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[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
It's kind of "Market" feature (I don't know what this behaviour depends on) - you can try method posted here to erase cache of market (find few screen before).
[Gen8 Android Development] AlaskaPardus:
thanks....will try this.....tell you if it works...

a second question: is it very hard to replace the stock launcher with ADW or LauncherGo....they are open source....so is it hardwork to put them in a custom rom?
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Try download MarketEnabler in Market and change operator to Verizon, you should find both paid and free apps.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
It's "not work at all" - but it's kind of pointless since you can do it by yourself and choose whatever you want...
[Gen8 Android Development] AlaskaPardus:
yes i know i can do it if i want....

so i will try to search for a tutorial how to make a alternative launcher to a system launcher.....

thats the reason why i will try this.....

now the forums search must help me ;)
[Gen8 Android Development] jdolmen:
Hi,

4.0.1 works very nice now ! Thanks.

For me it's much better if I create a swap partition of 150 MB and set swapinness to 85.

Regarding the micro sd cards as I've read in some previous posts, be aware that class 6 or even higher class is not going to guarantee that it will be fast enough on our archos.

Even if they give you very good performance when writing and reading might not be valid. I've tried to write a test to differentiate my ADATA class 6 (with very good performance figures) from my Sandisk Ultra class 4 (more modest perf. figures), because my Sandisk works like a charm an the ADATA doesn't

I'll try to perform another kind of tests like opening many files at the same time an writing/reading from them etc. There should be a reason, and BTW it's not related to swap, if I disable swap, still the ADATA is not usable.

The other annoying thing for me it's that you cannot disable autorotation without making all the apps. turn into landscape mode. I'd like to have portrait mode ! I think this is a bug in the archos firmware.
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Yes, very annoying. I also want to lock it to portrait mode.

I sometimes use landscape mode only when viewing some pdf magazine because the text looks bigger without pinch and zoom.
[Gen8 Android Development] Kashban:
I'm just at the first boot of UrukDroid 0.4.1: Is it only me seeing the Splashscreen with "Initramfs:..." upside down? Just like the Änström Linux when booting vanilla SDE?

Anyway, it's working. Will test on the spare 4GiByte Card for ext4 stability and report back.
[Gen8 Android Development] protoism:
given market is not working for me how i cannot download something like root explorer to edit the file. Also given I am some what clueless about android and linux and things can someone offer a simple explanation of how i can change the wi fi setting with out being able to download apps, even if i could i still wouldnt be sure of what to do! thanks in advance and thanks to sauron for his patience ind dealing with lots of questions.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Use buildin AppLib (from archos), download Android Terminal (or any other terminal).

su
cd /etc/wifi
mv firmware.bin firmware.bin-new
mv firmware.bin-old firmware.bin

reboot.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
I've wrote it couple of times here already. 101 (unless some of them) have fixed LCDs upside-down. Archos has fixed this by software changes...
[Gen8 Android Development] Kashban:
I know that one... no big deal though, just wanted to know if that's also common for the UrukDroid Splash or not.
[Gen8 Android Development] lolo33:
Apply the market Fix, twice if necessary.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867303

MARKET FIX:

This will get you most missing apps from the market, except some "protect market apps".

Setting-->Manage Applications-->All-->Market (Clear Cache then 'Force Stop' -- DO NOT clear data)

Setting-->Manage Applications-->All-->Google Services Framework (Clear data then 'Force Stop')

REBOOT again
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
sorry to quote my own post but i still cant do it .. and the fact i dont have permissions to do any writing activity within the terminal is a little worrying. :(
[Gen8 Android Development] Kashban:
That is strange indeed. Running 0.4.1 now I have no problems accessing any folder r/w either with terminal or root explorer.

If you type "su" in terminal after a fresh start, do you get a message shown that terminal has been granted root rights by superuser app? Try check superuser by starting it via app menu: Is terminal on the list of apps allowed to have root rights? What does superuser log say?
[Gen8 Android Development] sweetypie:
If you have Root Explorer installed, and you boot your Archos from scratch, into the "rooted" Developer Operating system, when you open Root Explorer the first time, it will ask you if you will allow it to have "Superuser" permissions.

If you don't get asked that, your Archos is not rooted. Or, when you open Root Explore for the first time, and your Archos is not rooted, you will be told by Root Explorer that your Archos is not rooted.

If you do get that message, and do give permission to give Root Explorer Superuser permissions, and still cannot move / edit those files, then there IS a problem.

But make sure your setup passes the above tests first.
[Gen8 Android Development] DougEdey:
Wifi driver seems to be much better now! Can we get the next release to come with the OC kernel?

EDIT: Damnit, just as I say that the wireless goes to hell again
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
hi all. thanks for the replies . i'm not a complete n00b regarding rooting, linux and playing with rooted android devices. but i admit i may well be doing something stupid. although i cant see where in this case

yes i'm booting into SDE , yes i see it saying "blah blah has been granted su rights" when i open said app.

i've used es fileexplorer which has root access.

havent got root explorer as it costs and i dont have a google marketplace account thingy

where is the sulog?
[Gen8 Android Development] Kashban:
BTW: Providing access to the sdcard and internal storage of the Archos works like a charm now with the new partition layout. Not bad for a former [won't fix] :-).
[Gen8 Android Development] sweetypie:
@thefunkygibbon

Sorry no offence, but as an experienced user you understand that it's bad practice to assume anything when problem solving.

That just leaves Kashban's query. If you type "su" in a terminal, does the $ prompt change to # ? Another silly question for an experienced user, I know. Just making sure. Of course there is the final test of typing whoami.

Since you're sure you're rooted properly, I'll shut up now. It's beyond me.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
It's not a fix - it's a design change - vox populi :)
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
fair enough, yes it turns to a # i get the "granted superuser access" prompt at the bottom and whoami returns 'root'
[Gen8 Android Development] DropZite:
Just want to know if I'm the only one having this problem.. I can't connect my A70IT to a computer anymore after doing this change:

It's giving me this error message:

Previously I was able to mount it but I have to mount the SDcard first in the settings for it to be seen properly in Windows7, otherwise I will receive the same error as above. Since the mount SDcard option is gone in the settings, I can't mount it anymore.

Is this a normal operation?
[Gen8 Android Development] GrandStar:
I'm new to all this rooting stuff and to linux as well, so I'm saying sorry in advance if this is a stupid question..

I want to try out this custom rom, but I'm confused at this step

it says I should remove huge_file when creating the ext4 partition but the instruction code provided has it.. why not remove it altogether in the instruction code as well? should it appear like this?
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
the "-O ^huge_file " part means it doing it without the huge_file aspect
[Gen8 Android Development] stineco:
why dont wont it work?

Hey sauron,

Yesterday i didnt work,

so today i format my sdcard with stock rom and i did all your steps again,

but stil the same problems,

first when its boot i get a ugly screen (but this is normal for the A101)

then i get this error

Sorry !

Process system is not responding.

Force close | Wait.

when i have this problem i cant play video and music files?

Dus it make a difference if we upload the kernel files (initramfs.cpio.gz and zImage) from windows?

please help,
[Gen8 Android Development] digibucc:
you can also remove huge file from the ext4 section of your makefs file in linux, which would then never add it. then the command grandstar posted would be exactly right
[Gen8 Android Development] skorianez:
Good news:

ArcTools news – Service configurator for UrukDroid 0.4.1

www (dot) arctablet (dot) com

Sorry no URL allowed.
[Gen8 Android Development] jsperri:
Sorry for the duplicate post, looks like I was editing mine at the same time skorianez was publishing his news.

You may be interested in a small GUI to start/stop services on UrukDroid (0.4.1)

ArcTools android application now supports this feature, see Tools tab, there is a button per service (DVB, IPtables, NTFS, Samba, SSH, Swap)

arctablet.com/blog/archos-tablet/arctools-news-with-service-configurator-for-urukdroid-0-4-1/

ArcTools can be downloaded here:

arctablet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/com.arctablet.arctools.apk
[Gen8 Android Development] DropZite:
Just an update here, I've fixed my USB connection error by inserting the SD card directly to the PC Windows7 using an adapter then formatting directly the partition 1 as Fat32. Also I've reverted back the SD card error fix as it's not needed anymore.

I'm not sure why it didn't take when I formatted it under linux, tried it 2 times using the mkfs.vfat command but it didn't work.

Maybe this info could be useful to anyone who will encounter this problem.
[Gen8 Android Development] killmanaj:
My archos boots fine and i can see my app icons but then I start getting force close errors from every part of my system. Any ideas on a fix would be appreciated.
[Gen8 Android Development] stineco:
WIFI N

Hi

I used a other Micro SD and my problems are gone,

Sauron is WIFI N activated?
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Can you tell something more?
[Gen8 Android Development] stineco:
I wanna know if WIFI 802.11n in on, because when i go to my router

its says Wireless-G

So i dont think i am using wifi N, only G
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
$aur0n, have you any idea about my read only system folder and non-ability to access it using any root file explorer apps or the terminal? :(
[Gen8 Android Development] fzelle:
@thefunkygibbon:

What does a "mount" in a terminal gives you for "/" and "/data"?
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
Just a question for anyone who wishes

Just wondering but can anyone explain the different tools that you can turn on and off and their purpos using the new Arc Tools.. I understand some (like samba and such..) but IpTables and other are a little confusing of if I need these on or off...

Again, bit of a newbie to linux..
[Gen8 Android Development] nenadr:
/system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini

Edit line saying HT_Enable=0 to HT_Enable=1 and Wifi will connect to N-Only configured AccessPoints (works for me on Linksys N-Only AP using WPA).
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
OK, so I'm getting all ready to do this (had .3 working but want to try .4) and I have to uninstall google apps....I'm wondering, do I need root to do that? (I'm going to say yes to that) which if I do...I'm kinda screwed cuz I already formatted my sd card and no longer have root.

So how bad is it going to hurt me if I skip that step? I saw that it said that you can not install them; skip them? Anything else I would need to know on that step?
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Hi,

I have upgraded from 0.3 to 0.4 without much problem..thanks a lot to $aur0n.

My only problem is I can't open my Market 2.09; it opens with white screen for a moment and shut itself.

I tried remove all and reinstall with Arctools 0.42, but it won't help either. It seems the same Market 2.09 is always there.

I finally use Rootexplorer to delete Vending.apk which is Market app, reboot and Market is gone. Try downloading coreapps and install with Arctools 4.2 again. Though it listed all apps, including Vending, are installed, but after reboot, Market is still not there.

I don't know what to do now to get Market coming back and working. Google Maps works fine. Google Talk FC.

In Archos 70 8gb. Sandisk 4gb, class 4.
[Gen8 Android Development] robbdeeze:
Could someone please tell me on how to enable swap partition. Can you also include the command lines needed to accomplish this. Thanks in advance.
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
$aur0n, I thought I'd let you know a problem I'm running into, it's minor, but since you changed the instructions and now have the rootfs, etc RAR'd...if you are using a live cd you can't unpack, or "unrar" anything and of course if it's live you can't always install rar.

Something minor but I noticed you've been tweaking the first page and you might have people having problems with it.

I'm installing ubuntu on vm now, but had been working with a live usb and that was how I got .3 installed and had no problems.

Just thought you might like to know.
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Actually, I use LiveCD with both 0.3 and 0.4. It's true we need RAR command to do 0.4 and I can't find it from LiveCD. So I search, download, and install from UBUNTU store while I'm still in LiveCD and it works fine. Off course, it will go away when next reboot.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
I've made instruction for System Rescue CD - witch is linked on the first page. If anyone will use something else - it should have enough knowledge to figure it out ;). Probably all LiveCD have /tmp writeable made on ramfs - so it's not true.
[Gen8 Android Development] sCALPLaHienne:
Freeze with 0.4.1 out of sleep mode

Hello $aur0n and the Urukdroid team, I've got some problems with the 0.4.1 release.

I've been on Urukdroid since 0.2, but 0.4.1 bring me some troubles.

What I've done :

- clean reset of the original 101IT

- clean install of 0.4.1 (with the "copy_data" script)

Every one or two times I turn on the screen, the "touchscreen" isn't responding : I can't use the screen or any onscreen buttons, but I can press the ower button for 5 seconds and instantly have the poweroff menu, so the system isn't freezed, only the touchscreen.

But I can't choose "reboot", since I can't press the screen... I can only do a hard reset.

Are you aware of any issue ? can I do some logging or debugging in order to find a clue, and then share it with you ?

Best regards,

Pascal
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
By "turn on the screen" you mean - wake device up from soft sleep? I guess this problem is something with A101 only - and yes, it's kind of already reported. But not really any straight clues what is responsible for that.
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Archos 70 internal write speed

Just upgrade to 0.41(Vfat on first partition) and connect my Archos 70 to my Win 7.

I use USBDView on Win 7 to test the intenal volume (FAT32) speed and found

1st test: r/w = 8.93/13.26MB/s

2nd 11.85/12.31

3rd 12.62/13.11

4th 13.08/12.46

5th 12.41/13.11

The testing partition is FAT32 and I'm impressed with its write speed.

I also test on my Sandisk 4GB class 4, the write speed is between 3-5/Mbps, and read speed is around same as the internal volume.

So I believe it's quite difficult/expensive to find microsd card to match such write speed if we intend to boot from SD Card.
[Gen8 Android Development] bthoven:
Last night when I tried to upgrade from 0.3 to 0.41, I did the same as you (no copying of stock data partition to sd card); but when I boot with Developer Edition, I'm forced to follow the clean startup wizard like I got the new Archos.

So I retreat to exact instruction of $aur0n and it works fine except Market which open up briefly as white screen and shut down by itself.

Not sure what to do next to get Market up without reformatting my stock driod.
[Gen8 Android Development] protoism:
ooops - thx that helps

though now i have reinstalled 4.1 with ext 4 have even more problems

cant get market to work - browser is ridiculously slow - white screen for ages

always getting force close messages anytime i try an app. just very buggy
[Gen8 Android Development] protoism:
thx that fixed geo location and buggy wifi - market is also happier with this

with the change in wifi market has updated to most recent version, maps works smoothly. Browser still silly slow to start - maybe 20 seconds white screen! will try hd dolphin see if that is ok. Still getting a lot of forced closes not just with gapps. launcher is crashing a lot - will try ADW. Again thy sauron and others for time and patience - looking forward to v.5
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Since gapps are making so much trouble - since 0.5 it will be separate update package (you will be able to choose if you want to use system level gapps)
[Gen8 Android Development] thefunkygibbon:
it might be related but when i run dmesg i see quite a lot of messages in there about initializing what sounded like the usb touchscreen (it mentioned win7 weirdly)

this is on a 101.

not experienced any lack of touchscreen responsiveness though.

just ran dmesg again and cant see anything like that but it was quite regular yesterday when i was trying to troubleshoot my dvb-t dongle
[Gen8 Android Development] naga_z:
My 101 is the same problem, when you wake up on the screen, it can be restarted.
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
Wifi Location... 0.4.1

Am I to understand that this code will fix the wifi bugs and the location issues with 0.4.1 ???

su

cd /etc/wifi

mv firmware.bin firmware.bin-new

mv firmware.bin-old firmware.bin

I saw this but no reference to it's involvment is which version. I am on 0.4.1 and having issues with location. Also, i am experiencing sometimes the same issues with the screen not coming out of soft-sleep as well. Everything else seems fine though..

Also, Has anyone else noticed the heat surrounding the SD card, it this because we boot from SD that the heat is a little high surrounding the SD card????

JW

... FYI .. the instructions are fine by me.. I did have to download the rar module for my VM Machine Ubuntu.. but after it was all gravy.
[Gen8 Android Development] sCALPLaHienne:
I'll run sshd and see what I can find on the log/dmesg side.

If I find anything I'll let you know.

Thank you for saying it was found on other A101, I'm a little less alone then.
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
Hmm..thats good to know. I couldn't get my wireless to work in the live environment so I couldn't download anything.

SO it's just me. lol Which would probably be the same reason that I can't get my Ubuntu VM to see my Archos. It's just me. lol

Sorry, I'm a stay at home mom and the last time I used linux in depth was years ago. I'm too rusty to be messing with this. So please be tolerant with me :D
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
Live CD vs. VMplayer

I really suggest VMplayer with Ubuntu for doing this. Once you install modules and such, it is much easier to use.

I have this running and it saves all installations and updates (so once you install things like "rar".. it is always there)

Not to mention, they have a nice disk utility for seeing easily where your partitions are mounted and their physical names. (System--> Administration--> Disk Utility)

JW

just my 2 cents...

3 Screenshots...
[Gen8 Android Development] cjdalessio:
Just wanted to note I have had this issue twice on my stock (no SDE yet, .71) A101it so even Archos might like to know. :D
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
Since my Virtualbox/Ubuntu doesn't want to work with the usb (could be my hub)

I will give that a try. Thanks : )
[Gen8 Android Development] sublimejosh2000:
At the bottom of the VMachine, you will see a list of drive that can be attached. This can be edited, and if you see your device there and its greyed out, you can right click it and choose to connect, and it will (although, you will have to Mount it on the archos screen again, if your trying to see the archos that way)

My MAIN problem with this damn Archos is the fact that if you get unsuccessful mounting the first try, it will go into it's stupid media scanner thing, and won't let you mount it again until that is done.. then sometime it gets stuck, and your screwed until you reboot.... annoying as ****
[Gen8 Android Development] p0rk burn:
Chalk me up as another victim of the ext4 corruption. Seems to come about as a byproduct of reboots. I switched in and out of Uruk 6 or 7 times yesterday for unrelated reasons and finally at the end of the night when I tried to boot Uruk up I was greeted with a black screen after the boot image.

Stock works fine.

I'm going to format the sdcard with ext3 until this can be addressed.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
What version of Uruk, what kernel?
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
So someone tell me if I am right on this, is the only thing you lose between ext3 and ext4 is speed?
[Gen8 Android Development] p0rk burn:
0.4.1, default kernel listed in the post.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
You have waited enough to be sure it won't boot up? As far as I remember - config corruption should appear as a lot Force Close - not black screen. Perhaps it's something else.
[Gen8 Android Development] $aur0n:
Ext4 is something more than speed - but in Archos case, it's probably just speed. I advice to wait, since it's a first person that claims to have a problem in 0.4.1. I use it extremely hard this days ;) - and haven’t seen anything bad since changes made in 0.4
[Gen8 Android Development] p0rk burn:
Sorry, left out the force closes :p. The last time it did boot up I had a cascade of them, after a reboot it sits on the black screen. I'll give it another shot, but I let it sit for 5 minutes and nothing happened. When it was working normally that would be way more than enough time.

edit: just realized I can't check it because I already formatted the sdcard as part of the move to ext3. Sorry!
[Gen8 Android Development] cheefy:
Someone complained about a weird batterystate:

For everyone who did not copy the whole old data partition:

there the file /data/system/batterystats.bin if copy this one from your stock-data to uruk your batterystatus will be fine ;-)

i had problems with the wifi too, cannot connect to open networks without key. will try that firmware patch.

For the ones with Gapps Problems:

This will work even if you can't completely uninstall the gapps in stock.

I recommend not to copy the whole partition but only:

/data/app

/data/app-private

/data/system/batterystats.bin (as told above)

and from /data/data just the content of the directories you need like K9,facebook,FTP etc. at least do not copy any of the google directories. You have to copy the content from the app-data-directory to the new one like

cp -Rf /data.old/data/etc.fsck.k9/* /data/data/etc.fsck.k9/
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
Yeah I'm sticking to the directions EXACTLY. I have enough problems without deviating from your process. lol I was just curious because I'm using a 16 gig card and it would be nice to use the rest of the space to transfer files back and forth from my XP system. I know there is a app you can use on XP that sees ext3, so I was just curious.
[Gen8 Android Development] lolo33:
You have installed the Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.0-69151 and activated the usb controler in settings?
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
Thank you very much for posting your 2 cents : ) I've now got using the VMPlayer a VM Ubuntu that has internet AND is seeing the archos.

So, so far so good.
[Gen8 Android Development] willowave:
Yep, I did that. It was seeing several other usb drives I have connected to my system, but whenever I connected the archos I didn't get anything. I tried VMPlayer and it's working well so far.

Thanks tho :)