I did the partitions swap right when this phone came out, which tricked my phone into thinking my external sdcard was in fact internal memory.
I would like to switch this back. Does someone know of a simple way to do this? I believe it requires a void file or something - I'm not sure. I am sure that I didn't make a backup of the original file when I overwrite the new one. Dumb.
Someone help this guy out please. I get all sorts of confused when my phone says it can move and apps to the sdcard. I have no idea where it goes. Now I'm getting a "sd card low on volume space" alert constantly. Pulled up Apps2sd and it wont even let me move anything anymore.
I would love to avoid an SBF.
Thanks.
With the dx2 it makes it default (sdcard-ext) which is to my knowlegde is impossible, everyone who has a droidx2 is on sdcard-ext
ericerk said:
With the dx2 it makes it default (sdcard-ext) which to my knowlegde is impossible, everyone who has a droidx2 is on sdcard-ext
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There was a script or something to switch it around. Void.sb file or something. I was drinking Jose with my ex one night and got ballsy and did it. Sdcard now shows my 15 gb OG Droid card and sdcard-ext shows the meager 4 gb allotted to this phones internal memory. To the best of my knowledge, the 8 gb built in is split in two, our phone shows half of that as your sdcard, and the other half is tucked away for media and apps.
I just want to switch it back. Recovery still reads internal as what its supposed to be (4 gb built in) so I just had 4 backups saved to that - jammed it full. I fixed that just now, no more low card space issues.
Make sense? Sorry for any typos, I'm landscape in my browser and its 4 in the morn...
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There was a script or something to switch it around. Void.sb file or something. I was drinking Jose with my ex one night and got ballsy and did it. Sdcard now shows my 15 gb OG Droid card and sdcard-ext shows the meager 4 gb allotted to this phones internal memory. To the best of my knowledge, the 8 gb built in is split in two, our phone shows half of that as your sdcard, and the other half is tucked away for media and apps.
I just want to switch it back. Recovery still reads internal as what its supposed to be (4 gb built in) so I just had 4 backups saved to that - jammed it full. I fixed that just now, no more low card space issues.
Make sense? Sorry for any typos, I'm landscape in my browser and its 4 in the morn...
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Yeah its 4am in cali too xDD umm i'm not to sure, i don't really screw around with scripts, the 4gigs are internal, but when you shove the sd card in the x2 it makes ext the main partition, the only thing i can think of is reformat in ur og droid or just move everything off of the sd ext and move it to plain root (non ext)(on ur comp) but for the x2 the ext is root, moto screwed the pooch there ( i hope this makes sense) also the 2.3.4 or what ever comes may fix this
Nope, that wont don't it. By default the external sdcard shows as sdcard-ext, I changed some files to make it read as internal. I need to change the files to switch it back.
Did you rename the vold.fstab or overwrite it?
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Did you rename the vold.fstb or overwrite it?
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Overwrote it
If you overwritten it you should be able to get the vold.fstab file from a DX2 system dump and replace it. That is what I did to get it back.
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mr_vader said:
If you overwritten it you should be able to get the vold.fstab file from a DX2 system dump and replace it. That is what I did to get it back.
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I have the system dump. Can you point me in the right direction? Like I said earlier, I wasn't in the right state of mind when I switched it. Lol. Once I find it (wherever it is) where do I push it to. Typical permission change required then?
Thanks.
EDIT: I am downloading the full dump (lol) now. Still need help on finding the vold file and what permissions are needed.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
/etc
Rw-r--r--
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/etc
Rw-r--r--
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Thank you kind sir, however I have to SBF now. I'm guessing that will fix it as well?
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EDIT: I am downloading the full dump (lol) now. Still need help on finding the vold file and what permissions are needed.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
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After Downloading The System Dump The Original vold.fstab Is Under /system/etc
No Permissions Needed.
Hope This Helps, Best Of Luck.
MikeJ92YJ said:
After Downloading The System Dump The Original vold.fstab Is Under /system/etc
No Permissions Needed.
Hope This Helps, Best Of Luck.
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Mikey old friend...
I'm SBFing right now, I'm guessing that will put vold.fstab back where it needs to be?
mistawolfe said:
Mikey old friend...
I'm SBFing right now, I'm guessing that will put vold.fstab back where it needs to be?
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Yes That Will Return Everything Back To Stock.
MikeJ92YJ said:
Yes That Will Return Everything Back To Stock.
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yeah, but you'd still be on sdcard-ext...
ericerk said:
yeah, but you'd still be on sdcard-ext...
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He Wants To Go Back To Stock, He Overwrote The vold.fstab 's File And Wants To Switch It Back.
ericerk said:
yeah, but you'd still be on sdcard-ext...
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All due respect ericerk, but I think this is beyond your head. You didn't get it from the get go. Lol.
After SBFing it's back to normal...
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All due respect ericerk, but I think this is beyond your head. You didn't get it from the get go. Lol.
After SBFing it's back to normal...
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So We're Good On This Thread?
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All due respect ericerk, but I think this is beyond your head. You didn't get it from the get go. Lol.
After SBFing it's back to normal...
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Snap ok, cool i was lost then, cheers and good luck i guess lol
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Is it possible (perhaps using a ROM) to massively change the partition layout? I want to remove the internal "SD Card' partition and allocate that space to the main partition the device uses, /data or /system i think. I'm not too familiar with the layout of android partitions but I'm familiar with how they work. I'd like to make my (real) SD card mount at /sdcard, a lot of programs store downloads and data to /sdcard by default, and I dont like having it go to the internal memory. I'm not sure why they laid it out this way, instead of just increasing the main partition sizes. I didn't think this should be in the General section, since its a little beyond that scope, but I couldnt find anything relating to this.
Bane listed this info in another thread:
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.9 GB, 15914762240 bytes
~500MB for /system
~3GB for /data
~650MB for /cache
~1.3GB for /osh (webtop)
~350MB for /preinstall
~9GB for /sdcard (internal storage)
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I want to take that 9 GB and give it to /system and /data, maybe bump /osh up a bit too since i want to do some tinkering with that. Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about this? I was going to rm /sdcard and ln -s to /sdcard-ext to make it point to my real card, but wasnt sure if that would break things.....
There was a mod called "Firerat's Partition Mod" for the HTC Hero that was able to edit partitions... we could take a look at it later.
I was going to work on this this weekend, but mainly to remove the webtop partition and reallocate that to /sd because ill never use webtop. Im sure IF I get that working it could be toyed with other ways.
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mrinehart93 said:
There was a mod called "Firerat's Partition Mod" for the HTC Hero that was able to edit partitions... we could take a look at it later.
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Is that where i remember you from ... i still have my hero. What ever happened to aosp his rom had killer battery.
Edit n/m looked at his profile he went to the sensation..... but yeah firerats mod worked wonders on the hero and desire
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Kcarpenter said:
I was going to work on this this weekend, but mainly to remove the webtop partition and reallocate that to /sd because ill never use webtop. Im sure IF I get that working it could be toyed with other ways.
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Please work on this! I'll never use webtop either so getting all that space will be awesome!
Ill start work on this after the vol/gator game ...a man has to have priorities, especially when ribs, wings and burgers are part of those priorities.
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Kcarpenter said:
Ill start work on this after the vol/gator game ...a man has to have priorities, especially when ribs, wings and burgers are part of those priorities.
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lol
Being able to user define the partition remap would make an Ubuntu port a bit nicer too for those looking at expanding the MoPho's functionality.
Would love that 1.3GB webtop to be put to Data
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Kcarpenter said:
Ill start work on this after the vol/gator game ...a man has to have priorities, especially when ribs, wings and burgers are part of those priorities.
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I'd be pleased to buy you a gift certificate at your fav wings joint if you can make this work! Would love to be able to use my 32GB card the way it's supposed to be used!
I can tell you I wont have anything tonight and likely not tomorrow . Im studying firerats stuff now and it all seems pretty straight forward. Really more worried about a brick than anything. Lol.
Im going to actually try some stuff tomorrow after I get home from church and praying to not brick .
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I can tell you I wont have anything tonight and likely not tomorrow . Im studying firerats stuff now and it all seems pretty straight forward. Really more worried about a brick than anything. Lol.
Im going to actually try some stuff tomorrow after I get home from church and praying to not brick .
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Make sure you're unlocked and also be sure to study a "df -h" command. That way you'll be able to see what partitions are what and how much space can be taken.
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Make sure you're unlocked and also be sure to study a "df -h" command. That way you'll be able to see what partitions are what and how much space can be taken.
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Yup. Yup. Im getting a little more brave. Im wondering if our current stock image checks to see if webtop is available or checks that partition before it boots and fails to boot if its not there. Im willing to bet it does.
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Anyone look into this yet? Does anyone have any hints about what functions/utilities work on the partitions?
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Anyone look into this yet? Does anyone have any hints about what functions/utilities work on the partitions?
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Its possible to get it working, but my machine is not capable of building with out some effort(only 32 bit) - But the only thing that seems to be difficult is editing the boot.img (which I don't know how to do, but am willing to figure out) to get it to read the new partition layouts.
I've got 64bit win7, and access to a vmware server which i can install a spare copy of x64 linux and give you shell access if it would help..... let me know what i can do to further it along (not a programmer myself but a hard core dabbler
I dont suppose any of the partiton tools (fdisk, etc) can be run through adb?
any news or updates on this project???
yeah we should really continue this project I want squeeze as much memory out of the internal sdcard as possible, I'm guessing we couldn't just take out the partitions all together and let it be read all as one eh? cause then any extra space could be used (though maybe that's not so safe when you get full)
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Yeah, definitely would like to see this happen.
Don't really use webtop myself either.
MultiDev said:
Yeah, definitely would like to see this happen.
Don't really use webtop myself either.
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<3 Storage...
So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Vold.fstab
cubexg said:
So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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Switch the vold.fstab around.
Make sure your permissions are set right
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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OK. I see what to do to swap. Rather then swapping it, is there a "better" mount point for the external so that programs like rhapsody would use it properly? I assume using a bind command from shell would be enough to get the Gameloft games moved.... right? Or do most people simply swap internal with external?
Thanks.
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I'm curious too, been wondering this for a while but never thought to ask on here.
Is there a step by step guide for doing this or is it going to be too complicated for someone not familiar with coding.? I would love to accomplish this.
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
kennypow3rs said:
Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
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Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
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Sweet, can't wait cause I really want this. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.
jokersax11 said:
Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
schollianmj said:
Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
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Lol question is was she actually talking about sdcards lol jk
To get slightly back on topic , I was wondering if someone could spell out exactly how to do aa 'junction' (this would be the windows term for it) where you have an invisible link for the OS to follow from one place to the next. So instead of modifing the root files,instead running an app that manages it or a script at boot that would allow it. Again - on stock firmware if that matters.
Mnt/sdcard/gameloft redirected to mnt/sdcard-ext/gameloft
Make sense?
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[MOD](recommended)Team Infernal Presents l Swap sdcard & Is Now Reversable l All Roms
This is a flashable zip i made for you to mount the microsd as /mnt/sdcard and the internal sdcard of this phone as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
Instructions:
Just flash it
Requirements:
HtcDev unlock
Custom recovery
Ps: I also posted this in general before because my thank meter was on 0 so i couldnt post in development
cm10 version attached
Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
If the root method you are helping me with works you can just place the vold.fstab on system/etc yourself, glad to be helping
Linch89 said:
Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
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What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
Method320 said:
What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
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you can use it for everything once we get root
jose51197 said:
you can use it for everything once we get root
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As I stated, I can already use it for everything and Im still not rooted and still locked. I can move downloaded files to it, I can easily access anything on the SD card.
oh yes sir you can ''use'' it but all apps are automatically installed to the ''sd card'' (internal hard drive)
will reflashing undo the swap?
Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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i looked at the code, but i'm not enough of a linux guy to tell
Flashing the original vold.fstab will reverse this. So, yes, reflashing will undo it.
As soon i finish exams ill make a flashable zip to reverse it
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As soon as i finish exams i will make a flashable zip to undo this
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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The idea came up since we only have 4.5gb for ourselves with this you can have up to 64gb, if only we could spread the word
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I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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homers1 said:
I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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You can always copy everything from internal sd to microsd and everything will be fine no need to start over
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As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
brent372 said:
As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Hmmm this is nothing related to lag i really mean it, lag associated with sdcard is usually using swap
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brent372 said:
As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Not necessarily. Coming from the Nook Tablet forums, this has been an issue that has been debated for some time. When you want to write quickly to a card you are better off with a higher class. However, if you need to read from a card, i.e. running an app or a whole OS, or booting off of into a recovery, higher rated cards don't mean faster read rates. Some lower class cards have a higher read rate. There is a discussion about this in the Nook Color forums and is hit on sometimes in the Nook Tab forums, sorry I don't have a link though.
IMHO Sandisk class 4 have the highest performance for reading from. This may not apply though, once you go to a bigger cards; 16G or 32G - I've only had personal experience with 4G cards.
I'm just curious about this, I don't know much (anything) about android programming but to my understanding you can't write to system with s-on...
Just out of curiosity I opened up /system in root explorer and it seems like I can edit, delete, or create new files all I want.
Am I mistaken on what s-on limits us to?
starscream86 said:
I'm just curious about this, I don't know much (anything) about android programming but to my understanding you can't write to system with s-on...
Just out of curiosity I opened up /system in root explorer and it seems like I can edit, delete, or create new files all I want.
Am I mistaken on what s-on limits us to?
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Nope. You would be correct, although I might add that you can write in recovery.
You can set the system to rw with root privs. You still cannot write to or delete from it.
But I just deleted the flixter.apk and created a new folder with a file inside it in root explorer..
Duplicate.
starscream86 said:
But I just deleted the flixter.apk and created a new folder with a file inside it in root explorer..
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Reboot and see how how flixter.apk comes back and the file you created disappears.
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But I just deleted the flixter.apk and created a new folder with a file inside it in root explorer..
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No you didn't. Reboot then look again, it will magically reappear and the folder will magically disappear.
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Ahhh yep ok.. all the changes I made we undone. Just wanted to make sure I didn't stumble across something lol.
Damn that magic....
Ya what's the deal?
I could change anything i wanted in system with es file manager with my Incredible 4G LTE unlocked, rooted, but with S-on. I thought S-off was only necessary for splash screens and radios.
Claynsen said:
I could change anything i wanted in system with es file manager with my Incredible 4G LTE unlocked, rooted, but with S-on. I thought S-off was only necessary for splash screens and radios.
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No you couldn't. The only way you were writing with es file mangler was via s-off or not at all.
I can guarantee you I was able to write to system with s-on on my rezound.
Ndaoud360 said:
I can guarantee you I was able to write to system with s-on on my rezound.
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When rebooted it would go back to normal
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When rebooted it would go back to normal
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Thanks. Saved me the trouble of repeating myself.
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When rebooted it would go back to normal
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No, it actually didn't, you could write to it and it would stick after a reboot. I don't know why HTC changed it, but it was different on the rezound, and possibly the thunderbolt, but I didn't have that phone.
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Argumentation said:
No, it actually didn't, you could write to it and it would stick after a reboot. I don't know why HTC changed it, but it was different on the rezound, and possibly the thunderbolt, but I didn't have that phone.
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Ok your right....
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Ok your right....
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Boo, you give in too easy. He is so wrong lol.
I guess we shouldn't mention this protection has been in place since the G2
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No, it actually didn't, you could write to it and it would stick after a reboot. I don't know why HTC changed it, but it was different on the rezound, and possibly the thunderbolt, but I didn't have that phone.
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yea, iirc at launch s-on had a bug where it wasnt completely s-on, so you could write to /system. But they then updated it so that it was fully protected.
I had the Thunderbolt, I don't recall ever hearing of S-Off, so maybe that was something that came after. Not sure about the Rezound since this is my only HTC phone since then. But we probably shouldn't make a few pages of "yes I did" & "No you didn't".
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I had the Thunderbolt, I don't recall ever hearing of S-Off, so maybe that was something that came after. Not sure about the Rezound since this is my only HTC phone since then. But we probably shouldn't make a few pages of "yes I did" & "No you didn't".
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Thunderbolt had s-off before it even launched.
adrynalyne said:
Thunderbolt had s-off before it even launched.
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Ok then I probably dealt with it during some rooting tutorial or something, I just honestly don't recall ever hearing about it till now. Either way I'm sure someone will figure it out, they always do. . .
Hey, so I have a few dumb questions.
1: I deleted my SD card shortcut that was in my freshly formatted internal storage when I got the phone. I want it back and no file manager can help me. I only want it because some apps (like Dolphin browser, for the downloads directory) won't let me select the external SD. Any way to get it back other then a format of the internal SD? Would that work even?
2: Why the heck is the EFS so dang fragile? And why does this phone have it able to get messed up!? None of my other phones have ever had this, and I've worked with the Samsung Intercept (OMG THAT HORROR), the LG Optimus V, the HTC Sensation 4G, my brother hasn't seen this on his Nexus 4 even. I see so many people posting "HALP, EFS MESSED UP WITH NO BACKUP!!!" and I'm just scared to death of mine messing up, so I have backups on my computer, my phone, my sisters phone!!! Lol.
3: I don't need to do it now, but in the future I might. How do we swap how the the external and internal memory is seen? According to many sites we need to "Open the file manager that you have installed on your Android device and browse to the location “/system/etc” and you will find a file named “vold.fstab”" only that file doesn't exist in my /system/etc folder in Beanstalk. So I'm curious if maybe the OG has a different method of doing this?
Thanks for those willing to take the time to answer my 3 dumb questions.
On 3...maybe I misread this but are you asking about moving anything you download from the web to sdcard instead of int. storage ? If that's the case, download xposed framework and get diwnload2sd. It allows you to change the downloads directory..hope that helps
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jxcorex28 said:
On 3...maybe I misread this but are you asking about moving anything you download from the web to sdcard instead of int. storage ? If that's the case, download xposed framework and get diwnload2sd. It allows you to change the downloads directory..hope that helps
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Thanks for replying.
No, there is supposed to be a way to make the phone mount the SD as internal storage and vice versa. In the future I may want to do that if I get a fast, large, SD card. But when I look into the proper folder the file I'm supposed to edit isn't there. :-\
There are certainly other ways to use the SD instead of internal, like the one you mentioned or another exposed module that sets the camera to use the SD instead of internal. And then there's the app I bought "FolderMount" which is great as well. It's certainly not devastating to not be able to swap how the phone mounts the memory, but it would be cleaner if I could.
Again, thanks for replying!
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Electriccars said:
Thanks for replying.
No, there is supposed to be a way to make the phone mount the SD as internal storage and vice versa. In the future I may want to do that if I get a fast, large, SD card. But when I look into the proper folder the file I'm supposed to edit isn't there. :-\
There are certainly other ways to use the SD instead of internal, like the one you mentioned or another exposed module that sets the camera to use the SD instead of internal. And then there's the app I bought "FolderMount" which is great as well. It's certainly not devastating to not be able to swap how the phone mounts the memory, but it would be cleaner if I could.
Again, thanks for replying!
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I've never has problems with the SD, I just point my file manager yo /storage/sdcard1 whereas internal storage is /storage/emulated/0.
Also, I've only ever had an issue with my EFS getting messed up once, and that was back on 4.2.2 before development got stabilised with gee/geeb.
OMGMatrix said:
Also, I've only ever had an issue with my EFS getting messed up once, and that was back on 4.2.2 before development got stabilised with gee/geeb.
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That's a bit comforting. But I wonder why all these people keep messing up theirs even now. Hmm.
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Electriccars said:
That's a bit comforting. But I wonder why all these people keep messing up theirs even now. Hmm.
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Mostly operator error.
Otherwise, the only thing that could cause this is confusion regarding which recovery to use. TWRP has always worked for me.
OMGMatrix said:
Mostly operator error.
Otherwise, the only thing that could cause this is confusion regarding which recovery to use. TWRP has always worked for me.
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So the recovery could mess it up?
I personally like Philz Touch. In fact, there's an update right now! But I have my efs.zip in case anything goes wrong!
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Electriccars said:
So the recovery could mess it up?
I personally like Philz Touch. In fact, there's an update right now! But I have my efs.zip in case anything goes wrong!
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That's the only thing I'm aware of that would have write access to the efs partition.
Ive never used philz recovery, but earlier versions of CWM for the OG didn't even check the updater script, so you could Very easily flash something that could damage the phone.
Yikes!
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