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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bucksDev:
Hi all,

we are trying to build our own kernel for a Samsung Galaxy S (I9000XWJVB).

What we did so far:

- Download the correct sources from "opensource.samsung.com"

- Studied the README

- Installed cross-compiler toolchain

- Created ".config" as described in README

- Kernel compiled

Compilation worked fine -> zImage was available (but with only 2mb very)

OK, looks like initramfs is missing.

The first question is now, where to get / how to create a correct initramfs?

We copied the initramfs from Leshak and we extracted an ".cpio" from a working zImage.

Then we tried to use them in the ".config" (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE) for kernel compilation.

Resultant zImage was larger (around 6mb) so it looks like something changed.

But once we installed the tared zImage on the phone (using Odin), the phone freezes during reboot.

Any advice how to progress here?

Is it possible to use Leshaks initramfs for all Galaxy S phones? Or is this only for a specific version? The CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE should point to the "initrd.arm.initramfs_list", correct? And not to the initramfs-folder?

And: Is there a way to get any type of kernel boot debugging message from the booting phone back to the PC (or the phone screen)?

Many thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themate1987:
I don't know much about kernels. But i will try to help. Have you tried other itiramfs or reconfig them?

There are not many people that will know answer so ask some kernel developers like hardcore, supercurio...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themate1987:
Just saw 2nd question. I think that it should point to intiramfs folder. You can zip all kernel files and upload it so i can take a look at them
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bucksDev:
Hi,

we tried four different initramfs now, but ended up always with a freezing phone.

I would like to ask the kernel experts directly, but I'm new to this forum and not allowed to post in the developers forums. I hope that one of the gurus will reply to this thread.

My understanding is that the .list file will describe the structure of the initramfs folder and if this file is present, it should by used in the .config. Otherwise the .config should point to the folder.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

But anyway, we tried both versions, none worked.

Regards!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themate1987:
PM some kernel developers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifi802.11abgn:
Use speedmod kernel patches with the readme file he has given..

or else you can go through supercurio threads also ...

they explained the kernel compilation methods....

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redtwo:
Did you get this to work finally? I too am trying to compile and flash a custom kernel ( For SGS4G) I point my INIIRAMFS_SOURCE to an extracted initram dir, but the resulting boot zImage does not proceed past the initial boot screen(s) Please let me know if you succeeded, and if yes, how.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yesyoman:
What I got the problem was about initramfs.cpio.

At that moment , the most important point you know is you should make the file in Linux..

When my friend made me a file is initramfs.cpio , it worked well.

But what I made in window made always troubles for compile.

So if you made a initramfs.cpio with hexeditor in window, try it in Linux again..

Thx!:)
[Nook Color General] GTT1:
I have updated my NC to 1.2 and am running CM7.0.3 from an SD card.

I keep seeing CWM mentioned and have some idea of it from reading a thread here on another board.

Questions -

Is there a similar thread on XDA, a search pulls up a lot of threads to go through but I couldn't find a similar explanatory thread.

Most threads I have read refer to using with NC running 1.1 or earlier, can current CWM be used on 1.2 and where to find and make sure you are using latest CWM

Is it best to load CWM in the NC memory or does using it from an SD card give more flexibility, once a good working copy of autonooter is ready I would like to use this and quit with the loading from SD card, so it seems going the NC memory route is probably best but I haven't a clue if that is right.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
If you want CWM on the eMMC (internal storage), all you have to do is go to the ROM Manager app in CM7.0.3, and the first option, Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, will install it on your NC, replacing the stock recovery.

The main reason to run it from a SD card instead would be if you wanted to leave the stock recovery (which restores the NC to factory settings after 8 failed boots) intact.

It doesn't sound like you really need CWM for anything you're planning on doing, though, and you're probably going to get better performance from CM7, on SD or eMMC, than a rooted stock OS, anyway.
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
I just posted a link to the XDA Clockwork Page on the Wiki, located in the general discussion sub forum.
[Nook Color General] GTT1:
You are probably right and I should just put it on an SD.

I like CM7 and would prefer it to be on EMMC eventually with a dual boot option to NC1.2 if that is possible. Getting it their is a little daunting. Will autonooter accomplish this when they get the bugs worked out or does that just root the NC.

When CM7 is on EMMC and you are not rooted doesn't that just mean you get wiped out on the next NC update, I would like to avoid that and would also like to be able to flash CM7 stable updates as available.

In the meantime I find 7.0.3 more stable and less forced closes so far for me. My Transcend 8gb class 6 seems quick enough (just as smooth as my laptop but not as fast as EMMC) The only problem I have found so far is I cannot get it overclocked both kernels I have tried 0404 and 0424 give an error on the first line.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Putting $10-25 into a class 2/4 Sandisk would probably get you about as much stability as moving to eMMC. From the SD thread:

Get CM7 running smooth, and you might change your mind altogether about rooting stock ;)

ETA: I missed your concern about updates. Rooting definitely does not remove the concern about updates--if you make any changes to eMMC, you're going to want to stay off WiFi with stock OS until there's a CWM-compatible ROM of the new stock OS available. You can receive stable updates of CM7 on SD as they become available, you'll just have to manually boot into recovery to finish the installation. There's a setting in Settings>CyanogenMod.
[Nook Color General] GTT1:
Actually I have a 4gb class 2 Sandisk. I see no difference when I use it. I put CM7.0.3 on to test that build before flashing and updating my CM7.0.1 on my Transcend.
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
I got a text from o2 on Sunday saying I'd used 80% of my data allowance—a huge amount since Tuesday!

I've disbaled data for now while I try and figure out what's gone wrong.

I checked the stats on the phone under network usage and it seems that 'Media' has been using the most (nothing else comes close). This has DRM Protected Content Storage, Download Manager, and Media Storage in the package.

I've been on the same ROM for ages (Rod's MIUI) and haven't installed any news apps recently…

Anyone have this problem before or know what's gone wrong??
[Nexus One General] onesavior:
Have you been using Pandora or another online radio app? Streaming movies?
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
Use Network Counter by mapeapps to get an idea of what is using data...
[Nexus One General] josemedina1983:
I use Google Listen Alot by the end of the month I used 2 GB minimum of data
[Nexus One General] behelit:
SPB Mobile Manager will tell you which apps are download/uploading and how much
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
I've got an app called Monitor (it came with the ROM) that lists the apps and what they've used. Download Manager is listed as having used it all.

I haven't been streaming anything unusual no.

Does anyone know what Download Manager would be used by? I've disbaled it's 3G access and turned my data back on, I'll see how things go...
[Nexus One General] chinstrap:
For me, a single 3 hour podcast ( I <3 listen) is 90+ meg. Add a little bit of twitter and facebook into the mix, 2G is easy to break in one billing cycle.
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
This is just silly now. I've disabled Download Manager with firewall but it's still using data, apps must be using it and my monitor isn't logging it as the app but that process.

I've had data turned off all day apart from a couple of times to check mail but I've just checked and I've somehow used over 50MB!

Can anyone help?
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
I think I've figured out what's happened if anyone is interested.

I've had the Android update alert popping up for ages now but I was waiting for Rod to update his ROM before I installed a new one. It's gone now so I'm guessing it's been trying to download the android update in the backgroud whenever I've had a signal.

Serves me right to not updating to a ROM that gets rid of the update alert I guess.

This is gonna be a fun month with no data allowance…
[Nexus One General] Dirk:
Are O2 that stringent about their data caps or are you a frequent abuser? It pisses me off no end that caps are even in place, especially on 'unlimited' plans, but when they get all pedantic it makes me rage!

FWIW, Vodafone have always been good to me if you're ever thinking of switching. And i abuse the hell out of my data allowance :D
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
I've used the full 500MB so I've turned data off, rather not face a large bill...
[Nexus One General] top_bunk:
I've updated ROM from Rod's 2.5 to 2.9 as it had apparently removed the updater. I did this today, in the last few hours Media Storage has used 265MB (on wifi as I still have 3g disabled) even though I've been doing nothing.

Anybody have any clues as to what's going on? I've tried googling with no luck. I did see a couple of similar sounding things and mention of a patch to disable OTA updates... anybody know anything about it?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexdemonumber3:
We figured out how to make angry birds work, anyone interested in helping me figure out how to make this work? I really would dig this on my hero as opposed to my iPod..iOS sucks..
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhantomHacker:
Sorry off topic: How do you get Angry Birds without lag?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexdemonumber3:
mod edit: Warez
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
Pretty sure Rovio asked the site to remove all links to modified angry birds apps.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Ginger-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bierce22:
didnt we have a huge debate on that when theimpaler fixed angry birds awhile back, that was when i was still using my mt3g lol.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user7618:
Don't think there really was any debate. Rovio asked it to be removed and it was.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Ginger-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bierce22:
please dont start that again we all know were to get angrybirds, your going to get us into trouble again and im going to pm a mod to close this thread.
[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
seems like today is the day.

im way excited for this to be public (its in beta currently...i think)

couple sources:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/10/google-to-launch-music-beta-cloud-music-service-today-at-io/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/technology/10google.html
[Nook Color General] japzone:
I just requesteed an Invite at http://music.google.com and I downloaded the Updated Music App. The App looks nice and runs smoothly, allthough since I don't have an invite yet I can't rate the Cloud service.

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[Nook Color General] jewnersey:
wooo got my invite today! uploading my music now.

anyone else ?
[Nook Color General] I Am Marino:
No invite here.
[Nook Color General] wpnyc2009:
Ditto

Got mine. Haven't downloaded The PC music app yet but have synced to the cloud and listened to some music.
[Nook Color General] Jomboni:
the app keeps force closing whenever I try to play a song over wifi :(

Is anybody else having the same issue? I've seen a few other posts from people with similar issues on other devices, and everybody said to disable ad blockers. I don't have any of those installed!

I'm running the test build of phiremod 7 so I guess it could also be an issue with the rom...
[Nook Color General] Kayak83:
Got my invite a few days ago and just started using it. So far I'm really liking it.
[Nook Color General] jacjar1:
Same here only 2 songs didn't get uploaded...out of 650 that's not bad. It looks really cool on the nook and works well with streaming...Even with downloaded music on my Nook I like the way the program works. Some tweaking and this may be a winner..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarastaryo:
Is anyone else's totally sucking?? It always says either H, or 3G, but no data goes through. The "upload" arrow will light up, but not the "download" one... I also think it's killing my battery since it's constantly searching for a signal for checking e-mail and stuff? Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem or it's my phone? I'm outside of Chicago....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan_Brutal:
Same here. Someone I work with has the sgs4g and suffers the same problem.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shreddintyres:
Same problem down here in dallas tx i only really started noticing this with kb5 modem, i recently switched back to the KA6 modem. The problem is persistent but no where near as bad as it was on KB5
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmurray074:
Having same issue here... went to Tmobile and they told me this is not a common problem. But the forums are littered with people having the same problem... found 1 rom that kinda manages it well. Axora
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarastaryo:
hmmm weird. I didn't really have a problem until a few days ago, but I'm glad to know it's not just me :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxforya:
I think I figured out when the data drops. The phone will lag to the point of inoperability, then the phone for some reason has trouble reconnecting to the tower. the only thing I have found to fix this is a factory data reset. I have been lucky enough to reboot in airplane mode sometimes which helped once or twice. Or to reload a rom. I just dont know how to fix it? I had my phone warranty replaced due to this issue and it still remains on new phone. I am somwhat pissed myself :confused::confused::confused:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VICosPhi:
Happens to me randomly specially when searching in Map app. Phone starts lagging and I have to reboot. After reboot it shows No entry like sign in status bar. Nothing works, I tried rebooting, reinstalling same rom, new rom, new modem. What works is take out battery and reinsert it. Thought I got a bad phone, but now it seems others have this issue too?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JediDru:
Im just south of chicago and I usually have to download my apps 2 or 3 times to actually get them installed. I noticed that after you choose to download and it spits you back out in to the menu. Reclick the app you just installed if there isno statusbar you are not trully downloading it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan_Brutal:
Same here. The market is a pain with this data issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadpass:
I've been having problems with keeping gchat logged in. Constantly drops out and says either I'm not online or the other person is not online. My wife has the same problem with her vibrant.

In addition my GPS has been extra sucky lately, went from being able to lock 8 inside to usually not locking at all. Nothing I've tried has fixed it, but then randomly it'll work just fine. I can't reliably reproduce the problem.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxforya:
This is the second vibrant that I have had this problem on, So I want to say software, unless I got 2 phones with the same problem. The EDT gps fix makes my gps lovely when I have a data connection. I know that heathen has also made a flashable data fix which would at least stop from having to do a data reset, and reinstalling all apps. Unfortunately the data fix is rom specific and not a universal deal. Anybody with more experience know why many vibrants have this intermittent problem???
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxforya:
Since I unrooted I have had no data drops, but cannot fully unlock the potential of the device, has anyone heard if a way to maintain stable data thru root?

Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawika:
I kinda think I got the same thing goin on here. The only time I really notice it is in the market and usually only when doing updates to apps. Can't really say that DLing new apps has an issue tho.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazy25000:
I highly recommend CM7 :).....I try every new rom and always come back to it. Just a thought haha
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxforya:
Just tried it (cm7) and data dropped in 24 hrs. I give up, I'm going to switch to a verizon based phone. Ive never had a problem rooting my g1 or mytouch with data. If anyone knows a fix I would be very interested in understanding the problem.

Data worked for a month straight un-rooted !!!!

Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laylovj:
Did you try out different modems at all?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smoked33:
Howdy. I installed the Eternity 2.1 ROM and it doesn't have the youtube app installed. Could someone extract it from a 2.1 Rom for me please?

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
You can download it from the market. I did that with the ROM I am running now.

I have never ran that ROM before. I think you can do that. Try it.

Sent from XDA Premium from my X10a rooted running 2.2.1 Pure CM Rom from kxhawkins
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smoked33:
Thanks but I already tried the market...it's not there.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterko64:
You´re welcome

Please always search the forum first..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smoked33:
Many thanks.

...however I can't get it to work. First I copied it to the /system/app folder and editted the permissions. It doesn't show up...so I clicked it on my SD card to try to install and I get a parse error.

I've now tried the Iapk installer. Says it was successful...but no youtube.
[Xoom General] tumbes20000:
There was an article in the ny times this morning discussing the google's upcoming announcement of its music cloud service. What's interesting is that the initial beta is invite only and guess who is supposedly on the guest list. - xoom owners

There was an article in the ny times this morning discussing the google's upcoming announcement of its music cloud service. What's interesting is that the initial beta is invite only and guess who is supposedly on the guest list. - xoom owners
[Xoom General] Jiv3turk3y89:
Do you think it'll be pushed to us? I mean how do they get the beta to us?
[Xoom General] shobirama:
It does say that it is going to be only Verizon Xoom owners.

Does this mean wifi only Xoom owners will have to wait like the rest of the world?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/technology/10google.html?_r=3&smid=tw-nytimestech&seid=auto
[Xoom General] DroidHam:
Im sure the apk will be pulled
[Xoom General] Xevilious:
This is good news, but I am a bit disappointed that Google won't let me use my existing Google cloud storage and is instead doing some strange "song limit" thing.
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
Maybe it will be built-in to the upcoming update, that's why its delayed!
[Xoom General] robbiev80:
http://music.google.com/music/
[Xoom General] DroidHam:
offline caching looks badass
[Xoom General] dubsjw27:
registered and about 20 minutes later, received the update to Music.
[Xoom General] Kcarpenter:
The update is in the market regardless of registration for an invite.

The key here is being able to upload your music to the cloud (up to 20,000 songs)

I don't think anyone has access to the uploader yet - but I even updated the music app on my epic. :)
[Xoom General] dadoc04:
^ when you go into settings, and click on your google account... do you have "music" available to sync?

just wondering
[Xoom General] dubsjw27:
I do not currently have that option.
[Xoom General] Kcarpenter:
Nope not yet, I did on my Epic for a while as I was trying to get the leaked version working. But reinstalling this version it don't get the option.
[Xoom General] dadoc04:
^ thanks guys
[LG Optimus 2x] aMpeX:
Info: This has been fixed in Nightly #15. If you still want to move your cache, you may do it, but it is not necessary anymore!!

Hey folks,

as many of you might have expierienced with the CM7 nightlies, large apps won't download from the android market.

This due to the /cache/ partition, where the download files are stored in /cache/download/, being too small to acommodate for large apk files cached by the market.

So I searched around the net how to move this cache to another directory.

This is what I've come up with:

ATTENTION: I do not take any responsibility for any problems you may encounter with using this fix. It has worked fine for me, and it probably will for you as well.

This fix comes at a (little) prize: It moves the market cache to the internal SD card, so when you unmount the internal storage when you turn USB Mass storage on, market downloads will probably fail.

You probably have to be rooted for this, but since you are on CM7, you already should be :-)

adb shell
# cd /cache/
# rm -R download
# mkdir /mnt/emmc/marketcache
# ln -s /mnt/emmc/marketcache download
# chown -h system.cache download

Code explanation:

adb shell

This one should be obvious, if you don't know what it does, you probably shouldn't do this

cd /cache/

Navigate to /cache partition

rm -R download

Remove /download recursively (meaning DELETE F***ing everything in there :))

mkdir /mnt/emmc/marketcache

Create a directory named marketcache in the root directory of the internal SD card. Theoretically, you can choose whichever directory you'd like, but I don't know how the symlink would handle different file systems for example if your external SDCard is FAT32. And since the internal SD card became somewhat unused in CM7, I found it to be a good spot for this cache folder.

ln -s /mnt/emmc/marketcache download

Create a symbolic link named download to the directory you just created (remember to change the directory if you chose another one). This is somewhat anologous to a shortcut in Windows, where the OS treats the shortcut as a folder, while it actually just redirects everything to another location.

chown -h system.cache download

I don't know if this is necessary, but the original download folder has these permissions. It worked for me with, and without these permissions, maybe someone more expierienced could comment on whether you should set the permissions for the symlink and/or the destination folder.

To sum it up, what we did was delete the original download cache folder for the market and create a shortcut to the internal SDcard. From now on, the market will store the cached apks there instead of the cache partition.

After applying these changes, I was successfully able to download Cordy and MegaJump from the market, which I couldn't do before.

Hit the Thanks button if it helped you :)

Cheers

aMpeX
[LG Optimus 2x] kiljacken:
Thanks dude :D

Really nice fix and easy to understand.

-- Kiljacken