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Root CyanogenMod 7 Unofficial Beta 5 02/20/12
- Thread starter hroark13
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Majora_Luna
Newbie
How do I enable more than 3 home screens?
Lordvincent 90
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Iirc, the rom comes with zeam launcher. I'm not sure zeam launcher allows you to add/remove screens.
I prefer adw launcher (there is a free and a paid version in the play store) which allows you to do this.
many of the launchers available in the play store will let you do this
jdogrambo
Android Enthusiast
+ 1 for ADW EX.
hell yea i love adw ex
wetbiker7
Extreme Android User
jdogrambo
Android Enthusiast
same here
I still haven't been able to get S2E to work, I did not try flashing anything as outlined after my last post. Can anyone give me some simplified instructions to try?
I was surprised to see my phone had no trouble downloading a MMS over wifi the other day, any idea what causes it specifically? Or could it have been that the wifi disabled itself when the phone locked?
For the most part I am preferring working CM7 to working CTMod. I would say on average it runs better while looking better, however I've been seeing my phone default to 1x instead of 3g more often recently. Only other thing I liked better in CT was the call history, which I'm guessing was because it was based on a newer android version?
I was surprised to see my phone had no trouble downloading a MMS over wifi the other day, any idea what causes it specifically? Or could it have been that the wifi disabled itself when the phone locked?
For the most part I am preferring working CM7 to working CTMod. I would say on average it runs better while looking better, however I've been seeing my phone default to 1x instead of 3g more often recently. Only other thing I liked better in CT was the call history, which I'm guessing was because it was based on a newer android version?
Lordvincent 90
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I still haven't been able to get S2E to work, I did not try flashing anything as outlined after my last post. Can anyone give me some simplified instructions to try?
I was surprised to see my phone had no trouble downloading a MMS over wifi the other day, any idea what causes it specifically? Or could it have been that the wifi disabled itself when the phone locked?
I have luck some times with MMS downloading while on WiFi... its hit or miss. Iirc, its related to the rom not correctly establishing the PPP connection needed.
For the most part I am preferring working CM7 to working CTMod. I would say on average it runs better while looking better, however I've been seeing my phone default to 1x instead of 3g more often recently.
you are seeing the true reading with cm7. The stock boost rom (ctmod is based off the stock rom) is designed not to tell you when your are on 1x. This is to avoid annoyed customers calling and complaining
Only other thing I liked better in CT was the call history, which I'm guessing was because it was based on a newer android version?
actually, cm7 is running a newer version of android. Ctmod (again being based of the stock rom) is running android 2.3.5, cm7 runs android 2.3.7 they just use different dialers, and hence display the call log differently
As for s2e, I just walked someone through setting this up the other night.
1. Download 2e from play store
2. Open app
3. Select ext4 for partition type
4. Boot into recovery
5. Select mounts and storage
6. Select format sdext
7. Reboot phone
8. Open s2e
9. Check the desired boxes (all for optimal storage, or all but /data/data for less storage but a little more responsiveness.)
10. Reboot phone
The last reboot will take a while to boot as it optimizes the apps/builds the dalvik cache.
Once it boots, an easy way to verify the sdext is being used is to open titanium backup and see of there is a listing for app2sd on the first screen
rangerpaul
Member
LV, I keep trying it this way, and the options on the first screen of S2E stay grayed out. I tried the Wet One's method of waiting a while after booting, buy last night I booted it before bed and left it all night. Nuttin'. Options stayed greyed out. I'm gonna retry it once more and see. Maybe you're a lucky charm.
Something I got confused on relative to this, is do I want CM7 to move apps to Internal, External or Automatic? I got three widgets I need so I know those have to stay on the phone, but I do run out of memory when I load up on apps. I'm using 2GB as SD-EXT and 0 Swap.
Not sure what I got goin' on...
Something I got confused on relative to this, is do I want CM7 to move apps to Internal, External or Automatic? I got three widgets I need so I know those have to stay on the phone, but I do run out of memory when I load up on apps. I'm using 2GB as SD-EXT and 0 Swap.
Not sure what I got goin' on...
Lordvincent 90
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Did you check the boxes in the settings menu? (The person I helped through it via text didn't seem to need to do so... but when in last used s2e I did.)
At one point I actually had to repartition my whole card to get it to work as well (after backing up the files to my laptop, since they will get erased when you partition)
Is there a particular reason that you don't just use katokernel-ext?
Also- i don't think it matters if s2e moves your widgets to the partition.
At one point I actually had to repartition my whole card to get it to work as well (after backing up the files to my laptop, since they will get erased when you partition)
Is there a particular reason that you don't just use katokernel-ext?
Also- i don't think it matters if s2e moves your widgets to the partition.
rangerpaul
Member
I did have the setting checked. I've repartitioned and reformatted so many times my SD card is gettin' thinner LOL.
I tried the katokernel-ext like on the OP, but for me it was real laggy, and I couldn't find s secret decoder ring to decode all the options for the voltage setter app, so I was chewing up battery pretty fast. Searching through this and a few of the other related threads led me to try the S2E solution.
All this coz I gotta have a working compass for Sky Charts.
I tried the katokernel-ext like on the OP, but for me it was real laggy, and I couldn't find s secret decoder ring to decode all the options for the voltage setter app, so I was chewing up battery pretty fast. Searching through this and a few of the other related threads led me to try the S2E solution.
All this coz I gotta have a working compass for Sky Charts.
Lordvincent 90
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Lol! Well I can say that part of your battery drain is related to the governor being on performance by default. You don't need a voltage app to fix/change that.
If you go to settings>cyanogenmod settings>performance you can change the governor from there. (I prefer interactive or on demand)
As to s2e, I'm out of ideas... it worked for me. If anyone else has an idea, feel free to chime in.
If you go to settings>cyanogenmod settings>performance you can change the governor from there. (I prefer interactive or on demand)
As to s2e, I'm out of ideas... it worked for me. If anyone else has an idea, feel free to chime in.
jdogrambo
Android Enthusiast
Lol! Well I can say that part of your battery drain is related to the governor being on performance by default. You don't need a voltage app to fix/change that.
If you go to settings>cyanogenmod settings>performance you can change the governor from there. (I prefer interactive or on demand)
As to s2e, I'm out of ideas... it worked for me. If anyone else has an idea, feel free to chime in.
I tryed link 2 sd and it works great how bout you try that its a lot easier to set up
mavrikmeercat
Android Enthusiast
Hey guys, I did some experimenting with swap on cm7 and posted it like about 15 pages back lol. At first, it seems really fast but then it starts to lag real bad after the swap partition gets full. The swap doesn't get cleared with the minfree or apk kill settings.. also a reboot doesn't clear the swap either so it just stays full. After weeks on researching linux swap and it behaviors, I found that there is no way to actively clear swap without unmounting the partition first so I made a script to run in script manager in order to unmount and clear swap and then re-enable but doing that would cause force closes in certain apps.
So imo swap is just not practical.. not saying you shouldn't just what I have found. Please note that cm7 does have it's own form of swap that is built-in called compache.
What compache does is format a % of the RAM (fastest memory of all) for swap. Then it will use that as a full out swap, compressing and decompressing apks as the move from foreground to background and vise versa. In theory, it doesn't seem practical either for the prevail because it has so little RAM but in usage it works pretty well. Im guessing because of major transfer speed of it beeing on the RAM instead on an hdd/ssd.
Please post you exp with this? im still curious about this and would like to here your findings
So imo swap is just not practical.. not saying you shouldn't just what I have found. Please note that cm7 does have it's own form of swap that is built-in called compache.
What compache does is format a % of the RAM (fastest memory of all) for swap. Then it will use that as a full out swap, compressing and decompressing apks as the move from foreground to background and vise versa. In theory, it doesn't seem practical either for the prevail because it has so little RAM but in usage it works pretty well. Im guessing because of major transfer speed of it beeing on the RAM instead on an hdd/ssd.
Please post you exp with this? im still curious about this and would like to here your findings
Lordvincent 90
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I totally agree with you. I have found that in the long term having swap enabled would bog the phone down really bad. The only solution was to swap off, swap on, which would fix it for a while but it would end up the same.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
Why does it work better with ct? is it the kernel? Hey LV, tried cm long time ago, and have always been a ct guy! Thinking about trying again and what might be the best setup? Thanks! In ct the ssm is so fast and in data it is slower but has alot of storage/data room. How does cm compare to those? Also in ssm I always have about 140 ram and in data no matter what I have 100-115 only running, Why is that with everything the same? I just don't understand that?
Lordvincent 90
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With the apps I have installed, I average ~130-140 free. YMMV depending on what you have running in the background.
If you look back a few posts, I have a link to a thread containing some posts regarding the 'best' setup for cm7
Not sure why the swap thing works better on ct.
probably because kouma is a genius
I personally use katokernel-ext... some prefer to use the non-ext kernel and s2e to for app management.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
With the apps I have installed, I average ~130-140 free. YMMV depending on what you have running in the background.
If you look back a few posts, I have a link to a thread containing some posts regarding the 'best' setup for cm7
Not sure why the swap thing works better on ct.
probably because kouma is a genius
I personally use katokernel-ext... some prefer to use the non-ext kernel and s2e to for app management.
Will try when I get a chance, Thanks!
mavrikmeercat
Android Enthusiast
Cm7 and ct have verry different boot.imgs. in cm7, hroark13 edited the cm7 ramdisk wich is compiled from cm7 source, to mount that sd-ext to become data and I can't claim to know all kouma's works but I believe the basis is that he took the stock boot.img and edited that ramdisk to mount two partitions on the sdcard and allows you to have one as /data and one as dalvik (data mode) or as /data and swap/vm.
Edit: correction.. in ct,
(data mode) is sd-ext1=/data and sd-ext2=dalvik)
(SSM) is sd-ext1=/data, sd-ext2=dalvik, and the internal space for /data that is not being used is mounted as swap in an attempt to increase vm/virtual memory to decrease the amount of RAM being used.
Then trenchkacto took his kernel mod in order to oveclock and applied it to both boot.imgs. so you see they are very different kernels indeed.
Installing the kato kernel with ext would give you the equivalent of ct's data mode but davlik and everything that is in data is all on the one partition. Long time cm user.. this mode is best for me but try them both kato w ext and kato w no ext and s2e to put apps in sd-ext. See wich one works best for you..
I installed S2E and checked all boxes and rebooted. The phone is stuck on the android screen over 15 minutes and now it has a blank screen(it has been about 25 minutes), when I touch the screen, the 4 buttons light up but the screen stays off. I can get into Recovery
! Is there a way to fix this without doing a full reset?
cwhatever
Life Goes On
I installed S2E and checked all boxes and rebooted. The phone is stuck on the android screen over 15 minutes and now it has a blank screen(it has been about 25 minutes), when I touch the screen, the 4 buttons light up but the screen stays off. I can get into Recovery
Restore a backup that you should have made? As you progress and things are working good keep making bckups so when a problem comes to you can restore a backup and start where last left off and not all over again.
Backup... What IS that
... Something that I should be DOING
...I fixed it
I went into recovery and reset the Dalvilk cache and the other cache. Now I have the grayed out boxes in S2E...
wetbiker7
Extreme Android User
Backup... What IS that
I fixed it
If you play around with it you'll be able to get it where you can make your selections in those greed out boxes. It took me several tries before I got mine working again.
wyelkins
Android Expert
Same with me. I have tried both S2E with CM7 and the Kato ext. Both work fine. I have been using S2E for many months and I have no complaints once I got all the grays enabled (not sure how). Lol.