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.
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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
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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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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My question is: If my current (stock) sd card is partitioned, do I need to partition my new sd card in AmonRa before transferring the files over?
Also, what other tips/tricks might be of use when replacing an sd card?
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Jake
back up apps via TB or similar program, reboot into recovery, make a backup,turn on Ms toggle,copy contents of SD card to PC,turn off Ms toggle,turn off phone,switch SD cards,boot phone holding volume down+power,select recovery,create new partition with your choice of settings and ext upgrade, turn on Ms toggle,transfer contents from PC, turn off Ms toggle,run dta2sd if need be, reboot phone,restore apps if need be. I think I got everything there.
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i was trying to do a nandroid back up to my external sd card, but it said
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No /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
why is it not detect my external sd card as a form of storage for the nandroid backup?
Not sure what that msg means but it is normal.. And not sure what it means because cwm doesn't backup your external sd card so not sure why it checks..
But it's a normal message and won't affect your backups or recoveries
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sd-ext isn't your external sd card, but rather a partition created on an external sd card that can be used as internal memory. It was more popular when the phones had little internal memory and was a way to install apps on the external card. Our phone has a much larger space for /data, therefore it isn't needed.
Hope that helps.
This version of Clockworkmod will see your external SD card :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766253
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thank you all for your responses. I decided to switch to the CWM 5.8.45 Touch through adb install.
but it was still giving me the same response.
although, like morphous said, i guess it doesn't really matter.
thanks once again
I get the sd-ext not being relevant as I am not using that kind of partition...
...but how about the not backing up applications part? Is that normal as well? Was I misreading the line "skipping backup of applications on external storage." thinking it meant:
"not backing up applications TO external storage"
where it actually means:
"not backing up applications that have been installed to external storage" (because I have none installed there)
? Thanks for confirming.
Ive always flashed roms from my extsd, but the one I had died, cant get a new one till mon. Can I flash from the phone sd, Without causing problems? If so what should I wipe?
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Yes you can flash from internal sd card. Same procedure as if flashing from ext sd card.
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Hi there. You would in cwm touch choose install zip from internal instead of install zip from external sd card option. Cwm touch is pretty straight forward. Follow the choices. Also make sure you do your nandroid backup before flashing anything. You would want to save that backup to your external sd card when you get it to save device memory. A few backups on internal storage will eat up ALL your internal storage space on the phone so sd card is important to have. If your using cwm you MUST in settings specify for backups to go to EXTERNAL sd card other wise by default they go to internal storage.word of warning this will quickly use all your device storage so make certain once you get your sd to fix the settings so it will go by default to EXTERNAL sd card rather than internal device storage. Hope this helps you out. Best wishes