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DamageControl 3.2.2.1 Apps2SD

Hello All,
I have a rooted Evo with DamageControl's 3.2.2.1 rom. I know it has apps2sd built into the OS, yet I cannot seem to get this working at all. Would anyone be kind enough who has this OS and a2sd working to make a quick and dirty guide? Ihave tried partitioning via Rom Manager and then turning it on...tried a few things. Any help is appreciated.

I would like some help with this as well. Have tried all the same steps, just can't seem to figure it out.
Sent from Ye olde Evo

Im sure someone out there knows how to do this!

Got this from another forum:
Did you patition it on the phone? Did you upgrade EXT2 to EXT3? If the answer to either or both of these, that could be the problem.
Type this in order:
cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools (or wherever you have installed the sdk)
adb remount
adb shell
busybox --install /system/xbin
mkdir /system/sd
a2sd
exit (wait until its done doing its thing, you should see # when its done)
restart your phone after the prompt is done spewing and you're all set.
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Personally I don't think there's any need for this since the EVO has hugeee internal memory. This was used mostly on older phones.

Thanks I'll try it when I get home

correct, most roms using this will only use app2sd if you have the ext partition on the sdcard, otherwise it defaults to the normal app storage

Removal of bloatare

10 charsssss

usually, if you're trying to remove bloatware, i would suggest downloading and installing a different rom. since its the stock rom, you're going to have a helluva time rm'ing the programs that came with it since its all built in. if you wanted to, you could download one of the nonsense roms or wes's rom that dont have the bloatwares in them to try out

yes i also wld like to know how to do this

Since everyone else is posting like a bunch of morons I guess I will have to continue calling you all out!
THERE IS A Q & A SECTION ... POST IN THERE!

Well I have to call you out this is the q&a section everyone needs to stop being an ass.
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DroidHead said:
Since everyone else is posting like a bunch of morons I guess I will have to continue calling you all out!
THERE IS A Q & A SECTION ... POST IN THERE!
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Yeah, nice job, ****. We have mods for a reason, because they know what they're doing, unlike you. You're just going from topic to topic making a complete ass of yourself. Why?
To follow along the lines of some of your other posts:
POST FAILED.
GTFO.

Wow, that will teach me to switch to XDA. I knew there were some dickheads in this forum which made me hesitant to sign up, but really? That was quick. Thanks for "calling me out." I feel that it was an excellent use of your spare time. Now looking next to your name I don't see Forum Mod spelled anywhere. I think that means you should get the hell out of this thread if you have nothing constructive to say.
Anyway, thank you kingofyo1 for your suggestion and insight. I'm still looking into this issue.

Don't leave just cause of him, if you look through his posts, this is all he's been doing lately. Just trying to get his post count up, and this thread proves it.
We aren't all like that.

Thank you
I have no intention of leaving just yet, as pathetic morons are to be expected in forums.

Adb has an uninstall command. Have you tried this instead of rm?
I would just make sure I was in recovery and mounted before I tried. Good luck and let us know if you get it done
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mmmark111 said:
I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to post this question here but I have seen more asinine threads posted so why not.
I come from a rooted Behold 2. With that phone I could navigate to the /system/app and delete and replace .apks as I saw fit. Now with the MTS it seems I can't remove anything that came preinstalled.
So far I have tried removing some .apks from CMD as well as through clockwork recovery with no luck.
One of the steps I have taken
C:\Android\Tools\adb shell
#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#rm /system/app/stock.apk
rm failed for /system/app/stock.apk, Directory not empty
#
Any help would be appreciated.
And yes, I have searched and still have not found a working method.
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You can not write to system while booted normally, the SPL security on this phone does not allow it. You need to have flashed the engineering ROM, then boot in to clockwork mod, mount /system, then enter your shell and delete the apps.

falken98 said:
You can not write to system while booted normally, the SPL security on this phone does not allow it. You need to have flashed the engineering ROM, then boot in to clockwork mod, mount /system, then enter your shell and delete the apps.
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Unfortunately I have tried this as well as the previous suggestion. Have you done so successfully?

mmmark111 said:
I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to post this question here but I have seen more asinine threads posted so why not.
I come from a rooted Behold 2. With that phone I could navigate to the /system/app and delete and replace .apks as I saw fit. Now with the MTS it seems I can't remove anything that came preinstalled.
So far I have tried removing some .apks from CMD as well as through clockwork recovery with no luck.
One of the steps I have taken
C:\Android\Tools\adb shell
#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#rm /system/app/stock.apk
rm failed for /system/app/stock.apk, Directory not empty
#
Any help would be appreciated.
And yes, I have searched and still have not found a working method.
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I tried everything it didn't work flash new roms

Can you just do a nandroid of stock then pull them from the nandroid and reflash it ?
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mmmark111 said:
Unfortunately I have tried this as well as the previous suggestion. Have you done so successfully?
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You have flashed the engineering rom at some point in time, booted in to clockwork recovery, mounted /system, entered the shell(while still in clockwork) and then tried to remove files from /system/app/ and it didn't work?
It works fine as long as all those steps all followed. Did you get any errors?

there is an option in clockwork called partition menu, you must mount system using the partition menu as the other way does not work for some reason, after that you can adb shell and rm the apps you do not want, or if you like i can send you my ROM with the bloat removed

[Q] Pushing Scores and stuff to phone.

Hey y'all!
Got myself into trouble today when I was trying to change to manu kernel.
Was sittning on GV3.3 and phone got into bootloop. Silly as I am, I didnt make a nandroid backup before. But afterwards i got into recovery and made one. The i recovered from a really old nandroidbackup. So right now im back in april appwise and scorewise(fruit ninja, the three angrybirds etc.)
Have updated all my apps and is once again back at gv3.3.
I have extracted the data file from my nandroidbackup i made after i got into bootloop and now want to push back the appdata/saves to some of my apps.
How do i do it? Never pushed anything before so im at total newbie on that one.
What do i need, can do it on my pc or my macbook.
If anyone could help me it would mean the world to me!
Kind Regards
Håkan

you can either adb push them whilst in recovery if you are s-on or you can use root explorer and put them in thbe right place with s-off.
Theres an adb and fastboot faq in my signature.
Dont bother with the fastboot stuff as that wont help you here.

Managed to get some things to work. Like Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio. Angry Birds Seasons refuses to use the files that seems to have been pushed.
Also sms/mms pushing do nothing.
Been trying this :
adb push c:\backup\mmssms.db /data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
+
adb push c:\backup\.(all flies from app_parts is then in that folder) /data/com.android.telephony/app_parts)
Do i forget something? Have put my desire in recovery mode with update.zip and it mounts fine from my computer. Do I have to mount it in the telephone as well?

I would do this Whilst in recovery from a terminal:
Code:
adb shell
mount /data
exit
adb push c:\backup\mmssms.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

managed to get angry birds seasons score now.
But not my texts. Must i do something to restore them or will they be there automaticly when i reboot the phone?
This time i tried to rm the mmssms.db and all the files in app_parts. Then pushed the backups to their place. When I use ls i. /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/ and /app_parts/ all the files i pushed there are at their place. But still nothing shows up in the phone

can you push the entire contents of com.android.providers.telephony? After removing the entire contents of whats there?

when i pull it, it still there it seems. Pull only copies it?
So how do i remove a whole folder? And how do i push the folder back?

CountZer0 said:
when i pull it, it still there it seems. Pull only copies it?
So how do i remove a whole folder? And how do i push the folder back?
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No dont pull it.
Code:
adb shell
mount /data
cd /data/data
rm /com.android.providers.telephony/*

Wooah! Somehow that didnt work, so i added -rf after rm. And it deleted the whole data folder. Trying to push the full content of data to /data/data/ know. Rebooting...

Didnt work. Lots of apps were FC. Recovered from nandroid. And tried it again. Was succesful in removing the /com.android.providers.telephony/ from phone. Adb pushed the other one i have on my computer but still no luck. Rom runs without problem but sms/mms is still empty when i check.
You sure i dont have to activate them or something? When i notepad the mmssms.db it sure is all of my texts. And now the whole folder is replaced with the one from my computer... Strange strange.

It should work. Odd. What about wipe of dalvik cache?
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Will try it, ill be back

Got dammit! Didnt work that either.

I honestly don't know why this isn't working. It works for others. What about trying it straight from a factory reset?
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Its not that I have to do something with chown radio.radio or chmod -r 775 or something like that from shell?

[Q][S-ON] screwing around with Wildfire S

I posted this here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18647176&postcount=14 - but never got an answer so I'm posting it to its own thread. I would post to the development section but apparently until I clutter up the place with 10 posts I'm considered a drooling idiot.
I was playing around and I noticed that the problem is with s-on I cannot write to /system meaning no superuser etc. So I remembered from way back when I started linux you could mount over a mounted folder. So I made a small file, put ext3 on on it, transferred it to the sdcard and mounted over /system with
mount -t ext3 -o rw,loop /mnt/sdcard/test.dump /system
it worked and then of course I lost all commands (ls, reboot...) in the shell.
Would it be possible to dump /system with "cat /dev/mtd/mtd3 > /mnt/sdcard/system.img", extract it, put it in an ext3 file, mount it as readable over system and just go to town?
Somebody MUST have tried this in the past. Before I go any further can anyone tell me why this wouldn't work and save me a few hours noodling around lol

baconbacon said:
I posted this here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18647176&postcount=14 - but never got an answer so I'm posting it to its own thread. I would post to the development section but apparently until I clutter up the place with 10 posts I'm considered a drooling idiot.
I was playing around and I noticed that the problem is with s-on I cannot write to /system meaning no superuser etc. So I remembered from way back when I started linux you could mount over a mounted folder. So I made a small file, put ext3 on on it, transferred it to the sdcard and mounted over /system with
mount -t ext3 -o rw,loop /mnt/sdcard/test.dump /system
it worked and then of course I lost all commands (ls, reboot...) in the shell.
Would it be possible to dump /system with "cat /dev/mtd/mtd3 > /mnt/sdcard/system.img", extract it, put it in an ext3 file, mount it as readable over system and just go to town?
Somebody MUST have tried this in the past. Before I go any further can anyone tell me why this wouldn't work and save me a few hours noodling around lol
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S-on itself got nothing to do with rooting. It just means you can't flash unsigned images as much as I know.
That system is mounted as ro is also at rooted phones the standard behaviour, you have to remount it as rw, but without root it won't accomplish I think.
Cat is for text files not for binaries or whole partitions, to extract the image use the dd command.
Do you have an /dev/mtd folder? My partitions are at /dev/block and there is no /dev/mtd present.
Swyped from my HTC Desire S

Tectas said:
S-on itself got nothing to do with rooting. It just means you can't flash unsigned images as much as I know.
That system is mounted as ro is also at rooted phones the standard behaviour, you have to remount it as rw, but without root it won't accomplish I think.
Cat is for text files not for binaries or whole partitions, to extract the image use the dd command.
Do you have an /dev/mtd folder? My partitions are at /dev/block and there is no /dev/mtd present.
Swyped from my HTC Desire S
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This issue is that when you remount it as rw you cannot write to it. I want to know if I make my own partitions and mount them after boot if that will work, probably slower but work. This is so lojack I doubt it will work, I just want to know if anyone tried it.
Also "Cat is for text files not for binaries or whole partitions" is wrong, it works fine.

baconbacon said:
This issue is that when you remount it as rw you cannot write to it. I want to know if I make my own partitions and mount them after boot if that will work, probably slower but work. This is so lojack I doubt it will work, I just want to know if anyone tried it.
Also "Cat is for text files not for binaries or whole partitions" is wrong, it works fine.
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Then it's not rw, because rw stands for read write, but like I said without root...
And no I think no one tried it before, because using an xtc-clip is compared to your solution much less work
But if you want to try it, do it and share your experiences, maybe it helps others
That cat works doesn't mean that it's made for it, you can also hunt for birds with a bazooka
Take a look at cat and dd and choose yourself.

Tectas said:
Then it's not rw, because rw stands for read write, but like I said without root...
And no I think no one tried it before, because using an xtc-clip is compared to your solution much less work
But if you want to try it, do it and share your experiences, maybe it helps others
That cat works doesn't mean that it's made for it, you can also hunt for birds with a bazooka
Take a look at cat and dd and choose yourself.
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is xtc-clip better? yes, not arguing that. is cat is better then dd? no, I said cat works in this instance the same as dd, the results will be the identical.
I didn't ask this question to argue unrelated linux 101. I'm just going to look into this myself. iow screw you guys, im going home...

Dude, I use Linux too though I'm probably not a guru. I think I understand what you're saying... but if I do, aren't you just talking about editing a copy of /system? How would you mount your edited partition at boot?
Time permitting, I could try a few tricks but I'm not willing to risk bricking my phone though. I'd be stranded without it.
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First don't blame others, because of things I wrote.
I never said it couldn't work, I just wanted to show you that there are better ways to do it, cause cat also tries to interpret the file and not only copies it, what could mess up your image in some cases.
Also be aware that if your using the same data and cache partition with both of your systems, it could be easy bricked, if you change to much at your 2. system and remember that there aren't many ways left to get it working again cause your still s-on.
I think he wants to mount it himself every time after boot.
If he can root his 2. system (but all by hand, I think) he maybe can mount his 1. system as rw and also root it, but the chance that something goes wrong is pretty high, even mounting itself could freeze the device, cause the first system is still in memory.
I'm also not even close to be a Linux guru.
Swyped from my HTC Desire S

Link to bash

Hey-
I've been playing around with the shell, installed bash 3.2 according to this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537827
aaaand I was trying to make a link from /system/bin/sh to /sdcard/bash but it didn't take. The reason I want to do that is because I'm experimenting with bash 4.1 and it hasn't quite worked. But when my shell breaks I have to wait for a restore because I can't get write access to the dang /system folder (I guess you need the shell for that).
I know it's not that huge of a deal to have it all in the /system folder once it's how I want it, but I'm going to be playing with other stuff too (bash_profile, etc) and it's a bit of a pain doing the whole trial/error thing. Well, at least with how long it takes. I'm doing trial/error anyway.
So my question is why wouldn't that link work? I know I'd set the link up correctly, tried it several times in case I had a typo. Maybe I just don't understand symlinks like I think I do. I tested also something where I tried to make a link within only the /sdcard folder (always writeable no matter what, thinking that had something to do with it) and just got "operation not permitted". But on my linux box a link between directories is totally cool. Not sure what the difference is. Any help appreciated.

Something else I'm seeing that I really don't understand is that I can create links just not that have to do with my /sdcard partition. I can't even change permissions in /sdcard. From ADB. I run as root:
chmod 0644 filename
and it's as if it accepts the command, but perms stay the same. I did it not as root but it said operation denied. Why if I've got root can't I do some of these operations in /sdcard?

Scooterx3 said:
Hey-
I've been playing around with the shell, installed bash 3.2 according to this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537827
aaaand I was trying to make a link from /system/bin/sh to /sdcard/bash but it didn't take. The reason I want to do that is because I'm experimenting with bash 4.1 and it hasn't quite worked. But when my shell breaks I have to wait for a restore because I can't get write access to the dang /system folder (I guess you need the shell for that).
I know it's not that huge of a deal to have it all in the /system folder once it's how I want it, but I'm going to be playing with other stuff too (bash_profile, etc) and it's a bit of a pain doing the whole trial/error thing. Well, at least with how long it takes. I'm doing trial/error anyway.
So my question is why wouldn't that link work? I know I'd set the link up correctly, tried it several times in case I had a typo. Maybe I just don't understand symlinks like I think I do. I tested also something where I tried to make a link within only the /sdcard folder (always writeable no matter what, thinking that had something to do with it) and just got "operation not permitted". But on my linux box a link between directories is totally cool. Not sure what the difference is. Any help appreciated.
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it's about a fat32 part? then will not work
You should post a log

Thanks, I was poking around somewhere and saw that other people have had problems if it's using a windows format. However, I'm burning my brains out trying to figure out how to see what format it uses and how to then change the format. It's the Samsung Galaxy S, and it's an internal memory card. I wouldn't think I could format it from my computer, it's not removable. Or else I'd have found out already using gparted or something (in fact I tried, said 'unallocated' is all). I *perhaps* could use gparted to format it as ext4 or whatever though, but I'm not sure the effect that'll have. I'd have to do some research.
In any case, I'd love to post a log but I'm not sure what log that is that you're referring to, would you mind telling me how to get that?

Scooterx3 said:
Thanks, I was poking around somewhere and saw that other people have had problems if it's using a windows format. However, I'm burning my brains out trying to figure out how to see what format it uses and how to then change the format. It's the Samsung Galaxy S, and it's an internal memory card. I wouldn't think I could format it from my computer, it's not removable. Or else I'd have found out already using gparted or something (in fact I tried, said 'unallocated' is all). I *perhaps* could use gparted to format it as ext4 or whatever though, but I'm not sure the effect that'll have. I'd have to do some research.
In any case, I'd love to post a log but I'm not sure what log that is that you're referring to, would you mind telling me how to get that?
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If you work in adb post console output the same if you made that symlink from phone shell
do not forget to switch to root ("su" command )
by this you get part info
Code:
cat /proc/mtd
or system log here
Code:
adb logcat -d > logcat.txt
- it's saved to adb folder
(do not blame me if you already know these things)
also here is an interesting thread
maybe that part is mounted as read-only ?
make things simple as possible use Root Explorer/ES File Explorer (just tap screen to mount r-w)

Thanks, I liked that article you'd mentioned. Though I also tried the suggestion that was provided when I realized that /sdcard/ is really just /mnt/sdcard/ but still no dice.
I checked those logs, didn't see anything relevant. They're attached so if I just don't know what I'm looking for then someone would see it?
The /sdcard isn't read only, I'm able to write files to it.
I'm thinking really that it's just a windows format, but I still haven't an idea how to actually prove that, nor do I know how to format it for linux. Again- it's not removable. Anyway, if there's something that I need to see in the log, it'd be appreciated if you could point it out to me, thanks.

Scooterx3 said:
I'm thinking really that it's just a windows format, but I still haven't an idea how to actually prove that, nor do I know how to format it for linux. Again- it's not removable. Anyway, if there's something that I need to see in the log, it'd be appreciated if you could point it out to me, thanks.
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-nothing interesting in log file
(a mount/df output is better here)
-also post this problem in Galaxy S I9000 sub-forum
I think your internal sdcard is vfat-type then try to format as ext4-type
here is a good article on this problem