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[Android Apps and Games] MongooseHelix:
That error most likely is because your phone is nand locked which means you don't write access to nand. To make it so you can write to /system and other partitions, you'll need to get change the security level to S-OFF by using an automated tool or following certain instructions for your particular device. Post what phone you are using and we can help find the instructions to enable S-OFF. I recommend reading about S-OFF here and if you have an evo 4g, incredible, cdma hero, or cdma desire you can use that Unrevoked Forever tool.
[Android Apps and Games] kenny wong:
I am test it again, this time is work but still have bug....

if i link the library files and reboot the phone this time all linked app will be disappear and need reboot again, this time the app is show again but the lib is not linked.
[Android Apps and Games] tobylicious:
Im using an HTC Desire. Do you need more things to know?

Many thanks for helping so far MongooseHelix.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Yes , this is an issue on Android 2.3, see the post #1059
[Android Apps and Games] SrMoure:
+1 .

This app was a lifesaver for the zte v9. Unfortunately, it doesn t work with SGT, probably because it has internal storage + SD Card.

Anyway, I will be happy to donate because this app was great at the beginning and now is much better thanks to the constant support.
[Android Apps and Games] kenny wong:
Oh! i see.....
[Android Apps and Games] enotar:
/init.rc posted

I hope this is the right one in "/" directory
[Android Apps and Games] danceswithbongs:
Great to hear. And all the thanks should be going in one direction, towards you.

Any help, I or others have given to those new to the app, is merely trying to pass along info learned from you and others on this thread.

Emulating the quality of help and support you have shown to us.

Basically, we love the app and want those trying to use it to be able to take full advantage as we have.

Not to mention the hope that help we provide will in turn free up time for you, so your life is not just a long series of replies to questions others can now answer.

Glad to hear about the new donation link, if you will all excuse me I need to go press a certain donation button.

p.s. Bakpinar please let me know if you need any help in implementing Localization.

p.p.s. Bakpinar look on the market for the free app "Under the Hood",

it runs a bunch of commands upon clicking yes when you open the app.

The commands result in information that could be of some assistance in finding what the current settings are regarding mount points and the like. Give it a look, as it may give the specific answers you need to see when a new user is having trouble getting the app all set up.

Thanks again BAK P

walkin the walk while tappin the talk

danceswithbongs
[Android Apps and Games] cajunman4life:
I searched around but couldn't see anything on this... feel free to beat me severely if I overlooked it. Then after the beating kindly provide the link.

I updated link2sd the other day, and this morning had to reboot my phone. Upon coming back up it didn't mount my 2nd partition so most of my apps were inaccessible. Upon trying to load link2sd, and selecting ext2 for the 2nd partition, I get a mount error "Invalid argument". It worked before, now it doesn't work. Any ideas? Unfortunately I'm at work for the next 8 hours so I won't be able to re-create the 2nd partition as a FAT partition anytime soon. It was working fine as ext2 before, just curious why it doesn't now?

If it helps any I'm on an HTC EVO with stock ROM and netarchy 4.3.2 kernel.
[Android Apps and Games] danceswithbongs:
Cajun

When that occurs on a full reboot, do a hot reboot next. After that it should mount and all apps will be accessible.

The Link2SD has a quick boot option if you don't have an app for hot boots.

Report back with your results, please.

Thanks and hope that helps you

walkin the walk while tappin the talk

danceswithbongs
[Android Apps and Games] cajunman4life:
Unfortunately that didn't work :( but thanks for the advice. Wondering where to go from here now.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
In fact Link2SD does not mount your 2nd partition, Android OS itself mounts it at boot time. Link2SD only creates the mount scripts that run on boot time.

Can you try to mount it manually. You can grab the mount command from /system/etc/install-recovery.sh or /etc/init.d/11link2sd file.
[Android Apps and Games] sandroleal:
Ok, now this is getting frustrating...

I´m about to go insane trying to get Link2SD work right but i can´t find the reason why isn´t working :( Please guys help me!!!

I think Link2SD is acting very random, some apps are linked ok but some other apps fail to do so! Very weird!!

Ex: Installed Fruit Ninja from the Market, went to link2sd, create link,ok, app reappeared in drawer and work ok after reboot

BUT...soemtimes this same app isn´t linked and after reboot it disappears as if it was not installed. I guess is a failure in the linking part?? When I try to acess the apk in /data/sdext2 says there is a problem in package analysis (corrupted between the linking?) Then I download from the Market again and the problem continues...

This happens all the time and with some random apps. I manage to link some but others don´t. I´m trying to figure what´s happening but my knowledge is limited...

Here some questions:

1. This is happening because link2sd isn´t executing the mount script right? Permissions problems? I´ve created /system/etc/init.d so it should be mounting /sdext2 first at boot time right? 11link2sd is in there

2. Sometimes I get a write I/O error in linking (again a random bug, WTF?). It could be permissions?

3. Apk + dalvik-chache are linked to /sdext2 but some apk gets corrupted, why?

4. The only script needed for mounting and linking is /etc/install-recovery.sh? Do I have to do some modifications to work right?

5. I´ve formatted the SD card(8GB, class 4), set two partitions as primary, tested second partition as ext2 and FAT32 and the same problems keep happening. Link2SD was working well with my other 4GB, class 2 card and problems appeared after 1.6 update. In fact i´ve tested both 1.5.5 version and 1.6 but these random problems are still there. Maybe is a SD card problem causing a buggy-working link2sd?

Thank you so much bakpinar! This is a great app, it worked before with me, don´t know why it stopped working

Obs: Yay!! First post on XDA! Sorry for the poor english!
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
1.6 and 1.5.5 are exactly same in terms of linking scripts, expect library linking added in 1.6. You've already tested both versions and got same results.

This sounds like a SD card problem. Have you had a chance to try with your old 4GB card or an another SD card.
[Android Apps and Games] sandroleal:
Thanks!

I will test again in the 4GB SD card with 1.6 version, and post the results
[Android Apps and Games] cajunman4life:
The command in those scripts is:

mount -t ext2 /dev/block/vold/179:2 /data/sdext2

That returns "mount: Invalid argument"

Looking into this more...
[Android Apps and Games] Almighty1:
MongooseHelix already gave you the answer in post #1063.

"That error most likely is because your phone is nand locked which means you don't write access to nand. To make it so you can write to /system and other partitions, you'll need to get change the security level to S-OFF by using an automated tool or following certain instructions for your particular device. Post what phone you are using and we can help find the instructions to enable S-OFF. I recommend reading about S-OFF here and if you have an evo 4g, incredible, cdma hero, or cdma desire you can use that Unrevoked Forever tool."

CDMA desire = HTC Desire as the CDMA just means CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version as opposed to GSM (Global Standard for Mobile communications) so you just need to enable S-OFF using the Unrevoked Forever tool.
[Android Apps and Games] sandroleal:
Well I´ve tested and...i guess I have a damaged 8GB SD card...

I thought the card got corrupted while transfering my files from the old SD card. But I re-formatted the card, loaded into the phone (blank) and link2sd still was having problems in linking/package analysis/etc. The old 4GB SD card is working great so far!!

So I guess I bought an already faulty SD card then...arrrghh!! Unlucky man!!

I´m using the old class 2 SD card :( but linking problems are over :)

I thought it was link2sd problem because the 1.6 update happened just when i changed the SD card lol!
[Android Apps and Games] marjanstrife:
hi.... will this work on htc desire?? it says " mount script error : cannot create /system/etc/install-recovery.sh: not enough memory " pls help me
[Android Apps and Games] MongooseHelix:
First, see below. If you have a CDMA Desire, try the Unrevoked Forever tool that I linked to below. If it's GSM you can go about it the same way I suggested for tobylicious over PM to get his GSM Desire S-OFF. Check out this tool. There's a thread about it here and then a tutorial thread here.
[Android Apps and Games] MongooseHelix:
Yep, the root directory. I got to thinking, init.rc runs the vold command which gets mount information for removable devices from vold.conf and/or vold.fstab which are located in /etc and we could maybe modify those to have the mountpoint be /data/sdext2 instead of /nand. If you play around with that, be sure to backup the original vold files. Also, post both the conf and fstab files here if you can. Hopefully we keep getting a bit closer to getting this to work for you and sorry I keep having you post files and command ouputs.
[Android Apps and Games] marjanstrife:
im sorry for being noob... but we compare what md5sum file with another file before s-off htc desire?
[Android Apps and Games] MongooseHelix:
This thread gives a good description on what md5sums are and why it is good to check them. It also guides you through one way to check an md5sum for a file you've downloaded. For the AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility, you downoad an iso file and it is important to compare the md5sum value of your downloaded copy of the file to what it should be. This is listed on the alpharev site as:

If whatever tool or procedure you use to get the md5sum of your downloaded file doesn't match the one I just listed, it is not safe to use and you will need to try downloading it again.
[Android Apps and Games] enotar:
More progress on using /nand internal storage:

I succeed with autostart.apk unmounting /nand and mounting /dev/block/ndda1 as /data/sdext2 and that works all the time now

The script I run at boot by autostart is /data/opt/autostart.sh:

#! /system/bin/sh

umount /nand

mount -o rw vfat /dev/block/ndda1 /data/sdext2

Permissions are now 755

That works perfect and links are created by link2sd and appear in drawer.

Looks perfect until reboot and these disapear.......but link2sd still work fine

what is going on after reboot is links exist before?

thank you
[Android Apps and Games] enotar:
No problem....

no such file as vold.fstab but here is vold.conf

One question, if I modify some stuff in init.rc or vold.conf ; these changes are not keeped after reboot?

Also see my previous post, I've made big progress I think...

Thank you very much for your help
[Android Apps and Games] High_Moon:
HTC Hero doesn't work!

Hi to all

I'm new on this and i can't make this work!

I have HTC Hero with 2.1. I made Root with Z4Root, install Superuser

and made all as explained but in the end i allways receive the same

ansewr.

The program doesn't recognize the second partition and say there isn't

enough space.

I tried with ex2, ex3, FAT, FAT32 and nothing!

:-( Can anyone help me?

:(
[Android Apps and Games] kAcA.:
When I reboot the phone the library files don't stay linked in the newest version of Link2SD. Is that normal?

I have to link them again after every reboot
[Android Apps and Games] fdespotovski:
When I had link2sd 1.5.5 and ext2 partition I had some problems with some apps.When linked,they had disappeared from the phone.Will I have that problem if I create another fat partition and use link2sd 1.6?
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Can you post "df" output?
[Android Apps and Games] Majesty00:
Of course! Sorry for not adding it in the first time. I guess you only need the df of sdext2?

df /data/sdext2
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/data/sdext2 1G 50M 1G 1024

Something's odd though, if I check the space used in MiniToolPartitionWizard, it says 100MB is used.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Ok, I saw the problem and fix it in the next release.

Lastly, can you send "toolbox df" output?
[Android Apps and Games] sanmit:
Can someone please guide me how can i add sd ext support to my rom ?
[Android Apps and Games] Almighty1:
Just a note everyone, ROM Manager has been updated today to v4.2.0.1.

Change log is as follows:

What's in this version:

1 Fix various rating and download bugs.

2 Use https whenever rating, commenting, or passing any user identifiable information.

3 Show the ROM developer's last update date in the developer list.

4 Allow sorting of developers!

5 Put premium ROMs on top of the developer list.

6 Update translations.

7 Fix SD Card partitioning bug where some phones would result in being bricked.

8 Fix Force Close in certain install from sd card scenarios.

I am sure for those of you who tried to partition with ROM Manager and failed, #7 is probably the reason why and you should just try again with the new version of ROM Manager.
[Android Apps and Games] acsher:
Hi after going through about 15 pages in the thread and not finding my problem listed I decide to ask the Creator about it since unlike otherhe seems friendly enough.

So I am from Pakistan and I am using a 2gb SD card (I don't know about its class but I think we can safely assume thatit isn't the latest one) so when I use the software for. Windows to make the. Second partition, the moment I click create on the 400 MB of space left after resizing my card, I get this message that I would have to delete my partition inorder to make 2nd one on it.

Btw, I am only concerned about my backups inn clockworkmod recovery otherwise I would have not even mind formating my card for it.

Any help or even a safe way of making a partition through the new version of rom.manager would be much appreciated.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] nibras_reeza:
bakpinkar:

Looking for donations? I guess it would be wiser for you to publish a donate version on the market rather than keep a donate link. :)
[Android Apps and Games] sanmit:
Its always better to backup your data on pc befor messing around with sd card......
[Android Apps and Games] acsher:
Thanks for the suggestion

But just so you know, while I was able to create a partition through the suggested software once I mounted my card. With in the rom. (Previously I was mounting it through. Clockworkmod recovery and was getting the message that I would have to remake my partition. In order to create a 2nd partition ) yet link2sd wasn't able to recognize the 2nd partition :(

Btw, I have tried both ext2/ fat32 formatand have even given label and left the partition unlabeled

Plz help me i am desperate
[Android Apps and Games] AfroLoots:
I posted awhile back about a similar situation while using partition manager(9.0? away from pc atm)

Turns out there was a block size option that had to be manually set to 4. The default setting of 2 was unmountable by link2sd. There are more details in my earlier post in this thread (2 weeks ago?).

Sent from my X10a running EW Jet ArcEx V005.5ex