<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Thierry,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 20.12.2017 um 09:23 schrieb tgrauss <<a href="mailto:tgrauss@f-gp.eu" class="">tgrauss@f-gp.eu</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class="">Hello,</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Thank you for the detailed information :)</p><p class="">You wrote about trying to compile qtmoko. I read some months ago that you had some success with it even if you didn't manage to fully compile it yet.</p></div></div></blockquote>Unfortunately such experiments take a lot of time blocking the host machine...</div><div>So they must wait until nothing else is urgent. But when is this :)<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class="">Do you have a procedure (like below to install the Uboot) to be able to compile qtmoko like you did and so that we can try to fix the last issues on it ? </p></div></div></blockquote><div>Well, my last attempt simply followed exactly what Radek described:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/README" class="">https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/README</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>There are also some scripts which tryto automate this prosa description, but I am not sure if they represent the last attempt:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-qtmoko.git;a=tree;f=goldelico;h=adbafe59ea1043c735bb85ec6dd1f77e2831b5a0;hb=166b3bcf5d53589a2c00752df7e10e54709551fe" class="">http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-qtmoko.git;a=tree;f=goldelico;h=adbafe59ea1043c735bb85ec6dd1f77e2831b5a0;hb=166b3bcf5d53589a2c00752df7e10e54709551fe</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>If I remember correctly, build failed because of two issues:</div><div>* mounting loopback multiple times didn't work properly on my host (an i386 Debian inside Virtual Box)</div><div>* the download of the required/assumed cross-gcc did not work (version is no longer available in embedian and I am not sure if/how it can be built from sources)</div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class="">I would love to be able to use it as my daily phone :)</p></div></div></blockquote>Me too!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>BR,</div><div>Nikolaus</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" class=""><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Many thanks</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Regards</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Thierry</p><p class="">Le 2017-12-19 20:40, H. Nikolaus Schaller a écrit :</p>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" class="">Am 19.12.2017 um 18:51 schrieb Neil Jerram <<a href="mailto:neil@ossau.homelinux.net" class="">neil@ossau.homelinux.net</a>>:<br class=""> <br class=""> On 19/12/17 09:57, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" class="">What you should do: update your U-Boot in NAND.<br class=""> <br class=""> To do this, use makesd gta04 / makesd gta04a5 to format<br class=""> a "production image" SD card (dual partition). Insert<br class=""> into your GTA04, press the AUX button and insert the<br class=""> battery. This will flash the new U-Boot into NAND<br class=""> (red screen) and from that moment on you have this new<br class=""> feature in your U-Boot and can use the SD card for other<br class=""> things.</blockquote>
<br class=""> Please could give us a reference to more detailed instructions for doing this? I'm sorry, it's a while now since I last worked on my GTA04, but I am very interested to get this improvement in place, so many thanks to you and Andreas.</blockquote>
<br class=""> Ok, let's try (I hope I did not forget anything):<br class=""> <br class=""> 1. get an µSD card yo do not need otherwise with at least 2GB<br class=""> 2. plug into some SD card reader on a Linux host<br class=""> a recent Debian or Ubuntu is recommended<br class=""> It could even be the GTA04 if you manage to connect the SD reader through OTG and set up WLAN<br class=""> I currently use the OMAP5432EVM with Letux-OS<br class=""> 3. find out which device name the SD card has (usually something like /dev/sdb)<br class=""> 4. follow instructions at <a href="http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-makesd/" class="">http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-makesd/</a><br class=""> <br class=""> wget -O makesd "<a href="http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-makesd.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=makesd" class="">http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-makesd.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=makesd</a>"<br class=""> chmod +x makesd<br class=""> <br class=""> 5. run (change /dev/sdb to your SD card reader if needed) as root<br class=""> <br class=""> DEV=/dev/sdb makesd gta04<br class=""> <br class=""> or<br class=""> <br class=""> DEV=/dev/sdb makesd gta04a5<br class=""> <br class=""> 6. Insert µSD into your GTA04<br class=""> 7. press the AUX button and keep pressed<br class=""> 8. insert the battery (well, it should have been charged a little before)<br class=""> 9. GTA04 should boot and the screen should turn red after some seconds<br class=""> 10. take out battery and install your old µSD card (if you had one)<br class=""> 11. boot as usual<br class=""> 12. wipe out the µSD for reflashing if you do not want to store it<br class=""> <br class=""> If anything fails, please cry for help :)<br class=""> <br class=""> BR and good luck,<br class=""> Nikolaus<br class=""> <br class=""> _______________________________________________<br class=""> Gta04-owner mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:Gta04-owner@goldelico.com" class="">Gta04-owner@goldelico.com</a><br class=""> <a href="http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gta04-owner" class="">http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gta04-owner</a></div>
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