ARCHIVED: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus ICS

[joelz]

For what it's worth, YouTube app proved unusable for me on AOKP. Even low-quality streaming was just a series of stills with audio.

Switching to CM9, low-quality videos play fine and high-quality is stuttery at best.

Important for the occasional Yo Gabba Gabba session with my three-year-old.

 

[A.I.]

Very pleased with how this has turned out tdm. Will be using as a daily now. Thank you for all of your work.

 

[strabo231]

Here's exactly what I just did, and it seems to have worked perfectly:

Backup everything from the SD card to your computer, then shut the phone off and remove the SD card (or turn the phone off first and use a USB reader to copy the files, obviously).

Put the SD card into a USB reader on your computer so you can repartition it (I used EASEUS Partion Master Home Edition). Follow the instructions here: SD card partitioning - XDA-Developers. I used ext2 for the second partition. (From what I understand, it's easier on the SD card and won't hurt its life as much as ext3 or ext4.) I have a 32GB card, so I made 1GB for the ext2 partition. That seems like more than plenty, but you could always do more (or less) depending on your situation.

Copy everything back to your SD card from your computer. Windows only recognizes the first partition on an SD card, so you should see only your FAT32 partition in Windows Explorer like before.

Before putting your SD card back in your phone (probably doesn't matter if it's before, but I waited), boot directly to recovery and wipe the Dalvik cache to clear out the files in /cache/dalvik-cache, which we no longer want there because they're going on sd-ext now (which will happen automatically with the SD card properly partitioned). Then power the phone back off. Do not boot Android yet or it will recreate the Dalvik cache on internal memory (no big deal, but the point is we're clearing it off of internal memory so we gain that space back--you could always do this later, too).

Once your SD card is repartitioned and your data is copied back onto it, put the SD card back in the phone and boot normally. It will recreate the Dalvik cache files and will take a few minutes. When it's done, you should be all set.


After it booted, I checked with Solid Explorer and can confirm the Dalvik cache files are now in /sd-ext/dalvik-cache and not in /cache/dalvik-cache.

This seems to have fixed the "Package file is invalid." error, for the most part. I did get it once more on a sizable app, but moving some more apps to the SD card (the normal way, in the apps settings) fixed it. It seems you still need a decent amount of internal app storage space not to get the error, but it's definitely much better now that the /cache partition isn't full.

I have been incredibly pleased with this ROM so far, and now even much more so.

Ahhh! Okay I see now. I didn't realize that simply having the partition done correctly would basically shift the files to where they needed to be on their own. I was misunderstanding having to manually shift files from the sd to the pertition, and also didn't know if there was any type of app that would also have to be used. This is great write up..straight forward without too much detail to get confusing. Thanks for taking the time to do that man, that's exactly what I needed.

 

[strabo231]

Depends how you backed it up. It is generally straightforward to restore a backup though.

Yeah sorry TDM. I wasn't real clear with what I was askin, but now I see I was definitely over complicating it before I even started. I didn't realize that the phone would basically do the leg work for me after I pushed the files back to the sd after the partition.

 

[blizard]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1640606&page=1 would this work with aokp?

Sent from my VM670 using Android Central Forums

 

[jr0sier]

This is byfar the worst ROM ever. I Downloaded it and now i can't even take it off my phone because it messed it up so bad. PLEASE tell me someone can help me.. The superuser app wont "Grant Permission" anymore nor is it even on the list anymore for rom control. When i boot into recovery it doesn't let me choose anything with my camara button. I am forced to do a battery pull everytime.. I can't even flash back into my backups..

 

[A.I.]

This is byfar the worst ROM ever. I Downloaded it and now i can't even take it off my phone because it messed it up so bad. PLEASE tell me someone can help me.. The superuser app wont "Grant Permission" anymore nor is it even on the list anymore for rom control. When i boot into recovery it doesn't let me choose anything with my camara button. I am forced to do a battery pull everytime.. I can't even flash back into my backups..

The ROM is swell. You have done something wrong when you installed.

What exactly did you do?

 

[jr0sier]

Nothing. It was working properly until i went into my ROM manager and it told me to update so i did and now i can't do nothing. My superuser isn't even linked to "Grant permissions" and when i'm in recovery i can't select anything. Forced to do constant battery pulls. Though for doing DAYS of research i'm guessing that the ClockWorkMod Recovery installed on my phone at the current moment isn't supported but i can't flash over to older recovieries. I'm starting to believe that this ROM also un-rooted my phone.. I KNOW i didn't do anything wrong i've watched countless videos on how to do this.

 

[clodfelterac]

optimus v lesson 1... never use rom manager... it is not friendly with our phones...

http://forums.androidcentral.com/op...012-optimus-v-reference-guide-start-here.html

second post... second paragraph...

 

[jr0sier]

Trying it now...

 

[jr0sier]

Okay, i used GingerBreak before. When i rooted my phone the first time it never said "checking for supueruser..............." then the root screen already has the "UnRoot" option highlighted. Unlike before it never said "checking for superuser" and it rooted my phone in like 3 minutes. Now it just takes forever, "Loading" but nothing happens. What else can i do.. Please tell me theirs still hope for me. Just got this phone.. Maybe it's just my SuperUser app.. Seeing as its granting no permissions..

 

[bbruno8]

Okay, i used GingerBreak before. When i rooted my phone the first time it never said "checking for supueruser..............." then the root screen already has the "UnRoot" option highlighted. Unlike before it never said "checking for superuser" and it rooted my phone in like 3 minutes. Now it just takes forever, "Loading" but nothing happens. What else can i do.. Please tell me theirs still hope for me. Just got this phone.. Maybe it's just my SuperUser app.. Seeing as its granting no permissions..

As another person posted, ROM manager DOES NOT work well with OV's.
I've been using this ROM since alpha 7 and I never had problems like you're having now.

Sent from my LG-VM670

 

[A.I.]

Nothing. It was working properly until i went into my ROM manager and it told me to update so i did and now i can't do nothing. My superuser isn't even linked to "Grant permissions" and when i'm in recovery i can't select anything. Forced to do constant battery pulls. Though for doing DAYS of research i'm guessing that the ClockWorkMod Recovery installed on my phone at the current moment isn't supported but i can't flash over to older recovieries. I'm starting to believe that this ROM also un-rooted my phone.. I KNOW i didn't do anything wrong i've watched countless videos on how to do this.

Well you shouldn't be using ROM Manager to begin with had you done proper research beforehand. Try reading about your specific device instead of watching videos. There's much more information to be found than what's on YouTube. Every device is specific no matter how many times you've done it otherwise.

And it's bad nature to blame the ROM for your recovery blunders. I bite my thumb at you. Plus, it doesn't unroot your device, so you've done something wrong there as well.

Also, saying you didn't do anything wrong doesn't make you any less at fault. :-$

You'll have to read up one of the stickied threads [surprise surprise why am I saying this] to pull you out of this jam, so there is hope.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

Yeah, you really shouldn't be using ROM Manager for anything, because it puts you at a greater risk of bricking your phone. The only time I really used ROM Manager was to flash CWM Recovery for the first time. Haven't used it since.

 

[pbailey212]

Yeah, you really shouldn't be using ROM Manager for anything, because it puts you at a greater risk of bricking your phone. The only time I really used ROM Manager was to flash CWM Recovery for the first time. Haven't used it since.

Flashing the recovery with rom manager back in the day was fine but now the version that gets pushed to your phone will not work with the OVs with the new screen. Its really simple to use flash_image or flashimage GUI, to put on bonzhomes iho reccovery, and that is a fail safe recovery regardless of what screen you have.

sent from my Nokia 5110

 

[rebel69ization]

I use it for backups and fixing permissions, no problems whatsoever.

Sent from my VM670 using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2

 

[jr0sier]

Well you shouldn't be using ROM Manager to begin with had you done proper research beforehand. Try reading about your specific device instead of watching videos. There's much more information to be found than what's on YouTube. Every device is specific no matter how many times you've done it otherwise.

And it's bad nature to blame the ROM for your recovery blunders. I bite my thumb at you. Plus, it doesn't unroot your device, so you've done something wrong there as well.

Also, saying you didn't do anything wrong doesn't make you any less at fault. :-$

You'll have to read up one of the stickied threads [surprise surprise why am I saying this] to pull you out of this jam, so there is hope.

i wasn't blaiming the ROM? i was just saying it sucks. Everything force closes, i can barely use the market, i can't even turn my phone off with the power button. I said it sucks because of all the bugs and what not. I just need help, reading "stickies" doesn't do anything. I Get absolutely nowhere i've been trying to flash back too my stock rom for about 4 days now, or anyother ROM like ICS just without all the bugs. I Like this one dont get me wrong, but the force closing gets really old.

 

[jr0sier]

Flashing the recovery with rom manager back in the day was fine but now the version that gets pushed to your phone will not work with the OVs with the new screen. Its really simple to use flash_image or flashimage GUI, to put on bonzhomes iho reccovery, and that is a fail safe recovery regardless of what screen you have.

sent from my Nokia 5110

...Well how do i get the flash_image? I need an easier way to ROOT my phone again too.. Gingerbreak just doesn't work anymore. Probably because i run this ROM which is ICS 4.0.4 i believe.

 

[pbailey212]

...Well how do i get the flash_image? I need an easier way to ROOT my phone again too.. Gingerbreak just doesn't work anymore. Probably because i run this ROM which is ICS 4.0.4 i believe.

Flash image won't root. But you can use it to flash recovery after you root

sent from my Nokia 5110

 

[jr0sier]

Flash image won't root. But you can use it to flash recovery after you root

sent from my Nokia 5110

Okay, so now i have too just find a good thing to use too root my phone then i should be good to go if i do the flash image? Sorry, i'm sorta a noob.