Hey guys,
I have just bought a new sd card and i just wondered, will i have to reflash the rom when i insert a new sd card, because i have an ext4 partition for my applications.. What is the actual process for applying a new sd card to a custom rom with apps to sd ext4 parition?
Cheers
JD
You can jump into Linux, partition the new card as required, and move the data from your old card's ext partition to the new card's, and all should work well. Alternatively, you can back up all your apps using Titanium Backup, format the new SD card in recovery, boot up, install Titanium, and restore your apps using that.
wich card do you bought? i was actually looking for a 16gb class 4 by Sandisk, with USB reader. price=80 euros with home delivery.
Just bought a class 2 16gb san disk, 34.99 play.com with free delivery,
Cheers prof,
Do I use gparted?
JD
GPartEd will work brilliantly.
JupiterDroid said:
Hey guys,
I have just bought a new sd card and i just wondered, will i have to reflash the rom when i insert a new sd card, because i have an ext4 partition for my applications.. What is the actual process for applying a new sd card to a custom rom with apps to sd ext4 parition?
Cheers
JD
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Please direct this questions to the general section, developer expertise isn't really required to answer those.
The Professor said:
You can jump into Linux, partition the new card as required, and move the data from your old card's ext partition to the new card's, and all should work well. Alternatively, you can back up all your apps using Titanium Backup, format the new SD card in recovery, boot up, install Titanium, and restore your apps using that.
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Dont you need reinserting the titbackup folder bk on new sdcard before one can restore the apps?
deovferreira said:
Please direct this questions to the general section, developer expertise isn't really required to answer those.
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Mate, will you kindly get off your high horse and use your comments and energy for more constructive issues, I needed a question answered, and it was, I cant help it if people keep continuing this thread.
and it does need dev attention because it was regarding a partition that is new to us desire owners, ext4,
So let the moderators moderate please and use your energy in a more kind productive fashion,
Cheers,
JD
Jagdish84 said:
Dont you need reinserting the titbackup folder bk on new sdcard before one can restore the apps?
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Well, yes, but I assumed that was understood. You need to restore the entirety of the contents of your SD card once partitioned for Titanium Backup to find the backups and restore them.
Understood fine prof
JD
JupiterDroid said:
Mate, will you kindly get off your high horse and use your comments and energy for more constructive issues, I needed a question answered, and it was, I cant help it if people keep continuing this thread.
and it does need dev attention because it was regarding a partition that is new to us desire owners, ext4,
So let the moderators moderate please and use your energy in a more kind productive fashion,
Cheers,
JD
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I am sorry if I offended you, it was not my intention at all. It's just that the desire development is getting some momentum and things should be organized a little better in this forum.
And I am using my energy just fine, thank you.
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Howdy.
I've purchased a Class10 16gb kingston badboy and am having rather the trouble copying everything to it. I'm sure i'll work it out in the end but just in case I don't I thought I would ask if there's any amazing solution to SD Card Replacement out there... e.g. Ghosting an SD Card?
Currently an 8gb with fat / ext3 / swap (sadly)
Im in the process of backing up everything again from the 8gb and re-formatting the 16 while trying to copy shiz over. Fun times to their respective places on sd-ext.
Dont ask questions like this in the development thread.
Desire Q and A is more the place for these kind of questions.
Moved to Q&A as not development. Please do not make new threads in development to ask questions.
Try plugging in both sdcards to your pc (Linux, if using windows get a gparted livecd) then use gparted to copy the partitions over, then resize the fat partition to fill your sdcard.
Sorry guys, my bad. Realised my mistake of placement after pressing post.
Merc that would have been an epic solution However after much fustration, I got the great idea to do a backup of the current install through rom manager, copy that over to the other sd, load up in recovery and restore.
Somehow that made all the correct partitions and everything too. Ohhh what a mission.
Cheers for the help
Hey all I am hoping someone has a little experience with Linux and can give me a helping hand. Today I bought a new Samsung 8gb class 6 Micro SD card and I want to transfer the data from my ext3 partition on my class 4 to my class 6.
I have nothing on the class 6, I have installed Linux to a USB stick and I have formatted the SD drive with a 512mb 0 swap ext3 partition however, it won't give me any access to the partition it's self. I was thinking I could just use Ubuntu to go in, partition (yes I know I can use ROM Manager ) take the card out, and put in the old one copy and paste the ext3 partition to the desktop and just drag and drop back. But it doesn't seem to be the case.
I am gettin some write/read errors or something of the sort, it's driving me up the wall. I could spend all night trying to read through Linux code to try to work out how to do it, so I thought I'd see if someone knew off the top of their head or knew of a better/easier way for me to swap data from one partition to another, I can't seem to find a useful thread on it searching the forums either.
Does anyone have any ideas, or an easier solution?
I'm also having a problem with this. Any suggestions?
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
AndroHero said:
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
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That made perfect sense mate! Worked perfectly thanks.
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AndroHero said:
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
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I might give that a go, I never did find an answer to my post.
I've given the shiny new fast SD card to the girlfriend now as well as I really didn't want to hard reset the phone and start over, own goal. I might see if I can pinch it back and put it in mine, it's not like she needs a class 6 for a Wildfire. ^_^
Kalavere said:
I might give that a go, I never did find an answer to my post.
I've given the shiny new fast SD card to the girlfriend now as well as I really didn't want to hard reset the phone and start over, own goal. I might see if I can pinch it back and put it in mine, it's not like she needs a class 6 for a Wildfire. ^_^
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my brother has a wildfire, i take the mick owta him all the time cuza it just swap em, a girl wouldnt notice
reudyfam said:
That made perfect sense mate! Worked perfectly thanks.
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cool man, glad i could help
AndroHero said:
my brother has a wildfire, i take the mick owta him all the time cuza it just swap em, a girl wouldnt notice
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I quite like the little phone, it shouldn't come with Sense though, it kills it. I've put LauncherPro on it and it flys for what she uses it for, facebook, e-mails, Twitter and all that. Shame the 768Mhz overclock isn't stable enough to run 24/7.
Kalavere said:
I quite like the little phone, it shouldn't come with Sense though, it kills it. I've put LauncherPro on it and it flys for what she uses it for, facebook, e-mails, Twitter and all that. Shame the 768Mhz overclock isn't stable enough to run 24/7.
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i cant do with the screen res mate, i used to have a hero, that only had a hvga screen, but the qvga screen looks awful on the wildfire, the sence widgets look crap too, i might try n convince my brother to flash openfire on it
Hi All
Firstly, huge apologies if this has been answered already. I have searched a ton of threads and none really explain exactly what I need to know...
Secondly, I am in no way aware of how any coding or development works on the desire or any android device for that matter so my knowledge is only from what I have personally done to my device:
S-ON (dont have the balls to attempt this!)
Currently I am running RCMixHD ver 0.14. This ROM includes a script which (so I understand) activates the data2ext, and creates this within my ext partition. Now I have read a few threads and posts about possible corruption with this, and so I have a question?
Can I simply copy the entire contents of the SD card to my PC, and then in the event of the SD card becoming corrupt, copy it to a different SD card, pop it back in the phone and then carry on?
Also I am considering a bigger SD card than the 4gb one I have, could this method also be used to transfer everything onto the new SD card without wiping and losing every app and photo etc.
Apologies for the semi-noob post, but I want to be clear before I do any potential damage to my phone!
Thanks
Yes and Yes but i dont know if u need S-Off for data2sdext.
But switching to S-Off is not a real problem or really dangerous! Done this on many phones!
lick_the_fish said:
Hi All
Firstly, huge apologies if this has been answered already. I have searched a ton of threads and none really explain exactly what I need to know...
Secondly, I am in no way aware of how any coding or development works on the desire or any android device for that matter so my knowledge is only from what I have personally done to my device:
S-ON (dont have the balls to attempt this!)
Currently I am running RCMixHD ver 0.14. This ROM includes a script which (so I understand) activates the data2ext, and creates this within my ext partition. Now I have read a few threads and posts about possible corruption with this, and so I have a question?
Can I simply copy the entire contents of the SD card to my PC, and then in the event of the SD card becoming corrupt, copy it to a different SD card, pop it back in the phone and then carry on?
Also I am considering a bigger SD card than the 4gb one I have, could this method also be used to transfer everything onto the new SD card without wiping and losing every app and photo etc.
Apologies for the semi-noob post, but I want to be clear before I do any potential damage to my phone!
Thanks
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Once you have all your apps, clockworkmod recovery should backup all your ext partition. If you want an extra backup, boot in recovery and mount sdcard + ext, then do a tar of you ext partition and save it to you sdcard (something like cd /sd-ext tar czvf /sdcard/ext.tgz *)
Your ext partition will then be saved.
Folks,
My HTC Desire suddenly stopped working today and wouldn't boot up at all. In the end I managed to diagnose it to a catastrophic SDcard failure. I can't event reformat it on a Windows system, just nada.
Luckily I had a spare SDcard, albeit small and slow.
So the question is: Is there an easy way to "get all the apps"/Sync back from the market. I'd used the Gingerbread move to SDcard for the apps so they're not there anymore, well some bits are ;-)
Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, a quick check didn't find it.
Thanks
Colin
There isn't really a quick way other than titanium backup. Just go through the market
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Meaple said:
There isn't really a quick way other than titanium backup. Just go through the market
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And, if you use Ti, the backup is on the SD card!
Thanks,
I ended up giving up and doing market re-downloads.
Any advice on the "ideal" partitions for the new SDcard (for CM7) ? I have a linux system so can use gparted.
The new card is a class 10, 16GB with 512MB ext and the remainder /sdcard. I just did a quick and dirty ClockworkMod partition.
Any thoughts ?
Colin
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I am here for a long time, but still don't have 10 posts :silly:
Probably that I read a lot and don't want to ask questions if there is answer on the forum, but now, I stacked with my SD card.
Instaled ROM, from SD Card, and everything goes well, but now, I can't reach my SD Card from phone.
When I pull out SD card, in notification bar I get message that my SD Card is pull out and to put other SD card.
I don't know what is wrong. If I boot into recovery I still see my SD Card, folder in it, ROM instalation....
Can someone tell me hot to get access to my SD Card?
ConstantineTheGreat said:
I am here for a long time, but still don't have 10 posts :silly:
Probably that I read a lot and don't want to ask questions if there is answer on the forum, but now, I stacked with my SD card.
Instaled ROM, from SD Card, and everything goes well, but now, I can't reach my SD Card from phone.
When I pull out SD card, in notification bar I get message that my SD Card is pull out and to put other SD card.
I don't know what is wrong. If I boot into recovery I still see my SD Card, folder in it, ROM instalation....
Can someone tell me hot to get access to my SD Card?
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Do you have any sdcard partitions made up, ie ext3 or a swap partition? What does the rom say? Can you screenshot?
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heavy_metal_man said:
Do you have any sdcard partitions made up, ie ext3 or a swap partition? What does the rom say? Can you screenshot?
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First, thanks for offering help, but I solved my problem myself, just forgotten to post answer here.
I had ext 4 partition from beginning, but problem was that by default my ext partition set as logical not primary, so I just changed to primary and everything goes well.
ConstantineTheGreat said:
First, thanks for offering help, but I solved my problem myself, just forgotten to post answer here.
I had ext 4 partition from beginning, but problem was that by default my ext partition set as logical not primary, so I just changed to primary and everything goes well.
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Glad your all sorted pal