Two queries about Android installation

Kai Lüke kaitobiaslueke at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 25 23:44:58 CEST 2010


Yeah,
it works with 0.2.0 RC1:
Download the zip-file unzip the contents. Run the following dfu-util
commands:

dfu-util -a kernel -R -D kernel.img
dfu-util -a rootfs -R -D system.img
dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D qi.img

I have no inserted SD. The first boot does not work, so restart.
Great thanks!
Kai



Kai Lüke schrieb:
> Hey,
> does this flashing work without SD?
> http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> See #1.
> Greetings,
> Kai
>
> Christian Rüb schrieb:
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>> Neil Jerram wrote:
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>>> On 24 April 2010 21:59, James Ancona <jim at anconafamily.com> wrote:
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>>>> The installer puts all of Android in NAND. After installation the SD card is
>>>> only used for extra storage (web downloads, media, etc.) Any FAT formatted
>>>> SD card will do. You can run with no SD card in there, but as I recall, some
>>>> things don't work.
>>>>       
>>>> It should boot other distributions from SD. The modification is because
>>>> Andoid uses a different NAND partition layout. If you want to replace
>>>> Android with a different distribution in NAND, you should reflash Qi.
>>>> Hope that helps!
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Yes thanks, it does.  It tells me that I can't switch between Debian
>>> and Android completely seamlessly - but that I can at least do it by
>>> swapping SD cards.  Which is probably OK for now.
>>>
>>> FWIW, my reason for asking is that I'm now hoping to find something a
>>> bit more swishy and impressive than just basic phone function.  Debian
>>> has been fine for me for basic phone function for some time now, and I
>>> expect to keep that as my mainstay.  But I'd love to be able to
>>> demonstrate how cool the FR is by saying "but look, it can also run
>>> Android, here...".
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>          Neil
>>>     
>>>       
>> I had similar reasons to try Android - another being is the browser ;-)
>> You can use an SD only version, which is documented in this thread [1] and mirrored here [2].
>> I have _normal_ Qi as bootloader and Android + SHR on my SD which looks like this:
>> p[FAT, for Android data] p[ext3, Androit rootfs] p[ext3, SHR rootfs] e[ext3 data] e[swap]
>> NAND holds an SHR-U of known state that is functional for basic calling - just in case...
>>
>> What I really miss though are easy updates for Android on SD.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Christian
>>
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/issues/detail?id=7
>> [2] http://openmoko.senfdax.de/android/
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