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Hey guys,
I have just bought a new sd card and i just wondered, will i have to reflash the rom when i insert a new sd card, because i have an ext4 partition for my applications.. What is the actual process for applying a new sd card to a custom rom with apps to sd ext4 parition?
Cheers
JD
You can jump into Linux, partition the new card as required, and move the data from your old card's ext partition to the new card's, and all should work well. Alternatively, you can back up all your apps using Titanium Backup, format the new SD card in recovery, boot up, install Titanium, and restore your apps using that.
wich card do you bought? i was actually looking for a 16gb class 4 by Sandisk, with USB reader. price=80 euros with home delivery.
Just bought a class 2 16gb san disk, 34.99 play.com with free delivery,
Cheers prof,
Do I use gparted?
JD
GPartEd will work brilliantly.
JupiterDroid said:
Hey guys,
I have just bought a new sd card and i just wondered, will i have to reflash the rom when i insert a new sd card, because i have an ext4 partition for my applications.. What is the actual process for applying a new sd card to a custom rom with apps to sd ext4 parition?
Cheers
JD
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Please direct this questions to the general section, developer expertise isn't really required to answer those.
The Professor said:
You can jump into Linux, partition the new card as required, and move the data from your old card's ext partition to the new card's, and all should work well. Alternatively, you can back up all your apps using Titanium Backup, format the new SD card in recovery, boot up, install Titanium, and restore your apps using that.
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Dont you need reinserting the titbackup folder bk on new sdcard before one can restore the apps?
deovferreira said:
Please direct this questions to the general section, developer expertise isn't really required to answer those.
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Mate, will you kindly get off your high horse and use your comments and energy for more constructive issues, I needed a question answered, and it was, I cant help it if people keep continuing this thread.
and it does need dev attention because it was regarding a partition that is new to us desire owners, ext4,
So let the moderators moderate please and use your energy in a more kind productive fashion,
Cheers,
JD
Jagdish84 said:
Dont you need reinserting the titbackup folder bk on new sdcard before one can restore the apps?
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Well, yes, but I assumed that was understood. You need to restore the entirety of the contents of your SD card once partitioned for Titanium Backup to find the backups and restore them.
Understood fine prof
JD
JupiterDroid said:
Mate, will you kindly get off your high horse and use your comments and energy for more constructive issues, I needed a question answered, and it was, I cant help it if people keep continuing this thread.
and it does need dev attention because it was regarding a partition that is new to us desire owners, ext4,
So let the moderators moderate please and use your energy in a more kind productive fashion,
Cheers,
JD
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I am sorry if I offended you, it was not my intention at all. It's just that the desire development is getting some momentum and things should be organized a little better in this forum.
And I am using my energy just fine, thank you.
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.
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.
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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.
!PANDA said:
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
Hi All
Firstly, huge apologies if this has been answered already. I have searched a ton of threads and none really explain exactly what I need to know...
Secondly, I am in no way aware of how any coding or development works on the desire or any android device for that matter so my knowledge is only from what I have personally done to my device:
S-ON (dont have the balls to attempt this!)
Currently I am running RCMixHD ver 0.14. This ROM includes a script which (so I understand) activates the data2ext, and creates this within my ext partition. Now I have read a few threads and posts about possible corruption with this, and so I have a question?
Can I simply copy the entire contents of the SD card to my PC, and then in the event of the SD card becoming corrupt, copy it to a different SD card, pop it back in the phone and then carry on?
Also I am considering a bigger SD card than the 4gb one I have, could this method also be used to transfer everything onto the new SD card without wiping and losing every app and photo etc.
Apologies for the semi-noob post, but I want to be clear before I do any potential damage to my phone!
Thanks
Yes and Yes but i dont know if u need S-Off for data2sdext.
But switching to S-Off is not a real problem or really dangerous! Done this on many phones!
lick_the_fish said:
Hi All
Firstly, huge apologies if this has been answered already. I have searched a ton of threads and none really explain exactly what I need to know...
Secondly, I am in no way aware of how any coding or development works on the desire or any android device for that matter so my knowledge is only from what I have personally done to my device:
S-ON (dont have the balls to attempt this!)
Currently I am running RCMixHD ver 0.14. This ROM includes a script which (so I understand) activates the data2ext, and creates this within my ext partition. Now I have read a few threads and posts about possible corruption with this, and so I have a question?
Can I simply copy the entire contents of the SD card to my PC, and then in the event of the SD card becoming corrupt, copy it to a different SD card, pop it back in the phone and then carry on?
Also I am considering a bigger SD card than the 4gb one I have, could this method also be used to transfer everything onto the new SD card without wiping and losing every app and photo etc.
Apologies for the semi-noob post, but I want to be clear before I do any potential damage to my phone!
Thanks
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Once you have all your apps, clockworkmod recovery should backup all your ext partition. If you want an extra backup, boot in recovery and mount sdcard + ext, then do a tar of you ext partition and save it to you sdcard (something like cd /sd-ext tar czvf /sdcard/ext.tgz *)
Your ext partition will then be saved.
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
Hey everyone,
I've been looking everywhere to get some help with a problem I have with my 32GB SD card.
I'm using an Xperia Play (R800) rooted, unblocked and bloteware removed. Whenever I try to move files, I use one of 2 methods:
1) moving files by connecting the phone to my PC via USB cable and dragging files
2) unmounting the SD card from the phone and use a card reader to move files
In both cases, no matter how I try or how I move the files, eventually the phone will either freeze / freeze + reset / reset / or everything combined several times. Once the system boots up again, it restarts itself several times while trying to read the memory card.
This is really frustrating because it happens to me for the past 4 months, ever since I bought the phone and tried working on it. No matter what I try to do, I always end up with this problem, which eventually leads my SD card to randomly delete files. This includes music, transferred PSX games and such. It's really bugging me, and I really need some help.
If anyone can help me out, I'd deeply appreciate it.
Thanks a bunch in advance
NOTE:
The card was later formatted to 2 partitions: FAT32 and EXT2. This DID NOT help, so re-partitioning my card won't help. Think of something else.
Repartioning your sdcard over and over can result to data loss. Why did you have 2 partitions? You should only be using FAT32 as your primary partion.
chery2k said:
Repartioning your sdcard over and over can result to data loss. Why did you have 2 partitions? You should only be using FAT32 as your primary partion.
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I only did that once, and it doesn't have anything to do with the data loss as this happened before I partitioned the SD card. I have 2 partitions for Link2SD app. And even if I do have FAT32 as my primary partition, it still deletes my files at random...
I have 2 partitions for same reason as you Link2SD! That should not be a problem.
Couple of questions
(1) Is this a new SD card and have you used the card before on other phones (Could be a fault with card try different SD card)
(2)Have you been on the same rom since this problem started (If yes i would try a different rom could be a software problem.)
I would try these options to narrow down what the problem is seems like you have tried all the partition and formatting options already :fingers-crossed:
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I have 2 partitions for same reason as you Link2SD! That should not be a problem.
Couple of questions
(1) Is this a new SD card and have you used the card before on other phones (Could be a fault with card try different SD card)
(2)Have you been on the same rom since this problem started (If yes i would try a different rom could be a software problem.)
I would try these options to narrow down what the problem is seems like you have tried all the partition and formatting options already :fingers-crossed:
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To answer your questions:
1) This SD card has not been used on other phones since this is my FIRST smartphone (took me a while to move to the next step )
2) I never use roms, only the default stock rom.
I find it hard to believe that the SD card is the problem, but what do you think?
ArmyMan007 said:
To answer your questions:
1) This SD card has not been used on other phones since this is my FIRST smartphone (took me a while to move to the next step )
2) I never use roms, only the default stock rom.
I find it hard to believe that the SD card is the problem, but what do you think?
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I think only way to know if SD card is to blame is try another one,there are apps on Google Play that can test SD card but I don't know how reliable these are.Also you said you deleted bloatware did you delete something you should not have?It would be good if you could try another card then you would know for sure a smaller SD card just to test?
Well, oddly enough the problem WAS the SD card all along! I've been trying a new SD card for the past week and everything went smoothly.
Funny, but the solution was only to replace my SD card.
With that in mind, I'm changing my question. I guess there have been many posts about it, but I'm going to ask this anyway:
What would be the best SD card for the Xperia Play? The bad one I used recently was a SanDisk 32 GB Micro SD card, and the one I'm using now is a small sized 8 GB.
Can anyone help me out on this one?
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Well, oddly enough the problem WAS the SD card all along! I've been trying a new SD card for the past week and everything went smoothly.
Funny, but the solution was only to replace my SD card.
With that in mind, I'm changing my question. I guess there have been many posts about it, but I'm going to ask this anyway:
What would be the best SD card for the Xperia Play? The bad one I used recently was a SanDisk 32 GB Micro SD card, and the one I'm using now is a small sized 8 GB.
Can anyone help me out on this one?
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The best sdcard for the xperia play is a Sandisk class 4 or 6 sd card. Preferably stick with the class 4.
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The best sdcard for the xperia play is a Sandisk class 4 or 6 sd card. Preferably stick with the class 4.
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Thanks for the reply. Do you happen to have a link to a thread that can prove your point?
To prove my point? Your the one asking for help why dont you research it yourself.
You didn't understand me... Thanks a bunch though
As far as I'm concerned, this thread is closed.