Hi all,
why some Roms needs the SD-EXT partition ?
if we install a rom using the SD-EXT partition and then we boot without putting the SD card,the phone will boot?
many thanks
There are to ways a ROM can use the partition.
1. It will put your apps to sd which saves much space and you can install nearly infinite count of apps
2. Put dalvik cache to sd card which saves also space /ram etc.
If it just uses the partition for putting apps on sd it will boot but if it uses dalvik 2sd it won't boot.
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jonas2295 said:
If it just uses the partition for putting apps on sd it will boot
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(Just to add)
but none of the apps you installed will be there.
thank you jonas2295 and samsamuel,
and what about the sense roms?it puts apps or dalvik cache to sd to sd ?
i'm interested to these roms: sense 2.1 and sense 3.0
Try this one (Sense 3.0):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185087
It´s from the best dev in know and it uses dalvik2sd and a2sd+ .
No glitches and the dev knows what he does.
jonas2295 said:
Try this one (Sense 3.0):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185087
It´s from the best dev in know and it uses dalvik2sd and a2sd+ .
No glitches and the dev knows what he does.
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i have only 1Go sd card,so can i install this rom and use 1Go ext partion? if it is possible,can i use my sd card after installing the rom?
CWR: 5/180/5 ==>what does this mean "5/180/5"
i know that 180 is the size for the recovery,and what about the "5"?
hmm that´s bad .no you won´t be able to use it .
Or at least you can´t put anything on sd.
You need min. 2gb card.
jonas2295 said:
hmm that´s bad .no you won´t be able to use it .
Or at least you can´t put anything on sd.
You need min. 2gb card.
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so i have to buy a new sd card,ok i will do
can you jonas2295 help me here:
CWR: 5/180/5 ==>what does this mean "5/180/5"
i know that 180 is the size for the recovery,and what about the "5"?
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no there is a flash.cfg file.it has to look like that:
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery-raw.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 180M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
I made what you need fat
Thaaaaaaaank you jonas2295,your 'r the best
haha i am glad to help you
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OK, not that much of a noob (or at least dont think I am!) have been playing with android for some time, and have decided to cook up my own rom based on DesireHD. After some failures I now have a good stockish rom that I like and will release once i can sort out a few problems that I have.
I want to go down the CWM .zip route so I can release updates easily, off to the forums I went with a few questions... hours and hours of searching and researching and a few test runs later... have even more questions!!!!
1. EuroHD2 (Leo512) has 512mb ROM > how much of that ROM is actually available?
2a. When does the kernel load the SD-Ext partition?
2b. With CMW Recovery do you have to set a "userdata" partition when using SD-Ext data, or can you get away with not setting one?
3. Does CMW support using SD-Ext userdata
4. Is the 400m CMW Recovery only for the Leo1024?
5. What is the maximum size for the "system" partition on Leo512?
6. What is with all the questions??????
As you can see, many questions. Most have come from searching the forums and becoming more and more confused with it all!!
Please help!
SquithyX said:
I want to go down the CWM .zip route so I can release updates easily, off to the forums I went with a few questions... hours and hours of searching and researching and a few test runs later... have even more questions!!!!
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Good idea.
SquithyX said:
1. EuroHD2 (Leo512) has 512mb ROM > how much of that ROM is actually available?
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All of it.
Partitions:
misc 1MB
recovery 5MB
boot 5MB
system 150MB to 350MB
cache (optional, but people like 10MB)
userdata (whatever that remains, 350MB system partition size = 50mb userdata)
SquithyX said:
2a. When does the kernel load the SD-Ext partition?
2b. With CMW Recovery do you have to set a "userdata" partition when using SD-Ext data, or can you get away with not setting one?
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yes, sadly, you still need the userdata partition, you can go around it by creating another partition on the SD card, and call it userdata, I am assuming that works too. So now your SD has userdata, sd-ext, fat32 partitions.
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3. Does CMW support using SD-Ext userdata
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urm, that's not CMW's job, that's your job.
You can either use DATA2EXT method which puts all userdata in SD card, ext2/3/4 partition or A2SD+ which puts all your data on the SD card, minus I don't know what, because it keeps reducing and I never figure out what. I am lazy to use adb.exe to go check.
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4. Is the 400m CMW Recovery only for the Leo1024?
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Yes, because you really ran out of space. 350MB system partition, gives you less than 50MB of userdata partition provided you have 10MB of cache partition.
I was wondering that...
So if I create a "userdata" partition on the SD card the system should use that... meaning no userdata partition on the NAND... meaning SD-Ext and Data2SD features are not needed?
But then surly if it was that easy somebody else would have done it?!
The layout I am thinking is:
NAND/
--/misc (1mb)
--/boot (5mb)
--/recovery (5mb) *Is this needed? - Is this not for the recovery programs that we have on SD?
--/system (350-400mb) *theoretically upto 491mb as no userdata on NAND
--/cache (10mb)
SD/
--/userdata (1gb) *Could be bigger, but have read that it can cause corruption if over 2gb
-Fat32 (leftovers)
But all of this comes back to Q2a. When does the kernel load SD partitions?!
Other idea is to set the "userdata" in NAND to set size and grow the "system" partition and carry on using SD-Ext and Data2SD for internal storage, something like:
NAND/
--/misc (1mb)
--/boot (5mb)
--/recovery (5mb)
--/cache (10mb)
--/userdata (50mb)
--/system (leftovers) *441mb
SD/
--/Ext (1gb)
-Fat32
But then does the "system" partition have to be created 4th and wont work if created last???? And what about all the plastic trees, where do they go?! My head hurts, i'm cold and there are wolfs after me!
I am guessing that creating userdata on sd card might work, but I don't know how your build mounts partitions, so that is your job too.
but you should read up on data2sd, data2ext, a2sd+ and a2sd
No, you can move the partitions around, it worked for me.
Its not opening anything..
Followed the guide.. Help!!!
Hegemor said:
Its not opening anything..
Followed the guide.. Help!!!
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Do you have HardSPL 2.08 and a new 2.**.50.** Radio flashed?
What version of Magldr do you have?
Are you trying to install a Magldr (*.exe) or ClockworkMod (*.zip) Rom?
Please list EXACTLY what you did and what happened as the information you gave doesnt tell us anything.
Mark.
As I was answering you question I realised that i have used the wrong android file, so Now its working... hehe..
The only problem is now the storage on the phone, ther is almost no space on the phone... When I set up active sync on my phon, will the emails take place in the phone or the SD card?
Hegemor said:
The only problem is now the storage on the phone, ther is almost no space on the phone... When I set up active sync on my phon, will the emails take place in the phone or the SD card?
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I think the low storage issue is most probably coz of your /system partiton (400mb cfg file?). Now I don't know what size your roms /system cfg file should be (next time link to your rom, makes it easier for us to solve your problem), therefore I can't give an accurate answer right now, but to increase space you either have to find what /system your rom uses and flash cfg accordingly or make an EXT2/3/4 partiton on your sd card and use a2sd.
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I think the low storage issue is most probably coz of your /system partiton (400mb cfg file?). Now I don't know what size your roms /system cfg file should be (next time link to your rom, makes it easier for us to solve your problem), therefore I can't give an accurate answer right now, but to increase space you either have to find what /system your rom uses and flash cfg accordingly or make an EXT2/3/4 partiton on your sd card and use a2sd.
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I have the Desire version on my HD2, and i dont have Apps2SD.
I made partitions on my SD card (FAR32 of 6.5GB and EXT3 of 1GB).
What do you mean with: "use a2sd" and "flash cfg"?
Ok, as far as I can tell this is the rom you are using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010498?
Did you follow the exact instructions in post 2? Its seems that you forgot to edit flash.cfg file. Do a fresh install following the guide in in post 2, word by word.
I did not change the flash file..
it says:
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery-raw.img
boot yboot|ro 8M
system ya 120M
cache ya 8M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
Witch step do I start from?
I used this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013852
According to your rom.s thread you'd need to edit this line system ya 120M to system ya 150 from your flash.cfg and reflash hope that'll help. One more thing to use sd-ext partition download data2ext from the same page.
I now did it over again, but still have low space..
I think I even have less internal space now...
only 172 mb
Can you explain "to use sd-ext partition download data2ext from the same page." in a way a girl can understand?
That's it, there wont be more than that, maybe if you tweaked the flash.cfg you'd get ~50M more. That's where you sd-ext will come into play, its the same as your internal space but hosted in your SD, and that's where your apps and data will be stored, instead of the actual interal memory.
azer0 said:
That's it, there wont be more than that, maybe if you tweaked the flash.cfg you'd get ~50M more. That's where you sd-ext will come into play, its the same as your internal space but hosted in your SD, and that's where your apps and data will be stored, instead of the actual interal memory.
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But how can I tweak that file... so I get more space..
Im so confused...
Sorry for all the stupid questions...
If you implement sd-ext then you don't need the extra space coz your ext2/3/4 will be used instead. As for data2sd, I think the rom you are using has a2sd, which means that if you had setup an ext2/3/4 then a2sd will automatically detect you ext partition and will install all your apps there (ext partition).
In any case here is a link to increase internal memory http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11189394&postcount=1826, now this is rom specific and I don't know if it'll work with your rom.
Ok I tried to ext sd card to 2048M and chose swap size 0M hope that will work..
MY SD card is 16gb
But it says please wait and have been like this for a long time now..
I did it!!!! Who would have known that a girl could do this!!
Thank you so much for the help!!!
Hegemor said:
I did it!!!! Who would have known that a girl could do this!!
Thank you so much for the help!!!
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Gad you got it all working in the end
Mark.
Hegemor said:
I did it!!!! Who would have known that a girl could do this!!
Thank you so much for the help!!!
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Hurrah. Nice to know that u got it working, in the end that's all it matters. Have fun.
Hi, I recently installed NAND android build and I'm facing similar problem which I had on SD (this happened to me just 1 out of 3 sd builds). When I want to change my wallpaper (stock walls), I get only few thumbnails and I'm able to set wall only from those which get one. When clicking on those without thumbnails, phone says that my storage is full, although it's a clean and fresh install. Does anybody know what to do about it? Thanks
what build did you install?
NAND is HD2 CoreDroid Desire HD GB V2...and before I used SD MccM 4.5
Danibor said:
Hi, I recently installed NAND android build and I'm facing similar problem which I had on SD (this happened to me just 1 out of 3 sd builds). When I want to change my wallpaper (stock walls), I get only few thumbnails and I'm able to set wall only from those which get one. When clicking on those without thumbnails, phone says that my storage is full, although it's a clean and fresh install. Does anybody know what to do about it? Thanks
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okay..there has something about the recovery.
different size of ROM use different setting of recovery.
you may decompress the recovery.
for example. Recovery_120M_v3.0.2.4.rar
using TXT to run the (flash.cfg)
comes us:
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov|ro|nospr filesize recovery-raw.img
boot yboot|ro 5M
system ya 120M
cache ya 10M
userdata ya|asize|hr allsize
not very sure it is exactly same to me.
it say that your storage is full, because of your recovery setting.
assume your ROM is 120MB. but your recovery setting is 400MB. your system is using the space more itself. too much space free from the 400.
same like PC. your disk C is using 390GB from 400GB of your whole disk.
main setting is "system ya 120M"
try to make it small by the size of your ROM.
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if u have reduce the space of system. but still storage full.
try to cut up your sd card to help you phone storage.
cut one GB , and format it as ext2 or ext3 to help your phone.
you know android is running under linux system. and ext2 or ext3 is identified by linux.
so..hope it helps.
I formated my SD in FAT32. Ext 3 was then done in CWM (they say it should be like that) and I used 1024/0 ext 3 partition as they instructed in their guide. Probably just some little mistake during the install process. If there's time tomorrow, I'll try to reinstall it and see what happens.
Danibor said:
I formated my SD in FAT32. Ext 3 was then done in CWM (they say it should be like that) and I used 1024/0 ext 3 partition as they instructed in their guide. Probably just some little mistake during the install process. If there's time tomorrow, I'll try to reinstall it and see what happens.
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all right
good luck~
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Are you sure that you created it as a second partition and as a primairy (instead of a logical)?
wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Which roms are you trying it with? Have you tried other cards?
Format the card using Panasonic SDFormatter..
Format: FULL (Overwrite)
Size Adjustment: ON
Now partition again using CWM, 1GB space and 0MB swap.
Yes i had tried 2 cards 16Gb and 2GB now i will try again.
PS: I'm using Typhoon now.
http://imageshack.us/f/90/47579461.png/
Here is pic to see.
wowrlz123 said:
Yes i had tried 2 cards 16Gb and 2GB now i will try again.
PS: I'm using Typhoon now.
http://imageshack.us/f/90/47579461.png/
Here is pic to see.
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That looks like it should be correct.
Give rafdroid 4.02 a try, that is the one I use and which shows the the correct size for sure.
lukesan said:
That looks like it should be correct.
Give rafdroid 4.02 a try, that is the one I use and which shows the the correct size for sure.
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I tried it but its stuck on rafdroid logo with the green droid. I gave it 2 hours but the same. One week ago i was able to boot it but now i cant.
wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Hi,
I think you are confusing the different sections of space on the phone.
Get yourself Titanium Backup,and it will list the different storage spaces you have:
System ROM
Internal
SD card
SD card(a2sd) or EXT.3 partition in your case.
The 100MB you see is internal free space.
You can then how much space you have on your EXT. and what is being used.
malybru said:
Hi,
I think you are confusing the different sections of space on the phone.
Get yourself Titanium Backup,and it will list the different storage spaces you have:
System ROM
Internal
SD card
SD card(a2sd) or EXT.3 partition in your case.
The 100MB you see is internal free space.
You can then how much space you have on your EXT. and what is being used.
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Here you are see it please and tell me if its alright.
http://imageshack.us/f/687/snap20110610130613.png/
wowrlz123 said:
Here you are see it please and tell me if its alright.
http://imageshack.us/f/687/snap20110610130613.png/
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Hi,
It looks absolutely fine.
260MB of free internal memory
And 999MB free on your EXT. partition.
You should update the app.It will also show system as well.
wowrlz123 said:
I tried it but its stuck on rafdroid logo with the green droid.
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make sure you clean out the old rom before booting the new rom, , in CWM choose 'wipe data/factory reset', then 'wipe cache', then 'advanced - wipe dalvik cache'
I' m right now thank you for helping me.
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HTC HD2 EXT3 partition not showing up
Hi,
I just installed miui 6.9.29. Everything is working fine but one thing: the ext3 partition i created in CWM (512 mb, 0 mb swap) does not show up as internal storage. I tried to mount it in CWM, but still no luck . Can someone please help me? I really need more than 115 mb of internal storage, since there is only 23.54 mb available. Pretty stupid actually because i only want about 3-4 apps more..
Please help!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26286781&postcount=1
try this, it worked for me
hello everyone
I have my htc hd2 several times already reinstalled with android,
Until recently, no problems but now after installing setup by rebooting I went to see internal storage 0.0 B free therefore can not install apps.
Have different android versions even tried it first did.
When I go back to windows I see free internal memory.
I also used MTTY_ver_1.42 and badblock that I had got away.
Do hspl 2.08, radio 2.15, magldr 1.13, cwm-recovery 5.0.2.6.
android versions I have tried are:
NexusHD2-Gingerbread_V3.3a-(Android 2.3.7)
TouchWizMOD_v2.1
NexusHD2-Jelly Bean-CM10.1_V2.4
One-S v1.1
Slimroms_LeoV8.0.
Who can help me?
What is your setup? Are you using "DataOnEXT"? NativeSD? Do you have an EXT partition on your sdcard? What's the system partition you created?
Marvlesz said:
What is your setup? Are you using "DataOnEXT"? NativeSD? Do you have an EXT partition on your sdcard? What's the system partition you created?
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I use DataOnExt have ext4 partition of 4Gb system partition of 400 MB cache 5Mb sd card 32Gb.
agt925 said:
I use DataOnExt have ext4 partition of 4Gb system partition of 400 MB cache 5Mb sd card 32Gb.
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Resize your system partition to 300 and try again.
Marvlesz said:
Resize your system partition to 300 and try again.
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I've tried a system-size of 300 Mb, but remains the same
0.0 Kb internal memory still no app installed
agt925 said:
I've tried a system-size of 300 Mb, but remains the same
0.0 Kb internal memory still no app installed
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Wait, what do you mean by "go back to windows"? How do you have windows and still able to install android in the NAND?
I mean back to the original ROM install windows again.
When I look at memory I see that there is free memory.
If I then continue walking to android is set up from the outset, I see all the steps after the installation of internal memory 0.0 Kb
agt925 said:
I mean back to the original ROM install windows again.
When I look at memory I see that there is free memory.
If I then continue walking to android is set up from the outset, I see all the steps after the installation of internal memory 0.0 Kb
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... I'm confused.. Where exactly do you see this 0kb? And why are you even looking at it? And why would you even flash WinMo after having Android? They have don't share internals. In fact, installing WinMo erases Android and its bootloaders. (Unless you're running NativeSD, which yet again, resides in the sd card and is NOT affected by the internal storage)
If you can't install apps, maybe the 4GB partition is full? (though I doubt that)
But have you tried a fresh install? (formatted SD card, all partitions?)
if I have installed android and I look at settings and memory than I see in internal memory 0 Kb stand when I want to download an app I get the message that I have no free internal memory.
The reason I had installed the original windowsrom was because I wanted to completely put out android again, I had the idea that it might be good what went sadly was not.
I formatted my sd card several times already and ext4 partition remains the same.
I also tried native but also the same.
agt925 said:
if I have installed android and I look at settings and memory than I see in internal memory 0 Kb stand when I want to download an app I get the message that I have no free internal memory.
The reason I had installed the original windowsrom was because I wanted to completely put out android again, I had the idea that it might be good what went sadly was not.
I formatted my sd card several times already and ext4 partition remains the same.
I also tried native but also the same.
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Your problem is weird, it's not common. You must be doing something wrong but I fail to figure out what. I searched but all I could find is "resize partition, format and reflash" and "thank you! everything works now!".
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38960831&postcount=5
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What do you mean by "ext4 partition remains the same" ? You must format that as well using A PC.
Marvlesz said:
Your problem is weird, it's not common. You must be doing something wrong but I fail to figure out what. I searched but all I could find is "resize partition, format and reflash" and "thank you! everything works now!".
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38960831&postcount=5
EDIT:
What do you mean by "ext4 partition remains the same" ? You must format that as well using A PC.
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I use my PC to an ext4 partition to get the message but can not mount during install, I use mini tool partition wizard.
I have tried TWRP recovery.
But unfortunately still not the solution
OK, try this: Completely format the sd card and create only 1 FAT32 partition, don't create an EXT partition. Now insert the card into your phone and boot into recovery, go to "Partition SD card" and choose 2GB and (if asked) choose ext4. Choose 0 swap and select OK/next.
Now make sure your NAND is partitioned correctly (system & cache), then copy the ROM and flash it from recovery, choose DataOnExt. Report back.
I made 1 partition on my sd card of 32Gb. made there in TWRP after 1 ext4 partition of 4GB nand to due to the overview of the android ROM.
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov | ro | nospr filesize recovery raw.img
boat yboot | ro 5M
system ya 200M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya | asize | hr Allsize
NexusHD2-Jellybean-CM10.1_V2.4 installed.
but unfortunately.
agt925 said:
I made 1 partition on my sd card of 32Gb. made there in TWRP after 1 ext4 partition of 4GB nand to due to the overview of the android ROM.
misc ya 1M
recovery rrecov | ro | nospr filesize recovery raw.img
boat yboot | ro 5M
system ya 200M
cache ya 5M
userdata ya | asize | hr Allsize
NexusHD2-Jellybean-CM10.1_V2.4 installed.
but unfortunately.
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Okay, now I have no more ideas. If you're doing everything right, it should work immediately. Here is a quick guide on how to install android nand. I'm sorry, that's all I could do, I couldn't help.
You should wait for other suggestions, but in the meantime you can follow that guide and see if it works.
Marvlesz said:
Okay, now I have no more ideas. If you're doing everything right, it should work immediately. Here is a quick guide on how to install android nand. I'm sorry, that's all I could do, I couldn't help.
You should wait for other suggestions, but in the meantime you can follow that guide and see if it works.
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no problem thanks for thinking I continue to try things.
I tell you when I'm moved forward
Yet again been trying.
What I noticed is that when I look at internal memory he says 0.0 Kb and when I look at apps and then run I see at 192 Mb ram used 219Mb free.
Now I understand there is nothing more of who can help me?
agt925 said:
Yet again been trying.
What I noticed is that when I look at internal memory he says 0.0 Kb and when I look at apps and then run I see at 192 Mb ram used 219Mb free.
Now I understand there is nothing more of who can help me?
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No, the RAM has nothing to do with your internal. Have you followed the guide I linked you to?
Also, try to delete an app (a preferably big one) and see if your NAND gets any more free.