darchdroid apps2sd + wipe phone, what happens? - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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[SOLVED] QQ about A2SD and WIPING

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

Sorry.. Can't find anything on this..

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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+1
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

Why would my hero be completely stable on 1.6, but reboot frequently on any 2.1 rom?

I am extremely frustrated at this point so I have decided to make a thread.
My hero has been a good phone and runs 1.5/1.6 roms without any problems, and has for 6+ months. However, as soon as the 2.1 leaks came around, I was eager to try them. NONE of them will work. I have tried 6 or 7 different versions. My phone will shut off very frequently, which essentially makes it unusable.
Has anyone else experienced this and was able to fix it, or otherwise have any advice for me?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
pixie dust!!!..jk
I have no idea why.. have u wiped everything and flashed?
spiritcrusher33 said:
pixie dust!!!..jk
I have no idea why.. have u wiped everything and flashed?
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Haha. Yeah man, factory reset + dalvik cache wipe. Would a bad SD card cause something like this?
sounds like you didn't properly wipe... once you wipe EVERYTHING.. (after a nandroid).. you shouldn't have problems installing any ROM whether it be 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 4.2 (coming to the htc hero6 in 2013)
edit: you mentioned factory reset... are u doing the factory reset thats installed in the settings menu or are you wiping everything from recovery?
Have you tried to go back to 1.5/1.6 to see if the problem occurred? This might help eliminating the hardware issue.
Which ROM did you tried? The latest one that I ran which is stable (no over clocking) is Fresh 2.1.1, look for this thread title "[ROM] 05/14/10 | Fresh Rom 2.1.1 | Official Sprint RUU + The normal fresh rom goodies"
I have always do this when installed the new ROM.
-Back up all your private apps (not system apps) with Android Commander (search the forums) to your PC.
-Use Recovery and wipe the followings:
1. Wipe Factory / Data reset
2. Wipe Dalvik cache
3. Wipe EXT partition
4. Wipe Battery Stat
Trust me this will save you a lot of hassle and time.
- Re-Installed all your Apps from Scratch using Adroid Commander. This always work best for me. I found less problem and less time consuming doing it this way.
Most of my problems occurred when I am too lazy to WIPE and install new ROM on top of the OLD one with out wiping dalvik and ext partition. An this make it more time consuming.
That's my experience. Hope this help.
roadster92 said:
Have you tried to go back to 1.5/1.6 to see if the problem occurred? This might help eliminating the hardware issue.
Which ROM did you tried? The latest one that I ran which is stable (no over clocking) is Fresh 2.1.1, look for this thread title "[ROM] 05/14/10 | Fresh Rom 2.1.1 | Official Sprint RUU + The normal fresh rom goodies"
I have always do this when installed the new ROM.
-Back up all your private apps (not system apps) with Android Commander (search the forums) to your PC.
-Use Recovery and wipe the followings:
1. Wipe Factory / Data reset
2. Wipe Dalvik cache
3. Wipe EXT partition
4. Wipe Battery Stat
Trust me this will save you a lot of hassle and time.
- Re-Installed all your Apps from Scratch using Adroid Commander. This always work best for me. I found less problem and less time consuming doing it this way.
Most of my problems occurred when I am too lazy to WIPE and install new ROM on top of the OLD one with out wiping dalvik and ext partition. An this make it more time consuming.
That's my experience. Hope this help.
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Couple of questions. Is wiping the ext partition wiping your SD card? Also, how do I wipe the battery stat? I just booted to my recovery mode but I didn't see that as an option. Maybe I need a new flashrec or something?
splayde said:
Couple of questions. Is wiping the ext partition wiping your SD card? Also, how do I wipe the battery stat? I just booted to my recovery mode but I didn't see that as an option. Maybe I need a new flashrec or something?
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what recovery rom are u running? and no wiping the ext partition is not wiping your SD card... just the partition you created..
dont wipe the battery but wipe the sd ext.
the sd ext only wipes what apps you have installed when you partition your sd card. it doesn't remove music, picutres, etc...
splayde said:
Couple of questions. Is wiping the ext partition wiping your SD card? Also, how do I wipe the battery stat? I just booted to my recovery mode but I didn't see that as an option. Maybe I need a new flashrec or something?
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The one I am using now is overclock. But the previous one that I used is "recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2-blue.img"
You might have the older version. Battery Stat Wipe is just reference for me every time I using a new ROM to see how the battery life is.
As mentioned above, wipe EXT partition will not wipe any pictures or data on the FAT32 of the SD card.
im having a similar issues i cant get my phone to stop restarting. ive wiped everything you can even repartitioned and it sill does it.
are we doing somehting wrong?
i have a thread i started not seeing this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684727
check the hardware
As someone suggested, please be sure to rollback to 1.6 to rule out a hardware problem.
I have a battery -- one of four in rotation -- that consistently reboots the phone after it draws down to 80% or so. This is probably the battery that I misplaced and didn't use for a few months. Before I pinned the problem down to this particular battery, I thought 2.1 was haywire, rebooting all the time. Once I pulled the battery out of rotation 2.1 became relatively stable again.

[Q] Problem with data2ext

hey guys, i have a smiple question, I am running Cyanogen7rc2 with data2ext applied. Now if i wiped data and it formatted everything, and i format sd card and sd-ext, i get this "(bad) installition aborted" when ever i flash that rom. Can anyone explain this to me in greater detail?
1st what version are you running??? If your able to nand back to when you had data2ext working do so. 2nd if you wipe sd-ext more than likely you'll end up in a boot loop. Also if you just wipe everything and flashed the rom without flashing the data2ext zip right after you might receive that msg. After you restore a nand always reflash the data2ext zip. If your rom is functioning fine and you want to update to a new one. Reboot into recovery make a nand+ext backup then flash the data2ext zip and reboot. Then reboot back into recovery and to keep all of your data just wipe cache & dev-cache then flash the rom then the data2ext zip and reboot. If your rom is running fine and you wanna do a fresh install do the same process of making a nand+ext backup then reboot. Then go back into recovery and wiped data,cache,dev-cache. "Don't wipe sd-ext". Then flash the rom & right after flash the data2ext zip and reboot. You will have to setup the data2ext again threw terminal or adb. This is what I do no guarantee it will work for you if your running cwm but it should. The reason I say this is because I'm running data2ext ext2 gf's mod and I'm using Ra1.7. Hope this helps. Also you might want to redownload the rom as it might be a bad dl.
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laie1472 said:
1st what version are you running??? If your able to nand back to when you had data2ext working do so. 2nd if you wipe sd-ext more than likely you'll end up in a boot loop. Also if you just wipe everything and flashed the rom without flashing the data2ext zip right after you might receive that msg. After you restore a nand always reflash the data2ext zip. If your rom is functioning fine and you want to update to a new one. Reboot into recovery make a nand+ext backup then flash the data2ext zip and reboot. Then reboot back into recovery and to keep all of your data just wipe cache & dev-cache then flash the rom then the data2ext zip and reboot. If your rom is running fine and you wanna do a fresh install do the same process of making a nand+ext backup then reboot. Then go back into recovery and wiped data,cache,dev-cache. "Don't wipe sd-ext". Then flash the rom & right after flash the data2ext zip and reboot. You will have to setup the data2ext again threw terminal or adb. This is what I do no guarantee it will work for you if your running cwm but it should. The reason I say this is because I'm running data2ext ext2 gf's mod and I'm using Ra1.7. Hope this helps. Also you might want to redownload the rom as it might be a bad dl.
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That was a ginormous explation! thanks!
Im running dataext4 v4.
So let me get this straight, if i wipe data data/factory reset it wipes the partion off the sd card, or no?
coffeehandle said:
That was a ginormous explation! thanks!
Im running dataext4 v4.
So let me get this straight, if i wipe data data/factory reset it wipes the partion off the sd card, or no?
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Na not wipe it out as in making the partition disappear it just removes the link you had to it threw data2ext. Because you wiped all of the data from it. Your partition remains but the link is removed. Data2ext ext4 or ext2 wont carry over if you wipe data.
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You might want to consider data2ext ext2 "IMO" It performs better. I've read a lot of posts about users having problems with ext4. Its a know fact ext2 can cause data loss if you do a battery pull or improper shut down. But I've been using it for quite some time and I've done batter pulls galore and have lost no data just had to boot into recovery and wipe cache & dev-cache and reflash the data2ext zip and I was good. Also if your not s-off I recommend it when using data2ext and just in general.
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laie1472 said:
You might want to consider data2ext ext2 "IMO" It performs better. I've read a lot of posts about users having problems with ext4. Its a know fact ext2 can cause data loss if you do a battery pull or improper shut down. But I've been using it for quite some time and I've done batter pulls galore and have lost no data just had to boot into recovery and wipe cache & dev-cache and reflash the data2ext zip and I was good. Also if your not s-off I recommend it when using data2ext and just in general.
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L I thought it was the other way around ext2 was the one that could lose data if you pulled battery
Yea I caught that and edited my post look up lol
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laie1472 said:
Yea I caught that and edited my post look up lol
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You sly one lol,you get my pm?
Nope no go. Strange. I guess I have to figure out how to contact a admit. Never did it.
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laie1472 said:
Nope no go. Strange. I guess I have to figure out how to contact a admit. Never did it.
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ok thanks ill do the data2ext2 and try that out.
So one last thing and im all good. the only way you can erase those partions is if you format the sd card, through a computer program?
ah man now im stuck, i nand back to a stock back up i had, then formatted my sd card through my computer
then went to recovery to flash CM7rc2 and i still get this (bad)installition aborted. do i need to re enable the data2ext in my stock rom, then flash CM7.
You can threw a computer program or threw your recovery.
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laie1472 said:
You can threw a computer program or threw your recovery.
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did you read my edit? i did just that in my nand stock rom, and it did the same thing
coffeehandle said:
did you read my edit? i did just that in my nand stock rom, and it did the same thing
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Backup all of your data.
After you format threw your pc then format it threw your recovery. Then re partition your sd to 1024 ext2 or 1024 ext4 0swap and the rest fat. Then place all of your data back on your sd. Then wipe data, cache,dev-cache and sd-ext. Then flash your rom of choice followed by the data2ext zip and reboot. When you reboot you will have to resetup data2ext threw terminal or adb.
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laie1472 said:
Backup all of your data.
After you format threw your pc then format it threw your recovery. Then re partition your sd to 1024 ext2 or 1024 ext4 0swap and the rest fat. Then place all of your data back on your sd. Then wipe data, cache,dev-cache and sd-ext. Then flash your rom of choice followed by the data2ext zip and reboot. When you reboot you will have to resetup data2ext threw terminal or adb.
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cheers to you man, hope this works. so as long as i dont run that command in adb it wont push the data over to the ext, though it is always partioned?
Yup your right. Even if you flash the data2ext zip it wont activate until you tell it to.
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Pardon my noob language, but thanks friend it got me up n running
A no prob. Glad you got it. If you need anything else just shoot me a pm.
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[Q] Cleaning up the system?

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?
corvus.corax said:
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.
shut_down said:
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?
corvus.corax said:
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:

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