Is this an efficient method of moving apps to SD? Apparently, it works anywhere from an hour to a few weeks but eventually crashed my phone and I have to wipe and flash.
In terminal emulator
busybox cp -a /data/app /system/sd/
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/
busybox cp -a /data/data /system/sd/
Then in Recovery Terminal (Alt+X on JF menu in Recovery Mode)
mount data
rm -rf /data/app
ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app
rm -rf /data/data (optional)
ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data
rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
reboot
The method is so simple and works well, that is until it breaks . Apps2SD never seems to work right for me. I will read up on the other methods but I would like to know why this doesn't work well and if there is something I can add to this to make it work better.
aaronratner said:
Is this an efficient method of moving apps to SD? Apparently, it works anywhere from an hour to a few weeks but eventually crashed my phone and I have to wipe and flash.
In terminal emulator
busybox cp -a /data/app /system/sd/
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/
busybox cp -a /data/data /system/sd/
Then in Recovery Terminal (Alt+X on JF menu in Recovery Mode)
mount data
rm -rf /data/app
ln -s /system/sd/app /data/app
rm -rf /data/data (optional)
ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data
rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
reboot
The method is so simple and works well, that is until it breaks . Apps2SD never seems to work right for me. I will read up on the other methods but I would like to know why this doesn't work well and if there is something I can add to this to make it work better.
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Why don't you just download a ROM that already moves everything to the sd for you?
I'm all ears. Which ROM do you recommend? Link? I like JF but am open to suggestions.
aaronratner said:
I'm all ears. Which ROM do you recommend? Link? I like JF but am open to suggestions.
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Cyanogen's ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204
alritewhadeva said:
Cyanogen's ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204
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Def cyanogen's.
Downloading and flashing now. Thanks.
aaronratner said:
Downloading and flashing now. Thanks.
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no problems, we're happy to help.
No problem Be sure to wipe just in case
Interesting ROM. I wiped and flashed. It is not seeing my partition. My phone storage is at 40MB. My partition is ext2 and I suspect that it needs to be ext3. Is there a way I can reformat the SD card via the phone (this is how I did it originally using Apps2SD). I am using my class 6 8GB card for this (I will eventually move back to my 16GB once I get the process right). I have ~600MB on my ext2 partition but it's only showing that there is 12K using "df system/sd" in TE. My previous data that I had moved there using the method that started this post in no longer there. Before I drive myself crazy reading everything about this (which I will do tonight when I have more time to dedicate to it), perhaps there is a quick answer.
Do you have cyanogen's latest recovery? 1.4? IF you do try upgrading to ext3. In recovery console
upgrade_fs
reboot
While trying to get cyanogen's latest recovery on the phone I erased my old recovery from the phone as per this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3915123 by cyanogen (first post). Now I cannot get his recovery image since when I use Home+Power it takes me straight to the Recovery Console as though I used Camera+Power. I can connect to my pc via USB and fastboot is working but it will not let me flash the recovery image to the phone. Am I screwed?
aaronratner said:
While trying to get cyanogen's latest recovery on the phone I erased my old recovery from the phone as per this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3915123 by cyanogen (first post). Now I cannot get his recovery image since when I use Home+Power it takes me straight to the Recovery Console as though I used Camera+Power. I can connect to my pc via USB and fastboot is working but it will not let me flash the recovery image to the phone. Am I screwed?
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can you normally power up? Just hold power
Okay. Thank God for Nandroid. LMAO. I was able to load an old Nandroid backup to the phone so I can get get to JF's recovery utility. I would like to flash cyanogen's latest recovery to the phone. What is the best way to do that? Can I use My Android Manager 0.5.1?
aaronratner said:
Okay. Thank God for Nandroid. LMAO. I was able to load an old Nandroid backup to the phone so I can get get to JF's recovery utility. I would like to flash cyanogen's latest recovery to the phone. What is the best way to do that? Can I use My Android Manager 0.5.1?
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Told you nandroid was handy! Just place cyanogen recovery on your sdcard and type this in terminal emulator
su <wait for #>
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
reboot recovery
enjoy new recovery!
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Okay. Thank God for Nandroid. LMAO. I was able to load an old Nandroid backup to the phone so I can get get to JF's recovery utility. I would like to flash cyanogen's latest recovery to the phone. What is the best way to do that? Can I use My Android Manager 0.5.1?
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the adb commands, you can't really mess up
adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
I truly apologize. I am doing this half-assed. I normally read a thousand threads before I do anything to my phone. I decided to do this on a whim while eating dinner. Probably not the best idea. Anyway, I think I got it working OK for now but I do want cyanogen's recovery and apps to sd working properly. I re-flashed cm 3.6.8.1 until I can properly sit down and figure things out. After never posting anything on a forum in my life this is suddenly my 17th in a few days.
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I truly apologize. I am doing this half-assed. I normally read a thousand threads before I do anything to my phone. I decided to do this on a whim while eating dinner. Probably not the best idea. Anyway, I think I got it working OK for now but I do want cyanogen's recovery and apps to sd working properly. I re-flashed cm 3.6.8.1 until I can properly sit down and figure things out. After never posting anything on a forum in my life this is suddenly my 17th in a few days.
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That's how it starts, I started at like 4 Posts over a year, then all of a sudden, I got sucked in and now look at me... 472 Posts... T_T
aaronratner said:
I truly apologize. I am doing this half-assed. I normally read a thousand threads before I do anything to my phone. I decided to do this on a whim while eating dinner. Probably not the best idea. Anyway, I think I got it working OK for now but I do want cyanogen's recovery and apps to sd working properly. I re-flashed cm 3.6.8.1 until I can properly sit down and figure things out. After never posting anything on a forum in my life this is suddenly my 17th in a few days.
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Well I hope you can get this working, good luck! Lol I almost have 1,100 posts in 4-5 months
I will get CM3.9.1 w/Recovery 1.4 on my phone tonight (somehow). I will read everything first and I don't think I will have an issue. So far, the only thing I need to figure out is how to get the recovery 1.4 on the phone. Other than that, CM3.9.1 looked really nice for the five minutes I had it on my phone. Looking forward to it and stay tuned as I muck up my phone some more. LOL. Will post if I have issues.
Thanks for your extremely fast responses. They are much appreciated.
Cyanogen 3.9.2 is out btw
Ok im a newbie, and i don't know nearly as much as any developer here but i've been doing my best to follow the rom updates for the g1. I have installed all the CM updates, and also before that the jesusfreke rom.
I installed this CM5 and while it worked well the battery was draining, i tried to reboot into recovery mode to do a wipe and reinstall to see if it would help, to my horror the recovery doesn't start it just stays in the G1 screen.
The phone boots into android fine, but won't let me get into recovery to change anything. I think this is due to the fact that i ran CM updater with a theme and might have been for 4.x? so it hanged but i thought it wasn't a problem.
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help point me into were i should look, i looked every where and haven't found the right information or understood it.
Thanks.
ok guys im not sure why the recovery was taken out but i was finally able to get it back running this is what i did which i found in other sites.
from an old post in the forum :
"Type the following into Telnet (these commands will give you root access easier in the future):
* mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
* cd sdcard
* flash_image recovery recovery.img
* cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img "
I had a similar issue as op, I just reflashed the recovery through adb - since I needed to updated my recovery anyway - and it worked.
same problem
i tried typing into terminal emulater to get recovery back, is that what i need to do
help
what do you mean you reflashed throughn adb
help
tried typing commands into terminal emulator and still no recovery,what can i do ,help
My SGS shows the boot up screen/noise, then just sits on a black screen and vibrates occasionally
I'm able to press the 3-buttons and boot up into ClockworkMod Recovery, however nothing seems to fix it. I've tried applying update.zip, wiping cache, factory reset, loading the restore-update.zip, and "restore" to the only checkpoint, but nothing works.
I screwed up when installing a theme, these were the first part of the directions:
1. adb shell
2. su (grant su rights on your phone when asked)
3. mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
3. rm system/framework/twframework-res.apk
4. rm system/framework/framework-res.apk
5. rm system/app/settings.apk (if no file is found try Settings.apk ... no ide if it matters tho)
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I got this far, then realized that the files I needed to replace those with were on the internal SD, but IN A ZIP. So I couldn't use them. RMing the old ones meant nothing worked anymore.
Now my phone is in debug mode, can't seem to get su access (although I can use adb to a limited extent), and I can't get it to work
Any help for me?
I have3 the same problem Have you found out how to fix it?
Looks like your going to have to use odin to reflash ive had this many atime from unsuccesful modding and always worked.
I have a verizon Samsung Galaxy tab. I would like to use clockwork recovery. The tab is rooted and I used ROM manager from the marketplace to flash the recovery for a Samsung Tab (Verizon). When I flash the ROM everything is successful. However, when I boot into recovery the Android System Recovery <3e> shell loads which doesn't allow nandroid backups etc... all the neat recovery tools that come with clockwork recovery.
I searched around the forum and saw a thread titled how to replace Android System Recovery with a Custom ROM. These were the commands
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /system
rm /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
cd sdcard
mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard
./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
exit
exit
I went into abd shell I tried the commands but by the time I got to the third line I keep getting permission errors before I can even finish typing the command. I cut and paste the command string from "mount-->" thinking I just wasn't typing fast enough and it still doesn't work.
Is there another way to remove the Android system recovery so that ROM manager will work properly?
Have a look at installing boushh's kernel, it probably going to be the best option around for you.
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I don't know what that is?
I have also same problem ı tryed many flashes ı coudnt fix it yet.if you allready fixed could you please share thanks.....
make sure to read: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
the other day I realized that I did not have the OC kernel installed for CM7, so decided it was time to get that on there. I was unable to boot into recovery via ROM Manager or manually (using n+power). ROM manager was telling me 3.0.1.0 was installed, so I was a bit confused about why this was happening. I tried re-installing CWM via adb, that was a no go as well.
I then resorted to irc for help, people explained the proper way to use the key combo and then told me I was lying when I told them I didn't have the "touch the power of reading" splash
video of nook booting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGScwmoS7HU
so after a bit more poking and questions, found out the splash is within u-boot.bin, and somebody suggested I pull u-boot.bin from stock 1.1 image and push that to /boot.
Code:
1) download and unrar http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D7GFVHCQ
2) adb shell busybox mount / -o rw,remount
3) adb shell busybox mkdir /boot
4) adb shell busybox mv /boot/u-boot.bin /boot/u-book.bin-bak
5) adb push u-boot.bin /boot/u-boot.bin
6) adb shell busybox umount /boot
PROBLEM SOLVED. can boot into CWM after replacing u-boot.bin. I think this was related to attempting to format sdcard within CM7 on nook
So I have the same problem ... "Loading ..." screen and inability to boot into CWM after flashing with ROM Manager.
However your instructions are missing a step. You have the user creating the /boot directory with mkdir but not mounting /boot ... but at the end you have us umount /boot.
I sort of remembered this process from when I installed the HC pre-release, so I found my old bookmark. Following is your instructions with the missing step. Doing this made CWM load for me using power+N
Code:
# download and unrar http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D7GFVHCQ
adb shell busybox mount / -o rw,remount
adb shell busybox mkdir /boot
[i]adb shell mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boot[/i]
adb shell busybox mv /boot/u-boot.bin /boot/u-boot.bin-bak
adb push u-boot.bin /boot/u-boot.bin
adb shell busybox umount /boot
PS. I'm guessing this still isn't the RIGHT way to fix this issue, as I still can't get the reboot to recovery option working (I'm using CM7 nightly 39). However search function on the forums is offline, I'm very tired, and I'm about to go on a road trip early tomorrow so I'm not going to keep trying to fix it right now. If someone wants to post better info to get CWM 3.0.1.0 and ROM Manager working better for CM7 I'd love to see it. But I got my ALSA update installed so I'm happy for now
I've not been able to use Reboot into Recovery (from holding the power button) for a while now. However, the option from ROM Manager usually works, as does holding the n key while booting.