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Question regarding upgrading to a bigger micro sd card with app2sd installed...

I have a lot of apps stored on my sd card via app2sd. If I rip the currently installed card to a folder then copy the files to the root of the new card and plug it in will it work without problem, or will I lose all of my app2sd apps? Thanks for clarifying.

jesuscakes said:
I have a lot of apps stored on my sd card via app2sd. If I rip the currently installed card to a folder then copy the files to the root of the new card and plug it in will it work without problem, or will I lose all of my app2sd apps? Thanks for clarifying.
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Are you using froyo native Apps2sd or EXT3?
I guess it doesn't really matter. However, I only have experience with EXT3 (darktremor) and moving to another SD card worked fine for me. I copied the ext3 partition over to the new card (after partitioning it of course) and it worked fine.

freeza said:
Are you using froyo native Apps2sd or EXT3?
I guess it doesn't really matter. However, I only have experience with EXT3 (darktremor) and moving to another SD card worked fine for me. I copied the ext3 partition over to the new card (after partitioning it of course) and it worked fine.
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I am using the app2sd that stores all of the apps in a file rather than a second partition because I heard partitioning sdhc cards can lead to unforeseen consequences.

[Q] Ext3 on 16gb SD Card

Hello.
I have bought a new SD Card (kingston 16gb Class4).
I had a lot of problems with ext3 make. By Gparted it have errors.
I have readed this topic.
Can I repair my SD Card?
Sry for my english.

How are you connecting the card? Via a card reader or still in the phone? If it's still in the phone make sure you are in recovery and not booted in to android.

I made it by card reader. Formatting and partitioning by recovery - errors.

Have you tried erasing all the partitions and creating them again? What happens if you click the 'Repair' button?
I've always done my partitioning with my card in the phone, connected to my PC while in recovery and used Minitool Partition Wizard for Windows (this software was suggested in a thread I read a while ago) and never had any problems.
There is also the possibility of the card having a hardware problem, so you might need to swap it under warranty.

yes, first i have erased all partitions (deleted)
On repair ext - error, fat32 works fine.

first make an extended partition for your fat32 and inside that a primary fat32.
The unallocated space make it ext3

snowboard said:
first make an extended partition for your fat32 and inside that a primary fat32.
The unallocated space make it ext3
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shouldn't both partitions be primary (no extended ones)?

erase everything 1st keep it unformatted then create fat32 primary then ext primary (optional linuxs swap) this is what i have done when installed miui rom data2ext

i suggest you dont use that card reader try through the cell....

I have tried a lot of methods - ext still no works.
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Where did you get the card from?
Stupid question but two of my friends bought cheap (fake) cards from eBay and both had problems with them, either the card kept losing data or they go errors loading from the card due to the poor quality. In which case you need to spend a little more and get a proper card from amazon on a high street retailer.
If not then as suggested use try formatting and partitioning the card through the recovery on your phone, most of the up-to-date recoveries can do this and it's the easiest way to get the card ass needed for a2sd etc. if it still doesn't work then take the card back it's probably faulty.

I bought this card too and even though I had no issues formatting the card I do have speed issues with it. I've been in contact with Kingston and they're looking into it. My writing speed is 1.6Mb/s....
But now a tip for you, I couldn't use Gparted since it's Live CD wont start my monitors. So I downloaded Easeus Partition Master. Very easy to use and it worked perfect.
Start with your Fat32 partition and then your Ext partition.
You can find the program here: http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
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MicroSD card space missing after partition mishap

I was using gparted to give myself some more ext3 space on my 16gb microsd card and I may have unplugged / unmounted my phone or something so the partitioning failed. gparted (and other programs) now only see 12gb of space on the card. Is there anything I can do to recover the 4gb?

Have you tried to delete all the partitions and fully format the sd card?
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Yeh, still 12gb.

And if you put your sdcard in a cardreader on a pc or laptop and run a tool like partition wizzard (or Something similar) is there a partition that says unallocated space ?
Penguinsfly1 said:
Yeh, still 12gb.
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I did this once as well
open the card up with Gparted again, delete all the partitions, unmount then remount the card, and you should have the full size in unallocated memory.

[Q]NTFS SD Card Mount on NOTE II

Hello everyone, I know this thread is already present and I also red the info regarding with it, but it seems my problem is something I can't solve with the help of those previous instructions. I have an I idea how to solve it but I'm hesitant to do it because I don't know if it works, and I kinda scared to do it because I don't want to buy again another SD Card if ever the present one will break.
Problem: I have a torrent app in my Note II and I liked to use it always because it downloads fast, but the problem is that whenever I want to download files that is more than 4GB in size, I always receive an error that the file I want to download is to big for the file system; (file system limit exceeded), and I learned that this error occurs when my storage system is FAT/FAT32, then I read a thread in this forum that this will be solved by converting my SD Card's file system to NTFS and use Paragon NTFS Mount app so that my NTFS Card will be accepted by my phone, alas I did as what was instructed, converted my SD Card to NTFS, mount my card to storage/sdCard/extcard <---Created another path as it was said that using the default path would make it not work. But when I re-started to download files it fails to me again, the same problem encountered (file system limit exceeded). I even converted my SD card to exFat because I heard that this can handle large files, more than 4GB but also to no avail.
Solution(not tested yet): I am planning to make 2 partitions in my SD card, one partition would be fat32 and the other would be NTFS, and use also paragon app, so that when I insert my card to my phone, the phone will mount the FAT system to the fat32 partition and leave the NTFS partition alone and not be used.
Does this method of mine will work? Are there any ideas aside from what I had in mind that will also help me solve my little problem. I know that this problem of mine is not that big, and I can just refer it to other threads and the google but I want to know from the pro's and OP's here if my method is possible.
Thank you!
Kudos to all!:good:
MonteCarlo:laugh:

You need to define a mount point like sdcard0 is internal sd sdcard1 is external sd fat32 partition sdcard2 as the ntfs partition which is really hard to do on a samsung based rom (even windows doesnt recognize the second partition on sd cards ) you can format the sd to ext3 or ext4 it's the best possible solution

erdemc said:
You need to define a mount point like sdcard0 is internal sd sdcard1 is external sd fat32 partition sdcard2 as the ntfs partition which is really hard to do on a samsung based rom (even windows doesnt recognize the second partition on sd cards ) you can format the sd to ext3 or ext4 it's the best possible solution
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I see, too bad, but thanks any way. Does the procedure in formatting my sd card to ext3 or ext4 is the same as when I format my card to fat32 other system, or would you use a program to do it.

Why are you using Fat32 or NTFS just format the SD card to ExFAT. No size limit and compatible with Note2 & Windows

I think the problem you are having is due to the torrent app you are using, it might be trying to use the internal phone memory as a temporary location for the file you are downloading. Try changing your torrent app
(I had this problem with the official utorrent app)

why not support lg k10 sdcard format ext2 or exfat?

Hi
I format ext2 micro sdcard but not support lg k10 also formt exfat not support. Only support fat32
Does anyone know why it does not support?

I testd micro sdcard format exfat,ntfs,ext2,ext4 but not support only fat32 support for lg k10
Has anyone tested?

123xdagsm said:
I testd micro sdcard format exfat,ntfs,ext2,ext4 but not support only fat32 support for lg k10
Has anyone tested?
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On most phones only fat32 formatted sd card works. If u have a rooted phone and a partitioned sd card then u can use softwares like apps2sd to install apps on sd card in that situation if u partitioned your sd card in to formats i.e. one partition is fat32 ( main partition or partiton 1) and decond partiton can br any format only that app can recognise the second partition but your apps will be installed in it and work properly and your phone eill recognise only the fat33 partitiin. Im talking about phones generally and not only k10 cuz. Most of the phones only support fat32

waleeds1 said:
On most phones only fat32 formatted sd card works. If u have a rooted phone and a partitioned sd card then u can use softwares like apps2sd to install apps on sd card in that situation if u partitioned your sd card in to formats i.e. one partition is fat32 ( main partition or partiton 1) and decond partiton can br any format only that app can recognise the second partition but your apps will be installed in it and work properly and your phone eill recognise only the fat33 partitiin. Im talking about phones generally and not only k10 cuz. Most of the phones only support fat32
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my phone is rooted
but I have another phones base c
m rom and tablet I can use for microsdcard formatts exfat,ntfs,ext4
android is base Linux and must support most format
lg phones are limited
fat32 not support file size more then 4GIG
May be a way to work or install custom rom

123xdagsm said:
my phone is rooted
but I have another phones base c
m rom and tablet I can use for microsdcard formatts exfat,ntfs,ext4
android is base Linux and must support most format
lg phones are limited
fat32 not support file size more then 4GIG
May be a way to work or install custom rom
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How much is your sd card capacity ? On most samsung phones also it only recogbises fat32.u can still use that app if u want i will expalin how to partition sd card into 2 formats

waleeds1 said:
How much is your sd card capacity ? On most samsung phones also it only recogbises fat32.u can still use that app if u want i will expalin how to partition sd card into 2 formats
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Thanks
my sdcard is 32g
Yes, can create two formats, but it's some app only knows
If recognize sdcard more format support would be much better.
example
I want download file more than 4gig but can't because that's fat32

123xdagsm said:
Thanks
my sdcard is 32g
If recognize sdcard more format support would be much better.
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So this is the easier way to partition there is another way using pc but yiu should try this first.
First download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd
Then go to partition tool in it. There you will see a bar slide it to hoe much you want your main partion which is fat32 to be. I have attached an image thats the thing. But this is from the playstore app image because i didnt root my lg yet and did this before in samsung and dont have access to that phone. So you csn see in the pic. Uncheck the 2nd partiton (in the pic its checked but u have to uncheck it). So now you will have 2 partitions in your sd card but makesure u make the main partion fat32 or else your phone wont recognise the sd card. Now press yes after its done you might get a message to create mount script it will be writren what to do. Now it will ask to reboot phone after reboot go to storage and now if successull you will see your sd card for eg if u set main partiton to 16 gb then you will see your sd card showing 16 gb but dont worry. Now open the app and from there you can link apps to sd card second partion you can move whole games and apps. IM NOT RESPONISBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE OR SD CARD.
if it doesnt work or any other question feel free to ask

waleeds1 said:
So this is the easier way to partition there is another way using pc but yiu should try this first.
First download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd
Then go to partition tool in it. There you will see a bar slide it to hoe much you want your main partion which is fat32 to be. I have attached an image thats the thing. But this is from the playstore app image because i didnt root my lg yet and did this before in samsung and dont have access to that phone. So you csn see in the pic. Uncheck the 2nd partiton (in the pic its checked but u have to uncheck it). So now you will have 2 partitions in your sd card but makesure u make the main partion fat32 or else your phone wont recognise the sd card. Now press yes after its done you might get a message to create mount script it will be writren what to do. Now it will ask to reboot phone after reboot go to storage and now if successull you will see your sd card for eg if u set main partiton to 16 gb then you will see your sd card showing 16 gb but dont worry. Now open the app and from there you can link apps to sd card second partion you can move whole games and apps. IM NOT RESPONISBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE OR SD CARD.
if it doesnt work or any other question feel free to ask
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do you think that with this methode in set path download folder. for app ADM in the partition ext4 ?

123xdagsm said:
do you think that with this methode in set path download folder. for app ADM in the partition ext4 ?
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You mean set the download location to sd card by linking download manager to sd csrd if thats what you are saying then yes i tried that and it worked

waleeds1 said:
You mean set the download location to sd card by linking download manager to sd csrd if thats what you are saying then yes i tried that and it worked
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thanks for quick reply
my means set download location into second partition ext4
because my file is more than 4g
can?

@123xdagsm yes you can btw did you partiton it successfully? Btw in the settings you can set many setting like automatically link apps to sd as soon as you download it to your phone but i guess this phones mem is sufficient cuz i was on an 8gb device before and faced probs not on this on this i have so much space

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@123xdagsm yes you can btw did you partiton it successfully? Btw in the settings you can set many setting like automatically link apps to sd as soon as you download it to your phone but i guess this phones mem is sufficient cuz i was on an 8gb device before and faced probs not on this on this i have so much space
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Ok
I did not test it yet but sure test it

123xdagsm said:
Ok
I did not test it yet but sure test it
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So did u test?

K10 supports only FAT32 upto 32 gb without reformatting before it can use. If you put a 64 gb on k10 it will force you to reformatt it as FAT32. Exfat is 64gb and above and do not have limits on each file. While fat32 can carry 4gb per file.