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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
on previous ports on other phones sometimes we had to have something 3D in WM when booting haret. ie. Sense or game in background.

Also sometimes you had to have say bluetooth on or GPS on when booting haret for linux to see the gps or bluetooth to load the drivers.

Anyhow, it was awhile ago and I hope this helps some.:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] young blade:
log into your google acount and it will start to apear...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kendric84:
I don't think that will work, unless you know where to change settings in the builds. When you run haret it is specifically looking for things on the SD card, not just in whatever directory haret is in...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] carphoria:
well, the don't sleep program trial failed... with don't sleep running Android freezes when trying to boot. oh well, any other way to avoid "sleep" maybe a registry setting?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dthporro:
ok that's something i didn't knew... i think this wouldn't work, but i'm going to try anyway.

by the way, i got radio 2.12 and for what i see we don't need a specific radio to boot android ok. but do i need a specific rom? it is recomended stock ROM or some specific to run haret? i've got OzRom, don't remember which one, i think its 3.5 but not sure...

just one more thing, i've read in a post that a user has "HSPL3", and for what i remember i've got just "HSPL". there are updates for hspl?

ps. sorry for my english, sometimes it's very bad!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] somebully:
The kernel was gone for a few hours
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Zepiii:
Same for me !

Isn't it something with the 576 Mb RAM trick enabled?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dcordes:
btw to whom it may concern. with my most recent kernel build posted (the one that's also in the media player) it should be possible to execute the android binaries built for the qsd8 devices like nexus one.. just in case somebody wants to cook an 'android poc' :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Crash1983:
I don't think the ramt rick is causing the trouble.

Phones with the same setup (Same ROM, same Radio) show a different behavior.

Assuming that there are no differences in hardware, the problem has to be a little thing we all forgot. So we have to compare.

Could the boot loader be a reason? I am using HSPL 2.08 and have no success....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] g30rg10u:
hmmm... wouldnt it better if you put it in the first/second post ? :) , just asking ;)

congrazz once again!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sheraz150:
So its already possible to run android on our hd2's? Someone get up on this lol!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gianton:
xda rules this and wm7 projects are really impressive! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CleM71:
Will you be happy to see Android booted up without being able to perform anything ?

Do you understand digitizer driver is not implemented ?

Crap, again, again, and again ...

dcordes, thanks for all. If enough time this evening, I'll try to boot some Nexus binaries.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] g30rg10u:
personally, i understand that its going to be useless :)

.. but m sure that everyone here want to just BOOT android :)

just think about the movie played 2 days ago :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] slayerns:
dcordes, i have knowledge about electronics but never wrote a driver. Maybe we can find a way to gather info about the touch screen. I may trace the signals and guess how to control the digitizer however I don't think it is going to be easy. Do you have any idea?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] foyaeman:
According to what dcordes just posted, yes I guess it is possible to boot Android albiet missing certain drivers. Not sure which ones are working and which aren't, but it would be a fun POC (like the linux video player) :).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dcordes:
If you want to try android I recommend grabbing some image files for nexus one as a start along with the kernel and other files from my hd2 media player build.

Google don't care for conformity so they use the yaffs2 file system that's not in mainline. At least they provide a C program called unyaffs which is useful to extract the images.

This will get you system.img files.

Additionally you need to to look at boot.img . This has kernel and an initrd.cpio.gz with init scripts and the strange busybox mutation (again no conformity. why not using busybox? it's ridiculous they obfuscate everything for no reason) to prepare the android start. There is some perl script out there called unpack-bootimg.pl which is helpful.

Soon as you got everything extracted and started looking at what the init.rc script in the initrd.gz does you will notice it tries to mount the system and data image files from nand. We don't have that so you have to work your way around this. e.g. use my angstrom builds for the mdia player to mount a repacked system.img loopfile or extract system to some sd partition. afterwards execute the android init . maybe modify the android initr.rc .

edit: btw thanks for the pointer with the bravo kernel.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] erikvario:
i don't think so,

cause we load another bootloader and close the wm that will access the radio or something like that

but that's only what i think with things i learned on this kinds of threads
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Finezt:
Wow i'm really lost right there:confused:

Can u clearify the one and other

maybe u can provide us a progressive scheme as most of us don't know where to start

(At least I ain't and I follow this daily)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] newshaggy:
would you recommend

would it make sense to try some of the haret based images that are known to work on other devices to see how far it gets... although cant think of any wm devices with similiar specs to the hd2 with android working through haret.

ps) most likely wishful thinking, cant be that easy.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TonyCubed:
Don't take offence to this, but if you don't understand what he means then you shouldn't bother. The actual developers are working hard to get this working as it is and he's calling on more developers to try and help. If you don't know whats going on by following the thread, you will most likely get lost doing this.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tdh_andy:
In a nutshell: unpack stuff from google build of nexus one rom. edit stuff in it so it knows where to look for things(nexus one looks for stuff in internal memory -ROM- but we work on the SD card). Repack everything for haret and try...if some drivers are missing or some settings are wrong you may not get much.

For example when the GUI loads it may not display anything because of different screens.

Like you would take a linux machine(desktop) with a xorg.conf file and put another monitor on it with different refresh rates supported, different color depths and so on, the monitor will not support the default xorg.conf settings and may not display anything. But in modern distros X knows how to do autodetect an do stuff right.

In an emebeded OS usually you don't have things like hardware autodetect because you don't change hardware, so any setting in the nexus one files that doesn't match with HD2 hardware will give problems and will need tracking and solving. It may not be as easy as he makes it sound...or we could just be lucky and have everything(that has a driver in the kernel) working right the first try.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Finezt:
Alright thanks I'm going to try this

* download the unayffs

* download a original nexus one rom

* extract the boot.img from the .zip file

* put these files included the latest kernal ( the one with 20mb )

* than try to start if don't i'll play with the settings maybe I could figure it out

then i'll let you know

Correct me if I'm doing something wrong
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jubeh:
give me a list of files that must be edited in an android build (I'm thinking mostly having to edit init.rc and init.device.rc to match the new filesystem), the changes I have to make (new mount points), and instructions on how to make the system, userdata, and ramdisk images haret uses, and I'll test a build and post if it works.

I'm something of an android dev, but up to now I've only worked with an android device (dream/sapphire) which is pretty no-nonsense about what you have to do (flash-mount boot.img to boot, system.img to system, and data.img to userdata.img), plus the mount points are pretty much unchanged coming from AOSP.

I guess I'll have a look at the rhodium builds and see how much they differ from an actual android device's build. Something I remember from poking at it is that the images (system, userdata) are no longer yaffs but something else.

I'll check.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lstrike:
I understand that we are currently in POC stages albeit pretty far along thank to all involved. My question is ultimately when this becomes stable down the road and is running Android will we be running this on internal memory and not sd cards?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jaidedfocus:
Don't know if anyone has tried this with the screen death issue, but in addition to setting my screen timeout for 30 minutes when I'm not using my phone I turn the clock on and the clock keeps my screen active so no screen death. Its been running for about 50 minutes with no issues.

This is on the Froyo build.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] daz990:
been running fine on my hd2 for bout an hour, downloaded a few apps from market and running fine.

No sound at all though also my data doesn't work also no camera and cannot see any of my contacts

good work so far fellas!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] earhog:
3G was working for me earlier today, but now is not... any ideas?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] edangel:
i tested the Desire v3 and i am so impresed..!lock and unlock works great for me..even wifi and browsing pages...messages working so good...even vibrating is workin when you press the keyboard..brilliant..so close to make a stock android version!

its just amazing that you did such a great job so quick..keep up the good work.i will for sure donate when this will be for an every day use..or if will be a rom android release one day..!!

i have one question only..i tryied to edit my contacts but it doesnt show..i know that you must press home on contacts and edit in the box when it says import export...buit which one is that key so i can manage my contacts to even fit on them a photo?there is no such edit!

only sim contacts is shown..!!

THANKS A LOT!

god bless you all....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] djguckeen:
The idea of android being on the HD2 is great, I personally own the HD2, but I don't really care for the window 6.5 OS. The Htc sense on the other hand I do like. So I can not wait for the Android OS to be completely successful. I have been playing with the Android OS on my phone and can see it being WAY more user friendly than Windows, So I will be waiting patently for the updates, and I just want to say thanks to the developers, and wish I could be of any help patching and making this project a success! Good Luck!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] avalst:
to everyone who wants to see their contacts you need to first use google sync to get them loaded to your gmail accounts and then log in with that account on the phone. you winmo contacts are inaccessible to android except via the sim card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Meiyo:
Where is the root file in the sd card ?

I don't have that ?

Does it mean like just when I open my storage card , right there ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Knucklessg1:
v3 doesn't work with 3g even though i recieved a phone call and it worked, (yes i know that isn't 3g) but it does connect to tmobile, i also changed the setting to connect to tmobile, but did i miss something?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
root is no folder. so open "storage card" and that will be root.

C:\ on your computer is root.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] joefx13:
Set your APN if you havent already. For tmobile its usually epc.tmobile.com
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] edangel:
wow...nice..thank you!didnt know that..i am new to android :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Meiyo:
Oh ok :D

Thank you , I'm going to try it now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] conscept:
Keep getting green screen on V3/froyo rather than blue screen?

Previous versions worked fine.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] RaiderX303:
im currently working on a HTC Sense Froyo build based on Modaco Froyo for Desire, currently have it booting, but no radio, wifi, bt, etc
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ccabrl:
I had the same thing happen to me but what I did is just delete the old system file from my SD and it worked.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] conscept:
Okay, I'l wipe it and try again

thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kevone07:
I been following this thread for awhile and I am just wondering if anyone can tell me if its recommend to run the Android 2.1 OS on my T-Mobile U.S. HTC HD2 (LEO) phone? I am seeing a lot of people trying to getting this to work and people having issues with it... I just don't want to get is the issues, like my phone not working or something similar to that. Should I wait until the Devs team are fully done with this project or just say eff it and take the risk cz it would be worth it right now?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dieselboyx:
What risk? Just put the files on the sd card and run. Couldn't be easier.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gerstyd:
Even if you have issues, its not going to do anything to your phone. All you have to do is soft reset or pull your battery and all the problems go away and you are back to stock Winmo
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tundra84:
So far, so good.

So far, the development for this project is amazing. They've almost got everything working! At this point I think the most important issues for the devs to tackle is 1. the stand by problem. Once this is solved we can actually start using this as a regular rom. 2. The power management so we can start using it unplugged for long periods of time. From there, everything else is icing on the cake really.

Oh for clarification I'm using the froyo build. :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
the builds are getting better, but not ready for prime time.

I know others say it won't do anything to your phone, but look through this thread and you'll see that's not true. Many have had to hard reset because of issues with sense, Cookies Home Tab and many other strange issues from the resets.

Also, don't pull you battery out to reset. There is a button on the back under the cover that you press to reset.

If you read through all the directions and feel risky and hard reset isn't a problem for you, then go for it. Otherwise wait a little more. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tundra84:
You shouldn't pull the battery out to reset? Is pulling the battery out to reset bad for the device?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
It's like pulling the plug on your computer. Or pulling the battery out of your laptop. Will that damage your computer? Not always, but it could surprise the OS, system, memory etc. Plus that's what the little button is there for...:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tundra84:
Hah good point. It's just that since this phone doesn't come with a stylus I've been taking the lazy route of just yanking out the battery. Guess I'll have to stop that then...

Thanks!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dieselboyx:
The button is awfully inconvenient to press.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Meiyo:
Never mind this post.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
I thought about drilling a small hole in the cover, so I can just use a paper clip and reset w/out taking cover off...lol:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stealthdragonb:
has anyone tried the HTC Sense (HTC Desire base rom) v3 with a type 2 sd card. Is it running a bit slow or are transitions running smooth enough or do you still reccomend buying a type 4 sd card and above?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kre8ve:
Can you please share the link to download.. Thanks..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] VisualOddity:
So, here's my question...

Garbled audio? I am running the Froyo ROM (off and on as this is my only phone), and I can make calls, but sound is garbled. After reading and whatnot, I thought this was where it stands right, thus not being able to realistically be used for voice, however, then I see a post saying it's working fine, and that it is for other people too...

What am I missing here? lol
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] tundra84:
I don't know about garbled but I've noticed my hd2's speaker seems significantly quieter even at max volume (yes, wm's volume is at it's maximum as well).

On an unrelated note: Has anyone tried using the android clock app to keep their phone on for longer than the 30 minutes allowed in settings? It's in the froyo build, might be in the others. Since the app is supposed to emulate a little clock next to your bed I'd think it stays on all night? It's just a thought.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gomjabar:
2 nights ago on Cotulla's build I plugged the phone into its charger, started the clock app, set an alarm and it woke me up in the morning... no joke.

last night I did the same on desire v2.5 and my backup blackberry woke me up :( the HD2 had BkSOD on me

tonight i'm trying the new froyo build.... hope for the best

EDIT (sidenote): Granted my postcount is lackluster but i've been a member longer than most of you... I think there should be a senoirity clause to the whole "junior member restrictions" thing.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmbika:
For the first time while I tried Android and it hang and I did soft reset via button, it corrupted my WM and it became weird, couldn't run programs as they should etc, since than I have resorted to pulling the battery out whenever any Android/ubuntu hanged up on my HD2 and so far I have been back to WM without any issues at all, so IMHO for me battery pull out worked while soft reset corrupted my WM OS and I have had to hard reset to get back to WM again!

EDIT: Video plays in Froyo (some videos) but data is extremely slow either in 3G or wifi.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
I usually do a full shut down after reset. then remove batter while it's off. Otherwise I agree with you about WM acting very strange after soft reset in Android. Hopefully this will go away, never had those issues on my other phones...:confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noellenchris:
lol. There should be some grandfather claus....:rolleyes:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fyatwyrio:
great, thank you. works nice except it has the same 3d graphic glitch that Cotula's build has. would be nice to run NOVA on froyo. thanks again though.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rdixon1990:
SO.....is there a official guide to starting from stock to latest progress ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phongthan999:
there r at least 3 version of Droid. which one is the best?

do I need to format the sdcard?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DavionHikari:
One thing I've noticed is that Andriod or Linux writes a FSCK00## file (## - numbers start from 0 and up) to the SD Card. When I'm at work i"ll use Android instread of windows mobile to communicate with my social networks and I keep it connected to USB at my workstation to keep the battery up.

But to my point, I've noticed after using it so much that the screen lock hang up is not happening as much anymore. I've tested it a number of times now and it stops doing it. I'll disconnect it from USB for a while and let it close and it still come back when I touch a button to unlock it.

the FSCK files on my SD card have counted from 0-40 so far. Each file is only 8K in size. Seems to have a new one everytime I load Andriod.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] voiceofid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nawcho:
How do i disable this auto lock its driving me nuts, i installed the auto lock cab fix but android keeps automatically locking all the time while im using it!

Also on the froyo v1 release is anyone else having trouble with the input method? keyboard doesnt work and keeps asking me which input method id like to use, also when the keyboard does feel like working it wont let me type regular letters, it only lets me choose letters with accents over them, any help would be appreciated.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bodybuild14:
After booting linux with zharet it doesn't load. It just shows a bunch of colorful lines creating an X over and over. Never does anything else. (cotulla) Past versions booted just fine. Anyone else have this issue?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] voiceofid:
that's the boot screen, it could take up to 10 minutes for it to load for the first time
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bodybuild14:
10 mins huh? I will give it a try. Thanks. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bodybuild14:
Worked. Only took about 2 mins this time. Thanks again! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] voiceofid:
:D

you guys have no idea how excited i am about this project. i know there are those out there who said "well if you wanted an android phone, should've gotten x phone instead" but i love the look and the feel of the hd2 and now with android on it, it made me fall in love this phone all over again!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ryan562:
of all three i've tried, i liked froyo version the best. ran the smoothest, had the most things working i.e., wifi, 3g, google sync, etc. no need to reformat your sd card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Neolo:
Why backlight is always on when standby, whatever android build I use? in wm I turned off auto backlight control.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Morpheus0800:
trying my HD2 as a Android phone for a couple of days up to now - with Froyo...

But I still can't use it as a phone because my microfon and speaker are not working...got a Energy ROM 6.June with Radio version 2.10.xx

any ideas?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Gr8phreak69:
Android And Ubuntu

Got Ubuntu To Boot Just Fine And It Looks Amazing,

Tried Out The Desire V3 Build And It Is Very Stable And Very Fast, Can't Get The 3G Working Though.

This Project Progresses More And More Every Day. Keep Up The Good Work!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nawcho:
3g not working on desire v3 ... cannot set apn..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nawcho:
Problem with froyo rom...

runs perfect the first time, then if i close and rebout it gives me an error with my root file and cannot boot.

wiping sd card and putting the files back on it works, but it can never make it to the second boot.

Any help would be appreciated.