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[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
Great ROM! The DT A2SD works like charms without Link2SD.

I have a problem though. Why is volume control is not consistent. At some point during vol up, the sound is tinier and then bigger. Why this happens? This also applies for vol down.

Thanks
[HTC Wildfire S] y0da89:
FAT 32 is the sd card.

EXT4 is for internal memory.

Why do we have to make a linux swap partition?
[HTC Wildfire S] Umpal:
Mine also has 2GB but whole is FAT formatted. Also works fine ;)

Your 2nd partition is Ext2 type but the author instructs to make an Ext4. I'm confused. Could anybody explain it more detailed?

Big thanks in advance :)
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
Google is your friend man.

Come on...Really? 5 seconds of looking...

Ext2

Ext3

Ext4
[HTC Wildfire S] Umpal:
Come on, I know what those filesystem formats are ;). Read again my question that is a little above and you'll be know what I was asking for.
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
In more detail... ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] Umpal:
Ok, thanks. This should help. I'll read it tomorrow with fresh mind (there's to much wine in my blood tonight ;)).

Regards
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
I'm about to go put some in mine. ;) Search is your friend! Cheers. :) Remember to click thanks!
[HTC Wildfire S] Mr Troop:
Installed Rom with DATA2SD on 16 GB class 6,2 hours running very smooth fast
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
I think I'm going to try this aswell, since I didn't like CM7 that much.

Sense ftw in the end. :P
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
This is THE ROM if you like HTC Sense for sure. We have two GSM Wildfire S's in the house and one is running this with Link2SD and the other running Alquez's CM7.2 and they both perform well. Just a matter of whether you like chocolate or vanilla. ;)

For Sense lovers. Flash this bad boy!
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
Yea, already flashed, working well & fast enough. :)
[HTC Wildfire S] benel_angeles:
Very nice ROM.

The only issue i see at the moment is that the weather location does not show up. it only shows the country you are in (e.g. UK)
[HTC Wildfire S] (IwaN):
I'm with this ROM from 7th and everything worked fine but today I gave my phone to my friend to play Angry Birds Seasons and after 5-6 minutes of playing Angry Birds it stuck and nothing worked. I removed the battery and put it then it started but it stayed on the HTC logo about 2 or 3 minutes and now it's working but I'm afraid it will repeat again
[HTC Wildfire S] aigaming:
Tnx for this fine release, i have faster graphics (playing fruit ninja and iGO) then in the cm7 ;)

I would request if you could implement battery icon(with percent) and free memory tweak in bar like in some other jika. roms in future releases...Tnx again

No needed gps tweaks for me,it locks in 15sec which is super fine for me ;)

Iwan i think you are overclocking you phone 2 much like i had a problem... Lower your clocks to 760 and try to play games as much is you can and see what happends;)

My phone isn't stable at 806mhz no way,,,
[HTC Wildfire S] makhongmat:
Thks so much, this is the last choice after I try some other ROM in XDA for my WS. If I encounter some bugs, I will warn you!
[HTC Wildfire S] demroger:
it freezes for me after it boots up :(
[HTC Wildfire S] mla123:
even I was stuck on the bootscreen at first boot.

in my case I went back to recovery and did wipe data/factory reset and then it booted fine.
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
One suggestion.

Add Reboot to recovery and reboot to hboot when we press and hold power button.

CM7.x has that, and it's very usefull.
[HTC Wildfire S] pat da punk:
how long does this take to boot?

have been stuck on HTC screen for ages! :confused:
[HTC Wildfire S] m1ndh4x8r:
don't flash 2 files at the same time you must reboot after flashing the rom. then reboot to recovery to flash data2sd. problem with people they just download without reading.
[HTC Wildfire S] blackpearlisuchiha:
There is an OTA update...but its not working on this rom...any helps plzzz... o_o
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Sancho21, please read my post above that mentions the smooth volume n' scroll. It's two posts above yours. Download the undo and flash it. This should fix your problem.
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
There is a thread on that subject. DON'T install that update or you might end up with a brick. You are using a custom rom so OTA updates are not for you/us.
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
Ok. Which post number is that on this thread? I've seek in this thread but don't see the undo script download link.
[HTC Wildfire S] SpyMike:
For the undo script check at the first page, at the bottom, somewhere says "misc"

There you will find everything you want
[HTC Wildfire S] tanjinjack:
I am having issues when turning on the screen. It takes a while until the screen comes to life, both with the CRT animation enabled and disabled (set transition to fast in Spare Parts).

Tried changing governors and even set the lowest clock speed to 600MHz but it doesn't help at all.

Anyone with idea?
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Sancho, read my post with attention. I say it's on the first post of the thread.

I also say what you should search for. What can I do more?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22034449&postcount=378
[HTC Wildfire S] uroif:
@m1ndh4x8r: may I have a little question?

Is this ROM included Vietnamese lang? And can I install this ROM with ext3 partition, without linux swap?

Thank you.
[HTC Wildfire S] effry:
big problem

i'm having a big problem with this rom, the whole system crashes and reebots every time i try to install an apk both from market or from sd card. Any fix? (i'm not using link2sd or app2sd)
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
I have a suggestion. Make ROM Manager a pre-installed app. ;)

Other than that, excellent work!
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Great suggestion SDOTN! ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
im also having this issue...
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
What brand/class of memory card do you have?
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
2gb OEM from sandisk...
[HTC Wildfire S] intel007:
Same for me.
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
What class is the card? I suppose it's a slow one because of the size.

This rom requires a good card, I suggest at least class 6, in order to work well with DATA2SD or Link2SD.

All those lags and delays can be caused by the phone accessing the memory card and having to wait for a response.

I had serious problems with a Kingston 8GB Class 4 Card, with a Sandisk 4GB Class 4 card and also with the 2GB card that came with the phone.

Only NOW that I have a decent Samsung "Essentials" 16GB Class 6 card I can feel the real power that this rom has.

With the Kingston card I could use Link2SD but NOT DATA2SD.

Now I can use DATA2SD without any kind of problem.

Anyway like I said before, I recommend the ondemand governor and noop I/O scheduler. My phone is configured for minimum 245MHz and maximum 768MHz, performance, noop. When I used smartass and smartass2 governors I felt that when the screen went on the phone took a while to respond.

The unlock ring from Sense 3.0 behaved sluggishly and now my phone seems to work like a much higher range phone. I have no problem to say that with this rom (and my particular setup) my phone is faster then a HTC Desire S with an 1 GHz CPU.

All seems fluid and responding quickly now. Link2SD was good but DATA2SD is GREAT!

If you get the chance to buy a decent memory card you will definitely feel the difference.

I've already posted this on other threads but I attached a thumbnail of my Antutu and Quadrant benchmarks.

I can't help to say that this ROM is AWESOME! :)

Of course that the memory card on itself isn't enough. :p

There are rules for installing things, that must be followed very tightly.

m1ndh4x8r explained well that for DATA2SD you have a certain procedure.

I suggest waiting for one minute (at least) after flashing DATA2SD and booting, before typing in the PIN to start using the phone.

It depends on the size of the partitions you created on your memory card, DATA2SD has to adapt itself and make your memory card into the phone internal storage. This takes time and patience.

Let me say this again: it's worthwile. If you do things right this ROM can be a fantastic boost for the Wildfire S.

If you do things wrong it can be a mess and a disappointment.

FYI: my card has the following partitions:

1st partition - about 13.36GB, FAT32 primary (set as active - must be)

2nd partition - about 1GB, Ext4 primary

3rd partition - about 512MB Linux Swap primary

I'm using swapping and I feel a slight difference in performance, specially when I have lots of apps running. :D
[HTC Wildfire S] smartboy0668:
Same here...plz make zip for replace the style..i like the origional effect rather than tv style...thnx
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
I have that problem with lag, when I want to unlock my phone.Even when I unlock it, it's lagging for a 5-10 sec, then everything is fine.
[HTC Wildfire S] vctrdnl:
Data2SD doesn't function properly on a Class 10 card, right? I have read various opinions upon the whole XDA forum stating this fact: "Data2SD works best on Class 6 and possibly Class 4, Class 2 is too slow, Class 10 is too fast."

I would really like to try Data2SD on my 16GB Class 10 microSD card but I don't want to reinstall all my apps again and to get some freezes, hangs, etc. after that.

So what would you advise me? Should i try Data2SD? Link2SD has saved me 15-20 MB of internal storage, compared to the native App2SD (I have about 40 user apps installed at the moment). This is just about OK, but it isn't by any means great. :confused:
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
I got write speed 2mb/s, read speed 7mb/s.

Which class is that ? :)
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Hi vctrdnl! :)

First make a Nandroid backup of your current setup. Then you can try DATA2SD knowing that if things go wrong you can easily revert changes.

I am confident that a Class 10 card will work perfectly with DATA2SD.

I had problems with Class 2 and 4 cards but with Class 6 it works 100%.

My suggestion:

-Backup your current rom with Nandroid. You can install ROM Manager from Market, update recovery and start a full backup from there. I tested backup and restore without problems.

-Wipe factory data, cache and dalvik-cache.

-Flash this rom, reboot, do the initial setup (keyboard, data/wifi, etc), turn off fast boot and shutdown your phone.

-Flash DATA2SD, reboot and wait at least one minute when the PIN screen appears before trying to use your phone. This step is DECISIVE. If you don't wait enough time before typing PIN you will mess up your phone. On my case I waited two minutes for sure.

-Go to settings and SD Card & Storage to see how much internal storage you have. It should be a little smaller than the ext4 partition you have created for that purpose.

-Reinstall apps. FYI: I use Appmonster Pro that allows batch-install. I install 40 apps from SD card in a row without taking long.

I hope you will manage to set this up. I was frustrated because I flashed rom more than 10 times and installed everything again and again because of a crappy Kingston 8GB Class 4 card... You have a great card so try it out.

Good luck! ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
That probably is class 2. Isn't it written on the card surface? ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
Thanks.

I tried flashing provided Arabic font script and the undo script in one session of CWM and it ended with me restoring this ROM from backup after long night white HTC screen reaching end of battery. I tried to install the Arabic script and it works. Is the undo script working? Or is it not safe to flash many zips in one session of CWM (one reboot)?
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
It's usually not safe to flash more than one package between reboots.

The undo script works, I used it myself. It took a long time to boot after flashing it, much more than usual anyway. I was about to remove battery but it started in the meanwhile.

So only flash one zip and reboot. :)
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
Nope, it is not written on the card surface.
[HTC Wildfire S] __DS__:
Please make new version based on 2.13.401.3 :)
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
It has been 30 minutes in HTC white logo screen since flashing the script. How long does it take actually?
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
Try it for yourself...

Some users are experiencing this issue including myself...and miguelca came to the rescue immediately, but i have no intentions of buying a faster microsd card so i kind a studied what he posted...

what struck me is his setting of minimum clock of 245mhz, since i do use 120mhz, why not try it...applied the settings below and did a restart and puff there's no more lag when waking up the device...120mhz is really slow...:mad:

my settings for no frills(check apply on boot) are: max 768mhz, min 245mhz, governor: ondemand, i/o scheduler: noop

hope this helps...;)
[HTC Wildfire S] Nightshadow931:
That can't be the problem.

If 12MHz is minimum, it means that phone will use as much CPU as it needs, but > or equal to 120MHz, so if it needs to use 500MHz, it'll use it.The thing is, it has as much CPU as it needs.

If you put min on 245MHz, it'll just drain your battery way more faster.
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
so far so good...i am not having the issue anymore...if you check no frills and view stats you can see what clock speeds are running most of the time...

the issue here is lag...if youre more concern of battery then you can play with the settings...after 120mhz is 122 then 200, so its really up to you to choose...the reason why im using 245mhz is because there is no replication of the issue...

and i think it will not drain your battery faster...that's the job of a proper governor you choose...and to sum it up, i think its equal...id rather use a phone quickly than wait for it to respond and finish the job with a lousy time...just my thoughts...:rolleyes:
[HTC Wildfire S] vctrdnl:
User miguelca has convinced me to try out Data2SD. I will report back on how Data2SD behaves on a 16GB Class 10 card.
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
I've given up flashing undo script after 1 hour still in white HTC screen. I wish there is MD5 sum check and flash estimation time for each zip files including this undo script.
[HTC Wildfire S] Ivyn87:
GoodMorning

Very great ROM...

It's possible to have circle battery Mod in this Rom?

Thanks
[HTC Wildfire S] onimorza:
You can make that yourself verrrry easy with the UOT kitchen ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] Ivyn87:
Sorry, but how i can do? i go into the UOT kitchen site.. create... and then how can I put on the phone?

Thanks
[HTC Wildfire S] d3tr0:
Circle Battery Tiny (Green 51-100%, Orange 16-50%, Red 0-15%)

http://www.mediafire.com/?75y0nkm1v5x4sli

Flash downloaded zip in recovery (install zip from SD)
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
Why not exclude smooth volume in the ROM and give option to install it separately? Because it has problem on some device.
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
lockscreen lag fix

i was able to replicate the issue when i go down to min 200mhz, so 245 min is the right one...

i believe this will not directly affect battery life, since stock rom might be using the same clock for its minimum and you don't see that lag unless you are using a 3rd party lockscreen...
[HTC Wildfire S] onimorza:
UOT kitchen pickup is only available for X-time. You have to upload it somewhere else for other users to be able to download ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] d3tr0:
lockscreen lag

unfortunately for me it does not help, I set min 245mhz and freezing lockscreen still appears

not as often as before but it has not eliminated the problem

ok i placed it on another hosting :)
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
If that's the case you move a step higher than 245mhz or try to eliminate some unnecessary services...
[HTC Wildfire S] vctrdnl:
Here is how I set up things in No-Frills:

Governor: smartass2

I/O Scheduler: deadline

Min Freq: 120MHz

Max Freq: 768MHz

I experience no lags whatsoever; no lockscreen freezes, too. The unlock ring animation is very smooth. What's more, the lowest frequency in sleep mode preserves the battery. 245MHz is too high in my modest opinion. I have tried ondemand @ 200-768MHz, the lockscreen still lags.

You could also try smartass or interactive governors. They also run smoothly for me but I have chosen smartass2 sinse that's the newest governor available for WFS (should have some advantages over its predecessors).

One last thing: i believe I/O Scheduler noop creates some CPU instability but I'm not entirely sure of that. Since I've switched back to deadline, everything's fine.
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
@vctrdnl...i'll try what you said and give a feedback later...

---------- Post added at 10:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 AM ----------

@vctrdnl...thanks man its working...never thought i/o scheduler could be a big deal...
[HTC Wildfire S] m1ndh4x8r:
Update: Add stocks fix in misc.
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Hi vctrdnl, it works, at least on a Samsung 16GB Class 10 card.

I've "taught" a German user to do it (by PM) and got positive feedback.

DATA2SD is working fine with a 2GB Ext4 partition. :p

---------- Post added at 05:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:35 PM ----------

Thanks for the great explanation of your particular setup. :cool:

Can you please give me feedback on battery usage with the deadline I/O scheduler? Isn't it too battery consuming?

If you have an opinion on this please advise.

Thanks in advance for your precious help. ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] vctrdnl:
Hey miguelca,

Right now I'm really confused on what settings I should use in No-Frills. I will just write down my impressions so far.

I/O Schedulers:

About the battery life with deadline I/O Scheduler running: I have started to notice it isn't very good, indeed. I've been testing it for a couple of days (maybe 30-40 hours total), I have already recharged the battery twice - with some moderate usage and 3-4 phone calls. These aren't very good results. Otherwise, with the deadline scheduler selected the phone is really responsive and stable.

Previously I used the noop setting but my phone behaved somewhat unstable (some lags, delays, choppy graphics). I may test it again because at first I have played around with many settings. :)

I have also tested the sio scheduler for about an hour, in which my phone turned warm (not hot, but definitely warm) with screen OFF (sleep mode).

Just for reference: I have tested sio only with the smartass2 governor; I have tested deadline and noop with smartass, smartass2, interactive, ondemand governors.

There is a fourth setting, cfq, I haven't tried it out yet.

Governors:

In the 120-768MHz scope, you will get the best responsiveness of (in that order):

1. interactive, 2. smartass2, 3. smartass,..........4. ondemand

As you have noticed by yourself, ondemand needs at least 245MHz of CPU frequency to run smoothly. That's too steep in my opinion. At 120MHz the unlock animation looks terrible (the ring graphics get very choppy whenever you unlock the screen). Moreover, in case you haven't used the phone for the last 10-15 minutes, it tends to lag very much in the first 5-10 seconds. At 200MHz it's definitely better but still irritating.

Personally I feel that the interactive governor makes the phone very responsive but the governor itself tends to run at higher frequencies for a longer period of time (than smartass(2) or ondemand), hence more battery drain.

I intend to keep on testing some other combinations but I still haven't found the best one in terms of both performance and battery life.

Off the topic:

About the micro SD card partitions: do I need a SWAP partition at all? I intend to resize the EXT4 partition to 2GB (now 1GB) but I don't want to lose much of the FAT32 partition itself. I barely manage to fit in my music collection as it is. :D
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Vctrdnl, thanks a ton for the extensive and useful reply. I will post my impressions too (but not now). I've done some benchmarks with different governor and I/O Scheduler combinations. I think that the results depend a lot on the applications used and also memory card performance.

About the swap partition it is optional. Like on a computer it is an extra memory resource but be advised that it will be one more thing using the memory card. In some cases it might prove useful, in other cases you might feel that it adds only marginal performance, thus not using it can be the best option.

Please remind me what memory card you have (class, size and brand). Feel free to pm me with that info.

Edit: forget it. I was distracted and didn't read your card info. ;)

Best wishes, Miguel
[HTC Wildfire S] SpyMike:
@ m1ndh4x8r

i was looking in some other phone's forums (i.e sensation) and find out that it is possible except of cpu, to increase the speed of gpu and ram as well, and there is remarkable boost of performance...

is it possible to overclock GPU and/or RAM speed in this rom???

Thanks in advance...
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
That would be great but I suppose it is not possible. Maybe m1ndh4x8r can answer that question...
[HTC Wildfire S] sancho21:
Hey vctrdnl, I have the same experience too. Choppy unlock ring on smartass2+deadline @ 120-768MHz. But drain battery fast on without cpu no frills.

BTW, is my CPU always at 806MHz if I don't have no-frills installed?
[HTC Wildfire S] tokswager:
im also having this issue but with no frills installed...so i reverted back to my previous setting...

no...if you did not apply the 600mhz zip then your max clock is at 806, minimum 120 and ondemand governor, i based this on the 600mhz zip which i edited with help from mindh4x8r...
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Sorry for the late answer, sancho21.

In my case it took 10 minutes more or less. Maybe having added the arabic font is causing some kind of conflict. I really don't know. You should try asking m1ndh4x8r by PM. If you explain things well and are humble he might try help you. ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] miguelca:
Like it's been said here, the minimum necessary speed depends on the governor you're using. Smartass for example has an optimization for lowering the CPU clock when the screen is off.

So when you wake up the phone, if you use minimum speed of 120MHz it will lag with that governor. The clock used by the phone at a given time is managed by the governor and IMHO 120MHz is really too low for a phone like this to handle all background processes. I for example had a bad experience with a phone call while using smartass: the sound wasn't being decompressed at the necessary speed and seemed to hickup and scramble. This happened because the screen turns off when you have the phone near your ears and smartass lowers frequencies in that condition. Bearing this in mind, take your own conclusions.

BTW I learned that smartass does that on a site that I will try to find again and post a link here.

It's very informative on governors and I/O Schedulers.
[HTC Wildfire S] aigaming:
From my personal exp. (2 days battery life for me) i use smartass2,sio at 200-768mhz.It is rock solid,verry stable for me.I tried to lower min lock to 120mhz and changed to nop governor and guess what happened?My battery drained over-night from 78% to 2% in 10hrs! with phone in idle,sleeping :)
[HTC Wildfire S] vctrdnl:
aigaming, thanks for sharing your settings. I will try them right away.

Right now I'm testing: 120-768MHz, smartass2, noop, the battery life is slightly better (but not by much) than with 120-768Mhz, smartass2, deadline. The minor stability issues I previously experienced are gone, too. Strange... :confused: Maybe that's because I stopped playing around with the other settings so much.

Maybe 120MHz is too low and the CPU is struggling to complete its tasks. However, to respond to one of miguelca's recent comments, I don't get any call answering problems when waking the phone out of sleep mode (smartass2 governor selected).

Just out of curiosity, I tried ondemand @ 245MHz for a few hours, there is still some annoying lag on wake up.

P.S. Maybe we should shift our focus to m1ndh4x8r's new ROM. I'm definitely going to try it out next week. :)
[HTC Wildfire S] nephertiti:
Hi there,

I tried your last update but still same error(Tried on 2 wildfire s).

When i try to install any apk (on market or SD) i get system reset.

Is there anybody with same problem? Or Solution?