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[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
yes, its bound with data

2mb cache is too small for market ( cm5 )

its just a bit of a hangover, since market in cm6 doesn't use cache

edit: probably a bit confusing ^^^

in cm5 the Market uses /cache to save incoming apps

since we shrunk it to 2mb its not big enought, so a script is included to bind to /sd-ext/cache ( with a fall back to /data/cache )

cat /etc/init.d/06BindCache

#!/system/bin/sh

# Bind mount /sd-ext/cache to /cache
if [ "`grep -q sd-ext /proc/mounts;echo $?`" = "0" ];
then
CacheDir=/sd-ext/cache
else
CacheDir=/data/cache
fi

if [ ! -d $CacheDir ];
then
install -m 771 -o 1000 -g 2001 -d $CacheDir
fi
mount -o bind $CacheDir /cache
if [ ! -d $CacheDir/dalvik-cache ];
then
install -m 771 -o 1000 -g 1000 -d $CacheDir/dalvik-cache
fi

since you are running CM6 and sd-ext is not being mounted, the bind mount is to /data/cache

BUT, the Market in CM6 actually uses the sdcard fat32 partition to save incoming apps, so the bind isn't really needed, but does no harm
[G1 Android Development] tomatenjungee:
Thanks for your fast response and your excellent work for the com that cant be honored enough!

Since i only use CM6 it should be fine with that small cache size i hope.

Is there a way to get another output of the partition size - so it shows the real cache size? I just did busybox df -h on adb.

/edit ... reposted to fast :-) ... going through your edit
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
you can do

su
umount /cache

that will undo the bind mount ( but on next boot it will bind again )

su
mount -o rw,remount /system
rm /etc/init.d/06BindCache

and reboot, cache will never be bind mounted.
[G1 Android Development] jaikat:
first off you guys are showing pure genius... thanks

i have a tmobile g1 w danger spl, and i simply want to know if the instructions on the first page/post will simply work for me

i'm referring to these(just to make sure)

Install Instuctions

It really is quite simple

1. download FR-MTD-PartHack-recovery-v1-1_S.zip and FR-MTD-PartHack-boot-v1-2_S.zip

2. Optinally configure *

3. reboot to recovery

4. nandbackup

5. wipe cache + data

6. flash FR-MTD-PartHack-recovery-v1-1_S.zip

7. reboot to recovery ( reboot and hold Home )

8. Either : -

* Nandrestore

* Flash ROM + extras

9. flash FR-MTD-PartHack-boot-v1-1_S.zip

10. reboot

will this work with my current spl (danger) or will i have to change to engineering to make this work? and i have amonra's 1.62 recovery, will it do or should i flash clockwork's?

also will this work with any rom? i'm running superE...

thanks again
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
DangerSPL is a full Engineering SPL

RA Recovery is fine

yeap, it will work with any rom*

* if your ROM doesn't execute scripts in /system/etc/init.d/ then the cache bind mount won't be done, but I think SuperE is CM5 based so it will be fine
[G1 Android Development] jaikat:
ummmm.. i forgot one thing

superE doesn't do nandroid backup, only bart, will bartrestore work also?!

sorry :o
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
yes, bart will work fine

but nand will also work, you just need to make /system/sd ( or not do nand + ext )
[G1 Android Development] jaikat:
didn't quite get that, do you mean i should "make /system/sd (or not do nand +ext" if i want nandbackup to work with superE?
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
nandbackup fail because it can't mount /system/sd ( it doesn't exist )

so either create the directory, or don't try and backup the ext partition
[G1 Android Development] jaikat:
Oh thanks for the tip...

all done here, and no probs so far.. will report back with any updates..

thanks again ..
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
ref Cache and ROM Manger

ROM Manager writes commands to /cache, for things like backup and flashing roms via the RM Manager UI

since we bind mount cache, clockwork recovery does not see these commands

one work around for this is to not bind mount cache with CM6

this will 'break' things for mt3g's ( since they will use /cache for dalvik-cache )

I can switch things about a bit, so we just bind mount /cache/dalvik-cache

which seems the simplest way to resolve the issue

should have seen this sooner, but only recently started playing around with cwr

fix is simple, so I'll post updates tomorrow,

( to boot and AutoMTD patchers )
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
Actually, now I've had a pint, I'm going to do it differently, so its compatible with cm5

Basically the plan is to unmount cache and remount it somewhere else, do the bind, and then symlink cwr's commands to the real cache partition

Should work
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
Metamorph fail?

Flashed CM6 and custom MTD partition. All is great but I have found Metamorph doesn't seem to work. Could the problem be along the same lines as that with the UI of Clockwork Rom Manager?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] amot:
I just installed the Google Voice app and I am wondering maybe I am just blind or does it not work on the EVO.

http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/

My google APP does not look anything like that... I don't even have a DIAL PAD within the application...

All I want to do is have it installed so that I can make international calls, thats all...

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] stress1ner:
I believe with the current app you use the phones keypad, and when you press send it ask you if u want to use your google voice number or your regular cell number to complete the call.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] barnacles10:
Yes, this is set within the app. "make all calls with voice, all int calls, no calls, or ask". The dialer you are seeing in that picture is the nexus one, which runs stock android. The dialers are different..
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mchlwvr614:
That dialer is for the web version of the app for phones that dont have a native application like the palm pre and iphone.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SilentSummer:
You can also add a shortcut to Toggle between using GV to dial or not and so on.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
I'm just wondering what are your top 10 favorite apps?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] MarylandCookie:
In no particular order :)

ADW Launcher

aTakePhone 1.22 and greater

MyBackup Pro

SetCPU

RootManager

Tapatalk Pro

Handcent SMS

Astro File Manager (App Manager & SD Card Manager)

Bluetooth File Transfer

3G Watchdog
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] cue_32:
ADW launcher

Astro File Manager

Root Explorer

SetCPU

Barnacle Wifi Tether

Linpack

Folder Organizer (change icons)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] instigator008:
Titanium Backup

Realplayer

Batteryminder

Dolphin Browser

Swype Keyboard

Seesmic (Twitter)

Tapatalk

Barnacle Wifi Tether

Documents To Go

Fancy Widget
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] scottxperia10:
Interesting topic....

My top 10 in no particular order

Handcent sms

Weather and toggle widget

Barcode scanner

Google voice search

Linda manager

Nesoid

Swype

xda app:D

Ringdroid

Beebplayer
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] PollPixx:
Handcent sms

Takeaphone dialer

K-9 e-mail

Switchpro widget

Advanced task killer

Beautiful widgets

Adw launcher

SlideIT keyboard

Tvgids (dutch only)

Buienradar (dutch only, predicts coming rain 30 minutes ahead, Works extremely accurate)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] im_iceman:
Handsent SMS

K-9 Mail

SlideIT Keyboard (Tried swype.. wasn't as quick and easy to use as SlideIT, despite it obvious better looks!)

Smooth Calendar widget

Meridian music player (for the widget)

3banana notes

google maps (navigation)

battery level indicator

digital clock (looks like a proper digital bedside clock)

ADW Launcher (I've tried loads and this was the best once I'd played around with the options..)

Retro Calculator
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Mobzter:
Swype

Adw Launcher

MyBackup Pro

Astro File Manager

Dolphin Browser

ChompSms

Barnacle Wifi Tether

Divx Player

Meridian Media Player

Music Junk
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] jamm222:
I cant seem to get Barnacle wifi tether to work.... i keep getting the error "could not find wireless interface!"

my x 10 is rooted

cheers
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] kikamal:
in menu setting of barnacle go LAN and type athwlan0
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
Anyone using the app, AppBrain? I don't know about you guys, but I think it's fantastic.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] D-Trixxx:
I am ... after I rooted I just loaded it up and installed all the apps I had previously. Saved me a lot of time searching each one down. :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] freco:
Must have (for me) :D

Zeam Launcher

3G Watchdog

Barcode scanner

Handcent SMS

Smart Shortcuts

SpareParts

Web Sharing

TweetCaster

XDA (of cource)

Beautiful Widgets

System Panel

Optional

Demo Player (Divx)

Moto GP Pocket

WRC 2010

SoundHound
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
Yea, it's a time saver for sure :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Fahrvergnugen:
Double ringer

Hi guys, I installed the Hancent SMS and I LOVE IT! The only problem is that every time I get a text message, I ring twice, once for handcent, and the other for the stock messaging app. Is there any way to disable the stock app, without deleting it?

thanks for your help...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] damirbusic:
Yes, go to stock SMS app and in Settings remove tick from Autodownload and that on the bottom with notification. Dont know exact phrase since my phone is not on english.

Cheers
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] busanut:
My favorites so far :)

Astro File Manager

Dolphin Browser

Imusic

tunewiki

websharing

fastboot

Navigon

Backgrounds

Setcpu

Appbrain
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Fahrvergnugen:
Thankyou! That did the trick!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mk67:
Nice, but I haven't root access with this app as other apps do.

I Don't know why.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Mobzter:
Maybe you forgot to allow it when the superuser app asked for approval?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] ukon:
As in top 10. then I would assume that you mean the top 10 apps used.

in that case..

1. Spotify

2. Navigon/Maps

3. Speed view(Speedometer)

4. Battle.net(Blizzard authenticator)

5. yxplayer(Movie player, that can play most file formats. Works great!)

6. Dolphin Browser(A great web browser)

7. Gameboid(GBA Emulator)

8. GBCoid(GBC Emulator)

9. Flash Light(Widget/app)

10. Advanced Task Manager
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] andyx8:
mine:

ADW

Barnacle wifi tether

Sygic mobile maps

Setcpu

Rockplayer

ebuddy

Goto

Handcent

Switchpro

3

Pure messenger
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Shiwantha:
My most used apps would be;

GDE-Best Home replacement App

Advance Task Killer

Quick Dial

aContacts- replaced my contacts and dialer

Handcent SMS

Astro- file manager

Callend Vibrate- at each call end phone vibrates so I don’t need to check its still connected

CoPilot-Best and most beautiful Navigator

APN on /off Widget

Auto Sync On off- helps me to extend my battery life a lot

Beautiful Widget- Time & Weather

K-9 Mail

Settings Profile

Set CPU

Adfree- Blocks adds on the applications

Voice Caller ID- Speaks caller ID

Quick Calender

Barnacle wifi tether

Ps: I know its more than 10 but cant makeup my mind which one to remove out of around 65 applications im running on my phone. :D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
If you don't mind me asking, where can I download the "fastboot" app?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
It's very interesting seeing the apps people have installed. Some of them I've never heard of before and many are EXCELLENT apps :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] MacDrunk:
any ideas if setcpu works on xperia x10a im running but havent touch the settings yett
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] sadams39:
It wont run unless your ROOT :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] PollPixx:
Thanks for the "Callend Vibrate" tip, really nice to have.

I use K9 as well for my mail, but I can't find the settings to update my mail automatically, I always have to check mail manually.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Shiwantha:
Indeed its a very useful when you are not looking at the phone. ;)

Inorder to get automatic sync on the K9, pls check below itmes

On K9/settings/settings/(global preferences)/Background Sync/**Pick your Choice**

On K9, select you account/more/settings/accounts settings/Syncing Folders/**Configure as your choice**

One thing is I have noticed is that when you keep background sync 24/7, battery goes down like hell :mad:

So I use application called Auto-sync On off widget and switch it on time to time as an when I need.

And kept K9 settings I mentioned on point 1 , as "When Background data & auto sync are checked"

Hope this helps
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] RodneyBR:
Yes, but you need to root it, which I've done and I use SetCPU myself.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Mobzter:
Just thought i'd mention an app.. Speed dial folder

basically a 3 x 3 grid to access custom shortcuts such as apps, direct calls, msgz, web links and so forth. ability to create specific folders an all.

hope its of some use to any of you guys!!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Nimche:
I can't find Switchpro and I have seen couple of people saying that they have instaled it?

Any links, it is not in my market.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] JonnyNI:
You can get SwitchPro from apniapps.com/?p=5886
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] m24mura:
You can download the Extended Controls from here;

PLEASE DO NOT POST WARES ON XDA...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] PollPixx:
Thank you very much!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Zer0_:
1) Hands down.. SWYPE

2) ADW Launcher

3) Gameboid

4) Robo Defense

5) RockPlayer

6) Movies

7) MSN Talk

8) Pure Calendar Widget

9) Fancy Widget

10) My Account (Rogers)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] gavriel18:
Better keyboard

Remotedroid

Xda app

Phonezap

Aldiko

Astro

Wikimobile

Weather and toggle widget for the flip clock

I think those are the main ones besides superuser and terminal which come with root package.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Keegan_P:
In no particular order:

XDA

Engadget

Mediascape

ADW

Astro

Root Explorer

Skyfire

Kaloer Clock

Gameboid

And :-) :

Android vnc for Ubuntu

Systempanel

Camera

ASE, if it ever worked.

3g watchdog / apndroid

Beautiful widgets

My account

Barnacle

Phew!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] rvictorg:
Just installed an app called Launch-X the other day, it's a real sharp looking widget that you can customize with shortcuts to apps and/or contacts. Definitely worth checking out if your home screens are getting cluttered or just want to organize your apps in a better manner.

And some other ones I use regularly that haven't appeared on this thread yet:

gStrings (amazing guitar or string instrument tuner)

CardioTrainer

Carrom3D (nice looking 3D games)

demoPlayer (plays xvid and divx)

Gmote

Google Sky Map (am I the only person who loves this app?)

Home Switcher

Mobile Buzz (news widget, they have other genres too)

Network (allows us X10a users to switch between 3G and Edge)

Radiant (asteroids style game)

Raging Thunder 2 (most visually impressive game I've come across)

ScoreMobile

SportsTap

Touiteur (twitter client)

XPERIA FlashLight (widget for the torch light)

and +1 to SoundHound, TD, My Account, Movies

Hope some of you find some apps you enjoy from that list, peace
[G1 General] Njord0:
I'm currently running cyanogenmod 5.0.8, and my 8GB A-Data class 6 SD card should be here soon.

I downloaded a program called swapper 2 and it seems to be working. When I get the new SD card should I stick with this program or do the partition method? Does anyone have experience with this program compaired to the other methods?

I also have Comp cache enabled too. Any thoughts on if I should use both or one?

For App2SD I noticed in the settings you can enable it there but its grayed out. I imagine once I put the new SD card in there it will partition the space for it then?

Thanks for the help. If you have any links to some good info that would be great too.
[G1 General] AdrianK:
I think the general consensus is that utilizing a swap partition is much more efficient than creating a swap file on fat32, which figures. Just out of curiosity, does your homescreen reload?

EDIT: Just noticed your A2SD question, it's greyed out because you need to add an ext2/3/4 partition. That's for unofficial Apps2SD which is a hack-job, Google has implimented an official A2SD method in FroYo, however the developer has to specify whether you can Apps2SD-ify their app (I assume because their method moves the apk to the sdcard which can be shared with others, increasing the chance of piracy).
[G1 General] Njord0:
Not sure what you mean by 'does your homescreen reload'. It usually does reappear when I exit an app, but sometimes all the icons/widgets are gone and I have to restart to get them back. Although this happened before I used swapper 2 aswell. doesnt happen very offten.

Good to know that not every app can be put on the sd card. I didn't know that. When I get the new SD card and format a ~512mb ext4 partition; will it automatically move the apps to the sd card, will I have to reinstall the apps to move them, or is that grayed out option (app2sd in settings) allow me to choose (rather attempt, if the program allows for it) which apps to put to the sd card?

Thanks!
[G1 General] AdrianK:
Yeah I mean when it has to redraw everything when it gets kicked out of memory. It used to happen every time I excited an app on CM5 and CM6 (nightly build), but now that I've added a 32mb swap file with swapper2 (it doesn't like my partition :'( ) they've all disappeared. :D

The ext/hackjob method will let you keep any apps on SD

I'm not sure if it will move them for you, but you can physically move the files yourself. It's just a couple of commands in the terminal in a reboot (wont get in to it now, it's 3AM and I'm tired, so I'll probably get it wrong :P).
[G1 General] r3s-rt:
I would like to say that I've always used a partition. In the case that swap kills my SDCard, I would like it to be a certain fraction of the SDCard that dies, not a block here and a block there. I think that's more ocd, though.
[Desire General] miles_t:
I thought that doubletwist worked with itunes? I bought a tv series on itunes and attempted to synch it with desire but it throws up error, i presume this is due to apple copy restrictions. I'm not happy as I paid for this and i can't choose where I have access to it!!

Is there a way around this that is simple?

Thanks
[Desire General] steve228uk:
iTunes video is DRM'd and cannot be played on anything but iTunes, and iPod or an iPhone. I guess the only way to get it onto your device would be to screencap it and then put it on.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelauer:
Since I manually upgraded from EPE54B to FRF85B to FRF91, my phone has been freezing a lot. I don't really see a pattern to it as far as which apps are open when it freezes. It has happened on Handcent, browsing, Gmail, and probably a couple other apps. Anybody know what could be causing this?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmwtjai:
yes u are right, its freezing.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikiksaz:
Try this, from lostinbeta:

Yes, boot into recovery (turn off the device, then hold down the trackball while powering on the device)... then follow the instructions to navigate to the recovery window)... I believe when you get to recovery you get an android with an exclamation point.... press volume up, volume down, and power button all at the same time to access the submenus. Wipe should be in there. Works for non-rooted and locked phones. It's the same way I did my manual 2.2 update.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelauer:
Wouldn't that wipe all the data on my phone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkblingx2:
Select the wipe cache option first and see if that fixes the issue. That only clears the cache partition and not the phone data.

If it doesnt then you might want/have to do a factory wipe which will delete all ur info (so back them up first).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelauer:
I wiped the cache, but that didn't help. I decided to try disabling some applications to see if one of them was causing the problem. I think I may have found it. I disabled some of the options on LauncherPro that said they could cause instability, and I haven't had a problem since.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CentralMoNexusOne:
I'm having problems with the phone freezing as well.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
i had a problem freezing too and i jus did a factory reset/data wipe in recovery and everything came out good no freezes, did manual updates too
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jakelauer:
I ended up doing a factory reset/wipe as well, and that fixed the problem for me.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Big_O:
Go to the market and grab Process Manager Full. Kill some of the apps running in the background like mail, browser, music or stuff that isn't a service. Free up some memory and see it that temporarily fixes freezing. We all deal with this and for myself, closing apps always unfreezes the phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rensky:
Is there a way to solve this problem without factory wipe? Mine freezes 5 times a day....

On FRF91
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svet-am:
I was going through this as well. If I fell back to the original ERD PASSIMG and then updated to ERE27 and stayed there things were fine.

As soon as FRF91 got pushed to my phone it would begin running hotter and lock up / restart many times per day. Yesterday alone I counted five lock-ups in 45 minutes while out shopping with my wife.

I finally got frustrated and last night I rooted my phone and did the hack needed to block the 2.2 OTA. I am currently running rooted 2.1 ERE27 (otherwise stock) and my phone is behaving nicely.

I haven't had a single lock-up/reboot since I rooted. There are some things I miss from FroYo now (like properly working hands-free Bluetooth) but I can live without if it means my phone is behaving properly.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blas4me:
Your still going to get the OTA, I restored one of my nandriod backups FRF85, and the OTA was waiting for me after bootup. You can't flash it though if you have custom recovery. They have rooted stock FROYO, try it out maybe you'll like. I would never go back to 2.1 that's insane.
[G1 Android Development] nicknowsky:
Would any of the Gapps packages floating around work with Android 1.5 cupcake, maybe the gapps.zip from CM4? I have a Android tablet running a version of Android 1.5, that doesnt have Google Apps and its killing me, no Maps, nothing! I wondering if I flash a gapps.zip it might work, I'm not sure if there is any other framework i would also need, but it doesnt hurt to try. If the package doesnt work, than it doesnt work. No worry, Im just trying all avenues to get Gapps on my Camangi Webstation
[G1 Android Development] r3s-rt:
Wrong thread. You have 400 posts, have you seriously not figured out where to post?

How about... hmm... downloading a 1.5 ROM and taking the gapps out of it! Now, doesn't that sound oh so smart?

inb4 do it for me

no.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] kevinniven:
Anyone know how to use a third party app like chompsms or handcent with Google Voice for sending and receiving text messages? Thx!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] M@XLOL:
apples/oranges

edit:

you could have your texts forwarded to your reg cell number and route it through the sms app of your choice