So recently I installed the slim bean 4.2 build on my evo. I also tried Roehsoft Ram Expander just to try it out. I don't know if it matters, but I figured I would throw it out there. Heres my problem:
I tried installing the 4.2 AOKP and 4.2 AOSPA roms on the phone but they just keep bootlooping. After extensive trouble shooting, they asked if my sd card was partitioned. I deleted the swap partition on the ext sd card, but in the process I realized the phone doesn't recognize it's internal sd card. Like at all. The phone always boots and all, it just won't show it up in any file explorers or recovery. If I take out the ext sd card and try to download something, it says that an sd card is required to download something.
Any clue whats up here?
Ended up wiping and partitioning external sd card with a 1024 ext-3 partition. Link is in comments below
Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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I am confused because I was able to install a JB rom without doing this. I just flashed the files for slim bean. I couldn't even partition it if i wanted to, because when I try to mount the sd card in recovery it says that there is no SD card.
I thought you were getting bootloops attempting to install Android 4.2. Follow the directions at http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-sup...-card-not-being-seen-root-non-root-users.html to fix the sdcard not being seen.
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I thought you were getting bootloops attempting to install Android 4.2. Follow the directions at http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-sup...-card-not-being-seen-root-non-root-users.html to fix the sdcard not being seen.
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I was getting bootloops whenever trying to install a new 4.2.2 rom, but thats after I already have Slim Bean 4.2 running on it
aeppacher said:
I was getting bootloops whenever trying to install a new 4.2.2 rom, but thats after I already have Slim Bean 4.2 running on it
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You should always wipe everything before flashing a new rom. /system, /data, /cache and dalvik cache.
CNexus said:
You should always wipe everything before flashing a new rom. /system, /data, /cache and dalvik cache.
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Yeah I tried that. Superwipe and all
aeppacher said:
I am confused because I was able to install a JB rom without doing this. I just flashed the files for slim bean. I couldn't even partition it if i wanted to, because when I try to mount the sd card in recovery it says that there is no SD card.
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Wiping my ext sd card, doing this, and flashing worked. Unfortunately my backup got delete on my desktop so I lost everything but oh well. A couple thanks for you
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Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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Bobwalker,
Not sure where you got the info about having a partitioned card to install jb. That is not correct information. All jb and ics roms are small enough to fit on the system partition and do not need to use symlinks to the sdext partition in order to run. You can technically install a jb or ics rom without any sdcard present. Note I say technically since most users do not know how to install a rom any other way than recovery. Point is you dont have to have a sdext partition but it is recommended for apps since the og have a very small data partition size.
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I partitioned my sd while in recovery, I did 32mb swap 1024mb ext 2 and the rest fat 32. I then did the ext2 to ext3, then did ext3 to ext4 in the hopes of getting app2sd to work. but now all my nandroid backups are gone as well as everything I had on the card. when I boot into recovery and do msusb it has nothing in it and if i try to do a restore I get an error that says "E:couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid." I can still boot into roms if I put it on the root of the sd card, and i can still use root apps and if i use a file explorer in android the stuff on the phones internal rom is still there, so i guess what im trying to ask is what the heck did i do by partitioning the sdcard?
It's weird that you weren't notified, but partitioning the sdcard for app2sd is SUPPOSED to wipe the sdcard. But it IS a bug if it didn't warn you all data was going to be erased.
I had the same issue last night, luckily I figured partitioning "might" lose my data so I backed it up on my comp first.
Well I was right, it totally wiped the card. Glad I made a backup.
Well here is my idea. Could we possibly partition the FAT32 part of our phones into more then one partition.
Saying like we could have a few FAT32 based partition, A Primary, One for roms/patches, then etc.
That way when we format the primary, it doesn't delete the roms we could flash. So we didn't need to hook up the phone to the computer to copy roms back over.
I know Recover firmware would need to support this. But it's just a thought.
I'm not really an expert at this, but doing a full wipe and installing a new ROM doesn't wipe the contents of your SD Card. Are you saying partition the phone's internal storage? What's wrong with just storing the ROMs on your SD card?
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I'm not really an expert at this, but doing a full wipe and installing a new ROM doesn't wipe the contents of your SD Card. Are you saying partition the phone's internal storage? What's wrong with just storing the ROMs on your SD card?
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I meant like partition the SD Card into multiple partitions, So when you erase the SD:Ext and the FAT32, the ROM Partition doesn't go with it.
So example
SD:Ext - Partition 1
FAT32 - Partition 2 (Default SD Storage)
FAT32 - Partition 3 (ROM Storage, Backup Files)
So when you partition the SD Card though the Recovery it will only format Partition 1 and Partition 2, So if you left somewhere wtihout your computer and tweaking your phone, You could use partition 3 and access your ROM files and backups without going though loops for them.
What recovery are you using. I'm still not sure what you are talking about? I have no problems accessing my roms and kernels. You can do it plenty of ways and not do what you are talking about..
Use root explorer. Can transfer from download folder or if you made a certain folder on SD card for them you can copy paste them to the root directory on SD card if you use RA recovery. Clockwork you can go through every folder looking for the zip using clockwork unlike RA recovery which needs it to be in root of SD card. Your making it hard on yourself..
Why would you want to wipe fat32 and partion?
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I have an 8GB SanDisk MicroSD, it had a 500MB SD-EXT partition made using ROM Manager with 0MB of Swap. I was using OpenDesire, the latest version.
However I decided to change to Cynanogen 6.1.1, as it is more stable. I decided to Un-Mount and Format my SD Card, as I know this wont format my SD-Ext. After Formatting my SD Card wouldn't re-mount so I connected it to my computer, and formatted it again, by right clicking and clicking Format in My Computer.
After doing this it said I had 7.86 GB of Memory on my SD-Card. This is how much is left on the SD Card with no Partition's or data. After I installed Cynanogen, when wiping the user data, I noticed that it said there was no SD-Ext partiton, and so it couldn't format it. I immidiatley went back to ROM Manager to create one, however when it gets to the Clockwork MOD Part I just get a error about a signature or something? Can anyone please help - thanks!
Perhaps the format option under settings wiped the whole SD card and repartitioned it with a single FAT partition, therefore deleting the EXT partition. Format from within windows/linux in future. AFAIK, there would not be an ext on a stock rom and therefore no need for one, so the format option just goes ahead an obliterates.
If you've got a nandroid you could just repartition and restore.
Sounds like it just formatted the whole thing into a single partition. Just partition it back again as your really suppose to do when switching roms.
I've got an EXT3 partition with stuff installed on it and I'd like to get rid of it. Is there an easy way to copy the files that are in it back to the main FAT32? Or will I need to wipe the entire card and reinstall all of the apps?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882758
With the new OxygeN HBOOT their is no longer a need for ext3 (in fact its slower), So to remove it you will need to download something like Gparted to manage the partition tables on your sdcard.
Delete the ext3 partition and completely reformat the card to fat32
Then install the new Oxygen HBOOT,
Then wipe cache's /all,
Then install OxygeN.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882758
With the new OxygeN HBOOT their is no longer a need for ext3 (in fact its slower), So to remove it you will need to download something like Gparted to manage the partition tables on your sdcard.
Delete the ext3 partition and completely reformat the card to fat32
Then install the new Oxygen HBOOT,
Then wipe cache's /all,
Then install OxygeN.
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This has nothing to do with the question of the thread opener.
jordan.harris01 said:
I've got an EXT3 partition with stuff installed on it and I'd like to get rid of it. Is there an easy way to copy the files that are in it back to the main FAT32? Or will I need to wipe the entire card and reinstall all of the apps?
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You can use this app to do this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&feature=search_result
Your rom still thinks you have the option "move to sd", because this is according to the fat32 partition of your sd card. In application settings android can only choose between "internal storage" or "fat 32 (sd card)".
I have a little problem with my WFS. I partitioned the SD card to use Int2Ext4, but the ROM keeps saying that no SD card is present, even if it does use the EXT partition. I can mount the card in CWM, I can see it's content there.
I'm using the ROM from OWL Project (this thread), the last version of it.
I would post there, but I don't have the post count yet.
Any advice? I'm currently repartitioning my SD card and try again. I reflashed the ROM a couple of times, fixed permissions as well from CWM.
Did you format your partition on the SD card with EXT4? INT2EXT4 only supports the ext4 file system, not ext2 or ext3. I use the INT2EXTV2 on myl WFS with the OWL ROM for a few weeks and it works without problems so far.
allandanton said:
Did you format your partition on the SD card with EXT4? INT2EXT4 only supports the ext4 file system, not ext2 or ext3. I use the INT2EXTV2 on myl WFS with the OWL ROM for a few weeks and it works without problems so far.
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Yes, I used Ext4. I tried flashing Int2Ext, Int2Ext+, Int2ExtV2+ and Int2Ext4+ from CWM, but I was always stuck on bootloop. The only way I made it work was by extracting the script file from Int2Ext4+ and placing it in /system/etc/init.d of the ROM zip. Flashed it, it worked, but then I got this problem )
I'm thinking that maybe the FAT32 partition was not formatted correctly. So I'm doing that now.
I repartitioned the SD card and now it worked correctly. Weird is, I did the same thing as before, so I'm not really sure why it wasn't working in the first time.
DrCriss said:
I have a little problem with my WFS. I partitioned the SD card to use Int2Ext4, but the ROM keeps saying that no SD card is present, even if it does use the EXT partition. I can mount the card in CWM, I can see it's content there.
I'm using the ROM from OWL Project (this thread), the last version of it.
I would post there, but I don't have the post count yet.
Any advice? I'm currently repartitioning my SD card and try again. I reflashed the ROM a couple of times, fixed permissions as well from CWM.
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i format the sdcard, cache, dalvik, etc then flash the script (data2sd or int2ext or int2ext+ or watever) then goto advanced then select partition sd card, select 512 MB and 0 MB for linux swap space. DONE, hope solves it for you
I have too WFS with OWL project and i dont have any problem with this
Go to recovery menu and here create partition (befor it backup sd card)
Then go to mount and storage menu > mount usb storage >connect usb cable > give cronomod on sd
Then go to install zip from sd card and instal cronomod INT2EXT+
And have more memory
After instal cronomod dont stres android start is first longer but only first then normal speed
Thanks for the answers. I did say I fixed it already by repartitioning the card. Probably I didn't format it right.
DrCriss said:
Thanks for the answers. I did say I fixed it already by repartitioning the card. Probably I didn't format it right.
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