Comments on: Android emancipation

By: Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:56:43 +0000

I meant literally, I copied the directory tree at /data. I don’t recall exactly how I did it; perhaps by copying it to the SD card?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:54:51 +0000

Matt, what do you mean when you say “I copied off the /data directory from the phone”? I used `fastboot erase userdata` but I still get the rebooting error. Can you tell me exactly what commands you used to “wipe” your settings?

Thanks!

By: Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:49:29 +0000

Which cases do you mean? The crash?

By: Bernd Zeimetz

Bernd Zeimetz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:46:59 +0000

Running fix_permissions should help in those cases, either from the recovery console, or in safe mode (never tried that, though, supposed to start when pressing ‘menu’while powering on)

By: Ted Kotz

Ted Kotz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:07:20 +0000

I just rooted/updated my G1 this weekend as well. Recovery Flasher is an excellent app. It makes the rooting procedure so much easier. I really like the Cyanogen image. that first boot concerned me a lot. after waiting 5 minutes I just put the phone down and browsed the web for a while. when I came back later it was done. I followed it up with an install of bash, the Debian on Android image, and running LXDE over VNC. The Debian install is really just a chrooted Debian environment running under Android so all the Android functionality remains. I found the best terminal emulator is ConnectBot which is an SSH client that supports local connections, but it really handles console use well including some nice keyboard remappings. I’m currently working on getting nano to look better on the screen and create some scripts to reduce manual setup.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:54:55 +0000

I’ve been through a ton of issues, though most recently the way I made my phone go from horribly slow and crashy to nifty fast is by deleting all the apps (there weren’t many) that run in background. Twitdroid was one of them– I’ve found my G1 runs crazy slow unless I have a good amount of memory free for cache, and memory on the device is quite limited. Also ddms is awesome for finding out what is eating up ram.

By: r

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:04:33 +0000

The cyanogen images sound interesting but don’t seem to come with any source code and apparently include vendor/operator specific proprietary applications.

What I’d love to see is a device and operator agnostic Android distribution that comes with complete source code. Are you aware of any such efforts?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:13:49 +0000

I did the same today and everything went very well. Don’t forget to add an ext2 partition to your sd card. There are great tools to help you do it and this build will automatically use the sd for app storage after, leading to more space and a faster system.

By: dsh

dsh — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:28:50 +0000

Perhaps you were experiencing this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3453#c24

By: jcastro

jcastro — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:44:21 +0000

Wow what a coincidence, I just did this as well. I found an app called cm-updater that will act as an update manager to cyanogen builds, very handy. I followed these instructions. Mine feels snappier, but I made a note to reflash it to the stock ROM first then the cyanogen one so I could refresh my brain on the speed difference. However I have noticed that some apps tend to crash more often (notably Google Voice) but I haven't spent enough time to really determine if it's more stable than the stock ROM just yet. Cyanogen is on twitter (@cyanogen) and seems very responsive to bug reports from what I can see in the bug tracker and fixes the little annoying things, so I'll likely keep the ROM but not run the development version.