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Ok Guys.
I created this thread cause in the JACHero thread on at least every page everyone asks how to install it, what am I doing wrong, and why is it broken.
So let me give you step by steps of what exactly I have done for me and others to run Hero with out a problem. I will also create a thread with step by step on how to use Ubuntu Linux Live distro to partition your card.
Things you will need to make this work.
Your Brain
G1 Phone
SD Card reader
And the files I included in this thread.
My phone right now is running.
JACHero 2.3
NEW SPL
cyanogens recovery 1.2
8gb class 6sd with Swapper(Swap file on ext2 sd)
setCPU slightly overclock.
Results.
Ever since I did my new Buttons, and the SPL I included in this write up, I have not had one problem flashing any hero rom at all on my phone, nor did I ever have problem actually running hero roms.
So here goes.
First before you partition your card or do anything make sure your card is at least portioned to fat32, don't worry about any other partitions yet.
OK once you do that go ahead and take the radio zip file I am including in this thread and flash it on your phone.
But first make sure you don't already have new radio installed which is 2.22.19.26I THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. To check what radio you have, power off your phone, and power it on while holding the camera button.
If you do have new radio you can continue on to flashing the new SPL.
Flashing your SPL. (PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE NEW BUTTONS INSTALLED)
Ok this is where it might get a little tricky, and you might require a SD card reader I know I did and frankly I think this is the best way to do it and I recommend every time you do put a new update on your sd card to update your phone do it through a card reader.
Now after you flash your SPL you might or I should say more then likely will get stuck at the T-Mobile G1 screen, this also might happen after new radio flash in the previous step. If this is the case do not freak out it's normal and your phone is not bricked, but this is why having a sd card reader is important.
Ok so Here is what you do after you have flashed new Radio and SPL(Note:The steps on running Linux live distro and using it to partition your card is coming up). Boot up Live distro of Ubuntu, when its done booting, go ahead and go into the partitioning program while your sd card is hooked up in the computer.
Go ahead and set up two partitions at this time. One EXT3, and of course the other one Fat32. Your ext3 partition doesn't have to be all that big. I actually have mine set up to 512.
Once you are done creating partitions, go ahead and put the latest JACHero on the FAT32 portion and flash away (don't forget to rename to update.zip).
At this point if you follow all of these steps there is no way possible that your phone should not boot right into the system to run the initial setup.
These steps pretty much walk you through steps as if you were starting with a phone that has completly nothing on it.
Also the first boot up after flashing the new ROM, might take a few mins at the HTC screen.
Once your phone loads up and you go through the setup process go ahead and run swapper, it should be an APP that's already pre-installed.
Once you run swapper go into the setting and change the location of your swap file from /sdcard/swapfile.swp to /system/sd/swap.swp
Here is the reason why. The default location is your FAT32 partition. If you all of a sudden mount your phone to the computer with the swap file running on FAT32 you will corrupt your sd card, and then you will have to wipe and reinstall everything.
If you set the location of your swap file on /system/sd/ that's actually your ext2/3 partition and never gets mounted and you never have to turn swapper off.
Well I hope this helps some of you out. I will be writing the walk through on loading up live distro of Linux and partitioning your card sometime today.
I have used this method on a couple different phones and it has worked each time. Also I really recommend installing cyanogens recovery 1.2, as its an excellent way of making a back up of your phone and doing future flashing.
If there is anything anyone thinks that could be done better feel free to post in here.
Remember different people have different ways. I have posted this way cause it has worked for me on my phone and two other phones I setup, and each time there was no hicups.
FILES:
Radio 2_22_19_26I
NEW SPL
CM-Recovery-1.2
Ubuntu Linux Download
DISCLAIMER:
I am not responsible for anything that you might have done to your phone by following these directions. Like I mentioned before so far every time I have used this method, I have had nothing but success.
While I can appreciate this topic, I think you need to speak with less certainty that this will always work properly the first time.
For example - I'm coming from the Ramjet ROM, and the process that I have taken.
Freshly formatted 4gb sd card with a 700mb EXT3 partition, the rest is fat32.
Loaded JACHero 2.3 and renamed update.zip
Wiped twice
Installed ROM
Phone went into boot loop - allowed to run for 10 minutes
Removed battery
Attempted to install ROM a second time
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
Wiped again
Installed ROM
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
It seems strange, as going from a standard JAC build previously I was able to just wipe, wipe, install and had JACHero 2.1 working without a hitch. I found this strange, as people were complaining about that build, but it seems 2.3 is what's giving me the most headache.
/shrug. Guess I'll go back to Ramjet.
Great post, dude. I've rooted my phone, flashed a few ROMs, including Haykuro's Hero, moved Rosie back to run on the phone instead of the SD card, overclocked and run Swapper. I was still a bit confused and hesitant to flash the JAChero ROM. I'm feeling better about it now. Gonna flash when I get home from work today.
TooSlo said:
While I can appreciate this topic, I think you need to speak with less certainty that this will always work properly the first time.
For example - I'm coming from the Ramjet ROM, and the process that I have taken.
Freshly formatted 4gb sd card with a 700mb EXT3 partition, the rest is fat32.
Loaded JACHero 2.3 and renamed update.zip
Wiped twice
Installed ROM
Phone went into boot loop - allowed to run for 10 minutes
Removed battery
Attempted to install ROM a second time
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
Wiped again
Installed ROM
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
It seems strange, as going from a standard JAC build previously I was able to just wipe, wipe, install and had JACHero 2.1 working without a hitch. I found this strange, as people were complaining about that build, but it seems 2.3 is what's giving me the most headache.
/shrug. Guess I'll go back to Ramjet.
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I can completely see what you mean by that. But only reason I decided to make this, because two other phones that were having the exact same problems, started working after I did this.
They both had the same symptoms everyone else, and no one really knows where it came from.
So I made sure they had the right radio, then the right SPL, and every time I did something to the SD Card I killed the partitions completely not just format them.
But I destroyed the partition, recreated it and then formatted it to a file system of my choosing.
my g1 is fine ive flashed every rom here and never gotten stuck on boot loop, if anything the files youre downloading for recovery and spl must be corrupted try re downloading your radio file and spl's again.
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I like your post but here is something that I would add to your post.
Even though this has worked every time for you do not assume that it will work for every one, therefore make sure you put a disclaimer out there. As you may have seen before, there have been a lot of posters that have blamed others when their phones were either bricked or stuck in boot loops.
Remember....some people may do something wrong during a step and swear that they followed it perfectly and then blame you.
A detailed disclaimer could be of some help since a lot of people will be taking your post as LAW......
for somereason im not able to update my spl is it something u must do i keep gettin a veification faild message when im tryin to flash it wiht alt + s and i cant seem to update to jachero 2.3 im using a 1 g micro sd im really not sure whats going on i have the proper raido settings and everything. also im not really sure how to create 2 partitions on my memory card im running good ol windows vista
how fast is this running.
i tried it once without swapper and it was way to slow in my eyes in order to use at as an everyday phone.
hope you have something for me (is swapper this perfect solution?)
In my opinion the perfect solution is making a a linux swap partition on your sd card.
However last time I created a linux swap partition and created my swap file there after I rebooted my phone I got stuck at the G1 screen.
I think this might have been cause because of having three partitions on the card but I am not 100% sure.
So instead I just use swapper and make it mount the swap file on my ext3 partition which seems to make this rom run really freaking smooth.
Also I have noticed significant improvements of using ext3 vs ext2, but when research how the two different file systems work it makes sense why it would make a difference.
So to answer your question, is swapper the perfect solution? Im not sure if there is anyone perfect solution but I do know that this sure ass hell makes a huge difference in how your Hero rom runs.
for those having boot loops, how about help us help you, run ddms from sdktools and grab a log of whats going on, this way we can determine an issue, because those asking for help with bootloops and asking for help is like asking me to tell you whats wrong with your car over the phone. we cant tell if we cant see whats going on. so helps us, if you have adb and not the sdktools just type
Code:
adb logcat
this way we can see what your phones trying to do.
Excellent post! I wish I this was available yesterday when I did my first Hero ROM ever. The JAC thread is huugggeeee.
Not to hijack your post, but I'll add my two cents and experiences from yesterday if you do not mind.
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Ok first time on Hero. Coming from DudesCupcake.
Pre
Formatted 1gb SD card 500mb Fat32, and the rest Ext3
hxxp://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5870
1. Flashed Radio 2.22.19.26I from (update.zip) successful (camera+power to check)
hxxp://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
2. Flashed SPL 1.33.2005 from (renamed update.zip) successful (new three android skateboard logo on bottom)
hxxp://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
3. Updated to JACHero r2.2.1 from Page 1
Now I have a boot loop, Hero -> HTC...
After installed 2.2.1 should I pop my SD card out and format it again on my computer?
Trying to do the 2.2.1 again.... Wish me luck!
**Update**
Updating to the 2.2.1 again worked.
Ok, everything works!! Much thanks to Luckenbach for the moral support, and thanks to JAC and all the other guides that I linked in my process. So if anyone else is a noob like me you can do exactly what I did (I provided links for each step where I got it from) you should be ok.
XDA rules!
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Quick questions for people with loop problems.
is your linux partition ext2 or ext3?
southeastbeast said:
Excellent post! I wish I this was available yesterday when I did my first Hero ROM ever. The JAC thread is huugggeeee.
Not to hijack your post, but I'll add my two cents and experiences from yesterday if you do not mind.
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Ok first time on Hero. Coming from DudesCupcake.
Pre
Formatted 1gb SD card 500mb Fat32, and the rest Ext3
hxxp://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5870
1. Flashed Radio 2.22.19.26I from (update.zip) successful (camera+power to check)
hxxp://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
2. Flashed SPL 1.33.2005 from (renamed update.zip) successful (new three android skateboard logo on bottom)
hxxp://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
3. Updated to JACHero r2.2.1 from Page 1
Now I have a boot loop, Hero -> HTC...
After installed 2.2.1 should I pop my SD card out and format it again on my computer?
Trying to do the 2.2.1 again.... Wish me luck!
**Update**
Updating to the 2.2.1 again worked.
Ok, everything works!! Much thanks to Luckenbach for the moral support, and thanks to JAC and all the other guides that I linked in my process. So if anyone else is a noob like me you can do exactly what I did (I provided links for each step where I got it from) you should be ok.
XDA rules!
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When you do the CAMERA+POWER boot, what exactly does the second line from the top say?
lol I wasn't requesting help, I was adding to your post! To hopefully help other people =)
Oh I know I'm just collecting data right now that's it.
DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (DREA10000)
CLPD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009,15:30:43
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Edit: Also changing location of swapper from your info helped a lot! Thanks, I had the SD problem when I pulled out my SD card to put photos back on (instead of using adb) and I got stuck in a boot loop, I thought I was done for. Just rebooted it a few times and it was back up and running. Good tips =D
what do you mean by "new buttons"?
A quick question that ill ask here as to not clutter up JADs thread any more than it alreadsy is.
I have put on 3 of his roms in the last few days and where as they are stable they are dead slow at times for me. I am using a 2g class 2 sd card with an ext3 partition. How much more would a class 6 card speed swapper up? Is one worth getting?
Sorry to post up in this thread again, but I just wanted to provide some more of my experiences here.
I'd picked up Paragon Partition Manager and used that to format my SD card and create the ext3 partition on it as well. It seems something is wonky with how it created it, as every time I've created the partition, even with different sizes, I always get stuck in a boot loop when trying to install JACHero even though any other ROMs will install just fine.
I've put the update.zip onto my older 1gb card that came with my phone just to see if it would install, and though it took a while, it installed without any issues.
After going through the setup process, I attempted to put in my 4gb card with ext3 on it. Lo and behold, boot loop.
Seems something is funky with the way that Paragon Partition Manager creates an ext3 partition.
I'm now going to install an older ROM and go through the "creating an ext2 partition through the G1" method and then attempt to convert it to an ext3 through Cyan's instructions.
I'll try to keep up to date what's going on. I know this place isn't a blog, I'm just hoping someone will point out my idiocy if I'm making any huge mistakes somewhere.
TooSlo said:
While I can appreciate this topic, I think you need to speak with less certainty that this will always work properly the first time.
For example - I'm coming from the Ramjet ROM, and the process that I have taken.
Freshly formatted 4gb sd card with a 700mb EXT3 partition, the rest is fat32.
Loaded JACHero 2.3 and renamed update.zip
Wiped twice
Installed ROM
Phone went into boot loop - allowed to run for 10 minutes
Removed battery
Attempted to install ROM a second time
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
Wiped again
Installed ROM
Boot loop again - allowed to run 10 minutes
It seems strange, as going from a standard JAC build previously I was able to just wipe, wipe, install and had JACHero 2.1 working without a hitch. I found this strange, as people were complaining about that build, but it seems 2.3 is what's giving me the most headache.
/shrug. Guess I'll go back to Ramjet.
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did you try going into recovery and then choosing fix file extensions... that happend to me, it might be because you have no ext 2
I have a couple problems that I've been having since rooting my phone and installing cyanogen. I'm currently using cyanogenmod 4.2.2 with recovery 1.4 on my t-mobile g1. Also, I have the CM updater.
1. When I am using my stock headset, the phone restarts automatically at random intervals. Also, when the headphones are plugged in when the phone initially starts, the phone will definitely restart shortly after the home screen finishes loading.
2. When I am listening to music through the stock headset (either through the base music app or pandora) and I receive a call or text message, I lose all sound functionality (including in-call sounds) When this happens I have to unplug my phone and restart it again to regain sound functionality.
Are these bugs with the following that others are experiencing that can't be avoided:
1. cyanogenmod or
2. root or
3. cyanogen recovery 1.4?
Am I the only one that has had these problems? Is there another ROM that anyone would recommend that would most likely rectify this?
Help!!!!
I have the same problem.
No idea how to fix it?
G1
CyanogenMod 4.2.2
I think I fixed my own problem
I flashed this new radio:
http://sapphire-port-dream.googlecode.com/files/ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip
Then I backed up my sd card, formatted it, and partitioned it into a main fat32 partition and a 500mb ex2 partition.
Then I wiped and re-flashed cyanogen 4.2.2 and it works!!!
Also, it took me a while to figure out how to partition my sd card. It seems there is no easy way to do this with windows vista. I had to use Ubuntu's partition manager called "gparted". Apparently this can be done without actually installing Ubuntu if you just boot from the CD, but my computer wouldn't read the sd card through Ubuntu until I installed ubuntu and downloaded the updates. Then when I was done I tried to delete the Ubuntu partition (VERY BAD IDEA). Now my computer won't boot at all and I have to find a way to re-write my master boot record (MBR) which I don't know how to do. CRAP!!!
anoyment
ajchandler said:
Also, it took me a while to figure out how to partition my sd card. It seems there is no easy way to do this with windows vista. I had to use Ubuntu's partition manager called "gparted". Apparently this can be done without actually installing Ubuntu if you just boot from the CD, but my computer wouldn't read the sd card through Ubuntu until I installed ubuntu and downloaded the updates. Then when I was done I tried to delete the Ubuntu partition (VERY BAD IDEA). Now my computer won't boot at all and I have to find a way to re-write my master boot record (MBR) which I don't know how to do. CRAP!!!
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Dude, take your HDD out of the computer, put it inside a USB enclosure and save your data, then just delete all partitions and install Windows again. Next time, you can just install Ubuntu from INSIDE Windows with "wubi.exe".
As for the sporadic resets, I am having the same problem. Only thing is: I had just flashed the 4.2.2 rom in the phone, wiped, and just then, being in the WC, I get a call, take the phone out of my pocket, it slips from my hand and drops right inside the can (yes, it had just been cleaned, Thank God), took it out fast enough, battery out. Couldn't find the screwdriver for it so I shook as much water as I could off, and let it dry in front of a full throttle fan for about 12 hrs.
It reset itself some times after that, but I don't know if the problem is the Rom, hope it is, (sorry). Next thing I know is, there's an update to ver. 4.2.5, so I updated, hasn't done it again yet, it's been 36hrs.
Hope I could help and anoy you some guys...
I have the same problem with my G1 (cyanogenMod-4.2.5 kernel 2.6.29.6-cm42 baseband 62.505.20.17H_2.22.19.26I), had to change from cyanogenMod-3.6.6 hoping it will fix the reboot problem, but it doesn't change
I reformat SD card (1 Gb) and repartitioned it, doesn't fix the problem. The difference is that is reboots now less frequently (with cyanogenMod-3.6.6 it started reboot suddenly and did it every 20min - 3 hrs, now 1-3 times a day).
Seems that it somehow related to WiFi connection, and may be email receiving process (may be free space problem? But as far as i can check there is free space available on the SD card).
If with cyanogenMod-3.6.6 i could assume that some new installed application caused it, then with 4.2.5 i didn't install anything, and it starts rebooting again recently.
Is there a way to write a log or something to see which app caused reboot? It's linux anyway, so should be smth to see the reason, right?
Updated to CM-4.2.7.1 and added a 4GB Class 6 TF
luk1 said:
I have the same problem with my G1 (cyanogenMod-4.2.5 kernel 2.6.29.6-cm42 baseband 62.505.20.17H_2.22.19.26I), had to change from cyanogenMod-3.6.6 hoping it will fix the reboot problem, but it doesn't change
I reformat SD card (1 Gb) and repartitioned it, doesn't fix the problem. The difference is that is reboots now less frequently (with cyanogenMod-3.6.6 it started reboot suddenly and did it every 20min - 3 hrs, now 1-3 times a day).
Seems that it somehow related to WiFi connection, and may be email receiving process (may be free space problem? But as far as i can check there is free space available on the SD card).
If with cyanogenMod-3.6.6 i could assume that some new installed application caused it, then with 4.2.5 i didn't install anything, and it starts rebooting again recently.
Is there a way to write a log or something to see which app caused reboot? It's linux anyway, so should be smth to see the reason, right?
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LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER, NOT...
Just kidding, just couldn't let a chance like this pass me by, sorry .
2 days ago I changed the 2GB TF (which was a class 1) with a 4GB TF, now a class 6. Wiped the phone and added an ext3 1GB partition.
Yesterday I updated the CYanogen Mod to ver 4.2.7.1. Haven't seen another reset since, but it could be that I haven't used the phone much other than for phone calls since the update. But altogether it seems pretty stable.
I just used the cm-updater and everything was done automatically.
If you don't already have it, download it from the market, check for new roms and download the one I said. Please let us know if it makes any difference for you.
ajchandler said:
Then when I was done I tried to delete the Ubuntu partition (VERY BAD IDEA). Now my computer won't boot at all and I have to find a way to re-write my master boot record (MBR) which I don't know how to do. CRAP!!!
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To reinstall the Vista MBR:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us
I have the 0.7 rom load with both patchs and the blue theme, I want to try out apps 2 SD i just didnt know the best route in doing so, for it to work correctly with your rom. If i use the format function in the recovery menue would it automatically save my apps on the SD and work properly or would i have to reinstall them?
BAttitude7689 said:
I have the 0.7 rom load with both patchs and the blue theme, I want to try out apps 2 SD i just didnt know the best route in doing so, for it to work correctly with your rom. If i use the format function in the recovery menue would it automatically save my apps on the SD and work properly or would i have to reinstall them?
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(I personally don't like apps2sd but if you really have that many apps...)
Yea. Backup your sd card (it will get wiped). Boot in to recovery and create swap+ext2+fat32 and then convert ext2 to ext3 (all are options in the recovery menu). It will move everything for you.
Why don't you like apps 2 sd? I just figure if you have that you won't have worry about internal memory if you wanted to have a lot o
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f apps
This is why he doesn't like it:
flipzmode said:
**My note about Apps2SD: I added support for it in this release of the rom because people who were using it in other roms that tried to install this rom were receiving errors. Here's my point of view on it.
I played with it for over 8 hours today between implementing it and then testing it to make sure this fix would work. I have personally come to not like apps2sd, but I am including it for those who use it.
The reason I don't like it is because it puts your phone at a huge risk of having problems once anything goes wrong. If you install a program that causes issues, a nandroid backup will not resolve the issue because the application is installed on your SD card not your phone. If your phone starts going crazy as reported here and here, then even just a restore possibly won't fix it. You might need to go as far as to wipe your SD card too. If you are lucky enough to have a restore fix your problems you will still need to reinstall every app, even if you didn't wipe your card. And on top of that when you try to reinstall any app it will think it's still installed, even though you restored your phone. But when you click "uninstall" it will just freeze half the time because there's nothing on the phone for it to actually install. I have also read many threads that say if you happen to boot the phone up without the SD card in then it will screw everything up.
So now maybe you are wondering why I would add Apps2SD support in this rom. In order for people who are currently using Apps2SD to upgrade to this rom I must support it or require them to do a hard reset before coming to fresh. Clearly I don't want you to have to reset so I have supported it. With that said: I personally recommend not using it. This rom will auto-use it if your SD card is formatted for it (fat32+ext2+swap partitions) but it won't use it if you are only partitioned as 1 fat32. My suggestion is to stick to the 1 partition and let your applications install on the phone. Linux is not like Windows in the sense that it will run the same whether you phone has 140 megs free of storage space or 10 megs free. So unless you plan on installing 100 apps, I don't see the practical purposes of using Apps2SD. But a lot of people like it.
Now with all of THAT said -- this rom officially has and supports Apps2SD. It is a program that I think has the possibility of being great, but has to work within the confines of the phone which means tricking Android in to thinking that the applications are installed on the phone when they aren't. That is what leads to all the problems mentioned above.
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If i have apps2sd already from the previous rom i don't have to re-do it for the new one correct?
no you dont.
using apps2sd2 problems
I followed all the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5618439#post5618439 for apps2sd2 yet when I open the app, it STILL says Oops, you have to run through the tutorial to set it up. I've DONE THIS. I'm extermely frustrated. I have no idea what more to do. My sd card is partitioned correctly. I've run all the commands listed in that tutorial. PLS HELP! Also all my apps are showing in /system/sd/app AND data/app. Is this correct? Why won't Apps2sd2 work for me? I really need some troubleshooting help.
I have a rooted CMDA HTC Hero using the Fresh ROM. Also is there a way to still get Sprint TV using this ROM?
Fresh .7 doesn't support A2SD, only Fresh 1.0 & 1.1.
I'm going to apologize in advance that this may not come out correctly. But tonight I tried to flash 5.0 on my HTC One M8 using Vanilla Pop, I went onto skydragon and downloaded the firmware from there and then loaded Vanillapop. When I went to upload my apps from titanium backup, they were all gone. Upon further inspection, what happened was a new level of folders laid on top of the old ones, so on this new level all the folders are empty and to get to my old ones I have to click on a "0" and then I can see all my backups and saved information. I decided to go back to 4.4.4 and Viperrom but when I reloaded the 4.4.4 frimware, it created another level. so now to get to my files on the internal memory card I have to click 0/0/foldername to get to my files and viperrom won't recognize the extra levels and give me an error of a bad internal memory card. How to I eliminate these two extra levels that were created or how do I point ViperRom in the right direction so I can setup my phone. I am definitely back on 4.4.4 so I don't think it is incorrect firmware.
Thank you and please let me know what details I can share if my description wasn't clear.
Thank you,
Z
z-man79 said:
I'm going to apologize in advance that this may not come out correctly. But tonight I tried to flash 5.0 on my HTC One M8 using Vanilla Pop, I went onto skydragon and downloaded the firmware from there and then loaded Vanillapop. When I went to upload my apps from titanium backup, they were all gone. Upon further inspection, what happened was a new level of folders laid on top of the old ones, so on this new level all the folders are empty and to get to my old ones I have to click on a "0" and then I can see all my backups and saved information. I decided to go back to 4.4.4 and Viperrom but when I reloaded the 4.4.4 frimware, it created another level. so now to get to my files on the internal memory card I have to click 0/0/foldername to get to my files and viperrom won't recognize the extra levels and give me an error of a bad internal memory card. How to I eliminate these two extra levels that were created or how do I point ViperRom in the right direction so I can setup my phone. I am definitely back on 4.4.4 so I don't think it is incorrect firmware.
Thank you and please let me know what details I can share if my description wasn't clear.
Thank you,
Z
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If your items are restored I would save them to your sd card also save the rom zip that you want to install to your sd card and also do a cloud back up then just take your sd card out and go to recovery and do a complete wipe of everything before doing so go to mount and make sure everything is mounted then wipe everything including internal memory.
If it were me I would have the newest ruu on another sd card and after wiping everything just run the ruu off your sd card which when you go to fastboot it should pick up the ruu on your sd card, just make sure to click yes to run the ruu.
This will get all your issues fixed and get you back to 100% and you can then install whichever rom you want from your other sd card and restore all your apps and so on.
M9guy said:
If your items are restored I would save them to your sd card also save the rom zip that you want to install to your sd card and also do a cloud back up then just take your sd card out and go to recovery and do a complete wipe of everything before doing so go to mount and make sure everything is mounted then wipe everything including internal memory.
If it were me I would have the newest ruu on another sd card and after wiping everything just run the ruu off your sd card which when you go to fastboot it should pick up the ruu on your sd card, just make sure to click yes to run the ruu.
This will get all your issues fixed and get you back to 100% and you can then install whichever rom you want from your other sd card and restore all your apps and so on.
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You make it sound like it isn't that difficult but I'm a novice in the world of rooting and messing with my phone. I'm going to do some searching today for a guide to help me not make a bigger mess of everything but if you know of a guide, please point me in the right direction.
thank you,
Z
z-man79 said:
You make it sound like it isn't that difficult but I'm a novice in the world of rooting and messing with my phone. I'm going to do some searching today for a guide to help me not make a bigger mess of everything but if you know of a guide, please point me in the right direction.
thank you,
Z
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What recovery version are you using? I'm not 100% sure, but I believe this is caused by a bug in the Official TWRP 2.8.1.0. Captain_Throwback has a version I have been using that is working flawlessly. You can download it from here: https://s.basketbuild.com/filedl/de.../TWRP_Recovery_2.8.1.0_M8_exFAT_test_CPTB.img
You would still need to cleanup what has been done as mentioned by M9guy, but the new recovery should prevent you from getting into that situation again.
You can check out the RUU from dottat here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...ent/ruu-m8vzw-4-4-4-s-off-onlynewest-t2914914
I'm using Philz CWM recovery. I'm trying to look on the internet but can't find a link that explains how to eliminate the levels of folders that I found. I have a Nandroid, if I load this will it change the internals to go back the way they were? I'm scared I'll mess things up worse then they are.
I'd stay where I am except somehow after flashing a few roms I have acquired a bug that is driving me nuts, I can't get rid of the grey bubble that no calendars selected and I can't hit buttons/apps/letters that are below the bubble and it is persistent. It won't go away.
z-man79 said:
I'm using Philz CWM recovery. I'm trying to look on the internet but can't find a link that explains how to eliminate the levels of folders that I found. I have a Nandroid, if I load this will it change the internals to go back the way they were? I'm scared I'll mess things up worse then they are.
I'd stay where I am except somehow after flashing a few roms I have acquired a bug that is driving me nuts, I can't get rid of the grey bubble that no calendars selected and I can't hit buttons/apps/letters that are below the bubble and it is persistent. It won't go away.
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That's your mistake. Philz is junk and should be avoided at all costs. I have read nothing but horror stories from people who have used it.
I went back and flashed TWRP and then formatted data to cleanly wipe everything. Now I'm reloading Viper but when I get to the setup screen it still has problems identifying the internal memory. I can't use the walk through setup which includes the back up. I'm trying to reflash the rom one more time to see if things change.
Thank you everyone for your help and if anyone has anything to add please let me know.
z-man79 said:
I went back and flashed TWRP and then formatted data to cleanly wipe everything. Now I'm reloading Viper but when I get to the setup screen it still has problems identifying the internal memory. I can't use the walk through setup which includes the back up. I'm trying to reflash the rom one more time to see if things change.
Thank you everyone for your help and if anyone has anything to add please let me know.
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Not sure if Wipeing from TWRP will do it or not. I think you have to install the Stock Recovery and do a factory reset from there. Then you can install TWRP. Stock Recovery does more than TWRP when wiping.
Yes, I first installed stock recovery, did the factory reset and then loaded TWRP.
I see S-off reads off in bootloader so I think I am ok with that.
Thanks everyone for your help. I think I got it. The phone commented that the internal memory card wasn't valid but other than the setup wizard everything seems to be working and I got rid of the levels and the persistent, no calendar message seems to be gone.
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That's your mistake. Philz is junk and should be avoided at all costs. I have read nothing but horror stories from people who have used it.
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The problem isn't that the recoveries junk it's that it hasn't been updated in ages. Its running old device files creating issues with newer roms and the Android multiple user accounts creating 0 folders. I don't think it's fair to call it junk since it's not supported and hasn't been for quite a while . The developer has stated this. A pretty well known developer has kept the recovery up to date which should correct this issue if you still wanted to run his recovery. I won't stand behind it because I haven't run it but typically this developer is good as gold. Here's the link we all know the name.
http://www.invisiblek.org/
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M9guy said:
If your items are restored I would save them to your sd card also save the rom zip that you want to install to your sd card and also do a cloud back up then just take your sd card out and go to recovery and do a complete wipe of everything before doing so go to mount and make sure everything is mounted then wipe everything including internal memory.
If it were me I would have the newest ruu on another sd card and after wiping everything just run the ruu off your sd card which when you go to fastboot it should pick up the ruu on your sd card, just make sure to click yes to run the ruu.
This will get all your issues fixed and get you back to 100% and you can then install whichever rom you want from your other sd card and restore all your apps and so on.
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M9guy, thank you very much for the suggestion. I was scared to do what you requested in fear of messing things up worse then they were. Right now the only problem I'm having is I can't use the setup tool which messed up trying to auto load all of my apps. I had to go through all my apps manually and bring them back. Aside from that everything seems to be working fine. The stupid bubble telling me no calendars selected is gone and the two additional levels are gone from the system. I'm now using TWRP recovery instead of Philz. Thank you much !!!!!
flyinj54 said:
The problem isn't that the recoveries junk it's that it hasn't been updated in ages. Its running old device files creating issues with newer roms and the Android multiple user accounts creating 0 folders. I don't think it's fair to call it junk since it's not supported and hasn't been for quite a while . The developer has stated this. A pretty well known developer has kept the recovery up to date which should correct this issue if you still wanted to run his recovery. I won't stand behind it because I haven't run it but typically this developer is good as gold. Here's the link we all know the name.
http://www.invisiblek.org/
Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk
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Fair enough.
z-man79 said:
M9guy, thank you very much for the suggestion. I was scared to do what you requested in fear of messing things up worse then they were. Right now the only problem I'm having is I can't use the setup tool which messed up trying to auto load all of my apps. I had to go through all my apps manually and bring them back. Aside from that everything seems to be working fine. The stupid bubble telling me no calendars selected is gone and the two additional levels are gone from the system. I'm now using TWRP recovery instead of Philz. Thank you much !!!!!
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Your welcome, glad you got it fixed. I know it all seems like a lot, you just have to take baby steps I was the same way, but once you start doing things you will realize oh its not that difficult. You just have to read up and then read again and normally you can get your needs accomplished. There is always people willing to help as we were in your same position at one point and someone helped us the same so its good karma for us to do the same and pay it forward. We are all grasshoppers in a large field all still learning. There are always many ways to do things some may be harder but if the end result gets you fixed really that is all that matters and you learn as you go. Have fun with it and reap the benefits !!!!!!
M9guy said:
If your items are restored I would save them to your sd card also save the rom zip that you want to install to your sd card and also do a cloud back up then just take your sd card out and go to recovery and do a complete wipe of everything before doing so go to mount and make sure everything is mounted then wipe everything including internal memory.
If it were me I would have the newest ruu on another sd card and after wiping everything just run the ruu off your sd card which when you go to fastboot it should pick up the ruu on your sd card, just make sure to click yes to run the ruu.
This will get all your issues fixed and get you back to 100% and you can then install whichever rom you want from your other sd card and restore all your apps and so on.
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The only lingering problem from trying to upgrade my phone to Lollipop is now my phone won't allow me to use setup wizard and when I try to load apps from the Google Play store, my phone is no longer listed as being a Verizon Wireless phone, it now looks like my Nexus 7 which reads "No Carrier" is there a trick to getting that back?
Thanks again,
Z
z-man79 said:
The only lingering problem from trying to upgrade my phone to Lollipop is now my phone won't allow me to use setup wizard and when I try to load apps from the Google Play store, my phone is no longer listed as being a Verizon Wireless phone, it now looks like my Nexus 7 which reads "No Carrier" is there a trick to getting that back?
Thanks again,
Z
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Not sure but maybe somehow your cid got changed you can also change it to cid 11111111 for super cid, or I do believe factory verizon m8 should be VZW__001 to change it to that go to fastboot usb and with adb tools enter the command
fastboot oem writecid VZW__001
and hit enter and it should confirm.
You can check this out at the link below.
http://www.droidforums.net/threads/mod-how-to-enable-super-cid-for-verizon-htc-one-m8.266109/
Minor update I'm no longer really needing a solution to this problem although it would be very helpful for everyone if one was found as I'm sure this has been a problem too many people at this point)
I'm over here trying to root my S6 Lite tablet without a computer just a bloody cell phone and I am oh so close but I have no way of reformatting this SD card cuz xxxxx Android wants to put it as FAT32 for god knows what reason it's an 8 gig SD card and I've even tried reformatting it in both devices I have same result Android just being stupid and I am at the end of my rope here cuz I have not been able to find any apps once so ever that actually allow me to reformat an SD card with a format of my choosing or at least one that's usable
Now please tell me that someone on this xxxxx website has a solution to this problem because once again the weird stuff I'm doing has led me down a path no one else has seemingly took
(And if anyone's asking why I'm rooting this tablet it's because Android 12 works like crap)
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I am kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place as I have not been able to figure out any method of formatting this SD card with something usable because Android is for some unknown reason only formatting it with FAT32 despite using two different devices to attempt to format it normally and I have not been able to find a single application that exists that does not require root permissions that would allow me to change the format of the SD card I have legitimately spent like three or four hours now trying to figure something out and have come up with nothing please someone here help
I'm just going to add this year that I obviously don't have access to a computer or this wouldn't be a problem
Root your phone and use twrp to change filesystem.
But in your case when you don't want to root. Unplug SD card and connect with adapter to your pc.
Go to this computer and right click on the SD card
Click format And select filesystem
Quick format is fine
Format and when finished
Put SD card back.
Done
Odinsinces3 said:
Root your phone and use twrp to change filesystem.
But in your case when you don't want to root. Unplug SD card and connect with adapter to your pc.
Go to this computer and right click on the SD card
Click format And select filesystem
Quick format is fine
Format and when finished
Put SD card back.
Done
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Both of those are a problem because I don't have a computer to use and I am trying to root my tablet and the only other device I have is an a20 cell phone that's not rooted either and I am so close but I can't Flash the modded firmware because Android is formatting the SD card with xxxx FAT32 so besides this SD card the only other option I have is to attempt to do the flash over wireless ADB I mean seriously if I had a bloody computer I would have been done like 3 days ago
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Can you try to use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scnc.fixsdcardmemory&hl=nl&gl=US
let me know
Odinsinces3 said:
Can you try to use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scnc.fixsdcardmemory&hl=nl&gl=US
let me know
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That's a scam app that I kept running into if I recall it didn't even boot although it's hard to tell cuz I tried a couple that look pretty much identical to that so once again something that's completely useless I came here cuz I was hoping somebody would have an actual solution not the same garbage I kept running into trying to Google my way through this
it's an actual solution youre just being silly.
Odinsinces3 said:
it's an actual solution youre just being silly.
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It's not or I would have found it by now I've tried everything you can find easily on Google and the Play Store absolutely nothing has worked or been anywhere near what I'm looking for besides a couple of apps that require root permissions I was coming here hoping that somebody would have an actual tool for this application not someone giving me the same
trash that google did, now I do appreciate you attempting to help but I need somebody here that is a lot more knowledgeable than you
z3ro_<00l said:
It's not or I would have found it by now I've tried everything you can find easily on Google and the Play Store absolutely nothing has worked or been anywhere near what I'm looking for besides a couple of apps that require root permissions I was coming here hoping that somebody would have an actual tool for this application not someone giving me the same
trash that google did, now I do appreciate you attempting to help but I need somebody here that is a lot more knowledgeable than you
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Normally a person would update the result and from there we look for another solution. Goodluck finding someone knowledgeable lol, if you weren't such a special one I would have suggested something more advanced
Greetings from a well respected Samsung SSD technician