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SD Card Partitioning using Hero phone?

Can someone plz walk me through how to partition my sd card using my phone - or how to do it on a Mac as I have no access to PC / Linux to partition the SD card.
I want to partition it so I can move may apps there.
My phone is rooted and running the Modaco 1.1 ROM
I have searched but all is still unclear
consider me a noob at doing this
cheers

Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512873

Is there anyway to parttion SDCard on Hero directly throught gparted like on G1. I've tried to boot Hero using Cyannogen Recovery 1.4 but it didn't worked!

spiderman_anhvu said:
Is there anyway to parttion SDCard on Hero directly throught gparted like on G1. I've tried to boot Hero using Cyannogen Recovery 1.4 but it didn't worked!
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I followed this instruction and worked well
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/

Hi
This is my first post on these forums so hi all.
I partitioned my SD card last night using Os X Tiger. The way I did it was as follows:
- First off you need to download gparted live cd iso image from here
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
- Create an live cd using the disk utility
- Once you have the live cd reboot your machine and hold the 'c' key. The cd should be in the machine before you reboot.
- You'll then boot into the gparted linux distribution where you can use it to partition your sd card. Gparted is very self explanatory.
I partitioned my card as follows:
1 Fat32
2 512mb EXT 3
3 32 mb linux-swap.
This partition is the same as Paul from MoDaCo
Cheers

Well I managed to make a Live ( Bootable ) CD with Linus & GParted on it.
I cpoied all the files from my SD card ( music etc. ) to my computer, then wiped the CD card on my Mac - then booted Gparted CD and partitioned my SD, into 700mb Ext3, and 6.5 gig Fat32.
I loaded all the files I had on the SD card onto the 6.5 gig partition.
Then put the now partitioned SD card into my phone, and restarted the phone.
But the phone hung on start-up not getting beyond the 'Hero' bit. Had to take out the battery, and when I started the phone without the card, it still hung. I had to do a Nandroid restore to get it back up and running.
So did the sd card damage the system? Any ideas how to get it working?
I'm running the latest Modaco ROM ( 1.4 ) and latest radio ( xxx31 ) on a rooted phone.

as soon as i finish compiling my gentoo box (i've changed pc, corei7 now ) i'll release an updated version of the recovery image with some new scripts and menu options (one for formatting the sdcard directly from the menu with some predefined values for swap and ext3 partition )

J-Zeus said:
Can someone plz walk me through how to partition my sd card using my phone - or how to do it on a Mac as I have no access to PC / Linux to partition the SD card.
I want to partition it so I can move may apps there.
My phone is rooted and running the Modaco 1.1 ROM
I have searched but all is still unclear
consider me a noob at doing this
cheers
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how about using forum search, i found at the first try...

Care to share the link then , oh wise one -- how do you do it exactly?

This is where I'm up too
On Mac, with no PC access. Booting Mac with Linux CD running Gparted partitioning software.
No matter what I do I'm always running into the same problem. I start with a clean Dos (Fat) formatted 8gig sd card. In GParted I partition it into 3.
6.8gig Fat32 primary, ext3 800mb, and 50mb Linux Swap. I have tried various orders, with the last being as written above ( from Modaco Pauls suggestion ).
I have tried curing the problem by then mounting the sd card on my Mac OS X desktop, and using Disk Utility to format the 6.8gig partition ( from Stripealipe suggestion ).
All to no avail. The symptoms are:
Put formatted card into phone. Turn phone on. 'Hero' word appears, and it locks there. Have to remove battery to shut down.
Try to restart without a card. Same problem.
Try to start with second good ( unpartitioned ) card. 'Hero' word appears with chime. Little green guy wave at me from 'Hero' word. 'HTC' word appears with chime. Screen goes blank for 5 seconds - then back to 'Hero' word with little green guy.
What seems strange to me is that the problem goes from card to phone.
Only cure is a Nandroid restore.
ahhhhhgrrrrrr

I had the exact same problem just now, J-Zeus, but I seem to have fixed it by simply putting back the files that were originally on the SD card before the re-partitioning (I'd made a backup of those before starting the process) in the FAT32 partition and rebooting the phone. This time it showed the home screen after finishing the HTC logo part! I can't explain why this works though, since all of those files seem to be highly non-essential. It might also have been the last round of partitioning I did that did the trick, but that would just be weird since there shouldn't be any differences.
I started out partitioning the card with GParted Live, but after that failed I turned to Paragon Partition Manager (which subsequently managed to f*ck up the MBR on the drive that hosts my main OS, so I had a non-booting phone *and* a non-booting laptop on my hands; luckily the MBR was an easy thing to fix). The "app partition" is now formatted as ext3.
I still think something might've gone wrong somewhere, because it looks like some (or all, I'm not sure) of the apps I had installed from the market have disappeared from the app selection menu and from the "manage applications" list under Settings -> Applications. Supposedly they might be on the SD card now, I'll look into it some more tomorrow. At least the phone is working now, that's one step further.
PS I don't think I have the latest ROM btw, will fix that when I have time & report back if anything changes.

Froyo A2SD+ SD card corruption

Tons of new ROMs coming out now based on OTA and adding A2SD+. But one big issue. Quite a number of people have reported problems with corruption of their SD cards when setting the Desire into Disk mode and connecting it to a PC. I've read it the first time here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7463184&postcount=348
and I can confirm it is reproducible.
Regardless if connecting to Windows or Linux, the card gets corrupted. It does not matter if you properly eject the drive. The Desire will respond saying the SD card is Read Only, and the only thing that one can do is to repartition it to fix the card.
I don't know what A2SD+ application everyone uses in their ROMs but I expect it's all based on some common version like the one put in from ieftm. As this is a serious issue it would be great if all you ROM cooks could look into it and try to fix it. Alternatively it may be a good idea to produce non-deodexed versions that save a significant amount of memory when installed normally without A2SD+.
Thanks for considering

I have this problem aswell its a bit of a nightmare there are a few files on my sd card that I can't even delete using andexplorer or my pc. I think the only way would be to remove my card and format it. I have never had this problem before only when I started using the 2.2 rom.

Noticed it before, i took the SD card out and put it into a cardreader, couldnt do anything in windows, said it was read only. Access via USB cable worked though.
Not that much of a issue for me, I mainly transfer files via Wi-Fi anyway, but I guess thats the explanation for the read-only behaviour.

Happened to me today, however I restarted the phone and everything seems okay now... :/
edit: nope, connected the phone again, chose "charge only" and then disconnected. The notification about my card being corrupted occured again, tapped on it and it went away... Dont know what to think..

I have the same problem .. And now it seems like the SD card is totally corrupted. Its not even possible to do a format

Okay thats it... Doing the titanium backup, nand backup and flashing some rom w/o A2SD+... :/

Out of curiosity guys, did the corruption of the SD card occur to the stock SD card that came with the Desire? I had the same problem with the stock card..
It seemed to unmount 3 or 3 times over a week and the next thing I knew it totally died and could not even be reformatted.. Happened on stock 2.1 that came with my Desire.. after I swapped to me own class 6 8gb Transcend I never had the proble again.. Just gonna upgrade to 2.2 now.. *fingers crossed*
Oh and yes.. I use A2SD+ on Modaco's 3.1. But that was after that card got corrupted..

I'm using card that came with the phone.
I'm going to try another Froyo Rom, just OTA rom rooted and we'll see.
Edit: I made my ext3 partition with ROM manager, if it makes any difference...

God dammit!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747480

Yes its the card that came with the phone .. but it happen after i created the 512MB EXT3 Partition ... and I'm running this ROM : http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775&highlight=official it doesnt even use A2SD+

I dual boot my pc with windows 7 & ubuntu.... windows 7 scan and fix has repaired mine numerous times

I have class6 A-DATA 8GB and no problem. But with my last G1 i haved same card and with swapping goes to hell... I now correctly unmounting and disconnecting mobile from PC, after i save from PC to card. Flash have problems with writing.

This looks like a serious problem - it happened to me twice already. Devs, please have a look at this!

I have also had similar experience, SD card corrupt, yes it was the original card that came with the phone, EXT2 partitioned and using APSD+
Now why this happend is a mystery, but something I noticed when I tried the SD card in the PC - it was recognized, but said it must be formated, so I tried but it only saw it as a 32mb capacity!!! (it still would not format though - failed format..and since is no longer reconized at all..)
But, this made me think it "MAY" be something to do with the fact that when I did the Ext2 partition I seem to remember it also created a 32mb swap partition, or using Ext2 instead of Ext3. I have since learnt that it is advisable NOT to created a swap partition, so with my new SD card, after more reading about Ext partitions etc, I have only created only the Ext3 partion as I understand this is better than Ext2 and is less prone to corruption, and no swap partition and have had no problem since!
See this excellent post :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7458565&postcount=8
It would be interesting to have some input from one or two of the developers with knowledge in this field to get an idea why this happens, and how it can be prevented.
It is also possible the the SD card was going to become corrupt anyway... with or without the help of Ext? / APSD+ - it does happen!

delta-101 said:
I have since learnt that it is advisable NOT to created a swap partition, so with my new SD card, after more reading about Ext partitions etc, I have only created only the Ext3 partion as I understand this is better than Ext2 and is less prone to corruption, and no swap partition and have had no problem since!
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my sd was corrupt using a 512MB ext3 partition without swap partition in SD card :/

Try in windows: start > run > chkdsk x: /f
where x = desire drive letter.
I believe i did this in recovery mode > mount usb.

That's what happens when you don't want to use Froyos own A2SD implementetion because "widgetz doesnt workzz on dat."
Apps are not meant to be on an external EXT partition.
Wait until ROMs like CM have built in A2SD+, these hacky shell scripts can cause serious problems for the SD card.

LeeDroid said:
I dual boot my pc with windows 7 & ubuntu.... windows 7 scan and fix has repaired mine numerous times
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Windows can not access EXTx partitions. As such is unfortunately not possible that it could possibly repair a broken SD-ext partition A2SD+ uses.

delta-101 said:
I have also had similar experience, SD card corrupt, yes it was the original card that came with the phone, EXT2 partitioned and using APSD+
Now why this happend is a mystery, but something I noticed when I tried the SD card in the PC - it was recognized, but said it must be formated, so I tried but it only saw it as a 32mb capacity!!! (it still would not format though - failed format..and since is no longer reconized at all..)
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It is also possible the the SD card was going to become corrupt anyway... with or without the help of Ext? / APSD+ - it does happen!
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I can confirm the corruption without any APSD+ ROM
I had a Stock Orange FR 2.1 ROM, and the 4Gb card that came with the phone get corrupted definitively (recognized as a 32mb capacity too, it has something to do with the Cylinder-head-sector combination).
Anyway, I'm going to try APSD+ with a class 2 PNY 16Gb, and tell you then if I get a corrupted card.
FYI, the Sandisk warranty is applicable for the original card: replaced in 5 days

I got some problems too with corruped files on my SDcard and had to format it. I'm thinking that from now i'll only mount my card to pc in recoverymode... maybe that is safe to do?

[Q] How Do I Remove An Ext3 Partition From My Sd Card?

I was using my 4gb sd card for apps to sd for my previously-rooted android phone, and had about a 500mb of it partitioned to ext3. I have since unrooted my android phone and put it back to stock, but in doing so, I lost the recovery console that would allow me to unpartition my sd card. Is there a safe program that will recognize the ext3 partition and remove it?

Gparted. You can use a live cd or a VM.

Hi there. I downloaded a free program call minitool partition wizard. Do a google search for it (I can't post links)
It has worked well for me with my SD card partitioning.
Make sure you back up the contents of your SD card before removing the ext 3 partition as it will delete all the contents on it.

could you please elaborate a little as i am a noob. like whats gparted? whats a vm? whats the process of doing what i asked? thanks for the help.

I don't know if Windows recognises it at all but worth a try really. Gparted is a live cd tool that allows you make partitons on a storage device. I think that VM refers to a Virtual Machine, using something like VMWare or VirtualBox.

guys please help. i used these softwares but none of these is showing my ext3 partition in the program window. just a 3.22gb of one partition on phone. the 512mb of ext3 partion is still missing and i dont know where to find it.

Well, since you really don't need the ext3 partition anymore, you could format the whole SD card from windows (do a back-up of the content on the hdd before, though). Then in Windows (I'm guessing you're using windows ), with the phone connected in mass storage mode, right click on My Computer / Manage / click on Disk Management and you should see in the list of the drives your SD card (pay attention to the size). Right click on the 512 MB partition - Delete volume... After that you should create a new partiotion, format it as FAT32... Or you could delete all the partitions of the card and create a new volume.

Icysoul said:
Well, since you really don't need the ext3 partition anymore, you could format the whole SD card from windows (do a back-up of the content on the hdd before, though). Then in Windows (I'm guessing you're using windows ), with the phone connected in mass storage mode, right click on My Computer / Manage / click on Disk Management and you should see in the list of the drives your SD card (pay attention to the size). Right click on the 512 MB partition - Delete volume... After that you should create a new partiotion, format it as FAT32... Or you could delete all the partitions of the card and create a new volume.
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i did that. in disk management i only see a 3.22gb partition. (i have a 4gb card, so i 512mb is still missing). i cannot find the 512mb ext3 partition anywhere. please can someone help me to find a software or any other method which will be able to detect the ext3 partition as well ?

The partition may be corrupted. You can still try to use Gparted live cd - google for gparted-live-0.7.1-5.zip . It can also be installed on USB flash, check their site for instructions. Restart your PC and boot from the CD or USB flash then check your sd card. If it still doesn't recognize the 512 partition, you might be out of luck.

Icysoul said:
The partition may be corrupted. You can still try to use Gparted live cd - google for gparted-live-0.7.1-5.zip . It can also be installed on USB flash, check their site for instructions. Restart your PC and boot from the CD or USB flash then check your sd card. If it still doesn't recognize the 512 partition, you might be out of luck.
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how could the partition be corrupted because i was using the ext3 partition to install apps when i had root. it was only recently that i have to sell out my htc desire and i unrooted my htc desire. unroot procedure was done successfully but the card is only showing 3.22gb, i-e, 512mb is missing. this may become an issue if the buyer does not want to pay for a 4gb card with only 3.22gb of storage. it should be around 3.5-3.6gb

A partition may become corrupted if you remove the battery from the phone while the system is still running (i.e. writing data on the partition), it is not unheard of. Do try the gparted solution mentioned before, though.

Icysoul said:
A partition may become corrupted if you remove the battery from the phone while the system is still running (i.e. writing data on the partition), it is not unheard of. Do try the gparted solution mentioned before, though.
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yes buddy i have tried the gparted solution you suggested before. even that is showing only 3.22gb of my sdcard and no mention of the 512mb ext3 partition. i dont know whether i am doing something wrong or what.... ???
Anyway, is there anyway i could recover that corrupt partition? Like can i ROOT my htc desire again and then try to format the ext3 partition from the recovery? i read somewhere there is a way to do that in recovery by giving some commands. and once i have recovered the ext3 partition space then i can UNROOT my htc desire again. DO YOU THINK IF I DO THIS ITS GONNA BE OF ANY USE? Please help me.

This might work since it worked for me. 4GB mysteriously disappeared from my 16GB card and neither Windows or gparted picked it up. The only way I was able to get it back was putting it in my phone and the Android picked it up. I did have to format my whole SD card but nontheless, I got all my space back. Hope this helps and if you have tried this then I can only guess that your SD card is buggered.

GoogleJelly said:
This might work since it worked for me. 4GB mysteriously disappeared from my 16GB card and neither Windows or gparted picked it up. The only way I was able to get it back was putting it in my phone and the Android picked it up. I did have to format my whole SD card but nontheless, I got all my space back. Hope this helps and if you have tried this then I can only guess that your SD card is buggered.
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um actually, my sdcard IS in the phone this whole time as i dont have any card reader. i am connecting my phone with my pc in hard drive mode.
from within the phone, i have tried to format the sd card many times but the space does not go beyond 3.22gb..

Something seems to have messed the partition up. Have a look around on the web
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

ok tell me if i root my cellphone again, will it help?
because there is a way to delete the ext3 partition from the recovery.

finally recovered my ext3 partition.
this is what i did.
1) rooted my phone.
2) enter into clockworkmod recovery
3) mount sd-ext (i guess it wasnt mounted that's why no app was recognizing it)
4) now windows was able to recognize the ext3 partition.
5) problem solved.

jamy_hallian said:
finally recovered my ext3 partition.
this is what i did.
1) rooted my phone.
2) enter into clockworkmod recovery
3) mount sd-ext (i guess it wasnt mounted that's why no app was recognizing it)
4) now windows was able to recognize the ext3 partition.
5) problem solved.
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Oh man, I had EXACTLY the same problem and was driving me nuts. I searched high and low everywhere and couldn't find the answer. Thank you!

shaboobla said:
Hi there. I downloaded a free program call minitool partition wizard. Do a google search for it (I can't post links)
It has worked well for me with my SD card partitioning.
Make sure you back up the contents of your SD card before removing the ext 3 partition as it will delete all the contents on it.
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this worked.. thanks a lot
i had the same issue as the OP

Use a card reader and MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Delete all partitions on the SD card and create a new one that fills the entire SD

[Q] SD Card not being read, can't go into clockwork

Hi all,
So I woke up this morning with my phone displaying a notification that my sd card is blank. I've had data2ext installed for about a month now on every other cm7 nightly, the latest being #108. I tried to mount the sd card, only to see the same notification. I've tried rebooting, battery pull, booting without the sd card then inserting it and nothing has changed. I went as far as trying to install the htc 2.2 update... and it failed since I'm not on an htc rom. The weird thing is my "about phone" section still shows 244 mb available of 418 mb total, although this might just be the ram/rom, not data partition... So what can I do? I also tried rebooting into recovery through cm7's power off menu AND rom manager, only to be shown a phone with a red QUESTION mark instead of the triangle and exclamation point. When I tried formatting my sd card, i get a pop-up notice saying "SD card is currently being checked". Help me, xda community. You're my only hope.

I tend to be the guy who asks the more obvious or I guess overlooked stuff... So I will!
Now to me(and I'm no expert here...) but it doesn't sound like a problem with the SD card(or maybe it is!). Have you tried a different SD card? Or using the SD card in a different device?

I didn't have a micro sd card adapter or any other micro sd to try at the time I wrote the OP so I didn't include that in there. I have an adapter now and the computer recognizes a drive there but it only shows the swap volume, I believe (it says I need to format the card, and when I try to it only shows it as being 30.6mb). When I try to format I get a "Windows was unable to complete the format" notification. So yeah, that's where I'm at.

try paragon partition manager, it usually gets the job done for me.

I'm trying to use partition manager, but I still only see 30 mb on the sd card. I'm not exactly sure how to just clear the whole thing of the ext partition and swap volume, though.

can your partition manager delete the swap partition?

mojoffdawal said:
I'm trying to use partition manager, but I still only see 30 mb on the sd card. I'm not exactly sure how to just clear the whole thing of the ext partition and swap volume, though.
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Have you tried gparted? that's the only way I could really customize my sd card with the different kinds of partitions.

Partition manager hung while trying to delete the partition.
Gparted failed, I don't remember the exact message on that one.
I tried a different microsd card and it was recognized by the phone, so something weird must've happened to my original one. I guess a year's worth of use is all I can ask for with tech nowadays. Thanks for the help, guys.

Did you use gparted from a live cd, or on a computer actually running linux? I have had gparted live cd's fail me, and then turned right around and had success with gparted installed to ubuntu running on a win xp machine through wubi. Might be worth a shot for you, just make sure to unmount the card in gparted, and to actually make the changes before exiting, as that's an easy mistake to make
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I used both, now. I had run redo backup software with gparted off my usb drive and then I installed xubuntu to dual boot my machine, and both only recognize 30 mb of the sd card's 8 gb, so it's only the swap space that was formatted for my data2ext. Thanks guys.
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[Q] WFS freezing at boot after SD partition crash

Hi everyone, this is my first post but I have been lurking for a little while. Thanks to this forum I was able to unlock and root my phone (WFS European A510e running 2.3.5). I partitioned my 8Gb into 7Gb FAT32 and 1Gb ext2, and used Link2SD to free up some internal memory. All was well until about a month later when I began getting 'insufficient space' errors when trying to link new apps, even though it showed over 800Mb free.
And that is when I made the seemingly harmless move that set into motion the near demise of my phone! I tried to move a linked app to SD card. Immediately most apps force closed and displayed the 'missing app' android icon. Link2SD was gone so I couldn't try to undo it so I rebooted my phone but nothing changed. At start apps force closed again and a 'Damaged SD card' notification popped up. Being the cautious noob that I am, I had made a backup when I rooted the phone. I went into Hboot and through ClockWorkMod flashed the backup. When the phone rebooted it got stuck at the splash screen. When I put the SD card into a reader and plug it into the PC then the SD is visible for about 30 seconds before it crashes. I tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard to reformat the SD card. It says that it is completed successfully but when I remove and reinsert the SD card I see that it has not reformatted. The 7Gb partition seems fine. The 1Gb ext2 is 'unavailable'. When I try to format the SD card through CWM recovery then it says that no SD is found. I have cleared data, dalvik cache, and cache partition many times to no avail. I have also tried copying the backup copy from my PC to another SD card and trying to flash backup from that but I get a 'no files found' error.
I downloaded RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.13.401.3_Radio_47.23c.35.3037_7.54.39.28M_release_236989_signed and RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.26.401.3_Radio_47.23e.35.3038H_7.57.39.10M_release_261695_signed in an attempt to flash my stock ROM but when I try to open either RUU wizard I get a '5001' error.
And this is where I am now :crying: I'm so confused. I hope I haven't messed my phone up beyond repair. If anyone can help me figure this out I will be forever grateful!