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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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[Q] Create DAF installer from CWM .zip file?

Hey guys,
My SDcard just gave up on me while I was installing a ROM
The problem now is, I have no SDcard available and no option to install another ROM, as I can't use CWM (that uses the SD card obviously)
Is there an easy way to create a DAF installer from a CWM .zip file?

Did you allready tried to format your sd card?

CWM 5.0.26 - can't install nand roms in zip format!!! HELP

i've been running wp7. yesterday i want to install android nand rom. but when i put the option in cwm install from zip file - the error messege was generated(bad. error). He couldn't to unzip the file. i was trying to install few differnet roms, but without the success.
Any help or idea what the hell is going on?
I flashed my phone many times by android nand roms, and there was never any kind of error.
I've got the Nokia 8gb micro sd-card 6 class of speed.

Czort666 said:
i've been running wp7. yesterday i want to install android nand rom. but when i put the option in cwm install from zip file - the error messege was generated(bad. error). He couldn't to unzip the file. i was trying to install few differnet roms, but without the success.
Any help or idea what the hell is going on?
I flashed my phone many times by android nand roms, and there was never any kind of error.
I've got the Nokia 8gb micro sd-card 6 class of speed.
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Format your sd card to FAT 32 and perform a task 29 on your phone. Re install the preferred bootloader and cwm and try again.

i did it. about 6 times. all proces.

Czort666 said:
i did it. about 6 times. all proces.
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first make sure your using the correct 5.0.2.6 recovery for hd2
and that your flash image is big enough
copy the rom.zip ( do not unpack) to your sdcard, either through CWR mounted to usb, or use a cardreader

i am using HD2 Toolkit. Never been any problems. by cardreader or either through CWR , can't install. only messege - bad, error. every rom!! The sd is formated. as usually. i don't know what's happend:/

I'm not a rookie in flashing. it is not ordinary error. it looks like the zip file are corrupted when i am trying to install them by the CWR. After the error when i try to open it the zip file on my computer by the win rar, it tells me that, the zip is corrupted. when i download it the rom the zip was good, cause i check it.
ps. sorry for english

it is no matter what rom i want to install. I always have this messege - "e:can't open /sdcard/roms_name.zip
(bad)
installation aborted
Zip file is good before put him to sdcard. after a press choose zip from sdcard the zip file is corrupted. Maybe something with CWR?;/

Eliminate all the possibilities, if you're using MAGLDR switch over to cLK and vice-versa, and then try again.

carl1961 said:
first make sure your using the correct 5.0.2.6 recovery for hd2
and that your flash image is big enough
copy the rom.zip ( do not unpack) to your sdcard, either through CWR mounted to usb, or use a cardreader
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u are ****ing awesome sir

Heh, I know the reason why it is happening.
When you are doing the ext partition through CWM, the whole reserved space to this partition is corrupted. That's why there is an error messege when i'm trying to install zip rom. The file is corrupted immediately, and you can't even unpack him in windows, or linux.
Right now I am using the GParted. There is no more errors, after I did the partitions using this program
ufff
Thx 4 help anyway

how to flash something with CWM on SD android version??

is possible to flash something with CWM on SD android??

Would you mind rephrasing your question?
Do you mean dual-boot android NAND via CWM AND android sd ? Yes, you can.

Marvlesz said:
Would you mind rephrasing your question?
Do you mean dual-boot android NAND via CWM AND android sd ? Yes, you can.
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no,i have android with sense 2.1 on SD card and i wanna to install sense 3 lockscreen and i need to install it via CWM but when i click reboot into ClockWork recovery mod when i do it phone restart and boot windows mobile and when i boot android again nothing happens

You cant use cwm in sd roms.The only thing you can do is to unzip the cwm file you want to use.Inside you will find a folder called meta-inf and some other folders called /system and other
In the folder you have sd rom you will make a folder named Root and inside it,you will copy the folders from cwm zip and then restart rom.