[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranajideb:
Hi,

I partitioned my sdcard using 4EXT with a 512mb EXT4 partition and 256mb swap, and installed COS bravo ICS ROM, did not activate A2SD as I wanted to see if it acted stable without A2SD. It was a little more stable than the other ROMs, but some applications like whatsapp and maildroid faced random force close issues (and I only have 4 or 5 applications installed in my device).

Also, the issue where the screen wont switch on remained, although it only happened a couple of times in 48hours. Thats less frequent as compared to other ROMs but I believe if I had acticated A2SD it would've probably been more frequent.

I was not able to download Mildwild through the week, but I've downloaded Mildwild CM 8.0(27jan) and Mildwild MW7 (21jan) and will try and install these over the weekend with the same sdcard partitions.

Update: I'm not sure if this is relevant information, but when I tried viewing the info on 4EXT recovery, it showed me the free mb available in all the partitions except the swap, where it showed size as "257mb" and free as " - "

Update 2

Tried installing both mildwild cm8 and mildwild mw7.

With Mildwild CM8, the screen issue happened on first boot itself, so I removed the battery, booted in recovery and reinstalled it again. This time the screen issue didn't occur but the device became unresponsive after 30 minutes of usage. (the screen would switch on but nothing else works). I rebooted the phone again but the device is not able to mount the memory card.

With Mildwild MW7, it never went beyond the first bootup screen where it asks you to tap on the droid. :(

My device is soff

hboot - 6.93.1002

MICROP-051d (Not sure what this is)

radio - 5.17.05.23

The df output I got was

a/local/bin:$PATH <

app_47@android:/ $ df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs 207560 60 207500 0% /dev

tmpfs 207560 0 207560 0% /mnt/asec

tmpfs 207560 0 207560 0% /mnt/obb

/dev/block/mtdblock3 256000 178420 77580 70% /system

/dev/block/mtdblock5 151168 119708 31460 79% /data

/dev/block/mtdblock4 40960 1176 39784 3% /cache

/dev/block/vold/179:1

6968992 494224 6474768 7% /mnt/sdcard

df: /mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied

1|app_47@android:/ $

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I didn't have ADB installed, so i typed the command in the terminal and got the following output:

a/local/bin:$PATH <

app_47@android:/ $ logcat > /sdcard/logcat.txt

Unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': Permission denied

1|app_47@android:/ $

Not sure why its not letting me access the log file.

Yes, typically I partition the sdcard from 4EXT, mount USB storage from EXT4 and copy the ROM, erase all data except SD card, install the ROM and reboot. (Hope this is the right method)

When I activate A2SD (either from terminal or from settings in some ROMs) eventually some of the applications become unresponsive when opened. The screens refuses to come out of standby while the hardware light stays on.

Nope, I always do a clean install of any new ROM

Yes, im using the above mentioned battery.

And Yes, the phone does seem to be stable if I run it without the memory card, but then, if I activate A2SD and then the applications won't run if I boot without the memory card.

Ive used 3 different sdcards till date and faced issues in all of them.

Thanks :)

Regards,

Rana