Hey,
I'm selling my HTC Desire so I want to change the SD card back to the original one. I'm using 8GB and want to switch to 4GB. My Desire is rooted with the SGBS Rom on top.
I tried to just copy the data from the 8GB card to the 4gig (deleted MP3s and stuff) and inserted the 4gig in the phone. But all I got was a bootloop. The 8gig is working fine still.
Can you guys tell me what to do now? Would be so nice.
Sephi said:
Hey,
I'm selling my HTC Desire so I want to change the SD card back to the original one. I'm using 8GB and want to switch to 4GB. My Desire is rooted with the SGBS Rom on top.
I tried to just copy the data from the 8GB card to the 4gig (deleted MP3s and stuff) and inserted the 4gig in the phone. But all I got was a bootloop. The 8gig is working fine still.
Can you guys tell me what to do now? Would be so nice.
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make an ext partition on the 4gb one
How do I do that? Through the recovery?
easiest way is with a program - gparted
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Or via 4ext recovery
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Or via reading some of the plethora of available guides on how to do that.
Or simply run a RUU. Selling a phone in any other state than full stock is pure idiocy in my book.
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erklat said:
Or via reading some of the plethora of available guides on how to do that.
Or simply run a RUU. Selling a phone in any other state than full stock is pure idiocy in my book.
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+1 on that
Unless you already have a person lined up for buying the (rooted) phone off you already, why narrow the potential buyer range?
I'll avoid creating another topic and ask here. I just bought an 8gb card for my Desire (originally it has a 4gb one). I don't have a A2SD or anything like that currently, but I possible will in the future. The phone is rooted, S-OFFed and runs MIUI. What I did. Made a nandroid backup, copied it and titanium backup files to the desktop using SD adapter, the inserted the 8gig card into the phone, partitioned it with the help of CWR. So I' ve created a 256mb EXT4 partition, 32mb SWAP one, the rest is FAT32. Then I've put the nandroid backup to the new card, booted to recovery and tried to restore it. But the MD5 sum was wrong.. WTF? Am I doing something wrong? Cheers for any help?
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I'll avoid creating another topic and ask here. I just bought an 8gb card for my Desire (originally it has a 4gb one). I don't have a A2SD or anything like that currently, but I possible will in the future. The phone is rooted, S-OFFed and runs MIUI. What I did. Made a nandroid backup, copied it and titanium backup files to the desktop using SD adapter, the inserted the 8gig card into the phone, partitioned it with the help of CWR. So I' ve created a 256mb EXT4 partition, 32mb SWAP one, the rest is FAT32. Then I've put the nandroid backup to the new card, booted to recovery and tried to restore it. But the MD5 sum was wrong.. WTF? Am I doing something wrong? Cheers for any help?
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Run Nandroid backup once more. Probably there is problem with Recovery Image.
Thanks mate. Should've tried it myself first before asking. It did help
virginDesire said:
easiest way is with a program - gparted
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Ha, I doubt that's the easiest way for someone that just asked how to partition an sdcard.
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I have a rooted Desire running NeoPhyTe Mod v1.8 Sense-FroYo 2.2. The phone will boot with my 8GB memory card which I have been using since day one, but it won't boot with my new 32GB card which I have tested using h2testw. I also have A2SD on the go if that makes any difference, but I was hoping to partition the 32gb one and use that in it's place.
Any help would be appreciated because I am at a complete loss. Thanks
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I have a rooted Desire running NeoPhyTe Mod v1.8 Sense-FroYo 2.2. The phone will boot with my 8GB memory card which I have been using since day one, but it won't boot with my new 32GB card which I have tested using h2testw. I also have A2SD on the go if that makes any difference, but I was hoping to partition the 32gb one and use that in it's place.
Any help would be appreciated because I am at a complete loss. Thanks
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Its cuz it dosent have an ext partition on your new sd card, use the gparted live cd to create one on your new card or do a hard reset, and boot your device up the first time with no sd card in.
same prob
looks like I am having the exact same prob, just looked @ the reply to your ?.
Prob for me is running a MAC and not Linux and the suggest of booting from the phone then inserting the SD card is not an option cause the battery is in the way
Amy other suggestions any one?
hmm but how can I partition the card if I cannot boot the phone when it is inserted? I can get it to boot into Clockwork Mod but I don't know if/how I can partition using that.
Ive got a new 16gb card coming, im running leedroid 2.2f with apps2sd. I thought it would be a simple swap but seemingly it isnt. Whats the best way to get everything onto the 16gb? Ive got a microsd card reader for the pc.
I dealt with the same issue recently. I copied everything from my old card to the PC, and then used ROM Manager to format and partition the new card. Aftrr that I copied everything I had on the old card to the new card. I'm using a variation of Leedroid's ROM as well.
Best of luck
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How do I going about getting the data from the other partition? as I cant see that in explorer
Haven't thought of that. I didn't have a partition on my old card.
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well, bit the bullet, downloaded ubuntu, partitioned new sd card and copied everything from old card to new partitions, ext3 and fat. Put in phone and constant reboot at leedroid screen. I'd done a clockworkmod backup before hand so run restore and everythings okay now. Not the tidiest way of doing it but its worked.
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How do I going about getting the data from the other partition? as I cant see that in explorer
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so when you copy and pasted the card's contents everything transfered? even apps?
hy, there's a complete TUT on leedroid 'site to migrate to a new sdcard =>
http://leedroid.com/bravo-wiki/how-to-setup-a-new-sdcard-migrate-ext3-data
Is it possible to use Gparted throu recovery mode?
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Hi,
I have been using HTC Desire A8183 for a while and have just swapped to A8181 for Optus network. I have taken out my 32Gb Card from the A8183 and placed it in the new A8181 after I have rooted and flash AmonRA V2.0 recovery. Except I cannot get into recovery from Vol - plus Power button unless I wait a long time for it to look for PD99DIAG.ZIP image which it does not find. If I put a smaller 2Gb sd card in it is fine and goes through to recovery quickly.
Can someone please help and steer me in the right direction, is it a problem with the SD card, am I missing something?
And yes its the new Desire PVT4 (40000) if this makes a difference.
Thanks in advance.
Have a look on your 32GB card for the PD99 file. I guess it is sorting through it if there is one. If it's bothering you that much, backup your SD card, then just format it and see if that works. But please backup.
Thanks I had a look and could not see the File, should it be in the root of the sdcard?
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Only if your looking to update something.
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the PB files are stock images and unless you have one on the SD card it shouldn't find one. The only time you'd use a PB99IMG.zip is when flashing it after extracting it from an RUU as you can't get an RUU to run
You also can't change from from A8181 to A8183
Thanks For your input and understand what you are saying I just don't know why my phones spend 10 minutes scanning for this image before loading the recovery. It should see there is no file and go straight to the recovery. Funny thing is I put a 2gb micro SD in with nothing in it and no problems straight into recovery, put my 16gb or 32gb micro SD in and I have to wait for this process of searching for this pb99diag image and nhh file etc. I don't understand is it the large size micro SD causing this?
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I am also having this problem, but it started only after I partitioned my SD card with GPart into EXT, Swap and FAT32 partitions and then installed the MIUI FROYO ROM
fangthorn said:
I am also having this problem, but it started only after I partitioned my SD card with GPart into EXT, Swap and FAT32 partitions and then installed the MIUI FROYO ROM
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Sorry to comment on my own post but I resolved the above problem by doing a Clockworkmod backup, Wiping User data & Dalvik cache and then flashing xavierjohn22's "MIUI XJ A2SD/A2SD+ 1.3.25 - 2.3 x1"
This was a PIA as I had to re install Titanium Backup, but then, at least I was able to use it to recover most of my data and apps from the TB backup made before my Superuser became corrupt.
The upside is that I now have the Excellent Gingerbread version of MIUI.
Hi,
I havent seen this question asked already and it might be a dumb question but im going to buy a new SD card today to replace my original 2GB one from my Desire. And currently im running the Leedroid 3.3.3 ROM. When i get my new SD card, would i have to re-flash Leedroid onto my phone again. Or would i just have to partition the SD card and then everything should work as normal?
Thanks In Advance
reflash, because of a2sd
Would i have to do a full wipe and then flash? Or can i just flash it straight over the top of the original one?
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Also would i be able to do a nandroid backup to my SD card which i have now? And then when ive partitioned my new SD card. Put the nandroid backup files onto the 8GB card and then should it be able to bring everything backup again? Eg Leedroid and etc
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Also would i be able to do a nandroid backup to my SD card which i have now? And then when ive partitioned my new SD card. Put the nandroid backup files onto the 8GB card and then should it be able to bring everything backup again? Eg Leedroid and etc
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Yes you can do this. It will work as long as none of the files get corrupted.
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Okaay thanks, also i cant find my micro sd adapter at the moment. Is it possible if i did a nandroid backup to my 2GB card and then put the nandroid files onto my computers hard drive. And then put the 8GB card in the phone and transfer it onto the 8GB card. And then powered my phone down and then booted into recovery mode. Would i be able to restore by nandroid files from the SD?
Yes. As long as you put it in the exact same folder path. Just copy the entire clockworkmod folder instead of just the nandroid files.
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Do a nand backup of your current rom on your current sd card. Then partition your new SD card the same way you partitioned your original card. Maybe even increasing your EXT size if you want.
Now transfer all the files on your fat partition from old SD to the new. Make sure you copy the clockworkmod folder where the nand backup file was saved.
Put the new card on your phone and reboot to recovery and do a nand restore. That should do it.
If I missed out anything or something is not correct with what I said please correct me.
Good luck.
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stankyou said:
Do a nand backup of your current rom on your current sd card. Then partition your new SD card the same way you partitioned your original card. Maybe even increasing your EXT size if you want.
Now transfer all the files on your fat partition from old SD to the new. Make sure you copy the clockworkmod folder where the nand backup file was saved.
Put the new card on your phone and reboot to recovery and do a nand restore. That should do it.
If I missed out anything or something is not correct with what I said please correct me.
Good luck.
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I tried exactly what you said and it didn't work, i get stuck in a bootloop after doing the nandroid recovery on the new SD card. Thankfully everything works fine when i put the old SD card and do the same nandroid recovery. I don't know if this matters but im using LeeDrOiD 3.3.3 R5 and i installed his "Dalvik Cache to /sdext" file and when im in recovery mode i get messages saying "cant mount sdext".
Would be very thankful if anyone could help me out
I hate to pee on bonfires but I've had limited success with SD cards. Some seem to accept EXT, others don't. I even got a 16Gb card that turned out to be a 32Gb card but it won't accept the EXT. Some you win....
fahoom said:
I tried exactly what you said and it didn't work, i get stuck in a bootloop after doing the nandroid recovery on the new SD card. Thankfully everything works fine when i put the old SD card and do the same nandroid recovery. I don't know if this matters but im using LeeDrOiD 3.3.3 R5 and i installed his "Dalvik Cache to /sdext" file and when im in recovery mode i get messages saying "cant mount sdext".
Would be very thankful if anyone could help me out
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Try clearing dalvik cache after restoring nandroid.
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itachi1706 said:
Try clearing dalvik cache after restoring nandroid.
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I think I tried that too as well (Along with wipe cache partition), although i'm not sure if I did it before restoring or after restoring (i most likely did it both before and after), will try again and let you know.
Hi Guys,
Apologies in advance. This is my first post here. I've tried to find threads with similar problems to mine but so far I am stuck on how to resolve it.
I inherited a HTC Desire a while ago which came with customised rom (I think it was "insert coin").
However last week I upgraded to a SG3 with the intention of giving the Desire to my sister and it has been all downhill from there.
Ever since I ported my service over to the SG3 and took out the HTC Desire's SD card and old sim, the HTC hasn't been able to start-up.
It turns on, but freezes on the start up home screen (see attachment). No icons are displayed and you can't do anything - not even turn the phone off. You have to pull the battery out to turn it off.
It does this even with another functional sim.
I can still go into HBOOT.
I did a factory reset from here thinking it would go back to stock standard rom. But i'm getting the same thing - freezing on the home screen.
I read about flashing the phone with a recovery image with android flasher. However when I do this, android flasher can't complete the task because it cannot detect my phone via the USB cable (I think the phone is automatically going on "charge only" - and since the screen is frozen, there is a no way of changing this)
I don't know what has gone wrong here so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Firstly, your phone is very easy to fix. Don't panic.
On the hboot screen, you have a "recovery" option. Select it, and post another picture.
Looks like its more of an SD card issue. Put back your earlier SD card or copy its contents to a new one.
Put the SD card back into phone and reboot.
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Insert-coin requires a sd-ext partition.
Do you have an ext partition on your sd-card? Is the storage smaller that it should be?
If you put the sd-card back, does it boot normally?
All of the apps were stored on the "old SIM" either put it back (o hope you've not formatted it), or change the Rom
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abaaaabbbb63 said:
Firstly, your phone is very easy to fix. Don't panic.
On the hboot screen, you have a "recovery" option. Select it, and post another picture.
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Here's another pic
Thanks
dvsk69 said:
Looks like its more of an SD card issue. Put back your earlier SD card or copy its contents to a new one.
Put the SD card back into phone and reboot.
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Yes, I thought this too as it was the only thing I could think of that I changed.
I copied the contents of the SD card onto my desktop before I reformatted it (oops!!!) for the SG3.
But when I realised the Desire didn't work, I copied the contents back onto another SD card, put it back in, rebooted, but it didn't work
I can't be 100% certain though that everything was copied back, I could very well have deleted something important. What sort of files would be important for the start up?
The card will have had an ext3 or ext4 partition that you'll have removed. Get a new card (or start again with the one you have) and flash a new Rom, I'd suggest flashing 4ext recovery, creating a 1.5 gb ext4 partition and then the mild wild cm7, you should be up and running within an hour with a stable Rom.
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Well... first flash mildwild cm7, to get your phone up and running, and you calm down, then do what frosty said.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
Well... first flash mildwild cm7, to get your phone up and running, and you calm down, then do what frosty said.
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THANKS!!! Flashed mildwild and phone up and running!!! :laugh:
You guys are legends.
n00b question, do I need to now sort out ext4 partition on the SD card?
jrtfan said:
THANKS!!! Flashed mildwild and phone up and running!!! :laugh:
You guys are legends.
n00b question, do I need to now sort out ext4 partition on the SD card?
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U can use 4ext recovery to partition ur SD card
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sywats said:
U can use 4ext recovery to partition ur SD card
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Just wondering whether I need/should partition the SD card, and whether this is still OK to do after flashing a new rom.
jrtfan said:
Just wondering whether I need/should partition the SD card, and whether this is still OK to do after flashing a new rom.
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You got to partition first before flashing. 1-1.5gb ext4 partition and rest fat32.
You can partition now, wipe everything except for sd card and reflash the ROM again.
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dvsk69 said:
You got to partition first before flashing. 1-1.5gb ext4 partition and rest fat32.
You can partition now, wipe everything except for sd card and reflash the ROM again.
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Thanks. Got it all working
Well done, nice stable Rom which is what you need when handing the phone over.
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