Just to clarify that, is it the emmc to be replaced by ext_card or ext_card replaced by emmc? Hope OP will add this new trick you have found. Thanks for sharing dude!
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Hello johnwilliam_a_k_a_trash, I got a LG F60 and my vold file says only :
/devices/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host auto vfatdefaultsvoldmanaged=external_SD:auto
Could you tell me what could I change to switch SDcard as an Internal card ?
Thanks a lot, I really don't know what to do !
Hello
I followed the SWAP SD INTERNAL TO SD EXTERNAL on Sony Xperia J Procedure but I was not successful.
When I reboot the Sony Xperia J it stay stacked on the "XPERIA" blinking screen.
As I have no access to the file system, can you tell me how can I delete the edited vold.fstab file and rename the vold.fstab.old file as vold.fstab and reboot my phone.
Thank you
If the phone is not booting you cannot edit the file, if you have nandroid backup restore it, else flash the same rom you had without erasing data, so that your data will not be lost.
If the phone is not booting you cannot edit the file, if you have nandroid backup restore it, else flash the same rom you had without erasing data, so that your data will not be lost.
How can I restore a backup as When I reboot the Sony Xperia J it stay stacked on the "XPERIA" blinking screen.
Thanks you
Power off your device by removing battery.
Insert the battery and boot in recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up and Power Button at the same time.
Release all buttons when the Sony Xperia J screen flickers and in a few seconds the Recovery screen will appear.
Power off your device by removing battery.
Insert the battery and boot in recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up and Power Button at the same time.
Release all buttons when the Sony Xperia J screen flickers and in a few seconds the Recovery screen will appear.
No, you are an idiot.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN AND DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR ANDROID!
you do not want to find out what happens. it definitely does not switch your drives, it will brick your machine and you will never be able to fix it without a replacement, please take it from someone who fell for this bull****.
THE DAMAGE YOU CAN CAUSE IS IRREVERSABLE.. not only does it cause your android to freeze at the loading screen but it also takes away the option to boot into recovery mode and connect to a computer to flash the drive.
YOUR WEBPAGE IS USELESS SPAM don't even try to redeem yourself at this point that's 2 brick messages in a row. it bricked my android on the reboot you f*cking pr*ck.
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard emmc@fat /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.0/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard2 /mnt/ext_card auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.1/mmc_host
EDIT: This doesn't seem to work on SAMSUNG devices so please don't try on them. This works on most of the MediaTek devices and few Sony devices. If you were able to successfully swap please mention your device name.Don't forget to read the warning.
Warning: Please do a complete CWM Backup of your device, so that if anything goes wrong you can revert back to original state. Please don't blame me if you forget to do a complete CWM Backup
I have a phone with me Xperia J and it has only 2 GB of Internal memory for apps but data for few HD games like NFSMW is 1.8 GB i.e nearly 2 GB and if I paste the data in external SD then it will not be detected, then how can we install and play these HD games on devices like these?
The only solution to this is swapping Android's external and internal SD cards so that I can get my SD card's size as internal memory.
Discliamer:I am not responsible if you mess up with your phone, for bricked phones and dead sd cards. Try this on your own risk.
Then how can we do this?
Its very simple by modifying the code in vold.fstab file which is present in ext folder of Android's system folder.
This file so called vold.fstab has mounting information for the device to mount the SD cards so change the code to swap the SD cards so that ext_card will be mounted as sdcard and sdcard will be mounted as ext_card.
Note: This will work on any Android phone with internal and external SD cards.
Here is the procedure with an example I have done on Xperia J's vold.fstab file.
1. First of all your phone must be ROOTED, If its not then STOP here and get the Root first.
2. Download Root Explorer or any other such explorer which can explore root directory of device.
3. Navigate to system/etc folder mount it as rw(read/write).
4. There you will find vold.fstab file, copy it to your sdcard.
5. Then in your PC open the file in an Text Editor.
6. Find the lines like these,
7. Replace sdcard with ext_card and ext_card with sdcard in these two lines.
8. Again navigate to system/etc change the name of the current vold.fstab file to vold.fstab.old (backup).
9. Paste the new edited vold.fstab file there and long press on it you will get a menu from there change the permissions to "rw_r_ _r_ _" this is important.
10. Reboot the system.
11. If you want to restore changes, delete the edited vold.fstab file and rename the vold.fstab.old file as vold.fstab and reboot.
All the best.
I have a phone with me Xperia J and it has only 2 GB of Internal memory for apps but data for few HD games like NFSMW is 1.8 GB i.e nearly 2 GB and if I paste the data in external SD then it will not be detected, then how can we install and play these HD games on devices like these?
The only solution to this is swapping Android's external and internal SD cards so that I can get my SD card's size as internal memory.
Discliamer:I am not responsible if you mess up with your phone and for bricked phones and dead sd cards.
Then how can we do this?
Its very simple by modifying the code in vold.fstab file which is present in ext folder of Android's system folder.
This file so called vold.fstab has mounting information for the device to mount the SD cards so change the code to swap the SD cards so that ext_card will be mounted as sdcard and sdcard will be mounted as ext_card.
Note: This will work on any Android phone with internal and external SD cards.
Here is the procedure with an example I have done on Xperia J's vold.fstab file.
1. First of all your phone must be ROOTED, If its not then STOP here and get the Root first.
2. Download Root Explorer or any other such explorer which can explore root directory of device.
3. Navigate to system/etc folder mount it as rw(read/write).
4. There you will find vold.fstab file, copy it to your sdcard.
5. Then in your PC open the file in an Text Editor.
6. Find the lines like these,
7. Replace sdcard with ext_card and ext_card with sdcard in these two lines.
8. Again navigate to system/etc change the name of the current vold.fstab file to vold.fstab.old (backup).
9. Paste the new edited vold.fstab file there and long press on it you will get a menu from there change the permissions to "rw_r_ _r_ _" this is important.
10. Reboot the system.
11. If any thing goes wrong, delete the edited vold.fstab file and rename the vold.fstab.old file as vold.fstab and reboot.