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Swapping SD card

Got a brand new desire and want to put a bigger SD card in before using it in anger. Apart from unmounting the existing card from the phone do I need to do anything else before swapping? The current card has a whole bunch of folders on it - do these get recreated?

No Idea if its the right way, but I just copied the folders to my PC hard disk and then copied them back onto the new larger card. This was done via a card reader rather than the phone.
Seemed to work fine fo me.

No need mate.
I simply stuck my new card in and formatted it using the phone, the folders were created during that process

What folders are those?
Cronnie said:
No need mate.
I simply stuck my new card in and formatted it using the phone, the folders were created during that process
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I'm an Android newbie but there are a bunch of folders that look like they are used to store bookmarks, photos, music etc. There is a backup folder but ALSO the user manual and the HTC sync executable which are probably worth backing up to a PC. Plus a mystery folder called rosie_scroll??
Thanks for the advice re formatting

400ixl said:
No Idea if its the right way, but I just copied the folders to my PC hard disk and then copied them back onto the new larger card. This was done via a card reader rather than the phone.
Seemed to work fine fo me.
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Anyone know if this would work after upgrading to a bigger SD after a few weeks (ie with data already stored other than the system folders). As its encrypted I get the impression there might be problems?

Can't see why it shouldn't as IIRC the encryption is based on the IMEI of the handset and that won't change.
I copied as I wanted to move the HTC pc app as well.
I will be doing it again soon as this took me from the supplied 4Gb card to an 8Gb one I had around, but will do it again (complete with apps etc) when my 16Gb one arrives in the next week or so.

400ixl said:
Can't see why it shouldn't as IIRC the encryption is based on the IMEI of the handset and that won't change.
I copied as I wanted to move the HTC pc app as well.
I will be doing it again soon as this took me from the supplied 4Gb card to an 8Gb one I had around, but will do it again (complete with apps etc) when my 16Gb one arrives in the next week or so.
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OK thanks. BTW , where you getting the 16gb card from...any good deals out there?

firedup said:
OK thanks. BTW , where you getting the 16gb card from...any good deals out there?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=629
Best 16gb card (VFM) I have found is at play for £28
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...l?add=11540450
Says class 4 in title, then class 2 in description. Review's say 4!

chappers-UK said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=629
Best 16gb card (VFM) I have found is at play for £28
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...l?add=11540450
Says class 4 in title, then class 2 in description. Review's say 4!
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Cheers........

gogol said:
What folders are those?
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Can't remember which ones were from the format and which ones were created while using the phone.
There are several folders in the root, for bookmarks, backups, rssreader etc.

upgrading micro sd card

Hey guys I just wanted to ask u all a question bout upgrading sd cards on the Evo. I just purchased a Lexar 32gb class 10 sd card from Amazon. I still hav the stock 8gb card that has all my data....music,movies,music videos,custom roms,kernals amd so on. I hav heard that some people are having problems with changing their cards. So my question is what is the proper procedure to getting this transfer to be successful. Is it better to format new card thru windows or phone? Do I need to partition the new card? What is the easiest procedure to transfer my 8GB card stuff to my new 32gb card. The reason Im asking is I dont want to corrupt the new card in anyway...as u all kno they are NOT CHEAP!!! I just want the transition to workout smoothly with NO problems. Any advice wud b much appreciated. Thanks Yall!!! Evo runnin MikFroyo v4.61 w/ netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-more-nososbc...overclocked to 1152mhz.

Copy the contents of your current card onto your computer or an external drive. Shutdown your device. Remove your current card and replace it with your new card. Make sure your device supports the 32 GB size. Reboot your device. Many cards already come formatted, however, it wont hurt to reformat it to be sure. When your phone finish booting up, go to the SD card and phone storage setting within the menu. Select unmount SD card. After it unmounts, the option to format it will appear. Select format. When finished, select mount. Back out of that menu back to your homescreen. Connect your device via USB to your computer or external drive and transfer the items you copied to your newly formatted card. Reboot your device when you're finished. You can also format from your computer and from within recovery. Take your pick.
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If am not wrong EVO supports max 16 GB and EVO Shift is 32 GB

^You're mistaken, the EVO does support the 32gb.
Says so on the HTC support page for EVO
Whew, you had me scared for a moment... I just ordered the same 32 gb microSD this morning. :]

I've been through 2 lexar 32gb cards. Within a matter of weeks to days, I was getting data corruption. Not sure if it's limited to the lexar class 10 cards, or any class 10. It would appear to function fine at first. At some point during the day i'd go to check my email and get a sd card mounted in read only mode message on the status bar. Rebooting would usually not help. Had to hook up the phone to the pc, mount the sd in recovery, then run a chkdsk. I'd typically get many many corrupted files.
Now mind you, i'm always careful to shutdown properly, only mount the sd when recovery. I've come to the conclusion that there is some incompatibility issue either due to the size, or perhaps lexar's ability to be downward compatible with the slower speed devices (I think the evo can only take advantage of up to class 6 devices).
Lets hope you have better luck than I did, but after multiple corrupted files, I'm back with the stock card, which has caused no issues at all (besides being low on space).

i have 32g patriot class 10 card and it works great for me. i just transfered my old sd card stuff onto my computer via the card adapter it came with. i inserted and formatted my new card into my phone. and transfered everything from my computer tomy phone via usb.

Ditto on the formatting with the phone. Since i am using ext, it had to be via the phone as I don't have the right tools to do it in windows.
FWIW, with the initial lexar card, there were no problems for nearly 3 weeks. With the replacement card they sent me, issues started showing up 2 days later. Could be my phone is less tolerant of media quality than others..

one thing you need to remember when copying the files, is to hit the option to see the the hidden files on your sd card, if you dont your phone will have glitches because it will be missing those files, because when they are hidden they dont get copied

Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.

pc to dupe sd card?
Could you just copy the sd card using an adaptor to your pc hard drive, then copy the files onto the larger sd card, again using the adapter in the pc. then install the new sd card into the phone? I am new, to this, i'm just askin.

blairan...I think you wud b safe to do that but u must format the new sd card first via phone(itself) or thru windows before any transfer of data is made. My question was simply that I hav read that many people hav had complaints bout corrupted files being present thru their new cards. Or problems with "read only" errors and not being able to access things on the card. If u are rooted and are running a custom ROM that allows Apps2sd to help free up internal memory on ur phone then u wud also need to partition the card as well to allow that. I just dont understand why their have been so many people having these problems with the 32g class 10 cards.

blairan...Im pretty sure u wud be safe to do that but if it is a new card u must make sure it is formatted first via phone itself or windows before u transfer anything to it. My question was simply I dont understand why so many people have complained bout corrupted files and or read-only errors on the 32g class 10 cards. Problems that seem to arise days or weeks later after installing new cards. I wud really like to get to the bottom of it and find out why.

blizzard1017 said:
Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.
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If anything, you'd probably notice quicker loading from apps that you've moved to the SD card. But admittedly, video, music, and photos are the places you'd see the most tangible improvement.

Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?

jmattix said:
Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?
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No, you do not need to unroot, but I do recommend you start from scratch. Since you already have the contents of your card backed up to your computer, go into recovery and re-partition and re-format your card. In amon_RA select "partition SD card" from the main menu. You will be prompted to set a size for 3 different things. Insert a zero each time. Doing so will allow you access to your entire card. Afterwards, copy the rom you want to use to the card via the MS-USB or the Mount USB option, if using ClockworkMod and flash it. Your paid apps will be listed in the Market after you've logged in with your credentials. Your unpaid apps will have to be redownloaded and reinstalled unless you have them backed up to Google's servers or backed up with Titanium Backup. Anyway, you will have a clean install of your rom, a clean install of your apps and a freshly formatted and partitioned SD card. If you still get the low memory error afterwards then I am assuming you have too many apps on your internal memory and thus, you will need to move many of them to your SD card to free up your internal memory. There are tutorials available to learn apps2sd. Anyway, I hope this helps you.
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Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.

jmattix said:
Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.
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You're very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your holiday...
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Bought a new SD card, what do I have to move across?

I just upgraded from an 8GB Class 4 MicroSD card to a Memorette 32GB Class 10 card (got it for like £25 on ebay ). I want to move everything on my SD across so I don't have to re-install etc...
I'm not so much worried about my apps, but what other data is on my SD? Is there stuff to do with my root, ROM or anything on there? I see a lot of folders on my current SD which seem to be related to the OS (not things I have created).
Is everything held on the phone, or do I need to clone the card for it to work straight away?

A lot of apps and games use memory card to hold stuff in seemingly random places, just move the lot to be safe.
Do you have an ext partition on your sdcard? If so perform a nandroid backup then copy the entire memory card over then nand restore and your done.
If you want to start again from fresh you will lose any apps saved on sdcard and some data from some apps, probably nothing important like cache from maps. It wont affect your system or root or anything though.

I'm actually not sure what I have. I literally have rooted it, installed Oxygen, installed the custom HBOOT and that is it. I haven't touched partitioning or format type.
What is the default?

alex98uk said:
I'm actually not sure what I have. I literally have rooted it, installed Oxygen, installed the custom HBOOT and that is it. I haven't touched partitioning or format type.
What is the default?
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If you haven't touched partition or anything your card is default!!
I would copy everything onto PC (backup is always recommended) and then copy onto your new card.... should just work from what you have said ?!

BigMrB said:
If you haven't touched partition or anything your card is default!!
I would copy everything onto PC (backup is always recommended) and then copy onto your new card.... should just work from what you have said ?!
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Ah, OK, if it's that easy then... awesome
I didn't know if Oxygen formatted it some special way. Good to know. Is a Class 10 going to make any difference at all. I was going to buy a normal 32gb card, but this class 10 one about £5-£10 cheaper than big brand Class4/6 ones.
Trader has good feedback, I just hope it's a good card...

Balls, I have looked around and it seems these 32GB Memorette cards are hacked and will corrupt data passed 2GB... cancel time.

SD Card issue

Hi, I seem to be having an odd problem with my Desire, I'm running a Stock Desire on T-Mobile UK, using the SD card that came with the phone, I had no problems until yesterday when the phone reported that no SD card was in it, it is acting as if no card is in it at all when using the Samsung card that came with it. First thing I tried was to put the Micro SD card in my Laptop, it worked, could read the files, so I was worried that the card reader on the phone had gone, they I found an old Nokia 512 MB card and tried that in the desire, it worked fine, no problems, so I'm not quiet sure what to do from here.
I was thinking backup the micro SD that came with the phone, format it in windows, and then see if it works, one question, what would be the best way to back it up?, are there hidden files that require extra software rather than just dragging and dropping in windows?
If not then I will buy a new SD and hope that works.
Thanks for any help
PS. I don't know if this is in the wrong section, so sorry if it is.

Since it can't read the card anymore, you can't backup apps. Format it with Android, or use SDFormatter.

pav4n said:
are there hidden files that require extra software rather than just dragging and dropping in windows
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No, you can select and move or whatever you want.

memory card problem

a while ago with my 8gb sandisk card (class 4) i kept getting an error on my phone that read;
'memory card removed, insert new one'
even though the memory card was still inserted.
now with my 16gb sandisk (class 4 also) its doing the same, didnt do it for the first few months.
does anyone know anything about it? phone issue or memory card issue?
i dont want to fork out on a new memory card every time it does it.
if its phone issue i will have to re-lock, unroot, and everything else so i can get it looked at. otherwise they will do the sucky teeth thing and tell me its my fault
p.s im out all day tomorrow so will check back when im in.

emokid09 said:
a while ago with my 8gb sandisk card (class 4) i kept getting an error on my phone that read;
'memory card removed, insert new one'
even though the memory card was still inserted.
now with my 16gb sandisk (class 4 also) its doing the same, didnt do it for the first few months.
does anyone know anything about it? phone issue or memory card issue?
i dont want to fork out on a new memory card every time it does it.
if its phone issue i will have to re-lock, unroot, and everything else so i can get it looked at. otherwise they will do the sucky teeth thing and tell me its my fault
p.s im out all day tomorrow so will check back when im in.
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Same problem with me. I deleted all partitions and made new partitions. It is better now but still once a day it gives error.

sukhjit321 said:
Same problem with me. I deleted all partitions and made new partitions. It is better now but still once a day it gives error.
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hmm i think maybe format the memory card and redo everything then. just going to take a while to do bloody phone is rubbish lol

emokid09 said:
hmm i think maybe format the memory card and redo everything then. just going to take a while to do bloody phone is rubbish lol
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Try it best of luck. I still can't figure out if it's hardware problem or software, :X

sukhjit321 said:
Try it best of luck. I still can't figure out if it's hardware problem or software, :X
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i managed to fix it i think, heres what i did;
1. made back up of ALL folders, including hidden, excluding music (already on pc)
2. moved apps from sd card to phone
3. opened mini tool partition
4. total format of all the card, including ext.2 partition, clicked apply, left it to it
5. made partition again
6. placed mem card back in, moved apps back to partition/sd card
after a few days with no music or vids or anything, ive not had the problem. seems to have fixed it for now.
although if i get it again i may splash out on a new class 10 memory card