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I'm just wondering what's so good about the Modaco ROMS... From what I was reading it's the best thing to ever happen to Hero but I've flashed it and it actually seems slower/laggier than my stock ROM... should this be?
My stock ROM was 2.73.XX but I can't remember the exact build number. I'm using Modaco 3.0... are there any other ROMS out there I should consider trying? I'm looking for the fastest and most responsive ROM out there. I do A LOT of multitasking so I'd like to have a ROM that can keep up.
If you did a complete data wipe/factory reset, while having the Modaco Rom, the Hero should be a lot more responsive and faster.
I like Modaco rather than stock rom because it removes some useless apps and allows for more customization. Btw, another alterative to the stock and Modaco is the [email protected] and the Clean ION Roms.
There are several different Roms, the differences is the types of apps removed/installed and the Android firmware.
i like modacos roms, because they work reliable and good. with pauls roms i am sure that he has tested them well, and i can use them as basis for my own modifications, or just can push them to my friends' heros without having them complain that something doesn't work. also in case you need support you can ask paul, he is really a nice guy.
there are some other roms, but imho mcr3.0 is by far the most evolved rom, esp. for everyday use. check the development section here for other roms, including the brandnew android 2.1 roms
Well here's the thing. I didn't wipe/factory reset before I Flashed the ROM. After flashing it went into a reboot loop, it would keep rebooting and when it got to the last boot animation, reboot again... I then did a wipe using the recovery boots wipe option and then it booted fine... Maybe I should do another wipe and flash again? It sucks though because now I've customized it back to the way I like it... I hate having to do that all over again. I guess I need to do the A2SD thing so I don't have to redownload my apps again... that was annoying when I had to do it after flashing Modaco's.... I couldn't even remember all that I had installed lol.
Anyone think reflashing might make it better?
I've been using MCR since about 2.2 so I can't speak for 3.0, but when I first flashed with 2.2 I didn't factory reset or format my SD card and it was a complete fail... apps force closing constantly, unable to recieve SMS, and other assorted weirdness.
So I factory resetted, reflashed and from that point MCR has run very smoothly and each update has gone OK (except for one where i had to format and repartition my SD card for A2SD, but didn't lose any settings).
So my advice would be that if you go to the effort of starting with a clean slate you'll get a much better user experience, which is what all us existing MCR users have...
streetdaddy is spot on. Do a clean wipe and then a rom flash.
I'm using MoDaCo 2.9. For my Hero, 3.0 ate up a lot of my phone's internal memory and kept saying I was running out of memory. The differences are minuscule and the speed improvement is about the same.
I started using Pauls ROM as soon as I got my Hero (which was a few days after release) because the stock ROM was toilet, and I've not looked back. The ROM itself is excellent and the support is first-class.
Make sure to wipe before installing. Once you've got it up and running you shouldn't have to wipe it when you upgrade next time.
I have been using Dwang's 1.17.1 rom since it came out. However, over the weekend, I tested out many eclair roms such as openEclair, KingKlick's (sp?), Manup's eclair rom, and Pay's rom. However, I could not run any of them smoothly. I got stuck at the mytouch screen for all but Manup's rom. For his rom, the nexus bootup screen was running overnight.
I even tried Cyanogen 4.13.1 (4.14.1 was not up at the time). That was one rom that I was able to run but it would constantly freeze randomly. Also Weather Widget Donate would not keep up with the real time in his rom. Therefore, I reverted back to Dwang's rom.
But before testing these roms out, I formatted my class 6 micro SD card. I did obtain Amon's latest recovery (1.5.2G) and followed the directions in order to have apps2sd. I partitioned and converted ext2 to ext3. I was quite ecstatic to see that the apps transferred over to Cyanogen's rom.
But what am I doing wrong with these eclair roms? I am new with the sd card in regards to using apps2sd. I am wiping the factory data, dalvik cache, and ext if told in the post. Is there something I need else I need to do before running these eclair roms?
Also, I only follow directions but can someone tell me what wiping dalvik cache and ext does to the memory card?
Hi Peeps,
I have searched in vain for a guide to changing from cm 4.2.15.1 to super d stable, but I cant seem to find one.
can someone advise me what to do so I dont brick my phone, and is it really worth moving to super d I hear its faster.
I am running cyanogen 4.2.15.1 H&E red I have the ra-dream 1.5.2 recovery, I have ext2 partition on sd card and I have a PVT board
Also I am worried about the ext2 partition because I have heard you have to remove it first and there is a certain way to do it??
Thanks in Advance
I was able to flash SuperD over Cyanogen without wiping or repartitioning. This is with an sdcard partitioned the usual way, fat32 and ext2.
The only issue I ran into was the battery meter - had to remove /data/system/batterystats.bin. Not sure of the exact procedure, so I did that from the recovery console and then booted up with a full charge.
Works great and really is a lot faster.
I would always wipe when moving from one rom to another. You never know what's could be hanging around.
I go thru this same process every time and never had problems:
1. Nandroid or Bart backup
2. Copy backup from SDcard to PC just in case SD card gets corrupted somehow
3. Wipe
4. Install new rom
5. Fix apk mismatch
6. Reboot
7. Check to see if Gapps are working, namely market, talk, sync, and of course google voice
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I would always wipe when moving from one rom to another. You never know what's could be hanging around.
I go thru this same process every time and never had problems:
1. Nandroid or Bart backup
2. Copy backup from SDcard to PC just in case SD card gets corrupted somehow
3. Wipe
4. Install new rom
5. Fix apk mismatch
6. Reboot
7. Check to see if Gapps are working, namely market, talk, sync, and of course google voice
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5. When you say "fix apk mismatch"....what do you mean?
7. I did the same thing (went from Cyanogen to SuperD) and I can boot into SuperD fine, but it won't connect to T-mobile's network and I am missing the Market. Any help?
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5. When you say "fix apk mismatch"....what do you mean?
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It's an option in Amon_RA's recovery
shuboy00 said:
7. I did the same thing (went from Cyanogen to SuperD) and I can boot into SuperD fine, but it won't connect to T-mobile's network and I am missing the Market. Any help?
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Wipe, Flash the DRC83_Base_Defrangled, the flash SuperD. Since both are legal, they need to pull the google apps from the base. And you would probably be fine without a wipe from SuperD to CM since they are similar donut builds. Wipes are recommended if you go from eclair to donut (and donut to eclair, elcair to sense, sense to dount.....). Cyanogen fixed it so you don't need to wipe as in the olden days...
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It's an option in Amon_RA's recovery
Wipe, Flash the DRC83_Base_Defrangled, the flash SuperD. Since both are legal, they need to pull the google apps from the base. And you would probably be fine without a wipe from SuperD to CM since they are similar donut builds. Wipes are recommended if you go from eclair to donut (and donut to eclair, elcair to sense, sense to dount.....). Cyanogen fixed it so you don't need to wipe as in the olden days...
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I see. So I am already running the DRC83_Base_Defrangled. Here is what I am doing:
I am currently running Cyanogen 4.1.99. My build number is DRC83. But my model number says "Android Dev Phone 1" <-- could that be why I don't have the Market in my roms?
So anyways this is what I do from Cyanogen 4.1.99: I backup, wipe, flash the DRC83, flash SuperD, then flash the 26I radio. Like I mentioned, rom boots up fine, just no market and no network access. Am I doing something wrong?
Absolutely no reason to flash the radio. The only thing that I can think of is that you have a bad download? Download this. Go to recovery, backup, flash the base, flash the rom. That should be all you have to do. Also, try CM 4.2.15.1 if SuperD isn't working for you. You are using a version of cyanogen about 4 months old and there have been 20 something releases since.
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You are using a version of cyanogen about 4 months old and there have been 20 something releases since.
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i believe he said that he is running latest cyan rom. try backing up your fat32 partition and reformat, that should do the trick
b0ricuaguerrero said:
i believe he said that he is running latest cyan rom. try backing up your fat32 partition and reformat, that should do the trick
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I was referring to the poster above my post
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Absolutely no reason to flash the radio. The only thing that I can think of is that you have a bad download? Download <removed>. Go to recovery, backup, flash the base, flash the rom. That should be all you have to do. Also, try CM 4.2.15.1 if SuperD isn't working for you. You are using a version of cyanogen about 4 months old and there have been 20 something releases since.
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K. Did what you said. Downloaded the base you provided. Flashed. Then flashed the SuperD rom. Booted up. First I see is "!Sorry - The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Still no network and still no Market. Urgh. Frustrating!!
Also, I tried CM 4.2.15.1 after the SuperD didn't work and it hung on the G1 screen. IDK why 4.1.99 works but not 4.2.15.1.
i guess it didnt hung, you just have to wait a bit longer.
A little over a month ago I flashed the damagecontrol ROM and haven't looked back. Aside from having 2.1 early, I was also able to access su features, blah blah blah. My question is: I am still losing internal memory even after enabling A2SD, partitioning my SD card into three sections (ext3, swap, and probably fat32 or something). I noticed a gain of about 40mb right away but each time I download a program my internal memory shrinks. Any ideas? I'm not a pro at this but really wanting to learn.
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A little over a month ago I flashed the damagecontrol ROM and haven't looked back. Aside from having 2.1 early, I was also able to access su features, blah blah blah. My question is: I am still losing internal memory even after enabling A2SD, partitioning my SD card into three sections (ext3, swap, and probably fat32 or something). I noticed a gain of about 40mb right away but each time I download a program my internal memory shrinks. Any ideas? I'm not a pro at this but really wanting to learn.
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Even with A2SD there are still files that get written to internal storage for cacheing. You will see your memory go down.
Ah. I didn't realize that. Are there other ways to free up the internal memory? I'm down to around 25mb...
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If you have a nice class of sd card you could move dalvik to sd. That freed up a good spot of memory for me.
the same thing is going on with my phone i only see an added 40mb onto the internal storage when i put on a2sd,when i hear about other kids that get around 90mb when using a2sd.
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If you have a nice class of sd card you could move dalvik to sd. That freed up a good spot of memory for me.
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I just threw a 4GB Class 6 in and partitioned it. Before that I was running the stock 2GB (Class 2 I think). I've been considering a few options but not sure what the process should be and how to proceed:
- dalvik cache to sd
- jit compiling (alhtough, I've almost completely ruled this out due to rumors of instability issues)
- swapping sd (I'm not sure if this will have ill-effects on my system or not)
I would feel at more liberty to experiment if I knew what to do if my phone ran into an error that crippled it (i.e., stuck in boot loop). I'm really fresh to this, so it's a bit intimidating at first.
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I would feel at more liberty to experiment if I knew what to do if my phone ran into an error that crippled it (i.e., stuck in boot loop). I'm really fresh to this, so it's a bit intimidating at first.
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Before you read one more post on this forum go install RA-Amon's recovery and make a nandroid backup. Then copy the backup folder onto your computer.
That is if you haven't already done so. This will save you a lot of trouble should something go wrong, unless you really do something spectacular.
Edit: Just checked my internal memory. 149mb free and I have a handfull of apps installed atm.
On another note I flashed the godmode overclocked kernel, the 768 one or whatever, and installed setcpu, and my god my phone is fast. Current settings are max 767, min: 518. Yes my min is fairly high but at 518 it is butter smooth and I have multiple batteries so...
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Before you read one more post on this forum go install RA-Amon's recovery and make a nandroid backup. Then copy the backup folder onto your computer.
That is if you haven't already done so. This will save you a lot of trouble should something go wrong, unless you really do something spectacular.
Edit: Just checked my internal memory. 149mb free and I have a handfull of apps installed atm.
On another note I flashed the godmode overclocked kernel, the 768 one or whatever, and installed setcpu, and my god my phone is fast. Current settings are max 767, min: 518. Yes my min is fairly high but at 518 it is butter smooth and I have multiple batteries so...
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This kernel (.29 kernel, right?) is one I've been recently considering. I've made a nandroid backup through ROM Manager (is this as good as RA-Amon's recovery?). I'm not sure what to do with this should something go wrong...unless I can boot up and have access to the ROM Manager app – I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Some questions:
concerning flashing a recovery
- what exactly does this do? (as I understand it, it writes a recovery file to my sd card, so that i can boot up in recovery mode should something cause my os to fail...is this correct?)
concerning the godmode overclocked kernel
- how long have you had this flashed on your phone?
- can I flash over my current ROM (damagecontrol 2.08.1)?
- will I lose info and have to wipe everything not on my SD card?
- I've partitioned my sd card for A2SD, will this cause problems?
- how long is your battery life on average?
Thanks dude.
willowmp said:
Before you read one more post on this forum go install RA-Amon's recovery and make a nandroid backup. Then copy the backup folder onto your computer.
That is if you haven't already done so. This will save you a lot of trouble should something go wrong, unless you really do something spectacular.
Edit: Just checked my internal memory. 149mb free and I have a handfull of apps installed atm.
On another note I flashed the godmode overclocked kernel, the 768 one or whatever, and installed setcpu, and my god my phone is fast. Current settings are max 767, min: 518. Yes my min is fairly high but at 518 it is butter smooth and I have multiple batteries so...
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What did you set your swap and ext on when you partitioned your sd
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What did you set your swap and ext on when you partitioned your sd
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ext: 1024 (or whatever the first 1gig choice is, I believe it is something like this)
swap: 30 (I believe, or whatever it automatically pops up as when formatting)
Through Dconfig I have apps2sd, dalvik to sd, and sd swapping with the default 30mb enabled.
Dalvik heap is set to 16mb and lowmemkiller set to less. JIT not enabled.
Current version DamageControl, the 768 overclocked kernel and toast's newest radio.
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This kernel (.29 kernel, right?) is one I've been recently considering. I've made a nandroid backup through ROM Manager (is this as good as RA-Amon's recovery?). I'm not sure what to do with this should something go wrong...unless I can boot up and have access to the ROM Manager app – I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Some questions:
concerning flashing a recovery
- what exactly does this do? (as I understand it, it writes a recovery file to my sd card, so that i can boot up in recovery mode should something cause my os to fail...is this correct?)
concerning the godmode overclocked kernel
- how long have you had this flashed on your phone?
- can I flash over my current ROM (damagecontrol 2.08.1)?
- will I lose info and have to wipe everything not on my SD card?
- I've partitioned my sd card for A2SD, will this cause problems?
- how long is your battery life on average?
Thanks dude.
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RA-Amon's custom recovery is a must and is vastly more important than a back-up app. RA-Amon's recovery is an actual recovery image, thus as long as your phone boots up to the HTC logo you should be able to access RA-Amon's recovery and thus restore the backup before the phone is even accessing the rom.
Flashing a recovery image is like flashing a rom, but instead of a rom you are flashing a recovery image. Your phone has a stock recovery image on it right now, I don't know the key combo but hold a certain pattern of keys down while turning the phone on and you will enter it. It looks I think like a triangle with an ! in the middle or something. This is sorta useless for us though because I don't think you can really do much with it.
When you flash a recovery img (RA-Amon's) that stock recovery image is just replaced with Amon's. After you do flash the recovery holding the HOME and power button to turn the phone on and continuing to hold it will cause you to enter Amon's recovery, which is a green menu. From this menu you can amke backups/restore them, wipe the data on the phone (factory reset), flash .zips (roms, bootscreens, themes, kernels) and other things.
What you are referring to the writing backup to sd card is called nandroid. Nandroid is an option in the recovery, so yes if you do flash the wrong rom or your phone won't boot up (boot loop or whatever) as long as you can access recovery which is one of the first things loaded when you hit the power button (unless you really do something spectacular like flashing a gsm hero's radio you almost always will be able to get into recovery. don't even touch radios right now, flash the wrong one and your phone won't even turn on/charge. aka your motherboard will be totaled) so you will almost always be able to nandroid recovery your os if something does go wrong.
In short before you do anything flash the recovery.
Now on to your other questions. I have been running the overclocked kernel for one day, but it appears stable and seems to be working good for me. When you flash a kernel you always flash it over a rom, because if you do it the other way the rom will replace the kernel. So yes once you have damagecontrol or another rom that supports that kernel you can simply go into recovery and use flash .zip to flash the kernel over the rom. As always make sure to make a nandroid before doing so.
DamageControl supports apps2sd, and you enable it to use a2sd using the Dconfig app that is included in the rom. It is generally a good idea to partition your sd card whenever you switch between roms unless they say it is fine. You should go ahead and copy over a backup of your sd card to your computer, however you need not format or wipe your sd card when flashing roms. Honestly I don't think you need to partition your sd card again, unless after you flash the rom the os won't boot up all the way or loops/crashes. If it does then partition the sd card and try rebooting the phone and it should fix it.
Also you can format and partition your sd card in recovery under Other.
As for my battery life I have been switching b/w roms and such and I just started using the OC kernel, but with the DamageControl rom back when I only had that flashed my batt life was good.
However I do have 3 batteries and an external battery charger for my phone. Check out the accessories section of this forum, 2 batteries and the charger for 11 bucks from Hong Kong on ebay.
Hope I helped.
So, through the damagecontrol dconfig app I banned "sense", rebooted and now my phone is stuck in a bootloop. Do I restore from previous nandroid backup or do I need to flash my phone? Suck.
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So, through the damagecontrol dconfig app I banned "sense", rebooted and now my phone is stuck in a bootloop. Do I restore from previous nandroid backup or do I need to flash my phone? Suck.
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Just want to say first off: "I am an idiot". Nandroid backup from 5 days ago, booted up by holding *home and *power, then selecting to restore. Very easy. I can actually breathe now. Back in business. Sorry to waste your guy's time. We can keep the thread going minus my drama...
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Just want to say first off: "I am an idiot". Nandroid backup from 5 days ago, booted up by holding *home and *power, then selecting to restore. Very easy. I can actually breathe now. Back in business. Sorry to waste your guy's time. We can keep the thread going minus my drama...
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It's all good.
See why I emphasized flashing your recovery before messing with anything? xD
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I set the swap to 32mb and ext3 to 512mb I believe...does this sound right?
willowmp said:
RA-Amon's custom recovery is a must and is vastly more important than a back-up app. RA-Amon's recovery is an actual recovery image, thus as long as your phone boots up to the HTC logo you should be able to access RA-Amon's recovery and thus restore the backup before the phone is even accessing the rom.
Flashing a recovery image is like flashing a rom, but instead of a rom you are flashing a recovery image. Your phone has a stock recovery image on it right now, I don't know the key combo but hold a certain pattern of keys down while turning the phone on and you will enter it. It looks I think like a triangle with an ! in the middle or something. This is sorta useless for us though because I don't think you can really do much with it.
When you flash a recovery img (RA-Amon's) that stock recovery image is just replaced with Amon's. After you do flash the recovery holding the HOME and power button to turn the phone on and continuing to hold it will cause you to enter Amon's recovery, which is a green menu. From this menu you can amke backups/restore them, wipe the data on the phone (factory reset), flash .zips (roms, bootscreens, themes, kernels) and other things.
What you are referring to the writing backup to sd card is called nandroid. Nandroid is an option in the recovery, so yes if you do flash the wrong rom or your phone won't boot up (boot loop or whatever) as long as you can access recovery which is one of the first things loaded when you hit the power button (unless you really do something spectacular like flashing a gsm hero's radio you almost always will be able to get into recovery. don't even touch radios right now, flash the wrong one and your phone won't even turn on/charge. aka your motherboard will be totaled) so you will almost always be able to nandroid recovery your os if something does go wrong.
In short before you do anything flash the recovery.
Now on to your other questions. I have been running the overclocked kernel for one day, but it appears stable and seems to be working good for me. When you flash a kernel you always flash it over a rom, because if you do it the other way the rom will replace the kernel. So yes once you have damagecontrol or another rom that supports that kernel you can simply go into recovery and use flash .zip to flash the kernel over the rom. As always make sure to make a nandroid before doing so.
DamageControl supports apps2sd, and you enable it to use a2sd using the Dconfig app that is included in the rom. It is generally a good idea to partition your sd card whenever you switch between roms unless they say it is fine. You should go ahead and copy over a backup of your sd card to your computer, however you need not format or wipe your sd card when flashing roms. Honestly I don't think you need to partition your sd card again, unless after you flash the rom the os won't boot up all the way or loops/crashes. If it does then partition the sd card and try rebooting the phone and it should fix it.
Also you can format and partition your sd card in recovery under Other.
As for my battery life I have been switching b/w roms and such and I just started using the OC kernel, but with the DamageControl rom back when I only had that flashed my batt life was good.
However I do have 3 batteries and an external battery charger for my phone. Check out the accessories section of this forum, 2 batteries and the charger for 11 bucks from Hong Kong on ebay.
Hope I helped.
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Dude...helped IMMENSELY! I'm still digesting it.
That's good to know about flashing radios. I was going to flash the most recent one for 2.1 roms on CDMA heros, but I think I'll wait to hear more about it.
I think I feel comfortable flashing the .29 kernel over my current ROM. I gotta be honest though, the DConfig thing kind of weirds me out now, after trying to use it. I'm not sure which button is going to cause my phone to freak out.
If you have a nice class of sd card you could move dalvik to sd. That freed up a good spot of memory for me.
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I'm considering doing this but have read that this causes issues with nandroid backup. Have you experienced this?
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I have look deeply in the forums and I still cant find the answer for this question, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I have this MT4G already root, and I was planning on flashing it for better performance and battery life. I have seen Roms, Kernels and Radio flashing, but I haven't see a post where I can get like the right combination of those 3 and which one you have to flash first in order to have the 3 of those. If anyone know, please let me know with links, or with own experience.
And yes my friends, I'm new in this thing and I'm trying to learn everything thats has to do with androids.
I'm sorry if this thread has been post and any mod are free to delete it, I'm just looking forward to know every detail if possible.
Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556
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this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556
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Thanks! I will try it right now.
Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.
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Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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I know there is no best combination, but what i know is other users with good experience that maybe will suit me, thats why I want recommendations from others experienced users
Homerbsharp said:
Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.
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This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21
Songo07 said:
This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21
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Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...
Homerbsharp said:
Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...
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Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.
Songo07 said:
Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.
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After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!
Homerbsharp said:
After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!
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Already bought Rom Manager Pro ( yes...i know lol there are maybe other free apps ), since I had problems doing the CWM with terminal and ADB. I did the backup of my rom and system files. The only thing that is left is to download the ROM and wipe everything and im done. I was reading about 4EXT and was about to download it to install it and give it a try. So far, everything good with the radio. Btw, can you wipe other things from 4EXT apart from the sd?
For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.
Homerbsharp said:
For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.
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I havent try it yet but I already download it and installed. I was planning on do a complete whipe to the phone anyways lol. Whats the point on erasing battery stats? Oh and im downloading 3 different roms. I will.get back.with the names.later but.one of them is CM7
Btw, I wanted.to.know if im doing something wrong using terminal.or ADB since on ADB I was trying to push some files to the sdcard but said something about permision denied.
If you still out there, i finally finish everything. I'm running Virtuous Affinity 1.48 at 1.3ghz ( will test later at 1.5 ) with the gingerbread radio and so far is running smooth and awesome. Already install Rom manager pro, 4EXT and some other cool apps that the Rom already had. And i can say it was thanks to you and the bible lol
Oh and btw, now I'm gonna read about the galaxy S since my wife have one, Im gonna try with that one too hahaha
depends on preference
if you prefer sense over stock vanialla android, i would suggest one of the many sense 3.5 roms on the forum. They have been optimized amazingly to work wihtout lag on the mt4g. I'm running Darkside 4 and have been satisfied with the indcluded kernel. As for radio, don't touch it unless you see that someone else has had success.
battery life
I kno I'm a nood but for me I've keep my WiFi and data shut off . I was on unity but went to coredroid what a sick Rom .