App2SD apps on MicroSD missing after restore with ClockworkMod recovery

[MidwestDrummer]

After wiping cache, dalvik cache (no data) and flashing nightly 152, I was getting constant reboots. So I decided to restore a back up I'd done just before flashing, using Clockwork Mod. I unfortunately don't remember what nightly I had prior when I did that back up, but it restored successfully, with one issue. My apps that I had transferred to my microsd card were missing, They're visible in the Settings-Manage Applications area, but I am unable to actually launch via shortcuts on home screen and they do not appear in the app drawer.

I believe I may have found a solution, but I'm not 100% sure on how to implement it. It seems someone else had the exact same issue as me, and was able to resolve the issue. I'm just trying to mimic what he did. He resolution is found here: http://lifein0and1.c...ly-file-system/

The part where I get confused, is in this paragraph:

I finally was about to give up. Then I was thinking if it’s possibly due to the ext4 filesystem. Finally I reformat the partition using ext2, upgraded to ext3 and perform the manual restore (using tar) and it works.

I'm not sure how to do any of that, or what the steps would be. If someone could give me a bit of a walk through, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Karl]

Clock is not good at setup for app2sd use ra recovery

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[MidwestDrummer]

Originally Posted by Karl

Clock is not good at setup for app2sd use ra recovery

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I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

[KIOWA69]

Originally Posted by MidwestDrummer

After wiping cache, dalvik cache (no data) and flashing nightly 152, I was getting constant reboots. So I decided to restore a back up I'd done just before flashing, using Clockwork Mod. I unfortunately don't remember what nightly I had prior when I did that back up, but it restored successfully, with one issue. My apps that I had transferred to my microsd card were missing, They're visible in the Settings-Manage Applications area, but I am unable to actually launch via shortcuts on home screen and they do not appear in the app drawer.

I believe I may have found a solution, but I'm not 100% sure on how to implement it. It seems someone else had the exact same issue as me, and was able to resolve the issue. I'm just trying to mimic what he did. He resolution is found here: http://lifein0and1.c...ly-file-system/

The part where I get confused, is in this paragraph:



I'm not sure how to do any of that, or what the steps would be. If someone could give me a bit of a walk through, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

What that person was saying was to copy all contents of your sd card to a computer, unhook phone from computer and put sd card back in it and either boot phone into bootloader and wipe the sd card and then format card and then upgrade ext partition, if I remember right it goes from regular partition to ext 2 and then upgrade that to ext 3, personally I set the swap to 0 and the partition to 2048 which is 2GB and the rest to FAT, just depends how many programs you have, plus the size of your sd card, I have a 16GB sd card, but if you have the stock 8GB one I would say to a 1GB partition and the rest FAT as most do.

Like was said before if I was you I would boot phone up and go to rom manager and flash alternate recovery from CWM to RA and then do the stuff above.

[MidwestDrummer]

Originally Posted by KIOWA69

What that person was saying was to copy all contents of your sd card to a computer, unhook phone from computer and put sd card back in it and either boot phone into bootloader and wipe the sd card and then format card and then upgrade ext partition, if I remember right it goes from regular partition to ext 2 and then upgrade that to ext 3, personally I set the swap to 0 and the partition to 2048 which is 2GB and the rest to FAT, just depends how many programs you have, plus the size of your sd card, I have a 16GB sd card, but if you have the stock 8GB one I would say to a 1GB partition and the rest FAT as most do.

Like was said before if I was you I would boot phone up and go to rom manager and flash alternate recovery from CWM to RA and then do the stuff above.

Alright, so I think I'm halfway there. I copied the contents of my MicroSD to my PC, reformatted my MicroSD to ext3, and then copied the contents of my MicroSD back to the newly formatted card.

Here's is where I'm lost again. I'm not exactly sure how to do a manual restore using tar (not even sure what tar means).

Any continued assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[KIOWA69]

No idea what they mean by "tar" either, but as long as your sd card is partitioned then you won't have to do it again and that's where your programs should get loaded to instead of internally to the phone to save you some space on the phone. If I was you I wouldn't worry about it, if you have your sd card partitioned and your rom is up and running like you want then things are good to go, if not I would just flash the rom you want and start over, but that's how I would do it, nothing like a fresh rom running on the phone.

[Da Uniq 1]

If you start over, I suggest making a back up of your apps too. Use Titanium back up, or My Back up ot even OnTheFly Backup.

With On the fly, you are limited to installing everything one by one. As with Titanium unless you have the paid version.