[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Adahn:
This thread has been of epic help – thanks very much to both the OP and other posters here. About three days ago I decided to start researching whether I could get shiny OS to run on my HTC Kaiser, and this has been a most valuable resource.

Bearing in mind my admitted noobness, and the fact that I have been reading around the issues, I do have a couple of basic questions and also a quick suggestion that could potentially help others going forward.

After reading up some of the basic instructions on androidonhtc.com, I decided that installing and running Android from my SD card would be the best option for me; this is my first time playing around with the gubbins of mobile phones, and I’d like to ensure that the base OS remains as is.

Well, the questions :D I located and downloaded a couple of Haret basefile collections, finding one with a readme that seemed like it would fit my needs. After (retardedly!) trying to run Haret without actually having an android system anywhere on the SD card, I went away and found what I think I need – I nabbed the Myn Donut stuff and extracted one time, renaming the new file androidinstall.tar to meet with the requirements put on me in the Haret readme. I’ve set up the default file as instructed, as well as anything else discussed in the readme.

Now, when I launch haret and hold down the middle dpad button, I get to the install menu. Upon selecting install, I get the message ‘This will wipe your existing system! Are you sure? Yes/No’

Now, I’m just wondering what I’ve managed to do wrong here – would the haret base I’m using be targeting some kind of Nand flash instead of an sd install? I thought I’d managed to get my head around it, but now I think I’ve fallen down somewhere quite basic! Any help at all would be appreciated.

Earlier on I did mention that I had a suggestion; now, pretty much any place you find on the web that discusses installing and running Android on the HTC Kaiser redirects you here at some point. Online instructions for the install are fairly vague, and this is not helped by the main system files required managing to change name between builds, with certain haret readmes pointing towards system.img, androidinstall.tar and whatever crazy name I ended up with. Now, I fully appreciate that this forum is for advanced users and that many of you are extremely comfortable actually creating and coding these builds, let alone installing or flashing them. However, for an entrant into the field it is actually quite hard to get started.

While the work contained within this FAQ is amazing for aiding with those first steps, I think some kind of ‘idiots download link’ would aid immensely and help promulgate android among other Kaiser users. As in, within the first point include a link to a haret and a system file that would work together ‘out of the box’. Individual users could then get off to a strong start, and return to try to fix any individual issues that they experience.

A second suggestion, and apologies if this one seems out of place, especially considering my newness to this community and my own evident lack of skill, would be for the build creators to work out a common naming convention among themselves for the system file that needs to be used within the install. I’m not sure if the same people are creating haret versions, but having something as simple as this would really aid more people to engage with the ideas presented here.

If you managed to get through that wall of text, thanks! Sorry for not being able to sort this all out myself, look forward to tinkering more and getting used to all the new fun tech!