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Ok...I know this can be a complicated process if you run into issues...so here is a detailed how to...Make sure and READ thru the WHOLE post!!!!!
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1. ROOT, Flash CWM Recovery
2. Create a FULL nandroid backup
3. Download a kernel of choice - links below
4. Put the kernel on root of sd, or you can leave it in download folder, but DON'T rename the file
5. Boot into Clockwork MOD recovery (either from ROM Manager or manually- hold volume up and down at same time and press power button, then select "apply sdcard: update.zip"
6. In recovery select "Install zip from sd card"
7. Select "Choose zip from sd card"
8. Navigate to the kernel file and select it
9. Let it install, it will take a few minutes...screen will go weird (black with big blue letters) then take you back to recovery.
10. Reboot phone
IMPORTANT: THIS BOOT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME...MAY BE 5-25 MINUTES...WAIT IT OUT. DO NOT PULL BATTERY. EVEN IF IT IS AT A BLACK SCREEN WITH SOFT KEYS LIT UP, DO NOT TOUCH IT. YOU WILL HEAR FEMALE VOICE. THIS IS NORMAL.
11. Once phone boots, download SetCPU from market and set the slider to desired Max. Do not select "Set on boot" and use Conservative mode.
ENJOY!!!!!
KERNEL LINKS:
- jt1134 - [RELEASE] Voodoo (v0.2) ext4 lagfix for Fascinate! Now with AOSP boot animations!
- Dirrk - [KERNEL] Dirrk v01 Voodoo lagfix OC/UV - For Dirrk OC kernels, use the D012 kernels, not D01: D012 - Dirrk > Open the link>select my folder>the samsung and you will see the D012 kernels...
***If you are using jt1134 kernels with boot animation ability, here is how to add it. Find the boot animation you like, download it to your phone. Do not unzip it. Use Root Explorer or Astro File Manager and copy the bootanimation.zip file into either system/media or data/local. Reboot phone to test out.
HOW TO DISABLE VOODOO LAGFIX
1. Use Astro File Manager or Root Explorer app...open the app
2. Navigate to sdcard/Voodoo folder
3. Create a new blank FILE named disable_lagfix....NOT A FOLDER
4. Reboot phone
IMPROTANT: THIS BOOT WILL TAKE EVEN LONGER THAN THE INSTALLATION OF VOODOO KERNEL BOOT...AGAIN, WAIT IT OUT!!!!! DO NOT PULL BATTERY.
NOTE: IF YOU ARE RUNNING ANY OF VOODOO KERNELS, VERSION 0.2+, YOU CAN FLASH ANY OF THE VOODOO OC KERNELS OVER...INCLUDING JT'S OVER DIRRK'S AND VICE VERSA...IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO A REGULAR KERNEL, YOU MUST DISABLE VOODOO FIRST...ALSO IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A FULL NANDROID BACKUP AS WELL, YOU MUST DISABLE VOODOO LAGFIX. IF YOU BACKUP WITH VOODOO ENABLED, YOUR DATA WILL NOT BACKUP. IF YOU RESTORE YOUR NANDROID BACKUP, THE KERNELS ARE NOT RESTORED.
If you ran into trouble, start HERE:
- Adrynalyne - How to completely remove Voodoo Lagfix
- Odin Files to get you back to stock
VERY IMPORTANT:
-Battery issue can be because your phone is too hot...pull battery and let it cool down for 5-10 minutes...then boot up and see if its there.
-IF uninstalling v0.1, create a FILE in sdcard/voodoo and NOT a folder...
-Once uninstalled v0.1, DELETE the disable_lagfix file, before flashing v0.2...
-Boots take may FOREVER in between changes, especially after uninstalling.....WAIT it out. It may be 5 minutes, may be 15. Don't start pulling batteries and using Odin just yet.
-READ all instructions carefully and FULLY....
-And lastly, ALWAYS do a nandroid backup.
Wow. Great write up. Thanks a ton for this
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I really hope this eliminates 99% of issues that people run into.
Nicely done. Concise and accurate
awwww man, if only this was posted this morning I wouldn't have called for a doa swap.. lol i thought my phone was fubar-ed earlier b/c of the oc kernel.. i finally got everything fixed the hard way by wiping and loading stock kernels.. that didn't work too well either.. long story short i got everything working but after i called for a swap and before this posted lol.. great post!
wish this was in place before i started flashing. lol. i had to learn the hard way. many flashes later i have learned what to do but this definately deserves a sticky so others dont have to go thru what luckly only took me a day to figure out but could have taken longer.
I've been running the 1200 kernal for a few days with no problems. I do have setcpu set to load on boot.....just curious if I should change it? And why? All seems OK.
Nice post, tats.
Kudos for a great, concise write up!
suzook said:
I've been running the 1200 kernal for a few days with no problems. I do have setcpu set to load on boot.....just curious if I should change it? And why? All seems OK.
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Once you confirm that its completely stable even Dirrks says its OK to set on boot. You just wanna be 100% sure it is before you get caught in an endless boot loop. But yeah a couple days is long enough to ensure stability; go ahead and lock it in if you want
Is this rom and kernel really that much better than stock?
I guess I'm asking is battery life better and is the speed of the phone better with the lag fix??
I have Voodoo .2, and I set the bootanimation in both folders, both in system/media, and data/local, and the standard animation keeps playing anyway.
Anyone have any ideas ????
Bull174
Yes this kernel with voodoo is that much better. Voodoo isn't that BS one click lag fix. Its a real permanent solution." Basically" the same filesystem all other phones come with.quadrant can do 17-1800 which isn't inflated. Its what the galaxy can actiually do. And that just with eclair(2.1) battery life is the same. The phone will likely never lag on u again. And actually with a normal filesystem its prolly the fastest smoothest running phone out there. Would easily put the second generation snapdragons to Shame. If u try it u will be hooked. It is *VERY IMPORTANT* that before u flash any other kernels that u disable ur lagfix first. This can also be done easily with the app "voodoo toggle" in the market. If you like your phone now you will love it now. Take the plunge. You wont regret it. Just do your reading and follow instructions on how to install and remove voodoo to a T and you will be fine.
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Wound up having to restore an old voodoo, the v. 0.2 standard clocking one, from a jt's 1.2 OC kernel. The restore worked fine, but I'm currently trying to disable in order to flash stock kernel and a clean ROM and then get voodoo back. The boot up has been going on for about an hour, heard to voice at the beginning and about 20 minutes in. How much longer will it take? I'm getting kinda nervous as I really don't want to have a bricked phone on my hands.
EDIT: It was about 2 hours and I pulled and went to go do an odin restore. The phone flashed PIT, system, kernel and recovery all successfully, I wiped everything from both clockwork and the blue 2e recovery screen, but now I can't access clockwork nor does the phone boot, however it does appear in adb. Does anybody know what I should do?
EDIT2: Reflashed all the files from Odin, got it to boot both into clockwork and pure stock. Gonna go flash a nandroid and get my setup back.
You can use the disable_lagfix as a folder, I have tried it and it works. Voodoo is looking for anything disable*lagfix so it works even with a dash, space, numbers...
I followed each and every direction to the last word, however I can't seem to overclock my phone. I installed the jt1334 kernel, but the max i can go is 1ghz (1000000mhz). help?
EDIT: In addition, I did both a linpack and Quadrant Standard test. my linpack score was "MFLOPS:8.142" and my Quadrant
Standard score is "950".... i don't understand what I did wrong as I see others have QS scores of 1600+ at least 1200+...
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I followed each and every direction to the last word, however I can't seem to overclock my phone. I installed the jt1334 kernel, but the max i can go is 1ghz (1000000mhz). help?
EDIT: In addition, I did both a linpack and Quadrant Standard test. my linpack score was "MFLOPS:8.142" and my Quadrant
Standard score is "950".... i don't understand what I did wrong as I see others have QS scores of 1600+ at least 1200+...
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Have you downloaded SetCPU? What are you using to overclock?
mexiken said:
I have Voodoo .2, and I set the bootanimation in both folders, both in system/media, and data/local, and the standard animation keeps playing anyway.
Anyone have any ideas ????
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I have the same issue. I thought it was originally because I extracted the bootanimation.zip out of the downloaded file but renaming the original file didn't work either.
kupdegrove said:
I have the same issue. I thought it was originally because I extracted the bootanimation.zip out of the downloaded file but renaming the original file didn't work either.
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If its just the voodoo 0.2 file, then boot animation wont work. It has to be the 1000_bootabimation kernel or the 1200_bootanimation one.
I actually fixed it somehow... I don't necessarily know what I did though. But thank you for your help!
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so ive had my vibrant for a couple months now coming from an hd2. ive been flashing roms and trying different stuff out, im good with odin and cwm, clueless with adb. with windows mobile the custom build just came how they were and theres no way to remove/add programs and stuff previous to flashing it(with my knowledge). well i just now realized i can access all the files in an android build because its a simple zip file. My question is, how safe is it to remove the apk's from the /system/app folder and then flashing it. Same thing with fonts and notifications. i want to strip all the stuff out that i dont use before flashing so i dont have to do it afterwards. Is there more to this than im making of it?
tl;dr - can i delete files out of a build (apks, notifiations, wallpapers) before flashing it through cwm??
You sure can. I do it all the time. Just make a copy of the untouched version (in case you pull something important or goof up).
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
wow thats gonna save alot of time.
follow up questions: is there any way to have settings preset before i install a rom?
ive tried the built in google back/restore settings but it seems the only thing it does is the browser settings. all system settings i have to reset.
For a whole week now I've been trying to use miui and it fails I've tried every flash method nothing works one minute the rom is fine then every app had a screwed up permission a reboot fixes it and then it breaks again can someone please help me
Sent from my miui revamped vibrant
Have you tried fixing permissions in recovery? Every time I flash miui I end up flashing something else in a week or so. Battery life is always horrible for me and there's always some other bugs that creep up. So awesome looking though.
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I fix permissions at least 5 times every flash that's how often things break
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ok so lets be honest here, your doing something thats making your system unstable. seriously unstable.
do you OC/UV? If not stop using revamped, it's built for that.
do you restore Data/apps with Titanium? If so.. Stop.
do me a favor so i can help you troubleshoot this.
write down what apps you use/have installed, don't back them up.
pretend titanium backup does NOT exist.
Back up any videos, Music, Pictures you want to keep
Odin to stock.
512.pit
T959UVJFD.tar
Flash MY update.zip (3.x Orange Recovery)
follow these flashing steps
Format SD (back up music, pics, videos)
Factory Reset/wipe Data
Mounts menu -- Format System
Flash Miui 1.8.5 if you do NOT OC/UV don't use revamped use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123922
advanced Menu -- Fix Permissions
Reboot, wait 5 mis or so.
open file explorer
if you do NOT see a folder named external_sd Make one (all lower case)
Reboot
Themes. Verify ANY themes you use are updated for 1.8.5+ older themes can cause instability
verify any kernels you use are stable with CM7/Miui (I personally run Glitch V11 Low Leak)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041532
Verify any Mods you use are updated for the latest version of Miui 1.8.5
(I personally use Extended Settings Mod)
http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showthread.php?7738-MOD-Extended-Settings-Menu-Options
ok so again don't use titanium to back anything up, just spend the 10 mins re-downloading everything you use regularly.
PM if you run into anymore issues after following my instructions listed above.
boystuff said:
ok so lets be honest here, your doing something thats making your system unstable. seriously unstable.
do you OC/UV? If not stop using revamped, it's built for that.
do you restore Data/apps with Titanium? If so.. Stop.
do me a favor so i can help you troubleshoot this.
write down what apps you use/have installed, don't back them up.
pretend titanium backup does NOT exist.
Back up any videos, Music, Pictures you want to keep
Odin to stock.
512.pit
T959UVJFD.tar
Flash MY update.zip (3.x Orange Recovery)
follow these flashing steps
Format SD (back up music, pics, videos)
Factory Reset/wipe Data
Mounts menu -- Format System
Flash Miui 1.8.5 if you do NOT OC/UV don't use revamped use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123922
advanced Menu -- Fix Permissions
Reboot, wait 5 mis or so.
open file explorer
if you do NOT see a folder named external_sd Make one (all lower case)
Reboot
Themes. Verify ANY themes you use are updated for 1.8.5+ older themes can cause instability
verify any kernels you use are stable with CM7/Miui (I personally run Glitch V11 Low Leak)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041532
Verify any Mods you use are updated for the latest version of Miui 1.8.5
(I personally use Extended Settings Mod)
http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showthread.php?7738-MOD-Extended-Settings-Menu-Options
ok so again don't use titanium to back anything up, just spend the 10 mins re-downloading everything you use regularly.
PM if you run into anymore issues after following my instructions listed above.
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Thanks for the advice but I figured it out before you posted this thanks for the advice anyway everything is going well and now I have to go apologize to nick for the constant help spam
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I like to flash the latest CM7 nightlies, but whenever I do, I lose my tweaked stuff, like my init.d scripts, custom gps.conf, custom boot animation, and a few other customized files. I have them all just how I want them, they make my phone run so much smoother, but it's a time consuming task to redo all of them every single night. So, I got them all into one .zip, and as far as I can tell it SHOULD work. When I flash it in CWM, it appears to work, but when I check after I reboot, nothing is changed. I was wondering if someone could take a look at my .zip and tell me what's wrong with it? Thanks!
as the topic
newestuser said:
as the topic
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What are you running (kernel + rom) at the moment?
And why do you want it removed?
SmG67 said:
What are you running (kernel + rom) at the moment?
And why do you want it removed?
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im running everything stock,
installed just to quickly test so praised ArcMini custom rom. So i restored the backup later on because i didnt liked custom rom.
I felt that the battery drains a bit quicker now, i re-recalibrated and still feels like battery does drain faster than was before.
So i suspect its because i installed CMW.
newestuser said:
im running everything stock,
installed just to quickly test so praised ArcMini custom rom. So i restored the backup later on because i didnt liked custom rom.
I felt that the battery drains a bit quicker now, i re-recalibrated and still feels like battery does drain faster than was before.
So i suspect its because i installed CMW.
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its more likely apps that are running in the background and widgets you have on the desktop, try a different rom such as lite version of cm7 and underclock your phone,
as far as my understanding goes, cmw is just a tool for installing roms backups ect and doesn't run when you are using it much like booting into a recovery panel on a pc possibly, basically it should not effect your battery drain, though I may be wrong,
I hope this help
no its not apps, because i did backup and restore and after restore battery drain started happening. If i didnt changed anything except installing CMW what else couldve cause that ? every app and configuration was the same...
no custom roms, i have tried and stock rom wins all the way except the extras 2.3 has, but still stock is more stable and graphicly better looking
so is there a way to remove ?
newestuser said:
no its not apps, because i did backup and restore and after restore battery drain started happening. If i didnt changed anything except installing CMW what else couldve cause that ? every app and configuration was the same...
no custom roms, i have tried and stock rom wins all the way except the extras 2.3 has, but still stock is more stable and graphicly better looking
so is there a way to remove ?
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you could re-flash the original kernel, via flash tool, this will get rid of CMW and set thing to how they where, if you are using a custom kernel or stock kernel with additional modules that could also be responsible for your increased battery drain, you should be able to find the stock kernel on this forum as others have asked for it, alternatively I thing there is a way to get the stock kernel from pc companion
good luck hope this help
well im already using stock kernel...
thing is i dont want to reinstall OS i just want to remove CMW reinstalling os means i have reinstall apps and again link to link2sd
newestuser said:
well im already using stock kernel...
thing is i dont want to reinstall OS i just want to remove CMW reinstalling os means i have reinstall apps and again link to link2sd
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Installing CWM installs Chargemon, Charger and Recovery.tar to /system/bin and 'sh' to system/xbin. I'm fairly sure chargemon and charger are custom replacements to files that already existed, so i'm not sure removing them would be wise. you can remove Recovery.tar though, which is the main CWM program. Not sure if the 'sh' file in system/xbin is safe to remove either, or what it does exactly.
In Roms that run on kernels that have CWM built in, the chargemon, recovery and the 'sh' file are not present in the ROM, so they may be safe to remove.
Make sure you keep backups of those files, or just rename them at first (just add a 2 at the end of the filename should disable them) to see if it leads to any problems, before you remove them altogether.
SmG67 said:
Installing CWM installs Chargemon, Charger and Recovery.tar to /system/bin and 'sh' to system/xbin. I'm fairly sure chargemon and charger are custom replacements to files that already existed, so i'm not sure removing them would be wise. you can remove Recovery.tar though, which is the main CWM program. Not sure if the 'sh' file in system/xbin is safe to remove either, or what it does exactly.
In Roms that run on kernels that have CWM built in, the chargemon, recovery and the 'sh' file are not present in the ROM, so they may be safe to remove.
Make sure you keep backups of those files, or just rename them at first (just add a 2 at the end of the filename should disable them) to see if it leads to any problems, before you remove them altogether.
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sh is the shell. It's installed by default and I wouldn't recommend removing it under any circumstances
x10man