8GB Goldcard upgrade to 16GB SD card - Desire General

hi,
i have a Desire that's now rooted with a 8GB SD card,
just wanting to know if i can now upgrade to a 16GB card without having to make it a goldcard like i had to with the 8GB?
Thx for any help

I don't think you need the Gold Card when you are rooted, so you can upgrade safely .

IIRC you still need a goldcard even with root. Not 100% though.

I used gold card to go from stock to root... and then I threw it away, never used it ever again and I flash daily

Thx for the help guys..

save me starting a new topic,
i have the default 4GB card in there at the mo, can i just copy the files on it to a new SD card, pop it in and that's it?

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[Q] Gold card question

I have a debranded Desire 2.2 which is not rooted. Inside my phone i have an 8gb sd card which contains data for many apps as i use adb push apps to sd.
To debrand my phone, i created a gold card from a seperate 2gb sd card.
My question is; Is there any way i can make my main sd card into my gold card without affecting any of my apps which i have stored on it? The reason i am asking this is that i require my gold card for any future updates and this will save a great deal of hassle with reinstalling applications everytime i require an update.
When I made a gold card (didn't actually need it in the end to debrand BTW using unrevoked). I couldn't access it as a normal SD card... Would be nice to know how to do this. I have a 4GB Gold card (which is pretty much useless), and a 8GB ext3/FAT32 card!
bobsie41 said:
I have a debranded Desire 2.2 which is not rooted. Inside my phone i have an 8gb sd card which contains data for many apps as i use adb push apps to sd.
To debrand my phone, i created a gold card from a seperate 2gb sd card.
My question is; Is there any way i can make my main sd card into my gold card without affecting any of my apps which i have stored on it? The reason i am asking this is that i require my gold card for any future updates and this will save a great deal of hassle with reinstalling applications everytime i require an update.
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If you copy all the files on you card to another location, format the card, make a gold card, and copy the files back, all should be fine
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AndroHero said:
If you copy all the files on you card to another location, format the card, make a gold card, and copy the files back, all should be fine
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
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I follwed the process absolutely for making this, and replace the 000-0170 lines, but the disk was not readable in Windows.. Any idea what I did wrong?

[q] question: Upgrading sd card

Hello,
Can anyone guide me how i can upgrade my SD card and retain all the apps etc?
I am on 2.2, have a few apps installed on 8gb card and now i want to upgrade to 32GB.
how can i do that and keep the phone as is ?
thanks !
fahdrb said:
Hello,
Can anyone guide me how i can upgrade my SD card and retain all the apps etc?
I am on 2.2, have a few apps installed on 8gb card and now i want to upgrade to 32GB.
how can i do that and keep the phone as is ?
thanks !
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You could just move your apps back to internal memory and then swap out the card and reformat.
I think its even easier:
Dismount SD card, remove and insert in PC, copy its contents and then copy them to your new card. Insert new card.
That's what I did when I formated my card when I was suspicious it had errors. No need to move data to memory.

How do you change from a 8gb microsd to 16gb whilst running a custom rom?

as the title suggests i have leedroid 2.3 froyo rom and have been running it with a 8gb microsd for a couple of months, sd card partitioned,gold card etc.
8gb card created into gold card with gold card creator tool on modaco
however if i put my 16gb card in desire it doesn't boot, maybe due to fact that it isnt a gold card too, and no leedroid rom info?.
questions
1. do i have to unroot and reinstall a generic 3uk rom (my network)
2. create 16gb gold card
3. unroot again.
any quicker way as i would like to try 2.3 roms out on 16gb card
and yes i have tried searching but i find xda search engine pretty useless guys sorry bots.
Does not have to be a goldcard (better tho).
If you are using A2SD+ then you need to partition the new card (with FAT32+EXT) then
a) Re-flash the ROM and restore things via TI Backup or Mybackup PRO.
or
b) copy the content form the old card's EXT partition to the new card's EXT partiton (Linux OS required AFAIK).
You can also make a nandroid, partition your new card, copy everything from the fat partition to the new card and restore the nandroid (with your new card in the phone).
thanks guys
read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907335

[Q] Do I have to to goldcard my new micro sd card?

I just rooted my phone with a 8gb memory card with the ace hack kit. But I want a new 16gb card and was wondering can I just pop it in the phone without any pre-treatment? Do I have to re gold card it? Thanks
japaaan said:
I just rooted my phone with a 8gb memory card with the ace hack kit. But I want a new 16gb card and was wondering can I just pop it in the phone without any pre-treatment? Do I have to re gold card it?
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Once you're rooted and s-off, you can use any sdcard. The gold card is only needed while you're rooting, not afterwards.
Arigato! Happy holidays

[Q] strange problem with memory card

Hello, I have a HTC Desire, and I have a problem with memory cards. I bought a 8gb class 4 card and the phone began to crash and restarira permanently. I thought that the problem is in the card and bought another - again the same way. Was previously with 4gb, no problems. If you have ideas please let decision. Use MildWild CM-3.8
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krufeee said:
Hello, I have a HTC Desire, and I have a problem with memory cards. I bought a 8gb class 4 card and the phone began to crash and restarira permanently. I thought that the problem is in the card and bought another - again the same way. Was previously with 4gb, no problems. If you have ideas please let decision. Use MildWild CM-3.8
Sry for the English, I use google
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Try Reflashing ROM.
or Use CM7.1
First, put back the memory card you were using before you had this problem (the old one) and flash the ROM you were using before you had this problem, now your phone is back the way it was (without changing the SD card)
now for the SD card, I'm not sure about that, but I saw a forum that says:
"you have to copy all the files from the old SD card to the new one and then change it and it will work fine" but you have to do this after doing the step I said before, Good luck
Hello,
i have a similar problem.
Recently i root my htc desire (first time after 18 month on original froyo 2.2) and succesfully flash a CM 7.1. For this change i removed the old 4gb card and i used an 2gb card, everything works CM is very fast.
Now i want a bigger card so i buy a 8gb class 10 kingston, i copy the partition from 2gb card to this new 8gb with gparted. The phone starts ok but after few minutes if i use an app on sd or an app that use sd (e.g. quickpic or es file explorer) the phone hang i cannot shutdown only restart removing the battery.
Now i return using the 2gb card. Is the 8gb class 10 uncompatible? or maybe an error on this sd? or i have to follow a different procedure to pass from one sd to another?
Thank you for any suggestions
Giulio
Krumok said:
Hello,
i have a similar problem.
Recently i root my htc desire (first time after 18 month on original froyo 2.2) and succesfully flash a CM 7.1. For this change i removed the old 4gb card and i used an 2gb card, everything works CM is very fast.
Now i want a bigger card so i buy a 8gb class 10 kingston, i copy the partition from 2gb card to this new 8gb with gparted. The phone starts ok but after few minutes if i use an app on sd or an app that use sd (e.g. quickpic or es file explorer) the phone hang i cannot shutdown only restart removing the battery.
Now i return using the 2gb card. Is the 8gb class 10 uncompatible? or maybe an error on this sd? or i have to follow a different procedure to pass from one sd to another?
Thank you for any suggestions
Giulio
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As already stated above if you are moving critical Files to SD card then you must copy an entire Old SD card to New SD card. There is a way out of this just create a Nandroid backup in old Sd card and copy the nandroid backup in new SD Card and then just restore via recovery. Everything would be fine after doing so.
I follow your advise, i re-partition the sd (1 fat32 and 1 ext4 as in old 2gb sd), make a nandroid backup, insert the new 8gb sd and restore the nandroid backup.
Everything works, i can move 2 app to sd... and after i take a picture with camera and then... all apps that use sd hangs: es file explorer, gallery, camera, manage app,... and after a while the phone hangs i cannot shutdown... i remove battery e reuse the old 2gb sd
I was very happy after (my first) nandroid backup and restore, but now i'm very sad, maybe there is something wrong in the 8gb sd
thank you
I tried everything you wrote, but to me does not work for both cards. Yesterday I bought a 4gb and I gave up trying. Thanks for helping.

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