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I want thw cleanest flash possible. I want to format my sd card and everything. Im trying to see if this will help get the junk out of my sdcard and other hidden things that impact battery. Besides the typical CWM wipes what else can i do? I basically want everything gone except CWM to flash a new rom.
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First thing, format /sdcard, then place the ROM you want to install on there. Now do a NANDROID backup in CWM.
Once this is done, go ahead and:
Data/factory reset
Format /system
Format /boot
Install new ROM
Now you can start fresh
why doing "nandroid backup" ?
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is there a risk of loosing IMEI ?
Thanks
Nandroid in case you want to take your phone back to a known working configuration or if something goes wrong and you don't know how to fix it. Or just general backup purposes. Just do it.
Always a risk of losing imei somehow. Make a backup of your /efs folder and store it safely in case of emergency. Following the instructions won't touch that folder, though.
Harbb said:
First thing, format /sdcard, then place the ROM you want to install on there. Now do a NANDROID backup in CWM.
Once this is done, go ahead and:
Data/factory reset
Format /system
Format /boot
Install new ROM
Now you can start fresh
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How do i connect via usb through CWM ? To copy over my rom after formatting everything?
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Go into mounts & storage and hit "mount usb storage". Just note, as soon as you leave that screen in recovery it will be unmounted.
As I was getting low on my LG-P500 phone, I tried looking for some app2sd solution, doing the following steps:
- Backup all SD card content to PC
- Boot into recovery (CWM5.0.2.7)
- From recovery, create sd-ext partition
- From recovery, format the new partition
- From recovery, mount usb device, restore all SD card content from PC.
- Reboot device, installed link2sd and managed to link applications to sd.
Now link2sd seems to work fine- I tried linking quite a few applications and all of them work fine, no complaints. It only gave me an error with some apps which I have previously *moved* to SD using Titanium backup, but upon moving them to internal storage link2sd picked them okay.
However, I noticed that using file explorer, root explorer etc- they all show the sd-ext partition as empty, with size of 0 bytes??
Then, I booted into recovery and tried to mount the sd-ext partition, but I get an error message... (all other partitions I can mount/unmount just fine).
To be sure, after each reboot it looks like all the applications linked2sd work appropiately, so everything looks fine.
However, now I am concerned whether I can create (and restore, of course) nandroid backups- what will happen with all these apps linked to sd? Am I right that CWM may not be able to backup (and therefore restore) anything that is on this partition?
Am I going to lose all these apps and data? Does TiB backup these apps+data and be able to restore them fine to sd-ext? I'm asking about TiB as a mediocre workaround of restoring applications that were in sd-ext (and thus omitted by CWM backup). That is, after restoring nand backup- doing an additional restore from TiB??
Any help/insight is welcome
Ah, yes, some more info:
Phone: LG optimus P500
ROM: Lupohirps CM9 4.0.3 from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558213
Recovery: CWM 5.0.2.7 (By the way, whenever I try to flash 5.0.2.0 I get an error...)
that's weird since the app working. what ekstension do you have on sd card fat? fat32?
Can you open Android Terminal (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm) and issue these commands:
su
busybox ls -la /sd-ext/
busybox mount
If /sd-ext doesn't show up in mount, then it is not mounted.
Actually CM9 for P500 lacks file /system/etc/init.d/05mountsd (this file is responsible for mounting /sd-ext). IMHO You should ask ROM developer about sd-ext support.
If you want to test (and potentially restore your Nandoid backup or reflash CM9 afterwards) I can give you this script from CM7 (actually modified version that allows any ext version).
Your sd-ext files are actually in data/sdext2, not in /sd-ext.
Also Try using Amonra 3.0.6, overall it has better sd-ext support, I find it mounts and wipes things like dalvick cache inside the sd-ext partition as well , which is handy, unlike CWM.
Thanks for all your replies!
Sdcard file system is fat32. For the partition I have no idea as cwm didn't ask for any specific (e.g. ext2/3/4) and I haven't seen any way to get this Info...
Anyway, following this thread, I did find that all the app/data is in /data/sdext2- not sure what it means in terms of nandroid backup& recovery but it looks more reassuring..
As to RA recovery, I'm not in particular in love with cwm- it is just what I'm used to from other android devices I've been using. Actually on my htc mt4g I was using ext4 touch recovery and that one I really liked, but it is not supported in lots of devices. That phone was stolen, unfortunately. I'll give it a try, though.
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DavisNT said:
Can you open Android Terminal (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm) and issue these commands:
su
busybox ls -la /sd-ext/
busybox mount
If /sd-ext doesn't show up in mount, then it is not mounted.
Actually CM9 for P500 lacks file /system/etc/init.d/05mountsd (this file is responsible for mounting /sd-ext). IMHO You should ask ROM developer about sd-ext support.
If you want to test (and potentially restore your Nandoid backup or reflash CM9 afterwards) I can give you this script from CM7 (actually modified version that allows any ext version).
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Thanks! Looks likeb system/ cache/ data are all yaffs2, /mnt/Sdcard is vfat and /data/sdext2 is ext4. Not sure what all the output means (relatime, barrier=1, data= ordered etc. etc.)
So, can I figure out where the /data/sdext2 is physically stored? Is it actually the sd-ext/ext4 partition? Looks like must have, as its contents are way bigger than phone's 200MB internal storage...
Thank you all again
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jaibar said:
Thanks! Looks likeb system/ cache/ data are all yaffs2, /mnt/Sdcard is vfat and /data/sdext2 is ext4. Not sure what all the output means (relatime, barrier=1, data= ordered etc. etc.)
So, can I figure out where the /data/sdext2 is physically stored? Is it actually the sd-ext/ext4 partition? Looks like must have, as its contents are way bigger than phone's 200MB internal storage...
Thank you all again
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/data/sdext2 is the mountpoint for the ext4 partition thats on your sd card, physically its obviously on your sd card, but If you use linux, data/ is where the all partitions other then home partition get "attached"/mounted to, the 11link2sd script made by link2sd in yout init.d folder actually mounts it sdext2, the name means nothing, just something link2sd names it as.
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So Basically nandroid will not back it up under /data/sdext2 as the script runs after recovery, the best way to backup apps that are on the ext partion is back them up using Titanium Backup, as that saves the real apks, and when you restore all your apps, select link2sd to automatically move them to sd-ext partition.
Hi at all,
at first sorry for my bad english.
I had a similar case. If I made a backup with cwm 5.0.2.7, cwm cant mount/read the sd-ext.
In a other thread a user wrote, that cwm 5.0.2.8 had problems with the sd-ext.
And he does downgrade to cwm 5.0.2.0, and than cwm will work.
So, I did this:
I open the rommanager and choose the option "install Clockworkmod", now I choose the "LG Optimus One (old BB)".
But i have the new baseband on my O1.
The basis of this is, if you choose the new baseband in the rommanager, he will install cwm 5.0.2.7. For the old is it the 5.0.2.0 version.
Now, Rommanger made the installation with cwm 5.0.2.0. to my phone.
After this i go in to the recovery and made my nand-backup. It works perfekt!
No problems with the sd-ext, after I did this.
May be this will help.
Fietz said:
Hi at all,
I open the rommanager and choose the option "install Clockworkmod", now I choose the "LG Optimus One (old BB)".
But i have the new baseband on my O1.
The basis of this is, if you choose the new baseband in the rommanager, he will install cwm 5.0.2.7. For the old is it the 5.0.2.0 version.
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Thanks for the tip..
I have tried in the past to flash cwm 5.0.2.0 via Rom Manager, but I kept getting an error message, so I gave up.
Now I thought to give it a second chance, but as it fails to flash with Rom Manager (in the menu when I choose LG optimus one I don't get any choice between old BB or new or anything- it just reflashes 5.0.2.7) and from the "all recoveries menu I can only choose 5.0.2.0 but it gives an error message), so I downloaded the zip files from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523050 (including also Amon Ra 3.06) and tried to manually flash from recovery.
It flashed and showed recovery as "5.0.2.0" but nothing worked- every submenu that I tried to enter was black screen (with the CWM logo on background) and it gave me the creeps- I don't like being stuck without a functional recovery so I rebooted and flashed 5.0.2.7 again from Rom Manager.
I'll try to flash Amon Ra and see how it works.
[EDIT] flashed AmonRa 3.06 and it seems to work fine- able to mount/unmount all partitions including sd-ext, and it also has an option to check each of them in separate during nandroid backups.
A noobish question: it has also an option to include the ".android_secure" . Isn't this one a redundancy with sd-ext (e.g. contains all the apps/data that has been moved/linked2sd)?
jaibar said:
As I was getting low on my LG-P500 phone, I tried looking for some app2sd solution, doing the following steps:
- Backup all SD card content to PC
- Boot into recovery (CWM5.0.2.7)
- From recovery, create sd-ext partition
- From recovery, format the new partition
- From recovery, mount usb device, restore all SD card content from PC.
- Reboot device, installed link2sd and managed to link applications to sd.
Now link2sd seems to work fine- I tried linking quite a few applications and all of them work fine, no complaints. It only gave me an error with some apps which I have previously *moved* to SD using Titanium backup, but upon moving them to internal storage link2sd picked them okay.
However, I noticed that using file explorer, root explorer etc- they all show the sd-ext partition as empty, with size of 0 bytes??
Then, I booted into recovery and tried to mount the sd-ext partition, but I get an error message... (all other partitions I can mount/unmount just fine).
To be sure, after each reboot it looks like all the applications linked2sd work appropiately, so everything looks fine.
However, now I am concerned whether I can create (and restore, of course) nandroid backups- what will happen with all these apps linked to sd? Am I right that CWM may not be able to backup (and therefore restore) anything that is on this partition?
Am I going to lose all these apps and data? Does TiB backup these apps+data and be able to restore them fine to sd-ext? I'm asking about TiB as a mediocre workaround of restoring applications that were in sd-ext (and thus omitted by CWM backup). That is, after restoring nand backup- doing an additional restore from TiB??
Any help/insight is welcome
Ah, yes, some more info:
Phone: LG optimus P500
ROM: Lupohirps CM9 4.0.3 from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558213
Recovery: CWM 5.0.2.7 (By the way, whenever I try to flash 5.0.2.0 I get an error...)
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Hi, Jaibar
I have LG Optimus One with JB 4.2.2, CM 10.1.
Here what I have done in order to gain extra space on my internal memory. All the steps that you have followed are the same as I did. BUT! There are two important things that I have followed that had greatly helped to succeed:
1) For every 100Mb internal memory - NO MORE than 512Mb of SD card memory(for my LG I have separated 965Mb on the SD card)
2) INT2EXT+ works with EXT2/3/4 partitions BUT INT2EXT4+ works with ONLY EXT4 partition. After I have watched this short video, and this blog post I have been able to restart my phone with extended internal memory.
Believe me, for three days I have been flashing my phone, trying to find the correct way. At the end I have noticed that the problem was that I couldn't mount /sd-ext I thought that maybe following this two rules will help - and it did!
I hope that it will help! Good luck
I have a Galaxy GIO, which is a fairly old low-end phone. On factory reset, I have about 100MB memory free for apps, and the phone seems to start complaining as soon as I hit the 50MB mark; that's about one or 2 installed applications.
Because I would like to actually be able to, well, use my phone for anything else than calling, I want to move the /data partition to my SD card. I know this'll be slow, but slow still is better than not working at all.
I have done a bit of research, and came around plenty of scripts which claim to mount the second partition of the sd card as /data; none of these scripts work. I have tried 'INT2EXT', 'D2EXT', and I've heard about something called 'A2SD' but I have yet to find a copy of it . To install these scripts I've extracted them, and copied the scripts to '/system/etc/init.d/', after mounting '/system', using ADB.
I for an instant thought maybe my second partition isn't formatted properly, but using adb I am able to successfully mount the ext2 partition as /sd-ext, so I don't see why mounting them as /data should be a problem.
I have also tried to symbollicly link /data to /sd-ext/data and automatically mount my /sd-ext on boot. Obviously this didn't work, because the symbolic link isn't actually saved to disk.
How would I go about moving my data partition to my sd card? I am not affraid of doing some dirty work manually. I am running Cyanogenmod 11.
Binero said:
I have a Galaxy GIO, which is a fairly old low-end phone. On factory reset, I have about 100MB memory free for apps, and the phone seems to start complaining as soon as I hit the 50MB mark; that's about one or 2 installed applications.
Because I would like to actually be able to, well, use my phone for anything else than calling, I want to move the /data partition to my SD card. I know this'll be slow, but slow still is better than not working at all.
I have done a bit of research, and came around plenty of scripts which claim to mount the second partition of the sd card as /data; none of these scripts work. I have tried 'INT2EXT', 'D2EXT', and I've heard about something called 'A2SD' but I have yet to find a copy of it . To install these scripts I've extracted them, and copied the scripts to '/system/etc/init.d/', after mounting '/system', using ADB.
I for an instant thought maybe my second partition isn't formatted properly, but using adb I am able to successfully mount the ext2 partition as /sd-ext, so I don't see why mounting them as /data should be a problem.
I have also tried to symbollicly link /data to /sd-ext/data and automatically mount my /sd-ext on boot. Obviously this didn't work, because the symbolic link isn't actually saved to disk.
How would I go about moving my data partition to my sd card? I am not affraid of doing some dirty work manually. I am running Cyanogenmod 11.
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I will introduce how to COPY(NOT MOVING) /data partition to /sdcard.
1. You should ROOT First.
2. Use Rootexplorer to Copy /data to /sdcard (WARNING:If your sdcard emulated with /data, Data WON'T copy to SDCARD --You need external Sdcard!)
2-1. if you don't want to use RootExplorer, you can use Android Debugging Bridge(adb)
(Youshould download Android sdks from developer.android.com)
--Command : adb shell su -C cp /data /sdcard/data
3. That's all.
Jason Hyunwoo said:
I will introduce how to COPY(NOT MOVING) /data partition to /sdcard.
1. You should ROOT First.
2. Use Rootexplorer to Copy /data to /sdcard (WARNING:If your sdcard emulated with /data, Data WON'T copy to SDCARD --You need external Sdcard!)
2-1. if you don't want to use RootExplorer, you can use Android Debugging Bridge(adb)
(Youshould download Android sdks from developer.android.com)
--Command : adb shell su -C cp /data /sdcard/data
3. That's all.
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Thanks, but that's not entirely what I meant. I can manage to move my data to the SD card no problem, but I want my phone to actually use my second partition on my sd card, as the /data partition.
Binero said:
Thanks, but that's not entirely what I meant. I can manage to move my data to the SD card no problem, but I want my phone to actually use my second partition on my sd card, as the /data partition.
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Oops.. Sorry about that!
First, I am not sure that will work or not, maybe you should try to edit init.*.rc. Which is from boot.mg. I think, maybe mounting sdcard as data is impossible, but you may try editing init.rc(or init.*.rc, * is manufacture). You could unpack your boot img, and you could edit mounting point which is from init.rc!
I hope this thing will help you..
Jason Hyunwoo said:
Oops.. Sorry about that!
First, I am not sure that will work or not, maybe you should try to edit init.*.rc. Which is from boot.mg. I think, maybe mounting sdcard as data is impossible, but you may try editing init.rc(or init.*.rc, * is manufacture). You could unpack your boot img, and you could edit mounting point which is from init.rc!
I hope this thing will help you..
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I have looked into init.rc, but that only seemed to create the /data mountpoint, but not actually mount to it. I've no idea how to edit the boot image, or what that even is. Is that the filesystem that is built into the kernel?
Binero said:
I have looked into init.rc, but that only seemed to create the /data mountpoint, but not actually mount to it. I've no idea how to edit the boot image, or what that even is. Is that the filesystem that is built into the kernel?
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Umm.. You should download unpackbootimg or dsixda's Android Kitchen to edit boot.mg. You cannot edit init.rc on Root explore. Use unpack boot.img menu which is from Android Kitchen!
Jason Hyunwoo said:
Umm.. You should download unpackbootimg or dsixda's Android Kitchen to edit boot.mg. You cannot edit init.rc on Root explore. Use unpack boot.img menu which is from Android Kitchen!
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I'll try that out. Still not sure where to look though. As I said, init.rc does not contain any commands mounting /data.
Binero said:
I'll try that out. Still not sure where to look though. As I said, init.rc does not contain any commands mounting /data.
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or you could edit look at other *.rc files!
Isn't this what you're looking for?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/tool-directorybind-data-to-externalsd-t1410262
sndsnd said:
Isn't this what you're looking for?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/tool-directorybind-data-to-externalsd-t1410262
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I want to mount my sd card to my /data. That simply creates a symbolic link.
Jason Hyunwoo said:
or you could edit look at other *.rc files!
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There is only 2 rc files, and one of them is specific to my recovery image.
Hi guys,
I'll share some scripts (flashable) that I've made to help with xperia l internal memory shortage.
1. First one is the link2sd-enabler.zip: http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/UduJGjqJ/file.html.
For this to work you'll need a second partition on the external sdcard formated as ext4. So first partition is the vfat one, the second primary partition on the external sd card is the ext4 one. Currently I have a 8Gb ext4 second partition.
Installation procedure: prepare your external sdcard, flash the zip, install link2sd application.
2. Second is the 01link2sdmm: http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/9DSgorlH/file.html.
The link2sd application does not automatically link the oat directory of the application. This directory contains the compiled application in the form of an odex file. For big apps this file is pretty big. So this script will automatically link this directory to the sdcard second partition for the applications that are linked to the sdcard. This works in conjunction with the link2sd-enabler.zip script.
Installation procedure: put this script in the /etc/init.d directory with the proper permissions. This way it will run at boot. If you want to run this directly after you link an app you'll need to use automagic and make a rule to run this script after you exit the link2sd application.
Observations: This script is not needed if you switch the internal partitions because you'll have enough space to keep the odex file internally. It's your choice.
3. Third script is the mm-partition-swapper.zip: http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/eyRO7gLw/file.html.
This one will switch your sdcard and userdata partition on your current mm rom. This was tested on rr573 that I have installed, but it should work in other mm roms as well.
Installation procedure: Make sure you have enough space on the external sd card so the script will be able to save your current data partition files. Save the files that you need from your internal partition to your external sd card. Make a backup of your current rom from twrp in case something wrong happens. Format from TWRP the internal sd card as ext4. Flash the zip. If everything works ok then you'll have a rom with the internal partitions swapped and you'll have 4Gb of user data available (minus your space for the already installed apps).
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Very important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't try formatting the internal sdcard as ext4 with twrp version 3.0.2! It seems that his twrp version does not support this. I'm using twrp 2.8.7.0 by Barbarosa.
Observations: Twrp does not support backing up/restoring internal sd. If you swap partitions you'll have to backup your ext4 internal sd manually from within twrp connected through adb (with a simple tar command)
4. I think 256 ZRAM for the rr573 rom is too big so this zip will change this to 128MB:
mm-128Mb-zram.zip:http://www103.zippyshare.com/v/XjVAnXEl/file.html.
Please make a backup before flashing the swap zip and report if this worked for you.
Hope this helps,
Thanks.
cojocar.andrei said:
Hi guys,
1. First one is the link2sd-enabler.zip:
For this to work you'll need a second partition on the external sdcard formated as ext4. So first partition is the vfat one, the second primary partition on the external sd card is the ext4 one. Currently I have a 8Gb ext4 second partition.
Installation procedure: prepare your external sdcard, flash the zip, install link2sd application.
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I've been struggeling for quite some time to get the link2sd app working since I flashed MM.
I've done a clean install, flashed the zip, installed link2sd, but I still get a 'mount script error, Cannot create script, mount: no such file or directory.' Anyone got an idea what I do wrong?
thx!
mikelektro said:
I've been struggeling for quite some time to get the link2sd app working since I flashed MM.
I've done a clean install, flashed the zip, installed link2sd, but I still get a 'mount script error, Cannot create script, mount: no such file or directory.' Anyone got an idea what I do wrong?
thx!
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Check if you have in the /etc/init.d directory the 00link2sd script. For this script to work you need a rom with a working init.d (otherwise this won't work obviously...). If you have the script there, then check if you see a directory /data/sdext2 (if this directory is missing, but you have the 00link2sd script in the /etc/init.d directory, then this means you don't have init.d support in the rom). If you partition your sdcard correctly then the second ext4 partition of you sdcard should me mounted in the /data/sdext2 directory ... All these you need to check before installing the link2sd app...
Awesome! Thank you. I'll try this
cojocar.andrei said:
Check if you have in the /etc/init.d directory the 00link2sd script. For this script to work you need a rom with a working init.d (otherwise this won't work obviously...). If you have the script there, then check if you see a directory /data/sdext2 (if this directory is missing, but you have the 00link2sd script in the /etc/init.d directory, then this means you don't have init.d support in the rom). If you partition your sdcard correctly then the second ext4 partition of you sdcard should me mounted in the /data/sdext2 directory ... All these you need to check before installing the link2sd app...
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I have the init.d folder, but it seems the sdext2 folder was only created after I installed the link2sd app.
I tried doing it all over again, but it still doesnt work, same messages...
mikelektro said:
I have the init.d folder, but it seems the sdext2 folder was only created after I installed the link2sd app.
I tried doing it all over again, but it still doesnt work, same messages...
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Then your rom doesn't have init.d support. You need a kernel/rom (more precisely a ramdisk) with init.d support to use this ... The rr573 supports init.d ... Try it with this one ...
cojocar.andrei said:
Then your rom doesn't have init.d support. You need a kernel/rom (more precisely a ramdisk) with init.d support to use this ... The rr573 supports init.d ... Try it with this one ...
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Thx! Which do you recommend? I've tried several in the last two or three months. Now I'm running AOSP-OMS.
I ran slim, RR and CM 13 beta before without any problems, just the storage issue.
mikelektro said:
Thx! Which do you recommend? I've tried several in the last two or three months. Now I'm running AOSP-OMS.
I ran slim, RR and CM 13 beta before without any problems, just the storage issue.
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I've just told you. RR573. For a completely working camera on this one just replace a camera library... Search the rr thread...
Sent from the center of the galaxy
3. Third script is the mm-partition-swapper.zip: http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/eyRO7gLw/file.html.
This one will switch your sdcard and userdata partition on your current mm rom. This was tested on rr573 that I have installed, but it should work in other mm roms as well.
Installation procedure: Make sure you have enough space on the external sd card so the script will be able to save your current data partition files. Save the files that you need from your internal partition to your external sd card. Make a backup of your current rom from twrp in case something wrong happens. Format from TWRP the internal sd card as ext4. Flash the zip. If everything works ok then you'll have a rom with the internal partitions swapped and you'll have 4Gb of user data available (minus your space for the already installed apps).
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I use rom AOSP OMS . file zip working?
Brick and problem other ?
Thx you building script .
Thx advanced
I am on stryflex MM ROM and TWRP 3.0.2.
I formatted internal storage as ext4, then flashed mm-partition-swapper.zip.
Says that there is no ext4fs partition and I tried reboot recovery and my phone is dead now, can't turn it on...
I don't blame you, I blame myself for trying. But please help. Flashtool doesn't recognize flash mode.
Don't use this method. Not safe.
Option58 said:
I am on stryflex MM ROM and TWRP 3.0.2.
I formatted internal storage as ext4, then flashed mm-partition-swapper.zip.
Says that there is no ext4fs partition and I tried reboot recovery and my phone is dead now, can't turn it on...
I don't blame you, I blame myself for trying. But please help. Flashtool doesn't recognize flash mode.
Don't use this method. Not safe.
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Sorry to hear this. If the script gave you this error then the script did nothing to your phone. It just aborted the procedure because it did not find the sdcard formated as ext4. It must be the twrp version. I'm using twrp 2.8.7.0 by barbarosa. I think twrp 3.0.2 does not support formatting the internal sdcard as ext4. Most pobably the twrp version 3.0.2 formated something else as ext4 or whatever instead of internal sd... I did not know this. Sorry again...
Try to search the brick threads. If you still have a blue light when in flashmode I think you still have a chance to resurect it...
Sent from the center of the galaxy
I've modified the post to warn people of this twrp version. So, people, use only twrp 2.8.x.x to format the internal sdcard. I'm using 2.8.7.0 twrp version by Barbarosa. I don't know if other twrp versions support ext4 on internal sdcard.
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Thanks for the solutions. So now if I only need to swap internal sd and /data, i just need to flash 3rd script? I'm quite confusing about partitioning and memory stuffs
newguyknowsnothing said:
Thanks for the solutions. So now if I only need to swap internal sd and /data, i just need to flash 3rd script? I'm quite confusing about partitioning and memory stuffs
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You have to have twrp 2.8.7.0, then format internal sdcard as ext4 (wipe settings) and then flash the zip...
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Yes, formatting internalSD as ext4 is tricky. My recovery was broken. Probably formatted something else. It wasn't your script.
However I have no volume up button on my phone (fell out) - no fastboot. And just volume down button (flash mode) and a somewhat broken USB cable. Phone not recognized by flashtool at all...
cojocar.andrei said:
You have to have twrp 2.8.7.0, then format internal sdcard as ext4 (wipe settings) and then flash the zip...
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Ok thanks! One more question, If I somewhat want to undo this, I need to back up the current MM rom before flashing the script? Will the internal sd and /data automtically be swapped back when I restore the back up?
newguyknowsnothing said:
Ok thanks! One more question, If I somewhat want to undo this, I need to back up the current MM rom before flashing the script? Will the internal sd and /data automtically be swapped back when I restore the back up?
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After swapping the partitions your old backups of the rom will not work anymore (or probably they would just revert the swapping. Anyway if you want to restore a backup that's been done prior to swap it's better to format back by hand the internal sdcard to vfat and data to ext4)
For backing up a rom with swapped partitions you'll have to select the sdcard instead of data partition in the backup options... I did not try it yet...
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Option58 said:
Yes, formatting internalSD as ext4 is tricky. My recovery was broken. Probably formatted something else. It wasn't your script.
However I have no volume up button on my phone (fell out) - no fastboot. And just volume down button (flash mode) and a somewhat broken USB cable. Phone not recognized by flashtool at all...
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I don't know, sorry. You have to search the brick threads...
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I ran the the link2sd enabler script on my rr573, works like a charm now.
Thank you so much, I needed this!
Didn't swapped the storages yet.
The dream is real!
Congratulations.
Seeking a long time for a script like mm-partition-swapper.zip
Before seeing your post, I had already made the formatting of SD0 (ext4) to try to install Link2SD to work with SD0 without work.
I used the TWRP 3.0.2.
I could easy return the partition to FAT.
I intend to make a clean installation of ROM on my device to then install your mm-partition-swapper.zip script.
As both the "DATA" as SD0 are empty you still think need to format with TWRP 2.8.7?
No way to change this script without the data transfer?
Only formatting partitions and inverted mounts?
If not necessary then ok...but... please clear this my doubts.
Again without getting tired ... very thank you even for your script.
Please help me I can't access to my sd card as well as internal storage in twrp recovery as well as CWM recovery. It always showing that can't mount system, and can't mount usb storage. Please help me asap. Thank you
f5beast said:
Please help me I can't access to my sd card as well as internal storage in twrp recovery as well as CWM recovery. It always showing that can't mount system, and can't mount usb storage. Please help me asap. Thank you
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in order to use twrp you should disable encryption in buld..prop or use the zip file
in forum to disable encryption.
but should make factory reset once in twrp to mounting data partition
use the newest twrp version both sd card and internal sd mounting well.
matrixrio said:
in order to use twrp you should disable encryption in buld..prop or use the zip file
in forum to disable encryption.
but should make factory reset once in twrp to mounting data partition
use the newest twrp version both sd card and internal sd mounting well.
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yes but how to disable it
f5beast said:
Please help me I can't access to my sd card as well as internal storage in twrp recovery as well as CWM recovery. It always showing that can't mount system, and can't mount usb storage. Please help me asap. Thank you
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Repair file system. Go to wipe. Select advanced, then repair the file system of system partition. Then go to mount tab and mount system!
AmulyaX said:
Repair file system. Go to wipe. Select advanced, then repair the file system of system partition. Then go to mount tab and mount system!
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yes thank you so much i got it