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New, here needs some explanation.

I've read over and over and need verification and reassuarance that I'm doing this properly. Trying to keep track of android devices get confusing at time. I'm not a total android noob, I've got my thunderbolt, the wife's fascinate, and a droid x, I've just bought the iconia and it's rooted, my confusion lies with, its magic and the Acer recovery installer. After rooting do you just flash cwm via the Acer recovery installer? Create a backup and flash a new rom? And treat it like any other device?what's the importance of having both cwm and the Acer stock image? Stock is for receiving ota updates correct?
What's different between its magic and the Acer recovery installer?
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ARI installs both the custom CWM and itsmagic on to your tablet once rooted. Flashing ROMs through CWM will automatically run itsmagic to calculate the new checksums, you don't need to worry about it.
ARI is just there to make installing itsmagic and CWM a lot simpler.

Thanks. How do you format external SD on this thing?
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ibsk8 said:
Thanks. How do you format external SD on this thing?
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Have yet to find an app that can do this - have never had the need, but if needed I would just use a microsd card reader, hook it to my PC, and format from there. Anyone else know of a utility for Droid that allows format of external SD card?

to OP:
I could not the format function in honeycomb either kinda odd.
Anyway, if you are trying to 'format' for first time use in your tab, upon inserting SD card the tab automatically creates the file structure it needs. Hope that helps.

Take the card out.I use a format utility by sandisk works with all removable media.think I gotfeom there website. But there are alot of format utilities out there just format in fat 32 seems to work best.for me anyway
Hope this helps

I was just going to pop in in my thunderbolt and format it, is this a problem?
Also when creating backups with cwm does it save backups to the internal memory? Or external_sdcard?
Drives me nuts that the internal memory is at /mnt/sdcard and its not an SD card.
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ibsk8 said:
I was just going to pop in in my thunderbolt and format it, is this a problem?
Also when creating backups with cwm does it save backups to the internal memory? Or external_sdcard?
Drives me nuts that the internal memory is at /mnt/sdcard and its not an SD card.
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CWM saves to ext SD card!

Another Q, the tablet I have says android 3.0.1 ,what else do I need to know before flashing, do certain roms on work when on certain android versions?
On the phones you have to match roms to radios (but no radios here) are there firmware versions that need to be matched with the from or will flashing the rom bring you up to the current version.
I've learned the hard way so sorry for the noob questions, each device is a new method thanks.
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Check for update, newest update ota is 3.1
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Hymizzle said:
Check for update, newest update ota is 3.1
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What he said ^
update to 3.1 and then root with Iconiaroot 1.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138228
That way you don't have to bother with the orientation lock, etc of gingerbreak.

Thanks. Downloading now.
More questions.
When retrieving an ota is it necessary to revert back to the stock recovery as well?
For example prior to retrieving
1. Restore stock backup via cwm
2. Restore stock recovery (is this necessary?)
3. Unroot via terminal or other method
4. Retrieve OTA
Then reroot and reflash cwm recovery and create a backup.
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ibsk8 said:
For example prior to retrieving
1. Restore stock backup via cwm
2. Restore stock recovery (is this necessary?)
3. Unroot via terminal or other method
4. Retrieve OTA
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There shouldn't be the need for any of those steps, CWM doesn't care if you have rooted the tablet for example, and the OTA update just updates binaries on the system, it shouldn't be affected either.

if you install a stock rom, you have to re-flash cwm, root, kernel because it cleans everything, and i think that it is a good thing to happen.

[Q] Question about nexus 10 factory reset and virtual SD card.

I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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hinxman said:
I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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No if you do a factory reset in cwm it wipes only the /data and cache partitions so you can then flash a rom which overwrites /system, so everything but /sdcard gets wiped.
And what about the cwm folder? I haven't heard of it changing.
It's always been /sdcard/clockworkmod/
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With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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hinxman said:
With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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weird, I went to find my clockworkmod folder and it's not in my sdcard. =O
I also can't find "/mint/" maybe you meant /mnt? but even then it's still not there. I did a nandroid backup, but I cannot find the folder.

Mistype, /mnt/
I know that alot of apps can't see that directory, thats "by design" from what i've seen... i'm using ES File Manager, have it set to root permissions, and have it set to up to root, and i'm able to see it there.
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Ah you're right..root browser shows them.
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Clockworkmod md5 mismatch

Hey all.
I want to restore a backup i made earlier. But when i try to restore it it says md5 miatch.
I found a f8x for it but for that i need to reach the backup in the cwm folder om my sd. The only problem is. That the cwm folder shows up empty...
I set hidden folder to show and everything
Why is this?
Kind regards
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I finally was able to move the backup and put it on my internal sd. Now when i do restore in cwm it says no files found although it is in clockworkmod/backup/
What todo now?
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lexaniji said:
I finally was able to move the backup and put it on my internal sd. Now when i do restore in cwm it says no files found although it is in clockworkmod/backup/
What todo now?
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im pretty sure clockworkmod has recently changed the backup directory to /data/clockworkmod/backup/
youre gonna need root to access the folder.

How to mount sdcard of LG G2 D802 (internation version)

I've run a bit a problem here, how can i mount the sdcard onto my PC so that i can transfer the custom rom file?

kolokoy said:
I've run a bit a problem here, how can i mount the sdcard onto my PC so that i can transfer the custom rom file?
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Just use MTP and put the rom in the root of the internal sd card

I've been stuck in Clockworkmod recovery and cannot access thru ADB, if only my phone is working i can use MTP. Any ideas how can i resolve this?
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Just use MTP and put the rom in the root of the internal sd card
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If cwm has sideload then use it push rom
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CWM has sideload in it.
lingarajug said:
If cwm has sideload then use it push rom
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Cyandelta problem

Hi everyone,
I am using CM on SD (latest nightly/latest CMW) and am having a problem with Cyandelta. It works sometimes but many times it bombs and erases the nightly about to be updated and ends with a no file found error.
The built in updater works well.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
V

volpo222 said:
Hi everyone,
I am using CM on SD (latest nightly/latest CMW) and am having a problem with Cyandelta. It works sometimes but many times it bombs and erases the nightly about to be updated and ends with a no file found error.
The built in updater works well.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
V
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You use CWM and SD? I thought that the CWM for nightlies on SD was not working yet.
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leapinlar said:
You use CWM and SD? I thought that the CWM for nightlies on SD was not working yet.
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On an SD card I have CWM 6.0.4.8 and the latest nightly. It runs fairly well on my NC. I'd love to figure out what is happening with Cyandelta. It does work sometimes.
I believe it's your image supporting the whole thing (generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.img).
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leapinlar said:
You use CWM and SD? I thought that the CWM for nightlies on SD was not working yet.
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volpo222 said:
On an SD card I have CWM 6.0.4.8 and the latest nightly. It runs fairly well on my NC. I'd love to figure out what is happening with Cyandelta. It does work sometimes.
I believe it's your image supporting the whole thing (generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.img).
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I have been using CWM and the nightlies on SD since about 5/15 with no problems. It installs right from the Cyandelta directory directly. This is handy since leapinlar's sdboot mount trick doesn't seem to persist with an update anymore.

bowguy said:
This is handy since leapinlar's sdboot mount trick doesn't seem to persist with an update anymore.
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The reason my sdboot trick stopped working for you is the use of CWM to install the updated ROM instead of the script installer. With the script installer the reason it stuck was the script installer does not wipe /system when it installs. It just copies the new /system files over the old /system files. That way any existing /system files that do not come with the new ROM stick. CWM wipes /system before copying the new /system files. That wipes my file that is put in /system/etc/init.d that creates sdboot.
Not that it matters since you successfully use cyandelta, but the solution is to put my 19mountsdboot file in /data/local/init.d and set its permissions to execute.
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leapinlar said:
The reason my sdboot trick stopped working for you is the use of CWM to install the updated ROM instead of the script installer. With the script installer the reason it stuck was the script installer does not wipe /system when it installs. It just copies the new /system files over the old /system files. That way any existing /system files that do not come with the new ROM stick. CWM wipes /system before copying the new /system files. That wipes my file that is put in /system/etc/init.d that creates sdboot.
Not that it matters since you successfully use cyandelta, but the solution is to put my 19mountsdboot file in /data/local/init.d and set its permissions to execute.
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/data/local/userinit.d ??
That works perfectly. Big thanks. This is really slick on dual boot setups. That directory is visible by both EMMC and SD operating systems.