yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ock:
Looking at your numerous recent posts here and then looking at the first line of your signature about your 'break', I don't think I would want to trust any of your words ;)

I'm really excited about how CM7 is developing, just saw how they are working on ffmpeg libraries next. That would be something worth waiting for :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
smells AWESOME ! :D

haven't had the chance yet to taste ^^

yeah, I know - mixed signals only lead to anger and fear, doubt and uncertainty :p

sorry, wasn't my intention

my users demanded a update / NEO_09 redux with led-notifications

and I took the chance to add some nice updates (not sure if it works reliable ...)

after that change - there won't be the need for a new cm7 kernel from my side (at least for some time) ;)

edit:

support for access to external SD with Gingerbread bootloaders just has been merged to the repo

everyone please thank eifert !
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Fuma:
most excelent news today!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] kevin2516:
I love you cm7. Thanks a lot almighty devs of awesomeness.

Sent from somewhere
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ock:
:eek::cool:

Just shows what a great team effort CM7 is
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] katsooba:
that is AWESOME news!

but, how is it going to be implemented in the next nightly? just a regular update?

we need to flash the BL with odin first ?

will there be a guide up for this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Hrithan2020:
Thanks for the suggestion. I am using one click widget, which also does the same thing for me in stock, and have found it to be a hassle; so I find myself changing it v.little..Mostly 3G on, in stock.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
Since afaik you can't change the bootloaders from recovery, it will likely require the bootloaders to be flashed from Odin either before or after the relevant nightly is flashed.

If the CM7 devs feel confidant now that with this change the GB bootloaders are fully kosher, that will be great for all I think.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] galnet:
If people were to read correctly, the statement from Lttldvl was implementing that some of the coding which has been pushed to CM7 causes issues with other things.

As everyone knows what can fix one thing can break another.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] toddmworth:
That's great.... I think? ;)

Is this interpretation correct:

After nightly 76, this patch will be in place, and we could flash our phones in odin with GB bootloaders such as the one posted a few pages back, and enjoy battery savings,without losing sd card?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] katsooba:
rschenck, thats what i mean, i wanted to try GB bl on the cm7, but the only things that stopped me were

1. its not recommended\supported by cm7

2. dont have ext sd support.

so if they say this got fixed - i wanna do it by CM7 dev team recommendations, and not be like "all or nothing, here we go" with this.

get my point?:)

even though i know how to do it, i prefer to wait to an official notice from the dev team instead of chit-chat on the web right now :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
I am sure some kind of official guidance will come out....one way or another
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] codeworkx:
If it doesn't cause other problems, use it.

It's your phone, not mine. :-P
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leion:
Is it just me? After updating to version 75, I am not able to install apk files. That install button just cannot work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] pawitp:
That or we might end up with sdcard support and not-so-great battery depending on where the drain is from.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ock:
No need for nightly 76 (which doesn't seem to contain the commit?), see Nikademus' thread for his Fugumod build 619.

GB Bootloaders can be flashed after flashing CM7 and kernels. Just be careful working with them.

I'm not sure if screenfilter is the cause.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] drakenabarion:
Are you using screen filter?

Edit fast updates today. I post too late.

Sent via XDA Premium app on my GT-I9000 running CM7 (GB 2.3.5)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] coffeeboy:
Anyone have adhoc wifi driver CWM from cm7?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leegalaxy:
Aw man! I was just going to write that the idle battery life was much improved on 75 (which it is) and now I see that the bootloader issue is now sorted but needs to be flashed using Odin. Too bad I'm on my way to get married and am leaving my computer home for the next few weeks:) Thank Gods for extra batteries.

GT-I9000. CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] toddmworth:
Okay, before I search the thread for that GB bootloader, does anyone have an odin froyo bootloader, in case things don't work out?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
The question is:

If the only advantage of gb bootloaders was SD power save and it has been implemented in #75, what is the advantage of using gb bootloaders instead froyo?

In addiction if you have problem you can't post here since is not officially supported.

The most fix i wait is RIL power widget fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
The concensus has been that to switch to gb bootloaders you flash a single file via odin. However going back requires reflashing froyo and then reinstalling cm7.

Hopefully someone has a different solution.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sago62:
http://perka.zapto.org/

BY
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
Well, if the GB bootloaders fix goes into cm7, then they WILL be officially supported.

However, Nicademus was just conjecturing that the SD issue was accounting for the power savings on the gb bootloaders. That has yet to be confirmed, plus we don't that even if it is accurate, that it is the whole story.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
Ok Codeworkx, we get it. You have your terse, grumpy face on at the moment. How nice for you.

However those of us who have been spending a lot of time sheparding this forum would like to know what exactly is involved if and when this gb bootloaders commit goes upstream.

Since we are the ones who will be dealing with the screams of the mangled noobs as their bootloaders burn, a procedure would be nice, as well as an idea what is really to be gained with the gb bootloaders.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Laum:
No you do not have to flash whole Froyo rom after trying GB bootloaders. For example JPJ from Perka's stash is a Froyo bootloader and works fine without flashing whole Froyo rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] titooo7:
I just hope your fiance dont read that words, lol

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ock:
SD Power save doesn't seem to have a significant effect on improving idle battery use, at least in my testing. But Gingerbread bootloaders do.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] codeworkx:
No idea.

Afaik there's deep idle stuff on samsung 2.3.4 kernels which only works with GB bootloaders. We didn't implement it because we've used the froyo bootloaders.

Deep Idle + Froyo Bootloaders = Sleep of Death

Vibrant doesn't have GB bootloaders, so we're not able to update the kernel without creating a ifdef hell. There's one solution: Drop vibrant support or flash i9000 bootloaders on vibrant. Both are not very good. ;-)

You have to try for yourself if it helps or not.

I'll push the new kernel today, so you'll get it tomorrow.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] prembox:
Recovery>>Fix Permissions>>Reboot
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] prembox:
I flashed Froyo Bootloaders thru ODIN to check if it reverts and restores EMMC.... it went smoothly :D. Got the Froyo BL from Perka
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] htzs:
i dont't see your problem. use your wife's computer then :-)

Sent from a GALAXY far far away
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] quidome:
First: I really appreciate how you keep cool and still answer questions after the way some people talk to you devs sometimes. Thanks!

Second: thats quite a mess with GB bootloaders. Personally I didn't notice much difference between F and GB bootloaders but I don't use SD. I can imagine you guys won't officially support GB bootloaders until the Vibrant has them too?

Anyway, great job! Keep it up!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leegalaxy:
I will be in California for my honeymoon. Maybe I should just pop into Google while I'm there... Anyone have a message for them while I'm there? Maybe I can bring back some Ice cream samiches for everyone?

GT-I9000. CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] codeworkx:
Bootloaders:

http://codeworkx.de/download/galaxysmtd/GT-I9000_BOOTLOADERS_README.txt

Download:

http://codeworkx.de/download/galaxysmtd/

USE AT OWN RISK!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
the Vibrant has modded (or even leaked) GB bootloaders available

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1117990

dunno if they would work correctly with deep idle + cm7

or deep idle and samsung roms
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] toddmworth:
Now running Nightly 75 with fugu 619, jvq modem and jvq bootloader from perkas stash. Will charge it before bed and report back with a battery percentage when I wake...

Thanks to all who coded and gave advice!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] katsooba:
just flashed the jvk bl from codeworkx's comment,

did it with ezodine - phone on download mode, flashed as pda, flashed fugu 619.

all went smooth :) emmc folder is active and operational :)

<< a happy man

hehe

ill check in with battery status updates.

during yesterday i had 16 hrs of phone use on one charge, including games, 3g and calls, some browsing and lots of whatsapp msging.

worked for me :) just need to find out if i realy have gb bl haha
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
Flash CM+Fugu in ONE step - GB Bootloader

### NOT FOR NOOBS ###​

For those who want to leave the custom kernel even when flashing

For the sake of exemple, I'll explain howto do with Fugu kernel:

CM7_FuguMod_20110803_r619v_update.zip

or above (which works with GB bootloader)

(You need to flash GB bootloader first in download mode)

Open cm_galaxysmtd_full-xxx.zip (with mc under Linux for exemple),

replace boot.img with the one from CM7_FuguMod_xxxxxxxx_rxxxx_update.zip,

replace system/lib/modules directory with the corresponding directory from the custom kernel zip file,

close the zip file, push to sdcard, reboot into recovery and flash away.

I've tried and it works fine, except for DPI which resets to default - just change it with Nitrality.

Hope it helps some of you guys.

A big thanks to the devs!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] katsooba:
are you sure it works this way?

i thought the BL could only be flashed on download mode,

if so, until the bl on the nightly be changed to GB, everytime we flash an old nightly we'll be installing a froyo bl?

doesnt sound right
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
You have to flash GB bootloader first - thanks (previous post edited)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] prembox:
Correct me if I'm wrong here....once you flash GB BL thru ODIN, your SGS stays with GB BL until the time you do flash a Froyo BL thru clean install etc, my point is you don't have to flash the GB BL every time before updating to the latest nightly...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
Correct - the bootloader is independant from the ROM (which contains the Kernel and all the other stuff, but NOT the bootloader)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Uss_Defiant:
Does this mean that one can go directly from a 2.3 Rom to CM7 without going back to 2.2 first?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
I guess so - I was on Froyo BL, so I had to flash GB BL, but for those on stock ROM, you should be ok flashing CM - cm reformats the file system, so only the BL is preserved.

So, yes, flash away straight from Ginger BL.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] prembox:
Yes, you can. flash the zip from CWM
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
So JVK is newest GB bootloader?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] olus:
flashed the bootloader from codeworkx post with odin as pda. sd card doesnt work. do i need to flash fugu mod ??
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
So then as I understand it, the new Nightlys can be flashed over EITHER froyo or gb bootloaders?

Will Nicademus' SD card change still apply if you keep the froyo bootloaders?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
yes - or wait for next nightly to include that change

latest NEO_09 redux v5 kernel also does include that change

so there's already some choice :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rschenck:
I think you will need to wait for the next Nightly for the SD card to work with gb bootloaders.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] olus:
changelog (to be included) for #77

kernel: support for emmc on gingerbread bootloaders (android_device_samsung_galaxysmtd)

ok, thx zach (holiday man) and rschenck (pink pony rider) ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] prembox:
It's incoming...:D

kernel: support for emmc on gingerbread bootloaders
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] titooo7:
I'm sure it doesnt matter which bootloader it is as long as its a GB bootloader. Probably jvq has the same bootloader than jvp or jvr

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] HarpingOn:
I was just about to go cm7 and start by flashing a froyo first. I have stock 2.3.3 with cf-root, does this mean I can just flash cm7 though rom manager that comes with cf-root?

Would be simpler than downgrading first.

Sent from my Galaxy S i9000 using that XDA Premium App thingie
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] siky_dude:
Yep
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] katsooba:
rschenck, nikademus said its compatible with froyo aswell

so whether your on froyo or gb, your good :)

the only difference is the BL behavior on boot\cpu ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tommy34:
This is a good development :). Now i am able to switch between CM7 and JV* at any time, through rom manager!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] beekay201:
i can confirm that, already tried jvq, same thing. next nightly, i'll go with JVK.

flashed #75, staying with stock kernel on this one. want to see how battery goes. Froyo BL.

edit: radio JVR is looking good (europe), great audio incall.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
If you want BG bootloader, you can but use either Fugu or Zach Kernel - or wait for next nightly on stock kernel.

If you want to flash cm+(Fugu or Zach) in on step, look my post above

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16289129&postcount=13110
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
I don't think so: cm reformats file system, and in order to get back to stock ROM, I think you need to repartition - so my guess is it doesn't work through ROM Manager but only via Odin or Heimdall.

Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks

Edit: heimdall way:

heimdall flash --repartition --factoryfs factoryfs.rfs --cache cache.rfs --dbdata dbdata.rfs --primary-boot boot.bin --secondary-boot Sbl.bin --param param.lfs --kernel zImage --pit s1_odin_20100512.pit
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tommy34:
Yes that seems right! too enthusiastic. didn't think about the different partition structure :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rogerone:
More info

:eek:

Can you share your modem and settings?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tb5...:
^^^ i agree id love to know

on 75 my text messages are not sending... and calls are failing all the time

installed jl2 modem... and still issues...

im going to flash glitch and see if that helps :\
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ASHURiCAN:
I'm in Europe (Belgium) and JVR gives me no signal!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
Im europe (Italia) and jvr works so good
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sptorrent:
I'm in France, and JVR gives me great signal...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Gugus38:
Besides easier installation for GB users, does using GB BL have any other advantages?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
As people have said over the last (many) pages, it appears to have better battery for some, but it's not really scientifically proven.

But remember, newer= better. I don't know about you but my phone got 200% faster when we got bumped to 2.3.5. #HigherVersionNumbersFTW
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] funkateer2:
for sure.

CM7 back on with the 70, I literally took a slap!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
Am i wrong or Coderworkx says that gb bootloader + deep sleep = sleep of death?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] codeworkx:
yes, you're wrong.

try to pay attention while you're reading. :-P
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
He implied that it is possible; oddly, I haven't heard reports of that yet but I don't read every post in this thread. Also he didn't clarify if the upcoming changes in #77 would fix that or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
Oh well ;-)

From next nightly then let's begin testing
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
au contraire:

Froyo bootloader + deep idle == sleep of death
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
Deep idle improves battery life?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
What codeworkx said is

Froyo bootloaders + deep idle = sod,

And that makes me think that the gb bootloaders are not much of a help, since the deep idle stuff is not implemented in the kernel. Either we all change to gb bootloaders, including vibrant users that dont have an official gb bootloader at all, so the deep idle stuff can safely be implemented into kernel, or we will never get the full benefits of fb bootloaders.

I hope i got that right, codeworkx correct me if i'm wrong...

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] codeworkx:
Right.

But vibrant got a leaked gb bootloader.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Red_Vex:
Ok so it is useless flash gb bootloader if the kernel doesn't support deep idle.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
So if we can get evwryone to flash the bootloaders, they could start to implement deep idle stuff?

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
Not fully useless, since some users reported less idle drain on gb bootloaders before, but this could be due to sdcard not being powered also.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
Honestly, SGS CM users are already on the cutting edge. If there is already a working, safe Vibrant GB bootloader available, from my perspective it makes sense to bite the bullet and move everyone to the new bootloaders and the new improvements they would allow to be made in CM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] siky_dude:
+ ten (chars)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
But there are lots of users out there that don't update daily, as we had 14000+ users last time i checked only on sgsmtd, i assume some of them don't even read the forum and do update occassionally. Imagine what will break loose here if suddenly gb bootloaders are required and the device sod's with froyo bl.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] beekay201:
Portugal here. with jve/jvq inside my house i normally have -70/-75dbm, with jvr i get -65/-70dbm. not much, but i'm also noticing good speed on data call, good reception, haven't tested gps yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] beekay201:
is there no way we can warn them? rom manager changelog or something? this would be something we all can benefit from. i say let people have one sod and come looking for help. that's the worst that can happen right? codeworkx updates OP, the rest of us redirects people to it or to Q&A.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] tommy34:
Development of custom kernels with deep idle would probably be a solution.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] beekay201:
(i wish multi-quote would work when i need it to)

i'm using froyo bl with no sdcard for now, still on first full charge, my goal being to test if there really is less drain when not using sdcard, even on froyo bl. i'll report about that later. 4 or 5 cycles should be enough i think.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
Its actually the only way to let them run into trouble, but we have to be aware that this will not be done in a day or two, not even in two weeks... and remember how pissed people here got answering always the same questions about missing sdcards and strange colors during boot...

Multiquote works perfect, select the posts u want to quote with multiquote, and the last one with normal quote...

I think you will see some but not much improvement.

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
Honestly, the same people will be the ones asking the dumb questions regardless of what happens.

If a change is made that requires bootloaders, it will be clearly stated in the OP and elsewhere to let people know.

Over 90% of those 15,000+ users are sensible folks who read carefully and follow instructions and would not be frazzled by this change.

The ones that are would probably have issues anyway, or be the same folks asking the dumb questions as it is now.

That's just my $0.02. Clearly up to codeworkx, but I'm all for making progress when there is a clear benefit to doing so, and it sounds like there is.

Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] beekay201:
i thank you, kind sir. no disrespect meant to vbulletin lol.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
Youre welcome... btw, the go to first unread button at the bottom of the page is in fact not working... ;-)

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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] gekkekoe123:
For the impatients..

check my signature if you want to test the GB bootloader changes ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ASHURiCAN:
It's ok, I'm on JVR and it works fine, even if the signal I get is around -89 ^^
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
I should know this but I don't...what's the newest/bestest GB modem with 850mhz support? I use JV6 at the moment
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leegalaxy:
It is, and always was, KC1. Why are you looking to switch (other than a natural compulsion to mess with your phone)?

GT-I9000. CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leegalaxy:
I'm a Canadian eh? And I frickin' need a radio with 850 band eh? So, like, JV6 is good then? Or what eh?

GT-I9000. CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] siky_dude:
850 enabled modems :

jpg

jl3

kc1

jk3

jk4

jl2

kp1

:) ... i use kc1 ... if you want any of these just ask :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
Okay, I guess I'll go back to KC1 (I tried it but only very briefly).

Not really sure why I'm on JV6 but it doesn't seem that great, I remember my phone getting better signal and better GPS before.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Leegalaxy:
What up with that KP1? Never heard of it. Also Silky, are any of them even comparable to KC1?¿¿?

GT-I9000. CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] siky_dude:
not really..some give me only edge...and -120 dbm :D

but hell..that`s just romania...some are 3g only..i know somebody was looking for these :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] got_milk:
Trying to figure out why my battery drained ultra-fast today, and saw that Maps was accountable for 42% of my battery usage. A quick Google search points as Latitude as the culprit - and I accidentally signed into it the other day.

Long story short: don't use Latitude!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] FadeFx:
Long known, but has to be brought up from time to time... ;-)

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