Android on Wizard

[wyzepro]

I have some links to Android in case anyone wants to try it out

http://www.connect-utb.com/htcandroid/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=24&p=65#p65

I cant download right now but let's see if we can get this working on our phones

[anish88]

the links attached are not available

[windin]

all you have to do is goto

http://www.myhtcphone.com/downloads/14-files/3-file-for-automatic-and-easy-installation

and download them direct, i found them after looking around for 5 mins I am downloading now to give it a try

[Pumpiron579]

It takes up all my space on my rom 38kb. Has anyone else tried it?

[kingdmc]

Wizard running SPC Unnamed 6.1 Alpha Preview Release rom

Installed on phone

Android starts to boot up but then just sits on white screen. No luck but was fun to try

[Pumpiron579]

Wizard running SPC Unnamed 6.1 Alpha Preview Release rom

Installed on phone

Android starts to boot up but then just sits on white screen. No luck but was fun to try

That is what I was going to install it off until I saw how much space it takes up.
It probably ran out of ram when trying to boot up. I would try and use this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=395173

[Paradoxxx]

I have the last TnT and I have the White screen of death too ^^^^

[windin]

Same here start to boot then a white screen, I have see earlier builds running on the Wizard though

[kristijan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9U-zF_6sm8&feature=related
Why cant worck on myne

[kristijan]

has someone tryed with overclock to 220

[Ather]

isent there any way we can mix up Android and liniwizard somehow to make this work..im running GM v3 and ive got like only 12 MB left after almost nothing except s2u2 is installed..but i tried this on my Himalaya...it stops at loading kernel :(

[+ Que PPC]

does anybody see the htc web its amazing!!!!!! we can not have the android we need more POWER!!! that omap doesnt have.

So this thread is duplicated search for the genius one its amazing how they wants to load it, but stucks on boots... red point side by side...

[wyzepro]

I'm sad...in theory android runs on anything...seems our wizards are not included in that description....I'm hoping we can get this up and running soon...I too continue to get the white screen of death.....anyone else have any luck?...i saw someone say earlier builds worked..can we get copies of those on this thread?

[Noonski]

Wizard running SPC Unnamed 6.1 Alpha Preview Release rom

Installed on phone

Android starts to boot up but then just sits on white screen. No luck but was fun to try

I would recommend a Rom that's finished ;)

And just a bit slimmer TNT for instance the light version or J.Vd.Spanks rom.

But maybe a cleaner Rom with the files already in there should do the trick.

[mr.incredible]

I was getting the white screen of death on linwizard too. Then I followed the boot instructions better. You cant have anyting running in the background and you have to put the phone in flight mode. (linwizard) I haven't tried Android yet.

[boto]

thanks mr. incredible

i will try this now

Edit: don't work too...

[ashasaur]

Sorry to raise an old thread, but I am actively trying to get this too boot now. I have a little bit of android experience, so I am gonna see if I can help us out a little bit here!

[docnas]

Well its good to see someone trying it out wishing u the best of luck and as always i offer my services as a guine pig

[ashasaur]

Well, I feel that I am close....I have extensivly dedited the default.txt file to try and get it to boot....but still no luck. I have found however that you can indeed mix-and-match the various "distrobutions" of Android and make a semi-working version. The closest I have got to booting it is by using the zimage from the working Kaiser release, my modified default.txt, and the regular initrd-android.zip from here....it gets to the red ping pong ball, THEN the screen fades away, THEN a white scream comes up.......and then nothing. SOOOO close to booting it ain't funny! There is a guy on youtube that has done it on the Wizard, but for whatever reason he wont release his files, or tell how he did it! Heres the link to the videos=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS_AmG8fCR4

[docnas]

actually i had seen that video before but since i havent found anyone here ( which i consider the holy grail of win mobile/HTC phones) saying they were able to do it i assumed that it might have been a fake or something

still wishing you luck again

[ashasaur]

aye, I have contacted him via e-mail, commenting on his videos, private youtube message...everything, and he wont tell me how he did it! But I thank you for your words of encouragement!

[lapy]

hi guys...whats about Linwizard project? Have you heard about it? Maybe combining the linwizard kernel (working fine on wizard) and the android one it would be possible to have a linux phone...

[sieu_sury]

Why aren't it doing on HTC Wizard? :confused:
have everybody guide for me??

[ashasaur]

@lapy, that is what I am trying right now my man...as we speak I am loading the files to my Wizard to try!

@sieu-sury, be patient! This isnt working yet, but hopefully it will be in a few days!

[sieu_sury]

OK! Thanks ashasaur

I'M hopefully, too:)

[Sledutah]

aye, I have contacted him via e-mail, commenting on his videos, private youtube message...everything, and he wont tell me how he did it! But I thank you for your words of encouragement!

Good luck, I would love give it a try:D

[lapy]

@lapy, that is what I am trying right now my man...as we speak I am loading the files to my Wizard to try!

@sieu-sury, be patient! This isnt working yet, but hopefully it will be in a few days!

very good:D good luck man ;) i wish i was able to help...:(

[+ Que PPC]

The men in fron of his pc web cam working jajaja a PPT slideshow!!!!
jejeje.. what a fake isnt it?! maybe ashasaur can put it in...

Keep the good work men!

[ashasaur]

@QuePPC-are you serious? Its a powerpoint slideshow? No damn wonder he wont tell us how he did it...because he didnt! ARGH! Anyways, I am still working on this...using the LinWizard kernel, Android attempts to boot, but doesnt even get to the red ping-pong ball screen....it hangs before that apparently, SO I am now trying to make my own zImage kernel under Ubuntu. If anyone wants to help me out, shoot me a PM or IM or something, and I can give ya the specifics. PS, ya need some flavor of GUI Linux, with a BASH command terminal, GIT, some kind of expander software, and an internet connection in order to work on it at all.

[docnas]

well the ppt presentation explains alot as if it was done already someone on this forum would have found out and replicated it already anyway im sorry to say my only programing experiance was in 3rd grade and i remeber exatly 1 command ECHO i doubt it would be much help still though heres wishing ya luck in it

[+ Que PPC]

If you read the comments on his video at youtube you will be able to say......
THATS WHY HE ONLY GOES TO 2 DIFFERENT SCREENS!!!!!

Its better to look at this very usefull info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=265827
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310697

And this is very Usefull to know that this is very hard job:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344204

[c4software]

Hi everyone,

I don't know if you see my Video on youtube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dm-EznlpMI)

It's not a fake, or a PPT slideshow its really Android. But its just a try with patoche and revertive of linwizard team. (i use lastest Linwizard Kernel, and a default Haret configuration file. All file of android are on my SD card)

Android is slow on a wizard (maybe because we don't have Java acceleration), slow slow slow, like you can see on the video.

I'm sorry guys, like you i really want android on my wizard. If we can get it, we really need an experts of linux kernel and Driver modification.


I think through Haret, android on the Wizard will always be slow. But with a native boot (without Haret) Android would be faster

[+ Que PPC]

And screen taps men!!!
To kill the rumors...

Maybe if the PPT screen taps allows you to go next picture we need a video or play music... can you?

[ashasaur]

@c4, alright....but where are your files man? Why wont you explain your method or show us the files that you used to get it to work?

and @everyone else....Android 1.0 has gone open source today, I am downloading it now, and hopefully I can mix it up on the Wizard!

[+ Que PPC]

Honestly... it can be truth? at fully power? i mean all the animations etc etc eventough in WM6.1 we disable most of animations unuse animations.... :confused:

[c4software]

hi,

I made this video with the linwizard team (Revertive, and Patoche). But i have only two success boot a lot of time i still waiting on the red dot loading. But revertive and patoche have a lot of success boot with kernel modification.

So if u want to try :

Go to linwizard Website.
- Download the lastest Kernel (or go to the IRC channel and ask for it).
- Retrieve the OS Android (in My case i suing an old version)
- Format ur sd card in Ext3 Format.
- Extract all file in it.
- Switch off radio rom. (airplane mode)
- Boot on Linwizard (User : Root and no password)
- mount the SD card on linux.
- Go to the folder (contain mounted file)
- and run initrd

If you passed the red dot moment you get android on the wizard. But its really really slow...

[chrismetalrock]

has there been any progress to this

[ashasaur]

Not yet, I havent had alot of time to work on this because of work, but I am gonna try to do some more on it tomorrow.

[mr.incredible]

I've posted this on every Android thread in Wizard. I think it may be possible to boot from SD through the bootloader. Dont ask me how. I'm not that intune to the workings of linux or the Wizard. I do know however that HTC has a diagnostic SD that will boot when you start into the bootloader mode. (reset and hold camera button until you get the RGB screen) I think that if this could be accomplished we could possibly have a dual booting wizard. That would free up most or all of the hardware resources.

[ashasaur]

Well, whenever you boot HaRET, it shuts down the hardware anyways, then re-initilizes everything under Linux if I am not mistaken, so there really is not need to boot it from the bootloader mode other than to save time from haveing to start it from within Windows Mobile. The main problem that I see is still the ammount of RAM...Android requires 32MB of RAM free in order to run at full speed, and the Wizard simply cannot provide it, which is why it runs so god awfully slow IF you can get it to boot at all.

[mr.incredible]

Unless I kill all apps and start flight mode I cant get linwizard to run. One of the readme-s, I read that the haret needs 20mb above and beyond anything else running. I usually get the white screen if I don't kill everything.

Have you tried gizard? I can run that pretty quickly. Not much to it but it's a good start.

[revertive]

Well, whenever you boot HaRET, it shuts down the hardware anyways, then re-initilizes everything under Linux if I am not mistaken, so there really is not need to boot it from the bootloader mode other than to save time from haveing to start it from within Windows Mobile. The main problem that I see is still the ammount of RAM...Android requires 32MB of RAM free in order to run at full speed, and the Wizard simply cannot provide it, which is why it runs so god awfully slow IF you can get it to boot at all.

The reason why android is so slow is because of a couple of things:

1. Android tryes to looks for several devices, but not all devices are functional right now.

2. It uses java and the Java Acceleration(ARM Jazelle™ technology) isnt free to use so we cant use it in our linux kernel.

3. Plus its a hacked version of the Android initrd, it was just a proof of concept.

4. Memory could also be a problem, kernel+initrd is about 25mb so that leaves about 39Mb for userspace and android.

[sunseaker]

Will a working Android on a Wizard ever be a reality? I'm excited at the thought of having Android replacing WM but is the hardware really up to running Android?

[cyberdrakula]

Any Luck with any wizard ports yet? The Kaiser Port is getting better.

[rapboy23]

sometimes screen white later working but android screen dont see in my kjam .what must ı do?

[rapboy23]

android working wizard ı have o2 xda mini s .but problem very SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW ı tried omap850.haret but problem

[isheriff]

can we do it? pls help?

[LivArt]

Any news about wizard and android?

[comfreak-1]

Any update here?
I tried to get it running on my Cingular 8125 but only ended up with a white screen.
Although linwizard is running without a problem.


OT: Can anyone please explain to me how to install and use the gizard?

Thanks