10/Mar 3.2 - MoDaCo Custom ROM for GSM Hero (now with online kitchen)

[Guest teknologist]

Hi,

I did this update, than you very much teknologist! It is running smoother now, I have only tried in the last 10 minutes though, so we shall see it's further behaviour!

Glad you like it.

Compache's ramzswap rocks !

Out of curiosity, How much RAMZSWAP did you use ?

By the way have been using my phone since yesterday afternoon and battery is still 37% and phone is still fast and stable.

Hope it is for everyone.

As for the responsiveness it seems to be a common feeling for everyone trying it

Edited October 27, 2009 by teknologist

[Guest keef319]

Here you go.

recovery_RA_HERO_v1.2.3.zip

Cheers.

I've just put v1.2.2 on using Better Terminal, now I can't access the Recovery. GRRR! Thought I'd bricked the phone at one point, but it EVENTUALLY boots up using the power button. Followed the video instructions of "EmoGamer" on YouTube as well!! Weird!

Will try v1.2.3 now and see if I can any better luck!! :D

[Guest teknologist]

To all of those who insatlled my compache kernel update, you can get stats using:

cat /proc/ramzswap

wait a few hours and get that info..maybe post it it here then.

If /proc/ramzswap is not found then you didn't install correctly (ie: you might be running my kernel but not the compache module)

[Guest Robert Davidson]

Yep you got it working !

Great,

Have tried it out with a few of my apps and yes I can see a vast difference in speed when opening and closing them. I will give more feedback in 24 hours.

Thanks again.

[Guest keef319]

Cheers.

I've just put v1.2.2 on using Better Terminal, now I can't access the Recovery. GRRR! Thought I'd bricked the phone at one point, but it EVENTUALLY boots up using the power button. Followed the video instructions of "EmoGamer" on YouTube as well!! Weird!

Will try v1.2.3 now and see if I can any better luck!! :D

v1.2.3 worked no probs. I'm wondering if v1.2.2 didn't work as I still had the cyanogen v1.4 recovery on the SD card.

Right, time to back up my SD card and get it partitioned!! :P

[Guest etherealG]

Here we go,

...

Cheers,

--Eric

PS: Feedback is welcomed. for the moment we are 2 users using it and are pretty delighted with the perfs/responsiveness

And of course the usual stuff...if it breaks or turns your phone into a gremlin I am not responsible...use it at your own risk. That being said, there is nothing completely crazy/hardcore about this kernel...just plain hero with a few patches and tweaks...not that much. (ie: Again, it doesn't overclock anything, everything runs at stock manufacturer speeds etc.)

Hey Eric

Thanks a lot for the effort on this. I'm busy installing it right now and hoping to see the speed change! :D I was on a 32mb swapper app dedicated linux swap partition before. now I've setup 64mb after reformatting and will be using your kernel. I'll post my results here, thanks again.

[Guest etherealG]

Glad you like it.

Compache's ramzswap rocks !

Out of curiosity, How much RAMZSWAP did you use ?

By the way have been using my phone since yesterday afternoon and battery is still 37% and phone is still fast and stable.

Hope it is for everyone.

As for the responsiveness it seems to be a common feeling for everyone trying it

well, I just got it installed. a massive difference in boot time, about 3/4 the time it normally takes. and also much faster in general use. omg dude, you made the modaco rom even faster! amazing.

[Guest keef319]

v1.2.3 worked no probs. I'm wondering if v1.2.2 didn't work as I still had the cyanogen v1.4 recovery on the SD card.

Right, time to back up my SD card and get it partitioned!! :D

How can I tell if my SD card is partitioned? Is there some way to look at all partitions?

A2SD is automatic, so on reboot will the apps get moved to the SD card?

cheers

[Guest etherealG]

How can I tell if my SD card is partitioned? Is there some way to look at all partitions?

A2SD is automatic, so on reboot will the apps get moved to the SD card?

cheers

something like this will do the trick:

C:\sdk\tools>adb shell

/ # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

GNU Parted 1.8.8.1.179-aef3

Using /dev/block/mmcblk0

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) print

print

print

Model: SD USD (sd/mmc)

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 16.1GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 512B 15.4GB 15.4GB primary fat32 lba

2 15.4GB 15.9GB 500MB primary ext3

3 15.9GB 16.1GB 202MB primary linux-swap(v1)

(parted) quit

the table near the bottom shows your partition structure on your memory card. you'll want 64mb on the last "linux-swap" partition at least. so minus that from your card size, and 500mb for an ext2 or ext3 partition for apps2sd. yes, apps2sd is automatic, but I'm not sure about already installed apps, I just did a wipe and reinstalled all mine.

[Guest keef319]

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 32.3kB 7633MB 7633MB primary fat32 lba

2 7633MB 8135MB 502MB primary ext3

3 8135MB 8166MB 31.5MB primary linux-swap(v1)

This is what I got. The partitioning was done automatically in the Amon Ra Custom recovery v1.2.3. Is that linux-swap gonna be too small? I like things to be done automatically for me you see...LOL!!!

I guess I'm gonna have a big list of apps to download and install AGAIN if A2SD doesn't move already-installed apps!!! GRRR!!!

[Guest keef319]

Actually, I've just looked at the thread on how to create partitions. Now I'm SLOWLY getting used to playing with ADB I reckon I can manage this... :D

I'll make the linux swap a bit bigger...what's advisable? MINIMUM 64MB, but what's optimum?

[Guest cyde]

Well,

I applied Pauls' 2.8 image, followed immediately by:

The 2.8 Enhanced pack

The 2.8 sound pack.

The 2.7.1 Wavesecure pack

Then the Teknologist's updated kernal.

Applied the OpenVPN software/apps as per my other post.

~ After reboot.

Added userinit.sh for the compcache to /system/sd ... this did not work (I added when I was in the Fastboot after applying the update.zip's) I had to run it manually after hero was booted. I will investigate this. I have a 72M partition (so I am safely a bit bigger than 64M).

After running userinit.sh manually, I get in /proc/swaps a report of /dev/block/ramzswap0 and a lot of numbers/etc. so this appears to be working.

Connected VPN successfully ( it died as expected until I did a insmod /...tun.ko), and RDP'd to my home network successfully.

Installed Droidwall, and it appears to be working.

So . All in all, good work to both of you (Paul and Tek). Exactly what I wanted.

Also. OpenVPN - I could never get the GUI to work. I had to run the openvpn connection from Superuser command prompt to start it, and kill to kill the process.

-Randy.

[Guest keef319]

In the end I created a 128MB Linux-swap partition, 512MB ext3 partition, and the fat32 is 7526MB...

The real pain...I think A2SD must've moved everything across initially. I removed and recreated the partitions, all my downloaded apps have done (dead shortcuts!!). BOOO!! lol.

Now begins the task of downloading them again...

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Will everything cache automatically to the SD card? ie, Twidroid, Browser etc...

[Guest CeNSuRaDo]

After installing MCR 2.8 Core do I need to partition SD manually?

I've been throw lots of SD card problem and it seem that happen only with me :D

I need a very explanatory guide to get my SD Card well partitioned and A2SD working like it should cause I'm not that developer ppl

Thanks

[Guest JamesKing]

Hi teknologist.

Does your kernel support ext4? I made my Apps2SD partition ext4 because the MoDaCo kernel supports ext4, so I thought it would be better to make the apps2SD partition ext4. But I'm not sure if this was the right thing?

[Guest CeNSuRaDo]

Hey tekno, should it be a success? :D

# cat /proc/swaps

cat /proc/swaps

Filename Type Size Used Priority

/dev/block/ramzswap0 partition 62692 20 -1

# cat /proc/ramzswap

cat /proc/ramzswap

DiskSize: 62701 kB

MemLimit: 29444 kB

NumReads: 6

NumWrites: 5

FailedReads: 0

FailedWrites: 0

InvalidIO: 0

NotifyFree: 0

ZeroPages: 0

GoodCompress: 100 %

NoCompress: 0 %

PagesStored: 5

PagesUsed: 3

OrigDataSize: 20 kB

ComprDataSize: 8 kB

MemUsedTotal: 12 kB

BDevNumReads: 0

BDevNumWrites: 0

[Guest teknologist]

Hey tekno, should it be a success? :D

Yep but you need to wait a bit longer to see nice stats on /proc/ramzswap

[Guest teknologist]

Hi teknologist.

Does your kernel support ext4? I made my Apps2SD partition ext4 because the MoDaCo kernel supports ext4, so I thought it would be better to make the apps2SD partition ext4. But I'm not sure if this was the right thing?

Yep,

If you look at /proc/config.gz with lets say:

zcat /proc/config/gz

you'll see:

CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y

ext4 is in the kernel.

Again my work started using Paul's kernel config so everything Paul's 2.8 kernel had, mine has.

In addition to Paul it also has a tun.ko module that works and the compcache modules and their dependencies (lzo modules) working.

In the next build I'll see what I can add that makes sense for an android phone...

[Guest Carl_Brummy]

I have updated to 2.8 (thanks to Paul for his continued work...excellent!), however, I have a slight issue, whenever I boot my phone, I try to access any of the apps and all I am faced with is the 'SU request' screen blank. The only way out is to press Home, then access the menu again...

If I run swapper for example to change settings, every time I click on something, it switches to the same 'SU Request' screen and I have to go round again, Home, menu, swapper to get back to the app...and carry on with my steps...starting to get annoying...what is this SU Request, I thought the phone was pre-rooted and not needed this....

Is this normal? My swapper appears to be running ok.....besides this quirk...

Thanks,

Carl.

[Guest gazosdeamigos]

Glad you like it. By the way, it's not a ROM, just the kernel. the ROM is Paul's. He deserves the credit for that.

Did you find any decent GUI for openVPN ?

I have it installed but I don't use it cause it bugs me to use command line to launch a quick vpn connection...

No I had to do it the manual way of using

insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko

mkdir /dev/net

ln -s /dev/tun /dev/net/tun

Seems to work spot on, using 64mb of swap and it feels fast

Edited October 27, 2009 by gazosdeamigos

[Guest Euthanatos]

After 9h of running

it shows

#cat /proc/swaps

/dev/block/ramzswap0

152608 94220 -1

and it works great, my phone flyes.

I have only a class 4 Card but works fine too.

[Guest gazosdeamigos]

No I had to do it the manual way of using

insmod /system/lib/modules/tun.ko

mkdir /dev/net

ln -s /dev/tun /dev/net/tun

Seems to work spot on, using 64mb of swap and it feels fast

Evidently I have just installed Get-A-Robot_vpnc and it has worked so GUI is a go!!

[Guest teknologist]

Evidently I have just installed Get-A-Robot_vpnc and it has worked so GUI is a go!!

Never got it to work on my side.

As soon as I import config it force closes !

[Guest teknologist]

After 9h of running

it shows

#cat /proc/swaps

/dev/block/ramzswap0

152608 94220 -1

and it works great, my phone flyes.

I have only a class 4 Card but works fine too.

well that line will never change over time

Now if you want to see perf over time your need to cat this one instead:

cat /proc/ramzswap

it gives statistics on RAM pages compression and it seems average reported ratio here is 4.5 !!! ;-)

[Guest Christophe Vandeplas]

Never got it to work on my side.

As soon as I import config it force closes !

Afaik Get-A-Robot_vpnc is only for ipsec vpn's,

openvpn uses a complete different technology (ssl) to do the vpn-ning

I hope to release soonish an alpha as openvpn gui