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[Gen8 General] Mod57:
Okay I installed Jet Car Stunts dkelley's UrukDroid killer. Set my screen to time out in 10 minutes.

Started Jet Cars and let it set running in main menu for 10 minutes until the screen timed out. Turned screen back on and played 10 plus minutes no problems. By the way kind of a fun game.

I do have Swapper 2 installed and running swap on my sdcard. Swap size set at 96 MB swappiness set at 10.

Next I uninstalled Swapper 2 and did the same test without swap. Force closed in main menu and had to reboot in 3 minutes.

I then reinstalled Swapper 2 and tested again. This time with swap on same as first test I had a force close at 3 minutes again. Jet Cars seems to be a good test tool.

Sorry to report this Kernel has the same problem UK 0.7 random force closing. Continued the test with stock firmware zero force closing.

This being a stock Kernel only thing being different ext4 can that format some how be the cause?
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
I've done a mistake, can somebody please post me again the text or the way to revert back the Init. Archos 70 S file as I lost it? Thanks
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
With the provided "test" kernel here the only difference should be ext4 support only (I say should, since Archos kernel does not provide configuration - I can only assume the one supplied with sde is close to this one). But since you use 0.7 there are some recompiled modules that are used and they can be faulty - that's why I still wait for dkelley's results since he has installed Uruk 0.6.

Anyway, since this bug is "strange" - it happened to me 2 days ago (freeze), after reboot again quite quickly, then 2 days nothing. I'm preparing kernel for 1.0 release, i've added all possible Arm Cortex erratums - with this stuff I don't see how I can do more (in reasonable time and effort). Perhaps some core dumps over serial (but only If we get some way of reproducing it - i still get it too rarely) if I only RMA my Archos (dead USB host).

Strange to me is that none have reported this problem before Uruk 0.7 - I don't think there is much more users since then...
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
pls help without the init file for A70S I have icons missing, thanks
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
Sorry been busy this weekend. Will try tomorrow on 0.6 with edits and kernel.
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
Did a clean install of UD 0.6, loaded Jet Car Stunts and ran it in main menu 4 minutes in froze.

Then installed test kernel with changes did the test again froze in 3 minutes.

No other apps installed so maximum memory was available.
[Gen8 General] jm123:
Uruk 0.7: Freeze on repligo-reader and Sudoku Free
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
How much back are you willing to go? ;) I've checked yesterday what binaries (os level) are running all the time (like mixer, powerd etc) and what libraries they are using - it looks like it's all "android" one (I though perhaps some my libraries - witch are much newer - were messing with old binaries). There is a change that from Uruk 0.1 this problem was existing - if so, this means that probably Archos did not give exactly the same config/source as production one. But if this would be a matter - then other kernels, like OC one, should suffer similar problems...

Anyway - all file since 2.0.71-0.1 are available - when device it's formatted - it shouldn't be so hard to use it (from Linux over usb or from rooted stock OS) - do you need exact description?
[Gen8 General] sibere:
I have fewer freezes with ondemand but I have experienced again one yesterday.

Sent from my A70S using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
I will give it a try please explain what you want done and I will give it a go this evening.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
hey @aur0n - never mind old info, I'm having trouble getting ud 0.1 to run now (see next post).
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
hey - after reading through uruk 0.1 install instructions (yes, definitely needs linux ;-), I'm trying ubuntu in vmware workstation. if this let's me mount the sdcard that I put into the archos then I should be able to do the work from there. worth a shot anyhow.

my sdcard is uberslow but at least it lets me test these older uruk installs...

Don
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
edit: just formatted (unpartitioned) sd card and will try from scratch - maybe ud0.7 partitioning isn't backward compatible with 0.1??

back to original post:

EDIT 2: well I guess that I can't run UD 0.1 on my archos 101 for some reason. I repartitioned everything, converted filesystems to ext4 manually to ensure the large file support thing wasn't configured as active, but the same thing happened where it rebooted after showing the second (Brighter) archos logo.

so if you need UD 0.1 testing I can't do it for some reason.

now back to the original post (the bold comment above is NEWER than this information but the symptoms are the same).

well I went through and did the uruk 0.1 thing. however it just bootlooped then went back to normal android os, ud 0.1 never started up.

I guess I'll have to read the thread for a few dozen pages to work out ud 0.1 issues....

only thing I didn't do was change my partition settings from 0.7 (which is what I was back to for a while) on the external sdcard. It looked like the 0.7 easy install [partitioned the card the way ud0.1 wants it anyhow so I went into each mount point as su and rm -R * to clear away everything. then I extracted rootfs into the 512mb partition, exited cleanly, booted into dev recovery to upload and install ud 0.1 kernel and fs thingies, and booted into developer edition. that's when it bootlooped onced or twice after a few seconds of the archos screen showing (the 2nd logo screen) and then it went to android by itself.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Well you don't need to use 0.1 , some later Uruks will also give us some reference point. Ill try prepare unmodified binary archos kernel tomorrow with extra ext4 module only.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
ok, I'll see what I can get to run on this thing
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Ok i've created initrd with modules for ext4 and zImage binary from stock OS. It's bootable - but completely unstable on my Uruk 1.0. You can give it a try if you wish. It's probably unstable because of kernel modules - but without any service running it may work better.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1017593/ArchosGEN8/UrukDroid-1.0/UrukDroid-TestStockBinaryKernel.tbz2

How to update - it's Uruk package so as usual - in my case it looks like this ;)

root@urukdroid:/root# cd /data/UrukUpdate/
root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate# wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1017593/ArchosGEN8/UrukDroid-1.0/UrukDroid-TestStockBinaryKernel.tbz2
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com (184.72.244.214:80)
UrukDroid-TestStockB 100% |*************************************************************************************************************| 6015k 00:00:00 ETA
root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate# ls
UrukDroid-TestStockBinaryKernel.tbz2
root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate# ls
root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate#

How to check if it's applied correctly

root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate# tail /var/lib/urukdroid/update.log
Starting update script:
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:49:33 +0200
UrukUpd: Waiting free lock ...Done
UrukUpd: Decompressing file.... Done
UrukUpd: Veryfing existance of signature file...
UrukUpd: Veryfing signature...
UrukUpd: Extracting package description...
UrukUpd: Checking file integrity...
UrukUpd: Found kernel update package
UrukUpd: Processing kernel update....Done
root@urukdroid:/data/UrukUpdate# ls /var/lib/urukdroid/kernel/* | tail -1 | xargs cat
File: zImage
Type: Linux kernel
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:37:09 +0200
Desc: Test kernel based on STOCK binary - to check freeze issue
Changes: none
--
File: initramfs.cpio.gz
Type: Initial ramdisk
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:37:09 +0200
Desc: Initial ramdisk filesystem, first boot step - designed for internal/external boot for UrukDroid 0.7+
Changes: UD 1.0RC1 initramfs + ext4 modules for stock kernel
--
Generating KD...
Updating KD (6132598 bytes)...
0
100
--

edit: This stunt car racer game is now working on this kernel for 2h (just the main screen with rotating logo)...
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Helloooo ;) no tests of latest binary kernel? :D
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
I will try tonite when I got off work. Can I drop it in Urukupdate to test it?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Yes - I wrote that ;)
[Gen8 General] sibere:
I have build my own kernel too with options from your /proc/config.gz. It's booting up to UI but freezes when mounting SD. I can't even get a logcat...

Will try again when I have more spare time :)

Sent from my HTC Desire with DATA2SD
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
$aur0n, seems you are on the right track nice work. ;) The new Kernel has passed the Jet Car Stunt test for me too. Over fifteen minutes and still running. Before I was lucky to get past one minute.

My apologies for not testing sooner but your time is seven or eight hours ahead of mine.

Let me know if you need me to test anything else.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
Will test first thing tomorrow. About 9 or 10 hours from now.

EDIT: testing on clean internal install of 0.7 with root explorer and jet car stunts installed and all uruk services turned off.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
yea, definitely jet car stunts is working solidly wtih your latest experimental really basic kernel on 0.7.

edit: I removed the rest of my post - I just figured out that you dind't build this kernel, you used the binary kernel from froyo with the extra stuff for ext4 etc. So I understand now what you don't know how to proceed. Sorry for confusion.

Cheers,

Don
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
I'd like to mention that with all the uruk services turned off (just using the uruk control app), urukdroid 0.7 with that archos binary kernel + your ext4 additions works really well. It gives me the stability of stock archos, maybe even more stability actually, plus the extra space of your custom filesystem stuff, plus the speed of ext4 on internal (which for me is faster than my slow external sd card).

Quite an excellent temporary solution. I suspect that most of your uruk services will break if I enable them because of the stock kernel, and I won't even attempt to upgrade to 1.0 since without your kernel mods it will be pointless mostly.

But for anyone wanting to use your archos with more app install space and speed with good stability this is quite acceptible.

Better than stock definitely :-)

Don
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
I turned off all the Uruk services and tried to copy the new kernel in data/UrukUpdate and the filesystem does not allow me to copy - says R/O. ANy ideas how to fix? I am using RootExplorer.

EDIT 1: Of course reboot takes care of it, but this is happening very frequently.

EDIT 2: The new kernel is fabulous. Works better, feels better, most games dont FC, which used to happen a lot before this patching.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
exactly! it's what we've been looking for isn't it? I'm really happy with this!

now the question is - will archos development team come through with the correct source code and/or build instructions for the urukdroid developer so he can build THIS kernel with it's stability and add in all of his cool extra features that make urukdroid such an amazing operating system?

If not then I propose those of us who experience freezes just use this kernel and not use any urukdroid services which would require one of his customized kernels.
[Gen8 General] tamati:
it still freezes .... april fools :D

thank you very much for this update $auron, now it works well and I was able to play without getting freeze (sometimes it would slow down, but that's normal), looking forward for the next release and its new things ;)
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
Would love to see the overclock options in this kernel. Now while it is stable, everything is so slooooooooow. :-(

Just cant win!
[Gen8 General] dafko:
Frozen Uruk.

Hi guys.

I was rebooting my archos 101IT with Uruk0.7 the other day and all I can get was boot screen. After nice UrukDroid Screen I get black screen :(

Nevertheless the orgiignal stock Android 2.2 was working without problem. What can I do now? I dont wanna lose my apps and setting.

:mad:

Thank you for your responses.

Dafko
[Gen8 General] tamati:
It's strange, it worked well yesterday but today when I turned on the device, it froze on the lock screen, I can't do anything :/

There's an icon like the one that appear when the internal storage is nearly full and that's all, I can't get more informations for the moment

I did nothing particular between yesterday and today ...

EDIT : it freezes and there is a message "Preparing internal storage" now ...

EDIT2 : I remember that I didn't turn off the device correctly yesterday because it was freezing again, maybe it's because of that (corrupted data ?) ?
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
I did a full reinstall of UrukDroid 0.7 then updated with Auron Kernel, installed Raging Thunder 2 disabled all Uruk Config Options and no way, it keep freezing, sorry to ruin your happiness but this is unstable again, let me know how can I help you to give you more infos on the testing, thanks
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
odd. mines was 100% perfect with TONS of use for hours and hours and hours, not one single freeze.

EDIT:using the latest original (stock archos) kernel with $aur0n's ext4 extensions that is in this thread is when it stopped freezing, several days ago. it froze like nuts with every other kernel on urukdroid until this one, so I think all agree except for one report so far that the kernel stops the freezing. Maybe the last person didn't install the kernel right or missed some other important step? or maybe the kernel simply didn't auto-install on it's own for that person.
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
$Auron can you help us maybe.giving us a kernel that we can revert back into the device so we wont risk our tablets? Is this freezing issue happening to all users who plays jet car and raging thunder 2? Thanks
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
That's my guess too - there was/is something wrong with kernel installation for frenchdj.
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
The installation has been done putting the kernel in the folder than force update as it did not refresh.What is the roght procedure to install it? Thanks
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
Maybe I am wrong but DKelley didnt you say that ur Archos70 was dead since yeday or wqs another post deleted? Sorry I thought it was but maybe I am totally wrong
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
Same here I have had zero problems since installing this latest kernel.
[Gen8 General] frenchdj:
Ok, I installed again the kernel avoiding the force update from Uruk Config, it seems to work now, do you suggest me to let the options switched off or I can turn cpu governor and swap On? thanks $Auron big up for your hard work

p.s. dKelley, I mixed it up it was Tamati that had black screen not you, sorry for the wrong message :)
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
Use this kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12484079&postcount=415

Before updating I turned off CompCache and CpuGovernor in UrukConfig. In a previous test kernel $aurOn had us disable Uruk Stuff. Not sure if this was necessary but did that too the info is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12411347&postcount=387

Do not use kernel from here because it didn't work. After you update reboot and you should be good to go.

On my fifth day running with no problems.

Hope this helps.
[Gen8 General] tamati:
I reinstalled all the things (kernel & the apps I had) and it's working now ... don't know what was wrong...
[Gen8 General] woti23:
found a new strange thing (archos 101, uruk 1.0)

new wpa-suplicant binary

signal strength in status bar always 1 bar (although its 4 in settings network or wifi-analyzer)

old wpa-suplicant binary

no issue

new suplicant binary

transfer rate 540.323.264 Mbps (in settings / network)

old suplicant

correct 54Mbps
[Gen8 General] jdolmen:
Hi,

I've 0.7 installed internally. The system was quite unstable with frequent freezes etc.

I tried the new kernel posted by aur0n with just compcache, sshd and swap services running.

Guess what, same problems as before...

However when switching off compcache, everything seems much, much better.

Now it works quite good with this combination.

BTW, one of the things which is not used in the stock firmware is the

compcache , couldn't be this one the guilty of so much unstability

even with the 0.7 uruk kernel ...?

I'd suggest just to disable the compcache and configure 128 Mb of

normal swap instead.
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Does bluetooth tethering work in urukdroid 0.7 ?

My Archos 101 hangs every time after selecting cell phone (Nokia e75), no difference using usb cable or bluetooth..

My tapatalk search didn't find anything about this from forum messages.
[Gen8 General] sibere:
I suggest to use the stock swap partition too!
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
Ok this is seriously weird.

My 101 rebooted all on its own - I did not install apps, made no config changes, nothing. I was playing Bomber which has never given me issues for a loong time, irrespective of stock or UrukDroid kernels. So I dont think that did anything.

Ok. So once reboot happened, no more root - SetCPU and RootExplorer do not show root any more.. No Market (says App not found). A few apps have disappeared - SwiftKey, TouchDown, etc. Rest of the apps are available.

I am using the new stable kernel on Uruk 0.7. Uruk services are disabled.

Any ideas?

Any ideas what happened?
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
sounds like when it rebooted it booted into stock android instead of sde (sde, or "developer edition", is urukdroid, but you can hold down volume-down whiel you reboot to choose "developer edition" to boot into urukdroid again, assuming your uruk install still works).
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
Nope. I get the UrukDroid logo and all. Also I tried the 'press Vol button, Dev Edition, etc' process and same result. In any case, my stock "desktop" and my Uruk "desktop" are very different, so its easy to see which system I am on. I have tried Rebooting, Power off & wait for some time then Start, and Deep Sleep (of course this wouldnt make any difference). So I am out of options except doing a fresh 0.7 install which I really dont want to do.
[Gen8 General] lechuckthepirate:
yo there! since this is the questions thread... have u seen the cracked gen8 recovery thread in "Gen8 General"? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1018260

Do you think it would be possible to install Uruk or a Cyanogen port using Clockwork Recovery or AMonRA?

Cheers!!
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
I found out the issue. I lost root because Superuser.apk FCs. How do I fix?
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Anyone? Should this work or not?
[Gen8 General] EP2008:
Bluetooth tethering works for me with version 0.7, but it doesn't work for me in the stock android OS.

This was tethering via my HTC Legend using the wireless tether app.
[Gen8 General] ray1234:
For me, bluetooth tethering in both Urukdroid 0.7 and stock 2.1.8 works just fine. I use Windows Mobile phone.
[Gen8 General] pki101:
got now mine working also in urukdroid 0.7, but settings are manually done.. Because system hangs if trying to read them from sim.

Stock did read settings without any problems.
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
I have a problem with Uruk0.7, so I am planning to reinstall. If I want to keep the apps that I already have on Uruk after the reinstall, should I select "Copy Data Partition" during the install process or "Dont Copy Data"?

Again, I dont want the apps on Stock, I want the apps already on Uruk.

Also I have LOST ROOT, so no Titanium Backup option for me to maintain apps systemically post install.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
If you want to reinstall just OS (rootfs) without touching /data (datafs) partition I would do it this way... (perhaps I should add this option to EasyInstall).

Boot Uruk, copy UrukDroid-install.tgz (from UrukDroid_0.7-Install.rar) to / of UrukDroid (it has to be / of file system, not sdcard, not data). Then erase /init file. This way after reboot you will get overwritten everything on root with fresh install. It would be better to erase some files before reboot, but I can't give easy way of doing it - so let's hope overwrite will be enough.
[Gen8 General] cdelta01:
$aur0n - that is a good idea. Given the lack of kernel stability, I am sure others will need to do the OS install at a future date while keeping the data as-is. If we have a formal way of doing this, I think it would be great.

Just so you know, I did try your method and it went through the reinstall, but I still dont have root. Its weird - SetCPU and Terminal dont allow root access. But RootExplorer allows me to do what I want no matter which folder in the filesystem.
[Gen8 General] thedicemaster:
the mediascanner appears to be a bit broken.

it often wipes media lists, wiping all songs from the media player.

sometimes in the middle of playback, which also causes the media player to crash.

most of the time it finds all the files again eventually, but the music will be added as new music so the songs won't return to my playlists.

when the music is wiped like this, i can't add multiple songs at once from the music app's browser either.

it returns a "playlist is empty" error.

and just now the music scanner even refused to scan.

it said it was scanning for 2 seconds and then went away.

i tried repeatedly, including a few reboots, but it refused to scan for files.

after renaming my music folder from /storage/Music/Music to /storage/Music/MyMusic it suddenly started scanning again, and the scanner reported it found over 200 files(i have only 159 songs, the rest are all images that did show up in gallery already)

i have the media scanner enabled in urukconfig, i enabled it after i first encountered these media scanning problems.

i'm using urukdroid 0.7 on an A43
[Gen8 General] rfaes:
A101, UrukDroid 0.7

I've bought a new Class 10 SD-Card 16GB.

Now I installed Urukdroid 0.7 on it.

The installation run properly. But urukdroid won't boot. It stops at "UrukDroid 07 Boot: Switching to rootfs..."

I downloaded and installed urukdroid 3-times, but it always stops at the exact same position.

I've searched the forum, but i didn't find any solution.

P.S.

Sorry for my bad english.
[Gen8 General] woti23:
is it possible to deactivate the mediascanner once and forever?
[Gen8 General] Veritas06:
+1. If i open UrukConfig it says disabled, but obviously there's times where it's still running. This is the cause of the lost media, correct? I thought i saw a work around of adding .nomedia files to every directory, but i'd rather not go through every music colder i have to throw that file in there.
[Gen8 General] woti23:
as i understand, uruk-config just enables or disables the workaround not the mediascanner itself.

i think its activated from somewhere else, possible MediaProvider.apk or MediaScraper.apk

decompiled it and grepped for "canner"

in MediaProvider.apk
AndroidManifest.xml: <service android:name="MediaScannerService" android:exported="true">

or in
MediaScraper.apk
smali/com/archos/mediascraper/db/ScraperOpenHelper.smali: const-string v1, "CREATE TABLE SCANNER_GLUE ( mediascanner_glue INTEGER, type_glue INTEGER, video_glue INTEGER, is_enabled_glue BOOLEAN, PRIMARY KEY (mediascanner_glue, type_glue, video_glue))"

for now i remove MediaScraper.apk and look if something breaks. (i don't need the mediadb anyway, i would just be happy with a player which _only_ plays files i want in directories i want, and doesn't remove anything on his own)
[Gen8 General] Veritas06:
Thanks, i'll give this a try & see if my stuff stays instead of being removed.
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
hey,sorry I haven't been around to play with this stuff recently. family medical things going on. great to see so much success with the archos kernel $aur0n, hope you can get that into your 1.0 release somehow.

cheers

Don