[mod][mt6573] Data2sd on stock rom

yuweng · Jul 6, 2012

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Added on Oct 17, 2012 WARNING : MEDIATEK SMART PHONE FLASH TOOL
i've seen far too many times that fellow xda member make this same mistake over & over again, including myself...

So pls pls people, don't use SP Flash Tool & download ROM not meant for your phone, it will brick it & there is no way to revive it back ! After you have download wrong PRELOADER, your phone will be completely dead, cannot power on, no charging, no recovery, no USB vcom detection & you can say

to it...

Here is the WARNING again :

NEVER DOWNLOAD ROM NOT MEANT FOR YOUR PHONE. IT WILL BRICK IT !

breaky9973 · Jul 7, 2012

If I would have seen this post before my phone wouldn't have been bricked

Anyway kudos to poster & developers

sevensaints · Jul 7, 2012

there are a lot of beginners would like to know how to install this into their MT6573 phone...

well...

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eventhough there is a How to Install in the MTZ file..

confusing..

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Auto Installation using ADB

1. Download & install usb driver from the above link if your phone doesn't comes with it.
2. Copy the extracted ADB folder to c:\ drive.
3. Double click Start.bat & all files will be installed.
4. Follow on-screen for instructions.

yuweng · Jul 7, 2012

@sevensaints
First, on your android phone, enable usb debugging... Setting -> Applications -> Development -> put a check mark on "USB debugging"

Typically, when you plug-in your android phone, windows will detect it & will prompt you to install the driver...if it doesn't then follow the steps below...

Go to Device Manager -> double click on the MT65xx Android Phone -> Update Driver -> Browse my computer for driver software -> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer -> Next -> Have Disk -> Browse -> to wherever you have extracted the downloaded google usb driver -> android_winusb.inf -> OK -> Next -> Install -> Close -> Close

Whew, i actually replicate the actual step, by step...

There is also another auto-installer, Pdanet, you can check it out...

Then double-click SuperOneClick & it will do its job... :victory: Answer yes when ask whether to install busybox

Actually, rooting & installing google sdk usb driver is scattered everywhere on the web & also here at xda...SuperOneClick

@breaky9973
Thanks, breaky9973...It would be great if you could post the model of your MT6573 then others users will benefit from it too... :victory:

breaky9973 · Jul 10, 2012

I have an i-mobile i695 and I got it succesfully restored (with one minor issue).
Your script works for me but it took me a couple of restarts to be fully initialized on my phone.

yuweng · Jul 11, 2012

guys, thank you so much for your feedback...

@breaky9973
actually, it works right after reboot, the problem is mediatek's mt6573 is kinda of slow while booting up & yes, what you said is correct, it actually needs around 1 to 2 minutes to fully initialized... :silly:

@sevensaints
when i got my android phone, 1st week got it rooted, 2nd week brick it, 3rd week found russian forum to restore it back... :laugh: i presume most users will root their phone once they got their hands on it... Point taken, i have included DooMLoRD's Easy Rooting Toolkit with it now... :good:

As mention before, would appreciate if you guys that has this mod working on your phone to reply with the model of your mt6573 so that other users would benefit from it too...

Thanks...

para_dox77 · Jul 20, 2012

Hello yuweng,

Just want to confirm this mod works on Nexian A899 based on MT6573 stockrom. because of I used Link2SD before, seem like get problem to increased the internal storage and after factory reset, it works! get it free of 1.3 GB

btw, the start.bat not works under Win7..only works under WinXP.

Thanks! :good:

yuweng · Jul 20, 2012

Thank you so much for your feedback, para_dox77... :laugh:

Actually, best size for sd-ext is 1GB. i've install 200 over games to test & found out that after 1.2 GB of data fill up, after reboot, the launcher screen is not responding, all apps are missing & i have to wait around 3 to 4 minutes then everything show up ! After that, everything is quite responsive. So i guess thats the max. Same as our PC...

On top of that, you'll save 500MB of space if you format your sd-ext 1GB instead of 1.5GB...

Both ported scripts are develop & tested on Win7 OS, so my best guest is that you didn't turn off the user account control settings...it'll block whatsoever bat/ exe/ setup file that is trying to run...

Another lesson learn, so guys please delete whatsoever link2sd, a2sd, d2sd & etc that you have or else this mod will not work... :fingers-crossed:

By the way, this mod should be call data2sd or d2sd...You can refer to this post by croniccorey. You can also try his scripts & see if it works on our mt6573...been super busy with work lately so no time for modding...

jinxie · Jul 31, 2012

Hey, this is great! but I am having a little issue. I have a "NEOBOX NEO" phone, and since I was stuck with the stock recovery I could add init.d support but no ext2 support so I was using link2sd with a fat32 partition, but I still had problems with storage. I uninstalled links2sd and formatted the partition to ext2, ran the .bat and it worked, now I have plenty of space and no more annoying low space messages. The thing is, whenever my phone sleeps, when I turn the screen on, it hangs for a while, and then it prompts like 3 to 5 times like it has a new sim card. My guess is that it moved the sim app to the sd and when it sleeps it is not actually reading from the card hence the problem. I haven't done any further testing but I am guessing this would also cause trouble with other apps that need to be running in the background like messaging and whatsapp and basically anything that syncs. And if I am right and that is the problem, then the solution would involve having the phone not to sleep and thus drain the battery very fast. Correct me if I am wrong (and I certainly hope I am because otherwise this seems great and the solution to my problem)

EDIT: it does the "sim thing" not only when sleeping but anytime. specially anoying when listening to music. Anyone with the same/similar issue? the card is a 16gb verbatim HC card class 10. never had a problem with it b4.

yuweng · Aug 1, 2012

Hi jinxie,

I've read alot on generic a2sd mod, data2sd & etc; many users has been reporting problem with class 10...

My suggestion to you is that you remove all scripts except 01data2ext.sh & monitor from there onward...

This is the best part of ungaze's SD Tweakz, just add or remove any old/ new tweak scripts from your SdCard scriptz folder & you phone will be back to normal or even better/ faster with the correct modded scripts... :good:

The other thing is that i change the read_ahead_kb from the original 03tweakz.sh; from 1024 to 8192...

You can refer to here for more info... May be it is too high for class 10...

Use Notepad ++ & change it to a lower value...

jinxie · Aug 1, 2012

yuweng said:
Hi jinxie,

I've read alot on generic a2sd mod, data2sd & etc; many users has been reporting problem with class 10...

My suggestion to you is that you remove all scripts except 01data2ext.sh & monitor from there onward...

This is the best part of ungaze's SD Tweakz, just add or remove any old/ new tweak scripts from your SdCard scriptz folder & you phone will be back to normal or even better/ faster with the correct modded scripts... :good:

The other thing is that i change the read_ahead_kb from the original 03tweakz.sh; from 1024 to 8192... You can refer to here for more info... May be it is too high for class 10... Use Notepad ++ & change it to a lower value...

Thanks for the quick reply! I will try that!
So, update: After trying it yesterday all day, very unstable, rebooted like a ziliion times, and then it looked like finally everything was in place and it started to work fine, so I installed a bunch of apps. Like 5 or 6, usual stuff, facebook, twitter, etc., rebooted, and now it bootloops. removed the card and boots fine of course, but no freaking space. What now? heh

jinxie · Aug 2, 2012

UPDATE:
I decided to do a clean install, and since there is no custom recovery for my device I cant flash zips, I erased all data and flashed the system.img partition again. I also formated both fat32 and ext2 partitions from the sd card. Then I applied your script (prior to that y reduced the read ahead kb you mentioned by half). No luck, same issues. So i deleted all scripts but the data2ext. It runs better, but I still get FCs, it hangs for a few secs, then I lose all connectivity with the "restricted access changed" message, and the new sim detected pops up constantly, so I also get a lot of dropped calls. I also noticed battery drainage, much faster than before, I think it is because of the same connectivity issue since looking for networks does drain a lot of battery.
Apparently, it has to do with data connection, since I have deactivated it and for the past hour I haven't had those problems, but I can't tell for sure, I'll test wifi when I get home.

yuweng · Aug 3, 2012

Thanks so much for the update, jinxie...

AFAICR, some mt6573 has different mtd for system.img...

at adb shell, cat /proc/mtd & see if it is mtd11...

if it is different then i think you have to edit 01data2ext.sh, line 22, 33, 130, 138 to your system.img mtd location...

hope it works out for u... :fingers-crossed:

Added on August 03, 2012 - Earlier original ungaze [mod][mt6573] Data2sd on stock rom Test Version

Attach script is the original script format from ungaze's Data2SD... :fingers-crossed:

Steps
Option 1 - Replace file at SdCard
1) Delete 01data2ext.sh from SdCard scriptz folder
2) Format SdCard ext2 partition
3) Restart & let it settle down
4) Copy this file to your SdCard scriptz folder & restart

Option 2 - Reinstall this mod all over again
1) Format SdCard ext2 partition, factory reset, wipe data
2) Restart & let it settle down
3) Copy this file to & delete 01data2ext.sh -> files -> scriptz folder & run start.bat

jinxie · Aug 3, 2012

I had a record of my tables but I cant find it, but if the mtd was different shouldn't it not work at all? because it does work, I have the internal memory the size of the partition, but it is unstable and slow.
I installed terminal but it FCs so I am installing ADB because I formatted my pc recently so I will tell you in a few minutes.
Btw it seems the SIM card problem only happens when the data connection is active, maybe it has to do with the network changes from E to 3G and H. I haven't been able to disable fast dormancy. The battery consumption showed almost 50% in Cell standby. But it still hangs, FCs and that kind of weir stuff that makes it really hard to use and a challenge to my patience. Thank you for all your help. Is there any other alternative you would recommend for the low storage issue for us the poor ones with stock recovery? Link2sd worked for a while but then memory got full anyways, dont know why because I had almost every app on the SD. I wish I could use a2sdx...

EDIT: yup system is mtd11 :S

y2yu · Sep 3, 2012

my mt6573 will be monster after this
thanks

loris22 · Sep 3, 2012

perfect on b63m..i try casacristo ext2 script..

yuweng · Sep 4, 2012

@loris22
Thank you so much for your feedback, another phone added to the list... :laugh:

@y2yu
Wow, you post reply here & on my other thread, hope you find my KANG useful... :fingers-crossed:

gp.triple · Sep 11, 2012

hi
without a custom recovery there are some way to make a2sd work?

yuweng · Sep 11, 2012

Yes, in fact you can ! But it will be quite tedious as you need to manually copy a2sd's files to its appropriate folders, manually set permissions & etc for it to work....

And you will also need bgcngm's MTK-Tools to unpack boot.img...You can refer to here for more info...

Why don't you use my universal cwmr Android Kitchen plugins for porting cwmr to ur MT6573 ?

I've created this thread specially for MT6573 users that are happy with their stock ROM but needed larger internal memory...

Originally, most of these data2sd scripts require some kind of modding to the boot.img or system.img while the one here doesn't require any of that...

Kudos to the original DEVs for these excellent scripts....

gp.triple · Sep 11, 2012

yuweng said:
Yes, in fact you can ! But it will be quite tedious as you need to manually copy a2sd's files to its appropriate folders, manually set permissions & etc for it to work.... And you will also need bgcngm's MTK-Tools to unpack boot.img...You can refer to here for more info...

Why don't you use my universal cwmr Android Kitchen plugins for porting cwmr to ur MT6573 ?

I've created this thread specially for MT6573 users that are happy with their stock ROM but needed larger internal memory...

Originally, most of these data2sd scripts require some kind of modding to the boot.img or system.img while the one here doesn't require any of that...

Kudos to the original DEVs for these excellent scripts....

THANKS!!
this night i study everything i try to make a working cwmr for alcatel 991!

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