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[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
yeah i have no idea how to partition an sd card.
[Captivate Android Development] AJerman:
You're not going to be able to partition in Windows or Mac OS X, because neither supports ext3 or 4.

GParted Live CD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
[Captivate Android Development] ranova:
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 for windows supports creating partitions for ext3 and ext4
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
Ext4 Speedfix Kernel is Here All instructions on how to setup for the ext3 kernel also apply to this one, just change ext3 to ext4.

The captivate_speedfix2 kernel is tested and runs really quick.

Here is the ext4 only kernel It is completely untested, but should boot find (and do what you want with the ext4 goodness ofcourse)
[Captivate Android Development] madjsp:
I need to get a card reader so I can get ext4 on my sd card.
[Captivate Android Development] MSigler:
I partitioned my card, followed the directions, installed the kernel using ODIN, got a "Success" message, and now it hangs on the Galaxy S boot screen, then goes blank and does nothing.

I can still get to recovery, so it's not the end of the world, but it would be better if anyone knew exactly what I did wrong.

Any ideas? I'm about to just assumed I typo'ed something and start over.
[Captivate Android Development] Fortune090:
What are the differences between the 2 ext4 kernels?
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
The captivate_speedfix2 kernel works just like my ext3 kernel and mounts the sdcard partition over /data on boot.

The ext4 only kernel behaves just like the stock one, it just supports ext4 as well.

If any of you guys feel like making a donation toward my (now much needed) beers that'd be great, but there is no obligation. Credit goes to a lot of people, including the dude on irc that helped me get Odin3 going.
[Captivate Android Development] AJerman:
You're the best! Testing the ext4 kernel now! :)
[Captivate Android Development] drscws:
Will this work on the i9000 rom or do i need to flash back to the stock captivate rom?
[Captivate Android Development] jro2020:
Okay, sorry, andronoob here.

I accept that this works and am super stoked to try it.

If get the gist of this coding we are basically telling the phone to put (what in windows would be the registry) on the sd card and read it from there.

But can someone explain to me why forcing the phone to read/write certain files from the external sd card would make things faster? This is completely counterintuitive to my having used windows mobile for 9 years.

Is the advantage entirely that ext3 and ext4 are significantly faster systems than what ever the internal storage is formatted as? If so wouldn't the end goal to be make a backup of the internal memory format the internal memory to ext and then restore the backup?

Or is the advantage that the database files are no longer on the same drive as the application?

If anyone of you much wiser beings could explain to me the basic why that this works I would greatly appreciate it.
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
No ideas about that. The first time I booted to the ext3 partition I thought I had a hang because it sat there a LONG time. I had a pretty old copy of data on the card (forgot to update before flash) and lots of widgets were freaking out when it finally showed me the home screen.

make sure that you copy all the files from /data to the root of your sdcard partition, not to a data subdirectory.

I should edit in here that I had a few of the phone-!-computer icons going just now when dealing with the ext4 stuff, its not bad to get out of actually. I'll be around and check in on the thread here a little longer, while I see if titanium backup will be able to restore my stuff.
[Captivate Android Development] MSigler:
I'm restoring, reformatting everything and trying again. I let it sit for a good 10 minutes on the first boot, and pulled the card would allow it to boot, some I'm guessing I screwed something up.
[Captivate Android Development] jro2020:
A few other things. If I read correctly, If the sd card is removed the device default back to /data on the internal memory?

If not, how do I undo it before removing the card?

If so, is there a way to periodically update /data on the internal memory so it is not too far out of whack.
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
There are two theories as to why this is faster, I may end up testing later to find out what is true ;)

The filesystem used on /dev/block/mmcblkp0p2 (the default /data partition) is 'RFS', a Samsung home-cooked FAT derivetive, RFS stands for 'Robust File System'. Now Samsung think they have sometihng super exciting that must be kept sekrit from their competitors with this fs so it is closed source. However I imagine they make FAT robust by doing some copy-on-write type stuff, which is actually pretty easy to implement in FAT on the block level. They have also hacked on a mechanism for FAT (well RFS) to behave like a unix filesystem.

I think that slows it down.

The other theory is that they screwed up the hardware, and the internal sdcard is on a slow bus.

Either or both of these theories could be right, testing (time) will tell.
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
Yes, the internal card partition still gets mounted on /data so if you yank the card your phone will boot just fine.

to update it periodically mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 somewhere (/sdcard/mnt) and copy /data/* to it.
[Captivate Android Development] ranova:
so for ext4, would I type:

mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /sdcard/mnt

instead of:

mount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /sdcard/mnt
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
yep. :)

(I'm typing more characthers here so it will post)
[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
odin does nothing when i click start
[Captivate Android Development] AJerman:
Just FYI, I'm now getting 1611 in quadrant, but I'm still not satisfied with how I've got this setup. Going to redo a few things and see what I can do.
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
Odin (and the samsung drivers) are a royal PITA. Make sure you have Odin running before you put the phone in download mode, and make sure the phone is detected properly by the drivers. I've had to sit and reboot and fiddle getting my windows7 box to recognize the phone. Half the time when it boots windows says 'drivers did'nt install properly' (or something to that effect).
[Captivate Android Development] jro2020:
Ahh sweet, thank you for helping to alleviate my ignorance (in this post and the last). Now I just need to actually learn enough linux command language to do that from time to time. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
thanks. that did the trick
[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
uhhhh my phone rebooted and is now giving me about a million force close pop ups one after the other

edit:ok so i screwed something up obviously. but luckily removing the sdcard puts things back to normal but my widgets just say problem loading widget. removing them and replacing them works fine
[Captivate Android Development] SlimJ87D:
Nuke, like I said i will pay you $10.

Once I get this working of course. I'm reading up on partitioning right now using Paragon Hard Disk manager. Partioning my hard drive but please, can you make a totally new post unrelated to this one? On it, please have your donation pay pal thing and your instructions. It should be your official topic so we can know who to doante to.

NUKE'S OFFICIAL CAPTIVATE SPEED BOOST!

I'm ready to donate once I get this working on my phone :)
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
Oops?

Did you get your /data copied properly? What kernel are you using?
[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
I assume not. haha I'm gonna reformat the card and recreate the partitions and start from the step 1 just to be safe

edit: was trying to use ext4 kernal and will be trying it again
[Captivate Android Development] SlimJ87D:
What program are you running to do the Partitions? I'm having trouble already at Step 1 :(
[Captivate Android Development] Anthonok:
Paragon Hard disk manager 2010. If someone could post a step by step on setting up the partitions I'm sure this would be a lot easier for all of us
[Captivate Android Development] ranova:
when I type:

mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /sdcard/mnt

I get:

mount: No such device
[Captivate Android Development] NukaCola:
I think people are using gparted live cd.
[XPERIA X10 General] Herr Noobien:
I rooted my X10a a while ago (I used the 6/7/10 insturctions and everything seems to working fine...except the headphones

As far as I can tell, protected apps show up on the market (e.g. tapatalk pro), Barnacle and Titanium Backup work fine (looks like the phone is rooted properly) and the phone displays the following:

Model Number: X10a

Firmware Version: 1.6

Baseband Version: 1.1.27

Kernel Version: 2.6.29-rel

Build Number: R2BA023

I'm on "3 Australia" and 3G, WiFi and MMS seem to be working properly. Any ideas? Would installing Jerpelea's R2BA024 update help?
[XPERIA X10 General] sandsftime:
apparently i have the same problem too. it is only after i root my phone this problem exists.
[Desire General] sutty86:
Can't boot into recovery. Tried flashing amonrA over clockwork and now can't enter evan basic recovery help
[Desire General] 42turkeys:
Can you boot into normal boot mode?
[Desire General] sutty86:
Yes but when I press recovery it reboot
[Desire General] 42turkeys:
Did you use UnrEVOked to flash? If so try running it again.

But before you do that, try downloading an app called 'Quick Boot', open it & tap 'Recovery'.
[Desire General] sutty86:
Yes did what you said and just goes to the white boot screen
[Desire General] cgrec92:
Did you try running unvrevoked again?

If you did and it doesnt work then install a RUU, i think it's a sticky.

This will re-install your recovery image etc but you will lose root.

Once thats done run unrevoked again
[Vibrant General] Mafiatounes:
Can anybody upload the avatar movie from the vibrant my girl accidently deleted mine! I would really appreciate it many thx in advance
[Vibrant General] Mafiatounes:
Anyone please..
[Vibrant General] popypopy:
I'm something like 10000% positive this is not allowed.
[Vibrant General] rsfaze:
this would be warez if someone uploaded it as its protected material.

The best suggestion given yet is to visit a tmobile store and ask the rep nicely if you can COPY it from the demo phones SD card to your phone.

sucks it happened :(
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
Will this even work? I am pretty sure that if you could just copy Avatar off of the sim card there would be digital copies all over the internet. It is protected somehow isn't it?
[Vibrant General] orateam:
yeah, i would think the movie is locked to your imea #.

Although rsfaze lives here in orlando and we can always try. :)
[Vibrant General] aVsG1rl:
Is it me or does this not compute? In his (OP) "signature" the XDA App reports that he is responding from a Vibrant in his OP. In his follow up post, his "signature" indicates that he is using a Captivate.. Something is afoot, me thinks... LOL

I guess anyone can add that as their signature if they want to look legit and get a copy of Avitar :rolleyes:
[Vibrant General] Mafiatounes:
@ avag1rl I have 10 phones @ the moment and I already downloaded the movie and yes I use it to compare vid quality between each other
[Vibrant General] reuthermonkey:
just buy an 11th phone then
[Vibrant General] Mafiatounes:
No 11 is too much and i dont buy them i'm gonna do reviews on them and some will get sent back some phones will stay with me depends if the manufacturer agree's
[XPERIA X10 General] sammyb0210:
Looking for some advice please.

I am currenty using ES Task Manager to control apps and tasks, and kill whatever necessary. But wanted to know if anyone has used anything better, and had experience of using my current one.

Any advise or suggestions would be great.

Cheers
[XPERIA X10 General] iridaki:
Yes, there is a better task manager.

Just go to Settings>Applications>Manage applications

find ES Task Manager, click on it and then select Uninstall.

Then you will be running the latest version of No F**** Task Manager

which should do miracles on your phone, along with your OCD on killing applications, only to see them pop up again seconds later,

because that's just how the Android works.

No offence! Nothing personal here,

I am just tired of arguing with people over the same matter.

Before opening a new thread, make a search! ;)

As far as task managers are concerned, look here.

It's a long article but totally worth reading.

I've been where you are when I bought my first Android device,

it's only natural.

But, right now I am not using any task management/killing application on my X10 and I am more than happy with its performance.

Let alone, more relaxed that I don't just have-to-kill applications in a robotic and manic way! :D

Cheers!
[XPERIA X10 General] sammyb0210:
Very helpful read, thank you very much for the link.

I will take the advice and let the phone do all the hardwork.

After all it is a 'Smart Phone'

Thanks anyway!!
[XPERIA X10 General] Zenghelis:
I agree with My_Inmortal (love that song!). I been using es task manager and others app killers, and since I unintall them my phone seems to work nicer. And I do not worry now abuot apps running in the backgound or my free ram. I just let the phone do it for me and it's great. I was going mad pushing the widget 20 times per day and watching which apps were running... Now I don't care and everything is Ok. Even my health, LOL
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
+ 1 on both if those comments.. I've not been using task managers or startup managers for a couple of months now.. And both me and the phone are better without them!
[XPERIA X10 General] McKebapp:
Well, that's only half the truth.

Android's auto killing feature performs very well.

But only as long as the Apps are coded correctly.

But there are several Apps, that have no "exit" button to end them manually. So they are working on in the background.

I for example make use of the autokilling features of an App called "Task Manager" and modified the App autostart behavior with "Autostarts".

Voila, the battery gained about 40% Standby.

Autokilling is also nice for the Apps _with_ Exit button, on which I forgot to exit them...

So there is no "Use an Autokiller" or "Don't use an Autokiller".

It depends on the individual used Apps and how Android is treated.
[XPERIA X10 General] iridaki:
You are better off without that kind of apps anyway.

And if you didn't exit an app, after some period of inactivity, the system will shut it down.

Look here, I am using all these apps: http://www.appbrain.com/user/iridaki/apps-on-the-x10i

and not a single one of them is causing my phone any problems at all.

Free RAM is wasted RAM on Android, there is absolutely no point in obsessing about it.

Of course, having a task manager won't harm your phone, but auto or continuously manually killing will.

Period.
[XPERIA X10 General] Zenghelis:
I was no talking about battery gain. Maybe you're right at this point. But for me, my phone works better since i don't have it. And i just killed apps i did not use, like moxier, photoshop, etc. Don't know why, but now works nicer.
[XPERIA X10 General] iridaki:
Don't mean to be a p@in in the @ss, but if you cannot define "nicer",

then it proves nothing! :)

It could be a placebo effect from the very well know Moxier-obsession! :D

Anyway, there are facts and then there is user experience.

Eveybody feels different and is entitled to use his phone any way he feels like.

But the facts are still facts. ;)
[XPERIA X10 General] Zenghelis:
Well i meant my phone does not lag or get stuck anymore since i don't use task killers. Maybe i was doing something wrong, but i don't think it's only my impression.

PS: sorry if I cannot explain it clearer, my enghlish it not good enough :)
[XPERIA X10 General] iridaki:
Your english are perfect! ;)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
writing boot image...

assert failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "boot)

E:Error in /sdcard/(name of rom).zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.

This is what my phone says each time I flash a new rom I can do a restore and it works fine but I can't flash a new one should I reformat the card and start over?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
Try formatting or REPLACING the card.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PlatinumMOTO:
ok I tried reformatting the card and tried another one and it happened again but I was able to flash speedteam 2.2.1 but not superbad nor any other rom. I've only tried superbad and speedteam 2.3. Oddly enough even though it says all this when I restart the phone the phone boots to the rom that supposedly failed to install.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asb123:
if you know how to use fastboot, try:

fastboot erase system -w
[Wildfire General] s3ri0z:
Hello Guys,

at first sorry for my bad english... :)

Is there any way to get windows mobile on my HTC Wildfire?

I hope there is a solution!

I know the phone is very new...

If this doesn't work - my friends and i bought a wildfire that have a t-mobile software branding - how can i get the untouched rom?

thx 4 rply
[Wildfire General] FPRiCK:
No There's no way to do that. Why would you wanna have wmobile instead of Android? Stupid.
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
There is no and probably never will be a WM rom for the Wildfire.The wildfire isn't successfully rooted (A review version was but it doesn't work on retail) so flashing is currently impossible so I don't think you can unbrand it for now.

I do know Paul from MoDaCo is trying to root it but we will see how that goes.
[Wildfire General] RomNoR:
Why would you want that? i am just curious.

:confused:
[Wildfire General] s3ri0z:
I like to have it, because all my other phones are with windows mobile.

There are many more programs for wm smartphones...

But the next problem is, that in Germany all wildfires are sold out... it's very anoying.

I've searched for a good thread with android apps - but i didn't find one...

Does it have as much applications as for windows mobile?
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
I do not know how much the applications for Windows mobile has grown in the last year but I used to have WM 6.1 on my HTC Kaiser.

I find more (free and paying) applications in the android market then I found for WM.

Take a look at appbrain . com
[Wildfire General] sk1786:
@ s3ri0z:

i dont think so, that all the wildfires are sold out in germany. why i get one today in my vodafoneshop???

it is unpossible to flash a winmob rom to your wildfire. did you tried to run android on a windows mobile phone? its difficult to develop it and so to run it on an winmob device.

and than, the android only starts in windows. it doesnt replace it.

on android you wount get something like that.
[Wildfire General] TitusO:
Hey s3ri0z,

I'm German myself, so please write me a PM, if there are some problems with the understanding. I'll answer you in German then.

To your questions:

- There exist 100.000+ apps in the Android Market. This is way more then you can get for WM. I have to admit, that if you count all WM-apps together you might find more apps for WM. But most of the WM-apps are old. Lots of those were designed for WM 5, WM 6.1, etc. The only useful WM-apps are those for WM 6.5 and may be WM 6.1, but since Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 in a couple month, WM is kind of dying.

My phone is an HTC HD2 and this way I'm using WM-apps for a long time. With the possibilities of an Linux kernel, which was released by the dev's here in this forum, I'm now testing Froyo on my HD2. To be honest, I think Android is the future. It is in many ways better. It's faster, supports flash in the browser and has a huge development community.

- You can get a Wildfire at at least three online stores from now to tomorrow. Try idealo.de or other "Preissuchmaschinen", you'll find a vendor.

- The only thing, which really is a plus for Windows Mobile is the Sync. I don't wan't to share my private data with google. But even there is a solution. Look for companionlink.com and check the USB-version. That should solve all those problems.

:)
[Wildfire General] s3ri0z:
Hello guys,

thanks for so many answers. :cool:

I looked an a lot of websites with android apps.

There are really many freeware apps - so it's ok to have an android smartphone...

I searched at idealo.com for the wildfire and bought 3 pieces at es-mobilfunk de.

At the shop the delivery date was 3 to 7 days.

After 3 days I asked for the delivery date --> they said it's sold out and I have to wait for an indefinite period... it's very annoying! :mad:
[Wildfire General] zephyri-xr:
Hi there!

- WM has more apps - true. But it got near to 500.000 (for example) apps in nearly 10 years. Android got near to 100.000 apps in nearly 2 year. That means android grows and gets apps faster ;) So why anyone would want wm on his Wildfire? I only missed TCPMP and Worms from wm. :(

All of the Wildfires isn't sold in Germany or I bought the last one :D
[Wildfire General] FPRiCK:
lol, fail comparison. End up the same amount/year in your case.

But, your point's right ;)

Windows Mobile have around 50k working apps atm. and have been around for like 6 years or so. Android have been around for over 1 year know, lately the apps have grown like ****. It'll probably beet Appstore pretty soon.

But hey! Apps is not all, Android is the (according to me) best system around.
[Wildfire General] rexzooly:
From what I seen of the wildfire in the 3 hours I have had mine it really would not do well with the new windows mobile heavy handed core, the phone is nice as it is and really does not need WM killing the poor thing :D
[Wildfire General] stavro:
i completely agree. had wm devices since 2003 (tomtom was the killer app) but now wm is dying, wp7 will not change this, since as far as i heard it is not backward compatibility at all. this was my reason to go for the wildfire, and i have to say i really like this phone.
[Wildfire General] kosiara:
Yeah... Android has many apps. Maybe not as much as WM but still growing. In Poland all HTCs were sold out as well :/ but 2 days ago I managed to snatch one ;)

Cheers,

BK
[Wildfire General] ganzeveld:
Ever looked in Window Marketplace??? There is not much to download...

I also was using Windows Mobile 6.5 and now owner of the HTC Wildfire, honestly, i never want to go back to Windows Mobile! Android is so easy to use and much faster than (for example) WM on a Touch2...

What ever you need can be sownloaded on the Marketplace, and the best thing is...for free!

Dave
[Wildfire General] sunnymiu:
Never try torturing yourself. I've just escape from this hell
[Wildfire General] zephyri-xr:
I used a Touch2 in a electronic market and i felt like riding a turtle after I used my lovely Wildfire. So WM sucks. I only missed the TCPMP and Worms but soon we'll get them :D
[Wildfire General] seshvasan89:
can i have a dual boot with windows and android in the HTC Wildfire ??? and heard that some applets arent supported due to less resolution of the screen… is that true ?? is that a major setback as far as Android market is concerned ??? and anyone tried FROYO on wildfire ???
[Wildfire General] Skye Menjou:
1. No

2.Sorta, Some apps don't show in the market but you can still download them.

3. Froyo is going to be released sooner or later(Within 2 weeks the rumor goes).
[Wildfire General] Cyborgz:
I don't understand why anyone would want to use Windows Mobile over the Android OS. As point of princible to prove you can get Windows Mobile on your phone is one thing... To use it as your phone's main OS is another IMO.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatkeeper:
Hi, how can i change my wall paper on the htc sense loading sceen, im running omega v4 rom with cookies tab editor cooked in. cheers
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faelok:
The "loading sense" wallpaper is just your wm lockscreen wallpaper. There is no separate wallpaper for the "loading sense..." screen.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatkeeper:
ok in laymens terms how do i go about changing it?