I have been having a lot of trouble transferring files to my SD card (while in USB mode, not with the SD card plugged into my computer directly. I haven't tested that) while on linux. It will go any amount, and get stuck, and not make any more progress. I'm inclined to think it has something to do with linux and not my android, because windows transfers just fine. has anybody else had these problems?
I've used Linux ok with all my Android phones. What distro are you using?
I'm using ubuntu 11.10 and I have no problems with transferring using usb...
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I've used Linux ok with all my Android phones. What distro are you using?
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Mint, latest. Also, could it be a HW issue?
Oh, le small bump.
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The guide here in the forums about rooting tells us to format the sd card from the computer to fat32. Well just how do I do that with my mac? There's no fat32 option...
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Some possible solutions depend upon which version of Mac operating system you are working with.
Other solutions may depend upon whether you can get access to a Windows or Linux PC.
What OS and version are you working with?
So I am running Cyanogenmod 6.0.2 and it doesn't recognize my internal memory. I have tried mounting it in recovery mode. Anyone know how to fix this because it kind of sucks to have only 2 gigs of storage :/
Don't think that functionality works yet. Dealing with same issue on ruby rom.
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I use estrongs file explorer and I can get into the internal memory with cm6
Currently im using shadow rom and it works also
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Last time I checked it was working fine. mounted and scanned automatically for music/images. The only thing that wasn't working was it would show up as a drive if plugged into a Mac but not on a Windows machine.
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Also works fine here. Like others said... it does not yet work when using USB mode on a Windows PC (on a Mac it works fine).
if it doesn't show up as usb drive on windows, how should i move files to internal memory...?
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if it doesn't show up as usb drive on windows, how should i move files to internal memory...?
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Use a file manager app like Astro.
Everything seems to be working fine on 9/20 nightly.
yea this is driving me nuts in windows as well. what a pita... so the new roms don't take advantage of the fact that the phone has 8gb of internal memory?
a friend of mine wants me to rescue his netbook, but i need to create a bootable USB drive to re-install windows because he doesn't have an external disk drive.
i need 4gb minimum, but i've only got an actual 2gb flash drive.
thing is, i've got a 4gb microSD card in the desire.
if i backed up the entire contents of the card, and then stuck it in a USB card reader, essentially making it a 4gb USB stick, could i then put it back into the desire and restore the backup ?
would it cause any untoward problems ?
obviously i have no intentions of re-flashing or anything, but i just need to find a way of getting 4gb's of space for the installation.
cheers
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a friend of mine wants me to rescue his netbook, but i need to create a bootable USB drive to re-install windows because he doesn't have an external disk drive.
i need 4gb minimum, but i've only got an actual 2gb flash drive.
thing is, i've got a 4gb microSD card in the desire.
if i backed up the entire contents of the card, and then stuck it in a USB card reader, essentially making it a 4gb USB stick, could i then put it back into the desire and restore the backup ?
would it cause any untoward problems ?
obviously i have no intentions of re-flashing or anything, but i just need to find a way of getting 4gb's of space for the installation.
cheers
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I didn't see why it shouldn't work. It will work.
Cheers. Problem i've now got though is that I need a micro sd adapter which I don't have. So i'm kind of wondering if I could mount the phone as a usb device in clockwork mod and essentially make that the bootable usb device?
Obviously I would (I assume) need to keep the update.zip file on it so I could at least flash it back to recovery and restore everything.
Would that cause a problem? Or is the functionality of the phone not kept on the sd card?
That would work you could turn the phone on and mount it as usb storage.
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A 2gb flash drive will be more than anot to install Windows xp from
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A 2gb flash drive will be more than anot to install Windows xp from
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windows xp, yes but not 7. i want to try 7 first, but if that doesn't work then i'll use the 2gb stick to try XP
Get the windows 7 lite it has been cut down for notebooks
It can be found on most download sites
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Get the windows 7 lite it has been cut down for notebooks
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Thankyou for that - that's exactly what I did and everything is installed and works fine. i found out the notebook is for work purposes as well, so he can probably claim back the cost of actually making it all legal as well, so it's all good.
I keep a bootable Ubuntu flash drive around just for certain occasions like this. Runs Ubuntu right off the flash disk and let's you do what you need to do if you're in a pinch. Of course, this won't install Windows, but for emergencies it can be a lifesaver. Imagine if you were overseas and your hard drive or Windows crashes and won't boot. It'd be indispensable.
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I keep a copy of backtrack 3 on a boot pen drive you never know when you need to hack a wep key lol
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Thankyou for that - that's exactly what I did and everything is installed and works fine. i found out the notebook is for work purposes as well, so he can probably claim back the cost of actually making it all legal as well, so it's all good.
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You can pick up. C. O. As cheap from ebay
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First off, I've done quite a search amongst the forums for what I'm after without much success.
Basically I want to format my sd card so I can use A2SD before flashing Oxygen 2.0.2 ROM. I'm currently running 2.0 RC7 on a HTC Desire.
The catch is I use a mac and everything I've looked for and found hasn't been very helpful in explaining how to format my sd card outside of Windows. I do have VMWare running Windows XP, but can't boot into bios to make system boot from disc. Thus GParted is kinda useless (from what I've been read/informed).
Leaves me kinda in the unknown now about how to get this partition happening.
The only real info I found is from like 2009;
1)download the ext2fs plugin AND INSTALL !! (google it if you cant find it " how to partition ext2 on mac")
2)reboot
3)download the appstosd2 app
4)install on phone
5)open appstosd and select partition
6)let it do its thing
7)reboot phone
8)plugin usb
9)mount
10) you will get a error sayin that you need to first aid your disk press command I on your untitled partition or no_name partition
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Though I feel that is an outdated method and not suitable to my needs.
So does anyone have any help or advice on how to partition my sd card on a mac, or via Windows XP running via VMware? Would be greatly appreciated beyond belief.
Just run the Gparted iso in vm ware (new virtual machine) or a ubuntu distribution.
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php just get the Live disc and burn it or use your VMware Player an get Ubuntu running, open an terminal and apt-get install gparted.
Running XP doenst help you at all.
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Just run the Gparted iso in vm ware (new virtual machine) or a ubuntu distribution.
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I'm not very familiar/knowledgeable with VMware in-depth. I have my XP install and that's about the extent of it.
How exactly is one meant to run the Gparted iso in VMware?
I click "New Virtual Machine", "continue without disc" then I get to the installation media window with the 3 choices. I'm assuming I select the one related to an iso/image file (select Gparted iso) then the "Choose Operating System" screen and from there I don't know between the 2 drop down boxes I get.
Again, providing I'm even in the right area.
Probably also wise to say that I don't have the internet cap to just go and download Ubuntu sadly.
Would help if you would mention what options there are in the drop down menu. But you should choose something like linux or ubuntu.
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Would help if you would mention what options there are in the drop down menu. But you should choose something like linux or ubuntu.
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Yeah I selected "Linux" in the first option and then "Ununtu" in the second. Gparted then loaded up.
So sounds as if I'm on the right path. Now just down to following a guide and doing what is needed.
Glad to see you've got gparted loading now. Try searching YouTube for gparted tutorial vids (there's a few) - this is how I learned to partition my card a few months ago and I found it way easier than reading written tutorials.
Hope this helps
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Glad to see you've got gparted loading now. Try searching YouTube for gparted tutorial vids (there's a few) - this is how I learned to partition my card a few months ago and I found it way easier than reading written tutorials.
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Shall do that shortly, might look to format this evening if I can stop using my phone for a bit haha.
Will scope youtube for some tutorials and see how I go, otherwise I'll probably follow this one which I was directed to in the Oxygen thread the other day.
http://www.t-mod.org/?page_id=94
Thanks for the help as well, appreciated.
Gparted isn't picking up my SD Card at all. I plug in my Desire, switch it to Disk mode from the notification bar and it's not picked up. Tried it all before loading Gparted up and also after it. Nothing.
And in my GB Oxygen rom I don't have the following option (connect to PC);
Settings > Connect to PC > Default connection type > Disk drive > Done
To do as needed to turn it on in my settings. :/
So now I'm kinda stuck.
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Tried putting sd card into a microSD adapter and into my card reader on my mac. Still not being picked up at all by Gparted. So I'm assuming something is wrong somewhere along the line and I have no idea what.
Only other idea have at the moment is to maybe format my SD card (which I've backed up) and then try again and see if it reads?
Do it with the card reader, make sure you mount the card reader in vmware and not osx.
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Do it with the card reader, make sure you mount the card reader in vmware and not osx.
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It's okay I figured out what the issue was, all good now. Didn't have the usb drive enabled in vmware , rookie mistake.
Formatted card fine and all is good.
Thanks greatly for the help and time.
can the et4g be a bootable iso for windows 7?
Doubt it. The phone won't recognize he sdcard with the an ISO written to it and I don't think you could mount it if the phone doesn't recognize it. And on top of that it might be difficult to get the BIOS to see it as a boot able device.
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No. Wrong and incompatible hardware on the computer side. The software for the phone was written and compiled specifically for this phone and it's associated hardware.
The way the question is worded makes no sense. You want the e4gt to be a bootable ISO? Whaaaa?
I no understandy
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The way the question is worded makes no sense. You want the e4gt to be a bootable ISO? Whaaaa?
I no understandy
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Yeah please explain
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Pretty sure hes asking if he can use his phone to install windows similar to placing the windows 7 installation ISO onto a usb drive.
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Pretty sure hes asking if he can use his phone to install windows similar to placing the windows 7 installation ISO onto a usb drive.
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And the answer to that is no, because if you made your sdcard a bootable disk for win7 there would be no way for the computer to read it from the phone without being mounted, and once you try mount the sdcard the phone will require it to be formatted otherwise it won't let you mount it as a storage device.
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If you can create the drivers for the software to work with the hardware, then go for it.
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And the answer to that is no, because if you made your sdcard a bootable disk for win7 there would be no way for the computer to read it from the phone without being mounted, and once you try mount the sdcard the phone will require it to be formatted otherwise it won't let you mount it as a storage device.
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You would be mounting the phone as a usb storage device. The microsd card would be formatted and flagged bootable. Modern motherboard support booting from flash drives... i dunno last 8 or more years now?
Windows 7 has a tool for making bootable flash drives. Micro SD cards can have the boot flag on their MBR's set to bootable. The question is does the E4GT (on GB) allow for MBR access in mass storage. I can actually check that since I have a program I wrote for injecting code past the MBR it needs to read it. The next question is how does the phone represent the storage to the computer? If its not in a valid manner then the answer goes back to no because the motherboard may not wish to boot from it.
Ive created Bootable SD cards to boot through an SD card reader to flash firmware to video cards, its not much different and with windows 7 being usb drive bootable using a utility its only a question of this particular phone.
are you asking if you can emulate android on windows 7?
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are you asking if you can emulate android on windows 7?
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He asked if it can be a bootable iso for windows 7. One word corrected I am pretty sure if he asked if he can use it as a bootable flash device for windows 7 installation.
Which as I explained in my post is plausible. Many phones can do it and doing it with a regular old sd card over a reader on a motherboard with usb boot support is 100% normal. Given the lack of mass storage mount in ICS I would definitely want to be on Gingerbread before I even tried it.
I have done this with my old psp once, had to restore a friends computer which had a dead dvd drive and no usb drive around so formatted the sony memory stick on the psp. High chances of it working I don't see why not.