yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] idevmag:
Amazing... Thanks for your legendary work cedesmith :)

Here is how I manage to boot on my HD2

- Installed latest Energy WinMO rom (13-Nov If memory servers me right)

- Formatted 8gb class 6 card using built-in format sd utility from windows mobile (WHEN I TRIED FROM WINDOWS 7 (MY LAPTOP) IT WAS KEEP REBOOTING)

- Put that card to my laptop (using sd card adapter ofcourse)

- Created desire_cs folder on the sd card (CASE SENSITIVE)

- copied all the contents of desire_cs_2.0.7z (so it should looks like desire_cs\zImage etc.)

- put that sd card back to hd2 and opened file explorer and ran clrcad.exe and haret.exe manuall

- And voila it just work

- PS: Do not put anything except desire_cs on the card and also do not put AndroidApps folder under desire_cs, for me it was hot rebooting (ie. Keep repeating Quitely brillient... when I had AndroidApps under desire_cs folder)

Camera is 5mp and works cool

will post my battery usage and other things

HTH

iDev
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zmoboss:
Same here...ozdroid base rom. JUST CANNOT GET DATA TI WORK. says turning network on and stays there for hours. Got robot voice with radio 2 12 50. Changed to 2 14 50 and 2 15 40. Very low call volume, and absolutely no data. Very very fast boot and performance though...hoping these issues will be fixed and will become THE build for me. Hats off to developer!

Thx

Z

Edit: using this in Tmo USA. All apn entries are correct. Those running successfully in USA, please post winmo rom and radio details. Thx.z
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hutc:
thats how to do it, i had to reinstall the wm6 rom and the radio, will try other roms and radios and let you know,i had to format the sd card 4 times coz there is a file enclogmenc created everytime you try to install that shouldnot be there if you are trying next time after a failure,best way is to format in windows mobile using fd10 tool and remove thwe micro sd card and then see it in the laptop or desktop microsd card reader and if the file is there remove it or else it will not boot into android thats what happened with me and i had to it this way

how to update the kernel please anybody.ok guys found how to update the kernel only copy the root folder and the zimage file from hastarin 8.4,nothing else

also format thro windows mobile and then remove it and transfer the files after connecting it to a microsd card reader it will be fast

wifi download is 2.5mbps and upload is 1.5mbps

quadrant score is 2038 i am loving it awesome way to use the android
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] rafpigna:
It's possible to rename the folder to "Android" (of course changing also the line in the startup.txt) ?

In this way I can use the same dualboot program without having to change it if I want to use another rom....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hutc:
thanks a lot mr cede smith

you stepped in the right moment as darkstone left a large void has been filled by you now,does the build write the files to the 1gb rom of hd2 /how is it so fast

i cant believe it i am so lucky that i bought hd2 over other phones

ok i tried it over energy leo standard sense nov 13 build with radio 2 10 50 26

and everything is working fine , will update build testing result in full

thank you mr cede smith once again
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ultimaex:
Is there a way to enable the status output with the newer kernels? I just don't like that green htc logo when booting and I cannot see what's happening.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hanzzi:
Manage to get it to boot first go. This is the fastest Android build I have tested. Everything works out of the box except i get a robotic voice when i make calls.

Using OZdroid rom with 2.14 radio.

Anyone know how to get rid of robotic voice?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NeYo011:
Having the same issue right here, wont boot for me. Any fixes??
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ultimaex:
Btw. can i build a CM6.1 rom with that initrd?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cedesmith:
if you get reboot format card with windows mobile and make sure everything is in desire_cs directory.

the problem seams to be with the tools in /bin folder i compiled from scratch to get them to 600KB from 4.1MB

DarkStone how did you get console displayed ?

edit: lol me being blind blind :))

sdcard_partition=`grep -o '\bloop_partition=\w*' /proc/cmdline | sed 's/loop_partition=//'`
if [ "$sdcard_partition" = "" ];then
# assume single partition, if found partition 1 use that
sdcard_partition=mmcblk0
[ -b /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 ] && sdcard_block=mmcblk0p1
fi
echo "Running an fsck on the SD card ($sdcard_partition)"
dosfsck -y /dev/block/$sdcard_partition

note [ -b /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 ] && sdcard_block=mmcblk0p1 instead of sdcard_partition

add loop_partition=mmcblk0p1 to startup.txt cmdline if you get reboots

set cmdline "rel_path=desire_cs nand_boot=0 loop_partition=mmcblk0p1"

thanks darkstone for the console image
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] atoore:
I cant get it to boot either. If you want the console displayed, use nexus one based kernels...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ragemvp33:
my market isnt working
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] delphiage:
This is the best Android i've tried. At the moment it works really smooth.

I had the problem at first time to boot, but after formatting the sdcard it worked well. I formated the sdcard with the format utility from the HD2, it uses 32k clusters. I think the problem was because I had a previous Android installed, I should delete all the android folders (.LOSTDIR , etc), maybe someone can confirm this.

It boots very fast!!!. Market, camera, wifi working well. I will continue testing and if I found something I will post it.

I´m using CleanEX OzROM 4.50 and radio 2.11.50.20

GREAT JOB!!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vartp:
Thanks for the build, 2250 in quadrant, sound/camera/market working perfectly.

Attached update to get EVO keyboard in this build (it has arrows and desire doesn't). Extract and reboot to install it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cedesmith:
update to fix reboots

edit: deleted attached update.initrd.gz.19.11.2010.7z as it was not working
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hastarin:
Interesting. I must admit I haven't had a hard freeze in quite a while, so I admit getting rid of the sync option makes sense.

Are things mounted with noatime too? Does anyone know if Android runs OK with that?

Not without side affects. It's disabled for a reason.

He used a custom built kernel with the appropriate setting.

From memory it's CONFIG_HTC_FB_CONSOLE

It's been a while since I've used it.

Keep up the great work. I'm probably not going to use this build just yet, since I don't have the time to spare to switch, but I can see this becoming my new build of choice.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] trungcyber:
The best rom android is here .

And can you tell me what is your best WM rom for this android rom ?

Very need that to be perfect.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] htc9420:
Batt usage info

I installed it last night, 11.00 pm, 71% batt, alarm and wifi on.

I had 67% at 9 am when the alarm went off. GREAT!

Heavy usage since, wifi, gps,camera, music and mail, dropped to 60% in 2 hrs.

Using PPC-shiftPDA 28244 ROM and 2.15.50.14 radio.

Robot calls gone away after first call.

Quadrant score 1817.

So far this is the best build I've found.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] arifqur:
Works great after formatting with the FD10 utility. Got Robo voice on the first call after which it seems allright.

Great Rom BTW.

Is it advisable to change the kernel or not?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] projection:
How is battery life with this ROM?

Any more reports?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] josephklk:
By now the best build

This build is by far the fastest build I ever tried. I am not sure about the technology behind it but I have one question:

If android will crash is there a increased risk of data loss/corruption?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ALDAS:
Thank you very much for this build. A consultation has someone else to leave the

green color photographs using the flash?. Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vartp:
Had 55% at 4 am, got about 47% at 10am in standby. (hastrin kernel, no additional settings/software).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hastarin:
Yes. Things are mounted without sync. That means writes to the SD card aren't synced and if you don't shutdown/reboot cleanly you may loose data or end up with a corrupt build.

That said, I'd personally be willing to risk it now things are as stable as they are.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] carcass666:
Initrd Update from 19.11 didn´t work for me. Keeps rebooting WiMo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cedesmith:
even more for me with linux-on-wince-htc it cleanly shutdown (on his own) just before ran out of battery.

the big + is that card will last longer.

carcass666: try adding loop_partition=mmcblk0p1 to cmd line in startup.txt
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Barlows:
Same here, i have tried adding loop_partition=mmcblk0p1 to cmd line in startup.txt too and it still reboots
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elgrego4:
mdeejay and darkstone builds are far more simple to get going. All this messing around and reformatting the sd card just to get it going, its like the early hit and miss days. Im sticking to froyostone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ALDAS:
No one's the same with the camera?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pack21:
You are wrong, this is stuff for geek users....not for kids.

Hard stuff, you know.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FrAsErTaG:
Yes the camera produces the same results for me, but everything else about this build is perfect...

Timed rebooting into vbndroid wm 10 seconds.. Can take photos from there of needed
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LondonTownGuy:
Well you will be the one to miss out this is much faster than any other build around. I didn't reformat anything just put it on my sd card renamed my own android folder to Android.bak and it booted fine so don't know where problem is coming from.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vartp:
+1, mine also green with flash. Go to Camera > Settings > White balance and switch it from "auto" to "incandescent light", with it I am getting good photos with flash.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vartp:
For me it was just download, extract on SD, run, enjoy.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bjcolema:
It's great you guys are able to boot right up but several people can't so there us a valid issue. I would love to try it, but there is something different about the boot process that is producing great results for some, but not for others. I have gone thru this process hundreds of times with other builds. I am running on Coredroid now. I know it's not just something we are doing wrong. It sounds to me like the dev realizes that.

Btw...i never reformat my card, and run other builds fine. I have 15 gigs if stuff (pics, music) so reformatting is not a good option...and one I think is not needed.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] josephklk:
Most definitely! The risk it worth the speed improvement. I do backups of my sdcard every couple of days so no harms done even if it crash.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ALDAS:
Thanks, actually it works better. Greetings
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cedesmith:
this doesn't make sense with me: /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 can only be accessed after [ -d /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1 ]

with that modification boots for me. please try it
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bjcolema:
Perfect! It booted right up after updating the initrd. Thanks! NOW....I can see what all the good feedback is about.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DarkStone1337:
Boots fine with this :)

Will test while I still have this HD2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elgrego4:
The mod worked for me :) I will see how it stands up to its rivals.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] confar:
this build is fast... but i cant see album picture and music,,, dont works

i restored data using titanium backup from mdjy 1.6 sense revolution s6.1
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elgrego4:
I found my first problem. I installed apps installer from market but it crashes every time.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FD10:
I'm sorry, i've always created cabs without certificate and I've never had certificate errors...maybe the author of the rom you were using didn't use nocert patch ;)

Edit:

I got 2234 points with Quadrant Benchmark!! :eek: :eek: :D :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vartp:
You mean "Gallery" and "Music"? Just tryied, seems to work fine for me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] josephklk:
Maybe silly question but is it possible to disable syncing in other builds?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hutc:
Build update

Battery consumption is like 1% per hour, i think that's the best you can get on the sd card, changed the color in camera from auto to incandescent and the camera works good and autofocus is very good

SOUND IS BEST BUT LOW WITH THE BEST SOUND QUALITY SAME AS THAT OF DARKSTONES BUILD.

this build is insane compared to others it beats them outright

everything is so smooth like butter and so fast

slight sluggishness present intermittently, if the build can be so good without nand i am happy

wifi is around 3mbps download and upload is 2 mbps

installed angry birds in less than 1 minute , i think wifi is switched to n status by default.

This is a good gift from cede smith to all hd2 users, will update if any more problem or issues.

My build is wm6 rom energy leo standard nov 13 build with radio 2 10 50 26 and it is a us hd2 WITH HASTARIN 8.4 KERNEL, BOOTS IN 3 MINUTES

there is one thing interesting when iused to use froyostone sense

rom utilization used to be around 200 to 250 mb leaving around 800 mb free in this build it was only 480 mb i think while booting it writes it to rom .thats why it is so fast, I THINK THIS BUILD CAN BE INSTALLED ON ALL WM6 ROMS ONLY THING IS THE RADIO TO AVOID ROBO VOICE.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phatfawzi:
Mms & music

this is just a great built, very smooth, responsive and no delay. Battery is amazing, just as good as WM. my only issues are mms are small and bad quality. also can't play any music. stock player won't recognize music folder and anything music app i download won't play the files.

using stock rom, radio 2.15
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] confar:
Yes galery and music

I could fix it. Was my mistake:-)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pjottrr:
gonna try this one...

if i may believe the results of the posters above me...

Downloading ... and lets see if i can "upgrade" my froyo sense developed by mdj
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pjottrr:
gonna try this one...

if i may believe the results of the posters above me...

Downloading ... and lets see if i can "upgrade" my froyo sense developed by mdj

update:

Upgrade failed, no go on just leaving the current data intact , so i'm starting over again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] domineus:
also trying an update on my build it could be the system could be a lot of things I've honestly just gleamed over the files and added update and root...it is like its not creating a proper mount point

There is support for ext2 filesystem so I'm not sure what the issue could be
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] erikvario:
great idea.

just copied the data.img from mdeejay's and it works neat.

no sod (yet) just smooth.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ZekeWolf:
Great build.

Speed on par with CM6 builds.

Beats the crap out of all other Sense builds.

I can not reach higher Quadrant than 1800 untweaked, but that is still impressive.

Regards
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] domineus:
a few questions on further examination of the system.img you are using

is the build not deodexed? should that have an impact on nonboot? (I suspect not)

secondly has anyone trying this method without a rootfs received a booting android system? I have a little idea of what's going on but a few pointers could help me get a booting rom

I can't logcat it either =/
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zmoboss:
** Please help - need instructions for TmoUSA **

Can someone please write here how to get the Data to be enabled on TmoUSA ?

It says "Turning network on..." and stays there for a long time ; then comes back with "Connection failed"

tried WCMA/GSM Auto, WCDMA only, GSM only ... nothing seems to work.

Also the call volume is very low and cant seem to set the locale to English(USA)

Can someone please help?

Thx

z
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
Did you try to enter apn manually?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
3g data stable for you guys?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bjcolema:
Yes.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Aproxi:
Reboots at bootscreen

Hey guys,

I have followed the instructions on post 1 and replaced with update.initrd.gz.19.11.2010 fix reboot at startup.

But my hd2 still reboots at the android bootscreen. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Madswk
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zmoboss:
tried auto first .. no luck .. tried manual entry .. no luck

(i thought APN entries are only for MMS ???? not for 3G data ??)

thx

z
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
Yeah they are for internet aswell..google for your operators apn, maybe there is a special apn for internet, i know i have one for internet/mms/wap etc..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dazzyb2k3:
Did you extract al the files into a 'desire_cs' folder?

I had to manually create it on the root of the SD card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LondonTownGuy:
Anyone having problems charging? doesn't seem to want to charge via usb for me, got message current not enough, before was showing charging but in reality was not. Maybe it's my set up and not build.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matutemhn:
totally agree with you....

till now this is the best build i ever tried........ battery life is awesome too, data connection very stable for me and mms working properly with tmo us.... but i have a ? does the auto apn work on US TMO? i had to setup manually.....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] elgrego4:
Im very impressed with the speed and the data has not dropped once. I even copied my old 1g file from froyostone, works great. Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Aproxi:
Problem solved!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CalilouOuvaha:
Aproxi : could you explain plz ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
the updates in "updates" folder, is that actually updates that is necessary? I mean is it recomended to install them? If the update-files are loaded within 7z package, why isnt it just installed from beginning? Im gonna just try put desire_cs on device and run :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zmoboss:
Can you please post your APN settings for TMO-US ?

I am dying to get this to connect to internet data so i can try this build.

Thx

z
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] idevmag:
Discovered first problem:

I cannot update any app from Market (ie. it says there's not enough space to install this item. tried with Facebook and Gmail but same problem)

Any help???

Thanks,

iDev
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
err, share?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LondonTownGuy:
Try going to settings/applications/manage apps click on market and clear cache
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] yamensaleh:
market issue

when i used the 3gb data.img i hade the same error, not only when updating but also i couldnt install any software from the market it was giving me no enough space, so i replaced the file with the original one which downloaded with the build (512 MB) and now it is working.

by the way i just installed this build, it seams very fast and stable, the boot time is amazing, there is only one build fast in the boot like this on which is MIUI build, but i will use this one to enjoy android UI.

cheers
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jubeh:
I also had a problem charging from USB. No message though. I just left it charging overnight and when I woke up I saw the thing was rebooting at the Tmous boot screen. When I checked, the battery was almost gone.

I'm charging from a desktop computer with a low-power usb profile so that it can still charge when the computer is off. It charges both my ADP1 and my HD2 (with Winmo and other Android builds) just fine. It might be something in the kernel.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] idevmag:
@ LondonTownGuy : didn't help

@yamensaleh : will try that and see

Thanks guys but I found a workaround, Found that there is new market updates that installed automatically (v 2.12), I went to Settings->Applications and it was showing Market in the list. When I opened that there was an option called Uninstall Updates. I used that and went back to Market and it worked

PS: BUt some reason Market keeps updating automatically whenever internet is available, I think it could be related to new market updates.

Thanks,

iDev
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] potpeye:
WOW, just wow thank you for this. This is a amazing build speed wise it has no equal. My 3g is working faster and better than all the roms I try but still plagued by random drops from time to time. Market place downloads is plain sick never had speed like this before it has to be because it such a speedy build and hwo it was built versus internet speed that for sure.

Thank you again , this is now my only build cant go back to any other rom.

Words cant decribe how fast this build is and smooth.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bjcolema:
Same issue..but charges fine in car and wall.

Edit: updated to mdj kernel and am charging via usb.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] yamensaleh:
data image files

hello

thank you for this great great great build, i am using it now, it is amazing.

What is the benefit of using larger image files, 1g,2g, or 3g will it be faster.

i tried to use the 3gb file, but i had problems with the market and other issues like applications forced to close, what i did is only replace the image file, should i do any thing else to use it?

i think it is an authentication issue am i right?

cheers
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ktran1588:
Wow this build is incredibly fast!!!!!

Edit: Spoken too soon. When I tried to dial voicemail the phone freeze and unresponsive that result in a hard reset. Hop the data is still there...

Issue: Anyone has problem with the voicemail button (Number 1 in dial) or just me? Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] norpan111:
Yeah speedy as hell! Some random freezes with the screen , probably related to gsensor since I was walking outside..other then that its superp! But can someone explain to me in English (or Swedish) what rootf is and why we don't need it? And why its obviously working better without it?