Sign-in/Register Contact

logo

Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 GA release

Android Marshmallow

We are glad to deliver the latest Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 GA release for all our platforms: BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite), Nitrogen6x, Nitrogen6_Max (Quad and QuadPlus), Nitrogen6_SOM, Nitrogen6_SOMv2, Nitrogen6_Lite, Nit6_SoloX and Nitrogen6_VM.

This release went under the same testing as our previous releases which is why we now recommend this release for new designs.

For the impatient

You can download images from here:

As usual, you’ll need to register on our site and agree to the EULA because it contains Freescale content.

Update 20170224 changelog:

Update 20161129 changelog:

Update 20160811 changelog:

Update 20160620 changelog:

  • Adds basic OV564x autofocus support

The image is a 4GB SD card image that can be restored using zcat and dd under Linux.

~$ zcat m601*.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

For Windows users, please use Alex Page’s USB Image Tool.

What’s new?

This section will only describe the changes brought either by the OS update itself or modified/added features.

OS update

Here is a non-exhaustive list of noticeable changes between Android 5.1.1 and 6.0.1:

  • Security enhancements
    • SELinux policies more strict
    • Adoptable external storage
      • Enabled for external SD-Card only on our builds
        sdadopt_1
    • App permissions now selectable
      • Will ask you during first use of the app:
        permissions
      • Also able to change it through Settings > Apps menu:
        app_permissions
  • MultiWindow mode
    • Still experimental in Marshmallow
    • Needs to be enabled manually in Settings > Developer options
      multiwindow_1

Google also provides a list of notable changes for developers:

For a more complete changelog between the two versions, we invite you to look at the very nice Opersys website which lists all the different commits between every version:

Same as before, TiWi-BLE offer the WiFi-P2P feature (also called WiFi Direct) but its firmware has proven not be stable. In case you want to disabled that feature to have a more stable connection, enter the following command line:

~/$ adb shell 'setprop persist.sys.wifidirect disabled'

Linux Kernel 3.14.52

Just like Android 5.1.1, this release is based on a 3.14 kernel. The only notable change since 5.1.1 is the use of the latest (and greatest) Vivante graphics libraries (v5.0.11 p8).

If you haven’t used Android with a 3.14.x kernel yet, please make sure to update U-Boot.

U-Boot changes

As said in the previous section, using a Linux Kernel >= 3.14.x now requires to have a U-Boot version >= v2015.07 due to our new display detection mechanism.

More information on those U-Boot changes on a previous blog post:

As of this writing, the latest version we support is the 2016.03. You can download binaries directly from this webpage:

Then, you need to set a uboot_defconfig variable which is unique per platform:

  • nit6xlite1g for Nit6xlite with 1GB of RAM
  • nitrogen6_max for Nitrogen6_MAX
  • nitrogen6q for Nitrogen6x/BD-SL-i.MX6
  • nitrogen6sx for Nit6_SoloX

Below is an example for Nitrogen6x.

U-Boot> setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
U-Boot> run upgradeu

Miscellaneous additions

  • Support of data encryption
    • Requires to setup a PIN password in Settings > Security
    • Needs to be enabled in Settings > Encrypt tablet
    • A new partition (9) has been added to store the keys
      crypt
  • ExFAT, NTFS and Ext4 are supported for all external media
    • BUT requires SELinux to be disabled or permissive due to new more restrictive AOSP policies.
  • Fastboot support improvement
    • Requires to use latest U-Boot v2016.03 
    • Works with both sparse and regular images
    • However, latest fastboot doesn’t look for unknown USB product ID so you now need to specify it as follows:
~/$ adb shell reboot bootloader
~/$ fastboot -i 0x0525 flash boot $OUT/boot.img
finished. total time: 3.762s
~/$ fastboot -i 0x0525 flash recovery $OUT/recovery.img
finished. total time: 3.402s
~/$ fastboot -i 0x0525 flash system $OUT/system.img
finished. total time: 52.153s
~/$ fastboot -i 0x0525 continue
resuming boot...
  • Camera HALv3 is now being used
    • Note that our auto-focus support has been integrated in version 20160620 of the Nitrogen6x image.
  • Bluetooth Low Energy
  • Dual display demo
  • SuperUser removal
    • Since the Koush app isn’t supported in Marshmallow and that new SELinux policies prevent its use

Source code access

For the newcomers, please make sure to read our “Android Getting Started Guide” since it contains all the information you need to download, build and flash an Android image.

For those already familiar with our releases, here is a condensed version to get the source code:

~/$ mkdir myandroid
~/$ cd myandroid
~/myandroid$ repo init -u git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest.git \
       -b boundary-imx-m6.0.1_1.0.0-ga
~/myandroid$ repo sync
~/myandroid$ source build/envsetup.sh
~/myandroid$ lunch
... choose nitrogen6x / nit6xlite / nitrogen6sx from the list of boards
~/myandroid$ make 2>&1 | tee build.out

 

As always, let us know your experiences (both good and bad) when you test out this image.

Comments

  2. Just wondering if this version supports portrait orientation with Video Hardware acceleration?
    And also, does it support touch panel, say big screen with IrTouch Panel?

    Thanks,
    Wilson

    • Hi Wilson,

      It supports portrait mode if you set ro.sf.hwrotation to 90 or 270 in the init.freescale.rc. As for Video acceleration, it works as well and the orientation should affect it whatsoever.

      Finally, regarding the IrTouch panel it depends, if it shows up up as a USB HID device (like a mouse) it should be fine. Otherwise some adaptation is required.

      Regards,
      Gary

  3. Hi

    I wonder wether the BD android repo will support repo –mirror ?
    At now I have a:

    > cohen@PCLX30164:/usr/local/src/android/BoundaryDevices/mirror$ repo init -u git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest.git –mirror
    > Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/clone.bundle
    > Get https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
    > remote: Counting objects: 1, done
    > remote: Finding sources: 100% (51/51)
    > remote: Total 51 (delta 20), reused 51 (delta 20)
    > Dépaquetage des objets: 100% (51/51), fait.
    > Depuis https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
    > 58f85f9..e01ee02 master -> origin/master
    > 203153e..39252ba stable -> origin/stable
    > * [nouvelle étiquette] v1.12.34 -> v1.12.34
    > Get git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest.git
    > remote: Counting objects: 760, done.
    > remote: Total 760 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 760
    > Réception d’objets: 100% (760/760), 179.81 KiB | 123.00 KiB/s, fait.
    > Résolution des deltas: 100% (320/320), fait.
    > Depuis git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-beta -> origin/boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-beta
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-ga -> origin/boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-ga-hdmi_input -> origin/boundary-imx-kk4.4.3-ga-hdmi_input
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-kk4.4.3_2.0.1-ga -> origin/boundary-imx-kk4.4.3_2.0.1-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga -> origin/boundary-imx-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga_cnt -> origin/boundary-imx-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga_cnt
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-l5.1.1_2.0.0-beta -> origin/boundary-imx-l5.1.1_2.0.0-beta
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-l5.1.1_2.1.0-ga -> origin/boundary-imx-l5.1.1_2.1.0-ga
    * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx-m6.0.1_1.0.0-ga -> origin/boundary-imx-m6.0.1_1.0.0-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-imx_jb4.3_1.0.0-ga -> origin/boundary-imx_jb4.3_1.0.0-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] boundary-kk4.4.2_1.0.0-ga -> origin/boundary-kk4.4.2_1.0.0-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] imx-kk4.4.3-beta -> origin/imx-kk4.4.3-beta
    > * [nouvelle branche] imx-kk4.4.3-ga -> origin/imx-kk4.4.3-ga
    > * [nouvelle branche] master -> origin/master
    > fatal: manifest ‘default.xml’ not available
    > fatal: manifest default.xml not found

    Thanks

  4. Hello,

    I am trying to use the BD-SL-i.MX6 (SABRE Lite) board with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 GA release. So I download the file m601-nitrogen6x-20160811.img.gz. I program a 16 Go SD Card with command “zcat m601*.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1M”.
    I insert SD card in slot and enter : setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q then run upgradeu
    The upgradeu occures an error :

    MX6Q SABRELITE U-Boot > run upgradeu
    Card did not respond to voltage select!
    mmc0(part 0) is current device
    MMC: block number 0x1 exceeds max(0x0)
    ** Can’t read from device 0 **

    ** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for fatload **
    ** Bad partition 1 **
    mmc1 is current device
    reading /6q_upgrade

    ** Unable to read “/6q_upgrade” from mmc 1:1 **
    Loading file “/6q_upgrade” from mmc device 1:1 (xxb1)
    Failed to mount ext2 filesystem…
    ** Bad ext2 partition or disk – mmc 1:1 **

    When I try to boot :

    MMC read: dev # 1, block # 2048, count 8192 … 8192 blocks read: OK
    Wrong Image Format for bootm command
    ERROR: can’t get kernel image!

    Please could you help me ?

    Mickael

    • Hi Mickael,

      First, to update U-Boot you need to download the U-Boot image that matches your board separately from the Android release. This latter doesn’t include all the U-Boot files for all our platforms versions.

      You can find the latest u-boot.nitrogen6q here:
      http://linode.boundarydevice.wpengine.com/u-boot-images/u-boot.nitrogen6q

      Then you might need to copy it to a SDCard/USB disk with a MBR partition table if your U-Boot is old (which seems to be the case). The problem is that Android release images now uses GUID partition table (GPT) which isn’t recognized on old U-Boot.

      Regards,
      Gary

  5. Hi Gary,

    Thanks for your answer. I copied uboot file and upgradeu still fails. I have to make MBR partition table, do you have the description somewhere ?

    Regards

    Mickael

    • Sorry I misunderstand your comment. I put u-boot.nitrogen6q and 6x_update file in SD with only one ext2 partitions. I am able to see the sd, its partition, but it fails to find 6X_update … Any idea ?
      Thanks in advance

      Mickael

    • Sorry, second time, I read too fast and I am too impatient to have my android. So I plugged my head and see that It calls for 6q_upgrade (logical !), after retrieve file on the web, I had to rename u-boot.nitrogen6q into u-boot.bin ! But unfortunately , I have this :
      total of 490496 bytes were the same
      —- U-Boot upgraded. reset
      —- U-Boot upgraded. reset
      And nothing happen when I try to restart manually …

      • Hi,

        Please make sure to have only one SDcard plugged in. Also, please copy both 6x_upgrade and u-boot binary from the site I gave earlier. The fact that you need to rename the file tells me something is wrong.

        Also, please specify your current U-Boot version.

        Regards,
        Gary

        • HI gary,

          Thanks for you answer. So I am now connected by usb and use imx_usb_loader tool for flash u-boot.nitrogen6q. So that boots something from where I am trying to run upgradeu with a SDcard that contains u-boot.nitrogen6q and 6x_upgrade (downloaded from http://linode.boundarydevice.wpengine.com/u-boot-images/). There is logs when I am trying run upgradeu after a setenv uboot_defconfig :
          => run upgradeu
          MMC: no card present
          MMC: no card present
          ** Bad device mmc 0 **
          MMC: no card present
          ** Bad device mmc 0 **
          switch to partitions #0, OK
          mmc1 is current device
          ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
          ** File not found /6q_upgrade *

          I am complety lost …

          Regards,
          Mickael

          • Hi Mickael,

            It seems that you an old environment saved into that NOR flash. Once U-Boot is booted up, please issue:
            => env default -a
            => savee

            And then try to run the upgradeu again.

            Regards,
            Gary

  6. Has anyone used a wifi usb dongle with Marshmallow Android and a Sabre Lite (BD-SL-i.MX6) board? I’d like to hook up my demo board to a wifi network rather than hardwire ethernet.

    • hi, your SabreLite(BD-I.MX6) board can connect to internet through?
      why my SabreLite board can not connect to internet?

      I execute the following instruction correctly, but it’s not work.

      ~/$ mkdir myandroid
      ~/$ cd myandroid
      ~/myandroid$ repo init -u git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest.git \
      -b boundary-imx-m6.0.1_1.0.0-ga
      ~/myandroid$ repo sync
      ~/myandroid$ source build/envsetup.sh
      ~/myandroid$ lunch
      … choose nitrogen6x / nit6xlite / nitrogen6sx from the list of boards
      ~/myandroid$ make 2>&1 | tee build.out

      plz help… thx

    • sorry, it’s through ethernet to internet.

      log:
      root@nitrogen6x:/ # ping 192.168.11.1
      connect: Network is unreachable
      2|root@nitrogen6x:/ # busybox ping 192.168.11.1
      PING 192.168.11.1 (192.168.11.1): 56 data bytes
      64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.179 ms
      64 bytes from 192.168.11.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.438 ms

      • Hi,

        Not sure to understand how this is possible that Android ping doesn’t work but busybox one does. Are you using DHCP or fixed IP?

        Also, can you try with selinux disabled? In U-Boot prompt, enter the following:
        => setenv selinux disabled
        => saveenv
        => reset

        Regards,
        Gary

        • thanks for your reply.

          yes, I have closed selinux through modify android/system/core/init/init.cpp. but it’s no help to connect to internet.

          I sync the source by above instruction, then I build the source to produce the image, and make boot sdcard by /device/boundary/mksdcard.sh.
          there are some things wrong? i am not sure I have executed the instruction correctly.

          you get android 6.0.2 source and build the source by above instruction ??

          I doubt the instruction or the source that I synced have some problem.

          android 6.0.2 and android 5.1.1 have the some problem.
          and the image downloaded from this page have no problem.

          please help me.
          thanks

          • Hi,

            Yes the pre-built images are made from an external build server in order to make the instructions work.

            But it sounds like you’ve modified the source code (at least for selinux although you don’t need to). So please make sure to restore to the default state, make sure to ‘repo sync’ again and that no errors appear.

            Also make sure your dev environment matches Google recommendations:
            https://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

            Regards,
            Gary

        • Hi Gary,

          I have 2 questions,

          1. I just want to confirm whether Android 6.0.1(marshmallow)’s Selinux can be disabled during U-boot? (I know android 7.1.1 can not)

          2. If serial port communication displays like “root@nitrogen6x: ……”, does it mean that we are super user now? (I use NITROGEN6X board)

          Thank you and best regards,
          Kevin

          • Hi Kevin,

            1. Yes SELinux can be disabled in Marshmallow. Note that you can set it as permissive for Nougat, which will allow you almost anything but with a few avc warnings.

            2. Yes console is root.

            Regards,
            Gary

  7. Hi Gary,
    I am having the same problem as “mlefores” was facing to get android working.
    I have Nitrogen 6x and UBoot version is UBoot 2013.10

    I have a sd card i have created a ext4 partition & have copied

    u-boot.nitrogen6q for the Nitrogen6x/Sabre-lite using the imx.6Q from
    https://boundarydevice.wpengine.com/compiling-latest-u-boot-for-i-mx6-2015-edition/

    & 6x_upgrade script

    on SD Card.

    Finally i have two files on sd card
    1)6x_upgrade
    2)u-boot.nitrogen6q

    Now in U-Boot> i executed
    U-Boot> env default -a
    U-Boot> savee
    U-Boot> setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
    U-Boot> run upgradeu

    But i am getting errors:-
    MMC: no card present
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    switch to partitions #0, OK
    mmc1 is current device

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards,
    Himanshu

  8. Hi Gary,
    I have formatted the SD Card to FAT 32 as per your suggestion & had copied the Two files Named
    1)6x_upgrade
    2)u-boot.nitrogen6q

    Now in U-Boot> i executed
    U-Boot> env default -a
    U-Boot> savee
    U-Boot> setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
    U-Boot> run upgradeu
    U-Boot > pri upgradeu

    Please find the Complete log for above:-

    U-Boot 2013.10-00054-g2a78739 (Dec 03 2013 – 12:45:23)

    CPU: Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
    Reset cause: POR
    Board: Nitrogen6X
    DRAM: 2 GiB
    MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    auto-detected panel wsvga-lvds
    Display: wsvga-lvds (1024×600)
    In: serial
    Out: serial
    Err: serial
    Net: using phy at 6
    FEC [PRIME]
    Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
    AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
    flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part
    No port device detected!
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **

    SATA device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    MMC: no card present
    mmc0(part 0) is current device
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    mmc1 is current device
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    Failed to mount ext2 filesystem…
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    (Re)start USB…
    USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
    scanning bus 0 for devices… 4 USB Device(s) found
    scanning usb for storage devices… 0 Storage Device(s) found
    scanning usb for ethernet devices… 0 Ethernet Device(s) found

    USB device 0: unknown device
    ** Bad device usb 0 **
    ** Bad device usb 0 **

    USB device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device usb 1 **
    ** Bad device usb 1 **

    6x_bootscript not found

    serial console at 115200, 8N1

    details at http://boundarydevice.wpengine.com/6q_bootscript
    U-Boot > env default -a
    ## Resetting to default environment
    U-Boot > savee
    Saving Environment to SPI Flash…
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    Erasing SPI flash…Writing to SPI flash…done
    U-Boot > setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
    U-Boot > run upgradeu

    SATA device 0: Model: Firm: Ser#:
    Type: Hard Disk
    Capacity: not available
    … is now current device
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **

    SATA device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    MMC: no card present
    mmc0(part 0) is current device
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    mmc1 is current device
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    Failed to mount ext2 filesystem…
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **

    USB device 0: unknown device
    ** Bad device usb 0 **
    ** Bad device usb 0 **

    USB device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device usb 1 **
    ** Bad device usb 1 **
    U-Boot > pri upgradeu
    upgradeu=for dtype in ${bootdevs}; do for disk in 0 1 ; do ${dtype} dev ${disk} ;for fs in fat ext2 ; do ${fs}load ${dtype} ${disk}:1 10008000 /6x_upgrade && source 10008000 ; done ; done ; done
    U-Boot >

  9. Hi Gary,

    I am trying unbricking method on windows,
    I had download the .exe
    please check the method which i had tried.

    D:\Nitrogen6x\sb_loader\sb_loader.v1.2>sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q
    Waiting for HID device for 2 seconds…
    HID device was not found.
    Please place the device in recovery mode and restart the program.

    • Hi,

      Are you sure you have changed the DIP switch as shown in the pictures? Is the board still booting to U-Boot when plugging the power? If so the switches are wrong.

      That being said, I guess using a USB FAT32 formatted stick is the easiest option for Windows users. Sorry I assumed you were using Linux.

      Regards,
      Gary

  10. Hi Gary,
    For your Question
    Is the board still booting to U-Boot when plugging the power?
    Ans:-Previously it was,but we have just inverted it and now on powerOn no uboot&no logs are coming on serial port.
    Then we tried
    sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q But same error.

    Will try with stick & let u know.

  11. Hi Gary,
    This time i have tried with FAT32 SD Card [Formatted via windows machine]
    Command executed
    U-Boot> env default -a
    U-Boot> savee
    U-Boot> setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
    U-Boot> run upgradeu
    U-Boot > pri upgradeu

    Please find the log for above command:-

    U-Boot 2013.10-00054-g2a78739 (Dec 03 2013 – 12:45:23)

    CPU: Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
    Reset cause: POR
    Board: Nitrogen6X
    DRAM: 2 GiB
    MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    No panel detected: default to HDMI
    Display: HDMI (1024×768)
    In: serial
    Out: serial
    Err: serial
    Net: using phy at 6
    FEC [PRIME]
    Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
    AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
    flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part
    No port device detected!
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **

    SATA device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    MMC: no card present
    mmc0(part 0) is current device
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    mmc1 is current device
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    Failed to mount ext2 filesystem…
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    …

    • Hi,

      First, you don’t need to do “env default -a” every time, you’ll need to do it once the bootloader will be updated, not before.
      Then I’ve cut the log, the interesting part is that u-boot says “Unrecognized filesystem type”. So it seems to be the issue here. Can you try the following commands:
      => mmc dev 1
      => fatls mmc 1

      If at this point you cannot list the FAT partition it means that it hasn’t been properly formatted. Do you have a USB disk to try with?

      Regards,
      Gary

  12. Hi Gary,
    I have tried to do it via USB stick please check the log,
    Now nothing is coming on serial port.
    U-Boot > setenv uboot_defconfig nitrogen6q
    U-Boot > run upgradeu

    SATA device 0: Model: Firm: Ser#:
    Type: Hard Disk
    Capacity: not available
    … is now current device
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **

    SATA device 1: unknown device
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    ** Bad device sata 1 **
    MMC: no card present
    mmc0(part 0) is current device
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    mmc1 is current device
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **
    Failed to mount ext2 filesystem…
    ** Unrecognized filesystem type **

    USB device 0:
    Device 0: Vendor: Kingston Rev: PMAP Prod: DataTraveler 2.0
    Type: Removable Hard Disk
    Capacity: 3875.0 MB = 3.7 GB (7936000 x 512)
    … is now current device
    reading /6x_upgrade
    1559 bytes read in 49 ms (30.3 KiB/s)
    ## Executing script at 10008000
    check U-Boot
    reading u-boot.nitrogen6q
    490496 bytes read in 75 ms (6.2 MiB/s)
    read 77c00 bytes from SD card
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    probed SPI ROM
    SF: 490496 bytes @ 0x400 Read: OK
    byte at 0x12000025 (0x80) != byte at 0x12400025 (0x10)
    Total of 37 byte(s) were the same
    Need U-Boot upgrade
    Program in 5 seconds
    5
    4
    3
    2
    1
    erasing
    SF: 786432 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK
    programming
    SF: 489472 bytes @ 0x800 Written: OK
    SF: 1024 bytes @ 0x400 Written: OK
    verifying
    SF: 490496 bytes @ 0x400 Read: OK
    Total of 490496 byte(s) were the same
    —- U-Boot upgraded. reset

  13. Hi Gary,
    I have tried via sb_loader.exe please check the output.
    Please help on this,as nothing is working now.

    D:\Nitrogen6x\sb_loader\sb_loader.v1.2>sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q
    Found USB#VID_15A2&PID_0054#5&5AA9E9C&0&2.
    Reg 0x20e05a8 is initialized.

    Reg 0x20c4060 is initialized.
    DCD Write Success!

    Executed plugin successfully.

    Loading Firmware.
    Succeed to download u-boot.nitrogen6q to the device.
    Failed to run plugin u-boot.nitrogen6q to the device.

  14. Hi Gary,
    I have tried with binary downloaded from your given link
    http://linode.boundarydevice.wpengine.com/u-boot-images/u-boot.nitrogen6q2g

    via sb_loader.exe please check the output.Its output is successful, but still i am not able to see any output on Uart
    Please help on this.

    D:\Nitrogen6x\sb_loader\sb_loader.v1.2>sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q2g

    D:\Nitrogen6x\sb_loader\sb_loader.v1.2>sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q2g
    Found USB#VID_15A2&PID_0054#5&5AA9E9C&0&2.
    Reg 0x20e05a8 is initialized.
    Reg 0x20e05b0 is initialized.
    ….
    Reg 0x20c4060 is initialized.
    DCD Write Success!

    Executed plugin successfully.

    Loading Firmware.
    Succeed to download u-boot.nitrogen6q2g to the device.
    Run into the image successfully.

    • Hi,

      Yes, so it is a 2GB version, not 1GB. So you need to use u-boot.nitrogen6q2g. Then the reason why sbloader doesn’t work, well the log looks good, please double-check the serial connection.

      Also, please try the sbloader binary I pointed to earlier.

      Regards,
      Gary

  17. Hi Gary,
    While flashing u-boot.nitrogen6q2g via sbloader
    My connection is only USB.

    Do you want me to add serial connection in this process?

    After flashing i make the dip switch to its previous position and then I am plugging in the power & checking on serial for uboot.
    But Nothing is coming.

    Regards,
    Himanshu

    • Hi,

      Yes you absolutely need a serial connection. The process just boots the binary, it is NOT flashed to NOR.

      So the steps are:
      1- use sbloader to boot the binary
      2- plug you USB stick with 6x_upgrade and u-boot.nitrogen6q2g
      2- stop the autostop boot to enter ‘env default -a; run upgradeu’

      Regards,
      Gary

  18. Hi Gary,
    Thanks Gary for such a nice support , I am able to get UBoot Upgraded. Now i will try for android & let u know.

    Steps which i did:-
    1)Had both connection for Nitrogen Board via USB & Serial to my PC
    2)USB Stick was connected to Nitrogen6x which has “6x_upgrade” and “u-boot.nitrogen6q2g”
    3)Flashed the u-boot.nitrogen6q2g via sbloader
    Command is sb_loader.exe -f u-boot.nitrogen6q2g
    4)Once this process was completed i was able to see the UBoot on serial.
    5)Stopped the auto boot and entered command env default -a; run upgradeu’

    Attaching the logs:-
    U-Boot 2016.03-20505-g7e2d42d (Oct 14 2016 – 03:09:51 -0700), Build: jenkins-uboot_v2016.03-84

    CPU: Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
    Reset cause: POR
    Board: Nitrogen6X
    I2C: ready
    DRAM: 2 GiB
    MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    Display: hdmi:1280x720M@60 (1280×720)
    In: serial
    Out: serial
    Err: serial
    Net: Micrel ksz9021 at 6
    FEC [PRIME], usb_ether
    Error: usb_ether address not set.

    Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
    => env default -a
    ## Resetting to default environment
    => run upgradeu
    AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
    flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part
    No port device detected!
    ** Bad device size – sata 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 0 **
    MMC: no card present
    MMC: no card present
    ** Bad device mmc 1 **
    starting USB…
    USB0: Port not available.
    USB1: USB EHCI 1.00
    scanning bus 1 for devices… 3 USB Device(s) found
    scanning usb for storage devices… 1 Storage Device(s) found
    scanning usb for ethernet devices… 0 Ethernet Device(s) found

    USB device 0:
    Device 0: Vendor: Kingston Rev: PMAP Prod: DataTraveler 2.0
    Type: Removable Hard Disk
    Capacity: 3875.0 MB = 3.7 GB (7936000 x 512)
    … is now current device
    reading /6x_upgrade
    1559 bytes read in 23 ms (65.4 KiB/s)
    ## Executing script at 10008000
    check U-Boot
    reading u-boot.nitrogen6q2g
    490496 bytes read in 49 ms (9.5 MiB/s)
    read 77c00 bytes from SD card
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    probed SPI ROM
    device 0 offset 0x400, size 0x77c00
    SF: 490496 bytes @ 0x400 Read: OK
    byte at 0x120001d8 (0x89) != byte at 0x124001d8 (0x55)
    Total of 472 byte(s) were the same
    Need U-Boot upgrade
    Program in 5 seconds
    5
    4
    3
    2
    1
    erasing
    SF: 786432 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK
    programming
    device 0 offset 0x800, size 0x77800
    SF: 489472 bytes @ 0x800 Written: OK
    device 0 offset 0x400, size 0x400
    SF: 1024 bytes @ 0x400 Written: OK
    verifying
    device 0 offset 0x400, size 0x77c00
    SF: 490496 bytes @ 0x400 Read: OK
    Total of 490496 byte(s) were the same
    —- U-Boot upgraded. reset

    Logs afterthis step :- restart and no SD card

    U-Boot 2016.03-20505-g7e2d42d (Oct 14 2016 – 03:09:51 -0700), Build: jenkins-uboot_v2016.03-84

    CPU: Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
    Reset cause: POR
    Board: Nitrogen6X
    I2C: ready
    DRAM: 2 GiB
    MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
    SF: Detected SST25VF016B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
    auto-detected panel hannstar7
    Display: lvds:hannstar7 (1280×800)
    In: serial
    Out: serial
    Err: serial
    Net: Micrel ksz9021 at 6
    FEC [PRIME], usb_ether
    Error: usb_ether address not set.

    Regards,
    Himanshu

  20. Hi Gary,

    As android is working on our nitrogen board,we are facing some more issue:-

    1)We have connected android to WIFI router but its showing no internet .
    2)Is there some setting to set screen resolution.We are able to see complete screen on monitor but on screen which came with nitrogen display is not complete.

    Regards,
    Himanshu

  21. Hi,

    I am working on android on nitrogen6_max
    Initially my mmc0 was not getting mounted due to old u-boot. As mentioned in the comments section, I resolved this by installing the latest uboot (downloaded the uboot sources, checked out to boundary-v2016.03 branch and built it).

    I am making some changes at system level and want to flash my own images built form boundarydevices android source code. But “fastboot devices” does not show any devices.

    Serial log shows that the device is entering in to fastboot but fastboot devices does not show anything.
    Is it because of missing drivers? If so where can i find them?

    Terminal OutPut:
    nitrogen6x$ adb reboot-bootloader
    nitrogen6x$ fastboot devices
    nitrogen6x$

    Looking forward for your support. If more information is needed, please let me know,

  22. Hi,

    I have two questions :

    1 – On upper reply you said “It supports portrait mode if you set ro.sf.hwrotation to 90 or 270 in the init.freescale.rc” do I need to recompile android or this file can be found and patch on the SD ?

    2 – What is the best\fast way to enable Bluetooth on Sabre Lite (I known that I need to add a USB dongle or a small card) ?

    Thanks for your help,

    Note : I stop trying to use LVDS, Full HD is not supported, i found how switch to 1080p on HDMI so my previous question is closed…

    • Hi,

      1- You either need to rebuild the ramdisk or hack it manually:
      https://boundarydevice.wpengine.com/hacking-ram-disks/

      2- Depends on the BT chip you want to use. But you’ll need to rebuild all the BT-related HAL for that particular chip if it isn’t TI.

      3- For LVDS, depends on your screen, it is possible to have 1080P LVDS display but it requires to use 2LVDS connectors which isn’t available on SabreLite but is on our Nitrogen6_MAX.

      Regards,
      Gary

      • Thanks for this fast answer,

        For point 2 , if you sold or if you know the reference of BT 4 adapter that work out of the box for saber lite, I am very very interest in it.

        For point 3, do you sell a card that allows 1080p on LVDS, I need Android >= 4.3, BT 4 adapter, I2C, USB ports, tactile touch, small form-factor, if bi-display is working it will be a plus.
        => If you sold a 1080p LVDS display that work we card I am interested too…

        Don’t hesitate to contact me directly by e-mail for a commercial proposition on this items, it’s for a commercial product.

        Thanks,

  23. Hi Gary,

    As android is working on our nitrogen board,we are facing some more issue:-

    1)We have connected android to WIFI router but its showing no internet .
    2)Is there some setting to set screen resolution.We are able to see complete screen on monitor but on screen which came with nitrogen display is not complete.

    Regards,
    Himanshu

  24. Hi Gary,
    i’m porting android M on iMX6q_Sabresd from fsl, and i have problem with external SD card: android cannot detect sd card!
    even kernel detected already, when sd card inserted:
    mmc1: mmc_rescan_try_freq: trying to init card at 300000 Hz
    mmc1: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
    mmc1: new high speed SDHC card at address 0007
    mmcblk1: mmc1:0007 SL32G 28.9 GiB
    mmcblk1: p1 p2

    Could you give me some advices, where can i modify in AOSP to mount/detect/enable external SD card on android M?
    as description above on your device:
    Adoptable external storage
    – Enabled for external SD-Card only on our builds

    I’m using android 6.0.1/kernel 4.1.15.

    Thank you!

    Regards,
    Nguyen

  25. Hi Gary,
    In /device/fsl/sabresd_6dq/fstab.freescale i’m using this to mount:
    devices/soc0/soc/2100000.aips-bus/2194000.usdhc/mmc_host* auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard1:auto,encryptable=userdata
    but not success!

    Thanks for your reply!

    Regards,
    Nguyen

  26. Hi,

    On imx6 SD board on marshmallow 6 image facing the following issue with mic.

    The mic works for record and play back for Tiny cap app which directly gets connected from Hardware layer Linux

    But the mic app from Android frame work do not work and indicates package loss in the logs

    Has anyone faced similar issue.

    Thanks,

  28. Hello,

    I recently purchased a Nit6Q_MAX board and I am having Wifi connection loss issues with Android.
    When the connection is lost, there is a kernel message “wlcore: Scan completed due to error.” along with a trace and the TIWI module is restarted.
    See the following pastebin:
    http://pastebin.com/G6SJZ7Ez

    There is no reliable way to reproduce the problem, or at least I have not found one yet. I am usually seeing the issue when doing a ping to other devices, or using the Android browser to access a web page, but it also happens when it is just idling. I would say it happens at least every 5 minutes, and sometimes it is also periodic every minute:
    http://pastebin.com/ZR6eLWv8

    What has been tried so far:
    – m601-nitrogen6x-20161129.img.gz, l511-nitrogen6x-20160225.img.gz, and with an Android 601 build from source (above pastebins are with m601-nitrogen6x-20161129.img.gz)
    – three different wifi access points in two different locations
    – wifi access points set to channel auto, as well as channel 1/6/11 (the above pastebins are with channel set to 1)
    – the original antenna that came with the device, as well as another external wifi antenna (above pastebins are with the original antenna)

    I have no wifi issues on any of the tested access points with other devices (smartphone, laptop, tablet, wandboard, raspberry pi, etc.). I am located in Switzerland, do you think that could make a difference? (as far as I know, the US does not allow channels 12 and 13; however, I also manually switched channels to 1/6/11).

    Have you seen similar issues with your devices?
    Do you have an idea what could be done to troubleshoot the issue? (Maybe I am missing something obvious here)

    Best Regards
    Andreas

    • Hi Andreas,

      Well I just pushed another update of firmware files since TI updated linux-firmware last December:
      https://github.com/boundarydevices/android_device_boundary/commit/564a4a9e

      However, looking at your log, can you try the following in the console (via ADB):
      setprop persist.sys.wifidirect disabled

      Then you need to reboot for the property to have any effect.

      It was explained back in the KitKat release blog post that the WiFi chip supports “multi-role” which means WiFi-P2P.
      However we’ve seen bad behavior with the multi-role firmware so we added a property that allows to remove the P2P feature and therefore use the single-role firmware (more reliable).

      Let us know how it goes.

      Regards,
      Gary

      • Hi Gary

        Thank you for the swift reply.
        With ..
        “setprop persist.sys.wifidirect disabled”
        .. wifi has been running stable now for more than 24 hours, awesome!

        (That is with the m601-nitrogen6x-20161129.img.gz image, I have not yet tried a build from source with the latest TI firmware, though I am sure this will work just as well if not better. In either case, I don’t really need multi-role.)

        Thanks again
        Andreas

  29. Trying to build Marshmallow on 14.04 LTS machine that builds Kitkat correctly.

    I followed the “android-getting-started-guide/” for Mashmellow

    ~/myandroid$ repo init -u git://github.com/boundarydevices/android-manifest.git \
    -b boundary-imx-m6.0.1_1.0.0-ga
    ~/myandroid$ repo sync

    After running while it “repo sync” pauses waiting on a password

    Fetching projects: 46% (218/473) Fetching project android_hardware_broadcom_libbt
    Fetching project platform/external/giflib
    Fetching project platform/external/libmtp
    Fetching project platform/packages/apps/Launcher3
    Fetching project platform/frameworks/compile/mclinker
    Fetching projects: 47% (223/473) Fetching project wfd-proprietary
    git@linode.boundarydevice.wpengine.com‘s password:

    Can you help get me past this ?

    Thank you!

  31. Hi,

    I had problem with N-Trig HID touchscreen in the Marshmallow Android build for Nitrogen6x. The Lollipop or Kitkat versions were fine. Change the kernel build to select N-Trig HID still did not help. What is specific step to remedy to use USB touch screen instead of I2C ?

    Thanks,
    Huicua

      • Kernel menuconfig :
        Device Drivers -> HID support -> Special HID drivers
        HID Multitouch panels
        N-Trig touch screen

        Tried multiple times with kernel rebuild and to no avail. The USB touch screen simply does not work. Don’t know if something needs to change in the device tree ?

  33. Hi Gary,

    Thank you for the reply and Yup I am well aware of that point.

    My Custom design i mean No change in the HW design including DDR3 Layout and is exactly same as BD-SL-i.MX6. Therefore if we mount DDR3 1GB configuration(4x128x16) it is perfectly fine for U-boot, Kernel and everything is working.

    I just wanted to increase the DDR3 size to 2GB on the same HW board just by mounting with 4x256x16 devices. This is where i had the problem, neither the original uboot.nitogen6q2q binary is working nor stress test or calibration

    Kindly suggest me if the 2GB DDR3 configuration is feasible or not by re-using the same HW design (1GB DDR3 BD-SL-i.MX6).

    If it is possible.. please provide me the instructions or any links to make it 2GB DDR 3 working on BD-SL-i.MX6 design

    Regards

  34. Booting BD-SL.I.MX6 with Marshmallow image, it shows root@nitrogen6x on the serial console which means super access. right?

    But it says permission denied for certain commands like “ifconfig”, “cd” to some directories.

Leave a Reply

Subscribe to be Notified of the

Most Current Software and Hardware Releases