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Status
Purpose
Audience
Instructions
Download
ROM list to use with the app
STATUS:
UPDATE:
I'm abandoning this project for the time being. I would like to have this integrated into the installer as a separate option and not rely on an app to handle this. If anyone wants to pick it up or extend things further, I'm definitely open to it. I just don't see a need for this at this time.
However, the source is still on GC and should help aspiring app makers get an idea for a basic UI and some interesting features.
Beta is out. It's working and ready to install on Cupcake and Donut.
If you are using it to create Hero, make sure you're running it. If you want Donut.. make sure you're running that, etc. It uses the currently running ROM for apps so it must match the new one or you might have issues with it. Requires root access. No way around that.
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Purpose:
Due to issues regarding distribution of closed sources for ports of Android, this will handle backing up your licensed proprietary sources, an update you want to try and will put the sources into a final image and eventually partition if desired. You then rename NEW_system.ext2 to system.ext2 on your SD card's root folder and reboot.
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Instructions
There will be a single app released soon!
1.) Install the APK
2.) Create a folder "update" on the SD card
3.) Place the update.sh file in /sdcard/update/
4.) Place a system.sqsh in the same folder.
5.) Run the app on the phone, click "Begin!" and let it do its thing.
6.) Take the "NEW_system.ext2" file on the SD card, rename it to "system.ext2" and remove or rename any existing system files.
7.) Reboot and enjoy
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Download it here:
Google Code Page
Installable APK v1.0 BETA
Currently requires update.sh
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This is an open project to be developed with others to bring a simple, shared interface that is compatible for any device running Android but of course with our phones in mind.
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I wish I knew anything about development then I'd help, this is a good idea though. I'll try and support it in some way.
TheKartus said:
I wish I knew anything about development then I'd help, this is a good idea though. I'll try and support it in some way.
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if you can't develop, I'd love feedback, bugs, ideas. I will eventually spin this into an open Market and later a Maps app. There's been talk about replacing these apps but nothing actually done. I was up all night with the Internet in one hand and Eclipse in the other and got this far for never having made anything like this.
This is a fantastic. I will support it fully. I am currently using a 1.5 build but I don't call which one it is because I've gone through so many versions and different roots, images and edits to my default.txt. It's a MUTT, I guess.
I am a Kaiser/Tilt user and was going to leave ATT until I decided to look into Android builds you and others offer.
Thanks a ton.
im getting fc/waits with the beta... by the way how long should the process take to backup. thanks nate
Running Cupcake or Donut? Is that once it starts running? It does not like to have a command run this long so it might just be that. Hasn't happened once for me running my Dark Donut though.
The backup is about 5 minutes or so mostly for dd'ing an ext2 image and then copying the apps. Once I hard code the script in I can make it show the progress. Also, each step will be a separate command so it shouldn't FC/wait on you. You can watch the progress by running:
Code:
tail -f /sdcard/update/update.log
which is what the app will do when I can get the update.sh verified by others that it's working correctly
And it is working for you right?
enatefox said:
Running Cupcake or Donut? Is that once it starts running? It does not like to have a command run this long so it might just be that. Hasn't happened once for me running my Dark Donut though.
The backup is about 5 minutes or so mostly for dd'ing an ext2 image and then copying the apps. Once I hard code the script in I can make it show the progress. Also, each step will be a separate command so it shouldn't FC/wait on you. You can watch the progress by running:
Code:
tail -f /sdcard/update/update.log
which is what the app will do when I can get the update.sh verified by others that it's working correctly
And it is working for you right?
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it worked, i kept hitting wait and it didnt tell me when it was finished(the ui just froze idk). it gets the job done thanks man!
update.log
Code:
Backing up apps...
Mounting sqsh image...
Creating new system image
Transfering update sqsh to ext2...
edit i was running jeterblur but i was using the ion09/09/09.sqsh
It should say it finished. The log looks like it didn't finish. I'll try testing the script in the app itself and that should alleviate the strain on the system. It taps like 30-40% of CPU while it's running so if you have a bunch of processes it could be interfering. At least you're saying it's working too
I must be doing something wrong.
1. I put the dark donut clean build in my /storage card/updae folder along with the update.sh;
2. Ran android with an old Ion build (brand new data.img file)
3. Installed and ran stay safe
I had to press wait 5 times, and after 5 minutes it finished.4. Before I reset the phone I moved the NEWsystem file into a new folder off the sdcard root
5. Then restarted the phone
6. In W.M. moved the ion data and system files to another folder
7. Renamed the NEWsystem (200mb) file to system
8. Put on root and ran harnet.
It booted, created a data file and is running great.
The issue is, no added apps. It is exactly the same as the clean version.
Any ideas?
If you're making a Donut image, you should be running Donut on the phone to keep the versions correct. I'm going to make an update probably tomorrow that will have better error handling. It does do a cleanup at the end. If you edit update.sh (which is all the app runs) to remove these lines it will keep the apps it backs up:
rm -r "$app_base"
rm -r "$app_mountbase"
rm -r "$app_updatefolder/cmd"
rm -r "$app_ext2mount"
rm -r "$app_sqshmount"
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It finds the apps through a grep pattern. On the full ROM, run this in ADB/terminal and see if it matches the apps:
ls /system/app/ | egrep -i 'vending|office|maps|street|gmail|market|youtube|setupwizard
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enatefox said:
If you're making a Donut image, you should be running Donut on the phone to keep the versions correct. I'm going to make an update probably tomorrow that will have better error handling. It does do a cleanup at the end. If you edit update.sh (which is all the app runs) to remove these lines it will keep the apps it backs up:
It finds the apps through a grep pattern. On the full ROM, run this in ADB/terminal and see if it matches the apps:
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I just tried it with the tmo donut build and your clean dark donut build; same result. So I removed the lines from the update.sh file and now the phone freezes. I let it sit for 30 mins, the rebooted the phone. It did grab the obdx? and apk files, but when I tried to manually install them, (after allowing non market apps) I get a "Program Name couold not be installed on this phone"
slight edit; I re-edited the file, now i does not freeze, but it still does not load the apps and the pulled apps will not install
I'm abandoning this project at this point. I'd like to have this integrated into the rootfs.img as an option at install time. If someone wants to pick it up or wants to take this further, I'm open to that. The source should help people out who would like to make an app though.
Related
This version is outdated, please get the latest version here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830
Hi,
In light of the fastboot flash method I was thinking of a way to be able to keep my current setup as a backup while i experiment with other images. For that I wrote a script that uses adb to dump the data for the boot, recovery, system and data partitions.
When this script is ran, it will dump these images in your current dir.
Boot into recovery mode (home+power) to use.
Requires RC30 v1.2 recovery.img - due to a bug the RC8 v1.2 there is no adb shell. (this script needs adb shell as root + busybox in recovery mode to work).
PLEASE NOTE: I haven't actually flashed the dumps back yet, I will be trying that tomorrow. Brave souls willing to test that do so at their own risk!
Bug reports or own improvements welcome.
infernix, how do i go about running this script from mac terminal?
Pretty interesting stuff.Two questions for you:
1. Where is the restore script...
2. Did you try restoring the created backup?
Thanks,
devsk
korndub said:
infernix, how do i go about running this script from mac terminal?
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On MacOS 10.5 I had to compile md5sum from http://www.microbrew.org/tools/md5sha1sum/ and then modify the script to replace the call for md5sum --check --status with md5sum --check - --status (note the additional - to specify stdin). After that everything seemed to work properly. Haven't tried flashing it back, however.
nand?
what is nand?
i'm thinking this must be huge because its getting a lot of attention from the big dogs such as JF. from reading, is it like the master software so you can completely wipe the phone then in a sense put everything back on or is that too drastic of a guess?
just curious...
hbguy
http://tinyurl.com/6cb6k8
but in all seriousness NAND is just the flash memory upon which all the system software is installed. This script lets you take a full backup copy of all the various partitions and then, in theory, restore them.
very cool
This is a big advancement wish I had this when I pooched my market app trying to move the cache, I got it to d/l 1 app using the sd as my cache but nuthin but force close on a few dozen attempts, I dunno what I did but I couldn't get the onboard caches to work so I had to hard reset and d/l 33 apps from the market before I went to bed and I'm still fixing sh1t, this would have made my restore much easier, was suprised when I got it that there was no type of backup other than syncing with goog.
I can't wait to see who has the biggest balls and will try to flash one back.
Thanks, I bet the OTA RC30s will be rerooted pretty soon at thus rate.
This is a great contribution.
(Hey google, why not get some of these xda guys on the payroll, this is where all the news about the G1 gets made, I don't think I have seen any G1 hack yet that didn't have its roots right here at xda-dev)
Bhang
Stupid part is I'm so egocentric I think somebody at google/android is gonna read it...duh
OK, here is the latest. This thread topic has changed a lot since I started it so I deleted it all and am cleaning it up.
A few weeks ago I wrote a .sh script that would check a file to find if there was a new version of the JF roms available. Updating is a pain and I wanted to make it easier. Not knowing Java I decided to write a .sh script which worked but was not very easy to use itself. To make it easier I asked for help here in making a frontend Android app to go with it. Since then, [RiS] has written a nice client that not only does what my script did, but does it without needing my script. The whole process is taken care of within the application. This makes it easier to use, faster and able to do a lot more than my script ever. The app is still in beta at this time but is coming along nicely.
The app name is JFupdater and currently it read a text file on my server (http://android-dls.com/up.txt). The info in that file tells the app if there is a new JF Rom available. I update this file whenever JesusFreke releases a new rom. There are fields for US G1, UK G1 and ADP1 which allows roms for all 3 to be tracked and updated. The version, description, md5sum and a list of mirrors to download. The application checks your phone type (or the phone type you select in the settings) and then checks this file to see if a newer version is available. IF there is it will let you know which are ready for download and give you a download button. Once downloaded the file can be applied by rebooting into recovery.
I believe he is working on making the reboot to recovery/apply update more automates so that after download you would be asked if you want to apply it now, and by choosing yes it would reboot and auto install the update like an official OTA would do.
There is currently a service set that allows you to set it to look for an update ever 1 hour, 24 hours or on boot.
The url where this project is located is: jfupdater.googlecode.com
I'm not sure how to run shell commands through an app. If anyone knows how I can definitely write the service to do this.
I know its possible because someone in #android wrote one. Also another thing that might need to be done would be to copy this file to /cache and chmod it (if its on sdcard it cannot be executed). I will try to ask around how to run a shell command for you.
ok, not sure if this helps, but this is from the source of Koush's superuser whitelist (thanks for making that available for us):
String command = String.format("echo \"mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system\" | %s\nexit\n", suCommand);
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("sh");
OutputStream writer = p.getOutputStream();
writer.write(command.getBytes("ASCII"));
Thread.sleep(500);
and
if (superuser.exists())
{
// return device to original state
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("superuser");
DataOutputStream os = new DataOutputStream(process.getOutputStream());
os.writeBytes("busybox cp /system/bin/superuser /system/bin/su\n");
os.writeBytes("busybox chown 0:0 /system/bin/su\n");
os.writeBytes("chmod 4755 /system/bin/su\n");
os.writeBytes("rm /system/bin/superuser\n");
os.writeBytes("exit\n");
os.flush();
}
Hopefully the info you need is in this (i dont know java, but that looks like the code to me)
What about "running" the script code directly in the service? I mean, translate the script into java code.
This would remove the need of executing a shell script, and you wouldn't rely on system tools (that may change or crash in future updates / new devices).
Moreovew, it would also allow to add more options (Like check for updates, and when an update is found, ask the user if they want to download it or not. This could be useful if he is on a slow connetion, or it has not an unlimited data plan...)
I can start/work with LPChris on this.
I was just looking at your update.sh script.
Just to clean it up a little, you can use a split function.
myString = jlatest.split("|")
That would split the text at everyone and give you
myString(0) = "version"
mystring(1) = "md5sum"
mystring(2) = "mirror1"
mystring(3) = "mirror2"
etc...
So yeah. I'm glad that you're doing this though.
I'm not any good at java so I can't help sadly enough.
I should start learning though.
I'm also interested in an app the can run scripts (which I can make shortcuts for..)
I'm not an java developer, however I've started writing something that could do that using a code similar to the above.
any other developers that can assist ?
ido said:
I'm also interested in an app the can run scripts (which I can make shortcuts for..)
I'm not an java developer, however I've started writing something that could do that using a code similar to the above.
any other developers that can assist ?
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I'm actually building out the service now, I'll work on it more after I get home from work tonight. If you're good with building services too, by all means have a crack at it.
this will be awesome. can you make it for uk versions too please
I have started working on this, hopefully will have a working version by tommorow.
Also, we have some bandwidth available at modmygphone.com which we can use for the mirror.
As I said I am a n00b when it comes to .sh scripts, and this is probably my third. If you have a way to make it work better, by all means let me know. As for making a java app that does all of this, if you can do it, great! I do not really care about the script other than the fact that I couldnt do this any other way and didn't want to be begging for a developers help unless I had already done what I could myself.
I have been working on a similar concept myself. I even got the /cache/recovery/command stuff working. Just write the following commands to that file:
Code:
boot-recovery
--update_package=partition:file
Then you can run 'reboot recovery' from the terminal and the phone will automatically reboot into recovery mode and apply the update. It won't go back into user mode on its own though (you have to hold home+back to do so).
I would much prefer this to be a GUI based utility, instead of a shell script that just runs in the background. We could apply ROM updates, themes etc right on the phone by simply giving a URL to the location of the file and have the phone do the rest
Datruesurfer said:
Then you can run 'reboot recovery'
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Thanks for this, we were looking into how to do this. How did you find that out? I guess the android app that does all this can now force the reboot also
Datruesurfer said:
I have been working on a similar concept myself. I even got the /cache/recovery/command stuff working. Just write the following commands to that file:
Code:
boot-recovery
--update_package=partition:file
Then you can run 'reboot recovery' from the terminal and the phone will automatically reboot into recovery mode and apply the update. It won't go back into user mode on its own though (you have to hold home+back to do so).
I would much prefer this to be a GUI based utility, instead of a shell script that just runs in the background. We could apply ROM updates, themes etc right on the phone by simply giving a URL to the location of the file and have the phone do the rest
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That's too easy! good find
Any word on the progress?
Darkrift said:
Any word on the progress?
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LPChris and myself have started a project on google code, we expect to have some working code soon.
Anyone who wants to contribute with ideas, testing, etc.. is welcome!
For some reason my Subclipse isn't playing nice with the Google Code repository right now so I haven't been able to get any of my code up there yet, but hopefully we'll have something going fairly soon. I'm going to rewrite as much of it as I can in Java so that the user can be notified and authorize the download in two separate steps.
[RiS] said:
LPChris and myself have started a project on google code, we expect to have some working code soon.
Anyone who wants to contribute with ideas, testing, etc.. is welcome!
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Any details for this?
[RiS] said:
LPChris and myself have started a project on google code, we expect to have some working code soon.
Anyone who wants to contribute with ideas, testing, etc.. is welcome!
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I had actually registered a domain with this type of thing in mind in the past. androidupdatetracker.com. I would be happy to donate it to the cause
Darkrift said:
Any details for this?
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So far we have an empty Google Code project going. Like I said before, I haven't been able to connect my environment to the google code cvs. I'm hoping to be able to spend some time on it tonight if I can. If anyone else wants to help out here that has some free time then I'm open to it. I've just been busy with work and my GasBot application.
First let me say that tho' I may not post here frequently, but I am an avid fan and supporter of this community. Much praise to all those who have so diligently worked on the custom roms, such as JF, Haykuro, TheDude, etc., and to their continuing cooperation and advancement.
However I come with an issue, that I have looked for a solution but have not been able to find one. And while I do dual boot with Jaunty, I am in no way a guru to have time to understand Android's systems. I do hope this would be fixed just for a more 'official' method of updating instead of aTrackDog.
After running nandroid for safety, wiping and flashing a new 1.5 ROM (Dude's .8, .92, .93, Haykruo's ADP1.5H [No JF yet, tomorrow]), then restoring apps and links through either manual method (I just adb the entire process for convenience) or through the apps2sd app (also for convenience). The official Market app does sync in some way with what is installed on the phone, until you go into the market, at which point it asks you if you want to install it to replace the version you have.
I am curious if there is a way to backup your Market application settings before wiping (I prefer to wipe, even if they are 'nowipe' builds, as I go from different developer's builds frequently too) so after redo the app2sd on your new install, you won't have to run aTrackDog to get your updates. Not going through and installing every single application is a plus too, why have more apps if we can just backup and transfer settings somehow?
As I previously mentioned, I don't know the Android system, or specifically the Market and Application systems, so I don't know if this could be done. Also, if I am the only one experiencing this, I would like to know how I am doing this improperly.
Update: Thanks goes to beagz for supplying the information and giving credit to haitiankid4lyf (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3655174&postcount=44)
It's not just you, that's how it works. But I don't see a problem running atrackdog.
I guess there is a file that you can transfer and it will make market remember your apps. Though I might be wrong. If it was that easy, someone would have figured it out by now.
Somebody discovered and posted this. I tried and it works.
mkdir /sdcard/market
cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard/market/assets.db
To restore use
rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
cp /sdcard/market/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
beagz said:
Somebody discovered and posted this. I tried and it works.
mkdir /sdcard/market
cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard/market/assets.db
To restore use
rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
cp /sdcard/market/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
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Cool! It is an easy solution after all.
Thank you for sharing.
Cool, so just run the first two lines in the termainl and it will fix the issues?
Minker17 said:
Cool, so just run the first two lines in the termainl and it will fix the issues?
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If you have not made backup prior to flashing a new ROM, this method will not help.
The first 2 are run before a wipe. After run market so that it is set then run the restore commands , reboot and you are set.
Just to clarify. This assumes you are starting from a stable running OS and are preparing to upgrade. All your apps must already be installed.
1) Run these commands to backup your market settings.
mkdir /sdcard/market
cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard/market/assets.db
2) Install and wipe to update to the new build you want to use. (you don't need to do any of this if you are not wiping)
3) Complete the setup of your phone.
4) Start the market and agree to terms and conditions.
5) Run the second set of commands to restore your market settings.
rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
cp /sdcard/market/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
6) Reboot and restart the market. All your apps should now be listed under downloads and should update as usual.
7) Kick back and smile since you do not have to redownload and install your apps again
beagz said:
The first 2 are run before a wipe. After run market so that it is set then run the restore commands , reboot and you are set.
Just to clarify. This assumes you are starting from a stable running OS and are preparing to upgrade. All your apps must already be installed.
1) Run these commands to backup your market settings.
mkdir /sdcard/market
cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard/market/assets.db
2) Install and wipe to update to the new build you want to use. (you don't need to do any of this if you are not wiping)
3) Complete the setup of your phone.
4) Start the market and agree to terms and conditions.
5) Run the second set of commands to restore your market settings.
rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
cp /sdcard/market/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
6) Reboot and restart the market. All your apps should now be listed under downloads and should update as usual.
7) Kick back and smile since you do not have to redownload and install your apps again
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Also worth noting: this wont work if you go from rc33 to cupcake. I tried it and after restoring the database, market force closes on launch. Fortunately I made a backup of the new assets.db before I restored the old one.
@Azlum: Good to know. Never tried it before I was using the cupcake builds.
Wow this is so awesome, thamk you very much, this is exactly what I have been looking for. This makes apps2sd absolutely perfect for me now. I think I am going to add this to the wiki if at all possible. Thank you so much again.
I didn't wipe from JF RC33 to JF 1.5, had my apps to SD, and the market showed me having about half of my apps installed. Don't know why, but that's what it did.
well, my lazy ass didnt backup, so ill continue to use atrackdog. works for me
Just to let everyone know. I was very glad to help. However, it should be noted that as I stated I found this script posted by someone else. I feel that it is proper to credit
"haitiankid4lyf"
for posting this in the Gscript thread post # 44.
Thank you haitiankid4lyf! for posting this script so that we could use it to make recoveries easier!
beagz said:
Somebody discovered and posted this. I tried and it works.
mkdir /sdcard/market
cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard/market/assets.db
To restore use
rm /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
cp /sdcard/market/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
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HOLY CRAP. That saved my life. This post should be stickied.
I believe that during the initial app2sd development, people experimented with moving the entire /data/data directory, which was unstable and is now not recommended (I never did it as I didn't want that many I/O operations wearing down the life of my card, tho' it is class 6) and I believe we wouldn't need to do this if we were to have /data/data ported.
I would also like to reference this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3729952 that details the backing up (and restoration) of specific application settings as this I believe would be useful for some (as it is for me). Integration of this into something like aTrackDog would be absolutely amazing, the reason why I say aTrackDog is since it already tracks applications and wouldn't just be copying the whole directory including system components (as the point of this is having things similar AFTER doing a wipe).
Anyway, just my two cents.
Wait...will this work if I backup with nandroid before I upgraded to 1.5?
What I did was setup a gscript to backup all the data to the sdcard.
cp -f -r /data/data/* /sdcard/backups/---mylocation--
You could reverse / restore by doing it in reverse and then chmoding as you said.
I will be accepting donations if you like my work. After contacting HTC, they informed me that my device is not under warranty, as a technician determined it to be "user related" damage and that all repairs will be at owner expense.
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If you follow my twitter, you know I bricked my G1. I am trying to get it repaired, but due to the long response time I had to buy a mytouch (no point having two G1s IF the other one gets repaired). Using this bad luck to my advantage, I scripted a way for hero to run on both with two simple commands.
How I rooted a brand new "perfected SPL" MT3G and installed Hero in 15 min:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=154
Link to original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4365404#post4365404
Updated, but still feeling slow? Back up. Try rm system/sd/app_s then reboot to recovery and wipe data. then install fresh. Before restoring your data, open the backup folder on your sd card and remove the subfolders for programs you no longer have or need to have backed up.
I noticed a 10% increase in speed and my phone was far from lagging to begin with.
Losing messages? Make sure that system/sd/app/com.android.mms.apk does NOT exist, as this was an old release. Go into settings for messaging (from the conversation list panel) and set priority to "High"
Most Recent:
G1 / MT3G: http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/ZeroXd-6.0.zip
Now includes dynamic swap. Rewrote the method of apps to sd for myTouch.
Build will move system apps, user apps, and dalvik to sd on a g1 device.
Build will ONLY move user apps to the sd when using a myTouch.
This will allow the system apps and dalvik to remain on internal device.
This is a completely new method of doing a merge build so bear with me.
I am going to be rewriting things for users without a lot of user apps, like myself.
This will allow the entire build to be placed onto internal for mytouch users.
Once you have updated and are ready to use the phone, execute Terminal and enter the following commands:
su
magic
This configures the system to the specific device. This is until I finish automation.
LEDs have been restored to 93%
Bluetooth restored in MT3G
Porting my own boots for MT3G
Based on the System Image from Haykuro
Using the Kernel and Boot.img from JAC
Extensive system script edits were done
SwitchROM installs itself to system/sd/
LEDs are at about 90-100% brightness
CPU Optimization turned off by default
Enhanced Terminal included
Fixed My Account included
G1 / MT3G: http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/ZeroXd-5.2r5.zip
http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/Resources.zip
twistedumbrella said:
MultiTouch for MT3G being patched NOW
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Does that mean multitouch doesn't work and one more unanswered questio IS it from the latest release that modaco did, i asked it since 5.0 so please answer
White Rosie doesn't work i tried it but i doesn't show up and it doesn't even install shows parse error, can you do something about that. Really appreciate your work. Will donate as soon i finish with my exams, I came to US for a holiday for 3 months and as i came back i have exams, only 3 left, have to finish 6 books per subject (thats f*****ng 3 months syllabus) and i have exams after 2 day holidays , thats why i have been a bit inactive in the community, will be active on 24 and will provide a special version of HERO based on my favourite ZEROXD.
Installed JACHeroSki 2.0 and i get stuck on a boot loop. i've tried wiping and re-flashing and same thing.
mgorman said:
Installed JACHeroSki 2.0 and i get stuck on a boot loop. i've tried wiping and re-flashing and same thing.
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For me 2.0 working fine,but cannot install ZeroXd-5.2r4-installation aborted:/
In v2.0 cannot run wifi:/somebody else?
Had to fix scripts. Check the link on original thread for download. They are the same files. The verification fail happens when your downloading as I upload. It was a last minute fix on the way to work. Sorry for the issues.
hey twisted...great work on the roms...
couple issues with me...
auto-rotate doesn't work...
auto correct and dictionary doesn't work also...
is there any way we can correct this?
tq745 said:
hey twisted...great work on the roms...
couple issues with me...
auto-rotate doesn't work...
auto correct and dictionary doesn't work also...
is there any way we can correct this?
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What device are you using? MyTouch? Did you run the terminal command?
BTW, for everyone else: http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/user.conf
Did some testing, seems to run a little smoother
tq745 said:
hey twisted...great work on the roms...
couple issues with me...
auto-rotate doesn't work...
auto correct and dictionary doesn't work also...
is there any way we can correct this?
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Thank you... h.nocturna for the fix, and nacron for the heads up...
Here is the fix for auto-complete... Worked for me on 5.1r2
Everything in
open dos prompt.
adb remount
(***back up the original***)
adb pull /system/sd/app_s/HTC_IME.apk c:\(*your directory*)\HTC_IME.apk
(***install the new one***)
adb push c:\(*your directory*)\HTC_IME.apk /system/sd/app_s/HTC_IME.apk
start your Messaging it will crash the first time you want to use the keyboard... restart Messaging and it should work...
HTC_IME.apk here: http://www.mediafire.com/?te0symyx4yz
Mms auto-rotate works for me in 5.1r2 so I dont know. But possibly you still have the old Mms.apk. Try pushing the new one from 5.0 or later rom...
Twisted are you using BFS in your new builds??? Post 5.1 that is....
twistedumbrella said:
What device are you using? MyTouch? Did you run the terminal command?
BTW, for everyone else: http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/user.conf
Did some testing, seems to run a little smoother
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so i opened up better terminal and when i entered su it says
/system/xbin/su: not found
help?
in the meantime i'll try zambesey's way
twistedumbrella said:
What device are you using? MyTouch? Did you run the terminal command?
BTW, for everyone else: http://twistedumbrella.slackdev.com/user.conf
Did some testing, seems to run a little smoother
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so i opened up better terminal and when i entered su it says
/system/xbin/su: not found
help?
in the meantime i'll try zambezy's way
same issue as above :-(
1.8 is running pretty awesome.
i guess its safe to assume that i shouldn't try 2.0 yet? lol
zeroxd 5.2r4 seems to be faster than jacs 2.0 but i cant get auto rotate to work or multitouch and when i try the commands in first post i get "/system/xbin/su: not found''
did you try running the commands via adb ?
im not familiar with doing it that way i dnt even know wat adb is
just connect your phone to the pc
install the drivers from android SDK
start > run > cmd
cd to the android tools directory
and adb shell
that's how i did with my phone and works perfectly
im not gona risk any damage ill deal without the rotate for a day till its fixed
tq745 said:
so i opened up better terminal and when i entered su it says
/system/xbin/su: not found
help?
in the meantime i'll try zambezy's way
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should be under /system/bin not xbin
Tired of having to redownload and reinstall all of your apps when you reflash your phone? SaveMyApp can help.
This script will setup your phone so that after your flash to your favorite rom, all* of your apps will be install on the first boot. These apps will show up in the market too!
Also, the script will allow you to backup your /data/data folder to your sdcard and then restore it after your reflash. The /data/data is where Most of your user data is stored. This is not guaranteed to fully restore everything. This also does not backup your Google, Android, or Motorola settings; this is to improve compatibility with roms.
*The /preinstall folder is limited to 120MB, so if you have more then of apps this script will not fully work.
This should work with all phones, however it has only been tested on the Droid 2/X.
If you want to test this script on a different phone, let me know the /preinstall size and if it worked or not.
v0.1.4.2 - 11/17/2010
-Improved backup and restore of data
-Improved script usability
v0.1.4.1 - 11/17/2010
-Improve safety of removing /preinstall/app
v0.1.4 - 11/16/2010
-Added option to clear the /preinstall/app folder
-Added messages to support clear /preinstall/app
v0.1.3 - 11/12/2010
-Added backup of /data/data
-Added messages to support Data Backup
v0.1.2 - 11/11/2010
-Added Backup /data/app-private
-Show /data/app size, prompt user for continue
-Additional messages added to improve user experience
v0.1.1 - 11/10/2010
-First Release
-Backup and Restore /data/app
Installation:
WARNING: This steps must be completed as listed, failure to do so may result in unexpected errors which I am not responsible for.
1. Enable USB debugging and make sure Sdcard is mounted on phone
1. adb push apps.sh /data
2. adb shell
3. cd /data
4. chmod 775 apps.sh
5. ./apps.sh
a. Follow the onscreen directions
6. Reboot and proceed to wipe and reflash
7. On boot, wait between 5 and 10 minutes depending on how many apps you have before logging into your account. (30 apps takes about 4-5 minutes)
8. Login to your account
9. Droid 2/X Bootstrapper -> Bootstrap Recovery
10. Enable USB debugging and make sure Sdcard is mounted on phone
11. adb shell
12. tar -xzpf /sdcard/savemyapp/backup.tgz
FAQS:
Market isn't showing apps!
settings->applications->Manage Applications->All->Market->Force Stop, Clear data
Why is there a MACOSX file when I extract the archive?
Because I am lazy and I zipped it using Mac's built in archiver.
The script isn't working right away!
Redownload the newest script, just to make sure
Disclaimer:
You may repost this, but you must quote it as is.
I will only be responding to the threads I started on the Xda-Developers forums.
First!
I'm just holding a parking spot for this post!
What a great idea...thank you for developing this, im so tired of re downloading my apps back and setting everything up...done it about 10 times in the past month between sbfing and updating the fission rom several updates in a row so thank you...will most definitely be using this when I flash roms in the future. Thanks again
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Excellent program! I'm having trouble getting it to work unfortunately. When apps.sh begins to copy files from /data/apps, I get errors saying "No space left on device" after every single file it tries to copy. This is of course not true since this D2 has over 6 gigs free on the system storage.
I am running this through the window's command prompt, but I don't see much in the code that won't run on windows aside from "du" which isn't even relevant unless my app + app-private folders combined size is over 120 MB (it's not).
I'm also running Epic 2.5 if that has anything to with this.
Any ideas? Am I just doing this terribly wrong?
Thanks!
tildaSparky said:
Excellent program! I'm having trouble getting it to work unfortunately. When apps.sh begins to copy files from /data/apps, I get an error saying "No space left on device." This is of course not true since this D2 has over 6 gigs free on the system storage.
I am running this through the window's command prompt, but I don't see much in the code aside from "du" which can't run with windows.
Any ideas? Am I just doing this terribly wrong?
Thanks!
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If you read the first post it states the /preinstall folder can only hold only 120mb so it you have more than that to backup it won't fully work..I'm guessing that's were the apps are being saved...
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turkeybuzzard said:
If you read the first post it states the /preinstall folder can only hold only 120mb so it you have more than that to backup it won't fully work..I'm guessing that's were the apps are being saved...
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App
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Apps are normally saved in /data/app this script copies those apks to /preinstall so that after a wipe they will automatically be installed on the first boot. Yes /preinstall is limited to about 120MB.
tildaSparky said:
Excellent program! I'm having trouble getting it to work unfortunately. When apps.sh begins to copy files from /data/apps, I get an error saying "No space left on device." This is of course not true since this D2 has over 6 gigs free on the system storage.
I am running this through the window's command prompt, but I don't see much in the code aside from "du" which can't run with windows.
Any ideas? Am I just doing this terribly wrong?
Thanks!
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Do you get the "No space left on device" message instantly or after some apks were copied to the /preinstall folder?
Here's what I get
Working…
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.apps.translate-2.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.gm-1.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.zxing.client.android-2.apk: No space left on device
etc.
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tildaSparky said:
Here's what I get
Working…
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.apps.maps-1.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.apps.translate-2.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.android.gm-1.apk: No space left on device
cp: /preinstall/app/com.google.zxing.client.android-2.apk: No space left on device
etc.
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How big is your /data/app folder?
OK! I sort of have it fixed. In that I'm not getting my original error.
What I did (which in retrospect was not such a hot idea) was delete the /preinstall/ folder and then created a new one with the subfolders /app/ and /md5/. The logic behind was that I saw the script had nothing in it to clean out the original preinstall folder, and I noticed that it had silly things like NFS in it. As I said, in retrospect I should have just deleted specific items from the folder, but that's what I get for acting without thinking too much.
How bad do you think it is that I remade the preinstall folder from scratch?
Now my preinstall folder is properly populated (I think). But the data won't back up for some reason. I think it might have something to do with the if statements being broken. I'm gonna go ahead and modify your script to bypass the if/else statements and see what happens.
SaveMyApp v0.1.2
By csscmaster3
Your app folder takes up
du: not found
If your app folder is more then 114MB I don't recommend continuing
do you want you to continue? (y/n)y
y
[[: not found
Working…
ignore No such file or directory error if you get it
tee: not found
SaveMyApp has completed your apps
Do you want to backup your data? (y/n)y
y
[[: not found
SaveMyApp has completed.
As an aside my app folder is 28 MB and my app-private folder has only the apkinstaller.
tildaSparky said:
OK! I sort of have it fixed. In that I'm not getting my original error.
What I did (which in retrospect was not such a hot idea) was delete the /preinstall/ folder and then created a new one with the subfolders /app/ and /md5/. The logic behind was that I saw the script had nothing in it to clean out the original preinstall folder, and I noticed that it had silly things like NFS in it. As I said, in retrospect I should have just deleted specific items from the folder, but that's what I get for acting without thinking too much.
How bad do you think it is that I remade the preinstall folder from scratch?
Now my preinstall folder is properly populated (I think). But the data won't back up for some reason. I think it might have something to do with the if statements being broken. I'm gonna go ahead and modify your script to bypass the if/else statements and see what happens.
SaveMyApp v0.1.2
By csscmaster3
Your app folder takes up
du: not found
If your app folder is more then 114MB I don't recommend continuing
do you want you to continue? (y/n)y
y
[[: not found
Working…
ignore No such file or directory error if you get it
tee: not found
SaveMyApp has completed your apps
Do you want to backup your data? (y/n)y
y
[[: not found
SaveMyApp has completed.
As an aside my app folder is 28 MB and my app-private folder has only the apkinstaller.
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The NFS removal is a good call, I will append the script to check the /preinstall folder and prompt to remove the files there
The reason you are having trouble with this script looks it be like because you are not running it on the phone itself...meaning to say you are not running it via a terminal emulator on the phone nor are you running it via adb shell. The backup uses tar, which isn't on windows by default.
Actually I'm running everything through the adb shell. It's puzzling to me too. My terminal emulator for some reason doesn't have root access. At this point I think I'm just going to SBF anyway.
At any rate, I just decided to pull /data/data/ from my phone onto my HD and I will replace it after I reflash and install my programs, but before I log into my google account. Do you see any reason for this not to work?
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Actually I'm running everything through the adb shell. It's puzzling to me too. My terminal emulator for some reason doesn't have root access. At this point I think I'm just going to SBF anyway.
At any rate, I just decided to pull /data/data/ from my phone onto my HD and I will replace it after I reflash and install my programs, but before I log into my google account. Do you see any reason for this not to work?
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Hmmm, you might have to check your superuser app to see if you accidently are denying su access. In adb shell do you have a $ or a #?
Backing up the /data/data folder to your HD then restoring might not work because I am not sure if it will retain the owner, permissions, etc.
I had a # in my shell. There was something slightly wonky about my root I think. At any rate my backup method didn't work so well (as you predicted) - it caused timeriffic to force close when I tried to load in my old settings via /data/data/.
I will try using this again once I've got my shiny new Fission 2.1 set up as I want.
Thanks for your attentiveness!
I'm guessing this script should be run AFTER all of the applications have been installed. Is this correct?
wsfanatic said:
I'm guessing this script should be run AFTER all of the applications have been installed. Is this correct?
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That is correct
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App
Ooooo this is getting popularrrr
Is this D2 specific, or would it work on any phone?
theimpaler747 said:
Is this D2 specific, or would it work on any phone?
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It works with the D2 and should work with the DX, anything else is use at your own risk, if it does work let me know though
csscmaster3 said:
It works with the D2 and should work with the DX, anything else is use at your own risk, if it does work let me know though
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Might risk it and try it on my hero Regardless, nice work
theimpaler747 said:
Might risk it and try it on my hero Regardless, nice work
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The only problem I could forsee would be the /preinstall folder being different or something, if you do end up trying the script could you let me know the size of the /preinstall folder?