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How to partition your SD in Desire?

Sorry for being dump? can anyone tell me how do your partition your SD in Desire?? Thanks.

While in Recovery, using the optical trackpad, now select "Partition sdcard" -> "Partition SD" and issue a SWAP=0, EXT2=512, FAT32=<remaining> partition command (read carefully the instructions provided on-screen by the procedure, you'll have to use the volume keys too, here).
Find and issue the "SD:ext2 to ext3" command.
Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select "Reboot system now". While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port.
*Note that this will format your whole SD card. Make a backup before doing this if you need.

kewell79 said:
While in Recovery, using the optical trackpad, now select "Partition sdcard" -> "Partition SD" and issue a SWAP=0, EXT2=512, FAT32=<remaining> partition command (read carefully the instructions provided on-screen by the procedure, you'll have to use the volume keys too, here).
Find and issue the "SD:ext2 to ext3" command.
Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select "Reboot system now". While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port.
*Note that this will format your whole SD card. Make a backup before doing this if you need.
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Problem is how do I get to the recovery console?. Everytime I have pressed the hold back and power button --and then recovery --when it boots it just stop at the exclaimation mark device thing and do nothing?? I knew I have seen that option while doing the rooting procedure. But I was afraid of doing then, because I do not want to screw up the rooting process.

kuailan said:
Problem is how do I get to the recovery console?. Everytime I have pressed the hold back and power button --and then recovery --when it boots it just stop at the exclaimation mark device thing and do nothing?? I knew I have seen that option while doing the rooting procedure. But I was afraid of doing then, because I do not want to screw up the rooting process.
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Are you running a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS?
Read the following guide for the step-by-step approach:
Before you attempt this, Backup your data. Attempt what is suggested in section 6 (titled Install Apps2SD), and make sure you have the necessary file downloaded and installed via Recovery Console (r1-a2sd-desire-dalvik-fresh-signed.zip) before you partition your SD Card:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...bat&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

Hi guys,
Does this has to do any thing with Goldcard?
After doing the mentioned steps how do I know if I successed or not?
Appreciate your help
Regards

kuailan said:
Problem is how do I get to the recovery console?. Everytime I have pressed the hold back and power button --and then recovery --when it boots it just stop at the exclaimation mark device thing and do nothing?? I knew I have seen that option while doing the rooting procedure. But I was afraid of doing then, because I do not want to screw up the rooting process.
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When you can see the exclaimation mark on device, you must run recovery-windows.bat or recovery-linux.sh or recovery-mac.sh for start the alternate recovery.

I assume u already rooted your desire? Else its kind pointless to reformat your SD.
Witch guide die u follow? Check the .rar .zip file u downloaden for it.. and find recovery-win.... Linux....
Run that once u selected recovery from the menu..
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android red triangle with exclamation mark

Hi, I install new official ROM on my Desire Z. And something is wrong. On screen is just red triangel. Phone is frozen. When i go to bootloader, nothings happend. Recovery doesnt work
Anybody help me...please.

I assume your phone is rooted. Here is what I can provide so far and hopefully help fix your situation
In order for this to work you have to have recovery working. I'm sure your phone has died by now or you have at least done a battery pull. If so try these steps
1. Make sure G2 is off and plugged in Via USB on your computer
2. Push and hold the VOLUME DOWN BUTTON while also pushing down and holding the POWER BUTTON. After a few seconds it should boot into bootloader
IF STEP NUMBER 1 DOES NO SUCCEED THEN THE NEXT STEPS WILL NOT APPLY AND SORRY THAT I HAVE NO OTHER KNOWLEDGE TO FIX
3. Using the volume rocker, select recovery and push the power button to accept
4. You should now be in recovery
5. Using the volume rocker or track pad, navigate to Wipe Data/Factory Reset, push track pad to select, track pad to accept "yes I want to want" (or something along those lines )
6. After data has been wiped navigate to Wipe Cache and do same as above
7. Navigate to storage and mounts, scroll down to mount storage and select
8. Your SD should now appear on your computer and freely view your SD card as normal.
9. Check to see if the Rom zip that you used is still on your SD card, if not. Drop on the root of your SD card. The root of your SD card is basically the location which when your SD first opens up on your computer that shows all the folders. Just drop it Anywhere
10. Back to the G2, unmount storage
11. Press back until you are back to the main Recovery page
12. Navigate to advanced and Wipe Dalvik Cache
13. Back to Main Recovery Page
14. Select Install Zip
15. Select install zip from sd card
16. Select the Rom Zip, then Yes I want To Install
17. Back to Main recovery Page
18. Reboot System
19. Smile and say, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"

[Q] Is there a [HOWTO] or [GUIDE] on flashing a new ROM on the CDMA GN somewhere?

I have looked and searched, but have not found one. Some [ROM] threads have instructions, some don't.
I came from an Incredible, which had a removable SD card, and I am worried about what commands will do to the internal memory on the GN with its "integrated" SD...

Taken from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400871 (which is a sticky in the CDMA Dev forum)
"3. FLASHING A ROM, RADIO OR KERNEL VIA CWM RECOVERY
a. Download your chosen Rom, Radio or Kernel from the Development Forum, then make sure your phone is booted up as normal and connect your usb cable so it goes into MTP Mode. Copy the .zip file (DO NOT UNZIP IT FIRST) to the 'Internal Storage' part on your phone. Do not copy it to a Sub Directory as it will be harder to find when flashing it.
b. Enter CWM Recovery by first entering the Fastboot mode Screen (Disconnect the usb cable (if you have one plugged in), then shut down your phone. Keep holding the 'Volume Up' and 'Volume Down' buttons and press the 'Power' button to boot the phone into FastBoot Mode), then select 'Recovery mode' by pressing the 'Volume Down' button and then press the 'Power' button to enter CMW Recovery..
c. Scroll down to 'Install zip from sdcard' and select. Then select 'choose zip from sdcard'.
d. Scroll to your Roms' zip file and select. Then scroll down to 'Yes' in the list and select to start flashing the Rom.
e. When flashing is finished select 'Go Back' until you get to the Main Menu and then select 'reboot system now' to reboot your phone into Android."

While that thread does include some instructions, it makes no mention of any wipe at all, which conflicts with many other threads.

Well, make a nandroid and then wipe before flashing the ROM...simples

EddyOS said:
Well, make a nandroid and then wipe before flashing the ROM...simples
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Since the nandroid would be stored on the sdcard, which is a part of the data folder, my concern is that wipe data will erase the sdcard and the nandroid...

Wipe in CWM only deals with ROM data, it doesn't touch the SD card partition

[Q] [Help] I flashed by accident an a2sd rom and now desire won't boot

i tried everything, i did the steps from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632 but the problem is that i don't have on my sdcard or phone memory another rom to install.. what can i do? thanks!

Need a Little more detail, can you get into hboot, can you get into recovery?
are you S-off
Need some more information on what you have done please

Yes i can get into hboot and recovery and i am S-OFF. i did these steps:
[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)
[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader
[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.
[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options
[STEP5]- format boot
[STEP6]- format system
[STEP7]- format data
[STEP8]- format cache
[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)
and now i am stuck in the 10th step, wich is to flash another rom from sdcard, but like i said the only rom iv'e got is the one that doesn't fit my phone. i tried to plug it via usb in 2 differnet pc's in order to upload another rom, but i couldn't get to the phone's file manager.
thanks!

yanaym said:
Yes i can get into hboot and recovery and i am S-OFF. i did these steps:
[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)
[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader
[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.
[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options
[STEP5]- format boot
[STEP6]- format system
[STEP7]- format data
[STEP8]- format cache
[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)
and now i am stuck in the 10th step, wich is to flash another rom from sdcard, but like i said the only rom iv'e got is the one that doesn't fit my phone. i tried to plug it via usb in 2 differnet pc's in order to upload another rom, but i couldn't get to the phone's file manager.
thanks!
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Why don't you remove your sd card from the phone and stick it into your pc and load whatever rom and then put it back into your phone?

yanaym said:
and now i am stuck in the 10th step, wich is to flash another rom from sdcard, but like i said the only rom iv'e got is the one that doesn't fit my phone. i tried to plug it via usb in 2 differnet pc's in order to upload another rom, but i couldn't get to the phone's file manager.
thanks!
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within recovery there is an option 'mounts and storage', then 'mount sd' or something like that.
then you'll be able to see it when plugged into PC, copy a rom over
it's always best to have an sd card reader to transfer files, much easier.
if you flash an a2sd rom in future which needs an sd partition, use gparted (step 5 here) or 4ext recovery

Root and ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6 on GTS5660M (Walkthrough)

Hi folks, this is my first post, so feedback is appreciated. I don't see how to add tabs, so sorry if this looks a bit funky.
Purpose: To compile a walkthrough for what I did to root and install a custom recovery on a GT-S5660M (Samsung Galaxy Gio) running the original 2.3.4 pre-installed ROM, locked on the Bell network (Canada). The phone is still locked, I had no impulse to unlock at this time and I don't have a locked-out sim to use for that purpose anyway. But if you're into that, the link for the phone root will continue on to describe that process. Looks scary to me.
Audience: newbies like me
Phone: Samsung Galaxy Gio
Model Number: GT-S5660M (adding GTS5660M for search purposes)
Android: 2.3.4 after factory reset, I think it shipped with 2.3.6 :/
Baseband: S5660MUGKG3 (whatever, I have no idea what a baseband is)
Kernel Version: 2.6.35.7-perf-CL413839 [email protected] #1 (It sure is!)
Build Number: GINGERBREAD.MUGKG3 (delicious if you use a scratch-n-sniff screen protector)
Background: I bought an android phone. I ran out of room really fast before I had all the apps I wanted (all very modest stuff). I wanted to remove the built-in apps I didn't want such as the whopper of a 25MB Mobile TV, and also make a backup image so I would be able to restore all in the future. In the end, I chose to stick with the stock rfs file system and the current ROM without flashing any custom ROM versions. So began 2 solid days of reading so many threads I didn't even know Firefox could have that many tabs open at once.
Prerequisites: The phone with battery near 100%
USB cable that is used for data and for charging
microSD card class 6 or above (the one that came with the phone would be enough) installed in the phone
Computer capable of treating the phone like any old removable usb drive (usb mass storage). In my case, Windows XP.
The two downloaded files needed for this operation
Root file: Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip
Thread: Thread from AndroidForums
File Link: Link within the thread
ClockworkMod file: S5660M_cwm-5.0.2.6_feb_26_12.zip
Thread: Thread from xda-developers
File Link: Link within the thread
Note: The ClockworkMod file from the author's website is a different version, and is different inside. I have NO clue how to use it. I went with something that was reported to be stable and used successfully.
Note: Because I just got the phone, I didn't have any data in there worth saving. If you want to back up some of the data on your phone, now would be the time. I suppose you can install Kies from Samsung on your PC and use that to back up your stuff. Other people might have other suggestions, but because I didn't need to do it, I didn't look into it. If you use My Data Manager to track your data plan usage, take note of how much you've used this cycle so you don't forget. At least My Data Manager lets you enter the data already used and a date for the beginning of the cycle to begin counting from.
Ok, so at this point you have your PC running with the two files stored somewhere and the usb unplugged. Ready?
Disclaimer: The usual obvious thing you've read 1000 times already: Do any of this at your own risk. Here's the part you need to take note of: I don't know what I'm doing. I read enough in 2 days to be able to go forward with this procedure without relying heavily on being lucky. I went forward when I was comfortable there was sufficient reason to believe it would be successful. Having a bloatware phone is better than having a brick. That said, I still took a risk in doing it and voided my warranty, and if something goes wrong I'm almost certainly unable to help you other than to clarify something I wrote. Apart from reading a lot of threads that were mostly opaque to me, I only know that what I did here worked for me. At this point, I don't even know how to delete the bloatware. But I'm doing this now before I get off on a tangent and follow another rabbit hole.
Begin!
== PREPARATION ==
000) Make sure the battery is around 100%
001) Factory data reset [enable Format SD card] (Settings/Privacy/Factory data reset)
002) Wait for phone to restart
003) Shut down/restart phone just to make it all happy and completely booted
004) Make sure it's acting normal. It certainly should be.
005) Turn off cell data network (Hold power button until a menu appears, select “Data Network Mode”)
006) Enable unknown sources (Settings/Applications/Unknown sources)
007) Set long screen timeout
008) Turn off USB debugging (Settings/Applications/Development/USB Debugging) This is important because if debugging is on, you won't be able to get the PC to make it a writable drive in My Computer
009) Connect the phone via USB
010) Press the Home button
011) Swipe down from top of screen to show the menu
012) Tap the message that says “USB Connected: Select to copy files to/from your computer."
013) Tap “Connect storage to PC” and press OK
014) In Windows, open My Computer and open the removable drive where the phone's SD card is mounted. "mounted" means a partition on the drive is made visible and in this case also writable. To relate, the C:\ drive is partition 0 on disk 0 mounted at a place in the file system Windows calls C. So C:\ is what you'd call the root of the C drive. So if your phone is mounted on, say, drive letter E then E:\ is the root of the E drive where the user-accessible partition of your phone's SD card is mounted.
015) On the root of the removable drive, create a folder called “Applications”
016) Into the Applications folder put the downloaded file Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip So on your phone's SD card you now have a folder Applications and inside you have a file Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip
017) Close the file manager windows you have open, making sure no programs are accessing the SD card.
018) On your phone, select “Disconnect storage from PC”
019) In Windows, unmount the drive as you would for any usb drive e.g. click the taskbar icon, click “Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device - Drive(E”
020) Unplug the USB cable
021) Turn off the phone, wait for it to power down completely and wait a few seconds
== ROOT THE PHONE ==
022) READ ALL OF THIS STEP BEFORE DOING IT: Simultaneously press and hold the Home Button and the Power Button, and at some point you will see the phone come alive and show SAMSUNG. Release the power button but keep holding the home button until you see it start to boot into recovery mode with some words appearing on the screen that don't normally appear, then release the home button and let it finish booting into the recovery console. You will now be in the stock recovery console.
023) With the volume control, navigate to the item “apply update from sdcard”
024) Press the Home Button
025) With the volume control, navigate to the folder you created “Applications”
026) Press the Home Button
027) With the volume control, navigate to the file Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip
028) Go make a sandwich or get a coffee or have a comfort break or play peekaboo with your dog and think about if you really want to do this.
Yes? Then continue...
029) With the highlight on Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip press the Home Button
030) You see the messages: Unmounting SYSTEM..., Rooting complete. Enjoy!, Install from sdcard complete.
031) If not already highlighted, navigate to the option “reboot system now”
032) Press the Home Button
033) The phone is now rooted and boots normally
034) Once it has restarted normally, power down and restart the phone normally again just to make sure it boots properly
035) Optional: Connect to a network
036) Optional: Use marketplace to install Android Terminal Emulator by Jack Palevich
037) Optional: Run Android Terminal Emulator, type su and press return, accept admin permissions, you see a # prompt which is the admin prompt in linux. Type exit and press return to get out of admin and back to the $ prompt, and type exit again and hit return again to exit the terminal.
Congratulations, your phone is now rooted. Next step is to install a custom recovery console so you can make a backup of your entire system to your sd card.
Regarding ClockworkMod Recovery: I read a lot trying to figure out how to do this. Perhaps there are several ways, I don't know, but I finally read enough to decide on a path to take, and that involves using a modified version of the original ClockworkMod Recovery for Gio which is updated to 5.0.2.6 (not the newest, but stable) which uses only the rfs file system and not ext4. This is a very important point to consider if you are interested in custom ROM versions. You will want to do more reading and considering, because I get the impression that custom ROMs tend to use ext4, and thus you'd probably want to choose a different version of CWM that uses ext4 instead, such as px-CWM-v2.zip linked at the bottom.
I don't know, at this stage of my understanding, if one can later flash another CWM version suitable for ext4. Sounds logical to me, but...
== INSTALL ClockworkMod Recovery ==
100) Check your battery level, make sure it's around 100%
101) Have your PC and phone on
102) Plug in the USB cable
103) Swipe down from top of screen
104) Tap the message that says “USB Connected: Select to copy files to/from your computer."
105) Tap “Connect storage to PC” and press OK
106) In Windows, open My Computer and open the removable drive where the phone's SD card is found
107) Copy the file S5660M_cwm-5.0.2.6_feb_26_12.zip to the root of the removable disk (e.g. if the removable drive is E:\ then put it right in there and not in a subfolder)
108) Close the file manager windows you have open, making sure no programs are accessing the SD card.
109) On your phone, select “Disconnect storage from PC”
110) In Windows, unmount the drive as you would for any usb drive
111) Unplug the USB cable from the phone
112) Turn off the phone, wait for it to power down completely and wait a few seconds
113) Boot into the stock recovery console.
114) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe data/factory reset”
115) Press the Home Button
116) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – delete all user data”
117) Press the Home Button
118) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe cache partition”
119) Press the Home Button
120) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – wipe cache”
121) Press the Home Button
122) With the volume control, navigate to the item “apply update from sdcard”
123) Press the Home Button
124) With the volume control, navigate to the file “S5660M_cwm-5.0.2.6_feb_26_12.zip”
125) Press the Home Button
126) If not already highlighted, navigate to the option “reboot system now”
127) Press the Home Button
128) After the phone boots normally, power down and restart again to ensure it still boots normally
The phone should now be rooted with an rfs-only ClockworkMod Recovery version 5.0.2.6
I followed through to make sure I could run a backup and restore. Again, I had no data, so I did the safest thing and factory wiped before backup and again before restore.
== BACKUP ROOTED ROM WITH NO USER DATA ==
200) Check your battery level, make sure it's around 100%
201) Power off the phone
202) Simultaneously press and hold the Home Button and the Power Button, and at some point you will see the phone come alive and show SAMSUNG. Release the power button but keep holding the home button until you see it start to boot into recovery mode with some words appearing on the screen that don't normally appear, then release the home button and let it finish booting into the recovery console. You will now be in the ClockworkMod 5.0.2.6 recovery console.
203) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe data/factory reset”
204) Press the Home Button
205) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – delete all user data”
206) Press the Home Button
207) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe cache partition”
208) Press the Home Button
209) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – wipe cache”
210) Press the Home Button
211) With the volume control, navigate to the item “backup and restore”
212) Press the Home Button
213) If the Backup option is not already highlighted, use the volume control to highlight it
214) Press the Home Button, the backup process begins and you see lots of file names updating at the bottom of the screen. When it's done, it will show: Generating md5 sum..., Backup complete!
215) If not already highlighted, navigate to the option “reboot system now”
216) Press the Home Button
217) After the phone boots normally, power down and restart to ensure it still boots normally
== RESTORE PHONE FROM BACKUP ==
300) Check your battery level, make sure it's around 100%
301) Power off the phone
302) Boot into the ClockworkMod 5.0.2.6 recovery console.
303) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe data/factory reset”
304) Press the Home Button
305) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – delete all user data”
306) Press the Home Button
307) With the volume control, navigate to the item “wipe cache partition”
308) Press the Home Button
309) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – wipe cache”
310) Press the Home Button
311) With the volume control, navigate to the item “backup and restore”
312) Press the Home Button
313) With the volume control, navigate to the option “Restore”
314) Press the Home Button
315) With the volume control, navigate to the entry that says “Yes – Restore”
316) Press the Home Button, You will see a lot of file names change at the bottom. When it's done, it will show: Restore complete!
317) If not already highlighted, navigate to the option “reboot system now”
318) Press the Home Button
319) After the phone boots normally, power down and restart to ensure it boots normally
Congratulations, you have rooted, backed up and restored your phone. Unless you bricked it.
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CONDENSED WALKTHROUGH
== ROOTING PREPARATION ==
Back up all your data that you have on the phone. Contacts, photos, whatever.
Battery near 100%
PC on with the rooting zip file downloaded and accessible
Root file: Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip
Thread: Thread from AndroidForums
File Link: Link within the thread
USB unplugged
Factory data reset with sd card reformat
Set long screen timeout
Turn off USB debugging
Connect USB and open the sd card in My Computer
Create a folder called Applications
Copy the rooting zip file to the Applications folder
Unmount the usb mass storage
Unplug the USB cable
Turn off the phone
== ROOTING ==
Boot the phone into the recovery console
Apply an update from sdcard, navigate to Applications, highlight the rooting zip file, click the Home button on the phone
Wait until it's done
Reboot the phone
== CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY PREPARATION ==
Battery near 100%
PC on with the CWM zip file downloaded and accessible
ClockworkMod file: S5660M_cwm-5.0.2.6_feb_26_12.zip (rfs only)
Thread: Thread from xda-developers
File Link: Link within the thread
USB unplugged
Connect USB and open the sd card in My Computer
Copy the CWM zip file to the root of the sd card available in My Computer (i.e. not inside any of the folders)
Unmount the usb mass storage
Unplug the USB cable
Turn off the phone
== CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY INSTALLATION ==
Boot into the recovery console
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply an update from sd card, locate the CWM zip file, click the Home button on the phone
Wait for it to finish
Reboot the phone
== NANDROID BACKUP OF THE ROM (without user data) ==
Boot into the recovery console (ClockworkMod Recovery version 5.0.2.6)
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
backup and restore
Highlight the option Backup, click home key, wait for it to finish
Reboot the phone
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THREADS AND FILES
Root file: Universal_GB_ROOT_v10.zip
UnRoot file: Universal_GB_UNROOT.zip
Thread: Thread from AndroidForums
ClockworkMod file: S5660M_cwm-5.0.2.6_feb_26_12.zip (rfs only)
Thread: Thread from xda-developers
Some of the most helpful threads I found:
Peteragent5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493932
TripleRipple
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1871169
phiexz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421650
phiexz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20896513
VeNuM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587607
AndroidForums - StoneBoyTony
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-min...0-ace-s5830-gio-s5660-pop-i559-fit-s5670.html
ClockworkMod file: px-CWM-v2.zip (ext4 only, may be 5.0.2.7 or 5.0.2.8)
A really big thanks to all the folks who put this stuff on here to find. Without it I'd be stuck with a bloatware phone.
Next task is to remove the bloatware and install something like avast, or whatever.