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[Q] Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions

Is it possible to flash Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions and then flash a Nand backup instead of flashing the rom and starting from scratch???
I'm thinking of using Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions but i dont want to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my apps and restoring all my setting to what they currently are.
I'm running aospCMod 2.3.3 GB (3/26/'11) on CDMA Hero
thanks for any help and responses!

Restoring your nand backup with standard partitions won't work after creating firerat's custom partitions. I don't think they will, anyway. You can try it. More than likely the nandroid restore won't work (might tell you there's not enough space in one of the partitions) or it won't fully boot, and you'll have to start from scratch.
Titanium Backup makes this process pretty painless, minus the clicking install, install, install... it even saves app settings and preserves Market links.

illdourmum said:
Is it possible to flash Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions and then flash a Nand backup instead of flashing the rom and starting from scratch???
I'm thinking of using Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions but i dont want to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my apps and restoring all my setting to what they currently are.
I'm running aospCMod 2.3.3 GB (3/26/'11) on CDMA Hero
thanks for any help and responses!
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You can restore a nand backup if the new partitions have enough space. I will do this if I'm shrinking my system partition to accommodate a smaller ROM that I had already flashed. I haven't noticed any issue when doing it. Just follow the steps, and make sure your partitions are in line with what you need.

thanks for your reply!
I'll wait till a new realease of aospCMod is out then i'll try it out.

illdourmum said:
thanks for your reply!
I'll wait till a new realease of aospCMod is out then i'll try it out.
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No problem. I'm running aospCMod. I had my partitions set at 130 10. I set them a bit conservative to allow for all the updates that were coming out. Since we haven't gotten an update since 3/26, and I was suffering serious flash withdrawals, I nanded my 3/26 install, then reflashed new partitions of 90 4, then restored my back up. 90 4 is still a bit conservative, and you can probably go to 72 2 depending on the size of the GAAPs and tweaks you flash with the rom.
Enjoy the mod, the increased data size is incredible.

illdourmum said:
Is it possible to flash Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions and then flash a Nand backup instead of flashing the rom and starting from scratch???
I'm thinking of using Firerat's Custom MTD Partitions but i dont want to go through the hassle of reinstalling all my apps and restoring all my setting to what they currently are.
I'm running aospCMod 2.3.3 GB (3/26/'11) on CDMA Hero
thanks for any help and responses!
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And just a word of warning make sure you have atleast a class 6 sd card. Someone told me itll work with any class (i had a class 2) and eventually re flashing the MTD boot killed my sd card. Soooo just throwing my 2 cents out there. Its a great method though =]

Sounds like a bad SD card or something, mod has (or shouldn't..) absolutely no effect on your card at all.

stayclean said:
Sounds like a bad SD card or something, mod has (or shouldn't..) absolutely no effect on your card at all.
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Really now? Cause i heard it could effect that.
Which doesnt make sense cause it uses internel space. I guess Partioting would effect it but thats different. Perhaps youre right. Ill look into it =]

The OP of the Firerat thread explains what it does even. Doesn't do anything to the sd card. Or shouldn't. Have used it many times since the summer with absolutely no ill effect.

stayclean said:
The OP of the Firerat thread explains what it does even. Doesn't do anything to the sd card. Or shouldn't. Have used it many times since the summer with absolutely no ill effect.
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Ill give you a thanks on your meter man, i appreciate taking the time for noobs =]

808Bill said:
No problem. I'm running aospCMod. I had my partitions set at 130 10. I set them a bit conservative to allow for all the updates that were coming out. Since we haven't gotten an update since 3/26, and I was suffering serious flash withdrawals, I nanded my 3/26 install, then reflashed new partitions of 90 4, then restored my back up. 90 4 is still a bit conservative, and you can probably go to 72 2 depending on the size of the GAAPs and tweaks you flash with the rom.
Enjoy the mod, the increased data size is incredible.
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What do the numbers in the text file mean? mine is set to the OP settings of "102 2".

illdourmum said:
What do the numbers in the text file mean? mine is set to the OP settings of "102 2".
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The first number specifies the size (in MB) to make the system partition. The second number specifies the size (in MB) to make the cache partition. Taking into account the size of all other partitions (bootloader, boot, recovery, misc), any leftover space after that is pushed into the data partition.
So your resulting data partition will be (The default size of the data partition + the size shrunk from the system partition + the size shrunk from the cache partition).

Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA using Tapatalk

So I made a Nand Backup, Flashed FR's Mod 1.5.3 set to 105 5, then restored the Nand and flashed the FR_boot.zip and it WORKED!!!
this is AMAZING... now i have a total of 368MB of internal memory (233MB free)
Thanks for the help guys!!!!

I just joined the firerat bandwagon, it's kinda cool

jasonmaloney said:
The first number specifies the size (in MB) to make the system partition. The second number specifies the size (in MB) to make the cache partition. Taking into account the size of all other partitions (bootloader, boot, recovery, misc), any leftover space after that is pushed into the data partition.
So your resulting data partition will be (The default size of the data partition + the size shrunk from the system partition + the size shrunk from the cache partition).
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In your opinion should i leave those number as they are, or isthere a benefit by changing them. Especially if i dont know exactly what changing those numbers would do haha

davidevan said:
In your opinion should i leave those number as they are, or isthere a benefit by changing them. Especially if i dont know exactly what changing those numbers would do haha
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what i did to determine the numbers was check the size of /system in my latest Nand backup and gave it some extra head room.
i may change it again to a larger number as i feel that i didnt provide enough of this "head room" for /system

illdourmum said:
what i did to determine the numbers was check the size of /system in my latest Nand backup and gave it some extra head room.
i may change it again to a larger number as i feel that i didnt provide enough of this "head room" for /system
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cool man, ill probably fiddle with it myself. If you come to good Partioning size, please do tell. id be curious to know what you use =]

davidevan said:
cool man, ill probably fiddle with it myself. If you come to good Partioning size, please do tell. id be curious to know what you use =]
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once i get home from school, i'll be playing around with the settings some more. i'll let you know what happens. but i would suggest you take a second opinion as i'm just a novice at this and just jumped on the FireRat's Mod bandwagon myself.

Oh of course. ive been using for about a month maybe? i just like everyones views and different experiences

[Q] EXT2 cache partition a big fail for me !! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Does anyone out there know what causes 4EXT CWM and Amon Ra all (with custom tools) all to fail in regards to seeing a formatted cache partition on EXT-2.
I have DONE EVERYTHING I can possibly think of, from using Gpart in Ubuntu, to the phone itself. Many times in the past I have made it would just leave my 2 Gig cache partition empty because NOTHING works EVER!...
Did I miss something, can you even have 4 separate functional partitions with the Nexus 1 ?
The closest I have come to something really functional is with 4EXT, it seems to go through all the stages but when I check alignment I only get the first 2 partitions (fat-32 and EXT-1) EXT-2 says it is unformatted for some odd reason! This has been performed using a full card wipe on an external source. Even still everything is seems to go as planned until I check the card. With 4EXT I attempt to force a ext3 or 4 format and it restarts the recovery ! When I check A2SDGUI it says I only have 15 megabytes for cache.
I have used black rose and set it to 220/15/201 (dla5244), tried the latest versions of 4EXT and wasted many hours before posting...
CAN ANYONE HELP !!

Download SD Formatter from here, run the program and choose under Options:
FORMAT TYPE: FULL (OverWrite)
FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT: ON
This will format your µSD (be sure to backup your important stuff). When finished, try to make an ext4 partition with 4EXT recovery. You only need one ext4 partition (so no 2nd) and no swap.

Thank you for the fast response but I have tried that. Except I want this phone to work optimally and I have figured everything else out so it is hard to settle for mediocrity. I mean I know that 1 SD-EXT partition works... Even 1 + fat32 and SWAP but I can NEVER have the phone identify the SD-EXT2 partition... no matter what... In partition magic (terrabyte bootit) and of course Gpart in Ubuntu all indicate that everything is great. Except the phone doesn't use the partition and like I was saying before the 4EXT shows it as unformatted after it's format. When I force a format on the partition the software reboots !?!... And if I leave it claiming it's unformatted even though we may think it is, QND's MIUI can only see 15 megabyte cache partition !
But then why not just go back to stock roms and one partition? To your point it's hard to step back and use something less inclined for performance when it should work ? no ?
I know I am a NOOB BUT I also know that it seems like no one out there can offer CLOSURE on the matter. like "ohh that's because the N1 cannot identify a EXT2 partition" or "ohh... that's your SD card's fault it isn't aligned right etc."
I mean I can see others have had this problem and gave up, I don't want to give up unless it is a limitation of the hardware (?sd card?)
Another way to look at it is although beautiful and helpful for most... 4EXT should be focused on getting that to work, I would think... To your point everyone is confused and shouldn't have more than 2 partitions ? Doesn't seem right to me.
Anyways if you have any other ideas OR anyone else can think of a solution lets do it I want to invest time into this and make it work !!
Sincerely! !

Why should you have more than 2 partitions on your µSD? 1 fat32 for your pictures and videos and stuff, and if you don't have enough space for your apps, 1 ext4 for A2SD (maximum 1GB).
Swap is not necessary and in fact slows your system down. A thread about swap is somewere to be found here.
And why the 2GB cache partition? You already have a 15MB cache partition on your phone.. 220/15/201.
You really don't need more than 2 partitions on your µSD.

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I am willing to accept that you are right that it isn't needed. But I am not using A2SD, I am using XPART. According to the guides I am read, the best way is with 3 or 4 partitions (Swap being the option). The Cache partition on the other hand makes sense because even with titanium backup I can see my 60 or so apps are storing a couple hundred megs in cache. So this way a dedicated partition for processing things once instead of multiple times would provide the fastest solution. Being that the n1 is not the top performer anymore (still my fave though ), any extra speed should help when I am using my phone day to day.
The QND MIUI mod by jbbandos has the following about XPART :
"You can use it with one FAT32 and one ext4 partition, as A2SD, which seems to be the more stable setup, but the recommended setup for speed is one FAT32, one large ext4 (for your data partition), one smaller ext4 (cache), and a swap partition. I'm not that much of a fan of a swap partition, as I am always afraid it will wear out the SD card precociously, but most people report it working well, and I prefer the single ext4 for stability, but YMMV. "
you can read more here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084726
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Anyways that is what I want, and I will invest the time to get it. I believe that 4EXT is primarily in development to perform this function. But I have a problem, with the results. I realize that it may not be necessary but I would like to know the WHY as to why this doesn't work.
AS ALWAYS thank you for you help none the less..

Never used XPART, I didn't know they recommend this. I never used apps to ext scripts longer than a few days.
This is because I'd rather install 10 crappy apps less, than having a slower system. Then again, if I would use an apps to ext script, I would definitely go for stability .
Unfortunately I don't know what you could do now..

I found my previous QND build with XPROT using blackrose was good for like 7 months !!! I just wanted to update and get it working properly. I would HIGHLY recommend it as you phone sees like 1 gig of internal mem so all apps that have widgets are useful and don't need to go to SD. In my opinion it was more stable than stock !!! Honestly, great tool.

OH yeah and it is also much faster I have found !

[Q] Resize /system partition, how?

I'm on latest CM9 with Semaphore 1.2.4, but this latest update used up a lot of space in /system partition which only left me 2MB spaces. I need extra spaces for system app and new bootanimation, how?

You cant change the system partition size however to get the space in it try moving your app to sdcard.
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Even I need help with it..
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erpurohit said:
You cant change the system partition size however to get the space in it try moving your app to sdcard.
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How sure are you on that? From what I understand PIT files in ODIN can change partition layout. If one can change partition layout, one should be able to increase /system as well.
That said, I find Android very confusing. Some examples:
Onboard flash is not a SD card. A SD card is something you can just pull out of the device. Yet android refers to the onboard flash - or well, more accurately a specific partition on the onboard flash - as SD card.
CWM backup is supposed to do a *FULL* backup. Yet it does not include my pictures. No matter what format/wipe options I choose in CWM, the pictures don't go away... I have a whole different concept off a full wipe / factory reset / format SD than that.
It seems several tools format the wrong thing.
App data directories seem to move all over the place. I usually make nandroid backups and I have issues restoring my app *data* every time I use another ROM.
All that said, I'm a big time linux user. I'm extremely familiar with system maintenance on computers. However Android is new to me. All the confusing on naming etc. however is a HUGE !#@%!!#% obstacle.
But why explain things clearly or use terms what they're for. Much easier to confuse people right? At least someone can make money of it then.

Get slimbean 2.1
It has 1.9 gb of /system!!
Sent from my Rolls-Royce.

jay_ingale said:
Get slimbean 2.1
It has 1.9 gb of /system!!
Sent from my Rolls-Royce.
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All new version of jelly bean will be of this size only....

Delete /system/media/videos and convert cyanogenmod wallapapers to user apps. Saves ~15 mb
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Sorry to bump such old thread.
I was offered a I9000 that I would like to use as second phone.
I flashed I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA through odin, and then root (cf-root) and MackayRom 1.7 .
As it says in the rom thread, I have a space problem. Is there any chance better than this one?
Any possibility of repartitioning the internal storage?
Here is my partition scheme:

[Q] increasing phone memory for apps and games

Hi. After weeks of collecting needed apps for my galaxy note I checked them and backuped them by Titanium Backup. From all of them I choose around 400 games and aps.
After that I clean my phone and install new rom. Unfortunately I have problems with free space on my phone, so I am thinking of increasing it somehow.
Right now I have 1,97GB memory ( + around 10 GB sd card) and when it is full ( f.ex after titanium backup restore) every app goes on sd card ( right?). I would like to increase it so I will have f.ex. 4 gb + 8gb sd card. Is it possible? I tried by CWM but it is without changes. How can I do something like that and is it possible? Is there going to be no problem if I will like to change rom or kernel on another one? It will always be 4 gb ( if I will be abble to change it) ?

It is much easier to use some app to move installed apps to sdcard. Still if you really like to increase the size of data partition, then can use my repartition guide, in post 12. Cheers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661590
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Oh it looks little bit complicated... But I need to read it all first. Maybe there is some easier way to partition it?

The key thing is using adb and parted to remove Partition 10 and 11 then create 10 with the size of 4 gb and the rest is for 11. Name them and go to cwm to format data.
Parted is part of busybox so if you have root then parted is aldeady there no need to flash the kernel mentioned in the guide. Still, if you are not sure then use app2sd is easier. Cheers.
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ruffpl said:
Oh it looks little bit complicated... But I need to read it all first. Maybe there is some easier way to partition it?
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Anotherway is to use pit magic to modify pit file. Still, custom pit should be use to recover emmc brick phone. For your case adb method should be safer, maybe.
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Thank You. I will try.

Note 4 CM12 Storage

Hi, I flashed a CM12 nightly and it seems my storage is somewhat messed up. I've wiped everything and yet my total space still reads 24.22gb. I know I won't have all of the space, but I would think CM would leave me more total storage space. Help please?

PieceofSlice said:
Hi, I flashed a CM12 nightly and it seems my storage is somewhat messed up. I've wiped everything and yet my total space still reads 24.22gb. I know I won't have all of the space, but I would think CM would leave me more total storage space. Help please?
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Nah about 6-7gb is reserved for the system. You're fine.

Hmm, I knew that goes for TW but I didn't think CM. Does it just not display the 'system' in storage settings? What are the 6-7gb for?

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Hmm, I knew that goes for TW but I didn't think CM. Does it just not display the 'system' in storage settings? What are the 6-7gb for?
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Yes that's correct it's not shown in cm.
The system partition size can't be changed unless you format and repartition your phone. The 6-7gb is the default amount of space set aside for the system partition in all note 4s.
It's somewhat self explanatory, but it's where your system files & rom are held

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absinthesummer said:
Yes that's correct it's not shown in cm.
The system partition size can't be changed unless you format and repartition your phone. The 6-7gb is the default amount of space set aside for the system partition in all note 4s.
It's somewhat self explanatory, but it's where your system files & rom are held
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Alright thanks, that makes cents. So then basically there will always be the 6-7gb of system storage no matter what? I don't think my Note 3 had this big of a system partition on CM12, though I may be wrong. Just wondering, do all ROMs use the 6-7gb of system? What if I tried an unofficial CM build?

PieceofSlice said:
Alright thanks, that makes cents. So then basically there will always be the 6-7gb of system storage no matter what? I don't think my Note 3 had this big of a system partition on CM12, though I may be wrong. Just wondering, do all ROMs use the 6-7gb of system? What if I tried an unofficial CM build?
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Yeah you can't change the size unfortunately, but no most roms do not take up the entire 6+gb. My note 2 only has something like 4gb system partition. I think because these are bigger devices and the stock roms have more features, the note 4 required a bigger system partition. Now, while zipped, most roms are between 700mb-1.5gb, but once extracted into the system partition they take up quite a bit more space.
Cm roms do take up less space, but you can't really use the remaining system partition space for anything else.
However, it's nice to have extra space on the system partition so you can flash mods and whatnot

absinthesummer said:
Yes that's correct it's not shown in cm.
The system partition size can't be changed unless you format and repartition your phone. The 6-7gb is the default amount of space set aside for the system partition in all note 4s.
It's somewhat self explanatory, but it's where your system files & rom are held
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Yeah you can't change the size unfortunately, but no most roms do not take up the entire 6+gb. My note 2 only has something like 4gb system partition. I think because these are bigger devices and the stock roms have more features, the note 4 required a bigger system partition. Now, while zipped, most roms are between 700mb-1.5gb, but once extracted into the system partition they take up quite a bit more space.
Cm roms do take up less space, but you can't really use the remaining system partition space for anything else.
However, it's nice to have extra space on the system partition so you can flash mods and whatnot
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Okay, thank you. Really appreciate the detail Just checked my Note 3 and it has 25.64gb of 'Total Space' on CM12. I guess I just never realized it on then. So pretty much all Note 4s, no matter what, have about 6-7gb of reserved space...