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Can someone plz walk me through how to partition my sd card using my phone - or how to do it on a Mac as I have no access to PC / Linux to partition the SD card.
I want to partition it so I can move may apps there.
My phone is rooted and running the Modaco 1.1 ROM
I have searched but all is still unclear
consider me a noob at doing this
cheers
Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512873
Is there anyway to parttion SDCard on Hero directly throught gparted like on G1. I've tried to boot Hero using Cyannogen Recovery 1.4 but it didn't worked!
spiderman_anhvu said:
Is there anyway to parttion SDCard on Hero directly throught gparted like on G1. I've tried to boot Hero using Cyannogen Recovery 1.4 but it didn't worked!
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I followed this instruction and worked well
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
Hi
This is my first post on these forums so hi all.
I partitioned my SD card last night using Os X Tiger. The way I did it was as follows:
- First off you need to download gparted live cd iso image from here
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
- Create an live cd using the disk utility
- Once you have the live cd reboot your machine and hold the 'c' key. The cd should be in the machine before you reboot.
- You'll then boot into the gparted linux distribution where you can use it to partition your sd card. Gparted is very self explanatory.
I partitioned my card as follows:
1 Fat32
2 512mb EXT 3
3 32 mb linux-swap.
This partition is the same as Paul from MoDaCo
Cheers
Well I managed to make a Live ( Bootable ) CD with Linus & GParted on it.
I cpoied all the files from my SD card ( music etc. ) to my computer, then wiped the CD card on my Mac - then booted Gparted CD and partitioned my SD, into 700mb Ext3, and 6.5 gig Fat32.
I loaded all the files I had on the SD card onto the 6.5 gig partition.
Then put the now partitioned SD card into my phone, and restarted the phone.
But the phone hung on start-up not getting beyond the 'Hero' bit. Had to take out the battery, and when I started the phone without the card, it still hung. I had to do a Nandroid restore to get it back up and running.
So did the sd card damage the system? Any ideas how to get it working?
I'm running the latest Modaco ROM ( 1.4 ) and latest radio ( xxx31 ) on a rooted phone.
as soon as i finish compiling my gentoo box (i've changed pc, corei7 now ) i'll release an updated version of the recovery image with some new scripts and menu options (one for formatting the sdcard directly from the menu with some predefined values for swap and ext3 partition )
J-Zeus said:
Can someone plz walk me through how to partition my sd card using my phone - or how to do it on a Mac as I have no access to PC / Linux to partition the SD card.
I want to partition it so I can move may apps there.
My phone is rooted and running the Modaco 1.1 ROM
I have searched but all is still unclear
consider me a noob at doing this
cheers
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how about using forum search, i found at the first try...
Care to share the link then , oh wise one -- how do you do it exactly?
This is where I'm up too
On Mac, with no PC access. Booting Mac with Linux CD running Gparted partitioning software.
No matter what I do I'm always running into the same problem. I start with a clean Dos (Fat) formatted 8gig sd card. In GParted I partition it into 3.
6.8gig Fat32 primary, ext3 800mb, and 50mb Linux Swap. I have tried various orders, with the last being as written above ( from Modaco Pauls suggestion ).
I have tried curing the problem by then mounting the sd card on my Mac OS X desktop, and using Disk Utility to format the 6.8gig partition ( from Stripealipe suggestion ).
All to no avail. The symptoms are:
Put formatted card into phone. Turn phone on. 'Hero' word appears, and it locks there. Have to remove battery to shut down.
Try to restart without a card. Same problem.
Try to start with second good ( unpartitioned ) card. 'Hero' word appears with chime. Little green guy wave at me from 'Hero' word. 'HTC' word appears with chime. Screen goes blank for 5 seconds - then back to 'Hero' word with little green guy.
What seems strange to me is that the problem goes from card to phone.
Only cure is a Nandroid restore.
ahhhhhgrrrrrr
I had the exact same problem just now, J-Zeus, but I seem to have fixed it by simply putting back the files that were originally on the SD card before the re-partitioning (I'd made a backup of those before starting the process) in the FAT32 partition and rebooting the phone. This time it showed the home screen after finishing the HTC logo part! I can't explain why this works though, since all of those files seem to be highly non-essential. It might also have been the last round of partitioning I did that did the trick, but that would just be weird since there shouldn't be any differences.
I started out partitioning the card with GParted Live, but after that failed I turned to Paragon Partition Manager (which subsequently managed to f*ck up the MBR on the drive that hosts my main OS, so I had a non-booting phone *and* a non-booting laptop on my hands; luckily the MBR was an easy thing to fix). The "app partition" is now formatted as ext3.
I still think something might've gone wrong somewhere, because it looks like some (or all, I'm not sure) of the apps I had installed from the market have disappeared from the app selection menu and from the "manage applications" list under Settings -> Applications. Supposedly they might be on the SD card now, I'll look into it some more tomorrow. At least the phone is working now, that's one step further.
PS I don't think I have the latest ROM btw, will fix that when I have time & report back if anything changes.
Hi,
I've got problem to launch Modaco ROM 2.8. Previously i had 2.7 and I wanted to check out Motion Blur ROM. I have done nandroid backup and flashed new rom. Because i couldn't login to Motoblur account (It's needed to use this ROM) I decided to restore previous ROM. I think by mistake i pressed nandroid buckup again and i lost my Backup. I managed to copy 2.8 ROM to my SD but when i removed safety USB storage I noticed SD card icon with information that my Card is possible damaged. Since then i had problems to us SD. Windows wanted to format my card every time I tried access. I checked what it like in Partition manager. It showed me only one partition Fat 32 1.8GB (should be 1.5GB Fat32 and Ext3 + swap partitions) So I format it again and created new linux partitions. Windows could read SD but Mobile still showed Damaged Card. So I restarted Mobile and now i can't do anything. It's going to Hero Logo (waves robots) and then going to HTC Logo and then goes back to Hero Logo. Is it just because my SD is broken and buying new SD will solve the problem ? or did I break my mobile permanently ?
Thanks
Sorry for my poor English
///edit I just removed SD and it's working . Need to buy new SD
i've experienced a very similar problem where it reported my sdcard to be damaged and worse my phone won't even boot.
what i did was to remove the sdcard and it booted fine ( i had mcr 2.5 working), then noticed sdcard reported no issue. then simply rebooted to recovery, wiped, and applied mcr2.8 zip file.
kroosh said:
i've experienced a very similar problem where it reported my sdcard to be damaged and worse my phone won't even boot.
what i did was to remove the sdcard and it booted fine ( i had mcr 2.5 working), then noticed sdcard reported no issue. then simply rebooted to recovery, wiped, and applied mcr2.8 zip file.
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Had a similar problem didnt have booting problems though, solved the problem in exactly the same way as kroosh. The problem stems from the swapper app which did come as part of the rom but is now only optional.
I had swapper too & guess you are right.
Unfortunately the 2.8 is getting sluggish and not sure if it was the swapper as well. I will try to restore 2.5 and see how it behaves
My card wasn't recognized because it was formatted in wrong format. I managed to install new recovery image v1.2.3 and i have created partition from there and its working fine now.
Hi
I had the same problem with my hero, if you disconnect the usb wrong ect. And the "damaged SD" error appears. I first didn't know what I was doing wrong, (was new to Android) and I re-formatted my SD card twice.
Anyway, after a while, I relize just turn off the phone, remove card, wait a few seconds, and put all back together.
Hope this works for you
Regards
Hi all,
My Desire is rooted and running Leedroid 2.2a with an ext3 partition on my SD card for my apps and cache folders, using the default apps2sd setup with the ROM.
I recently had to re-flash my phone because lots of installed apps went missing; some of them had odd names (the com.android.x.x names) and then it got stuck in a boot loop because it couldn't read the SD card until I formatted it, well actually I had to destroy the ext3 partition. Now I wonder if its because the apps folder is on the SD card/ext3 partition and if I connect the phone to my PC to copy stuff to/from in disk mode it un-mounts the SD card, losing the apps folder and the cache folder.
So far, since flashing, I haven't installed half as much crap on my phone, or dismounted the SD card, but I am worried that it will start to cause problems with the phone if I need to connect via USB/disk drive mode.
Has anyone else had these problems, or know of a 'safe' way to unmount the card without corrupting apps?
cyberguru said:
Hi all,
My Desire is rooted and running Leedroid 2.2a with an ext3 partition on my SD card for my apps and cache folders, using the default apps2sd setup with the ROM.
I recently had to re-flash my phone because lots of installed apps went missing; some of them had odd names (the com.android.x.x names) and then it got stuck in a boot loop because it couldn't read the SD card until I formatted it, well actually I had to destroy the ext3 partition. Now I wonder if its because the apps folder is on the SD card/ext3 partition and if I connect the phone to my PC to copy stuff to/from in disk mode it un-mounts the SD card, losing the apps folder and the cache folder.
So far, since flashing, I haven't installed half as much crap on my phone, or dismounted the SD card, but I am worried that it will start to cause problems with the phone if I need to connect via USB/disk drive mode.
Has anyone else had these problems, or know of a 'safe' way to unmount the card without corrupting apps?
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It shouldn't corrupt your EXT partition if you mount USB on your device.
AFAIK, if you mount USB, it will only mount the FAT32 partition, the EXT partition will still be available to Android.
Problem has occurred again. My battery went flat on Saturday so the phone turned off. Plugged it in on Saturday night, turned it on, and it stays at the "HTC" white background green text screen.
If I remove the card it boots fine. I mounted the SD card in Ubuntu and I can use the fat32 partition on the card, but the ext3 partition is empty, although if I right click on it and go to properties, it shows that there is 130mb in use on the partition. I cant do anything to the partition because Ubuntu throws some odd error about not being able to mount the partition because its in use, or some other paradoxical scenario...
Annoyed now. Anyone know of a fix? should I copy all the stuff I want off the card, repartition using gparted and try again? I used the ROM Manager app on the phone to prepare the card before. Could it have a bug?? the Ext3 partition is at the end of the drive space, after the fat32 partition. Should I make it the first partition?
Bit of a bump, but it seems I'm not the only one with this issue. Any help is appreciated...
I don't have the card with me now cos I'm at work so I cant do any more tests or try and find a solution.
Have you been able to find a resolution for this, I'm having this exact issue. While I suspect a reformat would address, I don't want to have to deal with this weekly.
No worries, you can mount them fine. but if you take out your sd card out of the phone and turn the phone on, it would turn on and go in a bootloop. but that was just for me.
This is used to happen to me. Stuck in HTC logo on white background. It turned out to be that my sd card was bad partitioned it corrupted.
I fixed it by destroyed all partitions and created only fat32. Then put it back to HTC Desire and had ROM Manager created new ext3 partition.
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I have been facing this issue ever since I started trying a2sd+ roms. I created a 1GB ext3 and apps will start disappearing every now and then. If I shutdown the phone and boot it again, then many apps will go missing.
I tried reformatting the sd, wipe and reinstall the rom but no use. Apps will keep disappearing on every reboot. At times all the installed application will be corrupted. i.e they will be listed in application manager as com.android.xx.xx with no icon. Some apps will have the icon and if i select them it will say the application is no longer available.
I have tried different roms with a2sd+ and still have the issue
I have tried different methods of partitioning.. Using acronis disk director in windows, using rom manager, using ubuntu live cd etc.. still the issue is present.
What makes it difficult is that sometimes the ext3 partition gets corrupted.. sometimes the whole sd ext3+fat32 gets corrupted, and I could not find what's wrong.
One final thing left to check is to try with a different sd card. If even that fails, then I have to go back to non-a2sd+ rom and live with low internal memory
Anyone faced this issue and found a solution, please share... I would be grateful...
Hello. I have an HTC Desire and I just installed Ginger Villan 1.8 and I'm using 2.0i havs 1113Mhz cfs kernel. Sometimes, the phone reboots after installing apps from the Market. First I tried to wipe Market's cache but it didn't work. Then I tried to format the SD card again: I plugged the phone in USB storage mode and loaded Gparted live. But the phone reboots when Gparted starts loading! I tried to plug the phone again, but Gparted was unable to detect the SD card. The SD card is OK. I used a Card Reader to plug it and then Gparted detects it just fine. The card it's a Kingston Taiwan class 4, 4 GB. What can I do? Format again and reflash Ginger Villain? Use another Kernel? Restore my stock ROM? I'm lost!
Edited: I've already fixed it
and how did you do this. im having problems with the latest version.
keeps rebooting on its own.
Use a different kernel, try on that's not overclocked, a standard 998mhz one.
im lets say a bit of a noob when it comes to flashing my phone.
so could you please explain how.
i really appreciate it
Hi all,
So I woke up this morning with my phone displaying a notification that my sd card is blank. I've had data2ext installed for about a month now on every other cm7 nightly, the latest being #108. I tried to mount the sd card, only to see the same notification. I've tried rebooting, battery pull, booting without the sd card then inserting it and nothing has changed. I went as far as trying to install the htc 2.2 update... and it failed since I'm not on an htc rom. The weird thing is my "about phone" section still shows 244 mb available of 418 mb total, although this might just be the ram/rom, not data partition... So what can I do? I also tried rebooting into recovery through cm7's power off menu AND rom manager, only to be shown a phone with a red QUESTION mark instead of the triangle and exclamation point. When I tried formatting my sd card, i get a pop-up notice saying "SD card is currently being checked". Help me, xda community. You're my only hope.
I tend to be the guy who asks the more obvious or I guess overlooked stuff... So I will!
Now to me(and I'm no expert here...) but it doesn't sound like a problem with the SD card(or maybe it is!). Have you tried a different SD card? Or using the SD card in a different device?
I didn't have a micro sd card adapter or any other micro sd to try at the time I wrote the OP so I didn't include that in there. I have an adapter now and the computer recognizes a drive there but it only shows the swap volume, I believe (it says I need to format the card, and when I try to it only shows it as being 30.6mb). When I try to format I get a "Windows was unable to complete the format" notification. So yeah, that's where I'm at.
try paragon partition manager, it usually gets the job done for me.
I'm trying to use partition manager, but I still only see 30 mb on the sd card. I'm not exactly sure how to just clear the whole thing of the ext partition and swap volume, though.
can your partition manager delete the swap partition?
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I'm trying to use partition manager, but I still only see 30 mb on the sd card. I'm not exactly sure how to just clear the whole thing of the ext partition and swap volume, though.
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Have you tried gparted? that's the only way I could really customize my sd card with the different kinds of partitions.
Partition manager hung while trying to delete the partition.
Gparted failed, I don't remember the exact message on that one.
I tried a different microsd card and it was recognized by the phone, so something weird must've happened to my original one. I guess a year's worth of use is all I can ask for with tech nowadays. Thanks for the help, guys.
Did you use gparted from a live cd, or on a computer actually running linux? I have had gparted live cd's fail me, and then turned right around and had success with gparted installed to ubuntu running on a win xp machine through wubi. Might be worth a shot for you, just make sure to unmount the card in gparted, and to actually make the changes before exiting, as that's an easy mistake to make
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I used both, now. I had run redo backup software with gparted off my usb drive and then I installed xubuntu to dual boot my machine, and both only recognize 30 mb of the sd card's 8 gb, so it's only the swap space that was formatted for my data2ext. Thanks guys.
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