Change leads to screwup

So I finally decided to update my phone to gingerbread (from CM6.1.1 to CM7.1.0). It all went beautifully at first. I was really pleased and all “wow gingerbread and CM7 are awesome!”

Just now in the car on the way to dinner there were signs that something might be going wrong (the lockscreen animations were uncharacteristically laggy), but well, what was I supposed to do lol. Stuck the n1 in my pocket, had dinner, then took it out again and realised, oh shit, it’s really hot and not responding. BATTERY PULL.

After that the phone rebooted into one of those states where 3/4 of the apps on microsd are missing, and I was like fuck, microsd corruption again? But at least that would be an easy problem to fix. Came home, ran chkdsk /f on the card, “no errors found”. And no, this was not cause for celebration, because all it meant was I now had absolutely no idea what was wrong.

Next I tried to use the short interval between the lockscreen first appearing and the phone locking up to uninstall some of the new stuff I installed in my “yay I now have 100mb more space!” spree earlier today. No luck. Shit! Ok, remove sdcard, boot… gosh, it works. Put in different sdcard… gosh, it works. Copy .android_secure onto new sdcard… fuck, it doesn’t work anymore.

… I guess at least now I sort of know where the problem is. But whyyyyyy. I really hate reinstalling stuff one by one without the aid of titanium backup (and really, the automated market restore doesn’t match up lol). Also imagine if I do that and then everything’s fine for another day but then suddenly everything stops working again. I think I really will defenestrate myself then.
And there’s the little matter of I don’t actually know *why* my titanium backed up stuff shouldn’t be working… CM7.1 bug? My own problem? Wut?

My current plan is to slap on s2e first tomorrow after a reflash, then a titanium restore onto that. ext apps2sd always seemed less problematic than froyo-style apps2sd; let’s hope that it holds true in this case too. Seems like an extremely dirty way to “fix” things, and possibly might just postpone the trouble to the next time I restore the same apks onto a setup using froyo apps2sd, but since I am lazy ttm and cannot understand the concept of delayed gratification…
And if that doesn’t work I will have to do the dreaded individual installs and THERE IS NO GOD (that’s true regardless of the result but I am leaving that line there for melodramatic effect!). And if that still doesn’t work, well, it’s pretty nice to have your birthday and deathday coincide, is it not? :P

The best part of this mess is that if I weren’t so lazy I would probably have a nandroid of CM7.1.0-RC1 to restore myself to. Ah well. Now I will be stuck using a phone with a blank sdcard, over 9000 missing icons, and probably twicca and shownearby slapped on tomorrow lol.

Omfg I’ve just wasted so much supposed study time typing this. ARRGH.

Oh and sorry to anyone I might have been unpleasant to while trying to fix this I suppose. Although if you see this, holy shit, wut r u doin? Go away