Nitdroid easy install on EMMC

Revision as of 17:30, 30 June 2011

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

Way 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
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.

Upgrading 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

Open X Terminal, and execute the following commands:

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

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 going to be fixed in later releases.

Airplane Mode Fix

For people who enabled airplane mode, fixes are here:

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 Nitdroid

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

If on your mmc:

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

If on your emmc:

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