Code Shogun

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you elaborate on the setup?, how did you connect the keyboard?, what about a mouse?
I see you used NFS, so how did you connect to the PC?, as far as I know there is not Ethernet or wifi interface on the beagle. I assume only on USB interface, so how all of those interfaces were connected?.
If you used USB hub, then what is the power source of that hub?

Thanks, and sorry for so many questions…

Yossi

Thanks,
Well my problem was probably the hub which gets power from the beagle. I just connected diectly my keyboard and it works.
With linux (angstrom distro) I could use my bluetooth keyboard+mouse, but here for some reason the init stucks when i am trying to.
tomorrow i will look for a USB hub with power connection.

Hi again,
I am trying to connect the beagle as a device to my PC (so i will be able to upload my first android application).
I followed some instructions and connected a mini male B connector to the beagle and the USB-A male connector to my PC (win xp).
I waited for the PC to ask for a driver, but it didn’t. instead the PC found a malfunction USB device. when updating the driver to the one in x86 directory at the android SDK, the windows can’t realy find it.
Any idea what could be the problem?, i didn’t find any clue about that in the forums.

@Android Shogun
To build the SD card partition 2 image (file system), how do I modify the procedure described in the “Root file System of Android” section of “Android_Porting_Guide_to_Beagle_Board” document? Can I just replace the “~/Android_rfs” with, e.g. “/media/Test_Android”, where “Test_Android” is the SD card partition name?

Hi Shogun,
After porting android to beagleboard sucessfully, I’d like to put the apk into it. I copied the apk(under project_name/bin at Eclipse workspace)into SDcard (RFS/system/app or RFS/data/app). After that, I only can see the Package name of project. I executed it, but it failed. Do you know about this problem?
What android SDK does the kernel and RFS that embinux released? Can I put the apk with SDK1.5 into beagle board and execute it? If not, how can I update the SDK of the beagleboard?

Thanks in advanced.
Best Regards.

I recently downloaded the embinux hosted android beagleboard code. In following the port guide, “http://labs.embinux.org/index.php/Android_Porting_Guide_to_Beagle_Board” I was able to access the repository and configure the source code.

When I try to “Compile Kernel” with ../vendor/embinux/support-tools/beagle_build_kernel.sh I get the following error:

Assembler messages:
Error: unknown architecture `armv7-a’

Error: unrecognized option -march=armv7-a
make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
make: *** [scripts] Error 2
net Kernel Build Completed Sucessfully. Documentation

Has anyone run across this before?

While you refer to the C2 rev, the image you show above is of an earlier B version. You might want to update that image. Then *I* can steal it.

Hi… I would love to get a little clarification on a couple things.

Firstly, are you supposed to get the main Android source and compile from here?

http://source.android.com/download

Or do you skip that and go straight to http://labs.embinux.org/index.php/Android_Porting_Guide_to_Beagle_Board and follow the instructions there?

I don’t understand what it means to “apply the patches”.

I have a Rev C board as well, and cannot get my compiled kernel to boot.

It gets stuck after:

OMAP3 beagleboard.org # mmcinit
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # fatload mmc 0 0×80300000 uImage
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # setenv bootargs console=ttyS2,115200n8 noinitrd root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 video=omapfb:mode:1280×720@50 init=/init rootfstype=ext3 rw rootdelay=1 nohz=off

OMAP3 beagleboard.org # bootm 0×80300000

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80300000 …
Image Name: Linux-2.6.27-omap1-00125-g7fd866
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1886636 Bytes = 1.8 MB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum … OK
Loading Kernel Image … OK
OK

Starting kernel …

Uncompressing Linux…………………………………………………….
…………………………………………………… done, booting the kernel.

Hi Shogun,

How to use Camera with beagle board, when i try calling the camera application, it is asking for SD card, i tried USB to SD converter in USB hub, but i think it is not detecting. If you have any solution for this pls let me know.

Thanks,
Suresh

Hi Shogun,

I tried mounting SD card and it mounted properly commands as shown below

1. mount -o rw -t ext3 /dev/block/sdc2 sdcard
2. setprop EXTERNAL_STORAGE_STATE mounted
3. am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED –ez read-only false -d file:///sdcard

now i see in Android Settings -> SD card & phone storage -> SD card is displaying
Total space = 77MB
Available space = 56MB
Unmount SD card (Highlighted)
Format SD card (Not Highlighted)

Still when i try calling Camera application in Android, i’m getting message like “Please insert an SD card before using the camera”.

Can somebody update with your comments to solve this.

Hi Shogun,

I got SD card detected, camera working fine with greenish dots in picture captured.

hiiiiiiii,
i had created a application by using andoid sdk 1.6 means but that is not running in beagle board ,but when i chenge the sdk version to 3 the application is running successfully on beagle board can any one tell how we can run our android application on beagle board which is created on android 1.6