[Q] Restoring ext4 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A

i have tried to restore my old ROM from CWM but the apps i moved to ext4 partition isnt restored. Have i done something wrong or is this the general case. if so how do i restore ext4 contents from my CWM. And yes i know about TB , so plz give solutions on CWM method ..
Thanks

MoonBlade said:
i have tried to restore my old ROM from CWM but the apps i moved to ext4 partition isnt restored. Have i done something wrong or is this the general case. if so how do i restore ext4 contents from my CWM. And yes i know about TB , so plz give solutions on CWM method ..
Thanks
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N if we restore this will it directly be restored to the ext 4 partition again?
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MoonBlade said:
i have tried to restore my old ROM from CWM but the apps i moved to ext4 partition isnt restored. Have i done something wrong or is this the general case. if so how do i restore ext4 contents from my CWM. And yes i know about TB , so plz give solutions on CWM method ..
Thanks
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If youre ext4 is mounted, it should always work. I never had any problems restoring my ROMS and have the apps on ext4 restored.
Im using Link2sd btw, and it has always worked great.
I have around 115 apps moved and linked to my ext4 and they always been restored.
Check that there is nothing wrong with your ext4 partition

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CUstom Recovery +a2sd on EXT4 not working

i will keep it simple ..Custom recovery is unable to take a nandroid backup if i have a2sd on ext4 partition that same run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb...please fix it or tell me how to.. i m new to android but m good with C and Linux
i had same as your problem , every time when i try to include .android and ext files with my backup it gives me error message , but after i installed a new rom everything went fine!!
For me mounting of ext in recovery helped as well.
The_ERROR said:
For me mounting of ext in recovery helped as well.
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And doing this, did you managed to restore the backup successfully ??
Well this thing happens with BOTH megatron and void roms...when i boot into custom recovery /cache is the only one mounted and i tried unmounting it before trying a nand+ext+.android_secure backup...doesn't work my sd card is like 3 gb free and ext4 a2sd has only 130Mb of apps in it..
Guys I had made a simple nandroid backup after rootingand installing custom recovr and before installing void. Now if I restore the nandroid backup, will I still have the custom recovery or not?
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lekhwani said:
Guys I had made a simple nandroid backup after rootingand installing custom recovr and before installing void. Now if I restore the nandroid backup, will I still have the custom recovery or not?
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u made nandroid after instaling custom recovery :|
how can u lose it?? i dnt think so ..
i cant mount the sd-ext partition from the custom recovery.. it says:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
even nadroid back up with ext ends: run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb
any solution??
Boot in recovery mode.
Connect phone to pc.
Mount ext partition via adb.(after that in Custom recovery mount menu you will found ext partition mounted)
Do nandroid
sugaritos said:
i cant mount the sd-ext partition from the custom recovery.. it says:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
even nadroid back up with ext ends: run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb
any solution??
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//Edit: First try to create backup ONLY of system, without any other option. If this will be work, you probably done same mistake as I did.
Same as me. I didn't do wipe of EXT after creating of ext-part and I had same symptoms. Backup all your data with Titanium Backup, backup data on SDcard, delete ext, create ext2 again, convert ext2 on one, that you want, do wipe of it. Than it should be working (I had).
anotherloony said:
Boot in recovery mode.
Connect phone to pc.
Mount ext partition via adb.(after that in Custom recovery mount menu you will found ext partition mounted)
Do nandroid
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i tried via adb but it keeps saying the same thing:
mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext failed: invalid argument
i dont know if i am doing it right..
The_ERROR said:
//Edit: First try to create backup ONLY of system, without any other option. If this will be work, you probably done same mistake as I did.
Same as me. I didn't do wipe of EXT after creating of ext-part and I had same symptoms. Backup all your data with Titanium Backup, backup data on SDcard, delete ext, create ext2 again, convert ext2 on one, that you want, do wipe of it. Than it should be working (I had).
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thankss!! i will try it..
i read somewhere that ext4 has problems and is better or recommended the ext2 even though it is slow..
sugaritos said:
thankss!! i will try it..
i read somewhere that ext4 has problems and is better or recommended the ext2 even though it is slow..
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ext2 is faster, because it haven't journal. But it on some I/O output error is not possible to recover it by itself. Ext3 have journal - is slower, but in case of problem will (can) repair itself. ext4 is better ext3.
under partition section - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10377391&postcount=4
At the time I made the recovery kernel sources were not out so I couldnt add ext3 & ext4 support to recovery. I'll try to update it as time allows.
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /sd-ext
be shure /se-ext exists
drellisdee said:
At the time I made the recovery kernel sources were not out so I couldnt add ext3 & ext4 support to recovery. I'll try to update it as time allows.
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i know that.. but in ext4 i couldnt take a nandroid +ext backup because the ext4 partition could not be mounted. in ext2 and ext3 i managed to do nandroid backup +ext and mount the ext partition only through adb..

[Q] SD card change+Rom change from xpart to a2sd+ and taking over ext4?

Hey guys.
I've read some threads about moving ext4 from one SD to another, but this isn't exactly what I need.
I am currently on MIUI XJ 1.8.12 XPart rom and I want to change to 1.8.12 A2SD+ and a bigger SD card.
Changing the rom isn't the problem, but backing up my ext4 partition from the old SD is!
I used the newest ubuntu live CD(11.04 I believe) to partition the new SD card to FAT32/ext4. Everything is fine.
The SD gets recognized as it should. FAT32 and EXT4 partition mount and I can access them.
But with my old SD it doesn't work.
If I plug it in, FAT32 and EXT4 partition get recognized. FAT32 partition is named "195" and EXT4 is "userdata".
When I try to click the EXT4 it just dissappears. In the media tab it is listed, but I can't access it because I am not the owner of it/I am missing permissions/rights to access it.
I partitioned it with CWM recovery, but meanwhile I changed my recovery to RMD 1.03 (I don't think that this matters though...).
Now my questions:
1. How can I access my EXT4 partition to backup its content?
2. If I can't access it because I can't change permissions... do I really need to copy it or will it be enough to restore my apps that I backed up under xpart with MIUI Backup?
3. Is it a problem to restore a app backup done under xpart-script with a a2sd+ rom?
Thank you for reading!
you can backup your ext partition in recovery. i think you can also just open a file explorer and copy the folder /sd-ext (i havent tried this, so im not sure if this will work)
Ok, I haven't tried to backup it with recovery.
Will it then be possible to flash a new rom (a2sd+ instead of xpart) and restore only the ext partition?
I want a clean install with a2sd+ but I don't want to loose settings and savegames.
Just a small "up" for my thread.
I backed up my sd-ext partition and I could wipe right now.
Will there be any problems with restoring the ext partition on a new rom?
What will happen if I just wipe sd-ext and restore MIUI Backup?
Will sd-ext will just be "rebuilded" from the MIUI Backup?
Bananebieger said:
Will there be any problems with restoring the ext partition on a new rom?
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there will only be problems if your rom does not support either your a2sd or your current ext filesystem (which is to say, does it support ext4 or does it only support ext2 or ext3?)
Bananebieger said:
What will happen if I just wipe sd-ext and restore MIUI Backup?
Will sd-ext will just be "rebuilded" from the MIUI Backup?
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i believe so (please dont take my word for it as i have not done this before. however, im pretty sure it will be "rebuilt" as you have it included in your backup)
Thank you again.
Its the MIUI rom from XJ for Desire Classic with XPART script. Your ext Partition gets converted to ext4 if you install this rom.
Will there be problems with using sd-ext content from XPART after update to A2SD+?
Maybe I'll bother the dev from this rom

[Help]I cant make a nandroid backup on CWM

im having a problem on making a nandroid backup.. my phone is rooted and has v48 firmware.. i installed the CWM by nAa.. the problem is it gets stuck in sd-ext backup.. even if i have waited for more than 30 mins.. ive tried reflashing my phone so it has a fresh start.. any suggestions on what should i do? thanks..
Try to do the backup to another sd card
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what partition your sd-ext?
i also have cwm by nAa, but it cant read ext4 partition..
xtrymind said:
what partition your sd-ext?
i also have cwm by nAa, but it cant read ext4 partition..
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oh.. i see.. ithink that seems to be the problem.. i am using fat as partition.. what do you recommend for nAa's cwm?

[Q] Working CWM Restore?

I wanted to use CWM to restore my galaxy tab 10.1 but when I used CWM 5.0 it somehow crapped out restoring data. /system restored fine however. I also tried to use CWM 4.0 and overcome CWM5.1 to restore the same backup but I got the same issue. /system restored fine and it started to restore /data but crapped out somewhere towards the end. What this also did in the process was corrupt the /data partition where CWM would appear to reformat it and odin thought it was ok but the /data partition really wasn't OK as I got several weird side effects. A repartition with PIT file in odin solved the problem. (Almost solved the problem, after the odin flash was done and the tablet ran some initializing script it said /data was corrupted. A formating using STOCK recovery fixed it).
Has anybody figured out a recovery that can properly backup and restore CWM backups? I guess titanium + reflash rom zip is a workable alternative.
PS: reflashing with repartition erases your /sdcard partition.
AAccount said:
I guess titanium + reflash rom zip is a workable alternative.
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This is what most veterans recommend anyway, as far as I know.
If you can read this it was sent using my GT-P7510.
If you rename your backup folder, make sure you dont use space in folder name
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[Q] Ext3 partition

Hi guys i'm new , and newbie
i need help to use my ext partition on my O1.
I have flashed the Gtr 5.8 rom based on cm 7.2 but i can't see the partition.
i tried to use freespace app and a2ext app but these can't see this one.
I have flashed 3 Roms but no one works with this partition.
My recovery is Clockwork 5.0.0.7.
Sorry for my bad english and thanks a lot for anyone can answer me
I'm not familiar with that ROM, but I just glanced at the discussion thread, and there are instructions/advice for using apps2sd. Have you read that?
mrocco86 said:
Hi guys i'm new , and newbie
i need help to use my ext partition on my O1.
I have flashed the Gtr 5.8 rom based on cm 7.2 but i can't see the partition.
i tried to use freespace app and a2ext app but these can't see this one.
I have flashed 3 Roms but no one works with this partition.
My recovery is Clockwork 5.0.0.7.
Sorry for my bad english and thanks a lot for anyone can answer me
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I had the same problem.I did this and it worked.It's simple just create the partition again
First backup all the data of SD card
then install Amnora recovery as mentioned in GTR rom by neko95.
Reboot into recovery
Then in partition set value 0 in both partition n swap,you'll have a blank SD with it's full capacity
Then again partition as your wish.
Then copy all the backed up data.
Then open S2e
it'll be able to detect the created partition
Hope i helped!!
yes, use amonra...clockwork's default to ext3/ext4....forget which one or maybe both....if you want specifically ext3 for whatever reason that might be, use amonra than partitition than upgrade from ext2 to ext3 in the partition portion of amonra recovery
ok, i think to have undestanded.
When i have an hour free i try to do this, with amonRa.
Thank you a lot

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