Okay before anyone starts to flame or start saying "Oh God" to the screen, this isnt the typical "When are we going to get Android to boot from HD2" question.
I know we all boot Android from our SDCard, but I went looking to see if there was any google pages on why the sd card? Being that we have an HD2 and it has alot of space (My phone says 768mb free internal storage), would it slow Android and the experience down if we had the "Android" folder copied to our phone instead? I know currently it probably wouldnt work, but being that the avg Android folder is 230mb to 260mb thats more then enough space to put the folder in, and possibly change maybe the daily useage or app installations onto the sdcard. If this was just a general rule of thumb that it was decided to be put on an sdcard across the board because not all phone had the room then is there no way to change that now since most phones are coming out to have larger internal space opposed to older ones?
And again, would it be slower to run this way or not?
AngelDeath said:
Okay before anyone starts to flame or start saying "Oh God" to the screen, this isnt the typical "When are we going to get Android to boot from HD2" question.
I know we all boot Android from our SDCard, but I went looking to see if there was any google pages on why the sd card? Being that we have an HD2 and it has alot of space (My phone says 768mb free internal storage), would it slow Android and the experience down if we had the "Android" folder copied to our phone instead? I know currently it probably wouldnt work, but being that the avg Android folder is 230mb to 260mb thats more then enough space to put the folder in, and possibly change maybe the daily useage or app installations onto the sdcard. If this was just a general rule of thumb that it was decided to be put on an sdcard across the board because not all phone had the room then is there no way to change that now since most phones are coming out to have larger internal space opposed to older ones?
And again, would it be slower to run this way or not?
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Haret cannot currently read from NAND, its code reads and searches for Data IMG and Rootfs and kernal in SD ONLY .....
hence NAND is so very different from HARET.
well Magldr is what would do the trick
I'm assuming your talking about nand as to boot from the phone like as if you are powering it up and windows loads, Im not actually talking about that. I'm actually talking about how it currently loads, except, instead of placing the Android folder on the SDCard and running clrcad and haret, instead placing the folder into the root directory of the phone and running clrcad and haret from there, same exact way we are running it now, except changing the location of the folder from card to phone.
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I'm assuming your talking about nand as to boot from the phone like as if you are powering it up and windows loads, Im not actually talking about that. I'm actually talking about how it currently loads, except, instead of placing the Android folder on the SDCard and running clrcad and haret, instead placing the folder into the root directory of the phone and running clrcad and haret from there, same exact way we are running it now, except changing the location of the folder from card to phone.
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Well firstly NAND does not necessarly mean booting from start, NAND= Internal memory, in fact cotulla's MAGLDR can boot android of the SD straight from power up whilst having WIN MO on NAND.
So to answer your question again,
HARET CANNOT READ NAND (INTERNAL MEMORY), it always looks for SD for everything , in some cases RAM, as in the new RAM builds that are popping up by devs.
the code for HARET cannot handle NAND at the moment and i dont thing it will ever be implemented.
I'm neither a dev or a hacker, this is just what i ahve understood from reading, i'm open to corrections,
best regds
I have to admit, this idea is very cool.. If haret could "see" the nand memory after WinMo is loaded, then all you need is a WinMo rom stripped down to the maximum and Android folder burned in it (at least the system part). if if if i am not sure, if its technicaly impossible for haret to see the nand memory after booting WinMo or if its impossible at all..
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I have to admit, this idea is very cool.. If haret could "see" the nand memory after WinMo is loaded, then all you need is a WinMo rom stripped down to the maximum and Android folder burned in it (at least the system part). if if if i am not sure, if its technicaly impossible for haret to see the nand memory after booting WinMo or if its impossible at all..
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guys remeber HARET is a bootloader for LINUX, its crazy enough its helping us boot android from SD, I think the possible reason HARET is not designed for reading NAND is the potential damage it could do to SPL leading to a BRICK, now we dont want a brick do we ?
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guys remeber HARET is a bootloader for LINUX, its crazy enough its helping us boot android from SD, I think the possible reason HARET is not designed for reading NAND is the potential damage it could do to SPL leading to a BRICK, now we dont want a brick do we ?
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never say never and expect the unexpected, thats what life teached me
phone wouldnt get bricked if you just read nand, but writing into it could do damage, i agree on this.
OK, so when I first read the OP, I thought he meant booting Haret from the phone's internal storage memory, not NAND.
Though the NAND Haret idea is really not bad, I couldn't see it corrupting the bootloader as long as it behaves the same way as it does from the sd. I mean, the phone is already booted WinMo, so HaRet and Android have no need to touch the bootloader, just as when running from sd. It would be more or less a startup.txt change/ rel_path = NAND/Android (not exact, but general idea). Seems alot different to me from MAGLDR, maybe there is just confusion about this
But if the NAND idea is not workable, wouldn't it be possible to run HaRet Android from the phone's internal storage memory, yielding a performance speed increase and less wear on the sd?
Clearly we couldn't do like I have now, a ton of builds with exceller, all running from internal storage, obviously we don't have 16gb internal. But what about just loading our daily driver from internal, and testing/less commonly builds from sd?
I like the idea because it could mean less wear on the sd, and possibly performance increase
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Thats exactly what I meant, once WinMo is loaded, we normally go into the sd card thru file explorer and then go to android and then run clrcad and haret, winMo is already loaded and doesnt corrupt winmo, but if we could run the core system from the phones storage space, (Putting the android folder into the main directory, and then running clrcad and haret, this way the core system would load and any user installable files would just end up on the storage card, cause obviously we wouldnt be able to load all our apks into the phone (Some might, others like us go nuts).
But the concept is not a bad one, especially if there was a way when installing the apk's it asked for the location to add.
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Thats exactly what I meant, once WinMo is loaded, we normally go into the sd card thru file explorer and then go to android and then run clrcad and haret, winMo is already loaded and doesnt corrupt winmo, but if we could run the core system from the phones storage space, (Putting the android folder into the main directory, and then running clrcad and haret, this way the core system would load and any user installable files would just end up on the storage card, cause obviously we wouldnt be able to load all our apks into the phone (Some might, others like us go nuts).
But the concept is not a bad one, especially if there was a way when installing the apk's it asked for the location to add.
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I would say that if HaRet was pointed to the correct place correspondingly, either NAND or storage would work as I previously mentioned. I am unsure about any performance gains to be had, but it would surely save on sd card wear.
People say that going from NAND would corrupt bootloader, but since WM is already booted using HaRet, there is no reason that the bootloader is touched, even if it is all stored to NAND. MagLDR is different, that is going for a cold-boot of Android, no WM involved at all. HaRet and MAGLDR work different and I think that if Haret was made to look for /Android in NAND, it could work just the same as if off of sdcard.
And booting from the phone's storage memory would be even safer, as no far-fetched idea of HaRet corrupting the bootloader is even conceivable, as NAND would never even be touched at all.
I honestly believe though that if a version of Haret was released that looked to NAND memory for /Android, that WM chefs could bake lite version WM ROMs with popular Android builds already built into NAND, maybe in the \Windows directory. The chef could even cook in a modified version of Exceller's Android loader which would look to \Windows for the Android folder.
Since Android development is so far along, and there are so many builds that are 100% or near 100% stable, I do think that going this route is a viable option, I mean there are already WM builds that will install an Android build to the sd card all by themselves after you boot them up the first time. This seems a natural progression of that concept to me.
Maybe somebody could contact Netripper, and ask him more about this idea, and see if he would be kind enough to build a HaRet version to look to NaND memory, and another to look to internal storage space, the rest could be done by the end user, as there are WM kitchens available, and most ppl here could make a .cab to install \Android to internal.
That's my $0.02
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I would say that if HaRet was pointed to the correct place correspondingly, either NAND or storage would work as I previously mentioned. I am unsure about any performance gains to be had, but it would surely save on sd card wear.
People say that going from NAND would corrupt bootloader, but since WM is already booted using HaRet, there is no reason that the bootloader is touched, even if it is all stored to NAND. MagLDR is different, that is going for a cold-boot of Android, no WM involved at all. HaRet and MAGLDR work different and I think that if Haret was made to look for /Android in NAND, it could work just the same as if off of sdcard.
And booting from the phone's storage memory would be even safer, as no far-fetched idea of HaRet corrupting the bootloader is even conceivable, as NAND would never even be touched at all.
I honestly believe though that if a version of Haret was released that looked to NAND memory for /Android, that WM chefs could bake lite version WM ROMs with popular Android builds already built into NAND, maybe in the \Windows directory. The chef could even cook in a modified version of Exceller's Android loader which would look to \Windows for the Android folder.
Since Android development is so far along, and there are so many builds that are 100% or near 100% stable, I do think that going this route is a viable option, I mean there are already WM builds that will install an Android build to the sd card all by themselves after you boot them up the first time. This seems a natural progression of that concept to me.
Maybe somebody could contact Netripper, and ask him more about this idea, and see if he would be kind enough to build a HaRet version to look to NaND memory, and another to look to internal storage space, the rest could be done by the end user, as there are WM kitchens available, and most ppl here could make a .cab to install \Android to internal.
That's my $0.02
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Very possible,
Haret needs to be modified for that,
not sure who can do it.
Guys as far as i know, on hd2 is nand memory the same as internal phone memory.There is no built in sd card. I am not 100% sure, but there is 512mb nand memory (internal memory). I mean, we install winmo roms into the nand. So if your winmo rom is about 200mb, you will be left with soemthing like 300mb internal phone memory. Correct me, if i am wrong..
cheers
greg17477 said:
Guys as far as i know, on hd2 is nand memory the same as internal phone memory.There is no built in sd card. I am not 100% sure, but there is 512mb nand memory (internal memory). I mean, we install winmo roms into the nand. So if your winmo rom is about 200mb, you will be left with soemthing like 300mb internal phone memory. Correct me, if i am wrong..
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spot on
NAND = Internal memory
greg17477 said:
Guys as far as i know, on hd2 is nand memory the same as internal phone memory.There is no built in sd card. I am not 100% sure, but there is 512mb nand memory (internal memory). I mean, we install winmo roms into the nand. So if your winmo rom is about 200mb, you will be left with soemthing like 300mb internal phone memory. Correct me, if i am wrong..
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Well true except the TMOUS, which is 1024 mb, so it should be plenty then to run Android this way right?
Even with just 300 left after WM ROM, Android could still be done conservatively, without much apps installed, or with some kind of a2sd functionality, Froyo has inbuilt app to sd functionality, albeit not as good as a2sd ext2 or ext3 setup.
Guys I think you are missing the point, If this was possible, viable or worth it, it would have probably already been tried and tested and released along time ago.
The fact that this hasnt been done already tells me that its been thought about and rejected for good reason.
PS. NAND ..IS.. Internal memory guys so the running loading of kernel and files from internel memory instead of nand is a moot point.
Here's a question for you guys thinking it *could* be possible to put Android on internal storage(NOT NAND) instead of SD...
What do you think will happen after your device creates the data.img and tries to place it in the Android folder on Internal Storage? I for one think my device(1024 TMOUS Leo) would run out of memory and throw error after error about internal storage being critically low until I did something about it.
To top it off, what about the 100 some odd folders that Android creates on the SD card now? Where are you going to put all of that on internal storage?
To sum it all up folks, until we're running from nand and have dedicated internal storage(W/O WM), it's not likely to EVER happen due to sheer lack of space, even if haret was reprogrammed to allow booting from internal storage.
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Here's a question for you guys thinking it *could* be possible to put Android on internal storage(NOT NAND) instead of SD...
What do you think will happen after your device creates the data.img and tries to place it in the Android folder on Internal Storage? I for one think my device(1024 TMOUS Leo) would run out of memory and throw error after error about internal storage being critically low until I did something about it.
To top it off, what about the 100 some odd folders that Android creates on the SD card now? Where are you going to put all of that on internal storage?
To sum it all up folks, until we're running from nand and have dedicated internal storage(W/O WM), it's not likely to EVER happen due to sheer lack of space, even if haret was reprogrammed to allow booting from internal storage.
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hmmm,
well in that case, kernel could be programed to create Data IMG on SD, if you have been following the Rhodium Nand Project , you will see what i mean, a few components are on NAND and a few on SD
dharvey4651 said:
Here's a question for you guys thinking it *could* be possible to put Android on internal storage(NOT NAND) instead of SD...
What do you think will happen after your device creates the data.img and tries to place it in the Android folder on Internal Storage? I for one think my device(1024 TMOUS Leo) would run out of memory and throw error after error about internal storage being critically low until I did something about it.
To top it off, what about the 100 some odd folders that Android creates on the SD card now? Where are you going to put all of that on internal storage?
To sum it all up folks, until we're running from nand and have dedicated internal storage(W/O WM), it's not likely to EVER happen due to sheer lack of space, even if haret was reprogrammed to allow booting from internal storage.
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Its not about putting the whole Android folder into nand, but for example only the system partition, just like in the RAM builds. All data and user stuff goes to sd.
Btw what do you mean by "...*could* be possible to put Android on internal storage(NOT NAND)." ? nand is the internal storage (memory). Or you guys are using different terms do you mean by "nand" the reseverd space where roms are stored and by "internal storage" the free space left (still in nand)?
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Guys I think you are missing the point, If this was possible, viable or worth it, it would have probably already been tried and tested and released along time ago.
The fact that this hasnt been done already tells me that its been thought about and rejected for good reason.
PS. NAND ..IS.. Internal memory guys so the running loading of kernel and files from internel memory instead of nand is a moot point.
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Actually your part right, it was tested and released in the initial phases of the Rapheal (aka Fuze) and ran smoothly from what I read, yes there were hiccups, but that was due to the build being still in the alpha stages.
dharvey4651 said:
Here's a question for you guys thinking it *could* be possible to put Android on internal storage(NOT NAND) instead of SD...
What do you think will happen after your device creates the data.img and tries to place it in the Android folder on Internal Storage? I for one think my device(1024 TMOUS Leo) would run out of memory and throw error after error about internal storage being critically low until I did something about it.
To top it off, what about the 100 some odd folders that Android creates on the SD card now? Where are you going to put all of that on internal storage?
To sum it all up folks, until we're running from nand and have dedicated internal storage(W/O WM), it's not likely to EVER happen due to sheer lack of space, even if haret was reprogrammed to allow booting from internal storage.
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This is where your part wrong as well. if you use a pre-set data.img file, yes for the most part you cant use anything larger then possibly 512mb on a TMous, 256 on others, definitely could not use the 1gb img file thats for sure, but the other part of this your missing is that if you dont put a pre-set data.img file, during the initial loading of android, android will create the file itself, and IF I am right the file will be sort of dynamic, dynamic in the sense it will expand as needed, I seriously doubt it shrinks. And on top of this you would then use the function a2sd, which in then would install your apk's to sd card. As of right now how much bigger is your 1gb data.img file that everyone added to their SDCards? Bet still the same size.
mally2 said:
hmmm,
well in that case, kernel could be programed to create Data IMG on SD, if you have been following the Rhodium Nand Project , you will see what i mean, a few components are on NAND and a few on SD
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Actually after doing some reading, neither the kernel (if I read correctly) nor is haret.exe the cause of pointing the boot location. I did some searching (Mind you I am NOT a LINUX person), but reading some of the files, I am guessing that the key file which controls the loading of Android, is located in the "init" file in the rootfs.img file. I mounted this file in windows to look thru it and view files, and that file seems to have a major role in it, how it works I dont know yet.
To All, please I am not trying to cause a stir here, I am merely looking at possibilities, and unfortunately I cant test them out since I dont have a spare SDCard as of yet (Will ina couple of days, 32GB SDCard for $40, woohoo), and then I have nothing to loose to try, cant brick the phone, since winmo is the default loading OS anyway. One of the reason it might not have been put on the phone as I said, could be speed, I dont know how much faster internal phone storage would be opposed to sd, but another reason why could be cause then the installation would put folders on the root file system of the stroage card and make it messy. Also alot of people constantly flash new builds, this would also hamper your android install being on the phones storage. And remember our normal HD2 roms are between 225 and 250mb stock or custom, where lite versions or stripped down version would be considered better for taking up less space.
One thing to keep note, during all this, I have an HTC Aria (Liberty) as well that I just recently got as an upgrade to one of my ATT lines, and I checked the internal storage of that phone, its stock with ATT's build of Android, and it has ONLY 168mb of storage available, and it came with a 2gb sd card. Now think about that when saying that the files would get to big, obviously the HTC Aria doesnt have anywhere near the capacity of the HD2.
And again to anyone else, let's be clear, yes the phones storage is a NAND, but just to make clear, we aren't talking about doing a cold boot of android, I know how sometimes that can get confusing.
Sorry guys, yes internal storage is NAND memory, the reason I drew a distinction was to make a distinction between loading from internal storage and ROM space. I only meant to illustrate the difference between the two and demonstrate my opinion that both are possible. I think with further investigation and testing, advantages of booting this way will begin to emerge. For example we will be able to remove the sd card while Android runs, not a great benifit, but you get the idea. But yeah, I should have used the term 'ROM Space' instead of NAND, I only meant to show difference between the 2 places to boot from.
Sorry if i caused any confusion.
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I have the version with the 1024 meg ROM. Couldn't it be possible to boot android from the internal memory while still keeping the WM file system intact?
I think that would address many of the issues with battery drain. I understand we still need WM to boot to initialize some parts of the hardware, but that seems like it would be a much faster way to run android.
Thoughts?
Trust me, not talking to myself, but I'd figure I would post what happened when I tried to do this. I copied the 2.2 version /Android folder to the root of my phone, took out the SD card and ran Haret. It ran just fine up to the point shown in the pic I attached. Unless I am clueless, shouldn't it be possible to point Haret to the files on the phone?
use... nand
Title says it all
I am wondering that question as well..., how do you access the data/files on ya SD inside Android/NAND Android?
Well there's always file managing apps like Astro, but I'm not sure if it works that way, so, if someone could put kill our question!
Android is Linux based so there should be a similiar command to ls -a where you can see the files and be able to run SD Roms? Or I'm kinda hoping there is..., in SU maybe???
Thanks for the feedback bro, appreciate them.
We just need a response from actual experience; surely trying to run Android off SD wouldn't harm the device in any way.
I don't think we can boot an android build from an android build seeing as how clrcad and haret was build for winmo. >.> but looking at the magdlr notes, if i'm wrong, it has an option to boot android from SD or to boot from NAND, so guess that means you can have an android build in SD and NAND.
NEVER MIND... it failed the second time.
Yes but the build has to be built like a nand build. So you can't just boot the ones you have now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10202441&postcount=146
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Yes but the build has to be built like a nand build. So you can't just boot the ones you have now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10202441&postcount=146
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I just tried..., I done what I would normally do for an SD Build and used the NAND boot menu to try to run the SD Build. Even though there is an option which says you can run from AD SD..., it doesn't happen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10202441&postcount=146 <-- This makes sense ( no pun intended )
I understand that a Nand build on SD card will work the same as Nand build on phone, that makes perfect sense.
Question is, is the SD card memory used for application files or will it use up all the memory on my phone like Nand on phone does? Is it possible to use a data.img. Of course, the perfect solution would be to add the option in Magldr (Nand) to boot into recovery so the SD card could be partitioned for files and ext3 for extra application system files like we can with a normal Android phone. Then the need to add another Android rom onto the SD card just for extra storage would not be needed for us European users.
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Hi DFT and all devs,
I very appreciate your work that done on Android and WP7.
Our HD2 can run both best OS in NAND, but not have choose in hard way for switching.
Today I have an idea for you all as show in my attachment.
The way I think is like we do the backup image like ghost file in Windows.
If our HD2 can create backup NAND file and rewirte by itself, I think it may switch over between WP7 and Android in NAND within 10 minutes without desktop.
That's just my idea, I know there is a lot of think to do, if you interest on it.
I'll wait for that dream.
Thanks for all contribution.
Great works!
you dont actually have that much space unless you have the tmo version. also, you gotta reformat the sd card every time because windows 7 does some weird striping data thing.
So.. you can use different partitions on SD-card. If it possible backup android data on SD card, in same method possible backup WP7 data on it. like CWM working...we can in came time backup different android builds. It's just ideas.
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you dont actually have that much space unless you have the tmo version. also, you gotta reformat the sd card every time because windows 7 does some weird striping data thing.
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The partition I show in picture is SD card (may be 16GB needed) not in NAND!
I means:
For WP7 to Android, we backup all WP7 NAND into image in Dump Partition 1, then reformat NAND for suitable for android, then read image (which was backup from previous OS swap Android->WP7) then dump it back to NAND.
Vice versa,
For Android to WP7, we backup all Android NAND into image in Dump Partition 2, then reformat NAND for suitable for WP7, then read image (which was backup from previous OS swap WP7->Android) then dump it back to NAND.
The backup process, NAND formating and image reading and dump back to NAND should be done in MAGLDR within one selection of OS swap menu.
That's all my idea.
I did not mention to put 2 OS in NAND, but hot swap by phone itself!
Maybe a bad idea to ask here, but what does linux swap do anyway? what is it for? cant seem to find an easy answer... Great idea btw, I like it
Swap + RAM = virtual memory
The Linux kernel selects the file (memory pages and so on) from RAM to swap them @ swap.
Swap is a background memory.
Swap is a supporter of RAM.
O.K.?
Greetings
This idea could work. There won't be a problem with WP7 and the memory card, because you only get a problem if you boot WP7 without memory card, but if you switch wp7 doesn't recognize anything about the memory card, so the most weird thing is solved. If we could manage to create this or maybe the dft team with further versions of magdlr it would be very interesting, but I don't know if we really need it, because we can do a dual boot with a sd-android-rom. Thumbs up for this interesting idea!
Although it seems to be doable (can't think of anything wrong at least), the boot times for an OS when you swap them is severely decreased. Let's do the math ?
Imagine we're switching from Android to WP7. So, we've got to dump around 400MB (at least) and load another 400MB (again, at least):
Writing Android to SD (400MB) at a 6MB/s (not to bad of a speed) = 67 seconds (approx.)
Writing WP7 from SD (400MB) to NAND at 2MB/s (yup, NAND is slow) = 200 seconds
So, i'd estimate at least 267 (as in 5 minutes) of time added to the boot sequence when you swap. Sure it may be tolerable for those guys who only switch from time to time, but i don't know...
What are your thoughts?
Partition NAND
It seems there is still no solution to do NAND partition without a PC. But other steps seems okay Let's wait!
Ladies & gentlemen;
Good day!
Well, I am one of those who admire the XDA BIG TIIIMMEE!! However I have an HD2 and managed to have it as a NAND Android after the help of the XDA (as usual of course!) Anyway when I started looking for new ROMs I have noticed that there is new method or way which I do not grasp, comprehend and assimilate AT ALL....ZIP that is, such as [A2SD+], NAND SD and ClockworkMod.Recovery!!!
What is the difference between running Android on NAND & SD with ClockworkMod?!
I am sorry people because truly I must have missed threads or the way of understanding, so hopefully you'll going to be the teacher of mine for now and always!
Could anyone help me as if I am 7 years old?!!!
THANK YOU XDA & Members!!!!
Android nand is running off internal memory. Sd option is what it says, a build running off your sd card opposed to running it with nand.
Thank you for your explanation, but does that mean if the Android runs off internal memory would make the running proccess faster or it would hepl smoothen applications response?! What is the use if I already have the internal memory, wouldn't be even better off?!
Hello
SD Builds start to boot from SD card while being on WM6.5. The hardware shutsdown WinMo and runs Android on it.
NAND Builds run from the internal memory of the phone(just like where WinMo was before)
RAM Builds load all the OS from the SD Card inside the RAM.
[A2SD+] means that you can use a small ext2,ext3 or ext4 partition in your SD Card for increasing your internal storage memory for installing more apps... so this means more internal space.
ClockworkMod is a small linux-based booting utility allowing users to install Android Builds on-the-go which are stored as zip packages on the SD Card. It allows you to install new kernels as update.zip packages as well without having to re-format your entire phone again, or just to erase all personal data on the sd-ext partition.
So, in fact a lot of things have changed in the last 3 months... these are just a few features i can tell you about every method, but at least I hope this will help you to understand quickly a bit about all that.
You know!!?? I Thank you all guys!!!!
NAND runs off the internal memory and even though you get much lower Quadrant scores, NAND is much more responsive and smooth.
The only reason SD based builds get more Quadrant is because of I/O speeds thanks to the SD card.
SD builds are fast, but NAND builds are much SMOOTHER and reliable and if you can do something on SD, you can do it just as well on NAND (gaming for example).
I've been running SuperRAM v2.2 for a while and I like it. It runs off an SD card, but loads everything into RAM so it is quite fast. My question is can i copy the android folder to my phones internal memory instead of using an SD card. I have about 600MB of space and the android folder is only ~400MB. Has anybody done this before. I'm a little hesitant to try, I don't want a paperweight.
Thanks
P.S. I am not talking about flashing a ROM to the NAND memory. I still want WM6.5.
thats not possible mate. You cannot run both WM and Android off the phone's ROM.and about converting that SD build to make it run off the internal memory, it will require lots of modding in the build. But that would defeat the purpose of your build, which is designed to push files and operation to the RAM. Plus i used to run that build for a long time and i have to say its as fast as a NAND build, so i dont think its worth all that trouble. You can however, port other SD builds to RAM builds,if you are interested. Hope this helps!
I don't think the op means converting it to nand, the impression I get is he wants to run it as an SD build but with haret and the Android files in the winmo internal storage instead of on the SD card.
oh i see. tks for clearing it up. But, still, i doubt u can run haret.exe from the internal mem. Besides, the Android folder should be about 100-200MB+ so, its gonna hamper the internal memory space as well,unless youve got a TMOUS HD2 which has 1GB of storage.
Yes samsamuel that is what I am asking about, and I do have a Tmobile HD2. Ill be going back to this soon because for me the NAND builds are no where near as fast. Has alone had good lucky with other RAM builds?