I wiped my ext because I wanted to increase my swap.. so I backed up my sd card, wiped my ext, partitioned the sd card again, upgraded to ext4, reloaded sd card contents, rebooted. Now I'm missing all my apps.. but in market they say installed but won't let me uninstall or open - wtf?
Hmmm.... Not sure if that does a complete repartition that way or not or if there is an easier way to do it, But I took my sdcard back to one partition using windows disk manager. After that I formatted the card (FAT 32) and then put it back in the phone and repatitioned. Had no problems that way... hope this helps.
you probably need to wipe data, dalvik, ext, reboot into recovery, repair ext, and then reflash the rom
i think i know what the problem is.....you posted this in the wrong section.
tehseano said:
i think i know what the problem is.....you posted this in the wrong section.
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wipe properly.
Happens :/
Yeah, you have to do a complete wipe. When you install apps and don't install them back into your Ext partition then the market will still say you have the app installed, but it's not there so everything grays out. Happened to me a few times. Learned my lesson :O
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I just started using a2sd and haven't learned too much about it, so I'm wondering if I was to do a wipe (ALT+W in recovery) would I still have all my apps intact?
Your apps should be saved in your ext partition on your sd card, so yes, if you wipe the phone, your apps will still be there when you reboot. You will probably have to reinstall them, but they will already be on the sd card.
xidominicanoix said:
I just started using a2sd and haven't learned too much about it, so I'm wondering if I was to do a wipe (ALT+W in recovery) would I still have all my apps intact?
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Yes sir, that is the whole point of it. the only way you will lose your apps is to wipe your ext2/3/4 partition. some of your paid/protected apps will have to be re-installed after wipe but shouldn't be a big problem.
alright thanks for quick response guys
I've never bothered with apps2sd previously, but since I've been running darchdroid the last few weeks I've set up his native version and have been loving it.
Now that dd2.7 is out and MMS is fixed, I tried to flash over but it didn't fix the issue. Release notes say I may have to wipe to get it to work. Ok no problem.
What happens to my apps2sd stuff when I wipe my phone? Will I be able to just flash dd2.7 as per usual and everything is good to go?
If I choose to wipe everything (including ext4), will I have to repartition my card again or will my current partitions hold from when I partitioned them the first time?
I ran a few searches but couldn't come up with any good answers to my questions.
I appreciate your help,
-b
blampars said:
What happens to my apps2sd stuff when I wipe my phone? Will I be able to just flash dd2.7 as per usual and everything is good to go?
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If you do a wipe, you'll want to wipe ext and cache as well. I suggest Titanium Backup or something like that for your apps.
blampars said:
If I choose to wipe everything (including ext4), will I have to repartition my card again or will my current partitions hold from when I partitioned them the first time?
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Partitions won't change unless you re-format your SD card. Nothing on the FAT partition will be touched.
awesome, thanks for clearing things up for me.
Much appreciated.
i just wiped everything ,shouldnt that erase everything? after the wipe i flashed a rom and programs that i had installed prior to the wipe were still on my phone.the google/facebook flickr setup screen came up like i was turning the phone on for the first time so i wiped again this time everything including wipe sd card and i go back and go to flash zip from sd card and the rom is still there shouldnt it be gone after wiping?
what ROM is still where? You cant completely remove all ROM from your phone by a simple wipe... if that's what you're saying...
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what ROM is still where? You cant completely remove all ROM from your phone by a simple wipe... if that's what you're saying...
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the rom zip was still on the sd card but i repartitioned and it's gone now
If you just wiped the ext partition on your SD card from recovery all that does is wipe the partition where it stores the apps for apps2sd. You would need to format the SD card or like you did repartition it to completely wipe it.
i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?
well im no pro on flashing kernels but im pretty sure your supposed to flash them after flashing a rom.... so maybe thats something to do with it...? since you lost all your apps anyway try to re flash rom than that kernel right after and see if anything happens... maybe you need to have a specific ext... 2,3,4 who knows.. lol sorry for your troubles
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i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?
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from what i remember the apps are on sd-ext and when ever i have flashed a new kernel it would make me start from the begenning and re do everything
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i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?
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from what i remember the apps are on sd-ext and when ever i have flashed a new kernel it would make me start from the begenning and re do everything
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Sometime it's best to wipe the SD card and re-partition your SD card. I tipically do it when I flash a new ROM. Then re-install the apps.
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Sometime it's best to wipe the SD card and re-partition your SD card. I tipically do it when I flash a new ROM. Then re-install the apps.
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i agree!!! every once in a while its a good idea to re partition your sd card because it's more like a complete wipe. sometimes ill even do an mtd removal here and there.. (i use custom mtd for my SenseLX rom )
I have flashed a bunch of different ROMs lately. I always wipe cache, dalvik and do a factory reset but maybe it may no longer be enough. Currently, my phone is rooted with Cocore and CWM. I am thinking about going to CM11. Last time I tried that, I noticed some stuff during setup was overlooked because it already seemed to be there. So I think some bits and pieces are left in the phone. Therefore, I want to "scrub" it before trying another ROM (thinking CM11 this time). I know the CM kernel comes with it.
questions:
1) Can I just mount and reformat system, data, cache and preload to clear everything out before flashing a new ROM?
2) Will the kernel be protected (in this case is CoCore) after reformating or should I worry about it?
3) When I flash the original stock 4.1.2 from Odin, does it completely reformat everything when it loads onto the system?
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I have flashed a bunch of different ROMs lately. I always wipe cache, dalvik and do a factory reset but maybe it may no longer be enough. Currently, my phone is rooted with Cocore and CWM. I am thinking about going to CM11. Last time I tried that, I noticed some stuff during setup was overlooked because it already seemed to be there. So I think some bits and pieces are left in the phone. Therefore, I want to "scrub" it before trying another ROM (thinking CM11 this time). I know the CM kernel comes with it.
questions:
1) Can I just mount and reformat system, data, cache and preload to clear everything out before flashing a new ROM?
2) Will the kernel be protected (in this case is CoCore) after reformating or should I worry about it?
3) When I flash the original stock 4.1.2 from Odin, does it completely reformat everything when it loads onto the system?
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Some information are stored on internal SD memory. Maybe it was there. Try to delete it. Backup SD to PC, format it - do factory reset and see if it is happening again.
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Some information are stored on internal SD memory. Maybe it was there. Try to delete it. Backup SD to PC, format it - do factory reset and see if it is happening again.
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If I backup the internal SD card to the PC and then restore after a reformat, won't the offending bits come back again?
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If I backup the internal SD card to the PC and then restore after a reformat, won't the offending bits come back again?
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I did not tell you to restore it. Keep it on PC, in case you need some of data from there. Maybe you erase some picture that you need or something like that. And not to blame me later. :fingers-crossed: