***HTC Magic Thread***

[ChrisD.]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15764931&postcount=3203 ?

 

[tonyyeb]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15764931&postcount=3203 ?

Yes and partition your sd card also explained a little earlier in this thread (last page or two).

 

[ChrisD.]

Cheers. I can't get my terminal emulation thing to type numbers. :S

 

[iraiguana]

Woo, just did the above and seems to work well. Just waiting to see if bugs may appear

 

[ChrisD.]

Woo, just did the above and seems to work well. Just waiting to see if bugs may appear

Meh, I still can't get the numbers to work.

 

[iraiguana]

Either use ADB or better terminal emulator etc. for access to numbers.

 

[tonyyeb]

Or install hero keyboard.... remember to partition first.

 

[ChrisD.]

Sorry, a bit lost here. By doing what I am doing, am I not partitioning it?

 

[tonyyeb]

Partition first (instructions further back in thread) then use terminal to turn on swap.

 

[ChrisD.]

Bit confused as to what I should do. Will look a bit later when my head is a bit clearer.

 

[V_R]

Didn't i say install the Hero KB about two pages ago?

Or grab the free version of BTE.

 

[tonyyeb]

Bit confused as to what I should do. Will look a bit later when my head is a bit clearer.

Partition first:

First off, if you haven't already, flash Amon Ra's recovery onto your phone. Boot up into the recovery and use the partition menu to partition the sdcard.

On my 8gb card I went for a 96mb Swap partition, 512mb ext4 partition and the rest as fat32 for general storage.

Convert the freshly formatted ext2 to ext4. It's all explianed in this thread by Amon Ra.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492&highlight=amon+ra

Have a read through that and look at the images he's posted. It's all simple.

Then enable swap:

1) downloaded the userinit.zip from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4817223&postcount=2851 as ElliorR said

2)extract it to the root of your SD

open up terminal
su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp /sdcard/userinit.sh /system/sd
cp /sdcard/user.conf /system/sd
chmod 755 /system/sd/user.conf
chmod 755 /system/sd/userinit.sh
reboot

3) check "free" in terminal again

4) win

 

[ChrisD.]

I can't create the initial backup, flashrec just fails instantly

 

[ChrisD.]

Removed.

 

[tonyyeb]

Whats the error? I think someone else in this thread has had similar problems (need the older version of flashrec maybe?)

 

[ChrisD.]

As soon as I press backup, it says: Backup failed. Could not run command.

 

[ChrisD.]

Tried all versions and same error.

 

[tonyyeb]

Sorry, i've never had that issue. I looked back through the thread but couldn't find it.

 

[ChrisD.]

Is it essential to do the backup bit? I'm not fussed if I lose any data from the phone.

 

[ChrisD.]

OK I got it to the partition part. What difference does the ext2 size etc make? All I have is the standard 2GB card, I chose 96 MB as my swap size.