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The Motorola Flipout is fairly easy to root, at least now. Universal Androot (get it here) works.
I am thinking about moving apps to the sd card. However, since I haven't reflashed the phone, and I don't have a ROM for it, I'd like to do it without reflashing. Is that possible?
If I partition an SD card correctly (ext3), copy all of /data onto that partition, and then mount that partition over /data, will that work? Or do I have to mount the card before the phone boots?
Or is it better to just copy /data/data, and mount the partition over /data/data?
It seems to me that mounting over a directory, as opposed to creating a link is least invasive, because on reboot the phone is as it was before. Is this right?
If I have to mount the sdcard before the phone boots, can I just edit one of the init scripts, or is that more complicated? I read about editing init.rc and repacking boot.img
Oh, HOWTO unpack edit and repack boot images seems to give good instructions. On the Flipout, boot is mtd4, and recovery is mtd5.
If I only modify boot, I can't brick my phone too badly? Since I haven't changed recovery, I should be able to recover (?). Can I create an update.zip that flashes the old boot.img and undoes my changes in case something goes wrong?
I just got the flipout from rogers.. Is there anyplace that has a development forum for it? And does it have the efuse ? If it does, is it possible to do what was done with the droid X to it?
How did go so far ghostwheel? I'm eager to hear what else you have figured out.
You use App2Card.apk at below for app2sd without flash:
http://www.tinhte.vn/f280/app2card-2-4-4-20-9-cai-dat-ung-dung-len-nho-phan-vung-456586/
Requires: just a rooted phone
Steps:
- install app
- click Menu / Partition button then use slide bars to create ext2 for your sd card if it hasn't been splited yet
- click Install App2card button
- phone will be rebooted and you just taste app on sd after then
Note: above page has further instruction but it is vietnamese, you must use google translate to get it. This app runs perfectly on my Milestone.
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
ghostwheel said:
The Motorola Flipout is fairly easy to root, at least now. Universal Androot (get it here) works.
I am thinking about moving apps to the sd card. However, since I haven't reflashed the phone, and I don't have a ROM for it, I'd like to do it without reflashing. Is that possible?
If I partition an SD card correctly (ext3), copy all of /data onto that partition, and then mount that partition over /data, will that work? Or do I have to mount the card before the phone boots?
Or is it better to just copy /data/data, and mount the partition over /data/data?
It seems to me that mounting over a directory, as opposed to creating a link is least invasive, because on reboot the phone is as it was before. Is this right?
If I have to mount the sdcard before the phone boots, can I just edit one of the init scripts, or is that more complicated? I read about editing init.rc and repacking boot.img
Oh, HOWTO unpack edit and repack boot images seems to give good instructions. On the Flipout, boot is mtd4, and recovery is mtd5.
If I only modify boot, I can't brick my phone too badly? Since I haven't changed recovery, I should be able to recover (?). Can I create an update.zip that flashes the old boot.img and undoes my changes in case something goes wrong?
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Hi,
I'd really like to help with that (I'm a confirm dev. for Cliq and CliqXT phones).
Hopefully we can do great things like we did for Cliq and CLiqXT (upgrade to 2.1!). (check my work at http://bit.ly/adlxmod).
First thing would be to generate a system dump (a dump of all the files in the /system partition). Hopefully we then could generate a custom recovery to flash on the phone, and then custom roms, either base on the dump you provide or other roms from other files. Contact me on twitter @adumont (say it's for Flipout) and I'll guide you to generate the dump!
Looking forward to do great things for that litle phone!
I'm in touch with adlxdum to give him my dump but I think we should start a separated thread like "Custom rom, modding (work in progress)" so that we can follow adlxdum work.
And...thx in advance ;-)
flusshd said:
You use App2Card.apk at below for app2sd without flash:
http://www.tinhte.vn/f280/app2card-2-4-4-20-9-cai-dat-ung-dung-len-nho-phan-vung-456586/
Requires: just a rooted phone
Steps:
- install app
- click Menu / Partition button then use slide bars to create ext2 for your sd card if it hasn't been splited yet
- click Install App2card button
- phone will be rebooted and you just taste app on sd after then
Note: above page has further instruction but it is vietnamese, you must use google translate to get it. This app runs perfectly on my Milestone.
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
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Worked!
I couldn't repartition the SD card with the program, so I had to partition it myself. But once that was done, thing seem to work well. A bit slower...
I'm not totally sure how to use the app. Internal seems to still be full, but ext2 on the SD is quite empty. I can't seem to be able to tell if an app is installed to internal or external.
I have to try and install some more apps to see if I run out of memory.
Thanks!!
I'm guessing the flipout and charm are almost identical phones?
My wife has a charm and i'm one of those "i'm not a developer, but I'd like to help" guys.
MrShides said:
I'm guessing the flipout and charm are almost identical phones?
My wife has a charm and i'm one of those "i'm not a developer, but I'd like to help" guys.
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Yes, I think they are very similar.
One thing that I'm interested in is the accelerometer. On the Flipout, most apps that use it are twisted - for example wikitude, and many games (labyrinth lite works!) I wonder if things work on the charm...
the charm has the same issue.
MrShides said:
the charm has the same issue.
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thanks! Too bad....
Hi ghostwheel
I've tried installing app2card, but I'm having some problems. I got the new version 2.7.2.
As you said, the partition doesnt work. For me it says sd card is full but its empty...
How did you manually partition it?
I've found some tutorials but it was for other phones and they required a custom rom...
I partitioned the card using a linux computer, with the program fdisk.
I allocated 2GB to a partition of type ext2. But, I think there are many alternatives for partitioning a disk, see this page:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/
Wow great link! Many different options! Will try this as soon as I get a micro sd card adapter. Thanks!
You mentioned in your old post that you were having problems using app2card, That you weren't sure if it was working. Have you been able to use it since? Is it working well? and if not have you found an alternative?
I just started using this phone and I'm almost running out of memory... this is quite annoying!
longlife_01 said:
You mentioned in your old post that you were having problems using app2card, That you weren't sure if it was working. Have you been able to use it since? Is it working well? and if not have you found an alternative?
!
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Yes, I was having problems. Mainly when restarting the phone, sometimes oodles of apps don't work, including launcher pro, and app2card. You have to remember that when the phone reboots and seems to have FC problems, don't chose any home screen as the default, in case it crashes, and keep a spare app2card to reinstall on the sdcard. I think "severe" problems I had only twice, or so.
So, I have almost no problems. Most of the time it works really well. So well, in fact, that I'm a bit afraid to upgrade it, in case something breaks. And, I totally forgot what it is like to have to delete apps to install another one.
I have more of the opposite problem - finding an app among all those installed takes a realllly long time if you forgot its name. Apps organizer helps.
hello, i am new and i have flipout to test in poland orange network, i just root him using 1st post in this forum, great job! thanks
OK, I am having some problems with the current version of app2card. As I said, sometimes when I turn the device off and back on, app2card fails, and many apps give a FC which starting. Then one needs to fix the apps from app2card. It seems that once that is done, some apps lose some of their data. So, for example, droidwall (excellent program!!), lost all firewall data. I'll have to check if newer versions of app2card don't have this problem. It doesn't happen very often.
Instructions to root Flipout
Hi - I'd consider myself a newbie regarding rooting. I just got the AT&T Flipout - I really like the form factor. I just tried running the Universal Androot from my phone but got the security warning message about only being able to install from trusted sources.
Can someone point me in the right direction please?
Many thanks!
it says that with a lot of apps installed like that, including gmote that I downloaded from the developers site. Just look at what you're downloading like you would on any machine
go to settings > Application and tick on unknown sources to be able to install it.
Hi.
I'm running SyndicateROM Frozen 1.1.1, and I've observed several bugs. I need to know if the bugs are the fault of the ROM (and thus something I should take up with the ACS developers) or if they're my fault due to something I'm doing wrong.
1) I use folders on my LauncherPro* homescreens to organize apps. For this example, I'll use my Games folder. In it, all the games except 1 are installed onto my microSD card. After I drag the icons to the folder the first time, they are fine. However, after a reboot, the icons of the apps installed to my microSD card that are in folders change to the generic Android green/white icon. The apps still load properly, and the icons appear fine in the App drawer.
*LauncherPro is included as the only homescreen in this ROM.
2) I'm having an odd issue with Plants vs. Zombies. It loads to the main screen, and I can manage the player names, but after I click to start the adventure, it locks up with the Adventure button depressed. The main screen music also dies. No FC/wait dialog appears. I have to press the Home button to get out of it. PvZ is unplayable in this condition. Rebooting does not help, nor does formatting /cache or Dalvik-cache in custom recovery.
3) JuiceDefender Ultimate tells me in the log that it cannot toggle 2G/3G data, and that this is likely to be a kernel issue. As far as I know, this reduces the effectiveness of JD.
4) In ClockwodMod Recovery 3.0.0.6, I cannot mount my microSD card for the PC to read/write it. I get "E:Unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory)". I've seen posts that indicate this is a bug that was corrected in later versions, but I don't know if the custom ROM I am running is compatible with later versions,or where to find later versions. EDIT: I found CWM 3.0.2.5, and flashed it. It still reports the same error when attempting mount my microSD card for my PC to work with.
5) When I connect the phone's cable to my PC and get the the "Charging/Mass Storage/Tethered" popup and click Mass Storage, and then click "Turn On" at the next screen, it appears to work fine, except that my PC shows no new removable media drives. Sometimes, even though I touched the "Turn On" button, nothing happens. The button does not turn into a spinning wait indicator, nothing.
6) I found a post (that I've since lost track of) that purported to provide instructions to see if journaling was enabled. (I'm already formatted as EXT4). The instructions errored out, apparently because I have the wrong version of tune2fs. I'm not sure how to copy the correct version over, so I flashed the "Journaling On" zip shortly after I re-flashed this ROM. Does EXT4 and journaling stick between ROM re-flashes?
SweetBearCub said:
Hi.
I'm running SyndicateROM Frozen 1.1.1, and I've observed several bugs. I need to know if the bugs are the fault of the ROM (and thus something I should take up with the ACS developers) or if they're my fault due to something I'm doing wrong.
1) I use folders on my LauncherPro* homescreens to organize apps. For this example, I'll use my Games folder. In it, all the games except 1 are installed onto my microSD card. After I drag the icons to the folder the first time, they are fine. However, after a reboot, the icons of the apps installed to my microSD card that are in folders change to the generic Android green/white icon. The apps still load properly, and the icons appear fine in the App drawer.
*LauncherPro is included as the only homescreen in this ROM.
2) I'm having an odd issue with Plants vs. Zombies. It loads to the main screen, and I can manage the player names, but after I click to start the adventure, it locks up with the Adventure button depressed. The main screen music also dies. No FC/wait dialog appears. I have to press the Home button to get out of it. PvZ is unplayable in this condition. Rebooting does not help, nor does formatting /cache or Dalvik-cache in custom recovery.
3) JuiceDefender Ultimate tells me in the log that it cannot toggle 2G/3G data, and that this is likely to be a kernel issue. As far as I know, this reduces the effectiveness of JD.
4) In ClockwodMod Recovery 3.0.0.6, I cannot mount my microSD card for the PC to read/write it. I get "E:Unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory)". I've seen posts that indicate this is a bug that was corrected in later versions, but I don't know if the custom ROM I am running is compatible with later versions,or where to find later versions. EDIT: I found CWM 3.0.2.5, and flashed it. It still reports the same error when attempting mount my microSD card for my PC to work with.
5) When I connect the phone's cable to my PC and get the the "Charging/Mass Storage/Tethered" popup and click Mass Storage, and then click "Turn On" at the next screen, it appears to work fine, except that my PC shows no new removable media drives. Sometimes, even though I touched the "Turn On" button, nothing happens. The button does not turn into a spinning wait indicator, nothing.
6) I found a post (that I've since lost track of) that purported to provide instructions to see if journaling was enabled. (I'm already formatted as EXT4). The instructions errored out, apparently because I have the wrong version of tune2fs. I'm not sure how to copy the correct version over, so I flashed the "Journaling On" zip shortly after I re-flashed this ROM. Does EXT4 and journaling stick between ROM re-flashes?
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OK can only answer some of these. I heard Launcher Pro can take a little while to read icons from the sd card. You may want to download and try Zeam launcher.
The Plants v Zombies may be a result of overclocking/undervolting. Try it again with no undervolting and your speed set to 1Ghz max and 200 Mhz min.
Not sure why you are mounting the sd card in clockwork. Sounds like either your cable is flaky or you need to reinstall the Samsung drivers to connect your USB. Also try different USB ports and turn USB debugging on. I had to reinstall the drivers for each port on my laptop as it would only recognize my phone in one of them originally.
No, journaling does not carry through other ROM flashes. If you flash a no-journaling ROM, you will have no journal unless you turn it back on. Some can be turned on simply be making a nand backup then immediately restoring it. Others work fine with the journal on flash. And some are more special and need a specific script like Bonsai.
Hope some of this helps.
SweetBearCub said:
Hi.
I'm running SyndicateROM Frozen 1.1.1, and I've observed several bugs. I need to know if the bugs are the fault of the ROM (and thus something I should take up with the ACS developers) or if they're my fault due to something I'm doing wrong.
1) I use folders on my LauncherPro* homescreens to organize apps. For this example, I'll use my Games folder. In it, all the games except 1 are installed onto my microSD card. After I drag the icons to the folder the first time, they are fine. However, after a reboot, the icons of the apps installed to my microSD card that are in folders change to the generic Android green/white icon. The apps still load properly, and the icons appear fine in the App drawer.
*LauncherPro is included as the only homescreen in this ROM.
2) I'm having an odd issue with Plants vs. Zombies. It loads to the main screen, and I can manage the player names, but after I click to start the adventure, it locks up with the Adventure button depressed. The main screen music also dies. No FC/wait dialog appears. I have to press the Home button to get out of it. PvZ is unplayable in this condition. Rebooting does not help, nor does formatting /cache or Dalvik-cache in custom recovery.
3) JuiceDefender Ultimate tells me in the log that it cannot toggle 2G/3G data, and that this is likely to be a kernel issue. As far as I know, this reduces the effectiveness of JD.
4) In ClockwodMod Recovery 3.0.0.6, I cannot mount my microSD card for the PC to read/write it. I get "E:Unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory)". I've seen posts that indicate this is a bug that was corrected in later versions, but I don't know if the custom ROM I am running is compatible with later versions,or where to find later versions. EDIT: I found CWM 3.0.2.5, and flashed it. It still reports the same error when attempting mount my microSD card for my PC to work with.
5) When I connect the phone's cable to my PC and get the the "Charging/Mass Storage/Tethered" popup and click Mass Storage, and then click "Turn On" at the next screen, it appears to work fine, except that my PC shows no new removable media drives. Sometimes, even though I touched the "Turn On" button, nothing happens. The button does not turn into a spinning wait indicator, nothing.
6) I found a post (that I've since lost track of) that purported to provide instructions to see if journaling was enabled. (I'm already formatted as EXT4). The instructions errored out, apparently because I have the wrong version of tune2fs. I'm not sure how to copy the correct version over, so I flashed the "Journaling On" zip shortly after I re-flashed this ROM. Does EXT4 and journaling stick between ROM re-flashes?
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1) you can get a different launcher from the market. I've never had any luck with pushing apps to sd.
2) that's a issue with the game. Try changing your max and min cpu.clocks. If you uved you may be to low.
3)jd is a pos and you don't need it. I go on average of 12-16hrs a day with 3+ hours of screen on. And a synce interval of every hour
4) no versions of cwm on the epic has allowed you to mount your sd to pc for the epic. Cwm was ported to the epic and not created by koush him self so some things are broken.
5) try a different cable and usb ports. This is a known problem even while on a stock rom
6) yes it sticks unless the rom your flashing changes it.
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Thanks Mystery for validating my advice...LOL. Would like to see you around here more.
cwm 3.1.0.1 allows mounting the sd card to pc in recovery..
chris41g said:
cwm 3.1.0.1 allows mounting the sd card to pc in recovery..
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I forgot they fixed that. But anything before that don't allow this
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kennyglass123 said:
Thanks Mystery for validating my advice...LOL. Would like to see you around here more.
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I'm knee deep on working on sfr1.2
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IN MY INFINITE WISDOM, I replaced my build.prop with the one from a Motorola Xoom in an attempt to get Sketchbook Pro to show up in the market. Now my tablet is boot looping.
I backed the original up in the same directory, as build.prop.OLD. If I could mount system and replace the file with a PC, I'd imagine that the tablet would work again. How could I do that?
However, THERE IS ANOTHER COMPLICATION! I used the 'Acer Phone Disabler' app to remove the telephony drivers, which means that I cannot flash a rom or the tablet will brick. I'm not sure what this means for Nandroid backups.
The tablet has the leaked stock 3.1 rom installed, it's rooted, and it has Clockworkmod recovery.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Oh god.
I used ADB to pull my build.prop.OLD, renamed it to build.prop, and pushed it back. Now... the tablet boots up, and it shows the Android "Welcome" screen. Clicking the only button available doesn't work. It just highlights as if it is selected, and doesn't do anything when I lift my finger up.
I DO have a Nandroid backup from several weeks ago of the same rom, but from BEFORE I removed the telephony drivers. I am only going to try restoring it as a last resort; does anyone have any ideas? Remember, flashing a rom would result in a brick because I used Acer Phone Disabler. Is a nandroid backup safe?
Thanks guys. I'm really hoping this tablet isn't too screwed.
I'm hoping someone else chimes in here but I am under the impressing that the nandroid backup would override any changes you could make as long as you don't break recovery. As far as my experience goes if you had a backup of your current configuration you could do an "advanced restore" and only restore your "system"
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Restoring just system worked! My homescreen is back to stock but all my apps are still installed, so I don't really care. Thanks a bunch, I was so worried.
COOL!!!
Glad I could help.
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Help needed for a boot loop
Well as said in the video, i reuse an existing thread about bootloop...
I'm stuck in a bootloop with an iconia A500... but let's look at the steps that got me there...
The First mistake was to answer yes to my friend who asked me to connect his Vodafone k3565 to his iconia A500, but as i read Android was linux based and i did use linux a lot as a student, i didn't even imagine it could go wrong...
Tablet was stating to run :
Android 3.1
Bernel 2.6.36.3-00009-9dddf6f2
Build 4.015.05-EMEA-CUS3
i did root with iconia root 1.3
then added Busybox and a terminal program.
reboot, try a SU and could access the devices
Here is the second mistake... i should have wondered how to restore to normal state before starting, because i don't have any SD card that suit the device ( mine are normal sized ones, you know.. Stamp sized :/ )
Then i got to the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846&page=7
and i used an usb key to transfer it to the device, but before applying the files i took a look to them and found 3 of them would overwrite actual system files, so i did a backup of them :
/system/build.prop
/system/etc/apns-conf
/system/bin/rild
and looking at the build.prop i saw differences in the values of the one on the A500 and the one in the package so i decided to get only the missing lines from the new system.zip file and add them to the original file
And here is the 3rd mistake, and i guess the reason of the problem : i did that merge on a windows computer, and i fear it did add those pesky CRLF at the end of lines, turning my build.prop into a build.prob(lem).
I'm not sure, as i didn't check before it was too late.
rebooted and... boot loop, with 1 times out of 2, the little android with yellow triangle and exclamaition mark.
Cried, runned in circles, then looked on forums to find a solution.
Reboot with Power+Volume gives :
"Erasing cache before SD update...
SD update cmd:recovery
--update_package=sdcard:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image"
Then i get the android with gears for a few seconds, then below him is a bar like the one in the android store when you download a file, then half a second later, again the exclaimation mark.
I also tried plugging a keyboard to hit the home key...
( in fact two : Logitech G110 and trust easy scroll silverline )
no difference, maybe because those are gaming keyboards and they arent loaded soon enough by the tab, or maybe it crashes before keyboard loading.
Tried then to install ADB using post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155664
hoping i could use the USB cable to put the backup files back in place but when i plug the device into the windows host, it recognises an unavailable USB MTP device, whose properties say "Acer iconia tab a500" in the "signaled bus description"(translated from french display, may be something else in english)
I manually force added the Acer ADB interface, but both the devices are unavailable to windows, with a warning sign, stating "this device cannot start (code 10)"
"Adb shell" answers "Error:device not found",which is expected, as windows can't see the devices properly
the strange thing is that, with USB plugged from A500 to PC, the Android with exclaimation stays forever, while without the cable, the system boot-loops
so i'm at this point :
i have a boot looping device, and the backup of the modified files on an USB key, and no way to put them back on device.
I found on the forums a lot of different .imgs that could be put on the /system to reload the device but none with EMEA-CUS3. So if i overwrite the files, i can't go back
I read you need a SD card to patch the device but not all of them work...
And my only computer with a SD slot uses a big one, not micro one, so i also need an adapter to write on the sd card.
Is someone near me (belgium/postcode 4000) having a SD ward working with the device who could lend it or help me doing the job ?
else
i saw in a nearby store ad "Sigma SDHC 4Go" or "Sigma SDHC 8Go", with apparently an adaptor for a normal sized SD slot, can anyone confirm it works or it don't work for sure ?
else
Can anyone tell me an SD card know to work, and being sold currently with an adapter so i have a chance to find one in a store near me ?
Is there a way to create an update.zip that will only update the files i did overwrite ?
if not, has someone an image for the same system i have ?
Well... lots of questions, but i'm very worried, especially as the device is not mine and not working anymore atm.
-> update
Looking closer at the modem (Vodafone k3565) it has a trap that says "SD card" so i guess i won't need an adapter... still need the reference of a SD card known to work for the restoring.
[bump] and more :
this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834144
lists working SD cards, but don't tell with which device. i'd take the guess it applies to the iconia A500 and take the list to the shop to see if anyone is available...
Did you install the Acer USB driver, found here? http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers
You might need to go into device manager after installing and right click/update drivers on the tablet, then manually direct it to the Acer driver folder. That's what I did, then ADB worked.
Haemdaer said:
Well as said in the video, i reuse an existing thread about bootloop...
I'm stuck in a bootloop with an iconia A500... but let's look at the steps that got me there...
The First mistake was to answer yes to my friend who asked me to connect his Vodafone k3565 to his iconia A500, but as i read Android was linux based and i did use linux a lot as a student, i didn't even imagine it could go wrong...
Tablet was stating to run :
Android 3.1
Bernel 2.6.36.3-00009-9dddf6f2
Build 4.015.05-EMEA-CUS3
i did root with iconia root 1.3
then added Busybox and a terminal program.
reboot, try a SU and could access the devices
Here is the second mistake... i should have wondered how to restore to normal state before starting, because i don't have any SD card that suit the device ( mine are normal sized ones, you know.. Stamp sized :/ )
Then i got to the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846&page=7
and i used an usb key to transfer it to the device, but before applying the files i took a look to them and found 3 of them would overwrite actual system files, so i did a backup of them :
/system/build.prop
/system/etc/apns-conf
/system/bin/rild
and looking at the build.prop i saw differences in the values of the one on the A500 and the one in the package so i decided to get only the missing lines from the new system.zip file and add them to the original file
And here is the 3rd mistake, and i guess the reason of the problem : i did that merge on a windows computer, and i fear it did add those pesky CRLF at the end of lines, turning my build.prop into a build.prob(lem).
I'm not sure, as i didn't check before it was too late.
rebooted and... boot loop, with 1 times out of 2, the little android with yellow triangle and exclamaition mark.
Cried, runned in circles, then looked on forums to find a solution.
Reboot with Power+Volume gives :
"Erasing cache before SD update...
SD update cmd:recovery
--update_package=sdcard:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image"
Then i get the android with gears for a few seconds, then below him is a bar like the one in the android store when you download a file, then half a second later, again the exclaimation mark.
I also tried plugging a keyboard to hit the home key...
( in fact two : Logitech G110 and trust easy scroll silverline )
no difference, maybe because those are gaming keyboards and they arent loaded soon enough by the tab, or maybe it crashes before keyboard loading.
Tried then to install ADB using post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155664
hoping i could use the USB cable to put the backup files back in place but when i plug the device into the windows host, it recognises an unavailable USB MTP device, whose properties say "Acer iconia tab a500" in the "signaled bus description"(translated from french display, may be something else in english)
I manually force added the Acer ADB interface, but both the devices are unavailable to windows, with a warning sign, stating "this device cannot start (code 10)"
"Adb shell" answers "Error:device not found",which is expected, as windows can't see the devices properly
the strange thing is that, with USB plugged from A500 to PC, the Android with exclaimation stays forever, while without the cable, the system boot-loops
so i'm at this point :
i have a boot looping device, and the backup of the modified files on an USB key, and no way to put them back on device.
I found on the forums a lot of different .imgs that could be put on the /system to reload the device but none with EMEA-CUS3. So if i overwrite the files, i can't go back
I read you need a SD card to patch the device but not all of them work...
And my only computer with a SD slot uses a big one, not micro one, so i also need an adapter to write on the sd card.
Is someone near me (belgium/postcode 4000) having a SD ward working with the device who could lend it or help me doing the job ?
else
i saw in a nearby store ad "Sigma SDHC 4Go" or "Sigma SDHC 8Go", with apparently an adaptor for a normal sized SD slot, can anyone confirm it works or it don't work for sure ?
else
Can anyone tell me an SD card know to work, and being sold currently with an adapter so i have a chance to find one in a store near me ?
Is there a way to create an update.zip that will only update the files i did overwrite ?
if not, has someone an image for the same system i have ?
Well... lots of questions, but i'm very worried, especially as the device is not mine and not working anymore atm.
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Looking closer at the modem (Vodafone k3565) it has a trap that says "SD card" so i guess i won't need an adapter... still need the reference of a SD card known to work for the restoring.
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The reason "some" SD cards don't work is down purely to formatting. Normally, reformatting them in an Android phone sorts it out. Not always, but normally. Don't worry about the GEN3 stuff too much, it's just regional variations anyway... More important to get the tab working again, no?
Yes i did ( on 2 different computers, just to be sure )...
and still the device is not recognised as "adb device".
Windows shows a "USB MTP Device"
Tried to manually add the "ACER Composite ADB Interface" and "ACER Fastboot Interface" to the installed peripherals, it shows with yellow exclaimation mark, never shows up running.
Without any useable answer about one week later, i did buy a Traxdata 2Gb SD card with adapter ( the cheapest i found with an adapter from micro SD to normal SD ) and flashed with the Emea_Gen3 ROM from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113878.
Now the tablet works, but is telling me 4.010.42-COM-GEN1 instead of the previous 4.015.05-Emea-Cus3.
Seems to work correctly, so i go on with the modem connexion.
Hello all,
I've been working on getting Quasar running on the Fire TV 2, which was a little difficult as it doesn't support a FAT32 file system for storage (no pre-allocation), but that's all the Fire TV supports out of the box.
I'll try and write a simple guide to achieve a working version, but I don't have pictures at the moment, so when I do another setup at the end of the week, I'll check back and try to add some with more detail.
This guide assumes you have already rooted and are running the rbox pre-rooted ROM (in my case, 5.2.4.0).
First, I used a Linux VM and an external card reader to partition a microSD card.
MS-DOS partition table, 2 primary partitions using auto alignment (parted).
First partition 1GB in size, type FAT32.
Second partition, rest of free space, type ext4.After saving, created the filesystems using "mkfs.vfat" & "mkfs.ext4" as these tools didn't seem to be included on the AFTV.
From here, install Kodi v17.
I downloaded the ARM v7 APK from their website and installed using adb from my laptop.
Then, find and install a copy of "Apps2SD ROOT" - I used version 11.3.
Launch Kodi for the first time, to create the data directories, then exit again.
Insert the microSD card.
The AFTV2 should auto-mount the 1GB partition at the beginning of the card and ignore our ext4 at the end.
Open "Apps2SD" and using a mouse, go to "Link apps to SD card".
The first time you do this, it should ask you to set up the SD card.
Select ext4 as the file system type allow it to set up the mount script, so everything works on boot.
Now, we'll link Kodi:
Use the filter to select "User Apps", find Kodi and go into it.
At the bottom of this page about the app, click Link App.
Select the two data directory tick boxes and confirm the link.
At this point, it should move all the files then say when complete.Now go back and exit out of the app, back to the launcher.
Go into Kodi again and install the Quasar Android ARM build (I put the zip on a FAT32 USB drive).
When the initial settings box pops up, cancel out of it, as we can't set the download path here.
On my laptop with ADB connected, I ran:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.quasar/settings.xml[/INDENT]
Edited the settings.xml file, from:
Code:
<setting id="download_path" value="" />[/INDENT]
To (this path should be linked to the ext4 partition on the SD card):
Code:
<setting id="download_path" value="/data/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files" />[/INDENT]
Then to push the settings back, I ran:
Code:
adb push settings.xml /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.quasar/settings.xml[/INDENT]
After this, a quick restart of Kodi was required.
From here, proceed like you would usually.
Issues I've noticed:
Although AFTV2 will play back 4K/2160p via Kodi/Quasar, the video output is only 1080p.
There is a fix for 4K playback in SPMC, but it's tough to get Quasar provider support in v16 of Kodi.
Hopefully 4K playback will be supported in the v17 release by the Kodi team when it is officially released.
Regards,
iamacarpetlicker
Good morning,
This is the only actual guide to getting quasar to work with a usb stick i have been able to find (without changing the internal storage and making kodi much slower in the process). It is kinda confusing though :/
So a couple questions
Will this also work for AFTV 1 instead of 2? (I am on the ROM ver 5.1.1 currently but have a 1st gen fire tv)
What if i already have kodi installed? Can I just skip down to the quasar push/pull directions? Or is there something i'd have to do first? like: "(this path should be linked to the ext4 partition on the SD card)" - How do i do that without installing kodi and doing all the steps previous to it? Can i just make a directory on the usb stick manually and bam? or no?
If i am not going to be installing kodi at the same time do I need to multi-partition the usb stick or could i just format it to ext4 and follow the adb push/pull directions for quasar download path? (it is currently formatted with one partition as ext4)
Any and all help is very much appreciated I love quasar and just bought a usb stick to get more out of it and have been searching for days on how to do this and tried quite a few things. THANK YOU
Hello AsinineRepublic,
Yes my apologies, I don't have a lot of personal time for stuff like this so I was never able to come back and update the guide properly.
Since writing this, my parents got some Fire TVs that came with a newer firmware that wasn't rootable, so I briefly investigated how Quasar could run on a stock firmware device.
I made a proof of concept storage driver for go-torrent that would allow storage to FAT32 (the only storage the FireTV 2s support natively) and a nice guy called Denis worked on a port of Quasar to go-torrent.
I'm not sure about a USB stick, as we've only tested it on the internal micro-sd on the FireTV 2s.
You can get a copy of the plugin here:
https://github.com/stonedonajax/plugin.video.quasar/releases
Just set the storage driver in settings to FAT32 and the path to: /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/com.xbmc.kodi/files/
The in-memory driver, in our personal testing, crashes a lot or interrupts playback, so I'd avoid it if possible.
Thanks,
iamacarpetlicker
Thank you, this worked for me as well
Hi I downloaded the first quasar add on for android arm and i couldn't get it to give permission to my memory card I formatted it to fat 32 it would only give permission to external storage but I changed storage type to memory and used /storage/emulated/0/Movies/and it streams brilliantly with my vpn but how to I get it working with my memory card many thanks for posted this brilliant add on thanks for your help when I insert my memory card and change storage to fat 32 and choose my memory card it won't give me permission using fire TV 4k
Gave up with this addon after searching many methods and repository.
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Github guide link if anyone have?
Hello, ladies and lads!
Here's a short version of where I'm at: after installing Wondershare' s dr.phone Recovery on my mom's PC and using it on her phone:
its screen won't respond to touch (can't enter SIM card's PIN nor open screen lock)
the On/Off button won't turn off the phone on long press (maybe due to screen lock)
on restart there's a yellow text that reads "Set Warranty Bit : kernel"
the physical buttons still work
I can see the phone's files and folders only through PC's command prompt, using ADB ('This PC\Galaxy Grand Prime' folder in Win Explorer says it's empty).
Ideally I want to keep her data (FB Messenger, Skype, Chrome, WiFi passwords, etc), and her phone to function again. What do you think I should do?
I think I need an advice and suggestions from someone more experienced than me - I don't even know trusted sites where to download the firmware roms from.
The phone's details are (I'm afraid you'll have to walk me through to get more details to this list, as I'm new to the forum):
Phone: Samsung Grand Prime
Model name: SM-G530FZ
Firmware version: G530FZXXS1BQC2 (Android 5.0.2 with Baltic bloatware, I guess)
Now in detail:
My knowledge and experience regarding the smartphone software & restoration is very basic (I've only restored the firmware to a LG-L70 once some years ago, and that's it).
Before the problem I lost some over 600 media files from that phone by Cutting and Pasting a folder from phone's internal SD to PC's disc. Now I learned never to Cut-Paste important or irreplaceable files. The files ended up on the phone, because a folder with over 800 files couldn't be uploaded to the Google Drive (the camera's folder had over 1k files in it, so I moved some of them to another folder, which the phone created on the internal partition rather than the SD Card, where the original folder was from).
Instead of using a trusted software, I foolishly Googled a photo recovery program for phones, using my mom's PC. A list of bogus recovery program sites appeared (had to look them up on her PC, as I found only legit, widely trusted programs now, using my laptop. Those darn Google's personalized search result algorithms!).
Before using the dr.fone Recovery software I synced most of the data to her account.
Used the "free" dr.fone Recovery software as per its site's instructions, the phone did a restart and the touchscreen went unresponsive to touch. Later the software showed the lost files it found, and offered to restore them for a sum. Naturally I declined.
The software said that to return the phone to normal I need to disconnect the USB cable. I did so, but the phone's screen remained unresponsive to touch, even after restart (long-press [Pow] + [Vol-]).
I tried connecting an USB mouse via the dongle, but the mouse cursor didn't appear (maybe this phone doesn't have this functionality).
Now, after using that FAIL-covery program, I was overly cautious not to make things even worse.
I wanted to make a copy of the phone's internal SD state (or is it called a phone's hard drive?), to get the media files from the clone and to have a backup of mom's files.
But I failed: I downloaded APK, ncat, KingoRoot and BusyBox. Tried to follow the steps in this video: youtu[dot]be/KKkvkCgMeMA. Got stuck at "busybox not found" at about 10:27 mark in that video ("dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0" "busybox nc -l -p 8888"). Turns out you need to run some of the apps from that phone prior to that step, and I don't know any workarounds.
Then I remembered that the files were on the external SD in the first place. Well duh! I then connected the Micro SD card to PC's reader via a Micro SD adapter. To make a copy of the SD card's 1s & 0s, and to restore the media files from said copy I used ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery) z-a-recovery[dot]com/. The backup creation (an .ISO file or some such) and media recovery are free of charge.
Now I only need to remove duplicates and blurry pics (I think I had a Moleskinsoft's Clone Remover from an old PC magazine's CD lying around somewhere for the latter). Oh, and I better not forget to run a malware scanner on her PC and remove the mr.fone installed services and folders from it. Went a bit off-topic here, sorry!
Last I pulled a wifi passwords file with "adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf" command as per instructions on this page: mashtips[dot]com/see-wifi-password-android/. I don't know whether putting the file back on that phone will do the trick or not.
That's pretty much all.
I hope the situation can be resolved and I appreciate your input! :fingers-crossed: Maybe someone has come across a similar post, has constructive commentary or knows something obvious that I haven't come up with? Thank you in advance!
Edit 30 Jan '19: Got the phone working. Accessed the phone with a Chrome browser extension (name here). All accounts except some mail account were gone. WiFi didn't work.
Found a stock ROM here: (address here).
Found the Odin3 tool here: (address here). It came with a different locale ROM.
Flashed the 1st ROM with Odin. The screen started to work.
Flashed the 1st ROM with Odin again. The WiFi started working.
I'll update this with links soon.
I've got the exact same problem after using Dr Fone app!
Hi there.
I've got the same problem with my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime after using Dr Fone, like you. I contacted Wondershare website from which I downloaded the app but they haven't bothered replying. Not happy at all!!
I contacted Samsung's support team and after trying different things (the usual stuff: reboot; remove the battery and SIM card; restart in Safe Mode; etc) which didn't solve the problem, they ended up telling me to reset the phone to the factory settings but that didn't work either.
Now my phone is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Welcome screen which asks me to choose the language I want on my phone. The touchscreen is still unresponsive.
How did you manage to fix the problem if the touchscreen was unresponsive?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Your-Mum said:
Hello, ladies and lads!
Here's a short version of where I'm at: after installing Wondershare' s dr.phone Recovery on my mom's PC and using it on her phone:
its screen won't respond to touch (can't enter SIM card's PIN nor open screen lock)
the On/Off button won't turn off the phone on long press (maybe due to screen lock)
on restart there's a yellow text that reads "Set Warranty Bit : kernel"
the physical buttons still work
I can see the phone's files and folders only through PC's command prompt, using ADB ('This PC\Galaxy Grand Prime' folder in Win Explorer says it's empty).
Ideally I want to keep her data (FB Messenger, Skype, Chrome, WiFi passwords, etc), and her phone to function again. What do you think I should do?
I think I need an advice and suggestions from someone more experienced than me - I don't even know trusted sites where to download the firmware roms from.
The phone's details are (I'm afraid you'll have to walk me through to get more details to this list, as I'm new to the forum):
Phone: Samsung Grand Prime
Model name: SM-G530FZ
Firmware version: G530FZXXS1BQC2 (Android 5.0.2 with Baltic bloatware, I guess)
Now in detail:
My knowledge and experience regarding the smartphone software & restoration is very basic (I've only restored the firmware to a LG-L70 once some years ago, and that's it).
Before the problem I lost some over 600 media files from that phone by Cutting and Pasting a folder from phone's internal SD to PC's disc. Now I learned never to Cut-Paste important or irreplaceable files. The files ended up on the phone, because a folder with over 800 files couldn't be uploaded to the Google Drive (the camera's folder had over 1k files in it, so I moved some of them to another folder, which the phone created on the internal partition rather than the SD Card, where the original folder was from).
Instead of using a trusted software, I foolishly Googled a photo recovery program for phones, using my mom's PC. A list of bogus recovery program sites appeared (had to look them up on her PC, as I found only legit, widely trusted programs now, using my laptop. Those darn Google's personalized search result algorithms!).
Before using the dr.fone Recovery software I synced most of the data to her account.
Used the "free" dr.fone Recovery software as per its site's instructions, the phone did a restart and the touchscreen went unresponsive to touch. Later the software showed the lost files it found, and offered to restore them for a sum. Naturally I declined.
The software said that to return the phone to normal I need to disconnect the USB cable. I did so, but the phone's screen remained unresponsive to touch, even after restart (long-press [Pow] + [Vol-]).
I tried connecting an USB mouse via the dongle, but the mouse cursor didn't appear (maybe this phone doesn't have this functionality).
Now, after using that FAIL-covery program, I was overly cautious not to make things even worse.
I wanted to make a copy of the phone's internal SD state (or is it called a phone's hard drive?), to get the media files from the clone and to have a backup of mom's files.
But I failed: I downloaded APK, ncat, KingoRoot and BusyBox. Tried to follow the steps in this video: youtu[dot]be/KKkvkCgMeMA. Got stuck at "busybox not found" at about 10:27 mark in that video ("dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0" "busybox nc -l -p 8888"). Turns out you need to run some of the apps from that phone prior to that step, and I don't know any workarounds.
Then I remembered that the files were on the external SD in the first place. Well duh! I then connected the Micro SD card to PC's reader via a Micro SD adapter. To make a copy of the SD card's 1s & 0s, and to restore the media files from said copy I used ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery) z-a-recovery[dot]com/. The backup creation (an .ISO file or some such) and media recovery are free of charge.
Now I only need to remove duplicates and blurry pics (I think I had a Moleskinsoft's Clone Remover from an old PC magazine's CD lying around somewhere for the latter). Oh, and I better not forget to run a malware scanner on her PC and remove the mr.fone installed services and folders from it. Went a bit off-topic here, sorry!
Last I pulled a wifi passwords file with "adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf" command as per instructions on this page: mashtips[dot]com/see-wifi-password-android/. I don't know whether putting the file back on that phone will do the trick or not.
That's pretty much all.
I hope the situation can be resolved and I appreciate your input! :fingers-crossed: Maybe someone has come across a similar post, has constructive commentary or knows something obvious that I haven't come up with? Thank you in advance!
Edit 30 Jan '19: Got the phone working. Accessed the phone with a Chrome browser extension (name here). All accounts except some mail account were gone. WiFi didn't work.
Found a stock ROM here: (address here).
Found the Odin3 tool here: (address here). It came with a different locale ROM.
Flashed the 1st ROM with Odin. The screen started to work.
Flashed the 1st ROM with Odin again. The WiFi started working.
I'll update this with links soon.
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