Just need to know if this would work... so I have a NAND for my best Rom with apps2sd working and a ton of apps (Eris lightning 3.02). I want to wipe and flash a new Rom (not froyo) also with apps2sd. I know the wipe will clear out my SD-ext partition, so I was wondering if its possible to flash the NANDs SD-ext.img and regain all my apps instantly. Now I have a feeling this may not work between ROMS or if dalvik-cache is on the SD-ext, so I figured I'd ask and gain some insight. Thanks in advance!
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As long as you don't clear the ext partition your apps should appear as long as it's not a froyo rom. I did this many times with 2.1 roms and a2sd enabled.
loki154 said:
As long as you don't clear the ext partition your apps should appear as long as it's not a froyo rom. I did this many times with 2.1 roms and a2sd enabled.
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Thanks you for the answer. My question now would be that when I wipe it usually clears th SD-ext on its own. Now I know I'm stupid for having clockwork recovery and not amon ra. Is this the problem?
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I have no experience with clockwork. Amon ra does not wipe the ext partition unless you tell it too.
Btw i've heard clockwork has a strong bias for bricking your phone. It's not kind to the eris.
loki154 said:
I have no experience with clockwork. Amon ra does not wipe the ext partition unless you tell it too.
Btw i've heard clockwork has a strong bias for bricking your phone. It's not kind to the eris.
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Your def right bout clockwork. Weirdly enough, Rom manager works well on my phone, but since I don't want to take the risk, ill use Rommanager to flash amon ra
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Hi
I've read alot of the threads around but cant seem to find specific info that I require. I've already rooted and flashed Litening ROM 1.5, however I want to try other ROMS and read its best to wipe before some of them.
Now most of the instructions say to boot into CWM and do a data/cache wipe, can anyone tell em what does this wipe exactly?
From what I can understand the 16gb is partitioned into the "sd card" and the storage? When looking through Windows Explorer only the larger (I believe sd card" partition shows up, with download folder, CWM back ups, music, camera images etc.
Does this get wiped, or is it just apps/personalisation of the phone? I've got titanium backup and backed up all data + user data etc which can be restored, but I just want to check that music/camera images etc won't go!
Hope its not too stupid a question, cheers for any info!
My understanding is: wipe = factory reset. I hope I'm right with that assumption.
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Wipes....
I got caught once when I installed cognition for the first time. The installation somehow did wipe my internal sdcard with all my stuff on it. (Although I do have backups on my PC) So it was just a pain but not serious.
But the odd thing is that all the following upgrades of the rom did not wipe the sdcard, so DG might have change the way it does the wipes.
Also if you do a factory reset either via keypad on phone with the *#... it will wipe the sdcard.
So one needs to be carefull and make sure that we have backups of the stuff we want to keep.
I find this annoying making the 16GB card internal sdcard almost behaive as temporary storage ruther than permanent.
So watch out.
thanks for both replies! still not 100% sure though, does anyone know 100% what the CWM wipe options actually wipe?
thanks again!
How about "everything"? It sets your phone back to the way it was when you first started it.
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Back up sd card and wipe phone to learn.
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Kind of a noob question. I just got my 3d, came from the 4G. Right now I'm on the stock rooted rom, I was trying to get Link2sd to work and even flashed darktremors script for apps2sd but I can't get my ext3 partition to mount. I never had a problem on the 4G. Do I need a new rom or kernel or both? Thanks
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I know that dt app2sd won't work on a stock Rom unless some adjustments are made. I haven't tested link2sd.
What hboot do you have?
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Try an ext2 partition for apps to sd also your sd has to be setup properly for it to run. If I recall there's an app interface for it that you can find on the market. Also it wont run on a stock rom. Look for a rom that has apps2sd support. Also you can't run both mods. You will have to choose links2sd or apps2sd. Running both might give you problems.
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Thanks for the input. I may flash a different rom. I can't remember if I can downgrade form ext3 to ext2 without formatting and losing all my stuff, so I may just leave it ext3
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metalfan78 said:
Thanks for the input. I may flash a different rom. I can't remember if I can downgrade form ext3 to ext2 without formatting and losing all my stuff, so I may just leave it ext3
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Yup you can just make a backup of your sd and place it on your pc. Then reformat your sd and change the extension. Then just c&p your data back your sd and then boot up. Then reboot back into recovery and wipe cache and davlik-cache and reboot and you should be fine.
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Can't backup my stuff, no access to a pc at the moment, ill just have to wait a bit
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Hey guys new to rooting and roms, i flashed a rom decided i didn't like it i proceeded to wipe everything. and i mistakenly did a FULL WIPE of the entire phone only thing left standing is TWRP, all my backups are gone no other rom i can flash either. i know its not completely bricked since i still have access to TWRP. I would mount the sd car but it doesn't recognize the the phone and it wants me to format it. im out of ideas, can anyone help me out of this mini crisis of mine?
Can you access your usb mount through TWRP? If so, you can dl Rom from computer to internal memory and flash that way. Hope I said that right
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Sounds like you may have to reformat. Mount internal through twrp, reformat and transfer a Rom to flash. If the Rom doesn't have a kernel installer like meanrom, fastboot flash the kernel
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Sounds like you may have to reformat. Mount internal through twrp, reformat and transfer a Rom to flash. If the Rom doesn't have a kernel installer like meanrom, fastboot flash the kernel
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thanks Om, that did the trick. i was hesitant at first to format it. once formatted it was pretty much drag and drop and flash.. :good:
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thanks Om, that did the trick. i was hesitant at first to format it. once formatted it was pretty much drag and drop and flash.. :good:
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You might want to set TWRP to save your backups to the ext sdcard. Default is internal
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How do i format in ext3 to run Santod's ics debloated. In Layman's terms.
Thanks guys.
If you just installed 4ext by default its already formatted to ext3.
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You can either do it manually in recovery mode by going to the wipe/format options and just formatting each partition as ext3. (There are buttons specifically for this). Or you can do it through Android by launching the 4ext app. To do this, you simply tell it you want to install a rom, and on the last step it will ask if you want to format/wipe. Choose the "superwipe ext3" option and it will take care of everything for you.
Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
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Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
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If you can get into recovery, does that mean you can complete a nandroid backup? There's actually an option in Titanium Backup to extract apps from a nandroid backup and restore them in Titanium.
My other thought is a handy little app called Nandroid Manager, which you can find on the Play Store. With it you can restore SMS+MMS messages from a nandroid backup. It also has an option for restoring Apps+App Data, but it doesn't seem as stable as the Titanium option.
As for system settings, I'm afraid you're going to have to set those up again after you wipe and reflash your rom.
Speaking of wiping and flashing...have you considered trying a newer rom? Maybe a Jellybean one?
EDIT: By the way, you don't need to use Odin to flash. Just place the rom .zip on your SD card, and wipe and flash using CWM Recovery.
Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
Edit: might have been due to low disk space - removing a bunch of non essential stuff and will retry.
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Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
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Are you backing up to internal storage or SD card? Make sure you have about 2GB free on the one you're using, and try it again. If that doesn't work, let me know.
As for a good rom, it depends on what you want. As far as Touchwiz Jellybean, I don't think there's much out there better than ShoStock3. I'm an AOSP man myself, so I prefer SlimBean personally. Task's AOKP is also excellent.
I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
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I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
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I've never seen that error before. Hopefully it just works this time.
Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
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Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
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Yeah, you can try a different kernel, with a newer version of CWM. I would try the latest AJK. As an ICS/Jellybean kernel, you won't be able to use it to boot up, but you'll still be able to boot into recovery and back up/wipe/flash.
Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
iceman718 said:
Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
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Yes. Just make sure you do a full wipe first. Wipe data/factory reset, clear dalvik cache, format /system. Then flash away!
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