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[Q] Borked Desire upgrade from official Froyo to Leedroid Gingerbread

Tonight I decided to try an upgrade on my rooted Desire with ClockwordMod installed. I originally had the official Froyo ROM and downloaded the latest Leedroid Gingerbread ROM to give it a go.
All was going swimmingly until on reboot it took far longer than the expected 20 minutes or so to boot.
I pulled the battery and now the phone is stuck in a reboot loop at the 'Leedroid Android' splash screen.
I get the impression something may have gone wrong with the ext3 alignment patch somehow as I can't mount my sdcard to either reflash the leedroid ROM or revert back to the official ROM.
The output of parted from a terminal window shows the following:
Code:
/sbin # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print
Model: SD 00000 (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 3942MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 10.8kB 3942MB 3942MB primary
So it looks like I've somehow lost my file system on my sdcard.
Anyone have any suggestions as to the quickest fix out of this?

Just realised this is in the wrong section... could a mod move please?

Try reformat the SD card with a 100% size FAT32 partition (use a card reader to do that, had this bug one time, i couldnt resize with the phone as a card reader). I recommend you this software (windows) : MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
Search it on google. use this video if you dont know how to use it :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCV7Eu1pjWQ
Just create a partition FAT32, Primary, set the size, and a ext3, primary, set the leaving size (max 1.5gb) apply and wait
Once it's done, you can repart the SD card with FAT+ ext3
put files on your sd card.
I flashed the first time with the zip alignment patch, had the same bug than you, retried after full wipe without the patch, juste rom and reboot, and everything was ok.
so wipe and reflash
tell us if it works

Thanks! Before I wipe completely as a last resort, is there any alternative way of recovering what's on the SD card? Unfortunately the last backup I made of its contents is over a month old...

[Q] Aligning FAT32 filesystem to partition

Hello
I am trying to align my FAT32 partition on my SD card as per:
dubdubdub.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?3696-HOWTO-Increase-write-speed-by-aligning-FAT32
I'm having issues completing the process because my SD card has a FAT32 partition followed by an EXT4 one, whereas the guide formats the entire SD as FAT32. I've tried heaps of different things to get it working, even doing it successfully on a 4GB flash drive which was fully FAT32, but I'm convinced having the EXT4 partition after is causing problems.
When I go to (W)rite the heads/sector changes to the partition I get this error:
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.
No changes are made, not even after rebooting Linux.
Has anyone else had success with aligning their FAT32 partition with an EXT4 following it? I could try doing the entire SD card as FAT32, align it, resize it, and create an EXT4 after aligning it, but wasn't sure if this would work. I'll give it a try and see how I go.

I know its not helpful, but I was planning on doing this next time I flash a new ROM but haven't got around to it yet...
However, the link above which is clickable is here: http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?3696-HOWTO-Increase-write-speed-by-aligning-FAT32
I imagine you need to change this bit:
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at the end of the disk
to
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at x from the end of the disk
where x is the size of the EXT partition you want to create
sadly it doesnt give the commands and i can't read the help here at work at the moment

I don't believe in such alignment.
Remove all partitions from gparted or windows disk management.
Download SD Formater utility from SD Card Association. And format your card. Full format.
Boot into gparted and shrink fat32 partition. Take note that there is 4MB in front of fat partition. Make sure it stay that way. In free space create ext partition. Use MB alignment in gparted.
That's all.

vr5411 said:
Use MB alignment in gparted.
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I don't remember seeing that option?
what about the flashable ext alignment zip's?

Help me fix my SD Card

Hi there,
A couple days ago, I had a usb brick. I quickly fixed it, everything got back to normal except for my sd card : I think it's corrupted. Why do I say this ? Because I've got another sd card, and it's working perfectly. I can't get to format it via Gparted. It says the procedure failed, there was an issue and i couldn't format it. In addition, even though it's a 4GB card, it's recognized as a 3gb card.
When I try to use it in recovery mode, it says :
Code:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
But when I use the other card, nothing weird happens.
I'd like you guys to help me repair my SD card.

kev94 said:
Hi there,
A couple days ago, I had a usb brick. I quickly fixed it, everything got back to normal except for my sd card : I think it's corrupted. Why do I say this ? Because I've got another sd card, and it's working perfectly. I can't get to format it via Gparted. It says the procedure failed, there was an issue and i couldn't format it. In addition, even though it's a 4GB card, it's recognized as a 3gb card.
When I try to use it in recovery mode, it says :
Code:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
But when I use the other card, nothing weird happens.
I'd like you guys to help me repair my SD card.
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Googled and found this: http://www.ehow.com/how_4850280_repair-corrupt-sd-card.html

1. link your desire with pc
2. enter "FASTBOOT Mode", it will display "HBOOT USB PLUG"
3. open dos windows and type adb shell
4. type fastboot oem rebootRUU
5. type fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
and retry

I already tried this, but it didn't work out ! I'm out of ideas...

So it says it's a 3GB card? You had an 1GB Ext partiton before?
If yes, that's where your 1GB's gone.
Recommended is to repartition your card again from scratch - Using Either GParted, EASEUS or MiniTool partiton.
Backup everything from it, then delete all partitions - and re-create them.

davebugyi said:
So it says it's a 3GB card? You had an 1GB Ext partiton before?
If yes, that's where your 1GB's gone.
Recommended is to repartition your card again from scratch - Using Either GParted, EASEUS or MiniTool partiton.
Backup everything from it, then delete all partitions - and re-create them.
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Actually, it's 3.7 GB and not 4GB (I guess it's normal though). And yes, the missing space was from the ext partition. Thanks god, the first thing I did was a backup of my SD card. Yet, I tried to format the card with Gparted (I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10) but as I said above the procedure fails.
Then, I formatted in Windows, and I managed to create a 3Gb fat32 partition recognized in Gparted.
But how am I supposed to get my missing space back if this space isn't recognized in Gparted ?

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) - and i'm able to mount my EXT partiton of the SD Card.
As I said, don't just format the card, but delete all partitions and re-create them, then format them.
Also, if your card is messed up badly, maybe you have to use the termina with commands to recover the ext partition.

Always format SD cards with the "SD Formatter 3.0" from the SD Association: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
This little programs formats the whole card (full capacity, erasing all other partitions) in FAT32 meeting all SD specifications.
Furthermore it alligns the LBA parameters (virtual heads, cylinders etc) and the fat32 parameters with the internal structures of the flash memory (eraseblocks), so that fat32 clusters never overlap eraseblocks. This speeds up write performance (in my case about 50%! ).
There is no better tool to format SD cards.
After that you can resize (But don't move it, just trim the end. The free space in front of the FAT32 partition is part of the alignment) the FAT 32 partition with gparted and generate an ext partition in the free space.
Finally one should run the ext alignment script (it's a zip for recovery mode) from baadnwz homepage (http://www.baadnwz.eu/2011/05/align-your-sdcard-fat-and-ext-partiton_16.html) to align also the ext4 partition to the flash cells.

boot up into android (with any ROM) and go to settings > storage > format SD card
this should restore whole SD as FAT32
funny enough Android could do it, while Gparted could not (gparted didnt see my whole sd, it didnt see the ext partition)

davebugyi said:
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) - and i'm able to mount my EXT partiton of the SD Card.
As I said, don't just format the card, but delete all partitions and re-create them, then format them.
Also, if your card is messed up badly, maybe you have to use the termina with commands to recover the ext partition.
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---> As I said too , Gparted fails to create partitions. It displays a "warning" icon by the sd icon. Unless I'm a fool, I can't get any further there.
hypophysis said:
Always format SD cards with the "SD Formatter 3.0" from the SD Association: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
This little programs formats the whole card (full capacity, erasing all other partitions) in FAT32 meeting all SD specifications.
Furthermore it alligns the LBA parameters (virtual heads, cylinders etc) and the fat32 parameters with the internal structures of the flash memory (eraseblocks), so that fat32 clusters never overlap eraseblocks. This speeds up write performance (in my case about 50%! ).
There is no better tool to format SD cards.
After that you can resize (But don't move it, just trim the end. The free space in front of the FAT32 partition is part of the alignment) the FAT 32 partition with gparted and generate an ext partition in the free space.
Finally one should run the ext alignment script (it's a zip for recovery mode) from baadnwz homepage (http://www.baadnwz.eu/2011/05/align-your-sdcard-fat-and-ext-partiton_16.html) to align also the ext4 partition to the flash cells.
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---> Sounds great and geeky, gonna give it a try tomorrow afternoon (CET +2 here)
dzumagos said:
boot up into android (with any ROM) and go to settings > storage > format SD card
this should restore whole SD as FAT32
funny enough Android could do it, while Gparted could not (gparted didnt see my whole sd, it didnt see the ext partition)
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---> Yeah, Gparted is a bit lazy here.... Gonna try it if hypophysis's method doesn't work out. I gotta admit this kinda problem is pretty disturbing and pisses me off so much.... Waiting forward to get it over with.
Anyway, thanks a lot for helping me, you're good people here !

Well, I tried hypophysis's method. It formatted successfuly. But as you said, I had to run Gparted again in order to create an Ext partition next to the fat 32 one. But I couldn't --> It says it couldn't find the "first sector" I guess, and it couldn't determine the device specifications, it wasn't able to perform everything he wanted. Actually it recognized the whole sd card, but wasn't able to do anything with it. I couldn't unmount it or mount it....
I'm stuck at square 1 Gonna try to perform dzumagos's method later.

[Q] How to make ext4? Im stuck here...

Hello.
I'm having a big problem with ext4 fromatting partion.
I have using GParted program (bootable cd), and everything was great, program created 2,79 GB FAT32, and 1 GB ext4, like in the video tutorial on your site http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084 (step five).
And I noticed, on the end of the video, when the guy is checking on htc desire space (about 2:40 min on youtube) he had 13,92 GB on FAT32 of 14,92 GB. But I have full 3,92 GB FAT32, which is the same sioze a micro sd. I dont know where I am doing wrong?
Then, I tried ROM manager, but after restart, I have blue android and triangle with !...and says that on disk e: something goes wrong ABORTED!
Do you have some idea, what can I do?
Thank you very much.

You did something wrong with gParted, delete all partitions, make one FAT32 partition and format the SD.
Then try making EXT partition in recovery, if you know how to you should change recovery to the 1 in my signature, it works flawlessly.

Nope, I formated fat32 and ext4, and when I connect htc desire to pc, and put Insertcoin.zip, its blank sd card. And then I see notification on htc, that is my sd card blank, and unsupported filesystem...
I will try and third way, that ext4recvery...

or you can try MiniTool Partition (@k3lcior yes I remember what you said).
Note: Some say that you can get errors when partitioning with windows, but I've never had any problems. Up to you.

Gparted is an awesome tool to use ??? I don't see what your doing wrong ...
Format card - New Partition - Fat 32- 2.79 gb -
Then new partition - create Ext 4 at the end 1gb....

[Q] Partitioning SD card - FAT32 then EXT4 or EXT4 then FAT32

Question's in the title.....
Does it matter which order the different partition types are created in?
If so.... what is the difference.
I have read now a number of different threads related to creating these partitions (usually via gparted) but it is not clear to me if the order is important.
I have set up a card with ext first .... it seems to work, but the card is not readable directly when plugged into a PC - I can read/write when still in the phone via USB.
If the FAT32 partition is first - then could the PC read that directly ... but Android will still find the ext4 at the end?
I would like to find out before my new class 10 card arrives and I set it up.
Thanks

Looloup said:
Question's in the title.....
Does it matter which order the different partition types are created in?
If so.... what is the difference.
I have read now a number of different threads related to creating these partitions (usually via gparted) but it is not clear to me if the order is important.
I have set up a card with ext first .... it seems to work, but the card is not readable directly when plugged into a PC - I can read/write when still in the phone via USB.
If the FAT32 partition is first - then could the PC read that directly ... but Android will still find the ext4 at the end?
I would like to find out before my new class 10 card arrives and I set it up.
Thanks
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if you're using gparted (good choice):
FAT32 first (on the left), ext4 second (on the right), both primary.

First of all, as stated by eddiehk6, the first partition it's fat32, folowed by ext!
I did the partitioning thing over and over with 4ext recovery (look for the updater app at 4ext.net - i highly recommend this recovery ) and everything went smooth.
You only need to go to "Tools" when in recovery and use the sd card partitioning command, wich will guide you through the process and set your card; remember to backup your data before doing this, cause it's recommended to do things "from scratch"!
Wich rom do you want to use? For GB the best thing to do is setting only one ext partition, for ICS it's better to add the swap partition too!
GB: when prompted, select 1024 (the standard for almost all roms) for the first ext, 0 for second ext and swap and select ext4 as a fs when prompted; this will set your SD card like this: x MB fat32 / 1024 MB 1st ext4 / 0 MB 2nd / 0 SWAP
ICS: when prompted, select 1024 (the standard for almost all roms) for the first ext, 0 for second ext and 256 for swap (not a must) and select ext4 as a fs when prompted; this will set your SD card like this: x MB fat32 / 1024 MB 1st ext4 / 0 MB 2nd / 256 SWAP. ICS with HWA use more RAM than GB and this may lead to crash and slowness. I'm actually running BCM 3.0U1 without SWAP without problem (and i'm fairly impressed)!
Sorry for my english
Looloup said:
Question's in the title.....
Does it matter which order the different partition types are created in?
If so.... what is the difference.
I have read now a number of different threads related to creating these partitions (usually via gparted) but it is not clear to me if the order is important.
I have set up a card with ext first .... it seems to work, but the card is not readable directly when plugged into a PC - I can read/write when still in the phone via USB.
If the FAT32 partition is first - then could the PC read that directly ... but Android will still find the ext4 at the end?
I would like to find out before my new class 10 card arrives and I set it up.
Thanks
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There is no order that the computer reads your partitions. I once had a flashdrive split into 6 different partitions, one was windows xp, the other was ubuntu. and the rest were different file partitions