Late Post 1: Running Android on Beagleboard!

Fri 4/15/11

We successfully booted Android 2.2 on our Beagleboard. We followed the 4 step instruction found here to prepare our SD card.

  Step 1. Insert SD card on Linux PC

  Step 2. Download pre-build Android 2.2 image for Beagleboard-XM here

  Step 3. Putting Android onto SD card

              first locate downloaded Android image and extract

tar -xzvf Beagleboard-XM.tar.gz

cd Beagleboard-XM.tar.gz

              run provided script to prepare SD card

sudo ./mkmmc-android /dev/sd<device>

  Step 4. Plug SD card into Beagleboard and power up

Booting Android was faster than expected, and the interface performed rather smoothly. We immediately went on to test out its Internet connectivity.

Ethernet worked out of the box but was unstable, mainly due to the network registration requirement by Penn. A few adjustments and trials got us onto the Internet. At this point, the Beagleboard had been increasingly hot on touch.