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[Q] Cannot upgrade from Cyanogenmod 7.0.3 to 7.1: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk01

Hello,
First I'd like to tell that I've already searched the forum using Google for my problem, but I'm really new to Android and almost all posts are using lots of acronyms that I don't understand. Eventually I found myself with so many tabs opened in my browser that I almost lost what I was looking for at first.
I have a rooted (with Unrevoked) HTC Desire (Clockworkmod Recovery is in place), on which I managed to install Cyangenmod 7.0.3 a few months ago. I can't recall how I get to this result unfortunately. At the time, I only remember that I fiddled a lot because although there are plenty of howtos for many different things, they look all different and/or specific to one device, and the newbie user is not warned about the potential differences he could face.
Now I would like to upgrade to Cyanogenmod 7.1 (for bug fixes) and install DarkTremor App2SD (because I've created an ext4 partition long ago on my SD-card, naively thinkg it would be used, but it stays desperately empty; and the phone internal memory is almost full despite my strenuous attempts to move as much apps as possible to the SD card using, as far as I can tell, CyanogenMod's Apps2SD).
I stumbled on a nice video explaining "how to upgrade Cyanogenmod 7" (search this exact string on Youtube): basically, it uses ROM Manager to install the new Cyanogenmod without wiping (this is probably something that the ROM supports between minor versions). As I understand it, I should be able to use this method to install DarkTremor App2SD as well.
So I've download the Cyanogenmod 7.1 zip file and even copied in as "update.zip" in the root of my FAT32 partition of my SD card. Unfortunately, Clockwordmod Recovery spits the following message:
Code:
Waiting for SD Card to mount (12s)
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(Invalid Argument)
Waiting for SD Card to mount (11s)
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(Invalid Argument)
[...]
Timed out waiting for SD Card...
and then goes back to the recovery menu.
My SD card is partitioned with the following scheme (output is from Linux parted on /dev/sdb, which is accessed through an USB cable with USB storage activated on the phone):
Code:
(parted) p
Model: HTC Desire (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 16.4kB 67.1MB 67.1MB primary
2 67.1MB 537MB 470MB primary ext4
3 537MB 16.0GB 15.5GB primary fat32 lba
As you can see, the first partition is a swap partition (not sure it has been ever used though), the second one in my ext4 partition where I want to move my apps and the third one in the FAT32 partition which contains update.zip.
Thus my understanding it that /dev/block/mmcblk0(p1) points at best to the swap partition. Am I correct?
I could use another temporary SD card to perform the update, but this is unwieldy and given this partitioning scheme looks pretty common among the Android community, I wonder there's an easier way and/or if I missed something.
Please, avoid "me too" replies . And you would be nice if you avoided using acronyms as much as possible when replying (or at least, give a definition upon first use).
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers,
-- Tatazou

tatazou said:
Hello,
My SD card is partitioned with the following scheme (output is from Linux parted on /dev/sdb, which is accessed through an USB cable with USB storage activated on the phone):
Code:
(parted) p
Model: HTC Desire (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 16.4kB 67.1MB 67.1MB primary
2 67.1MB 537MB 470MB primary ext4
3 537MB 16.0GB 15.5GB primary fat32 lba
As you can see, the first partition is a swap partition (not sure it has been ever used though), the second one in my ext4 partition where I want to move my apps and the third one in the FAT32 partition which contains update.zip.
Thus my understanding it that /dev/block/mmcblk0(p1) points at best to the swap partition. Am I correct?
-- Tatazou
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I think I got this more or less confirmed: I got into the phone with "adb shell" and checked /proc/partitions:
Code:
major minor #blocks name
31 0 640 mtdblock0
31 1 5120 mtdblock1
31 2 2560 mtdblock2
31 3 256000 mtdblock3
31 4 40960 mtdblock4
31 5 151168 mtdblock5
179 0 15637504 mmcblk0
179 1 65520 mmcblk0p1
179 2 458752 mmcblk0p2
179 3 15113216 mmcblk0p3
Apart from the internal storage, you can see the mmcblk0 device and its partitions whose sizes match the parted output above.

[Q] gt-i9003sl odd boot loop

Hi every body.
I have a gt-i9003sl that I'm trying to fix.
It was never flashed or root, and one day, it start to slowly screw, for finishing by boot looping.
Well, I know there is a lot of theads about boot loop on gt-i9003sl.
I read a lot of them, I tried a lot of things, and no solution find in xda-developers or else where, worked.
But today, the phone works, but not as I want.
I get from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12310841#post12310841 the XKPQ rom.
I flash the phone with. (I used heimdall under Debian Sid)
I put a 4 go and 16 go microsd in the phone.
Make three partition before :
1 Partion fat16
1 fat32
an other fat16
turn on the phone, and after reboot the recovery menu, the phone works.
Nothing else done.
I tryed it many times, and it always works.
But the phone use only 297.94 mo for the first fat16 partition.
1.87 go for the second fat32 partition.
959.94 mo for the last fat16 partition.
Even if I make greater partition size, the recovery is lunched at boot, and every changes are canceled.
Moreover I dont have anymore access to the external memory from the phone.
When i try to mount sdcard or usb, the system seems to try something, but nothing happen.
And if I erase from android menu, memories (sd and usb), at boot, recovery menu is lunched again, and the phone is reset.
It erases the whole sdcard.
last but not the least, the camera doesn't work.
Android asks to "turn off usb storage before using camera".
How can I use the whole memory?
How can I get back the camera?
Thank you

work in progress
Hi
I found something that bring back the camera.
I fallow this post and it works :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32969876&postcount=24
But I have always the same problem, the phone partioning itself the 16go sdcard :
1 fat32
1 Partion fat16
1 fat32
an other fat16
and make
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
the main storage.
How can I change the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 size and type (like ext4?).
How and why android make these changes?

initrd
Hi
I think I begin to understand.
Changes made by android, are hardcoded in the kernel.
It's like linux kernel...
At least, I understand this from here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31017954&postcount=5335
So I have to modify the 'initrd.img' like image.
Where is it?
And I have some questions :
Why when I remove the micro sdcard, I see this from adb :
Code:
# parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
Error: Could not stat device /dev/block/mmcblk0 - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel?
and :
Code:
ls /dev/block
bml0!c bml4 loop2 ram10 ram4 stl11 stl7 tfsr13 tfsr9
bml1 bml5 loop3 ram11 ram5 stl12 stl8 tfsr2 zram0
bml10 bml6 loop4 ram12 ram6 stl13 stl9 tfsr3
bml11 bml7 loop5 ram13 ram7 stl2 tfsr0!c tfsr4
bml12 bml8 loop6 ram14 ram8 stl3 tfsr1 tfsr5
bml13 bml9 loop7 ram15 ram9 stl4 tfsr10 tfsr6
bml2 loop0 ram0 ram2 stl1 stl5 tfsr11 tfsr7
bml3 loop1 ram1 ram3 stl10 stl6 tfsr12 tfsr8
Code:
mount -a
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 on /data failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /emmc failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory
Where are :
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1
Is it very usefull to have swap partition in android?
Thanks

Fixing partition tables on android device, no official ROM availiable

Hi guys,
I have a device called "bingo future star fs1" which is not listed in your device listing. This is a pretty new company with this just one android phone. No official/unofficial ROM is available to reflash the firmware. The only good thing i have is CWM restorable backup in my 32gb SD card. I am unable to restore it because my internal partitions are messed up.
I had my device rooted and CWM installed. On reading from google search, i found an application that claimed to increase the application memory by resizing the internal card partition.(my device had 1gb app memory, 1.7gb internal card, 4gb ROM). I did everything correct and after restarting the device it only shows the logo forever. However, i am able to reach CWM recovery but cant restore the backup i have. It says
E : cant mount cache
E : unable to mount cache/last log or something similar
when i try to restore the backup, it gives "Error while formatting system"
E:format_volume : make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
I again read a lot of posts from google search and XDA and tried with parted. I pushed parted files via adb, chmodded them. After reaching the step where we can see all contents of partition 0, it says "Error:cant have partition outside the disk" .
Code:
loop0 loop4 mmcblk0 mmcblk0p2 mmcblk1p1
loop1 loop5 mmcblk0boot0 mmcblk0p3 platform
loop2 loop6 mmcblk0boot1 mmcblk0p4 zram0
loop3 loop7 mmcblk0p1 mmcblk1
I dont know what to do. Please help!

phploaded said:
Hi guys,
I have a device called "bingo future star fs1" which is not listed in your device listing. This is a pretty new company with this just one android phone. No official/unofficial ROM is available to reflash the firmware. The only good thing i have is CWM restorable backup in my 32gb SD card. I am unable to restore it because my internal partitions are messed up.
I had my device rooted and CWM installed. On reading from google search, i found an application that claimed to increase the application memory by resizing the internal card partition.(my device had 1gb app memory, 1.7gb internal card, 4gb ROM). I did everything correct and after restarting the device it only shows the logo forever. However, i am able to reach CWM recovery but cant restore the backup i have. It says
E : cant mount cache
E : unable to mount cache/last log or something similar
when i try to restore the backup, it gives "Error while formatting system"
E:format_volume : make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
I again read a lot of posts from google search and XDA and tried with parted. I pushed parted files via adb, chmodded them. After reaching the step where we can see all contents of partition 0, it says "Error:cant have partition outside the disk" .
Code:
loop0 loop4 mmcblk0 mmcblk0p2 mmcblk1p1
loop1 loop5 mmcblk0boot0 mmcblk0p3 platform
loop2 loop6 mmcblk0boot1 mmcblk0p4 zram0
loop3 loop7 mmcblk0p1 mmcblk1
I dont know what to do. Please help!
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Sir can you please tell,how to install cwm in FS1.

dual boot mtk 6582

so I was just trying to dual boot mtk 6582 (qmobile noir I7) I have set up three partitions in sd card
system 1024 MB (Ext 4 )
data 2048 MB (ext 4 )
cache 550 MB (ext 4)
I changed updater script to and replaced mmcblk0p5 to mmcblk1p2 as 2 is partition no on ext SD but it doesn't make any changes to it .
I also edited fstab in bootimg to access these locations instead of [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] to mmcblk1p2, mmcblk1p3 and mmcblk1p4 respectively but what I see is there is no placement of files in these partitions
what am I doing wrong ?
I used mintool to make partitions and then latter see the state of these partitions after flashing rom as secondary rom

ZP980 unbrick/study of partition table

Hi to all, I hope to be posting in the right section...otherwise...punish me plz
It's a long story, so i hope that someone has time and want to put some effort to help me understand what i'm doing wrong.
By the way i work in IT field and have some knowledge about linux (let's say 5 on 10) but not so many on how android really works, but i'm confortable with custom recovery and roms, i'm still using an s4 mini (GT-I9195) with mine android 9 custom rom and i'm super happy with it.
Now that presentation are done , here is the matter.
I've found an old zp980 32GB (NOT the "plus one") that some years ago i've rooted it flashed with recovery and custom rom. all was working, but at some point i started playing with fdisk and parted and i messed up things.
Honestly i don't remember what exactly i was doing, but now the status of the phone is:
System not booting
I can enter into Recovery (custom TWRP by dezmen3 v2.4.4.0)
I can connect to adb into recovery
I cannot flash rom trough recovery due the actual system partition (589 MB)
I cannot flash the original rom trough SP flash tool due "SFT enable dram failed (4032)" error
The partitions actually are (what i can see from recovery):
System (589 MB)
Data (54MB)
Boot (6 MB)
Recovery (6MB)
Cache (4 MB)
uboot(0 MB)
nvram (5 MB)
Free space: 27412 MB
Actually, I've tried to reformat the memory using SP flah tool, but i got the same error "SFT enable dram failed (4032)", all drivers are ok, i can see COM port in deivce manager tried win 10 and even win 7.
SP tool ver. used v5 1720 more updated version tells me that the brick i'm tringo to flash in not supported anymore xD
Here a dump of fdisk -ul /dev/block/mmcblk0 from adb shell
Bash:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 1024 1022 2147483647+ 5 Extended
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 26624 47103 10240 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 47104 67583 10240 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 93184 105471 6144 83 Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 134144 1465343 665600 83 Linux
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 4869120 1022 2145049599+ 83 Linux
if i make a print from parted (pushed with adb) I get:
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Before i was also having an error saying that there was an extended partition into a logical one (don't ask me how I do it), but i removed it
So, now....what to to to rescue this device?
by the way honestly except for the instinct of "recover things that doesn't work" my main purpose is understand:
What I've messed on the partitions
Why sp flash tool can't reformat/flash the memory (i haven't tried to manually modify it again)

no brave person hat want to help me to brick it in a bad way?
EDIT NEW INFO
i've understtod that the problem was caused by
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
and
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6
start and end were inverted , them were overflowing.
Now i used fdisk to remove part 1 (the extended), so i've lost also 5 and 6 (system and cache) and i have recreated them using 1 GB for each and using correct sector order.
now SD and try to flash a ....random compatible rom....see u later for info.
Cross your finger for me xD

flash failed it cant mount system and emmc.....
and now
~ # cat /etc/fstab
/cache ext4 rw
/data ext4 rw
/emmc vfat rw
/system ext4 rw
/sdcard vfat rw
/sd-ext auto rw

if someone has a zp980/c2 working can please post me the result of
cat /etc/fstab
from adb shell??
and a fdisk -ul?