>From my experience, turning off the splash screen can make it boot
faster, but it still goes to a black screen with no info printed out.
On Nov 9, 9:43 pm, NickDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, if you need strace records from a successfully booted Android
> system, try using the emulator.
>
> On Nov 9, 1:26 pm, Lo Yuk Fai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > First of all many thanks for your effort! : )
>
> > Been pondering about this over the weekend. Actually, I was tinkering
> > with the init scripts in the last few weeks, tried to see if there was
> > any improvement and change. Got >20 sets of strace records with
> > various options enabled and disabled.
>
> > I'm not sure if it's true or not, but remember reading somewhere that
> > the essential services for Android are servicemanager (binder), zygote
> > and dbus. So once I tried running with only them enabled, but still
> > got the loop. It wasn't a tightly controlled environment so it
> > certainly could be something else.
>
> > What can we do now...? I'm thinking if it's a good idea to get a set
> > of strace records from a successfully booted Android system
> > (mizmit1222 you have one...?) and compare it with what we've got.
>
> > Thanks again and have a nice day!
>
> > On Nov 8, 5:47 pm, Alex Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Lo Yuk Fai wrote:
> > > > BTW, I finally got to build the Android image myself... I put
> > > > everything (ramdisk.img, system.img and userdata.img) under an ext3
> > > > partition and call /init to start Android... But still got the same
> > > > old loop
>
> > > I finally got around to trying it. The number parsing exception in your
> > > strace logs is because your init.rc has a whole bunch of "setprop"
> > > values commented out:
>
> > > # setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_ADJ 0
> > > # setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_ADJ 1
>
> > > Uncommenting them, I get stuck at the flashing logo though as well. I
> > > also tried on the 680 which has 64mb of RAM, confirming it's not a low
> > > mem problem. It basically seems to be sitting there doing nothing (no
> > > disk activity).
>
> > > Strace shows the following processes still actively making system calls:
>
> > > ==> init.580 <==
>
> > > servicemanager. fd 3 is /dev/binder
>
> > > 09:44:39.632472 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:40.636847 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccf940) = 0
> > > 09:44:40.646469 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:40.648673 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.657157 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccf940) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.666599 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.668813 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.677166 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccf940) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.686604 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201, 0xbeccfba8) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.688813 ioctl(3, 0xc0186201
>
> > > ==> init.587 <==
>
> > > Subthread of system server, jdwp=java debug wire protocol?
>
> > > 09:44:34.843637 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 15)
> > > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> > > 09:44:34.847744 nanosleep({2, 0}, {2, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:36.851929 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 15)
> > > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> > > 09:44:36.854830 nanosleep({2, 0}, {2, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.861607 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 15)
> > > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> > > 09:44:38.864472 nanosleep({2, 0}, {2, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:40.871616 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 15)
> > > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> > > 09:44:40.874299 nanosleep({2, 0}, {2, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.881616 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 15)
> > > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> > > 09:44:42.884318 nanosleep({2, 0},
>
> > > ==> init.595 <==
>
> > > This one looks promising, it starts a whole bunch of other services and
> > > then gets stuck on audio. This could be our problem.
>
> > > 09:44:40.639528 writev(3, [{"\4", 1}, {"ServiceManager\0", 15},
> > > {"Waiting for sevice media.audio_flinger...\n\0", 43}], 3) = 59
> > > 09:44:40.644124 nanosleep({1, 0}, {1, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.651905 ioctl(10, 0xc0186201, 0x45accb80) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.654913 ioctl(10, 0xc0186201, 0x45accb80) = 0
> > > 09:44:41.659835 writev(3, [{"\4", 1}, {"ServiceManager\0", 15},
> > > {"Waiting for sevice media.audio_flinger...\n\0", 43}], 3) = 59
> > > 09:44:41.664241 nanosleep({1, 0}, {1, 0}) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.671864 ioctl(10, 0xc0186201, 0x45accb80) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.674752 ioctl(10, 0xc0186201, 0x45accb80) = 0
> > > 09:44:42.679839 writev(3, [{"\4", 1}, {"ServiceManager\0", 15},
> > > {"Waiting for sevice media.audio_flinger...\n\0", 43}], 3) = 59
> > > 09:44:42.684248 nanosleep({1, 0},
>
> > > ==> init.596 <==
>
> > > I suspect that is the splash screen.
>
> > > 09:44:43.058930 nanosleep({0, 66668000}, {0, 66668000}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.131671 futex(0x82b48, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 1
> > > 09:44:43.133971 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {487, 714704923}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.138460 nanosleep({0, 66668000}, {0, 66668000}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.211676 futex(0x82b48, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 1
> > > 09:44:43.213981 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {487, 794707383}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.218470 nanosleep({0, 66668000}, {0, 66668000}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.291666 futex(0x82b48, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = 1
> > > 09:44:43.293980 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {487, 874707383}) = 0
> > > 09:44:43.298468 nanosleep({0, 66668000}, {0, 66668000}) = 0
>
> > > ==> init.597 <==
>
> > > I believe this the ActivityManager.
>
> > > 09:44:33.776728 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {478, 357452307}) = 0
> > > 09:44:33.779153 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {478, 359879692}) = 0
> > > 09:44:33.781616 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {478, 362341845}) = 0
> > > 09:44:33.783914 futex(0x640fc, FUTEX_WAIT, -5, {4, 995537847}) = -1
> > > ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
> > > 09:44:38.792625 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {483, 373346460}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.795112 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {483, 375837537}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.797556 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {483, 378284922}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.799987 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {483, 380859692}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.802462 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {483, 383190769}) = 0
> > > 09:44:38.804738 futex(0x640fc, FUTEX_WAIT, -5, {4, 994668923}
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