Installing modaco 2.9 without wiping, stuck in endless reboot-loop

[Guest sinnadyr]

It all works just fine if I wipe the phone and then update the ROM, but if I dont it just keeps rebooting.

Saw someone talking about sdcard partitions may be damaged, but I've never done anything with it, and as said, it all works just fine when wiping or when I do a nandroid restore.

Any suggestions? Really want to keep all my settings...

[Guest JimBob]

Try taking SD Card out then letting it boot up once.

Then turn off, put SD Card back in again, then turn on again.

[Guest Thierry B]

Hello,

Try to delete the dalvik-cache :-)

Reboot with recovery and in recovery, you do on a console:

- adb shell

- mount /data

- rm /data/dalvik-cache/*

And after that, reboot (the first reboot took me 4-5 mn)

Good luck :-)

[Guest 智芃 罗]

I have the same experience last time when I flashed the modaco 2.8. And now I just use the Mybackup.*^o^*

Edited November 8, 2009 by 智芃 罗

[Guest sinnadyr]

I have the same experience last time when I flashed the modaco 2.8. And now I just use the Mybackup.*^o^*

But I live in Norway so I aint able to pay for my apps, so I can not use Mybackup Pro :\

Try connecting with "adb logcat" just after powering on your phone. Then look at exception messages, especially at the very moment that the phone reboots. That might give you a hint, as of which system app crashes. Then reboot to recovery mode, and delete that app's settings directory, under /data/data.

Edit: If all else fails, just download the trial version of "MyBackup Pro", backup everything it can, then do your upgrade (with wipe) and then restore what you need, from the backup.

Hello,

Try to delete the dalvik-cache :-)

Reboot with recovery and in recovery, you do on a console:

- adb shell

- mount /data

- rm /data/dalvik-cache/*

And after that, reboot (the first reboot took me 4-5 mn)

Good luck :-)

Havent actually found out how to use adb, or even what adb actually is other then a console application to do several stuff on my phone. Is there any guides around? And can it be used from GNU/Linux? I am able to boot windows, but would really appreciate to be able doing it with Ubuntu.

Thanks for all your answers!

[Guest ChoUpiYanG]

del swapper before you install 2.9

[Guest Keramidas]

But I live in Norway so I aint able to pay for my apps, so I can not use Mybackup Pro :\

Havent actually found out how to use adb, or even what adb actually is other then a console application to do several stuff on my phone. Is there any guides around? And can it be used from GNU/Linux? I am able to boot windows, but would really appreciate to be able doing it with Ubuntu.

Thanks for all your answers!

I don't do windows, man ;-) I'm a Linux user too ! Yes, the android sdk exists for Linux too ! In Gentoo there's a package named "android sdk" so the installation is as simple as it gets :-) I don't know about other distributions but I suppose packages exist, and if they don't, you can download and install it manually.

I'm in Switzerland and paid apps aren't supposed to be available here either. But just use Market Enabler (available on the web) so you can then buy apps. Also there's an alternative marketplace "slideme.org" where you can buy apps from anywhere, but I would only recommend it as a last recourse.

Have fun !

[Guest sinnadyr]

I don't do windows, man ;-) I'm a Linux user too ! Yes, the android sdk exists for Linux too ! In Gentoo there's a package named "android sdk" so the installation is as simple as it gets :-) I don't know about other distributions but I suppose packages exist, and if they don't, you can download and install it manually.

I'm in Switzerland and paid apps aren't supposed to be available here either. But just use Market Enabler (available on the web) so you can then buy apps. Also there's an alternative marketplace "slideme.org" where you can buy apps from anywhere, but I would only recommend it as a last recourse.

Have fun !

Just did a little intense reading, installed adb to my Ubuntu and having freaking fun with the logcat command ;D That was seriously amazing! :D

Gonna make another nandroid with the new ROM, use mybackup and use these files again with the new ROM :) Ig I get any more problems, I am definately going to use suggested adb-commands now I see how simple it is. Thanks for the tip on Market Enabler, going to try now.

And while Im at it; why delete swapper? I havent partitioned my SD at all...

And can I just format my card, boot recovery mode and let it partition it for me? Or is it smarter to use adb to partition the disk, and if so, any guides on how the partitions should be?

Thanks ALOT for your help! Im so psyked right now, and to god damn happy I bought my Android hero :D

[Guest Keramidas]

Just did a little intense reading, installed adb to my Ubuntu and having freaking fun with the logcat command ;D That was seriously amazing! :D

Gonna make another nandroid with the new ROM, use mybackup and use these files again with the new ROM :) Ig I get any more problems, I am definately going to use suggested adb-commands now I see how simple it is. Thanks for the tip on Market Enabler, going to try now.

And while Im at it; why delete swapper? I havent partitioned my SD at all...

And can I just format my card, boot recovery mode and let it partition it for me? Or is it smarter to use adb to partition the disk, and if so, any guides on how the partitions should be?

Thanks ALOT for your help! Im so psyked right now, and to god damn happy I bought my Android hero :D

You're welcome ! Yeah I enjoy the Hero (and Android) too.

Get rid of swapper, because swapping is not needed with the new Teknologist kernels. And even if you wanted to swap, you could do it yourself, by adding a simple "swapon" command in /data/init.sh...

Yes, if you have nothing important on your sdcard, just re-partition it from the recovery mode. No need for swap these days, so a simple fat + ext3 partitioning would be perfect for you.

If you want to partition manually (that's what I did) don't do these things through adb. Just install the spanking-new "amon-ra" recovery Rom, and then you can enable USB mass storage in the recovery mode, and partition your sdcard comfortably from your Linux pc, without taking the SD card out of your Hero :-)

The possibilies are endless ! But just remember to do backups in the recovery mode, just in case, and to copy them to your pc in case you screw up the SD card too !

[Guest sinnadyr]

Hmm, is the teknologist kernel included in the 2.9 ROM ? and if not, how do you install another kernel?

Thanks in advance:)

[Guest Keramidas]

Hmm, is the teknologist kernel included in the 2.9 ROM ? and if not, how do you install another kernel?

Thanks in advance:)

Yes, teknologist's kernel is included in mocado 2.9. No additional manipulation needed :-)

[Guest 智芃 罗]

But I live in Norway so I aint able to pay for my apps, so I can not use Mybackup Pro :\

Oh in fact I'm in China s it's not able to buy apps from the market, too. But one app called Market Enable can solve it perfectly.

[Guest sinnadyr]

Oh in fact I'm in China s it's not able to buy apps from the market, too. But one app called Market Enable can solve it perfectly.

It didn't do the job for me :\