Hey!
I booted up my HD2 after a couple years (a bought it new for nostalgia 5-6 years ago) and realized Opera can't really load pages anymore. Tried ZetaKey Lite and ran out of memory instantly.
What's the situation with the RAM? Never really understood it and can't find a clear answer. The phone is not the US version, yet it says 576mb in the hardware info (shouldn't that be the 488mb?). But in the memory info or "About" tab in settings it says 208mb program memory (and ~160mb of it is used when nothing is running) and i left with around 46mb.
That seems correct.
What? Noo this should be a whole lot more. Like 4x the free space.
Something like this below. There is almost 200mb free* on stock rom BEFORE flashing to unleash the full 576 capability.
Shouldn't mine read 448 in the hardware info and have a bit less (like in the video) to run software, and some of that is taken by Sense, etc. but still a LOT remains free.
Ok, after a generous amount of search i found out that my 3.14 ROM is not going with the 2.08 SPL on it.
I haven't touched it, i guess the seller probably wanted to sell it with up to date software but messed it up. (I know these old stuff sold "new" only look new, but god knows their actual source.)
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This goes out to the DEV's and or anyone with some insight to this question.
I was wondering if the Extrom was unlocked, could it be possible to reduce its size and allocate the extra memory to the system memory via a reg or file hack.
im thinking that since it is part of the actual onboard memory, and with the pagepool utilites that have been developed, it might be possible. that extra 6mb or so coming from the extrom added to the existing system ram would, or should really be a big performance enhancement, The extrom is basically just a waste of space on my phone right now.
so im gonna work on first unlocking the extrom and then look into the above mentioned idea.
if anyone has some info that would help or know why this physically cant be done, let me know k. I dont want to be kicking a dead horse (or mogul) for nothing,
thanks for time
you must modify flashdrv.dll to consume the extrom space
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360461
i have been unable to do this for titan
Furthermore it would be storage space, NOT ram.
if the Extrom is actually a ramdrive. A RAM disk is a software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. Software ramdisks use the normal RAM in main memory as if it were a partition on a hard drive, thus which bypasses the need for the bus, because the partition is actually the Ram just separated, and it is just a writing of a software program that does it/ ie: the pagepool utility and a pagepool is basically a RAM drive. Since we know there are no harddrives in the phone and i believe there is just 1 stick of memory, from what i remember when i watched a utube video of someone taking apart the titan. What im trying to say is that if it is just 1 actual stik of memory partitioned into 3 sections, well then i would pretty much be in business. i know how to manually edit partition addresses and correct the mbr to reflect the right size and location of them. i bet the Extrom is in between the storage mem and the system mem. just taketh from 1 and give to the other( the robinhood effect)
so its a matter of getting past the permission issue which prevents me from checking these things out. thanks DCD for the tip with the flashdrv.dll file, thats the kind of info i need, im gonna look further into this and keep u posted, ill let u know what i find out in a couple of days.
it would be great if it turns out we can resize the storage mem and add it to the system mem.
thanks for your time
ive been looking for something like this.
and it would be insanly awesome if someone managed this.
kinda like readyboost for vista
exept useful
i got a good lead from DCD as to where to start, wish me luck
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if the Extrom is actually a ramdrive. A RAM disk is a software abstraction that treats a segment of random access memory (RAM) as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. Software ramdisks use the normal RAM in main memory as if it were a partition on a hard drive, thus which bypasses the need for the bus, because the partition is actually the Ram just separated, and it is just a writing of a software program that does it/ ie: the pagepool utility and a pagepool is basically a RAM drive. Since we know there are no harddrives in the phone and i believe there is just 1 stick of memory, from what i remember when i watched a utube video of someone taking apart the titan. What im trying to say is that if it is just 1 actual stik of memory partitioned into 3 sections, well then i would pretty much be in business. i know how to manually edit partition addresses and correct the mbr to reflect the right size and location of them. i bet the Extrom is in between the storage mem and the system mem. just taketh from 1 and give to the other( the robinhood effect)
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the extrom is written across flashrom, not RAM.
then maybe ill look and see if i can use it like a swap file. i might have to get creative. i'll be looking into this more extensive later and see what we can do with what we got, and maybe we might be able to come up with something. i have some free time at work later to look it over.
But u r right as rom will hold data when there is no power going thru it unlike ram, which holds no data if there is no power.
AFAIK WM doesnt have the ability to utilize a swap file, otherwise i would gladly give up some ROM memory to swap (i always have at least 80mb free)
that just might be the case, BUT im thinkin that there are some definite possibilities as to what we might be able to do if we take a thorough look at the situation, im talking to someone who might open up there titan for me to get a peek at the inside. Anyways im at work right now, but if there is something that can be done, by gosh well figure it out
You're hopefulness is admirable, but misplaced. The flash section on the titan (and most other HTC devices) has simply been formatted into multiple partitions, one of which is extended rom. You can't hope to gain anything but an extra 10 megs in the storage area, and we have PLENTY there already. Please put your reversing/hacking skill to use in other projects we need to accomplish.
well ive been around here long enough to know that when Shadowmite speaks,
u better listen!
i hear u loud and clear
Alright im not going to create a thread for this BUT, Shadowmite, what do u think of the possibility of creating a multi-boot out of the titan ( running both wm5 and wm6 on the phone) i have on my pc xp-vista-and hackintosh. when i start my computer i have "system commander " a 3rd party app provide me the option of booting into 1 of the 3 OS'es. they r on completely seperate partitions and independent of each other.
anyways i got time to kill while im at work so ill look into it, checked out your website, pretty kool, ill leave the RAM alone k, gotta go
catch u l8r
lol, I'm wrong sometimes. For instance when I said the titan had no built in gps. Granted I was working off of pictures others uploaded and trusted that they knew what to snap pics of.
DualBooting, oh boy. That question has always been a hot topic on devices, and in the titan's case it's "moderately" possible. We have enough flash memory you could potentially partition off another 50 or so megs to another OS version and flash it onto it. However we're talking needing a custom bootloader written that could understand the ID of the extra parition as well as setup and boot it when whatever keystroke you have setup is pressed. I would say this is a college computer science students project which would take near an entire semester of on the side tinkering with it. It's doable, but pretty complicated. If you really wanted to work on this talk to Olipro and see if he can give some pointers or a database file for IDA of an SPL. And start reversing.
an idiots guide on how to up grading my tytn..im still running wm5,im after the latest wm,i need all the info together,such as hard spling boot unlocking ect,as at work not got time to go through all the threads,basically in after masive memory on the phone,ability to use a 4gb card,a bit more quicker and stable,as im loosing memory like mad,ive emptied everything from the phone,but loss of memorys still happening,so basically speed, big memory,and ability to kick an iphone/blackberrys ass!!! do things like mms,sms,internet settings dissapear? its unlocked on tmobile uk,but its originaly a vodaphone uk set,so would like to remove their page too.
thanks
Thats what the search bar is there for.....
I have honestly tried searching and can't seem to find anything that answers this question. My i777 is, and always has been completely stock and is not rooted. It came with Gingerbread 2.3.6 (I think that's right) and before I was aware of the problem with the eMMC bug, I did the official upgrade to ICS 4.0.3. I've read everything I can about the eMMC bug and my chip is 0x19, so I am at risk especially since I have the AT&T official ICS rom. I can't recall if I've ever done a reset / wipe since ICS was installed, but I suspect that I did when I first installed it. When I open task manager and look under storage, I have the following:
System storage: 350MB/1.97GB
USB storage: 2.10GB/11.36GB
The used and available USB storage should add up to close to 16GB. Combined, I only have 13.46GB.
At first I figured that that must be the way it's supposed to be, but I've seen other screen shots (on other i777s) of this same screen and those two did add up to nearly 16GB. Can some of you check your phones to see what you have? The reason I'm concerned is about the possibility of damage to some of the internal memory caused by the eMMC bug. I was planning on returning to a stock GB rom until all of this gets resolved, but if I already have damage, I thought I would see about a replacement. Thanks for your help.
Mine is exactly the same as yours and has never been wiped and reset back to factory specs since updating to stock ICS 4.0.3 with stock kernel. Came from GB 2.3.4
Thanks for checking. I just found where I saw the Galaxy S2 that had almost 16GB. It was in a Youtube video comparing the International version S2 and S3. I would think that the memory should have been the same for the AT&T model. This S2 shows 5.44GB/11.49GB.
I just realized my mistake. I was thinking that this was showing 5.44GB used and 11.49GB free. It must mean 5.44GB used out of a total of 11.49GB.
Thanks again for checking.
My guess would be something similar to computers, you may be rated at 250g, but after you've installed your OS out shows you only having 243g free. It doesn't show the other available storage because it's (should be anyhow) a separate, hidden, partition you only see when you need to do a reformat out anything of the like.
[EDIT]... Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Clay
Sent from my PINK GS2 using xda app
On that, I'm sure you are correct. the 11.36GB is probably what is left out of 16GB after all of the operating system is installed.
The problem was my interpretation of what the numbers indicated. I mistakenly thought that the first number was the amount used (which is is) and the second number was the amount free (which it is not). The second number was the total, which also included the amount already being used.
I am Johnny-come-lately to this debranding scheme. I am in America, but I chose to downgrade to the Euro Rom. Half of it was a success, the other half a failure. The four lines on the top all said okay. The installation that follows went about a line and a half and errored out with the line: wrong or improper sign, which I suppose could be short for "signature". Anyway when I rebooted the phone it got to the HTC screen and froze right there. Also it is in the boot loop. I tried reinstalling the Rom, but it gave the same results. I haven't been able to install SPL 2.05 either. I would like to move forward. But without an OS on the phone, nothing else recognizes it. I have been using the GC method with a single card reader and an SD card. I gave an 8Gb SanDisk flash drive a try but to no avail. I have also tried the various naming variations that are employed here and there. So what does the error message mean? What are my chances of going forward with the Cingular rom so as to finish HSPLing it. Or going back to a shipped or stock rom.
EDIT: I have access to the bootloader and SPL mode.
Thanks to all of you for your unfailing support to us neophytes.
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.. I gave an 8Gb SanDisk flash drive a try but to no avail...
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Try to find non-SDHC card for gold-carding.
The best result is SD 1.0 — up to 2 Gb. That what I do always - no issues on any type of thumb drive or card with reader. Other guys here have also success with SD 1.1 which is up to 4 Gb. But 8 Gb will not work.
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Try to find non-SDHC card for gold-carding.
The best result is SD 1.0 — up to 2 Gb. That what I do always - no issues on any type of thumb drive or card with reader. Other guys here have also success with SD 1.1 which is up to 4 Gb. But 8 Gb will not work.
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My card is HD and is a single card reader. I have a 1Gb and a 4Gb thumb drives. No luck with either of the sticks, but the HD card works. I'm going to take another path. I need the file; IMG_Eternity_Cingular_US_1.10.502.04_Radio_16.23.0 2.26_A… (Radio 16). I'll be able to move forward with that. Where can I download it at?
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My card is HD and is a single card reader. I have a 1Gb and a 4Gb thumb drives. No luck with either of the sticks, but the HD card works. I'm going to take another path. I need the file; IMG_Eternity_Cingular_US_1.10.502.04_Radio_16.23.0 2.26_A… (Radio 16). I'll be able to move forward with that. Where can I download it at?
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AndrewSH is correct; I had your exact same problem but before I get ahead of myself; your device must read x310e after you install the Euro ROM; if it doesn't you're dead right there. You may be the exception but no high capacity card worked on the two Titans I did; however, I did successfully use a PNY 4 GB thumb drive; a red one in fact that comes in a two pack - red/blue thumb drives from Wal-Mart with a Y cable. I tried an 8 gigger; no dice. When you flash SPL205; you need to be really, really patience; you might say to yourself this is not doing a damn thing...give it a solid 30 minutes before you give it up for dead; out of the blue my device came alive about 15 minutes into it and successfully updated the SPL by saying bootloader ok and radio ok. I cannot stress enough how important this 2nd step is and have the patience to wait it out. You only format your thumb drive/micro SD card once; that's it; all you have to do after that is remove the 1st ROM and replace it with the baby ROM from SPL205. One more thing, if you haven't renamed the image do so...change it from ETERIMG to ETERDIAG...those 8 letters that's it. "diag" behaves differently than "img". And look, I realize this stuff makes for boring reading but read all the threads on HSPL not just the Titan; I'm not implying you read everything here...but specific to HSPL and Windows Phone 7, you bet...regardless of device. I don't want to sound like a grouchy old man here but it took me 4 days to get this right and I did a level of reading I've never done before here and I've been flashing phones a long time; there's no quick fix solution here and to be frank, it's a crap shoot; it may and again it may not work. I rewrote my own experience here...read it and do exactly what I say, no shortcuts. One day I will sit down and rewrite the darn thing in common sense language. I can't stand a tutorial written over my head and there are a few here who do great stuff but are thee worse teachers. It reminds me of a calculus teacher teaching 2nd graders..nope! I realize this is frustrating...join the party! Your phone will work after the initial flash to either the Cingular 1.10 or European 1.09 but it's like stepping back in time. And unless you're really living in a cave, there is a stock Microsoft ROM for the damn thing. Don't ask me how much sleep or the lack of sleep I got during those 4 days. There's no comparison between locked and truly unlocked; once you turn this beast loose there's no going back.
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AndrewSH is correct; I had your exact same problem but before I get ahead of myself; your device must read x310e after you install the Euro ROM; if it doesn't you're dead right there. You may be the exception but no high capacity card worked on the two Titans I did; however, I did successfully use a PNY 4 GB thumb drive; a red one in fact that comes in a two pack - red/blue thumb drives from Wal-Mart with a Y cable. I tried an 8 gigger; no dice. When you flash SPL205; you need to be really, really patience; you might say to yourself this is not doing a damn thing...give it a solid 30 minutes before you give it up for dead; out of the blue my device came alive about 15 minutes into it and successfully updated the SPL by saying bootloader ok and radio ok. I cannot stress enough how important this 2nd step is and have the patience to wait it out. You only format your thumb drive/micro SD card once; that's it; all you have to do after that is remove the 1st ROM and replace it with the baby ROM from SPL205. One more thing, if you haven't renamed the image do so...change it from ETERIMG to ETERDIAG...those 8 letters that's it. "diag" behaves differently than "img". And look, I realize this stuff makes for boring reading but read all the threads on HSPL not just the Titan; I'm not implying you read everything here...but specific to HSPL and Windows Phone 7, you bet...regardless of device. I don't want to sound like a grouchy old man here but it took me 4 days to get this right and I did a level of reading I've never done before here and I've been flashing phones a long time; there's no quick fix solution here and to be frank, it's a crap shoot; it may and again it may not work. I rewrote my own experience here...read it and do exactly what I say, no shortcuts. One day I will sit down and rewrite the darn thing in common sense language. I can't stand a tutorial written over my head and there are a few here who do great stuff but are thee worse teachers. It reminds me of a calculus teacher teaching 2nd graders..nope! I realize this is frustrating...join the party! Your phone will work after the initial flash to either the Cingular 1.10 or European 1.09 but it's like stepping back in time. And unless you're really living in a cave, there is a stock Microsoft ROM for the damn thing. Don't ask me how much sleep or the lack of sleep I got during those 4 days. There's no comparison between locked and truly unlocked; once you turn this beast loose there's no going back.
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I know what you mean, I know what mean... I have been reading a lot also. But coming late to the process, where all the posted links are dead, has left us late bloomers at a disadvantage. Thank you so much! Yeah I read the threads, and the tutorials. They were not QUITE clear enough, But the one thing I noticed right off the bat was, a LOT of people failed to simply read those posts. I read them and I can tell you that every one of them made the picture clearer. The European file errored out with a "wrong sign" or some such. So I don't even have a Rom in my phone. So I couldn't charge my battery. I bought a great little plug-in charger that I can put my battery in and charge it. Then I discovered that in Zune update mode that it will charge. So I've been doing that. I still have boot mode and PLC mode- and update mode. So I can still flash. So here goes nothing!:laugh: Thanks a cool million!
berrywr said:
AndrewSH is correct; I had your exact same problem but before I get ahead of myself; your device must read x310e after you install the Euro ROM; if it doesn't you're dead right there. You may be the exception but no high capacity card worked on the two Titans I did; however, I did successfully use a PNY 4 GB thumb drive; a red one in fact that comes in a two pack - red/blue thumb drives from Wal-Mart with a Y cable. I tried an 8 gigger; no dice. When you flash SPL205; you need to be really, really patience; you might say to yourself this is not doing a damn thing...give it a solid 30 minutes before you give it up for dead; out of the blue my device came alive about 15 minutes into it and successfully updated the SPL by saying bootloader ok and radio ok. I cannot stress enough how important this 2nd step is and have the patience to wait it out. You only format your thumb drive/micro SD card once; that's it; all you have to do after that is remove the 1st ROM and replace it with the baby ROM from SPL205. One more thing, if you haven't renamed the image do so...change it from ETERIMG to ETERDIAG...those 8 letters that's it. "diag" behaves differently than "img". And look, I realize this stuff makes for boring reading but read all the threads on HSPL not just the Titan; I'm not implying you read everything here...but specific to HSPL and Windows Phone 7, you bet...regardless of device. I don't want to sound like a grouchy old man here but it took me 4 days to get this right and I did a level of reading I've never done before here and I've been flashing phones a long time; there's no quick fix solution here and to be frank, it's a crap shoot; it may and again it may not work. I rewrote my own experience here...read it and do exactly what I say, no shortcuts. One day I will sit down and rewrite the darn thing in common sense language. I can't stand a tutorial written over my head and there are a few here who do great stuff but are thee worse teachers. It reminds me of a calculus teacher teaching 2nd graders..nope! I realize this is frustrating...join the party! Your phone will work after the initial flash to either the Cingular 1.10 or European 1.09 but it's like stepping back in time. And unless you're really living in a cave, there is a stock Microsoft ROM for the damn thing. Don't ask me how much sleep or the lack of sleep I got during those 4 days. There's no comparison between locked and truly unlocked; once you turn this beast loose there's no going back.
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Did I do it!? I did the files correctly. Here is what it says;
P139100
HSPL2.5. 160015.3(137079)
eMMC SND 15188MB
CotullaH(F:81,ID:1,V11,B:F8)
Radio-16.23.06.10
When the phone starts up, I still see the HTC logo in green. So did I do it!? EDIT: BTW, when I restarted it, I had about 10 updates waiting for me. They were all AT&T apps if I'm not mistaken.
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Did I do it!? I did the files correctly. Here is what it says;
P139100
HSPL2.5. 160015.3(137079)
eMMC SND 15188MB
CotullaH(F:81,ID:1,V11,B:F8)
Radio-16.23.06.10
When the phone starts up, I still see the HTC logo in green. So did I do it!? EDIT: BTW, when I restarted it, I had about 10 updates waiting for me. They were all AT&T apps if I'm not mistaken.
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Looks good. Now you have to make a decision - what custom to flash to your phone. Most of the customs here need Radio ver 17. As for me - I was using ver 17 for almost a year but than I returned to radio ver 16 - better signal quality and faster network detection (but it's absolutely the local problem of your carrier and coverage - so try by yourself). I wanna say that ver 16 and ver 17 radios need different roms - because of different OEM part. So choosing your custom - pay attention on the radio ver needed in rom description.
Thanks AndrewSh- Thanks everyone!
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Looks good. Now you have to make a decision - what custom to flash to your phone. Most of the customs here need Radio ver 17. As for me - I was using ver 17 for almost a year but than I returned to radio ver 16 - better signal quality and faster network detection (but it's absolutely the local problem of your carrier and coverage - so try by yourself). I wanna say that ver 16 and ver 17 radios need different roms - because of different OEM part. So choosing your custom - pay attention on the radio ver needed in rom description.
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Thanks! The finish seemed so anticlimactic. The struggle, the doubt, the fear, the frustration, the lack of answers, a clear path to move forward on. Now that that is over I'm feeling much better. When it came down to it, my SD card started dying. The thumb drives didn't work. Then out of the blue I put the second file on my 1Gb stick and it flashed like a champ. Then the last file flashed over the same easy way.
I'm thinking about the Deepshining Rom. I like the way it looks. I'm looking for substance, but I'm also looking for eye candy. I run Windows 7- glass, aero... Then I set up a Windows 8 machine for my wife at work. They took the glass and aero out of it. Yuck. The stock Titan Rom looks like Windows 8. Deepshining looks like it has a glass aero look to it. Vivid colors also.
Hey thanks so much for your patient, helpful tutelage for everyone in helping to get us going. I couldn't have done it without the myriad of genuinely kind people here. Thanks EVERYONE. THANKS A COOL MILLION!
I am trying to add memory to my computer.
I don't remember the last time I added memory to my motherboard. And I do not know what specifics about my system you need to know in order to give me some advice.
Here is the problem in a nut shell. After I installed my memory, I powered on my computer and it would cycle between starting up and shutting down continuously. I don't know that to think. I don't know if there are some steps I am missing. The memory is brand new. Could the memory be faulty and I need to return it? Do I need to do something with the BIOS settings?
We have success. I have it working. The memory I got works.
It is actually a shock.
There were so many difficulties that I expected more difficulties,
But the BIOS recognized the memory.
The only hick-up that worried me was that when windows started, there was a statement that it was "Restarting" with that rolling icon -- you know what I am talking about, I think, That was there for hours. I was worried about doing anything but finally I had the courage to shut the computer down and restart it. And now, here I am. I mean, the fact that I am online posting this means I am back to life again. Otherwise, I would still be on the floor strugging with an uncoporative CPU.
I have run the task manager and clicked on the performance tab to see, yes, I am running 32 GB DDR3