I have a lot of apps stored on my sd card via app2sd. If I rip the currently installed card to a folder then copy the files to the root of the new card and plug it in will it work without problem, or will I lose all of my app2sd apps? Thanks for clarifying.
jesuscakes said:
I have a lot of apps stored on my sd card via app2sd. If I rip the currently installed card to a folder then copy the files to the root of the new card and plug it in will it work without problem, or will I lose all of my app2sd apps? Thanks for clarifying.
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Are you using froyo native Apps2sd or EXT3?
I guess it doesn't really matter. However, I only have experience with EXT3 (darktremor) and moving to another SD card worked fine for me. I copied the ext3 partition over to the new card (after partitioning it of course) and it worked fine.
freeza said:
Are you using froyo native Apps2sd or EXT3?
I guess it doesn't really matter. However, I only have experience with EXT3 (darktremor) and moving to another SD card worked fine for me. I copied the ext3 partition over to the new card (after partitioning it of course) and it worked fine.
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I am using the app2sd that stores all of the apps in a file rather than a second partition because I heard partitioning sdhc cards can lead to unforeseen consequences.
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I have unrevocked forever on my incredible. I have a 16gb sd card in the phone. My question is if I upgrade to a 32gb sd card will I loose my root. I think I should be able to power down take out the card transfer everything to the 32gb put the card back in and power up and everything will be ok. Any help would be much appreciated thank you
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Never mind I got inpatient and took the sd card out and I was still rooted. Just have to transfer everything to the 32gb and It will be all good.
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The dumbness!
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Hey I don't like your atitude I asked for help because this is all new to me. I thought that the forums were for info. So if Your life is that bad that you have to put people down then it must suck to be you. Good luck with that and its ok one day you will grow up and move out of your moms basement.
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Hey I don't like your atitude I asked for help because this is all new to me. I thought that the forums were for info. So if Your life is that bad that you have to put people down then it must suck to be you. Good luck with that and its ok one day you will grow up and move out of your moms basement.
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I was new once also and have asked some DUMB questions so ill follow his comment wish a reason. Root does not store on your SD card its all internal memory files. Only hand SD had in the root was flashing zip files from the card in the internal memory
I appreciate you being helpful and nice about it I no I'm a noob just didn't want to mess my phone up and after thinking about it I just pulled it and everything was fine.
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I actually have a question regarding this.
I want to upgrade to a 16gb sd card and was wondering if there is a thread showing step by step instructions to do so.
I'm rooted and have a couple roms backed up along with titanium backing up my apps.
Do I really have to format the new sd card to fat 32? the 2gb sd card that came with it seems to work fine which I believe isn't formatted fat 32.
Is it really as easy as copying and pasting over??? I did not partition the sd card.
Also, after searching the forums I ran into a concerning thread regarding sd cards that DON'T work.... should I be worried?
PhillyCheez said:
I actually have a question regarding this.
I want to upgrade to a 16gb sd card and was wondering if there is a thread showing step by step instructions to do so.
I'm rooted and have a couple roms backed up along with titanium backing up my apps.
Do I really have to format the new sd card to fat 32? the 2gb sd card that came with it seems to work fine which I believe isn't formatted fat 32.
Is it really as easy as copying and pasting over??? I did not partition the sd card.
Also, after searching the forums I ran into a concerning thread regarding sd cards that DON'T work.... should I be worried?
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If you want to transfer your files from the 2gb sd card to the 32 gb sd card just copy all files to the 32 gb sd card. Be sure to format the 32 gb sd to FAT32. I dont know how you didnt have to format your other card to fat32 unless you havent turned s-off. But anyways to format it to fat32 just plug in phone to computer( make sure you put phone on disk drive not charge only) and open "My computer"(shows all your drives ex. C:, D:, ect.) Right click on the drive that is your sd card and choose format. Make sure its in FAT32 and click format. You can do quick format too. Hope this helps
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If you want to transfer your files from the 2gb sd card to the 32 gb sd card just copy all files to the 32 gb sd card. Be sure to format the 32 gb sd to FAT32. I dont know how you didnt have to format your other card to fat32 unless you havent turned s-off. But anyways to format it to fat32 just plug in phone to computer( make sure you put phone on disk drive not charge only) and open "My computer"(shows all your drives ex. C:, D:, ect.) Right click on the drive that is your sd card and choose format. Make sure its in FAT32 and click format. You can do quick format too. Hope this helps
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Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking it was a lot harder than just copying over the files.
I have S-Off and I am pretty sure it's not formatted FAT32. I just checked the properties and it just says "FAT" and if I go to format it the selection at default shows "FAT" as well. But if standard procedure is to format to FAT32 I will on my next sd card.
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Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking it was a lot harder than just copying over the files.
I have S-Off and I am pretty sure it's not formatted FAT32. I just checked the properties and it just says "FAT" and if I go to format it the selection at default shows "FAT" as well. But if standard procedure is to format to FAT32 I will on my next sd card.
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Hmm weird. I had to change to fat32 when I was flashing the radio or was it s-off, I can't remember. Anyway glad to help
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So I moved my apps2SD. Then installed a ROM. How do I get it to "find" the SD apps?
I'm being told that my SD card is full. AND my internal memory is full. I have a feeling that the apps are installed in 2 different places. Is this the case? How can I tell?
I'm a mess, don't know where to start. Thanks for any help.
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What method did you use to move them to your SD card?
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What method did you use to move them to your SD card?
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This app called SDMove.
I've never used that before. I've always used Dark Tremor A2SD. Most of the roms support it. It requires partitioning your SD card. It will also move dalvik to SD which really frees up space. It's recommended using a class 4 card or faster.
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I've never used that before. I've always used Dark Tremor A2SD. Most of the roms support it. It requires partitioning your SD card. It will also move dalvik to SD which really frees up space. It's recommended using a class 4 card or faster.
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I never partitioned my SD Card. I guess that might be a problem, and is probably why they never show up on the SD Card? I don't know.
Does partitioning the card require reformatting the SD Card?
If you installed a new rom without doing a full wipe, the rom should load all your apps if there are no conflicts. Thd SDMove app is just an easier way to move apps that can be moved to SD storage instead of going through HTC's app management in settings.
In regards to DarkTremor's A2SD, yes you would have to reformat your SD card to create an ext 2 or 3 partition. Most custom roms should state whether a2sd is available and then you just setup the partition in recovery. Make a complete backup of your SD card onto your comp that includes a nandroid backup and Titanium backup or MyBackup Pro app+data set.
In order to determine if you have multiple copies of your apk's , use a file manager and search your evo. I use "app 2 sd" on the evo using root explorer I found that apk's are kept in "mnt/asec" and "mnt/secure/asec" , which are folders on the sdcard. Since you used an application to move your apk's to the sdcard and not the OS apps2sd, you should find only one occurrence of each apk.
I've been running my A2SD for 2 weeks now and am happy with it - other than a few apps stutter a bit.
I've put this down to my slow 'non classed' 16gb memory card, so I ordered a Class 6 16gb one the other day.
Its turned up today, and I want to swap it for the current one.
As I don't have a Linux computer, whats the best way of doing this? I can't see the partition with the Apps on it in my Windows PC.
Should I just use Titanium Backup and do a batch backup of all my 'User Apps and System Data', then copy the contents of my SD Card to my PC.... then format the new card for A2SD, then copy the contents back and restore my Backup?
Any help appreciated!
download the ubuntu live cd here http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download. it will run from a cd or usb stick and dosent need to be installed, you will be able to see your sd-ext as its a linux os, you can then just copy the apps to your hdd, partition your new card using the native ubuntu disk utility and then copy your apps to your new sd card
Thanks for the reply.
Sounds simple enough - I'll get downloading.
Do I just stick my SD in a USB reader and do it, or read the SD straight from the Desire?
Cant you just copy the files to your pc then paste them back when you put the new SD card in? Worked for me today... well all seems fine upto yet
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He can't because he has a ext2/3 file system partiotion that he's using for A2SD and ext is not shown in windows.
You probably don't have ext2/3 and that's why it worked without problems for you.
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Do I just stick my SD in a USB reader and do it, or read the SD straight from the Desire?
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I don't think it matters, it should work both ways.
Just out of curiousity.... will my Mac see the A2SD partition on my SD card since Apple OS shares a lot in common with Linux?
Wouldnt the easiest option to be to do a nandroid, partition the new sd card, then just restore the nandroid saves faffing about with other stuff.
Depending on what rom your using it may be a better option to use data2sd
Hello,
I'm using the MIUI-XJ ROM, with D2EXT. Unfortunately, I use a crappy class 2 micro SD card, and it makes the ROM and apps laggy as hell. So i've got 2 questions :
- First, how can I transfer an app from the sd card, so D2EXT, to internal memory, so it uses the few MBs free I have, and avoid lagging ? (Especially for homes such as SPB Shell... It makes the whole phone lag)
- I plan to buy a class 10 micro sd card. Are the SDHC a good solution ? Does it work with D2EXT ? When I'll have it, how can I transfer everything from the old card to the new one without losing anything ? Would a simple copy/cut work ? Or do I have to use backup apps such as the ROM Manager or TItanium Backup ?
Concerning the partitions, would I have to partition the new sd card ? What partitions ?
That's a lot of questions, sorry...
Thanks.
Firstly, you cant.
Secondly, SDHC just means "Secure Digital High Capacity". Yes Data2ext will work on this.
The best way to "Upgrade" is to take a nandroid backup, partition the new card, copy all the data from the FAT32 partition to the new FAT32 partition (including hidden files such as ".android_secure" and nandroid restore. Upgrade should be seamless.
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Firstly, you cant.
Secondly, SDHC just means "Secure Digital High Capacity". Yes Data2ext will work on this.
The best way to "Upgrade" is to take a nandroid backup, partition the new card, copy all the data from the FAT32 partition to the new FAT32 partition (including hidden files such as ".android_secure" and nandroid restore. Upgrade should be seamless.
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Thanks for this quick answer. For the SDHC, I asked because when flashing the Wii, some memory cards (SDHC ones) aren't compatible, and I got ****ed by that. Don't want to spend around 50-60€ for nothing
Ok, so I'll do that, just have to find how I partitionned it first... Thanks a lot.
I seem to have a SD card directory (10gb) that is actually on my internal storage. It is accessible with or without an SD actually inserted. I have now got a 64gb card that I wish to use but when I try to move apps (using Link2SD) it thinks some are on the SD card already, then when I move them to my phone they stop working! Any ideas what's happening? I don't remember doing anything like emulating a SD card or something...
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I seem to have a SD card directory (10gb) that is actually on my internal storage. It is accessible with or without an SD actually inserted. I have now got a 64gb card that I wish to use but when I try to move apps (using Link2SD) it thinks some are on the SD card already, then when I move them to my phone they stop working! Any ideas what's happening? I don't remember doing anything like emulating a SD card or something...
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"Internal SD" is just how Samsung refer to the built-in storage. Any SD card you have to insert is referred to as an External SD. Confusing, I know, considering it's not outside the phone.
Hope this clears it up.
Ah right. That makes a bit more sense. Thanks. Just got to sort out where my apps are installed now... and also where they seem to THINK they are!
shockerty said:
Ah right. That makes a bit more sense. Thanks. Just got to sort out where my apps are installed now... and also where they seem to THINK they are!
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link2sd is not compatible or rather say it must be creating prob as note2 is having problem using the ext2sd script though you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 and fat32 is recommended so format your card to fat32