[ROM] FLB-Mod 2 (Based on Android 2.2 Froyo) TESTING

[Guest flip360]

Since noone answered my question, I'll ask again.

Does anyone exprecience slowdown after installing an application from market or stright from apk?

Mine slows down, sometimes even freeze, then reboot.

nope, not here. I have a total of 32 apps installed and have 42Mb of free system space :lol: working very nice

Edited September 17, 2010 by flip360

[Guest darkdevil1]

Is that a serious question? :lol:

Yes, youtube is affected also as it uses the standard video player. And, because I know somebody will ask, it makes no difference if you use another player. There is no working copybits in the rom.

It is, sorry for my newbishness and thanks for answering :)

[Guest ogiogi]

I've disabled swap and a2sd. Moved dalvik to sd (~70MB free on /data now) and set to largeheap. The phone runs really well now with 30MB+ free RAM.

Do we really need swap, or just a well built FROYO :lol:

[Guest wwwhizz]

How do I move dalvik to sd?

[Guest gusthy]

I've disabled swap and a2sd. Moved dalvik to sd (~70MB free on /data now) and set to largeheap. The phone runs really well now with 30MB+ free RAM.

Do we really need swap, or just a well built FROYO :lol:

It depends.

My pulse currently runs 14 different apps, I use all of them

It is not possible without swap.

It gives you the freedom to use widgets and taskbar appd and instant messaging suff like meebo or nimbuzz.

Plus, the sms bug...

[Guest hungary]

I've disabled swap and a2sd. Moved dalvik to sd (~70MB free on /data now) and set to largeheap. The phone runs really well now with 30MB+ free RAM.

Do we really need swap, or just a well built FROYO :lol:

I think we need the 'Paul-method': resized partitions with dalvik to /cache partition. We have very big 'system' and 'dev' size.

[Guest gusthy]

How do I move dalvik to sd?

using adb:

a2sd cachesd

[Guest tido]

I was experiencing that problem....set hip size to 24m

Fliblesan ,any comments about slowing down after installing apks?

Edited September 17, 2010 by tido

[Guest twics]

Yesterday i had problems with 2 navigation apps. Navdroyd and Navigon. They won't start. So i deleted navdroyd from my phone. Then i wanted to reinstall from market. The instllation fails. Also with "Zilch free" the update from market failed. With other apps there were no problems installing or updating.

Can check one out the thing with Navdroyd or Navigon? Thanks!

I seem to be having similar issues, my maps keeps FC and it seems like some apps that use location dont work properly, only the clock on Fancy widget works but weather&toggle widget from the market is working, market is a bit iffi at times sometimes it takes like three or more attemps to download apps.

Edit>Twiiter app wont send tweets error about location.

Edited September 17, 2010 by twics

[Guest twics]

Wifi is a bit buggy managed to get wifi working again after scewing up settings yesterday, but today cant connect to my router eventhough it can see it, it keeps saying authenticating then remembered bla bla then disabled disconnected but it keeps scanning.

Had to reboot phone wifi working again :lol: now market wont work with wifi keeps say a network error retry, turned wifi back off and market is working again, gone back to wifi settings wifi grayed out and stuck on turning off. il have to reboot again.

[Guest Spikey001]

Iv been trying out all the games that never worked on 2.1, cant believe how well games like raging thunder 2 are working now!! Totally smooth! (couldnt even get it to open b4)

And to get quake3 working (all be it without movement) was amazing!!

Keep up the good work guys!! :lol:

(flb-mod 2 rom wiv swappiness of 20 and swap size 128mb using swapper2)

[Guest Rem1x]

I seem to be having similar issues, my maps keeps FC and it seems like some apps that use location dont work properly, only the clock on Fancy widget works but weather&toggle widget from the market is working, market is a bit iffi at times sometimes it takes like three or more attemps to download apps.

Edit>Twiiter app wont send tweets error about location.

Look in the twitter settings to turn off location.

I had that a while back!

[Guest MarcusHenrique]

Iv been trying out all the games that never worked on 2.1, cant believe how well games like raging thunder 2 are working now!! Totally smooth! (couldnt even get it to open b4)

And to get quake3 working (all be it without movement) was amazing!!

Keep up the good work guys!! :lol:

(flb-mod 2 rom wiv swappiness of 20 and swap size 128mb using swapper2)

I don't understand, Raging Thunder 2 installed fine at 2.1, now I'm trying to install and it refuses to download the additional content over wi-fi, keeps saying that I have some connection problem. =/

[Guest AdamBaker]

Found the MAC address that is being used. It's contained in caldata.bin.ar6002 and caldata.bin.ar6102 files in /system/wifi/

OK after a load of messing about it seems that this is a plain issue between the ar6000.ko module and Froyo. There is a newer version in the U8150 ROM but this doesn't load. I'm not sure how to get full trace so I can see why it's failing as logcat only says "Failed to load" which isn't helpful.

You can manually load and unload .ko files using the insmod and rmmod commands. Most of the resulting error messages need to be printed by typing dmesg. As has already been established the ar6000.ko module is very specific about what kernel versions it works with so I doubt pulling one from qanother phone will help.

The 00:18:82 address range is registered to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., F1-20,Section F, Huawei Base,Bantian, Longgang District ShenZhen GuangDong 518129 CHINA so I think it is safe to assume that it is a customised fallback for Pulse phones (source: http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch)

Setting the MAC address should be possible with the command ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:18:82:82:18:00 but my first couple of attempts using 2.1 have failed, possibly because the interface has to be in the right state before it is allowed.

edit: added

I'd make a guess that Huawei have tweaked netcfg to add the setting of the address, might be worth trying a 2.1 netcfg on 2.2

Edited September 17, 2010 by AdamBaker

[Guest twics]

SetCPU app keeps force closeing when trying to set scaling.

[Guest Simon O]

I think we need the 'Paul-method': resized partitions with dalvik to /cache partition. We have very big 'system' and 'dev' size.

cache partition is only 20MB. Not enough for dalvik-cache

[Guest pandinusimp]

I wanted to do a full nandroid backup with ext2. But it fails that i have to do it with adb. So i did it but it fails also because the ext2 partition can be mounted.

mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write

checking free space on sdcard

Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/boot.img...done

Dumping recovery to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/recovery.img...done

Dumping misc to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/misc.img...done

Dumping system to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/system.img...done

Dumping data to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/data.img...done

Dumping cache to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/cache.img...done

Storing the ext2(Apps, Dalvik-cache) contents in the backup folder.

Warning: --ext2 specified but unable to mount the ext2 partition.

How can the ext2 partition mounted. I'm using Amonra 1.5.2.

[Guest Simon O]

Do we really need swap, or just a well built FROYO :lol:

Oh come on that's hardly fair. Most of you lot moaned when there wasn't a zip update so you could test Froyo out, even though I mentioned several times that there are bugs. Then when I give the update to you all the moaning starts again with "this doesn't work, that doesn't work. It's unstable, it's not built properly".

[Guest Simon O]

I wanted to do a full nandroid backup with ext2. But it fails that i have to do it with adb. So i did it but it fails also because the ext2 partition can be mounted.

mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write

checking free space on sdcard

Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/boot.img...done

Dumping recovery to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/recovery.img...done

Dumping misc to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/misc.img...done

Dumping system to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/system.img...done

Dumping data to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/data.img...done

Dumping cache to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDEMRS-20100917-1906/cache.img...done

Storing the ext2(Apps, Dalvik-cache) contents in the backup folder.

Warning: --ext2 specified but unable to mount the ext2 partition.

How can the ext2 partition mounted. I'm using Amonra 1.5.2.

With AmonRA you can't. It's out of date and cannot create a full backup of Froyo. Use Clockwork.

[Guest Simon O]

You can manually load and unload .ko files using the insmod and rmmod commands. Most of the resulting error messages need to be printed by typing dmesg. As has already been established the ar6000.ko module is very specific about what kernel versions it works with so I doubt pulling one from qanother phone will help.

The 00:18:82 address range is registered to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., F1-20,Section F, Huawei Base,Bantian, Longgang District ShenZhen GuangDong 518129 CHINA so I think it is safe to assume that it is a customised fallback for Pulse phones (source: http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch)

Setting the MAC address should be possible with the command ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:18:82:82:18:00 but my first couple of attempts using 2.1 have failed, possibly because the interface has to be in the right state before it is allowed.

edit: added

I'd make a guess that Huawei have tweaked netcfg to add the setting of the address, might be worth trying a 2.1 netcfg on 2.2

# ifconfig eth0 hw ether <MY MAC>

ifconfig eth0 hw ether <MY MAC>

error: SIOCSIFADDR (Invalid argument)

# ifconfig eth0 hw ether <MY MAC>

ifconfig eth0 hw ether <MY MAC>

error: SIOCSIFADDR (No such device)[/code]


<MY MAC> = my real mac. I just removed it.

[Guest Gigahurtz]

Oh come on that's hardly fair. Most of you lot moaned when there wasn't a zip update so you could test Froyo out, even though I mentioned several times that there are bugs. Then when I give the update to you all the moaning starts again with "this doesn't work, that doesn't work. It's unstable, it's not built properly".

Thx for the chance to test Froyo out Fibblesan. Ignore them.

[Guest igor_anta]

Oh come on that's hardly fair. Most of you lot moaned when there wasn't a zip update so you could test Froyo out, even though I mentioned several times that there are bugs. Then when I give the update to you all the moaning starts again with "this doesn't work, that doesn't work. It's unstable, it's not built properly".

I don't think he meant it that way flib, chill :) He probably wanted to say that once Froyo is all well and bug free maybe swap won't be needed, I disagree BTW.

The point of this release was some testing, as you can see for yourself the dev topic is all clean from comments about releases and such :lol: You're doing a great job, don't take everything to hart.

Oh, what is the progress on the OC with the new kernel? Is it possible?

[Guest pandinusimp]

Thx for the chance to test Froyo out Fibblesan. Ignore them.

I like it. It runs smoother then 2.1.

[Guest Simon O]

You can manually load and unload .ko files using the insmod and rmmod commands. Most of the resulting error messages need to be printed by typing dmesg. As has already been established the ar6000.ko module is very specific about what kernel versions it works with so I doubt pulling one from qanother phone will help.

The 00:18:82 address range is registered to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., F1-20,Section F, Huawei Base,Bantian, Longgang District ShenZhen GuangDong 518129 CHINA so I think it is safe to assume that it is a customised fallback for Pulse phones (source: http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/ouisearch)

Setting the MAC address should be possible with the command ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:18:82:82:18:00 but my first couple of attempts using 2.1 have failed, possibly because the interface has to be in the right state before it is allowed.

edit: added

I'd make a guess that Huawei have tweaked netcfg to add the setting of the address, might be worth trying a 2.1 netcfg on 2.2

I've just replaced netcfg with the version from the U8150 2.2 ROM. Works but no change in mac address. Still get the SIOCSIFADDR error, probably down to the wpa_supplicant code now.

[Guest twics]

Just for the record if I mention something is not working its not cause im moaning about it, im fully aware that this Rom will have bugs here and there hence the title, Iv already said it is still usable and im glad to be testing it. I just like to share on whats not working incase its relevant to know.

Flib this is not aimed at you mate just making myself clear, I think iv said somewere that without you we would probably still be running 1.5OS firmware.