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[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Yes i see Custom 387 / 40 / 10 (my hboot is the 0.93.1000, fine right?)

I did all the steps well i think -.-

Its really necessary the 0.3+1/2GB EXT's or 1 big ext only its safe anyway?

any other ideas? :\

thanks by the answers ;)
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
the partitions must really be fat + 1gb ext4 + 0.3 gb ext4 + 0.1gb swap

i think make the partitions new...with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Hi problems again :D

Radio should be the last or that doesnt matter? (i have the: 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08 its not the latest but is an updated one)

Did all the steps again now and I am getting a problem after the partitions phase. I did FAT32+EXT+EXT+SWAP and you can see that here:

http://i53.tinypic.com/vde9hu.jpg

But when I mount sd-ext on mounts it says:

"E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)

(Device or resource busy)"

When I try full wipe it says:

"Formatting DATA:...

Formatting SDCARD:.android_secure...

Formatting CACHE:...

Formatting SDEXT:...

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)

(Invalid argument)

Error mounting /sd-ext/!

Skipping format...

Userdata wipe complete!"

When I try to flash your ROM it runs etc and says the 3 first things (sayin fast: verifing etc...) and it goes back to menu.

any ideas?

help asap so i can get my phone back on to go out xD :D

thank you by the help until now alex-v
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
radio is ok...only if you have battery drain..change it...

it say that your ext is not correct...... what program you use.?

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
yes..base is 2.1 :)
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
I used gparted live... isnt that good? :o

did you check the picture i posted? (http://i53.tinypic.com/vde9hu.jpg)

Partitions seems fine there..

thanks
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
should work..use also gparted...so once again ;)
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
what should i do now ? :\ -.-

Well i need to get phone back for tonight so.. can i intall other rom with this hboot flash ? Tomorow i try another way to do partitions for this rom.
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
if you want fast back to a normal a2sd rom...flash normal hboot from alpharev..should take 2 min...make one ext 3 or 4 and flash the rom of your choice :)

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
Try to disable verification on the recovery ..
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
oh yes..good tip...i read over it (did not see)

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
I think what you should do is try to re format the ext partition with gparted..

Disable verification on the recovery then flash alex's rom..

After thar reboot and wait more than 8 minutes but not more than 20 minutes..
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
I will try to re format the ext partitions on gparted.

About the verification, i did it always cause i was getting an error about the fmwidget .apk .

Reboot wait isnt on the boot image right?

thanks by the help from both ! ;)
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
it´s right if you see the bootanimation...it should come in 2-4 min...with the floating quietly brilliant text

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Well seems that i will work on this tonight so i will try for now another way to do the partitions.

Btw, my phone really freezes on image not animation

tell me another way to do the partitions without use of gparted.

thanks
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
mmhh..best way is gparted i think :)

look on this post..there are examples and also a other live disk

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9803951&postcount=2

but it should go with any partitions manager that can handle the linux partitions

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
Alex means if you already see the boot amination than it's only takes about 2-4 minutes more to android home. So, if you still didnt see the boot animation just wait..

I only use gparted to partition the sd card because recovery can't handle 2 ext partitions..
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
well thank both...

I finally fixed the phone! :D

I cheated a bit on this... first i used the "partition sdcard" from RA-desire recovery to do:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flag

1 32.3kB 14.8GB 14.8GB primary fat32 lba

2 14.8GB 15.8GB 1023MB primary ext4

3 15.8GB 15.9GB 128MB primary linux-swap(v1)

Then... i went on to the gparted live to split the fat32 partition on a 300mb ext and 14.5gb fat32 :D

and it worked. ^^

really thanks both, seems that you were right and all this was about a partition problem.

btw, to check if ext4 300mb is working on rom should i check something? Or phone working is enogh to see that all partitions are fine?

installing your own Expresso Style dont change the battery icon and clock widget?

thank you ;)
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
sounds good...nice that you have it working now :)

if all partitions are fine all is good :)

yes for expresso theme, if you want this to flash changed clock and %battery too...flash the files under the theme:)

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
When I install your battery extra(http://www.multiupload.com/80EADWP684) it crashes on startup image... same from before :( do u know why? :o
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
mmmhhh..should also work..i use the same mod...try the one from 1.3.1

anyway if you want a other % battery have a look to the online battery kitchen (it give you a flashable zip)

http://uot.dakra.lt/

load up the framework-res.apk :)

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
I was getting force closes on a few apps, plus cwm-alphabet-2.5.18 would not show option to reboot at the end of flashing. I would need to pull battery to boot... I repartitioned again (always used gparted). , 1.4GB ext4, 0.35GB ext4, 0.11GB swap. My 2nd ext4 and swap were probably too small before. No fc yet.. I'm very pleased with this Rom and would love to try the test Rom with reiserfs partition. Problem is, I can get the patched cwm to stick. Unrevoked message says "couldn't gain root.. is your firmware too new". Is there another method to flash recovery eg. Via fastboot? Otherwise I should revert to stock, then Unrevoked will flash custom cwm.. then s-off again.
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
Alex-v, in gparted, do u select align with cylinder, mib,or none? I read in a thread, I should select "none" is this best method? Because I chose MiB last night,hoping to solve my fc problems and all is well today :) could also be my partitions had been too small.
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
@tanclo

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/disp...l&lang=fr#gparted-specify-partition-alignment. EDIT: english version: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/disp...al&lang=C#gparted-specify-partition-alignment

"Pour les systèmes d'exploitation modernes, choisissez Mio".

For modern operating systems, choose Mio. (This is the default option)

Android is a modern ;-)
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Hi,

this is so strange... I think that the ext's that i create from the gparted live cd arent working well. When i load the battery framework, phone crashes on startup image and when i go check the SD, the 300MB ext4 partitions changes to swap. This helps to know whats happening?

Is there any recovery mode that create the 2 exts4, the fat and the swap?

Cause the desire-RA allows just 1 ext and maybe this is a solution for my gparted problem.

thanks
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
nice that it work :)

Partitions are ok...i select to mib....

but please do not use this reiserfs version...its a very old 2.0 froyo hd rom and not for daily use...(it´s my bad i did not delete it yet...because 1.4 is the latest version and this older rom say 1.5..sorry)

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
maybe its the mix you maked with ext some with gparted and with recovery...maybe its the live cd (i use linux ubuntu as second system with original gparted) ...i allaign to mib...

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tronne:
Thank you Alex-V, I love your ROM and waiting always for the next update..

When are you going to put DATA2SD? I don't mind to install DATA2EXT, but some people says that if the mobil run out of battery or similar situations, crash etc.. al the information is deleted or something wierd, not sure if is like that, probably not, but just confirming.

nd just another thing, when I install the mod it crashes and never boots.

Thx
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
yeah i know this...my problem with data2sd is that its slower as data2ext...and the latest version (i use) is much saver as older versions...thats because the second ext4 is used for stability, speed and informations lost etc....i never have anything lost...i reboot with the advanced menu..or pull out battery...nothing lost..

so i think in your crash if install a mod...its still something with partitions..?!? or maybe something with the mod (what mod..?)

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
Thank you Bibracte and Alex-v. Your information is valued! will we have a reiserfs version for GB HD some day? As reiserfs is faster is it not? Theoretically, reiserfs being non journal file system, it will also prolong the life of the solid state SD card... Correct?

Another thing... I have the default Android bootanimation and no downanimation.. last time I had this was a forecast of usb brick.. lol. Should I start worrying?
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
with reiserfs you are reight...think some day if we have the source again.. :)

bootanimition is symlinked to system and should be in data / local

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
c:\sdk2\tools>fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40.img

sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY

writing 'hboot'... INFOimage update is bypassed!

OKAY

when i flash on fastboot the img i see this error now... any idea?
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
if i flash it...i see this and instead of infoimage..i see how long takes this flash...XXXX sec..
[Desire Android Development] howdid:
woah im going crazy i always stuck at splash ..... sd card has all partition incl swap etc... device is s-off...full wiped.... flashed the hboot , after flashing the rom i ALWAYS stuck at splash-.- don´t know why im going crazy ...
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
@both: look in the attached picture.

@howdid: Do you really know new hboot is flashed correct..? in the first screen: you should see 387 / 10 / 40 instead of alpharev in the upper.......and the partitions aligned to mib........( also its importend that you have 0mb unpartitioned )

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] howdid:
i flash it like always with android flasher.. but in fastboot it only shows my old hboot cm7 r2 ....hmm :confused: EDIT: ican change my hboot to standart hboot, cm7 etc but when i flash the 387, the previous one stays-.- any ideas?
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
Than try it with fastboot commander:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823315

or with adb (android sdk) like i did (see in the pic)

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] howdid:
when i try to flash the custom hboot over cm7 r2 hboot with fastboot commander, the phone says: can not roll back hboot version, ? but i can flash standart bravo hboot etc only the custom hboot isnt working..

EDIT :FINALY GOT IT !!!! i have to flash Bravo downgrader from alpharev and than flash the custom hboot ..... LOL

maybe write that on the first page or so? :S

like always thx for your fast support alex! :D
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
nice to hear :) :)

and have put this tip to first page...thx for this :)
[Desire Android Development] howdid:
ok i give it up.... after flashing hboot the rom started, but all apps are fc... so i wiped and reflashd everything... same problem, after that i repartitiond my sd card with no unformated space, after flashing the rom is bootlooping... i give it up
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
strange...very strange...no problems here

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
hi there,

I am really sure that i did this all well,

I'v been tryin for the last 2 days, all the ways to part my sd card, reflashing hboots, flashing rom (like 100x), and i am really sure i did well on all the ways I tried.

Usually i dont go wrong on this things... i take all the steps right and I have a bit of experience to avoid some tutorials. Sad I cant really find a solution.

Its really strange, hboot is fine, partitions are fine and when I install the battery mode or the clock widget ... its all ****ed up and splash freeze!

Mate, I already tested on another sdcard (a 4gb and 16gb) and everytime the same.

Already parted sdcard on: GParted Live, adb cmd parted, MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, a "sdparted" script that i saw on xda, and the only flash the rom and turn this fine is with the recovery partition tool but recovery only creates 1 ext, after that i delete swap partition and i create swap + ext4 and here we go ... i have rom UP, but i think this isnt fine since I flash the battery thing and splash freeze again.

This isnt right... >_>

I really want the battery tool.

regardsssssssss and thanks
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
Hello, still some small problems...

I recorded several contacts (42) on Twitter, and then I went through my phone contacts to ensure they were displayed.

The box "Twitter " in the menu "View" stay unchecked. I checked twitter and the process twitter crashed.

I rebooted the phone but all my applications widget "non-system" have disappeared ... The widget news, weather, clock, airplane mode are ok.

Looks like it's the widget apps that are on the ext4 partition that are ko.

Twitter when I run, it runs about ten seconds and then crash.

I Amon_Ra 2.0.1, I went to the partitioning menu and repair the partition ext but it did not solve the problem.

Is there a solution to recover all the widget ?

I have no backup Titanium today.

Thank you for your advice.
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Mine has that problems about Force Close etc...

Second ext4 isnt fine for that rom i bet!
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
sad to report, i'm getting fc when i try to download mms :-( I've found this is an issue with "sense 2.1+3 roms". anyone find the same and any fix for this?

Thanks in advance
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
I only can say that your problems are so strange...

I swear...that i have none of this problems (with the data2ext version)..if i had such problems i did not put this version here in xda devs....

so i did not know whats the problem...maybe whats your sdcard..i use the 4gb that come with the phone...?!?

Maybe try the a2sd version (with normal hboot and 1 ext)

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
thanks again. i'm going to start from scratch.. format sdcard again and flash again.

Regards, thomas
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
Same with me, never got all that problems.. only once with so much force closing.. and after re partition sd card the rom is working fine until now...
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
i also had fc then repartitioned to allow a bigger ext 4 for data. it went ok for a while, but later.. i noticed i couldn't receive mms :-( this time i'm partitioning with mandriva's disk manager utility. one thing i noticed is that there was 1mb unallocated space before my fat32. Not sure what that was about, but i had to enter a zero in gparted to make sure there was no free space before fat32.
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
Yeah make sure no unallocated space, 2nd ext4 is 1/3 the 1st ext4.. and 1st ext4 not more than 2GB.. and dont forget the swap partition..

for mms, i didn't try it yet.. never had mms before.,, prefer email than mms.. :p
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
I prefer email too, but important messages often received via mms. In Korea, sms maximum size is about 65 characters, thereafter its converted to mms. Sms are not linked together here.
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
65 characters..thats not much...interesting...

So it works now..?

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
You see...no Problem here..
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
2nd ext should be exactly 1/3 of the main ext? :o

Partition order on sdcard: fat+ext+ext+swap ? or that doesnt matter?

regardssssss and thanks :D
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
Alex,

Do you know how we can verify that the hboot "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40" is active ?

After flashing "bravo_alphaspl" or "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40, " when I start in hboot I see on the front lines "--- AlphaRev ---" but no release name.

I see the release name when I flashed a data++

What is written on your phone ?

I'll reinstall the ROM v1.4 but I'm fully checks before.
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
Hi

When i flash "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40" i see on top line of the hboot : 387/10/40 instead of --AlphaRev--.

regardz
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
I manage to flash data++ and CM7 r2, but not "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40.

The display remains on the name of the previous hboot.

Raisonÿ: AccŠs refus‚.
Raisonÿ: AccŠs refus‚.
cd data\
cd data\
taskkill /F /IM adb.exe
taskkill /F /IM fastboot.exe
adb.exe reboot bootloader
error: device not found
fastboot.exe flash hboot hboot.img
sending 'hboot' (512 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.089s]
OKAY [ 0.089s]
writing 'hboot'...
(bootloader) image update is bypassed!
OKAY [ 0.008s]
finished. total time: 0.098s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [ 0.095s]
finished. total time: 0.095s
fastboot.exe erase cache
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'...
Del hboot.img
OKAY [ 0.038s]
fastboot.exe reboot
finished. total time: 0.038s
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.095s

I'll try.
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
That code shows that your device isnt even found to flash that :|

"fastboot devices" and check that
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
I tried to flash a RUU PB99IMG.ZIP but not possible, error (normal because I was in CM7 r2).

I flashed "bravo_downgrade.img" and then "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40.img". this time it's ok, I'm displaying "Custom 387/10/40" in pink on the front line, instead of "--- AlphaRev ---".

Flash process "bravo_alphaspl_387-10-40" successful:

Raisonÿ: AccŠs refus‚.
cd data\
cd data\
taskkill /F /IM adb.exe
taskkill /F /IM fastboot.exe
adb.exe reboot bootloader
adb.exe reboot bootloader
error: device not found
fastboot.exe flash hboot hboot.img
sending 'hboot' (512 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.089s]
writing 'hboot'...
OKAY [ 0.161s]
finished. total time: 0.250s
fastboot.exe reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader...
fastboot.exe erase cache
OKAY [ 0.095s]
finished. total time: 0.095s
< waiting for device >
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.077s]
finished. total time: 0.077s
Del hboot.img
fastboot.exe reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.383s

I flashed the ROM v1.4 and I'm currently restoring Titanium (saving a few days).

Thank you for helping me do
[Desire Android Development] portelaux:
ye i had to downgrade too...

fine you solved that :)
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
Hboot appears at bootloader screen, right. Mine reflects the custom 387mb Hboot.

Thanks for screens, Alex-v. My second ext4 is a third or not? I should make absolutely certain about that. I didn't get mms downloaded today. Could it be baseband related? I'll try again.

Regards, Thomas.
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
it's better your 2nd ext partition is 1/3 of your 1st ext partition..

And partition order on sd card is a must: fat 32 + 1st ext + 2nd ext + swap

:)
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
correct : fat+ext+ext+swap and 2nd ext should be exactly 1/3 of the main ext

with kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
nice to hear that so many problems are solved :) :)

thx @ all who helped :) :)

@ tanclo : crash or only not receive..?

with kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
Thanks for that, Alex-V. I had exactly 1/3 previously. Yet fc were very common (not only mms, rom manager, titanium, chromemarks). I assumed I was short of space so I enlarged the second ext4. Anyway, I will try again. At the moment, my second ext4 is a bit more than 1/3 of the 1st ext4.

I want to try flashing an older mms.apk .. I've noted this is an issue on a few other roms. I don't care much about the lockscreen shortcut functionality.

i will try installing the apk. Flashing the zip would probably require some alteration of the script?

The script in the zip file (linked above) is as follows:

mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25", "/system");

show_progress(0.500000, 40);

package_extract_dir("system", "/system");

unmount("/system");

I have no idea what I would need to do to that script? What's your take on this? Thanks.

Regards, Thomas
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
Download my theme...and delete all apk inside..and the framework folder...now copy the mms apk inside app folder...zip again and you can flash this...hope that helped

With kind regards...Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
-- sorry.. double posted --
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
Coool :-) you made my day, Sir. I'll give it a bash.
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
I'm smiling too!! The method you suggested didn't actually work, but the reason is probably I was trying to zip on windows instead of my stable Mandriva Linux box :D In recovery i got "failed.. bad" something.

what DID work was i removed the mms.apk from your rom and inserted the old mms.apk into your rom then did a fresh flash - and now I'm receiving mms without any problem! I'm not sure about the reason for this, but I have found all the sense 2.1 roms i used over the past month, the mms failed to download. perhaps some sort of network issue, and/or my baseband.

Friendcaster pro force closed just now, but using rom manager, i fixed permissions and all is well. if i get any other problems, i will downsize my second ext4 to exactly 1/3 of the first one. for now, all is well so i'm leaving well alone! :rolleyes:

'so, wieder, vielen Dank!' (sorry about my little german ;)

regards

Thomas
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
But great that it work now :)

And a big thx for the beer :) and your "little german" is very good :)

With kind regatds..Alex
[Desire Android Development] tanclo:
the pleasure is mine, Alex-V. A small token of appreciation for your work in bringing a fast version of Sense 2.1 with Data2Ext to my dear Desire :-)

My projects tonight :-D resizing my ext4's to exactly 1005 and 335 - and then I'm heading over to UOT to mod a "Transparent Status Bar". I like the new transparent skins.

--EDIT -- lol, I'm living on the edge here. I realise now that 1005MiB isn't 1 GiB.
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
:) :) again

With kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] Bibracte:
The phone worked well today.

Tonight, I tried running "Disk Defrag Tools". The software requires a reboot, so I rebooted the phone.

At the start I had no desktop, no icons, the keyboard was in qwerty while I am normally in qwerty.

I stopped the phone then I restarted. The desktop has reappeared but not the widget.

I do not know if the problem is "Disk Defrag Tools" or my setup.

Maybe I made ​​a mistake ... :rolleyes:
[Desire Android Development] swemoza:
I think for data2ext you should not use reboot on power menu cause it can make data corruption..

Use only normal power off..
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
The thing is...do you need this tool...we not know what this do exactly.. :) if you need a tool...download free advanced task manager to make some ram free from time to time...the one with the blue icon

With kind regards..Alex
[Desire Android Development] Alex-V:
Principical you are right...but i often use it.. and never run into problems.. :)

Wirh kind regards..Alex