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[Gen8 General] Archferr:
UD 1.6.4 problems

Hi

Archos A101IT 16G, Uruk Droid 1.6.4

I have been using Uruk Droid 1.6 on my 101IT for some time without a hitch (apart from the Archos USB problem) but recently decided to do a complete reinstall. During this reinstall I did the updates to 1.6.4 and I am now experiencing the following problems:

I have just reverted to version 1.6 and then, after some testing, installed the update to 1.6.1. Below are the findings.

I have discovered that signals don't appear to be being picked up on WIFI channel 12 in version 1.6. Didn't notice this before probably as most people configure their routers to use the lower channels. Something else I have noticed is that WIFI manager only goes up to channel 12 when WIFI in Europe goes up to 13.

1) The WIFI signal continually connects and disconnects despite there being between four and five bars and it being solid on other devices such as my iPhone. This may have something to do with the Powersave mode because it seems to connect for longer if this is disabled. Unfortunately I am unable to verify this due to the next problem.

As soon as the update was done WIFI channel 12 can be received but the connection drops every minute or so despite it showing 4 bars. The problem occurs whether or not powersave is disabled. I can connect to a network on channel 9 with a signal level of one bar and it stays solid.

2) Randomly every five to ten minutes the screen goes blank and the Uruk Droid loading screen appears. This is not a total reboot because when the launcher reappears it is partially unresponsive; i.e. apps open but then are frozen. This then requires a proper reboot to get going again and this resets the WIFI to Powersave mode and starts it connecting and disconnecting again.

Within a minute or two of doing the update to 1.6.1 it had crashed to the loading screen.

I mentioned the Archos USB host port problem above as some people have said that it has been cured with the latest FW release. I can tell you this is not the case for a V5 board device such as mine. My USB port will work after a reboot up until the device sleeps. On wake up USB devices such as keyboards and flash drives are no longer recognised. Why is this such a difficult problem to fix? It has to be something to do with what occurs when the device is put to sleep so why can't this be tracked down and eliminated?

Any assistance or even discussion about these problems will be greatfuly accepted.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Because you probably don't have this much free space - it creates swap partition on rootfs. I really doubt you may need more then this 128MB of swap space. But you you do - just edit config file manually and change swap location from "/swap01.file" for "/data/swap01.file" (for example).
[Gen8 General] dwtmp:
Hello,

I have a very strange bug.

I've installed the lastest version 0.6 on internal flash disk (with the good initram.fs from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919637).

And I have change the line from fstab to mount my Sdcard.

All are fine, It works at the speed of light

Thanks you $aur0n and shklifo !

However, when I store video files on my SDcard it's ok, but when I reboot my Archos this files are removed !

It's only video files not folders or images or mp3s.

I don't understand why and wich process can do that ?

If you can help me :)

Thanks in advance,

dWtMp
[Gen8 General] fni69:
Same Problem here, all video files disappear after reboot...

but my pics are also disappearing after reboot...

this is very annoying :)

is this a known bug or is there something wrong in configuration?

i have uruk 0.6 on an 101 with no modifications like other kernel....

the files which disappear were on the ext-µSD not in the internal...

has somenone an idea to solve this??
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I've heard that mediascanner is known to delete files sometime (unless this what came up when I made it's modification and I've asked if it's known problem). What is yours status of mediascanner service?
[Gen8 General] fni69:
The status in UrukConfig is disabled and down but nevertheless he is scanning for new media every time after reboot and after enabling the SD when disconnecting from pc...
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
: While having mediascanner (UrukDroid service) to off. Archos won't do scan - it will show up message "Preparing to scan..." - but without real scanning.

: When mediascanner is on (during boot time - first row in UrukConfig) - mediascanner will work like plain Archos one.

: When starting mediascanner in UrukConfig (second row) manually - during next 5 minutes system is allowed to do one proper mediascan (so you can do Settings->Sdcard->Manual scan)
[Gen8 General] fni69:
OK thats what i thought he will do :)

but i cant confirm he is acting like you described...

the scan will start and he counting up the files he already scanned (something like 450 files in my case)

i can manually stop the service with Task Manager and then the behavior is like you described in the first option :)
[Gen8 General] fisha21:
So, I installed Uruk 0.6 on Saturday, and all was running fine (actually, fantastic, nice work!). I messed around with replacing framework-res.apk and got into an odd homescreen loop, so decided to reinstall from fresh.

All reinstalled fine except I now have the old version of Urukconfig, not the new 0.6 version with the tabs etc. Easily fixed by installing solune's apk, but just thought it was very odd behaviour. Definitely running Uruk 0.6 - get the new boot screen etc. Just the old Urukconfig, with the old Uruk helmet logo. Just curious how this could happen?!
[Gen8 General] dwtmp:
Hello,

I have found this:

When Archos MediaScanner service is off, I go to Settings->Sdcard->Manual scan and do a Manual Scan my medias are removed :(

In other hand, I enabled MediaScanner service with UrukConfig and after a reboot my files are always here.

So if you want keep your medias on SDcard enable Archos Media Scanner...

It's little boring but it's much safe :)

my 0.2 euros

dWtMp
[Gen8 General] fzelle:
Same here.

If Mediascanner is of, it is constantly erasing many Pictures and Videos on the sd card.

Edit:

Just checked it is also erasing Videos on internal SD
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Sadly - it's not that simple. I've made some precaution that worked for me and media do not disappear in my case. We will have to wait for bigger response - and perhaps some fixes.
[Gen8 General] fisha21:
May we ask what precaution you took?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
They are build in 0.6 - for me it worked - but of course i'll watch it now if there is something I can do.
[Gen8 General] dwtmp:
You have already done a wonderful job, thank you $aur0n.

I'm understand that's not simple.

It's only a workaround.

dWtMp
[Gen8 General] fisha21:
Thanks. I can confirm this problem as well.

With Media scanner disabled with Urukconfig 0.6.1, in Urukdroid 0.6, I ran a manual media scan. Afterwards, photos and videos were gone from microSD card. Oddly, music was all gone from music player library, but files were still on SD card. After reboot, music reappeared in library but photos and videos gone.
[Gen8 General] nimrodity:
i have a problem with uruk 0.6 and wifi.

Getting wifi activated from waking it up from standby needs very long or sometimes doesnt work at all,so i have to disable and reeanable it to get it working.

Is there no way the archos can hold on to the wifi directly after waking up or even not even letting it down.

On my desire wifi is always enabled and always directly accessable after waking up,why doesnt that work with the archos.

I already tried deactivating wifi battery saving mode ad spare parts set to never at the wifi sleep policy,with no help.
[Gen8 General] p0rk burn:
Nimrodity: SoftLocker might be your best bet. I know it doesn't leave JUST the wifi alive, but with the screen off the other random services running really won't be that much anyways - wifi itself will be larger than all of them combined, probably.

$auron - through my own way of putting .6 on the internal memory I p0rked it all up. Everything is fine and running like it should except I'm missing UrukConfig. Any way I can get my hands on that by itself?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Link to this app is in Dev thread.
[Gen8 General] kyp1:
Hi guys,

I just tried to install Uruk Droid on my A101it 16gb, rom 2.1.4.

Everything went well for SDE. I flashed initram and kernel with required zImage and initramfs. But while i boot on developer edition, system tells me

Uruk Droid 0.6 : failed to dtect SD Card, aborting.

1st time i hadn't put off USB cable, though i tried once with it unplugged, but same message appeared.

So what, is Uruk Droid supposed to be used with an external µsd card (i just do not have right now)?

If that is, is there a way to install it on the internal memory?
[Gen8 General] sdho:
it seems I'm unable to install Yelp application anymore. Had 0.6 version on my internal.

- install fail from the market

- install fail from side-load as well (using yelp.apk)
[Gen8 General] kevinddavis:
I wonder if you've tried other apps? Like I'm having trouble installing Twitter. I tried 2 or 3 times, then finally it installed.

Trying to install Yelp yields "Installation error - Unknown reason -17".

I had a lot of this working and just reinstalled UrukDroid last night. I'm almost to the point that I want to reinstall everything.
[Gen8 General] topifone:
1. Each time I boot/reboot or mount usb, my 70it runs "updating multimedia library" in a very long time (~2-3 minutes)

2. When waking up from sleep (not deep sleep) it's very lag, launcher pro keeps FC and I must power off.
[Gen8 General] fzelle:
1. Then either you have a big Medialibrary or you have some broken mediafiles.
[Gen8 General] Javierinnn:
Cannot install Cinema and Frepack plugin

Hi,

Archos101

UrukDroid 0.6

Since installing UrukDroid 0.6 I cannot install the original Archos Plugins (Cinema and Freepack).

Anyone else having this problem?

Regards,

Javier
[Gen8 General] sdho:
I can also confirm the problem with installing freepack plugins on uruk 0.6
[Gen8 General] yepayepa:
$auron,

I've found why with 0.6 (never tried previous version) Button Savior failed to work properly.

The "/system/bin/input" shell script miss execute attributes.

Can you apply the fix for the next version ?

Best regards.

---

PS:

To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed ... Funny ;-)
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I have installed those plugins - never tried to install it on Uruk. What is reported back?

Done.
[Gen8 General] yepayepa:
Great!

Thanks.
[Gen8 General] butlerm1977:
I've been having an unusual amount of process com.android.browser stopping unexpectedly. This might even be immediately after a reboot and opening the browser. I'm running 0.6 UrukDroid, is there anything I can do from an SSH session to watch for what's actually going on, like monitor a specific log file?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Ok - since I don't know what this pluggins exactly do (what do they modify in system) - like for now I can't help. If you can find some information (on net) what is modificated by those pluggins - it will speed things up to solve it.

You can try to monitor dalvik/android logs

cd /data/test/
tail -f logcat.log

What is your iobench score for this SD card? (perhaps it's simply card with bad IO controller)
[Gen8 General] butlerm1977:
My iobench score is in the sdcard thread, using the Wintec 16GB class 10.

------------------- Please report this data ---------------------

Your throughput score is: 5812

Your metadata score is: 2221.4

localhost,128M,2363,83,8504,10,6249,6,2897,96,1939 7,12,16.4,0,16,55,0,+++++,+++,68,0,46,0,+++++,+++, 36,0

SDCard by 50272 (0x1 manufacture date 12/2010, oemid 0x4245

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Results of the tail command points to IO errors on the card.

02-18 13:04:24.804 D/dalvikvm( 1816): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 475 objects / 35320 bytes in 30ms
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <3>[ 297.460235] mmcblk2: error -110 transferring data, sector 1477840, nr 624, card status 0xc00
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <3>[ 297.834472] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 1477841
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <3>[ 297.835327] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk2p3, logical block 59722
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <4>[ 297.836242] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk2p3
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <3>[ 297.837005] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 1477848
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <3>[ 297.837829] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk2p3, logical block 59723
02-18 13:04:32.313 I/cat ( 998): <4>[ 297.838745] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk2p3

Would there be a command to check the disk? Fsck?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
su
fsck /dev/block/mmcblk2p1

What version of Uruk you have - this iobench scores looks "old"...
[Gen8 General] butlerm1977:
# fsck /dev/block/mmcblk2p1

fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)

dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN

/dev/block/mmcblk2p1: 0 files, 1/1836920 clusters

Also tried fsck on /dev/block/mmcblk2p2 I get a mounted error warning so I didn't run it.

I've upgraded from .5 to .6
[Gen8 General] p0rk burn:
Mediascanner ate all my video files (avi) but left my mp3s. Sunzabeach.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Perhaps new 2.1.8 will fix it (since it's java part of media scanner that "eats" files ;) ).
[Gen8 General] butlerm1977:
I removed the micro sd card and ran fsck /dev/sdb1 from an ubuntu machine. I also did this for the other 2 partitions. Popped it back into the Archos and still getting the same IO errors. I'll have to just try another card I guess.

How difficult is it to move the install onto internal memory?
[Gen8 General] p0rk burn:
Its not hard but its not simple. Move this to that thread since $auron doesn't want to cross streams
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
I suggest to wait for 0.7 - it should be in a week or so...
[Gen8 General] p0rk burn:
uruk doesnt recognize my USB hdd, but stock does. Is this something that needs commenting in vold.database?
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
hi

im using UrukDroid 0.6 which upgrade from 0.5 in SDCARD.

update is successful, but when UrukDroid 0.6 booting I found

the logo move left about 30px.

is this a bug ? or something wrong ?

thanks
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Is it ntfs? Have you load ntfs service? What "dmesg" says after you connect device?
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
This is something with A101 screens - they are messed up (connected upside down sometimes), and it seems they behave differently with different configs. I know about it - but can't do much with it since I don't have one to test/work.
[Gen8 General] fisha21:
If there's any info A101 owners can give to help work this out, just say and I'm sure we can provide! I realise you have other priorities, and this certainly isn't a big deal. Just seems a shame when Uruk is otherwise perfect. Of course, we wouldn't want this to distract you from the march towards 0.7!
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
ok. then another question:

In UD 0.6, I cant find SDCARD Data( /mnt/storage/sdcard )

both plug to PC and explore with RootExplorer.

so I shutdown UD, put SDcard in card reader connect it to PC.

then i found my SDCard third partition. the dada is still there.

then I power on the system before insert SDcard. the system

warning "UD 0.6 Boot ERROR: Failed to mount rootfs /dev/mmcblk1p2 (255)" even if put it back to slot.

well,

1. How to fix the boot ?

2. why I cant find SDCard third partition? Does I need to mount

it in Terminal?

thanks.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
AD1. How did you install UD? With details please

AD2. You mean first partition? (VFAT/FAT32 partition on sdcard - biggest one) - no it should be mounted automatically. Since you can boot it now, when we fix this - we can work on partition issue.
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
AD1: I've install UD0.5 on my SDCard with your complicated way.(it did work! xD)

current directory layout:
[B]SDCard (13GB)[/B]
-> SDCard first partition (14GB/FAT32) - My docs.
-> SDCard second partition (1GB/Ext4) - yes, NOT 512M, 1GB for root filesystem
-> SDCard third partition (2GB/Ext4) - NOT 1GB, 2GB for installed apps
[B]internal storage (16GB)[/B]
-> Original.

Yesterday I follow your instruction Successful upgrade to UD0.6. ( Success boot many times.)

remove SDcard and boot once ( I forgot put it back). then device mad: "UD 0.6 Boot ERROR: Failed to mount rootfs /dev/mmcblk1p2 (255)"

I think the boot record is something wrong? it should point to /dev/mmcblk2p2? <-- SDCard second partition.

maybe i could redirect to that partition? or other way to fix it?

thanks for help !! xD
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
This is actually ok - if boot system does not finds SD Card (you forgot to put it) it tries to boot from internal, and because you don't have internal - it fails to boot /dev/mmcblk1p2 (internal second partition).

But when you put SD card back again and boot - it should boot normally. If not - let me know further...
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
sorry, I'm not explain clearly.

Yes, when I put SDCard back to device, it still boot failed.

That's the message after I put it back. :p
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
I plug SDCard again. it's working.

maybe hot plug the SDCard when Power is ON? whatever, haha

thanks for help.

AND what's AD2? it's still load SDCard 1st patition.[-> SDCard first partition (14GB/FAT32) - My docs]
[Gen8 General] Absinth_Lutz:
Is it necessary to have a sdhc-card?
[Gen8 General] gbohm:
@sauron thanks for your great work !

i just read the updateinfo for the upcoming release looks great

i had a minor problem with my installation after my tablet shut down (no batterie left)

first it didn't start up but after recharging it was better....

i lost most of my files (download pdfs(created by aldiko) and so on) and all my installed apps force closed (not the system apps) after reinstallation they work great again

i tried to remount before that didn't help....
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
In Uruk 0.6 - yes. In 0.7 it is possible to install without SD card (on internal) but still sd card is default solution.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
What is output of this

su
ls -l /etc/vold*
mount_sdcard.sh debug
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
UrukDroid - welcome!

Dropbear SSH server

[root@localhost root]# su

[\u@\h \W]\$ ls -l /etc/vold*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1809 Dec 15 03:42 /etc/vold.A70H.fstab

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 18 20:05 /etc/vold.fstab -> /system/etc/vold.fstab-ext4

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1814 Jan 17 11:35 /etc/vold.fstab-ext4

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1813 Jan 19 10:52 /etc/vold.fstab-stock

[\u@\h \W]\$ mount_sdcard.sh debug

--- Running in debug mode ---

Debug: now will wait for device...

Debug: It's not ext4 device

Debug: It's not vfat device

[\u@\h \W]\$

But I can Read it via SDCard Reader on PC.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
You need to replace "mount_sdcard.sh"

su
cd /system/bin/
rm mount_sdcard.sh
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1017593/ArchosGEN8/UrukDroid-0.6/mount_sdcard.sh
chown root:root mount_sdcard.sh
chmod 0755 mount_sdcard.sh
./mount_sdcard.sh debug

please report output of "mount_sdcard.sh debug" and reboot...
[Gen8 General] Snepscheut:
how do I install new firmware while using uruk 0.6?

Hello,

Thanks for making this great rom!

First question: how can I install new firmware (.8)?

Second question: after installing uruk 0.6 the music app does not show the content of my folders on my (smb) networkserver anymore (stock archos does). Do you have any hints how to solve this?

I'm using an Archos 70s with fresh install on internal.

Thanks, Jos
[Gen8 General] chocolate5215:
[root@localhost root]# su

[\u@\h \W]\$ cd /system/bin/

[\u@\h \W]\$ rm mount_sdcard.sh

[\u@\h \W]\$ wget http://10.64.192.230/mount_sdcard.sh

<THIS STEP, I've manual downloaded it and moved to /system/bin/ via WiFi and RootExplorer.

Because I cant reach this website in China. But it seems work. >

[\u@\h \W]\$ ./mount_sdcard.sh debug

--- Running in debug mode ---

Debug: now will wait for device...

Debug: /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector

Debug: It's not ext4 device

Fixing vold fstab link

Debug: It's not vfat device

after reboot, it's working...

what's wrong is it? If it happen again, should I repeat in this way?

thannnnnnks for your help. xD
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
It should work all the time now - it's because of new version of mount_sdcard.sh.
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
Please try to install it on stock OS. Information about this plugin is probably keept on "raw" partition, along with stock OS and kernels. So please try and let me know if installed plugin on stock OS is also visible on Uruk (i have this plugin also installed - but it was ages ago)
[Gen8 General] squirlier:
installing plugins on internal stock while uruk installed on sd works.

uruk then has the plugins also. no need to install again.

its like SDE. one time install only.

Tested on Archos 101 2 days ago ;-)
[Gen8 General] Javierinnn:
Yes, seems to work.

Thanks.
[Gen8 General] snickle:
Any ideas how to install the plugin after Uruk installed on internal? Ihad it installed at one point, but completely reformatted my device since then, now trying to get it back after goign Uruk on internal.

It appears the small partition that Update Firmware makes available to a pc is not available under Uruk 0.7 installed to internal.

I will try to dig around and see if it can be.
[Gen8 General] Poussun:
Apparently the plugins can be install on the non-Uruk part of the Archos.

There are some threads on this subject...
[Gen8 General] CarsnGadgets:
Just some quick questions, (I am looking at rooting my archos 101 and using the urukdroid method).

1) If I use the urukdroid, I get ext4, but does that then mean that I cannot see the contents of my archos when it is mounted via usb or when connected by ftp? (If so, how do I create folders or transfer stuff to the archos using my pc? when using urukdroid?)

2) does smb and upnp still work when using urukdroid?

3) I currently use wifi hotspot on my HTC Desire to give my archos 101 internet access. Will this still work?

4) are there any disadvantages to using urukdroid?

5) how much app space do I get once I have done this (using the easy method)?

thanks a lot.
[Gen8 General] chipg07:
Major bug found in 0.7

If i download wallpapers using the app zedge, it saves them in the zedge folder, but upon reboot, they are all gone. The same thing happens with the app tubemate and .mp4 files.

V 0.6 didn't have this issue... can you check into this please?

Also v.06 i had installed on the sdcard. V0.7 is internal

Thanks,

Chip

Sent from my A101IT
[Gen8 General] $aur0n:
And how it behave with stock OS? What is your mediascanner setting?
[Gen8 General] chipg07:
The wallpapers and .mp4s stay in the folder they are supposed to. They are being deleted by uruk on reboot. I have tried it with mediascanner on and off and it does it both ways.
[Gen8 General] truthkillszz:
I have the A70 250gb hdd. and i am trying to install urukdroid 0.7 but whenever i get to the urukdroid 0.7 installation framework part my computer only picks up my a70 in the my computer screen but i cant transfer the file over because it states there is no disk in the drive