yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lonely_Boz:
Do you use any sd-ext scripts? I suggest you Mount2sd.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342387
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dariush_jab:
Partiton

hi dear

u have to explain how u made EXT partition , i think u went wrong way

tell me about Ur SD size ,and how many kb aligned for that
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colin_404:
You might also want to include details like which Rom,etc.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juanmanuelsanchez:
Im using Cool Droid V3 with a 8 GB SD Card

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1279016

I will reformat my SD Card and try everything again. If i do it right, should the internal memory change in size?

And wich should be the partition sizes?

Thanks in advance !
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
that depends on the hboot u are using. about ext4 partition, most roms require ext4 1gb - 1.5gb max

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Acer Iconia A500] Shparekh:
Hello,

Thank you for helping me solve this problem. I am completely new to android.

I needed to install Indic fonts on acer a500. I used Blackthund3r's Easy tool to root ICS 4.0.3. But then when I try to copy the fonts into system/fonts on the device the copy always fails. I have tried Root Explorer, EZ File Browzer, etc.

What am I doing wrong? Ofcourse the rooting tool is successful in rooting the device... at least it says so. And I set the file system in the a500 root tool app to RW. But the copy still fails.

TIA.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
You have root access but your system folder is still on read only. You need to set permissions to RW.
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
if using root explorer go to the folder you wanna copy from or to and click the grey box at the top saying "mount -rw" you will then be able to copy.

its like setting a windows file from read only to read,write,delete
[Acer Iconia A500] nyhtcguy:
Going from memory, but I think I remember reading that Blackthund3r only gives half root. You may not be able to mount the system folder as rw the usual way.

But Blackthund3r should have also installed an app called A500 Remount. If you have it, open and you will see an option to set system to mount r/w.

Then you should be able to paste what you need. After that, r/w permission will last until your next reboot. After reboot you'll need to use A500 Remount again if you need to access /system again.

Good luck...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EggosEvo:
I just installed CWM through SFHub's Autoroot package, and my boot animation changed upon the automatic reboot to the animation that just says "Android". Is that normal, and is it something i should be worried about if its not normal?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
You're fine. As long as it booted, you're fine.

That's a fallback bootanimation when no other one is detected. The same thing would happen if you were using a kernel that used the qmg format over 'bootanimation' but you had a bootanimation zip in /system/media.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gtuansdiamm:
The only time you should be worried is when your boot animation is static

That almost never occurs on our phone so your good
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] EggosEvo:
Alright. Thanks.

If i wanted to change my boot animation how would I go about doing so? Is there a thread you can point me to?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scott_0:
naryric Kant's

yup normal, same thing I got until I flashed Blu Kuban
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] KCRic:
Can't name any threads off the top of my head. Just search 'how to install bootanimation' With Samsung, the type will matter (qmg vs bootanimation) depending on the kernel. As far as I know, most custom kernels support bootanimation zips. just read the OP to check.

Now, most will have a CWM flashable package but if you find one in a ROM you want or it's not wrapped in a nice package:

It goes in /system/media and must be named 'bootanimation.zip' the permissions are rw-r-r (though I'm sure r-r-r works too).
[LG Optimus Black] pipo_nhoc:
My phone is in black screen with 4 button blinking. Can't get into Software Update mode. what should I do?

I try to reflash using smarttool but failed the problem remain after i flashed the rom.

I think i will try abd but i don't know what to do, please help me debrick my phone

Thanks.
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
If you cant get into SW Update mode, your chances to unbrick, are rather small... Did you try to unbrick it with and without battery? If not, give it a shot. ADB probably wont help, since your kernel doesnt seem to be loaded successfully... Which software did you use before the brick and which one and how did you try to flash it?
[LG Optimus Black] pipo_nhoc:
Yeah i tried with and without the battery and there are no thing change after the flash process. As i remembered that I installed one of Chinese dictionary and the problem orrcured. I don't know how to do now.

I try LG updater but also failed because i'm using cocked Rom.

Please help me.
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
And your sure, you held Vol+ while plugging in the USB cable? Just to make sure, it isnt just such a small user error... ;)
[LG Optimus Black] pipo_nhoc:
yeah i did all the right things, this is the first time i get this error for this phone, each time i entered software update mode the screen hasn't show anything just a white death screen.
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
Did you try R&D Testtool + Workaround? You can find links in my noob how to ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryansaffer:
Hi,

My friend thought it would be hilarious to enter my lock pattern incorrectly too many times so my Nexus locked me out. Problem is, it won't accept my google login as correct. I know the details are 100% correct, because it works online, and I have searched everywhere and all I can find is people telling me that a hard reset is all I can do.

However, I am overseas and have been travelling for 5 months, and have over 2000 crucial pictures and videos that I just can't afford to lose. Does anyone know any way at all that I can pull off my media from the Nexus, because once I have them I don't care if I perform a hard reset on the phone. I don't care how complicated it is, I NEED some way to save those images!!!

Any help would be so greatly appreciated!

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
Can't u just plug it in the computer and take em out???

And dude. U should've gotten DropBox. That's what ppl like u should have when having important stuff.

First question. Are u rooted???
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jubakuba:
If you're unlocked already...

Boot into a custom recovery (power off. Then power on while holding both volume buttons until it boots into the bootloader)

Then navigate to recovery (if you're using a custom one). If not:

fastboot boot recovery recovery.img

(change recovery.img to the correct file name)

TWRP/CWM/ETC will work.

You should have ADB access from this recovery.

Then use:

adb pull /data/media/ /SDCARD/

This will backup your phone's SD card files to a C:/SDCARD/ folder.

_______________

NO idea what that s*** means?

Use my guide to get a CWM.img and info on setting up ADB/Fastboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryansaffer:
No I'm not already unlocked, I never wanted to mess with my phone in case some glitch happens and I lose everything. How ironic. Does any of that stuff you wrote work if the phone is not unlocked?

Also no I'm not rooted. I'm not a very tech-savvy guy, so is rooted and unlocked the same thing..? When I plug it into my computer, normally it would behave like a usb, but because it is locked it comes up with that weird picture of like a small cellphone with headphones, and while it appears in the file explorer it is just blank when i click on it.

thanks guys!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] luftrofl:
You aren't using 2-step verification, are you?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] franck2k5:
Sorry, I'm always skeptical when people ask how to unlock a phone.

How are we sure It's actually your phone ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Factory resetting wouldn't delete the sdcard it only deletes your Google info and apps. Boot into the stock android and preform a factory reset. This is what it normally does is wipe data which are the apps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
If you go into the settings and perform a factory reset through the settings menu it deletes EVERYTHING off the phone so I think the same can be assumed if you did a hard reset from outside.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Before flashing a new rom you factory reset or wipe data... it hasn't ONCE OR EVER deleted my photos or virtual sdcard.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
That's with a custom recovery and wiping from recovery. He's not unlocked or rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Well that's Bologna. Sorry. :( maybe using Odin to go back to stock or with Fastboot otherwise he's outta luck. These ways don't delete those things I don't believe.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
Yeah it really does suck =\ I hope he figures out something.

@OP if you happened to enable instant upload via Google+ then some of the photos might be there. Just a thought =\
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
I've personally never used this but maybe it will help.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1614827
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Forgot you could do an adb pull of everything. Although he would need USB debugging enabled... which requires unlocking the screen if its not by default.

Isn't there a emergency dialer... has the OP googled for a bypass code maybe?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryansaffer:
I actually think the one thing I do have tahts positive is that usb debugging is enabled. I did it like 5 months ago when i bought the phone because people told me it just makes the phone run faster, so i can assume it hasnt turned itself off.

and yeh i have tried absolutely everything, including all these weird tricks i found online such as trying to access notifications during a phone call, or rebooting and as it loads up you try pressing all the buttons like crazy (which doesnt work obviously because Gnexus has capacitive buttons). the only strange hitch i have found is if i open emergency dialer and immediately press the return button, it opens the slide to unlock screen. but from there, whatever i do it just takes me back to the google login page...

thanks for helping guys!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Yeah you can adb pull /data/media that will put your virtual sdcard on your computer. Just need to install the android SDK and you'll be good to go. If you want I can do this remotely via team viewer. Or you search "how to setup android SDK" that should give you a tutorial...

Oh and not to be a smart ass but the gnex doesn't have capcitive buttons it has on screen keys. LOL only phone that does so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
I'd do like Uber suggested and try an adb pull of your media. adb pull /mnt/sdcard or adb pull /sdcard I think.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Lol its exactly what I said... /data/media is the sdcard :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] foxehkins:
=p I'm really sleepy lol. Hopefully something turns out for the good!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryansaffer:
Alright... Well yeh like I said I am not tech savvy at all so I don't know what this stuff means, and I would love to let you do it remotely however the bad news is, like I said, I'm travelling, so I actually don't even have a bloody PC available (im using my transformer prime right now which ironically is also android). However I'm in NYC at the moment so I'm going to take all this stuff to try and find a guy in a computer store somewhere if he could do it. otherwise could i contact you sometime in the near future (could be between now or a couple of weeks) when i will have access to a PC and I could ask you to do it then??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Sure not a problem. :D

Email me at crystylizd@gmail.com or you could just private message me on here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryansaffer:
You're a lifesaver. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Thanks. Along the process I wouldn't mind teaching you a few things. Once you get some knowledge its like the matrix. You can take the red or the blue pill. Take the red and you'll find out how deep the rabbit hole goes. :D

Oh and tomorrow kick your friends ass... :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jubakuba:
If he isn't available...

Use my guide (linked in my sig).

Post 1 will get you adb access.

Ignore everything else other than adb install...

Then (as instructed) in my guide...and this'll make sense once you set adb up.

Shift+Right Click in the platform tools folder. Select "Open Command Prompt Here."

When that opens up, type:

adb pull /data/media/ /SDCARD/

This will put a folder on your PC called C:\SDCARD\ that will have all of your SDCard files.

Keep in mind; pulling these files may take quite some time.

If lines of "adb pull ______________ > SDCARD __________" or something similar are popping up...it's still working.

It'll just stop when it's done.

That...

Or message me here...

Or contact me via G+

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112820994555880155233/

We can even set up a remote client so I can literally control your PC from mine...

And do all the work for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
This is a bit risky as I could have just been a lucky SOB,

But when I unlocked my phone with the wug's toolkit, it says all data will be erased.

So I didn't realize about my pictures and went along.

Once I unlocked (factory restore basically) I got to keep ALL OF MY PICTURES.

buy I don't think this will work since U'd need to probably unlock it for a few parts.

Because i think my phone screen just got unlocked automatically and asked me a few things.

But like I said I'm not sure since u might need to actually unlock the screen with a password to access the confirm of unlocking he boot loader.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dark Nightmare:
Jubakuba method works but depends fully on usb debugging being enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bencik:
Well, I have the same problem... I'm not connected to wifi nor data, so it won't let me through the acc/pass verification... I'm rooted, can get to CWM, but I don't have debugging... I guess I will try wiping, but there is a sms (message) and I would like to read it, however, wiping deletes it, doesn't it? Is there any way to back it up? (galaxy nexus, 4.1, the "null" pass doesn't work, neither did the calling and trying to get to settings to turn on wifi...)

./adb shell

# sqlite3 data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autolock';

sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lockscreen.lockedoutpermanently';

sqlite> .exit

# exit

doesn't work either, it says error: device not found after typing ./adb shell (guess it is because of debugging turned off)

SOLVED: did Nandroid backup, wiped the phone, restored sms from nandroid with AppExtractor!

:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robot5x:
so is there a solution?

Hi -

It's not clear if this was actually resolved for the OP. Is there a solution?

My wife has been locked out of her nexus7 after the kids got hold of it. It's stuck on 'too many pattern attempts' and when I enter the username and password (which i checked is correct by logging into gmail and play separately) it says its invalid.

To confirm - this nexus is NOT rooted and USB debugging is NOT enabled. As far as I can tell there's no way into this device. I tried booting into recovery mode but it hangs on the 'Google' loading screen every time.

This is REALLY annoying. Is there any way to reset this device now? I don't care about wiping files on there, I just want to be able to use the thing.

Thanks a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimmyco2008:
Guy above me, you can't perform a factory reset from recovery? What about initiating the reset from your PC/Mac via ADB? I don't know if that's possible, but at least try booting recovery with ADB.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] clowney:
support.google.com/nexus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2668187

edit:

if you are using two-factor authentication, generate another application specific password and login using that. No need to revoke the old one, it's useless even if you revoke it anyway; you'll still be able to use it. you'd have to remove all entries that has "Android" from the connected sites (according to Google).

if you are *not* connected to Wifi, 2FA ASP will *not* work. Apparently it requires a connection to verify the password. This is bad. I hope Google will allow users to enable connectivity on the lock screen.

In the mean time, leave Wifi on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] themis_t:
Okay same problem but in my case want to save the pics!

no rooting, no debugging enabled,fastboot locked, have installed adb, device not found when in recovery mode and connected through usb.

Of course it was so clever to have wifi, 3g data and bluetoothe disabled.

Any suggestions before going for a hard reset and saying goodbye to all these pictures?

thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] themis_t:
it would be great if anyone could tell me if there is any other solution than hard reset.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haloimplant:
Has anyone tested how fast files can be transferred between the N7 and a PC over USB?

I guess I'd be mostly interested in write speed to load the device up before taking it somewhere. The OTG stuff sounds cool for long trips but most of the time I will probably just want to put a few GB of things on the internal memory.

I know the wifi will max out at 3 MB/s or less, I'm hoping the USB can do at least 10 MB/s? That is what I can effectively do currently with my SGS by using a card reader to load up a class 10 microSD card, which obviously won't work here.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goofball2k:
How do you know wifi will be 3MB or less?

Hoping this is faster than the Playbook, which was around 5MB/sec or so. Not that big a deal at night but was a bit of a problem when trying to quickly load videos on it before leaving for work. iPad and A100 were much quicker to move videos onto.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haloimplant:
It is only 20 MHz channels which means no higher than 65 or 72 Mbps theoretical which only delivers about 25-30 Mbps real throughput. Could get maybe 3.5-4 MB/s but no way higher than that.

No mobile devices are getting 40 MHz 802.11n channels until they start using Broadcom BCM4334 or similar wifi chip, the BCM4330 that the Nexus 7, Iphone 4S and Ipad 3 are all using doesn't do it, so I'm skeptical that anyone gets more than 3-4 MB/s over wifi with any of them.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esuohe:
So far... Way slower vs. Galaxy Nexus (via adb push)

bump...

~3000 KB/s vs ~1000 KB/s

Pushing the exact same file (MP4).

Anyone else getting less than stellar USB transfer speed performance?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nordendorf:
certainly not a scientific test, but when transferring a 350mb MP4 to my phones class 10 msd and then also to the N7, it seemed faster on the N7.

I didn't time it or anything

seeing this thread got me curious though. Maybe i'll test it out this weekend
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvmacd:
I seem to be getting about 1.25 MB/s via adb push, using Ubuntu on my PC. :rolleyes: Is it just me who's getting such a slow speed?

And MTP mode is weird.. I mounted it with $ mtpfs, and I copied my whole old /sdcard/ directory from my Transformer to my N7. It took a loong time.

And then I copied my music folder, 1.9GB or something.. and after another loong time, I went to my MIUI music app [can't have anything other than Folder music apps :P ], and only .aac files were showing. I couldn't figure out why but all my .mp3 files [in 10s of subfolders] were dumped directly into /sdcard/ [instead of /sdcard/Matt/music/*/*/*].

Anyway, does anyone know why I'm getting such slow transfer speed over adb? I can test the MTP's speed, but I doubt it's any faster. at all.

edit: I guess I should mention I am also not using the stock MicroUSB cable, I am using a generic 6' cable from Amazon. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Maybe I'll try with the asus cord.

edit 2: check latest post, #8
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
MTP and ADB transfers are generally slower then using USB Mass Storage mode (which I guess is gone on newer devices and Android OS's), but the exact reasoning for this I don't know.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvmacd:
I wonder if it's possible to enable mass storage mode somehow? preferably without flashing a new rom..

Anyway.. Okay. So I was surprised to find out, but I just did a test on MTP, [via mounting with mtpfs on linux] and I copied a file at 14MB/s with MTP instead of 1.25MB/s with adb push.

O_O

The weird thing is, cp says it's done copying way before it actually finishes. It also says it cannot preserve timestamps:

"cp: preserving times for `/mnt/Matt/05.The Three Days of the Hunter Job.avi': Function not implemented

Command exited with non-zero status 1"

So I cp a file to /mnt/Matt/ [/mnt/ is my nexus 7 MTP mount location], and in 10 seconds it says it is finished, copying 349MB. So I check with adb shell and $ du -h {FILENAME}, and the size keeps going up! Until of course, it reaches 349MB.

So anyway, it's good to know I can now transfer at 14MB/s instead of 1.25 MB/s. :)

But I really wish Android had kept the Mass Storage Mode, just as an extra failsafe mode [and for people like me who don't like the MTP jazz, I like Mass Storage Mode]... :eek: oh well
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0zj0k3r:
Something I have noticed....

I have tried different cables, adb push, Ubuntu, Windows 7, Debian, USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0 and get the same results with all those different variables.

The biggest problem seems to be with multiple smaller files, such as mp3's or the blobs from nandroid backups. With large files like movies, or bzip2/tar files I get pretty consistent 15-20/MBs on all my systems.

My suggestion if it's reasonable for your situation, is to tar whatever you going to send over USB then untar once on the device. Taring should only ad about 1-2 minutes to the total process, but will still be faster than waiting for ultra slow tranfers speeds. I don't recommend compressing, as this will ad a significant amount of time for not much gain.

My Problem:

Copying a Nandroid backup, the blobs folder has a lot of smallish files and when I tried to copy the folder to my Nexus via usb, I got a ridiculous transfer speed of 750 KB/s! That is ubearable for 800 MBs of data, when I tarred the backup folder I got my much nicer speed of about 15MB/s. For my situatuion I was looking at least 18 minutes to transfer the data. With the tarred file it copied in under 1 minute + 2 minutes ( tarring/untarring)=much hapier me

the easiest way for me to untar was via 'adb shell'; busybox installed of course. Not sure if there is an app or tool for android that integrates extracting files like this with a gui format, that would make this even easier...hope this helps a little
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lebrac:
I've have the same "problem", if you can consider as problem...also with my old N95 and the micro sd card copying a backup I got ridiculoas speed...so i'm not surprised very much...

However, copying normal files like mp3 pdf etc i reach the max speed of 15 MB/s...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0zj0k3r:
700KB/s USB speed is actually a problem. MTP suffers from this problem. Phones/tabs with micro SD on older Android devices didn't Use MTP so you may not have had the same issue. I have never had anything transfer this slow on my older Android phones whether it was a lot of small files or big ones.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvmacd:
Well I was getting 1.25mb/s on big files too I think with adb (but my nexus burned in a house fire so I don't have to worry about it for now).
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r0zj0k3r:
Sorry to hear about the fire,

Not sure why data was so slow. I guess I should add that I'm using Trinity kernel and system tuner to apply a couple sd tweaks. Maybe that has helped with my transfer speeds.