AKU 3.3 - Additional programs, hacks, add-ons, fixes, mods

[sprint_user101]

I was wondering if we could have a thread (maybe sticky) that would list and discuss the additional programs and hacks that can be added on to AKU 3.3.

Hopefully this could be more of a guide as to what the typical PPC-6700 user would normally want to add on. I realize that this newest AKU 3.3 fixed a lot of previous issues. So again, if we could have a thread dedicated to AKU 3.3 add-on, fixes, mods, etc, then that would be great. I'm new to the PPC-6700 and would like some guidance. Obviously I don't want to be adding or changing things on AKU 3.3 that are already incorporated into it.

Maybe one of the Forum Moderators can make this a sticky.

[sprint_user101]

Can the Forum Administrator make this a sticky?

[luv2chill]

IMHO, this should be a wiki thing instead of a large forum post. Because new add-ons are going to be released all the time, a forum thread will get huge and cluttered in record time. The beauty of a wiki is its free-form layout and the fact that it can be edited and cleaned up by anyone.

That's my 2 cents, anyway.

[finster869]

I agree with Luv2chill.

[sprint_user101]

Well I realize that this new AKU 3.3 has fixed a lot of other issues that required hacks and mods.

So if I refer to all of the threads with hacks and mods (that were done to older AKUs), then I might be doing stuff that really doesn't need to be done. I'm too much of a novice to know what to do and not to do.

Whatever you guys think would be the best way to have a useful document for the new guys that just put AKU 3.3 on their PPC 6700s.

[schettj]

Yep, we might want to go wiki for this... not only because it's a lot of info, but because it's a tree of info, with cross-relationships.

3.x: via a rom image or via the Rom Kitchen (RK lets you build your own custom rom)

What reg hacks work at all

What do you do with your extended rom (by carrier, we already know Sprint, Verizon have stuff that you don't want installed with any AKU > 2.x, looks like Altell is also in that boat)

And so on... as the "fix" for some of these depends on what rom you've got, and how you got it... it's almost impossible to list all the possible combos.

[crencom]

Hey, I see a lot of the other wm5 device custom roms utilize the custom pagepool and a ramdisk on the rom. I have been able to install a ramdisk into ram, but into the rom would be nice. More info on how to set / change the pagepool would be nice. I have tried without success. It is my understanding that utilizing these setups can increase the wm5 system performance. Anyone know enough to do this on the apache?

scott

[Bushrod]

The page pool instruction are on this page:

http://www.ppcgeeks.com/how-to-make-...,start,90.html

[jeffme]

Bushrod - thanks for the link. What's missing (or what I missed) from that is a discussion of the tradeoffs in performance, memory allocation, etc. across RAM Disks, paging pools, etc. What applications are most responsive to these changes, which are less so?

Do you know of any such discussion or place to go for this info.

Also, FWIW, I've used a hex editor to look at the .nba's of a variety of ROM's - Verizon Stock, Helmi_c 3.3, Col3.3Beta2, etc. and they all seem to have a standard 8MB pool.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[helmi_c]

Originally Posted by jeffme

Bushrod - thanks for the link. What's missing (or what I missed) from that is a discussion of the tradeoffs in performance, memory allocation, etc. across RAM Disks, paging pools, etc. What applications are most responsive to these changes, which are less so?

Do you know of any such discussion or place to go for this info.

Also, FWIW, I've used a hex editor to look at the .nba's of a variety of ROM's - Verizon Stock, Helmi_c 3.3, Col3.3Beta2, etc. and they all seem to have a standard 8MB pool.

Thanks in advance for any help.

hmm... I dont think using ramdisk is necessary and also finding the address for ramdisk for apache is a bit hard, maybe U better use Extended_ROM as disk on first boot, this can be easily made by some change to boot part from ROM xip that will make ur extended_rom as a disk. but this will hv side effect, it'll make messaging attachment to Storage (extended_rom not SD) a little bit mesh if u hv more then 10mb attachment... and also u lost the ability to automatically install aplication from extended_rom after first boot (hard reaset) but this can be solved if we set/move/modify the rom to locate the extended_rom/autoconfig.txt/autorun.exe to SD card...