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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
Well I have been interested in creating an ext 3 partition on my SD card for a while, but shiied away from doing it because it all seemed too complicated. But this morning I read in one of LeeDroid's threads that I should try it through ROM Manager. I had the same result mentioned earlier in this thread - ! + Android.

So I when I saw that it could be fixed by clearing the cache in ROM Manager, etc, I tried that. Well that seemed to work but now when it tries to boot, it takes 10 minutes before I pull out the battery in frustration.

Have I "bricked" it or can I recover from here? I don't seem to be able to get back into recovery mode at all.

Please help!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGhost1233:
Does your phone boot? If yes you can try to to clear the cache again and the reflash CWM from Rom Manager. Otherwise you can try to delete the update.zip (should only be a couple of Mb otherwise it's a rom) from the sd and replace it with this one.

And if you are already S-off, which i don't think you are nor recommend you to do, you can flash it via fastboot.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
I should also have mentioned earlier that I am running a LeeDroid ROM v 2.2e. Since my last post, I re-formatted the SD card and restored my sd card copy to it, so all that data should be intact again.

It booted normally but I noticed that I had a message saying that the SD was "safe to remove". I tried to mount the sd card, but that didn't work. So I then thought I should clear all data. So I rebooted into Recovery mode, deleted all data including Dalvik. Then rebooted. Unfortunately it now goes into a loop. It gets through the old Telstra splash screen, then makes its Android noise, goes through all the checks and says "Success", then goes into the same loop again.

Any suggestions??
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
When I am in Recovery mode, I can see no reference to the "signature verification" functionality. Where can I find it?

By the way, I have now updated to the LeeDroid 2.3 ROM with the patch applied. Currently I have a blank SD formatted card. When I try to format ext 3 to 512mb as suggested by LeeDroid, I still get the ! + Android.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Assuming you are using Clockwork Recovery, boot into recovery and select 'Install zip from SD card', then select 'Toggle signature verification' to turn off signature checking and flash your rom update zip.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
Thanks for your advice, but I still ahven't resolved my issue.

I am trying to create an ext3 partition on my sd card using ROM Manager. This time I went into Recovery and yes I am using Clockwork, I toggled signature varification to 'disable', then rebooted. Next I opened ROM Manager and then 'Partition SD Card'. I set ext3 to 512mb and swap to 0mb and clicked OK.

The device rebooted and then hung with the exclamation mark and Android showing. I went into Recovery again by pressing back and on/off keys. The following error message was displayed:

"E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)

E;signature verification failed

Installation aborted"

I get the same message regardless of having the signature toggle set to 'enable' or 'disable'.

Any suggestions for what I should try next?

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
You have several options here, you can first try reinstalling Rom Manager to see if that helps, if not, you could try using this tool to partition the sd card: MiniTool Partition Wizard, or use the Amon-Ra recovery - flash it with unrEVOked and use that to partition your sd card.

As an alternative, you can try using an Ubuntu live cd of GParted by either burning it to a cd or boot it from a usb stick: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download.

Or, you use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-tJe8pXE&feature=related)

1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4)

2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone

3) Start Gparted

4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)

Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!

5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)

6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'

7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'

If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4

8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'

9) Enter configurations

Free Space preceding = 0

Create as = Primary

New size = [don't touch]

File system = fat32

Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)

10) Click add

11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'

12) Enter configurations

Free Space preceding = 0

Create as = Primary

New size = [don't touch]

File system = ext2/3/4 (recommend ext4)

Free Space Following = 0 (or ~32 if you want swap)

Click add

13) Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk

14) Quit GParted

15) Unmount your SD Card

16) Reboot your phone
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
Thanks for your suggestions. I downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard, but for some reason the "Create" function on the tool bar was greyed out so I could not create a new partition. I'll keep trying though. Cheers.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasDroid:
Oks, let us know how you get on.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graeme748:
well, the latest on my happenings is that I took a bit more time to look at the MiniTool Partition app and was able to partition the sd card successfully. Because I was a bit apprehensive, I used a 2GB sd card for an initial trial and it took me a while to get it right, but I did it in the end.

Unfortunately (there's always one of them isn't there?), now when I connect my Desire to the USB and select "Disk Drive", it seems to connect as if it is "Charge Only" mode. I cannot see the sd card in MS Explorer! Also if I take the sd card out of the device and put it into the sd card slot in my laptop, I cannot read it with MS Explorer, but I can see it using the MiniTool Partition app.

I'll try it again tonight on my desktop to see if there is any difference.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvjh01:
I had your problem with the partition manager but I think you are making a basic mistake somewhere with rom manager. You need to boot into recovery and disable the signature verification as per instructions in this thread. Make sure it says 'disabled'. Then choose 'Reboot system now'. If you had rebooted, turned the phone off and booted again, the signature verification would have been enabled again. You must make sure you toggle and then boot the system immediately. I had your problems exactly but they were fixed by the toggle. The only other suggestion I can make is to clear the cache and the dalvick cache before you toggle and then boot and use rom manager.
[Legend General] pcolley:
hi i am new to the way andriod works, i have the HTC Legend and would like to know how i go about changing the roms, as i used to do them on the xda's an had lots of fun doing them, but tith the android system what apps do i need to change the roms and do any of them include internet and mms for o2 prepay as am having problems finding these, any help would be very gratefull
[Legend General] Rapier:
You should first read the sticky topics in dev forum, mainly about rooting, and how to create goldcard (if apply to you), also about recovery and using adb commands (from Android SDK).. Afyer you're rooted you can easily flash a ROM of your choice. All ROMs have internet browser and appl preinstalled, you just need the APNs properly configured as per your provider's settings
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Shobai:
Great to hear! looking forward to seeing how you get along =)
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] DeexPL:
waiting for first beta release!
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
So, a little update, ironically enough because internet on my phone is down so I decided to use expensive tethering to let everyone know I'm still alive XD

I'm glad I decided to take a working keyboard from my good Treo and put it in the bad Treo, my repaired Radio antenna had to be re-repaired so now I can leave the keyboard on there (still did not get replacement keyboard). That gave me a chance to test the buttons on my WM6.5 build, and the "Alt" key works, and brings up the symbols list. Red phone button still does not work (don't worry, I do know why), also I realized the Phone Settings is still there, just need to re-work the shortcut to point to it. Still trying to solve the SD card problem, so now I need to raid Nav's post history lol.

Edit: Nav's post history needs to be searched by not just his posts, I even need to read if others replied to him. If anyone can help me out and remember or able to see what it is that causes the Sd card problem, I'd really appreciate it (my connection is timed -_-)
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Hey guys, I got a great story to tell.

You guys might not know me very well, I mean, I rarely posted here before, but if I had to say something about me, it's that I'm not the type of person to ask help on how to do something, if I can do it myself. Well, last night, I tried and tried, and even dunked myself into bed and immediately fell asleep (narrowly escaping catching a cold because of no blanket lol), but I persevered, and now look what I have done!

That's right, build 23563! Better than Mietas' ROM because tapping the start menu works, but just like Mietas' ROM, closing Messenger with the lower right corner close button still freezes the program. And... since I have been using Nav's badly configured files (no offense Nav), the SD card bug remained. There was even the camera bug, and the WM player that never was. I didn't give up though, thanks to Mietas' discontinued ROM project, I have craftily taken his romhdr.bin and stuck it into my kitchen. I also realized why the Camera didn't work and why WM Player was gone. Now, I present to you, the first real working WM 6.5 Rom for our Treo 750's!

"Gee whiz mangatron, you went back in time? How is that the best working WM 6.5?" you say? Well, look here!

See that? It's the Palm OEM applications running! I can make calls, send TXT messages and recieve them, you can hang up calls and, you can POWER OFF the phone! Brightness setting via Fn+p works too! Yahoo! That's not it though! The SD Card can now be recognized, the Camera works, and WM Player is back again! Absolutely the best WM6.5 for our Treo's yet!

But there's still more. See, as much as a noob that I am, I hadn't realized until build 23563 on why the Palm OEM stuff wasn't running. You see, I already knew why Nav's ROM couldn't hang up or power off. Thanks to my older brother for testing this when he had my Treo, the today plugins "Active Call" and "Dial Lookup" are Palm programs, that, one or the other (or both combined) control brightness setting, hanging up, keypad dialer, speakerphone enabler, etc. PRetty much all phone functions were handled by these 2 today plugins. When Nav took them out, it killed his phone functionality. I knew that without these, nothing will work the way I want it to. I didn't do this alone. If it weren't for Nav and Mietas for trying before me, I could have never learned how to cook, and most importantly, I would have never had tried 6 months ago had I gotten a new phone then.
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Now, I hope everyone understands why I didn't upload it yet (expensive tethering is the only way to safely upload without risk getting cut off). There are also other reasons why, namely, how I found out why build 23563 didn't have my Palm OEM's. You see, during the cooking process, I noticed I had a lot of bad lines in the RGU file for the Palm OEM APPS package. So everytime I flashed my rom, I didn't see the Palm today plugins because by default, the registry turned them off! So I installed SKtools, enabled them, and boom, working Treo. So, if everyone is fine with manually turning on these 2 plugins by themselves, then okay, version 1 here we go! Except, I need to tell more about this ROM. You see, because I took some .bin files from Mietas' ROM, my build is now slow like his. Well, it's not laggy I-want-to-freeze slow, it's just, think back to WM5. If you had the Treo with WM5 before, you'll know what I mean. When you tap stuff it would like peel or what I like to call "blink". The problem could be because I set the page pool to 4MB (known to save RAM, but slow down multiple program usage), so I will try with a page pool of 6MB. That's basically the only caveat, actually. The rom is a tiny bit slow, but if you can live with that, and want a real working WM6.5 now, then I'll see. I have planned to tether this coming Monday or Tuesday GMT +8 (that is, Hong Kong time), so who knows, I may even pull a Spiattie here and provide both a Classic (21915) and Touch (23563) versions!

Note to Roberto: Luckily, Keyguard can be disabled. But I have not installed S2U to see if that will lock on power down (even with Keyguard disabled, the Red button can still power off). Let me know if S2U can lock when the device goes to standby, right now I am so excited to have finally helped out XDA when it comes to the Treo 750!
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] DeexPL:
good work! i'm waiting for classic version! :)
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
hey great work!!! is there anyway you can make your perfect working wm6.5 rom with wm6.5.3, its just that wm6.5.3 looks so awesome!!!!!! but more than anything thanks for your effort i think you are the only remaining chef for our treo, but there is still this problem of titanium i know that ytou just started and thats why you havent added it but, whenever you add it there may be some problems that you may need to deal with, still this is the best rom i have seen so far and i can live without titanium, oh and about the s2u i dont see any need to install it right now as the normal lock button is working, but still it looks pretty cool maybe we should just put the download link next to the rom, as some people may not like it :)

the biggest problem at either some people may not like an app, they may want more memory instead of the app, or it is a pain in the ass trying to update that app later.

and about the wm6.5.3 maybe could you leave the fonts as they are? is just that in wm6.5.3 when you open a list the letters are just to big also when you open a menu and as our treos screen is so small... maybe it could be wm6.5.3 with wm6.5 fonts for menus and lists

if pics dont show here are the links

http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p31/mangatron/?action=view&current=21915-2.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/i/201008080432440005111g.jpg/sr=1

maybe im going a bit to fast but i tend to go directly to the point when speaking sorry if im asking to much
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Believe me buddy, you are not asking too much. My regret right now is that I cannot upload right now, and that if only I had done this 6 months ago Treo users wouldn't have had to wait for so long to have WM6.5 on our phones.

Some things I need to clear up, lol the reason why the Palm plugins "Active call" and "Dial Lookup" were disabled in my tests builds, is because Titanium overwrote their registry settings because, whenever Titanium is enabled, no other plugins can run on the today screen. So I had to take out Titanium for good, just so that the Palm plugins can run.

About S2U, you're right about RAM, WM6.5.3 uses up more by default (my suspicion is the Theme), so including it would probably make only 20MB RAM available lol.

You know, I'm glad you asked me about this. This is controlled by the .tsk file and the .png images that make up the Classic Blue today theme. As long as I reconfigure the .tsk file (not sure if my WM5 skinning program can support WM6.5.3) and edit the images into a smaller size (should work, I did a little test and the menu now looks like just a slightly larger WM6 menu), it will be usable.

Really want to upload now >___<
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
well as long as it works fine, and has wm6.5.3 i dont really need titanium
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Post #2 contains my changelog for now, as you can see I'm really working on the bugs right now. As of this moment, all bugs have been taken care of except the memory leak, but man I really need that keyboard replacement. It's tough always flashing via USB...
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
i have an 4gb micro sd but not a converter... -.- thats why i always flash via usb, i think it is safer and more easy to use

i cant wait to see the wm6.5.3 build its just so awesome!
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
posted through my WM6.5 build

A micro SD adapter, huh. Dealextreme.com has it for dirt cheap (with free shipping), although I had problems with the adapter. I tried my 16GB Micro SD with a more reliable adapter, and both builds are able to read it. Really cool how my projects have come along.

I also updated posts 1 and 2 with more info and teaser screens. Enjoy and Monday-Tuesday is going to be a great day! (hopefully Monday)
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
awesome, they all look so cool great work! XD

i have one quetion, the other devices with wm6.5 what do they use for calling, maybe in the titanium build it wouyld be possible to use that app
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
sent from my custom Treo build

YEEEEAAAAHH! Final bug destroyed (could not configure SMS tone). Expect release in several hours.

Hmm? I did not include Titanium in any build. It just wouldn't work (probably because I never looked into it an focused on the Red button more)

All calling related features of the Treo are handled by the Palm OEM applications, with the exception of SMS related features.

By the way, do you guys use MMS often? I just realized my ROMs do not have this capability (I never used MMS, too expensive). I could include an MMS program...
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
nah, i never use even sms, if needed i can download an mms app, so doint worry about it right now, most of us use this work phone for music and games (wich i think is stupid -.-) but anyway, i dont think we use it to much.

o and about the titanium maybe on another build, as the red button is working maybe the calling app that navs rom already has could be an alternative, but right now i cant wait for wm6.5.3 roms release!
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
An early christmas present for all

ROM's have been uploaded, posts 1, 2, and 3 have been updated. Enjoy, and if you can, donate, if not, hitting the Thanks button is fine I guess.

By the way, did you know that it's possible to have Manual Focus for the Treo's camera? Yes, it does actually work, and I'll show more later! :D

I forgot to add, do post here whatever problems you encounter. With as many WM programs as there are, I of course have no idea if they all work on my builds. I also do not have the Spectec Wifi card, so I don't even know if that will work on my builds. I am interested to know if it works.
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Galileo:
geart work, thanks it looks so awesome, ill try them out!
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
I see, you get an error when you tap that "Power" icon, right? I may be able to provide you a patch, or simply an add-on, as I don't think I can replicate your problem and I most certainly do not have the internet capability at this time to upload beta ROMs.

The other extreme way you can fix this, is to take apart yur battery like I did. But, that takes great care as you will shock yourself if you mess up the slightest bit. But then again my battery has charge/discharge issues mostly because the temperature went high too often (when downloading via HSDPA).
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] Samueldw:
I do not get an error when I tab the power icon.

Sometimes I get an error in wm6.1/6.5, then I go to the power icon and then I see that there's no battery found. That's why it gave an error.

Sometimes my battery is not found in wm6.0 too, but it didn't give an error.

It's rather complicated and strange. They still do sell palm batteries on ebay, I saw. I don't know if they are genuine.

What have you fixed when you took apart your battery?
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Okay, here we go. I took a piece out of my Version 3.0 ROM, and I'd like you to install it. I highly suggest that you backup your personal data before doing this, as there is a chance your Treo may fully reject your battery after you install this cab.

I should note that this cab gives you a preview of what I meant by controlling your keyboard backlight, saving some battery life during the day.

How to turn off keyboard backlight: (best to do this under a light)

-Go to Start->Settings->System, and tap on the "Brightness" icon, and turn off your backlight.

-Press "OK" on your Treo's hardware button, and see if you can find the new "Backlight" icon, and then change your brightness from there. Your keyboard should not light up during this time.

Note: The best part about this Brightness enhancement is that you can truly set backlight settings while on battery AND when you plug in a charger. Good for those who do so with other HTC phones out there.

Download POWER ADDON

Sorry I can't attach, it fails every time. Either XDA is not working now or my isp is blocking them :mad:
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
My battery hacking involves separating the lithium unit from the battery's circuit board (the contacts of the battery). In my experience, doing so resets the memory chip on the battery (these batteries include chips for temp, overcharge protection, etc). Of course I'm not a battery expert, but I no longer get an extremely fast discharge I used to get with my Palm OEM battery. It is also possible to install a higher capacity battery this way, as long as it fits (my 3rd party battery was an XDA Atom battery).

Of course I wouldn't recommend a newbie doing this, as my first time a few years ago, I gave myself several nasty shocks.
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] toxic77:
Hi einsteinecker,

i installed your wm6.1 rom on my treo 750v, what I noticed is that activesync always runs on the background, it would also look nice if you have the htc x button preloaded on the rom instead of xhook and xtask, hope you'll consider in your next release,I loved the startup sounds and animations on your roms too.
[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
Hi, thanks for the feedback.

Ah, I forgot to mention this. As far as I can remember, there isn't a way to put it away from the start, what we have to do is the Activesync Server fix, or Activesync hack, I don't really remember what it was called, but basically you set up a fake sync server to be able to access the ActiveSync schedule options, and then set them all to manual. If you search here at XDA, you might find info how to do this.

Now I might be able to fix this, but no guarantee's as I have yet to see a WM6.1 ROM do this out of the box.

I did try putting the HTC x-button, but there is a display problem similar to the HTC Large Taskbar program, in that it won't show up (but it still works). Now I have a few hints how to fix it, but this is a permanent program (unlike x-task, which you can disable if you want to install your own task manager). We shall see though. I feel that if I can get x-button to work, then I can get Large TitleBar to work too.