Qtopia-4.3.0 for A780. Openezx-2.6.23-1 kernel.

[swifty]

i tried few times on my friend's a780, all i got is a blank screen after the kernal image is uploaded with ezxusbboot..
am i doing anything wrong?

i don't have seen a blank screen.

does the kernel booting have the openezx logo (with some kernelmesages written over)?

you have to do the things in the readme as user "root"

[intoxicated]

i don't have seen a blank screen.

does the kernel booting have the openezx logo (with some kernelmesages written over)?

you have to do the things in the readme as user "root"

yap, i did everything under root. I tried as the description said, I still get blank screen. And i don't see openezx logo.. just a blank screen, and it boots to original ezx if i press the power button again.

[swifty]

yap, i did everything under root. I tried as the description said, I still get blank screen. And i don't see openezx logo.. just a blank screen, and it boots to original ezx if i press the power button again.

sounds for me like a problem with bootloader.
did you do the 3button magic to get the phone into bootloader before you start ezx-boot-usb (bluescreen with some infos)?

[intoxicated]

sounds for me like a problem with bootloader.
did you do the 3button magic to get the phone into bootloader before you start ezx-boot-usb (bluescreen with some infos)?

yap, that's what i did all the time, but never get it working

[swifty]

the last idea before i am out of guesses.
is your kernel located in the same directory from where you start ./ezx-boot-usb?
if you start ./ezx-boot-usb "name of the kernel", do you see messages in the terminal of your desktop?

[intoxicated]

the last idea before i am out of guesses.
is your kernel located in the same directory from where you start ./ezx-boot-usb?
if you start ./ezx-boot-usb "name of the kernel", do you see messages in the terminal of your desktop?

yea... i can see all those messages too... maybe i will give a try on e680 later maybe there is something wrong with the microSD on a780..

[swifty]

yea... i can see all those messages too... .

this is a good sign, so the kernel is loaded to the A780.
but i don't see the reason why it is not booting

[goxboxlive]

yea... i can see all those messages too... maybe i will give a try on e680 later maybe there is something wrong with the microSD on a780..

Did you extract the Qtopia image to the second partition?
The kernel zImage is setup to boot from the second partition and not the first.

[wyrm]

i tried few times on my friend's a780, all i got is a blank screen after the kernal image is uploaded with ezxusbboot..
am i doing anything wrong?

Hum...
This looks like a problem i had on E680 some time ago.

This may happen for 2 different reasons:

1. Discharged battery, charge your battery and it should work.

2. Have you flashed a custom firmware to your phone? Do you know it the BP firmware is still original? E680 BP behaves differently. Maybe your A780 is using a BP firmware of E680? Try to send a kernel meant for E680 (http://people.openezx.org/wyrm/images/), and report if it works. In case it works, i encourage you to flash your BP back to an A780 version. (there are other differences in kernel).

[goxboxlive]

i tried few times on my friend's a780, all i got is a blank screen after the kernal image is uploaded with ezxusbboot..
am i doing anything wrong?

Forget my last post about the second partition.
I have exactly the same bug with mine today. I compiled a new kernel in openembedded and it freeze.
It upload the zImage but then funny colors appear and the screen goes all white. From there it just hangs.

I'll try to charge my battery and see what happends.


Update

It didnt help. I am tried booting with zImage-2.6.23-ezxdev-r0 and it booted just fine, but the kernel zImage-2.6.23-ezxdev-r1 doesent boot. So i guess there something about the latest update or something.
The zImages is both builded in OpenEmbedded with Angstrom-2008.1.


Update-2
I builded the kernel manually now, with the instruction from openezx web. And noe it starts. It's seems like it is the same kernel version. I guess it will be updated soon also in OPenembedded.

BTW, i have worked further on the Qtopia image for A780. No we have all the buttons working as it should, beside the powerbutton, i just cant figure that out. For now hitting the volume button brings up the shutdown menu.
I'll let you know when i have uploaded a new Qtopia-image.