Long time lurker here... I have found that like many people on here I have trouble flashing hero roms. I am using hakuryo's spl and the proper radio, and running amon's recovery img. My question is that I don't seem to have any problem with HeroOver's roms but every other hero rom I try to install just boot loops. my normal flashing procedure is to wipe and reformat my class 6 sd card. normally 512 on an ext4 partition, 96 to 192 megs for a swap partition and the rest as fat32, in order of fat ext4 and then swap. then wipe, wipe dalvek, wipe install. I have read through the posts and haven't seen anyone else with this issue.. please tell me if I'm missing a step. Thanks in advance.
Oh ya I can flash any of the other non hero roms just fine.
Lee
Try ext3, not ext4.
doubt it's ext4 that's the problem, more likely due to that massive swap partition. Bigger partition doesn't mean better performance. A partition between 32-96 is reccomended.
So if you do have ext3 and 4... they would work best being in the double digits in size?
I have tried it with swap partitions from 32 megs to 192 megs. I keep reading the results that people have gotten the various hero roms to work at and I will give that setting a try.. I am stumped ..
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i am currently runnning HERO ROM , if i back Up my sd card and re partition my sd card for 96MB linux swap , do i have to re flash the rom over ?
also im doing this because i hear runninq a 96MB linux swap , makes the Hero rom run smoother nd faster , any truth to this before i re partition ?
also any inputs?
thnx
next time Q&A, 96 from what i hear is good but starts to lag after a while. also if you just re-partition the linux-swap then you shouldn't have to flash the rom, but if you do ext3 as well then you should re-flash the rom
Rather then repartition, just resize your partitions. In Gparted use the Resize command. Take 64mb off your first partition, then move the starting point of the second partition back 64mb. Then add the 64mb to your swap. I do it all the time to experiment with different swap sizes. So far 96mb is the best in my opinion.
I got a shiny new class 6 16GB sd card. I partitioned it at about 15.5GB fat32 and 512 ext2, using the info in cyanogen's wiki: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Apps2SD_On_CyanogenMod
From there I did the ext3 and then the ext4 updates.
Although I've searched for answers for a few hours now, I've been unable to determine why the device slows to a crawl at each point of user interaction at this point. Even unlocking the screen can time out...
I backed out the changes and copied the apps back over to internal storage and everything is zippy again, so at this point I am looking for suggestions. One thing I noticed was that when I used parted to delete the ext partition so the apps wouldn't go back to the card on the next boot, it still listed the ext partition as ext2. Can someone running ext3 or 4 let me know whether parted lists their partitions as such or if they are always reported as ext2?
What other techniques should I try? I would very much like to make this work as I get constant low-space warnings in my current setup. Thanks.
jasper1 said:
I got a shiny new class 6 16GB sd card. I partitioned it at about 15.5GB fat32 and 512 ext2, using the info in cyanogen's wiki: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Apps2SD_On_CyanogenMod
From there I did the ext3 and then the ext4 updates.
Although I've searched for answers for a few hours now, I've been unable to determine why the device slows to a crawl at each point of user interaction at this point. Even unlocking the screen can time out...
I backed out the changes and copied the apps back over to internal storage and everything is zippy again, so at this point I am looking for suggestions. One thing I noticed was that when I used parted to delete the ext partition so the apps wouldn't go back to the card on the next boot, it still listed the ext partition as ext2. Can someone running ext3 or 4 let me know whether parted lists their partitions as such or if they are always reported as ext2?
What other techniques should I try? I would very much like to make this work as I get constant low-space warnings in my current setup. Thanks.
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just used parted to check and it says ext4 .... try using this guide .. worked really well for me to partition my sd ... also if you're having all these problems try wiping dalvik-cache and even data and your ext* partition if it comes down to it
What recovery image are you using?
jndd333 said:
What recovery image are you using?
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amon ra's 1.2.3
EDIT: lol thought you were the OP
A more careful walk through the partitioning process and I can confirm that everything works as expected, as well as confirming that if upgrade_fs fails, then ext2 is a total dog. One particularly confusing thing was tracking down whether a swap partition was needed or not, but on the latest cyan roms it isn't so I skipped that one.
Hello this is droidfreek and i am new to rooted phones. I am using t mobile g1 black
I am currently using a 1GB memory card and i would like a step by step guide to partitioning it and installing the ROM kind of like a fresh install but i would like to have more internal memory if you can do the math and all it would be a great help. I am tying to use Amon Ra v1.2.2(part sd :fat32+ext2+swap)
Can you also make one for a 4GB memory card
the size of the memory card doesnt change how to partition it... and well, there are plenty of tutorials out there already on how to flash a ROM.
And partitioning, well, thats really straightfoward with amonra's recovery.
Uuuuhhh... Why are you using Amon_Ra 1.2.2? Use the latest (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4647751&postcount=1). It works like a charm, except for reading corrupted sd cards. Well, nothing is good at. I need a new SD card. Sorry. I'm ranting now. Just use the latest.
Ty but just to verify does this whole partition thing work on a 1gb card
One gig is going to be a little small, but you can do it. 96 mb swap is preferred, and 512 mb for ext is also pretty good. It's going to be tight, but you can do it. Is this a class six? My class 2 only worked for about a month doing this. I'm not sure if its related, but...
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One gig is going to be a little small, but you can do it. 96 mb swap is preferred, and 512 mb for ext is also pretty good. It's going to be tight, but you can do it. Is this a class six? My class 2 only worked for about a month doing this. I'm not sure if its related, but...
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Can u please guide me step by step
How do you tell what class it is
DroidFreek said:
Can u please guide me step by step
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Boot into recovery, select "partition sd card" menu and follow on-screen prompts. This doesn't get any easier then that.
i tried it and it worked
do i need to install aps to sd
some roms either have that included already (you will need ext3 or ext4 depending on what the rom specifies) and you dont have to do anything for it except flash the rom.
other roms might have it as an option, and you just convert the ext2 to ext3 or ext4. For example, CSDI has it as an option and can either be enabled or disabled through supsetup.
Ok I've partitioned and loaded the rom and my phone is complete but I still. Have 32mb in my settings for internal and I set it to 96 even when I download my apps I still get low space do I need apps to sd or do I have to convert ex3 to ex4
I would like it to give me my full 96
If you have 32MB on a clean install then that's all you're going to have. What SPL do you have? Also, type
busybox df -h
in your terminal and post your output for us.
I don't know how to tell what kind of spl
But here is the output
My busy box kmoo sd Details $ su# busybox df -h Filesystem*************** Size***** Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs******************* 47.8M**** 12.0K**** 47.8M** 0% /dev tmpfs******************** 4.0M******** 0***** 4.0M** 0% /sqlite_stmt_journals/dev/block/mtdblock3 AO
So what do I do next
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to install MeDroid ICS v6.1 with IA2SD, but I seem to be missing something.
Here's what I did:
- partitioned SD with GParted: first partition fat32, second one ext4 (2GB)
- full wipe
- installed the Rom (got random offset every time)
- on first boot I experienced an reboot before the Me Droid animation
- went through assistant, then rebooted phone
- looked in settings -> storage: 200 MB
- partitioned SD with recovery (CWM)
- according to gparted I now have first partition fat32, second one ext4 (2GB)
- full wipe and reinstall of the Rom
- assistant again, then rebooted the phone
- storage still shows only 200 MB internal memory
Sorry for my bad english, i hope i't understandable.
I would really appreciate any help on this
greets
gecko
Did you install the blackrose hboot (bootloader)?
Yes, of course, forgot to mention that. Blackrose is installed and the Rom itself is working fine.
Did you wipe, wipe, wipe before partitioning and install?
Last things I did before posting here were: "Wipe, wipe, wipe, repartition, reinstall" *me brave*
As long as everything seems to be working fine, I really do not know. The only difference between what I did and what you did is I partitioned my card with 4ext recovery. I do not think that should matter though, but as long as settings just see the 200 then it is obviously not working.
Here is a post from the medroid thread from someone who has a similar problem and how he fixed it. Hope it helps!
Thx. Unfortunately what's supposed there is exactly what I tried at first: deleting all partitions and making new ones from scratch.
Does it matter if the EXT partition is primary or logical?
good question on primary/logical--would assume primary
I partition inside phone and are not given a choice
Swap should be 0
If you want to experiment, backup card and repartition inside phone/ext4
Try sdformatter to format--full erase and size adjustment on
Then try a 1gb ext--have heard of some folks having issues with too large an ext, although that rarely happens till you get to like 3 or 4gb
or, try amon_ra recovery
Thx for your answer. Meanwhile i tried my old (8GB non SDHC) SD card with a 512MB ext4. Primary partition seems to be right since this is working. Now I have to determine if it's the new (16GB SDHC) card or the partition size. I'll give you feedback on this.
Update: with the old 8GB card every partition size seems to work. With the new one I can't find any working configuration. I can live with that and my little sister will be happy about the 16GB card. Thanks to you guys for your help
good luck gecko
you might the sdformatter method I mentioned on it, if you get time
Does anyone out there know what causes 4EXT CWM and Amon Ra all (with custom tools) all to fail in regards to seeing a formatted cache partition on EXT-2.
I have DONE EVERYTHING I can possibly think of, from using Gpart in Ubuntu, to the phone itself. Many times in the past I have made it would just leave my 2 Gig cache partition empty because NOTHING works EVER!...
Did I miss something, can you even have 4 separate functional partitions with the Nexus 1 ?
The closest I have come to something really functional is with 4EXT, it seems to go through all the stages but when I check alignment I only get the first 2 partitions (fat-32 and EXT-1) EXT-2 says it is unformatted for some odd reason! This has been performed using a full card wipe on an external source. Even still everything is seems to go as planned until I check the card. With 4EXT I attempt to force a ext3 or 4 format and it restarts the recovery ! When I check A2SDGUI it says I only have 15 megabytes for cache.
I have used black rose and set it to 220/15/201 (dla5244), tried the latest versions of 4EXT and wasted many hours before posting...
CAN ANYONE HELP !!
Download SD Formatter from here, run the program and choose under Options:
FORMAT TYPE: FULL (OverWrite)
FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT: ON
This will format your µSD (be sure to backup your important stuff). When finished, try to make an ext4 partition with 4EXT recovery. You only need one ext4 partition (so no 2nd) and no swap.
Thank you for the fast response but I have tried that. Except I want this phone to work optimally and I have figured everything else out so it is hard to settle for mediocrity. I mean I know that 1 SD-EXT partition works... Even 1 + fat32 and SWAP but I can NEVER have the phone identify the SD-EXT2 partition... no matter what... In partition magic (terrabyte bootit) and of course Gpart in Ubuntu all indicate that everything is great. Except the phone doesn't use the partition and like I was saying before the 4EXT shows it as unformatted after it's format. When I force a format on the partition the software reboots !?!... And if I leave it claiming it's unformatted even though we may think it is, QND's MIUI can only see 15 megabyte cache partition !
But then why not just go back to stock roms and one partition? To your point it's hard to step back and use something less inclined for performance when it should work ? no ?
I know I am a NOOB BUT I also know that it seems like no one out there can offer CLOSURE on the matter. like "ohh that's because the N1 cannot identify a EXT2 partition" or "ohh... that's your SD card's fault it isn't aligned right etc."
I mean I can see others have had this problem and gave up, I don't want to give up unless it is a limitation of the hardware (?sd card?)
Another way to look at it is although beautiful and helpful for most... 4EXT should be focused on getting that to work, I would think... To your point everyone is confused and shouldn't have more than 2 partitions ? Doesn't seem right to me.
Anyways if you have any other ideas OR anyone else can think of a solution lets do it I want to invest time into this and make it work !!
Sincerely! !
Why should you have more than 2 partitions on your µSD? 1 fat32 for your pictures and videos and stuff, and if you don't have enough space for your apps, 1 ext4 for A2SD (maximum 1GB).
Swap is not necessary and in fact slows your system down. A thread about swap is somewere to be found here.
And why the 2GB cache partition? You already have a 15MB cache partition on your phone.. 220/15/201.
You really don't need more than 2 partitions on your µSD.
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I am willing to accept that you are right that it isn't needed. But I am not using A2SD, I am using XPART. According to the guides I am read, the best way is with 3 or 4 partitions (Swap being the option). The Cache partition on the other hand makes sense because even with titanium backup I can see my 60 or so apps are storing a couple hundred megs in cache. So this way a dedicated partition for processing things once instead of multiple times would provide the fastest solution. Being that the n1 is not the top performer anymore (still my fave though ), any extra speed should help when I am using my phone day to day.
The QND MIUI mod by jbbandos has the following about XPART :
"You can use it with one FAT32 and one ext4 partition, as A2SD, which seems to be the more stable setup, but the recommended setup for speed is one FAT32, one large ext4 (for your data partition), one smaller ext4 (cache), and a swap partition. I'm not that much of a fan of a swap partition, as I am always afraid it will wear out the SD card precociously, but most people report it working well, and I prefer the single ext4 for stability, but YMMV. "
you can read more here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084726
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Anyways that is what I want, and I will invest the time to get it. I believe that 4EXT is primarily in development to perform this function. But I have a problem, with the results. I realize that it may not be necessary but I would like to know the WHY as to why this doesn't work.
AS ALWAYS thank you for you help none the less..
Never used XPART, I didn't know they recommend this. I never used apps to ext scripts longer than a few days.
This is because I'd rather install 10 crappy apps less, than having a slower system. Then again, if I would use an apps to ext script, I would definitely go for stability .
Unfortunately I don't know what you could do now..
I found my previous QND build with XPROT using blackrose was good for like 7 months !!! I just wanted to update and get it working properly. I would HIGHLY recommend it as you phone sees like 1 gig of internal mem so all apps that have widgets are useful and don't need to go to SD. In my opinion it was more stable than stock !!! Honestly, great tool.
OH yeah and it is also much faster I have found !