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[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Hey Mz, I don't have much more time to be fooling with my sisters phone, I need to decide whats best for her for now, Are you sure all is good with your update? Is ext4 working right? I just got an error saying not enough space when I have plenty.

What I'm saying is I have to have something stable for her for now, she will be peeved if she goes home with a train wrecked phone lmao. I think I'm gettin it, just not sure I've had mass problems, now I just tried to install maps and it says package file not valid.

I guess I can make it simple, is it only me with the issues or is it the Update?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
The same for me the ext4 don t work.... Have you upload the right file Mz???

@ zachary it work no fc with this one
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
I had that error with the latest Maps the first time I tried to update, the second time it gave an error about not having enough room to download. I had to clear out some programs because the Dalvik cache (on the cache partition) was to big.

I remember someone mentioning being able to cache market downloads to the sdcard, does anyone know how to implement that?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I'm having all kinds of sdcard problems though. It's been a huge mess. Just rebooted my phone and it reverted back to stock, I think it's the ext4 causing it. I hope.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
IIRC you had real good luck with Miui and Wanhu/Kahl's. Might want to send her home with one of those. Think if she isn't going to "maintain" it like we do, then you should give her something that is reasonable tried and true. Might want to check out Kahl's V4, that has been my mainstay since I first figured out some of this stuff.

Your Maps problem might be linked to the theme issues. If your maps.apk is signed with the original theme, then you applied another and then the update that put you back to stock, could be causing it not to load.

Did you ever buy TBpro? If you did you can make a backup of the APK and then uninstall it completely and then go into market and re-download. It won't be themed (if it ever was) but at least you'll have it.

Another thing you can do is go into /system/app and pull that Maps.apk and put in on your SD card as a back up. Reboot and then go into the market. I actually have a folder for each ROM on my SD card that has various APKs that i took out or didn't like but might in the future.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] eejin2:
Yo LM how bout stock 2.1 newly flashed sbf? lol. i'd flash something like khal's v4 or something which has been proven stable and not many bugs except for fm radio which i dont even use.

edit: oh sorry, didnt see woodrube's post. but you get what we mean. i wouldnt give someone who doesnt "maintain" his/her phone a new rom. just stock or something that has been around for a while but is still one of the best.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I lost all my apps after rebooting so its got to be ext4. Gonna try ext3 I guess. I guess go back to Brianlee's update, it seemed good, plus I can use the themes.

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Yeah, Khal's v4 is what I've had her on, I just thought this was gonna be easy last night and it's turned into a nightmare! lol. If this last try don't work I'm going back with Khals V4.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Both app2ext and link2sd work for me using ext4 and the last update I posted (freshly re-tested to confirm). I did get stuck on first boot after creating /sd-ext/app, second, third, fourth boots no problem. This isn't my everyday ROM, though--but I do have it loaded on the guinea pig for now. LM are you ever near Clifton? I can't figure out what keeps happening to your phones.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
That s weird....

It can see any apps

I m gonna re update it

By the way i use the link on the first post Is this the good one???
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
I wouldn't mind getting some locals together for some lunch or drinks/coffee and comparing and contrasting our phones. Was thinking of starting a thread with our real pix and not the avatars to see what everyone looks like. If you think that would fly let me know and I'll start it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I went back and deleted all the old links. The current one is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17912686#post17912686
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Not lately, I'm only about 20min. away though on the west side.

For starters I think it was cause of the steelblue theme when I applied the update. Then it was constant sdcard failure. Then I would start all over rsd cbw and start getting my apps back and tb pro would freeze while installing. Then I had to pull battery and try again. It froze about 5 times by the time I was finished restoring my apps and after I had all my apps and everything seemed to be running ok, I would reboot, and bam everything gone lmao. Back to stock, no user apps lol. Did this about 3 times as clean as I could. even tried to just get my apps fresh from the market, and after a reboot they were gone again. Also my sdcards were being identified as corrupted on my pc after ext4. So i am on a backup of Bravo that was working good for me now. My sisters is at stock 2.1. Haven't decided if I'm gonna do anything with it. I think it's time for new phones lol. We shouldn't have to be doing Moto's work. We didn't get one single freaking update with this phone. What a crock.

***Fjfalcon mentioned first having the same issue with losing everything.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
I sense your frustration buddy and I feel for ya. I have been thinking about getting something else too and using this for learning dev but you know what, it is similar on other phones and their problems. I have been looking at the Nexus S and One and one by Samsung and the other by HTC and their threads are filled with problems similar to ours. But the one great thing that we have is our members are waaay (emphasis for sure) more helpful and willing to help. Those two forums are filled with replies like "Why don't you search google" or "this has already been covered" and no link to where it was covered.

That is one of the reasons why I am going to keep this one and maybe buy another one to dev on for awhile. There are about 10-15 people in here that are always on and can help us get through most anything. Isn't that the point of hacking our phones though? Make them bigger, faster stronger ($6mil Man reference not Daft Punk). Get some rest and keep pluging away.

Sorry for the pep talk, just know how frustration can make you want to throw your phone in the neighbor's pool. wink wink
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
You think I can just take the Nandroid backup I am using now and apply it to my sisters phone?

A CBW Employee said the Nexus S is their best phone I was thinking about that too.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
I did that for my wife's phone. Just had to make an ext/app folder. Fortunately we had similar apps, so after I applied ext I just deleted the apps that she didn't want and redownloaded the ones that she wanted.

Edit:: If you do that, watch out for the paid apps b/c they will be in the ext but her market will be linked to her email and not yours. You could use TBpro and unlink them from the market but she'll never get an update if there is one.

Easye420 got a Nexus S and he loves it. He PMd me about it and said that it was like apples to oranges. Only drawback for me is that there is 16gb sd but it is internal and not expandable. I hate limits.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
Thanks but i was speaking of the first first post by R-D (update yesterday)

but it s the same link of your post...

I update it again and again(3 times) and it s still the same no ext4...

I only restore nandroid (after a full wipe) and apply the update (and again a full wipe)

Ext4 is working for everybody?????? (except LM)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I have come to the conclusion that these generic arse AData SDCards are whats causing the problems. I couldn't even finish copying the nandroid to it without a big red error. I'm keeping her on 2.1 and this phone is going back to the store lol. Thats the cause of the screen blacking out too.

It probably can't handle partitions and ext4's. both her Cards are causing me problems and they are both the same brand.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Knoedelkopf:
Hmm. Sensors / auto rotate doesn't work, even after applying the 3 updates.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I keep getting this disc is write pretected errors, that might be a big issue as well. On two different sdcards same brand.

Can I use a2sd without an ext partition? And how? I need to try one more time before my sister gets here

And actually My new xt without doing anything to it was Blacking out. My friend has one on 2.1 and she says it blacks out everytime she uses her camera.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
Original SD card sold with these phones is absolute crap, I swapped with a smaller but faster 4GB card I had kicking around and havent had a black screen or copying issue to SD card since.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
Did you start with a mororoi SBF? Flash back to a stock Milestone XT720 SBF first and install again.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yea, the one that came with my phone has been awesome, its a different brand than the 2 that are causing me issues. Those are my sisters. ADATA brand. I know for a fact that's whats causing all my issues with Bravo. The cards stop reading and change to write protected and then damaged and back again lol.

I have a 4gb I'm gonna try now. Sorry for the confusion, I wished i would have figured this out last night. I know now and Knowin is half the battle! Lmao
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Well tried flashing my whole nandroid backup to my sister's phone even ext2 and it's been stuck on ext2: Restoring... for a very long time now. So guess it's not working or it really takes a really long time lol.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] aman2701:
Currently i am on HMRC3 and i have been experimenting bravo updates (USSD fix) and steel blue theme(developed for bravo rom :p).

Almost everything is working fine. it can run USSD codes.only the power menu is not working(theme update).

On RC3 i am having free ram 80+ but on bravo it drops to 20.

what i want to say is that USSD code fix is also working on RC3.:D
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Knoedelkopf:
Started with central european 2.1..?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
Just motoroi need to apply sensors patch installing bravo, milestone xt720 needs stock 2.1 only, european, unite kingdom...it all fits.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
I use the european one(and my sensors work) but no way to make the ext4 part working...

Usually after a new rom installation all my old apps (installed in the app folder in the ext part) come alone no need to do anything but with bravo i try all i can and it never work...

I only restore the nandroid and the update but it don t work (i reinstall my old Cyanogen 6.3 to be sure and all my apps came back... So it s really a rom issue)

Any idea someone? Anyone have the same problem????
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
We need mz's patch to support ext4, original motoroi froyo doesn't support it. I don't know whether ext4 can bring higher performance than ext3 or not, I mean, you can feel it obviously.

Infact, I still using ext3, and satisfied with everything.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I finally got my sisters phone working, it was the brand new sdcard that caused all my issues. It was a complete hell of a mess lol. It's hard to believe how a brand new memory card could cause so much problems. But on ext3 and like you said brianlee, I'm satisfied it is running perfectly great. I don't think it's the ROM causing ext4 issues as the ROM wasn't built to support it, that's a whole other issue. When I thought I was having ext4 issues it was my sdcard all along. Maybe try a different sdcard, made a world of a difference for me.

It's just like having a bad cd or dvd, it will skip and won't play.

***Hey Mz, have you tried V6 supercharger? Or anyone else after Mz's update?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] oddo1907:
in turkish cell number:

0533 333 33 33 and +90533 333 33 33 are same numbers. but phone doesnt recognize that. any suggestion for fixing??

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power menu cant display??

when i longly pres power button,phone reboots.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Something went wrong in your installation, will have to redo it. It's not the ROM.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Did you apply a theme? The themes have to be updated because of new resources (icons and translatable strings), but I don't think any themes have been updated yet. Applying a theme that doesn't have the icons will crash the extended power menu.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Can you check if the partition got mounted and if not try to mount it manually? Can you post the output of

su
busybox mount
busybox mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /sd-ext
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Wow dude I used the pink motoroi bootanimation and it boots up in like 10 seconds! (For my sister's phone of course lol) Superfast reboot! Faster than my moms Ascend and I thought that was fast! It booted up right after it said "Hello Moto" Shaweet! Nice work Brianlee, I never had one boot up this fast bud.

***But I just applied Mz's update, and turned on my Wifi and after it rebooted it lost the connection. That usually don't happen.

***I guess no answer means no one has dared to try the Supercharger?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
That's a normal thing, when you replace something important like framework or settings, and your wifi is activated before reboot, it still can't be connected automaticaly, you must disable and then enable wifi. But it happens only the first reboot after the changing.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
Wow I missed a lot.... because of power and internet failure due to super typhoon. How's the latest update of mz? does v6 supercharger work?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Now I have to figure out why my apps aren't going to my ext4. I guess I should have left my ext3 alone it was working fine lol. I guess make an ext2 backup and restore to get back to ext3?

***That's what I did, now need to reboot see if my apps move...

***Ok back to ext3, my apps didn't move. I wonder if I should reinstall them? This sucks, so close to gettin er done lol.

***I'm moving them over with TB Pro, but not sure if I should. I need to get them to move themselves, any idea of what it could be?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] krishn:
Hey, R-D

Are the contents in the download link just like they should be, Because I don't find an SDCARD folder or any other folders inside them ? :)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
do i need to wipe everything after flashing the latest mz update?

I just used the instruction of mz in his first update.

Process system is not responding.... what seems is the problem?

It keeps on rebooting....... SD card is not recognized..
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yea it's all there bud, I just redownloaded the one I linked to double check.

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***Huh, My app folder got deleted, I guess while changing it back and forth from ext2 to 3. And now my apps are disappearing again, even the market.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] mchlbenner:
Hi

I haved used v8 super charge and worked very good.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I went thru that hell the other night. It's either the memory card or now I might be thinking it's the update, what's the chances of it happening to 4 sdcards? I thought it was my sdcards but I am on my 3rd one and it's acting up again, apps disappearing.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
I think it is not the sd card because i pulled out my sdcdard and rebooted then it's the same...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yeah, I was having a lot of write failures on my pc, trying to copy files to it. So I thought it was my sdcard failing in my phone as well. I don't know what the heck.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
Did you still apply the latest mz update?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I'm going back to Brianlee's update give it one more shot...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
I reinstalled bravo1.6 over sg 2.1 and wipe everthing... then I applied the latest mz update..... It works.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
USB mode or directly in the computer? How do you do the partitioning/formatting? In a computer or using USB?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Knoedelkopf:
soo using central european 2.1 and then restoring this nandroid there is no need to apply "non-korean-sensor" and "miui-sensor" updates ..

aah okey, auto rotate works now ! :)

but only ~20 mb free ram
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] mchlbenner:
Jump back to bravo again useing v8 super charge.

Mega memory setting bootup with

91 memory.

It blow out my 3g connection reapplied baseband everything good know.

All stock but for launcher.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] oddo1907:
i dont wanna reinstal rom. can i reinstal only theme??
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I use a card reader and puppy Linux exactly how the rev taught us. My PC might be taking a big dump, power supply is going bad. But the two ADATA sdcards are crap. I would copy all the files I needed and then after using them in my phone my phone would go haywire then when I'd pop my sdcard back in the PC puppy Linux would show them defective. Then I'd run a scan and fix them and start all over again lol. Then I would run your update and boot up and commence to restoring everything with TB pro and in-between it would freeze up about 5 times. Then when I thought I had it and rebooted bam either missing apps or clean back to stock. Pure hell I tell ya lmao.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
You can try re-applying Mioze7Ae's patch, but you'll have to wait for sileshn to redo his themes.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
Can somebody with the ext4 issue test that

i can t access to a computer today...

But i think i ll going back to ext3...i don t notice a great improvement and it work with all app2ext rom...
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Zachary57:
Can someone post a link of how to translate the ROM ?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I've been trying to just get mine to boot since like noon yesterday. I've flashed every way, every scenario possible and I get stuck at the boot animation every time. It's really a freaking mess and it sucks lol. My phone is fine, it's my sisters brand new replacement they just sent. I'm not sure if it's just the cheap sdcards not reading or the way my pc is copying the files to them, maybe corrupted since I get the same issues with 3 sdcards. So I guess I'm gonna try to copy the files over using a different pc, if that doesn't work, I'm gonna see about getting a new sdcard at cbw.

***I do not understand. It will rsd back to sbf, but will not boot up Bravo. Stays on the boot animation. Last night I tried before I went to bed and woke up with a dead battery. It stayed on boot animation til it died lol.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] :
If you are referring to creating language packs, here is how you do it. Note that it involves a lot of work.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] B_e_n:
Are you on ext3 or 4???

have you try going back to cyanogen or another rom?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] mchlbenner:
Hi

Bravo works good add update or theme to it and it has a lot of issues.

Went back to cm7 nightly I have dev helping trying get sensors working.

For me milestone xt is dead to me soon I will be getting something else I would like to get cm7 working.

If you go back I would use cm6 1.2 a lot better than cm6 6.3.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
+1 on that. I would maybe try to get back to a ROM that you know boots up and runs. Just to get your bearings again and run some tests. Maybe hit CM6 or HM and just see if you can get that far with a tried and true ROM that you know works.

I would also suggest scrapping ext4 for the time being as it seems to be an ongoing issue with some others too. We know that ext2/3 work for sure.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
Just to verify, you are creating an ext2/3 on the PC & using Mioze7Ae's OR to convert it to an ext4?, IIRC that was the only way I was able to get an ext4 up & running in CM6 or HM's ROM.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Well, this isn't really the right thread, but I would appreciate it if you could elucidate on things that have gotten worse. We can't fix things we don't know about. I know that things I care about have gotten much better, but I think everyone has different/evolving uses patterns. Everyone benefits if we all work together.

The ext4 problems on Bravo some of you are having is really baffling me, esp if you're going to tell me that ext2/3 work because those also mount via the ext4 module after applying the update. It works great on my phone (both app2ext and link2sd) and I've tried just about everything I can imagine to cause or reproduce the problems. I'm really at a loss here. Like 3rdstring says it's very, very important to check the ext4 partition in ORXT720--the huge_file ext4 feature does not work with our kernel and *must* be disabled. Maybe people can start posting the sdcard-info.txt diagnostics as described in my sig?

LM if your problem is primarily with a "new-to-you" phone, you may want to check to see if your card leads clean and fitting snuggly, making proper and consistent contact. The guinea pig phone I got from craigslist had some dreck inside the socket that I had to clean and also the memory card that was in it was slightly thinner than my other one so I think it moved around and came free with heat/jiggling etc. I was able to add a layer of scotch tape to the top of the card to improve the contact. Or perhaps there's some dirt inside the socket. Anyway make a check to rule out physical problems.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
I can confirm that, using OR to convert ext3 to ext4, works fine. But, I havn't verify whether it is truely ext4 by using PC;)
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Woody:
Sorry MZ, I wasn't implying that ext4 didn't work. I was just thinking he should go back to basics with ext2/3 and use that until some of the other issues are worked out, like booting up and applying themes. To me it seems that it might be applying too much at the same time and essentially freaking the phone out. Or it could just be a hardware issue like you said.

When I was on HM, used you OR to convert and it worked fine for me. Infact, IIRC someone else was having issues with creating the ext4 partition on Minitool Partition Wizard and that is where the Huge file revaltion came into the mix.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Additionally, huge_file is enabled by default when creating ext4 partitions on just about any recent linux system. So, basically if you create the ext4 on your computer using any partition tool, it's very likely to not work.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Knoedelkopf:
Quadrant score only 750 @ 1GHz? :(

Usually scored 1300 with xda special running same settings?