[Optimus One, P500, V General] vpidroid:
Success !!!

Okay folks !!!!!

Re-flashed and got everything working. All seems stable now. Have used the phone all day today. No issues / crashes etc.

Two issues got resolved with this re-flash.

My storage issue. This time I also installed Mounts2SD after the flash and it worked flawlessly. Now I no longer have storage issues. Touchwood !!!

Secondly, the brightness adjustment issue I had mentioned a couple of pages back is now working. I can now adjust the brightness by swiping on the status bar. And the system is correctly reporting that the brightness is NOT set to Auto. And this time I have made sure I do not include the Brightness control button in the notifiction bar widget. MixedNuts...You were right about the brightness problem.

However, I had a lot of issues with this re-flashing. It failed about 7 times, each time because of the freaking LatinIME keyboard. After the flashing, in the first screen where we are required to type in our Google account username/pwd, the keyboard failed to launch. With no keyboard I was unable to proceed and had to rebuild the ROM and re-flash.

Bill,

I had problems trimming the LatinIME pack using the OOne Tool.

The default APK size is about 28 odd MB with all the multiple language dictionaries. Post trimming it is about 5 odd mb. However, the keyboard just did not load after the flash completed.

I also tried to manually trim LatinIME.APK by opening the Zip file and deleting the other dictionaries, and putting back the APK into the ROM Zip file. But that did not work as well.

Finally, I did two things. In OOne ROM Editor, first converted it to a user-app. Then also asked it to install in as a mini-app in the ROM build options. This time when it built the ROM, I found a 5 odd MB trimmed LatinIME APK in System>Apps and the default 28 odd MB APK in Data>Apps. This time after the flash, everything worked properly.

So actually right now, I am having both the full blown APK as well as the trimmed APK installed on my phone. This is ironic as I am not using that keyboard at all. I and downloaded and installed the Gingerbread keyboard which I prefer.

But since Mounts2SD is working fine, I am not feeling the space pinch.

Then I tried to save some storage space by using the massively trimmed Trebuchet.APK. But this version, apart from missing wallpapers, sounds etc, also cuts down on functionality which helps you customise the uablity of the launcher. Also some of the launcher options were constantly causing crashes.

So again, I decided to risk that Mounts2SD will install and work as promised, and used the full-blown Trebuchet.APK.

The only space saving I managed to do, was replace the default DroidFallBack font with the trimmed one. That did not cause any problems.

Luckily for me, Mounts2SD installed and worked perfectly, so both of the above issues with LatinIME and Trebuchet were taken care of.

Post-mortem,

FYI, I did not follow your exact sequence, as I was not sure if and how I would be able to download and install Mounts2SD without installing GAPPS. So I did the full flash and then downloaded and installed Mounts2SD from Google Play. Thankfully, it worked.

This time as you advised, I did not try Link2SD first at all. I gave Mounts2SD a clean install to do its magic.

Full sequence of my operations for other newbies like me:

1. Back up SD Card

2. Repartitioned the SD Card, using Mini Tool. 13 GB standard SD Card partition of type FAT32, 1 GB SD-Ext partition of type EXT2. 256 MB partition of type Linux Swap type. There is some unallocated space left on my 16GB card.

2. First replace the trimmed Droid Fallback font in the ROM Zip file.

3. Then open the ROM Zip file using Bill's OOne ROM Zip Editor tool.

4. Convert Calculator, Email, Desk Clock, Gallery, MMS etc to user apps. There are probably more you can convert, but I never did manage to hunt up a comprehensive list. Delete unwanted (FOR ME. Maybe you need these), such as Apollo, Exchange etc.

5. Build ROM.

6. Boot into CWM Recovery

7. Then Wipe Cache/Factory Reset, then format /system, then format /boot, and finally wipe Dalvik Cache.

8. Flash ROM

9. Flash GAPPS.

10. Reboot from CWM main menu.

11. After the initial setup, First installed Mounts2SD.

12. Then downloaded and installed everthing else from Google Play.

Thanks to all members for all the help and advise, Dovidhlevi, MixedNuts, Ibub, Bill.Weckel, post-mortem, ktp1976. Also to all other members for their useful posts.

Hopefully, this reflashing should be stable and not cause any issues.

I have 2 queries.

My system folder (/system) now weighs in at 281.74 MB as per ES File Explorer. Is this going to be a problem going forward ?? Do I need to somehow reduce this ?? If yes, how ??

Should I / Can I somehow release the space consumed by LatinIME since I am not using it ?? As mentioned above, I am using the Gingerbread keyboard which I downloaded and installed from Google Play.

Thanks all once again for the help and prompt responses.

Regards,

Venkat