Over the last few days, I've been cooking up a ROM using the Incredible S system dumps and nandroids. Problem is, it doesn't work It flashes fine, everything works there, but when I boot up my N1, it stays on the Nexus splash screen (the one with the X on the padlock on it). If any devs could have a good look at it, and see if they can find the source of the problem I'd be eternally grateful When you've found the problem and confirmed it works, PM me the file, tell me how you solved the problem, and I'll just check everything is in working order, then upload it. I will also put your username in the thread!
I used the HTC Android Kitchen (link here) to make this, so you might want to use that.
Incredible S
Link to latest ROM
The zip is: 224.0 MB (234929825 bytes)
Desire S
Link to latest Desire S ROM.
The zip is: 233.1 MB (244429351 bytes)
Thank you devs,
redbullcat
I doubt you could get the whole image on the phone, 224mb is way to big without scripts to move files over to another partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784260
That is 268mb and is a Sense ROM, so 224mb should fit.
I think that the system directory is way too big to be installed on a nexus one.
You should move some of the system content to data or move it to an ext3 sdcard partition.
What they said.
Put attention that even the ROM you linked REQUIRES A2SD partition, which it'll set up and use.
So to move the content from system to data: is that just a straight drag and drop procedure, or is some converting to make it work in data rather than system required?
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I am not an expert in the porting roms topic but if I am correct you will have to symlink the things that you move.
This can be done modifying the updater-script.
OK, thank you
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How would I move the stuff from system to an ext3 sdcard partition?
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Good thread. Sounds like a simple matter of setting up a2ext.
Nice work dude!
I would take a look at eViL's desire HD port since its going to be the most similar to this ROM....
That should help you in figuring out what is/isn't okay to move to SD....
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Thank you thanks also for the tip
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How big should the system and data directory's ideally be?
System - 140 MB is the phone limit, so I wouldn't go above 120-125 MB.
Data - all the rest, as much as you need. You're installing to EXT anyway.
Can you provide a LOGCAT when booting up?
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I can certainly try
OK, so I've moved stuff to a folder in the root of the ROM called ext, as that is what was in the NXSense-HD ROM by eVil. Problem is, the system directory is still 20mb too big. The folders in system:
bin
etc
framework
lib
media
sd
usr
xbin
and build.prop
What can I move to ext/data from this selection of folders? I moved from system to ext:
app (now called system-app)
customize (now called system-customize)
fonts (now called system-fonts)
Thanks,
redbullcat
I'm not a developer, but if you move one folder to ext partition and create a symlink to this folder in system partition? Shouldn't it work?
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Atento said:
I'm not a developer, but if you move one folder to ext partition and create a symlink to this folder in system partition? Shouldn't it work?
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I don't know if any folder can be moved though. For example, framework may not be movable.
EDIT: So I've moved some stuff from system to ext, but now the update-script is giving me grief. I'm trying to follow eVil's update-script, but it doesn't seem to be working. Does the update-script have to be done manually, or is there an automatic generator?
I've tried and tried, and I can't seem to get it to work. Could somebody either link me to an update-scipt generator, or help me build an update-script? I'd be so grateful
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Hi all
I would like to know how to delete the app2sd option in the .zip of villainRom 12.0.
i don't use it, and would like to have a more "light" file.
I tried to delete the "data" repertory, sign the rom, but can't flash
Thx in advance for help
just remove your ext partition?
Fabulous691 said:
Hi all
I would like to know how to delete the app2sd option in the .zip of villainRom 12.0.
i don't use it, and would like to have a more "light" file.
I tried to delete the "data" repertory, sign the rom, but can't flash
Thx in advance for help
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You can remove/disable app2sd by removing the following file:
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so if i delete this file, i can too delete the data repertory, containing all the app2sd elements isn't it?
Thx for your help !!
edit: i deleted the file in /system/etc/init.d/04apps2sd and the data repertory , and during the flash, the phone said me can't chown "data" etc repertory....
it seems i must delete another thing to tell to the phone that there is no missing repertory...but which one..?
Why? It's built into the kernel that was custom developed for the rom.
There is no notable overhead or space that you can recover. I can't think of any legitimate reason to remove it that would benefit your user experience.
If you simply want to learn how to do it though speaking as a developer who's learning how to build your own rom, maybe it would be easier to look at a less customized rom than vr12.
Does someone know where the developer docs for apps2sd are for this person to get his answer from?
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hi dkelley
the problem is that in the data/app directory, the applications dont want to install them if i dont have an ext2 partition
but i must let at least one app in this folder , because if not, he will deseapear automatically and during the flash, the phone will tell me that the "app" directory is missing..
and the application in the folder don't appear in the list of my apps, whereas that it should be installed on the internal memory..
Moved to Q&A as not development
What I'd like to do is to pull off all the files (keeping the structures intact) and either create an image file (.bin/.img) or something along those lines.
I know of DDMS and Android Commander, but I don't think they have the full power to get everything and I also understand the phone has to be rooted (which is not a big deal). Has anyone had any luck/expertise in this area?
If I can get this to work it then it would help out with some of the research that I am doing since it'll be easier to mount the image file in linux and go from there.
Alternate idea, does anyone know if when making a backup of the rom with CWM or BM does it hold the same type of data? If so where is the boot.img located?
Thanks for the help in advance!
I think there're a couple of threads in the development section regarding the images dumped from this phone.
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I think there're a couple of threads in the development section regarding the images dumped from this phone.
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Thanks I'll keep digging around to see what I can find.
Climber Ty said:
What I'd like to do is to pull off all the files (keeping the structures intact) and either create an image file (.bin/.img) or something along those lines.
I know of DDMS and Android Commander, but I don't think they have the full power to get everything and I also understand the phone has to be rooted (which is not a big deal). Has anyone had any luck/expertise in this area?
If I can get this to work it then it would help out with some of the research that I am doing since it'll be easier to mount the image file in linux and go from there.
Alternate idea, does anyone know if when making a backup of the rom with CWM or BM does it hold the same type of data? If so where is the boot.img located?
Thanks for the help in advance!
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You can use an app called App2card at below for your need. It has the data tools for backing up any file/folder on any kind of storage (internal flash, fat32, ext2/3/4...) and ability to restore them in original structure as they were when backing up
http://205.196.123.32/fgqe9rc69leg/iln88jii0g81e05/App2Card_2.9.85_30Oct2011.apk
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Look for samcripps fruit cake maker it takes your /system folder and creates an. Img out of it.
Sounds like exactly what your after. Thank samcripp if it works for you too.
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I use android commander to pull system folder from phone.
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I use android commander to pull system folder from phone.
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Thanks, I tried that last night but the init.rc and other imortant files cannot be copied due to permissions access.
I eventually used CWM to make a backup of the phone and pulled the files that way. I just wonder if it has all the files on the phone (haven't had time to root through it yet)?
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Thanks, I tried that last night but the init.rc and other imortant files cannot be copied due to permissions access.
I eventually used CWM to make a backup of the phone and pulled the files that way. I just wonder if it has all the files on the phone (haven't had time to root through it yet)?
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I think you can post your question in RomRacer's recovery thread; it's in dev section
Not sure how to better ask than to state my intent. The added storage of internal nand (as /sdcard in most roms) isn't worth the trouble it creates with doing full migrations from one rom to the next so I'm thinking I want to edit scripts (init.d, fstab and what-not) so that the internal storage just isn't used and my sdcard is OR so that internal is mounted inside /sdcard as /int_temp or something like that.
What I want to know though is if anyone out there knows of a reason this would be inadvisable? In other words, is there anything I'm likely to break? Any reason I can't just shell in from recovery, set things up, and try it?
Also, to deal with apps that don't rely on the APIs correctly, I was thinking of mounting as both /sdcard and /sdcard2. Any reason that could cause trouble? Ideally I would also edit the rom so that properly written apps will always use SDcard over internal storage too.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
2012-03-06T20:08-0700: So far I've done no harm and by simply modifying /etc/vold.fstab to the following, I've swapped internal/external, but it's a complete swap so the rom now reports 29GB total phone storage and 10GB SD card storage. I'm guessing it's the ramdisk that contains the references that vold.fstab uses which define what's "phone" and what's "sdcard". I tried swapping single parts of vold.fstab entries and storage broke so it doesn't appear to be standalone in that sense (doesn't have the meta data to indicate what's phone and what's sdcard).
Code:
dev_mount sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd 37 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host/mmc0
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2
I can work on it later this week. I think it can be done. I just need time to mess with it.
/sdcard/sd_ext
Thanks for the quick reply Con. Should it take much more than init.d and/or fstab changes? I have no doubt you're as/more busy with Android mods than I am with my other projects so I'd rather give this a go and hit you up with targeted questions than wait AND put it all on you. If you're cool with that, I'll give it a go right now while I'm between roms.
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You guys are on it today!
What about it? Depending on the rom, I've seen that as well as /sdcard2. I don't think that link needs to exist if I succeed with what I'm thinking.
rainabba said:
You guys are on it today!
What about it? Depending on the rom, I've seen that as well as /sdcard2. I don't think that link needs to exist if I succeed with what I'm thinking.
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Lol that exists already. Sdcard is really just emmc I think. It is needed for downloads and other system processes that would clog the sdcard. You can access the external card through sd_ext
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Thanks for the quick reply Con. Should it take much more than init.d and/or fstab changes? I have no doubt you're as/more busy with Android mods than I am with my other projects so I'd rather give this a go and hit you up with targeted questions than wait AND put it all on you. If you're cool with that, I'll give it a go right now while I'm between roms.
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No I am busy with exams lol.. no other android projects right now. I have recently abandoned one due to dres's new mainver tool which is much better.
Aren't you twistedumbrella?
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Aren't you twistedumbrella?
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who are you referring to?
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who are you referring to?
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Rainabba, I swore adrynalyne called him by that once
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Lol that exists already. Sdcard is really just emmc I think. It is needed for downloads and other system processes that would clog the sdcard. You can access the external card through sd_ext
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Guess I wasn't clear enough. I know it's there, but /sdcard is internal storage (EMMC) and not sdcard which is what I'd prefer it to be. Also, /sdcard/sd_ext is irrelevant except that a ROM settings allows apps using the proper API to discover that the sdcard is mounted there (95% sure that's true anyway) and that's needed BECAUSE /sdcard isn't actually the sdcard. Pretty silly IMO.
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Rainabba, I swore adrynalyne called him by that once
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If he did, he was mistaken. I do know of Twisted though I can't recall why at the moment. Also, adrynalyne most definitely knows of me (we've exchanged opinions on more than one occasion)
superchilpil, curious but does Tapatalk have an option to get rid of that sig it's adding to your posts? I've been thinking of adding support to my forums so I'm curious but the last time I tried to use it, it seemed like more trouble than just using a browser so I haven't explored it fully from the client-side.
See op-post for update.
Here is the file that I edited and use everytime I flash a new rom. It swaps SDcard and EMMC. What you have to do is copy the file in the RAR archive to the /etc folder and overwrite the one that is there. Just keep in mind that after you copy this file that the EMMC is not accessible with USB mount. I have not figured out how to do that exactly. Reboot after file overwrite.
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Here is the file that I edited and use everytime I flash a new rom. It swaps SDcard and EMMC. What you have to do is copy the file in the RAR archive to the /etc folder and overwrite the one that is there. Just keep in mind that after you copy this file that the EMMC is not accessible with USB mount. I have not figured out how to do that exactly. Reboot after file overwrite.
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Thanks for sharing.
Looks like our findings are identical, literally (see op post)
mrcrusha829 said:
Here is the file that I edited and use everytime I flash a new rom. It swaps SDcard and EMMC. What you have to do is copy the file in the RAR archive to the /etc folder and overwrite the one that is there. Just keep in mind that after you copy this file that the EMMC is not accessible with USB mount. I have not figured out how to do that exactly. Reboot after file overwrite.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget
maybe that app will help you
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If he did, he was mistaken. I do know of Twisted though I can't recall why at the moment. Also, adrynalyne most definitely knows of me (we've exchanged opinions on more than one occasion)
superchilpil, curious but does Tapatalk have an option to get rid of that sig it's adding to your posts? I've been thinking of adding support to my forums so I'm curious but the last time I tried to use it, it seemed like more trouble than just using a browser so I haven't explored it fully from the client-side.
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Yea its easy to remove
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The question ive asked many times before about this is: why does the internal ram have to be tied to the sdcard via ext_sd? Cant it be its own independent emmc folder or something?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383330
It'd be sick if we could set it up as a raid 0...don't think that'd ever happen tho.
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It'd be sick if we could set it up as a raid 0...don't think that'd ever happen tho.
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Could be possible lol. Only issue is is if you relocked/wiped the internal/etc all your data would be wrecked.
So I repartitioned my media and storage drives yesterday, and although I did have a few problems (post #156-158) I finally managed to repartition and proceeded mounting the drives in 1.4.1 rooted B&N. Also checked if they worked via usb to computer which they did. I then decided that I wanted to try cm7 today and installed it flawlessly. Only problem is that now my newly resized 10GB internal media partition don't show up. So tried installing the;
[CM7][GB] Soft-mod RibbonICS ROM by veronica, but still no change.
In the storage settings i've tried to mount the
Additional storage/mnt/sdcard/_internalSD but doesen't work and thats probably also just the folder I created myself as instructed in the soft-mod.
So yeah I'm wondering if I can only use the extended media part in stock rooted B&N or if its got to do with the problems I had with the process. Or mayb I just need to mount the media drive somewhere?
Please help
Went into adb-shell in CWM and checked via the p command if the media drive was there which is was
(looked like this: 10 1611MB 11.6GB 9989MB fat32 media msftres)...so it really should work.....shouldn't it?
Edit: actually the above is not entirely correct: I have found my media partition in the file browser now but its just not really accessible it seems. Is it just not mounted or what?
Included in the soft-mod for cm7 is also an application called multi-mount sd lite which should help with this but it force-closes on me even after i fix permissions need help with this..
nook tablet cm7 can not access internall sd
Hi
I loaded cm7 onto my nook tablet 16g internal SD using your latest Zip and it worked like a charm. Thank everybody.
only problem I have is that I can't access the internal SD from my windows computer. It accesses the external one fine but not the internal one.
can download app into internal via web and brows around it.
It doesn't seem to be mounted for external USB access.
Can anyone help with this?
Thanks Martyn
There's a typo in two lines of the build.prop. Described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540272&referrerid=4611244
But the link to the corrected build.prop there doesn't work! There's a good link further down the thread...but I attached mine here if you want to use it.
Just download to the root of your removable sdcard and install it from CWM. Or extract it and copy it to /system with your favorite file explorer to overwrite the "typo" version.
EDIT: by "mine" I mean my copy of Celtic's.
OOPS!
Sorry. My reply above was to kingtechmartyn, not the OP domiel...didn't mean to hijack the thread.
Very sorry.
There's a typo in two lines of the build.prop. Described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540272&referrerid=4611244<br />
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But the link to the corrected build.prop there doesn't work! There's a good link further down the thread...but I attached mine here if you want to use it.<br />
Just download to the root of your removable sdcard and install it from CWM. Or extract it and copy it to /system with your favorite file explorer to overwrite the "typo" version.<br />
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EDIT: by "mine" I mean my copy of Celtic's.
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Just remember when changing build.prop to always make a backup of the original so if you want to revert you can.
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I don't know if its specific to root explorer or not, but whenever I modify a build.prop that I have navigated to via root explorer, it automatically adds a .bak extension to the original build.prop file.
for an edit of build.prop, be sure to use the correct edit tool which places a 'line feed' at the eol and not a 'carriage return and line feed'.
hth.
Cubanluke88 said:
I don't know if its specific to root explorer or not, but whenever I modify a build.prop that I have navigated to via root explorer, it automatically adds a .bak extension to the original build.prop file.
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Cubanluke88 said:
I don't know if its specific to root explorer or not, but whenever I modify a build.prop that I have navigated to via root explorer, it automatically adds a .bak extension to the original build.prop file.
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you are right, normally a backup is automatically created. But, I have seen a lot of requests since November when we started messing with this device of people making mistakes and not having a backup. So it is always a good idea to copy and then save to the sd card just in case.
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Well to be quite honest, before you make any sort of system modifications, you should always make a nandroid backup.
Having a backup of the build.prop or whatever file is nice because it allows you to quickly revert. But a nandroid backup protects you from when the damn thing decides to temp brick.
build prop differences
Also be aware that the build prop typo correction from the Team B CM 7 release (and I believe the RC2 release from a different source I cannot remember) is different from the mods Veronica released - she has developed her own build prop to handle the internal storage. I also had problems with the included Multi Mount SD Card Lite included in her mod and purchased the full version for $.99 which corrected the problems. Also note that there is an underline before _InternalSD in the full release of her mod which is different from just the small mod that handles the Internal over External SD card. Make sure you are being consistent with the folder name you create with the mod version you have installed.
Cubanluke88 said:
Well to be quite honest, before you make any sort of system modifications, you should always make a nandroid backup.
Having a backup of the build.prop or whatever file is nice because it allows you to quickly revert. But a nandroid backup protects you from when the damn thing decides to temp brick.
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exactly, if more people would do this there might be fewer issues due to being able to restore if there is a oops moment.
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Hi Bernardicus
Thanks heaps you are a champion!
I don't even know how to get terminal into su yet so you zip was a god send.
Now I have to work out how to enlarge the 1g of memory, i must admit it's very fulfilling modifying my Nook, looking forward to be proficient enough to return the favors from you all.
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Also be aware that the build prop typo correction from the Team B CM 7 release (and I believe the RC2 release from a different source I cannot remember) is different from the mods Veronica released - she has developed her own build prop to handle the internal storage. I also had problems with the included Multi Mount SD Card Lite included in her mod and purchased the full version for $.99 which corrected the problems. Also note that there is an underline before _InternalSD in the full release of her mod which is different from just the small mod that handles the Internal over External SD card. Make sure you are being consistent with the folder name you create with the mod version you have installed.
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Absolutely correct. I'm running her ribbon ics mod now on top of the Team B CM7 ROM (and loving it). She also modded the vold.fstab in /system/etc to reflect those changes in build.prop. I ended up replacing her vold.fstab with the Team B version and editing her build.prop to reflect the corrected "typos" in the Team B build.prop. (I know, I de-modded the mod, but for some reason, using the multi mount widget to do something that the OS should handle made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!)
I'm spending more time modifying this thing that actually using it! But it has been fun.
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Absolutely correct. I'm running her ribbon ics mod now on top of the Team B CM7 ROM (and loving it). She also modded the vold.fstab in /system/etc to reflect those changes in build.prop. I ended up replacing her vold.fstab with the Team B version and editing her build.prop to reflect the corrected "typos" in the Team B build.prop. (I know, I de-modded the mod, but for some reason, using the multi mount widget to do something that the OS should handle made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!)
I'm spending more time modifying this thing that actually using it! But it has been fun.
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I'm running Veronica's NT_CM7_Ribbon_ICS_v2.1 and I have the same problem. I replaced her vold.fstab with the Team B version and edited her build.prop. Now I can mount the Internal SD on my computer. Thanks for the help.
Somewhere along the line either my brother or I made a mistake, and when going to storage/sdcard0 there is a folder external_sd (in italics in most file explorers) which links directly to storage/external_SD. The problem is, while I've cleaned out storage/sdcard0 by moving as many apps as possible with Link2SD, having that directory there makes the phone think sdcard0 is full. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
No one? I'm sure there's some simple busybox command in console mode that will unbind the directory. I only have 250MB on sdcard0 (the internal MMC storage partition) but I can't even update my apps because when I try I get "insufficient storage available" & it's all because the friggin external_sd is linked in that folder. Right now using a diskinfo app, it says sdcard0 is 128% full because the size of the external_sd linked folder. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! The limited storage available is the main reason I spent the time rooting, to be able to use link2sd to move my apps. I hope someone can help soon.
Don't know of this will work butt I was getting a full sd0 card s while back then I moved all of my backup files to external. All pictures, music, etc as well. Good luck !
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Are you running a swap script?
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Are you running a swap script?
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Here's the thing, after I rooted the thing, my brother-in-law and I swapped phones for a week (his GS3 for my L9) because I wanted to try out his phone. And he said he tried some tweaks, but said he put everything back before we swapped back. He told me in an email the other day when I told him about this issue that he tried How to exchange memories but said it didn't work for him. So when you ask if I'm running a swap script, could that be what your talking about.
I'll never swap a rooted phone with a friend again! Especially when I can't figure out where he/she screwed it up. But I was thinking about getting a Galaxy S3 or S4, so I wanted to check out his phone. Thanks so much for the reply though.
...oh, and Nathan, all of my files are on the external. And because the external_sd has a folder inside sdcard0, that's why sdcard0 is reading 122% full, even though there's only 200MB of files actually on sdcard0, everything else that the phone reads is from the linked folder.
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So when you ask if I'm running a swap script, could that be what your talking about.
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There ale few ways to swap storage/external_SD, check /system/etc/init.d/ folder for script, depending on android version script will have different name, 97ext2sd was working on ICS, for JB you have to dig the forum. Ussually deleting the script reverts changes, when you find the proper script there should be information how to switch back.
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No init.d folder, I can use an app called "init.d toggle" to make init.d folder (and place system/bin/sysinit file - modify system/etc/install-recovery.sh), but there wasn't a script there creating the directory bind.
At this point I haven't been able to update or install any apps/games in a couple of weeks because I don't want to delete the info I have on external_SD. So, I'm willing to transfer $10 by PayPal to anyone who will help me fix this problem. I'm sure it's something simple, I just need someone with more knowledge of linux and busybox, etc.
Please...is anyone out there willing to help out with a few moments of your time if there's 10 bucks in it?? :fingers-crossed: :laugh: :highfive:
I would really appreciate it...Thanks so much and take care all.
Sd0 is your internal sd card. Look you might as well just flash a ROM
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