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[Q] Using the Data2SD Kernel included in CROMi-X

Hi, this is my first post, please be gentle.
So I've had my Infinity for almost a year now, and was pretty dejected about how slow it was, it would often hang, and was outclassed by many older tablets. I was directed here by a friend, and spent hours reading and referencing, trying to make sense of what info was current, etc. I've been doing my very best to avoid asking a question, but I'm stuck on this one.
I installed CROMi-X with the stock kernel by sbdags, but was very keen to try out the Data2SD kernel by _that, I bought myself a Class 10 UHS MicroSD card, and checked out the original Data2SD thread and read up on the process.
Do I still have to do the gparted and Imgburn steps with the SDCard?
Is there a different way to set up the SDCard if I'm using _that's kernal?
What is the best way to switch to that kernel?
Should I completely wipe and start over?
And a final question, what's the difference between the kernal by _that(TF700T : That 10.6.1.14.4 Modded Data2SD Kernel v2 Row Scheduler, UV, ISO9660 and Fsync Control. By _that), and the one by Hundsbuah(TF700T : Hunds OC 10.6.1.14.4 Data2SD Kernel v3.0.6 With App by Hundsbuah)? A lot of the extra stuff has me puzzled...
And again, thanks for your patience, 24 hours ago I had no clue about Android modding. =)

yes
no
cdromi installer has recommended wipe durring install
oc =overclocked (hunds)

JamesMDenton said:
Hi, this is my first post, please be gentle.
So I've had my Infinity for almost a year now, and was pretty dejected about how slow it was, it would often hang, and was outclassed by many older tablets. I was directed here by a friend, and spent hours reading and referencing, trying to make sense of what info was current, etc. I've been doing my very best to avoid asking a question, but I'm stuck on this one.
I installed CROMi-X with the stock kernel by sbdags, but was very keen to try out the Data2SD kernel by _that, I bought myself a Class 10 UHS MicroSD card, and checked out the original Data2SD thread and read up on the process.
Do I still have to do the gparted and Imgburn steps with the SDCard?
Is there a different way to set up the SDCard if I'm using _that's kernal?
What is the best way to switch to that kernel?
Should I completely wipe and start over?
And a final question, what's the difference between the kernal by _that(TF700T : That 10.6.1.14.4 Modded Data2SD Kernel v2 Row Scheduler, UV, ISO9660 and Fsync Control. By _that), and the one by Hundsbuah(TF700T : Hunds OC 10.6.1.14.4 Data2SD Kernel v3.0.6 With App by Hundsbuah)? A lot of the extra stuff has me puzzled...
And again, thanks for your patience, 24 hours ago I had no clue about Android modding. =)
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Yes, you need to do the gparted procedures regardless what kernel that you are using with a Data2Sd.
No, they are all the same procedures.
The best way is to do a factory reset which required a wipe of data and both caches.
I don't think that you need to do that.
_that's kernel is very close to stock with some tweaks to improve the performance of your device and very stable. Maybe _that can give you a better explaination. Hund and Maxs' kernels give all of options that you can tweaks to whatever you want to. However, if you make a mistake, it could run unstanle or crash. Hope that it clears things up a little bit.

JamesMDenton said:
Hi, this is my first post, please be gentle.
So I've had my Infinity for almost a year now, and was pretty dejected about how slow it was, it would often hang, and was outclassed by many older tablets. I was directed here by a friend, and spent hours reading and referencing, trying to make sense of what info was current, etc. I've been doing my very best to avoid asking a question, but I'm stuck on this one.
I installed CROMi-X with the stock kernel by sbdags, but was very keen to try out the Data2SD kernel by _that, I bought myself a Class 10 UHS MicroSD card, and checked out the original Data2SD thread and read up on the process.
Do I still have to do the gparted and Imgburn steps with the SDCard?
Is there a different way to set up the SDCard if I'm using _that's kernal?
What is the best way to switch to that kernel?
Should I completely wipe and start over?
And a final question, what's the difference between the kernal by _that(TF700T : That 10.6.1.14.4 Modded Data2SD Kernel v2 Row Scheduler, UV, ISO9660 and Fsync Control. By _that), and the one by Hundsbuah(TF700T : Hunds OC 10.6.1.14.4 Data2SD Kernel v3.0.6 With App by Hundsbuah)? A lot of the extra stuff has me puzzled...
And again, thanks for your patience, 24 hours ago I had no clue about Android modding. =)
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Congrats! You learned a LOT in 24 hours! Must be a speed reader, eh?
A word of caution: To jump into cutom roms and straight away into Data2SD is a tall order. Don't know if you read the posts from multiple people posting that D2SD is not really worth the considerable headache to set it up and get it running right anymore, that it does not or only marginally improve the performance of this tablet on CromiX....
Just my 2 cents worth.... now go knock yourself out )
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LetMeKnow said:
Yes, you need to do the gparted procedures regardless what kernel that you are using with a Data2Sd.
No, they are all the same procedures.
The best way is to do a factory reset which required a wipe of data and both caches.
I don't think that you need to do that.
_that's kernel is very close to stock with some tweaks to improve the performance of your device and very stable. Maybe _that can give you a better explaination. Hund and Maxs' kernels give all of options that you can tweaks to whatever you want to. However, if you make a mistake, it could run unstanle or crash. Hope that it clears things up a little bit.
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berndblb said:
Congrats! You learned a LOT in 24 hours! Must be a speed reader, eh?
A word of caution: To jump into cutom roms and straight away into Data2SD is a tall order. Don't know if you read the posts from multiple people posting that D2SD is not really worth the considerable headache to set it up and get it running right anymore, that it does not or only marginally improve the performance of this tablet on CromiX....
Just my 2 cents worth.... now go knock yourself out )
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Thank you both for your help!
Berndblb, I'll wait a bit and just use CROMi-X for a while without data2sd. And yeah, I dived full on headfirst into it. I never half ass stuff, I full ass it. Now it's time to try to dive into the S3 forums, which seem a LOT more complicated. Still can't seem to find a Root/Unlock method consensus.
Am I supposed to add the "solved" to the title? Can't quite figure it out.

[Q] Help with TF700T Lag

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to flash to my TF700 to help with overall system lag? I've heard some people say that there's are really fast, but that's never been the case with mine.
I'm currently unlocked, rooted, running Android 4.2.2 and have the CynogenMod 10.1.3-RC2 ROM flashed using the 3.1.10-cynogenmod-g6c52142 Kernal.

ZacHcaZ said:
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to flash to my TF700 to help with overall system lag? I've heard some people say that there's are really fast, but that's never been the case with mine.
I'm currently unlocked, rooted, running Android 4.2.2 and have the CynogenMod 10.1.3-RC2 ROM flashed using the 3.1.10-cynogenmod-g6c52142 Kernal.
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Did you try Cromi X?

LetMeKnow said:
Did you try Cromi X?
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Ya I did. That was the first ROM I flashed when I got this tablet and it was just as slow.

ZacHcaZ said:
Ya I did. That was the first ROM I flashed when I got this tablet and it was just as slow.
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What version did you use and kernel? I am going to release my extreme tweaks today sometime to go with Cromi 5.0.3 and Hund's kernel. It is mainly for performance. You can give it a shot and give me a feedback..

LetMeKnow said:
What version did you use and kernel? I am going to release my extreme tweaks today sometime to go with Cromi 5.0.3 and Hund's kernel. It is mainly for performance. You can give it a shot and give me a feedback..
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I'm not sure which version it was. I flashed it a while ago so I'm sure it wasn't the newest version that's out now. I'll go ahead and flash the newest version and Hund's kernel and try out your tweak.

ZacHcaZ said:
I'm not sure which version it was. I flashed it a while ago so I'm sure it wasn't the newest version that's out now. I'll go ahead and flash the newest version and Hund's kernel and try out your tweak.
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You will be happy with it..
Edit: You may want to back up your personal stuff on your external sd so you can format your data partition to prevent of any issues from one rom to another..

LetMeKnow said:
You will be happy with it..
Edit: You may want to back up your personal stuff on your external sd so you can format your data partition to prevent of any issues from one rom to another..
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Ok, I'm running the latest Cromi-X ROM and Hund's kernel now. Already noticing a huge difference in speeds

ZacHcaZ said:
Ok, I'm running the latest Cromi-X ROM and Hund's kernel now. Already noticing a huge difference in speeds
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I know that you will be happy with that setup... You can also do a test drive on my Fast and Furious Extreme Tweak on that combo..

I had the same problem running cromi x 5 0 3. Then I tried out lagfix free, and now it runs very well
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I tried lagfix as well and it did seem to speed it up even more

[Q] 4.3 Kernel w/ Data2SD support?

Title kind of says it all, I have heard of folks in a few posts for 4.3 based roms mention just running a kernel with Data2SD built in. Bryce's kernel is the only 4.3 kernel i have found and it does not appear to have data2sd included....
4.3 runs pretty well without it but it would be nice to have.
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sjgieson said:
Title kind of says it all, I have heard of folks in a few posts for 4.3 based roms mention just running a kernel with Data2SD built in. Bryce's kernel is the only 4.3 kernel i have found and it does not appear to have data2sd included....
4.3 runs pretty well without it but it would be nice to have.
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That's kernel version 6 kind of supports 4.3 and has preinit support built in which means with a small script you can set the mount points for data2sd before android boots.
Pop over to his thread for info.

sbdags said:
That's kernel version 6 kind of supports 4.3 and has preinit support built in which means with a small script you can set the mount points for data2sd before android boots.
Pop over to his thread for info.
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Thanks for the reply, as far as I know that will not work on 4.3: From that thread:
Originally Posted by stalls View Post
Is this compatible with 4.3?
No this kernel is only for stock based roms, it will not work on CM 10.2 (currently there's no custom kernel for CM10.2).

sjgieson said:
Thanks for the reply, as far as I know that will not work on 4.3: From that thread:
Originally Posted by stalls View Post
Is this compatible with 4.3?
No this kernel is only for stock based roms, it will not work on CM 10.2 (currently there's no custom kernel for CM10.2).
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I used it on CM10.2 as did that. The new version is 4.3 compatible as it says in the changelog. Although he didin't put it in the first post it is near the end of the thread. You also need to inject his modules into CM.
If you pop over to his dual boot thread he shows you how to do this as well

Awesome thanks for posting again! I will give this a try right away! I'd seriously contemplating going down the path of compiling my own....but would rather not
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Well I just tried that6 and it booted but phone app crashed dialog prevented using it…..I am running CMB so maybe vanilla cm10.2 would work…....
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sjgieson said:
Well I just tried that6 and it booted but phone app crashed dialog prevented using it…..I am running CMB so maybe vanilla cm10.2 would work…....
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I tried cmb and it worked fine. See instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2501129

True Story, I missed the step about the ramdisk for sure! I fail.
Will try again tonight.

[Q] cromi-x and cm11

Hi,
I've been using cromi-x rom for several months (v5.2.3 with kernel thatv7 and fsync off) and it run really fine. I even don't consider to install data2sd or rom2sd as performance already meets my needs due to fsync off.
But i'm a curious man and i'm interested in testing another rom : cm11. But i have few questions about that (i did not find answers in existing threads) :
- does cm11 correct the tf700 i/o issue (with sync off for example) and will i get as good performance than on cromi-x ?
- i have TWRP installed but CM requires CWR. Which one is compatible with both roms (so that i can easily switch back from one rom?to the other) ?
Thanks
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Ghorin said:
Hi,
I've been using cromi-x rom for several months (v5.2.3 with kernel thatv7 and fsync off) and it run really fine. I even don't consider to install data2sd or rom2sd as performance already meets my needs due to fsync off.
But i'm a curious man and i'm interested in testing another rom : cm11. But i have few questions about that (i did not find answers in existing threads) :
- does cm11 correct the tf700 i/o issue (with sync off for example) and will i get as good performance than on cromi-x ?
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I doubt it since essentially it is hardware related (cheap memory) and I doubt that the CM team found a better way to mitigate it than sbdags.
- i have TWRP installed but CM requires CWR. Which one is compatible with both roms (so that i can easily switch back from one rom?to the other) ?
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TWRP 2.6.3.2 also works with CM11. It also seems to work fine with CROMi-X.
sbdgas just modded the rom2sd2 script to run CM11 as rom2sd with _thatv7 on internal. Somebody else tried the same scenario with Hund's kernel - both ran like syrup it seems....
But give it a shot running CM11 on internal with TWRP 2.6.3.2! That's what nandroids are for
And let us know how it went!

berndblb said:
I doubt it since essentially it is hardware related (cheap memory) and I doubt that the CM team found a better way to mitigate it than sbdags.
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As far as I understand, the solution was to put fsync to off. Maybe CM has also implemented that solution, but I don't find any information about that on CM thread / website.
berndblb said:
TWRP 2.6.3.2 also works with CM11. It also seems to work fine with CROMi-X.
sbdgas just modded the rom2sd2 script to run CM11 as rom2sd with _thatv7 on internal. Somebody else tried the same scenario with Hund's kernel - both ran like syrup it seems....
But give it a shot running CM11 on internal with TWRP 2.6.3.2! That's what nandroids are for
And let us know how it went!
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Yep you're right, I see that there is a thread explaning that, I will read it and try to apply it. I'll give news about my testing but that will take a few days probably as i'm very busy at the moment at home.

I've read the dual-boot internal+external rom thread and it needs a linux machine which i don't have. Could i do that gparted configuration with a live-linux CD ?
And about performance, does the option "fsync off" exist in CM11 ? If not then i don't expect good performance/no-lag like on CROMI-X and i would be then not interested to test CM.
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Ghorin said:
I've read the dual-boot internal+external rom thread and it needs a linux machine which i don't have. Could i do that gparted configuration with a live-linux CD ?
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Sure! I recommend the one from sysresccd.org (should be in every household), but you can also use the GParted live CD or any other that includes gparted.
Ghorin said:
And about performance, does the option "fsync off" exist in CM11 ? If not then i don't expect good performance/no-lag like on CROMI-X and i would be then not interested to test CM.
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As long as the kernel supports "fsync off", it will also work in CM.

_that said:
Sure! I recommend the one from sysresccd.org (should be in every household), but you can also use the GParted live CD or any other that includes gparted.
As long as the kernel supports "fsync off", it will also work in CM.
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Thanks for your answer, i'll try it when i have time (late at night when child and wife are sleeping )

Not all kernels that support f sync off support cm11, the only cm11 kernel besides the stock cyanogen mod one is bryce09's and that still has bugs. CM 11 with the build.prop tweaks, clean master, lagfix, and crossbreeder give performance better then CROMI-X with no overclock.
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[Q&A] [MOD] [All ROMS] F2FS for TF700T

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CM10.2 kernel?
Hi this thread is very clear thank you!
For CM10.2, which I prefer since it is a hassle-free stable version, which kernel that you offer in the download section should I use? CM11?

WiFi on ROM2SD & F2FS
Hi, your solution works great thank you! But when installing CROMi-X on ROM2SD with F2FS, the wifi does not work.. everything else works fine - and when installing CROMi-X with F2FS to internal, the wifi works fine too (this is the option I have now).
to be more precise, the wifi keeps showing "turning on" without ever actually turning on no matter how long I wait.
Any ideas on a fix?
Thank you

rockinghawk said:
Hi, your solution works great thank you! But when installing CROMi-X on ROM2SD with F2FS, the wifi does not work.. everything else works fine - and when installing CROMi-X with F2FS to internal, the wifi works fine too (this is the option I have now).
to be more precise, the wifi keeps showing "turning on" without ever actually turning on no matter how long I wait.
Any ideas on a fix?
Thank you
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If i remembered correctly that is a kernel issue. You are using one of the kernels i provided or CROMI's own kernel?

I agree.
Did you use the modded _that v9 kernel?
You could try _that11 modded by kansasboy for CROMi-X/f2fs/rom2sd:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57239822

Yes, I used the kernel provided.. ok, I will the other suggested kernel by _that too and get back to you, thank you!

It still does not work.. I tried _that and Hunds kernels included in the original postand the kansasboy modded _that11 kernel suggested above.
I also tried the original _that11 kernel but it failed in TWRP.
No matter which kernel I use it always gets stuck at "Turning Wi-Fi on..."
Any other ideas please?

Pretoriano80 said:
If i remembered correctly that is a kernel issue. You are using one of the kernels i provided or CROMI's own kernel?
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I have just noticed the issue (sorry for spamming this thread)
The kernel used during running ROM2SD is the kernel of the Internal memory. Why would this happen? Any ideas on how to fix it?

rockinghawk said:
I have just noticed the issue (sorry for spamming this thread)
The kernel used during running ROM2SD is the kernel of the Internal memory. Why would this happen? Any ideas on how to fix it?
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There can only be one kernel. So you have to flash the same one when you flash the internal/external rom if you want to run a dual boot system. So your kernel has to be compatible with both roms.

berndblb said:
There can only be one kernel. So you have to flash the same one when you flash the internal/external rom if you want to run a dual boot system. So your kernel has to be compatible with both roms.
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When I follow the instructions for F2FS on ROM2SD and I install a new kernel, then the kernel already installed in the Internal memory does not get replaced...
My internal is also F2FS with _that's kernel for F2FS included on the instructions
So I will install directly on the Internal hund's to check then.. But it seems that to me it may not be the kernel since _that's should work..