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[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Hello everyone,

Updates won't be as fast from now on, now that the university semester has started.

The next xdandroid release will boot fine on the X1, but the battery meter won't work correctly (until the battery driver rewrite is done).

I can't do much about hardware issues at the moment as I'm still learning the ropes, but I'd like to do what I can to to improve the system software, so the current plan is:

1. Repackage latest xdandroid system.ext2, remove things that don't work well (Gallery3D, Music mod)

2. Start working on my own AOSP port again, the aim is to start from scratch, document everything so people can join in easily and remove crap thats accumulated over time (i.e no loopback rootfs anymore)

3. Hope I don't get a new phone in the meantime (Galaxy S, I'm looking at you). Don't worry, doing this is still fun :D
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] blackcmos:
oke i will wait untill you've got the time to make it work and try to find out how everything is working in android so i can join :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Ok Tremere..ATB for your semesters...Aaa..just one Q, is there a way to restart the system without coming to WinMo...??

When ever i shift networks (like if im going from 1 place to another, or coming out of the elevator) it doesnt catch the frequency...i mean the network bar has a small 'x'..No range...

I have to come to WinMO then run Haret again...

Is there a way around this?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] rob39:
Tested Froyo 26/7 release

My Bluetooth function is not working and the USB connection. Can you fix this ?

When Bluetooth is working I can use this in my car :). The rest looks great....
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Its not possible to do a full reboot without going back to WinMo but Android and its services can be restarted, with "stop" and "start" as root in terminal but thats not too helpful on the move.

I think someone posted a way to kill Android and make it start itself earlier.

Sounds like your issue is with the radio not selecting the network, have you tried airplane mode on then off, or making sure auto-select network is chosen?

edit: Using this in a terminal will kill the radio service in Android:

su

killall rild
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Oh thanx....and Yea, if i do the Air PLane ON, it doesent show and does nothing..so i shut droid, then when i boot again, the airplane mode is ON THEn..but i wil try the command u gave me...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] yinjianweizxc:
It still 7.28?Not update again?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] mbelienkz:
gee thanks, didn't know it was so simple. Apologize this noob for being lazy to search around :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] raja'i:
take ur time

u had done a great job

u brought the life back to xperia android project

but dont forget us :P

we'll be waiting
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Viper89:
I checked right after you posted the first time about that info and it was off, the weird thing is the file only appears after I run android and it reboots, that's why the first time I thought it was a android file.

Ok i'll try a quick format this time, I'm 100% sure I'm not copying old files, for each different android release I put them in their own separate folders and take transfer them from my laptop. Ya the faulty download crossed my mine but I had the RC1 version working in my phone so I know those files are not faulty so I don't know I guess i'll re download the RC2 files and put it in my card after the quick format.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] matejdro:
Good luck with your semester!

As for battery temperature, there is definitely a sensor since several apps on WM reports temperature.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Which ones?

We need to derive a formula for temp from aux1 of the ds2746.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] sjkoon:
ds2746 driver.

showthread.php?t=452108&page=345

that link, ds2746 aux1 is temperature??
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Hey Tremere...HOW DO u restart the Network service...this is just to kill it???:confused::(:o
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
I think it should restart itself automatically, if not, "start rild" should work.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] AssasinQ:
Hey!

I've found a way how to improve battery life. And battery isn't getting so hot!!!

Go to Settings/Accounts & Sync Settings and uncheck "Background data".

Go to Settings/Location & Security Settings and uncheck "Use GPS satellites"

And most important thing! When you use Task Killer, don't kill all apps! Some of them Android launches automatic again, and it takes more memory!

Those changes gave me 1-2 hours more :]

With regards :]
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] AssasinQ:
LOL it doubled my post >.< delete this one please.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
yes, that is the troublesome method and most of the time it restarts back to the droid. removing battery can make droid unbootable and you have to generate new system image.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] lsr8863:
Oh,This is a great work for xperia X1.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
i used latest rootfs.img from here:

http://xdandroid.southcape.org/rootfs/

APN working but screen is upside down :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Something must have gone wrong when I packaged it for GPRS to fail. If you have adb access please run "logcat -b radio" for me and report anything interesting.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
permission denied :(
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] CowMix:
incredible job for your first alpha release :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
changed init file in rootfs.img

now screen is right way up and internet works also.

it is temporary workaround of course :)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Devaster:
can u upload it somewhere ?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Matzemink:
Agreed :)

- Very fast interface speed..

- Phone is working (instead of data connection)

- Maybe GPS is working too :eek:.. but not sure :D (Navigation needs internet)

- Bluetooth does not work

- Speaker is always on (but is working)

In Linpack Benchmark I get around 3,6MFlops (from 1,1 to 3,9 but most of the time 3,6)

To get normal screen size change in startup.txt all lcd.density to 240, not 160.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] krogaw:
I have adb access, but I'm not sure what to look for. I attached a full radio log from bootup to a few minutes with opening browser. The icon with the arrows on top looks ok, switching between G and 3G.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
GPS workind indeed.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] cdi90:
I have nothing on sd card but the downloadet release. I run the haret.exe and after minutes i think the lines repeat.... anyone a idea? thx
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] xperiaatic:
just wait some more
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ixemerix:
could you please explain this to us? a little how-to would be nice!
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] cdi90:
i wait till the screen turns of.

the lines with

power_supply battery: prop HEALTH=GOOD

power_supply battery: prop PRESENT=1

power_supply battery: prop TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion

power_supply battery: prop CAPACITY=84

always repeat
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] XtriFe:
hmm... this seems to work beautifully on my xperia x1... except the data connection isnt working.. so no internet. Is this only happening to me ? is it supposed to work ?

Also many thanks for your work
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] daweeb:
+ Sound works...

+ screen doesnt shine...

+ battery doesnt drain insanely fast ... but doesn't last overnight

+ GPS seems to work, I don't have data...

+ very smooth and "fast" compared to older releases...

- {the icons are small, and the lock-up screen is too small... wrong resolution. }

EDIT: changes after reboot!!

- {can't get apn to work with current rootfs, don't know what to change in the "new rootfs"...so no data for me yet... }

EDIT: after reboot I can make changes for the APN settings, but I'm in the archipelago in stockholm so my signal is to weak for data... or maybe it doesnt work? I have data with wm6.1...

- wifi - error!

- camera doesn't work

- gallery hangs for me

- speaker is always makin weak noises...

- the keyboard is messed up... numbers on wrong side and some symbols are'nt were they're supposed to...

- The light on the keyboard is off...

- (Minor detail: the bottomkeys (under the screen) always light-on if you boot with charger connected...)

still...

Thanks for your great work!

This keeps my mobile alive...

Android for daily use on the X1 may be a reality soon...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] DonDizzurp:
i hope so. i had an android phone and that is by far the best OS for any phone, nothing comes close..but i needed a few features that my phone didnt have so i got the xperia (after seeing it can run android). when it works flawlessly our xperias will still beat most phones in the market even though its 2-3 years old..

anyway, downloading now..ill start it up and play around for a bit..

EDIT:

i had the music running with a few other apps in the background while testing speed..transitions are fast, landscape to portrait and back is fast.. probably faster than wm6.5

typing on the keyboard and dialer is very smooth when using the stylus, no lag

it doesnt seem too finger friendly..or maybe i have big fingers? because it lags out when i use my fingers but its very smooth with the stylus.. only been 10 minutes of playing around with it though
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] 5526859:
Why do not have chinese language choose??
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] DonDizzurp:
the battery doesnt heat up like with the other builds :D very nice

is there a way to increase the resolution?

im trying to get wifi to work.. i dont have a dataplan at the moment but can anyone confirm data working?

it still has that crazy problem when trying to shut down
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Thanx....will try this......
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
AWESOME MAN!!!

Thanx..I dont have to restart the phone...BUT 'start rild' worked!!...I just wanted to know what does rild stand for...if u dont mind telling me...hehe:o:):p
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] danieluy:
Is there any chinese handwriting app for android? or can you point me to the right direction?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] lancedehm:
Using 3G netowork connection to sync email (exchange) puts the phone warmer that usual (including using the tweaks above)...

Do anyone have the same problem?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] YIp712:
Does it support Chinese Tradition character(CHT) and CHT input method?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ethanliew92:
hmm... Any idea how Sense can be used in this?

I love the Sense UI for Android..:)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] DonDizzurp:
htc has to release a 2.2 with sense first before it can be ported..

porting sense from 1.5 or w.e is a *****..
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] sjkoon:
To. Tremere

Tremere.

Thank you for X1 Android building.

I have been using and amazing speed. :)

But i have some problem in korean SMS recieving.

All Android SMS Viewer, SMS message could'nt output.

I think that problem occur reason is

Koreans using SMS charset "KSC5601" but android using utf8.

so.. can i request patches?

I was give up this problem..

and your Xperoid is very popular in korea ! :D

I'll wait for your answer.

Thank you..

(I can not speak English very well... Sorry..)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Viper89:
I have had enough of 2.2. I did the quick format and then tried a fresh new copy of RC1 the only version I got to work in my card. To my surprise and emphasis on the word "surprise" it booted but I got a wifi error so I restarted windows to turn wifi on and guess what I got the 7 seconds reboot of death. Then I tried a fresh RC2 and got the 7 seconds reboot of death. Their nothing else I can do but go back to 2.1, it's just so retarded why I can't enjoy this version like the rest of you but I'm done wasting my time on this. Thank you for trying to help me out:).
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] vedran984:
Hello guys.

Tonight for the first time I boot android on my X1.

Everything went fine but there are some problems.

1. I can't unlock my sim card, the sim passcode is correct but android says it isn't

2. The numbers on querty keyboard doesn't work and the keyboard is mixed up, I get wrong output when pressing keys.

Any help please?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] blkm74:
For Chinese input, you can install HandWritingIME.apk that supports hand writing input for Chinese and it works in my Xperia X1. You just search it in Google.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] blkm74:
I installed Froyo port to my xperia x1, buy it cannot idle when screen off.

I checked in Spare Parts > Battery History, the ruuning is over 80% but the screen on is around 20%. Is it normal?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
I wud be the first one to try it!!

So do i..IT AAWESOME...Try Fancy Widget..it gives you the best HTC like clock!!:p

Yea...me too..the phone was a little hot...

Your Mem Card is faulty OR your ROM has some glitch...if i were you, I would do a simple Hard -reset of the WinMO first...or try another card for once, just once...try it...its worth a shot...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ethanliew92:
hey guys.. I always have some FSCKXXXX files(X=numbers) in my SD card after I boot Android from SD card.. Can I delete that? Each of 'em ate 32kb of my storage and at least 2 will show up everytime I on Android..
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ethanliew92:
screenshot of my Xperia XDAndroid

Thanks a lot for this great speed Android Port.. Really love my phone! haha
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
How did u change the icons???the colour and all...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] neock:
Just delete them.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ethanliew92:
I downloaded ADW Launcher from Market and downloaded the Droid X for ADW theme.. Currently I only find that Droid X is the most appealing among all the ADW themes...

Neock: Thanks for telling..
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
BTW, Happy 100 POSTS...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Good news everyone!

I've patched android-wifi-tether to work on the X1! I took xdandroids modification and altered it so it doesn't use the wifi calibration file.

Wifi tethering works, have not tried BT which doesn't go on the current kernel anyway.

Download

BTW 1000th post :D
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] lordblacksuca:
Nice!!! I will try the Wifi Theter app.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] rohith_luffy:
@temere ... is it possible to use this port with an ext2 partitioned micro sd ? if so plzz post the procedure ....i dont want android files here and there in sd caard so i alredy created a partition ... :D

also wat is the difference between cyanogen mod port and this port ? ( dont say cyanogen mod plz ....i dont know wat it is ... ) :P
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Copy the contents of roots.img to the / of your ext2 partition and system.ext2 to /system

Then change startup.txt to remove the reference to initrd and add "init=/init root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" to the kernel cmdline

This page may help you: http://mcbridematt.dhs.org/mobile/index.php?title=Booting_Linux

Cyanogen is a Android distribution that can be tweaked a lot, xdandroid, which my current port is based on, is customized just to work on these HTC MSM devices
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] elegantchaos:
really cool project. But is there a cab-file available somewhere? 7zip keeps saying there are memory problems, so i can't unzip it.

i'm away from home for a few says and have no desktop access. I'ld love to run this on my phone before i get home.

martin
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ddanat:
Would this yield any speed increases? I LOVE the work y'all are doing (and only wish it had come sooner than my X10 ;) ) but the X1 is definitely struggling and hangs quite often (doesn't crash like winmo at least though!).

Appreciate any insight you give me

"Cheers" :D

Doug
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
I definitely think its more efficient (no CPU cycles wasted on syncing one filesystem on top of another), but I can't quantify that yet..
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ilgreco112:
hello i finally tried it back, I didnt try any android since some months, I'll send a message here with bugs etc. I can already say that it seems more laggy than 2.0.1 =/ ... I'll tell you whats up!
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] notowork:
Crackle and buzz in speakers when using Internet

Whenever i use mobile internet my phone speaker crackles an buzzes.

Is this happening to anyone as well?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ilgreco112:
wifi doesnt work for me...

and phone does not sync contacts with gmail

and so I put kovsa to go Azerty but when it asks me gmail account to synch its still QWERTY

no other problem (except known problems)
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ddanat:
I tried getting this to work but the way you described never seemed to work with 2 different versions of this froyo release. it only would boot if I DIDN'T remove the line about the initrd, but I have a feeling not deleting that defeats the purpose somehow. If I'm just being paranoid, then I haven't noticed much of a speed difference.

-Doug
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
there is just one problem I would like to post here,from the last to many times before that..every 8-9 boot..the system seems to unstable...like last time, it reset itself firstof all..my wallpaper was gone, replaced with the default wallpaper...

Secondly, when i long pressed the call-cut button, it only gave me 1 option, phone shut down..no airplane MODE or even silent....

before that, the haret code ran SUPER FAST and kept looping....

but these issues go away once i delete the data.img..BUT that means i lose my sweet GF's msgs toooo :(

I dont know whats wrong...are the FSK00XX files important???Deleteing them causes instability???
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
No.. they are the output of the file system check (fsck) on the sdcard at startup, which currently runs every boot due to the clock difference (Android sets hardware clock to GMT)

Just trash them
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Also..its just a Question..can we expect the camera to run any time soon..and yes, THe usage has gone up....from 6 hrs to now 14 DAMN HOURS..the other day i used it for 14:35 HRS...WHOA!!!

Thanx Tremere!!
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] tchatzi:
I have tremere's build running on a partitioned sdcard. I have fat32 for /sdacrd, ext2 for /, another ext2 for /data and 1 swap partition. It looks faster and more stable but

a) I don't know if any improvements are due to the extra swap space or the partitioning in general

b) I have no concrete measurements either, so it could just be placebo effect

c) You need a few unix (ie linux) tools to make this happen. parted, mount with ext2 support, GNU cp or rsync and a decent editor. A virtual machine will do fine, I suppose.

I can document the procedure as soon as I get back home. It really only boils down to loopback mounting the files, copying the contents to the partitions and editing init and startup.txt.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] olaivo:
you said in the topic start that wifi is working... but when I try to enable it it says Error underneath the wifi button...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Have you had previous versions of Android or this port on your SD card? The wifi modules for the kernel are cached in data.img (/data/modules), if you 'upgraded' you need to remove (su; rm -rf /data/modules) it and reboot
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Yeah thats great to hear..

Don't think camera will happen any time soon, even on the other devices no one has gone near it :(
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ilgreco112:
we have to say that no one has really searched to have camera working! because it's not really important, I better like having android working stable without a camera than working with camera only 3hours and laggy
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] angusmcb:
It will undoubtedly be faster: loopback mounts are invariably slower due to the extra filesystem translation overhead - ie to read & write to an ext2 img file, one has to go through both ext2 layer, and also whichever filesystem layer is catering for the physical disk. This is much more inefficient than access through a single filesystem.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ddanat:
Yeah that's not the issue at hand currently. I use linux at home myself and currently running Gentoo on both my laptop and Main. I got gparted installed and alllll that good stuff so basically I just need a run down of what files you had to edit to get Android to boot. I keep getting kernel panics they way I set it up so I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I don't need thaaaaat many diff partitions. I was just thinking e.g. sda1 = vfat, sda2 ext2, sda3 swap. sounds reasonable imo.

so what all did you change exactly to get that to boot?

Thanks,

Doug
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ilgreco112:
gogogo! we want android !!!! haha

ps: when I go azerty by changing Kovsq/kovsa in startup.txt, del key doesnt work, i cant write anything then delete it, i must delete it by using screen keyboard
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] liptonace:
how to add Polish language? where to take it?

please help me
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
Update is out. Just some userspace changes I talked about before - Gallery,Music,Tether etc.

Next jump is to get our battery driver in the xdandroid kernel
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] tin427:
great work:D hope that you can keep the progress:o
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] lancedehm:
That's great! I will check it now!!

Thanks :D
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Matzemink:
+1 :)

I also hope that battery life will be improved for daily use :o
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] ted presley:
Hi Tremere, with your new zip file, Android is stuck at the mount SD card line....can't start the android.....

P/S: sorry, format card solve the problem....
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] stefanACM:
Thanks Tremere for developing ;)

Do you have idea how i can BACKUP my Crystal Light game data because i really love this game and i am now on 500. position on World and i can easy be first if I continue but, i start game from beginning everytime when i update my ANDROID....
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Tremere:
No need to delete your data.img this time.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] alxjm:
Great,thx in advance fot the battery driver~
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
Thanx a LOT and ATB for the drivers...hope the process isnt very complicated!!!
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] circleofomega:
I wanted to know the most easiest way to connect the comp and droid...I cant with the ways mentioned earlier..all the necessary files are downloaded...but then what do we do??

How do i make my PC recognize the device..i tried 'adb shell' on the Terminal..nothing...
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] steadyshot:
1st make sure the android sdk is installed correctly. What I do to do debugging with usb is I put my phone in active sync in wm and then run haret with usb connected to computer. It usually works for me. Then adb devices - should show connected device and then adb shell for the devices terminal. If it shows no device unplug the usb and plug back in.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] Oggy972:
Yeah, that should work this way. But, after running haret, XP needs some drivers for Smartphone devices. The weird thing is the drivers provided by the SDK don't work with my phone...

Do you have another ones?
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] steadyshot:
That's strange, mine comes up under adb interface -> Htc Dream -> driver files: androidusb.sys, wdfcoinstaller01009.dll. Driver Version 1.0.10.0.
[XPERIA X1 Android Development] 5526859:
Yes,not working WIN7 either.