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Nitdroid easy install on EMMC

Revision as of 08:43, 16 March 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

Installing NITDroid 0.0.9 to EMMC

Download the image + the kernel to /MyDocs i.e. root dir. of N900:

Image:http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/NITDroid-0.0.9.tar.bz2

Kernel:http://www.mediafire.com/?zmh7gvj626c6lrp

1. Enable all repositories from App manager (Extras-testing, Extras-devel, Extras and the default Nokia)
2. Install Leafpad from the App manager and make sure that you have root access
3. 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.
   

4. After the nitdroid-installer package is installed, close X Terminal, but do NOT run the installer you just downloaded.
5. Open X Terminal, and execute the following commands:

   root
   cd /home/user/MyDocs
   bzip2 -d NITDroid-0.0.9.tar.bz2
   cd /home
   mkdir /and
   cd /
   mount /home /and
   cd /and
   tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/NITDroid-0.0.9.tar
   dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/NITDroid-kernel-Mido.Fayad.deb
   

6. 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_DEVICE in the file according to this:

   A) If you have an MMC plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:

   ITEM_DEVICE=${INT_CARD}p2
   

   B) If you don't have an MMC plugged in your N900, change ITEM_DEVICE to this:

   ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
   

7. Once editing is complete click the drop down menu on Leafpad and save then close Leafpad.
8. Close X Terminal, reboot N900 and type ‘2’ for NITDroid.

Frequent errors

Guru Meditation:

If you have NITDroid that ends in .06 and you are facing this error, change ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p5 to ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2

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

ITEM_NAME="NITdroid on MMCp2 - 2.6.28.NIT.06"
ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.06
ITEM_MODULES=ext3 fat vfat
ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p2
ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3
ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro

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:

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

   su
   rr
   

4. 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

If on your mmc: Open X Terminal and type the following commands:

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

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

Nokiatolo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmOpftdtqg