Hi,
I have a working rooted 8gb nook tablet. The tablet has stock recovery installed on it and I don't think I want to change it to cwm at this point, unless I absolutely have to. My question is -- can I use this method to backup my current ROM in case I do mess something up (like deleting build.prop file for instance)? The problem that I have is that the sd card ends up with only 50mb of free space after burning the image onto it and that is obviously not enough for the backup. I tried partitioning the card and creating an ext2 allocation (perhaps I need to use a different kind?) in addition to the tiny 50mb one, but cwm doesn't seem to recognize it and still tries to backup into the tiny space.
I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thank you.
Resize the partition of the SD card using a partition manager, or format the card and put these files on it (in root).
Forgot to mention in my original post that I did try resizing the 50mb partition to 1gb, but then the tablet just stopped booting at all. I had to take out the card and wait for a minute or two before it would start booting normally again.
I will try your files now. Thank you for quick response!
Nope, that did not work, unfortunately. It just booted normally, not from the sd card. But isn't the whole point of burning that image is to make the card into a 50mb one? I don't understand all the technicalities, but that seems reasonable, why else would they make it particularly 50mb large? And resizing the partition doesn't lead me anywhere either, as I mentioned above.
Maybe someone could point me in the right direction?
Right. So, the partition has to be checked as active if using MTP or flags should be on if using the other one. And the magical 50mb size allocation don't matter after all. Gotcha.
Folks after instaling LQ5, i had the green android guy instaling the OS for 7min.
I reflashed lpf, made a nandroid restore, everything was fine untill i saw that half of my internal storage is missing.
Navigation missing, a few photos, apps, and i had 4GB storage.
I tried everything i could to find the missing space but nothing.
Every app, system shows that i have 4 GB space (2.5gb full with files 1,5 gb free)
pls help recover my space
I know with i9000 had the same issue when applied woddoo lagfix and repartition to ext fat.
Tried reflash repartition with odin, nothing.................
You flashed a .pit not meant for your device. Read all about others making the same mistake and how to fix it (flashing a correct .pit) in the relevant threads.
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UPDATE 21ST FEBRUARY 2014
Preload special editions with preload area reduced from 500mb to about 45mb, the resulting regained space is then allocated to the internal sd partition. Custom roms only! All data partition sizes have been catered for!
Beware #1 - Preload moddified version are NOT suitable for Samsung Stock Roms!
Beware #2 - Pre-Load moddified versions are for custom roms that do not use pre-load area! Please post on the respective thread for your rom and ask the author the question prior to using these versions if you are unsure! (I can tell you that SlimRoms & Cyanfox do not use preload, at present at least)
Beware #3 - If you want to go back to stock rom, you just need to flash my standard edition pit files, easy!
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Increase your data application partition and set your device free!
Are you bored of having to move apps to SD?
Bored of facing a stock issue of not even being able to move apps to your internal SD?
This thread will help you, currently only for i9100 16gb Model only.[/COLOR]
GUIDE - The usual rules apply, You will:
IMPORTANT: Please backup all your photos, videos and other important stuff on your PC, in the cloud or somewhere else where it is safe, as all your stuff on your internal SD card will be deleted!
1) Run compatible version of Odin, put your phone in to download mode (vol down/home/power button) and connect to PC via USB
2) Tick re-partition box
3) Click PIT button and select the pit file of your desired app partition size.
4a) Click PDA and select your stock official samsung jellybean rom - Edit- please remember if you use a rom that is not native to your region, it would be wise to flash the appropriate radio modem afterwards to ensure you get the signal strength you'd expect
4b) OR Flash your persnonal choice of kernel in *.tar format and pit file, reboot to CWM ( power button/vol up/home button) and install new rom or restore nandroid and boot as normal and skip to number 9 in this guide
5) Flash and wait for reboot
6) Let the phone reboot and wait until the android chap finishes his spinny wire ball belly animation and then remove the battery and do a factory reset using the usual power/vol up/ home trick.
7) Let it boot so you can check that you are happy with the result. ( I didn't, but you might want to)
8) Now flash your chosen rooted kernel and either stick with stock rom or enter CWM and flash your own custom rom.
9) When your phone boots, you may get a notification to format usb storage, say yes if prompted! If it that fails, connect you phone to your PC and format the the internal sd card manually.
10) Remember that Android likes automatically deciding where apps go, so sometime it tries to put stuff to SD itself (app requests it), it is worthwhile checking your installed apps to makes sure they went to internal app partition, you can tell this by either:
a) Look in Titanium back up, go to the move/integrate section and see if any apps show as moveable from SD to internal, if so run the batch process to put them on your nice new app partition, otherwise you may have issues running those apps.
b) If you don't have Titanium (why not?) then check the harder way by looking at app manager and swipe to the right to look at SD app, sort by size and then individually move ones back to internal storage.
11) That easy! Here is a shot of my resulting app manager
Files attached to post including original pit in case you want it back to stock values!
Enjoy!
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This awesome!:laugh:
hey @metalgearhathaway
Thankx for this awesome thread. Will try the guide right now..
Oh also, maybe you should put reboot into download mode as first step
@metalgearhathaway Could you also add pit file that sets whole internal memory for app data, so we could use our fast SD cards as primary memory, please ?
*EDIT*
Followed guide and flashed. Everything went awesome! i flashed 16GB_6GB
Thank you very much.
But when i look in task manager, the app storage sure is 6GB(5.9GB) but my internal storage decreased to 8GB(7.91GB)
IS it possible to have 6GB for apps and still have the 16GB (11.5GB) internal?
Akalsemann said:
*EDIT*
Followed guide and flashed. Everything went awesome! i flashed 16GB_6GB
Thank you very much.
But when i look in task manager, the app storage sure is 6GB(5.9GB) but my internal storage decreased to 8GB(7.91GB)
IS it possible to have 6GB for apps and still have the 16GB (11.5GB) internal?
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Sadly, our phone has 16gb total internal memory, pit files (partition information table) is how it splits this memory, sadly again our phone uses a app partition and then a pretend internal sd partition. This thread is for increasing the app partition to allow more apps to be easily installed without the need to move them about, as you increase the app partition this then naturally decreases the internal sd partition accordingly, hope that makes sense.
cortex69 said:
@metalgearhathaway Could you also add pit file that sets whole internal memory for app data, so we could use our fast SD cards as primary memory, please ?
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I have asked the guy who made these to see if that can be done, I'll let you know if that gets sorted!
Main post update to cover apps that have auto installed themselves to SD partition or card, please read point 9 in main post, cheers!
all great, in guide,
i will use the 4gb split for me, but you must say that user should backup all his roms (sec rom also, as samny rom will kill his system) and internal sdcard before any usage.
to his PC.
or you will get posts like, why my files are gone? i blame you for that, you told me its safe, and now i lost my girl naked picks
Sent from my GT-I9100
Awesome !!!!
Thank a lot for this mod!
metalgearhathaway said:
I have asked the guy who made these to see if that can be done, I'll let you know if that gets sorted!
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It can be done, of course
There has been a thread already, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2353551, but that tut only. It has attached files, but to flash onto cm10.1 at max.
One more question, would partitioning stay after installing a different rom ? I mean, we need sammy JB, then some aosp with Android 4.3.1
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cortex69 said:
It can be done, of course
There has been a thread already, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2353551, but that tut only. It has attached files, but to flash onto cm10.1 at max.
One more question, would partitioning stay after installing a different rom ? I mean, we need sammy JB, then some aosp with Android 4.3.1
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Yes the partition remains the same, it will do until the phone is next given a pit file to change.
I have just let a phone upgrade phone 4.0.4 with the partition in place to 4.1.2 and everything remains!
cortex69 said:
@metalgearhathaway Could you also add pit file that sets whole internal memory for app data, so we could use our fast SD cards as primary memory, please ?
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Testing new pit for dedicating all internal memory to app storage, will upload once I am happy!
metalgearhathaway said:
Testing new pit for dedicating all internal memory to app storage, will upload once I am happy!
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Great. Anyhow, could you find out if phones picks SD card as primary memory with this pit ?
Do I need to flash stock rom or can I flash only the pit with odin give that I must wipe my phone of course..because if it was possible I prefer to do directly on the aosp rom sabermod..but if it is necessary I flash the stock one and then, repartition done, put the aosp plus dorimanx kernel..
subscribed ....i'll use 4gb split too....when i'll find some free time:good:
Thanks mate
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Subscribed.but i am still afraid to do it.may be i will loose my phone.loool
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amirsat2012 said:
Subscribed.but i am still afraid to do it.may be i will loose my phone.loool
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nah....you can't brick it ..If you follow guide to the letter :good:....
but @metalgearhathaway bricked it not so long ago....with smth else ..........
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amirsat2012 said:
Subscribed.but i am still afraid to do it.may be i will loose my phone.loool
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no PROBLEM here, did backup all, then did what GUIDE say.
and now happy with 4GB data partition.
but when i have booted to SAMMY rom all CLEAN, but internal SDCARD was broken. via MTP i see that disk is exist but size is broken.
so i have flashed my kernel via ODIN, went to recovery, and when recovery loaded, WINDOWS asked me if i like to FORMAT my internal sd.
and it's was 9.50GB size, so i say YES. and all good now. clean partition and i am loading my stuff back.
P.S for OP!
no problem to restore nand backup via recovery
O! and user should flash his best radio firmware as SAMMY comes with other, maybe not good for USER.
Code:
~ # df -h
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 402.3M 48.0K 402.2M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 94.4M 176.0K 92.3M 0% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
9.5G 6.2G 3.3G 65% /mnt/.secondrom
/dev/block/loop0 96.8M 1.5M 88.3M 2% /secondrom_cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
9.5G 6.2G 3.3G 65% /emmc-tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 14.9G 8.4G 6.5G 56% /sdcard
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
9.5G 6.2G 3.3G 65% /sdcard/.android_secure
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
9.5G 6.2G 3.3G 65% /emmc
/dev/block/mmcblk0p10
3.9G 1.5G 2.3G 40% /data
Hello, I have downloaded and installed the latest Cm11 and for some reason I am not longer able to use my internal sdcard. I can see and use the external sd but not the internal one. I just have the phone with 2Gb for apps and nothing else, unless I put the external sd.
I saw the partition on via parted is a fat32, but can mount nor format it on CWM recovery nor on my PC. At the end of the day I lost 12Gb of memory on my phone. Is there any way to remove and reformat the UMS partition (12Gb) with parted or any other application without having to put the stock ROM back? I also try Aparted application but is not able to see the partition at all.
BTW I would like to have 8Gb for apps and 8 Gb on my internal sd card, but I really do not know how to do it with Odin without bricking my phone. Any guidance on this? I want to keep using CM11 of course but could not find the md5 files to be used with Odin for CM11.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Phone SII GT-I9100 (16 Gb)
CM 11 M4 Snapshop
Thanks a lot.
DiegA70 said:
Hello, I have downloaded and installed the latest Cm11 and for some reason I am not longer able to use my internal sdcard. I can see and use the external sd but not the internal one. I just have the phone with 2Gb for apps and nothing else, unless I put the external sd.
I saw the partition on via parted is a fat32, but can mount nor format it on CWM recovery nor on my PC. At the end of the day I lost 12Gb of memory on my phone. Is there any way to remove and reformat the UMS partition (12Gb) with parted or any other application without having to put the stock ROM back? I also try Aparted application but is not able to see the partition at all.
BTW I would like to have 8Gb for apps and 8 Gb on my internal sd card, but I really do not know how to do it with Odin without bricking my phone. Any guidance on this? I want to keep using CM11 of course but could not find the md5 files to be used with Odin for CM11.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Phone SII GT-I9100 (16 Gb)
CM 11 M4 Snapshop
Thanks a lot.
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Return to stock flash the pit file and tge back to cm11
bhavstech said:
Return to stock flash the pit file and tge back to cm11
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Thanks. Where can I find the right pit file to go back to a stock? Can I flash another pit file to get a better usage of the phone's memory?
I would like to get 6Gb for the phone itself and the rest for the SDCard. Is that possible ? How can I do it?
Thanks again for your guidance.
You really are intent on trying to turn your phone into a paperweight, aren't you ? Do the smart thing & leave the partitions alone once you've fixed it.
DiegA70 said:
Thanks. Where can I find the right pit file to go back to a stock? Can I flash another pit file to get a better usage of the phone's memory?
I would like to get 6Gb for the phone itself and the rest for the SDCard. Is that possible ? How can I do it?
Thanks again for your guidance.
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search for it on google there are many threads for it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...es/mod-partition-internal-memory-app-t2538947
MistahBungle said:
You really are intent on trying to turn your phone into a paperweight, aren't you ? Do the smart thing & leave the partitions alone once you've fixed it.
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Definitively not. I am trying to find the proper pit files to do it as well as to recover my sdcard space. I trust on this forum, that is why and looking for help here. Frankly, to leave the partitions alone is my first option, however I think that 2Gb for the phone apps is not enough for heavy phone users. Thanks.
bhavstech said:
search for it on google there are many threads for it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...es/mod-partition-internal-memory-app-t2538947
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Thanks a lot, I have been trying to find something like this thread for days already. I will be reading comments and experiences before going for a different partition, I think is risky, but I would like to try, whether the comments on the thread you have just sent me, are in favor of doing it. I think 2Gb for apps is not enough for heavy users. Thanks again.
Hello.
My Father has a Galaxy S II , and he is always complaining that his phone is low on space.
The phone is 16GB and has another 16GB MicroSD card.
Most of his on-board integrated 16GB is free, and his MicroSD card is almost completely empty, the problem is that this phone has a very small Android OS 2GB partition, and every time he installs an app it always leaves something on the OS partition (even after manually moving every possible app to SD using the built in Move To SD, and placing all photos and videos on MicroSD). So even with very few Apps installed his phone is always begging for space since essentially he can only make use of 2GB of his 32GB of storage.
So I have considered maybe the best way to fix this his issue, is to install a Custom ROM on his phone, which only contains 1 Single Partition for the integrated 16GB of storage space, and another partition for the 16GB of MicroSD storage.
Thus eliminating the limited 2GB OS partition. (basically make it like every new Android phone since the galaxy S2)
I have never used a custom Android ROM so this is new to me ( i am more familiar with PC's).
So my primary question before I start looking for info and procedures on rooting and custom roms for this phone is as follows:
IS it possible to even install a new android OS on this phone which will have only one primary partition, or is this phone forever destined to only work as it is now with a small 2GB OS partition? In other words is there a hardware limitation which prevents this phone from addressing more than 2GB for its OS partition?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
mr_interested said:
IS it possible to even install a new android OS on this phone which will have only one primary partition, or is this phone forever destined to only work as it is now with a small 2GB OS partition? In other words is there a hardware limitation which prevents this phone from addressing more than 2GB for its OS partition?
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You can repartition the phone using a modified PIT file. You will be able to increase the Data partition to avoid the "out of space" when installing or updating apps. The tradeoff is to have a smaller internal SD partition.
I have done it to my S 2.
There is a thread with clear instructions on how to do it. You will have to learn to use Odin, but that will be very useful as long as you have Samsung phones.
Here is the link: [MOD][GUIDE]Partition your internal memory for better App management (Pit Files)
svbarbosa said:
You can repartition the phone using a modified PIT file. You will be able to increase the Data partition to avoid the "out of space" when installing or updating apps. The tradeoff is to have a smaller internal SD partition.
I have done it to my S 2.
There is a thread with clear instructions on how to do it. You will have to learn to use Odin, but that will be very useful as long as you have Samsung phones.
Here is the link: [MOD][GUIDE]Partition your internal memory for better App management (Pit Files)
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Thanks for the info.
Would it not be easier to just format the phone and start from scratch by installing a new custom Android OS ?
Will starting from scratch with a new OS allow me to set my partitions (just like on a PC) ?
Thanks again.
mr_interested said:
Thanks for the info.
Would it not be easier to just format the phone and start from scratch by installing a new custom Android OS ?
Will starting from scratch with a new OS allow me to set my partitions (just like on a PC) ?
Thanks again.
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No. You must use the Odin / Pit file to modify partition sizes.
And yes, that assumes you will flash a new rom.
svbarbosa said:
No. You must use the Odin / Pit file to modify partition sizes.
And yes, that assumes you will flash a new rom.
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Don't forget to mention that re-partitioning your phone will delete all data so do a backup!!!!!
gsstudios said:
Don't forget to mention that re-partitioning your phone will delete all data so do a backup!!!!!
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Well said.
I did not mention it because it is the first step in the instructions.
But it is never too much to repeat. Backup! Backup! Backup!