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now i m confused.. wich lagfix is better? in quadrant all the fix do then the 2000...
Your choice. Do you want to repartition the sd card and fiddle in cmd, or just double click a file?
The problem with the first fix is that you cant replace the card any time you want. The problem with the second fix is that if you dont have 1gb free on the phone, it wont work
Second one looks like a much better deal.
If you don't have 500mb free on your internal SC card (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's 1gb), you can always move all your personal stuff in the external SD card.
Unless of course you have filled it up with apps only (with no app2sd with Eclair), but how you would have managed to fill almost 2gb of apps is beyond me. That'd be more than 2000 apps.
What I don't know though is the long term effects. I have no idea if the fixes that are made are bad for the internal SD card. I guess you have to trust Ryan.
Davith said:
Second one looks like a much better deal.
If you don't have 500mb free on your internal SC card (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's 1gb), you can always move all your personal stuff in the external SD card.
Unless of course you have filled it up with apps only (with no app2sd with Eclair), but how you would have managed to fill almost 2gb of apps is beyond me. That'd be more than 2000 apps.
What I don't know though is the long term effects. I have no idea if the fixes that are made are bad for the internal SD card. I guess you have to trust Ryan.
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what do you mean about second choise lagfix 2.0??
2.0 caused my phone to be unstable so I re-flashed and went back to the first (1GB) fix.
Are you considering mimocam's fix (using the external card) or just between Ryan and Chanfire's fixes?
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what do you mean about second choise lagfix 2.0??
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Yeah, I was talking about Ryan's Lagfix 2.3. (it's not 2.0 anymore).
I don't use either. I recommend the original fix that moves data to dbdata. I have over 70 apps installed and still plenty of space left. Using autokiller to keep free memory at 70 meg I have no lag. Currently on jm5.
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I first did it by command line with the 1Gb partition. That ran well. I then updated to Ryans 2.2 which I have been using all day. It also runs really well. Lag pretty much gone.
If i apply the one-click-LagFix it makes an virtual ext2 partition to my internal sd-card. So if i choose sometime later to undo the fix how can i delete the ext2 partition in my internal sd-card? Will it be necessary to use gparted or similar?
Bajo76 said:
If i apply the one-click-LagFix it makes an virtual ext2 partition to my internal sd-card. So if i choose sometime later to undo the fix how can i delete the ext2 partition in my internal sd-card? Will it be necessary to use gparted or similar?
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Just run the included unlagfixme.bat file. It's automated. But make sure you are running the unlagfixme for the correct version (2-2 or 2-3)
It works fine. I ran unlagfixme and flashed back to a stock ROM, tested with Quadrant and got the 900 something score again, so it does remove the lagfix.
I will note, however, that it's a very good idea to run the unlagfixme.bat before flashing to a different ROM.
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Just run the included unlagfixme.bat file. It's automated. But make sure you are running the unlagfixme for the correct version (2-2 or 2-3)
It works fine. I ran unlagfixme and flashed back to a stock ROM, tested with Quadrant and got the 900 something score again, so it does remove the lagfix.
I will note, however, that it's a very good idea to run the unlagfixme.bat before flashing to a different ROM.
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If you are flashing to any rom using odin3, there is no need to do the unlagfix at all, because the flashing would have overwritten any changes that you have made to the file system.
I often flashed my device alredy with repartition but it didnt touched my internal sd, cause my photos which are stored in the internal sd were still there after flashing. So will a firmware-flash through odin really delete the virtual ext2 partition?
Bajo76 said:
If i apply the one-click-LagFix it makes an virtual ext2 partition to my internal sd-card. So if i choose sometime later to undo the fix how can i delete the ext2 partition in my internal sd-card? Will it be necessary to use gparted or similar?
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The LagFix does not partition your internal card. A 1gb file is created upon which the ext2 filesystem is made. Then this file is mounted as a loopback device. So the UnLagFix basically moves the data back to the native internal storage directories and deletes the ext2 file, so no need to use gparted
K I'm tired of stock dk28 and I wanna flash a rom but they all seem to need ext4...
does ext4 format anything? What's the benefit besides "speed increase" because I'm satisfied with the speed of the phone already
I remember I had to format my sdcard to ext4 in Amon_RA and I hope its not gonna do that again lol
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It formats the internal memory of the phone to EXT4. Speed increase is not immense like some are saying.
You don't have to have EXT4 for all of the Froyo roms. I think its a little confusing to some people because most of the Froyo roms support EXT4 not Require it. For instance, Bonsai4all 1.1.3 supports EXT4 but doesn't require it. That is a nice rom if you want to try it out.
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I gotta say I'm having a different experience with EXT4. I have noticed that Angry Birds stutters now and again and so does the music. Maybe something else is wrong, dunno. I am running the apps off of the SD card but I was also using RFS.
A_Flying_Fox said:
K I'm tired of stock dk28 and I wanna flash a rom but they all seem to need ext4...
does ext4 format anything? What's the benefit besides "speed increase" because I'm satisfied with the speed of the phone already
I remember I had to format my sdcard to ext4 in Amon_RA and I hope its not gonna do that again lol
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Your system files are copied to the sdcard temporarily, the internal memory is formatted ext4, and then the data is copied back. Unless there's a problem, you won't lose any data.
Additionally, all the ROMs that use Dameon's kernel and are listed as EXT4/RFS or "dual"(Bonsai, Nebula, Quantum) will boot whether the file system is EXT4 or RFS.
sndtubes said:
I gotta say I'm having a different experience with EXT4. I have noticed that Angry Birds stutters now and again and so does the music. Maybe something else is wrong, dunno. I am running the apps off of the SD card but I was also using RFS.
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I'm having intermittent stuttering as well.
For me, ext4 has been a disappointment. I'm keeping it for now, but I haven't noticed any improvements, and if given the option of doing it again, I wouldn't bother at this point. As said above, lots of 2.2 ROMs don't require ext4, and I can't give you a reason to convert to it.
I am seing the best battery life with ext 4 since I've had froyo. Without ext 4 on froyo I was getting 20 maybe 30 hours on charge if I was lucky now with ext 4 I'm getting 48 - 55 hours. Sweeet I noticed a lil stutterng during games but boot is way faster.
Epic 4g Quantum Rom Ext 4
Electrofreak said:
Your system files are copied to the sdcard temporarily, the internal memory is formatted ext4, and then the data is copied back. Unless there's a problem, you won't lose any data.
Additionally, all the ROMs that use Dameon's kernel and are listed as EXT4/RFS or "dual"(Bonsai, Nebula, Quantum) will boot whether the file system is EXT4 or RFS.
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I was incredibly curious to try the Bonsai ROM, but I've been away from the forums for a while and missed the big hooplah over EXT4 so I know very little about it. I'm not all that interested though, and the developer's install guide specifically goes through the steps to format to EXT4 and doesn't mention it being optional and there's not a lot of info about it on the Wiki.
So I could just grab it, flash it like I would any other ROM on any other phone and be fine then? And does anyone know if I would flash the extra thing he describes in his install guide? There's no indication on whether its for EXT4 only or not.
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My epic never allowed flashing of roms through rom manager or maybe im doing it wrong but i have always used odin to load dk28 or back to stock dk18..does anyone know where i can get the .md5 or .tar files of any rom out there so i can load it with odin or maybe im just ass backwards and dont know what im doing?? lol not a newb but farely new to android community
micahrodriguez7 said:
My epic never allowed flashing of roms through rom manager or maybe im doing it wrong but i have always used odin to load dk28 or back to stock dk18..does anyone know where i can get the .md5 or .tar files of any rom out there so i can load it with odin or maybe im just ass backwards and dont know what im doing?? lol not a newb but farely new to android community
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You wouldn't do it through rom manager (which is when you're booted), you would do it through clockwork mod (which is a part of rom manager). Hold camera, down volume, and power when phone is off and keep holding till you boot into recovery. (I'm sorry if I'm assuming you don't know this but when ppl say they use rom manager I don't know if they know your supposed to use recovery mode)
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Hello,
I've installed ICS now without any problems, but after installing the data2sd script and then rebooting my phone gets stuck in the boot animation. Even though it's very beautifull eyecandy it really isn't doing much for me.
I did a full wipe! Clear data/factory reset, Clear dalvick cash, etc. Also Task 29 and used HD2 toolkit to create 250MB system partiton with 5MB cache
First I formatted my SD card (8GB class 10) with MiniTool Partition Wizard 7 completely as FAT32 then I partitioned it (with CWM recovery 4.0.0.0) to 2048MB EXT3 with 256MB Swap, formatted that partition again in MiniTool to EXT3
Then I flashed the ROM (NexusHD2-IceCreamSandwich Beta6) to my device without any problem. Booted ICS, rebooted into recovery and flashed Data2SD installer wich didn't give any errors either.
Booted again and now it's stuck in bootscreen, I've waited for at least 45 to 60 minutes before removing the battery and try everything again all over, but with an EXT4 partition just like Yank555 did.
I followed the instructions from this post without flashing APP2SD Killer first since that causes the market to 'hang on app install'
I know there are people how got it to work so it must be something I did wrong! Can anyone give me some good advice?
BTW FYI, I did previously use TyphooN Gingerbread 2.3.3 CM7 A2SD with 1GB EXT partition without any problems...
Hi,
For me it seems you're doing it right...
Your ext4 partition IS a primary partition ? I suppose yes, since CWM will do it that way when you use it to partition your SD card.
Just to be sure, you did reformat the ext3 partion to ext3, or the swap ? I don't know how DATA2SD will react to finding 2 "sd-ext" partitons (more than one ext2/3/4 partiton), never tried that before... If you don't intend to use any swap, you'd rather leave that one out in CWM (choose 0Mb)...
JP.
PS: If you want to use swap (hard swap on a swap partition) I can explain to you how to do that. If you want to do it using a swapfile (once DATA2SD is up & running, you can have a look here).
Tanks for your reply. I don't have much time this weekend due to Christmas shopping and everything But I determent to get this to work! And I won't stop till I do. I'm using this ROM for every day and I just need more space. I found there are more people with the same issue as me, so when I get it to work I'll post my findings in the main development threat as well. But I'll make sure to give you all the credit that is due...
Fixed it! Did had to use sort of a "work-around" but it's working and it's all good! That's most important! If anyone else is looking for the solution for this problem, this is what I used and what works for me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20439320&postcount=2379
Please give thanks where they are due, that is to the original poster offcourse and not me!
The fixed work-around is App2SD rite? I think it will be good if we can get Data2SD working. I think the latter is faster.
I also read some managed to get Data2Ext working in Tytung ICS Beta7 already. See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403710
PPKLP said:
Fixed it! Did had to use sort of a "work-around" but it's working and it's all good! That's most important! If anyone else is looking for the solution for this problem, this is what I used and what works for me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20439320&postcount=2379
Please give thanks where they are due, that is to the original poster offcourse and not me!
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Yank555 said:
Hi,
For me it seems you're doing it right...
Your ext4 partition IS a primary partition ? I suppose yes, since CWM will do it that way when you use it to partition your SD card.
Just to be sure, you did reformat the ext3 partion to ext3, or the swap ? I don't know how DATA2SD will react to finding 2 "sd-ext" partitons (more than one ext2/3/4 partiton), never tried that before... If you don't intend to use any swap, you'd rather leave that one out in CWM (choose 0Mb)...
JP.
PS: If you want to use swap (hard swap on a swap partition) I can explain to you how to do that. If you want to do it using a swapfile (once DATA2SD is up & running, you can have a look here).
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hey HD2 expert !! i have the same prob over here , installed data2sd after flashing the rom and stuckin at the boot screen ,,
-anyone find a solution !!!!!!
Hello HD2 users,
This may seem like very basic information but got me confused so i want to share it with you. Its about restoring nandroid backups.
The Experiece:
I had the typhoon rom working very well. Its fast and smooth and i like it alot. Anyways, being a flash junkie and wanting to try out different roms all the time i wanted to try a sense 3.5 rom. It required a greater internal memory partition 200 or 245mb. I currently had 150mb.
So anyways, i made a nandroid backup in CWM and then flashed a new partition size, flashed the new sense rom and it was working. I didnt like it. I wanted the typhoon rom back. I booted into CWM and restored the backup. BUT it didnt work. The backup restored successfully but due to low internal memory, it didnt even go to the boot animation. Just stayed on the boot image.
The lesson:
To restore your nandroid backups and run them u need to restore them on the SAME partition size that you made them on.
If u made a backup with 200mb partition, the restored backup will ONLY WORK if your partition is still 200mb.
Just some basic info. Hope it helps people out
Peace
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adil1508 said:
The lesson:
To restore your nandroid backups and run them u need to restore them on the SAME partition size that you made them on.
If u made a backup with 200mb partition, the restored backup will ONLY WORK if your partition is still 200mb.
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I would dispute that, and say that it is more likely that your increased system partition size resulted in the data partition being too small to restore fully.
Did you make sure you did a 'wipe data factory reset' before restoring? since leftovers on the sd card could be causing problems too.
did you try 'fix permissions'?
(Always happy to be proven wrong, of course, i'm no great mind when it comes to android, but i'm ((fairly) sure ive restored to larger partitions before)
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I would dispute that, and say that it is more likely that your increased system partition size resulted in the data partition being too small to restore fully.
Did you make sure you did a 'wipe data factory reset' before restoring? since leftovers on the sd card could be causing problems too.
did you try 'fix permissions'?
(Always happy to be proven wrong, of course, i'm no great mind when it comes to android, but i'm ((fairly) sure ive restored to larger partitions before)
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Yes i did fix permissions and wipe data/cache and dalvik cache too.
When i was using the typhoon rom i had like 200something used internal memory. And some 37 left. Not exact figures. So roughly 240mb is available after the partition. When i increase the partition, less than 240 is available. Maybe thats the reason?. Im not too sure too. Lets wait for some expert guy
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adil1508 said:
Yes i did fix permissions and wipe data/cache and dalvik cache too.
When i was using the typhoon rom i had like 200something used internal memory. And some 37 left. Not exact figures. So roughly 240mb is available after the partition. When i increase the partition, less than 240 is available. Maybe thats the reason?. Im not too sure too. Lets wait for some expert guy
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I am no "expert guy" but I have proved your theory wrong because I had a jelly bean Rom installed with a 150 mb partition and backed it up. Then this afternoon I remembered I needed a number from a text I received on that rom. I had since already repartitioned my phone to 250 mb and flashed a sense 3.5 Rom. I just restores my back up of jb made in a smaller partition and worked like a charm. Don't know the logistics behind it, just know it works
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I am no "expert guy" but I have proved your theory wrong because I had a jelly bean Rom installed with a 150 mb partition and backed it up. Then this afternoon I remembered I needed a number from a text I received on that rom. I had since already repartitioned my phone to 250 mb and flashed a sense 3.5 Rom. I just restores my back up of jb made in a smaller partition and worked like a charm. Don't know the logistics behind it, just know it works
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Ok thanks for the clarification. Ill look into it again.
Meanwhile, i urge other members to share their experiences too. To confirm.
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I have Android in NAND and I was running out of memory. So I made an partition on my SD. So that apps automaticly are going to install on my SD. That partition was 2GB. I use a ton of apps and within a week the partition was full. So how can I make that partition bigger WITHOUT losing any data?
Do a full cwm backup (titanium backup too, just in case)and also backup the fat partition of the SD card, reformat to desired size, then in cwm choose backup/restore, advanced - restore sd-ext, then restore your fat partition stuff too(important that bit, because there's android stuff on the fat partition too)
you can potentially just do a full restore from cwm rather than a selective sd-ext restore, but id try the selective restore first.
elias2204 said:
I have Android in NAND and I was running out of memory. So I made an partition on my SD. So that apps automaticly are going to install on my SD. That partition was 2GB. I use a ton of apps and within a week the partition was full. So how can I make that partition bigger WITHOUT losing any data?
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A little bit off topic, but what kind of apps are you talking about?
I have over 100 apps, and my 1GB ext partition is not even half full.
Are you sure it's 2GB ?
Marvlesz said:
A little bit off topic, but what kind of apps are you talking about?
I have over 100 apps, and my 1GB ext partition is not even half full.
Are you sure it's 2GB ?
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+1 - I have a fair number of apps including games and stuff, most of which are in my EXT partiton, and yet I have only used up around 350MB. Are you linking the libs files as well?Or did you create a smaller partition than you thought, as Marvlesz suggested (perhaps 256MB)?
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+1 - I have a fair number of apps including games and stuff, most of which are in my EXT partiton, and yet I have only used up around 350MB. Are you linking the libs files as well?Or did you create a smaller partition than you thought, as Marvlesz suggested (perhaps 256MB)?
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I have Fifa 12, MC2, MC3, Dead Trigger,Real Football and PES 2012.
elias2204 said:
I have Fifa 12, MC2, MC3, Dead Trigger,Real Football and PES 2012.
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That's strange i had 224 apps installed on my hd2 including many big games still i had 600 mb left from my 2gb ext partition
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P.S. my HD2 got a dead touchscreen.so using this this till the HTC guys fix it
Anurag pandey said:
That's strange i had 224 apps installed on my hd2 including many big games still i had 600 mb left from my 2gb ext partition
Sent from my LG P350 using xda premium
P.S. my HD2 got a dead touchscreen.so using this this till the HTC guys fix it
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When I want to get something like Facebook, Maps or Songpop it says that I have not enough space those apps are around 10mb. When I go to settings it says that I have 28mb. But if I want to get something big like Minecraft it installs it without a problem.
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When I want to get something like Facebook, Maps or Songpop it says that I have not enough space those apps are around 10mb. When I go to settings it says that I have 28mb. But if I want to get something big like Minecraft it installs it without a problem.
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What is the script that you're using for the sd-ext? Are you using link2sd?
(Pressed thanks by mistake )
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What is the script that you're using for the sd-ext? Are you using link2sd?
(Pressed thanks by mistake )
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I have no idea I'm just using this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1817793
those roms dont support sd-ext by default, you have to flash one.
samsamuel said:
those roms dont support sd-ext by default, you have to flash one.
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Oke, what do I have to flash?
elias2204 said:
Oke, what do I have to flash?
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You have to flash an a2sd script that suits your needs
EDIT:
Sorry, my fault. I know you're going to ask "what is that" and "where do I get it".
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124
I (just) hope that you will find all the information you need there.
Ohh, and before I go, don't ask us which is the best, there is no best .
And the one I'm using is this : INT2EXT+
Good luck
Marvlesz said:
You have to flash an a2sd script that suits your needs
EDIT:
Sorry, my fault. I know you're going to ask "what is that" and "where do I get it".
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124
I (just) hope that you will find all the information you need there.
Ohh, and before I go, don't ask us which is the best, there is no best .
And the one I'm using is this : INT2EXT+
Good luck
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I installed INT2EXT+ and it f*cked up my rom. When I boot up I get only force closes. So it made my phone unusable. Had to flash my rom back.
elias2204 said:
I installed INT2EXT+ and it f*cked up my rom. When I boot up I get only force closes. So it made my phone unusable. Had to flash my rom back.
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Most of the scripts have to be flashed right before instalation of the rom.
So flash a script in a rom with all the apps already installed is not a good idea.
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Most of the scripts have to be flashed right before instalation of the rom.
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flash the script BEFORE the rom?? that would be a neat trick to see.
@op, i use int2ext+ with the aokp jb rom from that thread, , flash the rom, let it set up, (dont bother with for example google account details and what not, just let it set up till you see the desktop).reboot, flash the script(you HAVE created teh ext partition already right? cos this script doesnt create it), reboot, then install your apps and data and such .
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flash the script BEFORE the rom?? that would be a neat trick to see.
@op, i use int2ext+ with the aokp jb rom from that thread, , flash the rom, let it set up, (dont bother with for example google account details and what not, just let it set up till you see the desktop).reboot, flash the script(you HAVE created teh ext partition already right? cos this script doesnt create it), reboot, then install your apps and data and such .
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I will try that. But meanwhile I flashed CM10 on my phone and then the script and it's working!!!!! But I like Paranoid Android more so I'm going to do what you said. BTW yes I have a partition on my SD-Card it's 2GB.
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flash the script BEFORE the rom?? that would be a neat trick to see.
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I meant to say right after the Rom, and before all the apps.
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's working!!!!!!!!!
elias2204 said:
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's working!!!!!!!!!
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Why don't people use the thanks button?
Start from page one, and press the "Thanks" button for everyone that helped you (or even just tried to), yes, including me.
That is better than saying "Thank you" a million times.
Marvlesz said:
Why don't people use the thanks button?
Start from page one, and press the "Thanks" button for everyone that helped you (or even just tried to), yes, including me.
That is better than saying "Thank you" a million times.
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Did that.