I'm running baadnews hd rom with a 512mb ext partition, i have now got a new 8gb card, obviously i cant just swap cards so how do i go about setting up the new card so that i can use it in my phone??
And is there a tool that will allow me to set up a 1gb partition?
I used gparted to partition my SD card. Make sure you put the partitions in order of storage, ext and swap
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Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
Do a search on data2ext and data2sd.
Good luck.
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ilAlejandro said:
Ok so this is my problem:
I have a 16 Gig MicroSD class 6 card.
I've partitioned it with ROM manager and then manualy changed the partitions sizes, I've increased the ext3 and the swap partitions sizes with gparted.
Later on I've inserted the card back to my Device and Flashed a fresh copy of the ROM.
The device still can only see 147 Mb or free space whereas I've partitioned it to be about 1 Gig of size.
Any one knows any way to make more space on the card then ~150Mb?
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I take it your using a normal app2sd rom, not the newer data2sd or data2ext.
where are you looking to find your stats? if its in settings/sd & phone storage these wont show the amount of the app2sd partition, but they will show the amount of a data2sd or data2ext partition, because the latter two fools the phone in to thinking its internal storage, the former just moves parts of an app to the ext partition on the sd card so isnt classed as internal storage.
If you download an app from the market called quick system info it will show you the size of your app2sd partition to see if its worked
So.. i was installing RCMixHD Rom yesterday, i partitioned my card as follows (using Gparted in Ubuntu):
FAT32 14GB
EXT2 2GB
This Rom is awfully bad, it crashed few times and freezed that i couldnt even reboot so i had to remove battery when it was still running.
I decided going back to CM7 but i just realised that SD Card size is 12.84GB, and Gparted doesnt show any partitions on it, what the heck?
Use a card reader or connect the sd while in recovery and make sure all the partitions get mounted.
If android is booted the ext partition doesn't get mounted. Also if you created your ext partition while android was booted that probably messed up the ext partition and that's why the rom doesn't work right.
First of all a 16 GB cars is more likely 15 Gb in real life.
Moreover, the phone does not recognizes the ext partiton in the SD card menu (in settings), just the FAT32 one.
So 15GB-2GB-possibly some unpartitioned for data = 12.84 GB
That's OK.
Thanks, i think it's fixed now i got 14.8GB of space available again.
Is that a class 10 card? i am trying to figure out which card should i get for my desire, after bad experience with kingston 16gb class 10.
Its Class 4 Sandisk SD card.
if you want to partition the card try ext 3 for a2sd+
Minitool Partition manager is the way to go to create ext partitions on a sd card
free too..
Hey guys, i had a samsung microsd 8gb class 2 card and i just got a 32gb lexar class 10 . i was on miui a2sd. i partitioned my 8gb card using rom manager (unfortunately), the 32gb is ALL fat32.
first, i copied my 8gb card to my computer, then transferred that to my 32gb. the card didnt work (phone stayed on HTC screen forever).
after a bit of fooling around, i backed up my apps+data to my 8gb sd using titanium, then i performed a factory reset of the phone. i then moved the dalvik cache back to internal memory and for some reason, the 32gb card worked in the phone.
then i decided to switch to mildwild rom instead of miui. the problem is, now when i open titanium with the 32gb card, NONE of my apps are shown. if i use the 8gb card, the apps are shown and able to be restored.
so can anybody explain this? and do i need to partition my 32gb for mildwild?
If your rom requires EXT partition, then obviously you have to create EXT partition on your new card.
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maybe you have an EXT partition in samsung card. You have to prepare partition on new card, do a nandroid backup with samsung card on, copy files to pc, paste files on lexar card and restore nandroid with lexar on.
If you were using MIUI A2SD then part of your 8GB will have a Ext partition. I suggest (no responsibility accepted) you partition your 32GB using gParted and use some kind of Linux OS to copy the files from the Ext partition of your old card to your new one. Failing that, do a nandroid back up on your 8GB and copy that over to your 32GB and restore. But be sure to have an ext partition of your 32gb because you need it for your MIUI A2SD.
How can I take a look at the partitions of my SD card, their filesystem and their size? I moved some apps to the sd card but I have no idea if there is a dedicated ext partition or not.
Thanks!
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normal sd card or when you buy a new one dosen't have any ext. partitions.
if u wish to do u can use cmw and from it choose advanced option and choose make ext. partition....
i had not done it pratically bt a friend of mine told me that after he had done ext. partition so no bad words for me when he put sd card in his lappie the win. 7 was showing the size of sd card excluding the amount of ext. partition done for e.g. if card was of 2 gb and done ext. part. of 1 gb then the size was shown in lappie 1 gb excluding the ext. part.
Right, I've always used CM7 apps2sd so I guess I don't have any ext partition.
What I'd like to know is: where are the apps moved to sd stored in my sd card? I mean, in what folder?
Thanks
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Show your Partition sd card please...
i would like to know
Mine :
Sd card class 6 - 16gb
14gb FAT32
128mb ext3
256mb linux swap
N.B.
What's the different beetwen EXt with 128mb and 1G ext.
If we make partition in CWM (Arco) which ext will CWM make for us? 2/3/4/?
ghost141 said:
Show your Partition sd card please...
i would like to know
Mine :
Sd card class 6 - 16gb
14gb FAT32
128mb ext3
256mb linux swap
N.B.
What's the different beetwen EXt with 128mb and 1G ext.
If we make partition in CWM (Arco) which ext will CWM make for us? 2/3/4/?
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ext partition is usually used if you want extend your internal memory like using link2sd or other tools.
i don't think it's necessary with our phone, because it has 1g+ internal. you can simply move the apps to sdcard to free some internal mem.
CWM if i'm not wrong, by default creates ext3 partition.
thanks 4 ur explaination...