclair

No offense, I did not use just 10 minutes, and typing a message is worst in Android, smaller keys, or are you using speech recognition? :) And I found no way to make camera, gps and Youtube work on it... Do you have any hint for me?