black screen on raspberry pi 3 with ANDROID 6.0 MARSHMALLOW

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fogarty84

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May 4, 2016, 6:40:28 AM5/4/16
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I have a black screen toujour aubout 10 minute, I have a rasberry ft3 Model B card and map these micro sd hci 32 gb class 10, I made Jessie walking on the Raspbian pi3 model
I have downloaded the file on the android http://www.mediafire.com/download/cabo6z8ky1adgsj/marshrpi3wifibt19042016.img.bz2 link, and I'm using win32 disk image to master picture on the sd card, and when I may sd card in the raspberry is my logo with 4 color displayed is after nothing,
she can tell me that it is the problem

more...@gmail.com

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May 5, 2016, 2:32:43 AM5/5/16
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I have the same problem! There is disk activity but no screen. Formatted with sdcard formatter with option formatter size adjustment on. With win32diskimager wrote the image.
What could be wrong?

Op woensdag 4 mei 2016 12:40:28 UTC+2 schreef fogarty84:

more...@gmail.com

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May 5, 2016, 2:45:24 AM5/5/16
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got it working. an other post helped me. The hdmi to vga adapter i used was the problem. Plugged direct an hdmi cable an it works. Installation on a pi 3 takes not 5 min. as said but min.... works fine btw. Thanks for the great job :)

Op donderdag 5 mei 2016 08:32:43 UTC+2 schreef more...@gmail.com:

pati....@gmail.com

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May 10, 2016, 11:02:30 PM5/10/16
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I am facing same issue. Is there a way we can use hdmi to vga to run android?

elsam...@gmail.com

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May 11, 2016, 8:00:38 PM5/11/16
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I have the same issue - tried HDMI and also Pi Touchscreen. I get nothing on HDMI, and I get the rainbow box - then lines on the touchscreen. Would love to get this working! Any help would be greatly appreciated! 
Thanks.

engin...@bifra.com.tr

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May 16, 2016, 4:14:05 AM5/16/16
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Same problem. I tried with marshrpi3wifibt19042016.img and marsh-rpi3-wifi-11042014.img images. Rainbow screen shows then turns black screen and TV says No Signal. I changed screen configurations in config.txt but results same. I disabled cpu overclock and avoid_warnings inside of config.txt but results same. Device could be connecting to my network, I checked from my router web management tool, there is a device which name is android.... after connecting raspberry but there is nothing on TV screen. LEDs are blinking, ethernet LEDs are blinking. I connect device to my TV via HDMI cable.

How was your images working? What is my problem? Are there any suggestion?
  

4 Mayıs 2016 Çarşamba 13:40:28 UTC+3 tarihinde fogarty84 yazdı:

thiag...@gmail.com

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May 16, 2016, 6:50:54 AM5/16/16
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I've the same, I wrote the card 3 times using 2 different cards, there are activity on green led but nothing on TV.

danie...@gmail.com

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May 16, 2016, 8:26:58 AM5/16/16
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I have the same problem. RPI is in a boot loop. Here is a listing of the console:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49903840/RPI3/RPI3_log.txt

engin...@bifra.com.tr

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May 16, 2016, 9:39:59 AM5/16/16
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I have solved problem. Change power supply. Before, I tried with samsung cell phone adapters (it says 2A 5V adapter), results were unsuccess. At the end I tried with new 5V 2.0A adapter then android logo shows. Oh la la.

Additionally, android on rasperry performance is not good enough for multimedia applications. Videos freezes.


4 Mayıs 2016 Çarşamba 13:40:28 UTC+3 tarihinde fogarty84 yazdı:
I have a black screen toujour aubout 10 minute, I have a rasberry ft3 Model B card and map these micro sd hci 32 gb class 10, I made Jessie walking on the Raspbian pi3 model

danie...@gmail.com

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May 16, 2016, 10:08:06 AM5/16/16
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I just tried to laboratory power supply (3A max) and the result is still the same - boot loop. :-/

anhthaih...@gmail.com

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May 22, 2016, 4:14:14 AM5/22/16
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How to install CHplay intomarshrpi3wifibt19042016 for RPI3

Vào 17:40:28 UTC+7 Thứ Tư, ngày 04 tháng 5 năm 2016, fogarty84 đã viết:

Adrian Gheorghe

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May 26, 2016, 1:50:42 AM5/26/16
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Works like a charm, i have succed to install gapps on it, 80% i have no failiure, but i have a question, when i try to type anyting i have a black screen, it takes the input, but only you dont see what you type. have others seen this bug ?

Nils Heidorn

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Jun 2, 2016, 12:24:55 PM6/2/16
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Hi Adrian,
how did you install google apps ?
For me the install ends up with a version that does not automount USB Sticks and of course has no google play so i cannot install anything.
Culd you elaborate how you did that ?
THANK you,

Nils

hary....@gmail.com

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Jun 9, 2016, 4:02:33 PM6/9/16
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On the computer where you have adb, download https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24499762635997533
extract the "system" folder
Open a console
Then connect to the pi with : adb connect <Pi:Ip Address>:5555
type : adb remount (this will mount system as a write/read partition)
go to the path where you extracted the system folder from the zip
and type : push system /system
and last type : adb reboot

That'll install gapps upon reboot, you'll be able to sign in to your google account and have services and store, etc, etc, etc

Adrian Gheorghe

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Jun 10, 2016, 9:22:24 AM6/10/16
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you only need these gapps https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347835438  and install steps are from Hary Ayala
one thing only with google play you can not install apps, you can install from play.google.com, another pc or web browser.

Dani Molina

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Jun 22, 2016, 3:24:09 AM6/22/16
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I followed your instructions, but push did not complete due to disk full

push: system/priv-app/Katniss/Katniss.apk -> /system/priv-app/Katniss/Katniss.apk
failed to copy 'system/priv-app/Katniss/Katniss.apk' to '/system/priv-app/Katniss/Katniss.apk': write failed: No space left on device

Dani Molina

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Jun 28, 2016, 4:50:28 AM6/28/16
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Resizing /system partition did the trick, but then i had to face another problem, wizard is not showing correctly:




Deleting wizard apk allowed me to go on with the start process.





El jueves, 9 de junio de 2016, 22:02:33 (UTC+2), Hary Ayala escribió:

Toxus

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Jun 29, 2016, 1:42:36 PM6/29/16
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This is what I needed to do as well. I was able to get the Wizard to the Wi-Fi setup but couldn't get past it (typing the correct passphrase for my SSID tells me that it didn't work or something similar, could barely see it.) so I believe the Wizard is pretty broken anyway. However after getting past it, you should be able to sign into a Google account correctly via opening any Google App.

denim...@gmail.com

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Jul 2, 2016, 4:07:06 AM7/2/16
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I am having the same issue, how can I bypass the wizard if I cannot make it out?

CJ Laing

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Jul 6, 2016, 3:25:34 PM7/6/16
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Denimvest04,

Connect via adb connect <IP-Address>:5555 and then adb shell to delete SetupWraith from /system/priv-app.

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Jordan Carey

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Jul 6, 2016, 10:54:50 PM7/6/16
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Worked great thank you!

Jackson Tint

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Jul 10, 2016, 8:40:45 PM7/10/16
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I have black screen after rainbow too, but jessie worked fine on the same sd card with the same formatting technique

Jackson Tint

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Jul 10, 2016, 8:43:14 PM7/10/16
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And I can connect via adb think it might be issue with my TV being 1080i only, but can't test it cause its the only one I have...


On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 3:40:28 AM UTC-7, fogarty84 wrote:

wangxia...@gmail.com

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Jul 19, 2016, 2:33:46 AM7/19/16
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I have the same problem! There is disk activity but no screen. Formatted with sdcard formatter with option formatter size adjustment on. With win32diskimager wrote the image

在 2016年5月4日星期三 UTC+8下午6:40:28,fogarty84写道:

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Aug 6, 2016, 12:32:47 AM8/6/16
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I had the same black screen issue (rainbow square issue) and got it running. I spent about 50 hours trying different things, different images, different SD Cards, different config.txt edits and a whole
bunch of reboots and switching machines, surface testing SD cards, checking check sums. Heres what I finally did to get it running. First I looked up the timing table for my monitor user manual....the part that tells you what resolutions your monitor will do.
Then i edited the config.txt  file on the Marshmallow SD Card from my windows 10 box. The parts I changed were only the Drive setting, the Group setting, and the mode setting. Raspberry has a
nice description of what everything is on their site.....I googled raspberry config.txt. I use a DVI monitor so I chose drive one, the timing table that mostly matched the one from the monitors user manual was group 2,
and for mode I chose the mode that matched my monitors highest resolution...in my case it was 1440x900 at 75mhz....looked it up on the mode table from rasberry. Mine was mode 48 1440x900 at 75mhz. Mode and group are tied together so if you choose group 2 you use the timing table for group 2 to get the mode. That being said all this did not work!!!
50 hours of failure was pretty frustrating......and just by accident I switched power supplies to my rasberrry....from 5v at 3amp  to a regular 5v/2a (stock walwart) and it started working.  
So what fixed it? Have no idea. Switched power supply and it worked. But dont know if it was something else I did so I included my changes. Also theres a little delay where it says it cant find the signal before it kicks on, its like 10 seconds or less.
Theres my 2 cents and Im a noob...just stubborn....and I know more about linux now than I ever wanted to.
Cheers

Ronen Geva

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Aug 13, 2016, 12:58:52 PM8/13/16
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I'm sorry i'm not so skilled with adb, could you please help me and describe for me exactly how to delete the wizard?
I was able to install the gapps package and after that i am stopped with message saying "setup wizard has stopped"
Thank you very much !

tony.wil...@googlemail.com

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Aug 27, 2016, 5:54:32 AM8/27/16
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Just wondering how you resized the /system partition? 

wachid.e...@gmail.com

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Aug 29, 2016, 10:59:22 AM8/29/16
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My problem is after showing the rainbow screen, then the ANDROID LOGO is appear but no change until 10 minute and ever,,,,
I dont know what is the problem, now i just downloading the MARSHLOW version and hope there is any change after ANDROID LOGO appear.

Igor Kalkov

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Aug 29, 2016, 11:08:24 AM8/29/16
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Did other images work? ric, peyo, rtandroid? There are different versions available - maybe you should try another image.
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