Finally after lots of deliberating I rooted my desire and flashed with Leedroid 2.3c.
It is such an easy process and took less than 2 hours including restoring backup apps.
A2sd+ works like a dream and setcpu has appeared to increase my battery life by about 60%.
Best thing is I am no longer facing that stupid low space notification and I have retained use of HTC sense.
I urge all HTC Desire owners who constantly battle with that low space notification to root and flash.
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Exactly what i was thinking of doing! how do you partition your SD card?
Yes done this not so long ago, its what the phone should of been like out the box. loving A2SD+ works great, setcpu only just installed it today. am also using LeeDroid superb rom.
I found the easy way was through windows insert your sd card into your PC and download and install EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, you can get this from download.com. hope this helps
PulpzillA said:
Exactly what i was thinking of doing! how do you partition your SD card?
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I've been thinking about doing this myself for quite some time now. After your post here, I might finally give it a go in a few hours... after midnight is best for such things
After doing this, do you still lose access to all apps on SD while connected via USB to your laptop? Or is this issue gone due to SD card partitioning? I would like to force-move quite a lot of stuff onto my class 10 Kingston
You will lose everythink sadly, make sure befor you format you backup your photos,vids,contacts stuff like that. apps you have paid for from market can be downloaded again without paying.
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I've been thinking about doing this myself for quite some time now. After your post here, I might finally give it a go in a few hours... after midnight is best for such things
After doing this, do you still lose access to all apps on SD while connected via USB to your laptop? Or is this issue gone due to SD card partitioning? I would like to force-move quite a lot of stuff onto my class 10 Kingston
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Or your other option is to root your phone first, and then used a backup manager.
Thanks for the help
ext3 best? and also can you set any size?
will the ROM automatically use the ext3 partition when it runs out of space?
I use ext3 am not sure witch is better tho I just went with that. the rom use the partition all the time, like befor I rooted and installed a custom rom my memory was always low, now I have over 100 apps and still have 63MB and 800MB ext3.
I wouldn't go over 1.5GB well thats what Ive been told and read, I just done mine to 1GB 1024mb=1GB
PulpzillA said:
Thanks for the help
ext3 best? and also can you set any size?
will the ROM automatically use the ext3 partition when it runs out of space?
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shankly1985 said:
I found the easy way was through windows insert your sd card into your PC and download and install EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, you can get this from download.com. hope this helps
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same here!
So, I am going to do the same right now. This is me posting from my Ubuntu paraboot, HTC Desire 2.29.405.5 Stock and a cup of coffee. Wish me luck
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I've been thinking about doing this myself for quite some time now. After your post here, I might finally give it a go in a few hours... after midnight is best for such things
After doing this, do you still lose access to all apps on SD while connected via USB to your laptop? Or is this issue gone due to SD card partitioning? I would like to force-move quite a lot of stuff onto my class 10 Kingston
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Well done guys for thinking about it. You will surely not regret it. Root and then back up using titanium. Copy backup to pc and then clean flash a rom. Copy back from pc and restore what you need.
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I found the easy way was through windows insert your sd card into your PC and download and install EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, you can get this from download.com. hope this helps
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It won't work on Windows Professional machines, which is a bummer as it's a great tool.
I use an Ubuntu Live USB boot and use Gparted. Also lets you easily mess with Windows partitions in ways that make Microsoft feel violated
Also gives you a nice little portable OS and since they made an installer to easily create a persistent state Live USB, it's just a handy tool to carry with you if you fiddle with PCs alot.
Well, it seems like I have to drop this issue for now; I've been trying for more than two hours and I did not succeed using unrevoked 3.3 on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, Ubuntu 10.4 and Windows 7 x64. I followed all steps, but it only killed some apps on my SD, nothing more.
32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27 (Baseband), 2.6.32.15-gf5a401c [email protected] #1 (Kernel), 2.29.405.5 CL293415 release-keys (Build), 2.29.405.5 (Software), HBOOT 0.93.
One time unrevoked wrote: "Is your firmware too new?"
What am I missing? Can this be done?
I had all sorts of troubled using unrevoked until I finally tried it using a goldcard and it went through first time.
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Where exactly are you getting stuck. I used win 7 x64. I also was running the you tube video of how to root with unrevoked simultaneously.
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I was just able to root it using Ubuntu Netbook Edition and am currently repartitioning my SD card for ext-support. Here we go!
How long does this usually take? It won't stop and my phone won't charge... well I just aborted this and try with gparted.
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After doing this, do you still lose access to all apps on SD while connected via USB to your laptop? Or is this issue gone due tr SD card partitioning? I would like to force-move quite a lot of stuff onto my class 10 Kingston
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No. The main difference between a2sd+ script and froyo's apps2sd is that froyo uses fat32 partition to store apps which have been coded accordingly. The script moves all the apps to the EXT partition which does not need to be mounted nor unmounted for it to be accessed by the PC, therefore it won't interfere with your apps in any way any longer.
Reporting in; I just flashed a ROM onto my HTC Desire for the very first time. Currently running device setup connecting to Wi-Fi. Thank you for convincing me!
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Reporting in; I just flashed a ROM onto my HTC Desire for the very first time. Currently running device setup connecting to Wi-Fi. Thank you for convincing me!
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Well done. Which rom did you flash with?
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Hi,
Just wondering how to format my memory card for App2SD functionality.
Can this be done from Nandrioid , or do I use my PC?
Also when i do a restore or load a new ROM how do i then restore the apps. Im looking at spending some meny on apps and dont want to lose them and have to pay again.
Cheers
MintyDuck
Format SD Aps2SD & Paid Apps
Hi,
Sometimes its the simple things that you just can not find an answer too.
Paid Apps remain paid for on Market linked to you Gmail Account log in, so once you set up an account on any rom they will show as PURCHASED under the DOWNLOAD tab and can be reinstalled by clicking on, Easy - I have noticed on some they automatically download and install - not too sure what conditions need be m et for this to work but when I went from Setrom 3.3 to Defrost 2.0 then onto Setrom 3.5 Defrost did not re-install but somehow Setrom 3.5 did - full wipe each time. Odd Now I gone back to Defrost 2.0d and again this morning to Setrom 3.5 - no auto install ?? Oh Well
As for partitioning, back all things up and use Rom Manager to partition card, defiantly the easiest way.
You must of course have rooted your phone 1st, check guide on forum.
Good Luck
kfasheldon said:
Hi,
Sometimes its the simple things that you just can not find an answer too.
Paid Apps remain paid for on Market linked to you Gmail Account log in, so once you set up an account on any rom they will show as PURCHASED under the DOWNLOAD tab and can be reinstalled by clicking on, Easy - I have noticed on some they automatically download and install - not too sure what conditions need be m et for this to work but when I went from Setrom 3.3 to Defrost 2.0 then onto Setrom 3.5 Defrost did not re-install but somehow Setrom 3.5 did - full wipe each time. Odd Now I gone back to Defrost 2.0d and again this morning to Setrom 3.5 - no auto install ?? Oh Well
As for partitioning, back all things up and use Rom Manager to partition card, defiantly the easiest way.
You must of course have rooted your phone 1st, check guide on forum.
Good Luck
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Sound advice , thankyou.
Only issue with Rom manager it returns an error everytime when i try to partition it.
I'll search about I'm picking up loads for just reading threads.
I have come from the apple world and I'm happy to say the phone is much better.
mintyDuck
I skäl got problem with partitioning a fat32 formatted SD card with ROM
Manager. Get a red questionmark and then it reboots and start the phone. Nothing has happened with the card, it is untouchhed. Wanted 512 ext and 0 swap.
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Ive used an usb cardreader and an ubuntu linux livecd. Ive started ubuntu on my pc and plugged the cardreader with the sd and parted it with gparted under ubuntu.
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BrainMcFly said:
Ive used an usb cardreader and an ubuntu linux livecd. Ive started ubuntu on my pc and plugged the cardreader with the sd and parted it with gparted under ubuntu.
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With what values?
Did you do 256 ext (2 or 3?) and swap?
gparted way to go, recovered my sd card
BrainMcFly said:
Ive used an usb cardreader and an ubuntu linux livecd. Ive started ubuntu on my pc and plugged the cardreader with the sd and parted it with gparted under ubuntu.
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Hi all I did the same as BrianMcFly, but used a live cd of peppermint linux. I did the wrong thing (xda forums warns you, but being a Noob, ) and tried to format my 8GB card in my desire, (much badness). Card could not be read in windoze.
Under linux, did a dmesg in the terminal and saw that the partition table was destroyed. Use gparted, set rougly half the card as Fat32 and the other half as ext 3.
Put card back in desire and viola!!, internal memory jumped from 48MB to 127MB. The Rom I am using [ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team) has google Apps2SD, so it obviously saw that the SDcard now has an ext3 formatted partition and moved apps there.
Gparted is not scary, just make sure that you have selected your sd card.
Hope this helps
galaw007.
Hey all I am hoping someone has a little experience with Linux and can give me a helping hand. Today I bought a new Samsung 8gb class 6 Micro SD card and I want to transfer the data from my ext3 partition on my class 4 to my class 6.
I have nothing on the class 6, I have installed Linux to a USB stick and I have formatted the SD drive with a 512mb 0 swap ext3 partition however, it won't give me any access to the partition it's self. I was thinking I could just use Ubuntu to go in, partition (yes I know I can use ROM Manager ) take the card out, and put in the old one copy and paste the ext3 partition to the desktop and just drag and drop back. But it doesn't seem to be the case.
I am gettin some write/read errors or something of the sort, it's driving me up the wall. I could spend all night trying to read through Linux code to try to work out how to do it, so I thought I'd see if someone knew off the top of their head or knew of a better/easier way for me to swap data from one partition to another, I can't seem to find a useful thread on it searching the forums either.
Does anyone have any ideas, or an easier solution?
I'm also having a problem with this. Any suggestions?
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
AndroHero said:
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
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That made perfect sense mate! Worked perfectly thanks.
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AndroHero said:
you could do a nandroid backup with your old card, partition your new sd card, copy the backup to the fat partiton on your new card, then use the advanced restore option to restore the ext to the new sd card (if that makes sence) lol
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I might give that a go, I never did find an answer to my post.
I've given the shiny new fast SD card to the girlfriend now as well as I really didn't want to hard reset the phone and start over, own goal. I might see if I can pinch it back and put it in mine, it's not like she needs a class 6 for a Wildfire. ^_^
Kalavere said:
I might give that a go, I never did find an answer to my post.
I've given the shiny new fast SD card to the girlfriend now as well as I really didn't want to hard reset the phone and start over, own goal. I might see if I can pinch it back and put it in mine, it's not like she needs a class 6 for a Wildfire. ^_^
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my brother has a wildfire, i take the mick owta him all the time cuza it just swap em, a girl wouldnt notice
reudyfam said:
That made perfect sense mate! Worked perfectly thanks.
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cool man, glad i could help
AndroHero said:
my brother has a wildfire, i take the mick owta him all the time cuza it just swap em, a girl wouldnt notice
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I quite like the little phone, it shouldn't come with Sense though, it kills it. I've put LauncherPro on it and it flys for what she uses it for, facebook, e-mails, Twitter and all that. Shame the 768Mhz overclock isn't stable enough to run 24/7.
Kalavere said:
I quite like the little phone, it shouldn't come with Sense though, it kills it. I've put LauncherPro on it and it flys for what she uses it for, facebook, e-mails, Twitter and all that. Shame the 768Mhz overclock isn't stable enough to run 24/7.
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i cant do with the screen res mate, i used to have a hero, that only had a hvga screen, but the qvga screen looks awful on the wildfire, the sence widgets look crap too, i might try n convince my brother to flash openfire on it
This is an ongoing problem for me and it's definitely not ROM related, but it makes flashing ROM's difficult, in fact downright awkward!
When installing apps from TB it will get through a couple then reboot, at which point nothing will install until I repair my ext partition (Thank God for AmonRA!). Then it will do the same thing again. It will do the same thing with installing apps from the market too, but it's not so pronounced as I don't tend to install loads of apps at once especially as I've got TB.
I found that TB worked fine with CM7 as it didn't install to the ext partition until I flashed DarkTremors aps2sd, and that worked fine as a way round the problem.
None of this happened until I upgraded my 8Gb to 16Gb sd card. The card seems fine in every respect, just the problem with installing aps :-(
Anyone with any ideas?
My previous thread on disabling aps2sd has not proved fruitful either.
David
Before I upgraded my pathetic 2gb I done a little research and the word on the street was the hero couldn't handle more than 8gb, recommended by HTC apparently!
Whether this was due to the limitations of the rom(1.6 at the time) or the hardware I don't know.
Have you tried re-formatting your SD card and making sure the ext partion is compatible with the rom your using?
dully79 said:
Before I upgraded my pathetic 2gb I done a little research and the word on the street was the hero couldn't handle more than 8gb, recommended by HTC apparently!
Whether this was due to the limitations of the rom(1.6 at the time) or the hardware I don't know.
Have you tried re-formatting your SD card and making sure the ext partion is compatible with the rom your using?
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Yeah I've reformatted and reformatted, initially I thought that the problem mgiht have been the backup files had become corrupt when transfering them over ... and yes I've tried ext2 ext3 and ext4 all with the same results (the only rom i tried which wasn't compatible with ext4 was Cronos).
Maybe its true about 8gb being the limit the hero can handle, maybe someone else can confirm or deny.
I'm sure I've seen some on here using 16Gb cards, but it would be good to know, maybe I should change to the Froyo aps2sd?
Maybe you could try doing a nandroid backup, and trying a different rom to see if it works, if not you could have a faulty SD card???
I a, using a 16 Gb card without problems, I always do a full wipe of my phone and a format of my card before flashing a new Rom. I use the aps2sc within the rom and make sure that the settings are right (install to external) before I use titanium.
I am on elelinux 6.2.0
GL
The max htc Hero should handle would be 32gb I believe. According to link 1, htc hero supports SD 2.0. While SD 2.0 is also called SDHC, which according to link 2 its max is 32gb
Maybe you should try to pull /proc/last_kmsg to see why it rebooted? (post it at pastebin.org, and place url here. Maybe we can understand it )
links:
http://www.htc.com/uk/product/hero/specification.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital
I a, using a 16 Gb card without problems, I always do a full wipe of my phone and a format of my card before flashing a new Rom. I use the aps2sc within the rom and make sure that the settings are right (install to external) before I use titanium.
I am on elelinux 6.2.0
GL
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Yeah I'm really confused as those were my settings also and I tried in on Elelinux 6.2 ... I think it must be either my Hero had a bad day it was born or the sd card did, but it always comes up clean when scanned.
snah65 said:
I a, using a 16 Gb card without problems, I always do a full wipe of my phone and a format of my card before flashing a new Rom. I use the aps2sc within the rom and make sure that the settings are right (install to external) before I use titanium.
I am on elelinux 6.2.0
GL
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16gb card here, use TB all the time and nadroid as well and never had a problem. Maybe your card has some faulty sectors. Try to copy 16gb on it on the PC and copy it back to your pc after you've made sure nothing was cached. Or try scandisk to see if a part of the flash is broken, maybe.
Using a cheap ebay-bought Team 16GB Class6 with TB, flashing and nandroids. No issues whatsoever. Works great!
I've scanned the disk multiple times, not tried a full 16gb transfer ... and I'll get the log output in a minute or two
output of /proc/last_kmsg
http://pastebin.com/0rpNHFF8
Thanks in advance!
Edit: It got to installing around 15apps this time before crashing. It varies as to when it dies, but it will. I even considered that it was overheating, or due to OC'ing, but it does the same thing regardless of temp or CPU speed
i also use 16gb sd card for 3 or 4 months and nothing ever happens like that. everything works perfect...
Have a feeling that it's corrupt, as I have a new problem with installing anything, I now get told there's not enough room to install or updates apps ... when there's plenty ... arrrgggg!
if 16gb isn't working for you, send the card to me. I have a working 2gb you can have instead.
dkelley said:
if 16gb isn't working for you, send the card to me. I have a working 2gb you can have instead.
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Haha that's really funny.
Actually I ran some scans, fsck's and reformats with repair options, and if it wasn't for the reboot issue and instability issues I have with Elelinux 7.0.3 then I'm sure I've got it fixed... I hope ...
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Hi guys I just purchased telus desire 3 days ago. Thinking it would be good phone and fast in 3 days it slowed down so bad and my memory running low. And I have 15 days to return cause I couldn't find any help in this site. So how good and easy is to use iPhone 4? Im a girl so I want a phone that's easy to use.
iphone is for you
just buy it
then better go with the iphone4
android is more time intensive... lot of things to costumize, tons of awesome apps, some apps causing your phone to misbehave...
iOS is easier... nearly no possibilities to costumize it your way (without jailbreak) but easy to use, fast and responsive...
+1 iPhone is simple, just turn it on and go if you don't want any customization, just apps and phone go with that Android is for people that want to make there phone individual far better if you learn to use the desire though.
Plus you can fairly easily install a custom Rom to solve the lag issue its not actually that hard : )
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have a look at the sony x10 mini / pro might be a good choice.
as your name says.
Get a Samsung Captivate =p
already have a captivate and x10 and desire.
You would be very disappointed going from a desire to a x10
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can anybody help me in this forum im so screwed right now and no one is helping me . i wana keep the desire i just finally rooted it and this guy was helping me partition my sd card with minitool software and i created 4 files 2 ex3 1 fat32 and 1 linux swap not computer cant read my sd and when i open the minitool sofware it says bad disk . anyone who pms me and help ill be very grateful
Did you install a custom recovery? I use AmonRa's - follow the guide to install it (for the most current version see my sig). With this recovery you can partition your SD card via your phone. Make only an ext3 or ext4 partition with 1GB and use the rest for fat32. No swap partition.
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hudl said:
Did you install a custom recovery? I use AmonRa's - follow the guide to install it (for the most current version see my sig). With this recovery you can partition your SD card via your phone. Make only an ext3 or ext4 partition with 1GB and use the rest for fat32. No swap partition.
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ya this guy helped me on msn with it and he took off. using minitool software on computer while my desire was pluged on diskdrive and we did all the partition and at the end computer couldnt read my phone and i have 6gb now instead of 8gb when i format and the guy told me to delete the ex3 and linux swap from minitool software and i did. now im stuck with 6gb memory card that is fat32 and computer cant read it only minitool can read it but it says bad disk on red color and i cant do anything with it.
You don't need to worry about all that if you just use a standard Rom like DevNull is really fast, Oxygen isn't bad either. Also if you like sense LeeDroid is much faster than the standard Rom and you don't need a partitioned card
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But the thing is I need more internal memory I tried alot im keep failing my internal is 67 MB and it was suppose to be 1.41gb when I partioned with easues software on computer and windows can't recoqnized my SD and want to format it. So im confused alot
I switched from iPhone to Desire arnd 3 months ago. My take
-- If you want simple interface not much tweaking with lots of fun and have good budget go for iOS.
-- If you want lots of personalization and tweaking and phone that suits your budget go for android.
Mod close this thread I've already decided. Thank u
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I have my Desire since months and I must say it is better than iPhone.
Even my bro...I have given him a Legend but he bought an iPhone about a month after...guess what!...he sold the iPhone after 3 weeks and is still keeping his Legend till now....yet he said he is jealous of my Desire..
This proves iPhone<Legend<Desire
About the Desires memory limitation just use a custom ROM with Data2EXT and you will have all the capacity you need.
Hey guys,
A friend of mine gave me his desire to root and flash a rom, while I was partitioning the SD card - everything went well (I used a windows app to create the partitions while the desire was plugged in in USB mode.
All went well until I disconnected it after the process was complete - now the phone nor PC detects the card.
What are my options?
Cheers
You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?
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You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?
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Using a card reader with the microsd adapter
Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.
rootSU said:
Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.
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Yup. Try that
OK this is unusual, I managed to boot into recovery and mount the SD and sd-ext without any issue - I even booted into a custom rom I flashed from SD, but I still can't get the phone to detect it when booted.
Corrupted fat-32
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Like rootSU said, try it with GParted in your pc and see if it can find it. If so, format it all and re-partition it.
OK I managed to get it fixed - seemed like an issue with the partition - I used recovery to mount USB storage (it worked) and I re partitioned it and it is now functioning correctly.
Cheers guys and thanks a lot everyone for their inputs !
What did you repartition with?
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What did you repartition with?
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I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition ! very nifty app !
You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.
rootSU said:
You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.
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wow, that is rather fine print haha, I hadn't seen that there - I too have a feeling it broke cause of the app, but it did manage to fix it - hopefully I won't have to go through this again - if I have to I'll use gparted - Lesson Learnt !
I'll make it bigger
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I'll make it bigger
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I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum
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I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum
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Way aye, but I dont want it to take over other things
hi. i've faced the same problem too with my galaxy mini.
but, when i mount usb storage it said that "unable to write to umslunfile (no such file or directory)" . and when i format sd card it said "error mounting sd card, skipping format".
my sd card cant detected by any phone or laptop. cant be formatted or mounted. what to do? please help me. there's so much important things there.
Hi there,
Ive been through the same issue just the other day and after read and try lots of things, i had to do something stupid but has worked for me... If you have a digital camera laying around, put your sd card and camera will do its thing..will prompt you asking if you want the sd to be formated... Thats it sd alive and hoping to receive runny rom in my case
hope this works for more people. Take care. Peace.
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