Guest derei Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Hello, I want to move on to ICS for my Huawei Ascend G300. I read about rooting, steps needed to install ICS and I think I can do that by myself. What I don't know how to do is to swap partitions, as I have an external SD card and those 2GB of internal SD are just wasted. I would like to have that partition in use, instead of the ~750MB one. Is this change Firmware independent? how to do it? Will it affect my android installation? I'm just freaked out to not brick my phone. Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Modaco owner Paul has done it but we don't know exactly how...yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazzozo Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 It relies on a change to the ramdisk and recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest derei Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 I'm a Android newbie... I just learned what ROM and FIRMWARE words mean :D ... so "ramdisk", seem to much for me right now. Maybe we'll find out how the swap can be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 It relies on a change to the ramdisk and recovery. Recovery ramdisk rather than boot ramdisk I presume? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazzozo Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Recovery ramdisk rather than boot ramdisk I presume? No, the boot ramdisk needs a change. it needs to know what partitions are to be mounted as what. Recovery needs to treat /emmc as /data and /data as /emmc instead, and needs to format and back them up as so, so they need switching there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sandrogp Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 Would be great to have a step by step guide aimed at newbies as to how to make this changes to the boot ramdisk and recovery. Or am I being too ambitious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest derei Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 Indeed, a tutorial for swapping partitions would be great ! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KaterM Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 I suggest you get yourself a text terminal app installed first, try out commands like df, mount etc RTFM on partitioning under Linux, Boot process and such ... And think again. You might even end up writing this tutorial yourself :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest derei Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 I suggest you get yourself a text terminal app installed first, try out commands like df, mount etc RTFM on partitioning under Linux, Boot process and such ... And think again. You might even end up writing this tutorial yourself :-) Thanks for suggestions ... but at this point is like asking a monkey to pick assorted colors. It might be able to do it, if it mimics what it sees. But won't have a clue about what's doing. I have no linux skills, nor android experience. I just know that I would like to better use my phone and I'm asking for guidance. Just changing my firmware to android 4 is a challenge for me, but I've seen step-by-step explanations and I am sure that I can follow that. Now, If I could do some "magic" with phone's internal memory space, it would be neat. Still hoping that someone will be willing to guide me trough this. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest popoyaya Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 With your enthusiasm I'm sure you will learn how to do it. After bricking your phone several times ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest derei Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 With your enthusiasm I'm sure you will learn how to do it. After bricking your phone several times On this I agree with you. But I fail to understand how this kind of answers are meant to help me in my problem. Do you speak on behalf of entire modaco community ? And thus express the unwillingness to help on this matter? Or is just your way to show that you are "smart"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alkapton Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 I know linux well, but not android. Daz is expert guru gurus go to for help. From his hints above I cant figure how to swap pattitions. Daz too busu with cm10 (I hope) to write idiot guides so we must hope for the comming of one willing to translate uber geek into either geek or english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 This thread is nuts. If someone knew how to do what you're asking, it would be done already and you wouldn't need to ask. It's something everyone would want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Somebody does know how to do it. Modaco Paul. He said he'd supply details. I've asked again since then but don't think he saw the message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kyan31 Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 With your enthusiasm I'm sure you will learn how to do it. After bricking your phone several times ;) :o ... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Somebody does know how to do it. Modaco Paul. He said he'd supply details. I've asked again since then but don't think he saw the message.I don't think it's something safe enough to make public. It's published in its current form if you don't mind risking it. The op could just use that if that's what he wants. I'm sure devs would be interested in getting it going. This is kinda horse before the cart territory. No disrespect intended. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrPuddington Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Messing with partitions can be very dangerous - depending on how robust the boot routine is, you can easily brick the phone if you get it wrong. That's probably why you do not see a lot of experimentation here. From experience, I would say there are two ways to achieve the goal. Paul did the "easy" think - the partition is still the same, but he swapped how they are being used. That requires changes in the boot process etc, so it may not be easy to replicate. The second way is to change the partitioning itself - basically making the virtual SD card smaller, and the space for apps larger, without swapping them. With other phones (such as the ZTE Blade) that is quite easy, but maybe not with the G300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest krofinski Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hi all, IMHO, this is an even better approach, because you do not simply swap, but use BOTH partitions at the same time. Everything is explained in this old thread: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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