[USER] JB/ICS/CM10/9 Discussion

[Samiam303]

Ok, increased size of boot partition & was able to install and cm9/ics and samiam's gaps. Prev. gaps downloading automagically now. Nice interface, looking forward to futzing with it.

Still find it strange that no one seems to say "Oh, you have to use a format program to increase verygreen's boot partition size before cm9/ics will install correctly."

Thnx to prev. responders

I never had to change the size of the boot partition using the ICS fixed version of the SD image I uploaded. What size SD card are you using? I know the partitions created on different sized cards are different, so maybe it's only an issue on certain SD card sizes? If we can figure it out, I can try to fix it in the image.

The difference that I noticed was after using CPU Master to take my max speed to 1200 Mhz instead of 800 Mhz. THEN everything seemed to pick up. I think there are still some laggy times, but this .122 build is quite useable.

On the 18th Fattire pushed some hugely improved touchscreen code thanks to Keyodi's hard work. Builds newer than that should enjoy better touch functionality.

 

[plasticarmyman]

i'm just wondering if it is worth it to switch to the cm9 nightlies..and what exactly is it that is not working anymore?...why do we not have an official yet?

 

[leapinlar]

I never had to change the size of the boot partition using the ICS fixed version of the SD image I uploaded. What size SD card are you using? I know the partitions created on different sized cards are different, so maybe it's only an issue on certain SD card sizes? If we can figure it out, I can try to fix it in the image.

Sam,

The image size for boot is the same for all cards. It does vary the size of the other partitions based on SD card size. See verygreen's initial post for how the script sets up the other partitions based on SD size.

There is not a problem for the just the nightly on boot. It is only when you try to do the gapps at the same time. There is only like 15MB left after putting the nightly on. Some of those gapp zips get pretty large. A few more MB in the image might help a few folks. Most people use larger than 1GB cards now and I think that is why verygreen made such a small boot partition, so that when expanded the system and data would fit on a 1 GB card.

A lot of users make the boot partition bigger by using partition software to expand it before the script is run the first time.

Another 50MB or so in the original image might make sense. Just make the image 50MB bigger before you compress it. I would do it but I don't have the tools set up on my system.

 

[ibilln]

I never had to change the size of the boot partition using the ICS fixed version of the SD image I uploaded. What size SD card are you using? I know the partitions created on different sized cards are different, so maybe it's only an issue on certain SD card sizes? If we can figure it out, I can try to fix it in the image.



On the 18th Fattire pushed some hugely improved touchscreen code thanks to Keyodi's hard work. Builds newer than that should enjoy better touch functionality.

8 gb Sandisk card. I overkilled the space; now I have 320mb on boot. But, all (seemingly) works. Thnx.

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Sam,

The image size for boot is the same for all cards. It does vary the size of the other partitions based on SD card size. See verygreen's initial post for how the script sets up the other partitions based on SD size.

There is not a problem for the just the nightly on boot. It is only when you try to do the gapps at the same time. There is only like 15MB left after putting the nightly on. Some of those gapp zips get pretty large. A few more MB in the image might help a few folks. Most people use larger than 1GB cards now and I think that is why verygreen made such a small boot partition, so that when expanded the system and data would fit on a 1 GB card.

A lot of users make the boot partition bigger by using partition software to expand it before the script is run the first time.

Another 50MB or so in the original image might make sense. Just make the image 50MB bigger before you compress it. I would do it but I don't have the tools set up on my system.

I could not get just the update...zip to work - no gaps. Must be something I did, but no can figure it out. Works with my new huge boot partition. Is it better to get it working or to figure it out? There's the existential question for the day.

 

[leapinlar]

K

8 gb Sandisk card. I overkilled the space; now I have 320mb on boot. But, all (seemingly) works. Thnx.

I could not get just the update...zip to work - no gaps. Must be something I did, but no can figure it out. Works with my new huge boot partition. Is it better to get it working or to figure it out? There's the existential question for the day.

You know, the script in verygreen's installer first looks at the native size of your card then allocates the remaining partitions based on the size it detects. The smaller the card, the smaller the partitions. Maybe the script made an error the first time you ran it and it thought you had a small card. Then it would make /system about 300 MB. 300 may not be big enough for installing CM9. That may be why you got out of space errors during installation. It was out of space on /system. Then when you reformated your card and started over, it detected your card correctly and made /system bigger. No more out of space errors. Just a theory.

One way to test this theory is for someone to try to install CM9 on a 1 or 2GB card. The script sets /system to 300 on those cards. I don't have one or I would try it.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

 

[ibilln]

You know, the script in verygreen's installer first looks at the native size of your card then allocates the remaining partitions based on the size it detects. The smaller the card, the smaller the partitions. Maybe the script made an error the first time you ran it and it thought you had a small card. Then it would make /system about 300 MB. 300 may not be big enough for installing CM9. That may be why you got out of space errors during installation. It was out of space on /system. Then when you reformated your card and started over, it detected your card correctly and made /system bigger. No more out of space errors. Just a theory.

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Ok theory, but I dd'd the generic-sdcard-v1.3.img or -ICS.img to the card about eleventy-seven times. Only thing that worked was to increase the boot partition after one of the dd's.

I don't understand it either...

 

[leapinlar]

Ok theory, but I dd'd the generic-sdcard-v1.3.img or -ICS.img to the card about eleventy-seven times. Only thing that worked was to increase the boot partition after one of the dd's.

I don't understand it either...

What does dd the card mean? I used windows and Win32DiskImager to write the image to the SD. Maybe that is what was different. It wasn't until your partition software messed with the card that it worked.

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[ibilln]

What does dd the card mean? I used windows and Win32DiskImager to write the image to the SD. Maybe that is what was different. It wasn't until your partition software messed with the card that it worked.

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dd is how you get the image onto the card from linux/unix. See verrygreen's original post. This site won't let me include url's 'cause I'm a new guy.

 

[rampart51]

If you go to settings and developer options, there is an option to show touches. This causes a little round thing to show up when you touch the screen. It shows you on the screen where you are really touching. This is good for diagnostics. I found that sometimes I am not touching where I think I am touching. Another thing I found was that for most selections you need to touch lower on the screen than you think would be necessary. This may be a bug in CM9. Now I select lower on purpose and selections work more often.

Thanks...I tried that and I'm definitely touching the screen.

I've also used Nook Tweaks to max out the CPU at 1200 (step 5). Maybe I'll try another CPU tweaker because Nook Tweaks doesn't appear to have an "ON DEMAND" option.

CPU Spy says most of my activity is 300 MHz. Odd.

 

[svennn]

dd is how you get the image onto the card from linux/unix. See verrygreen's original post. This site won't let me include url's 'cause I'm a new guy.

I also use dd to write my SD (on a Mac) and can't find a way to increase the boot partition. This is keeping me from installing gapps.

How did you do this?

Steve

 

[minnime007]

flashed over last night, it kept all my apps except theres no g apps and i cant register a gmail account, there alot of crashing but no bootloops and pretty snappy. for an alpha its exceptional, i'll probably flash back to cm7.1 in a few days, its not yet a daily driver

 

[brentb636]

Thanks...I tried that and I'm definitely touching the screen.

I've also used Nook Tweaks to max out the CPU at 1200 (step 5). Maybe I'll try another CPU tweaker because Nook Tweaks doesn't appear to have an "ON DEMAND" option.

CPU Spy says most of my activity is 300 MHz. Odd.

CPU Master is working fine for me. You might try it !

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I'm running each new nightly, the morning after production, and it's cool, BUT it would be nice to have a "change.log" file on the nightlies. Anyone know if such a thing exists ? [edit] Found the answer in the Development forum, "NO" there are no change logs being done, for good reasons .

 

[lowpeezy]

Wallpaper sizing

Is anyone having problems getting their wallpapers to size properly? I cant remember if I had this problem on sneakpeek2, but I updated to the latest nightly.

 

[KCs2k]

flashed over last night, it kept all my apps except theres no g apps and i cant register a gmail account, there alot of crashing but no bootloops and pretty snappy. for an alpha its exceptional, i'll probably flash back to cm7.1 in a few days, its not yet a daily driver

If you've not checked out this post for the nightles, grabbed the latest one and Samiam303's gapps give that a try. I've been running that daily for a week now and other than a few apps not playing nice have no trouble with it at all.

 

[HimWill]

KYou know, the script in verygreen's installer first looks at the native size of your card then allocates the remaining partitions based on the size it detects. The smaller the card, the smaller the partitions. Maybe the script made an error the first time you ran it and it thought you had a small card. Then it would make /system about 300 MB. 300 may not be big enough for installing CM9. That may be why you got out of space errors during installation. It was out of space on /system. Then when you reformated your card and started over, it detected your card correctly and made /system bigger. No more out of space errors. Just a theory.

One way to test this theory is for someone to try to install CM9 on a 1 or 2GB card. The script sets /system to 300 on those cards. I don't have one or I would try it.

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I put this on a 2Gb PNY card last week using Verygreen's original installer (not the new ICSversion).Used sneekpeek1, then 0115 nightly,then the then current GAPPS that Sam was hosting.
Here is the info on the partitions: boot 117.63 Mb 13.12 used 104.51 open
* 462.81Mb 462.81used 0 open
* 964.84Mb 964.84used 0 open
CM7SDCARD 368.68Mb 352 Kb used 368.34 open

Note: This card benchmarks at 4Kwrite 0.011 Mb/sec,it does run ICS ,but really drags along.
Benchmark any card you are going to use and select one that testa 1.000 or higher for best results.(A 1.000 score is about 100 times faster than this one.)

 

[ibilln]

I also use dd to write my SD (on a Mac) and can't find a way to increase the boot partition. This is keeping me from installing gapps.

How did you do this?

Steve

Disk Utility for some reason won't increase the size of the FAT boot partition. Decision by Apple to dis anything windows-esque I guess.

I run some VM's with Virtualbox on the Mac. With a Windows VM, there are a number of partitioning programs. I used EASUS home edition for the SD boot resize I did.

Interestingly, I tried to use gparted on a Linux vm. It couldn't increase the size of the SD boot partition - got all confused. So I went to the above.

Googling "disk partitioning software for mac" yields a lot of useful things, including a bunch of links for live CD's, most of which run gparted. It may work better from a live CD than from a VM.

Y, its all way more convoluted than need be, I think.

 

[HimWill]

Did you Decrease the SDCARD partition first by about 85Mb, then Increase boot by 85 Mb? It's a balancing act, since there is no unallocated space available.

 

[stingray59]

CM9 so far!

I'm not a power user by any means nor a code hacker or writer. I use the NC for book reading, getting my email, facebook, watching movies, and a few other things. For some time I ran CM7.1 with no issues. I'm now running CM9 nightly #123 and so far no problems. Anything I did on CM7 I'm doing on CM9. For us non developers it's running well enough that its a daily driver for me. I wish to thank all of you here who have provided the skill and time to make this happen for us non technical guys. My only, and I stress only, issue I see right now for me is battery life. Without Juice Defender CM9 does eat up my battery.

I look forward to continued use of your efforts.

Signed: Just a user.

 

[cougar_15]

Has anyone tried running droidwall on the latest unoffical nightly? When I tried it gave me an error that said the kernal was not compatible. The funny thing is I seem to remember it working on preview 2...

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[shyam2010]

i know for a fact that its alpha version...i am no means trying to be annoying ..just wanna know...if there's anyway ...to get USB Mass storage..on CM9 ..? as thats the one of the important things...i use..for my data transfer...