Android on Omnia II - i8000 (18.04.2011)

[Guest Sinistersky]

I don't understand why you all ppl call one day of battery usage "great" and I also don't understand why you are recharging the phone every day on windows mobile. I get at least 4..5 days with normal use...phone calls, alarms, events reminder, calendar...etc.

4.5 days in WinMo with usage? are you carrying a power plant with yourself secretly in your pocket? :huh: Cuz, otherwise,that is pure bullshit

Edited February 26, 2011 by Sinistersky

[Guest shoarmabakpao]

4.5 days in WinMo with usage? are you carrying a power plant with yourself secretly in your pocket? :huh: Cuz, otherwise,that is pure bullshit

I can actually achieve over 5 days on windows mobile with NO useage of internet/musicplayer and have a phone call for maximum 5minutes+text maximum 5 times a day. I achieved this last week when I was staying over at my uncle and forgot my charger. It lasted long enough and I recharged it when I got home AND it did not shut down because it had still 10% battery left, if I do the same on android I would get easily 3-4 days too...

[Guest Kapica]

I can actually achieve over 5 days on windows mobile with NO useage of internet/musicplayer and have a phone call for maximum 5minutes+text maximum 5 times a day. I achieved this last week when I was staying over at my uncle and forgot my charger. It lasted long enough and I recharged it when I got home AND it did not shut down because it had still 10% battery left, if I do the same on android I would get easily 3-4 days too...

first u are going OFFTOPIC

Second, thats just bs... wow u got battery hold for 5 days, only thing u couldnt use the phone ...LOL..

[Guest shoarmabakpao]

first u are going OFFTOPIC

Second, thats just bs... wow u got battery hold for 5 days, only thing u couldnt use the phone ...LOL..

That's what the other dude said, I just said I could do the same, all of you guys too...

Normal use would last me 1 day in android, same goes for winmo..

[Guest alexovy]

first u are going OFFTOPIC

Second, thats just bs... wow u got battery hold for 5 days, only thing u couldnt use the phone ...LOL..

first...have a little respect...don't call what people say "bs". I personally have no reason to lie. We all know that android have serious problem with the battery drain.

second...one more time: without wifi, radio, only data to update weather, without gps, and couple phone calls per day...couple minutes per phone call...I can get at least 4 days. I don't think that is "couldn't use the phone". The other things like wifi, gps, and radio I don't use every day because I don't need it. I work with computers every day...at least 10 h/day...I don't need wifi or radio on my mobile phone. So this how I know for how long it is lasting without them.

Now...with android I don't get more than 48 h with this kind of usage.

You do the math.

Edited February 26, 2011 by alexovy

[Guest emptyara]

OK..enough with out of topic argument.. :huh:

After 2 days testing android using in ext4 android, I share my result here. I'd got several error each boot. sometime i got kernel panic, sometime I saw the linux boot line on top of android wallpaper while it running, sleep of death.. :) but, am sure this can be fix soon..by the way, I followed jimmad step..

[Guest shoarmabakpao]

OK..enough with out of topic argument.. :)

After 2 days testing android using in ext4 android, I share my result here. I'd got several error each boot. sometime i got kernel panic, sometime I saw the linux boot line on top of android wallpaper while it running, sleep of death.. :P but, am sure this can be fix soon..by the way, I followed jimmad step..

So your ext4 doesn't work properly atm. My Ext2 from sd card is also acting a little bit up now. I get now everytime I boot into android the set-up procedure but I can skip that just by pressing the home button. That's the only weird thing I encounterd so far on Ext2. No sleep of death's. I just installed those STU 2d/3d drivers and gruven's cpu 1.3 with jit lib and that's it. No crazy things done on my set-up.

1 question, what's the average cpu temperatue of your phone? (SetCPU will show it) Mines hitting the 40 degrees after using it on an hardcore level, but if I don't use it at al it still hits the 30-35 degrees.

Mabey this is because my phone went on a swim last summer in Turkye but who know's, if your phone tells the same then I don't have to worry :huh:

[Guest alexovy]

So your ext4 doesn't work properly atm. My Ext2 from sd card is also acting a little bit up now. I get now everytime I boot into android the set-up procedure but I can skip that just by pressing the home button. That's the only weird thing I encounterd so far on Ext2. No sleep of death's. I just installed those STU 2d/3d drivers and gruven's cpu 1.3 with jit lib and that's it. No crazy things done on my set-up.

1 question, what's the average cpu temperatue of your phone? (SetCPU will show it) Mines hitting the 40 degrees after using it on an hardcore level, but if I don't use it at al it still hits the 30-35 degrees.

Mabey this is because my phone went on a swim last summer in Turkye but who know's, if your phone tells the same then I don't have to worry :huh:

Where do you see the CPU Temp? I see only battery temp. in the Info Tab.

[Guest jimmad]

my phone is very stable i don't have sleep of death

only 3 or 4 times it didn't boot correctly cause

i keep play around with 3dlibs

but i think none of this matter cause as i saw

in project page beta3 is one the way :huh:

Edited February 26, 2011 by jimmad

[Guest alexovy]

on the other hand, I have been using the ext4 android also...for the last 2 days.

I have just made the ext4 partition on the SD and unpack everything there. In the first couple of hours I got only SOD, for like 5 times. After that It worked like a charm. I don't know what happened.

The key mapping is working.

Everything is ok so far..for the last 24 hours.

I hope I won't get any corrupt files again "no init found" or whatever. I installed it on ext2 SD 4 times already.

[Guest mkmkwong]

Share to who using Ext4 & O2 have freeze & sleep death issue

Now I'm using Korea zImage (page 171) with running 188k Haret.exe (using inside o2beta folder) & no more sleep death & freeze

However, it can't charge the battery in Android.

I use spare battery to solve this problem.

[Guest TIEfighter]

the last 20-50 pages of this thread just make me smile. Instead of helping (and waiting for) the great developers to fix the remaining issues, people try the strangest stuff to make their beta work better. They put in different file systems, kernels, installation methods, SD cards and so on...

Now don´t get me wrong, I think it´s cool that everyone tries to find ways to make android more stable.

But I get the feeling that this is not really helping the development at all.

In my opinion it would be better to just use the official method of installing and maybe the my storage-installation, and to just report the errors that occur. If e.g. the file system gets corrupted, there´s probably a reason for it and the developers surely want to find out about it. So just install it again and see if/how you can reproduce this error from a clean install, then report it. That helps more - in my opinion - than chaning the filesystem, adding an entirely different kernel etc. Because if you do the latter, you will most likely run into problems that users of the normal installation don´t have, and the developers have look for errors that shouldn´t even be there.

So just have a little patience, the devs know what they´re doing, and don´t experiment around too much, cause I´m pretty sure that´s not too helpful

[Guest shoarmabakpao]

Where do you see the CPU Temp? I see only battery temp. in the Info Tab.

Yes you are right. My mistake, I never watched there. I just watched the widget of it and I tought it would be the CPU temps. Well I just booted up android and my battery temp is right now 23 degree's which is very low I think. Never saw it that low on my phone.

[Guest thew0lf]

the last 20-50 pages of this thread just make me smile. Instead of helping (and waiting for) the great developers to fix the remaining issues, people try the strangest stuff to make their beta work better. They put in different file systems, kernels, installation methods, SD cards and so on...

Now don´t get me wrong, I think it´s cool that everyone tries to find ways to make android more stable.

But I get the feeling that this is not really helping the development at all.

In my opinion it would be better to just use the official method of installing and maybe the my storage-installation, and to just report the errors that occur. If e.g. the file system gets corrupted, there´s probably a reason for it and the developers surely want to find out about it. So just install it again and see if/how you can reproduce this error from a clean install, then report it. That helps more - in my opinion - than chaning the filesystem, adding an entirely different kernel etc. Because if you do the latter, you will most likely run into problems that users of the normal installation don´t have, and the developers have look for errors that shouldn´t even be there.

So just have a little patience, the devs know what they´re doing, and don´t experiment around too much, cause I´m pretty sure that´s not too helpful

You are definitely right, I hope that other users will read your message !

[Guest xson]

the last 20-50 pages of this thread just make me smile. Instead of helping (and waiting for) the great developers to fix the remaining issues, people try the strangest stuff to make their beta work better. They put in different file systems, kernels, installation methods, SD cards and so on...

Now don´t get me wrong, I think it´s cool that everyone tries to find ways to make android more stable.

But I get the feeling that this is not really helping the development at all.

In my opinion it would be better to just use the official method of installing and maybe the my storage-installation, and to just report the errors that occur. If e.g. the file system gets corrupted, there´s probably a reason for it and the developers surely want to find out about it. So just install it again and see if/how you can reproduce this error from a clean install, then report it. That helps more - in my opinion - than chaning the filesystem, adding an entirely different kernel etc. Because if you do the latter, you will most likely run into problems that users of the normal installation don´t have, and the developers have look for errors that shouldn´t even be there.

So just have a little patience, the devs know what they´re doing, and don´t experiment around too much, cause I´m pretty sure that´s not too helpful

I agree with you

[Guest igorbr]

the last 20-50 pages of this thread just make me smile. Instead of helping (and waiting for) the great developers to fix the remaining issues, people try the strangest stuff to make their beta work better. They put in different file systems, kernels, installation methods, SD cards and so on...

Now don´t get me wrong, I think it´s cool that everyone tries to find ways to make android more stable.

But I get the feeling that this is not really helping the development at all.

In my opinion it would be better to just use the official method of installing and maybe the my storage-installation, and to just report the errors that occur. If e.g. the file system gets corrupted, there´s probably a reason for it and the developers surely want to find out about it. So just install it again and see if/how you can reproduce this error from a clean install, then report it. That helps more - in my opinion - than chaning the filesystem, adding an entirely different kernel etc. Because if you do the latter, you will most likely run into problems that users of the normal installation don´t have, and the developers have look for errors that shouldn´t even be there.

So just have a little patience, the devs know what they´re doing, and don´t experiment around too much, cause I´m pretty sure that´s not too helpful

i agree with you...and i think this kind of "unoffical methods" could be discussed in another topic, specifc for that...

[Guest shoarmabakpao]

Ok, after having android working succesfully and having had no problems at all my phone just went crazy today. Never saw this. My battery drained from 97% to 0% which shut my phone automaticilly down This happend in 2 hour time. I booted up android exactly 2 hours ago. Left it just like that without touching it and went studying. Now I came back and discoverd that my phone was dead, because it was out of charge. The phone was hot too. Never encounterd this problem of the phone running hot.

This happend today for the first time. My phone also started to act up since yesterday night by starting the set-up utility (I can easily skip that by pressing the home button) and now this happend. I think i'll wait till the dev's give us more information about it and then i'll continue playing with android and reporting bugs. I also saw that 2 people on this forum had their sim-card slot broken, I don't know if it's a user-fault or an android fault so that's another reason to wait.

I am new to Linux so for me to get more known to it I installed it on my laptop to use it as primary OS just to learn it and I already got more knowledge of using .tar's and the terminal. I'm still learning, on a point i'll teach other's but i'm not yet there :huh:

If anyone know any solution to this or an step-by-step guide on getting android on Ext4 partition on my sd card then PM me.

Edited February 26, 2011 by shoarmabakpao

[Guest urkopi]

my phone is very stable i don't have sleep of death

only 3 or 4 times it didn't boot correctly cause

i keep play around with 3dlibs

but i think none of this matter cause as i saw

in project page beta3 is one the way :huh:

What do you say? Beta 3? Are the devs preparing the Beta 3 NOW?

[Guest kyda]

Dev's arent complaining - Beside they havent told us which 2d/3d libs they are using, from what I can see anyway.

I could be wrong, information could be buried somewhere in the 187 pages

Anyway, openness makes things alive, thriving - Look at some of the controlled threads.

I must admit this sometimes creates chaos but that is a trade of, and I am sure Dev's have ways to filter out information that they want to see, such as the bugs report portal. So dont worry too much.

Edited February 27, 2011 by kyda

[Guest erikcas]

the last 20-50 pages of this thread just make me smile. Instead of helping (and waiting for) the great developers to fix the remaining issues, people try the strangest stuff to make their beta work better. They put in different file systems, kernels, installation methods, SD cards and so on...

.....

So just have a little patience, the devs know what they´re doing, and don´t experiment around too much, cause I´m pretty sure that´s not too helpful

To be honest, this makes me smile. I understand your point but I don't agree.

The dev's started a projectpage on google, which contains an indexed issuelist. That is also the place where issues are prioritized and progress is reported by the devs and committers. Issues, errors and bugs are to be reported there and not on a forum.

I think a forum like this is the place to share your findings, and where users can post workarounds and alternatives for known errors. And, let's not forget, respect the devs

Don't shoot me for this, it is just an opinion.

grzt Erik

[Guest slmz]

To be honest, this makes me smile. I understand your point but I don't agree.

The dev's started a projectpage on google, which contains an indexed issuelist. That is also the place where issues are prioritized and progress is reported by the devs and committers. Issues, errors and bugs are to be reported there and not on a forum.

I think a forum like this is the place to share your findings, and where users can post workarounds and alternatives for known errors. And, let's not forget, respect the devs

Don't shoot me for this, it is just an opinion.

grzt Erik

You're absolutely right!

[Guest problematika]

Does anyone had installed live wallpapers on My storage? using ubuntu (without SD card)? help?!

[Guest mmza8]

OK,here is what I did:

1.Install VMWare Player

2.Download UBUNTU 32 bit version from here http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

3.Install Ubuntu

4.Download & install MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition

5.Take your phone ,go to Samsung Settings USB settings and set USB Connection to My Storage

6.Back up your My Storage to Storage Card (or you will loose all data there)

7.Connect the phone to the PC-> it will connect like mass storage device

8.Open MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition,select the Storage device Samsung and delete the partition->then click create and create 1020 Mb(in my case of 2 GB Internal Storage) FAT 32 partition(give it a name like disk0 without space),there will be left about 1 GB unallocated storage->select right button,click create partition format EXT2 (or EXT3) with a name like disk and select APPLY!->your My Storage will be formatted!!!you will see only 1 GB Storage device in My Computer in Windows.

(EDIT: You can format in the UBUNTU also with Disk Utility ,but first use Unmount storage.)

9.Copy the entire beta1024 folder content on the root of the storage device in Windows! ,not the folder,the content with Android files: ext2.targz default.txt zImage o2beta folder Haret.exe and o2bupdate.tar.gz

10.Disconnect phone & launch VMWare Player and run UBUNTU.

11.connect the phone, it will be recognized like android storage device.

12.In the Ubuntu go to Applications-Accessories run Terminal,--> write down this:

sudo cp /media/disk0/ext2.tar.gz /media/disk/ and wait untill finishes

after that write:

cd /media/disk/ there will be a line like : cd /media/disk$

you must write down this after this line:

sudo tar xzvf ext2.tar.gz -C /media/disk

(edit: you can also extract all you o2bupdate.tar.gz to system with above methods)

And you go,all the content of ext2.tar.gz will be extracted to disk (in this case Android partition) -> at the end of extraction unplug the phone from PC

13.Turn of the VMWare Plater & Ubuntu, plug the USB with the phone to PC again and edit the line:

Set CMDLINE "rootdelay=2 root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 init=/init" to this:

Set CMDLINE "rootdelay=2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p5 init=/init"[/b and save it (EDIT: if you get kernel panic you can try mmcblk0p6 ,or mmcblk0p2 if you have a ext3 partition)

14.Unplug phone -> and run Haret exe from the root of My Storage not from inside o2beta folder

And you are ready to test :huh:

sorry I dont have time post guide with pictures because haven't much time may be someone can make it but it is already posted youtube video how is done here:

http://www.modaco.com/content-page/322429/...8000/page/700/#

Regards & thanks to the developres provided this great work to all us!

Ekremsky

Hi, ty for making this guide. i have followed and succeed every step in ur guide, but im stuck at the last part with the haret.exe. After the display "OK! IPC TRANSFER START..!". it should reboot android os after finish, but mine doesn't, it reboot my old os. does anybody know what is the problem and how to solve it?..ty in advance.

regard

zzz

Edited February 27, 2011 by mmza8

[Guest Sinistersky]

Hi, ty for making this guide. i have followed and succeed every step in ur guide, but im stuck at the last part with the haret.exe. After the display "OK! IPC TRANSFER START..!". it should reboot android os after finish, but mine doesn't, it reboot my old os. does anybody know what is the problem and how to solve it?..ty in advance.

regard

zzz

Had the same problem over and over again...You have to install 2d/3d drivers...

[Guest Pete B]

Hi, ty for making this guide. i have followed and succeed every step in ur guide, but im stuck at the last part with the haret.exe. After the display "OK! IPC TRANSFER START..!". it should reboot android os after finish, but mine doesn't, it reboot my old os. does anybody know what is the problem and how to solve it?..ty in advance.

regard

zzz

Looks like you don't have the 2d/3d drivers installed which is a separate step. Look on the info topic of the i8000 android forum.