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Are there any roms out there that are completely stock(Rooted) that support EXT4? Also are there any custom OC'd Kernels yet for stock 2.2.1. (Rooted).
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No. Only a handful of CUSTOM roms support ext4. Try one of those. They're all very nice. And be sure to follow all of the directions to the letter or you could end up having to start over from scratch.
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Ok. Do you know which one is closest to stock in terms of appearance?
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Ok. Do you know which one is closest to stock in terms of appearance?
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try mammon_bonsai4all, it has the (updated) stock launcher and it also supports ext4 and RFS (so even if you dont have ext4, you can still flash the rom)
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You can use any DK28 rom with ext4 as long as you flash an ext4 compatible kernel immediately after flashing the rom and before you reboot. You may lose clockwork 2.5.1.2 if the rom you use doesn't include it, but you can manually put it back.
Dear XDA World,
I have just recently rooted my phone using the superoneclick root on my 2.2 Froyo Vibrant after a good month of research. Currently, I am running Eugene's R2 Final Gingerbread ROM, and I love it; it is very stable and intricately in tune with the Vibrant's functionality. Now, my problem currently is flashing to a voodoo lag fix (frustrating as hell). Anyway, I have tried the JL4 voodoo. zip, because that is what this ROM is closest to, I believe. When I copied to SD card, and went into clockwork recovery to install, it failed, saying, "installation failed," or something similar to that. I thought that voodoo wasn't working for some reason, so I tried to flash Nero v3's ROM: same outcome. If anyone would take time to help out a new user, I would very much appreciate the help. I wish to put voodoo lag fix on this R2 ROM, to be clear. Please be descriptive.
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please redownload the kernel and reflash.
You need to make sure the zip is on the internal sdcard. This could be your issue.
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You need to make sure the zip is on the internal sdcard. This could be your issue.
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u are wrong if kernel was on his external sd and since clockwork dont mount external sd he cant even acces it so its imposible to flash something that is on your external card.
Bartek, more specific, please.
And yes, I'm certain it's on my internal... Haha.
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R E D O W N L O A D the file again and R E F L A S H , that is specific enough for You ? )
I have done that before. Same outcome.
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dude .when you went to clockwork to flash does it say installation failed or signature verification failed ? something like that didnt expain what your problem was
Yeah, read my first post again, I said it says "installation failed" and said it was aborting. This was all in clockwork.
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lol redownload the file again , reflash , or can you download anyother kernel instead of voodoo 4 and try ? or odin back to stock JfD with pit file and chceck repartition or if anyone knows better ............please post .
You sould really make sure the zip package is ZIP package not TAR package too, ZIP=CLOCKWORK, TAR=ODIN ,
I don't use Odin, man. It's a .zip package; example: I am rooted using R2 Gingerbread .zip. Can I not voodoo because I am missing a script or have the wrong kind? I've seen this in a few forums.
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Oh and another thing is make sure u have enough room on internal sd about 1gb or more
why wont you flash DEAD HORSE BY EUGENE since GINGER R2 is released by EUGENE and DEAD HORSE is released by EUGENE also they fit like glowe , and you get ext 4 or JFS whichever u prefer .
That sounds like a good idea. What kernal of Dead Horse should I get? Does it matter in regards to compatibility?
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A link would be wonderful. Haha.
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i cant recomend anything because , i cant because .... it mit wipe your internal sd but http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=samsungsgs&thread=28&page=1#916 is the latest and safest before flashing read the thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936928
Good deal. I will look into that today. Thank you.
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cool , np .
Just looking around in thread, no video recording using this kernal, Bartek?
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Asked this question before but nobody answered. When using Rom Manager Premium and doing a "backup of current rom", am I to do this, then try another rom and if I do not like the new rom, do a restore backup and everything will come back just as if I had not tried the new rom at all? I mean everything. I use titanium backup pro, but it's still such a pain in the A to get everything back up and running again. I am running Trigger 3.3 beta right now and really am liking this rom and have it pretty much set up just as I want it now. Cannot see how another rom can be as good as this one, but it would be nice to try them out, and come right back when I need to without the hassles. Thanks.
So ur question is? Should u use restore backup on rom manager premium.. I do
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No. My question is, can rom manager premium put everything back like it was using restore, after a rom is wiped to try a new one, without even messing with the hassles of using titanium bacup pro.
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Yes, with the exception of your kernel. It cannot restore that.
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Im glad someone asked this question! I thought the same thing which is why I stayed with trigger, but 1 question what if I have trigger 3.0.1 and want to try a GB rom then come back is it possible with rom manager?
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gingerbread and froyo are two different monsters! so no u couldnt but any froyo rom u can!
Well, you can get it back, it's just more work, but getting to GB is more work anyway right?
Couldn't you Odin a froyo stock rom with kernal/modem, then flash the custom froyo rom again, download rom manager, put the RM backup you kept on your computer into the RM folder and then restore the previous settings?
I'm interested to hear if others have done this. I want to try a GB rom, but I like to move around a lot and Froyo roms seem like the way to go if you have an itchy flashing finger.
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Hey guys!
I would like to know the best, least bugest, stablest gingerbread like Roms for our vibrants! If you have the answer then please help!
Thanks!
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I like miui
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Look for the ROM thread that has the most number of pages, or look in the Q&A sections.
By the way this question should be posted in the Q&A section, and you should read the forum posting rules.
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Look for the ROM thread that has the most number of pages, or look in the Q&A sections.
By the way this question should be posted in the Q&A section, and you should read the forum posting rules.
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I agree with this. But personally, I'd go with asgard. It's been the most stable and battery friendly in my opinion.
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laristech said:
I like miui
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Second that! Oh and yeah bad place to put this. Actually this question get's asked a lot, yet there is no definitive answer it seems?... I believe it is all about personal preference. MIUI seems to have a great balance of everything I could want in a phone and super user friendly customization. I searched a month for a rom... Tried most 2.3.x and while they all offer something and are greatly appreciated... I just so happen to like MIUI the best. Goodluck!
Cm7 is what many people go for, but if you google the things you can do in MIUI, then you will see it offers the most features. The non stock version that nickminn updates every friday seems to be better than any other 2.3.5 rom I have seen otherwise.. but they all have bugs, reduced battery life versus 2.2.x, and barely or non working gps.
The bugs I still had when I stopped using it a few weeks ago: media button on headphones doesn't work, if listening to music when you get a call and you answer, the music will continue to play, you have to restart it after charging(at least after long charges) or it will not go into deep sleep, and occasional sd card issues(my music player would too often not be able to find the music).. the plus side is all of the features: the notification bar being customizable and shortcuts to each toggle, the ability to theme EACH part of the UI individually, the built in backup/restore, the battery tracking, the device data usage app, the multi touch drag/drop and tons more.
Also I was getting 16-20 hours under heavy/moderate use which is the best I have seen on any ginger rom including cm7.. on ANY 2.3.5 rom you need to use cpu spy to make sure it goes into deep sleep to have good battery.
Hope this helps.. there is a large trade off using any gingerbread rom until we get the source code-- I went back to 2.2.1 because EVERYTHING works, and I simply can't kill it in 24 hours unless I TRY.. I get 24-48 hours per charge. I miss the features of MIUI, but not enough for the costs-- most of the differences between 2.2 and 2.3 is mostly cosmetic in the end.
I think he means 2.2 roms that look like GB. In that case, try Bionix 1.3.1. It should be easy to find.
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I think he means 2.2 roms that look like GB. In that case, try Bionix 1.3.1. It should be easy to find.
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Yes exactly!
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L1LK1LLERZ said:
Yes exactly!
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Ya bionix 1.3.1 ginger edition is by far the best rom for the vibrant if its your main phone. I have cm 7 on mine now... if i didnt upgrade to a sensation 4g id still be rockin bionix though.
Flash it and enjoy the butter
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hev88 said:
Ya bionix 1.3.1 ginger edition is by far the best rom for the vibrant if its your main phone. I have cm 7 on mine now... if i didnt upgrade to a sensation 4g id still be rockin bionix though.
Flash it and enjoy the butter
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Hey bro! Can you please help me flash it because I tried it! Can you give me step by step tutorial? Please thanks!
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why would you want a 2.2 rom that looks like 2.3 when you can have 2.3?
that's like body kitting a car to look like a ferrari when you can just get a ferrari... sure the ferrari may get worse gas mileage, but it's still definitely worth it.
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why would you want a 2.2 rom that looks like 2.3 when you can have 2.3?
that's like body kitting a car to look like a ferrari when you can just get a ferrari... sure the ferrari may get worse gas mileage, but it's still definitely worth it.
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Where can I have 2.3 Roms? You tell me man!
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L1LK1LLERZ said:
Hey bro! Can you please help me flash it because I tried it! Can you give me step by step tutorial? Please thanks!
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Root. Install rom manager. Install vibrant recovery via rom manager. Download bionix 1.3.1. Reboot into recovery. Clear cache and and dalvik cache. Install zip from sd card. First boot takes a bit and your phone starys talking saying its enabling vodoo lagfix. And then you are done
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Where can I have 2.3 Roms? You tell me man!
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I use CM 7.1.0.1 on my vibrant. its the latest stable build. You have to install vibrant mtd recovery via rom manager. You can also download cm or other ginger roms from there... gapps too
However if you do go to ginger you have to odin back to stock if you wanna return to froyo
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L1LK1LLERZ said:
Where can I have 2.3 Roms? You tell me man!
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cm7, miui, and there are plenty of others. cm7 is as easy as odin to jfd, root, install rom manager, flash cm7 and the gapps. miui should be the same. for any of the samsung i9k based roms you want/have to flash new bootloaders (at least that was the case last time i used one).
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Root. Install rom manager. Install vibrant recovery via rom manager. Download bionix 1.3.1. Reboot into recovery. Clear cache and and dalvik cache. Install zip from sd card. First boot takes a bit and your phone starys talking saying its enabling vodoo lagfix. And then you are done
I use CM 7.1.0.1 on my vibrant. its the latest stable build. You have to install vibrant mtd recovery via rom manager. You can also download cm or other ginger roms from there... gapps too
However if you do go to ginger you have to odin back to stock if you wanna return to froyo
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I did all that but whenever I go in recovery, it takes me to regular recovery. I need help in that!
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L1LK1LLERZ said:
I did all that but whenever I go in recovery, it takes me to regular recovery. I need help in that!
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I dont rememver what it says on it exactly but that happened to me too a few times. i domt remember if i had to boot into recovery manually with volume down+power or cliked one of the options a few times. I dont remember what the options are so if yoi can post or pm me a pic of what they are it might refresh my memory lol... its been a while
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L1LK1LLERZ said:
I did all that but whenever I go in recovery, it takes me to regular recovery. I need help in that!
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if you installed clockwork recovery and you are getting the stock recovery, you need to hit 'reinstall packages' (sometimes twice).
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if you installed clockwork recovery and you are getting the stock recovery, you need to hit 'reinstall packages' (sometimes twice).
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Thats what it was... lol. I could not remembwr what it was for the life of me
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In that cas zendroid with his gb theme that is in the thread I actually prefer his vanilla aosp theme which is also in his thread. Way more up to date then bionix. Best 2.2 imho don't look back.
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I'm just curious to know how much of your phone's memory do you use so I can see if I'm good or I can use even less than what I do use lol
I'm using 160mb/ 493mb
It seems good but I wanna know if I can go lower lol
I'm running thunderhawk 3.3. With the minamalistic black theme and I deleted some files out of the system like ringtones and things I never use
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Cm7 and all mtd roms give you close to 700mb for storage
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Cm7 and all mtd roms give you close to 700mb for storage
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U mean I would have something like "160mb/700mb"???????
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U mean I would have something like "160mb/700mb"???????
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Yup I have like 186/676mb its not quite 700 but close
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Yup I have like 186/676mb its not quite 700 but close
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Wow I didn't think mtd helped that much with memory
But I've tried cm7 and honestly didn't like it much its the little bugs that bothered me honestly but I deffinately will be going with another mtd rom like thunderhawk when it turns mtd
How come I don't ever see anything about miui like cm7..? Ppl is it really that bad?
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lilajrestnom said:
Wow I didn't think mtd helped that much with memory
But I've tried cm7 and honestly didn't like it much its the little bugs that bothered me honestly but I deffinately will be going with another mtd rom like thunderhawk when it turns mtd
How come I don't ever see anything about miui like cm7..? Ppl is it really that bad?
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Most of the bugs have been worked out since moving to mtd and miui wasn't as big because more people like cyanogenmod as apposed to miui I guess. But there's nothing wrong with my cm7 anyways the new nightly *9* and the samurai kernel bushido8 works seemlessly for me you might want to give it a try there is also cleangb on mtd.
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Tried CM7 for the third time and still not a fan. MIUI does not have 4G yet but they are working on it. I prefer converting your favorite ROM to MTD like I did with Legendary 2.1 and gaining 150MB of storage and the added stability.
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Ok now I have just onee question
If I switched to cm7 and didn't like it could I normally flash cleangb without having to odin back to stock? Cuz I'm not around a computer much and would hate to be stuck with it until I get to a computer
I've tried cm7 b4 it had 4g and 4g was one of the biggest problems I didn't like it
But I think I will try it now
And u say samurai kernel would b the best to go with it? Not shadow..?
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Tried CM7 for the third time and still not a fan. MIUI does not have 4G yet but they are working on it. I prefer converting your favorite ROM to MTD like I did with Legendary 2.1 and gaining 150MB of storage and the added stability.
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That's what I was thinking about doing
I use thunderhawk so I will probably convert it to mtd and use it
Just one questionn
I'm currently on thunderhawk
But if I converted it to mtd and flashed it would I have to wipe everything?
If I do have to wipe everything then would I at least b able to restore data?
And if I can't restore data then is there at least a way to sync or save my txts lol?? That's like the most important thing lol
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lilajrestnom said:
That's what I was thinking about doing
I use thunderhawk so I will probably convert it to mtd and use it
Just one questionn
I'm currently on thunderhawk
But if I converted it to mtd and flashed it would I have to wipe everything?
If I do have to wipe everything then would I at least b able to restore data?
And if I can't restore data then is there at least a way to sync or save my txts lol?? That's like the most important thing lol
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You can but there's a process you need to replace the ext4 or rfs in the backup to yaffs2
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lilajrestnom said:
Ok now I have just onee question
If I switched to cm7 and didn't like it could I normally flash cleangb without having to odin back to stock? Cuz I'm not around a computer much and would hate to be stuck with it until I get to a computer
I've tried cm7 b4 it had 4g and 4g was one of the biggest problems I didn't like it
But I think I will try it now
And u say samurai kernel would b the best to go with it? Not shadow..?
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You can flash anyother MTD ROM from CM7. I switch back and forth to nandroids of CM7 and MTD converted Legendary. So you can flash CleanGB MTD version and I would recommend a factory data reset before the flash since data won't work anyway.
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You can but there's a process you need to replace the ext4 or rfs in the backup to yaffs2
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Ohh I know what ur talking about I seen that thread b4 the one that said "converting nandroid backups to mtd" or something like that right? Ya I remember now thanks for the heads up
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You can flash anyother MTD ROM from CM7. I switch back and forth to nandroids of CM7 and MTD converted Legendary. So you can flash CleanGB MTD version and I would recommend a factory data reset before the flash since data won't work anyway.
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Ya I could do that I might as well start working with mtd since it seems everything will soon be mtd lol
I'm at work now ill flash and work on things later tonight when I get home thanks everyone
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U mean I would have something like "160mb/700mb"???????
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That memory already exists on your phone. But the current Samsung layout has most of it dedicated to Cache. It seems that converting this partition to data storage thus far has no ill-effects. The only thing known to be affected thus far would be an OTA update, as that extra large cache space was needed to download and prep the update.zip file.
ThunderHawk 3.4 will be MTD when I learn a little more about the MTD process and how it works. One issue I've read is that, after converting to MTD and flashing several roms, the MTD will corrupt and you'll have to restart the process from the beginning.
I have been loving my manually converted mtd thunderhawk 3.3 setup with shadow mtd-tw-v02. I gained 191mb of extra storage, and was able to check cm7 for an hour or two and restore my thawk mtd nandroid without issue. Just make sure you know what minor differences you may run across before making the jump. Glad to hear 3.4 will probably be mtd! We have some awesome devs for this device.
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That memory already exists on your phone. But the current Samsung layout has most of it dedicated to Cache. It seems that converting this partition to data storage thus far has no ill-effects. The only thing known to be affected thus far would be an OTA update, as that extra large cache space was needed to download and prep the update.zip file.
ThunderHawk 3.4 will be MTD when I learn a little more about the MTD process and how it works. One issue I've read is that, after converting to MTD and flashing several roms, the MTD will corrupt and you'll have to restart the process from the beginning.
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Well that would b amazing ill b one of the first to download it and I wouldn't personally worry about that problem cuz I wouldn't flash any other roms unless there your updates but hopefully there will b a solution to stop that corruption but ill be waiting for your 3.4
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