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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snrbobo:
So...

anything that is 2.2 (fresh, damage, even OTA, etc)

will install just fine...then

once it gets to the first screen lock before the setup...

it reboots! and roboots and reboots and reboots!

the ONLY 2.2 rom thats worked is CM6.

Sometimes...I'd like to have sense. i used to switch roms on my Hero.

But dammit none of em will work.

any suggestions?

my evo is rooted, s-off, with latest wimax, radio, pri, prl, etc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] envoykrawkwarrior7:
did you try changing the bootloader to 0.93? or wiping the cache after install? or even going as far as to stock 2.1 and then update ota and then try to install a new one?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snrbobo:
unfortunately, i've done all of that. hahah

eventually i just got tired of trying and stuck with CM6.

don't get me wrong, i love it!

But sometimes, i'd like to have some sense in my life. lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] envoykrawkwarrior7:
i know what you mean, i was using cm6 after i broke my 4g and loved it, but the easy-ness of sence is relaxing

btw

did you try using rom manager? or a different recovery?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snrbobo:
yes. believe me i've tried everything haha

no luck. hmm...i guess i'll just stick to CM6 and mod the hell out of it.

perhaps graba good smooth lookin theme.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgallos1:
have youve done a complete wipe before your flash to other roms?
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
This is an idea for airextreme, ondraster... etc and all the current kitchen makers. I'm in the process of trying to setup a 1 Gb RAMDrive for platformrebuilder to use to dump the gazillion files used in ROM cooking, to try to cut down on the hard drive fragmenting and gain quite a bit of speed too in the process. Looks like I might have to use symbolic links, since I doubt PRB supports \TEMP to a different drive. If the other tools (like imgstofs, libnb.. etc) could also use this method, I think we'd have some pretty fast kitchens!

So... any thoughts on this ?
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Well I just tried it with the "Romex Software" RAMdrive (free software) and it friggin flies! I've already got an SSD and that's where my kitchen resides, but now that it sits on a ramdrive, it's at least 10-20 times quicker.
[Windows Mobile] mwalt2:
Sounds interesting. How long did it take to go from pressing the build button to generating the nbh? OSBuilder by Barin (not platform rebuilder based, but still copies files once) makes a ROM in about 2 minutes from start to finish (623 modules and 7103 files).
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
I made a FULL Cookie 6.5.X Leo ROM in about 40 seconds. This is on a Core2Duo Dell laptop running at 2.7Ghz...

Just made a Titanium ROM in about 28 seconds... There's definitely some improvement here. For a guy like me that makes a metric ton of ROMs, this can certainly be helpful, but it doesn't mean all kitchens can't benefit from this :)
[Windows Mobile] OndraSter:
I know of possibility of using RAMdisk, I used to have full kitchen set up on my ramdisk and have cooked ROM (XPR) with TF3D in about 30 secs from clicking on "build_rom.bat" file.

I think airxtreme is (partially) working on (partial) removation of whole prb, so he might include support for ramdisk and file caching. Let him speak! lol
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
I realize now that this might not be for the everyday chef that makes one or two ROMs. However, if you brilliant programmers can find an easy, seamless way to swap everything to RAM, I think the kitchens will get much quicker. I know mine has and every seconds counts for me, when you make hundreds of ROMs. Hehe :) Now if I could get rid of the biggest bottleneck, compressing the nbh with 7zip, I'd be in heaven. But for that.. I need more processing power unfortunately. :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile] MusikMonk:
Even as an amateur cook-in-training, having faster cooking time means being able to test small changes quickly. Instead of making multiple changes, testing and then finding out which change didn't work out.

For the time being I'm definitely going to try using a ram drive. Well, that's as soon as I finish sorting out my packages which seems to need a couple of days :p
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
It's already in there:
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Okay... well then it seems you thought of it. How about PRB's temp\dump folder... does that go to your RAMDRIVE mode as well ?
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
Everything is done in the temp folder even the platformrebuilder stuff
[Windows Mobile] -=Barin=-:
Well, i redirected Temp folder to RamDisk and i like results very much :)

-------------------- TIMING ------------------------
Porting/Rebuilding XIP 00:00:01
Correcting template 00:00:00
Preprocessing 00:00:01
Registry 00:00:09
Metadata 00:00:00
Copying files 00:00:08
Postprocessing 00:00:00
Relocating/Writing modules 00:00:03
Merging/Writing dsm 00:00:02
Building IMGFS partition file 00:00:15
Building ROM file 00:00:12
Net time 00:00:56
Total time 00:01:02
----------------------------------------------------
PACKAGES 418
MODULES 621
FILES 8328
----------------------------------------------------

And also i'll try to reduce registry processing time....
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Yep. A noticeable improvement for me as well. I use the VSuite Ramdisk application myself. I tried a few and that one seems to be the fastest. I recommend a 1500 MB disk. I had 1000 before and ran into issues with "out of disk space" errors. Of course, the current ROM building tools dont actually TELL YOU they're running out of space, they just crash or give you weird errors. LOL
[Windows Mobile] -=Barin=-:
I use SuperSpeed RamDisk Plus on Win7 x64. For me it's enough 1024Mb because only Temp kitchen folder is redirected to ram disk - i tried to rebuild HD2 stock rom with all packages selected
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Yeah for me, I ran into problems building larger ROMs such as a ROM for the HD2. With 1000, I had to delete the new imgfs.bin right after it gets merged into the .payload, otherwise when nbmerge runs to create the .nb, it crashes. But now with 1,500 it's better. Now I just have to watch out for PRB not to crash, due to low RAM.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I tried using Vsuite Ramdisk Professional with OSKitchen v1.32 beta 4 but the IMGFSFromDump tools crashed. If I don't select to use ramdisk, I can build without any problem. What settings do you use in Vsuite? I'm using 1536MB without selecting any of the other checkboxes. Tried using Scsi Disk and Direct IO Disk and both had errors.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I tried again with RamDisk Plus with OSKitchen v1.32 beta 4 and got the same error. See the error message and settings I used for OSKitchen. Note that with beta 4, it highlights problematic packages and I had corrected them before building a rom. Without using ramdisk feature, I could build my rom. I've also tried disabling everything in EXT but the same error happens.
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
Maybe the problem is that you chose Q: instead of Q:\?
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I'm using your "Browse" button to select drive Q, and it is showing as "Q:" after selecting. Taking your suggestion, I changed it to "Q:\" and clicked on "OK" button. When I clicked on Settings again to see if the new change had been saved, unfortunately, it was not. It showed as "Q:" again.
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
If you want to save some space I can give you a imgfsfromdump version that deletes files/modules after adding them. I was also thinking about adding an input file list cache (to avoid having to copy the file in the dump folder and using the source file directly) and a compression cache since most files never change and the compression is done only on data and not on the stream as whole.
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
No idea but it should work, the kitchen can work without issues on different drive letters. I'll see if it 's a drive path issue: a \ should be added in the path while from your error messages it looks like it wasn't.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I noticed that you had released v 1.32 this morning. I downloaded it and did another test using VSuite Ramdisk Professional and the \ is still missing after I click OK in Settings. The error of missing imgfs.bin is still there. While testing, I had the Q drive in file explorer, i.e. Q:\Temp\ROM Generation\OS Sections open so that I could see what files are being created. I noticed that xip.bin was created successfully but not imgfs.bin. I had also checked to make sure that there was no Temp folder in my kitchen when this happens, just in case the imgfs.bin file was created there.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
Do both of you have the full kitchen on ramdisk? I tried by using OS Kitchen v1.32 which is redirecting the temp folder to ramdisk and I don't get such fast speed.

I've got lazy to cook new roms for release with the new wm builds as it is so time consuming to cook, flash it to test before uploading. If the cooking can be faster, it might motivate me to cook new roms and release them. At this moment, it's just cooking for my own use as my last release in mid Sept. ;-)
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
Can you please try creating a subfolder in the ramdrive and using that as temp folder?

BTW 1.32 has the package installer so you can try packages changes without flashing.
[Windows Mobile] -=Barin=-:
I've redirected to Ramdisk Temp folder only, and other folders are still on HDD :)

After some improvements in code i've got more interesting results:
[Windows Mobile] zard:
Using 1.32.1, created a folder and pointed to that folder for the temp folder. I had to checked the "Perform mid-build cleanups to save space" checkbox, if not the rom building will fail. Yes, I managed to build a rom with ramdisk of 1536MB. Flashing it now! The complete process took slightly more than 10 mins.

Comparing with 1.31 without using ramdisk, it took 16 mins. I managed to save 6 mins!

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
Finally managed to cook using OS Kitchen 1.3.2.1 in 10 mins. What improvement in codes are you referring to?
[Windows Mobile] mwalt2:
Barin is using the kitchen he created and is posted at mobileunderground.info for WWE (or asusmobile if you know Russian / want to google translate). His improvements are going from 2-3 minutes to cook a ROM (based on my usage of the kitchen) to 44 seconds in his screenshot.
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
16 minutes??? I can cook an HTC OBOE Rom (first build with empty cache) in 3 minutes and 16 seconds and I have an Athlon 64 3000+ (yes, the one that came out in the Pentium 4 era). You certainly have some antivirus/firewall, disabled HDD UDMA acceleration or something else that interferes with the ROM generation, it can't be so slow.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I'm running on a W500 Lenovo with Core2Duo 2.8MHz, 4GB Ram and Win 7 Ultimate. I have Trend Micro Antivirus running, no additional firewall except what's in Windows. Have not check on HDD UDMA acceleration.
[Windows Mobile] TMartin:
Does the current public version have the ability to do this??
[Windows Mobile] AndrewSh:
Public? Not yet, buddy :)

P.S.

Sorry - already available OS Builder V1.2.50 LE (05.10.2010)
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Well I know I've already switched to running a ramdisk full time and it has definitely cut down on the amount required to cook a ROM. I keep the kitchen files on my SSD (D: drive) and redirect all the output to a R: drive (ramdrive). Very happy with the results...
[Windows Mobile] RoryB:
Sounds like what I am doing now. I have my kitchen and other miscellaneous programs on an 8 GB flash stick including the ramdrive program. I can run my kitchen on any computer rather quickly and even have a ramdrive for the temp files. So my kitchen can quickly be set up on my brother's computer if I visit him and if he does not have ramdrive I can install it.
[Windows Mobile] TMartin:
Thanks AndrewSh....Change that date to (05.10.2010)
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I posted the following over at MU regarding the latest update:

I downloaded it, unzip it and ran it. I got the following error message "This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package". I had copied the msi file into downloaded full package "OSBuilder Kitchen[082810]".

I've been using OS Kitchen, so new to OS Builder. Any pointers will be appreciated.

Update:

I found out what I'm doing wrong. Need to have the full package unpacked to root.
[Windows Mobile] TAEL:
Are you using VSuite Ramdisk still? If yes, can you export your config and share it?
[Windows Mobile] zard:
Disk Size: 1536 or 2048MB

Drive Letter: any letter you fancy

File System: NTFS

Cluster Size: Default

Volume Label: any name you fancy

Check Direct IO Disk

Click Add after the above is done. For the rest of the check boxes and other stuff, I left it as blank.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
I've tried Vsuite Ramdisk Pro, Std and Dataram Ramdisk. In terms of speed, Dataram Ramdisk seems to give me slightly better speed.

Vsuite Ramdisk Pro - 32 & 64 bit available, NTFS, not free

Vsuite Ramdisk Std - 32 bit is free, NTFS, I think there is 64 bit but not free

Dataram Ramdisk - 32 & 64 bit Fat16 & Fat32, is free

I'm going to continue to use Dataram Ramdisk. With OS Kitchen v1.32.1, I can cook in about 6+ mins.

I tried OS Builder with RhodiumW ready kitchen, if I recall correctly, I can achieve 3 to 4 mins, same hardware using Vsuite Ramdisk Pro. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with OS Builder, how to import a shipped rom, how to import new WM Build, how to rip a cab to EXT, etc. So, I'll stick to OS Kitchen.

Thanks to NRG for starting this thread, and of course airextreme to put in the support for Ramdisk (with mid-build clean ups.
[Windows Mobile] RoryB:
I also use Dataram RamDisk for my cooking with OSKitchen_Zero v 1.32.1

I like that it is free too.

I use 1500MB and FAT32

BTW

Fuze ROM cooks in 2:13

Wizard ROM cooks in 2:17 to get os.nb then I run nb2nbf to create my nk.nbf file
[Windows Mobile] c_shekhar:
with i5-760 processor and 6Gb/s HDD I can cook my Leo ROM in 2:20 mins without any complications of RAMDisk etc. Every thing on HDD. ;)
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
Try turning off the antivirus scan while you build: antiviruses go crazy when nbsplit/nbmerge/osnbtool are called even with the smaller cached payloads I use.
[Windows Mobile] zard:
You're right. Without antivirus running, the cooking time does get shorten. So far, my best time is 4min 19secs with my existing hardware, using 1536MB Dataram ramdisk.
[Windows Mobile] af974:
1 minute and 13 seconds :eek:

ROFL!!! come on make a beta test of OsKitchen v. 1.34 :D:D
[Windows Mobile] airxtreme:
With internal os.nb management I got everything down to 42 secs but I think that wouldn't be ready for the beta since I still need to figure out why the sectorinfo data is different on some non-HTC phones.
[Windows Mobile] af974:
If you need help for some private test just give me a call ;)
[Windows Mobile] seeM_ZA:
I keep delaying the switch to either OSBuilder or OSKitchen.. This might just have made up my mind, lol..
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Maaaan.... so how come I'm able to get sub 30 second build times with a measly Core 2 Duo ? And I build BIG ROMs too with a lot of stuff in them. You guys SURE you're using the RAM disk ?? LOL
[Windows Mobile] miniterror:
i know i aint

i have tried the programs but i cant manage to redirect it:-o

maybe its cause i am using ervius kitchen

i made 2 gig ram things and i could see on my status meter it is being used by something but my rom cooking isnt faster and i run a quadcore but even the 30 sec is way faster then me:p(i dont have a ssd though:p)
[Windows Mobile] TMartin:
Anyone had an issue with your computer slowing down after building a ROM w/ temp being redirected RamDisk?? I've tried VSuite Ramdisk Professional, the free version of VSuite, & SuperSpeed RamDisk Plus.
[Windows Mobile] RoryB:
I have not, but how much RAM does your computer have and how much RAMDisk do you use? If you take most of your RAM to create your RAMDisk you would probably notice a slow down of your other PC operations until you release the RAMDisk memory back to RAM. I have 8G and only use 1500 MB.
[Windows Mobile] TMartin:
Good call...I was using the same amount but I've only got 4Gigs of RAM.
[Windows Mobile] c_shekhar:
@NRGZ28

28 Secs is really unimaginable. I used RAMDisk 1.5 GB and placed my PRB based kitchen in the RAMDisk and cooked there only. I got it in about 2Mins+ .

And without RAMDisk i get my .nbh in 2:30 secs. So not much of difference.

I wish to know from you :-

1. Are you using the PRB based kitchen?

2. What are you taking to RAMDisk full kitchen or the temp folder only?
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
Yes I've noticed that as well. It's ... laggy, when the ramdisk is loaded. The price we pay for speed :) I just unload it when I'm done building ROMs..
[Windows Mobile] NRGZ28:
I use a custom .bat file driven, PRB based kitchen. Not ervius's kitchen...

I read the kitchen files (EXT, SYS, ROM, OEM.. etc) from a fast SSD and redirect's PRB's \TEMP output to the ramdisk. Then, from there on, all the post processing (imgtofs, etc...) gets done on the RAMDisk as well.
[Windows Mobile] c_shekhar:
Ah! I see that it is SSD which is actually speeding up the process. Because in my case I read from HDD and writing into the \temp. This alone takes about 50 secs even though the HDD is on 6MB/s.

But I fail to understand that in another experiment, where entire kitchen is resting in RAMDisk (1.5 GB FAT32 formatted) then also the reading and writing into \Temp using PRB takes nothing remarkably less time.

I too have exactly similar type of kitchen. .bat files using the typical bepe's PRB.

Any comments?
[Windows Mobile] TMartin:
I have a couple questions for you. First, how much do you think your SSD speeds things up?? Second, what type (DDR, DDR2, etc) of RAM do you have and how much RAM do you have??
[Windows Mobile] RoryB:
Hmm, interesting.

3500MB RamDisk with entire program on it took 3:13 to run

1500MB RamDisk as temp folder with program on 16GB SanDisk Cruzer took 3:20

Not much difference, but. . .

All on 16GB SanDisk Cruzer took 18:46
[Windows Mobile] af974:
OT:

you need this one for a really cooking fast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
[Windows Mobile] af974:
I just did some tests with EVK:

Full 3.14 Rom with 21916 build compressed in XPR.

Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 ghz

DDR2 800 mhz 2 gb ram

HDD sata 2

USB sandisk 2 gb as ReadyBoost

Windows 7 Ultimate

Got 01:58:11 minutse for have the nbh.

Did anyone gave a try to LZX mode?

EDIT: LOL got 04:37 in LZX
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
Are there any new methods to get MMS working again?

When i try and send a mms, it just says "sending".
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ArtoD2:
Have you checked your APN settings?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
no..what should i do?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ArtoD2:
go to settings -> wireless networks -> mobile networks -> apn

Input your carrier settings for data and mms

You may need to created them, google helps here...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
Sorry, i have an Alltel Milestone(Droid)

Not a verizon..

I dont see Apn as an option.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ArtoD2:
APN = Access Point Names

Should be there
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
Sorry, apn isn't an option anywhere.

In mobile networks settings there is only:

Data enabled

Data Roaming

System Select

That's it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
bump..

anyone else gotta any tips?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mxzas:
Try playing around with the settings, you are missing what is essentially the master setting for MMS messages
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] OmegaBlaze:
Nothing much to play with in settings.

I did restore everything back to default.

Still no luck.= /
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] misko903:
The same there. Eclair v03a, mms are setted up in the system, but both incoming and outgoig are not working :(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
anyone have more insight into this?

I rarely use MMS but the past 3 days friends claimed to have sent me MMS and I haven't gotten jack crap :(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dexter_nlb:
hmm,

you do know you posted question in a GSM area of Milestone?

you have a CDMA droid phone right?

so maybe try droid development?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] misko903:
i have the milestone, not the droid, still it isn't working with EclairMODv3b. even when i was playing with the MMS settings.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowspeed:
on CM6... Suddenly my alerts stopped working ....

It started after i asked to mark all my emails as read on gmail, Coincidence?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbong777:
All of a sudden My phone does not show USB icon when connected to ANY PC..Phone beeps and battery charges but no USb in Mass Storage....The PCs are not getting an indication of an external drive...

Nothing I have done will make this work. It worked before in fact I downloaded the Mini Keys and loaed the JH7 FW. Now it won;t even "see" the phone with different cables.

It had worked fine........I even did a recovery but not a factory reset yet.

I know people are having issue connecting but have not found a thread where the phone will charge but will not indicate a USB connection on any PC. If it did that I could mount the SD cards.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] malaeus:
i have searched and found several people claiming to have access to tmobile's HSPA+ ("4G") service with their HD2 running android.

can anyone confirm this? and if so, what are the steps i need to take to access the same network speeds?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] motoman234:
You read my mind. I was wondering the same thing. I know that most of the towers where I live are already ready for 4G. So id like to know myself.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] S3BAZ10:
if u have "H" instead of 3G then... DUH
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] motoman234:
There is an H for "3.5G" and theres a H for "4G". So H doesnt mean 4G right now on our HD2s.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lemonspeakers:
In that case, DAMN! I have an EVO 4G!! FTW
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] earhog:
H on your HD2 doesn't exploit the full benefits of HSPA+... It is better than 3G but not full board HSPA+. The HD2 will never be fully compatible with HSPA+.But our version of HSPA is still a heck of alot faster than 3G, especially upload speed wise. I believe the first T-Mobile phone to be fully compatible with HSPA+ speeds is the G2.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Apache0c:
As I understand it, T-Mobile's "4G" is HSPA+ which is considered by many to be 3.5G in technicalities but it is actually faster than Sprints WiMax 4G technology.

T-Mobile only recently started calling it 4G, I kinda wish they wouldnt because I thought it was cool to have 3G that was better than 4G but I cant say that I blame them for doing it from a marketing standpoint because it will attract attention from uninformed comparison shoppers.

And as I understand it, the HD2 hardware supports the fastest speeds T-Mobile can supply so I'm sure that if there is any tweaking that can be done to the kernel to make Android support it then the Devs will take care of it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Reno_79:
The H in the notification bar actually means HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) or basically 3.5G or Turbo 3G, more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDPA

HSPA+ (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSPA%2B) as I'm aware isn't available in a huge amount of places yet, and I'm not even sure if the HD2 supports it? Would appreciate clarification on the either way.

Does anyone know when UK rollout of HSPA+ is happening?

(I can't post links yet, but you know what to do with the wiki links above)