I'm sure we're all well aware of the problem of missing apps that are installed on the "media area" which is the internal SD card. The problem is most likely that it doesn't mount in time on boot up.
My question is, is there any way to tell Market to install apps to internal phone storage? Right now, every time I install an app from the market, I have to go into the app management and Move to Phone on every single app. Very annoying.
I'm pretty sure that any custom rom supports this. I'm running eclipse and have the option to just install to internal memory. I highly recommend eclipse I've tried all the roms and this seems to be the best so far.
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Hey guys.. I have flashed a few roms to my Raider now, but my internal SD is a mess - lots of old left-over install folders, leftover app bits..etc. When I'm in CWM Recovery, I found an option to format the internal SD card. My question is this: What will that wipe? Everything?? Does it wipe out my CWM and the installed ROM as well?? I'm scared to try it, bc I don't want to brick my phone. I'm not real familiar with pushing files to the SD card thru ADB (actually I just know its possible, no idea what the commands are) so I don't want to have to go that route, but I'd REALLY like to wipe my internal storage and clean it up.
Ideas?
I recommend going into your settings when your booted into android. So long as you have no apps installed to the I.internal sd card you are safe to format.
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Hey guys.. I have flashed a few roms to my Raider now, but my internal SD is a mess - lots of old left-over install folders, leftover app bits..etc. When I'm in CWM Recovery, I found an option to format the internal SD card. My question is this: What will that wipe? Everything?? Does it wipe out my CWM and the installed ROM as well?? I'm scared to try it, bc I don't want to brick my phone. I'm not real familiar with pushing files to the SD card thru ADB (actually I just know its possible, no idea what the commands are) so I don't want to have to go that route, but I'd REALLY like to wipe my internal storage and clean it up.
Ideas?
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i would not use the CWM option to do that, it is a port and not fully supported and i know on some other devices (not sure about vivid) but that would soft brick the device
I always use the windows format and change the allocation size while I'm at it. Just backup what you need and copy it over when you are done. Since there are a lot of leftover bits I'd recommend not doing a quick format. The method in which you format probably doesn't matter but I like working from the computer when it comes to this stuff.
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And formatting the *internal* storage from USB storage mode in Windows won't clear out my HoliRaider ROM? I just don't wanna brick my phone its running awesome now thanks to bananacakes.
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No, the rom is installed on its own partition. I've formatted with no issues after I rooted and debloated my phone
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Since we now have kexec able to hijack the boot process... Would it be possible to hijack the code that tells android what storage to load as internal vs external memory? I have already tried the link2sd app but far too many force close issues for me, and the Vold.Fstab edit causes a force close in storage option menu & never mounts sd. I think Motorola and others have done this on purpose to us to "encourage" buying a newer phone with larger internal memory. This would be an easy ota fix for them to re-label sdcard to sdcard-int and sdcard-ext to sdcard. Anybody know of someone working on something like this?
... Or if this is even possible?
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Anybody else interested in knowing if this is possible?
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To no avail I have sought a definitive order of operations for the housekeeping tasks to perform post ROM install. Specifically, at what point should one move apps to the external micro SD card and at what point should one get into the Buildpropeditor to change the SD0 to SD1 for the swap SD procedure?
Here is my usual order of operations on the bunch of ROM installs that I have done.
I make a nandroid of my current ROM (using TWRP).
I make a Titanium backup of all my apps and data, saved to my microSD card.
I make a Titanium backup update.zip (I am still not totally sure what the heck this is but I do it each time and then restore it for good measure -- somebody educate me).
Since I use LauncherPro, I make a backup of my LauncherPro settings, also to my microSD card.
I install the new ROM and GAPPs and update.zip to my microSD card.
I reboot to recovery using TWRP.
I wipe cache, dalvik, factory reset and system wipe. I do those wipes a couple more times for good measure.
I boot into recovery.
I flash the ROM.
I flash the GAPPS
I flash the update.zip
I go to ADVANCED
I fix permissions
I reboot.
I lot into my Google account.
Google starts downloading all my apps.
When that is done, I restore my Titanium backups. I restore missing apps and data and system apps and data, and all the restorable things listed under the restore category.
I reboot.
Now, at this point, what comes next? Do I move all my apps to the microSD card and then go into buildprop and swap the SD?
What is the order of operations for the whole ROM flashing process? Are the steps I showed correct? And how about the very end? When to move the apps to the microSD card and when to swap the SD card in buildprop?
Once first boot is done and after google restores my apps, then before I open or setup any apps i edit build.prop 0 to 1,reboot then set all my settings
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Swapping 0 to 1 makes my apps disappear
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Once first boot is done and after google restores my apps, then before I open or setup any apps i edit build.prop 0 to 1,reboot then set all my settings
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Hmm. I just found out that if I flash the new rom and GAPPS, move all the apps to the microsd card, and then do the buildprop change from 0 to 1, all my apps disappear.
So is it conclusively true that one must make the buildprop change from 0 to 1 before moving each app to the external microsd card?
I don't move apps
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I don't move apps
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Why don't you move apps to your microSD card? The popular wisdom seems to be that you want to keep the very limited internal memory as free as possible. Is that a misconception? I have always been curious about this.
I don't move them simply because I have never needed to, once the 18 apps I use are installed and build.prop is edited and rebooted the folders appear on my sd card, so I'm guessing that the app data is stored on the SD card, i have never came close to running out of space, i average 500mb + free on internal storage
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Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Nice secret, since I don't use titanium, will it still work?
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tazmaniondvl said:
Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Is it necessary to boot back into recovery after flashing and first boot and log-in? Is it possible in TWRP to set up three consecutive flashes, first the rom flash then the gapps flash then the update.zip flash? Or is it necessary to flash the rom and gaps, reboot and log in and then reboot to recovery to flash the update.zip?
Yes you have to reboot, if. Not it gives a failed and tells you to boot ROM first. And if you have an update zip you are happy with, then twrp really is only needed to keep up with updates and such for your update zip.
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I wonder if someone could tell me, please, if it would be theoretically possible for someone to remove the micro SD card from a locked Android device and use this to install/run a hidden app on the device when the card is reinserted?
Is it possible to find out if the device has any hidden apps running?
Thanks.
When notting extra has been done to the phone it won't.
The only way to get it working is by installing a secondary app/service that is installed on the phone with su rights that calls the sdcard and installs the app or starts the app when a sdcard is found.
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