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Using Aroma Installer, I have automated the file system cleaner process.
This was taken from an older version of Lightning Zap! tweaks for another device and finally got Bonsia Backup/Restore working on the Blaze.
FSC reformats and cleans those file systems that we flash to all the time. Multiple flashing can cause little bits and fragments of files to linger about your partitions. Causing poor performance, unexplainable issues (problems that only you are having and no one else), and eventually can effect other files corrupting them as well. We call these file fragments Gremlins. Not the cute furry one either but that mean ass one Stripe...lol
At this time FSC with Aroma installer can only format and clean /system and /data. You will have to manually clean and format /cache. The reason is, recovery automatically mounts /cache and writes to it any time something happens (last_recovery.log). Unfortunately, Aroma uses a flashing script to do it's business; therefore, causing recovery to constantly remount /cache even after you, or the script, has unmounted it.
This DOES NOT touch /recovery, /emmc, /boot, /efs, /radio, /sdcard, or any other partitions not listed above.
Option 1 (Filesystem cleaning & backup/restore data):
Wipes /system & /data
Wipes /cache and /dalvik-cache
Makes a backup of /system and /data partitions then restores them (Based on Bonsia backup/restore scripts)
Formats /system & /data as ext4 with journeling and journel data writeback (Faster read write speeds with better caching)
Tunes said partitions to ensure they are completely clean
Option 1 is perfect for those who are getting poor performance, unexplainable random reboots, poor battery life, etc. It cleans the partitions that are constantly getting written to, thus eliminating any gremlins one might have lurking about.
**NOTE** The backup process is time consuming especially with /system partition...
Option 2 (Filesystem cleaning ONLY)
Wipes /system & /data
Wipes /cache and /dalvik-cache
Formats /system & /data as ext4 with journeling and journel data writeback (Faster read write speeds with better caching)
Tunes said partitions to ensure they are completely clean
DOES NOT make any backup or restores ANY data
Option 2 is ideal for those fresh installs. It ensures your files systems will remain clean and free of gremlins.
How to use:
Make a nandroid backup and/or a Titanium (or your favorite backup app) backup!
Download and place FSC on your external sdcard
Ensure you have enough free space on your sdcard to store the backups if using FSC option 1 (Amount needed varies on how many apps you have)
Reboot to recovery
Flash FSC as you would a regular ROM
Follow the prompts after Aroma starts
Choose either Filesystem cleaning & backup/restore data or Filesystem cleaning ONLY. If you choose Filesystem cleaning ONLY, you will go to another options screen. There you can either leave the selected action choosen (box checked) or uncheck the selected option and still choose Filesystem cleaning & backup/restore data (working on removing this redundant screen)
Once everything has finished, tap the save log button to save your output to your sdcard (it will save from wherever you ran the FSC.zip from, i.e. /sdcard/1flash/FSC.zip.log.txt)
Reinstall gapps
Reboot
Setup/Signin Gmail & Playstore account
Download link:
FSC_v1.zip
**TWRP users**
I'm not very well versed on TWRP. Tried it once, didn't care for it, moved on. When I did try it, it ran from a .zip much like aroma. If this is still the case and you use FSC to format and clean your filesystems, I would strongly suggest after you run FSC, you use the advanced menu in CWM to reboot to recovery to recovery then run TWRP.
Cleaning and formatting /cache manually
Run FSC on /cache manually
Connect phone to computer
Extract cache_tools.zip and place tools directory in sdcard
In terminal run each line idividually:
Code:
cp /sdcard/cache_tools/e2fsck /tmp
cp /sdcard/cache_tools/fsck.ext4 /tmp
cp /sdcard/cache_tools/mkfs.ext4 /tmp
cp /sdcard/cache_tools/tune2fs.ext4 /tmp
chmod -R 755 /tmp
/tmp/e2fsck -fp -B 4096 /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
/tmp/fsck.ext4 -fy /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
/tmp/mkfs.ext4 -O ^ext_attr,^has_journal,^huge_file -L SYSTEM -b 4096 -m 0 -F /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
/tmp/tune2fs.ext4 -c 1 -m 0 -o journal_data_writeback -L CACHE /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
/tmp/fsck.ext4 -Dfy /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
Reboot
Download link:
cache_tools.zip
Bugs/Issues
Bugs/Issues
Calibration is still off just a slight bit.
Gapps is sometimes a bit wonky and seems to get removed at times
Sometimes /system doesn't restore correctly due to a cpio short write/read.
If for some reason you encounter this problem, you will be stuck in a bootloop. Just boot to recovery, flash your ROM and gapps, reboot. Once rebooted, please post your log on pastebin.com and give me the link. Otherwise, I will never be able to track down this issue. Out of about 50 flashes (I'm not exaggerating either. I tested the crap out of this...lol), my /system didn't restore 3 times. This of course is after I got Bonsia Backup/Restore working.
Aroma installer hangs when starting or backing up/restoring a partition. Seems to sometimes occur after mounting USB storage and pushing files to sdcard then unmounting using the back button in recovery.
If you run into this problem, first try to pull /cache/last_recovery.log, then disconnect the device from you computer, reboot to recovery by holding the power button and both volume buttons (release the power button once the Samsung logo is displayed) to make sure everything is remounted properly, then rerun FSC.
He does it again genius man thanks.
"That mean ass one stripe" ahhaha that brings back memories.
Sent from my Zapped AOKP Blaze.
I love you. NO HOMO. Still love you. Still can't flash this though. Still busted. I hate getting detention-.- Stuck with the laptop for now lol
There are three very important rules that anyone who is gonna take care of a mogwai should know:
1. Don't put it near light, especially sunlight, it can kill them.
2. Don't let it get wet with water nor give it any water to drink nor bathe it.
3. No matter how much it cries or begs, NEVER feed it after midnight.
But if things go bad we can always count on Thomas Raines to come in and kick some gremlin ASS!
many thanks!!
I love your work tom i do, but FSC is really unstable...ran this on cwm 6.0.1.9, worked great....flashed aokp, gapps, lightning zap. Flashed AC!D audio over everything but when i went to change the build.prop....i forgot to set the permission back to the way they should be STUPID STUPID me lol ive never done that before but anyways. So i was really frustrated because fixing permission in cwm did absolutely nothing to help the cause. so i reflashed fsc BUT it went through the initial startup sequence and froze before the gremlin pic comes up. Pulled battery, rebooted to cwm, tried again same thing happened. pulled the battery tried again, same thing. It confused the **** out of me. So i thought maybe this version of cwm wasnt well fit for fsc so i flashed cwm 6.0.1.5. Ran FSC and it went passed the initial loading and i was in the aroma installer, chose option 2, formatted system fine, but when it came to data, it just stayed formatting data the loading animation was still moving so its not like it completely froze. But yea this was my experience. Am i doing something wrong?
EDIT
Finally got it to work again using cwm 6.0.1.5. Heres what i did....
1.Completely wipe/format everything within cwm (system,data,cache,dalvik) Wiped 3 times each.
2.Ran BlackHole system wipe
3.Then ran FSC, and it went through everything as it should
DiViNEX said:
I love your work tom i do, but FSC is really unstable...ran this on cwm 6.0.1.9, worked great....flashed aokp, gapps, lightning zap. Flashed AC!D audio over everything but when i went to change the build.prop....i forgot to set the permission back to the way they should be STUPID STUPID me lol ive never done that before but anyways. So i was really frustrated because fixing permission in cwm did absolutely nothing to help the cause. so i reflashed fsc BUT it went through the initial startup sequence and froze before the gremlin pic comes up. Pulled battery, rebooted to cwm, tried again same thing happened. pulled the battery tried again, same thing. It confused the **** out of me. So i thought maybe this version of cwm wasnt well fit for fsc so i flashed cwm 6.0.1.5. Ran FSC and it went passed the initial loading and i was in the aroma installer, chose option 2, formatted system fine, but when it came to data, it just stayed formatting data the loading animation was still moving so its not like it completely froze. But yea this was my experience. Am i doing something wrong?
EDIT
Finally got it to work again using cwm 6.0.1.5. Heres what i did....
1.Completely wipe/format everything within cwm (system,data,cache,dalvik) Wiped 3 times each.
2.Ran BlackHole system wipe
3.Then ran FSC, and it went through everything as it should
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Hmm, I thought I got that issue fixed during testing. It seems to be a mount issue. When you are in recovery and you mount external (usb) sdcard to push/pull files from it then umount by pushing the back button, disconnecting, or unmounting from your PC, it doesn't load the installer right when you try to run it. In addition, it can hang when backing up or restoring /system or /data (was random on which one it would hang on). There is a binary/script update for the Aroma installer which I'm working on implementing now. I'm beginning to think that could be the cause of the issue. Unfortunately, you are forced to reboot which clears out /cache. More importantly, deletes the last_recovery.log, and I think adb logcat can't run while Aroma is running.
In short, if you run into this problem, first try to pull /cache/last_recovery.log, then disconnect the device from you computer, reboot to recovery by holding the power button and both volume buttons (release the power button once the Samsung logo is displayed) to make sure everything is remounted properly, then rerun FSC.
Added to bug tracker...
Aside from the issue I posted, using black hole and FSC together made my phone completely different, no more random lag, no more random 3 second freeze-ups, faster boot, overall performance is enhanced, and finally all of my TB backups install perfectly without freezes or reboots.
-Amazed-
★Transmitted from the AC!DIC planet Blaze, sector AOKP, using Lightning Zap tech within the Samsung Galaxy★
Love your work Thomas, and thanks , but I'm having a bit of a problem.
Out of the 6 or 7 times I've tried to run this, I only got it to start properly twice... And I can't seem to get it to work again. When I try to flash the .Zip, it gives me the "loading aroma" prompt, but the gremlin dude never pops up. It just chills right there till I do a battery pull :'(
If you can give me an idea of how to pull that log, I'd be happy to get that for you
Thanks!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda app-developers app
read the third post...
★Transmitted from the AC!DIC planet Blaze, sector AOKP, using Lightning Zap tech within the Samsung Galaxy★
DiViNEX said:
read the third post...
★Transmitted from the AC!DIC planet Blaze, sector AOKP, using Lightning Zap tech within the Samsung Galaxy★
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Was this for me? Thanks... I've read it like six times lol. It seems like my problem is a little different, or at least caused by something different. Never plugged it in to a computer... Or mounted use storage..
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda app-developers app
Morganmachine91 said:
Was this for me? Thanks... I've read it like six times lol. It seems like my problem is a little different, or at least caused by something different. Never plugged it in to a computer... Or mounted use storage..
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda app-developers app
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Well, if you didn't plug in to a computer or mount the usb storage, then I can only assume that you downloaded with your phone, straight to your sdcard. I this is in fact correct, then one can assume you might have a bad or corrupted download. My suggested would be to delete the current one, download FSC.zip again, and attempt to run the program.
Two things to consider when downloading FSC.zip with your phone.
1) Are you using data or wifi. If you're using data, how good/bad is your data connection. Try downloading over wifi if possible.
2) You are downloading FSC.zip on your phone through xda-developers website from Goo.im server. Lots of connections from 2 servers that incur A LOT of users and traffic for a small device. As much as we like to think our beloved blaze is a miniature computer, it isn't. It is a smartphone and a pretty badass one at that, but between radio to server to server and back again, connections may not fail, but can have lag which could cause a small bit or 2 of data can get lost in the process. Maybe not enough to cause the download to fail or time out, but enough to lightly corrupt the file(s) being downloaded (especially if you are using a data connection and are on the move). Therefore, downloading over wifi is always prefered over data connection no matter how many "g's" you have...
Morganmachine91 said:
Was this for me? Thanks... I've read it like six times lol. It seems like my problem is a little different, or at least caused by something different. Never plugged it in to a computer... Or mounted use storage..
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda app-developers app
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Oh sorry you had asked how to get a log so I assumed you didnt read the bug/issue post. My fault.
★Transmitted from the AC!DIC planet Blaze, sector AOKP, using Lightning Zap tech within the Samsung Galaxy★
Thanks Thomas, thought it might have been a bad download, did it again but I've been at work and both were with data. I'll download at home and transfer over. I'll make sure to get a log if I still have problems lol.
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Flashed this last night fell asleep and when I woke up it said it was still formatting my system and was 17% done. Any idea how long this actually takes because I figured 5 hours was plenty? Lol
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forgetaboutit said:
Flashed this last night fell asleep and when I woke up it said it was still formatting my system and was 17% done. Any idea how long this actually takes because I figured 5 hours was plenty? Lol
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda premium
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DiViNEX said:
I love your work tom i do, but FSC is really unstable...ran this on cwm 6.0.1.9, worked great....flashed aokp, gapps, lightning zap. Flashed AC!D audio over everything but when i went to change the build.prop....i forgot to set the permission back to the way they should be STUPID STUPID me lol ive never done that before but anyways. So i was really frustrated because fixing permission in cwm did absolutely nothing to help the cause. so i reflashed fsc BUT it went through the initial startup sequence and froze before the gremlin pic comes up. Pulled battery, rebooted to cwm, tried again same thing happened. pulled the battery tried again, same thing. It confused the **** out of me. So i thought maybe this version of cwm wasnt well fit for fsc so i flashed cwm 6.0.1.5. Ran FSC and it went passed the initial loading and i was in the aroma installer, chose option 2, formatted system fine, but when it came to data, it just stayed formatting data the loading animation was still moving so its not like it completely froze. But yea this was my experience. Am i doing something wrong?
EDIT
Finally got it to work again using cwm 6.0.1.5. Heres what i did....
1.Completely wipe/format everything within cwm (system,data,cache,dalvik) Wiped 3 times each.
2.Ran BlackHole system wipe
3.Then ran FSC, and it went through everything as it should
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try this, its how I got it to work.
★Transmitted from the AC!DIC planet Blaze, sector AOKP, using Lightning Zap tech within the Samsung Galaxy★
Morganmachine91 said:
Love your work Thomas, and thanks , but I'm having a bit of a problem.
Out of the 6 or 7 times I've tried to run this, I only got it to start properly twice... And I can't seem to get it to work again. When I try to flash the .Zip, it gives me the "loading aroma" prompt, but the gremlin dude never pops up. It just chills right there till I do a battery pull :'(
If you can give me an idea of how to pull that log, I'd be happy to get that for you
Thanks!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769 using xda app-developers app
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I just tried this last night and it did same to me freeze before the gremlin pops up and have to pull battery but it worked for me on the third try and ran perfect! It dose work very well once it starts but you just got to kick it a couple times to get it to run :laugh: is there any log we can pull for you on this thomas ? it works great but just has a little hick-up getting started. Roms running better than every! I think blackhole did a great job too and now Aroma FSC !! I think the Gremlins are on their way to extinction!!
Many thanks!
Does anything in mounts out any other part of recovery need to be set a certain way after running this to work with the aokp rom? I know you said it was set for another specific rom....
woodyjlw said:
I just tried this last night and it did same to me freeze before the gremlin pops up and have to pull battery but it worked for me on the third try and ran perfect! It dose work very well once it starts but you just got to kick it a couple times to get it to run :laugh: is there any log we can pull for you on this thomas ? it works great but just has a little hick-up getting started. Roms running better than every! I think blackhole did a great job too and now Aroma FSC !! I think the Gremlins are on their way to extinction!!
/tmp/last_recovery.log before you reboot
1 thing I found that causes the hangup is if you try to run FSC while plugged in (wall or pc).
Many thanks!
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itsLYNDZ said:
Does anything in mounts out any other part of recovery need to be set a certain way after running this to work with the aokp rom? I know you said it was set for another specific rom....
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Nope... all mounts are set by the flashing script...
Related
If you dont understand what this Modification is doing, why it needs to be done, or what possible benefits come from it, then...
PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS MOD.
***Even tho it is impossible to brick your phone when flashing this i still highly recommend you UNDERSTAND what you are attempting to do before you do it. If someone explains you are freeing up internal memory from other places not using it and you still have to ask what the benefit is, then you obvisouly dont fully understand the mod and your phone and should turn away now.***
Thank You.
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Now onto the mod: Heres a quick description of what this mod is doing. Pretend your phone is a pizza cut into 3 even pieces. Each piece is memory for /cache, /system, /data. Your aneroxic sister "aka cache" doesnt eat a lot so most of her slice will always be left, your fat obese brother "/data" always eats his whole slice and is left wanting more. You are healthy "/system" and only eat what you need and never less never more.
What this mod is doing is taking that original pizza and RECUTTING the slices to better fit whos eating them, so since your aneroxic sister barely eats and your obese brother is always hungry it takes all the extra pizza "aka memory" from your sister and gives it to your brother. As for you "aka /system" you only eat exactly what you need "aka the size of the rom and files it install" so it resizes your own slice to exactly the number it needs to install the rom and its gapps/files and leaves you with just a little wiggle room.
That being said, i tried this on my buddies CDMA Hero that i rooted for him and it worked like a charm. he went from something around 170mb internal storage to around 350+mb internal storage while on CM6 - Froyo 2.2.
***One thing i noticed when using a hero CDMA is that adb is crucial. one of the steps after flashing the recovery file is to reboot back into recovery and i noticed it was impossible to do it the right way without plugging your phone in and using ADB***
Original Files and Instructions: Firerats Original G1/MT3G thread found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874
After you read thru firerats original instructions just know that itll be slightly different on your hero!
1. Click on the link i posted above and download these files: FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip and FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip
2. Put both those files onto your SDCard.
3. While in your SDCard, make a .txt file named "mtdpartmap.txt"
4. Open your new mtdpartmap.txt file and...
- If you are using CM6 then type
Code:
mtd 102 2
- If you are using a larger Sense Rom like Fresh or ZenHero then type
Code:
mtd 182 4
5. Once all 3 files are saved on the root of your SDCard, reboot your phone into recovery
6. Format/Wipe your system and cache.
7. Flash the file: FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip
8. Once the file is done flashing, itll prompt you to wipe cache, system, and dalvik again.
9. Once its wiped, plug ur phone in and pull up command to adb reboot recovery (if you try to reboot into recovery any other way itll mess up the partitions and ull get cache memory.log errors and that will mean the mod didnt work correctly) by using this
Code:
adb shell
reboot recovery
10. if you did step 9 correctly, then youll get back to your recovery menu and itll say "formatting cache..." at the bottom of your screen but your recovery menu is instantly able to be used and you dont have to wait. ***On the newest version i think it no longer says this and your just got to go***
11. Flash CM6 if you used 102 for /system or Flash your larger Sense Rom if you used 182 for /system
12. Optionally, flash any kernal you may be choosing to use
13. Flash the file: FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip
14. Click the top option on your recovery menu to reboot your system.
15. Once your system is fully booted you can go into menu > settings > sd card and internal storage , and check all the new added internal memory you have.
FYI : anytime you flash a new rom after this mod, or flash a new kernal to a currently flashed rom, you will ONLY NEED TO FLASH THE SECONDARY FIRERAT BOOT file named "FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip".
so say after this mod you want to try a new kernal, you flash the kernal, flash boot, and reboot the system.
or say you want to flash a new cm6 nightly update, you flash the new rom/update, flash boot, reboot.
or say u want a new nightly and a new kernal, you flash the nightly, flash the kernal, flash the boot, reboot.
its very simple, if anything u flash overwrites current kernal specifications, u need to flash the boot file to make sure it knows how to set itself up. this goes for nandroid back ups aswell.
Fine Tweaking/Trouble Shooting: To get the most space you possibly can do go into adb or terminal and type
Code:
df -h
and it'll tell you what % you are using on your system. if you are at 60% then you can go ahead and decrease your /system value in your mtdpartmap.txt to about 2mb over the value it says you are using. so if your rom uses 115mb of /system you can change your mtd to "mtd 117 2".
So if you are getting an error while trying to flash a rom after doing this modification you most likely dont have enough /system space and will want to up your value to something more then enough like "mtd 200 4" then run the above code and re-scale down back to 2mb over what the current rom is using.
Enjoy CDMA users!!!
Not sure if Ill try this personally, but thank you.
tailsthecat3 said:
Not sure if Ill try this personally, but thank you.
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Trust me, well worth it. At first i thought it was amazing gains on the g1 and mytouch, but after being the first person in the world to try it on the Sprint Hero CDMA the benefits blow all passed expectations out of the water.
It nearly doubled my buddies internal memory.
i remember on his stock rom with a handful of his favorite apps he was at around 40mb internal memory. after i rooted his phone and flashed FRESH HERO onto his phone with apps2sd he had around 150, now with this mod-cm6-apps2sd hes got over 300.
my win7 drivers are goofy and sometimes won't do adb when its in recovery mode. if you screw up the restart part - ie: can't get into adb to reboot by typing the command and those messages appear - is the device bricked or anything? Is it a one-time? Recoverable? etc...
thank you for the info. i was down to bout 20 mbs free and now well over 100. kept running into problems until i changed the cache size to a little bigger. i had a spare hero to experiment with so alls good.
Skeptical...idk why. I don't wanna risk bricking yet another Hero I guess.
SammyM00782 said:
Skeptical...idk why. I don't wanna risk bricking yet another Hero I guess.
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Can you please enlighten us as to how you bricked your Hero?
I've been thinking about trying this. I hate having 80+ mb free in system that I can't use. Would love to just add it to /data
This won't brick your hero. The only way you can brick it is by flashing the wrong bootloader or radio. This does none of these.
Hey has anyone tried this on a different rom..
oldjackbob said:
Can you please enlighten us as to how you bricked your Hero?
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Well.....first time was an accident. First time rooting, first time messing with a phone. I just kinda jumped right into it because when I found XDA it was pretty exciting. I always support the small guy coming from small businesses my whole life. Anyway, second time was probably due to incorrectly flashing a rom or something but regardless, I went to reboot and the phone was totally unresponsive afterwards. I trust you guys though, especially the devs. So do you think it's worth a shot?
I just did it, running cm6, and it took away that extra 80mb in system, took away all that unused space in cache, and moved it all to data. I went from 20mb free (still using apps2sd mind you) to almost 200! and so far, no issues, market works fine, everything works. Just one little note: I took somethings out of /system/app before flashing both in the rom and the gapps, things I don't use, like calculator (prefer realcalc), voice search, maps, quicksearch(all updated and installed elsewhere), and I only have 3mb free in system, so you may want to see about the customizing given in firerat's thread to increase system to say 100mb (it's 90 by default)
im trying to do this mod but every time i flash the recovery all i get the htc logo and it stays there.. i am using cm6.. any help please
You don't flash a new recovery, this patches your current one. Flash the one labeled recovery like any rom.zip in the recovery, wipe everything, flash your rom or restore, then flash the boot zip as an update.
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danaff37 said:
You don't flash a new recovery, this patches your current one. Flash the one labeled recovery like any rom.zip in the recovery, wipe everything, flash your rom or restore, then flash the boot zip as an update.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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i also was stuck on the white htc screen...
can you explan which file to us.
i couldnt get this to work with clockwork recovery, so changed my recovery first to darchs 1.7.0. you have to make the custom file first and put it on your sd card. i had to have at least 10mb of cache memory specified or i got stuck on the white htc screen.
have to read firerats thread for that.
danaff37 said:
I just did it, running cm6, and it took away that extra 80mb in system, took away all that unused space in cache, and moved it all to data. I went from 20mb free (still using apps2sd mind you) to almost 200! and so far, no issues, market works fine, everything works. Just one little note: I took somethings out of /system/app before flashing both in the rom and the gapps, things I don't use, like calculator (prefer realcalc), voice search, maps, quicksearch(all updated and installed elsewhere), and I only have 3mb free in system, so you may want to see about the customizing given in firerat's thread to increase system to say 100mb (it's 90 by default)
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Hell yea, glad to see people flashing this mod correctly and enjoying the results!
if you end up customizing your partitions to diff sizes let all the guys know what values they should set and/or how to set them up themselves.
I dont get to use my buddies CDMA Hero a lot so i dont know how smoothly everything has been working over the past 2 days but i havent gotten any complaints or calls to fix bugs so i assume its all working very well with firerats default values but i dont know for sure.
so far ive seen these suggestions
1. up cache to 3mb
2. up system to 100mb
@danaff37, did you set your own values or are you using defaults still?
can you us this on cyanogenmod? its 2.2.... i have tryed every way and all it gets me is the white htc screen and never does on from there... please help
i checked before i flashed to see what all i was using. i had quick system info installed already so was easy for me to see. i was already using 130mb for system, prob because of dalvic-cache, so i upped it to 150mb for future use. default setting for cache was no go, changed it to 10 mb and all is fine.
I'm using default still, but downloading the latest nightly and noticed it's about 5mb bigger than before, so I'm going to go ahead and change it to 100mb when I flash it later (after I make my mods). Anybody using it should keep in mind that most rom files, the bulk of the space it takes up is in system, so be sure to partition accordingly (including gapps on aosp roms)
I left the cache at the default, try to go to /cache afterwards and it symlinks straight to /data/cache, so I don't understand how leaving it bigger would solve anything, but I've seen stranger things occur with these damn phones. lol
I've been running CM7 for a month or so and I started having some stability problems. So I decided to try DarkyRom.
I did everything like normal (used heimdall).
Upon boot it had an error.
Failed to mount /efs while applying multi-csc.
I'm dead in the water. I tried to flash back to stock. I get an error and thrown into samsung recovery. I can reboot from that and I boot to the gui with no radio. Phone info says "Unknown" Hardware and Baseband Version.
No. I did not backup any EFS (news to me). I do have access to the same model phone, my son has one he just uses as a fancy MP3 player (no phone/data plan).
Is there anything I can do? I did use the ADB Shell and ran "mount" to see if the EFS was mounted. It was a negative...
-MT
Could this have something to do with the file system?
I don't have CWM working. I'm going to work on that. Right now I juast have Samsung Rec. Utils. The error that is in there is:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (Invalid argument)
mainethoughts said:
Could this have something to do with the file system?
I don't have CWM working. I'm going to work on that. Right now I juast have Samsung Rec. Utils. The error that is in there is:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (Invalid argument)
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First off,are you even on the right forum? Darky rom isn't built for this phone so it's not going to work.
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Ugh...an unfortunate response. Yes...I'm on the right forum.
I did make a CWM backup from a couple weeks ago. Not sure if that helps.
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Ugh...an unfortunate response. Yes...I'm on the right forum.
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Them why are you flashing roms from other forums/phones? Use odin and check repartition.
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*hangs head* Admonishment accepted. I really don't know what I was thinking.
Here is my progress. I tried using Odin to just Re-partition. No go.
<ID:0/003> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1455)
So then I downloaded stock EC10 (That was factory on my phone). I flashed that via Odin with "Success".
The same error as initially posted was on the phone. I rebooted from the stock recovery console and I was able to boot. 3g works. The hardware and baseband are now accurate. I'm getting a lot of force closes however. The twlauncher is constantly crashing.
So now the phone is semi-functional but there are still errors. (I was getting more forces than normal in CM7 that caused me to dive into this process in the first place).
I could be way off base but I'm thinking that possibly there is corruption (or wrong file system?) problems with the internal SD (I did format the External SD at the start of this).
I appreciate your help. Any suggestions from here?
-MT
Additional Note: Settings are not saved between reboots.
-Rooted
-Installed ROM Manager
-Installed CWM 3
-Reboot into Recovery Mode
No go. Same /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 error (installation aborted)
The 3e recovery also says:
"your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions."
I tried both wipes. Errors.
mainethoughts said:
-Rooted
-Installed ROM Manager
-Installed CWM 3
-Reboot into Recovery Mode
No go. Same /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 error (installation aborted)
The 3e recovery also says:
"your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions."
I tried both wipes. Errors.
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Use the full odin restore package and make sure you use pit and pda files. Repartition must be checked. Wiping data might be a good idea as well.
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I would odin the full mesmerize package EE19. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064
That is what I have already done I believe. Followed instructions from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064
-MT
If you've done that, then i'm at a loss. That usually is my solve-all solution... Sorry man.
Thank you much. Is it possible that I could have a faulty internal SD? I had suddenly started getting a lot of force closes in CM7. I guess I'm just wondering if I'm fighting two separate issues here. (My bonehead move vs. a real problem)
-MT
I think I'm FIXED!
I was finally (I don't know how) able to get Odin to Flash CWM 4 (The Blue one needed to install CM7).
I got ZERO errors in CWM. So I took the opportunity to clear caches, format data...I got destructive.
I then installed the CM7 Rom. -SUCCESS
Installed GAPPS - SUCCESS
I hope everything is OK at this point. I know CM7 is booting in about 20 seconds opposed to 5 minutes like it was before I decided to try to morph my phone into an I9000.
I actually saw the black screen with the little phone to PC icons at one point tonight. I think I came real close....
Thanks for your help!
PS: CONFIRMED mmcblk0p1 is mounted! (EFS, etc) PHEW!
I had this happen to me right after a Odin even did the rfs formatter tool exact same problems not saving settings upon reboot and it saying something along the lines of process.android.blah blah blah and double vibrate when booting before the fc anyhow I just reflashed miui to get cwm4 wiped everything reflashed cm7 no probs since
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Abstact: my GS4G is bootlooping between the Samsung and T-Mobile splash screens after following this tutorial on removing 'gremlins' and flashing icbinb 2.3.7 for absolutely no discernible reason.
First off, I'd like to apologize for having made this thread in this area vs posting about this in the proper thread. It looks like somewhere along the lines, morons forced the staff to enact a rule about not being able to post to dev forums with less than ten posts, effectively ruining things for those of us who have made accounts but never post because we're usually able to fix our problems by reading around etc prior to having to post about it.
Either way, I decided to do my tri-yearly phone wipe and try to update today thinking there may have been some new developments for the GS4G since I last looked. Having flashed Samsung's (leaked? grey area official?) GB rom it unrooted my phone and I needed to fix that. Luckily I ran across a supposed 1-click root and general phone junk clean up tool; as listed above. After running that I was given CwM voodoo lagfix 3.0.2.8x. I made a back up of the freshly formatted phone and proceeded to flash icbinb 2.3.7.
Right after it started to bootloop at which point I began looking around the thread for any advice. Obviously, people were saying to wipe everything but to my knowledge I'd done so prior yet even after wiping the cache, dalvick cache, and fixing permissions I was still left with a bootloop of the Samsung and T-Mobile splash screens. Formatting /cache, /data, /system, and /sdcard only caused further problems (big surprise!). There hit a point at which CmW was giving me all kinds of errors claiming it couldn't find certain directories every time I gave it a command (I'd elaborate on exactly what the errors were but I was focused on trying other methods and it's been a few hours since I've seen the exact messages). After becoming completely inoperable (to the point of the icbinb 2.3.7 claiming it didn't know what phone I had; a problem stemming from formatting /system or so the thread made it seem) I was forced to run the Odin 1-click process again just to be able to do much of anything.
There was one point at which the phone booted to a home screen yet it immediately started yelling at me about the USB not being assigned (IIRC?) every time I went to do much of anything and literally the entire settings screen consisted of sliding bars (like volume or brightness controls) which had no effect from what I could tell.
After that I attempted four more installations of icbinb 2.3.7 (with many forcing me to run Odin to revert back to some functional state) trying different ways of wiping the cache etc before and after, etc with no luck.
At no point were there problems with anything I attempted to do with my phone untill I flashed icbinb 2.3.7 so I am completely baffled. It's even more frustrating that icbinb is said to be the most stable ROM for the GS4G and virtually nobody has complained of bootlooping or any real problems with flashing it.
Again, I'm sorry for posting this here but there isn't another place I feel it would be allowed but if there's a better place by all means please move it.
Thank you to anyone who is able to help me.
Download ICBINB again. Make sure that you compare the filesize of your downloaded file to the one on the download page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/teamacid/files/roms/icbinb/
Try following my GB starter pack guide from step 6
Do not download the fb_kc1... File since you won't need it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Install ICBINB again. Post back here if you need more help.
I'm on my fifth ICBINB download and they've all been 120mb (122,462kb) instead of 125.4mb
I've never seen anything like this before what are people paying sourceforge for ugh
thanks for the quick reply though and I'm gonna keep downloading till I get it right (unless you feel like mirroring it to some place that allows for full downloads)
should I assume "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card" means flash ICBINB
yeah I tried ten times and it's been the same file size every time. I even tried changing the file name and save location but that didn't matter. this is pretty infuriating.
Asemic said:
I'm on my fifth ICBINB download and they've all been 120mb (122,462kb) instead of 125.4mb
I've never seen anything like this before what are people paying sourceforge for ugh
thanks for the quick reply though and I'm gonna keep downloading till I get it right (unless you feel like mirroring it to some place that allows for full downloads)
should I assume "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card" means flash ICBINB
yeah I tried ten times and it's been the same file size every time. I even tried changing the file name and save location but that didn't matter. this is pretty infuriating.
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Download winMD5Sum
http://www.nullriver.com/downloads/Install-winMd5Sum.exe
It'll let you verify that the file you downloaded is exactly the same as the one that's hosted on sf. I'm about to run the md5sum checker on the file to verify it's the same.
EDIT
Once you have downloaded and installed the program on your computer, right click on the icbinb zip file, select Send To > winmd5sum
It'll have a box called compare, paste this in there:
Code:
428563f929b64fda7f10cda3ff31764a
If your download is good it'll say "MD5 Check Sums are the same" after you click compare.
Asemic said:
I'm on my fifth ICBINB download and they've all been 120mb (122,462kb) instead of 125.4mb
I've never seen anything like this before what are people paying sourceforge for ugh
thanks for the quick reply though and I'm gonna keep downloading till I get it right (unless you feel like mirroring it to some place that allows for full downloads)
should I assume "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card" means flash ICBINB
yeah I tried ten times and it's been the same file size every time. I even tried changing the file name and save location but that didn't matter. this is pretty infuriating.
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I had this problem with ICBNB today switching from Val-Black i decided to try thomas gremlin remover and ended up bootlooped then tried Fb's Starter pack and after flashing the rom said it got installed but it was a mix of both of them so did GB Starter pack again but before flashing ICBNB i flashed bhunds latest rc1.1 kernel rebooted back into recovery adn then flashed with manually formatting /system /data and /cache with no problems
Try that it worked good for me hopefully for you too ive tried it twice in a row right now
do a custom install theres a issue with the standard (first choice installer) that doesnt actually wipe the system partition....
RaverX3X said:
do a custom install theres a issue with the standard (first choice installer) that doesnt actually wipe the system partition....
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+1
i told dsex day it came out about the issue, glad i got it right
also Raver I formatted the /system /data and /cache manually on Val-Black and dsp is working flawlessly for me now thanks for everything!
yeah I think I may have actually gotten it! I managed to get /system wiped after fighting with "format_volume failed to unmount "/system"" for a bit
after doing a quick install it booted and gave me the proper (or at least new to me) boot animation and I'm letting it sit for a bit at the android touch screen.
it seems like this may be solved but I'm gonna give it a little bit just to be sure.
thanks so much everyone, I mean that from the bottom of my heart
looks like things are working very well. again sorry for having to post about it here.
sanQ~
Good to hear everything is cool now....the rom is awesome
Thank's aren't asked for but aappreciated
@Asemic: If this issue is resolved can you please add [SOLVED] to the title of this thread. Thanks!
As always, READ the ENTIRE OP...
If you are having poor performance/battery life and want to help me finalize a project/ addition to the 1-Click Gremlin Remover, let me know...
Awesome! So now that I have a few people that are willing to test that have protential gremlins, I am introducing a possible addition to the Gremlin Removal process. This method is a less destructive technique as oppose to reformating everything and starting all over again (aka the 1-Click method).
This is mainly intended for those who are only experincing less malicious gremlins, meaning you aren't dropping 20% battery every hour, have extemely laggy performance with FC's, etc. However, it is possible that this method could fix even the most extreme performance issues (or not do much at all...lol)
**Make sure you have adb installed on your PC**
Step 1
Download the System Cleaner.zip and copy to the root of your sdcard (see attachments at bottom)
Download the tune2fs.zip, unzip it, copy the file (tune2fs) to the root of your sdcard (see attachments at bottom)
Plug phone into PC via usb
Boot into recovery
Open cmd prompt and type:
Code:
adb shell
cp /sdcard/tune2fs /tmp
chmod 777 /tmp/tune2fs
Now we have our filesystem check environment in place.
Step 2
Unmount /system, /data, and /cache (we can leave the sdcard mounted)
Open cmd prompt and type:
Code:
adb shell
/tmp/tune2fs -l /dev/block/stl9
/tmp/tune2fs -l /dev/block/stl10
/tmp/tune2fs -l /dev/block/stl11
In the output of all three partition checks, you need to look for one of these variables:
Code:
Filesystem State: clean
Filesystem State: not clean
Filesystem State: dirty
If it is "clean", this may not do much for you. If it is "not clean", you didn't unmount that partition. But if it is "dirty", this will fix many issues.
Step 3
Regardless of which state your filesystem is in, we can still run the System Cleaner.
While in recovery mode, flash the System Cleaner.zip as normal. It uses the Aroma Installer so just run it as you normally would. Notice that you only have 1 option to "install" or run the cleaner. I plan to add more to this project, but I want to get the base of it up and running.
This is a fairly quick process but allow it to run fully without touching the device. You will also be prompted to restart or not. I haven't gotten that option working correctly so it doesn't mattter what you choose, you will still have to reboot manually. When the installer is done, click next, finish and you will go back to CWM.
Step 4
After the filesystemcheck is done, run Step 2 again and note your fielsystem state (especially if it was dirty).
Step 5
Reboot the phone and monitor your performance, etc.
A bit of insight into what this is/does:
This method is using a binary called fsck.ext4. Broken down explination:
Code:
fs= filesystem
ck= check
ext4= filesystem type
Pretty redundant I know.
Now, what it does, is runs a filesystem check and defrag, much like windows disk check and defrag. It fine tunes the file systems, realigns things as needed, and cleans up the system. Just like our computers, our phones need a good cleaning from time to time and this little thing will do just that...lol
Again, this is just the base for a larger project...
Credits and Thanks
My wife (she is a great supporter and anti-nagist)
FBis251
RaverX3X (thanks for listening and making me figure out my errors...no spoon feeding here...lol)
MIUI centric? I'd love some better battery life on it.
hechoen said:
MIUI centric? I'd love some better battery life on it.
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I get around a day out of it which is really all I need..
I'm up for testing Thomas.
Edit: OK I just got home. Will post feed back in a bit..
Edit: Well all my partitions were clean. Flashed System Cleaner anyway
Im on VB, and it has great standby battery life, but it nosedives once i start using it..
Either way, just got 25 hours out of the first charge
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7TimesCursed said:
I get around a day out of it which is really all I need..
I'm up for testing Thomas.
Edit: OK I just got home. Will post feed back in a bit..
Edit: Well all my partitions were clean. Flashed System Cleaner anyway
Im on VB, and it has great standby battery life, but it nosedives once i start using it..
Either way, just got 25 hours out of the first charge
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Try Lightning Zap v5 for better battery life... Link is in my signature
flashed it before restoring any apps.
its working wonders performance wise, lets see how battery life goes as it soaks in hehe
My phone was clean on all volumes... Commands worked fine and and ran system cleaner just for testing purposes anyways. All is well
Awesome to know it is working, now I just need someone who has gremlins from multiple flashes and what nots to see how well it fixes things...lol
Thomas,
Are you sure that defraging is necessary on a flash drive... with SSD (solid state drives) it's even doing more bad by wasting limited amount of erase cycles. And btw, fragmentation does not affect reading speed as much as with regular HDD because of very low latency.
During defragmentation (if utility is not aware about how flash memory works) there might be multiple P/E cycles on a typical block of 16, 128 or 256KB.
There are utilities which will erase free blocks on SSD - fill it with "1" so that next write to such blocks would be faster. Does your utility do something like that?
Ill be willing to test it for you.
50 flashes and no clean ups yet.
Don't have gremlins thou.
it pm the results later.
Vlad_z said:
Thomas,
Are you sure that defraging is necessary on a flash drive... with SSD (solid state drives) it's even doing more bad by wasting limited amount of erase cycles. And btw, fragmentation does not affect reading speed as much as with regular HDD because of very low latency.
During defragmentation (if utility is not aware about how flash memory works) there might be multiple P/E cycles on a typical block of 16, 128 or 256KB.
There are utilities which will erase free blocks on SSD - fill it with "1" so that next write to such blocks would be faster. Does your utility do something like that?
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This "defrag" is for our devices... fsck have been used on android phones for some time now... It isn't a true defrag as you would think with a normal hdd. But it is the best way of explaining it.
lol cant believe it all file systems are clean despite 50+ flashes without cleanup
JuLes' MostWanted said:
lol cant believe it all file systems are clean despite 50+ flashes without cleanup
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That's good...lol
i guess it made my device a little smoother ;-)
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/tmp/tune2fs -l /dev/block/stl9 seems to be "not clean" on my device. ran it, rebooted back to recovery and ran it again and still not clean
thomas.raines;
If it is "clean" said:
"dirty"[/B], this will fix many issues.
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LOL read the OP AGAIN..
aww men hey raines when i boot into recovery it cant mount sdcard cant mount cache recovery unknown volume for path cache recovery command and i cant acess my sdcard to flash anything what went wrong.
HolyGhostBoy1 said:
aww men hey raines when i boot into recovery it cant mount sdcard cant mount cache recovery unknown volume for path cache recovery command and i cant acess my sdcard to flash anything what went wrong.
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What did you do before you had those issues?
Sent from my BAMF SGH-T959V!
thomas.raines said:
What did you do before you had those issues?
Sent from my BAMF SGH-T959V!
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i followed your instructions. i notice it was like this today i turn my phone when i woke up this morning. i wonder what happen did i do something wrong..
All clean here. Looks like it might be pretty hard to find someone with a dirty filesystem.
i cant flash anything now will odin fix.
Hi Guys,
I have a Samsung Tab 2 GT-P5113, rooted, and love it. I had to install drives and use Odin to get this ROM installed but it worked and it worked really well. Um, this is the one I used:
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-tab-2-10-1-root-clockworkmod-recovery-cwm-95536/
It is great, I love it, but it is not Jellybean. I have 4.0.4. Now I have ClockworkMod, love it, it really works well. So I downloaded the Milestone zip from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892046
I got the gapps to go with it, and used CWM to install it. CWM works really well, I rebooted to the CWM boot screen and chose the zip file, wiped all caches, and I did pick the make a backup first option and performed the install. The device booted to the little green guy and all the text details appeared. Wiping cache, etc., but when the zip installed, it failed with a Status 7 error, failed to mount /system/ errors such as fonts, device or resource busy, /system/app/ApplicationProvider.apk "Read only file system".
I saved the report log, it is very informative down at the end, last paragraph gives all the juicy details. I should publish this log if I want real help. Let me do it now. Yeah, here ya go:
http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/text/cwm_fail.txt
Oh, I can attach it! The original CWM recovery.log is attached as a txt file. Duh! :silly:
Look at the last page of the attached log. I understand Linux so I actually know what all these errors mean. Read only files means that the installer does not have root permission. Resource busy means an open file. Can't find /sd-ext in /etc/fstab, now that is a good one, there is no fstab in the /etc/ directory, not even on the phone. But why they are occurring is out of my grasp as I am not a ROM developer and android OS is not Linux, exactly. ...ugh!
Why? I mean, I do not know what to do about this. I tried this several times, first time was a total failure, the MD5 was off by a mile, downloaded it again, got a good copy, could view in Winzip, MD5 matched, but this failure. I did this several times, thank God I had chose the backup first option in CWM and was able to restore the system in short order. The entire process took about ½ hour or less. Am I doing this wrong? I tried to understand cmenard's instructions and I don't quite understand what he is saying to do. The instructions are simple. Here is the URL to the download and instruction page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892046
But, it fails by my method, what do these instructions mean in plain English? Flash Rom, what do you mean "flash the Rom"? I got two zip files, gapps and milestone. What is this "Rom" to flash? Wipe I can do in CWM. Flash the zip. You mean install with CWM? Wipe the cache. Again? How? Run CWM again?
Flash Rom in CWM or TWRP
Wipe data/factory reset if you are coming from another ROM
Flash the zip
Wipe cache/dalvik cache
Then flash GApps.
Reboot
So like what am I doing wrong? I really want this Jellybean, especially for my Razr Maxx, but if it will not work on the tablet, I will not mess with my rooted 4.0.4 Razr where I really want JB. The phone was pretty fast 6 months ago, but it seems that all these updates and apps have slowed the thing to a crawl. I use Micro CPU Monitor and love it, two single pixel wide green lines at top screen, one for each core. They are often both pinned all the time so the phone is slow. Use it on the tablet too, same issue but nowhere near as bad on the tablet as it is on the phone. Like who wants to wait 60 seconds every time you touch the screen to make a call or use the maps? Jellybean is said to make things a LOT smoother and really grease the wheels to make ICS really slick and that would help, yes?
I showed the log to a developer on droidxforums, he is really good and made the CD iso files that boot the PC to Linux and rooted the phone. But he really was not sure of the issue and does not have this device.
Somebody help me please. I really want to fix this and am really bummed. Thanks. Happy New Year. :crying:
Okay folks, don't break a leg or anything in your mad dash to render assistance here. It is not worth it, take your time...
OK let me start up my computer and I'm gonna take a look...
Ok...
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /datadata during fstab generation!
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /emmc during fstab generation!
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /sd-ext during fstab generation!
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AFAIK these are fine.
EDIT: The datadata one is questionable though.. that might be a typo somewhere (maybe... not totally sure. I know there's a /data/data directory, maybe a missing slash? Just thinking out loud here. Whatever it is, I doubt that this is your real problem. That would be the inability to mount /system
Couple questions/things to try.
Firstly, can you remount /system as RW in terminal emulator?
Second, can you install any custom ROMs other than CM10? Try any really, just want to see if the problem is CM10 or your device/CWM setup (Let's hope not the second one)
You do seem to be doing the CM10 install correctly from what I can see.
Oh, and thank you for having the sense to make a backup. Too many people don't and complain about bricking their device and having to ODIN to stock.
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FYI, datadata is a partition symlinked to /data/data, it is only present on some devices like my Fascinate where /data/data is stored on a different memory chip.
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