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Nitdroid easy install on EMMC

Revision as of 23:19, 5 December 2010

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

Orginal Talk Maemo thread:

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

Installing NITDroid 0.0.8 to EMMC

• Enable all repositories from App manager (Extras-testing, Extras-devel, Extras and the default Nokia)
• Download and install leafpad and Rootsh from App manager.
• Close App manager, open X Terminal and execute 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
• Install the attached installer.
  • Copy it to N900 and open it via App manager (for no formatting ext3 stuck hiccup) btw it will recognize it as a small update for ur installer that you just downloaded and installed at the second step.
• Open X Terminal

root
nitdroid
YES

• After NITDroid installs (20 minutes on 70 kb/s download speed) don't reboot your phone to NITDroid!
• Tap the drop down menu in Xterm click new and close the one before (the one that said NITDroid was successfully installed)

If you don't have a microSD:

Important: These are for overclocked phones, if you don't have kernel-power installed then wait someone make this for stock kernels.

Download these files:

http://downloads.nitdroid.com/nitinstaller/Packages/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

http://downloads.nitdroid.com/nitinstaller/Packages/NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar.bz2

• Copy downloaded files to MyDocs.
• Open x-term and execute following commands:

sudo gainroot
mkdir /and
mount /home /and
apt-get install multiboot multiboot-kernel-power bzip2
cd /home/user/MyDocs
bzip2 -d NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar.bz2
cd /and
tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/NitDroid-0.0.8-Popov.tar
dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb
umount /and

• Open X Terminal

  root

  • mount the partition

    mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and

  • Copy android system files over to /home

    cp -rp /and/* /home

  • edit the boot file

    leafpad /etc/multiboot.d/11

    (then tap the tab button, .item file will show, hit enter to open it in Leafpad)

• edit .item file to look like this:

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.05"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.05
ITEM_MODULES=ext3 fat vfat
ITEM_DEVICE=${[B]INT[/B]_CARD}p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3
EOF

If you followed the manual installation guide and u don't have a microSD then:

• change the .item file to:

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.05"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.05
ITEM_MODULES=ext3 fat vfat
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p5
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3
EOF

• 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'll notice that booting will take less time, and if u want u can remove back cover and microSD to check. BUT you can't boot without something in the microSD slot, any microSD will work even empty ones.

Frequent errors

Guru Meditation:

If you have NITDroid that ends in .06 and you are facing this error, delete the words that are underlined from your multiboot file.

Root filesystem mmcblk0p5 NOT available!
Guru Meditation #000000025.62017712
Hit any key to panic!

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.05"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.05
ITEM_MODULES=ext3 fat vfat
ITEM_DEVICE=${INT_CARD}p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=3
EOF

If you didn't find maemo in multiboot:

Type 0 to boot stock kernel.

Some things you'll notice after installing it on the internal memory

1. Runs much faster, even faster than a class 8 card.
2. The battery doesn't drain as fast as with microsd. Had it off charger all day playing games and surfing the Internet and got it to only use 40% of the battery.
3. Pretty good given now you can use it without it draining the battery!

Fixes

APP Market Fix

• Open the Market app (from the Home screen or app launcher)
• Leaving the Market app running, return to the Home screen and open the Settings app again
• Within Settings select Applications → Manage applications → Running (from Tab at top)
• Scroll to select the Market app → press the Clear Cache button → then press the Force Stop button (Do not press the Clear Data button)
• Press the back button (to go back to the list of running apps)
• Scroll to select Google Services Framework → press the Clear Data button → OK (to confirm) → then press the Force Stop button
• Return to the Home screen
• Launch the Market app again, which will give an error "Attention an error has occurred..." → OK button
• Shutdown by holding power button → Power Off → OK
• Restart, wait for wi-fi to reconnect, open Market again (You may have to reboot several times and check Market)

The opening Market screen should no longer be blank, and many more apps (free & paid) should now be available. (Although apps can be downloaded, some may still fail to install or run properly)

WIFI Fix(rare cases)

Change the encryption from WPA2 to WPA from your Wireless Access Point. This is a compatibility issue hopefully gonna be fixed in later releases.

Airplane Mode Fix

For people who enabled airplane mode, fixes that are in here were tried by me:

• Enable the widget power control and turn airplane mode off
• If this didn't work disable pin code in maemo
• menu→devtools→terminal emulator

 su
 rr

• The technical solution:

cd /and/data
rm -rf *
mkdir logs
chmod 777 logs
cd /
umount /and

Google account sign-in

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

Overclocking

1. You can download ready GUI's from the market for OCing
2. Or use one of these profiles: http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=116.0

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 apps 24GB mydocs: http://www.mediafire.com/?j6srnaxwr3notaf

and

8GB apps 21GB mydocs: http://www.mediafire.com/?5o1hkuuwhn8hh1c

Uninstalling Nitdroid

Open x Terminal:

root
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and -o noatime
nitdroid-uninstaller

After it completes, simply format your sd 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

Videos of NITDroid running on EMMC

My video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9kG81m-S4

Mr.NokiaTecs' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7MIGu2POzY