Just a quick question about file systems. - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What would this phone do on an ext2 file system. Just curious as a Moment owner sdx used every trick in the book to make that pos somewhat usable and it is my understanding that ext2 is faster than ext4. Has anyone tried it? Just curious.

AFAIK EXT4 is faster than EXT2, the moment and hero just wouldn't have been able to handle it.

Ok is AFFAIK different than just plain ext4 cuz I still have my Moment and play around on sdx cuz they ported froyo to it and my Moment seems to smoke other Moments that are on ext4. At least some of them are claiming to be on ext4.

AFAIK = As far as I know. And like I said the moment and hero couldn't really handle EXT4 so it would probably hurt performance.

ok that explains his barely better than stock quad scores lol.
AFAIK = As far as I know haha I'm an idiot.

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[Q] [HELP] Which Lagfix to use?

Anyone please?
My holiday is ending, and I still have to find an answer!
Thanks.
There are a lot of lag fixes, and their differences are beyond 'this one is better'.
So in the end it's down to personal preference and the way you use your phone.
I personally like supercurio's Project Voodoo lagfix the most. He will release a public version (beta2) pretty soon .
If you want a lagfix right now, use One Click Lag Fix. If you can wait, wait for supercurios Voodoo lagfix beta 2.
There is a tiny battle going on between filesystem of choice - EXT2 or EXT4 - for lagfix. This is good for us users for speed and stability of the fix. I would suggest you wait for a couple of days to see if Voodoo Beta 2 fits you. Else you have OCLF which yields a lot of Quadrant scores and keeps a lot of people happy here already.
Personally, I am on JM7 with Voodoo Beta 1.
I have JM7 with the One Click Lag Fix, suits me perfectly, the phone just "flies". Also, the ease of install is the best - just install it from the market.
I have a couple of questions. Do I need to root in order to do the lag fix? I noticed that the One Click Lag Fix app can root my device too.
Also, how will my phone react when Froyo is released? Can I upgrade my phone through Kies without doing anything, or do I need to somehow get rid of root/lag fix?
Tried all the lag fixes EXCLUDING Voodoo. I can say my phone is better off them even when it WORKS. While they do some "cosmetic" speed improvement, I find them actually INCREASING lag in some typical activities like installing, uninstalling apps, multitasking, etc.
Latest I tried OCLF 1.6 and finally revert the lag fix to see my phone working "normally". Hope you could read through the punctuations
Prankey said:
Tried all the lag fixes EXCLUDING Voodoo. I can say my phone is better off them even when it WORKS. While they do some "cosmetic" speed improvement, I find them actually INCREASING lag in some typical activities like installing, uninstalling apps, multitasking, etc.
Latest I tried OCLF 1.6 and finally revert the lag fix to see my phone working "normally". Hope you could read through the punctuations
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what version rom are u using??
The easiest lagfix (which also greatly improves GPS (in my opinion) as a side benefit) is to just upgrade your firmware to one of the following: XFJM6, HVJH1, or XWJM7. Note the bolded F in the JM6, XWJM6 is not lag-free.
Those three firmwares seem pretty lag-free out of the box, though after a lot of up time, you might get some lag, but that took a couple of days for me, and a reboot fixes.
The next easiest lag-fix is to disable all the fancy animations and window transitions in the GUI. Do this in Settings.
The next easiest lag-fix is to get AutoKiller from the Market and use one of the medium to aggressive settings in the pre-sets. This works well at reducing some lag, and has the benefit of being easy to uninstall if you're not happy with it for some reason.
Now, if those three things don't give you a happy phone experience, personally I am in the Voodoo (by curio/supercurio) camp to be the BEST experience so far. Easy to install, best overall reduction in lag (as in I have ZERO lag even after 90+ hours of uptime and heavy usage), no Market install/download issues, no random freezes. EVERY OTHER lag-fix, from Mimocan to RyanZA's OCLF have those issues still, Voodoo does not, for me.
If I couldn't use Voodoo, I would use the mimocan fix, specifically by using the Samset/mimocan kernel.
I won't get into the ext2 vs ext4 debate that the supercurio and ryanza camps have fallen into.
My advice right now, try the first three things I suggested and WAIT until the end of the week to try supercurio's Voodoo Beta 2 when he goes public with it.
As of right now, I am on XWJM7 firmware with voodoo beta 1, and installing voodoo beta1 is the first time since buying this phone that I have been satisfied with its performance. YMMV, of course.
edit: ps - to be clear, I have tried just about all of them...
distortedloop said:
The easiest lagfix (which also greatly improves GPS (in my opinion) as a side benefit) is to just upgrade your firmware to one of the following: XFJM6, HVJH1, or XWJM7. Note the bolded F in the JM6, XWJM6 is not lag-free.
Those three firmwares seem pretty lag-free out of the box, though after a lot of up time, you might get some lag, but that took a couple of days for me, and a reboot fixes.
The next easiest lag-fix is to disable all the fancy animations and window transitions in the GUI. Do this in Settings.
The next easiest lag-fix is to get AutoKiller from the Market and use one of the medium to aggressive settings in the pre-sets. This works well at reducing some lag, and has the benefit of being easy to uninstall if you're not happy with it for some reason.
Now, if those three things don't give you a happy phone experience, personally I am in the Voodoo (by curio/supercurio) camp to be the BEST experience so far. Easy to install, best overall reduction in lag (as in I have ZERO lag even after 90+ hours of uptime and heavy usage), no Market install/download issues, no random freezes. EVERY OTHER lag-fix, from Mimocan to RyanZA's OCLF have those issues still, Voodoo does not, for me.
If I couldn't use Voodoo, I would use the mimocan fix, specifically by using the Samset/mimocan kernel.
I won't get into the ext2 vs ext4 debate that the supercurio and ryanza camps have fallen into.
My advice right now, try the first three things I suggested and WAIT until the end of the week to try supercurio's Voodoo Beta 2 when he goes public with it.
As of right now, I am on XWJM7 firmware with voodoo beta 1, and installing voodoo beta1 is the first time since buying this phone that I have been satisfied with its performance. YMMV, of course.
edit: ps - to be clear, I have tried just about all of them...
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I agree completely with you, except about waiting for Voodoo BETA 2 at this point. Please note the BETA - even though it will be pretty heavily tested, please don't jump onto these lagfixes until they are out of beta, especially if you don't know what you're doing. There may be complications, especially if you grab it as soon as it's released.
Please, this type of thing is marked BETA for a reason! When it goes to RELEASE, then you can jump on it!
Of course if you want to test stuff out, then please try the betas, but things can and do go wrong!
As far as the OCLF fix, it has proven so far to be very safe, with thousands of people using it without issue so far. Comments and stats available here, and this only includes market downloads: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rc.QuickFixLagFix
The general consensus is that OCLF does make your phone faster, but these types of things are very subjective. It also doesn't use custom kernels or similar, and works on all firmwares, which is a plus for some.
Your point that Voodoo is in beta, make that BETA, is well taken. Supercurio won't release it to public until it's well tested. Some of the other methods released here weren't approached so conservatively in their early days, but anyone in this particular forum should be aware of the risks.
Please note that the original poster said "I want the best/newer one (in terms of speed and stability), I don't mind if its not the easiest to install," which implied to me he's up to some beta stuff.
That said, your method's lack of needing custom kernels being a plus is spot on as well, but it also opens the door to the whole ext2 vs ext4 debate, since you're using ext2 and that's why it doesn't need a custom kernel, and I specifically said that I wasn't going to step into that one...
Anyways, I think your method has some plusses, of course, and it turns in some amazing Quadrant scores, for whatever that's worth, but in every day use, lag and GUI freezes still exist occasionally with it, and that is not my experience with voodoo. Voodoo also turns in some great Quadrant scores (about right in the middle of what mimocan and OCLF give me (mimo-1400, Voodoo-1800, OCLF-2200)).
Voodoo works best for me in every day "feel" of the phone. It's my recommendation to anyone if they can get into the beta. It's truly lag-free. And free space on the device is accurately reported.
Mimocan works well and is based on the apps2sd concepts that have been tried and tested over many devices and firmwares and mods like Cyanogen's. It's mostly lag-free.
OCLF is super easy to install with apps from the app store and batch programs for Windows users and has a very dedicated and respected devs behind it. It's mostly lag-free, but I'm not comfortable with the whole ext2 loop mount business it uses and the last time I used it had the disadvantage of inaccurate free space reporting, and the huge file it creates makes clockwork backups very slow and very large. I'm not recommending against OCLF, It's just not my first choice.
RyanZA said:
I agree completely with you, except about waiting for Voodoo BETA 2 at this point. Please note the BETA - even though it will be pretty heavily tested, please don't jump onto these lagfixes until they are out of beta, especially if you don't know what you're doing. There may be complications, especially if you grab it as soon as it's released.
Please, this type of thing is marked BETA for a reason! When it goes to RELEASE, then you can jump on it!
Of course if you want to test stuff out, then please try the betas, but things can and do go wrong!
As far as the OCLF fix, it has proven so far to be very safe, with thousands of people using it without issue so far. Comments and stats available here, and this only includes market downloads: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rc.QuickFixLagFix
The general consensus is that OCLF does make your phone faster, but these types of things are very subjective. It also doesn't use custom kernels or similar, and works on all firmwares, which is a plus for some.
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distortedloop said:
That said, your method's lack of needing custom kernels being a plus is spot on as well, but it also opens the door to the whole ext2 vs ext4 debate, since you're using ext2 and that's why it doesn't need a custom kernel, and I specifically said that I wasn't going to step into that one...
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Not true at all, EXT4 is very easily added to the running kernel as a module. Tayutama has an EXT4 version that works fine on the stock Samsung kernel. People just don't use it very much because it's slower. *shrug* I haven't had any requests to include EXT4 in my app either, so I haven't done it yet. And you stepped into it, but I needed to clear it up.
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Anyways, I think your method has some plusses, of course, and it turns in some amazing Quadrant scores, for whatever that's worth, but in every day use, lag and GUI freezes still exist occasionally with it, and that is not my experience with voodoo. Voodoo also turns in some great Quadrant scores (about right in the middle of what mimocan and OCLF give me (mimo-1400, Voodoo-1800, OCLF-2200)).
Voodoo works best for me in every day "feel" of the phone. It's my recommendation to anyone if they can get into the beta. It's truly lag-free. And free space on the device is accurately reported.
Mimocan works well and is based on the apps2sd concepts that have been tried and tested over many devices and firmwares and mods like Cyanogen's. It's mostly lag-free.
OCLF is super easy to install with apps from the app store and batch programs for Windows users and has a very dedicated and respected devs behind it. It's mostly lag-free, but I'm not comfortable with the whole ext2 loop mount business it uses and the last time I used it had the disadvantage of inaccurate free space reporting, and the huge file it creates makes clockwork backups very slow and very large. I'm not recommending against OCLF, It's just not my first choice.
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Unfortunately, both mimocan and voodoo (BETA1, hopefully fixed in BETA2) have very annoying battery issues, and bad battery life is worse than occasional lags. Your experience with it might have varied though.
I'm currently trying to get a fix similar to voodoo going that won't need a custom kernel, but it unfortunately needs gnu parted to do that. And gnu parted is proving to be horribly difficult to port to Android.
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Not true at all, EXT4 is very easily added to the running kernel as a module. Tayutama has an EXT4 version that works fine on the stock Samsung kernel. People just don't use it very much because it's slower. *shrug* I haven't had any requests to include EXT4 in my app either, so I haven't done it yet. And you stepped into it, but I needed to clear it up.
Unfortunately, both mimocan and voodoo (BETA1, hopefully fixed in BETA2) have very annoying battery issues, and bad battery life is worse than occasional lags. Your experience with it might have varied though.
I'm currently trying to get a fix similar to voodoo going that won't need a custom kernel, but it unfortunately needs gnu parted to do that. And gnu parted is proving to be horribly difficult to port to Android.
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No, I still haven't stepped into the ext2 vs ext4 debate, but I stand corrected that you don't need a custom kernel to use it. Is that a recent innovation?
I'm specifically avoiding the speed and potential for data loss argument. It's debated ad nauseum in several other threads.
I suspect the reasons you didn't see requests for ext4 in your own apps are two-fold. 1- you are very clearly against it, and argue strongly that ext2 is faster and that that is part of the reason your fix works and that ext4 would slow things down *shrug* and 2- many, like me, incorrectly assumed you needed a custom kernel for it. Go figya!
I've heard battery complaints about your fix method as well. I do not experience them at any noticeable rate with any of the methods. I've never made it through a full day without using up most of battery with any smartphone since my first iPhone; others claim to make it for 2-3 days. Who knows what we all do different that impacts this. It's a cheap and easy shot to take at any app or rom or mod, and for every one complaint of "drains my battery faster" there's usually a post from someone who says "doesn't affect mine."
Battery complaints are such a sore spot in the Android community. Every new custom ROM for the Nexus One, the first thing you'd see is dozens of complaints of battery life sucking. It's the same with the SGS, and now the various lag-fixes.
I'm not sure which is more obsessed about with SGS owners; lag, GPS, or battery life.
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No, I still haven't stepped into the ext2 vs ext4 debate, but I stand corrected that you don't need a custom kernel to use it. Is that a recent innovation?
I'm specifically avoiding the speed and potential for data loss argument. It's debated ad nauseum in several other threads.
I suspect the reasons you didn't see requests for ext4 in your own apps are two-fold. 1- you are very clearly against it, and argue strongly that ext2 is faster and that that is part of the reason your fix works and that ext4 would slow things down *shrug* and 2- many, like me, incorrectly assumed you needed a custom kernel for it. Go figya!
I've heard battery complaints about your fix method as well. I do not experience them at any noticeable rate with any of the methods. I've never made it through a full day without using up most of battery with any smartphone since my first iPhone; others claim to make it for 2-3 days. Who knows what we all do different that impacts this. It's a cheap and easy shot to take at any app or rom or mod, and for every one complaint of "drains my battery faster" there's usually a post from someone who says "doesn't affect mine."
Battery complaints are such a sore spot in the Android community. Every new custom ROM for the Nexus One, the first thing you'd see is dozens of complaints of battery life sucking. It's the same with the SGS, and now the various lag-fixes.
I'm not sure which is more obsessed about with SGS owners; lag, GPS, or battery life.
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I get tons of emails and messages every day about OCLF, and none have mentioned EXT4 or battery that I can think of. About a million other issues though! Mostly getting to recovery console though.
I haven't heard any battery complaints about OCLF so far, but I may have just missed em. Anyway, my complaints with battery life on custom kernels are entirely that - my complaints. Whenever I use a custom kernel and leave my device overnight, it drains around 30% of the battery or more. With a Samsung kernel, it usually drains at most 10%. This seems to be mirrored by others I talk to as well. I believe it may be wifi-driver related - the GPLed driver may not be as good as the proprietary driver or something equally bizarre.
I agree with the fact that RyanZa's solution is by far the simplest of the methods available. You can easily make out that me is a still a noob....
I don't speak for others, but my best guess is for some the ease of use matters, and for some, regardless of the complexity involved, the other methods work just fine. It usually really is a personal choice and an equally personal experience. What works best for some, does not necessarily work best for others. Some like a mild fight put up by the hardware, some dont (I dont. Yet!! )
Not wanting to get caught in you folks exchange here, but I guess the saying sums it all.
To each, his own....
P.S.: Dont flame for it...
Cheers....
skiddhard said:
Some like a mild fight put up by the hardware, some dont (I dont. Yet!! )
P.S.: Dont flame for it...
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Gonna flame you! What are you doing here if you don't like messing with your phone/toy?!
But yeah, that's the whole point of computers, phones, and almost everything else. Making it easier for others.
Wow! Thanks for the answers guys!
I think I'm gonna wait 1 or 2 weeks... maybe the 2.2 update comes to change all of this.
Regards!
Paulo
I won't go into saying which method is best, definitely not, nor will I mix myself into ext2 vs ext4.
However, I have seen some people claim both in this thread and in other threads that upgrading firmwares alone is enough. I assure you it isn't. Whether you use mimocan's, mine, Ryan's, curio's, etc fix they all result in having a much faster device. Sure, each of the fixes has their own quirks, con's and pro's, but give it time, one of us will get this exactly right, sooner or later. If not, mayhaps Samsung will.
To be honest, I didn't notice _that_ much difference in speed initially either. And indeed noticed that in some places it was occasionally a tad slower (though with the latest versions of the various fixes I haven't personally experienced this). The only place where I noticed an amazing difference was the email app (5 exchange accounts synced, with 100's of messages a day, on 30-day sync). The difference just blows you away - with setting up the accounts too, not just using them.
But today I had the greatest notice of all. By now some of my coworkers have SGS's as well, but I'm the only one running a lagfix at the moment. It's in the small things: when I put my lagfixed device next to one of their non-lagfixed devices, even with the latest firmwares, it's just amazing how much faster mine is, how much more responsive. Simple taps that resond twice as fast. Granted, theirs aren't usually slow, but mine is just noticably faster, to a level where I'm annoyed by the few millisecond delays when handling their devices.
At the moment, I would say curio's method is the most promising, though certainly not what I would advise just anyone to use. And by curio's method I mean converting the flash itself to a filesystem, instead of using a filesystem image inside an existing filesystem. If his implementation will be the best, remains to be seen
Don't make the "n00b" mistake: I don't see a difference, I'll uninstall. Because probably, your device is fresh and clean. Once it gets cluttered a bit the lagfixed definitely help!
I currently use official JM1 firmware with OCLF apk and find it still lags a bit although not as much. I'm a little worried about the custom kernel fixes not working once froyo comes out as it's mere weeks away.
lokhor said:
I currently use official JM1 firmware with OCLF apk and find it still lags a bit although not as much. I'm a little worried about the custom kernel fixes not working once froyo comes out as it's mere weeks away.
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Like most, I would say wait till Curio's beta2 is released later this week (hopefully). Ive used almost every variation of every method of seen of the forums, and found the using an ext4 partition on my external sd to store my dalvik-cache and app data is the most smoothest & most reliable 'band-aid'.
Although all the loopback methods work well (EXT2 or EXT4, not getting into it), data corruption is inevitable due to the fact that our loopback partition is never getting properly unmounted on shutdown or reboot. Although the corruption may be mild, I found it eventually starts to lag again as you use the fix for a week or more (more corruption each reboot\power cycle). Even using a fschk, you eventually will get corruption
Ive used all the loopback method several times for around a week or so, and found the smoothest, most reliable method is using an ExternalSD for dalvik-cache and app data until a native EXT file system can be put on /data.
Although Ive throughly tested my conclusion (and I wish it werent true, as I love the speed immediately after installing a loopback lagfix), these are simply my observations and I'm throwing them out there for others.
Thanks to everyone who is working hard to fix the "lag" issues on Galaxy S devices. Its quite an ordeal to fix this, and IMO, not enough "thank yous" get passed around, despite differing opinions.

[Q] Super Fast G2

Hey there everyone I have a question. When reading over a forum i noticed that a user had commented this
"DJSteve had been playing with ext4 for the Dell Streak. Its not 100% reliable yet but scores in Quadrant are hitting 3000+. When added to his Froyo ROM, OC kernel and other tweaks the device is lightening fast."
Do we have any Roms that can take advantage of the ext4 file system? Because if these are the scores on a 1st gen Snapdragon imagine what we would get!
BTW I am running GingerVillian1.1 Beta
Thanks for a few minutes of your life,
macfan74318
Those benchmarking programs really don't give you much of a picture of overall performance, and things like filesystem caching can have a HUGE effect on filesystem benchmarking. Don't read too much into benchmarks, ext4 is NOT going to give you any magical new telekinetic powers. Its performance is *very* similar to ext3 (which you already are using).
The cm7 gb roms are ext4. You have to upgrade cwm if you want to back up and restore them but you can't flash back to a froyo rom from a gingerbread rom unless you flash back to the old cwm recovery. So, yes there are ext4 roms for the g2 but they aren't making the phone perform marginally better than an ext3 rom.
Fired from my 7.62mm bullet hose to your face using plunging fire. G2 CM7src, 1.5ghz

[Q] Where's EXT4 on Evo??

Hello Dev's...
I have both an Evo and an Epic. The Epic recently got ext4 and has benefited with a bit of a speed boost because of it. Is anyone work'n on this for the Evo? Is there something holding up the progress on ext4 for Evo?
Thanks,
LK
Epic uses samsung proprietary OneNAND driver that is closed source and handles leveling appropriately.
You can technically use any filesystem on the epic and it will be "safe" as the leveling is handled above the filesytem.
On the Evo its' NAND accessed through mtd system with no features like samsungs, hence the need for a nand safe filesystem - YAFFS2.
If you put a non NAND-safe filesystem on your evo (ext4) you run the risk of ruining your NAND early.
Good luck!
Thanks for the info Necrosan. Makes a lot of sense. I suppose I won't be work'n up that kernel anytime soon.
Thanks,
LK
if some1 makes a ext4 kernel id love to test it on one of my evos the epic and any other sam device still runs the risk of its 1nand getting harmed with ext4/3 etc.
Dude, I just wanna know why you have two flagship 4G phones on the same network... I mean, if you have the money, you can... but why? lol
my wife and i both have 1 and i have a extra one i use to dev on now. soon bout to get one for my mom and brother.
Was wondering myself why evo didnt have ext4. I myself have the evo and a epic and recently installed ext4, cw3 and no journaling mod. I do have to say that it makes a difference in speed.
According to a2sd, Ziggy's kernels have had ext4 support in them for a while: http://www.ziggy471.com/
@Bowlsnapper: I actually have 4 Evo's and an Epic. The Epic is get'n wiped and sold this week though. Long and Short of it... I had a 3g/4g data device=$60/mo... I decided I could blow the same $60/mo and get 2 Evo's, have 2 great 3g/4g devices with unlimited data + Wireless Tether and still have full phones w/ all the goodness Android has to offer.
The Epic was something the wife wanted to play with ( she'd had a Moment and thought the keyboard would be the bees knees ). She decided the Evo was better for her and switched back.
@PrFectOne: Thanks for the info... I'll have to do some more research before I decide to spin up ext4 on the Evo. I definitely don't want to cause pre-mature wear of the flash storage.
Thanks,
LK

Data2SD - Why is it not more popular

Since rooting a few months ago I have been using Starburst with Data2SD. It's brilliant, I have 1gb free for apps and even loading everything I want it's still got space free. Cheers DZ and Sibere Removes my one complaint about the HTC Desire.
Anyway, quite fancy some Gingerbread and also try out some of the Sense 3.0 stuff people are porting, had a go with Supernova but it's a bit slow compared to Starburst ( not a criticism as I know it's early in development ) so looking around at others ROM's Data2SD is not very popular.
A2SD+ still is in favour but I run out of space before getting all my apps on, Data++ needs me to S-OFF, and also looks more complicated to setup, mutiple partitions etc. Can't find a good explanation of Data2ext and Data2we as yet.
Just wondered why is Data2SD not so popular? Am i missing something?
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Scoop940 said:
Since rooting a few months ago I have been using Starburst with Data2SD. It's brilliant, I have 1gb free for apps and even loading everything I want it's still got space free. Cheers DZ and Sibere Removes my one complaint about the HTC Desire.
Anyway, quite fancy some Gingerbread and also try out some of the Sense 3.0 stuff people are porting, had a go with Supernova but it's a bit slow compared to Starburst ( not a criticism as I know it's early in development ) so looking around at others ROM's Data2SD is not very popular.
A2SD+ still is in favour but I run out of space before getting all my apps on, Data++ needs me to S-OFF, and also looks more complicated to setup, mutiple partitions etc. Can't find a good explanation of Data2ext and Data2we as yet.
Just wondered why is Data2SD not so popular? Am i missing something?
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Am not sure on this also. Using data2sd is the number one thing, that make's my desire great, without it i'll be lost.
All this App2SD+ is not really that good, you still use all your internal, befor ext3 is used.
I love the fact I have 2GB internal space and not having to worry, about not enough space. Every RoM should have this Data2SD I think
I was a big fan of DATA2SD but it lacks wide compatibility with ROMs: now I'm more than satisfied with CM7 Hboot + Dalvik on sd-ext: got to have over 250 apps installed and still 50 MB in internal.
AFAIK:
- Speed: Most of the time internal memory is faster.
- Corruption: I read that Android does not unmount /data cleanly, so there is a chance of data corruption. Am i still right on this?
I haven't managed to get data2sd working on my phone yet but apps2sd+ is working nicely.
I don't need heaps installed on my phone but have a fair few apps that I want and it seems to be working ok with a apps2sd+ setup.
I have read mixed things about data2sd regarding corruption possible, and also confused about speed as I read that the sd can be faster (probably depending on class?) than internal, and also that internal is faster than sd - so I'm confused
but my phone is working ok at the moment!
SuperNova will probably work a lot better when the official release comes out for Gingerbread
My phone feels faster using Data2sd, and certainly the quadrant scores of 2000+ are much higher than the wife's stock Desire. As for corruption, yes I have, when I have pulled the battery for some reason. Not had a problem for months though.
Regular Nandroid and scheduled titanium backups cover that off anyway.
Scoop940 said:
My phone feels faster using Data2sd, and certainly the quadrant scores of 2000+ are much higher than the wife's stock Desire. As for corruption, yes I have, when I have pulled the battery for some reason. Not had a problem for months though.
Regular Nandroid and scheduled titanium backups cover that off anyway.
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You do know that these quadrant scores are fake, don't you? I'm quite happy with a2sd and cm7 hboot gingersense roms
I don't think that I would ever sacrifice my data to get more apps
Sent from my HTC Desire
I appreciate the quadrant scores aren't accurate as they change everytime I run it, but the phone feels faster and smoother.
Any links to the fake quadrant score stuff?
Cheers
I have been using data2sd for about one year, and never had data loss or even a single force close of an app.
My phone always runs very fast and smooth, cant say its faster than stock because I wasn't on stock long enough,but I did have lots of force close's on app2sd+ leedroid

Dinc godmode?

I really should read more about evo's godmode before asking. But the way I understand it they partition part of the harddrive to basically another ram partition. Will the incredible ever see this feature since partitioning seems to have evaded us
I've been wondering the same thing. I thought it was a matter of repartitioning and changing file systems. I thought it could all be handled in side the updater-script file, prior to installing to rom. I played with kingdom and tried to see how it was done, but we need a real dev to bring it to the inc.
Thanks for clearing that up cvb. I was still thinking it was gonna revolutionize the dinc. I think neo just meant someone other than himself. We all know Joelz has skills
well
1. its buggy
2. force to use amon ra
3. not really much of a performance boost more quadrant boost than anything
That reminds me of ReadyBoost for Windows, where you can use your old flash drives or SD cards as RAM... It makes a huge difference in older machines & netbooks but not so much on the newer ones that have ballsacs.
Its an interesting theory though. It would be great for a 3.0 rom if anyone wanted to perfect it.
JoelZ9614 said:
well
1. its buggy
2. force to use amon ra
3. not really much of a performance boost more quadrant boost than anything
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Here's a question for you, since you seem to have a fairly extensive amount of experience with ROM's and the Dinc. What is, in your personal opinion, going to be my best option of customization, performance and please don't use words like MIUI, lol.
***EDIT*** I should've thought to include this info, but currently these are my stats
CM7 7.1.0-RC
Kernel-Incredikernel 2.6.38.8
Radio-2.15.00series
I've flopped between this and MIUI for about a month. Tried Synergy a while back, did like it a lot. Any ideas? Some I haven't heard of ? Thanks.
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!
There's a godmode version of synergy that I've been trying to find info on what exactly it does, but I didn't find much. So godmode it just supposed to be a higher performance version of some mod due to an added swap partition and some other speed tweaks?

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