Android-x86 Build 20091113 on EEEPC 701SD

[Karl Foley]

I'm new here so hi!

I've just installed build 20091113 onto my EEEPC and it's very good:
Wifi works
Sound works
GUI works
Battery charge indicator works
Keyboard hot-keys work
Despite selecting English UK as a locale - Keyboard is still
US format

Installed applications work except:
Dev Tools
Google Login Service
Google - This produces a "process.android.development" has
stopped working message
App Store
Trying to install anything results in an out of space message
"AppName could not be viewed. Free up some space on your
phone and try again."
I have a 1GB SD card fitted (formatted using Android) and
3.5GB SSD space left (formatted to EXT2 by installer)
The SD card appears to only be writable by members of the
sdcard_rw group and is owned by system - I can only create
things on it if I su to root. I am also unable to change the
permissions as it is vfat file system.

I get the following message during booting from GRUB, but it doesn't
seem to affect performance:
"[0000.000000] Unknown boot option
'androidboot.hardware=eeepc':ignoring"

Overall - Really great - If only I could get the App Store working.

Off to try stable 0.9.

[Yi Sun]

Thank you for help to test it.
New keyboard layout is not in this release yet. And I will look into
the app strore issue.
Thanks
Yi

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[Al Sutton]

Hi Yi,

The AndAppStore client downloads to the files area for the application using the public readable flag, so the presence of an SD card shouldn't affect things.

I'm going to get the 20091113 build running on my machine tomorrow to take a look to see if I can spot anything.

Al.


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[Al Sutton]

I had a spare few minutes so I thought I'd give things a quick spin and it seems the error is coming from the package manager and not the AndAppStore client.

The AndAppStore client downloads the file and then starts off the Android package manager to install the app and then the package manager brings up the error dialog. The adb logcat trace is;

I/ActivityManager( 2022): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///data/data/com.andappstore.androidclient/files/283599.apk typ=application/vnd.android.package-archive cmp=com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity }
W/ActivityManager( 2022): startActivity called from non-Activity context; forcing Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK for: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///data/data/com.andappstore.androidclient/files/283599.apk typ=application/vnd.android.package-archive cmp=com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity }
I/MidWindowManager( 2022): mLidOpen: false lidOpen:false
I/PackageParser( 2257): Impliciting adding android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE to old pkg org.openintents.filemanager
W/PackageManager( 2022): Couldn't clear application caches
I/ActivityManager( 2022): Displayed activity com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity: 20 ms (total 20 ms)

which doesn't give a lot of information :(.

I'm going to keep looking, but if you discover anything please let me know.

Al.


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[Al Sutton]

Bit more info. This seems to be a problem in the Android system Package Manager in the build.

If I boot up with SDCARD=premount and try to download an APK from the web via the browser and try to install it from the downloaded files list I get the same error message :(.

Al.

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[Yi Sun]

Thanks Al,
There was an issue where android can not recognize the size of the
file system correctly. I will try to dig into it.
Yi

[beyounn]

I tested following things:
1. run the ISO image on VirtualBox, I can install app
2. run the usb image from my 1G usb drive with a 8G sdcard, I can
install app
3. install the Android into my EeePC from the usb image, with a 8G
sdcard, I can not install app.

For sure that this is an old issue CW was looking at.

I will start on it this evening, now I need to back to my real
jobs :-)
Yi

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> >>> New keyboard layout is not in this release yet. And I will look into
> >>> the app strore issue.
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Yi
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[beyounn]

I have found the bug. In the original Android installd code, the file
system size should be unsigned long long, but it is using int instead.
When the size of partition is larger than 2G, the size becomes a
negative value and causes the problem. I will commit the fix soon.
Yi

[Vanishare]

What about lan support? Is there any way to use it yet?

[beyounn]

it works for me. Are you seeing problems?

[Karl Foley]

Thanks so much - I look forward to it.
I'm just building ChromiumOS to test while I'm waiting. :)

[Yi Sun]

try the latest build, it has the fix.

[Ищезаяц ☂]

yeah. last one worked :) thanks for the great work!

Ищезаяц.
Tibi et igni - Прочти и сожги.

[bhoj]

I am not using android-x86 but I have an arm board running android on
8gb sdcard,I am also facing the same problem of out of space
error.Reading the post I understand that android userspace doesn't
support more than 2 gb.Can point me to the fix which has been added to
android-x86 for this problem.
I would be thankful to you

-Regards,
Vishal

[Yi Sun]

http://git.android-x86.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=commit;h=6a6a5928d09e1206fb6f16e61feb0b097ec0f2ac

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[`nicola]

On 17 Dic, 19:24, Yi Sun <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://git.android-x86.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=commit;h...

same issue here: is there a way to get a .img file with the bug
fixed ?
I don't know how to handle with git repo etcetera
I tried to install
http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/android-x86-1.6_usb.img.gz
and
http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/android-x86-20091113_usb.img.gz
but they all got the same problem with appstore when installed to ssd

thanks

[Yi Sun]

This should have already been fixed in 1.6. What you are seeing could
be a different issue.

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[`nicola]

On 20 Nov, 23:45, Yi Sun <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> try the latest build, it has the fix.

may I ask which "latest build" are you talking about ?
thanks

[Yi Sun]

build 1.6

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[`nicola]

On Dec 19, 8:34 am, Yi Sun <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This should have already been fixed in 1.6. What you are seeing could
> be a different issue.

thanks for the (fast) reply.
I'll try again to troubleshoot when home