Warning about app2sd ! and gathering data about the cause :-D

[Guest Buzing Bee]

Just a quick warning until we can find a cause for this id advise not to partition the SD cards at all as it may not be to do with the app2sd method just the partition layout or weather its a goldcard SD !!

i have a theory that consists of If the sd card is a gold card or not. and i would like to gather as much information as i can so any help would be awsom :-D

can people with apps2sd enabled regardledd if they have this issue or not please post wether there SD card that they partitioned was

A ) GoldCard SD

B ) Stock SD card

And How they partitioned there SD Card

A ) From Recovery

B ) Other Method

In a layout like

Issue :- No SD card + No BT + No Sim

SD card :- Standerd

Formatted :- Recovery

p.s i know this is my first post but iv beed on xda for ages just never registerd here lol :-D

** update :- if u dont know if u have this issue it can be that ADB over usb diesnt work, raido functions like wifi / BT / data doest work, SD card is not avalable

Edited May 6, 2010 by Buzing Bee

[Guest kiokoman]

i can tell you this i have 2 sd card 1 gold (4gb sdhc kingston) and 1 not gold (8gb sdhc kingston), both of this have been partitioned (both with ext3 + fat32) always with gparted on linux (kubuntu 64bit), never used the partiton system on the phone. have flashed my phone more than 20 times (i have a custom rom based on rootupdate.zip of paul) always with app2sd sometimes normal sometimes +dalvik and never had an issue with adp (i have made my 8gb card a gold one after 15 flash of my phone to not remove everytime it) always

compare with this

Issue :- No issue

SD card :- gold actually 8gb sdhc

Formatted :- gparted (linux)

Edited May 6, 2010 by kiokoman

[Guest stevebrush]

Issue :- No SD card + No BT + No Sim + No FM

SD card : - goldcard.

Formatted : - gparted

Hi, here is my story :

Device rooted with r1 method, app2sd + dalvik cache installed (goldcard), card formated from green recovery (pushed files) => device rooted, app2sd working, everything ok...

I decide to try another mod-rom so I re-enter green recovery, wipe everything I can. pull out the sdcard to wipe the ext partition with gparted. then, from there, I can't push recovery files anymore : no adb, no sd, no BT, sim lost network...

flashed from fastboot a stock 1.15.405.4 rom, same behaviour...

I find the trick to re-enable the sd card : fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

so my card is back, sim is ok, but still haven't adb,usb,bt,fm

Edited May 6, 2010 by stevebrush

[Guest kiokoman]

could you please specify if you have olny wiped the partition on your sd card or you have delete the partition and recreated it if so only the ext or even the fat one?

[Guest maximini1]

Mine one:

Part My Sandisk Mobile Ultra 16G SDHC card

1- By Paragon Partition Manager (1.4G to EXT3 + Fat32 rest)

2- make gold card

Root by method r2 + app2sd

Everything goes alright. Phone have sorage ava. at 94M

Check with busybox SD card app installed 130M

[Guest primmen]

I have no issues, and I did it this way:

- Rooted my phone with the tinylinux method

- flashed it with a2sd, partitioned my SD card with a 2 GB partition ext2, upgraded it to ext3 (and also a small swap partition) with the recovery tools

- After a few hours of usage and installing apps, I decided I wanted to move some application cache to free up some internal memory. So, using adb, I moved the /data/dalvik-cache, /data/app and /data/data to the /system/sd/data directory and created the neccessary symlinks following these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/A2SD

- Worked flawlessly, and freed up alot of internal phone storage memory.

Issue :- No issues

SD card :- Goldcard, 16 GB SDHC, some weird brand called ZAP Glider

Formatted :- Recovery

/prim

[Guest nilezon]

Issue :- No issues

SD card :- 8gb class 6, not goldcard

Formatted :- Recovery, selecting swap=128, ext2=1200, fat32=rest

Actually, I would like to know a little more from you guys with issues:

1. Was the SD card a goldcard?

2. SD card size and class (2/4/6/10)?

3. Partition table, including the order of the partitions? (ex: fat32, ext2=1024mb)

4. Method of partitioning the SD? Recovery menu? GParted (with memory card reader or mounted in phone)?

6. Last flashed ROM? (did it include radio?)

Edited May 6, 2010 by nilezon

[Guest stevebrush]

could you please specify if you have olny wiped the partition on your sd card or you have delete the partition and recreated it if so only the ext or even the fat one?

have deleted the partition table and rebuild all (fat32+ext2)

[Guest ZiCoN]

Issue :- No SD and no USB in recovery

SD card :- 8gb class 6, not goldcard

Formatted :- Recovery, selecting swap=0, ext2=512, fat32=rest upgraded to ext3

[Guest PaulW21781]

Issue: no issue at all

SD Card: stock 4gb card (also used it as the goldcard)

Formatted: Recovery console.128mb swap, 1gb ext2, remainder as storage.

I used the original R1 method for rooting from Paul with no issues at all. I then modified his original r1 a2sd release to also use the Dalvik cache.

Market also works perfectly with access to paid and copy protected apps just like it was before rooting.

[Guest afiorillo]

Issue : No

SD card : Class 6 8GB unbranded card

Formatted : Recovery (FAT32 + 768MB ext2)

A2SD + Dalvik patch working. Used original, "manual", Linux method.

Edited May 6, 2010 by afiorillo

[Guest Golgo]

I have no issues, and I did it this way:

- Rooted my phone with the tinylinux method

- flashed it with a2sd, partitioned my SD card with a 2 GB partition ext2, upgraded it to ext3 (and also a small swap partition) with the recovery tools

- After a few hours of usage and installing apps, I decided I wanted to move some application cache to free up some internal memory. So, using adb, I moved the /data/dalvik-cache, /data/app and /data/data to the /system/sd/data directory and created the neccessary symlinks following these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/A2SD

- Worked flawlessly, and freed up alot of internal phone storage memory.

Issue :- No issues

SD card :- Goldcard, 16 GB SDHC, some weird brand called ZAP Glider

Formatted :- Recovery

/prim

I couldn't get this to work following that guide. How did you manage to move the directories?

Under Win7, when the phone is in recovery (CRI) I cant issue any adb commands as that kills the adb-server running recovery...

[Guest Snarkasm]

No issues. Class 6 SD Goldcard, and every flash I do involves wiping the phone top to bottom, installing the zip, partitioning the SD 0/512/remainder, and upgrading ext2->ext3. Every flash has (luckily) been flawless.

Issue: No issues.

SD card: Goldcard, 8GB Sandisk Class 6

Partitioned: Recovery.

Edited May 6, 2010 by Snarkasm

[Guest Snarkasm]

I couldn't get this to work following that guide. How did you manage to move the directories?

Under Win7, when the phone is in recovery (CRI) I cant issue any adb commands as that kills the adb-server running recovery...

Golgo, if you're running the Windows recovery, you can issue adb commands through adb-nilezon, which is in the pushfiles directory you're using to get the phone into recovery. In other words, open a second command prompt to the directory where pushfiles is extracted, and instead of running "adb shell", run "adb-nilezon shell". It doesn't kill the nilezon adb server, which stays open in your other command prompt window, and you can issue whatever commands you need as long as you remember to use adb-nilezon.

[Guest battletank]

Issue: no issue at all

SD Card: 16GB class 2, NOT gold card

Formatted: Recovery console

[Guest slamslugeren]

Issue :- No bluetooth and no usb

SD card :- Sandisk 16gb (no goldcard)

Formatted :- phone Recovery, swap=0, ext2=256mb, fat32.

Rom : Evil-Ds v1.0

[Guest xhemp]

Issue :- No issue.

SD card :- Stock SD Card, not a Goldcard.

Formatted :- Recovery

Edited May 6, 2010 by xhemp

[Guest Ottoman079]

Issue: no issue at all

SD card: 16GB class 2 Sandisk (never used a gold card)

Formatted: recovery (swap=32, ext2=1024, FAT32=rest) upgraded to ext3

I have used the r3 method to root, tinylinux, on that moment i was using the standard 4GB card. Then i bought a 16GB card and formatted in recovery. then i flashed a2sd. All works fine!!

i just encountered one problem:

Before i flashed a2sd i flashed " busybox_tun_desire_signed.zip" and the installation of a2sd failed and was aborted. To be sure i did the whole r3 rooting process again and flashed a2sd first before " busybox_tun_desire_signed". a2sd installed without any problems, but when i wanted to flash " busybox_tun_desire_signed" afterwards, the installation failed and was aborted. It seems like a2sd and busybox don't go well together, some kind of a conflict i think.

i have a win7 64bit pc

[Guest kiokoman]

Issue: no issue at all

SD card: 16GB class 2 Sandisk (never used a gold card)

Formatted: recovery (swap=32, ext2=1024, FAT32=rest) upgraded to ext3

I have used the r3 method to root, tinylinux, on that moment i was using the standard 4GB card. Then i bought a 16GB card and formatted in recovery. then i flashed a2sd. All works fine!!

i just encountered one problem:

Before i flashed a2sd i flashed " busybox_tun_desire_signed.zip" and the installation of a2sd failed and was aborted. To be sure i did the whole r3 rooting process again and flashed a2sd first before " busybox_tun_desire_signed". a2sd installed without any problems, but when i wanted to flash " busybox_tun_desire_signed" afterwards, the installation failed and was aborted. It seems like a2sd and busybox don't go well together, some kind of a conflict i think.

i have a win7 64bit pc

because busybox is already inside a2sd

[Guest WolfspiritM]

Had issues with wifi after flashing a2sd, but found a solution.

I reinstalled everything (including the step1) so everything is like before.

Then I extracted only the 40a2sd out of the zip file (/system/etc/init.d).

After that I booted the recovery Image and did: "adb push 40a2sd /system/etc/init.d"

Rebooted. And A2SD is working great for me now including wifi.

EDIT:

Maybe the bug is in the boot.img?

Edited May 6, 2010 by WolfspiritM

[Guest Biliskner]

Had issues with wifi after flashing a2sd, but found a solution.

I reinstalled everything (including the step1) so everything is like before.

Then I extracted only the 40a2sd out of the zip file (/system/etc/init.d).

After that I booted the recovery Image and did: "adb push 40a2sd /system/etc/init.d"

Rebooted. And A2SD is working great for me now including wifi.

EDIT:

Maybe the bug is in the boot.img?

ah yes, I pasted your method in this thread (the problem solving one, not this 'data-collection' thread) :P

http://android.modaco.com/content-page/307...0/#entry1264048

[Guest Biliskner]

Had issues with wifi after flashing a2sd, but found a solution.

I reinstalled everything (including the step1) so everything is like before.

Then I extracted only the 40a2sd out of the zip file (/system/etc/init.d).

After that I booted the recovery Image and did: "adb push 40a2sd /system/etc/init.d"

Rebooted. And A2SD is working great for me now including wifi.

EDIT:

Maybe the bug is in the boot.img?

ah, i see the difference, you HAVE usb connectivity. whereas our problem is we are missing our usb-connectivity, so therefore we cannot get the red ! triangle to go into a green triangle, which means we cannot flash any zips. which means our usb-port is currently very bricked.

[Guest Biliskner]

i wonder how many people WITH bricked phones (no USB, no BT, no FM Radio) had a boot-loop at "quietly brilliant?" maybe CLEAR STORAGE to get out of boot loop is the "bug"??

[Guest WolfspiritM]

ah, i see the difference, you HAVE usb connectivity. whereas our problem is we are missing our usb-connectivity, so therefore we cannot get the red ! triangle to go into a green triangle, which means we cannot flash any zips. which means our usb-port is currently very bricked.

Doesn't even fastboot (on step1!) recognize the device?

[Guest geek78]

Doesn't even fastboot (on step1!) recognize the device?

for fastboot it is ok, but with adb no, so we can't change nothing as we can mount /system in RW only with adb