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Error when installing App2SD

Hi, i am trying to install app2sd using the Nimbu guide found here : http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/05/how-to-root-your-htc-desire/
However, when i follow that guide and start to flash from the sd card, i get this error:
E:Can't symlink /system/xbin/[
E:Failure at line5:
symlink busybox SYSTEM:xbin/[
The card i am using to flash the app2sd is NOT partitioned. Is this an issue?
Here is some other info on my phone
- i have an orange phone, but i reflashed to the 1.21.... generic rom
- After installing this rom, i flashed the radio back to this one: update-bravo-radio-32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11-signed.zip
If you need any more info let me know and thanks for your help

ok, just to update this...
i have now managed to install app2sd by reinstalling rootedupdate.zip
HOWEVER, now when i turn my phone on it just goes to the white HTC screen and hangs there, it doesnt ever boot up. Can anyone shed any light as to why its doing this and how i can fix it?
i have partitioned the SD card and did install it with a goldcard
in the mean time im gonna flash back to a non app2sd rom

anyone know why it might be doing this? it just hangs on the white htc splash screen straight after powering on

gyro11 said:
anyone know why it might be doing this? it just hangs on the white htc splash screen straight after powering on
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If you are stuck in a boot loop, then like you suggested, it's most likely because you have not partitioned the SD Card.
You only need to create a Gold Card if your phone is software branded and is running a non-generic rom.

but ive rebooted the phone with a partitioned SD card and that doesnt work...Does the card i install App2sd need to be partioned?

gyro11 said:
but ive rebooted the phone with a partitioned SD card and that doesnt work...Does the card i install App2sd need to be partioned?
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You replace the Gold Card sd card with your normal sd card. Then in recovery, you need to partition your SD card, this is for the benefit of allocating extra space with the ext partition, which is used specifically for the installation of App data.
That's why it is recommened to set a 0MB swap, ext2 with 512MB (for apps), and the rest of the partition to FAT32.
Make sure you wipe Factory Reset, Dalvik, Cache, SD:EXT and then flash the ROM. After you have done this and while you are still in recovery (don't reboot phone yet), install Apps2SD zip (only if you are installing a ROM that does not include Apps2SD). Power off phone and then insert your sd card into the phone (not the Gold Card). You then enter Recovery Mode again and partition the SD card accordingly.

ok, but im not sure your understanding (i might be wrong...)
I have 2 sd cards....1 which is a gold card which is NOT partitioned and contains the install file for app2sd
and 1 which is the sdcard i run in my phone under normal operation.
I am ONLY using the non partitioned card to install app2sd. As soon as it is installed i remove this card and insert the Partitioned card
Does this make sense? So i know that a partioned sd card Must be used when running the phone with apps2sd, but do i need a Partioned goldcard just to install it? i can i just use a standard goldcard for the installation (and then put in the partioned card after installation) (note...i am using a goldcard as i have an orange uk desire with a generic rom)

Ah yes i understand you now. Yep, the Gold Card should not be partitioned, only formatted as FAT32. After you have used the Gold Card to install Apps2SD, you then insert the other SD card and partition using that.
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ok, so that is how i had it, with the partioned sdcard, but i am still getting the white htc splash screen and not getting any further. Any idea why this might be happening?
im installing it on the 1.21... update

try ext3 , NOT ext2
that did it for me.

rhedgehog said:
try ext3 , NOT ext2
that did it for me.
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Do you mean to select the option:
SD:ext2 to ext3
as i have already done that and it didnt work

Hmm... strange...
Have you tried repartitioning your sd card? Set the values for swap and ext to zero, then check to see if it boots ok.
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MasDroid said:
Hmm... strange...
Have you tried repartitioning your sd card? Set the values for swap and ext to zero, then check to see if it boots ok.
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nope, just tried with these settings and unfortunately still no luck. I even tried it without any sdcard in there at all and still the same result.
Could the radio version have anything to do with it? as (other than the update) thats the only other thing ive flashed to it

gyro11 said:
nope, just tried with these settings and unfortunately still no luck. I even tried it without any sdcard in there at all and still the same result.
Could the radio version have anything to do with it? as (other than the update) thats the only other thing ive flashed to it
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What Radio version did you flash exactly? I don't think that would cause a problem unless you flashed an incompatible version. Are you running Bootloader 0.75.0000 or 0.80.0000?
I would suggest you flash back to stock Radio and then flash back to stock ROM also, as this will restore the stock Kernel. Then after that, carefully take it step by step and try again.
From the steps you have carried out, it all sounds ok to me. When you attempt this again after returning everything to stock, try a ROM that already includes Apps2SD, leaving you to just partition the SD card (after wiping and flashing the custom ROM while in Recovery).

The rom im using is the rootupdate base (1.15) with the 1.21... generic rom manually installed.
I then flashed the following radio:
update-bravo-radio-32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11-signed.zip
This is really annoying as im finding myself flashing my phone daily now to get this working. I appreciate all your help but i think now im just gonna wait for a stable release of froyo to come onto the forums and update with that

Thats the stock radio version that you re-flashed so don't see how that would cause a problem.
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Need serious help with white screen ASAP

alright so i was trying to install ruby and my SD card said it was full so int he porcess or trying to format my SD card i think i formatted my phones storage instead. so not knowing i went and tried to install the ruby rom like normal realizing that it would never boot so after trying to format all the partions of the phone through clockwork and still nothing worked.
so i went and decided i was gonna try and just downgrade or unroot so i ran this
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...ideo-howto-unroot-incredible-downgrading.html
and placed the pb311img on the SD card and excuted it and it disabled the clockwork and all that but not it just keep hanging up in the screen that you get when you hold vol down and power and it wont do anything when i try and reboot it it just keep going back to this screen..need help ASAP as this is my only phone and i dont wanna get a refurb

You're going to have to explain your problem a bit more clearly. Is it freezing on the bootloader screen? Like it loads and it doesn't do anything?
Please slow down, calm down, and try again

its difficult to explain but it wont go back past the HTC incredible white screen.
how i got to this point was i think i accidentally erased the internal memory off the phone and yes i know stupid me
so i went into recovery and when into mount and storage and formatted everything and then wiped the data and tried to install the ruby from off my SD card is said install was complete so i clicked reboot and itll reboot but once it gets to the white HTC incredible screen it just sits there and does nothing so i was like hmm maybe i can downgrade and found a PB311IMG file for a complete downgrade and tried that and it would just get stuck in the HBOOT and so i went into recovery and it was the stock recovery so i tried to apply update.zip which would be the ruby rom and it failed.
so i found a PB311IMG of clockwork recovery so i reflashed that and went into it and tried to re install ruby from that and rebooted and stuck at white HTC screen

egobuster1 said:
alright so i was trying to install ruby and my SD card said it was full so int he porcess or trying to format my SD card i think i formatted my phones storage instead. so not knowing i went and tried to install the ruby rom like normal realizing that it would never boot so after trying to format all the partions of the phone through clockwork and still nothing worked.
so i went and decided i was gonna try and just downgrade or unroot so i ran this
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...ideo-howto-unroot-incredible-downgrading.html
and placed the pb311img on the SD card and excuted it and it disabled the clockwork and all that but not it just keep hanging up in the screen that you get when you hold vol down and power and it wont do anything when i try and reboot it it just keep going back to this screen..need help ASAP as this is my only phone and i dont wanna get a refurb
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Did you format to FAT32?

Keyboards said:
Did you format to FAT32?
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format what to that..the phone or SD card?

egobuster1 said:
format what to that..the phone or SD card?
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Format the SD card to FAT32 type format before you put the PB31img on it.

what PB311IMG should i use

egobuster1 said:
what PB311IMG should i use
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http://androidforums.com/incredible...ideo-howto-unroot-incredible-downgrading.html
Tutorial I used when I needed to unroot my phone. If you dont format to FAT32 your going to have problems. You shouldn't have a problem though if you follow that tutorial. You can boot to hboot so your ok.

worked..yay!!

egobuster1 said:
worked..yay!!
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Nice dude.

i have the exact same problem and tried this method and it didn't work for me. it told me the main version was older and doesn't work. Hopefully im not bricked!

Unable to flash new/seemingly any rom - Any help?

So a while back I rooted my desire, and played about with a few roms, then stuck with cyanogen for quite a while. This is the order of a few actions I took which I think may be where the problem occurred.
So from being rooted with cyanogen 7:
I decided to s-off the phone with alpharev
I then put a new splash screen on
Then decided I wanted a new sd card (I was told by a mate it will just go straight in no problems) So I bought an 8gb card stuck it in put my backed up data on the card and booted, all was fine.
I then thought about trying a few new roms that had appeared, and I tried flashing one only for the phone to hang forever on the splash screen.
I've been trying a few things to try to resolve it, stabbing in the dark, such as running unrevoked3 (maybe to root again, only for it to say the firmware is too new) I made my new sd card a gold card, like I did with the original.
None of these helped. has anyone any ideas or know how to sort this out???

What recovery do you have? Which ROM did hang?

Did you do a full wipe?
Does the rom you want to instal require a ext partition?
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I wiped the cache, and dalvik cache, even did a factory reset in recovery. Im using clockwork recovery.
I tried InsertCoin_GB_Sense2.1_CM7_v20 and Reflex_S_2.0_LITE_GingerBread_Sense-2.1_GRI40_A2SD+
Maybe these need an ext partition? Would that be it? I'm not sure how to set that up yet.

yes those roms need ext partition, don't know about reflex bu have insertcoin myself, 1GB ext4.
1.go to recovery
2.press on partition sd,choose the size, then after it's finished convert it to ext3 in partition sd again below the option of making one, you can make ext4, but thats up to you. ext3 is needed..
Don't forget to backup your sd, you'll lose everything on it

The ROM you mentioned is an a2sd ROM. So yes, you'll need to partition your SD card if you want to use a a2sd rom.
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Thanks for this I will get on it and let you know

I can't find an option in my clockwork to partition the sd. Just been searching a bit and seen it can be done through rom manager, that rebooted the phone and left me with the ! in a triangle and the small droid on the screen and when I press the power button it is in recovery it says installation aborted. Is there a guide for the Desire? I can't seem to find one....
Sorry found a guide on here. Will try to do it now.

Ok so I am really struggling to get anywhere with a few different guides to partition the card. Through rom manager it also says signature failed, although I have tried toggling the permissions. Major

stevoh84 said:
Ok so I am really struggling to get anywhere with a few different guides to partition the card. Through rom manager it also says signature failed, although I have tried toggling the permissions. Major
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Steveoh like i told, do it from recovery(easiest), when you rooted you were able to change the recovery(unrEVOked), do so and change it to Ra recovery
Still if you don't want to this program can help youhttp://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Download this and do it from you pc, although it's very easy to do from recovery, takes 5,6 minutes mostly waiting..

I have created a partition with the program you recommenced. How will I know that it is ext 3? And that my phone will use it?
found it!

[Q] Loop after flash

Hello guys.
I've just tried to flash the cm7 Hboot but something went wrong and now when I turn on my HTC Desire, it is opening only the Alpharev Recovery (v2.5.1.8.used for the s-off) black screen with blue commands. I can also acceed to the fastboot and what I see is:
AlphaRev CM7 r2
BRAVO Pvt1 Ship s-off
Hboot-6.93.1002
.......
.......
radio-5.11.05.27
I try to explain what I did in case u need to know my mistakes
I've created a backup, wiped everything, installed the PB99IMG.zip from SD card (it took 1 second to do it...is it normal??) and I rebooted. Everything was fine when I turned my desire on. I had to set language etc. and I went to check on the Application options if the internal memory become bigger thanks to the cm7, but it was 180Mb as before (I think). So, I thought that it didn't work out and I entered again the fastboot. Here it asked me if I wanted to make an update...I did it and then I went to the recovery to restore my backup. From here on, everytime I switch on, it goes directly to the recovery screen. I tried to wipe alla gain and flash again the cm7, but I had always the same thing.
Another info...now, if i go to the fastboot and I select BootLoader: Hboot it ask me always for the update again....
What can I do?? Please Heeeeelp!
Thanks in advance!!
P.S. I don't have a microSd card reader and if I have to copy something on the sd (another rom or a ruu) I don't know how to do it as I cannot see the memory card from my pc when I connect it via usb and I am in recovery. Is there another way or should I run to some friend?

Which ROM are you using ? Rename PB99IMG.zip to something else or remove it. Download a proper ROM and flash using recovery

This was the first time that I flash something...so I think I have still the standard one.
I tried to install the cm7 because it is required to install the custom rom I wanted to try.
Never did before.
Now that I connect it via usb, I cannot access to the sd from the pc. Is there another way to modify or add something to my sd or I run to buy a minisd card reader?

black.hawk84 said:
This was the first time that I flash something...so I think I have still the standard one.
I tried to install the cm7 because it is required to install the custom rom I wanted to try.
Never did before.
Now that I connect it via usb, I cannot access to the sd from the pc. Is there another way to modify or add something to my sd or I run to buy a minisd card reader?
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You can access your SD card by enable it to USB from recovery, which recovery are you using ? Try to find it in the menu, should have something like "mount usb storage" under advance or storage option maybe

ikidntu said:
You can access your SD card by enable it to USB from recovery, which recovery are you using ? Try to find it in the menu, should have something like "mount usb storage" under advance or storage option maybe
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I got Alpharev Recovery 2.5.1.8
Yes, I found it and it works (usb thing. THANKS!)
As now I am a bit on panic (sorry but I am very nuuuub but I try to do things...otherwise no fun) which ROM do u think I should flash? just to see if everything will work again (easy withoud requiremets. I have already an EXT3 2gb partition and FAT32 14gb)...then I will choose another one when I will be calm enough!

black.hawk84 said:
I got Alpharev Recovery 2.5.1.8
Yes, I found it and it works (usb thing. THANKS!)
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There is always a Thanks button
black.hawk84 said:
As now I am a bit on panic (sorry but I am very nuuuub but I try to do things...otherwise no fun) which ROM do u think I should flash? just to see if everything will work again (easy withoud requiremets. I have already an EXT3 2gb partition and FAT32 14gb)...then I will choose another one when I will be calm enough!
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You can try non-sense (lol at this term) ROM first, did a backup then try other later. One that I tried very easy and stable is the Ginger Villain.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880465
Just download, put in ur sd-card and flash !

ikidntu said:
There is always a Thanks button
You can try non-sense (lol at this term) ROM first, did a backup then try other later. One that I tried very easy and stable is the Ginger Villain.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880465
Just download, put in ur sd-card and flash !
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Yuhuu!
Thank you man!

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

Help- Can't factory reset or ruu.

cmlusco said:
scottgti said:
CM
I had an Inc for a while, I have moved on to a RAZR maxx. I haven't worked on an Inc for a while. My friend asked me to help her. She is totally stock. Low storage space warning. Factory reset , from ROM or hboot , leads to android with triangle/exclamation mark. I think she tried to update OTA and the download failed. She has 3mb free. Under "SD and phone storage" the internal phone storage lists the total and available space as "unavailable". When I try to go to recovery from hboot it sounds like a bad hard drive, not the phone vibing but a drive spinning up an stopping a couple of times. Any help or recommendations? Thanks.
Scott
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You need to do an ruu thru hboot. Download this http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip and place it on your sdcard in no folders. Boot to hboot and wait a few secs, hboot should find the file and prompt you to press vol up to install. That will ensure everything is there and not corrupt.
Then you will want to root the phone, and flash the ext4 no data limit mod, or flash a rom that its built into. That will solve the low space issue.
Fyi, these phones do not have hard drives with spinning disks like pc's. They use flash memory which is a chip, no moving parts.
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I pm'd cm for help, but figured I would start a thread. I tried to do an ruu through hboot, but the file isn't recognized. I formatted the SD on my computer using SD formatter 3.1 and also formatted in the phone. I downloaded the file twice. I tried 2 sd cards. I have flashed radios and such in the past, so I am familiar with the process, and it is ignoring the file on the SD card. The phone boots up and seems to run okay, but I can't factory reset it. I know that it has flash memory, I was trying to make the point that it isn't "vibing", but it is making a slight buzz when recovery is selected. Any help is appreciated.

scottgti said:
I pm'd cm for help, but figured I would start a thread. I tried to do an ruu through hboot, but the file isn't recognized. I formatted the SD on my computer using SD formatter 3.1 and also formatted in the phone. I downloaded the file twice. I tried 2 sd cards. I have flashed radios and such in the past, so I am familiar with the process, and it is ignoring the file on the SD card. The phone boots up and seems to run okay, but I can't factory reset it. I know that it has flash memory, I was trying to make the point that it isn't "vibing", but it is making a slight buzz when recovery is selected. Any help is appreciated.
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What hboot version doed the phone currently have. If its 1.02 or 1.07 you can try to use htcdev site to unlock it, then get a custom recovery on there. If you can accomplish that, then you can see if recovery will see the sdcard. If it can read it, you can wipe everything and flash a custom rom.

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What hboot version doed the phone currently have. If its 1.02 or 1.07 you can try to use htcdev site to unlock it, then get a custom recovery on there. If you can accomplish that, then you can see if recovery will see the sdcard. If it can read it, you can wipe everything and flash a custom rom.
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It has 0.92.0000.

scottgti said:
It has 0.92.0000.
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Well if you can boot you can try an ruu exe with your pc.