<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br><div><div>Am 28.11.2012 um 10:31 schrieb Sven Dyroff:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">meanwhile I had some more trials with
bootloader 20121120 and QtMoko v49.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">1.) I removed the old v47 SD card and
tried to boot the phone without any card. Result: Yellow screen, then penguin,
then colored flashing power button. That means, indeed a bootloader and
its associated stuff had been flashed automatically into NAND at some time
without giving any notice.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">-> Suggestion:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Wouldn't it be a good idea to have two
different penguin pictures? That means in addition to "splash.rgb16z"
we could have a "splash.rgb16z.flash". Bootloader would then
use version "splash.rgb16z.flash" in order to flash it to NAND
and by the way give it the name "splash.rgb16z" there. Then also
dummies like me would see at one glance what's going on, when the penguin
for example wears a shirt with writing "NAND" or "SD"
on it or something like that.</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Unfortunately it is already quite a hack to have two different bitmaps... U-Boot can't do any image processing or GUI. So the trick is simply to copy a block of bytes from NAND to RAM, unzip and set the framebuffer base address to the RAM address.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Especially please note: If a dummy like
me has now a valid bootloader in NAND and puts an SD card into the phone
that also has a valid bootloader, then I never know which one has really
been booted and it would be very complicated always having to read and
check all technical details in order to find out.</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div>This is why I recommend to have a separate SD card for upgrading the bootloader. Then you will know...</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">2.) Nikolaus wrote: "The boot.scr
is doing the auto-flashing when it detects a new version of itself."
So for this reason I didn't do any modification on the v49 SD card, put
it into the phone again and powered it on. Result: Dark red screen and
no penguin. OK, that was expected. But because sometimes I can be scuzzy,
I didn't wait for QtMoko to boot. Instead of that when seeing the boot
menu, I removed the battery and then inserted it again. Result: Dark red
screen and no penguin. NOK!</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">-> Bug note:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I can do the rebooting as often as I
want to. The new bootloader will never recognize that it already has flashed
itself. Later on I could even see this behaviour after a proper shutdown
of QtMoko and soft reboot.</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Hm. This may be an issue by up- and downgrading between different bootloaders. Please insert the new-bootloader-SD and boot with AUX button pressed.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">3.) After some cycles I let QtMoko v49
boot. After that it presented itself with Finxi theme at once, but still
with black background, some missing icons and empty battery icon.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">-> Bug note:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I could do rebooting as often as I want
to. Finxi theme in v49 will never present itself any more as it did until
v47.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">@Radek:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I think it's clear why battery icon
is working for you but not for me. Within this list it had been pointed
out that with the new kernel you need to "calibrate" your battery
first, what means you have to discharge it completely at least once. This
is something what I never did and because of the need to trickle charge
it again after that, I still want to avoid this. I got my GTA04 together
with a new GTA02 battery and I never let it go down under approx. 10%.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Sven</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> </font>
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