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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
With thitanium you can safely backup all user apps + K9 and multicon. For all other there is a risk their databases layouts will change in next AOKP version and they would get broken by the restore. That means it's fine to backup them but may be very bad to restore on another version.

Do you have 4EXT recovery? Do a titanium backup (only user apps, possibly K9 mail, just don't even try the other system apps). Go to recovery and select Format All Partitions except SD), it's at the bottom of normal wipe options - this is equivalent of superwipe, just more reliable.

Go to info in recovery and make sure all partitions are ext4 filesystem (except SD fat), convert-format those that are not.

Flash ROM, boot, skip the google login, reboot and if you see Opera and quickpic in apps all is well. At that point they should be on your sd-ext so check from root explorer if /data/app has your sd-ext size. Reboot once more for good measure and if all is well, do your restore.

Basically what happened to you I think is the sd-ext was corrupted during the transition and was not really formatted, on reboot it didn't mount properly due to corruption and all apps disappeared as a result.

Possibly if you have any sd-ext / swap managers installed, do not restore them, I am unsure as what exact incompatibility could cause this.

I was unable to replicate this bug, did you restore the browser all from titanium? Wipe the browser app data.

(fakt se mi nepodařilo žádnou chybu najít, smaž data aplikace a popřípadě taky z terminálu fix_permissions jestli nepomůže)

What kbeezie said. It's badass and improves multitasking with hardly any performance hit. BUT the risk of corrupting your storage will always be there. It's your money, you decide what to do. It goes without saying it's safe to try short-term, but I'm not saying that or making you do it. It's experimental for a reason, that doesn't mean it's bad or not cool :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jivebunny:
Thanks! running it again :) Will see where it goes.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Any clue what this app is?

I'm mainly confused because I haven't seen it before, and it showed up after a clean install (wiped everything) i.e.: the rom + t-mobile wifi calling, the 96MB DataSwap.

It's not removable so it made it into system/app somehow, if I knew the characters to type I'd try to search it (but at best I can figure out how to type hiragana/katakana from japanese).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] S4crifice:
To mě nenapadlo, zdá se, že je všechno OK ... (bylo to divný, protože jsem nedělal žádnou zálohu z předchozího systému ..)

App data deleted, its OK now ...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Maybe this : PinyinIME.apk

since I know Pinyin is a form of Chinese character input.

PS: It would be nice if the manage app area could show you the original filename of an app, though the above didn't seem that hard to figure out.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] adamz667:
Yes, it is PinyinIME - Chinese input method.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Hrm I wonder why that was installed as a built-in system app...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
it's part of AOKP, some people requested it in the thread I think.

Sent from my Desire Z powered by EliteMod.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] x.para:
I flashed today's issue, but Gtalk and Gallery was not there. So i flashed also modified GTALK. Can we get Modified Gallery too?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] demkantor:
pinyin is safe to remove, being you don't speak the language its nothing but bloat for you any way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
did you actually look into the mods section lately? :D

and yeah, I will remove that ime in next version and put it up as a mod.

Sent from my Desire Z powered by EliteMod.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] x.para:
oh yes, you are right, i must have missed that :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] adamz667:
Anyone of you guys is using SIP calling? Is it working on that rom?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
and suddenly my SD-ext partitin changed to swap, and your solution didn't work because of that... 2 causes:

either i was drunk when i partitioned the sdcard, and clicked swap instead of sdext

or it really changed itself...

yeah... i'm gonna go with the first cause

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] conizius:
Damn! I got this rom for the third day now and I love it!

The battery life with a mugen power 1800 mAh is enormous.

And it's fast... damn fast. I think I haven't seen my phone so smooth before.

I only got one single problem: It was the second morning (out of two) I woke to a lagging alarm clock with an unresponsive phone :( To get it silent I hat to pull the battery.

This was using DataSwap, for tomorrow I'll try it without.

I am currently on the 20120624 build and with the 20120625 kernel.

Is there any chance that this issue is solved with the new version?

Because I love the multitask ability of DataSwap.

Anyway even without DataSwap, I love this rom. Attached is awesome battery graph. I remember someone asked what the battery life is like with a 1800 mAh. But the rom play a much bigger role in getting a good battery life... Haven't done much with the phone today. Few texts and a news check now and then. Stayed at home most of the time.

I still testing which voltages are stable, for now I'm on -50 for all. So there might even be a more juice conserving setting, but I really need to get more into it.

- coni
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Yes, the problems should be gone with 120627. I get no dataswap lags in last 2 versions.

Sent from my Desire Z powered by EliteMod.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
*Shrug* never had that problem with 4EXT as it actually asks in order Swap, SD-Ext, Sd-ext2 , of which you could choose skip on either, so one wouldn't become another it'd simply become not created.

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Yea I went ahead and did that out of the system partition and rebooted (making a backup just in case for some reason another app on there absolutely had to have it).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
I wonder what benefits CM9 RC1 can bring to the EliteMod Rom (just noticed it's out now).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Chillout:
Would this CPU Editor be any good?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1584508
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Try it and find out, least with others (i.e.: SetCPU, IncrediControl, etc) enough people have tried it etc.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Chillout:
I will try :)

however, their download is corrupt at the moment ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
I doubt it can do anything to save power that I haven't already done in the kernel :D Except custom UV. But give it a shot and let us know ;)

I'm just at 1 day 11 hours, that was with some heavy IMO usage yesterday with screen on almost constantly. Internal meter shows 3% left but battery monitor widget estimates 30% left from current voltage. I thing I'll make it through the day :D

Sent from my Desire Z powered by EliteMod.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
I wonder if there's any chance of getting FUSE support into the kernel in future versions (I ran modprobe fuse and didn't seem to exist), for things like being able to mount a TrueCrypt volume in the future via encfs or something.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
FUSE is present and enabled as a module, see /system/lib/modules/fuse.ko maybe I disabled tracing or debug support but it should work.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
how can i express my "Thank you"? other than keep pressing the thanks button on every post... ur rom is A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!!

EDIT: uh...

why is the " symbol a ) in this rom?

why is system process force closing?

why isn't there a sleep button on the notification power widget?

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
I like pizza and vanilla muffins. No hookers please :D

Probably AOKP questions, I don't make the base ROM :) Do you have some sort of national version of the keyboard? I never noticed that myself. Still this is probably question for adam, I didn't change anything in that respect so the problem should be in stock AOKP as well.

This happens when the CPU or I/O can't keep up, I did my best to eliminate it but heavy tasks like installing/uninstalling an app may still invoke this. Just select "wait" and it will sort itself out.

But if you mean like *real* force close with only FC/Report options, then something is very wrong, never seen that on my ROM. Check out your logcat in that case for possible causes, might be media scanner breaking its tooth on some corrupted file on your card or other weirdness.

I am seriously considering to remove the Google Music app as well and replace it with something that doesn't use the system media scanner. Same reason why we have QuickPic, it has its own media scanner. Any tips? I'd say PowerAMP but it's not free :(

The system media scanner is EVIL, just drains battery and it's completely useless, I remove any app that invokes it on sight. I even install/uninstall SugarSync app periodically for the same reason :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
it's a normal fc.. with a wait a report and a fc

the first case in ur reply

thanks

btw, can u fix the mapping?

and add the sleep toggle?

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Not now, my battery is dry and I'm on the Touch Pro, can't even check it :D

It took over 3 hours to discharge from 3%. Looks like the Battery monitor is calculating it correctly, it's a new feature check it out if you have it :)

It's weird to have system show you 4% and Battery monitor widget 35% but it's surprisingly precise. Especially if I consider the app wasn't calibrated very well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] pepar0:
+1

winamp?

(also experiencing some 'not responding'/FCs (opera,..), seems to be on cpu 'heavy' apps. I only have swap (no data swap)).

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
should i add a comment?

a pic would be enough

this has happened many times with this rom... but totally worth it... i'm not complaining

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Broman400:
When I record some videos and play them back, the sound works for about 2 seconds into the video and just stops. Last week I recorded about 4 videos with working sounds, but last night the sound stopped working again when using the camcorder.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
The video corruption happens very rarely for me, perhaps once a week?

All ICS ROMs have the problem, I think it is hardware issue as I explained in detail before. It may depend on your CPU frequencies but is completely random.

Only change I did on my system that might make a difference is I changed the scrolling cache settings in ROM ctrl - performance to "default enabled". I swear that made the occurence much more sporadic, but could be just coincidence.

Also I noticed it happened at most once per reboot to me, and I don't reboot very often. Just kill the app doing that and go on from here, don't reboot whole system just to fix it.

Broman400:

As for your video problem - first try to download and install an older kernel (120616 perhaps?). If that doesn't help update back and try to retrace your steps, uninstall any app you recently installed that has anything to do with audio. I know that call recording apps disrupt the loudspeaker in calls, so I assume it's possible some app is causing your video recording sound to drop. If it worked before, it's definitely more than likely.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] S4crifice:
HW shortcuts + last app played

Hi,

there are last two things I want to fix ... First is how to set up hw shortcuts? I didnt find any settings ...

Second - I cant see the last app played while I longely press Home button.

There is settings in main settings - switcher style (is it that thing?) and possibilities are default, web os or sense 4, but none of them works ...

Thanks for any help ...

(nejdou mi nadefinovat HW klávesy, nefunguje mi přepínání aplikací pomocí home buttonu, jinak už vím, že do jiného systému dlouho nepůjdu, tahle rom je perfektní!! Kam mám poslat zmrzku? :))
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Chillout:
it's better not to use the Cpu Editor... I tested it... Conclusion:

- drains battery more than default EliteMod&Kernel

- bootloop after rebooting

:cool:
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] contro19:
A program I was using wechatwe Chat no longer works on the upgraded rom..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] buxtahuda:
Thanks Nik3r! As always, I'm appreciative of your work.

I haven't been able to use extensively and I just figured out a "work-around" for one of my issues so now I can actually test it out. But, I do have two issues so far:

1. The language is set to English (US). The Android keyboard is set to use the system's language. But the keyboard being used says cestina (or something) on the space bar and the "y" and "z" keys are swapped. "Work-around" is to set the Android keyboard to English (US) instead of default, but still curious and actually chased me off an earlier build until I realized what was happening.

2. Swiping from Apps to Widgets in the app drawer. I guess this may be an Apex issue and maybe fixed by a setting somewhere, but it's completely unresponsive and annoys me greatly. Takes it a full two or more seconds to transition, and doesn't do so prettily.

Will update as I come across more, thanks again Nik3r! I'll be buying you a pizza very soon ;)

P.s.

I love that you set up your app drawer to be vertical infinite vs. horizontal/vertical paginated. I love this because it's how I already had my AOKP set up :D lol
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Kueber:
Flashed this ROM recently, its really smooth.

One little question - Why exactly is "Google Goggles" included? I've only experienced glitchy pictures, force closes and cold resets with that app - on any ICS Rom I tested. Even EliteMod.

Is there any way to make this work without crashing the phone?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
It's the keyboard layout for his native country since this rom is primarily built for his own personal use. It's easy enough to just go into the setting and tap the settings icon next to the keyboard row and select a different layout.

Don't think I've had that problem in quite a while, but course after using the Data Swap mod, I almost never see glitches now days on account of multi-tasking lag.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xT4Z1N4TRx:
Has anyone got a flashable zip for this roms kernel?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
It is in the downloads section. It is called standalone ics kernel.

There is a version for aokp and a version for cm9. ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
Scroll down a lil further and you got kernel-only downloads for either Elite Mod or for compatible roms.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xT4Z1N4TRx:
The aokp one downloaded fine, but the cm9 one says :

Warning: fopen(/data/web/virtuals/4544/virtual/www/@elite-force.eu/elitemod/files/MOD_EliteKernelICS_120627-compatible.zip) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/web/virtuals/4544/virtual/www/@elite-force.eu/elitemod/download.php on line 21

Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /data/web/virtuals/4544/virtual/www/@elite-force.eu/elitemod/download.php on line 76
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jspina:
I think nik3r is having problems with his servers.

I got the same message over here.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
His hosting hasn't been friendly in terms of his downloads, just re-try again later, shared hosting can only put out so much.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
no this is missing file, I probably forgot to upload it >.<

wait till I get home :D

Sent from my Desire Z powered by EliteMod.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
:P Well least now you know a friendly check and message may be in order for future problems of file not being found.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Kueber:
Playing around some more with this great ROM I noticed some weird Apex reactions when using the included app "Multicon" ..

It seems that Apex Launcher is unable to restart if there are too "many" multicon widgets in use - I don't know exactly how many.

If the Launcher restarts, due to setting changes for example, "Unfortunately, Apex Launcher has stopped working" pops up consistently.

Only rebooting the phone or disabling Multicon helps.

Known issue? Anything that could be done?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Don't use so many?

I use two 2x1 and one 1x1 and it already holds even apps I don't use all that often :D I'm sure there are alternatives on the market, multicon is quite old already, I like it because it's the most lightweight and simple of the bunch.

And the kernel download should be fixed, it just had a wrong filename. I also fixed the elitemod index to make this easier in the future:

http://elite-force.eu/elitemod/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Kueber:
Thanks for your answer -

Yeah, it isn't really a huge problem, just asked out of curiosity - as I said I was just fiddling around with its functions.

I was wondering if that issue only depends on using this app/widget or on widgets in general.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] buxtahuda:
Why I "quoted" work-around, it's no real bother and should be done for semantics (IMO) anyway. Just threw me for a loop lol

And I've always felt my performance good enough not to worry with swaps or ext4's. Suppose I will now, I just don't have faith in my mSD card.

Will a 128 GB Class 10/ UHS-1 mSD work in these devices? Android has a ~2 TB limit right?

P.s.

I meant to post this last night, I guess there were one too many mix drinks floating about my system :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] komani86:
Amazing ROM, really fast and stable (up to now)!

I am fairly new with the sd-ext concept and read about it.

Created an EXT with CWM and its visible with file manager in the ROM, but I cant figure out how to move apps to sd-ext automatically.

Its 512MB big and when I try to move apps to my SD-ext it automatically goto /sdcard/android.

Could anyone direct me in the right way to get the apps2sdext? :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
The process it fully automated but it is only guaranteed to work when formatted with 4EXT recovery and using ext4 filesystem.

Basically you format the SD, boot up, and by the time you see home screen all your apps should be in /sd-ext/app (and your /data/app dynamically linked to that folder).

And be aware that 512MB is too tiny. You must realize ALL your installed apps go in there, your internal storage has at least 800MB without sd-ext. That means you want sd-ext to be at LEAST 1GB to get the same space as without it, preferably 2GB to actually get some benefit out of it.

And when it's done, you want to move all apps from sdcard to internal memory. Because that will be your sd-ext partition, while sdcard is the fat32 part.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] komani86:
Ah nice! I formatted the 7,5GB to ext4, but I cant figure out how to merge or format the sd-ext partition that CWM made for me. i found out its ext3 though.

So im currently struggeling to get the partition visible so I can format it to ext4 lol. (MiniTool Partition Wizard doesnt seem to detect the /sd-ext partition.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] nik3r:
Hehe quite a situation you got yourself into. Just flash 4EXT Touch recovery and you can fix it from there easily. It works in ext4 natively and is superior to CWM in every way. They even have a control app that lets you flash from system, manage backups and update like CWM but that part is paid.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] komani86:
Thanks for the fast reply! Instead of installing 4EXT Touch Recovery (which I will later lol), I used my adapter for my microSD and put the SD in my laptop and re-formatted the partition to ext4.

Thank you for the fast replies though! Oddly the main partition of 7,5GB doesnt start up anymore so i'll format that back to FAT32 hehe :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xhitz:
Just want to say thank you nik3r for giving me a reason to use both my G2's...I'm not afraid to walk out of the house with the other one i use for testing. CM7 on ONE & CM9 on the other! haha....just dont know what to say but to just post pics! ......so yeah WTF and Thank you!

*Oh yeah I'm only having one problem it seems I have to keep flashing the rildata in 4ext everytime my phone dies? Is it bcuz I keep taking the battery off to change my sim card to the other phone?

But check the pics----
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] komani86:
Hey nik3r,

Thanks for all the advice, but im really getting stressed now.

I tried to format several times with these settings as the last ones:

G: - 6,5GB - FAT32

* - 1,5GB - ext4

After installing EXT4 Updater I also made sure everything besides my 6,5GB was ext4 and formatted. Everything is accessible via the recovery mode, but I dont see \sd-ext\apps, cant make folders on sd-ext and it seems the apps are all on the internal storage. What can be going wrong? Or how can I check that im just trippin?

The internal storage is currently 1,15GB and 150MB used for apps.

The ROM is still very smooth btw :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
it's 32GB max (SDHC supported, not SDXC), the OS may be able to support 2TB of memory but the SD slot on the device itself doesn't.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rirozizo:
one thing i don't like about this rom is that my apps doesn't get installed if i don't have sdext...

i've made a 768MB partition for the rom to install my apps, and now i have little space for apps, and my sdcard shrunk... so that's a problem too

the rom doesn't automatically switch to /data to keep a space for apps, or if there is no sdext partition.. dunno why though

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i didn't mean to mock you or to offend you in any kind of way
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
If you mean you cannot see sd-ext via your computer, that's normal as via USB the desktop would only mount the FAT32 partition (windows and OSX don't natively support ext4 and generally ignore it).

Apps can be moved to SD via manage apps in system settings, by looking at the "On SD" volume and selecting the checkboxes to move them there (or going into each one and selecting 'move to SD'). Just be aware some apps do not like being run from the SD, it's also usually best to move apps there you don't open quite so often (in my case games).

PS: Also did you format via the 4EXT recovery ? the partition order might not be correct if you formatted it outside of the phone.