271 replies to this topic

[pedrojaime]

rangeoshun, on 26 September 2011 - 11:44 AM, said:

Hi!

I used this rom for I don't know a few weeks now, and I have to say great work! I had no fc till yet, and the battery last for 3 days or more, depending the 3g usage. I turn it off, and rarely use it now days. So fine rom, thank you!

The only problem is, wifi sleeps too! Is there a way to stay online, while sleeping?

Cheers!

There is a small app called 'Auto Airplane Mode' - this one: http://www.appbrain....e/be1ay.flymode which can switch off radio completely but keep wifi on.  I am not sure if that is what you are after.  Otherwise, download timeriffic which is very flexible and you can set different times for 3G, wifi, etc..  Many profiles can be created in 1 day, weekends, party time, etc.  hope it helps,

Peter

[pedrojaime]

I have a question someone should be able to answer, when I run a clockwork backup, I get the error:

Backing up cache...
E:Can't mount /dev/blockmmcblk0p2
(File exists)
Could not mount sd-ext.  sd-ext backup is not supported on this device.  Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum...

Backup complete!

I have main fat32 partition, 512mb sd-ext partition formatted as EXT3 and 32mb Linux swap partition.  I tried EXT4 before but a2sd is not able to move applications to sd-ext in this format for deleted and recreated that partition as EXT3.  I am now thinking, should I be using EXT2 only with this ROM?

Many thanks,


Peter

Edited by pedrojaime, 26 September 2011 - 01:52 PM.

[perljun]

Hi twrock,

Droidwall is an iptable based firewall. This is a quote is from the Droidwall FAQ concerning an error message

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2. no chains/target/match by that name

This error message unfortunately means that your kernel does not support netfilter owner match module, so droidwall will not work.

There is nothing I can do on droidwall to make it work, and the only possible solution is to flash a customized ROM with support for this feature.

ROM developers, please ensure that the following configuration option is enabled in the kernel (either built-in or as a module): CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_OWNER

AntonioPT has it enabled in his CyanogenMod Plus rom but I don't want to use a 2.2 rom.

AntonioPT, on 08 March 2011 - 05:20 PM, said:

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Additional useful downloads:

• My custom kernel to enable support for DroidWall (710MHz OC, flashable zip): http://www.mediafire...ati4doahrmh4l3f

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I don't really know much about android and so far no one has answered my question wether you can use a kernel for a 2.2 rom in a 2.1 rom. So I don't know wether I can just flash AntonioP kernel or not.





Thanks

Edited by perljun, 26 September 2011 - 02:14 PM.

[twrock]

pedrojaime, on 26 September 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

I have a question someone should be able to answer, when I run a clockwork backup, I get the error:

Backing up cache...
E:Can't mount /dev/blockmmcblk0p2
(File exists)
Could not mount sd-ext.  sd-ext backup is not supported on this device.  Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum...

Backup complete!

I have main fat32 partition, 512mb sd-ext partition formatted as EXT3 and 32mb Linux swap partition.  I tried EXT4 before but a2sd is not able to move applications to sd-ext in this format for deleted and recreated that partition as EXT3.  I am now thinking, should I be using EXT2 only with this ROM?

Many thanks,


Peter

For what it's worth, I use ext2 and I have never seen that error.

[twrock]

perljun, on 26 September 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

Hi twrock,

Droidwall is an iptable based firewall. This is a quote is from the Droidwall FAQ concerning an error message

AntonioPT has it enabled in his CyanogenMod Plus rom but I don't want to use a 2.2 rom.

I don't really know much about android and so far no one has answered my question wether you can use a kernel for a 2.2 rom in a 2.1 rom. So I don't know wether I can just flash AntonioP kernel or not.

Thanks

Please give me a link to that FAQ.
Regarding what will or won't work with roms, most of the time when I'm wondering, I just try it to find out. I haven't destroyed my phone yet.

[rangeoshun]

pedrojaime, on 26 September 2011 - 01:45 PM, said:

There is a small app called 'Auto Airplane Mode' - this one: http://www.appbrain....e/be1ay.flymode which can switch off radio completely but keep wifi on.  I am not sure if that is what you are after.  Otherwise, download timeriffic which is very flexible and you can set different times for 3G, wifi, etc..  Many profiles can be created in 1 day, weekends, party time, etc.  hope it helps,

Peter

Thanx, but I'd like to manage to keep wifi on, while my phone sleeps. To get gtalk notifications, which I don't, becaouse, when I put my phone to sleep it turns off wifi. Right now, I do this by connecting it to PC > debug mode > keep phone awake.

[pedrojaime]

I wanted to add a custom ringtone.  How would I do this?  Create a symbolic link in the /system folder to my folder where the media files are?  What I am strugging is to get Android to recognise where more media files are located (apart from the default location that has only a few .ogg files.  Would the media files have to be in .ogg format too?  Hope someone has tried this.  thanks

Peter

[twrock]

pedrojaime, on 26 September 2011 - 10:13 PM, said:

I wanted to add a custom ringtone.  How would I do this?  Create a symbolic link in the /system folder to my folder where the media files are?  What I am strugging is to get Android to recognise where more media files are located (apart from the default location that has only a few .ogg files.  Would the media files have to be in .ogg format too?  Hope someone has tried this.  thanks

Peter

Might I suggest an "easy" way. Use Root Explorer or a similar app to copy the sound files into /system/media/audio/ringtones. If you want more space, remove something else you don't want out of /system to make space. (Root Explorer will show you how much space you have left in /system.) Of course the advantage of a symlink is that space will not be an issue. But I also don't know how to do that.

I believe mp3 works as well. However, you need to know that you need to add a custom tag to your ringtones (at least the ogg ones; I don't know about mp3), otherwise they will only play one time through and not keep ringing. Although I have done it, I can't remember exactly how to do it, but there was a thread about it that covered that topic in detail. Use the search function to find it.

[pedrojaime]

Excellent twrock, spot on as always!  I always wondered why my ringtones only played once in other roms so that's another issue solved!  Oh, and that weird error running clockwork backup - definitely solved by having sd-ext partition formatted as ext2.  Maybe Gingerbread accepts ext3/4, not sure, but ext2 is what works for 2.1 and this rom.  thanks a lot

[pedrojaime]

Well, I don't know if its that FLB boot.img or what but this rom seems to loop ringtones/notification tones, etc automatically - there is no need to edit file tags at all!  If you go to 'Sound & display settings' and go to the ringtone selector (or notification selector for that matter), you will notice that the sound file is looped until you click OK/Cancel so this is great.  Just tested with an incoming call and the ringtone still loops.  Another + for this great rom!

btw, in the end I downloaded a free app called 'Ghost Commander File Manager' which allows  rw mounting of /system.  Good fast little program, not too large either.  Selected 'Root mode on leaving /sdcard' in settings, then go up to / and when prompted, set allow to superuser access prompt. done.  You will need to reboot phone (to remount /system) so that Android settings can see your newly pasted media file in /system/media/audio/ringtones directory.  Hope it helps others struggling with this.

[ganker]

what?? that ext backup issue solved by using ext2 i gotta try that!  and return to apps2sd!!


How about the SD card is damaged issue i got

attach usb kabel to pc
mount usb
safely unmount and discount .... and i often get a message from android = SD card damaged!

ganker

[perljun]

twrock, on 26 September 2011 - 02:33 PM, said:

Please give me a link to that FAQ.
Regarding what will or won't work with roms, most of the time when I'm wondering, I just try it to find out. I haven't destroyed my phone yet.

Hi twrock,

http://code.google.com/p/droidwall/

Usually I'd agree with you but I don't wanna flash a rom just to test out wether one app works with it or not I thought it might be faster to just ask the author

edit: I've been reading up a bit on the subject and from what I understand is that these three lines

CONFIG_NETFILTER=y 
CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=y 
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_OWNER=y

have to added in ~/kernel/droid/omap

I'm not certain if that is all thats required though

Edited by perljun, 27 September 2011 - 04:12 PM.

[twrock]

perljun, on 27 September 2011 - 03:56 PM, said:

Hi twrock,

http://code.google.com/p/droidwall/

Usually I'd agree with you but I don't wanna flash a rom just to test out wether one app works with it or not I thought it might be faster to just ask the author

edit: I've been reading up a bit on the subject and from what I understand is that these three lines

CONFIG_NETFILTER=y 
CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=y 
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_OWNER=y

have to added in ~/kernel/droid/omap

I'm not certain if that is all thats required though

Thanks. I'll try to look at that link later. But if your description is correct, that is not something I have the ability to do. Initially it looks like that is part of compiling a kernel. I only know how to work with files in the ramdisk of the boot.img. (boot.img=kernel+ramdisk) So don't get your hopes up.

[twrock]

pedrojaime, on 27 September 2011 - 03:11 PM, said:

Well, I don't know if its that FLB boot.img or what but this rom seems to loop ringtones/notification tones, etc automatically - there is no need to edit file tags at all!  If you go to 'Sound & display settings' and go to the ringtone selector (or notification selector for that matter), you will notice that the sound file is looped until you click OK/Cancel so this is great.  Just tested with an incoming call and the ringtone still loops.  Another + for this great rom!

btw, in the end I downloaded a free app called 'Ghost Commander File Manager' which allows  rw mounting of /system.  Good fast little program, not too large either.  Selected 'Root mode on leaving /sdcard' in settings, then go up to / and when prompted, set allow to superuser access prompt. done.  You will need to reboot phone (to remount /system) so that Android settings can see your newly pasted media file in /system/media/audio/ringtones directory.  Hope it helps others struggling with this.

Once again my memory is failing me. Now that you mention it, I believe the repeating ringtone problem only appeared in Froyo. But don't quote me on that.

[pedrojaime]

Now that we are on a roll does anyone know how to force skype to output sound via the in-call speaker or is this a problem with the skype application itself?  Calls only go out through speakerphone for me on this rom (headphones work too btw).  thanks!

[huawei8220]

Hello "FTB 2.1 rom users",

is the front-cam working?

Frank

[pedrojaime]

huawei8220, on 28 September 2011 - 10:57 AM, said:

Hello "FTB 2.1 rom users",

is the front-cam working?

Frank

Most definitely, just open up the stock camera app, press menu button and select 'secondary camera' to see yourself

[rangeoshun]

pedrojaime, on 27 September 2011 - 05:14 PM, said:

Now that we are on a roll does anyone know how to force skype to output sound via the in-call speaker or is this a problem with the skype application itself?  Calls only go out through speakerphone for me on this rom (headphones work too btw).  thanks!

It only worked for me on a 2.3 rom, that is neidher the 2.1 nor the 2.2 roms seems to be good for it. And remember it is Microsoft now, so expect as such.

[Dante2070]

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Important: Please do yourself a favour and tweak this rom immediately  after you finish the initial setup and before you do anything else with  it. If you do not reduce the swappiness, you will experience  significant lag after a shot time. I have a swap partition of 32mb. So I  set swappiness to 30. If your swap partition is bigger than mine, you  need to set that number even lower (20 or 15 or 10 depending on the size  of your partition).

Open Terminal Emulator and type the following:
su
a2sd swappy30
a2sd lowmem-moderate
a2sd cachesd
Your phone will reboot, and then take some time to move the Dalvik  cache. Please be patient and wait for it to finish and settle down. This  will take some time. Don't assume anything has gone wrong. Just wait.

Being a noob in these things, where can I look up the size of my partition on the sd card?

The second command "lowmem-moderate", what is it for?

And lastly, is it safe to modify the rom before install, replacing the ADW with launcher pro, the standard keyboard with smart keyboard pro and replace the ringtones in the system/app folder?

[pedrojaime]

@Rangeoshun - that was exactly my experience too

@Dante2070:
The app 'freespace' gives good information on the size of your partitions on the SD card.  Beware, only use EXT2 format for the second SD-EXT partition with this rom/Android 2.1 rom.

PARTITIONING SD CARD:
I found these useful guides which explain the process well.  Depending on your experience and PC operating system, chose one of these methods:
1. WINDOWS GUIDE: http://android.modac...rtition-sdcard/
2. LINUX GUIDE: http://androidandme....ndroid-apps2sd/
3. ALTERNATIVE: search for Amon_RA to flash instead of Clockwork recovery, explanied somewhere on this forum too (how to partition with Amon_ra)

4. Personally, I did not use amon_ra but connected usb cable from phone to PC (phone must be in recovery mode with Clockwork Recovery v2.5.0.7), go to 'mounts and storage' -> 'mount usb storage'.  Once the sd card is mounted on Linux PC, run 'gparted' (with superuser rights), make sure you select your SD card and not your PC hard disk!  You can now partition.  I deleted all the partitions, then created fat32, ext2, linux-swap, apply, .  If it all went well, put the rom .zip file on the phone from the PC, 'unmount usb storage' on phone, install rom selecting the 'install zip from sdcard' option .  This worked well for me.

MEMORY AND ANDROID:
There is an excellent article which gives an insight into how Android handles memory (not SD space) here: http://kschang.hubpa...Faster-for-Free which helped me realise which apps were using up most of the memory on my phone (using diskusage app) explained in this article.  I recommend going through this before messing with lowmem settings..

lowmem-moderate refers to the internal Android settings for handling memory for foreground apps, background apps, hidden apps, etc.  This is a great guide which cleared up a lot for me about the A2SD command line options which you can run from terminal:
http://www.facebook....158826790833326

EDITING ROMS:
You should be able to modify ROMs before installing though I wouldn't uninstall/delete Android keyboard until the other one is up and running.  Is there a good guide someone knows about for using online kitchen (brew your own ROM/edit a ROM before installing) ?? I haven't done this too much myself.. yet!  

Hope I haven't confused you with so much information.  This should keep you busy

Peter

Edited by pedrojaime, 29 September 2011 - 02:23 PM.