So, Ive been getting Low Capacity warnings on my XT910 rooted, stock rom.
So, I check the stock Storage settings. It reports
1.34GB - Apps
11.01MB - Pics Vids
212KB - Audio
0,95GB - Downloads
10.13MB - Available.
Im missing something. Looks like Im consuming no more than 3GB for my stuff, and the SDCard capacity is 8GB, WTF?
I dont know much about Cache, but take to step to clear all cache with ES AppManger's Cache Cleaner. Disappointed when it only reports 232MB cleaned, and /mnt/sdcard show no change in availability.
So, Pop open Root Exporter, and get the properties of /mnt/sdcard.
Size = 201326599.88 GB???
Thinking this cant be right, I try again with ESFileExplorer... Same Result Size = 201326599.88GB, thats GB, I check it 3x.
Though it would be cool to be rocking that much media, it is obviously wrong. I make a check of /mnt/sdcard-ext. That check reports a more sane and correct consumption size
What could possibly be wrong here. I can get the device replaced if its really broken, but thought I would try to learn something. My own skills are not noob, but Im obviously not awesome at this.
Thanks for any help...
javlinsharp said:
So, Ive been getting Low Capacity warnings on my XT910 rooted, stock rom.
So, I check the stock Storage settings. It reports
1.34GB - Apps
11.01MB - Pics Vids
212KB - Audio
0,95GB - Downloads
10.13MB - Available.
Im missing something. Looks like Im consuming no more than 3GB for my stuff, and the SDCard capacity is 8GB, WTF?
I dont know much about Cache, but take to step to clear all cache with ES AppManger's Cache Cleaner. Disappointed when it only reports 232MB cleaned, and /mnt/sdcard show no change in availability.
So, Pop open Root Exporter, and get the properties of /mnt/sdcard.
Size = 201326599.88 GB???
Thinking this cant be right, I try again with ESFileExplorer... Same Result Size = 201326599.88GB, thats GB, I check it 3x.
Though it would be cool to be rocking that much media, it is obviously wrong. I make a check of /mnt/sdcard-ext. That check reports a more sane and correct consumption size
What could possibly be wrong here. I can get the device replaced if its really broken, but thought I would try to learn something. My own skills are not noob, but Im obviously not awesome at this.
Thanks for any help...
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try this?
Titanium backup to external sd.
Use ES explorer to backup your internal stuffs to external sd.
Format phone.
I didn't suggest to use usb backup to a pc because it might try to fix the corrupted card and screw it up instead. Happened to one of my external sd.
Nikorasu said:
try this?
Titanium backup to external sd.
Use ES explorer to backup your internal stuffs to external sd.
Format phone.
I didn't suggest to use usb backup to a pc because it might try to fix the corrupted card and screw it up instead. Happened to one of my external sd.
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Thanks for the idea. The format did work to clear the false capacity report, but my backup didn't restore. Manual rebuild sux, but is better than the symptoms of the original issue. Thanks again.
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No probs. Do note that this may just be a temp fix. Use your external SD card for important files like photos and etc. If it happens again its time to get Motorola to fix it.
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So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
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So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
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Did you partition your sd card?
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No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
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No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
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That could probably explain why.
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Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
Another thing you could do is look for hidden files on windows when u open up removable drive then on the upper the upper left hand side hit tools then view then scroll down and hit the bubble that says show hidden files and see if thats what's taking up space
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Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
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Non of that. I was simply asking of the sd card was partitioned.
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Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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This
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imnuts said:
Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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Yeah you can try clearing download cache in rom manager and also, those nanbackups take up a good amount of space if you have a lot of apps and data. I also have 2.40g left. Thats a lot of space unless you are downloading movies lol.
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I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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I had a lot of lost space on my card a while back. I suspect from removing the card/inserting the card while still mounted and losing clusters.
I simply put the card in my PC. Backed it up to my hard disk (hidden files and all). Formatted the card. Copied the files back. This restored the lost space. (and gave me a backup too which is handy)
Thanks everyone for the replies. I only have 3 nandroid back ups so far. I have rom manager, but the one adrynalyne posted with fix permissions. I have titanium, but dont use it.
I will mount my SD card to my comp and take a look at it. See if I can find hidden files.
Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
gotsflat4love said:
Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
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Macs also create other dot files when coping data, including a dot file for every file you copy over (it's to store the file's metadata... that's really not useful), as well as some others. Some poster around here has a link in his sig with a 'guide' on disabling those things...
In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
Zacisblack said:
I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
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TBH I haven't made a back-up since december 2010 and have deleted all mine long ago. With odin/TiBkup I find it to be an error free process. Restores always seem to have their own issues so I just gave up on them. But yes you can delete all older ones and keep the most current.
good day.
^^ same here. Haven't done a nandroid since November. Nandroid backups are a pain. It only takes like 10 minutes to get all your settings back the way you want them after a good ol' clean odin. Plus titanium backup, of course
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Agreed. Delete all your old backups. I had about 10 on mine at one pint. They eat about 1gb each
I've been KANGBANGED!!!!!
I've done a Nandroid restore a couple of times now and it went smoothly. A couple of cache and Dcache clears before, wipe data, clear caches again, install ROM, clear caches a couple of times, boot to make sure the ROM functions, then recovery, cache clearing, then advanced restore and restoring just data works for me. I used to use TiBu to restore everything but this has been working out fine, although I'd heard some people had problems with it. Although now that I think about it, I've only done this when re-flashing the same ROM as before. Maybe with different ROMS some things don't play nicely.
Still, I don't need 9 backups just sitting there taking up space, so thanks for the go ahead on deleting them. And I still do TiBu and MyBu backups because I've found you can never have too many resources when things go bad!
How do I Completly whipe my phone? I've cleared the cache, and done a factory reset, i've re-flashed with Odin to the stock rom, and yet, when I reboot, and go look under "My Files" , there is still crap there from before ( Most notably, 4 or 5 diffrent folders for Go Locker, Go STore.. etc ).
How do i clean this thing out for a 100% restart?
are the things your seeing on an external SD card?
No. The Directories are ( And i'm ommitting quite a few here, just to give you the idea ).
Android
Application
bluetooth
camera360
...
...
DCIM
external_sd
...
...
...
etc ad nausium..
So since i have the external_sd mount there in the middle, this must be the internal right? WHen I select the external_sd directory, that does contain my external card, and that's fine. I expected that to have stuff on it since i've not formatted it yet.
My DCIM dir still has all the pictures etc in it as well.... ( which I would not have expected since I did a factory wipe, yet there they are too ).
Any idea?
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are the things your seeing on an external SD card?
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He's saying he wants to wipe his internal SD because it has all his app data from previous ROMs/installations (such as stock). He's probably going to a new ROM and wants maximum storage space and getting rid of all the leftover trash.
Exactly. Just want to make sure the wipe is complete or previous issues will just haunt me.
Look in those folders they should be empty.....The phone creates the folders upon turning on (by factory),,those are the essential folders needed...check it out let us know...they should be empty
They all have stuff in them, and many are not from the os. GoLocker, GoLauncher, etc all have dir's there with data in them, all some , those in particular, i don't have loaded. I've not re-loaded anything yet.
Try going here; Settings > Storage > Format USB Storage
Thats the ticket Thank you.
Or in cwm recovery, go to mounts and storage, and format sdcard
clockcycle said:
Try going here; Settings > Storage > Format USB Storage
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Can doing this cause any unwanted and/or unexpected problems?
Nope. It just wipes sdcard storage, like you just took it out of the box
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Nope. It just wipes sdcard storage, like you just took it out of the box
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I think I'm confused about erasing external sdcard storage and/or internal storage.
"Formatting USB Storage" is which one of these?
And which storage location can you get yourself into trouble with "wiping/formatting?
Maybe neither?
Thank you!
Neither as far as I could tell. I did both. The SD Card is just that, your external memory card. The USB is the "user" storage on the phone, so nothing critical there either. Wipe away safely
Neither as mentioned. As long as youre doing it do from the storage settings from within the stock rom's menus. It only wipes your user data on the external sd and internal storage, if you chose to do so. You may lose any programs installed/moved to sd card also.
Going into CWM youre opening yourself a whole 'nother can of worms. I highly do not recommend going this route if you are not 100% sure of what youre doing. You can seriously render your device useless, aka brick (a term used too lightly).
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Incorrect.
All you could do in cwm is wipe the os.. In which case just button combo into recovery and flash a ROM.
A Brick is missing or corrupted bootloaders. you cannot format bootloaders in cwm.
And avoiding something because it could be dangerous...instead of taking the maybe 5 minutes to understand what's happening add ya know, actually learn something is just not in the spirit of xda AT ALL.
Read. learn. Try. Share.
Device Info:
- Droid X2
- 2.3.4
- CyanogenMod 10
- Patched BSR
Whenever I go into BSR to wipe my dalvik-cache, I always get an error right when I click it.
Code:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(File exists)
This has never necessarily caused any problems, since it still wipes it (I can verify because once I reboot, it rebuilds it). But should I do something to fix this? I've read that formating your SD and sd-ext are ways to fix it if they aren't partitioned correctly (like in FAT32 or something).
Should I format/partition them, and if so, what is the best way to do it and what settings/options should I make if needed? (PLEASE be specific and clear)!
Thanks - any questions feel free to ask!
I don't see it helping it does that on my droid x also.
appl3mac said:
I don't see it helping it does that on my droid x also.
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I eventually did it anyways. I formatted my Internal, External. I also partitioned my External to include a 512M sd-ext. After doing this, I no longer get an error (but that error didn't cause any problems anyways). I think the error is just because it looks for a sd-ext partition, but I could be wrong.
Formatting and Partitioning wall all done through BSR.
IAreKyleW00t said:
I eventually did it anyways. I formatted my Internal, External. I also partitioned my External to include a 512M sd-ext. After doing this, I no longer get an error (but that error didn't cause any problems anyways). I think the error is just because it looks for a sd-ext partition, but I could be wrong.
Formatting and Partitioning wall all done through BSR.
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Well that's good to know I loose hard drives buy trying to partition them so I stick to what works. Can't afford many more.
I get that error now too when wiping dalvik. I was wondering what it was about. As long as it doesn't present a problem I can live with it.
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Re-format internal/external
IAreKyleW00t said:
I eventually did it anyways. I formatted my Internal, External. I also partitioned my External to include a 512M sd-ext. After doing this, I no longer get an error (but that error didn't cause any problems anyways). I think the error is just because it looks for a sd-ext partition, but I could be wrong.
Formatting and Partitioning wall all done through BSR.
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I have been giving some thought to re-formatting both my internal and external cards also.
My X2 is extremely unstable on CM10. Most apps FC after a few seconds.
Kyle - any chance you could walk me through this process? Especially the sd-ext partition?
I assume once I have completed re-formatting I can BSR to 2.3.4 and flash away. Correct?
fambaus said:
I have been giving some thought to re-formatting both my internal and external cards also.
My X2 is extremely unstable on CM10. Most apps FC after a few seconds.
Kyle - any chance you could walk me through this process? Especially the sd-ext partition?
I assume once I have completed re-formatting I can BSR to 2.3.4 and flash away. Correct?
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I hope you aren't thinking that formatting all that will fix the apps force closing. Because there are apps that just wont work on CM10 for us because our phone doesn't have the necessary stuff to run them. Unless its happening to every app. Usually I only have the problem of all apps force closing if I didnt do a data reset and wipe all cache
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I hope you aren't thinking that formatting all that will fix the apps force closing. Because there are apps that just wont work on CM10 for us because our phone doesn't have the necessary stuff to run them. Unless its happening to every app. Usually I only have the problem of all apps force closing if I didnt do a data reset and wipe all cache
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That is exactly why I was thinking of doing this.
I did SBF back to 2,3.4. Wiped data and cache and flashed CM10.
Just about every app seems to FC on me including stock browser and stock email client.
Reading through the thread it seems hit or missing for everyone so I thought the reformat might elinimate whatever is causing the issue/
Thank you.
fambaus said:
That is exactly why I was thinking of doing this.
I did SBF back to 2,3.4. Wiped data and cache and flashed CM10.
Just about every app seems to FC on me including stock browser and stock email client.
Reading through the thread it seems hit or missing for everyone so I thought the reformat might elinimate whatever is causing the issue/
Thank you.
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The stock email and gmail do force close. There is nothing we can do about it. I have had very little force closes in the stock browser though. Facebook has also been said to force close. This is a quote from dragonzkillers OP:
"Some ICS/JB Apps Will Crash: This is noticeable on Chrome for example. This is because our drivers don't have External OES Textures. Basically that means when the apps want to draw using them (such as with Chrome's tab preview) the app will crash. This is the same problem on CM9/ICS. There is nothing we can do."
The best thing to do is just to find alternatives to those apps. There are many in the Play Store that dont force close.
fambaus said:
I have been giving some thought to re-formatting both my internal and external cards also.
My X2 is extremely unstable on CM10. Most apps FC after a few seconds.
Kyle - any chance you could walk me through this process? Especially the sd-ext partition?
I assume once I have completed re-formatting I can BSR to 2.3.4 and flash away. Correct?
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Yeah sure, it's really easy! (I'm trying to remember the exact option names, so some might be a bit off), but jsgraphicart is right, it won't just fix all your problems - but I just found it nice to clean it all out and such. I've never had issues with the stock browser though... I use Gmail for my email app, stock browser and almost stock everything else. Stock Camera, Gallery, etc. They barely FC on me.
1. Backup all the data you need from your Internal and External SD. (it will ALL be wiped, so make sure you get everything!)
2. To be safe I wiped Data, Cache and Davlik-cache (I was reflashing CM10 - to be safe, but not yet).
3. Go to Mounts and format both the Internal and External SD's.
4. Go into "Advanced" and go to "Partition External Storage".
5. For sd-ext size choose whatever size you want (READ BOTTOM OF THIS POST). Set 0 for swap.
6. Flash CM10, Gapps and reboot. ALL DONE!
When choosing sd-ext size, this is the amount of your External SD that will be used as Internal Storage. So if you choose 256MB, you will lose 256MB of space on your External SD but gain 256MB on your internal storage. Any size will be fine, personally I choose 512MB because I put all my backups on my Internal Storage and tend to use that more than External - but most people say 128MB minimum is good. It's more of a personal preference. (Don't mess with swap, it's not worth it. SWAP is basically formatting part of your SD to be used as RAM, but it's not really worth it from what I've seen).
PS: I got the Galaxy Nexus. It feels so nice to be free from all these troubles with a locked Bootloader. I still got my DX2, so I'll be doing some modifications and whatnot to it. Hopefully I can still help out around this part of the forums... lol.
Okay I am about to lose my mind here. I am constantly running into an error notification about having too little internal memory available. I go look at the memory and it shows 11.31GB used on "Miscellaneous files" that consists of TWRP, TitaniumBackup, goomanager, jellybeansDOWNLOADER, clockworkmod" etc. Then another 4.14GB is used on Applications. That list is long as well.
I have like 17GB available on my SD card still, I just CANNOT figure out how to move any of this to my SD and get it off of my internal memory. It's getting to the point where the phone will barely even function, so I need to sort this out ASAP.
So, what can I move, firstly. And secondly, how do I safely move them so that my phone will still know where to look for them when I want to use them? I'm stressing the hell out, so any help would be fantastic!
P.S. I'm rooted and running BeansROM, build 5.
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Okay I am about to lose my mind here. I am constantly running into an error notification about having too little internal memory available. I go look at the memory and it shows 11.31GB used on "Miscellaneous files" that consists of TWRP, TitaniumBackup, goomanager, jellybeansDOWNLOADER, clockworkmod" etc. Then another 4.14GB is used on Applications. That list is long as well.
I have like 17GB available on my SD card still, I just CANNOT figure out how to move any of this to my SD and get it off of my internal memory. It's getting to the point where the phone will barely even function, so I need to sort this out ASAP.
So, what can I move, firstly. And secondly, how do I safely move them so that my phone will still know where to look for them when I want to use them? I'm stressing the hell out, so any help would be fantastic!
P.S. I'm rooted and running BeansROM, build 5.
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You can go into TiBu and change the destination folder for your backups, that would save you some space. If you have a nandroid backup on your internal storage (probably in clockworkmod or TWRP) just use a filemanager to move it to the ExtSD.
That is probably a good start.
Good luck.
Need a bit of help here, have an mtk6572 no mark phone on 4.2, works perfectly. Changed rom to an also 4.2 which runs a lot quicker and is themed etc...
All is good except the sd card, android system sees it, root explorer sees it, gallery sees it, gramaphone sees it but...
camera doesnt, osmand maps doesnt, browser doesnt, swiftkey doesnt etc. CWM and windows see it and can format it so have done that in fat/fat32/ntfs as well as mounting before booting but still the same thing happens. Restore my old backup and all is back to normal. Have checked the new rom updater-script and I have the mounts correct number wise, same as the working rom and now I'm all out of ideas
Any ideas guys?
Thanks.
Can upload both the old (working) updater-script and the new (non-working) one if someone can have a look over and see if I have made a mistake?
The vold.fstab was probably changed to swap internal and external storage. Some apps work with it, some don't. I'd check the post where you got the rom for and see if that is one of the features.
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The vold.fstab was probably changed to swap internal and external storage. Some apps work with it, some don't. I'd check the post where you got the rom for and see if that is one of the features.
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It doesnt mention that, and its quite an old post which seems a bit dead
Is there anything I can do to solve this on my own, as such?
robneymcplum said:
It doesnt mention that, and its quite an old post which seems a bit dead
Is there anything I can do to solve this on my own, as such?
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Righto, I switched the sdcard0 and 1 around in the vold file and it switched them around, larger internal from the sd and the old internal as sd, so I had a 2gb 'sd card' as was expected but still..... all apps were asking for an sd card as it was before
I've uploaded the two updater scripts incase anyone can give me a hand with them, see the massive mistake I cant for example...
Could it be the nonworkingrom seems to not mount data?
Thanks anyway.