My SD card has been acting funny and only mounting read-only randomly and I already have another one layng around and wanted to go ahead and switch to the new one.
My question is, is it as simple as copying everything from my old one onto my PC and then copying all that onto the new one? So I need to format the new one first?..
I tried searching but couldnt find the answer... thanks guys
BTW, I have the stock SanDisk in there now and the problems started after flashing CM7... and I'll be switching to a new Lexar 8GB..
Yes. Just copy the contents of your current card to an external drive or computer, format and/or partition your new card the way you want it and then copy the stuff you transferred to your computer or external drive onto your new card. You should always have a backup of SD card in case it gets corrupted or damaged.
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dougjamal said:
Yes. Just copy the contents of your current card to an external drive or computer, format and/or partition your new card the way you want it and then copy the stuff you transferred to your computer or external drive onto your new card. You should always have a backup of SD card in case it gets corrupted or damaged.
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Agreed...it's very simple to do. When I switched from my 8 to 16 I made sure to keep a pure backup of the 8 on my computer.
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Hey guys,
When I get a bigger Micro SD card, is it as simple as copying the files from the old one to the new one and everything will be great? Or do I have to do something special?
Thanks!
Nope, its simple as that. I just switched to a 16GB yesterday. What I did was copy the entire old SD to my computer, switched cards, formatted the new card and then dragged the entire SD card contents from my cpu to my new card. That was it.
swaze said:
Nope, its simple as that. I just switched to a 16GB yesterday. What I did was copy the entire old SD to my computer, switched cards, formatted the new card and then dragged the entire SD card contents from my cpu to my new card. That was it.
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Great. Thanks!
Just to note:
If you are using a custom ROM that has Apps2sd running, it won't simply be a copy/paste.
First run a Nandroid backup and include the EXT partition, then insert your new SD card, format the card through the recovery menu, then copy/paste everything over, restore the backup, and you should be good to go.
I'm getting a new, larger capacity SD card soon. What is the best way to migrate to the new SD card? Copy everything over using a different reader? Copy to phone, then to SD?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
spatton said:
I'm getting a new, larger capacity SD card soon. What is the best way to migrate to the new SD card? Copy everything over using a different reader? Copy to phone, then to SD?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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I would just copy it to my computer, then back to the new card. Just what I would do.
Will there be any permission settings/issues? I'm cool with that suggestion, just want to do it right - once and for all.
I'm rooted w/Unrevoked, a few things cleaned up, but that's about it - stock ROM.
spatton said:
Will there be any permission settings/issues? I'm cool with that suggestion, just want to do it right - once and for all.
I'm rooted w/Unrevoked, a few things cleaned up, but that's about it - stock ROM.
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Not on you SD card, you should be fine. If you have any problems you can run "fix permissions" in ROM Manager, but again, you shouldn't have to.
Edit: I've done it a couple of time with no ill affects.
Thanks. Looking forward to having all my music readily available. Hard to believe with 7 gig of music I never have that one song....
spatton said:
I'm getting a new, larger capacity SD card soon. What is the best way to migrate to the new SD card? Copy everything over using a different reader? Copy to phone, then to SD?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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Quickest way is to copy from 1 SD card to the other, rather than copying to the phone or your computer & then to your new SD card. I plugged the phone into my computer, inserted the new SD card into my computer & then started copying from Windows Explorer.
Leonard23. said:
Quickest way is to copy from 1 SD card to the other, rather than copying to the phone or your computer & then to your new SD card. I plugged the phone into my computer, inserted the new SD card into my computer & then started copying from Windows Explorer.
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I'm lame, my computer doesn't have an SD card slot
Leonard23. said:
Quickest way is to copy from 1 SD card to the other, rather than copying to the phone or your computer & then to your new SD card. I plugged the phone into my computer, inserted the new SD card into my computer & then started copying from Windows Explorer.
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This didn't seem to work for me. All my applications that had been moved to SD are no longer showing installed. I copied the entire contents from one to the other (both mounted on my PC), no errors, but when I put the new SD card in, no apps!
Any thoughts? Anyone?
Cheers...
Check your card to see if it's formatted as fat32 format.
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rigman said:
Check your card to see if it's formatted as fat32 format.
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That could be the reason.
Just picked up a 16gb card and I am wondering do I have to do anything special or just copy everything from the old one on to it and plug it in?
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cochese2323 said:
Just picked up a 16gb card and I am wondering do I have to do anything special or just copy everything from the old one on to it and plug it in?
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I'm not sure if it is required, or if this is even the correct procedure....however, when I got my new 16gb sd card, I put it right in the phone, and then used the phone to format the sd card. I believe the option to format is in menu>settings>sd and phone storage or something like that. Once the card was formatted, I then transferred all my filed to the new card. I've experienced no problems at all. You could also use your computer to format the card FAT32 before you copy your stuff to it. Won't hurt anything.
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I'm not sure if it is required, or if this is even the correct procedure....however, when I got my new 16gb sd card, I put it right in the phone, and then used the phone to format the sd card. I believe the option to format is in menu>settings>sd and phone storage or something like that. Once the card was formatted, I then transferred all my filed to the new card. I've experienced no problems at all. You could also use your computer to format the card FAT32 before you copy your stuff to it. Won't hurt anything.
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Yes he's right, but you should be able to just put it in and it'll work regardless
I just bought an upgrade to my old 8gb Sandisk card. I bought a 16gb RiData Class 6 microSD because my old card cannot handle anymore storage.
Here's the deal, how do you transfer the files safely from the old card to the new one and run it smoothly just like the old one? Do you just simply copy all the files of the old card and then just paste it to the new one? or any program to use or other methods in doing this?
I have read a thread about this that he just copied all his/her old files and then paste it to the root of the new card but he/she cannot make it work well. I would like to have a word from everyone for safely transferring my files. thanks.
Unless you have stuff in ext3/3/4, just a copy and paste should do it. After my N1 was stolen, I copied a backup of the SD onto a new card, threw android onto my TyTN2, and after installing the APKs, all of the programs found the data they should have.
how about the files that i transfered in the card using app2sd and my backup in titanium backup? Will it work using copy paste method?
whats on yopur old card have you done any formating? if your just useing it as storage you should be able to copy them over easy
Yeah I only use it for storage and nothing else.
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If it's just storage, then drag and drop should be fine. If there's any special formatting, then you might have to google a program that makes an image of the SD card, and transfer thaqt image to the new card. Bit more of a pain, but it gets the job done.
thank you guys. Been new to android and doing some stuff.
I'm rooted but none of my backup managers will let me make a backup of my app's to external sd card... I'm trying to backup so I can try a new rom, but also everytime I try to copy or delete something from my external sd card it says it failed or denied and card is something I forgot copywrite protected or some crazy junk like that.
I just wanna get control of my external sd card back
Why not reformat the card first. Settings>storage
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Why not reformat the card first. Settings>storage
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It's a 64Gb card with about 48Gb's of stuff on it.
I'm trying to backup to the cloud and then flash a new rom, it backs up about 20 or so app's at a time and then errors out.
I might try and copy all it's files to my hard drive and then reformat.
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It's a 64Gb card with about 48Gb's of stuff on it.
I'm trying to backup to the cloud and then flash a new rom, it backs up about 20 or so app's at a time and then errors out.
I might try and copy all it's files to my hard drive and then reformat.
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Yes...
Bulk copy it...g
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I've been seeing 128Gb microsd cards on ebay with zero negative feedback or bad reviews, but being burned once on fake sd cards makes me a bit hesitant when I bought a 32Gb and it was actually a 512Mb microsd with cloned layers to appear to be a 32Gb.