[Hero CDMA Android Development] RVDigital:
So I've continued to have persistant Market issues where I'm stuck on "Starting Download" and it never completes. The issue is very on and off, sometimes is works for a day, most of the time not. I KNOW the issue has to be related to FireRats after all the time I've spent on this thread.

So...

Knowing the Market is a dependent of cache, I wanted to get a grip on my MTD settings to see if I could track down the problem. I WAS running 03262011, GAPPS 03252011, and MTD settings of 80 4. So I full wipe and even reflash the OP recovery just to be sure FR is gone! After flashing The ROM and the GAPPS, heres what I see during start up and while downloading Market apps.

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 95.3M 32.0K 95.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/mtdblock3 170.0M 77.8M 92.2M 46% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 159.5M 33.2M 126.3M 21% /data
[COLOR="Red"]/dev/block/mtdblock4 130.0M 43.3M 86.7M 33% /cache[/COLOR]
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/sdcard
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/secure/asec
# df -h
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 95.3M 32.0K 95.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/mtdblock3 170.0M 77.8M 92.2M 46% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 159.5M 33.6M 125.9M 21% /data
[COLOR="red"]/dev/block/mtdblock4 130.0M 31.5M 98.5M 24% /cache[/COLOR]
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/sdcard
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/secure/asec

Thats right, my CACHE is stilling between 32 and 45mb, NOT the 4 mb I had been allocating previously. Mind you, Market downloads work flawlessly the first time and I continue to monitor the partitons during and after the downloads. Just for ****s and giggles, I reboot recovery after market downloads complete, and I clear Dalvik and Cache, then reboot.

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 95.3M 32.0K 95.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/mtdblock3 170.0M 77.8M 92.2M 46% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 159.5M 37.8M 121.7M 24% /data
[COLOR="red"]/dev/block/mtdblock4 130.0M 30.9M 99.1M 24% /cache[/COLOR]
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/sdcard
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/secure/asec

What gives? Have I been wrong all along with such a small (less than 50MB) cache? Could this be the source of all my FireRat market issues? Is the Market choking to get by?

Just throwing this out there, seems odd. I'm going to set MTD 80 56 and see if I can replicate the issue.

Any thoughts? Please!

EDIT: /sigh, at the Setup screen post FR and Flash

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 95.3M 32.0K 95.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 95.3M 0 95.3M 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/mtdblock3 80.0M 77.7M 2.3M 97% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 323.5M 32.4M 291.1M 10% /data
[COLOR="Red"]/dev/block/mtdblock4 56.0M 1.2M 54.8M 2% /cache[/COLOR]
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/sdcard
/dev/block/vold/179:1
7.6G 4.3G 3.3G 57% /mnt/secure/asec

Beginning to dislike FR