Root partition help

[1iwilly]

can anybody guide me in the easiest direction to partition my 4 gig sdcard
thanks

 

[someotherdood]

If you have a custom recovery, just back up the card onto pc, then boot into recovery and find the partition option.

 

[new optimus]

can anybody guide me in the easiest direction to partition my 4 gig sdcard
thanks

menu settings sd card and phone storage format sd card, thats assuming you want all of it fat32. and you dont have anything on it.

 

[1iwilly]

If you have a custom recovery, just back up the card onto pc, then boot into recovery and find the partition option.

i was in recovery when i click on partition it gave an error message about adb not found.??

 

[new optimus]

i was in recovery when i click on partition it gave an error message about adb not found.??

Tell us what your trying to do, and we may have a way to do it, just plain partition one full sd card as fat32 can be done multiple ways, if your trying to make a extended sd card partition for a2sd that too can be done multiple ways.

 

[1iwilly]

Tell us what your trying to do, and we may have a way to do it, just plain partition one full sd card as fat32 can be done multiple ways, if your trying to make a extended sd card partition for a2sd that too can be done multiple ways.

i just did the sense rom and it says about the =A2sd support: Create a partition using custom recovery to enable a2sd. Make sure that partition is on ext3 format. Make partition before flashing rom. **Backup your sdcard because during partition it gets formatted.**

 

[new optimus]

i just did the sense rom and it says about the =A2sd support: Create a partition using custom recovery to enable a2sd. Make sure that partition is on ext3 format. Make partition before flashing rom. **Backup your sdcard because during partition it gets formatted.**

ok, which custom recovery do you have? the getitnow one? or the one by joneidy?

when you go into custom recovery and go to the partition menu it asks about adb? that is strange.
Do you have linux on a computer, or even just download a live dvd and run that, do you have a sd card reader or usb adapter then you could format using the computer.
or if no linux available they do have programs that can format sd cards in many file systems. if you have an sd card reader of course.

 

[1iwilly]

ok, which custom recovery do you have? the getitnow one? or the one by joneidy?

when you go into custom recovery and go to the partition menu it asks about adb? that is strange.
Do you have linux on a computer, or even just download a live dvd and run that, do you have a sd card reader or usb adapter then you could format using the computer.
or if no linux available they do have programs that can format sd cards in many file systems. if you have an sd card reader of course.

yes the joneidy? ok i think i have but before i click partition what should my swap size be.???on a 4 gig sdcard

 

[new optimus]

yes the joneidy? i did format the sd card now i need to partition it no.???i have sdk on my puter wxp

get the all in one recovery,

its newer and everything works as intended.

http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/330813-all-one-recovery-thread.html

and if you use these in adb or terminal emulator it will work. after you put flash_image and recovery image on sd card of course.

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system


cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image

chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image

mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img

sync

 

[new optimus]

yes the joneidy? ok i think i have but before i click partition what should my swap size be.???on a 4 gig sdcard

with android you dont want swap at all. so put it to 0mb

 

[someotherdood]

with android you dont want swap at all. so put it to 0mb

False. Our phone does not YET support swap. You could add it in there and the you won't have to repartition again when someone compiles a swap kernel. 32mb is fine...

 

[new optimus]

False. Our phone does not YET support swap. You could add it in there and the you won't have to repartition again when someone compiles a swap kernel. 32mb is fine...

The problem with swap on android phones, if you enable swap space the phone will use it, and if it writes to swap it takes longer to reinitialize the swap then to open the app from a closed state.
android does such a good job by itself in taking care of apps you dont want it to use swap. if the app is not needed it will close it but if you have swap available it will stick it there and since swap is just using storage space, and on the sd card at that it will take it longer to reuse that app.

 

[someotherdood]

I don't believe the phone will automatically start using swap. I just set up swap on a friends mytouch3g/1.2 and I had to initialize it for the phone to make use of it. And adding a swap partition and enabling it doubled the performance.

 

[1iwilly]

ok now that i have [ROM] [THEME] Sense Rom Optimus M how do i get my original apps that i have before upgrading.??

 

[DaniellieeE]

GNM's Recovery Instructions
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image

chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image

mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img

http://androidforums.com/getitnowmarketing/330813-all-one-recovery-thread.html

and if you use these in adb or terminal emulator it will work. after you put flash_image and recovery image on sd card of course.

Which way is correct way to type instructions in. GNM's above has line one only once - Joneidy's Instructions below repeats line one again towards end, see below. Want to make sure, cus I did this last night (for clean start) using GNM's download link, but typed instructions using Joneidy's below. TIA

Joneidy's Recovery Instructions
After the # symbol type:

# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image

# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image

# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak

# mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img

 

[new optimus]

Which way is correct way to type instructions in. GNM's above has line one only once - Joneidy's Instructions below repeats line one again towards end, see below. Want to make sure, cus I did this last night (for clean start) using GNM's download link, but typed instructions using Joneidy's below. TIA

For gnm's use the ones I listed, they are all thats needed.

 

[new optimus]

ok now that i have [ROM] [THEME] Sense Rom Optimus M how do i get my original apps that i have before upgrading.??

for apps downloaded from market you go to market, sign into gmail and then hit menu, depending on which version of market you have you will get a menu with My Apps, or Downloads, click it and it will show you all your apps you can then redownload them.

 

[1iwilly]

for apps downloaded from market you go to market, sign into gmail and then hit menu, depending on which version of market you have you will get a menu with My Apps, or Downloads, click it and it will show you all your apps you can then redownload them.

how doi transfer my phone contact from my sdcard to the phone.???
thanks to all that have replied

 

[new optimus]

how doi transfer my phone contact from my sdcard to the phone.???
thanks to all that have replied

when you sign into gmail all your contacts are restored

 

[new optimus]

but on the off chance they are not you can press menu, while in the contacts find the setting import/export to sd card.

 

[DaniellieeE]

For gnm's use the ones I listed, they are all thats needed.

Quick question - doing this again n using GNM's instructions - Recovery menu still has Joneidy's name at bottom, is this correct? Sorry just want to make sure it shouldn't say GNM or something else - TIA

 

[someotherdood]

sounds like you still have the old recovery

 

[DaniellieeE]

sounds like you still have the old recovery

thanks for quick respond (as always) - how do I get the new one

Edited to add: I did download from GNM's site - can someone post a link please to correct one - TIA

 

[new optimus]

thanks for quick respond (as always) - how do I get the new one

Edited to add: I did download from GNM's site - can someone post a link please to correct one - TIA

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[new optimus]

you need flash image from there and

recovery-RA-optm-2.2.1-GNM.img