MCR r8 Archive

[Guest Kiran J. Holla]

Hey Guys,

I installed this rom earlier, but it's left me with only 73mb of internal storage.

Is there a way I can sort that out?

Also, I really don't want the sense stuff.

Ta.

Did you reboot your phone once after flashing the ROM?

That is, once you have flashed your ROM, the phone boots up. After this, you have to power-off and reboot once more. Did you do this?

Regards,

Kiran

[Guest 325i]

The menu button to unlock is not working.

[Guest choccy]

Did you reboot your phone once after flashing the ROM?

That is, once you have flashed your ROM, the phone boots up. After this, you have to power-off and reboot once more. Did you do this?

Regards,

Kiran

Not sure now if I did or not. I just followed the instructions that were on screen.

Shall I wipe and reflash again?

[Guest Kiran J. Holla]

Not sure now if I did or not. I just followed the instructions that were on screen.

Shall I wipe and reflash again?

Why don't you just reboot your phone once and check if that helps?

If that doesn't work, then you could wipe and refresh. Or perhaps someone has some other options for this?

Regards,

Kiran

[Guest choccy]

Why don't you just reboot your phone once and check if that helps?

If that doesn't work, then you could wipe and refresh. Or perhaps someone has some other options for this?

Regards,

Kiran

My phone has rebooted a few times since then, but I did have a problem trying to put on my backup apps.

Maybe I will reflash and try again.

Also how do I get Apps onto SD card please?

Thanks

[Guest thebastian]

Hi now i have a question.

i have to execute the MCR Script (for the Market) only once or everytime i powerup my phone?

[Guest le_lutin]

Indulge me though... if you're in 3G coverage why would you want to switch to 2G? 2G is slower and less power efficient, and also on a lot of networks (Network mode II, very common) you can't receive a call if you are actively transmitting and receiving on a GPRS connection.

My experience is that being on 3g is very power hungry. When you are in an area that only has mixed 2g/3g the phone is constantly looking for a 3g connection, this quickly drains the battery. If you switch to 2g, the phone no longer tries to get a 3g connection.

Of all the things i've tried when attempting to extend battery life, switching to 2g has the biggest impact. My battery lasts almost twice as long (compared to having mixed 2g/3g)

[Guest Kiran J. Holla]

My phone has rebooted a few times since then, but I did have a problem trying to put on my backup apps.

Maybe I will reflash and try again.

Also how do I get Apps onto SD card please?

Thanks

You have to include the A2SD+ option and also ensure that your SD Card is partitioned to include the EXT3 partition.

Once this is done, any apps that you install will automatically go the the SD Card.

Regards,

Kiran

[Guest bradt74]

excellent work Paul, the Rom are always beautiful, my question is: will never be possible to record 720p video with h264 codec?

thanks

[Guest 2wheels]

My experience is that being on 3g is very power hungry. When you are in an area that only has mixed 2g/3g the phone is constantly looking for a 3g connection, this quickly drains the battery. If you switch to 2g, the phone no longer tries to get a 3g connection.

Of all the things i've tried when attempting to extend battery life, switching to 2g has the biggest impact. My battery lasts almost twice as long (compared to having mixed 2g/3g)

Totally agree with this, makes a massive difference. Swiching from 3g to 2g, I use the 'Quick Settings' mobile on/off icon on one of my screens.

[Guest daverave999]

Installed earlier and it's looking good!

[Guest choccy]

Why don't you just reboot your phone once and check if that helps?

If that doesn't work, then you could wipe and refresh. Or perhaps someone has some other options for this?

Regards,

Kiran

I have reflashed the rom and rebooted and now I have 74mb remaining on internal :-(

Anyone help please?

I'm using this rom - 8 ROM with default MoDaCo additions and A2SD+ (HTC Desire)

[Guest DragosP]

my question is: will never be possible to record 720p video with h264 codec?

I think the computing power required is too high.

[Guest chipyy]

My experience is that being on 3g is very power hungry. When you are in an area that only has mixed 2g/3g the phone is constantly looking for a 3g connection, this quickly drains the battery. If you switch to 2g, the phone no longer tries to get a 3g connection.

Of all the things i've tried when attempting to extend battery life, switching to 2g has the biggest impact. My battery lasts almost twice as long (compared to having mixed 2g/3g)

Ah I guess that makes sense. I think if there is a good 3G signal available then it's not an issue, but if you're on 2G it will be constantly polling for 3G and essentially using twice as much radio resources, so I guess in that situation it would make sense. I think if you have a strong reliable signal for 3G though you should leave it on 3G, 3G requires lower transmitted power levels than 2G. But yeah, I could see that if you're in patchy coverage it might make more sense to sit on 2G. I guess I'm lucky I get a good fast HSDPA signal pretty much every where I go, except at my gf's were it's on 2G 90% of the time.

[Guest chipyy]

My experience is that being on 3g is very power hungry. When you are in an area that only has mixed 2g/3g the phone is constantly looking for a 3g connection, this quickly drains the battery. If you switch to 2g, the phone no longer tries to get a 3g connection.

Of all the things i've tried when attempting to extend battery life, switching to 2g has the biggest impact. My battery lasts almost twice as long (compared to having mixed 2g/3g)

Ah I guess that makes sense. I think if there is a good 3G signal available then it's not an issue, but if you're on 2G it will be constantly polling for 3G and essentially using twice as much radio resources, so I guess in that situation it would make sense. I think if you have a strong reliable signal for 3G though you should leave it on 3G, 3G requires lower transmitted power levels than 2G. But yeah, I could see that if you're in patchy coverage it might make more sense to sit on 2G. I guess I'm lucky I get a good fast HSDPA signal pretty much every where I go, except at my gf's were it's on 2G 90% of the time.

[Guest DragosP]

I have reflashed the rom and rebooted and now I have 74mb remaining on internal :-(

Anyone help please?

I'm using this rom - 8 ROM with default MoDaCo additions and A2SD+ (HTC Desire)

Note: This ROM is not odexed, but includes 'cachedalvikcache' to negate the effects of deodexed /system files. In this regard it has no disadvantage vs: odexed ROMs apart from a longer first boot time. You must also reboot once after initial setup to regain full space on /data.

Edited August 25, 2010 by DragosP

[Guest Kiran J. Holla]

I have reflashed the rom and rebooted and now I have 74mb remaining on internal :-(

Anyone help please?

I'm using this rom - 8 ROM with default MoDaCo additions and A2SD+ (HTC Desire)

Please check the following:

1. Your SD Card is partitioned for A2SD+. This can be done using ROM Manager with ClockworkMod Recovery

2. A2SD+ is included in your ROM

3. You have rebooted (Powered down and then Powered up) your phone at least once immediately after the flashing of the ROM has completed.

Ideally after this is done, you should have around 134MB of free space on Internal storage.

Regards,

Kiran

[Guest Nsonic101]

The best way is to download Titanium Backup from the Market and run a Batch mode backup of all user apps + system data.

Once you have wiped and flashed your new ROM, just ask Titanium Backup to restore all user apps + system data.

I have tried it once and it worked like a charm.

Regards,

Kiran

Thanks, it worked...

For all: you MUST wipe before flashing R8 ROM to avoid problems with missing Google map app and the Google syncing problem!!!

[Guest Septavius]

@Paul: Thanks for a great ROM! I however have some questions about the cachedalvikcache I hope you can help clear up.

Earlier in the r8 WIP thread you stated that you would not odex the final ROM, because among other things:

"- With my cachedalvikcache solution (which is in all bakes) it saves no space on data."

Looking at "/data/dalvik-cache" only the "system@framework*" .dex files seem to be symlinked to "/cache/dalvik-cache". The remaining "system@app*" .dex files are not symlinked, and in my case takes up about 35Mb of space. Indeed the "/cache" partition only has 17Mb of space left, so it's not possible to move all the remaining "system@app*" files.

I tried moving as many files as I could to "/cache", which seemed to work fine, but then I realized I couldn't boot into recovery because ROM Manager uses that partition too. However the "/system" partition had 75Mb of free speace, so instead i opted to try moving the "system@app*" .dex files to "/system/dalvik-cache", and then symlink them to "/data/dalvik-cache". This seems to be working just great at the moment and freed up about 35Mb of space on my "/data" partition :huh:. Of course I don't know if there any hidden pitfalls with this solution yet(?)...

Anyway, this experiment leads me to believe that an odexed ROM actually would save about 35Mb on the "/data" partition compared with your cachedalvikcache solution (as it is implemented now). Or am I missing something here?

(The ROM I am referencing is r8 prebaked with MoDaCo default additions)

[Guest choccy]

Confused now.

Phone is rebooted but hasn't cleared the storage.

Do I need to go back into recovery?

[Guest woti17]

I have reflashed the rom and rebooted and now I have 74mb remaining on internal :-(

Anyone help please?

I'm using this rom - 8 ROM with default MoDaCo additions and A2SD+ (HTC Desire)

where is the problem, this is internal rom? you cannot write to in normal operation

my quick info shows

as2d 0,91GB - 681M free (220M used)

internal memory 148M - 80M free

system memory 250M - 80M free

system cache 40M - 38M free

main memory 415M - 191 free, inactiv 82M

i would say this looks good, could be more main memory used - but thats my taste

[Guest Nsonic101]

obvious? i didn't wipe since r4, only one factory reset and 2x repair permissions, so it's not that obvious for me

when using titanium backup, do NOT restore system data in batch modus, especially NOT sense settings

if you use additional mods for sense that modifiy the framework and/or settings, you might loose your scenes if you have to delete your restored system settings to get your phone working again

Yes, it is confirmed. When I flashed this new ROM without wipe, the Google maps app was missing, so there were problems with Google syncing (there was google account missing and it was not possible to manually add it so Market, GMail, Calendar, Phonebook were not able to sync.

When I flashed after wipe everything seems to be OK. That's why wipe is needed.

[Guest choccy]

where is the problem, this is internal rom? you cannot write to in normal operation

my quick info shows

as2d 0,91GB - 681M free (220M used)

internal memory 148M - 80M free

system memory 250M - 80M free

system cache 40M - 38M free

main memory 415M - 191 free, inactiv 82M

i would say this looks good, could be more main memory used - but thats my taste

Well,

I have no apps so far installed. Just the ones supplied with the rom.

Therefore I only have 73mb approx when there (I would think) be more space free in internal storage.

[Guest Kiran J. Holla]

Totally agree with this, makes a massive difference. Swiching from 3g to 2g, I use the 'Quick Settings' mobile on/off icon on one of my screens.

It this 'Quick Settings' by Sergej Shafarenka?

I just installed this one and couldn't find any option to shut off just 3G. There is an option to turn off APN. However, that turns off 2G as well.

Am I missing something?

Regards,

Kiran

[Guest woti17]

Well,

I have no apps so far installed. Just the ones supplied with the rom.

Therefore I only have 73mb approx when there (I would think) be more space free in internal storage.

yes, but if you install further apps (from market), they go to sd-ext (the ext2/ext3 part of the sd card), if you use A2SD+

if you bake-in more apps in the kitchen they eat up your 73mb left in rom

both (apps in sdcard and in rom) the eat together your RAM