That's what I was thinking too. If not the whole setup maybe 'borrowing' parts of it for our stuff.
[ROM][WIP][4.4.2] CyanogenMod 11 KitKat for Optimus S/V
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I bet the whole setup would work.
it's compatible with 4.2, and it has system linking capability as well as data.
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...interesting. Partition Info in the About Phone menu says 158MB for /system. (What does it say for the Optimus V?) Root Explorer seems to agree, showing 157.73MB used/788KB free. How much would I need to drop /system down to before trying to install Gapps again?
Also, it doesn't seem to like the SD card much AT ALL. Not only do apps NOT wanna move (and wind up disappearing upon reboot when they DO get moved), it seems that using Link2SD is a no-go as well: bad enough that I couldn't link ALL the apps I had at the time - out of 16 user apps on this thing, two didn't link, giving the error "too many symlinks encountered" - but the apps that DID get linked wouldn't work at all...so after undoing the links, they work fine again (except the ones that wouldn't work in the first place...)
And this only just recently started happening to my phone: the clock lag that plagued early ICS roms. And it's REALLY bad here. At worst, it had fallen two hours behind. Easily corrected by toggling the system clock or whatever that option is...but still...I hope that gets cleaned up.
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I would say 140 mb. You can shave a meg or two off by taking out ringtones and alarms and then put them in the Ringtones and Alarms folders on sd. Instead of link2sd you might want to try the mounts2sd method, looks promising.
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Okay. Moved the ringtones and alarms from Media to the sd card. What else is okay to get rid of? I'm now at 156.99MB used...
...and now this thing is REALLY acting stupid. Suddenly, it won't connect to the computer anymore: When I touch Connect (or wtfever it is, I'm currently FAR too enraged to remember), it crashes. ("Unfortunately, systemUI has stopped.") So I figure, okay, let's go through recovery's USB Mass Storage, that ALWAYS works. NOT THIS TIME...it seems to go fine when I plug it up to the computer (that connect sound plays), but the moment I enter for "Mount USB Storage", the disconnect sound plays!! I have no clue what happened to cause this, but I'm going to be even more furious if this means having to wipe and start over...
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you know, since day 1 when you've been on this forum, it's sounded like your phone has a twitchy NAND chip.
I'm not blaming you even 1% on procedure, it sounds like your hardware is something LG probably fought with to get a clean flash before shipping it out the door.
It's never taken flashes very well, has it? You might want to consider a $25 replacement off of Ebay... well, maybe the LS670 still runs $50. I haven't looked.
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Looking back...it seems the only things it HAS taken well was thekraven's Cold As Ice ICS rom...just about everything else seems to have had some degree of trouble. Maybe that NAND chip is the culprit. I hadn't even thought of that. Odder still, after rebooting the phone, the normal USB storage feature worked just fine. Hmmm. interesting.
As for a replacement, lol...yeah, if I were to do that, I'd just get something else entirely. But with that in mind, it does bring an interesting question: the Optimus V apparently has a bigger /system partition than the Optimus S...how can that be when they're essentially the same device?
the firmware sets the partition sizes, bootloader kernel, and only on the oldest firmware enables fastboot.
put S firmware on a V or the reverse and software can't see a difference.
the board in the V I disassembled says "LS670" on it.
+1 for mounts2sd. I use that on Andy's Bean_Whiz rom and it works great. I find the UI a little confusing, so it takes some reading and experimentation to get and confirm that everything is set up like you want, but I think it's great that is has a UI period (and once you figure it out it is fine). After that it's set it and forget it. I never have to fuss around with links2SD or cache cleaners or even think about space and where things are.
It has some nice 4.x only features that would be fun to try also.
It has some nice 4.x only features that would be fun to try also.
in dmesg trying to enable wifi hotspot this is the only error I see.
<3>[ 135.353744] /data/misc/wifi/config: Failed to get information (-2)
the file is not present in pac either. and it won't hotspot without an app.
<3>[ 135.353744] /data/misc/wifi/config: Failed to get information (-2)
the file is not present in pac either. and it won't hotspot without an app.
When I said get it down to 140 mb I meant before flashing gapps. Since you have a partial gapps install on your phone from unsuccessful flashes that's going to be difficult unless you remove all the files that got installed when you flashed gapps. If you don't want to do a full wipe I'd take some apps and the audio files out of the /system/apps and /system/media folders on the zip so the /system folder is only about 140 mb, wipe /system and then flash the rom. Boot up and check that there's enough space on /system and then flash gapps.
They completely revamped the wifi hotspot code in 10.2. It's in frameworks/base. Nobody's gotten around to making it work yet. It looks to me like the wifi hotspot function generates a file called softap.conf in /data/misc/wifi that is a binary file. The kernel might be using the old setup from 10.1 still. I wonder if this is something that would need to be fixed in the wifi driver?
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Is there a way to sideload Mounts2SD? I'd download the app outright, but the Play Store app keeps crashing, and the website doesn't play nicely with the browser.
Try this apk downloader site that generates a download link from the play store: APK Downloader [Latest] Download Directly | Chrome Extension v2 (Evozi Official) It might only work in chrome - I'm not sure.
I had a problem with certain apps not installing from the Play Store, giving an error like "Couldn't install to USB or SD card". I changed the permissions on the /storage folder by checking every unchecked box using Rom Toolbox Pro and it fixed the problem. For some reason I was unable to change the permissions using adb, it accepted the command chmod 777 /storage but the permissions didn't change.
Edit: upon rebooting, the permissions were switched back to their previous settings and when I tried running the app android said "App not installed". This must be something to do with the fuse daemon that handles the sdcard.
Edit: upon rebooting, the permissions were switched back to their previous settings and when I tried running the app android said "App not installed". This must be something to do with the fuse daemon that handles the sdcard.
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That did it!! But certain things still won't install whether I restore it via TB or sideload it from the SD card. *shrugs shoulders* Oh, well.
Good News. The gastro entomologist figured it out. I have a genetic auto immune disease that destroys the liver.
They are now treating it with Prednisone.
Should be out of hospital and back on computer Monday. Back to normal by end of month. Will be helping with ROM by Monday night after catching up with reading the post since my hospitalization.
Whew! It was a rough stay. One bone marrow biopsy and a limp node biopsy in pancreas all on the same day. Still not over all the pain. yet.
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They are now treating it with Prednisone.
Should be out of hospital and back on computer Monday. Back to normal by end of month. Will be helping with ROM by Monday night after catching up with reading the post since my hospitalization.
Whew! It was a rough stay. One bone marrow biopsy and a limp node biopsy in pancreas all on the same day. Still not over all the pain. yet.
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