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Hi, I have a G1 rooted with the SuperD 1.9.3 Rom, I never partitioned my SD card or anything like that. I want to upgrade my SD Card and partition it to get Apps2SD and keep the same Rom. I am not sure what steps to take...
lmt125 said:
Hi, I have a G1 rooted with the SuperD 1.9.3 Rom, I never partitioned my SD card or anything like that. I want to upgrade my SD Card and partition it to get Apps2SD and keep the same Rom. I am not sure what steps to take...
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Which recovery do you have? If you don't yet, make sure to upgrade to Amon_Ra latest. Once you have that, reboot into recovery, select partition card and follow directions on screen. This will wipe your card completely so backup anything you want to save. It will not affect your rom in any way. You may have to move your existing apps manually, not sure.
How do i know what recovery i have? Do I partition my current sd card or the new one?
So I do not need to reflash the Super D?
lmt125 said:
How do i know what recovery i have? Do I partition my current sd card or the new one?
So I do not need to reflash the Super D?
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You would boot into recovery and look to see which one you have, it will say it right on top. You will partition your new card. Absolutely no need to reflash your rom, it will recognize your ext partition and install all future apps in it automatically. As I said, I'm not sure about existing apps, you may need to move them manually.
It says Android Sysem Recovery Utility Build: JFv1.42 There is nothing that says Partition SD or anything like that... Now my rom is on my current sd card if I don't flash it to the new one my phone still knows what rom I have? Sorry about all the questions thanks for your help =)
I was thinking of doing this to install Amon RA's recovery img
I got it from another forum in here....
Copy recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
select console from the menu
#mount -a (this can give back an error if you don't have an ext partition, don't worry about it and just proceed)
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
JF's recovery does not have that option because it's really, really, really old. We did not even have apps to sd back then.
Flash RA's recovery (directions seem right, I assume you got them out of RA's thread), you'll see the difference: many more options, etc
Good luck.
Ok, so I am going to do the following steps....
1. Flash Amon Ra's recovery image
2. Reboot phone
3. Get into recovery again
4. Back up my sd card on the computer, remove sd card from phone
5. Insert new sd card, partition sd card
6. Transfer files from old sd card including update.zip which is the rom
7. Reboot phone
Let me know if I'm missing something thanks for all your help!
I'm going to do this over the weekend...
Ok, so I got the new Amon RA recovery image but haven't done anything else...lol. So can you tell me if those steps are right? And why don't I need to flash the rom again...I currently have it on my sd card...I'm a bit confused
1. Reboot to recovery. Partition your card (I suggest 512mb for ext partition, rest is fat, follow instructions within recovery).
2. Upgrade ext to ext3.
3. Reboot (your phone will move your existing apps onto sd.) It may take a while to fully boot, just give it 10 min or so.
4. In terminal emulator type
Code:
su
fix_permissions
5. Reboot again.
5. Transfer whatever you had on your old sdcard (music, pics, etc) onto your new card.
As far as flashing the rom again.... why? Your OP says you want to keep your existing rom.
To check if your apps were moved:
In terminal:
Code:
su
ls /system/sd/app
ls /system/sd/app-private
ls /system/sd/dalvik-cache
Should give you print-out of what you have on ext partition of your sdcard (or you can use root explorer or whatever other file manager, I'm a bit old shool so I prefer terminal or adb)
5. Reboot again.
5. Transfer whatever you had on your old sdcard (music, pics, etc) onto your new card.
Okay in step 5. Reboot again do I just type in the terminal emulator reboot or reboot recovery?
Also when you say "transfer whatever you had on your old card..." Do I also transfer the file that says update.zip?
Sorry for all the questions, I should be getting my new sd card today and will try it out tonight.
Thank you.
You just type reboot.
It is up to you what you want to transfer onto your new card. I assume that update.zip is your current rom. If so, it's nice to have just in case but it will not make any difference in how the phone works. It's just an install file that you use once (unless, of course something goes terribly wrong and we all have been there ) but it's nice to have all tools needed on your card so you can quickly recover from any problems.)
BTW, with your new shiny recovery (RA1.7), you don't have to rename your files to update.zip. You can name them whatever you want (i.e Super-D1.9.3.zip, Recovery.zip) and, if you decide to reflash something, at least you will know what it is. Your new recovery will let you choose which file to flash so you can have more then one .zip file on your card if you want.
Ok so I still haven't gotten my new card! It should be here next week...Anyways I tried using switchrom to store my current just in case but I get this error Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
Any clues why I'm getting this do I need to have my phone connected by USB or something to a computer....?
Thanks hopefully I'll stop asking so many questions...I tried this solution but no luck
Originally Posted by siraf View Post
Guys, I just had this problem too .. at first i was so devastated. I'm glad i solved it.
I don't know if my solution is the ultimate solution or not but you guys can give it a try.
problem :
"E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)"
In the Android System Recovery, select "USB-MS Toggle". It will enabled/disable the feature. Do it one more round and it will solve the problem.
It's telling you that it can't mount SD card.
Back up all of your stuff from SD card, format it and try again, that's the only thing I can think of.
Actually, I just ended up doing a Nandroid Backup just did Nandroid not Nandroid +ext since I don't have this card partitioned...it is backed up!
Ok buddy its easier if you do the whole process through the sdcard
First you should backup everything on your sdcard and do a BART or NAN+EXT then partion your card and restore your BART or NAN+EXT and your good to go
If this does not work press my name and look at my threads because I ask this same quetion a while ago
Post again if this does not work
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DroidFreek said:
Ok buddy its easier if you do the whole process through the sdcard
First you should backup everything on your sdcard and do a BART or NAN+EXT then partion your card and restore your BART or NAN+EXT and your good to go
If this does not work press my name and look at my threads because I ask this same quetion a while ago
Post again if this does not work
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Hi, I tried doing a Nan+ext backup but I got this error : Run nandroid-mobile.sh via console I also tried doing a Bart backup and it also said Run Bart via console...
So I just did a regular Nan Backup...I don't have my current sd card partitioned...should I partition it so I can do the Nan+ext I currently have a 2gb card and it doesn't have a class number.... Maybe I should format my card?
Thanks!
Ohh ok I see ur problem it won't let u backup nand+ext if you don't have a ext
since you backed up already go ahead and throw the nandriod and any other files on sd card to your pc the format your sd create the app partion and swap partion make sure u formate it ext3 or ext4 depending on what ur rom uses put the nandroid back on sd after format and restore post if it works or not
If this don't work just reverse the process put nad back on pc format card to what is was before then put nand back on sd and restore
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OK so I partitioned my current memory card =) and was able to succesfully do a nandroid +ext...so now when I get my new card I just have to go into recovery and do a nandroid restore and transfer all my files right? Thanks
Remember to partion your sdcard before transfer
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Ok so I tried switching my cards and formatted my new card,paritioned it, transfered the files from my other sd card, and tried to a nandroid restore...that's when I get the same error as before to do it from console.
I tried taking all the files out and repartitioning the sd card doing everything again no luck. Reflashed my rom and turned it on after it boots like normal I get a black screen. So just went back to my old sd card was getting force closes so did nandroid restore it said it did but would boot normal and get force closes.
So I reflashed my rom and reinstalled everything manually...from sd card as my market disappeared got it back after reinstalled it...
Any suggestions as I really want a bigger capacity memory card....=/
Just a heads up: The instructions for @samuelhalff 's Honeycomb emmc ROM include this:
Boot with SD inserted, go to 'mounts and storage', and:
- format system, then data and THEN format boot (CWR may crash, simply hard reboot, format should have worked).
If you do format /boot, you will lose the ability to boot into CWR. That may be okay with you, but after trying Honeycomb on my emmc I went back to Froyo, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't boot into recovery.
See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&page=103
if you want to restore the original /boot files.
Q: do I have to start over per the thread above or can I just push files to my /boot via ADB? or just boot from SD and restore that way if files are available?
Thanks!
you can boot to cwr via sdcard. that's how those of us on HC do it to make backups and such. works perfect.
Yep I *can* boot to CWR on SD. That's how I installed Honeycomb to the emmc. What I'd like is to restore CWR to /boot
Thanks though.
ahh. sorry, misunderstood.
you could try it... though from what i've read, it's risky. they say it's safer to just run it from the sd card.
if it works out well for you, please post up!
Ran it for a day. Too many force closes for me, but really cool that it runs at all!
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My main concern is that I followed the instructions to install Honeycomb via CWR and it worked fine, but I didn't know that reinstalling from scratch ie. nook 1.x would be required since just reinstalling @cicada's Froyo port does not replace all of /boot
No tragedy. Restore just takes a bit longer.
If anybody can tell me how to restore /boot without wiping my current Froyo install that would be pretty nifty.
@xawen to the rescue!
Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958748
So I rooted my Nook with autonooter 3.0.0, I followed all the directions entirely. It worked perfectly, I liked it but wanted to try other stuff. Then I successfully installed Honeycomb v4 on my Nook, I tried it out, but didn't like it, I'll wait until later as its more developed. Then I installed CM7 on my Nook. Its nice, but for some reason a lot of my important apps force close on me. So I thought would just return to stock and then go to autonooter. I tried the method found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
So I don't know if it matters, but I remember formatting boot, system, and data in CWR during the installations of Honeycomb, and also formatting the system and data in CM7 and also in trying to return to stock. So in each of the installations I followed all of the directions perfectly.
Ok, so here is my problem. After I try to return to stock, I try to boot up my Nook, it goes to the Touch the Future of Reading screen, then to the screen with the 'n' on it and the adobe message at the bottom comes up. However, it will not go passed this. It hangs and I cannot fix it. I have tried the 8 reboots which does reinstall the original firmware, however when its complete and reboots it does not boot, it does the same thing I just described.
Please help, if I have left out any information just ask and I will fill in the details.
There is a recovery zip on the development forum. Boot into cwr and flash... that should do the trick... hopefully.
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ext3 / ext4
Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?
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Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?
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Yeah, I'm beginning to think I do have to fix up the partitions because everything I do is just giving me more hang.
Can anyone help with that?
Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.
yeah.. once you reformat with CWR 3.0.0.5 you should be able to do the re-partition boot flash and then restore the image.
I just got back that way as well.
DizzyDen said:
Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.
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Thanks for all the help! I'm going to try this now. And I'm guessing it is, but will it be ok to use CWR 3.0.0.6 and boot with that from the SD card?
It needs to be CWR 3.0.0.5 in my experience.
3.0.0.6 supports EXT4 partitions and won't format them back to EXT3.. as long as they are EXT4, the nook will not boot into the stock rom.
The stock kernel doesn't support EXT4.. so it hangs just before it loads the system files..
If you wipe the partitions using 3.0.0.5 and install the full recovery image for 1.01 you should be a-ok.
Alright I got it! You guys are the best! Thanks for the help! Now I just need to re-root and I'm good to go! Thanks again!
Oh and yeah I used 3.0.0.5, that may have been the problem all along because I kept trying to fix with 3.0.0.6. Thanks!
Ok, backstory, picked up this Nook Color on craigslist, came with Honeycomb v4 on microSD, booted fine into that, but without uSD would boot to 'n' screen and freeze/stall. Got another uSD formatted with CWM Recovery and the clean original nook image to try and load that from scratch. While following the instructions to restore the original image I would get errors while trying to format system and data (something to the effect of Error cannot format system/!). So I tried to install both CWM to the internal and CM7 to the internal and both would say install complete from microSD, but when booting without the uSD, it would still try to boot into the original nook software and hand on the 'n'.
I tried this to see if my partitions were messed up, but I had the same partition structure and size as it should be (according to the post):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13003431#post13003431
Possibly because I ran this "repartition-boot-with-stock" from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Please help, would prefer to run this off the internal!
Got CM7 running off yet another microSD with this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Assuming the partition table is in tact then try formatting /system /data /cache in Clockworkmod.
If that doesn't work if might be time to entertain the possibility that you were sold a Nook with a bad emmc.
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When I try to format /system /data /cache in CWM, I get an error message. What is the function of the emmc?
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When I try to format /system /data /cache in CWM, I get an error message. What is the function of the emmc?
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Putting it in PC terms, the emmc functions as the ROM for the bios, and as the solid state drive for whatever you're running on internal memory.
(What is the term for the tablet/smartphone equivalent of the "bios"?)
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(What is the term for the tablet/smartphone equivalent of the "bios"?)
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Bootloader.
As to the OP - It's still possible your internal flash is bad but the fact that you can list your partition table gives me hope that isn't the case.
I read through JoJa15's post you linked in "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'" - It sounds like you listed your partition table per his post and found that it matched what he posted but didn't modify anything right?
The fact that your partition table appears to be in tact is good but the contents of those partitions could be complete gibberish which may explain why CWM errors out when trying to format them. What is the exact error CWM is giving?
I think the next "safe" step is to have a look at DeanGibson's post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
Dean's CWM scripts will essentially blow away partitions 6-8 (/data / cache and /emmc) and re-create them. If your problem happens to be in one of those partitions then his tool may be a quick fix without having to play with fdisk. That said, I doubt it will work since you can't format /system (partition 5) and his tool doesn't touch the /system partition.
At that point you are pretty much left playing with fdisk, unless you can sweet talk DeanGibson into putting together a CWM flash that will re-do partitions 4 and 5 (extended partition and /system partition) which he may do.
From there it boils down to how comfortable you are with the Linux commands dd and fdisk...?
Good Luck,
Martian21
Ok, followed Dean's instructions with the packages from his post, but still no go.
The error I'm getting when going to Mounts and Storage Menu and running the format /system /data /cache options are:
ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.8
Formatting /system...
Error formatting /system!
Formatting /data...
Error formatting /data!
Formatting /cache...
Error formatting /cache!
Really want to try and get this resolved as I want to install stuff onto the internal!
No one with any other advice on this?
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No one with any other advice on this?
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Your previous post showed that you were using clockworkmod recovery v3.0.2.8, that version does not have support for the “blue dot” NC. Not knowing for sure if your NC is really a “blue dot” or an original one, I would follow these steps.
1. Create a bootable CWM v3.2.0.1 SD card using the image located HERE. The instructions for it are located HERE. I know the post says v3.0.2.1, but it is miss-marked.
2. Once the card is made, download the repartitioning files located HERE, and the stock 1.2 image file “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” located HERE.
3. Put all those zip files onto the SD Card
4. Shut down the NC
5. Insert and start the bootable SD card
6. Follow the directions to flash the repartitioning files
7. Once that completes, flash the stock 1.2 image
8. When that is done, remove the SD card, and reboot the device
Hopefully at this point, you will be booting into a stock 1.2.0 system. You can now do whatever you want with the device.
Sorry if this was already posted, ive tried to search but i cant find anything useful
I bought a blue dot nook color and had put the latest clockwork mod and had put on cyanogen mod 7.1 rc. What i was told was that it shouldve repartitioned my internal space to 1 gigabyte data/apps and 5 gb for other data.
But i found that it was still 5 gb for data and 1 gb for media.
So i went and tried to flash a repartition zip i found from a website
mrm3.n et/nook-color-how-to-blue-dot-nook-color
so i rebooted and the cyanogen android on a skateboard just loops over and over again. I was pretty stupid for not backing it up before doing it.
so my question is, how can i fix this?I will appreciate the help
You DON'T have repartition in order to run CM7 on your 1.2 stock-ROM NC.
Repartition to 1G /data 5G /media is an option, in fact, I do 1.96G /data
Reference link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
CWR/CM7 don't repartition on their own- you have to do that separately. Anyway it seems like your problem is that you did the repartition, but not the reformat.
Here's what you need to do:
1. Download the appropriate partition file and reformat file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
2. Put those files on your sdcard along with CM7. I'm assuming you've already burned the sdcard with a Clockwork image.
3. Boot into Clockwork, wipe data, cache, & dalvik cache
4. Flash the repartition zip, reboot into Clockwork
5. Flash the reformat zip
6. Flash CM7 & reboot
That should get you running again. Note that your nook will be wiped during the reformat, but not the sdcard.