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Root first time to have a flashing issue

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cashmere_cat

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Any time I've flashed a ROM it has always gone smoothly.
This time I think I may have a problem, not just sure what to do.
Did a full wipe and flashed [ROM][15.01.12]Runnymede AIO V5.0.1 Special Edition - xda-developers
It said the process was successfully completed so I rebooted. It took some time at the boot animation screen, but now appears 'stuck' at a wall paper type screen. The time is wrong, it shows no service, and the battery percent, but thats it. Unresponsive to touch, buttons don't do anything. Do I power off and on again? Battery pull? wait? Not just sure what to do, since all previous ones have had no issues...
 
Wasn't sure. Ive seen some posts say to wait a certain amount of time.
Pulled the battery and powered back up. It seems stuck at the boot animation again. I guess if I get to the point of a battery pull again, I should restore my nandroid, presumably I've done something wrong, or I dont fit the requirements of the rom or something...
 
Usually this is a problem with ext partition. Many parts of the Rom are pushed to ext. Might be worth checking its not full in Gparted and that ext is 4 not 3 or 2
 
SUroot said:
Usually this is a problem with ext partition. Many parts of the Rom are pushed to ext. Might be worth checking its not full in Gparted and that ext is 4 not 3 or 2
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Exactly this, I heard a few people have the same issue with the same ROM.
 
i was about to say the same thing, it has to be ext4 and has to have room for both the files that get shipped there and the a2sd script too
 
I guess that was the issue then - although I am sure I saw somewhere in that thread that ext3 would be fine also. (but be darned if I can find it again -- thats the problem when the threads get so long...)
I did a battery pull and rebooted and it seems to be working ok. Can I expect to see problems down the road, using ext3 instead of ext4?
 
Ext 3 is much slower than Ext 4 and as you have parts of system on there, you want it as fast as possible.
 
I never knew the difference between ex3 and 4.
When I got into the whole rooting I was advised to make an ex3 partition, i think that was because of compatibility?

I assume that has changed in recent times.
 
Ext4 was very new to us and the desire about a year or so ago and there was some question around compatibility. Ext3 and 4 both have journaling, but Ext4 is much better.
 
Exactly same issue happened to me from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1. Full wipe (using format all but sd on 4ext recovery). It reported flashed successfully, but when it booted got stuck on the same screen you described above. Pulled battery, booted back into recovery, another full wipe then tried install again. This time went through ok.

Don't know if this is a bug in the Rom - but don't have the 10 posts on xda to report it to the dev.

TI backup was a bit buggy restoring apps (user only) as well - it got stuck a few times. Everything seems fine now its running though.

Heard somewhere that cwm recovery can format your ext partition to ext3 when wiping - even if you had set it to ext4 originally. This is what 4ext reported on my card so had to reformat it back to ext4.
 
coos lick said:
Heard somewhere that cwm recovery can format your ext partition to ext3 when wiping - even if you had set it to ext4 originally. This is what 4ext reported on my card so had to reformat it back to ext4.
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I have heard this too, with 2.5.0.7, but never confirmed it either way.
 
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