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Dan and others also helped me out with my first rooting and flashing adventure!

To anybody who is considering rooting and flashing, I would encourage them to not be scared or worried. We were all new to this business at one time or another, and have gone on to offer differing amounts of advice to new members who need help or guidance. That's what makes this forum a great place for all things Android related. :)
 
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To anybody who is considering rooting and flashing, I would encourage them to not be scared or worried. We were all new to this business at one time or another, and have gone on to offer differing amounts of advice to new members who need help or guidance. That's what makes this forum a great place for all things Android related. :)

Well said :)
 
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Since i have joined this fantastic forum as a noob, i have debranded, rooted, custom rom, 1gb a2sd+ partition with gparted, s-offed, flashed a new recovery, fonts, clock etc etc all with the help of you great guys. Never realised this phone was capable of so much more than the crap it arrived with from orange. A huge thanks again to you all. This root section is now top of my bookmarks list & i am even helping out some noobs myself now!
 
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Since i have joined this fantastic forum as a noob, i have debranded, rooted, custom rom, 1gb a2sd+ partition with gparted, s-offed, flashed a new recovery, fonts, clock etc etc all with the help of you great guys. Never realised this phone was capable of so much more than the crap it arrived with from orange. A huge thanks again to you all. This root section is now top of my bookmarks list & i am even helping out some noobs myself now!

thats the best thing about it, the learning is fast and logical onces youve grasped it you wonder how you found it difficult

i dont like pushing people to root however i do thing the people who dont do it are missing out on the majority of what the android os is about
 
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Is that because were not clever enough for you? Eh? Hmmm? Is it?


Threeeeee cheeeeeeers for Daneeeeeeeeeeefranceeeeeeeeeeeee :D


Generally I need dev help now :)

Although, if you're up for a challenge:

Why is this:

Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
#
/system/xbin/busybox mkdir /mnt/asec/ext
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o dirsync,noatime,nodiratime /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/asec/ext
/system/bin/e2fsck_recvy -y -v -f /mnt/asec/ext/ext2
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,sync,nosuid,nodev /mnt/asec/ext/ext2 /data 
#/system/xbin/busybox swapon /mnt/asec/ext/swap
chown 1000.1000 /data
chmod 771 /data
exit

Causing me to hang at splash if flashed as part of, or adb push after gingervillain 0.8, yet no problems on 0.7?
 
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pshhhaww... you don't know why!? That's simple!

But seriously - how do you like GV? Is it worth moving from DF 6.1a? Any new feature make it worth it (better battery usage, or other things like that?) The text selection / cut / copy thing isn't a game changer imo (especially if coming from sense)
 
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hehe. replied to this on XDA...

But anyway:

It was worth it for me as I hadn't flashed anything in a while and was getting itchy feet. However, it was the right choice. Nice aesthetic tweaks from GB etc.

Its still in its infancy so its hard to say whether its the right choice for you. I haven't even looked into Oxy to be honest. One of the reasons I love DF is the CM additions. Mainly whats missing for me is the battery % and colour status / pull down.
 
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Generally I need dev help now :)

Although, if you're up for a challenge:

Why is this:

Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
#
/system/xbin/busybox mkdir /mnt/asec/ext
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o dirsync,noatime,nodiratime /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/asec/ext
/system/bin/e2fsck_recvy -y -v -f /mnt/asec/ext/ext2
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,sync,nosuid,nodev /mnt/asec/ext/ext2 /data 
#/system/xbin/busybox swapon /mnt/asec/ext/swap
chown 1000.1000 /data
chmod 771 /data
exit

Causing me to hang at splash if flashed as part of, or adb push after gingervillain 0.8, yet no problems on 0.7?




I think you forgot to insert this somewhere :rolleyes:

[/QUOTE]

mount -o remount,rw /life
format life:
unmount /life x_x

[/QUOTE]
 
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Generally I need dev help now :)

Although, if you're up for a challenge:

Why is this:

Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
#
/system/xbin/busybox mkdir /mnt/asec/ext
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o dirsync,noatime,nodiratime /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/asec/ext
/system/bin/e2fsck_recvy -y -v -f /mnt/asec/ext/ext2
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime,sync,nosuid,nodev /mnt/asec/ext/ext2 /data 
#/system/xbin/busybox swapon /mnt/asec/ext/swap
chown 1000.1000 /data
chmod 771 /data
exit

Causing me to hang at splash if flashed as part of, or adb push after gingervillain 0.8, yet no problems on 0.7?

did he remove swap support on the kernel?
 
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