How can I tell if I am running voodoo or not? I have been flashing roms like crazy but I want to make sure I stay consistent with voodoo or not.
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Flash a non-voodoo kernel and see if you bootloop/force close of death. If you do then you're probably already voodoo.
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Flash a non-voodoo kernel and see if you bootloop/force close of death. If you do then you're probably already voodoo.
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thats the worst way to check... dont do that.
install quadrant and if you get higher than 1200 or so you probably are on voodoo.
OR you can do these commands in adb.
Code:
adb shell
mount | grep system
the result from that will show either system type ext4 or rfs, if it is ext4 you are on voodoo.
You can also run a quadrent. If your not overclocked you should see something in the ranger of 1300 - 1600.
The faster file system will bloat the score.
Edit- darn. Posted a I did! Face palm
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Quadrant. Down load from market. bad scores = no voodoo
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thefunkbot said:
thats the worst way to check... dont do that.
install quadrant and if you get higher than 1200 or so you probably are on voodoo.
OR you can do these commands in adb.
Code:
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mount | grep system
the result from that will show either system type ext4 or rfs, if it is ext4 you are on voodoo.
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I was obviously kidding. There are about 19000 threads with references to figuring this out including the stickied wiki so I didn't think it inappropriate to kid.
You can check in CWM... it will notify you if it is enabled
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I was obviously kidding. There are about 19000 threads with references to figuring this out including the stickied wiki so I didn't think it inappropriate to kid.
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The problem is some people wont even know you are kidding and may do so.
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You can check in CWM... it will notify you if it is enabled
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The CWM red that we're using doesn't accurately report out if voodoo is enabled or not. You need to use one of the other methods to find out.
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Flash a non-voodoo kernel and see if you bootloop/force close of death. If you do then you're probably already voodoo.
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love this post!!
cannot not laughing - xda the wrong place to play jokes
I don't mean to be an a$$, but with at least 100 threads detailing voodoo, or addressing this question already, this should be removed.
Search before you ask.
Additionally, if someone doesn't know to disable voodoo before flashing a non voodoo kernel, they shouldn't be running it.
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Look in Red Clockwork it states it right there.
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I'm new too the whole rooting deal, but I know I want to. I already downloaded the one touch program or whatever it is. I was really just wandering about overclocking my cpu.
I've read that I will need to install a new kernel but I don't know which one. I just don't want it to change the look or operation of my phone. I like the touchwiz and everything,i just want to speed it up. Does any one know what I should do?
Also if I root will I be able to do the 2.2 update when it comes out?
Thanks for any help I can get.
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As a newb myself let me try and help. First off take some time and do alot of research on rooting, flashing roms and kernals. Read, read and read. There is alot of info here. It is possible to mess your phone up if you dont know what your doing. Now thay being said...... Using ryanza root plus lag fix is probably the easiest way to root. If your hard ware locked,well thats another story. And if you want to overclock you will need a custom kernal, remember what I said about reading. Now depending on the kernal you may or may not be able to get the 2.2 when it rolls out. Just take some time and educate yourself, and for goodness sake please make nandroid before you do anything drastic.
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Like greggory said, you should check to see if you are hardware locked (cannot access download and recovery modes).
To check:
1 turn off your phone
2 Hold volume + and - and power buttons
3 Keep holding until you see the vibrant screen pop up a second time. Now release ONLY the power button, still holding volume + and -.
4 Keep holding volume buttons until you get to the recovery screen. Then release.
If your phone continues to boot normally, you are hardware locked.
If you are locked, go to the Bible thread and scroll until you see the hardware locked fix. Follow the directions there.
The Bible thread should have everything you need to know about modding your phone.
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Thanks alot, I will check out the bible.
And good news for me, my phone is not hardware locked.
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Thats good its not locked. The bible is a great tool for info. I also read some of the post by bionix , involving custom roms. Check out there website. teamwhiskey.com. Just be sure you make a backup thru rom manager in case you mess something up. This is a awesome forum with alot of knowledgable people. Unfortunately Im not one of them....
Strange.. are only a select unfortunate few vibrants hardware locked?
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JJG2 said:
Strange.. are only a select unfortunate few vibrants hardware locked?
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yea mine is, bummer aint it...i guess QA and QC at Samsung are big slackers or playing loads of pranks...I happen to be one of unlucky suckers...
Have you gotten thr JI6 update yet? It fixed my hw lock issue?
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It looks like JAC's OC/UV kernel would be the best for overclocking. Does that sound like a good assumption?
Would that change the way phone looks or functions, in terms of regular use like touch wiz?
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It looks like JAC's OC/UV kernel would be the best for overclocking. Does that sound like a good assumption?
Would that change the way phone looks or functions, in terms of regular use like touch wiz?
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I like the JAC kernel and no, it won't change anything about the way your phone looks. It'll just run faster
Great. Would you suggest the regular kernel or the voodoo one?
And thanks again for all the help.
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I'm still learning too, although I know I'll never really dip into programming. I use Bionix 1.9 with Jac's kernal. I did have a problem with Pandora and the media player shutting off, but after adjusting the min mhz to 400, it hasn't frozen yet. I love this stuff. I just wish I could get an asnwer on how to flash some of the mods in the other forum like the clear notification bar. I posted in Q&A and never got a response. Too bad. I can't contribute, but I would still like to learn.....
So you haven't had any of the lag problems?
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Ok, I guess I'm going with bionix 1.9 with JAC OC/UV voodoo. That sounds like a good tried and tested way to go.
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What is the difference between bionix 1.9 w/Jac's OC/UV kernel 1.1 and bionix 1.9 w/Jac's OC/UV/Voodoo kernel 1.1?
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The voodoo kernel has the voodoo lag fix already in it. If im not mistaken.
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Alright. Now I think I'm going to use bionix fusion 1.1. Do I need to flash that before or after JAC's voodoo kernel?
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so the stock kernel isn't that good?
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From what I've read the voodoo kernel just has the added lag fix to speed up your phone more.
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So is there any order to needing to flash bionix fusion and JACs OC/UV Voodoo?
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Any one know of anything else I can do with my fascinate. Running 1.1 Zinc with no kernel. My phone does not approve. Anything I'm missing out on?
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Any one know of anything else I can do with my fascinate. Running 1.1 Zinc with no kernel. My phone does not approve. Anything I'm missing out on?
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I wouldn't approve of that, either!
Seriously, if you were able to flash a ROM, and you did it through Clockwork Recovery/ROM Manager, then you are running a modded kernel.
Voodoo seems to be causing some people more trouble than they feel it's worth, so I'd suggest one of jt1134's or Dirrk's non-Voodoo kernels, or Birdman's once it's past the testing stage.
Non-voodoo? I must have missed those. Search is not being my friend. Care to link a guy up? The only kernel threads I can find are their voodoo kernels.
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Non-voodoo? I must have missed those. Search is not being my friend. Care to link a guy up? The only kernel threads I can find are their voodoo kernels.
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swing by irc #samsung-fascinate on freenode.net. check topic for kernel links
My phone started lagging badly 3 days after the vodoo lagfix...how ironic. When I disabled it, it nearly bricked my phone. Desperate to get my phone up and running, I did a wipe. It killed the phone's internal memory. Had to reflash back to stock and since then my phone has been running really well w/o the lagfix even. Maybe my phone had a bad image like a computer. Not doing anything else to my phone til froyo comes out. I am rooted though.
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You could try more cow bell. I heard it's the only cure for some fevers.
I've been semi-bricked three times when I've disabled Voodoo, and I did it right. So I use a non-voodoo kernel now. I'll wait until these bugs are ironed out. Join the irc chat and jt and the other devs commonly post kernel links.
Yup.. Using jt's 1031 test kernel now (novoodoo). Running beautifully.
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Technically voodoo hasn't bricked a single phone. User error and then likely a small error in the proccess itself have caused some ugly problems but it can be overcame with a little work
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ksizzle9 said:
Technically voodoo hasn't bricked a single phone. User error and then likely a small error in the proccess itself have caused some ugly problems but it can be overcame with a little work
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I said semi-bricked. It wouldn't get past the boot screen. It couldn't have been user error two of those times, because I used reboot button to do it.
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You could try more cow bell. I heard it's the only cure for some fevers.
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Thank you for this. Seriously though, I've been running jt's voodoo kernels since their release with only minor problems. I've disabled voodoo and flashed other kernels no less than three times without issue. Granted it does take a while to boot after enabling/disabling voodoo. The first few times I thought I screwed up, but it always boots for me.
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Thank you for this. Seriously though, I've been running jt's voodoo kernels since their release with only minor problems. I've disabled voodoo and flashed other kernels no less than three times without issue. Granted it does take a while to boot after enabling/disabling voodoo. The first few times I thought I screwed up, but it always boots for me.
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I think it's a phone to phone thing. Some people have no problems just turning off voodoo when they flash ROMs and kernels. I have to use adrynalyn's voodoo uninstaller and wipe completely if I want to change ROMs or kernels.
Weird.
Yea when I tried to turn voodoo off it took 4 reboots before it took. No issues after that though.
*EDIT* Posted in wrong thread...my apologies
Used the "reboot button" app to disable Voodoo. It hung on "Samsung" for over an hour after robot women said "operation completed" or whatever. i finally admitted defeat and did a battery pull. Restart resulted in a boot loop. I was able to recover following the "remove Voodoo" thread and flashing the stock Nandroid. From there I flashed jt's v.4 Super Clean ROM with Frost's theme. Having had the stones to try Voodoo again but honestly my phone is running good with just the Super Clean ROM. Having a recent Titanium backup really helped get my phone back in order quickly.
While it was an unpleasant experience it ended well and resulted in a nice clean and fast Fascinate. Best part though is that I'm no longer afraid to flash my phone since I now know I can recover fairly quickly.
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Best part though is that I'm no longer afraid to flash my phone since I now know I can recover fairly quickly.
Martian21
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...that way lie the dragons...
Yeah, that's pretty much what destroyed any hope I had of *not* being a total ROM-a-holic. I have owned this thing for no more than 2 weeks and have pushed over a dozen different roms/kernels on it.
I cannot even imagine what this poor phone will be going through once we start getting things like Cyanogen's up and running.
(currently using jt's 1031 USCC non-voodoo kernel...at least until I get home.)
Just odined back to jfd, rooted and used oclf lagfix. Question is can I flash from this point or do I need to remove lagfix?
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Remove lagfix.
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Thanks a million. I thought so but needed to be sure. P.s. I'm about to flash my FIRST custom rom any pointers.
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The two top dogs around here imo are bionex or axura. Each have their own pros and cons (barely cons). I'm personal to Axura myself, although im still on nero v5. Been getting tired of redoing my homescreens over and over again. I suggest going into the release threads, found in developmet forum, for the respective roms and taking a look at screen shots and youtube search video reviews.
You really cant go wrong either way. Check out the rom bible thread for more awesome roms.
I would defantly stick with the Auxura rom or Som's Bionex rom, Ive bounced between the two, Each rom has it's own feel, while Axura's roms are ultra fast, The Bionex rom has more Gingerbread feel and smoothness, Make your own decesion, but as the previous poster said you can't go wrong with either of them.
Just a word of advice, get in the habbit of disabling Voodoo each time you flash, I made the mistake once and ended up softbricking the phone and it was a nightmare for me getting it back to stock via ODIN.
Good Luck
Actually, if you already have voodoo installed and the rom you're flashing to also has it, you don't need to disable it. I speak from experience
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notverycreative said:
Actually, if you already have voodoo installed and the rom you're flashing to also has it, you don't need to disable it. I speak from experience
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This is true, but new. It has only been that way for a little while. Also it ONLY is true if you are going from Voodoo 5 to Voodoo 5 (meaning the one that has the RED recovery).
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Actually, if you already have voodoo installed and the rom you're flashing to also has it, you don't need to disable it. I speak from experience
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Thought, OCLF was ext2 and Voodoo was Ext4 wouldnt that cause problems...
ZachLL88 said:
Thought, OCLF was ext2 and Voodoo was Ext4 wouldnt that cause problems...
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Yes. Yes it would. Read the post right above yours where I said (emphasis added):
T313C0mun1s7 said:
This is true, but new. It has only been that way for a little while. Also it ONLY is true if you are going from Voodoo 5 to Voodoo 5 (meaning the one that has the RED recovery).
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Guys i Wanted to Know Why This Rom Gets Such Low Quadrants..
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bosina said:
Guys i Wanted to Know Why This Rom Gets Such Low Quadrants..
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Most ppl put no value in Quadrant scores. Does it feel snappy to you? No lag? Then I wouldn't worry about it. Scores can be miss leading by what apps you have and what is running in the back ground. Or maybe change your kernel.
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Guys i Wanted to Know Why This Rom Gets Such Low Quadrants..
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Reboot and enable Voodoo from recovery. Even if it says it's already enabled I'd be willing to bet your quadrant score goes way up.
Thank you guys ill try it
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so i went and enabled the voodoo...i didnt remember it was disabled..now im on ext4 and the score went from like 960 to 1600+ somethinq
yeah on ALL EDT roms, voodoo is turned off by default.
Heathen (jellette) likes to be safe and wants to prevent anyone new from freaking out by the voice or get into a boot loop, so it auto-disables.
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yeah on ALL EDT roms, voodoo is turned off by default.
Heathen (jellette) likes to be safe and wants to prevent anyone new from freaking out by the voice or get into a boot loop, so it auto-disables.
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Yeah much easier to do it that way. And it is just as easy to go in to the voodoo menu and enable it yourself. Hopefully if a person enables it their self, they will remember later to disable it before they flash somethung else.
Here is the Clock Work Recovery Mod 3 with voodoo support from nemesis2all, JT, Koush and Project-voodoo. It only supports edify scripting so be warned most themes etc will not flash. Its time we made the switch guys. We were on eclair for months, lets not hold onto old ways.
*4.22.11* Terrible wording, ADB DOES WORK. Even in recovery.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1148746/CWM3.zip
*4.24.11* This is an older version at this point already. I do not have the means to compile a kernel so I will have to wait to mooch off of JT's compile of CM7.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905<<<<<<<<<Newer version
Why no adb?
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Amend has been around since donut. And you're right its time to move forward.
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hasnt been worked in yet
Is this flashable in cwm red? Or what
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Time we made a switch so everyone can complain about a broken recovery....
Not just yours is broken, all cwm3's for this phone are broken.
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10 characters ughh
tyler1234567 said:
Time we made a switch so everyone can complain about a broken recovery....
Not just yours is broken, all cwm3's for this phone are broken.
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Every cwm3 I've used from Nemesis has worked flawlessly...
cwm 2.5 supports edify and amend and has adb.
Please tell me a real reason why we should change other than to be like all the others.
How can I switch to this if usb mass storage doesn't work on CM7 and adb doesn't work on cw3? Is there another way to push files to my phone using cw3 without adb?
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Time we made a switch so everyone can complain about a broken recovery....
Not just yours is broken, all cwm3's for this phone are broken.
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No they're not. Haven't personally used an old recovery in forever. People just aren't updating their zips. Nothing wrong with recovery. If adb doesn't work, then tonu must have broken it.
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cwm 2.5 supports edify and amend and has adb.
Please tell me a real reason why we should change other than to be like all the others.
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The real reason we switch is so that we can do our part to help the devs make these phones better. That's how this while thing works isn't it? Our it's supposed to anyways. The devs create something new and we test it to perfection and move forward to bigger and better things. It's not always about us taking and taking from the devs. We can do our part to help too. Anyways great job guys. Thanks for the hard work.
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No they're not. Haven't personally used an old recovery in forever. People just aren't updating their zips. Nothing wrong with recovery. If adb doesn't work, then tonu must have broken it.
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Can you point me in the direction of cwm3 where adb works? lol
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Can you point me in the direction of cwm3 where adb works? lol
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Bad use of words on my part. ADB does work, updated OP. ADB just does not work while you are in clockwork like it did before.
Also to everyone else, I for one like edify better, it makes more sense then the amend garbage. Also the newer clockwork supports gingerbread and this older one does not so it seems. If we ever plan to advance we need to prepare now.
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Bad use of words on my part. ADB does work, updated OP. ADB just does not work while you are in clockwork like it did before.
Also to everyone else, I for one like edify better, it makes more sense then the amend garbage. Also the newer clockwork supports gingerbread and this older one does not so it seems. If we ever plan to advance we need to prepare now.
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Thank you for clearing up the confusion. I'm definitely going to leave the past behind and upgrade. Thanks for all your work kind sir.
personally ill wait for jt and company to put out the recovery...no offense or anything to the op
Sweet, just need to get everything else updated now...must...reflash.......constantly...lol.
Nice work guys
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personally ill wait for jt and company to put out the recovery...no offense or anything to the op
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My thoughts exactly
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nitsuj17 said:
personally ill wait for jt and company to put out the recovery...no offense or anything to the op
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^^This. If this cwm 3 is from jt and company, why didn't one of them post it? Where did it come from? Was this pulled off IRC and posted before jt and company were ready to post it? I'm confused. Please forgive my noobness.
Is this the recovery we can get through rom manager?
Did you code something in there?
BTW how is the rom coming along?