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jetx2x said:
That's why I think it would be good for us to use my sub forum... its secluded and away from the other warp users... so only the ones that actually have a hand in devopement will know about it and be able to use it

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Well we can use either it don't matter but it would be better for us developers and like i said if it gets out of hand it can be locked i suggest using mine because most of my ROMs and what not will be here totally up to you guys though just let me know :D
 
Problem is I can't access on tapatalk, your sub forums . I can see playful God , and a hand full of others. Is anyone else having this issue? If so , pm scary alien. I would like it to be there
 
ApolloStar2109 said:
Well we can use either it don't matter but it would be better for us developers and like i said if it gets out of hand it can be locked i suggest using mine because most of my ROMs and what not will be here totally up to you guys though just let me know :D
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I don't think I'm ever really going to use mine... Its too secluded

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MrBobo said:
flashable zip to fix symlinks and permissions back to stock settings, there were just a couple missing in hroark's template for the stock based ROM, I will let him know to fix the template: http://db.tt/RmGvY3a7

this may be a fix for the bluetooth issues on some ROMs, can someone investigate that for me, I don't know which ones had the issue, I assume many of us used the templates for our ROMs without modifying the updater-script much so this may be a widespread issue that's just gone un noticed.
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Bluetooth still doesn't work for me even with that file, but the only difference between my install script and that are the busybox symlinks i included in mine.
 
Should I be setting permissions for stuff that's in xbin that's not in the update script? And how are symlinks copied? With root explorer, I copied the /system folder into my template and it copied the symlinks as 1.4 meg files, the exact size of busybox. They are the simlinks for busybox. Anyone have a better method, or should I adb pull it? And if adb, windows hates symlinks, I don't know about Linux, I just need to figure all that crap out if anyone can understand this stupid post lol
 
downthemachine said:
Should I be setting permissions for stuff that's in xbin that's not in the update script? And how are symlinks copied? With root explorer, I copied the /system folder into my template and it copied the symlinks as 1.4 meg files, the exact size of busybox. They are the simlinks for busybox. Anyone have a better method, or should I adb pull it? And if adb, windows hates symlinks, I don't know about Linux, I just need to figure all that crap out if anyone can understand this stupid post lol
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I get it
 
downthemachine said:
Should I be setting permissions for stuff that's in xbin that's not in the update script? And how are symlinks copied? With root explorer, I copied the /system folder into my template and it copied the symlinks as 1.4 meg files, the exact size of busybox. They are the simlinks for busybox. Anyone have a better method, or should I adb pull it? And if adb, windows hates symlinks, I don't know about Linux, I just need to figure all that crap out if anyone can understand this stupid post lol
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Make a nandroid... then open up the system.ext4.tar file and BOOM you have your system folder without the extra files

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Cm7 updater script had the correct symlinks, so I added it to stock, added extra permissions for some mods I made and poof! Win
 
I just used the symlinks from that file and permissions from mrbobo's fix
 
Good news! It really really didn't work, it said the sdcard was blank, restored from a nandroid, so no damage. I'm gonna start from scratch, I've installed busybox, so many times and changed so much, that my permissions probably didn't work correctly. So starting anew. Then I'll ask for help when I get to that point
 
This time I'm just gonna write the script from scratch, after looking at shin's updater script, which in it self is a work of art, and reading, through ones for countless other roms for other phones, I've learned alot. Although, I haven't grasped the concept of how to correctly copy to the data partition.
 
What clock?

BTW, i figured out where the bluetooth bug comes from. I think its Hroarks .14 kernel source. I built the kernel non-OC stock files .14 source still no bluetooth. went back to .7 source and bluetooth works just fine.
 
downthemachine said:
This time I'm just gonna write the script from scratch, after looking at shin's updater script, which in it self is a work of art, and reading, through ones for countless other roms for other phones, I've learned alot. Although, I haven't grasped the concept of how to correctly copy to the data partition.
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My script flashes files to the data partition, flash files like this

ui_print("Mounting Data"); <---- Shows user whats happening

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p18", "/data"); <--- Mounts the data partition

ui_print("");
ui_print("Extracting Files"); <--- Shows user whats happening

ui_print("");
package_extract_dir("data", "/data"); <---- Extracts contents of data folder to data partition

If you want to flash a file to data root then add a folder named data in the root of zip

if you want to flash pre installed non-system apps.

Place apps in folder data --> apps then place in root of zip file

Example

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26867932.png


48617621.png


Hope that helps
 
shinru2004 said:
What clock?

BTW, i figured out where the bluetooth bug comes from. I think its Hroarks .14 kernel source. I built the kernel non-OC stock files .14 source still no bluetooth. went back to .7 source and bluetooth works just fine.
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The clock in the status bar... I've changed the text colors in the status bar to ics blue and black... but I can't change the clock for some reason... I cant find it in the smali and I'm now in the process of changing it through XML... first try didn't work though...
Edit: second attempt = Epic Fail
third attempt = Epic Fail
fourth attempt = Epic Fail
fifth attempt = Epic Fail
.........
tenth attempt = SUCCESS!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D

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shinru2004 said:
What clock?

BTW, i figured out where the bluetooth bug comes from. I think its Hroarks .14 kernel source. I built the kernel non-OC stock files .14 source still no bluetooth. went back to .7 source and bluetooth works just fine.
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Thanks shin for the data info. Can you build the oc kernel with .7 source? Oh, can I make a request on both oc and non, swap support? I'd build it, but my attempts have failed
 
downthemachine said:
Thanks shin for the data info. Can you build the oc kernel with .7 source? Oh, can I make a request on both oc and non, swap support? I'd build it, but my attempts have failed
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Not sure if i still have the .7 source files, Hroark updated the .7 to the .14 source code. I need to notify him about the bluetooth issue.

Yeah i can turn on support for swap, but its not needed and you wont see any added benefit.

Better improvement with memory compaction or compcache as its called now. :D
 
Darn, I really want to try swap. It won't extend the virtual memory? I figure since its basically a Linux kernel that it would work the same, but I have yet to fully understand how android manages memory
 
downthemachine said:
Darn, I really want to try swap. It won't extend the virtual memory? I figure since its basically a Linux kernel that it would work the same, but I have yet to fully understand how android manages memory
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Swap will only work once you run out of physical ram
 
And memory management in android does its best to control that. I had a theory about the rebooting issues and freezing issues.
 
jetx2x said:
The clock in the status bar... I've changed the text colors in the status bar to ics blue and black... but I can't change the clock for some reason... I cant find it in the smali and I'm now in the process of changing it through XML... first try didn't work though...
Edit: second attempt = Epic Fail
third attempt = Epic Fail
fourth attempt = Epic Fail
fifth attempt = Epic Fail
.........
tenth attempt = SUCCESS!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D

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Can you post a screenshot of what it is your doing?
 
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