Android On the Q7 - How To Do It

To start with you will need the following;

An Android rootfs, a boot folder containing the following files "and.bmp4", "bgbmp.bmp4", "menu.list" & "zImage_q7". The rootfs can be found within this download; http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U0RYQDG8 and the other files can be found here http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0h587d/n/boot_7z

An SD card with a minimum of 1 FAT32 and 1 Linux partition (my 8GB was set up as follows with 2 Linux partitions)

  Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Device         Boot   Start     End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk1p1  *         1     759   4103128+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/mmcblk1p2          760    1328   3076014   83  Linux
/dev/mmcblk1p3         1329    1426    529788   83  Linux


After formatting the partitions appear on the device as follows;

/dev/mmcblk1p1 appears as /media/disk-2
/dev/mmcblk1p2 appears as /media/disk-1
/dev/mmcblk1p3 appears as /media/disk

Now you need to do the following;
Unzip then copy the "android_root.tar.gz" and "boot" folder to your SD card, they will appear in folder /home/user/desktop/SDCARD/disk-2. The folder "boot" can stay here as that is were it lives. The "android_root.tar.gz" file needs untaring into its new home which is /home/user/desktop/SDCARD/disk-1. Unfortunately because of the way it is packed it will untar all the necessary system folders e.g. bin, dev, lib inside a folder called "android_root". You need to 'select all' the folders/files within this folder and then cut/copy them out of there and into the root of disk-1. After you have done this you can delete the folder and reboot your device as you are now ready to run Android on your Q7. Enjoy

Thanks! so much for posting this and so fast.
I can't wait to try it.

Ellen

I am already in trouble. I have tried using this post to format my SD card: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=229 but so far I have had no luck. I can't tell what is a comment (I'm think all stuff between // and // but then I can't figure out what to put in to get the partitions. Is there an easier or clearer way to do this?

Ellen

Does this have the android market?

Hmmn. WEll, I'm having an issue. I think I know what it is though.

So here's how it is for me. I have formatted the disks as specified, and do have two primary partitions, with the FAT32 partition set to boot. I have copied the boot folder from the link above and placed it on the SD card. I have also unzipped the folders in android_root and placed them on the SD card at root. When I re-start I get the choice to boot android but then I just get a white screen on load.

The thing is, after partitioning, the SD card does not show up as you say it should (disk-1 disk-2). Rather, it simply shows up as /SDCARD/ and disk-1/disk-2 do not exist. When I sudo fdisk -l I get:

/dev/mmcblk1p1 (boot) (FAT 32)
/dev/mmcblk1p2 (Linux)

So it seems that my problem is that I cannot see the linux partition in order to put the Android files there. Can you see what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT - So I had not formatted the FAT32 partition properly, and now I've done that. However, although the FAT32 partition is visible and accessible when I plug it into the windows machine (and an Ubuntu netbook), the Q7 can't see it!? The /disk/ Linux partition is now visible on the Q7 btw. I named the FAT32 partition disk-2 in formatting and am now entering:

sudo tar -xvf /media/disk-2/android-rootfs.tar.gz -C /media/disk

but evilvte keeps telling me that the source does not exist... What the heck am I doing wrong?

Covia was being a big PITA so I just used this with the Q5. This could really use a screen calibration ap. I will see if I can get it from covia. My screen also went @pe$h!t for some reason.

Update: Got it off of covia, but it was oriented wrong and crashed.

Run worse than I thought it would. The stock is much zippier when you free up some ram. I wonder how this would run with the Chronolytics kernel. Does android use the same kernel? If you can find a terminal on there, try "uname -a". If it is the same as the stock (non upgraded), try adding it to the /boot directory and point the menu.lst file at it.

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Eeek, I accidently loaded MER with the covia kernel, but I was able to recover. You're kinda screwed because you don't have a good way to re-do your SD card right? I'm telling you, Linux virtual machine. Go get vmWare and and the ubuntu live cd .iso file. If you are having trouble creating a VM, this site[url]easyvmx.com[/url] can help you build one. VMWare does a great job of managing your usb stuff between you host and VM.

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