I want to be android
My Zero Wifi is not working
I haven’t successfully installed that, unfortunately, so I’m unable to advise.
Hi there,
I’m glad that you are improving the software. I love the hardware, but it lacks good software support…
Today I flashed the three packages just released a week ago (release 20220602-0249), but with no luck, so you need to improve the software still more if you want to have a nice user base:
-Image for radxa-zero-debian-buster-xfce4-arm64-20220602-0403-mbr.img.xz: No Wifi service in the panel, after verifying with “mncli dev wifi” that all SSIDs were scanned correctly, I tried to connect manually using "nmcli dev wifi connect… " but I’ve got this error:
Error: Connection activation failed: (5) IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.).
I tried to run “mncli monitor” but there is no output and I had to cancel the process.
About the other two images that I tested:
- Armbian_22.08.0-trunk_Radxa-zero_bullseye_current_5.10.119_minimal.img.xz: **No desktop.** Useless.
- Armbian_22.08.0-trunk_Radxa-zero_focal_current_5.10.119_xfce_desktop.img.xz : **Worked but can't start GPARTED after installing it. Useless.**Hi, I had this same problem, and needed Android
I solved by modifying the slimbox x96s android image with updated wifi drivers for the CM256SM chip. It took me about a month to figure this out. Let me know if you want the image, I will upload somewhere for you.
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Nice! I decided to go the linux route (for now). But maybe somebody else could use your image.
After spending 3 weeks with a headache figuring out what doesn’t work, I realized that I am one of the ““lucky”” owner of Radxa Zero v1.5 with the AW-CM256SM wireless module.
Wi-Fi with Android simply does not work. When this hooks up (rarely) to the WiFi network, it disconnects after a few minutes of use.
As you can imagine, Youtube, Spotify, streaming services–all useless.
Can you please provide an Android image that works with this wifi module?
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I have created an internal issue for this. I’m not working on Android so once we confirmed the issue I’ll get the Android engineer to work on this.
Thank you very much @RadxaYuntian
I have seen that you/your engineers have provided updated versions of Debian and Ubuntu for the WiFi AW-CM256SM module on github.com. So I am a bit surprised that there is no updated version of Android.
Honestly we hope for a response fairly quickly.
From the supplier AllNet China are currently coming to Europe only Radxa rev. 1.5 with the problematic wifi module.
Until revision 1.4 there were no problems with the Android image you provided.
Now we get many complaints from customers.
So far we have managed to curb customer complaints by providing USB to LAN adapters AT OUR OWN EXPENSE, so that customers can still somehow surf the Internet in Android.
This situation is obviously not sustainable forever.
Checked with the Android engineer and he told me CM256 is supported, which was what I remembered. I’ll still let the tester to check it tomorrow to make sure.
@RadxaYuntian
Unless I misunderstood something, your reply to user “triggerfinger0163” dated 8 Jun 2022 suggests that your engineers were informed on that date of some kind of problems.
The Debian and Ubuntu images you indicated compatible with the AW wifi module appear to be from August 2022.
The downloadable android image appears to be dated 11 March 2022. Could it be that you just forgot to update some links?
I am of course willing to provide any kind of log you may need for the issue.
@tceylon
I am the “lucky” owner of Radxa Zero v1.5 with the AW-CM256SM wireless module.
The Wi-Fi with Android simply does not work.
When this hooks up (rarely) to the WiFi network, it disconnects after a few minutes of use.
As you can imagine, Youtube, Spotify, streaming services: all useless.
Can you please tell me where to find the image with the patch, or how to apply it to the image “slimbox x96s”
Thank you very much for your help!
J
I have confirmed that the 20220311 Android build has working Wi-Fi on CM256.
@RadxaYuntian Thank you for taking the time to look at this.
My problem is still there. I will try to make some screenshot and look at the Android log and post it here.
Maybe somebody knows more…
You can capture logs in serial console. Something like dmesg > kernel.log then sending the file can be a helpful first step.
Board model: Zero 4GB/16GB D4E16H v1.5 with AW-CM256SM wireless module
Since I cannot test the board with the console right now, I have attached the logcat file from Android (it contains the kernel logs too).
adb logcat -b all -v threadtime > logcat.txt
logcat.zip (1.1 MB)
Some notes about the log file:
- I have anonymised all MAC Address by replacing them with
ab:cd:ed:01:02:03, just in case you wonder - Our Wi-Fi network is called
AllNet WiFi - At time 11:58 I started to play a YouTube video, as you can see from the screenshots below
10-25 11:58:54.247 4206 4206 D NowPlayingListener: updateNowPlayingNotification with controller: NowPlayingMediaController {packageName = org.mozilla.firefox, state = 3, metadata = TV für Hunde! 8 STUNDEN lustige Unterhaltung für gelangweilte Hunde + Musik! NEU - YouTube, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I4KCmFfVm34, null} - The problem shows up around time 12:02.
10-25 12:02:00.160 0 0 I : [ 790.252331@2] CFG80211-ERROR) wl_cfg80211_hang : In : chip crash eventing, reason=0x8002
...
10-25 12:02:02.854 4601 4601 D wpa_supplicant: wlan0: State: COMPLETED -> DISCONNECTED
- YouTube playing for about 5 minutes
- Wi-Fi disconnects on its own
- In the Settings of Android there are no Wi-Fi networks anymore!
- Wi-Fi shows up and reconnects only after turning it Off then On
- Wi-Fi disconnects again after some minutes
Here a short screen capture showing the problem.
Can this problem be something like the one described here?
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I have requested our testing engineer to follow what’s described here to try to reproduce it.
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We have reproduced this issue. We have assigned this to our Android engineer to investigate.
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Thank you very much.
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Excuse me. What Android are you running? What FPS do you get in youtube?
@RadxaYuntian
Is there any news regarding the problem of the wifi disconnecting on Android?
Do you plan to release someday a new version of Android 9?
Alternatively, I can try recompiling the kernel myself, if you can tell me what needs to be changed
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