yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Superior ROM!!

Took me 3 attempts to get it right. Wiped & Re-formatted SD Card each time.

I kept getting FC's & System Freezes. The last time, I reformatted the SD Card..Copied only the ROM, GApps & Theme to the SD Card, Rebooted to recovery, Flashed 2.1 ROM, wiped Battery, rebooted, set up swap and all that, rebooted to recovery, flashed GApps, rebooted, waited a few mins, rebooted to recovery, flashed theme, rebooted, waited for everything to settle, Signed into Google...let sync, attached USB to PC, copied over my files (Titanium backup, Download, Resource, DCIM, etc.), went into Market, downloaded my apps. Once again, when everything settled, I rebooted and ran a batch Restore with titanium backup. Set my custom ringtones. Opened Gallery and allowed all my pics to load, ran SetCPU (176min/595max), Auto memory manager (Mild), made sure everything else was working. Rebooted again and now everything is running great!!

Thanx BiffMod Squad for all your hard work & everyone else involved!!

:D
[G1 Android Development] biglo:
Can't wait to see this updated, hope it will be faster then the certain keyboard. I personally have never seen the droid x keyboard but I'm sure it some requested it and you agreed it must be good.
[G1 Android Development] leojai:
I am using EDGE to access the Internet. I found that the speed is a little bit slow than Official 2.2 OTA. Anything I can do to improve the speed?
[G1 Android Development] HellRazorGod:
Ok the thing is I've tried everything from repartitioning to unplugging and installing many times . The ROM boots but the FC's are endless . The Setup Wizard FC's and the Home screen never appears . . . Even today if u put 2.0.1 it'll work like a charm .

Any pointers ?
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Ok so you can do this with amon ra or clockworkmod recovery to flash this rom. Mytouch users must use Clockworkmod recovery, because there is no console to format the system partition, or you can also use fastboot which in my opinion does not work as well as this method.

Instructions are as follows for amon ra. If your using clockwork, then go to partions menu and select format system.

I just figured this out and it works really well for me. Should work for installing any of the newer roms, taken from my OP. You may need to leave out some of the commands like mount sd-ext for Biffmod rom:

EDIT:

Delete the android and LOST folders off of your sdcard before flashing, these tend to interfere with things.

-Put rom and add-on's onto sdcard, unless it's just a reflash then just use the ones already on your sdcard.

-Reboot recovery

-Go to Console

# wipe system

unmounting /data or

unmounting /sd-ext or just a "#"

# recovery

-Wipe Data/Factory reset, Dalvik-cache, SD ext, battery stats and rotate stats.

-If mounted successfully then you will just see the "#" sysmbol

-Hold the home button and Select reboot system now, or with ClockworkMod select advanced, then reboot recovery option.

(May vary for different roms)

-Flash Rom

-Flash Add-On's (Google apps, ect.)

-reboot to system now

If you are missing stuff like rom add-on's (not gapps), then very simple, just reboot into recovery and reflash with no wipe (not rom, only Gapps/Add-On's only. Hope this helps getting all of our roms up and running smoothly, cheers.

If anyone would like to test for installing Biffmod roms, feel free to report.
[G1 Android Development] zay012:
The file are .wma files that may be the problem although it was never a problem with othere roms. Pandora works fine!
[G1 Android Development] bootblock:
For me its the fastest and best rom since the stock 1.5. Thank you.
[G1 Android Development] Do0zman:
Anyone have a l ink to the HSPA+ hack that i can read into i see the little "h" on my phone but speeds are the same as 3g. and i feel like its eating my battery more.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
The hack is not related to the 'H' (and not really a hack) its the ro.ril settings the port is distributed with.. The 'H' is just an Icon many carriers like to show the higher speeds (but was working under the 3G label in 2.0.1)

Links are not at my figure tips sorry
[G1 Android Development] Svey:
SMS Receive but no Send ?

Just installed BiffMod 2.1 yesterday, I'm on a Rogers Dream. Haven't played much with it yet, but I wasn't able to reply to an SMS message today ? :/

I tried the various Rogers APN settings, with password, without password, internet.com, rogers-core-appl1.apn, etc.

General internet usage works well with the various APN settings, but I still can't send an SMS message ? BTW: I rarely use SMS, it used to work on CM 5.0.8, don't think I ever tried it on BiffMod 2.0.1...

Any thoughts of where to look ? I'll revert to my BiffMod 2.0.1 or CM 5.0.8 nandroid backups and check it out...

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Ok so I narrowed this problem down to one specific issue. It's a issue when you wipe, and then flash without rebooting recovery after wiping the system. That's why your flashable zip does not work as good as it should. I'm sure it will work fine if you just flash wipeable zip, reboot recovery, then flash. (for not so experienced fastboot users)

[B]EDIT:[/B]

Delete the android and LOST folders off of your sdcard before flashing, these tend to interfere with things.
-Put rom and add-on's onto sdcard, unless it's just a reflash then just use the ones already on your sdcard.
-Reboot recovery
-Go to Console
# wipe system
unmounting /data or
unmounting /sd-ext or just a "#"
# recovery
-Wipe Data/Factory reset, Dalvik-cache, SD ext, battery stats and rotate stats.
-Hold the home button and Select reboot system now, or with ClockworkMod select advanced, then reboot recovery option.

(May vary for different roms)
-Flash Rom
-Flash Add-On's (Google apps, ect.)
-reboot to system now

If you are missing stuff like rom add-on's (not gapps), then very simple, just reboot into recovery and reflash with no wipe (not rom, only Gapps/Add-On's only. Hope this helps getting all of our roms up and running smoothly, cheers.

If anyone would like to test for installing Biffmod roms, feel free to report.

Sorry for the generalization, but I thought that this is probably a good method to practice since it's been tested to work flawlessly for me anyways.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Its working fine for me (but its not APN you need to check)

Go into the dialer and dial '*#*#4636#*#*' a screen will appear

on that screen tap phone information

Scroll down to SMSC and click refresh.

For Rogers it should be +17057969300 Please check google for other carriers

(if its not correct enter it and tap update)

BTW make sure this isn't due to one of the network drops that plagues the 3.22.26.17 radio regardless of rom.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
never sure if you are being serious or not, none of the above makes any sense

you are just making up solutions to made up problems
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
What doesn't make sense about it? And no they are not made up problems, they are real problems that are giving people bad flashes of custom cm6 roms. My rom add-on's have the

mount("MTD", "sd-ext", "/sd-ext");
package_extract_dir("sd-ext", "/sd-ext");
set_perm(1000, 1000, 0771, "/sd-ext/app");
unmount("/sd-ext");
ui_print("Have a wonderfull day!");

in it. If not using this method on my custom rom, then flash to ext fails. So for me this is necessary. Like I said, maybe not for this rom, that's why it's so generalized. And it works perfect for me every time, unlike before when I was not doing this. My phone actually works now!
[G1 Android Development] Svey:
Thanks ezterry, that was it. My smsc field was empty ?

Cheers
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
wtf are you on about, that code block has eff all to do with the bs you were dibbling out before.

I'm not going to bother anymore., I'm just going to ignore you.. if anyone else wants to entertain your advise/solutions that is their lookout.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Man seriously maybe if you speak English, people could actually understand you. Sharing is caring, so if you do not want to share your finding and or solutions, then that is your call.

Edit: This is not entertaining for me, it's called troubleshooting
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Speed Comparisons - Eclair vs Biffmod 2.0.1 vs Biffmod 2.1

I apologize in advance for the length of this post...

This has been all morning in the making... no joke. (Although I did play some Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare, eat and do some housework in between some testing.)

With all the raving about how fast the new Biffmod is, I wanted to get a "pure, by the numbers" comparison going. To get a nice average, I did three tests each with Linpack and Quadrant.

First, I BART'd back to Cannon's Complete Eclair 2.2.1 and got some base numbers. This was a fast, stable daily driver - you can read about the various speed tweaks I did in my sig.

Next... a complete wipe and a BART back to Biff 2.0.1 with the following setup: most of the CE speed tweaks, 35% CC, JIT on, home & messaging locked in memory, 24m VM and ADW system version.

Now for the juicy stuff...

These are the results for a semi-stock Biffmod 2.1 install - the "semi" part being that I went with the optional ADW system version, did the Talkback update in the market and installed Linpack & Quadrant... other than that, this is 100% post-sync & settled after a fresh reboot. (I even went as far as lowering my swap from 256 to the recommended 32.)

And now, it gets even better. This is with all of my apps and tweaks restored.

Enjoy the eyecandy!
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Well I'm just not sure that I need that, but I will take a look at it. The normal rom does not contain the mount /sd-ext in the updater script. It is the last part of the updater script in the Add-On's that does this. So all I am saying is that after wiping, reboot recovery and mount sd-ext, then flash rom and gapps ect. This way the flash succeeds.

Edit: And to think I was just about to donate to YOU..I probably still will just out of respect for using your scripts and the work you do, but not for this.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Sent you an invite..username BookCase. :D
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Went back to SuperE for a little bit, because I was having trouble with lag and stuff on BiffMod 2.1.

I had CompCache and swap off, had LauncherPro pushed into /system/app, launcher in memory on, and the default CPU settings, but my phone seemed to be really slow, especially in the market, which I had the most problems with. Any suggestions on how to speed this ROM up? I've never really used swap, because I only have the SD card that came with my MT3G, which I think is a Class 2.

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
You could always try the new ddb for data data bind from Firerat's new patch, it seems to be doing well for me.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
If you dont need Apps2SD (and you really might not on a MT3G) remove you ext partition, Then everything will run in data.

Also use compcache not swap if you have a class2 SD card. (but you may find no CC or Swap will slow things down for other reasons.. since then your apps need to be removed from ram and put back onto SD)

As for market slowdown .. I think you need to find an alternative market place than Google's..
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Alright, I'll do that. I think I've removed my EXT partition, but I'm not 100% sure. Is there a way to check if my SD card is all fat32? Probably a stupid question.

And is swap enabled at the beginning, when you first boot up the ROM? I never changed that setting in the BiffMod settings, which I think may be why my phone was going so slow.

And yes, I definitely don't need Apps2SD. I only have like 10-15 apps.

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] thesaint90304:
please Help

I flash 2.1 but i cant get the apps to go the sd when i install them the in phone memory. I following the whole guide step by step. i dont know what im doing wrong. please help.
[G1 Android Development] Levito:
Biffmod v 2+

Absolutely amazing work. Thanks so much.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
And you could always try to listen to Firerat!!!! :D
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
Anyone in the east coast having clock issues? My notification bar shows 1:44, my lockscreen clock shows 1:48 and my fancy widget clock shows 1:08. Hopefully daylight savings time clears these issues, lol.
[G1 Android Development] knipp21:
I'm on the Eris with Verizon. Same here.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Not sure if there's a way to do in on the device itself, but if you pop it in a Linux machine it should mount the two partitions separately (If two exist).

Swap is on by default yes. I also have a Class 2 card (and for the life of me I can't find anything better around here) so I switched Swap off and put Compcache on and BM flies on my Dream. Just go into the BM settings, switch Swap off, turn Compcache on (I put it on the default 18%), reboot and enjoy.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
GParted to partition SD card in Windows

I use GParted on my Windows machine to partition my SD. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Make a GParted Live CD from the iso you download and restart with the CD in the drive. Let it boot, approving all default settings. From there you can repartition or just check your card. Remember, the order you have to lay them down is Fat32, EXT, Swap. Also be SURE that the drive you are looking at in GParted is your SD card - and not your hard drive. You can tell by the letter and the size of the drive.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
You can also use the 'utility' command in adb if you use RAs recovery. That will not only keep you from making the mistake of nuking your hard drives, but will also put the partitions down in the proper order. All you have to do is tell it how big you want the swap and ext sections... and then sit back and let RA do all the heavy lifting.

It's the method I've been using for a while and it works perfectly.
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Thanks for all the replies. I'll be trying this out when I get home from church. :)
[G1 Android Development] Figs:
Found some issues and not sure if its happening to anyone else. But I've been stomped for the last hour on this.

I have no sound and no vibrate when I receive text messages. I have vibrate enabled, it was on normal and nothing so I put it on long vibrate and still nothing. I've switch text message ringtones and still nothing. While I receive text messages only way I know I got any is by the led or the seeing the icon on the status bar.

Had my wife call my phone and she said it rang once and went straight to voicemail. My phone was on and I wasn't even on it doing anything. She tried again and samething. So she text me and now text messaging notification sound and vibrate works out of no where when the last hour it didn't.

I can make calls no problem. So outgoing calls I'm good. I called her and it went through no problem. She tried calling me again and still the samething rings once on her end and then goes to my voicemail. My phone doesn't ring at all.

I've only had this rom on my phone for a little over an hour now with the Blue theme and AWD launcher.
[G1 Android Development] Figs:
Ok so re-wiping, re-flashing everything seemed to have fixed my issues. I can now receive phone calls (atleast my wife's call went through). Still need to make your texting is good.

Now I will adjust things to my liking and hope I don't run into this situation.
[G1 Android Development] ibraheeemz:
BIffmod 2.1 is exceptionally owesome. Good work dev. do we really need 2.2. I think 2.1 is all OK!!
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I agree 2.1 is awesome. 2.2 should be a no wipe update (hopefully) its just going to build on the features we put in place in the BiffMod Settings, like the Swap, and the OC Features. We want to add were you the user are able to change swappiness and maybe add a widget to the OC features and make it where it doesnt go back to default after reboot. All we can do is get the Rom to work better from here on. Also I personally want to look into and fix the battery drain issue. Might be hard but BiffModSquad has the best and brightest minds and we will figure something out. So until then enjoy V2.1 Best Froyo Rom around.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Market issues?

ok so I know that some of you are having market issues. I'm not sure what gapps are being used here but here are the latest ones! You will probably want to bookmark this page, and check back often. You will need to make an account in order to sign in and download: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/files/file/124-google-addon-mdpi-tiny-20101020/
[G1 Android Development] jamal8820:
Thanks! i did just that and i hopefully will get it tomorrow. This is the first time its happened to me.
[G1 Android Development] Inceptron:
I still can't get this ROM to 'look' fast.. and by that I mean, theres some visual lag, for example from app opening/closing animations, and scrolling menus.

Its common for me to get a bit of lag visually, but in terms of apps opening and closing its a bit more rare. Not sure if this is 'normal' for this rom or not, since everyone is saying its the best and it's fast..

I'm probably completely wrong, but could this be because I don't have a swap partition setup and that the default for swap is on? (and thus the rom getting confused where to keep opened/closed apps in memory?)
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Here you can download all the latest Gapps without registering for an account or signing in: Index of /google-apps/

:cool:
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Oh sweet good call, not sure which one is updated more but nice link.
[G1 Android Development] sisterchick:
He didn't mean ADB. He meant console. In recovery, go to console. Hit enter, which will bring up the # sign for the command line. Type utility. That will bring up a menu.

I've had mixed results trying to reformat my SD in this manner. If it's is currently FAT32 and you want to add partititions, it seems fine. If it has other partitions already, I've had less success.
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Isn't console only for the G1, since it has a physical keyboard? I have a MT3G.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Just added all the original themes to the BiffMod Themes thread. These are all the themes you have grown to love. I have also added an option to each to have the circular battery. Sorry it took so long to get them out. lol

BiffMod Themes Thread.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Actually, I tried the 3 newest ones (gapps-hdpi-20101020.1,

gapps-mdpi-20101020 & gapps-mdpi-tiny-20101020) and noticed the

gapps-mdpi-tiny-20101020 seem to be the best bet. The other 2 didn't work well with this ROM. They were a bit buggy.
[G1 Android Development] sparksco:
Yes we have to use the tiny ones for g1 because of limited system storage. For mytouch it probably won't matter as much. I make mine even smaller by removing apps like maps, and pretty much everything that is not needed, then resign
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Thats the same thing we do with BiffMod Gapps. We remove everything you can get off the marketplace.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
I usually remove the bulk apps myself, after flashing, using Titanium Backup.
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Here is a great question for the awesome BiffMod Users (Love you all, Thanks for your support)...

What do you want to see in the next build?

Just let us know and we will see what we can do. Thanks again, you guys are the best bunch of G1 users around.:D
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Well, I personally like the whole "plain" concept. I usually take out the "News & Weather" app and, seems silly to me to have the "Screen Tips" widget. I mean, if you're rooted & flashing custom ROMs, chances are you read that once and took it off. I only read it the first time I flash to see if cyanogen added and funny comments and then I delete it from the system. Just saying, seems silly to have that. As far as what to add, I love the way it is. Wallpapers are epic.

;) I have more I made, Ill post previews later when I have time.

Sent from my Plain Biff Dream
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Cool BookCase just let me know when you posted them and I will get them added to the BiffWallpapers app. Thanks for all the great wallpapers by the way. Anyways I agree this release is beastly. But like all good things we gotta keep going and try to out do ourselves. lol
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
This ROM is pretty much perfect. The only things I can think of is having CPU settings stick after reboot, and having the setting for the power control bar in the notification bar stick after reboot. I have it disabled, but I have to redisable it everytime I reboot.

Other than that, its awesome! This is the first Froyo ROM I've actually liked.
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
I'm with BookCase. I could do without the News and Weather app and the Screen Tips on startup. Also, I love having the notification bar power widget, but there are 2 things I would like to see changed on it. 1) Make it so it's not 'blurry' when using a black theme and 2) Allow 'flashlight' as one of the button choices like the one available if used as a desktop widget.

I like how you gave an optional optimized launcher replacement with ADW, but I prefer the scrolling dockbar of LauncherPro. Would making an optimized update with that be out of the question? Otherwise, how do you recommend I install it and keep the best speed (I did the ADW Launcher with the original flash)?

As far as keyboards go, I demoed and liked SlideIt, but am curious about the Droid X keyboard I've heard mentioned a couple of times. How do I get that (or Swype) on my G1?
[G1 Android Development] Inceptron:
Im sick and tired of flashing from rom to rom..so I decided to stick to biffmod from now on.

This time I partitioned with a 32mb swap (as per the instructions/OP), and things seem more responsive, even though I turned swap off later. I also set my cpu to 576, and that helped a lot. (I should of tried that before)

Thanks for all the effort you guys put into this!
[G1 Android Development] Ryoukou:
Awesome ROM! In case of speed and smoothness at least :D

But the battery life... anyway, i prefer a smooth performance over battery life all day.

Thanks guys!
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
BiffMod Wallpapers

Here's a preview of what I have done so far:

Enjoy!
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Nope, I meant adb... not console. MT3G folks can still use it... from a command prompt do:

adb shell
utility

It's the same as doing it with console on a G1. You can also get to the BART interface from there too... but I never use the menu for that.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Ditto on the tips widget... it's not really needed. Maybe if it was used to announce major changes in a build (like things that were kept secret until release).
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
Great suggestions, I got the Droid X Multitouch keyboard running on my G1 with Biffmod now and it works awesome. Love it. What I will do is today I will build a no wipe update that you can flash via recovery and it will install the Keyboard. I will also look into SlideIt. I know one of my BetaTesters also requested that. Look for it tonight on the OP. But I will let you know when its done. Thanks.

Thats something we plan on working on, the CPU settings was our first try at it and I think for a first try we did it pretty dang good. But yes we are working on making it stick after a reboot.

Great looking wallpapers, you got my email so when completed just email them to me. thanks.

I agree I hate the tips widget, lol, we will either remove it or add our own sayings in there....Whatever we will just remove it, its useless. lol

Great ideas guys, I knew I could count on you all to help with making this Rom even better. Thanks again for all your support. I will pass all these ideas along to the Team.