i've got strange thing: there are two identical Odroid C2 boards, i've flashed Android image to SD card and boot 'board 1', then i've installed Google Services on it and tested my application which uses Google Maps, everything was ok. Then i take second SD card, and copied first SD card on it using dd utility. Then i plug second sd card to 'board 2', boot was ok, but when i'm trying to run my application, map was not loaded(e.g. onMapLoaded callback was not called). I created new API key, but nothing changes. Map still blank. Map become ok only when i install Android to second SD card(and Google Services also). But in AVD, map was ok with both old and new keys.
Does someone know, what was reason of such behaviour? Thank you
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Hello,
I'm trying to get A2SD working in my HTC Hero. I'm using MoDaCo Custom ROM 2.9. What I did was partition my SD card using a card reader and Ubuntu Linux (I used an application called GParted). I used the following partition table:
Patition 1: FAT32 (730MB)
Partition 2: Ext4 (512MB)
Partition 3: Linux Swap (32MB)
Then, I went to recovery mode and reinstalled MoDaCo. The installation went fine, and I have the impression A2SD is trying to use my Ext4 partition. However, the applications Google Maps and Google Sky Map (which I've just installed) crash almost every time, showing the following message:
"The application Google Maps has stopped unexpectedly."
I suspect the problem is either the Ext4 format (which I believe is new) or my SD card, which is a SanDisk 8GB microSD (class 2).
Do you guys think I should buy a better card? Or format it again? Is it OK to format the card in Ubuntu? Or is something else wrong?
Thanks a lot,
Tiago
I'm trying to reinstall the apps that are crashing, and that seems to be working. However, I couldn't figure out how to reinstall Google Maps. I uninstalled it, but I didn't find it in Android Market. Is there an easy way to install Google Maps?
I think what's causing the problem is turning the phone on without the SD card. The apps that were installed to the card disappear from the list, but if I restart the phone with the card in, the crashes start.
Does that make sense?
Check to see if you have swapper installed this is not needed in 2.9 and could be the cause of the crashing. For that matter nor is the Swap partition. Google Maps can be got here:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-google-android-apps-maps-jw.aspx
and yes starting the phone without the SD Card in will cause any apps on the EXT4 partition to dissappear.
If you reformat the card you will have to re install the apps anyway.
Thanks for the answer! I don't have Swapper installed. I was going to install it, but I'll follow your advice.
I ended up formatting the card again and reinstalling MoDaCo. So far, I haven't taken the card out and everything's working fine. I'm pretty sure what caused the crashes was the fact that I started the phone without the SD card. The apps in the card disappeard, but when I restarted the phone with the card in, the apps that reappeared were not functional (they crashed every time). Is this a known issue or were the apps supposed to resume working?
I guess the final advice is to keep the card in at all times...
Hi all
I have just installed CyanogenMod 7 on my HTC Desire.
I partitioned my 16GB Class 10 MicroSD card into a 14GB FAT32 partition and a 2GB ext3 partition. I installed DarkTremor's apps2sd scripts, and the apps2sd gui. I set it to save apps to the SD card, and to move the dalvik cache to the SD card.
Everything was working well: I was able to install apps, and they were going to the SD card (had they not, I would have hit the limit of the Desire's internal storage!). Rebooting didn't negatively affect anything - I rebooted several times and the apps were still there.
Then, when I opened the Theme Explorer, the phone just hung. It didn't respond to any input, from the touch screen to pressing or long pressing the power button. Eventually, in desperation, I took the battery out to do a hard reset.
When the phone booted back up, all the apps I had just installed were gone. Their icons remained on the homepage, but with the generic Android icon instead of their actual icon. They were missing from the ADWLauncher panel. The apps are still present in the list of apps, but are missing their icons and proper names. Instead they are displayed with a generic Android icon, and their "long-form" name, for example "com.amazon.kindle".
In addition to all the apps I had installed being missing, certain apps that came with CyanogenMod were also missing, such as: ROM Manager and the program that lists the apps with root permissions (I forget the name). Also, the Market application is missing. However, the calendar, messages, Google Talk, Theme Chooser, etc are all still present and working.
I tried rebooting the phone multiple times, as well as unmounting and remounting the SD card, with no improvement.
Using the terminal emulator, I can see that /sd-ext still has five directories: app, app-private, dalvik-cache, data, lost+found. However, all these directories, including the /sd-ext/app directory, are empty.
Running a2sd reinstall goes through the list of apps, but for each app that is missing, it says that it cannot find the .apk file for that app.
I suppose, then, that I have two questions:
1. Can I restore my apps somehow?
2. If not, and I have to reinstall, how can I prevent this from happening again?
(At the root of both of these is the question "why did this happen?" so if anyone knows that, that would be a great help too!)
Thank you all in advance - please let me know if there's any other information I can provide.
I have a similar problem with my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint. I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? I hope you find a solution to your issue because it may be the same solution for my issue.
Sincerely,
Nathan
Hello, I am new to this forum, but have been reading a lot of the information regarding running CM7 on a Nook Color. Thank you to everyone that has been kind enough to share their knowledge about this.
I am pretty new to the thought of running the Android platform on my Nook. My main goal is to be able to use the Nook Color for more than what the B&N operating system will allow. I would like to be able to use it to take notes in business meetings, using an external keyboard, and maybe have a little more functionality for email.
I am having trouble getting the generic sd card image burned to my micro sd card. I have downloaded the image from verygreen's thread. I have tried using Winimage and Windisk32 to burn the image, and have had limited success. My card is a Sandisk, class 4, 8GB card.
I did get the image burned once, and got the CM7 7.2.0 encore zip file copied, and there was a hangup in the booting process. I believe the error message was incomplete image, or something similar.
I have reformatted the sd card numerous times (using sdformatter), and have tried both imaging programs to try to re-burn the image back to the card, and I get a write successful alert, but I cannot see any files on the card. Windows explorer says that the card is empty, and that thee is only 115MB of storage available, so something is happening.
I thought that maybe the files were hidden, so I copied the CM7 zip file over, and put it in the Nook Color. The NC booted up into the B&N home screen.
As a side note, I would like to be able to, if it is possible, to boot into a menu, and select whether I wanted to boot into the B&N platform, or the Android platform.
Any suggestions that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Have a great day.
Ever wanted to try an Android ROM on your RK3188 device but don't want to flash it and risk bricking your device? Or maybe you've currently installed Linux and want to try Android? I've created a tool to create a bootable SD card that can run Android directly from the SD card.
You will need a PC running Linux and an SD card of 8 GB or more, at least class 10 speed, and your Android ROM(s). In this example I've downloaded Radxa Rock's Kitkat ROM 'radxa_rock_android_kitkat_140909_update.img' from 'http://radxa.com/Rock/prebuilt_images'.
Download the tool from 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99O3A0dDe67b3dBUjFzcUoyLWs'. After unzipping you will see a shell script called 'create-android-sdcard' and a directory called 'Tools'.
First load your SD card into the PC and use a command like 'blkid' or 'lsblk' to identify its device name (e.g. /dev/sdc).
Now run the program and pass the name and location of the Android ROM you want to install onto the SD card, e.g.:
./create-android-sdcard radxa_rock_android_kitkat_140909_update.img
The program will prompt you to confirm the name of the device for the SD card. Once confirmed it will then unpack the Android ROM, create partitions on the SD card that mimic the ROM including a 'user' partition that will use the remaining space of the SD card. It will then install the Android ROM to the SD card and notify you when complete.
Finally just take the SD card and insert into your RK3188 device and power on to enjoy Android.
The initial boot is very slow so be patient. For some ROMs this actually seems like a very long time, so be extra patient! Subsequent boots however are faster.
Everything should work 'out of the box' for Kitkat ROMs. For 4.2.2 ROMs as internal storage is implemented slightly differently, I did find one specific ROM where 'Explorer' didn't recognise the internal storage but 'ES File Explorer' did. All other 4.2.2 ROMs worked fine.
In theory it should work with any Android ROM packed as an image. My program uses standard RK tools which are included in the 'Tools' directory. I've included checks to ensure the ROM's format follows the traditional build layout so if the ROM, and in particular, the 'parameter' file is substantially different then YMMV.
Enjoy!
I'm going to try this on my Timing Power RK3188 Mini PC later today. Thanks!
Any idea why it's telling me cannot create kernel image?
Type password to decrypt storage.
I downloaded the rom as from ricomagic
FW_141208:S/N from 201307**** till now
First I installed the rom in Nand and then created the sd card as described( with the same rom). After few seconds after booting , android shows the message :Type password to decrypt storage.
Passwords like p, root ... does not work. Any hint or direction to search for?
Thank you for all well done work.
Edit:
I got a better aproach at (Linuxium) - 21 de jun de 2014
First form official rikomagic web site i installed the latest stock firmware
MK802IV_AP6210_141208. (kitkat)
Then I downloaded make-rkm-mk802iv.7z and create a linux sd-card
Thank you for your great work!
Murilo
can i do it with a usb instead of sd card because my android box do not have a sdcard port
thank you
can i try on any box or its only specific box?
Linuxium said:
Ever wanted to try an Android ROM on your RK3188 device but don't want to flash it and risk bricking your device? Or maybe you've currently installed Linux and want to try Android? I've created a tool to create a bootable SD card that can run Android directly from the SD card.
You will need a PC running Linux and an SD card of 8 GB or more, at least class 10 speed, and your Android ROM(s). In this example I've downloaded Radxa Rock's Kitkat ROM 'radxa_rock_android_kitkat_140909_update.img' from 'http://radxa.com/Rock/prebuilt_images'.
Download the tool from 'https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99O3A0dDe67b3dBUjFzcUoyLWs'. After unzipping you will see a shell script called 'create-android-sdcard' and a directory called 'Tools'.
First load your SD card into the PC and use a command like 'blkid' or 'lsblk' to identify its device name (e.g. /dev/sdc).
Now run the program and pass the name and location of the Android ROM you want to install onto the SD card, e.g.:
./create-android-sdcard radxa_rock_android_kitkat_140909_update.img
The program will prompt you to confirm the name of the device for the SD card. Once confirmed it will then unpack the Android ROM, create partitions on the SD card that mimic the ROM including a 'user' partition that will use the remaining space of the SD card. It will then install the Android ROM to the SD card and notify you when complete.
Finally just take the SD card and insert into your RK3188 device and power on to enjoy Android.
The initial boot is very slow so be patient. For some ROMs this actually seems like a very long time, so be extra patient! Subsequent boots however are faster.
Everything should work 'out of the box' for Kitkat ROMs. For 4.2.2 ROMs as internal storage is implemented slightly differently, I did find one specific ROM where 'Explorer' didn't recognise the internal storage but 'ES File Explorer' did. All other 4.2.2 ROMs worked fine.
In theory it should work with any Android ROM packed as an image. My program uses standard RK tools which are included in the 'Tools' directory. I've included checks to ensure the ROM's format follows the traditional build layout so if the ROM, and in particular, the 'parameter' file is substantially different then YMMV.
Enjoy!
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Hi,
I have a stock LG LM-X410ASR (Xpressions Plus) that came with Android 8.1.0 installed. I installed a 32 GB SD card and installed a bunch of apps. On this phone, if you go to Settings/General/Apps & notifications/App info, you can tap on an app tap on "Storage," and then "Change" storage from internal to SD, if the app allows it. I did this for every app that would allow it, except for some that run better from internal storage, or whose widgets won't work right unless they remain on internal storage.
I've had this phone since the weekend after Thanksgiving, having bought it on sale at Wal-Mart. Since then, it's been performing well, until today.
I have Nova Launcher installed, as well.
I was updating apps in Google Play, and Castbox didn't want to cooperate, so I cleared Play Store cache and rebooted the phone. When I rebooted, I saw a lot of grayed-out shortcut icons on my home screens. DriveSync also had a failed sync. When I went to DriveSync, it wanted me to find the root of the SD card, again, so it could have permission to write to the SD card. When I tried to enable this access, I could see the SD card, but the hex name was not visible and DriveSync did not accept my selection.
Neither Astro File Manager nor the native file manager app would allow me to copy, move, delete, or create files on the SD card any longer.
I have rebooted the phone multiple times, and have been paring down my apps in preparation to do a factory reset, hoping this will solve my problems. Each time I've rebooted the phone, a different selection of apps was grayed out or missing.
At this point, I'm not sure whether I have an SD card problem or a hardware problem with the phone. I would like to find out so that I can replace the SD card or file a warranty claim with LG.
Would a factory reset followed by installation of apps that can be "changed" to SD storage, changing the storage location, and rebooting the phone be sufficient, or should I try this with a brand new SD card installed?
Thanks1