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Problems With Phone

I got a new G1 yesterday, Had to since that new SPL that bricked it, I had to get new one.
I rooted my phone, No problem, Installed JF 1.5 Build, No problem, Updated radio, No Problem, Installed theme, No problem. But if I do Apps 2 SD OR/AND cache (I have tried just cache and tried just apps on sd) but no matter if I do them alone or apart or only do one, each time same result, it loops on animation part of boot screen untill I wipe. On my old G1 I did these same steps a million times with no error, but this new one is being a *****
So you think reformatting my sd card might fix this?

tanner2007 said:
I got a new G1 yesterday, Had to since that new SPL that bricked it, anyways
I did the root guide, And from there got root and installed JF 1.5 build and radio...
but and this is my problem, every time I do apps on sd or caches to sd it loops on boot screen and I have to wipe it, to get back then it works fine
my old g1 never did this, im doing the same steps and everything, but it can be apps on sd or cache either one it loops on animation part of boot untill i wipe
yes im rooted
yes i got radio
yes sd card works fine and ext2 partition
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I am not sure what you are saying as you stated "but and this is my problem, every time I do apps on sd or caches to sd it loops on boot screen and I have to wipe it, to get back then it works fine"
then you state "yes sd card works fine and ext2 partition" so I am assuming that you are stuck at the andriod sceen and it just keeps rebooting... this happened to me just last week Ihad my phone in the front pocket of my hoodie and forgot it was there as I pulled the hoodie up over my head to get it off the phone fell to the ground I have one of those clear plastic covers but i picked it up and it looked fine, so I powered down just to let it reboot and I had the android looping screen... I reflashed jf1.5 and it worked went to do the apps to sd... loops... so I just reformatted my SD and re-partitioned it and it has been working great ever since even got the [email protected] to update to the new SPL... but I would try that reformat, re-partition... hope it works out for you!

robbie725 said:
I am not sure what you are saying as you stated "but and this is my problem, every time I do apps on sd or caches to sd it loops on boot screen and I have to wipe it, to get back then it works fine"
then you state "yes sd card works fine and ext2 partition" so I am assuming that you are stuck at the andriod sceen and it just keeps rebooting... this happened to me just last week Ihad my phone in the front pocket of my hoodie and forgot it was there as I pulled the hoodie up over my head to get it off the phone fell to the ground I have one of those clear plastic covers but i picked it up and it looked fine, so I powered down just to let it reboot and I had the android looping screen... I reflashed jf1.5 and it worked went to do the apps to sd... loops... so I just reformatted my SD and re-partitioned it and it has been working great ever since even got the [email protected] to update to the new SPL... but I would try that reformat, re-partition... hope it works out for you!
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Sorry, What I meant to really say is that I rooted my phone, No problem, Installed JF 1.5 Build, No problem, Updated radio, No Problem, Installed theme, No problem. But if I do Apps 2 SD OR/AND cache (I have tried just cache and tried just apps on sd) but no matter if I do them alone or apart or only do one, each time same result, it loops on animation part of boot screen untill I wipe.
So you think reformatting my sd card might fix this?

tanner2007 said:
Sorry, What I meant to really say is that I rooted my phone, No problem, Installed JF 1.5 Build, No problem, Updated radio, No Problem, Installed theme, No problem. But if I do Apps 2 SD OR/AND cache (I have tried just cache and tried just apps on sd) but no matter if I do them alone or apart or only do one, each time same result, it loops on animation part of boot screen untill I wipe.
So you think reformatting my sd card might fix this?
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Hey Tanner... Damn what did you really mean to say... LOL Just Kidding... all I can say Tanner is that doing that worked for me it got rid of the booting "andriod" and stopped it from bootloop... what can it hurt... just save everything on your SD card... if you have the Ubuntu CD you can even save you ext2 stuff if you need to... i have only used Ubuntu CD to partition my SD card so i can't comment on the other software that others have used... its worth a shot...
peace

robbie725 said:
Hey Tanner... Damn what did you really mean to say... LOL Just Kidding... all I can say Tanner is that doing that worked for me it got rid of the booting "andriod" and stopped it from bootloop... what can it hurt... just save everything on your SD card... if you have the Ubuntu CD you can even save you ext2 stuff if you need to... i have only used Ubuntu CD to partition my SD card so i can't comment on the other software that others have used... its worth a shot...
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Well I copyed both folders
app and app-private in ubuntu partition and reformatted SD card and my phone, re rooted it and put JF 1.5 build
and it wont work, the problem with the boot is fixed, phone boots but apps on sd wont work and this has never not worked before
the app folders are empty on phone and when i link them then they full but none will install or show up on phone even tho they say no phone memory left but properties says there 50 mb internal memory
so wtf, is it the phone or sd card? note before I got this new g1, the old one did all of this maybe 30 times without failure but this new phone is just....

tanner2007 said:
Well I copyed both folders
app and app-private in ubuntu partition and reformatted SD card and my phone, re rooted it and put JF 1.5 build
and it wont work, the problem with the boot is fixed, phone boots but apps on sd wont work and this has never not worked before
the app folders are empty on phone and when i link them then they full but none will install or show up on phone even tho they say no phone memory left but properties says there 50 mb internal memory
so wtf
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Tanner i am not an expert... but you partitioned your SD into EXT2 and FAT32 correct you did the FAT32 partition 1st? and the EXT2 does not exceed 450mb correct...
Open up your terminal emulator (if you don't have it, go to the market and get it!)...
$ su (at this point, allow superuser access when the whitelist asks)
# cd /data
# ls -l (the l is a lower case L)
here is what the output should look like.
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If your apps are going to SD, you will see the line app -> /system/sd/app as well as a line for app-private also...

The phone sdcard still works, and it does show system/sd on the thing,
but some reason wont let me do apps on sd
when i do the commands via adb
it removes current ones and i link to the one son sd card
but once phone reboots no apps are installed yet internal memory says 55 mb left but yet when i access the phone in data/app all apps are there and yet i cant download anyone it says not enough space
so whats up?

tanner2007 said:
The phone sdcard still works, and it does show system/sd on the thing,
but some reason wont let me do apps on sd
when i do the commands via adb
it removes current ones and i link to the one son sd card
but once phone reboots no apps are installed yet internal memory says 55 mb left but yet when i access the phone in data/app all apps are there and yet i cant download anyone it says not enough space
so whats up?
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Sounds like a broken partition to me. Have you tried an adb logcat of what happens when your phone loops? It'll at least give the error and give us a starting point at figuring out what's going on.

[email protected] said:
Sounds like a broken partition to me. Have you tried an adb logcat of what happens when your phone loops? It'll at least give the error and give us a starting point at figuring out what's going on.
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Well its not looping anymore (well only done apps not cache yet)
but for some reaosn just wont work the apps get moved onto phone but noit installed and memory says theres 55mb free of space but market says space is full its like is linking but cant tell the diffrence nor install
its wierd and all thanks to a new phone that came with rc33

HTC HD2 512 running out of space?

using HTC HD2 512MB version, with MIUI.COM installed into the NAND
Questions:
1) I went to setting, and check the disk space free for the phone, adding up the disk space used, and free space, I only have 250MB in my phone? Why? How do I see 512MB in my phone?
2) How do I make the SD card the place to install all applications? like making it default?
3) When an application has been installed onto the phone; it says "30MB on Phone" and I hit the button "move to SD", and after moving, it says "140kb on SD" - what happen? Does it mean that it couldn't move the application from phone to SD? Or file size reported incorrectly?

250mb is a lot of room still left on your device. i only have 73.5mb in my system and i partitioned my sd card to 1gb so i still have 686.1mb left for data.
a great tool to know what apps can be moved to your sd card is appmonster. i personally love the app and have the pro version. it will tell you what apps can be moved safely as well as create a backup of evey apk file you install. a lot of other features as well. im sure there are other ways of doing this but i'll stick with this app instead.

I think you have misread my post; I have using HTC HD2 which is suppose to have 512MB in the phone,
but when i go into the system setting and take a look, adding the used up space + free space, both of them adds to be only 250MB! where did the 256mb go to?
Thanks, I will try app monster, but please let me know how do i utilitise the whole 512mb? It seemed that I'm only using 250MB of the 512Mb in my phone

yes i thought you meant you had 250mb availible after you installed your ROM. also there is a app called Move2SD Enabler (root only) free in the market that will allow you to install to your sd card by default. to answer your question that you only have 250mb total it would seem this is wrong in some way. i mean if that was true you wouldn't be able to flash almost any sence ROM because they almost are always over 250mb. what miui ROM are you running and how large is that ROM? all i could think of is you partitioned your phone incorrectly but thats really just a quess so my advice would be to wait for someone with more experience. sorry i couldn't help out more.

Sense rom? I'm using MIUI rom, which is about 78MB when download from the website;

I wasn't saying that's what you are running only that if your device only had a total of 250mb that you wouldn't even be able to flash a sence Rom. Have you tried to look at a app that will tell you how much space you have as a way of double checking the numbers you've gotten?
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You have 512 but your Rom and system files are installed on there so you dont have much leftfor apps
You need a Rom with apps2sd support and you need a ext partition on your SD, cwm will partition for you, use this Rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010498 there is an app on there to move dalvic cache and apps2sd
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Thanks, I'll give it a try, but I still like to use the MIUI rom
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It is miui
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I'm reading the part there it says ext the SD, my question; I already have my rom with data in it, can I do it? or I will lose everything?

s050399b said:
I'm reading the part there it says ext the SD, my question; I already have my rom with data in it, can I do it? or I will lose everything?
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your question was answered earlier as you already have titanium "BACKUP" then use it no data will be lost
and also THIS page will help you out alot

Use miui backup its pre installed back everything up, install new Rom format SD via cwm (back up everything on SD first pictures videos and stuff and your miui folder) when you partition it using cwm it will wipe your SD install new Rom, go to the apps2sd GUI turn everything on, then go to miui backup and restore everything
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LaneyEFC said:
your question was answered earlier as you already have titanium "BACKUP" then use it no data will be lost
and also THIS page will help you out alot
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thanks guys for helping a complete newbie!!! the official miui tutorial should include this info too!

btw, from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010498
it says:
Choose EXT size (Maximum is 2048Mb) and Swap size (Recommand is 128Mb)
but there's a select to choose 4GB as EXT size........should i go with 2GB or 4GB?

I think my microSD class 2, which is way too slow for this; I've to get a class 6 or 10 one.

I tried to use 1GB ext, and it's working perfectly now; even with class 2 speed!

Stick to 1gb you'll have problems after that
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i had 1gb on my sd android version

s050399b said:
I tried to use 1GB ext, and it's working perfectly now; even with class 2 speed!
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Hi
1024 MB with 0 MB swap is all you need.
Any more will possibly give you problems.

0MB swap? i used 258 or 128,
is there an easier way to change swap to 0MB?

Links2sd

Hi all, I have just started using this app, I've discovered when ever you restart the phone, I have to recreate
All my desktop application shortcuts for the ones on SD, sand reinstall some apps like my keyboard etc, is there a way to fix this??
Thanks for your help guys

Devilbabi said:
Hi all, I have just started using this app, I've discovered when ever you restart the phone, I have to recreate
All my desktop application shortcuts for the ones on SD, sand reinstall some apps like my keyboard etc, is there a way to fix this??
Thanks for your help guys
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i think there's nothing wrong with the link2sd,
if theres really something wrong with the link2sd,
try to change the partition of your sd card to FAT32,
try it.

chitose_ndy said:
i think there's nothing wrong with the link2sd,
if theres really something wrong with the link2sd,
try to change the partition of your sd card to FAT32,
try it.
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You mean you all manage to format one partition in SD card to be the internal memory on Arc's Stock ROM?

chongbh said:
You mean you all manage to format one partition in SD card to be the internal memory on Arc's Stock ROM?
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no no no,
i mean, sometimes partition sd format ext2, ext3, or ext4 gives some error.
now try to make the partition sd format to FAT32,
i dont kno if this will work or not, but u should try it...

I installed the app, Links2SD, and started moving my apps over, I didnt partition the SD card at all yet.
Do I have to do this still, and is there an app on the market to help me with this, but now everytime I restart my phone, I loose all my shortcuts set up on my home page, and I have to reinstall my keyboard.
Can some one please help me with this ?
Thanks A

Devilbabi said:
I installed the app, Links2SD, and started moving my apps over, I didnt partition the SD card at all yet.
Do I have to do this still, and is there an app on the market to help me with this, but now everytime I restart my phone, I loose all my shortcuts set up on my home page, and I have to reinstall my keyboard.
Can some one please help me with this ?
Thanks A
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Thats the problem, LInk2SD requires a Partition, this is where the apps will be stored

mhyke13ph said:
Thats the problem, LInk2SD requires a Partition, this is where the apps will be stored
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Ok thanks for that, is there an app I can use to partition???

Devilbabi said:
Ok thanks for that, is there an app I can use to partition???
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Search on the google "mini partition tool app"
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Make sure your kernel supports it.
sinkster©

Sorry I am just running the standard ROM, nothing special and it seems to have installed etc ok.
I have followed the tut, used the mini partition app, and created the FAT32, created the mount script, restarted the phone, and I still am losing the icons off the desktop and the keyboard is uninstalling itself.
How can I check if the items I moved to SD, are actually on the partition, and how can I select that partition as the place to store moved items from now on.
THanks for all you help guys, I am very greatful

Devilbabi said:
Sorry I am just running the standard ROM, nothing special and it seems to have installed etc ok.
I have followed the tut, used the mini partition app, and created the FAT32, created the mount script, restarted the phone, and I still am losing the icons off the desktop and the keyboard is uninstalling itself.
How can I check if the items I moved to SD, are actually on the partition, and how can I select that partition as the place to store moved items from now on.
THanks for all you help guys, I am very greatful
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Hmm..
About the icons on the desktop,
I think u shud readd again on ur desktop.. then try te reboot ur phone again..
And if u want to know that the apps has already moved to partition or not,
Connect ur phone to pc.
Open mini partition.
See the partition (the FAT32)
See the "used" column.
If its still "0", then ur apps still not moved to partition.
If its not "0", then its already moved.
If u already created the mount script, then the apps shud be moved to the FAT32 when u link it 2 sd.
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So I moved the apps to SD, is that right or am I supposed to link the apps to sd and then move them.
I think there is something I am doing wrong at that part.
They are on the SD, not linked just moved.

Devilbabi said:
So I moved the apps to SD, is that right or am I supposed to link the apps to sd and then move them.
I think there is something I am doing wrong at that part.
They are on the SD, not linked just moved.
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Move 2 sd and link 2 sd are different things.
Move to sd >> move to sd primary.
Link to sd >> move to the sd partition
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chitose_ndy said:
Move 2 sd and link 2 sd are different things.
Move to sd >> move to sd primary.
Link to sd >> move to the sd partition
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If we using ext4 for second partition then its way faster than primary fat32. This mean better I/O speed and percomance.
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taaviu said:
If we using ext4 for second partition then its way faster than primary fat32. This mean better I/O speed and percomance.
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Some devices have problem with ext4..
If it reallt have problem, then use format fat32
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So do you leave apps on phone and link to SD? How does that work though? That wont free up my internal memory?
Devilbabi Fine Arts

Devilbabi said:
So do you leave apps on phone and link to SD? How does that work though? That wont free up my internal memory?
Devilbabi Fine Arts
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No no...
Apps goes sd card. But phone thinks they into phone.
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Yes it free up my internal memory
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compazter said:
Yes it free up my internal memory
Ok so do you move the app to SD then link it, or do you link then move
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I don't think you can have a working ext partition without the phone having a different Kernel at the least or a different ROM (I'm using stock ROM and DoomKernel, with a 1GB ext4 partition for reference). Normal Apps2SD is possible since 2.2 but I think your Kernel/ROM has to support anything more advanced.

[SD SOFTMOD] [A500/G100W] swap internal 16GB memory with 32GB external sdcard

Tested and working on HC321 and ICS403
In this tutorial I will discribe a way to ‘upgrade’ your internal 16GB memory to 32GB, not by soldering a new memory module to the internals of the device but by the means of a ‘softmod’. This method involves changing some system files and is completly done through CWM and is totally reversable. This is the second version of the softmod and is much safer than the first one.
Someone mentioned another thread in the A100 section, and asked me if my way was the same as that one. I checked it out and seemed that all the system changes were done through scripting. The thread author had actually used the recovery killer script that Acer loads at every boot to our advantage. He wrote a damm nice script for doing the right mounts and unmounts at boottime.
The original thread can be found here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20907592
Anyway, I have adapted that script a bit so it can be flashed through CWM, added my own script to it which loads your internal SD in ‘mnt/internal_sd’ and added a modified ‘vold.fstab’ file for removing the ‘detach button’ from the storage info page.
CONS :
-if you use a slow 32GB micoSD card you might experience some speed loss
-by doing this mod, as it involves changing system files, there is always the possibility of ending up with a bricked device, you fully agree to the fact that when your device gets bricked in the process, you and only you are responsible for that !
PROS :
-you will have upgraded your internal memory capacity to 32GB
-you now have high speed access to this 'new 32GB internal' sdcard if inserted in a computer for backups or filling the card up with pictures, music, movies, documents, gamefiles, etc..
-CWM is not affected by this softmod. As a mather of fact if you select the option 'switch to internal storage' in CWM you can actually make use of your internal GB’s for storing CWM FULL backups of your device.
NEEDED :
-32GB sdcard
-CWM must be installed on your tablet
HOW IT'S DONE :
-format the 32GB sdcard to fat32 on your computer
-insert the newly formatted sdcard in your tablet
-reboot or start your tablet in CWM
-flash the ‘CWM - ROMUPDATER [sdsoftmod enable].zip’ through CWM
-reboot
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after reboot your storage info should look like this :
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REVERSING THE PROCESS :
-reboot or start your tablet in CWM
-flash the ‘CWM - ROMUPDATER [sdsoftmod disable].zip’ through CWM
-reboot
After rebooting you are back where you were before this mod, with all your files still on the 16GB internal memory. (as they were before this mod)
If you like the mod and want to keep using it, you might wanna transfer all your old folders and files from the ‘/mnt/internal_sd’ to the new ‘/mnt/sdcard’
FINAL WORD :
-Its best not to remove the 32GB sdcard for backup purposes or whatever when the tablet is running. I advise to shutdown the tablet first, then removing the sdcard, do your stuf, reinsert in the tablet en only then fire the tablet up.
Good luck !
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just a question, how will the cw recovery act. since it will before boot will the recovery just look for the actual sdcard?

BrianDigital said:
just a question, how will the cw recovery act. since it will before boot will the recovery just look for the actual sdcard?
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CWM stays unaffected, even more so, you can now use the 'lost' gigs on the internal 16gig for storing your CWM full backups. More info on this in the first post.

Is this only for 32 GB Sd card ore als for 16, 8 GB
Is this much faster then normal use of the sd card
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Oeps, i see its not smart to go from 16 internal to less.
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ruud said:
Is this only for 32 GB Sd card ore als for 16, 8 GB
Is this much faster then normal use of the sd card
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This method can be used with SD cards of any size, only when your internal memory is 16GB I wouldn't see why you would swap that with a 8GB external SD card, or a SD card of the same size. There's nothing to gain. When you do this mod on the other hand with a 32GB or a 64GB SD card you gain space.
Look at it as if you bought the cheaper 16GB model and upgrade it to a 32GB or a 64GB model, not by soldering in another memory module but the easy way with this softmod.
As for the speed it will be limited by the speed of the SD card. This may vary from SD to SD, faster SDs tend to be more expensive. The card I have used is slightly slower then the internal memory, but it is not an issue.

Hi, is this the same a100 mod with apply on boot? Or have you made some new changes to it. My only concern was the OS might create some file/directories in internal memory before your mod executes.
Thanks
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jaksau said:
Hi, is this the same a100 mod with apply on boot? Or have you made some new changes to it. My only concern was the OS might create some file/directories in internal memory before your mod executes.
Thanks
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I don't know about the 'apply on boot' mod, this is just a tuto I composed from scratch based on my findings when doing this to my own tablet.
If you want to go in detail about what happens : all of the stuff is done @ boot time, and because its based on setting a mount point, that would be done before the os starts writing stuff down. As for the affected partitions by doing this mod, it only affects the '/data/media' partition wich is mounted by default in 'mnt/sdcard'. This mod just disables the system from doing that and instead mounts your complete external SD to that mount point. After the mod the old files are stille accesable by browsing with your root explorer to /data/media.
Btw : I wouldn't recommend doing this mod on any other device than the A500/G100W as the program that does all the work, was specificly written FOR the A500/G100W !

Tutorial updated to v1.2
All needed files are in the attached zip (first post in this thread), including an easy readable pdf with word accentuation on the hard parts of the tutorial.

The title says 64G. I think SDHC is up to 32G. The 64G should be SDXC.
Does the Acer Iconia A500 really support SDXC?
Anybody tried a 64G SD?
Thanks!

qingz said:
The title says 64G. I think SDHC is up to 32G. The 64G should be SDXC.
Does the Acer Iconia A500 really support SDXC?
Anybody tried a 64G SD?
Thanks!
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You got a point ! Checked iconia's specs and it says 32GB max !!
Gonna change the title and the pdf !

any way to get this working with ICS? mount at boot doesn't seem to be working

Somairotevoli said:
any way to get this working with ICS? mount at boot doesn't seem to be working
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I don't have ics, so i can't realy test that. I think that the mount (read swap) is done at login time, thats when you see the superuser has granted acces message. Then again android could be supressing these messages until userlogin. Who will tell?

I'm just mounting manually at boot before the internal sdcard script runs. Working great! Only issue is storage crashes in settings. Must be an ics issue.
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First post updated, all is done through CWM now. Safer way of doing things ...

Besides settings crashing, new version works as should on ics. Thanks!
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Just to ask, does this work for the 8gb model too?
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Junkyardjames87 said:
Just to ask, does this work for the 8gb model too?
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I dont know for sure as mine is the 16GB model, but if its Iconia A500 or Packardbell G100W, it should work without a glitch. I would say, test it out and if it does Ill add 8GB to the thread title.

I have an 8GB A500 that is running Thor ROM vs12 and when I tried flashing the zip file it aborted the installation. Do you know if I needed to wipe the system before installing?

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I have an 8GB A500 that is running Thor ROM vs12 and when I tried flashing the zip file it aborted the installation. Do you know if I needed to wipe the system before installing?
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Thats odd. An abort during flash sounds like your recovery is not able to execute the commands during flash. You could have a number of problems there. What recovery version are you using (here it's thor v1.6), also is the downloaded zip in a good condition?

[Q] Space/File confusion, help please!

So I'm running CM 10.1 which is running nice. I'm loving the free space that I have and how fast everything is. I made a back up of my rom after setting it up and I've downloaded 2 cm nightly zips. There's the bulk of the space I've used. All of my pictures are on the ext sd card and I have no music on the phone or ext sd card. Now I've posted screen shots below first starting off with titanium stating that I've used 10.2 gb of space with the internal+media. I don't understand that at all. This is where I'm asking for help because that makes no sense. I started using Root Explorer and navigating through the files on the phone and I began to notice that there is copies of copies within folders. You can see with the 2nd screen shot that there is 2 ext sd card files, I don't understand why. The 3rd shows the "sdcard" which I understand is the phones and not my external, and also the storage folder. The 4th pic shows sdcard contents. Remember what that looks like, we'll see that exact group of contents again. The 5th shows the beginning of the storage folder. Now here is where I begin to start to get extremely lost. Emulated, sdcard0, sdcard1, don't understand but okay. The 6th shows inside the emulated folder. Even more lost now with a "0" and "legacy" folder. The 7th pic shows what we saw on pic 4, why is this also here? Pic 8 shows what is in the legacy folder which is the same contents as pic 4 and 7, again why is this duplicated here? The last pic, 9, shows inside the sdcard0 folder which shows the same contents as pic 4,7, and 8. Why? Is my phone making duplicates of files containing loads of space? If so, what is safe to delete so I can keep my storage space free like when I first installed CM. And as far as sdcard1, I looked at the contents and it seems to be my external sd card, just named sdcard1 for some reason.
I understand this is a long and ridiculous post. I have some knowledge of how these things work from when I rom'd my evo 3d. But I swear that phone was nothing like this and I'm completely confused when trying to navigate the S4. I'd appreciate any insight into this. I apologize in advance to my lack of tech knowledge but I thank you for any help anyone can provide!
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Not sure why you have 2 extra sd card listing either.
Before you flashed CM did you also format your internal data when wiping? Maybe there's some leftovers from your previous setup.
Everything else looks normal to me, the file system is what it is. The ExtSd card will be the one you can remove from the phone and the sdcard/emulated/0 listing will be the internal storage. I'm not sure why the listings for the internal are repeated but I believe they're all linked to the same folder, I could be wrong.
Everything looks right to me except for that other ExtSd card entry.
TB says you have 10+ available storage, the in parentheses number is how much is left free. If you look under your system settings for storage it will probably say a gig less.
After your Rom installs and takes up system memory you probably have 9.5ish g left, then subtract the backups and roms you said you had in internal memory and your left with 6ish gigs.
I think that's right.
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The two internal SD cards. Are the issue from the gs3. Its the new 0 folder format.
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Yes I did format the internal. I had loads of space when I first began with the CM rom. But your logic makes sense. I guess I was looking at it differently or wrongly but I see where you're coming from now. I guess I was just used to my other phone being so straight and simple. Not used to the extra folders everywhere but now I have more of an understanding to why they are the way they are Now I do have two other questions. If i take the backup of the CM build I saved and move it to the extsd card I shouldn't have a problem just navigating to the file using the "restore" function in cwm should I? And my second question would be that I have downloaded the 8/12 nightly zip for CM, that was the one I used to install when I began. This morning I had an update from ROM manager for the 8/13 nightly. I downloaded the zip and flashed it, all is well. While I was browsing through the files I could only find the one 8/13 zip for CM, when I download an update like that through ROM manager, is it replacing the other zip that I already had? I didn't think it worked like that but I'd like to be sure so I can get rid of the old zip to keep space free. Thanks guys for the help!

I'm concerned with that back up also becuase if you look at this screen shot it shows where this back up is saved. Since it's not on the extsd as far as I see, if my phone were to get wiped or screw up and I couldn't access the internal data, I'm assuming I'd lose that back up. Then again I don't know if mnt/shell protects that from happening lol.
Thank you again guys, I'm slowly trying to learn and get the hang of it all
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