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[Viralblack]

http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=749495

Absolutely no joke, benchmarks and speed difference is substantial. If you love the phone now, imagine it even faster.

PS - Props to GenericAsian, After rooting, changing bootscreens, swapping Loaders, have to say thanks

[Krylon360]

the one that RZA posted works great, however, do not use the apk that rhcp posted. Not sure what he did, but that crap borked my phone and had to use ODIN to get it functional again.
To prove it was his apk, I removed the lagfix from Ryan, then installed the lagfix apk from rhcp. once it ran, tried running quad, it errored out when testing the GPU. rebooted, no TMo screen, no GS screen, phone went black, and had just the button backlights.

[milehighpilot]

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!! like wow... im totally amazed... i just did RZA... lol soo easy. and my quandrant score is now 2130!!!!! second run 2023!!!

dude the i/o is ridiculous. it used to be like so slow.. its incredible.. i hope it stays steady...


im going to scour the post to see what i need to stay away from but so far so good.

[theitguy]

Sweet flying spaghetti monster!

I just hope in future custom roms EXT2 can be implemented on the internal storage opposed to the RFS crap that made it so slow.

[Viralblack]

Updated, now BETA 2-3 http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=751864

[Ben Pike]

I used the update.zip method. Applied it via ClockworkMod - rebooted. ZOMGSPEEEED!

My quadrant score went from 888 to 2156...

[martindcj]

I tried to flash the file: BETA 2-3.zip RyanZAEXT2LagFix by clockworkmod but is Stuck on the intalling update...... for over 10 minutes and counting ........What I should do remove the battery?

[martindcj]

martindcj, on 14 August 2010 - 05:59 AM, said:

I tried to flash the file: BETA 2-3.zip RyanZAEXT2LagFix by clockworkmod but is Stuck on the intalling update...... for over 10 minutes and counting ........What I should do remove the battery?

I'm doing a restoar nandroid...

[Oskiee]

Just installed this and ran quadrant before doing it. 856 pre fix, 2279 post fix.

martin, go to http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=751864 - Follow, read, abide to, the instructions. It took a while, but it worked.

[Viralblack]

And its all about preferences, I generally prefer an ADB push to a flash when able, but to each their own. The ADB Batch file is quick and painless

[handicapped]

I initially used the update.zip and found that when I rebooted I found none of the mentioned apps in the app drawer. So I nandroid restored. Then I found the apk version and for some reason I am constantly getting an error that says something to the effect of "error on update extract, is your sdcard working?"

Any idea?

[Viralblack]

handicapped, on 14 August 2010 - 12:30 PM, said:

I initially used the update.zip and found that when I rebooted I found none of the mentioned apps in the app drawer. So I nandroid restored. Then I found the apk version and for some reason I am constantly getting an error that says something to the effect of "error on update extract, is your sdcard working?"

Any idea?

hmm, I didnt know there was an apk version of it. Also cant upgrade from one fix to another, have to unfix the first version then apply the second. Im thinking restore Nand and try the version that uses the USB connection from your PC?

[handicapped]

I don't think it took when I did it the first time. So I just did the USB/BAT method and worked like a charm!

I'm not to sure what all this benchmark talk is. But I can say the phone runs hella fast!!

ViralBlack thanks for the response!

Edited by handicapped, 14 August 2010 - 02:10 PM.

[Viralblack]

handicapped, on 14 August 2010 - 02:09 PM, said:

I don't think it took when I did it the first time. So I just did the USB/BAT method and worked like a charm!

I'm not to sure what all this benchmark talk is. But I can say the phone runs hella fast!!

ViralBlack thanks for the response!

Quadrant is an awesome app that gives you a breakdown of your speed vs stock other speeds, etc

Sorry for the delay in response, apparently we cant just paste in QR codes lol, heres one I had to convert it.


Side note, holyshititshugewtfman. Im not converting it again, but wtfhuge QR Code can be scanned from the moon.

[duanev]

Not to rain too hard on the parade, but there is a caveat.  

I know most of you are aware but for those not: caching filesystems keep disk data around in memory so the disk doesn't have to be read (or even written) to let the application continue - it all gets queued and written to the disk when the disk has time. Unix, ie. pre Linux users (and Linux users) have always had caching filesystems and know (or have 'learned') that their filesystems are more fragile and that they need to 'sync' or unmount filesystems before powering off. Vfat (Windows' non-caching filesystem) users power off their machines immediately with fewer consequences because vfat doesn't cache disk writes. When a phone is using all vfat filesystems, the phone is fairly resilient to filesystem corruption. Ext2, ext3, and ext4 all are more fragile (with ext2 being the worst as it has no change journaling that can often patch things up if the system went down hard).

There are a couple more questions we have to answer before drawing conclusions: does selecting "power off" from the menu-hold button menu on a galaxy S tell the kernel power is going down, or does it just "disconnect the battery"? If the former then the kernel has a chance to flush filesystem buffers, and then if the kernel can also tell the hardware when to power down then this fix has a chance of being completely safe.

But I'm guessing neither of the two above signals actually happen; I'll bet voltage to the hardware is simply interrupted (because this way Samsung can guarantee a power off no matter what the software is doing). In which case it is likely that none of these speedup fixes are safe from random filesystem corruption on phone power off and people are probably already seeing this corruption (see other forums).

Can we get the above two questions answered? If the answers to them are yes, then we need to check if the kernel (in this case stock Eclair on galaxy s) is umounting/syncing the ext filesystems on a power down signal.  Last it would be nice to know if the ext3/4 filesystems do proper journaling on android.

[Viralblack]

If it werent a killsig the filesystem would instant shutoff, not think about shutting down beforehand.

Appreciate the insight into the file system but beyond the technical, ive run each of these since day one and havent had a single problem other then being so fast it hurts.

I may someday run into something, but I do a nightly Nandroid and store them PC side, Additionally if the world ended and my phone crapped itself through the USB port ODIN is a click away for the reinstall.

Try it, numbers are real and safety (seemingly) hasnt been compromised as I havent had a single issue yet.

[Viralblack]

theres about 12 different versions of the "IO Lag Fix" wandering the interwebs, its pretty much the standard entry. Root, Remove Bloatware, LagFix, profit.

Of those RZA's has the most running support and the most stable ADB based configure and clean uninstall.

[MattSEG]

I'm still a little scared of it to run it.  Heard too high a touble/awesome ratio, and between eating a gig of app storage, and the map issues, and file system pitfalls I'm waiting.  Interesting idea, just don't think it's there yet.

[Milind]

Viralblack, on 14 August 2010 - 07:25 PM, said:

I may someday run into something, but I do a nightly Nandroid and store them PC side, Additionally if the

Have rooted my Vibrant, but haven't yet applied any custom ROM.  Not seen any need to yet.  But I would like to get some Nandroid backups.  How are you making them?  Using Clockwork recovery?  Never liked it much on the G1.  Loved Amon RA's recovery.  But if that's the only way to get the Nandroid backups, I guess I don't have a choice at the moment.

[Viralblack]

Milind, on 14 August 2010 - 11:13 PM, said:

Have rooted my Vibrant, but haven't yet applied any custom ROM.  Not seen any need to yet.  But I would like to get some Nandroid backups.  How are you making them?  Using Clockwork recovery?  Never liked it much on the G1.  Loved Amon RA's recovery.  But if that's the only way to get the Nandroid backups, I guess I don't have a choice at the moment.

When you reboot into Recovery youll have the option just like you did in AmRa. Use ADB to get in or Vol+ Vol- and Power, let go of Power once the vibrant text boot screen comes up.

ADB code is "adb reboot recovery" or reboot into recovery option from Clockwork Mod

Beware, it will take a billion years longer compared to older roms, so expect it to take a long while.