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[Q] [q] nand restore messup

i had a very bad experience with nand backup/restore very recently and wanted to share it with the community and hear any feedback or suggestions where i eventually did wrong.
First of all i have to state i am a newbe on Android and have just started learning how to do some mods via the great help of this forum.
here is my case: I have partitioned my SD and moved all existing apps to the newly created partition via recovery mode. When I reboot no apps showed (i am not sure apps2sd is missing or what) therefore I decided to restore my earlier backup which went trhough succesfully but guess what ? ..... the phone did not reboot anymore and it arrived only up to the HTC flashing logo and got stuck there.
I had to find the stock rom again (sorry i forgot to mention i was using the stock rom) and reflash it from scratch which finally made it to work. thanks to shipped-roms.com !!!
My first guess is that for some reason the restore did not work and i got into a sort of loop mode because i tried moving all apps to SD before rebooting and this did not work properly.
does anyone have any idea of what could have been the problem ? I will provide any addiotional specifics if needed.

pardol said:
i had a very bad experience with nand backup/restore very recently and wanted to share it with the community and hear any feedback or suggestions where i eventually did wrong.
First of all i have to state i am a newbe on Android and have just started learning how to do some mods via the great help of this forum.
here is my case: I have partitioned my SD and moved all existing apps to the newly created partition via recovery mode. When I reboot no apps showed (i am not sure apps2sd is missing or what) therefore I decided to restore my earlier backup which went trhough succesfully but guess what ? ..... the phone did not reboot anymore and it arrived only up to the HTC flashing logo and got stuck there.
I had to find the stock rom again (sorry i forgot to mention i was using the stock rom) and reflash it from scratch which finally made it to work. thanks to shipped-roms.com !!!
My first guess is that for some reason the restore did not work and i got into a sort of loop mode because i tried moving all apps to SD before rebooting and this did not work properly.
does anyone have any idea of what could have been the problem ? I will provide any addiotional specifics if needed.
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hi
app2sd has to be cooked into the rom and cannot be installed separately into the rom so have u used a rom with apps2sd in it im using Jacobs 1.5 which has apps2sd and i have done ext3 part & to my knowledge u need to do ext3 part for apps2sd to work
hope this helps

Actually you can install apps2sd after flashing a rom without. Just flash the darktremor skript you find in the forum. It depends on the rom if it's working fine or not. It worked for me with modaco r3.

Thank you for your help. As I stated originally i am using the original shipped rom and I have flashes a modified recovery where I can both partition the sd, do an ext2 to ext3 and eventually move all applications to the sd, however when I did it they all disappeared. Because all seemed to be available via the recovery menu is did it without checking more but I will need to do so since my Tattoo is already full.
I have not read around anyone saying that original Roms cannot install apps2sd. Am I wrong?
Sent from my HTC Tattoo using XDA App

pardol said:
Thank you for your help. As I stated originally i am using the original shipped rom and I have flashes a modified recovery where I can both partition the sd, do an ext2 to ext3 and eventually move all applications to the sd, however when I did it they all disappeared. Because all seemed to be available via the recovery menu is did it without checking more but I will need to do so since my Tattoo is already full.
I have not read around anyone saying that original Roms cannot install apps2sd. Am I wrong?
Sent from my HTC Tattoo using XDA App
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As I already said you can install the apps2sd script. But it is not installed by default. So if you want to use it you have to install it first. The rom can not detect your apps on the ext partition because you have not activated a2sd. You can find it here.

sandrome said:
As I already said you can install the apps2sd script. But it is not installed by default. So if you want to use it you have to install it first. The rom can not detect your apps on the ext partition because you have not activated a2sd. You can find it here.
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this is great thank you. just a last request: is it possible to remove and return all apps to the internal memory in case I want to restore as it is now ?
in addition does this work for all apps even if they are not setup to be running from SD card ?
sorry if i am asking so many questions but given my previous bad experience i want to make sure i am not going to screw up everytning again....

I don't know if there is a command in the a2sd script that can remove those files from your sd. Maybe a2sd remove in an adb shell, but I'm not sure. You can move any app to your sd with this script. The other thing is for froyo. I think you don't even need an ext partition on 2.2.

Thank you very much for your help!
Sent from my HTC Tattoo using XDA App

App2sd

Hey!
It won't work on my phone, and I have tried installing an update, but with no luck. When i try to move, it gives an error.
Can someone make a guide on what i should try?

In which rom?

Hey , i have the same proplem , i used xrecovery to update to 2.2.1 CM HACKDROID v0.12 and it worked perfectly but now when i try to move any app to sd card it says Failed to move application , please help us !

apllication that is moved to sd card cant be moved again to sd card
point is that aplications installation point is sd card

In this rom you can't move apps manually. If you have ext partition on sdcard apps are automatically installed to sdcard. I am using MiniCM where native app2sd works

yes but when im installing a new app , the internal storage memory is going low so i dont know why

in settings i can select by tapping on cyanogenMOD settings /application settings the install location , and if i select external , i cant install anything from Market or Sd card

I think that if you install new app it is automatically installed to ext partition but cache is still in phone memory that's why phone memory is still decreasing but very little

Ok , i hope is like that , should i install MiniCM , is it better ? Thank you for your patience !

I got one advice for you. Before you install MiniCM remove your ext partition and then flash this rom

Ok , i will do that , thank you again !!

I have instaled it but if im trying to install any app i get the message application not installed , and if i select install location automatic the app is being installed in the internal memory , i dont undersand where im wrong

Did you try to move app to sdcard in settings? What firmware do you have?

Yes i've tryed and its not working , firmware is 2.2.1

I mean stock sony-ericsson firmware. This rom requires latest 2.1.1.A.0.6 firmware. You can try this:
1.Reinstall stock Se ROM with SEUS. 2.Format sd card
3.Root
4.Install xRecovery
5.In xRecovery do Factory Reset
6.Install newest CM ROM.

Ok thanks for advice , i will try this tomorow and i will post here if has worked. Thank you for your patience !

As part of my mission to get native app2sd to work on my x8 running Minicm; I tried to reinstall stock se rom but my se PC companion tells me my phone is up to date?
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thomasshiow said:
As part of my mission to get native app2sd to work on my x8 running Minicm; I tried to reinstall stock se rom but my se PC companion tells me my phone is up to date?
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Install it with SEUS

On CM7.0 RC1 by jerpelea App2SD native works fine too

[HELP] 2.1 app2sd problem ><

Hi everybody
I decided to go back to 2.1 from 2.2.1 cm beta1
Everything was ok then I decided to install root xrecovery and app2sd (i have had already a partition of apps) with autoinstall update.zip
But I cannot download angry birds!!! Download started but it doesn t continue
However if you tell me that it is only angry birds problem it doesn t matter (could you link me this apk?)
Another problem is market doesn t recognize my apps installed on as but only these installed via phone or updated so I don t know if there is any updated app but if I upgrade it manually market will recognize it!!!
Ps: installing apps these ones goes to sd so it could be ok
Any suggestion???
Thanks
Sent from my E15i using XDA App

Had the same problem a while ago. When my installation location was set to external a good few apps would not install, however once I changed it back to internal it was ok. I'm using 2.3 and most if not all apps can be moved without problem hope this helped
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in 2.1 i can't choose where to put apps, installing app2sd every app will go to external memory, but i can install everything apart from angry birds >.<

[Q] Help! No SD Card

Hi all,
Sorry if the post is misplaced i have a zte v9c and havent found any place else to place the question.
The problem is i cant have access to my sd card, already tried with other cards and it allways says no sd-card.
The only way i managed to solve was restoring an older version of the rom. Im using cm7.
When i go to CW and try to mount sdcard it says no app2sd or something like that.
Cant restore the rom now without the sd card any solution like odin or any other??
Thanks in advance.

Saltao said:
Hi all,
Sorry if the post is misplaced i have a zte v9c and havent found any place else to place the question.
The problem is i cant have access to my sd card, already tried with other cards and it allways says no sd-card.
The only way i managed to solve was restoring an older version of the rom. Im using cm7.
When i go to CW and try to mount sdcard it says no app2sd or something like that.
Cant restore the rom now without the sd card any solution like odin or any other??
Thanks in advance.
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Try flashing an older version of CW
Hit THANKS if I helped you

Hi,
Sorry for my english maybe i didnt explain correctly.
How can i do it without SD, something like odin? where can i find it and a rom to apply with it..

i never had this problem and i never heard of it but try installing a previous version of cm7 to check if the sd card works like that or you can try to mount the sd card in clockwork mod recovery

Hi,
Yes thats what i want, but how? Cant place rom on sd
Thanks

since it says no app2sd i would guess you need to flash the app2sd script

thats when in clockwork recovery a choose format /sd-ext
it says:
No app2sd card partition found. Skipping format...
How can i flash with pc? no access to any storage on tablet cant do it on device.
I guess it would be like flashing with odin, a pda file or something... any such thing for ztev9?

ok i understand your problem you have no access to the SD Card but i have a solution for you mate flash a rom using windows with ADB http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/ a simple google search will show lots of examples how to flash a rom directly from your pc
EDIT: i use linux and not windows prefer linux over windows any day but if you cant access the sd card use ADB Shell or Fastboot its also available on windows

Thats it.. Thanks ill give it a try.
what rom do you recomend to try this?

on my blade im using the latest cm7 kang which is built by burgerz its available in my cm7 kang development thread mate i found it stable but once wbaw starts releasing his kangs il be using his cm7 kang versions

Kannibalism said:
on my blade im using the latest cm7 kang which is built by burgerz its available in my cm7 kang development thread mate i found it stable but once wbaw starts releasing his kangs il be using his cm7 kang versions
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u using 13 march??
if so is there any battery drain??

so far i see no battery drain with the rom and i have mobile network 3g connected always

Kannibalism said:
so far i see no battery drain with the rom and i have mobile network 3g connected always
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so how long does it go on a single charge

like every other CM7 rom i use 24hrs because of the heavy phone usage from my side due to work, emails and my GF playing games lol

Rom crashes :/

Hey guys. I have a problem with my HD2 Device. My first android rom was NexusHD2 Beta1 like 4 months ago. It worked and i had no problems but i decided to install Miui instead of ICS. The Miui rom was really fast and smooth and didnt crash. Now i wanted to get back to ICS with HWA (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1434860).
I did a clean installation but the rom crashes randomly like within 2 minutes. I have no clue why it crashes i will tell you know how i installed it and maybe i forgot something and you can tell me what i did wrong.
I used HD2 Nand Toolkit and used Task29 at first. Then i installed MAGLDR and recovery with 200mb and 5mb cache. Then i opened CWM and installed the Rom. After that i installed Darktremor A2SD like it is said in this FAQ:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik..._CM9_FAQ#How_shall_I_install_these_scripts.3F
I hope my english is not too bad and you can help me to figure out why my phone crashes .

I took a look at the ROM and the Apps2SD in the XDA Wiki. Are you sure you followed all the directions in the installation instructions of the ROM. You may need to delete the Android folder from your SD card as it does say the following in the ROM thread OP.
tytung said:
Wipe Data/Factory Reset while doing a fresh install. (Optional: also delete /sdcard/Android folder or format your SD card if you have any strange issue.)
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Also in the Wiki it says you have to format your SD card. So you may need to format your SD card also.

Yeah could be a problem but i even tried it without A2SD and it still crashed :s
btw thank you for your response!

Vassilis.94 said:
Yeah could be a problem but i even tried it without A2SD and it still crashed :s
btw thank you for your response!
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If it still crashes without the Apps2SD then delete the Adroid folder from your SD card. I went back and edited my first post a little so you may have misssed me mentioning that.

Oh god it seemes that it works now! Its - like everytime - that simple but you Sir are my hero! :'D im really thankful ..