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Simple guide to flash android on Nand

12/08/2010 Updated with fix permission
TO ALL PEOPLE:
PLEASE STOP POSTING IN THIS TOPIC ABOUT "THIS PART DOESN'T WORK ECC ECC" WRITE IN THE TOPIC OF THE RELEASE (KERNEL OR SYSTEM), PLEASE LOOK IN THIS THREAD FOR WORKING SETUPS AND TRICKS, AND SEARCH ON THE FORUM BEFORE POSTING!
This method erase all data on your system and you can brick you phone so do it carefully.
Main problem: screen
For polaris there are 3 type of screen. Usually pola100 (the old one) use panel 1, and pola 200 (09 edition) has panel 3 but ... not always works...
The best mode to test is try to install and after double reboot you have black screen change panel type.
What you need:
phone (with hardspl installed)
sd card (1 Gb or more)
time
python
Update guide: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/androidhtc/wiki/HowToInstallWithAtoolsNand
important said:
if you have black screen:
reset the device and edit the pannel (E)
with onother type (1,2,3) and retry.
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For androidinstall.tar e nbh look in this thread for working setups. (Choose Eclair or Froyo, Donut as problems with new kernel)
You can flash back windows (using your preferred method), if you need, but it's a shame!

Reserved by me

good
nice going l1q1d.
Make this also sticky.
can you add how to change panel 1 to 3 or vice versa?
There are som nbh file that only come out as panel 3

can you add how to change panel 1 to 3 or vice versa?
There are som nbh file that only come out as panel 3
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You just Download NBH Editor and select the NBH with panel 3.
Then you will see that you can choose from whatever panel you would like, save and copy on SD

sorry for my english.
good guide.
I installed everything ok android
now if I wanted to update the radio?
ho installato android tutto ok
ora se volessi aggiornare la RADIO ?

Download radio update.
rename it to POLAIMG.nbh and put in sd
start with camera button pressed
push power button when asked
restart
you have successfully update the radio

ok. perfect.
tanks : )

HTC Polaris 100 - doesn't flash
I followed you instructions exactly as you wrote them. BUt it doesn't work.
When I power on the device with camera button pressed I see the 3 color boot screen- but that is it. At this point the screen says "Loading" and nothing else happens.
What am I doing wrong?
I have been using the Haret version of Froyo and think it is great, but wanted to go the NAND route. I am hoping it will perform better.
Thanks for your help

Re-download the nbh and retry, maybe is corrupted..

A little help
Hi,
It's been a while since i posted but I'm trying to flash to the NAND but must be a little out of touch as I get blocked at an Error
on the micro SD card I put
\POLAIMG.NBH (renamed from POLAIMG-PANEL1-320-FROYO.NBH
in the \andboot
install-seq.sh
androidinstall.tar (which is not easy to find but I managed
I followed your guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725604
but the bootlog.txt stops at these errors;
...
....
Script finished
sh: 0: unknown operand
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock2 on /system failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock3 on /data failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/tmpcache on /cache failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/shared_prefs on /shared_prefs failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/tmpcache on /tmp failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /system/bin/su failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /system/xbin/su failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /bin/su failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles on /system/etc/ppp failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles on /smodem failed: Invalid argument
I am doing something wrong ???
Thanks for any help
Richard

It's very strange, try another time..
(remember that install-seq disable automatically if install procedure works without problems)
there only these errors? are there any "Failed to format"?

Indeed the install-seq did get renamed ti install-seq-disable and the data.img & system.img was on the sd card....
Tried three times already...humpf..
Maybe I'll try a manual install.
I can post the dmesg if you think it helps??

If you use nand install you don't need anymore data.img and system.img ...
the install-seq install all on nand.
Post your dmesg (with a link) and i'll take a look...

Hi, at first I want to thank you for this tut and all your work It walked me through the proces of getting android on my pola100.
Just wanted to ask what I can delete from my sd card after succesful flashing. Can I delete complete folder andboot? Thx for your help

All the files, but it would be a better choice to keep all file on sd...

l1q1d said:
If you use nand install you don't need anymore data.img and system.img ...
the install-seq install all on nand.
Post your dmesg (with a link) and i'll take a look...
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When I used your install script for the first time it tries to install system.img and data.img on the EXT2 partition.
After restart I entered the menu and selected the NAND option.
When I re-install the nbh and using your install script (for the second time) it is working.

I have the same problem as zeeos, I have "loading..." on my screen but nothing happens. I tryed many nbh...

Try to change sd card or flash from windows application...

Hey guys,
I've followed the guide exactly, performed task 29 first and ran from a clean, formatted SD card.
I'm using the latest Froyo build and have changed it to panel 1 as I have a POLA100.
The install procedure runs smoothly until it it gets to the point where I see the Warm Donut boot screen with animation, but then it stops and just shows a black screen with white cursor in the top left hand corner, doesn't go any further. Is this normal? Do I have to wait longer? I've left it for half an hour...?

Which files did you use?

installing Urukdroid without boot

hello every android fan
i have one archos 101
with a sdcard
i am trying to use the binaries found in Urukdroid 6.0 on my tablet
i have uncompressed and untared the urukdroid.install.tar.gz on an ext3 partition
i connect me on the tablet with sshdroid
i run su to be root ( with the help of archangel )
i run ash , in my .profile i mount the partition under /tmp/u
i update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/tmp/u/lib;/tmp/u/usr/lib;/tmp/u/usr/local/lib"
and PATH
export PATH="/tmp/u/lib:/system/bin:.:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/tmp/u/usr/local/bin"
export LD_DEBUG=all
i have always "command not found"
for example
awk: not found
my partition is mounted with -o rw,exec on /tmp/u
when i run ld-linux.so.2 /tmp/u/usr/local/bin/strace
it seems that every goes well but i have at the end
"libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work"
i am supprised that this lib can be missing ?
same thing with awk and some other binaries
i am a bit stuck
thanks by advance for an help

hello again you give me a good idea
i have mounted my sdcard on /lib
moving ld-2.7.so on the root
now when i want to use a new program it is ok it founds the ld-linux.so loader
but i have still a message concerning a label not found
/tmp/u/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: _Unwind_SjLj_Register (fatal)
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
i have set export LD_DEBUG=all
i have copied libgcc_s.so.1 to the root

last minute it works now i have run bash and i can access files from urukdroid
i will put my .profile soon

http://jeanmichel.gens.free.fr/divers/and.profile

[Q] Is there a Froyo distribution that fully works on a Pola200?

Hello Community!
I've lurked on these forums for what seems like forever, I remember when only about 6 phones were actually supported here, but I've barely ever posted before because I've always found the answers I needed kicking about somewhere.
This time I can't.
I have an old Pola200 that I am giving to my poorly wife largely as a media player, and I'd like to put Android on it, to give her a taste of the excellent OS I use on my own HD2 (Leo) in preparation for eventually upgrading her aging Symbian based phone. She's a total technophobe, so giving her an OS that does not work will put her off the idea in the future.
I've searched these forums thoroughly, and there is a lot of builds that work fine on the Pola100, and the larger posts that try to collect all functioning builds together get a little confused by folks asking unrelated questions, and others not actually reporting whether their phone is Pola100 or Pola200.
All I am after is a simple build, either method, NAND or Haret that works fully on the Pola200 that I have. I'd prefer Haret because there is a piece of winMobile software she's fond of, but I can talk her into using an android version if it's neccessary.
Please can someone simply point me to a fully functional build for the Pola200?
Come on folks, even a simple "No" would help over 100 views of this post and no replies at all? Please?

Nobody there?

NAND (Best speed) setup:
For your android distro I recommend Fresh Froyo on NAND. You can get it below.http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidhtc/files/2011-1-23-froyo/
For your NBH, I recommend DZO's latset nbh. Pick a polaimg one. On Pola200 Panel 2 or 3 should work fine (if not you can try panel 1), and use a 240x320 one for Fresh Froyo. You can get the NBH below.
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/files/?C=M;O=D
And please check this thread if your Wi-Fi isn't working after install. It is below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820683
If you ABSOLUTELY need a haret setup, ask me and I'll upload a custom-made set. I hope you find this information useful.

so this Android NAND will work with XDA orbit 2 as it's Pola 200.
quick question are all these supported with this release
- 3g Sim card (3UK network) supported with this.
-camera.
- GPS
- wireless
- bluetooth
Apppreciate your help.
tri

pl0ppy you are awesome, thanks very much. I'll check and see if this works as soon as I can (computer and health troubles to get sorted first).
I'll let you know if I really need the custom setup, but if android works reliably and well on the phone, I can see me being ble to convert her totally away from winmob and on to Android.
Thanks again for the help, once again XDA Devs community Rocks!

=pl0ppy
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Code:
usb_function_register() 'adb'
thats all =((
but i see the tux =))
i've O2 Orbit 2
what can i do?
bootlog.txt
Code:
** /dev/block/mmcblk0
** Phase 1 - Read and Compare FATs
Attempting to allocate 3773 KB for FAT
Attempting to allocate 3773 KB for FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (14526) not free
Fix? yes
8 files, 3805060 free (951265 clusters)
sh: 0: unknown operand
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock2 on /system failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock3 on /data failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/tmpcache on /cache failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/shared_prefs on /shared_prefs failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/tmpcache on /tmp failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /system/bin/su failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /system/xbin/su failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles/su on /bin/su failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles on /system/etc/ppp failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /data/sysfiles on /smodem failed: Invalid argument
I change the display on my O2 =((((((( that is a problem????

install-seq.sh & radio
pl0ppy said:
NAND (Best speed) setup:
For your android distro I recommend Fresh Froyo on NAND. You can get it below.http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidhtc/files/2011-1-23-froyo/
For your NBH, I recommend DZO's latset nbh. Pick a polaimg one. On Pola200 Panel 2 or 3 should work fine (if not you can try panel 1), and use a 240x320 one for Fresh Froyo. You can get the NBH below.
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/files/?C=M;O=D
And please check this thread if your Wi-Fi isn't working after install. It is below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=820683
If you ABSOLUTELY need a haret setup, ask me and I'll upload a custom-made set. I hope you find this information useful.
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and which install-seq.sh file should i use. where do i get it from
also which radio should i use?

[Q] some questions about the linux installer

hi there
this is about the "linux installer" app you can find on the marked.
i finally managed to install a debian squeeze into my ext2 partition on the sd card.
i managed to get my ext2 partition mounted on boot thanks to this guy after i read this post.
(actually i had to change line 2 and 7 to "/dev/stl12 /system" since im running his script on a samsung galaxy ace s5830)
in the installer i went to the settings did these changes:
install into: /data/sdext2
devicename: mmcblk0p2
with this configuration the installation process went fine.
using the android terminal app i can run my installation typing "linuxboot" but i
get soum mount errors on startup.
so i looked for the linuxboot.sh from the android terminal and located it in
/system/bin/linuxboot.sh
so far.
did anyone get this far and got the same errors?
i not shure that this is the reason for the mount problems, but the file seems to still contain some standartvalues for some reason.
for example theres this line:
export mnt=/data/data/com.galoula.LinuxInstall/mnt
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maybe i should change it to "/data/sdext2" ? since this is what i did in the settings as well?
however theres no chance to do any changes on this file anyway since the prompt tells me that i have a readonly filesystem.
my phone runs android 2.3.3 and is rooted using this file (found on in this post), shouldnt i have write acces to the files?
EDIT:
*sigh ..ve been so stupid
to get write acces i need to remount the system folder as i did in the installation process before
su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/stl12 /system
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16961006
3.3 is out. Please update, and contact me by email if any trouble. [email protected]
Galoula made a huge update; I did all translations and debug. New tutorial, new quick installation guide.
Please update, and send an email if you still get errors.
Do not leave your /system writable; after you have changed what you wanted, you shall remount ro ...

[Q] Adventures in Noob-land

So, I'm pretty much a noob to Android development, as all I know comes from reading root methods and flashing ROMs to first my Kindle Fire and now my Galaxy Tab 2. However, I've been doing research and decided to try to accomplish some stuff. My first task: fix CWM to access the internal SD card. So I began:
I began with the recovery.tar.md5 CWM image. After some research, I extracted recovery.img on my virtual Ubuntu installation.
Next, I set about to unpack recovery.img. Using the details here, I unpacked with unpack-bootimg.pl.
I entered the working directory and sought to find the file(s) where I could solve my problem. Two grabbed my attention: init.rc and recovery.fstab. I saw mount points in the latter and changed /sdcard to ext4 and mmcblk0p8 (which my exploration led me to believe was the internal sdcard). I added sd-ext as vfat and mmcblk1.
Then, with that edited, I went back to init.rc and added this to on init:
Code:
symlink /sd-ext /sdcard/External
Finally, satisfied with my experiment, I used repack-bootimg.pl to create editRecovery.img.
I used Ubuntu's context menu to create editRecovery.tar in Archive Manager.
Finally, back on Windows, I attempted to flash my file with Odin. At this point, my tablet gave an error about the firmware not upgrading properly. I flashed the original CWM with Odin and booted normally.
Now, I really had no idea what I was doing with this, simply using bits and pieces of info I gleaned online to try to figure it out. So, I'd like to know, where did I go wrong (at least, as the reason for the flash not working)? Anyone know how to do what I wish?