Do i need to think of anything when i switch the 8GB micrsd card for a 16GB microsd card? havent installed anything yet, just flashe a custom rom, nothing else...
if you phone is empty then no just replace , if you have some app or system data on the sd i found the easyet way to clone it Norton Ghost .
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Hello all.
Was just listening to some music on my desire when Astro Player crashed. Couldn't get it to restart so restarted my phone instead. Now its telling me my SD card is damaged and I may need to reformat.
Anything I can do or am I buggered?
It wasn't the original 4gb card, I was using an older 8gb card. I've been using it awhile though without any problems so I doubt that was it?
Do you need the data on it? If not then just reformat it... there´s nothing horrible about this ;-)
I do have some stuff on there I needed. And Isn't a lot of app data stored on the SD card? Just a bit of hassle really isn't it?
Try hooking up the SD card with a card reader directly in your PC, it might be able to open/read the files without a problem. If that's the case, copy everything (just select all>copy) off the card, format it and move the stuff back.
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I also have troubles with 8GB card.
Unsure whats wrong but time to time i still get SD Card is corrupted message.
Only U can do is new format or try to read by card reader on your PC.
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i want to ask if i change a new memory card , after i format it to fat32 wat should i do next ? my friend done this but the phone still cant detect the sd card .. any solution ?
The phone should detect it after it has been formatted. If it's not detecting it, then something has gone wrong with the card or the phone. I suspect a dodgy card.
Really, all you have to do is this:
Backup your old card
Format your new card
copy the backup onto new card
That's all it should be, unless you're using A2SD or soemthing.
If you have multiple partitions, if you are using A2SD, then you might need something epic like Clonezilla to literally mirror the structure of the old SD card onto the new card. If after a format of FAT32 and the card isn't detected at all, then as the previous post said, the card is probably dud.
i going to buy class 10 8 gb memory card .. does it make the phone load the file faster ? or i juz get class 4 16g better
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If you have multiple partitions, if you are using A2SD, then you might need something epic like Clonezilla to literally mirror the structure of the old SD card onto the new card. If after a format of FAT32 and the card isn't detected at all, then as the previous post said, the card is probably dud.
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A2SD transfer the easy way for users
1 - create a nandroid backup of everything (this includes the A2SD ext partition)
2 - backup EVERYTHING from the mem card to your pc!
3 - insert new mem card
4 - run rom manager (download it from the market if you have to!)
5 - partition the new card with rom manager (creating an ext partition as well)
6 - Copy everything from the pc BACK to the NEW card!!!!
7 - Restore the nandroid backup!!!!!!!!!
You now have the phone back to the exact state you started with but with a different memory card installed!
buffer size 8kb
Data size 10mb
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this is kingmax class 10 8gb memory card ..izit good ?
any memory card recommended?
keeyie said:
any memory card recommended?
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i'd also like to know some memory card recommendations.
i found a 16GB class 6, but they're mostly out of stock all places..
if 16gb got class 6 den i will get 1 =)
I have a rooted phone with an 8gb sd card in it where i store clockworkmod recoveries, backups, ROMs, many apps, media of course etc etc. So if ever I were to change the SD card in the phone, what is the correct procedure to do so such that I don't screw up the phone?
Has anybody else gone through this recently? Reason I ask is I am going to order a 32gb sd card (I believe up to 32 is supported) shortly.
Thanks
Nothing bad happened to me. My 8gb card no longer works so I had to replace it with my 2gb that came with it. There's no procedure with swapping sd cards in the phone, but you may wanna copy all the contents of your previous card to the desktop of your computer and transfer them to your new 1. If you reformatted your previous card to fat32 then do so with your new one. Pop it in and let it rip.
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Thanks! Seems easier than I was afraid it might be!
Soo, just copy and paste and put new card in? Is that it?
Yes, 32 Gb cards are supported. Make sure the new SD is formatted FAT32.
Don't remove or install any SD while device is powered on - unmount the SD, then power down to remove/reinstall SD.
Copy contents of old SD to PC so you'll have a backup - then copy to new SD, put in device, power on.
Noteworthy is if you use an AOSP ROM, many of those interact with SD during boot, so if you simply replace old with new and it isn't formatted FAT32 and/or do not have the contents of the old card on it, you will bootloop.
Recommend making period backups of SD to PC - monthly or some frequency meaningful to you ~ so you have a backup if/when SD card fails.
Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Have you been deleting the ROMs from your SD card after you flash them? Each Sense rom is roughly 180-200mb. It adds up. Also, if you have been creating Nandroid backups, they too will take up a lot Space, and you need to shuffle through them and delete the old ones. Nandroid backups add up quick. I don't store my apps on the SD card, so don't know much about it, but what method are you using to do so, and are you sure they're not doubling up? I'd be more suspicious of an excess amount of nandroid backups and roms on the sd card though. It doesn't take much to fill up that stock 8gb card.
i agree you should check how many nadroid backups you have on your card, they take a lot of room, i usually move them from my phone to my pc and only leave the last one on my phone, plus they are safer on the computer. also all the zip files you use to flash roms can be moved from the sd card to the computer, once used you dont need them on the root of your sd card anymore they just waste space, i would also recommend upgrading to a 16gb sd card ebay has them for like 20 to 30 bucks and save you the trouble of worrying about memory. to move files from one sd card to another you just connect phone to pc as disk drive open my pc and right click on the drive that represents your phone, go to folder options and in views, select view hidden files. once that is done just copy all inside the sd card to a folder on your pc. then you unplug from the computer, turn off phone replace old sd with new, turn on your phone go to settings storage and unmount the sd card then format it. the plug it to your pc again in disk drive open the folder where you put all the info from the old sd and copy all that to the drive your phone represents and hit yes when it says if you like to copy and replace some files, then you are done new sd and twice the memory cv
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Just bought a Play which has come with a 8GB SD card. Previously I was using a Huawei 8220 (Tmobile Pulse) with a 16GB card which is pretty full ... so in reality I think I'll be moving to a 32GB card soon!
Initially I thouhgt I'd just put the old SD card in and reinstall apps etc and work from there ... however looks like the supplied 8GB card already as ~3GB of data on it ... is any of this essential and if its not there does it get auto-installed (I managed to start the phone with the S card not properly reseated and it started talking about needing a card with enough space to install the game when I tried to run FIFA10 ... if I use another card will things reinstall?)
When I get a 32GB card can I just copy contents of both current cards onto it? Or will that just confuse everything! And for now, should I stick to the 8GB card which came with the play and is preloaded with play data or sue my existing 16GB card which has lots of app data on it?
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Just bought a Play which has come with a 8GB SD card. Previously I was using a Huawei 8220 (Tmobile Pulse) with a 16GB card which is pretty full ... so in reality I think I'll be moving to a 32GB card soon!
Initially I thouhgt I'd just put the old SD card in and reinstall apps etc and work from there ... however looks like the supplied 8GB card already as ~3GB of data on it ... is any of this essential and if its not there does it get auto-installed (I managed to start the phone with the S card not properly reseated and it started talking about needing a card with enough space to install the game when I tried to run FIFA10 ... if I use another card will things reinstall?)
When I get a 32GB card can I just copy contents of both current cards onto it? Or will that just confuse everything! And for now, should I stick to the 8GB card which came with the play and is preloaded with play data or sue my existing 16GB card which has lots of app data on it?
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The data on the supplied SD Card is just some tones/wallpers, the sony suite for windows and the asset data for the games that come with the phone. If you don't want the wallpapers and sony suite, you can delete contents, game data can be downloaded anytime by launching the game
I made a copy of the 8GB card that came with my PLAY & also made a copy of the 16GB card that I had with my Samsung Fascinate. I combined both & put all of it on a new 32GB.
So in steps to make best of it...
1) Copy 8GB data to PC
2) Copy 16GB data to PC
3) Clean up anything you no longer need on the 16GB backup
3) Copy 16GB data to 32GB SDHC card
4) Copy & overwrite last with 8GB data to 32GB SDHC card
Now you'll have everything that was given for free from Sony Ericsson as well as what you had previously. I recommend keeping the free games at the very least.
Thanks ... that's about what I'd assumed - just wanted to double check before I did anything stupid!