ok i am by no means a noob but i have no idea what i have to do to a new sd card for it to work. im picking up a sandisk class 4 16gb card in a bit and i have read in random threads that you have to format it to fat32 i believe not positive tho. so can someone point me in the right directions as to how i would do this or a thread that could help.
It'll come formatted FAT32. Unless you want to play around with an ext3 partition for moving apps, you can just pop the card in and use it.
first copy all the stuff in your sd card to your computer (make sure if on a windows machine to right click and in folder options select view hidden files, that will ensure everything is copied), then go ahead and unplug from computer, turn off the phone take sd card out of the phone, put the new one in the phone go to settings/storage and select format sd card, your phone will format it the right way, now plug it to the computer and copy all the stuff from the old one into this one, you should be good to go
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first copy all the stuff in your sd card to your computer (make sure if on a windows machine to right click and in folder options select view hidden files, that will ensure everything is copied), then go ahead and unplug from computer, turn off the phone take sd card out of the phone, put the new one in the phone go to settings/storage and select format sd card, your phone will format it the right way, now plug it to the computer and copy all the stuff from the old one into this one, you should be good to go
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After numerous flashes, back-ups, etc my flash card is a mess. Is there a safe way to just wipe it and start clean without bricking my phone?
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I believe you are looking for just the flash card? meaning the microsd card?
there are a few ways.
1. Pull the card out plug it directly into a computer, back up all data and then format it...then plug back into the phone and copy your stuff back.
2. plug the phone into a computer, transfer / backup all your sd card contents, go to settings sd & phone storage umount SD card, format sd card and put your stuff back.
I just know there is crap on this sd card that is a waste buy not sure what...
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Tuffgong4 said:
I believe you are looking for just the flash card? meaning the microsd card?
there are a few ways.
1. Pull the card out plug it directly into a computer, back up all data and then format it...then plug back into the phone and copy your stuff back.
2. plug the phone into a computer, transfer / backup all your sd card contents, go to settings sd & phone storage umount SD card, format sd card and put your stuff back.
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Great Answer....
bud if all you want to do is wipe the sdcard then fust go to throught the phone settings and do a memory card format. that will wipe everything of the card.
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.
k2buckley said:
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 recently bought a Desire Z and got an 8GB Micro SD Card (I believe Class 4) in the box.
I wish to upgrade to a 16GB card. Having over a 100 apps installed, I am a little skeptical about the whole transfer thing.
Can anyone provide me with a step by step method to transfer my data and apps to a new sd card without any loss.
I've done this several times -- its not that hard. All you have to do is mirror the old SD card to the new one.
I recommend using a card reader connected to the PC instead of connecting the phone directly in SD card mode.
1. shut off the phone and remove the old SDcard.
2. make sure your PC is set up to see hidden and system files -- Google this as its probably slightly different for different flavors of Windows.
3. create a folder to hold the files from the SD card, for example c:\sdcardbackup. Have this folder opened up on the Windows desktop
4. Insert the old SDcard into the card reader connected to the PC. Take a look at the files and make sure you can see some folder names preceeded by a dot -- for example: ".android_secure"
5. Now just control-a to select all the files and folders from the old SD card folder, and drag them to the backup folder c:\sdcardbackup
6. Remove the old SDcard and put it in a safe place -- you'll want to keep this as a backup for a while just in case.
7. Insert the new SDcard into the reader -- format it if it tells you that theres no format. Even if its already formatted you might want to consider formatting it anyway -- Google this is theres different options available. I format mine EXT3 32K
8. Now, in a reverse from before, just copy all the files from c:\sdcardbackup to the folder representing the new SDcard.
9. When done, remove the new SDcard and put it in the phone. Powerup and test. If you can run any apps that have been installed to the SDcard then you're good to go -- and you still have the old card and the backup c:\sdcardbackup just in case.
burtcom said:
I've done this several times -- its not that hard. All you have to do is mirror the old SD card to the new one.
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I can confirm that this does work!
i am using the fat32 apps to sd and just did a copy paste to pc then back to new card. worked a treat!
I have a big problem and am wondering if anyone can help me. My evo won't read my sd card. Is there a way I can unroot without using my sd card?
Is it the evo or is it the SD card?
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It's definitely the microsd card. I put the microsd card into the sdcard adapter and put it into my laptops memory slot and could open it up. I need to unroot it to take it back to the sprint store to get a new one.
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It's definitely the microsd card. I put the microsd card into the sdcard adapter and put it into my laptops memory slot and could open it up. I need to unroot it to take it back to the sprint store to get a new one.
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If it's "definitely the microSD card" then why would you need to unroot your EVO? Sprint is not going to give you a new EVO for an SD card problem. If anything, they will simply exchange the SD card. Of course, I'm only speculating. Anyway, if you're certain it is the SD card and can read it from your laptop, how about copying the contents of the card onto your laptop and then repartition and reformat it via your laptop. Afterwards, copy the contents back to your SD card, reinsert it in your EVO and reboot.
sorry meant to say definitely not the sd card.
No problem.......Still, I would copy the contents of the card to the laptop and then repartition and reformat it. Afterwards, I would copy the files back to the card and reboot the EVO. Also, connect your device to your laptop, boot into recovery, select the MS-USB option and see if you can see the card from your laptop. If you can, download the SECOND file from this link -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php? t=884060 -- copy it to your SD card and flash it from within recovery.
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ogfrier said:
i just recently used mini tool partition wizard to wipe all the partitions off my SD card and now that i did that my sd card isnt recognized on my computer. it shows up on partition wizard and ive tried about everything i can think of but it wont show up. and i even switched SD cards and it still wont, and ive tried different usb ports and different usb cords. so im not sure if i did something wrong in partition wizard or what, all i did was wipe partitions and delete partitions on my sd card. it mounts on my phone and it says "blank SD card" and when i click the notification it pops up and says format SD card and i go ahead and format it. im getting pretty irritated to be honest and i feel like ive went through every option i can think of ive restarted the laptop ive rebooted my phone i even flashed a old backup of my old SD card ive factory reset and all so im completely lost, so if anyone can offer any advice its greatly appreciated.
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are u saying u changed the sd card on ur phone and the new one didn't show up either when u enabled mass storage..??
did u try using a card reader..??
are you used card reader for partitoning?
Put the card in a card reader.
Then open minitool.
Right click on the top slab where your memory card is shown and select delete partition.
Apply.
Now you will have unallocated space.
Create new partition, fat32 and primary.
Apply. I guess that would solve it.
Well I figured it out. I had to go to disk manager on my laptop and change the removable disk name and the file it shows up under. Thank you guys though, and no I wasn't using a card reader. I was just trying to wipe my partitions then create a bigger one so I can have more internal storage if that makes sense.
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