[ROM][AW 2.0]Ext4All for G Watch R by Skin1980

[Skin1980]

Hi guys, my personal war against squashfs FS continue and for this I converted the new 2.0 Rom for the LG Urbane into a writeable, not-compressed and more comfortable EXT4 FS.

Lately, @stevep113 joined our telegram group asking if is possible to port the ROM also for the G Watch R.

So I made a first build that he reported working well.

FEATURES:

- Ext4 FS ---> writeable and faster then stock compressed squashFS;
- 4 Cores unlocked with Ondemand governor and max freq set to 998 Mhz;

UPDATE:

After you have installed the ROM, flash the attached kernel that will add:
- root ( will be enabled at first reboot );
- busybox;
- mpdecision Hotplug!!! ( switch the cores on / off basing on the amount of works );
- init.d;

UPDATE 2:

- tnx to @stevep113 root has been fixed;


IMPORTANT: In this new version the original size of the ROM is > 350mB and the only possible way I found was to resize system and cache partitions. By the way I'll not ask you to do anything, the installation script will do all by itself so flash and enjoy.

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IMPORTANT 2: push the zip to scard and install from there

IMPORTANT 3: I don't own the device!

 

[Skin1980]

If you factory reset the watch with the TWRP recovery installed, maybe you can enter in a recovery bootloop ( watch keeps rebooting in recovery ). If this happens flash the attached recovery_bootloop_fix.

 

[jordirpz]

@Skin1980

What recovery i need for flash the zip? Official twrp or twrp+squashfs? Thank you

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[Skin1980]

@Skin1980

What recovery i need for flash the zip? Official twrp or twrp+squashfs? Thank you

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3.1 would be ok too, doesn't matter if supports squashfs or not

 

[vkmaxx]

If I'm running stock what I need to do? Install TWRP and the flash the ZIP?

 

[Skin1980]

If I'm running stock what I need to do? Install TWRP and the flash the ZIP?

Yes exactly

 

[-iNSiGhT-]

Hi,

First, thanks for your work !

There's nothing more to do than flashing the zip to install your EXT4 ROM, but if we want/have to go back on stock, will we have something to do since you modified partitions size?

Thanks.

 

[Skin1980]

Hi,

First, thanks for your work !

There's nothing more to do than flashing the zip to install your EXT4 ROM, but if we want/have to go back on stock, will we have something to do since you modified partitions size?

Thanks.

I'll build in the next days a restore zip but you can flash the stock image without issue also with the partition changed. You might have issue with big update but if you flash system and boot with fastboot there will be no issue

 

[-iNSiGhT-]

Ok, I will give it a try...

How can I put the zip file in the Watch ? (ADB push in Recovery ?)

 

[Tiger22]

Ok, I will give it a try...

How can I put the zip file in the Watch ? (ADB push in Recovery ?)

Yes ... i have made it like this ...

All boots good up...

Let´s see how it works...

---------- Post added at 01:44 ---------- Previous post was at 01:42 ----------

EDIT: Not in Recovery Mode ... push it in Bootloader Mode

 

[-iNSiGhT-]

Just tried, and at first boot, boot animation stay forever (almost 10 minutes), can't access Recovery (the original) after this flash (black screen after seeing the droid with exclamation point).

Will try again...

EDIT : Seems there's a problem...
I got the different steps in Recovery : unmounting cache and system, removing old partitions, creating partitions, reformatting partitions, then Extracting stuff and the Watch reboot on TWRP before it ends.
If i look in Watch data through TWRP file manager, i can see a system.img in /sdcard (where i put the zip)...

Sideloading the zip, i got an error at 47%

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb sideload EXT4ALL_LGWATCH_R_1.0.zip
serving: 'EXT4ALL_LGWATCH_R_1.0.zip'  (~47%)    * failed to read command: No error

---------- Post added at 02:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:58 AM ----------

It seems good now...

I formatted cache, system and userdata via fastboot then sideload the zip again and it flashes the system at 47% of sideloading (think there was a problem mounting system partition).
Script prompt me to reboot and enjoy EXT4... Seems OK.

 

[Niels78]

Thanks for the release, just flashed and setup the watch again

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[Skin1980]

UPDATE:

After you have installed the ROM, flash the attached kernel that will add:
- root ( will be enabled at first reboot );
- busybox;
- mpdecision Hotplug!!! ( switch the cores on / off basing on the amount of works );
- init.d;

 

[stevep113]

Working well here on the new kernel. Great thanks ?

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[-iNSiGhT-]

UPDATE:

After you have installed the ROM, flash the attached kernel that will add:
- root ( will be enabled at first reboot );
- busybox;
- mpdecision Hotplug!!! ( switch the cores on / off basing on the amount of works );
- init.d;

Already Hotplug !!!! Yeah !!!

Flashing time !
Thanks a lot !

 

[Tiger22]

I will test Kernel now

 

[jordirpz]

Where is the kernel please?

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[Tiger22]

Kernel is in first post...

 

[firegoblin]

so this kennel can't be flashed on stock squash? What are my primary benefits of going to ext4?

 

[stevep113]

Can someone verify they are getting root with a full clean install?

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