After flashing many (understatement) roms, my sd card has become cluttered and unorganized. Besides the obvious things that I should backup onto my comp (nandroid backups, titanium backups, personal files), are there any files or folders that "must" be on my sd card?
Or should I just backup everything and use the "erase sd card" option in the settings menu.
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Vinchenzop said:
After flashing many (understatement) roms, my sd card has become cluttered and unorganized. Besides the obvious things that I should backup onto my comp (nandroid backups, titanium backups, personal files), are there any files or folders that "must" be on my sd card?
Our should I just backup everything and use the "format sd card" option in the settings menu.
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Back up the stuff you want to keep and format it through the phone...it will place folders it needs on the card for you
Great, thanks for the reply!
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beware partitions
I just wanted to add that I partitioned my 8GB card for kingdomEVOlution and I had to re-partition it to get the space back to use Synergy RC2
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When I went to copy a rom to my sdcard, it said my card was full. I figured it was because of old nandroid backups, so I deleted them, but the sd card space has actually gone down instead of freeing up space.
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I'm baffled. Anyone know how to fix this?
What size sd card and where did you get it?
It is the one that came with my Incredible.
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Is it possible to delete everything from my SD card and start new? It's saying there is 1.8gb total, but only 28mb available.
Or can I flash roms using my phone storage?
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You can just format it (FAT32). Backup what you need. And maybe store stuff on the internal storage. You have to use the SD card for ROM's etc.
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If I do a full wipe using ClockworkMod, are all the apps that I moved to my SD card also wiped?
Data wipe in clockwork wont wipe your SD card. I think you have to go into mounts and storage and specifically tell it.to wipe SD.
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I don't necessarily want to wipe the whole SD card, just all the apps that I moved to my SD Card.
Not 100% sure on how to do that aside from manually uninstalling apps and deleting left over folders on your SD card. Might be some app that automates the process, I'm not really sure.
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The Synegy Rom is a huge rom, and it always says I am running low on memory. Is there a good way to reduce its size, or which applications are ok to move to the sd card???
Partition your SD card if you haven't and reflash. Partitioning helps with offloading some things onto the SD card
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Reminder: partitioning you SDcard will erase it's contents. Backup first
so do a complete backup with titanium and then do what?
before you partition your sd card make sure you have anything you want saved (pictures, video, nandroid backups, and anything else) taken from your sd card and stored in a safe place on your computer.
im running bootmanager on my 8gb sd card and its full can i transfer all the data i have onto my 16gb sd card? will the roms still work? and what about the apps i have backed up with titanium backup will they all be safe?
Yes. Best to MD5 before and after to make sure it copies correctly.
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you think all the dada will be good?
I've copied between SD cards in the past without a problem. I just attached the phone to my Windows PC in Disk Drive mode, copied all the files to the PC, swapped SDs and swapped back. Save the 8GB card and don't wipe it until you're sure everything copied over fine.
As long as you haven't created an ext partition, you shouldn't have any problems copying from sd to sd.
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OK thanks will try it later..
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spyd312 said:
As long as you haven't created an ext partition, you shouldn't have any problems copying from sd to sd.
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And what if you did copy files over from a SD card with a ext3 partition to your PC? Can you elaborate a little more?
I've had put a blank card in phone 1st let it format it with the nessesary file structure and then over wright with the contents of old card.
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And what if you did copy files over from a SD card with a ext3 partition to your PC? Can you elaborate a little more?
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From my understanding, when you partition your SD card, you essentially split your memory card's capacity by the size of the ext partition. So when you mount your sd card for the purpose of backing up your memory card, you're only backing up the disk drive portion. You'll need to use ROOT EXPLORER or a file manager app that can access your phone's sd-ext folder.
On second thought, you should just do a NANDROID and be sure to include your sd-ext partition. Then boot into recovery. Create a new sd-ext partition (same size as the previous one) and copy the NANDROID folder over to your new SD card along with the disk drive backup.
Then restore your nand.
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Newbie question lol I have cwm and I want to create NANDROID backup to stock with root.... No idea how can somebody help me?
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Reboot into CWM recovery. Once there, go to backup and restore. In there you should see an option to create a backup. Select it and allow your device time to back itself up.
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jay4lakers said:
Newbie question lol I have cwm and I want to create NANDROID backup to stock with root.... No idea how can somebody help me?
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You need to boot into recovery and then select the option to backup and CWM will make a Nandroid backup.
Boot into ClockworkMod Recovery by holding down the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons until your phone’s screen turns on. Use the Volume Up and Down buttons to navigate between the options and the Home button to select an option.
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If you have an SD card mounted, I would recommend you choose the option to backup to external SD card. This saves loading up internal memory and when stored on external SD card, your Nandroid backup is protected from wipes/crashes/resets (except for purposefully wiping or formating SD card.)
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If you have an SD card mounted, I would recommend you choose the option to backup to external SD card. This saves loading up internal memory and when stored on external SD card, your Nandroid backup is protected from wipes/crashes/resets (except for purposefully wiping or formating SD card.)
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Is it faster to back up on internal rather than external sdcard?
I think in CWM recovery it can only make a back up to the external SD card.
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derf8966 said:
I think in CWM recovery it can only make a back up to the external SD card.
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No.. I updated cwn and I have an option for external or internal. Plus, there are those that do not have an external sd