anyone here have tried installing a rom on sdcard and booting from that sdcard? I know that it would be slow but it could be useful for testing roms.
all I can find is old docs
Run any Android ROM from SD card.
Ever wanted to try an Android ROM on your RK3188 device but don't want to flash it and risk bricking your device? Or maybe you've currently installed Linux and want to try Android? I've created a tool to create a bootable SD card that can run...
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Hi,
I'm running Rogers/Dream rooted, CM4.2.3.1/CMRecovery 1.4 with 2GB SD
I guess I have two questions and apologize if they're answered elsewhere...I've pored through the forums but haven't found any definitive answer...
I just bought a nice 8GB class6 SD and want to replace my current 2GB.
I need to partition the new card for apps2sd:
Can I partition it from my regular linux box (ie. plug it into my linux PC and use cfdisk/fsprogs to create the required partitions) or do i need to do it within the phone OS (ie adb)?
I need to move all of my stuff from the current SD to the new one:
Can I plug the current SD into my linux box and copy the contents of the FAT/ext parttitions to the new SD?
OK....three questions...
I would like to upgrade to the latest CM:
What happens to all of my apps and other stuff when I flash the new CM?
Any guidance is sincerely appreciated!
Thanx
M
Yes and yes
Partitioned the new SD while plugged in to my linux box.
Mounted FAT and ext4 from my old SD.
Tarred the contents from the two old partitions.
Untarred to the new (freshly partitioned/formatted) SD.
Worked fine.
I still haven't been able to find out what exactly happens to my settings and applications, contacts....etc. when I flash from CM4.2.3.1 to the latest. Do I have to re-install all my apps? Are all my settings gone? If so, what is the best backup method to allow restore of apps and settings?
Thanks
M
As long as your ext partition was copied to the new card with no corruption, your new rom will pick them up and start running them. Your contacts will be updated with sync. And the settings may possibly need to be redone if you have to wipe when installing the new rom (which is probably a good idea anyhow.)
cool...thanx
M
So I followed Myn's quick and easy steps to download Android, using the "Classic SQSH method". I copied the files into the ROOT of the SD card, but when I run it on my phone the script stops at this:
[ 2.520920] msm_rto msmtro:0 rto Core: registere
When I use other bundles I always get a "Kernel Panic" and the script stops and I have to force shut it down. I have not idea how to fix this and its getting frustrating!
What am I doing wrong? Can you guys help out me out? I'm a total newbie to this kind of thing!
Is your Vogue rom unlocked? if not.. That may be the problem.. I had the same issue a little bit ago.
I unlocked my rom then updated it to the latest stock rom from my carrier which was "6.1"
Sorry if I'm not much help.. =[
ps.. I'm a newbie too but we learn as we go and from the best right? =p
-Abyy<3
With SQSH method, you don't have to unlocked your phone. it doesn't touch your WinMo system.
unless you want to flash some android ROM replacing WinMo, then you should unlock your phone first.
why don't you try to re-format your SD card into fat32 ( but before - make your backup of your important data on your SD card ).
Then you could try again with android setup.
if you get the same error result, try it with another clean SD card.
Another method that you could try without replacing WinMo with Android is NoMorootfs.
From my understanding there are roms that can be flashed to the nand memory (wiping out the stock b&n crap), roms that can be burned to the emmc, and roms that can be burned to and booted from an SD card.
Provided I understand that right, ideally I want to have Gingerbread installed on the emmc and possibly either Nookie or the modified Eclair rom on the rom memory..
Am I understanding this correctly? Is this setup possible? If this is possible, could you then burn a THIRD rom to an SD card and also boot from that?
There is a thread somewhere with a script to change boot priorities and allowing you to boot into any OS, but I just want to ensure I fully understand how this thing works before I go attempting to flash 3 OS versions lol
This Nook is just my toy, I bought it the day I saw the honeycomb port so I just want to play around with different rom setups till honeycomb is stable and ready to be flashed the nand memory.
Thanks for any help to further my understanding, it's greatly appreciated.
My understanding is there is no nand on the nook which makes sense.
Roms that flash to emmc actually replace the stock rom image.
There are only two ways to install roms: to internal flash memory (EMC) and external flash memory (SD), so the answer is "no".
However, it should be possible with modified uRamdisk (or u-boot so it would run different init/init.rc, which would mount different partitions/subdirs) to have multiple roms on a single SD card.
ah ok I see...so the there is no rom/nand memory and the stock rom is stored of the emmc? So at most you could have one rom on the emmc and one on the external SD?
That makes alot more sense. Thanks for clarifying guys. I'm about to flash Honeycomb to the emmc, wish me luck ha
So I finally took the plunge and picked up the Nook color, bought it second hand with HC already on the eMMC so I am not sure exactly how anything was done before. I have been reading the guides and while not completely lost, there's just some things I am unclear of right now.
I installed Rom Manager to install CWR, after installing and flashing it I cant access Recovery, but wasnt sure if it ever worked. Was this the wrong way to go about getting CWR on the unit? I am trying now to boot into a default CWR SD card and run a fix from this thread hoping thats the issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11591197
I dont really have a need for the Stock config so putting everything on eMMC for me sounds ideal and am currently trying to get the dual boot config from here running.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461
Question now is if I get CWR running from the sd card, can i just apply the prep file and load the pre configured installations from that page? Does the dual boot both boot from eMMC? Will I need to format my existing solution to install that setup?
Thanks for any feedback.
s0n- said:
So I finally took the plunge and picked up the Nook color, bought it second hand with HC already on the eMMC so I am not sure exactly how anything was done before. I have been reading the guides and while not completely lost, there's just some things I am unclear of right now.
I installed Rom Manager to install CWR, after installing and flashing it I cant access Recovery, but wasnt sure if it ever worked. Was this the wrong way to go about getting CWR on the unit? I am trying now to boot into a default CWR SD card and run a fix from this thread hoping thats the issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11591197
I dont really have a need for the Stock config so putting everything on eMMC for me sounds ideal and am currently trying to get the dual boot config from here running.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461
Question now is if I get CWR running from the sd card, can i just apply the prep file and load the pre configured installations from that page? Does the dual boot both boot from eMMC? Will I need to format my existing solution to install that setup?
Thanks for any feedback.
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HC, as far as I know, is the only rom that does not respond well to cwr installed internally (I have had those issues). If you get an sd image of cwr burned, you can add any flashable rom to that same card and flash it in recovery (install zip from sd card). If you want to play with CM7, do a backup of your HC rom from your sd card, do your formats and flash the gb rom. I think in theory, if you wanted cwr installed internally, you can load a cwr zip on your cwr card and flash it. I have not tried to dual boot anything, so can not offer any feedback.
bdcrim said:
HC, as far as I know, is the only rom that does not respond well to cwr installed internally (I have had those issues). If you get an sd image of cwr burned, you can add any flashable rom to that same card and flash it in recovery (install zip from sd card). If you want to play with CM7, do a backup of your HC rom from your sd card, do your formats and flash the gb rom. I think in theory, if you wanted cwr installed internally, you can load a cwr zip on your cwr card and flash it. I have not tried to dual boot anything, so can not offer any feedback.
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So I ran the fix permissions and now I can boot into Recovery From Clockwork or boot from the SD card. There are a couple problems, in order to install the dual boot I need to run recovery from the eMMC but that doesnt seem to mount my SD card or I need to adb into the recovery so I can permission something to run, however doesnt seem to have adb running in Recovery and I dont see an option to restart it.
Alright so everything is working, had to format the SD card. Guess CWR SD sets it up as a boot partition so it wasnt mounting, dual booting froyo + HC, just have to figure out the OC kernels now for each.
I've already got my SD card ready to root my nook, and the files are ready to install hc v4 2nd...i can't wait this should hold me over until the 10"ers come down in price
Hello All,
TLDR
Are there any CM based ROMs that are preconfigured to be loaded entierly onto an external SD? Any kernels/recoveries that have mount points modified for full external SD (not swap)? Any way to do this manually?
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About two years ago my i9000 died to the failure of the internal memory. I tried all of the normal recovery procedures but nothing worked so I concluded it was toast and moved on. Recently I thought it would be a good backup phone in the event that found myself between sales of my main phone so I decided to revive it by loading the OS entirely on an external SD. This is a bit of a rabbit hole and finding information that actually worked was quite challenging. Almost all of the threads have to do with swapping internal/external cards to gain memory but I don't want to swap, I want everything on the external card.
Eventually I found build based on XXJVU (2.3.6) that was pre-configured to install (via ODIN) and run off of the external card directly. It works but it's dog slow. The problem is the 3e recovery won't flash anything that isn't signed so I can't move to a CM based rom. And, when I flash another kernel/recovery like speedmod, it's doesn't "know" about my unusual storage configuration so any further flashing fails.
At this point I'm open to any suggestions. Maybe the solution is simple and I'm doing something wrong. As far as I can tell, I need a CWM/TWRP based recovery that has it's mount points modified to the external SD card. I don't care to move all the way to KitKat, I'd be happy to get onto CM in basically any version. At some point along the way (4.2/4.3?) the mount point configuration moved out of vold.fstab and into the kernel which basically requires a kernel compiled specifically for this problem. If it's easier, I'd be happy to run the version just prior to this change so I can edit the mount points manually.
If anyone has suggestions or threads I should be reading that would be helpful. Just to be clear, I am currently using the phone, rooted with 2.3.6 and installed entirely on the external SD.
Thanks
Read this. I don't think there are any preconfigured CM based ROMs for external SD card installation.
Also this is a way to fix your broken internal memory. It might work.