Android 2.3.4 on AM3517 - Ethernet configuration

Hi Ron,

first of all thank you for your quickly reply.

I try to add to the end of init.rc your  dhcp IP suggestion and it works also for me.

The only strange issue is about the DNS configuration:

net.eth0.dns1

and

net.eth0.dns2

are set with a valid DNS IP address, but if I try to use the browser i'm not able to reach a web site (resolving address problem).

To solve I need to send this command manually using the serial console:  setprop net.dns1 `getprop net.eth0.dns1'

I know that you don't use the dns, but in your opinion is it a correct behaviours ?

Thank you again,

Paolo.

Hi Vishveshwar,

thank you for your replay, your suggestion solve also our global dns issue.

I don't know if you can help about other issues:

1. My device is a non-phone device, for this reason I tried to remove the phone application modifying core.mk file as found here:
   
   http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Android_gingerbread_memory_analysis_for_non-phone_device
   
   but when I try to rebuild the AFS from <android-source> folder with the command
          make TARGET_PRODUCT=am3517evm OMAPES=3.x -j4
   the phone application still there.
   
   How can I remove the phone appllication from AFS ?
   
   
2. Portrait mode issue
   I need to set my display device in portrait mode at startup (my device doesn't have any rotation sensor). For this reason I add on init.rc
                           setprop ro.sf.hwrotation 90
   At startup the display set itself in portrait mode, but when I touch an object on the screen, the UI doesn't response correctly as if the UI is still in landscape mode. I solved this issue adding the 90 degrees rotation on the kernel source code of the touch driver (ads7846.c).
   
   Is there any other way to solve the problem such as changing/adding some properties on init.rc file ?
   
   Thank you.
   
   Paolo
   
   

Hi,

I don't have the patch in my sources.

I just applyed the patch on my sources, removed from touch-screen kernel driver a few lines for the "90 degrees rotation" and re-built the AFS with:

make TARGET_PRODUCT=am3517evm OMAPES=3.x -j4

The display is still rotated to 90 degrees but touch-screen doesn't work. It seems that UI doesn't rotate the screen coordinate with ro.hw.rotation set to 90

Do I need a make clean, before building AFS again ?

Thank you.

kind regards,

Paolo.

We are able to have the touchscreen working even after rotation on the AM37x evm when this patch is applied.

In my experience, any changes to frameworks/base generally requires a clean build. You could try with that.

Hi Vishveshwar,

the rotation patch it works, after a clean build.

Do you have any news about removing the Phone app from Gingerbread ?

Thank you for your support.

BR,

Paolo.

If you have followed the wiki page instructions, the phone app should have been removed from the filesystem. Can you check if Phone.apk is present in /system/app of the final filesystem image (rootfs).

Hi,

I removed from core.mk file all the apps as described on Step 2 of wiki page (Contacts, Phone, ContactsProvider, TelephonyProvider, UserDictionaryProvider)  but in /system/app folder of final filesystem the Phone.apk still there. Please see the core.mk file attached ( <rowboat-android>/build/target/product )

I forgot something ? Do I need to apply also the Steps optional ?

Thank you.

BR,

Paolo

0247.core.txt

Hi,

thank you for your responses,

Only to inform you that I have checked my files from the following path:

$ ~/<rowboat-android>/build/target/product/

this is the content of AndroidProduct.mk

......
# An unbundled app build needs only generic.mk.
ifneq ($(TARGET_BUILD_APPS),)
PRODUCT_MAKEFILES := \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/core.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/generic.mk
else
PRODUCT_MAKEFILES := \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/core.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/generic.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/generic_x86.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/full.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/sdk.mk \
    $(LOCAL_DIR)/sim.mk
endif

it makes reference to

    $(LOCAL_DIR)/generic.mk \

but the file generic.mk doesn't have your same information as you can see below:

=========== generic.mk ==========
# This is a generic product that isn't specialized for a specific device.
# It includes the base Android platform.

PRODUCT_PACKAGES := \
    AccountAndSyncSettings \
    DeskClock \
    AlarmProvider \
    Bluetooth \
    Calculator \
    Calendar \
    Camera \
    CertInstaller \
    DrmProvider \
    Email \
    Gallery3D \
    LatinIME \
    Launcher2 \
    Mms \
    Music \
    Provision \
    Protips \
    QuickSearchBox \
    Settings \
    Sync \
    SystemUI \
    Updater \
    CalendarProvider \
    SyncProvider

$(call inherit-product, $(SRC_TARGET_DIR)/product/core.mk)

# Overrides
PRODUCT_BRAND := generic
PRODUCT_DEVICE := generic
PRODUCT_NAME := generic

===== end of my generic.mk ========

I'm sorry but I haven't found any telephony.mk / generic_no_telephony.mk or similar files on

$ ~/<rowboat-android>/build/target/product/

This is the reason, I tried to remove the phone application modifying core.mk file as described here:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Android_gingerbread_memory_analysis_for_non-phone_device

I found very interesting one of the links suggested by you (http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/android/f/509/p/120953/579131.aspx) and the manual removing of Phone apps from the file system before preparing it.

I'll try it.

(Only to confirm your latest response: I use the command "make clean" after doing the changes, the "out" folder is completly deleted by clean action).

Can I ask you another questions ?

1) Actually I use a 7'' LCD with my board but I'm also interested to test the same board with a 10'' LCD (1024x600 px).

Using 10'' LCD I have notice a problem with touchscreen, the LCD screen is correctly rotated to 90 degrees as on 7'' LCD but when I touch an object on the screen, the UI doesn't response correctly (It's seems that have a wrong rotation coordinates or a wrong calibration)

What do you think about this ? It can be a kernel touch driver problem ?

2) I use an SD-card of 4GB with only one partition, when I try to open the gallery I got the message

"SD card unmounted or not present"

I suppose this message is due to a partition missing on the same SD-card. My question is:

Can I force the app gallery to read the media files in a folder on the same partition of filesystem ?

Below vold.fstab content

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 3 /devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc0
dev_mount usb /mnt/usb2 auto /devices/platform/ehci-omap.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1
dev_mount usb /mnt/usb3 auto /devices/platform/ehci-omap.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2

and partial content of init.rc

# create mountpoints
    mkdir /mnt 0775 root system
    mkdir /mnt/sdcard 0000 system system
    mkdir /mnt/usb2 0000 system system
    mkdir /mnt/usb3 0000 system system

......

# Backwards Compat - XXX: Going away in G*
    symlink /mnt/sdcard /sdcard
    symlink /mnt/usb2   /usb2
    symlink /mnt/usb3   /usb3

4) I 'd like to create a service that checks for a file (ie new kernel) in a specific folder of filesystem. This file is then written in mtd partition of the kernel.
How can I do this in Android? Do you have any suggestions?

Many thanks,

BR,

Paolo

Satish,

I agree about #1 and #2, my intention was to find the source of mms being compiled and added to avoid it being removed later, I don't have an build environment where I intended to reproduce the issue, just mentioned where mms package is defined.

Hi,

About the non-phone device, I'll try to remove apk phone related file from AFS, but at startup i got the following error message:

"The Application Android keyboard (process com.android.input.method.latin) has stopped unexspectly. Please try again"

1) Is There a solution / patch for Gingerbread to integrate the ts_calibrate application and the integration of pointercal file ?

2) I can't find any storage_list.xml file in my  <android-src>/ 

Can I have a corrupted repo ?   I cloned sources from Gitorious.org/rowboat repository with

   $ repo sync

BR,

Paolo.

Hi Paolo,

1. There is no ts_calibrate application at present. One need to do calibration manually.

2. Opps.. The file is only available for ICS port. Gingerbread this support is not there.

You need to edit vold.fstab file manually for mount point.

BR,

satish

Hi Satish,

About ICS, we are very interested to implement on AM3517.

TI have a plans to porting ICS also for AM3517 ?

BR,

Paolo.

Hi Paolo,

Sorry.. At present we do not have anly plan to support ICS for AM3517.

But still you can take the code and try to port. It should not take much time for you.

-

satish

Hi Satish,

about the ICS porting on AM3517, do I need to download the SGX 1.8 version and apply to ICS repo or is already present in the master branch of ICS ?

thank you.

BR,

Paolo.

Hi,

I need a way to find out the Wifi Ip and Ethernet Ip I get is static or dynamic? (android device)

With the commands you specified I could get the ethernet Ip address, netmask,gateway , dns1 and dns2.

But apart from tht how can I know if its statically configured one or not?

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