Fota_Sto & your radio?

[fenrix]

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$su
# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00700000 00020000 "boot"
mtd1: 06e20000 00020000 "cache"
mtd2: 00700000 00020000 "recovery"
mtd3: 00140000 00020000 "splash"
mtd4: 00100000 00020000 "FOTA_STO"
mtd5: 0a480000 00020000 "system"
mtd6: 0b2e0000 00020000 "userdata"
mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "misc"
mtd8: 00180000 00020000 "persist"
#

I am just trying to find an easy way to get my camera/video working on ver3 of gingerkernel
or get loop support on Pica's kernel, and I remrmbered someone posting the radio img is part of fotasto, if so then in copied just fine so far I can tell from terminal, would this help anyone? I can upload the img, (1mb).. ??
Anyhow I noticed THE NONPORTED (lol) ver#3 of gingerkernel has all I need except loop support, although if someone could tell me
how to use dd/mke2fs to format my sd fromm the terminal as I lost the link to the directions online (sad face) & I dont remember
I would be happy with pica .7a which runs just fine on the newest release of Bckside, so I canformat my sd card and have debian

 

[bigsupersquid]

my fota_sto experience:
after flashing zvh radio to my old ov, fota_sto did get bigger, but replacing it with the dump I made of it before flashing did not change the radio at all.
I think it had something to do with where the radio, or part of the update, was cached during the reboot-and-flash process from the update.zip

link to a post about mke2fs; google "man mke2fs" for more info.

check kernel config (zcat /proc/config.gz) for info on whether loop fs is enabled on installed kernel.

lg .35 kernel video/camera preview only works with libs from lg GB rom (stock or gRom) haven't yet found a fix.

 

[fenrix]

I just read the boot goes something like Radio -spl - and on, basically the mtd0 boot
may contain the radio.img, you could try flash_image'ing it. I don't think FOTA_STO is your radio itself.
-edit-
or not, copied that and it's 7mb same as in nandroid backup, - not the.firmware-

 

[fenrix]

well I can take pictures but with no preview!
videos only audio just a white screen!
with gingerkernel #3 , #4 is not working well, & the wireless module is no good, could easily replace with one from the #3 but it's still unstable

 

[bigsupersquid]

if you want glitchy video instead of white screen use .35 kernel with stock froyo, you can see frames of video when you tap the screen, blackscreen for video if not tapping.

noone yet has gotten around the whitescreen without a factory GB variant that i'm aware of.
wifi gave me no trouble, but I built from lg source which I patched for ov... only tried Drew's build briefly.

 

[fenrix]

surely the radio part of the boot img is in the,very beginning, I tried to flash_image the boot from grom
to get the cool lg boot splash, then I tried various wireless.ko's &kernel updaters no luck with wifi, but the logo stayed! Is there a module for loopsupport and a way to modprobe, I can't get them to work , neither did lsmod
when I restored everything lsmod does show wireless now

 

[bigsupersquid]

link to a classic on boot.img's
the radio.img is a seperate beast all on its own.
I thought about everything supported loop, android uses it to mount stuff in /dev/block
lsmod and insmod have to be set up seperately from android's /system/lib/modules for debian to use them. I forget where, since I haven't yet built the modules I really want and android takes care of the wireless.ko itself. there's something on the cyanogenmod wiki under kernel building about it.

 

[fenrix]

Well I decided to go back to Backside withPicasticks, I will just wait to format my sdcard this works much better, I have everything like this, fast boot time usb storage, etc. sorry but I don't like IHO boot splash and I'm trying to finding something different but nobodies changed it anywhere I can find, so I flash_image'd the aosp boot then kernel updated back to picasticks.
now I have an LG > LG boot logo and an empy bootanimation for roughly 23 seconds to boot.

 

[bigsupersquid]

BobZhome's and I think mrg666's builds have the red lg splash instead of the green droid and logo, and they have the right ramdisk for iho. aospCmod ramdisk works but is a slightly different and might break some functionality somewhere.

haven't tried gparted on-device, been afraid it'd unmount the sd to partition it; if it did then debian'd probably crash and then maybe bork the card in the process.

 

[fenrix]

I have a parted magic boot disc, I can goto about any college or library shutdown a pc& use gparted & parted magic, even get into any windows system as admin if I needed to, lol. I'm looking to gather all I need for wine, gimp, etc and refine my parted magic to a complete single boot disc

 

[bigsupersquid]

hiren boot cd
download
info page

awesome toolkit. at least some of what you need might be on there.

 

[fenrix]

does that run in ram? I've, set up parted b4, just never saved it to disc. parted has a wireless driver that works on virtually any laptop.

 

[colonelcack]

So there are radio updates? I haven't seen any guides on how to flash the radio to a newer version...are there any significant improvements to make it worth while?

 

[bigsupersquid]

So there are radio updates? I haven't seen any guides on how to flash the radio to a newer version...are there any significant improvements to make it worth while?

not for virgin mobile.. we are trying to locate and extract the two versions that have been released on device (zv4 and zv5 basebands)

does that run in ram? I've, set up parted b4, just never saved it to disc. parted has a wireless driver that works on virtually any laptop.

hiren can be run from thumbdrive, unless you mean gparted; not sure, like I said, haven't tested it on the ov.

 

[fenrix]

hey that reminds me, some laptops are more compatible than others, my moms detectd the phone on boot, I'm going to try making a usb bootable microsd via unetbootin and mounting sd in recovery to see if it will boot

 

[anon(182107)]

not for virgin mobile.. we are trying to locate and extract the two versions that have been released on device (zv4 and zv5)

This way we can find a radio, then make it into a flashable image to apply over the Official Sprint LG 2.3 update and have working voice, data, SMS, etc.

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