Google Android M5-rc14 Installable Image Available!

[cortez]

Sorry for the delay, but I had some trouble uploading the files to my site.
The image files and installation instructions can be obtained from my website
Have fun!

[matthis]

Thank you!! Testing now!

**EDIT: I'd like a bit of help. I didn't want to format my whole microdrive so I just used gnu-tar to untar the image to the first partition of my microdrive (ext3). I then flashed the provided kernel renaming it zImage and with the standard updater.sh from Sharp. So far, everything is good, android boots!

BUT, when running /start, I get stuck at the red thingy moving
Is there something to do, or is my way of installing wrong in the first place? Is there something to do with alboot at the beginning?

[cortez]

Press Fn+Left cursor to see if there are any errors shown on the console, or else change the last line in /home/root/android-root/start from /init to

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strace -ff -F -tt -s 200 -o /data/logs/log-init /initThen run /start, be patient, press Fn+Left to see the console, then press Ctrl+Alt, and while keeping these pressed press Menu (release), Home (release), Menu(release)... until you see a line with all sorts off options. This is while keeping Ctrl+Alt pressed all the time. When you see this line, keep Ctrl+Alt pressed and then press I to exit Android gracefully. Now look at the logfiles in /home/root/android-root/data/logs to see what the problem is.

[zogs]

just red line but don't start window

error:
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

[cortez]

just red line but don't start window

error:
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

I see the same message on my working system, so that's "normal"  

[zogs]

ok it's normal but don't start , I'm waiting for a long time...I'm can see just the red line

[dproldan]

ok it's normal but don't start , I'm waiting for a long time...I'm can see just the red line

  Same thing here.
  I'm getting this errors on the console:

 PANIC: handle_group_exit: xxxx leader xxxx

repeated,  where xxxx are different everytime.

 attached is the log-init file with the lowest number.  there are many after a while.

[BarryW]

Yea, it scrolls errors faster than I can read.   It does install nicely though.  

[cortez]

I'll re-check the complete installation to see what's going on, and come back to you asap with the results.

[cortez]

I see that Google released a new version of the SDK yesterday, which resolves the issue of the incorrect handling of BMP images (wasn't even aware of that being an issue). I'll try to incorporate that as well.

[cortez]

I have an updated image ready, but I'm currently unable to upload it. It will have to wait until tonight I'm afraid.
I have yet to find out what the problem was with the previous image. Really strange

[zogs]

Thanks cortez, I'm waiting

[cortez]

New image is uploaded here (android-root.tar.gz). Please give it another try. Strange thing for me was after startup the screen stays black. When pressing any key the boot process continues. I don't know why this is. When time permits I'll try to fix this.

[speculatrix]

woohoo, thanks cortez, I'll try it on my c3100 within the next day and report back.

[jpmatrix]

just installed on my c3000 ! it works !!!

-i had the black screen bug, solved by pressing the return key
-new interface, which seems much much faster than first version !!!
-no touchscreen working (perhaps it needs some conf file tweaking)
-screen is rotated (is androidzaurus' rotage apk working? i'm trying !)

so far i'm very impressed by the speed, once it boots