From official eclair to CM7 stable+EXT4 partitions

[Neleor]

My mother will be receiving her new Samsung Galaxy S this week, and she asked me to set it up for her.

I was planning to install CM7 stable and convert the partitions to EXT4, but I'm a bit confused on how to do this.
From what I understand, the phone will ship with Eclair.
I know there is one-click root for Eclair and Froyo, and there is Voodoo lagfix for Eclair and Froyo.

What would be the best order order in what to apply? I would prefer not to brick my mothers new phone.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

[ajazz]

My mother will be receiving her new Samsung Galaxy S this week, and she asked me to set it up for her.

I was planning to install CM7 stable and convert the partitions to EXT4, but I'm a bit confused on how to do this.
From what I understand, the phone will ship with Eclair.
I know there is one-click root for Eclair and Froyo, and there is Voodoo lagfix for Eclair and Froyo.

What would be the best order order in what to apply? I would prefer not to brick my mothers new phone.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

cm7 has bugs, i advice you to go for Darky's v9.5 Extreme Edition and speedmod-k13e-500hz i'm personally using it very stable and fast and quadrant score of 1750.

[Agash]

CM7 is very stable now.. it just have some bugs.
Like FM Radio etc. im using it every day (CM7) and i'm really happy with it!

The only one thing is, i don't know how to change everything to ext4 :S

To install CM7 go to XDA-developers they have enough tutorials

[eggbloke]

I have heard that ext4 is bad for solid state because it does a lot of reading and writing to the disk to avoid fragmentation which wears solid state drives down and solid state drives don't suffer from fragmentation anyway. I'm no expert but that's what I've heard. Maybe it would be best to stick with ext2/ext3?

[Neleor]

I have heard that ext4 is bad for solid state because it does a lot of reading and writing to the disk to avoid fragmentation which wears solid state drives down and solid state drives don't suffer from fragmentation anyway. I'm no expert but that's what I've heard. Maybe it would be best to stick with ext2/ext3?

I went with Darky's Rom v10 Final, and the only issues and fixes I found were:
- Power Widget shows no icons -> fixed by installing extended controls from market
- No SuperUser -> fixed by installing SuperUser from market
- No BusyBox -> dunno how to fix this, but it hasn't given me problems yet

As for Ext4 ruining your Solid State, RFS does it too. Also, the /data partition is not on Raw Flash like an SSD, but on an internal Memory Card(raw flash and memory cards flash are not the same).

Darky v10 final has "lag fix", which is basically /system and /data to Ext4, enabled by default.

installation was also pretty easy, though before installing I would first one-click root and use SGS-tools to backup /efs first, even though the guide doesn't tell you too.

[abbaba]

hi, in xda you can find this info on cm7 post:
All Samsung Roms are running ontop of BML/RFS, CyanogenMod 7 does NOT.
It runs on MTD/yaffs2 (like Nexus One) which means you're not able to flash any kernel or run any filesystem you want. Use it as it is.
Only data partition, which is on movinand, is ext4 like on speedmod or voodoo ("lagfix").

means that you should not change.

---------- Post added at 11:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:19 AM ----------

found more tips:
Does CM7 need a lagfix?
CM7 uses ext4 (for /data) and yaffs2 (for everything else). CM7 does not use Samsung's RFS which was the main cause of poor performance on Samsung firmwares.

So no, your system is already lagfixed, you don't need to apply a lagfix and according to the developers very bad things will happen if you try to apply one anyway.

[abbaba]

quote from xda post
All Samsung Roms are running ontop of BML/RFS, CyanogenMod 7 does NOT.
It runs on MTD/yaffs2 (like Nexus One) which means you're not able to flash any kernel or run any filesystem you want. Use it as it is.
Only data partition, which is on movinand, is ext4 like on speedmod or voodoo ("lagfix").

[aksumaiya]

I myself using CM7. Its the most stable one

[spica234]

Tom3q can we use #define _HSDPA_DPRAM
In multipdp.c for 3G probably ?
Sorry I've no hardware specific knowledge:/

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[spica234]

I mean for 3g freeze issue:/

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