Possible phone dying? - Samsung Infuse 4G

Wife's infuse running beanstalk. Getting issues where every once in a while she will lose all apps that have been installed and once it lost all pics/music/etc.... Question is: should I look at using our upgrade soon? I'm starting to think internal memory is starting to die...
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wingcook said:
Wife's infuse running beanstalk. Getting issues where every once in a while she will lose all apps that have been installed and once it lost all pics/music/etc.... Question is: should I look at using our upgrade soon? I'm starting to think internal memory is starting to die...
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mebby bad flash or rom corruption
back up your sd and take out micro sd
reset the phone to factory
flash gb stock..reset it in gb stock..run in stock without any micro sd..don't restore any data except google sync..see how that goes for a while

I was afraid you were going to say something like that. :crying:
Good side is that maybe the phone itself isn't dying.

wingcook said:
I was afraid you were going to say something like that. :crying:
Good side is that maybe the phone itself isn't dying.
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it's a little work but shouldn't be too tough.
i my honest opinion, the best set up for someone else is prolly stock gb with zen's latest kernel (it has the later galaxy device wifi drivers that are less prone to wipe your battery)
unless of course, the phone user is a tinker that can learn to do things herself

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[Q] Captivate 2.2 [Official] Lag problems

Just finished installing the official 2.2 release on my Captivate (problem free). Before installing I backed up everything to my SD card via titanium, then removed the lag fix, and did a hard reset / format using the dialer code, verified everything was wiped and all the internal storage was wiped clean (although MCR scripts and superuser didn't go away).
first reaction, THE LAG IS HORRIBLE. hoping it was a result of crapware, I rooted via SuperOneClick, reinstalled Titanium from the market, and removed all the ATT crapware, rebooted, and it is no better.
I've restored my apps and everything except facebook contact syncing seems to be working great, but the lag is awful! often I wait 3, sometimes 5 seconds before a screen click is even recognized.
are there any lag fixes that have been tested on, or at least suggested for the official 2.2 release?
what lagfix did u use
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http://dl.project-voodoo.org/stock+Voodoo/tarballs/stock+Voodoo-Froyo-I897-UCKB1.tar
voodoo lagfix courtesy of Supercurio. Flash in ODIN as PDA.
lyrad12 said:
what lagfix did u use
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I assume you are referring to the one used on 2.1, I don't remember the name, but it used MCR Scripts and was installed with an update.zip. once installed you ran MCR Scripts and "installed" the lag fix with 2 options, either 512mb or 1gb of space, and a third option to remove the lagfix
I ran the remove option before doing the upgrade
Kaik541 said:
http://dl.project-voodoo.org/stock+Voodoo/tarballs/stock+Voodoo-Froyo-I897-UCKB1.tar
voodoo lagfix courtesy of Supercurio. Flash in ODIN as PDA.
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I thought I read that voodoo didn't work with 2.2, only 2.2.1
I'm running stock 2.2 with no lag. I formatted my external sd and that fixed my initial lag problem
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If i understand you, you had lag problems after upgrading to 2.2, and then resolved them by formatting the external (removable) sd card?
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I just upgraded and it seems very snappy to me. It's not my everyday phone anymore so I don't have a SIM or external SD in but from just fooling around with it for about a half hour it moves nicely! About to root now and remove the bloatware
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I thought I read that voodoo didn't work with 2.2, only 2.2.1
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That was solved months ago. Go to the dev section, download the 5.x voodoo + stock KB1 kernel odin file, and flash it on. Phone will take a while to boot back up, but will tell you it is converting partitions to ext4. Once it comes back, you will see the amazing speedup from getting rid of the piece of **** known as RFS.
Is there anyway I can get lagfix by itself? I have no computer so id just like to download to phone, put in root and goto recovery mode.
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Ok so thanks no one for helping. Did I mention u have no computer? No one can give me a damn link?
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ConeyKiller said:
Ok so thanks no one for helping. Did I mention u have no computer? No one can give me a damn link?
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Reading does wonders for problem solving.
Yes hello I can read. I have NO COMPUTER to run odin on. Is it really that hard to not be a smartass and help someone out???? Really??? If Im still asking obviously im overlooking it. ONCE AGAIN I HAVE NO COMPUTER SO ODIN IS OUT OF THE QUESTION
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If its that much of a lag, then something didn't load right. I'm on stock 2.2 wirth no lag. Its just about as fast as oclf. But, if you read the [official] froyo update thread, people kind brush on what ideas to try. Most of them say, like I said, something want loaded right. Good luck.
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Honestly if there's nobody posting to help u out....that means u should probably find a computer to use
ConeyKiller said:
Yes hello I can read. I have NO COMPUTER to run odin on. Is it really that hard to not be a smartass and help someone out???? Really??? If Im still asking obviously im overlooking it. ONCE AGAIN I HAVE NO COMPUTER SO ODIN IS OUT OF THE QUESTION
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Learn to read
Redine761 said:
Honestly if there's nobody posting to help u out....that means u should probably find a computer to use
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No ones answering because a search with one word gives him the info he needs. He just refuses to read and wants the info handed to him on a silver platter.
ConeyKiller said:
Ok so thanks no one for helping. Did I mention u have no computer? No one can give me a damn link?
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Respect goes along way in these forums. How did you expect people to reply to this? Everyone understands you have no pc. Yelling is going to get you no where. The hour you spent waiting for a reply, could have been used to do a search for it, find it and do it.
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Ok so....i found the
voodoo 5 stable for 2.2.1 yes I know I only have 2.2
downloaded it
renamed it
put it in /sdcard
rebooted to recovery with CWM clicked reinstall packages
Went through its process and said it failed..could not verify or something. Is this not the way to do it? I did it on 2.1 same way w/eclair approved voodoo and it worked just fine. And I apologize for getting upset its just a little tedious doing all this searching on a small phone screen.
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ConeyKiller said:
Ok so....i found the
voodoo 5 stable for 2.2.1 downloaded it
renamed it
put it in /sdcard
rebooted to recovery with CWM clicked reinstall packages
Went through its process and said it failed..could not verify or something. Is this not the way to do it? I did it on 2.1 same way w/eclair approved voodoo and it worked just fine. And I apologize for getting upset its just a little tedious doing all this searching on a small phone screen.
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Froyo uses 3e recovery I believe so it will not install any update.zips the only way I know of is using an alternate recovery...a kernel with 2e recovery or going the custom rom route like torch 1.5 or cog 4 in the dev section which use the new froyo
And for your no computer issue...i suggest you find mcdonalds or a neighbor and use the wifi and download one of those custom roms directly to your phone that have a lagfix included with root and no bloat. I do this all the time when I am in the field. Just some suggestions I hole they help and I understand your frustration.

[Q] Problem with mounting SD card and Internal SD

Hey guys, just recently got a G2x coming from a MT4G.
I'm on the latest CM7 nightly and for some reason I'm having a big problem getting both of my SD card and internal memory to mount. I know I have the drivers installed as I had to do so to be able to root the phone.
I plus the phone into the comp via USB and my computer doesn't read anything.
Even when I go to the latest CWM recovery (5.0.2.6) and go to Advanced and mount my USB through there it still doesn't read it.
Any reason why this is doing this?
I mounted it fine when I was on stock ROM yesterday, but having no luck mounting it now.
Any response would be greatly appreciated!
Are you using the same USB cable? Same USB port as the one that worked yesterday?
phburks said:
Are you using the same USB cable? Same USB port as the one that worked yesterday?
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Thanks for the response.
Yes I'm using the same cable and the same USB port as yesterday. I'm dumbfounded
I know fauxs aosp rom doesn't have this problem and I think it should mount both sdcards on recovery mount storage,not too sure if it will mount internal SD on latest nightly while phone is on with debugging.
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d12unk13astard said:
I know fauxs aosp rom doesn't have this problem and I think it should mount both sdcards on recovery mount storage,not too sure if it will mount internal SD on latest nightly while phone is on with debugging.
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Yeah I tried it while debugging was on and off and no luck. So I just gave up and flashed WeaponG2x and it worked perfectly.... Now I just tried EaglesBlood and it still won't work!
This is so frustrating... I'm loving the phone so far but this is killing me.
mackster248 said:
Yeah I tried it while debugging was on and off and no luck. So I just gave up and flashed WeaponG2x and it worked perfectly.... Now I just tried EaglesBlood and it still won't work!
This is so frustrating... I'm loving the phone so far but this is killing me.
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Yea I hear ya, I hate how they partition these phones internal storage. Pretty much everyone that has or uses an android smartphone prefers to buy a much larger external microsd card, be it anywhere from 4-32gb. I'd rather they not partition storage and let us use that space for installing apps/games on internal then put our music or movies/media on external sdcard.
Plus issues like these where USB drivers wont detect the internal/external sdcards is very annoying and confusing when coming from a phone like we had.
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d12unk13astard said:
Yea I hear ya, I hate how they partition these phones internal storage. Pretty much everyone that has or uses an android smartphone prefers to buy a much larger external microsd card, be it anywhere from 4-32gb. I'd rather they not partition storage and let us use that space for installing apps/games on internal then put our music or movies/media on external sdcard.
Plus issues like these where USB drivers wont detect the internal/external sdcards is very annoying and confusing when coming from a phone like we had.
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Yeah seriously. I've never had this problem with any other phone. You think it's a driver problem that it works on stock based ROM's but not on CM7 based?
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Yep exactly, very poor driver support from LG, read up on it on the general section and even here on q/a threads, there's tons of people that have had these issues.
Could have been avoided too if LG wouldn't have messed with the internal storage I bet.
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d12unk13astard said:
Yep exactly, very poor driver support from LG, read up on it on the general section and even here on q/a threads, there's tons of people that have had these issues.
Could have been avoided too if LG wouldn't have messed with the internal storage I bet.
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Thanks man. So there's nothing I can do then? You don't have this problem with CM7 right? It's just me and some people?
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I've tried using a different cable and still no go....
How irritating, I guess I'm forced to use WeaponG2x...
My phone still does this crap even on cm7 and fauxs aosp rom too. Its very annoying and even tho I love the phone tons im still looking forward to a new device.
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d12unk13astard said:
My phone still does this crap even on cm7 and fauxs aosp rom too. Its very annoying and even tho I love the phone tons im still looking forward to a new device.
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Oh, I didn't know you had this as a permanent problem too. I guess it's good to know I'm not the only one. I love this phone too. But damn this is annoying.
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Cm9 Flashing Steps

I'm opening this so someone can probably be so kind as to write the CLEANEST was/steps to flash cm9 I'm sure many of want to try it, I would have wrote them myself but I don't know them, and I have to get ready for orientation with my new job
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Already been written.
jt1134 said:
Here's a preview build now that my source tree is mostly sorted out: http://www.mediafire.com/?1nhagihfoqqpkf3
To flash, you must first flash this recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/?2000k5y512spft4
Then boot into recovery, wipe data/cache, go to mounts and storage and format system, then flash the rom. Gapps are here: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120317-signed.zip . You'll probably have to mount system manually under mounts and storage before flashing gapps.
I've only tested this using gingerbread bootloaders, no idea if it works using froyo bootloaders. If you don't want to deal with the caveats of gb bootloaders, then well, fix it yourself.
what works:
radio (calls/sms/data)
touchscreen
audio
wifi
sensors
hw acceleration
software and hardware video decoding
data usage monitor (for wifi at least)
what doesn't work:
camera/camcorder
bluetooth
anything else is either broken or completely untested.
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So if I'm already on ZTR (GB Bootloaders I'm guessing) I jus follow the basic steps, correct? Just trying to get a clean flash and thank you
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KingVekxin said:
So if I'm already on ZTR (GB Bootloaders I'm guessing) I jus follow the basic steps, correct? Just trying to get a clean flash and thank you
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Should be good.
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Should be good.
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Kool
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So where's the DL link I don't see it
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for some reason with all my phones ive never been aware of my bootloaders... i think its because i just flash cm and never look back,
so if i flashed cm7 right after rooting (now on miui) would i be on GB as well? is there a quick way to check.
mckooter said:
for some reason with all my phones ive never been aware of my bootloaders... i think its because i just flash cm and never look back,
so if i flashed cm7 right after rooting (now on miui) would i be on GB as well? is there a quick way to check.
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Therez no way to check bro. Same spot as you. When i home from school, ill try flashing. But just try flashing with froyo bootloaders, it may work. If it doesnt, then odin back to stock.
Successfully got everything up and running. Great ROM for a first release.
Anyone else have a jacked up recovery? Crazy colors and only half the screen visible? Any way to fix that? It's still functional, just hard to tell what you're doing.
Camera and bt dont eork . Im going to wait for fixes.. Im super happy.
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How long dose it take to load. It seems stuck on the galaxys cyan screen
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If you'll go to the inspire 4g thread and pull the abso camera from the collective build , all 3 apks, it works. All credit to flappjax and team collective...
GuyIncognito721 said:
Successfully got everything up and running. Great ROM for a first release.
Anyone else have a jacked up recovery? Crazy colors and only half the screen visible? Any way to fix that? It's still functional, just hard to tell what you're doing.
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By the sound of it your on the Froyo bootloaders...I guess there is one way to tell. LOL
internal or external sd card
first off, thanks for the ICS rom, i have looked at the threads, can't get my internal to mount as usb drive, and doesn't even see my external, am i missing something?
Thanks
also camera apps from other thread not working? any clue
beerman99 said:
first off, thanks for the ICS rom, i have looked at the threads, can't get my internal to mount as usb drive, and doesn't even see my external, am i missing something?
Thanks
also camera apps from other thread not working? any clue
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i think it has to so with the sdcard not mounting, if i use root explorer i can access all of my files, but the os natively won't see it
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By the sound of it your on the Froyo bootloaders...I guess there is one way to tell. LOL
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I think you're right, the first time I flashed i had the rainbow and i was on froyo bootloaders, after restore to GB it came up fine.
Prior to flashing CM9 I had just Heimdalled back to AT&T UCBL3, so I'm not sure why I wouldn't have GB bootloaders...
dman3285 said:
If you'll go to the inspire 4g thread and pull the abso camera from the collective build , all 3 apks, it works. All credit to flappjax and team collective...
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cool thanks...nice to see you hanging around.
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jason4962 said:
Camera and bt dont eork . Im going to wait for fixes.. Im super happy.
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You're using a galaxy s phone?
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How long did it take you all to get off of the initial Samsung logo at start up to the cm9 boot animation after flashing? It has been roughly 10 minutes so far and it hasn't moved. My recovery is all screwed up with funny colors, but it's nice to know that others have encountered the weird recovery as well... was on Devestion before following the steps for flashing cm9.

External SD Card dead after root used ClockworkMod 6.0.1.0

Hi All,
I'm a newbie! I've rooted my Samsung Galaxy P5100 using ClockworkMod 6.0.1.0 via Odin3 1.85. I follow instruction at link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722063
But after done, my tablet can not recognize the external sd card.
How can I fix this problem ?
Thanks!
try switch back to Stock ROM,
there's no advantage using custom XDA rom when you still have the warranty, unless Samsung doesn't give firmware upgrade anymore
Rotundjere said:
try switch back to Stock ROM,
there's no advantage using custom XDA rom when you still have the warranty, unless Samsung doesn't give firmware upgrade anymore
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I think that using tablet without the externel sd card is no big problem, but if have the way can recovery it is the best
Now, I'm enjoying with ROM JB 4.1.1 update to 10 August. Basically, most of all are working smoothly.
pidgin2012 said:
I think that using tablet without the externel sd card is no big problem, but if have the way can recovery it is the best
Now, I'm enjoying with ROM JB 4.1.1 update to 10 August. Basically, most of all are working smoothly.
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What model of the Tab 2 do you have? I have the Tab 2 7" 3113 model and my external SD card still fucntions just fine after rooting and putting CM10 on it. I would take your question to the thread you got your CM10 from and post it there for help.
I'm using tablet samsung galaxy tab 2 p5100 10"
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flukeSG2 said:
What model of the Tab 2 do you have? I have the Tab 2 7" 3113 model and my external SD card still fucntions just fine after rooting and putting CM10 on it. I would take your question to the thread you got your CM10 from and post it there for help.
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What is the version of your clockworkmod and CM10 ?
I have rooted my tabblet (P5100) using clockworkmod 6.0.1.0 and CM10 update 10 August.
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The sdcard might be corrupt, or it might be a problem with your tablet. Try putting it in a USB microSD reader. (they can be had for $2 online if you do some bargain hunting or $5 from radio shack--save yourself the angst of trying to mount USB storage and just buy one) It's also possible, though very unlikely, that it somehow got broken during some sort of hard reset or reboot, and you'll need a new one.)
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The sdcard might be corrupt, or it might be a problem with your tablet. Try putting it in a USB microSD reader. (they can be had for $2 online if you do some bargain hunting or $5 from radio shack--save yourself the angst of trying to mount USB storage and just buy one) It's also possible, though very unlikely, that it somehow got broken during some sort of hard reset or reboot, and you'll need a new one.)
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I think that my external sd card is no problem. Because, when i boot tablet into clockworkmod recovery mode, the system still detect and read data on it. I don't understand what is the problem !!!
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must be caused by your custom ROM,
please note almost every custom rom in XDA is developed by inexperienced wannabe hackers (some devs even doesn't have decent coding skill), & they deploy the rom without extensive testing, & they also not responsible if your devices bricked! LOL
pidgin2012, try reformatting your external sdcard from CWM or PC.
Rotundjere, that's not entirely true. Devs will usually tell you how well a ROM works. For example, CM9 is labeled as an RC, meaning that they tested it and everything works. However, CM10 is labeled as a preview, meaning that some things may not work & you try it at your own risk. For the most part I have found custom ROM's to be more stable then their stock equivalents.
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pidgin2012, try reformatting your external sdcard from CWM or PC.
Rotundjere, that's not entirely true. Devs will usually tell you how well a ROM works. For example, CM9 is labeled as an RC, meaning that they tested it and everything works. However, CM10 is labeled as a preview, meaning that some things may not work & you try it at your own risk. For the most part I have found custom ROM's to be more stable then their stock equivalents.
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Thanks for your advise! I will try to format sd card on my PC.
The cause make external sd card failed, the reason is that Clockworkmod 6.0.1.0. Because after flash clockworkmod, i have boot tablet to original rom, the system has noticed that can not read from external sd card
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Rotundjere said:
must be caused by your custom ROM,
please note almost every custom rom in XDA is developed by inexperienced wannabe hackers (some devs even doesn't have decent coding skill), & they deploy the rom without extensive testing, & they also not responsible if your devices bricked! LOL
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Well that's funny as every rom I've run from xda works better than stock roms made by the oems so some of them obviously know a thing or 2
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Endoroid said:
Well that's funny as every rom I've run from xda works better than stock roms made by the oems so some of them obviously know a thing or 2
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you can't compare xda custom rom made just by one person (mostly don't know how to code, & not test it properly) compared with the official stock rom, it's ridiculous
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you can't compare xda custom rom made just by one person (mostly don't know how to code, & not test it properly) compared with the official stock rom, it's ridiculous
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I don't make comparison between offical rom and cook rom. Use or not depend on each person, don't claim
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Rotundjere said:
you can't compare xda custom rom made just by one person (mostly don't know how to code, & not test it properly) compared with the official stock rom, it's ridiculous
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I'm not. I've used roms from various different devs and they have always been better than stock. All the devs I've dealt with use testers before mass releases and they are always up front about any bugs that may be in the rom. Frankly my phones stock rom had more bugs than the custom roms ive used. I've doubled my battery life, have more customization options, increased performance and have fixed some major bugs from the stock rom that never should have been allowed to leave the factory, and took 6 months for motorola to fix. Xda devs fixed it in 2. So tell me again how they don't know what they are doing
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Dual Boot?

I was able to find some work done on the S3 before it was unlocked but can't find anything current for the S3 and dual booting. Has anyone made any progress or is anyone working on it? There are so many awesome roms out there but it's nice to have a daily driver and a slot(s) for test roms.
Boot Manager is an incredible app that I bought when I had the Nexus. Unfortunately, it seems development is dead.
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I don't think the partition that is used for roms is big enough for two
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Jarredw said:
I don't think the partition that is used for roms is big enough for two
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It could be for two aosp roms but whats the point in that?
Jarredw said:
I don't think the partition that is used for roms is big enough for two
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Boot Manager allows multiple roms to boot from the sd card. It works for the Nexus just wasn't updated for the S3. Seems like an experienced developer could write an app or recovery that allows roms to install and run from sd card. If locked Moto phones can do it (Safestrap), surely ours can.
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Moto's rom storage location is different than ours, the entire internal or at least most of the internal is able to be written on using safe strap. And besides, restoring a nandroid backup takes the same amount of time as safe strap does to transfer the data between the 2 partitioned rom's.
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annoyingduck said:
Moto's rom storage location is different than ours, the entire internal or at least most of the internal is able to be written on using safe strap. And besides, restoring a nandroid backup takes the same amount of time as safe strap does to transfer the data between the 2 partitioned rom's.
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You got me there. I'd throw out BootMenu but we don't have a Webtop partition, so I know that'd be shot down.
So our only hope (app wise) at this point is Boot Manager? The app description says the only Samsung phone it works on is the Nexus. Anyone know what's different about it compared to the S3 (in terms of boot partition)?
Here's a link to some Vzw S3 dual boot development but there hasn't been any activity in it since late July - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774795.
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Investigating......
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Anything? Anybody?
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Sorry, I'm away. Came up with nothing good to post.
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Former Boot Manager Addict in Recovery
Honestly, when i had my DX, i was a boot manager addict! you couldn't tell me there was anything wrong with it.
however...
used to have leeeetle minor bugs i had to live with due to how Boot Manager worked. and flashing themes was a pain in the A$$
today i'm in recovery, but still a flash-aholic. all i do now is just flash a rom, get it just how i like it, make a nandroid of it, and can flash back and forth all day.
tired of Synergy, flash TWRP, click on restore, and walla, i've got Paranoid Android up and running... tired of that, and next its Beans Custome Rom 11, and so forth. only annoying thing is that when you add to it after you make a nandroid, and dont upgrade, then you have to go back and add the changes.
but trust an old addict, this is waaaaaay better, and not much slower than Boot Manager!
goldsmitht said:
Honestly, when i had my DX, i was a boot manager addict! you couldn't tell me there was anything wrong with it.
however...
used to have leeeetle minor bugs i had to live with due to how Boot Manager worked. and flashing themes was a pain in the A$$
today i'm in recovery, but still a flash-aholic. all i do now is just flash a rom, get it just how i like it, make a nandroid of it, and can flash back and forth all day.
tired of Synergy, flash TWRP, click on restore, and walla, i've got Paranoid Android up and running... tired of that, and next its Beans Custome Rom 11, and so forth. only annoying thing is that when you add to it after you make a nandroid, and dont upgrade, then you have to go back and add the changes.
but trust an old addict, this is waaaaaay better, and not much slower than Boot Manager!
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I agree that backup/restoring isn't THAT bad but I just miss being able to boot to random roms without much hassle. I had 6 current roms on my Nexus. With BootMenu (not to be confused with Boot Manager) on my Maxx, changing between system 1 (phone rom) and system 2 (webtop rom) was literally as fast as rebooting. Just reboot and a menu came up to boot 1st, 2nd, or recovery.
I'm not complaining about my S3 by any means (best phone I've had to date) I just feel pretty sure it IS possible to dual (or multi) boot if some one with the knowledge took the challenge. Quad core, NFC, battery changeable, 4.8" screen, fully functional Jelly Beanable, LTE piece of hardware booting CM, AOPK, MIUI, TW, AOSP, [you name it] with the click of a button. Gets me excited just thinking about it. Wish I know enough to take the project on myself.
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Just trying to keep this alive. Hoping the right person takes interest.
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I would be interested as well in dual boot.
Synergy r73, Trinity Alpha 7 thanks to the monkey
Taken directly from BootManagers description on Google Play
BootManager will not work with Samsung devices that are not listed because of the way Samsung handles the boot partition.
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Neverendingxsin said:
Taken directly from BootManagers description on Google Play
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I pointed that out on the last page. Do you know WHAT is different about the boot partition that it only works on the G'Nex and no other Sammy phones? I entered my device in manually in Boot Manager just to see if it'd work but it couldn't back up my phone rom (because of boot image).
Unless something is incredibly special about the G'Nex, perhaps the app could be adapted for other Sammys.
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I pointed that out on the last page. Do you know WHAT is different about the boot partition that it only works on the G'Nex and no other Sammy phones? I entered my device in manually in Boot Manager just to see if it'd work but it couldn't back up my phone rom (because of boot image).
Unless something is incredibly special about the G'Nex, perhaps the app could be adapted for other Sammys.
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Guess i missed your post, was just skimming through the thread. As for what exactly is different, i have no idea
Neverendingxsin said:
Guess i missed your post, was just skimming through the thread. As for what exactly is different, i have no idea
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Me neither :-/
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