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Bit of a noob here, got a quick question!

So I just bought a HD2 last week, after a little trial and error I managed to install this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117787 following the guide in the thread.
Every thing is running fine, no bugs, really fast and am really pleased with the phone and rom.
The only thing that I am a little unsure of, is that looking around the forums at other roms and also in the MIUI forums I see a lot of people talking about needing specific cache/partition/swap (not exactly sure which) sizes to run each ROM, in the MIUI forum it says "rom need to be at 150mb for magler/cLK to work right."
But following the guide for the ROM there is no mention of this an I did not do this step, the only thing I did was use CWM to create a EXT and swap (just chose sizes I thought would suffice) to get apps2sd to work once I had installed the rom.
Now I know the ROM runs fine but my question is will it run any better if I created the correct sized cache/partition/swap (whatever the hell it is!!)?
Sorry for sounding such a noob but this phone is a little different from my old hero to install ROMs on

When you flash clockwork mod you can edit the size of the system.
Open the folder of clockwork mod you downloaded and edit flash.cfg file with notepad and change system size to 150M .
That´s it

When you flash clock work mod???
As far as I can tell CWM just runs of my SD card (if I wipe the files off the SD card that are provided with the rom, it doesnt load CWM when I hold the power button then choose the number one option)
This is what I dont get, is CWM supposed to be permanently flashed to the nand as well, like the ROM is? And if it does just run off the SD, then why does it need a certain system size and what does this do?

Okay i think i have to write much now
Okay first you flash magldr (it´s the ´base´)
then you flash Clockwork Mod via USB Flasher option in magldr:
"For MAGLDR 1.13, booting from NAND:
Download the file attached
Download a partition layout incl. recovery from this thread which fits your ROM you want to use best and unzip it into "C:\recovery" for example
Copy over the recovery image file from inside the zip archive into this folder "C:\recovery", delete existing "recovery-raw.img" and rename copied image file to "recovery-raw.img"
Flash the recovery and partition layout using "DAF.exe" as usual and described in the thread of raiderx or the ROM provider
Boot Recovery with menu point "8. AD Recovery"
You're done"
Go here to get it :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987531
Before flashing it edit the flash.cfg file like i described it before ,then flash the .zip ROM..

Thanks for the detailed reply, so I'm gathering that this will install CWM onto my nand, but as I have the ROM running fine and don't really mind that CWM runs from the SD card, are there any benefits to doing this?? And will I lose some storage space on the phone if I do this?

you can use the sd version too
I suggest that when you change your ROM next time ,use the nand version with the right partition .

[Q] I am very confused!!!!

Since some days and i 'm downloading ROMS EU or others.
I become very confused as i'm looking for ROM that can flashed easy way as attached here that 1st snap-shot shows that after extracting ROM downloaded that there is no file DFA.EXE to run but instead of that all there are folders.
although installation instructions said that run DFA.EXE.
I did not see that file except in one and old version.
I need to have newest version.
Here i flashed my HD2 within 10 minutes and it was very good exp to this transform to android and no more windows!!!!
Guys,
How can i have a flash that contain DFA.EXE and it does not rely on SD
I downloaded 3 ROMS but all of them are folders with no DFA.EXE is there some ways that to know if ROM file has a DFA.EXE file instead of downloading and waste my time as my connection is little bit slow!!!!.
My HD version is MIDDLE EAST

The rom you opened in second Screenshot doesn't use dark forces flasher.
You will have to flash a recovery (clockwork mod). And flash the rom via clockwork mod.
It makes flashing much easier and you can make backups etc.
For tutorial see the android nand section -> roll up sticky.
Look out for how to flash your first rom and clockwork mod.
Hope that helps you
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It makes flashing much easier and you can make backups etc.
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Did you miss the bit where he says he wants one that doesn't rely on SD card?
@OP No there are very few roms that use daf.exe, nearly all use cwm and SD card.
You could learn how to load a cwm rom into the android sdk on the PC, then dump the system and boot folder to images and replace the system and boot images in the old daf rom folder, remembering to adjust flash.cfg partition size for the new system size.

samsamuel said:
Did you miss the bit where he says he wants one that doesn't rely on SD card?
@OP No there are very few roms that use daf.exe, nearly all use cwm and SD card.
You could learn how to load a cwm rom into the android sdk on the PC, then dump the system and boot folder to images and replace the system and boot images in the old daf rom folder, remembering to adjust flash.cfg partition size for the new system size.
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Oh yes but he maybe he will notice that cwm is a very useful flasher etc.
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Step by step installation guide for nativesd method by securecrt

people who does not understand the installation method of native sd please follow these steps
create ext 4 partition of minimum 512mb
1.unzip the recovery zip file from this link (http://goo.im/devs/Xylograph/Various/Recoveries) copy zimage & intrid file from recovery and paste these files on root of your sd card
2.go to magldr menu and 2 nd option (ad sd) then press call button
3.then it will take you to recovery mode
4.flash the rom(paranoid 1.99 or 2)
5.after that your sd card will have folder called nativesd click on folder inside there will be one more folder pa
6.copy zimage & intrid files
7. before that delete the zimage & intrid files of recovery from root of your sd card
8.paste the zimage & intrid files of pa
9.reboot
THANKS TO SECURECRT,XYLOGRAPH,PHO3NIX,COTULLA,TYTUNG

Can I make a ext4 partition on my sdcard w/o PC as I've currently a company laptop only which doesn't allow to install any partition tool??
Cheers.....LinChina

LinChina said:
Can I make a ext4 partition on my sdcard w/o PC as I've currently a company laptop only which doesn't allow to install any partition tool??
Cheers.....LinChina
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you can use PartitionWizard to make ext4 partition on sd card

anhnq said:
you can use PartitionWizard to make ext4 partition on sd card
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he can't install that warez in his PC/ NB.
@LinChina
i think recovery(CWM) only makes EXT3 but i'm not really sure about that, your best bet is use a pc that can have those warez on it
or this, if you can place & unzip the file in your NB
3a Use the provided 4EXT recovery (NAND or SD version) to create the partitions and format them.
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NativeSD Dual Installer v2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31110719&postcount=2

Now I know ..but the first post is for people who don't have magldr or android on nand....SD recovery is not needed when you have cwm recovery inbuilt in magldr
Easy steps
1. Use minitool partition manager on PC to make sdext4 partition (cwm makes only ext3 ..so is not useful)
2. Copy your favorite native SD rom zip folder to SD card
3. In magldr ..go to ad recovery..install zip from SD...then follow instructions ..default path install is SD ext
4. Reboot
Enjoy
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Hi everyone, it only looks that I'm a new user, it's because i've never posted anything before. I have Hd2 for almost 2 years from now and like 1,5 year being passive user on XDA. Anyway I do have problems that i can't manage myself. OP asked a dumb question, only if he has Android Nand or Windows Mobile, however... nobody ever tried making it work with WP7? I've been working on it few hours and don't have a clue how to do it. I've deleted my FAT32 partition and split it into Fat32+Ext4. If EXT is logical, WPH boots and show "Storage Card not working", but if it's primary it doesn't even boot. Is there anyway to solve this thing? Any help much appreciated, thanks.

maykel. said:
Hi everyone, it only looks that I'm a new user, it's because i've never posted anything before. I have Hd2 for almost 2 years from now and like 1,5 year being passive user on XDA. Anyway I do have problems that i can't manage myself. OP asked a dumb question, only if he has Android Nand or Windows Mobile, however... nobody ever tried making it work with WP7? I've been working on it few hours and don't have a clue how to do it. I've deleted my FAT32 partition and split it into Fat32+Ext4. If EXT is logical, WPH boots and show "Storage Card not working", but if it's primary it doesn't even boot. Is there anyway to solve this thing? Any help much appreciated, thanks.
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You can use the same link as 2 post before yours and check the section about "NativeSD Installation for Magldr NAND Android & WP7 users".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31110719&postcount=2
@mengfei.....just downloaded and will try and feedback if succeded.......hopefully :laugh:
Edit1: Thanks a lot mengfei.....EXT4 created....now will try one of the natives sd
Edit2: "Aokp Nightly 04-09-2012" run sooooooooooo fast!!!!!
Cheers.....LinChina

^ Glad to know you got it working :highfive:

I like to try nativeSD Android roms, but with MAGLdr it runs into a deadlock as MAGLdr does not support WinMo 6.5.
Is there a way to use NativeSD? even better with multiboot?

Hi at all,
today I installed ACA NativeSD on partition EXT4 into my sd card. I copy and paste the 2, zImage, intrid file which I fund in NativeSD/ACA folder, into root of my sd card. I rebooted and when I choose Boot AS SD in MAGLDR the ROM do not boot.
What I do wrong?

eclyptos said:
Hi at all,
today I installed ACA NativeSD on partition EXT4 into my sd card. I copy and paste the 2, zImage, intrid file which I fund in NativeSD/ACA folder, into root of my sd card. I rebooted and when I choose Boot AS SD in MAGLDR the ROM do not boot.
What I do wrong?
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you must copy the 2 files from "<SDCARD>/NativeSD/ACA" to "<SDCARD>/NativeSD" (and not to "<SDCARD>/" )
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o82239 said:
you must copy the 2 files from "<SDCARD>/NativeSD/ACA" to "<SDCARD>/NativeSD" (and not to "<SDCARD>/" )
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but I got already 2 file in there (zImage & intrid), do I have to relace them? Anyway if I try to set up the AD SD Dir from Magldr I do not see the NativeSD folder so will not boot anyway. I think I have problems with 4EXT but I am not sure.

eclyptos said:
but I got already 2 file in there (zImage & intrid), do I have to relace them? Anyway if I try to set up the AD SD Dir from Magldr I do not see the NativeSD folder so will not boot anyway. I think I have problems with 4EXT but I am not sure.
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yes, you must replace the 2 files...
why you can't see the folder: check on a PC, if the folder has hidden attribute... or try to create a new folder, copy all files from the old to the new, delete old and rename new folder...
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o82239 said:
yes, you must replace the 2 files...
why you can't see the folder: check on a PC, if the folder has hidden attribute... or try to create a new folder, copy all files from the old to the new, delete old and rename new folder...
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ok, I will replace them.
Why I do not see the folder? I ask my self the same question and I don't know why, anyway my card is recognized and the folder is there, if will be hidden I will not see the folders, I also put different card into my hd2 with different folders and still the same. I think the 4EXT recovery make something wrong with partitions or I do.

LinChina said:
Can I make a ext4 partition on my sdcard w/o PC as I've currently a company laptop only which doesn't allow to install any partition tool??
Cheers.....LinChina
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you may partition your sd card by this way
backup your data first, reboot into recovery, choose option 8. ad recovery => advance => partition sd card, choose your own option and wait

Instalinh 7z archive ROM

Hi,
I using first time flash from MAGLDR, usualy I use NAND ROM, so anybody can help?
I extract all 7z archive files to new folder.
Set in MAGLDR services sd boot directory and select AD SD Boot.
After that I only see costum ROM image and nothing happen...
I waited 2 hours and image is still here and nothing change...
Maybe I do something wrong?
Please help

Are you trying to install NAND, SD or NativeSD? If NAND, try the guide in my sig. If SD, just place the Android folder on the root of your SD card, set it as the AD SD Dir and boot into the AD SD option in MAGLDR. If NativeSD, then I can't help sorry.
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Nigeldg said:
Are you trying to install NAND, SD or NativeSD? If NAND, try the guide in my sig. If SD, just place the Android folder on the root of your SD card, set it as the AD SD Dir and boot into the AD SD option in MAGLDR. If NativeSD, then I can't help sorry.
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I dont know is SD or NativeSD. (what is the diference?)
But I want install this rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058809
In instructions says:
How to Install
Download the ROM
Unzip using 7zip
Copy ANDROID + MIUI folders to the root of your SD card
If you are on Windows Mobile (haret) - use the rootfs+startup.txt from "_JaguarMIUI-VXX -HARET-" (UNZIP FIRST) then Click CLRCAD + HaReT
If you are on MAGLDR, Copy both files from "_JaguarMIUI-VXX MAGLDR" to you ROM FOLDER (UNZIP FIRST) then start the ROM....
First boot takes 5-10min ( Building 1 GB data.img )
Restart ( Please do It )
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ANDROID + MIUI folders to the root of your SD card?
I extract all archive in one folder. What is MIUI folder? There is no folder with this name.
If you are on MAGLDR, Copy both files from "_JaguarMIUI-VXX MAGLDR" to you ROM FOLDER (UNZIP FIRST) then start the ROM....
I don't understand this part clearly..?

I'd agree with you, that guide is very confusing.
This is how I'd do it:
1. Download the latest version of the ROM
2. Unzip in 7Zip
3. Keep going into the folders until you see a bunch of files, including Haret and clrcad. Then go UP/BACK 1 folder so that you have a folder which can be copied to your SD card, and directly inside this folder are the files needed. Normally this folder will be called something like 'Android' or 'MIUI'.
4. Copy that folder to the ROOT of your SD card (so, for example, if the folder is called 'Android' the directory should be /Android)
5. Boot into MAGLDR
6. Go to Services>Boot Settings>AD SD Dir and set the AD SD Dir to be the same as the folder you copied
7. Go back to the MAGLDR menu and select 'Boot AD SD'.
I've tried to be as general as possible with these instructions, because I don't know what's actually in the zip. Hopefully you should be able to follow them. If not, then can you describe in more detail what's inside the zip and I'll be able to give you much clearer instructions.

Nigeldg said:
I'd agree with you, that guide is very confusing.
This is how I'd do it:
1. Download the latest version of the ROM
2. Unzip in 7Zip
3. Keep going into the folders until you see a bunch of files, including Haret and clrcad. Then go UP/BACK 1 folder so that you have a folder which can be copied to your SD card, and directly inside this folder are the files needed. Normally this folder will be called something like 'Android' or 'MIUI'.
4. Copy that folder to the ROOT of your SD card (so, for example, if the folder is called 'Android' the directory should be /Android)
5. Boot into MAGLDR
6. Go to Services>Boot Settings>AD SD Dir and set the AD SD Dir to be the same as the folder you copied
7. Go back to the MAGLDR menu and select 'Boot AD SD'.
I've tried to be as general as possible with these instructions, because I don't know what's actually in the zip. Hopefully you should be able to follow them. If not, then can you describe in more detail what's inside the zip and I'll be able to give you much clearer instructions.
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Thanx for this guide! I will try when I return to home, and I will write what happened.

Need help installing 4EXTRecovery on sd card

Try to install android via Nativesd, did the partition on my sd card with fat32 and ext4, then copy the unzipped file of 4extrecovery to the fat32, and the zipped rom in the same partition, went to magldr, services, boot settings, ad sd dir, the choose 4ext file, phone reboot and stay on htc green logo like for 5 sec and then reboot and same thing try three times and wasn't able to boot into 4extrecovery. Help please

htcp85 said:
Try to install android via Nativesd, did the partition on my sd card with fat32 and ext4, then copy the unzipped file of 4extrecovery to the fat32, and the zipped rom in the same partition, went to magldr, services, boot settings, ad sd dir, the choose 4ext file, phone reboot and stay on htc green logo like for 5 sec and then reboot and same thing try three times and wasn't able to boot into 4extrecovery. Help please
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does the unzipped 4extrecovery folder on your sdcard contain the files Haret, startup.txt etc? or just 1 folder with those files in? needs to be the first.
Also are you booting using ad sd from magldr?

Robbie P said:
does the unzipped 4extrecovery folder on your sdcard contain the files Haret, startup.txt etc? or just 1 folder with those files in? needs to be the first.
Also are you booting using ad sd from magldr?
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the unzipped folder contains another folder wich I rename 4EXTRecovery with the haret, startup,etc. I copy that folder into sd with the rom zipped. Then booting using ad sd from magldr.

htcp85 said:
went to magldr, services, boot settings, ad sd dir, the choose 4ext file,
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You mean the 4extreco~ file? Not the 4ext file.
Also did you set all sd partitions as primary using minitool?

Robbie P said:
You mean the 4extreco~ file? Not the 4ext file.
Also did you set all sd partitions as primary using minitool?
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Yes 4extrecovery file, also set partitions as primary. That's correct

htcp85 said:
Yes 4extrecovery file, also set partitions as primary. That's correct
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how odd.
perhaps your 4ext download was corrupted, try redownload and re-install.
How did you put files on sdcard? I hope you used card reader and not magldr usb mass stg

Also this is where I download from http://goo.im/devs/Xylograph/Various/Recoveries/SD
Last file

Robbie P said:
how odd.
perhaps your 4ext download was corrupted, try redownload and re-install.
How did you put files on sdcard? I hope you used card reader and not magldr usb mass stg
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I put the files on sd card with a card reader, and I download first the second file in the link where I download it from then I tried the last file.

htcp85 said:
Also this is where I download from http://goo.im/devs/Xylograph/Various/Recoveries/SD
Last file
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Sorry, i know what went wrong, you have to change the name of the folder back to what it was originally, "4ext" or "4extr", then try to boot it.

Robbie P said:
Sorry, i know what went wrong, you have to change the name of the folder back to what it was originally, "4ext" or "4extr", then try to boot it.
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What folder?

htcp85 said:
What folder?
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the "4extrecovery" folder, rename it back to original name. It should have the haret etc files inside. Then navigate to that folder using ad sd dir, then boot ad sd.

Robbie P said:
the "4extrecovery" folder, rename it back to original name. It should have the haret etc files inside. Then navigate to that folder using ad sd dir, then boot ad sd.
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OK so when I extracted the zip file don't rename the file that contains haret etc files, just copy to sd card the way it is. I was following what a video on YouTube says and when he unzipped the file it had a file 4EXTRecovery

Still have the same problem, if I don't rename the folder to 4EXTRecovery and then go to magldr the 4extreco~ file didn't show it has a different name. I'm stuck on this. Please help

htcp85 said:
Still have the same problem, if I don't rename the folder to 4EXTRecovery and then go to magldr the 4extreco~ file didn't show it has a different name. I'm stuck on this. Please help
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Select the file with new name from ad sd dir, then boot ad sd. But you have probably tried that.
Sorry again, i was a bit confused earlier when i said i knew what the problem was
Let's get back to basics, if you switch on the phone and hold the volume down button, what info do you get on the tri-colour screen? Just to check you have hspl 2.08 installed.
Also can you post the link to the vid you used?

I have hspl 2.08, and this is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5A6TVUxeg

htcp85 said:
I have hspl 2.08, and this is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5A6TVUxeg
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The video is good, hspl is good. The only thing i can think is happening is that you extract the recovery (last on list recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd.zip) to get recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd folder. Inside this is another folder called recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd. Inside this is another folder called twrp2.2.2.0, this is the folder to put on sdcard. select this folder using ad sd dir. then boot using ad sd.
In ad sd dir, magldr only reads 8 characters, so it should appear on the list as twrp2.2.~
If this still fails, then it might be that magldr does not like "." character. Change the name to twrprec (not twrp2 since i think the recovery makes this folder for its own use after booting), select this folder using ad sd dir. then boot using ad sd.
I really hope this works for you

Robbie P said:
The video is good, hspl is good. The only thing i can think is happening is that you extract the recovery (last on list recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd.zip) to get recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd folder. Inside this is another folder called recovery_twrp2.2.2.0_leo_sd. Inside this is another folder called twrp2.2.2.0, this is the folder to put on sdcard. select this folder using ad sd dir. then boot using ad sd.
In ad sd dir, magldr only reads 8 characters, so it should appear on the list as twrp2.2.~
If this still fails, then it might be that magldr does not like "." character. Change the name to twrprec (not twrp2 since i think the recovery makes this folder for its own use after booting), select this folder using ad sd dir. then boot using ad sd.
I really hope this works for you
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I will try to do that when I get home, I'll let you know if that fix the problem. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

I tried everything and same thing, I don't know what's going on.
This is how it looks when boot to magdlr, first I change the folder to 4EXTRecovery and I got this

And then change it to twrprec

this is weird.
Try switching off on the phone and trying again.
If it hangs on htc screen, use the tiny reset button under battery cover to reboot, don't pull the battery
after it reboots, go to services/dmesg to sd
look on sdcard for dmesg.txt using pc and post it here.