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Hi, i've rooted my xperia play and wanted to know if their was a custom ROM out there that had everything working like stock.
Secondly, I have a pre loaded 8GB card on here, is there any way to increase internal app memory, maybe make 500 mb of the sd card part of it.
And anyone have a list of good games, that use the controller and aren't memory hogs on the phone.
PS can I use app2sd?? Also have attached pic of the ABOUT PHONE section on the play.
thank you
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ichigo786 said:
Hi, i've rooted my xperia play and wanted to know if their was a custom ROM out there that had everything working like stock.
Secondly, I have a pre loaded 8GB card on here, is there any way to increase internal app memory, maybe make 500 mb of the sd card part of it.
And anyone have a list of good games, that use the controller and aren't memory hogs on the phone.
PS can I use app2sd?? Also have attached pic of the ABOUT PHONE section on the play.
thank you
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you will need your bootloader unlocked (if it isn't already) before you can flash custom roms... and aboyut the games and controller, most custom roms have a glitch that the circle only acts as a back button so dont really work as a control any more,
my opinion (and thats just it an opinion) stick with stock/stock-based if you want to use your controller with normal games! (emulators work fine as you can manually assign keys)
Perhaps you can try DarkforestMix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1482104
for apps on ext partition. load recovery click partition sd card it will format sd card. then download Link2sd from market and follow steps. Darkforest 3.0.5 is best stock based rom imho
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Hi, can someone tell me if the Darkforest 3.0.5 stock rom has everything working just like a stock rom ? gamepad, touch etc
Also is the battery life any good or should i change kernels?
Lastly i am going to format my sd card and do the Links2sd as mentioned above, i wanted to know if installing the Darkforest is as simple as just placing it on my external SD booting up to CWM and then flashing the ROM...?
thank you for any help (and for the help already given greatly appreciate it)
ichigo786 said:
Hi, can someone tell me if the Darkforest 3.0.5 stock rom has everything working just like a stock rom ? gamepad, touch etc
Also is the battery life any good or should i change kernels?
Lastly i am going to format my sd card and do the Links2sd as mentioned above, i wanted to know if installing the Darkforest is as simple as just placing it on my external SD booting up to CWM and then flashing the ROM...?
thank you for any help (and for the help already given greatly appreciate it)
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yes to all (doomlord kernel is best )
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Hey, I'm in the same position, and was wondering if someone could link me to CWM for locked bootloaders, and to Darkforest 3.0.5? Also what would I have to do if a newer version of Darkforest comes out?
Anyone? Sorry to be a pest >.<
ShahinTehShiz said:
Anyone? Sorry to be a pest >.<
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maybe make your own thread? but go on the market and look for something like cwm recovery installer xperia.
Unlocking your Bootloader is well worth doing.
Owner of Asus Transformer TF101 with Dock [Rooted][Stock(ICS)ROM]
And.. Xperia Play R800i [Rooted][DarkForestROM3.0.5][DooMKernelOC1.6_Governor=SmartAssV2_I/Oscheduler=Deadline][BaseBand=36][RAMmanagerPro=Balanced(MoreFreeMemory)][ZeamLauncher][SDext2=1GB][Link2SD'd][280mbFreeInternalSpace]
Hi, I'm a complete newb to rooting Android phones, so I'd like to apologize in advance. I current;y have a Galaxy S2 SGH-T989, and I wanted to flash some custom ROMS onto it. I have just rooted my phone (after many painstaking hours) and am now atempting to install superuser, which didn't come with the root. When I open clockworkmod, it cant detect the .zip file containing superuser. HOWEVER, once I moved the .zip to a subfolder (DCIM), clocworkmod could detect it, bit could not finish installation and aborted. Any tips on how to make it see it under the main directory? Or how to tell it to complete installation?
R u putting it on the external sd?
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It has to be on the root of the sd
Sometimes it takes a few times for it to stick ...
Put su in external sd, flash you will Get a error then do nandroid backup and then restore
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OK this is what u got to do... when on computer and u are dragging the su zip over to your sdcard. (Has to be external) make sure u are not sticking it in a directory ( or sub folder) just drag it and pretty much drop it under the folders make sure it does not go into any of the folders like I said. Then u should see the su zip . Now when u go into clock work mod go to install from sdcard (make sure u choose external) find the zip....again it shouldn't be in any directories (folders). Flash it it might error out....but do not leave cwm stay in there and reflash it until it says it installed correctly. Should take two or three times. Then boot up u will see su in app folder. Go to market. Dl busy box. Install it then go into app and install busy box. Now u are good to go. Also after all that is said and done go back into recovery and go to backup and restore and choose backup. Now u will have a backup of rooted stock rom in case something happens on custom rom u can always revert back to ur backup.........also did u install recovery thru Odin? U had to because rom manager needs root....anyways if u flashed recovery (cwm) thru Odin. I don't think u technically need to root. U can just flash any custom from (there all rooted). The reason y don't have to root is because unlike from manager which needs root first to install recovery. Odin didn't thus this is why u technically don't need to root if u want to tho do it and remember always make a backup! Before flashing custom roms !
Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?
gogenvy said:
Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?
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basically, no. If u don't have much money I recommend buying a really cheap one off eBay, can get them for $2 USD.
I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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zxrider1986 said:
I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that
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All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that
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thnx x, he completely missed the point
same thing happened to me but after i did a nandroid backup it worked..
So, I am slowly workign my way through NoSudo's post on how to get CWM installed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615881
Root no problem
Unlock No Problem
Recovery ?
There is a warning about renaming the /etc/install-recovery.sh file. before step 4 of ptesmoke's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601663
I quess just for safety reasons, why am I renaming this file? Would I ever need to put it back? What does that file do? etc?
What do I do when I want to add crossix memory swap mod? It requires the use of a modified version of that file.
Do I just change the name of the file prior to flashing things through CWM?
What happens to the tablet if I am running the memory swap, and then disable the file like that so I can load a different rom? If I have like 10 GB of apps on the card at the time, it can't exactly dirty swap the memory back to the internal?
probably shoulda asked before I started, but hey better late then never right. At least I ain't bricked it yet
Any and all help is a appreciated.
BcWilk said:
So, I am slowly workign my way through NoSudo's post on how to get CWM installed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615881
Root no problem
Unlock No Problem
Recovery ?
There is a warning about renaming the /etc/install-recovery.sh file. before step 4 of ptesmoke's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601663
I quess just for safety reasons, why am I renaming this file? Would I ever need to put it back? What does that file do? etc?
What do I do when I want to add crossix memory swap mod? It requires the use of a modified version of that file.
Do I just change the name of the file prior to flashing things through CWM?
What happens to the tablet if I am running the memory swap, and then disable the file like that so I can load a different rom? If I have like 10 GB of apps on the card at the time, it can't exactly dirty swap the memory back to the internal?
probably shoulda asked before I started, but hey better late then never right. At least I ain't bricked it yet
Any and all help is a appreciated.
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what that file essentially did was revert the recovery to stock. and it was a script used by crossix for his sdcard swap mod i believe.
ive never had any issue with that script but ive never used the sdcard swap mod so thats probably why. so long as your bootloader is unlocked....even if your recovery gets overwritten just flash it again in fastboot. but if youve never used that mod id say your safe man.
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Thanks man,
So basically the worst that can happen is that I accidentally overwrite CWM, and have to go back in and re-install it per your post.
BcWilk said:
Thanks man,
So basically the worst that can happen is that I accidentally overwrite CWM, and have to go back in and re-install it per your post.
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you got it boss. what people have been messing up is relocking their bootloaders and panicking and somehow screwing their recovery image and all sorts of amazing jazz lol.
if cwm gets overwritten u know its that file...delete it. boot into fastboot and flash cwm again...easy peasy.
the biggest thing to remember is Keep your bootloader unlocked! the only way to lock it is to reflash a stock rom that "updates" the bootloader. which is why i told everyone from day one of the unlock DONT REFLASH STOCK...unless u know what your doing!
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Seem simple enough, once you go custom stay there. No beer in the fridge tonight so I'll probably even remember that one.
Anyways, got it installed and running backups now. I just want to tryout flexreaper, and CM9. See what I like, and see if either fixes the crappy stack GPS lock performance. Once I pick I'll stay there for a long time. I suspect after I pick a rom that works for me I'll load up crossix mod for the extra space, I can really use it.
Thanks again for the help man.
Crap!
Ran into an issue. It errored out while backing up my data. I was able to just power down, and back up. When it came backup I noticed I had zero free space left internally so I know what the error was. I just can't for the life of me figure out how to change the backup location to the external card.
BcWilk said:
Crap!
Ran into an issue. It errored out while backing up my data. I was able to just power down, and back up. When it came backup I noticed I had zero free space left internally so I know what the error was. I just can't for the life of me figure out how to change the backup location to the external card.
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currently its a bug with ics and cwm..it cant backup properly to the external...and the other problem is it backs up your entire internal....so basically if you have 4gigs taken up...its gonna exceed the 8gig.
sorry i didnt mention this as its not a huge bug for me as i dont have barely any data on the internal.
best bet is to delete that massive backup...and move some stuff (music,movies etc) over to your external. and re run the nandroid.
not a big issue but obviously a pita...
i would recommend cm9 personally...it will eventually be updated very frequently...were waiting on acer source to be released. also ive had better gps performance on cm9.
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So, let me think out loud here. The smart way to do this would be
1. Use Titanium backup to back up all of my apps, and data to the external SD
2. Delete apps, and data until I have enough room left on the internal SD.
3. Move everything off of the external SD onto my computer
4. Full nandroid backup onto internal SD using CWM.
5. Back that up onto the computer
6. Flush everything using CWM
7. Flash CM9 or flexreaper and see what I like
8. Do crossix mememory swap mod
9. Restore apps and data from Titanium Backups, or just reload from app store
10. Relax
Does that seem safe, and in the correct order?
BcWilk said:
So, let me think out loud here. The smart way to do this would be
1. Use Titanium backup to back up all of my apps, and data to the external SD
2. Delete apps, and data until I have enough room left on the internal SD.
3. Move everything off of the external SD onto my computer
4. Full nandroid backup onto internal SD using CWM.
5. Back that up onto the computer
6. Flush everything using CWM
7. Flash CM9 or flexreaper and see what I like
8. Do crossix mememory swap mod
9. Restore apps and data from Titanium Backups, or just reload from app store
10. Relax
Does that seem safe, and in the correct order?
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sure does man. good luck!
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I am running the T-Mobile Galaxy S III CM10 Nightly, I have the 16GB version with a 16GB SD Card. I for some reason don’t have the option to move apps to my SD Card? I tried a 3ed party app to do this but get an error saying I’m out of space but the SD card is blank?
I tried a few different SD Card with no luck? My file manager can see the SD Card and its content? I tried running a fix permissions but still no luck?
You can't move apps to your Sdcard. Samsung is to blame for this.
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IXChicharitoXI said:
You can't move apps to your Sdcard. Samsung is to blame for this.
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I don't understand if im Running CM 10 why cant i move the apps?
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I don't understand if im Running CM 10 why cant i move the apps?
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no one else can help with this?
How can i format the EXT card while it is in the phone to FAT32?? XinXP does not give the option. Format remains as Heirarchial
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How can i format the EXT card while it is in the phone to FAT32?? XinXP does not give the option. Format remains as Heirarchial
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Why are you asking a question inside my question? Make you own questions! Geesss!
Amore514 said:
Why are you asking a question inside my question? Make you own questions! Geesss!
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sorry dude.. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ
highlander07422 said:
sorry dude.. GEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ
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I was just giving you crap,
I would love for someone who knows more about this topic to actually reply with some details. But to offer my limited understanding, I have read of two options to move apps/data to ext SD:
Directory Bind, which you can read more about here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889550.
and
Link2SD, which you can read more about here, specifically with respect to the S3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33831712&postcount=3379
I do not know how well these options truly work, as I am still investigating it for myself, but hopefully this will help. Of course, again, I would love for someone with more knowledge of this - specifically with respect to the S3 - to post here and offer some help.
surelysurly said:
I would love for someone who knows more about this topic to actually reply with some details. But to offer my limited understanding, I have read of two options to move apps/data to ext SD:
Directory Bind, which you can read more about here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889550.
and
Link2SD, which you can read more about here, specifically with respect to the S3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33831712&postcount=3379
I do not know how well these options truly work, as I am still investigating it for myself, but hopefully this will help. Of course, again, I would love for someone with more knowledge of this - specifically with respect to the S3 - to post here and offer some help.
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I tried Link2SD and this does not work, i cant find the other.. i would really like a rom that supports this not a 3ed party tool.
I move apps to my sd card using titanium backup.
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roly17 said:
I move apps to my sd card using titanium backup.
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Would you mind telling me how you partitioned your SD card? did you do something like in this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726014&page=2. If so, and it works, that would be great... I did not know titanium backup had this feature. Thanks!
surelysurly said:
Would you mind telling me how you partitioned your SD card? did you do something like in this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726014&page=2. If so, and it works, that would be great... I did not know titanium backup had this feature. Thanks!
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I didn't partition the sd. Didn't know I was supposed to. I'm not sure what that does or what the benefit is. I'm very much the noob when it comes to that. Sorry for not having a good answer for you.
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While it seems this thread is somewhat dead, I thought I would post my findings on this topic. Using Directory Bind, following the setup in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889550 works great - I have moved several games to my sd card without any problems. You can download Directory Bind here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262. I installed version 0.2.0o. I hope this helps.
roly17 said:
I move apps to my sd card using titanium backup.
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ditto, same here .. is there anything titanium can't do? lol
surelysurly said:
While it seems this thread is somewhat dead, I thought I would post my findings on this topic. Using Directory Bind, following the setup in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889550 works great - I have moved several games to my sd card without any problems. You can download Directory Bind here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262. I installed version 0.2.0o. I hope this helps.
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This is great, was just going to post that link Sorry to bump a dead thread, but I wanted to pass along something else useful. There is also this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849860 Where you flash a script and use a script manager app to to edit the init.d file to allow sd card mount on boot, essentially making the phone think that the external card is the internal storage.
Don't mean to sound stupid but ill feel better if I at least ask. I for the first time bought a micro sd card for my phone. Before I start to move files to it id like clarification on a couple of things. If I move my apps to the sd card, what happens when I flash a new rom? Do I have to install all of them again? Are they automatically recognized and installed automatically? Is. There anything I shouldn't move to the sd card? Also can I move TWRP to the sd card? If I can and boot into recovery the phone will know where the program is located? Dont mean to babble but whenever I try something for the first time like this I just like to get as much info before I proceed. Thanks for any help I can get on this.
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jmlape said:
Don't mean to sound stupid but ill feel better if I at least ask. I for the first time bought a micro sd card for my phone. Before I start to move files to it id like clarification on a couple of things. If I move my apps to the sd card, what happens when I flash a new rom? Do I have to install all of them again? Are they automatically recognized and installed automatically? Is. There anything I shouldn't move to the sd card? Also can I move TWRP to the sd card? If I can and boot into recovery the phone will know where the program is located? Dont mean to babble but whenever I try something for the first time like this I just like to get as much info before I proceed. Thanks for any help I can get on this.
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You can back them up. You have to have the Pro version of titanium backup but you can upload your apps to cloud storage and re download them. I'm not 100% on that because I never restored apps. I could be wrong but you can for sure backup apps before flashing
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