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[How-to]Darktremors apps2sd on Froyo

Edit: I made some scripts that you can run from gscript lite found in market for free. This script will mount the last partition so your windows pc will see it. There is one for mount and one for unmount. Plug your phone in pc and run the mountsd script and your window should pop up on the pc with the folder showing the partition that your froyo rom is using. If you have your card partitioned differently then these instructions then you can just edit the mountsd script where it says /dev/block/mmcblk0p4. Change the 4 to the number of the fat32 partition that you want it to mount. http://www.multiupload.com/HNIKCP720C
If you want to copy from froyo partition to recovery partition try this
Conap said:
No need to stop being lazy but you gotta give me a minute lol...download script and run it in gscripts. In File Manager if you press the home button you will see sdcard and sdcard2. sdcard is the froyo partition and sdcard2 is the recovery partition of the card. I am sure you can get to it in astro too but don't have it downloaded to test. Just navigate to the root folder of the phone and it should have the sdcard2 directory. This will stick untill you reboot then you will have to run the script again.
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We all have seen that froyo doesn't like partitioned sd cards. After many attempts at partitioning my sd card for another project i'm working on I figured out a way to install the "old" apps2sd on Froyo. I know alot of people preferred the way it was done in 2.1. Froyo seems to use the last partition on the sd card at least untill the 7th partition which it stops looking after that. Amon's recovery works with the first partition on the sd card. So the solution is to put a Fat32 partition as the first partition then put your ext3 and swap partitions and then a 4th partition as fat32 for the phone to use when booted. The important thing to remember is to put any rom's you want to flash on the first partition. Your nand backups will also be stored on the first partition. Pictures, music, video's, stuff you download to the phone and any other normal stuff that uses sd card will end up on 4th partition. I will give instructions using a program called gparted. I think it is available for windows also. This should work with any type of partitioning software.
I will leave the original instructions at bottom of post but after a lot of partitioning my sd card for this project and the ubuntu/debian project and the DualRom project I've found that this method is a little better. I believe someone else linked to this method somewhere in this thread
Conap said:
THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING OFF OF YOUR SD CARD
ok try this...boot phone into recovery...hopefully you have amon's recovery cause I don't think clockwork uses parted(not sure). Then type or copy/paste these commands:
adb shell
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rm 1
rm 2
rm 3
rm 4
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 2000
mkpartfs primary ext2 2001 2500
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 2501 2550
mkpartfs primary fat32 2551 7948
quit
Depending on the number of partitions on your sdcard currently it may say error after the rm 1,rm 2, rm 3, rm 4 commands. You can ignore them.
Then reboot your phone or copy the file you want to flash back on to card and flash it.
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PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN USING A FORMATTING PROGRAM THAT YOU ONLY REFORMAT YOUR SD CARD AND NOT YOUR HARD DRIVE
1. BACK UP YOUR SD CARD!!!!!!!!(this will erase all data on sd card)
2. Plug your phone into your pc and mount the sd card(like you would if transferring files from pc to your card)
3. Open GParted and on the bar at the top click Gparted then devices and choose the phone( should be the second in the list if you only have one hard drive and no other external storage devices connected)
4. On the gparted screen you will see the partitions of your sd card. There should only be one at the moment if you are already using froyo. Right click on all of the partitions and click unmount and then delete. This will delete everything on your sd. Please be sure you have backed up your card.
5. You should now have one line that says unallocated.
6. Right click on unallocated and click click new. It will bring up a screen that has size and type of partition sizes. The only things you need to change are the size and type. For the first partitions I used 2000mib in the new size box but I keep around 5 Nand backups and 10 to 15 rom's stored on my card at a time. If you do not do alot of nands and store alot of roms you could probably make this partition smaller. Then under file system choose fat32 from the dropdown menu and choose add.
7. Right click on unallocated again and click new. This will bring up the screen to chose size and file system again. Normally people use 500mb for the ext3 partition for apps2sd. You can adjust the number to fit your needs. Choose your size and then make the file system ext3 and click add.
8. Right click unallocated again and click new. This partition should be around 50mb and choose file system as linux-swap.
9. Right click unallocated and new again. This will be the partition you use for your media on your phone such as pic's or music. You will want to use the rest of the space left on your card for this partition. Choose fat32 for the file system and click add.
10. You should now see 4 sections listed. First and last should be fat32, second ext3 and 3rd linux-swap. If it looks correct you hit the checkmark button at the top of the gparted screen. It will make all changes to your sd card. You can then unmount your card and make sure your phone reads it. I reccomend taking 1 picture before copying the stuff you backed up back onto your card.
Remember to put your Nand folder and any roms onto partition 1 and all other stuff you backed up on partition 4. When your card is setup you can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715933 to get the zip to flash to install the apps2sd. Install apps2sd as per instructions on that thread.
I have apps2sd currently running on my phone with CELB3.2 and it is working fine. I set my card up on a linux machine with gparted.

you are the man Conap ...currently running your 3.2froyo, which BTW is smooth as heck....what I hate the most about froyo is there A2sd setup ....and you have just solved that problem

rvpartsguy said:
you are the man Conap ...currently running your 3.2froyo, which BTW is smooth as heck....what I hate the most about froyo is there A2sd setup ....and you have just solved that problem
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Well if you or anyone else that has windows test's this can someone report if you can access both fat32 partitions when you mount the phone in windows....

I'll be trying this ish later. Superb work conap. I'm on windows, I'll let you know how it goes as well
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I'm undecided if I'll try this, but if I do it'll probably more to see how it works under Windows than to use it myself.
I wish the best of both worlds, being able to have Widget apps installed to SD card, but not have separate partitions, and still be able to specify applications I want to remain in the phone memory, for speed.
No matter what, though, beautiful! Thanks for writing up the instructions!

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I'm undecided if I'll try this, but if I do it'll probably more to see how it works under Windows than to use it myself.
I wish the best of both worlds, being able to have Widget apps installed to SD card, but not have separate partitions, and still be able to specify applications I want to remain in the phone memory, for speed.
No matter what, though, beautiful! Thanks for writing up the instructions!
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I agree it would be nice to have the option to move specific apps back to the phone. But I have seen alot of people that prefer this way so I thought i'd write this up. I actually needed partitions for other things which is why I was looking into it anyway. I now have 8 partitions on my sd card and everything still functions correctly. I did find that Froyo would read the last partition on the sd card up untill 7 partitions. When I added an 8th partition it still looked at partition 7. In case any one was interested in more partitions just make sure the fat32 is last partition untill you have more then 7 leave 7 as fat32.

Conap said:
I agree it would be nice to have the option to move specific apps back to the phone. But I have seen alot of people that prefer this way so I thought i'd write this up. I actually needed partitions for other things which is why I was looking into it anyway. I now have 8 partitions on my sd card and everything still functions correctly. I did find that Froyo would read the last partition on the sd card up untill 7 partitions. When I added an 8th partition it still looked at partition 7. In case any one was interested in more partitions just make sure the fat32 is last partition untill you have more then 7 leave 7 as fat32.
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Do you have a 16GB or larger card? Wow!
Very interesting information, thank you!

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Do you have a 16GB or larger card? Wow!
Very interesting information, thank you!
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nope just stock 8gb...mostly small partitions for testing some ideas lol...i did find that the phone does not mount any more then 7 partitions(kernel limitation maybe) You can have more then 7 if you are useing your card for things other then the phone but for phone purposes 7 is the limit.

How do I plug my phone into my computer?

need help!!
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.

Conap said:
nope just stock 8gb...mostly small partitions for testing some ideas lol...i did find that the phone does not mount any more then 7 partitions(kernel limitation maybe) You can have more then 7 if you are useing your card for things other then the phone but for phone purposes 7 is the limit.
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Oh, okay! Nosey people (me) want to know. Hehehe.
workshed said:
How do I plug my phone into my computer?
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You're messing with me, right? The USB cable that came with your phone, that you can also charge your phone with???

ykhehra1 said:
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.
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You'll probably have to boot your Vista 32-bit installation DVD and run a Startup Repair. Or if the computer came with a recovery DVD that you hopefully burned after booting up the computer the first time, use that.
If you don't have any easier option, you can download Startup Repair-only burnable disc images from the EasyBCD website. Just google for it. Make sure and download the correct one (Vista 32-bit), and then you'll have to burn it to a CD and boot from it. Hopefully you're computer doesn't have any SATA or RAID setup that Vista doesn't include the drivers for, otherwise you'll have to download those and put them on a flash drive, and then you can load them from the Vista repair CD.
Good luck.

ykhehra1 said:
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.
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There is no makeboot option on gparted in linux that i can see...if you think you have messed up the boot partition of your pc don't restart it till you fix it. Google should be your best friend on that one. I don't use windows so can't be of any help to you there....

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Oh, okay! Nosey people (me) want to know. Hehehe.
You're messing with me, right? The USB cable that came with your phone, that you can also charge your phone with???
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LMAO
What's a usb cable... is it that black thing with a square end??

Its g8 solution, good job! little tricky on windows, but worked at the end.

workshed said:
LMAO
What's a usb cable... is it that black thing with a square end??
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Ooooh, you got me. LOL!

ykhehra1 said:
Its g8 solution, good job! little tricky on windows, but worked at the end.
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Are you able to get both FAT32 partitions (partition 1 for ROMs and other flashes, partition 4 for everything else) mounted with drive letters under Windows?

is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious

asilentcivilian said:
is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious
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nevermind, i found the 2.1 dark tremor thread. i assume the same results apply to froyo with this.

asilentcivilian said:
is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious
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some people just prefer this way. this way actually stores the whole apk on the phone and save's more room then froyo. plus you can mount your sd card while still using your apps. I did this mainly cause I wan't partitions for other things on my phone personally. It just happens that it helps the apps2sd issue too...

[Q] Dual Boot from emmc and from internal storage

This was probably already covered by another thread but i have looked through dozens of posts and i haven't found an answer yet...
So i want to know how i can boot one rom (cm7) from internal storage and another rom (cm9) from emmc...
if possible, please provide some files and a guide...
THANKS
-David

davidmargolin said:
This was probably already covered by another thread but i have looked through dozens of posts and i haven't found an answer yet...
So i want to know how i can boot one rom (cm7) from internal storage and another rom (cm9) from emmc...
if possible, please provide some files and a guide...
THANKS
-David
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It's not difficult. Just follow these threads below.
First install CM7 to emmc per this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12797652
Then install CM9 to SD per this thread (just substitute CM9 for CM7 in the instructions):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
Also you need to use my updated generic image file instead of the one in the link above. Get it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23153010
If you want to use both systems with the same SD card so you don't have to swap cards all the time, follow these instructions:
After you have installed both of these systems, go to CM7 and using root explorer, edit the file vold.fstab in /etc. There will be a line there that includes 'sdcard auto' (without the quote). Change that to 'sdcard 4'. Save and reboot. Now both CM7 and CM9 will share the same media sdcard space. No need to swap cards between systems.
Also to determine which system boots, hold the n key while nothing and a boot menu will come up. Use it to select which system you want to boot to.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

emmc and internal
heres the thing though... i dont want anything booting from my sd card... just from my internal storage and then my emmc...

davidmargolin said:
heres the thing though... i dont want anything booting from my sd card... just from my internal storage and then my emmc...
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Why?
BTW, emmc and internal storage are the same thing.
edit: There are some really old threads that tell you how to repartition the nook so that you can have two systems on emmc. But that is no longer recommended due to many issues, including updating is difficult and repartitioning is risky.
edit2: If you are thinking you can install a system to the media partition of emmc ("internal storage"), it's not possible. The only way to get two systems internally (ie., without using an SD) is to repartition. The existing media partition is deleted and new system partitions are created to accommodate the new system files and then a new smaller media partition is recreated. But that is a very non-standard installation and most update- zips will not work with that setup. You have to use specially modified versions.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

emmc
leapinlar said:
Why?
BTW, emmc and internal storage are the same thing.
edit: There are some really old threads that tell you how to repartition the nook so that you can have two systems on emmc. But that is no longer recommended due to many issues, including updating is difficult and repartitioning is risky.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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so why does my nook list emmc and internal seperately????
... look at the pic

davidmargolin said:
so why does my nook list emmc and internal seperately????
... look at the pic
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Look at my edit2 above. That "internal storage" shown is just a partition of emmc (/data, which is part of emmc where your system data and apps are stored). And other systems cannot be installed there.
Why are you against SD installs?
edit: Just a little educating, emmc means Embedded MultiMedia Card. It is where everything is stored internally. It is partitioned into several partitions, /system, /data, /cache, and others. It creates a media partition to store your media and it calls that "emmc" on that picture you posted. and it calls the /data partition "internal storage". Very confusing for noobs.

merger
forget about dual booting for a sec...
can i merge the two partitions (internal + emmc) together...

davidmargolin said:
forget about dual booting for a sec...
can i merge the two partitions (internal + emmc) together...
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No, see my edit above.
Edit: But you can change the size of each by repartitioning. The old nooks came with a 1GB /data and a 5GB /media. The newer nooks come with 5GB /data and 1GB /media. Looking at your picture you have the old nook.

mnt/usbdisk
sorry... i dont know too much bout these things...
but what about the additional storage mnt/usbdisk (see picture)... whats that

davidmargolin said:
sorry... i dont know too much bout these things...
but what about the additional storage mnt/usbdisk (see picture)... whats that
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That is if you install a usb drive by attaching a special adapter and plugging in a usb flash drive.
If you want both CM9 and CM7, I highly recommend the scheme I listed in my first reply. It's what I use and it works great.

thanks
kk.. thanks alot... ill dual boot with sd...

davidmargolin said:
kk.. thanks alot... ill dual boot with sd...
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After thinking about it, I would recommend reversing which is on emmc and which on SD. You will not be updating CM7 very often and likely updating CM9 a lot. It is easier to update emmc, so I would put CM9 on emmc and CM7 on SD.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

gottcha
so i just use the disk image u gave me and write it to my sd card...
then i put cm7 on the card and the nook does the rest... right???

davidmargolin said:
so i just use the disk image u gave me and write it to my sd card...
then i put cm7 on the card and the nook does the rest... right???
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Yes, assuming when you said 'write' you meant burned the image using win32diskimager.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Fix broken internal storage on GT-I9000M (/dev/block/mmcblk0 corrupted)

I bypassed dead internal memory on a GT-I9000M.
Symptoms:
- Your GT-I9000M is not booting or bootlooping no matter what firmware you are flashing it with.
- In recovery, you are seeing I/O errors on /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
- Trying to repartition and format the internal storage with fdisk or parted and mkfs.whatever fails.
To recover:
- Partition and format your 16GB+ external microSD with at least two primary partitions, vfat on the first one and rfs (or whatever fs is supported by your firmware) on the second one.
- Acquire a stock ROM, in my case I used JL2
- untar the PDA portion of your ROM of choice (you want zImage and factoryfs.rfs)
- Extract initramfs from zImage ( https://github.com/mistadman/Extract-Kernel-Initramfs )
- grep for /dev/block/mmcblk, there should be 4 .rc files containing references to it as well as within the binary file /init.
- use a text editor to replace all occurances of "mmcblk0" with "mmcblk1" (and vice-versa if you feel so inclined) in the .rc files.
- use a hex editor to replace "mmcblk0" with "mmcblk1" in /init.
- create cpio archive of your modified initramfs with `find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initramfs.img`
- repack kernel and initramfs ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789712 ), you should have a new_zImage now.
- Mount the factoryfs.rfs as a loop `mount -o loop,rw -t vfat factoryfs.rfs /mnt/loop`
- Modify vold.fstab - this topic is well covered elsewhere (swap sdcard and sdcard1, swap mount points), then umount your loop
- Flash factoryfs.rfs and zImage using your favorite method.
That's it! Your phone will now boot and complain forevermore that the external memory is corrupt. ToDo: use third partition on external microSD as external_sd...

To recap:
We're telling android's init and whatever .rc scripts contain references to the broken partitions on the internal storage /dev/block/mmcblk0 to point to an appropriate partition on the external microSD card /dev/block/mmcblk1. You can actually do anything you want with the partition structure as long as it's consistent throughout init and in vold.fstab. Different ROMs do it differently.
I am not responsible for misuse of your hex editor, lack of backups, etc. I highly recommend the unbrickable mod.

Corrupt internal storage
Hi b0nafide,
My internal storage is also corrupted (i9000). I'm getting the same errors you descripe in your post. I'm trying your solution in wich you install android on your external SD. I bought a 8GB cat10 SD card....
But I'm stuck at the step: 'Extract initramfs from zImage ( [//github.com/mistadman/Extract-Kernel-Initramfs] )'. When I start the script nothing happens, except for my terminal closing. I'm using a virtualy installed Ubuntu distribution (Backtrack 5).
Do you have a tip? Perhaps you can help me through Teamviewer???
Hope do hear from you... I want to use my phone again
Greatings, Eldoro

My sgs is dead.
Please b0nafide, can you upload this modificated kernel (zImage and factoryfs.rfs) just for noobs like me?

Yes that woud be great. ..
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

Here also an i9000 with reboot
Have done allot, stock rom, other pit files...
Is there a way to do this with a i9000 ?
and yes an image for us ?
and is the phone then normale... or is the internal storage still broken ?
Thanxs

Anyone can help us?

grimorct said:
Anyone can help us?
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???

Anyone with working solution for this on i9000? I'll try to pack JW4 following this guide

grozni said:
Anyone with working solution for this on i9000? I'll try to pack JW4 following this guide
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Yesterday, I made a flasheable pack of JW4, but it doesn't run. Now i'ḿ trying to modify JVU, but a strange thing happen when i'm repacking zImage...the script spends a lot of time in order to make it, and i can't be able to verify the correct pocess of new_zImage.
It's my first post in XDA, because normally I use HTCMANIA... I'm Spanish...and my English it isn't so good. Even, I should said that it isn't my phone...i'm repairing a friend's phone, so it's difficult for me to explain or speak about different ROMs or kernels....sorry
It's very important to advice that the scripts posted should be modified to get it run...because I found different problems to execute on Ubuntu.
Now it's 1:30 am...i'm trying "ext_JVU"....tomorrow i'll tell you the results.
Anyway i'll try to upload it, to reach different conclusions...

sesetxu said:
Anyway i'll try to upload it, to reach different conclusions...
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Please do, I'll try flashing immediately and get back with results. How did you format external sd card?

I'm willing to try aswell... almost gave up hope.
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Hello friends!!!
I've the CODE (PDA file in ODIN) modified to execute android in ext-sdcard.
I do it as the first post said....but it doesn't run for me...
Anyway here is...Yo must get the MODEM and CSC os the stock firmware
XDA block the urls for me...for this reason its haven´t the WWW ...
Stock firmware..only to get MODEM and CSC: 4shared.com/zip/W1NeYAPA/I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA.html?
Code modified to run in sdcard external: rapidshare.com/files/3786190721/ext_XXJVU.tar.md5
To solve my problems, i'll try to generate an CWMfile flasheable to try it...but now i'm hopeless....
Good luck men!!

sesetxu said:
Good luck men!!
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Great work men!! It works for me. After flashing I got error in picture I posted (same error as before when writing to internal storage with stock rom). I just hit reboot but honestly I was not thinking it will boot. Thing I noticed when I start camera I get message turn off usb storage first. My files app shows no sd card inserted. How did you format your sd card? I'm using 8gb class 6 sd card

grozni said:
Great work men!! It works for me. After flashing I got error in picture I posted (same error as before when writing to internal storage with stock rom). I just hit reboot but honestly I was not thinking it will boot. Thing I noticed when I start camera I get message turn off usb storage first. My files app shows no sd card inserted. How did you format your sd card? I'm using 8gb class 6 sd card
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I've modified all to use an sdcard with the folowing partitions:
1st primary fat32 which is internal sd card (4 gb)
2nd primary reiserfs which is /data (2 gb)
3rd primary fat 32 as external sd card
Try it...and I am happy to help you

sesetxu said:
I've modified all to use an sdcard with the folowing partitions:
1st primary fat32 which is internal sd card (4 gb)
2nd primary reiserfs which is /data (2 gb)
3rd primary fat 32 as external sd card
Try it...and I am happy to help you
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I will try this layout. At first I prepared sdcard with 2 partitions which currently boot into Android but storage isn't working:
1st primary fat32 (6gb)
2nd primary ext4 (2gb)
You said raiserfs, should be that rfs type partition?
Update: I just noticed that both partition on my sdcard are fat32. First partition which should be internal storage I had to format again (not sure why). After this internal storage is still not available when in Android. I guess some mounting point is not good. Second fat32 partition is where the data is I guess (picture attached)

Exactly the same result as grozni. Same errors upon installing but booting into android. Amazing work! Also formatted 2 partitions. WiFi also not working btw. Hangs on obtaining ip...
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eldoro said:
Hangs on obtaining ip...
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Same here

Is imposible to start Andoird without a rfs partition to mount /data (or ext4, for ROMs wich has fixed the troubles with ext4/rfs file systems...)
I can´t start the phone, because i get an added problem (my system can't format rfs data..but i don't know why)
I'm going to review the file /system/etc/vold.fstab who manages the mount points of the internal and external storages.
If anyone gets the correct configuration...please post it..
Tomorrow is Monday...and although I'm Spanish, I have a job (****ing crisis)...and i haven't so much time as weekend
Edit: wifi sockets are created over /data partition, if there is any problem in this partition is probably to get troubles obtaining IP

sesetxu said:
Is imposible to start Andoird without a rfs partition to mount /data (or ext4, for ROMs wich has fixed the troubles with ext4/rfs file systems...)
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If I understand correctly samsung rfs and reiserfs are not the same thing? Why you use raiserfs on sdcard layout?
sesetxu said:
Edit: wifi sockets are created over /data partition, if there is any problem in this partition is probably to get troubles obtaining IP
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That is the reason
Update: One more thing I forgot to mention. When I try to format USB storage (internal sd) I get message sd card removed

Cant format sd-card

Hi friend xda,. i have problem formating my sd card..
I cant format my sda card after i make ext2 thrue cwm recovery
i tried format from computer but its doesnt work..i tried minitool no work result..
pls help me i want my sd card to its default size back.. cus copy paste on the sd card wont work even its says copied succesfully the file doesnt exist on folder..
SD CARD SIZE : 8GB
Thank you. hoping your help xda member
Regards..

anyone respond?

demzx said:
anyone respond?
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Delete 3 partitions.. and create only 1 which gets all volume using any partition manager software..
**Nothing is True... Everything is Permitted**
Muffins.. Yay, i want muffins!

Make sure that ur card adaptor or reader is not locked
**rooting is new for me...and i am noob to root...**

menewtoroot said:
Make sure that ur card adaptor or reader is not locked
**rooting is new for me...and i am noob to root...**
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it not solved. . . on windows i format almost 100 times but the ext2 partition still there..
"windows was unable to complete the format"
copy files to the sd card is useless cus the file not there even copy succesfully
thanks in advance

demzx said:
it not solved. . . on windows i format almost 100 times but the ext2 partition still there..
"windows was unable to complete the format"
copy files to the sd card is useless cus the file not there even copy succesfully
thanks in advance
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Windows is not able to format an ext2 partition type. You need to delete that partition first and probably you will want to delete all partitions in your SD card, to create only one partition that windows can format like FAT32.

celisdelafuente said:
Windows is not able to format an ext2 partition type. You need to delete that partition first and probably you will want to delete all partitions in your SD card, to create only one partition that windows can format like FAT32.
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how can i delete the first partition?? where?? now on cwm recovery theres no option (No ext partition No swap) i cant get my sd card back to normal help me

demzx said:
how can i delete the first partition?? where?? now on cwm recovery theres no option (No ext partition No swap) i cant get my sd card back to normal help me
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Use Windows Disk Management Tool, the one in the screenshot in the first post. You can delete any partition with it.

celisdelafuente said:
Use Windows Disk Management Tool, the one in the screenshot in the first post. You can delete any partition with it.
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I did but the partition still there didn't deleted i think it says not supported to delete..any method from phone??

demzx said:
I did but the partition still there didn't deleted i think it says not supported to delete..any method from phone??
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No method from phone...
read my previous post!!!
I told you to use some software like mini tool for windows and just delete partitions... all partitions of sdcard.. and make a new one
**Nothing is True... Everything is Permitted**
Muffins.. muffins everywhere!

nitubhaskar said:
No method from phone...
read my previous post!!!
I told you to use some software like mini tool for windows and just delete partitions... all partitions of sdcard.. and make a new one
**Nothing is True... Everything is Permitted**
Muffins.. muffins everywhere!
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i did delete it dude but still the same see the screenshot

demzx said:
i did delete it dude but still the same see the screenshot
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you call that deleting partition??
i call that removing volume label.. its not deleted at all... try this..delete method..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33706706&postcount=5

nitubhaskar said:
you call that deleting partition??
i call that removing volume label.. its not deleted at all... try this..delete method..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33706706&postcount=5
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solved it thanks ^^ tq for ur strict man..

the result still the same soo sad i follewed ur guide huhuhuhu my 8gb mem bricked..............

well, then.. do this.. get a easus partition manager... and try with that.. i have done deletion and recreating many times.. if you have warranty .. they will replace it too..

it formatted when.. media scanner done its still same result the files still theres.... help

[HARD BRICK ?] - I919x - Make your debrick.img and have it on extSdCard by security

Hi People
We all must have the debrick.img on our extSdCard by security. If we have a Hard Brick we can make like this examples solved whit success.
See two HARD BRICK's solved. I have sending them the debrick.img:
This whit a Guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600869 . One Mega 6.3" I9205.
And this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2624203 . One Note3 N9005 whit Kitkat 4.4.2.
The method is the same for all Samsung devices that have a Pit file on partition mmcblk0.
The principal Thread for this work is this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 Thanks @KAsp3rd
See also this to create the debrick.img: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45725480&postcount=45 Thanks @DocHoliday77
T999 is a example. This Mod work whit Pit.file partition mmcblk0. This is same on all Samsung devices I think. I only change to I9195_Partial_sys...
If You flashed a new Pit file or Updated by OTA (that can bring one), make new debrick.img . From 4.2.2 to 4.3 also.
PS: All People, make your debrick.img and have it on extSdCard by security.
Flash this by Recovery. Saved on Internal Sdcard. Copy it to extSdCard.
(Whit the usual Recovery from @arco68 Dev, the debrick.img is on /data/media.
Whit the Recovery from @Phil3759 is on /sdcard or /storage/sdcard0.

ValenteL said:
This Mod work whit Pit.file partition mmcblk0. This is same on all Samsung devices I think. I only change to I9195_Partial_sys...
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so its ok to use on the i9192/0 variants :good: .. then please edit the title from i9195 to i9190/2/5

Nice! But what to do with the dump image when phone is bricked?

ladislav.heller said:
Nice! But what to do with the dump image when phone is bricked?
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See this Guide made by a member that had a device bricked and I have sending him my debrick.img:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600869
On PC we make a MicroSD (16 or 32 GB) whit Win32DiskImager.exe using the debrick.img. After created this Microsd that have many partitions hidden for Windows but not for the device, We insert it on Bricked phone, press start and begin something to give life to it. Because the debrick.img was made from Pit file I think that is re-writed the PIT and after we have Download Mode and can use Odin.
But see the Thread father from this process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 Thanks @KAsp3rd

ValenteL said:
See this Guide made by a member that had a device bricked and I have sending him my debrick.img:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600869
On PC we make a MicroSD (16 or 32 GB) whit Win32DiskImager.exe using the debrick.img. After created this Microsd that have many partitions hidden for Windows but not for the device, We insert it on Bricked phone, press start and begin something to give life to it. Because the debrick.img was made from Pit file I think that is re-writed the PIT and after we have Download Mode and can use Odin.
But see the Thread father from this process: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 Thanks @KAsp3rd
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OK, now it's clear I think: When phone is hard bricked and says something like QHSUSB_DLOAD when you turn it on, you can save it using the image on sdcard. Is that right?
Another question: What size the dump image will have when I flash your update package in CWM ?

ladislav.heller said:
OK, now it's clear I think: When phone is hard bricked and says something like QHSUSB_DLOAD when you turn it on, you can save it using the image on sdcard. Is that right?
Another question: What size the dump image will have when I flash your update package in CWM ?
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Right.
Dump image called debrick.img have 128 MB. But to create the Sdcard on PC we need one from 16 or 32 GB.
Here the debrick.img from my I9195: https://meocloud.pt/link/220d6612-15d1-4f6f-a762-7e86cadacf0c/I9195-debrick.img.tar/

Hi Thanks for this guide, i flashed it with cwm and its intalling and dumbing the .img ok, but after that i cant find the debrick.img anywhere on my GT-I9195, have i overlooked something ??
Thanks

nibb-1 said:
Hi Thanks for this guide, i flashed it with cwm and its intalling and dumbing the .img ok, but after that i cant find the debrick.img anywhere on my GT-I9195, have i overlooked something ??
Thanks
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Hi
It is on /data/media, the debrick.img is there. On 4.1.2 /data/media is the internal sdcard but on 4.2.2 whit the option multiuser the configuration from it is different (the place depends from the Recovery used).
It arrived to me also. Not seen debrick.img on internal sdcard. Not remember that. I flashed the Recovery from Phil3759 and it work to normal sdcard..
Now I use this Recovery, I like it. See it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463322
For I9195 choice serranoltexx: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_...ltexx/philz_touch_6.08.8-serranoltexx.tar.md5
Is CWM based 6.0.4.6
And You have Your debrick.img on internal sdcard or on /data/media. Copy it to external.

nibb-1 said:
Hi Thanks for this guide, i flashed it with cwm and its intalling and dumbing the .img ok, but after that i cant find the debrick.img anywhere on my GT-I9195, have i overlooked something ??
Thanks
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I had to use FX file explorer to find the debrick.img file. Used the search option. Don't remember where it was, you could't find it browsing the emulated storage (that's how the phone mounts the internal media in Android 4.2.2)

gonzalomorenorovetto said:
I had to use FX file explorer to find the debrick.img file. Used the search option. Don't remember where it was, you could't find it browsing the emulated storage (that's how the phone mounts the internal media in Android 4.2.2)
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Whit the usual Recovery from @arco68 Dev, the debrick.img is on /data/media.
Whit the Recovery from @Phil3759 is on /sdcard or /storage/sdcard0.

ValenteL said:
Hi
For I9195 choice serranoltexx: philz_touch_CWM_Advanced_Edition
Is CWM based 6.0.4.6
And You have Your debrick.img on internal sdcard or on /data/media. Copy it to external.
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many many Thanks that on did the trick for me, got debrick.img on the root in the internal sdcard
also that cwm is looking good

nibb-1 said:
many many Thanks that on did the trick for me, got debrick.img on the root in the internal sdcard
also that cwm is looking good
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And make very well Backup's and Restore Rom's. The usual recovery from Dev make backup's but not restores. Is because this that I decided to work whit PhilZ Recovery.

gonzalomorenorovetto said:
I had to use FX file explorer to find the debrick.img file. Used the search option. Don't remember where it was, you could't find it browsing the emulated storage (that's how the phone mounts the internal media in Android 4.2.2)
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well i found the first debrick.img i did with cwm from arco68 using ES file Explorer and it was not on my internal or external, but found it on the root of my device in data/media...
anyways i´m very happy with the cwm from Phil3759, so i will stay on that
Thanks all

gonzalomorenorovetto said:
I had to use FX file explorer to find the debrick.img file. Used the search option. Don't remember where it was, you could't find it browsing the emulated storage (that's how the phone mounts the internal media in Android 4.2.2)
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nibb-1 said:
well i found the first debrick.img i did with cwm from arco68 using ES file Explorer and it was not on my internal or external, but found it on the root of my device in data/media...
anyways i´m very happy with the cwm from Phil3759, so i will stay on that
Thanks all
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Deleted. Sorry.

ValenteL said:
For CWM from arco68 we can "Try mounting /sdcard first." Quoted @arco68
May be we have it on /sdcard also.
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well it will not hurt to try, so i will give it a go as soon i got the chance...
btw ValenteL i love your avatar.....
for me its somebody that create something new in an new world

nibb-1 said:
btw ValenteL i love your avatar.....
for me its somebody that create something new in an new world
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You can make Your like me whit PhotoFunia from Play Story or www.photofunia.com on Pc where You can edit it by a image editor.
See another on my Perfil. It's me but ... I unknown the girls.

ValenteL said:
For CWM from arco68 we can "Try mounting /sdcard first." Quoted @arco68
May be we have it on /sdcard also.
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Hi Again..
i tried arco68 cwm 6.0.4.6 and mounted my /storage/sdcard1 first (could not see the option to Mount the internal sdcard, but debrick.img is still dumped to the root of my device in data/media/ folder
(btw PhotoFunia is fun to play with, Thanks )
salute all...

nibb-1 said:
Hi Again..
i tried arco68 cwm 6.0.4.6 and mounted my /storage/sdcard1 first (could not see the option to Mount the internal sdcard, but debrick.img is still dumped to the root of my device in data/media/ folder
(btw PhotoFunia is fun to play with, Thanks )
salute all...
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Yes, it have only the external sdcard1. Anyway the recovery from PhilZ also. We can't mount the internal /storage/sdcard0.
I Posted on Thread from arco68 Dev about this.
(btw I wait Your avatar made by PhotoFunia).
Saudações from Portugal

4.4.2 debrick image needed
can anyone upload a 4.4.2 debrick image?
thanks

nubladoensolarado said:
can anyone upload a 4.4.2 debrick image?
thanks
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You want debrick.img to 4.4.2 Kitkat?
You have to 4.2.2 on post #6 to I9195.