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[Q] Just turned on Evo since july 11

I just got my og Evo 4g (on the 3d now) back on for my wife since she dropped hers and is in 2 pieces lol. I havent been on the 4g forum in a long long time and need some help from you guys.
I have found out the im on android 2.2 with baseband version 2.15.00.11.19
Was running Eternal Prophecy v6.1 and on 2.6.32.27 netarchy kernel. I know im pretty far behind and want to know how i would go about getting the phone up to date and run a rom that is pretty stable since its for my wife. She has been bashing me ever since ive found out about rooting and flashing roms, so i want to hook her up with a stable rom with all bloatware removed, and show her that "aftermarket" roms are way better than the one that came with the phone. Any recommendations would be helpful.
Oooohhhhh....1 thing, i dont have the SD card anymore and most likely will be putting her SD card in, would that be ok?

Yes that should be okay. Might need to partition the card via recovery. Roms I have been using cm7 for aosp and mikG for sense. They are both good. Kernels that are out for gingerbread are anthrax, lionfish, and a couple of others. If you want to go straight stock give tommytomatoes classic rom a go. He has tweaked that rom pretty good. Hope this helps.
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marcusva79 said:
Yes that should be okay. Might need to partition the card via recovery. Roms I have been using cm7 for aosp and mikG for sense. They are both good. Kernels that are out for gingerbread are anthrax, lionfish, and a couple of others. If you want to go straight stock give tommytomatoes classic rom a go. He has tweaked that rom pretty good. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the reply....I'm still kinda noob on partitioning lol, what do you mean exactly by partitioning via recovery? Is that the whole ext4 thing?

If you are running the latest version of Clockwork mod recovery, you have the option to partition the SD card directly from the recovery. Hope that help man.

cev2387 said:
If you are running the latest version of Clockwork mod recovery, you have the option to partition the SD card directly from the recovery. Hope that help man.
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What do I do after I partition the SD card?

Partition your card 32/1024, once you do that your SD card should be complete. Partitioning your card will delete everything in your card so be cautious and backup your memory onto a computer
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Steven 1 said:
Partition your card 32/1024, once you do that your SD card should be complete. Partitioning your card will delete everything in your card so be cautious and backup your memory onto a computer
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What's partitioning actually do? If I back up my wifes SD card then partition the SD card....do i. just copy the backed up data to the card?

64GB Micro SD Card, EXFAT, and TWRP Recovery

BestBuy has the class 10 SanDisk 64GB micro sd card for 43 bucks.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/SanDisk...8457270220&skuId=4120116&st=4120116&cp=1&lp=1
I took the plunge. I've been reading a lot of posts that claim it doesn't work on the Note 2, but an equal amount that say it does. I know you can either format it in fat32 or exfat. Exfat allows you to store files larger than 4GB, such as HD movies.Is there any other advantage to using exfat than the 4GB file size option? Also, I'm pretty sure exfat won't work with TWRP recovery, right? I'd be stuck with stock recovery if I opted for exfat formatting, right?

TWRP is a recovery not a kernel. If you're running stock kernel exfat should work.

According to my reading...
conflict0102 said:
TWRP is a recovery not a kernel. If you're running stock kernel exfat should work.
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It will not find the your SD card if you try to do a backup and restore if you formatted the card using exfat. I wonder what would happen if I went ahead and installed TWRP, but when I did my back up I inserted a smaller, back-up card that formatted with fat32. I could reinsert the fat32 card only if I needed to restore the backup...

volumnus said:
It will not find the your SD card if you try to do a backup and restore if you formatted the card using exfat. I wonder what would happen if I went ahead and installed TWRP, but when I did my back up I inserted a smaller, back-up card that formatted with fat32. I could reinsert the fat32 card only if I needed to restore the backup...
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Can you do a backup to your sdcard? If so, how?
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powerwagon said:
Can you do a backup to your sdcard? If so, how?
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I have no idea. All I know is on my ATT Inspire the nandroid backups were always stored on my SD card using CWM.

For CWM, if you want to back up to extSdCard, you have to select "backup to external card" or something like that.
for TWRP, the latest version supports exFAT & when you are in backup, you can select if you want to backup to internal or external sdcard. its a radio button.

RMXO said:
For CWM, if you want to back up to extSdCard, you have to select "backup to external card" or something like that.
for TWRP, the latest version supports exFAT & when you are in backup, you can select if you want to backup to internal or external sdcard. its a radio button.
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Pretty sure I saw one of the TWRP developers say today that it does not support exfat... could be wrong though.
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People are saying clockwork mod rom manager does not support note 2 yet. I think you can use Odin to install it however. Maybe it's just that the app doesn't support note 2 yet. I wonder if I should just wait until the goole play clockwork mod app adds note 2 support. I suspect it won't be long.
powerwagon said:
Pretty sure I saw one of the TWRP developers say today that it does not support exfat... could be wrong though.
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powerwagon said:
Pretty sure I saw one of the TWRP developers say today that it does not support exfat... could be wrong though.
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The latest version supports exFAT because I'm using TWRP with a 64gb formatted exFAT & the dev released a version that supports exFAT in the TWRP thread.
volumnus said:
People are saying clockwork mod rom manager does not support note 2 yet. I think you can use Odin to install it however. Maybe it's just that the app doesn't support note 2 yet. I wonder if I should just wait until the goole play clockwork mod app adds note 2 support. I suspect it won't be long.
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You don't need to use ROM manager because CWM & TWRP does everything it does and if you want to update CWM then you'll have to use ODIN.

Can you post a link to the version of TWRP that supports exfat. I can't find it. Is it just the latest version, 2.3.1.3?
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volumnus said:
Can you post a link to the version of TWRP thst supports exfat. I can't find it.
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Goo manager in the play store has the latest TWRP.
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volumnus said:
Can you post a link to the version of TWRP that supports exfat. I can't find it. Is it just the latest version, 2.3.1.3?
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Just download GooManager from the Play store and select to install Open Recovery (like previous poster said). The first few releases of TWRP did not support exFat, but the dev was nice enough to add it.
I just booted into TWRP and confirmed it's there.

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Jrockttu said:
Just download GooManager from the Play store and select to install Open Recovery (like previous poster said). The first few releases of TWRP did not support exFat, but the dev was nice enough to add it.
I just booted into TWRP and confirmed it's there.
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Thanks to everyone for clearing this up! The developer of TWRP should consider noting that TWRP now offers exfat support on the TWRP OP. That's a pretty big deal IMO.
My phone arrives Monday, but my 64gb card probably won't be here for a while. In the meantime I will be using a 32GB fat32 card. Any harm in just powering down the phone and switching cards when the new, larger exfat card arrives? Switching cards never seemed to be an issue on my old Inspire. I mainly just use the card to house music and movies.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34074379
Post #56 talks about EXFAT support.
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RMXO said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34074379
Post #56 talks about EXFAT support.
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TWRP recovery has support for ExFAT since v2.4.0.0.

The card works I am using one right now. Fat32 format for KitKat ROM s
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64GB Micro SD card issues, pls read

I had a recovery of my stock rom installed, and inserted a BRAND NEW (Bought it 30 minutes ago) 64GB SanDisk MicroSDXC card, bought from Bestbuy factory sealed. with the sdcard installed I recovered to my CM10.1 install and the SDcard does not work, it says "mount sdcard" but nothing happens when I click it. What am I doing wrong?

JamesChilds said:
I had a recovery of my stock rom installed, and inserted a BRAND NEW (Bought it 30 minutes ago) 64GB SanDisk MicroSDXC card, bought from Bestbuy factory sealed. with the sdcard installed I recovered to my CM10.1 install and the SDcard does not work, it says "mount sdcard" but nothing happens when I click it. What am I doing wrong?
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Edit: Just realized SDcard works in girlfriends stock Photon Q, so maybe its just CM10.1...

JamesChilds said:
Edit: Just realized SDcard works in girlfriends stock Photon Q, so maybe its just CM10.1...
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Should be in Q and A but to answer you only the stock touch wiz kernel and perseus support the 64gb cards....youd need to format it to 32gb or use a 32gb on cm10 if I am correct.
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neopolotin75 said:
Should be in Q and A but to answer you only the stock touch wiz kernel and perseus support the 64gb cards....youd need to format it to 32gb or use a 32gb on cm10 if I am correct.
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Not true. You should have no problem running a 64gb card on an AOSP rom as long as it is formatted to fat32. I am currently running a 64gb sandisk card and my current rom is liquidsmooth but have also used it on carbon, rootbox, paranoid as well as a few touchwiz based roms with no issues. Just make sure you format the card to fat32 and you should be fine.
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No support for exfat, so you'll have to format to fat 32, which defeats the purpose of a high capacity card.
(can't store files bigger then 4gb aka HD rips)
Although there are some hacks on this board that may work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155363

TADitto said:
Not true. You should have no problem running a 64gb card on an AOSP rom as long as it is formatted to fat32. I am currently running a 64gb sandisk card and my current rom is liquidsmooth but have also used it on carbon, rootbox, paranoid as well as a few touchwiz based roms with no issues. Just make sure you format the card to fat32 and you should be fine.
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Xfat from my understanding only works on stock kernel and persus from what I remember reading unless the dev added the support so like it was mentioned formatting it to fat32 on that size card defeats that cards purpose....I should have been clearer since the OP said it doesn't work on cm10 but did on his gfs phone that seemed like why to me. :thumbup:
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So, can we expect ex fat support on cm10.1 anytime soon?

sd card issues with aosp/cm roms....................that's why I stay away from those roms in that thread...........those roms look bad-ass, but not worth sd card issues, i.e. reformatting to fat32 and such..........not worth it.

I wouldn't get anything over 32gigs...unless you plan on downloading a bunch of pics, games, videos and apps..my 16gig is perfect for me.

The above poster is correct if you want to run aosp or cm gotta format to fat32..
And yes some kernels other then stick and Perseus have issues reading exfat.
But there isn't a Damn thing wing with running perseus they are dope.

SD card not mounting/cant flash ROM

I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.

dpshptl said:
I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.
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Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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dpshptl said:
I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.
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Why not Odin flash the stock-rooted rom and then you can flash cwm/twrp custom roms or just stay stock rooted.
Either way it will fix your mounting issue for sure.
Big mistake if you're going to flash cm10, you are just asking for problems unless you like experimentation.
Good luck!

LuigiBull23 said:
Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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I have not tried TWRP, im used to cwm so stuck with that. The card is a Sandisk 64gb class 10.

LuigiBull23 said:
Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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Misterjunky said:
Why not Odin flash the stock-rooted rom and then you can flash cwm/twrp custom roms or just stay stock rooted.
Either way it will fix your mounting issue for sure.
Big mistake if you're going to flash cm10, you are just asking for problems unless you like experimentation.
Good luck!
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I did Odin flash like you told me in another post. It got the phone back up but I cant get the card to mount in CWM. I guess Ill try TWRP. Thanks for the heads up on cm10. I could stay stock but I wanted to increase the CPU speed and get some features stock does'nt have. I don't want to turn this into "whats the best ROM" but can you tell me a good one without problems.

I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.

Not sure that the 64GB cards work on AOSP. Pretty sure you need TouchWiz ROM for that.

dpshptl said:
I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.
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The 64GB are in EXFAT format and I don't believe CWM can identify the card in that format. You will need to format the card to FAT32 on your pc and then the recovery should read your card.
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dpshptl said:
I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.
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That's only one of many reasons why I always try to advise people to stay away from AOKP/AOSP/CM roms.
All of them have inferior cameras and none have wifi calling.
Those roms were meant for developers or for those who like to do a lot of experimentation.
I just got a 64gb sdcard yesterday and it works perfectly, I had a 16gb card which worked perfectly too.
The rom I am using now is jovy's Stockorama v1 which is not exactly stock, it is deoxidized and debloated
and has many mods and lot's of improvements when compared to stock rom.

LuigiBull23 said:
The 64GB are in EXFAT format and I don't believe CWM can identify the card in that format. You will need to format the card to FAT32 on your pc and then the recovery should read your card.
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Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.

dpshptl said:
Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.
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As I said, FAT32 is the one you wanna format it to lol
I formatted mine way back in September of last year. Never had a single issue with my card on stock or AOSP based Roms.

dpshptl said:
Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.
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All sdcards come pre-formatted with FAT32 as default because they perform better and
faster than other formats when used in cell phones and other small devices.
The only advantage of formatting sdcards with other than the default format is when you are
dealing with files larger than 4GB in size. Most people will never have to deal with files of that
size unless they want to use their phones to record video for more than 8 hours continuously.
There are many 3rd party windows 7 utilities which have other format options like MiniTool partition wizard it's a free
(for home use) partition manager that can format a partition as EXT2/3/4 from windows - http://www.partitionwizard.com
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LuigiBull23 said:
As I said, FAT32 is the one you wanna format it to lol
I formatted mine way back in September of last year. Never had a single issue with my card on stock or AOSP based Roms.
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I know the aosp/aokp/cm based roms do recognize most sdcards but we are talking about 64gb sdcards
and that's where many of those roms have a problem recognizing and formatting the 64gb sdcard.

Misterjunky said:
All sdcards come pre-formatted with FAT32 as default because they perform better and
faster than other formats when used in cell phones and other small devices.
The only advantage of formatting sdcards with other than the default format is when you are
dealing with files larger than 4GB in size. Most people will never have to deal with files of that
size unless they want to use their phones to record video for more than 8 hours continuously.
There are many 3rd party windows 7 utilities which have other format options like MiniTool partition wizard it's a free
(for home use) partition manager that can format a partition as EXT2/3/4 from windows - http://www.partitionwizard.com
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I know the aosp based roms do recognize sdcards but we are talking about 64gb
sdcards and that's where the problem is when using aosp/aokp/cm based roms.
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Hmm.. That's odd. I'm currently running Liquidsmooth 2.4 with my FAT32 formatted 64 GB SanDisk Class 10 card with no issues. It's been almost a year now since moving from EXFAT.
It has worked on both CWM and TWRP recovery for me.
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I used TWRP and all is good. thanks everyone for the help

dpshptl said:
I used TWRP and all is good. thanks everyone for the help
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See like I said above, TWRP is the best way to go. It was updated not to long ago to be able to identify EXFAT format. Glad you got it working dude.
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[q] please help!!!!!!!! 4.2 to 4.1

OK so here is a deal, today i flashed my first 4.2 rom tried the latest MiBox 4.2 and first had problems in the rom itself. did a clean flash and now any of songs are showing up along with 0 images and videos? i gotta say my first aosp rom experience on my note 2 has SUCKED so far so i just want to go back to TW 4.1 on the asap. what do i need todo in order to go back to TW safe?? please help have a messed up rom with no way out.

What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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Skripka said:
What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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how can i return to TW 4.1?

chuko303 said:
how can i return to TW 4.1?
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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc. Ofc, it depends on how "clean" you flashed and whether you fully wiped the /data/media partition-which shouldn't be wiped unless you tell TWRP to.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.

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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.
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I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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chuko303 said:
I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.

Skripka said:
That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.
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I have a 32gb. Don't only 64 GB need to be formated to FAT32?
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Found the downgrade zip. Now just charging phone before I flash labrats then the zip after then boot I should be fine.
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