yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bluebug:
Is it anyway to update new 310510 system.sqsh into ext2?

try this way, I update system.sqsh successful just now:

(all in ubuntu 9.10)

1.unsquashfs the new system.sqsh file into one folder, rename the folder as system

2.delete or rename system folder in the sdcard ext2 partition

3.copy the new system folder into the sdcard ext2 partition

4.chmod 777 to the new system folder and all children (I didn't know this step is necessary or not!)

5.reboot the phone

but the wifi can't bring up now!

ok I got it running from http://balsat.hopto.org/android.php
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ByteWrencher:
I was able to sucessfully boot Froyo from the instructions above... not much to be able to do with it yet (I don't think it was able to talk to the radio yet...) I'll try Eclair tomorrow. Thanks for the effort you put in here.

ByteWrencher
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] hermanherz:
I got eclair and froyo working, but they are both not fast enough. But I think it will get better. I didnt try donut, but I think it will work well and very fast.

It tried to port this ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=665139

but i can't get it start without a critical error which leads to a restart of the phone. Someone can help me porting it? This Rom would be running very smooth on Diamond I think :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bheremans:
I tried booting the same thing. I don't think it will be faster than eclair 2.1 though.

I got the same critical errors in the beginnening.

How i tried to boot it.

untarred neopeeks eclair 2.1 to the flash card

removed the system folder

unzipped Super hero 2.1 and copied the system folder to my ext2 card.

Booting this was a failure. Hten I noticed all binaries in the system folder had wrong permissions. SO I adjusted the permissions. I also copied over build.prop and ecluir.build from neopeek package to the system folder.

This files are used to boot and to choose the coorrect rc file in init.cfg folder.

Now i got constant looping of the bootlogo ...

I still have limited knowledge how all this stuff works, but i would like to help porting it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bheremans:
I have superhero sense 2.1 running. but it needs some work.

The image resolution for sense is wrong.

How I did it : Installed neopeeks 2.1

then on second partion deleted al directories in system, except bin direcotry (do not delete build.prop and eclair.conf)

Then unzipped and untarred hte superhero files.

Then copy all directoires in the sytem directory superhero except bin to system directory on ext2 partition.

Then it will boot :-)

probs : wrong resoltion, can't add a google account.

I also updated my zimage and modules with the build from 29 may.

http://glemsom.anapnea.net/android2/htc-msm-linux/

update : also modified init.eclair.rc

change buildpath to : export BOOTCLASSPATH /system/framework/core.jar:/system/framework/ext.jar:/system/framework/framework.jar:/system/framework/android.policy.jar:/system/framework/services.jar:/system/framework/com.htc.framework.jar:/system/framework/com.htc.android.pimlib.jar:/system/framework/com.htc.android.easopen.jar:/system/framework/com.scalado.util.ScaladoUtil.jar

Wifi is working and it seems pretty fast.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
Thank you for sharing info! I have created a new thread for all people who wanna give Android Donut a new try. The compilation consists of 4 Donut builds [SQSH]. I get a benchmark result between 2.2 and 2.5MFLOPS. If anyone is interested then move to this thread. This time I have included some mirrors.

@people: I will update this thread [EXT2] according to "bheremans" news but sorry last days I was playing around with Donut builds. But i will provide you with some Android 2.1 EXT2 Builds in the next days if you are interested.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] vincentchan:
Could you offer a sqsh package?Oh,I say 2.2
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
Sorry vincentchan but we are moving NOSQUASH. Just to inform you: Look into my signature if you wanna SQUASH-Package (Donut builds).

@all: I created a new thread where I will upload Incubus's SuperHero Android 2.1 build which has been successfully ported to our Diamonds. Though it needs some additional work / tuning / bug fixing.

Again this build is going to resist on a EXT2 partition.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Cero92:
I have a strange problem: when my phone goes in standby (by waiting or pressing the "close call" button), i can't get it to wake up again... If i press the "close call" button nothing happens... What should i do?

EDIT: Solved :P
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kdub94:
Help

I have a cdma diamond. I tried to partition my internal storage using ubuntu 10.04 and gparted. I made all the partitions actually like the one in the picture. But when i went to apply it, gparted had a issue and stopped the partitioning.

Now internal storage wont show up on my phone. Please can someone tell me how to get my internal storage back!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
OK! Unmount /dev/sdb1 (2 + 3)

Then open a terminal and type the following

sudo mkfs.msdos /dev/sdb1 (assuming your HTC Storage = Diamond is /dev/sdb it could also be /dev/sdc if you have more than 1 harddisk, so double chek this before doing anything. I am not responsible for what you are doing)

sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb2

Let me know if it worked. if not then I can assist you via Teamviewer.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] AnnihilatorSC:
In my experience swap on Android is useless - counterproductive even - so I never use it. Any experiences to the oposite?

Looking forward to Froyo for native Exchange Calendar sync support...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] GlemSom:
Does anyone have benchmarks comparing squashfs vs ext2 ?

I honestly don't see the point in using ext2, unless there's a huge speed-difference...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bluebug:
ext2 is more better than squashfs, I can modify or replace files in ext2 simply
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mrgelmer:
How do I partitioning my internal storage? I don't understand what to do with partitielabel?

Must I take the type ms-dos?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
For running the builds you will have to create minimum 2 partitions. The first one has to be FAt32 and the second one needs to be EXT2 (I recommend min. 300MB). You may use Gparted liveCD for this or use a terminal and type the commands i listed on my website and the threads
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kdub94:
Thanks so much. It worked! now i just need to figure out how to partition:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
You may read threads in my signature or join SperEclair-group on my website to get support
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kdub94:
I have read all the threads on partitioning. I have partitioned my internal memory, but the problem is that whenever i do that, the internal storage folder doesn't show in my phone. The only why to get it to show is by making the whole file system a fat32. If is add any other partition like ext2, then the internal storage folder won't show. do you know a fix for this?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] pockany:
Why there is 1,17 GB unpartitioned space? Can I add that space to my FAT32 partition?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] neopeek:
It's just for demonstrating purposes. I answered you in your created discussion..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] aiwenor:
Hi, I get this when I try to extract the files on ext2:

bebemic@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /media/neopeeek

bebemic@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb2 /media/neopeek

bebemic@ubuntu:~$ sudo tar -xzvf ~/Desktop/superE-20-06-2010.tar.gz -C /media/neopeek /*

tar: /bin: Not found in archive

tar: /boot: Not found in archive

tar: /cdrom: Not found in archive

tar: /dev: Not found in archive

tar: /etc: Not found in archive

tar: /home: Not found in archive

tar: /host: Not found in archive

tar: /initrd.img: Not found in archive

tar: /initrd.img.old: Not found in archive

tar: /lib: Not found in archive

tar: /lost+found: Not found in archive

tar: /media: Not found in archive

tar: /mnt: Not found in archive

tar: /opt: Not found in archive

tar: /proc: Not found in archive

tar: /root: Not found in archive

tar: /sbin: Not found in archive

tar: /selinux: Not found in archive

tar: /srv: Not found in archive

tar: /sys: Not found in archive

tar: /tmp: Not found in archive

tar: /usr: Not found in archive

tar: /var: Not found in archive

tar: /vmlinuz: Not found in archive

tar: /vmlinuz.old: Not found in archive

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

any help please.

thanks.

got it....solved the problem thanks to iHack13.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] iHack13:
no problem :D

just for your interest

original quote from the neopeek site:

Step 2: Extracting files onto ext2

sudo umount /media/disk-1 /*Notice: this could also be something like /media/disk or /media/disk1223-dsf232 etc.! You have to locate the ext2 filesystem which you have partitioned above */

sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb2

sudo mkdir /media/neopeek

sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb2 /media/neopeek

sudo tar -xzvf ~/Desktop/neopeek_android.tar.gz -C /media/neopeek

/*

Alternatively: Neopeek_Android_2.1.tar.gz oder Neopeek_Android_Froyo.tar.gz */

sudo umount /media/neopeek

see that bad copy-paste of yours? :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] laoniu:
Android Froyo Support the Chinese?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] aiwenor:
yes...i've seen that, thanks iHack13. btw...superE works great...very fast and smooth. only problem is the 3G which it doesn't seem to work...but i'll keep trying and post feedback :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] sayiramkn:
Hi

Even yeah for me too haret started well then went ahead till A N D R O I D. can you tell me how you went inside the android. for me it was strucked on ANDROID screen for ever. i am trying FROYO.

Br
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] badguy999:
Hi.

i need quick help.

I have latest vanila.tar.gz on my desktop in ubuntu.

Step 2: Extracting files onto ext2

How to do the last step?

* sudo tar -xzvf ~/Desktop/neopeek_android.tar.gz -C /media/neopeek /* Alternatively: Neopeek_Android_2.1.tar.gz oder Neopeek_Android_Froyo.tar.gz */

* sudo umount /media/neopeek

I think that -C is wrong in my case.what should it be?

I have Pc with 3 partitions.

1. Win7

2. Data partition for music, games , torrents and with installed ubuntu through ubuntu windows installer

3. Mac partition with leopard

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I also prepard haret on root of internal storage and copied autostart file to root from Startups map in Haret folder.I also edit my account type to administrator (2nd option in settings).And after all is done, how to start haret.exe. From ubunto whe diamond connected? Thank you all!! Someday i could teach the basics to other newbs :)

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I did it. I had to change Desktop to Namizje. -C does something, i guess copy.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] iHack13:
no. in this case -C changes to the neopeek directory
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] badguy999:
Ok.:)

I have another problem. When i enter the pin code in android it always shows incorrect pin , but its not.If i cancel to enter the pin, i move to the lockscreen page with 2 sliders,for lock and sound profile change.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] csiko:
partitioning problem

sorry for my bad english...

in my case we the correct command line that into the console writing?

the console message:command not found...

Picture=spam???

why I do not know a picture to load up?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ykenkre:
hi

i m using HTC Diamond and i would like to know if i can upgrade my phone with Androide operating system... pls let me know,

Many thanks,

Yatindra
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] AnnihilatorSC:
Why not simply use a standard "flat" uncompressed loopback file-backed filesystem instead of squashfs? No repartitioning needed, speed pretty much maintained.
[General Accessories] joehankin:
Has anyone heard about new cases available for the HTC Desire.

I've had a case from Dragonfly for a while, but it has started cracking now and I fancy something new.

Has anyone got a good suggestions?
[General Accessories] ddotpatel:
search for GEL cases off ebay.

Haven't got a desire, but got one on my Hero and it looks fantastic.

Don't get RUBBER or SILICONE, they're weak!
[General Accessories] joehankin:
I've done a bit of research and I think I might look in to a Case-Mate case.

Has anyone had one before.

I don't want it to crack like me current has...
[General Accessories] captainstu72:
I agree with DDotPatel

I have used used gel cases on basically all of my phone and I have never had an issue with them, the protection they provide is great, and its not too thick either.
[General Accessories] ddotpatel:
Which one, there's a few different ones. They selling the gel ones for $15,... WTH.

Ebay gel cases, cheap as chips!
[General Accessories] joehankin:
The gelli range of cases from case-mate seem to be good value.

I have seen them on sale for about £14.99...
[General Accessories] arrie25:
hello..My old case start cracking and i like to buy new case for my HTC that is stylish and attractive...i search a lot but i am unable to find case of my choice..please anyone know about any website that provide stylish and good looking cases
[General Accessories] johnlaujl:
Agree. They have very good comments in Amazon.
[General Accessories] netimes.com:
Personally I am not a great fan of bulky case so I like something lightweight and slim back cover and gives basic protection.

Ordering 2 of these plus postage is roughly $10 from NeTimes ;)
[HD2 General] Beefheart:
Is there any way of doing this? I want to map my windows button to open up SPB Mobile Shell's Favourites/Recently Used menu instead.
[HD2 General] bgwillson:
If you go to SPB settings you can change the 'Launcher' button to do that - no need to remap the hardware keys. :)
[HD2 General] Beefheart:
I know that, I would like to also map the button though.
[HD2 General] elburna:
Yep, me too but without using AE Buttons Plus...
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
I really miss a few features on my HTC Hero. Sadly it seems like the Hero was much more userfriendly when it comes to hardware design choices.

1. PenTile Matrix Display freaks me out. I can see the rough edges very easily. Makes my eyes having problems with focusing because the edges seem blurry. I have read a lot about this problem prior to getting an Desire so i shouldn't complain. Still it's much more visible than some people try to make it sound. Especially in white text/ black background.

2. Hardware Buttons: Call Buttons...yeah everybody can see that the Desire doesn't have those, and that's not my main gripe. My MAIN problem is that i can't wake this damn screen with ANY other button than the POWER Button, which happens to be positioned at the most uncomfortable position available. It was so much more user friendly on the Hero where i can wake and unlock the screen by two hardware buttons at the bottom.

3. Android Market is SLOW: Why is the Android market like 500 times slower to start a download than my old hero?

4. trackpad: the trackwheel for the hero was more precise.

5. color saturation. welcome to the candy land! Reds and orange colors burn into your eyes. some people like that.

6. it killed my microsd card...well ok i don't know if this is the desires fault but still: suddenly my sd card was shown as faulty. On the PC is works without any problems, but i had to format it in order to use it with the desire.

Of course there are some good things too, like the speed. The desire is really fast, but not THAT much faster than the Milestone. And the overall built quality is great.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Everything you mention is why I LOVE my Desire - vibrant colours, awesome screen, optical pad instead of ball which only ends up breaking/getting clogged with dust...can't fault it IMO (except the Market, it is a bit slow but meh)
[Desire General] cez10:
according to your point nr 6. did you always safety remove it after plugging in to the PC ?
[Desire General] Bl@ck:
well i'm sort of used with the "power button to wake the device" since i had a winmo device before the desire, so i don't really see it as a bad thing :P

i'm using windows 7 64bit and never did that, my sd card was show as faulty once so i powered off the phone took out the card, putted in my pc and saw that everything was working fine, putted it again in the phone and never had a problem again.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
awesome screen? Have you seen the Motorola Droid live?

About the colors, they are not reproduced correctly as many tests have proven. But i already said that this is also a personal preference.

But the bad resolution quality (comapred to the droid) of the PenTile Matrix display is not a matter of preference, because nobody would prefer the PenTile concept compared to the usual RGB per Pixel approach.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
no, and actually i believe this was the problem. I only unmounted the sd card using the desire/hero, but never ejected the card on windows prior to that. Just recently i found out that i have to eject the card via windows before unmounting it.
[Desire General] Stafflover:
#1

You say I shouldn't complain... then don't ;) I don't have any problems with my eyes.

#2

Why would you need call buttons? My screen turns on as soon as I pull it from my ear (proximity sensor) quite easy to touch the big red bar then isn't it?

#3

My market doesn't appear to be any slower, and download is only improved, I have a 20 mbit connection and with my hero on wifi I would max get 500kb/s

The desire reaches full connection speed @ 1500kb/s so download from market is a lot faster.

#4

More precise but it got dirty very quick, mine even changed color from white to yellowish (maybe I should stop smoking) but not only nicotine sticks to it. Everything sticks to it.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I've not seen the Droid, nor do I want to. Motorola phones are some of the WORST I've ever had the pleasure (or not) to use. I've no issues with the Desire's screen and bar the slight pink issue I can't fault it.

As said, this is all personal opinion but putting a thread about why you hate a device in the forum where people who love it frequent is asking to get flamed!! ;)
[Desire General] samac92:
He only hates a few parts of it, not the whole thing, what's wrong with that?

I agree on most points, though this is my first android phone. The first thing I noticed when I turned it on was the jagged line thing because of the pentile display, its no way near as nice looking as a display should be with that ppi. It kind of defeats the point of a hi res screen.

But other than that and the fact that sense sucks compared to stock ui, I love this phone
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I must either not have this jagged line or not noticed it but I have no idea what you're on about! :D
[Desire General] samac92:
lol you will have it as it's impossible to not. Its easiest to notice on the edge of each key on the keyboard. You can quite clearly see the individual pixels, which you shouldn't really see on a high res screen
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
your eyes probably don't notice it, which is actually very good in this case.

Sadly my eagle eyes can see it very clearly. I just have to wait a few year, then i won't see the problems either. :)

But believe me the Motorola Milestone Display is just better by a huge margin. I had a testdevice for my blog for about 2 months, and the display is fantastic.

samac92 is completely right, when he says that the pentile technology defeats the point of having a (pseudo) WVGA resolution. If you ever have the chance to compare the Motorola droid vs. Desire display, do it. The difference is huge, because the droid has real WVGA resolution as every pixel has RGB color informations, while pentile pixel only have two color informations per pixel.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I've got perfect 20/20 vision, I just probably haven't looked close enough tbh - a slightly jagged keyboard really doesn't bother me. Coming from the HD2 with it's huge (but washed out) screen this is a god send and easily the best phone I've had...and I've had a lot!!

No doubt something else will come out in future but for now I honestly have no issues with the Desire. If I did I'd be rid of it

Plus, the Milestone is a HORRID looking phone...nothing new there, eh Moto?? ;)
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
#1: i was hoping that the pentile problem wasn't as bad. But sadly it is quite bad indeed.

#2 i don't need call buttons at any cost, i need hardware buttons at the bottom of the device (don't care if its a call button or any other button) which can wake up the screen, and put it so sleep mode. I don't want to reach out to the power button every time, as this is not a natural movement when holding the device with one hand.

Also redialing using the "start call" button was very comfortable as you would directly open the dialer app. It's quicker than having to use a shortcut app on the homescreen imho.

#3 not the download itself is slower. but the time that passes until the download starts. There are time where i have to wait for 3-4 minutes until the download starts. Having a good downstream is great, but on my hero i have the app installed before the download starts on the desire on some occasions.
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
you are right, the HD2 was somehow blurry and washed out.

The sad thing is that i don't have to look close to see the rough edges on the desire display. i can see it very easily.

But you really miss out on the milestone display, you don't have to wait for future devices to blow out the desires display out of the water. After seeing that milestone magic, the desire display is just no contest anymore. I would have opted for the milestone, but other than the display the desire just has much better hardware specs like RAM and CPU. i also like sense.

And the milestone doesn't have the new launcher style of the N1 after the 2.1 update, but still the plain old boring android 1.x launcher.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
I wouldn't be caught dead with the Milestone - every review I've read has said it's crap and a screen just isn't enough to have a phone I'm afraid...

Desire FTW!!
[Desire General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
hmm very interesting as nearly all known media like engadget and gizmodo as well as all big media in germany really praised this device.

I praised it on my blog review too. And i'm definetly not preferring motorola usually. I'm a HTC fan starting from MDA Compact (HTC Magician) days a decade ago. :)

The Milestone was the first real killer Android device which sold some impressing numbers. Of course the HTC Hero wasn't bad either, but it didn't have the impact that the droid/milestine had.
[Desire General] ShugM:
Well I've just looked long and hard at the keyboard and I can't see any individual pixels.

But I am 40, so that might be another benefit of getting older.
[Desire General] sbcdk:
It was the very first thing I noticed on the Desire, even though it took me a while to find what it was. I don't think good or bad eyesight has anything to do with us noticing or not noticing the PenTile issue. I also see issues on HD tv's and expensive HD Projectors, that no one else sees. And no, my vision is far from perfect. I don't wear glasses, but other than that, my sight is average at the most. So I guess it has to do with how your brain process the visual input. Oh, and I am over 40 too :)