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[Gen8 Android Development] gomork:
i finally managed to get a running linux onto the a101.

Now i used a debian instead of ubuntu.

Although its a different approach: I start the X-Server ontop of the running android. I mount the image, chroot into it and kill the most important android processes to stop them interfering.

The biggest hurdle was the touch-screen, evtouch doesnt work because the kernel-driver sends some strange event-codes, so i patched a x-input driver to get it to work.

Here is a quick howto:

Install urukdroid 0.6. Because we need to edit /init.rc

Download the image from here:

http://rapidshare.com/users/E00KX7/0

and copy it somewhere on the device: i copied it to /sdcard/sdcard

create a directory /sdcard/deb

edit /init.rc: search for the following lines:

service servicemanager /system/bin/servicemanager

and

service zygote /system/bin/app_process -Xzygote /system/bin --zygote --start-system-server

and add "oneshot" without the quotes in a new line just below each of them

reboot

to start the X-server execute the following lines in a terminal or create a script and execute it using GScript Lite or something like that:

fsck -p /sdcard/sdcard/debian.img

mknod -m660 /dev/loop8 b 7 8

losetup /dev/loop8 /sdcard/sdcard/debian.img

mount /dev/loop8 /sdcard/deb

mount -t proc proc /sdcard/deb/proc

mount -o bind /dev /sdcard/deb/dev

mount -o bind /dev/pts /sdcard/deb/dev/pts

mount -o bind / /sdcard/deb/android

mount -o bind /sdcard /sdcard/deb/storage

mount -o bind /sdcard/sdcard /sdcard/deb/sdcard

chroot /sdcard/deb su -c "/start"

this is for the image in /sdcard/sdcard, if you put the image elsewhere, you have to modify the script.

the hacked driver source lies in: /root/xf86-input-plpevtch-0.5.0 if you want to take a look or improve it, as its just a quick and dirty hack.

Wifi can be configured using wpa_supplicant if you want, but an existing connection should be kept.
[Gen8 Android Development] butlerm1977:
You mention the wifi works using wpa_supplicant. Would I be able to join an Ad Hoc wifi network created by another android device, such as a motorola droid? Up until now the Android to Android wifi tethers have been might near impossible to pull off reliably.
[Gen8 Android Development] gomork:
I just tried using wpa_gui. It sees the network created by Barnacle on my X10mini. But it seems it cant connect.. might be some configuration problem, or maybe the kernel-module would need some other parameter.

BTW: iwconfig prints: "tiwlan0 IEEE 802.11ABG" which makes me think Archos is lying to us, when they say its a WIFI N chip.
[Gen8 Android Development] butlerm1977:
The ability to tether to another android device would be a huge feature advantage if you could pull it off.
[Gen8 Android Development] TjaXanK:
I'm really interested in this, I'll do some research of my own and report back if I can get anything to work
[Gen8 Android Development] Unmensch:
Starting the debian image works on mit 70IT, however, the image is upside down and the cursor is at the oppsosite end of the position of the screen I put my finger.
[Gen8 Android Development] k1nk33:
When i dl from the link i end up with 1 .7z file and 6 other .bin files , is this correct or should they all be .zip files?
[Gen8 Android Development] gomork:
The Files should be named xx.7z.001 to xx.7x.007. Maybe try to rename them and unpack with 7z.

Quick update: Got Debian booting natively, had to write an X11-input driver.

Most things work: wlan, xorg, touchscreen, usb, accelerated video decoding using the dsp and gstreamer although only with the video displayed upside down.

I will upload an image and instructions soon.

Edit:

What does not work:

Battery state: sysfs just reports 50% all the time.. gonna investigate, but low priority

HDMI output: got a picture on the tv, but only with 700x480. Every other resolution results in blackscreen.

Btw:

I tried porting the changes made by archos to the kernel to the newer 2.6.32 omap-kernel.. that would give a better wlan-driver for example, but the code archos has made is not made for portability.
[Gen8 Android Development] Unmensch:
Afaik the openaos guys succeeded in forward porting those changes, maybe you could join forces to avoid duplicating work.
[Gen8 Android Development] TjaXanK:
can u give us updated image to run debian with the new stuff working?
[Gen8 Android Development] @xDeepS:
Do you guys need any kinda beta testers? I'd like to test out. Have an A101.

And am interested too :)
[Gen8 Android Development] dkelley:
it's strange, I remember replying to this thread a few days ago but can't see my post now.

anyhow - is there a way to go about this without taking over sde? since many of us I think would rather run urukdroid than stock android and urukdroid uses sde also.

check out teh galaxy tab forums - they have an excellent ubuntu build running alongside android. you boot and run android, and when you want ubuntu you do some terminal commands and ubuntu starts up too. they run simultaneously. it's quite amazing and doesn't appear to affect performance negatively (at least general ui operations).

that would be a preferable way to run it, maybe the only way to run it, if you use urukdroid.

the UI is accessed through a local vnc viewer app. Which I supposed isn't ideal but as I said it really does work perfectly if you take the time to work out custom screen sizes and so on.

thanks for all this great work by the way !

cheers

Don
[Gen8 Android Development] badtrash:
@dkelley IMHO this wouldn't work.

I am not sure about the specs of the other gen8 devices, but the A101 has only 256Mb RAM. I think there's no way to have both the android stack and the chrooted ubuntu (+Xvnc) stack started.

Or maybe it could work but that would require an extensive use of a swap system which would screw responsivness of both android and ubuntu.

I'm using this very same way (except I use a chrooted debian instead of ubuntu) on my android phone which has 512Mb RAM. It's true it works quite good however it requires a lot of tuning in order to avoid swapping as much as possible.

Now regarding the A101, I myself am investigating another way: the Angstrom distro that comes with the SDE seems to be a good starting point. I just want to make it use Archos's Open Source Gen8 Android kernel instead of the provided one and add the required libraries and modules to the root fs.

I have two problems here: first I'm a real noob when it comes to system hacking. Second, I'm having a hell of a time at work these days and I really don't have a lot of time to spend on this.

So now I'm stuck at the very first step: how the hell does one flash a new kernel without providing the asked ramfs ? And should that not be possible, where can I get the right ramfs image ?

That surely are noob questions. Yet any clue would be greatly appreciated :-)

Cheers,

b.
[Gen8 Android Development] fisha21:
The SDE and Angstrom distro are installed on internal memory right? So you could in theory have the following setup:

Internal 1: Stock Archos

Internal 2: SDE with Ubuntu/Debian

MicroSD: Urukdroid

Use recovery menu to boot into AVOS or SDE, or insert SD and boot automatically into Uruk.

Apologies for going slightly off topic, but thought it was worth pointing out there's a possible "third way". Have the choice of stock, Linux distro or Uruk on my A101 - that'd be amazing!
[Gen8 Android Development] dkelley:
agreed! but I don't think the current bootloader menu offers anything but booting stock android or "Developer edition" (or sde). the sd-based uruk boots from the sde choice and then moves execution to sdcard (or something like that). so the bootmenu would need a third option to boot entirely from sdcard for uruk or whichever ended up on sdcard.

who can do this? I can't, at least I don't have time to figure it out myself. edit: of course one way would be to add a second bootmenu to the developer edition's startup script. so you choose developer edition if you want either developer edition or sdcard-based fw. then a 2nd menu comes along asking which of those two you want to run, with a timeout of 30 seconds or whatever (like windows uses by default).
[Gen8 Android Development] k1nk33:
Found a really cool little distro of linux called Bohdi Linux which, when installing on pc, has an option to install netbook/tablet version. I think its debian based but requires little resources compared to other distros. I think this could be a really viable alternative to ubuntu so if you interested please check it out . http://www.bodhilinux.com/index.html
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
It's not a "big deal" to do this kind of scenario (in fact i have it now):

Default SDE is UrukDroid, whenever you want to boot to Debian - you put some flag on filesystem (start Uruk service) and with next boot it will simply use "other" (then Android) init going to debian (next reboot is again to Uruk).

I have armel debian installed now on sdcard and I'm chrooting to it - but it's slow and (like pointed here) - using xserver+vino (or other vnc server) is pointless with 256MB of ram - sorry but this archos "feature" kills most of the projects...

Anyway... my second choice for alt-boot would be MeeGoo. Tablets really requires application designed for touch screens - using plain mouse/keyboard apps is a nightmare...
[Gen8 Android Development] shrewdlove:
Kubuntu Mobile

Hi,

I've started my own project for getting Kubuntu Mobile up and running on my Archos gen 8 70 it. I've compiled it and am chrooting into it and messing around, trying to get everything working. I finally got the touchscreen working but, like you, can't seem to get the click function to work properly. Anyone have any fixes?

Anyways thanks a lot, you can check out my thread at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13243471
[Gen8 Android Development] Sokini_:
a better idea would be to install a GNOME3 shell,as it's adapted for touch screens, and unity is not. Kubuntu Mobile would be nice if it were not running KDE,which is a ressources eater. I think we must work on installing openSUSE 11.4 or Fedora 15, or at least ubuntu 11.04 with gnome3 in order to make it easier to use

EDIT : I forgot this in my OP, but personnaly,if i can get GNOME3 running on my A101,i won't use android anymore, until honeycomb is out for our devices.
[Gen8 Android Development] shrewdlove:
ATM there is no way to get graphical acceleration working under linux so it is not possible to run any of the modern shells like gnome 3 or unity.
[Gen8 Android Development] Sokini_:
Why? We have the drivers source code, we can just build them for linux, can't we?
[Gen8 Android Development] shrewdlove:
True, but I don't have the linux knowledge to pull it off.
[Gen8 Android Development] Sokini_:
neither do I... But I guess a real dev could do it :p
[Gen8 Android Development] Zindy:
Don't forget we have only 256MB RAM, try starting ubuntu in virtual machine with 256MB RAM. It is not enough for it. We need lightweight desktop environment like xfce, lxde or even better enlightenment e17. E17 is optimized to be used on phones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks. You can try its tablet interface in Bodhilinux. It is LTS ubuntu based distribution which is extremly lightweight, but still usable even on laptop or desktop. (for me, it is even better than Gnome or Kde). The most amazing thing is that Bodhi developers are interested to port Bodhi into gen 8 Archos tablets. If they succeed it will be one of the best tablet linux distributions. Or may be one of the first. ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] abusaaad:
From a practical boot and splash On hd2

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http://www.mediafire.com/?19hvwgt6c8gysdb

splash

http://www.mediafire.com/?bxpcjq6l71pu05x

I hope you like

Thank you​
[Touch HD General] AFGnmdZ:
I'm searching for the official DUTCH vodafone rom release, found on htc.com/nl (i can't link stuff because i'm still a noob on XDA)

i cant download it becuase i don't have the correct S/N =(

can i get a SN that does the trick?

a link to the same update is also appreciated!

DANK U!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] ayewhy:
Hi everybody.

Look at my attached pic, seriously what other smartphone out there can give you battery life like that??? I know it's been on standby the whole time but I am impressed enough to take a pic and post about it here - and I did use it 2 days back to take lots of photos in the snow so don't know what that didn't come up on the battery usage screen.

Here's the settings:

3G off

Wifi off

Google sync off

Silent

There's no apps installed running on it currently.

Since getting an Xperia Mini Pro I have also got the HTC Desire Z and iPhone 4. But still I keep getting impressed by the Mini Pro and am very tempted to sell my HTC-Z and stick use the XMP instead as primary personal phone. (iPhone4 is from work).

Things I like about the Mini Pro:

LOUD loudspeaker

Best physical keyboard

Tiny small and strong build

FAST

Reliable

Any way hope this post was in some way helpful :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] iggi111:
standby ... wow.

in comparison to 3 hours of maximum usage ...

sorry but the threadtitle made me angry.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] spence91:
Yeah to be honest if you use it as intended your going to get roughly about a days worth of use if your lucky!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] benjymous:
You could keep it turned off, in a box in he cupboard, and the battery would last for weeks!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] master9997:
woot you serious ? I got like 7 days when idle
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Skoczek135:
HI ALL.

I bought my sgs 1 week ago and i need to improve him.

I care about good life battery (1 day with full usage- 2 day do not use much), Fast and very stable (i dont need FC etc.).

Now i have 2.2 Froyo.XWJPA and i have installed 21 apps (I installed this) and my foon slowed.

What can u offer me?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g00ndu:
I offer you the Search function....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Skoczek135:
i search but i dont find nothing ;/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mirash89:
use 2.2.1 jpy its fine and one of best in my opinion
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Skoczek135:
OK. i update my android :)

I need to add any lagfix or other?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 17mayis:
i would recommend this rom v7 JPY best so far easy to flash lagfix integret it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814091
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spectre85:
so.....is there any way a guy from canada on bell to use darkies v7 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtluis:
Hello Mate,

For improved battery life, fast and stable ROM, I recommend you use Doc's Rom, you will get all of this, and no messing with your phone.

You can get Doc's ROM here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=817703

Note that you will find a Slim version and "normal" version, slim has been trimmed every app that is not absolutely indispensable, since you are new to custom ROMs, it is best to get the normal version.

And here you can find a nice tutorial on how to make a clean installation, I suggest you follow this guide when flashing any custom ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9728021&postcount=14527

This guide shows you how to instal Doc's Rom v4 based on JPU, the most recent version so far is v6.2 based on JPY, the installation process for both is the same anyways, you only need to follow the complete guide the first time you get a custom ROM, after this it is much easier to change ROMS

Good Luck!

Please ask any questions if you have doubts, we all here will be pleased to help you out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
There is no best ROM, it is up to you to find the ROM that you want.

You can use the latest stock ROMs or Custom Roms which are really just repackaged/optimized/improved/faster stock ROMs (Doc is most popular for these reasons).

These discussions are not beneficial to anyone at XDA. If you are too lazy to flash and find what you like, then you don't belong at XDA.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sirphunkee:
I'm afraid that "which ROM is best?" threads always end in disaster here at XDA, and there's no answers to be found here that can't be had by taking some time and doing some personal research on all the options that exist...the benefits and faults of each are already well-documented.

Thread closed.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rice8Daddy:
I have spent hours trying to figure out how to set up wireless sync between my laptop and my HD7, so far, with no success...

The returning error message is C00D07C9.

My computer is running Windows 7 Home Premium that was upgraded from Vista.

Windows firewall and Defender have been disabled and exceptions have been made for Zune.

I'm using Norton internet security 2010, and at the time of connection I think I have switched everything off, full trust have been given to both the phone and the network.

My router is the lastest BT homehub.

All software is up to date.

I have also tried eveything mention in the following link, with no success.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...7/thread/cb69a1df-b74c-4269-a44d-912c3e589efd

If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rice8Daddy:
I can confirm this is a problem specifically with my Norton, I tried this on another computer and once the firewall and anti-virus on that computer were switched off the wireless sync set up fine...

Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong with my Norton?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim Coleman:
Uninstall Norton. Then set fire to the box, the manual and the disk. Put the ashes in a box and mail it to Siberia.

Now install Windows Security Essentials.

Even if that doesn't cure your problem, you've just done your PC a massive favour.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rice8Daddy:
I've pretty much given up now, I don't have the money to buy a new computer, and I don't have time to wipe the computer's and the phone's slate clean.

It's such a shame that I'm going to miss out on WP's handiest feature.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omega Ra:
this....totally
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rice8Daddy:
After no luck with anything, I gave it a random shot by linking my laptop with the router using LAN and it worked!!

Maybe my laptop and phone was too close to the router so the signals were interfered...

Anyways, I'm now as happy as can be!!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
Good. And blaming Norton is nonsense...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lekki:
What's even more surprising to me is anyone still uses Norton on a personal computer.

Avast plus Microsoft Security Essentials and you're golden. I'm not even sure I need Avast anymore but my PC has the resources to run both easily to why not?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gate Keeper:
norton especially in the last 3 years has really progressed and is one of the least resource hungry anti virus units around now. their security suite is pretty solid, and with things like idle scanning rather than scheduled scanning, it's a lot better then most.

i run MS security essentials at home because i don't want to fork out the money and it does the job for me, but if i had norton (especially the recent years) i'd be happy to use it.

it's weird you experienced the issue though, and who knows exactly what it was, but glad you got it sorted.

btw, it's not very wise to have 2 security/anti virus products overlapping (avast does anti virus right?) because one might try to vault it whilst another might want to delete it. it's recommended you only ever have one installed.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zedox:
Plus Microsoft Security Essentials just went to v2. An awesome product even more awesome. :D
[General Questions and Answers] ll_l_x_l_ll:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/23/lg-optimus-2x-dual-core-android-phone-hits-europe-in-january-pe/

the Dual Core Phone is coming in less than 1 month. if anything it sounds like LG wants to kill the nexus S before it gets a chance.

Today you have the option to buy Nexus S. or Pre order the Dual Core phone with Tegra 2 GPU for max gaming perforamnce along with better camera and an SD card option and 1080p video recording capability

downside its 2.2 and unless it gets rooted early, 2.3 will take a while to be out.

seriously . i didnt know that they would release it so soon.
[General Questions and Answers] Xandlinger:
I do not particularly like LG at all, so I'll pass until someone else looses a dual-core into the wild.
[General Questions and Answers] ZeroSX:
No thanks. I'll be sticking with the nexus until the end of next year when a Dual-Core N3 is announced.

I like my updates a lot, tyvm :)
[General Questions and Answers] ll_l_x_l_ll:
normally i would agree with you. if you give me an LG phone for free. i wouldnt take it. its LG. but god damn i am really thinking of this one. the specs is out of this world
[General Questions and Answers] Kalimdor:
Tegra 2 is 'that' much powerful than Hummingbird ?

LG branded things for me is last resort after Thompson xD
[General Questions and Answers] Xandlinger:
Yeah, I agree the phone SEEMS like it's going to be absolutely amazing, and it very well may be. But I don't want to wait for updates and/or devs to get the latest and greatest software.

And as someone else said, I'll wait for the Nexus 3 or whatever it will be called.
[General Questions and Answers] ll_l_x_l_ll:
Yes its much more powerful. its from Nvidia after all

and i agree i hate the LG branding too.
[General Questions and Answers] info[]box1:
No question the Tegra 2 device is the lastest and greatest based on dual chip solely. Its a monument release despite launching with 2.2. I'm not a gamer so that aspect doesn't interest me at all. I always keep two devices (1)cdma (2)gsm, for geek reasons. I really want to get both devices in my hand, then make a decision. We all know it will be the Tegra 2 device.

delivered with my Super Sonic Boom
[General Questions and Answers] Kalimdor:
Nah i hoped for 30-40% more power ... there is no need to take this over future Orion based phones.

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage...he-Test-Deemed-Faster-Than-Hummingbird-4.png/

BTW. I lost hopes in NV after huge fail in dedicated PS3 GPU.
[General Questions and Answers] Lord_Buckington:
I'm not a massive fan of LG phones, even if the specs are good. Bearing in mind I've still not decided on an NS yet. I think it's a good step though, as someone has to push the dual core tech forward. When Samsung (which I have nothing against) or HTC start pushing the tech in their own form, whether it's Tegra, Orion or something from Qualcomm, I'll be more excited

Sent from my Nexus One
[General Questions and Answers] psp888:
No, had a Galaxy S and hated waiting for updates, and not knowing if it would be updated.
[General Questions and Answers] Kalimdor:
Just flassshhh ... xD They need to update TouchWizz and any other software so wait in patience :)

Somebody know what is top LG android phone right now available in market ?
[General Questions and Answers] onthecouchagain:
Only time will tell whether the Opt 2X is worth it. Which is why I say this is a brink in mobile technology -- the standard is changing. Nexus S represents generally the best of an era that is ending (era of single core, 3G, etc). It might be worth waiting to some. No one can tell (meaning, not people who praise dual-core, or people who try to say dual-core is useless/wouldn't get first dual-core, etc.) for now.

As for the direct/clean Google updates, there are ways to work around that with other phones (flashing ROMs, etc.). If the Opt 2X succeeds, you can be sure the dev. community will be supporting the device with those sorts of specs.

But again, time will tell. I want to get (and like) the Nexus S as much as the next guy, but I'm waiting a bit. If the rumors are true, and that dual-cores will come early 2011, the wait is not far off. Also, the slew of issues the Nexus S seems to be having (a quick glance at the threads here will show tons of concerns) is serving as a huge deterrent. I actually like Samsung products, but it's becoming clearer and clearer that Google/Sammy rushed the Nexus S out.