New SD card wont boot - Desire General

Hi all,
Desires rooted, got a new MicroSD today and tried it in the phone and only get to the HTC logo then it just freezes there.
Formatted card to FAT32, tried, same.
Formatted and copied all files from old card to new one and still the same result.
Hoping someone can help?
Thanks

Anyone? Please help.

So it is confirmed that it works on other devices (for example card reader?). What rom do you use? Do you use A2SD with current phone configuration?

hi djoni,
Use AdamG froyo and apps2sd on old card.
new card does work on card readers etc. I managed to boot into recovery using recovery windows.bat.
then partitioned card SWAP=0, EXT2=512, then ext 2 to ext 3.
Phone boots up with new card installed etc but I now get force close on rosieutility?
With my old card I dont get this error.
Also.... when I try run adb shell to check if apps2sd is working on new card I get
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

Did you use Froyo's native app2sd or old school A2SD?
Adam's rom supports both of them, and previous boot freeze indicates it was the other one?
maybe it's missing something from ext2 partition of your old card (which is invisible on pc and you can't just copy it to your new card)
Maybe you should try to backup everything with old card inside, and try to restore it with your new card inside?
If it doesn't work, I guess backing up everything with titanium and old card, reflashing rom, and restoring with new card would solve the problem. Unless it's app2sd, I read somewhere that it's not supported by backup programs?
I'm not sure, I really don't have much experience... I'm just trying to keep this thread alive until someone more with more experience comes to rescue

Djoni,
Really appreciate all your help with this.
Taken me a while to set all up on my old card and scared if I reroot/restore etc I may totally mess it up and Ill be stuck.
Was only going to use the other card as a backup. I am using my goldcard as my card in the phone, so was worried if anything happens to that card id have problems. But I gues I can just do regular nanbackups before changing roms. Is this what you would advise?

nandroid wouldn't help, since you already have everything working fine with old card inside, right?
Maybe titanium could backup missing system data from ext2 on old card, and restore it to ext2 of new card, but I'm not sure...

Sorry didnt explain properly, think Ill just carry on using my old card and backing that up regularly instead of risking using a new card.
Good idea though, may try that anyway so I have a duplicate card for a rescue.
Anybody have any ideas about the rosie utility error?

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[Q] could someone please tell me how to change sd card

hi all,
as i was testing my new desire using the 4gb card it came with, i did all the rooting with that card in, am now running on defrost 3.1 and all my mods are done.
I tried to partition my other 8gb card using the rom manager on another phone as my phone wont run without the sd card in, then once that was done, i cloned the cards ie copied the data on my mac, then copied it off to the new card.
started the phone with the new card but most features of defrost are not available and alot of the apps are missing.
now when you go to the application manager, it shows you where stuff is installed but it says they are on the phone, presume this is cos a2sd is more of a tricking the phone than a physical change of location for the installed apps
anyway, so my question is, can you change the sd card without re installing the rom?
thank you in advance
anyone????
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sorry mate didnt see this till now. in short no.
your phone should work without an sd in it, format the 8gb card use rom manager to partition or use AmonRa fake flash to partition (i prefer this way) and start over again. i know its a pain but its the safest way to do it.
i personally wiped everything on sd and phone so there was no partition and nothing on the phone, then i flashed my rom (dont do any mods yet) then either using amonra or rom manager, partition the phone may take a while to boot up but just LEAVE IT. then do everything again ie mods and apps. long i know but like i said its the safest way also you cant **** anything up.
hope this helps

[Q] Q: how to install a new sd card

I'm running SlideMeRoot and have been happy with it. But, I want more card storage. So I know it's not as easy as just putting in the new card and rebooting -- yes, I tried that. Don't laugh ;-}
So do I need to do a NANDROID backup to the PC and then put the backup on the new card?
Do I need to restore the stock ROM, then re-root with the new card?
Any help would be appreciated. I can follow instructions -- I rooted my Slide using the original looping method <g>
I have the feeling it's something real obvious that I'm just not getting.
Thanks
Pull everythig off the old card. Format the new card (just in case) with your phone or your computer (I'd choose this one). You should format it to FAT32, don't worry about any of the other settings. Load your old card onto your new one and put it in your phone. That's all. Really you shouldn't need to do any of that aside from transfering the contents.
I'm not sure if anything else is involved if you have a2sd since you have to make an ext partition so if that's the case some one else can answer that.

[Q] New SD Card causing rooted Desire to hang. Can't partition it either.

Hi
I'm having issues with sticking a new SD card in my Rooted Desire. I am running the NeoPhyTe Mod v1.8 Sense-FroYo 2.2 ROM, and it seems great (before I was running Pays Desire Rom which had the same problem).
My old 4gb card was partitioned with 512mb for Apps to SD (I can't even remember how I did this now, but I seem to recall it being really easy), and worked flawlessly. The new card can be seen in Windows 7 when I go into recovery on the phone and select mount USB Storage, and I seem to be able to get into it to format the card, but when I reboot, the phone hangs at the HTC screen. There is nothing on the card apart from the ROM I installed.
I've tried partitioning it in Recovery with ADB/Clockwork, but Parted will not load/work. I've tried...well, everything I could find over the last 4 hours to try to sort this out. It should be a simple task, surely!?
All I'm trying to do is put in a new 16gb card, partition it for Apps2SD and reinstall my backed up apps. I have been trying to do this since 9am (it is now 12.50pm), and my head is well and truly done in. Can anyone help? Please? I am at my wits end!
logcat is log
If you hang on the HTC Splash screen, a good place to start is always
Code:
adb logcat
Do this simple job..put da 16gb mem crd in card reader and connect with pc...partition it using paragon parititon manager or easeus partition manager...now freshly install a rom on this card..i m sure it will work flawlessly...n offcourse you can restore ur apps by transferring da backup to new card and restoring frm backups using backup manager or any backup software...
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[Q] Potential dead SD after partition?

Hello guys, very very sorry if this is a repost. I've had a quick search but i can't spend my entire days searching. Apologies also if this is in the wrong section.
Please read and comment on my abbreviated story
Was running telstra branded froyo
Now running Leedroid (just did it yesterday)
Used ROM manager to partition the SD card, worked fine for a while, until i got silly 'read only' errors which i'd never seen before.
Tried to reformat the SD card. Lost some apps and decided to start over hard resetting everything because i'd lost everything that had moved to the swap partition...
Cleared the partitions on the SD card and rewrote them into a 10gb fat32, 2gb ext3 and a 2gb swap
Reflashed leedriod with another smaller card - works ok.
Tried my big card again and it didn't boot, stuck at the boot screen forever.
Put small SD card back in and it works... but some apps are now mising such as rom manager, titanuim backup, and the other things which i'm not familiar with.
WTF is going on. My head is throbbing! arrrrrrrgh
have i partitioned my card correctly?
Maybe try and partition the card in another way. rom manager did
work for me but ive also had similar problems before. Try the g-parted
method if you can get youre head around it, just try and format/partition
the card while its out of the phone because for me, thats what gave me the
exact same problems you mentioned.
If you ever want to back up the apps from sd-ext (apps2sd) you can
use titanium backup. I was in this same boat recently and found that the
easyest way. Also i dont see the need for any swap partition but i could be
wrong.
i use: 1gb ext3, 0 swap and the rest fat32 (16gb card)
good luck
So you flashed Leedroid A2SD+ with your "smaller card" in the phone?
And you just swapped the card to the "bigger one"?
In that way, the only way to make it work is creating a NANDROID backup with your "smaller" functioning card and copy that to the "bigger" one (must be in the same folder!).
Then put the card (bigger one) and do a full wipe & restore the NANDROID backup you've made previously.
Also, ROM manager is a piece of cr*p in partitioning, i had issues until i used GParted to create the partitions and no problems since.
It's funny you should mention this. I've had the exact same problem.
Small SD card works, big SD card doesn't work after being partitioned using ROM Manager. It gets stuck at the bootscreen for ever, and ever.
I will do some more testing when I get the chance.
Hey champs, i put the big sd back in the computer, turned it all back into fat32 and it works just fine.
Then i used rom manager to partition - 512 ext and 256 swap.. not enough imo, (crappy fkin desire fault). Might leave it for now... unless that read only disk thiing happens again
Cheers for the reply guys

Want to change SD-Card - not working

I'm using an 8GB SD card and want to change it to a 4GB card. I formatted the 4GB card in Fat32. 2,6GB for EXT3 and the rest fat32. I then copied the ext of my old card to the new card.
I made an nandroid backup with the 8GB card inserted. I copied the nandroid backup to the 4GB card afterwards, wanting to restore it then. But when I choose "restore" I get some weird message that ".../dev..." could not be found or isn'tw orking or something like that.
Any idea??
For one thing, I think your Ext partition is way too big. Why do you need 2.6gig?? Most people will recommend 1 - 1.5gig as plenty enough.
If you made your nandroid with the 8gig, copied to entire card to PC and loaded onto the 4gig, it should work. It worked when I went from 8 up to 16gig, so can't see what is going wrong for you.
Maybe try to format your 4, repartition to 1gig Ext and see what happens.
But EXT is where the DATA is stored, isn't it? The apps and music and so on.
What was wrong with the previous thread?
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Sorry, I forgot that I already made a thread here. ;D Do many message boards, you know! ;D
So, can you tell me how I could partition the sd card through the CM7 recovery? It's supposed to work isn't it.
I then copied the ext of my old card to the new card.
I made an nandroid backup with the 8GB card inserted. I copied the nandroid backup to the 4GB card afterwards...
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you don't need to do a NAND restore!
since you've copied the old ext contents to the new sdcard ext, then you are good to go, just insert the new sdcard in the phone and start it
the ROM itself was not touched ... its on the phone mem, so it still there...
+1 for the note above, 2+ GB is way much , no need for this large partition.
stinger1 said:
you don't need to do a NAND restore!
since you've copied the old ext contents to the new sdcard ext, then you are good to go, just insert the new sdcard in the phone and start it
the ROM itself was not touched ... its on the phone mem, so it still there...
+1 for the note above, 2+ GB is way much , no need for this large partition.
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That was the very first thing I tried. Not working. Bootloop.
Sephi said:
That was the very first thing I tried. Not working. Bootloop.
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i am not sure if there is a standard procedure for such action
another 2 guesses
1- is to make sure the new ext partition is the same format as the old (ext3 or ext4)
2- permissions: try to set permissions for the new ext (after you copied it)
maybe the got some limitation and the OS can't read/write/execute some files...
** in such tricky situation, a logcat will be useful so you can find out what is going on, specially for the bootloop issue, since a copy-paste logically should do it.

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