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[General Topics] govindadas:
So I have thought about this for a long time. There are some great custom roms/mods/hacks out there. But even they can lack features or have features you don't want.

I mean like choosing individual options that show up in the settings menu, etc...

Isn't it possible to have some source code that contains all the features of all the roms, and have an application that you use to design your own custom version of that rom. Say I want to fix my homescreen to have 4 screens and each screen to have its own background image... If we could just hardwire that capability into the OS via a custom designer/compiler off the source code, and flash it to the phone, that would be awesome...

Maybe that is asking a bit too much, but it seems possible. Although I am on the lower end of the spectrum when it comes to coding and modding, so I may just have no idea what I'm talking about. Maybe there are others out there who have thought of this, or are working on it, or maybe it already exists, but anyway... Just an idea... :rolleyes:
[General Topics] Kailkti:
Kinda hard with all these different devices and UIs, making compatibility an issue.
[General Topics] Dark lord me:
Ummm there is an app that lets you have different wallpapers for each home screen
[General Topics] govindadas:
ya... I mean it would have to be restricted to certain devices or something... but i dunno... just a thought.
[General Topics] itsbeertimenow:
If only every phone company only released 1 or 2 models.

Sent from my HTC Incredible S
[General Topics] Mr.Oug:
I completely understand what you are trying to achieve over here. But there are various factors in place. You are trying to make a kitchen more advance so we can fully customize it but it is not possible with the number of device that are out there and the number of processors. Its not impossible but quite hard to achieve
[General Topics] robertsmigel22:
I am very pleased with the thought and don’t feel like adding anything in it. It a perfect answer.
[General Topics] Mr.Oug:
Which answer.....?
[General Topics] KayxGee1:
Android with a WebOS UI=Better than Sense.
[General Topics] quents:
that's a good idea actually.
[General Topics] govindadas:
Well, I mean, start with one phone model on a specific carrier that is very popular among developers and general users. If a large number of people who work on mods/roms and other customizations got together... then they could probably whip up something.

But, yeah... doing it for a large number of phones would be very difficult...

but starting off simply, could slowly add in features, or a select your phone and carrier type thing...
[General Topics] Kailkti:
In other words, an xda phone. Well gluck rounding up the devs to a particular phone.

$1 gets you a reply
[General Topics] jack928:
Great

Thank you for your work
[General Topics] Dark lord me:
So everyone should get an HD2?
[General Topics] shangjin:
that's a good idea actually.
[General Topics] Dark lord me:
I really would like to see a newer HD2 like device. I mean like the phone that runs everything. but those come with time they aren't made that way
[General Topics] UAL4588:
It's not impossible. I mean it would take a lot of time to complete but you could do it device by device. First you achieve the idea within 1 device. Combine all the roms and put features together and maybe if you add a UI to the application End Users can pick the features they want and tailor their own rom. Developers instead of updating roms they'd add new features to the application. After that you could combine phone's from the same company. Like the Sony X10 & X8. They're not that different and porting won't too hard. And then eventually you get to a General app. Some phones have some features other don't but it'd be just like Market. Some apps are compatible with your phone some aren't. It's a good idea~
[General Topics] mattyray1:
That's a good idea actually.
[General Topics] Skv012a:
What about a GUI rom "cooker"? Devs build their standard roms, but let the end users crunch them through a GUI that lets the users filter what little things they want or dont want to keep in the rom. GUI then repackages it and then we flash it.
[General Topics] govindadas:
Ya, thats pretty much what i mean. So you can choose what options show up in the settings menu, completely customize the power/lock button menu and actions, etc...it seems like it should be possible. Just take a highly customized rom and create an intetface to remove features and compile it. It could all be done in the cloud and notify you when its ready for dl.
[General Topics] Neostriker:
It would be a nice thing. But it would take a lot of work. It would need to be able to take everything into hand, the smallest details. And that would take a long time IMO.
[General Topics] Skv012a:
Not even that much work, since devs know what little bit does what, and making a simple program that either inserts them into the compilation or not, may not be that hard.

In the honest reality, though, why not just use bare and stripped roms and call it a day? All these dumb phones will probably remain so for a very long time, so learn to like or don't use?
[General Topics] Kailkti:
True, we could just use AOSP as the base, make an app that would accommodate tweaks or changes compatible with AOSP. Just what tweaks or changes are there for AOSP? XP

$1 gets you a reply
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Evo_Shift:
Is there a way to turn on auto correct with the dock attached?
[LG Optimus 2x] Fasex:
Hello everyone. I think most of you already heard about this game, but is there a lot of people who managed to play it on optimus 2x?

Before i used modaco and now gueste rom and the game didnt run. then i start the game, after update check it resumes to menu. Until today, i found out, that few guys running cyanogen on their o2x managed to run and play it without any problems. I really wanted to try this game out, so i flashed cyanogen and what do you think? the game runs perfectly!

So the question is - what is so different about cyanogen rom, that it can run this game?
[LG Optimus 2x] vinylakos:
Works perfect for me with gueste 2.2 +update but with kernel fps 2.0a .+swap not working with kernel 3.0 (tested)
[LG Optimus 2x] vinylakos:
The main thing for games not to work is the RAM hacks or the kernel as far as I know .also in some custom Roms you have to edit build.prop cause Google cannot identify the device
[LG Optimus 2x] Dzhedaj:
It was running great on Modaco GR5 and Spica's SR1 and then on RC11-R.

Tried it with Gueste2x (both SR1 and RC11-R) and Django Manouche 0.5, it doesn't run :(

It doesn't seem to be kernel related, so it shouldn't depend on the RAM hacks. Any ideas what's causing problems?
[LG Optimus 2x] Mungulz:
Brilliant on cm7
[LG Optimus 2x] vinylakos:
Reply deleted
[LG Optimus 2x] Dzhedaj:
Tried different ROM setups, even NVFlash recovery, different kernels, etc.

It just doesn't run. Although it did run some time ago...
[LG Optimus 2x] stevvie:
Running fine on modoco gr5 with up rc-12
[LG Optimus 2x] Dzhedaj:
Found a way to run that on latest ROMs!

Restored my old backup of Location, language, timezone from Titanium Backup and it works... seems you need to set your location to GB in order to make the game work properly...
[LG Optimus 2x] Siknett-515:
Solution

Turn off ur locations like network location and gps and run the game. Them u can turn on all locations. thats work for me. (Sorry for the bad english)

LGP990-V20L Android 2.3.4 stock.
[LG Optimus 2x] Odyn001:
Little help :D

This can be halpfull :)
[General Questions and Answers] fenek666:
hi

i bought a Sony xperia arc lt15a few month ago.

since i got it i just had problems with it ... anyway.

so now i tried to update to android 2.3.4 (last update available)

then the update finished so i tried to turn my phone on and its vibrate 1 time a nothing happen so i tried to let it charge for hours,remove battery and put it back,remove everything and put it back, nothing worked so i tried to repair it with pc companion.I followed every step and now my phone still don't turn on....

to do fast:

phone : Sony Ericsson arc lt15a from rogers Canada

unlock bl:no

rooted:no

flashed:nope again

what used to update : PC companion and Zeus ?(the update service thing)

thanks if you can solve my problems anyone don't hesitate to ask some question if they are needed
[General Questions and Answers] fenek666:
anyone know what to do with that problem ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince_be:
Hi,

Is there a way to create a symling in /mnt/sdcard (I want to point to a folder of the microSD)?

Each time I try (several times since yesterday evening...), I receive the message "Function not implemented"...

Example (/data/sdext2 is an EXT2 partition on my microSD) :

ln -s /data/sdext2/test /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/test

The usage of mount -o bind doesn't work for what I want to do ;)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AzureusPT:
First question of all: Are you rooted? If not, root first.

If you are rooted and using shell inside the TF, be sure you do "su" before entering any command to grant root privileges (you should have the # prompt instead of $).

Aside from that, it should work... If is still giving you trouble please post the entire log for that session (just copy paste what you've entered in the console), so we can help you better.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince_be:
Hi,

First of all, thanks for your answer!

My TF is rooted and I use Revolver 3.11.

There are 2 partitions on my micro sd :

1) 8 GB - FAT32 - Primary

2) 22 GB - EXT2 - Primary

The second partition is mounted on /data/sdext2 (mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data/sdext2).

Here are the commands :

su
mount -o remount,rw /
cp -pr /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld /data/sdext2/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld
rm -r /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld
ln -s /data/sdext2/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld
busybox ln -s /data/sdext2/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hachamacha:
Fat32 doesn't support symbolic links. You would need to use a couple of ext* or linux FS's.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince_be:
Hi.

Thanks for the answer.

The second partition (/data/sdext2) is an EXT2 partition. So it seems it's not the issue...

Regards.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spidey01:
/mnt/sdcard is a fuse shim around /data/media. Crest your symlink there.

ln -s /Removable/MicroSD/folder /data/media/folder

Should generally work for most people, depending how how custom your tf is or in your case the card :-)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vince_be:
Hi Spidey01!

Thanks a lot for your precious help!

You are right, I was able to create the symlink using :

ln -s /data/sdext2/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld/ /data/media/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld

If I go to /data/media/Android/data, everything is fine (see ls and ls -l here after) :

/data/media/Android/data # ls

com.google.android.apps.maps

com.google.android.gallery3d

com.google.android.music

com.google.android.videos

com.triactivemedia.modelhelicopterworld

com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld

com.zinio.mobile.android.reader

/data/media/Android/data # ls -l

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-10 15:31 com.google.android.apps.maps

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-10 15:06 com.google.android.gallery3d

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-10 14:57 com.google.android.music

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-10 14:56 com.google.android.videos

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-11 11:45 com.triactivemedia.modelhelicopterworld

lrwxrwxrwx root shell 2012-01-13 23:01 com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld -> /data/sdext2/Android/data/com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld/

drwxrwxr-x media_rw media_rw 2012-01-11 11:15 com.zinio.mobile.android.reader

If I go to /mnt/sdcard/Android/data, I see the link when I make a ls but not when I make a ls -l :

/mnt/sdcard/Android/data # ls

com.google.android.apps.maps

com.google.android.gallery3d

com.google.android.music

com.google.android.videos

com.triactivemedia.modelhelicopterworld

com.triactivemedia.radiocontrolrotorworld

com.zinio.mobile.android.reader

/mnt/sdcard/Android/data # ls -l

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-10 15:31 com.google.android.apps.maps

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-10 15:06 com.google.android.gallery3d

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-10 14:57 com.google.android.music

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-10 14:56 com.google.android.videos

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-11 11:45 com.triactivemedia.modelhelicopterworld

drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2012-01-11 11:15 com.zinio.mobile.android.reader

Do you have another idea? Or should we admit that we can't use symlink with Fuse?

Thanks!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leomeloxp:
I am after this as well, have you managed to get it working?

I managed to symlink to /data/media/0 and file manager sees it there, but if I go to /sdcard there's nothing either.

Isn't there a way to edit fstab to get /sdcard to mount as ext4, instead of fuse? Because all my systems are Linux, I wouldn't have trouble mounting my Tablet over my laptop (even more because I only do wireless connections via ssh)

Sent from PomPoko [TF101G] using TapaTalkHD
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frefol123:
This is how I did it.

mount -o bind /Removable/MicroSD /mnt/sdcard/extsd
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leomeloxp:
I got the idea, but for what I need bind won't work :(

I want to symlink, e.g., a download folder from extsd in place of /sdcard/Download.

Bind only mounts the actual devices, subfolders won't work AFAIK :rolleyes:

Sent from PomPoko [TF101G] using TapaTalkHD
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frefol123:
I just tried mount -o bind /Removable/MicroSD/Download /mnt/sdcard/extsd and it worked just fine, unless that is not what you meant.

Edit: nevermind, I just realized that you wanted to redirected the /sdcard/download folder to the micro sd.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insanelycool:
The adroid app "FolderMount" will accomplish this and does so quite well. If you need to do mounts (links) outside of the internal and external sdcard folders, you will need to donate (inside the app; $2) and then use the option to uncheck destination folder checks. This app works really well for any data that isnt needed right at startup.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikelward:
Thanks, but that looks like it requires root. If I had root, I would have already fixed this myself. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chasman:
[Q] Can't create symlinks on sdcard0...

Running latest Carbon ROM, rooted.

I'm trying to link my /storage/sdcard0/Pictures/Screenshots into /storage/sdcard0/DCIM so Google+ will pickup and upload screenshots automatically.

I've fired up the Terminal Emulator, su'd no problem so prompt is a #.

cd /storage/sdcard0/DCIM works fine c/l prompt showing new path, pwd shows the same.

ln -s /storage/sdcard0/Pictures/Screenshots Screenshots

Gives the message: link failed Operation not permitted.

Obviously not a FAT32 issue as sdcard0 is the internal one so I assume EXT32...

Tried ln -sf... still nothing.

Any ideas?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exec228:
Salut all!

I have android 4.2.2 with all user stuff stored in /data/media/0 (internal SD)

and clockworkmod backup hidden within /data/media/clockworkmod (id est it's not visible unless i navigate outside my SD with a help of some root explorer). But that's not an issue.

The issue is that I use PC based backup with Samba fileshare on smartphone and FreeFileSync running on Windows PC.

And Windows PC cannot access anything outside phone SD, so clockworkmod backups are out of syncing.

I suppose that linking /data/media/clockworkmod to /data/media/0/clockworkmod would make rom backups accessible from PC. Yeah?

So the main question is

What directories are actual and real?

I have

1) /data/media/0/

2) /mnt/shell/emulated/0/

3) /storage/emulated/0/

4) /storage/emulated/legacy/

And I cannot understand which of these is THE original one to operate with.

I would not want to create links on links on links on links...

Thank you!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brent212:
This is almost exactly what I want to do and I'm having the same problem. I want to get a symlink from /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Studio to /storage/sdcard0/Studio, because a picture editing app I use stores the images it creates in /storage/sdcard0/Studio, and I want them to be synced to "the cloud" with my DCIM folder. I've tried the same steps as chasman, and gotten the same result.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidDeveloperLB:
May I ask a few questions regarding symlinks?

I'm thinking of solving a problem (wrote about it here) I have of sending multiple files that have the same name but aren't allowed to be renamed (which can cause issues) , by using symlinks to them (that will have unique names).

1. Will this solution work?

2. If this should work, would it require root, even if the path is public for all?

3. If it should work, what should be the exact command?

4. Is there anything I should know about this method?

5. Is there an official API on Android for symlinks?

6. Can it work on any device?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeyfncoconut:
So I was able to create a symlink to external sdcard on LG g3 running rooted stock kit Kat Rom. I successfully changed Groove's (formerly xboxmusic) offline storage to external sdcard.

The following command was successful in creating a link, but Groove was unable to download music to the directory presumably due to permissions on /many

su

cp -rp /data/media/0/Android/data/com.microsoft.xboxmusic /storage/external_sd

rm -r /data/media/0/Android/data/com.microsoft.xboxmusic

ln -s /mnt/media_rw/external_sd/com.microsoft.xboxmusic/ /data/media/0/Android/data

After these commands, Groove was producing errors stating that there was not enough disk space. As said before, I believe this was due to it's lack of permissions to /mnt

Replacing the last command with the following worked and offline music is now downloaded to external sd card

ln -s /storage/external_sd/com.microsoft.xboxmusic/ /data/media/0/Android/data

Given my experience, you cant create a link in a fuse fs, but you can create a symblink to a fuse fs.

Hope this helps.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hulkinBrain:
Thanks it worked!!

thanks!! this command worked like a charm, i was able to link /sdcard to /storage/sdcard1 to change the default storage location!! Again thankyou very much!:D:D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hulkinBrain:
a small issue

you cant access the internal sd card later on after running this command. Only option is to reboot and revert back to the default settings.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Recently I've had a similar problem on an older device of mine. I wanted to use an application which insisted on having all its data on my internal storage which had a lower total capacity than the app required as free space. Sadly as it turned out symlinking was not enough by itself. In the end I managed to solve this, if you are not interested in the whole story, just skip to the TLDR part! :)

I've a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 (GT-I8160) with CM11 running on it.

The phone happens to have its internal storage split by default, and the one accessible via USB connection mounted to the following path:

/mnt/media_rw/sdcard0

But also appears under:

/storage/sdcard0

Should there a removable SD card be present, that takes its place within the sdcard1 folder on the respective paths, and also a symlink is created to provide yet another path (this might be for compatibility reasons), but that is not important now.

By default the file system on sdcard0 is VFAT which does not support linking. So I formatted this device to ext4. There are many ways to do this, I used philippe734's method. (Thank you!)

After I did this, I was able to symlink fine, but for some strange reason the app did not want to recognize the link. Since the path nested under /storage was FUSE, I was suspicious that it might be the cause of the problem, because it does not support linking either. I even had the same symptom swith ls and ls -l respectively, as posted above. The mount workaround worked, but that was a not permanent solution, which required mounting after each reboot.

I also tried to create a small shell script and run it on system initialization, but I did not manage to make it work, even if init.d was supposed to enabled and working properly.

TLDR

The ultimate solution was to keep the script, and run it with an app on each startup.

My script was:

#!/system/bin/sh
rm -rf /storage/sdcard0/<directory>
mkdir /storage/sdcard0/<directory>
mount -o bind /storage/sdcard1/<directory> /storage/sdcard0/<directory>

Where <directory> was the path I had to mount.

And I have used it with Script Manager. There even is a short tutorial on how to use it here, but its rather trivial.

It apparently is recommended to leave the app on the internal storage of the phone (at least for me and on my OS it was), because moving it to any externally mountable storage caused it not to function properly.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danilo-Sanchez:
Does it work with Android 6?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Sorry, I have absolutely no idea. I don't have any rooted or planned to be rooted device running Android 6. (But I don't see any reason why it should not.)
[Verizon Droid Charge] cnoevl21:
So I dl'd Battery Saver Dr app and when i go into running programs i see like a million apps running, some r android system apps so i leave those alone, but facebook, google maps, twitter, etc. All these are constantly running in the background. I kill the apps and they just start back up again. I go into their settings and change it so they never update...still running in the background. Google maps doesnt even have a setting to turn off the auto sync. Does anyone know how to solve this issue, I'm sure it has a lot to do with why my battery life is such crap.

On a side note; what is the deal with airplane mode going on by itself? It happens a lot after I end phone calls, but also at other random times. I have to turn it off, wait a min or two and hope my signal comes back. Is there a way to remove it from the phone completely? I really have no use for it, especially when it just goes on leaving me with no signal. I also randomly lose signal at times and airplane mode isn't even on. I know its not my area because on my old my phone I never once lost service in over 2 years. Now, I unlock my phone and at least once a day it says No Service.