yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
@ Noodles2224

Since we all have all the apps on the ETX partition on the SD card, the class is important. A class 4 card will be better, a class 6 will be best. It's not the ROM that runs slow. It's that the SD card is. If you have a mytouch, you might not need an EXT partition at all. Not for Apps or davlik-cache. My wife is running 2.0.1 on an mt3g with no issues. She has CC at default, no swap partition, no EXT.

As far as your tone, you seem to ignore that there are many people having no issues who don't post because they read the instructions and all went well, so they had no questions. Not everyone is being nice. I let RK know 1.7.1 was slow. I was a beta tester since 1.8 and anytime there's an issue, the beta testers have brought it up. There's like 10 of us, so don't think we're just being nice. We want a rom that runs well enough to have our less-nerdy spouses run them. In my case, aside from Gallery, Browser and Market, which still have their issues, everything is going great. There's no point in running a ****ty, slow rom out of respect to a dev many people here don't even know. Some people have issues, and they do let them be known (if you read the thread, you'd know) so don't say everyone who's happy with it is lying or exaggerating just because you're not.

There are many reasons why things go awry with a Rom. They most often are:

1. Not following all instructions properly

2. Slow memory card

3. Corrupt files

4. Error missed in the testing phase (the last one was fixed within 2 days with 2.0.1)

5. Hardware issues.

6. bad luck.

I gave up during 2.0 testing a few weeks ago (before 1.9 came out), started over from android 1.0, and before I could go back to running stock Donut, I decided I messed up somewhere and gave it another try. My issue? At first it was 2, then 1, then 6, with a little bit of 5. Now my phone is running this as well as it did Donut. Actually, I think it runs better. I've also tried Chromatic, SuperD, CM 5.0.8, CM 6RC2,3,final, SuperFroyo. This is as fast as SuperD in my case. Difference between us is that I won't claim people are exaggerating or anything like that if they disagree with me.
[G1 Android Development] biglo:
I'm using a class 2 sd card lol.... but its still pretty good for what I need to do. I'm going to reformat my sd card and remove the ext partition and see how much faster it will get since I don't install that much apps.

@kingjehu

I here you man, one thing I never to is put down a rom before I fully test it and install several times if there is an error. I need complain because I knoww I can't do any better so I just ask questions and try to learn.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
AHHH!!

Okay, I'm really getting pissed off here. I have no idea what could be causing this but, after wiping the phone and re-formatting the SD Card and re-flashing BiffMOD v2.0 3 times now, The phone keeps soft rebooting or just plain powering off.

Every time I try to sync, the phone freezes and i'm forced to reboot.

I did nothing wrong, flashed it the same as always. Do I need to run a script perhaps?

BTW, v2.0.1 was worse...tried that earlier.
[G1 Android Development] TL@:
I got it installed, finally.

I first wiped everything, installed it and it was so slow, not normal. After a while I decided to re-wipe everything (did that with every method described) and installed again. Now it works perfectly.

I installed all my apps via WiFi with appbrain (saves me te time to re-search all my apps), I have 30 apps installed, took about 30 minutes to install; Only ADW didn't go from the first time, had to cancel download and start downlaod again. Then it worked.

Only thing left then was installing the Bluetooth fix

Without it keeps disconnecting from the carkit.

Allround, this is the greatest ROM I had on the G1 so far.

Thx!
[G1 Android Development] CoolWheelChair:
everyone is having probs, someone should make a tutorial on youtube on a full smooth running install. lol id do it but no cammmm.:p
[G1 Android Development] snkrfrkr127:
ive attempted flashing this rom a few times and it doesnt work but all the other versions did, is there sumthing im missing??
[G1 Android Development] Kaos Chase:
I tried forever as well. I finally got it with a EXT3 instead of EXT4.
[G1 Android Development] lil-devil:
just flashed this rom and its been running great, no problems to complain at the moment :P

but the speed... the speed is just great :) thanks
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
If you can run ADB, (there's a thread in this forum called ADB For Dummies) you can provide a logcat for RoyalKnight or one of the not so nooby BiffMod Squad members. Also, class 10 sd card? can the G1 even take advantage of that?
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Umm, 1. I can do a logcat but, i wiped and wiped and wiped again. Re-flashed and, so far, so good.

2. No, it can't. But, I can brag. lol
[G1 Android Development] phil0sophic:
Issues

Can the folks with issues please describe their phone in their sig so those of us with a potential solution can reply intelligently.
[G1 Android Development] protomanez:
I don't know how most of you are having problems, if you don't know how to do a step, best thing to do is just try to learn and read because the steps are pretty easy to understand :\
[G1 Android Development] 313dash:
I agree I've been getting a lot of fc's in the default browser. Using on the on srceen keyboard it just locks up.
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
First off, I'd like to say thanks for your efforts and thanks in advance for your help with my question(s). I just switched over from "stock" CM6 today and think I will be glad I did. I'll be the first to admit, I'm somewhat of a 'noob' but all of you were once too, right?

I just followed the instructions from the original post with a printout while on a flight. (I haven't had time to flash this with a fully charged phone any other time lately). I found the first option to wipe by holding "Volume down, home back and power for system wipe..." to be somewhat difficult as the phone would only briefly flash a white screen (maybe 1/2 second) and then go into a normal start when I let go of the buttons. I tried this a handful of times before I realized that if I kept holding all 4 buttons, I could see the flash repeat every 2 seconds or so and see that it was asking me to push the "Action" button to confirm the wipe or "Power" to cancel. Maybe a little extra wording in the instructions to let go of the buttons (or at least the power button) as soon as the phone powers up would help people avoid the frustration I had. Also, a comma after 'home' would help separate it in the list.

The 2nd option might be nice to note that it has to be done via the computer/ADB. I kept loading into Fastboot and then trying to figure out how to type "erase system -w"...

My next question has to do with the color themes. The wording I've quoted above is a little confusing to me. It says to make sure not to flash the ROM then flash the theme, yet you are supposed to have the ROM first so don't you have to do that? Does it mean that you can do it only after you've completed all of the initialization and sign in steps? Then it says to flash back to stock 1.9 before trying a new theme. Can I do it with 2.0.1? Also, are there screenshots somewhere to see what these themes look like?

Thanks-

BudLowe

PS - Any way to fix the spelling on "Jet Plain" to "Jet Plane?" As a pilot, I like the little loading animation but the spelling kinda irks me.

Black G1

96Mb Swap

512Mb ext4

RADIO-2.22.23.02

Amon Ra 1.7.0
[G1 Android Development] bambi23:
1. they probably didn't say u needed a computer for the fastboot option because that generally goes without saying. U can be forgiven for not knowing tho since as u said earlier you are new with these things (as we all were as some point!)

2. the stuff for the themes were written when v1.9 was still the most recent version, but it still holds true for v2 or v2.0.1. Yes you are right, you have to have setup and at least be running v2 or v2.0.1 before flashing the theme. the instructions just mean you shouldn't flash the rom, and then without even rebooting flash the theme. if you were to change themes, its a good idea to go back to the original rom first (sort of like having a clean slate to start with!)

3. the "jet plain" is not a spelling mistake, its just referring to the fact that this rom is a "plain" version without any bloatware and is super fast (like a jet) :)....

hope this helps clear things up for you :)

ps. you said you are a pilot, and you flashed this rom while you were on a flight....i hope u were on a flight as a passenger and not as the pilot? (i know there is such a thing as autopilot)
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Since there has been people trying, and some questions on the CustomMTD thread I decided to post this.

This procedure is at your own risk, meaning if you can't do it we may or may not decide to help out.

[size=+1]==BiffMod + custom MTD [Dream Users using RA-dream-v1.7.0]==[/size]

The following procedure is Intended for EBI0 Dreams (such as the T-Mobile G1).. while the process is very similar on other phones it may not be identical.

Disclaimer this procedure works; however many people have had trouble installing custom MTD onto this rom in general.. Thus expect minimum support because you couldn't properly wipe for customMTD.. or if you missed a step in this longer process.

Please do not install this or any other ROM by using Custom MTD until you read carefully the Mod/Hack information. Of particular impotence is noting this procedure modifies your recovery image; thus to undo it you need to re-flash the recovery from the original recovery image. *EVEN* if its the same recovery currently installed.

[size=+1]==Before you begin==[/size]

1) Have installed RA-dream-v1.7.0

2) Have SPL 1.33.2003 or 1.33.2005 installed

3) Have both adb and fastboot installed and working.. If you cannot use both of these utilities I highly recommend not using CustomMTD

4) place the following on the root of your SD card

From: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7061471&postcount=1

[size=+1] FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip

FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip[/size]

From: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7937376#post7937376

[size=+1] BiffModV2.0.1.zip OR BiffModV2.0.1Mt3G.zip

BiffModGapps.zip[/size]
​

5) [optional] backup your current ROM and the EXT partition, as both will be wiped clean in the process.

[size=+1]==Installing==[/size]

1) boot the phone into recovery

2) select "Go to console"

3) press enter as indicated to get a prompt and run the following commands

mount /sdcard
printf "mtd 90 2\nspl 1.33.2005\n" > /sdcard/mtdpartmap.txt
recovery

4) Select `Flash Zip from SD card' and choose "FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip"

5) When its done select "Power Off"

6) Power on holding down camera and press back or send as prompted to enter fastboot mode.

7) run the following fastboot commands:

fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot oem powerdown

8) boot back into recovery (Home+Power)

11) Select "Wipe" then "Wipe SD:ext partition" (ignore the error if you have no ext partition.. but try to run it anyway)

10) Select `Flash Zip from SD card' choose "BiffMod2.0.1.zip" or "BiffMod2.0.1Mt3G.zip" and allow it to flash

11) Select `Flash Zip from SD card' choose "FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip" and allow it to flash

12) select "Go to console"

13) press enter as indicated and type the following commands (ignore any errors the mount command may return)

mount /system
rm /system/etc/init.d/06BindCache
reboot

14) Wait for the rom to boot and continue as recommended on the op post**:

** These are just some recommendations feel free to experiment once the rom is running.
[G1 Android Development] Admiral2145:
swap

Hello everybody and biffmod team... 1st off the is the greatest 2.2 mod. I have a few questions... i have a g1 with a 8 gig patroit class 4 card and my phone is overclocked to 245/614 all day... my problem is when i enable swap i have a 96 meg swap on sd card and 512 4 apps. With swap enabled phone is slow as hell, but if i enable cc 25% it fly's.... my question is is there a way 2 check if swap is working or the settings, I would rather use swap over cc from what most people are saying and the different reviews i have read. Does class 4 vs class 6 make a huge difference? should I invest in a class 10 card (can the g1 handle that much)? I have tried alot of settings with jit on jit off it really comes down to either getting swap 2 work better, i dont really like how cc works, but it works better on my g1 than swap (way better speed). thx
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
Bambi,

Thanks a lot for your detailed and quick response. I was hoping that "plain vs. plane" was on purpose, but couldn't be sure. I re-read the description after I posted and there was some emphasis on it being "as plain as it gets" so I figured it must have been intentional, but the forum wouldn't let me edit my post within 5 minutes of my original post, so I just left it.

I think you answered all of my questions but the one about screenshots for the themes... I used Chromatic on 5.0.8 and liked that color style, so I think I might like Black or Black/Blue, but don't want to be flashing/re-flashing a lot so screenshots would be nice.

In the meantime, I came up with a couple more questions.

1) Coming from CM6 with Apps2fat, none of my apps are showing up. Are they still taking up space on my SD card? If so, what's the best way to find/delete the extraneous stuff on there. (I know how to mount it to my computer and browse the files, I'm just not sure what I'm looking for). I have AppBrain, so I can easily re-download whatever I'm missing, I just didn't want to have things on there twice.

2) I originally partitioned based on instructions on the Unlockr website and have 96Mb for swap where it looks like the recommended size here is 32Mb. Is there something wrong with having it be larger and/or is it worth me re-partitioning? How about when my new larger Class 6 SD arrives next week (I currently have a small Class 2)?

3) I was using SetCPU with recommended settings from the Chromatic page(s), what do you guys recommend (or don't use it at all?) I wasn't really doing it for performance, more in an attempt to get more battery life.

Thanks again

PS - No comment on what seat I was in. Let's just say I've been having short overnights with a mostly dead phone at the end of the day (still can't get this battery life optimized) and 0400-0500 duty on times so if I was going to update my phone this week, I had to be creative on the timing. Besides, not only is there an autopilot, there's another pilot in the other seat... ;)
[G1 Android Development] asb123:
how long are you supposed to hold the vol down, home, and back keys after letting go of power for the prompt to come up?

Ive held it for quite a while and the black screen with htc and htc logo just stays on the screen until i let go, in which case it reboots.

Is this a feature that comes when already running the rom or is it a feature of the phone?
[G1 Android Development] bambi23:
yeah I deliberately left the screenshot issue because most of the icons on my homescreen are custom icons, so it might misrepresent the theme. It is also hard to represent all the features of the themes in screenshots (trust me if you flash one, u will see why i say this). Both "black and blue" themes are really nice, and in my opinion i would recommend them over just the black theme. then again if you are coming from chromatic, u may like just the black theme. it really is a case of testing them and finding which you like best :) .... (try at least the first black and blue theme, and am sure u wont regret it)

Am probably not the best person to answer points 1 and 2, because I don't use apps2sd/ext/fat nor do i use swap. however, its probably because as per the instructions, you wiped your ext partitions/repartitioned when you were installing the rom :)... u can always re download them from appbrain. Am not sure why having a higher partition would be a problem tho but yet again am not an expert in that particular issue. I do know however that class 6 cards are a lot better/faster than class 2 cards when it comes to swap issues.

Setcpu on this rom again is completely up to you. I believe it runs at 576max by default (less of course u are using one of the overclock kernels). You can always use setcpu to set a profile that underclock's it maybe when the phone is "sleeping", but am not sure how much battery life that will save you. I suggest you run it for at least a day or two without setcpu, just to see what the battery life is for you. one thing i can say tho is that the battery life seems to be a lot better than cm6 for me.

ps. if you do decide to use the themes, remeber to change the notification/clock colours in "cm settings".... we are always here to help if you run into any problems!
[G1 Android Development] budlowe:
From my experience, my volume down key takes extra effort to hold down than any other external key on my G1. While troubleshooting this combination, I tried all the different ways of just 3 out of 4 (always including power, of course) and each of the keys alone with the power key to see if maybe you actually didn't need all 4. It turns out you do need all of them pressed down. I kept all 4 really squeezed tightly and as I described above, would see about a 1/2 second flash of a white screen that looked just like the FASTBOOT screen. I kept holding them all one time and that white screen would flash every 2 or 3 seconds repeatedly. It wasn't until I realized that "Power" was the "Cancel" button on that screen that I stopped holding "Power" while continuing to hold the other 3 keys. I don't think there is a "too long" to hold them, just like booting into recovery, you can continue holding the keys that got you there in the first place once the menu comes up. Once it's up, you know you can let go. Hope that helps!
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
I just wanted to quickly post before my friends come over and I am busy all night. I have been testing all day, Dumfuqs 614 OC Kernel and to so what positive and a lot better results. if you are getting some lag and/or you just want to speed up the Rom, flash the 614 OC kernel in the OP and using SetCPU set it at 595Max and 480min. My phone has not yet reboot and it seems a lot more responsive. enjoy and let me know how it goes. I got some catching up reading to do cause last few days I have been busy but I will read and answer any un-answered questions.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
Since everyone else is getting their questions answered but you, I'll answer it. Class 6 will give you a 50% speed increase with anything on the SD card, theoretically. Every phone is different, so if CC flies for you, why keep swap? The swap vs compcache issue is based on SD quality and your particular phone. No matter what other people are telling you, your own experience should dictate which one is best for your phone. Class 10 is wasted on a G1.

In order to see your free, total and used memory (internal and swap), open up terminal emulator and type in "free" (without the quotes) and hit enter.

My phone shows

$free
total used free shared buffers

mem: 97492 95140 2352 0 684

swap: 31548 22752 8796

Total: 129040 117892 11148
[G1 Android Development] Dukenukemx:
Can anyone explain what the OC Kernels do, what bad things could happen if I install them? If it makes overclocking better, then I'm all for it, but there's gotta be something wrong with them. BTW, why two versions of the OC Kernels?
[G1 Android Development] burn317:
Oc is over clock, basically your processor is meant to run at X MHz with an oc kernel you can exceed that frequency. I've ran the 633 MHz kernel no problem but if you ran at a high enough frequency you could theoretically melt your processor. For more info wiki it.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
The manufacturing process of CPUs is not as exact as you probably imagine. Every batch of them has a different maximum speed. Then the company finds the "safe" speed where all the CPUs never crash and markets them at that speed. There is usually a few extra Mhz of speed you can squeeze out of your CPU if you are willing to test it and accept it will lock up on you once you push it too far. Everyones CPU will max out differently...
[G1 Android Development] yerand:
will this work with danger spl? or does it require death spl?
[G1 Android Development] koreancanuck:
It's the same thing. If you have a g1, you should prob have it on your phone since it does all good and no harm.
[G1 Android Development] kingjehu:
They are one and the same.
[G1 Android Development] detonate:
Hey,

If I had a 64mb linux-swap, will this mod take advantage of it or will it only see 32mb?

If only 32mb, is it possible to have the mod use more?

And is "Internal phone storage" the same as the linux swap? When I set my linux-swap to 96mb, I don't see as much in internal phone storage when using this mod.
[G1 Android Development] Elegy:
whats with the slooooow connection? downloading apps from market takes ages and require 'cancel download' and re-download many times.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Connection is not slow for me.. but market has been flaky in various ways in all android installs in my honest opinion.

For Biffmod:

* If you are downloading over WiFi try disabling mobile data unckeck {Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Data Enabled} (obviously when you disconnect from wifi you will want to re-enable mobile data; its easier to do this with the power control widget)

* If market still requires cancel/re-download frequently try clearing Market cache.. if that still is a no-go try clearing market data. both options can be found in {Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All [tab] -> Market}

Can't say it will run perfectly but it will help.
[G1 Android Development] Swashbuckla:
I was curious if anyone has had an issue where you flash 2.0.1 successfully, set up your phone (apps and all) and then have a random restart. Once the phone rebooted, there is no lock screen, those apps that you downloaded and set up are gone. You are presented with home screens that have widgets you did not place (I seem to always see the Google search widget, the marketplace widget and the music player widget). If you flashed a theme, it is still there, however, you have to modify the text colors again.

This has happened to me several times. I thought this last time that I should wipe my SD card completely and add SPL (thought it wasn't needed for mt3g phones). Was working nice and fast (something that BiffMod team does the best imo) then had a random restart this morning and everything I explained above has happened. I'm really hoping someone else has had this issue.

EDIT: I reflashed 2.0.1 and did a logcat for 1st boot and 2nd boot (after gapps flash). I don't think I got everything from the first logcat but if not I'll reflash.
[G1 Android Development] Fenopy:
I recently updated from Biff Mod V1.9.2 to Biff Mod V2.0.1 and now I cannot get my GPS to lock for the life of me. I have had it outdoors, not moving for over 10 minutes trying to lock, wont get a lock at all.

I did a full wipe and clean install when updating.

I DID flash the G1 version (Phone is a MyTouch 32B) so Dalvik would be on the SD-EXT of my card. Any reason why my GPS would not be locating me?
[G1 Android Development] thelamacmdr:
Do you have network location as well, I find that I get a faster GPS Lock with it enabled. A bit more research kind of supports this as well since the G1 uses A-GPS