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Keep with v4.5 base or go back to using the v3.5 base it's your decision ^^


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Link2097

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yeah is it?

Is the MTD Partition hack required?
i to would like to know this because i dont think ill do it (even though i really want to try this updated rom) because im worried ill get bricked flashing something recovery (not rom) related wrong (this whole thinking is probably noobish though)
EDIT Sorry i posted a little late i was typing before you answered that guy
 
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xillius200

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i to would like to know this because i dont think ill do it (even though i really want to try this updated rom) because im worried ill get bricked flashing something recovery (not rom) related wrong (this whole thinking is probably noobish though)
EDIT Sorry i posted a little late
not really any chance of bricking all it does is when the phone partitions the /system/ /data/ etc to a specified size what we are doing is taking down the size of /data/ for say and upping the size of /system/ ^^ think of it the same way as partitioning a hard drive for tripple boot :D
 

bigmoew

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I guess I'm the first to have the honor of an install error so here it goes;
Flashed partition hack with special MTD instructions
When i got to flashing the rom, it says

E:Cant chown.mod /system/xbin
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 17:
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0
 

xillius200

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I guess I'm the first to have the honor of an install error so here it goes;
Flashed partition hack with special MTD instructions
When i got to flashing the rom, it says

E:Cant chown.mod /system/xbin
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 17:
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0
did you make a file called "mtdpartmap.txt" on your sd card with the following of "161 4" before you flashed fr-recovery zip
 

bigmoew

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yes, but not exactly

As per the instructions on firerats thread, before I flashed the MTD recovery, I created on my sdcard a txt file named mtdpartmap that contains

"mtd 161 4"

Should it only be "161 4"?
 

bigmoew

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yeah should be "161 4" without the mtd in it ^^
Alright, I'll try it again.

Can I suggest to you editing the original post because firerat's thread that you redirect to gives out these instructions for custom partition sizes:
* configutaion
By default FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip will partition
System..... 90mb
Cache...... 2mb
userdata... the rest ..

But you can set your own system and cache sizes
the script in the recovery patcher checks for /sdcard/mtdpartmap.txt and reads that to override the default sizes.
e.g. for system 85mb and cache 2mb
NB make sure you mount sdcard first, else you won't write to sdcard/mtdpartmap.txt !

Code:
echo "mtd 85 2" > /sdcard/mtdpartmap.txt
 

xillius200

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so according to the directions on fireats page, since i have the eng spl i should be good to wipe all 5, flash the Hacked FR-recovery, reboot, flash the rom, then flash the Fr-boot zip, and then should be good to reboot and run?
Make a file on SD crad called "mtdpartmap.txt" first with "161 4" inside ^^ then yeah do just like you said :D
 
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