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The script does a one time copy of the apps from /system/sd to /data for mytouch phones (since we don't need a2sd!). After that, a2sd is just disabled
Attachment: Update zip (takes about 20sec lol)
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/d108b98f8
Rough info:
Cyanogen & Twisted A2SD modded for Hero (by Maxisma)
Remodified for CM 4.2+ by Wes Garner
This finds out if it is running on Magic or G1 and decides if A2SD is used or not
Mounts EXT for Magic and G1
Or you could just delete your ext2 partition...
but then no userinit
Didn't work for me. I have CM 4.2.5, downloaded mt3g-noa2sd-signed.zip and flashed it in recovery. Then when I rebooted I got to the CM bootscreen, after a few seconds the screen went black. I let it load for 45-60 minutes (watching tv) but nothing happened. Tried to flash again and the same thing.
ls -l in /data showed app and app-private was still linked to sd. I removed the links, made the directories and copied over the data from sd. Then it worked.
Kaptur said:
Didn't work for me. I have CM 4.2.5, downloaded mt3g-noa2sd-signed.zip and flashed it in recovery. Then when I rebooted I got to the CM bootscreen, after a few seconds the screen went black. I let it load for 45-60 minutes (watching tv) but nothing happened. Tried to flash again and the same thing.
ls -l in /data showed app and app-private was still linked to sd. I removed the links, made the directories and copied over the data from sd. Then it worked.
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I'm having the same issue here, after flashing, I get Cyanogen boot screen and then it moves to black and sits there - since there's no way it's taking that long to copy the data, I'm guessing this script is broken as of 4.2.5.
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You'll probably have to re-install any paid apps (app-private) but normal apps should run fine after this.
For Terminal Emulator
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
Then proceed to the ADB instructions from after 'adb shell'
ADB Instructions
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
Code:
rm /data/app
mkdir /data/app
cp /system/sd/app/* /data/app/
rm /data/app-private
mkdir /data/app-private
cp -r /system/sd/app-private/* /data/app-private
rm /data/dalvik-cache
mkdir /data/dalvik-cache
reboot recovery
In Recovery Mode console, you will have to delete the ext partition:
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rm 2
quit
Note: If you had a 3rd partition for swap it will now be partition 2. Adjust your userinit.sh accordingly.
After rebooting, you can confirm that it worked by running:
ls -l /system
From Terminal Emulator (no need to remount/su) and you should see 'app' and 'app-private' as directories (and not app -> /system/sd/app).
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yea oops, forgot to delete old symlinks on it
It doesn´t work for me...
I´m trying to disable A2sd because of my partition layout (Swap+Fat32) on my HTC Magic 32B but nothing happens after applying the update. My phone it just keeps in the bootloop forever....
DISCLAIMER: DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK / RUIN YOUR PHONE IN ANY WAY.
Hi Everyone,
I have some good news for the owners of Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500) Smartphones.
Doing some research on Google and reading about efforts from other people who could install applications on SD card on other android phones, I was able to develop a method to install application into SD card for the Galaxy 5. Better yet, you won't even need a custom Rom.
Before I get into the specifcs let me state that the following steps are manual and no application is provided to automate the process, so advanced computer skill is required and some knowledge of unix/linux is a plus.
Here we go: PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING BEFORE YOU START. I MAY HAVE OMMITED SOME COMMANDS OUT OF LACK OF ATTENTION.
1) You'll need to root your phone. There is a lot of guides about this available, just google for it. I've used the SuperOneClick Root to do this.
2) Partition your sd card like this: 1 - FAT, 2 - Linux ext2. Again, there is a lot of guides about this on the net, just google again. I've used Paragon Partition Manager 2010 to lower the size of my FAT partition, leaving a 550MB unallocated space at the end of the card. Then I formatted this space as ext2 in linux, using ubuntu live CD. Most guides around there recommends that you keep this partition between 500~750MB, so I didn’t try with greater sizes. Also, i kept my partition 1 as FAT 16, but FAT 32 might actually work too, try that if you want and post me a reply.
3) Download Titanium Backup (or another app backup tool) from market and backup your applications. You may need to restore your applications to correct some permission problems that may occur after completing this guide.
4) Install busybox. BusyBox is a software application that provides many standard Unix tools, which are not available on stock android. You can get a copy of busybox by clicking on “problems?” button on Titanium Backup main window. It will get installed on /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files.
5) If you still don’t have Android SDK installed on your PC, download and install it from Google. You’ll need ADB (Android Debug Bridge), which is included in the SDK, to proceed. Now open a shell connection with your device by typing:
Code:
adb shell
Just keep in mind that you MUST be logged as root. Root command prompt is recognized by the # character. If you don’t have root type the ‘su’ command. If even with ‘su’ you couldn’t get root, please review step 1.
6) Create ‘sd’ folder int /system:
Code:
cd /system
mkdir sd
7) Mount ext2 partition into /system/sd
Code:
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
8) Create a folder to store the applications into ext2 partition:
Code:
cd /system/sd
mkdir app
9) Copy busybox to /system/bin
Code:
cat /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files/busybox > /system/bin/busybox
chmod 755 /system/bin/busybox
10) Copy your applications to ext2 partition:
Code:
busybox cp /data/app/* /system/sd/app/
11) Change permissions of copied applications:
Code:
cd /system/sd/app
chown system.system *
chmod 644 *
12) Now comes the tricky part: making Android mount your new partition at boot time. All the hard work would be useless if Android discarded the mount points every time we restarted our phones. To do this we’ll need to create 2 scripts and store then into /system/etc. Obviously the scripts should be started by init.rc and need to run as root. Fortunately Android’s init.rc have a gap that makes this possible. The scripts are named install-recovery.sh and init-sd2.sh.
install-recovery.sh content:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
/system/etc/init-sd2.sh&
init-sd2.sh content:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
MYLOG=/data/install-recovery.log
echo "$(date) Starting install-recovery.sh" > $MYLOG
echo "$(date) Waiting SD to become ready..." >> $MYLOG
sleep 10
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd 1>>$MYLOG 2>>$MYLOG
mount -o bind /system/sd/app /data/app 1>>$MYLOG 2>>$MYLOG
mount >> $MYLOG
echo "$(date) Finishing install-recovery.sh" >> $MYLOG
If you plan to edit this files on windows I recommend a tool that is capable of keeping UNIX file format, just like notepad++ free tool.
13) After placing the scripts, change their permissions:
Code:
cd /system/etc
chmod 555 install-recovery.sh
chmod 555 init-sd2.sh
14) Rename the default application folder. If everything works fine you can remove this later to save space:
Code:
cd /data
mv app app_old
mkdir app
chown system.system app
chmod 755 app
15) Restart your phone and cross your fingers
16) If you have problems with your widgets don’t worry. You just need to remove then from your homescreen and add again.
17) Check if your applications are running as they should. Restore backups you’ve made with Titanium Backup for the applications showing problems.
18) If your partition didn’t mount at boot, check log file at /data/install-recovery.log
19) From now on your new applications will be installed on your SD Card. You can modify the scripts to store other folders from /data into the ext2 partition as needed. I’ve been running my applications from SD Card for a week now without any problems or bugs.
20) If you can’t make it work, post your question here and I will try to help you out.
21) Donations are welcomed, just drop some money into my paypal account. Just kidding
Good luck and cya!
can this script use for moving /data/data to EXT2?
if can, from where i should start type the script?
i'm still newbie on this
so i'm alittle bit confused, i hope you can help me and sorry for my bad english
i'm already succes from step 1 to step 11
but i'm little confused at step 12
can you explain how to make the script?
should i make those 2 script via notepad++ and then copy it to /system/sd and then continue to step 13?
or should i just type everything on step 12 after step 11 in cmd prompt?
the problem is, if i make the script from notepad++ the android system will just discard my mount point when i restart my phone
and if i just type everything on the step 12 in comand prompt, when i'm type chmod 555 install-recovery.sh and chmod 555 init-sd2.sh like in the step 13, it always say that install-recovery.sh and init-sd2.sh file is not found?
so what should i do?
i'm stuck on step 12
step 12, type it on notepad++ and then you have to change the extension of the file with .sh, after that copied the 2 files to /system/etc
andikasuhendar said:
step 12, type it on notepad++ and then you have to change the extension of the file with .sh, after that copied the 2 files to /system/etc
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i've already done that
but when i make the script via notepad ++, i'm already make the save type become .sh, so isn't it just the same?
but when i reboot the phone it's still not working
But how to copy this two script files to system/etc??? it's saying permision denied..
But how to copy this two script files to system/etc??? it's saying permision denied..
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I'm use root explorer to move it to system/etc
The script can be moved but it still doesn't work at all :-(
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And i can't move them even with root explorer.. i don't get what i'm doing wrong (
@agus
about the scripts, u can check with root explorer, try to view the script and make sure it was the exact same from the script above, coz i experience the same problem for the first time i try this. if u sure that the script are same then try to execute it using root explorer and then go to titanium backup and see if there is there is another storage (usually there is internal and SD card only).
@stasic
use the root explorer to copy the script to /system/etc, don't forget to change the root explorer option from R/O to R/W, this option should be on top of the page, just touch it to change from R/O to R/W.
andikasuhendar said:
@agus
about the scripts, u can check with root explorer, try to view the script and make sure it was the exact same from the script above, coz i experience the same problem for the first time i try this. if u sure that the script are same then try to execute it using root explorer and then go to titanium backup and see if there is there is another storage (usually there is internal and SD card only).
@stasic
use the root explorer to copy the script to /system/etc, don't forget to change the root explorer option from R/O to R/W, this option should be on top of the page, just touch it to change from R/O to R/W.
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veeeerrrryyyyyyyyy biiiiiiigggggggggggg thaaaaaaannnnnkkkkkssssss brrroooo
you was right, after i check the script via root explorer, the script was not the same, after i fix it, everything works like a charm
in a step 2... how to change linux ext2???
any software can change from FAT to ext2???
I've changed root explorer option to R/W and still no luck..
@agus
sama2 bro AKA ur welcome bro, have fun with the app2sd hehehe
@nima
search on google, how to format EXT2, if i correct u can use paragon partition for windows user, but if u use macintosh u can just go to disk utility and make partition with EXT2 format
@stasic
go to the /system/etc and see if it already R/W or still R/O
It's written that R/W but when I copy and paste still nothing happens..
thx guy.... i must try it
andikasuhendar said:
@stasic
go to the /system/etc and see if it already R/W or still R/O
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i've rooted my g5 using superoneclick
but i still have R/O in /system/etc
when i tap R/O on the screen, i wont changed to R/W
what should i do?
maaf inggris nya acak2an
@siap
siapakahaku said:
i've rooted my g5 using superoneclick
but i still have R/O in /system/etc
when i tap R/O on the screen, i wont changed to R/W
what should i do?
maaf inggris nya acak2an
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In your PC command prompt execute:
Code:
adb shell
Make sure you are loged in as root and in ADB SHELL try this:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /dev/stl12 /system
Then execute:
Code:
mount
If your mount result has a line like the one bellow, with the rw set, you'll be able to copy the files.
Code:
/dev/stl12 /system rfs rw,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0
@stasic
stas1c said:
It's written that R/W but when I copy and paste still nothing happens..
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Try the same thing I posted above. I don't have Root Explorer installed here, so you should be able to finish this guide without it.
stuck in step 2
cant mkdir....
Hi, nice guide!
I succeded with this the first time I tried but now I have changed to a larger sd card and I can't get it to work.
The log file says that it failed to mount the mmcblk0p2 folder, and now when I check it doesn't even exist. What should I do?
Hope I can get help.. thankful for response. /Mattefacit
I've been trying for a couple of days now to try and modify the /system folder because I want to edit the host file and delete standard .apk's. However I just can't get it to work and I don't understand why.
I got a rooted 2.2 legend with modaco stock htc sense rom.
Things I tried:
Root explorer: For some reason I can't write files to the folder. It always says there is not enough free space while there is something like 6mb available. Also, deleting files doesn't actually seem to work. Root exploreres says the files are deleted but after a reboot they are there again!
Also root explorer makes my phone reboot.
ADB: Basically the same thing. Also I don't get adb to work when i'm in recovery mode (red traingle screen, I used to have clockwork but even after trying to reflash the clockwork recovery that just doesn't show up anymore and gone fubar out of the blue....) and want to enter the /system folder.
Terminal app: Same thing as above.
All 3 make my phone reboot.
What am I doing wrong?
I don't use the same phone as you, but I think that /system is usually mounted as read only (ro). Some file managers can mount /system as read/write (rw). Or I think you can chmod /system to 777 in your terminal as su with the command chmod 777 /system. Also I think CWM has an option to mount /system as rw, but I may be wrong. If you chmod, remember to set it back. You'll need to know shell commands and how to read permissions from an ls -a -l command and reset them. Hope this helps.
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I have a few general questions for using adb, and also a related problem (which got me asking those questions).
Any help would be great.
1. when remounting which is the actual directory and which is the virtual one?
mount -o rw,remount dirA dirB
2. Is it possible to mount/remount several paths to the same virtual path? If so what happens when there are conflicts (directories or files with the same name)?
3. Is 'push' any different from just copying a file to the phone via USB?
Other than those questions I have a more specific one:
I'm trying to push a file into /system/app/ and /system/lib/ but I get a message that the directory is read-only.
I ran 'adb root' and then entered the shell, remounted this way:
'mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system'
It seemed to work (I just got the command echoed back to me with no error messages).
But still I got read-only when trying to push.
The remount does not appear anywhere when I check mounts. Also mtdblock3 does not even appear in /dev/block/.
I can see that there is an rw mount for '/dev/block/stl9 /system' in the mounts - could it be that for SGS stl9 is the block to use instead of mtdblock3?
If so then why can't I push the file (since it's already mounted as rw).
Sorry for all the questions but I'm new to adb.
I'm using SGS GT-I9000 running 2.2.1 based rom with lag-fix (system is ext4)
yuv1 said:
3. Is 'push' any different from just copying a file to the phone via USB?
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Adb push can push to more than just the sdcard.
It can also push to internal memory
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Hi all--in need of some help here--have been crusing the forums for three days and still hitting a brick wall...
Have a rooted (and minimally modded) Atrix 4g in serious need of a hard reset and all the pain that comes with as nearly every app force closes on startup.
Hoping to backup some of my data (contacts, SMS, etc), but unable to do so my usual way (an app, root explorer, or the like), so I'm attempting to use ADB pull to grab the .db files. I'm relatively comfortable with linux, but running into a problem with ro/rw permissions (I think).
have tried the following:
adb pull /data/...../mmssms.db (yields Permission Denied)
# cp /data/....mmssms.db (appears to copy, but no file in destination, and can't copy out of shell)
have been able to remount /system as rw, but not /data where the files are located.
Anybody have suggestions? I'd be most apprecative!
Copy the the files as superuser to your sdcard first and adb pull them from there.
Unfortunately, the whole reason I'm needing to reset is that every app (incl superuser accesses) force closes on start--no chance to move through the phone itself. Since the .db files are not in the usb-accessible file structure I'm thinking that ADB is the only way to access.
Does that make sense?
Hi, OP here--anybody else have a suggestion? Getting a little desperate here... Any thoughts would really be appreciated!
im assuming your accessing ADB via recovery?
You should be able to use su without superuser.apk's permission in that case - however, theoretically, you should not need to use su in recovery anyway.
you can try running
Code:
adb shell ls -l /data/data/*tele*/databases/mmssms.db
and see what you get permissions wise, maybe a chmod could fix it?
Otherwise you could try
Code:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /data
Another alternative to cp and adb pull is cat
Code:
adb shell cat /path/to/mmssms.db > /path/to/destination-file.db
might copy remote mmssms.db to a local file, while
Code:
adb shell
cat /path/to/mmssms.db > /path/to/destination-file.db
exit
would copy remote to remote
Is /data mounted at all?
This is strange, you should have read access to everything, especially in recovery.
What phone and what recovery?
Its not something as simple as geting the URIs the wrong war round ('cmd local remote' vs 'cmd remote local')?
So, still tinkering... Will give it one last try before I call it quits and just wipe the bloody thing. So, your thoughts were spot on--its probably me missing something.
Quick data dump on progress to data:
Phone: Rooted Motorola Atrix running 2.2
no trouble accessing shell or via ADB
/data is mounted, though only in Read Only mode--can't seem to change, have tried several ways in various modes (shell, su, etc)
Permissions for mmssms.db are: -rw-rw---- radio radio
chmod 777 of the file yields: "Read-only file system," which makes sense since I can't seem to change /data... to rw
Tried to remount rw:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /data
and
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 /system (for systeem
but get "Operation not permitted" in both cases.... UGH!
Hadn't thought of cat--great idea. Still no real joy however.
I seem to have managed a copy to /system, but can't seem to get it off the device or onto the SD card.
Thanks much for your help so far. Any final thoughts?
SO CLOSE!!!! (and yet...)
crags said:
Hadn't thought of cat--great idea. Still no real joy however.
I seem to have managed a copy to /system, but can't seem to get it off the device or onto the SD card.
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SO FRUSTRATING!!!! so close, but not quite there--HELP!!!
As noted at the end above, have been able to copy the mmssms.db file to /system/ after remounting as RW
Can't seem to copy or pull off the device--still getting "Permission Denied" no matter which course I try!?!?!
It sounds as if your doing this while booted into the ROM, and (maybe) without su (root)?
su-ing might help, just type su and hit return to enter a root shell
alternatively, going in through recovery ('adb shell reboot recovery') might help as most recoveries ignore permission rules - make sure to mount the partitions your using though.
It almost sounds like the sdcard has no write permissions - you can get the NAND partitions to mount rw, but cant copy to the sdcard.
On my Desire, there is (at least) two mount points: /sdcard and /mnt/sdcard - maybe on your phone only one of your mount points has write permissions?
Otherwise i suggest going in via recovery. You can still use adb (will have to manually mount - 'mount /system' 'mount /date' and 'mount /sdcard' usually work, otherwise use the menu item in recovery )
When in recovery, and after mounting partitions/card, try adb pull, cp /sdcard and cat > sdcard (and if possible cat > computer) plus anything else i forgot (quite tired )
if these dont work something is messed up somewhere in the ROM, or likely kernel and so without ideas a reflash would be the only real solution :/
I did have a bare-minimum+apps recovery script (attached) which might be worth a read to see if your forgetting something obvious - it works on my desire