[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] butchconner:
Among the things I have done to increase my enjoyment of my G-Tablets was

to set up a ClockWorkMod Emergency MicroSD Card. I operated and modded by

G-Tablet for almost four months without even using NVFlash! I learned a bunch

of ways to mod and recover -- most of which are in STICKY files are the start

of the various Forums here.

But here is a trick I haven't decribed in detail -- my CWM Emergency MicroSD.

I have always tried to keep one of my G-Tablets as stock as possible, but there

are times you need CWM to repartition or wipe or mount something. To be sure,

you always can with copy from your PC to /SDCARD and install or recover that

way. But sometimes that doesn't work.

When the G-Tablet boots into recovery, it checks the internal memory first to

see if a recovery folder with a command file in it exists. If so, it uses it. If not,

then it searched /SDCARD2 (the microSD external card) to see if it is there and

if it has a recovery folder and update.zip on it.

The key to using a microSD in recovery in the external slot is that the command

file has to point to the /SDCARD2 location. You have to use an editor like

Notepad to go into the command file in the recovery folder and edit the

command line to change /SDCARD to /SDCARD2. Works well, but be sure when

you save to keep the file name as "command" (without the parentheses, of course).

And make sure your editor doesn't add a suffix like .txt to it either.

TO MAKE MY EMERGENCY CWM MiniSD:

1. Download a copy of ClockWorkMod v.8 to your PC. Don't use Rom Manager

and don't use any of the newer versions of CWM. If you do, near-bricks are in

site. (The one exception is that Roebeet has created a special version of this

same software to use with the new generation stock software VS may bring

out -- but you don't need to worry about that yet.)

2. Put you microSD into your PC or depending on what kind of reader/card you

have put it in the carrier/adapter and plug it into your PC.

3. If the download of CWM you have requires it, extract the files so that you

have a recovery folder and an update.zip file.

4. Copy the two files into the root directory of the microSD card.

5. Go into the recovery folder and edit the command file command line to read:

--update_package=SDCARD2:/update.zip

Then save the file making sure the name remains "command".

6. You now have a working microSD, but I do a couple of things more just for

my own use. I copy the update.zip to a second file named "cwmupdate.zip"

so I have a backup if I need it. And I copy the edited recovery folder (and

command file) to "cwmsdcard2recovery" as a backup because every time

you use the recovery folder the process deletes the command file and if you

want to use it again, you have to create it again.

7. The Emergency CWM microSD card will work unless something has messed

up your recovery partition -- so many times you can use it without having to

NVFlash back to stock.

Of course, if you create a card like this, you need to learn CWM and the menus

and the commands on them and how they work.

Also, the stock updates always write over CWM if it is on your system. If you

have this card, it becomes much easier to restore CWM if you need it.

I hope this helps.

Rev

P. S. -- Afterthought. If you don't have a microSD card and some kind of adapter for it

that allows you to work with it on your PC, you're missing a valuable troubleshooting

tool. It also allows you to load pictures, videos, music, etc. for use in the G-Tab.