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For the last couple of weeks i'm trying to get a Blur-rom working on my G1, but sadly it's giving me alot of problems.
I mainly tried flashing it from scratch, which means im running the following setup:
Running a class 6, microsd card;
fat32 (7200mb)
ext3 (500mb)
linux-swap (128mb)
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I also tried the same setup, except i used ext2 instead of ex3.
The problems I have;
After flashing the rom everything works ok. I sign in to motoblur, and set everything up. But after doing a reboot, the problems start. Right after I enter my pincode, and the homescreen starts loading, i'm getting force closes all over. In the end all I see is a blackscreen, and the white taskbar.
Is my setup wrong? If you ppl want more information, I can flash it again, and will try to collect some logs.
Thx in advance.
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Still having the same problems, also when running the newest blur rom around (Motorola Blur / S-Blur_1.071 - Bluetooth).
Here is more info (my logs)
http://pastebin.com/m1b544f9c
Hopefully somebody can help, since I wanna run this one on my phone badly
FREAKJAM said:
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Still having the same problems, also when running the newest blur rom around (Motorola Blur / S-Blur_1.071 - Bluetooth).
Here is more info (my logs)
http://pastebin.com/m1b544f9c
Hopefully somebody can help, since I wanna run this one on my phone badly
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First what kind of phone do you have? G1/MT3G/Hero ?
Next, did you make sure and do a COMPLETE wipe on your phone?
This means erase:
/system/sd/app_s
/system/sd/dalvik-cache
/system/sd/app
/system/sd/app-private
All of /data
You would do that from the Recovery screen. You can't just go into Recovery, then choose Drop to a terminal and then type
Code:
busybox rm -rf /system/sd
That won't work, when you boot into Recovery none of your partitions are mounted. And choosing "Do a data wipe" from the recovery menu DOES NOT erase your /system/sd partition. You need to mount /system/sd before clearing everything off of it.
As far as your partitions are concerned, keep it as ext2 and not ext3. Read the first post in the Blur thread and it explains how your sdcard should be partitioned.
You should also probably run a fsck on your ext2 partition to make sure it's still functional.
Code:
e2fsck -fy /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
And also verify your swap is still good
Code:
mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Given the errors you're having it sounds like you did not do a complete wipe as explained in the first thread, or your ext2 partition is corrupt and you just need to run a fsck on it
I installed the rom completely fresh on a G1 (dream), formatted my sdcard and made 3 new partitions using parted on the recovery console.
So basically saying this isn't enough?
reformatting my sd card now and did the following;
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7200
mkpartfs primary ext2 7200 7700
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 7700-7828
busybox rm -rf /system/sd
e2fsck -fy /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (no errors)
mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (swap information 128mb, so seems good)
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will flash now, and get back to you when i have more info
FREAKJAM said:
I installed the rom completely fresh on a G1 (dream), formatted my sdcard and made 3 new partitions using parted on the recovery console.
So basically saying this isn't enough?
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Technically yes that is all you would need, but once again follow the steps I outlined. No need to blow away partitions. I don't know your level of expertise so I don't know if you're doing it correctly. For all I know you could be creating the partitions, then forgetting to format /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 as fat32, or forgetting to format /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 as ext2, or forgetting to mkswap on /dev/block/mmcblk0p3.
Since you are the only one having this issue it basically means you are missing a step somewhere along the way. The ROM does not hate your phone, lol.
Please follow the regular ROM flashing guidelines. After you create the partitions make sure you can manually mount the fat32 partition at /sdcard and the ext3 partition at /system/sd. Also make sure you didn't somehow screw up the phone parititions, IE /dev/block/mtdblock[1-5]
I think I flashed my phone atleast 200x in the last 6 months..
I'm very addicited to flashing, and I setup a hero rom just like that using parted.
I always reformat my sdcard to start "fresh".
Anyways, flashing now
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
GNU Parted 1.8.8.1.179-aef3
Using /dev/block/mmcblk0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
print
print
Model: SD USD (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 8017MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 512B 7200MB 7200MB primary fat32 lba
2 7200MB 7700MB 500MB primary ext2
3 7700MB 7828MB 128MB primary linux-swap(v1)
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e2fsck -fy /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
e2fsck 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2: 11/244320 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 30701/488281 blocks
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mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 127995904 bytes
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FREAKJAM said:
I think I flashed my phone atleast 200x in the last 6 months..
I'm very addicited to flashing, and I setup a hero rom just like that using parted.
I always reformat my sdcard to start "fresh".
Anyways, flashing now
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K lemme know how that goes. If it crashes like that again do something for me, open up a shell using "adb shell" and do "cat /data/a2sd.log" and tell me what it says
Here is my log, phone is still booting tho, but seems a2sd is done already.
Beginning a2sd at 05:50 06/16/2009
Does post install script exist: No
Does /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 exist: Yes
Running fsck ....
e2fsck 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)
ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2: 11/244320 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 30701/488281 blocks
Mounting /system/sd : Ok
Changing owner on /system/sd to app user: Ok
Changing permissions on /system/sd to 771: Ok
Cleaning up any symlinks in /data
Moving apps to SD finally....
Created /system/sd/app
Changed uid/guid to app user on /system/sd/app
Changed permissions to 771 on /system/sd/app
*****CRITICAL / Watch below for errors ******
Moving /data/app: Ok
Deleting /data/app: Ok
Creating symlink to /system/sd/app: Ok
***** CRITICAL DONE ******
Created /system/sd/app-private
Changed uid/guid to app user on /system/sd/app-private
Changed permissions to 771 on /system/sd/app-private
Created /system/sd/dalvik-cache
Changed uid/guid to app user on /system/sd/dalvik-cache
Changed permissions to 771 on /system/sd/dalvik-cache
*****CRITICAL / Watch below for errors ******
***** CRITICAL DONE ******
Mounting dalvik-cache: Ok
Setting owner to app use for /data/dalvik-cache: Ok
Setting permissions to 771 on /data/dalvik-cache: Ok
Finished 05:50 06/16/2009
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Still splashscreen on my phone atm.. booting takes longer then normal! Waiting for around 5 mins now.. will wait a bit longer
FREAKJAM said:
Here is my log, phone is still booting tho, but seems a2sd is done already.
Still splashscreen on my phone atm.. booting takes longer then normal! Waiting for around 5 mins now.. will wait a bit longer
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Well what is adb logcat showing? Is it still progressing? Is it throwing errors?
Redid a total new format and flash cuz it was taking pretty long..
here is some stuff from the logcat;
http://pastebin.com/d2fef07f0
still on the splashscreen for some minutes now..
FREAKJAM said:
Redid a total new format and flash cuz it was taking pretty long..
here is some stuff from the logcat;
http://pastebin.com/d2fef07f0
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The ONLY way to get the errors you got there are from a pre-existing installation on your phone.
#
E/PackageManager( 1714): Package com.arcsoft.mediagallery has no signatures that
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match those in shared user android.media; ignoring!
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Your md5sum for the update should be:
62b9b3925e95b70eda1c77e8317dc7a9 S-Blur_1.071-full.zip
If it is not then re-download the update again and try flashing.
Redo a wipe and when you are positive you have wiped, check manually that all the files are gone. Don't re-partition/format. Just do the following from recovery shell
Code:
mount /system/sd
busybox rm -f /system/sd/app_s/*
busybox rm -f /system/sd/dalvik-cache/*
busybox rm -f /system/sd/app/*
busybox rm -f /system/sd/app-private/*
umount /system/sd
mount /data
busybox rm -f /data/app/*
busybox rm -f /data/app_s/*
umount /data
mount /system
busybox rm -f /system/app/*
umount /system
Phewww, then do a flippin flash of the ROM. That should GUARANTEE that you have a clean wipe.
G:\>md5 S-Blur_1.071-full.zip
62B9B3925E95B70EDA1C77E8317DC7A9 S-Blur_1.071-full.zip
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did the whipe just like u said..
and now flashing again.. pfew
will keep u posted!
thanks for the help so far!
It installed, and I logged in to gmail etc.
after first reboot, again FC all over. This rom really must hate my phone
http://pastebin.com/dc9c4e47
E/AndroidRuntime( 1844): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 1844): at java.util.Locale.setDefault(Locale.java:855)
did you make it through set up?
can u make it into settings and mess with that?
what blur rom are you flashing? it may be messed up
I can set everything up, all the info bout what rom I am currently trying to flash is found in the 2nd post.
After the first reboot, it's giving all the force closes.
FREAKJAM said:
It installed, and I logged in to gmail etc.
after first reboot, again FC all over. This rom really must hate my phone
http://pastebin.com/dc9c4e47
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Where are you located? The US/Europe/somewhere else? It's having issues setting your locale. When the setup first comes up, are you selecting US English?
I'm from Holland. I select US English yes, but I vaguely remember that it jumped to Deutsch, and that I can't change it back to English.
Perhaps it won't let me run this rom since i'm from the EU.
FREAKJAM said:
I'm from Holland. I select US English yes, but I vaguely remember that it jumped to Deutsch, and that I can't change it back to English.
Perhaps it won't let me run this rom since i'm from the EU.
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Hmmm there's a very good chance that it wouldn't work if you chose anything but English. You may need to use a different libril.so since the one in the ROM is for US. Or Motorola might have designated this only for US users as they will have a different device (the Dext ?) for Europe. Basically it's the Cliq but for overseas. Anyways, erase everything again, reflash and this time make sure you select US English and everything else US just in case Motorola is not allowing anyone outside of US. If that doesn't work you might be out of luck.
You would need to unpack the ROM and hack it to work on your device. Kind of how we hack it to work on G1's
I don't have to skills to "hack" system files. I'll try one more time, trying a US setup. Otherwise ill just have to live with it. Thanks for all the help, esp shafty.
So I tried this baby again after playing with Hero Eclair for a while.
The problem is that the setup-language during the first setup keeps jumping back to German. What files do I have to edit to remove the languages I dont need?
Thnx.
During my time hacking on android I've discovered some nice easter eggs deep in the android platform. One such easter egg is the mounting of ext4 images directly in the init.rc script. This is a feature I have never seen used by any oems and only by one custom rom [ EDIT: and by letama in his Sony Xperia Boot Manager ]! looking at the git logs this functionality has been present since September 2010 [ commit 49b8124a1759cb8b27e0c21a1a5a54b8a81bdb19 ]. What this effectively gives us is the ability to overlay a pseudo partition layout over the top over the existing layout, thus avoiding any "Danger" of accidental bricking the device by reformatting the SDCard. This is very similar to the way archos mount the stock file system and a variation/extension on the existing methods we use for the SDE Roms.
Although the explanation assumes the use of the SD models it should be fairly straightforward to apply the the HDD models.
THE METHOD:
PART 1 - Prepare a recovery ext4 image file
1. Build CWM6 from the CM10 source.
2. Modify The Recovery's init.rc file to look something similar to this
Code:
on early-init
start ueventd
on init
export PATH /sbin
export ANDROID_ROOT /system
export ANDROID_DATA /data
export EXTERNAL_STORAGE /sdcard
symlink /system/etc /etc
mkdir /boot
mkdir /sdcard
mkdir /system
mkdir /data
mkdir /cache
mount /tmp /tmp tmpfs
mkdir /partitions 0771 system system
mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /partitions
# Mount /system rw first to give the filesystem a chance to save a checkpoint
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/CAC /cache nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/DATA /data nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/SYS /system
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/SDCARD /sdcard nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/BOOT /boot
on boot
ifup lo
hostname localhost
domainname localdomain
class_start default
service ueventd /sbin/ueventd
critical
service recovery /sbin/recovery
service adbd /sbin/adbd recovery
disabled
# Always start adbd on userdebug and eng builds
# In recovery, always run adbd as root.
on property:ro.debuggable=1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 0
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idVendor 18D1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idProduct D001
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/functions adb
#write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iManufacturer $ro.product.manufacturer
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iProduct $ro.product.model
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iSerial A101S_REC
#start adbd
setprop service.adb.root 1
# Restart adbd so it can run as root
on property:service.adb.root=1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 0
restart adbd
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 1
3. Modify the etc/recovery.fstab to look like this
Code:
# mount point fstype device
/cache ext4 /dev/block/loop1
/data ext4 /dev/block/loop2
/system ext4 /dev/block/loop3
/sdcard ext4 /dev/block/loop4
4. Creating an empty ext4 image file name REC and mount it on your pc. [ 5MB should do it ]
5. Copy the contents of the built recovery/root directory to the root of your mounted image.
6. chmod init.rc , default.prop and ueventd.rc to 644 ( rw-r-r- )
7. umount the ext4 image and push it to the root of you data partition
That's stage 1 complete. Part 2 Will Follow Shortly.....
Part 2 - Make a dual boot initramfs.cpio.lzo
1. Change the name of the /data directory to /bootdata by modifying the etc/mountpoints file in the initramfs.cpio.lzo. This stops CWM getting confused when trying to un/mount the data partition
Code:
mount_name mount_dev mount_point mount_fs mount_opts volume_name error_code custom_opt
rawfs /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/rawfs rawfs none 150
system /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/system ext4 rw,noatime,noexec system 152
bootdata /dev/mmcblk0p4 /bootdata ext4 rw,noatime,noexec bootdata 154 crypt_compat
storage /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/storage ext4 rw,noatime #storage_name# 155
storage_A80S /bootdata/media /mnt/storage bind bootdata none 155
storage_A101S /bootdata/media /mnt/storage bind bootdata none 155
storage_A101XS /bootdata/media /mnt/storage bind bootdata none 155
storage_LUDO /bootdata/media /mnt/storage bind bootdata none 155
storage_A80H /dev/hdd1 /mnt/storage ext4 rw,noatime #storage_name# 155
storage_A101H /dev/hdd1 /mnt/storage ext4 rw,noatime #storage_name# 155
usbhost_ehci /dev/storage_ehci1 /mnt/usbhost_ehci vfat rw,noatime,utf8,shortname=mixed none 156
usbhost_otg /dev/storage_otg1 /mnt/usbhost_otg vfat rw,noatime,utf8,shortname=mixed none 156
rfsext4 /dev/loop0 /new-root ext4 rw,noatime none 157
rfsext3 /dev/loop0 /new-root ext3 rw,noatime none 157
rootfs /dev/loop0 /new-root squashfs ro,cts_compat none 157
ramdisk /tmp/ramdisk /ramdisk vfat loop,rw,utf8,shortname=mixed #ramdisk_name# 158 ramdisk,ramdisk_size=256
2. Using sirduke989 dmenu initramfs you can modify the init script in the initramfs to mount /bootdata instead of /data and also add /bootdata/REC and /bootdata/BOOT to the list
of known locations , I see this a temporary measure as there are a number of other ways to enable dual ( Triple?!? ) booting
3. Flash the modified initramfs and your choice of kernel using either the recovery menu or kd_flasher, I used the 3.0.21 kernel extracted from the 4.0.24 aos file.
You should now be able to boot into CWM Recovery!
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Part 3 - Create rest of the "partition" images.
You should have a /partitions directory in you device root, This is what is normally mounted as your /data ( /dev/block/mmcblk0p4) and contains normal android user data e.g installed app settings databases etc. This is where I've created the reset of my Partitions which are just more ext4 images files. I did this using "dd if=/dev/zero ...." and "mke2fs -text4 ...." on the device through adb whilst booted into CWM. This saved time in pushing large empty ext4 files from my pc.
I called my image CAC ( cache ) DATA ( data ) SYS ( system ) SDCARD ( sdcard ) BOOT ( boot ) you can obviously call them what you like and place them anywhere as long as you match up the image names with those in init.rc and make sure the loop numbers are correct in the etc/recovery.fstab everything should be fine.
You can play around with the files sizes, I have an 8gb my current file sizes at the moment are
BOOT = 25MB
CAC = 500MB
DATA = 3GB
SYS = 500MB
SDCARD = 2GB
The sdcard mount point is probably worth pointing at an external sd if you have one available. I have a 32GB Class 10 that I'll probably set up.
After you've setup your psuedo partitions you should then be able to reboot into recovery, if you've done things correctly you mount output should contain the following
Code:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 on /partitions type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/loop1 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/loop2 on /data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/loop3 on /system type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/loop4 on /sdcard type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/loop5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
Everything seems to function correctly, I have successful done a backup and restore of my system partition. I have also applied CWM-SuperSU.zip through install zip from sdcard. Mounting and Remounting works although I'm not sure if Mount USB Storage works yet, I didn't on linux and I've not tested on windows and finally wiping and formating was also successful.
Part 4 - Notes on setting up rom images.
Now you may of already realized normal archos images don't come as separate the /boot and /system images so work is require to split them up.
Also if you want to split the /system from the reset of a archos image your boot partition will need to be about 50MB as archos have they /bin /lib /usr directories which contains binary files that use /lib/libuClibc-*.so as it's libc which brings there root filesystem in at around 38MB.
There is a very strong case for ditching these binaries especially when using AOSP/CM based roms. My intial tests show this is possible.
Just like the recovery init.rc Similar changes have to be made to the roms init.rc
Moving Forward:
of course, there's a lot to do but I wanted to at least get this initial information out there for people to consider. I'm currently booting a Linaro 4.1.1 rom using the split partitions. I have also been working on better booting methods which is why I haven't given any details re the initramfs init script but It's fairly straight forward to adjust and adapt. I'll write up more details soon!
More Research!
As I mentioned, I've been further looking into different booting methods and I think I'm approaching what could be a workable solution that will make the Gen9 more like standard android devices
Here's some more of my findings
1. It turns out that we can dump the existing initramfs.cpio.lzo and we can use a standard android ramdisk layout as the android init will load instead of the init script that is currently being used, this also removes the need for switch root and other nonsense that archos have in there. There was one gotcha when had me stumped for about ten minutes, I needed to add "write /sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness 75" to the init.rc to turn the screen on.
2. It's possible to stop android either using adb shell stop or stopping each service zygote etc, and start CWM while android is booted. It's probably also feasible the manage booting between recovery and android using the persist properties system which should make switching between the 2 fairly easy to control without much tweaking to any binaries. Looking at other devices, namely samsung, they seem to do something similar with recovery being in the same boot.img as the standard files, they simply load a recovery.rc instead of the main init.rc, this might mean that we have to patch CWM to load the correct init.rc I've not looked at the code properly yet but It's not going to be an issue anyway as all the code is fully available, You've gotta love open source.
3. By mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 to /mnt/rawfs we are still able to use abcbox, reboot_into writes to the params file in the partition to control boot switching, so we can maintain booting into sde while leaving the stock android partition in place. I was unable to get any immediate joy from kd_flasher, that maybe because we currently have the ramdisk we want to overwrite mounted as the rootfs. Again I can't imagine it being too difficult to jig this, It can probably be worked out by looking at the current recovery ramdisk scripts should kd_flasher style functionality be required at any point.
4. Most of the binaries that rely on uClibc can be recompiled against bionic without any issue, usb_modeswitch for example. If there are any closed source ones, then the dynamic linker ld-uclibc or whatever is called, ultimately symlinks back to uClibc and we can just grab the one file and place it in the /lib directory. I tested /usr/bin/lsdvd in this way and It seemed to work fine.
I've got all this going on while still leaving a stock android fully intact, which is a great fallback Just in case.... Keeping these modifications at a safe level is one of the primary goals to enable much wider use
I'll put together some examples within the next couple of days to demostrate what I'm talking about here.
I've got a Linaro 4.1.1 ( JRO03R ) which has working powervr drivers with a 3.0.21 kernel, although that's about all that's working on it at the minute.
It's more a proof of concept than anything else, The kernel would need recompiling to add tracefs functionality which is required by jellybean but using the same magic should leave the powervr drivers functioning still, If anyone's interested I can stick that up, I've foolishly deleted ( misplaced/can't remember ) the device files I used to build this.... Too many android source trees and not using git properly leads to school boy errors.
I'm currently working on an omapzoom 4.1.2 tree using the blaze_tablet device as a base, I think this may yield the best results for the archos.
I suppose one other thing to do is the fix up a stock rom to use these methods and give it CWM, that should be pretty simple to do. Although ICS is ooold and I'm really not a fan of some of archos' methods e.g booting 4 different devices off one firmware. Although to their credit they do demostrate just what possible with deviating android from it's normal standard structures.
Hopefully this has whetted your appetites, I'm pretty excited about what's possible here as I feel it brings these archos devices in line with most others.
Me Again!
Just a cheeky little update, I been trying the figure out the best approach to handle switching between android and recovery mode. In effect I kind of wanted to create a Stage 4 bootloader! because you can never have too many bootloaders LOL I certainly wanted to do a "proper" job on it and try to avoid changes to the android platform code.
While to doing research into this I found this patch to the linux kernel which the android team submitted for review, Reading the mailing list thread I don't think it's been accepted yet! It's true what they say about the Kernel Mailing List, You need to bring your A game and be sure of what your doing..
Anyways the patch add a boot-control-block driver to kernel which check for a boot flag, which is exactly what I need to make booting into alternative configuration nice and simple. I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to chuck in support for the fastboot protocol on one of those configurations. So a CWM Shouldn't be too far off now!!!
As a little treat I've attached a recovery based ram disk if anyone what's to play, just flash it with you favourite kernel on to your sde partition. Then You can boot into recovery and set your self up a pseudo partition image layout through adb. You won't be able to be into android, obviously until you put your old initramfs back.......
This is totally unsupported.
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I'm just chucking up for those who want to get a feel for to do so. If your uncomfortable playing around in this area then stand well back, It's not prime time yet!!!!
However Feel free to ask questions of a technical bent but If you can't get it to boot then tough luck I'm afraid for now! :laugh:
You shouldn't be able to do any damage with this be I wouldn't go selecting wipe/format etc until you've got some partition images sorted.
I've add abcbox to sbin and symlink reboot_into. It does not seem to fully reboot but It will set the boot flag which you then follow with a call to reboot, That will reboot back into CWM (sde).
Onward
EDIT: Here's the Init.rc and etc/recovery.fstab that It attempts to use.
Code:
on early-init
start ueventd
on init
export PATH /sbin
export ANDROID_ROOT /system
export ANDROID_DATA /data
export EXTERNAL_STORAGE /sdcard
symlink /system/etc /etc
mkdir /boot
mkdir /sdcard
mkdir /system
mkdir /data
mkdir /cache
mkdir /mnt
mkdir /mnt/rawfs
mount /tmp /tmp tmpfs
mkdir /partitions 0771 system system
mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /partitions
mount rawfs /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/rawfs
# Mount /system rw first to give the filesystem a chance to save a checkpoint
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/CAC /cache nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/DATA /data nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/SYS /system
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/SDCARD /sdcard nosuid nodev
mount ext4 [email protected]/partitions/BOOT /boot
on boot
ifup lo
hostname localhost
domainname localdomain
class_start default
service ueventd /sbin/ueventd
critical
service recovery /sbin/recovery
service adbd /sbin/adbd recovery
disabled
# Always start adbd on userdebug and eng builds
# In recovery, always run adbd as root.
on property:ro.debuggable=1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 0
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idVendor 18D1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idProduct D001
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/functions adb
#write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iManufacturer $ro.product.manufacturer
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iProduct $ro.product.model
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/iSerial A101S_REC
write /sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness 75
#start adbd
setprop service.adb.root 1
# Restart adbd so it can run as root
on property:service.adb.root=1
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 0
restart adbd
write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 1
Recovery.fstab
Code:
# mount point fstype device
/cache ext4 /dev/block/loop0
/data ext4 /dev/block/loop1
/system ext4 /dev/block/loop2
/sdcard ext4 /dev/block/loop3
Any words about hdd versions?
DragosP2010 said:
Any words about hdd versions?
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I all depends how you want the structure it, What it would change is the mount point of the paritions directory. After that. everything is loop mounted and sitting on top of the existing structure.
Code:
mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /partitions
Great stuff!!!!
Hey trevd,
that's fantastic... i will definitely try this CWM in a few days with my custom kernel and bootloader (mountpoint will need some tweaks as well ).
I'm very busy these days, so i gess i'll leave some longer statements to the recent developments in a few days.
Just in short... it's very pleasant to see all these open developments popping up and i really, really appreciate this kind of hacking!
Keep on your great work... you rock!!
Cheers,
scholbert
Hi Trevd,
Nice job!
I've been using the same kind of trick on my Xperia S boot manager project, recovery on loops and mount [email protected] in inits. You may want to take a look at what I did there (see my sig), it may have some use for your project.
Basically, what I do is storing multiple kernels+cpios on the regular kernel partition. I use one (trimmed down to maximize space) to handle the boot logic and cwm, and I have enough space to handle two "regular" kernels. I handle kernel switch just before they load with a small assembly loader. It works very nicely on Xperia, and it's very nice to be able to dual boot with isolated cwms. I can't remember maximum size on a g9 kernel rawfs file, but I think you could have at least enough space to have two kernels to isolate recovery.
Hey letama,
nice to read you :highfive:
letama said:
I've been using the same kind of trick on my Xperia S boot manager project, recovery on loops and mount [email protected] in inits. You may want to take a look at what I did there (see my sig), it may have some use for your project.
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Cool stuff again...
letama said:
Basically, what I do is storing multiple kernels+cpios on the regular kernel partition. I use one (trimmed down to maximize space) to handle the boot logic and cwm, and I have enough space to handle two "regular" kernels. I handle kernel switch just before they load with a small assembly loader. It works very nicely on Xperia, and it's very nice to be able to dual boot with isolated cwms. I can't remember maximum size on a g9 kernel rawfs file, but I think you could have at least enough space to have two kernels to isolate recovery.
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AFAIK, we got around ~30MBytes in the raws partition on our tablets so would be possible to put some more kernel+cpios here easily.
Anyway, made some experiments with my latest u-boot port for the tablet this weekend.
I was able to bring up my A80S completely from MicroSD and boot into CWM by using uImage and uInitramfs (based on trevd's CWM image).
There's also some lowlevel multiboot implemented now by using the volume keys... but i know that i use a very special setup, so this is more a proof of concept and not a suitable environment for the average user
Cheers,
scholbert
Thanks Letama + Scholbert
I'll look at all this stuff this week....As a aside, I've played around with mmcblk0p3 and given myself an mmcblk0p5 / 6 of 4MB each. I found parted to be pretty useful (read:safe) for this..... I'm dubious about playing around with the rawfs too much at this point, mainly because I don't understand it fully, yet!.
Have you guy seen this https://github.com/swetland/omap4boot ( I think it's along the line of what Scholbert been working with/on )
Like I've mentioned to ultimate goal is a solution that is "safe" for the average user and also leaves the rest of the tablet in-tact, it maybe a lofty goal but worth a shot. :good:
Thanks for the input guys!
scholbert said:
AFAIK, we got around ~30MBytes in the raws partition on our tablets so would be possible to put some more kernel+cpios here easily.
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30 for init kernel ? That's plenty indeed! Cool!
Anyway, made some experiments with my latest u-boot port for the tablet this weekend.
I was able to bring up my A80S completely from MicroSD and boot into CWM by using uImage and uInitramfs (based on trevd's CWM image).
There's also some lowlevel multiboot implemented now by using the volume keys... but i know that i use a very special setup, so this is more a proof of concept and not a suitable environment for the average user
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Nice job! Too bad that Archos doesn't do this on their board with a small internal switch. Would be cool for people like me with big fingers and poor soldering skills
trevd said:
I'll look at all this stuff this week....As a aside, I've played around with mmcblk0p3 and given myself an mmcblk0p5 / 6 of 4MB each. I found parted to be pretty useful (read:safe) for this..... I'm dubious about playing around with the rawfs too much at this point, mainly because I don't understand it fully, yet!.
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Hummm... You're going to end with a full re-partitioning scheme with system and data if you continue this way . Just be careful when you recreate partitions to let the empty space at the beginning of the disk untouched, instant brick ahead if you go there...
Just in case, here is what I did with my repartition script (do you have it ?): delete p3, delete p4, re-create p3 (careful with start point, leave the hole! it should start just after p2) as extended partition, big enough to hold the new partitions, recreate p4 (same thing about the hole, it should start after p3) with what remains and then you can create p5,p6,p7 with the size you want inside p3.
Last advice: rawfs, don't touch it .
Anyway, the good thing with what I did on Xperia S is that you don't mess with rawfs and re-partition, it's just like flashing a very big SDE kernel from recovery with unmodfified sde firmware, that's all. If I find some time, I'll take a look to see if we can do the same thing here.
letama said:
Just in case, here is what I did with my repartition script (do you have it ?): delete p3, delete p4, re-create p3 (careful with start point, leave the hole! it should start just after p2) as extended partition, big enough to hold the new partitions, recreate p4 (same thing about the hole, it should start after p3) with what remains and then you can create p5,p6,p7 with the size you want inside p3.
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Hi
Yes I have read your previous threads on the subject which provided alot of the inspiration for the work currently at hand, It is also why I am being ultra careful around the partitions
I think maybe I'm just being too clever trying too pull everything back a step into the intramfs when we can just do the old switch root method method.... It's a little messy on the inside but it will get the job done!
Well, I don't like much the switch root too, it's not a very "Android way" of doing things and make some apps not very happy with it, but yes, it will get the job done, one root for recovery, one root for firmware. And Archos stock would be difficult without switch root, they did put far too much stuff outside of system.
letama said:
Well, I don't like much the switch root too, it's not a very "Android way" of doing things and make some apps not very happy with it, but yes, it will get the job done, one root for recovery, one root for firmware. And Archos stock would be difficult without switch root, they did put far too much stuff outside of system.
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I'm very much for the "Android Way" I believe the archos stock roms can be re-jigged as the stuff outside of the system is not required by the system, this is all stuff that is a result of the BuildRoot build system and has a dependency on uClibc.
I'm going to try and get something usable this week, can I store additional files in the rawfs partition without running into trouble?
trevd said:
I'm very much for the "Android Way" I believe the archos stock roms can be re-jigged as the stuff outside of the system is not required by the system, this is all stuff that is a result of the BuildRoot build system and has a dependency on uClibc.
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Well, it's required. It's used inside Android, it handles audio, wifi, codecs, smb...
I'm going to try and get something usable this week, can I store additional files in the rawfs partition without running into trouble?
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In rawfs or initramfs ? I wouldn't add any file in rawfs, it would be difficult to do and I don't know how would behave the bootloader if it sees new files there. Initramfs you're free to do whatever you want until you reach maximum size of kernel+initramfs.
trevd said:
Have you guy seen this https://github.com/swetland/omap4boot ( I think it's along the line of what Scholbert been working with/on )
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Well kind of... while i try to stick with the MicroSD our fellow vincencb follows the omap4boot path.
He already made a port of barebox bootloader to work with this tool and pushed it to the repos.
This way you may put anything you like on the tablet's RAM by using MicroUSB for communication and file transfer.
My way is more to get a full featured u-boot and put it into a state, where it might replace stock loader.
Last step is to put it in internal eMMC... so this is also research and development for now.
trevd said:
Like I've mentioned to ultimate goal is a solution that is "safe" for the average user and also leaves the rest of the tablet in-tact, it maybe a lofty goal but worth a shot. :good:
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Yepp that sounds like a reasonable approach.
letama said:
30 for init kernel ? That's plenty indeed! Cool!
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To be even more precisely, there are 32512*1K blocks for the rawfs partition.
On my device there's ~12MB left...
letama said:
Nice job! Too bad that Archos doesn't do this on their board with a small internal switch. Would be cool for people like me with big fingers and poor soldering skills
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Yeah, a real switch would be nice indeed... there's some unused testpoints giving us additional GPIO
Need to solder though...
trevd said:
I'm very much for the "Android Way" I believe the archos stock roms can be re-jigged as the stuff outside of the system is not required by the system, this is all stuff that is a result of the BuildRoot build system and has a dependency on uClibc.
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Some stuff outside of system is quite useful and gives us something like a minimal linux ecosystem.
Very useful at console level... some tools seem to be used by the Android system as well.
trevd said:
I'm going to try and get something usable this week, can I store additional files in the rawfs partition without running into trouble?
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Mmmh, letama maybe right with being very careful with this part of internal storage. If it get's corrupt you'll risk a brick (could be restored though by using external boot mechanism).
Anyway the best would be to mount it RW and use the kernel driver to access it... the unknown part is still the bootcode.
There's some kind of allocation table at the beginning of rawfs partition. It is yet unknown how bootcode behaves with an additional entry
Anyway, this is a real nice project and i would really appreciate to see it pushing forward.
Take your time trevd, and again thanks a lot for contribution!!
Have a nice day,
scholbert
Not to put this down in any way, but wouldn't TWRP be better for the G9? It has a full touch tablet UI, which is better than CWM's
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Not to put this down in any way, but wouldn't TWRP be better for the G9? It has a full touch tablet UI, which is better than CWM's
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Hi Quinny
There's nothing to stop us using whatever recovery we like.... they all work the same way ( I think ) , i.e the code is compiled into a recovery binary. Unfortunately my touch screen stopped working long ago so I wouldn't really benefit
scholbert said:
To be even more precisely, there are 32512*1K blocks for the rawfs partition.
On my device there's ~12MB left...
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Ah, yes, but there is space reserved for each file there, what I have to figure is how much is reserved for custom file (sde kernel). I don't want to have to shift the files located after custom to make room for sde kernel , it would defeat the "no-fuss/no-risk" of the method.
Anyway the best would be to mount it RW and use the kernel driver to access it... the unknown part is still the bootcode.
There's some kind of allocation table at the beginning of rawfs partition. It is yet unknown how bootcode behaves with an additional entry
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Definitely. Re-partitioning is much safer if space is needed.
trevd said:
.... they all work the same way ( I think ) , i.e the code is compiled into a recovery binary.
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This is a good keyword: The recovery binary itself!
Most tools inside the recovery are simply linked to busybox, which itself is a link to recovery executable.
In other words, we have some code responsable for the menu and framebuffer stuff and we have busybox.
The strings command gave me version 1.2.0. Now my question...
How to configure this part of code?
I'd like to enhance the busybox part.
Could you please provide a little to howto for a compiler run?
Will i need all that Android stuff installed...
I you have any clue, please point me in the right direction.
Lazy,
scholbert
scholbert said:
How to configure this part of code?
I'd like to enhance the busybox part.
Could you please provide a little to howto for a compiler run?
Will i need all that Android stuff installed...
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Yes, you need full android repo. Android Build system is messy and tightly coupled, busybox is compiled with bionic (android libc), recovery is built on top of it with few android libraries links. Isolating all this "mess" would be difficult. Except disk space required, there is no big deal in getting full android repo.
I'd suggest to take a look at this, you should do the "Prepare the Build Environment" section.
I don't know how trevd built his recovery, but what I did is create a gen9 device to get proper configuration for recovery (frame buffer config, ...). You can get mine if you want, it's a little outdated (latest cwm doesn't need a specific gfx anymore, the custom one I used has been moved to upstream for instance), but it should give you a base.
To do that, you have to create an "archos" directory in cm9/device directory, then from inside it do:
Code:
git clone git://gitorious.org/archos-ics/device-g9.git gen9
Then, you need to setup the build env once. From cm9 root, you have to do that:
Code:
. build/envsetup.sh
(it setups android build environment)
then
Code:
lunch
then choose full_gen9-eng.
(it selects device target for build)
You should have something like that:
Code:
============================================
PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL
PLATFORM_VERSION=4.0.4
TARGET_PRODUCT=full_gen9
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=eng
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
TARGET_BUILD_APPS=
TARGET_ARCH=arm
TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a-neon
HOST_ARCH=x86
HOST_OS=linux
HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
BUILD_ID=IMM76L
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from this point, you can compile:
make -j4 recoveryimage (change j4 with the number of parallel build you want depending on your cpu).
whole recovery fs should be in out/target/product/gen9/recovery/root, with recovery command in sbin
Last, how do you want to extend it? If you want to add custom commands, take a look at cwm bootable/recovery/extendedcommands.c, it may be easier to add stuff there than in busybox.
Hi guys,
Before I start, as it may or may not be related, just a note that I modified my partition table a few months ago to make DATAFS larger and UMS smaller.
So, I've been having a few problems with my Note lately. It had a small fall once (10-20cm) and the battery popped out. After that the phone refused to boot (stuck at GT N7000 logo). I just assumed "something went wrong", and as I wanted to clean my phone anyway, I just wiped / restored apps from Titanium.
All was fine and dandy. Except my phone crashed again today (screen off, still playing FM radio but won't come back on). Went straight into recovery and decided to run fsck just for kicks... and was greeted with a looooong list of errors. Skipping to the juicy bits:
Code:
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_test_block_bitmap #3745358202 for multiply claimed block map
[b](Many, many of the above)[/b]
...
Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 32765: 159256 159257 159258 159259 159260 159261 159262 159263
[b](Many, many of the above)[/b]
...
Pass 1D: Reconciling multiply-claimed blocks
(There are 13649 inodes containing multiply-claimed blocks.)
...
I didn't leave the scan to complete, will probably do it overnight.
My /system partition seems fine however
Code:
e2fsck -c /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/block/mmcblk0p9: 2032/54544 files (1.3% non-contiguous), 208212/218112 blocks
I will reflash with pit from Odin tonight once I'm home, and see if that helps. I guess my question is though, do I even bother? Looks to me like my emmc is (partially) dead, should I just reflash all stock and bring it to a service center?
Thanks for the help!
Well, what do you know, looks like I've fixed my issue. Been going through some checks for bad blocks through dd, and the partition could be read without issues, so figured it couldn't be that bad.
For reference, what I've then done is:
- In parted, use mkfs to recreate the datafs partition as ext2
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
mkfs
10
ext2
- Convert the ext2 partition to ext3
Code:
tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
- Convert the ext3 partition to ext4
Code:
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
- Run e2fsck
Code:
e2fsck /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
- Did a factory reset from recovery and rebooted
And voila
Now if anyone could tell me how I change the title of my thread to mark it solved please?
Lol you fix faster then we can respond to your questions.
Wanted to say that your emmc doesn't look fried, since the
errors say that parts of your filesystem are multiply claimed,
so a format should do the trick.
Good to see that you found it already
Hehe, thanks for the tip though
I also initially thought this was just a partition issue, but I just got confused... In my mind, a factory reset would do a format already, and if so, doing a format myself wouldn't help. I'm however quite glad I was wrong
How did you resize the partitions?
cooldoud said:
Now if anyone could tell me how I change the title of my thread to mark it solved please?
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First congrats for fixibg your phone.
Now go on first post press edit thetr you will see the title too and you can change it.
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[Q] encryption, ext2/4, and "filesystem too large to mount safely" error fix?
Hello again,
With my Droid 3 (thanks to Minimoto) again working great, I've turned my attention back to encrypting some of my data on the external SD card. I had used "LUKS Manager" some time ago so that seemed the logical place to start.
Okay, the short *short* version is: What does the error message (from dmesg output) "EXT4-fs (dm-4): filesystem too large to mount safely on this system" mean and how do I fix it or work around it?
The details:
I have a 32 GB SD card with a normal ~20 GB FAT partition that Android sees and uses just fine. On my laptop I created an ext4 file system on the second partition (the remaining ~12 GB of space). Android does not see or use this, but from a terminal I *can* mount it without problems. I chose to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (external SD partition 2) at /mnt/sdcard-ext-p2. Just FYI, but I wrote a short script and put it at /etc/init.d/03mount_sdpart2 to mount this second partition at the correct mount point and it works fine. Even after a reboot the script runs without problems and now I always have my new ext4 file system present.
The reason for creating the ext4 file system is because FAT does not support files larger than 4 GB and therefore my encrypted volume cannot be larger than 4 GB *if* I create that volume on a FAT file system. With the new ext4 file system, now using the LUKS Manager app, I created a new volume at the above mount point with a size of approximately 11.25 GB. This worked fine, too. The last step, however, actually mounting this encrypted volume, keeps failing. It was supposed to be mounted at /mnt/sdcard/LUKS. Unfortunately, LUKS Manager did not produce much in the way of information about why it had failed.
A quick note about file sizes: If I use an app like "ES File Explorer" and go to /mnt/sdcard-ext-p2 where the large volume file exists, ES says the volume file has a size of -805306366 bytes, obviously wrong. Fortunately, if I use the terminal and look at the file size with "ls -l" it has the correct size. Furthermore, after I opened the volume below using lm.cryptsetup I can use its "status" command and after converting the values from sectors (each sector is 512 bytes) it also displays the correct size of the encrypted volume.
So, back to the terminal where I decided to do the steps manually and see where it failed. For the most part, I used different device and directory names than what LUKS Manager would have used, mostly to be sure I wouldn't accidentally conflict with another process/app. The 'lm.cryptsetup' binary is provided by LUKS Manager and placed in /system/bin. I have the version of busybox that, I assume, ships with Minimoto which is busybox v1.20.0. This is where the 'losetup' I am using comes from.
Concerning loopback devices: LUKS Manager defaults to using/creating high numbered loopback devices, 300 for the first volume created. On Android the loop devices are created in /dev/block, but some tools don't seem to look there. In particular, lm.cryptsetup complains about not being able to find a free loopback device and 'losetup -f' (which displays the next free/available loopback device) always refers to devices in /dev regardless of where they really are. Making symlinks such as "ln -s /dev/block/loop0 /dev/loop0" for each of the currently present loop devs (0 through 7, and 300) fixes both of these problems. That said, whatever manner LUKS Manager uses to execute the underlying tools works properly with the loop devs being located in /dev/block. This can be verified by using "lm.cryptsetup status <crypt_dev>" and the status output shows that it is correctly attached to, for example, /dev/block/loop300. Making these symlinks is more of a convenience/fix for when one is working directly on the command line.
Where, before, 'losetup -f' indicated that /dev/loop0 was free (even though it did not exist), after making the symlinks the same command indicates that /dev/loop4 is the next free loop. On my phone, at that moment in time, that was the correct answer. loop4 also makes sense because I have four apps that I have "moved to SD" and for each app that you do this one loopback device is used (so loop0 - loop3 were used by apps "moved" from main internal storage). Creating these symlinks also made lm.cryptsetup stop complaining/erroring about not being able to find a free loop dev. Finally, running "losetup" without arguments is supposed to list the used loop devs and what is using them. Before making the symlinks is produced no output, and now, after the symlinks, it displays:
Code:
/dev/loop0: 0 /mnt/secure/asec/blah_appA.asec
/dev/loop1: 0 /mnt/secure/asec/blah_appB.asec
/dev/loop2: 0 /mnt/secure/asec/blah_appC.asec
/dev/loop3: 0 /mnt/secure/asec/blah_appD.asec
/dev/loop5: 0 /ss/safestrap/rom-slot2/cache.img
/dev/loop6: 0 /ss/safestrap/rom-slot2/userdata.img
/dev/loop7: 0 /ss/safestrap/rom-slot2/system.img
As you can see, loop4 is missing/available. Also, rom-slot2 is correct as it is where I opted to install Minimoto, rom-slot1 currently containing CM 10.1.
With the loop device issues taken care of, the steps I performed are as follows:
Code:
$ su
# lm.cryptsetup luksOpen /mnt/sdcard-ext-p2/MyCrypto.vol MyCrypto
<type in passphrase>
# ls /dev/mapper
MyCrypto control
# mkdir /mnt/sdcard/luks-tst
# mount /dev/mapper/MyCrypto /mnt/sdcard/luks-tst
mount: mounting /dev/mapper/MyCrypto of /mnt/sdcard/luks-tst failed: File too large
# dmesg | tail -2
[20665.748504] EXT4-fs (dm-4): filesystem too large to mount safely on this system
[20665.750732] EXT4-fs (dm-4): filesystem too large to mount safely on this system
You can see from the above block my commands and the output, especially errors, that followed. Clearly, the file is "too large"... but how? The whole point of this extra partition and ext4 file system stuff was specifically to get around the FAT 4GB file size limitation. Unfortunately, while these errors tell me that something is too large, what *part* is too large? Is the 11.25 GB volume *container* too large, or the ext2/4 file system that exists inside the volume? And if either is too large, what is the maximum size I can make them? I did try adding "-t ext2" and "-t ext4" to the mount command, but neither one changed the outcome nor did they change the messages that were output.
The 'mount' binary (like most others) is provided by busybox, so it could possibly be part of the problem. However, the last two errors above come from the kernel log (via dmesg) which means that at least part of the issue is the kernel, maybe the file system modules. I also checked the logcat output, just in case, but it did not contain anything related or useful. Minimoto 1.7 is using kernel version 2.6.35.7 and perhaps it has some maximum size issues I am unaware of. With the exception of my Droid 3, I haven't used a 2.6.x Linux kernel in a very long time.
I've searched around here as well as the fairly small LUKS Manager message board and the Net at large, but I haven't been able to find the answers I'm looking for. Any ideas as to what I might have done wrong, or something I haven't done but should? I'm not sure how to proceed. Just to be perfectly safe, I did try rebooting but it made no difference.
--John Gruenenfelder
Re: [Q] encryption, ext2/4, and "filesystem too large to mount safely" error fix?
Could it be that your mount point is within the FAT fs, what about creating a new mount point at say /mnt/LUKS
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Re: [Q] encryption, ext2/4, and "filesystem too large to mount safely" error fix?
I tried using /mnt/LUKS (instead of the previous /mnt/sdcard/LUKS) as the mount point, but nothing changed. The "filesystem is too large..." messages still appeared.
I don't know why there are two such messages separated by about 2/1000th of a second in the dmesg output even though I issued just one command. It was the same way in my first post.
If I recall, the original reason for putting the mount point under /mnt/sdcard was so that most apps could see/use the new area without having any extra knowledge.
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I'm seeing a few posts and qquestions about this with the latest Lollipop release being upon us.
There are several issues here and I wanted to write a quick note aboyut them both for you
1) You cannot SEE your /sdcard data after updating to lollipop
Cause:
Some strange difference between L and KK, where /storage/emulated and /data/media are not "alligned"
Fix:
Open a terminal emulator application and enter the following 2 line command (Press enter after each line)
Code:
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
Reboot
2) You have lost permissions to /sdcard
Cause:
You restored all your sdcard data using adb push or MTP whilst booted into recovery. IT screws up your permissions. These methods are fine for single files or backups that you waant to flash or restore, but as soon as you start pushing folders, this issue will be seen
Fix:
In a root explorer app, browse to /data/media/0 and locate your Download folder. Set the permissions for all on Download to read / write (Long press the Download folder > permissions)
Download and flash THIS ZIP from the thread below.
[TOOLS][ZIPS][SCRIPTS] osm0sis' Odds and Ends [Multiple Devices/Platforms] (by @osm0sis)
You can also download the zip to a computer and adb push it / MTP via recovery
3) 32 GB device shows the storage of 16 GB version
Cause:
Unknown. This has actually been happening since the Nexus 5 was released
Fix:
Wipe cache and data
4) TWRP backups are missing
Cause:
This is really unknown. We're not even sure that this can be fixed. Some say its a TWRP bug but that cannot be proven.
Sometimes backup folder is empty....
Fix:
Multiple things you can try. Some have to use restorecon command but usually that has to be done after every backup.
Others have just flashed the factory images
Some of us have never had issues so its hard to call it a bug, but there is definitely something funky going on here.
Other times, backups shows as an unknown file type, 0bytes in size. I haven't a specific fix as I have had no feedback from anyone who has fixed it. You could try deleting that unknown file then running the fix above.
Also, please update to TWRP 2.8.3.0
5) All I see in /sdcard is 0 folder
Cause:
Well known issue on /data/media/0 devices - which is the location of the /sdcard. Unsure of the cause on Nexus 5 though
Fix:
/sdcard is in /data/media/0. If you see a 0 folder in /sdcard, you're actually seeing /data/media/0/0.
To fix, just move /data/media/0/0/* to /data/media/0
I updated without a problem. Be sure to update to latest SDK and to wipe sdcard, eg. clean install.
Sent from Pure Nexus 5
alen1901 said:
I updated without a problem. Be sure to update to latest SDK and to wipe sdcard, eg. clean install.
Sent from Pure Nexus 5
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Yep, the first issue is fine if you wipe your /sdcard.
The second one is caused by restoring your sdcard afterwards
I have used always Mixplorer and now after flashing 5.0 I cant see nothing under /root. Why so? Something with root permissions? everything else is ok. ( I want to modify build.prop a little )
do I need use some other file explorer?
restorecon -FR /data/media/0 fixed a problem I had with a bad TWRP folder on my Nexus 10 - many thanks!
rootSU said:
Yep, the first issue is fine if you wipe your /sdcard.
The second one is caused by restoring your sdcard afterwards
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I restored everything except data and android folders back to sdcard, i even restored obb files and no problems at all. It is the best practice for users to restore only their data, not the ones android creates itself. Im sure most people just selects everything and transfer to pc/stick, then copy everything back.
Sent from Pure Nexus 5
Thanks dude. I wish I had this information this morning - would've saved me a lot of sweat.
I'm facing some serious issues today with this.
At first I encountered the issue when installing the flashable update. The OP suggested to execute few command lines in a terminal emulator, but it would only have worked if you rooted your device with cfroot. So I tried to re-root with cfroot with no luck: it kept saying already unlocked. At this point in the settings said I had 3/3 free gigs of storage. Out of desperation I tried to flash every single part of the stock image via fastboot, and re-do the procedure with cfroot and all. However after doing all of that I ended up with 12/12 free gigs, which is what I'm left with right now. I also tried to fix the permissions either with the root explorer app and by flashing the the provided fix, but nothing has happened. No traces of either Titanium backups or whatever files I had before on my storage, it's basically like a new phone with a blank 12 gb storage (keep in mind I have the 32 gb version). I really don't know what to do at this point anymore. Have I by any mean flashed the partitions of a 16 gb variant or something? Will I ever be able to get my storage back? Any help wuld be much appreciated.
Update: apparently I also flashed userdata so my phone believed to be a 16 gb unit. A data wipe fixed it. Obviously my storage is gone but that's my bad, I'll be more careful before udating next time.
vnvman said:
I'm facing some serious issues today with this.
At first I encountered the issue when installing the flashable update. The OP suggested to execute few command lines in a terminal emulator, but it would only have worked if you rooted your device with cfroot. So I tried to re-root with cfroot with no luck: it kept saying already unlocked. At this point in the settings said I had 3/3 free gigs of storage. Out of desperation I tried to flash every single part of the stock image via fastboot, and re-do the procedure with cfroot and all. However after doing all of that I ended up with 12/12 free gigs, which is what I'm left with right now. I also tried to fix the permissions either with the root explorer app and by flashing the the provided fix, but nothing has happened. No traces of either Titanium backups or whatever files I had before on my storage, it's basically like a new phone with a blank 12 gb storage (keep in mind I have the 32 gb version). I really don't know what to do at this point anymore. Have I by any mean flashed the partitions of a 16 gb variant or something? Will I ever be able to get my storage back? Any help wuld be much appreciated.
Update: apparently I also flashed userdata so my phone believed to be a 16 gb unit. A data wipe fixed it. Obviously my storage is gone but that's my bad, I'll be more careful before udating next time.
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Yeah that's a different but common issue.
Thank you, rootSU. This fixed my issue.
So I have tried the fixes and all of my files are still in sdcard/0 and not just sdcard... Any help I can't figure this out?
rizhqrd said:
So I have tried the fixes and all of my files are still in sdcard/0 and not just sdcard... Any help I can't figure this out?
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Move them manually.
Tried the first solution as it seems to be my issue, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
tomp100 said:
Tried the first solution as it seems to be my issue, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
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Please explain your issue.
Hey thanks for this post. I've been through this issue like 3 times and keep forgetting about restorecon.
On that note, I was getting the following output:
~ # restorecon -FR /data/media/0/
restorecon: invalid option -- F
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The fix appears to work without the "F" flag. Do you know why this is not a valid flag?
According to a general rundown of restorecon, the "F" flag does the following:
-F
Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files, and the default file context, changing the user, role, range portion as well as the type.
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RVDigital said:
Hey thanks for this post. I've been through this issue like 3 times and keep forgetting about restorecon.
On that note, I was getting the following output:
The fix appears to work without the "F" flag. Do you know why this is not a valid flag?
According to a general rundown of restorecon, the "F" flag does the following:
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Not sure but glancing at the Dev preview thread, some had success with this:
restorecon -r /data/media/0/*
Tried both, all that happened is that /sdcard is now blank. /data/media/0 still lists all of the files, but /sdcard itself is empty or unlinked or something. I unfortunately don't know which of the two steps did it.
Quick question, I'm currently on slimkat and plan on clean flashing tonight via bigxies ROM. With this method of fixing the SD card, I won't lose all my data as far as downloads, pictures, etc.?
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Please explain your issue.
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Essentially, the phone doesn't think it has an SD card. When i click on SD card in root browser, it is empty. Items that were on the SD card in 4.4.4 are now located in data/media/0/0 , and I am unable to move these items to SD. Also, if I try to dowload sonething off the internet, I get a "no SD card" message.
I can confirm that my issues were caused by importing my backed up /SDCard/ data via an "adb push" while in recovery.
If doing the same while the phone is booted into system, permissions are set appropriately and no further action is required.
Thanks again for this post!