yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cschmitt:
It's safe, I'm using it with sk8's CWM 5.5.0.4. The updater is just writing a command to the cache partition and rebooting into recovery. Recoveries know to check for this command file on startup and execute it (this is exactly how the ROM Manager interface works.)

So using CM Updater to flash and update is no different then manually booting into recovery and flashing the update, same process just automated.

Neither CM Updater nor the update script are clearing the dalvik cache. The 'Upgrading applications' occurs because on first boot the OS recognizes that some of the dalvik cache files are now out of date with what's in /system/app, so it's updating the cache files.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] plwalsh88:
^^ so quiet, yet so smart.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] copene:
Thanks for the clarification. Now all we need is the speedy downloads like before and we're golden!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jucares:
Hello fellows, anyone is using swap2cache script to improve your SK17 perfomance. Would you recommend using it?

Thanks in advance.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Rudjgaard:
Considered all that's out there about how andorid manages ram i have never really seen the point.

Android will open processes and activities for as much free ram as it has, and when you need to run something it just closes all useless activities and cached programs if necessary. Enebling swap2cache will just give your device more space to occupy with "junk" which will be sitting there eating up on battery life and performance...In my personal experience i find it to be more useful on older devices which had limited ram, 512 is enough to run most stuf out there (there's a discussion on android genral about makin 2gb which concludes that for now it's quite useless..) plus it's only adding 64mb extra...it's not going to be that big a change.

I tested it personally, and my rom (also using miui) without swap2cache usually has 400-420mb of used space before doing a system dump, with swap 2cache enabled it was always full at max...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] iONEx:
Not to mention sdcard life.... constant swapping on it, reduces lifespan obviously.

Also it's very much slower than system memory.

Sent from my ST15i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jucares:
Hi Guys, thanks for the info I will try for myself and report it back.

Just to clarify swap2cache works in the internal partition /cache not in /sdcard so it is supposed to be faster.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pitchblack5691:
Yeah you are right it works in the system partition but you may want to take a look at swap2zram as it works in the ram itself! Faster than system memory!

hit thanks if I've helped!

sent from my smultron
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] iONEx:
LoL! my bad. I wasn't even reading right. I was automatically thinkin' it was swap2sd -.-

EDiT:

Xkernel uses ZRAM by default...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jucares:
Here is my experience, apparently this extra 64 mb only make a difference when you play heavy games like Asphalt 7, N64 emulator, Nova, etc.

Because without swap2cache when I played this games with the sixaxis controller app this one always closes in the middle of the game. However with swap2cache enabled I can play this games with the sixaxis app without problem :laugh:

Hope you find this information useful, if anyone is interested I'm attaching the script:

- Uncompress it and copy it in /etc/init.d/

- Set 777 permissions to script.

- reboot.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
Hey guys, just for you to know, epinter found a ics leak for Atrix 4G (and as we know, the Atrix and the Photon are very similar).

The thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1928569

Edit: the thread is down (you can check the conspiracy theories on Atrix general). Now we talk about "that rom"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1930645
[Motorola Photon 4G] ScottieRotten:
Subscribed
[Motorola Photon 4G] sub2k1:
Thanks for letting us know. While a leak is very exciting it isn't source code. Lets keep the pressure on them!
[Motorola Photon 4G] NishantM:
Just a sum of the current status, till now. A guy has managed to get it boot on his Atrix. According to him, Video Camera works fine on the build.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
But no webtop, as expected
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
He said very clearly in the second video he did that the About phone screen shows Webtop 3.0 but apparently there's nothing in the actual leak to do any updates (and that's after the second flash where he did flash the vendor.img which apparently is where the Webtop code should/would have been).

So far, everything seems to be working for him as well: camera (photo and video recording), fingerprint sensor (shows him unlocking it with just that), and so on.

Good news overall, at least for Atrix owners. Now, if they can find some use from the code for Photons, or heaven forbid the Photon gets a leak, so much the better for all of us. :D
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
This is great news for our Atrix brethren. Hopefully we can benefit from this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] NishantM:
Hopefully the libs should be compatible with Photon/Electrify too.
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
Th3bill said in the AOKP thread that he thinks it might have what we need to have a fully functional ICS and JB build on our phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
I'm sure this libs works on Photon too, just be patient.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Would reallly be nice to see ICS on this Photon working well. I haven't committed to flashing any ICS or JB ROMs so far, just got CM7 installed and it's damned fast and works perfectly, not interested in losing any functionality with the ICS or JB ROMs at this moment but, again, let's hope this all bodes well for us Photon owners.

Oh, and that potential Photon ICS leak would be most welcome too, if it ever happens. Motorola did some work with it, would be nice to see (and take) whatever they had developed and make some use of it instead of just letting it vanish in a bit bucket someplace.
[Motorola Photon 4G] InsanePostman:
For those of us that have unlocked bootloaders? I read a thread that said Th3bill and jokersax were working on a method to unlock us 2.3.5 users. Hopefully he means for all photon users.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MIONS:
i think Th3biill ca make it work on photon just be patient
[Motorola Photon 4G] repoman42:
what about wimax? can that be made to work? Yes I know that all (or most?) of the roms for the photon break wimax.

Or will that require a Photon ICS leak?
[Motorola Photon 4G] not.a.troll:
atrix doesn't have wimax so this probably won't fix wimax on the photon.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
I dont even know what it is, so I dont think this leak have what you need... but I just flashed it, and hw is working fine, video cam too. Running google chrome and sh*t :p
[Motorola Photon 4G] MIONS:
U flashed it on photon ,and i works fine ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
No, I'm an atrix user. I dont recommend you flashing this on photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] ticiano_arraes:
Lots of lag on the rom
[Motorola Photon 4G] kkruglov:
it's mean that they worked on rom, but kill all development because of bugs?

good news - now developers of custom rom have drivers for video?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
If you have any idea how much time is involved with just the support my moto campaign, you'll think twice about starting another one. Working 8-10hrs a day, "update my moto" covering social media and folks help out when they could, I still didn't get everything done. Now that many have ditched both campaigns for a broken leak and broken ROMs based on it, things have slowed down but it still involves a fair chunk of time.

Let me ask this. How many people do you think that were complaining about not getting ICS actually did something about it, actually filed complaints and signed the petitions? Very few. This is after 40 plus articles were written about it and an additional 12 articles written specifically mentioning the campaign.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ebswift:
Atrix user here, but have been watching this leak thread. It was my perception that a number of people jumped on the bandwagon trying to be the leader of a campaign, and this did nothing but take the teeth out of the campaign itself. This isn't the fault of anyone because they all had good intentions. Maybe I'm not up there with all the ins and outs, but I was actually pretty disappointed that no big names were willing to really stand behind and drive the campaign. Many were happy to milk it and report on it though.

The most effective part of the campaign that I did notice was the part directed at Punit himself. Not sure how far that is going to get, but at least it's a campaign fired right at the source of our woes and he did notice.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hdmunger:
Just a quick response
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
LOL shabby. I really needed that after the number of "this is not a daily driver" posts I've made along with getting bombarded by Atrix2 owners today that are unhappy they're not getting two major version updates when us Electrify/Photon users can't even get one, much less a leak.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Damn, Motorola is just really not on course with any of this, I can't believe they're knowingly doing all this stuff on purpose: it's got to be Google stepping in on some level and directing things, it just has to be.
[Motorola Photon 4G] JohnH4:
Its hard to speculate without any information, but at the end of the day, Motorola is owned by Google and should be thought of ad responsible for any acts or omissions by Motorola.

Sent from my Magical MoPho.
[Motorola Photon 4G] sub2k1:
Well looks like Bionic owners get to have dessert: https://plus.google.com/+Motorola/posts/87JoNrXaBat
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cooldevil1989:
Oh... that device was released in SEP-2011.... and Photon in Aug-2011 .... and having almost same config...

And they r gettng ICS n JB too....:(
[Motorola Photon 4G] xNicoyAx:
I wanna see if they even actually get JB, lol! Bionic barely got ICS!
[Motorola Photon 4G] JohnH4:
Moto said bionic will get jb on a twitter post yesterday.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Motorola/status/259414234004344832
[Motorola Photon 4G] Equalizir:
What bs.
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
I just made a boot animation of Android peeing on Moto :) it's nothing special! makes your device look cooler though ;)

check it out! It is a flashable zip.

http://d-h.st/KLP
[Motorola Photon 4G] Productzer01:
But didn't bionic get denied upgrade already
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
the reason why the bionic got some loving is actually fairly simple, it was originally going to be the photon but on verizon. then they figured out tegra 2 doesnt support LTE and jumped to the OMAP 4430 (same as the RAZR, pandaboard, nook tablet, kindle fire, and many more devices). the OMAP 4460 is the one used in the galaxy nexus which is nothing but a speed hike, so two of those devices that share the same cpu code are in AOSP. while the code isnt fully the same from 4460 to the 4430 its close enough the modding community could change what they needed im sure.
[Motorola Photon 4G] glock20c:
The Motorola Xoom is tegra 2 and supports 4g LTE..
[Motorola Photon 4G] NishantM:
You should really make one in which Motorola pees on us. Coz that's what they did :p.
[Motorola Photon 4G] craby1925:
Kinda Sorta, the tegra 2 board didn't have factory support for lte, and it cost a lot of money for the board to be fixed for lte support by Motorola. The omap had it right off the bat. So there's your reasoning.
[Motorola Photon 4G] shabbypenguin:
which is why i believe it took so long for moto to get the xoom lte "update"
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
With the T2 Moto phones the issue with the display on the Atrix could probably be fixed. The issue with the Qualcomm MDM6200 may be a different matter (the heat issues folks have reported) but without the needed source code and chip info we may never know. It is still odd that Moto was the only company not able to update any of their T2 phones, I'm not counting Micromax's one T2 phone here.
[Motorola Photon 4G] eurohunter:
cybik, is the release of your ICS a matter of "if" or a matter of "when"? :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Damanis1:
Yea i agree i know they want moto to still be there own company but is a parent still responsible for a adopted child, yes..
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Rule #1 of CyanogenMod: Don't ask for ETA's.

(yes this is an actual CM rule)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Pardon me Loki, but that isnt what he asked. He asked if there is some sort of catalyst that needs to occur before Cy can release the secret sauce or if its just a matter of time - which isnt a horrible question. The answer we have now is somewhat halfassed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I'm not directly involved with the development, source or leaks but can say that I can't even get anything out of cybik or others at this point. I jokingly ask cybik about it and I'll refer you to my previous post as to his response. So this does still fall under the CM rule.

The campaign aside, I can say there are a number of us involved in trying to makes this happen. I've cashed in many chits and can say I'll never get hired by G or M in doing so.
[Motorola Photon 4G] murrun:
earlier statement from cybik(10 oct. 2012):

It seems a "when" situation. :)
[Motorola Photon 4G] Planters76:
All this talk about Ice Cream Sandwich has made me hungry for one
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
All this talk about ice cream sandwich has made me never want to see one ever again.
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
I have gotten about sick of all this also. Not you guys , Motorola. Went back to stock 2.3.5 and added a few mods and have been just fine. It works great and does everything I need it to. I never really used any of the new features that ICS and Jellybean brought anyway. The Devs are amazing and I will try out other roms from time to time. But for now Gingerbread is cool with me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] FC809:
For me it's not necessarily the features I just like how it looks way better. That's the only reason I haven't went back down to gingerbread. Though I do miss the battery life lol.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Productzer01:
Question: Aren't there launchers that would imitate ics look and you could still have GB stability?

I use Go Launcher ex I get scrollable widgets, I can group apps in folders, and set up screen for home screen is similar to ics(except no previews of widgets)

People think I have ics but I'm still running gb.
[Motorola Photon 4G] InsanePostman:
I use peers rom that includes nemuslauncher along with Planters ICS theme.
[Motorola Photon 4G] badgett:
I've used Holo launcher with CM7 and it was the spitting image of ICS. The problem was I didn't really like the ICS look. The only reason I used it was stock Gingerbread looks really cheap and old.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Peetrs hybridrom w/planters ics theme and holo launcher or cm7 w/ sonnys ics theme and holo launcher.

How do you choose between them? Hybridrom for a seriously stable experience and insane battery life or cm7 for ridiculous amounts of customization but slightly less stability and battery life.
[Motorola Photon 4G] atroph:
I would argue that our cm7 is as stable as stock. I am not sure about battery life since my stock experience was really short. There is a bug upstream with cmparts and the fix is on the cm7 development thread.

I would venture to say that instability is caused by third party apps for most if not all roms. My cm7 install is mostly stock and I have no issues. That doesn't mean that I haven't had my share. I realized that if I stick to the kiss (keep it simple) philosophy then my overall experience is great. Changing launchers, themes, or any other major change to the rom minus simple apps equates to instability.

Just my .02. Cm7 is rock solid hands down.

Anyways back to the leak.... oh cybik!
[Motorola Photon 4G] rbeavers:
In Q5. :eek:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
I would argue with your point in the case of the September 9th CM7 build. All builds after that have wifi connectivity problems where wifi wont stay connected. And you're right, the recent two builds have the cmparts.apk issue but is easily remedied. Hybrid is still better on battery, though.
[Motorola Photon 4G] famous84:
2nd that... I thought I'm the only one having that issue :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] rockytruelyrox:
Hello moto sounds me more like hello MO*O these days :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] UARuslanUA:
Hello!

i'm looking videodriver from ATRIX Leak!you have it?thanks!;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] niphoet:
Wha...?
[Motorola Photon 4G] R2DeeTard:
Sorry dude, no video drivers.
[Motorola Photon 4G] eurohunter:
damn, I was really hoping that this guy would be some "new" guy to provide us with a Rom just like it happened with the Atrix. He is just a regular new guy, lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] UARuslanUA:
Hi guys, thank you responded! Why no one pulled the video library with the Atrix leak? Or someone is doing now? Devices as almost identical in hardware ... what problems are? In the radio part?

may ask Epinter? give him small donations from our Fotons family?))) because he once stole this bilds for Atrix ...

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] tatperson:
The things in the leak are not compatible with the kernels in those ROMs. Even on the Atrix, neither Th3Bill nor Epinter could put the libs and stuff from the leak into their ROMs. The only non-ICS leak ROM we have with the kernel, libs and drivers is the CM10 build by someone who doesn't want to be known. Who knows who he might be... All the devs need is the source code so that they can build a compatible kernel. Unfortunately, who knows if Motorola even plans to release the source code. So right now its a no go, even for the Atrix.

Sent from that Atrix.
[Motorola Photon 4G] UARuslanUA:
thanks for answer.Motorola does not, perhaps, another "gift", it came out with a leak on Arix.but let's hope and wait for a miracle!)))
[Motorola Photon 4G] wcherin:
I wonder if we will ever see, the secret sauce Cybik hinted too but I am assuming no at this point
[Motorola Photon 4G] glock20c:
wishfull thinking at this point
[Motorola Photon 4G] mickeycohen:
I hate Motorola! Never buying anything from them again

The Atrix is an awesome phone, but breaking promises like that - they deserve to have all their users abandon them!!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] not.a.troll:
That's a good question. Can this solve the camera issues on the photon?

Enviado desde una galaxia cercana con mi Photon
[Motorola Photon 4G] willysp:
Unfortunately, this doesn't help people like me who were stupid enough to trust Moto and accept the 2.3.5 OTA because they promised us ICS.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
I can probably make a proto out of this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Anything you can contribute is always welcome, cybik, good luck. ;)
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
probably won't be able to officialize it, but at least I'll be able to show _some_thing.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Awwwhhh yisssss Cybik! Exactly what we need, another OG dev to further the cause. I know you do CM7 and all, but from the devices I've had in the past, I also know what you're capable of and what that could mean for the future of the Photons development.
[Motorola Photon 4G] inimitableac:
Thanks for having a couple ****s to give today lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
doing the best i can. I wish i had a more recent leak of the photon, but mixing this with older sunfire libs will have to do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
it's nice to finally hear some good news
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
A bird actually told me to tell you to stay tuned.

Happiness might be coming sooner than anyone thought it would.
[Motorola Photon 4G] glock20c:
Oh I got a Woody...:p

Sorry I just had to share that

But thank you for some hope
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
Woody Woodpecker. Obviously.

(wait, i think I made the joke worse)
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
so do you have an ETA? just kidding (: haha. i finally finished downloading it. gotta love slow interwebs. time to play...
[Motorola Photon 4G] mophouser:
I just saw this. Thank you cybik for helping us out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
How about now? http://goo.gl/Wf6C7
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
do you feel like superman? you should. you gonna feed us a build? :P
[Motorola Photon 4G] InsanePostman:
Nice man! Now hopefully us locked bootloader peeps will get some good news as well!
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
you can't apply the Pudding anymore? Boo :(
[Motorola Photon 4G] InsanePostman:
never could with the 2.3.5 ota update from what i know.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Wait a second... by that picture posted, you took some aspects of the Atrix ICS leak earlier today and turned it into a JB ROM, or am I just not seeing that correctly? :)

My vision is a bit skewed at the moment, just watched "Sons of Anarchy" with probably the greatest most awesome guest appearance tonight (if you saw the show you know what I mean) so I'm not trusting my eyes right about now. Tough to explain I suppose... :p

Anyway... obviously the question is: is it entirely functional ?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
RIL is on its ass, i need to fix the mounts, but otherwise it seems to run. I cannot reveal the kernel due to the secrecy of the kernel I'm using. I also can't say from where the kernel itself comes from.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
No worries, not in a big hurry here to get JB or anything, running CM7 just fine and rock solid so far but, definitely interested in seeing how the Photon handles JB if and when you get around to dropping a masterpiece on the community. :D

Never got into really customized ROMs on any device, I always stick with Cyanogenmod builds/ROMs, just seem more efficient and stable overall but that could be my experience talking.

Anyway, it'll be awesome to see how things work out for everyone. Won't get me to buy Motorola anymore, they blew that on their own and won't get me back as a customer but, as a hobbyist I'm still game for this stuff.
[Motorola Photon 4G] frozndevl:
Even though I am loving cm10, if someone manages to get a stock ics rom working I may have to go back to locked for wimax. Praise be to epinter and the dev who leaked this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kdog350:
What about video camera? Is that working?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
i found the fix and it's stupid. testing after installing the new version with turl's sdcard fix.
[Motorola Photon 4G] A2CKilla:
Oh my gosh!!! Does this possibly mean my 2.3.5 photon will no longer be a paper weight???!?!
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
yes and no. Due to secret sauce I have to use right now, i can't release this work... unless there so happens to be a public photon leak in the future. in which case it's a near drop-in replacement.
[Motorola Photon 4G] br0adband:
Guess we need some <dev> to leak your build that has leaked <dev> code in it, eh? Talk about irony... it's starting to sound like a loop that needs to be closed! :p

(and yes, I did just watch Looper, btw... wasn't too impressed with it overall)
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
I'll only say this:

I didn't start working on JBphoton 12 hours ago.
[Motorola Photon 4G] devize:
So what I can make out of your posts is that you've been given some sort of leak which will be made public pretty soon. Same sort of thing that happened with epinter and the atrix?
[Motorola Photon 4G] demonotaku:
I'm thinking Time Traveling Coffee cup holder more myself - maybe he found Dr Who's time machine...who knows
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
can't comment on the matter other than to say that what epinter has is closer to what we need.

am I cryptic? Yes? GOOD. It's intentional.
[Motorola Photon 4G] demonotaku:
Closer? - and you did mention in one of your other posts of using a older SunfireICS lib, which means...you had a ICS leak for us for awhile.
[Motorola Photon 4G] cybik:
Squirrel.