A few weeks ago I rooted my Optimus V (2.2.2). Everything was working fine (Superuser, root uninstaller, and terminal emulator all able to access root). I don't have a custom rom or recovery; I basically just wanted root so I could delete bloatware.
I got a new 32 G microSD for Christmas and wanted to try installing it tonight. I was following the instructions here: (on the android central forum) optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/73753-howto-using-larger-sd-cards-no-more-storage-woes dot html - the only different being that since I don't have a custom recovery, I used the partition tool suggests here rather than doing it directly on the droid: (on this forum) optimus-v-all-things-root/364833-link2sd-you-tutorial dot html. But once I rebooted the new card, with all the files on it and partitioned, Superuser no longer works - so I can't run Titanium Backup to restore my apps and settings. I haven't even got to the point of Link2SD yet.
So I put the old (factory 2G) card back in - and now superuser isn't working with the old card either.
Titanium Backup gets stuck on the Asking for root permission screen. Superuser itself will sometimes open successfully (with no info in it, since I've reinstalled and cleared cache so many times) and sometimes crash. Root Uninstaller just gives me a blank screen. Typing su in terminal emulator gives me this error: "Activity Superuser Request (in application Superuser) is not responding"
I've spent the last four hours on google trying to find an answer to this. I've rebooted, uninstalled the root apps, reinstalled, tried reverting back to the previous version of SU, cleared all the caches, cleared the data on the apps, gone into the stock recovery and wiped the cache partition there.
At this point I don't even care about getting Link2SD up and running. I just want to get my 32G card installed and all my apps to work, preferably without re-rooting or reverting to factory or anything else that would take a lot of time. (At least I do have a recent backup. I guess. So I'll try it if all else fails.)
The only thing I can think of is that I realized I'd stupidly moved Titanium Backup to the original SD card after I installed it. So I did uninstall and reinstall the app to internal memory after I put in the new card the first time I tried to use it. Which led to a overful internal memory, so I uninstalled the 8tracks app. And then Silent Boot updated itself. And that's it.
Oh, come to think of it, while I was creating the backups I was getting some texts from a friend and eventually got the "message memory full" error. A reboot fixed that. The other thing that happened while I was backing up was that superuser (internally, not through Play) requested to update its binary from whatever it used to be to 3.1.1. So I let it do that. Then rebooted, and then I ran another backup before I copied everything to my laptop and started the SD card upgrade/partition process.
Essentially, I have the same problem as this person (I started a new thread because they have an Esteem and mine's an Optimus): (on this forum) esteem-all-things-root/590823-help-sd-card-nightmare dot html. Looks like it was never solved over there.
I do have the entire contents of my original 2G card sitting on my desktop. I haven't tried the suggestion of copying them over one at a time, because my original SD card is having the issue, which implies that the problem is not the file structure.
Any suggestions? I'm at a loss.
I got a new 32 G microSD for Christmas and wanted to try installing it tonight. I was following the instructions here: (on the android central forum) optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/73753-howto-using-larger-sd-cards-no-more-storage-woes dot html - the only different being that since I don't have a custom recovery, I used the partition tool suggests here rather than doing it directly on the droid: (on this forum) optimus-v-all-things-root/364833-link2sd-you-tutorial dot html. But once I rebooted the new card, with all the files on it and partitioned, Superuser no longer works - so I can't run Titanium Backup to restore my apps and settings. I haven't even got to the point of Link2SD yet.
So I put the old (factory 2G) card back in - and now superuser isn't working with the old card either.
Titanium Backup gets stuck on the Asking for root permission screen. Superuser itself will sometimes open successfully (with no info in it, since I've reinstalled and cleared cache so many times) and sometimes crash. Root Uninstaller just gives me a blank screen. Typing su in terminal emulator gives me this error: "Activity Superuser Request (in application Superuser) is not responding"
I've spent the last four hours on google trying to find an answer to this. I've rebooted, uninstalled the root apps, reinstalled, tried reverting back to the previous version of SU, cleared all the caches, cleared the data on the apps, gone into the stock recovery and wiped the cache partition there.
At this point I don't even care about getting Link2SD up and running. I just want to get my 32G card installed and all my apps to work, preferably without re-rooting or reverting to factory or anything else that would take a lot of time. (At least I do have a recent backup. I guess. So I'll try it if all else fails.)
The only thing I can think of is that I realized I'd stupidly moved Titanium Backup to the original SD card after I installed it. So I did uninstall and reinstall the app to internal memory after I put in the new card the first time I tried to use it. Which led to a overful internal memory, so I uninstalled the 8tracks app. And then Silent Boot updated itself. And that's it.
Oh, come to think of it, while I was creating the backups I was getting some texts from a friend and eventually got the "message memory full" error. A reboot fixed that. The other thing that happened while I was backing up was that superuser (internally, not through Play) requested to update its binary from whatever it used to be to 3.1.1. So I let it do that. Then rebooted, and then I ran another backup before I copied everything to my laptop and started the SD card upgrade/partition process.
Essentially, I have the same problem as this person (I started a new thread because they have an Esteem and mine's an Optimus): (on this forum) esteem-all-things-root/590823-help-sd-card-nightmare dot html. Looks like it was never solved over there.
I do have the entire contents of my original 2G card sitting on my desktop. I haven't tried the suggestion of copying them over one at a time, because my original SD card is having the issue, which implies that the problem is not the file structure.
Any suggestions? I'm at a loss.
