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SPENC

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Hi,
I have rooted my desire using a walkthrough (on another site,sorry) which seemed to work but I am not sure that it is seeing the partitioned SD card.

I used the unrevoked version & installed leedroid.
but phone memory is showing only 28mb left????

IS it just a case of flashing the ROM, or will I have redo it all again!!

I did try running the Unrevoked again last night but it came up with an erroe saying that my firmware was to new??

Sorry for all the questions, but its all pretty new to me!

Any help gratefully accepted.
 
step one: read out guides, all of them.
step two: make sure you created the partition correctly using gparted

unrevoked will not help this, its used for rooting and flashing a custom recovery, both of which you have already done.

Did you wipe the handheld in recovery before flashing the rom?
 
SUroot|rootSU ROM is made of win
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just noticed this, very nice!!

As Rasta says read the guides, i am guessing you havent created the ext partition on your sd card to gain any benifit for a an a2sd rom, just read read read and you will be good to go.
if you have created the ext and used anything other than Gparted its possible its not worked properly, just use the gparted guide in my sig and do it properly. :D
 
Right!

I used Gparted to partition my SD card with a 1.1Gb partition.

But when I put it back in the phone it wouldn't mount the card untill I formated it, but now it only shows 1.17GB total space & 1.16Gb available space????:eek:

Bugger! what have I done?

Any help truly appreciated.

Spence
 
youve created the partition in gparted in the wrong order.
i think that vid tutorial we use is a bit wrong these days and things have changed


make sure the 1st partition is fat32 primary partition
send partition is an ext4 primary partition.
click apply and let it complete the tasks
that should work
 
Rastaman-FB said:
youve created the partition in gparted in the wrong order.
i think that vid tutorial we use is a bit wrong these days and things have changed


make sure the 1st partition is fat32 primary partition
send partition is an ext4 primary partition.
click apply and let it complete the tasks
that should work
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Thanks for your help.
I have done as above & all looks good.

But titanium backup says:

Sorry i could not acquire root privileges. this application wiil *not*work!please verify that your ROM is rooted and includes busybox, and try again????

Spence
 
Click the "problems" button in Ti and it will offer to download Busybox. That will sort it.

Your ROM almost certainly includes Busybox, but Ti likes to have its own copy...

Edit: just beaten to it :)
 
shauny13 said:
click on check for problems in titanium and let it install the latest busybox.
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Hadron said:
Click the "problems" button in Ti and it will offer to download Busybox. That will sort it.

Your ROM almost certainly includes Busybox, but Ti likes to have its own copy...

Edit: just beaten to it :)
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Thanks for the quick reply.
unfortuneatly it doesnt offer to download the busy box, and still says "root access failed???
 
Try uninstalling it a then install it again, titanium asks for root before it does anything, its possible you checked don't allow by mistake.
Worth a shot.
 
shauny13 said:
click on check for problems in titanium and let it install the latest busybox.
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Hadron said:
Click the "problems" button in Ti and it will offer to download Busybox. That will sort it.

Your ROM almost certainly includes Busybox, but Ti likes to have its own copy...

Edit: just beaten to it :)
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SPENC said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
unfortuneatly it doesnt offer to download the busy box, and still says "root access failed???
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ducky1979 said:
Try uninstalling it a then install it again, titanium asks for root before it does anything, its possible you checked don't allow by mistake.
Worth a shot.
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Sorry all, but I have tried all this and still no joy!!

Would it be worth re-flashing the ROM again??

Spence
 
By default these apps can't be moved to the sd, titanium can force them to the sd though,
Which rom are you running? Because you started this thread with regard to creating an ext partition on your sd, if you have this and are using a rom which supports a2sd you shouldn't NEED to move these apps to the sd,
I know this doesn't help with titanium, but it's just confusing me.
 
ducky1979 said:
By default these apps can't be moved to the sd, titanium can force them to the sd though,
Which rom are you running? Because you started this thread with regard to creating an ext partition on your sd, if you have this and are using a rom which supports a2sd you shouldn't NEED to move these apps to the sd,
I know this doesn't help with titanium, but it's just confusing me.
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Oh right.
I'm using Leedroid.

I just thought that those apps would show up on the SD card.
Thats fine if they shouldn't be moved then.

Not really worried about Titanium, I'll try another one.
Just wanted to make sure I didnt have to root the phone again, so I can start setting up my phone again.

Thanks for your help.

Spence
 
It does seem strange how it isn't working though, I would try downloading another root app just to check that works.
A2sd is the ext you created so essentially your apps are on the sd, the ext is in a way tricking the phone into believing it has X amount of internal memory,
I'd recommend you also get quick system info from the market to test your a2sd is working.
 
ducky1979 said:
It does seem strange how it isn't working though, I would try downloading another root app just to check that works.
A2sd is the ext you created so essentially your apps are on the sd, the ext is in a way tricking the phone into believing it has X amount of internal memory,
I'd recommend you also get quick system info from the market to test your a2sd is working.
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Thanks, I have quick system info, how do I use it to check that a2sd is working?

Sorry for being a bit thick:eek:

Spence
 
No probs, it should say a2sd and have to values, available and free, provided free is less than available its working.
 
ducky1979 said:
No probs, it should say a2sd and have to values, available and free, provided free is less than available its working.
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If i look in memory it says:

download cache: max:39.98mb/free:17.20MB
data max:148mb/free 117mb
external storage: max; 6.55GB/free 5.64gb
total ram: 415mb
free ram:151MB
threshold ram: 16.00mb

Does that look right?

Spence
 
SPENC said:
If i look in memory it says:

download cache: max:39.98mb/free:17.20MB
data max:148mb/free 117mb
external storage: max; 6.55GB/free 5.64gb
total ram: 415mb
free ram:151MB
threshold ram: 16.00mb

Does that look right?

Spence
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Doesnt even look like the market application "Quick System Info" to me. Are you sure this is from "Quick System Info" downloaded from the market?
 
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