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[Acer Iconia A500] Suleeto:
I'll be buying a W500 tomorrow from someone, costing me 150 bux and already installed with a bought upgrade of Windows 8. I'd love to have ICS running decently, I don't even need the webcam just wifi, BT, and be able to install apps. I've seen a bit on the X86 project.... but what is this build.prop tweak you speak of?

Also, I can see how to run it from an SD card, but how is it you set it up for dual boot on Windows 8? Is this on the factory drive? All on the same partition or a separate partition?

I'm not all that versed in these things, I know how to flash a new custom ROM to a phone but this is something else.
[Acer Iconia A500] amwayz:
anybody will install Android x86 4.4 R1 ,can tell successfully ???

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Learned last night from Patriot Memory what I already knew without realizing it...with 32GB (only) SD cards on what appears to be any version of Android, the cluster size -must- be 32KB (I had tried both 64KB for performance and 4KB to reduce slack wastage) or you *will* encounter corruption (possible root cause for some of our SD-card-booting brethren?).

Google has no fix according to Patriot and this is a widespread problem (across phones and tablets), though I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Is this a kernel-level issue with the filesystem? Any idea of whether this is something that might get fixed for CM7 to make it even more compelling than it already is? :)

Rodney
[Nook Color General] DigitalMD:
Rodney, I think the answer is no, unless we were to go to NTFS which is not robustly supported. here is a reference for FAT32 cluster sizing and formatting. Informative but some what dated.

http://www.infocellar.com/hardware/harddrive-cluster-sizes.htm

anyway, for 32gb disk , 32k clusters are mandated.

FAT32 offers efficient 4KB clusters for partitions up to 8GB. The cluster size increases with the size of the partition, up to 32 KB for partitions over 32GB
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Microsoft seems to think differently, as they offer a number of different cluster sizes for that partition using FAT32, all of which work (on their OS). If you're saying it's the Linux FAT32 VFS that's busted, that's fine...but it's still busted.

Rodney
[Nook Color General] DigitalMD:
It's not busted, its just the way Fat32 works for compatability. That's why Linux has ext3 and Windows has NTFS. Fat32 is old, but universal.
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
It is busted, and there is no such "compatibility" rule. The web page you referenced is mistaken.

The _only_ valid rule, in Microsoft's own code, is as follows (assuming 512-byte sectors):

FAT32: 65,526 < Number of clusters < 268,435,446

So for a 32GB device, let's look at the number of clusters we create with various cluster sizes...

64KB: 500,000

32KB: 1,000,000

16KB: 2,000,000

8KB: 4,000,000

4KB: 8,000,000

2KB: 16,000,000

1KB: 32,000,000

512: 64,000,000

(no cluster size smaller than this because a cluster can't be smaller than a logical sector)

All of the above cluster sizes *are* supported by Microsoft, and *should* be supported by any "compatible" implementation of FAT32...thus, there is an _in_compatiblity with Linux's VFS implementation of FAT32 that does not adhere to the standard, and thus causes data corruption.

Don't believe me? Format a 32GB SDcard with 16KB clusters on a Windows box. Copy 100 100MB files to it, mounted directly to Windows, and check each for corruption. Repeat the test after inserting the SDcard into an Android device and USB-mounting it to the same PC. You _will_ see corruption, that _is_ specific to the Android device. I imagine it would be seen under other Linux distributions as well, but I've seen no anecdotal evidence and can't be bothered to test since the evidence is pretty clear.

Obviously, if 32KB were the only permitted/possible cluster size, Patriot wouldn't have had to warn all its customers about the risk of data corruption when _not_ using that cluster size.

All I wanted to know is whether anyone had even looked at it, cared to do so, or were even aware (within the dev community), so that a bit of attention might *possibly* be paid to it to save the long-term pain of users having (silently) corrupted data. It's the worst kind of data loss, and if it's an easy fix, worth doing...don't you think?

Rodney

P.S.: I'm not going to get into any further semantics wars. I am continuing to tire of the ego-positing on the forum. There's nothing wrong with being wrong (I know - I do it a lot!), but continuing to defend your position beyond that is both hopeless and counterproductive.

P.P.S.: It's worth noting this defect does _not_ exist for 16GB and smaller FAT32 partitions in Android. For those playing along at home, many of the files Android creates itself - and many I store on SDcards - are smaller than 32KB, so the whole point of the exercise in adjusting the cluster size downward is to avoid wasting space.
[Nook Color General] DigitalMD:
whatever man... just chill
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Misinformation bugs me (no pun intended), because it leads to defects just like this. There are a great many resources on the Internet that are Just Plain Wrong(TM), Wikipedia notwithstanding (which I personally think gets a bad rap, but that's a whole different subject). If it weren't for the fact that this bug trashes user data without notice, I wouldn't care so much, but I pity the fools that come after me that format their SDcards with smaller cluster sizes thinking they are being clever about space usage only to find a large number of their files are toast. It's not fun.

Rodney
[Nook Color General] TDO:
What are you going to do with the sd card?!

If you put 10000 files on it you will only gain 7,8 MB with a 16kb cluster size.
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Actually, 10,000 1KB files with a 32KB cluster will result in 310MB of wastage - moving to a 16KB cluster size reduces the slack to 150MB. In practice, I have a -lot- more than 10,000 1KB files, largely emulator files...in fact, it's a bit worse, because each of those 1KB ROMs is zipped down considerably, so the real wastage is ~315MB for those files alone. Yes, this does represent only 1% of the total storage, but that's also a single directory.

Besides, I'm anal. ;)

Rodney
[Nook Color General] NuShrike:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463

Maximum cluster size for FAT32 is 32K, but otherwise, sounds like something is busted.

Hard to believe since the FAT32 code should be coming from Linux mainstream which is pretty old at this point.
[Click General] guuso50:
i want to unroot my htc tattoo and want it back to te original rom, is this possible with the ruu and without the goldcard because i lost my goldcard?? i also was forgotten to tell that i don't know which ruu i need i need a wwe edition but can someone help me to gat the latest

ps if i use an ruu will i lose my recovery because i don't need that anymore
[Click General] yatindroid:
yes with original ruu Rom u will get your warranty back

it will flash your recovery to original HTC

try your needed Rom at shipped-Rom.com / click
[Click General] furious anger:
If you need GoldCard to install the ruu,if you lost is as simple as re-create.
[Click General] guuso50:
ok and which ruu do i need tu use?? because there are a lot to choose from
[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
I am a serial ROM junkie BUT I am still in the sidelines on this one. Having read through most of the posts I still can't see what going to the beta Gingerbread achieves. Does it do anything better than the stock 2.2 which is so stable?
[Atrix 4G General] deserthi:
I feel the same way. My atrix is my only phone so I will just watch here with interest but wait for Motorola to do it's thing....I hope.
[Atrix 4G General] Tao_Man:
Of course it is fun to play with, but I have gone back to 1.83. It is my only phone and the rom made for Hong Kong phones is just to buggy for every day use IMHO. They have made great progress in removing a lot of the bugs, but it is just not ready for prime time yet. If I had a backup phone I would be all over it, but as it will be coming soon I believe. I can wait.
[Atrix 4G General] dubyajaysmith:
It's been my daily driver since day one and no real complaints especially with navalynt's fixes and eye candies rolled into a flashable zip. There's a few things it does that I like. Music beta, portrait to landscape animation, crt animation when locking, etc. Fingerprint scanner is all I'm lacking and I know its just a matter of time. Don't blame ya for holding off, but as a fellow junkie I am a bit surprised =D

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[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
Are there ANY benefits to the beta? Can someone list what they are? Speed? Camera? Battery? Software (and which apps)?
[Atrix 4G General] JaronBang:
I've been using 2.3.4 since it was released here with tutorials on how to install. I used _unknown's method. I have seen no real benefits, other than having an unlocked bootloader and a recovery I can boot into anytime I want. However IMO it is stable enough to use daily... battery life is about the same, and my phones been on with no restarts for a little over 48 hrs. The only way to appreciate all the work these devs have been doing is to try it out yourself :)

And I would like to thank xda for hosting a forum with an endless amount of useful knowledge for all the smart phones I've had in the last 2-3 years.
[Atrix 4G General] OSNPA:
I use it just to educate myself on the new fastboot stuff and try things out, get familiar with new layouts, etc. Education, experimentation. Seems like the wrong place to hang out if you're not into those things. :p
[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
I agree with what both of you said. I love this forum and I do tinker with my device.

Just want to know, is any of the software improved / faster or better?
[Atrix 4G General] dubyajaysmith:
Speed test wise is a bit better but this thing is such a beast its hard to see it. Camera app had a real overhaul and I love it! Battery, like above poster , seems the same. Software being gingerbread is more about cosmetics and I'm very happy in that regard ... it's pretty sexy ;) I'm back to using launcher pro + for now but the moto-blur UI looks great. So good in fact I just started using LP+ recently. That's a big statement being as I slapped gingerblur P-ROM on the day I purchased the ATRIX!

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[Atrix 4G General] LayzeeEyez:
Pretty much this for me, if they get the fingerprint scanner working I'll be a happy camper :D
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
the only bug i have noticied with the phone is that the FP scanner doesn't work, and the FFC appears sideways (but is normal when videochatting to the person on the other end).

the build is noticeably faster and smoother for me for animations, especially the 3d-cube and cylindrical app transitions on Go Launcher EX. the screen transitions for open-close and vertical-horizontal are pretty nice too since froyo lacks them. once i installed all the 'fixes' that devs have come up with, i see no reason to go back to Froyo, as I can live without the FP scanner for now, and videochatting with the FFC is fine. oh yeah, and i freakin LOVE the CRT shutoff animation.

oh yeah, and the new battery use meter system is pretty freakin' cool.
[Atrix 4G General] Pat123:
I moved back to 2.2.1 from 2.3.4 since I had horrible battery life on the HKTW 2.3.4 beta build! Other than that, I have to say it is way faster and smoother than 2.2.1!
[Atrix 4G General] joeryu:
speed, battery life, those were arbitrarily the same for me..

two of my fav noticeable improvements are:

1.) ability to clear notifications from your bar one by one instead of having to clear them all.

2.) being able to boot straight into CWM w/o a charger

3.) finally fixed the slow market download speeds!!!
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
2.3.4 is insanely fast compared to stock. Once you take the tome to fix the small bugs it's a really good everyday rom.

On 2.3.4 I get almost the same battery life with push email and no battery conservation as I did in 2.2.2 with everything turned off. There is no wakeup lag or random pauses like before. At first it seemed like it drained battery but After a couple days when my battery had calibrated itself this were normal.

So far the only bugs I have are the funky front facing camera and I can't sync my exchange account.nmy phone no longer heats up as much as before.

I am running launcher pro and havent disable blur yet and it's super fast. For comparison 2.2.2 with launcher pro and no blur was still slow.

It's completely changed my views of the Atrix, except for the screen.
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
3.) Did they, seriously?! Side by side on the same game download & on the same router, my (beloved) N1 used to download at least 3X faster.. Now, that's an improvement if they fixed it!
[Atrix 4G General] joeryu:
They did indeed. When I'm on wifi now at home I get full 1.5 MB a second market download speeds where as before I swore it never went above 250-300 kb / sec. Even on 3g the market finally takes advantage of the full bandwidth. I had to test downloading big game apks as regular apps kept finishing before I can even check the speeds :)
[Atrix 4G General] Vangelis13:
Brilliant! :-)
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
No Exchange syncing = one less push email account. That's probably why battery life seems the same for you. Mine is noticeably worse.

Unless you didn't use Exchange push in 2.2.2, in which case forget this post.
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
I didn't use exchange or gmail push, or even fetch in 2.2 :)

Right now my battery is 10% lower at the end of my work night following my same usage habits. 2.3.4 seems to be much more efficient with memory management as well.
[Atrix 4G General] Dell2:
I can do without fingerprint scanner and the front facing camera, this ROM is definitely better than 2.2 froyo. Now I feel like I own a dual core phone.I am unlocked and can't wait to flash an American optimized ROM!
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
Oh hurr durr I can't read lol. Perhaps I'm a little more sleep-deprived than I thought. Too much staying up late reading XDA!

Man, I even quoted you saying that.
[Atrix 4G General] neotekz:
you call yourself a rom junkie and then ask why you should flash a new android build?
[Atrix 4G General] SkzBR:
When bootloader was locked every developer says "we can do it, but the bl is locked...".

Now bootloader is locked and i didn't see ANY post from ANY developer with a PREVIEW/BETA/ALPHA/MOON/TEST/ETA of ROMs or everything else. I'm not asking for a ETA, for do it fast, but to SAY WHAT is going on Behind The Scenes... they just put us sitting here pressing f5 evey second and eating bandwith of XDA :P
[Atrix 4G General] ekerbuddyeker:
Yeah yeah yeah u r right ..!
[Atrix 4G General] grave101:
I completely agree. Seems like we're sort of being left in the dust here. I haven't seen a single dev make any sort of comment about a ROM being developed ever since we got an unlocked bl.
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
I know if one guy that devs for the captivate is building a 2.3.4 vanilla style rom with a 1.4ghz overclock for the ATRIX.
[Atrix 4G General] idan_mo:
There's no point trying HK's 2.3.4 right now.

I've been trying and got back to stock rom, will wait to official update by Motorola.
[Atrix 4G General] Sinful Animosity:
guys, patience patience patience. Patience is the key.

These ROMs don't develop themselves overnight. CM7 is being developed, and I guess Designgears is back and developing as well.

If you are all tired of no status updates, how about you become a developer and post every little thing you're working on? The developers owe us nothing.
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
No point, everything works except the few things they mention. I would never run the stock stock ROM again it was so bad.
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
Of coarse hes back, maybe wants to develop for all the poor saps that donated for nothing. LOL. Now he crawls back looking for more donations.
[Atrix 4G General] Sinful Animosity:
No, he didn't crawl back. I'm not defending his previous actions, but people need to forgive and forget. He's back, and that's all that matters. Hating on a dev, who has the extreme potential to give us an awesome ROM, seems silly and just plain stupid.

EDIT: Also, don't forget that he did contribute many things in the beginning. Adeo, aRoot, the tethering hack. And many more. He's not without his contributions to the device.
[Atrix 4G General] alfiekwong:
I've install 2.3.4 for two days, bugs I found:

1. phone book cannot search by Chinese names.

2. gallery gone away, Blur Gallery need sign in before use, 2.3.4 cannot sign in and need to do many command to make it can be. I want my old gallery back....

3. new message widget gone away .... very useful widget for me.
[Atrix 4G General] idan_mo:
half work, with lots of fixes.

don't you think it'll be smart to wait to original stock so CM7 or any other devs roms?
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
I can't add my exchange account, front facing camera is wonky and my gps sometimes shows me ahead or behind where I'm at with the voice read outs tho map is accurate.

Those are the only bugs I have so far. A fair consolation considering I HATED my Atrix. Now my only complaint is the screen, other than that 2.3.4 has completely changed my negative opinion of the phone.
[Atrix 4G General] dicksteele:
#2 Totally forgot about that ! I've been doing it so much I haven't noticed I'm not using the charger.
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
Very well put
[Atrix 4G General] vjoom:
I been using it as my daily rom. It weird but i dont have any issue beside front facing camera and fingerprint scanner, which i dont use anyway.
[Atrix 4G General] dream5hift:
I don't have a problem on the usage. Netflix works well so I can watch away from home. Battery can last me through the day unless I'm browsing a lot without wifi.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s-suxen:
If I root and install a new custom ROM on my NS4G will the problem of text msgs going to the wrong user go away? If so, what rom?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obsanity:
I believe that problem was addressed in 2.3.4 update. So the answer to you question is; you don't have to root to fix your problem. Just make sure you are running 2.3.4.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Android 2.3.2 **

http://www.2-soft.com/2901/android/...-2-on-nexus-s-tutorial-download-android-2-3-2

The highlight of 2.3.4 was video chat within Google Talk.

The highlight of 2.3.3 was NFC.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s-suxen:
Thank you for your reply. I have the Sprint version of the Nexus S. It is running 2.3.4 and I DO have the issue.

If I root, what ROM is know NOT to have the issue?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brickwall99:
Say for instance you turn airplane mode off and on, when the radio is turned back on there is a little chime. Same for when you plug the charger in, or unplug it. I've had this turned off before, but then I updated my ROM.

Please help, and thanks.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
Use a custom ROM, I know Syndicate Frozen has the sounds disabled but I'm sure others do too.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Use Root Explorer and go to system/media/audio and find the charger sound and replace it with a silent one. The radio off/on sound has plagued the devs for a long time. It is imbedded in the source somewhere and to my knowledge no one has been able to remove it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] trond_b:
Hi all

I am looking for a new android SD build for my HD2. I am using my HD2 as a GPS tracker for running/cycling (with endomondo and hxm heart rate device.) My needs for the ROM are:

-Good battery

-Good bluetooth pairing

-Fast and stable

I don't need sense, but I don't mind either. It is also fine if the ROM is in Norwegian.

Can anyone help me out?

I have tried :

American android (To much bettery drain, and problem with BT.)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Cheech1976:
I´m using my phone for similar reasons, but only for an hour running per session, with bt music and a gps tracker (my tracks from google).

That hour drains 25% of the battery, the rest lasts easily through the day.

You can see the build i´m running in my signature. This is however a NAND build and not an SD build.

BT pairing works just nice (with Jaybird SB1) and the tracking works very good, upon starting the app i wait a while for the gps fix to occur (about 30 seconds maybe), after that i start to record the track and put the phone in my pocket, doesn´t loose signal even once in that hour.

*Edit: And you can set up the language in Norsk bokmal (Norge), so that would be your language then? :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorglub!:
Hi guys

i'm fairly lost...

i'd like some clarifications about d2s,d2W, data2s, data2ext, AIO, and all that stuff

I'm currently using Miui 1.6.24

rgds
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Just google it. Our search on here. There should be plenty of topics about this. In fact, click the Youtube link in my sig.

Swyped...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krzych:
Hi,

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I'm totally new to android and even to embedded systems and new to this forum. There are plenty information about everything, but there are no simple answers for my needs.

First of all, I'm quite happy as a linux developer to have android system. I've imagined it quite different (NDK is without GUI api, only SDK is good for application development and this means Java, not C++, rooting without exchanging flash and so on), but I'm still happy after using Symbian and WM6. The only two things I would like to do with the phone right now are:

1. 2 way call recording

2. permroot

But why I'm posting this...

Ad 1. Only easy solution I've seen for two way call recording is to flash everything with LeeDroid for example. There are big disadvantages - no further updates of the system (android 2.3), some reports that LeeDroid isn't perfect (I don't know that those rumours are true, but I've seen speed complains and some strange behaviors) and so on.

Ad 2. Here I would like to ask that AMT is a good way to do it (I mean "automagically") with below device description:

Device Model: Desire HD

Bootloader Version: 0.85.0007 SHIP HBOOT

Radio Version: 26.03.02.26_M

ROM Version: 1.32.405.6

Android Version: 2.2

CID: HTC__032

and secondly - why should I bother about S-OFF (what is this exactly? I dodn't get it right after reading about flashing), what is HBOOT, how exactly booting works, I mean... not for noob, more clearer for adv. linux user.

Best thing to achieve for me would be rooting (with r/w on the system mount) and a driver for two way recording without messing with the rest of supplied system/kernel/roms/etc... Or alternatively - can any of you convince me that LeeDroid or other "flashing package" is better than nandroid and won't beak anything in my phone?

I'm sorry for (as I suppose) another doubtful/stupid post, but I really need to know what all this means for the phone before doing anything smart/stupid, and the thousands of posts around are not very helpful yet (few days of reading).
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haerigrek:
I had the same problem, well almost I didn't think about any specific advantages of rooting my DHD and flashing custom ROM, I was just affraid that I might break sth. Seriously, LeeDroid is an awesome ROM, I use it on a daily basis with no problems. For now everything has been working way better than on standard stock ROM. If you need convincing than, let me tell you this. With LeeDroid you get all the stuff you have on stock ROM + many many many more and the OS doesn't lag like the standard one does, you get Rosie, HTC Sense 3.0, CPU OC...and the list goes on. If you read enough about rooting and flashing ROMs than belive me, it's easy. Also about updates, these are available through ROM manager which is included in the ROM.