Helo,
How do I take full NAND dump of Android phone for forensic analysis ?
Is there is any utility for it ?
Sorry I am new in this field.
trying to spy on your girl friend?
TRusselo said:
trying to spy on your girl friend?
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no!
I just want it for education purpose.
Have you found an answer?
rakesh.sharnagate said:
Helo,
How do I take full NAND dump of Android phone for forensic analysis ?
Is there is any utility for it ?
Sorry I am new in this field.
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What you need first it ROOT. After you have root, read on.
Put a blank micro SD card into the device (at least 2GB or more is recommended)(there are other methods, but this one is simpler to explain).
Get yourself into an ADB shell, and run the following command:
Code:
mount
That should give you something like this:
Code:
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /storage tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nodelalloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.iplod-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /mnt/asec/com.studio215.bigbangwhip-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-2 /mnt/asec/com.acrossair.tvguideuk-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-3 /mnt/asec/com.dancingpixelstudios.sixaxiscontroller-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
Find where your what dev is mounted as your /data partition. In this case it is /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata. Other devices may have different names.
Know where your mSD card is mounted, let's say /sdcard/external_sd/.
Drop to root if not already root, the following commands will be with "#" prefix.
Image the data partition:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata of=/sdcard/external_sd/data.dd
dd = disc dump
if = input file
of = output file
Dumping the image should take a while, perhaps 5-20 minutes, depending on device.
You should have a raw image of your /data partition for forensic analysis.
Hi,
I want to create a back-to-stock zip that I can flash in CWM recovery that makes my phone 100% stock again. I haven't done this before.
The phone is a ZTE T81 which is an Australian version of the ZTE Avid, so there are no back-to-stock images on the internet. It's Android 4.04, 100% stock not rooted. At the moment there is nothing on the phone worth keeping (no SMS, photos, contacts etc), I have only got through the initial setup, haven't even added a SIM or my Google account.
From what I have read I think I need to create a boot, system and recovery images. I tried "adb pull /" but it only did half a job so I guess I need to root and create the images with dd. In the mounts below there is a system partition but no obvious boot or recovery partitions. So...
1) What would the boot and recovery partitions be under?
2) Do I need to image any other partitions?
3) Once I create the 3 images, how do I make the CWM back-to-stock zip?
Code:
1|[email protected]:/ $ mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/tombstones /tombstones ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
re: back-to-stock zip?
from zte site (us or ch?)
ZTE_Avid_4G_SD_Card_Upgrade_-_ZIP_-_304MB - it is a zip file (name of file exact from download + .zip). there's also a pdf how to install but basic. it is the stock rom metropcs don't know if same is au just google or go to zte or if need i can upload
I have TF700 running Crombi-KK F2FS on data, and added the 'discard' flag to fstab.cardhu to (hopefully) ensure trim of flash memory. Is there some way to verify that the discard function is working?
gc2712 said:
I have TF700 running Crombi-KK F2FS on data, and added the 'discard' flag to fstab.cardhu to (hopefully) ensure trim of flash memory. Is there some way to verify that the discard function is working?
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The fstab,cardhu gets modified by my boot process depending upon what you chose. I intentionally remove the discard option as it cause me bootloops.
However to check if yours has persistd ( and it may have if you haven't been anywhere near data2sd or rom2sd) is run the following in a terminal
mount | grep /dev/block/*
look for the /data and you will see what options it has been mounted with, interested to see if discard has persisted and why it won't work on my device
sbdags said:
The fstab,cardhu gets modified by my boot process depending upon what you chose. I intentionally remove the discard option as it cause me bootloops.
However to check if yours has persistd ( and it may have if you haven't been anywhere near data2sd or rom2sd) is run the following in a terminal
mount | grep /dev/block/*
look for the /data and you will see what options it has been mounted with, interested to see if discard has persisted and why it won't work on my device
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I tried running the above command in terminal. Without su just got 'permssion denied' on all. With su there was no response in terminal at all So just tried:
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext4 ro,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=writeback,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0
com.android.chrome_cache /data/data/com.android.chrome/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser_cache /data/data/mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
Looks like the discard flag was just ignored? Any way to make it persist?
gc2712 said:
I tried running the above command in terminal. Without su just got 'permssion denied' on all. With su there was no response in terminal at all So just tried:
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext4 ro,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=writeback,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0
com.android.chrome_cache /data/data/com.android.chrome/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser_cache /data/data/mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
Looks like the discard flag was just ignored? Any way to make it persist?
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You can't edit the fstab directly as it gets replaced by the kernel on every boot.
so go to /system/boot/print.d
Open 30fstab-f2fs in a text editor
On this line change it from
$BB sed -i '/mmcblk0p8/{;s/ext4/f2fs/;s/barrier=.,//;s/nodiratime,//;s/noauto_da_alloc,//;s/nomblk_io_submit,//;}' /fstab.cardhu
to
$BB sed -i '/mmcblk0p8/{;s/ext4/f2fs/;s/barrier=.,//;s/nodiratime/discard/;s/noauto_da_alloc,//;s/nomblk_io_submit,//;}' /fstab.cardhu
Reboot but be prepared for a bootloop that you can only fix by undoing what you just did.... Have a nandroid ready to go
sbdags said:
You can't edit the fstab directly as it gets replaced by the kernel on every boot.
so go to /system/boot/print.d
Open 30fstab-f2fs in a text editor
On this line change it from
$BB sed -i '/mmcblk0p8/{;s/ext4/f2fs/;s/barrier=.,//;s/nodiratime,//;s/noauto_da_alloc,//;s/nomblk_io_submit,//;}' /fstab.cardhu
to
$BB sed -i '/mmcblk0p8/{;s/ext4/f2fs/;s/barrier=.,//;s/nodiratime/discard/;s/noauto_da_alloc,//;s/nomblk_io_submit,//;}' /fstab.cardhu
Reboot but be prepared for a bootloop that you can only fix by undoing what you just did.... Have a nandroid ready to go
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Just a cautious check on syntax before I do this. Every other flag on that line is of the form: ;s/flagx,// , yet in this instance you suggest just forward slash after 'nodiratime', ending with just a forward slash instead of two forward slashes. Is this intentional or should the syntax be: //;s/nodiratime,//;s/discard,//;s/noauto_da_alloc, etc.
Although I've used linux for years (Since Red Hat 7!) and have just enough knowledge to follow instructions to edit scripts, I still don't grasp syntax very well. (Just enough to know if I get it wrong things screw up
Also, if I save a copy of the 30fstab-f2fs file to sdcard can I simply copy it back using TWRP (latest) instead of a full nandroid restore?
Sorry if these are dumb questions. Your help is greatly appreciated.
gc2712 said:
Just a cautious check on syntax before I do this. Every other flag on that line is of the form: ;s/flagx,// , yet in this instance you suggest just forward slash after 'nodiratime', ending with just a forward slash instead of two forward slashes. Is this intentional or should the syntax be: //;s/nodiratime,//;s/discard,//;s/noauto_da_alloc, etc.
Although I've used linux for years (Since Red Hat 7!) and have just enough knowledge to follow instructions to edit scripts, I still don't grasp syntax very well. (Just enough to know if I get it wrong things screw up
Also, if I save a copy of the 30fstab-f2fs file to sdcard can I simply copy it back using TWRP (latest) instead of a full nandroid restore?
Sorry if these are dumb questions. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Yes it is my correct - my edit will replace nodiratime with discard Your edit will look for discard (which isn't there) and replace it with nothing
Personally I'd do a full nandroid but yes as long as you can partially recover then that single file should be ok.
sbdags said:
Yes it is my correct - my edit will replace nodiratime with discard Your edit will look for discard (which isn't there) and replace it with nothing
Personally I'd do a full nandroid but yes as long as you can partially recover then that single file should be ok.
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Many thanks (red face here). I'll give it a try today and do the full nandroid backup just in case. Will report back the result.
Well! That was a debacle.:crying:
Changed to:
"$BB sed -i '/mmcblk0p8/{;s/ext4/f2fs/;s/barrier=.,//;s/nodiratime/discard/;s/noauto_da_alloc,//;s/nomblk_io_submit,//;}' /fstab.cardhu "
It didn't boot loop, but eventually booted into a screen which said, "Encryption Unsuccesful. Encryption was interrupted and can't complete. As a result your tablet is no longer accessible" etc....
Thank god for the nandroid! When I reflashed the nandroid, TWRP reported that it was formatting system to ext4 even though it was originally F2FS. However when I rebooted and checked in terminal it indicated that the FS on system was in fact F2FS.
# mount |grep /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0
No idea why, but its all working again, but alas, no 'discard' option. Could this be the reason?
[email protected]:/ # fstrim -v /data
fstrim: FITRIM: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Don't know what that error means and google wasn't my friend this time.
gc2712 said:
I tried running the above command in terminal. Without su just got 'permssion denied' on all. With su there was no response in terminal at all So just tried:
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext4 ro,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=writeback,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0
com.android.chrome_cache /data/data/com.android.chrome/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser_cache /data/data/mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
Looks like the discard flag was just ignored? Any way to make it persist?
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Here is my /dev/block* information:
Code:
[email protected]:/ # mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /storage tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext4 ro,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=writeback,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /datai ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0[/COLOR]
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data f2fs rw,noatime,background_gc=on,discard,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0[/COLOR]
tmpfs /Removable tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
browser_cache /data/data/com.android.browser/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:49 /Removable/MicroSD texfat rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,umask=0000,
allow_utime=0022,nls=utf8,min_prealloc_size=64k,readahead=4M,discard,errors=continue 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
It seems to stick with the "discard" mounting flag...
LetMeKnow said:
Here is my /dev/block* information:
Code:
[email protected]:/ # mount
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /storage tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system ext4 ro,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=writeback,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /datai ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0[/COLOR]
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data f2fs rw,noatime,background_gc=on,discard,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0[/COLOR]
tmpfs /Removable tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
browser_cache /data/data/com.android.browser/cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:49 /Removable/MicroSD texfat rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,umask=0000,
allow_utime=0022,nls=utf8,min_prealloc_size=64k,readahead=4M,discard,errors=continue 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
It seems to stick with the "discard" mounting flag...
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What is the additional partition mmcblk1p2 for data? The partition mmcblk0p8 which on my system is my data partition has been located on /datai and is ext4 on yours. How does that happen? Are you using data2sd or something?
gc2712 said:
What is the additional partition mmcblk1p2 for data? The partition mmcblk0p8 which on my system is my data partition has been located on /datai and is ext4 on yours. How does that happen? Are you using data2sd or something?
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Yes, you are correct. I am using Data2sd. I am running f2fs on my external data partition (/dev/block/mmcblk1p2) and leave my internal data partition as ext4 because it is just a backup data partition that I actually never use it.
LetMeKnow said:
Yes, you are correct. I am using Data2sd. I am running f2fs on my external data partition (/dev/block/mmcblk1p2) and leave my internal data partition as ext4 because it is just a backup data partition that I actually never use it.
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Ah! Mystery solved then. sbdags was right then that with internal F2FS /data the discard option will bootloop, or, as in my case boot and trash the data partition requiring factory reset. Hopefully, the F2FS file system and KitKat manage garbage collection well enough without fstrim/discard as I don't want to reinstall again as ext4 at this point. Perhaps someone will make it work in the future.
gc2712 said:
Ah! Mystery solved then. sbdags was right then that with internal F2FS /data the discard option will bootloop, or, as in my case boot and trash the data partition requiring factory reset. Hopefully, the F2FS file system and KitKat manage garbage collection well enough without fstrim/discard as I don't want to reinstall again as ext4 at this point. Perhaps someone will make it work in the future.
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Hmm, I did help one user using f2fs on internal data partition with discard flag on JB Rom. He had no issue until moving on with KK Rom. If I can have the tf700 long enough, I will test it out on the internal data so we can rule it out...
Garbage collection is to reclaim your locked up or old memory that old apps keeps holding on without using them. I believe that is what it is for but I may be wrong...