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Root [UPDATED 28/12 - NEW INSTALLER] CyanogenMod 7/Android 2.3.4 Is avaliable for GT540!

rocky7012 said:
is it faster than super froyo? how do i flash the boot.img update?

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i tried flashing v2.0 milestone but it got stuck on the cyanogenmod logo..i downloaded the file twice and flashed it a couple of times via recovery but its still stuck on the cyanogen logo
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Have you given enough time to load up. Sometimes the first boot can take a few minutes to start up. And yes it is normally a nail biting moment.
If it still doesn't boot up, then the first thing I would personally do is a restore using the backup (you hopefully made) in recovery. Then you can try starting over again.
As far as Super Froyo is concerned, I don't know as I haven't used it. Someone else will hopefully be able to answer that one for you.
 
rocky7012 said:
is it faster than super froyo? how do i flash the boot.img update?

edit:

i tried flashing v2.0 milestone but it got stuck on the cyanogenmod logo..i downloaded the file twice and flashed it a couple of times via recovery but its still stuck on the cyanogen logo
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I don't think it's as fast as SuperFast Froyo.. SFF is more optimized for speed whereas SwiftDroid isn't. To flash the boot.img update you put the phone into fastboot mode and flash it using cmd.

When I flashed v2.0, the boot up time was about 3-4 mins, most of that time on the CM logo, so just wait, it'll work eventually :)
 
Hi there, I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:

1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.

2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.

3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.

4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.

5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.

6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.

7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from Home - SD Association but it did not make a difference.

So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).

I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.
 
Hi Johannr,
I have an 8Gb card fitted and formatted with FAT32 with no problems. I don't know what the problem could be. I know it sounds strange, but try gently rubbing the card contacts with an eraser on the end of a pencil. That will get rid of any dirt, oil etc that may be on the contacts. The only other thing it may be is that a class 4 card is a little slow and it may be affecting the way the phone sees it. But that is normally a problem with slightly larger cards.
 
tusitac said:
I have an idea about your problem with connecting PC. If you use swapper 2 try run it and go to settings and mark "Safe Unmount" and "Safe Remount" on. May be solved this problem.
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Actually everything sorted itself out when i downgraded to v1.8. SMS notifications work fine, sd card mounts on pc just fine etc. But thanks for your reply anyway! ;)
Now i think i'm going to wait for a more stable update unless this v2.0 M1 does the trick...:confused:

**EDIT**
Just flashed v2.0M1!everything seems to work fine. Noticeably faster!still don't know about battery life,i'll come back tomorrow with more information.2 questions though:
1.The kernel version after flashing the new boot.img is 2.6.29 mur4ik@mur4ik-VirtualBox #300.Is that right?
2.The stock email app is gone.Anyway to get that back?
 
johannr said:
Hi there, I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:

1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.

2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.

3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.

4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.

5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.

6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.

7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from Home - SD Association but it did not make a difference.

So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).

I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.
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When you formatted the sd card did you set the type to "Primary"?
 
rocky7012 said:
is it faster than super froyo? how do i flash the boot.img update?

edit:

i tried flashing v2.0 milestone but it got stuck on the cyanogenmod logo..i downloaded the file twice and flashed it a couple of times via recovery but its still stuck on the cyanogen logo
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have u tried clearin the cache then reboot should solve stuck on the cyanogenmod logo
 
Hey, my friend's 3 year old made my phone reboot into fastboot mode, and now I can't figure out how to make it boot up normally again. Any way to do that without plugging it in and flashing again? :o It just shows the LG logo on boot, and then nothing. I tried removing the battery and such, but it just keeps doing nothing. Charger just makes it cycle the LG logo so don't know what's going on :(
 
hey dudeman, how come Camera360 doesnt work? i noticed that ever since i updated to 1.9 camera360 stopped working it always force close only the native camera is working..have you any idea on how to make it work?
 
johannr said:
Hi there, I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:

1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.

2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.

3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.

4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.

5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.

6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.

7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from Home - SD Association but it did not make a difference.

So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).

I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.
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You're running a sort of outdated version of SwiftDroid, v1.9 is out, though it seems to be a bit more buggy than v1.8. But Mur4ik has release a second test version of v2.0 which in my opinion is so much better than v1.8 and v1.9. Give it a try, it might sort your SD card problem: SwiftDroid v2.0 Milestone 2 – SwiftDroid Blog
 
mandelmanden said:
Hey, my friend's 3 year old made my phone reboot into fastboot mode, and now I can't figure out how to make it boot up normally again. Any way to do that without plugging it in and flashing again? :o It just shows the LG logo on boot, and then nothing. I tried removing the battery and such, but it just keeps doing nothing. Charger just makes it cycle the LG logo so don't know what's going on :(
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Is the camera button stuck in, so that when the phone boots it goes into fastboot mode? If it's not stuck try booting into recovery by holding down the home button on powerup. If you can get into recovery, do a backup and reboot the phone. If it still goes into fastboot mode, flash the phone again through fastboot and restore your data from the backup you made. If you can't get into recovery, I can't think of any other option other than reflashing..
 
rocky7012 said:
hey dudeman, how come Camera360 doesnt work? i noticed that ever since i updated to 1.9 camera360 stopped working it always force close only the native camera is working..have you any idea on how to make it work?
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I'm running on v2.0M2 and Camera360 seems to be working for me.. Just to make sure, Camera360 has been updated since I last saw it, and they've added a hardware compatibility mode. Make sure you're updated (link) and if it still doesn't work, try updating to v2.0M2 (link)
 
Hi Dudeman,
Did you have any problems with memory when you updated to V2.0M2. When I updated using recovery I found I had no internal memory left. I would update using fastboot, but can't be bothered playing about re-installing everything again lol.
 
gizmo001i said:
Hi Dudeman,
Did you have any problems with memory when you updated to V2.0M2. When I updated using recovery I found I had no internal memory left. I would update using fastboot, but can't be bothered playing about re-installing everything again lol.
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No I didn't have any problems, I have quite a few apps, and 90% of them are on my SD card. Try copying yours to the SD card.
 
Need a little bit of help.

I'm on 2.2.1 and somehow I don't have recovery installed (Pretty sure I did install it but oh well).
I tried to boot into fastboot and install CM with your auto .exe but that didn't work, so I thought it could be the drivers. I installed the drivers from LGAndroidDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver1.0_All_Win7.exe but didn't work again (using Vista).

So now I have no idea what to do D;
 
prowler485 said:
Need a little bit of help.

I'm on 2.2.1 and somehow I don't have recovery installed (Pretty sure I did install it but oh well).
I tried to boot into fastboot and install CM with your auto .exe but that didn't work, so I thought it could be the drivers. I installed the drivers from LGAndroidDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver1.0_All_Win7.exe but didn't work again (using Vista).

So now I have no idea what to do D;
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Vista has the worst compatibility for fastboot drivers, if you can try using a Windows 7 machine.
 
dudeman1996 said:
No I didn't have any problems, I have quite a few apps, and 90% of them are on my SD card. Try copying yours to the SD card.
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All my apps apart from my widgets are on the SD card. I will try installing from your link and see how that goes. Apparently a few people have had the memory problem, so I will see how it goes. If it still plays up I will revert to the first release of V2.0
 
Just counted and I have 82 apps. With V2.0 I have 41Mb internal memory free, but with V2.0M2 I end up with 2Mb free. It seems to be a bug that affects some phones and not others when you use recovery to update. I will wait and see if he releases a new V2.0M2 or if he releases a next update to it. I just can't be bothered to play about with fastboot.
 
gizmo001i said:
Just counted and I have 82 apps. With V2.0 I have 41Mb internal memory free, but with V2.0M2 I end up with 2Mb free. It seems to be a bug that affects some phones and not others when you use recovery to update. I will wait and see if he releases a new V2.0M2 or if he releases a next update to it. I just can't be bothered to play about with fastboot.
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Is that downloaded or all? Now that I look I seem to only have 20MB free, on v2.0M1 I had about 40mb.. Maybe it's a bug, 2.0 is still in testing..
 
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