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[Q] Rom Manager and partitioning SD card

I used Rom Manager to make a program partition on the SD card, rom manager warned about erasing the sd card. Once it completed I still had all my files intact on the SD card and I cont seem to see a separate 512 program partition.
What would be the best way to determine if this partition does exist?

itisjustme said:
I used Rom Manager to make a program partition on the SD card, rom manager warned about erasing the sd card. Once it completed I still had all my files intact on the SD card and I cont seem to see a separate 512 program partition.
What would be the best way to determine if this partition does exist?
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It does not work with Rom Manager or Clockworkmod. It should work fine with the Amon Ra based recovery, though.

So is there instructions on how to do this? Can I install Amon_Ra if I have Clockwork already on my phone?

Yes, all you need is s-off or unrevoked 3 to install it.

I want to stick with CWM basically to have the ROM manager. Is there any other instructions or programs on how to partition the SDcard? Will this clean up my SDcard so it isn't so cluttered?

can't partition sd card

Hello ,
I have clockwork recovery. I downloaded ROM Manager then i press Partition SD card in ROM manager, choose ext size 256mb and swap size - 0 . Then OK . Phone reboots , but i dont partition SD card, just shows me android with exclamation mark . I can press any button and it brings me to clockwork recovery. But SD card is not partitioned. Why ?

Toggle signature verification in recovery. Can be found under install zip from sd. The use rom manager again.
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i did that, but it didnt help.

Clear download cache in rom manager, flash clockworkMod again and try again. If that does not work you need to use Gparted, there have been many instructions on how to do that the last couple of days.

Best method is amon ra recovery.
Install custom image using unrevoked.
With rom manager you can make ext of max 512 mb.
With custom recovery you can do much more.without using pc.
Even i have installed hd rom using same method.
Earlier my card was not even flasing .zip from root.
Now every thing is just fine.
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im doing 256mb with ROM manager but its still dont working

discovered a new solution .I disalbled toggle signature, but I noticed that after system reboot Toggle signature verification is turning back to enabled. So i pushed Toggle signature verification again and made it disabled and then just pushed restart recovery and now it made a partition .

I'm having a similar problem with my phone. I accidentally wipe all my partitions from my card and can't seem to create new ones. I tried with 4EXT and either have to wait half and hour with no results or have it tell me it worked but revert to no partitions once phone is rebooted.
Here's the weird part. I tried Gparted which has worked successfully for me in the past, but every time I create and apply my partitions my phone tells me my SD card is damaged and I have to format it again.
Any help or ideas?

Best solution for me was to remove the card and insert it into my Pc.
I then used Minitool Partition Wizard. :good:Bonus was that the data on my card was preserved!:good:

spile said:
Best solution for me was to remove the card and insert it into my Pc.
I then used Minitool Partition Wizard. :good:Bonus was that the data on my card was preserved!:good:
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Thanks.
This is bull**** though. That program (like all the others) told me it worked, showed me my partitions (even my old ones from Gparted I'd made the day before) yet once in my phone there's nothing. No extra space.

yh mini tool is useless. what 4ext recovery have u installed? coz usually 4ext recovery partitons sdcards perfect and aligns them perfect.
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jmcclue said:
yh mini tool is useless. what 4ext recovery have u installed? coz usually 4ext recovery partitons sdcards perfect and aligns them perfect.
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I'm using 4EXT at the moment. It's worked for me in the past but doesn't seem to want to work for me now.

hmm strange, u using the latest touch version? maybe reflash recovery mite sort it
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jmcclue said:
hmm strange, u using the latest touch version? maybe reflash recovery mite sort it
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It is strange. I'm not sure why it's being so stubborn. I am on the latest touch version. Where can I get reflash recovery from?

just click the 4ext recovery in my sig and download the updater app and just flash recovery from there
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Lost!!!

OK, been screwing with iPhones for YEARS.. (Franlkly, that ****s a cakewalk compared to screwing with android phones)... Anyway, I've inherited an HTC desire that's been rooted with Clockwork 2.something, and a froyo 2.2 rom. I've since updated the hboot to 0.93.0001 FROM .83 or .84 or something... or im TRYING to get the gingervillian rom to function correctly but im having problems with the whole clockwork 3.0 thing. (I cant figure out how to install clockwork to the phone NOT the SD card.. as Im assuming i need clockwork installed to the phone to handle the whole EXT on the SD thing...
(Basically, when i run in a terminal:
su
a2sd cachesd
it returns a "cant mount sd-ext" error...
(this is my biggest problem so far... after that is... HOW THE HELL do i install clockwork to the phone (or upgrade clockwork to the phone) rather than the SD card (yes, i can run the clockwork 3.0 from the sd by entering recovery and "installing" it (which really only runs it) from the sd card (wether it's named update.zip or recovery.img or blahblahblah.zip)...
As im fairly new to the android thing (and for the record.. the android kicks the **** out of every iphone ive ever touched)... can someone PLEASE... point me in the general direction of right?

really? nothing? no one has had a single issue with going to gingervillain? and cant point me in ANY direction? THIS i find difficult to believe...

from what i understand you want to put the latest clockwork recovery onto your phone ????
if so in rom manager click (i not used it for a long time ) the top one syas something like flash clockwork / current clockwork , boot into recovery search for the zip it created and install
or you can get the img file and push it via fastboot
fastboot erase recovery (enter)
fastboot flash recovery clockwork-recovery.img (enter)
^^ thats the commands to push it once you have directed to where it is .. for eg
cd c:\ enter (then direct it to where recovery.img is preferably in tools folder of sdk )
if thats not what you want then thats just some useless info you have gathered .....lol

It's not that difficult your are just mixing up a few words.
Clockwork is a recovery, this way you can flash new roms etc. I think you are using an old tutorial about rooting etc.
1. Download unrevoked to root your device. You can select to install a different recovery in Unrevoked.
2. I would suggest using a different recovery, look for amon-ra in the rom development thread.
3. This error "cant mount sd-ext" means that you don't have an ext3 partition on your SD card. There are a lot of tutorials how to do this, but I think the easiest way is true the amon-ra recovery. (I believe that clockwork also has this option) You have an option to partion your SD card. Make that ext3 partition 512mb or 1gb in size. Set swap for 0. The rest fat32.
4. After you have done this you can type the commands again in the terminal and it will work.
You can skip part 1 and 2 if you want but I suggest that you follow them.
ps the Hboot does not matter anymore which version you have.

OK, so I've gotten a little further. Ive successfully installed Clockwork Mod 3.0.0.5 onto the phone itself (installed via terminal as:
su
flash_ image recovery /sdcard/Clockwork.img
Then did a factory reset of the phone, booted into recovery, formated the sd card with a 1G ext partition, and 128MB swap... the rest as FAT. Then mounted as USB, transfered the Gingervillian 1.5 image to the sd card and installed Gingervillian. Booted into Gingervillian, installed terminal and tried to move the Dalvik cache. TO NO AVAIL...
I still get an error saying that the davlik cache cant be moved.
Additionally, from Clockwork, after formating the SD card, i try to mount sd-ext and it says it cant...
any advice?

OK, apparently it's the SD card I was using (i was attempting to use a 32GB SD card... I swapped back to my 8GB sd card and it seems to work flawlessly.
Any ideas on what would stop the 32gb sd card from taking an ext partition?
(interestingly, google maps crashes when i attempt to a2sd cachesd on the 8gb sd card...)

I didn't need to have an ext 3 partition on my card to use Oxygen and also I didn't update my HBoot from the default.
Using clockwork recovery 2.5.0.7
Just use Rom Manager to install and reboot into clockwork recovery and then from there you should be able to clear the cache and install oxygen with no problems with only a fat32 partition.

Partition SD card problem.

Hello guys,
This is my first post and I really hope I will get solution.
Info about phone: rooted Froyo and installed Oxygen 2.
1. Later wanted to do partition on 8 Gb SD card. For this I used ROM manager and it simply created partition and I do not think it is kind a partition I need.
2. Everywhere it says that Clockworkmod can do this in recovery mod but mine does not have such option. Why?
3. Later wanted to flash Amon RA recovery with Unrevoked 3 but it keeps flashing Clockworkmod. Even ROM manager does not have option for installing "flash alternative recovery".
uhhh.. please tell me easier method for partition SD or flashing Amon RA recovery.
Thank you in advance.
Kreopa.

Download Gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
and use ur PC to partition ur memory card , easiest way

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839621
Install
If you already have S-OFF (via http://alpharev.nl/)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img

Try using unrevoked 3.14. That is what I used. Personally I found this method to partition my sd much easier then gparted.

Desire rooting

Hello all I'm new to the desire which I bought on eBay a few weeks ago and now I want to install new ROMS. I have rooted my desire using unrevoked a few weeks ago but when I use clockwork recovery to partition SD card all that happens is it fails almost straight away so I have tried to root it again using same method and that also fails almost strait away. Would it be best to factory reset the desire then root it again? I'm running stock RUU 2.2
Also I want to flash a newer Rom so I can add lots more apps but I don't know which is the best to use so any help on this also would be great!
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If you have clockworkmod recovery and want to flash a custom rom you don't need to root again as nearly all custom roms are prerooted so when you flash the rom you will have root access already.
I would partition the card using a gparted live cd on the pc and then factory reset & clear dalvik cache from clockworkmod and install the custom rom zip from sd card.
You may want to make a nandroid backup in clockworkmod first.
There are loads of guides on partitioning your card and the thread for the rom will probably give you an installation guide.
As for the choice of rom you will have to try a few and see what you like. A few that I have used are CM7.2 gingerbread is AOSP(no HTC sense), runnymead AIO gingerbread with sense 3.5 (like the sensation) or nikez for ICS.
Good luck
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hans moleman said:
If you have clockworkmod recovery and want to flash a custom rom you don't need to root again as nearly all custom roms are prerooted so when you flash the rom you will have root access already.
I would partition the card using a gparted live cd on the pc and then factory reset & clear dalvik cache from clockworkmod and install the custom rom zip from sd card.
You may want to make a nandroid backup in clockworkmod first.
There are loads of guides on partitioning your card and the thread for the rom will probably give you an installation guide.
As for the choice of rom you will have to try a few and see what you like. A few that I have used are CM7.2 gingerbread is AOSP(no HTC sense), runnymead AIO gingerbread with sense 3.5 (like the sensation) or nikez for ICS.
Good luck
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Excellent! thanks for that this will save me some time! I assume I will need to flash S-OFF before I partition and nand backup?
Thanks for your help so far!

If you have successfully flashed clockworkmod and rooted with unrevoked you don't need to be s-off to flash a custom rom or perform backup from recovery.
The s-off applies to the internal memory of the phone not the external card. I personally remove the sd card and create partitions with the pc.
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As Hans moleman already said, i wouldn't recommend to partition your SD-Card via ClockworkMod because it produces known problems. If you have a card reader in your PC i would also suggest gparted or if you want to use a Windows tool use the MiniTool Partition Wizard.

andrhitm said:
the MiniTool Partition Wizard.
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Nooo... U suggested gparted to partition sdcard, leave it at that. MiniTool also is dodgy, does'nt align properly
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Best thing to do is first flash a custom rom. Making sure to clear all data when you do. Then download Ubuntu and Virtual Box. Install Virtual Box and create a new VM with the Ubuntu ISO. Navigate to the Ubuntu app store when it is installed and download GParted. Once that is done mount the sd card into the VM by clicking devices, USB and then the name of the card. Partition the SD card with Fat32 and a secondary of your choice (I use ext4)

wad92 said:
Best thing to do is first flash a custom rom. Making sure to clear all data when you do. Then download Ubuntu and Virtual Box. Install Virtual Box and create a new VM with the Ubuntu ISO. Navigate to the Ubuntu app store when it is installed and download GParted. Once that is done mount the sd card into the VM by clicking devices, USB and then the name of the card. Partition the SD card with Fat32 and a secondary of your choice (I use ext4)
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You can download a bootable gparted live cd image, so no need for virtual machine etc.
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