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[Hero CDMA General] ukcatsfan:
not real sure about pushing files, all ive done is flash really with my phone. i did the google voice thing, got i tset up and it went well. only thing is i can see the vm on the app, but when i try to play, it shows like its playing, but i cant hear anything. anybody have any ideas. thanks for everyones help
[Hero CDMA General] unCoRrUpTeD:
Is it coming out of the era piece or whatever you call the thing. It's automatically setup to go throught that.

I learned the hard way. Called sprint, chatted with them to no avail. i could not remove conditional call forwarding. The kept telling me *720..

It didn't work. *730 and *720 will remove call forwarding. You have to do both if you did*28
[Hero CDMA General] digital_cha0s:
hey working method to install This Should Work "Worked for me anyways"

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You can alway make a back up of build.prop by making a copy and renameing it to build.prop.bak fyi

"the value in build.prop where it says something like VVM=true needs to be set to false, then you can grab it from the market.

just searched...

its about 3/4 of the way down, saying vvm is preloaded, change it to false." "all pulled from another post somewhere"

this has worked for me again after changing up to GummyJar 2.5

ohh and change permissions for Vvm.apk in root explorer just ck them all thats what i did and the attached file has everything done but permissions and placement of files goodluck and dont forget to make a backup & reboot

1 mount system/apps R/W

2 place vvm.apk in system/apps

3 change permissions "ck them all even tho the first two user ones and the first 1 on the other 2 should be good"

4 make backup of build.prop you already have by renameing it to build.prop.bak

5 place attached build.prop "came from Droid2" to system or just make a copy of your own open it with notepad on your PC and edit it

6 reboot should be installed in the app drawer

Goodluck and hope that was detailed enough

this method has worked on my Droid 2 and my Droid 2 Global and someone elses Droid X it should work for you too
[Hero CDMA General] pm5kornirvana:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=982966

i have a hero cdma and this worked for me. just did it a couple hrs ago
[General Topics] Archon810:
Guys,

I think everyone nowadays is quick to judge Android and Google for fragmenting the OS with multiple (4) versions but I think it was a necessary for success side effect. Without the humongous push that Google has done with Android, it wouldn't have been where it is now.

If you haven't heard, Google shared its plans to battle fragmentation which I mentioned as well.

What do you think? Do you think if Google slowed down back then (1.5/1.6), they would have ended up with Android that is as awesome as today?
[General Topics] |Jason8|:
Right now, Google has set up Android with a low-end version (1.5/1.6) and a high-end version (2.0, 2.1) and the market is sorting itself out. I think the two options were to fragment or be unsuccessful. With the fragmentation comes some issues, but it also comes with a wider range of devices that are capable of running it, which pushed it's popularity. Fragmentation can be easily solved farther down the line when Google takes the updating into it's own hands and stops letting carriers and manufacturers screw with everything.

In the end, we'll see Android itself being updated via the Market, I'd bet.
[General Topics] untrueparadox:
thats why google is releasing separate packages for the awesomeness theyre releasing from now on. the browser, ui kits, etc will come in separate apk's on the android market so you can have fun with whatever kernel and not be binded to the manufacturers limits. at least thats what the article today from engadget said.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Hello everyone,

I am happy to inform all those folks who waited for a full Linux operating system on the HTC Kaiser PDA that today a little bit modified version of Zubuntu finally booted successfully on my HTC Kaiser.

It is a really in the alpha-state but it works, let's see what do we have:

TouchScreen: works perfectly with calibration

Screen: looks good. but programs doesn't support Kaiser's small resolution. You can fix this by using INTERPOLATION, but this makes picture quality a lot worse. To try it out edit the default.txt, find the mddi.height and mddi.weight values and change to for example 480 and 360.

Keyboard: works exactly as expected, some fine tuning with the keyboard map will be done

ScreenRotating

Not tested/not working:

WiFi (MY #1 ISSUE, TRYING TO FIX): I extracted the wifi section from an Android rootfs, successfully modprobed wlan.ko, dmesg shows that the driver is loaded OK, but:

iwconfig
tiwlan0: no wireless extensions

ifconfig tiwlan0 up
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address

TI's WLAN_LOADER program didn't work either, so now I am moving to the other driver (wl12xx)

Bluetooth (Driver is there, no BT programs installed, couldn't test it)

3G

Cameras

Phone (NO dialer, nothing, however perhaps gsm-libs can help us firing it up)

Many many thanks goes for all these people form the #htc-linux IRC channel: randomblame, Markinus, ali1234, Ondalf and bombenbach for their outstanding support and help!

I would like to say thank you especially to phh for his awesome help and patience with me!

Click on the image for more pictures!

Stay tuned for: hopefully working WiFi, screnshots, YouTube-demonstration.

If you are interested, want to say thank you, want to help, or have an idea how to fix some things please write into this topic.

Also if you like my work, please consider a little a donation for me

After all, I am pretty sure now you want to try this on your own too, so here is the link for the Google-Code website. Download all the files and read the Wiki to know what to do.

http://code.google.com/p/kaiser-buntu/http://code.google.com/p/kaiser-buntu/

Link to RootFS:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ANRC94ON

Mirror (thanks to jmcbrother):

http://rapidshare.com/files/371631240/ubuntu_rootfs.rar

Mirror #2 (thanks to hoatienii):

http://www.mediafire.com/?uvytadoykyy

Want to be updated? Check out the project's Twitter page!

http://www.twitter.com/kaiserbuntu

Thank you,

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] hoatienii:
great work :D. please upload link to test
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Philux:
Sweet that is great news! I can't wait to try it out! :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
Me wants the alfa link :)

This is so great!

Maybe we can find a solution at my hackersspace.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] sandy.bluebird:
Great Work... Luv Linux.... Ported Android on Windows Mobile Device... Eager to port Ubuntu on Kaiser...

can you please share the Linux Beta link ...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Makes me almost wanna install Ubuntu on my PC. :p
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] ericlimeng:
me 2:D:D:D:D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jmchen:
oh……thank you……I wanna test……wait ……
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] R3TR3C:
Would it be destructive to flash it to nand at this point in the project?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] DrGit:
I wouldn't count on it even remotely fitting on the NAND. Besides, you'll probably have to have half the apps on an SD card anyway...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] garringm:
how about a build that will work with the new nomorootfs installers so hose of us like me can try it without going back to winmo, Would like to install to ext2.img files or sdcard partitions.

And is this remotely close to the MER Linux build that progress seems to be halted on I was able to get it to work
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Michga:
working XWindow?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I wouldn't recommend installing it to NAND (it doesn't work so good, for example I didn't have time to test power/suspend).

Xwindows works perfectly (except the resolution issue).

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Michga:
resolution issue. can you please explain that? (whats wrong in resolution) before i flash back to ,WM and try it
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
The problem is that the rootfs is not for the Kaiser and the Xserver uses some hardcoded resolution (that means there is no config file for it) so circa half of the windows are too big for the screen. It is not a big problem because you can move them around so it is easy to get to one of the corners and resize them so you can see the whole thing at once.

Fixing this is on my To-Do list :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mnjm9b:
sorry for the dumb question but...

will this support phone???

no mention in the OP.

I assume no. (for now anyway)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Driver support is there, but AFAIK no frontend yet.

DOMy

mod: I found this: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/comm/gsm-utils and this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man8/gsmctl.8.html perhaps I will try it later (or someone can try it and report)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
This intrigues me muchly, but why ubuntu/debian based?

There are other, (and imho simpler), bases to build on, slackware springs to mind, and there are some tiny distros out there, which may also be worth looking at, to say nothing of the likes of Familiar, an interesting candidate for a non-android htc-linux.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kallt_kaffe:
Try reverting the following commit on the htc-vogue branch: http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=groups/...it;h=4b3bbf0d64f07f0ac3012b7d45d1d7dde7d403fd

I did that and compiled a new kernel and bluetooth on my Android Eclair install started to work again. It's a known issue with Eclair and the latest kernels from DZO.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
The debian repo has a huge amount of packages which means no cross-compiling is needed.

BTW familiar is 3 years old, which is a little bit old.

But I don't want to be limited to Ubuntu, later I think I will start working on a Maemo port. Update: Maemo (Mer Linux) is already working on the Kaiser.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I will try this when I get home.

Do you have any idea about the WiFi stuff? I couldn't find anyone who worked on the WiFi driver, so I am pretty much stuck with that. One thing I would like to have is the android wlan_loader program's source code, but Google shows nothing (or I didn't try hard enough).

Thank you,

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Michga:
Can you please send link on maemo port or on maemo thread? working in there everything?

Thx
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] bruno3691:
add pictures plz

*.*
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Dammit, now I have an overwhelming desire to see if I can get an E.17 screened kaiser, :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
Can you please make that startup script quickly, it takes a while to type all the needed startup information on the kaiser (and can't use it elsewhere then at home).

It's very nice :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=565480
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Will do it ASAP...the only problem is that I have to re-upload then the rootfs...well I can do it, but I will search for some solution :).

New kernel is compiling right now, the BT updates came down quickly with git pull, so hopefully we will have BT soon.

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Stickman89:
Could someone be so kind and post a few screenshots?

Many thanks,
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] robuser007:
looks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_rDay9RJ8
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Disturbed21:
How do i make it load i got to the Zubuntu Login what do i do from there?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] matriix:
all what you need is here :http://code.google.com/p/kaiser-buntu/wiki/GetStarted
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] garringm:
It works but the last time I tried it hd none of the extras, it would just load and that was it, no data, no dialer, nothing just home screen and menus is it working a little better now?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I took some screenshots yesterday hopefully they will be up tonight.

Bluetooth looks promising, but first I need WLAN or USB networking to have apt-get working...this rootfs lacks some important programs (like bluetooth programs).

I am working on the startup script too, but I couldn't figure out how to set an environment variable globally (because if I change it from the script with an export command then the variable for the separate bash which runs the script changes, but not the global one...maybe if I call X from the script then we will have TouchScreen..will see later when I get home).

DOMy

MOD: updated the project website a little bit: corrected spelling errors in Wiki, added What works/What not to the Main page.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I don't know, ask in their topic.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] miplc:
Thanks for the post

could you please add another link for RootFS? megauplaod is blocked in my country

Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jmcbrother:
@miplc:

There you go... http://rapidshare.com/files/370554496/ubuntu_rootfs.rar.html
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] hoatienii:
please up some screenshot :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Just finished uploading, look in the first post ;) ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] miplc:
Thanks a lot

appreciate it
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] hoatienii:
thanks ;);)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] rzk333:
Great project! keep going, it is a second milestone for kaiser android development after NAND support experiments.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] mnjm9b:
super sexy!!!!

although I agree that a more light weight linux should be in order...

(that shouldn't be hard to do seeing that this is working)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kriDje:
Works on my Kaiser. I am looking forward to the startup script :)

Question: is it possible to right-click in Ubuntu? :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] rzk333:
got zubuntu boot on Nike, but cannot login in system...

if you will write startup script - dont forget auto login, it is necessary for Nike - we have no "Enter" key.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I have tried Ctrl (the Windows key) and Tap, but no success, if you would you can work on it, I am pretty sure it is not more than editing the keyboard map file in some way.

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
There was another rootfs with Autologin and X, but I will try to make a good startup script.

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Found out the problem with the screen...but there is no solution, you can see #1 for more info.

WiFi is the next on my list among with startup-script.

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] bruno3691:
how to install this?

:S
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
hm...wait a second...wow, I got an idea...LOOK IN THE FIRST POST FOR EXAMPLE!

EVERY PERSON WHO FILLS THIS THREAD WITH TRASHTALK (HOW TO INSTALL THIS? HOW TO DOWNLOAD THIS?) MAKES MY PROGRESS SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWER! SO PLEASE START WITH THE FIRST POST, READ ALL THE THINGS ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE AND THEN OPEN YOUR MOUTH, OK?

I am sorry if that was too rude for some people but I have seen so many good threads ending up with closing and stopping development only because people filled them with not important questions (think about for instance the TF3D for the Kaiser thread....)

Thank you for your understanding,

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] kriDje:
*LOL* That is clear :p
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Gotta love straight, no-BS posts :D

How do you install this anyway ( finds a handy cave to hide in for a month.... )

Srsly though, I just had to dive in and have a look, impressed the feck outta me, ok it has issues, but I expected that, damn fine job, might even convert me to the 'Ubuntu' way....

Keep at it, and don't mind those who decide that not reading at least post #1 might save them some time, because usually they only ask once, then disappear to where they can have their hands held by good ol bill ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] :
What are the possibilities of this? Like how can this be expanded into something useful? I mean damn its cool your got Ubuntu running on a phone. The only issue I see is 99% percent of programs are not made for this resolution. Is it possible to scroll around the screen like you would in a VNC session? Marvelous work would love to see this become something we could all use daily.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
My personal goal is to have a full Linux working on my phone which makes it possible to run any kind of program. I am an EthicalHacking teacher, and lot of the programs I used are written for Linux. I thought, wouldn't it be interesting to run the same programs on my phone? My students would be pretty excited and fascinated about that...so why not? That was the main purpose I entered in the world of PDAs back 3 years with an HTC Universal :D.

I was surprised to learn that such a phone which is capable of doing what I would like to do is rare, so to speak doesn't exist. The new Nokia N900 is kinda what I want, but my budget is too low for that (anyway, who likes a presenter who shows something he can do on something none of us can afford? Personally I don't :D :D) so that's why I started with the Uni and now with the Kaiser.

I don't want Ubuntu to be a successor of Windows Mobile, personally I love my Manila2D KaiserTouch ROM, but what I suggest is some kind of partnership between the two OSs, completion of each other. If I want to use my phone normally I can just use it with WM, and that's it. But when it is time for ETHICALhacking then I just boot into Ubuntu and go for it :).

And yeah, there is the so to speak "Fun Factor" in it, like "First ever, I was the one who made it, it is so cool etc."

Everyone else:

Thank you for supporting my ANTI BS rule, don't forget the best you can do to show your support is to obey it ;)

Thank you again,

DOMy

ps: Of course some OFF topic is OK, since it is not such a big project as the Android topic, but please don't ask already-twice-answered questions.

ps: I made some progress with the WiFi driver thanks to MrPavel, but now I am stuck with this message:

make: *** No rule to make target `/wpa_ctrl.o', needed by `../../../../CUDK/output/tiOsLib.a'. Stop.

Anyway, I will keep up the work :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] t.j.:
Wow, great!

Having a linux distro on kaiser would be really really cool ;]

But the power in linux does not lay in the GUI, it's the command line interface what can do the cool stuff ;)

ie you can get a normal and fully functional ssh shell (when wifi issues are solved of course), you can control a music player daemon on your linux box, also, there are lots of apps written in ncurses that will give your kaiser a retro computer style look ;)

But of course gui IS important nowadays ;)

Have you tried somthing else than xserver?

I consider myself to be a linux guy, so if you have any software questions (sorry, driver development is not my field), feel free to ask.

good luck!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
It is actually the lightest X server ever, xserver-fbdev based on kdrive.

How familiar are you with cross compiling?

Anyway, if you are kinda in the command line, then please could you write me the startup script?

Only thing it has to do is to execute those 3-4 commands described in the Wiki.

So far that would be a terrific help, because I simply can't take time for that.

Thank you,

DOMy

ps.: also if you can figure out where to put this startup script so the system executes it after I log in would be terrific.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] 249184912:
oh,i want to try.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jmcbrother:
Updated link!

Switched from 10-limited download to permanent link!

@DOMy: Please update! ;)

New link: http://rapidshare.com/files/371631240/ubuntu_rootfs.rar
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] piotrv:
compiz

Would it theoretically be possible to run compiz

since we have the hw accel. on kaiser for opengl(es)?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6067316&postcount=51
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Thank you, link updated in #1.

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
I was thinking about the same, and later as I got wifi/Internet working I will definitely try it.

The problem is that the driver we are using (fbdev) is really simple, so I am not sure if it works together with the 3D acc and would enable compiz to run...

We will see, definitely in my "to-try-out" list,

DOMy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] t.j.:
I have no idea about cross compiling ;)

The startup script:

I'll get to it as soon as I can (I can't test it right away), but to point you to the right direction:

If you want the script to be launched after login and starting X (which I think is the most universal solution), you should add the commands to the .xinitrc file. Note that normally we would put an ampersand (&) after each command to fork it into background, but we don't want that (calibration and exporting a variable must be completed to execute X).

It should look like that (not tested!):

/root/.xinitrc

(or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc for all users)

#!/bin/sh

export TSLIB_TSDEVICE="/dev/input/event0"

exec ts_calibrate

. /etc/X11/Xsession

It SHOULD work ;)

I don't know if the last line works with this xserver, so you may try changing it to

exec startlxde

If you want automated login add this line to /etc/init/tty1.conf:

exec /bin/login -f root < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1

To load the wlan module on startup add "wlan" to /etc/modules

As I said, I will test it all tomorrow, this is just a general idea.

Good luck ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] garringm:
Chicken SH!7 Pu$$!e$ The whole lot of em, how are things going to progress if none has the balls to try something new Ive been running android on my phone for over a year now. The only time I would go back to winmo was to tether and since i have found apps to do that I am in hog heaven. NOMOWINMO

Can I ask is before I flash back to winmo is there a dialer if so I would be happy to give this a try Im always up for something new
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Beackman:
Domi007, if you need you can use my account in 4shared, i can send you the user and pass.:D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] jmcbrother:
No ready-to-use dialer to the moment. Check post #19 for details!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] thebulletfromhell:
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] domi007:
Thank you, I will think about it but first I would like to wait a little bit, perhaps Google answers my enquiry and gives me more freedom with file sizes. If not, then I will definitely PM you.

Thank you again,

DOMy