Hi,
Running DXJPA and flashed Speedmod k10j-500hz #16 last night. Booted into recovery mode and flashed EXT4 which I thought was a Lagfix. Anyways it worked but when it was doing it's initial installation and back-ups it stated it was a "ClockWorkMod Lag Fix Edition"(not sure about the Rev.#).
My Quad. benchmark went from 987 to 1270, and the unit felt much snappier.
My question is, did I somehow install the wrong lagfix and just get lucky?
And
Is there anywas I can confirm which lagfix I've applied?
Cheers.....
speedmod's kernel has the ext4 lagfix and that is what you have done based from what you stated.
so yes you are now using an EXT4 lagfix with your phone. you can disable it by going back to cwm and choose disable lagfix. cwm will then make a nandroid back-up and reboot your unit with RFS
Hi, I got the stock JVB running with supercurios hacked kernel and ext4 lagfix applied. I want to flash Juwes ROM 4.1 now. There are 2 versions, one with WIPE and one without WIPE. I am planning to flash the NO WIPE version to keep my apps and settings.
Do I have to undo the ext4 lagfix before flashing? Juwe says "to make sure", that does sound kind of optional...
I already did a lagfix-undo once and I experienced FCs after it.
Just installed it without lagfix-undo and without any wipes. everything seems to work fine so far.
Lets say im already on serendipity 7, naturally i have the GB bootloaders. Can I flash any GB ROM over serendipity, or do some GB firmwares not play well with others when flashing one over another?
Or is it pretty straight forward, if I'm already on Gingerbread, im good to go as far as flashing any other gingerbread ROM over the one im on?
yes it should be pretty straight forward...unless you are switching to continuum(which has talon kernel and cwm 3) you need to odin talon first and then flash continuum from the orange cwm. if you were going to any other gb rom, say mosaic for example, just wiping data/factory reset, wiping cache, and wiping dalvik cache then flashing the rom will be fine.
oh if youve done any converting to EXT4 (chainfire app, or voodoo lagfix) convert back to rfs first.
In the threads for each rom it should say which bootloaders its running and from which model, if it matches what you have it'll work. Just be careful with CM7 and MIUI because they use custom ones.
Hi All
I am currently running stock Android 2.3.3 on my SGS and I have 16 GB internal storage and 16 GB microSD storage.
I want to install Cyanogenmod or DarkyROM and I also want to format the disk using a faster filesytem e.g RS or ext4.
Could you please point me in the right direction? I am not completely noob, I have flashed my HTC HD2 with TyphooN Cyanogenmod v3.5.4 successfully but I am very new to the scene.
Thanks
Mike
If you like a bit more speed, theme manager, and more custom options flash cyanogenmod. But it uses a bit more battery than stock roms and videoplayback is not fully working for some file formats, there are problems with hd videorecording and tv out is not working and also occasional bugs that the device won't wake up and so on...
When flashing a modified Samsung Stockrom you won't have this problems
For filesystem Samsung RFS and ext4 are relatively on par with speed. You won't notice any difference with the bare eye. The only problem with rfs is that it is fat based so it gets fragmented over the time and after a few months of usage the phone is getting a bit slower.
If you want a all in one package I would probably go for darky or any other rom.
If you want a small barebon like system that you can expand with the things you really need I would go for surface .
For flashing there isn't really much to do. Put the zip file with your rom on the internal sd card. Turn the phone off. Go into recovery with pressing volup+home+power and then letting go when phone turns on.
In menu choose select zip from sdcard, choose the rom and install it. Reboot and it should be done
You are very kind chainer1, I was looking at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide and I cannot see where I could format the partition where Android will install, to ext4.
Yes I am worried about file system errors in my current SGS because I think I have ejected it without safely removing it; so I want to format both internal and external SD cards and start fresh.
Q: Can I have Hardcore's SpeedMod kernel with ClockworkMod Recovery installed as per http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide in my SGS and continue to run with my stock Androind 2.3.3?
internal and external sd card are just user space it has nothing to do with the partitions the systemfiles are on. the internal and external sdcards are fat, you cant do anything about that. when you install a stock rom through odin or kies, partitions like system, data, dbdata, cache are formatted in rfs. generally if you are flashing a roms, things on internal or external sdcard remain untouched. after you have flashed a custom rom with custom kernel you can do filesystem conversion to ext4. on kernels based of chainfire's you have to do it via chainfires ext4 app. on speedmod via recoverymode i think. but be aware that cm and samsung rom have differrnt kernels. you cant use speedmod for cm7 only for samsung roms.
and yes that should work that you can run speedmod while staying on stock.
and you dont have cwm recovery if you dont flash a custom kernel via odin before. check if there is a tar version of speedmod and flash it as pda via odin. after that it should be done.
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This is great. One last question, can I format partitions like system, data, dbdata, cache using ClockworkMod Recovery? I am asking this because I can't test ClockworkMod Recovery anymore in my HD2 because I "without knowing" installed ROM Manager and updated CWM which has prevented me from using Recovery. It says "Invalid boot image".
you can format them. but you likely cant change the filesystem. i guess you can enable ext4 on speedmod in cwm, but i dont know exactly cause i havent used speedmod for ages on gingerbread
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If you go to a cm rom like insanity, you get yaffs file system, which imho is miles ahead in terms of speed
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I had Samsung Android 2.3.4 and I followed http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide to the word and after
"Click Start on the Heimdall Frontend. A blue transfer bar will appear on the phone showing the kernel being transferred. The device will reboot automatically."
It it stuck at the boot where it says
Galaxy S
GT-I9000
SAMSUNG
Please help
Edit 1: Okay I installed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106075 and now it loads that kernal.
chainer1 said:
and yes that should work that you can run speedmod while staying on stock.
and you dont have cwm recovery if you dont flash a custom kernel via odin before. check if there is a tar version of speedmod and flash it as pda via odin. after that it should be done.
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Warning for new users of Samsung Galaxy S (SGS) with Gingerbread... flashing SpeedMod as per http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide will make your phone not boot! When that guide says "This guide assumes the Samsung Galaxy S already has Android 2.2 installed on it. If the Samsung Galaxy S is already rooted & has ClockworkMod Recovery installed, skip this section." it really does mean that.
Now as for my situation, I have ended up in a rather weird state:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7pw7B9B0glM/TkRh2hXHcLI/AAAAAAAACQo/WZuadkg7W44/s800/11+-+1
I have a SGS with Samsung Android 2.3.4 and TalonDEV 0.4.3 kernel installed.
My goal is to install Cyanogenmod latest Nightly.
What are my options? Thanks guys.
I've got 2 1897...one is runnin slim ics fine...the other is acting funny...I flashed apex...then I flashed froyo stock...then flashed speedmod kernel and tried to flash cyanogen...download mode works fine..even recovery...but for some reason nothing actually BOOTS!!! Any suggestions?
You said you flashed stock... But does it boot? Try doing things again but follow the steps more carefully
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I've got 2 1897...one is runnin slim ics fine...the other is acting funny...I flashed apex...then I flashed froyo stock...then flashed speedmod kernel and tried to flash cyanogen...download mode works fine..even recovery...but for some reason nothing actually BOOTS!!! Any suggestions?
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Did you wipe the cache partition? That was my problem when this happened to me as cyanogenmod uses a different cache partition.
If you still can't get it work, try mounting the internal SD card to MTP and flashing a different ROM, if not, you'll have to restore a stock image with Odin and start from the beginning.