yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alapapa:
http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/renice/

setting up swap space might better help to accomplish what you're doing tho

I don't really think scheduler priority is taken into account when it comes to the memory garbage collection that's affecting your background apps
[G1 Android Development] nephron:
very nice guide! I will have to test it out later on! Thanks! :D.
[G1 Android Development] jay22are:
does this damage the sd card in anyway? i was running jac hero with swapper and it killed my sd card...but nice tut..might try it
[G1 Android Development] h.nocturna:
wow... I never knew you were allowed to partition straight from terminal or I wouldn't have wasted a CD on g-parted... =/ nice guide, next time I need to partition, I'll use this method.

jay22are, partitioning the card will not damage it, but if you use it for swap you will always run the risk of corrupting your card, however, I read that someone calculated that it would still take 2yrs for your card to start having problems using swapper. So good luck.
[G1 Android Development] marixsmith:
Is their a noticeable increase in speed when running a non hero rom with swapper?
[G1 Android Development] 51dusty:
extremely noticeable. apps run & transition much smoother than without the swap partition. although, i must say that most of the speed & stability in my setup is cyanogen's rom...it's awesome.

now i have a question...

does anyone know if there are speed/reliability differences between using the swapfile(like with the swapper app) and the swap partition? i did the partition b/c that's how i've always configured linux installs and it let's me mount the sdcard w/o issues.
[G1 Android Development] engagedtosmile:
when i'm trying to do the commands I run into this:

(parted) mkpartfs fat32 0 7584

mkpartfs fat32 0 7584

mkpartfs fat32 0 7584

parted: invalid token: fat32

Partition type? primary/extended?

doesn't seem like the guide covers all of the steps.
[G1 Android Development] ebadevil:
same problem as engaged...
[G1 Android Development] cyanogen:
Was wondering when someone would write this guide!

I just built and included Parted on the new recovery image (1.3.1). I was just waiting for someone to do a writeup about it because I'm lazy :rolleyes:

Should be "mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7584".

Parted can also resize your existing partitions without erasing data.
[G1 Android Development] lstevens86:
I'm gonna try when I get home always wanted to resize my partition without apps and data being loss
[G1 Android Development] lstevens86:
I'm gonna try when I get home always wanted to resize my partition without apps and data being loss. By the way great job with the roms, recovery's, and all the rest of the hard work you guys do. You guys are genious
[G1 Android Development] 51dusty:
@engage & others: fixed my mistake in original post

thanks cyanogen!

guess that's what i get for typing too fast... ;p
[G1 Android Development] CC CEO:
what am i doing wrong?

Im using a 2gb card.

following the guide after i use the print command it tells me my card is 2033MB in size

and it lists my start point at 32.3kB

i typed: mkpartfs primary fat32 32.3kB 1458MB

it states it cant make the partition and the closest it can do is 31.7kb to 31.7.

is it something im doing?
[G1 Android Development] 51dusty:
i believe the reason it is not exactly 0 is because it needs room for the partition information. mine was similar...i believe 31.9kb.

you don't need to use the 'kb' / 'mb'...i just use whole numbers and the prg figures out the hard stuff..

hmm...maybe remove all partitions (using the rm command) and start from scratch.

check out this site

can you paste/link to the console output to the forum?
[G1 Android Development] jklong03:
What about ext4

I got brave and decided to "resize" my ext4 partition down 32MB to create a swap space.

First, I backed up everything using windoze after mounting.

But then it occured to me perhaps I should do a complete backup of my sd card first, including my ext4. But HOW?

Also, cyanogen said parted will resize with no data loss, so I assume you just use the "resize part# start stop" ??

Anyway, when I did my print command, it listed my FAT32 and an ext3. When I try and do anything to ext3, I get a "Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled" message. I am guessing this is the ext4 stuff?

Will just sit tight for now, before I blow my entire SD card and have to start from scratch till someone can tell me safest way to backup sd card to pc completely and what to do about the ext4 errors.

Thanks in advance for the help!
[G1 Android Development] schwiz:
very cool, I feel like such a dork doing it this way and it feels good! When i put in my command for the partition I got this error:

not sure why I think its because the disk already had partitions. I couldn't remove them because parted said the disc was mounted. So I still couldn't avoid booting to the live cd and reformating though :*(

edit: actually rebooting the phone allowed me to use the rm command and remove my partitions and follow your instructions. Worked great thank you! this is going to save me loads of hassle in the future

edit2: spoke too soon when I run upgrade_fs I get this message

so i use the repair ext filesystems on the recovery image and it says

any help?

edit3: deleted the partitions and did it again, worked this time
[G1 Android Development] temporizer:
This is exactly what i was looking for, thank you so much for this!
[G1 Android Development] temporizer:
first, IMHO and research, the swap partition does nothing to cyanogen's roms because of his magic touch, however, it does work wonders with the browser, and with all other builds besides cyan's

second, The swap file is placed on your fat32 partition, when you mount your sd card to your pc, the swap file disappears and your rom crashes...

stick with a linux-swap partition. you shouldn't go over 32mb tho, it gets glitchy after that.
[G1 Android Development] genez81:
yes you DO HAVE remove pre-existing partitions with rm command... obviously if you don't want to resize them.

genez
[G1 Android Development] 51dusty:
to backup ext partition just cp /system/sd it has the apps dirs and dalvik-cache

this ver of parted does not handle ext3/4...that's why you have to upgrade after partitioning. as far as resizing goes...i would imagine it can't do that to ext3/4 either.

maybe cyanogen can provide complete explanation of ext3/4 support...?

my advice would be to delete all and start fresh..i'm not a huge fan of resizing partitions...it seems to let gremlins into the fs. ;p
[Touch HD General] mietekxxx:
Hi *.

I've a problem with phone calls output. With original software order was: internal speaker, jack, bluetooth. Now with Dutty's order is: i.s., bluetooth, jack. So for example, when I'm listening mp3s in car (through jack) and someone calls me (bluetooth headset connected) I have to pull out jack cable or his/her voice will be send to car speakers. I've spend at least half an hour looking through all system options, HDTweak and ACT - nothing. Is there any way to change this order?
[Touch HD General] mietekxxx:
Shameless bump. Anybody? :(
[Touch HD General] ozmoran:
Better to ask this question in the Dutty Rom Thread your using, you will get a faster response
[G1 Android Development] rukus:
Hi all,

As we know dalvikvm only interpret bytecode thus we have bad performance in games and apps. If we can add jit it should speed up performance up to 10 times! I think we can look at icedtea (and shark especially) to port it to dalvikvm. What do you think about it?
[Android General] da-slicksta:
http://blog.se-nse.net/useb-exclusive-rachael-ui-demo-video/
[Android General] chunga:
wow! kinda blueish but very nice one
[Android General] Four Fourty Four:
yea thats on the sony i think.. idk looks kinda windows mobile(y) haha
[Android General] cboy007:
rosie / sense is better IMO, but its still quite good...just a little impractical looking in some places.
[Android General] dthadamaja:
looks good. more interested in what it got under the hood though
[Android General] persiansown:
Its slightly impractical and it won't even work on our phones.

This is from the Sony Ericsson Rachael which has a 1Ghz snapdragon processor. If you think Rosie runs poorly, I can't even imagine how this would run.
[Android General] miketuesday:
1. Not "Donut"

2. Wrong forum
[Android General] gigagrunt:
That is definitely from the Sony Ericcson Racheal. It is suppost to be based off of the Android 2.0/Donut but the UI is just an overlay or a sony exclusive UI just like the Rosie/Sense UI is for HTC. Also, good look running a ROM with it on the G1.
[Android General] CBowley:
It's not "donut", it is sony ericsons ui. Kind of like how HTC has it's own ui.. I don't care for it..
[Android General] gigagrunt:
Donut or not it is a UI that is layered over Android just like Sense is layered over Android. 1.5 or 2.0 who cares.
[Android General] damnitpud:
When i first got the G1 last October, the Rosie and this new SE UI is what i was hoping for...i couldn't wait for Touchflo-ish looks came to Android...Now that they are starting to, i have to decide if i want the awesome looking software with lots of features or keep the physical keyboard! Damn decisions!

I upgraded to the G1 from a TMobile Wing and i had a similar issue...the newest ROMs were to big to work nicely with the Wing's hardware...I feel i am in for the same disappointment with the G1 now! Damn you Google for allowing HTC to build a barebone spec device for the first Android device!!!!
[Android General] h.nocturna:
Looks nice... now I just need a device with Snapdragon in it...
[Android General] r3v3nant:
looks ok... but a little bland imo... I think rosie/sense looks nicer.
[Android General] serialtoon:
Wow! I think it looks hot!! I'm looking forward to the Sony snapdragon phone.
[Android General] KyleK29:
Eh ... looks kinda bland and too blue. Not that impressed. Hopefully they clean up some of the graphics.
[Android General] dweller88:
looks pretty ugly to me,

I don't like the animated contact cards
[Android General] 51dusty:
ditto.....
[Android General] uberingram:
As mentioned before, not donut. Threads here are worse than Fox News.
[Android General] horrorwolf:
Man that UI looks awfully boring. From a designer's point of view...The floating selector for the contacts is ok, but there's way too much blue which makes everything feel muddy, and there's little style. But's there's still time for a lot of tweaks hopefully...otherwise meh.

Sense is better by far at this point.
[Android General] jroid:
i only like the floating contacts, and animations.. everything else looks dull.
[Android General] zgmf-x322a:
not interested in it
[Android General] question.com:
looks alright, but rosie looks better at the moment.
[Android General] truthkilla:
Hopefully it will come with an app to connect to the PS3's remote play!
[Android General] Vision77:
I gotta admit I like the UI. I hope it will be a bit more customizable. Overall I welcome it to the Android community. Its nice to have options. I might get that phone just so I can put that snapdragon processor to work:D
[Android General] AbsoluteDesignz:
I like the UI but only compared to the standard Android UI...I feel Sense/Touch FLO is much better.
[Android General] iflyabeech:
it looked super slow to me
[Android General] Maisum:
posted in the wrong section buddy

i posted this in general *pats self on back*
[Android General] blackgin:
I don't like it very much.. I prefer htc sense ui
[Android General] crabiorc:
http://player.vimeo.com/video/43224490
[Android General] Lesicnik1:
Thanks for bumping up an almost 1 year old topic.

Tell me, how long did it take you to finds it?
[Android General] jonas2295:
You should get a award :) *bumping the oldest thread in xda history *:)
[Android General] SibawayhDroid:
immmm, i think HTC has better than this !
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Bozman:
OK so SOMETIMES, yeah I know, the D-pad is not working right. Seems to be more when I go into contacts or text messeges. Example: I'm in my contacts screen. I go try and get back to the home page. I hit the button and it doesn't go back. Now, it does function sideways, up, down and such but I have to hit the OK button on the top right to clear out of it. Soft reset and everything is normal. Starting to become pretty frequent and I can't imagine that it is the contacts behind that pad givin the nature of when and how it happens..... I have a stock ROM with some minor tweeks. HELP!!!:(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kareeem:
Want to see if any other Kaiser users have had these two problems and if they have any fix:

1. Keyboard buttons aren't responsive (about half), meaning you have to press them hard for them to work. I'm suspecting this is from the sweat when i'm at the gym but then again it could be a keyboard aligning problem.

2. When I slide out the keyboard, the screen flickers in two places in a circular manner.

I know both are hardware issues so if anybody has any ideas, i'd appreciate it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lofichic:
I have the same problem with unresponsive keys. I've had it a while and I've never used the keyboard with wet or dirty fingers. A friend got the same phone at the same time and has always had a more responsive keyboard, even from new.

If anyone has any ideas on fixing it, I'm all ears.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kareeem:
I'm curious, has anybody fixed their Kaiser's keyboard with the keys needing to be pressed hard in order to work?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] wooky321:
Hard to press buttons

Im assuming it just needs cleaning out but any other ideas? Going to look for guides to take apart just hope it doesnt void a warranty
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
spray some windex on it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kareeem:
Were you successful in doing this? I don't mind opening up the Kaiser, I just want to know what i'm doing and what the culprit is.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] viruzman:
Hi All,

i was runnign the DCD rom 3.5 or something, and watching a amovie, or a video used to work fine,

i have upgrated to the latest DCD 4.5 or something, and since then, Windows Media Player just tells me the file cannot be played, core player won't display the video but i can hear sound., sound like a missing codec or something,

i use Pocket Divx Encoder, Always have always worked good, but since the upgrade, it doesn't matter what i convert, it just won't play, or no video, but audio is there.

Any Help On This, Thank You All

V_M
[Mogul, XV6800 General] LiamRutherford:
I use TCMP and it works great. Plus it is free. It also plays a lot more extensions.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paper4wings:
Every time in a text, email or wherever you can type. when i press space or another symbol, the application shuts down.

When im in the Today menu and i press space, it has the same function as the green phone button.

it suddenly happened today when i was texting someone. the first one had no problems but the second one and all following shutted the application down

can anyone help plz? i can't text or email anymore using space or symbols.

THANKS!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mohen:
i have the CR86 2.3-4 ( not sure witch one which one ) . anyway i disabled the touchflo screen and i'm working with IphoneToday plugin ( only 62 kb , ****tt) .

now i have to set up links but i don't know where is those files, most of them are in the windows folder . for example, i have the calculator icon , so i add it to windows\calcultor.exe .

things is , i can't find

(link or file lead to it)

call history

bluetooth ( shortcut that enable or disable it )

WIFI ( same as BT )

SHUTxp ( the screen that u can choose reset, power or cancel )

um, that's it for now. most important is the call history link .. please help :cool:
[Off-topic] mikeeey:
Although I've never been a Michael Jackson fan, I thought my friend Nick's Tribute sounded pretty good, and I'd show some other people, so here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbfut9ki3eQ

and here it is on myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/ballermcjenkinz
[HTC Excalibur] luisro:
Hello everyone, I am really new to this forum having received the Dash 2 days ago. Looking to get it up to speed I flashed the 6.5 Energy Rom according to instructions. I think that was a very bad move, because now the cellphone is stuck on the Loading Energy Rom screen. I have searched the forum for answer and have already tried the following:

1- Entering bootloader and flashing original ROM. No luck because EVERY rom I have gotten, be it from here and T-Mobile, it says invalid vendor ID.

2-Tried to perform a hard reset. Did not work.

3-Flash the original ROM through the memory card. No avail.

The phone cannot connect to active sync, so I can't install any cooked ROMS. I think the solution is installing the original ROM by the bootloader, but I cant seem to find a compatible one. My cell information is the following:

Bootloader screen info: ONBL 1.22.0000 SPL 1.22.0000 IU

EXCA 100 S/N SZ713FE05873.

Is there any way with that information someone can tell me which ROM to use? Or any other tip/hint/suggestion? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
I have the same Bootloader screen info: ONBL 1.22.0000 SPL 1.22.0000 IU value and i was able to restore my phone to working status with the following ROM

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IJIVTIMF

Hope this help

10507
[HTC Excalibur] luisro:
Thank you very much 10507! I'll download it now and see if it works.
[HTC Excalibur] luisro:
Thanks for the file but it appears that it is for the SDA. It dit not work :(
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
That's odd, I was able to restore my Excalibur/Dash after flashing the corrupted EnergyRom.

Hope you will find a way to resolve your problem.

10507
[HTC Excalibur] luisro:
But how did you do it? Flashing it through USB or through the memory card? The weird thing is that when I run the EXE the cellphone that appears in the picture of the program is an SDA. But well I will try it again and thank you for the help!
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
I used bootloader method and connected my phone through USB for flashing. Remember to remove your memory card when flashing.
[HTC Excalibur] alexalexoe:
well, I've been in your situation for almost 3 days now, and still no solution for it, maybe it's time to put it in the box and purchase a new one :(, all thanks to the broken EnergyROM ...
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Ok guys. Don't give up. Believe it or not, a Dash is NOT easy to brick like some other devices. the steps are fairly clear but let me refresh:

- Go into bootloader by holding the camera button and powering on the phone

- Connect the USB cable, you will hear the ba-bing USB connect sound on your PC (if u don't thats why you're having issues flashing)

- Download and unpack a "factory sealed" signed ROM. I use this one: http://rapidshare.com/files/7886560...S_1.33.422.1_4.1.13.51_03.07.90_Ship.exe.html

- With USB connected and the phone in the multicolor bootloader, run RomUpdateUtility.exe, check the boxes, it next, bla bla bla.

- It will look for your device for 20 seconds. then hit "update" and next.

- It should then start flashing the Excalibur Brightpoint Factory ROM back onto your phone

- If you can't get this far or it fails, try a different PC or Flash from the SDcard

** NOTE: If flashing from USB, REMOVE the SD CARD! This is the biggest mistake of most people trying to flash from USB.

Good luck.
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Thanks ookba for cheering us up. I'm having the same problem like many, many people in this forum hopeless seeing our dash not responding to every solution proposed in this forum and the only thing that we have right now is keep trying to flash and see if it works. I will try again in different PC and see what happens. I'll let all of you know if I finally resurrect my s621.
[HTC Excalibur] luisro:
Thanks everyone for all the help! It's hard to find people that are so helpful on internet forums. I'm still in the same situation as gmaniac and alexalexoe but hopefully we can find something that will fix our problems :)
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
This problem is ridiculously weird to why some members are able to restore their phone to original factory condition, and others are not able. Therefore, I have search from trustworthy sites and from friends for difference made ROM. Hopefully, one of these ROMs with help out anyone...........

1.33.422.1 (Worldwide English, WM6)

http://rapidshare.com/files/7886560...S_1.33.422.1_4.1.13.51_03.07.90_Ship.exe.html

1.27.405.1 (Worldwide English, WM6)

http://rapidshare.com/files/100235639/HTC_S620_WWE_1.27.405.1.exe

1.22.531.6 (T-Mobile USA, WM6)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z4vjgzxisrz

1.22.531.4 (T-Mobile USA, WM6)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yygkw1d5xmc

1.11.531.1 (T-Mobile USA, WM5)

http://rapidshare.com/files/104641948/T-Mobile_DASH_WM5_V_1.11.531.1.exe.html

Excalibur_BRIGHTSTAR_PTB_1.30.514.2_4.1.13.47_ 02.98.90_Ship

http://www.mediafire.com/?9gbwdzd2omg
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Thanks 105507 but no success at all, I even found 2 more factory roms in the web and also they don't work. I own an unbranded international version s621 manufactured by Brightstar corporation (I tried to flash Brightstar's stock rom but it didn't work) and I noticed this because in the warranty docs it says brigthstar corporation and originally the phone came with WM5.
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
not that this will help. but this is one of the reasons why people should be really installing the hardspl so if you have a bad flash, you dont have to install a stock rom. any rom whether be it cooked or not will work. but this hardspl must be done prior to installing ANY rom. the hard spl is done by jockyw2001. send him a pm to see if theres anyway to get that on the phone, even in its current state.

edit: here's the link to the hardspl: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=329605
[HTC Excalibur] myhitech:
My phone is the same your phone but ONBL 1.33.0000 and SPL 1.33.0000

I'm trying to find the original rom of this line but not found. Please help me!
[HTC Excalibur] david1978jp:
Have you done a reset? My friend fixed his by trying reset a few times. He reset it, walked away...., it took long time to see whether it booted over; if not, do it again...

By the way, he leave the sim card in; and, you need to remove your micro sd card.
[HTC Excalibur] AlekSS-881980:
On an official site it is possible download ROM for your phone. It is flashing from bootloder mode. It some times helped me, while I have not flashed hard SPL.
[HTC Excalibur] Saga23:
:confused:

Hi my friend, I wish you lucky!!!

by the way, where country you're from, I have some Shipped Roms here for brazilian Excalibur (S621), maybe it could help, if the answer is yes, let me know to made this one come to you:D
[HTC Excalibur] element4d:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Elf_GoldCard
[HTC Excalibur] Saga23:
Furious Girlfriend (oh My beloved Helloween died with my ROM's)

Boy oh Boy...

My ROM's are now in heaven:p

Girlfriend deleted they (I'm so sorry...)

But, pay attention in this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=381726

In there have a sort of shipped ROM's and maybe coud help you:)

Good luck my friends

A friend from XDA have some Shipped Rom's and will upload it for you, shortly he'll post something here
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
If you need a Portuguese-Brazilian ROM, official from HTC, Wm 6.0, CLICK HERE.

In order to flash the device, do as our friend Ookba said...

Hope it helps.

Regards
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Just added to the sticky :)