yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] Jsilver73:
Thank you for the guide - unfortunately I seem to have messed up somewhere, I tried your expert way first through terminal emulator and found the required tools in the first 2 steps but then when I tried to 'Unmount your external sd card (umount /storage/sdcard1)' with that command I got 'not found'

I then decided to try the easy way with philz

Newbie Way (Requires PhilZ Touch Recovery, may not work):

1. Launch PhilZ Touch Recovery

2. Select "Mounts & Storage" => "format /external_sd"

3. Select "ext4" as a filesystem

first I tried to use 'format /sd-ext' but got an 'error formatting /sd-ext'

next I tried 'format /storage/sdcard1' which gave me option of what format I chose ext4 - it took a while and completed - rebooted and could not see sd card?

next I went back to philz and tried mounting ext sd card but got error

then tried mounting storage sdcard1 which said it mounted but when reboot nothing there

I tried my old sd card and that is still working fine so its not my device

not sure what to do - could it be a faulty sd card (although it was working fine when I first put it in, copied 2gb data back and forth betwen internal and external, only f'd up when I started messing - sort of wishing I hadn't messed now :(

any advice much appreciated
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
ext4 support is rom-dependent, as I said multiple times. If you can mount your /storage/sdcard1 from PhilZ recovery, your sd card is OK and should work on compatible ROMs.

You can follow expert way also through recovery's ADB.
[Galaxy S III General] Jsilver73:
AFAIK Slimkat defo does support ext4.

Thing is I can't even mount in recovery - get first of all 'idle mounted' then if I try to unmount I get 'error unmounting /storage/sdcard1!' same if I try to format again ??

Thanks for your speedy response :)
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
You screwed up something then. Launch PhilZ recovery and use either ADB or Aroma File Manager (Terminal) and follow expert way.
[Galaxy S III General] daoquangvy:
Good :3 :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Jsilver73:
OK - please could you help me a little further - I'm now in recovery mode 'philz' and have the phone connected in adb 'adb devices' but when I type the first command 'fdisk --help' I get 'fdisk is not recognized as an internal or external command'

I'm missing something really simple I'm sure??
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
adb shell.
[Galaxy S III General] Jsilver73:
ok - I think I got it now - just typed 'adb shell' and it seems good - sorry for my newbieness - I tried watching your video but the writing is really small

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didn't see your reply there before posting!! Thank you - you fast :)

I'm getting the same now as android terminal - when I type 'unmount /storage/sdcard1' I get '/sbin/sh: unmount: not found'

??

what now?

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also - when I type 'su' I get not found - is this the problem?

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I've just booted back up and gone to android terminal and did the su command and granted root, same problem though - when I try to unmount it says 'not found' however when I try to mount I get options for r w o t - I'm guessing I need to select w ??

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nope - I just get 'not found' for all of those options?

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I just put my glasses on and followed your video to the letter and got the outputs you showed but still not seeing my sd card - something changed in recovery though as philz now lets me mount -

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ok - I must be really stupid then because after all that in desperation I tried formatting firstly to exfat (which didn't) work then vfat and it now works - allelujah - I don't have to send the card back.

I guess if vfat works then thats good enough ??
[Galaxy S III General] vader20:
Hello Archi!

I followed your detailed guide and after i made changes to sd card partition table i am unable to save as it appears "kernel still uses old table". I chose boeffla kernel for the sound extra settings when i flashed the latest and greatest ArchiDroid 2.5.1 .If i close my android terminal what happens to my sd card partition and filesystem-wise? Could i revert to fat32 file system, save partition table and attempt to flash your kernel via aroma?

Thank you in advance!

L.E. closed terminal erased sd card from settings-storage and will try again after i flash the rom with your kernel

M.L.E after flashing the rom and selecting archi kernel i fired up terminal and found myself in the same situation..... i don't know what rom/kernel you were using at the time of making the video but somehow i don't think i'm unmounting the sd card(although i'm folowing the tutorial by the second/letter) any help is much appreciated!
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
You don't need to worry about the fact that system uses old table as long as you reboot after process. If fdisk/mke2fs doesn't throw any errors, you're fine.
[Galaxy S III General] GR0S:
You should consider making guide for F2FS. Anyone actually using this aint going to use card via adapter
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
I made this guide for myself because I was searching for similar and didn't find any. F2FS is unstable.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
And where is umount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1?
[Galaxy S III General] vader20:
It's missing. And i've just tried again and failed so if i understand correctly i have to:

a. unmount my sd card with "umount /storage/sdcard1"

b. delete and than create a primary partition with "fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1" and first "o" than "n" with "p" and "1" attributes and than save my changes with "w"

c. set the filesystem for the partition with "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1"

d. reboot

I'm having troubles here:

"Command (m for help): w

The partition table has been altered.

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table

fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: Device or resource busy"

I've tried the "umount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1" command after trying to save my partition and i got a "changing display/entry units to sectors", after that i tried the "umount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1" after the "w" command and received:

"failed: Invalid argument"

What now?

Thank you very much for your patience :)
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Watch video. CLOSELY.
[Galaxy S III General] vader20:
Archi i have watched it a couple of times and:

a. you use adb while i use my phone and android terminal

b. your process is running smoth and i get that damn error (fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: Device or resource busy)

You only use once "umount" command and that is for "/storage/sdcard1" ... either that or i'm not watching the youtube video from the first page of this thread.

Should i use adb ?

L.E. I rebooted after using fdisk to partition my sd card and tried to unmount /storage/sdcard1, /dev/block/mmcblk1, /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 and for each command i got "invalid argument" so i tried the mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 command and i worked. I guess the reboot unhooked the sd and i finally got to set the file system.

Thank you Archi for posting the tutorial.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Glad you solved your issue :).
[Galaxy S III General] necrosauron:
awesome

that´s awesome tips archi... i'll try it now...

best regards:good:
[Galaxy S III General] SscoootzZ:
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[Galaxy S III General] philippe734:
Format internal sdcard of Galaxy s2 to ext4 : done !

Newbie way not from philz but cwm : ext4 format available but didn't work

Intermediate way, from a live cd of parted magic + mount internal sdcard from cwm with usb mount : done !

Before format my internal sdcard of my galaxy s2, from recovery + usb mount, I backup all my data on my pc, then after format to ext4 I restored data with success. I hope now music bug is over and video recording lags are over too :)

Edit : music bug is gone and lags while video recording are gone too, yes !
[Galaxy S III General] khanmein:
how come after i format my ext sd card with ext4, there will appeared a file name lost+found with around 5xxmb.. how to remove it? thanks
[Galaxy S III General] flipeicl:
I format my external SD card with ext4 using GParted and now it won't mount, I try to restart android but nothing, I'm using CM12 5.0.2 with kernel 3.4.0-cyanogenmod-gdeab1abkau@aogp #1 in a Samsung i9192, my SD card is a SanDisk Ultra SL64G 64GB.
[Galaxy S III General] Mike Green:
I followed these instructions on a stock LG Volt 4.4.2 -- everything worked fine, and I can even mount the external SD with

mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /storage/external_SD

However, the partition doesn't get auto-mounted. I even edited /etc/vold.fstab to list the entry as ext4 in lieu of vfat. No go. There's another fstab that is apparently the governing fstab in / which is a rootfs, i.e., a file system that is built into the kernel.. so, no way to change it without modifying the kernel and reflashing the phone

Copied the FAT contents onto EXT4 partition, and did a chmod -R 0777 .

Unfortuantely, when I invoke doubletwist, it says "device memory" is read only and does not go fruther. (Yuk. Wish they would say what they mean, but they should/must mean SD...?) All of the apps I had moved to the FAT version of SD complain app is not installed, and are greened out. Both of these effects may have to do with the private name spaces described here => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2424900 and indeed if I check the "storage/external_SD" directory form file manager, it shows the directory as R/O. (Which is consistent with the Double Twist message.)

Any suggestions what I might do? Where do partitions get mounted in 4.4.2 stock LG firmware, but rooted".

Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Your ROM doesn't support ext4-formatted SD cards.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
It's far more complicated how that works.

You can't simply use fstab because ext sd is not mounted by "normal" mount way. It's mounted by FUSE, because it must be then emulated to Android environment, so it can force permissions and many other things.

FUSE in your ROM does not support ext4 filesystems. Which means, you won't mount it. Even if you indeed force the kernel to mount ext4, it won't work neither show in Android.

Your only way for ext4 extsd is using a custom ROM such as CyanogenMod, but that's a thing for another thread.
[Galaxy S III General] Mike Green:
I realize it's probably time to back down on this, although Im still curious whether I might make an "external SD" work as a second "internal SD" /storage/sdcard1 rather than an external SD with a standard ROM?
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
You can only swap those two, and it's so device-specific that I won't give you any tips on how to do that, because I simply don't know.
[Galaxy S III General] DarkLS:
When I try to run the last command "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1" it tells me that "-t" dosnt exists and give me other ones as example but none for doing the format
[Galaxy S III General] unecc:
this is works for which android.....lollipop?
[Galaxy S III General] blausand:
Not a conversion! Will erase any data!

[MENTION=5161352]JustArchi[/MENTION]

Of course this is valuable information, but please:

This is not a conversion as the title suggests, but rather just a wipe.

As such, please stick to good manners and

Add some red warning whenever your advice inher deletion of any data.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] TaZeR369:
You can make it combine into one combined storage through adb commands:

adb shell

sm list-disks

// HERE YOU GET YOUR DISK ID, SOMETHING LIKE "disk:179,64" - REMEMBER THOSE NUMBERS

sm set-force-adoptable true

then you can make it 100% or for example 60%

sm partition disk:179,64 mixed 60
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcmodteam:
So I've had a issue with Web pages on Samsung browser not closing and getting message " Internet has closed sooo after a bit of digging on the phone I found out why.

In developers options the option kill processes is ticked, and if I untick it then all works fine if I tick then Web throws its legs in the air. Don't know if it's been worked out before but thought I'd say.
[HTC Desire X] nIMa_aZx:
Hi guys,

i have a desire x and i have a problem !

today the phone turned off because the battery was low.

Now i can't turn it on again.

phone wasn't root.

and power button + volume down don't work for recovery menu .

When the phone is connected to the charger or connected via USB to the PC the LED is on.

what can i do ?

need flash ? if yes how ?

thanks a lot .
[HTC Desire X] Mr.Jay:
Try pressing the power button about 5 or 10 secs when that happened to me it solved by that way

HTC Desire X || Android 4.1.2 || mySENSEdx5 RC3.0 now Free
[HTC Desire X] GtrCraft:
Let it charge for an hour and try again
[HTC Desire X] nIMa_aZx:
thank you but i charged it and i press a power button for 10 sec and it doesn't work :(

i saw that .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2145550
[HTC Desire X] dansou901:
As you didn't root it, claim warranty...
[HTC Desire X] nIMa_aZx:
thank you but in my country (Iran) there are not official warranty and guaranty services. but there are a lot of Repairman and i must pay a lot of money to them to repair this.

if it is hard brick , i guess one the chip in phone is damaged . the phone is connected to pc via usb when the battery was low and it had a power fluctuation .

i saw a lot of people in xda and another forum looks like me . they had this problem with Htc desire x , one s , one , desire ...

They could not do anything . they sent theirs to Htc guaranty service.

i appreciate for your regard :good:
[HTC Desire X] arindam4u:
Same thing happened to me. Mine is HTC Desire X dual sim.

Last night I was trying to Root my phone.

Successfully unlocked the bootloader and installed the custom recovery. then problem occurred due to Superuser itself cannot update binary SU as it could not access root.

Then flashed a Superuser from custom recovery. During these process I did not turned my phone off instead restarted it.

But then from that custom recovery option I powerd it off. That was the biggest mistake. After that I am unable to turn it on.

It only shows Red (Orange) LED while plug in it with USB or charger. Removing and Reinserting the Battery after 5-10 mins and trying to turn it on gives nothing other than only 5/7 Vibrations after a while.

So researched about it and found out this one problem occurred to many out there, and no solution what so ever.

I bricked my phone, lost my warranty all at the same time last night. Lost hope, as its totally dead and have to pay for it to repair.

Then I unplug the charger and removed the battery and gone to bed.

This morning I put the battery back and pressed the power button for 5-10 secs to see if it turning on or not. But it did not.

But after a while it turned back on automatically with the power on sound. I was very surprised. The Superuser thing is also working now. :)

I am afraid, I should not power it off completely from now on. As like ever!!. But that is ridiculous. So what was the main reason behind this issue? Is that because of Custom Recovery/ Rooting/ any hardware like motherboard or something (It is not the power button as I can check now it is working) else??

I don't know what is the reason behind it. But If anybody tell me how to get back to stock recovery so that I can Switch off my phone without having a fear of never can turn it on, will be appreciated.

Thanks.
[HTC Desire X] GtrCraft:
The custom recovery on this forum is not meant for the Desire X dual sim. That's why it doesn't work
[HTC Desire X] arindam4u:
But hopefully my device is running in dual sim mode. restarting also seems working. Turning off is the deal. :rolleyes:

Any recommendation at this stage?
[HTC Desire X] GtrCraft:
Search for the right stock recovery or send it to repair and act if you don't know what happened
[HTC Desire X] arindam4u:
Found the actual stock recovery.img for My HTC Desire X Dual sim T329w from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46239003&postcount=2

Now problem solved! :highfive:

Can turn on my phone as usual.
[HTC Desire X] kunalkabir01:
link

this link has been removed or not working......

i need stock recovery right now so can you upload it on google drive for me please... help me

thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naitik2012:
any one installed CM10.1/CM10.2 on GT-I9192 ? is it working with one sim or dual sim ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mav744:
Yes, it works like a Charme

Gesendet von meinem Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9195) mit CM 10.2 (4.3. 1) now Free
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naitik2012:
did u installed it on GT-I9192 ?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mav744:
oh sorry, wrong answer in the wrong topic, i am on 9195

Gesendet von meinem Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9195) mit CM 10.2 (4.3. 1) now Free
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whosat:
There isn't a build for the 9192 yet. Flashing those made for 9195 or 9190 may brick your device.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Demon_Ok:
No Briks. But no network, no sim
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the Doctor:
Don't count on it. See below from this thread:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strobel:
And there's still no fix for that? =) No one interested on this subject? i belive that this guy would be a hero for dual SIM users :highfive:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
I cracked the screen on my nexus 7 (2012 of course) a while ago and it will not respond to touch at all.however,I do have a

Bluetooth keyboard and mouse,but Bluetooth isnt enabled so I can't connect them,so I was wondering if there was a

Way to enable Bluetooth via adb without prompts.if not I still have a flash drive
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
Hello?I forgot to ask if you can also give me the command even though I'm sure you would anyway.but,I just want an answer
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
Hello ?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crohit911:
Display works?

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Adb help lists all the commands
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
everything but the digitizer works.you can still see the screen perfectly behind the cracked glass
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
so obviously i need a command that doesnt require a prompt on the device
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crohit911:
Yeah, got it. You need a command that bypasses the prompt more like a switch in dos. I'm sharing the page to devs they might help.

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How'd u connect the device? It'll still require a prompt for estabilishing a connection with ur keyboard.

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"am" is used to start or stop an activity. Activity manager. "bluetoothd" bluetooth daemon.

Push an app like bluevpn which turns the bluetooth on when it starts. Then run the file using adb shell am /data/app/bluevpn.apk

Try I just gave u the hints might work with some modification. Waiting for devs answer.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
It used to automatically connect to my bluetooth keyboard and mouse when Bluetooth was enabled so that isn't a problem..and ill wait for a devs answer on this to you.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jacobloveskindles:
I do know of an issue though,the device hasn't been rooted or unlocked....is that a problem?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TerrinOculon:
Hello,

I find myself in a similar situation. The screen works, the touch digitizer doesnt. :(

Was there a solution on enabling the device bluetooth via adb?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtg7:
Yeah see answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20044700/android-4-4-service-bluetooth-does-not-exist

I tried it in lollipop 5.0.2 with terminal emulator, it works when i remove -c part. it didn't ask for confirmation either.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtiangha:
Or purchase a USB OTG cable, hook up a USB mouse and use that as your pointing device to click on the confirmation dialog.

Edit: Oops, of course then that means you can't use USB adb. Alright, use the USB mouse to turn on Bluetooth, set up a Bluetooth mouse, hook up the tablet to the computer via USB and use the Bluetooth mouse to accept the dialog, lol.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
Hi. I''m having problem flashing Stock Kernel with CWM. I am following this guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2439298&page=2&nocache=1

The OP ask not to pm him, and i don't have privileges to post on that forum section.So please help me. Here's the attach log.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sofir786:
Have you unlocked your bootloader?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
Yes

Yes i have, After it's done, when i finish unlock the bootloader it just say Okay... Finish. Is there any way to check to c if it's lock or unlock?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
Check *#*#service#*#*

Dial it on your phone to see
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
All that said was boot loader unlockable: yes
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
Then your boot loader is not unlocked yet, but your are able to unlock it. Google Sony unlock boot loader instructions and follow the guide
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
Hmz

I wonder if it matter, cuz i'm using the Dual Recovery for locked bootloader. now i try to get on to TWRP or CWM and stuck on boot loop.

I followed the guide. still the same thing =/
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
No, the problem is that you have not unlocked the bootloader yet.

Google sony unlock bootloader and follow the instructions.

But if you are flashing a complete stock kernel then you can flash a FTF for your phone and exclude everything except kernel. Use flashtool to do this not recovery
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
is there away to use flashtool to unlock bootloader too? I tried the sony way to unlock several times, all the same result.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
NO!

The only way is to follow the instructions on the sony website.

It is very straight forward to do
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostchill:
Installed sdk. Plug the phone in nothing pop up, for me to select the driver folder, is it because I install the flashtool with us driver already?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liquid.emotion:
I hope you back up your TA partition before you unlock your bootloader.

unlocking the bootloader will break your stock camera.

Just a friendly reminder =)
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
Well uninstall all phone software and drivers and try it again
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] owaismukhtarkhan:
hey guys,

i need STK app for Resurrection Remix Rom.

can anyone share or help me out with this?

thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] owaismukhtarkhan:
Anyone???

xda rocks :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andi2398:
Hi,

after searching the Resurrection Remix Rom you have to download an older version, extract und copy the stk.apk from the system folder to your new version (via root explorer) - set right permissions and reboot. (Edit: Maybe Cache Wipe)

In the newer versions there is no stk app included, don´t ask me why - never used this rom ;)

Andi
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Dark Simpson:
Can I use "Permanent Save" function (save of contacts, calendar, etc.) from Control panel with Big Storage ROM installed???

My device is Magician, FW: 1.12 WWE, 1.13 Radio.