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formatting microsd issue

using parted, copied commands from one of the hero threads, but my old partitions wont go away, has anyone seen that? does it mean the card is fried? i can do rm 1, rm 2, etc but when i type print, it shows the same exact partitions from before, as if they wont delete, running out of ideas, i even tried with a gparted boot cd.

Did you try formating the entire card to fat32 from the phone and then deleting the fat32 partition so you have a blank card?

due to apps2sd, cant even do it from phone since its all whacked out, wont format.

mdanerd said:
due to apps2sd, cant even do it from phone since its all whacked out, wont format.
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can you format it in windows as a removable disk?

oddly just tried to format it in windows, didnt show this before, but says read only, tried a different reader, same thing, trying paragon now, but i have a feeling nothing will change.

mdanerd said:
oddly just tried to format it in windows, didnt show this before, but says read only, tried a different reader, same thing, trying paragon now, but i have a feeling nothing will change.
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Might as well try it If that doesn't work try flashing a JF ROM and formatting sdcard from there. (within phone)

I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.

aoi0123 said:
I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.
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you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.

aoi0123 said:
I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.
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Have you tried ubuntu. Look in my sig for tut.

read only on your SD card / reader, means that the side of it, the lock is on. look for the little button and make sure its not locked, that would make it read only, and sound like the issue here

alritewhadeva said:
you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.
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Like he said, re-formatting from the phone will remove all partitions and automatically format everything back to a single fat32 partition. Of course if all else fails...g-parted ftw!

alritewhadeva said:
you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.
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Yes. I can't remove the partition on it.
Sure, I had tried to format with the phone million times.
supremeteam256 said:
Have you tried ubuntu. Look in my sig for tut.
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Oh. It's nice info. will try later. I wish it would work. Thank you.
fleebailey33 said:
read only on your SD card / reader, means that the side of it, the lock is on. look for the little button and make sure its not locked, that would make it read only, and sound like the issue here
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I used some of the readers and phones. And there is no lock staff on the microSD. I can read/write other microSD with the readers and phones. And I could read/write the microSD with them, before this happen.
h.nocturna said:
Like he said, re-formatting from the phone will remove all partitions and automatically format everything back to a single fat32 partition. Of course if all else fails...g-parted ftw!
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I just had a single fat32 partition on it. I didn't do anything like converting to ext2,3,whatever...
Firstly, I could use the microSD, and I could format it. But it suddenly comes like that. Around that time, I was just trying many apps from Market. I didn't do any special staff on the phone...

finally got around to replying to this, yeah i tried via g-parted, and that failed too, i think the card is hosed, no big deal.

switched from unknown class to class 6

I recently made the change from an unknown class 2gb sdcard to a class 6 4gb sdcard and now things are going crazy. Hero has become unbelievably unstable and cyanogenmod boot loops.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

My guess is you failed to transfer over the apps that were on that old sd card (in the ext 2/3 partition) and now the phone can't find them. Either copy over all the data (search the forums to find out how) or do a wipe to make your phone forget about all tthose apps.

Gilliland12 said:
My guess is you failed to transfer over the apps that were on that old sd card (in the ext 2/3 partition) and now the phone can't find them. Either copy over all the data (search the forums to find out how) or do a wipe to make your phone forget about all tthose apps.
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i've done several wipes, several reformats of the ext3 and the entire card, i've tried to do nandroid backup restores, nothing is working. :\

Done a full wipe and still issues? Huh. Try removing the card completely and doing a wipe. You shouldnt get any errors not having an SD card. If you do get errors then this might take a while. If you get no errors then your card is somehow screwing things up.

mistaken post. ignore this

so turns out there is something wrong with my sdcard. tried flashing xROM 1.4 at least three times and got boot loops every time, then booted up without the card in and booted up fine.
it also works when i use the switchrom script to restore.
is there anything i can do to make this card usable?

Don't take my word for it, but maybe a format and partition of the card again would probably work.

Anartic said:
Don't take my word for it, but maybe a format and partition of the card again would probably work.
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tried it several times. thanks, though

if anybody has any help, i'd love it :\ just like to know if this card is useless to me or not. thanks

if you have vista plug it in and it should say something about fixing errors when my sdcard was f***ing up i thought i might as well try it and it worked, hope this helps
edit: which method are you using to partition your card?

JJbdoggg said:
if you have vista plug it in and it should say something about fixing errors when my sdcard was f***ing up i thought i might as well try it and it worked, hope this helps
edit: which method are you using to partition your card?
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i have xp :\
i've been using parted.

grandomegabosses said:
i have xp :\
i've been using parted.
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if i were you i would send it back as faulty cos if it is giving you this many problems so early on that is not a good sign
btw you could try completely unformatting the card then re partitioning the empty space

JJbdoggg said:
if i were you i would send it back as faulty cos if it is giving you this many problems so early on that is not a good sign
btw you could try completely unformatting the card then re partitioning the empty space
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the thing is, it's not new. i've had it for about 6 months and been using it in my mp3 player. i'm assuming that might be why it's not working. i've unformatted and reformatted the entire card a couple times.
i'm planning on getting an 8gb class 6 card soon, so as of now, i'm using my old 2gb card. but thanks for the help

grandomegabosses said:
the thing is, it's not new. i've had it for about 6 months and been using it in my mp3 player. i'm assuming that might be why it's not working. i've unformatted and reformatted the entire card a couple times.
i'm planning on getting an 8gb class 6 card soon, so as of now, i'm using my old 2gb card. but thanks for the help
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no probs sorry i couldnt help

JJbdoggg said:
no probs sorry i couldnt help
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no worries, man!

so i think i solved it. Ubuntu solves everything. haha repartitioned in ubuntu and it's working fine now. thanks guys

Best tool for recovering deleted files from sd-card?

Hi, I'm trying to recover some old deleted files on one of my SD cards, I usually use disk internals uneraser but all the files its restoring are still corrupt and so cant be viewed (photos), is there any better tool to recover with? I tried photorec but its really confusing :S. I really need these files back, has anyone got any ideas? I would be greatly appreciative

Link to thread with what i use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651563 no software is going to be 100% effective as can be a very hard job hence why data recovery services are very expensive.

stylez said:
Link to thread with what i use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651563 no software is going to be 100% effective as can be a very hard job hence why data recovery services are very expensive.
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Thanks I'll give it a spin

Recover My Files
Thats what i have used in the past.
flyboy

http://www.runtime.org/
i bought these guys software it works for me i use it all the time at work.

stylez said:
Link to thread with what i use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651563 no software is going to be 100% effective as can be a very hard job hence why data recovery services are very expensive.
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flyboyovyick2k9 said:
Recover My Files
Thats what i have used in the past.
flyboy
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josefcrist said:
http://www.runtime.org/
i bought these guys software it works for me i use it all the time at work.
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Hey guys, thanks for all the input but so far none of these have worked, they've either only found some files, or any of the files I want are too corrupt to use, the problem is I need some of the older photos, deleted a few months ago. I need a really powerfull program..

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Hey guys, thanks for all the input but so far none of these have worked, they've either only found some files, or any of the files I want are too corrupt to use, the problem is I need some of the older photos, deleted a few months ago. I need a really powerfull program..
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Like i said no program is 100% to which is why data recovery is an expensive business

stylez said:
Like i said no program is 100% to which is why data recovery is an expensive business
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Well the cost isnt an issue if you know what I mean
really sucks that I cant get this picture in particular back

Once I had to recover a memory stick that was corrupted and I was forced to reformat and got reazonable success with PCtools File Recovery.
On the other hand, tried using same on a friend's stick without success because she had partially reused (overwritten deleted files) the stick. It also works on sd cards inside small card readers that look like memory sticks.
There is also another application from sony called Memory Card File Rescue: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2159&SMB=YES
but you will have to provide some sort of sony card type id to be able to download it, but it works with sd cards also as far as I tested but is less effective.

wovens said:
Once I had to recover a memory stick that was corrupted and I was forced to reformat and got reazonable success with PCtools File Recovery.
On the other hand, tried using same on a friend's stick without success because she had partially reused (overwritten deleted files) the stick. It also works on sd cards inside small card readers that look like memory sticks.
There is also another application from sony called Memory Card File Rescue: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2159&SMB=YES
but you will have to provide some sort of sony card type id to be able to download it, but it works with sd cards also as far as I tested but is less effective.
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Thanks, but that one didnt work either.

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Thanks, but that one didnt work either.
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Hi again, which one did not work? I've mentioned two!

wovens said:
Hi again, which one did not work? I've mentioned two!
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I didnt try the sony one as you said its not as good.

[Q] Galaxy Ace kills SD cards?

Hey Guys,
my sister has a galaxy ace, it runs Stock 2.3.6 and it has problems with micro sd cards. Two of them became write protected and i don´t know to get them back to life. Hope you could help me and may say somthing about same problems and how to solve them, cause i don´t know so much about this device.
Trissy

U tried formatting the SD card???

King ACE said:
U tried formatting the SD card???
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Write protected, not possible.

King ACE said:
U tried formatting the SD card???
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what he said.
btw i've never heard of sga making sdcard write protected. maybe its virus infecting the sdcard?
and yes, pc virus can infect phone sdcard.
my friend who own a neo v just busted his sdcard few days ago by a virus that infecting his sdcard and deleting all mp3's and pictures and replacing them with its copy.

I think u shud just ask the person u got it from..coz this doesnt seem to be the case with me or the other users...i can use SD cards all right..
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an0nym0us_ said:
what he said.
btw i've never heard of sga making sdcard write protected. maybe its virus infecting the sdcard?
and yes, pc virus can infect phone sdcard.
my friend who own a neo v just busted his sdcard few days ago by a virus that infecting his sdcard and deleting all mp3's and pictures and replacing them with its copy.
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+1 to that...i think this is the first time someone's got a problem with the SGA affecting SD cards..

After this problem appeard a second time i made a full wipe in recovery and installed a virusprotector since then there was nothing, but between the first and the second time there were two months.

Maybe its due to the apps u might have installed...Let the fone run and see if the virusprotector makes any difference..
Hit thanks if u got helped!

Now there is nothing it runs once a day may it really was a virus and i kille it by making the full wipe and reinstalling the firmware. But thanks for ure wasted time. May i could get the sd cars back and i hope the phone doesnt do this again in future.

TrissyGE said:
Now there is nothing it runs once a day may it really was a virus and i kille it by making the full wipe and reinstalling the firmware. But thanks for ure wasted time. May i could get the sd cars back and i hope the phone doesnt do this again in future.
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it might be pc virus, came from any of pc the phone once connected to.
i doest make any difference if today u clean the phone and th next day its infected again by virus from the pc
scan the pc too just to be sure.
if the phone have never ever connected to pc, just ignore my post

Ah no...i am lazing around xda neways
Yeah...just keep the virusprotector on the fone just in case...

what class of your sd card and brnd?
send from my haramjadah Ace using Xda premium.

If you are using SD Card Tweaks such as improving speed then what did you except?
If you are using stock rom without stock then your SD Card is really weird/bad model (or even producent is weak). I'm using for about 6 months 8GB Kingston 4 Class MicroSDHC with lifetime warranty and I don't have any troubles with it.

The SD Card might be defective. I wouldn't blame the phone though, unless you're messing with sdcard cache and such
Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk 2

It's very unlikely that a phone can "lock" an SD card. Did you tried connecting it to the computer and setting write permissions. Even if it's lock, it's a software lock, so it should let you format it (as I said, sounds like the SD is as "read only")
I hope it helps

Did you partition/format/wipe it using CWM ?
It seems it cause some problem to some people (like missing apps on the partition or "not writable" mode).
You can format it with PC (be sure that MicroSD Adapter isnt lock too)!

When i turn on my phone then display me this http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach.../5130601b/1/7/7/0/3/6/1/SC20130301-083713.png i dont know what mean Error DF XX?
I have another question.
I format my sd card, then i put some data on it, but when i start the phone, and go to recovery mode, then i dont have any file on it.
I dont have mini sd adapter, can i solve problem without it?
When i make ext 4 in mini partition wizard, then when i restart my phone, dont have any data on it and phone tell me the sd card is damage.
I can't go to CMW beacuse everything is deleted when restart phone.
Any solution?

THERE IS A BUTTON ON THE SIDE OF YOUR SD CARD READER. IT SAYS 'LOCK'. FLIP IT.
Sorry for writing in capitals, just making sure people read this.
Sent from my pet - Megatron™

I think there is no button on the side of the phone or micro sd card

prlek86 said:
I think there is no button on the side of the phone or micro sd card
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I am talking about the sd card adapter which you insert in your computer
Sent from my pet - Megatron™

Try a software called MINI TOOL PARTITION. It might help you.
And connect sd with adapter

[ Request ] External storage "swap" with internal for Xperia Z1

Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
So that we can make external SD card react as our internal storage by doing this we can directly downloads every thing on our SD card and can install more HD games.
Usually 1 HD game have 1GB to 1.5 GB Data and 5 to 6 games fill up all 11 GB available Internal storage in our device, but if we exchange our internal storage with our SD card than we can fulfill our requirements by using a 32GB or 64GB Sd card
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Right now I am using Gameloft to SD app for moving all my games to SD card
1) First fix your remount reboot error get it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317432
if you did not have recovery then use windows.exe installation method. Rooted device is requied
2) Download GL to SD app from play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp&hl=en
move your games data
3) After moving data you can play games by this method only
3.1) open GL to SD app
3.2) you will see two button on top right side, first button is mount and second one is for unmount
3.3) press the mount button
3.4) Now click on play button which ever game you like to play
4) after close the Gl to SD app all the folders unmounted, so if you want to play again you have to open GL app again and mount the games.

zohaib0001 said:
Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
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Umm.. Why do you want swap with 2 gigs of RAM?

B1nny said:
Umm.. Why do you want swap with 2 gigs of RAM?
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does External swap has anything to do with the RAM?

Swap is normal terminology for offloading the least used data to slower drives. I suspect that the op is asking for a way to use the memory card as internal storage, and vice versa.
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deconfrost said:
does External swap has anything to do with the RAM?
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Sorry I could be very wrong here, in that case sorry. I thought OP was referring to making a swap partition on the sd-card and using that as swap. I've seen people do this on 'low-RAM' devices to increase multi-tasking a bit. That's why I wondered what he was up to since he has 2 gigs of RAM.
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Swap is normal terminology for offloading the least used data to slower drives. I suspect that the op is asking for a way to use the memory card as internal storage, and vice versa.
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Ah that could be it! Thank you!

B1nny said:
Sorry I could be very wrong here, in that case sorry. I thought OP was referring to making a swap partition on the sd-card and using that as swap. I've seen people do this on 'low-RAM' devices to increase multi-tasking a bit. That's why I wondered what he was up to since he has 2 gigs of RAM.
Ah that could be it! Thank you!
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yep he's looking to swap internal storage with ex-sd, I would like to be able to do that too, I have like 2gig left on internal and a 64GB card only being used for camera, photos, videos and very little music
was using that on the XZ but I stopped using it for some reason, don't remember what it was

deconfrost said:
yep he's looking to swap internal storage with ex-sd, I would like to be able to do that too, I have like 2gig left on internal and a 64GB card only being used for camera, photos, videos and very little music
was using that on the XZ but I stopped using it for some reason, don't remember what it was
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Hmmm well you could try simlinking your internal storage to your external sd-card, or only do it for specific folders. I never tested this by the way so I have no idea what could happen if you do this, but it's an idea.
Thank you as well by the way!

I am not asking a Ram increase swap mod i am asking for internal storage swap with external storage Mod
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Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
So that we can make external SD card react as our internal storage by doing this we can directly downloads every thing on our SD card and can install more HD games.
Usually 1 HD game have 1GB to 1.5 GB Data and 5 to 6 games fill up all 11 GB available Internal storage in our device, but if we exchange our internal storage with our SD card than we can fulfill our requirements by using a 32GB or 64GB Sd card

I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.

slonn said:
I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.
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I tried Folder Mount with that fix, but can't get it to work.
The linked folders will mount, but when launching the moved games, it is asking to download additional files again.
The files from the Install.bat of the fix have correctly installed on my phone as well.
So not sure what is going on.
Can you play moved game successfully on your phone?

Bigmille said:
I tried Folder Mount with that fix, but can't get it to work.
The linked folders will mount, but when launching the moved games, it is asking to download additional files again.
The files from the Install.bat of the fix have correctly installed on my phone as well.
So not sure what is going on.
Can you play moved game successfully on your phone?
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after moving all data open folder mount app again now you will see that game you moved click on it then find a button that look like a pin
when you pin your moved folder then game should work

slonn said:
I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.
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thanks its working

Maybe you could try this
http://bit.ly/19klEpy

Maybe you could try :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239289

thunder888 said:
Maybe you could try :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239289
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hmm ... have you or anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733 which is quoted above ??
does it work for Z1 also??
I would like to give it a shot but dont want to risk bricking my device ...
the method given is pretty simple so I can follow but would love to get some opinions from people who have tried this on Z1

jagdesh said:
hmm ... have you or anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733 which is quoted above ??
does it work for Z1 also??
I would like to give it a shot but dont want to risk bricking my device ...
the method given is pretty simple so I can follow but would love to get some opinions from people who have tried this on Z1
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I don't have Z1 but I've try both of them on my XV. I prefer to framework modifiying. Just rooted - deodexed your current rom and edit framework.jar.

thunder888 said:
I don't have Z1 but I've try both of them on my XV. I prefer to framework modifiying. Just rooted - deodexed your current rom and edit framework.jar.
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I have rooted the Z1 but cannot unlock the bootloader which is required to De-oxdex the rom because at the moment if you unlock your bootloader you will loose camera functionality
So the option i choose is the one which the script manager
But before I enable that i wanted to know if anyone here tried it on their Z1 and if it works ..

jagdesh said:
I have rooted the Z1 but cannot unlock the bootloader which is required to De-oxdex the rom because at the moment if you unlock your bootloader you will loose camera functionality
So the option i choose is the one which the script manager
But before I enable that i wanted to know if anyone here tried it on their Z1 and if it works ..
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you do not need to unlock the bootloader to get a deodexed rom

gregbradley said:
you do not need to unlock the bootloader to get a deodexed rom
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I know that ,, sorry did not mention earlier, in order for Deodexed rom you need Recovery and right now recovery has some issues which should be fixed soon ..

jagdesh said:
I know that ,, sorry did not mention earlier, in order for Deodexed rom you need Recovery and right now recovery has some issues which should be fixed soon ..
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If you gonna try framework swap mod, you can read this thread.