[HD2 Android NAND Development] tprintz:
aaarrrgh!!

This is going to be a long post but I'd appreciate it if you guys could read this and help me out. I might be guilty of TMI but I see all the ppl that only post "it won't work, help me please" and it frustrates even me. So, I'll post a whole bunch of info and hopefully get some good feedback. If you don't want to read the mini novel just skip to the asterisks below...

I take pride my ability to figure things out on my own. I'm not familiar with coding, programming, hacking or developing anything. I know Photoshop and Illustrator inside and out, but html is even too complicated a language for me. What I AM good at is reading and following directions so I can become competent in whatever it is that's occupying my ADHD for the moment. I tend to get absorbed in something for a month or two then move on to something else for a month or two and so on and so on. This phone is my current addiction...

Anyhow, I bought my old lady an iPhone, jailbroke it and put it on T mobile because of their no contract unlimited data plan, with the intention of getting one for myself next. While I was saving up for my iphone I started delving more into the jailbreaking process and what all could be done to a phone and stumbled upon this great little piece of hardware called the HD2 and the freedom of custom roms. When I had the money for my iphone I went with the HD2 instead and don't regret it at all.

I used winmo 6.5 for all of twenty minutes before I flashed hspl 2.08, updated to newest radio 2.15.xxxxxxx and booted up this awesome android build. It's the only one I've used and I really don't want to use any of the other 'sense' builds. I had some issues so I flashed chucky rom because it was light and built for running android. This is my phone info from winmo:

OS 5.2.23145 (23145.5.3.10)

Manila Version 2.5.20181527.0

ROM Chucky ROM WWE

ROM DATE 5/11/201

Radio Version 2.12.50.02_2

Protocol version 15.40.50.07U

After booting HD 1.7 my phone worked but the call volume was very low. Data was hit or miss. Battery was HORRIBLE!!! I could deal with most of these issues but one issue was increasingly making me think of going back to regular winmo... The screen freezing ALL THE TIME!!! If I moved while on the phone, forget about using the dialer (checking voicemail sucked). Listening to music on the go? nope! But the worst was more often than not my phone would ring but I couldn't wake it up to answer the call! Buttons would light up, the screen was "lit up" but blank. I did some reading and installed CPU Tuner and set the govs to 'interactive'. Then I installed the app (cant think of it right now) that allows you to see what your battery is doing. I was consistently gettin 5mA in standby. nice, but I was still having the issue of my phone not waking up. I read these forums everyday and discovered that there is a new kernal that will fix the screen freeze issues!!!!:D Hastarin 8.5b old_camera.

I'm using a mac btw. I have win7 if I need it (with parallels) but after I flashed chucky rom and hspl I haven't needed to activesync it. So I copied my sd card contents and put them aside on my desktop if I wanted to go back. I unzipped the kernal and followed the instructions on the readme.txt... three times!!! but each try my phone kept hanging at the green HTC logo. I left it on the green HTC for almost an hour and it never moved past it.

Each time I re-formatted my SD card, factoy re-set the phone in winmo, hard reset and did a fresh install of hyperdroid 1.7. In reading these forums I also found and downloaded a patch that was supposed to fix the freeze issue, but I must be retarded because I don't know how to apply a patch, i.e. where to put the files, how to run it, etc...

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Ok. So I need to know what am I doing wrong with installing the new kernal, and also how to apply a patch.

QUESTION #1: How do I apply a patch? where do I put it, how do I 'activate' it?

QUESTION #2: What am I doing wrong with the kernal installation?

This is what I did to install the new kernal:

1.Download and unzip hastarin_8.5b_oldcam: These are the files inside...

-haret.exe

-initrd.gz

-readme.txt

-zImage

-root

-devs

2. boot into winmo, plug in USB and select the second option. (disk transfer thing cuz i'm on mac.)

3. open SD card--hyperdroid1.7

4. delete zImage, haret.exe, initrd.gz, root files, and replace with the ones from hastarin folder.

5. my startup.txt file says 'set KERNEL zImage' like it's supposed to.

According to the readme it should then boot into android. If I have no wifi I need to perform other steps, but I cant even get to the android.

I noticed the root folder on my SD card has a lot more files in it than the one in the new kernal so maybe instead of swapping root folders completely I should just replace the SD root files that are duplicate to the ones in new kernal folder? I have no idea... I'm at a loss. Are there any other kernals that will work with this build? Also, I remember seeing somewhere that the default hyperdroid1.7 has patches in it for PPP and other things. Where are these patches located and HOW DO I RUN THEM?:confused: Any advice is appreciated. thanks