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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cambria83:
Sorry to be a bit of a noob with my question but I need a little bit of help...

What is the best way to re-partition my SD card without losing the apps installed on the ext3 partition? Obviously backing up the files on the FAT32 bit is easy, as I can just drag them all to my desktop.

I want to try and install the custom Kernel that the guy over at Modaco forums created, and I need to change the linux-swap to 64mb to do this.

If there is a simple and quick way of doing this, I'd appreciate the tips.

Thanks in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
I just noticed a issue in messages, when I click on a thread of messages the arrangement of new messages are wrong, my reply is placed before the new recived message I reply, so the order of the messages are wrong. Anybody that can help solving this issue?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minogue:
hahahah! Not it is not ready for Sprint Hero!!!!!!!!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Sergio PC:
dude come on, ur out of your element, be careful u might brick your device.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jad23:
Hello MoDaCo,

When can you make a ROM with donut?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
I'd like to know how to do this too!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sphinxy:
tbh, this comment is uncalled for....he's only helping out and with a demand like that...

How bout you rephrase it to -

"Paul, your current 2.8 ROM is awesome! Thanks for all your hard work.

Just wondering......is it possible to port donut over to Hero?? and are you thinking about doing it?

Thanks!"

He is just doing this for his sake and wants to share how/what improvements he has done to make the Hero a better device. Please be a bit more courteous and appreciative of the work he has done already...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dying4004:
DITTO.............
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorba:
Google Maps

Paul,

Your current 2.8 Hero Rom is awesome (and I mean it) ;) I do have the same issue that was pointed out before though. Every time I try to do a search in google maps I end up with a force close. I tried re-installing the rom but it did not change things. Do you have any ideas what it could be and how I can fix it?

Z
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mach2005:
Ditto....................
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bryanchapman9999:
Remove google maps and install from the market worked for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sphinxy:
Nice one to take that layout on board zorba :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
You should NOT be running this on a Sprint hero!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zorba:
Google Maps

Thanks for the tip. For some reason I could not find it in the market place but I was able to extract it from ModaCos rom and reinstall. It worked like a charm. Thanks again.

Z
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] schimi77:
I have the same problem :mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] quattro_rs:
thanks mate.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shaji007:
I re-downloaded v2.2 enhanced from my mirror, added that to the phone and rebooted to the recovery menu.

Then I did the following steps:

- wiped handset

- flashed 2.2 enhanced

- booted handset, entered all the Google & Facebok info, etc. Once at the Clock, shut down and boot back into Recovery.

- flashed 2.8 core

- flashed 2.8 enhanced (did not reboot)

- flashed 2.7.1 wavesecure

- rebooted

Im trying to follow this guideline to get 2.8 installed correctly without any errors

has anyone got 2.2 on their computer, server etc so that i can download it and try this method

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cambria83:
Sort of trying to answer my own question here, but would a nandroid restore do this? if I repartition my SD partitions to different sizes will it put everything back how it was? The apps back onto Ext3 partition etc.?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] matt6gsr:
I dont think there is, im in the same boat, got 32mb swap partition

You can either edit the userinit file to 32mb (instructions over at modaco) or wipe all your partitions and start again creating a 64mb swapfile
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kirandeep:
Ok I installed 2.8 fresh on my brothers g2 touch about a week ago all is fine no errors, battery life was fine, but overnight the battery drained from full to dead. What steps would he need to take to try to figure out what caused this so that he can prevent it in the future, I understand it may not be the rom but an app on his phone but thought I would start here as he doesnt have much installed yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sphinxy:
Try looking in the spare parts program and see the battery history. Identify the program that used the most battery and get rid of it!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kirandeep:
YEs it said android system at the top with nearly 80%

update: phone was unplugged 3 hours ago..still on 100%....very strange behavior..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] risterdid:
i was wondering if i could run the modded kernel with 2.2?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Yes, that should work fine.

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erikwt:
Using MCR 2.8, I get many force-closes in applications. When I check out logcat, it is always a security problem like this:

E/AndroidRuntime( 398): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: restartPackage() from pid=398, uid=10045 requires android.permission.RESTART_PACKAGES

Reinstalling the program fixes the problem, but I don't want to reinstall all the apps I have. I use apps2sd and I upgraded from a previous MCR version. I tried running 'fix uid mismaches' from the ra-recovery but that doesn't solve the problem.

Any thoughts?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xxthemartianxx:
Does anyone have the apk file for Quickoffice (v1.0.95) as the one included on the ROM force closes on me all the time.

Alternatively, is there a fix for it?

Thanks in advance
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erikwt:
Can you post the corresponding logcat output?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] xxthemartianxx:
Issue solved. Ran the fix package uid mismatches and all OK now. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Had some issues coming back to this on via a nandroid backup. Market not connecting and various fc's. Re-installed the 2.8 update.zip and all fine now :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Foka002:
I'm very happy with 2.8. I have donated a little many for you Paul. Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] martijnve:
I have upgraded to 2.8 (from 2.6 w/o flash) a few days ago and sadly i also have the problem where directions in google maps doesn't work. It also seems to think everytime i start it is the first time (keep getting the welcome screen) and lattitude doesn't work anymore (uploads location once when i enable it but doesnt keep doeing so and is disabled again when i start maps again)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ivolution:
Swapper is no longer included in 2.8!

see:

2.8

MoDaCo Custom Kernel 1.2 featuring additional filesystem support (EXT4, NFS, CramFS, SquashFS 4.0), CompCache 0.5.4 modules and DroidWall support

Updated WiFi Tether (1.60 pre3)

Script to optionally remove dropbear SSH (run /system/bin/dropbearremove.sh via ADB)

Moved VoiceSearch to data partition (aids updgrading via market)

Removed Swapper and MoreLocale, now advised downloads in main post
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] GaRd3NiA:
I just upgraded mine to MCR2.8, it's a great rom, thanks paul.

I am not able to make Plurk running in my phone, i installed enhanced version, but only business card reader and WAP browser are installed. I tried to extract HtcPlurk.apk and com.htc.PlurkWidget.apk from the zip file and install it manually, but i got an "Plurk could not be installed on this phone" error while installing...

Any idea why this happening?

Thanks!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pecheurs7:
Swapper

Dear HTC Hero friends,

questions:

swapper creats what... a file in your sd card ?

People are saying that a swap.. increase your sdcard memory where you can put downloaded programs to a special place and it does not affect the speed of your htc hero ? true ?

Thanks for your help.

Nico
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chuti98:
goto get teknology 1.7 karnel+2.8 pual rom at modaco site no need swapper or linux swap to ruin yr sd card and also can be use with EXT4 then yr hero flying in speed
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pecheurs7:
thks a lo take care

thks a lo take care

nico
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shaji007:
Hi mate

have you been able to fix this? ive been asking around no replies :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chuti98:
If u extract from enchance I think you have to sign purk before you can install
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shaji007:
ooh how do you sign it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] GaRd3NiA:
nothing helps.

I deleted all my sd card partitions, format my sd card, recreate all partitions, wipe all data, update MCD 2.8 again, but it still doesn't installed.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
Hi,

Wi-Fi connection often drops when the phone is idle for a while. Is it normal? If it was normal, I would just afraid that my long voip phone call will be droped as well
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jaapschaap:
Try it out? But i think not, it's not idle when you are using it right? Or it's a pretty boring conversation about bull****, then the phone will cutdown the wifi.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tianci86:
hi, anyone has this problem of replying user through sms with +country code?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
By default, the phone will drop wifi when the phone is determined to be idle - that is when there is no activity and wifi is put to sleep. You can control this with -

Wireless Controls | Wi-Fi Settings | Menu | Advanced | Wi-Fi Sleep Policy

Or use the application "wifi lock" as a convenience method to switch this on and off.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Sergio PC:
Yes, for some reason you cant just reply to a +countrycodenumb. You have to create a new message. -But this was the same case in all Winmo Phones I had, so probably an operator limitation.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shaji007:
how come no one has been able to figure this out?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Hi Paul. Cant wait to see 2.9 based on the new release.

Just seen this in the Dream forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4868495#post4868495

Looks like a way to do A2SD without needing to part. the SD card. This would be a super addition. (if you had time to include it!)

Anyway, loving the work :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ozxobez:
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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tarquinio:
hey,

does the 2.8 version support the voice recognition?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
It does support voice recognition, works fine in Google Voice Search and What the Doodle from what I've used it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Also, go grab Teknologists 1.8 kernal. Been beta testing, and its stable, and even faster

(I had 41 apps running, with ~25mb Ram free, and it was running faster than the original HTC rom)

http://ow.ly/ySJ3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
trying 1.8 kernel right now
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Version 2.9 of MCR is now up with Teknologists Custom Kernel 1.8, 2.73.405.61 base and a few other bits. See changelog (second post) for details!

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sphinxy:
Thanks Paul :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
sweeeeet :)

I'm trying it now
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
Thanks again Paul for the work on your ROM!

Is it possible that with 2.9 (I wiped and reformatted my ext3/4 partition, so pretty fresh install) I don't see all the apps in the market anymore?

I see Buka and Copilot for instance, but SUBFS (that root file manager, don't know if I spell it correctly :P) seems missing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
For me the same, furthermore I dont have the tether app and such.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
Oh, indeed. Also 2nd that. Spare Parts and WiFi Tether are missing.

On previous MCR's I didn't have those missing apps at all.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ericchik:
So the MCR 2.9 base one 2.73.405.61:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RushaPoiL:
Paul forgot to insert root in 2.9, he uploaded fixed 2.9 20 minutes ago.

If you downloaded before that, i think you should try again....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I've flashed that one, now I DO have root. But I still don't have a lot of apps like the tether app. What should I do?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Did you flash that AFTER wiping?

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Yes I wiped, tried twice...

Didn't have this before...

Anyway, besides this, the rom looks really really fast...! Good work...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nemo0815:
Just installed 2.9. But for me performance is worse than with 2.8, especially inside of apps and the app list scrolling is very sluggish.

Scrolling through sense is fine though but 2.8 was overall better.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Stanimir Komitov:
Does anyone have problem with the phone constantly restarting after applying the 2.9 update?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] qvert:
does anyone else notices that since i installed 2.9 on top of 2.8 i have now 30mb less internal space ? before i had around 110 now i've got 84mb free space
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] zeevik:
Me.

I went back.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Stea1thmode:
yeh, me too. I'm short of 30mb after installing 2.9
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] qvert:
additionaly, everytime i mount my sd card and unplugged the usb cable the hero freezes

and when i open the browser and click on menu key, the browser is forced to close...

i'll install 2.8 again maybe this helps
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
Yes you wiped. Too much. I get what Paul is saying now:

Wipe _before_ flashing a ROM. If you do it after the flashing, you'll delete certain files that the ROM installs. Like the preinstalled applications, and Market-configuration to list all the apps.

Just wipe _again_, and _THEN_ flash the latest ROM. I'm going to try this now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
To the others with freezes / force-close-situations:

Mine has been smooth the few hours I've been reinstalling and playing with it.

The new Notes app only force-closed on me once.

Did you guys wipe and reformat your ext3/ext4?

In the thread of the kernel used in 2.9 the poster of the kernel mentioned that since CompCache is operational now, any kind of swapper should be disabled / removed. It's in pretty bold letters in post #1 in the kernel-thread :).

I don't know if that has anything to do with the problems you're all having, but who knows.

I wiped, reformatted my ext3 as ext4, and removed my swap partition. Phone didn't restart or lock up yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Yes I understand that now. The pre-installed apps do appear now.

Still, now I have another problem... In the market all my apps disappeared (including my bought apps). I even't can't find most of them when I do a search. Some solutions for that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
Crap, still the same problem indeed. I have it too. With my android 'noobism' I don't know. I've seen multiple times that an other / older 'build.prop' file is somewhere needed to let the Market know what is compatible and not.

I also seen somewhere to remove things like the 'vendor cache' directory somewhere from your data partition...

But I'll let Paul or another person answer this one that actually knows what the problem might be :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] qvert:
i used the teknoligst 1.8 kernel before

i didn't wipe my ext3 partition

but deleted swapper before and deleted swap partition

now i flashed 2.8 ... but the 30mb spaces are still left, how can i get them back?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ericchik:
Could you tell me how to change ext3 to ext4? Thank you.:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
Well, I work under Linux so it was no biggy :).

Inserted my SD card into my laptop, waited for it to be recognized. It was recognized as /dev/sdc in my case.

Then I typed into a console:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc2

tune2fs -i 0 /dev/sdc2

tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sdc2

I used 'cfdisk' as a partition editor and removed my 3rd (swap) partition.

Then I typed 'sync' to safe-remove the card, removed it from my laptop and back into my phone :).

If you're asking to do the same under Windows, sorry I have no idea. Even creating a EXT2/3 partition from within Windows is unknown to me. I create Linux filesystems from within Linux, more easier :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pookie1:
Seems like any themes made already won't work on 2.9. They just send the phone into a bootloop after applying.

I'm guessing as this is based on the new leaked ROM they will all need to be rebuilt again :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BlueHawk:
I've had a lot of problems with the install of the latest. It clobbered all my installed apps so I went through manually re-installing and configuring which was a pain. And some apps wouldn't list in the market place - which was really weird - as some purchased ones showed and other purchased ones didn't and also a few free ones. Thinking of switching back.

Some of the market place stuff might be due to the market place - I noticed I couldn't find Mystique Chapter 2 and Twidroid Pro with either installation now that I've switched back. However, with 2.9, I did notice that some installed apps weren't even listed as installed so something was definitely clobbered with 2.9.

OK. I did a re-install with reboots in between. Everything seems good now. I moved dalvik-cache back to th SD card. 29 Mb of 165 MB internal memory available (ROM). Seems ok. Now monitoring battery - lasted 2.5 to 3.5 days on 2.8.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tianci86:
hi, can someone advise me to on this problem?it's kind of annoying everytime i have to send sms via people>"person to send">send message. i cant reply to the person directly because the phone will recognize the phone number with +country code.

i'm using 2.8 MCR
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ericchik:
Yes. I have windows 7 only. Anyway, thanks for your help!:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] clarkEEE1:
If you want to upgrade to ext4 using Windows if your useing adb at the end where you upgrade_fs which upgrades from ext2 to ext3 you need to quit after that an then

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

this upgrades ext3 to ext4you no longer need the swap partition now compcache is being used.

To check if compcache is working in adb type

adb shell cat /proc/ramzswap
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
Exactly the same for me. Any help would be highly appreciated...! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
I'm getting Sense FC every 5 min or so. Seems really snappy after that, but this is kinda major :(

Also long press power button seems to be set to reboot rather than give options. Which kinda sucks. Going to play around some more and check stuff out
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ericchik:
after i enter

e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

and appear this message

r:\ADB\ADB>adb shell

/ # tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

tune2fs 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)

/ # e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2: recovering journal

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2: 83/244320 files (41.0% non-contiguous), 93587/488281 block

s

I found nothing change and my ext3 was emty now, does it mean fail?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ericchik:
I have same problem with MCR 2.8. My solution is reinstall any app you have install recently. In my case, i remove advance task manager and no more crash again.:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Branwen:
Yeah I think it was the lockscreen theme I put on after. Still feels like its lagging a bit in lists, esp app list. Might go back to 2.8 and compare.

EDIT: That was also causing the Reboot issue. God knows how HTC changed the rom to induce that!

EDIT EDIT: So i've just installed 2.8 with the original kernal, and my god its slow! How did we manage with this? I'm gna stick tek's 1.8 on now.

Also, I think the reason why lists seem laggy is that the behaviour has changed slightly. On the old version it would scroll to the bottom and slow down right at the end, but the new version slows down to stop a bit earlier I think.

Anyway, so after all that, IDK if there is any real difference between the two, so i'm going to put 2.9 on again and give it a bit more time :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Sergio PC:
Thanks Paul, you the man!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] clarkEEE1:
It looks like its failing at 41%, you Need to remove partitions and start again you only need 2 partitions if using the new Rom fat32 then ext2/3/4 remove partitions and start again, I'm using Windows start with ext 2 upgrade to ext3 then them cmd I gave you earlier should work that's the way I did it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dipje:
That 41% has nothing to do with failing. If anything, that is saying that his latest command 'e2fsck' worked ok and is giving a report.

If anything, it looks OK. Extents and journals are enabled on the ext2/ext3 partition so it is now an ext4 partition. The fsck -d makes sure the directories are optimized and this making use of the extents as good as is possible.

You upgraded your ext 2/3 to an ext4 partition. Now all you need to do is use it, and I think the ROM (at least MCR 2.9) does that automaticly.

You say nothing has changed... what did you expect to see changed? You won't see much difference in using an ext3 or ext4 partition. Ext4 is a little bit faster, but if you notice that speed it's all in your head :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shaji007:
arggggh

Plurk is still not working on the update it still says CORE

whyyy?!!

is there no way of me installing plurk without need the extra pack?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oaldawe:
market enabler dos not work in 2.9
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] benlc:
I think I lost root with this update :

I had a little problem during the installation (probably my fault but I did like always for Modaco updates except this time I didn't do a backup), so I used a 3 weeks old backup to restore then reinstall Modaco 2.9.

When I'm on Settings > About Phone > Build number I have : MoDaCo Custom ROM 2.9 Core, SSH password: n--toy

But when I try applications like Autostarts, Wifi tethering etc... it's like just loading when I try to launch an action.

Any idea ? Did I really lose root privileges ?

Edit: Fixed ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
I hope the following helps someone:

Problem: After installing Modaco 2.9 and using the "clear lockscreen" update, pressing the menu button gives you the "HTC sense" crash or "app has crashed". Also, the end key reboots instead of giving options to turn off.

Solution: The clear lockscreen is not compatible with the 2.9 ROM. Because you can't shut off the phone using the end key, you have to pull the battery out, reboot holding the home key to go to recovery image, and reapply the 2.9 ROM (which would automatically get rid of the clear lockscreen).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] risterdid:
great rom paul,

i decided to stick with 2.8 for now.

2.8 + teknologist 1.8 + new .08.22 radio = smooth

btw what adb code do i need to remove "Superuser Permission"