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[Q] Upgrading to Texas ICS p10 checklist

I've flashed custom roms many times, but I have a couple questions regarding Texas ICS p10.
Currently running:
MeDroid 4.1.
BlackRose with System 220MB Cache 16MB Data 200MB
Amon’s RA recovery
Here's a checklist of what I should do:
Backup everything.
Update Blackrose to system 210 / cache 8 / userdata 218.
Wipe everything / factory reset 3 times
What do I need to do regarding formatting/partitioning the sdcard? ext4? setting dalvik cache to use sdext or data partition? In Amon's RA recovery, I have a "partition sdcard" option, with options to
- Partition SD
- Repair SD:ext
- SD:ext2 to ext3
- SD:ext3 to ext4
Do I need to do anything to get a2sd working other than rebooting a couple times?
Flash Texas' p10.
Flash google apps.
Restore.
Done.
Thanks in advance.

Sounds like you got it
if you are ext4 from medroid, you should be fine--not sure, but ext3 may work too
your current partition sizes are ok
see this on a2sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21222591&postcount=1374
i think you only rin a2sd install one time
i went to p10 and tiamets kernel and had some issues, restored back to p9 and lost my app links--even a sdcard reformat didn't work with p9 so went back to a medroid nandroid
haven't had time figure it out
medroid 6.1 is pretty stable for me
Ken

How can I check if the sdcard is formatted as 4ext?

Isn't it dangerous having a cache partition of only 8 MB?
Sent from my Nexus One using Tapatalk

maybe gparted or a partition tool program
i am having sdcard issues atm so can't test--terminal em can check, forget command, but sometimes it wasn't accurate for me
i don't know that 8mb is dangerous--some larger apps may not work right--depends how rom handles them. cm7 handles them well--miui doesn't--or so folks say

Don't know about 8MB cache, but it's kinda vurnerable to have only 210MB system partition now. If you have any plan to switch to other ics rom, i.e. MeDroidMod, you'll only have a little size left, or even nothing left. I repartizied back to 220/16/200, which is acceptable for any rom.
Sent from my Nexus One

Ok, so I followed the checklist I listed above. p10 stalls at the blue X boot logo for 10 minutes now. Anyone know why it's doing this? I'm going to go do a full wipe/repartition/reinstall again. I left my hboot alone, as suggested twice.

Actually, I opened blackrose and it automatically installed the latest blackrose, which put my phone in recovery and apparently wiped the rom??? Anyway, now I couldn't change hboot partitions anyway, so I proceeded with the rest of the checklist...

Have a 220/16/200 partition?
Boot into recovery, if you have 4ext recovery, you can format everything except sdcard, then flash p10 & gapps.
Sent from my Nexus One

Yeah, I have that partition. I just wiped everything, repartitioned the sdcard and reflashed... currently 8 minutes in the boot animation...
Not sure what to do from here.

Installed latest medroid 1.3.2a and it just keeps booting back into recovery.... hrm.
Do I need to flash a boot img as described here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22731102#post22731102

Ok, it installed. Updating blackrose, which took out my ROM for some reason, reverted to the default hboot as far as I can tell. I put the 220 version back on wiped and reflashed and it booted just fine.

Ended up using Medroid 1.3.2a instead of TexasIce p10. Even though p10 has HWA, it has bugs (browser rendering on zoom takes 2 seconds, sometimes longer) and isn't as fast as Medroid in general.

just got 1.3.2a and is running great
samuaz is loading HWA version now, but may have same issues as T's

First boot on ICS may take a while ! Just chill out ^^

why I can't make a backup with CWM?

Hello,
I've tried time by time and i can't make a backup on any rom
ive tried the squadzone's recovery and anothers as THIS and had no success
Everytime
Backing up system...
Can't mount /system!
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whyy? its possible to backup any rom on SGM ?? (ive tried with stock and custom too)
Thanks for help,

hreyit said:
Hello,
I've tried time by time and i can't make a backup on any rom
ive tried the squadzone's recovery and anothers as THIS and had no success
Everytime
whyy? its possible to backup any rom on SGM ?? (ive tried with stock and custom too)
Thanks for help,
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the error is stating that while backing up recovery is not able to mount /system
try to mount /system before backing up rom. it can be mounted from mount and storage option

try to reflash latest cwm which is 5.0.2.8

try to wipe cache and dalvik cache before backing up

I think this problem is with stock ROM Or GB.
I was Flashing Emanom v5
I want to backup GB to restore when in need but, CWM v4 throws this errorBackup error
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
I Prepared:
1, Flashed GB through odin without SD mounted and android booted.(with sound in Samsung Logo)
2, Changed some Settings in Android
2a, Rebooted again with Mounted SD(to check if booting ssuccesfully with partitioned SD)
3, Now Rebooted to downloading mode
4, Flashed CMW Recovery v4
4a, Here Android succesfully booted, then I Rebooted in CWM.
5, In CWM, it show the error- E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
6, when I tried to backup it doesn't
7, Wiped data + Cache
8, Re-tried to backup but it throws that err again.
9, Now I booted Android it does'nt boots(show Samsung Logo but no Sound and boot loops)
So I left off and Flashed Emanom
with whole process skipping steps 5-9
Here With Emanom v5, in CWM Recovery
That Error Again but when I backed up successufully towing error again.
Now what Step I left or any wrong do I did.
If backup-ing GB is possible then we could just restore it to flash any custom ROM without flashing through Odin and requirement of computer.
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Stock ROMs can't be backed up right ?
Even if you backed up, its not able to restore.

coolsandie said:
Stock ROMs can't be backed up right ?
Even if you backed up, its not able to restore.
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if it is backed up i think it can be restored easily.
but to make it compatible with stock rom the person(squad) who ported the recovery needed to make the recovery compatible with rfs partition but its compatible with ext partition

[Q] Internal NAND is dead? Can't format data partition. Freeze and restart into CWM

Hi!
I have a little problem with my SGS. I used from a month CM 10.1 ROM and Semaphore 2.9.3 kernel. Today phone start up and after a few minutes restart into recovery. I tried reinstall ROM, recover backup etc but has no effects. I tried also flash Samsung JVP ROM (3 files, with re-partition) but phone restart like boot loop problem.... After all that i tried wipe all data/factory reset, format every partition. No errors shows in CWM but all data still are on partition data :/
Summary i can't format/erase data from partition:
data,
cache,
datadata,
sdcard (internal)
In CWM all partition format show results "Done" but data still are there.
But I can flash new system into system or new kernel into boot partition.
Any idea without NAND is dead ?

got pic on error? maybe dbdata
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Ok...
Actually a I have lastest CM 10.1 and Semaphore kernel 3.0.0
When I tired CWM/Mounts and Starage Menu/format /data
See first attachment
After I go to CWM/advanced/show log:
See second attachment
And data on partition /data are still there...

Hi,
could the warning in the second screenshot be the Problem????
Okay it's only a warning not an error...but maybe that is the prob...

I searched about this warring "Wipe via secure discard failed, used discard" but I not found anything useful.

That's Bad :crying:
Another idea: Flashing back to an older Version of CWM-Recovery and then testing if data partition can be cleaned up...
Another question is : what means the Option "Wipe via secure discard"??? what is the effect, anyone knows???

freakymod2120 said:
That's Bad :crying:
Another idea: Flashing back to an older Version of CWM-Recovery and then testing if data partition can be cleaned up...
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I tried that method clean up, factory reset/format with stock JPU and CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVP-v3.7-CWM3RFS, but no effects
I tried also with another Samsung ROM 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3...

[Q] big problem with galaxy note n7000 anyone else????

Hi i have a problem with my galaxy note, i rooted my phone with philz touch 5 and i was trying to install a kitkat rom
and it was giving me an error, after a lot of research i found that i needed a newer version of cwm so i found philz touch 6.25
i went to my sd card and dropped the thing there and i installed it with install zip from sd card.
after that i installed asylum rom and when i rebooted it stuck on boot screen,went back to cwm and did factory wipe started again nothing ,
installed new rom this time slimkat again stuck on boot screen after that lightning rom nothing stuck tried stock rom with odin nothing agin when i start my phone it stays on cyanogenmod boot screen.
can anyone help me im new to this stuff
sorry for my english
and thanks

Flash raw r4 kernel from recovery. Then reboot into recovery. Go to mounts and storage and format system, data and cache. Then flash the new rom.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Flash raw r4 kernel from recovery. Then reboot into recovery. Go to mounts and storage and format system, data and cache. Then flash the new rom.
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here is what i did
1.downloaded raw r4 kernel and add to sd card
2.boot to philz recovery install raw r4 kernel
3.reboot to recovery now is CWM-BASED RECOVERY V6.0.4.4
4.went to mounts and storage and format system data cache
5.installed sweetrom v11.1_LTA rebooted
6.stuck on boot screen
7.tested omni rom again the same it stays on boot screen
when i try to install from the sd card i see that there is an extra partition sd card0 and sd card1 on the first partition it contains lost dir,twrp/,clockwokmod and the other one my roms shouldnt be only one????
any other idea?

One is your internal and other is external sd. When you say stuck on boot screen? What exactly do you see? The Samsung flashing logo? Of that then it takes a while to boot.

tsehos said:
here is what i did
1.downloaded raw r4 kernel and add to sd card
2.boot to philz recovery install raw r4 kernel
3.reboot to recovery now is CWM-BASED RECOVERY V6.0.4.4
4.went to mounts and storage and format system data cache
5.installed sweetrom v11.1_LTA rebooted
6.stuck on boot screen
7.tested omni rom again the same it stays on boot screen
when i try to install from the sd card i see that there is an extra partition sd card0 and sd card1 on the first partition it contains lost dir,twrp/,clockwokmod and the other one my roms shouldnt be only one????
any other idea?
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update
i tried again flashing a stock rom usin odin once it finished it went to boot logo and after 20 seconds the logo restarted all it does is restarting the samsung logo,i went to recovery and it shows a dead android and with red letters E: failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) tried factory reset nothing.

Failed to mount efs? Hmm.. Check in your internal sd card if you have any file named efs backup or efs auto backup of 20 MB in size?

nokiamodeln91 said:
Failed to mount efs? Hmm.. Check in your internal sd card if you have any file named efs backup or efs auto backup of 20 MB in size?
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how do i do that i can only mount ext sd card in cwm and and when i go to mounts and storage and try to mount efs i get error mounting efs and i dont have a back up for that

tsehos said:
here is what i did
1.downloaded raw r4 kernel and add to sd card
2.boot to philz recovery install raw r4 kernel
3.reboot to recovery now is CWM-BASED RECOVERY V6.0.4.4
4.went to mounts and storage and format system data cache
5.installed sweetrom v11.1_LTA rebooted
6.stuck on boot screen
7.tested omni rom again the same it stays on boot screen
when i try to install from the sd card i see that there is an extra partition sd card0 and sd card1 on the first partition it contains lost dir,twrp/,clockwokmod and the other one my roms shouldnt be only one????
any other idea?
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Sorry I think you are confused...You have flashed raw kernel for 4.4 roms, then you've installed sweetrom that is 4.1...I'm sure that you stuck on boot. Search for a 4.4x rom, flash raw kernel and you'll see will work. with raw, internal sdcard is /emmc. If you want to install sweetrom you have to flash Philz kernel. See roms threads.

jsdroid said:
Sorry I think you are confused...You have flashed raw kernel for 4.4 roms, then you've installed sweetrom that is 4.1...I'm sure that you stuck on boot. Search for a 4.4x rom, flash raw kernel and you'll see will work. with raw, internal sdcard is /emmc. If you want to install sweetrom you have to flash Philz kernel. See roms threads.
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i tried with slimkat and asylum omni both are 4.4 and its the same problem somehow i messed up and now i flashed a stock rom with odin
and it stuck samsung logo and when i go into recovery it gives me with red letter e:failed to mount efs i read somewhere that i have to take to samsung service to fix if its possible

Flash PhilZ kernel again and then flash aroma file manager to check if there is an efs backup in the internal storage.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Flash PhilZ kernel again and then flash aroma file manager to check if there is an efs backup in the internal storage.
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done but there a lot of files i can only look in root do you know where to look exactly?????

tsehos said:
done but there a lot of files i can only look in root do you know where to look exactly?????
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Usually stored in the root of internal SD,, also in clockworkmod folder.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Usually stored in the root of internal SD,, also in clockworkmod folder.
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internal sd 0 files
the clockworkmod is in sdcard and there is only a screenshots folder
i have searched a little bit but i dont see the file

tsehos said:
internal sd 0 files
the clockworkmod is in sdcard and there is only a screenshots folder
i have searched a little bit but i dont see the file
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update i have followed this and tried it on my phone and it works but i have to check
if there is a problem with my imei i can make calls send messages and everything
here is the guide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMJLdzHaAY please watch and tell me if there
will be a problem with something

Try wipeing data and cache after flashing stock rom via odin
tsehos said:
update
i tried again flashing a stock rom usin odin once it finished it went to boot logo and after 20 seconds the logo restarted all it does is restarting the samsung logo,i went to recovery and it shows a dead android and with red letters E: failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) tried factory reset nothing.
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after flashing with odin you should wipe data and cache then reboot!

Suddenly: 9305 endless bootanimation with cyanogen 11

Hello,
since today my Galaxy S 3 - 9305 is not booting up properly anymore. I did not change anything regarding the os, it just happed today when the phone was stuck in an endless bootanimation.
In reaction to that i did boot to recovery and cleared /cache and dalwik-cache in cwm. This showed no effect. Afterwards I did the same and also formated the /system partition before I installed the last CM 11 nightly build. But this still changed nothing. I made an full backup with cwm to the external sd. After that I did a factory reset. Now the system started probably. When I tried to load the /(data partition from the backup with cwm the same problem appeared again.
How can I fix this? How can I get my /data from the backup?
Thanks!