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SD card space

When I went to copy a rom to my sdcard, it said my card was full. I figured it was because of old nandroid backups, so I deleted them, but the sd card space has actually gone down instead of freeing up space.
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I'm baffled. Anyone know how to fix this?

What size sd card and where did you get it?

It is the one that came with my Incredible.
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Is it possible to delete everything from my SD card and start new? It's saying there is 1.8gb total, but only 28mb available.
Or can I flash roms using my phone storage?
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You can just format it (FAT32). Backup what you need. And maybe store stuff on the internal storage. You have to use the SD card for ROM's etc.
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[Q] sd card transfer

im running bootmanager on my 8gb sd card and its full can i transfer all the data i have onto my 16gb sd card? will the roms still work? and what about the apps i have backed up with titanium backup will they all be safe?

Yes. Best to MD5 before and after to make sure it copies correctly.
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you think all the dada will be good?

I've copied between SD cards in the past without a problem. I just attached the phone to my Windows PC in Disk Drive mode, copied all the files to the PC, swapped SDs and swapped back. Save the 8GB card and don't wipe it until you're sure everything copied over fine.

As long as you haven't created an ext partition, you shouldn't have any problems copying from sd to sd.
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OK thanks will try it later..
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spyd312 said:
As long as you haven't created an ext partition, you shouldn't have any problems copying from sd to sd.
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And what if you did copy files over from a SD card with a ext3 partition to your PC? Can you elaborate a little more?

I've had put a blank card in phone 1st let it format it with the nessesary file structure and then over wright with the contents of old card.

Alpine- said:
And what if you did copy files over from a SD card with a ext3 partition to your PC? Can you elaborate a little more?
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From my understanding, when you partition your SD card, you essentially split your memory card's capacity by the size of the ext partition. So when you mount your sd card for the purpose of backing up your memory card, you're only backing up the disk drive portion. You'll need to use ROOT EXPLORER or a file manager app that can access your phone's sd-ext folder.
On second thought, you should just do a NANDROID and be sure to include your sd-ext partition. Then boot into recovery. Create a new sd-ext partition (same size as the previous one) and copy the NANDROID folder over to your new SD card along with the disk drive backup.
Then restore your nand.
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[Q] Has anyone made a custom .pit file for a bigger partition on internal memory?

So, has anyone made or found a custom .pit file to repartition the internal memory to a larger /data partition?
Any ideas?
Would LOVE that as opposed to using external SD.:silly:

demoncamber said:
So, has anyone made or found a custom .pit file to repartition the internal memory to a larger /data partition?
Any ideas?
Would LOVE that as opposed to using external SD.:silly:
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No. That's the simple answer.
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demoncamber said:
So, has anyone made or found a custom .pit file to repartition the internal memory to a larger /data partition?
Any ideas?
Would LOVE that as opposed to using external SD.:silly:
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Just use a partition swapper or something like that, though I don't understand why, this device does OK with internal storage and a 32gb SD card
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soupysoup said:
Just use a partition swapper or something like that, though I don't understand why, this device does OK with internal storage and a 32gb SD card
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I thought it would be too... but add a few games and 94 apps later, you're dangerously close to the "low space" warning... /data is only 1.9gb of space... Kind of absurd if you think about it. I already have a 32gb sdhc card, why shouldn't I be able to extend the /data partition to take up some of my unused space on internal memory?
Plus, if the partition were on the internal memory, it would be faster and more optimal than an sdhc card...

External vs Internal sdcard

I've read in a couple places people talking about putting your ROM image onto external or internal sdcard. What is the internal sdcard? Is this just the phone's standard internal file system or is it something separate? Where is it if I look in a file manager?
Related question: if I use internal storage to upload a ROM image I want to flash, where's the best place to put it? Right in / (root)? Or somewhere better?

Basically it's your internal storage:
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j111 said:
I've read in a couple places people talking about putting your ROM image onto external or internal sdcard. What is the internal sdcard? Is this just the phone's standard internal file system or is it something separate? Where is it if I look in a file manager?
Related question: if I use internal storage to upload a ROM image I want to flash, where's the best place to put it? Right in / (root)? Or somewhere better?
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Internal storage is a 9GB partition on your phone's 16GB internal memory. It acts as if it was any other SD card.
It works fine in conjunction with an external SD card. You will see SD0 and SD1 in any file explorer app. SD0 is the internal. SD1 is the external.
It doesn't matter if you put the ROM you want to flash on the internal or external. Recovery can see it in either place. And the directly doesn't matter. Jus tput it in a directyory you can remember when you're looking for it in recovery. I think most peopl ejus tuse the defaul DOWNLOADS directory.

I usually put the ROMs I'm going to flash in internal storage, but I erase them a lot.
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Yes, in root.
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Thanks for the replies!
When using the different wipe options in recovery, does the 9GB internal partition (sd0) get wiped by any of the typical wipe choices?

Wiping data does.
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Sd card format

I bought a new sd card...what is the best way to format it and what program to use? Tia
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Use your phone to do it from the storage menu .
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Do this,
Settings
General
Storage
Scroll to Sd card
Format sd card
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pvchip3 said:
I bought a new sd card...what is the best way to format it and what program to use? Tia
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To format the microSD card on your mobile device, from the Home screen, touch Menu key > Settings > General Settings > Storage Storage Icon .
Your microSD card information is shown on this screen, along with your device memory. Touch Format SD card. Review the message about data, and touch Format SD card again. Touch Delete all to complete the formatting process.
Warning! Formatting your microSD card will remove all personal information from the card. This information cannot be recovered.
I hope it will helps you. Good Luck

Is it okay if I will use a pc when formatting a sd card?

Usually SDcard come preformatted. If is a large SDcard and you are storing extremely large files like videos you may want to use the exFat rather than Fat32.
You can get free software like SD formatter to format your SDcard card on your PC.
Here is a link about exfat:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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smaisonville said:
Usually SDcard come preformatted. If is a large SDcard and you are storing extremely large files like videos you may want to use the exFat rather than Fat32.
You can get free software like SD formatter to format your SDcard card on your PC.
Here is a link about exfat:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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Thank you.