Android ICS on pandaboard randomly crashes

I have some questions;

1. do you have some patterns in either /mnt/sdcard/Movies or /mnt/ext_sdcard/? this is to discard it could be a multimedia issue.

2. Can you describe your actual configuration? using HDMI? just to know what HW is involved and because of the last HDMI issue.

3. Can you try setting/display the timeout to 30 minutes, in "settings/development/stay awake" and check it error is present? this to isolate if it is a sleep issue or multimedia or HW?

Hi Brijesh,

That is because the release is working better in OMAP4460, the kernel has not be optimized to work on OMAP4430 because I see it reboot several times before boot well and get Android GUI.

You may want to test the release in a Panda ES or look for other optimized to work on Panda with OMAP4430.

Brijesh Kamani

Hi  Manuel,

Thank you for reply,

1.I think its not only multimedia issue because even i launch calculator application then having same behavior of crashes.

Some time calculator application open and work fine and some time just i click on the calculator application board crashes.

2.I am connection pandaboard to sony full HD LCD via HDMI cable.

3.I did try and changed time out to 30 minutes but having same issue.

Hi Israel,

You are right i have to reboot the board minimum 5 to 10 times to get Android GUI.

Even after getting Android GUI i am not able to get the performance and having crashes issue.

In some of the blogs i have read that by changing video resolution Android ICS performance improves.

So I have tried to change video resolution by changing my bootargs as given below,

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setenv bootargs 'console=ttyO2,115200n8 androidboot.console=ttyO2 mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 noinitrd ip=10.99.14.155:10.99.14.184:10.99.13.1:255.255.252.0::eth0:off rw init=/init root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.99.14.184:<path to rootfs>, wsize=1024, rsize=1024,  nolock, vers=3 rootwait omapfb.mode=tv:640x480MR-16@60 omapdss.def_disp=tv earlyprintk vram=48M omapfb.vram=0:24M,1:24M' 

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I have even tried all the resolutions but I think i can't getting any change in my video resolution.

Is there any change in my bootargs or is video resolution hard coded in the release ?

Hi Israel,

I tried to run board with 640x480 video resolution but issue remains same of random crashes.

Can suggest me proper stable release from the same ?

Hi Brijesh,

I don't think that is a problem about resolution, I think it is with power management for omap4430, I will try to take a look to the board file to see if there is something like is hardcoded or wire that could be causing to work only on omap4460.

About releases I only know about AOSP and Linaro, have you try any of those?, I have read some post that those are working on Panda with OMAP4430.