tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post1612131556545603058..comments2023-06-25T04:44:44.779-07:00Comments on Thierry Merle: Mele V2.0.4 en_US firmwareThierryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-15581666312573014282013-08-15T13:52:53.472-07:002013-08-15T13:52:53.472-07:00After tyoe make DEV=/dev/sdc, gor error message li...After tyoe make DEV=/dev/sdc, gor error message like these:<br /><br />./mkA10card.sh "" /dev/sdc<br />Usage: ./mkA10card.sh [-b] <br />-b: blank partition before writing (use for dd-able sdcard image creation)<br />make: *** [all] Error 1<br />MeLe4SDcardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16697235242908823918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-28701199271088882532013-08-09T14:36:59.808-07:002013-08-09T14:36:59.808-07:00Fixed. The sdcard version:
http://www.4shared.com/...Fixed. The sdcard version:<br />http://www.4shared.com/file/yKwEw3m9/v205_en_USsdcard.html<br />12802150333d14318f653ef4124bbc66 v2.0.5_en_US.sdcard.tgzThierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-64545015626065406952013-08-09T13:40:41.161-07:002013-08-09T13:40:41.161-07:00Argh, I made some little mistakes: the gappinstall...Argh, I made some little mistakes: the gappinstaller "install" button does not work and I thought the download status issue would be solved by replacing DownloadProvider.apk by a standard one (due to that, the launcher's download status does not work anymore).<br />I will fix that and re-generate the sdcard version... and the others.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-45536885531500791882013-08-09T12:50:51.729-07:002013-08-09T12:50:51.729-07:00The sdcard version is here: http://www.4shared.com...The sdcard version is here: http://www.4shared.com/file/6aFYUect/v205_en_USsdcard.html<br />PhoenixCard img will come shortly (I made also copy-paste errors), I need time to generate and upload the images... sorry!Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-74225750727721406312013-08-09T05:59:28.859-07:002013-08-09T05:59:28.859-07:00OK, I will enhance the script, and release a new v...OK, I will enhance the script, and release a new version of the kitchen.<br />v2.0.5: currently testing. I will post new firmware images within this day.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-68077723192833268392013-08-08T23:49:33.328-07:002013-08-08T23:49:33.328-07:00Yes, I did zeroing in order to make dd-able image;...Yes, I did zeroing in order to make dd-able image; without zeroing an archive was ~3Gb and with it became ~100Mb.<br />"In that case, you need to zero more that 3 blocks of 16MB to have the best compression results"<br />Ouch! Bad consequences of copypasting :). Of course "count" parameter is unnecessary there. Regarding the option, you're right but i'm not an expert in *nix and just thought that if someone has managed to launch *nix he would manage to comment that line before executing :).<br /><br />Do you plan to check 2.0.5? It has been released recently.Spellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919939109914212376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-53694522419326743582013-08-08T01:34:11.526-07:002013-08-08T01:34:11.526-07:00Thanks for the modifications. Zeroing partitions: ...Thanks for the modifications. Zeroing partitions: do you mean you provide a dd-able image of this sdcard version?<br />In that case, you need to zero more that 3 blocks of 16MB to have the best compression results, but will take more time. Best is to implement an option to the script to do that on user request only.<br /><br />1) indeed, /bin/sh points to something different depending on the linux distribution.<br />2) well, libopera.so was included in the original v2.0.4 firmware; I did not pay attention to extra libs included in this firmware.<br />Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-22928839449816855462013-08-08T00:50:33.837-07:002013-08-08T00:50:33.837-07:00Strange... did you wait for the device to reboot b...Strange... did you wait for the device to reboot by itself?<br />All in all, this is not the way we should install the google apps.<br />Perhaps you could get a clue by reading the adb logcat output from a PC.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-45126406727027457032013-08-08T00:44:22.711-07:002013-08-08T00:44:22.711-07:00Hi,
Well, I never paid attention to 5.1 audio outp...Hi,<br />Well, I never paid attention to 5.1 audio output.<br />You mean you want to perform audio pass-through over HDMI?<br />I found a post related to this:<br />http://www.armtvtech.com/armtvtechforum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1541<br />Another technical post shows that hardware may be capable:<br />http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.netbook.arm/3948<br />"I2S / PCM controller with support for I2S 8 channels out, 2 channels in<br />(4 data lanes out, 1 data lane in)."<br />I guess this is only an audio routing issue, but no clue to solve that yet...Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-45843921790996741962013-08-08T00:17:28.800-07:002013-08-08T00:17:28.800-07:001) : tar xvf /path/to/v2.0.4_en_US.sdcard.tgz
2) T...1) : tar xvf /path/to/v2.0.4_en_US.sdcard.tgz<br />2) To determine the device corresponding to you sdcard, insert it, and run lsblk.<br />You will have an output like this:<br />bash-4.2$ lsblk<br />NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT<br />sda 8:0 0 123,4G 0 disk <br />├─sda1 8:1 0 8G 0 part /<br />├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part <br />├─sda3 8:3 0 31,1G 0 part<br />[...]<br />sdb 8:16 0 456,7G 0 disk <br />└─sdb1 8:17 0 456,7G 0 part <br />sdc 8:32 1 7,4G 0 disk <br />└─sdc1 8:33 1 7,4G 0 part <br />In my case, my 8GB sdcard is recognized as "sdc" so I must perform:<br />cd sdcard<br />make DEV=/dev/sdc<br />Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-56227388624016792222013-08-07T23:32:46.437-07:002013-08-07T23:32:46.437-07:00I improved mkA10card.sh:
# function was not reco...I improved mkA10card.sh:<br /># function was not recognized by some sh binaries<br /># more user-friendly (prints messages and exits on error)<br /># partitions are zeroed before formatting (GREATLY increases compression if you dump the image to a file)<br /># "sdcard" partition is called SD instead of UDISK<br /><br />You can check it here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-IhlZyQn8xkRU5jdlVSZE1pbWs&usp=sharingSpellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919939109914212376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-22705803452018585582013-08-06T08:29:40.164-07:002013-08-06T08:29:40.164-07:00Hi Thierry,
I tried your SDCard version.
1) My sh ...Hi Thierry,<br />I tried your SDCard version.<br />1) My sh binary on Ubuntu 10 rejected function format_partition in script mkA10card.sh. I removed word "function" and everything worked. In the manual here http://steve-parker.org/sh/functions.shtml there's no keyword "function" for sh so I believe it's better to remove it.<br />2) File /media/system/lib/libopera.so seem to be excessive if a user doesn't use Opera. It's better to have it in the app's data folder anyway.Spellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919939109914212376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-5248456628178036062013-08-05T20:34:26.855-07:002013-08-05T20:34:26.855-07:00Hi Thierry, when i tried to install google the dev...Hi Thierry, when i tried to install google the device set off when i reboot. What happens?Israeruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04082865773400721111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-30509785271156491762013-07-31T19:41:08.729-07:002013-07-31T19:41:08.729-07:00Hi Thierry,
I have a problem in my A2000G and I&#...Hi Thierry,<br /><br />I have a problem in my A2000G and I'll be very grateful if you could help me. When I play movies, even the audio file with 5.1 channels AC3 or DTS will be played in just 2.0 channel stereo. How do I play 5.1 audio channels, have some way to do this?<br /><br />In the audio configuration is AUDIO_HDMI, does calling the optical audio output and selecting the audio S / PDIF I can play the audio in 5.1 channel ... ?<br /><br />Thank you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468352732803773417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-74056514618210132552013-07-24T10:26:19.227-07:002013-07-24T10:26:19.227-07:00Never used Linux before, would mind write a step b...Never used Linux before, would mind write a step by step for sdcard version please?<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------<br />the sdcard version (sort of live-cd version): v2.0.4_en_US.sdcard.tgz<br /> <br />By default, it uses a 4GB sdcard; under linux, uncompress and as root: make DEV=/dev/sdX (X is the device letter of your sdcard)<br />---------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />1)how to "uncompress" and where to "uncompress"?<br />2)how to run "make DEV=/dev/sdX" and where to run from?<br /><br />Thank you!<br />MeLe4SDcardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16697235242908823918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-30158267585253827902013-07-17T10:55:00.386-07:002013-07-17T10:55:00.386-07:00Good. You did e2fsck on /dev/block/nande. You have...Good. You did e2fsck on /dev/block/nande. You have the nand names in this post: http://tmerle.blogspot.fr/2012/11/handling-nand-flash-to-saverecover-data.html<br /><br />I experienced same issues, leading sometimes to complete boot failures. The sdcard-live version comes to be very handy, even for regular use.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-47016000452346966352013-07-17T06:30:34.272-07:002013-07-17T06:30:34.272-07:00Thank a lot , i run e2fsck from the live-sd on the...Thank a lot , i run e2fsck from the live-sd on the nande partition and all wrong inodes where fixed God emperorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856405580087805966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-44779147541108317442013-07-15T18:09:49.580-07:002013-07-15T18:09:49.580-07:00Ce commentaire a été supprimé par l'auteur.God emperorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856405580087805966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-15893077505158536952013-07-15T12:17:02.088-07:002013-07-15T12:17:02.088-07:00Thanks !!! I'll try that when i get home .Thanks !!! I'll try that when i get home .God emperorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856405580087805966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-5278509479153441022013-07-15T11:38:16.697-07:002013-07-15T11:38:16.697-07:00OK, I uploaded the file here:
http://www.mediafire...OK, I uploaded the file here:<br />http://www.mediafire.com/download/xco43ytnu74nwod/v2.0.4_en_US.sdcard.tgz<br />For your /data issue, you can try the sdcard version, and run e2fsck from there...Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-80914479142447277852013-07-15T10:06:19.177-07:002013-07-15T10:06:19.177-07:00Indeed, my 4shared account has been blocked due to...Indeed, my 4shared account has been blocked due to copyright infringement on "partitions_4GB.txt" (the partition map I wrote for formatting 4GB sdcards).<br />I contacted 4shared support to cancel that... If this is not quickly solved, I will upload the sdcard image on another storage provider.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-24741883090516286562013-07-15T07:53:30.909-07:002013-07-15T07:53:30.909-07:00Hi Thierry i tryed to download the live-sd but im ...Hi Thierry i tryed to download the live-sd but im getting " The file link that you requested is not valid. " when i press download button.<br /><br />By the way im getting some "input/output error" for files on the /data partition (nothing critical yet) ¿is there a way to check the partition ? i tried e2fsck but i couldnt force to check the mounted partition .God emperorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856405580087805966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-68055853123805109992013-07-12T11:47:49.749-07:002013-07-12T11:47:49.749-07:00Of course, here it is:
http://www.4shared.com/file...Of course, here it is:<br />http://www.4shared.com/file/QVVP5bZM/v204_en_USsdcard.html<br />Uncompress, then as root: make DEV=/dev/sdX<br />By default it takes a 4GB sdcard.<br />If you want to change for a 8GB sdcard (you get more space for /sdcard), just change the symbolic link 'partitions.txt' to point to partitions_8GB.txt (rm partitions.txt && ln -s partitions_8GB.txt partitions.txt) before make.<br /><br />-I just discovered the 'spam' category for comments in blogger; your comment was in this category, sorry for others I did not answer-Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-62066308255790991702013-07-11T23:40:46.205-07:002013-07-11T23:40:46.205-07:00Thierry, thanks a lot for your work, I'm using...Thierry, thanks a lot for your work, I'm using your mod of 2.0.4 and finally I'm quite satisfied with the device. Would you be so kind to generate live-SD image for people to try the firmware? I published a link to this thread on Russian gadget forum but many users there use old 1.x firmwares by IconBit and Digma. A live image would be very nice for evaluation without flashing.Spellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919939109914212376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2160359674205752423.post-18734608295115713692013-07-11T13:52:52.555-07:002013-07-11T13:52:52.555-07:00No. the dd-able image is just the same as the Phoe...No. the dd-able image is just the same as the PhoenixCard image, but that can be burnt under linux using the dd utility (bzip2 -cd image.ddimg.bz2|dd of=/dev/sdX), or under Windows using winimage.<br />The result will be a sdcard that will flash the firmware in nand.<br />If you are interested in the Android on sdcard image (without any nand flash), I can generate it.Thierryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002899834211358694noreply@blogger.com