Okay, so I am planning to get a 16gb micro sd card but my phone is rooted with CyanogenMod. - new version 7.2
Do I have to change anything on the root if I put a new micro sd in?????
pure.noob said:
Okay, so I am planning to get a 16gb micro sd card but my phone is rooted with CyanogenMod. - new version 7.2
Do I have to change anything on the root if I put a new micro sd in?????
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Some of your data is on the old card especially if you have an sd-ext and swap partition. So:
With the Old Card Still in:
1) Reboot into Recovery
2) Do a full backup (especially if you have an sd-ext partition, clockwordmod or 4EXT can handle this easily for you)
3) Start up USB toggle mode, and copy everything that shows up on your card over to your computer.
4) eject and turn off USB
5) Power off the phone
With the New Card in:
1) Boot into Recovery
2) Format the SD card with the same swap/sd-ext sizes you were using before.
3) Start up USB Toggle
4) Copy back your data from your desktop
5) Do a full wipe (system/data/cache/dalvik)
6) Restore backup from your card (which should also restore sd-ext data as well)
Reboot the phone, you should now have it the same as before with any sd-ext data restored to the new card, and the new larger capacity FAT32 space.
If you do not use swap nor sd-ext partition at all currently, you can simply copy all the files off the old card and onto the new one, just do so with the phone off in case the phone is saving any data to the /android/data/ folder(s), though I'd still recommend using least sd-ext partition with CM7.2
What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD
kbeezie said:
Some of your data is on the old card especially if you have an sd-ext and swap partition. So:
With the Old Card Still in:
1) Reboot into Recovery
2) Do a full backup (especially if you have an sd-ext partition, clockwordmod or 4EXT can handle this easily for you)
3) Start up USB toggle mode, and copy everything that shows up on your card over to your computer.
4) eject and turn off USB
5) Power off the phone
With the New Card in:
1) Boot into Recovery
2) Format the SD card with the same swap/sd-ext sizes you were using before.
3) Start up USB Toggle
4) Copy back your data from your desktop
5) Do a full wipe (system/data/cache/dalvik)
6) Restore backup from your card (which should also restore sd-ext data as well)
Reboot the phone, you should now have it the same as before with any sd-ext data restored to the new card, and the new larger capacity FAT32 space.
If you do not use swap nor sd-ext partition at all currently, you can simply copy all the files off the old card and onto the new one, just do so with the phone off in case the phone is saving any data to the /android/data/ folder(s), though I'd still recommend using least sd-ext partition with CM7.2
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What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD???`
pure.noob said:
What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD
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Well you could, but I think you'll have the best luck letting the phone format the card first. And only if you're not using a swap or sd-ext partition on your previous card (because if you are then you'll actually need to follow the steps I mentioned).
When I switched cards I just powered off the phone, removed the old card and inserted it into my PC. Copied all the files to my desktop. Inserted my new card to my PC, formatted using SD card Formatter, and copied all my files to the new micro SD. Put the new card in the phone. Done.
and as kbeezie mentioned that will be fine unless you want to restore anything that is on your ext partition. if you dont have one then no worries if you do you computer wont read the ext file extension and those files wont transfer over. you can back up just the ext partition if you want and restore just the ext partition via recovery
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I’ve recently upgraded the SD card in my desire to a 16GB class 4 and its giving me some major issues! I’m running OpenDesire 4.0.1 and the sequence of events was as follows:
1. Inserted new SD card and formatted with gParted: 512MB Ext3 and the rest FAT32 (Ext3 partition was at the end – hope that’s correct!)
2. Rebooted fine and all the apps stored on the internal memory were present and correct. Those that I had moved to the old SD card were missing so I uninstalled them.
3. Tried to install Estrongs file manager from appbrain using the fast web installer function. This downloaded OK but the phone rebooted during installation. Tried again but same thing occurred again.
4. Tried plugging phone into PC. USB debugging mode started up fine but I wasn’t offered the option of mounting the SD card
5. Unplugged USB and inspected phone storage menu to find that no SD card was mounted
6. Rebooted a few times, removed and reinstalled SD card etc – still no SD card detected by the phone
7. Booted into recovery, connect phone to PC and used the “mount USB” option in Clockwork mod. This was successful and allowed me to inspect my SD card on the PC. Noticed that Dalvik cache and some apps (those not included as part of the ROM) were present on the SD card (FAT32 partition) – OpenDesire must have moved them there automatically (but why to the FAT32 partition and not Ext3?).
8. Rebooted phone out of recovery to check that those apps that appeared on the SD card were accessible in Android. Found that they were, which is strange given that the SD card was still not being detected by the system.
9. Decided to mount SD card again via clockwork recovery method and formatted the FAT32 partition with gParted.
10. Rebooted phone and found SD card still not detected and all those apps that had magically been moved to the SD card by OpenDesire were (unsurprisingly) gone.
11. Tried a few adb commands that I found in another thread but didn’t seem to have any effect.
Out of ideas – can anyone help?! Will try old SD card tonight and see what happens, but I don’t think there is a problem with the new card since I managed to successfully mount it through clockwork. I’m also wondering why the apps were moved to the FAT32 partition instead of Ext3? I thought that’s what the Ext3 partition was for?
Cheers
The FAT32 partition must be the first partition on your SD card, and it seems from what you've said that you created the EXT partition first.
Regards,
Dave
no the the FAT32 was first then the Ext3
OK fixed. Managed to mount the SD card on the PC via clockworkmod, deleted all partitions and rebooted phone. Phone detected SD card and asked me to format it. Did that and then added a ext partition using gParted.
SD Card Cant be Detected on Desire(Solved)
Hiii... guys.. even i went through the same problem.. and tried formatting using Linux,Windows.. but nothing happpnd... as a final trial i tried it to factory reset(i.e., SD CARD).. by using hp usb disk storage format tool ...... and it was successful...
As for now just google the Software
Good LUCK!
After numerous flashes, back-ups, etc my flash card is a mess. Is there a safe way to just wipe it and start clean without bricking my phone?
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Search how to unroot your evo in 2 steps. And this isn't dev material. Q&A is where this belongs.
I believe you are looking for just the flash card? meaning the microsd card?
there are a few ways.
1. Pull the card out plug it directly into a computer, back up all data and then format it...then plug back into the phone and copy your stuff back.
2. plug the phone into a computer, transfer / backup all your sd card contents, go to settings sd & phone storage umount SD card, format sd card and put your stuff back.
I just know there is crap on this sd card that is a waste buy not sure what...
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Tuffgong4 said:
I believe you are looking for just the flash card? meaning the microsd card?
there are a few ways.
1. Pull the card out plug it directly into a computer, back up all data and then format it...then plug back into the phone and copy your stuff back.
2. plug the phone into a computer, transfer / backup all your sd card contents, go to settings sd & phone storage umount SD card, format sd card and put your stuff back.
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Great Answer....
bud if all you want to do is wipe the sdcard then fust go to throught the phone settings and do a memory card format. that will wipe everything of the card.
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.
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What's the best way to switch out your sd card without losing any of its contents. My best guess would be to:
1) Copy contents of old sd card onto your hard drive
2) Remove old sd card
3) Format new sd card
4) Copy contents of old sd card from hard drive to new sd card
Am I missing anything? I've read that FAT32 is recommended over exFAT? Has anyone heard different? Also, is it better to format the card using your PC or should I just format the card in my S3?
Hi,
I recently switched from an 8gb sdcard to a 16gb sdcard. I put everything from the 8gb on my computer hard drive, safely unmounted via storage in settings, then just popped the new one in, not messing with format or anything. a month later and I'm doing fine.
Hope this helps
I would recommend formatting the sdcard in a PC, if possible
If not, then do it through your phone
And yes, the procedure you have laid out is perfectly fine
Help please,
I made a nandroid backup of data in TWRP before flashing CloudyG3_2.4.
After the phone came up and I restored my apps using smsbackup, at this point, I could see the external sd card and all the contents.
I then reboot into recovery and restored data only from nandroid backup made earlier and rebooted the phone.
From here, I cannot see the SD card when the phone restarted but:
1. The sdcard works on other phones/computers without problems and has all the data intact.
2. I can see the SD card and all the files when I reboot into TWRP recovery and go to file Explorer
3. SD card is mounted in the advanced settings in TWRP.
4. Someone on a thread advised I formatted the sdcard to "FAT" in TWRP but I first backed up on my PC with a card reader before putting the SD card back in the phone to format but even though it says successful, it is giving an MTP error = 1
5. I can't find the SD card or any of its files using rootbrowser, or sdmaid etc ie. In normal boot.
I need help please. Thanks
LG G3 D855