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Root [Virgin Mobile] [VMOBI][ROM][KERNEL] Victorious ROM + VaeVictus OC kernel (Updated 7-30-13)

so im new to rooting and all of this stuff, i rooted my phone last night for the first time and made it work as a hot spot and put on the VaeVictus kernal.

from what i understand, i should be able to also put Victorious on my phone now? but i see that victorious comes with vaevictus, so would i need to remove my current version? or just proceed with putting Victorious on my phone? thanks.

currently what ive done:
followed "rooting for newbies" guide
VaeVictus
WiFi tether TrevE-mod
 
joewelder503 said:
so im new to rooting and all of this stuff, i rooted my phone last night for the first time and made it work as a hot spot and put on the VaeVictus kernal.

from what i understand, i should be able to also put Victorious on my phone now? but i see that victorious comes with vaevictus, so would i need to remove my current version? or just proceed with putting Victorious on my phone? thanks.

currently what ive done:
followed "rooting for newbies" guide
VaeVictus
WiFi tether TrevE-mod
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Just go to your backup before vaevictus and flash victorious. That worked for me
 
yeeea, i never did a backup...

im thinking i might have to reset my phone which i believe "un-roots" it, then start all over, which is no big deal to me
 
It's always reccomended before flashing something new. Im not sure if you want to do that. I don't know about the victory, but that can brick some phones. You could download a stock backup on here.
 
I think (I don't know much but here it goes) that you wold be fine to flash without having to restore to stock kernel, I would get some confirmation from Jerry or someone who knows what they're doing though
 
Just make a backup right now, then flash victorious. If it works, excellent, if it doesnt work too well, at least you'll know, and you can just restore. I don't think you'll have problems.
 
Well I spoke to soon. It's working now, just took a few minutes.
I did a reset but it appears to be still rooted. And I messed up and lost all my contacts and everything else so now the lady is having a fun time giving me crap lol.

But it all appears to be running fine. Maybe tomorrow I'lljust try to add in the victorious and see ewhat happen.

Thanks
 
doing a reset will erase your contacts. if you want you can go into your settings on your contacts and export to SD card and save a copy of them. then next time that happens you can just go to import contacts and you'll have them back.:D
 
buzzcon said:
No, you place the Micro Sd Card into your computer using the adapter and format it using Partition Wizard.
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OK, I did all that, both partitions are primary. But the partitions are still not being found. It's like the system doesn't find the SD card.

Device memory
Total space: 20.22GB

SD Card
Total Space: 1.83GB

That's all the system reports. As far as i can see, either on the phone or on my PC when the phone is connected, I now have a 1.8GB SD card.

Am I misunderstanding something here?
 
The 20gb "device memory" IS your SD.

It was swapped with your internal, thus your "SD Card 1.83 GB" is actually your phone's internal memory.
 
The main partition of your SD card should be the larger one. The second partition should be Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4 (Primary as well) and should not be much larger than 2Gb. Many will say that 2Gb is too large, but that's what I use. The Ext partition is what Link2Sd will use to link to apps.

The SD card with 1.83Gb is the Internal SD which I believe is that same on all Victory's.

I don't think the Ext partition shows up when looking at the Device memory.
 
buzzcon said:
The main partition of your SD card should be the larger one. The second partition should be Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4 (Primary as well) and should not be much larger than 2Gb. Many will say that 2Gb is too large, but that's what I use. The Ext partition is what Link2Sd will use to link to apps.

The SD card with 1.83Gb is the Internal SD which I believe is that same on all Victory's.

I don't think the Ext partition shows up when looking at the Device memory.
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OK, it's starting to make more sense, I think my partitions are flipped. I should make the EXT4 partition the big one, not the other way around. I'll try that and see if that's it.
Thanks for sticking with me!!
 
Scrambles said:
OK, I did all that, both partitions are primary. But the partitions are still not being found. It's like the system doesn't find the SD card.

Device memory
Total space: 20.22GB

SD Card
Total Space: 1.83GB

That's all the system reports. As far as i can see, either on the phone or on my PC when the phone is connected, I now have a 1.8GB SD card.

Am I misunderstanding something here?
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You are using victorious, your internal and external memory are swapped. Its so your phone will store the "additional" files that come with some apps on external sd instead of phone memory. Neither of those is the partition for link2sd. That wont show in settings/storage.
 
Scrambles said:
OK, it's starting to make more sense, I think my partitions are flipped. I should make the EXT4 partition the big one, not the other way around. I'll try that and see if that's it.
Thanks for sticking with me!!
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You're fine. Your ext4 partition is way bigger than youll ever get to use now anyhow.
 
I think this may have been answered before, but what is the purpose of using both extSd2internalSd and Links2Sd? If you have swapped the internal and external SD cards, why would you need links2SD to copy apps to a second partition on the external SD? Wouldn't the files already be on the main partition?
 
gumbyx84 said:
I think this may have been answered before, but what is the purpose of using both extSd2internalSd and Links2Sd? If you have swapped the internal and external SD cards, why would you need links2SD to copy apps to a second partition on the external SD? Wouldn't the files already be on the main partition?
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With extsd2internalsd only the larger additional files that some apps have (usually games and some are over 2gb) go on the ext sd. The app itself still goes on internal.
So having both ext2intsd and links2sd gets the whole job done. :)
 
OK - I think I finally understand what's going on. All was OK, I just misunderstood what was going on. No wonder I thought the partitions were flipped. :rolleyes:
 
gumbyx84 said:
I think this may have been answered before, but what is the purpose of using both extSd2internalSd and Links2Sd? If you have swapped the internal and external SD cards, why would you need links2SD to copy apps to a second partition on the external SD? Wouldn't the files already be on the main partition?
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Link2sd moves things that cant be moved with ext2int...vic versa.
 
Madbat said:
With extsd2internalsd only the larger additional files that some apps have (usually games and some are over 2gb) go on the ext sd. The app itself still goes on internal.
So having both ext2intsd and links2sd gets the whole job done. :)
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theadamguy said:
Link2sd moves things that cant be moved with ext2int...vic versa.
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Thanks for the explanation. Once a fully-stable build of Victorious is out I will be flashing it.
 
I had a problem with my internal (external after swap) after about a week. It might of been on my part. It *****ed out and said internal storage was low. So I flashed stock and wiped my internal memory. I might go back
 
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