[BUILD] **Complete GingerBread Bundle!!** GBX0A - Alpha! Camera!

[ndno]

Been so busy I haven't had a chance to try this out. Now that FRX05 is super stable on my TP2, gonna give this a spin tonight.

Sent from my FRX05-ized TP2

[fishingmedic]

Fired this beotch up today, incredible build, nice and fast, had a few FC's but backed down the OC and still screams and smooth as heck. Only issue I've had is that damn data issue when you get a phone call. And nothing I did would get data working again, shutting off data and re-enabling it, etc, nothing but a reboot. And one thing that keeps popping up, even if I just soft reset to get back to winmo, this damn thing keeps eating my startup.txt and makes it 0B. Hell, I even hid one in a folder a couple layers deep and the bastard keeps finding that one too lol.

[oisact]

In case anyone cares, GBX0A has been running for 95 hours straight. Cellular is on but no service, however Wifi connectivity is active. Only problem is Wifi drops out every now and then requiring me to toggle it off and on. I'm not using it as my primary phone, but emails, google talk, weather, etc are updating and doing their thing.
As others have speculated, with all the versions (FRX05, etc), the stability problems seem to be related to the RIL.

[ffkip911]

Arrrgh, how's the data fix coming along???? any breakthroughs?

[ffkip911]

getting a bit hungry for something new, so giving this a shot.

@NDNO, how's this working for you?? using your startup.txt but changed andboot to GBX0A----is that all you did (also put calibration in the folder) how's this running for you??

[ndno]

Originally Posted by ffkip911

getting a bit hungry for something new, so giving this a shot.

@NDNO, how's this working for you?? using your startup.txt but changed andboot to GBX0A----is that all you did (also put calibration in the folder) how's this running for you??

Sorry ffkip911, I still haven't had the chance to play with this yet. Yes, your frx05 startup.txt should work on this, just take a look at the startup.txt for gbx0a to make sure there's nothing new on the set cmdline you need to add; yes, update your rel_path accordingly. And yes, re-use your old calibation file.

I'm currently still on frx05 but I'm experimenting with something new. I converted the loop device mounts for system.ext2 and data.img to a native ext2 mount on my sd card; I partitioned my Sd card into 3 partitions (one fat32 and 2 ext2's) in order to do so. Huh, you ask. Yeah, this is my own experiment so I won't go into details as it's a little complicated for the average user. Bottom line, I asked nate and he said it's supposed to have slightly better performance, in terms of the linux kernel using the ext2 partition for better paging as opposed to a loop device.

Sent from my FRX05-ized TP2

[fishingmedic]

Originally Posted by ndno

Sorry ffkip911, I still haven't had the chance to play with this yet. Yes, your frx05 startup.txt should work on this, just take a look at the startup.txt for gbx0a to make sure there's nothing new on the set cmdline you need to add; yes, update your rel_path accordingly. And yes, re-use your old calibation file.

I'm currently still on frx05 but I'm experimenting with something new. I converted the loop device mounts for system.ext2 and data.img to a native ext2 mount on my sd card; I partitioned my Sd card into 3 partitions (one fat32 and 2 ext2's) in order to do so. Huh, you ask. Yeah, this is my own experiment so I won't go into details as it's a little complicated for the average user. Bottom line, I asked nate and he said it's supposed to have slightly better performance, in terms of the linux kernel using the ext2 partition for better paging as opposed to a loop device.

Sent from my FRX05-ized TP2

Sounds cool! Let us know how it goes and if it's something that's worthwhile for us to play around with (And if you're willing to hand hold some of us that ain't as smart as you, like me!!! )

[ndno]

Originally Posted by fishingmedic

Sounds cool! Let us know how it goes and if it's something that's worthwhile for us to play around with (And if you're willing to hand hold some of us that ain't as smart as you, like me!!! )

So far so good, a day without any reboots or SOD. Will let it run over the weekend and let you guys know. Yeah, this requires you to pick up some real "Linux" hacking skills. You'll have to install Ubuntu or some other Linux distro and use fdisk to repartition your SD card into the different partitions I was talking about. Nate showed my how to remap the cache directory to another EXT2 partition to allow the SD card to wear out more evenly.

[fishingmedic]

Originally Posted by ndno

So far so good, a day without any reboots or SOD. Will let it run over the weekend and let you guys know. Yeah, this requires you to pick up some real "Linux" hacking skills. You'll have to install Ubuntu or some other Linux distro and use fdisk to repartition your SD card into the different partitions I was talking about. Nate showed my how to remap the cache directory to another EXT2 partition to allow the SD card to wear out more evenly.

Ok, that sounds too confusing, I'm sure you and arrrghhh would ban me with the amount of questions I'd be asking... I'll stick with GBX0A and FRX05 lmao

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by ndno

So far so good, a day without any reboots or SOD. Will let it run over the weekend and let you guys know. Yeah, this requires you to pick up some real "Linux" hacking skills. You'll have to install Ubuntu or some other Linux distro and use fdisk to repartition your SD card into the different partitions I was talking about. Nate showed my how to remap the cache directory to another EXT2 partition to allow the SD card to wear out more evenly.

I don't know if putting this on a dedicated partition will resolve the SoD or reboot issue TBH - it certainly should be better overall compared to looped filesystems tho, I would imagine.

Also, I don't think this would require Linux - there's tools for Windows that allow you to partition the SD in all sorts of file systems. It's just easier with Linux because a) the tools are built into the system and b) Windows won't be able to read those newly created partitions anyways, without other 3rd party tools .

Not to take any wind out of your sails, but I wouldn't consider that Linux hacking skills . Certainly got some geek cred, and it's not easy to do without any prior knowledge - but far from what I would consider hacking . Neopeek builds have required this for quite some time... (a separate ext2 partition that is)

Originally Posted by ndno

It could be... I'm currently running at 710. The kernel is not constantly running at 710, it will throttle between the OC speed and the lower speed (122) depending on the processor's load, so it won't waste battery or overheat. I remembered arrrghhh saying that higher OC can cause instabilities so it definitely can be speed related. If you have bad data in your data.img, it can also be related to that too. That's why I'm switching to the EXT2 partition test I'm currently doing now to see if it's more reliable.

hyc said that running on dedicated partitions did localize his corruption - thus not having to blast out his data.img (or in this case partition) as frequently - that doesn't mean that it eliminated the issue.

In theory it should be a little quicker as well - it might not be significant enough to even be noticeable to the end user.

Originally Posted by fishingmedic

Ok, that sounds too confusing, I'm sure you and arrrghhh would ban me with the amount of questions I'd be asking... I'll stick with GBX0A and FRX05 lmao

If there's some demand for it, ndno (or me) can certainly make a how-to do this. The rootfs is already configured to handle it, so AFAIK you just have to setup the partitions and drop the data in - I'm not really sure how much repointing is involved TBH.