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new vision and apps2sd?

just wondering if im doing something wrong? got NV installed with all 3 partitions and I had 77mb of internal mem. when I install new apps it takes away mem, am I doing something wrong, did I not config something right? I have read that apps2sd are automatic and to do nothing or it will break the system. dont mind the 77mb but would like to have my apps on my sd. any help would be great.

Do you have ext3? Drizzy expressly says you need it. So I assume if you only have ext2 there might be probs with your a2sd.
If that's not it. Did you follow all of these steps before flashing?...
This is how I installed without any problems:
: rename to update.zip
: place in the root of sd card
: shut off device
: boot into recovery
: wipe
: go to console and hit enter
(enter)
# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
# cd /system/sd
# rm -rf /system/sd/*
# reboot recovery
: now wipe again
: repair ext system
: flash
Enjoy!!
"DO NOT RUN ANY OTHER APPS TO SD IT WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM"
JUST EXT3 & LINUX-SWAP 32MB

kree said:
just wondering if im doing something wrong? got NV installed with all 3 partitions and I had 77mb of internal mem. when I install new apps it takes away mem, am I doing something wrong, did I not config something right? I have read that apps2sd are automatic and to do nothing or it will break the system. dont mind the 77mb but would like to have my apps on my sd. any help would be great.
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your apps are going to the sd..your dalvik-cache is not

yup. checked thru the the console that in fact I do have an ext3 partition. I went thru an infinate loop with out it, also followed all the steps as best as an old newb could, I mean Im not new to flashing roms coming from the herald and wing, but concidering ow these android roms are becoming like full linux distro installs its getting a little hard to keep up, but still willing to try. gonna look up the dav thing to see where that leads me. definately an adventure! thanks!

Need some advice. Simple problem you guys can assist with.

Hey guys,
I have a problem that I know you can assist with. I recently rooted my G1. I installed the CryogenMod 4.2 OS. I then decided to give the Dizzy's White Champion V2 OS a whirl. I wasn't too impressed with it due to the lag and slowness. I then did a wipe and installed the CryogenMod 4.2 OS again. This time around I am stuck on the G1 screen. I can enter the recovery mode by pressing home and power. I know I am missing something easy. Can you guys tell me what I should do? I can supply more information if needed.
I appreciate you guys.
Ira

iraqmilner said:
Hey guys,
I have a problem that I know you can assist with. I recently rooted my G1. I installed the CryogenMod 4.2 OS. I then decided to give the Dizzy's White Champion V2 OS a whirl. I wasn't too impressed with it due to the lag and slowness. I then did a wipe and installed the CryogenMod 4.2 OS again. This time around I am stuck on the G1 screen. I can enter the recovery mode by pressing home and power. I know I am missing something easy. Can you guys tell me what I should do? I can supply more information if needed.
I appreciate you guys.
Ira
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Sounds Drizzy's ROM left some crud on your ext partition..
Open the command line in recovery..
Code:
mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
cd /system/sd
rm -r /dalvik-cache/*
reboot recovery
then wipe and reflash. That should fix it, otherwise you will need to delete your apps too :-(
Code:
mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
cd /system/sd
rm -r /app/*
rm -r /app-private/*
reboot recovery

Thank you brother, Adrian.
I will give that a shot right now and I will let you know how it goes.
Thanks again
Ira

Alright,
I just followed the steps that you provided. My G1 said that I couldn't remove the following files because they weren't there. Something along those lines. I reformatted my sd card right before I attempted to reinstall cryogenmod. Maybe that has something to do with it. Any other ideas?
Thanks again.

iraqmilner said:
Alright,
I just followed the steps that you provided. My G1 said that I couldn't remove the following files because they weren't there. Something along those lines. I reformatted my sd card right before I attempted to reinstall cryogenmod. Maybe that has something to do with it. Any other ideas?
Thanks again.
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Ah, right, I assumed your card had an ext partition which was set up for Apps2SD and some files got left behind. Sorry, I really should have asked before making suggestions >< Not really sure in that case :-/

I believe I did do that. I followed these steps originally:
#parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
#print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 3420
mkpartfs primary ext2 3420 3932
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 3932-3964
Then I installed Champion V2. I am at a loss right now. If you have any questions please fire away.

did you format the entire ext3 partition or just folder like was already suggested? if you just did folders then try rm -r /app_s/*. non hero roms will not boot up if you still have all the hero apps on your ext2/3/4.

I think the problem is that I had to create the 3 partitions in order to run the Hero rom. I am trying to return to the CyanogenMod now and that isn't needed. So, how I can I delete the partitions that I created for Hero. I think once those guys are gone then I will be good to go. Any ideas how I can do that?

Problem solved!
This is what I did:
I loaded the recovery flasher and entered the terminal. Keyed in the following:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
rm 1
rm 2
rm 3
rm 4
rm 5
quit
upgrade_fs
recovery
Wiped the data, reinstalled OS and she loaded up like a charm.

Seeing as you removed your ext3 partition and are now only using Fat, there must have been something left on your ext3. As David said, I think it was the /app_s/ folder which I forgot to mention. Oh well, you should be able to remake all your partitions and have all the apps on your internal memory moved to ext3.

iraqmilner said:
This is what I did:
I loaded the recovery flasher and entered the terminal. Keyed in the following:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
rm 1
rm 2
rm 3
rm 4
rm 5
quit
upgrade_fs
recovery
Wiped the data, reinstalled OS and she loaded up like a charm.
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Just out of curiosity, why did you have 5 partitions?

Repartition Linux swap

Hi, ive searched around but cannot seem to find a complete answer, but basically is there a way to just repartition my linux swap from 32MB to 96MB.
I dont have a linux cd and so if theres a way to do it through ADB or recovery, that would be great.
Thanks.

D3NNY said:
Hi, ive searched around but cannot seem to find a complete answer, but basically is there a way to just repartition my linux swap from 32MB to 96MB.
I dont have a linux cd and so if theres a way to do it through ADB or recovery, that would be great.
Thanks.
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i'll give you the short answer then i will edit this post with the long answer
short answer.
you use the resize command in parted on your ext3 and linux-swap partition. if you have used parted from the recovery console a few times before this will be easy but i will post through instructions in a minute
Long answer
go into the recovery console. (recovery screen then last option)
then type (if you want to use adb just type adb shell then do the commands)
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print (you will need the start and end points for your ext3 and linux-swap partitions)
resize 2 [start point] [end - 64mb]
resize 3 [start - 64mb] [end]
print (to verify it worked)
quit
upgrade_fs
reboot
there you go.
I have not tested the resize command on an ext3 partition but i do not think (key word think) it will destroy your data on ext3, but back up just to make sure.
to back up your ext3
with adb (since i assume you have it from the first post)
Code:
adb pull /system/sd [dir on computer]
to restore on empty card
Code:
adb shell mkdir /system/sd
adb push [dir on computer] /system/sd

thanks for the great reply. Will test out now and see what happens!

Can anyone verify if this works?
My only concern is the resizing of ext3. Will it cut out any data since I am shortening the partition?

mr_roboto said:
Can anyone verify if this works?
My only concern is the resizing of ext3. Will it cut out any data since I am shortening the partition?
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Yes, it works. And yes it *can* corrupt/delete some data from the ext3 depending on how much extra space you have. To be safe, just back-up. The easiest way is doing a BART or switchrom backup (Which backs up you ext) move the backup from the FAT partition to a computer (not necessary but you seem worried about your ext, so just to be safe) resize the partitions and restore your backups.

or just use amon recovery

Thanks for the response guys, I went and started reading about switchrom.
I am planning to do the following steps:
switchrom.sh -s // to store my rom
resize my partitions
switchrom.sh -r
The thread says it stores the nandroid and the app data, I am assuming that means nandroid and ext partition right?

D3NNY said:
Hi, ive searched around but cannot seem to find a complete answer, but basically is there a way to just repartition my linux swap from 32MB to 96MB.
I dont have a linux cd and so if theres a way to do it through ADB or recovery, that would be great.
Thanks.
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I don't think this is the same, but I am running a hero rom and was wondering what "swappiness" is? I keep reading stuff like "swappiness of 96mb", etc. Is this just referencing the linux swap file size? and with me running a hero rom, what is the best setup for my SD card? I am currently running simply a fat32 partition and an ext3- thanks

need major help

while putting the peoples hero rom on my g1 sum how my sd card had got corrupted. i jus ordered another 8 gig to replace it but in the mean time i formatted my corrupted one back to fat32 because thats the only format it will go into and loaded cyanogen mod 4.1.11.1 and now my phone is jus goin crazy jumpin from diff progams and makin random calls. what should i do

wipe your phone and if you still have an ext2/3 partition wipe it in the recovery console with mke2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 then reflash your rom

i found out what is was. i just got this replacement and when i did the root i used the wrong spl but thanks bro.. i wish it was a way to fix these memory cards tho when it messes up like this im on my 4th 1
david1171 said:
wipe your phone and if you still have an ext2/3 partition wipe it in the recovery console with mke2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 then reflash your rom
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Hero to cyanogen ( half brick here... )

Alright, well, I got Haykuro's SPL, and I got a nice hero rom installed, but I figured it was a little too slow for my liking (mostly part of my class 2 SD card I'm sure ) so I decided too go back.
Now thanks to my infinite wisdom (total sarcasm) I have a half bricked phone, on cyans 1.5 recovery, I wiped, repaired ext, and flashed over cyan 4.2.3.1, and now it just hangs on the g1 screen. Did I miss something? I can boot into reovery/fastboot, but I can't seem to get anywhere else.
I searched a little bit, not intensively, so flame me if you feel like it, I probably deserve it. lol
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit 2: I got it flashed to Jesturblurs ROM, IDK how exxactly but anyway, I still want to go back to cyanogen, is there a specific process to do this? Or do I just format everything a flash? I don't want another episode like the one I had when I nearly bricked my phone xD

gotta remove app-s and clear dalvic

you need to format your ext2/3/4 partition.
from recovery you need to go to your console (alt-x) and get into parted.
once in console type
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
then type
print
this will tell you how much ext2/3/4 partition you have and where it is. You need to WRITE DOWN the start and ending points of that partition. Mine is partitioned in partition 2. To wipe that partition
type
rm 2 (or whatever slot yours is, it SHOULD be 2)
now you have NO ext2/3/4 partition, so we gotta creat it
type
mkpartfs primary ext2 xxxx xxxx (xxxx= the start and ending points you WROTE DOWN)
then type
print (just to be sure everything wrote properly)
if you have all 3 partitions back like normal (almost) we'll exit parted and upgrade the ext2 partition to ext3.
type
quit (this exits parted)
then type
upgrade_fs (this will make your ext2 to ext3)
then type
reboot recovery
then back in recovery,
wipe
repair ext filesystems
wipe (just for good measure)
flash whichever rom you want
if this doesnt work, let me know, we'll try and work around it

you have to flash the htc dev recovery first as well

robkoehler said:
you have to flash the htc dev recovery first as well
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if this wasnt done, it could cause issues as well.
i assumed it was though, as cyan lays out pretty clear instructions, lol.

sykokenndogg said:
you need to format your ext2/3/4 partition.
from recovery you need to go to your console (alt-x) and get into parted.
once in console type
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
then type
print
this will tell you how much ext2/3/4 partition you have and where it is. You need to WRITE DOWN the start and ending points of that partition. Mine is partitioned in partition 2. To wipe that partition
type
rm 2 (or whatever slot yours is, it SHOULD be 2)
now you have NO ext2/3/4 partition, so we gotta creat it
type
mkpartfs primary ext2 xxxx xxxx (xxxx= the start and ending points you WROTE DOWN)
then type
print (just to be sure everything wrote properly)
if you have all 3 partitions back like normal (almost) we'll exit parted and upgrade the ext2 partition to ext3.
type
quit (this exits parted)
then type
upgrade_fs (this will make your ext2 to ext3)
then type
reboot recovery
then back in recovery,
wipe
repair ext filesystems
wipe (just for good measure)
flash whichever rom you want
if this doesnt work, let me know, we'll try and work around it
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Alright, I got my hero rom on there for now, and I think that's because I re-did my SD card this afternoon anyway, just to try random stuff that I research and what not, and your idea sounds pretty solid, I'll try that as soon as cyan makes a new version ( I can't help but love the hero layout ).
Thanks anyway though, appreciate it!
And for robkoehler, I would've done that first, but I'm scared sh*tless because I have Haykuro's SPL and the last thing I want to mess with are radio img's and SPL's for a while, seeing as how easily I could brick it O.O. If you could explain that process in which I won't get bricked, I'll do it and let ya' know.
Thanks for the responses guys

lol, you would be hard pressed to truly "brick" your phone.
thats the bennifit of the recovery image, you really cant.
the spl and most current radio img's are a must if you dont have them, go here;
http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
make sure you flast the radio before the spl, and when you flast the spl, be ready to flash another ROM, because it basically wipes everything clean, you'll have no real rom loaded on your phone.
when your ready to go back to cyan's rom, make sure you READ EVERYTHING and follow his directions to the T. His rom is one of the easier roms to go back and forth to and from, because he makes them that way.

I have everything modded nicely, newest radio/SPL (haykuro's) I was just asking how to go from a hero back down to cyan ( going from cyan to hero was easy as pie ) but the first time I tried, I couldn't use my phone for half the day ( at school no way to access SD card >.> ) I got home and re-flashed hero ( which I'm using for now ) I was just asking if there was an easy way to go back.
From what I've seen so far ( and please correct me if I'm wrong ) is...
Wipe
format ext* partition
Wipe
Flash
Correct? I don't see a need to reflash the radio and what not, but if it's required let me know, thanks!

nope, if you have the most current radio and spl, your good to go!
i think the problem your having is with some hero info still written on your ext partition, which doesnt clear itself, you need to do manually (refer to my above LONG post).
once you clear that ext, rebuild it and upgrade it, you'll have no problem going through the standard procedures to install cyan's rom.
But again, i cannot stress enough, if you do not follow all of cyan's instructions you will continue to have problems. Make sure you flash the stock 1.6 rom so you can get all the google apps cyan cant include anymore as well.

Edit: Got it!
Thanks for all the help guys!