[MOD][4.1 4.2] Extend Phone Storage 1.5, 2.5GB A116 (Other MT6589 Devices on request)

kaydee · May 26, 2013

READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY

I Will Not Responsible For Any Brick or Any Problem So Do It At Your Own Risk.

This Will Extend your Device's /data partition (Phone Storage) from 1 GB to 1.5 GB or 2.5 GB..
This will make your Internal Storage smaller..

Default -- 1GB Phone Storage -- 1.773GB Internal Card

500MB patch -- 1.5GB Phone Storage -- 1.273GB Internal Card

1.5GB patch -- 2.5GB Phone Storage -- 273MB Internal Card

Before Doing Anything :-

MOST IMPORTANT :- DISABLE SWAPPING IF YOU'VE SWAPPED YOUR MEMORIES,
OTHERWISE EXTERNAL CARD WILL BE DESTROYED.

Flash This to Disable SWAPPING.. AND CROSS CHECK IF MEMORIES ARE BACK TO NORMAL OR NOT

Backup Data and System Through CWM/TWRP to EXTERNAL Card

[*]Back Up Everything From Internal SD to your system, Internal SD will be formatted In this Procedure

V-COM Drivers Should Be Installed In Order To Use SPF Tools

Settings should accept new values, For checking Go to Settings>app and Settings>storage, If its not Force closing then its fine.
and if It is force closing then Flash patched settings.apk

Make Sure Battery is more than 50%

Things Needed :-

S.P. Flash Tools

EBR1 & EBR2 Files

Scatter File

meteos-mtk6589-rom-edit(modded for A116).apk (Credit - meteos)

A116 Canvas HD (ROOTED)

Data Cable

PC

Download:--

S.P. Flash Tool

Patched EBR Files 500MB

Patched EBR Files 1.5GB

Scatter File

Modded APK

Disable Swap Flashable

Patched Settings App(only for 4.1) if 4.2 setting gives FC PM me the settings.apk from /system/app

Credits ---->
Guide For Installing V-Com Driver Click Here Credits -----> Abhishek Kumar

Guide For Using S.P. Flash tool Click Here Credits -----> DR_MOOSAVI

MT6589 ROM EDIT APK Credits ------> Meteos

Full Step by Step Procedure is in #2nd Post

HIT THANKS :good: IF YOU THINK MY POST HELPED YOU...

kaydee · May 26, 2013

Make Sure You have done everything from POST #1

Now First of all Download Modded APK and Install it, Give Root Perm, and It Should Look Like this..

OPTION 1. is for adding 500MB to Phone Storage for This you'll Need Patched EBR Files 500MB

OPTION 2. is for adding 1.5GB to Phone Storage for This you'll Need Patched EBR Files 1.5GB

Make Sure you have backed Up your data and system..

Now Choose the desired option,
Reboot Into Recovery,
Wipe Data only,
If any Error occurs, Ignore them,
now switch the mobile off,
remove battery,

Open S.P. Flash Tools Load Scatter File

Select Only EBR1 And EBR2

Now Select Modded EBR Files..

Recheck The Selected EBR FILES..

Go to Options>DA Download All>Speed>Force To High Speed

Click On Download

Ignore the Warning (Press Yes)

PLUG IN THE FONE NOW (without Battery)
WAIT FOR THE GREEN CIRCLE

ITS DONE NOW
It Should Take 10-20 Seconds..

Now Open Recovery..
Wipe Data cache again..
and restore Only Data.

Boot Up the Phone And Format corrupted Internal SD..
And You Are Done..
For Screens And Settings Issues See POST #3

HIT THANKS :good: IF YOU THINK MY POST HELPED YOU...

kaydee · May 26, 2013

Go To Settings>Apps If Settings Crashes Flash Patched Settings Via Recovery..

SCREENS

Before Partitioning...

After Partitioning...
1.5GB PATCH

500MB PATCH

Thanks Shivam , Sabari Nath And Ravi Sharma For ScreensCaps..

HIT THANKS :good: IF YOU THINK MY POST HELPED YOU...

kaydee · May 26, 2013

OTHER MT6589 DEVICE USERS IF YOU WANT THIS THEN PROVIDE ME

BOOT.IMG (NOT ALLOWED ON XDA THREADS, SO MAIL ME AT kushalgupta.com )

EBR1 (From Firmware Folder)

EBR2 (From Firmware Folder)

Mount Points

How to get mount points:-
Install terminal emulator from market
then type

Code:

ls -l /emmc@*

press enter

this should look like this
Code:

ls -l /emmc@*

lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@android -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@ebr1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@fat -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@protect_f -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@protect_s -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@sec_ro -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@usrdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7

When I'll Get time I'll Definitely make this for your device...

HIT THANKS :good: IF YOU THINK MY POST HELPED YOU...

loveablekrish · May 26, 2013

done...
perfectly working thanks...

mohsin2cool · May 26, 2013

what if we switch roms.. do we hav to do it on every new install of rom???

kaydee · May 26, 2013

mohsin2cool said:
what if we switch roms.. do we hav to do it on every new install of rom???

If you are flashing it with CWM/TWRP, then you don't have to do this..

If you are flashing with SPF tool then you have to do this again..

RickyGoldsmith · Jun 9, 2013

hottesthunkkush said:
OTHER MT6589 DEVICE USERS IF YOU WANT THIS THEN PROVIDE ME

[/LIST]
When I'll Get time I'll Definitely make this for your device...

HIT THANKS :good: IF YOU THINK MY POST HELPED YOU...

I flashed it on my GiONEE Dream D1 and it worked, but didn't work as desired. Part of the reason is that on MMX A116, I believe the /system partition is p5 where as on Dream_D1, it is p6,

Will it ibe possible for you to make this available for Dream_D1?
Or otherwise, if you could provide the steps, that'll also help.

kaydee · Jun 10, 2013

RickyGoldsmith said:
I flashed it on my GiONEE Dream D1 and it worked, but didn't work as desired. Part of the reason is that on MMX A116, I believe the /system partition is p5 where as on Dream_D1, it is p6,

Will it ibe possible for you to make this available for Dream_D1?
Or otherwise, if you could provide the steps, that'll also help.

give me the mount points of Dream_D1..

gregferns · Jun 10, 2013

So basically you have moved space from phone partition to internal partition.

Can you try also this thing :

System is 634mbps and most roms use around 530 mb. Leaves around 115mb free. If we could use this memory into the internal storage partition...... ?

Sent from my Micromax A116 using xda premium

RickyGoldsmith · Jun 10, 2013

hottesthunkkush said:
give me the mount points of Dream_D1..

Here you go:

shell@android:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/emmc@android /system ext4 ro,noatime,noauto_da_alloc,commit=1,data=ordered 0 0
/emmc@usrdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/emmc@cache /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/loop0 /mnt/cd-rom iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0
/emmc@protect_f /protect_f ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodelalloc,noauto_da_alloc,commit=1,data=ordered 0 0
/emmc@protect_s /protect_s ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodelalloc,noauto_da_alloc,commit=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.camelgames.hyperjump-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /mnt/asec/com.hemispheregames.osmos-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-2 /mnt/asec/slide.cameraZoom-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/sdcard0 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /storage/sdcard0/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
/dev/block/dm-4 /mnt/asec/com.fridgecat.android.atiltlite-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-5 /mnt/asec/com.outfit7.talkingtompro-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-6 /mnt/asec/com.ikamasutra.android-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-7 /mnt/asec/com.quoord.tapatalkxda.activity-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:9 /storage/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/dm-8 /mnt/asec/com.outfit7.talkingbenpro-2 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0

shell@android:/ # ls -l /emmc
/emmc: No such file or directory
1|shell@android:/ # ls -l /emmc@*
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@android -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@ebr1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@fat -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@gionee -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@protect_f -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@protect_s -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@sec_ro -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 05:30 emmc@usrdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8

---------- Post added at 11:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:44 PM ----------

gregferns said:
So basically you have moved space from phone partition to internal partition.

Can you try also this thing :

System is 634mbps and most roms use around 530 mb. Leaves around 115mb free. If we could use this memory into the internal storage partition...... ?

Sent from my Micromax A116 using xda premium

I would not like my /system to be touch. For the simple fact that I'd like to keep playing with it. By having extra space, there's a lot of flexibility to try things out.

kaydee · Jun 10, 2013

gregferns said:
So basically you have moved space from phone partition to internal partition.

Can you try also this thing :

System is 634mbps and most roms use around 530 mb. Leaves around 115mb free. If we could use this memory into the internal storage partition...... ?

Sent from my Micromax A116 using xda premium

dude my advice, dont mess with system partition..
@RickyGoldsmith need EBR1 too..

RickyGoldsmith · Jun 10, 2013

hottesthunkkush said:
dude my advice, dont mess with system partition..

@RickyGoldsmith need EBR1 too..

@hottesthunkkush
The EBRs can be accessed here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B91i_eUgQHTacTBxalRHcVFxcEE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B91i_eUgQHTaQ1pIb3loOGp4bkU/edit?usp=sharing

kaydee · Jun 10, 2013

RickyGoldsmith said:
@hottesthunkkush
The EBRs can be accessed here:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B91i_eUgQHTacTBxalRHcVFxcEE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B91i_eUgQHTaQ1pIb3loOGp4bkU/edit?usp=sharing

ok.
got'em, will ping you when its done..

RickyGoldsmith · Jun 10, 2013

hottesthunkkush said:
ok.
got'em, will ping you when its done..

Actually, I think there's no role of the EBR files. Just that the restore doesn't work well. A Factory clean-up should work. I see that now I have the resized storage. THANK YOU.

~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 486.1M 48.0K 486.0M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 124.1M 4.1M 120.0M 3% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 2.0G 957.8M 1.0G 47% /foodata
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 689.8M 384.9M 305.0M 56% /foosystem

kaydee · Jun 10, 2013

RickyGoldsmith said:
Actually, I think there's no role of the EBR files. Just that the restore doesn't work well. A Factory clean-up should work. I see that now I have the resized storage. THANK YOU.

post a screenshot of settings-->apps-->phone storage

and settings-->apps-->Internal SD

RickyGoldsmith · Jun 10, 2013

RickyGoldsmith said:
Actually, I think there's no role of the EBR files. Just that the restore doesn't work well. A Factory clean-up should work. I see that now I have the resized storage. THANK YOU.

NO. Actually, it has a role to play. I think you need to select your choice from the APK and then use the EBR files for YOUR device. And then it works.

---------- Post added at 01:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:01 AM ----------

hottesthunkkush said:
post a screenshot of settings-->apps-->phone storage

and settings-->apps-->Internal SD

Here you go:

kaydee · Jun 10, 2013

RickyGoldsmith said:
NO. Actually, it has a role to play. I think you need to select your choice from the APK and then use the EBR files for YOUR device. And then it works.

---------- Post added at 01:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:01 AM ----------

Here you go:

thanks dude.. :good: :good: :good:

gregferns · Jun 11, 2013

hottesthunkkush said:
dude my advice, dont mess with system partition..

@RickyGoldsmith need EBR1 too..

True what you say. I only asked since I saw what you accomplished and when I had a nexus one a dev managed to modify system, data and cache partitions. I do not think that type of thing may work here as the board partition architecture is completely different. Anyways it was just a question.

Sent from my Micromax A116 using xda premium

kaydee · Jun 11, 2013

gregferns said:
True what you say. I only asked since I saw what you accomplished and when I had a nexus one a dev managed to modify system, data and cache partitions. I do not think that type of thing may work here as the board partition architecture is completely different. Anyways it was just a question.

Sent from my Micromax A116 using xda premium

It can be done easily but why mess wth system's 100mb when you've got 1.7 gb internal sd..

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