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[ROM] Light 1.03c Android 2.2 (28-12-2010)

I've posted this ROM some days ago in a portuguese forum. Now i'm also doing it here.
If you don't like it, don't use it!!
This ROM is based in portuguese unbranded v10a (android 2.2).
I've been using it in my phone since i have it, and is just a minimalist ROM, with some tweaks made.
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Partitions data and cache will NOT be erased while flashing.
It is highly recommended to erase them before starting to use this ROM.
CHANGES MADE
- app & framework deodexed
- apk zipaligned
- rooted + superuser
- busybox added
- jit enabled
- heapsize increased to 32m
- market updated to version 2.2.7
- apns all removed, except Portuguese Vodafone (link to full apns below)
- lots of apps removed (see the removed apk file to see what's missing)
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REQUIREMENTS
a)
Phone with Custom Recovery
b)
ROM download: LINK
md5 be56c77b6c84cab2e5454c46965ee36c
INSTRUCTIONS
1º
Copy ROM to flash card
2º
Start phone in Recovery mode (Vol- + Home + Power)
3º
Wipe data/cache and .android_secure, flash zip, reboot
Done!
Note:
If for some reason something you want to do doesn't work, just find the apks missing and install them. It's easy to find what you want!
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Enable other tweaks: LINK
Download of full apns file: LINK
md5 eb9427d559c2f9b1bbf78f60aebbe4c8
To have all apns back, just copy the file to /system/etc/, and overwrite the file. Reboot your phone and it's done.
Don't forget to change /system/ to read-write before trying to copy the file.
Download of removed apps: LINK
md5 3abbee8e55e8f31f286a9f13a902530c
To install any app you want, just copy the file to /system/app/, change permissions of files copied to 644 and reboot you phone.
Again, don't forget to change /system/ to read-write before trying to copy any file.
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Benchmarks:
(after running script for tweaks)
NOTE: benchmarks were done after instaling some apps.
hardware acceleration - on
jit - enabled
stagefright player - true
heapsize memory - 32m
benchmark: run1 run2 run3 run4 run5
linpack 1.1.7 7.447 7.38 7.378 7.441 7.486
quadrant 1.1.4 1084 1039 1059 1073 1056
neocore 1.9.22 with sound 42.7 43.2 43.5 43.5 43.6
neocore 1.9.22 without sound 48.5 48.5 48.3 48.3 48.4
cpu benchmark 1.7.1 1581ms 1525ms 1531ms 1572ms 1566ms
gpu bench 1.0.0 absolute 23515 23904 23894 23465 23722
gpu bench 1.0.0 relative 27476 27617 27550 27328 27529
membench 1.1 copy MB/sec 8.70 8.77 8.93 8.70
membench 1.1 add MB/sec 8.67 8.67 8.72 8.72
benchmarkpi 1.11 2691 2662 2697 2685 2672
speed pi 1.0 10m 8.175 8.203 8.393 8.483 8.294

can i install the oc_kernel on this rom??? thanks

please, can you post a home screenshot of this rom ?

antopt1 said:
can i install the oc_kernel on this rom??? thanks
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I think so, but it's better to ask to nojein about that. I never used that kernel.
antopt1 said:
please, can you post a home screenshot of this rom ?
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No screenshot needed. This ROM uses the default LG homescreen.
This is just a stripped down original ROM, with few tweaks. I like it that way

I know this is old, but thanks Apparently, this and void are the only light ROMs that don't come with Darktremor's apps2sd. I dont like putting everything in the SD card

My ROMs will never have app2sd included.
I'm using a newer version, with Zeam instead of LG launcher. But i don't know if i can use Zeam in my ROMs without having issues with the author of the app... So i didn't upload it.
Anyway my laptop is broken, so i don't have a computer to use. When i earn enough money and buy a new one, i'll upload another ROM with a new look.
Why do you say this is old?
EDIT:
I managed to boot my phone with only five apps, but of course it wouldn't do anything...
I could remove more apps and make it lighter, but this is the minimum stuff needed to have full functionality without FCs somewhere. If i started to remove more stuff, i would lose basic apps, or make FC.
I also didn't enable hardware acceleration by default because i didn't see any improvement in performance. Same goes to stagefright. Only visible improvement was in quadrant, but that really means nothing.
Most people that complain about phone speed, should look at the amount of apps they install.

ruigui said:
Why do you say this is old?
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Because it was on the last page. Sorry, I was just being paranoid about mods sort of bashing people for opening up old threads
I also didn't enable hardware acceleration by default because i didn't see any improvement in performance. Same goes to stagefright. Only visible improvement was in quadrant, but that really means nothing.
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This makes this the most sensible ROM out there (that's my opinion) On my previous ROM, i couldn't disable stagefright for some reason, so I flashed this. I'm still playing around with HW acceleration and JIT.
Most people that complain about phone speed, should look at the amount of apps they install.
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Agree. With the amount of apps I have because of this rom, I dont have those long term usage slowdowns where only a reboot could "clean" the RAM.
Also, I'll try to make a ROM of my own(soon, granted im not lazy). I'm running Arch Linux (main), but I have been really really lazy on finding the appropriate (arch equivalent) packages for compiling xD

kpbotbot said:
Because it was on the last page. Sorry, I was just being paranoid about mods sort of bashing people for opening up old threads
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This ROM doesn't even have one month!
There are lots of new threads, and this isn't a popular ROM, so it went to last pages...
I thought about adding a kernel that could enable oc, but my phone works so well that i didn't see any advantage in doing that.
It's better to keep things simple and running.
About arch, can't help. Never used it. I'm a debian user
I also hardly reboot my phone. Only when i forget to charge battery.
Are you seeing any improvements with hw acc? I didn't. I enabled jit by default because it was so talked when 2.2 came out. But never tried to use phone with it disabled.

ruigui said:
Are you seeing any improvements with hw acc? I didn't. I enabled jit by default because it was so talked when 2.2 came out. But never tried to use phone with it disabled.
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Not really. However, with the stock ROM at stock everything, I get a 400+ quadrant score. In this ROM with HW acceleration and JIT enabled, I get 555. I'll test it again with less variables and factors or stuff.
I'm not turning them off, btw. I might come across something well that used to not work properly with HW accel off

I've just installed your rom.
Restored apps and data with Titanium Backup.
Well...
AWESOME ROM! Thank you very very much!
It is so fast and stable.
Very very good work
I've only one problem. I've installed calcoulator and calendar apk. All fine for the first one but i cannot sinc gmail calendar nor exchange calendar, and when i go in to the calendar options, it give com.calendar.com error.

To restore apps from original ROM, always copy them to /system/app (dont forget to mount it first as read-write). Lots of these apps have issues if the go to /data/app.
After cppying them, change their permissions to 644 and reboot.
I dont use sync stuff, so it was removed...
First download the zip file with apk removed. Uncompress it, and copy to /system/app these apk:
calendar.apk
calendarprovider.apk
googlecalendarsyncadapter.apk
googlecontactssyncadapter.apk
calculator.apk
These should be enough to have calendar with sync, contacts with sync, and calculator.
If you installed these apps to /data/app, dont forget to remove them first. If you remove manualy, you must delete files in /data/app, /data/dalvik-cache, /data/data
EDIT:
This ROM only has gereric mail app. If you want gmail app, also copy gmail.apk
My primary mail account is gmail, but i only use generic email app. Never really needed gmail one.... And all works ok

Thx today i'll try with to add
calendarprovider.apk
googlecalendarsyncadapter.apk
googlecontactssyncadapter.apk
as you said
Thank you very much
Edit:
It works! Thank You very much!

I have a question... Do i need to partition my micro sd for this to work? thanks in advance.

No you don't. This ROM doesn't have a2sd.

ruigui said:
No you don't. This ROM doesn't have a2sd.
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Thanks. let me try this.

[Q] help, HaRET.exe doesnt run after booting linux

hey
is there anyone running any android build on the Dynamics ROMs? since when i flash this ROM i couldn't enter any haret.exe when i press it the loading window opens and right before the 2 vibrations everything stops (it doesnt even vibrate once) anyone knows the solution, can HaRET have problem with Dynamic ROMs only
i have 8GB SDHC and tested with both old EXT2 and CWM formatings
my Radio version is the normal one
i put everything in the root of SD card

kerfooly said:
hey
is there anyone running any android build on the Dynamics ROMs? since when i flash this ROM i couldn't enter any haret.exe when i press it the loading window opens and right before the 2 vibrations everything stops (it doesnt even vibrate once) anyone knows the solution, can HaRET have problem with Dynamic ROMs only
i have 8GB SDHC and tested with both old EXT2 and CWM formatings
my Radio version is the normal one
i put everything in the root of SD card
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I have had similar problem, not with Dynamic ROM, but the problem was the same. The problem was the overclock, I was using winno overclocked to 652 Mhz. When I went back to tha original frequency Haret worked as always.

yep, overclocked winmo causes haret to freeze. always set it to 528 mhz before booting android, no matter which oc-app you use.
dynamics 2.1 is overclocked by default, ultrashot explained it in his thread and how to set standard frequency.

So what should he change(please tell the correct lines) and what should he type there?
The same problem for me, tried changing frequency but i don't know if i'm doing it correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaK62UxHR7I

reset overclock on winmo
AssasinQ said:
So what should he change(please tell the correct lines) and what should he type there?
The same problem for me, tried changing frequency but i don't know if i'm doing it correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaK62UxHR7I
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On the Dynamics 2.1 he says:
Overclock may be disabled by resetting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ultrashot\Overclock\IsEnabled value.
Also you may notice that integrated Android Launcher disables active overclock, so you may use any overclock tools without need of manual disabling.
Overlock may be disabled via \Application Data\OC_disable.lnk as well.
I use WinMO Energy ROM which is not overclocked by default, to overclock it, and of course to go back, I use WiMoSpeed_V1.06.

pbfree said:
On the Dynamics 2.1 he says:
Overclock may be disabled by resetting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ultrashot\Overclock\IsEnabled value.
Also you may notice that integrated Android Launcher disables active overclock, so you may use any overclock tools without need of manual disabling.
Overlock may be disabled via \Application Data\OC_disable.lnk as well.
I use WinMO Energy ROM which is not overclocked by default, to overclock it, and of course to go back, I use WiMoSpeed_V1.06.
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I using original ROM. Please tell me what should i change in STARTUP.TXT and what value should i type there?

pbfree said:
On the Dynamics 2.1 he says:
Overclock may be disabled by resetting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ultrashot\Overclock\IsEnabled value.
Also you may notice that integrated Android Launcher disables active overclock, so you may use any overclock tools without need of manual disabling.
Overlock may be disabled via \Application Data\OC_disable.lnk as well.
I use WinMO Energy ROM which is not overclocked by default, to overclock it, and of course to go back, I use WiMoSpeed_V1.06.
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Thank you it worked, all i had to do was to install the WiMoSpeed_V1.06 and set it to default but its better to change the registry with any registry editing software so that the Clock speed changes to default permanently

AssasinQ said:
I using original ROM. Please tell me what should i change in STARTUP.TXT and what value should i type there?
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The line: ''acpuclock.oc_freq_khz''. It's probably set to 652 MHz, so it looks something like this: ''acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=652000''. So if you want 600 MHz, type: ''acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=600000'' or anything you want (in KHz!) If you don't have that line, then it's not overclocked.

[Q] COS-DS - can't install home applications

So, after having installed the last few iterations of COS-DS (April 21st through May 1st) I cannot seem to get ADW EX installed or any other custom home application. It always ends with that the application cannot be installed. Yoshi RC6 and 7 haven't had this same issue and honestly I've never encountered it before. I've tried fix permissions, wiping caches, switching install location.
I also notice in the thread someone makes brief mention to this, but is replied to by Roalex as being fixed in the latest rom. (which at the time was April 26th)
Any Help?

Igneo676 said:
So, after having installed the last few iterations of COS-DS (April 21st through May 1st) I cannot seem to get ADW EX installed or any other custom home application. It always ends with that the application cannot be installed. Yoshi RC6 and 7 haven't had this same issue and honestly I've never encountered it before. I've tried fix permissions, wiping caches, switching install location.
I also notice in the thread someone makes brief mention to this, but is replied to by Roalex as being fixed in the latest rom. (which at the time was April 26th)
Any Help?
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I would think that is happenning becuz u have the default install location in sd-ext, so try installing it in the sysytem memory

As I noted, changing install location doesn't work. In fact, I don't use Sd-Ext and don't have the partition on my sdcard

Igneo676 said:
As I noted, changing install location doesn't work. In fact, I don't use Sd-Ext and don't have the partition on my sdcard
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Try doin a fresh install, wipe everything and reflash the rom.
EDIT: Before u do that. There is a known bug that still installs apps in the phone memory even though you set the ext partition as the default install location, so they wont install, they will only install if they are installed in the sd card. Are you sure you have an Fat32 partition and ext4 partition on your sd card?
did u click allow moving(COSsettings/Application)?

As I noted, I've tried reflashing the rom (I've done it multiple times for for each of the older and newer versions of the rom that I specified). Furthermore, I stated I don't ever do SD-EXT, the partition simply does not exist for my card. I find it buggy and nasty and quite frankly I should never need it if I have a responsible amount of apps for my phone.

One of the requirements for the rom is to have a ext 4 partition.
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number of reasons an app can't install
COS sets market d/l cache to /data/download
this could be the problem
when an app installs it looks at free space on data, and then takes away 10% of the total size
so assuming you don;t use custom MTD you have total data size around 90mb
adw is about 1mb (just over)
so 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
we add adw size twice because cos d/l the temp file to data
do you have enough space on data?
it could be something else
I use ADW Ex , and it was fine with COS
BUT I installed without wiping data
(later I deleted /sd-ext/data and /sd-ext/system to start fresh I use Firerat's ddb )
either way ADW Ex ran fine
how are you installing?
a logcat of what happens during install would be nice
I made a todo list
logcat is on it
I want to write a one stop guide to bring everyone up to speed on tools like adb, logcat, fastboot and compiling maybe throw in a totally basic Linux vm to do it all (some license issues with that , so don't hold me to it)
short version
adb logcat > alogcat.txt
cheat version
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Logcat
should be enough

[Q] Flash to Stock

I'm currently on Apex 10 and my phone is behaving oddly. I usually have over 80mb of memory available, but every time i open a app and close it, the launcher reloads. I also cant have more than one app open at the same time. Each time i move to an app, it reloads. So i was thinking that flashing to stock and back to gb roms would fix this. I have a old captivate which came with eclair. So can i just flash back to eclair using "I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0" which i used to use before.

If its worked before why wouldn't it work now? I'm confused with your question. I can't remember if it has Bootloaders or not, but I would recommend flashing a stock rom with out them (just look in the package with winrar or 7zip to see if it has boot.bin and sbl.bin (primary and secondary bootloaders)

Flashing a different kernel could solve ur problem as well. DarkCore kernel ,the one Apex comes with, has aggressive LMK (low memory killer) settings which is y ur facing that side effect. If u'd want max performance then go for the latest talon 0.5.1.2 - 1200 (big mem if u want an extra 13mb free ram and don't intend to use 720p video recording as it disables it) and once done with flashing talon in cwm look for MemoryFreak in ur apps where adjust background apps to 48 , zram to 160 and swappines to 50. Apply and restart.
After all this u'd still not like how it works I'd reflash Apex, but starting from the roots ( back to stock ) and clearing all (data,cache and dalvik) followed by apex ,and offcourse make sure u have gb bootloaders

Thank you
Thank you. I decided to follow your advice and install talon. Before that, just to be safe, i decided to disable lagfix. Disabling the lagfix fixed all my problems. The phone is now more responsive than ever.
fuloplori said:
Flashing a different kernel could solve ur problem as well. DarkCore kernel ,the one Apex comes with, has aggressive LMK (low memory killer) settings which is y ur facing that side effect. If u'd want max performance then go for the latest talon 0.5.1.2 - 1200 (big mem if u want an extra 13mb free ram and don't intend to use 720p video recording as it disables it) and once done with flashing talon in cwm look for MemoryFreak in ur apps where adjust background apps to 48 , zram to 160 and swappines to 50. Apply and restart.
After all this u'd still not like how it works I'd reflash Apex, but starting from the roots ( back to stock ) and clearing all (data,cache and dalvik) followed by apex ,and offcourse make sure u have gb bootloaders
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[Q] Best Kernel to Fix Lag on Gingerbread

Apologies if this has already been covered, i have searched beforehand i promise.
I have a a Galaxy running on Stock Gingerbread Firmware, and while it is slightly better than Froyo for lag issue, is nowhere near as fast as it was with OCLF oN Froyo. Unfortunately it only worked for 2 weeks before going even slower than before he fix so i removed it (after some messing about).
From what I have read, changing or patching the Kernel seems to be the best way to fix the lag issue, but there are so many different kernels from various developers, I really don't know where to start.
Can someone recommend a Kernel that will help fix the lag issue and get the phone working to it's full potential (it was lightning fast after I first installed the OCLF)?
I have installed firmware with Odin, rooted and installed OCLF previously, but that is about as far as I have messed about with my phone, so no expert. So if you can point in the direction of a guide to install too, that would be amazing (though i could probably find myself, once i know what Kernel i'm using)
This is the full details of model/firmware etc:
Model: I9000
Firmware: 2.3.3
Baseband: I9000XXJVO
Kernal: [email protected] #2
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXJVO
Thanks in advance
**ok, just realised i posted thread in wrong forum, should have gone in Q & A, apologies. Unfortunately, can't delete or move**

Try semaphore 1.8.2bm, use ext4 app v1.3 to convert to ext4. Use acid tweak to remove journals from system and cache file systems. Set lmk to 56 mb, use screen sensitivity fix, use smartassv 2 and sio and you'll have a fast phone that is solid with great battery life, remove profiles from setcpu if used. I also use darkys zipalign script and 3g script, works really well
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I'm using stock odexed jvt with custom theme, all Samsung bloatware removed.
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Thanks have found the kernel will give it a try.
Since i posted, I have installed a SpeedMod Kernel CWM which i used to root and change to Ext4. I assume once i change back to rfs it is safe to try this kernel?
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Thank you for your advixe, I have made of the suggested changes and it is running noticeably smoother and quadrant test up from 965 (without mod) to over 1600.
The only thing i haven't done is the Acid Tweak, I'm not sure exactly how to install this. I found the download here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266715
Can you advise how i install this please?
Also what would you recommend to remove bloat apps?

Instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18285859#post18285859

cookm75 said:
Thank you for your advixe, I have made of the suggested changes and it is running noticeably smoother and quadrant test up from 965 (without mod) to over 1600.
The only thing i haven't done is the Acid Tweak, I'm not sure exactly how to install this. I found the download here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266715
Can you advise how i install this please?
Also what would you recommend to remove bloat apps?
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I think you need to convert to RFS, then flash semaphore 1.8.2bm using SGS flasher (wipe cache & dalvik cache afterwards). One you are on Semaphore or Galaxian, you don't need to convert to RFS, simply flash!
Then use ext4 app V1.3 to convert to ext4.
I've uploaded acid tweaks zip file, apply this zip file from CWM.
Reboot, edit the /etc/system/init.d/*acid* script, comment out the line for the
/data file system. I have uploaded my acidtweak file.
Also uploaded extra scripts from here, there and everywhere. Please remove the ".txt" file extension and make the files executable. Probably best to try each file one at a time so you know the effect.
If you are running Semaphore 1.8.2bm, use smartassv2 and sio, and the sensitivity tweak, SD card tweak, I don't think you need any other tweaks, but you can try!
Note that the tuned gsp.conf file is for the UK, I normally get at least 8 satellites very quickly with an accuracy of 10m (sometimes 5m)
Note that the 56Mb script sets the LMK value to 56Mb and should run later on so overwrites the semaphore value (usually set to 48Mb or 64Mb)
Let me know if you need any help

Thanks for that. Though I think you may have overestimated my knowledge lol
So far, I have installed the Semaphore Kernal, Used Ext4 to change the filesystem to Ext4, Applied some of the mentioned tweaks in Semaphore such as Smartass2 etc.
I haven't cleared cache and dalvik, would it be safe to do this now? What does this do?
Now the part where I struggle:
I have no idea how to edit acidtweak file (though I did try applying the zip file and my phone would no longer boot, getting errors about not being able to mount data etc)
The uploaded scripts: I can remove the txt extension, but how do I make them executable? Do I then copy them to my phone and run them?
Once again, cheers

cookm75 said:
Thanks for that. Though I think you may have overestimated my knowledge lol
So far, I have installed the Semaphore Kernal, Used Ext4 to change the filesystem to Ext4, Applied some of the mentioned tweaks in Semaphore such as Smartass2 etc.
I haven't cleared cache and dalvik, would it be safe to do this now? What does this do?
Now the part where I struggle:
I have no idea how to edit acidtweak file (though I did try applying the zip file and my phone would no longer boot, getting errors about not being able to mount data etc)
The uploaded scripts: I can remove the txt extension, but how do I make them executable? Do I then copy them to my phone and run them?
Once again, cheers
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press three power button, enter recovery mode, choose apply zip file, choose acid tweak zip file. Reboot. You can now copy the acid tweak script into /system/etc/init.d and remove the . txt files in this directory will run when the phone boots. I use root explorer to make files executable, I think the free es explorer app may do the same.
You can copy the other files into this directory and enable then by making then executable. Long press on file, options, click on executable boxes (3 off)
If you are a noob, always best to backup /efs folder, you can do this with root explorer, long press on folder, copy, go to sd card, paste
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I have tried applying the Acidtweak zip file, but then my phone fails to restart, will not pass the Initial Boot screen (not the animated one)
I can access swm but id displays the following errors:
E: Unknown volume for path [/data] and [/cache], can't mount /cache/recovery/command etc
Have had to flash the softwre again to get it working.

Had you converted to ext4 before flashing acid tweak from cwm?
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Yes, already done
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