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g1 partitioning help

ok so these forums have help me sooo much from rooting my g1 for the first time and upgrading my g1 to the max. But I've comed to a problem on partitioning my g1.
I am currently using cyanogenmod and I use amon ra's recovery 1.5.0 which I have found really easy to use.
So basically I'm trying to get a linux swap of 96mb and I belive a 512mb ext partition but when I do this on amon ra I chect on cosole by first typing su and then free to check my memory and my swap partition says 0? And I'm trying to see what I'm doing wrong?
What I basically do is I:
wipe
Format my sd via computer with swiss knife or bassic format tool
Plug in my card
Wipe again
Wipe ext partion
And then I do the ext/linux/fat32 partition thing
And then I do my flashing.
Am I doing something wrong? Or maybe taking too many steps? Lol
But if anybody could tell me what to do it would be good.
And again I don't mind starting out fresh.

I am going to assume your new...
And I am a bit of a smart a$$ so deal with it. It's also late and I'm hungry, so I'm a triple threat.
1. Welcome to the forums.
2. keep up to date on the programs...RA1.5.0 had a bug in it. It was replaced with RA1.5.1 in less than 8 hours.
Check for daily updates on everything you use.
3. Don't do it by hand...Amon RA 1.5.1 does all this for you. (has since like 1.3.9 I think)
Even walks you through it step be step.
Its under the heading PARTITION SDCARD (Can't miss it on the main screen. It's there on 1.5 too)
Know your Sdcard specs b4 proceeding.
It even upgrades your partitions...don't bother with apps2sd if your not on a class 4 or 6 card.
And yes you do want ext 4 if you have a class 4 or 6 card.
No I won't tell you how to tell the difference. Google will.
4. Not to sound like an a$$...oh wait I already put in that disclaimer...
Seriously are you learning about what your doing or are you following along blindly?
Just following along results in posts like "OMG I just F*ing Bricked my Phone trying that lame a$$ write up. How do I fix my phone!?!?"
Read up on the programs before you use them, and ask questions about how to do something before trying. Please.
Have a nice... ah who am I kidding...see ya!

Ok..
1. Thanks for the welcome
2. You didn't help much but still thanks.
3. I'm not that of a complete dumba$$ and I do try to stay up with the updates and stuff but I go to school full time and I work right after but thanks for the advise...
4. But what I was looking for was how to start out fresh with cyanogen and a partition on my phone because when I try it it doesn't show on console but the size on my sd does decrese.
But again thanks.

Ok..
1. Thanks for the welcome
2. You didn't help much but still thanks.
3. I'm not that of a complete dumba$$ and I do try to stay up with the updates and stuff but I go to school full time and I work right after but thanks for the advise...
4. But what I was looking for was how to start out fresh with cyanogen and a partition on my phone because when I try it it doesn't show on console but the size on my sd does decrese.
But again thanks.

Do you have a userinit.sh setup to activate the swap on boot? Otherwise, you can try entering "swapon" in a terminal window and then "free" to see if you now have swap being utilized. Just having the partition does not enable swapping.

If you want to try to re-partition it one last time, I wrote a very simple excel program that walks you through the partitioning. I boot into recovery, and go to console. From there, just type the text exactly as written. There are 2 variables that you will type in, the swap and the actual size of the card. By typing those in, it will update the spreadsheet with the correct values to input. I have formatted quite a few this way and never had a problem that wasn't due to a bad SD card.
Anyway, this is what it looks like:
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and the download link:
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I guess in my cranky state you missed my point.
There is no reason to do any of the partitioning on another computer, or by hand. Amon Ra's recovery image does that operation with a little interaction from you.
Basically it does what speed.racer's script does, and it's already on your phone.
As for not seeing the partition information...
A fresh partition has nothing on it, so you will get a 0 when looking to see how much data it is storing.
Look again after you have booted up to the home screen.
Does that help?

Well its been like about 2 hours since i did the repartition and im sure that it would of have had taken up mem by now but it says 0 0 0 and

When i do the swap on thin it says to set swap priority?

What the hell...? I just wiped and reflashed and have the same wallpaper.

I just flashed Amon RA Recovery, installed a new SD card with the phone off, partitioned it in Recovery, took it out and put it in my PC and put CM 5.0.8 and the G-apps on the card, stuck it back in, rebooted again into recovery, wiped the phone (factory reset), wiped the dalvik cache, the flashed CM 5.0.8 then the G-apps.
I rebooted and I have the same wallpaper I've been using for months. Either something very fishy is going on, or CM 5.0.8 comes with my old wallpaper by default.
Where is your wallpaper stored? Is it in a partition of the ROM that doesn't get flashed? Is there a way to completely wipe the ROM (other than Recovery, or other things needed for root) so I can be sure I'm starting fresh?
EDIT: And I still have random 3rd-party apps installed! WTF! I did a factory reset, I swear! /Edit
EDIT2: Wiped and flashed a second time, and this time I wiped everything I could in RA Recovery: data, cache, sd:ext (even though it's a fresh sd card!), battery, and rotation. Whatever the heck those last two are. And now I can report that the phone is clean of all my old apps and wallpaper. After watching it wipe a second time I can say that I am certain I did a factory reset/data wipe the first time. I remembered seeing "FORMATTING DATA / FORMATTING CACHE". So I don't get it. How could my old apps still have been there? Did one of the other wipes do something?
And, no, that cloud wallpaper is not the default one, it's an android on a skateboard.
/Edit2
I'm only wiping now and using a new SD card because I started having major problems. I tried to run Maps one day and it would just crash to the home screen with no error. So I rebooted, and my phone wouldn't get past the T-Mobile screen. It still worked in recovery so I wiped and reflashed CM 5.0.8. Then when I rebooted I had major force closes all over the place, Launcher, System, etc.
After another wipe and similar problems I tried 6.0.0 RC1. It ran a lot better. I had swap turned off. Also Apps2SD is not there, obviously. It did copy my ext apps to the fat32 partition for me, though.
After using it for a while I started noticing apps going missing. I'd have a default icon on the home screen that claimed the app wasn't installed.
I think the SD card may have been to blame for all of this, or maybe the SD card interface on the phone. The major problems I had could have been due to the swap partition failing. And the missing apps could be due to the same sort of thing.
So with this new card I can test that. If I still have problems it's surely the phone itself.
So, again, is there any way to do a more complete wipe so I can be sure I don't have lingering problems from previous installs?
I'll attach a picture of my G1 so you can tell me if this is the default wallpaper or what.
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from 2.x onwards google stores all that info (if its turned on) and restores it when it needs to.
It stores stuff like that wifi passwords and crap.

vixsandlee said:
from 2.x onwards google stores all that info (if its turned on) and restores it when it needs to.
It stores stuff like that wifi passwords and crap.
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yup. When in set up you see the option to tick, backup my settings. It now includes a load of stuff, even apps!

If they stored apps for me, they would at least have to be re-downloaded. They were just automatically there.

[Solved] Storage problem - "Storage space running out"

I have a huge problem with my storage, I dont own a SD card just internal storage.
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When I click on notification "Storage space running out" it says:
/system (400MB / 1.48GB)
/data (12.25GB / 12.26GB)
/cache (64.59MB / 378MB)
Is there any way that I can see where is my space wasted? There is just no way my data is 12 GB.. please help!
I tried:
- cache wipe - not working.
Solution: here

ex0rt said:
I have a huge problem with my storage, I dont own a SD card just internal storage.
When I click on notification "Storage space running out" it says:
/system (400MB / 1.48GB)
/data (12.25GB / 12.26GB)
/cache (64.59MB / 378MB)
Is there any way that I can see where is my space wasted? There is just no way my data is 12 GB.. please help!
I tried:
- cache wipe - not working.
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delete everything in data/media EXCEPT 0, if you're on 4.2.2 or higher version of android. if you're on lower, ONLY delete 0.

Flying_Bear said:
delete everything in data/media EXCEPT 0, if you're on 4.2.2 or higher version of android. if you're on lower, ONLY delete 0.
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Thank you so much!!
Edit: I've flashed ROM again, but device is not booting (still on LG boot screen), gonna wait some more then report if everything is fine or not

Booted but no service, hope thats not a problem and I will get signal after while.

ex0rt said:
Thank you so much!!
Edit: I've flashed ROM again, but device is not booting (still on LG boot screen), gonna wait some more then report if everything is fine or not
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i hope you didnt delete some essential stuff x.x
anyway, the explanation of problem - stock 4.1.2 sd card mount point is data/media, it was changed in android 4.2.2 to data/media/0, leading to people transferring from stock rom to custom 4.2.2 rom to having double data for every app that needs it (basically every app that i know of).
anyway, if you're still bootlooping, do the wipe data/factory reset in cwm. you'll boot for sure, now just restore stuff with titanium backup or whatever backup system you have in place.
edit2:
for some people, custom roms have problem with RIL. try rebooting a few times, you should get network connection. if the problem is too annoying for you, check out a tutorial i wrote to replace CM RIL with EPRJ RIL in any custom rom, that should fix any connection problems that are caused by RIL issues.

Flying_Bear said:
i hope you didnt delete some essential stuff x.x
anyway, the explanation of problem - stock 4.1.2 sd card mount point is data/media, it was changed in android 4.2.2 to data/media/0, leading to people transferring from stock rom to custom 4.2.2 rom to having double data for every app that needs it (basically every app that i know of).
anyway, if you're still bootlooping, do the wipe data/factory reset in cwm. you'll boot for sure, now just restore stuff with titanium backup or whatever backup system you have in place.
edit2:
for some people, custom roms have problem with RIL. try rebooting a few times, you should get network connection. if the problem is too annoying for you, check out a tutorial i wrote to replace CM RIL with EPRJ RIL in any custom rom, that should fix any connection problems that are caused by RIL issues.
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I reflashed rom and wiped cache couple of times, so everything works now. Thank you much for help and great explanation!

[Q] Limited internal memory, SD Card data loss

My internal memory is really limited. I saw (and still see) only 1GB available, my SD card files were also all deleted. I opted to change roms, and after a fresh install (wipe data, cache, dalvik) of this rom problem still persists. Only things i've installed on here are Gapps, Dropbox, CF.Lumen and Facebook+Messenger. Current internal memory usage is shown here. The rom i was using before is this AOKP. I figured this would be the best option i had for asking what's causing it. Help would be much appreciated
EDIT : suddenly now I can install apps from the play store, while I couldn't yesterday. Dunno if it changes anything, but here's hoping.
EDIT2: after wiping everything with TWRP the memory returned to normal - cyanogen recovery didn't help, neither did cwm. So, TWRP wins, and i might start using it finally

grifsin said:
My internal memory is really limited. I saw (and still see) only 1GB available, my SD card files were also all deleted. I opted to change roms, and after a fresh install (wipe data, cache, dalvik) of this rom problem still persists. Only things i've installed on here are Gapps, Dropbox, CF.Lumen and Facebook+Messenger. Current internal memory usage is shown here. The rom i was using before is this AOKP. I figured this would be the best option i had for asking what's causing it. Help would be much appreciated
EDIT : suddenly now I can install apps from the play store, while I couldn't yesterday. Dunno if it changes anything, but here's hoping.
EDIT2: after wiping everything with TWRP the memory returned to normal - cyanogen recovery didn't help, neither did cwm. So, TWRP wins, and i might start using it finally
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Basically, you can do two things.
Use an app like sd maid to clear your cache or increase your internal memory by using an app like link2sd.
You can also use titaniumback (or any other app) to move your apps to sdcard.
Link2sd /titanium would require root to work
Basically, all app build up cache over time which can fill your internal memory. clearing it up regularly should help .

Hnk1 said:
Basically, you can do two things.
Use an app like sd maid to clear your cache or increase your internal memory by using an app like link2sd.
You can also use titaniumback (or any other app) to move your apps to sdcard.
Link2sd /titanium would require root to work
Basically, all app build up cache over time which can fill your internal memory. clearing it up regularly should help .
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(LATE, but it happened again)
This time it happened while transferring files via USB connection - it stopped working for a second, and then device reappeared, with SD card empty, internal memory empty and only showing 2,5 gigs clear - gonna report after clearing dalvik tho. As for normal cache - it's not a problem, i'm starting to suspect faulty hardware - it now limits my maximum internal storage capacity to ~4,3 Gb, according to Total Commander. Besides, i'm using sd maid every week, so it's not like im not taking proper care of my device.... It starts annoying me, i might need a new phone soon - if i start losing ~20 gigs of data every 3 months (backups are backups, but that's another thing) from my phone, and then have to re-install NEW systems every time it f***s up, it's too much hustle - especially that God only knows what causes that, and what fixes it
Screens explaining this:
Total Commander right after wipe (only ext-sd had some files recovered)
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Only 4,3 gigs, right after showing 11,7 max
As my problem came back, i'd appreciate any help - this time not in a form of "clear your cache" as that clearly is not the reason why it happens on different ROMs after a clean install(first on KitKat, then on CM12 - both from _infected) on otherwise stock Yuga.
EDIT1: Before clearing Dalvik (as i forgot cm recovery can't do that) i checked apps - one was using 6 gigs of space, so i deleted data - it then showed 8.1 gigs of space BUT the 'size' in properties changed to... 7,5 Mb. That confuses me, gonna start testing more as much as i can before i will be left without internet for around a month.

System files using a lot of space

My System files are taking up a lot of space on my 64 GB N6. Trying to figure out what is taking up so much space. Considering the device comes in both a 32GB and a 64GB variant I can't see the OS using 35GB. Any thoughts? Running Lineage OS.
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Man0f5tee1e said:
My System files are taking up a lot of space on my 64 GB N6. Trying to figure out what is taking up so much space. Considering the device comes in both a 32GB and a 64GB variant I can't see the OS using 35GB. Any thoughts? Running Lineage OS.
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I don't understand your explanation. You say in the first sentence that system files are using space, and your second says you're trying to figure out what is using space. If you're rooted you could try DiskUsage. The alternative explanation could be the well-known problem of an update showing only half of your actual storage.

@dahawthorne: He had a screenshot showing system taking up too much space on his LineageOS install. That's not normal, but I think you hit upon the problem. The OP needs to format his internal storage in recovery to resolve this, as I'm willing to bet a userdata.img file was flashed prior to the ROM itself.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
@dahawthorne: He had a screenshot showing system taking up too much space on his LineageOS install. That's not normal, but I think you hit upon the problem. The OP needs to format his internal storage in recovery to resolve this, as I'm willing to bet a userdata.img file was flashed prior to the ROM itself.
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Thanks for your advice. So I don't screw anything up, what options do I need to use when doing a wipe in TWRP?

I had this problem several years ago and I honestly can't remember how I resolved it. A quick search for "Android missing storage" shows a consensus that a factory reset usually fixes it, and if you have just installed LineageOS and don't mind starting all over again that's worth a try. Otherwise I can only suggest doing the reading to find another solution, or waiting for someone with a better memory to help. Sorry...
Edit: Strephon's advice is probably also a way to fix the size (he knows more than I do... ), but note that you'll lose all your data (photos, videos, etc.) in your device. You should never undertake any major update of a device without backing up first, so I'm guessing you've already covered this?
Edit 2: The TWRP option is in Advanced wipe - you have check boxes for system, data, cache, Dalvik & internal storage. When upgrading with a clean flash you wipe the first 4 but not internal storage so that at least you keep your photos on the device. This time you'll be doing the opposite - since it's the internal storage that's the problem, that's the only one you wipe.

@dahawthorne: Regardless of how much I may know, I don't always get it right.
From what I recall, formatting the internal storage is all he needs to do. However, if that doesn't work, the factory reset certainly will. The OP should back up everything onto his PC prior to performing either operation, because he will lose everything, as you note.

So after wiping and reimaging my phone, I found there is an option in TWRP to resize partitions. It's buried under the Wipe menu under Advanced => Repair or Change File System which is why I didn't see it before. I think my problem stemmed from a bad update Google pushed out when I was running the stock ROM. When I originally flashed Lineage it didn't automatically resize the partition like I assumed it would.