Q: "installing" new SD card - Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hiya guys,
Going from a 8gb speed 6 to a 16gb speed 10 v soon.
I've got LeeDroid 2.2.2.
With regards to porting everything across is it simply copy everything from old SD to new SD?
1) copy data into pc
2) put new SD in phone and let it install std files.
3) copy everything from old SD to new SD. Finished?
Do I need to do the ext partitioning thing again? If there is a guide it would be great if you can copy link, thanks!
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Congrats and yes you need to just create that partition again and restore data and it'll be like the old one

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Changing SD card

Ive got a new 16gb card coming, im running leedroid 2.2f with apps2sd. I thought it would be a simple swap but seemingly it isnt. Whats the best way to get everything onto the 16gb? Ive got a microsd card reader for the pc.
I dealt with the same issue recently. I copied everything from my old card to the PC, and then used ROM Manager to format and partition the new card. Aftrr that I copied everything I had on the old card to the new card. I'm using a variation of Leedroid's ROM as well.
Best of luck
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How do I going about getting the data from the other partition? as I cant see that in explorer
Haven't thought of that. I didn't have a partition on my old card.
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well, bit the bullet, downloaded ubuntu, partitioned new sd card and copied everything from old card to new partitions, ext3 and fat. Put in phone and constant reboot at leedroid screen. I'd done a clockworkmod backup before hand so run restore and everythings okay now. Not the tidiest way of doing it but its worked.
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How do I going about getting the data from the other partition? as I cant see that in explorer
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so when you copy and pasted the card's contents everything transfered? even apps?
hy, there's a complete TUT on leedroid 'site to migrate to a new sdcard =>
http://leedroid.com/bravo-wiki/how-to-setup-a-new-sdcard-migrate-ext3-data
Is it possible to use Gparted throu recovery mode?
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New SD Card Question.

So I'm thinking of getting a bigger SD card as my current one is already full( I thought 4 gigs would of been enough :/).
Would switching to a new one affect my phone? I'm rooted and have cyanogen 6.1.1.
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Nope. I mean you might have some roms backed up on that
4GB card, like the one you have now on your phone but it will no way affect your phone, rooted or not. All your pictures, music, or whatever files you have on the sd card go with sd card. The rom is loaded on your phone, not on the sd card.
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Oh okay. Could I copy all the files from the old SD to the new one without affecting the back ups?
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dontbes said:
Oh okay. Could I copy all the files from the old SD to the new one without affecting the back ups?
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Format the new sd card to FAT32 then transfer all the files from your old sd card to the new one and that's it good to go..
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New SD Card

I'm thinking of ordering a 16GB SD card to upgrade from my 8GB, and I was wondering, how can I "start fresh"? Meaning, how can I start off with nothing really on it? A friend of mine copied everything from his old SD Card to his new one, however, I don't want to copy everything. There's a lot of files and folders in my current SD Card that I don't want and unsure if I should delete them or not.
If this helps, the rom I'm currently using CyanogenMod 7 RC2, still need to upgrade to RC4 when I have the time. My phone is HTC Desire GSM.
Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks!
Well to kill two birds with one stone, just copy across the personal data you'd like to keep in their correct folder directories, stick on the new CM RC4 zip, wipe the old data and flash the new zip in recovery as you normally would, then as you installed a fresh copy of CM, your sd card contains all it needs for it to run.

[Q] Upgrade SD => just copy the old one?

Hi, newbie in Android,
I want to upgrade my original SD to a 32 GB one in my HTC Desire HD.
Can I just copy the old one in Windows 7 en place it on the new one?
(I flashed rom Android Revolution HD that uses Ext4, maybe I have to use a tool that makes a copy of "special" partions?)
Thanks in advance Guys, I already learned much from this forum.
you may want to but it isn't necessary, if the SD card isn't formatted put it in your phone and go settings, storage, format SD card, let it do its job, then take it out put it in your PC and copy all the files from old card to your new one
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vervaeck said:
Hi, newbie in Android,
I want to upgrade my original SD to a 32 GB one in my HTC Desire HD.
Can I just copy the old one in Windows 7 en place it on the new one?
(I flashed rom Android Revolution HD that uses Ext4, maybe I have to use a tool that makes a copy of "special" partions?)
Thanks in advance Guys, I already learned much from this forum.
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Android Revolution HD has nothing to do with your SD Card.
When you copy the file from one SD Card to another, it does not have any Rom files on it, other then if you made backUp of you Rom.
Your SD CARD is formatted with a [M$] Fat file system, unless You have formatted the SD Card another file system
Take Care
TheQuest
vervaeck said:
I want to upgrade my original SD to a 32 GB one in my HTC Desire HD.
Can I just copy the old one in Windows 7 en place it on the new one?
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Yes, BUT...
vervaeck said:
(I flashed rom Android Revolution HD that uses Ext4, maybe I have to use a tool that makes a copy of "special" partions
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I believe this is referring to the internal partitions for ROM, Kernel etc. You don't need to do anything different to your card.
Personally I'd just format the whole thing as FAT32 as one big partition.
BUT...
If you want to use apps2sd (unless you got a class 10 card and more than 750MB worth of apps I really wouldn't bother) then you will need to partition the card.
31GB (what ever is left if you subtract 1024MB from the available) as FAT32
1GB (or whatever you want but more would be excessive) as ext4
Then, simply copy across all the files (make sure you show hidden files) from the old card (can leave it in the phone) to the FAT32 partition on the new.

[Q] New SD Card

Hi,
I havent seen this question asked already and it might be a dumb question but im going to buy a new SD card today to replace my original 2GB one from my Desire. And currently im running the Leedroid 3.3.3 ROM. When i get my new SD card, would i have to re-flash Leedroid onto my phone again. Or would i just have to partition the SD card and then everything should work as normal?
Thanks In Advance
reflash, because of a2sd
Would i have to do a full wipe and then flash? Or can i just flash it straight over the top of the original one?
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Also would i be able to do a nandroid backup to my SD card which i have now? And then when ive partitioned my new SD card. Put the nandroid backup files onto the 8GB card and then should it be able to bring everything backup again? Eg Leedroid and etc
Ravens97 said:
Also would i be able to do a nandroid backup to my SD card which i have now? And then when ive partitioned my new SD card. Put the nandroid backup files onto the 8GB card and then should it be able to bring everything backup again? Eg Leedroid and etc
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Yes you can do this. It will work as long as none of the files get corrupted.
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Okaay thanks, also i cant find my micro sd adapter at the moment. Is it possible if i did a nandroid backup to my 2GB card and then put the nandroid files onto my computers hard drive. And then put the 8GB card in the phone and transfer it onto the 8GB card. And then powered my phone down and then booted into recovery mode. Would i be able to restore by nandroid files from the SD?
Yes. As long as you put it in the exact same folder path. Just copy the entire clockworkmod folder instead of just the nandroid files.
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Do a nand backup of your current rom on your current sd card. Then partition your new SD card the same way you partitioned your original card. Maybe even increasing your EXT size if you want.
Now transfer all the files on your fat partition from old SD to the new. Make sure you copy the clockworkmod folder where the nand backup file was saved.
Put the new card on your phone and reboot to recovery and do a nand restore. That should do it.
If I missed out anything or something is not correct with what I said please correct me.
Good luck.
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stankyou said:
Do a nand backup of your current rom on your current sd card. Then partition your new SD card the same way you partitioned your original card. Maybe even increasing your EXT size if you want.
Now transfer all the files on your fat partition from old SD to the new. Make sure you copy the clockworkmod folder where the nand backup file was saved.
Put the new card on your phone and reboot to recovery and do a nand restore. That should do it.
If I missed out anything or something is not correct with what I said please correct me.
Good luck.
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I tried exactly what you said and it didn't work, i get stuck in a bootloop after doing the nandroid recovery on the new SD card. Thankfully everything works fine when i put the old SD card and do the same nandroid recovery. I don't know if this matters but im using LeeDrOiD 3.3.3 R5 and i installed his "Dalvik Cache to /sdext" file and when im in recovery mode i get messages saying "cant mount sdext".
Would be very thankful if anyone could help me out
I hate to pee on bonfires but I've had limited success with SD cards. Some seem to accept EXT, others don't. I even got a 16Gb card that turned out to be a 32Gb card but it won't accept the EXT. Some you win....
fahoom said:
I tried exactly what you said and it didn't work, i get stuck in a bootloop after doing the nandroid recovery on the new SD card. Thankfully everything works fine when i put the old SD card and do the same nandroid recovery. I don't know if this matters but im using LeeDrOiD 3.3.3 R5 and i installed his "Dalvik Cache to /sdext" file and when im in recovery mode i get messages saying "cant mount sdext".
Would be very thankful if anyone could help me out
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Try clearing dalvik cache after restoring nandroid.
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itachi1706 said:
Try clearing dalvik cache after restoring nandroid.
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I think I tried that too as well (Along with wipe cache partition), although i'm not sure if I did it before restoring or after restoring (i most likely did it both before and after), will try again and let you know.

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