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I was wondering if anyone else was running into the problem I'm having, and if it has been covered before and I missed it in the search box earlier I apologize. I just recently tried to upgrade to JACHero2.6 and my market app (most important) along with several others are missing. The apps are automatically installed on all my other roms, it is only with hero that I end up missing alot of apps. I have a correctly formatted SD card and I did a wipe before I installed this and tried the whole process twice. If I am forgetting to do something special prior to installation or afterwards please let me know!!
darkphoenix2012 said:
I was wondering if anyone else was running into the problem I'm having, and if it has been covered before and I missed it in the search box earlier I apologize. I just recently tried to upgrade to JACHero2.6 and my market app (most important) along with several others are missing. The apps are automatically installed on all my other roms, it is only with hero that I end up missing alot of apps. I have a correctly formatted SD card and I did a wipe before I installed this and tried the whole process twice. If I am forgetting to do something special prior to installation or afterwards please let me know!!
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you may have gotten a bad download. try redownloading it again. do you have 3 partition (fat32 ext2/3 linux-swap) if not i suggest that for jac's 2.63 also make sure you check file extensions in recovery screen. hopefully this helps
Yes I have my card that exact format and I tried using the filesystem checker in the recovery screen it said filesystem check was complete!! I'll try doing the whole process over again but I'm not sure how that would help, and it is sad too this is the best damn hero rom i've tested to date, its fast as hell!! If it weren't for my apps not being here i wouldn't be planning on a future rom update in the near future or until some big release happens.
make sure you always check md5 sum of all your hero build download
you could of had a damaged downloaded rom and this could affect your rom.
Just tried to download a fresh copy of the rom, checked to make sure my sd card was working properly, wiped and re-flashed yet my market app and the same apps I was missing before is still missing. It should be included that apps on my ext2 were coming back like they should be just not all of them, and not a few apps that I thought should be included with the rom. Is there anything I should check that I may not have yet?
I would use Root Explorer to check if the apk files are still under system/sd/app if they aren't... well, there's no way you're going to see them again unless you re-install them. You can also look under system/sd/app_s if that's there. Other than that, if you can't find it, it's not there. (If you know the exact name of the file or at least part of the apk file name, under terminal type: find "file name" (w/o quotes ofc)
You can add wildcards (*) if you don't know the exact name of the file. If the apk file is still there... well... let's just see if its there first.
I checked using terminal, I typed "vending.apk" and tried to check the dir's you specified for the apks. If they are there I can't find them, although I am a bit limited as terminal is the only app that came loaded with which to check for files. If the apk files are indeed not there then why would the apps install on their own without a problem on any other build but hero??? I must be doing something wrong right? I am open to any suggestions at this point, even using a different rom to check for something, my goal is to have this rom flashed with my apps working soon!
heres the vending.apk from jachero 2.63 you can try and adb push it to /system/sd/app_s and see if it works.
Thanks, I'll try pushing that over but I'm still worried about the rest of the apps I'm missing. Would there be anything else I could try to make it possibly fix all the missing apps? What could be causing this problem in the first place? I did notice that my sd card has an ext2 rather than ext3 part, will that cause all of this to happen? I'm still pretty lost on this. I tried going back to another rom just to make sure my apps would still all pull up correctly, and they did so it has to be something related to this most recent build of jachero, or something
welcome to the club my friend (-;
i have the exact same problem and noone was able to help me yet.
It must have something to do with Jacs apps2sd method. i read some tweets between him and cyanogen that it might be a little 'rough'.
however - it's always the same apps that are missing, in my case it's (badly enough) launcher.apk AND rosie.apk which pretty much means that i can't solve it.
i also tried everything i could with ADB - without luck. I somehow have the feeling that theres something staying on the phone even when wiping and formatting.... I'll check this through ADB this evening.
look @ my recent posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search_rop.php?searchid=25731882
for previous moaning from myself ( (-; ) and discussion with others in the JACthread. Basically the last 15 - 20 posts are about nothing else (-;
I will also do some logcating today - i've already seen the errors through install (rosie.apk couldn't be parsed etc) but i forgot to save it (and the command promt only saves 100 lines or something)
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I would use Root Explorer to check if the apk files are still under system/sd/app if they aren't... well, there's no way you're going to see them again unless you re-install them. You can also look under system/sd/app_s if that's there. Other than that, if you can't find it, it's not there. (If you know the exact name of the file or at least part of the apk file name, under terminal type: find "file name" (w/o quotes ofc)
You can add wildcards (*) if you don't know the exact name of the file. If the apk file is still there... well... let's just see if its there first.
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I have used AndExplorer and put the APK's in the sys/sd/apps and it all worked fine. Very easy to do if you don't know how to push, just reboot after.
Can someone please tell me how i can get myfaves app on any mod im burning up my minutes thanks.
jivany said:
Can someone please tell me how i can get myfaves app on any mod im burning up my minutes thanks.
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You don't need to have the myfaves app for you myfave minutes to work. You are still calling them for free regardless if you have the icon or myfave compatible phone or whatever. If you want to manage the people just log on to mytmobile.com and make the changes there.
Hmmmmmmmm . I never realized thanks for pointing that out TurboTsi.
darkphoenix2012 said:
Thanks, I'll try pushing that over but I'm still worried about the rest of the apps I'm missing. Would there be anything else I could try to make it possibly fix all the missing apps? What could be causing this problem in the first place? I did notice that my sd card has an ext2 rather than ext3 part, will that cause all of this to happen? I'm still pretty lost on this. I tried going back to another rom just to make sure my apps would still all pull up correctly, and they did so it has to be something related to this most recent build of jachero, or something
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open up your copy of the build and check in system/app_s to see if the .apks are even in the build. if pushing the vending.apk works i dont mind posting the other ones you are missing if you want to pm me or something
Just tried opening the update.zip file and verified that all the apks are there. Which makes me wonder what exactly is up. Im thinking it could be an apps2sd issue, like what was said above. I didnt have this problem with older hero roms that i can remember. TBH I could try pushing apps with adb but that wouldn't bring back my other 3rd party apps floating in ext2 limbo. So I'm out of ideas ;(
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Just tried opening the update.zip file and verified that all the apks are there. Which makes me wonder what exactly is up. Im thinking it could be an apps2sd issue, like what was said above. I didnt have this problem with older hero roms that i can remember. TBH I could try pushing apps with adb but that wouldn't bring back my other 3rd party apps floating in ext2 limbo. So I'm out of ideas ;(
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try going to the recovery console and entering upgrade_fs and that will change your ext2 to ext3 and see if wiping and flashing change anything. also if you have root explorer you can check your /system/sd folder to see if all of your third party apps are there
Just tried upgrade_fs and it gave me a "unable to allocate block" I noticed there is little if any room left on the ext2 partition. Would that cause all of this? If not would it be worth a shot to resize the partition and give it more space from my fat32 then try to upgrade wipe reload again?
If you're out of ideas, then I would attempt to resize first (but backup your fat32 first) and then see if that solves it, if not, then I would format, wipe, and update...
but are you sure those 3rd party apps are not there? Try using Root Explorer to determine if the 3rd Party Apps are there, if they are, just pull them to your sdcard and try installing them again with ASTRO or something like that.
This morning (2011may27-0700 PST [pacific]), I received my 1st ever update from T-Mobile for my Galaxy S 4G. It told me "Congratulations," you have an update! or something like that, then told me I wouldn't be able to use the phone for 10min, I said OK, it rebooted into a white screen, applied an update (with progress bar), and said "Update is Failed", and rebooted. Upon reboot, I have a "low on space" notification and it stays up there in the menu bar, above. I don't have any extra apps, and don't know what to do.
Can someone walk me through finding where the space is suddenly used up? I'm really going to need some hand-holding on this. Thanks
Can someone tell me how to apply the update? If I go to "Settings" -> "Software update", it says "no firmware". As far as PC's go, I use Linux, btw
Has this update worked for others? What does it update you to? 2.3.x ?
I originally posted this in the wrong forum (Vibrant forum... my old phone), and I think the answer to #3 is that it updates to KD1. Thanks, ahead of time.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Samsu...for-our-Samsung-Galaxy-S-4G-users/td-p/839425
check that out. old news.
sorry the update failed, you'll need to look around the forums for a fix. if you tried the update while rooted and/or having messed with fota files or the system in any other way, it would explain why it failed.
good luck.
there are two other threads in here about the same thing.
I'm very interested in this comment as well, the exact same thing happen to me, I figured I couldn't download the update because I rooted my phone and have titanium backup, I moved what I can to sd and deleted what I thought was safe from internal. yet the space seems to still show as used on the internal.
Thanks, nodrogkam
I checked your link that confirms my comment (that this is an update to KD1), and am currently trying to install the Mini Kies, from the T-Mobile link. What is a fota file? Also, when you said to look around the forums for a fix, were you referring to my #1 issue (low on internal storage), or for my #2 issue (how to install on Linux)? Either way, it sounds promising that the answer is here somewhere. Thanks
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check that out. old news.
sorry the update failed, you'll need to look around the forums for a fix. if you tried the update while rooted and/or having messed with fota files or the system in any other way, it would explain why it failed.
good luck.
there are two other threads in here about the same thing.
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Kies no-go on wine
just in case anyone else wanted to try, Samsung's Windows Kies software is a no-go on the latest WINE. It was worth a shot.
I'm still curious how to find out where that space got used up, and exactly what space it is referring to, though.
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Thanks, nodrogkam
I checked your link that confirms my comment (that this is an update to KD1), and am currently trying to install the Mini Kies, from the T-Mobile link. What is a fota file? Also, when you said to look around the forums for a fix, were you referring to my #1 issue (low on internal storage), or for my #2 issue (how to install on Linux)? Either way, it sounds promising that the answer is here somewhere. Thanks
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FOTA files means : for over the air files. this was a chunk of memory reserved for such an update (KD1 in this case). Its why the phone had such little free internal memory.
KD1 actually resolves that issue by reducing FOTA file size.
Your low memory is probably because the FOTA space was taken up and probably additional space taken up to back up apps etc. But since the update failed, the files are just sitting there instead of being erased.
As far as i know, Kies only works with Windows. Though there's probably a workaround if you want to use it on Linux.
how do you clear the fota files
If you did the fota fix most likely the update replaced the fota files that were removed to give you room on the internal rom
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FOTA location?
cool, thanks for the info! WHOOO-HOOOOOOO! Deleting the /data/fota/* files brings back LOADS of space. THANKS!
That was my biggest concern. I'd post a howto on how I did it, but I'm not sure if my actions were the wisest! I may be a stranger to Android, but not to *nix.
Thanks again
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FOTA files means : for over the air files. this was a chunk of memory reserved for such an update (KD1 in this case). Its why the phone had such little free internal memory.
KD1 actually resolves that issue by reducing FOTA file size.
Your low memory is probably because the FOTA space was taken up and probably additional space taken up to back up apps etc. But since the update failed, the files are just sitting there instead of being erased.
As far as i know, Kies only works with Windows. Though there's probably a workaround if you want to use it on Linux.
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reboot and i think u'll get back to the space before the update fail, but less space than you see now.
unless you followed or did the same procedure as the ones listed in the developer section of this forum.
Im curious ... and I hope its cleared up.
I know im not the only one that deleted the FOTA files and am of course rooted..... but how do I go about doing this update if I go on my mac and tried using kies mini and says not supported! Also do I replace the original FOTA files and hope that it may do the update?
IF someone has a way to resolve and/or walkthrough I know we would all appreciate it!
Thanks!!!
trying through VBox, to install updates
yeah, curious here, too. I'm in the process of installing windows on a VM, using VBox (Sun/Oracle's Virtual Box). I'm just wading through the several hour interactive process of apply updates just to be able to apply other updates, and rebooting after almost each one. I'll post here if I have any luck, and how I did it.
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Im curious ... and I hope its cleared up.
I know im not the only one that deleted the FOTA files and am of course rooted..... but how do I go about doing this update if I go on my mac and tried using kies mini and says not supported! Also do I replace the original FOTA files and hope that it may do the update?
IF someone has a way to resolve and/or walkthrough I know we would all appreciate it!
Thanks!!!
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is there any way to undo this? i tried to go to a 4.2.2(liquid) and had some issues so i went back to 4.2.1.
did some more looking into and decided to try it again. same problems plus some. now im yet again back on 4.2.1 and have 3 different "0" folders and its driving me crazy...i tried using my pc to just cut and paste everything to where it should be a merge all the like folders but that is taking absolutely forever on some folders(had to go one at a time so it would do anything) some are quick but some arent.
do i just need to stick with what ive been doing or is there an easier way?
this is all on the internal storage if that matters
I haven't had this problem yet since I haven't switched back/forth... but I wonder if you might get faster results by using the command prompt. If you're not familiar with linux commands then I don't recommend it, but if you are.. then ADB shell, su, and start mv'ing.
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is there any way to undo this? i tried to go to a 4.2.2(liquid) and had some issues so i went back to 4.2.1.
did some more looking into and decided to try it again. same problems plus some. now im yet again back on 4.2.1 and have 3 different "0" folders and its driving me crazy...i tried using my pc to just cut and paste everything to where it should be a merge all the like folders but that is taking absolutely forever on some folders(had to go one at a time so it would do anything) some are quick but some arent.
do i just need to stick with what ive been doing or is there an easier way?
this is all on the internal storage if that matters
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since you are using a 4.2.2 capable recovery, EVEN if you are back onto a 4.1.2 ROM and still have the 0 folder, the recovery will still read the 0 folder regardless. lessen learned for me the hard way, always look before wiping to make sure the file u want to flash is there..
anyway, delete all the zero folders.. in fact if you don't have toooo much stuff on the internal, then do a quick format, this will remove all the 0 folders and then move what you want back.
what I do when I'm on a 4.2 and under ROM is rename my 0 folder to anything but 0, for me 00, and if I'm going to flash a nandroid of a 4.2 ROM or install one I just rename it back to 0 and all is well. make sure to always keep an extra 4tw ROM on in the 0 folder, in case your backup aren't showing up when in the 0 folder on 4.2 ROM.. u can however use the file manager built into TWRP, delete the TWRP folder, reboot recovery and you will be back in action...
yes, I've been doing a lot of testing with 4.2.2 lol so I learned it all the hard way. this should save you a good amount of time.
im just using drag and drop, but everytime i go to the original destination(root or int. storage) it takes FOREVER to load...:crying:
driving me bonkers since im at work and have limited time to devote to this increasingly menial task
OMG_VTEC said:
im just using drag and drop, but everytime i go to the original destination(root or int. storage) it takes FOREVER to load...:crying:
driving me bonkers since im at work and have limited time to devote to this increasingly menial task
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This is the main reason I haven't left 4.1.2 yet. Pacman 19.3 running to good to fool with that mess. But that's just me
Hi. I flashed the CM 10.1 M1 rom (4.2) and decided to go back to a stock rooted TW rom (4.1). This left me with the issue mentioned in this thread.
After reading the above posts, I just want to clarify how to deal with the "0" folder issue, which remains after reverting back to a 4.1 rom. My understanding is there are 2 ways to deal with this:
1. cut and paste the files in the "0" folder (which was created when flashing the 4.2 rom) back into the original internal sdcard folder. this would result in merging some of the folders/files with the same name in the "0" folder with those with the same name in the internal sdcard folder. Might also take a while.
2. use adb...if a step by step guide on how to do it this way can be shared, it would be appreciated.
because of the hassle. i would up just copying the contents of the "0" folder which I needed onto my computer, and formatted the internal sdcard, but if the adb way is a simply way, i am willing to give it a shot.
thank you for any input.
Hi, i'm facing some problems with the swapping i did (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857391)
I honestly don't know what to do, i'm not very good at these things. I tried it twice on my samsung galaxy note 10.1 and both times the swap is sucessful BUT it still saves in the internal.... I'm running stock kernel if you need more information you can ask. Oh and I did it with script manager
Please, help me. I really need the space
(using Sandisk ultra class 10 64 gb)
No suggestions at all?
SMN65 said:
No suggestions at all?
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Give it time. Not everyone checks XDA on an hourly basis.
So when you run the script it moves everything and does what it should? But then you get new apps and they continue to install on internal?
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So when you run the script it moves everything and does what it should? But then you get new apps and they continue to install on internal?
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Exactly...I really would appreciate any help I could get, maybe some new steps? I'm really not so good though I believe I followed the steps well.
Thanks for your time
If you need more information ask please, and my android version is 4.1.2 (don't know if its useful)
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Exactly...I really would appreciate any help I could get, maybe some new steps? I'm really not so good though I believe I followed the steps well.
Thanks for your time
If you need more information ask please, and my android version is 4.1.2 (don't know if its useful)
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Did you happen to read anywhere that it needs to be run again when adding new apps? Like it only moves them the one time and it's not like a setting that future apps go to sd.
bigtoysrock said:
Did you happen to read anywhere that it needs to be run again when adding new apps? Like it only moves them the one time and it's not like a setting that future apps go to sd.
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If i understood corectly, I didn't read anything like that but i made the script (via script manager) executable and to run at boot. It should just install in the external without boot or anything else needed.
I read on other forums about other devices that the easiest way to swap internal with external is by modifying your vold.fstab, but the mine is really wierd (I can post it if needed) , it's not like the other peoples devices. Maybe its that way on all SG note 10.1 because no one else has done it on the note 10.1.
Maybe I should flash a new rom? Like omega? I really don't know
So, I understood what I was doing wrong. I had updated the version of my device and the script wasnt compatible with JB. Though I have a quick question for anyone. Now that I used the one for JB and swapped the internal with external when i download a game for example Iron man (which is 800MB) a small part (around 10MB) goes in the internal,that happends with all games (some even take more 15MB or so). Is that normal?
EDIT: Nah, it still fully installs in the internal, swap is still sucessful though, at least it shows so.... Maybe if I can go back to ICS?
I know it's another L thread but bare with me!
I'd like to figure out (without all the other chat getting mixed up with the other threads) the sdcard missing error issue as it's bugging the hell out of me and others...
disclaimer - yes i know it's a preview! But.... We all have the same device coming from the same firmware to the same firmware...
when I first flashed L from vomer's zip, with the then modified boot.img and su zip everything was fine. I could use the camera, see my files and pictures in the photos app etc.
Then I went back to 4.4.4, ever since if I try to flash L. Either with the new su zip not needed modified boot.img. Or the original way including it. I just get sdcard missing in camera. No files seen in photos or any file exporer.
And I know others have too.
I've tried the 3 different restorecon commands in terminal emulator that's been floating around etc but always nothing..
So what's the defining difference??
Why could i see it fine the first flash but never again since??
I know some have no issues what so ever where as others have had to do full wipes for it to be seen.
But we all have the same phone, same hardware and same firmware??
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I flashed L, got tired of it, restored my backup 4.4.4 ROM and had no issues. Flashed L again, but this time I didn't restore a backup, just clean flashed my 4.4.4 ROM and now I'm getting the no SD card error as well.
I did the same thing. Ran L for a couple of days, made a backup and restored slimkat just fine. Went to restore L backup and it wouldn't boot and it screwed up my partitions. So now I just backed up my SD card (the one showing my stuff actually in it lol) and will be restoring to stock and starting over tonight to hopefully fix partitioning issue
That's why I use MultiRom
first time I flashed, it was a dirty flash, and all was fine, just the pulldown wouldn't go down all the way. second time i flashed, I "lost" my storage. but I was in recovery(twrp) playing around with their file explorer, and accidentally found all my storage/files. I booted up, used root explorer to move all my files manually from the original location that got moved, to the new location where they should be. everything was fine after.
Don't know y exactly but flashing the user data.img works to get SD card corrected. I'd wipe everything including data then flash vomers zip and the user data.img that's posted I believe on page 23..
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Don't know y exactly but flashing the user data.img works to get SD card corrected. I'd wipe everything including data then flash vomers zip and the user data.img that's posted I believe on page 23..
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I know we can do that. But this is more to figure out why second time flashing screws the internal memory up?
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Same exact problem as me. @Ben36 I played around with Restorecon /data/media/0/* and it bit me. I wasn't able to boot up in MultiROM. Mananged to boot into 4.4.4 by way of erasing internal ROM. Backed up my install, and flash-all L image.
I'll agree that the Sdcard issue is HELLA confusing. Good thread man.
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