Guys,I recently bought a Desire HD and have the following issue.I have a Kingston 16gb Class 10 SD card in my Desire and I want to use it with my DHD.However,I have an ext4 partition on my Desire's card and have ReflexTSense HD 1.4.1 Apps2SD+ version installed.Now,If I make a Nandroid backup of my rom,copy ALL of the card's content to my HDD(including the nandroid backup) and then copy it all to a new card(partitioned with a 1gb ext4 partition) will I be able to restore the nandroid backup normally after a full wipe or does it need another procedure?
Thanks!
Using Titanium Backup should work nicely. Or failing that, if you are using ClockworkMod Recovery you should be able to copy and paste to the new SD, make an EXT3 partition, then just restore the EXT3 partition using the advanced setting.
I was thinking of trying some other roms prior to restoring...Anyway,that is without losing any of my data,right?And what about the things I asked?
Thanks!
tolis626 said:
I was thinking of trying some other roms prior to restoring...Anyway,that is without losing any of my data,right?And what about the things I asked?
Thanks!
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You want to restore your Desires nandroid to your DHD? I would be surprised if that was possible. The Desires DHD ROMs are ported so they are different to the stock ROMs of the DHD.
When I got my DHD I just started afresh, installed all apps from new, as the DHD has around 1.1 gig of internal memory you really don't need the EXT3 partition on SD card anymore.
Kalavere said:
You want to restore your Desires nandroid to your DHD? I would be surprised if that was possible. The Desires DHD ROMs are ported so they are different to the stock ROMs of the DHD.
When I got my DHD I just started afresh, installed all apps from new, as the DHD has around 1.1 gig of internal memory you really don't need the EXT3 partition on SD card anymore.
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No no no,I'm not that kind of idiot!
I want to try some other roms on my Desire(NOT HD) and change my SD card at,let's say,the same time.If I flash a rom from another card,would I be able to restore a backup that was just copied to the new one,or would I have to reinsert the card I am using now?
I know I am saying it too complicated,sometimes not even I can understand what I'm saying!
But to be more understandable...Say I make a nandroid backup now,ok?I copy it from my SD to my HDD(Hard Disk Drive,my PC,in case you don't know what it stands for.Damn I must stop using this many acronyms! ).Then I change my SD card to a new one(partitioned and stuff) and flash another rom from a zip in the new card.After that,am I able to just copy the nandroid backup I did in the beginning to my new SD card and restore?
Thanks!
Lmao, I literally had to read that twice! Using nandroid, as long as you flash the ROM that it was backed up from first, and then restore you will be fine to install any ROM. Just copy Clockworkmod/backup/(filenamehere) from your SDcard and you can drag and drop it into any SDcard and restore/backup from it.
Kalavere said:
Lmao, I literally had to read that twice! Using nandroid, as long as you flash the ROM that it was backed up from first, and then restore you will be fine to install any ROM. Just copy Clockworkmod/backup/(filenamehere) from your SDcard and you can drag and drop it into any SDcard and restore/backup from it.
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See?I told you it was me saying everything complicated!
Anyway,that's what I wanted to know!Thanks Kalavere!
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Hi,
I'm about to update with a new custom ROM since the one I have didn't have A2SD+ and there's just not enough space (came with MoDaCo custom ROM without additions when I got it). But I can't find any guides on how to format my SD correctly with my MacBook, do you guys know any? And do I need to download Android SDK?
Also, how big is the difference between A2SD and A2SD+? I only have the 4GB SD that came in the box.
Thanks.
Can I use ROM Manager to partition my SD card?
EDIT: Sorry mods, should've posted this in General, I guess. Please move.
You can partition in recovery. I have a Mac too and that's the only way I did it.
The main difference between A2SD and the + variety is that Dalvik cache is also moved to the SD card when using A2SD+.
Thanks! But everything on my SD card will be erased, right? Will I still be able to update the ROM after? Or should I update first?
Sorry, first time doing this.
Backup all the contents of your card to your Mac first. Flash the ROM, then before booting up for the first time, partition your SD card. Boot up your phone and copy back the contents of your card to the FAT 32 partition. I used to set up my card like this: swap-0mb, ext2-512mb, fat32-remainder. Then convert ext2 to ext3.
Also remember to do a full wipe before flashing the ROM.
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Okay, I will try that! Thanks!
I know this must sound like a super-noob question, but there's a simple reason for that : it is from one.
I have run out of space on my 8 GB card so I am thinking of upgrading to a bigger card. Here are my questions:
1) If App2SD+ is there on the ROM, does the phone ask you where to install the app or it goes automagically into EXT partition?
2) I want to make a bigger partition in a bigger card and will do it via ROM Manager. Do I just copy the contents of the older card and paste it onto newer and everything will work fine?
Please answer, my life depends on it.
talhamid said:
I know this must sound like a super-noob question, but there's a simple reason for that : it is from one.
I have run out of space on my 8 GB card so I am thinking of upgrading to a bigger card. Here are my questions:
1) If App2SD+ is there on the ROM, does the phone ask you where to install the app or it goes automagically into EXT partition?
2) I want to make a bigger partition in a bigger card and will do it via ROM Manager. Do I just copy the contents of the older card and paste it onto newer and everything will work fine?
Please answer, my life depends on it.
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I just upgraded from 8 to 16 myself. 1 : automatically, 2: yes that worked for me
best thing is to pre partition the card before putting it in your phone, do a nandroid backup with your old card in, put the new one in and restore, if im not mistaken this deals with the ext partition files and then just copy all the files onto the fat32 partition from your old card
not worked for me ,I was copy to PC old cadr,have nandroid but I have A2SD+ ext part
& problems ..stock with HTC white logo ,after that I make full wipe/factory reset
& after that instal the LeeDroid rom /put again ROM manager & make ext 3 partition/
after that Titanium backup & Desire functionality was back again
hi there i have auraxtsense rom and and i have an old sd card with app2sd i bought a new card for my desire 8gb class6, and my phone stuck on htc logo screen when i put new card inside
As said above you must re-partition your new card first!
I have just done this yesterday so this is what I did:
1. Nandroid backup
2. Create EXT partition on new card with G-parted Live
3. Copy contents of old SD card to the new one (just the FAT partition visible in windows etc)
4. Put the new SD card in the phone and boot into recovery
5. Restore nandroid backup (copies all the apps back onto the EXT partition)
6. Reboot!
I can't see how you could have any problems by doing what I did. The phone will not have any problems as all the old files are exactly as they were.
Phil
how to create ext partition with gparted?
You must first resize the FAT partition and then create a new EXT partition in the newly created space.
This may be helpful as there are some pictures:
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
Hope that helps.
Phil
philje123 said:
As said above you must re-partition your new card first!
I have just done this yesterday so this is what I did:
1. Nandroid backup
2. Create EXT partition on new card with G-parted Live
3. Copy contents of old SD card to the new one (just the FAT partition visible in windows etc)
4. Put the new SD card in the phone and boot into recovery
5. Restore nandroid backup (copies all the apps back onto the EXT partition)
6. Reboot!
I can't see how you could have any problems by doing what I did. The phone will not have any problems as all the old files are exactly as they were.
Phil
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So the Nandroid backup is not saved on to the SD Card?
EDIT: Ignore this. Wanted to know if it was on the FAT or ext3. I'm guessing on the FAT so nandroid backups would be included in the transfer.
What is the best tool for copy the entire contents of a memory card? I know Windows is a bit funny, stops the whole process if it finds an error, for example
Yes if you copy the files over before the nandroid then the nandroid backup is included.
TBH I just used windows to copy them all and had no problems.
Phil
One question - can the ext partitions have different sizes when restoring with nandroid?
Example - I have 1 GB ext on old card and now I'd like to have 2 GB?
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One question - can the ext partitions have different sizes when restoring with nandroid?
Example - I have 1 GB ext on old card and now I'd like to have 2 GB?
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Don't go larger then 1.5GB on a ext partition. Nandroid restore doesn't mind if the partition size changed, until the restored size is smaller then the new capacity.
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One question - can the ext partitions have different sizes when restoring with nandroid?
Example - I have 1 GB ext on old card and now I'd like to have 2 GB?
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You sure can, I just did it today, old ext2 w/ 512MB on 2GB card, now 2GB ext3 on 8GB card. Working just fine
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You sure can, I just did it today, old ext2 w/ 512MB on 2GB card, now 2GB ext3 on 8GB card. Working just fine
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I didn't say you can't, I stated that it's not recommended by the community to go more then 1.5GB. It was in all a2sd how-to's I've seen, has to be something about errors with the Market and app installing.
From what I understand the only advantages to APP2SD+ is that you can plug you can mount your card via USB and use your apps, and widgets can be installed on the SD.
Source
This doesn't seem worth it for all the work reformatting another partition. If your card is upgraded to a bigger size why not use the normal method of installing apps on your SD? Why bother to partition with Ext+ as well?
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Why bother to partition with Ext+ as well?
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Hmm, because it is what custom ROM requires?
thed0g said:
I didn't say you can't, I stated that it's not recommended by the community to go more then 1.5GB. It was in all a2sd how-to's I've seen, has to be something about errors with the Market and app installing.
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It's actually bigger than 2gb
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I didn't say you can't, I stated that it's not recommended by the community to go more then 1.5GB. It was in all a2sd how-to's I've seen, has to be something about errors with the Market and app installing.
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I didn't quote your post
Hi,
I bought a new 16Gb microsd hc card after installing the RCMixHD rom in order to give it a 2gb ext size.
Right now im using 8gb-512 ext3 goldcard.
Unfortunately when i put the 16gb in the device (after fat32 quick format)- the device doesnt load
Its HBOOT driver is recognized by windows but i cant get the device to load.
Any ideas?
Many thanks ahead.
rcmix installs part of the rom on the ext partition of sd card that is why the phone wont boot.
1. use a card reader to format your new card and copy the backup of your old card onto the new one (dont forget the rom which you wish to flash again, i suppose rcmix)
2. turn off your phone place in the new card
3. go into hboot, wipe everything and flash the rom
your rom should be working now with your new sd card
(Using this method will cause that you loose all the data that was previously on the phone, but personally i feel: New Card --> New Start and clean flash, that way you can ensure everything is working properly!)
RaymondErasmus said:
rcmix installs part of the rom on the ext partition of sd card that is why the phone wont boot.
1. use a card reader to format your new card and copy the backup of your old card onto the new one (dont forget the rom which you wish to flash again, i suppose rcmix)
2. turn off your phone place in the new card
3. go into hboot, wipe everything and flash the rom
your rom should be working now with your new sd card
(Using this method will cause that you loose all the data that was previously on the phone, but personally i feel: New Card --> New Start and clean flash, that way you can ensure everything is working properly!)
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Thanks a lot!
I have a feeling this might work
by the way- in which part should i create the ext partition?
before flashing the rom i guess?
and with which recovery could i make this partition to 2gb size?
Thanks again!
Spitniv said:
Thanks a lot!
I have a feeling this might work
by the way- in which part should i create the ext partition?
before flashing the rom i guess?
and with which recovery could i make this partition to 2gb size?
Thanks again!
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Or..
You can make a Nandroid backup with your old card inside, then partition the newcard with one Fat32 and one ext3 (for A2SD+), copy the folder "Clockworkmod" from the old card to new one, Insert new card, Goto Recovery, Nandroid restore all..
Should work.
Before doing this, make a Titanium backup too..
Spitniv said:
Thanks a lot!
I have a feeling this might work
by the way- in which part should i create the ext partition?
before flashing the rom i guess?
and with which recovery could i make this partition to 2gb size?
Thanks again!
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yes partition before you flash the rom.
And to create the ext partition with the correct size:
You can use amonra to create the ext, clockworkmod 2.1.5.2 (or something one of the newer versions can also do this) --> these work from recovery
I used gParted (a bootable cd, is very useful), you could use fdisk too! With these tools create the ext partition after the fat32 partition otherwise windows will want to format the sd card. (I guess depends on what OS you are using) --> i would use one of these 2 as you have more control over the process
Hi guys, sorry for the newbie question but here I go. Just now I decided to flash a new ROM so I do what I normally did before I flash a new ROM (backup my sd card contents and do a nandroid backup). After I done those, I reformat my sd card using my laptop and place the ROM I wanted into the sd card. After I flash the ROM I get stuck in the HTC screen and my backup doesn't work but luckily I manage to revive my Desire. After that I notice that my previous partition that I made using gparted is gone and that's why the ROM didn't work at first. So, am I still able to recover my lost partition from my sd card or they are gone for good?
If you have a working nandroid backup, you can try to recreate your partitions first and restore then.
Windows laptop? The reformat using will have wiped your Ext partition. As said recreate fat32 and Ext using Gparted and restore nandroid (assuming under AmonRa or 4Ext recoveries you included sd-ext) or flash new Rom.
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yurimizu said:
Hi guys, sorry for the newbie question but here I go. Just now I decided to flash a new ROM so I do what I normally did before I flash a new ROM (backup my sd card contents and do a nandroid backup). After I done those, I reformat my sd card using my laptop and place the ROM I wanted into the sd card. After I flash the ROM I get stuck in the HTC screen and my backup doesn't work but luckily I manage to revive my Desire. After that I notice that my previous partition that I made using gparted is gone and that's why the ROM didn't work at first. So, am I still able to recover my lost partition from my sd card or they are gone for good?
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Looks like u didn't perform a full wipe... Via recovery...
Nd by full wipe I mean cleaning cache, dalvik cache, sd-ext, etc...
No need to format the sd card before flashing a new Rom....
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hi having problems partion my sd card so that i can use runnymeade rom i have tried to partion it as 1.2 gb .3gb and .1gb but it does not fully boot the rom i dont know what i am doing wrong please help am a complete noob with the desire
thanks in advance
akhillad said:
Looks like u didn't perform a full wipe... Via recovery...
Nd by full wipe I mean cleaning cache, dalvik cache, sd-ext, etc...
No need to format the sd card before flashing a new Rom....
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I did the full wipe via recovery but I reformatted my sd card using my laptop and I think that's the problem since the process wipe out everything including the partitions I made before. And thanks for the answer, greatly appreciate
beachcomber said:
Windows laptop? The reformat using will have wiped your Ext partition. As said recreate fat32 and Ext using Gparted and restore nandroid (assuming under AmonRa or 4Ext recoveries you included sd-ext) or flash new Rom.
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Yes, a windows laptop and unfortunately it has wiped my previous partition. I did manage to partition it again but I found out that my sd card size is reduced. So does the reformat process wipe out my old partition for good or I still can somehow recover back my lost partition?
robbani123 said:
hi having problems partion my sd card so that i can use runnymeade rom i have tried to partion it as 1.2 gb .3gb and .1gb but it does not fully boot the rom i dont know what i am doing wrong please help am a complete noob with the desire
thanks in advance
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Although I'm not an expert in partitioning but I can provide some info about this. Firstly, how you partition your sd card (gparted, rom manager or other methods)? And which partition you made (EXT3/4)?
yurimizu said:
Yes, a windows laptop and unfortunately it has wiped my previous partition. I did manage to partition it again but I found out that my sd card size is reduced. So does the reformat process wipe out my old partition for good or I still can somehow recover back my lost partition?
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The ext partition itself is gone, but if you re-partition using Gparted, copy your sd card backup from laptop onto sd card, then providing your nandroid included sd ext backup a restore should get you back to where you were.
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Although I'm not an expert in partitioning but I can provide some info about this. Firstly, how you partition your sd card (gparted, rom manager or other methods)? And which partition you made (EXT3/4)?
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hi i used 4ext to make the partion and i made all partion ext4 i think dont really know what i am doing please help
Hey y'all
I just purchased a 16GB SD card to replace my 4GB one.
Decided to replace the Tabasco Silky ROM with Sandvold's ICS Beta ROM to compliment the new SD card
ROM working but when I copied the previous SD's data over to new SD, I can't see my apps:crying::crying::crying:
Tried exactly as the other forum user's have suggested (copy old SD card data to PC -> copy data from PC to new SD card) = didn't work
I can see all my photos, music, vids but no apps in apps drawer
I can see the exact copy of my previous SD card on my new SD card in CWM:good:
I tried to restore a nandroid backup from my old SD...but it only restores my previous GB screens/data/apps...I can't see any evidence of the ICS ROM that was loaded
OR
Can any of the xda gurus recommend A solution(s)?
Hi, were your apps on an sd-ext partition? If you are using windows your ext partition of your old card is probably not being recognised. If you download and run a ububtu live cd you will be able to see and copy both partitions of the card. One with the photos/data on the other with the apps.
If you created a nandroid backup of your ICS rom you could just partition your new card and restore but is sounds like you forgot to backup before flashing your new Rom.
hans moleman said:
Hi, were your apps on an sd-ext partition?
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is there any other way to check beside the Ubuntu live cd?
hans moleman said:
If you created a nandroid backup of your ICS rom you could just partition your new card and restore but is sounds like you forgot to backup before flashing your new Rom
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I only had a nandroid backup of my GB ROM, I flashed the ICS ROM, tried to copy over the apps but no update in my apps drawer
herb1 said:
is there any other way to check beside the Ubuntu live cd?
I only had a nandroid backup of my GB ROM, I flashed the ICS ROM, tried to copy over the apps but no update in my apps drawer
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Try this to access ext partitions in Windows. I haven't tried this but it looks like it will work:
http://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/
If you want to restore apps from one rom to another you should use either titanium backup or mybackup from the market before flashing the new rom (i use my backup pro). This will allow you backup sms and call log too.
Can't you restore your GB from nandroid and backup apps using titanium/mybackup? You could then transfer the backup files to your new card, flash ICS and restore using titanium/mybackup. Please note I think you need the pro version of mybackup to restore to different roms but with titanium I think the free version does it.