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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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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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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.
Hi,
I recently installed Clockworkmod-Recovery on my TF101G - but for some reason I cannot access my sdcard. When I boot into recovery it says, that /sdcard as well as /external/sdcard cannot be found.
I have CWR 6.0.1.3 installed via ROM Manager.
How can I make a backup of my rom? I would also assume I won't be able to install a new ROM either.
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dabrain42 said:
Hi,
I recently installed Clockworkmod-Recovery on my TF101G - but for some reason I cannot access my sdcard. When I boot into recovery it says, that /sdcard as well as /external/sdcard cannot be found.
I have CWR 6.0.1.3 installed via ROM Manager.
How can I make a backup of my rom? I would also assume I won't be able to install a new ROM either.
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You can backup your rom into your internal storage. As an alternative try twrp 2.3.2.3 recovery which is more user friendly.
How can I backup to my internal storage?
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dabrain42 said:
Hi,
I recently installed Clockworkmod-Recovery on my TF101G - but for some reason I cannot access my sdcard. When I boot into recovery it says, that /sdcard as well as /external/sdcard cannot be found.
I have CWR 6.0.1.3 installed via ROM Manager.
How can I make a backup of my rom? I would also assume I won't be able to install a new ROM either.
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Here is why it wont work: [NOTICE] Don't use ROM Manager! **New to the Transformer? READ**
I would recommend using the PERI tool by Thing O Doom to install a working copy of CWM.
Go to mount storage and select mount sdcard
AW: Cannot access SDCard in CWR
Mount sdcard is not an available option. I can only mount system, data and cache.
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dabrain42 said:
Mount sdcard is not an available option. I can only mount system, data and cache.
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Did you re-install CWM and NOT use ROM Manager?
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Not yet. I rooted my transformer using the 1-click guide and used ROM manager to install CWR. Next I wanted to try to install CWR from my PC using the guide I used for rooting. (I cannot access my PC currently, so I'll have to try this next week, when I'm back at home.)
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Please see the link I posted about ROM Manager and the TF101, it will explain your issue.
Until you re-install CWM using another method that is proven to work, your issue will not be solved.
EDIT: Ok, I've located where my problem is. Basically what happens is when I install the Custom ROM it replaces my 2ndInit bootmenu and CWM and it 'upgrades' them. But because it has 'upgraded' them I can no longer mount sd card. I have to reinstall 2ndInit to 'downgrade' CWM and then I can flash again.
Hi there,
A few weeks back I flashed Paranoid Android onto my phone (latest release), however now I have discovered that in recovery mode, my phone can't read or mount the sdcard, i.e. I can't apply updates.
Code:
If I select 'Install zip from sdcard > Choose zip from sdcard' I get:
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
And if I try 'Mounts and storage > mount /sdcard' I get:
Error mounting /sdcard!
I would really appreciate any help on this issue.
Note it was working previously (which is how I installed the ParanoidAndroid ROM) but now my phone can't read the sdcard in recovery. IT CAN READ IT ONCE THE PHONE HAS BOOTED UP.
Try running a chkdsk scan from a Windows machine to check if there's corruption in the filesystem
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thekguy said:
Try running a chkdsk scan from a Windows machine to check if there's corruption in the filesystem
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will do and will post the results, but before I do, would that show anything because the sdcard works fine once the phone has booted up?
Not sure myself, it just eliminates any filesystem corruption as the cause. Also try using another build like quarx to check for this problem
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Not sure myself, it just eliminates any filesystem corruption as the cause. Also try using another build like quarx to check for this problem
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But I can't flash using recovery, so how would I test Quarx's build? Haven't had time to boot up my windows partition, but I will eventually.
EDIT: Ran fsck on fedora partition (forgot about the command). It came up with this
Code:
fsck from util-linux 2.21.2
e2fsck 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /media/CDF2-6BE2
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
I've backed up my SDCard and am going to run e2fsck command (will post results) otherwise I'm going to have to reformat it
EDIT 2: Came up with same error. Should I reformat it? As ext3/ext4? What should I do?
My memory card was standard fat32
And I'm no Linux expert but I think you're trying to check for a wrong filesystem, what is your current sdcard format(filesystem)
And I think you should reformat as fat32
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My memory card was standard fat32
And I'm no Linux expert but I think you're trying to check for a wrong filesystem, what is your current sdcard format(filesystem)
And I think you should reformat as fat32
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Code:
/dev/sdb vfat 7856128 1361952 6494176 18% /media/CDF2-6BE2
Now I've checked fsck again
Code:
fsck.vfat /media/CDF2-6BE2/
dosfsck 3.0.12, 29 Oct 2011, FAT32, LFN
Read 512 bytes at 0:Is a directory
Can you try with Windows? And format to fat32
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thekguy said:
Can you try with Windows? And format to fat32
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will do
EDIT:
Code:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
OK, Am backing up now. Will reformat as fat32
Ok... So now I've formatted as fat32, tried again, flashed full sbf, re-rooted phone, installed 2nd-init, flashed Quarx's latest build (before wi-fi experimentation builds) and still I have the problem
Sorry for the triple post
I've located where my problem is. Basically what happens is when I install the Custom ROM it replaces my 2ndInit bootmenu and CWM and it 'upgrades' them. But because it has 'upgraded' them I can no longer mount sd card. I have to reinstall 2ndInit to 'downgrade' CWM and then I can flash again.
Any suggestions on how I might be able to fix this?
Probably there isn't any fix, but you could make zip containing the working recovery, and flash it after every rom flash
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Probably there isn't any fix, but you could make zip containing the working recovery, and flash it after every rom flash
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If you could show me how to do that, I would so extremely grateful
Aparently there was a similar problem with the Defy running the 'official' CM and the wiki documented a fix here: http://oldwiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Motorola_Defy:_FAQ#SD_Card
Do you think that could possibly work for the Defy+?
EDIT: However if I make a .zip file, would that put my phone in bootloop though? Because whenever I reinstall 2ndInit (v2.3) and it 'downgrades' my CWM/Bootmenu it causes a bootloop where I have to reflash everything. If I make a .zip that I flash after each install would it cause the same problem because it's 'downgrading' from the Bootmenu/CWM of the JB CM10 ROM.
I would've made you one, but unfortunately my computer is not working. I think it should be enough if the boot menu folder is replaced by your working set by a flash after every install
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I would've made you one, but unfortunately my computer is not working. I think it should be enough if the boot menu folder is replaced by your working set by a flash after every install
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I really appreciate your help! I guess you could perhaps guide me in doing it, or I could wait till you've got a wroking computer.
So, computer just started working, and I made you a zip
Download the zip to your computer and extract the contents[META-INF and system) folders. Add your working bootmenu files inside the system/bootmenu folder you just extracted and delete the pre-existing text file there. Then add both META-INF and system to a zip(not rar!) and try flashing it. Make sure that the file consists of META-INF and system folders within itself. It should work
IF THERE'S A SIGNATURE VERIFICATION ERROR JUST TOGGLE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION WHICH IS PRESENT JUST BEFORE SELECTING THE ZIP FILE TO FLASH VIA RECOVERY
thekguy said:
So, computer just started working, and I made you a zip
Download the zip to your computer and extract the contents[META-INF and system) folders. Add your working bootmenu files inside the system/bootmenu folder you just extracted and delete the pre-existing text file there. Then add both META-INF and system to a zip(not rar!) and try flashing it. Make sure that the file consists of META-INF and system folders within itself. It should work
IF THERE'S A SIGNATURE VERIFICATION ERROR JUST TOGGLE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION WHICH IS PRESENT JUST BEFORE SELECTING THE ZIP FILE TO FLASH VIA RECOVERY
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Thank you very much, I'll definitely try this out!
EDIT1: First attempt, didn't work
Trying something again...
EDIT2: Second attempt.... Put phone into bootloop :\
EDIT3: Third attempt... Seems like a bootloop again
So basically it changes the Recovery version (not the bootmenu) and puts it into bootloop :\ however I can flash via recovery.
Try copying only recovery folder from inside boot menu
I'll try to make a zip which first deletes the folder to avoid incompatibilities.
BTW can you enter the boot menu when there's boot loop?
And also try fixing permissions
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thekguy said:
Try copying only recovery folder from inside boot menu
I'll try to make a zip which first deletes the folder to avoid incompatibilities.
BTW can you enter the boot menu when there's boot loop?
And also try fixing permissions
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Yeah I can enter bootmenu during bootloop before it starts. I'll retry with the recovery folder only.
EDIT: Wow it worked! Thank you so much I hope you don't mind too much, but if you can modify the recovery slightly that it'd help out a lot and make everything perfect. But I can't thank you enough
I'll upload my working Patch.zip:
If you can do these, that would be amazing: (this is from the working CWM)
1) When I select 'Wipe data/factory reset' it says 'Formatting /data...' and then immediately says 'Formatting /cache...' and when the phone boots up, all my data is there. Now that isn't a problem as such but if I needed to do a clean install that may cause some issues.
2) This isn't a problem, but I was wondering if you could add a printed line whenever I execute the 'Wipe dalvik cache' because it wipes it very fast, but doesn't say anything in the console so I'm not sure if I clicked it or not. Nevertheless when I boot my phone up it says optimising apps which means that it worked.
But yeah only minor things.
Thank you so much
1)I can't modify the recovery, since I'm not really a dev but I can try to make you another zip to wipe data separately
2)Again, that is something coded in the recovery, which I don't know how to alter. Plus, my computer isn't working again(bad ram :banghead: ) so I'm limited to the phone
But are you able at all to wipe data from the custom recovery? Bootmenu? Are both not working?
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Trying to build a bootable SD Card with CWM 6.0.4.8. I used image "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8b.zip" with Win32DiskImage and when I place uRecImg and uRecRam on the SD card, it does load into CWM recovery, but once in I can't select anything involving the SD card as it says it "Can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
Is there a bootable image out there with 6.0.4.8 already on it that I should be using?
rbk123 said:
Trying to build a bootable SD Card with CWM 6.0.4.8. I used image "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8b.zip" with Win32DiskImage and when I place uRecImg and uRecRam on the SD card, it does load into CWM recovery, but once in I can't select anything involving the SD card as it says it "Can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
Is there a bootable image out there with 6.0.4.8 already on it that I should be using?
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Would like to know this too.
rbk123 said:
Trying to build a bootable SD Card with CWM 6.0.4.8. I used image "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8b.zip" with Win32DiskImage and when I place uRecImg and uRecRam on the SD card, it does load into CWM recovery, but once in I can't select anything involving the SD card as it says it "Can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
Is there a bootable image out there with 6.0.4.8 already on it that I should be using?
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That is the image for an SD install. You do not want to use that. I have some bootable SD images in my NC tips thread linked in my signature that can be used. Just use the same method you used on the other SD.
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That is the image for an SD install.
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Actually I am trying to do an SD install - it's what I meant by making a bootable SD. I figure it's safer to see how CM11 runs before wiping my CM7 on the emmc.
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Actually I am trying to do an SD install - it's what I meant by making a bootable SD. I figure it's safer to see how CM11 runs before wiping my CM7 on the emmc.
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Then don't use CWM. And if you use the installer script you must use a nightly earlier than 5/15 until I get the script fixed. That is unless you are using steven676's experimental version of CWM for use on SD installs. If you are it is not yet ready for prime time and you may have glitches.
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Ok, just to make sure I understand what you mean by "installer script", I can not use the Rev8b image with a post 5/15 CM11?
That's actually what I tried first and it didn't work which led me to try and get CWM6.0.4.8 working. I will try a pre-5/15 image with 8b shortly.
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Ok, just to make sure I understand what you mean by "installer script", I can not use the Rev8b image with a post 5/15 CM11?
That's actually what I tried first and it didn't work which led me to try and get CWM6.0.4.8 working. I will try a pre-5/15 image with 8b shortly.
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The installer script is part of 8b. It is the penguin with the scrolling text. And you need to use a CM11 zip older than 5/15.
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That worked - I had used the 8b image but with the 5/18 nightly, which obviously was a fail.
I downloaded a 2/10 build and it booted and worked, albeit quite slow. Without CWM, how do I flash the 5/4 build? Or do I just have to redo the whole img creation on the SD card again?
rbk123 said:
That worked - I had used the 8b image but with the 5/18 nightly, which obviously was a fail.
I downloaded a 2/10 build and it booted and worked, albeit quite slow. Without CWM, how do I flash the 5/4 build? Or do I just have to redo the whole img creation on the SD card again?
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No, just copy the zip to the boot partition and boot to the SD recovery (the script installer). It will find and install the new zip.
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leapinlar said:
No, just copy the zip to the boot partition and boot to the SD recovery (the script installer). It will find and install the new zip.
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I'll give that a shot. I tried re-imaging 8b with the 0504 build and it doesn't like it; same behavior as with the 0518 build. Looks like 8b needs builds older than 0504. I'll go back and try the 0210 build and then copying just the 0504 to the boot partition like you suggested.
Copying 0504 to the boot partition of the 0210 SD card worked. Can I do the same method for newer than 0515 versions?
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I'll give that a shot. I tried re-imaging 8b with the 0504 build and it doesn't like it; same behavior as with the 0518 build. Looks like 8b needs builds older than 0504. I'll go back and try the 0210 build and then copying just the 0504 to the boot partition like you suggested.
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Steven676 said the issue happened a while back but didn't know exactly when it happened. Once you get a version of CM11 installed, any new nightly will update (I used it right up to 5/15).
Note: If you have trouble installing gapps, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49942253
Thanks to both of you for your help. So can I put a version of CM10 using this method, to see how it runs?
Pretty interesting to see how each version incrementally performs better. The Feb one was uber-slow, then 0504 was better. Just tried 0518 and it's another increase in performance. I'll keep working my way up.
Hi,
i have two identical NC devices [ from the outside], but
here are the difference in the inside:
#first:
- internal storage for the apps that can't be unmounted have 0.9GB
- internal storage for the user data that can be unmounter/remounted have 5GB
#second:
- internal storage for the apps that can't be unmounted have 4.9GB
- internal storage for the user data that can be unmounter/remounted have 1GB
and i want to change #second NC internal storage to look/work as onthe #first
i read and tried this:
- changing from this
/devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc1 auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard1:auto,noemulatedsd
/devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/mmc_host/mmc0 auto vfat defaults voldmanaged=sdcard0:8,nonremovable
to this:
/devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc1 auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard0:auto
/devices/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/mmc_host/mmc0 auto auto defaults voldmanaged=sdcard1:8
Also fstab.encore are identical on both devices.
but does not helped.
Can anyone help with this or point to the right dirrection ?
Thanks
The issue is that BN changed the internal partitioning sizes for the newer Nook Colors. Dean Gibson developed a set of tools to repartition the newer nooks back to the original sizes if desired. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14101197
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Yes,
i just found this thread, but
repartitioning files does not installs [ got cwm error] and
i looking to make usb adb cwm setup and
try do this manually.
It's good that i can resize but, have issue with Cwm adb setup on win 8.1 x64
purenoise said:
Yes,
i just found this thread, but
repartitioning files does not installs [ got cwm error] and
i looking to make usb adb cwm setup and
try do this manually.
It's good that i can resize but, have issue with Cwm adb setup on win 8.1 x64
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You are using too new of a CWM it must be older than v6045. You can find one on my Nook Color Tips thread.
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Managed to manually resize partitions.
Will try with older CWM, but is it possible to make .zip for newer CWM ?
purenoise said:
Managed to manually resize partitions.
Will try with older CWM, but is it possible to make .zip for newer CWM ?
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No, it takes a little effort to change files and make sure they work. Not worth to me the extra effort when it can be flashed with the older CWM.
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Tried your CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD & CWM-5.5.0.4-bootable_SD:
- it boot CWM but then not mount Sdcard even manually
Suggestions ?
purenoise said:
Tried your CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD & CWM-5.5.0.4-bootable_SD:
- it boot CWM but then not mount Sdcard even manually
Suggestions ?
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You mean when you say install zip from SD it says it will not mount?
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leapinlar said:
You mean when you say install zip from SD it says it will not mount?
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Yes, gives me an error that there is no SD, but
was booted from SD with your CWMs.
And can't mount in 'Mounts and...' - same error
CWM-based Recovery v6.0.1.2
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
Error mounting /sdcard!
SOLVER - WORKS:
- just reflashed CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD.img
Thanks.
RePartitioning
So i can repartition other devices
[ i know, not with this files]
just i need to know what partitions is to safe resizeable ?
purenoise said:
So i can repartition other devices
[ i know, not with this files]
just i need to know what partitions is to safe resizeable ?
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Each device uses different partition structures so there is not an easy answer for this. And on top of that most newer devices do not use the DOS partition structure like the PC and the Nook Color does. Therefore fdisk will not work on them. They use a newer structure called GPT that is more robust than the DOS structure. And you must use the tool gdisk.
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