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[Gen8 General] randomocity:
How would I format/uninstall and re-install Uruk?

I attempted to install it, used the simple method, started up and booted just fine, but I didn't realize that it would just auto-install on the SD card (which I borrowed from my Droid X). So now that SD card has been formatted and lost all my music and everything else I had stored there. I attempted booting into Uruk without the SD card to see if it had actually installed on the internal storage as I hoped, and it had not. Now, I cannot boot developer mode with or without the SD card.

In addition, no amount of fiddling seems to enable me to re-attempt the Uruk installation. I re-formatted the entire device, uninstalled developer mode, re-formatted again, installed the legacy firmware, re-installed the SDE, and followed the instructions for loading the zimage and initramfs. After the reboot, I go back into the boot menu and attempt to load developer mode, and it reboots and hangs at the Archos boot logo and goes no further.

I am still fully capable of booting into stock Android, but not developer mode.
[Gen8 General] randomocity:
And nevermind.... flash the SDE firmware yet one more time, and voila, it magically lets me start the installation process instead of just getting stuck at the boot logo -.-
[Gen8 General] gottahavit:
ERROR: Repairing datafs partition. please wait.....

I've let it sit for over an hour and it does nothing.

Just got this error for the second time in 3 days. After the first time I complete reinstall urukdroid on a different sd card. Is there any way to repair the data partition? and do we know what can cause this to happen. I was running fine, just did a reboot and it came up.
[Gen8 General] QMaverick:
I'm having the same problem. Everything was working great, then stuff started force closing (Launcher Pro and ACV kept crashing for example) so I rebooted. Afterward I get this error.

The MicroSD card I have in my 70 is old (came with a BB Storm), so I installed to the Archos internal memory thinking it'd be faster, if that info helps at all . . .
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
This information is very generic and it means system can't mount the datafs device (does not precise what went wrong) and tries to fsck forcefully it.

It may help - but it may also simply fail. It would requires some kind of user interaction to do it properly.

Why this happens? Well usually this would require some serious damage on filesystem and/or some SD card problem (for example bad signal connection).

If it's sdcard - best way is to put it in card reader, connect linux and see what's happened.

And frankly - never happened to me :/
[Gen8 General] sibere:
EXT4 performance

I have slightly tweaked the initramfs to remove nodelalloc parameter to get a much better I/O performance.

I can post the tweaked file if you wish but be advise that this is very slightly decreasing data safety (to a level that I accept but which you may not). Journal is still used tho.

I also "aligned" partitions and used some SSD's tweaks to write 128Kb blocks thanks to the extents provided by EXT4 and the stripe options.

This requires some tools and linux knowledge, and to root the stock android with archangel.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I'm kind of fed up with all those "magic performance boosters". And please read some already written stuff - nodelalloc was enabled by me in 0.6 because people experienced much of data corruptions on datafs, it was really noticable amount of people. Of course you can use mount without it - but not really worth to mention it.

Aligning... catch a white whale ;) (there is so many "aligning" method - it's almost hard to choose (it's kind of joke - but sadly true), and this what is good for some SD is not so good for HD in A70H or internal NAND) - so again, if you want to - you can use it, but it can't be done "good working for all".
[Gen8 General] QMaverick:
OK, I found out that if I remove my SD card, install UrukDroid that way, I don't get the error. I guess that means my SD card is suddenly messed up?

If I install to the internal memory, however, why would UrukDroid even look at my SD card for anything?
[Gen8 General] sibere:
OK OK Didn't want to upset you man

Just wanted to share.
[Gen8 General] woti23:
i still think a little clean up would be a good thing:

e.g /system/media/gfx

the urukdroid 0.4 bootscreens? (i started at 0.6)

init.rc

- i removed all things that can be enabled in init.d, no need to prepare services in init.rc that are can be enabled in init.d, now bootup is faster

thats smb (cifs is enough, and doesn't need fuse), vpn, nfs, theter, dvb, upnp ...

no need to prepare samba mounts init.rc or announce in network

- group sched: if enabled and cgroups enabled it uses either grouping by uid or cgroups. setup in init.rc is for cgroups, not for grouping by uid. if cgroups is enabled in kernel, there would have to be some userspace concept of grouping (dalvikvm). i think now its just not really used, not setup for uid.

- bsd-accounting in kernel: would need some userspace tools and the required directories, to be useful

libs: removing unused libary-pathes and some links to non existent libs (especially /opt)

apk:

i understand if someone doesn 't want to remove appslib.apk, but if i remove it, i don't want it to install magically from a hidden place again (appslib2.apk),

removing links to non existing apps in /data/test ....

or files that have the same name on different places, but do different things like

wpa_supplicant.conf and tiwlan.ini in

/etc/wifi and in /data/misc/wifi

and a great thing would be if the urukdroid installer would be open too, e.g. for removing unwanted apps etc before installing.
[Gen8 General] QMaverick:
OK, so just to re-iterate

If I leave my SD card plugged in while UrukDroid boots, I get a datafs mounting error, and it won't load. If I pull out the SD card, there are no problems. After the OS boots, I can put it back in and everything on it works fine.

Is there a way, then, to get UrukDroid to avoid looking at the MicroSD slot as it boots? Or am I just going to have to live with this until I get a better (upgraded) SD card?
[Gen8 General] woti23:
you should examine/maybe repair the sdcard in a card-reader (eg with a linux live cd to repair ext4 partition).

or you can do a fsck when you put the sdcard in after you booted, and maybe find out whats wrong with the card
[Gen8 General] QMaverick:
OK, I'm not a TOTAL noob, but how would I run a fsck within Android? I can't find my card reader at the moment, otherwise I'd use my Ubuntu install...

Hehehe...sorry to ask, but thanks in advance
[Gen8 General] woti23:
for the ext4 partition if you have one

su
umount /dev/block/mmcblk2p2
fsck /dev/block/mmcblk2p2

or for the vfat

su
umount /dev/block/mmcblk2p1
fsck /dev/block/mmcblk2p1

unmounting gives an error if not mounted (error = not mounted), ignore, but don't do a fsck on a mounted filesystem (error = cannot unmount, device busy)
[Gen8 General] gottahavit:
but why does the sdcard have anything to do with mounting datafs if he installed to the internal storage? Also isn't that what aur0n said the boot sequence does when it fails?

Also I have had this issue now with 2 cards, both were working fine until I powered off and on.
[Gen8 General] QMaverick:
That's exactly what I was wondering--why would it look at the SD card if I didn't instal Uruk there? :confused:

Perhaps a new bug?
[Gen8 General] freddy999:
New FW ramifications

I can see several major improvements in the new 2.3.20 firmware if the updated log is correct, but several questions seem prudent to answer first (especially since downgrading has been problematic in the past).

Can the new firmware update be applied to a good 0.7 install without any ill effects?

And can 0.7 (Or 1.0 RC1) be installed under a 2.3.20 firmware?

Or should we just wait?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Archos stock OS and SDE/Uruk are completely separate stuff - so you can upgrade to 2.3.2 freely.

For all "freze" kernel testers ;)

This is fast (fastly done ;) ) kernel compilation based on latest Archos source from 2.3.2 - it still missing most of features - but you can try it

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1017593/ArchosGEN8/UrukDroid-1.0/UrukDroid-1.0RC2-kernel.tbz2

With this kernel (to have autmounted internal /sdcard volume) you have to change /system/bin/vold binary

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1017593/ArchosGEN8/UrukDroid-1.0/vold
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
This has passed the Jet Car Stunts test 10 minutes no Force Closing. :D
[Gen8 General] jm123:
Mistake by upgrade to 1.0 RC2

Hello !

I made something stupid whe I tried to upgrade from 0.7 to 1.0RC2: I put UrukDroid-1.0RC2-update-rc.tbz2 to /data/UrukUpdate and forced the update with urukconfig. At boot, it shows initramfs from 0.7 and the rest from 1.0RC2.

After that, wlan is not working (it hangs on 'getting IP Adress') and terminal is not working. I tried to switch back to 0.7 over UrukUpdate, but it shows 'error' and didn't install.

Than I flashed kernel and initramfs from 1.0RC2 over Developer Edition Menu, it boots now with initramfs from 1.0RC2 but WLAN and terminal is also not working.

Can you tell me, how I can get wlan and terminal working on 1.0RC2 or switch back the right way to 0.7. I guess, I have a fatal mixture between 0.7 and 1.0RC2 on my Archos 70.

Root (superuser-access) also doesn't work anymore.

Greetings

Axel

I've solved the problem. Sauron has described in the Developer-thread a procedure: "Ok - i've prepared new EasyInstall with "ReInstall" option " http://bit.ly/gjhcMg. Great Work !!! Thank you !
[Gen8 General] tamati:
Ok, I have the bla{n|c}k screen again, this time right after the boot screen. I tried to copy all the files from UrukDroid-install.tbz2 to the / partition, and flashing using initramfs and zImage from the UrukDroid-1.0RC2 kernel, but there's still nothing... what should I do ? I want to keep all the applications I installed (on the data partition) if possible...

Thanks
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
You can reinstall rootfs of UrukDroid with ReInstall from EasyInstall 1.0 (http://sauron.pourix.com/UrukDroid/UrukDroid-1.0/EI/).
[Gen8 General] tamati:
I've done it "by hand", it works more or less now (sometimes there's that strange bug where the screen goes black and when it comes back, I can't launch the "Settings" application or any other application, I just click the app icon but nothing comes out after that, it was already there before the problem, and even with a fresh install, but it is rather rare)

I will try to find a logcat one day if it could help...
[Gen8 General] dkelley:
ah, my infamous stress test is still valid after all this time eh?

hahaha :-)
[Gen8 General] Mod57:
Not only a good test app but fun to play. The development forum has been awful quite lately...
[Gen8 General] ajcurtis84:
IP over USB support?

Is it possible to have IP over USB on the Archos 43?

Archos is the first Android device that I have come across which does not support a network connection via the USB interface. My application requires this functionality.

Will this be enabled in the next release?

TIA
[Gen8 General] ryadztu:
Hi, I'm using the latest Urukdroid 1.0*RC3* EasyInstall and I have a problem with the market (which comes pre-packaged ftw)- Whenever I try downloading an app it freezes constantly and spams the notification status with 20 or so pending downloads, even though the the 'my apps' part of the market there are no current downloads. I can't get rid of the notification by clearing the cache or data of GSF, market, or any other app or service. It stays there after killing all processes and rebooting. If I try downloading an app it goes at like 50 kibibytes / 10 minutes and ends up failing to download after an hour or so. I tried updating the firmware and booting the latest archos 2.3.26, using gAppsInstallerV5-final the market works great, I'm not sure what the problem is with Uruk.

Also, I'm glad the A43 camera works now, can you add support for ipv6 for Google Goggles? thanks

EDIT: I just realized that the files under EI (EasyInstall) are 1.0RC3, not 1.0. I'll try reflashing to see if it fixes the problem. Until then please ignore thanks.

EDIT: Same problem with 1.0, please fix
[Gen8 General] marcusmarcus:
I was getting random freeze ups in) 0.7. I updated to 1.0 RC3 and still got freeze ups. Updated to 1.0, still freeze ups. Ran reinstall, freeze ups still. Wiped device and did a fresh install of 1.0 and still random freeze ups. Have to do a hard shutdown and boot back up each freeze up. Also, wireless wont connect on some bootups, wireless shows "error", usually a reboot will fix it. Also, button savior is not working for me, home button works, back and menu will work once and then do nothing until I kill/start the service, then it only works once again. Super user apears to be updated as well as th SU binary.
[Gen8 General] ryadztu:
I'm having the exact same problems, dragging homescreen icons on default launcher+setup freezes and stops responding way too much to be normal. I only had a problem with the wi-fi saying 'error' once out of about 15 times I rebooted. I don't have the latency problems with the stock archos firmware. I'll try the experimental kernel with merged Uruk changes (this is 1.0final, not 0.7 or rc2 right?) here to see if it helps.

Edit: Still like maple syrup, on Uruk 0.7 it was snappy like a rubber band with transition effects lowered and wallpaper fps turned down to 15fps (setcpu still seems to slow it down a lot though, even on performance 1000mhz)
[Gen8 General] kevinddavis:
I've had that issue before. I suggest using the new Reinstall/Repair. I did that twice. It seemed to have cleaned up everything except making Titanium Backup function 100%.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
By freeze you mean it hang (you need to reboot) or it simply has a lag to respond?

It kind of happes with wpa service enabled - don't know why and yes - reboot fix it.
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Default wlan widget turns wlan off correctly, but cant turn it back.. archos setup wlan status informs 'error'.

Urukdroid wpa is disabled. Wlan needs to turn back from archos setup.

Installed by using autoupdate from UrukDroid 1.0rc2
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I'll check this - but it's recommended to use WiFi Manager to every wifi operation (you can use WiFi manager widget for this task).
[Gen8 General] marcusmarcus:
My 70 started to freeze a lot after a minute or two of use each time now, had to reboot to get it to work again and it would lock up after a minute again. I used the easy install to reinstall UrukDroid 1.0 and after it finished the first boot had no wireless and I could not enable it, rebooted again and it froze up within a minute. Hard shutdown and reboot, still freezing up in a minute or 2. Not using a particular app when it freezes. Had to go back to stock firmware just so I can use my 70. Not sure if it is something I did but I know 0.7 had freeze up issues but it seems a lot worse for me in this version.

Thanks $aur0n and anyone else working on UrukDroid.
[Gen8 General] fisha21:
Installed Uruk 1.0 last night, running pretty smoothly so far.

Have noticed one problem though - are 0.7 and 1.0 incompatible? Have my previous 0.7 install on the internal SD, and did a clean install of 1.0 on external SD. If I remove the external SD, the 0.7 won't boot. I get a message about rootfs being repaired, then the boot hangs.

Does this mean that I can't boot into 0.7, even if I remove the external SD card?
[Gen8 General] CarsnGadgets:
$aur0n, please help,

I installed 1.0 last night, I upgraded from 0.7.

All seemed fine at first and my archos 101 was running really well.

today, about every 5 minutes, it is restarting by itself, completely rebooting?

over on over again?

it boots fine and everything loads up ok, but it just seems to reset itself?

it seems ok normally while i use it, and if I keep it active its ok, but when

I press the power button to turn it off, or leave it and it turns the screen

off itself, once the screen is off, after 10 seconds it resets.

please can you help me?

thanks.

ps. I really would prefer not to have to, but If I need to, how do I go about

doing a fresh install of urukdroid 1.0 from this point? do I just follow the guide

as if I was installing 1.0 fresh as per normal, or do I need to reset the developer

edition some how to remove my current broken install of urukdroid?
[Gen8 General] eagleofdeath13:
Maybe this have been already asked but the thread is so long ^^

I have many music (recognized) on my SDcard, and that are played and found by the Archos Android, but with UrukDroid they aren't in the library, i've forced the library update, restart/disabled/enabled the MediaScaner, but it refuse to work, if someone have an idea?

Archos 70IT 8GB, SDcard Transcend 32GB
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Somehow after updating 0.7 to 1.0 my acrhos 101 deep sleep is not so deep anymore..

Now battery runs out even system is not in use and have that deep sleep selected from settings.

Anyone else have same problems?
[Gen8 General] ddukki:
Note: My device is a 43IT, though, so it may be different.

I had this problem when I first upgraded from 0.7. I just turned it off (held down the power button until it completely shut off and the green light was off, not just rebooted) and left it dead for about 2 hours. When I turned it back on, all the rebooting stopped and it works flawlessly now. I thought it was an overheating issue, but maybe there's some underlying reason I don't understand.
[Gen8 General] slim_thumb:
I have tried 0.7 and 1.0 (and none of the other earlier versions, I am a newcommer) on my A70S, and in both versions I have the exact same problem of constant stuttering and freezing eg. simple thing like dumping an icon into the garbage can causes screen to freeze for about 10 seconds (I guess this is the same as "lag in response"), not to mention typing, starting an app, using the browser etc. Sometime error msg pops up saying "launcher not responding, forced close?".

I have tried formatting the device and reinstalling. I have tried installing in the SD card (usual way) and into the internal memory. I swapped Class 2, Class 4 and Class 6 microSD cards. Nothing seems to help.
[Gen8 General] lechuckthepirate:
Hello there.

Yesterday I installed UD 1.0 in my A70s.

Everything works fine but wifi. When I use the new wpa service I can connect to my wifi, but every once in a while the wifi just stops working (though the wifi icon is in the status bar as connected) and even disabling/enabling wifi doesn't work... I can't see any hotspot from the Wifi app you provide and fails to enable wifi.

I have to reboot to make all work again.. so, for the moment I can't use this as a daily driver... is this a known bug? I'd really like to use UD for the Adhoc support and because I have a 32gb Class10 card that makes it fly... but I need it to be more stable.

Cheers
[Gen8 General] CarsnGadgets:
Ok, last night I decided, as I have had no reply, to try reinstalling the fresh 1.0 over the upgraded 0.7-1.0.

I followed the wiki install guide and it installed fine, reinstalled my apps and set up the 101 again.

It was running perfectly with no reboots last night. This morning it was still fine, but now im at work I checked it again and its doing it again! it had an error on screen to begin with saying "Sorry! Process System is not responding" and it would then reboot over and over.

I held the power button for 10 seconds and reset the device, let it boot back in to urukdroid and it was running fine, no rebooting, until I let it time the screen out, once the screen went off, after 10 seconds it reboots! (does the same if I turn it off myself)

whats going on? I cant use my archos like this... I'm going to have to go back to stock android for now.

please $aur0n, do you have any idea how i can fix this? :(
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
You can use new EasyInstall to reinstall rootfs. Personally I found lately that sometimes "strange" crashes may be caused by filesystem damage - there are errors on some files only, when app tries to read it - it fails - but during most of operations it works OK. This requires fsck stronger then the one during bootup process (i'm going to add all those operations in rescue menu - perhaps in 1.1). You can of course fsck it on some Linux now, or use Internal Uruk do fsck sdcard (or vice-versa).

I try to not use mediascanner and library on Android - it simply fails to work properly in most cases. If it fails to generate entire library - make it from scratch (config - repair - rebuild library).

http://code.google.com/p/urukdroid/wiki/UrukService_mediascanner

I use wpa service on daily basis - it's working ok, does not disconnect. There are from time to time problems with turning wifi on (but it's - like for me - so rare it won't affect normal work).
[Gen8 General] CarsnGadgets:
thanks $aur0n,

so what do you suggest I do now?

(presumably fsck is file system check or something?)

Can I repair my 1.0 installation?

so i should run the option below from the boot menu?

sorry, but I'm really not good at this kind of thing.

If I keep getting problems, can I clean out the install I have now and do a completely fresh install somehow? would I need to reinstall the developers edition as well?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I've updated mediascanner wiki (http://code.google.com/p/urukdroid/wiki/UrukService_mediascanner)

But I'm afraid that if full mediascan fails to work - it won't work (unless in the way you expect it to work) at all.

There are already programs that are aware of this problem and offer creating their own music library (I'm not sure if poweramp is not one of them).
[Gen8 General] eagleofdeath13:
Yes it ill not work.

And do you know why ? (if not can i help you to know why?)

Thanks for answering anyway ;)
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Looks that only I have this problem.. no replys..

Tested this and even if tablet is turned deep sleep using powerbutton and selection 'Deep sleep' now it uses battery to something.

Approx 8h in deep sleep consumes ~10% of battery. :mad:
[Gen8 General] slim_thumb:
Sorted out - I read the thread about compatible microSD cards, picked up a Sandisk Class 4 4GB card, now everything is running smoothly.
[Gen8 General] ajcurtis84:
[Q] boot Urukdroid from internal flash?

Hello,

I am having problems with multiple Archos43 devices using the microSD card. Is it possible to update the onboard Android or split the internal flash?

Has anyone else had problems with the microSD interface? I thought my device was bricked until I removed the SD card.

Thanks
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Now using battery widget with history log and seems that 4h deep sleep consumes approx 20% of battery. :(
[Gen8 General] LeoNg628:
Hi all,

I would like to try UrukDroid from official 2.3.26 (already rooted with SDE and get RW root), what should I do?

Am I need to do a hard reset before install UrukDroid 1.0?

also, will UrukDroid 1.0 remove my mulitmedia library after I rescan my A70H HDD?
[Gen8 General] pki101:
Anyone tested vm heap tool?

Dont work in my uruk 1.0.. Just intrested would it speed up to set headp to 32M??
[Gen8 General] slim_thumb:
wifi problem

All of a sudden the wifi is giving me problem - browser and Market download hang (eg. download connection established but stuck at XX% and never finishes). When I switch the wifi off (using Wifi Manager not Android), it cannot be turned back on. I have to reboot everytime to get wifi back.

I tried reformatting the device, reformatting the microSD card and installing urukdroid as a fresh install (not "reinstall"). Problem persists.

The Archos 2.3.26 FW has major problem with Flash video playing inside browser (video stops after about 10 seconds or so). I had high hopes on the urukdroid (Flash video plays perfectly in the browser), but once again another problem spoils my hope.
[Gen8 General] sibere:
Wifi problem here as well with 1.0.

After a while, wifi stopped working and even with reboots, I can't get it working.

I've tried with Elixir button, WiFi manager and Android standard menu.

Reverting back to my 0.7 backup which is working fine.
[Gen8 General] slim_thumb:
No luck for me. I did not upgrade from 0.7, but when I did fresh install of 0.7, the wifi problem did not go away.