Nitdroid easy install on EMMC

Some instructions here may cause serious problems. When unsure, see General precautions
Backing up your data is recommended. In case of trouble you might need to re-flash your device.

Under heavy construction

Original Talk Maemo thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=887394&postcount=1

1 Installing Nitdroid

Installing Nitdroid

This tutorial is specifically designed to install Nitdroid on the internal memory of the N900 (EMMC) and does not apply to installation on an external micro SD card. The main purpose of installing Nitdroid on the internal memory is that in most cases you will see an increased performance.

There are two ways of installing NITDroid:

1. Copy NITDroid's rootfs to /and in /home: Easier - Faster

2. Creating a custom 2GB partition on your eMMC: Cleaner - Requires a brain

Method 1

Clean Installing of NITDroid

Download the archive + the kernel to /MyDocs i.e. root dir. of N900:
- Image: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/
- Kernel: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb
Enable all repositories from App manager (Extras-testing, Extras-devel, Extras and the default Nokia repos)

Install Leafpad from the App manager and make sure that you have root access

Close App manager, open X Terminal and execute the following commands:

root
apt-get update
apt-get install nitdroid-installer
y
y again if it asks again.

After the nitdroid-installer package is installed, close X Terminal, but do NOT run the installer you have just downloaded.
Open X Terminal, and execute the following commands:
```
root
cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2
```
(You can only uncompress the file once. So only do this step once!)

Open X Terminal (or user the same xterm as you used for the previous step), and execute the following commands:

cd /home
mkdir /and
cd /
mount /home /and
cd /and
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroidarchivename.tar
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb

Edit the boot file:
```
leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11-NITDroid-mmcblk0p2-2.6.28.NIT.06.item
```
(then tap the tab button, .item file will show, hit enter to open it in Leafpad).

Edit ITEM_DEVICE in the file according to this:
- If you have an MMC (micro SD card) plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:
```
ITEM_DEVICE=${INT_CARD}p2
```
- If you don't have an MMC plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:
```
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
```
Once editing is complete click the drop down menu on Leafpad and save then close Leafpad.
Close X Terminal, reboot N900 and type ‘2’ for NITDroid.

You can now start using Nitdroid

Upgrading from Previous Versions of Nitdroid

Note: CLEAN INSTALL IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. You have been warned.

Download the image + the kernel to /MyDocs i.e. root dir. of N900:
- Image: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/
- Kernel: http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb

root
cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d Nitdroidarchivename.tar.bz2
cd /
mount /home /and
cd /and
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/Nitdroidarchivename.tar
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-07_rc4_armel.deb

Reference Installation Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm6spW5yadk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHxo1ALXNE

Fixes

Some simple fixes of NITDroid included here:

Not charging

In NITDroid, go to:

App drawer --> Settings --> Manage applications --> Development --> Stay awake

This should let the screen stay awake while charging, your device will be charging normally.

Google account sign-in

Skip google sign-up in the first tutorial instead, sign up/in google once in NITDroid.

Overclocking Nitdroid

1. You can download ready GUI's from the market for OCing: http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=16607&d=1293643705

NOTE: Recommended settings for Setcpu: Min:125 Max:805 Governor:Conservative

2. Or use one of these profiles: http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=116.0

Kernel Power installation

For kernel-power multiboot entry: http://www.mediafire.com/?t3mdemq1hj7v5ur

1. Unrar this archive to ./MyDocs, then:

2. On Xterminal, execute:

root
mount /home /and
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/multiboot-0.2.11-kernel-power-46-Android-Kernel/*

3. Reboot your device, you shall see a new multiboot entry for kernel-power.

Custom EMMC's

Just in case you fear to run out of memory, here are custom EMMC's if you want to reflash with:

5GB app memory 24GB /MyDocs: http://www.mediafire.com/?j6srnaxwr3notaf

and/or

8GB app memory 21GB /MyDocs: http://www.mediafire.com/?5o1hkuuwhn8hh1c

Uninstalling Nitdroid

Open X Terminal and type the following commands:

root
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /and -o noatime
nitdroid-uninstaller

After it completes, simply format your microSD card, then using filebox delete nitdroid's installation folders and files that were copied to home: bin, data, dev, etc (symlink), initrd, lib (symlink), mnt, proc, sbin, sdcard, sys, system, tmp, usr,default.prop, init, init.nokia.rc, init.rc