Swapping Micro SD on Evo - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys i just received my 32gb micro sd memory card for my evo i have it fully rooted with nand unlocked.. Seeing how i have all the things on my stock sd card what steps do i have to take to make sure when i put in my new memory card that everything is running the same and i just have more memory for storage. In other words should i just copy all the content from the old micro to the new one and just put it in?
Thanks in advanced if someone can help please.

Just back up everything from the old one onto your computer and drag and drop everything onto the new one. If your old one is partitioned make sure you do that to the new one first and do an NAND+ext backup with the old sd card.

yep just copy everything over and all will be well, I copied the sd card contents to my computer then removed 8g and put 32g in the evo, connected the evo and dragged and dropped everything but the lost file from the computer backup on to the evo that way i had 2 backups.

It wouldn't hurt to do the paper trick too. It would certainly ruin your day if 32gb got corrupted somehow. I'm not saying anything, I'm just sayin.
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swapping SD card without upsetting apps

My 16GB SD card has arrived, and I want to swap it for the 4GB one in the phone. Notice the phone and apps have created data on the old card - if I swap it out, will these be automatically recreated? Should I copy the old contents and folder structure to new, or is this giong to fail as the hardware ID of the card is different?
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They will be recreated but you'll lose any data stored there. It should work if you just copy the contents from your old card, I really doubt they are doing hardware ID checks.
Just copy all the files from the old card to the new one.
I upgraded my SD card too. I copied all the files from my old card to my new card and that worked flawlessly.
I noticed no side effects except the massive increase in space
Same as above. copied 4gb contents to computer, put in the 16gb card, copied the original stuff over and did a reset for good measure. all fine with no ill effects
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Switching SD Cards

Hey guys,
When I get a bigger Micro SD card, is it as simple as copying the files from the old one to the new one and everything will be great? Or do I have to do something special?
Thanks!
Nope, its simple as that. I just switched to a 16GB yesterday. What I did was copy the entire old SD to my computer, switched cards, formatted the new card and then dragged the entire SD card contents from my cpu to my new card. That was it.
swaze said:
Nope, its simple as that. I just switched to a 16GB yesterday. What I did was copy the entire old SD to my computer, switched cards, formatted the new card and then dragged the entire SD card contents from my cpu to my new card. That was it.
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Great. Thanks!
Just to note:
If you are using a custom ROM that has Apps2sd running, it won't simply be a copy/paste.
First run a Nandroid backup and include the EXT partition, then insert your new SD card, format the card through the recovery menu, then copy/paste everything over, restore the backup, and you should be good to go.

[Q] New SD card question

Just picked up a 16gb card and I am wondering do I have to do anything special or just copy everything from the old one on to it and plug it in?
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cochese2323 said:
Just picked up a 16gb card and I am wondering do I have to do anything special or just copy everything from the old one on to it and plug it in?
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I'm not sure if it is required, or if this is even the correct procedure....however, when I got my new 16gb sd card, I put it right in the phone, and then used the phone to format the sd card. I believe the option to format is in menu>settings>sd and phone storage or something like that. Once the card was formatted, I then transferred all my filed to the new card. I've experienced no problems at all. You could also use your computer to format the card FAT32 before you copy your stuff to it. Won't hurt anything.
k2buckley said:
I'm not sure if it is required, or if this is even the correct procedure....however, when I got my new 16gb sd card, I put it right in the phone, and then used the phone to format the sd card. I believe the option to format is in menu>settings>sd and phone storage or something like that. Once the card was formatted, I then transferred all my filed to the new card. I've experienced no problems at all. You could also use your computer to format the card FAT32 before you copy your stuff to it. Won't hurt anything.
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Yes he's right, but you should be able to just put it in and it'll work regardless

[Q] Sd card filling up after flashing new roms.

Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
Kovernm said:
Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Have you been deleting the ROMs from your SD card after you flash them? Each Sense rom is roughly 180-200mb. It adds up. Also, if you have been creating Nandroid backups, they too will take up a lot Space, and you need to shuffle through them and delete the old ones. Nandroid backups add up quick. I don't store my apps on the SD card, so don't know much about it, but what method are you using to do so, and are you sure they're not doubling up? I'd be more suspicious of an excess amount of nandroid backups and roms on the sd card though. It doesn't take much to fill up that stock 8gb card.
i agree you should check how many nadroid backups you have on your card, they take a lot of room, i usually move them from my phone to my pc and only leave the last one on my phone, plus they are safer on the computer. also all the zip files you use to flash roms can be moved from the sd card to the computer, once used you dont need them on the root of your sd card anymore they just waste space, i would also recommend upgrading to a 16gb sd card ebay has them for like 20 to 30 bucks and save you the trouble of worrying about memory. to move files from one sd card to another you just connect phone to pc as disk drive open my pc and right click on the drive that represents your phone, go to folder options and in views, select view hidden files. once that is done just copy all inside the sd card to a folder on your pc. then you unplug from the computer, turn off phone replace old sd with new, turn on your phone go to settings storage and unmount the sd card then format it. the plug it to your pc again in disk drive open the folder where you put all the info from the old sd and copy all that to the drive your phone represents and hit yes when it says if you like to copy and replace some files, then you are done new sd and twice the memory cv
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Micro SD Card Question

Ok, so I have my Droid Incredible, which is rooted, and the 2gb storage is almost up, I want to buy another Micro SD Card for the phone, will the mess anything up, and is it possible to copy all important root files and put copies of the rules to the new SD Card ?
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Your root is on the system storage of the phone, not the SD card. If you swap it out, you won't have any problems.
Also, you can copy the contents of the SD card over to the new one so you don't mess up any applications that have data on the SD card.
Man, thanks i had the same doubt

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