Is there an easy method that i can use without a computer to format my sd card to ext4? looks like most all new ROMs are ext4 and i've tried to load the newest Virtuous Unity ROM but it just hangs at the bootanimation screen.
I know about the search button but these links have offered me no help.
I don't know how you would go about getting ext4 without a computer but I'm running VU 1.29 without having formatted my SD card.
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did you just download from RomManager and then do an install?
Oh no. The last time I looked, the version available through rom manager was 1.26, the current version is 1.29 (released 7/18). I ran 1.26 without formatting my SD card also. You may have gotten a bad flash. I would try downloading the newest VU from their websites and flashing again.
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Could somebody PLEASE give me walk through of the holy grail here? I have rooted my aria and loaded cyanogen nightlies many times, but when it comes time to format and get a2sd working on a partitioned card I fail miserably. I seem to run into issues when the guides mention to go into recovery and partition the card. I am running clockwork and can't find the right partition menu. I tried a method involving adb and could not get a file to push, downloaded darktremor and got an endless htc screen boot loop, and at this point my phone may as well be a missile to my computer screen. I am a noob, but not entirely unfamiliar, just some sort of help getting to that last screen where I see lots of phone memory and can finally lay off deleting apps to add one.
Thanks and I hope someone is out there willing to help!
Can't give you a link from here, but I can encourage you to look for a forum that discusses Ext3 partitioning using a live ubuntu cd. You may have rooted using a similar method. I'll try to remember to send you a link when I get home. Search until then. Post if you find it.
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Why not just use Rom Manager to partition the card?
I tried that many times but it never worked. It always hung up on the ! triangle screen. I had no problems with the live cd method.
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Found the link...
androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/
I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.
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duckredbeard said:
Found the link...
androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/
I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.
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Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.
Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.
I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.
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I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.
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and I am running out of space on a 16 gb card. 12gb mp3s and 600+ pictures will do that.
attn1 said:
Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.
Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.
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thanks for this attn. i had seen posts about swap on other devices and wondered if it would help my aria. i'm glad i didn't try to set it up...
Thanks everone for responding. This is where I am with the partition. So when I put the card the phone and mount sd card it shows the same amount of memory in the phone (77.26) when I added a gig of ext2 in gparted.
Do I need to go back into gparted and charnge the ext2 to ext3? Or is this an issue where I need to change something in the phone I am missing. I did reboot after putting the card in.
You won't see any increased capacity there. What you will see after apps2sd is working is that the amount of internal used will go down. I had to reinstall apps2sd after I did the partition, even though darktremor's apps2sd came with my ROM. It defaulted to off because it saw no ext partition upon ROM installation.
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So I wipe data and flash a cyanogen nightly it will automatically pick up a2sdext and show the proper storage data?
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I haven't been in this position myself (always clean installs since using a2ext) but I believe if you have darktremor's a2sd installed and have ext on your sd card, but apps are still on the device, you can do:
su
a2sd reinstall
in the terminal app on the device and it will move all apps from device memory to the ext partition. not sure how this behaves if you have any apps on sd via the standard froyo method....
I don't have a problem wiping data, dalvik and cache since I backed up everything. Going to give it a shot here...
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Fwiw, I have been using this method up until this release candidate. Seems broken now.
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Ok, so I tried wiping data/cache/dalvikr then flashed cyanogen nightly 99 and it still only showed 138m internal memory. So then I tried downloading darktremor and flashing the zip from clockwork which gives me infinate htc white bootscreens. Then I tried wiping again and flashed the darktremor zip and then cyanogen 99 and the phone booted up, but when I check internal memory I am at 123m. Am I just completely missing something here?
You are likely seeing dalvik. If you have a good SD card, do su in a terminal and then a2sd cachesd. The phone will reboot.
That moves dalvik to SD as well.
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You are likely seeing dalvik. If you have a good SD card, do su in a terminal and then a2sd cachesd. The phone will reboot.
That moves dalvik to SD as well.
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Says a2sd not found. If anyone has any ideas, I am willing to start from scrap to get this running. BelacNongaw, how did you get yours running? If you don't mind I could try tracing the steps you took and that might work?
Did you type:
su
system/bin/a2sd cachesd
in terminal?
which one u recommend:
Android Revolution HD or Ledroid?
Virtuous. It has an advanced pull down menu and Wi-Fi calling. But if it I must choose between those two I'd say LeeDroid. Used it for a bit before switching to Virtuous because I really needed those extra options in the pull down.
Virtuous is avaiable for HTC sensation?
+1 for virtuous. I'm running v1.0.1 and its very fast and stable. Can oc up to 1.8 ghz but its really unnecessary because this rom us perfectly smooth.
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anyone else? can compare what have and dont have...
one more question, when u do FUll WIPE it will erase everything. now if we want to restore new rom we must turn on the phone and than put the .zip to the sd card than bot again and restore so my question is is there any method to do full wipe without removing .zip rom!?
htcsensation said:
one more question, when u do FUll WIPE it will erase everything. now if we want to restore new rom we must turn on the phone and than put the .zip to the sd card than bot again and restore so my question is is there any method to do full wipe without removing .zip rom!?
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Wipe doesn't touch the sdcard
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at my phone YES!
it can access sd card, the sd is partitioned do i need to reformat at win than put it back on it and do the wipe?
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it can access sd card, the sd is partitioned do i need to reformat at win than put it back on it and do the wipe?
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Your SD Card doesn't need to be partitioned for a Sensation. But a wipe doesn't format your partition unless you specifically select it.
I'm on CWM right now...I just got done completely wiping the phone and went to restore a backup I have and I get this error:
MD5 Mismatch!
And it won't do anything. I can't reboot the phone because I just wiped everything, so I have no where to go. Please help!
RUU?
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mobilehavoc said:
RUU?
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What does that mean?
I think my only option right now is to go to the store and buy a microsd card reader so I can put a rom zip file on my sd card and then get it up and running.
brian85 said:
What does that mean?
I think my only option right now is to go to the store and buy a microsd card reader so I can put a rom zip file on my sd card and then get it up and running.
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You're using CWM and you don't know what an RUU is...Great.
Go flash a stock ROM via USB and that way at least you will have a ROM back.
Or, go and use the mount SD card option in CWM to mount your SD card to the PC that way. Then you can copy over a ROM zip file and flash that way.
Alright I'm downloading a stock rooted rom right now.
Any ideas what caused this problem? Only thing I can think of is I made all the backups in cwm 4.0.1.5, but I went back to 4.0.1.4 because of the charging issues, and 4.0.1.4 was the one I was using to try and restore my backups.
I just want to know for next time.
I'm pretty sure that means there was an error signing the backup.
You also didn't have to buy an SD card reader, you can mount your SD card in CWM under mounts and storage
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I'm pretty sure that means there was an error signing the backup.
You also didn't have to buy an SD card reader, you can mount your SD card in CWM under mounts and storage
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And what exactly does that mean?
After I get this up and running I'm going to try and do a backup with 4.0.1.4 and make sure it works with that version.
Whew, back up and running on stock rooted rom.
Hello does any one know how to mount internal sd on cm9 because I don't have an external sd card.
Thank you
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Need an external sd
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No I'm pretty sure you can use internal memory
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22569708&postcount=203
try the second method
Ok i can't get either method to work. I've tried editing it myself and I used your zip.
Whats strange is, I scrubbed everything with the g2x scrubber AND i wiped everything manually. I still get this stupid issue with the SD card and also, a Background from my previous rom loads up all of a sudden????
I know a lot of people got this working and all but damn, this has to be the worst rom I've ever dealt with in terms of getting this to work.
I was working on this last night, DO NOT MESS WITH THIS STUFF IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!!!! I wiped the internal partitions and it took me a good 4 hours to get my baby back!
It's gonna have to wait till a ROM dev adds the function back into cm 9. I was trying to change all of the necessary files myself, i figured that the file system was close enough to Linux for new to figure it out, like spare parts did in cm7.
but it ended up in a real nasty soft brick.
Seriously, messing with your vold.fstab can f up your recovery partition and make it so you can't get into recovery, and you can't reflash it because the partition tables aren't there.
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Arcee sk3 has a setting for internal storage settings>storage> hit menu button>storage config and select internal storage.. haven't actually tried to connect to PC yet
Hello, i recently returned to stock. Afterwards I re-installed CM9, now my SD card won't mount in anything, when i try to mount it in CM9 it just immediatly says SD card safe to remove. any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Also I have tried the method in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459 but it did not help.
Do u have cwm or twrp?
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I am currently running cwm
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I recently had a problem with the sdcard not being mountable too. Mine was corrupted so I had to reformat it.
In was using twrp recovery but it is probably the same with Cwm. Try to mount the sdcard from recovery with your pc. The pc might say it needs to be reformatted before use. If so, you just format it to fat32.
Hope it is this simple for you too.
No, the card will not mount in recovery.
Would returning my phone to stock help me in this matter at all?
Cwm can't mount sd card usr twrp
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I tried twrp and it still won't mount.
Did you look at this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
It is a common problem.
OK i ran through the process in the post again, for some reason it seems to have worked ths time around. Thanks for the help!