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This page is dedicated to the installation of Android on the Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner handsets.
You can find general informations (porting/development and day to day usage) about Android and Neo phones here : Android
There are currently a few prebuild images:
Michael Trimarchi's images with latest fixes Sean McNeil images
To use the Kernel you have to either :
I have placed an older 2.6.26 kernel with Android support at:
uImage-android
I have put up a jffs2 image that replaces rootfs on the Freerunner at:
androidfs.jffs2
As noted above, this installation requires you to wipe out the existing kernel and rootfs in NAND on your Freerunner. You also must have an SDCARD and it needs to be configured with two (2) primary partitions: First is VFAT/MSDOS (16 or 32) which acts as the /sdcard storage area for pictures, movies, music, etc. and the Second is an ext3 primary partition for use of internal Android /data area to store settings, caches, etc.
The first thing I suggest is to setup an SDCARD. You can flash the NAND first, but you must have an SDCARD with two partitions as stated before you'll be able to boot. I use a 2GB card which I have split in half. fdisk shows me:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 2454 996310 6 FAT16
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2455 4908 996324 83 Linux
formatted as
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p2
There is no need to populate the ext3 partition at all. The VFAT partition can be populated with media content if you so desire.
With your SDCARD all set, you are ready to flash the kernel and rootfs:
sudo {path_to}/dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a kernel -D uImage-android
sudo {path_to}/dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a rootfs -D androidfs.jffs2
There are currently a few prebuild images: Radek Polak's SD card images (install on ext3, first partition on SD must be FAT16)
You can also boot from the SD Card using the pre built images like so :-
sudo ./Mntjffs.sh freerunner-v5.jffs2 image/
Some notes about booting android from sdcard :
--- filesystem/root/init.rc 2008-12-15 17:51:14.000000000 +0100 +++ phyce.init.rc 2008-12-19 15:56:25.000000000 +0100 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ mkdir /sqlite_stmt_journals 01777 root root mount tmpfs tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals size=4m - mount rootfs rootfs / ro remount + mount rootfs rootfs / rw remount write /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops 1 write /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs 0 @@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ # mount yaffs2 mtd@system /system ro remount # We chown/chmod /data again so because mount is run as root + defaults - mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data nosuid nodev - chown system system /data - chmod 0771 /data +# mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data nosuid nodev +# chown system system /data +# chmod 0771 /data # Same reason as /data above - mount yaffs2 mtd@cache /cache nosuid nodev - chown system cache /cache - chmod 0770 /cache +# mount yaffs2 mtd@cache /cache nosuid nodev +# chown system cache /cache +# chmod 0770 /cache
Most of the hardware on Freerunner seems to work on latest Android images, but not always perfectly.
If you want to see details of what is already usable, please have a look at: Android_usage
To assist in debugging and to gain shell access to the phone with Android, you can use the instructions found here: Android debug bridge