Used Hboot and unrevoked, dl. Rom manager and flashed with ClockwordMOD.
Now i need to partion SD card, choosing 512mb and 0mb for swap.
phone restartes and i get ! and an android, how long should i wait.
When pressing power it goes into Recovery and i can chose unmount ect.
but nothing happens....
"I will try toggle signature, read that in another thread, its now enabled, hope this will do it."
What should i do, think this is the last step before using Desire HD Rom.
Please help! thanks.
I think this is the third time in tow days that this question is asked.
To solve this toggle signature verification in recovery.
and by toggle dos that mean enable??
thanks
SharDK said:
and by toggle dos that mean enable??
thanks
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No disable.
hmm i think it was, since i pressed it once and it said enable.
But anyway i will try, thanks.
Still the same, exclamation + an android
Last thing I know is to clear cache in rom manager and flash recovery again, also in rom manager. Then try again.
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Thanks that did it....could see it formating!
That worked for me too, thanks...
Well I have been interested in creating an ext 3 partition on my SD card for a while, but shiied away from doing it because it all seemed too complicated. But this morning I read in one of LeeDroid's threads that I should try it through ROM Manager. I had the same result mentioned earlier in this thread - ! + Android.
So I when I saw that it could be fixed by clearing the cache in ROM Manager, etc, I tried that. Well that seemed to work but now when it tries to boot, it takes 10 minutes before I pull out the battery in frustration.
Have I "bricked" it or can I recover from here? I don't seem to be able to get back into recovery mode at all.
Please help!!!
Does your phone boot? If yes you can try to to clear the cache again and the reflash CWM from Rom Manager. Otherwise you can try to delete the update.zip (should only be a couple of Mb otherwise it's a rom) from the sd and replace it with this one.
And if you are already S-off, which i don't think you are nor recommend you to do, you can flash it via fastboot.
I should also have mentioned earlier that I am running a LeeDroid ROM v 2.2e. Since my last post, I re-formatted the SD card and restored my sd card copy to it, so all that data should be intact again.
It booted normally but I noticed that I had a message saying that the SD was "safe to remove". I tried to mount the sd card, but that didn't work. So I then thought I should clear all data. So I rebooted into Recovery mode, deleted all data including Dalvik. Then rebooted. Unfortunately it now goes into a loop. It gets through the old Telstra splash screen, then makes its Android noise, goes through all the checks and says "Success", then goes into the same loop again.
Any suggestions??
When I am in Recovery mode, I can see no reference to the "signature verification" functionality. Where can I find it?
By the way, I have now updated to the LeeDroid 2.3 ROM with the patch applied. Currently I have a blank SD formatted card. When I try to format ext 3 to 512mb as suggested by LeeDroid, I still get the ! + Android.
Thanks
Assuming you are using Clockwork Recovery, boot into recovery and select 'Install zip from SD card', then select 'Toggle signature verification' to turn off signature checking and flash your rom update zip.
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Thanks for your advice, but I still ahven't resolved my issue.
I am trying to create an ext3 partition on my sd card using ROM Manager. This time I went into Recovery and yes I am using Clockwork, I toggled signature varification to 'disable', then rebooted. Next I opened ROM Manager and then 'Partition SD Card'. I set ext3 to 512mb and swap to 0mb and clicked OK.
The device rebooted and then hung with the exclamation mark and Android showing. I went into Recovery again by pressing back and on/off keys. The following error message was displayed:
"E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)
E;signature verification failed
Installation aborted"
I get the same message regardless of having the signature toggle set to 'enable' or 'disable'.
Any suggestions for what I should try next?
Thanks
Graeme748 said:
Thanks for your advice, but I still ahven't resolved my issue.
I am trying to create an ext3 partition on my sd card using ROM Manager. This time I went into Recovery and yes I am using Clockwork, I toggled signature varification to 'disable', then rebooted. Next I opened ROM Manager and then 'Partition SD Card'. I set ext3 to 512mb and swap to 0mb and clicked OK.
The device rebooted and then hung with the exclamation mark and Android showing. I went into Recovery again by pressing back and on/off keys. The following error message was displayed:
"E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)
E;signature verification failed
Installation aborted"
I get the same message regardless of having the signature toggle set to 'enable' or 'disable'.
Any suggestions for what I should try next?
Thanks
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You have several options here, you can first try reinstalling Rom Manager to see if that helps, if not, you could try using this tool to partition the sd card: MiniTool Partition Wizard, or use the Amon-Ra recovery - flash it with unrEVOked and use that to partition your sd card.
As an alternative, you can try using an Ubuntu live cd of GParted by either burning it to a cd or boot it from a usb stick: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download.
Or, you use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-tJe8pXE&feature=related)
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4)
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext2/3/4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0 (or ~32 if you want swap)
Click add
13) Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone
Thanks for your suggestions. I downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard, but for some reason the "Create" function on the tool bar was greyed out so I could not create a new partition. I'll keep trying though. Cheers.
Oks, let us know how you get on.
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well, the latest on my happenings is that I took a bit more time to look at the MiniTool Partition app and was able to partition the sd card successfully. Because I was a bit apprehensive, I used a 2GB sd card for an initial trial and it took me a while to get it right, but I did it in the end.
Unfortunately (there's always one of them isn't there?), now when I connect my Desire to the USB and select "Disk Drive", it seems to connect as if it is "Charge Only" mode. I cannot see the sd card in MS Explorer! Also if I take the sd card out of the device and put it into the sd card slot in my laptop, I cannot read it with MS Explorer, but I can see it using the MiniTool Partition app.
I'll try it again tonight on my desktop to see if there is any difference.
I had your problem with the partition manager but I think you are making a basic mistake somewhere with rom manager. You need to boot into recovery and disable the signature verification as per instructions in this thread. Make sure it says 'disabled'. Then choose 'Reboot system now'. If you had rebooted, turned the phone off and booted again, the signature verification would have been enabled again. You must make sure you toggle and then boot the system immediately. I had your problems exactly but they were fixed by the toggle. The only other suggestion I can make is to clear the cache and the dalvick cache before you toggle and then boot and use rom manager.
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Related
How to partition your SD Card for us Newbies.
how can i do that? Ext2 , Ext3
i have a 8 gb sd card class 6. someone guide me please with a link
Thnx
acronis disk manager can do that but the card wouldnt boot in my phone, so i used the phones internal boot up manager to do it, unlocker.com has a video guide. i only been doing this my self passed 3 days and its been really confusing so good luck
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oMaRcO said:
How to partition your SD Card for us Newbies.
Thnx
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Introductory Remarks:
- Ext Partition is only needed if your rom uses App2SD+ (Froyo app2sd works with basic Fat32 partition)
- "Install apps to sd" (ext) must sometimes be configured in your ROM, check the thread for your rom for infos...
- Backup your SD card before you start ! The following steps will wipe the contents !
- Ext partitions are only visible in Linux = Windows can't see it.
- Swap Partitions are no longer useful.
- You can check if you have a working ext partition with Quick system info (in app market)
- On first reboot after partition, android will move some apps to the SD, this will take a lot of time. Some people have reported a bootloop on green HTC Screen, one reported a need to Battery pull 4 times before it finally worked), so be patient!!!!
- If the device is plugged into a PC when you try to boot with the partitioned SDCard it never gets past the white HTC sceen & logo.
Now the tutorials:
A. Easiest way is to install Rom Manager:
1) install rom manager
2) choose partition sd card
- 512mb ext
- 0 swap
3) let RM do the rest... ;-)
- I believe Rom Manager (as of end of July) creates an ext2 partition, therefore if you want ext3 or 4, easiest is to go through Gparted, or if you have amonRa Recovery, I believe this function is present.
B. Another one is using Gparted:
(copied this from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Apps2SD)
You can use a livecd of GParted, or use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-t...eature=related)
+ You can do this using your phone to mount the SD card or a Card adapter directly connected to your computer.
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4))
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext3 or 4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0
Click add
13) [CHECK AGAIN you are working on your SD card and not your Hard Drive!!!!] Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone and wait (see introductory remarks)
C. Recovery Images
Some Recovery Images also have a option to format your SD card from the recovery screen. (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721792).
I have not tried that.
As long as you have an ext2/3/4 partition and the ROM you're flashing has A2SD support (check before you download the ROM), you are not required to do anything more.
D. How to check if it worked?
To check whether A2SD is working once you've flashed your ROM,
1)Download Quick System Info from the Market, and check under A2SD Storage, it should give you enough informations.
2)download the Android Terminal Emulator app from the market and use the following commands
Code:
su
ls -l /data
You should see your app directory pointing to /system/sd/app and app-private pointing to /system/sd/app-private (courtesy of ikkokusenkin)
E. Further Infos
See: http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-partition-an-sd-card or :
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...rtition-14232/ or:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/ho...-android-when-using-swap-hero-and-or-apps2sd/ (With Rav Recovery...) or:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714 (most complicated way.... )
related thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731432&page=2
F. Open Questions:
What I don't know:
- If the size of the ext partition matters (if you have to choose 256/512 or 1024, and can't have 600mb for example?
- What ROMs require ext partitions? (all with app2sd+, basic froyo app2sd doesn't require ext partition).
- If Class 6 SD cards really are that important (some webpages say that class 2 cards are not able to handle ext2 partitions and end up bricked.
- How to manage the contents in the ext partition when changing SD Cards... (do you need any management of your ext partition?) or you have to reinstall those apps????) See here.
- How to check if you bricked your sd card...
- etc...
Good Luck
Use Rom Manager
Completely painless, took less that 2 mins to do mine
PS - It may appear to stuck at the HTC white screen after completion, I just left it and
it booted up normally after about 3 mins
50 apps installed and 132MB spare!!
The first time round the Rom manager worked for me. But I again formatted the card thinking i had not followed the right partitioning so i tried again but i get stuck on a black screen with SU request written forever which needs to be force closed.
Please advise. thanks
I recently bought a 32gb sandisk and want to get that working heres what I have done with no luck:
I inserted the new memory card and it picked up fine on the phone then I went to rom manager to partition the card, 512mb and 0 swap it reboots but only stays in clockwork mod, from here I dont know what to do.
If I connect the phone to the computer with the card mounted it displays the card as raw not fat32 but music files drag and drop and easily play.
I could format it from the computer to fat32 but I'll wait and see what you guys say.
Chan_B said:
I recently bought a 32gb sandisk and want to get that working heres what I have done with no luck:
I inserted the new memory card and it picked up fine on the phone then I went to rom manager to partition the card, 512mb and 0 swap it reboots but only stays in clockwork mod, from here I dont know what to do.
If I connect the phone to the computer with the card mounted it displays the card as raw not fat32 but music files drag and drop and easily play.
I could format it from the computer to fat32 but I'll wait and see what you guys say.
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Try to format the card back to fat32 using:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
Then check out the Windows way of using parted to partition
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
After partitioning I use clockworkmod to upgrade ext2 to 3.
And you can't always set a linux swap of 0 so calculate 1MB for that part.
I got it to fat32 but then the windows way of using parted to partition seems difficult. How can I tell if I have partitioned my card successfully? How can I partition using clockworkmod only, when I go to partitions menu it only says mount or format, this is frustrating...
Chan_B said:
I got it to fat32 but then the windows way of using parted to partition seems difficult. How can I tell if I have partitioned my card successfully? How can I partition using clockworkmod only, when I go to partitions menu it only says mount or format, this is frustrating...
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gparted has a live cd to partition your sd card
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Hi, i see you all set swap as 0 does that mean its using phone internal storage as swap how fast is read/write of phone ram ? i have class2 32gb card i used the phone boot with the r5 windows.bat to get into it and i set 256 swap/512 ext2/ rest 32bit all seems to work fine.
i note that writing to the sd card is about 2MBps and read is 10MBps.
i have a class4 8gb that writes at 10MBps reads about 17MBps i have had both in the phone and i cant say that i notice lag on the 32GB but i havent had it more than a few days and coming from xda orbit its a big difference.
if i use the card as storage the phone becomes very lag but maybe thats cause in that mode it would have no swap file? might change that when i finally flash to froyo.
gparted kept saying it was unformatted when windows said it was formatted so i gave up with it.
gianton said:
gparted has a live cd to partition your sd card
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Thanks, but I think I sorted it. Fingers crossed.
Just rooted my htc desire and used rom manager to partition my sd card (the one I got when I bought the phone). Everything fine.
then I bought a new Transcend micro sdhc 8GB... this memory card is not recognize by windows if using card reader. So..:
- I inserted into blackberry and connected using usb cable. My windows (Windows xp) can see and access it.
- formatted the new memory card to Fat32
- copy Open Desire and and Official Sense Froyo ROMs, both by Adam
- flashed to Sense Froyo ROM, and when it rebooted, it freezed.. cant get into the system
- flashed to OpenDesire, it worked.
- Download ROM Manager
- choose "Partition SD Card"
- Swap 0, Ext 512mb
- ERROR...
what should I do?
Did you download Clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager before that?
If you create a partition using rom manager do you lose all your apps and settings that you already have in use.
thanks
jankos said:
Did you download Clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager before that?
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yes.. cos when i clicked partition sd card, it asked me to download clockworkmod first.
it goes to recovery screen but with "unsucsessfull" message. cant find sdcard/cache/update.zip ...
the funny thing is, if I copied update.zip from my old memory card into new one. and run update.zip from recovery screen... then it worked.
but when I checked with quick system info, app2sd only shows around 400mb. is that rite?
aoisora said:
yes.. cos when i clicked partition sd card, it asked me to download clockworkmod first.
it goes to recovery screen but with "unsucsessfull" message. cant find sdcard/cache/update.zip ...
the funny thing is, if I copied update.zip from my old memory card into new one. and run update.zip from recovery screen... then it worked.
but when I checked with quick system info, app2sd only shows around 400mb. is that rite?
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Its showing around 400mb for me aswell, but how exactly can I tell if it is working. If I go to manage applications and click on sd card I have a couple that I moved over i.e rom manager but some apps are unmovable to sd card. Are these apps unmovable by design. I hope I haven't done it wrong.
BTW neophyte is the best rom I've used yet.
I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!
mattan said:
I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!
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I think rom manager does that as ext3.
mattan said:
I made partition with Rom Manager.
Do I need now to "swap" ext2 to ext3?
If so, how do I do it?!
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ROM Manager makes directly ext3 format. Do not worry about that
jankos said:
ROM Manager makes directly ext3 format. Do not worry about that
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No it doesn't it makes a ext2 partition, you have to format to ext3... I have used gparted live cd to do this.
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Hi all,
Successfully rooted my Desire today using Unrevoked method.
Since I quite like the Sense UI, I've decided on flashing the "[FroYo Sense] LeeDrOiD V2.3b (17/12 l Official l OC&UV l FAST l STABLE l WWE)" ROM.
My phone software details are as mentioned in the signature.
a. Can I flash Leedroid without upgrading radio, etc?
b. How exactly do I format my SD card in ext3 partition? [Can't find a tutorial/thread to do the same.] --
Also, regarding using gparted in linux, do I directly, say use card reader/connect the phone and format? Since I have a 16GB SD card, I intend to have a 1 GB ext3 partition.
What exactly does "Flash Rom (you may need to toggle signature verifacation)" mean? :-o
and
"# Flash Radio (unless you already have it)"??
I am following the steps/instructions from this link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768703
Thanks in advance.
Radio is fine (don't flash any radio until you really know what you are doing), to toggle signature verification go, in recovery, to 'install zip form sd' there is the option to toggle verification.
How to partition your sd cared with gparted is mentioned enough, do some more searching. There are also some videos on youtube on how to do it. If you have the ability to use a cared reader use it.
TheGhost1233 said:
Radio is fine (don't flash any radio until you really know what you are doing), to toggle signature verification go, in recovery, to 'install zip form sd' there is the option to toggle verification.
How to partition your sd cared with gparted is mentioned enough, do some more searching. There are also some videos on youtube on how to do it. If you have the ability to use a cared reader use it.
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Thanks!
So, with the radio version I have, I can still flash LeeDroid ROM, right?
cthdesire said:
Thanks!
So, with the radio version I have, I can still flash LeeDroid ROM, right?
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yes
10char
Although, it is said that flashing the radios recommended by the dev would be better for battery life, but I guess it is quite open to interpretation.
You could also try using Rom Manager (by ClockworkMod) to partition your SD card through your phone. That's what I did. Less hassle (probably?) than using gparted or installing additional software on your PC.
ROM Manager (from the market) is your friend.....
Will allow you to partition an EXT3 (up to 512mb - Im still trying to figure out how to create a 1GB partition) and then will allow you to flash LeeDroid ROM.
ROM Manager is very simple to use. Just copy the ROM (zip) to a folder on your SD card, use ROM Manager to create your EXT3, do a NANDROID backup (!!!), and then flash the ROM.
Best bet is to backup your apps and data first (use Titanium ?).
LeeDroid ROM is great
wilbur-force said:
ROM Manager (from the market) is your friend.....
Will allow you to partition an EXT3 (up to 512mb - Im still trying to figure out how to create a 1GB partition) and then will allow you to flash LeeDroid ROM.
ROM Manager is very simple to use. Just copy the ROM (zip) to a folder on your SD card, use ROM Manager to create your EXT3, do a NANDROID backup (!!!), and then flash the ROM.
Best bet is to backup your apps and data first (use Titanium ?).
LeeDroid ROM is great
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To easily create your partition up to 1024 MB, you can use an Ubuntu live cd of GParted by either burning it to a cd or boot it from a usb stick: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download.
Or, you use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-tJe8pXE&feature=related)
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4)
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext2/3/4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0 (or ~32 if you want swap)
Click add
13) Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone
You could also use Amon-Ra custom recovery to do this by flashing it with unrEVOked.
MasDroid said:
To easily create your partition up to 1024 MB, you can use an Ubuntu live cd of GParted by either burning it to a cd or boot it from a usb stick: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download.
Or, you use it from within Ubuntu (vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVK-tJe8pXE&feature=related)
1) Connect your phone to your computer (or use an SD Card adapter...., in this case skip to 4)
2) Pull down the notification bar and mount the phone
3) Start Gparted
4) Gparted will search available drives. (Your phone should show up as a USB drive, and will be something like /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1, etc..)
Warning: double-check you've not selected a hdd by mistake!
5) In the upper right corner, select the correct USB device for your phone. (i.e. check to make sure it is correct size for your SD card)
6) Right click on each partition and select 'unmount'
7) Right click on each partition and select 'delete'
If you know what you are doing, you can re-size the partitions and add a new 2nd partition formatted as ext2/3/4
8) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
9) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = fat32
Free Space Following = 512 (or whatever you want)
10) Click add
11) Right click on the big gray bar (should say unallocated x.xx gb) and click 'new'
12) Enter configurations
Free Space preceding = 0
Create as = Primary
New size = [don't touch]
File system = ext2/3/4 (recommend ext4)
Free Space Following = 0 (or ~32 if you want swap)
Click add
13) Click edit, then 'Apply All Operations' to write changes to disk
14) Quit GParted
15) Unmount your SD Card
16) Reboot your phone
You could also use Amon-Ra custom recovery to do this by flashing it with unrEVOked.
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cheers
its the Linux bit that scares me I work in IT but have never touched a LINUX OS so im a bit daunted
Hi, if you have win7 use arcronis disc director home, its the easyest way, i did so, and i'm a non it
I have now 1.5gb of ext3, and it works very fine.
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malaivica said:
Hi, if you have win7 use arcronis disc director home, its the easyest way, i did so, and i'm a non it
I have now 1.5gb of ext3, and it works very fine.
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does the demo version allow this ? otherwise it seems to be £35
wilbur-force said:
does the demo version allow this ? otherwise it seems to be £35
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It is very easy to follow the instructions posted above, I even linked a YouTube video for you and gave you a link on how to create the live cd. You should be fine, give it a go
You won't believe how easy it is... its just because you are unfamiliar with the OS platform.
If you are really struggling, then try this method but be careful as you will be connecting via USB to the PC and executing an automated script (batch file). While the batch file i running, do not disconnect the USB cable while in recovery mode:
1. Turn on your phone while holding the volume down button.
2. You will see HBOOT on the screen.
3. Use the volume buttons to move up and down and power button to select the RECOVERY option.
4. You will now see a red triangle on the screen, at this point plug your phone into your PC via your microUSB cable.
5. Wait for 10-15 seconds and then double click on recovery-windows.bat inside the pushfiles_windows.zip folder you unzipped as part of the root process. pushfiles_windows.zip
6. Using the optical trackpad select Partition sdcard > Partition SD
7. Select SWAP=0, EXT2=1024 and allow the rest to be FAT32.
8. Select the SD:ext2 to ext3 option in this menu.
9. Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select Reboot system now. While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port.
Windows Pushfiles attached below for you.
Thank you all! And MasDroid, thanks for the detailed instructions. I do have Ubuntu on my desktop. Tried formatting on a spare SD card using GParted and seems to be just the perfect thing. I'll do some more reading before flashing the phone. I do have some more doubts. Wanna make sure that I know what am doing.
@ wilbur-force
Dont know, a friend of mine gave my arcronis, think it was the full version. G-parted did not find my cardreader. And the 512mb whit rom manager was not enough space for me. Sorry for my bad english...
Its my 3rd language
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Are the following steps in order and correct (to flash LeeDroid ROM)?
a. Create Nandroid and Titanium backup of the phone.
b. Copy the contents of SD card to a folder onto the PC.
c. Format the SD card with FAT32 and ext3 partition (A2SD+)
d. Copy the LeeDrOiD_V2.3b_A2SD ZIP folder to the SD card (root)
e. Insert the SD card to the phone and boot into recovery
Doubt here: Do I need to 'Wipe Data / Factory Reset' again??
f. Install zip from SD Card.
g. Choose zip from SD Card.
h. Reboot System Now.
Are these steps correct?
Also, after flashing how do I restore the Nandroid/Titanium backup? Do I have to copy the contents (step b) back to the phone and boot into recover and "restore" using Clockwork MOD??
Thanks!
Yes correct order.
Wipe again? In your list I can't find the first factory reset, but yes you should wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache (under advanced) at that point.
After flashing you can restore your apps with titanium, restoring the nandroid (in recovery) will revert your phone back to the state it was of the nandroid so leedroid will be gone. Personally i don't use titanium so can't tell you how to do that, but i sync my apps with appbrain and reinstall them again after flashing.
I do know that is you want to use titanium the backup needs to be copied back to the sd card.
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Yes correct order.
Wipe again? In your list I can't find the first factory reset, but yes you should wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache (under advanced) at that point.
After flashing you can restore your apps with titanium, restoring the nandroid (in recovery) will revert your phone back to the state it was of the nandroid so leedroid will be gone. Personally i don't use titanium so can't tell you how to do that, but i sync my apps with appbrain and reinstall them again after flashing.
I do know that is you want to use titanium the backup needs to be copied back to the sd card.
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Do I have to do a factory reset from recovery at first?
Also after formatting the SD card with the FAT32 and ext3 partitions, do I copy back the previous contents of the SD card back to the phone along with the LeeDroid ROM?
Not before the nandroid if you meant that, wipe before flashing leedroid. So once you're in recovery to flash the rom, first wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache and then flash leedroid in the same session (without rebooting).
Best is to copy back the contend of the sd card, however if you want to start with a clean cart you can also just copy back the clockworkmod folder and the titanium folder.
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Not before the nandroid if you meant that, wipe before flashing leedroid. So once you're in recovery to flash the rom, first wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache and then flash leedroid in the same session (without rebooting).
Best is to copy back the contend of the sd card, however if you want to start with a clean cart you can also just copy back the clockworkmod folder and the titanium folder.
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Thanks again mate.
So here's another of my doubt -- say, I copy the LeeDroid ROM to the SD and boot into recovery to flash the ROM and do a factory reset, would this not delete the ROM also from the SD card? My first ROM flashing and hence these doubts :-o
Thanks for your patience.
Can I just copy back the Titanium backup folder after booting into LeeDroid ROM? :-o
Sd card won't be affected by a factory reset nor by flashing.
You can copy the titanium folder whenever you want.
TheGhost1233 said:
Sd card won't be affected by a factory reset nor by flashing.
You can copy the titanium folder whenever you want.
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Thanks again! Can't hit the "Thanks" more than 5 times!
Shall get down to flashing the ROM..
Shall drop by here for any further doubts. You've been a great help!
Cheers!
Ihave installed starburst on my HTC Desire with the following information:
1. 16GB Class 2
2. Primary FAT32 12.5GB, Primary EXT4 1.95GB
3. Gparted
4. clockwork-2.5.0.7
5. S-ON
6. I’ve done exactly like it’s described on the starburst minisite, did not receive any errors, I started doing the partition using the Gparted live by rebooting with the MicroSD connected by USB as described first deleted the partition and got unallocated space, then first made the FAT32 partition which is primary and 12.5GB then with the left space I made the EXT4 partition which is also primary and it’s 1.95GB then applied. After this I put the StarBurst_Classic_1.4.0.1 zip file into the FAT32 partition and started the phone on recovery and installed the ROM from SD, BUT I didn’t do wipe before installing, after installation was done successfully I rebooted and the phone booted and stayed on the HTC screen and I thought it hanged but it looks like I didn’t wait enough so I took out the battery and booted again to recovery then made wipe and reinstalled the StarBurst_Classic_1.4.0.1 zip from the SD. And was installed successfully then rebooted and everything was good, I skipped all the Google account and stuff then waited for few mins then I rebooted just like it was described to install the Data2SD, it was written that a green LED will flash for around a minute and indicates creation of the new Data2SD ext4 partition and initialization procedure. Then, a blue LED will flash signifying successfully starting the Data2SD program, But I didn’t see the blue LED, I checked my SD settings after that and the internal memory was 54.52MB!! And I don’t know what to do now so please help.
7. NO
8. I did not use any ROM before.
9. ROM version StarBurst Classic 1.4.0.1, did not use any Data2SD installer or reinstalled.
10. NO
11. NO
12. NO
13. NO
14. None
15. None
16. None
17. None
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Same here...
Hi there, I also have the same issue, cannot get the Data2SD to Work, can anyone help?:
1.16GB class 10
2.13,15GB Fat32 Primary and 2GB ext4 Primary
3. Gparted
4. Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
5. S-ON
6. 1) Created a usb boot Gparted disk; 2) Partitioned the microsd card using a card reader, deleting all current partitions and adding 1st the Fat32 Primary and 2nd the ext4 Primary; 3) Formatted de Fat32 Partition in Windows; 4) Copied installation files (Rom and data2sd installer and reinstaller) to the microsd card; 5) Introduced card into Phone; 6) Booted into recovery, did full wipe and turned off signature verification; 7) Installed the rom zip (classic version) by choosing the file from sdcard; 8) Booted and only introduced basic first use configuration (Language, date and time); 9) Booted into recovery and installed Data2Sdinstaller.zip; 10) Booted again, did all the configuration and the available sdcard space was 54mb and not 2GB
7. Yes
8. I did
9. 1) Starburst_Classic_1.4.1.1.zip; 2) Data2SDInstaller_X14E_GB.zip;
10.Not using
11.Did not
12.Did not
13. Did you get any of the following messages in recovery?
- sd-ext could not be formatted, file already exists? No
- Failure mounting ‘sd-ext’ Yes, then flashed the Data2SDReInstaller and it mounted but space was still 54mb
14. End of installation, everything is fine except that Data2SD is not working so i just have the rom without the main feature.
15. Sorry could not get around this step. I connected the device to a windows 7 pc, rebooted from recovery and executed adb logcat log.txt command line, after that it just showed me a lot of lines of text that are problably the boot log you need. When it ends i try to execute log.txt but the file is just not there (?)
Thank you
Hi,
Today i have MildWild v. 3.2 and i´m very pleased with it. One thing though is that i can´t understand is how A2SD works. I thought that the A2SD script was automatically working if only the Sd-card was correct formatted. I have two partitions, the first one is 1 GB ext3 and the second and rest is fat32.
The internal memory has now only 16 MB left.
Do I have to run another script to get the A2SD to work or what is it that I´m doing wrong?
All the help I can get is welcome.
// MatNal
was just on mildwild 3.2 (now on 3.5), A2SD should work fine by default.
how did you partition your sd card. gparted or 4EXT recovery are recommended.
FAT32 should be first (on the left), and ext3 or ext4 should be second (on the right), both primary partitions.
keep apps on 'internal', don't 'move to sd' to use the partition. use apps like quick system info pro or diskusage to check if everything's working.
to get even more space you can move dalvik to sd as well, think the zip attached should be compatible.
also are you S-OFF and changed hboot (to cm7r2)? it's not a requirement, but you might as well to use the space more efficiently.
Thanks for the answer.
I used gparted to partition my sd card. On the left was FAT32 and to the right was the ext3, both primary. So far did I do everything correct then.
I´ll try to format the sd card again and do a new rom installation. Wipe data and cache. Anything else I have to do?
I´m S-OFF but I have´t changed my HBOOT. How do I do that and where can I find it? Can I use Rom manager and use it at the same way that the rom is "installed"?
Anything else that i should do to get the phone back in bushiness?
// MatNal
MatNal said:
Thanks for the answer.
I used gparted to partition my sd card. On the left was FAT32 and to the right was the ext3, both primary. So far did I do everything correct then.
I´ll try to format the sd card again and do a new rom installation. Wipe data and cache. Anything else I have to do?
I´m S-OFF but I have´t changed my HBOOT. How do I do that and where can I find it? Can I use Rom manager and use it at the same way that the rom is "installed"?
Anything else that i should do to get the phone back in bushiness?
// MatNal
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uninstall rom manager first, it's known to cause usb bricks on this phone. you don't need it.
if you are going to repartition your sd, might as well use ext4, should be faster.
you might as well change the hboot before doing a fresh install.
go to alpharev.nl, where you can find hboots. use cm7r2.
it will repartition you internal memory with 145MB system partition, the rom itself has ~110MB system so fits nicely. actual internal memory will go up from stock ~147MB to 287MB
hboot can be flashed one of 3 ways
- fastboot (requires android sdk), commands given on the page
- PB99IMG zipfile, instructions on same page
- android flasher, program which does the same thing (+ other stuff like radios and splash screens)
then reboot into recovery and full wipe fresh install. A2SD should work by default as stated before.
app data and dalvik cache gradually build up on internal the more apps you install. so if you still run out of space, flash the zip i posted earlier (assuming your ext partition is big enough to accommodate apps and dalvik)
okey, thanks!
Some new problems that I did find out this just a few minutes ago. When the phone is off and I press down and power, the first menu gives me the options
fastboot
recovery (which I´v been using several times)
clear storage
simlock
If I now select the recovery menu the HTC screen shows for a second or so and the comes the next menu
bootloader
reboot
reboot bootloader
power down
What happened with the recovery menu? How can I now get to the recovery menu?
MatNal said:
okey, thanks!
Some new problems that I did find out this just a few minutes ago. When the phone is off and I press down and power, the first menu gives me the options
fastboot
recovery (which I´v been using several times)
clear storage
simlock
If I now select the recovery menu the HTC screen shows for a second or so and the comes the next menu
bootloader
reboot
reboot bootloader
power down
What happened with the recovery menu? How can I now get to the recovery menu?
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dunno if i'm honest, may have got deleted somehow
i recommend 4EXT recovery, download the recovery updater from there, and it can flash a new touch recovery for you.
failing that you can manually flash a recovery image using fastboot commands, or android flasher.
Hi,
I had a stock HTC Desire. These are the steps I took:
- First I rooted using unrevoked. That worked perfectly.
- Then I did S-off using alpharev. No problem at all.
- Next I wanted to have a2sd (or mount2sd or app2sd+ or data2ext, WTF is the difference???) to finally be released of the "no memory" messaged (HTC, what were you thinking??). I didn't want to add init.d support to my stock rom, so I picked this rom, which had it built in.
- Before I installed that ROM, I used Gparted to make two partitions on the 4 gb sd card: 3 gb FAT32 and 1 gb EXT4.
- Then I installed the Cronmod ROM. During installation it asked if I had an EXT partition, I said yes.
The phone booted fine so I started to install my apps. I soon noticed my internal memory became to small again! Why wasn't that data2ext thing working?? I remembered from the rooting faq that some ROMs don't work with EXT4 partitions, so let's see if I can change it to EXT3.
I booted into Gparted again and here things started to go bad: there was nothing there! There was 2.74 gb of unallocated space!!!
Not only was there just 2.74 gb on a 4 gb card, all partitions were gone!
- I made two partitions again: 1.76 FAT32 and 999 mb EXT3. I would try to find a solution to get the invisible 1.3 gb on the sd card back later. First I wanted to have this data2ext thing working.
- When I tried to reboot I got stuck on the Alpharev "Why so serious" screen.
- wipe data/factory reset didn't work either, because I got the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)" error. Why is that much going wrong??
- Googling learned I probably had an SD card brick, so I followed this guide. That didn't work at all. I did these two command: fastboot oem enableqxdm 0(unblock your sd-card)
fastboot oem eraseconfig(fix misc partition).
- Finally I did a "partition SD card" in recovery and that got it to recognize my sd card again.
- It still hangs on the "why so serious" screen though. So maybe I need to reinstall the rom? I put the rom on the fat32 partition, but "install zip from SD card" in recovery gives the error "no files found". Also, in HBoot, for a split second it shows some errors: something about missing zip/img files and then "no image or wrong image"
According to the Troubleshooting FAQ I need to do this:
To fix a bootloop/ stuck on HTC Screen:
[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)
[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader
[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.
[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options
[STEP5]- format boot
[STEP6]- format system
[STEP7]- format data
[STEP8]- format cache
[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)
[IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BACKUP]
[STEP10b]- go back to the main menu, select "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard", and flash a ROM which you KNOW works. If you have none, try my failsafe: CyanogenMod
- reboot system now
I did all that, but as explained, it doesn't find any files on the sdcard!
This is the info I have in HBoot:
---AlphaRev---
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
So these are my problems:
- Stuck at "Why so serious" alpharev screen.
- My SD card reports only 2.74 gb size, while it's 4 gb.
- I can't install zip files from the SD card: "no files found", while I can see they are there in windows explorer...
Please help :-(
FINALLY got it to boot again by doing this:
- recovery > advanced > partition SD card
- select 512 mb recovery, 0 mb swap
- next put the rom on the SD card from windows explorer
- install the cronmod (it could finally find the zip!!!)
- during installation select that I have an EXT partition
I can now boot my phone, but just to be sure, I checked in Gparted and I now have only one big chunck of unallocated space with size 3.22 gb :-s
How could I put the zip file on there? Where is the EXT? WTF is going on?
Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.
Elightos said:
Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.
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No, unfortunately not. There's one underway, ordered online.
It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one
kotag82 said:
It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one
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But how did I manage to damage an SD card?
Is there any way to fix it?
You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?
beachcomber said:
You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?
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Thanks, I'll try that H2testw when I get home.
I already tried SD Formatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/), to no avail.
Yes, I mount the SD card from within CWM recovery and then format with Gparted.
I have had the same problem with one of my sd-cards.
I guess it was just the card, which wasn't completely compatible, because with other cards, I didn't had the problem.
I had no problem using it with just one fat32 partition, but as soon as I made the second partition, it failed. It had something to do with alignment. Try to experiment with that...
4EXT recovery was able to kind of revive the SD Card. It formatted it to a total of 3.7 gb, so still quite a lot short of the 4 gb the card should be.
At least it is working now.
Strange... first time I've had bad experience with Gparted.
3.7 gig is quite normal.
4EXT can also check alignment of your partitions....
led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1
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led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1
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And this has to do with the subject of this thread in what way?