[Q] How do I retain the configuration?

[ranmaru90]

Hi, I've signed up for an account quite a while ago since I was on HTC Tattoo, but this is my first post because I've gotten really desperate here but I couldn't figure out what has been wrong.

I've done searching around xda-developers and tried Googling. I have an Xperia mini pro SK17i and here's my problem:

What I've done:
1. I've unlocked its bootloader.
2. Flashed Rage Kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398910).
3. Using CWM included after flashing Rage Kernel, I flashed Hybrom V6 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373435).
4. Before this I partitioned my SanDisk Mobile Ultra 32GB Class 6 microSDHC for sd-ext (27.7GB of FAT32 and 4.06GB of ext2).
5. Installed Titanium Backup.
6. Yay, from Titanium Backup I could see that a2sd is enabled.

Then came the problem:

7. I POWERED OFF my device.
8. Pulled its battery out.
9. Put it back in.
10. Turned the phone back on. When it's at the homescreen, Titanium Backup is gone.
11. So, I installed Titanium Backup again. But this time, I can't see a2sd's remaining free space, means it's not enabled?
12. So, I went ahead and rebooted into recovery, reflashed the rom again, and it all goes back to step 1.

While I was doing those, I tried checking whether a2sd was enabled each time, and it seemed that it was random. Sometimes enabled, then after a reboot, it got disabled, then I reflashed again and so on.

I'm really frustrated now. Any help is really appreciated!!

 

[neroyoung]

Try installing Hybrom v7 now
And when ever you flash your rom everything which is inside your SD card and was associated with system files will be of no use as you have to reassign it to system after you flash your rom

To solve this,when you think you have fully working system and now you want to keep it as backup to avoid reconfiguration when you reflash your ROM then make a backup of current working ROM for this
Reboot in recovery mode of CWM
Go in backup and restore
Make a backup of your ROM and you are done !
(This backup can be found on SDCARD/clockworkmod folder)

When you want to reinastall the "Same ROM" then you can use that created backup to get back to the status where you made backup.So there is no need to reinstall software and no need to make settings again.
This backup creates MD5 check sum so it can't be used for any versions of ROM.Use it with same version of ROM.And you will get ex-sd back as you mod in before back up.

I hope you got what i said ... cause when ever you completely flash the ROM and start it freshly you will have to go to step 1 as you said and do all things again so backup is good way to avoid this frustration and problem
And because of that sd-ext will not work...

 

[ranmaru90]

Thx for the advice.

But I still can't get a2sd to work.

I connected my device to my computer, then I via adb shell I typed

a2sd check

everything seems to be okay except that sd-ext is not mounted. :'(

What should I do to get it to work?

 

[ranmaru90]

I managed to get a2sd working consistently.

What I did was to partition my sdcard and format it separately.

Whenever I did a wipe data/system/cache CWM would wipe and format the sd-ext partition too, because of this, upon flashing a new ROM, a2sd would not be enabled.

But now I have another problem, I would love to move dalvik-cache to sd-ext, I tried doing it with:

#a2sd cachesdreset

then it reboots my device, but it ended up in a bootloop.

What should I do next?

 

[ranmaru90]

I found out another issue. Everytime I pulled the battery out, my Xperia mini pro would fail to mount sd-ext.

THEN I would have to first do:

# a2sd repair

then the device reboots, then:

# a2sd reinstall

then it would get a2sd back again. But this time, all of the settings for the apps on sd-ext are lost.

 

[scrotumsasi]

i don't know bro
sorry


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[Someguyfromhell]

i don't know bro
sorry


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If you have nothing to say, don't post at all. We don't need random spam here like this.

Also, this topic is 4 months old, why bump it?

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