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Here are instructions and downloads that will have you on your way in no time, to running Linux on an IPAQ hx4700.
Step 1: Download a disk image
Ubuntu light weight X desktop download
Android download currently this barely boots
Step 2: Uncompress the file
See p7zip link
Step 3a: Copy the image to a CF or SD card using Linux
Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you extracted the img file.
Code:
cd somedirectory
Copy the image to the card using dd
Code:
sudo dd if=image-name.img of=/dev/sdx
Where x is the destination of your card. Note there is no partition number "i.e. /dev/hda1" Just the destination letter /dev/hda
Step 3b: Copy the image to a CF or SD card using Windows
Code:
stub
Step 4: Edit startup.txt if you are using a SD card
Code:
stub
Step 5: Run HaRET
Safely remove the card from your computer, insert it in to your hx4700 navigate to the card directory using the file manager then click on haret.exe
Hard crunchy shell
Stuff for the masochist that lives inside you.
Kernel 2.6.21-hh20
Found the source tarball for 2.26.21-hh20 on this link.
I found an android patch for 2.6.21 at this link.
Finally I hammered out this patch that applies smoothly with no fuzz.
And here is my .config file.
Android usb gadget and the low memory killer currently need some love. But without configuring them the kernel compiles nicely
A-Z build instructions
Code:
stub
HaRET
I use HaRET to boot linux on the hx4700, until that day comes when I have learned enough about the hx4700 to provide a ROM, tinboot isn't really that hard to use.
Also the latest HaRET does not boot the hx4700 maybe it is being built with a newer instruction set, until I get a newer version compiling there is an older version in the .img files that works fine.
stub- haret from source
Filesystems
These xxx.img files should be written to a cf card using dd, or sd card if you change startup.txt and the swap file in /dev/fstab. The card should be no less than 1 GB. Gparted can resize/move your partitions if you have a larger card.
I have to admit I don't have a 1gb card to test the img file on, only a 4 and 2 GB card. If someone who does have one finds out that it doesn't boot or something let me know.
Card image layout:
fat16 16mb [haret] partition 1
ext 880mb [root] partition 2
linux-swap 128mb [swap] partition 3
Creating an Ubuntu file system
Creating a file system to run Linux on the hx4700 via HaRET. Rootstock is a tool the will pull down precompiled packages suitable for various devices, from a server. Then install, unpack, and configure them on a disk image file system inside a virtual machine, all without you leaving the comfort of your x86 compatible environment.
For rootstock I followed this guide link.
I used this command to create the image.
Code:
sudo ./rootstock --fqdn ubuntu --login xda --password xda --imagesize 3G --seed tslib,build-essential,openssh-server,lxde,gdm --dist jaunty
I'm still thinking of including gnome-core simply for more function but lxde will have to do as the session manger. Gnome is just to heavy.
Light weight X download link at top of page
working:
the Mouse pad is configured
all drivers and firmware load
auto login via gdm.conf
/etc/network/interfaces is preconfigured for usb net and stubbed out for wireless.
not working:
touch screen - needs configured
wireless?? - I think only OPEN or WEP is supported ATM.
Android
stub- building the android filesystem
android.img download link located at top of post
now if I could just get the hang of making my forum post... not ugly
Nice! very nice!
Marvelous news, THX man!
...i love you! :']
As soon as I found this thread I smiled like a giddy school girl. My hx4700 might just be useful once again! I know nothing on programming... but i'd be glad to help out in any way possible!
Update folks,
I was up all night slaving away at this but, WE HAVE AN ANDROID PATCHED KERNEL!!! its 2.6.21.hh20 with android patches. This means the drivers should be easier to get worked out.
And Android almost boots, I suspect its the generic "goldfish" file system or some other trivial thing stopping it from booting all the way.
After mounting root and running /init, It shows the message "A N D R O I D_" then freezes well not really freezes the cursor continues to blink. but still almost there...
edit - links added
thanks
thanks a lot it's very usefull
Just seen a boot animation, it just got real people... but still not booting all the way.
keep up the good work...seems that this is the only development going on for my trusty iPaq 4700.......
I just want to say thanks for all the supportive comments. It's a real shot in the arm when I'm feeling over whelmed by the complexities of this. I did something really stupid with "sudo dd" last night and boogered up my root file-system, so I'm spending today re-setting up my build environment
All of the hardware is supported but just not pushed upstream but I’m working on a new 3.0 kernel right now for the universal when I finish I will add the hx4700 patches and post the source and message you. But I know wifi, Bluetooth, touchpad, sound, led, and all buttons work in 3.0. And these are the same on the universal and I have these working with froyo now. But I can post my 2.6.36 kernel I’m using now after I make a few corrections.
Here's my form page link
And this is where some of my code and android builds are: link
The common.tar.gz is my old 2.6.36 kernel I have to make some corrections and fix the hx4700 code I messed up and reload it in a day or so.
--I had to post this here as I got a message that you cannot receive private messages.
Thanks!
Don't know why you got that message, I did get your PM.
Could you make a tutorial, step by step how to run android(haret, etc.) on hx4700, please?
I'm noob in windows mobile tools
im currently running Angstrom on my hx4700
but would love android too..
havent tried any of these images yet. but ill probably have some
spare time this week..
/Kyndal
On tenterhooks ...
It failed to boot (couldn't mount /dev/hda2 I think) when I tried to install and run from a Compact Flash, so I'm in the middle of dd-ing to an SD card instead. Fingers crossed ...
EDIT: It boots fine from the SD card.
However, it's rather sluggish at best, and there don't seem to be many productivity apps -- and no onscreen keyboard. Still, it's a start!
EDIT 2: Attached a small photograph for the curious. Sorry about the blur, but I couldn't manage a better shot, given the lighting and the camera's fudged-up CCD.
kyndal said:
im currently running Angstrom on my hx4700
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How in the world did you manage that? I've been trying to get Angstrom working on my hx4700 for months now, without success. (Aside from an old bootpack that literally has no useful programs.)
I haven't had much luck with any "new" Angstrom builds from the
narcissus online builder..
Right now. im running an older X11 build
booting from SD card .img file
Functional.. but ya. not up to date..
/Kyndal
kyndal said:
I haven't had much luck with any "new" Angstrom builds from the
narcissus online builder..
Right now. im running an older X11 build
booting from SD card .img file
Functional.. but ya. not up to date..
/Kyndal
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I would like a copy of this .img file (cleaned of personal stuff, of course). It'd be nice to have a usable Angstrom for a change.
you can try it out with the prebuild images (OLD)
apparently im not allowed to post external links yet...
so go to this address
angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/hx4700/
and download
Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-hx4700.rootfs.img.bz2
Angstrom-boot-2.6.21-hh20-r6-hx4700.exe
extract the .img file from bz2 to a FAT SD card
and place the .exe there too..
run the .exe select the img file. can be a little fiddly on the "touchpad"
"enter" is like in the middle. and half the time moves the cursor up/down
this linux lives in the loop .img file on vfat..
not on partitions. so pretty easy to try..
run these commands to get online with wifi
su
/sbin/modprobe acx
/sbin/modprobe hx4700-acx
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid ACCESSPOINT
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
/Kyndal
kyndal said:
you can try it out with the prebuild images (OLD)
Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-hx4700.rootfs.img.bz2
Angstrom-boot-2.6.21-hh20-r6-hx4700.exe
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Yeah, I've tried the image before - months ago -- but I didn't know about those commands /sbin! I'll give them a try and see if I can get anything useful installed (the image comes without any useful GUI - or even CLI, for the most part - applications).
EDIT: Unfortunately, even though the package manager seems to be capable of fetching the correct packages (it's hard to tell), it consistently fails to install them -- I even tried installing man and nano (one at a time) and was met with failure even though the URLs check out. (abiword took longer before failure, hence my suspicion it downloads fine).
I apologize for derailing the thread like this, but this is the only place I've found since I got interested in putting Linux on my iPAQ where someone is actually *answering* my questions.
It's ok Strife89, I appreciate you all actively helping out, I was out of town house hunting last week.
Maybe everyone here could come up with a "wish list" request for packages to be installed among other useful things/configuring/etc, so we can all help polish the ubuntu installation, and make it something nice/useful.
As far as android goes, I have more confidence in the kernel than I do the file system, as to where I am right at this moment, donut will boot and show a boot animation. That is as far as I have gotten, but still it is progress.
I look forward to working with anyone interested with helping out, so lets here some thoughts/suggestions.
Well let me add mine first I guess we need a clearer easier tutorial on getting linux booting from the sd or cf card. both of these options have subtle differences and need better defined instructions.
edit- As far as installing apps to the ubuntu.img. The usbnet interface is configured on the hx4700 side hopefully, if some one wants to do some googling on how to get it setup all the way on the PC side of things, I think we would all appreciate that. Then we could just ssh in and apt-get anything we wanted to try out or change. Later we could make it part of the download/tutorial after testing.
I've been working on a set of scripts that will install Debian on a running XDAndroid. There are a lot of sites that offer similar pre-packaged collection, but they always seem to include too much (aka 700M downloads) or have files from various places.
I have so far gotten the initial setup up and running pretty consistently. This is not meant to replace Rhodbuntu, but act as a co-existing subsystem along with Android using what is known as chroot. As Android uses the kernel derived from Linux, Debian's GNU subsystem can interface pretty well with our kernel.
One of the major stumbling blocks for the msm72k chips is that it is based on the older ARM1136 (ARM6) cpu, and the current armel distribution targets Cortex (ARM7) platform, which is incompatible and will segfault when run on our msm's. To my knowledge, Debian 5.0 (lenny) or Ubuntu 9.04 is the last supported binary-compatible distribution widely available. Debian is semi-supported with patches for the near future, but the same cannot be said for Ubuntu. While it is possible to cross-compile a newer version to run on ARM6, that is beyond the scope and man-effort for this project.
Currently, the files required to get a bare-bones Debian system is what I wrote in the past 24hr, plus either a debian root tarball (which runs about 90M on mine) or a Debian cdebootstrap-static that can be downloaded from your nearest Debian mirror. Using cdebootstrap means a consistent root image can be made from official Debian sources, as well probable support for Ubuntu or other Debian-based distribution having an armel static cdebootstrap (cdeb). In fact, since I have no desire to upload 90M over my phone, using cdeb is your only way to get your system using my script for now. Please read top part of debian.sh inside the zip file to understand how to use the cdeb support.
Using it is pretty straightforward. Unzip the contents to /sdcard, open terminal, su and cd, and sh debian.sh (along with what's necessary for cdeb). Once you have run debian.sh and have a working GNU subsystem, typing "linux shell" is enough to start a chroot'ed bash shell. I suggest starting off with "apt-get update" and start installing some other packages.
The script should be generic enough to work on any Android system that does not have a brain-dead busybox residing in /sbin (aka Epic). The only "odd" requirement is that lenny cdeb requires quite a few files in "/usr". I solved that by symlinking it to the toolset mount directory. You will also need at least 600M free on your SD card to create a looped fs image. Don't ask about VNC support yet, I need to go through installing it before that is supported.
As for other FS support that is up to the xdandroid kernel developers. They would need to add support for fs other than ext2 before I can even add support for that. Feel free to suggest ideas to improve this.
http://db.tt/pFkD9ou
Update for 0.20:
Rewrote the linux scripts.
No longer allow linux to start without su, due to restrictions by superuser.apk.
Added check command, will e2fsck the image if e2fsck is available.
Uses mount -t auto instead of -t ext2.
Update for 0.15:
Fixed typo for cp tool/data that caused copying of directory instead of content.
After running cdebootstrap continue with the rest of script instead of exiting.
Use mountpoint instead of relying on -e hack.
Add restart to list of commands.
Make sure stuff is unmounted after running script and make "stop" a bit more intelligent.
Change cdebootstrap default to squeeze.
Create /usr/conf/fs* if it doesn't exist, should get rid of error messages.
-- Starfox
Not sure where you got your info about 6.0 segfaulting - Squeeze is going pretty strong on my rhod 400.
Two-step debootstrap ftw.
Well, I've had supposed ARM6 binaries segfault or illegal instruction on me. If squeeze works, great. Perhaps you'd be willing to upload a root tarball for those who don't want to go through with doing debootstrap.
I was told by more than one person that lenny was the latest that properly supported ARM6 armel. My script is easy enough to modify to support different Debian distros.
-- Starfox
I just wanted to give you a heads-up in case you hadn't tried squeeze - it works just fine. I haven't put it through its paces yet, but I did get a vncserver up and going last night just to satisfy my curiosity. Other than some resolution issues, this too was fairly painless.
I think it'll take me more effort to upload a tarball on my connection than for a non-noob user to debootstrap 6.0 on their phone. As far as the beginner, I am not sure that a tarball would be doing them any favors, there's something to be said about head-butting against the installation process.
Good job with the script by the way.
Nice script. Worked on second try, some corrupt packages, not the scripts fault. Its a bit slow with connectbot but using a local dropbear helps alot.
Thanks
Updated to 0.15. Script shouldn't encounter mount-point issues and should create /usr/conf automagically. Updated the default to squeeze, I still used lenny-backport cdeboot-static to test it out.
-- Starfox
Updated to 0.20. Mostly internal changes, but now supports other filesystem types. Also added linux check to allow e2fsck to make sure nothing is corrupted.
-- Starfox
can someone help me, i get an error that cant execute /bin/bash no such file or directory, i installed busybox, what can i do?
NOTE: Due to the fact that the Jellybean build went smoother and we all want the latest candy anyway, I've scrapped this effort. Get your candy at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867579
DISCLAIMER: This is a test build. It works for me, and I spent a good bit of time cleaning up the rough edges and fixing a few silly things, but for all I know it will make zombie worms run out of your tab resulting in your untimely death without warning. If you're not comfortable hacking a Galaxy-series android, probably best to wait for the official update from Samsung and be a good compliant end user and update with Kies... If the death star ever lets the ICS update out, that is.
As Cyanogen likes to say on his work in progress repos: MAY EAT YOUR CAT
ALSO: This is wholly unsupported and I have no affiliation with the Cyanogenmod team. If you bug them for help with this, they will send a laser-equipped triangle-shaped monolith of a hovercraft to your location and decimate anything in your general vicinity with insane force and completely reckless abandon. Well, maybe not, but you get the idea. Don't piss off superman.
First, the bad.. I'm going to start a list of what seems broken:
- Camera. Tablet reboots on snapping photo, preview is 90 degrees off.. weird.
- Google Talk: Looks related to the camera problem. All seems to center around some camera effects issue. Talk.apk from the original honeycomb image does work, so if you need google talk, just swap it out.
Taking what I learned from building CM10 for this device, I grabbed the CM9 tree, which is supposedly final now, and built that too. This time, I'm dropping a flashable .zip, since CM9 is "solid" and won't be updated any more. That doesn't mean this is perfect, as Cyanogenmod is only the android framwork -- The dirty low level bits still come from the OEM, and samsung hasn't released those yet, but.. It's good enough for me, so... Maybe it is for you too!
Since AT&T is still jerking around with the official ICS update, worried about their pathetic "value added" software instead of dropping a clean build, there's no official, fully regression tested radio/RIL combo... So I've yanked the RIL from the Note, a very similar device. It seems to work, but may or may not get LTE at first -- Might stick in HSPA mode a bit, might get LTE, it's a little flaky. May work better in your area, may also depend on network conditions. I'm not completely up to speed on cellular tech so the cryptic debug output doesn't say much to me. However, unlike my work with Jellybean, at least the stock radio works on ICS... For me. If you flash this, please share your 3G/4G experience, and be sure to indicate which carrier and area you are in, if you don't mind.
In Settings, Wireless/Network, More..., Mobile Networks... There is a network mode option. Be sure that is set to LTE/GSM, not GSM. In ICS, this setting actually seems to work - In Jellybean, it does nothing.
WiFi should work without any effort, bluetooth too, and it has the phone app, so you can voice call. Video playback works, audio works, GPS works, and I didn't run into troubles with about 10-15 of the more popular apps from the market.
Tether works, and I changed the tether service to hand out the google DNS server (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) to clients, because AT&T's DNS tends to be annoyingly slow.
I also noticed stagefright (a video rendering library, among other things) refused to play anything besides the base-quality x264 videos, so I commented out the retarded bailout (return with unspecified error) in stagefright.so, because all the better-quality youtube videos just refused to play with no reason, just a generic error (what a POS) - So have fun watching HD videos on youtube, although some of the top-quality ones (1080) are a bit on the tough side for the GPU to render. Ah well, beats a non-sensical error.
Samsung did already release the 3.0.8 ICS kernel, for the SHV-140, which is the same hardware with a different radio.. That kernel, in it's .config, has an option for the SGH-i957, so I built that and stuffed resulting kernel binary into boot.img, and packed that into the zip. boot.img also enables early ADB, so you can adb shell into it even if the framework completely shats itself, which it sure did before I got the proper production-level Adreno 220 drivers straight from qualcomm into the build. So the main advantage of this build over jellybean right now is an official Samsung kernel built from their unmodified source code and official release Qualcomm GPU driver binaries.
I also changed apns-conf.xml to use the proper "Broadband" APN for AT&T LTE data-only, as is usually sold with these tablets.
To get this going, start with TWRP recovery -- if you don't have it already, visit that thread in this forum and get yourself hooked up, drop the zip in /sdcard, boot into recovery and..
1) Make a complete TWRP backup before you do anything further! (of course)
2) Wipe -> Factory Reset
3) Wipe -> System
4) Install the .zip I'm about to link you to
5) Reboot, receive bacon.
http://d-h.st/W3X
I've not tested everything and anything, and some things may not be fixable until we get the binary bits from Samsung when they drop ICS officially for this device. However, please report any problems you have here. If I can find time to reproduce and fix, you might get lucky
Enjoy! Honeycomb got boring long ago!
Appreciate all the work. I'll hopefully have time to flash tomorrow. Looking forward to dumping honeycomb.
really glad to see developement picking up for this tab!
I never use the camera or the 4G. I'm gonna flash this in the am. Thanks!
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Flashed and currently running this build. Looks stable enough so far, a couple of FC's but definitely manageable. I know this far fetched but once CM9 gets more stable, will we be able to start porting cm9 based roms? Or can we only port roms created for devices with similar CPU/structures/etc?
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This is great, thanks for the build. Working great for a 1st edition. From a few minutes playing with it, I noticed that vibrate doesn't work nor does MTP (drivers refuse to install). Not deal breakers and I'm going to use this as my main OS - much better than honeycomb.
I can confirm that this is working very well on rogers, havent tested all functions but my tablet is now 10 times better, currently running Apex launcher. Dont forget to flash gapps for ics....
Something is up with package manager, can't install xda app
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Confirming difficulty with package manager, for both side loading and loading from the Google Play App. However, if I load from the Google Play website the installation works.
Other than that I'm very impressed by the quality and stability of what you've built here - many thanks.
My package installer seems to work just fine.
70ish apps from the play store installed fine, and a dozen or so non market apps.
Ive had some good success with this rom and my apps are installing as well. I do have a situation where I tried using an update to rom manager and it seemed to have broke my recovery and I cant get it back! I would like to try using twrp and how do I install it? I would flash through odin but I don't have the file :crying:
cottageboy said:
Ive had some good success with this rom and my apps are installing as well. I do have a situation where I tried using an update to rom manager and it seemed to have broke my recovery and I cant get it back! I would like to try using twrp and how do I install it? I would flash through odin but I don't have the file :crying:
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Yikes! Never good when you lose recovery, that's a bad place to be. I'm assuming you have a working image on the device that isn't locked down? IE the CM9 image and/or a rooted honeycomb image is still functional?
Recovery image at:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/69488769/twrp_recovery_SGHI957_2.2.1.5.img
From a shell, either via adb or via the terminal, just dd (block copy) the image to the recovery partition
dd if=twrp_recovery_SGHI957_2.2.1.5.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
That should solve that
dan-htc-touch said:
Something is up with package manager, can't install xda app
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I'm getting an "Error Processing Purchase" on the xda FREE app?? logcat shows google's server returns HTTP/500
Code:
E/Volley ( 8075): [386] BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 500 for https://android.clients.google.com/fdfe/purchase
HTTP 500 = Server Error
Looks like a problem others have had and may relate to the app caching information it shouldnt?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=30039
also,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695519
After clearing the play store's DB, the google services framework database, and removing/readding my google account, the error went away.
Then I got another vague error, which the following text from logcat explained:
I/PackageHelper( 3428): Size of container 5 MB
E/PackageHelper( 3428): Failed to create secure container smdl2tmp1
D/VoldCmdListener( 157): asec create smdl2tmp1 5 fat {} 10012
E/Vold ( 157): Error creating imagefile (Read-only file system)
E/Vold ( 157): ASEC image file creation failed (Read-only file system)
W/Vold ( 157): Returning OperationFailed - no handler for errno 30
E/DefContainer( 3428): Failed to create container smdl2tmp1
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Anyone know anything about how to configure the ASEC location? I've never delved into ASEC and probably need to configure something in the image to account for handling ASEC transactions.
... Looks like I'll need to tweak a few things in the initial ramdisk to get the asec mountpoint correctly set. Good grief, the freaking thing wants to set up a loopback block device on a tmpfs partition to install an application. That's pretty sad... /hacking it
I'm confused. How do I log into my Google account? Where's "my files" folder?
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ZX6Chris said:
I'm confused. How do I log into my Google account? Where's "my files" folder?
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You need to flash gapps for ICS for your Google account and apps.
The "my files" app does not exist on AOSP. You will need to download another file explorer.
Excellent work so far!
Snappy and mostly stable it seems.
Clicking on storage under settings causes a FC, the camera is derpy as stated in the op, and an occasional YouTube derp as stated in the op.
No hapatic at all either.
3g/hspa+/4g lte all working perfectly here.
Thanks!!
neubauej said:
Clicking on storage under settings causes a FC
No hapatic at all either.
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Interesting, I'll check into that, thanks for that!
It Appears haptic feedback works with the keyboard, and on the home screen softbuttons. immvibed is running and doesn't register any complaints -- atleast that's how it is on my tab. does it not work at all for you?
storage FC: It's looking for /storage/sdcard1, the secondary SD card, which doesn't exist, and it has no error handling for this condition, so it explodes with java exception and the Settings process thus dies.. I believe I just need to yank that definition (for non-existent sdcard1) out of the xml for this package and rebuild, will try that next build!
Figured out the package manager issues, needed to mount tmpfs on both /mnt/secure and /mnt/asec and open up the permissions. That's unfortunately an initial ramdisk (root filesystem) hack, which means a new boot image.
attached. if you're not sure what to do with this, probably best to wait until i roll a few more fixes into a fresh flashable zip.. Otherwise, block copy to mmcblk0p8, reboot.
Been fighting with the camera issue, not having much progress there.
Thanks for the feedback, folks!
when im in my file explorer, where do I find the recovery portion?
im assuming that I put the img file there and using terminal emulator run your commands (do i have to type su first)?
nrvate said:
Yikes! Never good when you lose recovery, that's a bad place to be. I'm assuming you have a working image on the device that isn't locked down? IE the CM9 image and/or a rooted honeycomb image is still functional?
Recovery image at:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/69488769/twrp_recovery_SGHI957_2.2.1.5.img
From a shell, either via adb or via the terminal, just dd (block copy) the image to the recovery partition
dd if=twrp_recovery_SGHI957_2.2.1.5.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
That should solve that
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cottageboy said:
when im in my file explorer, where do I find the recovery portion?
im assuming that I put the img file there and using terminal emulator run your commands (do i have to type su first)?
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There is no recovery partition to find in root explorer.
Just put the image file in your root directory (/sdcard).
Type "su" enter then the command.
I don't remember if you need to do it as a superuser, but it will certainly work if you are.
cottageboy said:
when im in my file explorer, where do I find the recovery portion?
im assuming that I put the img file there and using terminal emulator run your commands (do i have to type su first)?
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The recovery emmc partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p22. The dd command block copies the recovery image (twrp_recovery_SGHI957_2.2.1.5.img) from the filesystem to the emmc partition. if= specifies the image to read from, of= specifies the device to write the image to.
The recovery image is a raw partition image.
You will need to be root to do this.
If you're not comfortable operating on the command line, dan offered a apk to do this: http://db.tt/DXtF5iB6 -- from his TWRP thread @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697610
Finally got time to flash cm9. Block copied the fixed boot image. Running great. Amazing for a first build. Like a new tablet. Thanks!
I installed debian squeeze lately with debian kit.
However, I have a 2GB sdcard, and it uses it for storage, and I ran out of space, and decided to delete some files that I don't need. So, I deleted debian.img as it was over 500M, but now I can't uninstall it.
Whenever I run
Code:
deb u
or similar to uninstall debian on my device, it gives me the following error:
Code:
/storage/sdcard0/debian.img not found. You may re-insert your SD-Card and/or unplug USB
What could I do, as if I try to reinstall it, it says
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You currently have a Debian file system mounted. Start 'deb u' to unmount first.
and
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deb u
gives
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/storage/sdcard0/debian.img not found. You may re-insert your SD-Card and/or unplug USB
Hey know exactly what ya are going though.
First off if the debian.img has been deleted, then deb u isn't going to help as its trying to unmount something that is gone.
Instead reboot your device and either rerun the install with the
/sdcard/download/debian-kit*
or run
/data/local/deb/uninstall
to uninstall the package from the devices' internal memory and start from scratch
or run
/data/local/deb/mk-debian -h
from where you are currently to make a brand new img on your sdcard.
Mainly read the readme that came with debian kit or wait a few days as I'm currently writing a guide that should clear up most of the issues that I've seen.
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Hey its been awile and didn't hear anything back from you so I hope you got it solved.
If not the draft to my debian kit guide is in my signature. Feel free to question and coment. I'll be posting up on the forems here once I get back to my computer so that I can keep the formatting and stuff clean.
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"it never hurts to help"
link to guide for Debian Kit I'm working on for you.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssVeIhdBuuy8CtpBP1lWgUkG6fR6oHxP20ToYPPw6zI/edit?usp=sharing
It works well thanks
abiolaxpac said:
It works well thanks
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Good and welcome
I've stayed busy making new content and scripts for adding more features, link update in signature sums it up, if you've got any requests feel free to post them. I've a few things to wrap up and some new projects to start/finish; Android to Android rooting, Android to Android 3g/4g communications, cloud services, and adaptive 3D sound playback.
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Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey
Hi, I've just got the new nexus 7 flo tablet, and am wanting to run linux in android, but havn't been able to get any of the methods to work, and I believe it has to do with loop device mounting not being supported in my kernel, is there any kernels that currently support it? I'm currently on CM10.2 nightly, but can flash any rom or kernel, because the only reason i got the tablet is to run linux on it
In linux installer it says "Can't mount BLOCK part. Did you forget to format?'
The error it gives me in log is "mount: Operation not supported on transport endpoint"
D4rkMagician said:
Hi, I've just got the new nexus 7 flo tablet, and am wanting to run linux in android, but havn't been able to get any of the methods to work, and I believe it has to do with loop device mounting not being supported in my kernel, is there any kernels that currently support it? I'm currently on CM10.2 nightly, but can flash any rom or kernel, because the only reason i got the tablet is to run linux on it
In linux installer it says "Can't mount BLOCK part. Did you forget to format?'
The error it gives me in log is "mount: Operation not supported on transport endpoint"
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I've got the same problem,... Looking around Google a bit, it could also have something to do with root not being fully root like before in 4.3. (Google trying to stop rooting.) Some things seem to be not fully permitted, even with the su and busybox binaries.
It's just a guess though, but you could try cm10.1, because in Android 4.2 Linux Installer mounted and installed the loop just fine for me...
Grtz,
~ Nephatiu
There's issues with 4.3 and installing Linux, this thread has the answer to any questions you guys are having. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467059
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dscblu said:
There's issues with 4.3 and installing Linux, this thread has the answer to any questions you guys are having. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467059
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Wow, this really helped, thanks! Although I didn't really do what was said there, the info on that page did lead to my victory! ;p
That page is for the "Complete Linux Installer" app, which downloads pre-made .img's for you, which apparently seem to work when converted to ext4. I'm using "Linux Installer STANDARD", though, which creates the loop file itself and then installs into it locally, and it has a build in setting where you can choose to use ext2, ext3 or ext4. Problem was, when I selected ext3 or ext4, a popup appeared telling me I didn't have mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.ext4 respectively, so I always went back to ext2, which didn't give me that popup. After reading this, I opened the app, went to the settings and set it back to ext4, ignoring the popup that once again appeared. I then instructed the app to mount the loop file again, which worked, and although it finished with a 'Failed' message, the thing that failed doesn't seem all to important, cause I can enter the chroot now.
Anyway, thanks for the helping link, dscblu!
Grtz,
~ Nephatiu