[TESTING] - NAND OMGB (1.2.3)

anish88 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-02-2011, 12:34 PM

hmm. ok ill pull the sd and see if it continues. I just bougt the SD card two months ago. hopefully it's not that

update: SD card removed. still getting failed screen wake

mbellot · #2 (**permalink**) 12-02-2011, 08:55 PM

Decided to take the plunge today and try OMGB.

I figured I would relate my experiences in case anyone else has similar stumbling and fumbling.

Installing the rhodimg.nbh took a couple tries, something about the first 1GB SD card I chose was not liked by the boot loader. The second 1GB (also Sandisk, identical from all appearances) worked first time out. Go figure.

Once I got that rolling I couldn't attach to the phone via adb/fastboot. Windows was popping up a "new device" dialog, so I figured it had to be driver related, even though adb (and droid explorer) work with FRX7.1 without issue.

I ended up editing the Google/Android USB driver to add the VID/PID (18D1/0001) that was shown in the device manager and then allowed Windows to "re-install" the driver. Now I finally have access to the phone via fastboot.

Using fastboot to install the recovery image was a breeze, as was getting OMGB 1.2.3 installed from within recovery.

Booting OMGB went surprisingly fast, I waited for the system to settle out before rebooting back into recovery to install Gapps.

Installed the full (20mb) gapps.zip and rebooted. When I got into OMGB they were nowhere to be found. Rebooted into recovery and tried again, but still no sign of gapps when I went back into OMGB.

Back into recovery, wiped the cache and data partitions, booted back into OMGB and again waited for things to settle out. This time into recovery I tried Vzi's minimal gapps and it worked.

Are there any known issues with the full version of Gapps and 1.2.3?

My next stumbling block (yet to be fixed/understood) is that Market from vzi's minimal gapps is FC after a short time. It loads, sometimes search works, sometimes FC. I managed to install one application (Zeam), but that seems to be about it - too many FC to get anything done.

Should I try 1.2.2 since it's "more stable", or is there something I can do to fix Market in 1.2.3?

Next question is in regards to APNs... it seems like they are not fully working - I set it up and click "save" but the APN doesn't appear. I need to use an APN to get MMS working with Boost, so if there is anything I can do to help debug why it's not working let me know. I'm guessing this is an artifact of needed GSM support...

Also, I can't seem to reboot into recovery from within OMGB (via the power down menu choices). The phone just appears to freeze, I end up pulling the battery to get it to reset.

All in all I have to say I'm quite impressed. If I can get Market working (so I can install a couple of apps I really use a lot) this will be awesome.

**arrrghhh** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-02-2011, 09:19 PM

Sigh... I guess we need a better list of broken things and how to fix them.

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Originally Posted by mbellot

Installing the rhodimg.nbh took a couple tries, something about the first 1GB SD card I chose was not liked by the boot loader. The second 1GB (also Sandisk, identical from all appearances) worked first time out. Go figure.

Only time I had an issue with this is when one of my cards was oddly formatted to FAT instead of FAT32... Not sure what else causes SD cards to not work flashing NBH's... definitely need to fix the issue where you can't flash over USB.

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Originally Posted by mbellot

Installed the full (20mb) gapps.zip and rebooted. When I got into OMGB they were nowhere to be found. Rebooted into recovery and tried again, but still no sign of gapps when I went back into OMGB.

Back into recovery, wiped the cache and data partitions, booted back into OMGB and again waited for things to settle out. This time into recovery I tried Vzi's minimal gapps and it worked.

Are there any known issues with the full version of Gapps and 1.2.3?

I thought I said this here as well, but I use the gapps package from Cyanogen. There's only one package for CM7/GB, and it's always worked great for me. ACL - perhaps you should just link to it, and pull down the one you put up.

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My next stumbling block (yet to be fixed/understood) is that Market from vzi's minimal gapps is FC after a short time. It loads, sometimes search works, sometimes FC. I managed to install one application (Zeam), but that seems to be about it - too many FC to get anything done.

Should I try 1.2.2 since it's "more stable", or is there something I can do to fix Market in 1.2.3?

This one's been covered quite a few times - set your language to something meaningful under Settings, Language & Keyboard.

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Next question is in regards to APNs... it seems like they are not fully working - I set it up and click "save" but the APN doesn't appear. I need to use an APN to get MMS working with Boost, so if there is anything I can do to help debug why it's not working let me know. I'm guessing this is an artifact of needed GSM support...

CDMA doesn't actually use APN's. At all. That was a hack hyc used in order to easily pass information from the end-user to the system...

Also, APN's will disappear/be ignored if you don't put in the correct MCC/MNC... which again is probably related to the fact that CDMA devices don't actually use APN's.

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Also, I can't seem to reboot into recovery from within OMGB (via the power down menu choices). The phone just appears to freeze, I end up pulling the battery to get it to reset.

I've had some good luck and some bad with rebooting. Sometimes it hangs, other times it works great. I'm not sure why it works some times and not others tho... I also might be mixing up bugs, there's a couple different recoveries - are you using AOSP or CWM?

mbellot · #4 (**permalink**) 12-03-2011, 01:23 AM

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