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So if I want to save everything on my phone (including kernel, radios, apps, system, market links, etc) how do I go about doing that? There's a check box in odin called Dump and then File [Dump] at the end but it didn't quite work the way I expected and I'm a little afraid of something wrong with odin, so I'd rather if someone could tell me how to do it from experience.
It would be nice if there was a recovery program that did a full backup of your device so that you could always resore from within recovery, but my understanding is that nandroids can't replace your radio or anything like that. So does a nandroid backup just saving you from having to reflash to stock from odin and having to do a titanium restore?
Thanks.
no one?
.....Buehler?
11 minutes worth of searching... ( I kinda knew where to look )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830&highlight=Nandroid+backup+restore
I was just gonna throw out a close enough answer and hope not to get flamed for my incompetence, but I got over curious as to whether or not my over-complication was correct.. so here goes it in simple terms..
its basically a script (.sh file) that tells your phone to backup your system to your sdcard while your phone is in recovery... something like this(off the top of my head):
to backup
mount /system
cp /system/* /sdcard/nandroid/DATE
to restore
mount /sdcard
cp /sdcard/nandroid/DATE /system
hope that answered your question?
junkdruggler said:
11 minutes worth of searching... ( I kinda knew where to look )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830&highlight=Nandroid+backup+restore
I was just gonna throw out a close enough answer and hope not to get flamed for my incompetence, but I got over curious as to whether or not my over-complication was correct.. so here goes it in simple terms..
its basically a script (.sh file) that tells your phone to backup your system to your sdcard while your phone is in recovery... something like this(off the top of my head):
to backup
mount /system
cp /system/* /sdcard/nandroid/DATE
to restore
mount /sdcard
cp /sdcard/nandroid/DATE /system
hope that answered your question?
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I think that's just a regular nandroid backup. The scripts are handled for us these days by the excellent recovery menus in clockwork. So I don't think that's what I was looking for. I get the feeling I can do what I'd like from odin, I just don't know how to go about doing it.
Well there has to be a script that pulls the radio and kernel and whatever else you would want...( I saw koush ask someone with a stock phone to do it for him..) Then you would just have to make it an update.zip.. Koush would probably be the person to ask how to do it...
But I pretty much have to be at a computer to mess up your radio or kernel do you can use it to fix your phone with odin and do a nandroid..
I personally use an older recovery on my g1 and use switchrom.sh to backup and restore.. Which has to be typed by hand..
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Hi all,
Love my HTC Desire so much i bought a Witstech A81E Android 2.2 Tablet. Which is pretty buggy to say the least though on the whole works well.
The one thing that is driving me crazy is a number of apps dont install with the logcat error:
"packagename.apk requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.maps"
Now from what i have read apparently this device does not come with Google Maps API so my question is how do i add it?
Can it be done? Do i need to modify a ROM to do it? can i push it via adb or apk?
A little help would be greatly appreciated.
It would need to have google apps installed to be able to access the libraries. Best bet is to find out if it has been rooted yet and try to install the proprietary applications they can't ship the device with.
appreciate the help mate. i've rooted the device though where can i find google maps api?
the unit already has google maps 5.0 installed but apparently doesnt have the API's.
Any idea what im looking for? will it be an APK or just some files i need to put in a system folder?
i think im over my head
additionally i have searched for any com.google.android.maps related data on my desire and have found the following:
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/data/dalvik-cache/[email protected]@[email protected]
could it be as easy as copying this over to my tablet?
Ill try it out tonight.
If the application is installed correctly it should work because the api is stored in the data. Is the application on the tablet installed to the /system/ or /data/ partition. It might be looking for the data in /system/
not sure what you mean about where the application resides? you mean the app i am trying to install? The app i am trying to install is Tasker.
i have been doing some googling and saw someone else have the same problem and he managed to fix it:
When trying to install some apps, I would see this error message in logcat:
requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.maps
I had the Google Maps app installed and working, but that didn’t fix the issue. It turns out, I had to add two other files and restart the phone. I found those files in the google zip from Cyanogenmod. It took a little fiddling, but I was able to use these instructions to remount /system in write mode. First step was to take the following two files from the google apps zip (gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip) and put them onto my sd card.
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
Then to load them onto the phone, I opened the terminal emulator and ran:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp /mnt/sdcard/com.google.android.maps.xml /system/etc/permissions/
cp /mnt/sdcard/com.google.android.maps.jar /system/framework/
Then after I rebooted the phone, I was able to install apps that depend on Google Maps. I can now check bus and train times, and do all kinds of other cool stuff with maps!
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i simply used root explorer to copy it across though still not working. surely someone smarter than me can tell me what i am doing wrong.
is copying with root explorer essentially the same as above?
damn i could have sworn someone here would have been switched on enough to help me on this
oh well back to random googling for me.
Well did you try using terminal emulator? And do what he did? B/c that looks like a remount to system to me easy as pie just do what he did you can find the files with root explorer or do it on your pc doesnt really matter. You can Not achieve what he did just using root explorer you need terminal emulator!
Sage said:
damn i could have sworn someone here would have been switched on enough to help me on this
oh well back to random googling for me.
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I don't know how much it will help (or if its 100 percent true) but I was just told recently that moving a file via root explorer is the same as pushing it via adb.
sent from gv1.5 on g2
^correct
Sent from Enrique Iglesias.
now i am confused. can i use root explorer or not? i used root explorer and then reset the correct permissions on the files though its still not working.
I take it i can get a terminal emulator that runs on the device itself yeah?
Ill try that next.
If that fails i am going to try my first attempt at cooking a ROM
Appreciate all the help!
no more love for Sage?
i dont know why its so hard..
I did try to cook the original ROM though unyaffs couldnt extract the img.
looks like i might have to boot up a Virtual nix box.. damn this is so much harder than it should be.
I have installed the new Samsung 2.3.4 rom on my Samsung Galaxy S, but there doesn't seem to be any video chat support in Google Talk.
Can anybody confirm that? Do I need maybe to enable some option somewhere in the settings?
you have to install gtalk 1.3, there are some links over XDA, or use the one in the Rom Kitchen
Anyone tried the gtalk audio? How is it compared to tango, viber or skype?
duffymm said:
you have to install gtalk 1.3, there are some links over XDA, or use the one in the Rom Kitchen
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Ok, I have downloaded it, uninstalled the old Talk and started the procedure to install the new one. When I reach the point where I need to move libtalk_jni.so into /system/lib/ it tells me:
Code:
# mv /sdcard/libtalk_jni.so /system/lib/
mv: write error: No space left on device
df produces the following output:
Code:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 168512 32 168480 0% /dev
tmpfs 168512 0 168512 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 168512 0 168512 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/stl9 282432 282432 0 100% /system
/dev/block/stl3 6064 5134 930 85% /efs
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 1963952 244672 1719280 12% /data
/dev/block/stl10 130280 17372 112908 13% /dbdata
/dev/block/stl11 30792 1940 28852 6% /cache
df: /mnt/.lfs: Function not implemented
/dev/block/vold/179:1
5913120 2423584 3489536 41% /mnt/sdcard
If you're out of space on /system you'll have to delete some bloat. Aldiko, Layer, Flipfonts, etc are all decent candidates.
Save yourself time and search he market for "1.3 installer"
Does it for you. choose the top option. Fixed!
Make sure you enable video chat in the app after installing it (click your display pick then tick enable video/audio chat). Log out and in. Done. Works both ways too happy days.
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1.3 installer is great - so simple to use.......... but cannot complete the process because of lack of space for me too probably....
yetep said:
Save yourself time and search he market for "1.3 installer"
Does it for you. choose the top option. Fixed!
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Thanks a lot! I have installed the app and chose the option "RECOMMENDED - Latest xiliad's n...". I pressed install and passed the following steps:
Code:
Initialising http download...
Downloading...
Unziping download...
Mounting/system...
Copying files...
Talk 1.3 has been been granted superuser etc...
but in the end I get the following error:
Code:
ERROR!! Could not copy the Talk.apk!
Could it be because I had previously uninstalled Talk?
sargorn said:
If you're out of space on /system you'll have to delete some bloat. Aldiko, Layer, Flipfonts, etc are all decent candidates.
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Thanks! Can you tell me where I can find instructions on how to do that?
Absolutely could be the fact talk was deleted cause what it does is action a replace rather than just a copy to the folder. Nothing to replace will give you that error. Just copy this attached apk to system/app and then try again
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ah damn forgot to attach and then realised I can't on the xda app lol will do on my computer in 10 min aalong with a how-to
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Righty,
Download "1.3 Installer" from the market.
Install. Ensure you have both Superuser & Busybox (root goes without saying, if you don't know how to do that then don't read any further and go find out!)
Before trying use the installer, make sure you actually have Talk installed on your phone. If you don't, use any talk.apk or flashable .zip to get it on (search gapps.zip on google).
Now, if you have enough space (5-10mb in /system/app recommended), continue. If you don't, use Root explorer to navigate to system/app and delete any .apk you don't use. As said before in this very same thread, Aldiko and various other ones are popular. I don't use swype, so that's gone. Once you've got 5-10mb free minimum, continue.
Use the installer and select the top option. It'll download, install and so on so forth. Restart your phone.
Go to Talk and click your display picture. Tick the box that says "Allow video and voice chats". Restart your phone (or simply log out of Talk, kill the process then log back in!).
DONE. Orientation is a bit wierd (video might only send if, for example, your phone is sideways) but it does work very well and uses the Front Camera).
Hit thanks, eh?
Managed to get it installed after using nitrality to remove some apps I don't use that were preinstalled.
So is it normal for this to delete all my accounts? I have to go back in and put it all my accounts again. Minor issue.
eightace said:
Managed to get it installed after using nitrality to remove some apps I don't use that were preinstalled.
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Which apps did you remove? I tried using Nitrality to remove/uninstall Aldiko, completed the operation but Aldiko is still there.
yetep said:
Install. Ensure you have both Superuser & Busybox (root goes without saying, if you don't know how to do that then don't read any further and go find out!)
Before trying use the installer, make sure you actually have Talk installed on your phone. If you don't, use any talk.apk or flashable .zip to get it on (search gapps.zip on google).
Now, if you have enough space (5-10mb in /system/app recommended), continue. If you don't, use Root explorer to navigate to system/app and delete any .apk you don't use. As said before in this very same thread, Aldiko and various other ones are popular. I don't use swype, so that's gone. Once you've got 5-10mb free minimum, continue.
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To gain root access I used CF-Root v3.7, didn't need to install superuser nor busybox (maybe I had them installed with CF-Root).
About the error I got earlier with Talk it was because there was a Talk.apk file in /system/app/ of 0.0KB, not because there wasn't any Talk.apk to replace.
I used "Super Manager", enabled root function in the options and deleted that 0.0KB Talk.apk. Then I deleted the Aldiko apk to free some space, that was enough to let me install the new Talk using "1.3 Installer".
Talk didn't work right away, it asked to be "force closed". I rebooted the phone then it worked. It asked me my Google account username and password.
Video call doesn't seem to work. I tried to video call a friend at a computer: the screen becomes black for a few seconds then it goes back to Talk.
it is working for me but with the back cam.. never used front cam with jvp maybe it doesnt work but how do you fix it please?
thanks
le baron
I reformatted, rooted, removed Aldiko and Layar, installed "1.3 Installer" and now it works like a charm with front cam and back cam!!!
Thank you all guys :-D
le baron said:
it is working for me but with the back cam.. never used front cam with jvp maybe it doesnt work but how do you fix it please?
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After you start a video conversation tap in the upper left corner of the screen: there will see a button to switch from one camera to the other.
I am able to start a video chat with people at a computer and they are able to start one with me, but I could not start a video chat with another Android phone (same brand, model, Android version and Talk 1.3 installed). The problem is that we don't know how to initiate the video conversation as we both don't see the cam icon on the other's contact.
Have anyone succeeded in doing that?
Thread closed.
Thread closed.
Yank555 said:
Hi,
REMEMBER
FIRST OF ALL, do a Nandroid backup, as well as a backup of your sd-card content !
You're doing this at your very own risk, I'm not to be held responsible if something goes wrong
Now that said, let's get going
In case somebody wants to check it out, here is the swap activation script I wrote (attached) as well as explanations on how to make it all work :
1) Partition your sd-card (Minitool Partition Wizard, 4ext, CWM...)
2) Boot your system with the partitionned sd-card
3) If necessary customize the 99swap script (attached to this post) and then put it onto your sd-card's root folder, you'll need it while executing the commands in step 4.
4) Open a terminal and type the following
NB: Change "mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3" accordingly to point to the swap partition you've created in step 1.
5) Reboot your phone, start a terminal again and type free, you'll need to see something different than 0 in your swap line, look at the attached print-screen
Swappiness will be set to 50 by the script, which is a rather conservative swap use, made sense to me since SD-swap is slower than ram, better not to use it too agressively. Feel free to experiment with the swappiness variable in the script (values between 0 and 100, 0 meaning "try not to swap", 100 meaning "try to swap all the time")
If you want to try and have a question, just let me know !
JP.
PS: You can find the thread for hard swap for the htc Sensation / XE here.
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Hi JP,
This is a gem of a post! Thanks alot for the script and the detailed breakdown. Before I get into it though, I must warn you that I am more of a beginner with no coding/scripting experience (I don't know how to use adb or anything)...
Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to activate hard-swap on my hd2 (currently) running the ParanoidAndroid by Xylograph. I've created 3 partitions on my 16gb class 6 sd card: first, fat32 (32k cluster), next, 1GB ext2 (default), 500MB swap.
Procedure:
1. I extracted the script and copied it directly to system/etc/init.d folder of the Rom (I looked at the terminal commands you posted and the first few lines looked like copying the file from the sd root to the init.d folder (it was just a guess though), so I figured might as well put it into the rom before I flash it)
2. Flashed the rom
3. To activate it, I typed the following into the terminal:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
mount -o remount,ro /system
exit
after the mkswap command, I did get an activation notification that a certain amount was assigned to swap. But my celebrations were cut short after I rebooted and used the free command to check. The entire swap row still read 0.
I was wondering if you can point me in the right direction... thanks!
Also, is there a way to create a cwm flashable version?
bullcrapr said:
Hi JP,
This is a gem of a post! Thanks alot for the script and the detailed breakdown. Before I get into it though, I must warn you that I am more of a beginner with no coding/scripting experience (I don't know how to use adb or anything)...
Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to activate hard-swap on my hd2 (currently) running the ParanoidAndroid by Xylograph. I've created 3 partitions on my 16gb class 6 sd card: first, fat32 (32k cluster), next, 1GB ext2 (default), 500MB swap.
Procedure:
1. I extracted the script and copied it directly to system/etc/init.d folder of the Rom (I looked at the terminal commands you posted and the first few lines looked like copying the file from the sd root to the init.d folder (it was just a guess though), so I figured might as well put it into the rom before I flash it)
2. Flashed the rom
3. To activate it, I typed the following into the terminal:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
mount -o remount,ro /system
exit
after the mkswap command, I did get an activation notification that a certain amount was assigned to swap. But my celebrations were cut short after I rebooted and used the free command to check. The entire swap row still read 0.
I was wondering if you can point me in the right direction... thanks!
Also, is there a way to create a cwm flashable version?
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Thanx
In fact you understood correctly that is was about copying the file to init.d.
By the way, these commands do the following :
mount -o remount,rw /system - Mount system partition in read-write
mount -o remount,ro /system - Mount system partition in read-only
So to format the swap partition "mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3" there was no need for it, but it didn't harm in any way, so you're fine there
I guess what is missing is the "chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/99swap" command which will set the correct file access to the script so it can get executed at boot.
You might do the following in a terminal :
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/99swap
mount -o remount,ro /system
exit
It should be fine then.
Alternatively you could set the rights with your file explorer (in root explorer mode), they must be "rwxr-xr-x" (which is Read-Write-Execute, Read-Execute, Read-Execute), most file-manager will allow you to do that as well.
I've been working on the script variant for htc Sensation, it is more advanced, dynamic so it can find the swap partition by itself.
I'll make a CWM flashable as soon as I get to it that will handle everything except partitioning the SD card, obviously, for both devices.
As soon as I'm done I'll post the HD2 version here as well (very little change, between both devices, just the access path to the sd-card partitons to change (=1 line in the script).
JP.
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I just reread your post, if in fact you put it into the ROM zipfile, then file access should be correct !?
Could you post the following file (if it exists) :
/data/swap.0.log ?
JP.
Yank555 said:
Thanx
In fact you understood correctly that is was about copying the file to init.d.
By the way, these commands do the following :
mount -o remount,rw /system - Mount system partition in read-write
mount -o remount,ro /system - Mount system partition in read-only
So to format the swap partition "mkswap /dev/block/mmcblk0p3" there was no need for it, but it didn't harm in any way, so you're fine there
I guess what is missing is the "chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/99swap" command which will set the correct file access to the script so it can get executed at boot.
You might do the following in a terminal :
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/99swap
mount -o remount,ro /system
exit
It should be fine then.
Alternatively you could set the rights with your file explorer (in root explorer mode), they must be "rwxr-xr-x" (which is Read-Write-Execute, Read-Execute, Read-Execute), most file-manager will allow you to do that as well.
I've been working on the script variant for htc Sensation, it is more advanced, dynamic so it can find the swap partition by itself.
I'll make a CWM flashable as soon as I get to it that will handle everything except partitioning the SD card, obviously, for both devices.
As soon as I'm done I'll post the HD2 version here as well (very little change, between both devices, just the access path to the sd-card partitons to change (=1 line in the script).
JP.
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I just reread your post, if in fact you put it into the ROM zipfile, then file access should be correct !?
Could you post the following file (if it exists) :
/data/swap.0.log ?
JP.
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Hi JP
You are incredibly helpful and I appreciate it!
I finally got some time off and tried out what you mentioned... but to no avail. I applied the necessary permissions through the terminal (chmod 755) as well as through the root browser, but it was still the same. After that I even retried the terminal commands, and included the "chown 0:2000...", but that didn't work either...
... and then I saw your post update...
About that, i just typed it into the terminal, and I got "not found".
Was that what I was supposed to do?
bullcrapr said:
Hi JP
You are incredibly helpful and I appreciate it!
I finally got some time off and tried out what you mentioned... but to no avail. I applied the necessary permissions through the terminal (chmod 755) as well as through the root browser, but it was still the same. After that I even retried the terminal commands, and included the "chown 0:2000...", but that didn't work either...
... and then I saw your post update...
About that, i just typed it into the terminal, and I got "not found".
Was that what I was supposed to do?
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Hi,
You're welcome
The file '/data/swap.0.log' is a text-file containing info on the execution of the script...
If it's not there, then the script didn't run at all...
I should have a little time later today, will try to make the CWM flashable solution for you, should be a no fuss solution, as long as the sd-card has a swap partition
How did you partition the card ? CWM ?
JP.
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I created a 256Gb partition...
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man thats a helluva sd card ya have there! hehe.
samsamuel said:
man thats a helluva sd card ya have there! hehe.
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Haha I noticed that too :') I want one of those now
Nigeldg said:
Haha I noticed that too :') I want one of those now
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Thanx for pointing that out Mb of course, but in a few years that might be possible
My first hdd had 60Mb, and that's not soooo long ago
JP.
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heh, my first was a 20mb HDD mounted on a pcb card and plugged into an ISA slot, took up the full length of the PC, weighed LOADS, could have beaten burglars to death with it.
bullcrapr said:
Hi JP
You are incredibly helpful and I appreciate it!
I finally got some time off and tried out what you mentioned... but to no avail. I applied the necessary permissions through the terminal (chmod 755) as well as through the root browser, but it was still the same. After that I even retried the terminal commands, and included the "chown 0:2000...", but that didn't work either...
... and then I saw your post update...
About that, i just typed it into the terminal, and I got "not found".
Was that what I was supposed to do?
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+1 with this (also on Paranoid Rom 1.1a) but I think that it's something with the ROM coz on earlier build v1 this method worked verry good I hope that Yank will find a solution coz it reallly helps wit our 576 ram
samsamuel said:
heh, my first was a 20mb HDD mounted on a pcb card and plugged into an ISA slot, took up the full length of the PC, weighed LOADS, could have beaten burglars to death with it.
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Mine was huge at the time, was on of the first to have such a big one, even partitioned it into 3 since it was just too big And it was an external device, the size of a pizza-box (it was en Atari Megafile 60, I still have it !!).
triggaz said:
+1 with this (also on Paranoid Rom 1.1a) but I think that it's something with the ROM coz on earlier build v1 this method worked verry good I hope that Yank will find a solution coz it reallly helps wit our 576 ram
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I'm working on the CWM flashable right now, should be done within 1-2 hours at most
Yank555 said:
Hi,
You're welcome
The file '/data/swap.0.log' is a text-file containing info on the execution of the script...
If it's not there, then the script didn't run at all...
I should have a little time later today, will try to make the CWM flashable solution for you, should be a no fuss solution, as long as the sd-card has a swap partition
How did you partition the card ? CWM ?
JP.
Sent from my Android Revolution HD 6.6.5 XE / faux kernel 007b3 powered htc Sensation XE using xda premium
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Hi JP, once you told me it was the address to the file, i just navigated there using my explorer and lo and behold!, there it was (attached). If you must know, in my earlier post, the idiot in me just typed it in the terminal and the terminal replied not found.
I made my partition using freeware called Minitool partition wizard. Is 500mb too big for swap in your opinion? I was thinking of compensating for zram, and hence the size... thanks for your speedy responses...
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and hey! whadya know? in the meantime, this place is coming alive!!
bullcrapr said:
Hi JP, once you told me it was the address to the file, i just navigated there using my explorer and lo and behold!, there it was (attached). If you must know, in my earlier post, the idiot in me just typed it in the terminal and the terminal replied not found.
I made my partition using freeware called Minitool partition wizard. Is 500mb too big for swap in your opinion? I was thinking of compensating for zram, and hence the size... thanks for your speedy responses...
edit...
and hey! whadya know? in the meantime, this place is coming alive!!
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Hmm ... strange, the content of the file looks like a logcat ?! Not what I was expecting to see
Give me a little hour, and I think I should be done with the flashable hard-swap and we'll go from there
Minitool is excellent, but did you pay attention to only create "primary" partition ? If it is a logical partition it won't work...
Can you insert your SD card into your card reader, start Minitool an post a print screen of it ?
JP.
EDIT :
About size ... I believe 256Mb is enough, even read somewhere t shouldn't be more than 256, but I think there was no specific reason given.
Yank555 said:
Hmm ... strange, the content of the file looks like a logcat ?! Not what I was expecting to see
Give me a little hour, and I think I should be done with the flashable hard-swap and we'll go from there
Minitool is excellent, but did you pay attention to only create "primary" partition ? If it is a logical partition it won't work...
Can you insert your SD card into your card reader, start Minitool an post a print screen of it ?
JP.
EDIT :
About size ... I believe 256Mb is enough, even read somewhere t shouldn't be more than 256, but I think there was no specific reason given.
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Here we go...
Minitool image attached... I typically pay attention to the partition type and made sure both of them were primary
About the logcat, I suspect you're right... I was trying to do one from my pc for the first time using adb and tried the only few commands I know (mkswap...), I think that's what you saw then...
Incidentally, do you feel if I reduce the swap size, the script has a better chance at surviving the boot?
bullcrapr said:
Here we go...
Minitool image attached... I typically pay attention to the partition type and made sure both of them were primary
About the logcat, I suspect you're right... I was trying to do one from my pc for the first time using adb and tried the only few commands I know (mkswap...), I think that's what you saw then...
Incidentally, do you feel if I reduce the swap size, the script has a better chance at surviving the boot?
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Don't bother, I will test 500Mb and let you know if that is the issue
JP.
I have 512mb partition and it worked without problems as I mentioned earlier so I think that opposite to the "size does matter" in this case it doesn't plus I used it with zram from marc1706.
triggaz said:
I have 512mb partition and it worked without problems as I mentioned earlier so I think that opposite to the "size does matter" in this case it doesn't plus I used it with zram from marc1706.
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Hi triggaz, are you using the built in zram on Para1.1a? Or have you applied a script from elsewhere? I enabled the built-in zram, but get a "not found" reply when i try zram_stats in the terminal. Can you tell me how you got zram working? thanks...
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Hi triggaz, are you using the built in zram on Para1.1a? Or have you applied a script from elsewhere? I enabled the built-in zram, but get a "not found" reply when i try zram_stats in the terminal. Can you tell me how you got zram working? thanks...
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/xr3z102gxiw2f62/marc1706_zram_100MB.zip
all credits to Dorimanx for ZRAM mod and mark1706 for modifications
I flashed this and then used the compcashe options in Paranoid (set to 26%)
LINK TO THE THREAD WITH THE AUTOMATED SCRIPT (thanks to @skyguy126): http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/general/mod-storage-reloacting-dalvik-cache-t2953616
Hello everybody
as you may know, our Moto G's internal eMMC card has a ~600Mb partition called /cache, which is not used since the apps' cache is stored in /data, so the latter fills up and the first one stays empty.
Owning a 8Gb model, having 600Mb not available for storage really bugged me, because my phone's memory (/data partition) was always full because it's a 5.7Gb space shared between apps and microSD files.
Well, thanks to @skyguy126, who linked me to this guide, I managed to link the dalvik cache files to the /cache partition
Now, it may not work for you if:
a) you have A LOT of apps installed.
And by "a lot", I mean more than 90-100 apps, but if you have a 8Gb model, you probably don't :laugh:
b) you're running ART
Since ART uses a lot more space than dalvik, the space in the /cache partition probably won't be enough. When I was running ART, it used 1Gb more than dalvik.
Other than that, all you need is a rooted phone, the Terminal Emulator app installed (HERE), a root file manager, at least one hand and a working brain
I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHONE, CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Steps:
1) Open any text editor, messaging app, notes app or anything that allows a text input. write the following line, select it and copy it to your clipboard (you'll need it later).
Code:
ln -s /cache/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
Also, make sure you open the Terminal Emulator app and type in "su" (without quotes), then grant it superuser access. You'll need to switch to it quickly.
2) Open your root file manager, while making sure you still see the terminal emulator's notification (I used Root Explorer but any other app should work just fine), go to /data, select the /dalvik-cache folder (just to be sure, hit "properties" to check its size. If it's less than 600Mb you're good to go. If it's not, this won't work, sorry) and move (NOT copy, MOVE) it to /cache. If it asks you to merge two folders, do it.
NOTE: now some apps may start force closing, it's normal, keep going
3) Switch to the Terminal Emulator app (via the recents screen or by tapping its notification" and paste the text you copied at the beginning by long-pressing the black screen and hitting "Paste" (DUH?!?), hit enter, make sure no error messages come up, then reboot.
TA-DAAAA!
Your dalvik cache is now linked to the /cache partition, enjoy that half a gigabyte
If you need any help, feel free to PM me
"But Bert, what if it doesn't work and my phone explodes?"
Well, if it blows up there's nothing much I can do, but if it's just stuck at bootanimation/bootlogo/somewhere where you can't use it, simply head to the recovery and wipe dalvik-cache. This will revert the process and delete the link, putting the phone as it was before
Batch File to Automate the Process!!!
Look at reply #58 for latest information
Old:
Batch file complete, credit goes to @Bert98 for devising a method.
USE THIS COMPLETELY AT YOUR OWN RISK! You may NOT rehost, take credit, or make a paid download without the permission of @skyguy126 or @Bert98
This will only work on windows based computers!
I tested this on my moto g xt1032 16GB running CM11 Nightly and it worked fine.
Click that thanks button if it helped!
How to use:
Step 1: Download the attached file and extract.
Step 2: Double click the cachemove.rbat file and follow the onscreen instructions.
EDIT: THIS IS NOT WORKING ON MOTO G STOCK 4.4.4!!!
I am working on this issue but any help is greatly appreciated!
Common errors:
"adbd root cannot run as root in production builds"
Solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687590
Install the app and run it. Enable insecure binary.
Changelog:
v1.1 - Fixed some minor bugs in script.
v1.2 - Added a restore script.
Keep in mind that the /cache partition will be slower as it's a ext4 partition as opposed to f2fs
DustArma said:
Keep in mind that the /cache partition will be slower as it's a ext4 partition as opposed to f2fs
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/data is a F2FS only on stock ROM, on GPE and other ROMs it's ext4 as well
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Bert98 said:
Hello everybody
as you may know, our Moto G's internal eMMC card has a ~600Mb partition called /cache, which is not used since the apps' cache is stored in /data, so the latter fills up and the first one stays empty.
Owning a 8Gb model, having 600Mb not available for storage really bugged me, because my phone's memory (/data partition) was always full because it's a 5.7Gb space shared between apps and microSD files.
Well, thanks to @skyguy126, who linked me to this guide, I managed to link the dalvik cache files to the /cache partition
Now, it may not work for you if:
a) you have A LOT of apps installed.
And by "a lot", I mean more than 90-100 apps, but if you have a 8Gb model, you probably don't :laugh:
b) you're running ART
Since ART uses a lot more space than dalvik, the space in the /cache partition probably won't be enough. When I was running ART, it used 1Gb more than dalvik.
Other than that, all you need is a rooted phone, the Terminal Emulator app installed (HERE), a root file manager, at least one hand and a working brain
I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHONE, CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Steps:
1) Open any text editor, messaging app, notes app or anything that allows a text input. write the following line, select it and copy it to your clipboard (you'll need it later).
Code:
ln -s /cache/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
Also, make sure you open the Terminal Emulator app and type in "su" (without quotes), then grant it superuser access. You'll need to switch to it quickly.
2) Open your root file manager, while making sure you still see the terminal emulator's notification (I used Root Explorer but any other app should work just fine), go to /data, select the /dalvik-cache folder (just to be sure, hit "properties" to check its size. If it's less than 600Mb you're good to go. If it's not, this won't work, sorry) and move (NOT copy, MOVE) it to /cache. If it asks you to merge two folders, do it.
NOTE: now some apps may start force closing, it's normal, keep going
3) Switch to the Terminal Emulator app (via the recents screen or by tapping its notification" and paste the text you copied at the beginning by long-pressing the black screen and hitting "Paste" (DUH?!?), hit enter, make sure no error messages come up, then reboot.
TA-DAAAA!
Your dalvik cache is now linked to the /cache partition, enjoy that half a gigabyte
If you need any help, feel free to PM me
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Hello! Thnk you for the tip, but, with me, i think, didnt work.
Im stuck in the boot, can you helpme to restore the directories? BTW, i have folloed all the steps like you say, i dont know why not work, im using CRom
Greetings!
KahosTch said:
Hello! Thnk you for the tip, but, with me, i think, didnt work.
Im stuck in the boot, can you helpme to restore the directories? BTW, i have folloed all the steps like you say, i dont know why not work, im using CRom
Greetings!
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Do you have TWRP on your device?
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i have CWM, philz touch.
(any idea why didnt work? :c )
KahosTch said:
Hello! Thnk you for the tip, but, with me, i think, didnt work.
Im stuck in the boot, can you helpme to restore the directories? BTW, i have folloed all the steps like you say, i dont know why not work, im using CRom
Greetings!
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To get it working just wipe dalvik cache in cwm, it will re-create directory in /data.
I had the same issue..
I will try to investigate what went wrong with this....
fabus said:
To get it working just wipe dalvik cache in cwm, it will re-create directory in /data.
I had the same issue..
I will try to investigate what went wrong with this....
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jaja Thakyou, that work.:fingers-crossed:
I have found an issue. When you are copying /data/dalvik-cache to /cache/dalvik cache permissions can be mismatched (different partition type).
To fix it just:
- Go to CWM
- Connect phone to PC (should be recongnized as ADB device, if not check in Hardware Manager how it was recongizes)
- issue "ADB shell" command
- in Android shell: chmod 644 /cache/dalvik-cache/*
- reboot and you are done
I have made up an easier way to achive dalvik-cache on /cache partition:
On running android:
- make sure /cache/dalvik-cache folder is empty!!
- Rename /data/dalvik-cache to /data/dalvik-cache2
- ln -s /cache/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
- reboot and done
Android will recreate dalvik cache in /cache/dalvik-cache dir, it will take about 10 minutes, so be patient
if something goes wrong, just rename /data/dalvik-cache2 by ADB (e.g. in CWM)
I hope if was helpfull.
Cheers,
good work
Thank you for this. I will definitely be doing this.
You should make a batch file that does this whole process automatically. I would be happy to assist!
Guys could some experts code a batch file for this?
I appreciate the guide but terminal codes etc are beyond me.....
600mb is quite a lot of space to gain for an 8gig moto g
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AndroidHtc101 said:
Guys could some experts code a batch file for this?
I appreciate the guide but terminal codes etc are beyond me.....
600mb is quite a lot of space to gain for an 8gig moto g
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It's up to 600mb. It's what ever size your dalvik cache is. I don't think this will work on android 5.0 since the change to art.
Yep I'll work on it... Hopefully it'll work, no promises...
skyguy126 said:
Yep I'll work on it... Hopefully it'll work, no promises...
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That'd be great, since I know nearly nothing about batch files if you succeed, I'll put it in the OP
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Skyguy
I have around 125apps and 500mb free, would installing the batch screw my phone up?
Thanks for helping
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AndroidHtc101 said:
Skyguy
I have around 125apps and 500mb free, would installing the batch screw my phone up?
Thanks for helping
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It depends on your /data/dalvik-cache folder's size, you can check with root explorer
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Hi Bert
It's 466.92mb
If I could get 500mb of more free space I would have a gig free which would really help my 8gb moto g
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AndroidHtc101 said:
Hi Bert
It's 466.92mb
If I could get 500mb of more free space I would have a gig free which would really help my 8gb moto g
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Follow the instructions in the OP then, you're good to go
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