[Q] Installing new ROMs, with new SD card - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have rooted my Desire, with an eye toward increasing my app space (I'm an app junkie, I guess). I haven't installed any new ROMs yet, but am getting ready to do so. Right now I'm looking at either CyanogenMod 7 or Supernova. I also just bought a new 16 gb SD card for the new partition. I know I need to do the following:
- Install new ROM
- partition the new SD card with ext4
- backup my current setup
- copy everything from stock SD card to new SD card?
I don't really care about copying over my data and apps. I can just re-download my apps, and most of my data is synced online. The only thing I might want to backup is my SMS messages. However, I will do a full backup with Titanium Backup Pro, just in case I need it. I rooted my phone with Revolutionary 0.4pre4 and would like to use Rom Manager to do everything else.
My questions are:
What order do I need to do the above steps? Obviously the backup is first. Should I just copy everything over from my old SD card to the new one? If so, how do I do this - just copy everything to my computer hard drive, then to the new card? And do I create a partition first, or doesn't it matter?

Allright, the very first thing you need to do, is backup the content from your sd card. Just copy all the files you want to maintain to your pc. You need to do this, because your sd card needs to be formatted.
Then, partition your sd card. If youre planning on installing Cyanogenmod, you dont really need to, since it fits perfectly in the internal memory of the desire. But do it anyway. If you want to switch, for example a runneymede rom later, you dont need to it then.
I recommend 15GB Fat32 primary - 1GB ext4 primary. See this exellent tutorial on how to partition your sd card: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning
Now you partitioned your sd card, you can copy all the stuff you backed up on step 1 to your sd card.
Next, make a backup of your current setup. Go to recovery, in case of clockworkmod its backup/restore > restore. The backup will be stored on the SD card, so make sure you do this AFTER you partitioned it (like I described), or youll lose your backup.
Now its safe for you to flash your rom . Enjoy!

Since I rooted with revolutionary, but Rom Manager uses clockworkmod, does it matter if I flash clockworkmod over revolutionary?
And can I just use Rom Manager to format my sd card? Will it allow me to do a 15GB Fat32 primary - 1GB ext4 primary?

I also just realized that many ROMs, including Supernova, are GSM-only. My Desire is CDMA. Which Roms have a2sd+ for cdma?

It doesnt really matter which recovery you use, its a matter of taste. About the CDMA roms, I dont know by heart, since Ive got a GSM desire.

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Changing SD Cards with APP2SD

Hi guys,
I have a question regarding the migration of data and apps from an old (stock 4gb) SD card to a new one while running APP2SD on the desire.
I'm using Pays 1.9 BraveSoul ROM at the moment with APP2SD installed and working sweet on a device-partitioned ext2.
my new 16gb class 6 card has arrived and I want to transfer all my apps and data from one to another without losing anything (I don't mind re-installing though).
I can back up my apps with Titanium and I have been doing that successfully for non-APP2SD ROMs. However, I'm not sure how to copy the ext2 partition to my new card and how the desire will react.
I found this method in my searches and I was wondering if anyone can confirm it is suitable for the rooted desire?
"I did an a2sd swap yesterday.
Did a nandroid/ext backup.
Copied card to computer.
Powered off phone.
Switched cards.
Partitioned new card.
Copied back from computer to SD card
Restored nandroid
Worked like a champ."
*from: hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=585349&page=6
Also, I'm not using linux, I do my partitioning from the device in recovery.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Paul.
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Update:
Looks like the desire is not liking the nandroid+ext backup.
I think I will have to do a full titanium backup and re-flash to get my APP2SD on the new card...
You can back up all your apps using Titanium Backup, format the new SD card in recovery, boot up, install Titanium, and restore your apps using that.

New SD card and new ROM... help!

Desire rooted, running LeeDroid 2.1 something with A2SD+.
OK I have looked at a few other threads but I still have some questions.
I am finally upgrading my stock SD card to a 16GB card.
I know I need to format the new SD card before trying to use it in LeeDroid. I have Ubuntu installed on a laptop so I can format it from there. Can I then just copy all the contents from the old SD over to the new SD?? What about the data in the ext3? Will this copy over too?
Once the new SD is installed I want to upgrade to the lastest version of LeeDroid. I've only installed one ROM (the one currently running) so I don't know how to back my phone up so it can be easily restored once the new ROM is running... I mean all the apps, personal data etc.
I have mybackup pro(paid) and titanium backup pro(paid)...
http://leedroid.protogenlabs.com/wiki/how-to-setup-a-new-sdcard-migrate-ext3-data
Don't have to follow the steps to make a ext partition with rom manager when you have a linux machine.

[Q] Sd card has "permanently" shows less space

i decided to make an ext partition on my sd card so i could move over even more application data over to external, however it didn't work to my liking so i decided to get rid of it and just stick with a full FAT partition instead. Except now my 8gig card only shows something like 3gigs and nothing i could find so far in windows or Linux allows me to see the ext partition to format and make FAT again... any ideas?
this was done with and I'm still running clockwork mod
if you have amonRA v2.3 as your recovery, boot to it and then select partition SD card. Place a zero for the SWAP, when promoted, zero for ext2 and the rest for FAT. Make sure to transfer the contents of your card to a computer or external drive before starting this procedure.
Update: I see that you're using CWM. You can select amonRA ( PC36IMG.zip) from my signature, place it on the root of your SD card and boot to the bootloader to install it.
posting & replying via my EVO 4G

[Q] How to change SD Card when using a D2EXT ROM ?

Hello,
I'm using the MIUI-XJ ROM, with D2EXT. Unfortunately, I use a crappy class 2 micro SD card, and it makes the ROM and apps laggy as hell. So i've got 2 questions :
- First, how can I transfer an app from the sd card, so D2EXT, to internal memory, so it uses the few MBs free I have, and avoid lagging ? (Especially for homes such as SPB Shell... It makes the whole phone lag)
- I plan to buy a class 10 micro sd card. Are the SDHC a good solution ? Does it work with D2EXT ? When I'll have it, how can I transfer everything from the old card to the new one without losing anything ? Would a simple copy/cut work ? Or do I have to use backup apps such as the ROM Manager or TItanium Backup ?
Concerning the partitions, would I have to partition the new sd card ? What partitions ?
That's a lot of questions, sorry...
Thanks.
Firstly, you cant.
Secondly, SDHC just means "Secure Digital High Capacity". Yes Data2ext will work on this.
The best way to "Upgrade" is to take a nandroid backup, partition the new card, copy all the data from the FAT32 partition to the new FAT32 partition (including hidden files such as ".android_secure" and nandroid restore. Upgrade should be seamless.
rootSU said:
Firstly, you cant.
Secondly, SDHC just means "Secure Digital High Capacity". Yes Data2ext will work on this.
The best way to "Upgrade" is to take a nandroid backup, partition the new card, copy all the data from the FAT32 partition to the new FAT32 partition (including hidden files such as ".android_secure" and nandroid restore. Upgrade should be seamless.
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Thanks for this quick answer. For the SDHC, I asked because when flashing the Wii, some memory cards (SDHC ones) aren't compatible, and I got ****ed by that. Don't want to spend around 50-60€ for nothing
Ok, so I'll do that, just have to find how I partitionned it first... Thanks a lot.

upgrading SD card that has S2E

I've got an 8GB SD Card which i plan to upgrade to a 32GB installed in my HTC Desire
Only problem is my Desire running CM7 Official is also running Simple2Ext and Ive installled quite a few apps now (well over the Desires own internal space)
Is there an easy way to upgrade my SD Card and copy the Ext partition from my old 8GB card?
- nandroid backup using your current sd card
- partition your new sd card (4ext or gparted)
- copy everything from old sd card to new sd card (you'll only see the FAT32 partitions in windows, just copy everything you can see, as this will include the nandroid backup)
- insert new sd card and nandroid restore (will restore your ext partition as before)
not tried this with s2e, but should work
Yes this method works brilliantly as I used it personally couple of times in past.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA
thanks for that, i'll give it a bash

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