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Fat32 partition now ext2!!

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I was running Mz's CM6 RC3 today and I decided to go back to 2.1 for a while so I backed up my current ROM and selected backup all in MZ's openrecovery. Suspiciously, it was backing up SD ext too but I only had a fat32 SD card second partition, not an ext2 so I thought how it was possible? But I didn't bother and just factory reseted after backing up and went to one of my 2.1 backups. After a while, I decided to switch to the backup that I had just made (the cm6 one). I restored all, including SD ext. Now in openrecovery, the filesystem for the second partition shows ext2!!! I am 100% sure I had fat32 last time. Not only that, now the second partition can't be mounted for link2sd to work (the error always comes cannot mount Dev block....blablabla) what happened to my SD card partition? ?
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Whoops sorry the error is mount script cannot be created I mean (for the link2sd error I get) Look at attached photo.
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Nandroid always restores as ext2 and your 2.1 probably doesn't have ext2 modules. Your partition table also incorrectly lists the ext partion as FAT--that's probably not a serious problem.
I would put the card in a computer and reformat the extra as fat. The sd-ext nandroid is just a .tar file so you can extract that on windows manually.

Mioze7Ae said:
Nandroid always restores as ext2 and your 2.1 probably doesn't have ext2 modules. Your partition table also incorrectly lists the ext partion as FAT--that's probably not a serious problem.
I would put the card in a computer and reformat the extra as fat. The sd-ext nandroid is just a .tar file so you can extract that on windows manually.
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Oh so now all i have to do is repartition my sd card?

You will need to back up your apps and what you save and whipe all your sdcard
from ho!no cm7 2.3.7

androidlover123 said:
Oh so now all i have to do is repartition my sd card?
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No, I think you just have to reformat the second partition as fat. You don't have to touch the main fat partition.
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I decided to partition my second partition as ext2. But somehow link2sd was not working but then i remembered u r supposed to create a sd-ext/link2sd directory so i created that, rebooted the phone and now i have apps on my ext2 partition! thx for all ur help! btw, is ext2 like better(faster maybe) compared to fat32?

[Q] Couple questons

I just got the phone. Att version. I had a cappy before and couldn't resist flashing roms on this as soon as i got it. I'm running quikwiz and sometimes the phone doesn't ten on with the power button after a certain while. I can tell the phone is still on but the screen won't show up when i hit the power button. So I always have to restart the phone. (Vol up/power button)
I noticed when i first flashed a rom it gave me a warning. Do the carriers now know how to detect flashed devices?
Last question. My SD card isn't being detected. I'm flashing roms from the internal SD option.
Thanks in advance!
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Carriers can tell its rooted if u try to turn it in rooted/ runing custom rom.
There is a flash counter that trips when you flash a custom kernel.
It depends on where you place the roms you want to flash. You most likley thought you were puting them on the external sd but infact put them on the internal. Click menu settings then storage. It will tell you how much free space is on the internal and external sd cards.

silver03wrx said:
Carriers can tell its rooted if u try to turn it in rooted/ runing custom rom.
There is a flash counter that trips when you flash a custom kernel.
It depends on where you place the roms you want to flash. You most likley thought you were puting them on the external sd but infact put them on the internal. Click menu settings then storage. It will tell you how much free space is on the internal and external sd cards.
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So since I've done all that and return to stock and try to return it to them, any chance of them finding out? I don't have an external SD card. When i had my captivate their was no option for internel. In recovery it just said SD card. Now in this phone it says externel SD won't mount and i tried mounting it from recovery it won't mount. The reason I'm asking is because when i downloaded the driver for chain fire it gave the option for recovery. I did it and it said externel SD won't mount. Am i just supposed to to put everything in my internal and flash it from there?
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ATT has never seemed to mind my exchanged devices being rooted. They're refurbished anyhow after the exchange.... hope im not pressing my luck though..

Well yeah it wont mount if you did not physically put an external sd card in your phone. And it does not matter where you put your roms. Internal or if you get an external sd

Ok it was just a little different than the recovery on my previous phone so it confused me a little.
Carriers are getting smarter. :/
P.s. anyone know anything about my other screen not turning on problem?
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Sounds like a bug.in the rom. I strongly suggest flashing red sonja rom. And by strongly i mean DO IT NOW lol

silver03wrx said:
Sounds like a bug.in the rom. I strongly suggest flashing red sonja rom. And by strongly i mean DO IT NOW lol
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Alright i was trying out all the roms anyways. Hopefully that rom is so beastly it fixes my problem.
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Oh yeah its amazing. No vibrate but other then that its the best and approved by chuck norris
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Problem in cwm based recovery

I want to flash my phone with custom ROM, that's why, I tried to backup my current Rom using cwm recovery. Unfortunately, it caused error. The message show like this..
CWM based recovery v6.0.1.2
Sd card space free 3780MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up system...
Freeing space...
Done freeing space...
Backing up data...
No /sdcard/.android_secure found
. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete...
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you have vergeance kernel or you just flashed cwm with cmd? (from your pc)
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Ya, I flashed cwm through pc. What's the solution? How can I take backup?
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i think that cwm is old version....see here
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these are from srl3gx thread at android development section....go here, download a newer version and try again ...then say if it worked
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Doesn't seem like much of an error to me. Except the fact it skips one of the sd's.
Well, report the results after updating CWM indeed.
But I think you're fine as long as you dont clean your external sd and internal storage (although it might lose it's connections to the apps installed on external SD). Or perhaps make a back-up of them to your PC.
Regards, Drago

That's normal your backup has been made bro.
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Dragoboss said:
Doesn't seem like much of an error to me. Except the fact it skips one of the sd's.
Well, report the results after updating CWM indeed.
But I think you're fine as long as you dont clean your external sd and internal storage (although it might lose it's connections to the apps installed on external SD). Or perhaps make a back-up of them to your PC.
Regards, Drago
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I hv updated cwm. It's better than previous one, doesn't free the space. It took all the backup bt at last the same output, no sd-ext found.
I tried using both internal n external sd, result is same but I found backup folder in clockworkmod and size almost 1.05GB.
Is it done perfectly???
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sohaan said:
I hv updated cwm. It's better than previous one, doesn't free the space. It took all the backup bt at last the same output, no sd-ext found.
I tried using both internal n external sd, result is same but I found backup folder in clockworkmod and size almost 1.05GB.
Is it done perfectly???
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The backup is done.sd-ext is just kept through CWM versions, is unused mostly.

[SOLVED - PLEASE LOCK!] CWM cannot find files in SD Card - Miro

Hi... I wanted to flash a custom ROM for Miro but the problem is everytime I choose (install zip from SD card), CWM says that there are no files found. Please help me.
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pROAddicts said:
Hi... I wanted to flash a custom ROM for Miro but the problem is everytime I choose (install zip from SD card), CWM says that there are no files found. Please help me.
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No external sd option??????????

pROAddicts said:
CWM says that there are no files found.
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Did you try mounting SD Card before flashing?
Regards.

Droid.Riz said:
No external sd option??????????
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The one highlighted with white, the top most, is the "install from SD" option... And everytime i selected it, it says "No files found" as you can see at the bottom.

Naney said:
Did you try mounting SD Card before flashing?
Regards.
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Yeah... I unmounted it then mounted it again... Still the same...

I see why, You are using CWM 6.0.1.2, if you wanna see your files you have to put them on the ext-card ( external sd card ).

Mystogan said:
I see why, You are using CWM 6.0.1.2, if you wanna see your files you have to put them on the ext-card ( external sd card ).
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i already did... in fact I have files in ext card and sd card... 6.0.1.2? does it have any issues? can you recommend a CWM version good for MIRO? Or TWRP instead??

pROAddicts said:
i already did... in fact I have files in ext card and sd card... 6.0.1.2? does it have any issues? can you recommend a CWM version good for MIRO? Or TWRP instead??
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Have you recently formatted your SD cards for any reason at all?
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pROAddicts said:
i already did... in fact I have files in ext card and sd card... 6.0.1.2? does it have any issues? can you recommend a CWM version good for MIRO? Or TWRP instead??
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I only ask because any version is as good as the other... It only matters that your version of Android corresponds to the version of your recovery.
Any version recovery SHOULD be able to read your storage.
If you like you can try this.
Enable usb debugging and connect the device to your computer (hope you have one lol) Proceed to transfer all of your personal files from internal/external SD to your computer.
Next step is crucial. In order for recovery to read storage, both internal and external SD cards must be formatted in fat32. This is what you need to do. It can only be done through windows. Quickly Google/XDA search "format SD cards to fat32". Follow instructions exactly as written. After completion transfer all files back to your device, boot into recovery and your files should be present.
This, my friend, is the best I've got to help you. If you choose to try, I will claim no responsibility should any damages occur
Best of luck to you, sir.
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Skywalker.00 said:
Have you recently formatted your SD cards for any reason at all?
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I only ask because any version is as good as the other... It only matters that your version of Android corresponds to the version of your recovery.
Any version recovery SHOULD be able to read your storage.
If you like you can try this.
Enable usb debugging and connect the device to your computer (hope you have one lol) Proceed to transfer all of your personal files from internal/external SD to your computer.
Next step is crucial. In order for recovery to read storage, both internal and external SD cards must be formatted in fat32. This is what you need to do. It can only be done through windows. Quickly Google/XDA search "format SD cards to fat32". Follow instructions exactly as written. After completion transfer all files back to your device, boot into recovery and your files should be present.
This, my friend, is the best I've got to help you. If you choose to try, I will claim no responsibility should any damages occur
Best of luck to you, sir.
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thanks for helping out... i tried but to NO avail... consequently, I used TWRP for MIRO, then iwas able to read both SD card and Internal memory.... Currently installing Jelly Bean Mini Project Release 5 I'' update this thread or close this if everything is going fine!

pROAddicts said:
thanks for helping out... i tried but to NO avail... consequently, I used TWRP for MIRO, then iwas able to read both SD card and Internal memory.... Currently installing Jelly Bean Mini Project Release 5 I'' update this thread or close this if everything is going fine!
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I'm glad you got it sorted
Have fun!!
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I have used CWM 6.0.2.8 instead... Now External SD is read... SOLVED!

Internal Storage issue

Hello all, is there a trick to accessing the full amount of storage after several ROM flashes? My p3113 is low on storage, but the numbers just don't add up. The total space says 4.59GB (assuming system eats up the rest of the 8GB) but when I add up the usage stats its only roughly 2.8GB. And it is telling me only 516MB available? Any help would be much appreciated.
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mr_cj said:
Hello all, is there a trick to accessing the full amount of storage after several ROM flashes? My p3113 is low on storage, but the numbers just don't add up. The total space says 4.59GB (assuming system eats up the rest of the 8GB) but when I add up the usage stats its only roughly 2.8GB. And it is telling me only 516MB available? Any help would be much appreciated.View attachment 2589937
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Yes, that does look a little off. I would suggest go into TWRP and do a full backup and make sure it's on your sd card. Pull the sd card just to be safe. Wipe the internal memory. Then restore your backup from the sd card. I'm guessing you have some left over crud on the internal from either dirty flashing or an incomplete wipe prior to flashing. This should fix ya.

If Wolf's suggestion doesn't get you the results you want (it should, but if it doesn't)...and you got some free time...odin back to stock and use the .pit for your device to repartition all memory.
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Cool, it worked. I used cwm, pulled my SD card, formatted everything I could. I didn't restore the backup as I had just flashed slimkat official when I noticed the memory issue so just wanted to do a clean install. But I have all the memory available now. Thanks for the help. I appreciate your response!
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mr_cj said:
Cool, it worked. I used cwm, pulled my SD card, formatted everything I could. I didn't restore the backup as I had just flashed slimkat official when I noticed the memory issue so just wanted to do a clean install. But I have all the memory available now. Thanks for the help. I appreciate your response!
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I'm interested in what exactly you formatted mr_cj? I've had exactly the same issue after rooting my GT2 7" and installing the new builds of Slimkat. I guess you can just format/wipe *everything* as long as you've got the SD card out of the device? Is there anything you shouldn't wipe/format in recovery!? Thanks.

Scammor,
First make a backup of your ROM to your sdcard, backup your data ( I use titanium backup) to your SD card. PULL OUT YOUR SDCARD AFTERWARDS. Then using cwm, I did a wipe data/factory reset, then wipe cache partition, then wipe dalvic in advanced, then in mounts and storage I formatted "cache, system, data", and "data and/data/media". That may have been overboard, but it worked. Sorry for the delayed response. Hope it works for you. Good luck!
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One question Scammor
Hello Scammor,
I just install cyanogenmod on my tab 2 7.0 and everything perfect but i got the same issue as you did before. When i go into the storage settings i see that my 8gb where not there, instead it said total space 4.59gb and available 1.26gb. I did what you said, using CMW i did a backup on my sd card and then format everything. Then i put my sd card again inside and restore it. Now i have total space of 4.59gb but the available is the 4.18gb instead of the 1.26gb i have before.
Does this happen to you too? or after you did everything you got the 8gb more or less in the total space? Thank you so much for your help!!!!