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Why oh why can I not get anything to boot on my gosh darn incredible? I've tried everything except making it all work.
I want so badly to get something to boot, but alas it never happens. Stuck at the white screen is as far as I ever get. I don't even get the satisfaction of seeing a bootloop, at least then I'd be seeing some sort of progress. Its disheartening. I've tried all kinds of roms and system dumps to no avail.
There must be something I'm doing wrong, what?
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Do wipe data and cache before flashing?
Yeah. I did manage to get a boot loop with the huashan gingersense leak. So some progress.
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Give more detail, and I might be able to help. What steps are you taking to port the ROM?
You need a kernel from your device at least. You also need to change some entries in build.prop and rename the init.devicename.rc to your device's name and not the original ROM's. Then you need to replace any device specific drivers and libs with ones from your device. And then, it still might not work. There's a lot going on here.
I'm assuming that by 'porting' you mean taking an existing ROM from another device and making it work on yours. The word has a different meaning also, which is take AOSP/CM/whatever and make it work on a device that it doesn't currently work on.
gnarlyc said:
Give more detail, and I might be able to help. What steps are you taking to port the ROM?
You need a kernel from your device at least. You also need to change some entries in build.prop and rename the init.devicename.rc to your device's name and not the original ROM's. Then you need to replace any device specific drivers and libs with ones from your device. And then, it still might not work. There's a lot going on here.
I'm assuming that by 'porting' you mean taking an existing ROM from another device and making it work on yours. The word has a different meaning also, which is take AOSP/CM/whatever and make it work on a device that it doesn't currently work on.
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Thanks I've swapped the boot.img, changed the build.prop, didn't rename the init file I instead copied over it. Copied the wifi modules, all the missing libs, the usr folder, bin folder, etc folder, and xbin.
Problem is when I change the libs it never gets past the splash, but when I change just the boot.img it'll boot loop.
And yes I mean from one device to another.
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Thanks I've swapped the boot.img, changed the build.prop, didn't rename the init file I instead copied over it. Copied the wifi modules, all the missing libs, the usr folder, bin folder, etc folder, and xbin.
Problem is when I change the libs it never gets past the splash, but when I change just the boot.img it'll boot loop.
And yes I mean from one device to another.
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Personally, I wouldn't copy entire folders over. I also wouldn't copy the boot.img over. I'm not saying that it won't work in some cases. It might. I've always swapped the kernels inside the boot.img, and renamed the device specific init file. Then, I would compare the init files from an existing ROM for my device with the init files from the ROM that I'm trying to port and see if there are any lines that are device-specific. If the init file is trying to start up something that doesn't exist on my device, then it doesn't make sense to keep that line. On the other hand, there might be a line that changes something for that ROM that IS needed.
This same thing kind of goes with the libs and other files too. You might have one lib that relies on another lib being there. And it might need a particular build of that lib. And other files might call certain libs. This is one reason that building from source generally works better over the long run than trying to get one device's ROM to work on another.
You have device specific and ROM specific things going on at the same time, so wholesale copies tend to miss one or the other. Plus it's nice to dig in and get an idea about what's going on.
Also, if you can get adb access while it's booting, grab a logcat. It might give you an idea about what is failing.
I re-did the boot.img by replacing the kernel and renaming (in this case) init.hua_shan.rc to init.inc.rc. It gets past the "HTC Incredible" splash. So, that's a plus.
I did get a logcat, as I always do when I flash a new rom that hasn't been tried before. I use pastebin so take a 'gander' at it if you will.
From the looks of it Alsa, bouncycastle, and audio libs are having problems. Oh, and the bootanimation.zip didn't get dumped from the Huashan, but it's no big deal.
http://pastebin.com/VVxufgQL
Oh, and thank you for the help you have provided thus far.
Mr. Rager said:
I re-did the boot.img by replacing the kernel and renaming (in this case) init.hua_shan.rc to init.inc.rc. It gets past the "HTC Incredible" splash. So, that's a plus.
I did get a logcat, as I always do when I flash a new rom that hasn't been tried before. I use pastebin so take a 'gander' at it if you will.
From the looks of it Alsa, bouncycastle, and audio libs are having problems. Oh, and the bootanimation.zip didn't get dumped from the Huashan, but it's no big deal.
http://pastebin.com/VVxufgQL
Oh, and thank you for the help you have provided thus far.
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Did you also change the ro.board.platform parameter in build.prop so that it matches the chipset name originally on your device?
Also, the next time you flash this ROM, dump the recovery log file before you reboot. This may show you errors encountered during the flash which were not shown in the normal output. A common error is porting a large ROM - such as Desire HD's - to a device with a small system partition in comparison. A workaround is to remove unneeded apps under system/app to reduce size of the ROM.
You may also want to try the Porting option in my Android Kitchen, it does the renaming, kernel and driver modifications for you.
dsixda said:
Did you also change the ro.board.platform parameter in build.prop so that it matches the chipset name originally on your device?
Also, the next time you flash this ROM, dump the recovery log file before you reboot. This may show you errors encountered during the flash which were not shown in the normal output. A common error is porting a large ROM - such as Desire HD's - to a device with a small system partition in comparison. A workaround is to remove unneeded apps under system/app to reduce size of the ROM.
You may also want to try the Porting option in my Android Kitchen, it does the renaming, kernel and driver modifications for you.
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I've had a busy past couple of days, but I'll check into the recovery dump and see what's up. I did change the ro.board.
I was trying to abstain from your porting tools, no offense, only so I could do it manually. Just trying to gain more experience, I guess, and learn. Your kitchen is excellent. I use to set up my environment and deodex among other things. The porting tool, though greatly eases the pain and shorten the manual labor ( yes lazy America) , take the learning curve out, a bit. But I guess I could take a look at the script to see what's going on too. Lol.
EDIT#1 - So I just tried to flash my rom. However, it wouldn't, because for some reason my phone is very particular about how one copies files over to the sd card. For one, you have to have the phone booted up, MIUI GB latest in my case, and mount usb storage. If I mount it through recovery, it corrupts my sd card, too bad I wish I knew that earlier. It's a PITA really...Ubuntu...
But, as phone WAS:
Hboot - 0.92
Radio - 11.19
Ship S - OFF
I tried copying and flashing through recovery. Fail as usual. So, I was gonna boot up into MIUI and try to copy from there, and got the infamous 5-vibe and twinkle.
I tried several times to boot into MIUI, but after many battery pulls, I figured out something ODD. In the bootloader the first couple of times it skipped the scanning process, then it started scanning again. Upon further inspection:
Hboot - still 0.92
Radio - still 11.19
Ship S - ON <---NOT A TYPO
Why? I haven't a clue. I tether my phone, so I got it booted, yay, but to do it, my sd card has to be removed and my usb plugged in, then turn on. So, my next edit will be a progress update. AFTER I s-off again ( that sounds kinda dirty, lol ), and re-format my sd. Also, my phone thinks it's charging...ITS UNPLUGGED. Lol, infinite-charging batteries, it's the future...
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So...Good news is I got another incredible with amoled screen
Bad news I got another incredible with nothing on it, or rooted :-( But I rooted it before I even activated it with *228
But, alas, I still have all of my work on my computer. I managed to back it up before my phone crapped out. Plus I kinda get to start from the beginning so I can be more observant, and particular.
So, back to work...will update tonight.
Edit 1 - So after some more tinkering I've managed to fix some issues, but others have popped up namely the HTC Sim card authentication, which I have no idea about, yet, bouncycastle.jar is being stubborn by not fiding its classes, and libaudioflinger.so is failing to link to libsystem_server.so which in turn fails the link to libandroid_servers.so. Same three problems as before it seems.
Here's a pastebin of the logcat.
http://pastebin.com/QYde7fuQ
I'll keep tinkering about and see what I can come up with. Hopefully I'm closer to getting this thing booted up than I think.
I know there are threads like this out there, but none of them fitted my questions...
Hi,
in this post, seo posted some ported sense 3.0 apps and widgets for Sense 2.1 GB roms.
I tried to install some of them and got MMS to work.
Then tried to get Rosie and widgets, but they wouldn't install directly, so i started playing around with ADB.
i think adb is fully set up, i am able to pull apks from /system/app.
problem is, i am obviously unable to push, install or uninstall system apps via
adb push
adb install
adb uninstall.
this was when i tried remounting (with remount,rw etc.) and was able to "rip off" rosie.apk (i know it worked as it wasn't there anymore later on ) but still was unable to install apps (with the effect i hadn't got a launcher at all.)
latest step was creating a signed update.zip, didn't work, recovery just restarts.
anyone help? someone got experience which may help me? i went through about 10 or 20 guides and am kind of desperate right now as things just dont work
thanks
SummonerOfDeath said:
I know there are threads like this out there, but none of them fitted my questions...
Hi,
in this post, seo posted some ported sense 3.0 apps and widgets for Sense 2.1 GB roms.
I tried to install some of them and got MMS to work.
Then tried to get Rosie and widgets, but they wouldn't install directly, so i started playing around with ADB.
i think adb is fully set up, i am able to pull apks from /system/app.
problem is, i am obviously unable to push, install or uninstall system apps via
adb push
adb install
adb uninstall.
this was when i tried remounting (with remount,rw etc.) and was able to "rip off" rosie.apk (i know it worked as it wasn't there anymore later on ) but still was unable to install apps (with the effect i hadn't got a launcher at all.)
latest step was creating a signed update.zip, didn't work, recovery just restarts.
anyone help? someone got experience which may help me? i went through about 10 or 20 guides and am kind of desperate right now as things just dont work
thanks
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Pull me a recovery.log when you try installing the zip, and I'll have a look for you.
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S.O.D. proudly presents.... recovery.log!
Here it is, i attached my own update.zip (rosie-signed.apk), maybe you could have a look at it as i don't know where the fault may be.
greets SOD
I would already be happy if you managed to solve the update.zip issue (would help me with other updates) but the main prob is adb noch really working, seems like some system part is blocking this?
my hero was originally a t-mobile google g2, created goldcard, rooted, custom recovery, new radio and custom rom.
a few details:
device HTC Hero (T-Mobile Google G2, the black one )
rom Salsasense RC2 (at the moment...)
recovery CWM 2.0.5.7 (think so, but im sure i got the latest)
sd 2gb
ooookay, tried to edit existing salsasense, resulting in non-functional rom rebooting into recovery.
JieeHD may you probably cook Rosie.apk and HtcClockWidget3d.apk in SalsaSense RC2 and upload it just for testing? much better would be to give me the keys to do it myself *still learning*
i tried it but the situation above occured^^ maybe some md5 thingy?
greets, SOD
SummonerOfDeath said:
ooookay, tried to edit existing salsasense, resulting in non-functional rom rebooting into recovery.
JieeHD may you probably cook Rosie.apk and HtcClockWidget3d.apk in SalsaSense RC2 and upload it just for testing? much better would be to give me the keys to do it myself *still learning*
i tried it but the situation above occured^^ maybe some md5 thingy?
greets, SOD
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Fixed your update-script, new line for each command is needed
/facepalm
JieeHD said:
Fixed your update-script, new line for each command is needed
/facepalm
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not serious no? /facepalm -.-" thanks will try that right now xD will give feedback if my device is still alive afterwards xDD
greets, S.O.D.
How's your progress going?
I messed around with the files 2 from the treat and they won't flash error 0. Tried to fix that with.different binery and gave me error 7. If you can make at least the king lockscreen with weather app working than you are the man
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stroobach said:
How's your progress going?
I messed around with the files 2 from the treat and they won't flash error 0. Tried to fix that with.different binery and gave me error 7. If you can make at least the king lockscreen with weather app working than you are the man
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brick after flashing modified rom.
push to /system/app didnt work.
flashing restarts recovery.
jieehd's tip of single lines for every command doesnt work, same as above.
error 0 = apk is not made for your device/rom, wont install.
error 7.. dunno, think its not matching binary or parsing error.
files from my thread? as post above says one is a log and the other is defect^^
i doubt weather will work as its eating HUGE amount of resources. if u want this lockscreen, maybe try salsasense, has got a 3.0 alike lock...
holidays now, wish good luck in coding would be happy if u found a solution
greets, SOD
were can i find HTCG2/hboot/PC10IMG.zip been looking all over for it and its no were to be find
Got some questions.
1. You want WHAT? And what is the purpose?
2. In how far is this related to this topic?
3. If u give us a path to this file, why do u ask where it is? Maybe try dowloAding some random rom (probably some ruu) and do extract & search..
4. Are you really willing to contribute to this topic? I dont see the point of posting this.
5. Obey forum rules. If u have got a question, post it directly in q&a section, not in some random topic or directly explain the connection to the actual topic.
Greets, s.o.d.
agnostic900rr said:
I dunno, no idea
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what don't you know? may we help you? whats the purpose of all these posts?
i think i'll give it a last try next time wenn i got salsa sense installed and either find a solution instantly or give it up, as noone is willing to support me and i can't do much more with my poor coding skills.
seems like we have to admit that hero's dying and i have to wait for my contract to end so i get a new phone.
greets, s.o.d.
I have spent days looking for threads so this neewb is about to break something. Well maybe not. I have my daughters Eris 2.1 and am trying to root it for her. I have tried several times with different methods. The issue is that I can get into recovery mode after every 1 click app but nothing I try will let me toggle to unzip to SD, or toggle to anything for that matter, volume wont do it and all track ball will do is let me select reboot. Man my DX was easy compared to the one click method.
HELP PLEASE,
If the trackball is having trouble scrolling, I'd install the trackball-optional custom recovery so you can use other buttons to scroll. There are instructions for doing this here:
http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/214240-amon_ra-1-6-2-custom-recovery-trackball-not-required.html
It sounds like you fall into "Scenario 2" which says you should follow the same method as "Scenario 1" to get rooted using the trackball-optional recovery.
I'll give it a shot, The help is much appreciated,
I am been trying to help him to get this thing to add the Custom Recovery, but every root format has not worked at all. Most are outdated or there are files missing. Specially on the link provided above. The download for the scripts no longer has Root_1 or Root_2, it has a bunch of other stuff there for gscript. Found an link on Droidforums for gscript for rooting and the scripts don't work.
Any complete instructions anywhere?
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I am been trying to help him to get this thing to add the Custom Recovery, but every root format has not worked at all. Most are outdated or there are files missing. Specially on the link provided above. The download for the scripts no longer has Root_1 or Root_2, it has a bunch of other stuff there for gscript. Found an link on Droidforums for gscript for rooting and the scripts don't work.
Any complete instructions anywhere?
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popfan,
I am not aware that any of the above links or files are missing... Can you point-out / tell me specifically which files you cannot access / download / link-to?
The root_part1 and root_part2 files are part of erisuser1's (bftb0's) Universal Root for Dummies! thread that I do reference in my AF thread, but these should still be up, active, and available.
So, I'm not sure if you are speaking about becoming rooted or installing a my trackball-optional custom recovery.
Let us know.
Cheers!
Im sure my kid has shuned me for leaving her Eris with someone so thanks to everyone for the help. Pop is helping me out and after moving file at the point where it says to open and look to see root 1 and root2 they are not there and there are a ton of other stuff. Also the pick look different than on the thread like the app has been updated. Also when doing the ball recovery there is no tools folder to be found. I'm sure pop wont touch it again till tomorrow so any other help / advice is more than welcome or it may cost me my Dx
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Im sure my kid has shuned me for leaving her Eris with someone so thanks to everyone for the help. Pop is helping me out and after moving file at the point where it says to open and look to see root 1 and root2 they are not there and there are a ton of other stuff. Also the pick look different than on the thread like the app has been updated. Also when doing the ball recovery there is no tools folder to be found. I'm sure pop wont touch it again till tomorrow so any other help / advice is more than welcome or it may cost me my Dx
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LOL, sorry, didn't make/see the connection between your two posts .
Okay, let's try something new here...
Just a week or so ago, I re-packed jcase's 1-click rooting app to include my trackball-optional recovery image in lieu of the original recovery that his app includes.
So, let's have you re-root using the new 1-click app (all credit to jcase, both for his app and his threads both here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228 and over at AF http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/139178-universal-1-click-eris-app-apk-no-pcs-no-scripts-needed-easy.html).
Since you've already used the 1-click app before, then all you'll have to do is grab my new "trackball-optional" version:
https://sites.google.com/site/scaryalienware/downloads/one-click-tbo.apk
MD5 sum: 15763b51cf707c027cc73bc117e1fc39
(the "tbo" in the name stands for "trackball optional" ).
Just follow the same process you did before while running the 1-click app and you should end-up with my trackball-optional recovery installed.
Let me know how it goes (you'll be the first besides me that I know of that has tried it; the user that I created it for to test has not yet responded, LOL).
Cheers!
I tried this link below. It no longer has the root_1 and root_2 in it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=774XYFRA
I did use your "updated" 1-click app with tbo and it worked great.
Thanks!!
Too bad this phone was not as easy as my captivate.
popfan said:
I tried this link below. It no longer has the root_1 and root_2 in it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=774XYFRA
I did use your "updated" 1-click app with tbo and it worked great.
Thanks!!
Too bad this phone was not as easy as my captivate.
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Glad that jcase's repackaged app worked for you. I'll update my documentation to make this available to others.
Also, re. the above Megaupload link...it works just fine for me (from my PC and from my Droid X) and includes all of the aforementioned root_part1/2 files.
I think you've fallen prey to a truncated download, which is not uncommon with Megaupload in my experience. This is also why is important to double-check the file sizes and MD5 checksums of files that you download so that you know you got the whole-shebang; notice that erisuser1 did include the MD5 in his thread for this file:
- Download gscript.zip (MD5 92796a8c6e61e8f1ee36e315c0acae7d)
I've often found it helpful to use a different browser other than the stock browser (like Opera Mini) when doing downloads via my Eris since the stock browser does seem to have more issues (timeouts perhaps) than it should.
Cheers!
Thanks to all this tuff till you hooked us up but now on to nightmare 2
I downloaded CyanogenMod7.1.0 RC1 [2.3.5 GingerBread NIGHTLY]
from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430&highlight=ROM
Got it up but it has no market so I can not get to titanium, boot loader or anything... It says to flash google apps after the rom but now Im back to the trackball / volume key issue because it's all in titanium. ??? I did a factory reset and it came back up as the new ROM, ???
EDIT UPDATE!!!!
Sorry for the hassle all, the "green" start call button works as the down after the download.. All is well.. I think..
Again thanks to you all, If I hear of any good deals on an Eris I will know why.
You need to download GAPPS to your sdcard. That is why you don't have market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430&highlight=ROM
Its just below link for the rom and save it to your sdcard. Go ahead boot into recovery and wipe data, daliv-cache, cache; Flash Rom again, then flash gapps and reboot.
As of you guys have found out there has been a few threads that have been started that throw around theories about getting CWMR to work and such and I'm here to finally give you guys the progress from the dev that's working on it.
I have been working on getting CWMR working off and on for a few months now to some avail. I have been slowly testing it and sending out alphas to people on the IRC and now I'm here to tell you where I'm at and what has been accomplished.
Part 1: Getting into CWMR
I started working with our current bootstrap recovery as a base for CWMR. It was of course in charge mode, but it was a step that had to be done first. I got a hold on a CWMR binary and after a bunch of shell commands managed to get the mangled version of CWMR that we've seen before. From there I had the idea to inject the ATRIX binary into the recovery and try it from there. It was a big success and I could use some (very few) of the functions that if offered. But I was finally in CWMR on the X2. (I posted the picture on my twitter).
Part 2: Making the Functions Work
From here the first thing I decided to do was to get the "Fix Permissions" script working. By getting this to work I know I could place my own code in there that will log to the file that I could open up and see whatever I wanted as ADB didn't work YET (more on that later). I fiddled with it a bit and got it working.
This also allowed me to access the log and find out why the unmounting and formatting wasn't working either. This was due to an issue with the mke2fs and other complementary binaries not being appropriately compiled for our phone. As I was working on CM7 at the time, i had access to the sources of these and to the recovery binary as well. I decided to build a recovery binary that was tailored to our phone and not the ATRIX and the binaries that handle formatting partitions, etc. These worked on some partitions I could wipe data and cache properly by reformatting, I could easily erase a partition at will except for one: /system.
Part 3: Getting /system Formatted (WIP)
At this point I decided to find out why /system could never be formatted. When a partition needs formatting it must be unmounted first. But I could never unmount /system. By using the logs I found out that the partition was still in use. By using the "Fix Permissions" script, I managed to find that a lot of daemons (aka services) were being ran from the /system sub directories. This meant that in order to format, I had to have them not running. Easy enough as there's a script in CWMR that allows us to kill certain processes before the new recovery starts. I decided to kill all of the services with this script but found that the display would go blank. From there I found that two services are REQUIRED to be running on the phone for drawing (making things show on the screen) to take place: servicemanager and nvrm_daemon.
The servicemanager does exactly what it's title says: it manages the currently running services. This has to be running to keep nvrm_daemon running or else things get kinda freaky.
nvrm_daemon is what is used to manage drawing commands to the screen (the nv stands for nVidia which is who made the Tegra 2). With this service running I was able to (while in charge mode still) draw to the screen and show all of the menus for CWMR.
This created a problem. As these HAD to be running /system could never unmount because they were in there. Unless we used 2nd-init. From here I created my own hijack script that allowed me to copy over the necessary daemons into /sbin (which is just a sub directory of the rootfs). Then by using a new init.rc I could start these daemons from /sbin and see if they worked for CWMR.
After a lot of coding I managed to get the daemons running from /sbin and I thought I was free from there. And while I was at it, I might as well tried to get it out of charge mode.
Part 4: Untethering the Recovery (WIP)
I figured that since I was using 2nd-init anyway that I might as well have been working on trying to get it untethered also. After a bunch of looking into why charge mode was the only way to get it working, I found that before charge mode was started the init.rc started the "pre-zygote" services. These include usbd (the usb daemon), battd (the battery daemon), etc. What was also started was nvrm_daemon (another proof that we needed this running) to draw on the screen (charge mode draws the battery indicator to show charging progress).
I decided to move to mot_boot_mode to do the hijacking. I eventually managed to get things running but it still wouldn't draw to the screen. A look at the logs showed that for whatever reason we still didn't have access to the framebuffer (the memory space aka buffer that is drawn to the screen). I was tired of rebooting over and over again to get results and by now I had SBF'd I don't know how many times, only to not be able to access the logs due to a wipe. So next thing I decided was to get ADB working at boot.
Part 5: Starting ADB at Boot (The Short Version)
I took a look through the init.rc and found that Motorola had disabled the default way to get ADB working at boot. Through a bunch of digging I found that I could re-enable the method but it started usbd also (yet another daemon I'd have to move and thus more time, etc.). But eventually I found another property (aka system variable) that i could set that would start ADB without having usbd started: persist.adb.enable_NV_DISABLED. Setting that to 1 started ADB whenever I wanted it to. This allowed me access to the system (as root actually) without having to reboot and try to get into logs and whatnot. I could see everything that was running, mount/unmount and do everything I normally could and see better why they were failing.
Part 6: Recent Discoveries (as of 1/3/12) On the /system Unmount
I decided that I was going to go back to charge mode for now. After causing too much pain with framebuffer access I decided to look into why /system STILL wouldn't unmount after moving everything out of there. With the help of mastafunk and DrPenguin I was able to get a hold of a program named strace. This allows you to debug what binaries are doing down to pretty much every comparison, file opening, memory mapping, etc. I had found that nvrm_daemon (although started from /sbin) was looking for and loading drivers found in /system/lib. This was a problem and I thought that we may never get /system unmounted. Until I found out one other thing.
The nvrm_daemon doesn't look for the drivers inside of /system/lib first. It looks for them in /vendor/lib first and then if it can't find them, goes to /system/lib. So simple enough. I thought I could just make a /vendor/lib directory, copy the libs over and have them load from there. Well it's not that simple as there is already a file in the rootfs named vendor. But the file is a symlink to /system/vendor so if it looks at /vendor/lib it really looks at /system/vendor/lib. I thought I was stuck again until I took a closer look at the /system directory. There is no ./vendor sub directory in /system. That being said, I was able to delete the symlink in the rootfs and then create a /vendor/lib directory copy over the libs to it and nvrm_daemon successfully loaded the libs from there and not from system.
Conclusion
You are now caught up on when we've basically done to try to get CWMR working on the X2. Being that we're the only Tegra 2 phone from Motorola that is locked, we're kinda stuck trying to get things working. For now I consider this progress. Albeit slow progress, but progress none the less. If you took the time to read this, I hope you now understand the frustrations I've had to deal with this. All the while trying to help masta get 2nd-init fully working for our phones.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation - well written so that even a novice like myself could understand your progress and frustrations. Thank you to you and your peers also for your hard work and determination to see this through. I think I can speak for all X2 users and say this is most appreciated!
Great writeup. Very informative. Thank you for your dedication.
I thought 2nd init was done and masta was working on aosp? I mean we can log from our new init.rc so it is using it. In the meantime i've been working on my barebones so we can get new blood using 2nd init and because I want a decent daily driver in the event we cant get stuff going.
To echo what others have said, thank you very much for the information. This kind of transparency is always very much appreciated when there's some spare time to put that out there. It not only is really helpful to make it understandable, but it's nice to know that these projects are still active.
Perhaps most importantly though in the context of potential progress: having specific information is a great way for knowledgeable people reading to recognize if they might be able to help out in certain areas. You might get some fresh ideas from people who hadn't considered themselves familiar enough with the situation to be useful. Who knows.
Anyways, thank you very much again. It's very encouraging to hear progress reports in general, not to mention ones like this that involve so many successes.
Wow thanks so much for your hard work and dedication can't wait until you conquer this sounds like you are closer then ever
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I am so glad to hear the "behind the scene" drama. Thank You DK sharing. I AM sorry for what bad drama I may have started. Will you forgive me?
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I am so glad to hear the "behind the scene" drama. Thank You DK sharing. I AM sorry for what bad drama I may have started. Will you forgive me?
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No need to appologize man... Stuff like this should have been posted or known. To be honest, I thought Masta was finishing 2nd INIT and starting to work on getting AOSP running and CWM was out the window, thats why I jumped in to try and get progress on CWM. Thanks DK and now I know the IRC is more active, I will be on there more to try and help out.
Thank you!
Thanks a ton for all the effort you're putting in. When I got my DX2 I thought that despite the crazily over-bloated Motoblur, I would be OK due to the Tegra 2 power and wonderfully innovative developer community. I didn't count on their being such a small number of us out there for this device or the complexity that Moto would unnecessarily bake in. So, after many months of gut wrenching disappointment, I finally have hope again.
You are a true nerd hero, sir!
Its nice to have an explanation of things and why they work or dont work. A lot of us are just trying to learn so we can be useful.
Sent from my Eclipsed and ICS themed X2.
Dragonz...after reading the info about 1/3/12 I am curious...
Does this mean that you might be able to get it working and unmount system as u need it to?
Or were there still other processes using system that you will need to mess with and change around as you did with the vendor ?
Do you still need to move the servicemanager also?
O btw imma start Hopn on the irc. I have a cm7 nightly booting thanks to second init but am having some crashes, not to mention other horrific bugs.. I need some help
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PM me with a copy of your nightly so I can help as well please
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O btw imma start Hopn on the irc. I have a cm7 nightly booting thanks to second init but am having some crashes, not to mention other horrific bugs.. I need some help
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Kali send me a pm, I have the week off and work as a mobile developer... would like to help get rid of some of those crashes. Send me a link to that irc and ill get cracking on it 2moro
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drapp said:
Kali send me a pm, I have the week off and work as a mobile developer... would like to help get rid of some of those crashes. Send me a link to that irc and ill get cracking on it 2moro
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Webchat.freenode.net
Channel #X2-AOSP
AND #DX2 for "off topic"
kaliblazin707 said:
O btw imma start Hopn on the irc. I have a cm7 nightly booting thanks to second init but am having some crashes, not to mention other horrific bugs.. I need some help
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I know why you have a cm7 nightly "booting" and I'm sorry to say that it's not for good cause. What is happening is that the system isn't being formatted properly (hence a point in my post) and you're just flashing a bunch of new APKs from CyanogenMod on top of BLUR. I'm sorry to say, but it's not CyanogenMod.
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I know why you have a cm7 nightly "booting" and I'm sorry to say that it's not for good cause. What is happening is that the system isn't being formatted properly (hence a point in my post) and you're just flashing a bunch of new APKs from CyanogenMod on top of BLUR. I'm sorry to say, but it's not CyanogenMod.
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I honestly think the way to go is to get back to that step with proper 2nd init and then replace everything blur with as much CM as possible
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I honestly think the way to go is to get back to that step with proper 2nd init and then replace everything blur with as much CM as possible
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But that's not the right way to go. All that is is basically taking the BLUR base ROM and replacing the things with CM7's stuff. That's basically taking the stock rom and turning it into another blur-based ROM with CM7 apks. That's basically like Eclipse.
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But that's not the right way to go. All that is is basically taking the BLUR base ROM and replacing the things with CM7's stuff. That's basically taking the stock rom and turning it into another blur-based ROM with CM7 apks. That's basically like Eclipse.
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Let me rephrase that, add CM stuff and then remove Moto stuff. So get back to that, delete moto apk's and then edit init.rc for the framework. All those FC's we are getting if when were in that state are vital clues as to whats isn't playing nice with CM's apk's and framework. The fact it can even somewhat boot in a state like that means it's fairly close to how it wants. If it didn't wipe /system/ then it sounds like you just need to properly 2nd init that ***** and then in moto's init.rc remove moto jar's and apks's. Remember if it didn't wipe then you replaced the framework with CM and it's blur running ontop of it.
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Thanks ashclepdia.... helpful as always...
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The multi user and guest account feature is not available on either of the two recent releases of Lollipop for the Z3v. I did some research and it appears this is the case, not only on other Verizon handsets like the Droid Turbo and the Galaxy S5 / S6, but a few other non-VZW devices as well. I'm not sure why it was removed but apparently it's just hidden. It can be enabled and I followed the instructions for doing this for the various other devices and can report that it works for our Z3v (see attached screenshots).
I've kind of cleaned up the instructions and put them below. Usual disclaimer - I'm not responsible for anything that may happen to you or your cat if you choose to do the following. You DO need root access to edit and write to the system file.
** To be safe, please make a backup of your phone and/or a copy of the build.prop file that you are going to edit.
Get ES File Explorer. Run it and enable Root Explorer setting. (You may be able to use any file explorer and editor with root access but this is used most in the instructions and works.)
With ES File Explorer, go to device/system/ and find the file: build.prop
Choose to edit it with ES Note Editor.
Scroll to the end of the file and type in the following:
fw.max_users=5
fw.show_multiuserui=1
Save the file.
I'm not sure if the next step is required but it was in half the instructions I saw, and I did it myself: Click and hold the file, go to Properties, and then change the permissions to Read, Write & Execute. [all three]
Reboot your phone.
When you're up and running, access multi user mode by pulling down your notification shade and then clicking on your user icon at the top right corner.
Notes so far:
A guest user does not have access to the original user's files on the internal drive - the guest user has their own file directory. The guest CAN access the External SD Card, though.
Therefore, an app such as Movie Creator can and will create a "highlight" movie that is composed from photos that are saved on the external SD Card. Just keep this in mind as far as privacy.
There is a per user option that lets you decide whether or not the additional users can use the phone and access the text messages. If you disable this ability, while they cannot open the phone app to make a call, the CAN receive an incoming call.
You can find out more about the nuances of additional users with your Google Fu.
Enjoy!
Wow! Great work!
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Wow! Great work!
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Thanks! I really wanted this feature and it seemed like not many people care too much about it. It's my way of circumventing the awful permissions control we currently have in Android. That is, there are apps I want to use but refuse to install because of their overreaching permission requirements (contacts, etc) and so I can now create a second user with a new "dummy" Gmail account that has no sensitive information and install these apps without worrying.
By the way, something neat I figured out about this. Additional user accounts are not allowed to side load apps (the toggle to install from unknown sources is grayed out). I figured out that if the main user / owner restores an app through Titanium Backup, any other currently existing user will have it installed for some reason. I don't know why this happens but it's a neat glitch that gets you around that restriction.
Well I think most people simply don't let others touch their phones and so don't have a use for multiple user accounts. I find that my phone, as big as the screen is, is becoming more and more of a computer / tablet replacement. I like the idea of a multiuser functionality, but mostly to hide my own stuff. I'll silk never let anyone else touch my phone!
The use for multi-user that I've seen that makes the most sense is people with children. They will create a user profile for the child so they can't get into any of the parent's stuff or settings. That or the guest profile which will let them do whatever the heck they want without screwing up the phone.
Aside from that I have read that devs find the feature very useful for testing. Heck, that's not a bad idea to install and test apps, in general.
uh oh.
Well something didnt work. Maybe a certain build I have to be on or what. I followed the instructions to a t. Now stuck on endless boot loop. Only bad part is I'm on as hotel room working out of town without a laptop Or pc to fix it. I used a one click root just today and didn't install a proper recovery. Any thoughts
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Well something didnt work. Maybe a certain build I have to be on or what. I followed the instructions to a t. Now stuck on endless boot loop. Only bad part is I'm on as hotel room working out of town without a laptop Or pc to fix it. I used a one click root just today and didn't install a proper recovery. Any thoughts
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I had a problem with this also twice cause I'm always doing stupid things to my phone my guess is you didn't change the system to r/w but modified it anyway or you used a editor that would let you input the correct values I used s manager I think. As far as getting your phone working you could try safe mode or maybe a factory reset if you can hold power and the volume button down and enter recovery.
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I had a problem with this also twice cause I'm always doing stupid things to my phone my guess is you didn't change the system to r/w but modified it anyway or you used a editor that would let you input the correct values I used s manager I think. As far as getting your phone working you could try safe mode or maybe a factory reset if you can hold power and the volume button down and enter recovery.
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I believe the mistake was made when i changed the permissions per instructions. I finially got to my house and im using adb to freeze the loop then going to push a script over to fix the permissions. I will update when i get it done and I will post my fix. Also I used ES file explorer, which i have already used it for years now. Never had anything like this happen before. it just baffles me. I have never got any instructions off of XDA that led to any malfuntion of my phone. But oh well, sh!+ happens.
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I believe the mistake was made when i changed the permissions per instructions. I finially got to my house and im using adb to freeze the loop then going to push a script over to fix the permissions. I will update when i get it done and I will post my fix. Also I used ES file explorer, which i have already used it for years now. Never had anything like this happen before. it just baffles me. I have never got any instructions off of XDA that led to any malfuntion of my phone. But oh well, sh!+ happens.
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Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
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Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
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it is guys if done right your system needs to be switched to r/w then go back to r/o after modifying the build prop if you modify in r/o you will get bootloop to a hard brick it depends.
Jurassic Pork Fried Rice said:
Hey! I'm so sorry! I got a couple of new phones (Droid Maxx 2 and LG G4) and have been using those phones so I haven't been checking these forums like I was when I just had the Z3v. Really sorry to hear that you ran into that kind of trouble . Thing is, the instructions above are culled from 4 or 5 different sets of instructions for various devices that I found across the web. I performed them step by step myself while cross referencing them to each other and combined them all to the instruction set above as I did it. Did you ever fix it with the method you mentioned? I'm curious if it was the permissions thing (odd, because it worked for me).
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Well I kinda fixed it. I went and bought a HTC M9. Lol but not yet, I'm still working on it. I have found scripts to run, even a specific build.prop fix to push, but I have windows 10 and couldn't get adb to find the device. Plus I'm a little rusty. So I broke out my old windows 7 laptop I have used just for rooting an modding phones and tablets. I did get adb and fastboot to find it once. Then some reason lost it. I didn't have it ready to go. But I'm almost 100 percent sure I can get it. Just need to play around with it a little bit more. Having trouble with drivers etc. I will let you know when I have it.
And didn't really hurt my feelings getting the phone I truly want. I never had problems with HTC since I was flashing roms on my old window phones. I just want my pictures I cannot replace.
"Run it and enable Root Explorer setting. (You may be able to use any file explorer and editor with root access but this is used most in the instructions and works.)"
Alas- I am not rooted, and therefore can not enable "Root Explorer" option. Unless someone has some other suggestions- I think I can't do this unless I'm rooted.
Well this is probably what I did to brick my first z3v.
I don't suggest anyone do this at all. There does seem to be an issue with the permission setting on the build.prop file. If it's not reset correctly after editing, you'll get stuck in a loop or worse. I'm stuck in bootloop, but can get into recovery. I made a backup hoping to learn how to edit the build.prop (delete it and rename the copied original to set it back as it was). But I can't even run the original zip that GigaSPX made up for us. (I don't have a backup like I hought I did.)
Anytime I try to install the flashable prerooted zip it tells me it's done after 2 seconds and says;
set_perm: some changes failed
I'm typing this on my z2 tablet, which has the multi user feature enabled. I'm going to see if RootExplorer will give me some clues as to why this doesn't work.
In the mean time I'm hoping someone can help me out?
If love to get this feature to work, but it has to be safe.
Just checked the build.prop on my tablet and got no clue.
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Well this is probably what I did to brick my first z3v.
I don't suggest anyone do this at all. There does seem to be an issue with the permission setting on the build.prop file. If it's not reset correctly after editing, you'll get stuck in a loop or worse. I'm stuck in bootloop, but can get into recovery. I made a backup hoping to learn how to edit the build.prop (delete it and rename the copied original to set it back as it was). But I can't even run the original zip that GigaSPX made up for us. (I don't have a backup like I hought I did.)
Anytime I try to install the flashable prerooted zip it tells me it's done after 2 seconds and says;
set_perm: some changes failed
I'm typing this on my z2 tablet, which has the multi user feature enabled. I'm going to see if RootExplorer will give me some clues as to why this doesn't work.
In the mean time I'm hoping someone can help me out?
If love to get this feature to work, but it has to be safe.
Just checked the build.prop on my tablet and got no clue.
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a backup usually means going into your twrp and hit the back up button and make a copy of your system including data and all that. This is mandatory before messing with the build prop. If you want Pm me your build prop and I will send it back to you. With multi user enabled.
Yup, I know what a back-up is and how to do it, and I know it's a must before messing with the build.prop. I just really thought I had done it recently...
-and I had! But I forgot that a few days ago I bought myself a Christmas present; a 200 Gb micro SD, and copied most of the contents to the new card from my old one. I chose not to copy the backup because I had planned to make some changes and create a more recent backup. Never happened though because I got side tracked loading music and such. Lol!
So I'm all back together, but would still like to play with this feature. So I'm going to give it another shot.
A guest user does not have access to the original user's files on the internal drive - the guest user has their own file directory. The guest CAN access the External SD Card, though.
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Perhaps the wrong thread but: enabled multi user on a Cube T8 only to find that guest and other user can access INTERNAL sd but not external sd. I'd rather have it the other way round. So the kids (other users) can use the whole of 32 GB sd card rather than me having to share the small internal sd with them.
Any ideas how to fix this? Phablet is not rooted btw.
got bootloop..... but i'm safe as i've backup.... through recovery..
I've inserted two lines and fell in bootloop
Thanks bro.. working....!!!! but second step is not needed...