Announcing Droidora - - - HELP WANTED

[meandu229]

Good news everyone!


Wifi is finally working. Thanks to aTc and notaz .


So what was the problem?


1. I didn't know that you need two kernel modules: wl1251.ko AND wl1251_sdio.ko. I didn't use the SDIO one


2. The driver needs a firmware you can get from the Pandora repository


So after these two steps I finally got wpa_supplicant to work properly. But I still didn't have a connection to my Router.


3. You need the right configuration in wpa_supplicant.conf


Sadly there isn't a universal configuration, it all depends on how your wires lan is configured. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but acitvating wifi via the Android GUI still doesn't work. Sadly activating it via the terminal emulator also doesn't work. Here's how you get it to work:


1. Make sure your wpa_configuration.conf has the right configuration


2. Try to activate wifi via GUI. That will try to enable wifi after booting.


3. Reboot


Now you should be connected to your router (if the configuration is right) and you should have internet access. The colors on the browser are a little off (the pandora page is brownish), but that's not that important right now.


I'll upload everything to the repository later (including a new pre-build image).


Thanks again aTc and notaz .

Amazing I didnt have to set up the conf file or anything just enabled wifi it found all access points round me and connected to mine straight away (WPA) browser works, time to have fun

 

[Cyberworm]

Amazing I didnt have to set up the conf file or anything just enabled wifi it found all access points round me and connected to mine straight away (WPA) browser works, time to have fun

Is that so? Interesting. Will check that out later. Did you activate it simply via GUI or did you do the reboot trick?

 

[meandu229]

no reboot needed menu -settings wireless & networks activate wifi then chose the network and typed they key and it connected amazon app store seems to work a little bit but I cant find the download button

 

[Cyberworm]

I really have to try that. That would be great news indeed. Means less work for me .

 

[Coldbird]

I hai thee.


Keep up the good work.


Will be interesting to see Android running on there.

 

[Cyberworm]

I just verified it. You don't need to edit the wpa_supplicant.conf. Just activate wifi via GUI, search for your router and connect to it . You just have to make sure that you don't disable wifi or you won't be able to activate it again and you have to reboot (I guess it's a problem with the kernel module not unloading. I'll look into that.).


Thanks meandu229!

 

[Cyberworm]

Again good news everyone!


I got the disabling-via-GUI problem fixed. Wifi now works flawlessly. The first green row in our table! . I will now upload a new image to the repository.

 

[SNESFAN]

is there a SD installer for this that will set the partitions etc correctly on an sd or nand?


Similar to the pandora angstrom hotfix installer


http://www.pandorabits.org/index.php?page=sd-installer


&


http://openpandora.org/firmware/pandora-rootfs.tar.bz2


I'm having a heck of a time getting my sd partitioned correctly. Gpart livecd or my cd burner is being a royal PITA


plus linux isn't my main/most fluent os so I'm doing most of my linux through virtual pc on a windows box, it works for most of the things I do, except it has no direct SD card access.


I want to start cooking roms and stuff for this, if someone has some suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cyberworm]

is there a SD installer for this that will set the partitions etc correctly on an sd or nand?


Similar to the pandora angstrom hotfix installer


http://www.pandorabits.org/index.php?page=sd-installer


&


http://openpandora.org/firmware/pandora-rootfs.tar.bz2


I'm having a heck of a time getting my sd partitioned correctly. Gpart livecd or my cd burner is being a royal PITA


plus linux isn't my main/most fluent os so I'm doing most of my linux through virtual pc on a windows box, it works for most of the things I do, except it has no direct SD card access.


I want to start cooking roms and stuff for this, if someone has some suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

meandu229 said he used the sd installer. Maybe you could ask him for detailed instructions. These instruction will perfectly fit on the wiki, too . Sadly the wiki seems to be down at the moment. We'll have to wait for it to be back up. I uploaded all changes and the new image to the repository.


Now back to twiddling .

 

[meandu229]

is there a SD installer for this that will set the partitions etc correctly on an sd or nand?


Similar to the pandora angstrom hotfix installer


http://www.pandorabits.org/index.php?page=sd-installer


&


http://openpandora.org/firmware/pandora-rootfs.tar.bz2


I'm having a heck of a time getting my sd partitioned correctly. Gpart livecd or my cd burner is being a royal PITA


plus linux isn't my main/most fluent os so I'm doing most of my linux through virtual pc on a windows box, it works for most of the things I do, except it has no direct SD card access.


I want to start cooking roms and stuff for this, if someone has some suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

meandu229 said he used the sd installer. Maybe you could ask him for detailed instructions. These instruction will perfectly fit on the wiki, too . Sadly the wiki seems to be down at the moment. We'll have to wait for it to be back up. I uploaded all changes and the new image to the repository.


Now back to twiddling .

Ill try and sort something out, it is possible but I edited the image and the installer a bit, the installer expects a \boot directory with the uimage and autoboot.txt inside, could we add this to the image? that would help alot, I cant remember what else was needed ill have a play tomorrow.


I did it all this time on the pandora using just terminal and gparted pnd. Ill write some instructions for that too

 

[Cyberworm]

Ill try and sort something out, it is possible but I edited the image and the installer a bit, the installer expects a \boot directory with the uimage and autoboot.txt inside, could we add this to the image? that would help alot, I cant remember what else was needed ill have a play tomorrow.


I did it all this time on the pandora using just terminal and gparted pnd. Ill write some instructions for that too

You mean getting rid of the boot partition and moving the uImage and the autoboot.txt to the rootfs partition into a folder named 'boot' ?

 

[Galaxis]

let's be honest, the official OS is hardly optimised for the pandora form factor either. nubs as a mouse is terrible.

Actually, nubs as a mouse are one of the major cool features when I have the Pandora in my hands.

 

[meandu229]

Ill try and sort something out, it is possible but I edited the image and the installer a bit, the installer expects a \boot directory with the uimage and autoboot.txt inside, could we add this to the image? that would help alot, I cant remember what else was needed ill have a play tomorrow.


I did it all this time on the pandora using just terminal and gparted pnd. Ill write some instructions for that too

You mean getting rid of the boot partition and moving the uImage and the autoboot.txt to the rootfs partition into a folder named 'boot' ?

No, the sdinstaller expects a boot folder in the tar.gz it then puts those files from the tar.gz into the fat32 partition,

 

[Blue Protoman]

Is the RAM really that much of an issue?

 

[Cyberworm]

No, the sdinstaller expects a boot folder in the tar.gz it then puts those files from the tar.gz into the fat32 partition,

Okay, I can do that. Shouldn't be a problem. Will be in the next version.

 

[Phawx]

@cyberworm


Great job man. Since you're using Gingerbread, you have access to the gamepad button mapping. How exactly are you testing it if you don't know they are mapped correctly. Don't know if this will help you or not, but here is the reference to assigning the game controls correctly within Android:


http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html


After the performance issues are sorted out, we should be able to play games that are Xperia Play optimized such as:


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gamevil.zenonia&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gamevil.zenonia2&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.angrymobgames.guerrillabobxperiaplay&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jyaif.pewpew2&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.polarbit.RecklessRacingPlay&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.halfbrick.ageofzombies&feature=search_result


Not to mention the Gameloft games that can use the Xperia Play controls as well. Best part would be that the Pandora has physical analog sticks instead of the touch only kind that is on the Play.


Either way, I am REALLY looking forward to this port of Android to the Pandora getting optimized and configured correctly. Emulators and commercial games that can use the physical controls will be awesome.


Thanks for the work man.

 

[Cyberworm]

@cyberworm


Great job man. Since you're using Gingerbread, you have access to the gamepad button mapping. How exactly are you testing it if you don't know they are mapped correctly. Don't know if this will help you or not, but here is the reference to assigning the game controls correctly within Android:


http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html


After the performance issues are sorted out, we should be able to play games that are Xperia Play optimized such as:


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gamevil.zenonia&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gamevil.zenonia2&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.angrymobgames.guerrillabobxperiaplay&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jyaif.pewpew2&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.polarbit.RecklessRacingPlay&feature=search_result


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.halfbrick.ageofzombies&feature=search_result


Not to mention the Gameloft games that can use the Xperia Play controls as well. Best part would be that the Pandora has physical analog sticks instead of the touch only kind that is on the Play.


Either way, I am REALLY looking forward to this port of Android to the Pandora getting optimized and configured correctly. Emulators and commercial games that can use the physical controls will be awesome.


Thanks for the work man.

Well I know the buttons work (using the getevent program in Android). I know they are wrongly mapped (the shoulder buttons actually are correctly mapped, the left one is for shift and the right one for control) because if you hit "B" Android goes into standby mode . Anyway for remapping everything (there's a mapping file which will be compiled into the platform) someone suggested using xmodmap on the Pandora and using the resulting key codes in the mapping file.

 

[Phawx]

Sweet! I think I'll mess around with this then. I haven't used my Panda in quite some time.

 

[meandu229]

Hi guys ive just packed together a tar.bz2 file which works with sd installer (mainly)


simply run the sd installer as normal with this file


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=76CJJ227


after this however you will need to do 2 things replace the autoboot.txt and set the permissions


to do this just replace the autoboot.txt in /media/BOOT with the one attatched to this post and then fire up terminal and type


sudo chmod 777 -R /media/ROOT/*


sudo chmod 6755 / media/ROOT/system/xbin/su


reboot with card in slot one and few minutes later you should be playing with android


I set my fat32 partition to 300 with 0 swap but it shouldnt matter


if someone could test this it would be good this is a image from cyberworms git from a few days ago but after wifi is fixed so that should work,


on a side note the sd installer uses ex3 so my autoboot is set for ex3 and the reason it you need to swap out the autoboot.txt is that it seems to be hard coded to make a default one and not use the one in the package


All done on pandora on my couch watching a film. love this thing

 

[DaMummy]

someone make a video