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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GerasVille:
Hello,

I have a Galaxy Ace with CM 7.1 by KANG and Link2SD and everything was running well untill now, when I wanted to move an app to sdext2. I get the error, the system is read only. I looked in data/sdext2 and noticed, the folder is just ro and not rw and I cant change it. I don´t know what the problem is caused by, because nothing was changed. It doens´t worked after a normal reboot. Is there any chance to fix or have I to format the sdext2?

PS: I´m using SD Booster and Multi Mount SD Card, maybe it´s important.

Thanks
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] franzks:
This is my first post in this forum. I already searched the official thread, and I searched all other threads and I can't find a solution. So I flashed Ice Cream Sunday 2 to my phone last night. Everything is working great, but the only problem I have is the color of the buttons and the text on it are both black, which makes it unreadable. I tried switching to another theme, the instructions said apply theme and reboot. The weird thing was it changed the color once I applied it, but when I rebooted it reverted back to the original color. So do you guys know how to simply remove the CM7 themes and use the stock gingerbread look?

Additional issue: Samsung Kies can't connect to my phone after I flashed it. Is there any other way to sync my .psb contacts file to my phone?

EDIT: I gave up and just flashed another ROM (CM7.2 vo1). Now everything is working good. You may now delete/lock this thread.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] QNBT:
Since i dont use that ROM i dont know all of the details, therefore i cannot help you with the first problem.

The rom is based on CM7 (thats the one, right?), thats why it wont work with KIES, sync your contacts with google contacts instead, it's cloudbased so you wont ever need to save your contacts in a compact file.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] vnthanh:
For the theme problem, you can search for mixer theme and install it

Font color goes better with this theme i guess :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] franzks:
I've tried a lot of themes already. There seems to be some kind of problem with compatibility because they all don't work 100%. That's why I don't want to use any kind of theme anymore, just simple GingerBread look.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Fizztone:
Well if u want gingerbread look.try touchwizzed theme from market.it gives stock look.even if it say some asset missing while applying it works 100% on my ics2..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syco123:
I have 25Gb of available space but less than 2Gb for apps? I'd like to use all internal storage for apps and the external card for media. Any idea how I set that up?

I have a Galaxy S2 Epic (SPH-D710) stock ROM, rooted with the zermax kernel and fited with a Sandisk 16Gb class 4 micro sd card.

Problem discovered while installing Navfree. Got the error message "not enough space". So I can't install and move.

Settings>Applications>Maganage applications>All shows

112Mb used of 1.9Gb available.

Settings>Storage>USB storage shows

Total space is 11.5Gb and Available space 11.5Gb

Settings>Storage>SD card shows

Total space 14.83Gb (aka 16Gb!) and Available space 14.81Gb.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
That's perfectly normal dude.. The system uses a chunk of the built-in 16GB for the ROM's use (/system, /data, /cache plus a few other partitions), and the rest is assigned to /sdcard, hence the 11.5GB (I know, that's kind of like false advertisement but what you wanna do ? Sue Samsung ?)

And for the external SD, that's also normal. I'm surprised you didn't notice this detail on the capacity of your harddrive before : end-users tend to think in "base2" (whereas 1KB=1024 bytes, 1MB=1024KB, 1GB=1024MB, and so on), while media manufacturers count in "base10" (i.e. 1KB=1000bytes, 1MB=1000KB, etc). It's a cheap way to reach the symbolic "GB", "TB", "PB" (etc) landmarks more quickly (at least, quicker than the competition).

Do the maths, you'll see that over 16GB that makes a huge chunk of "magically" disappeared storage, but it never was there to begin with.. Also false advertising there, kind of.. But we're all in the same boat here. :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syco123:
Yea, I understand that, that why I put "(aka 16Gb") as I'm referring to a 16Gb card but listing 14.83Gb available. It was to not cause confusion, guess I failed there! :)

The problem I'm having is, I need around 4Gb (apparently) to install Navfree. I only have 2Gb available to apps even though I have 25Gb of storage.

People must be installing Navfree, so I must be doing something wrong.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
16GB is 16000000000btye/1024/ 1024/1024 = 14. 9GB.

So it is 16Gb and not 16GB.

No such 4gb large program for android. The program is maybe 10-20mb. And the 4gb is the DATA. You can store the 4gb in your SD card.

Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syco123:
I just tried again and it installed with a file size of 15.53Mb. Weird, Oh well, thanks anyway.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
yeah i was gonna say : you might find some bloatware on the android market here and there, but by and large it is still pretty much immune to this phenomenon.. :)

A 4GB program is something you might encounter under Windows, but Linux ? :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mungel:
Sorry that my first post is reviving an old-ish thread, but the initial question asked hasn't been answered (and a search of the forum didn't help me)..

Is it possible to resize the partitions of the internal storage on my s2, and if so, how?

And whilst on the subject of the internal storage, can someone please clarify if flashing a custom ROM will affect files on the "USB storage" partition, or only the files stored on the "internal" storage partition?

Sorry if these seem like noobish questions, but I am new to this customising malarkey, and want to make sure I don't lose any data unnecessarily, like I did countless times with my iPhone...:rolleyes:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
nope, flashing a rom (either stock or custom) *should* not alter usb or internal sdcard storage. If it does, that's a surefire sign that the guy who cooked the said rom has no friggin clue whatsoever about what he's messing with and to steer clear from this particular rom... :D

It must be possible to alter the partitioning scheme to resize the internal storage. At least that's the theory, we're dealing with a flavor of linux here, and everything is doable with linux -and enough effort and dedication.

However, as this partition lies on the same emmc chip as the system, data, cache and kernel/recovery/bootloader partitions, I highly recommend *NOT* to mess with it in any way -not unless you have another smartphone lying around that you could use as backup while your borked SGS2 is shipped back to the samsung service centre, and you're prepared to spend some $$ over the repairs (since rooting is absolutely necessary for this kind of manipulation, your warranty would theoretically be null&void in the process)... ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tfe691:
I am looking for the SGH-T989-Stock-UVKID.tar image Yes i have searched and googled but all of them are dead links. I have checked this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1319830 with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ghettoc401:
I have the stock boot.img file if that's what you're looking for - http://www.mediafire.com/?ctf9c90q9iybl9u
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tfe691:
Thats the one thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ghettoc401:
Glad I could help :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] virtualbug:
How do you flash it back to the phone? Were you able to do that?

If it's not too much to ask, can you share your experience and instructions?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] atmu5fear:
Odin
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeffero28:
So I want to update it to gsb4.3 but for some reason can't get it to download directly on my phone.

No problem I just downloaded it on my pc but when i connect and switch to usb mode it crashes/reboots. Happens with usb debugging on and off if that matters. And never happened on older versions of gsb or stock rom.

If anyone has an idea I'm willing to try it...this phone has been great but if I can't get usb mode working I will have to ditch the old eris for something else.

Edit: I got 4.3 update from using the stock android browser instead of opera mini. Full wiped then flashed and still getting a reboot when going to usb mode unfortunately..thinking it's my computer since nobody else has reported the same issue. Possibly AVG antivirus which I recently installed. Have to uninstall that and see...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
I see that you solved it, but, in the future, you can try starting the phone in AMON_RA recovery, tethering the phone, and choose the USB-MS menu. This should mount the SD card as a drive on your PC. When you are done, unmount from your computer and press trackball on the phone to go back to the recovery menu.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
I'm not to much of a tech head and i know the quad cores help things run faster and smoother... but without ICS, it seems like the quad cores are not being used. What proof is there that ICS will even make full use of the quad cores? Does this

tablet use the quad cores to there full potential with anything? or are the cores just a marketing tool? As far as i can tell, the ipad has faster internet surfing and better a better gpu.

im not here to bad talk the asus or anything, I just want some... reassuring.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Wordlywisewiz:
Your right but when ICS roles out with NATIVE HARDWARE acceleration it will kick even the ipad 3's butt!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xGary:
From what I've heard, ICS fixes a lot of issues. The SunSpider tests (browser test) on the Galaxy Nexus running ICS was faster than the iPhone 4S.

But there is really no comparison between the Prime or any Android Tablet to the iPad. Assuming that you have the money, if you want an iOS tab, get the iPad. If you want an Android tab get the Prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wynand32:
This was discussed in a couple of earlier threads (here's one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1377519). ICS doesn't really improve on Honeycomb when it comes to hardware acceleration or multi-core support. It will, however, likely be more optimized and a better overall experience.

I think most folks are hoping for a better browser experience, mostly. Otherwise, I think performance will be similar.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] skinien:
Here's a great video that shows how the five cores work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1qKdBX4-jc&feature=player_embedded
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Wordlywisewiz:
People need to stop quoting sunspider benchmarks they are extremely unreliable and you never get the same results!

Also those benchmarks where preformed with the stock ics browser! And who uses stock! If they used another browser it would been way faster!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrGiggles:
What is a better browser?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Ectoplasmic:
While I enjoy a little Apple bashing as much as the next guy, lets not lose touch with reality:

Dianne Hackborn - How about some Android graphics true facts?

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wynand32:
Apple can optimize iOS in a way that Android cannot be optimized because Apple controls every aspect of their devices--hardware and software. Hell, I'd be shocked if an iPad 2 wasn't more optimized than any given Android device. And even then, it should be noted that Apple achieves their vaunted fluidity because iOS does far less than Android--lesser multitasking, no widgets, etc.

I'm more than willing to accept a little worse performance because I can do so much more with my Android devices, at least as far as the OS itself is concerned. Just the ability to stock up my Transformer's (and soon to be Prime's) home screens with functional elements like widgets means that I get far more overall functionality out of my Android tablet than I'd get from an iPad 2.

The apps situation is different, of course, but that will change. Already, I can't think of a single task I'd like to do with my tablet that I can't because of a missing app. So, the fact that the iPad 2 might be a little smoother in some things is pretty much irrelevant to me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] skinien:
Yes... all of those words.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I edited/deleted what I originally wrote. I'm sure he saw what I wrote. Regardless of how I feel, everyone entitled to their own opinions. If everyone thought the same this world would be a boring place. Just because I don't agree with opinion doesn't mean i need to counter and rag on the person.

That link does show some very interesting facts n details on how Android operates. This has been posted before but still good info.

I believe Android is more a focus on strengths than on shortcomings. android is getting better n better with every release. I know iOS structure and environment very well but I see the future potential in Android. iOS will always be locked down.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Ectoplasmic:
Cool story bro...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] avinash60:
I used to take sides on the android vs. iOS debate, till the day I took an Arrow in the Knee.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I editEd my OG post.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] darth_suicune:
Theory says: A processor (a core) can only run one thing at a given time. OSs use priority systems and give each running process a short time to do something before passing to the next process in a cycle. Having more cores would mean that each app would go in a specific core, so if you have 4 apps running at the same time, the 4 cores would be used. If you have more than 4 apps, each app would be assigned to a different core so they are distributed instead of acumulating them into just one.

And this should happen even if they aren't prepared for multicore, the system will send each app to a different core so they can run at the same time and be smoother. If an app is ready for multicore, then it can use the different cores to get the same result 4x faster. And even in games, as the GPU only fills textures. Yes, the iPad2 will fill the textures faster, but everything else will be faster on the tegra3 because of the 4 cores loading the game itself and each level faster, calculating each movement faster, and so on.

As browsing goes... read the link given by Ectoplasmic and try what is said there (i beliave it was that article) on your iPad. While loading a complex webpage, if you try to do anything with the tablet, the loading will stop until you release it. There, if it was at least dual core, one core could handle the user interaction and the other the browsing. Being a multitask system, android also has the problem of browsing with possible background apps using the connection (that only has one channel) limiting your speed and performance. Having more cores would soften this effect (because of what i stated first) but never eliminate it. On the other hand, your Twitter, fb, g+ could be getting updates while you load a webpage (it would take 1.1 secs instead of 1.0) but it wouldn't happen on the iPad.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clouds5:
Another day another Ipad (iOS) vs Prime (android) discussion. :D

So eat this, trollz!

If you ever thought about getting or did get an iPad you're not worthy of the Transformer Prime man.

I'd say if you cant decide between the two: ipad2&prime, get the iPad. Why? Because if you dont have an ipad, you dont have an ipad.

If for some reason after reading this post you're under the impression that I suggested to you to get the iPad. Get the iPad. Or read it again.

And dont take me too seriously :D i'm a friendly guy. And i just had some yummie beers and some red stuff out of a strange bottle^^

[Looking forward to the moment when "Sent from my TransformerPrime" is written in this spot]
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
me the child? I see all of your posts, and if anyone says anything negative about your god of a device you turn into a sad little fanboy. I don't feed into negative hype, I know what i see and i know that the apples internet browsing is faster. I was simply wondering what the cores do.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Android fanboys don't own iPads. I have an iPad and Android devices. So I can say I have experience comparing the two browsing experiences. Like I said before, in a sense, it was already stated before what the cores can and cannot do. This nothing more than a rehash of old thread that got closed. Grow some $&@@- and learn to research first, as your question been answered in several other threads here. XDA is not here to hold your hand n tell you everything OK. Get a grip, use search function, don't take everything so seriously ;). If you want to be seen as posting meaningful/informational stuff, then take it easy on the fluff filled threads..lol mr. hype man :rolleyes:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Ectoplasmic:
I've never seen you post anything meaningful.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
One way to look at it is your thanks meter, which is for helpful or meaningful posts. Which I have about 5 times more than you n him combined...just saying :p
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
i agree, this kid goes around insulting and calling everyone a troll if they say anything bad about his tablet..

and just because you own a ipad doesn't mean your not a huuuge fanboy. your a fanboy in the sense that you don't hate the ipad, but your in LOVE with the new device coming out. You can't stand to hear one bad thing about it. You flame everyone who says anything bad about it... also... did you tell me to grow some balls and do research? its good to know your idea of someone with big balls, I my self have done some research, and couldn't find to many answers to this question.

sorry im not the best at research, i figured if i came here and asked a bunch of adults a simple question. (what does the 4 cores do) i would get a simple response. Not a wall of text telling me im a child, by a child.

GROW UP, and stop trying to show off your e-peen, people like you are the pathetic anti social type who rule the internet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Ectoplasmic:
If you were capable of doing the math, you would see the ratio is about the same for you and me, and blaziner18 has us both beat. Just sayin..
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Smart guy huh. Lol I'm done. As several other members jumped on both cases before for what y'all posted before.

Back to topic of what does 4 cores do :rolleyes:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
So should we fight about thanks now? I'm all in!

Anyway, as someone said before, There is no need to optimize an OS for every single possible count of cores. Once Android was optimized for dual cores it was also ready for quad or even octacores.

Much like Windows, Android runs tons of services, processes and threads.

To some extent you can say: "The more single processes/services/threads you have, the more the system runs better on multi core machines"

Games are different here. Many games doesn't use the possibilities they have right now. Creating multiple threads for loading, calculating things, physics etc can speed them up a LOT.

Developers need to do that on their own. But I guess we will be seeing many multi core games in the future.

Tegra 2 devices are getting pretty cheap these days, so in half a year there will be a lot more multi core devices out there.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
cool, I'm hoping that ICS will run the browser as fast as an ipad. As someone said though (which is a good point) android does much more then run browsers and games, i just love to surf the web with my old ipad. I think an very important part of tablets is net surfing, and android should optimize there net.

it would help them steal some people from apple.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I agree. Net surfing is a very important part of the experience. So since you owned an ipad also, its always been known stock safari was not the best or one of the slowest. 3rd.party apps such as Atomic or icab browser was alot faster n better. Same can be said for android. Stock browser sux. Opera mobile n dolphin hd are way better n faster. 3rd. Party browsers are the way to go. Plus multicores help browser experience more vs.single core.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] darth_suicune:
No, it wouldn't probably help. The problem with android is not that is not well optimized. It's that it has more to do than just browse... at the same time. It has services running, it can have background apps running, it can be playing music or writing to disk. iPad isn't doing that, offering a "smoother" feel, but no multitasking along. I prefer sacrificing a 0.1 sec in a 3s load time for having that background apps working. Even if it's 1 sec. It's a flaw of being a multitask OS, they will be able to make it faster, but on the same ratio than Apple will, so Apple will ALWAYS be faster (with same specs). It's just that it reaches a point where power is enough to not be able to see the difference, but Apple will always run smoother. It just makes a difference if that matters to you. Providing we're probably talking about ms, maybe just 1 sec... it doesn't matter to me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
well.... why couldn't i turn off the background apps? thats what i do with my pc, i never really have anything running (besides maybe utorrent) while im surfing. Meh, im sure theres a good reason... im wondering though, does this quad core help with running emulators? because the emulators are pretty great, and im hoping thats because of my fancy quad cores.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Wordlywisewiz:
I'm telling you right now that the ICS browser is Atleast twice as fast on my evo than the gingerbread browser!

And overall the OS is way smother even on my single core @ 1ghz!

The prime can handle it super smooth!

You also have to account for androids widgets! Those are constantly running on your screen!

But anyways ICS on my evo is way faster than gingerbread!

I just tough out the no camera or video playback! Youtube ect.

The multitasking Is great though!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doeboy711:
You can get a task manager to help minimize the background tasks, and any other tasks to make it run smooth. There are many apps that can do it. I prefer the System Tuner app. There is a fre version and a paid version, but it does require root access. You can tweak a lot of settings with that app.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blaziner18:
interesting, it would be great to have a video of someone doing that and showing off the speed of other things. would it even be worth the effort though?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doeboy711:
there is really no effort in doing it. I have been doing it for a cpl of years now with my android phones. I have the System Tuner app and it has preset settings on how you much resources you want allocated to them. You can also manually set the settings as well. I believe there are at least 6 different settings, ranging from letting everything run at once to basically only the app that you have running will be up until you back out of it.