There's a kernel for Omap850, and it's working fine. So... we just have to make a proper initrd image
I'd love to test it when someone has created it
At this point I'm not a big help...
Holly cowThere's a kernel for Omap850, and it's working fine. So... we just have to make a proper initrd image
Nice work guys! Can't wait to see this up and running Android 
Once we get this thing past "Alpha" lol... I will for sure change to this linux OS. I hate how bloated WM is on this phone. And even though it is so basic, Android is running VERY fast on the phone "running out of ram" but this is a great leap to the next version of OS.
As long as I can get EVDOrA and make calls... I will be good to go
As long as I can get EVDOrA and make calls... I will be good to go
Omap zImage, going to test it now...
http://osdir.com/ml/ports.arm.omap/2006-07/msg00050.html
Edit: this did change something, still no boot tho.
Checking this now:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1335617&postcount=64
I've got almost a boot using one of the zImages that come with LinWizard... Changed the MTYPE to 6666, which was on the config file of LinWizard.
http://osdir.com/ml/ports.arm.omap/2006-07/msg00050.html
Edit: this did change something, still no boot tho.
Checking this now:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1335617&postcount=64
I've got almost a boot using one of the zImages that come with LinWizard... Changed the MTYPE to 6666, which was on the config file of LinWizard.
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lol
I just tried the zImage file and was on a black screen now. On the top of the screen there were some white dots. Then my device was shut down...
Waiting for news again
Ok, I've got a boot, sort of...
I've changed on the default.txt file
set RAMSIZE 0x01800000
set MTYPE 6666
set KERNEL zImage_wizard
#set initrd initrd.gz
set initrd initrd-android
set cmdline "rw quiet"
boot
And I've got this far... Somewhere along the lines, it says that it doesn't support Omap architecture... is this a Haret problem?
I've changed on the default.txt file
set RAMSIZE 0x01800000
set MTYPE 6666
set KERNEL zImage_wizard
#set initrd initrd.gz
set initrd initrd-android
set cmdline "rw quiet"
boot
And I've got this far... Somewhere along the lines, it says that it doesn't support Omap architecture... is this a Haret problem?
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No. your problem is that the SD driver does not work as expected, so you can't mount the SD card.
Isn't this android stuff running of the ramdisk ?
I've created a folder "Android" on my SD Card and running from there. So I need to copy this to the root of the phone?
Edit: I've copied it to the root of the phone, still, doesn't boot, same message.
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Just make sure after downloading the files you remove the file extension .txt from the other two files.
HI,
I'm really interested in giving this a try on my phone... I dont know if I'm just completly ignorant or what but I have no idea where to copy the times to. I made a folder called Android on my SD card and copied all the files over then copied then to my phone in the my documents folder first... same folder name Android... that didnt work.. then I tried putting it right in the main device directory.. again nothing. All that comes up when I open the Harnet program is a screen that saus "Launch a script file. Default file is the same where executable file lives". then a window below that says default.txt with a button "run" next to it.
When I click run an error window pops up saying "Failed to load file \MyDocuments\Android\zImage
I tried recopying the file again from the website but I just keep getting the same error.
I am trying to run this on a CDMA HTC Touch from Telus (Canada)
Can anyone give me some pointers?
EDIT: I think I may have just found my FIX in a few posts up.. Sorry
I'm really interested in giving this a try on my phone... I dont know if I'm just completly ignorant or what but I have no idea where to copy the times to. I made a folder called Android on my SD card and copied all the files over then copied then to my phone in the my documents folder first... same folder name Android... that didnt work.. then I tried putting it right in the main device directory.. again nothing. All that comes up when I open the Harnet program is a screen that saus "Launch a script file. Default file is the same where executable file lives". then a window below that says default.txt with a button "run" next to it.
When I click run an error window pops up saying "Failed to load file \MyDocuments\Android\zImage
I tried recopying the file again from the website but I just keep getting the same error.
I am trying to run this on a CDMA HTC Touch from Telus (Canada)
Can anyone give me some pointers?
EDIT: I think I may have just found my FIX in a few posts up.. Sorry
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From what I've read from previous posts, you need to put the files on the device, not SD Card. Need to have at least 25MB of free program memory... this is going to be hard on Wizard... damn...
Hi.. Yeah they were moved to my device I just didnt realize I had to take the .txt off of the end of 3 of the files.
Up and working now, that said... how do you exit out of this? I figured out the volumn button controls most of the controls on the screen but how to do you exit the full program and go back to HTC Home without doing a soft reset?
Also.. the mapping software.... Is google maps supposed to load up? When I click it a blank screen pops up where a map SHOULD be. I have google maps installed on my phone so I take it that has nothing to do with it.
Further more... how will typing work in Android since the touch has no actual keyboard? First things first obviously is to get the radio working so we can connect to our networks... I only noticed no keyboard when I opened google and couldnt type anything in the text field... not that I could do a search anyway
This looks like its going to be a great OS though
Thanks!
Up and working now, that said... how do you exit out of this? I figured out the volumn button controls most of the controls on the screen but how to do you exit the full program and go back to HTC Home without doing a soft reset?
Also.. the mapping software.... Is google maps supposed to load up? When I click it a blank screen pops up where a map SHOULD be. I have google maps installed on my phone so I take it that has nothing to do with it.
Further more... how will typing work in Android since the touch has no actual keyboard? First things first obviously is to get the radio working so we can connect to our networks... I only noticed no keyboard when I opened google and couldnt type anything in the text field... not that I could do a search anyway
This looks like its going to be a great OS though
Thanks!
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So about getting the radio up and onscreen keyboard cause thats all i need for some real fun to start. this is wicked! It makes me not want to go back to my microshaft OS. Cant wait for the next bubild I'm hungry for more.
The first "beta" will probably not be for a while. There are problems with coding the radio and the phone's software because it is not open source. Hopefully something will come out of it within atleast the summer time.
The preview here has a lot of "crap" included with it because it is almost a "pre-alpha" version.
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