Hey All
I have a requirement for setting up a dual boot on the HTC Hero using the SD Card for the 2nd OS.
I've looked around and have come across the Dual Booting for the Windows Mobile and Android on the HTC HD2 and was hoping somebody might be able to point me in the right direction archiving this on an Hero.
I'm not looking to run both OS at the same time, ie not running Ubuntu/Debian via a loop device.
So if anyone knows of any good guides for editing the Boot.img, i thinking that where the magic gonna happen, i might be wrong, please i would very much like to hear from you.
Many Thanks
c0mput3
ubuntu in its present form simply will not run. cmd based linux is a possibility for many mobile devices, as has been prooved by cmd linux on iphone os.
I wouldnt know about how to go about this though.
Speak to kendon over on Villainrom forums.I think hes probably the one to talk to as im sure he said ubuntu is possible
Many thanks Bonesy, checking that now. =)
Status?
... and what was the end result?
There is a thread on the villianrom forum for running ubuntu/debian alongside android though I'm still waiting for a new SD card before I try it. I would link but its still down, any ETAs for it being back up yet, I understand it might take a while?
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Hey Xda-developers. Just quickly, I found this Forum from a few links on other websites (gizmodo, engadget) and some youtube videos of your awesome custom ROMs.
I for my HTC Hero in March, and I should be upgrading around christmas 2011. That's a while, and Android grows fast..much much faster than HTC update my device, so I'm thinking a custom ROM is what I really want.
I've done my research, but honestly I'm pretty much a noob here. I know I need to root the phone, but I've been unable to find any specific instructions for 3 UK, and as far as I can tell all the different carriers use different instructions (a different ROM to downgrade to?), so I don't want to use the wrong ones.
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Phone Spec
Okay, this is a standard HTC Hero on a 24 month contract carried by 3 UK.
There has been no rooting, no major changes. I have done no more than officially supported. A complete from scratch root would be required.
Currently running 1.5.
UK, 3 Mobile, GSM.
No hardware replacements and no known issues with the phone.
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I think that's about all, is somebody here able to point me to the right place for a 3 mobile root?
Thanks in Advance,
Callum.
I'm also on 3uk and i rooted my phone using the following guide:
http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-hero/54802-how-root-install-custom-rom-backup-more.html
Hope this helps.
Thankyou very much for your help! I'll be giving that guide a go later.
No probably m8, SenseHERO is a good custom ROM.
Any trouble just post up and ill try and help you out.
Hmm, if I could ask you to take a look at a post, that'd be really helpful. No worries if you don't have a clue though.
Hero, G2 Touch Android Development >
[Guide] Complete Newbie Guide to Install a Custom Rom & Newbie FaQ [Updated 02/05] >
Page 33, Post 1.
Sorry that link is so bad, but they won't let me post a proper one.
That thread was alternative 2 for the 3uk guide you gave me (goldcard section). I'm not sure whether you'll be able to help me, but if you could take a look that'd be massively helpful.
Cheers,
Callum.
I posted a reply to more or less the same problem earlier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6701261&postcount=268
Let me know how you get on.
Thankyou very much for your reply, but I have already done all of this. I've successfully performed a goldcard on my SD and I'm really close to getting a working custom ROM, but it's dying somewhere there. I have already installed the x64 drivers though.
HTC Sync works perfectly, picking up the phone and synchronizing on demand.
Thanks,
Callum.
What guide are you using, i used this was one to create a goldcard and downgrade:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5855697&postcount=1
The only problem i had was syncing after installing the latest version. I fixed it by downloading a driver manager and updated the drivers for it.
I take it it lets you mount the SD card on your computer?
One thing that might be worth a try is to download the ROM again, it might be corrupt, a shot in the dark but worth a go.
That's the guide I ended up at, after following a link within the guide you provided above.
It does indeed allow me to mount the SD card, everything syncs perfectly. I'll give re-downloading the ROM a go, though. There was two available, so I'll try the other download.
Hmm, I've tried everything I can think of, and nothing is working on this Windows 7 machine. My brother's XP machine is broken, and my dad's away with the XP notebook.
Is there any way that anybody knows of to run XP as a virtual machine temporarily?
Here's a link for a virtual box:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
I dont know how to run it though.
Someone had a similar problem on win7 yesterday and sorted it by getting a new gold card. Might be worth a try?
Aha, I re-downloaded goldcard, and switched the driver to My HTC once with it normally plugged in, then with bootloader open. And it downgraded!
I've got the Scenehero on the SD card now, I'm just unable to launch the custom recovery screen. It will start normally by hitting power, but while the home button is also held it just loops the first hero screen. Is there any way past that, because I need to perform a wipe and flash scenehero.
Thanks so much for your help so far, you've been amazing!
If your all set up properley you should be able to connect your phone via usb to the PC,
then open a command window and type>"adb shell devices"
your phone should show in the window something like HTLK12345
now type> "adb shell reboot recovery"
this should boot your phone into recovery mode.
Hope this helps.
Thankyou very much for your help, I solved the problem by re-installing my recovery. Not sure what went wrong but it worked after that. All looks good now!
good stuff m8, glad your sorted.
what rom are you running?
I'm currently using the latest version of Sensehero. Really pleased with it so far.
I'm on branch 3, waiting for branch 5, should be here soon hopefully.
If you have'nt already m8 check out the site:
http://www.htcdevscene.co.uk/
Some top lads over there having a good time!!.
Just wondering if this is working on our devices? its working on the desire now
h t t p: / /forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=772795
and if so what steps do we need to take to get it working? thanks guys.
According to a discussion on a different forum, a few people have tried this on the Eris but it fails to flash. So still waiting on our phone, sadly they don't list the Eris on their compatibility list. They do list the HTC Hero but I'm not sure if they use the same USB Controller or not. Someone far more educated in this field can help with that.
Googling around a little pulled up a few discussions that appeared to indicate that the eris is a compatible usb controller. But I tried flashing it (one KayosFroyo v32) and as mentioned I get a error during flash... Hopefully someone can get it working.
What exactly is this?
coffindancer said:
Just wondering if this is working on our devices? its working on the desire now
h t t p: / /forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=772795
and if so what steps do we need to take to get it working? thanks guys.
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According to the PSFreedom compatibility chart development for the Eris is "In Progress." It appears that a custom kernel will have to be built to support the exploit, presumably not too difficult.
coffindancer said:
Just wondering if this is working on our devices? its working on the desire now
h t t p: / /forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=772795
and if so what steps do we need to take to get it working? thanks guys.
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well from what i read from the github tracker @ http://github.com/kakaroto/PSFreedom
he says: This linux kernel module should work on the N900 (RX51 machine).
It uses the musb driver to access the address of the usb and modify it.
If you want to port this, have a look at psfreedom_machine.c and implement the
missing functions for your device. Make it compile-time #ifdef and modify
the Makefile.
To compile, type 'make' inside scratchbox.
dont know how to do this just hoping this will help someone with porting it
UPDATE: just found a small how-to on how to port it if anyone understands this and/or how to do it all ps3+eris owners will forever be in your debt
Q: How can I port it to a new device.
A: Well, first, you need to figure out what controller your device uses, in the case of the N900, it’s ‘musb’..
Then go to the driver code for that controller (probably in drivers/usb/gadget) and look for ‘SET_ADDRESS’. In the case of musb, it was in drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget_ep0.c. In there it was setting the address to the USB device, so just copy that code into the psfreedom_machine.c to allow setting the address, and add a similar function to be able to retreive the address.
Then add a function to return 0 or 1 depending on whether the controller supports HIGH, FULL or LOW speed mode (go to usb_gadget_register_driver for your controller, and in the first lines, it should validate the speed argument, it will tell you which ones are acceptable), set LOW speed mode to return TRUE only if FULL speed isn’t available .
Finally, add a function to return the endpoint names.. it will usually be something like ‘epXin’ and ‘epXout’ (where X is the endpoint number), or “epXin-bulk”, etc.. look at how the driver initializes its endpoints or grep for “->name” in the file to find where it sets it…
Edit: the controller the eris uses is MSM72K
any new developments on this? i see it's now listed on the PSfreedom compatibility list as in progress.
h t t p://psfreedom.com/wiki/index.php?title=Device_compatibility_list
As of this morning the website psfreedom.com is not available as well as the link for the chart is broken. I did many tests with my eris, using a CM6 Froyo rom to Other roms that were ported from other phones with different pse-enable zips. The best I was able to get to was the boot screen with the 3 skateboard androids. That setup was a CM6 2.2 rom with the zip files for the HTC Wildfire. Every other setup the zip failed to flash thru recovery. Thats the best I got so far.
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cant sleep so I tried to get onto psfreedom website and it is back up. It has been ported to the motorla droid. hopefully soon we will be so lucky
posted in another thread but here it is again.
I dont think we will be seeing this on the eris for sometime as the USB driver used is actually the msm_hsusb driver. This was verified last night when i was in #psfreedom where someone was trying to get psfreedom on an eris and kept running into a problem and it turned out to be because of the msm_husb driver was in use. so until that msm_husb driver is working with psfreedom we are probably SOL.
This is now working on the Eris i tested it for the dev waiting for him to officially release it should be this afternoon.
If what your saying is true I will name my children after you and the dev LOL
Sent from my Eris using XDA App
For the love of humanity don't.
Any way you can list what you did try and where I can get the files needed to try this myself... maybe with instructions on how? I very much want to try this and have been patiently waiting for days now.
http://psfreedom.com/wiki/Device_compatibility_list
have fun guys all credit goes to the Dev rgov and the other devs working on psfreedom
I've carefully read the directions on the PSFreedom Wiki site for Droid Eris. My first question is this:
How can I achieve S-off in the bootloader? My Eris is rooted and I am currently running KaosFroyo v34. When I reboot to bootloader, it shows S-on and I cannot fastboot.
yeah i had the same exact issue that's why i made the note in the wiki. i essentially had to go through and redo the root following jcases post here.
hope it's not against the rules to link this......
http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/121597-how-install-engineering-bootloader.html
Trying now... will keep you updated. Thank you.
Question: Since my phone is already rooted, do I just start at step 6 and flash PB00IMG.zip? To be honest, these directions are kinda confusing to me. I tried this method months ago and was never able to fastboot... maybe I am doing something wrong. coffindancer, I appreciate any and all help you are providing and hopefully you can assist me in getting this PSFreedom up and running.
i think you can start with PB00IMG.ZIP and it will go ahead and reflash the boot loader so it's S-OFF im not positive though. Im a freak and just followed the steps pretty much step by step maybe someone with more experience can explain it better.
So even though you were already rooted, did you still flash the engtools.zip? Or did you skip step 2?
skipped step 2 i believe.
also the dev is redoing the wiki so if you don't see the link for the files just be patient.
Just like the title says I have Ubuntu installed on my computer therefor I can't use the posted methods for flashing a new splash screen (3 skating Androids) to my Eris.
For the record I do have s-off and the sdk installed.
Flame me if you must but my search for an answer to this has brought nothing up to help.
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wildstang83 said:
Just like the title says I have Ubuntu installed on my computer therefor I can't use the posted methods for flashing a new splash screen (3 skating Androids) to my Eris.
For the record I do have s-off and the sdk installed.
Flame me if you must but my search for an answer to this has brought nothing up to help.
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check the last post on that topic I posted my findings, if you are an avid user of Ubuntu you should be able to figure it out, I found it much easier using adb on Ubuntu than I did on windows but thats just me...
I do appreciate your help. Those post you led me to from what I could tell only pertained to setting up adb. I didn't see anything in there about flashing my splash screen in Ubuntu.
Actually I'm better at Windows than Linux. I was only on Ubuntu because I was under the impression that roms could only be cooked on Linux. I found out that was not the case so as much as I liked using Ubuntu I just decided to go back to Windows. Everything is back to normal and I have my splash screen flashed now. It just stinks because I have two PCs, a laptop and a desktop. The laptop finally crashed with a bad HD the other day and it was under Win7 Ultimate and my desktop was The Ubuntu machine that I was using for cooking and what not. But oh well, I suppose if Linux is needed again I'll just dual boot.
Also before someone gets upset with the double thread post, I normally only ask questions in threads that are already posted and pertain to what I'm doing. Then I thought about it and thought it would be a good idea to start this thread just incase I found a good block of instruction. That way I could post my findings here. Even though I didn't find a way that worked for me (Flash splash screen from Ubuntu) if I do I'll put it in this thread so as not to waste space and hopefully help somebody else.
Hi there,
I've recently dove into ROM Development for my Evo due to a weird issue that I'm seeing on my device. This issue is also seen on many other devices from tablets to the nexus one. I seem to be one of the only few that's seeing it on the Evo, and the general community doesn't have enough knowledge to assist. I'm hoping someone will know some ideas to try from a cooking standpoint to see if I can fix this for my particular situation and maybe help out the others that are grasping for a fix from Google and aren't getting one.
In my situation, ADB ONLY works on the initial base release of FroYo from Sprint with regards to HTC Sense-based roms. When Sprint released their second updated base, 3.28.651.1, ADB was/is broken. I can get ADB to work in Recovery as well as ANY AOSP rom, so I'm thinking the culprit might be the Kernel (g3a8614e and onwards) and/or the base version.
USB Debugging does not work because the ADBD process is not running. See this Google bug for what the Nexus users are seeing:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9437
I'm very knowledgeable, and have tried so many rom and kernel combos it's disgusting YES, I've turned on USB Debugging. the ADBD process does not run, and throws a segmentation fault whenever you try to start it. I've checked my properties file to make sure the service.persist is enabled, yada yada.
I've torn apart the kernel from that initial release and paired it with a later base. The ADBD process then runs, but ADB still doesn't work. I've also, like other users in that link, have pulled out an ADBD process from the working one, and that also does not work, although it too makes the ADBD process function again inside the ROM.
So my questions are:
Can anyone explain what might be causing the ADBD process to be blocked? There's not much documentation out there on it. What part of the ROM build controls all of that? My initial thought was the boot.img, and I've messed around with that, diff'ing an older working ROM with a newer one to no avail.
Can anyone suggest something to try, or a technique to frankenstein something that might work? I'm an Android dev, and I can't put my in process app on my phone and test it because ADB simply doesn't work. My app uses the camera, so I need my phone instead of the emulator. I'd rather not flash an old rom or AOSP rom, because I'm really trying to figure out what's going on!!!
Thank you so much in advance for any assistance you can provide. If you can help me figure this out, I'll gladly send you a donation!
BTW, this subforum is amazing! I stumbled onto it looking for a better way to pack and unpack boot images.
So lately ive been useing the android emulator trying to become familiar with it how to set it up useing eclipse, adb, rooting, flashing roms, and what are good Roms. So currently ive been useing genymotion because it seems to run the fastest and has some really good features such as the ability to fake your GPS device into thinking your in any country and i found a genymotion that runs Gapps already rooted. Issues that im currently having atm is i want to try out flashing some roms but when i go through the process of trying to put it in download mode all genymotion ever does is just reboot itself. Ive started trying to use the android SDK now but its always so slow and i cant use intel haxm because im guessing my computer is amd so it wont allow me to install it. other than that i have a feeling its going to work just like genymotion because it is based on same type of system. does anyone have some tips or insight that could help me out? Id like to learn all about this stuff and i think im doing pretty well. I feel i have a much better understanding of processes behind phones now alot more also. i have no idea what i will do with the knowledge maybe ill try programming again like i did when i was younger or hacking or something. Thanks for reading i hope someone has insight or information that could help me out.