Android on Kobo: "Tips and Apps"

[HeartWorm]

Those 30 mb are there at the beggining.I can't do anything with them.

After copying fix-undev-tgz and dualboot-android-aurahd and ejecting the updating and restarting process it takes 3-5 seconds.No changes in the .kobo folder (no new folder, no new file).i had 3.1.1 fw.

The images i used was the angor's.

Maybe it's stupid ask but here it goes.Can someone post some pictures even make a video how to boot android on kobo devices?

Thanks.

[CrazyReaderT9]

Please anyone could upload the image from another place?
I can't download from google
Thanks

[angor00]

Originally Posted by CrazyReaderT9

Please anyone could upload the image from another place?
I can't download from google
Thanks

2014-02-28_Android_Kobo_Aura_HD.7z

[embryo]

Originally Posted by CrazyReaderT9

Please anyone could upload the image from another place?
I can't download from google
Thanks

There are mirrors at the first post. Get them here.

[embryo]

Originally Posted by angor00

2014-02-28_Android_Kobo_Aura_HD.7z

Angor, one question.
Is this image for Dual or Single Boot?

[CrazyReaderT9]

Yessss, thanks for the help.
It works and yes it's dual boot too.
I sadly see the screen refresh is not good as should be when i read books.
Btw great work, wifi and usb works nicely

[takikura]

Originally Posted by embryo

If you have time you can try this file...

Dear embryo

thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the mod did not solve the problem.
At the Android boot trial, the led turns from blue to green or red depending on the timing of releasing the power button. The led stayed ON after this before the mod but it turns OFF after few seconds after the mod.
Since I have now my Glo working very well with the dual boot, I will use my Touch for playing with Koreader.
Have a nice weekend.
Takikura

[sabryna131]

Originally Posted by HeartWorm

Those 30 mb are there at the beggining.I can't do anything with them.

After copying fix-undev-tgz and dualboot-android-aurahd and ejecting the updating and restarting process it takes 3-5 seconds.No changes in the .kobo folder (no new folder, no new file).i had 3.1.1 fw.

The images i used was the angor's.

Maybe it's stupid ask but here it goes.Can someone post some pictures even make a video how to boot android on kobo devices?

Thanks.

When I copied the fix-undev-tgz and the dualboot file I had to put the unzipped files into the .kobo file and unzip them there and I had leave the unzipped zip file in there too (I tried it with just leaving the contents in and it wouldn't work at all). My updates after I put each file in the .kobo file, ejected and updated were fast too, probably because there wasn't any files that I had added to my kobo aura hd.
Using minitool's program those 30mbs disappear if I extend the partition all the way so I had to adjust the partition to keep them.
As for getting it to boot into android I had to try several times to get the timing right so it would boot. What worked for me was sliding the power switch til you see the white light come on and then quickly press the light button and release the power slider while still holding the light button-if it doesn't work the first time just power off after kobo loads and try again.
Hope this helps.

[_darch]

Im trying to get Android to boot on my Glo following angor00's guide.
I used dd on my macbook to transfer the .img to a Kingston microSDHD 16 GB class 4 card. But when I try to boot I get a couples of black flashes on the screen and the LED first goes blue, then white and the it flashed green a couple of time and stays on, and then nothing else happens, just white screen. When I try to turn it off again the LED flashes green once and then I need to use a paperclip to reset it to book back into Nickel.
Do I need to get to a windows machine and use the Flash Drive Image Writer, or can anyone confirm that it is possible to install android onto the Kobo Glo using a Mac?

[plivesey]

Originally Posted by _darch

Im trying to get Android to boot on my Glo following angor00's guide.
I used dd on my macbook to transfer the .img to a Kingston microSDHD 16 GB class 4 card. But when I try to boot I get a couples of black flashes on the screen and the LED first goes blue, then white and the it flashed green a couple of time and stays on, and then nothing else happens, just white screen. When I try to turn it off again the LED flashes green once and then I need to use a paperclip to reset it to book back into Nickel.
Do I need to get to a windows machine and use the Flash Drive Image Writer, or can anyone confirm that it is possible to install android onto the Kobo Glo using a Mac?

dd on a Mac certainly works. The only issue I've had is that I've had to unmount partitions on the SD card (but not eject it) using Disk Utility before writing to the card. The command I use is:-

dd if=source.img of=/dev/disk6

where the actual output file can be found from Disk Utility by right clicking on the SD card and selecting Information.

Note: The destination should be the SD card and not some partition on it. For example of=/dev/disk6s1 is incorrect.

[_darch]

I used number 4 in this guide, and the only different I see from your approch is the "bs=1m" parameter. Might this be my problem? Will try write the image to my SD-card without the bs=1m one of the next days and see if it helps

[plivesey]

Originally Posted by _darch

I used number 4 in this guide, and the only different I see from your approch is the "bs=1m" parameter. Might this be my problem? Will try write the image to my SD-card without the bs=1m one of the next days and see if it helps

No this is not the problem, the bs option specifies the block size for reading and writing. You're doing no conversion when writing the image so the default of 512 for ibs and obs (input and output block sizes) will be in effect and are perfectly acceptable.

The instructions you linked are fine but if a GUI is more to your liking all the tasks can be accomplished using Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities. Disk images can be written using the Restore pane and volumes can be unmounted by using the right click context menu.

The command line is my preferred method though.

[Ficko]

If I start Kobo it puts all of the *.png,*.txts etc. from the sdcard into his library.
How can I make Kobo not to do that ?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by Ficko

If I start Kobo it puts all of the *.png,*.txts etc. from the sdcard into his library.
How can I make Kobo not to do that ?

The only way is to put them in a directory with a name that starts with a PERIOD.

So make a directory called .hidden and put the PNG txt files etc there.

[trekk]

Originally Posted by _darch

I used number 4 in this guide, and the only different I see from your approch is the "bs=1m" parameter. Might this be my problem? Will try write the image to my SD-card without the bs=1m one of the next days and see if it helps

I tried the following approach to get this finally working on an old MacBook Pro:

Locate the SD-card with

df -h

Your SD-card will show up something like

/dev/disk3 ...

Unmount the SD-card with

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk3

If disk3 has a partitioning scheme use

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3

instead.

In the terminal type

sudo dd bs=1m if=/Path/To/Image/NameOfYourImage.img of=/dev/rdisk3

where the "r" in rdisk is intended! Of course you have to use the correct name. Don't use disk3, if this is not your SD-card. Otherwise dataloss might be the consequence!

Wait (!) until the Image has been written.

Eject the SD-card with

diskutil eject /dev/disk3

This finally worked for me, maybe this will work for others too.