yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA General] silentvigilante786:
I am sorry to keep bothering you friend but thank you for your time. What I mean by not working is that the first time partitioned the drive and flashed a rom everything went perfect. The apps were saving to the SD and my internal memory was not draining. However, now my internal memory seems to be going down quickly while my SD does not change. I have posed the information below and it seems according to the report that A2SD is setup.......am I wrong?

Android System Report - Jul 13, 2010 9:35:11 PM

#Created by Quick System Info version 1.5.3

Device: heroc

Model: HERO200

Product: htc_heroc

Brand: sprint

Release: 2.1-update1

Build: 2.27.651.6

Locale: en_US

Linux version 2.6.34-GoDmOdE-Darchshizz-OC (ameer@darchstar) (gcc version 4.4.0 (GCC) ) #15 PREEMPT Mon Jun 21 00:32:06 EDT 2010

Basic Info

========================================================================================

* SD card storage

Total: 6.39GB, Free: 6.37GB

* A2SD storage

Total: 0.89GB, Free: 835MB

* Internal storage

Total: 160MB, Free: 79.69MB

* System storage

Total: 170MB, Free: 29.61MB

* System cache

Total: 130MB, Free: 129MB

* Memory

Total: 191MB, Free: 67.23MB, Idle: 5.34MB

* Processor

ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l) 710.4MHz

* Network address

108.118.235.96

Scaling CPU frequency:710400

Processor	: ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l)

BogoMIPS	: 710.47

Features	: swp half thumb fastmult edsp java

CPU implementer	: 0x41

CPU architecture: 6TEJ

CPU variant	: 0x1

CPU part	: 0xb36

CPU revision	: 2

Hardware	: heroc

Revision	: 0002

Serial	: 0000000000000000

MemTotal: 195764 kB

MemFree: 5412 kB

Buffers: 444 kB

Cached: 63368 kB

SwapCached: 4620 kB

Active: 81612 kB

Inactive: 84124 kB

Active(anon): 52820 kB

Inactive(anon): 55364 kB

Active(file): 28792 kB

Inactive(file): 28760 kB

Unevictable: 5704 kB

Mlocked: 5416 kB

SwapTotal: 62188 kB

SwapFree: 54340 kB

Dirty: 0 kB

Writeback: 0 kB

AnonPages: 104304 kB

Mapped: 25860 kB

Slab: 6160 kB

SReclaimable: 1696 kB

SUnreclaim: 4464 kB

PageTables: 6360 kB

NFS_Unstable: 0 kB

Bounce: 0 kB

WritebackTmp: 0 kB

CommitLimit: 160068 kB

Committed_AS: 1656088 kB

VmallocTotal: 712704 kB

VmallocUsed: 70160 kB

VmallocChunk: 598020 kB

rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0

proc /proc proc rw 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0

tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0

/dev/block/mtdblock3 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0

/dev/block/mtdblock5 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0

/dev/block/mtdblock4 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Thanks again for helping out a fellow desi bhai ;)
[Hero CDMA General] silentvigilante786:
I fixed it!

I figured out the problem my friend. I hadn't moved my dalvik-cache to SD and that is why the internal memory continued to drain. THANKS AGAIN!!!!
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
Just share the steps. Still, if you do not have class 6 SD, do not enable dalvik cache. It might reduce your SD life. Class is not about speed, number of write operation is critical
[Hero CDMA General] silentvigilante786:
Thanks for the advice...I switched the dalvik-cache back to internal storage......but it really does seem to suck up internal storage fast. Oh well. Thanks again for the great thread.
[Hero CDMA General] Macanage:
1st timer

Great post!

Need some advice. I am rooted and will be going through the process of flashing a rom and partitioning my card. Should I flash the Kernel that I want to use before the rom?

Thanks
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
Will suggest to flash ROM first. Use it couple of days. Take nandroid backup. Then flash kernel. This will allow you to go back in case of issues.
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
Wow

Great Post, so much to learn.

I have a question.

I followed Regaw's post for reverting back to the .5 RUU (post #1). NO Problem.

I partitioned my SD card with the instructions at the beginning of this thread (post #4). Seemed to have no problems at all. I was ready to go on with flashing the Sprint 2.27.651.6 STOCK with A2SD (this was the whole reason I partitioned my SD Card.

Anyway, after reading through the rest of the post I wanted to download the Quick System Info so I could check and confirm the partitioning went correctly.

Problem is, under A2SD storage, it says "information not available".

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I'm using a cheap Walmart (Transcend class 2, 8GB) card. Could that be my problem?

Should I continue with flashing the Sprint 2.27.651.6 STOCK or should I stop now and get a better card before continuing?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
Have you partitioned your SD Card. I assume yes. If you access your SD card through computer, it shall detect it as ~6GB, if you allocated ~2GB for other purpose. This will ensure you have partitioned. Else follow partitioning steps.

Then flash above ROM. no issue. I suspect normal ROM will not detect ext 3 partition, even if you had rooted. You must flash custom ROM with a2sd.

All the best.
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
Thanks

Yes, I partitioned the card following your step by step instructions (thank you so much) and like I said, it went through no problems, no errors.

Yes, looking at my phone through my computer, it shows up as 6.25GB.

I'm going to go ahead and bite the bullet and flash the Sprint 2.27.651.6 STOCK with A2SD ROM.

Hopefully the next post you see from me is just another thank you.

I've learned a lot in the last couple days but I am still just a noob. Thanks for all your help. Really appreciated.
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
Take nandroid backup. Then flash. I am having class 2. So not moved cache and dalvik to SD. A2sd no issue.

Try nfinite45 Zen Rom without jit. best one. There cache and dalvik uses RAM. Great idea.

First get stability with current selection. Later try Zen.
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
AGAIN, Thank you

I'm just about to reboot into recovery mode. I'll post another thank you to let you know it all went good as soon as I'm done.
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
DONE

Everything is running a little slow but I think it will catch up. Worst case I'll reboot later. If you have any insight??

As you suggested I'm going to wait a couple days, play around with this and then I'll try Zen.

I can't thank you enough for all your help.

I reinstalled quick system info and the A2SD storage shows correctly. Now I just have to figure out how to move stuff over there.

THANK YOU.:):):):):)
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
last one (on this thread anyway)

Sekarpdkt,

I just wanted to post another thank you. Been a couple days now and I'm really loving what I've done to my phone with your help (and a shout out to all the developers that you got your info/data from). Really looking forward to learning as much as I can so I can contribute myself as well.

I know a lot of the stuff you posted has been posted in other threads, but your post put it all in one place.

I couldn't have done it all as fast (and with as much confidence) as I was able to, because of this thread.

I look forward to running into you on other posts on xda. Maybe someday I can return the favor and help you out in some way.

Thanks again,

Eric
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
Glad that it helped. It took 3 months for me to take risk and root. All information are available in this great forum. Issue is to identify latest one without issues.

I keep on trying to update.If you come across any new learning post here. I shall merge it in first page.
[Hero CDMA General] josephpford:
sekarpdkt and all other people who helped with this thread, I just wanted to say Thank You!
[Hero CDMA General] blahblehblah:
i've had the sprint htc hero for almost a year. i've been so busy with work and classes; i have time to hack my phone now.

hacked my wii last christmas, this year it's upgrading to win7 and htc hero root for me :)

should I go to the Sprint store to get the latest official rom installed on my phone first? or can I just go ahead and start following the tutorial? I am using the same rom that it came with back in January (1.5/1.6?).
[Hero CDMA General] Eric_1966_FXE:
NO, do NOT go to Sprint.

Everything you need is right here on this wonderful site. All the links at the beginning of this thread are what I used to root my hero and I've had zero regret and no real problems (got myself nervous a couple times but that's about it).

If I can make one suggestion, after you root and when you're ready to start looking for a new ROM (see post #5 in this thread), check out the Stable aospMod.

When I first started doing this stuff I was literally re-flashing a new ROM every day or two. With aospMod, I have not flashed my phone since his version 0.3 (I think it's up to 0.9 now).

Good luck and have fun. Remember, nandroid is your friend. Make sure you do a nandroid backup before you flash anything and you'll always be able to go back if something doesn't work.
[Hero CDMA General] Mich2Ga:
Great Thread... Thanks
[Hero CDMA General] blahblehblah:
the directions to root say it's for android 2.1 though. i have 1.5/1.6 on my phone since that's what it came with last january. should I at least go to sprint store to get the clean stock upgrade and start rooting from then on?
[Hero CDMA General] PMGRANDS:
I Agree.... Great Thread!!
[Hero CDMA General] sekarpdkt:
No need to go to Sprint store. Sprint store will upgrade to latest firmware, in which they have blocked some of the loop holes, which allows us to get access to root.

Go to Ragav thread. Upgrade to .5. Then go to nfinite upgrade to .6, .7... You have unlimited choice.

It is also possible to got to official .7 and then root. But i have not tried. So i suggest above lengthy root as I am sure it will work and I can help, if got struck.

Post for any help
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo Upgrading] touloumelec:
hello there.

i ve really done it..after trying to unlock it i thought i made it and i ended up with my x7500 booting with half screen black and then its all black.when i go to bootloader mode i get these

E

IPL-v.2.02

E

SPL-v1.20.Olipro

i also tried to flash many times with 1.20 roms and i get the 244 wrong about conneting...:(

is there a way to do something about it?

thank you in advance..i would appreciate some help..
[XPERIA X10 General] Slauney:
Im just curious to see if it is possible, is there a way to change the clock on the unlock screen? I mean, i only see it for a second, and its no big deal but its just something to fool around with.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
[XPERIA X10 General] zephyrix:
Not yet. We can't edit the ramdisk and the framework is restored on boot.
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
i ran across this....

[YOUTUBE]<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SIyazliWJCs&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SIyazliWJCs&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

full article here http://jsharkey.org/blog/2010/07/01/android-surfaceflinger-tricks-for-fun-and-profit/
[Nexus One General] RevJesseJ:
Looking forward to this release! At work I have a hard time charging my phone. Getting notifications all day and being able to use the phone normally is great but I am work for over 8 hours. If I can click a widget and reduce battery drain while I am not using it....awesome! I can always press the widget to restore when I want to view back to normal. I can see how this would be useless to most, but this gives me the ability to use the phone for that 8 hours and not have the phone die before I get home.
[Nexus One General] Ownatik:
I dont get why anyone would trade a great looking for screen for a unicolor one just for one more day of battery life.....
[Nexus One General] cheetah2k:
EPIC FAIL.................
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Terrible idea. Why don't we just buy 5 year old blackberries...They have great battery life.
[Nexus One General] bmj1086:
Yeah, this is really dumb.
[Nexus One General] Ownatik:
If you can't use your phone for 8 hours there's a problem somewhere. You probably have apps sucking the battery to death
[Nexus One General] jsapp:
I haven't had 8 hours on a change since I first got my G1. I never have on my nexus either. But I do use the phone a lot.
[Nexus One General] skittleguy:
Nexus One, Virtual Boy Edition.
[Nexus One General] Ryjabo:
I'm running an 800mV kernel right now, with SetCPU at 806mhz...

...I've had the phone unplugged and have been doing normal/daily use. 12 hours and I'm at 72%

/shrug
[Nexus One General] antiochasylum:
Heavy usage, phone JUST died, 21 hours use. Thats texts, internet, maps, GPS, and phone calls.

6-26-10 925mv wildmonks kernel
[Nexus One General] G1-evolve:
care sharing kernal? O_o

and exact CPU settings?

you too
[Nexus One General] suren21:
I would come handy when the battery is below the 10% mark ...
[Nexus One General] boesky:
As would a spare battery..
[Nexus One General] jaapschaap:
But if filters are posible why can't we change the colors by ourself (reduce the saturation for some who don't like it)... Sounds plausible after seeing this hack, love to see an APK or ROm which have included this... Some Days battery hold for hours and hours, other day my max is 8/9 hours (heavy usage :D)
[Nexus One General] JupiterDroid:
well you would get that battery life if your degrading your cpu to Hero standards, lollol

Im overclocking on CM6's standard pershoot .34 kernel and im getting a day always, i take it off charge at 8am and when i get home around 7pm its at about 20-30 percent... And that is proper heavy use, I watch video's on the way to work, mp3, browsing, the phone is actually an extension of my bod;) lol

I think this is the norm if you want to have the super phone you paid for, and not underclock it and undervolt it into T-mobile pulse territory, lol

JD
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Those replying this is stupid need not bother in this thread any long I guess.

For me, usually my battery lasts long enough, but at the same time, the time I might need it would be I've finished my work day and just found I'm not going home to charge it but need to go elsewhere, or like yesterday I had to stay at work and my N1 was needed, but I couldn't charge. When you realise you need to stretch your battery life, you want to know what you should change to extend it. This is just another of those options. It will be useful to have for emergencies.
[Nexus One General] beagz:
I for one would like to see this added as an option. As stated in certain cases it could be very useful to be able to use the phone with screen on and lower the battery drain.
[Nexus One General] RevJesseJ:
I know why my battery drains. I know what apps I am running and I can keep track of all that. I have chosen all my own apps and run what I want/need during that 8 hours. No work around other than turning off those apps. What is the point then? Keep my battery lasting longer but not enjoy the phone and all its purposes? I could always just turn my phone off. No apps running then. Like I said, this would not apply to very many users out there, but not all users are in my situation.
[Nexus One General] RevJesseJ:
FO3 FTW! :cool:
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
don't be surprised to see this in the next (or future) version cm6 in dev tools...
[Nexus One General] benjatt:
I presume this is for root only?
[Nexus One General] avio07:
What the... is it the changing color thing?
[Nexus One General] xXJay_RXx:
i would love to see this in CM6 or even rodriguez's froyo rom
[Nexus One General] dogiedogie:
This does have a use. Im say 4 hours from being at a charging point yet I know I have much less than that, 2 hours, and I NEED to use it. I can give up my amazing looking screen to make it usable for how long I need it.
[Nexus One General] :
id rather have a unicolor screen vs a slower phone
[Nexus One General] fubaya:
This would have been nice last night when I was at the drive-in movies in a completely dark field and a "no lights" rule. I was swapping a few texts and even on the darkest setting, the screen was still too bright. I noticed someone in front of me using their phone and it was very annoying. I'm sure my huge screened N1 was a lot brighter than their tiny flip phone screen. It would also be easier on the night vision.
[Nexus One General] B1ny:
Really looking forward to this!
[Nexus One General] NexusDro:
I don't have problems with battery life but it would be cool to have when I need it. Does it require root access?
[Nexus One General] lifeflayer:
Anyone use F.lux for their PC? The shade actually makes it a lot easier on the eyes at night. I would use this purely for the yellowish taint one at night times. Thanks would be great if it is included in one of the more widespread roms or be available as an .apk.
[Nexus One General] krumb:
excuse me???

lolz
[Nexus One General] lifeflayer:
Eeks, that's what I get for posting at 3:21am :( but yeah, I meant the salmon tint XD (or close to the sunset setting in F.lux)
[Nexus One General] sprinkles:
file this thread under awful.

why not go greyscale instead of being forced into a duotone, acid freakout screen environment.

anyone who finds this battery saving technique cool needs to seriously get some professional help.
[Nexus One General] NexusDro:
red is better because it takes the least amount of energy to light up the red subpixels.
[Nexus One General] rjhay22:
My thoughts exactly...
[Nexus One General] DDM123:
Red = Red

White = Red Green Blue (as far as computers are concerned)

File your post under idiotic.
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
told you

check it out HERE
[Nexus One General] bberry:
Those of you bashing this can piss off for all I care. Personally I would love to have this option of DRASTICALLY improved battery life in emergency situation (such as a long commute and forgot to charge the phone :p). I find it incredibly cool that we can exert such powerful control over our devices. Now, if this isn't for you then shush and go sit in the corner.

As for DDM123's reply to sprinkles, ouch. Destroyed.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
But if the choice is no phone at all, or one with a red tint for two more hours, I'll take the red tint.

I don't really understand why people are having such a problem understanding why this could be useful. No-one is suggesting you use your phone in this way as the norm, but some of us are stranded away from chargers for long periods of time. If you end up finding out you're going to be stranded away for another 4 hours and you're already on 20% and need to use your phone a lot still, this could be useful.
[Nexus One General] rjhay22:
I do not have a problem with this nor said this was useless, you're right it might actually save you some battery when you need it most, but I doubt it will save you that much when you're actually using the phone. Although our display takes up most of the battery, there are other factors that drains it as well. With 20% left your best bet is to not use the phone unless you need it, phone on idle takes up 1% per hour and your 20% will still go a long ways.

Not saying you guys are wrong to be looking forward to this Mod, what is useless to some might be useful to others. I just don't see myself sacrificing the look of my N 1 just for extra battery life that's all. :-) If I'm that desperate for battery ill have an extra battery, a car charger and a wall charger handy.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Yeah, but there are times you're caught short. For example, I had to stay at work last Saturday and then take a van out to some place in London. I used my phone to navigate. That's on of the biggest battery killers there is, GPS on, data being used, screen permanently on... if I had the option, I would probably switched to red screen. (I don't usually do this, so I didn't have a cig lighter charger)

As it was, my battery did me well, I still had 30% remaining, 20% by the time I got home after work. If I'd had to go out again, I might have been in trouble.
[Nexus One General] rjhay22:
GPS on probably takes up more battery than display being on. :-) you can still use navigation with the screen off, I turn screen off when I know my turn is not close by.
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
Yeah, but GPS is not optional when navigating :) I couldn't really turn the screen on and off, it wasn't like I was driving for 30 minutes between turns, this is Central London :)

All I'm saying, I would do anything I could to conserve a little power.
[Nexus One General] rjhay22:
Hey if you really want to save battery use Google maps not navigation :-P hahaha I understand brother.
[Nexus One General] PrawnPoBoy:
I really doubt anyone is going to double their battery life with this. Who has their screen on 100% of the time?

Cool concept, but I'm betting it's not going to be very useful.
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
go to battery use right now...

what? display is top of the chart?
[Nexus One General] clickwir:
Nice to see the First Amendment being put to use. It is a two way street, if someone doesn't like it ... they can (and will) comment about it. :D
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
They can, but they sound kinda stupid when so many people have explained why this could be useful to them.

Yes, you have the right to make yourself sound stupid if you so wish.
[Nexus One General] Mokurex:
Yes its at the top, but unless it's at 100%, it mathematically wont double the battery life, because battery drainage that's not from the screen wouldn't be halved. =)
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
yes i realize this, read the article http://jsharkey.org/blog/2010/07/01/android-surfaceflinger-tricks-for-fun-and-profit/
[Nexus One General] :
From the article:

If you don't understand this, please don't argue about what's using the battery, and how much this modification can yield.
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
got it on a nightly!
[Nexus One General] erikiksaz:
This would also be super useful for reading in the dark. Since red light doesn't stimulate the rods of your eyes, you won't strain your eyes nearly as much.
[Nexus One General] Big_O:
Keep wifi off and the battery life improves drastically. There has been other comments about gps and location awarenes draining batteries.
[Nexus One General] tjsimmons:
--------- +1
[Nexus One General] AndyCr15:
I wish people that didn't really understand this, just not bother posting, like the two people above. Really, what did either of those posts add to this thread. The use of this has been explained many times.
[Nexus One General] :
agree.

this gives people an option. just because you are satisfied with an underclocked processor and leave off wifi and other crippling features doesnt mean others want to. Id rather save battery by having a unicolor screen vs. turning off my wifi -_-
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
The battery savings would be a nice perk, but I think the best use for this would be night mode. It would sure help when using Google Sky Map :)
[Nexus One General] khaytsus:
Menu -> Toggle Night Mode

:rolleyes:
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
That works so-so, but it's not great. The menu is still bright white and it doesn't help the lock screen either. You can't really use it without coming across those and thus defeating the purpose.
[Nexus One General] kindiboy:
I'll only run this if my batter life is less than 10-20%.

why are people being cynical about this ?

it gives ME an option i'll take it it's the whole point of getting an android device and specifically a nexus one. no limitations.

if you don't like it do not use it, but don't look down upon any effort to give people more options.
[Nexus One General] speed213:
So how do I get this on my phones?
[Nexus One General] ogdobber:
latest cm6 nightly http://buildbot.teamdouche.net/nightly/passion/