yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Not sure that ext4 will help with the rom you are using (i think it is this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1013852), and am confused as to why you would need 350Mb system partition for a gingerbread rom (OP says minimum 150Mb so i suggest 160Mb is ok)

Also, i think you posted the recovery log, not the dmesg.txt, but it does show bad blocks in system and in data partitions.

I assume you are using magldr, try getting the dmesg as i mentioned earlier.
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Oops, just looked at dmsg. 4 bad blocks on this "worse" phone.

The larger partition size was from testing other ROMs in the past, 4.0+. I'm going to try a Cyanogen 4.4 ROM now, which was relatively smooth and stable on the other phone for a while--that one supports Ext4 and Swap partitions.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
I would be wary of reflashing HSPL for now

first thing is to find and possibly mark your bad blocks, and adjust sizes of partitions.

Or try NativeSD/DataonEXT as you suggested with an ext4 sdcard partition.

Good luck
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
I have the block numbers, but how does one mark and not use them? From what I've read so far, only Windows installation removes bad blocks from use--not current Android installations.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
I admit i am a bit confused by this, I thought android dealt with bad blocks. Will have to read up on it again, tomorrow;)

Goodnight Photoelectric, and happy flashing.:)
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Just what I've read here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25284969&postcount=285

I've done a task 29 and reflashed a 350M/45M Magldr recovery partition--the bad blocks are still all present and have the same numbers after installing a Cyanogen ROM now with data on EXT4. Hopefully I don't have to move entirely to SD.
[HD2 General] hitman1376:
Well ...

My Dear friend ... I'm not an expert ... but as I know this thread's first post can help you ( He is an expert :laugh: ) ... Exactly the things you said ( Bootloops - random reboots ,... ) ... So good luck ...

With Best Wishes

Hitman1376​
[HD2 General] rirozizo:
I'm not really experienced in the HD2, but isn't there a way to wipe everything like in fastboot using "fastboot wipe" commands?

won't that fix it? I'm just guessing here though

Sent from my Nexus 4
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
It won't fix bad nand blocks, those mothers are bad to the bone.;)

Task 29, superwipe etc won't fix either. Some people never do a task 29, tytung for instance never has. -pixelfreak- advises using superwipe. It is sometimes difficult to know what to do.
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
I believe those are just to clean up any residual "stuff" that doesn't get deleted and can interfere with new installations. I've only done Task 29 to reinstall Magldr. Superwipe does clean more than manual deleting of Data/Cache/Dalvik Cache before installing a ROM--the numbers prove it, so I do use Superwipe.

In any event, my current install on the "worse" phone has been holding up very well since yesterday, though it's a short time frame. I've done a fresh 350M/45M partition in Magldr (via HD2 toolkit) and put on a Cyanogen ROM with data on EXT4 and the rest on NAND. Amazingly no errors of applications crashing so far, which is usually pretty uncommon--at least *something* suddenly stops after installation. The bad blocks are all still there, of course, but either re-partitioning or moving data to EXT4 seems to be helping at least a bit.

----

UPDATE: still trouble :( After a reboot, error messages from Google Play Services. Reboot into recovery, wipe Dalvik Cache-> everything resets completely and I have the "internal memory is full" error :( Now I'm trying to figure out how to make 2 EXT4 partitions to work on my SD card for DirectSD ROM installation, as partitioning on my computer does not make the second EXT4 visible to the phone. Trying this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47615553

but unsuccessfully (can't install 4EXT4 Recovery yet, been trying to).
[HD2 General] lukes91:
i recently created 2 ext4 sd partitions with this tool and worked fine, both coumputer and phone saw them... give it a try if you are on windows :)
[HD2 General] hitman1376:
Well ...

Dear Sir ... as I worked with mini tool partition wizard , you should have made partitions as primary not logical .. maybe thats the problem its not detected ... but any way you can use 4EXT Recovery ( SD Version ) To Partition SD card ... if wanted just tell me ... good luck

With Best Wishes

Hitman1376​
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
That's actually the tool I'm using!! My phone only sees the first EXT4 partition, but the second shows up as -1MB. When I try to install a ROM in "DirectSD" mode, it says that I need another partition. How did you do the partitioning with that tool? I've made an x-length FAT32 "primary" partition first for storage, then split the remaining space in half and made 2 more "primary" partitions in EXT4 format. I did not make any "logical" partitions.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
It could be the same old problem with minitool not creating ext4 partitions the way that some of our HD2s like them. I usually say to re-format the ext4 partitions using recovery, but only certain recoveries work with 2 ext4 partitions, as you are aware.

Try boxmax sd recovery using magldr ad sd from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1256423

or are you on clk?

and what sdcard have you got?
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
MAGLDR 1.13. The SD card is a Class 10 by Samsung, 32GB. I was trying to do 1.5GB for each EXT4 partition. Will look into those suggestions.
[HD2 General] lukes91:
weird, i've never had issues with minitool... maybe because i'm on clk 1.5.2.0 (not sure if it is relevant anyway
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
It is weird, and no-one seems to know why, but after re-formatting using linux recovery, roms install ok. No problems when using gparted on Ubuntu. It only happens to a few users too, I haven't had problems myself using mostly magldr up til now. Thanks for input, would love to track down why it happens and send a bug report to the developers of minitool, it is otherwise an excellent piece of software.
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Quick question: has anyone seen this error after installing a DirectSD ROM? (have to select Boot AD SD in MAGLDR): "SD kernel open failed"? Is that because I have too much random stuff on my SD card's FAT32 partition, other than the ROM on EXT4s? (Not sure if the DirectSD ROM installed correctly).
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
quick answer, try rebooting magldr.

make sure that the folder you are booting from using ad sd has initrd.gz and zImage in it

Make sure the folder name is not like any other and is less than 9 characters
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Hrm, but I can't look at my EXT4 partition(s) :( Even when I was trying to use some of the recovery utilities for reformatting EXT4 partitions, using the SD versions, it gave the same message. I've tried moving contents of one of those folders directly into the root of the SD card, and still no zImage is found.

Perhaps that's the problem? Somehow the folder to boot from is not being selected properly in some config file?
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
it should work.

I noticed that the 4extR folder was within another folder with boxmax recovery. It should be sdcard/4extr/zImage ..etc

BTW you can see your ext partitions using windows PC using http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/ excellent software

Edit; keep scrolling down the ad sd dir list for the last(ish) folder name, if you have a lot of stuff in your fat32 partition
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Oh! I got it. I did have to set a proper directory to boot from in MAGLDR Advanced settings (there's a Boot menu). I can now reformat my EXT4 partitions with Ext4R, finally!

Strangely, after formatting the 2nd EXT4 partition with Ext4R (which saw it just fine), the Aroma installer for Cyanogen 4.4.2 ROM still labeled the second partition as -1MB.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
but does it boot?
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
No :( The ROM notes in the Aroma installer said that the boot would be on the FAT32 partition, but I can't find it to link the boot folder to. Says installation successful, but I can't find a way to boot into it yet.

Partition info, from Ext4R menu:

sd-ext - ext4 - 1403 MiB - 1.4GB free

sd-ext2 - ext4 - 1514 MiB - 1.4GB free

sdcard - fat32 - 26962 MiB - 24.1GB free

That part seems legit, at least.

EDIT: I think installing from Ext4R is better for DirectSD than directly from MAGLDR. That might be the issue. When installing from Ext4R, Aroma installer properly sees both EXT4 partitions with their proper sizes.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
You have to now change the folder you are booting from to either "DirectSD" or "NativeSD", not sure which (but scroll down the list), using ad sd dir again. Then boot using ad sd.
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
Ah, I've done that now. I do have one named "NativeSD". It was throwing me off because the installation mode I chose was specifically "DirectSD", so I thought that the NativeSD folder was going to give me a slow version. Booting now :)
[HD2 General] kuzibri:
Installation problems on the HD2

Hi all,

after having read all the problems you have installing Android on your HD2 SD card, I want to focus your attention on this problem, cause some people do not seem to have these problems at all:

The HD2 has two different kind of chipsets. These are the chipsets:

PB81120 SS-B3 in the first line in the tricolor boot screen - that means NAND-Flash ROM from Samsung - KBY00U00VM

If you have PB1120 HX-B3 in the first line of the tricolor boot screen - that means NAND-Flash ROM from Hynix - h8BFS0WU0MCR

One of these two chipsets never gives problems (also not with bad blocks) and the other one does most of the times (see also the Cookie's Home Tab app V2 vs V8.5,1 on several HD2's).

So, if you have problems installing in whatever way, please mention you chipset, so we can judge if it's the chipset or not. How to find your chipset? Go to the tricolor screen of your HD2 which not only mentions your (H)SPL version, but also your chipset. I assume that you all know how to get into the tricolor screen of your HD2, if not, PM me.

Hope to have given you enough information,

kindest regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 General] Photoelectric:
That's interesting! Both of my phones have Hynix NAND :( I'm sad that I got unlucky in the silicon lottery, because I've read that Hynix should be the less problematic kind. I've been using a DirectSD install of a CM11 ROM from chautruongthinh, and it's been very stable so far. For that phone, it's pretty much the only option now to use SD-based installs, other than a Windows OS, as everything else is unstable and results in crashes of applications or even sudden reboots and internal memory errors. Didn't used to be as bad in the beginning, but definitely got worse over time. Both of my HD2s have bad blocks with Hynix NAND, but one is definitely more stable than the other. The worse phone has 4-5 bad blocks at the moment (in use since august of 2011) and the better one has 3 bad blocks (same purchase date).
[HD2 General] hitman1376:
Well ...

Dont think so about HD2 But about some Others like M7 , we can ...

With Best Wishes

Hitman1376​
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
No way directly for our hd2.

You can use WP7 usb video out to display on PC, then connect PC to tv using hdmi. It is not full screen though, and sound comes from phone speaker;

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Displaylink is working on this slackware linux, but i haven't tried it and not sure if sound works.
[HD2 General] sydmaz:
HD2 Ext SD Please help Broken Usb!

hi there XDA friends.

i have been trying to revive my HD2 with a new rom but cannot find one that is functional with my HD2 nand.

I want to use one the latter ones using Ext SD but my usb port is broken and have been using an external battery charger

*(repaired two times by incompetent people and the have messed up the board usb out forever).

I am using 5.0.2.7 clockworkmod based recovery which has no features to change the default boot folder. please help guys
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Hi sydmaz, see gilbert32's thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2398464

Best of luck
[HD2 General] sydmaz:
You have killed it my friend I am running the latest rom with ext data. Need to get a good micro sd. Any recommendations. Xda forever
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Glad to hear it:highfive:

If you are into a good informative read see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33091722

I would steer clear of uhs1 cards, they seem to run excellent for a while, then things start going wrong.
[HD2 General] sepilko:
thanks

super good
[HD2 General] Mohiuddin kormokar:
I have used HD2 last year. but now i feel uneasy to use it. because when i use it then it's touchscreen less work. anyone help me please
[HD2 General] lolerpro8:
Touch screen is degraded, it has happened to me to. You need to replace the digitizer for it to work properly
[HD2 General] lolerpro8:
I'll be happy to help in this thread :) . I helped a lot of hd2 users before
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
I know;) welcome aboard:highfive:
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
TC HD 2 3.03 HSPL to 2.08 HSPL Failure with hspl 4 and flashing problem

Hi people

i need help by flashing my htc hd 2 with 3.03 hspl

downgrade with hspl 4 doesnet work for me even if i try to downgrade it the bar goes to 100% and than back to half and says successfully done but hspl 3.03 is even there ? i want to flash android and need 2.08 hspl sry for my bad english but i neeeed your help.

at the moment the is

Greetings

MegaZocker2014

Add: If i want to flash original rom it went wrong : the image is corrupted i dont understand why ? and after boot loader i get a white screen :D
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Hi MegaZocker2014, looking at this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611433

i think you have 2 options, first try hspl3 to change your 3.03 to 2.08hspl, or second flash official stock wm6.5 for your phone,

then upgrade to hspl 2.08hspl using hspl3 or 4

Oops just saw your edit, but posted anyway;)
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
ok with hspl 3 you won't get the version back because its to high only hspl 4 can downgrade spl-3.03 hspl to spl 2.08 hspl and if i do this it failure but i dont understand this because everywhere i read there was written down that its possible.... ?

can you give me a unbrandet europe or germany offical stock wm6.5 link because i cant found a working

i read that if at startup there is a margenta loading ring i have a tmobile branding ? but at my device works every sim card.

thank you for your help

Greetings
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
i think if you are in Germany, the HTC site still works for putting in imei code and downloading official stock for your phone, safest.

Else the wiki still has some working links http://xdaforums.com/wiki/HTC_HD2#Official_ROMs_.26_Radios although Avast just detected a threat for me in the link to "UK WWE ROM:....."
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
help

can you show me link for german imei code link i seached but havent found it my imei code is 352666042233850 and the new Leo_RADIO_2.14.50.0 isnt working the image file is corrupted... and why i cant do task 29 every flashing is corrupted i test clk to install but it doesnt work.
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Sorry, it seems german site doesn't have it anymore http://www.htc.com/de/support/htc-hd2/

They did a few months ago http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46784997&postcount=43008 and http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46784997&postcount=43009
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
i tried to flash the unbrandet german version but Failure 270 update went wrong because of the image is corrupted but why and which image?
[HD2 General] lukes91:
hi! not sure why, but according to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=623283 in germany there are both international and t-mobile versions (didn't know till now)

so if you have the t-mobile version the link you can find in the above thread seems to work... @Robbie P can you confirm what i said? i don't want to give infos that can brick a device :)
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
i think the German T-mobile rom is a carrier's (branded) rom for international hd2 (512Mb nand). it shouldn't brick international device, but might not work if phone is branded to other carrier, not sure.

The official rom link from wiki page still works http://www.htc.com/hk-en/support/news.aspx?p_id=297&p_name=htc-hd2

i suppose any language would do for MegaZocker2014 since will only use it to get to android.;)
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
i get crazy :D :D :D also i tested both normal german and tmobile and both get the same failure and at flashing theres the bar with % but no htc logo ? i have a withe screen after boot loader is there a solution to update by sd card how i can get out of the exe the files which i need? and the ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2 (3.14.831.3) wwe wont work too
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
yes extract the files from the .exe file using 7zip, winrar or whatever, and rename the RUU_signed.nbh to leoimg.nbh put it on sdcard, reset device while holding vol down button.
[HD2 General] chinapadmall:
reply

nice idea ,i will support you
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
ok thank you and i have to flash with original stock rom or? HTC_HD2_RUU_Leo_S_HTC_GER_3.14.407.2_Radio_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_LEO_S_Ship

is it the right rom and why is there a radio version and how i see which radio version i have ?
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
As long as you don't have TMous hd2 (screen has "t-mobile", call hardkey is green, power key is red), you should be ok to flash that.

wm6.5 rom has a radio included in rom, that is a good radio for android too (2.15.50.14).
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
ok i extracted the leoimg and copied this on my formated fat 32 sd card when i push vol down button bootloader appears than a grey loading screen appears for 1 sec and than bootloader appears again why it doesnt load the file ?
[HD2 General] lukes91:
did you try to perform that action with HSPL still installed? i tried once and it failed, then i used a RUU and everything was fine... then this came to my mind: maybe removing HSPL will fix, but it's only a guess...

so i'm interested in a solution too :D
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
do you have a solution for me to change my hspl ? i have spl 3.03 hspl installed and even when i want to change it the phone only restarts and nothing had changed? i test it with ruu and without ruu thats the problem :D nothing helps and i cant perform task 28 or install clk or any other stockrom because i dont know how....
[HD2 General] lukes91:
well, the triky part is that you have to restore stock rom with the way that doesn't work for us but according to this thread leoimg.nbh should actually be LEOIMG.nbh with capital letters while in the hspl installer (in uninstallation instructions) the developers say it's with lower case letters... maybe this is the cause of our issue... you might try it with capital letter, this should also remove HSPL... please let me know if it works :)
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
i tried both but nothing works for me why windows mobile center doesnt show me my device in bootloader mode ? do i have a connecting problem ? and why i cant do task 29 it goes to 4 % than failed. when i try to change hspl version with hspl4 the bar fill to 100% than it decrease and the old hspl version 3.03 is back ... i tried stock rom from htc site because i found out that i have a tmobile branding and than nothing happend it tried both LEOIMG.nbh / leoimg.nbh only loading screen appears for 1 sec and than he switches to bootloader mode back. with ruu it failed too
[HD2 General] MegaZocker2014:
noone can help me ? Damn :crying:
[HD2 General] ya5:
You can always run any rom form SD Card, no matter what hspl do you have. The only condistion is to have a radio .50

maybe this help http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20259245&postcount=2
[HD2 General] urxz:
killed my htc

Hello

Cant find solution, maybe somebody can help me. I have used my htc with original rom, just tried different android versions from sd-card. So I went finally for trying win 7 rom, but killed my phone somewhere in the processe. I run HSPL4 .exe and all looked fine. Then I downloaded MAGLDR113_DAF and started romupdateutility.exe, all looked good 100% showing on status bar, phone restarted and now is there only white board, HTC logo in the middle and nothing happens, cant swich to anything, cant even shut down the phone only by removing battery. In the first post was similar question, holding down call button does not work. What can I do?
[HD2 General] hitman1376:
Dear Friend ... Can't you enter the boot loader ? ( Using this combination when Off : Hold "decline call button" + "Volume Down" at the same time Then you should Enter the three color screen ... ) If you could reach it, then you may be able to flash CLK / MAGLDR 's Flash files ( .NBH ) - But always remember to check the HSPL's Thread to know about the problems and patches ( I mean maybe you should use patched Magldr / CLK for that HSPL version )

With Best Wishes

Hitman1376​
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Hi urxz, you say that you run HSPL4 first, which HSPL version did you install? it should be 2.08.
[HD2 General] urxz:
i had spl-3.03, so hspl2 and 3 would not install. When I start phone while holding voice down button, it enters 3 coloured screen

PB81100 HX-BC

SPL-3.03.HSPL XE

0x05

Cortulla HSPL 0x50

on the screen, so what can I do
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
try using HSPL4 to install HSPL 2.08, then magldr...
[HD2 General] urxz:
thanks, all good now HSPL 2.80 made the trick. What is good win 7 rom? there is so many, any suggestions. My first try is back to the future... anything better maybe?
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
I will not comment on which is the best, but the latest 7.8 roms are definitely easier to install, just flash and go, no need to update;)
[HD2 General] hitman1376:
Well ...

My friend ... Congrats :laugh: ... Glad to hear that you made it :good: ... I personally recommend you to Multi-boot ... I mean having Both WPH7.8 and Android at the same time ... Because WPH has battery drain problem but its nice and android is good in battery ... also the note is that you can have many android ROMs ... For Example I had :

1- WPH 7.8 PDAimatejam ( More Stable than HD2O )

2- Boxmax S3.5 GB ROM

3- Chautien's 4.4.2 KK ROM

4- FireFox OS

5- Linux Debian

And I could use any of them when needed ... If were intrested in that case ... This Maybe helpful ... If had any questions , I would be glad to answer

With Best Wishes

Hitman1376​
[HD2 General] iNette:
Hi everyone! I've got a strange problem with my dear HD2... It seems like the touchscreen lost it's function overnight. I'm on CM Nexus 4.4.4 KitKat ROM and everything went really fine until this morning. I hope someone can help me.

Thx, iNette
[HD2 General] lukes91:
well, it's weird... i fear it's an hardwar problem... you could try to flash another rom to check if it's software or hardware related :)
[HD2 General] iNette:
Wtf, i just wrote a looong and sad answer about me having flashed 2 other ROMs but still i got no reaction of the touchscreen and when i was done writing and wanted to send, i could only read that i have no permission and my text was gone... :what:
[HD2 General] Robbie P:
Sounds like hardware then, probably digitiser ribbon cable has been damaged over time and then suddenly failed. It can be replaced, see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1566179

best of luck
[HD2 General] iNette:
Thanks for your help and although I'm a bit afraid of trying to fix that myself i think i'll give it a try.
[HD2 General] EvilMegaDroid:
Buying HD2 Used

Im thinking of buying this phone for 70$ used and i wanted to ask how and what should i check to know that it is in good condition , also i want to know how can i check if the phone was flashed with custom roms then reverted back to win 6.5