Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and to rooting and installing new roms, but since the issue with the lack of space on my Desire was giving me problems I decided to root, s-off and install a new rom this weekend.
I must say at first I thought I was way over my head, but after reading around the forum I started to understand a little bit of how the whole thing works.
I was sucessfull instaling everything and had the Runnymede up and running with 4Ext Recovery till the last hour. I was having a little bit of lag so I saw my sdcard was not formated as it was suposed to, or as it is listed on the developers forum of the Runnymede.
I had created the 1Ext with 512Mb, the 2Ext with 1024 and the swap with 1024, nevertheless everything was working properly with just a little lag.
So a few minutes ago I decided to format the sd card as per indication of a member here with the following guide 4ext_Partition Guide.zip - [Click for QR Code] (6.35 MB, 20 views).
After I booted the phone it won't pass the galaxy nexus splash screen, it just keeps splashing and never enters the rom. I retried to format the sd card but still with no success.
Did I do something wrong? Should I reformat the sdcard with another arrangement? Or do I need to wipe everything again and reinstall the ROM? I would like to avoid this last one since I had already everything ready and synced.
Looking forward to receive your expert comments, I remain sending you my best regards and thanking you for your help.
José
After reformat you need to flash rom again for that reason you stuck in boot loop
Runnymede AIO requires only FAT32 + 1-1.5 GB EXT 4, No second EXT, No swap
Regarding your question about back up: use titanium backup
Hi,
Thank you very much for your fast reply, I had no idea that reformating the partitions in the sd card I would to reinstall the rom. I am always learning
Well I have reformated the sd card and I am now installing the rom again, I hope everything goes well.
Thanks again.
Don't forget thanks button if helped, please
Done, thanks again
Well hello again, i have been watching the thread of the ROM i have installed from Runnymede and I have some doubts, could someone please help.
Thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315961&page=1160
Here are my questions:
- The reason I have rooted and s-off my desire was to install a new ROM to have space available for apps. The ROM is running perfectly but on the storage menu my internal space available was around 140 Mb, I have installed a few apps from the market and the space is now 101 Mb. Did I do something wrong and still don't have space available?
- Here are the steps I took: I had a stock HTC Desire with Hboot 0.93, so I rooted with unrevoked, s-off with revolution, installed 4Ext touch, formated the sdcard with 1 ext4 partition (1024Mb) and the rest fat32, wiped the phone, installed the rom, and that's it.
I can't remember if it installed the a2sd or ad2sdx, I did a typical install and only changed the camera option to record 720p.
The phone is working perfectly but I am wondering if I will be out of space after installing a few more apps?
If you need more information feel free to ask.
Thank you.
José
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New to the forum and spent all day looking for a fix and searched throughout the forum so posting here for a response. I've found the same question via other sites with it being the last comment with no answer.
My desire is rooted and has clockworkMod installed. Neither the redux-v1.0RC6 or AuraxTsesnse_8.4 roms will install either via clockworkmod recovery or the rom manager app.
I've been though the wiping of cache, data, dalvik and factory reset and makes no difference.
It goes to installing update and then E:\error in /sdcard/updateversionname.zip (status 0) Installation aborted.
I've seen it mentioned that the SD card needs to be formatted with FAT32, it already is.
Don't know where to go from here.
thanks in advance.
The SD acrd needs to have an EXT (3 or 4) partition too, at least 512 MB. Not just only FAT32.
I thought it odd that people were suggesting FAT32 for the SD card, I know linux / android cant read FAT32 preboot. Obviously windows needs FAT32 for getting stuff on and off the device.
Thanks a lot.
Well for stock Android it is FAT32 you need, but for custom ROMs with A2SD+ you need to have an EXT partition, as well. But this is written almost in every ROM's thread.
I copied data off my sd card, formatted with rom manager which created 512 mb ext file system and the rest fat32. Then copied all my data back to card.
Booted to clockwork, cleared cache and wiped data and tried to install again, no difference, same status 0 error.
Running nandroid restore for the umpteenth time today :-(
Strange, what ROM do you want to install? Filename? I never had status 0's...
ROM's from this forum:
AuraxTSense_8.4_Official_OTA_2.2_FRF91_A2SD+.zip
Redux-v1.0.0-RC6-signed.zip
Those should work, so can't understand. Disable signature verification, maybe that helps.
Also your phone is PVT4? MAybe that's the cause.
I'm running redux Rc6 rom.
I have clockworkmod 3.0 installed which i used to flash the zip, and I had already partitioned my SD card using gparted as it is the ONLY way I found to successfully partition it (750mb ext3 partition). Rom manager definitely did not work for me, don't use it!!
Hope this points you in the right direction, cost its an awesome rom!!
Wildcardspv
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
@ nagypapi
I'm not familiar with what pvt4 is, a quick read through the forum mentions pvt3 & pvt4 desires. I haven't waded through the hundred page thread yet to find what this is and which applies to my device. It was a UK T-mobile device bought 2.5 months ago and I unlocked it from T mobile network and rooted it with unrevoked. Also signature verification on or off makes no difference.
@wildcardspv
Which would you recommend, the Froyo or Gingerbread ROM ? I read only 0.4% of Android users are running Gingerbread compared to 52% running Froyo. I'm inclined to try Froyo first as I would hope there would be fewer bugs and less likelihood of app related problems.
I'm actually pretty happy with 2.1, it does everything I need it to except it does not have Thai fonts installed and the hack looks like a headache. Can you confirm if Froyo or Gingerbread have Thai glyphs installed ?
I'm pretty sure my problem is SD card related as I couldn't install the droidsans Thai glyphs zip either. I'll give gparted a go and see how I get on.
Thanks to all for helpful responses.
Well, to check that, boot your phone into the bootloader, hold down power + volume down and you should get a screen like this.
If you have PVT4 with earsize 40000, you must flash the latest Amon RA instead of CWM.
Anyways what version of CWM are you using right now?
Moreover, using the Gparted method to partition your card is better than using ROM manager. Mount your card from recovery (mount & storage > mount usb storage). and try to partition with GParted.
Booted into HBOOT and doesn't mention anything about 3 or 4 version of PVT and nothing about earsize, it just says below:
BUZZ PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.80.0007
MICROP-0622
TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADIO-3.35.19.01
Aug 9 2010
CWM is v2.5.0.1
Anyone know of any gparted live CD mirrors ? Taking forever to download from gparted site and it's not my connection.
I partitioned with gparted a 768 ext2 and the rest FAT32. It made no difference, same status zero on any ROM I try to install.
Sorry bump for some help..
Would really appreciate some help with this, surely I can't be stuck on 2.1 forever. It seems odd that I can back up and restore ROMS with ROM manager and clockwork pre-boot no problem. But I've no idea why I cant install any other ROM.
Just noticed... your radio is 3.35.19.01? Never seen that before... I've always seen Radios starting with 5.xxx
Also no PVT numbering (BUZZ PVT - never heard on the Desire - on Wildfire, yes)
Are you sure you have a HTC Desire? Because from those data I have to think , you have a WILDFIRE.
And the prize for the biggest idiot in the rooms goes to...
Thanks for pointing out my monster faux pas, lol.
No probs, happens sometimes, but I have to admit, it was a big one
Hello there,please act like i'm a dummy when explaining things
I've bought an HTC Desire about a month ago and it took me 10 days to understand the process of rooting and flashing a custom rom.So i bumped to a thread on development, RCMixHD v3.4 and i really wanted to flash this ROM to my device, the problem is i don't know what A2SD, D2WE, D2EXT do and how to. So if you'd be kind to explain why i need those and how i can flash etc those things, I'd be more than glad (i'd jump and screen on my chair)
link to the ROM thred: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789830
Searching for A2SD, D2WE, and D2Ext will give you lots of hits that will explain in detail what they are and do. Basically they put apps and/or data on your SD card to allow you to install more apps. But if all you want to do is install the RCMix HD ROM just follow the instructions. See my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11918633#post11918633 for a list of steps to check/follow to install.
i'll head over and read the instructions
i had the chance to buy a new class 4 SD card yesterday and did partitioning with mini tool partition home,i did all the things in the video in order and my pc(windows) didn't see the fat32 partition so i deleted all the partitions,created fat 32 first then ext3 later and i'm not sure if it worked at all because the ROM i installed was freezing from time to time when i do something that requires sd card usage.
Hey XDA, long time admirer first time poster.
I am having a problem. (If this has been mentioned before please feel free to point me in the right direction)
I have my desire rooted a few weeks now using Starburst A2SD+ and have been having no problems everything running perfectly.
Yesterday I wanted to try a new ROM, long story short it didn't work so I went back to my Nand backup.
But since reinstalling the backup it freezes on the HTC quietly brilliant screen, just keeps repeating quietly brilliant. To get around this I had to boot without my sd card in.
So that worked but now when I have the sd card in, my A2SD+ wont work everything has been moved to the internal memory instead of being on the ext like it was.
I have been racking my brain around this and have tried full wipes, restoring different backups and reinstalling the rom. But nothing has worked.
So any help any one can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
WEll when using backup,you should always do a Backup+Ext Backup,and then do a re-partitining of the Sdcard the exact same way it was before you started changing rom's etc...
Since you using a Sb rom,i recomend switching to a Standard rom with D2SD,it's better and faster then the A2Sd+...
Do a full wipe ('wipe all' in Ra 2.0.0+) then format and partition the SDcard (via an program fro your pc,NOT the recovery) Fat32+ 512mb (min) Ext3 ... the D2sd needs ext4,but no prob,since the D2sd script will change your ext3 to an ext4.
Hi Guys,
I am a newbie to rooting stuff so please excuse me if I did anything by error and please share an solution.
I have an rooted desire with S-off and CM 5.0.2.0 version long back.
I wanted to upgrade to the latest CM 7.x
So i downloaded cm 7.x .zip from google and flashed in as per the instructions(install zip from recovery)
After its installed , i took a restart of the phone, but the phone wont boot, it just stays in the joker face screen.
Have waited for more than 30 mins several times but no boot.
Removed the battery, went back to recovery and found its still CM5.x
Freaked out , I formatted my 16GB SD card with 13GB Fat and 2 GB for sd-ext and rest for linux swap for a new ROM installation which is Runnymede AIO 6.x
Installation was fine but Iam having issues with memory now which never happened before as I used several ROMs earlier.
As soon as I install few apps, low storage warning pops up.
Please tell me what needs to be done to rollback all my changes?
Hboot is 0.93.0001
Radio 32.56.00.32u_5.17.05.23
Kernel version is 2.6.35.10
First of all: Don't use swap. It will kill your sd-card quite fast and is not very useful (read here why).
Secondly: Did you change your partition table? Since the Desire provides very little internal space a alternative partition table is important.
Third: Did you make a Nandroid Backup?
m3adow said:
First of all: Don't use swap. It will kill your sd-card quite fast and is not very useful (read here why).
Secondly: Did you change your partition table? Since the Desire provides very little internal space a alternative partition table is important.
Third: Did you make a Nandroid Backup?
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Ok, I have removed the swap space now.
An alternate partion table?
I have taken a full backup(thru ROM manaher) before I did i upgrade atempt with CM7. Hence I was able to restore it back and work now, however, Im unable to flash any new roms as the space issue is again popping up.
reds971 said:
Ok, I have removed the swap space now.
An alternate partion table?
I have taken a full backup(thru ROM manaher) before I did i upgrade atempt with CM7. Hence I was able to restore it back and work now, however, Im unable to flash any new roms as the space issue is again popping up.
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He asked you if you have flashed custom hboot (alternate partition table).
To fix problem flash 4 ext recovery over fastboot (if you're s-off) and there you have an option to format all partitions except sd-card. Also reformat your sd-card using 4ext and use not more then 1,5GB for sd-ext.
And one more thing, don't use ROM manager it has a lot of bugs and can create a lot of problems, all the stuff you wanna do with it you can do straight from recovery.
Greetings,
I've just given cyanogenmod10 a try, after 2 years of having the same 2.3 rom.
All is going well, but even after 'installing' a2sd, I only have 150mb of app space. Needless to say, after 5 apps, it's full.
Is this normal? I had tons and tons of apps with my previous rom.
Thanks in advance!
Install m2sd, and move dalvik to sd.
You should ext3/ext4 partition on sd card. The rom will use that for phone apps. Btw even after that you will still see internal ram as 147m, but don't worry a2sd will use ext partition for apps and you can install many apps without any issue of memory.
Same rom working great for me
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda premium
Thanks for the replies!
I'm a bit stuck now as there is no rom installed on my phone and my sd card is empty. But I'll put a rom on my sd card tonight with another phone so I should be ok for that.
My problem still remains though.
I can't get a 1gb partition. I have tried external methods with my pc: partition wizard, easeus partition and those 2 can indeed partition my sd card, but when I unplug the usb cable, my phone says the card is damaged and needs to do a full format. After that my partition is gone.
The other method I used was to get s-off, so I could get the recovery of 4EXT. I tried to switch s-off with revoked, but I couldn't use that as my hboot is 0.80.x.x. So I had to try with alpharev (I used both cd and usb) but it was stuck at the 3rd step, I left the process running for 5 hours and there was nothing changed.
So here I am, clueless about what to do because if I can't get a partition I can't get a2sd and if I can't get that I can only install 2 programs, which is quite rediculous.
Please, what is there left for me to do?
edit: I'm going to put a 2.2 froyo rom on it and see if I can try again with alpharev. I read somewhere alpharev isn't always working with certain roms.
Update: flashing a froyo 2.2 rom before letting alpharev run did the trick, my phone is now s-off. Going to try to get my full sd card back as I seem to be missing 500 mb.
Update 2: with 4EXT i could format my hidden ext partition and make a new one of 1gb. After that the a2sd worked!
So problem solved, thanks for reading!