yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Any chance that this is what had me stuck in a boot loop on a fresh install at 2:00am?

Only way out considering the current circumstances was to reflash Tweaked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Updated the aroma package - should be more accurate as far as how much space you need for backups, and includes the new fsck init.d script :)

md5 0B14C8878A832A327B22C712D9B0C692
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
This happened after you added this file right here?

EDIT**** Also, guys.... received multiple PMs this morning talking about "I tried to install this... didn't work. What am I doing wrong?"

Then they would go on and explain the install process.

All I can say is people, please, give yourselves a break. If you cannot at the very least figure out that putting the aroma zip file on your internal SD card is bad idea.... you shouldn't be doing this. Refer to OP about wishing death and damnation upon your soul.

To respond to all 3 of those PMs simultaneously.... Here is what you did wrong:

1.Downloaded mod

2.Left it on INTERNAL sd card. d3rp

3.Flashed it, wiped internal storage (which is your sd card... which is where your zip file WAS before you just deleted it by using it)

4.crraaasshhhhhhhhhhhhh

smh. lol

Try again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Nah, long story short....

Tried running the pervious version, got stuck in a boot loop, pulled battery wiped cache, no good, boot loop.. Back into recovery done a FULL wipe, nope, boot loop.. At that point I just reflashed Tweaked again as I had to get up for work in two hours (this was at 2:30am).. FML... Anyway, just got home from work so I'm going to jump back into it..

I actually bricked my phone at one point around 11:30pm (see what fatigue will do to you !!!!) lol, dwitherell saved my ass and took some time to show me the "light"....Thanks again for that Brother !!!!!

Going to give the new files a shot and possibly update TWRP, if that doesn't work I'll just go about it manually, because I do notice the performance improvement and it's worth the time, was running it since day 1, now it's kicking my ass !!! so unpredictable this stuff is :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
yeah I am talkin to him right now on hangouts and he was telling me you had a bit a d3rp moment. lmao.. it happens bro.

Also, what version of twrp are you on?

I would suggest you revert back to 2.5.0.3 if you are having issues that cannot be explained. Keep in mind I did all of this initially before twrp was updated. I think a few people who had problems were using the 2.6.0.0 version and it was borking their backups and just general issues... 2.5.0.3 or 2.6.0.1 of twrp is what i would recommend. Anybody using 2.6.0.0 ..... can't help em because they are already starting with bugs.

Anyways, make sure you run the new aroma installer and select the option for the init.d script. I think dwith and I are just not even going to make that an option, it will just do it automatically...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
(late response to your question) looks like it backed everything up fine to the ext sd, little over 1gb...... No issues with space allocation... So you hit that nail on the head!!!:good:

---------- Post added at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 PM ----------

+1

I'm actually running 2.5.0.0

I'll d/l 2.5.0.3.... and go from there..:good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Good good :)

Also - per OP request the aroma has been updated yet again. There is no longer a choice on the fsck script - it'll be included no matter what.

New md5 DDA5FFC114CAF2F272DCC7BD868148D3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
You can still select/deselect the toggle... Does that matter? Trying this method again... Guess we'll see !!! lol :eek:

---------- Post added at 02:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:45 PM ----------

Errr fu**** boot loop!!!!:mad:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Fun time over here, huh? Link for the AROMA package is saying invalid. And yes I've read the OP, but I have a question still. Is this wiping ALL of the external SD or just /data & /system then restore them? Reason I'm asking is I don't want to lose my pics or music collection.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
/data is your internal SD.

I would still recommend you back up anything you can to a desktop... Just to be safe. You never know.

This doesn't wipe your external SD card... Internal is what gets wiped.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] rancidm:
Any idea how we can get a updated kernels ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Hey everyone -

Sorry, I was having some issues w/ uploading the aroma installer bit - it should be good to go now. I already let the OP know, but here is the link to what I was trying to upload earlier:

Aroma Installer

- md5 DDA5FFC114CAF2F272DCC7BD868148D3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Alright, this is my last attempt at this damn installer. Just made a full backup of Tweaked, so if I get stuck in a boot loop again I'm golden... Still don't know why I'm having issues running the installer, maybe I have some stray file left somewhere from the manual install that's causing the issue?? IDK... But here we go again !!!:silly:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Well you know where to go if you need help :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Well, I'll let you know here in about 10min.. It's always so smooth at the beginning, then turns to crap when I reboot :fingers-crossed:... lol :p I've reflashed this poor phone 20 X's in the last 24hrs... :eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Hey - if you are up for it you should pop back in to IRC, I wanna get to the bottom of this one. No worries if you aren't feeling like it though :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ssmr2t:
Any prerequisites for the aroma? The op is not clear, or I just totally missed it.

Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Hey thanks for the offer, I was tired as hell last night and crashed early. . Maybe tonight if you're still interested. Telling ya, there's gotta be some stray file that's corrupting the boot, not related to the new installer. I was running Jedi Master last week when I modded manually, have since moved to tweaked.. It's gotta be related in some way. .. like a stray file that isn't getting wiped.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Sounds good - yeah my hope is we'll be able to get a logcat while it's bootlooping to figure out what's going on. Drop me a PM when you think you'll stop by the irc chat and I'll make sure to be there :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Steve have you tried doing this the manual way without the installer?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Not yet...It just bugs the crap out of me. . There's got to be a reason the installer won't work for me, I'd like to find out why. There must be something retained on a partition somewhere that's the culprit... Don't see any other viable reason for it not to work.:confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
I have some feedback for the developers. I ran the AROMA installer, choosing to format /data, /system, and /cache. I then chose to have the installer backup and restore both /data and /system. The installation went perfectly (though took about 20 minutes) but phone wouldn't go past boot screen 3 times. Each time lasted 10 minutes and was followed by a battery pull. Ended up going back and restoring a backup I had made beforehand. I'll try again another time as it seems I am not the only one having issues with the AROMA zip.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Hmm...

Well, signs point to the installer being the issue... I had no issues with it but I've messed with it a bit since so I guess I better try it out again lol.

My bad all - I'll look into it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Give it a whirl!!!:D

Don't forget to backup! ! Muahahaha:p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
I don’t think the issue is that a file is getting “left behind”… the aroma installer completely reformats your blocks to a new file system. It would be impossible for it to leave a fragment of data.

I would suggest you try the manual way…

Pulling link until we figure this out lol. Confirmed with dwitherell there are some issues with the installer

Also, dwith.. I need you to hit me up on hangouts because the pos program won’t let me select any contacts to make a chat. lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
EDIIITTTTTTTTTTT**** HUGEEEE EDIT TO OP..... check the install instructions for the aroma installer at the end of the OP.

Please follow directions to the T.... steve, this will fix your boot looping issues man.

success
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Ok I tested it twice. First time was all good. Second time got what you guys had (though I looked for the issue before rebooting, so I suppose I technically avoided the bootloop lol). I need to do some digging on how a particular process is done via the twrp interface that seems problem-free, but when done from a script there are issues...

Anyhoo - the super-safe approach is to use the aroma for /system stuff only. At least for now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Yeah, weird. I am still having problems with hangouts... off topic... pos program.

We need to make a recovery.... exclusively for ext2 by default, but supporting ext4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Not possible, me and the boot loop have become one...:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Great work, guys. I was wondering something: I see that you (Stanley) stated we need an ext2 recovery - is that because we'll need that for flashing ROMs later on?

Also, no more kernel flashing unless they are edited by the devs for ext2 (NOOOOO MOARZ CRAX FLASHING?!)?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
So any way to restore the backups it makes. I didn't make because it makes one, just didn't realize it's not atwrp one of course got the lockup like others. Did just system the next time and forgot my phone doesn't like trinity kernel. So I've restored a previous backup to get working again, but there's a couple texts I need. By the way running the install without formatting and just selecting restore gives a assert fail every time
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ezsoulja:
Is there a simple guide to where i can flash this and continue using my saber kernel?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Guys please check OP again. Specifically the AROMA installer instruction number 3. Thanks kintwofan for pointing that out LOL.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Yep, no problem. By the way I did save the log if needed, but it's easily reproduced so probably not. I do have a suggestion though. Make another kernel to be the default kernel. I know I can't run trinity and a couple other users can't either. My phone will boot up then immediately reboot and go into a boot loop so I don't get a chance to change the voltages. When I did system only the second time this is exactly what happened.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
I'm gonna mod up neak and pbj tomorrow
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Any chance of also doing Perseus:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960935

and/or Bullet:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1982322.

Just a request, not a demand. These are both GREAT with battery life and customization.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Maybe if ur good...

And on horseback we ride, cutting all asunder who stand in our way whilst eating toaster strudel and writing code. We shall be victorious! We shall overcome the enemy! <-- in a British voice
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Hey everybody -

I am pretty sure I figured out what was going on and how to get around it, and in doing so I tinkered w/ the setup a little bit more :)

There is now an option to go back to ext4 (it'll flash the stock UVBMD1 kernel) - and while I have not tested every combination of options I've tested more than last time and it seems like things are working as they should be. That being said it should be noted that all testing was done using TWRP (2.5.0.3 - haven't updated to 2.6.#.# yet) - so those using CWM-based recoveries tread cautiously (and let me know if you hit any bumps). I'll update the zip again once the OP has modded a few more kernel options as well - and I'll likely condense things a wee bit. Most likely force the choice to be all three getting formatted (/system, /data, /cache), and then just having the choice of what kernel to use.

If folks want to give it a try you can get the zip

here

(likely the same link as what is listed in the OP - md5 C103AEA950AA7F29BB2E2CA00A85AC20) - and let me know if I actually got it right this time :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Thanks, nice to see you and Manley sticking with it... Currently doing some beta testing on a ROM running the perseus kernel or I'd be first in line to flash.

EDIT: I see Manley said he might try perseus, is it an option, or just trinity, pbj and?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
yet another update, somebody flash. working from our end
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Is it okay to do data, system, and cache from AROMA now?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Yep it should be. Worked for me several times last night anyway :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
post edited**** see next post

-admiral
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Don't hate me! PBJ fails every time I try and flash it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Durrrr..... Pbj does not support init.d.... Use at your own risk because this means your fsck script will not work.

I just got done finishing Perseus... We'll include that one in the installer tonight.

Neak is giving me some issues.... Won't let me extract RAM disk, all kinds of errors no matter what I do. Blah

And on horseback we ride, cutting all asunder who stand in our way whilst eating toaster strudel and writing code. We shall be victorious! We shall overcome the enemy!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Haha, should have looked into that. Trinity used to play nice on my phone, but now running it through ext2 gives me bootloops. Look forward to the updated installer and will be ready with feedback as soon as I try it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
I'm guessing pbj didn't flash for anyone... I guess that would be because I didn't change the updater script that I borrowed from Trinity. Lmao.... Wow. I need to sleep more.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
More strudel, man. You need more strudel...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
K folks.... give this one a shot.... (the following is the previous post copied but with a working flashable, lollll... sorry about that)

Guys, here is PBJ kernel with modified RAM disk for /system /data/ and /cache EXT2. Please do not flash this if you do not have ALL THREE as ext2, because it will not work.

Again, this is modified for those who have /system /data and /cache as ext2.

Dwith is going to add this to the aroma installer tonight.

imnuts thread is here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2154378

and his git is here

https://github.com/imnuts/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412

This kernel is recommended for those who cannot run trinity. PBJ has no overclocking, but does pack voodoo sound, better default IO schedulers for ext2 (noop and sio - i still recommend noop) and a lot of unnecessary debugging as well as countless other features and optimization. Very battery friendly, yet second in performance in my experience compared to trinity.

Again, if you cannot run trinity, for whatever reason (all devices are different), flash this one. Check out imnuts' thread for details, and please do not bother him with questions about this installer, I will pull this link if anybody posts questions about this process in his development thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
And here is perseus kernel. This is only for those who have modified /system /data and /cache .... do not bother flashing this if you only did /system, you will just boot loop.

His thread is here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960935

His git is here

https://github.com/AndreiLux

Again please do not bother them with questions about this process.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
LOL - [MENTION=3987026]bhowanidin[/MENTION] the new installer still bootlooped you?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Hmm, thanks for hooking up Perseus kernel !!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
No, it booted. TRINITY bootlooped me. Haha. But will try again NOW. Wait, I wont until the new AROMA installer is uploaded... Did I miss it or are you 2 still tweaking it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Worked flawlessly on "Goodness"... Not sure if the Perseus kernel referenced here was modded at all, but I didn't flash it (rolled the dice) and no issues at all, booted right up, verified ext2 in terminal emulator.... :good:

Great work guy's !!! :highfive:

Edit: to be clear, the only variation I made from OP is not installing the Perseus kernel, Goodness utilizes it already...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Hey again everyone -

Ok, I've redone a few things in the aroma installer, fixed a few remaining bugs (that I could find anyway), and restructured things a bit.

- There is no longer a /system-only option.

- It includes some files needed for init.d support w/ kernels that don't have it "built-in"

- Included an ext2-modded UVBMD1 stock kernel

The link hasn't changed from that in the OP - new md5 EB0EB296B06DF5BEFFAA26D1D39291DA

Let me know if there are any issues :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
hardcore mode = ACTIVATED

**see changelog in OP, also updated the md5summary. Thanks dwith

perseus and pbj didn't like morfics RAM diskz, rofl

To the bat cave!

EDIT** speaking of those two kernels, did anybody successfully flash them?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Hardcore Mode ?

Please elaborate a little! !! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Wait, before I f@#% stuff up again, DONT flash PBJ or Perseus?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Are you running morfics on ext2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
I was but it bootlooped after the first successful boot. PBJ didn't flash, as you know, so I had to restore a backup. But for some damn reason, /data wouldnt restore. So long story short, I lost a bunch of ish and am waiting for hardcore mode to be fully completed :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
Well I dunno how hardcore it is but you can use the ext2-modded stock kernel in the aroma now. And you shouldn't have any issues w/ /data anymore. Plus, you can swap back to ext4 all lickety-split with the aroma installer if you get in a bind :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Hey, sent you a PM... but on a side note, did you find out anything regarding my PM, regarding Perseus? Modded or no?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] dwitherell:
I couldn't replicate what you did on my end, so when all else fails in the realm of explaining things I blame Hasselhoff.

*shakes fist at Hasselhoff*
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Odd. F*****g Hasselhoff

Any who, is perseus in th installer now?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
[MENTION=300405]Stanley[/MENTION]

I'm going to skip overclocking, but should I still follow your steps for the kernel you posted (though originally for Trinity) set-up with stock. And is it okay to underclock to 1200 on ext2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Under clocking is fine. You should still adjust the voltages though. Follow everything I did in that set up except your max frequency basically
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Is Perseus actually in the installer now?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] SIGMAxB:
Only options I saw were stock and trinity

Sent from my SGH-T889 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
Those are the only two available in the installer as of now because pbj and Perseus didn't want to play nice with my method of repacking the RAM disk and zImage... No idea why. I'll get to it tho. Might have to use the kitchen method. Booo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Trickster MOD won't allow me to change voltages for the stock kernel. Is that normal or should I use a different app (I DO have the donate key)?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Kernel
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Huh? Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
Yep.. just saying..

It's a stock kernel.. unless altered. .

overclocking, adjusting voltages..all kernel dependant as far as I know, could be wrong.

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Here's a better question.. you've probably been using trickster for quite some time now to adjust cpu frequencies, voltages..etc. Why now all of a sudden would you have to donate to do the same sh*t.. lol Maybe your free trial expired? .:p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Haha, always had donate key. Me = dev support FTW
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] edward6790:
Guys i'm tired and i've read about 9 pages or so on this thread and haven't found what i'm looking for which is why i've decided to post and ask instead.

if i missed it, i'm really sorry!

Okay so i tried to get this cracking on my phone.

The first time i did it, it wen't well. No bootloops or anything. However in the middle of a text the phone just froze.

like stopped in its tracks type of freeze.

Odd, i thought, so i removed the battery and waited for a bit and booted again only to find the same problem but this time taking about 5 mins to occur.

So maybe i ****ed up, i thought, so i wipedeverything and started anew only to find the same problem happening.

Guys, why's this happening to me? :(

Also, i'm on Jedi 14 (master) running on whatever kernel that rome comes with (haha, aww :/)

once again sorry if this has been asked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Just download the AROMA installer and go through the steps to change your partitions to ext2. BUT choose the stock kernel (third option) and backup/restore both /data and /system. You'll be good to go! Morfic's kernel has the potential for freezes like that so the stock UVBMD1 kernel is your key to ex2 magic fun time :cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Steve Lazarus:
:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Admiral Sir Manley Power:
This
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pyraxiate:
I may give this a shot in a few. Id prefer to keep saberkernel though. It looks as though it has ext2 support right?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pyraxiate:
Ok,

So I reinstalled jedi master 14 from scratch. I then ran the ext2 installer and selected the trinity kernel. Everything installed and felt smooth. Disk info shows as ext2. I ran quadrant and it locked up. I rebooted into recovery, installed saberkernel 28, and quadrant ran fine. Now disk partition information shows at ext4. I know the kernel install couldnt have reformatted my partitions ....so what gives?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Dude. Dude. Dude...

The OP stated that he wouldn't be using saber kernel at all. And did you read my post? I said DON'T flash Morfic's kernel, as it might freeze your phone (which it did). Choose the stock kernel and your good to go. When he finishes PBJ & Perseus, then you'll have 2 more options.

But NO Saber kernel... ever. ROFL