[SOLVED] App2SD Missing Apps after restore – nandroid-mobile.sh to /sd-ext shows Read-Only file system

Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Android, Howto

On Friday, I finally pulled the trigger and moved to CM7 Nightly. That night, I also found wildmonks kernel for CM7 Nightly, so I run nandroid backup before installing the kernel. Everything seems good and peachy. I also really liked the new animation for screen on and off.

Today I received notification of a new nightly available. Since ROM Manager works best with ClockworkMod recovery, I flashed it and do a full backup. When I moved to the new nightly built #34, I found that Tasker crashes all the time. So, I restored to my backup from this morning. Alas, the restore procedure always got stuck at the “Dalvik-Cache”.

I tried to do wipe cache and dalvik-cache and restart. The CM7 loaded, but all my App2SD installed apps are missing. After probing here and there, I finally decided to switch back to Amon Ra recovery, adb into the system and perform the nandroid restore manually.

Everytime nandroid try to restore the sd-ext partition, it always shows that the tar unable to create directory because the partition is mounted as read only. After forcing an rw mount and the problem persists, I finally was about to give up. Then I was thinking if it’s possibly due to the ext4 filesystem. Finally I reformat the partition using ext2, upgraded to ext3 and perform the manual restore (using tar) and it works.

Finally I got my system back to the Friday midnight backup. I flashed my new kernel and got everything back working.

So, if you find yourself unable to restore ext partition when using App2SD and ext4, try to revert back to ext3.

Read more | Comments (0) | February 7th, 2011

Android on iPhone

Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Android, Howto, iPhone, IT in General, Linux, Microsoft, Review

To spare typing and posting time, I’ll post the link to the guide that I followed:

http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Installing_iDroid_(Linux)

That link is actually for a Linux, so I uses VirtualBox and a Linux (Ubuntu) image file. From there I followed most part of the guide.

However I’ll post my observation (on 2G):

  • It’s running way too sluggish
  • Call sometimes doesn’t work (stuck at the calling, but not really dialing)
  • Phone becomes really warm and battery drain is too much
  • There’s not enough button
  • Overall condition is not really usable for daily use

Couple notes:

  • If Wifi connects but browser not going anywhere, try the DNS fix
  • All “adb” type commands require the download of SDK
  • If Virtual Box can’t connect to the iPhone when doing the ‘./oibc’ portion, you may need to shut down and restart your virtual machine (including the Virtual Box itself)
  • Going to Apple’s recovery mode (for upgraders) from the openiboot would require you to hold the “Menu” button after choosing the iPhone mode

Post comments for questions and help on how to install iDroid.

Read more | Comments (0) | May 24th, 2010