yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Fordude:
I don't notice any difference.

Quadrant results for me:

SlideM and SlideMeroot5r1

Quadrant on Wesblend Sense 1.0.1 - 381

Quadrant on SlideM - 387
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poacher2010:
Tried it out, but liking slideM more. Good work Wes... keep it up.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] chrisinaz:
Some people.....

Seriously, if you don't like what the Devs are putting out, then don't flash the rom, don't root your phone, and even better yet, don't post here.

I see thread after thread on here with people complaining and talking down about what some people are doing for FREE. They don't owe you anything.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Updated Known Issues

Known Issues:

* WiFi is broken (but WiFi tether works)

* There are some issues with su in root apps

* OpenVPN is missing a library

* Some LWPs may FC (please create an issue in Google Code)

* Android IME is in /system/app but not in Keyboard settings

* This isn't CM6 FroYo
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Hey, sounds like there are issues if you have an ext4 partition for a2sd

Are you guys using a2sd? If so, what kind of partition is it?

http://code.google.com/p/wgbuild/issues/detail?id=23

Please put a comment on there with your results
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] poacher2010:
I think its funny that people flash new roms without even reading what it is... Wes clearly stated it isn't CM6 Froyo yet people flash expecting it to be... I bet if a Dev posts a rom stating "DO NOT FLASH, THIS WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!", someone will flash it and complain that their phone got bricked. People, you need to thank all devs for their hard work getting the MT3GS this far, remember, without them, you wouldn't be where you are today. Froyo is still in the freezer cooling down to the proper texture. Give it time and it will be more delicious than you hoped.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Scratch that, boot will fail if you are using an EXT4 partition, you must use EXT2/3

In 1.0.2 I will restrict it to only attempt to use 2/3
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] htcclay:
Confirmed...

Won't fully finish flashing the update with ext4 here.

Freezes at about 50%...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Fordude:
I mentioned this in post #9 - ran into this while flashing SlideMeRoot5r1 yesterday as well.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tubaking182:
i tried that once and got banned, got tired of people asking for simple scripts that did everything for them and said here with a link and disclaimer that phone will not work anymore and got a 3 day vacation. people are ungrateful around here and i can see why many of our devs have left or are finding new homes to post their work.

great work wes, appreciate your work enough to make up for the nay sayers, will flash when downloaded and see what there is to report(no a2sd being used here)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Royalknight6190:
These kind of comments do not help the community at all. If you want to whine then do it in your bedroom away from the computer. There is no place for comments like this on these forums. you have been warned. Thank you wes for doing what you do. You rock. I have been a loyal follower since your work on the G1. Keep it up.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
The Sad part is! We do it for Fun, we Do it in our Free Time! We do it for Free!

and yet people still want to complain :(
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tubaking182:
and that is why we love you guys, we can't figure this sh*t out on our own(though i wish i could) and so we rely on you guys that know what the hell is going on
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] enatefox:
wes, you are my hero. also, i dont own a slide but if i did... this. this would be on this phone i don't own
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] eugene373:
Wes, You Renamed Latte.rc to Espresso.rc in the Boot.img.. Change it back and you will be Golden!!

That's why wifi & bt is broken.. Hope Thats Helps.

~Eugene
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] epeets:
[Known Issues]

*This isn't CM6 Froyo

That's hilarious!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Is there an easy way to do this ourselves to give it a shot?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] akapunchy:
is it possible to get sum screen shots or does anyone know where some are?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] goodwinm:
Hilarious... or sad. Sad that he has to put it in or people will complain about it...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
fixed wifi and bt with jp4756's help (danged linux) basically changed init.espresso.rc to init.latte.rc and HOLY HELL THIS THING IS FAST!!! people, check it out if you got time... you'll be surprised at the speed!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stangri:
Can you share the fixed ROM?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dragon4000:
Thanks, this rom is flying!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] heybobitsme:
I PM'ed you a question. :D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
There will be a front page post later today for it with screenshots =D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Thanks for updating this, Wes. Downloaded and flashing now...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
****. Wes, got an error trying to flash this...

E:Error in /sdcard/WG-Slide-v1.0.2.zip

(Status 0)

Installation aborted.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
THANKS!!!!

Thanks Wes! Donations headed your way tomorrow! :D
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Tried re-flashing immediately after error -- phone froze in installation process. Pulled battery, wiped data, tried to re-flash. Successful install this time. Rebooted the phone and it was stuck in a boot-loop at the "T-Mobile MyTouch Slide" screen. Feh.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Other than the Sense stuff being on it, looks like a damned fine rom. Thanks Wes :)

Edit: Oh, and #blamewes
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] igloo77055:
HMm I'm also getting a boot loop Not sure why, I wiped then flashed...

I'm not using any ext partition on my sdcard, is that why?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I've got ext3 on mine. Still ain't workin'...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Also stuck on bootscreen

Same here...ext2 on mine...stuck on bootscreen. What gives, homeslice? :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
wes, eugene is totally the one that found the mistake and pointed it out, i just sent you that fixed image to employ. thats all.. oh btw, after a day (12 hours of tech school, little texting, little interwebs) shes got about 80 percent batt life left if that gives yall some idea on the batt lifecycle of this rom
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] savethechicken:
I'm stuck on the Boot screen also. I wiped flashed, waited about 10 minutes on the screen and then pulled the battery wiped and flashed again. Same results. I flashed SlideRootme5 I think and it booted fine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
You didn't get stuck at the bootscreen?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
nope sure didnt
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Hmm, I may get it just for that. The Sense UI really turns me off, and I've been happy with Eugene's vanilla SMR5r1 rom, but the battery life is slightly on the low side...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Well ,I wiped and flashed and also got the boot loop. Flashed back to SMR5r1... has anyone found a reason for this? My ext was ext2.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] TrueBlue_Drew:
I'm Having the same problem...havent seen any responses to a fix yet on here or twitter.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Could you post your current configuration, please, since your sig doesn't contain the correct ext...as ext4 doesn't work for this rom. Thank ya very much.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] akapunchy:
appreciate dat
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] here.david:
Won't boot

I also did a wipe and flashed three times still no go, tried new SDCARD too, went back to SLIDE MR1...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
its just a basic fat32 8gig class 2 card.. nothing special, just make sure you wiped beforehand.. thats a big thing
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
You were able to get WesBlend 1.0.2 to flash and boot? Seriously?

I wiped and was unable to do so. That was with a 16 GB class 10 card with a 1GB ext3 partition. Maybe I should try again with a pure FAT card...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] flyf0rawhiteguy:
Mine's a go...

Don't know why this works but it worked for me:

1. Flash WG-Slide-v1.0.2.zip

2. reboot from clockwork back into recoveryflash again.

3. Voilla! :)

Thanks Wes. (and Eugene for getting mine rooted)

fyi: watch your logcat for some help troubleshooting...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Epic FAIL!

EPIC FAIL, yet again for me. I wiped, flashed...rebooted back into clockworkmod again...and it stalls in the Installing system...stage, in the flashing process. Please help, Wes or Eug. This looks to be a kickass Rom, if flashable. Sigh.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] kingofyo1:
did you mount /system?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] grrrizo:
This may be a dumb q,but do we need to mount b 4 flashing? I've never mount/system before i flashed any other rom and they all installed fine ,but w this one i get bootloop.Any help would b appreciated,would love to try this rom now that wifi works.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
I think he means mounting system in Clockwork recovery through the partitions menu before you wipe your phone. I could be wrong but I remember him doing that in the video tutorial for installing a custom ROM. I'll post back with the result of this later when I flash this ROM.

EDIT: Didn't work. Got stuck at the bootscreen. I tried to wipe it a few different ways, mounting system, not mounting system. adb logcat wasn't working for me for some reason. It kept returning an error. I should have copied it but stupid me didn't think about it until after I flashed SLIDEMEROOT again.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] grrrizo:
ok thanks for looking into it.I tried mounting then wiping and i no longer get boot loop,just gets stuck on boot screen now
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
No dice...

Definitely shows mounted...so many people are having problems....can you send us a pic of it actually installed? That'd be much appreciated. What's it look like? Thanks! :-)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Can't mount sd-ext????

What's it mean when I go to mount /sd-ext in clockworkmod, and it says

E:Can't mount /dev/block.mmcblk0

p2

(No such device)

Error mounting SDEXT:!

Why doesn't the ext partition mount? Is THIS the reason it won't flash? What's going down here? :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] RaffieKol:
Just like everyone else stuck at the Boot Screen ?????????
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] riles22:
I agree, no need for the hate, wes has put in alot of work to get our new shiny slides rooted as well as actively building roms for them.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tubaking182:
Wiped as I always do, I don't use a2sd so I didn't have to worry about that shizz

sent from my *ROOTED* mytoucg 3g slide
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] savethechicken:
lol must be nice jk. I can't get this to load for ish. Just not sure why. I have tried to wipe and then flash. Wipe then flash then wipe again (figured I would try). I even tried to wipe - flash - wipe - flash - reboot recovery and then flash it again. Figured it wouldn't do anything. I have tried everything short of a new sd card. But I can flash either of eugene ROMs without any trouble. I going to try another sdcard, matter of fact I will give that a try now. Any other suggestions. I have even tried wiping it with the spl do not think that makes a difference but I figured I would try. I am not using apps2sd though I may consider it if I can get the ROM to get past the first boot screen. tried to pull a logcat but when it is stuck on the boot screen it it will not connect to the device.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ryanolson7:
Downloading right now :) will let you know what I think

Oh and wes you are the man, keep being as great as you and sharing your roms!

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

Edit: Bootlooping just like everyone else. I'm really excited about this rom so i'll have to try again real soon.. but for now back to slidemeroot
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] stylez:
Mod Edit: Thread cleaned respect each other take a read of the rules to familiarise yourself.

Nuff said back on topic.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Has anyone with an ext partition gotten this ROM to boot? I know ext4 won't work, and I have an ext2.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] riles22:
Alright I cant get past the mytouch logo screen. Heres my logcat:

C:\android-sdk-windows>adb logcat
link_image[1721]: 120 could not load needed library 'libc.so' for '/system/bin/sh' <load_library[1051]: Library 'libc.so' not found>CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I can't get this to boot even without an ext partition...

I wonder, there only appears to be two people who have had success -- did they upgrade straight from wesblend 1.0.1 or wipe/flash to 1.0.2?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] thatduderob:
I had no luck either..... wipped loaded CM kanged, than to SMR1 no problems with either just cant get this thing to boot with WG. Thats a good point hebrewtoyou wonder if they did upgrade... I didnt flash v1 due to wifi problems cant live without it.... Once it was fixed i wanted to try it....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Looks like it's a dead horse....

So let's not beat it...Maybe he's workin' on it now...who knows. By the time it's fixed, other roms'll be more desirable. Thanks, though Wes. :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] DroidHead:
I got it rooted... Got into CWMod .... Did a nand back up.... rebooted....

AND LOST IT ALL!

I never got SU.apk installed ... and now I cant remember how I got it to grab the device when "adb devices".

:(
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sandpaperback:
I did the exact same thing. I didn't do anything differently, but I was able to get the device to stay offline a lot easier the second (and third) time around. It just took a few reboots.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Added Known Issue: Users coming from the ENG build will not be able to boot it

You need to flash the original nbh then go through the rooting process (ENG build is useless honestly)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] h.nocturna:
AHHHhhhhh.... I see, that does explain a lot.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] here.david:
Might want to change the Instuctions on how to root then...as it states to do the ENG...

You must Have Rooted & Have the Eng-build Previous Once Flashed for Best Results!

Also, were is the "original nbh" you are referring to....tx's
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
E-Mail to Eugene

E-Mail to Eugene:

So I found out why some people are having trouble flashing my build -

people using your ENG build version can't flash the ROM without

flashing the original nbh first

Guessing something is failing in the recovery that is replaced by the

nbh (Since the SPL isn't touched)

My theory is that older recovery thinks the phone has smaller

partitions than it really does (in /system) which makes sense because

it was unneeded to have all of that on /system on eng builds which

usually don't have .odex

This secondly makes sense because I thought at first hmm we are using

ClockWork, but technically we are just using the "ROM" in ClockWork -

no kernel is included in it which the kernel would think over the

proper values for the partition sizes
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
I believe he means to unroot your phone using one of the routes posted on here...by using the factory restore option in Clockworkmod. Then use SimpleRoot to re-root it without the ENG rom...or you can use Eugene's method. Doesn't really matter, I guess, as long as you have restored back to factory. Am I right, Wes?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ryanolson7:
awesome! i was wondering what was causing the bootlooping since i don't have a ext partition formatted on my sd card.. Will try this out asap

back to rooting again.. joy lol
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
This did not -- repeat: DID NOT -- work for me. Without the eng build there does not appear to be any way to flash directly to ClockworkMod. Not only that, even without eng flashed I got a bootloop from wesblend 1.0.2.

I don't think the eng build is the issue.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
yea factory recovery / radio

but looks like people are still having trouble lol

I give up for now - will work on it later
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
If you are in ClockWork recovery then that's what you get from ENG and regular...

notice if you reboot into recovery after using the ENG one, you still have to go through the fun process as before (koush's recovery will not stick, even with the ENG nbh)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Ok... so hmm it's making me curious now what using that eng nbh is really doing

People who go back to stock are still having trouble booting, but no one who just went straight from stock nbh (without going to eng at all) are flashing and running no prob (myself and Chris Soyars included)

aka anyone who just goes through the normal adb in recovery loop, etc etc etc then just flash the ROM from there without going through engineering crap don't have any problems at all
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Oh, no doubt it wont stick. Nothing will make the recovery stick at the moment.

But without eng build there is no way to get into ClockworkMod without going through the adb devices spam root process, pushing the ota.zip -> update.zip business.

And, as I said, even if that was worth the effort to avoid installing the eng build I was still unable to get wesblend 1.0.2 to boot on my Slide. A shame, too, as I really want to run your rom.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] ryanolson7:
did you try to flash it a few times? i've heard that if you flash it, reboot recovery, flash again then it can work
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] wesgarner:
Oo you can do the adb in recovery loop and get ClockWork going without the engineering nbh

(anyone who used my method has including myself, Chris Soyars, Eugene even did it before he posted the eng build, as well as kingofyo just did it lol)

It's entirely possible and thinking the engineering build is what did it is .. is well a placebo effect

The first time I did it to mine, I got adb in recovery instantly - other times it has taken 1-4 attempts but always got into it eventually

Also, anyone using Eugene's method for the loop - edit that .bat file to do adb shell over adb devices (helps out tremendously)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
This makes me very nervous. Hope it isn't something that cripples my phone forever :(
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Wes, so just to clarify: you have never flashed the eng build on your slide? Are you able to boot into stock recovery and flash the ClockworkMod update.zip without failure? Because, for me at least, eng build is the only thing allowing me to do so.

Straight after gaining root I tried directly flashing SlideMeRoot5r1 and Wesblend 1.0.2. SlideMeRoot5r1 would boot just fine, but I was unable to get directly back to ClockworkMod from stock recovery. Wesblend 1.0.2 wouldn't even boot.

This is very peculiar...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Yeah. I tried.

The first flash and reboot recovery started a bootloop. Couldn't get into recovery for the life of me. I had to yank the battery and go directly to the bootloader to access recovery, and then I had to re-root because the ClockworkMod update.zip wouldn't reflash.

Once I was able to again ClockworkMod I tried flashing again. Same thing.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
I would love to chalk this up to a placebo effect, I really would.

But I couldn't get the Clockwork update.zip to flash successfully from recovery without either A) re-rooting the phone or B) installing the eng build first.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong...?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
I'm thinking there is some confusion here. I think Wes is saying that you could use the loop method with or without the ENG build, but I think Hebrew is saying that he didn't need to do the loop method with the ENG build to get to the CW Recovery and both of you guys are confusing each other
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] jreed3786:
Fruit Loops!!!?

Yep, same here....went back to stock...flashed and all w/out ENG...loopedy loop!

SIGH!!!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Possibly. ;)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] NJAZ:
All the other ROM's work with Eugene's method EXCEPT for this one ... very curious indeed. It sounds like the reason for the boot loop is the ROM and until the exact reason is figured out it's a guessing game as to what the real issue is.

Thank you for your efforts Wes.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
Help!!!!

Just rooted my phone, tried to install this rom, and now stuck in an endless bootloop, the rootme method won't even bring the koush recovery back up!
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
Did you flash the ENG build before you flashed this ROM?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
No, I didn't
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
Hmm... did you wipe your phone before flashing the ROM?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
Yes, wiped data, and delvick
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
Someone was having an issue getting back into the Clockwork recovery and had to do the whole root process over again. Also some people are having a problem with this ROM so if you can't get back into the recovery from the loop method maybe re-root your phone and try a different ROM to see if you get the same outcome.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
I'm trying to get it back to the stock rom, but, I downloaded the ESPRIMG.zip kingofyo1 as the stock rom posted and it fails saying the current version is newer, all it will do is bootloop, Plz help
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
You gotta flash the esprimg.zip files from the bootloader. They should definitely work from there.

Or you can download the stock Nandroid backup and restore that.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] BSDADON:
It should still give you the option to flash it anyways if I remember correctly. It should give you the choice to hit volume up to make it flash.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
it doesn't sadly, just says press volume up to reboot, or volume down not to
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] NJAZ:
so ... ESPRIMG.zip is definitely located on the root of your SD and you are not tethered to the computer when you launch into the bootloader?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
yes it is, powered the phone down, and used an adapter to put it there
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Then booting into bootloader and selecting HBOOT should automatically start the flashing process.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] bouchedag:
Found another ESPRIMG file, and this 1 seems to be working, will post back in a moment, thanks for everyone's help and input.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] NJAZ:
good to hear ... let us know how it goes. The engineering and stock ESPRIMG.zip files are very similar. Engineering ESPRIMG.zip is 140,334 KB and the stock ESPRIMG.zip is 141,647 KB.