yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software Development] naguz:
Aha, it makes sense that booting the sd directly from recovery mode would mess something up. I would think some of the same problems would be faced when booting the kernel from the recovery partiotion, doesn't it look like a different device to the kernel? Well, if it works, it works. :P

Regarding the source of the SPL, I have no idea, but I know hyakuro (a (former?) user here) has released a modified one. Trying to get in touch with him

As for the latest method: Is the recovery partiotion big enough to hold both the recovery image AND the kernel? If so, one could maybe have both. Maybe make a new "recovery image" that can either boot from sd or boot recovery image? Just throwing out ideas here.

Personally I don't see the big problem with not having a recovery image, as I would (in a dual-boot scenario) already have another, working install on the flash that I could use if the one booted from sd wasn't good enough. Re-flashing the recovery image could also be done from the working ROM in flash, for those without the SDK tools.

I think, however, that quite a few people will object to not having a recovery image.

Btw, was your latest working test done with one (4th) partition on the sd card for loading the ROM from SD? If so, new instructions please. I'd like to give it a try. :)
[Android Software Development] jahrome:
I think that it is technically impossible to boot directly from the sd, even with the sources of the SPL as drivers are required to drive the sd that can not be included in a SPL. It is the same issue on PC with PCMCIA network cards for instance. IPL+SPL has to be seen more or less like a simple BIOS...

The recovery partition size is not a matter her. The problem is the lack of control over what has to be booted as the only action we can make in the SPL is the HOME key to choose a regular boot or a recovery boot (the system on SD here). I think I have a good knowledge now of the boot process and I think we can not got further than that, despitely...

I am now trying to have /data and /system on the same partition, mount them on /mnt and bind mount each directory on /system and /data but with no succes :(. investigating....
[Android Software Development] jahrome:
Okay, bind mounting was a dumb idea of mine. The solution is to create an extended partition with 2 logical drives in it, so partitions are:

[1-3] FAT and/or EXTX and/or swap as needed (I have personnaly just one partition here)

4 extended

5 ext2 for /data

6 ext2 for /system

Now its time to bake a boot.img with the kernel of the system on the sd card + the ramdisk. I do not explain how to do that, google knows ;) :

1.

In the ramdisk image, put my modified init program attached hereater

2.

In the init.rc script, change the lines that mount /data and /system :

mount yaffs2 mtd@system /system

mount yaffs2 mtd@system /system ro remount

with

mount ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 /system

and

mount yaffs2 mtd@userdata /data nosuid nodev

with

mount ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /data

Flash boot.img on the recovery and reboot in recovery... That's all.
[Android Software Development] Dale Miller:
Jahrome,

Trying the idea on the HTC has a subtle difference. So I'm curious what change you put in the /init process.

Lets say the image one wants to use is the 'eclair' branch. This branch uses vold, so the block device, such as '/dev/block/mmcblk0p#', does not appear to be created until the vold service is started, which is after the init.rc mount operations. So the mount proposed does not work.

Curious what changes you made to the init process that might give me some ideas of what might be the simplest change. It seems that there is a relatively easy solution, that I don't yet see.

Ideas (or additional questions to clarrify) appreciated...
[Android Software Development] jahrome:
Hi Dale !

On which HTC are you trying the trick ?

First your trouble is not related to eclair as I successfully booted eclair on my G1 with this trick. You need to add a timeout in init so as it waits for the kernel to detect sd card partitions (need to recompile init, or use my recompiled init).

Vold has nothing to do at this point :)

Hope this helps
[Android Software Development] Dale Miller:
Init Delay for SDisk

Thanks for the reply. That's what I needed, it seems so ungraceful.

I thought vold was enabling something to make the kernel's discovery of the SD partitions. It is "by coincidence" that the log of the vold occured shortly before the adding of the block-device event. My apologies for not recognizing the coincidence of the log entries.

I had hoped the solution was a bit more "graceful", though I can't say what that would be or why a sleep is "ungraceful". I would like a "mount retry for n-seconds" option in the init.rc, that would be slick. Nonetheless I will add in a sleep-spin-check for a few seconds.

For the record, we are discussing the change to:

android-source: .../system/core/init/init.c

code-routine: main()

code-location: Somewhere after the "A N D R O I D" text

code-change: add in a sleep spin-check of some sort

I appreciate the comment that all we need is just a sleep. I think this completes the thread?!
[Android Software Development] Vermithrax:
Most interesting...

This is something akin to how I am using my company's Android solution for the Beagle Board...

In that environment, the entire kernel and rootfs are located on a SD/MMC card. The environment variables and boot script are stored in the NAND chip

through a "setenv" command. The U-boot monitor on the hardware defaults to run the boot script unless there is any user interaction. This image can then be converted into a typical distribution that can be flashed and ran without the SD card...

I have wondered about the implementation of this approach on my G1, but I have not had time to test it out. It is good to see that there are others that are interested in this as well...

I will be following this thread and will try to help in any way if I can... meaning if I can get some free time...

If you are interested in our Beagle Board solution, it is open source and can be found by a simple Google search using "Android rowboat"...

L8R...
[Android Software Development] mssmison:
very easy fix.

rename the /init to /init.android (or whatever you like)

create an init script. have it prompt on boot too boot from sd or internal. symlink the init.rc from /system. That way you only need one boot.img for multiple builds. We've been doing this a really long time on the android on vogue project. My development phone is simple, I hold down the menu button if I want to boot from the sdcard otherwise it boots from the internal.

Oh and don't worry about this.

That's just that you don't have HW3D enabled in your kernel. It's important to note that if you're trying to use multiple builds that eclair with 3d and donut use different kernels.
[Android Software Development] zenulator:
Exactly the vogue and kaiser have been doing this for ages. If you want you can also boot ext2 and squashfs images. It's pretty simple stuff.
[Android Software Development] andr_tester:
Anyone have a backup of the files in post #3? I've been trying this solution with files of my own creation (as in: my own cooked boot.img, and data/system files) but it doesn't seem to get past the G1 boot screen (as in: blank screen.) I've also tried the recovery boot solution however it gives me the same reaction. It leads me to believe the problem lies in my boot file.
[Android Software Development] nicandris:
ok anyone interested in creating a simple step by step manual? and can someone post the files again please?
[Android Software Development] MChallenge:
Getting an ERRNO error ENODEV* for both partitions on the SDCARD when following the 3rd post instructions. What could be the problem?

("No such device; An attempt was made to apply an inappropriate function to a device; for example, trying to read a write-only device such as a printer")

mmcblkp0# is the mount point of the sdcard on the G1. I can't seem to find the same thing in the Nexus One. Is there a different identifier we can use for mount to do this (label?)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] tomfreay:
Hi,

I've made an app for the Hero which uses the light sensor as a proximity sensor, but the magic has the same sensor I believe so could someone kindly download it and test please? Its in the market, just search Proximity Sensor

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] dskid807:
Didn't work on my 32B Voda Magic. I'm pretty sure the magic has no light sensor though.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] tomfreay:
Thanks for testing, did it just FC?

Don't know if it does have a sensor, but this place has a review where they say "On top of the display is the earpiece, flanked by an ambient light sensor and the status LED."

Anyone know for sure?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] dskid807:
It ran and I followed the instruction of covering the light sensor etc. but nothing happened.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] snudel:
no, the magic has no light sensor.

there is a place for that, but it has no light sensor.

we ttried already when we ported hero roms. but there is none.

just the hero has a light sensor. the magic not.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] tomfreay:
Ok thanks for the confirmation, shame!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Rosco911:
revie on Gsm arena says there is a light sensor

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_magic-review-377p2.php
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] snudel:
they are wrong then.

we had this discussion when hero roms came out
[General Questions and Answers] mcikojevic:
How to make incomming text message box bigger?
[General Questions and Answers] petzku:
Original message from Rhodium forum:

Ben van Seggelen:

I'm searching for a way to see the week numbers in the agenda in TF3 on my Rhodium. For the Dutch ROM its called "agenda", I don't know if it's "calendar" for the English ROM, but I assume its the same thing.

If you have any information about week numbers, please tell cause im lost

Kind regards,

Ben
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sane1:
So, I had facebook for android installed and recently update to cyanogens latest ad somehow it got deleted. Could have been a theme that removed it, as I didn't notice it until after I applied a theme. The icon was still on my home screen, but not in the app tray and the widget is gone.

Anyway I when into the market and it says its installed, its not and the option to uninstall or open is grayed out.

Any way to fix this?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jairomeo:
In order to get it fixed for me I had to go into adb and

adb shell
rm -r /system/app/com.facebook.katana
rm -r /data/data/com.facebook.katana
exit
adp push Facebook.apk /system/sd/app

The app still didn't work but I was then able to uninstall it in the market and reinstall the market version and it has worked fine.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sane1:
I get "can not remove /system/app/com.facebook.katana"
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rp1783:
The reason you're getting that, is because it doesn't exist in that directory, try the second command, and see if it gives you the same error.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yozpalang:
put the apk on sd and try this :

1. Open a Terminal Window:

2. Type the following:

- su

- mount /system -o remount,rw

- cd /sdcard

- cp "appname".apk /system/app
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sane1:
Thats what I thought and I get the same error with the other command.

This was my next step, but, don't have the apk. Anyone care to upload it or send me a link?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yozpalang:
http://www.androidspin.com/downloads...e=Facebook.apk
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sane1:
Not Found

The requested URL /downloads...e=Facebook.apk was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yozpalang:
this is where i got it http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=582302
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sane1:
Got it! Thanks all for the help. Installed and working now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garethclement2009:
First post here so be nice, i'm just wondering if or when 2.0 or 2.1 comes will it include the changes from 1.6?

Also does the update include file transfer through Bluetooth? and lastly does anyone know the release date for the " real" update/rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mancsoulja:
HTC have not announced a release date for the official eclair rom, all they have said is there are currently trying to port sence to this new os, it will most prob be out some time during Q1 2010 :D
[HD2 General] tommywu7:
I need dump data----Part01.raw Part02.raw~~~~

If someone can supply it.

I will give you Leo KitchenTool~~~~~
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ths_:
Has anyone noticed that games that previously ran fine on Cyanogen now run horrible on both the latest Cyanogen and Dwang roms?

The roms themselves run (nearly) flawlessly so I was curious how a game would run slower.

Thoughts?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
I have not had this issue... all of my games run perfectly fine.

If it is a 3d game, you know those do not run on dwang right... they should work fine with cyan's rom though.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaoloWeckl:
roms with ram hack have a decrease of 3d performance, is it correct?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
^ correct.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ths_:
I can't remember which game I initially tried, it was a space shooter. Not 3d. Next I tried iDracula (I loved it for the iPhone) and it ran about 1fps on Dwang and about 5fps on Cyanogen.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legend221:
If possible you might want to use the Rom Im running/ See info on my signature. Everything is as good as it can get at the moment. Im pretty sure Cyanogen is probably going to make the next release like this Rom release to please us hopefully.

not 100 percent sure if you CAN downgrade however. Use the search feature...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anartic:
Downgrading should be like flashing any other rom.

@OP

What games are running slow for you? I have noticed bad fps in Parallel Kingdom, but I thought that the game was normally like that.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ths_:
I only began to care about this when iDracula ran horrible on both these roms. It saddened me greatly. Such a fun little game.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legend221:
Many thanks Anartic, good tip!

==

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ths_ send me the apk if its free.. ill test it from my end and let you know if its laggy.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] apc_monk:
So here is my problem, woke up this morning and tried to unlock my phone to check my emails that I got over the night. Was unable to unlock phone, soft button would recognize my touch and light up but would not respond. If i open the keyboard I can unlock and proceed normally and that corner of the screen will respond find. Once I close the keyboard and go into portrait all of the TF3d menus in the bottom L/H side will light up but not open. Last program I installed several days ago was LockDevice v1.6 I have had it running for 2 days with no problems.

I was running stock Verizon Rom with 6.1 and TF3D. I did a hard reset to clear everything to the factory settings and still have the problem. Any ideas?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ryotgz:
Have you tried taking the battery out for 3 minutes and seeing that helps? My guess would be no if the hard reset didn't work. Another attempt would be to see if you can try to re-flash the stock rom.
[HD2 General] andreact77:
Hello,

i have installed s2u2 on my htc hd2 but when i recive a phone call appear htc dialer and s2u2 full screen interface so i have to slide both to answer. any solution?

Thanks
[HD2 General] wilcovh:
you might want to read the sticky "Leo hints and tips" before posting. tip 27 to be specific.
[HD2 General] here4info:
I like it when people tell noobs to search before asking, yet point to the solution. That should be the way to do it. Thanks wilcovh!
[HD2 General] andreact77:
pay attention

both of you should read better to avoid to make stupid mistake. i asked about the double dialer when i recive a phone call (htc and s2u2) and not about the double screen lock

so next time read better thanks
[HD2 General] aussiebum:
just go to S2U2 settings and disable the S2U2's slide to answer call phone functionality then. it's probably incompatible with the HD2 dialer.
[HD2 General] andreact77:
S2u2

Thanks Aussiebum, so is it becouse s2u2 has some problem with Leo that i can't use s2u2 full screen caller? i prefer s2u2 becouse i can see big picture when i recive phone call. no other solutions?

Thanks again
[HD2 General] aussiebum:
Possibly, I haven't personally used the S2U2 slide to answer functionality for ages since it was never particularly snappy. I'd go to the S2U2 thread and ask A_C if I were you.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] djwarden:
Hey guys..

Just flashed to a wm 6.5 rom and the text input has only qwerty input keys..

Is there any apps that can change it back to the standard fone layout ?

thanx :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] fred_up:
Have you held down on the keyboard icon (bottom-centre of screen). It should after about a second come up with the choice of the different keyboards that are installed.
[HD2 General] ctunnicliffe01:
My original screen lock has gone all of a sudden. Theres no lock icon that i can slide. Instead my phone just says ' to unlock the device tap unlock' .

Bit weird. Id like the original slider back if possible. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] KB24@CL:
press the windows button on the left side of the taskbar

then go down and press lock

it starts working again...its a common bug of the newer roms.
[HD2 General] Humpe:
Suddenly my lock slider disappered too. Pressing the windows button and choose lock makes it work once but when I've unlocked it with the slider and set the phone to standby it won't appear again. Help... Very annoying.
[HD2 General] Nit3m4re:
Installing the HeartofWolf lock screen might fix it.. I never had this problem but it basically moves the lock slider to the bottom of the screen. Might also keep it up always and rule out this bug in sense.. :)
[HD2 General] Humpe:
It did move the slider to the bottom (Which was nice) but it did not solve my problem that the slider won't show up when I wake up the device :-(
[HD2 General] tsttse:
Which is the exact cab that i need the slide bar down? I saw a list of HeartOfWolf cabs and didn't want to experiment one after the other to make sure it worked with Sense & HD2... Cheers...
[HD2 General] Humpe:
The one I tried was HeartofWolf Lockscreen fix v4 transparent.cab
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zeroplace:
I did my searching here and google and cant seem to find out how to get the WEP 128bit Encryption to work on my MT3G. I have enabled it in the settings and it still shows unsecure on my laptop when connecting.

Phone info:

Firmware - 1.5

Baseband - 62.50S.20.17U_2.22.19.26I

Kernal - 2.6.29-drizzy-drake barak@barak-toshiba #33

ROM - MyHero2.2

Build - 3.03.703.3 Over

Any help would be great!

Thank you in advance.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fabioccoelho:
But work or not? Do u try getting download any app to wifi security in the Market?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zeroplace:
I have not. This featured has worked on previos ROMs and now that I have found a ROM that is fast and suits me, it does not work. I'm sure it has something to do with the IPTables or wpa_supplicant file, but I do not know enough about that to fix it. Hints why Im asking for help.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] harry_m:
so, you are using that "myhero"-rom ... right? which version of wpa_supplicant is installed? type "wpa_supplicant -v" in a console. i bet it's v0.5.10!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zeroplace:
I am running the MyHero2.2 and you are correct... the wpa_supplicant version is v0.5.10. Should I have another version? How would one get it and install it?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] harry_m:
wep-encryption does not work on ANY hero-rom. see here for instance: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=194#c39

if you want wep-encryption take another rom for your sapphire. this is a rom-related issue:

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=166#c14
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zeroplace:
I will look at that Harry. Thanks. I have had the encryption working on a few Hero ROMS before. I may just have to revert back to one of the older ones til a new one comes out. I like the look and feel of the Hero on my MT3G over the Normal Android. Its not as boring. :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] stevecn70:
I'm a little noobish when it comes to building roms. Right now I'm using Ervius kitchen and I can add/remove packages and all sorts of things just fine. My problem is when I want to put a newer OS in I run into a problem when I flash the device. No matter what OS I try, when I flash, I get to the "preparing your device for first use" progress bar, it completes and then I just get a white screen which never goes past.

The steps I'm taking are:

1. Take the OS files which include a SYS folder and an XIPKernel Folder.

2. Copy SYS folder into the SYS folder of the Kitchen

3. Create a new folder in ROM\RHODIUM named : 2xxxx and copy XIPKernal Folder to there.

4. In the ROM\Shared folder, copy one of the ones there and paste and renamed to the 2xxxx name in step 3.

5. Rebuild Rom and send to device.

Am I missing a step here, two other people told me that above is what I need to do but it never works.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] rgb-rgb:
I created a guied for Da_G's Raphael Kitchen. You can use the guide for the Rhodium and everywhere you see Raphael in the Guide, just change it to Rhodium. The guide tells you to copy the EXT folder to a new build number also, but you don't really have to do this. I am using Ervius Kitchen 1.8.2 without any problems.

Here is the link to the guide. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4288317&postcount=197

Hope it helps you get things going.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Martasdx:
hi,

i would like to ask anyone, which apllication you use for IM messaging like MSN, ICQ, Jabber ...

I bought LEO 2 days ago and I cant find good apllication which support jabber, msn and icq together. I used Slick(lonelycatgames) with Kaiser, but now, on LEO it doesnt work...

Some idea which apllication use?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] barty22:
Shape Services IM+
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Martasdx:
better isnt?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] barty22:
IMO it's the very best Windows Mobile IM app. And it supports all IM services you mentioned and a lot more. Only thing is that it could be a little bit more finger-friendly, but the leo's screen is big :) And yes, it works on the HTC HD2.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] evorgevol:
I use palringo, works flawlessly for me!

Edit: Oh yeah, and it's free! :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Archer:
+1 for palringo. Very good bit of kit.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] PapaKev:
Another good program is Pigeon.

You can get it from http://getbest.ru/
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] greatcapp:
Can I ask you guys using Palringo - does it eat your battery? When I had it on my handset, I would lose 10% battery an hour. Since removing it, i lose 1% per hour.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gilgha:
Hi :) ,

I've got a HTC Magic 32A that comes from Belgium (Proximus).

Since this afternoon, it has very a big carrier network issue.

It has very big difficulties to connect to my carrier network !

And when it's connected, it lasts only a few seconds before being disconnected again.

It was on Cyanogen's ROM 4.2.6 and I tought that update made my baseband crash. So I downgraded to 4.2.5 but same problem again. Finaly I restored my original ROM with Nandroid and made a hard reset but it still doesn't work :( !

I really don't know what to do so please, help!