Android on Evaluation boards

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AM3517, AM3505

We are using the AM3517/Am3505 Experiment Board from Logic Control. As well as the beagleboard-rev-c4.

We have downloaded TI Android FroYo DevKit V2.2.

After unzipping(TAR) the Dev Kit we looked in the Documents folder for the USER GUIDE.

We are running the trials on a UBUNTU 10,04 Linux PC.

Attempting to executer "OUT OF THE BOX"

We did the following:

• Download the pre-built Image from http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_tii/TI_Android_DevKit/02_02_00/index_FDS.html for the platform you own, can be AM35x EVM, AM37x EVM, DM37x EVM, Beagleboard Rev C4/XM, OMAP35x EVM.

• Get an SD Card of minimum size 2GBytes (Class4 minimum for DM37x EVM) and a USB Card reader

• Insert the USB SD Card reader (with SD Card) in your host Linux PC

• Prepare the MMC/SD card Image
• The UBUNTU will only recognize the SD Card only if we first format the Device on a Windows 7 (32 bit) using the default Widows format routine.
• We can write Text Files to the SD Card which will be recognized by the Linux PC.

 tar -xzvf <Board name>.tar.gz
 cd <Board name>
 sudo ./mkmmc-android /dev/sd<device>    in our case the <device> = sdb1
When Executed the partitioning step is not done correctly I.E no partitions
afterward the SD device has no data on linux or Win 7.
And the target board device will not boot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rusty

• The above step prepares the SD Card.