Guest MikeMurphy Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) Just thought I would try to help others who have had a tough time getting Android up and running on their system. This is WINDOWS FRIENDLY. install. Step 1: Install Mini Tools Partition Wizard from here, its a great program. Step 2: Plug your SD card into your Windows computer so it shows up as a drive Step 3: Open Mini Tools Partition Wizard and do the following after you've cleared the card off of valuable files. Step 4: First format FAT32, ensure its set to Primary and not Logical. Make sure you size down the FAT32 format to your SD card size minus around 1.3gb for the next partitions. Don't just format the whole things FAT32. Step 5: Format EXT4 partition that is also Primary. Make it around 1gb. A window will pop up letting you know that windows won't be able to read anything but the first FAT32, just hit "OK" Step 6: Format Linux Swap with around 256mb, or 128mb if you're stuck for space. Step 7: Press "Apply" at the top of the Mini Tools program. All the formating and partitioning are queued up until you press apply then they are performed. Wait for it to complete. Step 8: Take the contents of the Froyo Android installer package at the beginning of this thread, extract it, and place the contents onto your FAT32 partition (the only one windows sees) [might not need this step] Step 9: Eject the SD card from your windows machine, and put it into the back of your Omnia 2 when its off. Be gentle, the metal tray slides then pops up. Turn it on. Step 10: Copy the extracted Froyo Android installer that you just put on your SD and put it on your My Storage portion of your phone. You can do this by plugging it into your computer and have activesync initialize allowing you to copy the files over, or by selecting USB Mass Storage option then plugging it into your computer. Step 11: Find and open "Explorer" in your phone's tools Step 12: Navigate to your SD card on your phone's Explorer, then goto the subfolder "o2beta" and run AndroidInstall.exe in there Step 13: Be very patient, it takes awhile. Once its done it will tell you installation was a success, and your phone will soon restart on its own. If it doesn't tell you this, it didn't work. You'll have to read the crazy text. Step 14: Once its restarted, find and open "Explorer" again, navigate to "My Storage" and run Haret.exe Step 15: Be patient, first boot takes a very long time. Anyways, I might have included some extra steps in there but its up and running, albeit extremely slowly. Hopefully this helps someone. My apologies for terrible writing, hopefully its clear enough. Edited October 25, 2011 by MikeMurphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Assis - Skineber Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) What's the real difference between install on SD Card and install on My Storage ? My battery runs out too quickly! Approx 12 hours on stand by. What's wrong ? Edited October 25, 2011 by Daniel Assis - Skineber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ASIDER Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) i wil try it again today.. but when install it on SD card it makes an ext3 partition but it has to be ext4 right? why is that wrong?? oh when i took out my sd to copy it and it didnt work. then i put it back and when i run haret.exe it ask for a txt file and everything is wrong?!? thats not normal i think. EDIT: i think i know what mistake i made.. i putted the files on de sdcard but they need to be on mystorage according to the manual..</div><div>but when i try to run it it fives an error and says end? and cant do anything. whats wrong with that? i just do this: put files on my storage, go to o2beta folder and hit androidinstall.exe ?!? if u write down what are you doing step by step i may find your mistace CHECK AGAIN TUTORIAL DID YOU COPY TEXT FILE AS A SAID THIS VERY IMPORTANT FIRST INSTALL B3 AUTO INSTALL TO YOUR SD THAN REMOVE YOUR SD THAN CONNECT YOUR PHONE AS MY STORAGE USB IF YOU HAVE 8 GB MY STORAGE FORMAT LIKE THIS 1. PRIMARY FAT32 6800 MB 2.UNLOCATED 1128 MB THAN CONNECT YOUR SD WITH AN ADAPTER TO YOUR COMPUTER THAN START COPY YOUR PARTITIONS FROM SD TO MY STORAGE DONT FORGET FIRST COPY BIG PARTITION "OTHER " SECOND COPY SMALL PARTION TO YOUY MY STORAGE FINALLY WILL BE LIKE THIS 1.PRIMARY FAT32 6800 MB 2.OTHER 900-1000 MB 3.OTHER 120 MB AFTER FINISH DONT FORGET STARTUPTEXT CHANGE OR YOU CAN USE THIS ATTACHEDstartup.txt Edited October 25, 2011 by ASIDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marisaleh Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) Have You checked SDHC class 10? It's not faster than that... According to installer - I will do it in my way, no partitioning schemes. Partition sizes are simply mathematically calculated. This is great news Voyteckst, so your installer will automatically calculate the partition sizes according to the size of My Storage. Sandisk is a very good brand, but they don't do class 10 i don't think. Do you know of a good make that does class 10. One side issue, the battery never charges to 100%, it seems to stop at around 95%. Any ideas Edited October 25, 2011 by marisaleh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shockwavenl Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) if u write down what are you doing step by step i may find your mistace CHECK AGAIN TUTORIAL DID YOU COPY TEXT FILE AS A SAID THIS VERY IMPORTANT FIRST INSTALL B3 AUTO INSTALL TO YOUR SD THAN REMOVE YOUR SD THAN CONNECT YOUR PHONE AS MY STORAGE USB IF YOU HAVE 8 GB MY STORAGE FORMAT LIKE THIS 1. PRIMARY FAT32 6800 MB 2.UNLOCATED 1128 MB THAN CONNECT YOUR SD WITH AN ADAPTER TO YOUR COMPUTER THAN START COPY YOUR PARTITIONS FROM SD TO MY STORAGE DONT FORGET FIRST COPY BIG PARTITION "OTHER " SECOND COPY SMALL PARTION TO YOUY MY STORAGE FINALLY WILL BE LIKE THIS 1.PRIMARY FAT32 6800 MB 2.OTHER 900-1000 MB 3.OTHER 120 MB AFTER FINISH DONT FORGET STARTUPTEXT CHANGE the autoinstall does not work for me.. i get the error end? and can do anything but get my battery out and restart.. i formatted the sd to fat32? or is that wrong? there is nothing that says how you have to format your sd card.. i first tried the installation that mikemurphy said. i get this: cant thingy EXT4 on sd partition.. and it aks for a random file in haret.exe why is that changed?? i cant boot it :S EDIT: i will try your method now but how do i format the sdcard? i mean what partition thing? fat32 ext4 etc? Edited October 25, 2011 by shockwavenl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ASIDER Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 the autoinstall does not work for me.. i get the error end? and can do anything but get my battery out and restart.. i formatted the sd to fat32? or is that wrong? there is nothing that says how you have to format your sd card.. THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL TUTORIAL I ONLY WANT HELP .I MADE LIKE THIS MY FROYO B3 WORK FINE LIKE THIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voyteckst Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 This is great news Voyteckst, so your installer will automatically calculate the partition sizes according to the size of My Storage. Sandisk is a very good brand, but they don't do class 10 i don't think. Do you know of a good make that does class 10. One side issue, the battery never charges t0 100%, it seems to stop at around 95%. Any ideas It charges to 100% everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikcas Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 By the way, I burnt a copy of UBUNTU onto a CD and run the CD as a Demo. It was a nightmare, UBUNTU kept crashing while I am in the middle of doing things, so you have to reboot again, it takes about 20mins, and then later on it looses the super user previliges so you have to boot again. I don't think they want you to use it for any length of time, ie commercially. It did the job in the end. Commercially? Don't let anyone you having to pay for it! Why not install it as dualboot? Once you get a feeling with commands, it makes life awfully simple :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marisaleh Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) Commercially? Don't let anyone you having to pay for it! Why not install it as dualboot? Once you get a feeling with commands, it makes life awfully simple :) When the CD boots up, two options show: Try UBUNTU Install UBUNTU Do you think that running it from CD is making it unstable. It keeps crashing, loses SU privileges. If I install to Hard Drive to dual boot with windows, do you think it will be more stable. I downloaded this from their web site www.ubuntu.com They also give instructions on how to burn it onto CD. Running from CD is just terrible as I said before, at one point it will be running brilliantly, web browsing, terminal vi, root privileges, and a bit later it starts loosing some functionality, no more web, vi, sudo etc, some functionality will still be there. Edited October 25, 2011 by marisaleh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voyteckst Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 When the CD boots up, two options show: Try UBUNTU Install UBUNTU Do you think that running it from CD is making it unstable. It keeps crashing, loses SU privileges. If I install to Hard Drive to dual boot with windows, do you think it will be more stable. I downloaded this from their web site www.ubuntu.com They also give instructions on how to burn it onto CD. Running from CD is just terrible as I said before, at one point it will be running brilliantly, web browsing, terminal vi, root brivilidges, and a bit later it starts loosing some functionality, no more web, vi, sudo etc, some functionality will still be there. Sorry, but this is android forum, not ubuntu. Please stop asking questions about linux and linux how to. Get learning linux instead. BTW. Next time I'll ask moderators to remove such posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shockwavenl Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL TUTORIAL I ONLY WANT HELP .I MADE LIKE THIS MY FROYO B3 WORK FINE LIKE THIS YES I ALREADY KNOW THAT.. AND WHY USE CAPSLOCK? btw, only thing im asking for is how to format the sdcard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marisaleh Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 It charges to 100% everytime. What is the minimum charging time approximately to reach 100% when it reaches 95, 96, 97% it doesn' t go further even if I keep it charging for a long time after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest erikcas Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Sorry, but this is android forum, not ubuntu. Please stop asking questions about linux and linux how to. Get learning linux instead. BTW. Next time I'll ask moderators to remove such posts. Agreed. My mistake, shouldn't have posted my reaction. Apologize for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voyteckst Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Agreed. My mistake, shouldn't have posted my reaction. Apologize for that No problem, You wanted just to help. But I think it's realy enough of such kind posts with all these questions. People should have learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Job21 Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 excuse me, voyteckst, but have dev. team found out what causes the crash of camera in some machine? eager to know and help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voyteckst Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 excuse me, voyteckst, but have dev. team found out what causes the crash of camera in some machine? eager to know and help No, just trying to find out why battery is eaten so fast in some cases. According to battery it's rather strange becasue it's strange, ut we haven't looked at it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shockwavenl Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 ok now, when im using the auto installer i get this (error?) first it says that there is no ext4 nor linux-swap.. thats right so it creates it then it says: welcome to android install blabla.. install can taka a while (yes i know..) then: creating block devices... block devices created. creating other devices... linking mtab to /proc/mounts mounting internal storage(mystorage) partition: /dev/mmcblk1p5 internal storage mounted. checking external sd card partitions checking fat32 partition number FAT32: /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 checking ext4 partition number. EXT$: /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 checking swap partition. no swap partition. will be created. Info, you may need to update /etc/fstab FAT32partion new sise -136 --- (WTF?!?) Checkign partition /dev/block/mmcpblk0p5... dosfsck 3.0.9 (date) dosfsck 3.0.9, date, FAT32, LFM open: no such device or adress Error: partition does not exist. parted: invalid option -- 1, 3, 6 (all in seperate line) usage :parted [-hlmsv] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] creating ext4 and swap partitions. ext4 partition size: 1gb parted: invalid option, 1,3,6 (seperate line as before) usage: parted [-hlmsv] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/block/mmcblk0p Could not find valid filesystem superblock. e2fsck: no such file or dir while trying to open /dev/block/mmcblk0p SWAP partition size: 128 MB END? thats the message im getting. what to do about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marisaleh Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Sorry, but this is android forum, not ubuntu. Please stop asking questions about linux and linux how to. Get learning linux instead. BTW. Next time I'll ask moderators to remove such posts. Sorry, I agree with you. This was just out of frustration with the tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Trasheador Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 It charges to 100% everytime. No it doesn't. It sticks at 95% for me too. Maybe it's some difference in the GT-I8000L models? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 0mnia2 Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey, devs. I installed the new Beta 3, on an SD card, using the automatic installer. And it was amazingly good. and very fast as well. Only 2 problems I encountered so far: - I couldn't see my sim cards contacts, and I forgot what was the solution for this (import/export with the android option doesn't work) - And with Wi-fi I can connect, but after a few minuits when I try to conncet to a network (wich I added myself) It says its not in range, the only way to get conncetion back, is to forget the settings of that network and add it again. Any solutions for this? If there are any solutions, thanks in advance and keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shoarmabakpao Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey, devs. I installed the new Beta 3, on an SD card, using the automatic installer. And it was amazingly good. and very fast as well. Only 2 problems I encountered so far: - I couldn't see my sim cards contacts, and I forgot what was the solution for this (import/export with the android option doesn't work) - And with Wi-fi I can connect, but after a few minuits when I try to conncet to a network (wich I added myself) It says its not in range, the only way to get conncetion back, is to forget the settings of that network and add it again. Any solutions for this? If there are any solutions, thanks in advance and keep up the good work! I also experience the exact same 2 problems. For my contact problem I just sync with my google account to get everything back (it reads nothing from sim-card at all :( ) For WiFi it doesn't happen always. In the 10 times I activate WiFi this happens like 1-2 times. My solution to it is the same solution you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Boddish Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Can anyone help me? i'm in linux live cd 11.04 trying to -tar- and -cp- but these two commands reply with "such file or directory do not exist". where should i put these files like ext4.tar.gz to linux find them? any help will be welcomed. btw devs are doing a great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voyteckst Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Can anyone help me? i'm in linux live cd 11.04 trying to -tar- and -cp- but these two commands reply with "such file or directory do not exist". where should i put these files like ext4.tar.gz to linux find them? any help will be welcomed. btw devs are doing a great job. Sorry no help. Read first 2 posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shockwavenl Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 (edited) ok finally the manual install on page 94 works i think.. i did everything EXACTLY as it supposed to be: make the partitions. untar the ext4.tar.gz copy the haret.exe etc to the sdcard partition changed the things in voldfstab and did the commands with the fstab. now it says when booting: Android on Omnia II loading... how long does this supposed to take? hope someone can reply asap:) EDIT: its now already for 10 mins on the bootscreen... thats not normal i think XD? Edited October 25, 2011 by shockwavenl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ASIDER Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 YES I ALREADY KNOW THAT.. AND WHY USE CAPSLOCK? btw, only thing im asking for is how to format the sdcard? caps lock for nothing i didnt care soory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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