Well here is my idea. Could we possibly partition the FAT32 part of our phones into more then one partition.
Saying like we could have a few FAT32 based partition, A Primary, One for roms/patches, then etc.
That way when we format the primary, it doesn't delete the roms we could flash. So we didn't need to hook up the phone to the computer to copy roms back over.
I know Recover firmware would need to support this. But it's just a thought.
I'm not really an expert at this, but doing a full wipe and installing a new ROM doesn't wipe the contents of your SD Card. Are you saying partition the phone's internal storage? What's wrong with just storing the ROMs on your SD card?
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I'm not really an expert at this, but doing a full wipe and installing a new ROM doesn't wipe the contents of your SD Card. Are you saying partition the phone's internal storage? What's wrong with just storing the ROMs on your SD card?
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I meant like partition the SD Card into multiple partitions, So when you erase the SD:Ext and the FAT32, the ROM Partition doesn't go with it.
So example
SD:Ext - Partition 1
FAT32 - Partition 2 (Default SD Storage)
FAT32 - Partition 3 (ROM Storage, Backup Files)
So when you partition the SD Card though the Recovery it will only format Partition 1 and Partition 2, So if you left somewhere wtihout your computer and tweaking your phone, You could use partition 3 and access your ROM files and backups without going though loops for them.
What recovery are you using. I'm still not sure what you are talking about? I have no problems accessing my roms and kernels. You can do it plenty of ways and not do what you are talking about..
Use root explorer. Can transfer from download folder or if you made a certain folder on SD card for them you can copy paste them to the root directory on SD card if you use RA recovery. Clockwork you can go through every folder looking for the zip using clockwork unlike RA recovery which needs it to be in root of SD card. Your making it hard on yourself..
Why would you want to wipe fat32 and partion?
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I partitioned my sd while in recovery, I did 32mb swap 1024mb ext 2 and the rest fat 32. I then did the ext2 to ext3, then did ext3 to ext4 in the hopes of getting app2sd to work. but now all my nandroid backups are gone as well as everything I had on the card. when I boot into recovery and do msusb it has nothing in it and if i try to do a restore I get an error that says "E:couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid." I can still boot into roms if I put it on the root of the sd card, and i can still use root apps and if i use a file explorer in android the stuff on the phones internal rom is still there, so i guess what im trying to ask is what the heck did i do by partitioning the sdcard?
It's weird that you weren't notified, but partitioning the sdcard for app2sd is SUPPOSED to wipe the sdcard. But it IS a bug if it didn't warn you all data was going to be erased.
I had the same issue last night, luckily I figured partitioning "might" lose my data so I backed it up on my comp first.
Well I was right, it totally wiped the card. Glad I made a backup.
I have an 8GB SanDisk MicroSD, it had a 500MB SD-EXT partition made using ROM Manager with 0MB of Swap. I was using OpenDesire, the latest version.
However I decided to change to Cynanogen 6.1.1, as it is more stable. I decided to Un-Mount and Format my SD Card, as I know this wont format my SD-Ext. After Formatting my SD Card wouldn't re-mount so I connected it to my computer, and formatted it again, by right clicking and clicking Format in My Computer.
After doing this it said I had 7.86 GB of Memory on my SD-Card. This is how much is left on the SD Card with no Partition's or data. After I installed Cynanogen, when wiping the user data, I noticed that it said there was no SD-Ext partiton, and so it couldn't format it. I immidiatley went back to ROM Manager to create one, however when it gets to the Clockwork MOD Part I just get a error about a signature or something? Can anyone please help - thanks!
Perhaps the format option under settings wiped the whole SD card and repartitioned it with a single FAT partition, therefore deleting the EXT partition. Format from within windows/linux in future. AFAIK, there would not be an ext on a stock rom and therefore no need for one, so the format option just goes ahead an obliterates.
If you've got a nandroid you could just repartition and restore.
Sounds like it just formatted the whole thing into a single partition. Just partition it back again as your really suppose to do when switching roms.
I was getting ready to install a new rom and using CWR performed a wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, wipe dalvik cache and a format system. I accidentally went into partition SD card and instead of hitting the back button hit the go. Now my phone only goes to first white screen "HTC Incredible" and stays stuck on that screen. I am able to boot into bootloader and recovery but cant recover any backups "no files found". Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Partitioning the SD card formats it, do you keep backups of your SD card on your computer hopefully?
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RMarkwald said:
Partitioning the SD card formats it, do you keep backups of your SD card on your computer hopefully?
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No backup of sd card
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No backup of sd card
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Can you hook up your SD card to a computer to verify that it's erased? You may need to reformat it to FAT32.
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Can you hook up your SD card to a computer to verify that it's erased? You may need to reformat it to FAT32.
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Don't have a micro sd card reader but will get one to see whats going on.
Im interested to know how partitioning the sdcard would make the phone get stuck at the htc splash? I have partitioned my sd several times before, it does format the sd but has never made it so i cant boot the phone.
EDIT: Alao you cant remove a ext partition by just formating in windows, as windows only sees the fat32 partition. To remove it go back to recovery and the partition sd. When you select it it should ask you 2 things, ext size and swap size.
Use the trackball to set both ext and swap to 0, leaving the whole sd to be formated fat32. After you do that see if you can boot.
I have done this too but good thing I had another SD card with a Rom on it or other wise I would have been screwed
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Im interested to know how partitioning the sdcard would make the phone get stuck at the htc splash? I have partitioned my sd several times before, it does format the sd but has never made it so i cant boot the phone.
EDIT: Alao you cant remove a ext partition by just formating in windows, as windows only sees the fat32 partition. To remove it go back to recovery and the partition sd. When you select it it should ask you 2 things, ext size and swap size.
Use the trackball to set both ext and swap to 0, leaving the whole sd to be formated fat32. After you do that see if you can boot.
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Not sure why its getting stuck on splash screen. It was my first time partitioning my sd card. I tried installing a zip from sd card and none found. I also tried to nandroid restore and no file found. I will try to remove the partition and see if that works.
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Im interested to know how partitioning the sdcard would make the phone get stuck at the htc splash? I have partitioned my sd several times before, it does format the sd but has never made it so i cant boot the phone.
EDIT: Alao you cant remove a ext partition by just formating in windows, as windows only sees the fat32 partition. To remove it go back to recovery and the partition sd. When you select it it should ask you 2 things, ext size and swap size.
Use the trackball to set both ext and swap to 0, leaving the whole sd to be formated fat32. After you do that see if you can boot.
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I set the partition to 0 and still no boot
Sounds like your only option is to redo a wipe data/factory reset, format boot, and format system again, to be safe, then copy a new ROM zip to your SD card and flash that.
Your nandroids, and everything on your SD card, are gone.
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Im interested to know how partitioning the sdcard would make the phone get stuck at the htc splash? I have partitioned my sd several times before, it does format the sd but has never made it so i cant boot the phone.
EDIT: Alao you cant remove a ext partition by just formating in windows, as windows only sees the fat32 partition. To remove it go back to recovery and the partition sd. When you select it it should ask you 2 things, ext size and swap size.
Use the trackball to set both ext and swap to 0, leaving the whole sd to be formated fat32. After you do that see if you can boot.
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there is a clockwork folder on your sd card that is used if you updated clockworkmod recovery from rom manager. i mad the mistake of deleting it once. i had a backup on my pc before i did it. if you can get the phone to boot then just click the first option in rom manager and it will re build the file.
You don't need an SD card reader if you can get to CWM. Just go to mounts and mount Your SD card with your USB cable attached to your PC.
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When I format my SD-EXT on 4EXT it erases all my information on my SD-card. When I try to install Runny Rom v5.5 it gets stuck on the SD partition part. I do a battery pull and check my SD card and all my files are gone
You don't say if you have two partitions on your SD card or not. You've got to have two partitions otherwise you won't have it working properly. The first one should be normal FAT32 and the second one EXT3 or EXT4 depending on the requirements of the ROM you want to flash. The best way to achieve this is to use gParted on a normal PC. Then you can use 4EXT on your phone to manipulate the SD-EXT part of your SD card, eg formatting it or converting between different types of EXT partition. This is the part where your apps data, cache, actual apps, dalvick cache etc. will be kept depending on your settings. Leave FAT32 partition alone.
If you are installing your ROM from the phone then the necessary file should be placed in FAT32 partition. Just remember the path where you copied it. You will need this when you use 4EXT to install the zip file.
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Make sure you have two partitions: FAT32 + EXT4 (size at least 1 GB). Also make sure that they are correctly aligned.
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So recently I installed the slim bean 4.2 build on my evo. I also tried Roehsoft Ram Expander just to try it out. I don't know if it matters, but I figured I would throw it out there. Heres my problem:
I tried installing the 4.2 AOKP and 4.2 AOSPA roms on the phone but they just keep bootlooping. After extensive trouble shooting, they asked if my sd card was partitioned. I deleted the swap partition on the ext sd card, but in the process I realized the phone doesn't recognize it's internal sd card. Like at all. The phone always boots and all, it just won't show it up in any file explorers or recovery. If I take out the ext sd card and try to download something, it says that an sd card is required to download something.
Any clue whats up here?
Ended up wiping and partitioning external sd card with a 1024 ext-3 partition. Link is in comments below
Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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I am confused because I was able to install a JB rom without doing this. I just flashed the files for slim bean. I couldn't even partition it if i wanted to, because when I try to mount the sd card in recovery it says that there is no SD card.
I thought you were getting bootloops attempting to install Android 4.2. Follow the directions at http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-sup...-card-not-being-seen-root-non-root-users.html to fix the sdcard not being seen.
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I thought you were getting bootloops attempting to install Android 4.2. Follow the directions at http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-sup...-card-not-being-seen-root-non-root-users.html to fix the sdcard not being seen.
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I was getting bootloops whenever trying to install a new 4.2.2 rom, but thats after I already have Slim Bean 4.2 running on it
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I was getting bootloops whenever trying to install a new 4.2.2 rom, but thats after I already have Slim Bean 4.2 running on it
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You should always wipe everything before flashing a new rom. /system, /data, /cache and dalvik cache.
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You should always wipe everything before flashing a new rom. /system, /data, /cache and dalvik cache.
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Yeah I tried that. Superwipe and all
aeppacher said:
I am confused because I was able to install a JB rom without doing this. I just flashed the files for slim bean. I couldn't even partition it if i wanted to, because when I try to mount the sd card in recovery it says that there is no SD card.
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Wiping my ext sd card, doing this, and flashing worked. Unfortunately my backup got delete on my desktop so I lost everything but oh well. A couple thanks for you
BobWalker said:
Your EVO's sdcard must have an sd-ext partition formatted with either an ext3 or ext4 file system in order to install a Jelly Bean ROM. You can read an explanation of sdcard partitioning at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993. Before you partition your sdcard, do not forget to copy the entire contents of the sdcard to an empty folder on your computer first since partitioning will destroy all data on the sdcard! I recommend either a 512 MB extended partition (sd-ext) for 8GB sdcard or 1024 MB extended partition for 32 GB sdcard and formatting the sd-ext partition with the ext3 file system as this configuration will work with Gingerbread as well as ICS and JellyBean ROMs. Once you have partitioned and formatted the sdcard, copy the original contents of the sdcard from your computer to the newly formatted sdcard.
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Bobwalker,
Not sure where you got the info about having a partitioned card to install jb. That is not correct information. All jb and ics roms are small enough to fit on the system partition and do not need to use symlinks to the sdext partition in order to run. You can technically install a jb or ics rom without any sdcard present. Note I say technically since most users do not know how to install a rom any other way than recovery. Point is you dont have to have a sdext partition but it is recommended for apps since the og have a very small data partition size.