Android for BeaglePlay

General Discussion
1

Hi

I have been attempting to get Android to work on my BeaglePlay and have had a problem at the last part of the process… I am following the instructions here: Beagle Play — ti-android-13 documentation

Has anyone got this to work?

Everything works (after a bit of messing about) but then when I try to perform the final flashing of the image I get this error:
$ sudo ./flashall.sh --board am625-beagleplay
…
…
Formatting metadata partition
/home/user/src/ti-aosp-13/out/target/product/am62x/mke2fs failed with status 1
fastboot: error: Cannot generate image for metadata
formatting failed
******* Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition?
Erasing ‘metadata’ OKAY [ 0.108s]
…

The device does try to boot but fails during the Android bring up seemingly because it is looking for something in this metadata partition - which is not there. So it reboots and gets stuck in a boot-loop.

Would appreciate any ideas anyone might have
TIA
Simon

2

I don’t use android, however this is relevant, connect a ttl to USB adapter to the linux debug port. You will see exactly what is going on during boot.

3

Hi

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have a serial console open so I can see it getting quite far into the Android init processes. I was just wondering if anyone else had successfully managed to get Android working on the BeaglePlay.

Thanks
Simon

4

Hello,

Sorry to revive this topic, but this is a known issue. Looking at TI’s e2e thread here:

We can see a posted solution:

Running the following (after flashall.sh) should resolve the problem:

λ /mnt/work/ti/src/ti-android-09.01.00/ source build/envsetup.sh  
λ /mnt/work/ti/src/ti-android-09.01.00/ lunch am62x-userdebug
λ /mnt/work/ti/src/ti-android-09.01.00/ cd out/target/product/am62x


λ /mnt/work/ti/src/ti-android-09.01.00/out/target/product/am62x/ fastboot format metadata
mke2fs 1.46.6 (1-Feb-2023)
Creating filesystem with 4096 4k blocks and 4096 inodes

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (1024 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Sending 'metadata' (52 KB)                         OKAY [  0.024s]
Writing 'metadata'                                 OKAY [  0.028s]
Finished. Total time: 0.161s