I've a 8 GB sd card, but now a new one 16 GB. On my 8GB I've got a partition with a lot of stuff ( Apps! ) but how to copy them to the new SD card? I've got Amon ra recovery. So a new partition I can make. But with backup you can choose nand or nand + ext. I have chosen the nand + ext. But you can only restore the nand. So how to restore the ext too?
The ext Will also be restored, just make sure that The new Card has been made with The same ext size or bigger.
Don't why but I got stuck on the boot animation.
Partition the card with Gparted and try again.
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I partitioned my sd while in recovery, I did 32mb swap 1024mb ext 2 and the rest fat 32. I then did the ext2 to ext3, then did ext3 to ext4 in the hopes of getting app2sd to work. but now all my nandroid backups are gone as well as everything I had on the card. when I boot into recovery and do msusb it has nothing in it and if i try to do a restore I get an error that says "E:couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid." I can still boot into roms if I put it on the root of the sd card, and i can still use root apps and if i use a file explorer in android the stuff on the phones internal rom is still there, so i guess what im trying to ask is what the heck did i do by partitioning the sdcard?
It's weird that you weren't notified, but partitioning the sdcard for app2sd is SUPPOSED to wipe the sdcard. But it IS a bug if it didn't warn you all data was going to be erased.
I had the same issue last night, luckily I figured partitioning "might" lose my data so I backed it up on my comp first.
Well I was right, it totally wiped the card. Glad I made a backup.
ok well on my Amon Ra Recovery.
there is an option for nandroid back up and theres another
option about nandroid + ext backup.
i think thats it.
but i have no clue what nandroid +ext backup.
what does ext mean? extension?
whats the extension for?
and there other options are google proprietary files back and restore.
what the heck is that?
please some give me answers.
it is for people have an multiple partitions on their SD card. ext is a type of partition
The ext partition is a linux partition type used by Dark Tremor's a2sd. Basically, if your custom rom supports a2sd, you can extend your apps installation space by creating an ext 2 (can be upgraded to ext 3 and 4) partition on the sd card besides the normal fat32 partition. If you don't have an ext partition, just do a simple nandroid backup. Otherwise do nandroid + ext backup if you do have one.
I formatted the microSDHC card with Amon-Ra recovery to
512mb ext3 / 64mb swap. I reapplied CWM recovery and rebooted normal.
Used rom manager to do a nandriod backup and it did see the sd-ext partition.
what do I do to tell Android to setup and use swap partition, and should it help?
I'm new in this so maybe this is a stupid question.
I need now to make a partition in 4extrecovery but when I go to Partition SD Card and then no- save my FAT32 partiton, then 1024 (1st sd-ext), then 0 (2nd sd-ext), then 512 (swap), then I got a error it says: There is too little space on the device to create this partiton layout.
I have a 8GB sd card and free is more then 4GB.
8gb and 4gb free? If u partition ur sdcard ul lose ur data. Do a backup first.
What rom r u using?
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Currently I have the original sense ui, but I want to boot the MIUI Desire 2.4.13.
My mobile phone is rooted, now I need to boot the rom.
jmcclue said:
8gb and 4gb free? If u partition ur sdcard ul lose ur data. Do a backup first.
What rom r u using?
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I have a backup.
Someone please help?
If ur changing roms you will have to just backup your apps without the data, put the backup on your computer, then in recovery partition your sdcard to what the rom dev recommends then install the rom then put the backup back on your sdcard and install them all again.
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Dino89 said:
I'm new in this so maybe this is a stupid question.
I need now to make a partition in 4extrecovery but when I go to Partition SD Card and then no- save my FAT32 partiton, then 1024 (1st sd-ext), then 0 (2nd sd-ext), then 512 (swap), then I got a error it says: There is too little space on the device to create this partiton layout.
I have a 8GB sd card and free is more then 4GB.
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I've experienced this. Backup your entire sd card to your computer. There is no other way to do it. Partition your card without saving the FAT32. Set the size of the EXT partition you want, swap 0. That should do it.
Lets say you set 512MB as your SD EXT partition, and the rest is FAT32, the next time you try and repartition your SD EXT saving your FAT32, you can only partition it to less than the existing SD EXT partition. On my example that would be 512MB.
The reason you are getting that error when you do it right now is because you basically do not have an ext partition. So no exisiting ext partition=not enough space to work with.
Hi,
I have a HTC Desire running LeeDroid ROM 3.0.8.2 with A2SD+. I currently have an 8GB Sd card with 1GB EXT 3 partition, however I would like to swap this for a 32GB card. I have the new card and have partitioned it as before but with a 2GB EXT 3 partition and have copied all my files across from the old card, however when I put it in the phone it will not start up, it just hangs at the boot screen. Do I need to reflash the sd-alignment file and if so would this mean I had to reflash the rom too? I would like to avoid this if possible.
If anyone could help me and advise me of the easiest way of doing this I would be very grateful.
Cheers,
Sarah
it doesn't work because you haven't you haven't copied over the sd-ext contents to your new sd card. your new 32gb card has a blank sd-ext.
- put your old sd card back in, then make a nandroid backup.
- copy the 'clockworkmod' folder (or whichever folder contains your nandroid backups) to your new sd card
- full wipe and nandroid restore, this will fill up the sd-ext partition on the 32gb card
i would recommend doing all the partitioning and backing up using 4ext recovery if possible (requires s-off)
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eddiehk6 said:
i would recommend doing all the partitioning and backing up using 4ext recovery if possible (requires s-off)
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I agree. Working with 4ext is much more comfortable and it's partitioning is better. Plus you can partition your sd-ext as ext4.