Review of Nightly 153

[furbearingmammal]

154 fixed my voice dialer issue, but GODS ABOVE AND BELOW is that new voice/speed annoying. Also, my USB Mass Storage mode is back.

Se7enLC, SPRecovery lets you mount the SD card to a computer; it's a fallback safety feature in case you have a screwed up ROM install, no backups, and no card reader -- or you're just an idiot and forgot to load the update.zip file before you rebooted into recovery -- or want to flash both a kernel AND a ROM at the same time, or the ROM and the Google app pack... etc. Clockwork should have the same thing, but I haven't ever tried it.

It's saved my butt a few times and it saved it again. 153 did NOT like my phone.

 

[Droid_3.0]

Apps2sdext: Is not in there, yet. It DOES WORK, though, if you're willing to jump through a few hoops to set it up.

O_O whats this i hear about Apps2sdext

 

[Se7enLC]

Se7enLC, SPRecovery lets you mount the SD card to a computer; it's a fallback safety feature in case you have a screwed up ROM install, no backups, and no card reader -- or you're just an idiot and forgot to load the update.zip file before you rebooted into recovery -- or want to flash both a kernel AND a ROM at the same time, or the ROM and the Google app pack... etc. Clockwork should have the same thing, but I haven't ever tried it.

OH OH OH, I see. I thought you meant that you had to mount it from recovery because it wouldn't mount when you were booted up normally, I was wondering why it didn't work normally anymore. I guess it was just a screwed up rom install

Yeah, clockwork has that, too, of course. Clockwork also has the ability to install a zip from the SD card that ISN'T named update.zip. So you can install a rom, gapps, kernel, etc all at once by just picking them all out off the SD card - no renaming needed.

 

[furbearingmammal]

I just put them on the SD card, boot into recovery, install, mount, rename, install, then boot to make sure it works, then reboot and install whichever the 3rd is. Saves me a bunch of time when I have a ROM that won't boot for whatever reason.

Only issue I've ever had with SPRecovery is it named one of my backups with a 1970 date code. Considering the large number of problems I've seen, helped with, and heard complaints about regarding ROM Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery, I'm just not going there.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Oh, and the rate that build of the ROM was failing me I'm sure refusing to mount the SD card was next on the hit parade.

:rolf3:

 

[furbearingmammal]

O_O whats this i hear about Apps2sdext

Se7enLC hacked on his phone till he got it working with a prior nightly.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/koush/87456-always-out-space.html

 

[Se7enLC]

O_O whats this i hear about Apps2sdext

Here's what my system looks like, now. I have a TON of apps installed, just cuz I can. As an added bonus, you can see the signal strength meter being completely wrong. -19dBm? Yeah, I wish...

Like I said, though - it's messy to set up.

Abbreviated Steps:
1). Install kernel that supports ext3 mounting (default does not - slayher does, p3droid does if you load ext3 module)
2). delete /etc/init.d/05mountsd
3). Make sure you can mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext
3). Run firerat script (found on cyanogen forum). This will create a new 05mountsd script, as well as apkmanager and set up your real /data to have bind mounts to the sd-ext mount.
4). Modify 05mountsd script to modprobe ext3 first, setprop cm.filesystem.ready when sd-ext mounts properly
5). Extract ramdisk from CM
6). Modify init.rc in ramdisk to wait for cm.filesystem.ready=1 before starting sysinit
7). Using Koush's anyrom format, create an installer to apply that ramdisk change without replacing the kernel
8). Profit!

 

[donerico]

I decided to try one of these nightlies and when it boots it does not ask met to log in into gmail and there is no google apps. Do I have to flash google apps separately from the nightly zip file? if so, where can I get the right ones? Is there anything else I need to do to run this? (I tipically like to let the market sync my apps and just restore data for a few apps from TB.
thanks for the help.

 

[Se7enLC]

I decided to try one of these nightlies and when it boots it does not ask met to log in into gmail and there is no google apps. Do I have to flash google apps separately from the nightly zip file? if so, where can I get the right ones? Is there anything else I need to do to run this? (I tipically like to let the market sync my apps and just restore data for a few apps from TB.
thanks for the help.

Yes, the google apps file is separate from the nightly zip file. I recommend logging into irc.freenode.net and the channel #koush for real-time assistance while you install, or at least reading up on the installation guide here:

Full Update Guide - Motorola Droid - CyanogenMod Wiki

As a side-note, nightly builds are not really recommended if you haven't used CM before. I won't say "don't do it" because I think the currently nightlies are WAY better than the stable release - but you WILL run into things that don't work correctly, and if you're not comfortable with the whole process, it may be a real pain for you (and the people trying to help, too).

As another side-note - the current most recent version of gapps (20101020.1) has an extraneous 5mb file in the zip which will very nearly fill your /system partition. You'll want to remove /system/gapps.tar after installing if you plan on writing anything to /system at any point.

 

[donerico]

I decided to try one of these nightlies and when it boots it does not ask met to log in into gmail and there is no google apps. Do I have to flash google apps separately from the nightly zip file? if so, where can I get the right ones? Is there anything else I need to do to run this? (I tipically like to let the market sync my apps and just restore data for a few apps from TB.
thanks for the help.

Yes, the google apps file is separate from the nightly zip file. I recommend logging into irc.freenode.net and the channel #koush for real-time assistance while you install, or at least reading up on the installation guide here:

Full Update Guide - Motorola Droid - CyanogenMod Wiki

As a side-note, nightly builds are not really recommended if you haven't used CM before. I won't say "don't do it" because I think the currently nightlies are WAY better than the stable release - but you WILL run into things that don't work correctly, and if you're not comfortable with the whole process, it may be a real pain for you (and the people trying to help, too).

As another side-note - the current most recent version of gapps (20101020.1) has an extraneous 5mb file in the zip which will very nearly fill your /system partition. You'll want to remove /system/gapps.tar after installing if you plan on writing anything to /system at any point.

Thank you for all the info. Is the most recent version gapps the one linked in the wiki article you provided?

 

[tdog7879]

I installed nightly 155 without any issues ..works great so far but I have only been running it for about ten hours..I'm sticking with the stock kernel with it over clocked at 800 ..I can't wait for a RC or a final release. If a nightly build is this stable imagine what the final build is going to be like!

 

[dodgersrgood]

I installed nightly 155 without any issues ..works great so far but I have only been running it for about ten hours..I'm sticking with the stock kernel with it over clocked at 800 ..I can't wait for a RC or a final release. If a nightly build is this stable imagine what the final build is going to be like!

anyone try 156 yet?

 

[moot]

I installed nightly 155 without any issues ..works great so far but I have only been running it for about ten hours..I'm sticking with the stock kernel with it over clocked at 800 ..I can't wait for a RC or a final release. If a nightly build is this stable imagine what the final build is going to be like!

anyone try 156 yet?

156 is the most stable for me (from 150+). Battery live seems to be a little better, anecdotally.

Where are the settings for quiet hours? I'm having trouble finding it.

 

[dodgersrgood]

I installed nightly 155 without any issues ..works great so far but I have only been running it for about ten hours..I'm sticking with the stock kernel with it over clocked at 800 ..I can't wait for a RC or a final release. If a nightly build is this stable imagine what the final build is going to be like!

anyone try 156 yet?

156 is the most stable for me (from 150+). Battery live seems to be a little better, anecdotally.

Where are the settings for quiet hours? I'm having trouble finding it.

Good question. Also is the silent mode gone from the volume rocker in the nightly builds cuz this is the second nightly I've used that doesn't have it

 

[drpaul07]

can you guys that have tried the nightlies let me know of one thing...can music be paused while the screen is off? Like with the camera button? I know on CM6 stable, the volume rocker would change tracks but you couldn't pause the music.