After partitioning the sd card, how do i move the apps or install my app to the sd directly?
You do it by installing rom with a2sd and not doing anything.
If your realy stuck with low app space and not sure if anything worked, do the following:
1. Make a backup of your current setup (nanddroid)
2. Backup all your user apps with titanium backup
3. Full wipe
4. Install a new ROM with either a2sd or data++ if you have at least a 1gb ext3 partion
5. restore your user apps using titanium, they should all restore to the "right place" and you'll have more room than before
DO NOT select "move to sd" under the applications menu, this will move your apps away from your ext3 partion onto the fat32 partion of your sd card
Basically, use this procedure anytime you flash a new ROM unless the dev advises otherwise in the op.
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Awesome and is there any way to back up sms alone and restore it?
spurgeonjudah said:
Awesome and is there any way to back up sms alone and restore it?
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You haven't searched the android market haven't you?
You may also want to look at ext4 rather than ext3 for the partition. Some roms - say RunnyMede AIO will likely work better on ext4.
spurgeonjudah said:
Awesome and is there any way to back up sms alone and restore it?
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I personally use "mobile backup II" for sms and call logs, but there are loooooots of solutions available on the market.
I like to use things that I can easily "dropbox" my back up file.
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coos lick said:
You may also want to look at ext4 rather than ext3 for the partition. Some roms - say RunnyMede AIO will likely work better on ext4.
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I use ext3. I also use a 2.1 / 3.0 hybrid as my daily driver (as per my sig). Of course the great thing about nandroid back ups is it's freakin easy to test new ROMs when you have a few days to fool around. Sebs runnymede ROM with the new installer will convert your ext3 to ext4 automatically. When I flashed my recovery back, it also restored my partion to ext3.
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Thank you so much guys I just moved to Aurora v5 and i should say its really good and stable!!! no problems thus far!
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I would like to use Cool Kingdom, but what ever I do, include full wipe, I cant get Cools roms to work smooth. Everything is working slow and get hangups.
Have really good space all over and about 100 mb free memory
I really want this rom to work.
Any ideas???
hi there
which hboot do you have?
what class micros sd card do you have?
first you need to use gparted and delete all partitions on your card( backup whatever you need on the card)
then remove all partitions
create the fat32
create the ext4
format both in gparted
now put the card in your pc and copy the rom.zip, alignment.zip and weather pack
put card in your phone
boot into recovery
wipe factory reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
wipe battery stats( i always do this but it shudnt matter)
then install the alignment.zip from the sd card
then the rom
then the weather pack
then reboot
and it should be ok
im using a class 10 microsd tho
Hi, thanks a lot.
I have ext3, must I have ext4?
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minda67 said:
Hi, thanks a lot.
I have ext3, must I have ext4?
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Speed's are better on EXT4 and if the ROM actually recommends you to use EXT4 then you should have EXT4.
Be sure to always use what the specific ROM requires(radio, Partition etc.) to ensure a nice run of the ROM.
L.E.: Also make sure you have the latest Radio the ROM recommends. It is pretty important.
Hope this helps.
Radio won't update
UsManyDead said:
Speed's are better on EXT4 and if the ROM actually recommends you to use EXT4 then you should have EXT4.
Be sure to always use what the specific ROM requires(radio, Partition etc.) to ensure a nice run of the ROM.
L.E.: Also make sure you have the latest Radio the ROM recommends. It is pretty important.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks.
I have made a ext4 and flashed the rom, but when I try to flash the Radio, nothing changes.
The Radio is maybe the key to my problem now, because the rom is sooo slow!!
HBOOT-0.93.0001
Radio-5.17.05.08
Before I used InsertCoin Nightly A2SD v51 at ext3, it worked smooth but I missed some i that ROM.
Still not working smooth!
UsManyDead said:
Speed's are better on EXT4 and if the ROM actually recommends you to use EXT4 then you should have EXT4.
Be sure to always use what the specific ROM requires(radio, Partition etc.) to ensure a nice run of the ROM.
L.E.: Also make sure you have the latest Radio the ROM recommends. It is pretty important.
Hope this helps.
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Now I have correct ext, radio and partition is s-off and so on... but the rom is still not working smooth. Expecially when I open an app.
Getting frustrated...
you will never get a perfectly smooth rom with sense 3.0 due to the Desire's "hardware limitations".. Cool Sensation worked okay for me
Do you know the main differensieres between kingdom and sensation?
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sorry no lol.. I don't really use sense ROMs anymore. On Cyanogen since I find it the most reliable in every situation
bortak said:
sorry no lol.. I don't really use sense ROMs anymore. On Cuanogen since I find it the most reliable in every situation
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+1. Have to agree I find CM to be cleaner, faster and more reliable.
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sorry no lol.. I don't really use sense ROMs anymore. On Cuanogen since I find it the most reliable in every situation
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Thanks anyway
Is there any desire roms out there that doesnt require a ext partition these days?
I just want a custom rom without the need to always use that one sd card to boot and im not really much of an app user anyway.
a lot of the apps2sd roms will go on without an ext partition - but you'll just have limited space, usually about 73-130mb of the internal storage...
Looking in the android development thread it seems that most of them listed ext partiton as a requirement due to parts of system files are also in the ext partition required to boot.
Check with the dev of the roms for apps2sd ones that you might like... I am sure I saw an 'apps2sd killer' script too once so you might be able to apply that
the 2.1 ROMS usually goes well whitout the app2sd but its highly recommended
try CM7
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Just delete the ext partition and the rom such as miui for example will detect that there is no extra partion an so will disable the a2sd scrript
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murasame2006 said:
Is there any desire roms out there that doesnt require a ext partition these days?
I just want a custom rom without the need to always use that one sd card to boot and im not really much of an app user anyway.
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AceS
VisionS
SagaS
AceSMod007 Lite
All this roms dont have ext partition)
All those roms dont have a nona2sd version.. but nice try ..
I may make the leap soon to partitioned rom , but for now I have go launcher which looks good..
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All those roms dont have a nona2sd version.. but nice try ..
I may make the leap soon to partitioned rom , but for now I have go launcher which looks good..
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If you do go down the road of partitioning as you put it
Save yourself some future hassle and purchase a class 10 memory card and read about changing your recovery program to 4Ext Recovery 2.1.0.
I'm a complete noob but managed to do it with a little forum trolling
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I know I probably seems like a noob because I have like 1 post but I just havent got arpund to posting until now... Anyway
I have an HTC Desire running cm7 and I was wondering what the best method of obtaining more internal memory is? I have an 8gb sd card with 500mb set as sd-ext, but I dont know how to fully use it can anyone elaborate on the use of these scripts?
I havent seen any really upto date posts on this so I thought I would ask, theres bound to be a thresd somewhere but you know...
in my opinion is #Typhon Data2SDInstaller for Supernova Classic 2.0+ (Version 4.0)
pomberito21 said:
in my opinion is #Typhon Data2SDInstaller for Supernova Classic 2.0+ (Version 4.0)
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Does it work well on cm7? im not willing to change ROM for more internal memory....
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Does it work well on cm7? im not willing to change ROM for more internal memory....
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don't know whether that method works on cm7
a couple of things that i know of:
1. S-OFF (search revolutionary) and change partition table to something like cm7r2, check alpharev. your internal memory goes up from stock (only 147MB) to 287MB.
2. flash an A2SD script such as Darktremor to make the most of your ext partition. it won't appear as extra internal memory, just tricks apps to move them there. keep all your apps on internal though i.e. don't manually move them to SD.
3. a different option, separate from A2SD is a data2sd script, don't know much about these, but have a look if they interest you. they extend the internal memory (adding your actual internal + ext)
and nandroid backup before trying any of this.
should have plenty of space after that!
I would combine 1 and 2.
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in my opinion is #Typhon Data2SDInstaller for Supernova Classic 2.0+ (Version 4.0)
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Yes, but as title suggests, it's designed to work only with Supernova. If you want a generic data2sd installer, visit Sibere's data2sd thread.
Droidzone said:
Yes, but as title suggests, it's designed to work only with Supernova. If you want a generic data2sd installer, visit Sibere's data2sd thread.
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...and enlarge your sd-ext probably to 1GB
I wouldn't recommend data2sd on 500MB, pretty pointless. If you're going to do it, do it properly
i have S-OFF already and ill look at the partition tables thing too see if that would help thanks, i tried simple2ext or something like that and i had to restore my nandroid is it functioned horribly so ill also look at darktremor
EDIT:
Ill extend it to 1gb then if you think its needed i have like 4gb free on my sd and i could get a 16gb if i could be bothered...
It certainly seems a waste of the script, lol.
Anyone willing to talk me through flashing the hboot from alpharev? ive done things along these lines before and i have half-bricked my phone before so any helpers?
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Anyone willing to talk me through flashing the hboot from alpharev? ive done things along these lines before and i have half-bricked my phone before so any helpers?
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I have an faq you can read, which will help. Then if you're still unclear...
Its the adb and fastboot faq via the link in my signature (guides etc). Just skiup the adb stuff as its not relevant.
First read and understand that. Dont do anything yet. Just read
I know how to use fastboot its just that alpharev says flash then wipe cache which is fine but then says "wipe everything and restore" I dont really get that?
I am very happy with CM7 and an ext4 1gb partition made useable for apps and dalvik moved by this tool: S2E (search for it in Android Market)
Roscobigfoot said:
I know how to use fastboot its just that alpharev says flash then wipe cache which is fine but then says "wipe everything and restore" I dont really get that?
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You should be fine with nandroid backup, flash hboot, nandroid restore.
It never hurts to format system, cache and data via recovery (cwm based) or via fastboot commands
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Thanks for clarifying that, I just didn't understand why wipe then restore ... But they just say that to make sure the chances of error are extremely minimal and so it's not needed thanks again I'll flash it tomorrow night
INT2SD is the best d2sd ever. So if you enjoy using cm7, just flash INT2SD script.
I use S2E for CM7. just download from market -really easy to set up and works great.
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hans moleman said:
I use S2E for CM7. just download from market -really easy to set up and works great.
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This is the best solution. it also enables the necessary speed teaks (you can choose) such as journal off, perfect mount and the sd speed tweak
StylishPirat said:
INT2SD is the best d2sd ever. So if you enjoy using cm7, just flash INT2SD script.
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How do you know it would be the best? Did you already try all other DATA2SD-scripts?
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StylishPirat said:
INT2SD is the best d2sd ever. So if you enjoy using cm7, just flash INT2SD script.
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Pray do explain why..
Hey guys I was flashing a ROM this morning and the ROM used AROMA Installer and the Dev recommended a full wipe so I did so.
And it formatted Cache and stuff to EXT 4 is there a way to go back to EXT 3 again?
Thanks in Advance!
-The Android Manual
The Android Manual said:
Hey guys I was flashing a ROM this morning and the ROM used AROMA Installer and the Dev recommended a full wipe so I did so.
And it formatted Cache and stuff to EXT 4 is there a way to go back to EXT 3 again?
Thanks in Advance!
-The Android Manual
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Use 4ext recovery
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Steven How said:
Use 4ext recovery
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How would it help me to go back to ext3 ? and does Clock Work Mod Recovery Work with EXT 4?
The Android Manual said:
How would it help me to go back to ext3 ? and does Clock Work Mod Recovery Work with EXT 4?
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A quick Google search will tell you that 4ext lets you convert back and forth between ext3 and ext4 easily. Also, it is the best recovery available for Android, period, and not using it is doing yourself a disservice. Seriously. 4ext touch is incredible and every vision owner should be using it.
http://4ext.net
May I ask why you would ever go back to ext3? No ICS rom can run even remotely properly on ext3 and all the good GB roms should support and run much better on ext4.
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4ext Recovery allows for switching between ext3 and ext4, it's also a better recovery than CWM. Why do you want to switch back to ext3?
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OriginalGabriel said:
4ext Recovery allows for switching between ext3 and ext4, it's also a better recovery than CWM. Why do you want to switch back to ext3?
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Jinx!
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OriginalGabriel said:
4ext Recovery allows for switching between ext3 and ext4, it's also a better recovery than CWM. Why do you want to switch back to ext3?
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This is wat I'm curious abt too..
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Thaks
blk_jack said:
A quick Google search will tell you that 4ext lets you convert back and forth between ext3 and ext4 easily. Also, it is the best recovery available for Android, period, and not using it is doing yourself a disservice. Seriously. 4ext touch is incredible and every vision owner should be using it.
http://4ext.net
May I ask why you would ever go back to ext3? No ICS rom can run even remotely properly on ext3 and all the good GB roms should support and run much better on ext4.
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Thankyou for your reply bro I just asked because the old ROMs I used worked great in ext3 plus my stock ROM Nand is in EXT3 so if I need to send my phone for repairs I restore that one
Ahh okay, but seriously ext4 offers a very noticeable performance increase, even with GB. Nobody should ever try to use ICS or JB without ext4 formatted partitions.
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The Android Manual said:
Thankyou for your reply bro I just asked because the old ROMs I used worked great in ext3 plus my stock ROM Nand is in EXT3 so if I need to send my phone for repairs I restore that one
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Gingerbread or older roms (ie: froyo etc that doesn't even support ext4) might, but for ICS onward ext4 is going to be your best filesystem for performance reasons.
And another vote here for 4EXT Touch Recovery regardless of which file system you go with.
Also with 4EXT Touch recovery, if you make a backup for a rom that was in ext3, it'll be restored as ext3, same with any backups made while it was in ext4, you can also convert said backup from one to the other under Tools prior to restoring it.
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Also with 4EXT Touch recovery, if you make a backup for a rom that was in ext3, it'll be restored as ext3, same with any backups made while it was in ext4, you can also convert said backup from one to the other under Tools prior to restoring it.
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or you can convert the partition after flashing. Be careful since there's one option to convert and one to format. Nandroid it 1st.
The Android Manual said:
Thankyou for your reply bro I just asked because the old ROMs I used worked great in ext3 plus my stock ROM Nand is in EXT3 so if I need to send my phone for repairs I restore that one
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Restoring a nandroid that is in ext4 will result in a ROM that is in ext4, it overwrites completely what was once there. Since the ROM you've flashed is in ext4, might as well leave it that way ... not only did the developer want it that way, but it's a much better file system.
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KyraOfFire said:
or you can convert the partition after flashing. Be careful since there's one option to convert and one to format. Nandroid it 1st.
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you can after true, it's all up to you if you prefer to format then flash from zip, or convert backup, or restore back up and then convert partitions. Converting the backups tends to be much faster because 4EXT style backups are tar files, and all it does is formats the existing partition to the appropriate format before un-taring the backup to it. Where as restoring to ext3 and then converting later will take time. (just make sure to keep a backup of the backup )
I guess the point is you got plenty of choices.
One question. Should only system be ext4 or would it be better if data and cache were ext4 as well?
data/cache/system should all be ext4 for best performance
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Thankyou all
okay I've decided to stay on EXT 4 since I can't get 4EXT to instal :/
Got one more problem, every time I flash a ROM my battery heats up to 33-36 degrees and the normal temp is 29 degrees this only happened after I migrated to EXT4 any fix for that? besides shutting down my phone lol (well thats what I do )
Since I'm new here and can't post to the developers section, I'm posting here just to say thank you for this great custom rom.
Was my first flash attempt ever flashing a rom and it went so smooth I think I'm gonna try it again and again just to see all the other installation options of the aurora installer. Big thank you to my country fellowman MatZ69 and the rest of the team for this awesome work.
I know my opinion ain't worth much since I'm on my first custom rom (have been rooted and using link2sd for a few months though but my sd got damaged ... so it was time to make a clean start) but I'm happy with it so far. No bugs detected yet, except for the brightness slide not working in the popdown bar.
tuga-humanoid said:
Since I'm new here and can't post to the developers section, I'm posting here just to say thank you for this great custom rom.
Was my first flash attempt ever flashing a rom and it went so smooth I think I'm gonna try it again and again just to see all the other installation options of the aurora installer. Big thank you to my country fellowman MatZ69 and the rest of the team for this awesome work.
I know my opinion ain't worth much since I'm on my first custom rom (have been rooted and using link2sd for a few months though but my sd got damaged ... so it was time to make a clean start) but I'm happy with it so far. No bugs detected yet, except for the brightness slide not working in the popdown bar.
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check the Q&A. you must lock and unlock the phone to get the brightness slide working
Tnx for the reply. I had already seen the Q&A just before you answered but with all respect for the developer I still think it's a tiny bug cause having to lock and unlock screen to see the effect on brightness doesn't make much sense and it's even more disappointing because I was so happy with that brightness slide in the pulldown bar which is really handy in that spot if it would actually work. Hope a patch comes out to solve this. Playing for almost 24 hrs with this ROM and love every bit of it sofar! Any idea if it's possible to switch to the other installation options on this ROM without actually having to re-install everything again? Already re-installed lots of apps, contacts, messages etc. and would't like to go through this again but I'm curious about other options. Btw. Any idea if it's possible to backup linked apps on ext4 partition of SD (using link2sd)? Getting a new 8 GB class 10 SD soon ....
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I am also using this ROM. My only problem, besides the brightness bar control, is the samsung keyboard. Does anyone knows how to replace for the default CM7 keyboard??
cingfuld quickly
aronk said:
I am also using this ROM. My only problem, besides the brightness bar control, is the samsung keyboard. Does anyone knows how to replace for the default CM7 keyboard??
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Changelog
11/02/2013 [Patch Fix 1.5]
-Fixed Brightness Slider (Now its fully working)
-Fixed all browsing issues
-Fixed Development FC
-Fixed color on pin screen
etc
Sorry can't help you with that. I'm a newbie ... but keyboard is working fine with me, nothing wrong with it.
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Mine also...but I just dont like the samsung keypad... Im wanting the stock keypad
I want to say THANKS too!I like it very much,but i have a question.Whici governor to use?
Root is not working for me :S
Wow just found out that the top pulldown bar slides showing lots of handy features! This is great, love it! Also saw that there's a patch that fixes the brightness slide and some other fixes. Downloaded it and now what? Never installed a patch ... :-$ Do I go to CWM recovery and "install from zip" just like the Rom? Will that do a factory reset clean data and cache? And will it make me loose all data again like contacts or the apps (on ext4 partition on sd)? Sure hope not ...
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c8ilu222 said:
I want to say THANKS too!I like it very much,but i have a question.Whici governor to use?
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I normally use smartassV2 and sio.
tuga-humanoid said:
Wow just found out that the top pulldown bar slides showing lots of handy features! This is great, love it! Also saw that there's a patch that fixes the brightness slide and some other fixes. Downloaded it and now what? Never installed a patch ... :-$ Do I go to CWM recovery and "install from zip" just like the Rom? Will that do a factory reset clean data and cache? And will it make me loose all data again like contacts or the apps (on ext4 partition on sd)? Sure hope not ...
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Just install from recovery. Select install from sd card and follow the usual steps.
Tnx for the reply but will it make me loose all apps contacts sms etc. just like when installing new rom? Because if it does I'll have to backup lots of stuff and in that case I'd rather wait till I have my new class 10 sdcard and do a clean install again including this patch. Now if this patch doesn't affect existing data I'll try it right away. So that's what I really need to know to decide when to install the patch.
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tuga-humanoid said:
Wow just found out that the top pulldown bar slides showing lots of handy features! This is great, love it! Also saw that there's a patch that fixes the brightness slide and some other fixes. Downloaded it and now what? Never installed a patch ... :-$ Do I go to CWM recovery and "install from zip" just like the Rom? Will that do a factory reset clean data and cache? And will it make me loose all data again like contacts or the apps (on ext4 partition on sd)? Sure hope not ...
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Install zip from sd-card,without delete anything.
Thanks I just successfully installed the patch and all still working ok.
While installing I noticed it started Aroma installer again asking for UI options theme icons etc. and I wonder if it's possible to start Aroma installer again to try the several UI themes etc.? Can I just reinstall the patch again? Thanks for your patience with this newbie. You've all been very helpful and amigo MatZ69 is a fantastic developer, thanks for this very good rom and patch. Brightness slide now works!
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Up to next problem I encountered ...
Tried to do a nandroid backup with CWM5.0.2.7 (signed_cwm-5.0.2.7-flashablezip-ext4+rfs.zip ) and got the famous error:
"Could not mount sd-ext. sd-ext backup may not be supported on this device. Skipping backup of sd-ext" followed by the usual "Generating md5 sum..."
From what I've read on this forum I understand that only nandroid backup does the complete backup of both the FAT32 AND the EXT4 (2nd partition) that I'm using for link2sd. For this reason I think it will be useful to use the nandroid backup/restore method to swap my old Samsung SDCARD 4GB with my new SDCARD (8GB Sandisk class 10) that I ordered.
But since the backup of sd-ext fails I'll probably won't be able to restore anything and even if it does restore anything, it will most likely fail to restore the 2nd partition (Ext4) because the backup didn't work in the 1st place ...
Does anybody have an idea if installing CWM 5.0.2.7 (•signed_cwm-5.0.2.7-flashablezip-ext4only.zip) will solve this problem (since this ROM is Ext4 ROM and I also have 2nd partition on ext4 format). CWM5.0.2.7 that I have now installed is supposed to be compatible with both ext4 + rfs but if it was really that good I guess why phiexz bother to develop a ext4only version, right? I found some workaround here ofr the md5sum error if you wanna restore from nandroid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1606047 but don't think that it will solve the backup problem of sd-ext so even I manage to restore I'll probably loose all info on 2nd ext4 partition, am I correct? So I really want CWM to do a correct backup of all data system sd-ext etc. without any errors. But when I read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421650 and the known issues, I´m not so sure if I wanna try this on my gio. Having to edit scripts etc. might become too complicated ...
Anyone has an idea if just doing a manual mount of sd-ext in CWM mount&storage before I do the backup will solve the backup problem of sd-ext and also the md5sum error?
I know it's a lot of questions but any help is appreciated and if there's anything wrong in how I think that these things work please correct and explain it to me because I don't really know what the hell I'm doin' ... just having fun playing around But I'm very happy with this custom rom, beats my providers stock rom 10-0
tuga-humanoid said:
Up to next problem I encountered ...
Tried to do a nandroid backup with CWM5.0.2.7 (signed_cwm-5.0.2.7-flashablezip-ext4+rfs.zip ) and got the famous error:
"Could not mount sd-ext. sd-ext backup may not be supported on this device. Skipping backup of sd-ext" followed by the usual "Generating md5 sum..."
From what I've read on this forum I understand that only nandroid backup does the complete backup of both the FAT32 AND the EXT4 (2nd partition) that I'm using for link2sd. For this reason I think it will be useful to use the nandroid backup/restore method to swap my old Samsung SDCARD 4GB with my new SDCARD (8GB Sandisk class 10) that I ordered.
But since the backup of sd-ext fails I'll probably won't be able to restore anything and even if it does restore anything, it will most likely fail to restore the 2nd partition (Ext4) because the backup didn't work in the 1st place ...
Does anybody have an idea if installing CWM 5.0.2.7 (•signed_cwm-5.0.2.7-flashablezip-ext4only.zip) will solve this problem (since this ROM is Ext4 ROM and I also have 2nd partition on ext4 format). CWM5.0.2.7 that I have now installed is supposed to be compatible with both ext4 + rfs but if it was really that good I guess why phiexz bother to develop a ext4only version, right? I found some workaround here ofr the md5sum error if you wanna restore from nandroid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1606047 but don't think that it will solve the backup problem of sd-ext so even I manage to restore I'll probably loose all info on 2nd ext4 partition, am I correct? So I really want CWM to do a correct backup of all data system sd-ext etc. without any errors. But when I read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421650 and the known issues, I´m not so sure if I wanna try this on my gio. Having to edit scripts etc. might become too complicated ...
Anyone has an idea if just doing a manual mount of sd-ext in CWM mount&storage before I do the backup will solve the backup problem of sd-ext and also the md5sum error?
I know it's a lot of questions but any help is appreciated and if there's anything wrong in how I think that these things work please correct and explain it to me because I don't really know what the hell I'm doin' ... just having fun playing around But I'm very happy with this custom rom, beats my providers stock rom 10-0
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Oops forget it, I think I found it after reading the old cwm topic and that I have to install the cwm ext4only version to solve this because the version that I'm using only reads ext2 ... so that's probably why I didn't have problems in the past doing backup because my 2nd partion used to be in ext2 and I re-formatted to ext4 when I decided to do a clean install of this custom rom. So it looks like I'm gonna try to install the ext4only version of cwm tonight, see if I manage and how that works ...
Solved the errors with nandroip backup!
Running cwm 5.0.2.7 ext4+rfs, first i tried to fix it by doing a install from zip from a fix-nandroid-backup.zip file I found in some thread about the md5sum error. Then I did backup but to no avail ... the error stayed. So I decided to reboot first and try again but backup got stuck in some infinite loop and I only managed to get the cwm menu back by pressing the on/off button. Pfff .... lucky me!
So then I downloaded and installed the cwm 5.0.2.7 ext4only version and that solved the problem, no sd-ext errors did a perfect backup and also md5sum was OK.
So then the next step was to change the bootanimation because that one of the few things I don't like about this fantastic rom ...
Substituted the bootanimation.zip file in /system/media by this honeycumb blue one here in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985251 and it all works and looks great ... would have prefered orange to match with this rom but doesn't exist as far as I know.
Now it's time to do some a new nandroid backup and titanium backup and next project is to copy all back to my new sdcard when I get it and then try to restore all see what happens ... I'll keep you all posted and thanks for all your help and all the info available on this forum.
You guys rock! :good:
I tested and loved this ROM but there are two problems that make me return to my previous installation:
It doesn't detect my ELM327 Bluetooth device to read my car OBD data (the device isn't listed after scan for Bluetooth devices)
The GPS after 10 minutes in open field and with data connection active can't FIX
I most certainly use this ROM again if this problems disappear :good:
I rarely use gps (even freezed navigator and maps) but I'll give it a try tomorrow out in the field. Didn't test Bluetooth either will test that as well and give feedback here or at the topic of this Rom in the development section. Think I reached ten posts including this one
What Rom did you use before this one? Just being curious what you liked better or was more stable than this new Rom ...
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The Bluetooth works fine with audio devices (I've a Parrot in my car) and with the PC but I need to connect to my OBD port to monitorize some parameters to see if it's all OK. The GPS I use to track my bicycle runs and do geocaching.
I'm using ROMs released by phiexz and his last is from June: cm-7.2.0-20120710-NIGHTLY-gio-AROMA
There are ROMs more faster but I like this one because s2e works just fine and with that Titaniun Backup can work with the sd-ext and move the data of some programs.