Help Phone stuck in Clockwork Mod Recovery

Ah that's right, I'd forgotten.

That 2.2 GB in /data is where your apps and private data have to fit.

Backup your apps and data with Titanium Backup.

Here's your version of the rom I used on mine (and I had the 4G Snapdragon version of your phone for my carrier in the US) - a lot of us considered it the best overall for performance and battery life.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1868236

Do a nandroid first if you need to, backup that and Titanium to your pc, clear away the nandroid but not Titanium.

Install Viper.

One of the first questions it will ask is if you want to do a full wipe - say yes, it will do it properly and leave your storage alone. So don't wipe in TWRP at all.

Install Titanium when done, restore your backups.

Btw - Titanium can get you past the small /data size bottleneck.

Backup app and data for your big apps and uninstall them.

When you want to play a big game, restore it, play it, back it up again to save your scores, levels, whatever and uninstall it.

The Viper camera has an added bonus - you can dial back jpg compression in settings, move the slider to 10. Subtract a little from the default "sharpness" and you'll get rid of more grain. That was my favorite camera on your phone.

Explore Venom Tweaks after you've installed it. I think that you'll be amazed.

What Viper will not do -

Overheat your phone.

Have battery problems.

Unless your phone is somehow damaged, which I doubt.

That's why I recommended it.

It is Jellybean.

I don't know how others feel about Candy 5.

It's important to note that Jellybean and Lollipop are families.

When a family member misbehaves, just replace it.

Would other Lollipop roms misbehave?

I don't know.

So I simply recommended what I thought might work out better for you.

Why did Candy misbehave? Evidently, that version must be broken or something.

As to /data and storage.

Yeah - there's a root trick to cross wire them to increase size.

However - given the scare after your internal storage was corrupted, I thought (and think) that you'd like the Titanium trick. It's not hard, only takes a little time, and is 100% safe.

And 200 MB isn't enough most of the time for reasons I won't go into.

And that error could be due to temp files left uncleaned by the Play Store in /cache or elsewhere.

Anyway, you're right - from your description, Candy 5 (I did not say Lollipop) sounds exactly like Windows 8.

Have a great weekend!

Roms consist of two parts - the boot image where the kernel is and the /system image.

Android hasn't officially supported apps on an SD card since Gingerbread.

Private data for apps goes to /data, regardless.

You can change that, in theory, with Link2SD.

I have no idea if it would work with the One X, I don't recommend it, I've already suggested the best strategy using Titanium.

I believe that you can also use your OTG-USB for extra storage on the go.

Stock apps you don't want - uninstall updates, and freeze with Titanium Backup.

Titanium saves to your internal sd card (internal storage) by default.

KSIXephos938 said:

I read a little bit about Link2SD and it feels like a pretty good option for me.

Do you recommend me creating a second partition on my internal SD card and then saving my apps there?

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Not unless you want to convert your phone into a paperweight or an ashtray.

If such a method exists for the One XL, it's going to have to be very customized specifically for your phone.

Your best option is to search the old XDA One X forums and see if anyone did this successfully with a transportable mod that you can just flash.

I had the only One X with a physical sd card in addition to the same internal sd card you have - and no one was happy trying Link2SD on mine.

Don't read this the wrong way (I've been getting grief about my writing style) - when I say I don't recommend something, it's not a personal preference - it's a preemptive warning in case you read about something for another phone and want to give it a go.

Nice, thanks.

OK, so let me try to use numbers and I'm approximating and going by memory.

You have about 2 GB for apps and 9 GB for internal sd card.

You get some extending magic and let's say you now get - 5 GB for apps, 6 GB for internal sd card. Your apps are always live.

My way, Titanium Backup -

You start out with 5 GB of apps, and we're going to distribute them - 2 to apps, 3 to internal sd card.

Except - not really because Titanium Backup *compresses* what it saves.

So that 3 GB of apps you'd have parked on your internal sd card is now going to probably take up only 1 to 2 GB instead of 3.

And it's a no risk setup.

It's like guys on the playing field.

Let's call the team - the apps - and the bleachers and stands for the fans - your internal sd card.

My way -

You have guys on the field (apps) and guys on the bench (Titanium).

You want a guy off the bench, you send out one of players first.

My way - you got 7 guys on the field (and the league is generous so I'm going to say) and 12 on the bench.

Link2SD way -

Now you got all 19 on the field.

But the field isn't big enough, so out come the bulldozers.

These extra guys need room to move, you have to more than double the size of the playing field, tear down a lot of the stands - and trust that the work will be done without completely screwing up the whole stadium.

See how the Titanium strategy is better?

And in this league, you can add more guys to the bench just by temporarily marking off some of the stands for Reserved seating for the extra team to sit.

Does my example help clarify it all?

And btw - I'm not down on Lollipop, I get it, I have it on one of our phones.

But I will just gently suggest again, if you give Viper a try, you may give up a little performance but you're probably going to gain app storage. That's because of how Lollipop handles apps.

Now - you might try Viper, hate it, and think I'm nuts - and that's OK.

But - you have the power of root, TWRP, Titanium, and an OTG-USB setup.

So it doesn't mean that you have to sacrifice anything to try it.

Plus - and this is an old school rooter trick - you don't have to choose and run just one rom.

You can have your main one, your favorite - we call it your daily driver (like a car ok where you're rich and can afford more than one) - and then your other rom or roms that you hot swap out from your daily driver because you like XYZ features.

I do this quite often sometimes - and sometimes, I just roll with my daily driver for long times.

Nandroid backup to your OTG-USB before the swap, restore nandroid backup for your replacement run (that you installed previously and made a nandroid backup of), clear cache and Dalvik, reboot - that's the exact procedure (NEVER vary from it ok).

If you like the idea, practice going back and forth with free time and your pc handy in case something won't play right with your boot partition or something.

(Practice before playing the game lol.)

And - ok if you want to ignore that advice, but you're new so I thought you'd want to know.

Also - I loaned out my OTG-USB rig and I don't recall - but - I think that you can use preferences in Titanium Backup and use your OTG-USB if you want. I know I have Titanium Backups on my internal sd card, my removable sd card, and my Google Drive (you can automatically sync that with the pro version - eventually, everyone goes pro ok lol).

Let me know if this helps / made sense, etc, cheers!

Viper is a team of teams from the main team supporting many phones.

For the One X version I had (same as yours in every way except added an SD card, added kickstand, and unique to Sprint USA radios, called the HTC Evo 4G LTE aka LTEvo) I was a member of the Viper 4G team (doing tests and providing tweaks).

So I know what's under the hood that HTC didn't have.

So - and I really am lol with WifelyMon looking at me funny - 3 guesses what my daily driver is.

Today it the ViperOneM8 rom.

I don't (and didn't with my LTEvo) like the skin, so I use Nova launcher, I use Textra instead of the stock sms and Dolphin instead of their browser.

But - I am a hard core fan of the HTC camera and the HTC mail app.

And the Viper installer lets you debloat the HTC stuff you don't want before installing.

So my daily driver is a debloated Sense with only some Sense apps and a lot of Viper tweaks under the hood and Venom Tweaks on the outside. WifelyMon has the same phone I do and you wouldn't know by the screens, side by side.

If you've noticed from my screen shots, from the status bar at the top to the nav bar at the bottom, nothing about it says Sense. Venom Tweaks makes it possible. Here, I'll show you.

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Nova launcher is the bomb, I kid you not.

For my hot rod rom - it varies - I experiment a lot.

If you like sound, you want this -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223

No relation to Viper roms.

For root tricks you want Xposed but it's late and I'll post back about that.

Stupid forum software, here's the screen shots again.

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Stupid forum software, here's the screen shots again.

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***Off Topic because I need to know***

Holy Wallpaper. Where'd you get it from. I wants.

KSIXephos938 said:

Yeah Viper looks really interesting!

But I just can't make myself ditch Candy5, I'm having way too much fun with it!

And so you rate Nova Laucher as well? I'm debating between Nova and the Google Now launcher.

I want a notifications hub like Blinkfeed in Sense. Does Nova have something simillar?

And you're in Adelaide right now? Or is the pick an oldie.

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Adelaide and I are a long story for another day.

I love Vegemite.

You need a later Sense rom to get Blinkfeed. You can fool Nova and have it serve Blinkfeed (if you have it) without the Sense launcher. I do.

If you like Now, you want that launcher.

Otherwise you want Nova.

Unless you like cool eye candy.

Check out "Yandex.Shell (Launcher+Dialer)"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.yandex.shell

LitrosNub said:

***Off Topic because I need to know***

Holy Wallpaper. Where'd you get it from. I wants.

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I made it with an app called Flowpaper, here's the full file -

flowpaper_1.png

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2MPU5MqABTXN1JDWWtUU0FJeUE/edit?usp=docslist_api

Let me know if you're interested in any of these -







And I have others.

Titanium Backup - you can backup to your internal sd card or your OTG-USB if I'm not mistaken. Play around for the best strategy for you.

As for pro vs free versions - I'm already under fire tonight for being a bad mod and terrible person and I don't want to make it worse.

If I say go free, someone will complain that I'm shortchanging others.

If I say go pro, someone will complain I'm shilling.



Try the free versions and if you like the app and want to support the effort or if the pro version offers more features that you like, go pro.

If the free version is fair enough for you, stay with that.



But sooner or later you're going to want to go pro on Titanium. Most rooters do.

Take your time, see what meets your needs. Android is all about choice. Make it yours, do it your way - that's the number one thing!

Android is a compact, real-time Linux.

Just as you had to add the su library when you flashed SuperSU or your rom, you need some of the other Linux building blocks to make some of the root tools work.

This isn't a desktop with a nice fat hard drive so you need a really compact version of those building blocks.

That's what BusyBox is.

You don't do anything with it (unless you're adept at the Linux command line and know how to modify your rom while it's running) - but it's absolutely necessary for many or most root tools.

If you had attempted to run Titanium without it, it would have stopped at launch and insisted that you go get a BusyBox before allowing you to proceed further.