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[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
Yes, indeed, there are several very worthy alternatives around. Going to and from link2sd requires a clean beginning so is a great bother. Link2sd has a GUI, works just fine, supportive development. But the others are just fine as well.

One can gain some data space by using /cache for system dalvik cache. Great idea but I read somewhere that one should have 2x the space. Just 3 meg left is playing with fire. But, hey, if it works, go with it. Eventually (and not so eventually), that added space will run out as well. A few gluttonous apps like Swype (which I sorely miss, but ...) and ...

I was running ICS with both link2sd and the whole rest of dalvik manually symlinked to sdext and this worked fine. Had a my-dalvik-cache and link2sd's dalvik-cache. Could not install JB over that, however.

If you have few apps around, do the research and choose an alternative that seems best. The finickiness of recent CM ROMs, starting with JB, caused problems, mostly fixed by now. Then selinux, then came Kitkat and even more problems. So research it well, let us know what you find.

I wish to stay with link2sd and this is a "non-geek" alternative that one simply installs and uses. Redoing dalvik problem encountered is not because of this app and needs be dealt with, finally.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] agk.ganesh:
Help, Struck in fastboot

Hi Guys,

Sorry, if interrupting any conversation here... Need you guys help to fix my fastboot loop issue.

I think my problem is, I installed CWM 5.xxxx and tried to upgrade CM11 image (which I think, I should have done with CWM6.xxx+). My Bad... :(

Now I am struck in fastboot. I tried to recover through fastboot.exe from SDK by,

fastboot erase recovery -> fastboot flash recovery recovery.img -> fastboot reboot (successfully). But it still struck at same place after reboot.

I tried with different recovery images, but still the same observation. I tried to boot by key combination (volume down+home+power), still same observation. (Blame LG for those design of keys... really hard to use those key combination :( )

Now, I am just struck with fastboot loop.:confused: I am not able to proceed further. I don't want to make it worse. So, expecting some expert comment. Please advice or point me to any related post.

Glad, if I get any help and appreciate it.

Thanks for reading it and your time. :)

EDIT: I tried with android flash recovery too, erase recovery and flash recovery succeeded, but still going into fastboot mode. Reboot through the application works, but Reboot to recovery option not working.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Follow this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49567169&postcount=45
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] kitu34:
MD5 not matching

I downloaded the ver10 zip file twice and both the times MD5 was different.Is it possible to check it without downloading the zip file?

Is there any software in integeration with chrome or internet explorer
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
I don't know what changed, but this is not happening anymore for me, and I rebooted 4 or 5 times to confirm. There is also no message that says "Android is upgrading... starting apps".

As I said, I only have a few apps installed before, just very essential ones, and I still have the same. But I was seeing that message and the internal storage was going down everytime I reboot. To understand this problem first hand, I installed TitaniumBackup, took a backup of all user apps and then restored a nandroid backup that I took right after I installed KK. This is an approximate sequence since then:

- Booted the first time, installed TB and an update found for Link2SD.

- installed any missing apps using TB

- In Link2SD, Relinked all user apps, relinked dalvik-cache, cleaned up dalvik-cache

- From `adb shell`, saved output of `ls -l /data/dalik-cache`, `du -ks /data/*` and `df /data`

- Rebooted

- Right after the android logo appears, connected back using `adb shell` and monitored `du /data`. It started with more free space than before, went down slightly and came back up again, though not to the same level.

root@p500:/data # df .
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
. 199.5M 131.9M 67.6M 4096
root@p500:/data # df .
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
. 199.5M 143.8M 55.7M 4096
root@p500:/data # df .
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
. 199.5M 138.3M 61.3M 4096
root@p500:/data # df .
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
. 199.5M 138.3M 61.2M 4096

After the bootup is completed, I took the output of `ls -l /data/dalvik-cache` and compared it against that of the previous output and found no diff.

I repeated the above steps at least 2 more times and ended up with the same amount of space and file list, including the initial free space amount of 67.6K right at the beginning of the boot sequence and the final free space amount of 61.2M.

I haven't installed any new apps yet, but I will be really happy if this issue is gone for good, though I wish I knew what fixed it.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] apvm:
too bad you didn't know what fixed it.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
In any event, now you can enjoy this great ROM!

Previously reported here: Recreating link2sd mount scripts fixed it. Did previously for me but no more. Something funny going on. Kitkat has had sdcard issues from the start. Who knows?
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] ibub:
Anyone who can help him, go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2707784

I won't be able to help until 12 hours.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] agk.ganesh:
Thanks [MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION] for your kind reply.

I tried to do the same steps, install flash tool and do select kernel to hotboot, I am able to go into recovery mode successfully (Volume keys not working, expected ?). When I try to reboot, It prompts for root access missing and ask for NO/YES. If I select NO, it just comes to fastboot prompt again. I am not able to select YES, as volume key is not working.

What shall I do now ? Please help.. Thanks

I don't want to make things complicated trying myself.. :(

Thanks [MENTION=4912093]ibub[/MENTION].

I am struck with next step. Please help. Thanks.

Have good day, all.. :)
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
When it ask for root access YES/No, press power putton, it will select NO and reboot to fastboot. Pull out the battery and replace, now press Home button (first)+Vol down (second) + Power button (third) and hold it untill it show CWM Recovery. But if it is still showing Fastboot, then exctract the img file of DEC26 recovery zip http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2564767 or TWRP 3.7 recovery img http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50898430&postcount=995. Now again flash this new recovery with same method. :good:
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] agk.ganesh:
Got CWM recovery, But...

Thanks again. :)

With flash tool, I hot booted to CWM recovery V6 Jan16 zip and i followed the step to reboot by skipping root access and rebooted.

Then pulled the battery out and tried to boot again by exactly HOME+Volume DOWN+POWER, I am able to go into CWM recovery mode. :)

But, It is going into CWM recovery version 5.xxx which I installed initially from by stock Gingerbread ROM.

I have your CM9 and CM11 ROM zip files, in my SD card. Can I try installing CM11 ROM from CWM recovery 5.xxx ?

Is it we just boot by CWM 6.x with flash tool ? (without upgrading)

If you guys recommend to upgrade ROM by CWM5.xxx, which is the recommended stable image, I can use.

Please guide.

Thanks,

Ganesh
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Don't flash this ROM over any other older recovery, you will get the Fastboot Error. As I mentioned above post, flash DEC26 CWMod 6.0.4.6 or TWRP 2.7 recovery first and then this ROM.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] kitu34:
Can you confirm the MD5 checksum?

Today downloaded for the third time but MD5 key do not match with the below given keys.Actually even confirming wont help coz i got different MD5 all the time hehehe.But still if you could help it would be great,thanks.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/tx...P500-Ver10.zip

MD5 Keys: 0432FE2C298292BD76C30BB5574E0A74
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] agk.ganesh:
Sorry to bother again

Sorry to bother again [MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION],

I am trying to flash CWMod6.0.4.6 with flastool, it is not upgrading.

After doing kernel hotboot and rebooting, it always show CWM version 5.0.x

What am I doing wrong ? :confused:
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Download and extract the attached zip, match your download rom zip's md5 key with this software. If not match, download again the ROM and match md5 key, it still not match check your internet connection, might be some problem there.

Are you flashing recvoery.img file from the extracted zip? If yes, it should work. Read carefully that post again, it is working absolutely fine.

Anyway, just put that new CWM 6.0.4.6 or TWRP 2.7 recovery zip file (without extracted) in your device sd card and flash it first through your existing CWM ver 5.xxx. your problem must be solved now.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] haoss07:
bin using this rom for a few days now. other then some force closes at start that fixed by itself after few restarts, this rom is great :D
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
That is very disappointing! I guess this means is that this behavior might return for me as well and I will never know when :(

BTW, is it normal for this rom to be slightly sluggish, even while still fully functional? I searched for a couple of relevant keywords in this thread and didn't see this mentioned (at least not often enough to get noticed). At first I thought is the Google Now launcher, but I installed a much lighter launcher (SmartLauncher) and I still see it all over. It takes a minimum of 1 to 2 seconds before seeing any action registered. E.g., after unlocking, it takes about 2 seconds to see the home page, and it takes 1 to 2 seconds from the time I touch the phone icon to the time I start seeing the animation of it opening. What could be causing this slowness on my installation?

I have an Optimus V still on Gingerbread and the difference in responsiveness is huge.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] jpesci:
LuckyPatcher

HI [MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION], sorry bother you with this.

The ROM is really great!! I've been using it for 2 weeks now!! Really nice job, my P500 got some extra life =)

I saw some people asking pages before, but nobody answered... Lucky Patcher won't work on it. Is there any fix? (I didn't test v10.2)

Thanks!
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] ruelericsapalaran:
My getting FC'd when using Google Now. I've been back reading and I have not seen this reported (at least from what I read). Is there any fix for this?

Thanks!
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
See what happens after an OTA upgrade ... may be OK.

What I had when I abandoned cm-11 was internal storage going down in an unstable manner for no good reason, not related to the "uprading" bootup problem. Worse. But really should not reccur

Others have reported this, others swear there is not problem and the thing responds just fine. Do you have a SIM in the phone? What are your cpu speeds, governer settings?

I cannot enter any typed-in search. Used to be able to. Will FC, 2x in GNL!

Note that voice search will not work, will FC.

Arnv6
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
I do have a SIM and it is being used mainly as a phone only (e.g., no games). I have never tweaked the cpu speeds or any governor settings, so shouldn't they be just the defaults? Should I run a benchmark tool to compare the numbers with others? Please let me know if there is a baseline that I can refer to.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] agk.ganesh:
Will try it out

Yes, I flashing with recovery.img. Where am I doing mistake !!! I will carefully check it. And will try to install CWM6.0.4.6 via current running CWM5.0.2.0.

Between, as commented by [MENTION=4912093]ibub[/MENTION], I am able to install CM10.1.6 ROM successfully via CWM5.0.2.0. :)
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] kitu34:
Thanks
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] ruelericsapalaran:
In GNL, I'm being asked to update google search. The problem is when I go to play, it says device not compatible.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] apvm:
Well an event today prompt me to revert back to mukulsoni ver 10.1, event was battery run out within an hour from full charge, never happened before with mukulsoni ver 9 or 10 or maybe 10.1

Anyway did the following

1) boot into cwm and flash mukulsoni ver 10 with wipe (second choice)

2) once booted up as expected the "google play service" error came back

3) updated to 10.1 but the error still there (wondering what 10.1 is for?)

4) uninstall google play serive and reinstall the one mukulsoni posted in the thread and the error was fixed.

5) unable to mount 2nd sd partition if formatted in ext2 or ext3, but success after format in ext4

Testing now to see if 10.1 is stable.

Anyway, this is great work from mukulsoni , no doubt about it.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
I am using CPU 245-729mhz, smartass governer. However, should be OK with the defaults. No idea why one user is getting good response and another gets lag.

As we have seen, the device is not compatible. Libs are compiled for armv7, our device is armv6.

So one must side-load, that is, get the apk from somewhere, i.e. Android-Police site, and adb install it.

Voice search through this will not work, will FC.

I and some others report that even type-in searches or commands will FC.

Left on its own, Google Now works just fine, however.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] haoss07:
also had the FC problem. but after all the google logins rom update/apps update and some manual phone restarts the FC is gone. using 1.02 now

as for battery. with light usage. some phone calls. 5-10 min af wifi im at 2d3h and still have 53% ( low screen brightness , Bluetooth,gps.data off/ ( also switched to 2G when not using data )
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] rharshit:
Hey [MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION], You have tagged the wrong person. Maybe because my name has a slang word in it.

Anyways, doesn't matter. People can thank me this post :P
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] hariraj96:
[MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION] , can u make a separate flashable zip of ur A2sdX script for jenkins users??daveNT's script FC'S all the apps....
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] bigsupersquid:
The newest Search (Velvet.apk) works ok if you get it from inside the pa zero day gapps but you have to put it in /system/priv-app and use the two libgoogle_*.so libs and libvcdecoder_jni.so in /system/lib that way. Finding a sideloadable apk like you suggest saves you space in /system though and is simpler to install.

the voice, like you said, is borked.

I made a workaround widget reminiscent of the old ICS voice search assistant. if you all would like to try, I want more testers.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
With 71.65mb free on data partition and almost nothing in cache partition, I am unable to install SwiftKey with the "insufficient storage" error :(

Per Play Store, it is 15.89MB, not sure if it really expands to fill the whole free space. I will try to juggle some installed apps and give another shot.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] rharshit:
The 'insufficient storage' error is not because of less available space. Its because of lesser space in comparison with total space. It depends on the total space you have. According to the figures u gave, I guess your partition size must be around 512 mb
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] hariraj96:
use system apps data 2 cache mod in hardlight's signature...

Change in build prop

dalvik.vm.dexopt-data-only=1

to

dalvik.vm.dexopt-data-only=0

then erase dalvikcache and cache in recovery and reboot....

it will take a while for first boot

official post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51306118&postcount=1137

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true caller and a few games are not working on p500 cm 11 ?? is it only me ?it wasnt working on cm 10.2 also...thought it was a rom bug.... any fix ??
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
I got it to install after I uninstalled the default launcher and got a few more mb of free space. Now the problem is I can't get it to link with the error in the attached image. Anybody seen it?
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
Seems it should install, but then again, needs room for apk and its components before link2sd or equivalent moves them off. Additionally, swiftkey may be trying to download dictionaries and such and fails there. With my 90+ meg, I have gotten full Swype installed but it eats 40meg of that plus a share of RAM whether or not it is "live." Old beta was much smaller, had gone back to that. Now playing with a multiling-o kb which is all of 330k !! and is highly configurable and can download dictionaries as user-installed apps. Very small footprint leaving room for other stuff to install and run. It is no Swype or Swiftkey but does the job adequately.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Left4DeadMW:
No offence but how's the develop going guys? It's been a while since my last visit.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
Not sure if I understand your reasoning, but my data partition is 200mb, and I don't remember changing it, so it is probably the default for P500?

I will keep this in mind if I need to create more space. Right now, I got it to install, but I don't want it to occupy so much of the precious internal space, so if I can't get it to move, I will look into the alternatives and look deeper into this.

I have got to really look into this multiling-o or I will either go back to a n old Swype beta (still have it on my Optimus V).

Right now, I am just wondering, if I can just boot into recovery and manually move the apk and dex files and create soft links? Sort of what the link2sd would do, but manually. I guess even if I just move the files to the external SD, I could probably use link2sd's relink options to create the links (in case that is required for link2sd to recognize them as valid links)? Would appreciate any input from folks who tried or heard of this approach before.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] dark_arsh:
Post ur dialer pad screen shot
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Delta Updater Version 10.3 available through OTA

Fix errors of version 10.2, read the changelog for detail:

Delta updater version is small patch file (Not a whole ROM), only the changed files are patched to the latest version directly on your device.

Smaller size download file contain only the changed data needed to patch files to the latest version, resulting in much smaller packages.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
[MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION] are the updates incremental or differential from some base version? I am at version 9.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Yes, off course you will find some differences in each versions. You can compare the changelogs for updates.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] irha:
My question is more related to whether I can install the 10.2 update over 9 instead of going through each of 10, 10.1 updates. Also, I noticed that you trimmed the system partition use, but can the OTA update trim an existing installation, or will it only overwrite or add files?

BTW, I found a workaround for the Link2SD error that I posted earlier, in the official Link2SD thread on xda. The trick is to backup the app and uninstall using TB, and then restore it back. During the restore, Link2SD was able to successfully link the files.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] Dovidhalevi:
Good one to know!
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] apvm:
Thanks for the update, I don't have 10.2 installed, still at 10.1. OTA auto downloaded 10.3 and followed your instruction for installation. Still have Android is updating apps after reboot. So going back to 10.1. Thanks again for the hard work.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
As I have already mentioned that 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 are delta updater (patch), read related posts and these can flash over version 10 only. Once you get version 10, can skip 10.1 / 10.2 and flash directly 10.3. OTA updater 10.3 can trim the existing system partition without affecting any files.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] apvm:
Back to 10.1 (don't know why but google play service patch don't work, have to uninstall and reinstall the one downloaded from this thread) anyway all is fine now.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] xu3sno:
Update directly to Ver 10.3 from Ver 10.1

Before updated:

ROM: Ver 10.1, used: HardLight script, Link2SD, installed user apps with large size, among others: dropbox, drive, evernote, google+, hangout, instagram, quickoffice, whatsapp, yahoo weather); all user apps reside in /data/sdext2, Internal memory (/data): 120MB+ (unused);

Recovery: TWRP v2.7

After updated (through OTA-updater):

1. OTA downloaded Ver10.3.zip and automagically updated to Ver10.3;

2. Right after system booted, as usual, no space left notification appear on status bar. Error message "Unfortunately *userapps* has stopped. Therefore, can't run even a single user apps ATM, but system apps and Link2SD running just fine.

3. Do not panic!, since the script override with the system, hence, all new system@*.dex re-occupies /data/dalvik-cache/. As a result, no space left in internal memory.

4. Removed (cache, data, and apk) several user apps with large size, using Link2SD (or Setting>Apps) or file manager if it's installed as system app, in order to regain space in internal memory. Can't use file manager which is installed as user apps; see #2. No space left notification disappeared from status bar after removing apps. :good:

5. Still in Link2SD, re-link all apps.

6. Go to /system/build.prop, edit value dalvik.vm.dexopt-data-only=0 > save and exit . Reboot.

7. Check /data/dalvik-cache, no system@*.dex anymore in that partition. Clean up dalvik and all apps cache. Got 90MB+ unused space in internal memory.

8. Reboot in order to flush unused files, got ~100MB unused space, almost the same size before updating. :good:

9. Re-installed removed apps from backup of files using package installer -now working like a charm- (you may use TB as you prefer). +1K^10 thanks to [MENTION=5396524]mukulsoni[/MENTION] for his great jobs :cool: :beer: Link2SD automagically linked all of them into SDCard 2nd partition. :cool: (see the screenshot of storage info).

10. Reboot. Got 120MB+ unused space in internal memory, almost the same size as before updated or even larger. All apps (system and user) incl. GNL works fine as it should be. :victory:
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] surajdhanuki:
After updating to 10.3 through OTA all apps on my SD card got deleted, even from my SD card.(Linked apps are all available, but large games which i had on my SD card got removed completely) :crying:
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] mukulsoni:
Version 10.3 has nothing related to SD Card, you might have done something wrong. If you have stored your apps in sd storage and have backup then go to recovery and restore "android.secure" partition.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] xu3sno:
Did you check your games.apk in /data/sdext2? AFAIK, updating ROM will never touch sdext2, except you make clean install.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] surajdhanuki:
How to restore android.secure? :silly: I see only boot,system,data,cache and sd-ext.

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Yes i checked, it's not there.
[Optimus One, P500 Android Development] apvm:
Do you still see "Android is updating apps" after reboot? Thanks.