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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev/null/:
I'm still having trouble getting this to work...

1) My droid eris is rooted with S=OFF

2) I have KaosFroyo v34 flashed

3) I have the AndroidSDK installed obviously, I have boot.img in the tools directory

4) I have psfreedom.ko file in the root of my sdcard in my phone

5) I open up cmd cd to the sdk/tool directory and enter fastboot boot boot.img I've tried fastboot boot /androidsdk/tools/boot.img as well which is the correct path, either way I do it it loads up and says waiting for device.

6) I power the phone up into bootloader and press the send key (green) to enter fastboot usb and instantly it downloads and reboots into the os.

7) I open up terminal emulator type su and get super user, I then enter insmod /sdcard/psfreedom.ko and it give me another line below it.

8) I double check and make sure my ps3 is 3.41 and it is, everytime I turn the ps3 on I'm prompted to update to 3.42 but have not accepted it.

8) I make sure my ps3 is powered down (original backwards compatible ps3) I plug my eris into the usb port (I've tried all 4) flip the switch then quickly press the power then eject and it ejects my game (bfbc2) and the screen stays black for a bit longer than usual like it's supposed to when doing this except when it loads into the xmb there are no new folders under the games column?

I've read a few posts back there may be an issue with the psfreedom.ko so I tried another psfreedom.ko which was apparently older and it did exactly the same thing just loaded into the xmb with no new folders. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I don't think so because I've followed 3-4 different directions to the t which vary slightly from one another but basically the same and all give the same result for me.

Are there any LED indication on my eris that I should be looking for? Because after plugging the phone in either usb port and powering the ps3 on with the appropriate button sequence the eris doesn't seem to be connected or charging until 4-5 minutes after the ps3 has been on then the small led on my phone will turn on to signify charging which to me I thought would also tell me if it's connected or not. Is this supposed to be like that or should that led be coming on instantly?

Are there other features on my phone I need to make sure are disabled? usb debugging? Thank for any help, spent roughly 5-6 hours last night repeating steps but finally got tired and put everything away.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frenize:
after you do the command insmod /sdcard/psfreedom.ko do the command lsmod and tell me what it says under it also a couple people (myself included) seems to have better luck by pressing power and then holding the eject button for a sec also if you think something is wrong with your .ko file use the one i posted a few pages back its also enabled to play backups

P.S take your game out before doing the hack itll make your life so much easier. (i had the same problem)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev/null/:
Ok after typing lsmod it displays psfreedom 26384 0 - Live 0xbf000000 (P) ? So I'm guessing that means the kernal is loaded correctly then. I'm going to try the other psfreedom.ko file a page or 2 back and without game disc in the drive and report back. Thanks for the help.

*EDIT*

Ok I removed the game disc, replaced my .ko and the boot.img with the ones on page 6 from sovereignblood and restarted step by step and again I'm left with the ps3 booting up and no new folders. I tried on all usb ports again, tried holding the eject a second or 2 longer but no go. I see others have had the same issue but most of them seem to have resolved it but even after trying what they've done I still cannot get it.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frenize:
Try the ko file from my post
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev/null/:
Wow okay it works now hehe thanks I really appreciate it. :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremeskier97:
The reason I used HIS guide is because the Wiki says to use

fastboot boot /path/to/boot.img

If you are going to make a guide to walk people through a step by step process, it should show it as an example with an explanation, such as

fastboot boot (type the path to your boot.img file) ie.... "/sdcard/boot.img"

"just sayin"

Anyhow, thanks for the walkthrough. You did it better than the wiki.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ml3000:
Ive been looking for a very long time and can not figure this out.

since we are now able to jailbreak our ps3's with the eris and run backup manager. anyone got a clue how to backup our blueray movies? I cant find anything on the subject....
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natedagr811:
I got it to work, which is awesome, but do I have to fastboot my phone and do this process everytime I want to jailbreak? When I reset my PS3, it reverts back to normal.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sovereignblood:
Yes, you have to fastboot and repeat every time for now... Hopefully someone will develop a Custom XMB soon that will make this easier.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremeskier97:
This is probably going to be the the most moronic request, but can someone tell me what I need to put in a .bat file to run the "fastboot boot boot.img" command ?

SDK is located in C:\androidsdk\tools\

I know how to make a text document and change the file extension to .bat, I just dont know what to type in it to make it run the command.

Thanks!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sovereignblood:
You just typed it.... That's all you need, just type "fastboot boot boot.img" into the .bat and drop it in the same folder as fastboot and the boot.img
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rgov:
A new version of PSFreedom for Eris has been posted on the PSFreedom wiki. It should solve many issues users have been having.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onelegofthestool:
Is there anyway someone could port this over to the eris to make it easier for everyone to use the ps3 hack? its a recovery image that lets you do the jailbreak from recovery...Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8249472 <------This is the xda forum which prob has more info

http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2010/09/21/psfreedom-recovery-image-for-htc-hero-cdma/ <-------- Where I found the info first
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noquarter:
Is there someway of launching hermes payload? I know you can load custom payloads, I just can't find the hermes version. My blue ray drive is dead and I was hoping to play my games.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frenize:
How would i go about loading custom payloads to psfreedom for eris?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noquarter:
Here ya go:

psfreedom.com/wiki/Using_bin_files

If you find a way to run Hermes payload let me know.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chevelle1768:
Any chance we could get a updated kernel that supports FW3.15? Or a recovery image?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onelegofthestool:
+1

I would love to see a recovery if it is possible to port from the hero recovery
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chevelle1768:
Any chance you could update it?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
Has this been tested on any other rom? I'm inn CELB, I can't get it to boot the boot.img....
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chevelle1768:
Really? I flashed it to my CELBFroyo 3.0 and it booted fine. Then I realized that my ps3 is on 3.15FW.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
Haha, awesome! Good to hear though...I wonder where I am going wrong...I'll try more.

Edit- I'm an asshole. Didn't read the whole thread. I was using the newer version of files instead the old ones, worked easily once I did. Plus im on a higher firmware :/
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SicNside:
What is psfreedom?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chevelle1768:
http://psfreedom.com/wiki/Main_Page
[HD2 General] Oo Alias oO:
hey,

Basically a quick question, my HD2 broke (my fault) and the screen went all funny.

I rung them up, did all the business and they picked my phone up last monday. Checked the website and it got there on wednesday.

Im assuming they dont work weekends, but im just abit curious to how long they are going to take to repair it. The website still says "We have received your phone at HTC service center." I was told it would take 7-15 days to get back to me. Considering I have had no email even quoting me to how much its going to be, im pretty doubtful to whether it will be back in this time period.

Anyone else sent their phone to the HTC service center? How long did it take you? I want my phone back :(
[HD2 General] theabsurdman:
mine came back (with a new screen fitted) in 10 calendar days from when it was picked up.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
not sure whether o2 send them to htc or fix them themselves, but mine was posted on wednesday, arrived back the following tuesday, new board and screen.
[HD2 General] Oo Alias oO:
Ah cool, well its 7 days so I guess I have a few more to wait.

How did they get in contact with you about how much it will cost and stuff?

Im assuming email?
[HD2 General] theabsurdman:
all email. mine was covered by warranty as it turned out, so no charges.
[HD2 General] Tomo1340:
Mine took 2 months to be returned. Volcanic ash cloud apparently.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
So last night I swapped out my Milestone for my Nexus One because it takes better videos in the dark... and I was hoping to film some performances on the closing night of one local nightclub in town.

The first few videos turned out really fuzzy and I was frustrated because this had never happened before I installed CyanogenMod 6. I quickly Googled the issue and found this:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5336-cm60-stable-no-video-focus/

So I tried the workaround - enter camera mode, touch to focus, then back to camcorder. Worked sufficiently well for my needs, but it really sucks that I lost out on the performances I filmed before I tried this.

One poster reports on the thread that flashing the Korean radio seemed to fix this. I had earlier installed Paul's pre-rooted FRG33 ROM and this included a radio update which is now still on my phone after reverting to CM6 (baseband 32.4100.32U_5.08.00.04). Thus my experience is that this was not fixed.

Anyway, has anyone managed a better solution than this workround? Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] constellanation:
Not sure if this fixes your problem but cyan tweeted this earlier today

Now if someone would write an in phone editing app :/
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
hah, nice! Wish I had it a bit earlier but I'll take it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphadog00:
Probably something simple i am missing. When i use Google maps and gps how do i stop the screen from timing out and turning off?

Is there a way to control this automatically when gps and maps are on?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allted:
umm

Not the best answer but here goes. I can't get it to stay on for google maps, but it's easy for google navigation.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBlake79:
Tasker on the market... Great program, its a paid app but well worth it. You can set up start up for any app, trigger-maps=screen stays on. And on exit it goes back to normal settings.... Great great app! Endless custom settings
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Hi,

I was browsing the dev forum for the lag fix and I was wondering if anyone had any first hand experience using it on the Epic? I searched and didn't find anything substantial in this forum.

Thanks,
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
It's not needed. Have you seen your Epic lag? If so, return it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Well, it lags a little when I try to open barcode reader or the camera? I thought there was discussion on how the Epic would still receive a benefit from the lagfix..
[Epic 4G Android Development] Aridon:
Actually you can pretty easily make it lag. Take two pictures at full res and then go through gallery and attah them to gmail. Send. If you are not on wifi the phone litterally is paralyzed until its finished.

Those chose pooly on the formating
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
So has anyone used the lagfix?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Aridon:
I believe or partitions are different. That would most likely brick your device if used. I'm fqairly certain we could do the same for our devices but that's going to take time. Working recovery > that atm.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
Well thats not fix with a LagFix. Thats a bug. It happens attaching it to anything. MMS, Gmail, Email, Facebook. Its a known bug.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Well my quadrant benchmark is 1k, shouldn't it be capable of going up to 2k?
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyanZA:
I believe the lagfix will actually work, and may even help. I don't have an epic, so I can't test it at all.

Anyway, the I9000 has 8gb or 16gb internal memory. 2gb of that is dedicated to /data (data is where all your apps and their data go).

The epic has 2gb? 1gb? -- some amount of fast internal memory dedicated to /data.

Both the I9000 and your epic use the RFS filesystem, which appears to be very poor.

What the OCLF apk does is make a loopback EXT2 partition in your RFS filesystem, and then uses symlinks to make android put the apps/data inside the EXT2 partition. This should work fine on your epic, especially if you have 2gb of program memory! If you have less than 1gb it may be a problem though.

Feel free to try it out if you have rooted your device! (The I9000 root won't work on the Epic)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
Its 1Gb. But its not completely empty.

Also, I'm willing to test it. Do you have a link for the download?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Well the Epic has 512 ram and 512 rom, Froyo is supposed to allow the phone to use the SD card as install room for apps.

Would the lagfix run there?

Here is the link to the app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=760571
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyanZA:
It's on the market. :)

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rc.QuickFixLagFix

1GB... and yeah its obviously not empty, it has all your stuff in it! :D

Anyway with 1GB is might be a bit tight, as that would leave only 500mb or so for apps. :(

Make a backup before you test it though, since I think you're the first person to test it on the Epic. It should refuse to run if there is anything wrong though. :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
So if the phone can use the SD card for /data would the fix have more space there? Or would we just get more space to install and run apps
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
It says Unavailable.
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyanZA:
512MB is going to be too little. :(

You can actually get around this with a fast SD card though! If you know how to use gparted, you can make a 2GB or so EXT2/3 partition on your SD card, and then copy your data across to that, and use symlinks to point Android there. With the Epics fast NAND though, this shouldn't be necessary for speed - but it might be really nice for you guys if you want to install a lot of apps! :)

EDIT: You can follow mimocan's tutorial here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=724251

Just don't use EXT4 since your kernel won't support it. There is a way to dynamically load the EXT4 kernel module though, if anybody is interested. ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
Thats weird.. On the Samsung Specsheet is says 1Gb. I saw it not 30 minutes ago.

EDIT: User Memory 1GB (not all is usable for customer use/downloads)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
DAMN IT! I'm sure Touchwiz is using the other 500Mb.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Here's a link to the dev page, you can download the app directly from there: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=760571
[Epic 4G Android Development] chocoberry:
lag fix?

SDcard-using lag fix is obviously unnecessary for Epic 4G.

The reason why Epic has a small NAND chip is that it uses a different type of NAND, called "OneNAND." OneNAND is much much faster than normal NAND or moviNAND (which other Galaxy S's use).

This is why Epic users don't experience "lag" which exists in Vibrant or Captivate.

But we can still make Epic faster, by getting rid of Samsung's rfs file system (which obviously makes Vibrant/Captivate slower) and mounting ext3/4 or other faster file system.

Then we need:

1) patching kernel or adding module to support ext3/4/nilfs2/yaffs2/ubifs/btrfs/etc/whatever we want.

(ext2 is supported by the stock kernel I think. However, unlike SD card and moviNAND which have own hardware wear-leveling algorithms in their controllers, OneNAND does not has it, so I'm not sure if ext2 (which does not support journaling/log) is okay to use.)

2) backing up the partitions which we want to change the file system from rfs

(such as: /data/data, /data/app, /data/dalvik-cache, etc, whatever)

and finally formatting it to what we want, and mount it.

3) kernel or script that automatically mounts as the file system we want.

4) a genius who can do this. (It is obviously not me.)

This is done for Captivate in XDA forum, and also for Galaxy S M110S in a Korean forum.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
Thank you for the explanation. Now lets wait for the genius.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
So...any takers? haha
[Epic 4G Android Development] kennethlongshaw:
HAZAAH! I AM A GENIUS!

...in board games. not in android.

guess we'll keep waiting
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
We can't do the method RyanZa posted because we need a Kernel that supports Ext3 and 4. And that has not been developed.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
Can someone mod RyanZa's kernel to replace Ext2 with whatever we need?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
What we need is Andromeda's Kernel with Ext3 fix. I'll talk with Noob about it now.
[Epic 4G Android Development] drizek:
So we will get a slight speed imprvement from switching to ext4, but it really won't make the phone that much faster, right?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Fixter:
Exactly. Thats what it means.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Tonythetigger:
So why does it make such a big difference on the Captivate? Wouldn't changing the file system give us the same incremental boost?
[Epic 4G Android Development] chocoberry:
Because Epic is already very fast,

or rfs and moviNAND are probably not a good combination.

Also, most of all, we don't even know how much it will get faster

when we formatted the partition to ext3/4 on Epic.

I've not seen anyone who actually tried this.

Maybe using a symbolic link makes easier to change the file system..

but I don't know. Unfortunately I can't do kernel customization, compile, etc.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Geniusdog254:
Meh, your mostly close. The difference is, since the Captivate/Vibrant have 16GB of internal storage, they use a microSD instead of NAND. this makes for lag, so they mount a loopfs or something similar on NAND that it writes to as a buffer super fast, then copies to the SD. This fixes the lag.

Since the Epic doesn't use a microSD, there is no lag issue from that with it. The Samsung RFS filesystem does have an affect of course, but the change to yaffs probably wouldn't be a major difference. Yaffs has wear-leveling integrated into the software AFAIK, and I know Ext3/4 do, so if the NAND doesn't have it on chip those FS's do.
[Epic 4G Android Development] chocoberry:
It is not a microSD. It is a 16GB moviNAND, a special type of NAND which incorporates a controller inside the chip (very much like a SD card, which also has a NAND flash and a controller.) Because it matches to eMMC specification, it is also called "internal SD" by many people and Galaxy S itself (in its kernel.)

In a Korean forum a file system of /data partition has been already formatted to ext3/4 and NILFS2, and many people experience significant performance increase, not only for benchmark but also for real usage. (I think Unhelpful of Captivate forum did the same thing, because the M110S kernel in the Korean forum was derived from Unhelpful's kernel.)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Geniusdog254:
Another thing, if you run yaffs over the RFS system, it will actually increase lag. Thats because it will be doing the wear leveling twice. They ran into this problem on the early Moment rooting days, although I'm not entirely sure if/how they fixed it, since I was only in that scene for a very short time.

I will hopefully be getting an Epic soon, and I'll work on whatever I can
[Epic 4G Android Development] UniqueNate:
I read through these post and I also want to know if and will somebody try and have a fix for the Epic.

Yea I know it doesn't need it but the point is I and others want it to be faster then what it already is.

At it's native speed it's not reaching in the 2000+ in the quadrant scores like the captivate and vibrant with their lag fix.

People see the lag fix as overall speed. From opening apps, browsing, and in and out of programs.

So the vibrant and captivate are faster with the lag fix and Epic owners just want the same boost at the least. If possible it would be awesome.

We would need root first and there is a root method for the Epic but it doesn't sound stable. People are having a hard time rooting and some apps that require root work and some don't. It doesn't even have Superusers permisson in it.

If somebody could also make a original root method with adb commands like all others it and make a exclusive fix for 2000+ for quadrant performance for the Epic, it would be gold.

I don't even care about a stock rom or anything. I just want to boost in performance. I love my Epic as is but I mean it wouldn't hurt.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Geniusdog254:
Don't believe all the Quadrant scores ;)

I guarantee I could get an impossibly high score, if I did the right things and you wouldn't see any difference. For instance, I could create a symlink from the Quadrant data directory to /dev/null so whatever it tried to write there would be completed instantly, and it would seem impossibly high, but was any data written? Nope.

Cyanogen did something similar to prove a point a while ago by mounting a loopfs (I think) over the Quadrant directory. So it seemed instant to the app, but it wasn't really writing any faster. Thats all it would accomplish on the Epic, since it uses NAND instead of the weird interface the other Galaxy S devices use.

That 2000+ score doesn't really mean a whole lot as far as performance goes over 1500 if its just for memory. The Epic doesn't have those issues, so anything to give those scores would be merely superficial
[Epic 4G Android Development] RyanZA:
Not really true. On your PC, you can have either a 5400rpm drive, a 7200 rpm drive, or a 15000 rpm drive. Upgrading to a faster drive won't make your PC a billion times faster, but when you're loading up that big image into your photo editor, the 15000 rpm drive is going to load it up a bit faster.

Lagfix is the same, it'll make loading stuff a bit faster. It isn't as needed on the Epic, since the Epic's data is already pretty fast. But, just because it isn't needed, doesn't mean speeding it up is bad. :) Saving a couple milliseconds when opening your email app is pretty nice.
[Epic 4G Android Development] UniqueNate:
Yea that's my point.

I've heard the scores can be a little fishy and what not but it's been videos where it shows a obvious performance increase. I mean from opening up things and loading times. A little extra wouldn't hurt. Obviously it's doing something faster if their jumping from the hundreds to the thousands and everyone is geeked about how snappier their phone is.

All I'm looking for is a possible boost in performance. If it can't or won't be done then that's cool. I would like to have a more common root method though. The method out now is to risky. I don't like it. It has to many issues (judging from the comments) and people don't even know if there rooted from this method fully. Some can use rooted apps and some can't.

I guess 2.2 will be our boost method or 'lag fix'.