I am changing from the 4gb sd card that came with my desire to a 16 gb one.
How do i get all my data from the old sd card to my new ?
Thank you in advance
hcgl said:
I am changing from the 4gb sd card that came with my desire to a 16 gb one.
How do i get all my data from the old sd card to my new ?
Thank you in advance
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connect the phone in "Disc Mode" copy all your data onto your computer, disconnect, change memory card to the new one, and copy and paste to the 16 gig.
Sorry I don't know any way of moving you games or apps when changing an SD card
hope this helps! good luck!
Wow, is it that easy, thanks a lot! Can someone help me about the games/apps ?
sorry to dig up this topic, but since I searched for it, here goes:
Same issue, I am changing from 8GB Micro SD to a 16GB micro SD, the catch: I am using A2SD+ and my previous 8GB has ext3 partition, so do I simply backup, change card and copy back the files or do I need to partition the new 16GB card like I did the old one, and then copy my backup?
if you want to save your ext as well, then this is best done via amon-ra recovery.
do a nandroid + ext backup of your rom with your old sd card.
put in a new sd card, formatted with ext, restore nandroid + ext then your rom and ext will be fine.
As for the fat you will have to copy as outlined above (via a pc).
Lennyuk said:
if you want to save your ext as well, then this is best done via amon-ra recovery.
do a nandroid + ext backup of your rom with your old sd card.
put in a new sd card, formatted with ext, restore nandroid + ext then your rom and ext will be fine.
As for the fat you will have to copy as outlined above (via a pc).
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isnt it that the the nandroid backup will be stored in the SD? if so then after I do a nandroid backup, place the new blank SD and do a nandroid restore, then if it looks for any backup, then it wouldnt find anything because the old card isnt there?
sorry i suck at this...
cyberkamote said:
isnt it that the the nandroid backup will be stored in the SD? if so then after I do a nandroid backup, place the new blank SD and do a nandroid restore, then if it looks for any backup, then it wouldnt find anything because the old card isnt there?
sorry i suck at this...
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The folder "clockworkmod" stores the Nand backups. You need to copy this to the root of your new sd card. This will be detected by Clockworkmod automatically
droidzone said:
The folder "clockworkmod" stores the Nand backups. You need to copy this to the root of your new sd card. This will be detected by Clockworkmod automatically
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OMG droidzone you're everywhere! thanks a million man!
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OMG droidzone you're everywhere! thanks a million man!
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Cheers
This is what I did them I got a new card, I had this in another post so just cut and pasted, my solution to moving to a new card. Bering a new member I can't post the link in here, but here is the copy of it here.
My setup, 2GB no class listed MicroSD, HTC Desire, Rooted with MoDaCo r9, with A2SD. All of my apps are on the MicroSD pretty much.
Well the MicroSD came in and I did what I know how to do, I used a cloning program that I use all the time for PCs, figured what the hell it should work.
- I plugged both of the MicoSDs using the SD adapter, then plugged the SD adapter into an SD to USB adapter and plugged them into the PC.
- I used Acronis True Image 2010 Acronis True Image , did an exact clone (called "Disk Clone" in the Acronis software), from my 2GB MicroSD to the 16GB MicroSD. Did NOT adjust any partitions or anything, had 14GB of free unused, unpartitioned space on the new card.
- Then I took the new 16GB MicroSD and plugged it back into my phone, booted, and it worked great, the phone can't even tell that it's a new MicroSD, shows same sizes and everything, as I didn't adjust any partition sizes yet.
- Then I took the MicroSD back out, plugged it back into the PC, then used another product of Acronis, called Disk Director Disk Director and then went in and expanded/resized the FAT partition to the full size, it used the free unused space to do that, and moved the partitions down the line and expands the FAT one in place.
- Plugged the card back into my phone, booted, worked great, got 15 GB plus of space now on the FAT partition. All the apps works, everything works great. It seems a little snappier and faster when loading apps now.
Side notes:
I just happened to have both of these products installed on my PC and use them all the time so that's what I used, but any Disk Cloning program that supports USB will work.
There is plenty of other "cloning" programs out there, like Norton Ghost - not free, some other pais ones. But also bunch free ones as well a list of them here , wiki list of them as well. Some of these programs are LiveCDs, which means you boot your PC of a CD and then you can edit HDs, also the USB Drives, other like Acronis will have a PC program as well a boot disk. With acorns I was able to use it just as a program no booting of a CD.
I personally have used this program called "hdclone" which is free, it has one limitations but it really is not a big deal in this case, it limits the copying to 1 GB per minute, hell for 16GB card thats 16 minutes !!! so not a limitation really. So do a exact clone using HDclone, don't resize the new SD just leave it as is, this worked for me, I think leaves everything exact as possible. Another free cloning program I have used in the past is DriveImage XML , so either of these will work to clone one SD to another. Now to resize, the product I use ALL the time to resize drives is "gparted", this one is a boot CD, so all you gotta do, plug in your SD card using the USB, boot of this small GParted CD, select your drive and then expand the FAT partition. Few extra steps with some free products but it works if you're not able to acquire Acronis.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions or problems. Sorry for the long write up but haven't seen anybody describe doing this plus some people aren't as familiar with cloning HDs as others.
Help!
I just went in to recovery mode with CWM and did a Nandroid back up. Everything seemed to go well. Then i selected Reboot and now the phone is looping with the White HTC sreen and nothing else....... what should I do to fix it?
angusc said:
Help!
I just went in to recovery mode with CWM and did a Nandroid back up. Everything seemed to go well. Then i selected Reboot and now the phone is looping with the White HTC sreen and nothing else....... what should I do to fix it?
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It's a known issue with Clockworkmod. Go back into Clockworkmod once again and restore the backup you just made. All will be well.
castro145 said:
This is what I did them I got a new card, I had this in another post so just cut and pasted, my solution to moving to a new card. Bering a new member I can't post the link in here, but here is the copy of it here.
My setup, 2GB no class listed MicroSD, HTC Desire, Rooted with MoDaCo r9, with A2SD. All of my apps are on the MicroSD pretty much.
Well the MicroSD came in and I did what I know how to do, I used a cloning program that I use all the time for PCs, figured what the hell it should work.
- I plugged both of the MicoSDs using the SD adapter, then plugged the SD adapter into an SD to USB adapter and plugged them into the PC.
- I used Acronis True Image 2010 Acronis True Image , did an exact clone (called "Disk Clone" in the Acronis software), from my 2GB MicroSD to the 16GB MicroSD. Did NOT adjust any partitions or anything, had 14GB of free unused, unpartitioned space on the new card.
- Then I took the new 16GB MicroSD and plugged it back into my phone, booted, and it worked great, the phone can't even tell that it's a new MicroSD, shows same sizes and everything, as I didn't adjust any partition sizes yet.
- Then I took the MicroSD back out, plugged it back into the PC, then used another product of Acronis, called Disk Director Disk Director and then went in and expanded/resized the FAT partition to the full size, it used the free unused space to do that, and moved the partitions down the line and expands the FAT one in place.
- Plugged the card back into my phone, booted, worked great, got 15 GB plus of space now on the FAT partition. All the apps works, everything works great. It seems a little snappier and faster when loading apps now.
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I just happened to have both of these products installed on my PC and use them all the time so that's what I used, but any Disk Cloning program that supports USB will work.
There is plenty of other "cloning" programs out there, like Norton Ghost - not free, some other pais ones. But also bunch free ones as well a list of them here , wiki list of them as well. Some of these programs are LiveCDs, which means you boot your PC of a CD and then you can edit HDs, also the USB Drives, other like Acronis will have a PC program as well a boot disk. With acorns I was able to use it just as a program no booting of a CD.
I personally have used this program called "hdclone" which is free, it has one limitations but it really is not a big deal in this case, it limits the copying to 1 GB per minute, hell for 16GB card thats 16 minutes !!! so not a limitation really. So do a exact clone using HDclone, don't resize the new SD just leave it as is, this worked for me, I think leaves everything exact as possible. Another free cloning program I have used in the past is DriveImage XML , so either of these will work to clone one SD to another. Now to resize, the product I use ALL the time to resize drives is "gparted", this one is a boot CD, so all you gotta do, plug in your SD card using the USB, boot of this small GParted CD, select your drive and then expand the FAT partition. Few extra steps with some free products but it works if you're not able to acquire Acronis.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions or problems. Sorry for the long write up but haven't seen anybody describe doing this plus some people aren't as familiar with cloning HDs as others.
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what can i say? very detailed!
the only problem is that, I had to download Acronis product demos before I can do all these. I do imaging before but I dont resize EXT partitions...
ANyway Im still downloading..
Although I think it would help if anybody can post free and lighter (below 50MB, I guess) of softwares that can do USB cloning (disk cloning in general),..
I will post here my results..
HDclone is pretty small program and it should do the job.
Lennyuk said:
if you want to save your ext as well, then this is best done via amon-ra recovery.
do a nandroid + ext backup of your rom with your old sd card.
put in a new sd card, formatted with ext, restore nandroid + ext then your rom and ext will be fine.
As for the fat you will have to copy as outlined above (via a pc).
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So far, this worked for me.
1. Backed-up my old 8GB card on my PC (the FAT partition).
2. Did Nandroid + Titanium Back up. (The Nandroid will backup the EXT partition)
3. Formatted the new 16GB with FAT32 on my PC
4. Resized the 15.++ GB of FAT32 to 14.XX GB so that the 1GB goes to the EXT3- I did this via a bootable GPARTED CD I got here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
5. Copied the Clockwork MOD folder from my PC backup (see step 1) to my new 16GB card.
6. Inserted the new 16GB to my phone and booted into ClockworkMOD recovery
7. Did a NANDROID Restore.
8. After restore, I had to shut off my mobile and I removed the card coz I needed to copy back the whole FAT partition backup from step 1 to the new card.
9. Placed the new 16GB back and voila!
(NOTE: steps can be interchanged,for example, I think the copying of the FAT partition done in step 8 can be done after step 3 above.
Anyways, hope it helped.
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connect the phone in "Disc Mode" copy all your data onto your computer, disconnect, change memory card to the new one, and copy and paste to the 16 gig.
Sorry I don't know any way of moving you games or apps when changing an SD card
hope this helps! good luck!
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please bear with me, i am a newbie, have this unrooted desire froyo. i still have no plans of rooting it.
i also wanted to change the 2gig memory card to an 8 gig mem card. can i just follow the instructions above? is rooting really required for this?
thank you in advance for any help or step by step procedure.
Don't worry, you don't need root and it's really simple as copy and paste.
@3722 Huh?.. how can he carry out the above procedure without being rooted?
Sent from my HTC Desire using eMIUI
My reply is to the comment above my post (by nytevs), and he is using a standard froyo A2SD, no root, no ext partitions so it's just simple as copy/paste, just like it says on the quote that he is reffering to in his post (the quote from !PANDA).
3722 said:
My reply is to the comment above my post (by nytevs), and he is using a standard froyo A2SD, no root, no ext partitions so it's just simple as copy/paste, just like it says on the quote that he is reffering to in his post (the quote from !PANDA).
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Oh i see....
Thanks for the reply
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Hi -
I purchased the 8GB MicroSDHC card from Verizon a week ago. It worked fine on my AT&T Tilt for a few days and than it lost all information! Fortunately, I was able to restore from backup, and it seems to be OK again. Here's the strange part: even though the original files and directories are gone, the card still counts them in used memory. I.e., the used memory is about 200 MB more than it should be, the amount of space I was using before the card crashed. This applies whether I check the memory on the device, connected by USB, or with the Card Adapter that came with the card.
Any ideas what might be causing this and how to recover the used memory short of reformatting the card?
Thanks!
If you could tell us what you did for it to crash it would help
You probably tried to partition it or something...?
Looks like you will have to format the whole card.
Maybe there is a simple way to do this but here is how i would do, if it helps :
- install WM5Storage on your PDA main memory
- start wm5storage with the option memory card and connect your PDA to your PC
Activsync then wont be sync'ing and your memory card will be seen from your PC as an USB-key. Open it on your PC and check to make sure it is your memory card that you see (and not your PDA main memory).
Then use whatever format tool to format your "USB key" with FAT like format, for example you can use HPtool (be carefull to format the key and not another drive !!!).
After this do not forget to turn off wm5storage, otherwise you will not be able to "see" the memory card on PDA side...
Hope it helps, let us know...
by the way maybe you could try this :
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I've used it sometimes when i had started to format a hard drive instead of an usb key by mistake.
Windows was asking for formating everytime i wanted to open the hard drive folder. However, using this Testdisk tool, i was able to mount the hard drive and recover everything including my photos and music and stuff... Maybe you want to try this awesome tool, plus it is free and OpenSource.
Use wm5storage tool to use your PDA as an usb-key, then use Testdisk on this usb-drive, it might be able to see, list and recover all the "lost" files and heal the whole partition at same time.
Thanks for the suggestions - I'll post again when I have the chance to try them -
No luck
Had a similar problem with my Kaiser (HTC Rom). Yesterday I did something (don't know if it was memmaid - my guess, because otherwise I just installed some cabs I had previously installed in my Wizard with no problem) and my SanDisk 6 GB MicroSD was completely 'erased".
I just noticed after the Kaiser had created new folders over it (Application Data, Cookies, History and Temporary Intenet Folders). My assumption is that something destroyed my partition table (that's why I suspect memmaid, it may have cleaned something wrong) and now I have another partition over the old one.
I tried file recovery and found 1 GB good of files, but there were 5 Gigs on the card... I really wanted to find "program files" so I didn't have to re-install lots of stuff, but no luck.
Tried Testdisk as suggested above, but it never detects any partition, not even the current one. I guess I will have to reformat it and re-do all stuff.
Well, I may be saying lots of dumb stuff, but that's my guess.
Thanks if there is any possible help in this...
Ah, and when I insert the card via a card reader in my notebook and right click properties, it says 717MB free, which means my old files are there waiting for me (new folders have only 736KB of data)... What to do?
Guys need advise do you have to do any patch to be able to use 4-8GB mini SDHC card on your PDA?
I have a Asus P535. Have asked their support site and the reply I got is the max supported is only 4GB.
I believe I've read in more than one place that the Kaiser may support up to 32 Gig, which is the MicroSD maximum. But I may be wrong...
Fact is this has never happened with my Wizard and its 1 Gig MiniSD. Now I'm gonna increase backup and cloning so I don't have to reinstall everything...
But I'll check if there is a patch anyway. Thanks.
I am able to use Sandisk microSDHC 8GB can on Asus P535.
But need a micro adapter to miniSD
mbernstein said:
Ah, and when I insert the card via a card reader in my notebook and right click properties, it says 717MB free, which means my old files are there waiting for me (new folders have only 736KB of data)... What to do?
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Click properties and then click theTools tab. Run Error-checking with both options checked. When you check your card, you will hopefully see a new directory with recovered files. You can then delete them and regain your disk space. This is what worked for me -
Thanks. I tried that at the time to no avail. I did have to reformat, and then reinstall everything... Now I'm using Sprite Backup, so everything including Storage Card is backed up in case this thing happens again.
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Click properties and then click theTools tab. Run Error-checking with both options checked. When you check your card, you will hopefully see a new directory with recovered files. You can then delete them and regain your disk space. This is what worked for me -
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It could be WINXP patch
I have the Sandisk 8G , it came with a small USB reader and all was working fine. However my ASUS W5 laptop also has a built-in SD slot so I installed a patch issued by Microsoft to make it HCSD compatible, and it read and write it OK but then I suddenly got the same problem that you've described here.
The disk goes blank but the files still occupy the space, even attempting to reformat the card in the built-in slot will ignore that space,i.e it shows only 5G card.
But reformatting using the small USB card reader was fine and from now on I only use the cardreader to read and write and everything is OK. In my view the XP patch was causing that problem
Sorry to start a thread on an old topic.
I just ordered a Kingston Class 2 16 GB MicroSD card. Now when I remove my original card from my Desire, OR put in the new one (formatted), the phone doesn't boot up.
any solutions?
did you have apps2sd installed? if so, i think that's why
YEs, indeed I have Apps2SD+Root+custom ROM. Any solutions? The worrying thing is that the phone won't boot even without a card, let alone the new one.
I read somewhere that uninstalling all apps will solve the problem. Is that true?
well, all your apps that the phone thinks is on the internal memory is on the card.
now, last i heard, the phone will still boot if you wait long enough. start from scratch?
either that, or copy your old sd card to your new one (clone the whole thing, inc the ext3 partition)
Thanks, I tried cloning the card. It didn't work. How does one clone the EXT partition? Also, when you say 'it will start up eventually', how long is it supposed to take. I waited for 20 Minutes before giving up.
tommo123 said:
well, all your apps that the phone thinks is on the internal memory is on the card.
now, last i heard, the phone will still boot if you wait long enough. start from scratch?
either that, or copy your old sd card to your new one (clone the whole thing, inc the ext3 partition)
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I'm also interested in how I could clone the EXT3 partition. Waiting long enough doesn't work for me, as it goes into a constant boot screen loop.
talhamid said:
Thanks, I tried cloning the card. It didn't work. How does one clone the EXT partition? Also, when you say 'it will start up eventually', how long is it supposed to take. I waited for 20 Minutes before giving up.
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Use a live Linux CD like Ubuntu. Just Boot it up. Then Boot your Phone into custom recovery, mount your partitions and use Ubuntu to Backup your files. You can also use gparted (start it up by entering its name into the Linux console) for partitioning your new SD-Card (again, Phone booted into Custom Recovery). You may have to unmount from gparted first, in order to change existing partitions on the SD-card.
The command "dd" lets you easily backup and restore partition images. Google for specifics
as a windows user, (for my own future reference) would something like acronis work? make an image of the entire disk and restore onto a new one?
I just upgraded from an 8GB Class 4 MicroSD card to a Memorette 32GB Class 10 card (got it for like £25 on ebay ). I want to move everything on my SD across so I don't have to re-install etc...
I'm not so much worried about my apps, but what other data is on my SD? Is there stuff to do with my root, ROM or anything on there? I see a lot of folders on my current SD which seem to be related to the OS (not things I have created).
Is everything held on the phone, or do I need to clone the card for it to work straight away?
A lot of apps and games use memory card to hold stuff in seemingly random places, just move the lot to be safe.
Do you have an ext partition on your sdcard? If so perform a nandroid backup then copy the entire memory card over then nand restore and your done.
If you want to start again from fresh you will lose any apps saved on sdcard and some data from some apps, probably nothing important like cache from maps. It wont affect your system or root or anything though.
I'm actually not sure what I have. I literally have rooted it, installed Oxygen, installed the custom HBOOT and that is it. I haven't touched partitioning or format type.
What is the default?
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I'm actually not sure what I have. I literally have rooted it, installed Oxygen, installed the custom HBOOT and that is it. I haven't touched partitioning or format type.
What is the default?
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If you haven't touched partition or anything your card is default!!
I would copy everything onto PC (backup is always recommended) and then copy onto your new card.... should just work from what you have said ?!
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If you haven't touched partition or anything your card is default!!
I would copy everything onto PC (backup is always recommended) and then copy onto your new card.... should just work from what you have said ?!
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Ah, OK, if it's that easy then... awesome
I didn't know if Oxygen formatted it some special way. Good to know. Is a Class 10 going to make any difference at all. I was going to buy a normal 32gb card, but this class 10 one about £5-£10 cheaper than big brand Class4/6 ones.
Trader has good feedback, I just hope it's a good card...
Balls, I have looked around and it seems these 32GB Memorette cards are hacked and will corrupt data passed 2GB... cancel time.
I just bought a 16gb class 10 sd card. Now I am using the one that came with the phone. I thought I can copy and paste the files on the 8gig card to the 16 gig card and should be all set. I copied all files to the new card and the phone doesnt want to boot up. I believe to have a ext on the card that i am using now but I dont know if that matters. If I do have an ext or partition on the card, how can I find out? Any suggestions?? Thanks..
Format the new card, put it in the phone and boot up, then copy everything from the 8 gig
thank you...I will try that..
Let the PHONE format the card. then pull the card and copy only the selected needed files. nothing more. :-D but yeah. a class 10 card IS WHAT SHOULD have been installed in our phones. our phone doesn't support the max speed. but it is truely faster even when connected to the USB port. I tested before and after and did see a difference in speed. But for the normal use, it won't help. lol
its worked....Thank you
"...then pull the card and copy only the selected needed files. nothing more."
Could you (or anyone knowledgeable) elaborate on what the "needed files" are, please? I'm asking because my SD card just recently crapped out on me. Entirely. Crapped. Out. I couldn't even get my pc to pick it up w/ an adapter. However, the good news is that I recently did a nandroid backup and had copied it, along with all of my pics and vids to my PC.
So, I now have a brand new SD card and a folder on my PC that contains my recent nandroid, a bunch of pics, and some vids, but nothing else. I never bothered moving all of the other files to my PC. In hindsight, I guess I was prepared for a flashing fail, but not for an SD card fail
My question is this: What additional files do I need to move to my sd card to keep operating smoothly, including future rom-flashing and nandroid backups?
Do I need to add a recovery file (Amon RA or CWM) manually? Or can I just re-download CWM from the market and flash alternate recovery? What other important files am I forgetting?
Thanks.
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.
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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.
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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.