QA SoftVision Team/Mobile/Pandaboard setup

Information

• This is a basic guide to setting up the pandaboard in order to access it for automation.
• Here you can find more information on setting up a pandaboard

Android build installation

• Make sure you have a 8GB SDCard of Class 10 for the board
• Download the image from here
• Unzip the image making sure it's size is 16GB when done
• Connect the SDCard to the PC using the apropriate hardware (an internal or external card reader)
• Wait for the card to be mounted
• Run "df" from the terminal to get a list of devices and check the id of the sdcard - should be similar to /dev/sd<x><nr> (for eg /dev/sdd1)
• Unmount the SDCard

sudo umount /dev/sd<x><nr> -> for e.g. umount /dev/sdd1

• Run the above command for each partition of the SDCard if there are multiple
• Go to the folder you extracted the image in and run

sudo dd if=panda_v2_16gb.img of=/dev/sdd bs=100M count=8000

• Take out the SDCard and put it in the panda board, connect the board and wait for Android to load

Board setup

• Notes:
  • The available Android installation does not support video output so you will not be able to use a monitor or a mouse
  • You can still use adb commands to launch apps and ddms to see screenshots
• Setup:
  • Plug in the SD Card in the SD Card slot
  • Connect the internet cable to the internet port
  • Connect the Power Adapter cable
  • Connect the mini-USB cable

Android settings

• Turn ON developer mode from the Settings menu - Development subsection
• Turn ON the "Always On" option in the Settings menu - Development subsection
• Set the display turn off option to the maximum from the Settings menu - Display timeout
• Allow the installment of apps from unknown sources

ADB settings

• This section will help you set up your PC to access the pandaboard via the ADB interface
• Step 1 - Enter sudo mode for the Terminal

$ sudo su
  <psswd>

• Step 2 - Check if you have the .android folder created if not set it up now

$ mkdir ~/.android

• Step 3 - If the folder was not created you also have to create the adb_usb.ini file

$ vi ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

• Step 4 - Add the device code to the adb_usb.ini configuration file so that adb will know the device

$ echo "0x0451" > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

• Step 5 - Make sure the code was added

$ cat /root/.android/adb_usb.ini
  0x0451

• Step 6 - Restart the adb server

adb kill-server
adb start-server

• Step 7 - Verify the device can be accessed

adb devices

• If an identification number is displayed and you don't get a "no permissions" message the device is available
• You can also add settings in the /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file (Note: sudo permissions are required to save the file - just run gedit in sudo when opening the file for edit)

Add the following line to the file replacing username with actual username:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0451", ATTR{idProduct}=="d102", MODE="0666", OWNER="<username>"