I Read that to switch back and forth from backups if One is on ext3 and one on ext4 you need to revert back to corresponding ext# prior to restore?
My questions are how can you tell what ext you have, is there an easier way than running a terminal app?
And mainly right now I have new baseband, xboarders root version of update and stock kernel, I'm guessing I am on ext3 with this.
I have a backup of this and nvflash cwm.
I want to try faux kernel or trinity, with a nightly cm7 rom which would be ext 4 . What steps do I need to do to switch back and forth after I do this and have both backups.
Also do I flash rom and reboot, then install kernel and reboot or can I just install both at same time, does order matter? Thanks
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I have a rooted stock rom and tried flashing a kernel via KM but when I hit "download and flash" it takes me back to the kernel list. Anyone know how to fix this?
Question 2
Can i use the 32gb of internal memory to nand backup and flash roms and kernels with cwm? Or will factory reset,wipe procedures before flashing new roms also clear up the internal memory where I plan on storing roms and nand backups?
kenfly said:
I have a rooted stock rom and tried flashing a kernel via KM but when I hit "download and flash" it takes me back to the kernel list. Anyone know how to fix this?
Question 2
Can i use the 32gb of internal memory to nand backup and flash roms and kernels with cwm? Or will factory reset,wipe procedures before flashing new roms also clear up the internal memory where I plan on storing roms and nand backups?
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If you want to flash a kernel, why not just go to the Xoom Heaven thread in General; it's a compendium of Xoom resources. It'n not exhaustive but it's a wonderful place to start.
I'm not sure that Kernel Manager has been updated to work properly to flash current Xoom kernels.
OK, you are better off using the custom CWM Tiamat v3.2.0.0 R4c recovery, which will enable you to flash zip files from, and back-up to, the external microsd card. Get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074979
You can use the CWM v4.0.0.4 from Rom Manager to back-up to your internal storage, but it could get wiped, and you will not be able to flash any roms or kernels from internal storage (sdcard). the v4.0.0.x does not recognize the external microsd card.
There is a new recovery, based on the v4 which uses a usb thumb drive (check out the Rogue Recovery, if interested).
Hi,
I just flash ARHD 4.1.6 w/ Bricked v1.5 and everything is working great. I just have a few questions I hope could be answered.
1) I would like to put the advanced power menu and CRT animation mod on the phone. Are either of these able to be flashed with the 4.1.6 ROM? The second post in the ARHD thread says they are for 3.6 only.
2) I had a bunch of apps installed to my SD and now they no longer appear in the app menu (I still see their data on the SD Card). Does this happen on every rom flash, or just when I use Super Wipe.
3) Is there a way to reinstall the apps which are already on my SD Card?
4) I made a nandriod backup with CWM a long time ago to use as a fall back. The ARHD installation put ext4 on my phone in its place. Am I able to use the CWM backup with ext4 should I need to?
Thanks for your help!
1. There should bee a section off add ons for 4.x ROMs
2. Why are they on the SD card?
3. Reinstall from the Market
4. Doesn't matter, it'll work regardless
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somail25 said:
Hi,
I just flash ARHD 4.1.6 w/ Bricked v1.5 and everything is working great. I just have a few questions I hope could be answered.
1) I would like to put the advanced power menu and CRT animation mod on the phone. Are either of these able to be flashed with the 4.1.6 ROM? The second post in the ARHD thread says they are for 3.6 only.
2) I had a bunch of apps installed to my SD and now they no longer appear in the app menu (I still see their data on the SD Card). Does this happen on every rom flash, or just when I use Super Wipe.
3) Is there a way to reinstall the apps which are already on my SD Card?
4) I made a nandriod backup with CWM a long time ago to use as a fall back. The ARHD installation put ext4 on my phone in its place. Am I able to use the CWM backup with ext4 should I need to?
Thanks for your help!
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Hi,
In answer to your questions:
1) Here is the thread for the CRT animation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18478212&postcount=25006
Here is the one for the APM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18411950&postcount=24612
2) Flashing superwipe erase all user data, if you didn't do a Titanium backup, you will need to install them again from the market.
3) I don't think there is a way to reinstall without Titanium.
4) Yes, you should be able to restore the CWM backup with ext4, I have done it and it works fine.
Hope this helps.
Thanks!!
Flashed both and they work great.
I read about the titainium backup in the newb guides and totally forgot about it. Silly beginers mistake.
Thanks I'm looking for this one too
I recently installed WCX Illuminati [3.5 Sense Based on 1.22.461.2 (Quicksall Rcmix kernel v12 )overclocked to 1536 by default.].
While the ROM is not advertised to be (as far as I can tell) an EXT4 ROM, I noticed during the install the system was formatted as EXT4.
I'll like to experiment with some other ROMs that are EXT3. Do I have to go through any special steps to go back to an EXT3 ROM after running an EXT4 ROM, I can I just flash the new ROM though CM Recovery?
Thanks.
Four-Fifty-X said:
I recently installed WCX Illuminati [3.5 Sense Based on 1.22.461.2 (Quicksall Rcmix kernel v12 )overclocked to 1536 by default.].
While the ROM is not advertised to be (as far as I can tell) an EXT4 ROM, I noticed during the install the system was formatted as EXT4.
I'll like to experiment with some other ROMs that are EXT3. Do I have to go through any special steps to go back to an EXT3 ROM after running an EXT4 ROM, I can I just flash the new ROM though CM Recovery?
Thanks.
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There are no steps for that, just flash the new Rom. But make sure to flash CWM recovery first as the illuminati Rom uses stock recovery. Go to Rom manager and flash recovery. Once you have done that flash the Rom you want.
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glevitan said:
There are no steps for that, just flash the new Rom. But make sure to flash CWM recovery first as the illuminati Rom uses stock recovery. Go to Rom manager and flash recovery. Once you have done that flash the Rom you want.
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Good. Thanks.
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I was wondering this myself also. But I want to ask a little deeper question.
Say I have 2 ROMS. One that is ext3 and the other that is ext4. Each one formats the system appropriately when installed fresh. But say I have a NAND backup of the ext3 ROM on my card and I have the ext4 ROM installed on the phone at the present. Can I restore the ext3 ROM without doing anything other than the normal wiping using clockwork? Or would I have to reinstall the ext3 ROM fresh to get the proper format and then restore the backup?
And would it be the same going the other direction too?
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I was wondering this myself also. But I want to ask a little deeper question.
Say I have 2 ROMS. One that is ext3 and the other that is ext4. Each one formats the system appropriately when installed fresh. But say I have a NAND backup of the ext3 ROM on my card and I have the ext4 ROM installed on the phone at the present. Can I restore the ext3 ROM without doing anything other than the normal wiping using clockwork? Or would I have to reinstall the ext3 ROM fresh to get the proper format and then restore the backup?
And would it be the same going the other direction too?
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I guess but not sure that when you do a wipe to install a new Rom your partitions are formatted and ifvyo don't use an ext4 Rom then you will have just ext3.
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Agoattamer said:
I was wondering this myself also. But I want to ask a little deeper question.
Say I have 2 ROMS. One that is ext3 and the other that is ext4. Each one formats the system appropriately when installed fresh. But say I have a NAND backup of the ext3 ROM on my card and I have the ext4 ROM installed on the phone at the present. Can I restore the ext3 ROM without doing anything other than the normal wiping using clockwork? Or would I have to reinstall the ext3 ROM fresh to get the proper format and then restore the backup?
And would it be the same going the other direction too?
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I'm not sure how ClockworkMod handles this but I've been using 4EXT Recovery for a few months and it will automatically determine which format the ROM you're flashing uses and convert if necessary. Works for both fresh ROM flashes or backups.
I've been running ARHD and wanted to pull something off of the stock ROM backup I had. When I restored the stock nandroid, 4EXT formatted the existing ext4 partitions to ext3 and restored the backup. Then when I restored ARHD it automatically switched 'em back to ext4.
Thanks for the responses guys. Still looking for someone to answer positively on this last question. I don't want to be the someone asking about how to get my phone to boot when it is stuck on the white screen. lol.
Agoattamer said:
Thanks for the responses guys. Still looking for someone to answer positively on this last question. I don't want to be the someone asking about how to get my phone to boot when it is stuck on the white screen. lol.
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i'm with the other guy, i use 4EXT. but when making a backup it says "writing ext4 data" (or something along those lines) for each partition that uses ext4. it does the same for ext3.
i would be inclined to believe that CWM does the same thing and changes the file system accordingly. one way to check if it records the file system type would be to look at the tar files. go to sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/whatever-you-named-your-backup that folder should contain, at a minimum, the following files: system.xxxx.tar, data.xxxx.tar, boot.img, and an md5 file. the xxxx should be the file system that particular backup uses.
EDIT: that is assuming that CWM uses tar backups and not yaffs2. not sure how those backups are structured. either way the filesystem should still get recorded some how.
i think you'd be fine just restoring. there would have been massive amounts of new threads popping up saying "OMGIDIDARESTOREANDMYPHONEISFUX0RED!!!!" if anyone had any problems once ext4 showed its face. know what i mean?
as an alternative. why not just flash 4EXT Recovery? since you KNOW it does what you're asking? kinda takes the guess work out... lol
Hi guys, first post from me. I wish i could post this in the proper thread, but since i am new i am not allowed, so excuse me for the inconvenience.
I want to use custom roms to enhance my phone, i've been reading up in this forum and some video's on youtube. I've already rooted my phone before, so that part is out of the way.
Now here is my phone setup:
- Samsung Galaxy S Plus
fw= 2.3.5
baseband= I9001BOKP1
kernel= [email protected]#1
build= GINGERBREAD.BOK4
carrier= T-Mobile
- External SD Card, 486 MB
I just used the SD Card from my old Samsung phone (G-600)
The thing is, i have used Apps2SD to set apps to my SD card (the external one)
1.A: So if i am going to backup will that also be stored back to my SD after i format it?
1.B: Or is external SD card formatting not required for a fresh clean install?
The ROM i want to use is Cranium RC9
As i understand this ROM comes with a kernel as well, so..
2: should i do anything kernel related? (since it's my first time to install a ROM and all)
And finally..
3: What is the correct method for a 1st time/clean ROM installation?
If i look at the 1st post of the Cranium ROM thread, then i see install methods if you already have RC8. And the other method is for installing RC4. Please don't tell me i have to go through all the RC's to get to RC9 o_0
Thanks for at least reading this and hopefully some one can help me further on this
1.A When you backup, choose internal SD since backup has about 1GB of size if you have lots of apps. Go to feamod recovery 1.4, backup and restore then backup to internal sd card. When you finish ROM flashing restore your apps only in advanced restore.
1.B I don't think you have to format external sd, anyway you can back it up too.
2. I don't think so. The rom comes with a kernel..
3. For fresh ROM installation, Format system, data, and cache. You can also wipe dalvik cache. Then flash using ODIN or CWM, depending on the file. Reboot system and you can restore data only after going to cwm again.
You can also read fabsau's starter guide in our forum(i9001)..
In my opinion, try broodROM, comes with skyhigh kernel, ICS theme, beats audio, smoother scrolling and more..
If this helped press THANKS
Sent from my S+
Thanks this was helpful to me
As the title says i've been using custom roms for almost 2 years now, im currently on 4.1 sense and i could never make the roms work with an ext4 partition, i always end up reverting to an ext 2 or 3 partition, nor am i able to boot with the new OC kernel versions with any kind of partitions. Is there info on the subject?
i saw a post saying that certain memory increasing scrypts+kernel3+ext4 could result in bootloops, but even without memory scrypt i end on bootloop. Would it work i i flashed a 2.6 kernel on an ext 4 partition?
noobexplorer said:
As the title says i've been using custom roms for almost 2 years now, im currently on 4.1 sense and i could never make the roms work with an ext4 partition, i always end up reverting to an ext 2 or 3 partition, nor am i able to boot with the new OC kernel versions with any kind of partitions. Is there info on the subject?
i saw a post saying that certain memory increasing scrypts+kernel3+ext4 could result in bootloops, but even without memory scrypt i end on bootloop. Would it work i i flashed a 2.6 kernel on an ext 4 partition?
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new oc method doesn't work on every pico..I tried everything but no luck, make partition through recovery it's the best option & use mounts2sd. works for me.
noobexplorer said:
As the title says i've been using custom roms for almost 2 years now, im currently on 4.1 sense and i could never make the roms work with an ext4 partition, i always end up reverting to an ext 2 or 3 partition, nor am i able to boot with the new OC kernel versions with any kind of partitions. Is there info on the subject?
i saw a post saying that certain memory increasing scrypts+kernel3+ext4 could result in bootloops, but even without memory scrypt i end on bootloop. Would it work i i flashed a 2.6 kernel on an ext 4 partition?
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Kernel 3 has some mounting problem with ext4 filesystem type partition.. you can try with kernel 2.6.. but for performance .. kernel 3.. anyday.. If I were you , id change my partition type to ext2.. its supposed to be faster than ext3..
Need urgent help
i had rooted my pico months back and was on different custom roms......now i want 2 get back to the stock rom which i have downloaded Odexed Stock ROM Flashable Zip (With Link2SD Support)(Revision 3)(http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...4&postcount=76) and i have flashed this rom 5 - 10 times and everytime i reboot after flashing the rom..(i have an 8 gb class 4 sd card which has an 512 mb ext3/4 partition)...i am stuck on htc boot logo.....can u plssssss help
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noobexplorer said:
As the title says i've been using custom roms for almost 2 years now, im currently on 4.1 sense and i could never make the roms work with an ext4 partition, i always end up reverting to an ext 2 or 3 partition, nor am i able to boot with the new OC kernel versions with any kind of partitions. Is there info on the subject?
i saw a post saying that certain memory increasing scrypts+kernel3+ext4 could result in bootloops, but even without memory scrypt i end on bootloop. Would it work i i flashed a 2.6 kernel on an ext 4 partition?
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Backup and partition your SD card using the latest CWM or TWRP recovery. Restore your data to the fat32 formatted partition. Then follow this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389501 (The int2ext script works on most custom roms, s2e doesn't support 4.3 roms yet).