09/Feb r8 - MoDaCo Custom ROM for the Advent Vega with Online Kitchen

[Guest Scanno]

I played around with partitioning my SD-card. The kernel should support different filesystems like EXT2/3/4. I personally use EXT4 mostley, so i created an EXT4 partition on my SD Card (also use one on my G1/Dreams with Gingerbread and FR's App2SD, that works).

Sadly to say that CWM does not recognize the EXT4 partition and Link2App also cannot mount it. Tried rebooting a couple of times, but that does not work. Reformatted the partition to EXT2 and then it works.

Seems to me that Link2SD only supports EXT2 even if the kernel supports EXT2/3/4.

Unless pauls kernel does not support EXT3 and EXT4, but it should..

[Guest HunteronX]

I played around with partitioning my SD-card. The kernel should support different filesystems like EXT2/3/4. I personally use EXT4 mostley, so i created an EXT4 partition on my SD Card (also use one on my G1/Dreams with Gingerbread and FR's App2SD, that works).

Sadly to say that CWM does not recognize the EXT4 partition and Link2App also cannot mount it. Tried rebooting a couple of times, but that does not work. Reformatted the partition to EXT2 and then it works.

Seems to me that Link2SD only supports EXT2 even if the kernel supports EXT2/3/4.

Unless pauls kernel does not support EXT3 and EXT4, but it should..

Ext2 is required.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...mp;postcount=17

Edited February 10, 2011 by HunteronX

[Guest HunteronX]

Think I answered my own question by playing about with the 4gb card before I risked destroying my 16gb card. It clearly does wipe the data but does create ext2 (although MiniTool Partition Wizrd sees it as an ext3) partition of the size selected and I can see that selecting a Swap size of more than 0 creates a 'Linux Swap' partition (for whatever that may be needed for?). Therefore I have backed up my 16gb card, am using CWM to make a 1mb ext2/3 partition with zero Swap and then will have to load back my existing data. No big deal I suppose

I did try using MiniTool Partiton Wizard to try and resize the FAT32 partition and create an ext2 partition on the 4gb card but the Vega reports it as a damaged card.

I got the same 'Damaged SD card' error too, so I used clockworkmod instead.

[Guest markinton]

Since installing R7 (not had a chance to move yo R8 yet) I've found that after staying on for a prelonged period (say 48hrs) the Vega becomes very unresponsive, to both touch and orientation switches, and suffers from a lot of graphical glitches.

A reboot restores it to its usual snappy self. Has anyone else seen this behavior? If not, I guess it's one of my apps sucking up memory.

Ta

M

[Guest kevin36thi]

There is no special way of upgrading from r7 to r8. Just install r8 over r7. It is the same way as you installed r7.

So install either with CWM or use the installscript

What's the best application to use to back up settings such as ADW settings and applications?

Thanks

[Guest Lennyuk]

Froyo A2SD Doesn't just move the apk over, it moves certain data over but leaves an awful lot of data on internal memory.

the other method moves the entire apk over and just leaves a flag in /data/app therefore you end up with far more free space in internal memory than using the froyo method.

but don't be fooled into thinking that you will have a completely empty internal memory, there are still lots of thing saved on internal memory, you will just find yourself with more free space than before.

Not to mention the other problems froyo a2sd has, e.g. any app with a widget you can't move across or the widget won't work or other certain apps stop working when moved.

Edited February 10, 2011 by Lennyuk

[Guest thedicemaster]

just run a backup through cwm to be sure.

backing up just apps/settings is not needed, these aren't removed if you update to MCR r7 or r8

[Guest Scanno]

Ext2 is required.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...mp;postcount=17

Thanks. Too bad that EXT2 is required for using Link2SD.

[Guest Scanno]

Froyo A2SD Doesn't just move the apk over, it moves certain data over but leaves an awful lot of data on internal memory.

the other method moves the entire apk over and just leaves a flag in /data/app therefore you end up with far more free space in internal memory than using the froyo method.

but don't be fooled into thinking that you will have a completely empty internal memory, there are still lots of thing saved on internal memory, you will just find yourself with more free space than before.

Not to mention the other problems froyo a2sd has, e.g. any app with a widget you can't move across or the widget won't work or other certain apps stop working when moved.

And i would like to add that the using this app it is faster then using the Froyo A2SD. Just take a look at your shortcuts on one of the desktops when you just did a reboot. It takes time for the icons to load. While using the link method it takes much less time for the icons to load.

I do not know what the froyo A2SD method exactly is, but i noticed when i typed mount in a terminal that there where a couple of mounts to apps i installed on SD (like angry birds). It takes time to do those mounts to complete.

The link method is pretty simple the link to the apk is pretty fast (on filesystem level) and the EXT paritions needs only to be mounted once.

The system of looking if an app is on SD or not is also pretty simple. Just look in the filesystem if it is a link or not, If it is a link, it is on SD, if not it is on internal memory./

[Guest Supercharged]

What's the best application to use to back up settings such as ADW settings and applications?

Thanks

You don't need to back up anything. All of your settings, applications and your lay-out will be right where you left them in R7.

[Guest Richard de Goede]

After installing R8 some h264 mp4 files wont play in hardware mode in rockplayer anymore... did you accidentely erase some codecs or something?

Anyone know another explanation?

[Guest Burns]

Anyone had problems with flash after r8, I can't get it to work, Have tried reinstalling but no good, and its def turned on in browser settings!

Edited February 10, 2011 by Burns

[Guest AJace]

Hi Guys,

Looks like I've bricked my device! After installing R8 (Previously had R6) my vega is stuck in a bootloop, won't get past black screen with 'booting' text. This is the second time I flashed it, first time it seemed to work fine except there was no settings app installed. When tapping the settings logo on the home screen it said 'application not installed on your phone' or something along those lines. So I went through the steps again and this happened... I'm lost and have absolutely no idea what to do next! My PC detects my Vega when booting however as it never stays on the booting screen for more than a few seconds it doesn't seem like I can do much.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Edit: Managed to set my Vega into recovery and reflash (thanks to google and members of this forum!) From a clean install I stuck R8 on it. During the install the command prompt suddenly read 'Cannot push (can't remember file name) not enough memory on device' or something along those lines. This time it got stuck on the boot screen didn't reboot at all, so again I have reflashed. Going to attempt one last time to put R8 on. Never had any of these issues with R6.

Edit: Same issue as last, except this time I got a screenshot!

Edited February 11, 2011 by AJace

[Guest beegee1962]

Thanks Paul for the update. Will create my custom r8 ROM tonight after work.

[Guest swarrans]

Hi Guys,

Looks like I've bricked my device! After installing R8 (Previously had R6) my vega is stuck in a bootloop, won't get past black screen with 'booting' text. This is the second time I flashed it, first time it seemed to work fine except there was no settings app installed. When tapping the settings logo on the home screen it said 'application not installed on your phone' or something along those lines. So I went through the steps again and this happened... I'm lost and have absolutely no idea what to do next! My PC detects my Vega when booting however as it never stays on the booting screen for more than a few seconds it doesn't seem like I can do much.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Alex

The consensus is that it is not possible to brick the vega so don't wworry!

In your position I would be tempted to do a fresh install of the advent sw via recovery and then do the R8 update in the normal way

[Guest premieral]

Anyone had problems with flash after r8, I can't get it to work, Have tried reinstalling but no good, and its def turned on in browser settings!

I had the same problem even reinstalled it , would only work after re booting again, now works like a charm

[Guest anneparker]

That's really beautiful . I didn't knew that people are becoming the popular in their days.

[Guest AJace]

The consensus is that it is not possible to brick the vega so don't wworry!

In your position I would be tempted to do a fresh install of the advent sw via recovery and then do the R8 update in the normal way

Thanks for the reply, managed to reflash to stock 1.8 panick over! :P Still having the same issue when trying to install R8 though! Reading not enough memory, however the device says I have over 300mb of internal storage left. I've even tried various different bakes to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Alex

[Guest Hsuth88]

Hi,

Can you help me! :P I am a computer dummy. Just bought this Vega and im really frustrated with it. Cant get any apps at all to work on it except whats already loaded on and even they get stuck and force close! I would like to modify it but unfortunately your instructions don't make any sence to me! Like I said computer dummy. Do you have a simple step by step guide? And Yes i know your thinking stupid useless woman :D

Thanks

Helen

[Guest Paul]

Just a heads up that I am effectively offline for 2 weeks from tomorrow (celebrating 10 years with my good lady then off for daughter's half term!), so updates will following when I return. :P

Thanks for your ongoing support everyone!

P

[Guest Logseman]

Enjoy your family's company!

[Guest rvdgeer]

Just a heads up that I am effectively offline for 2 weeks from tomorrow (celebrating 10 years with my good lady then off for daughter's half term!), so updates will following when I return. :P

Thanks for your ongoing support everyone!

P

Congratulation on the 10 years together...

(At least, I assume you consider this something good;) )

Have a great time in... ehr.. France?

:D

Will be a while before I'll update my tablet then, as were expecting our second within the next few days/weeks...

But that's no problem!

[Guest zedmeister]

Just a heads up that I am effectively offline for 2 weeks from tomorrow (celebrating 10 years with my good lady then off for daughter's half term!), so updates will following when I return. :P

Thanks for your ongoing support everyone!

P

Have fun and thanks for everything - I don't know how you find the time for all these updates! BTW, did you get a chance to put the left handed idea into R8?

[Guest C_G]

I seem to have some WiFi problems after going from r7 to r8. The tablet connects to the WiFi acces point properly, and works for some time, but sunndenly is unable to browse the internet/refresh twitter,etc. The tablet still has connection with the acces point. This seems to be a software problem, as other wifi devices (iPod) are still working fine.

Could someone offer me a solution? Many thanks in advance!!

[Guest Ramnath]

Please look at "To install this ROM (without using ClockworkMod recovery):" in the 1st post. It really has everything.

If you are stuck, or have some specific questions, then we can all help you. :-)

Hi,

Can you help me! :P I am a computer dummy. Just bought this Vega and im really frustrated with it. Cant get any apps at all to work on it except whats already loaded on and even they get stuck and force close! I would like to modify it but unfortunately your instructions don't make any sence to me! Like I said computer dummy. Do you have a simple step by step guide? And Yes i know your thinking stupid useless woman :D

Thanks

Helen