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[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
I like ra's gui more.. clockwork has some additional menu options. Ra on the dream can drop me onto a commandline.. but I don't think that is helpful without the keyboard.

Um the same sourcecode is used for that ebi0 kernel and the kernel inside biffmod.. and the 2708 kernel was the one injected into the 2708 version of biffmod (on the thread with the new radios).

Regardless I'm seeing slightly better battery performance with the interactive govener for those setcpu users.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Both for different reasons.. really I just want the default home screen to have a "biffmod" feel, feel self contained and easy on the eye..

As odd of combination that may sound, I think many of the apply.

But the again I've been doing more hacking than sleeping the last few days...
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Yes you have.... You answer me on gtalk at 7pm, 2am, and 7am...

WHEN DO YOU SLEEP!?!?!??! :)
[G1 Android Development] brugazz:
Major breakdown!!

Hi everyone!

I started testing Biffmod 2.1 for about a week (I did not use any of the previous versions).

I must say this is the cleanest ROM I used:

- The fastest;

- No lags on the home screen (launcherpro);

- Apps2ext seemed more efficient (there were some issues).

ALTHOUGH...

- the ROM just FROZE when I was updating an app from market.

- When that happened I had setcpu governor set to "on demand" and the frequency was set for min and max to "614MHZ" (this setting gives em more muscle but used to occasionally crash the phone).

THAT WAS NOT ALL THE BAD NEWS...

The worst part was:

- My phone LOST ALL THE SETTINGS when I removed the battery so I could reboot it.

- By all the settings I mean allllll: No apps (they are shown as 0 bites in the application list), settings were set to default (home screen and other configurations).

PLUS:

I had a few issues while using "Biffmod 2.1":

- Could not install some apps: Angry Birds, Sky Force and Sky force reloaded.

I had the same issues with the cm6 nightly witch I could avoid by unmounting the SDcard and installing those apps before remounting the SDcard.

I will give it another try!!

ciao
[G1 Android Development] :
Leading up the Biffmod Team

Well firstly it's an honour to have been given the reigns of this rom from RK, the work the team has already produced speaks for itself and leaves me in a very advantageous position in the fact not much really needs doing.

So just to put a few minds at rest and to also let you know where I plan on going with things... Nowhere really! The title of heading up this rom in my mind is just the bloke who gets to update the first two posts :D Well lets face it there really isn't that much to do to improve this other than a few tweaks here and there, and no doubt always looking at trimming and increasing speed but that is just a given in my mind.

The team that works on this mod are a lot more skilled and knowledgeable than myself and I will readily admit that but what I will bring is a drive and passion to see this move forward in which ever direction that may be and to keep the rom alive for all us skint arse's that can't afford an upgrade ;)

In no way shape or form do I see myself as the head of Biffmod as this is and always was a TEAM effort and the work that EZ and Ohsaka have done is well documented and well appreciated by all so lets not forget a thanks to them, also all the testers and themers and idea's people that also contribute to this epic rom.

So folks I thank you for all your kind words so far and know that Biffmod is and always will strive to be the best Froyo rom around for all of you. Just to answer the question by the way regarding why me rather than Ohsaka or EZ as the 'labeled' head of things, they were offered but both are unfortunately too busy at present to take on the role so hence my appointment.

So here's to the continued work on this rom and lets hope that the future is going to be a bright one.

P.S. As for me even getting the rom running thats a whole other issue, lets just say at the moment I'm still working on it and am half way there so Eternal who is my tortured soul partner with this issue... There may still be hope ;)
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
I'm just torturing myself! I have 2.1 running just fine, I just like to get that little extra "oomph" out of my phone. If you can think of any way that I might be able to help you (with my limited knowledge, but working 2.1) please let me know!

I'll try to update later this afternoon when I get home to the new kernal and whatnot. I'll let you know how it goes.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
You should really only run the phone at 595mhz max.

The older version of Angry Birds had problems displaying textures correctly which, in a funny twist of fate, made the game run decent on the G1. The later versions from the Market have fixed the bug and now the game doesn't run well at all on my phone. I have tried tons of different performance setups and none of them will run the game at a reasonable framerate. Anyone able to play the latest version from Market on their G1?
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
here this angry bird has very little lag and no ads works well on mytouch should be the same on g1

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838184&highlight=angry+birds
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
you might be able to crush the pngs a bit ( don't crush .9.s )

If I get some time I will take a look at it.
[G1 Android Development] droidmage:
Well I installed adfree (I have no problem with ads until they make your app totally useless) and that seemed to help a little, still laggy but not so horribly as with ads. Them I ran Firerats (thank you firerat) lwp fix in the all-in-one. Now it starts up wierd the textured bar at the top of the screen and the rest blank, I hit end when the music starts then wake the screen back up and it plays very well.
[G1 Android Development] EternalSoil:
I'm not quite sure if I just need the ezBiffTestKernal20101106-2708_S.zip here or the ezBiffTestKernel20101031-ebi0_S.zip here and just flash it like an update; or do I need to update my radio? I have the radio.img extracted from the ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip on the HTC site currently.
[G1 Android Development] :
Okay here's one for you all to chew on...

My problems getting Biffmod running are well documented and have caused me many endless hours of sleep until now :D

I finally have Biffmod v2.1 running and OMFG! Boy have I been missing out :(

Now the chewy bit, for some reason ALL the problems from media to wireless and 3G download speeds, home button and end call buttons not working etc etc etc were down to one strange thing. For whatever reason BiffMod v2.1 simply didn't like the way that amon ra v1.7.0 formatted the Fat32 partition, once I had unmounted the card in BiffMod and formatted the Fat32 partition using the rom I did a reboot and all now works flawlessly! :eek:

So my little piece of advice to anyone running into ANY kind of issue on this rom is back up your sdcard, boot phone and press Menu-Settings-SD Card & Phone Storage-Unmount SD Card. Once unmounted click on Format SD Card, let it do it's thing and then remove the card from the phone, power down and then re-insert card and boot back up and put all your stuff back on. ALL my problems have been solved doing this.

If anyone wants to hazard a guess has to why I'd love to hear it because why it's worked I don't fully understand but what I do know is I can finally run BiffMod v2.1 :D
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Uhm...Yeah, it could be...Uhm....The thing is...uhhhh....What? Maybe the ROM does a good and proper format (turning it into a clean slate) whereas RA maybe does a lazy wipe? (WILD guess)

Maybe someone slaughtered a goat and did a Māorian Haka to Zeus when the sun was at its zenith?

What I can say for certain is W00t! Good to hear that you got it working and to have you on board where RK left off :D
[G1 Android Development] Royalknight6190:
BiffMod Thread back opened for business. lol. Moderator apologizes. lol...:D
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
YAYY!! :D
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I blame ratchet789 for posting a link to warez! :)

(j/k)
[G1 Android Development] XxKOLOHExX:
"Ha! Finally got the apps2sdext w/o scripts working! Needs more testing and some ability to move apps around but ... IT WORKS! #android." ~NameLessJedi
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
Hey no! Lol

sent from a biffmagic
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
Now that we're back...

;)
[G1 Android Development] s0mep00p:
I'm currently using Biffmod 2.1 with the 15 mb radio on my g1, and it's running sweeeetly! However, theres this one issue that I keep noticing: whenever I send text messages, it takes forever for my message to appear in the thread and for the sending message to appear... I mean forever as it 15-20 seconds, when I had been used to maybe 5 seconds max. Is this normal?
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
im learning to live with it lol
[G1 Android Development] athakur999:
I, for one, am glad to see RK off this project... so he can start developing for the 4G :-) I just picked one up as well and its nice to see the chefs that kept my MT3G alive for so long turning their attention to the 4G.
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
I had that issue before flashing the 15MB radio...just saying. It's minor,to me.

Just flashed the New Alternative radio: RADIO-2.22.28.25 and it seems faster.

:cool:
[G1 Android Development] vermaekansh:
can you send me the link for 27.08 or 28.25 radio..

currently m using Official 2.2 on my G1 with 23.03 radio and danger SPL.
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
you could just read the OP, it has links and stuff

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831139
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
The link is also in my Sig...click on "2708-enabled custom kernel".

;)
[G1 Android Development] Firerat:
but what about 2825 :eek: where do I download that?

:D

it needs a new name

EZT , EZRAD , EZMEM or something else EZ to remember and search
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
LOL...you're right..let me fix that. :cool:
[G1 Android Development] BinCanCook:
Nice rom, but dont have market application.:mad:
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Did you flash the GApps.zip after flashing the ROM? Check the OP for the link, DL and flash it.
[G1 Android Development] drbobb:
I'm not currently using biffmod on my 32A, running vanilla CM6.1 instead. But I tried to use the kernel from this thread (ezterry's 32A build), and ran into a couple of bugs, as it seems:

sudden reboots that seem related to GPS activity; I recall a similar (the same?) bug plagued CM6.0 pre-relase nightlies

serious battery drain not due to any apps - the phone fails to sleep. Doesn't happen every time but when it does, the phone loses about 50% charge overnight. This doesn't seem to be the same as the notorious USB connect bug, I last observed it after using the wall charger and rebooting once the battery was fully charged.
[G1 Android Development] BinCanCook:
Thank for advice. It's good now.
[G1 Android Development] :
*Sighs*

Well it had to be too good to be true, put my Etxt partition back on card and boom all goes to hell again, so I can have the rom with Fat32 only or not at all which is confusing me even more as to why the hell its the only rom that seems to encounter an 'error reading the sdcrad' when I open music and all the inherant problems that caused on the back of it bugging out on the ext partition?

I'm off for a good cry....
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I had the same texture issue with the older one too... with this last update, it'll start and let me select a level to play, but then I'm guessing it runs out of memory because it dumps me back to the desktop.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
Aww... that sucks. No luck trying a different sd card? I'm sure though if it was something that simple you would have done it already.
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Glad I could help. Most ROMs have the Google apps in a separate download methinks...

Does it matter in what order you do the partitioning? I know it doesn't make much sense, but humour me? Otherwise....What would happen if you drop a .nomedia file in the ext partition? Pipe-dream/idiocy/lunacy?
[G1 Android Development] :
Well this is the fun thing, it's only Biffmod v2.1 that suffers this issue for me, every other rom runs without fault and uses the ext fine, I have put in a smaller 4gb card and same problem :S

Order as always Part 1 - Fat32/Part 2 - Ext

As for the .nomedia in the ext not something I have done yet but hell everything is worth a try.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Order, there is some auto detect logic but old logic assumes fat32,ext,swap (so best to keep the old order)

The output of fdisk is important however since it used the partition info to determine what is what:

Example fat32+ext:

~ # fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 3965 MB, 3965714432 bytes
66 heads, 1 sectors/track, 117356 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 66 * 512 = 33792 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 1 101467 3348410+ [color=red]b[/color] Win95 FAT32
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 101468 117356 524337 [color=red]83[/color] Linux
[G1 Android Development] :
I'll provide my fdisk info shortly, just updating my other rom now that my brain has kicked back in *coughs*

Edit - Here is the fdisk output for E-Xtreme v1.3 (Comparision purposes) which works no problem...

# fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7973 MB, 7973371904 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 243328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 * 33 223755 7159132+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 223755 243328 626339+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary

Fdisk output for BiffModv2.1...

# fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7973 MB, 7973371904 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 243328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 * 33 223755 7159132+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 223755 243328 626339+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary

Exactly the same for both.
[G1 Android Development] wjsturgis3:
I'm using CM6.1 RC1 with this kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8930875&postcount=475 with no issues at all (stable @ 614Mhz, good battery life).
[G1 Android Development] ivans13:
Battery?

Does anyone have a feeling that battery drain has something to do with data and/or sync turned on? Today I had data and sync on for only cca 15 minutes and after 9 hours my battery is at 62%.

The other days that I have data and sync on my battery is under 10% after 8 hours.
[G1 Android Development] vermaekansh:
hey firerat thanks for your response...
[G1 Android Development] vermaekansh:
hey bookcase thanks to u too...

but one quest i have with this radio...

1. what is the procedure to flash this radio...do i need to flash SPL as well as i m already on Danger SPL....

2. after flashing this radio 27.08/28.25 can i falsh any rom i want or just specific ones...

thanks in advance..
[G1 Android Development] :
Best thing to do fella is go and read EZTerry's thread as it explains everything you need and full instructions.
[G1 Android Development] MetaBolic0:
Well im trying rom 2.1 about 5days and i just come here to say 2things.

1-This ROM is amazing completly awnsome!!!! My G1 fly thanks all of you that make this possibel :D

2- There are some way that turn possibel to put the Flashlight button in the control manager on notifications bar!? I already change the buttons on CM6 settings to the ones that i want but the flashlight isn´t avaliable!!!
[G1 Android Development] droidmage:
I dont know much about it but it looks like the partitions are screwy on both of those. Have you tryed to format your card on a computer?
[G1 Android Development] drbobb:
Yeah that's exactly the build I was talking about in my post.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I have always used Amon_RA 1.7 recovery to format my sdcard...

Here is my fdisk..

As an experiment, you should try and match my setup.

# fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 8067 MB, 8067743744 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 246208 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 1 220826 7066406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 220826 244263 750000 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 244263 246208 62249+ 82 Linux swap
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary

64mb swap, 750mb ext4
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I think the flashlight feature is for phones that have a physical light... but I might be wrong.

Try Quick Settings from the market... it has similar options as the new notification bar and a button to make the screen into a flashlight (or use the flash if you have one).
[G1 Android Development] :
So basically the same as what I have already other than I don't use swap, which I have tried with no difference so seems pointless really to set it up as you have it fella. So the EXT partition is confirmed working and correct according to your fdisk as mine pretty much matches yet somehow it still breaks BiffMod for me...

My head hurts...
[G1 Android Development] HawkiesZA:
Not quite...Yours indicates that the first start block is 33, what happened to the other 32? And what does the "*" in the "Boot" column indicate? I see that Ohsaka doesn't have it (and neither do I).
[G1 Android Development] :
The 32 part im looking at now, just noticed the * though and haven't a clue, good eyes ;)

Hi-ho Hi-ho back to formatting I go....
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
Maybe you should see what it looks like after you use Amon_RA! :) *ducks*
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
i used switch pro and it had a flashlight and all it did was light up your display really bright.
[G1 Android Development] ratchet789:
so is there an updated radio for this rom just asking?
[G1 Android Development] :
Not unless you have updated your hboot and radio using EZterry's then you need to use the Biffmod port in his thread.

That reminds me I need to get around to updating the first post.
[G1 Android Development] Ohsaka:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I dont like the toggles in the notification dropdown, so I normally turn them off. I prefer to put the Power Control widget on my desktop.

They both have the flashlight toggle though which makes your screen completely white and turns up brightness to max. Useful for sneaking into bedrooms and pi$$ing off people in theaters!

Power Control widget: its the option called "Flashlight" when you first goto install the widget and it lets you pick which toggles you want

Notification dropdown: Settings -> cm6-Biffmod Settings -> User Interface -> Widget buttons (in the Notification power widget subsection)
[G1 Android Development] Phateless:
Whoa whoa whoa... this rom has power control toggles in the taskbar? That's awesome, would definitely free up some space on my homescreen!
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
im trying to flash this through clockwork on mytouch3g 32b and when i gotoflash biffmod i get this - E:error in /sdcard/dropbox/biffmodv2.1.zip (status 7) installation aborted.

ive downloaded the rom again from OP and got the same thing. why wont it install?

well its not the rom its my phone....i flashed hboot 0013d and now nothing flashed, but now i cant change back to 0013. any ideas? cmd gives me sig verify fail
[G1 Android Development] KoolKidsKlub:
I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for this AMAZING ROM, it's by far the MOST fastest ROM that I have EVER flashed. I love the BlueREVO theme too, it's the best.
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
DOn't change the SPL to 0013.. It is harder to work with since it is lacking some of the functionality I unlocked.

goto: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831139

> If you want biffmod find this line: 'Biffmod2.1 2708 port' (it will bypass the check and install the correct kernel just add GAPPS and other extras/themes)

> If you want another rom read this line '> A Rom (note: many cm6 based roms block install because of the '1.33.0013d' bootloader Please use firerat's SpoofSPL) '
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
my other mT3g has 0013 and i just loaded biffmod and its running fine. it wont let me flash 0013 back, which is what i want, never had a problem with it.

got it, flashed 2005, then fastboot to 0013 everything is working fine now. But wonder why 0013d would not let me load a rom?
[G1 Android Development] ezterry:
Did you read the post... of course not
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
ya, i read it. but thanks for letting me know i didn't
[G1 Android Development] BookCase:
I'm with you, I prefer the widget with flashlight.

I dunno if this will help but, for me, I noticed when I foramat my SD card using amon-ra then copy only the BiffMOD, GApps and theme to the card, then reboot to recovery, wipe battery, install the rom+Gapps+theme then, reboot once everything is configured and I reboot again, then I copy over the rest of my backed up files (DCIM, music, resource, titanium, etc.). Seems to work best, for me.
[G1 Android Development] hazel3k3:
Can not receive incoming calls

hi guys,

just updated my G1 as suggested from biffmod 2.0 to 2.1. However, after a while I realized that I cannot receive any phone calls but I can call other phones.

did this happen to anybody else, too?

any help is appreciated.

cheers,

hazel

edit:

sorry, my fault. I used super wipe to completely wipe the phone and now everything runs smoothly.
[G1 Android Development] :
FAO EZTerry

Heres is the dmsg, logcat and diskuse files you asked for fella, anyone else is welcome to look to :D

And just or Ohsaka I reformatted to make it all pretty and the same as yours with absolutely no difference at all :(
[G1 Android Development] :
The issue isn't how I put things onto the card due to the fact it works fine on fat32 full, as soon as I put in an EXT partition it's then it al goes tits up but thanks for the suggestion. One has to work sometime just by the law of averages ;)

Your the template for a dream user, one that reads and solves their own problems ;) Hope your enjoying the rom.
[G1 Android Development] baduki:
one more bug i found (other is the keyboard input method) or just me...the sound toggle in the power widget doesn't turn off! meaning i can select/unselect other widgets except the sound. so if i uncheck, still shows and won't let me choose 6 others because it still count as used...if i recheck it, it will show 2 of them... i use vol key on mytouch so i dont need the sound widget so i can add other function...any solution? btw...i did superwipe but non fix the probs...
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
It sounds like something got screwy when you flashed. I'm using the official Swype beta, with stock as a backup... and have no problems.

No issues with the notification bar power controller either... then again, I never use it since I have Locale setup to manage everything for me... but, I was still able to switch the volume out for something else.

Maybe you didn't give it enough settle time?
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
That's what QS does on the MT too. If we had a physical light tho, it would also be able to use that.
[G1 Android Development] tsheeley:
I haven't tried the new kernel yet... probably this weekend.

I did switch the gov in SetCPU to Interactive from OnDemand tho... it seems to have given a noticeable speed boost and generally added to the overall smoothness of the ROM.
[G1 Android Development] spark916:
My gallery ain't working unless I go through camera. Other then that everything seems good
[G1 Android Development] mulletcutter:
I think he was talking to me. Does anybodys droid keyboard go aWay after a reboot? I have to flash mine.