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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Hello,

Im trying to change my mount point for my external sd card on my SIII from /mnt/extSdCard to /sdcard/external_sd. My reasons for doing this is some apps cant access the /mnt directory. So i did a little looking around and several posts suggested editing the /system/etc/vold.fstab and changing the lines in there to the correct directory.

I did this successfully and rebooted. It mounted correctly to this location but im getting a load of errors now saying things like "Unfortunatly, Factory Test has stopped", "...android.process.media has stopped", "...mtp has stopped", "...software update has stopped" I dont keep any apps on the external sd card.

Can someone help me with this please?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
Are you sure the folder /sdcard/external_sd/ exists.

Also, if you take your sdcard out do you still get these problems?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Ya i created the folder myself, it does actually mount correctly to this folder when i make the change but i get all those messages. It works ok if i change the mount folder back again to the original location
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Any ideas guys, im really stuck with this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
When you start your phone withour the sdcard physically in, do you still get errors after you changed fstab?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Sorry, yes i still get the errors after i remove the SD card, i also get a message in the notification area saying "blank USB Storage" but im sure that doesnt matter.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
Paste your fstab, you might have made an error.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Is this possibly caused by mounting the folder inside the internal sd (which is also mounted folder)

The line that im changing is:

Original: dev_mount sdcard /mnt/extSdCard auto /devices/

New: dev mount sdcard /sdcard/external_sd auto /devices/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Here ya go
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Why don't you just create a symbolic link from the old location to the new location? That way any requests to the original mount point are redirected to the new one. I'm sure the reason for all the errors is the original mount point is hard-coded into those APKs.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
That sounds like a good idea. Would this actually mean that apks would be able to see these links and follow them without a problem.

How do I create a symbolic link?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Would that work? Most SD cards wont support symlinks.

I just tried to create one with Root explorer and it failed. Couldnt be bothered to try with terminal but assume the same result.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
Ah, you might need to edit your build.prop and change

ro.removablemounts

So it equals /sdcard/external_sd
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
If that works, that's a better solution. Symlinks are possible as far as I know; someone once made an app to be able to move and then symlink Gameloft game files to the memory card so that internal storage wouldn't have to be used. I'll try and find it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
ok i tried changing the line back to /extSdCard and im it mounted correctly but im still getting these errors. Ive posted my current void.fstab here. Crap, its very hard to do anything with this phone as those messages keep on popping up.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
Change it back to what you wanted, then change build.prop as I said.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
I'm in the same boat as you.

After messing with vold.fstab too (before reading this thread), getting my S3 nearly impossible to use (because of the popups), and doing some research, I ran into this:

Is Google blocking apps writing to SD cards ?

http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/

So, apparently, we've hit a deadend. The write permission to the ext. SD card might be gone from ICS 4.0.4 (or from ICS overall), and no 3rd-party apps will be able to write to it in a near future. Forget about app2sd too.

The path might be hardcoded in several parts of the framework, and that's whe we get so many errors after editing vold.fstab.

Damn you, Google!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Oh man I only edited one line and then changed it back. I did this Friday without problems, just did it today and getting all these messages. Didnt update my version of android either, dont understand why it wont go back.

All for the sake of just wanting another mount folder.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
I'm sure google are aware of this issue, they were working on making android use the /mnt/sdcard0 notation to support multiple sdcards.

Is it the same with cm9 where somebody can change these reference.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
OK figured out what i did wrong, of coarse it was stupid. Firstly i got an original untouched fstab file from someone i know who has another s3 and copied it to the /system/etc. Im not sure if it was because it was an untouched file or that i messed up but what i think i did was copy it to the location all along and edit an fstab file that was in /etc instead of /system/etc.

I don't know if the same thing happened to you but ive attached the untouched fstab file for you to copy and try and get your phone working. Hope this helps.

So guys back to point you were saying about linking? :-)

https://rapidshare.com/files/3622250406/vold.fstab
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Evidently at the end of the article linked above, the issue has been patched in CM9. So if you really, really need this to work, use CM9. I think it's stupid though that apps can't take advantage of secondary storage.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
These 2 are the same location. /etc it's a symlink to /system/etc
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Ya kinda realised this after i posted. I dont know what i did to fix it then, i copied the file and rebooted and it worked, even though it seemed like the lines were the same.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Hey went to look at the build.prop and it doesn't have that line ro.removablemounts in it. Should I add it? does it matter where I add it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
Search on here for directorybind
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanith:
Not 100% sure. It was just something I noticed other people were doing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricochet69:
Thanks man directorybind is just what i was looking for. See below for tool.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wootever:
thanks
[HTC One X] Fuseless:
Hi All,

Should I decide to buy a One X, I am considering ordering it from france through a friend, as most units sold here are without warranty, and the ones that come with warranty are usually overpriced.

I did the same for my current HTC Touch HD, but I got stuck with french ROM, couldn't install official english rom as the support site required my phone's serial and provided the rom accordingly.

If I get the one x from france, will i be able to change my phone language without spoiling warranty with custom roms?
[HTC One X] Fears:
I bought mine from France and i'm using it with english you get to choose the language when you first set up the phone.
[HTC One X] Fuseless:
gr8 news thx :D
[HTC One X] Piczkolot:
In Android you have almost every language, so you shouldn't care about that :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Im an impatient idiot. Lol. I flashed a boot.img through Odin but I flashed a euro img accidentally. Now my phone turns on shows the Samsung screen and then turns off or screen goes black. I think I need to refashion the sprint stock firmware and it'll work. I can find it. Anyone have it and could send it to me please? I tried doing a factory reset already to no avail. Please help!

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jdelano:
hopefully over the next few days we'll see the tar ball for stock; course you could always head to your nearest sprint store and have them flash it for you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] KennyG123:
Questions go in Q&A
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
same thing happened to me. Just spent over a hour at my local sprint store. My tech told me they dont have any software for the phone yet but they did order me a replacement s3. The tech just tried to hard reset it but it doesnt even boot recovery.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] nabbed:
Does this help?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1725395

If you can get into odin, just flash the tar in PDA mode.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
I guess Ill give it a shot. I can still access odin. Just not too sure if I should continue to tinker with it since sprint has already agreed to send a replacement
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] nabbed:
You see when you flash a wrong image, instead of the phone working better you will get quite the opposite. :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
lol ur absolutely right. This heatwave is making me stupid
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Yea I have talked with Sprint, no one has the stock firmware. What does that link you sent out contain? I cannot access it yet because I am a newbie. I can access Odin and am able to reflash if I have the correct firmware.

Also, sorry for posting this in the wrong place.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jdelano:
Basically the link is for rooting your phone; there are 2 threads in the development area concerning it.

If someone did a factory reset; then went into recovery and did a backup.

Could that backup be used by someone else; say this poor soul. To use to restore them back to stock?

I'm thinking if channelzer0 could get their phone to CWM they could use that method to get back to a working state; would that work??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
I can get into both recovery or Odin. Whether itll work or not....im willing to find out if I can.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] nabbed:
You should be able to simply flash the recovery and the phone should work.

But yeah, someone will probably post the stock rom by the end of the day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jdelano:
I can't do it now as I'm leaving and wont be back until mid-night; if there isn't something you can odin or flash by tomorrow morning. then I'll root and backup my phone, then reset it and backup again and post that backup for you to try.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
patience is truly a virtue...

---------- Post added at 08:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

can boot into recovery now but still no dice
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] noobnl:
download:http://d-h.st/qi8

adb push boot.img /sdcard/boot.img

dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 bs=4096

Be patience next time
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Fantastic, thanks. I would like to try this. Can I make this .img a tar file and load through Odin? I put the .img on an external sd card but CWM cannot see, only the internal memory.

How do I ABD? Sorry Im a newb.

Thanks again for your help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gr33nd3vil:
Wait for your replacement an dont tinker till qbking77 releases a video so you dont break your phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kpkimmel:
*facePalm* to this whole thread....:cyclops:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
adb cant find my device...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kpkimmel:
make sure usb debugging is checked in developer options....and also usb drivers are installed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
I checked debugging mode last night but since I havent been able to boot up my phone at all. Only through CWM do I get any response. I dont think its a driver problem because odin recognizes my phone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Thats the thing, I cant boot up the phone so I cannot check off USB debug mode. I was able to get CWM flashed and boot into recovery. I cant choose the boot.img because its on my external sd card. I plug in my phone to my pc while in recovery and it comes up with samsung android sph710 but cant find a driver.. I installed the S3 toolkit and installed s3 drivers that way but to no avail, still comes up unknown. I even tried manually selecting the drivers folder but nothing.

Any ideas on how to get the img on my internal memory or flash it via Odin like i did with CWM?

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
Do *THIS* and let me know if it works please.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kpkimmel:
hold on goofball.... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82716879/Sprint_L710_GSIII_Samsung_USB_Driver_v1_4_6_0.exe

install those drivers, dl the boot.img from post above me...open odin, flash that and you will be all set.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Mark-

I tried using the toolkit but on both option 4 and 6 it was asking me to put the phone in USB debug mode, which I cannot. I am going to try and flash your tar through Odin manually now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Flashed the tar via Odin successfully. Now the phone is in some sort of cycle. it vibrates, samsung pops up and goes away very quickly, then after a short while, it vibrates again and samsung comes up quickly, again and again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jdelano:
Damn, looks like the restore of a backup might be the best option. I'll check in here in the morning to see if you've had any luck
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Fenaris:
I just ran it myself and I get this exact same issue. It appears to be a slight bit of progress. Appreciate the efforts to get us back up and running.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] teh roxxorz:
If you still need help, I just recreated a backup today, and can take all of it out and see if you can flash my boot.img.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Thanks Kimmel - I think those were the same drivers in the toolkit install. I installed over anyway but I still get Mass storage controller, SM Bus controller, samsung and unnkown device come up in unknown devices after install. I tried manually forcing the drivers but nothing.

Thanks Delano- I actually never was able to flash your img file you posted. It might work. I just cant get it on the internal mem so I can flash via CWM. I dont know how to flash the .img extension through Odin.

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
Can you post your boot image so I can compare with the other one I have and make a tarball.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
That would be much appreciated!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] hoffman1984:
I took a dump of the phone and am attempting a flashable stock ROM type deal for now... It's a BIG ROM right now, though. lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] hoffman1984:
And i'm all new to the ICS deal... Not sure if deodexing methods are the same... Or really anything for that matter. lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
To anyone with a bricked phone from flashing the gsm boot image try flashing this via Odin as a PDA and let me know how it goes.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?46fwjutr74j3v6a

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
mskip

mskip DUDE it worked, OMG you are amazing.

---------- Post added at 01:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 AM ----------

mskip have a drink on me mate
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
Glad it worked. Now do you fancy testing some other modified boot images? I have 3 to test via Odin.

You have the working boot image incase any of them dont boot properly. I dont mind if you dont want to.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
sure i'll help in any way I can.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
Do you have google talk? If so pm me your email.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Bizdady:
Good to hear mskip was able to get a fix so quickly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] tkemack:
You dudes need to buy this guy a beer or 20.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kpkimmel:
post your fix in development to help others.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Bizdady:
Looks like mskip might be workingon a tool kit.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] ReggieTee:
Exactly.

Called himself a newbie. You need to be researching bro.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
right? I was hoping by monday something would be up lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gr33nd3vil:
Just wait noobel is coming muhaha.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] channelzer0:
Mark- You are the man. This worked without a hitch! I can't thank you enough. And thanks everyone else who contributed. Thanks for letting me learn.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] teh roxxorz:
He did a great job of using my img. I was looking into converting it, but he took care of it. Great job.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
much appreciated teh roxxorz
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
Anyone in here want to test some boot images im working on adb root and need to know if the stock images im compiling are working.

Pm me if you have used Odin/adb and dont mind flashing for a bit. The stock boot image in the development thread will always get you out of a bad flash.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] s3xda:
cmon guys help mskip out...I would but Im stuck at work at the moment smh
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mskip:
No takers at all thats a shame I wanted to get it done tonight so I could start on the ToolKit.

Ohh well :)

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gr33nd3vil:
Hit up noobel or qbking77
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] brickeds3:
Stock Rom

Guys, I already posted one post about my sucessful root followed by an unsuccessful font change which now hangs my phone at the boot screen with the blue light flashing.

I am pretty new to this. I tried unrooting, but that didn't work. Would the file posted here 10 mgs to fix the GSM flash help me out? I have CDW and ODIN access still to the phone, but no idea how to fix it.

I'd love to find the stock sprint rom.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] squirrel702:
Hard bricked s3

I have hard bricked my phone due to me being an idiot. I placed Omega on my sprint phone and now my phone does not respond at all. Not any button combo works. I have found something called a micro usb jig that they used for the S2 model and all other Samsung cells. Will this work for me or is there another way to get my phone back without going to sprint. I only had the phone for about 2 weeks so this sucks really bad. I had it rooted and Blaze rom on there but I wanted to try Omega oooops.

PLEASE HELP:eek:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gr33nd3vil:
2 weeks are you serious? Replace the phone holy f...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] squirrel702:
FIXED

Well I took it back and as soon as I got home rooted and put on Hellfire rom which I think I like Blazer better but still playing with it. Do you guys have any roms that are really good for the sprint version S3 or any other cool mods for this phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcelloyoda:
Hi to everyone

can you post me a guide that explains how to get the root and how I can get the Recovery Touch pls?

Ps: the bootloader is unlocked

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowCodeGaming:
Psst; There is a rumor that there is a very nice tool on the web that can find answers for you... Not sure but i think it is called google...:silly:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpm:
Look at the forum stickies :confused:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1newbie:
NEXUS ONE WIKI has all the infos that u need.

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nexus_One
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] am-rj-tbt:
Yea bro be careful and just read n follow the steps one by one on those Wikipedia pages its pretty easy :):):)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
It's not Wikipedia, but XDA-Developers Wiki :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aqnd:
Unlocking was the hardest part (lose all data and likely no backup :p)

Just flash any (compatible) recovery and reboot into it.

Then flash su.zip to get root access.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ickster:
So far I have two. No biggie, I know there are some that don't work with ICS.

My Harley Davidson screen app w/ Willie G spinning Icon -intend to contact developer.

And Grand Theft auto(latest?) hosed. Screen went grey. It may have just been processing. I did not wait long. I deleted it 'cause I'd never even played it before and could not be bothered.

Have not played with a whole lot of apps yet. I don't do a lot of games. But I have a ton of camera and photo apps.

I'm liking this phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stonew5082:
Scrabble is completely unnusable. It was a crap app to begin with, but it loads like 9 repeated frames lol.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zonly1:
Need For Speed - Shift...for some reason, it will not d/l

Asphalt 6 says that the device is not compatible request a refund.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] HaloMediaz:
Netflix app is working, but soft key buttons stay on while watching, which is annoying.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] p3rljam:
Max Payne. It sorta works. Graphics are fine. But the user interface hasn't been setup for our phone making it unusable. I am sure it will be updated soon.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] carrrnuttt:
I have no such issues on mine. Just touch the screen again after the video loads, and the software buttons go away.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ickster:
I'm thinking most Apps will be upgraded pretty quick. This beast is sure to be popular!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] LadyGlockenspiel:
Mass Effect: Infiltrator.

Downloads the extra data fine, but crashes at different times on the headphone screen or in the opening movie.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] DeadPlasmaCell:
Light Flow is completely forked on mine.. LED stays on randomly, the phone announces when you're opening & closing folders.. very odd.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Pivo99:
Can anyone confirm whether or not fifa 12 shows up in the market? And for anyone who has bought it does it work properly?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nonmindo:
Same Issue here with Mass Effect and Dead Space

Real Racing2 crashes after the intro video with a "stop here" error, something about unable to load an mp3 file

Most Gameloft Games say to get a refund

I tried before / after root, also tried restoring to stock from TGA Gunman's nandroid backup, same issue

This is a known issue with Light Flow

"Samsung Galaxy S3 (US versions) - Some support, but fixed green light when no notifications and the color map is mixed up"

http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1695
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] huggosz:
It does work, and it shows under my apps on the playstore but it lags pretty bad :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Disconn3ct:
To get the announcements to stop just disable the talkback assistor. bug in the firmware that enables it when you turn on light flow.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Pivo99:
Well that sucks... Hopefully they get it optimized for the s3 soon.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] brfield:
SD Tools doesn't work
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vr5411:
In my Xperia arc thread.

With 9 screens and 5 rows in app tray.

Post feedback.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ThilinaC:
can you make a version with 5 home screens and rest is like 9 home screen one ? (5x4 app drawer,lesser font size and rotatability )
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vr5411:
Not a problem. But I'm away from my pc. Wednesday.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Adiassidik:
(deleted, sorry)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vr5411:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27896735&postcount=823