yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
This is my first attempt at building cm11. The dinosaur of a computer I'm using is a Dell dimension E521. 512 mb of ram (lol), 250gb hard drive, Ubuntu os. I am doing a repo sync as I type this message. Wish I had a better computer for my first build but, it is what it is and I'm going to make the best of it. I'll update my progress, just felt like sharing.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Set yourself a massive swap partition. Put it this way, I upgraded my laptop from 2GB TO 8GB RAM because it wasn't enough to build gingerbread. Build fails with errors. I wish you luck but ultimately it's pointless
[Nexus 5 General] Simonna:
And you're willing to make a rom with this calculator?

Ooops computer

But anyway good luck.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Thanks for the heads up... I was looking into that and now I will definitely do so. Still doing the repo sync..... Lol
[Nexus 5 General] InflatedTitan:
You can't build anything above GB with that system. It requires 64 bit, and there's no way those specs will lead me to believe its 64 bit lol.

HOWEVER. If you have a way to get it to build and you are 32 bit. Please pm me immediately and help me out lol
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Believe it or not this is a 64 bit system... Lol. AMD 64 Athlon x2

I have a 7 mb/s internet connection and I am about 5 1/2 hours into the repo sync with no sync errors and everything still downloading nicely.
[Nexus 5 General] -Grift-:
Downloading the source should not get you any errors :) Good luck with the build!
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Correct. Its the compiling. There is no way near enough memory for a make job to run properly. Swap is the only possible way.

Without huge swap, building will be impossible.

With swap, building will maybe MAYBE (although unlikely) be possible
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Well boys...

Error: exited sync due to fetch errors

I did a Ctrl+C, then restarted the repo sync. Correct me if I'm wrong but the repo sync should start over where it left off?
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Yes. It doesn't actually put it in your working directory (e.g. /android/system) until its done all the fetching so if you look now, it will appear empty. However it should be buried in the hidden /.repo folder somewhere so it will start fetching to that location where it left off then towards the end when you get to "syncing work tree" it will move it to your working directory.

The fetch errors come and go. Not RAM related
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
I just built AICP from source... It took me an entire day to download.. github gets knocked down many times and it throws an error "could not connect to Github" even though I have a working connection.

A clean build took me 3 hours.. :p .. and here's the message which will be shown in the terminal after the repo syncing is complete...

SS:

And after the build is complete it will show you something like this:

ALL THE BEST FOR THE BUILD! It will take ample time for the first build...
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Thank you guys for the hospitality as I am new to the nexus 5 community coming from owning the OG galaxy nexus. I bounced between that the OG razr and the HTC rezound for the last 2 1/2 years and I haven't picked any of them up since purchasing the nexus 5. Lol. Sad but true. Wait... I'm lying.. My RAZR is on the latest cm11 nightly.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
My repo sync is at

From git://github.com/cyanogenmod/android_external_chromium

Looks like I'm only pulling around 200-300 KB/s download speeds. All together it has been syncing for approximately 9 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Yes.. You're on track! The syncing takes it own sweet time irrespective of you having a 10Mbit connection or a 50 mbit...

If you feel that repo sync gets very low speeds or stops frequently, you could use repo sync -j4 to run multiple jobs in parallel... This might make the full use of your bandwidth...

Patience is the key in Syncing :D
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
So when I enter command:

Repo sync

Its not pulling from all four threads? For instance if I entered command

Repo sync -j1

It would only be pulling from one thread?

Repo sync -j2

Would be puling from 2 threads and so on?

Hopefully I can start building by the end of the day. I'm interested in seeing what errors are thrown my way. Anyone running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS know if it would be safe to create a swap partition while the repo sync is still going on?

This should help me kill some time... Lol
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
No he couldn't. He has an AMD CPU which means he only has physical cores, no virtual cores. -j2 is the best he can get ;)

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I wouldnt recommend repartitioning a hard drive while its writing.

You could create a swap file though

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Sounds like I could definitely learn a lot from rootSU... All. Thanks for all your input up to now and anything in the future. And they say us nexus users are d***s... Negative.
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
You guys should enable ccache for your build environmens. It will speed up your builds when building after a "make clean". I got a older PC with a celeron dual core with 4 GB of ram and Ubuntu and I can do builds in about 80 minutes.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
I will definitely look into that once I get there...

UPDATE: I wrecked my computer. Lol. At the moment I can not boot into anything but my system settings menu (DOS). I deleted some vista drivers Files i shouldn't have. I am now trying to install Windows 7 (via live USB) as my base because I can not find my vista reinstallation disc and vista just plain sucks anyways. Lol. I was going to install windows xp as my base but, from what I read xp is not bootable via live USB without being able to enter your OS. So basically I'm going to be starting fresh, incorporating what I've learned in the past couple days. Thanks again everyone for your help so far.
[Nexus 5 General] WoodburyMan:
I build SlimRom and CyanogenMod11 on my system in a virtual machine. 32gb of RAM on the physical system, and the VM gets 16gb. i7 4770K takes ~1.5 hours for a clean build, 45 minutes with cache. And its built on a 10,000rpm drive.

On that, if you do manage to get it to work with a HUGE swap partition, my bet is on a 10-20 hour build time. If it builds. Thats a conservative estimate. The RAM is a big issue, as accessing files meant to be in memory, operating at Gigabye/s essentially, are being executed and shuffled from the swap partition AT BEST 100mb/s if its a linear read. More like 10mb/s if random read which is more likely. Likewise you want at least 250gb of free hard drive space to work with for cache and scratch space. My VM uses less than 100gb for the source for Cyanogen and SlimRom but during builds and such it goes as high at 300-400gb used. If you're running off a single drive dual booting Windows and Ubuntu space may be a issue. I would suggest getting a 2nd drive just for builds. I use a old drive of mine for my VM.
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
Damn dude if you built in Ubuntu native it would take less than five minutes. And that's without ccache.
[Nexus 5 General] WoodburyMan:
I've always wanted to try it native, however I have other applications on the system that are Windows only that interact with a few hardware devices that interact with a Windows only app that I've had issues virtualizing in the past. I can't go more than a few hours with these off so it wouldn't be permanent. And with 50gb of source to download, and a 250gb/mo cap it's a lot. Also I have a RAID0 array "fake raid" using Intel ICH "RAID" controller for my system drive (2 SSD's in raid for OS drive for WIndows...). My last run with attempting to install Ubuntu on a spare hard drive on my last board, X58 with i7 920, somehow resulted in Ubuntu not playing with my RAID array and deleting the array. Don't want to risk that again. Would have to physically unplug drives to do dual boot without worry and i'm to lazy for that. lol.

Next time I format, before reinstalling Windows i'm going to throw Ubuntu on the SSD Raid0 array (900mb/s linear rear..,600mb/s write) and say to hell with bandwith and try a native build...
[Nexus 5 General] exb0:
I'm syncing AOSPA sources and will be building on virtual machine soon. :3
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Patients is key here.. LMAO
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
You mean Patience, right? :D
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
I'm gonna blame autocorrect and no sleep on that one...
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
I'm on 64bit Ubuntu... Little bit new to this terminal environment... I have to just do:

sudo apt-get install ccache ... Right?? Should I add any path before compilation?? Share the steps please :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
export USE_CCACHE=1

Run that from your build root directory. Make sure you have at least 30 GB free.
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
You can also set the max cache size by running "prebuilts/misc/linux-x86/ccache/ccache -M 50G"

Suggested size is 50-100GB.

Im running low on space in my ubuntu partition so I could only do 10GB, and just to let you know it barely made any difference. (Build times are only about 10 minutes shorter than without ccache). So it really only makes sense to use ccache if you are planning to use somewhere near the suggested size. Otherwise it basically just a waste of space.
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
When I build it my goes from 5 hours to 85 minutes using ccache. I Make clean for every build. I build cm11 for the HTC One.
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
How much space did you allot to ccache?

I build beanstalk (kitkat) for the HTC Desire with my laptop (i5-2450m, 6gb ram, 100gb hdd) and builds without ccache enabled take 170min and without take 180min.
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
I gave it 50 GB. Its a very noticeable different. Remember you only see a difference when making clean before. It maybe since your building for such a old device there's no build optimizations for it.
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
Yeah I always do a make clean prior to building. Ccache optimization is not device specific. All it does it is cache previous builds and detect when the same build is being done, regardless of what device your building for. So I dont think thats the problem. Its likely just because I set it to only 10gb which probably isnt enough for effects of cchace to be useful.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I have a SSD and a core i5 with 8 GB of RAM. Think my system would be up to the task? LOL!
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
You really need to ask? LOL

Obviously it is m8 :cowboy:
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Another tip. Dont "make clean". Just remove /out/target/product/ then you don't have to keep rebuilding host stuff.
[Nexus 5 General] Beamer9408:
Didn't read it all but repo sync -f will save you from fetch errors.

I have much different results. When I had only 6gb of ram kitkat took me 6½ hours to build. Build without running make clean would take about 57 minutes and with ccache 50gb set to about 19 minutes.

Edit you can use -f with -j commands
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Wow... I after I did a clean installation of Ubuntu 13.10 GNOME ( I set it up this time on a partition of 200G with a swap partition of 10g's) my repo sync took less than 6 hours. On my previous setup I had it syncing for over 12 hours and then the computer crashed. So idk. Lol.
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Repo sync just fetches and downloads the files required to setup the build environment... I doubt whether it was the reason for the crash... The REAL part is the compiling...

If you don't have enough ram, then a "make clean" build will take forever! :eek:

Since you have a healthy 200GB partition now, use ccache and set the size to 50+ GB! It helps a lot! :D
[Nexus 5 General] Tommy-Geenexus:
6 hours ?:o

My last repo sync a bit back needed 45 minutes ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Did you read his system specs? ;)
[Nexus 5 General] Tommy-Geenexus:
yeah :D

Although i only have a dual core amd and 4 gig ram on a virtualbox.

So not much better ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
8x more RAM. 1xSWAP is not worth 1xRAM unfortunately :(
[Nexus 5 General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Yes i know.

But however rom compiling lasts too long for me and

i'm not really good so i'm rather working on a custom kernel which is easier to build and customize ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Have fun :)
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Could you point me in the right direction of installing SUN JDK 6 on Ubuntu? I have openJDK 6 installed but its not playing nicely.
[Nexus 5 General] vikingzou:
you guys make me laugh while my wife is asleep already......its 23:23,:eek:

i'm going to 'write' a Ubuntu14.4 to my old harddisk by needle, applause for me, please.:screwy:
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
OK guys... I'm up and the build has begun. I'm pretty stoked, now its time to start reading some more. I started the build at 3:42pm 3/27/14... I'll let you know how long it takes.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Anybody know what happened here? 5 1/2 hours into the build :/ lol
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Errors are usually Google-able
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Well... 14 hours later... ;) guess it is possible...
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
You know Ubuntu can do screenshots?
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
forgive me OP but i have to ask others...what is the bare min req to build? i am running i3(2nd gen) 2.2Ghz with 4gigs and a 64x linux mint...GB and ICS took me 3hrs-5hrs to build(too much or too less?) what about kk?

Can i ask what everyone's build sys configuration is?
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
That build time sounds pretty normal considering your specs. I build with my laptop with an i5-2450m (dualcore 2.5GHz), 6gb of ram, and ubuntu 13.10 x64. Jellybean builds took about 2 hours, and Ive noticed kitkat takes about and hour longer (I'm guessing its due to having to compile ART).

Those times are without ccache btw.
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
So i guess kk is out for me until i upgrade :(

do you believe in the swap size=2xRAM concept? my current swap is = to my RAM so would changing it affect build time in any way?
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
I5-560M

8GB

13.10x64

I believe since Gingerbread you can only build on x64 now.

CPU is not important. But older / lower spec'd, slower the build. RAM is important though. 2GB used to cause me build errors on gingerbread. I gave myself 10GB of swap and it worked ok until I could buy more RAM.

I haven't done a full build for some time though.
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
I wouldn't say its out of the question. Your specs arent amazing, but they arent terrible either. You should definitely still be able to build kitkat. Increasing swap may help.
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Fwiw, I don't subscribe to this. There's no harm having more and if its needed it will be used
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
I am aware of the screenshot function but it appears to be borked for me. I've tried print screen , etc. None of them have ever saved though. I should note that my first attempt at a build did fail and that was because I did create a 50g swap partition but I didn't enable it. After enabling my first build worked. One question for you all though. My build is 216 mb... Cm's latest nightly is only 206mb. Anyone know what's up with that? Lol
[Nexus 5 General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Is there a simple for noobs guide on building CM11 for the Nexus 5?
[Nexus 5 General] Chromium:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_hammerhead
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/general/guide-cm11-how-to-build-cyanogenmod-11-t2515305

Just replace mako with hammerhead... This is just a simple copy and paste method.
[Nexus 5 General] :
can i ask why you would want to install a custom rom on a brand new device that has already stock android on it?
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Huh...? Get outta here bro. WHY DO YOU have an xda account...
[Nexus 5 General] :
instead of installing new rom so you can make changes, why not just root it?

PS: forgot credentials for my previous account... so don't take me lightly

PS2: if that's the answer you give people, how can you expect them to learn something?
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
I apologize if I came off a bit harsh as there are many trolls lingering around this site. That being said. There are several advantages to installing a custom ROM over just alone rooting the device. One being a custom ROM is just that, custom. Tweaks and customization far beyond just rooting and using xposed modules, if that's even what your referring to. I think custom ROMs as being a little more user friendly than going through the process of xposed modules.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/01/custom-roms-for-android-explained-and-why-you-want-them/

Obviously outdated but definitely a good read... ;)
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qogus9k9sbrqcv/cm-11-20140329-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead.zip

For anyone who is interested in running my build... Lol. Nothing special. I used bank gapps because I DO NOT like the camera built into PA or official cm11 gapps.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
But why is it pointless...?
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Why are you quoting an old post? Haven't you already built it and therefore proved it's not pointless? Not sure why you're quoting old posts in this thread that you have already answered.

I said it would be pointless with the amount of RAM you have. It would fail. You would need Swap. If you have somehow managed to build without swap, you're lucky.
[Nexus 5 General] :
i see...

so you don't really need to install a complete rom

it's just less trouble if you do :)

thx
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Why do you come off so brash? I was only kidding root. I enjoy quoting you. Lol. Try my build ;)
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Its just the abrupt way I post. Wasn't trying to be brash.
[Nexus 5 General] stebomurkn420:
Its all good. That's just the way you have to be on here sometimes. Lol. Thanks for the recovery BTW.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatguy52:
hi today my htc one's screen stopped responding. i noticed after i plugged it in to charge and off a couple of times, now the screen is unresponsive. i cant swipe to unlock the phone or anything. if i wait a while and leave it to charge, it will work a little. hardware buttons work fine it's just the screen itself. anyone know a fix or the reason behind this? thanks.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BenPope:
Your explanation isn't very clear as to when the screen doesn't work.

I've heard issues with dodgy chargers preventing touch screen from working whilst plugged in.

If the touch screen doesn't work when no cables are plugged in, it's probably just broken.

There's a service menu you can get to with a touch screen test, I can't remember how to get there, but it also has a battery test if that makes it easier to search for. If that test fails when no cables are plugged in, it's time to get it repaired.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ekanix20:
Hi i am on stock 4.4.2 and i came from Slimkat so I am used to smaller nav bar. Is there anyway to make it smaller without installing Gravity Box?

I have unlocked BL and i am rooted!

Cheers

Skickat från min C6903 via Tapatalk
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
Install xblast module, Google is great for these kind of searches
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpawnCube:
Can you please send me a link on how you rooted or tell me? :)

Thanks
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
I unlocked the bootloader and flashed doomlords advanced stock kernel v2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redruthie:
HI there

I was wondering if someone could guide me. It appears that my snotes are automatically synced to my gmail email account, but how do I find the snotes from a pc? Where are they located in the gmail? Any help is appreciated.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redruthie:
Anyone???
[HTC Droid DNA] SCSwat:
I just received a replacement for my damaged DNA.

While attempting to get an HTC dev unlocked code, I recieved a "MID Blocked" message.

My question is, am I at a loss for unlocking this bootloader now and being used to having

an S-off & rooted DNA a thing of the past? or is there a documented way to bypass this?

I'm pretty certain my previous unlock.bin is only good for the previous device.

Thanks, stats for my dna are below.

Android: 4.2.2

HTC: 5.0

Software# 3.06.605.4

HTC SDK API level 5.41

Kernel 3.4.10gde6df47

build # 3.06.605.4 CL277065
[HTC Droid DNA] .torrented:
www.firewater-soff.com is your friend ;)

You will need to follow the "temp root method"
[HTC Droid DNA] hbarron:
I didnt kno where to post my question and since this was close to my question I figured I'd ask. So I recently received my replacement DNA and ran rumrunner successfully. I was already on viper 3.1.0 prior to receiving the new device so I moved over the zip file to the new DNA and proceeded to flash in beta twrp like I did b4. Only thing different this time was the message at the end of aroma.. installation status 7. Some **** like that. I reboot the system and was thrown back into recovery. I had only seen this error in cwm (status 7). I didnt have verification checked and tried to do fix permissions but not till after I had already wiped data. My phone is stuck in recovery. Ny thoughts on why this happened and how to fix?
[HTC Droid DNA] .torrented:
Probably a bad file, redownload and flash again. You will probably need to either sideload or push the file using adb.
[HTC Droid DNA] hbarron:
Didn't Work.. I saved the log.
[HTC Droid DNA] .torrented:
Are you on the new official 2.7.0.0 recovery if not get it from www.teamw.in
[HTC Droid DNA] abwilder0221:
I just received a replacement myself. I used the latest rumrunner for S-off and had no problems unlocking again. When I received my new

DNA the hboot was updated to 1.54.0000 and Radio is 1.01.01.112.

Same software version you have-3.06.605.4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] xda23:
No I'm not trolling.I have never had a stock device they have always been rooted.so o.k. thanks I need to be rooted. Thanks,sir.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Naddict:
^^^ this ^^^

All members are expected to search first. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] yack93:
SO I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK> TRYING DIFFERENT METHODS

SO All You NEED IS

1) TWRP/ PHILZ TOUCH RECOVERY- "Will Post If NEEDED. PM ME" OR - JUST GOOGLE IT

2)Echoe v17 “A New Machine” (VJUFNB2 Base)- http://WWW.ECHOEROM.COM

3)Jeboo's Kernel -http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2468860 Post #3

4)ATT NB1 OFFICIAL KK MODEM-http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46762296&postcount=1

5) LOKI-DOKI- Link Below

STEP 1) Launch Recovery of Choice

STEP2) Wipe Data/cache

STEP 3) Flash ROM, Keeping things As Stock As possible in AROMA. Go With Whatever Launcher Or UI. But Select "ZTO" for CSC.

STEP4) When Done Flashing Rom. Uncheck Reboot Now.

STEP5) Flash KERNEL,

STEP6) Flash MODEM

STEP 7) FLASH LOKI-DOKI
[Xperia SP General] xTerraH:
Hi guys,

A week ago, I spoke with a great friend that works at Sony in my country, about all the issues faced with the .266 (android 4.3) update. He has said that we will be getting another system update (that will still be based on android 4.3) within the next 4 months, but that an android 4.4 update was not planned :(.

He did tell me of a great fix to most of the issues I've faced with the .266 update, and that is to do a repair through sony update service, and then once complete, factory reset the phone making sure to tick reset internal storage. I followed his instructions, and my xperia sp is now running very smoothly, even while multitasking. I advise you guys with heaps of issues to try this for yourself, and see if it works well for you to!
[Xperia SP General] reinearl:
That's a great news.. How long have you been using your sp since su repair and factory reset? Does it still heat up? :good: