Hi,
I didn't find the answer to my question, so this is why i'm asking.
I want to format my SDcard, much bloat stuff is on it.
But is this save? Because I have S-Off and ClockWork is working on it.
Do i need to save some stuff from my SD-Card?
Nothing important apart from nandroid backups are stored on your sd card
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Id recommend doing a full wipe. use my wipe.zip if you dont know how, and then mount USB throught clockworkmod , delete everything and then re-install ROM it will install what it wants/needs on sdcard on boot
make sure too backup whateva you want on sdcard tho... or just dont delete it
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Just about to root and install a custom rom but have a few questions:
I know how to root by using paul's r6 method, and also how to install a rom but my question is, I have tried searching and cant find an answer:
I want to use A2SD+, have an 8Gb micro sd card installed, which i have backedup on my PC but how to i prepare this for A2SD+?
I also have an old radio, how do i update to the newest radio 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20? i have downloaded the file but not sure what to do
can anyone help?
cheers and sorry if this has been covered but i couldnt find it
Easy way:
Once you root, install ROM Manager from the Market and tell it to partition your SDCard.
Hard(er) way:
Use ADB. When I tried this I just got errors about it not being able to find the partitioning thing so someone else will have to help with that.
how to use ADB way? isn't this sub-forum wrong to ask these?
should be only for development questions
Laridia said:
Easy way:
Once you root, install ROM Manager from the Market and tell it to partition your SDCard.
Hard(er) way:
Use ADB. When I tried this I just got errors about it not being able to find the partitioning thing so someone else will have to help with that.
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Great thanks, what about installing the new radio? do it first or root first, custom rom then new radio? what order?
»You go into recovery (start the phone with volume down and power held down)
Then do a nandroid backup, wipe the phone, and choose flash rom and radio. Your rom.zip should be on the root of the sd card. It's worth backing up the sd card too and repartition it into 0 swap; 512mb ext2 and the rest fat32 form recovery if you want to use apps2sd.
So back up sd and phone via windows and titanium backup
then boot into recovery
nandroid
partition
wipe / factory reset
install rom
install latest radio
reboot phone
restore sd card contents & restore via titanium«
ok thanks
so just by rooting it doesnt erase my data? e.g. contacts etc?
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»You go into recovery (start the phone with volume down and power held down)
Then do a nandroid backup, wipe the phone, and choose flash rom and radio. Your rom.zip should be on the root of the sd card. It's worth backing up the sd card too and repartition it into 0 swap; 512mb ext2 and the rest fat32 form recovery if you want to use apps2sd.
So back up sd and phone via windows and titanium backup
then boot into recovery
nandroid
partition
wipe / factory reset
install rom
install latest radio
reboot phone
restore sd card contents & restore via titanium«
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Nope if you do everything tip-top you shouldn't....in 99%...
kmetek said:
Nope if you do everything tip-top you shouldn't....in 99%...
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Great, thanks for the help, will try tomorrow as its late here!
Cheers for the quick replies!
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.
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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!
hey guys i want to make with a freind a new rom on his desire and he has root the desire and then we go to recovery, wipe all data and try to install the new rom but then the error comes:
can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(file exists)
can't mound sdext:
E: Failure at line 6:
copy_dir Package:sdext Sdext:
Installaion aborted.
we forget to make a backup from the hole system and now he can't do anything with his phone because there is no data an it! **** please help!
i've seen the backup img. from the backup we make after that ****,
now we hope that someone can give us his backup data:
.android_secure.img
boot.img
cache.img
data.img
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.img
we need that to restore his system.
or are there any other methodes to run his system, we don't know why the sdext not worked....
we need help very fast, please help!!!!
thanks a lot
I have these backed up on my SD card & PC too. But I'm afraid it has some private stuff also backed up.
I reccomend you installing a stock rom again and root it (installing a stock rom unroots your phone).
Like in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=918939 Be sure you use the latest ROM and read the full thread!
Also why don't you try another rom, see if it works? ANd make sure you wipe all data (factory/cache dalvik)
how we should install that when we can go only into recovery mod, we can go to sd card but the link you give to us, there is only a rom with is a exe.
can you give us a deteiled introduction? we aren't so good in these things :S pleaase help.
edit2: we can't start the phone so we can't chose htc sync...
http://theunlockr.com/2010/06/07/how-to-unroot-the-htc-desire/
The tutorial and ROM you should use:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bbb7m2b4t5jejhm
If you can't start the phone, then search the forum here for solution...
the problem is, we dont have android on the phone now, no datas nothing, we can pnly good to recovery mod...
we need to install a backup or something from recovery that we have a system on our phone....
so we should need help! ((((((((
edit:
an idea nagypapi :
maybe you can backup you data now, then wipe all your data and flash a completly new rom, then you can make a backup from the completly new rom and than you can give us the backup files bacause these data are without you personal information, thats the one chance ,,,please.....
Download leedroid noA2sd, boot in to recovery, mount the sd, copy the rom to the sd, unmount and flash the rom. You can use a other rom than leedroid if you want but for now just use it.
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A possible solution here in post no.7:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/
Also I can do the thing you suggested to create the files , but since now I am not at home upload would take forever...
Also try first installing the NOA2SD LeeDroid rom.
+ What Rom You want to install? Does it need an ext 2/3/4 partition, maybe that's the cause, also make sure your SD is formatted to FAT32.
Yes I think its the fat, I try it home later.
The main problem was that we can't mount the SD could. Not mounted in the recovery ... I say it already at the top...
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Yeah, you must make an ext partition on the FAT32 SD card, and it should work.
Can I make that with ubuntu?
Ok then I have two partitions on the sdcart (4gb).
On which partition should I have all my folders?
On which partition should I have my zip data (rom) ?
;D you make me hope
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Your error is related to a missing ext partition, since the phone doesn't boot i assume you tried to install a sense HD rom. What it said a the top is mounting the ext partition failed, I'm talking about mounting the normal fat partition as mass storing to copy the rom onto the sd card. If that also does not work, take out the sd card put it in a card reader and copy the rom on to it, the put sd back and flash leedroid. This will give you a booting device.
If you want to make and use a ext partition make sure you first have the fat and then the ext3, all files should be on the fat partition and there is no need to do anything else to the ext partition.
DHDLover said:
Can I make that with ubuntu?
Ok then I have two partitions on the sdcart (4gb).
On which partition should I have all my folders?
On which partition should I have my zip data (rom) ?
;D you make me hope
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I suggest using GParted for that or anything that works in Ubuntu.
If you have another Android device (i bet you have ) you can dowload ROM manager form the Market and use that to create partitions / format card (it is easier).
"Partitioning your SD Card ready for A2SD+
* Backup all data on you SD card (this will be wiped)
* The card should be formatted with your standard FAT32 partition 1st followed by an EXT2/3/4 partition
* Linux users use GParted or a similar software.
* For everyone else I would recommend using Rom Manager
* Once you have downloaded ROM manager from the market, open the app and click partition SD Card, Select your EXT size (512MB or 1024MB recommended) and set 0mb for swap
* Restore your data to your SD and the job is done."
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GUYS
big thank you to you XD
it works now
DHDLover said:
GUYS
big thank you to you XD
it works now
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Our pleasure to make it work
Hello. I'm going to buy a new SDcard. To successfully move the sdext partition from the old SDcard, can I just perform a nandroid+sdext backup and restore that backup after inserting the new SDcard? Given that the new SDcard is formatted in the same way as the old one (but a slightly larger ext4 partition). Or probably even just take a backup of the sdext partition only; I believe that is possible with RMD recovery.
Get 4ext recovery and make advanced backup/sd-ext only, when you're done backup everything from sdcard to HDD.
Then just insert new sdcard, partition it, restore all the files from HDD and do advanced restore/sd-ext only.
You're done.
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k3lcior said:
Get 4ext recovery and make advanced backup/sd-ext only, when you're done backup everything from sdcard to HDD.
Then just insert new sdcard, partition it, restore all the files from HDD and do advanced restore/sd-ext only.
You're done.
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Thanks, I just wanted to make sure that backing up and restoring on a new sdcard will work. I'll stick with RMD recovery because it can also only backup the ext partition.
ok i have a 6gb card and want to start totally clean.
So my plan is to titanium/or my backup everything. Nandroid and make a recovery. Move that backup to pc. Wipe data, format, make my partitions( any suggestions with 16 gb card). Move "Rom" to sd boot and restore...
Is that correct, this is what i used to do with my ogevo.
Also can i rename my backups? on my evo anytime i did that and tried a restore it hAD some issue with md5.
been trying alot of the ICS roms...You guys do awesome work. My 13 year old is trying to make his own on did og evo and now making a minecraft app...
Future xda developer
cbrewington75 said:
ok i have a 6gb card and want to start totally clean.
So my plan is to titanium/or my backup everything. Nandroid and make a recovery. Move that backup to pc. Wipe data, format, make my partitions( any suggestions with 16 gb card). Move "Rom" to sd boot and restore...
Is that correct, this is what i used to do with my ogevo.
Also can i rename my backups? on my evo anytime i did that and tried a restore it hAD some issue with md5.
been trying alot of the ICS roms...You guys do awesome work. My 13 year old is trying to make his own on did og evo and now making a minecraft app...
Future xda developer
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Renaming has been hit or miss for me
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I'm not sure about partitioning.
You can rename your clockworkmod backups but they cannot contain ANY spaces in the filename.
For some reason, I cannot copy nandroids via the usb cable to my pc because if I ever copy them back, they fail the MD5 and it's a PIA to repair them. So to resolve this I have to combine all my nandroids to external SD, pull the card and mount it in a reader on the pc. If I ever need to copy any of those back to the phone, I do the reverse (pull SD, mount on pc, copy files back over).
Also, I always format the SD on the phone, never through the pc to make sure the file system is correct for the phone.
Starting totally clean for me involves no backup of any kind. Its a longer process but worth the time if you have a rom you know you will run for a long time.
Since I wipe all my data anyway, I usually use Tulu to backup my apps and thats about it. you can partition anyway you choose, however partitioning is not neccesary at all. just create a folder on the SD named "ROM" and place any roms you want to flash in it. creating partitions would make your like a bit more difficult. but if you do I reccommend allocation at least 3-4GB for roms.