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[Guest Spooke]

Hey Spooke,

good luck I'm following your exploits closely as I'm about to try this myself, there are a few guides but most assume some basic knowledge which I'm afraid I lack. Regarding the guide I don't suppose you would list your steps (If it works!) as a guide would you?

Does the phone need to be unlocked from T-mob before you try all this??

Good luck!

Hey, Well my phone isnt unlocked so that shouldnt matter,

I first installed December Update

Then I installed the Recovery Image

Then I booted into Recovery mode, Partitioned SD card etc.

Then I flashed the rom, Now I booted I get lots of force closed of acore system.. :) B)

Edit- I dont think I did, Il try that now

Edit 2- Ok seemed to fix that problem, although when it booted Touchpal forced closed lol, I dont use that anyway so it doesnt matter to me

Edit 3- the Widget text is in french, rest of UI is english, :S This is very wierd lol

Edited January 27, 2010 by Spooke

[Guest starkos]

Hey, Well my phone isnt unlocked so that shouldnt matter,

I first installed December Update

Then I installed the Recovery Image

Then I booted into Recovery mode, Partitioned SD card etc.

Then I flashed the rom, Now I booted I get lots of force closed of acore system.. :) B)

Edit- I dont think I did, Il try that now

Edit 2- Ok seemed to fix that problem, although when it booted Touchpal forced closed lol, I dont use that anyway so it doesnt matter to me

Edit 3- the Widget text is in french, rest of UI is english, :S This is very wierd lol

lol, not sure why touchpal crashed, but if you go to settings/locale you need to set it to english then reboot. Did you try upgrading ext2 to 3 again out of interest?

Ps: Whenever you have to reboot/restart your phone go into recovery and run the repair ext, otherwise you will have problems installing apps :D

[Guest Spooke]

Did you do a wipe in recovery before flashing? Well go recovery and do a factory/system wipe anyway and reboot again n see what happens

lol, not sure why touchpal crashed, but if you go to settings/locale you need to set it to english then reboot. Did you try upgrading ext2 to 3 again out of interest?

Ps: Whenever you have to reboot/restart your phone go into recovery and run the repair ext, otherwise you will have problems installing apps :)

Okee, Thanks for ur help! Gonna try and upgrade Ext etc.. Ill try the other stuff, Thank you! B)

mmm, even repairing Ext says, Run 'fs Repair' via ADB!, How do i do that, please tell me

Edited January 27, 2010 by Spooke

[Guest starkos]

Sorry mate I'm not very good with adb, but I'm interested why you're not able to use any of the commands in recovery. Did you try it with usb cable unplugged?

I wouldn't worry, there's lots of clever people on here who will be able to help you out sooner or later.. soz I can't think of any thing else :)

Edit: When you partitioned the sd card in recovery what options did you choose by the way?

Edited January 27, 2010 by starkos

[Guest Spooke]

Sorry mate I'm not very good with adb, but I'm interested why you're not able to use any of the commands in recovery. Did you try it with usb cable unplugged?

I wouldn't worry, there's lots of clever people on here who will be able to help you out sooner or later.. soz I can't think of any thing else :D

I have tried it with and without USB plugged in, This is really wierd lol, i dont understand why this is happening :), Could I try and reinstall the rom again and format mem sticks partitions and try again or soemthing? B)

Thanks

Edit- I chose 0mb swap, 512mb what ever, rest is fat32 :/ I chose exactly what u said B)

Edited January 27, 2010 by Spooke

[Guest starkos]

Yea that sounds right, I was thinking maybe you didn't create the ext partition either lol. I'm really not sure to be honest, re-formatting/partitioning then re-flashing rom may do it, but may be better just to wit a bit and see if someone comes up with a suggestion...

[Guest Spooke]

Yea that sounds right, I was thinking maybe you didn't create the ext partition either lol. I'm really not sure to be honest, re-formatting/partitioning then re-flashing rom may do it, but may be better just to wit a bit and see if someone comes up with a suggestion...

Yeah, il leave it as it is for today, Will check back tomorow, Hopefully someone can sort it out without me having to reformart, and reflash etc..

Thank you for ur help! :)

[Guest starkos]

Yeah, il leave it as it is for today, Will check back tomorow, Hopefully someone can sort it out without me having to reformart, and reflash etc..

Thank you for ur help! B)

Yea may be for the best to be honest, although now i'm starting to wonder if doing the wipe after flashing the rom instead of before may have caused it but not quite sure, my minds gone blank lol

Well im sure you'll get it sorted soon enough anyway.. :)

[Guest jmmL]

Just a general reply.

If you're getting force closures on acore - wipe then re-install (Paul advises a wipe whenever you go from TMO branded to vanilla).

Not sure what the file system errors on the sdcard are about. I'm personally a big fan of Ubuntu - the liveCD contains a brilliant disk partitioner called gparted. Providing you have some blank CDs and a moderately fast connection, I'd just advise partitioning on ubuntu. You don't need to re-install the ROM when you re-partition. If you want to investigate via usb run this command (I'm assuming you already have adb)

adb shell df -h

That will show you what partitions you have.

Lastly; I switched to vanilla and haven't looked back. By default some bits are in french (the base of this ROM is a french U8230 build). To switch go to Settings -> Locale & text > Select locale and then choose "english".

Edit:

Yea may be for the best to be honest, although now i'm starting to wonder if doing the wipe after flashing the rom instead of before may have caused it but not quite sure, my minds gone blank lol

This probably wasn't the cause (I can't see how it would be). Edited January 27, 2010 by jmmL

[Guest Spooke]

Just a general reply.

If you're getting force closures on acore - wipe then re-install (Paul advises a wipe whenever you go from TMO branded to vanilla).

Not sure what the file system errors on the sdcard are about. I'm personally a big fan of Ubuntu - the liveCD contains a brilliant disk partitioner called gparted. Providing you have some blank CDs and a moderately fast connection, I'd just advise partitioning on ubuntu. You don't need to re-install the ROM when you re-partition. If you want to investigate via usb run this command (I'm assuming you already have adb)

adb shell df -h

That will show you what partitions you have.

Lastly; I switched to vanilla and haven't looked back. By default some bits are in french (the base of this ROM is a french U8230 build). To switch go to Settings -> Locale & text > Select locale and then choose "english".

Edit:This probably wasn't the cause (I can't see how it would be).

Hey, I dont get the force closures on acore anymore, also i did get a android.system ( cant remeber its name ) one earleir today, Thanks with the language problem, I still cant change Ext2 to 3 etc. as the commands do not work :)

I do not have ADB, How do i set this up so i can use it? Thanks