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  • Title: [MOD] Resize primary partition
  • Listed: November, 2014
  • Last modified: 11/30/2014 12:26 am
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[MOD] Resize primary partition
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UPDATE 13-Dec-2014:

 

I've added other versions of the patch – to resize the primary partition to 2GB, 3GB, 4GB, 5GB or 6GB respectively. 

 

 

 

 

Patch to increase primary partition. It uses the space of "internal emmc card", which is shrinked to accordingly (there're 6GB of internal memory total, if you decide to increase the primary partition to 4GB, the rest of 2GB is dedicated to "internal emmc card").

 

PREREQUISITIES:

  1. Root
  2. Custom recovery (CWM, TWRP) – the recovery which comes preinstalled on the phone is not capable of flashing ZIPs!

 

HOW TO:

  1. Do a full backup of all your data (in recovery, recommended is also a backup using flashtool like MTKDroidTools)
  2. Copy the selected patch (.ZIP) to your SDCARD
  3. Reboot to recovery
  4. Apply the ZIP
  5. Do factory reset and reboot the recovery (Do not reboot to the system yet)
  6. Restore your backup (Using the recovery)
  7. Reboot the phone

Note: after the first boot the phone will prompt to format the internal memory, proceed with that.

NOTE: If you select to expand the primary partition to 6GB, there will be still below 100 MB dedicated to the so-called internal emmc card. It is unsafe (and untested too) to have the partition completely deleted, so I decided to shrink it to the tiniest safe size.

 

IF YOU FIND THE PATCH HELPFUL, PLEASE DONATE TO SUPPORT MY WORK, EVEN 1 EURO COUNTS.. :)  MANY THANKS!

DISCLAIMER: Use it at your own risk and always do a backup.

 

If you want to report a bug, feel free to send me an e-mail: honzikd+g6memorypatch@gmail.com or contact me at the official Elephone forum: http://bbs.elephone.hk/?fromuid=2951



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  1. 12/16/2014
    Spain

     

    pepecul on 12/17/2014 @ 12:55 am

    only works 4Gb, 6gb and 5gb don't work

    • 09/25/2013
      Czechia

       

      honzikd on 12/17/2014 @ 8:02 am Author ad

      Are you getting any error when trying to install it? Or, what's going wrong? I was able to flash 6GB patch as well as 5GB patch successfully (I'm personally using 6GB and I actually tested all of them). Without any further or more detalied explanation I wouldn't be able to help.

      Cheers,

      honzikd

    • 09/25/2013
      Czechia

       

      honzikd on 12/17/2014 @ 8:41 am Author ad

      And, just to be 100% sure – I flashed the 5GB patch to the phone, here is the result: 

      It works OK. 

       

      I have also flashed the 6GB back (as I use that one normally) – the result:

      It also works nicely.. 

       

      PM me in case of any doubts..

       

      Cheers, 

      honzikd

  2. 05/03/2013
    United States

     

    lion-rovno on 12/29/2014 @ 10:23 pm

    good evening! please help!how you changed the memory with one to four gigabytes per G6?

    • 09/25/2013
      Czechia

       

      honzikd on 12/31/2014 @ 4:19 pm Author ad

      Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm getting your question correctly. The patch uses free space dedicated to the "internal sd-card" – the patch basically changes the partition alignment of the internal memory (by using modified EBR files). I also answered your PrivateMessage.

  3. 01/23/2015
    Germany

     

    sascha24 on 01/24/2015 @ 5:15 pm

    Dont work….

  4. 02/15/2015
    Germany

     

    Mirko_Polo on 02/15/2015 @ 3:29 pm

    Thank you so much for this! I was able to install CWM, MIUI and rezise my primary partition. Was a nice task today.

  5. 02/21/2015
    El Salvador

     

    Yaguar on 02/21/2015 @ 8:49 pm

    Hello and thanks for your effort to make a better life for those who use a Elephone G6.

    What is the actual capacity of the G6's memory, 6 or 8 gb?

    I found this and I'm now in doubt: http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ahus7.....n.jpg

    Thanks.

  6. 01/04/2014
    Spain

     

    perconte on 06/09/2015 @ 2:07 am

    Hello, I think my elephone's internal memory is broken after trying to install…

    Now my phone doesn't even start! And in recovery says: E:format_Volume: make_extf4fsfailed on dev/block/mmcblk1p2 

    What can I do? Thanks.

  7. 07/17/2015
    Croatia

     

    haze2005 on 07/17/2015 @ 2:41 pm

    Will this patch work on Landvo L550?

    8GB ROM, octa core mtk6592m.

  8. 05/04/2014
    Hungary

     

    callvote on 09/22/2015 @ 1:04 pm

    update 2.zip problem…

    when i click the download…

    "

    Bandwidth Exceeded

    Sorry, this content has run out of bandwidth.

  9. 03/23/2015

     

    Yakul on 09/22/2015 @ 1:13 pm

    Hello!

     

    Please, help me. I need to send the mobile to the tecnical service, what should I do to restore the original partition and install the official rom?

     

    Thx!!

  10. 01/26/2016
    Poland

     

    Vitek_Records on 01/27/2016 @ 11:07 pm

    great! i did it
     

    now my phone has realy 5 gb for apps))

    thanks for this patch :/

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