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Root [ROM][WIP] BACKside ROM (CM7) + Green Machine Theme

So, since I'm running on very little sleep and am at work in a highly caffeinated state, I just want to make sure I have the update process right since I am running Link2SD:

---Updating from a previous BACKside-IHO build

1) Download the newest build, and GreenMachineTheme zip if you like, and place them on your sdcard

2) Boot into recovery and make a backup (imho, not optional ;))

3) Wipe cache and Dalvik cache

4) Flash the BACKside-IHO zip file

5) Flash the GreenMachineTheme (optional)

6) Flash gapps (hopefully not necessary anymore, ymmv)

7) Reboot

8) Install Link2SD; Go to Menu Button -> Select "More" -> Select "Recreate mount scripts" then reboot

9) Pray, Cross Fingers, Rub Lucky Rabbit's Foot, etc.....

10) Reboot and Enjoy!

Is that the gist of it? Also, is flashing gapps still necessary? Thanks, all!
 
MacFett said:
Jerry, today I tested the MMS thing a little. My wife sent me 2 pictures and I never received them. I had her resend one of them and again nothing.

At lunch I did a restore of my stock backup from 9202011 and was able to get the picture message from her almost instantly. When I made my stock backup I was running Link2SD (an am no longer) so I have virtually no apps able to be used (including market, root explorer and GO SMS) and am unsure how to get them back onto the phone. I guess I could do a factory reset from recovery and then reroot et al.

After I did a restore, I tried again to get an MMS from my wife and still couldn't.

The main difference between the two is GO SMS and right now I can't get GO SMS onto the stock. I did load the stock messaging app in the BACKside and didn't get anything that way.
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I'm assuming you've made a nandroid of your current setup, done a complete wipe and format of boot system data and cache, and reflashed the ROM and gapps, rebooted, signed in, synced, and then attempted to get MMS to work?

If that's the case, please give me a logcat while attempting to use MMS (have your wife send you an MMS, and send to yourself both and SMS and an MMS), and a dmesg at bootup.
 
one problem i have thats been happening with all of the builds i have tried thus far, is that when i tap my power button to turn off the screen, very often it shuts off the screen for just a second and turns back on. So to turn off my screen and keep it off, sometimes i have to push the button a few times. Also when the screen is off and i go to turn it on, sometimes the hardkeys or whatever light up and the screen doesn't, so i have to wait a few seconds for the screen to come on or keep pushing the button till it corrects its self. Any ideas to what may be causing this?
 
djthebogan said:
one problem i have thats been happening with all of the builds i have tried thus far, is that when i tap my power button to turn off the screen, very often it shuts off the screen for just a second and turns back on. So to turn off my screen and keep it off, sometimes i have to push the button a few times.
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This happened to me with one of the builds I flashed back in September, but only when using the flashlight app I have.
 
83thomas said:
I just tried following those steps and I keep getting this error message in link2sd. I'm not sure how to fix it. The 2nd partition on my sd card is fat32. I tried unmounting and remounting the sd card. Didn't help. :confused:

I restored my backup of the 10/17 build for now.

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ok, i'm updating Bob Z's new rom as we "speak" so i'll give you link2sd play by play.
i back up Jerry's latest and do a complete wipe
restore the last bob z from back=up
reboot/ recovery wipe cache and dalvic cache only
flash the new bobz zip
reboot and wait for the link2sd "mount warning" in the notifications bar
when i press this i get mount warning notification, ignore this DON'T quick reboot
i hit the return key am on the link2sd page
press menu, press "more", press "recreate mount scripts"
"select file sys." comes up. if you are FAT32 press it and press ok
it says "restart your phone" so press ok and reboot
waiting, waiting
phone comes on grooveip and lookout self-activate and all the link2sd
apps are back
 
JerryScript said:
I'm assuming you've made a nandroid of your current setup, done a complete wipe and format of boot system data and cache, and reflashed the ROM and gapps, rebooted, signed in, synced, and then attempted to get MMS to work?
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This build, no I have not. I did after the 1017 build I believe it was. Usually every other build or so. I will do so tonight.

JerryScript said:
If that's the case, please give me a logcat while attempting to use MMS (have your wife send you an MMS, and send to yourself both and SMS and an MMS), and a dmesg at bootup.
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Unsure of a logcat and a dmesg. I can and will do both, but do not know how.
 
norwoodsteel said:
ok, i'm updating Bob Z's new rom as we "speak" so i'll give you link2sd play by play.
i back up Jerry's latest and do a complete wipe
restore the last bob z from back=up
reboot/ recovery wipe cache and dalvic cache only
flash the new bobz zip
reboot and wait for the link2sd "mount warning" in the notifications bar
when i press this i get mount warning notification, ignore this DON'T quick reboot
i hit the return key am on the link2sd page
press menu, press "more", press "recreate mount scripts"
"select file sys." comes up. if you are FAT32 press it and press ok
it says "restart your phone" so press ok and reboot
waiting, waiting
phone comes on grooveip and lookout self-activate and all the link2sd
apps are back
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I got it to work. I did everything exactly the same way as I did last time, except I had it in airplane mode. That probably didn't do anything to help, but it worked for some reason.

NICE work on the update checker app. Works great. For some reason, it doesn't detect that I have the latest version installed (still says update is available), but it's a great start.
 
djthebogan said:
one problem i have thats been happening with all of the builds i have tried thus far, is that when i tap my power button to turn off the screen, very often it shuts off the screen for just a second and turns back on. So to turn off my screen and keep it off, sometimes i have to push the button a few times. Also when the screen is off and i go to turn it on, sometimes the hardkeys or whatever light up and the screen doesn't, so i have to wait a few seconds for the screen to come on or keep pushing the button till it corrects its self. Any ideas to what may be causing this?
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What you are describing mostly sounds like proper behavior. There is a delay that must be reached after turning the screen off before it should turn back on. This is to keep the screen from coming on when you put it in your pocket right after pressing the power button to turn the screen off.

However, the non-proper behavior you describe could be due to background processes lagging at that moment.
 
MacFett said:
This build, no I have not. I did after the 1017 build I believe it was. Usually every other build or so. I will do so tonight.


Unsure of a logcat and a dmesg. I can and will do both, but do not know how.
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To grab the dmesg, open terminal and type in:
Code: 
su
dmesg > /sdcard/dmesg.txt
The dmesg output will be done in about 5 seconds.


To grab the logcat, open terminal and type in:
Code: 
su
logcat > /sdcard/logcat.txt
Then try to do whatever is giving you an issue, then once the bug has happened, go back into terminal, open the keyboard, and hold the volume down button and tap the letter "c" on the keyboard (this is cntrl+c).

Upload the output of both to pastebin.com and then post the links here. ;)
 
83thomas said:
NICE work on the update checker app. Works great. For some reason, it doesn't detect that I have the latest version installed (still says update is available), but it's a great start.
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The update checker has a really stupid bug in it, I put a ">" when I should have used a "<" to check the dates. I'll have it fixed in the next build. ;)
 
JerryScript said:
The update checker has a really stupid bug in it, I put a ">" when I should have used a "<" to check the dates. I'll have it fixed in the next build. ;)
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So the update checker is to check if there's an update for the ROM? I was slightly confused when I saw a new icon in my app drawer haha :p
 
Yes, it's my first attempt at this type of app. I hope to extend it to include an option to receive update notifications in your status bar. This will be optional since it will use a bit more battery, though I only plan to have it check for updates once a day, so any battery drain shouldn't be too noticeable. ;)
 
JerryScript said:
Yes, it's my first attempt at this type of app. I hope to extend it to include an option to receive update notifications in your status bar. This will be optional since it will use a bit more battery, though I only plan to have it check for updates once a day, so any battery drain shouldn't be too noticeable. ;)
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Ahh ok that's good including the option to turn off notifications, though very handy to have if you happen to not look on here often!
 
In the cyanogenmod settings under system where you can register for push notifications of updates, I was never able to register before but with this build it registered. I'm assuming from what you just said that it wont actually work - but I'm still half expecting it to whe the new build's up. Guess ill find out haha
 
MacFett said:
I did the full wipe of everything and everything is working currently. If that changes I will post the logs. Although I'm not sure what kind of log I'd get from not receiving an MMS.
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Glad it's working for you again. It's a pita to have to do that, but it's the only solution when you get corruption in certain parts of the system.
 
Everytime I flash the ROM, be it fresh or over the previous build I have the issue with the 01mvdalvik. Can you explain this problem Jerry? Or is there a link to somewhere that it is already explained?

I can't restore/install any google apps until I delete this file, but it hasn't always been this way for me. Is this file there from something I am doing wrong or different?

JerryScript said:
Glad it's working for you again. It's a pita to have to do that, but it's the only solution when you get corruption in certain parts of the system.
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It isn't that bad. Just glad it is working again. This was a much more thorough wiping than I normally give when I do a fresh install. I'll make sure I clear everything like this next time I do a wipe.
 
JerryScript said:
What you are describing mostly sounds like proper behavior. There is a delay that must be reached after turning the screen off before it should turn back on. This is to keep the screen from coming on when you put it in your pocket right after pressing the power button to turn the screen off.

However, the non-proper behavior you describe could be due to background processes lagging at that moment.
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I just want the screen to turn off when I push the button and turn on when I push the button once. Is there a way to do this. Its just annoying when it wont turn off or on

I think it may have just been the timeout and delay settings
 
Jerry,

Am finally home from vacation and was able to flash your latest build (the Market auto updated itself, so I have the latest version of that now). The new build is awesome as always... thanks for all the work you've put into it! I have some questions if that's ok.

I was playing with the screens Power widget for the first time today, and I noticed that there is a Flashlight option. It works great on the screen widget, but I cannot set this for the notification widget. The only option for a Flashlight with the notification bar seems to be for the LED thingy. Is it possible add the same Flashlight option in the Power widget to the notification bar widget options?

The notification widgets go across the screen, and if you have more than what will fit then there is a slider, which is great. Is it possible to add an option to make it to where if there is more than 5 it will add the rest underneath and auto center them (center as in center on top, not mid way down hehe)? This would make for a nice additional option, so that others who like it the way it is can keep it that way.

This probably won't be popular, but I want to ask anyways. Can you add an option to set a notification sound for when 3G goes out and also when it comes back on? Of course, an option to either use it or not use it would be great since some people probably would not want this. The reason I ask is because during my vacation 3G kept going in and out. I lost 3G for several days at a time, and it sucked picking up the phone to check for 3G every few hours.

I too do not seem to have the other version of Music. Flashed twice just to make sure, and also checked the apps I have hidden in Launcher Pro to see if it was there. I did not flash gapps this time though. Could that be the reason it's missing? (I bet I'm missing a post with the solution, but I can't find it lol.)

Once again, thanks for all of the work you put into this rom. I tried some others and they simply do not compare. I very much enjoy using it!
 
For some reason, the ringer button in the notifications screen isn't working. The button is stuck on ringer / no vibrate. Do I have to do a clean rom install to fix this?

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