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[Q] Nandroid Backup not working! plz help!

when i try to back up my phone using nandroid it would get stuck when backing up "system" and i am forced to do a battery pull!
its really annoying as i really want to try out other roms without re installing apps
Thanks in advance

How long do u wait until restart the phone?
Try looking a new version of your openrecovery, I use androidiani

At least 40 mins and thanks I'll try the link
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Instead of start two identical threads on development and general topics, just do a search.
Here is my answer for an identical question a few days ago:
parads said:
This has happened to me some times. I've read in some place that it's a common error if you have more than 3 or 4 bakcups on the nandroid folder (it doesn't matter how much free space you have).
Since I keep 2 or 3 nandroid backups on SD, I haven't any problem with this.
I hope this work for you.
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Thanks and sorry I won't post the same thing on two sections again
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The same problem for me with Androidiani OR 3.3 and I have no backup on nandroid folder.
Nandroid backup stuck at "Dumping.." system or data till the battery's empty, and there no data backed up, so I have to use Titanium Backup for backing up data

Sometimes it works if you format your card and download a fresh copy of AOR. Make sure you backup your sdcard before formatting it.
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thanks will do

sileshn said:
Sometimes it works if you format your card and download a fresh copy of AOR. Make sure you backup your sdcard before formatting it.
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thanks alot.
it works.

I had the same problem a few days ago. just replace the current openrecovery with the FuFu one found in the dev section. And then copy the nandroid backups from the old recovery and paste them in the new one. The problem should be solved....

uptheironsrafi said:
I had the same problem a few days ago. just replace the current openrecovery with the FuFu one found in the dev section. And then copy the nandroid backups from the old recovery and paste them in the new one. The problem should be solved....
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Can you send me a link plz
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qaz2453 said:
Can you send me a link plz
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Here you are http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091787

Update: still not working
Reformatted my sd card, using fufu OR but still not backing up
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on androiid-hilfe.de there are also some people who have this problem too, but no solution at this time...
for some people it works when they have format the sdcard over the milestone settingsmenu and redownload the OR...
i don't have any problems with nandroids, but sometimes the OR just freeze and i can't do anythink, i think its an main problem, but don't know how to solve...
if you have a second sdcard, test if it work with it, may your sdcard is damaged...

qaz2453 said:
Update: still not working
Reformatted my sd card, using fufu OR but still not backing up
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Here's what I do.
First, download mini partition tool for formatting the SD card (http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html), don't forget back up the sdcard before doing format.
after formatting complete, copy your back up to your sdcard, and then copy the fresh OR (I'm using the androidiani OR 3.3 (http://code.google.com/p/androidiani-openrecovery/download/list) to your sdcard.
Go to openrecovery and do the nandroid.
On my case the nandroid backup is success.
Hope it works on you too.

Hey could you check if the Nandroid backup is created? in my case, the process stopped at the System Backup. But when I did a battery pull and booted to recovery, I found that the Nandroid was indeed created...

Ye it did make a back up after a pull but the only thing that was missing was the system file
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I had this problem last week. The nandroid would fail when it hit my Ext2 partition, and I'd have to do a battery pull.
I put the card in my laptop using an SD adapter and ran a chkdisk on it in windows 7. Sure enough there were errors on the card that needed repairing. After that, nandroid worked perfectly.
I've had the error as well once before, and that required a bit more work. My milestone came with a 16gb card, but I upgraded to a 32gb card...still have the 16gb in reserve 'just in case'. And it's a lucky thing I do. I deleted my music off the 32gb card to make room, and then used the previously mentioned minitool partition wizard to clone my 32gb card to the 16gb card.
nandroid worked on the 16gb card without any problems.
So i wiped the 32gb card (deleted all partitions from it) and then cloned the 16gb card back to the 32gb card...
nandroid started working again.
Since most people probably don't have spare cards like that lying around, you SHOULD be able to replicate what I did by using a regular SD card or even a USB stick.
Hope any of that helps.

Nandroid never works for me also....
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Fixed.... it was my dodgy 16 gb micro sd so I'm now using the 8gb supplied and is now working
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How do I flash ROM and Kernel flashed on a fresh partition?

I'm using Slim ICS 3.2 but I want a clean install, I've gone through so many Roms so I don't want any other file conflicts.

DamianGTO written a guide for a superclean installation
http://damiangto.emc2production.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=213
but you have to register in order to see it, and I respect his copyrights.

Alternatively transfer essentials to computer from your internal sd card>>>factory reset and wipe internal sd card>>>Attach to computer and only transfer back your nandroid backup (you still need this incase something goes wrong) and the rom zip...
Go to recovery wipe data/factory reset>>>wipe cache>>>wipe dalvik>>>mounts and storage>>>format system+cache+datadata+data (I dont wipe boot and you need sdcard)>>>Flash rom
That should give you a very clean install
Cleaner if you clear up your exsd if you have one

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Alternatively transfer essentials to computer from your internal sd card>>>factory reset and wipe internal sd card>>>Attach to computer and only transfer back your nandroid backup (you still need this incase something goes wrong) and the rom zip...
Go to recovery wipe data/factory reset>>>wipe cache>>>wipe dalvik>>>mounts and storage>>>format system+cache+datadata+data (I dont wipe boot and you need sdcard)>>>Flash rom
That should give you a very clean install
Cleaner if you clear up your exsd if you have one
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if I wipe everything will I still have CWM? to install the ROM?
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Yep because I've done it before...
Just to make sure DO NOT wipe boot or sdcard

do you know how to do s fresh slim ics install?
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First dl. Your rom to sd (don't move it from your download section, this is your internal SD)
Just follow the steps, 3 posts up,but as he said DO NOT WIPE SD-CARD, doesn't matter if u wipe boot nothing bad will happen.remember to also wipe dalvik cache.
After wipe, install your rom and essentials(needed on slim rom) then let it boot.if u restore apps with titanium b. Then only restore app, not app+data otherwise u might have some apps fc
Hope it helped
Ps.
Damiangto is banned from a lot of sites because he violates open source rules and won't give up his source codes
Even though he uses other people codes (kernel codes)

zodiaxe66 said:
First dl. Your rom to sd (don't move it from your download section, this is your internal SD)
Just follow the steps, 3 posts up,but as he said DO NOT WIPE SD-CARD, doesn't matter if u wipe boot nothing bad will happen.remember to also wipe dalvik cache.
After wipe, install your rom and essentials(needed on slim rom) then let it boot.if u restore apps with titanium b. Then only restore app, not app+data otherwise u might have some apps fc
Hope it helped
Ps.
Damiangto is banned from a lot of sites because he violates open source rules and won't give up his source codes
Even though he uses other people codes (kernel codes)
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whoops, I wiped SD card. Seems to be running ok, what have I done?
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You have deleted all your pictures music etc on your SD card. Including the rom that you were meant to or have already flashed. Also you may have deleted your backups and possibly your nandroid.
If you haven't flashed flashed yet ensure you make a nandroid backup and transfer the rom you wish to flash onto your sd card.
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Talon26 said:
You have deleted all your pictures music etc on your SD card. Including the rom that you were meant to or have already flashed. Also you may have deleted your backups and possibly your nandroid.
If you haven't flashed flashed yet ensure you make a nandroid backup and transfer the rom you wish to flash onto your sd card.
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I backed everything up, I mounted USB storage using cwm, everything seems to work flawlessly, except google maps navigation won't start.
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SD Card Is Dead

Spacemonkie4207 said:
I backed everything up, I mounted USB storage using cwm, everything seems to work flawlessly, except google maps navigation won't start.
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Ok thats good then. Maybe clear data from Maps. If that doesn't work then uninstall and reinstall the app. Have you tried them two?
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SD Card Is Dead
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I don't understand are you sharing your problem just to share or do you have a problem that wants/needs resolving?
If you want something resolved then please tell us what you were doing, what you have/had on the phone before this problem and what you have tried so far?
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Yeah I'm a little confused myself
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Help on sd-ext

I partitioned my sd card a while ago while still using stock rom, and it worked fine, I was linking apps to it using Link2sd no problem. Now I have flashed the miracle v4 rom and the partition cannot be mounted by Link2sd, even though there's still 1gb missing from the sd card space. help?

jimbob320 said:
I partitioned my sd card a while ago while still using stock rom, and it worked fine, I was linking apps to it using Link2sd no problem. Now I have flashed the miracle v4 rom and the partition cannot be mounted by Link2sd, even though there's still 1gb missing from the sd card space. help?
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recreate mouting script! until the app recognized it ... first time i upartioned my sd it took me 3 atemps until it worked fine

After formatting sd-ext in CWM, it'll usually be in ext3. Select that when recreating mount scripts and reboot. Works in first attempt for ME

for the details you can take a look at the attachment of this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27177965&postcount=3

I have the same problem with all roms that i have tried. Given that almost all my apps live on my ext2 partition, this is a big problem when i want to try out new roms. i dont want to have to install 100+ apps again even if i have them backup on titanium.
I want to keep my partition ext2. will recreating my mount script several times over work? or is there something else i should keep in mind?
Does cyanogen mod not support having an ext2 partition?

I updated my galaxy ace from 2.2.1 to gingerbread 2.3.6 then I rooted it and installed cm7.2 before that I made backup of gingerbread stock rom. And when I try to restore back on stock rom, it shows MSG, sd-ext file not found. What was the cause and what's use of that file?

Had you partitioned your sd card to begin with? If not then you don't have an sd ext
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Hangup2003 said:
Had you partitioned your sd card to begin with? If not then you don't have an sd ext
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Read his post again
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[Q] installing... CRONMOD

Okay So I Really Hate Script's,,But i Thought Of giving A Try on The Cronmod Script First Thing I Did is Flashing Rafa's Kernel with init.d supported installed it fine.. but heres the first time i make my SD 2nd partition so I Went Straight to CWM (i have 2GB SD CARD)went to advance And Press Partition SD CARD or Sumthing like that.. Chose 508MB and swap 64MB then After that i Flashed The Script Successfully But After Rebooting I Don't See ANY change in my Phone's Storage ..........................Am i Doing something wrong ?? Please Help!!
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Boudz78 said:
Okay So I Really Hate Script's,,But i Thought Of giving A Try on The Cronmod Script First Thing I Did is Flashing Rafa's Kernel with init.d supported installed it fine.. but heres the first time i make my SD 2nd partition so I Went Straight to CWM (i have 2GB SD CARD)went to advance And Press Partition SD CARD or Sumthing like that.. Chose 508MB and swap 64MB then After that i Flashed The Script Successfully But After Rebooting I Don't See ANY change in my Phone's Storage ..........................Am i Doing something wrong ?? Please Help!!
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I ha the same problem while making partitions for linking apps via link2sd but made partition later via mini partition tool and it worked so try that ... but have no idea about cronmod script l.
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Link2SD partition Works with me.. But Cronmod script dont? WTF

Boudz78 said:
Link2SD partition Works with me.. But Cronmod script dont? WTF
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Cronmod works for me, i got almost 100 user apps and 20mb internal occupied :laugh: and I also made partition with Minitool partiton wizard, followed this tutorial :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cygl0qZnbaM
since you have already made a partition you will see 2 partitions, just right-click delete on both of them and create new partition of fat32 and follow the tutorial and dont put label ext2, put sd-ext. See my first post here (post #3) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34120404 :laugh:

Sahaj Jain said:
Cronmod works for me, i got almost 100 user apps and 20mb internal occupied :laugh: and I also made partition with Minitool partiton wizard, followed this tutorial :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cygl0qZnbaM
since you have already made a partition you will see 2 partitions, just right-click delete on both of them and create new partition of fat32 and follow the tutorial and dont put label ext2, put sd-ext. See my first post here (post #3) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34120404 :laugh:
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What about the imei problem many people got after flashing this?has it been resolved? You had any problems while flashing it?
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soumik shah said:
What about the imei problem many people got after flashing this?has it been resolved? You had any problems while flashing it?
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Yes it has been fixed. It is mentioned on the thread and also how to backup imei. So you can try this script. It is working perfectly for me
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Sahaj Jain said:
Yes it has been fixed. It is mentioned on the thread and also how to backup imei. So you can try this script. It is working perfectly for me
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So now even I want to try it... We have to make 1 partition of ext2/3/4 and then wipe data/sd ext and then flash this script. Am I right till here?
And there are three files there we have to flash any one file of cronmod unofficail by stryke and have to flash sd2ext also?
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soumik shah said:
So now even I want to try it... We have to make 1 partition of ext2/3/4 and then wipe data/sd ext and then flash this script. Am I right till here?
And there are three files there we have to flash any one file of cronmod unofficail by stryke and have to flash sd2ext also?
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Yes, Make ext partition and flash Cronmod script, just follow every instructions in the Cronmod thread

[Q] New to SD-ext

Hello, I am new to SD-ext and Link2SD and such things, I googled around a little and found the most suitable solutions for the internal memory shortage of CM10.1 is either Link2SD or INT2EXT+
Now I want to ask, which is better at performance, more stable?
I would have went around experimenting as they say but the problem is that I don't know how to remove either of them, so please tell me that too, so if I didn't like one of them I remove it and try the other.
That's all for now, thanks in advance!

I would suggest int2ext, because effectively it increases the size of your internal storage instead of moving apps to sd. As long as you have a class 10 or better sd, you won't notice any difference in performance.
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ast00 said:
I would suggest int2ext, because effectively it increases the size of your internal storage instead of moving apps to sd. As long as you have a class 10 or better sd, you won't notice any difference in performance.
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Unluckily I don't have a class 10 SD right now and I doubt my ability to get one for a while. Currently having a Class 4 16GB SD, what do you think would work best?

Mathspy said:
Unluckily I don't have a class 10 SD right now and I doubt my ability to get one for a while. Currently having a Class 4 16GB SD, what do you think would work best?
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You can still use int2ext, but you will get a quite noticeable performance decrease. Just test it! To remove just go to system/etc/init.d, then you can just remove its files.
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ast00 said:
You can still use int2ext, but you will get a quite noticeable performance decrease. Just test it! To remove just go to system/etc/init.d, then you can just remove its files.
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I actually tried Link2SD (With a EXT4) but it didn't read or create a script. I googled, people said use EXT2, so I just said, since it didn't work, let's try INT2EXT.
I flashed it (without removing Link2SD) and nothing changed...
I, just now, removed Link2SD and restarted: no changed.
What do you advice me to do? ((I think the problem is because this ROM doesn't support EXT4, but I am not sure of course))

Mathspy said:
I actually tried Link2SD (With a EXT4) but it didn't read or create a script. I googled, people said use EXT2, so I just said, since it didn't work, let's try INT2EXT.
I flashed it (without removing Link2SD) and nothing changed...
I, just now, removed Link2SD and restarted: no changed.
What do you advice me to do? ((I think the problem is because this ROM doesn't support EXT4, but I am not sure of course))
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Int2ext needs ext 4. After removing link2sd, you should reposition your sd to ext 4. And which Rom you have? Because current ones are all sporting init.d, so they support sdext.
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I actually tried Link2SD (With a EXT4) but it didn't read or create a script. I googled, people said use EXT2, so I just said, since it didn't work, let's try INT2EXT.
I flashed it (without removing Link2SD) and nothing changed...
I, just now, removed Link2SD and restarted: no changed.
What do you advice me to do? ((I think the problem is because this ROM doesn't support EXT4, but I am not sure of course))
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there's an updated version of Link2EXT (4.2) as on some devices the SD-EXT wasn't found

ast00 said:
Int2ext needs ext 4. After removing link2sd, you should reposition your sd to ext 4. And which Rom you have? Because current ones are all sporting init.d, so they support sdext.
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I have CM10.1 Lastest nightly. What do you mean by reposition your SD to EXT4? You mean to create a EXT4? (I already have one)
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there's an updated version of Link2EXT (4.2) as on some devices the SD-EXT wasn't found
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Oh, so you think that update will work? I will try it now.
EDIT: Nothing new: After reinstalling it and choosing EXT4 it still say "Mount script cannot be created"
NEW EDIT: I apologise, I now know where did the error come from, I stupidly enough installed an EXT3 instead of EXT4.

Link2sd work fine with me on CM7 or CM10.1
On your cm7 you should set allow installing data on sd card and in settings of link2sd should be set on automatic
Ext2 on link2sd work fine with me
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in some devices, even If your partition is of ext2 or 3., it mounts it as ext4 itself
so while using link2sd try recreating mount script as ext4
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soham jambhekar said:
in some devices, even If your partition is of ext2 or 3., it mounts it as ext4 itself
so while using link2sd try recreating mount script as ext4
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When im shifting between cm7 and cm10.1 recreating mount script on link2sd using ext2 also work on my mini
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Thankies!
and2nckiko said:
Link2sd work fine with me on CM7 or CM10.1
On your cm7 you should set allow installing data on sd card and in settings of link2sd should be set on automatic
Ext2 on link2sd work fine with me
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Would you mind writing me a little guide of what you did to install it on CM10.1?
(I will try EXT2 if everything you have done I tried.)
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in some devices, even If your partition is of ext2 or 3., it mounts it as ext4 itself
so while using link2sd try recreating mount script as ext4
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I changed it to EXT4, and tried it as EXT4 when it was EXT3 but nope, still doesn't want to work...
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When im shifting between cm7 and cm10.1 recreating mount script on link2sd using ext2 also work on my mini
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Well, seems I should really change it from EXT4 to 2, I guess that's what I will try.
Thanks everyone so far! :good:

Since you have the latest CM10.1 nightly.. I suggest u try this..
Take a complete back up of your SD card.
Make sure u have uninstalled any apps and removed any scripts related to link2sd and such scripts. (When there's any doubt whether the old scripts would cause any problem, i always prefer wiping the device and freshly installing the rom to avoid any mistakes)
If u do not have any problem flashing the ROM again, i really suggest u to do so and then do the below steps. Definitely should work.
Reboot into recovery mode.
Go to advanced option and select SD partitioning option
Select the partition size as 1024mb and swap size as 0mb.
Proceed with partitioning.
Reboot your device.
Save fixed-int2ext+ for android 4.2..1 by CronicCorey on the root of your SD card..
Boot into recovery again.
Go to mounts and storage option and mount data, system and sd-ext.
Go to install zip from SD card.. Choose zip from SD card.. Select the int2ext+ script.
After installation.. Go to mounts and storage and unmount data and system and format sd-ext.
Now reboot the device and check.. It'll be done.
I have done this many times and it's worked. I use 16gb class 4.. No issues.. Smooth for me..
After installing this script.. Make sure u dont wipe dalvik cache using recovery mode. Your device will get into boot loop.. Use wipe dalvik cache script specifically created for int2ext by croniccorey..
For more details/downloads refer to the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37961204
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