I need to delete what i dont use to free up my phone storage and possibly will make my phone a little faster correct?
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try titanium backup.
you can uninstall any app (system and user).
You can even backup and restore apps.
Just make sure you have root enabled.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
rforums said:
try titanium backup.
you can uninstall any app (system and user).
You can even backup and restore apps.
Just make sure you have root enabled.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
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Thank you very much dude
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you can also use root uninstaller and system app remover
Yea those both work you can also partition your SD and try ungazed data2sd I am using it and have 1.7 gigs of memory for apps
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imho I think it's a lot easier to just do it via ADB. If you're not comfortable with the command line, I really don't think you should be flashing stuff to your phone. It's really easy to manage your phone via ADB. Just open a terminal/command prompt, adb shell as root
Code:
adb shell
su
and then remount the /system as read/write
Code:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
then just
Code:
cd /system/app
from there you can ls to bring up a list
Code:
ls
of all the system .apk that you can't uninstall normally. For the most part (especially with custom ROMs) they're named relatively logically. you can delete the ones you want to get rid of with rm. for example, to remove the market you should enter
Code:
rm /system/app/Vending.apk
i tryed this to uninstall a sys app , with TB, hard reset is the result / lgf2.2.2 , rooted
LE. busybox needed
Use absolute system root tools..i hv removed unwanted apps from devoid using it.
The force restart upon removal of apps from within the phone is precisely why I recommend doing this with the ADB. Better yet, just use a minimal rom like devoid and then add to it what you need. Too many things can go wrong when you start deleting stuff.
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I take it that it's not a good thing to remove your SD card when you're running A2SD. I wanted to see if my apps were "really" running on the card, so I figured I'd just pop it out, see if the apps worked or not, then pop it back in. Well, the apps didn't work, but after re-inserting the card, I don't see any of the apps I had installed.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Reboot it?
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Reboot it?
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I did that about 5 times.
I also tried reflashing the PlainJaneT2 ROM I have on the SD card, but oddly enough that didn't fix it either...probably because I didn't do a factory reset prior to doing it. I don't want to lose all my data and downloaded apps...
If you have Titanium Backup and have done a recent backup, it might work to restore the links to your SD apps, not sure though...
BTW sorry for the obvious first response, but you never know what people have/haven't tried.
Well, I just flashed the PlainJaneT2 ROM to my phone last night, so I didn't get around to making a backup. I'm just not sure if there's a way to restore the links without doing a factory reset and starting over.
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Well, I just flashed the PlainJaneT2 ROM to my phone last night, so I didn't get around to making a backup. I'm just not sure if there's a way to restore the links without doing a factory reset and starting over.
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Try "a2sd install"
That commands makes sure everything is set for a2sd. see if that works.
Thanks, T2noob...do I need to run that from the command prompt with the phone connected via USB? I was surprised to see that almost every app on my phone was moved to the SD card! Right now I can still use it, but any app, including Market, is gone!
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Thanks, T2noob...do I need to run that from the command prompt with the phone connected via USB? I was surprised to see that almost every app on my phone was moved to the SD card! Right now I can still use it, but any app, including Market, is gone!
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You can either run it from the adb with this
Code:
adb shell a2sd install
or you can run it from a terminal emulator from the phone with this
Code:
su
a2sd install
and about the market being gone reboot your phone and it should come back.
That market issue may not if he can't get to his ext partition.
That was an issue when I had zipalign running at boot. You have a market app that is located in /system/app (this is where it should be). When market updates, it puts an updated copy of itself in /data/app (which is on his ext partition). The icon is pointed to that app.
I didn't remove the market app fix program (though I did remove the command to get there).
If you still can't get market back, try the following:
1. Remount your phone (adb remount)
2. Go into the adb shell
3. Type /system/xbin/busybox cp -fp /data/a2sd/Vending.apk /system/app
4. Type /system/xbin/busybox rm -f /data/data/com.android.vending/cache/*
5. I'm not sure, but you may just want to reboot the phone.
This should bring back your market.
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You can either run it from the adb with this
Code:
adb shell a2sd install
or you can run it from a terminal emulator from the phone with this
Code:
su
a2sd install
and about the market being gone reboot your phone and it should come back.
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I am running WW 4.6 right now and i did a titanium back up to try out one of the new Froyo ROMs. I didnt like it so i tried to nandroid restore back to WW and that wouldnt even work.
So i reflashed WW and tried to reinstall my apps and it says "not enough memory" or something along those lines every time i try to reinstall an app.
So i partitioned my SD card and it STILL wont download anything..any ideas?
Edit: After some research this seems to be a Titanium back up issue and a simple uninstall/reinstall of the apps works. I have no apps installed on my phone and i cannot install anything...thats not good.
Also i have the adb shell open on the command prompt with all the listed app on my phone by doing
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
...and there is nothing there that is installed, just all of the .apks that come with the ROM.
Installed a new ROM and working now, very strange.
WW requires you to partition your SD card for app2sd, that is why it's telling you that you do not have enough space. Get ROM Manager from the market and it will do this for you, then just flash WW back onto your phone.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...-manager-will-now-partition-your-sd-card.html
EDIT: I forgot to add that after you install WW you need to go into (Settings, Applications) and enable App2SD before you can install anything.
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I am running WW 4.6 right now and i did a titanium back up to try out one of the new Froyo ROMs. I didnt like it so i tried to nandroid restore back to WW and that wouldnt even work.
So i reflashed WW and tried to reinstall my apps and it says "not enough memory" or something along those lines every time i try to reinstall an app.
So i partitioned my SD card and it STILL wont download anything..any ideas?
Edit: After some research this seems to be a Titanium back up issue and a simple uninstall/reinstall of the apps works. I have no apps installed on my phone and i cannot install anything...thats not good.
Also i have the adb shell open on the command prompt with all the listed app on my phone by doing
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
ls
...and there is nothing there that is installed, just all of the .apks that come with the ROM.
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If you do a "chmod -R 777 /data/app" (without quotes) through ADB shell, that should enable you to install apps from the market onto internal memory.
ATTENTION: Cyanogenmod version 6.1.0 has A2EXT support built into the rom so an edited boot.img is no longer needed just flash the add-on to enable it and also you must do the commands to move dalvik-cache to the EXT partition as well...
Thank You for reading this if you actually took the time to!
Ok so i decided to post some things on here. Let me explain why I did things the way I did first of all. I decided to only edit the boot.img in each of the froyo roms that we all use and post those here along with a flashable .zip file that allows you to activate apps2ext on froyo roms. I did it this way to show respect to the developers of the roms by not stealing there downloads with my own. Doing it this way means that you have to download the actual rom from them which I hope makes things better for them.
You will need to already have an EXT partition setup already to be able to do this.
To any Dev if you do not like me doing this to your rom then by all means PM me and i will remove it ASAP.
To any downloader/user if there is a rom that you want me to include that isn't or a rom that isn't Froyo let me know and i will try to get that for you ASAP.
Credit for this goes to the Dev's of each rom and the darktremor a2sd method maker:
Cyanogen and teamdouche
Tkirton
Arayray
r0man
infinitybiff
migueltherocker
XDA of course!! :-D
Everyone that uses my edits
If i didn't mention you then PM me i will add you.
Now on to the Goods:
All of these are just boot.img from each rom. This is not an one for all boot.img type thing because each rom could have done something to the boot.img that may cause a bootloop if added to a different rom.
Rename each to boot.img and place into your rom.
After that you don't actually have to do any resigning since we all are using clockwork recovery just make sure its setup to allow flashing without signatures.
This only supports EXT2 or EXT3 which is pretty much all slide users have considering its nothing new.
Download the a2sd.zip and flash it at any time after you get your base rom flashed.
I will try to keep these updated to the latest versions if there is enough demand for them. Also i will try to keep the latest 3 nightlies up-to-date.
Boot.imgs:
Boot Images Here
A2sd Enabling package
Instructions:
OK as stated above these are only boot.img.
You need to rename each to just boot.img and place them inside the rom you like.
Make sure you wipe everything and do a fresh install it helps a lot to do everything fresh. (if your worried about apps use titanium backup or some other backup app)
Flash the a2sd add-on
Once the add-on has been flashed and there aren't any problems there are a few ways to enable actual a2ext.
You can either use adb or a terminal app on your phone.
If using adb phone can be turned on or in recover with system mounted.
once you pick a way here are the commands:
(if using a terminal app skip steps 1, 2, 5, 6)
1. ./adb remount (windows: adb remount)
2. ./adb shell (windows: adb shell)
Su will be needed for terminal app and may be needed for adb method(just do it in case its needed)
3. cd /system/bin/
4. sh a2sd reinstall
some things will popup and phone should reboot
5. once rebooted ./adb remount
6. ./adb shell
7. cd /system/bin/
8. sh a2sd cachesd
more things will popup and phone should reboot. The last reboot can take 5 minutes or longer especially if you already had apps downloaded. I know on a fresh install it can take what seems like ages.
saved just in case may use this for non froyo roms or requested roms
Through some experimenting i have found out that just including the boot images into the roms without flashing the add-on pack could cause your phone to stick at the boot screen so you should always flash the add-on
Teamfenix 1.7.1 for those people that use it because they need tether support
The best backup app i have found is mybackup pro and activate the root privileges. if you dont have paid apps or just dont wanna pay it there is a free version but it only lasts a certain amount of time. it restores all apps and data without causing market problems like i have experienced with titanium backup. either/or they are both good apps but everyone has a preference.
This is great man, thanks. You saved me the time and trouble of incorporating it myself.
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migueltherocker said:
This is great man, thanks. You saved me the time and trouble of incorporating it myself.
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lol thanks i just noticed a lot of people want it so i figured this way is easier although i could upload each individual rom with it already enabled and ready to run but i thought that might step on a few toes around here
great work! ill add a link to my post if you dont mind
arayray said:
great work! ill add a link to my post if you dont mind
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thats ok with me
cool mod, gonna give ita shot!
SiL3nTKiLL said:
cool mod, gonna give ita shot!
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let me know how it works out for you. also updated first post with the 2 9/26 nightlies and 2nd post with the teamfenix 1.7.1 boot image
just to be clear, we need to have the ext partition setup before trying this right? it won't make it for us?
I didn't think so... just wondering hahaha
Thanks guys!
you rock!
- faylix / local
Just wondering... what's the difference b/w app2ext and app2fat? It seems like app2ext is better since people tend to want it
And also, if we want to partition app2ext, we can just do so via rom manager, right?
daniel60104 said:
Just wondering... what's the difference b/w app2ext and app2fat? It seems like app2ext is better since people tend to want it
And also, if we want to partition app2ext, we can just do so via rom manager, right?
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the benefits of a2ext are that you dont have to move each app as you install them. once its setup they are automatically installed to the ext partition. another thing is it doesn't matter what apps are on it they all show up without any problems unlike with the a2fat where if widgets or home apps are placed on it they disappear. also when rebooting your phone your home screen apps wont get that generic icon with a2ext like they can with a2fat. its a lot easier to partition the sdcard compared to the old android days when everything was manual so its a whole lot more appealing. plus even with a2fat your internal memory continued to decrease even if you placed them on the memory card. this is because only part of the app is moved over and also the dalvik cache for the app was left on internal. so you are still limited on how much you can download. with a2ext no internal memory is lost to apps or dalvik cache because everything is on the ext partition this would allow rom makers to add more to the data or system partitions with there rom so you can have other apps or more room for themed images that may take up more memory.
your other question yes rom manager should have the option to partition your sdcard. another option is to use gparted if you are running ubuntu there are also other programs that should work as well for other os.
on another note working on the latest nightly and will upload shortly
A question I have is that if we use the boot image for the newest Cyan nightly? What happens when we want to install a newer nightly? Do we have to patch that with the new Boot.img also?
acejoker25000 said:
once you pick a way here are the commands:
(if using a terminal app skip steps 1, 2, 5, 6)
1. ./adb remount (windows: adb remount)
2. ./adb shell (windows: adb shell)
Su will be needed for terminal app and may be needed for adb method(just do it in case its needed)
3. cd /system/bin/
4. sh a2sd reinstall
some things will popup and phone should reboot
5. once rebooted ./adb remount
6. ./adb shell
7. cd /system/bin/
8. sh a2sd cahcesd
more things will popup and phone should reboot. The last reboot can take 5 minutes or longer especially if you already had apps downloaded. I know on a fresh install it can take what seems like ages.
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The last command (#8) should be
Code:
sh a2sd cachesd
you transposed a couple letters in cachesd.
Ok I had a 2.1 ROM with a2sd enabled and i had my ext2 partition working. I installed a 2.2 ROM and followed all directions properly. After the 2nd reboot I am not seeing my apps populate into the phone. They should still be on the ext2 partition no? Thoughts please?
If you wiped before flashing then your ext partition was wiped as well but you could try a fix permissions and see if that works
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acejoker25000 said:
If you wiped before flashing then your ext partition was wiped as well but you could try a fix permissions and see if that works
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Ah crap I did do a full wipe. Trying the fix permissions now. I do have a nandroid backup of my last ROM. If this doesnt work is there a way to put that ext2 contents onto the ext2 now?
Restore the rom and use titanium backup or mybackup and backup your apps that way but I think if you pick advanced under the nandroid options you can restore only the ext partition. I never did that but a fix permissions might help with any problems
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acejoker25000 said:
Restore the rom and use titanium backup or mybackup and backup your apps that way but I think if you pick advanced under the nandroid options you can restore only the ext partition. I never did that but a fix permissions might help with any problems
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Fix Permissions and a reboot didn't make the apps show up. Doing advanced nandroid restore now and only restoring the sd-ext. Will post results in a few. Thanks!
pettigrew95 said:
Fix Permissions and a reboot didn't make the apps show up. Doing advanced nandroid restore now and only restoring the sd-ext. Will post results in a few. Thanks!
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I meant a fix permissions after an advanced restore otherwise there could be problems
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acejoker25000 said:
I meant a fix permissions after an advanced restore otherwise there could be problems
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Hmm sitting at the white t-mo boot screen for quite some time now...but i remember your 1st post saying this was normal with apps on the ext2
Hi, i want to know how to remove these pre-installed apps from my Optimus. They're singtel's apps and i don't use these apps here in my country.
FYI, I have rooted my handset with z4root. Thanks guys.
with SystemApp Remover ... phone must be rooted
steps to remove application after Root
# su
#remount rw
#cd system\app
# rm Sample.apk (pls take note that this is case sensitive)
after complete removed all applications that you want remount
# remount ro
# reboot
You can use titanium backup, or you can do it the step by step way (which I prefer).
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app [when you get here, type "ls" to see the list of files in that directory]
rm <app name>.apk
Then reboot. I prefer rebooting from the terminal. It's cooler that way
I used ' Uninstaller for Root ' from the market. Very simple . thanks to its developer
I used ' Uninstaller for Root ' from the market. Very simple . thanks to its developer
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+1
I used the same when I was on stock froyo, but now am enjoying gingerbread on rooted optimus one
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I would suggest you root your phone using z4 root if you are on 2.2 and then use titanium backup to uninstall the system bloatware that you wish to remove.
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Carefull not to delete anything you shouldnt
Uninstaller for Root worked fine for me
kewlsid05 said:
I would suggest you root your phone using z4 root if you are on 2.2 and then use titanium backup to uninstall the system bloatware that you wish to remove.
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Hi guys! I have an additional question
If I remove preinstalled apps, will I be able to install the official LG 2.3 update?
Is it safe to remote PCSync.apk?
T.T the phone must be root den can remove the application which build in
haiz ...
Since I like to remove useless apps/servuces I would like to ask you another question:
what is HiddenSdCard.apk and HiddenMenu.apk?
Thanks
yelo3 said:
Since I like to remove useless apps/servuces I would like to ask you another question:
what is HiddenSdCard.apk and HiddenMenu.apk?
Thanks
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yes this is good question,we need answer please!!!
Is it OK if i Uninstall ThinkFree Office ?
Be careful removing pre-installed apps if you are stock and want to be able to update to the next version of stock. Sometimes the update installer looks for those apps to update them and if they are not there it will halt. I learned the hard way and had to completely reinstall stock before it would upgrade. I now use Titanium Backup to "freeze" those apps I don't want so that they are still there when update time comes.
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Hello, I have a LG Optimus One P500. Was a 2.2.2 but I made a downgrade of the O.S. to 2.2 and rooted with z4root!
After that I used Titanium to make a backup on the SD card of the applications I wanted to remove later!
After that I installed: SystemApp Remover v4.13
The application is quite simple to use.
I get rid of: Twitter, Gmail (I use the mail app instead also for my Gmail), Bookmarks, Google Talk and that's it!
I didn't got to much space, but I really need everything else!
I checked to restore my apps from the backup made with Titanium and is reliable!
So, if you want to remove apps on a LG P500 you can use this method!
ktsak said:
Is it OK if i Uninstall ThinkFree Office ?
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you can uninstall this app it is just that it is a nice program to look at windows office documents with that you normally have to pay for, but it does take up a lot of space, its a personal call.
+1
rooted using z4root and uninstall with titanium back up
ended up installing a rom afterwords so kind on pointless but whatever
hi, when i am trying to convert an user app to system app or vise versa this error pops up. anyone know what this error is and how to solve it. i am currently on xiomi.eu rom with twrp 3.1.1
[email protected]!$h said:
hi, when i am trying to convert an user app to system app or vise versa this error pops up. anyone know what this error is and how to solve it. i am currently on xiomi.eu rom with twrp 3.1.1
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Try using another app like Titanium backup instead and see if its work.
GabrielScott said:
Try using another app like Titanium backup instead and see if its work.
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if i use titanium backup then when i covert that app to system app 'please wait..' goes on and goes on.after waiting long time i closed titanium backup and rebooted. when i check that app it actually got converted into system app. but then when i try to delete this app or any other system app with titanium backup or link2sd both app shows uninstall was succesfull but actually app didnt get uninstalled. I think someyhing is restricting them to modify system.
Please give me any solution bro.
[email protected]!$h said:
if i use titanium backup then when i covert that app to system app 'please wait..' goes on and goes on.after waiting long time i closed titanium backup and rebooted. when i check that app it actually got converted into system app. but then when i try to delete this app or any other system app with titanium backup or link2sd both app shows uninstall was succesfull but actually app didnt get uninstalled. I think someyhing is restricting them to modify system.
Please give me any solution bro.
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Then directly uninstall the app through the system using Root explorer (paid app) / mixplorer
Or you can use ADB method
Code:
adb shell
cd system/app
ls
(Search the app package then)
rm example.apk
Source:
https://blog-archive.josephcs.com/removing-system-stock-apps-android/#main_content
Dont forget to reboot afterwards
GabrielScott said:
Then directly uninstall the app through the system using Root explorer (paid app) / mixplorer
Or you can use ADB method
Code:
adb shell
cd system/app
ls
(Search the app package then)
rm example.apk
Source:
https://blog-archive.josephcs.com/removing-system-stock-apps-android/#main_content
Dont forget to reboot afterwards
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thats ok. but why is this error showing up.
[email protected]!$h said:
thats ok. but why is this error showing up.
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Im not sure.
I came to that problem before in SLIMrom
I think it is something to do with mounting the /system at root. But problem persist so i changed ROM.
I tried running this command in terminal
1) Open terminal
2) Type "su" (enter)
3) Type "mount -o remount,rw /system" (enter)
Maybe it will work for you
GabrielScott said:
Im not sure.
I came to that problem before in SLIMrom
I think it is something to do with mounting the /system at root. But problem persist so i changed ROM.
I tried running this command in terminal
1) Open terminal
2) Type "su" (enter)
3) Type "mount -o remount,rw /system" (enter)
Maybe it will work for you
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when i type that command in terminal the exact same error is given as response in terminal. here you are saying you also got that error(atleast i am not the only one) and changing rom fixed that error as i also tried reinstalling official miui rom in place of my current xiaomi.eu rom but in that rom too i am getting same error.
Does it have something to with twrp. because in 'mount' in twrp 'system' is always unmounted, even if i mount the system it again gets unmounted.
And many many thanks for your reply. please give me another suggestion bro.
[email protected]!$h said:
when i type that command in terminal the exact same error is given as response in terminal. here you are saying you also got that error(atleast i am not the only one) and changing rom fixed that error as i also tried reinstalling official miui rom in place of my current xiaomi.eu rom but in that rom too i am getting same error.
Does it have something to with twrp. because in 'mount' in twrp 'system' is always unmounted, even if i mount the system it again gets unmounted.
And many many thanks for your reply. please give me another suggestion bro.
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The way I'd fix the error is to wipe the /system , after that, i made a decision to change ROM.
So yet again, i did a clean flash.
About the mounting problem, you probably got into that situation due to the fact that is something wrong with the system permission hence you got that error.
If you decided to go with the official MIUI, make sure to wipe everything (except internal/external) before flashing the ROM.
GabrielScott said:
The way I'd fix the error is to wipe the /system , after that, i made a decision to change ROM.
So yet again, i did a clean flash.
About the mounting problem, you probably got into that situation due to the fact that is something wrong with the system permission hence you got that error.
If you decided to go with the official MIUI, make sure to wipe everything (except internal/external) before flashing the ROM.
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according to what you did i also tried changing rom(to ressurection remix) and problem actually got solved. but i dont want to migrate from miui. isn't there any other way.