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[Q] Zinio?

Is anyone using Zinio with their A100? If so, how do you manage your memory? I need to free up some memory or move it to the SD card but do not know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

You might want to take a look at the SD mount swap by crossix. It mounts your SD card as internal, so if you have a 32gb card you get 32gb internal storage. Well after formatting and android taking space its like 29gb but you get my point. Here's a screenshot of it running on mine, note internal storage.
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I've tried to get that mod to work several times and can't.
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wchildress said:
I've tried to get that mod to work several times and can't.
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Yeah it seems to be tricky for some people to get going. I'll assume you use an Acer based ICS and not CM9 like I used for my screenshot, but download the zip, extract the install-recovery.sh file, paste it into /system/etc so it looks like /system/etc/install-recovery.sh then set permissions, uncheck every box, save. Re open permissions and set it to
XXX
XXX
XXO
Save.
Reboot, wait a minute. Like seriously a minute, not a few seconds. Then check storage. Depending what file manager you use you will have to mount system as writable, in root explorer its a R/W button up top, in ES file manager its in settings, check root explorer, allow root, mount system as writable check box. Others may be different but I've uses those two and it works.
If you use CM9 its different, but I can walk you through that method as well.
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wchildress said:
Is anyone using Zinio with their A100? If so, how do you manage your memory? I need to free up some memory or move it to the SD card but do not know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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You could manually move the files from /sdcard/com.zinio.mobile.android.reader to /mnt/external_sd, but when you try to access the magazine again from Zinio it will redownload the files to the original location. If you do not have an available internet connection, then the pages will display as all black. There is not a single file that you can select to open the magazine in Zinio, the magazine is downloaded as seperate apdfs, jpgs, and html files.

Thanks, I tried it again, and I still cannot get it to work, maybe I'm an idiot...

wchildress said:
Thanks, I tried it again, and I still cannot get it to work, maybe I'm an idiot...
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Not to insult you, but it is unzipped and end with .sh right? I know its odd but its happened plenty of times before.
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LOL, Yes
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LOL, Yes
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OK just checking. A lot of people miss those things, makes me /facepalm when I spent 2 hours trying to help someone and they're like "wait, unzip it?"
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Yeah, I understand, I just tried the whole thing over again. It must be the ROM I'm using.

wchildress said:
Yeah, I understand, I just tried the whole thing over again. It must be the ROM I'm using.
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I've run it on two cm9 releases every flex reaper and taboonay, always works doing as I mentioned. I assume your /system is rw if you put it into /system/etc. Other option is script manager to run it on boot, that's how I use it in cm9.
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I have have done it both ways, I must be doing something wrong.
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I'm using the flex reap extreme edition, and prefer root explorer.
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[Q] How to dump EVERYTHING via ADB?

So I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone, and forgot that the phone gets wiped. I downloaded a couple programs but most don't even recognize that the phone is attached.
I've read that dumping everything from the phone to an external HDD can recover pics, but I'm not to familiar with ADB commands besides reboot, bootloader, and recovery.
So, can anyone with more experience help me please?

Bump

Well if you already factory reset...aka...booted your phone up after unlocking...
Your data is gone.

adb pull / c:\phone
Or adb pull /sdcard/ c:\phone
That'll dump your entire phone or the second one will just dump the sdcard. If there is anything on there. To a folder called phone on the root of the c drive.
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thedudejdog said:
adb pull / /phone/
Or adb pull /sdcard/ /phone/
That'll dump your entire phone or the second one will just dump the sdcard. If there is anything on there. To a folder called phone on the root of the c drive.
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A-hemn...

You mentioned having some difficulty getting the device recognized consistently by different programs, most likely driver issues. Follow efrant's guide here to get your driver issues sorted and ensure adb is set up correctly. To test adb type:
adb devices
which should give you a response. If not you are still having issues.
Also, be aware if you unlocked the phone with the data you need still on the phone, the data is most likely irrecoverable.

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A-hemn...
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If you want to put it in your SDK folder, I suppose that would work too
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thedudejdog said:
If you want to put it in your SDK folder, I suppose that would work too
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That'll put it on the C:/ drive.
I don't believe adb will accept backslashes.

You cannot "dump" anything with ADB commands. The pull command will only copy files to you computer -- it will not do a bit-wise dump. So if you unlocked your device, there are no files to copy...
The dd shell command can dump partitions to somewhere on your device, but you can't dump the userdata partition because dd has no where to save it to. (I suppose it could be possible if you find some way to mount your device in Linux, or have a drive on your computer mounted in Android, but outside of /data.
And as far as I know, there are no android apps that can recover files from an ext4 partition.
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Assuming your data hasn't already been wrote over or zero'd out...
Data recovery isn't exactly the easiest process.
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Considering how quickly the unlock process takes to complete, I think its safe to assume it does not zero out the partition. If the OP has not written much data to the partition he may get lucky and recover quite a bit of it. As efrant mentioned, if the OP can get the partition mounted in linux he could have a shot. Here is one procedure from another owner who was in a similar situation. Not for the faint of heart..but depending on how important the data was may be an option.

Thanks guys, just gave up. Lots of pics, but vids and contacts were backed up. The music was on my computer and so I didn't care about that.
Thanks to everyone that helped though.

Can't write to sdcard

Okay, I'm freaking out a little bit.
The one app I use more than any other is Doggcatcher. It been my most-used app since my first G1. Well, I recently flashed the AOKP Jelly Bean ROM on my VZW GN, and now it seems that Doggcatcher can no longer save anything to the sdcard directory (either sdcard or storage/sdcard0).
What did I do wrong? I had Jelly Bean working on my phone for a while, but my GN's charge port broke and I received a replacement. I believe I restored a nandroid backup of my previous Jelly Bean install (which was a different ROM), and that's when my problems started. When I installed the AOKP ROM I wiped everything, but I still can't get Doggcatcher to save a single file. It seems other apps have trouble storing anything on the phone too, which is clearly a huge problem.
So what do I do? Please help! I'll offer any information I can.

Seems like permission is bit messed up. Have you don't anything that might've changed the permission?
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kyokeun1234 said:
Seems like permission is bit messed up. Have you don't anything that might've changed the permission?
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Certainly nothing on purpose. I just flashed these ROMs in the way I would have thought I was supposed to. I loaded ClockworkMod and flashed the zip file from AOKP.
I really have no idea what I might have done or what to do now. I'm completely fine with wiping my phone, I just need to know how to start over!

If you have any directories/files that you can't modify or delete, then boot into CWM recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell. Also make sure that /data is mounted in the CWM mounts menu. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *

danger-rat said:
If you have any directories/files that you can't modify or delete, then boot into CWM recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell. Also make sure that /data is mounted in the CWM mounts menu. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
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My friend, you are a genius. THANK YOU SO DAMN MUCH!! Seriously, you rock like crazy.
I followed your instructions (I had to learn how to get into the adb shell but that wasn't too tough), restarted the phone, and immediately tried downloading a podcast episode. I then pumped my fist in the air when I saw it successfully downloading.
Again, thank you so much. You rock.

Just passing on info from others...

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Just passing on info from others...
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Still, you helped, solved my problem, and fixed a problem for me in a week that's been filled with nothing BUT problems in other parts of my life, so I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.

FYI, I also posted your answer, along with a link to this thread, on the Doggcatcher forums where I also asked for help on this issue, when I thought it was just a problem with that app. I quoted your answer and gave you the credit, in case there's ever a future breakdown in the link I used

danger-rat said:
If you have any directories/files that you can't modify or delete, then boot into CWM recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell. Also make sure that /data is mounted in the CWM mounts menu. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
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thanks, you saved me too

johnz said:
thanks, you saved me too
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Dude, this thread was dead, all you needed to do was press the thanks button, no need to revive this.
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danger-rat said:
If you have any directories/files that you can't modify or delete, then boot into CWM recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell. Also make sure that /data is mounted in the CWM mounts menu. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
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thanks so much for this!
I was struggeling with this problem, because I couldn't create backups anymore.
before I executed your command I had a look at the current permissions for the files.. some folders were owned by root:root instead of media_rw:media_rw. No wonder apps couldn't create files in those folders..
Too bad this was only shown in the shell when in recovery. While the phone was in Android the permissions showed correctly as root:sdcard_rw .. that's why it never occured to me this was a real problem.

Won't auto mount SD card

Hi all,
I have looked at several other threads about this but could not find an answer. My Acer a100 won't auto mount the SD. I can mount it from terminal as root but not from fstab. I tried modifying the fstab several different ways with no luck. Not sure when it started but I noticed it after latest update. Flashed unlocked boot loader and have tried several rooms with same results. Any advice?
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miked63017 said:
Hi all,
I have looked at several other threads about this but could not find an answer. My Acer a100 won't auto mount the SD. I can mount it from terminal as root but not from fstab. I tried modifying the fstab several different ways with no luck. Not sure when it started but I noticed it after latest update. Flashed unlocked boot loader and have tried several rooms with same results. Any advice?
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Put the SD card in a card reader and check it for errors on a PC. Not through the tablet use a card reader. Mounting issues are usually some sort of filesystem error or corruption, maybe copy what you can off and give it a fresh format.
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Card checks out fine. Before I checked it I also tried a few other cards and they all had the same problem too. Can someone with an a100 that mounts on boot show me their /etc/vold.fstab file
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miked63017 said:
Card checks out fine. Before I checked it I also tried a few other cards and they all had the same problem too. Can someone with an a100 that mounts on boot show me their /etc/cold.fstab file
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dev_mount external_sdcard /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1
This is jellybean adjust /storage/sdcard1 for /mnt/external_sd in ICS.
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mmc_host sir does not exist mine is the same except after the sdhci-tegra.2 part it is just mmcblk1. Tried it anyway for giggles with no luck. Is there any way to use standard Linux syntax in that fstab? Poosible problem in the ramdisk? Just trying to come up with something don't want to have to manually mount it every time. I also noticed the same issue when I am in recovery, except I have to mount it with adb because twrp console is a little rough. Is there anywhere else the unit system looks for mounts? I did notice that the internal SD is not in the fstab how/when is that mounted? What logs would I check for errors in this case?
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miked63017 said:
mmc_host sir does not exist mine is the same except after the sdhci-tegra.2 part it is just mmcblk1. Tried it anyway for giggles with no luck. Is there any way to use standard Linux syntax in that fstab? Poosible problem in the ramdisk? Just trying to come up with something don't want to have to manually mount it every time. I also noticed the same issue when I am in recovery, except I have to mount it with adb because twrp console is a little rough. Is there anywhere else the unit system looks for mounts? I did notice that the internal SD is not in the fstab how/when is that mounted? What logs would I check for errors in this case?
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Internal is mounted to /data/media which is why its not there. Its mounted early in the fs init right before external is iirc its been awhile since I looked at it.
I don't even know what ROM you're on or the kernel in use so I have no idea right now what can be causing it.
Mmcblk1 is external SD card though.
Dmesg may show if there's a known reason for mount failure. Logcat might too.
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Right now I am on the flex reaper from and I be live the kernel is the one that came with it. The problem is there on stock too though. Any other things I can try?
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miked63017 said:
Right now I am on the flex reaper from and I be live the kernel is the one that came with it. The problem is there on stock too though. Any other things I can try?
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Get the logs like I suggested so we can see what's going on.
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Hopefully he knows how to get a log, I didn't know for the longest time.
Adb logcat
That displays it
Adb logcat > logcat.txt
That gives you a text file to post
I dunno about dmesg though
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looked in the logs, no errors with regards to SD. I looked through the init files and there is no mounting of the external SD, it seems to me that the vold.fstab dev_mount thing is more like a bind mount than a traditional mount point. Looked in my phone and the SD is mounted in one of the local inits. So time to recompile the ram disk I guess. Will post logs up after work today, not sure if I can do it from the mobile app.
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Here is a copy of the log file and a txt file with all the errors in the log(grep -i error logcat.txt > logcaterrors.txt). If anybody notices anything I missed please let me know. I am about to dump my partitions and try to assemble a new boot.img, anybody have a link to the partition layout?

miked63017 said:
Here is a copy of the log file and a txt file with all the errors in the log(grep -i error logcat.txt > logcaterrors.txt). If anybody notices anything I missed please let me know. I am about to dump my partitions and try to assemble a new boot.img, anybody have a link to the partition layout?
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Try adb shell dmesg > dmesg.txt that would be more likely to show fs errors.
Also pulling the recovery log in /cache/recovery/ has the partition info in it.
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Sweet added mount ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/external_sd to the init.vangogh.rc, rebuilt the boot.img and now the sd mounts by itself Thanks for the help, Next I am determined to get a ubuntu image running on it and then ideally get android running in a chroot(opposite of how most tutorials do it).

Well now I may have very well bricked it. On the plus side it is trying to boot from the SD card. I guess the rootfs is not bootable. However holding the volume button no longer takes me to recovery either any suggestions?
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miked63017 said:
Well now I may have very well bricked it. On the plus side it is trying to boot from the SD card. I guess the rootfs is not bootable. However holding the volume button no longer takes me to recovery either any suggestions?
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Put it in fast boot and put a normal boot.img back on it, as well as flash recovery again. It'll reverse the changes but it'll be up again to try it again lol
Boot holding the other volume key down, volume up in landscape.
Fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
Fastboot flash recovery recovery. IMG
I'm sure you know to use the file names there.
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Replied in other thread (native Linux a100) in the developers section. Will keep it there since its more related to that topic. Thanks for the help with the SD guys.
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[Q] Having problems with adb connect

In RomToolBox they have an option to have a adb wireless everytime I have tried to use the "adb push" command it is always telling me that i am trying to send the file to a "read only system" I checked my permissions on both my internal and external SD card and they all have full permissions(777) it will also give me a "error: protocol fault(no status) error
Any suggestions? I am running LiquidSmoothRC7
I also attached a screenie as you can see I have tried multiple times

Try /mnt/storage/sdcard0 for internal and /mnt/storage/sdcard1 for external .
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its still giving me the same problem
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Do you have developer options turned on with android debugging?
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Yes I do uhh this is a bummer
I changed the root access to apps and adb and it still gives me problems I'm just gonna try to run it through a wire.
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neim81094 said:
Yes I do uhh this is a bummer
I changed the root access to apps and adb and it still gives me problems I'm just gonna try to run it through a wire.
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Are you running a stock kernel? It might not be an insecure kernel (meaning allowing root access to adb) but you shouldn't need root for putting stuff to the memory card.
Try using /data/media for internal memory card.
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I'm using a modified kernel. I don't know it could be because everyone in my family was using the internet maybe I'm going to try now I'll be the only one on right now
Ok I found the fix which sounds mediocre but at least I got it working
For the path for the original file I used the \ (C:\file.ext) but I had to use the / for the dir I wanted it to go to on my phone (/storage/sdcard0/file.ext)
Thanks alot for helping me I posted a screenie on what I mean
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