[TOOLS] Touchpad Toolbox (updated 2015-02-25)

Bwangster12 · May 22, 2014

garux said:
If your using CWM before running TPToolbox, than use CWM for your recovery when using TPToolbox. I always using the same recovery in case I have to do a restore.

It's alway best to do a backup before making any changes.

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Yeah I hear ya....

Restoring a backup from before whatever TPToolbox does to the file structure won't mess anything up?

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a in yul · May 22, 2014

thks for this, cant wait to try it!!

EDIT: just got it working on a 16 and 32GB TP; many thanks to all for your great work, youtube videos and continuous support!!

garux · May 22, 2014

Bwangster12 said:
Yeah I hear ya....

Restoring a backup from before whatever TPToolbox does to the file structure won't mess anything up?

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I would think not, once you have installed with the same recovery you used before using TPToolbox, you should be ok. I've used Titianium backup to restore my app & data without any problems.

theronkinator · May 23, 2014

jcsullins said:
Doing a true uninstall of just Android or webOS is very difficult due to the shared nature of the "media" filesystem (and to a lesser extent /boot). ACMEUninstaller leaves various Android files in the "media" volume. I don't want to have a "Remove Android" that does that.

Given that you plan on removing webOS, what situation would you expect to use an "ACMEUninstaller replacement?"

There's a few reasons for keeping some free space on 'media'. Even without webOS, having some space on 'media' helps when you want to transfer files via a USB Mass-Storage mount (since 'media' is the only fat filesystem, that's the only one you can mount that way to the PC). In particular, that's the space TPToolbox uses when you copy files to do an install.

Even ignoring all that, I did some tests to see just how small you can make 'media' without causing problems. The Volume Resizer in TPToolbox is designed so that it shouldn't allow you to try to resize a volume smaller than you should. Based on my testing, it's not doing that as well as it should. One thing I noticed: when you make 'media' smaller than 264M, it (the lib that does the fat fs resizing) will convert the filesystem from FAT32 to FAT16. I'm not sure of all the problems that might cause, but think it's best we try to avoid them. So, I'll be enforcing a minimum size of 264M on 'media' in future TPToolbox releases.

Yeah, thinking about it, ACMEUninstaller functionality isn't really necessary. My media partition is 900mb, shrinking to 264 would be good. The Tookbox is really good though, will be great if we can have a way to keep it installed all the time somehow. Just another thought, with everyone doing this formatting, is it possible to migrate the touchpad to an f2fs file system?

gradular · May 23, 2014

Finally, no WebOS wasting space just to do a few minor things!

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Bwangster12 · May 23, 2014

Which CM11 seems to be the most stable? I leave for a couple of months and there is 3 CM11s out there lol.

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sstar · May 23, 2014

Bwangster12 said:
Which CM11 seems to be the most stable? I leave for a couple of months and there is 3 CM11s out there lol.

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This thread is for Toolbox not general but in answer to your question Milaq's is what works best for me.

cdmcfud · May 23, 2014

jcsullins said:
I think you should have had ~12.5GB free with a clean webOS 3.0.2 install.

The 1G difference between 13.5G and 12.5G plus the 200M for cache and the 400MB ... ~1.6G for a clean webOS 3.0.2 install.

I have a question. If I remove webos, will A6 still work?

shumash · May 23, 2014

cdmcfud said:
I have a question. If I remove webos, will A6 still work?

Read the OP. It clearly states that there are A6 reflash options.

MerenQue · May 23, 2014

gradular said:
Finally, no WebOS wasting space

Sorry for OT, but this hurts ... :crying: *remember*

rachaelslp · May 23, 2014

Want to keep Web os

Hey,
I just received my used touchpad in the mail yesterday and am really enjoying working on it. It is currently running cm 9. I would like to update to a newer version but still want to play with Web os. To do toolbox, I do a data wipe then what?
Thanks
Rachael

cdmcfud · May 23, 2014

shumash said:
Read the OP. It clearly states that there are A6 reflash options.

I thank I read somewhere that A6 is in the webos battery firmware. It's an honest question if I take webos off is there enough left to run A6.
I've charged my battery and shut it off and the next mourning I've had 95% in stead of a 100%. After running A6 I quit losing power overnight.
You don't have to remove webos unless you want too with toolbox, so it would have A6 as a convenience or added perk.

gevans01 · May 24, 2014

can't get up/down volume to control menu

Looks like a great tool, but I am unable to get the up & down volume and home to control the menu after installing the toolbox. The only way I can reset the tool is to hold down the power and home button for 1 min. When I go back into CWM6 (v6.0.1.9) the all buttons work to control the menu. I've tried downloading toolbox again from another link and still the same problem. (any ideas to fix this?)

jcsullins · May 24, 2014

gevans01 said:
Looks like a great tool, but I am unable to get the up & down volume and home to control the menu after installing the toolbox. The only way I can reset the tool is to hold down the power and home button for 1 min. When I go back into CWM6 (v6.0.1.9) the all buttons work to control the menu. I've tried downloading toolbox again from another link and still the same problem. (any ideas to fix this?)

Sounds to me like you have a Touchpad 4G (aka Touchpad 3G) model.

If so, that's not supported yet. Should be in next release.

If not, let me know and we'll try to figure out what's going on.

gradular · May 24, 2014

rachaelslp said:
Hey,
I just received my used touchpad in the mail yesterday and am really enjoying working on it. It is currently running cm 9. I would like to update to a newer version but still want to play with Web os. To do toolbox, I do a data wipe then what?
Thanks
Rachael

If you want to keep webos, don't do a full data wipe in toolbox.

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rachaelslp · May 24, 2014

gradular said:
If you want to keep webos, don't do a full data wipe in toolbox.

Sent from my Touchpad using XDA Free mobile app

Okay, since I haven't run the program, just wondering how this will look. Will toolbox give me the option to replace cm 9 or wipe? And it will still change the media space?
Thanks!

BIGSimon · May 24, 2014

rachaelslp said:
Okay, since I haven't run the program, just wondering how this will look. Will toolbox give me the option to replace cm 9 or wipe? And it will still change the media space?
Thanks!

If you want to keep WebOS don't do a complete reset, just select install Android and follow the on screen instructions, the TPToolbox will detect which version of Android you are trying to install and will resize the volumes accordingly.

gevans01 · May 24, 2014

jcsullins said:
Sounds to me like you have a Touchpad 4G (aka Touchpad 3G) model.

If so, that's not supported yet. Should be in next release.

If not, let me know and we'll try to figure out what's going on.

Yes! jcsullins, I do have the touchpad 4g....is there an ETA on the next release to support the 4G? Thanks for your support.

Netuser · May 24, 2014

Thanks so much, i really needed a easy solution like this as I am away and want my wife to update the touchpad (she is not tachsavy) which is acting weird.

Also can anyone please advise a ROM this is most bug free and work perfectly with this ? The touchpad is for my 4 year old, so that she can play games and learning apps.

Thanks a lot

swear0730 · May 25, 2014

Worked great on mine and its so easy to use I felt in control and confident the whole time. I borked my android installation trying to upgrade to KitKat and now I'm up and running again.

Unfortunately, my friend is not so lucky at this point.

Before TT run:
His TP was one that was allowed to completely drain down the battery and he did a bunch of stuff to it to get it to obtain enough charge to get to a boot screen where it locks.

Running TT:
Doing a "Complete Data Reset" (several trys). I can't say that it returned the same error first run but at this point it yields a quick "FAILED" with the following lines:
/dev/mmcblk0p14: lseek 31869043 failed: Invalid argument
/dev/mmcblk0p14: lseek 31869043 failed: Invalid argument
/dev/mmcblk0p14: lseek 31869043 failed: Invalid argument
/dev/mmcblk0p14: lseek 31869043 failed: Invalid argument
/dev/mmcblk0p14: lseek 31869043 failed: Invalid argument
WARNING: Inconsistent metadata found for VG store - updating to use version 21
Automatic metadata correction failed
Recovery of volume group "store" failed.
FAILED: rc=5: lvm vgchange -an --ignorelockingfailure

Doing a "Repair Android Volumes" yields the following:
>>>> Checking/Repairing Android volumes
FAILED: rc=5: vgchange -ay

Doing a "Resize Android Volumes" or "Install Android" yields the following:
Determining volume sizes
Problem w/ vgchange -ay

EDIT: At this point it can boot into ClockworkMod v5.0.2.6. WebOS hangs too.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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