Below,I will list the steps I do to setup my webtop,I am using webtop2sd on a 32GB PNY Class 10 card, and used a 2GB Transcend (not sure on class,im sure its old) card to test with, same results with both pretty much,so I think something im doing is causing it to stop working.
What happends when it stops, is it just wont come up anymore. When I plug the phone into my lapdock, I either get a bluebox with an HDMI not found error (I'm assuming from the dock itself), or the red moto logo that just moves around. I would try resetting the phone, and reinstalling the executable through the webtop2sd app, and it still wont launch. This has happened about 5 times so far, I would get it setup how I would want it to be,then it stops working.
So here is what I would do (there is a phone reboot between each step pretty much)
1. Use my PC to partiton the SD card, ~22 GB FAT32 followed by an ~8GB ext3
2. Use webtop2sd to create the webtop, default settings, aside from the missing dock fix, which I only used 2-3 out of the 5 times I ran it
3. Once I am in the new webtop, I would install terminal and synaptic,then reboot.
4. Then I would run the webtop scripts, version 1.4, hitting yes to everything, then a reboot
5. I would check to see if synaptic is installed, the last time i did this, I had to use aptitude to install it.
6. Once I got synaptic up,I would use it to install the xfce4 package. Just about everytime I would go to install it,I would get an error on the "tzdata" package, the only way I could get past it,would be to uninstall tzdata, then most of the time,whatever I would go to install would reinstall it anyway. This does concern me, because when I remove tzdata, it appears to be tied to a critical package, which may be the source of my problem,but I am not sure.
7. Once I would get xfce4 installed,I would add xfdesktop and xfce-panel to the startup list (those may not be the exact package names,there is another thread I reference for that, can't remember atm, nor can I remember the exact name of that startup file, but its on this forum somewhere). I would also comment out the awmdock one and the webtop desktop one as well.
8. I would reboot,and it would actually boot up xfce4 just fine, the only gripe I have,is that I would usually get an error on the trash service needing thunar, when it is already installed. The one time,I was able to install open office, and test out some youtube videos.
9. At about this time, I would reboot my phone to see if it still works, then I would get the "bouncing moto logo of death" on my lapdock screen, and would have to start over.
One other unrelated note,about every other time I would reboot my phone, it would come up saying SIM card not installed, so I would reboot it again to fix the problem. So there were normally 2 reboots when a reboot is required.
So,I guess I would ask a few direct questions about my problem
1. Has anyone else had a problem with the tzdata package? Is there a way around it without uninstalling it?
2. Could the full xfce4 package be breaking the webtop? Do I only need certain packages out of it?
3. Even though I tested this on 2 different SD cards, could my problem be that the files are just getting corrupted on the card? Its pretty consistant though, I canpretty much say "Look,my awesome webtop is now setup how I want it to be, now watch me reboot my phone to see it not work anymore" everytime I go to set it up.
Info on my phone:
Stock firmware, unlocked bootloader, cwm installed (I thought I needed it,but not for webtop2sd) and rooted running latest webtop2sd. I havent messed with the stock webtop on the phone itself, i rather not since I like having it as a backup.
Btw, I am a bit of a linux n00b, I've pretty much just been reading what other people have been doing. Any help would be appreciated, thanx
You sure like to mod the webtop. Lol jk.
I have no issues and I have webtop with the Lapdock with the Ninja ROM. My phone is bootloader unlocked and rooted. I personally think you modded too much if that's possible. If I were you, I would start over and try webtop with stock firmware or a ROM with a fresh sd card. That way you can know if your phone has a hardware issue or if you modded too much. Hope this helps.
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I can assure you that your phone is more modded than mine is, since im running stock firmware. What I'm doing is really not that much modding, I'm just trying to get a better interface running on the webtop, which people have posted saying they have the same one working on theirs. Its also not that I can't get it working, its really not hard, just time consuming, I just need to know why it keeps breaking on phone reboots...
teeth_03 said:
I can assure you that your phone is more modded than mine is, since im running stock firmware. What I'm doing is really not that much modding, I'm just trying to get a better interface running on the webtop, which people have posted saying they have the same one working on theirs. Its also not that I can't get it working, its really not hard, just time consuming, I just need to know why it keeps breaking on phone reboots...
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I honestly think you should try some of my suggestions. I think starting fresh is your best option. When something doesn't wok right or something goes wrong. Starting fresh can fix your issues.
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I've formatted the SD card about 6-8 times nowsince I got my lapdock 3 days ago
teeth_03 said:
I've formatted the SD card about 6-8 times nowsince I got my lapdock 3 days ago
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Have you tried reflashing the phone yet with new firmwares or ROMS?
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why would I do that when the issue has something to do with the files on the SD card?
webtop2sd copies the webtop files from the phone, to the SD card,so the files on the phone are basically out of the equation at that point. So its not a problem with android,but with the other linux files from webtop on the SD card
Oh ok. Well have you tried an all new sd card yet?
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teeth_03 said:
Below,I will list the steps I do to setup my webtop,I am using webtop2sd on a 32GB PNY Class 10 card, and used a 2GB Transcend (not sure on class,im sure its old) card to test with, same results with both pretty much,so I think something im doing is causing it to stop working.
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yeah......
I think I fixed it. by finding this little piece of info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18465066&postcount=3
I believe tzdata has been my problem for he past like 3 days I've been messing with this
It has been running great for the past day. XFCE4 is a large improvement over the standard webtop.
Of course, I ran into another snag, I need to access windows network shares, and Samba doesn't seem to be functioning, specifically, the samba-common package wont install correctly.
This user was able to fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19132707&postcount=19
But I have no idea how to fix the read/sym links. Can any linux gurus here explain how that is fixed? Thanx guys!
teeth_03 said:
It has been running great for the past day. XFCE4 is a large improvement over the standard webtop.
Of course, I ran into another snag, I need to access windows network shares, and Samba doesn't seem to be functioning, specifically, the samba-common package wont install correctly.
This user was able to fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19132707&postcount=19
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Yeah his post was kind of light on the details.
What it looks like is that when the /var/lib/dpkg/samba-common.postinst script is run by dpkg --configure -a it calls a program named ucf that in turn wants to run the symbolic link of "readlink" located in /usr/bin.
This is where i got stuck. I am by no means a linux guru.
I tried deleting the symlink to force ucf to use the "readlink" in the path, tried setting the symlink to point to the "readlink" located in /system/bin and in /system/xbin, and set the symlink to the busybox in /system/bin and to the custom busybox webtop2sd uses in /system/etc/webtop2sd but it did not help.
The output of dpkg changed slightly depending on which "readlink" ucf used but still the same error, "readlink: invalid option", and no samba-common.
Btw my busybox is 1.19.3
2.3.5 webtop on sdcard with fixed dependencies
A little help would be appreciated.
I was told on IRC that the actual problem is that the stock kernel does not include CIPs support, which is what is required for connectivity
but I still dont like the fact that samba package is still broken...
I'm using faux123's 0.2.3 kernel though, which might have CIPs support. Its hard to tell from the changelog and features listed in his kernel thread. Btw the 0.2.3 kernel fixes the broken top panel.
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Hello-
I am new to the boards as a poster, i've been reading for a while now and I must thank everyone especially in the development section of the forum for their incredible amount of help and expertise.
It has officially come time for my first noob question-
Can anyone help me out or lead me to a guide perhaps that will allow me to use OpenOffice on my webtop? This is really what I bought the lapdock for-it just came in yesterday.
I managed to get webtop2sd working on my own, lxterminal is functional. That's all I've got so far in fear of ruining anything else.
I'm not at all well-versed in any linux script or anything of the sort. I know windows like the back of my hand.. just so happens that my windows PC totally bit the dust(motherboard) last night and I'm forced into learning this stuff a little quicker. Why not, right?
I have done some searching, all of it leads me to a bunch of lingo and commands I don't understand yet. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help or provide me with a little one-on-one that would be awesome. I'm looking forward to helping others with these kinds of issues down the road.
Thank you!
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Also, I'm not sure if it's any help, but i'm running GB on Alien #4 with faux123's undefined 1.3ghz kernel.
See "EASY METHOD" in the original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790
Assuming you have webtop2sd and the linux addon installed properly
(with the linux image on your external SD), do the following:
1) Click the Penguin. You will get a window that says it has found an image in you external SD card.
2) Simply press "okay" on that window.
3) Once it shows the Pdmenu, select DebianMenus>Applications>Shells>Bash. it will bring up an xterm script which reads "[email protected]:/#"
4) To get open office, you must type "apt-get install openoffice.org" without the quotes.
5) Agree to install/update, and it will read "[email protected]:/#" once it is done.
6) At this point, and from now on, you can do steps 1-3 and simply type "openoffice.org" into xterm. It will take a second, but it will load a fully functional OpenOffice.
Basically you just need to know the package names to use this same structure for other programs. I use "openoffice.org", "iceweasel" (a firefox alternative, since my firefox keeps breaking), and "geany" (a C++ IDE for my programming classes). These are installed using "apt-get install packagename" and run using "packagename" in the bash script as well.
Good luck, and PM me if you have any problems because I likely will forget to return to this thread. Hit that thanks button!
-omni
Follow the guide in Alex's thread in the dev forum. I just installed open office yesterday haha.
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+1 to both of you, I'll get started on that and hopefully that will open doors for the rest of the stuff. Thanks a ton
Hello again all-
I didn't want to be that guy posting 95823094820394 threads about the same thing so I just figured I'd bump the one i created with some explanation:
I have webtop2sd properly(i believe, anyway) installed. LXterminal is functional. I also have linuxdisk in sdcard(-ext)/WebTopMOD . I'm not sure what to do from here. the help given above gave instructions to click the penguin while in webtop and run certain commands, but the penguin only brings up the webtop configurator. i have no other icons to click.
My goal, again, is just to get open office running on my webtop, for now. That's really it, the rest i'm sure will come with time. Thank you again for any help.
I seem to have figured it out for the most part using Alex's guide. However, the installation threw a couple errors, couldn't really tell you what they were because they were epic and I'm clueless as far as linux for the time being. However, my educated guess and deduction points towards insufficient memory. I set up my webtop partition to be 1GB, because I'm using a 16GB sd card that's virtually full of music. Is 1GB skimping it if I want to install openoffice/other linux packages? What size partition is recommended?
Thank you!
4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.
Also openoffice worked, But i think it dosent match the atrix ubuntu core perfectly.
An error name:"openoffice Writer2laterx dose not configured" happened again and again.
omni_angel7 said:
4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.
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i am using an external SD, a 16 GB one. i'm about to make a 4GB partition and start from scratch. eventually, i'm picking up a 32 no doubt.
After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.
"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package
Any ideas?
Cheers
pederb said:
After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.
"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package
Any ideas?
Cheers
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my guide links a fix for that, but I use a different method than the one previously posted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397583&highlight=guide+webtop
Thxs, I will check it out
Cheers
Cant open files from sdcard
Hello, I finally got openoffice installed, but I dont know how I can open files located in my sdcard. Can anyone please help me with this?
I am by no means an expert, i just dove into this project 4 days ago, and since then, I've had to reformat my SD card about 8 times before I figured out how to get it stable. But now I have it running pretty stable, there are some issues still, but it at least runs linux pretty well. I'm mainly posting this because this would have saved me a lot of digging 4 days ago, and I figured I would help out any n00bs that just got a lapdock and just started playing with webtop.
*Disclaimer* I am not an expert, if you have a problem with any of these steps, please do not post them here, but in their respective threads. I take no credit for developing any of this, im just posting a list of steps from multiple sources. Also, if you break something, its not my fault*
The Guide
By the end of this guide, you will have a more functional linux as your webtop, with the XFCE4 interface. This uses webtop2sd, so if you break anything, you should be able to start over.
You will need a rooted Atrix, a lapdock (or other external device for using webtop on), and a microSD card, I suggest 2GB or bigger. I have a 32GB PNY class 10 card, for example.
1. Lets format/partition the SD card. Sogarth explains here how to do that. I highly suggest NOT doing this on your phone,and use a PC instead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15109152&postcount=5
2. Here, he explains how to install it after you partition your SD card. The app you need is in the bottom of the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15109140&postcount=4
3. Now plug it in to your lapdock, and it should boot up into the new webtop. You should see 2 icons in the middle, the awn-dock config tool, and the webtop config tool. We just need to focus on the latter one. Open that up, click on Administration on the left,and click on Install by lxterminal. Try clicking on the terminal icon on the dock, if it comes up, you are gold. If it acts funky, like your screen goes black but doesn't open the terminal, open up the webtop config tool again, and the button to install it should be lit up again. You know its installed if you click install,close out the config tool, and reopen it to see Install grayed out.
4. If all goes well, you should be at a terminal. The first thing we want to do, is fix a really annoying and OS breaking bug, regarding the tzdata package. It seems to be corrupted, so we want to make sure it doesn't get in the way of installing other packages. This issue was the bane of my existence for 3 days.
following these steps, we will fix it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18465066&postcount=3
type this into the terminal to bring up the said file so you can edit it
Code:
sudo leafpad /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst
then put exit 0 on the 3rd empty line
I would reboot your phone after doing this, just for good measure
5. When you get back into the webtop, lets run the Webtop Scripts, the files and instructions are here for that. This will fix many broken dependencies. Arvati did a great job with these fixes!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192488
just put that file in your downloads folder, then run the commands from that first code box, and I just said yes everytime it asked you what you wanted to do. I would reboot your phone again after this.
6. Now lets start installing stuff! Lets start with synaptic, which works a lot better if you install via command line instead of the webtop config tool.
So run this from the terminal:
Code:
sudo aptitude install synaptic
7. Open up synaptic by typing 'sudo synaptic' into the terminal. Lets install XFCE4 now, just search for that there,and install the XFCE4 package, it should install all of the other required packages to run the new interface.
8. Once it is installed,we need to disable the webtop interface,and enable xfce4. I referenced this thread to do that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054213
Type this into the terminal to edit the right file
Code:
sudo leafpad /osh/usr/local/bin/start-oshwt-2.sh
put a # in front of
sfalv -i "awm-autostart"
sfalv -i "webtop-wallpaper"
so it looks like
#sfalv -i "awm-autostart"
#sfalv -i "webtop-wallpaper"
then add these 2 lines
sfalv -i "xfce4-session"
sfalv -i "xfce4-panel"
save it then reboot your phone. Hopefully you should be in XFCE4 now!
OPTIONAL:
*To fix an issue with mounting USB storage devices:
I had the same problem, got it to work by adding this to /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
Code:
<config version="0.1">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<match user="myaccountnamehere">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</match>
</config>
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...b-storages-debian-squeeze-723251/#post3537149
* To Fix mounting Windows network shares
Chimpdaddy has posted a way to get Samba file shares to work, this requires having a custom kernel though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22018703&postcount=67
Chimpdaddy said:
Firstly you need to have a kernal, like Faux's, that supports CIFS.
Then install Samba4, via synaptic package manager if you like.
Probably an idea to reboot.
Then create a folder (using terminal) where you want yr share, 'sudo mkdir /media/SHARE' for eg..
then run this;
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=guest //YOURSHAREIP/SHARE /media/SHARE
if you get no errors yr golden
If you want it to mount on startup edit /etc/fstab to include
//YOURSHAREIP/SHARE /media/SHARE cifs username=guest,_netdev 0 0
check this with 'mount -a'
That should do you.
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OR
You could use an app like ESFileExplorer on your phone to drag and drop files, this is what I have been using,and it works pretty well for both direct windows shares and FTP. The Mobile View is great for having a window open for secondary tasks like this.
EXPERIMENTAL:
This can be buggy,so use at your own risk!
To install chromium browser, follow these steps. This is said to have better performance than the built in firefox, but for me, it crashed a lot, I went back to firefox
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374567
ISSUES STILL PENDING:
*currently no major issues*
LIST OF SUGGESTED APPS:
OpenOffice.org
Qalculator
XChat IRC
This looks good. I just got my lapdock on Thursday and I have been putting togther all of the Docs to get it the way I want, but this is pretty much the results I wanted. I will try your instructions and get back with you.
Thanks.
Which ROM are you running on?
stock ROM.....
Thanks for the guide.
There is one link that appears to be broken though,
On step 5, the thread goes nowhere. That's where I'm stuck right now
my bad,fixed
i actually managed to do all this on my own, but just recently came into a unexpected problem. i'm kind of a linux noob, and it seems like the file manager button on xfce4-panel doesn't lead to the stock file manager i was using before (doesn't lead to anything), does anyone have any suggestions for a good file manager to replace it with?
Thanks for the fix, I've completed all steps and it was working for about an hour. Until I installed chromium.
I have a weird problem where the lapdock doesn't detect webtop and says no hdmi input detected. Not sure if you know anything about that, but just wanted to let you guys know (might be a defect on my lapdock). I'm trying to figure out a fix for that now.
I would suggest starting over if that happened,sounds like something broke
as for an XFCE4 file manager, it should install Thunar by default
teeth_03 said:
I would suggest starting over if that happened,sounds like something broke
as for an XFCE4 file manager, it should install Thunar by default
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sudo apt-get thunar fixed the problem for me, thanks though
followed your steps and it works great ,i've been messing with this for over a week trying to get this to work ,that ztdata bug fix did the job.. THANK YOU.....
toe451 said:
followed your steps and it works great ,i've been messing with this for over a week trying to get this to work ,that ztdata bug fix did the job.. THANK YOU.....
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dont thank me, thank the guy who figured out how to fix it
webtop2sd app crashes on first run...any ideas?
Here's the answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19993891&postcount=671
bigworm50 said:
webtop2sd app crashes on first run...any ideas?
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To the point of installing XFCE4, and synaptic just sits on preparing packages forever... I let it sit for 30+ minutes last night and going on almost 60 minutes currently...is something wrong or does it take that long?
you might want to cancel that, reboot your phone and try again, it should not take that long
can you do one on how to install Chrome instead of Firefox for a noob like myself. Thank you.
there is already a link to the chromium browser thread in the OT
I would caution that its kind of experimental, I installed it and it kept on crashing for me, so when I re-did my webtop after that,I just decided to use firefox
For step 1, can we partition this as ext4 as faux kernels support it?
added info on fixing an issue with mounting USB drives, and a note about chrome
Hey, apparently I can't post in the dev forums yet so here is my question. I have after a week of experimentation gotten webtop2sd to work with a few different set ups on my Atrix with lapdock. However, here is the issue:
I have the latest and greatest Aura ROM Debloated version installed on my (obviously) rooted and unlocked Atrix. I have the webtopmod installed. I have busybox in the correct location. I have a working webtop with working configurator and lxterminal and all that goodness. Problem is when I run the webtop2sd program so I can move the image to the sdcard, the program does the partition part just fine, but consistently fails the file copy portion of the process and aborts. I have no idea what to do. Is it possible to manually copy the webtop image to the section of the sdcard set up for it and if so how?
Thanks ahead guys. Oh and Kudos to Sogarth for making this possible!
well the problem seems to have fixed itself. Though I have no idea why. I kept rebooting and trying and eventually the copying worked. Now have an unlocked jauntu desktop Thanks so much to everyone who posts in this forum regularly. now off to figure out the next part...
I have a GTab that was running Calkulin + Clemsyn Combo Overclock at 1.5 ghz V8 on the 1.2 branch fine for a couple months now, then something happened today. Woke up to find there was no sound coming from it (I'd left an Anti-mosquito app running all night), so I tried to play a couple music files. Seemed to get frozen instead of playing, so I restarted. That's when it went into a boot loop from 3 birds to the first splash screen of the loaded ROM.
Attempted to do a backup via CWM, and it failed on /data. Tried a data wipe/reset, then reflashing the ROM and finally NVFlash. Still goes into a bootloop. Repartitioning and mounting doesn't do anything; ADB doesn't see the device at all in CWM or APX; /data cannot be mounted and /sdcard mounts only when a card is inserted (doesn't see the internal space) but still doesn't mount USB storage and says: "E:Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)"; drive shows in Win7, but is inaccessible;
As mentioned, APX mode and NVFlash along with CWM works fine. And I can mount /cache and /system fine. I've gotten to Code Double Red here and now I'm draining the battery for the next step (really don't want to pull any screws). Also tried the fix here, but it seems that's just for CM7, which I'll probably try flashing some time.
I'm going to return to the 1.1 branch and try a couple ROMs there, but I have a really slow connection and it's taking a while to get nvflash 1.1.
Did a quick search of the forum and didn't find anything quite similar. Obvious question is, has anyone ever experienced this before? What are some other steps I can take to fix this? Is there a way to backup the internal SD before I probably have to wipe it?
Connect the USB cable to the tablet, then boot it into CWM, and run this command on your PC:
Code:
C:\SOME\PATH> [B]adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt[/B]
Post that dmesg.txt file here. We'll see what's wrong.
Connected the charger long enough to run the command, but all I get is "error: device not found". As I'd said, ADB doesn't detect the tablet, even though Windows knows when it's connected and disconnected. Is there anything that I can flash to get me a terminal? That's the only way I can think of to get that command run and hopefully direct the output to my SD. Thanks.
I now have a completely dead battery. Wondering what to do next since it's supposed to have been hard reset now. Not seeing anything different after booting; same boot loop even though I just flashed a ROM again.
rajeevvp said:
Connect the USB cable to the tablet, then boot it into CWM, and run this command on your PC:
Code:
C:\SOME\PATH> [B]adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt[/B]
Post that dmesg.txt file here. We'll see what's wrong.
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I had seen this thread before where you were helping someone last year. Wish I'd read further to see that he eventually got the same problem I now have. I'm currently working my way through everything. First I need to get ADB running though, so I'm working on that now. Think I may be needing that partition swap trick, but we'll see...
Having issues getting the right USB drivers installed for ADB on Windows 7 64 bit. Using instructions here. But each time I uninstall the device, as soon as I plug in the tablet, it installs the default drivers. Using both Device manager and USBDeview. Updating and other options are also disabled when there is nothing installed. Considering to do a direct registry hack of the device info if I can, and hopefully not break anything important.
Try using Linux.
I finally got ADB working on my system and did some experimenting. Seems there's definitely something wrong with my internal SD according to the dmesg output. Luckily I have a SD which I used in my SG3, and it is already properly partitioned, so I'll try using that. Tried making a fstab file in /etc (mtdblock3) but I got "Magic Value Mismatch" error, so I NVFlashed to return it to how it was. I'm currently researching how to create update files, because it seems that's the only way I can get the SDs swapped. Any guidance is still welcomed. Thanks alot.
Skele Drew said:
Seems there's definitely something wrong with my internal SD according to the dmesg output.
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Yeah. There are clear error messages relating to the internal SD card. You can either return the tablet and get a replacement, or, use my SD card device swapping technique to use the external SD in place of the non-working internal one.
Tried making a fstab file in /etc (mtdblock3) but I got "Magic Value Mismatch" error, so I NVFlashed to return it to how it was. I'm currently researching how to create update files, because it seems that's the only way I can get the SDs swapped.
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If you use my files, you don't need to modify anything manually. What're you trying to change, BTW?
I can definitely use some help there. Where are the files? I tried modifying the custom ROM I use by adding a custom fstab and vold.fstab to /etc, an init script to init.d and replacing the /data mounting command with:
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ui_print("Copying Data Files");
run_program("/sbin/mount", "-t", "ext3", "/dev/block/mmcblk2p2", "/data");
ui_print("Mount information:");
ui_print(run_program("/sbin/mount"));
Not sure what you're attempting to do here...
If you just want to use an external SD card in place of your non-working internal one, then all you have to do is a) flash either one of the CWM zip files and then b) flash the SD card swapping zip file right after you install the ROM of your choice. And, if you tell me which ROM you plan to install, I can look inside it and tell you if my scripts will work with that ROM.
If you can read shell/awk scripts, you can look inside the zip files to see what they do and how they do it.
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Not sure what you're attempting to do here...
If you just want to use an external SD card in place of your non-working internal one, then all you have to do is a) flash either one of the CWM zip files and then b) flash the SD card swapping zip file right after you install the ROM of your choice. And, if you tell me which ROM you plan to install, I can look inside it and tell you if my scripts will work with that ROM.
If you can read shell/awk scripts, you can look inside the zip files to see what they do and how they do it.
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I was trying to make a swap script myself, but it's not working. /system dir gets corrupted. I'm using Clemsyn_Caulkinver8final2, a Froyo ROM.
Look at my scripts. If you have any questions, just ask.
Where are the scripts? That's what I've been asking...
EDIT: If this is what you use, then all should be ok. Let you know the result when I'm again online. Thanks alot for your help!
That's what I was talking about. I modified the device-swapping script today to fix-up an additional shell script, /system/etc/inandop.sh, on the various Clemsyn/Beasty ROMs (incl. yours), so use the newer zip file.
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That's what I was talking about. I modified the device-swapping script today to fix-up an additional shell script, /system/etc/inandop.sh, on the various Clemsyn/Beasty ROMs (incl. yours), so use the newer zip file.
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Appears it still doesn't work. However, now instead of having a boot loop, it's just stuck at the splash screen after the 3 birds. I'm going to try combining your script and the ROM to see if I can get better results. I'm also going to try inserting some log/debug messages where I can.
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Appears it still doesn't work. However, now instead of having a boot loop, it's just stuck at the splash screen after the 3 birds. I'm going to try combining your script and the ROM to see if I can get better results. I'm also going to try inserting some log/debug messages where I can.
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THANK YOU RAJEEV!!!!!!!
Today I got the time to work on my tablet again, since I just restarted college and it's been a bit hectic. Decided to try CM7 since when I looked into your script I saw direct management for it, so I NV'd back to 1.1 (I didn't know what branch CM7 was on, but flashing CM7 on 1.2 gave an error and aborted). The first time I tried the CM7, it got to the CM7 logo, then was there for a while until I only had a black screen. The only way I knew the tablet was still on was because ADB was still connected. Then I flashed your script and VOILA! everything started great. So now I have my tablet again for my classes .
I am planning to still run a few tests to see if I can somehow recover/fix the internal SD, so I downloaded your set of e2fsprogs. Think I'll make a flashable file for the entire package.
Again, thanks for all your assistance. It's much appreciated. I really didn't have that much time anymore to work on it myself too. I will continue to learn more as time goes on though, and I hope one day I'll become a guru like you .
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Decided to try CM7 since when I looked into your script I saw direct management for it, so I NV'd back to 1.1 (I didn't know what branch CM7 was on, but flashing CM7 on 1.2 gave an error and aborted).
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The official CM7 is, right now, only for 1.1. However, since you can replace just the kernel and instantly make a 1.2 ROM, you'll have to look at the kernel messages to tell which bootloader version you have (Note: this is only for pershoot kernels).
The first time I tried the CM7, it got to the CM7 logo, then was there for a while until I only had a black screen. The only way I knew the tablet was still on was because ADB was still connected.
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This is to be expected. When a ROM first runs, it writes a whole bunch of stuff into /data; but, your internal SD card is messed up, so every write would've ended up with the kernel retrying for quite a bit and then failing.
You should've flashed the ROM and immediately afterwards my script to fix-up the mount points on the ROM--ie. before the first boot.
I am planning to still run a few tests to see if I can somehow recover/fix the internal SD, so I downloaded your set of e2fsprogs. Think I'll make a flashable file for the entire package.
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I doubt if you can "fix" your internal SD card error using any of the e2fsprogs--it looks like a card-controller error rather than a media error. You have one of the non-standard internal SD cards which has caused problems for some other users as well.
Ok. I do have a few issues I hope I can get some help on. For one, flash player doesn't work, and that's something very important. All my browsers direct me to get flashplayer. It worked pretty well in my previous ROM, so it may be an issue with CM7, but I haven't seen any similar issues on their site.
Also, the tablet is less responsive now, though I think this has to do with the /data partition being on external SD, though it's a class 6 card.
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Did you partition the external SD card correctly into 2 partitions (the first as VFAT and the second as ext3) before you installed CM7? I'm not sure what steps from my post you followed and what steps you skipped: you mentioned you were planning to modify the scripts/ROM, right?
It is also possible that my script is not doing the right thing on CM7 since it doesn't touch the vold.fstab on it. Get me the output of a mount command in CM7, and these files:
Code:
/system/etc/vold.fstab
/system/build.prop
Also make sure that you, or the ROM provider, haven't enabled the SD card switching in Settings > Cyanogenmod settings.
The SD I'm using was in a SG3 using this ROM, so I think it's correctly partitioned. I've accessed the partitions before and the correct names are associated with the contents. I only followed steps 1 & 4. The option to use removable for apps and media is disabled.
build.prop
mount.txt
vold.fstab
I WANT TO START OFF BY SAYING THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE MADE A THREAD ON THIS SITE.
I FEEL MY ISSUE IS UNIQUE AND ALL HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THANK YOU
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The tablet that I am dealing with is a "Cruz Velocity Mini Tablet" running android 2.0 and no means of installing apk's.
Currently this is the situation:
A friend of mine lent me her Chinese reader tablet.
I told her that I could probably flash a newer version of Android on it, thinking that I could finally try my hand at making a ROM because I know for a fact that there aren't many ROMs if any at all out there for a chinese off brand reader like this.
After rooting the tablet I deleted the pre installed bloatware via ADB commands (shell) including a file manager (Astro) that I believe was the only way that you could browse files on the tablet, as well as some other pre installed applications that must have been necessary in retrospect. There is no existing vending capability or market application.
I am looking to make a custom ROM (Using android Kitchen and Cywign) through following this tutorial by lokeshsaini94 yet I feel like following that tutorial won't even get me where I need to be.
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Things that I have tried at this point include:
Attempting to connect the tablet to my computer with the SD inserted (with and without debugging turned on) [Failed to show up on my computer as a device or anything]
Downloading the APK that I need from a file sharing website [Downloads fail]
Uploading the APK that I need to my Google drive and downloading it from the tablet [Says waiting for data connection and doesn't download even though connected to our WiFi]
Inserting the SD card into my computer, copying the APK I need over to it, then inserting the SD card back into the tablet, going into the browser and typing "File:///sdcard/<name here>.apk" to install an APK but getting an error in the installer after pushing 'install' -> 'Application not installed'
Trying to perform a factory reset; this simply makes the tablet reboot with everything the same as it was before.
Essentially guys and gals, my tablet here is running Android 2.0, I want to update it by making my own rom for it to something at least >4.0, and it seems that I've made things worse and have no way out of this mess. I think I've essentially bricked it even though it still works. :silly:
What do I need to do to make a custom ROM let alone flash/wipe this tablet?
All help will be incredibly valuable
There should be plenty of info here http://www.slatedroid.com/forum/93-velocity-micro-cruz-reader/ to get you on the right track. Not likely you'd be able to get anything beyond Gingerbread on there running due to lack of source code. Your only hope would be to see if there is a newer tablet with the same chipset that has something newer on it to port over.
Still no paddles
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There should be plenty of info here < > to get you on the right track. Not likely you'd be able to get anything beyond Gingerbread on there running due to lack of source code. Your only hope would be to see if there is a newer tablet with the same chipset that has something newer on it to port over.
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Thank you very much for your response. It looks like on that website I've already found multiple useful roms!
In fact I already downloaded one and put it onto the SD card. Apparently for these tablets you're supposed to, while powered off, turn it back on by holding the power button and the volume up button but all this seems to do as a whole load of nothing.
I fear that what I've done to it by deleting potentially sensitive programs previously, I have somehow managed to make this process impossible.
Is there some kind of way that I can plug this tablet into my computer and be able to completely wipe it so I can, at the very least, have a functional tablet that will work at all? I've done approximately 5 factory data resets yet the background image that my friend has on the tablet as well as seemingly every single setting and application is remaining untouched..
Try the ones here that also install a custom recovery: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/33586-a-clockworkmod-rom-compendium-for-the-cruz-reader/
You'll want to make sure and rename the file exactly as mentioned there on the OP. Install instructions are included too. I don't think there is a way to reload via the PC. The right zip should get everything working properly.