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Can anyone help with app2sd?

I have followed a few guides for app2sd.
But i cannot understand them. The english doesn't make much sense.
Can anybody that speaks GOOD english help me with this?
Thanks

I can give u a much better tut for App2SD for Eclair:
Here we go.
1. Connect ur phone via debbuging, connect ur SDcard Backup all data from ur SDcard to PC.
2. Download this 'Home' edition.
3. Install programm and search for ur SDcard.
4. Rightclick on ur partition, click remove. Be careful: check twice if its ur SDcard from Phone
5. Rightclick on ur new partition, select 'create" and create a new partition with these settings:
FAT32, primiary and ca 70% of space from ur card.
Now u got 70% (1,70 GB from 2 GB SD storage) and a 30% none format partition.
Repeat step 5 with those 30% but choose Ext2.
6. Click on "Apply" on the corner to the topper left.
7. Reboot ur Phone and check if ur Phone starts with SD card.
8. Check for installed BusyBox partition. If there is none: install BusyBox
9. Download the App2sd.zip, extract on ur SD file
example path: X:\App2SD\app2sd.sh
10. Download from market 'ScriptMe' and install on ur Phone.
11. Open ScriptMe, choose 'app2sd.sh', check "with root privilege" and "Execute script"
12. wait a long time for reboot. WARNING: dont forcequit ScriptMe while extract the script. if u do it, ur SDcard will **** bricks. Choose "Wait for programm" if there is any PopUp.
13. Done.
Edit: tested on 2.1 Quarx, Europe Open, Baltic Black

other alternative 2 partition ur sdcard: (assume u have clockwork recovery)
-backup ur sdcard
-install rom manager
-choose manual override
-reboot phone (sometimes u need to reinstall the rom manager)
-in rom manager, choose Partition SD Card (the max partition is 512 mb, but i thing it's more than enough), u can also make swap partition (i chose 32 mb just in case)
adv: faster, no need to connect to pc, ext3 partition (for those with more than class 4 sdcard, i think and with the newest kernel)
dis: u need to backup ur sdcard, max size only 512 mb..
cmiiw

do i wipe, delete or format particion?

pri3s7 said:
do i wipe, delete or format particion?
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Delete. After this u should have a gray bar with none information but the size of ur SDcard.

sorry for bad english ... i stoped on step 8. Check for installed BusyBox partition. If there is none: install BusyBox, i have titanium backup do i need to instal busybox ? if i must vher do i install it, or how to instalit? on phone or comp? if on phon where?

pri3s7 said:
i have titanium backup do i need to instal busybox ?
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At the end of all things u did u should restore your datas to your sdcard.
So... this sentence explain itself: u should install BusyBox _before_ u restore your data.
In fact: u need an installed version BusyBox on your device. Doesn't matter if u got a titanium backup or not. U can check for an installed BusyBox when u open the programm BusyBox

i did it and it reboted my phon anda al app were deleted and it says loading widgets on one screen and it doesent see sd card wtf is that

pri3s7 said:
i did it and it reboted my phon anda al app were deleted and it says loading widgets on one screen and it doesent see sd card wtf is that
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First: Its normal that all homescreensettings are gone.
Second: Did u seriously delete your SDcard without any backup on your PC?

i did the backup but my mobile cant find sd card, i rebooted my mobile
can u help me or my card is fuc.ed

pri3s7 said:
i did the backup but my mobile cant find sd card, i rebooted my mobile
can u help me or my card is fuc.ed
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Sorry, i think u have to reflash ur device. Some people got this error, but dunno why. Maybe u got a ROM wich is not supported yet.

so no help

As i said: i don't know why this just happens to some people. I can't help you does not mean 'i don't like to help u'. Sorry

pri3s7 said:
so no help
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hmm, did u use card reader, or from your phone to make the partition?
if u use or phone, try read the sdcard from pc/laptop via card reader. if it's readable, make sure u put drive letter in fat32 partition, and no drive letter in ext2/3 partition.
i made partitions from my phone, in my very first time of trying, i've got the sdcard error (or something like that), i chose to restore factory default, n it said that my sdcard is not formatted, so i formatted, then it back to normal (with no data of course)...
hope this can help you.

i did it from my phone, the prob is that i dont have adapter so i cant put my card intoo my laptop
i went to titanium and all i see overview
root access-- OK( busybox 1.16.0 from app)
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data directory :/data
external storage : not mounted
backup directory : not avaible
internal: 146 MB
SD card: 0 B
SD card(a2sd: 256mb (19.3MB free)
i thought i dont have bussy box but i have, but before i could use titanium for uninstaling my apps now i cant i dont get it, adn my phone dont reed my sd card

pri3s7 said:
data directory :/data
external storage : not mounted
backup directory : not avaible
internal: 146 MB
SD card: 0 B
SD card(a2sd: 256mb (19.3MB free)
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Just a stupid question: could it be that u forgot to disconnect ur SDcard from PC?
'Not mounted' is the standard message for a stable USB-connection between ur PC and SDcard (device).

i just used my card in other phone and it is working, i dont get it. my phone cant read it, can i do smtg in my mobile so it can read it? and when i use phone with usb it dont connect, it cant find device

All drivers are installed?
Just reflash ur device and take a look whats happen.

how to flash this mobile? what doese it means to flash?

pri3s7 said:
how to flash this mobile? what doese it means to flash?
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Dude... is it possible that ur device is not rooted and u dont have Android 2.1?

[Q] recovery failed due to SD formatted mistakenly !?

i formatted my touch4g's SD on PC. (all data on SD are lost)
and now i can't run the recovery any more.
i searched google and it says that there're important system data located on SD and cannot be erased. is that the reason i failed to recovery my phone ?
what can i do now ?
thx for help !!

stdafx said:
i formatted my touch4g's SD on PC. (all data on SD are lost)
and now i can't run the recovery any more.
i searched google and it says that there're important system data located on SD and cannot be erased. is that the reason i failed to recovery my phone ?
what can i do now ?
thx for help !!
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Open ROM Manager and reflash Clockwork .

Please post questions in Q&A section.

[PROBLEM] Clockwordmod recovery issue

hello,
i am havin annoyin issue with clockwordmod recovery 2.x.x.x.x, it doesnt see new files on sd card.. i have tried formating sdcard from recovery but it didnt format it at all.. next i formatted sd in windows, but still.. when i log into recovery it suppouse to show the files i've uploaded onto sdcard which were; cm7, nightly 40, new radio, gapps.. but instead it shows the old files which are not on the sdcard.. the problem is more annoying because i ve notticed that after formatting system, wipping cache etc.. so now i have only acces to broken? recovery and my wf gets bootloop all the time.. please help is there any way to flash the new cm7 from pc or somehow fix the sd card and flash new cm7 and fix the recovery??
i have searched @ google but i found notting..
please help ; /
cheers,

Have u tryed using unrevoked again n updateing with Rom manager
Do u have another SD card
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

i cant use unrevoked and rom menager because my wf doesnt load os.. i was tryin to put update.zip and load it from sd card but it says "cant open E:/sdcard/update.zip (bad) installation aborted.", ive load even file as pc49img.zip, in bootloader it says it's parsing and it looks like everything is ok but still have no updatec cmw ;/.
and no i do not have another sd card ;/

Surely borrowing an SD card from some of your close ones shouldnt be an issue? Anyway, did you try using an RUU to get back to the default state?

i;ve tried to use ruu, it only sees my phone while the htc logo but it says it's not enough charged.. i think ill try to wait until green led comes up and try it again ;/

mlotson said:
hello,
i am havin annoyin issue with clockwordmod recovery 2.x.x.x.x, it doesnt see new files on sd card.. i have tried formating sdcard from recovery but it didnt format it at all.. next i formatted sd in windows, but still.. when i log into recovery it suppouse to show the files i've uploaded onto sdcard which were; cm7, nightly 40, new radio, gapps.. but instead it shows the old files which are not on the sdcard.. the problem is more annoying because i ve notticed that after formatting system, wipping cache etc.. so now i have only acces to broken? recovery and my wf gets bootloop all the time.. please help is there any way to flash the new cm7 from pc or somehow fix the sd card and flash new cm7 and fix the recovery??
i have searched @ google but i found notting..
please help ; /
cheers,
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Sounds like you might have partitioned your card, and now are looking at two different partitions, one from windows, one from recovery. You could try repartitioning it from recovery, to make sure that you only have one FAT partition and one EXT and that they are in the correct order.
Mine has its FAT partition on p1, and ext2 on p2.

hey mate,
could you guide me how to do it? in recovery i have;
unmount system
unmount data
unmount cache
mount sd-card
when i click on mound sd-ext it says "ERROR MOUNTING SDEXT:!"
;/
i took off the sd card and formatted it then i mount it into the device and tried to choose zip file but it was unmounted in options so it didnt show me any files, next i've mounted sd card and left sd-ext unmounted and againt its the same, it shows me the old files which dont even exist anymore, i guess it maybe something with partitionin, but how to do it? could you guide me how to make one fat and one ext ? like u have? thx in advance

I partitioned mine from a linux PC with an SD card reader attached, but it should work from recovery as well.
From the Clockworkmod recovery menu, choose advanced and then partition sd card then choose the size you want for the ext partiton, then the size for the flash partition (if any). That should set them up correctly in the correct order.

Questions/Problems don't belong in the Development section <---please click link and read....moved to general...

i've wipped cache and during wippin it said that there is no sd-ext partiotion ; / it's something wrong with clockwork but i have no idea what.. it shows only the old files that i've loaded on sd before flashing with cm7 rc-2 ;/ the weird thing is that i remember that i updated cmw do newest 3.0.5... (something like that - the orange one) and it worked fine but next when i log into recovery it shows the older version oO
i successfuly manange to update cmw, i used adb in that purpouse and now everything works fine

[q] cwm backup /restore

Hello.
I've had my SGS 4 (I9500) for about 10 days, and have some problems (not critical but anoying), I don't know if they are related.
1) I use a microSD of 64 GB, the same I was using in my previous SGS 3 without any problem. In the SGS 4, sometimes the microSD is reported as damaged (even at boot, or during usage). It has happend several times, and fixed with a reboot. When this happends, the microSD can't be readed by the file explorer (neither ES explorer or Solid Explorer). I have formatted the microSD with the SGS 4, but didn't help.
2) I can't mount, format neither backup on the microSD from Recovery, even using Recovery that claim "backup / restore folders fixed". I need to backup on external SD in order to free the little space available on the internal SD!!
3) I can't find the folder where the backups made from Recovery are! Recovery says the path is sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, but I browse to that path in Solid Explorer, and it only has one file: .recovery_version. (I have activated the option "show hidden files"). I need to find these folders for at least move/copy the backup files to my PC, if I can't store them on the external SD.
At the beginning, I thought it was a generic problem of the SGS 4 that would be fixed with custom kernels or ROMs, but so far nothing has helped!
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Javier.

jolivera said:
Hello.
I've had my SGS 4 (I9500) for about 10 days, and have some problems (not critical but anoying), I don't know if they are related.
1) I use a microSD of 64 GB, the same I was using in my previous SGS 3 without any problem. In the SGS 4, sometimes the microSD is reported as damaged (even at boot, or during usage). It has happend several times, and fixed with a reboot. When this happends, the microSD can't be readed by the file explorer (neither ES explorer or Solid Explorer). I have formatted the microSD with the SGS 4, but didn't help.
2) I can't mount, format neither backup on the microSD from Recovery, even using Recovery that claim "backup / restore folders fixed". I need to backup on external SD in order to free the little space available on the internal SD!!
3) I can't find the folder where the backups made from Recovery are! Recovery says the path is sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, but I browse to that path in Solid Explorer, and it only has one file: .recovery_version. (I have activated the option "show hidden files"). I need to find these folders for at least move/copy the backup files to my PC, if I can't store them on the external SD.
At the beginning, I thought it was a generic problem of the SGS 4 that would be fixed with custom kernels or ROMs, but so far nothing has helped!
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Javier.
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look in data/media/clockworkmod

samersh72 said:
look in data/media/clockworkmod
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Excelent!!! :victory:
And I even found a efs_Backup, that I was wondering how to do!!
Thank you very much! :highfive:
(Now I just need to solve the problems with the external SD) :fingers-crossed:
Greetings,
Javier.

jolivera said:
Excelent!!! :victory:
And I even found a efs_Backup, that I was wondering how to do!!
Thank you very much! :highfive:
(Now I just need to solve the problems with the external SD) :fingers-crossed:
Greetings,
Javier.
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use dd command to backup efs and you must also backup m9kefs partitions

samersh72 said:
use dd command to backup efs and you must also backup m9kefs partitions
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aham... sorry, I don't know how to use "dd command". :silly:
Do you mean the efs_Backup folder isn't a full backup of the efs?
Sorry for my ignorance, and thanks again.

jolivera said:
aham... sorry, I don't know how to use "dd command". :silly:
Do you mean the efs_Backup folder isn't a full backup of the efs?
Sorry for my ignorance, and thanks again.
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i think you backuped efs partition with recovery, that is fine.
NV_DATA must be secured also, they are included in other partition, they are not included in efs partition so make a backup for them see this.

Hello guys.
Can anybody help me with the external SD issues? :fingers-crossed:
Thanks in advance.

Solution to Recovery access to external SD
As I thought, the issue with the Recovery access to external SD was solved with a new version of Recovery. The Cofface Recovery V 2.0 made the magic! :victory:
I thought this would solve the issues with the esternal SD in general, but I keep having the error "SD is damaged", and when I try to mount it, it is detected as empty. I let the phone alone, and some minutes later the SD card is detected and mounted itself. :silly:
I hope this to be a release problem, and be eventually solved with new versions of kernels or ROMs. :fingers-crossed:

help
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look in data/media/clockworkmod
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Am sorry for hijacking your thread OP, but am having the same problem as you had cant seem to find that backup folder, I want to transfer it to my pc to save some memory, when I saw this reply "data/media/clockworkmod" I was so happy but when I went no luck whatsoever I get "data/com.mdc.ustv (that's it) and I can find "media/audio/notification" .
whenever I do go to restore in recovery mode it does show directory sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
any help would be greatly appreciated

DsmEvo said:
Am sorry for hijacking your thread OP, but am having the same problem as you had cant seem to find that backup folder, I want to transfer it to my pc to save some memory, when I saw this reply "data/media/clockworkmod" I was so happy but when I went no luck whatsoever I get "data/com.mdc.ustv (that's it) and I can find "media/audio/notification" .
whenever I do go to restore in recovery mode it does show directory sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
any help would be greatly appreciated
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I found the clockworkmod backup in the described path. Are you reaching the memory root?
The sound/norifications folder is in system/media path.
Good luck.

jolivera said:
I found the clockworkmod backup in the described path. Are you reaching the memory root?
The sound/norifications folder is in system/media path.
Good luck.
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thanks! got it.. I was searching in internal sdmemory via pc got it now!

correct path for deleting cwm backup files
... thanks, with your help I was finally able to delete my unneeded image.zip backup file that was not recognized by the recovery / mod manager clean up tool. Some other posts suggested to reach it under /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup which is basically correct for accessing it, but even with root permission you are never allowed to delete it there (symlinks?). However, /data/media/clockworkmod was finally the correct path to physically remove it :victory:

Locked pattern

My pattern lock was played by my nephew and it says I have to unlock it using Gmail. Now, I forget my Gmail. How to turn it back???
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please search before posting as this has been covered many times
download aroma file manager and put on root of sd card - (take memory card out of phone and put it in another phone or pc to transfer it onto card)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108
flash it in cwm with system mounted
goto data/system
delete gestures.key
delete password.key
restart
or you can reset your gmail password on a pc if you know the security question answers
or you can restore a nandroid backup and it will put the phone back to the data the backup was made
or you can wipe data in cwm but you will loose any data

marcussmith2626 said:
please search before posting as this has been covered many times
download aroma file manager and put on root of sd card - (take memory card out of phone and put it in another phone or pc to transfer it onto card)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108
flash it in cwm with system mounted
goto data/system
delete gestures.key
delete password.key
restart
or you can reset your gmail password on a pc if you know the security question answers
or you can restore a nandroid backup and it will put the phone back to the data the backup was made
or you can wipe data in cwm but you will loose any data
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Thanks for your answer