mkswap and swapon missing on Hero

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As I was trying to create a swap file on my Hero I noticed that both mkswap and swapon are missing. HTC might have removed them from the ROM.

So I was wondering. Is is possible to take these binaries out from a, let's say, Magic ROM and put them in Hero. In theory it should work because of the same architecture. So If anyone is willing to share these binaries, I would give it a try

Can you look inside your Heros and let me know if this is just on mine. (Of course you must root it, mine done without a problem).

Have fun with hero!!

Aren't swap apps always hacks? Thought you'd only get that in cooked ROM

Daisy xxx

Originally Posted by Dayzee

Aren't swap apps always hacks? Thought you'd only get that in cooked ROM

Makes sense. However as android being linux, it could be done just by adding the binaries and the appropriate libs. In theory it should work. Someone should try it

I'm not so up-to-date, are there any cooked ROMs for Hero (I'd flash mine, but I would like to keep the senseUI)?

Nothing yet

ok...

I have decided to start editing the Htc Hero wiki page here on xda-devs, so I'd be grateful if anyone could help. For example: for cooked roms and stuff like that. I'm already adding rooting methods so other users don't need to search in the forum, just go to the wiki page. So if anyone is interested, please help me edit the wiki page. (Oh this was a little of-topic:S - I'll make new thread)

Peace!

This will give you swapon etc.:

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=291345

I'll add it to an update.zip shortly.

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What exactly does the hybrid method update.zip does? I have seen it does something with the boot partition... Just asking because I don't want to brick my hero.

If updates the boot.img one to one that lets you adb remount.

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