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How do you delete a stale NFS file

Wallpaper set and save, I tried the rm command it wont work for a stale file is there any way to do this.

unless you really mounted a network drive, there's no way you can get a "stale NFS file", so the file system is corrupted.

billc.cn said:
unless you really mounted a network drive, there's no way you can get a "stale NFS file", so the file system is corrupted.
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So I have wallpaper set and save as being stale, does that mean more files will become like this, and that my ext2 partition is bound to fail, cause I can live without that wallpaper program, as long as the rest of my stuff is stable. Does this mean more files will eventually become corrupt.

Joeriginal said:
So I have wallpaper set and save as being stale, does that mean more files will become like this, and that my ext2 partition is bound to fail, cause I can live without that wallpaper program, as long as the rest of my stuff is stable. Does this mean more files will eventually become corrupt.
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Not necessarily. nfs stale file handle just means that nfs cannot resolve the nfs file handle that ext2 encoded for it. there could be many reason for it. lots of time, remount would fix the problem.

knaries2000 said:
Not necessarily. nfs stale file handle just means that nfs cannot resolve the nfs file handle that ext2 encoded for it. there could be many reason for it. lots of time, remount would fix the problem.
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How would I do this remount process exactly? And would I be risking anything?

What exactly are you doing. Where are you getting this error?

knaries2000 said:
What exactly are you doing. Where are you getting this error?
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I'm trying to install the program wallpaper set and save but the phone won't let me cause its a stale nfs file on my memory card ext2 partition, and I wanted to know if there is any way to fix that

Rebooting the phone does not solve it? If not then u might have an issue with your sdcard.

No reboot didn't help, this is the only app that does this so I don't think its the sdcard. I think it was a bad installation, and now its stuck somehow, oh well hopefully someone might find a resolution for this.

I was wondering would it be possible to move my apps back to the phone, and then delete the wallpaper set and save from a program like linda file manager then put them back on the sd card.

Joeriginal said:
I was wondering would it be possible to move my apps back to the phone, and then delete the wallpaper set and save from a program like linda file manager then put them back on the sd card.
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do you have adb setup?
just do "adb shell ls /data/app/" and see if that wallpaper app is there... if it is try to remove it "adb shell rm /data/app/<name.apk>

knaries2000 said:
do you have adb setup?
just do "adb shell ls /data/app/" and see if that wallpaper app is there... if it is try to remove it "adb shell rm /data/app/<name.apk>
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nope that didnt work, will it be possible to move them back to the phone, I used recovery mode to put them on my sdcard, and Im on RC33mod, can I do the undo copy.sh app or do I have to use recovery again.

I dont know about the copy.sh script, but u can do it by removing the symlink in /data/app
And then copy the app dir from sd back to /data

knaries2000 said:
I dont know about the copy.sh script, but u can do it by removing the symlink in /data/app
And then copy the app dir from sd back to /data
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Sorry Im not to savy with all this, How would I go about doing that.

so there is no other way of me getting rid of wallpaper set save stale nfs, and reinstalling it, cause I cant get it on my phone. thats the only program and I like using to set my wallpapers is there another way.

you could always mount it in linux and run fdisk. delete that partition and remake it. that is what I had to do to clean up my /system/sd directory from stale NFS handles. If you need more help with this let me know.

Quickly re-install all of your apps

Just a quick note to everyone who is constantly switching between ROM's with their 'daily driver' phone.
Make sure all of your apps are backed up using Astro or AppControl. They will be backed up to /sdcard/backups/apps.
Once your new ROM is installed, and your phone has been wiped, mount your SD card on your PC.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the \backups\apps folder on your SD card.
(this assumes that your adb.exe is in your PATH)
In the command prompt, type in:
for %%f in (*.apk) do adb install %%f
Watch all of your apps install! This really saves a lot of time over using Astro or AppControl to re-install all of your apps.

Absolutely brilliant!

I've done this dozens of times over the last couple weeks. I felt so dumb finding this little snippet of code after manually installing 100+ apps every time I wanted to try a new ROM.

Huh, how about a script to back up via adb? Or backup/restore app data?
Actually, the latter is far more important =P.

I think easy backup restore is with astro file manager...

SpaceBoy2000 said:
Huh, how about a script to back up via adb? Or backup/restore app data?
Actually, the latter is far more important =P.
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That's more difficult since the data is stored in a DB inside Android (for most apps, anyway). I noticed there is a sqlite3.exe inside the Android SDK so I assume you can query the DB using that and extract certain data, for example SMS and call history, just need to invest a bit of time reading up I think!

Non-root users How to move apps to sd

Hey this took me a few hours but its relatively simple. you'll need a little knowledge of DOS or maybe i'll just spell out everything for the noobs being that i'm one. IF YOU HAVE MANUALLY INSTALLED FROYO AND THE OPTION TO MOVE APPS TO SD IS STILL GREYED AND CAN'T BE SELECTED JUST DO THIS.(i'm running windows vista)
1. download and install the android sdk (unzip folder on desktop for easy access)
2. go to my computer then click on C:\ create a new folder here called android
3. go back to the sdk folder on the desktop then open it and go to tools
4. copy the contents of the tools folder to the android folder u just created
5. connect your phone in debug mode if u don't know how to do this go to settings then applications then developement then enable the usb debugging.
6. after doing that you should be prompted to install the drivers 3 will install automatically and one will fail once that one fails select "I DON'T HAVE DISC" then browse for drivers go back to the desktop where u have the android-sdk-windows folder, then go to the usb drivers folder and press ok the adb utility driver should now install. you will also be prompted to reboot the computer in order to access it do so.
7. once rebooted connect ur phone in debug mode again. it should connect smoothly. Now open up a command prompt.
8. From here you'll need to set the path to the android folder to get access to the adb commands do this by typing "path=c:\android" to test it just type adb and you should see all sorts of crap comming up in dos if that happens ur golden.
9. Now all u do is type adb shell you should now see this sign "$" if that happens ur golden now just give the command "pm setInstallLocation 2"
10. you should see the message pm setInstallLocation 2 after which the dollar sign will appear again.
11. exit then reboot you phone and UR GOOOOOD
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Has anyone else tried this? I assumed that the apps had to support copying to SD in order to work, but Last.FM and a few other apps I have updated to 2.2 support today, and yet I still can't copy them to SD.

xSiraris said:
Has anyone else tried this? I assumed that the apps had to support copying to SD in order to work, but Last.FM and a few other apps I have updated to 2.2 support today, and yet I still can't copy them to SD.
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i updated to froyo last night and i have been trying to move the apps to sd but it was all greyed and couldn't be selected. i finally figured it out about an hour and a half ago after reading up on adb and stuff i decided to give it a test run cuz what ppl were saying about the apps didn't make any sense. so i tried that and VOILA worked like a charm let me know if it works for u. it did just fine for me

Apps to SD works fine with stock Froyo. The developer just has to support it. One app that does support it that I have found so far is "Armadillo Roll".
After you install, go to manage applications and you will see that the "move to SD" is not grayed out and you can in fact move it over with stock froyo.

thats a way around it man screw the developers

lordvikon said:
thats a way around it man screw the developers
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have you rebooted your phone yet?

Well, this has been discussed in a couple of threads before, and yeah, it's a working workaround...
pm is the the package manager application which install apks.
installLocation is a parameter which has 3 values...
0 - auto (phone or app decides where to install)
1 - force internal (forces apps to install in the internal memory)
2 - force external (forces apps to install on the sd card)
So, in short, in adb shell or a terminal enumlator, if you type
> pm setInstallLocation 2
all apps will be forcefully installed on the sd card, and you can move them to the phone.
But be careful, if you install widgets and some other aps which run as background processes, they will be killed if you mount ur sd card.
Also, if you have an apk file, u can force install that to the sd card via the adb install command without performing any of the above steps.
> adb install -s AppName.apk
-s forces the app to be installed on the sd card, without that flag, the phone or app will decide where to the app will be installed...

craigacgomez said:
Well, this has been discussed in a couple of threads before, and yeah, it's a working workaround...
pm is the the package manager application which install apks.
installLocation is a parameter which has 3 values...
0 - auto (phone or app decides where to install)
1 - force internal (forces apps to install in the internal memory)
2 - force external (forces apps to install on the sd card)
So, in short, in adb shell or a terminal enumlator, if you type
> pm setInstallLocation 2
all apps will be forcefully installed on the sd card, and you can move them to the phone.
But be careful, if you install widgets and some other aps which run as background processes, they will be killed if you mount ur sd card.
Also, if you have an apk file, u can force install that to the sd card via the adb install command without performing any of the above steps.
> adb install -s AppName.apk
-s forces the app to be installed on the sd card, without that flag, the phone or app will decide where to the app will be installed...
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so far so good! Thanks for the tip!
Used with adb but I understand you to mean this command will work using terminal emulator app? this would be an easy way to control which apps go to the sd card.
Thanks again for the original post and the clarification. I do love Android and Froyo is rockin' more every day!

help
I downloaded a terminal app and typed
pm setInstallLocation 2
And the dialog gives me an explanation of what the 0 1 2 is and dosen't move the apps. What am I doing wrong?

Ah, this actually works. You have no idea how it feels to move those space hungry navigation apps to the sd card. Perfect!
Thanks!

Awesome! It works, now I can install more games that take up way too much space
Thanks!!

How did you guys do it, I tried with a terminal on the phone but no dice. Did I do something wrong?

glwinkler said:
How did you guys do it, I tried with a terminal on the phone but no dice. Did I do something wrong?
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Erm, I just followed instructions. I'm on unrooted N1 with Froyo.
Remember to reboot your phone for it to take effect. As Froyo categorizes apps in the application manager, you can tell which apps are installed on sdcard straightaway.
Only downside is once this takes effect, all future apps that you install will immediately be installed to your sdcard. May screw up apps that have background tasks or widgets.

lordvikon said:
thats a way around it man screw the developers
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disgusting comment.
Without the developers you would have nothing. NOTHING.

Don't do this, you're gonna end up with malfunction applications and then you're gonna get pissed at the developers for your own stupidity.

As i have written on my blog, you need to be aware of a few things:
"Don’t move apps that require a background service running all the time. Things like twitter, widgets, streaming apps (internet radio) and IM apps (you need the notifications even if you use the SD card for something else) should stay on the internal storage because they will break when you’ll use your sd card as a mass storage on your PC.
All the apps you’re going to install from now on will default to the SD card. In case you know for sure that the app uses a background service we advise moving it to the phone’s internal storage."
What you can do is to enable this trick, move all the apps you want to the sd card and reverse the trick so all your future apps will default to whatever setting they have.

lordvikon said:
Hey this took me a few hours but its relatively simple. you'll need a little knowledge of DOS or maybe i'll just spell out everything for the noobs being that i'm one. IF YOU HAVE MANUALLY INSTALLED FROYO AND THE OPTION TO MOVE APPS TO SD IS STILL GREYED AND CAN'T BE SELECTED JUST DO THIS.(i'm running windows vista)
1. download and install the android sdk (unzip folder on desktop for easy access)
2. go to my computer then click on C:\ create a new folder here called android
3. go back to the sdk folder on the desktop then open it and go to tools
4. copy the contents of the tools folder to the android folder u just created
5. connect your phone in debug mode if u don't know how to do this go to settings then applications then developement then enable the usb debugging.
6. after doing that you should be prompted to install the drivers
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Done step 1-5 and when i connect phone i dont get prompt to install drivers???
Please help

This worked like a charm, just gotta remember it when I install new apps (or revert it)

glwinkler said:
How did you guys do it, I tried with a terminal on the phone but no dice. Did I do something wrong?
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If you want done from terminal, you need root(su). or use ADB save you from trouble.

The only issue with this method is market lost most of downloaded apps link after reboot the phone. Untill you install or upgrade any apps, then the link will refresh.
Use AppBrain check for any update first, then only need install one update. Go back to stock market, everything come back.
BTW: leave phone idle for 1 min after start the phone, otherwise some apps(home screen or app draw) will show default Icon. Phone need time to refresh the apps from SD.Hope next android release can mount SD before phone try to search for Apps(Like the APP2SD on root).

Need Mac Beta Testers: Interface for Pushing Files

Hello,
I need beta testers running Mac OS X to test a new application.
This application is for people who are either uncomfortable or unwilling to use Terminal and ./adb for pushing files to their device.
This first beta version is just to test how it works on different computers. It pushes the file to the sdcard of the phone using ./adb. The only input needed from the user is to select the file.
Later releases will let the user choose which folder on the device to copy to, but the next release will probably just involve pushing .apk to the /system/app folder.
Please let me know the results.
http://derekcwilkinson.com/PushFile.zip
Beta 2:
http://derekcwilkinson.com/Push_File_Beta_2.zip
Change Log:
Added option to choose the location that the file is to be pushed to.
Added Recovery application
Added Reboot application.
Planned Updates:
Pull File - Ready
Device Backup - PM me if you know a good way to backup with ./adb (mine is taking too long)
Device Backup w/SD - PM me if you know a good way to backup with ./adb (mine is taking too long)
Install .apk - testing
Uninstall .apk - testing
Restore Backup - going to take awhile (need to get device backup working first)
Restore Backup w/SD - going to take awhile (need to get device backup working first)
Flash ROM - testing

is this an actual program or a script?

Works fine for me

mrchu001 said:
is this an actual program or a script?
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It's a program that runs a script
It's just a test to see how it works, I will turn it into a more "real" application later.

I've updated it to Beta 2

I'm copied/pasted the android folder into /User/document but when i run "Push File With Location" show this error message -->
( iMac Snow Leopard v.10.6.3 build 10D573

@rainbow
same thing happening to me!

rainbow2112 said:
I'm copied/pasted the android folder into /User/document but when i run "Push File With Location" show this error message -->
( iMac Snow Leopard v.10.6.3 build 10D573
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Hmm, strange, I haven't had any beta testers have this issue.
Is the phone connected with USB debugging?

derekwilkinson said:
Is the phone connected with USB debugging?
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Yes, I have always flag on debugging USB mode.

rainbow2112 said:
Yes, I have always flag on debugging USB mode.
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Try this, and tell me where the error comes up.
http://derekcwilkinson.com/PushFileSource.zip

derekwilkinson said:
Try this, and tell me where the error comes up.
http://derekcwilkinson.com/PushFileSource.zip
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When run this, automator show this windows ...

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When run this, automator show this windows ...
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Ah, you're using a different language. That could be the problem. Is the folder path still /Documents/Android/SDK/tools on your computer?
Also, when you run it in Automator, where does the error occur?

derekwilkinson said:
Ah, you're using a different language. That could be the problem. Is the folder path still /Documents/Android/SDK/tools on your computer?
Also, when you run it in Automator, where does the error occur?
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The folder path in my iMac is /Users/Rainbow/Documents/Android/SDK/tools
the error occur after a few seconds after click OK after choosing the file to be sent to MemoryCard

Okay, if it doesn't occur until then, that means it sees the device and android SDK. Is the SD card mounted on the computer? are you copying to /sdcard/ as the file path?

derekwilkinson said:
Okay, if it doesn't occur until then, that means it sees the device and android SDK. Is the SD card mounted on the computer? are you copying to /sdcard/ as the file path?
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No, sdcard no is mounted.
i don't understand this_ " are you copying to /sdcard/ as the file path?" sorry

When that window pops up (the one in your screenshot) are you putting /sdcard/ in the text box?

im going to try your app out =]
excited.

Sick of windows..
I am so sick of using a windows computer to do anything on my Hero so as soon as I get home tomorrow I will be trying this out on my system. SL 10.6.4 and I will be so happy to do it..

404 File not found. I'd love to help test this - can someone please re-upload the zip?
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I'm using root explorer so this isn't really necessary for me anymore.

cloudstrife7 said:
404 File not found. I'd love to help test this - can someone please re-upload the zip?
Edited 1/16/11
I'm using root explorer so this isn't really necessary for me anymore.
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I'm a bit confused--PushFile is for pushing files from your Mac to phone (in other words, a computer-side application), while Root Explorer is a file manager for the phone (a phone side app), that, unless I've missed something, does not replicate the functionality that PushFile attempted to provide. Am I missing some cool new feature of Root Explorer that lets you easily transfer files from your Mac to your phone?

LineageOS 17.1 camera and saving photos to SD

Hi everyone,
I have a glorious 2014 Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 and love it so much that I recently gave it a new lease on life by installing LineageOS 17.1.
I'm having trouble trying to save photos to me SD card. Here's what I did.
1. First I tried using the SD card as Adopted Storage, but I found out that everytime I rebooted the phone the SD card would become corrupted. After reading of similar experiences by other users I dismissed Adopted Storage as not stable enough.
2. Formatted the SD as External, found out that the Camera app bundled with LineageOS 17.1 can't write to SD, so I installed Open Camera. Open Camera works great and can save photos to the SD card, but when I open the last picture taken by tapping the thumbnail I cannot swipe back to the previous photos, I can view only the last one, so I'm forced to exit the camera app and open the gallery app to review/delete photos. I also installed other gallery apps like Simple Gallery and Camera Roll and associated them with pictures, making sure that Open Camera would use those apps to show the last photo, but even so there's no way to swipe back to previous photos. What is odd is that all the gallery apps that I tried allow me to swipe between photos when opened outside the Camera app. It's only inside the camera app that I can't swipe.
Another problem, I don't know if related or not, is that gallery apps won't read EXIF data from images stored on the SD card. They can read the image content but not the EXIF data... how can that be?!? It's all in the same file! This is quite puzzling and utterly frustrating.
Is there a way to get camera and gallery apps to operate as expected on LineageOS 17.1?
Thanks,
Bitman7

I found a very good solution: the fbind module for Magisk. It's exactly what I needed because it allows (among other things) to mount a DCIM folder on the SD card to the internal DCIM folder. This module should be advertised more, it's a godsend and I almost gave up before finally finding it.

Bitman7 said:
I found a very good solution: the fbind module for Magisk. It's exactly what I needed because it allows (among other things) to mount a DCIM folder on the SD card to the internal DCIM folder. This module should be advertised more, it's a godsend and I almost gave up before finally finding it.
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On my side also I encountered a few issues with camera and gallery bundled apps within LineageOS 17.1, thus after I felt upon your posts, I installed Magisk and fBind module on my J5 in order to be able to create symlinks ; However, after hours of reading about Magisk or fBind here and there, I basically have still no clue about how to use any part of it...
I mean, everything is setup and I get I have to use commands such as these ones to redirect OS attempts to read/write files :
"from_to Pictures .fbind/Pictures
from_to WhatsApp .fbind/WhatsApp"
...But where ? In a "terminal" console ? But which one ? Nowhere noone is explaining it, as if it were obvious (!)
I have ADB installed and working on my windows computer, but it does not interact with Magisk or its modules when I plug USB... Do I have to trigger recovery mode and use "ADB shell" in TWRP ? Will then these fBind commands be available ? Will they work only for the further reboot ? Or maybe do I need an app offering a linux terminal running on the phone ?
Do I need to write these commands somewhere so they will be executed in a .txt file at each boot ?
Is it a linux formatted .sh file as some other stuff related to Magisk ? Where does this file must be placed ?
I mean, everywhere people are talking (well, writing) about that, they mention stuff such as "data/data/adb/", or any other directories I can't find anywhere within my own internal or added SD cards...
I used to be a "self-made" (profesional) developper, I coded in Java, Lingo, Lua, Python, PHP, etc... and a (profesional) 3D modeler... But I never felt as much lost as I am just right now with that stuff after hours of searching to get the basical how-to. It's like all people using this stuff was aware of the how-to even before it was released (?)
Please, would you consider give me (and possible other readers coming here) just a few hints on how to start, once Magisk and fBind are installed ? Let's say I want Pictures and Whatsapp redirected to SD card with fBind, what must I exactly do ? Thank you very much for your reading, I hope you'll get a few minutes to help !
If not, I guess I will end up in trying something like the App2SD app, however, I'd rather feel less dumb and understand better how Magisk works

Vivec said:
Please, would you consider give me (and possible other readers coming here) just a few hints on how to start, once Magisk and fBind are installed ?
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Hi,
just type "fbind" from an elevated terminal to call up the wizard (i.e. su<ENTER> fbind<ENTER>). You'll be presented a menu, from my notes you should choose "m) Media to external" and follow the instructions (it will ask you for paths to folders that you want moved to your SD card, such as DCIM/Camera). The contents of the internal storage folders will be automatically moved to the bound folders on the SD card (e.g. DCIM from the internal storage will be copied to .fbind/DCIM on the SD card). Thanks to binding, the same contents will still be visible in both folders.
The wizard works by creating and editing a "/data/adb/vr25/fbind-data/config.txt" file which you can also edit manually if you are feeling adventurous.
Hope this helps,
Bitman.

Thanks a lot for your answer(s), however, I still don't know at all which terminal you're talking about ? ... Also, I have no access to any "/data/adb/vr25/fbind-data/" directory, at least with windows with USB. What am I missing, please ?

Vivec said:
Thanks a lot for your answer(s), however, I still don't know at all which terminal you're talking about ? ... Also, I have no access to any "/data/adb/vr25/fbind-data/" directory, at least with windows with USB. What am I missing, please ?
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You can use any terminal emulator app (I'm using Terminal Emulator but there are literally thousands - chances are you have one pre-installed). If you're familiar with Linux, it's just the same as a Linux command prompt terminal. If you are familiar with Windows, it's similar to a command prompt window where you type commands.
The /data directory is not accessible from Windows via USB, at least not normally (you only have access to a subset of the root directory); you'll need root access. There may be Windows apps for root access to Android devices out there, but I never used any. I use X-plore File Manager on my phone.
-- Bitman

Allright, thank you so much ! Sorry for such a noob question but I just never tried to use linux on my phone before... I also get better now why adding SU for an app, such as for an explorer might be useful. I still have to find out a few things but you just saved my day... And maybe more