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[Q] sdcard help!

i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?

well im no pro on flashing kernels but im pretty sure your supposed to flash them after flashing a rom.... so maybe thats something to do with it...? since you lost all your apps anyway try to re flash rom than that kernel right after and see if anything happens... maybe you need to have a specific ext... 2,3,4 who knows.. lol sorry for your troubles

cripgballerkundikusu11 said:
i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?
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from what i remember the apps are on sd-ext and when ever i have flashed a new kernel it would make me start from the begenning and re do everything

cripgballerkundikusu11 said:
i was running cos-ds when i decide to try a new kernel: auto-boot-2.6.35.13-farmatito-pershoot-ds-BFS+-20110518 (1).zip . So i went to recovery (cwm) wiped cache partition and installed the kernel from the file menu. when i rebooted all my apps had gone since they had been on the sd-ext. when i checked the sd-ext under settings>storage and scroll down to sd-ext it says unavailable. so im wondering if i wasnt supposed to flash it via recovery. the previous times iv tried flashing a kernel it has worked. how do i get my apps back? is the sd corrupte and do i hsve to re partition? what do i do?
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lmcdaniel215 said:
from what i remember the apps are on sd-ext and when ever i have flashed a new kernel it would make me start from the begenning and re do everything
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Sometime it's best to wipe the SD card and re-partition your SD card. I tipically do it when I flash a new ROM. Then re-install the apps.

BeenAndroidized said:
Sometime it's best to wipe the SD card and re-partition your SD card. I tipically do it when I flash a new ROM. Then re-install the apps.
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i agree!!! every once in a while its a good idea to re partition your sd card because it's more like a complete wipe. sometimes ill even do an mtd removal here and there.. (i use custom mtd for my SenseLX rom )

HELP!!! Link2Sd not working after recovery

I had a lot of CWM backups on my phone.
so I thought Ill do one nandroid backup of my current phone and then recover each of the previous nandroid backups to see what they actually are.
Then when I recovered my latest backub (done two hours ago) Link to SD doesnt seem to work. Before I was doing this whole CWM backup check everything was fine.
All the settings are as they should be too. only the apps linked are not theyre anymore. The apps only moved to SD are still available.
When I open Link2Sd and choose FAT partition (cause thats what my 2nd partition is) it says:
"Mount script error. Mount scipt cannot be created.
mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:2 on /data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy."
Can someone pls help me. I really need my phone to be properly working again when I go to work tomorrow.
You can see more details about my phone in the signature, if thats of any help.

Flash other Rom and Wipe all

Robbang said:
I had a lot of CWM backups on my phone.
so I thought Ill do one nandroid backup of my current phone and then recover each of the previous nandroid backups to see what they actually are.
Then when I recovered my latest backub (done two hours ago) Link to SD doesnt seem to work. Before I was doing this whole CWM backup check everything was fine.
All the settings are as they should be too. only the apps linked are not theyre anymore. The apps only moved to SD are still available.
When I open Link2Sd and choose FAT partition (cause thats what my 2nd partition is) it says:
"Mount script error. Mount scipt cannot be created.
mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:2 on /data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy."
Can someone pls help me. I really need my phone to be properly working again when I go to work tomorrow.
You can see more details about my phone in the signature, if thats of any help.
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FAT32 won't work.
You need an ext partition
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I guess u do this on stock? Stock cant backup ext-sd....
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MegaGalan said:
Flash other Rom and Wipe all
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I flashed another rom, it still didnt work. now im back on my cyanogenmod frozen ace team. it still shows the same error when im trying to use link2sd
thanks for the reply

pyronia said:
I guess u do this on stock? Stock cant backup ext-sd....
thx, no i used it on the infinity rom. is theyre a chance of me bringing back my aps and files on my ext???
or should i just create new partitions and loose it all. this would really suck...
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Your second partition has to be EXT. Try using a terminal with the following command:
Code:
tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
It should tell you bad magic number as it doesn't understand FAT32
Code:
tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Should work as mmcblk0p2 is the second mountpoint for the EXT partition used by A2SD, S2E and Link2SD.
Your nandroid backups are on your FAT32 partition -- back that up to your computer (copy all files or make a disk image). Then repartition the SD card using CWM, turn off phone, now copy your files back to the new FAT32 (which will now be partition 1). Now reinstall SD card, boot in CWM and restore

iandol said:
Your second partition has to be EXT. Try using a terminal with the following command:
Code:
tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
It should tell you bad magic number as it doesn't understand FAT32
Code:
tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Should work as mmcblk0p2 is the second mountpoint for the EXT partition used by A2SD, S2E and Link2SD.
Your nandroid backups are on your FAT32 partition -- back that up to your computer (copy all files or make a disk image). Then repartition the SD card using CWM, turn off phone, now copy your files back to the new FAT32 (which will now be partition 1). Now reinstall SD card, boot in CWM and restore
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Thx man.I will try this a soon I got time.
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Robbang said:
I had a lot of CWM backups on my phone.
so I thought Ill do one nandroid backup of my current phone and then recover each of the previous nandroid backups to see what they actually are.
Then when I recovered my latest backub (done two hours ago) Link to SD doesnt seem to work. Before I was doing this whole CWM backup check everything was fine.
All the settings are as they should be too. only the apps linked are not theyre anymore. The apps only moved to SD are still available.
When I open Link2Sd and choose FAT partition (cause thats what my 2nd partition is) it says:
"Mount script error. Mount scipt cannot be created.
mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:2 on /data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy."
Can someone pls help me. I really need my phone to be properly working again when I go to work tomorrow.
You can see more details about my phone in the signature, if thats of any help.
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I've had the same problem. I noticed that CMW restore has formatted the sd-ext in ext4, and stock kernel does not support EXT4.
Solutions:
_ flash CF-root
or
_ take your sd, put it in a pc with an adapter, backup sd-ext, format it in ext2, restore the content

link2sd not installed
why link2sd cant installed in my phone after reboot?:crying:

tmz83 said:
I've had the same problem. I noticed that CMW restore has formatted the sd-ext in ext4, and stock kernel does not support EXT4.
Solutions:
_ flash CF-root
or
_ take your sd, put it in a pc with an adapter, backup sd-ext, format it in ext2, restore the content
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Is this real ?
1) Why CWM restore formats sd-ext? Why is it not limited to work on internal memory? -> If this is true should be a good thing to remove always SD when using CWm... oh... no... this is not possible... If I remove it how can a restore be done from an sd ?
2) Reformatting sd-ext to original ext2 (compatible with stock ROMs) and restoring content (copu\paste) is s working solution to fix this problemi? Anybody can confirm this ?
thank...

I had the same problem, link2sd could not recognize the partition after a nandroid backup.
I'm using a HTC Explorer and made a backup on the stock rom, I'm new to this whole rooting business and I was hoping someone could help me get things back to the way it was before the backup.
Thanks in advance

K55V said:
I had the same problem, link2sd could not recognize the partition after a nandroid backup.
I'm using a HTC Explorer and made a backup on the stock rom, I'm new to this whole rooting business and I was hoping someone could help me get things back to the way it was before the backup.
Thanks in advance
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On CM7 the 05mountsd script in the init.d folder caused this problem for me. Simply delete it and reboot.
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I had that problem. I deleted the file /dev/block/vold/179:2 , rebooted & recreated mount script ....it's fixed. Plz take a backup before trying this.

ramoer said:
I had that problem. I deleted the file /dev/block/vold/179:2 , rebooted & recreated mount script ....it's fixed. Plz take a backup before trying this.
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Working great. Thanks for the tricks...

how to format the EXT partition

i hav a samsung galaxy ace (S5830) running cynogen 7.2.... i made a ext partition n was running it smoothly until i tried flashin Slaidyboost script something went wrong n i had to restore my backup.. the backup was made beffore i made the partition... anyways my problem is when i see the storage the EXT partition still has all my previous files n apps though they got washed out due to the restoring proces.. if theres a way to retrieve those apps it would be great even if not its not a problem but how do i clear the ext partition??? its almost full already i cant add more apps to it!! pls help soon!!
and i think i learnt my lesson to backup everytime before doing something!!!=(=(

shoaib30 said:
i hav a samsung galaxy ace (S5830) running cynogen 7.2.... i made a ext partition n was running it smoothly until i tried flashin Slaidyboost script something went wrong n i had to restore my backup.. the backup was made beffore i made the partition... anyways my problem is when i see the storage the EXT partition still has all my previous files n apps though they got washed out due to the restoring proces.. if theres a way to retrieve those apps it would be great even if not its not a problem but how do i clear the ext partition??? its almost full already i cant add more apps to it!! pls help soon!!
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Format sd-ext in recovery.
Rom: Xperion v4.2

Gildan said:
Format sd-ext in recovery.
Rom: Xperion v4.2
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im a noob=P=| is there a direct option for formatting ext in recovery?

or try using minitool partition wizard on pc
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Gildan said:
Format sd-ext in recovery.
Rom: Xperion v4.2
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okay i found it=) thank you=)=)

rahulnandwani said:
or try using minitool partition wizard on pc
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i did download minitool partition wizard since i read some article on google abt it.... ran it.. wiped the EXT n replaced with 0s and then formatted it to ext3 but still nothing happened when i checked on the phone it stil told 210mb used.... anyways formatting in CMW worked fine.. thank you u anyways for the help... =)

Go to CWM Recovery and then select 'Mounts and Storage' and search for "Format ex-t partition" and select it.
Done !

[Q] CoCore-E 6.2 cwm external SDcard not mounting

Hey, I'm new to this forum and to android. I have the Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070, it has JB 4.1.2 rooted, and I've installed the CoCore-E 6.2 cwm kernel. I want to install the Pure Vanilla mod, but my problem is that when I'm on recovery mode I can't backup my current rom because the external SDcard is not mounted. On the recovery mode there is an option to mount the SDcard but whenever I trie to mount it, it says "error mounting /sdcard". Sorry if this question has been asked before, I just couldn't find the answer I'm looking for. It would be really nice if you could help a noob out. Thanks in advance .

[email protected] said:
Hey, I'm new to this forum and to android. I have the Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070, it has JB 4.1.2 rooted, and I've installed the CoCore-E 6.2 cwm kernel. I want to install the Pure Vanilla mod, but my problem is that when I'm on recovery mode I can't backup my current rom because the external SDcard is not mounted. On the recovery mode there is an option to mount the SDcard but whenever I trie to mount it, it says "error mounting /sdcard". Sorry if this question has been asked before, I just couldn't find the answer I'm looking for. It would be really nice if you could help a noob out. Thanks in advance .
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u don't need to mount sd to take a backup. just go to backup and restore and take a backup!
and pure vanilla is not a mod, its a rom!

szzlgupta said:
u don't need to mount sd to take a backup. just go to backup and restore and take a backup!
and pure vanilla is not a mod, its a rom!
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I've tried to to make a backup and it says "Can't mount backup path.".
Mod, rom, I got it mixed up .

[email protected] said:
Hey, I'm new to this forum and to android. I have the Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070, it has JB 4.1.2 rooted, and I've installed the CoCore-E 6.2 cwm kernel. I want to install the Pure Vanilla mod, but my problem is that when I'm on recovery mode I can't backup my current rom because the external SDcard is not mounted. On the recovery mode there is an option to mount the SDcard but whenever I trie to mount it, it says "error mounting /sdcard". Sorry if this question has been asked before, I just couldn't find the answer I'm looking for. It would be really nice if you could help a noob out. Thanks in advance .
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Do you see anything from external sd? If not, you need to repartition it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning

shut_down said:
Do you see anything from external sd? If not, you need to repartition it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning
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Yes, the external sdcard is mounted when on Android, and I'm able to transfer stuff on it. I've formatted it to fat32 but no change, should I repartition it anyway ?

Repartitioning it to FAT fixed the problem, now my sd is mounted when on cwm recovery. But when I started a backup it was going pretty well until it stopped and said "Error while making a backup image of /data!". I guess the univers is against me installing this rom .

[email protected] said:
Repartitioning it to FAT fixed the problem, now my sd is mounted when on cwm recovery. But when I started a backup it was going pretty well until it stopped and said "Error while making a backup image of /data!". I guess the univers is against me installing this rom .
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Data partition is mounted? But it should not make problem on backup.

shut_down said:
Data partition is mounted? But it should not make problem on backup.
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I found the problem, I had too many apps and my sd was only 1GB. I uninstalled some apps and tried to backup with a 2GB sd and it worked perfectly. Anyway thanks for trying to help. Have a nice day sir.

I have ROOT but now what?

Hello
I have managed to root my phone and confirmed this with a free app on Google.Play but now what do I do?
I read somewhere that I need ClockworkMod and I followed a tutorial but the link was dead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
Dead link for clockworkmod 5
http://[url="http//forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=743333&d=1318051346
I am not exactly sure what Clockworkmod is and why I need it.
My plan is to be able to backup my Phone operating system (ROM I think it is called)
And I also want to put all my apps stored on the phone's memory onto an SD card. This is because I keep getting warnings that my internal memory is full.
I would appreciate any help or advice
Cheers

the lemming said:
Hello
I have managed to root my phone and confirmed this with a free app on Google.Play but now what do I do?
I read somewhere that I need ClockworkMod and I followed a tutorial but the link was dead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
Dead link for clockworkmod 5
http://[url="http//forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=743333&d=1318051346
I am not exactly sure what Clockworkmod is and why I need it.
My plan is to be able to backup my Phone operating system (ROM I think it is called)
And I also want to put all my apps stored on the phone's memory onto an SD card. This is because I keep getting warnings that my internal memory is full.
I would appreciate any help or advice
Cheers
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I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX

Viper The Ripper said:
I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX
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Hello
For some reason the link you gave in the other post was broken. However the link you have just given does work and I have now downloaded it.
Thank you

Viper The Ripper said:
I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX
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May I ask how you can tell if the Backup process has been successful?
Is there a way to verify the backup?
I only ask as I have tried to make a backup and got the message that could not mount SD-ext
And that the backup my not be supported by my device. The information went very quickly so I could not get the info exactly.
Cheers

the lemming said:
May I ask how you can tell if the Backup process has been successful?
Is there a way to verify the backup?
I only ask as I have tried to make a backup and got the message that could not mount SD-ext
And that the backup my not be supported by my device. The information went very quickly so I could not get the info exactly.
Cheers
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1. Your backup = ALL your current rom data
2. Umm... I've never had a problem using CMW :S
3. Sd-ext IS NOT sdcard, so no problem if you haven't got sd-ext partition the script always finish telling you that you haven't got a sd-ext and skipping automatically this step , that's all. No problem at all

Hello
Before I did the clockworkmod, I partitioned my SD card into two FAT32 partitions. One was for my data and a smaller partition was to be in preparation of learning how to transfer all my apps to the SD card.
I was worried that partitioning the SD card had caused complications.

the lemming said:
Hello
Before I did the clockworkmod, I partitioned my SD card into two FAT32 partitions. One was for my data and a smaller partition was to be in preparation of learning how to transfer all my apps to the SD card.
I was worried that partitioning the SD card had caused complications.
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What did you use to do partitions?CWM?
I use minipartition tools (a windows free tool) and is to easy
Now you can use Link2sd e.g.
If I were you I'd create an ext4 (as sd-ext partition) instead of create 2 Fat32. Because ext4 can be used with int2ext scripts too
If you want you can read this q&a thread about link2sd/int2ext to get more useful info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313327

Hello
I did indeed use minipartition tools to create two partitions. I have a 16Gb card. I saved 2Gb for the second partition. I will now format that partition to ext4.
Cheers

the lemming said:
Hello
I did indeed use minipartition tools to create two partitions. I have a 16Gb card. I saved 2Gb for the second partition. I will now format that partition to ext4.
Cheers
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format with ext4
mount system
flash this script and hurray work done
HIT THANKS MAN

So this method works for sure? On the Ace is possible to make only a 512mb ext4 partition to use it with int2ext, right? Because every 500mb partition is needed 100mb of internal storage.

MeltingSnowman said:
So this method works for sure? On the Ace is possible to make only a 512mb ext4 partition to use it with int2ext, right? Because every 500mb partition is needed 100mb of internal storage.
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Yes, for sure!!
...no, you can do a partition with the size that you want. This script mount your /sd-ext as your /data partition so you can use all space you want in your sd-ext partition
I had 1GB partition and worked without problems with int2ext+ script