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[G1 Android Development] vegaj02:
Thanks for the Mod file

I would like to take the time to thank you for creating this mod file. I bought the G1 about 2 weeks ago and was hesitant to attempt rooting the phone because I am at slightly above a computer user level. The installation went flawless from unmoded RC33 to RC29, rooting, to your mod RC33 file and radio flash. Initially, I thought that nothing had really happened because the applications that I loaded from the market remained in the internal memory. It took me a while to figure out that I should run copy.sh scripts to move the apps over and to have new ones go to the sd card. In addition, I needed to restart the phone before any of the changes made by the scripts took place. I do not know if this was just my phone or if its the way it's suposed to be, but if it is necessary to run those scripts to run apps from the sd card you might want to consider clarifying that in the instructions for the benefit of amateurs like myself that might expect apps to work from and go to the sd card immediately after flashing your moded file.

I am using an 8g class six card that I partitioned using qparted with puppy linux 1.5g for ext2. After downloading multiple files from the market, I am realizing this is probably overkill.

The phone has been working great for two days and the only things I have noticed so far is that if I allow the phone to go to sleep while in an application it can sometimes take some doing to re awaken the phone. I had to reboot once because network did not want to return after shutting off wifi. In addition, applications like chompsms take a long time to send messages because it is working from the sdcard. I was just wondering is there any way to have several applications run from the internal memory?

Thanks for the great work.
[G1 Android Development] vegaj02:
Pkmoazzam

It might not be the case for you and I am far from being an expert, but I had that happen too and the applications showed up on the desktop once I rebooted the phone.
[G1 Android Development] xShadoWxDrifTx:
Okay, my phone died again, it went to second boot screen and kept flashing non stop there

Second time now

I don't know why this happens but usually when its around lower battery

This time I didn't have bluetooth in an endless cycle to freeze my phone, I just turned it off, plugged in a charger and when I tried turning it on again it cycled in the 2nd boot screen

I'm wondering if I should start this whole system over from RC29 and build from there again

The nand backups i put just incase this would happen again didn't work when i fastbooted my boot.img data.img and system.img

Strange..

This is a hassle -_-

But as long as the pone isn't bricked I'm fine but I can't find an answer

Must be my phone/sdcard

I'm thinking of reformating the sd card again
[G1 Android Development] shaneaus:
Ok, I have wiped my phone, installed the JFvMod and when I type in the cmd:

#copy.sh app

I receive the following msg in the terminal emulator:

cp: cannot create directory '/system/sd/app': Read-only file system

MOVE /data/app DONE

cp: cannot create directory '/system/sd/app-private': Read-only file system

MOVE /data/app-private DONE

When I re-boot the phone locks up and I have to wipe it and start over.

I understand that it is telling me that the new ext2 partition is read-only... But, I don't know how to change that. I use a Windows Vista 64 bit system and made the partition using Paragon Partition Manager. I know nothing about using Linux/Ubuntu.

02-20

Ok - I think I figured it out. The SD Card just wasn't formatted correctly - despite what the Partition program stated. I had to go to Ubuntu delete the partitions, repartition it, go into Windows format the Fat32 section, then go back into Ubuntu and format the ext2 portion. Then I checked it in Paragon Partition Manager and both partitions showed correctly.

Partition Manager would NOT format the sdcard for some reason. But, I could use it to confirm it had worked correctly. I know this sounds CRAZY but windows wouldn't format the ext2, and Ubuntu wouldn't format the fat32 partition. Partition Manager gave me errors because I have a 64-bit machine!

Now to see if it will all work. I'll update.

It worked perfectly!!!!!

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] Sistum Id:
I'm not sure if this is tied into "hack". I have at least 60 to 70 apps installed and everything was fine, but now when I goto my download apps it showed all of them as free, like they werent installed. I turned my phone off and back on, and now I have only 3 apps installed according to Market.

Any ideas?

Also when I restarted my phone, it was like it was rolled back. My icons were back, default wallpaper was back and my icon pics were gone.
[G1 Android Development] Shagman68:
I'm still wondering if it worked or not. I'm not sure how you check?
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
JFvMod by lucid and themes

anyone with this build and with themes do you guys know when installing the themes does it change anything like for example the apps installing in the sd card everything seems to be fine so far but just curious if i need to run the scripts again.
[G1 Android Development] pkmoazzam:
i rebooted my g1. the applications appeared on the desktop.. thank you!
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
I would leave data on the phone and apps on sd card works like a charm apps run smooth with no lags or foreclosing so just run this copy.sh undodata and youll be running like a champ this will move data back to phone apps will still run from the sd card ok.

my question so i moved my data back to sd card to install a theme everything is fine but i would like to move my data back to phone cause everything is laggy but before i do im wondering is anything gonna go wrong while having theme install and moving the data back to phone like crashing or something has anyone tried it yet.
[G1 Android Development] derekb77:
some help?

Can i please get some guidance? Ok, so i have previously rooted my phone and installed JFv1.42_RC33 and updated the radio using the standard directions (not LucidREM's directions at the top of this thread). As of right now all my apps are on the phone and not on my SD card. what steps do i take to get the phone backed up, and re-flashed so my apps are on my sd card? this is what i plan to do:

1. Use nandroid to get a backup of everything.

2. Pull the SD card out and copy everything to my computer.

3. erase the 8gb card

4. Use some sort of partitioning tool to add an ext2 partition on the card. im thinking about using a 1gb partion for the ext2 and 7gb for the FAT32.

5. re-copy all the stuff off my compuer back onto the FAT32 portion of the card.

6. download JFv1.42_RC33_MOD.zip

7. Rename To "update.zip" & Flash the G1

am i on the right track? do i need to run any of the scripts?

thanks in advance for the help.
[G1 Android Development] shaneaus:
My only suggestions:

Make dang sure your sdcard is partitioned and formatted properly before you update your phone. From what I have read your only problems will come from your sdcard either having more than 2GB (make the ext2 partition 2GB or smaller) for the ext2 partition or the sdcard 's not being set up correctly (write protected, not formatted properly, etc).

Second, wait to put all your files on your card until after your phone is up and running with the new update. Put your #5 after your #7
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
ext2 partition

some how i corrupted my partiton so anyway i can delete the partion and start new again cause now partition manager only sees 6g of space so the 2g of ext2 partition are corrupted how can i reclaim my 2g again anyone
[G1 Android Development] juangil:
if you can't see you ext2 partition is because its mounted on the phone, try using a card reader for this
[G1 Android Development] LucidREM:
are people trying to mount the EXT2 onto the PC thru the phone??? as far as i know you will get nothing but problems trying to mount the G1 to the computer .. best method to make changes to the sd card is by means of a card reader .. plus .. if you are manipulating the card then the G1 should be powered off
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
heres what happen i had everything going good with a theme installed and everything then i decided to try another theme and thats when i had problems every single app kept foreclosing so i wiped and installed your modded jfv1.42 then i installed my apps again but this time they were installing on phone memory so i ran the scripts to move the apps back to the sd card nad only my faves kept getting errors so i just want to start with a clean slate on my sd card.
[G1 Android Development] vegaj02:
Backup and Network questions

I just had a couple of questions

1. Will I break anything if I go to recovery mode and Alt+b to do a backup using this mod?

2. Has anyone had any issues with their network 3g or edge disappearing completely and not wanting to come back on? It has already happended to me a couple of times in the last couple of days and I think it is related to being in wifi mode and shutting it off. When you leave wifi it would normally go straight to edge or 3g, but in my case nothing shows up and it starts giving me no network found messages. I am testing this today by leaving the edge and not using my wifi at all. Tomorrow, I will try to use wifi and if it happens again when I shut it off then I will have my answer. If anyone has experienced this and found a solution I would appreciate it.
[G1 Android Development] bigl34461:
Ok, finally moving everything to my sdcard works fine now. But now my just drops calls wtf?? And I dowloaded the background app, but when I try to set something as wallpaper....nothing happens. What's going on?
[G1 Android Development] Beast84:
So I just spent the last couple of hours re reading this entire thread from beggining to end so please excuse me if I have overlooked this somewhere. But after moving my apps to the sd, the market force closes everytime. I can't even get into it. Anyone else have this issue? Or a fix for it?

EDIT: Took a few hours but its back to normal now
[G1 Android Development] setzer715:
So, I bought, partitioned and installed a class 6 sd. Installed the modded jf adp 1.1h. Copied apps and data over. Everything was working great for about 2 days then all of a sudden my browser started to crash EVERYTIME I loaded it. I copied my data back to the phone but left the apps and now its working fine. Copied the data back again and the Browser starts to crash again. Any ideas?
[G1 Android Development] gottifour:
I feel your pain! Everytime i move my data to the card it starts acting wierd after a few days. I wonder if anyone has data moved with no problems. As of now I have apps and most caches moved to the sd and I have like 54 megs available, which is slowly getting smaller for some reason and Im not sure why.
[G1 Android Development] Beast84:
So has anyone tried putting anything else on the ext2 partition? Maybe ringtones? I hate when I attach my phone to my laptop & I don't hear calls or texts cuz its using the sdcard.
[G1 Android Development] setzer715:
Well, I ended up moving everything back to the phone, formatting the EXT2 partition, then moving it back again. Everything seems to be working fine now. Lets see how long it lasts this time!
[G1 Android Development] davil124:
FINALLY ! i kept reading some of the peoples issues and i finally got it to work ! thanks for posting ! =D

just to make sure....if u did this correctly what is the available internal memory supposed to have after u done this !? because i have 67 Mb
[G1 Android Development] bigl34461:
i'm in the same boat with you......worked fine for 2-3 days, now everything moves a lil bit slower my browser would just crash for no reason. and when i restart my phone, iget a notification saying my myfaves was refreshed , and all the shorcuts on my home screen are gone except for the stock ones. wtf is going on??? i only downloaded like apps. oh and now phone calls get dropped sometimes. i dunno what to do. i'm getting tired of wiping and moving shyt back and forth. i might just go back to the basics and what to they officially fix it. because this modding stuff is a royal pain in my ass.
[G1 Android Development] bigl34461:
sorry i messed up on a few words....i was typing too fast
[G1 Android Development] gottifour:
To me it seems like I run pretty smooth with very few force closes or errors with the cach and apps moved. I would try that for awhile before going back to stock. Its really not even possible to use the stock configuuration and have a decent amount of apps. i have been going about a week with apps and caches moved and it seems ok so far. I will report back soon to let you guys know how it has been.
[G1 Android Development] vegaj02:
Slightly confused

Based on everything I have read for several days it seems like a good idea to do an alt b and create a backup for later if needed. I went into my bootloader and realized that I have the stock g1 bootloader. I was wondering if it is ok to flash the bootlader now without damaging what I have already done(ie being in this mod version with apps in sd card). Where I am confused, is in knowing which bootloader to flash. By reading posts it seems like I should flash engineer dev bootlader, but many who claim to be recovering with nandroid are showing they have hardspl on the bottom of their posts. In addition, I read a post somewhere by jesusfreke himself recommending against being on engineer bootloader and recommending they flash hardspl. Whats up? Will hard spl work with the nandroid backup after your phone has bricked?

Signed, Confused.

P.S Just checking the bootlader caused the phone to reboot twice later and destroyed my power manager app. I fixed it by uninstalling it and installing it again.

Thanks.
[G1 Android Development] 13chris13:
Hey LucidREM,

The first time I used this it was fine at first then things really started going bad, so I wiped and went back to stock rc29. I gained root and did the whole process all over again and I did this update again and now it is working perfect. Thank you. I just have one question though. When I finished the process, my phones interna memory was at 69, little by little it is fading. It is now at 56 mb. I moved apps and data so what data right now could be using my internal memory? Thanks for the help.
[G1 Android Development] setzer715:
Well, things started messing up. I'm just gonna go back to everything on the phone until we figure out how to make it more stable. I'm not really hurting for memory anyways, just sounded like a fun thing to do!
[G1 Android Development] USNCorpsman:
has anyone had issues installing non-market apps on the SD card via the AppsInstaller? i've tried it with both the /data/data copy in place and the apps copy in place, also without, to no avail though, it seems apps installer doesn't recognize the symlink for some reason? is there any way around this?
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
apps on sd

well the only problems i seem to be having is internet is very spotty(data on phone)comes and goes all the time i dont know if its because i installed a theme or whatever. The other problem is my faves if i try to move my data to sd card my favs keep foreclosing i have a theory before I had problems trying to install a new theme i had change 1 of my contacts in my favs at that time i had data on sd card but when i tried a new theme everything went kaboot adn i had to wipe and install lucid mod and then i ran the scrips to move apps and data to sd and my faves kept foreclosing and when i did copy.sh undodata it said myfave could not be moved because it wasnt empty whatever that means but now that i have data on phone nothing forecloses just net is very spotty comes and goes when ever it wants i dont know if its the theme or what doesnt seem like a theme would interfere with my data connection now if thats the case im not sure how to go about this if i want to try just lucids mod do i wipe and install or just install on top of the theme and if the apps will still be their after the install.
[G1 Android Development] charnsingh_online:
deleting partitions

How can i delete the partitions a revert back to normal
[G1 Android Development] derekb77:
how can you tell if this worked?
[G1 Android Development] ghettoyungin718:
is there anybody with this installed not having issues?
[G1 Android Development] BlueBoar:
I have never had any issues, works great.
[G1 Android Development] beagz:
I also have no problems to report. I even used this to update from 1.41 rc33 without problems. Everything continues to work smoothly.
[G1 Android Development] cavz903:
...

I just have a quick question. I figure i'll just ask in this thread. since i've been PM-ing the crap out of LucidREM. When i try to run this update, everything goes fine until i reboot. the it gets stuck on the G1 screen. I even tried to do it manually based on LucidREMs instructions on Dwangs post. and got the same problem. to only way out for me is to install the JFv1.42 RC33 again. I think the problem is because when i partitioned the card, i accidentally created 2 more partitions instead of 1. I have an 8Gb. Now with 6GB Fat32, 1.3GB ext2, and 47mb NTFS. I formatted with paragon partition manager 9 (with no problems to vista) but cant seem to get rid of the NTFS. does anybody have any recommendations. of hopw i could resolve this issue?

thanks in advance. :confused:
[G1 Android Development] cavz903:
OK well i figured out how to get rid of the extra partition. and Alt-w the phone before i flashed the mod. and everything went fine. until i ran the #copy.sh app command. i then went to the market to "my downloads" and downloaded the first app once finished the phone shut off and went straight to the flashing android screen. what went wrong here? i'm sorry if these are elementary questions. but i'm really trying to learn.
[G1 Android Development] cchap07:
Dude, relax. The number of people that sucessfully got this to work far outweighs the ones that cant. I for one have a lot of gratitude to Lucid because this works great if you just follow directions. Also try hitting the Caps Lock button.
[G1 Android Development] BlueBoar:
Your a punk.

This mod works fine for me and others. If you can't figure it out thats your problem. Why would you tear down others for doing something that has helped many and is something that you could probably not do yourself.

Lucid, thanks for this, it works great.
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
jf1.42 mod by lucid

i also have to agree this works fine im up and running fine now since i went to frys bought me a micro sd card attachment and i was able to format my ext2 partition and wiped and installed lucids mod again now everything is back to normal with apps and data on sd card and theme installed too so for everyone else whos having problems i think the problem is with your guyses sd cards not partition right or not partion at all but everything is in here so just read and follow the steps and you shall be fine.
[G1 Android Development] Shagman68:
This is very mis-leading. For the past week I have been thinking all was transfferred to my sd card by the update.zip. When in fact you still have to run 1 or 2 scripts to finish the job. I have been showing my available memory and nobody told me if this worked or not. So the 4 part noob instructions are not truly complete. You need to move 4. down and add in the copy stuff and reboot.

Shaggy
[G1 Android Development] prettyboy85712:
If every market app was written and tested with the same standards, I don't think people would be having problems. But, for now there are too many variables.
[G1 Android Development] Mikey:
To 13Chris13:

I once saw a quote:

That is exactly what this is. Nobody is placing a gun to your head, telling you HAVE too do this.

If YOU or anyone else is having an issue with this "Hack" revert back to the normal rom.

As for your attitude and choice of language in these forums, thats just NOT acceptable.

We will be seeing you in about a week or two.

Hopefully when you come back, your attitude will have been adjusted for the better.

Have a great vacation.
[G1 Android Development] LucidREM:
Problems / Errors

my apologies .. i put in a new #4 to state the need for running the scripts to move /data/app over to the SD

also .. for anyone having problems with apps, market, etc .. i'm not 100% sure what to tell you .. there are only two things done to JFs Build

1. substituted the modified files to load the EXT2 partition

2. included script files in /system/bin to move apps and/or data to SD

if there is some conflict it could be a theme .. the app itself .. some other app interrupting information .. there are many many people not having any trouble other than the occasional trouble with /data/data being moved .. that's why i put in the "copy.sh undodata" script

as for space .. when i moved /data/app using my script i went from 10M of space to 42M of space .. when i moved /data/data i went up again to 58M of space .. if you install more apps you will still see the space drop by small amounts .. if you run apps like browser or market or youtube you will see the space drop as well .. you will not get 100% of the stored data moved to the SD .. that's just the way the G1 works
[G1 Android Development] LucidREM:
wow .. i must've really missed something there .. LOL .. guess i should be glad i didn't read it .. i might get self conscious .. i'm just glad i can help a few people to not need "ALT+W" when they get JFs newest Build
[G1 Android Development] obe1:
apps to sd

lol i cant believe you actually went ahead and did it it seems fine to me the way it was before but i guess other people need the a,b, and c anyways just want to point out that you should put c as optional since people will start to get laggy or apps foreclosing so they know moving data will lag your phone so they dont come back here and say ur mod is juped. with red letters OPTIONAL YOU DONT HAVE TO MOVE DATA.
[G1 Android Development] short/y:
Have you maintained the copy.txt file over in post #92 (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3324806&postcount=92) or is the version in the ZIP more current? Not to look a gift-horse in the mouth, but it'd help (me at least) if you could post the copy.sh script and the changed mountd.conf and initrc (if I recall, those are the files that are different) in the first post and keep them in sync. The reason? Well, for those of us who are comfortable with command-line, it makes it really simple -- just download a couple of files, put them in their well-known locations and, as the British say, Bob's your uncle :)