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[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yeah I know what you're saying, it baffles me as well, but the issue I am having is showing errors on my PC as well. Like when I am trying to copy the files over that I need to the Brand new sdcards it will stop with that annoying windows xp error sound and abandon the write over altogether. Sometimes saying the path is too deep. So although it is a brand new sdcard, maybe you are right, maybe it is too thin for my phone and the card reader, good suggestion bud. But I don't know, it feels snug, using a ADATA Micro sd in a Kingston Sd adapter. But I am on my way to CBW nopw, gonna make them give me a better Sd card and see. I do know my issues are Sd card related, and it helps me believe that most our problems are sd card related. That is why they are moving away from sd cards to all internal storage maybe.

***I think you're right Mz, it does appear to be a tad thinner, and The one I use in my phone is a class 4, One of the ones I have that doesn't work is only a class 2! WTF! Even if that's not the issue, it will probably help to put tape on it regardless.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] abet1017:
Something weird happened.... after the battery was totally drained and recharged it, then I noticed that contacts and messages are all missing and phone setting back to default..... and the date is set to january 1, 2000......
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yep... One of the issues I was having after the complete update, did you lose apps as well? Sounds to me like something to do with reading ext4.

Just woke up, have my taped sdcard stocked and ready to rock! lol. Good sign, I was able to transfer my needed files without any type error this time.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
LM, are you using partitionmanager to partition your micro sdcard with windowsxp-sp3? may be you can try this with windowsxp-sp2. I think it is partition software's issue possibly.

I try this before many time, PC is win7 installed, and I set partitionmanager run as winxp-sp3 compatible mode, software shows many errores, but when I change to winxp-sp2 compatible mode, everything is fine then.

Hope this can help you.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] JiroPrinz8:
I believe LM is using gparted (within puppy linux) to partition his sd card.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
The tape on top of the cheap arse SDcard worked fellers! I flashed everything with no prob this time. I crashed out before I could reinstall all the apps so I don't know if it fixed the disappearing act yet, I am doing that now.

I am using puppy linux on windows xp sp3, my PC with windows 7 needs a new power supply and haven't broke down to buy one yet I just use what what works. I really need to get my good PC running again.

***EDIT

Well it didn't totally fix my issues, I was able to flash the ROM and the update at least, but my screen just blacked out again after trying to reinstall OpenRecovery. Then tried to flash the steelblue theme and it was aborted. Must be a corrupt file or not reading my sdcard again. So I still need to replace my Sdcard to know for sure. I hope it's not a phone issue cause it's brand new and it's the last time I can replace it since I just got a new Nexus S! lol. I got my sister a Nexus S as well so she let me keep her new Milestone. So I'm not going anywhere I still love my Milestone I'm just happy I have a dependable phone and a project/work phone. I'm hopin to fix up the new Milestone for my niece for christmas.

***My full time phone is still my Milestone, I'm only going to root my Nexus, Way too much involved in that for me for now I am just gonna enjoy the stock 2.3 for a while and dedicate my flashing time for my Milestone. I am hoping to find time to really learn something soon lol. I hate having to depend on people and ask for too much help having people hold my hand! lol. I would like to be able to make updates and themes and stuff to help out. Wish there was a class I could take. But anyway nothing is changed for me I'm still gonna be here annoying you all! lMAO.

***Tested my sdcard on a different PC and it is damaged. I scan and fix it then try to use it and it gets damaged again. So I have to buy a new one when I can. My goal is to have one of my milestones all tricked out girly style for my niece by christmas. So I think I'm gonna get a 32 gigger and load it up with music and movies for her. It's gonna be an awesome gift and project.

***On a windows 7 pc now and scanning my sd card and maybe fixing it. It seems to be doing something better, it's taking longer to fix so maybe it will work.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] rmimo:
Hello MZ, Brian and LM an all the other Friends,

the rom ist the best rom i ever used for the xt720. I use link2sd with a second fat partion no ext. Now after the battery is down i lose all my settings thephone makes an softreset.

Is there a possibility to fix this?

I am very gratefull for all this you guys have done for this phone.

Greetings
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
It's weird, only a few of us has experienced this issue. What about you Mz? Haven't had this happen? Hmmm...

The only fix that may work for now is just flashing Brianlee's update, but then you will lose the extended power menu, link2sd and ext4 support. Can still use a2sd. Sorry bud I been having the same issue. But not sure if the latest update is the problem since I been having bad sdcard issues I can't tell whats what lol
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] rmimo:
hello lm,

i had this issue since i have make the update from mz.. before i didn't have this problem.

then i have dried only the brian 1.6 rom and his update and there a no issue to lose the settings after the battery is down.

only after i have flashed the MZ update the issue is onboard :-)))) but with mz update the phone is damm fast and stable.(with supercharger) I hope for an fix from mz and brian because it an very stable and fast rom

bye and good night from germany
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Is it only after the battery drains or with any reboot?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] rmimo:
hi mz,

i have this issue only after battery drains. When the battery is full and i reboot there are no problems..

greetings
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
It happens after reboots, I don't hardly let my battery drain. I have even lost the market a few times. I also think it may only happen when converting to ext4 but not sure, will have to test. I have been running it all day on ext3 and no issue so far. But I also haven't restored all my apps yet, since if I do I know I will lose them lol. But still have my market and the few apps I have restored.

***So maybe if you flash the update and keep it ext3 it will be fine, not sure will have to test

***Nope, I just rebooted and my apps are gone, only system apps remain. still have market this time though. Running with ext3 and the Mz update. Also just ran a scan and repair sdcard on my windows 7 pc and it took about an hour, and said it found errors and fixed them. So I then flashed the Steelblue theme and was successful. rebooted and everything seemed fine, forgot to check apps at that point. But then rebooted again and that's when I noticed apps missing. Also after rebooting it said SDcard removed, please insert new one. So I guess it's damaged again.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
So is it just that the apps disappear? That would "just" mean that the boot scripts refused to mount the /sd-ext because the filesystem check failed. I can see if I can make the autorepair more aggressive. The ORXT720 SD Utilities scan/repair is more aggressive than the boot scripts. So maybe you could try that before using a computer to see if that works. Then again if the fat partition is out...

I thought people were saying all their preferences were gone... as if after a factory reset? Maybe I just misunderstood?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
No, that's just the first thing noticed. I guess I should look into it further to be better help but I think settings change back as well, but it's weird, sometimes it will be everything, sometimes it's just some. I have seen a post of where someone said time changed back as well. But my last time I just lost all my apps. I have had a couple times where it factory reset and i lost the theme and all. Fjfalcon had this issue as well, he was the first to mention it.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] peshovec:
can somebody try to reproduce, but not draining the battery. just "setprop sys.shutdown 1" ?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] S7icky:
I had it happen yesterday i think... Im not really to sure what happend. I just lost EVERYTHING..

I think im done with ext partitions for now till something is figured out.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
I think it is some problems with ext mounting, system can't save the status before shun down. I will make a test.

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I make ext4 support now, but I don't know when batt dried out,what happen to my user data, I'm testing now.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Thanks Bri, but it happened to me last night running on ext3 support as well. But only with the EPM update.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
Ok, so, may be it is ext4 module's problem? I will try them both. and, what is EPM update?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
EPM is extended power menu
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
I'm not update EPM.

the first round result came up, with ext3 mounted, when batt dried out, phone auto shut down.

After reboot, all app and settings still there.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
It has happened multiple times to me running on ext3 and 4, and it happens randomly, not at every reboot. I have 2 Xt720 phones running Bravo, one with the extended power menu update and one with just brianlee's update. The one with the epm update loses all apps and sometimes settings and themes.

***And hoping it's not ROM related but I have been having a lot of SDcard failures on 3 different SDcards. They are constantly getting damaged or corrupted. But I am pretty sure it's the Sdcards, not the ROM since my original XT I use everyday has had no SD card issues. That is the phone I am running with just the Brianlee update.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
The themes getting reset I don't understand at all. When you apply a theme you are modifying the system partition & a factory reset would just wipe the data & cache partitions.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yeah I know. Nobody ever understands my issues and don't believe they happen but they do lol. I have had so many the last 4-5 days it's hard to keep up with them. But if it's an ext3 ext4 issue it seems it would wipe everything. Afterall the ext4 wiped my theme and took me back to stock from the get go cause of the power menu mod
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] 3rdstring:
The theme being restored when applying the EPM update is an expected result. I thought you were saying that your phone went back to the stock "theme" after a reboot, without you doing anything else.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Yeah, like I said my phones been going haywire. and most of my problems are sdcard related, but it's 3 separate sdcards I am having issues with, what's the chances of that? I'm kind of weary to buy a new sdcard and try it with Bravo. And Bravo is the ROM I would like to keep.

I think I lost my steelblue theme once after Silesh updated it but I can't remember exactly. I am pretty sure. I am gonna try a repair and/or reformat on my 4gb card and give it one more shot and see what happens. I have tried it a few times already with the disappearing act results. My 8gb is the one that keeps getting corrupted and won't read til I scan and fix it then it will read and copy and flash then after a reboot it is corrupted again.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Ok I have tried over and over and over and over again about 20 times to get Bravo flashed on my new milestone with my 4gb and my other 8gb cards and I keep getting the same result, it will not boot. I don't know what the heck. I just rsd cbw and tried from scratch and still same result.stuck on either logo or boot. My phone seems to operate fine other than that. maybe I need to try and flash a different ROM that will help narrow down the issue. I just don't know why all of a sudden I am having issues with my sdcards. I have my old faithful 8gb in my personal xt but not gonna try it, it's been good to me lol. I have 2 8gb and one 4gb That I been trying all 3 won't work. I also have a 2gb I might give it a shot...

Then I can load it and get it to run with my other 8gb, (the one that's corrupt) but then it gets damaged and won't read anything
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Post sdcard-info.txt?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Oh yeah Sorry Mz, just want you to know I am not posting my issues to beg for help bud, I am just reporting my experience. Sorry I haven't listened and forgot about your instructions man, I got so much going on at once. I will post in a bit.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I didn't mean that as a complaint. I'm just trying to figure out what could be wrong and you seem to have hit a wall. That's all.

Reverting themes seems impossible from the sdcard though. If you've booted successfully once with the theme the unthemed files should not exist anywhere... The problem must be elsewhere.

Edit: theories

Did you restore /cache? That might repopulate dalvik-cache but that should only affect some small parts of the theme (clock color etc). Unlikely.

Ok some serious speculation without any facts: maybe yaffs has something like snapshots or journals or a journal structure and the crash throws it back to a previous state. There are some comments in motorola's init.rc that suggest that may be the case. That would make sense for wearleveling on flash. Anyway that's my favorite theory for the mechanism. Something in my patch must be causing really nasty crashes. Which kernel do you run?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I been running stock kernel, I have tried every possible scenario to get it to boot. It's absolutely refused to boot. Every scenario within the realms of having ext3 and swap thatis... until now. I decided to get rid of my ext and swap and try it with just fat32 and BAM! It booted right up superfast. And I swear since the other day I bet I had tried everything at least 50 times over. It would stay on boot animation for hours if I let it. My 2 sdcards tested good and I partitioned them the same as always. It seems something in the patch isn't right for ext partition. As soon as I deleted the ext3 and swap it was back to normal.

I tried just restoring just system or just system and boot. or just system boot and logo, and I tried restoring all, I tried every possible scenario all this time, except for ditching ext3 and swap.

I also tried Khals Wanhu, and it did the same thing, wouldn't boot.

So that is when I decided to reformat and only use fat32 so now it's booted up with my khals Wanhu backup.

But I guess it couldn't be the patch if I had a frozen boot with Khals as well, plus I was flashing without the patch.

But it was only the patch that was causing the apps to disappear.

All I know is I been running Bravo just fine with my main XT without the patch since I tried it and it and that sdcard has been fine. well I did try the patch with that phone and issues were happening with that as well but I reverted back and it's been fine.

Maybe the patch is causing issues with the ext3

I am using an 8gb class 2 right now. My 8gb class 4 gets damaged or corrupted everytime I flash Bravo and the patch. After I lose my apps. Then my partitions show Exclamation points by them in puppy linux and they will not read or write til i scan and fix it.

I know I give a lot of useless info lol but I don't know any technical stuff or know how to read script or any of that jazz lmao

Yeah I know, it just slipped my mind, I should have posted it a few days ago lol.

I really do think the patch is corrupting the ext partition. 3 sdcards with the same ROM all causing me issues.

I am flashing back to bravo with your patch now with only fat32. I bet it's gonna run great lol

Well unless it's my PC causing the sdcard issues
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
Even though we only have 2.6.29-omap1, they have different build levels with changes/bug fixes in the sources. In the past you've often favored the older one of the Singapore ROMs which is the oldest kernel I've seen (Motorola identifies it as version "18"--hex number). The Cincinnati Bell and UK ones are "1E", the Canadian one is "1F", Russia and the Middle East got "20" (but somewhat strangely the 1F builds are date stamped after the 20's were). All of these kernels differ slightly and for this reason Motorola just dumped their git repository rather than make different source releases for each--so we can actually see their comments for the changes they're making as the kernel evolves. For example, the Singapore one works with TV out via the headphone jack but that was disabled in later builds (apparently because correct detection of headphones vs TV out cable wasn't working). Those Motorola codes are part of the SBF names (e.g. the CBW one is STR_U2_04.1E.1 -- the 1E is what I'm talking about), but you can flash different kernels around between SBFs so possibly the kernel doesn't match the SBF (and that's *not* a problem). I just want to know if you're still running 18. If you run "uname -a" in the terminal and post the result I can lookup which kernel you're running.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] :
@Mio,

Can you zip up the framework-res.apk and services.jar from your latest cm6 build and upload it here. I need it to port the black android theme for cm6. I forgot to backup by android folder when i changed my laptop and thus lost all the roms/themes i had.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] fjfalcon:
http://xt720.ru/other/framework-res.apk

that from cm63 rc4
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I put the CM 6.3.0-RC3 ones here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18073098#post18073098
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] :
I presume both are the same. One says RC4, the other says RC3. I'll stay with Mio's version. Thanks guys.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Ok I am back on Bravo with the Mz patch with no ext or swap. I will have to repartition again and give it another shot cuz I love my ext and swap kernel. Although I tried it many times already with same results, ext corruption.

I flashed the Black Android theme as well. Gonna call it a night and do it all over again tomorrow lol. Thanks alot Mz.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
Am I so lucky? with ext4 mounting, still works fine, there is not user data missing issue happen.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Maybe certain SDcards just can't handle this ext partitions. I know it doesn't happen instantly, you can be running with ext3 or ext4 just fine all day and then after a certain reboot... Poof! lol. At least I know I am not alone in this issue so we know I am not making it up Haha.

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Hey Mz, how did you partition your SDcard for Bravo? did you start with ext2 or 3 and swap and how much mb for each? Maybe I need to try a different format
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
On the phone I'm using for Bravo, I have an 8GB card partitioned 512MB for ext and 64MB for swap. I create partitions as either ext2 or ext3 using gparted and upgrade it to ext4 in ORXT720 (I've did both when developing the SD Utilites in OR). I've probably restored sd-ext nandroid and upgraded to ext4 since the initial formatting but it's hard to remember. The card has been running with XDAspecial/unrelasedCM6 with ext4, I didn't reformat for Bravo, but I did delete/recreate the link2sd/app directories when testing.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
Random issue has a big big trouble to solve it, damn, I still don't know how to reproduce it and figure it out what is the problem.

Is that possible about dalvik-cache? I did not move dalvik-cache to sdcard, how about you, guys?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
You know I remember seeing a dalvik folder in my ext partition at first and that isn't normal usually I only had app folder.

***You know, now that I think about it, maybe it was from trying to activate ext4 with Bravo when it wasn't supporting it yet? And from then on it was all screwed up.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] rmimo:
Hello Friends,

so i have make some test

1´First i have no ext Partiton only a second Fat Partiton..

Result when the Battery is emty and the Phone shutting down... i lost my Settings but no my apps.

2 Reformated the Fat Partition to ext2 I loose all Settings and Apps.

Can the Error found in Link2SD?

Rmimo
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
Your info is useful, I use app2ext, and found nothing missing, can you give it a try?
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
I am back on ext4 and all my apps are force closing so I tried to run the fix permissions to prevent apps force closes and it reads "Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?"

Here is my View attachment sdcard-info.txt\

My Sdcard seemed fine now it's corrupted again.

I restored my apps with titanium backup, I will have to try again later.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] brianlili:
hi, MZ, can you do me a favour? well, here is the situation, the patch you released name "update-bravo1.6Mz-20110927-1220.zip", It could be used while there is user data exist, nothing goes wrong. but, when I run "factory reset", and reboot again, so much "fc" comes up when entering the launcher,over and over again. I don't know what happen.

Can you give a thought about it? or give me a patch only with ext4 support and swap auto turn on?

Thank you so much.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] Mioze7Ae:
I'll look at it this evening. I also noticed something in LibertyMonger's sdcard-info.txt that might indicate a problem with the bootscripts that might be related.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
Found another strange problem today, when adding an Exchange account (Exchange 2010 running on Windows SBS 2011) the account adds fine and syncs for a while - then later in the day the account suddenly disappears from Accounts & sync.

Now, I know that on the Wanhu ROM - the Exchange account itself could only be added once the default security policy was disabled on the server otherwise it would error out and not add the account at all.

In CM6 Exchange accounts work normally and the default security policy works normally.

In Bravo, the account adds normally and does not complain about security policy initially. I assumed this was because the policy requirements were properly implemented in this ROM as well but maybe they are being bypassed and Exchange account is getting removed after some time/another security check?

If it is not actually Exchange security policy related, I have no idea why this account would disappear.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] LibertyMonger:
Same thing happened to me, then it corrupted my sdcard again. Most of the time I just lose all my apps, this time all my apps were force closing. constantly popping up. Then I added the files I needed for CM7 thru a cardreader and popped it in my phone and booted into openrecovery and as I tried to flash them my other sdcard got corrupted and wouldn't read. without ever even booting all the way to Bravo.
[Milestone XT720 Android Development] R-D:
Okay, so I was able to confirm this is NOT Exchange security policy related, phone status still shows an access state of "Access Granted" on the Exchange server - so there should be no reason the phone is deleting the account settings.