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Hi.
I have now tried a variety of "Sense 3.0" roms found under development. None of them boot. I can already see that I am not alone, but I can't seem to find a final "fix" or any identification to what the problem might be, other than the usual partitioning and preparation issues. When none of those apply I can't seem to move forward.
Please give us more information. Specifically, what phone u have (Leo or Tmous) , what SD card u have, what partition u used. Also need the exact steps u went through in flashing.
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I've got the same problem, installing a rom with sense 3.0 or 3.5 doesn't get booted.
I've got a EU leo, with a 4gb kingston sdcard.
it would be nice to install the Runnymede Sense 3.5 android 2.3.5 v1.2 OC daemon & hierOS kernel rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275119
I tried this, i installed many roms but all sense 3.0 and 3.5 hangs at bootup.
I used :
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery_leo.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 220M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
with the daf.exe
Then i installed wipe_it.zip with magdlr
Reboot
Then i installed the runnymede rom.
It says install completed
It reboots automatically
When it starts i get the blue droid and nothing more.....
When i reinstall another rom with sense 2.3, it functions normal
I tried it on another HD2 leo of a friend of mine and i get the same results sadly enough.
Would be great to have some suggestions.....(serious ones, i now i can go out and buy a sensation)
It's a EU (Norwegian) HD2 with a 2GB SanDisk microSD. Do not know details about the card. Ripped it out of an Ericsson X10 Mini Pro I got laying around for quickly testing these new tempting roms.
Now, let's see, this is my previous effort to make a clean install:
- Task 29
- Hard reset from MagLdr
- Wipe cache, Dalvik and battery cache from CWM.
- Partition and format 1Gb ext from CWM.
- Ran corresponding recovery from MagLdr USB flasher
- Uploaded zip with CWM usb mounter
- Ran installer zip
It starts booting but gets stuck at the htc logo. All other roms boots nicely. I am suspecting the memory card size but only on a hunch.
heestp said:
I've got the same problem, installing a rom with sense 3.0 or 3.5 doesn't get booted.
I've got a EU leo, with a 4gb kingston sdcard.
it would be nice to install the Runnymede Sense 3.5 android 2.3.5 v1.2 OC daemon & hierOS kernel rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275119
I tried this, i installed many roms but all sense 3.0 and 3.5 hangs at bootup.
I used :
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery_leo.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 220M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
with the daf.exe
Then i installed wipe_it.zip with magdlr
Reboot
Then i installed the runnymede rom.
It says install completed
It reboots automatically
When it starts i get the blue droid and nothing more.....
When i reinstall another rom with sense 2.3, it functions normal
I tried it on another HD2 leo of a friend of mine and i get the same results sadly enough.
Would be great to have some suggestions.....(serious ones, i now i can go out and buy a sensation)
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Heestp, did you partition your sd card first? You need an ext partition (say either 1gb or 2gb) for the rom to load. Remember to back up any data on your card first, as partitioning it wipes all data from the card.
You can use cwm or the hd2 nand toolkit to do this.
Everything else you've done sounds ok.
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cyb0rgb0rg said:
It's a EU (Norwegian) HD2 with a 2GB SanDisk microSD. Do not know details about the card. Ripped it out of an Ericsson X10 Mini Pro I got laying around for quickly testing these new tempting roms.
Now, let's see, this is my previous effort to make a clean install:
- Task 29
- Hard reset from MagLdr
- Wipe cache, Dalvik and battery cache from CWM.
- Partition and format 1Gb ext from CWM.
- Ran corresponding recovery from MagLdr USB flasher
- Uploaded zip with CWM usb mounter
- Ran installer zip
It starts booting but gets stuck at the htc logo. All other roms boots nicely. I am suspecting the memory card size but only on a hunch.
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Hmmm... I guess it could be the size of the card (perhaps too small?)
The other thing to check would be the size of the cwm partitions. E.g. for the dansta runnymede roms you need 5/220/5.
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Samday, It worked man.
Thanx i made a 1gb partition and it worked as a charm.
Cheers!!
Thanks samday. I'll stick my 8Gb back later, flash it again and post the results here. It think it's already set up with a 2Gb ext so we'll see.
cyb0rgb0rg said:
Thanks samday. I'll stick my 8Gb back later, flash it again and post the results here. It think it's already set up with a 2Gb ext so we'll see.
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I'll be interested to know if it is the card. I note that on his Runnymede thread, Dansta mentioned that for a 1GB partition you need at least a 4GB card. Tried to google this but couldn't find any info on it. But he may well be right....
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heestp said:
Samday, It worked man.
Thanx i made a 1gb partition and it worked as a charm.
Cheers!!
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Glad you got it working!
Holy smokes, I think it worked!! I stuck my sd in a usb adaptor an did a repartitioning through the disk utility in Gnome. Partitioned a 2 gb ext at the end and installed the rom over again with all the clearing and formatting needed.
It was the sdcard total size.. or just the sd-ext..
Now running Team bluedroid RunnyMede.. I can hibernate my phone.. gigglez.. :-D On my third reboot now and looking good.
edit: Sorry samday, I totally missed out on the fact that this was documented in the dev thread. My bad. RTFM right? :-D
cyb0rgb0rg said:
Holy smokes, I think it worked!! I stuck my sd in a usb adaptor an did a repartitioning through the disk utility in Gnome. Partitioned a 2 gb ext at the end and installed the rom over again with all the clearing and formatting needed.
It was the sdcard total size.. or just the sd-ext..
Now running Team bluedroid RunnyMede.. I can hibernate my phone.. gigglez.. :-D On my third reboot now and looking good.
edit: Sorry samday, I totally missed out on the fact that this was documented in the dev thread. My bad. RTFM right? :-D
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Excellent - happy to hear it!
Was that using the 8GB card?
samday said:
Excellent - happy to hear it!
Was that using the 8GB card?
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Yup, it sure was. 2 gig ext in the end. No swap.
hey there, i also tried to install the Runnymede Sense 3.5 android 2.3.5 v1.3 from blue droid but i get stuck at the blue android logo at the beginning of the boot session.
what ive done:
task29
magldr
recovery ( 5 / 165 / 5 )
1gb partition ( fat32 ), rest is like 7gb ( ext 2 )
run recovery and wiped data/factory, cache and dalvik cache
installed zip from sdcard
it took me 5 hours trying to solve it but now its enough... at least for today.
hope u guys can help me
greets Cynomis
Cynomis said:
hey there, i also tried to install the Runnymede Sense 3.5 android 2.3.5 v1.3 from blue droid but i get stuck at the blue android logo at the beginning of the boot session.
what ive done:
task29
magldr
recovery ( 5 / 165 / 5 )
1gb partition ( fat32 ), rest is like 7gb ( ext 2 )
run recovery and wiped data/factory, cache and dalvik cache
installed zip from sdcard
it took me 5 hours trying to solve it but now its enough... at least for today.
hope u guys can help me
greets Cynomis
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Ok, 2 possible probs I can think of :
1) cwm partition should be 5/175/5 (NOT 165 as you have). I'm assuming you're using the EU version on a 512 Leo?
2) your description of your SD card partition is confusing. Usually you have 1 or 2 gb ext, & the rest is fat32. Yours seems to be the other way round.... If your ext is really 7gb, it may be too large & unstable (so I've been told) .
Anyway, try changing the recovery first & let us know how it goes.
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hmm got it now with ur data, but yesterday evening it worked with my old data after the 10th try or something like that then i pulled out the battery because i wanted to restart but couldnt... and then it stucked again at the blue droid. now its starting with the data u gave me, hope this will run better but thanks for ur help
Cynomis said:
hmm got it now with ur data, but yesterday evening it worked with my old data after the 10th try or something like that then i pulled out the battery because i wanted to restart but couldnt... and then it stucked again at the blue droid. now its starting with the data u gave me, hope this will run better but thanks for ur help
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Happy to help. Hope it all goes well!
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anyone knows how to get some animated wallpaper ? there are no integrated :/
Someone with the same problem???
I thought I had this problem (stuck at boot screen), but now it's working.....first boot TAKE LONG LONG LONG time.....at least 10 minutes to start.....
Now it's working with 1GB EXT partition.....
Hi I'm having the same problem with TBD runnymede 3.5.
It won't boot it just keeps at the TBD boot screen I have tried both 1gb ext partition and 2 gb with 0 swap. I have flashed it crazy untill now. Idk maybe i'm forgetting something... Why can't i find a manual
I am using magdlr and cwm to get it working but got no where so far.
First i flash, then i partition then i put the rom on the fat32 partition using a sd card reader. Then I install the rom.
Hello,
I've installed ICS now without any problems, but after installing the data2sd script and then rebooting my phone gets stuck in the boot animation. Even though it's very beautifull eyecandy it really isn't doing much for me.
I did a full wipe! Clear data/factory reset, Clear dalvick cash, etc. Also Task 29 and used HD2 toolkit to create 250MB system partiton with 5MB cache
First I formatted my SD card (8GB class 10) with MiniTool Partition Wizard 7 completely as FAT32 then I partitioned it (with CWM recovery 4.0.0.0) to 2048MB EXT3 with 256MB Swap, formatted that partition again in MiniTool to EXT3
Then I flashed the ROM (NexusHD2-IceCreamSandwich Beta6) to my device without any problem. Booted ICS, rebooted into recovery and flashed Data2SD installer wich didn't give any errors either.
Booted again and now it's stuck in bootscreen, I've waited for at least 45 to 60 minutes before removing the battery and try everything again all over, but with an EXT4 partition just like Yank555 did.
I followed the instructions from this post without flashing APP2SD Killer first since that causes the market to 'hang on app install'
I know there are people how got it to work so it must be something I did wrong! Can anyone give me some good advice?
BTW FYI, I did previously use TyphooN Gingerbread 2.3.3 CM7 A2SD with 1GB EXT partition without any problems...
Hi,
For me it seems you're doing it right...
Your ext4 partition IS a primary partition ? I suppose yes, since CWM will do it that way when you use it to partition your SD card.
Just to be sure, you did reformat the ext3 partion to ext3, or the swap ? I don't know how DATA2SD will react to finding 2 "sd-ext" partitons (more than one ext2/3/4 partiton), never tried that before... If you don't intend to use any swap, you'd rather leave that one out in CWM (choose 0Mb)...
JP.
PS: If you want to use swap (hard swap on a swap partition) I can explain to you how to do that. If you want to do it using a swapfile (once DATA2SD is up & running, you can have a look here).
Tanks for your reply. I don't have much time this weekend due to Christmas shopping and everything But I determent to get this to work! And I won't stop till I do. I'm using this ROM for every day and I just need more space. I found there are more people with the same issue as me, so when I get it to work I'll post my findings in the main development threat as well. But I'll make sure to give you all the credit that is due...
Fixed it! Did had to use sort of a "work-around" but it's working and it's all good! That's most important! If anyone else is looking for the solution for this problem, this is what I used and what works for me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20439320&postcount=2379
Please give thanks where they are due, that is to the original poster offcourse and not me!
The fixed work-around is App2SD rite? I think it will be good if we can get Data2SD working. I think the latter is faster.
I also read some managed to get Data2Ext working in Tytung ICS Beta7 already. See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403710
PPKLP said:
Fixed it! Did had to use sort of a "work-around" but it's working and it's all good! That's most important! If anyone else is looking for the solution for this problem, this is what I used and what works for me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20439320&postcount=2379
Please give thanks where they are due, that is to the original poster offcourse and not me!
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Yank555 said:
Hi,
For me it seems you're doing it right...
Your ext4 partition IS a primary partition ? I suppose yes, since CWM will do it that way when you use it to partition your SD card.
Just to be sure, you did reformat the ext3 partion to ext3, or the swap ? I don't know how DATA2SD will react to finding 2 "sd-ext" partitons (more than one ext2/3/4 partiton), never tried that before... If you don't intend to use any swap, you'd rather leave that one out in CWM (choose 0Mb)...
JP.
PS: If you want to use swap (hard swap on a swap partition) I can explain to you how to do that. If you want to do it using a swapfile (once DATA2SD is up & running, you can have a look here).
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hey HD2 expert !! i have the same prob over here , installed data2sd after flashing the rom and stuckin at the boot screen ,,
-anyone find a solution !!!!!!
Hi
During more than year of my "android on hd2 experience" I've had no problems at all. To be honest i became quite handy on this field.
recently I was using two roms daily HyperDroid-CM7 and testing NexusHD2-IceCreamSandwich Beta.
on NexusHD2 rom i install Data2SDInstaller.
and my problem started when I wanted to go back to HyperDroid.
boot animation stuck, of course i tried clk / magdlr different partition sizes always task29...without any effects. Now I tried NexusHD2 ICS 4.0.3 CM9 V1.0 , finally went through boot animation,when i saw Setup Wizard the messages appear immediately: "Unfortunetly, the process ....... has stopped" and when I click OK appears next and the next message , such as contacts, Email, calendar, etc. i thing all of the possible .. later message: Setup Wizard not responding.
And it happens on magdlr/300/5
I've read already about bad NAND blocks, and in recovery.log I did not detect any of them
I tried to run MTTY but I have a problem with drivers win7x64: - /
Does anyone know what's wrong with my HD2 and how to solve it.
you remembered to wipe the sd-ext partition and .android folder (cwm - wipe data / factory reset) right?
there are folders on both sd-ext and on the fat32 partition that will screw with new installs.
samsamuel said:
you remembered to wipe the sd-ext partition and .android folder (cwm - wipe data / factory reset) right?
there are folders on both sd-ext and on the fat32 partition that will screw with new installs.
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Like he said, you need to wipe your sd card, ext and fat32. Both parts. This is majorly important since you used Apps 2SD!!
Another thing, I think your system size is way off. 200/5 for cLK if not 180/5 and for magldr probably like 200/44 but at least 10mb of cache..
I'm not too sure if this will help or not but this is my experience.
I have been on these forums for a while and using Hyperdroid for quite some time now as well. The reason why I do not have any posts on this account is because I switched over just today, my old account was imarte068.
When trying to update my Hyperdroid the other day through magdlr I encountered an issue. No matter the partition size or sd-card, it always managed to get stuck on boot. I got frustrated and attempted to re-flash countless times. After many attempts I gave up and just used an MIUI rom.
Several days later I devoted myself to solving the issue. After about an hour or so of trial and error I fixed it. I simply re-flashed the kernel after the installation of the rom. I am using magdlr therefore I do not know if the process will be the same for clk.
Hope I could be of help.
I thought it was a sdcard and i delete all partition and make it new.
I do always full wipe and dalvic...
QuRa said:
I thought it was a sdcard and i delete all partition and make it new.
I do always full wipe and dalvic...
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Try re-flashing the kernel as I said in the post above.
Link to kernel here.
Hope I could be of help.
This may spur some argument, but in my experience task 29 is the key if you're having problems. many people say wipe with cwm the system boot davlik cache, etc but in my testing when I'm having a problem and need to solve it task 29 has been the answer almost everytime. Partition size is huge as well. Another thing if you were using apps2 SD on ics it was bugged. Without formatting your SD it is possible that it could bug your system.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326217
In this thread you can find complete guide for install rom written by me. If that fails contact me for further solutions. Good Luck
kylew1212 said:
Like he said, you need to wipe your sd card, ext and fat32. Both parts. This is majorly important since you used Apps 2SD!!
Another thing, I think your system size is way off. 200/5 for cLK if not 180/5 and for magldr probably like 200/44 but at least 10mb of cache..
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Im using 220 with 5mb cache. ICS running smooth without any problems. And no need to fully wipe sdcard. Would be stupid to delete the whole card just for flashing a new rom hehe. Its enough to wipe the (dalvik) cache and sd-ext partition via CWM.
For data2sd use the 'how to' from post #207 and the flashable file from post #174 in tytungs ics cm9 v1 thread. I think it removes old app2sd or data2sd scripts. Worked without any formatting of my sdcard.. works like a charm.
Btw.. ever tried to fix permissions? First thing you should try if you get FC.
Just do (re)install the rom like the guy in post #207 described but with the file from #174 (40ad2sdx-a2Recovery.zip)
And im using my hd2 now for more then one year. NEVER used task29.
Hf
Edit: btw for problems with your Usb? Driver on win7 machines try to install new version of WMDC (windows mobile device center)
Solved the problem for a friend
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redplate said:
Im using 220 with 5mb cache. ICS running smooth without any problems. And no need to fully wipe sdcard. Would be stupid to delete the whole card just for flashing a new rom hehe. Its enough to wipe the (dalvik) cache and sd-ext partition via CWM.
For data2sd use the 'how to' from post #207 and the flashable file from post #174 in tytungs ics cm9 v1 thread. I think it removes old app2sd or data2sd scripts. Worked without any formatting of my sdcard.. works like a charm.
Btw.. ever tried to fix permissions? First thing you should try if you get FC.
Just do (re)install the rom like the guy in post #207 described but with the file from #174 (40ad2sdx-a2Recovery.zip)
And im using my hd2 now for more then one year. NEVER used task29.
Hf
Edit: btw for problems with your Usb? Driver on win7 machines try to install new version of WMDC (windows mobile device center)
Solved the problem for a friend
Sent from my NexusHD2
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As I said people will disagree. I will say that in most cases you're right though, wiping the davlik cache is enough. I am just saying from my personal experience there are sometimes when it isn't (at least on my phone). I'm not trying to start an argument, I just want to help him.
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big thanks mates for advice.
So far I haven't had time for it but for sure tomorrow or on the weekend, I will deal with this and I will let you know how it goes.
In brief I run ICS all fine, but HyperDroid not starting.
Here is how i try:
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Ok I was using WP7 and whats I made:
SD card: I delete all partition, I make only one Fat32 than in CWM I made ext partition.
Task29 > Clk 200/5 > recovery > install HyperDroid-CM7-v5.7.0 > And here phone stuck before boot animation, only white android robo > then as flamgodian advice I install kernel thins. > Same without boot animation.
Second try
Task29>clk 220/5>recovery>wipe(all possible)>install HyperDroid-CM7-v5.7.0>same robo>fix permision> install kernel this> I saw robo for 10s and phone self reboot after reboot > stuck :/
I have not seen even the boot animation.
Task29>clk 220/5>recovery>wipe(all possible)>install NexusHD2-ICS-CM9>Kernel>
He goes
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I make like redplate(Big Thanks) write with installation 40ad2sdx, and everything runs great.
I will stay with ICS but it is strange why my phone doesn't like HyperDroid Rom.
And from here I would like to thank you all for advice.
Hi guys,
I'm having a problem with my HD2 and tytungs NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA-V2.3 ROM.
I was doing a fresh Install with Task29, Repartition and so on, everything runs fine after fresh install, but when I reboot the phone it stocks in the Bootanimation.
My partitions are 180MB System and 5MB Cache, I'm using cLK and my SD Card got two partitions, the first is ~14GB Fat32 and the second is 1GB EXT3.
I was not able to post this in the Thread of the ROM, why ever, not enough posts or something.
Hope anyone can help me, thanks
Greetz Nobbes
PS: sorry for my bad english
Your SD Card was formatted and repartitioned with CWM? And after repartition you don`t format it with different tool?
Remember that first boot could last about 10 minutes.
Any a2sd script?
No I have formattet the sd card with Minitool Partition Wizard Home Edition.
this should work to, I think?
The first boot takes about 5 minutes and everythings seems to be fine, but when I reboot the phone it stocks in the bootanimation.
I have tried to reinstall about 5-6 times from the scratch, but I get the same result when I reboot the phone :-(
No I have no A2SD script yet, but I will use Link2SD when the phone runs well ;-)
Yes, this should work but I also have problem with stucking boot logo/animation when using Minitool Partition Wizard - that`s why I asked. Now I am always using only SD Partition Tool in CWM. So maybe try this...
You can also use larger system partition, let`s say... 200MB (I am using this size). Just for safety. When you will be using Link2SD, there should be no problem.
OK thanks, I will try it with CWM SD Partition Tool this evening when I'm back from work.
Maybe this will help, lets wait and see ;-)
Hi,
it works
Thanks for your hint to try the partition sd card tool from CWM, now the Reboot takes one minute :good:
I will look how it goes, when I install Link2SD tomorrow
but for now it's time for football
I've been experiencing the dreaded "Low Internal Memory" problems on my HD2 running a MIUI GB ROM.
I was told this was because the included A2SD, well, sucks. I was advised to use Data2EXT instead. Since I wanted to start with a clean slate anyway, I decided it was time to completely wipe my HD2 and install everything anew. This is what I did:
Wiped the HD2 with Task29 (using the HD2 Toolkit)
Installed ClockworkModRecovery v1.3 150MB (I wasn't sure I actually used the 150MB version when I initially installed CWM Recovery)
Cleared data/cache with CWM Recovery
Reformatted the 1GB sd-ext partition on my SD Card (using MiniTool Partition Wizard)
Installed ROM with CWM Recovery (from zip)
Installed A2SDKiller scripts (from zip)
Rebooted phone into MIUI, but did not install anything.
Rebooted into CWM Recovery and installed the Data2SD Installer.
Rebooted into MIUI again
It seemed everything was fine. If I looked at my memory usage, instead of only 210 MB of total storage I had previously, I now had almost 1GB. I setup my Google account and started to install some apps. Somewhere along the line one of the apps hung the phone so I rebooted it again.
But when it was done rebooting, much to my surprise all installed apps were gone. In fact, the phone was behaving like it was the first time it was started (asking me for my Google credentials again, etc). At first I thought this was perhaps due to the hung app, so I did all the above steps again (including wiping the phone).
Again I installed a few apps, and this time I rebooted the phone to check if all was OK now. It wasn't. Again the phone behaved like it was the first time I booted into the new ROM and all installed apps were gone. I've tried about 5 times now and every single time with the same results.
So what could be wrong here?
just a thought (i havent checked, you can do that) but what type of ext did you create? ext2? ext3? ext4? perhaps data2sd (you called it data2ext in the title, data2sd in the post, , ,which is it? they're probably different) doesnt play nice with whichever one you created?
Hi, and thank you for your answer.
samsamuel said:
just a thought (i havent checked, you can do that) but what type of ext did you create? ext2? ext3? ext4?
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Ext3.
perhaps data2sd (you called it data2ext in the title, data2sd in the post, , ,which is it? they're probably different) doesnt play nice with whichever one you created?
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I'm pretty sure they are the same (since took the installation procedure from this forum post and they call it both Data2Ext and Data2SD).
I will check to see if the filesystem matters. Thanks!
I just checked and ext3 should be fine.
Zippy1970 said:
I just checked and ext3 should be fine.
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Check to see see if there's any script left from old method in system/etc/init.d
This is a complete guess but worth a try
EDIT: this is the script that the A2SD killer removes from system/etc/init.d
delete("/system/etc/init.d/40a2sd");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/03stuff2sd");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/10apps2sd");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/04apps2sd");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/01data2whatever");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/98zipalign");
delete("/system/etc/init.d/02cachedalvikcache");
So make sure that has been removed then try flash the new zip file
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wis1152 said:
Check to see see if there's any script left from old method in system/etc/init.d
So make sure that has been removed then try flash the new zip file
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Yes, all those files have been deleted.
It seems to be working now. I wanted to test if changing the Ext3 partition to Ext2 would make any difference so I fired up MiniTool Partition Wizard again. I wiped the partition and formatted it as Ext2.
Or so I thought.
The partition still said it was Ext3. Then it hit me. I had forgotten that you actually have to "Apply" the changes, which I hadn't done before. So I clicked Apply and it wiped the partition and actually formatted it as Ext2.
I then redid the whole thing (install ROM & A2SDKiller scripts, reboot into ROM, reboot into CWM Recovery and installed Data2SD). And now it seems to be working fine.
Not sure which of the two actions on the Ext partition caused it to start working: the wipe or the change to Ext2.
I spoke too soon. I thought it was working since a reset didn't clear all my installed apps. But if I look at the total storage space, it's back to 216MB total. So it looks like Data2Ext isn't running...
*SIGH*
I'm just about to give up on Data2Ext. First of all, I thought I had figured out what was wrong. For some odd reason, whenever I tried to write to my 16GB microSD card on my computer using an SD adapter, it would crash every now and then. Also, partitioning through MiniTool Partition Wizard often resulted in a "Bad Disk" error. I tried this with 3 different 16GB microSD cards. All experienced the same problems when using an SD card adapter (it wasn't a broken SD adapter because I've tried several).
I then dug up an old external microSD USB card reader I had laying around. Using that, I was able to write to the microSD cards just fine and I didn't experience any problems partitioning either.
Speaking about partitioning, it took me a while to figure out that:
Partitioning through ClockWorkMod Recovery doesn't work properly. The FAT32 partition becomes incredibly slow, and the Ext partition is not recognized by Data2Ext
Ext3/Ext4 partitions don't work with Data2Ext. At least, not on my phone
Ext2 partitions only work if they are set as the primary partition
You must name the partition sd-ext or it will not work
Just a FYI for anyone finding this thread in the future.
Anyway, once I figured that out, I was finally able to get Data2Ext working. Sort of. Let me try to explain.
Previously after I had installed Data2Ext and setup some apps, a reboot of my phone would bring it back to a factory reset state. So all installed apps were gone, just like any settings I had altered. Oddly enough, if I looked at the sd-ext partition I could see the data was still there. It simply wasn't used by the phone. But after I had partitioned the sd-ext partition as Ext2, all was fine. A reboot didn't reset the phone back to factory settings.
So I happily reinstalled all my apps, restored my SMS as well as my WhatsApp backup and thought all was fine now. But I did notice the phone wasn't very stable. Every now and then it would become unresponsive for 10-20 seconds. Sometimes I got an error message that a certain app had become unresponsive and I was offered a choice to either shutdown the app or to wait. And sometimes, the phone would spontaneously reset itself.
Today the phone again became unresponsive. Oddly enough, long-pressing the power button did bring up the shutdown window. So I tapped "Shutdown". Next, the phone hung on "Shutting Down". It didn't come back to live. So I removed the battery lid and pressed the reset button.
After it had rebooted, I was greeted with a factory reset phone again. I was about to throw the phone through the window! But when I did another reboot, all my apps were back again as well as my settings. Except for the settings of my individual widgets. Those had all disappeared for some reason. Also, I got quite a few error messages that some apps had stopped unexpectedly. I rebooted again and again the phone behaved as if it were factory reset. But yet another reboot brought everything back...
I now suspect it has something to do with the phone not being able to mount sd-ext every now and then. Either way, my problems aren't solved yet so any tips are much appreciated.
Zippy1970 said:
*SIGH*
I'm just about to give up on Data2Ext. First of all, I thought I had figured out what was wrong. For some odd reason, whenever I tried to write to my 16GB microSD card on my computer using an SD adapter, it would crash every now and then. Also, partitioning through MiniTool Partition Wizard often resulted in a "Bad Disk" error. I tried this with 3 different 16GB microSD cards. All experienced the same problems when using an SD card adapter (it wasn't a broken SD adapter because I've tried several).
I then dug up an old external microSD USB card reader I had laying around. Using that, I was able to write to the microSD cards just fine and I didn't experience any problems partitioning either.
Speaking about partitioning, it took me a while to figure out that:
Partitioning through ClockWorkMod Recovery doesn't work properly. The FAT32 partition becomes incredibly slow, and the Ext partition is not recognized by Data2Ext
Ext3/Ext4 partitions don't work with Data2Ext. At least, not on my phone
Ext2 partitions only work if they are set as the primary partition
You must name the partition sd-ext or it will not work
Just a FYI for anyone finding this thread in the future.
Anyway, once I figured that out, I was finally able to get Data2Ext working. Sort of. Let me try to explain.
Previously after I had installed Data2Ext and setup some apps, a reboot of my phone would bring it back to a factory reset state. So all installed apps were gone, just like any settings I had altered. Oddly enough, if I looked at the sd-ext partition I could see the data was still there. It simply wasn't used by the phone. But after I had partitioned the sd-ext partition as Ext2, all was fine. A reboot didn't reset the phone back to factory settings.
So I happily reinstalled all my apps, restored my SMS as well as my WhatsApp backup and thought all was fine now. But I did notice the phone wasn't very stable. Every now and then it would become unresponsive for 10-20 seconds. Sometimes I got an error message that a certain app had become unresponsive and I was offered a choice to either shutdown the app or to wait. And sometimes, the phone would spontaneously reset itself.
Today the phone again became unresponsive. Oddly enough, long-pressing the power button did bring up the shutdown window. So I tapped "Shutdown". Next, the phone hung on "Shutting Down". It didn't come back to live. So I removed the battery lid and pressed the reset button.
After it had rebooted, I was greeted with a factory reset phone again. I was about to throw the phone through the window! But when I did another reboot, all my apps were back again as well as my settings. Except for the settings of my individual widgets. Those had all disappeared for some reason. Also, I got quite a few error messages that some apps had stopped unexpectedly. I rebooted again and again the phone behaved as if it were factory reset. But yet another reboot brought everything back...
I now suspect it has something to do with the phone not being able to mount sd-ext every now and then. Either way, my problems aren't solved yet so any tips are much appreciated.
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I have similiar problem before, The ext partition always failed. Now I used Extended TWRP to create the ext partition, it is stable now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2120297
I can't get Data2Ext to work. I'm either getting tons of force close errors, or it's not seeing the sd-ext partition at all. I tried with Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 partitions (Ext3 didn't seem to work at all). With or without a swap partition. Nothing worked.
I also tried Data2ExtV2 and even DataOnExt. The result was always a ton of force close errors and a very unstable phone.
So anyone any ideas? It sucks only having 200MB of internal storage.
Hmmmm... That's odd. I just wiped my phone again (Task29), reinstalled MAGLDR, CWM Recovery (150MB) and my ROM without Data2Ext or anything and I'm getting the same force close errors and it's telling me I don't have enough internal storage to install apps.
So apparently there's something else going on with my phone?
What ROM are you using?
Try increasing system partition size!
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shanman-2 said:
What ROM are you using?
Try increasing system partition size!
Sent from my NexusHD2 using xda premium
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Actually, I found out it was because I used the wrong cache size this last time. So it's not the cause of all the other problems, but most certainly the cause of the problems this last time I flashed the ROM.
Ok, I've given up on Data2Ext. I can't get it to work. No matter what I try it's incredibly unstable and slow - if it works at all.
1. Make a backup of your SDCard.
2. Download EXTRecovery here.
3. Unzip it and place the 4EXTRecovery folder in the root of your SDCard.
4. Start MAGLDR, choose option 10, then 1, then 3 and select the folder (4EXT~), then boot from SD in the MAGLDR main menu.
5. In the 4EXTRecovery go to Advanced -> Partition SD Card -> Remove all partitions and start from scratch.
6. 1st sd-ext partition: 1024MB, skip 2nd sd-ext partition, SWAP partition is OPTIONAL, I recommend 256MB.
7. Press Yes and pick: "EXT4".
8. When it's finished, choose: "Print partitiontable" to check if it's actually there.
9. If it's there, go back to the main menu and press: "Install from SDCard".
10. Locate your ROM and install it.
Goodluck.
EDIT: Oh, I just read you've given up on it.. all this work for nothing, lol.
Ohwell, maybe I'm lucky and someone else stumbles upon this and can use it.
EDIT 2: Use DataOnEXT and have a /system size of about 285MB, 300-350MB if you have Bad Blocks!
EDIT 3: Try it with: "Jellybean 4.1.2" by Tytung, definitely works!