Everything worked well... But even though stock gapps successfully installed, I don't have apps such as launcher, keyboard, etc... after the boot. I think it's not for only me, and is there any solution existing?
[Guide] Repartition Nexus5 to increase system partition - Space for Rom & Stock Gapps
- Thread starter surfrock66
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Are you using Dirty Unicorns? It's the only rom I have encountered this issue.
Even if you install successfully, system partition backs to default size when you reboot. I had to flash pico gapps.
No... Every rom I tried caused the problem... Is it becauase I'm trying on Oreo?
I tried like 5 oreo roms until DU and it was fine. Maybe some recent commits cause this problem. Try older roms like AOSIP and let me know if you have time.
Edit: Maybe latest TWRP cause this. I don't know. But something recent caused this.
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I had the same problem with the Unlegacy ROM. I solved the problem by following these steps:Alright thnxMaybe I should try older twrp
1. Flash latest TWRP.
2. Reboot recovery
3. Factory reset (if you wipe all partitions, even the internal storage, factory reset after)
4. Flash rom
5. Reboot recovery
6. Flash GAPPS
7. Reboot
Worked for me
So, you mean I should wipe whole phone and then flash rom, reboot recovery, type command to resize partition(since rom would change system partition to 1gb back as OP said), and finally the gapps?I had the same problem with the Unlegacy ROM. I solved the problem by following these steps:
1. Flash latest TWRP.
2. Reboot recovery
3. Factory reset (if you wipe all partitions, even the internal storage, factory reset after)
4. Flash rom
5. Reboot recovery
6. Flash GAPPS
7. Reboot
Worked for me
Yes, you may try this out, but wiping internal storage is not mandatory
Oh, that's unfortunateLOL... Not working. Anyway, thanks to your help
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Hello guys!
Try this:
1) Install ROM
2) Backup ROM
3) Enable "Use 'rm -rf' instead of formatting" in TWRP settings
4) Format /system
4.1) Unmount /system and use 'resize2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p25' in terminal (TWRP)
5) Reboot TWRP
5.1) Uncheck "Use 'rm -rf' instead of formatting" in TWRP settings
6) Restore backup
7) Install Stock OpenGapps
8) Done!
The idea behind it is that ROM installation somehow corrupt /system partition thus any write operations above normal data region silently fail.
Try this:
1) Install ROM
2) Backup ROM
3) Enable "Use 'rm -rf' instead of formatting" in TWRP settings
4) Format /system
4.1) Unmount /system and use 'resize2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p25' in terminal (TWRP)
5) Reboot TWRP
5.1) Uncheck "Use 'rm -rf' instead of formatting" in TWRP settings
6) Restore backup
7) Install Stock OpenGapps
8) Done!
The idea behind it is that ROM installation somehow corrupt /system partition thus any write operations above normal data region silently fail.
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works like charm thank you very much.
if i may add u may need to untick "use rm-rf instead of formatting" before restoring coz irt gave me errors when it's used
worked like a charm on nexus 5[16GB] and i didnt loose a 'bit' of data in the process.
backstory: so i wanted to install google app as a system app in Oreo but wasnt able to do so cuz of the limited system partition .
after searching awhile, i found this thread and now i cant thank you enough for this wonder
process: i did followed the *exact* same process and also managed to retain my ROM and data
*'firstly, i made a NAND backup of everything via twrp
-then i thought what if i could use a portion of cache partition instead of userdata to add to the system partition (spoiler: thats what i did)
-this way, the userdata would remained untouched and the cache wasnt anything i was gonna miss
-here's my partition table before resizing:
here's the same thing after resizing:
-*finally, instead of downloading & clean flashing a rom, i restored the NAND backup that i previously made via twrp
---its worth noting that i didnt resize the system partition after restoring the backup as instructed in the OP (you should if you do a clean flash)
-then i downloaded OpenGAPPS nano (as it consisted google app), pushed it to my device via adb and installed it via recovery
-rebooted (without clearing cache) and uoeno
well thanks alot for this awesome post
backstory: so i wanted to install google app as a system app in Oreo but wasnt able to do so cuz of the limited system partition .
after searching awhile, i found this thread and now i cant thank you enough for this wonder
process: i did followed the *exact* same process and also managed to retain my ROM and data
*'firstly, i made a NAND backup of everything via twrp
-then i thought what if i could use a portion of cache partition instead of userdata to add to the system partition (spoiler: thats what i did)
-this way, the userdata would remained untouched and the cache wasnt anything i was gonna miss
-here's my partition table before resizing:
Code:
~ # ./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 p
Model: MMC SEM16G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.8GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
...
25 193MB 1267MB 1074MB ext4 system
26 1267MB 1298MB 31.5MB crypto
27 1298MB 2032MB 734MB ext4 cache
28 2032MB 15.8GB 13.7GB ext4 userdata
29 15.8GB 15.8GB 5632B grow
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Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
...
25 193MB 1731MB 1538MB ext4 system //system is now resized to 1.5GB
26 1731MB 1762MB 31.0MB crypto
27 1762MB 2032MB 270MB ext4 cache //cache is reduced to 270
28 2032MB 15.8GB 13.7GB ext4 userdata //the userdata was untouched
29 15.8GB 15.8GB 5632B grow-*finally, instead of downloading & clean flashing a rom, i restored the NAND backup that i previously made via twrp
---its worth noting that i didnt resize the system partition after restoring the backup as instructed in the OP (you should if you do a clean flash)
-then i downloaded OpenGAPPS nano (as it consisted google app), pushed it to my device via adb and installed it via recovery
-rebooted (without clearing cache) and uoeno
well thanks alot for this awesome post
In addition to this, I found that fix https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2222297
Code:
chown -R media_rw:media_rw /data/media/
find /data/media/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} ';'
find /data/media/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} ';'
restorecon -FR /data/media/Amazing. Thank you for this guide. it works like a charm. I just wanna ask a question. I want 3 gb space instead of 2 gb. i did all things correct but just last step gonna fail. you said resize2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 2000M". i changed it to "resize2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 3000M". it mess it up everything and i back to the original, it worked. but there is missing 1 gb.
i parted partition like that.
./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkpart primary 193MB 3291MB
./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkpart extended 3291MB 3322MB
./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkpart primary 3322MB 4056MB
./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkpart primary 4056MB 15.8GB
what should i write instead of 2000M to?
Well I tried this by first increasing the system partition by 620MB since I was short by 617.xx MB according to the OpenGApps log. It didn't work; I was told that there wasn't enough space on the partition for GApps still.
I chose to shrink userdata and cache partitions to donate some space to system.
So I partitioned all over again and set the system partition to 2GB and the stock GApps still won't install (I flash this version of crDroid first).
Here's how the partition table looks:
There's the impossible claim I need 616,648 KB (same as before re-partitioning) according to the GApps log:
UPDATE:
Resolved issue by doing this (yes I see it's in the original post, but I didn't realize it wasn't just for his specific needs):
Then flashing the GApps again... so I plan to change the partitions one last time to give me back more space on my 16GB model then do this all over again.
I chose to shrink userdata and cache partitions to donate some space to system.
So I partitioned all over again and set the system partition to 2GB and the stock GApps still won't install (I flash this version of crDroid first).
Here's how the partition table looks:
Code:
~ # [6n./parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 p
Model: MMC SEM16G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.8GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 524kB 67.6MB 67.1MB fat16 modem
2 67.6MB 68.7MB 1049kB sbl1
3 68.7MB 69.2MB 524kB rpm
4 69.2MB 69.7MB 524kB tz
5 69.7MB 70.3MB 524kB sdi
6 70.3MB 70.8MB 524kB aboot
7 70.8MB 72.9MB 2097kB pad
8 72.9MB 73.9MB 1049kB sbl1b
9 73.9MB 74.4MB 524kB tzb
10 74.4MB 75.0MB 524kB rpmb
11 75.0MB 75.5MB 524kB abootb
12 75.5MB 78.6MB 3146kB modemst1
13 78.6MB 81.8MB 3146kB modemst2
14 81.8MB 82.3MB 524kB metadata
15 82.3MB 99.1MB 16.8MB misc
16 99.1MB 116MB 16.8MB ext4 persist
17 116MB 119MB 3146kB imgdata
18 119MB 142MB 23.1MB laf
19 142MB 165MB 23.1MB boot
20 165MB 188MB 23.1MB recovery
21 188MB 191MB 3146kB fsg
22 191MB 192MB 524kB fsc
23 192MB 192MB 524kB ssd
24 192MB 193MB 524kB DDR
25 193MB 2291MB 2098MB ext4 system
26 2291MB 2322MB 31.0MB crypto
27 2322MB 2836MB 514MB ext4 cache
28 2836MB 14.7GB 11.9GB ext4 userdata
29 15.8GB 15.8GB 5632B grow
Code:
Total System Size (KB) | 1033516
Used System Space (KB) | 835184
Current Free Space (KB) | 198332
Additional Space Required (KB) | 616648 << See Calculations BelowUPDATE:
Resolved issue by doing this (yes I see it's in the original post, but I didn't realize it wasn't just for his specific needs):
Code:
resize2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 2000M
mount -a
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Help with Nexus 5 hammerhead
I would like to rebuild my partition to have 2gb system.
My /cache partition and /userdata are broken (doesn't not exist).
Can anyone help please?
Marc.
Hi, I'm searching for the stock partition table log for my Nexus 5 16GB.
I would like to rebuild my partition to have 2gb system.
My /cache partition and /userdata are broken (doesn't not exist).
Can anyone help please?
Marc.
Thanks for your help, I managed to install Lineage OS 17.1 and GAPPS to my Nexus 5 16G.
It was a bit messy, but I could do it, for a moment I thought I bricked it.
I was wandering what is the /grow partition if anyone knows?
It was a bit messy, but I could do it, for a moment I thought I bricked it.
I was wandering what is the /grow partition if anyone knows?
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