need explicit CM9/10 instructions for MK802-not working

[t3ch42]

Hi all,
Yes, I'm a newb here at xda, but not to the hacking scene. As my interests are in custom Firmware development/modification I am having to post here in General because of the 10 post limit for the Development forum portion. I hope that I may get a response here, but worried that as with most "newbie chat" type forums, they seem to get ignored.
Regardless, I have been trying to install the CM9 and CM10 to my MK802 PC thumbstick without any luck. The end result is either a bootloop with no video or a blank screen with no video output altogether.
I have been using instructions from here, but there seems to be a simple step that I am missing.
All requirements for Superuser, busybox, and smanager have been fulfilled, I am able to install CWM to do my factory resets and flashing, but I am not successful in the flashing. I'm not sure if I need to resize my system partitions, but that is something I've a feeling may affect the install. I've not seen any statements on the requirement, only that if the system partition is less than 350MB or so, to avoid flashing the gapps file, which I've followed.

I've attempted this on the FW710B, and the NEW03 image from the Rikomagic website as well.

If anyone has any ideas or can point me in the right direction to an already customized image I can flash with Livesuit, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again,

T3ch42

 

[t3ch42]

optimal swap and / partition sizes??

Well, a little bit of an update. I took the plunge and repartitioned my internal SD memory. I chose 512MB for the system, and 64MB for the swap. That may have been not enough for the swap, but this was a new test.

This particular iteration was successful. I got the CyanogenMod boot screen and everything this time. The boot took a little while, hopefully just the initial boot.

It seems that this would be a pretty big step to take, but I really can't say that I saw mention of resizing the internal memory as being required.

If anyone has suggestions as to the optimal swap and system sizes, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[woonaval]

Well, a little bit of an update. I took the plunge and repartitioned my internal SD memory. I chose 512MB for the system, and 64MB for the swap. That may have been not enough for the swap, but this was a new test.

This particular iteration was successful. I got the CyanogenMod boot screen and everything this time. The boot took a little while, hopefully just the initial boot.

It seems that this would be a pretty big step to take, but I really can't say that I saw mention of resizing the internal memory as being required.

If anyone has suggestions as to the optimal swap and system sizes, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Good to know, I have the same problem as you. How did you repartition the internal SD memory? thanks

 

[t3ch42]

Good to know, I have the same problem as you. How did you repartition the internal SD memory? thanks

I believe that I used the partition tool through the recovery app that you install, but I'm beginning to wonder. CT says that you cannot resize it. I have installed the Uberoid image a few times, and that may have resized it for me in all actuality. I did notice that when I had a SD card in the machine, that the SD card was resized instead of the internal memory which threw a kink in the works. After CM9 was installed, I wasn't able to use the internal memory.

Still doing some tests though.

May have more info in a little bit.

 

[nyarnon]

What steps did you take to get CWM on the stick. I tried several all not giving me a screen on reboot.

 

[t3ch42]

What steps did you take to get CWM on the stick. I tried several all not giving me a screen on reboot.

Install the Uberoid img through live suit and format.

After it boots, check your internal storage. It should say about 1.69GB

install the recovery, and boot to it.

Do a factory reset in recovery as usual, and then install your cm9 or cm10 images(the zips).

Install the gapps and compatability zips and reboot.

That should be it.

I think that's the steps I took that were successful.
If I tried to partition it myself, I found that the internal sd would not be recognized, even after trying the format memory zip that is used to fix th ad card.

Hope that helps.

 

[t3ch42]

I may have not looked closely enough.
You're having trouble with the cwm install?

For that, I just installed su, updated that to the newest version, click on the i and let it check the installed version.

Install busybox and the script installer. Use the cwm 4.0.4, I believe it is, and install the recovery image to the mk802.

The recovery.img needs to be in the main memory to run the script. Once you've run both of the scripts as root by clicking the little button in the script installer, then the mk802 should boot into recovery.

If this is what you meant, then hope this clears it up.