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[Q] Partitioning sd card via Rom Manager

I'm looking to install a Desire HD rom on my Desire and it requires an SD-EXT partition.I tried partitioning through Rom Manager but,even tho i have it ,it says that i don't have clockwork mod recovery installed.What should i do? is it safe to overwrite the clockworkmod recovery installation through ROM manager? And is it possible to partition the sd card directly via recovery?

Clockwork Mod doesn't have partitioning in it, you'd need to use AmonRA to partition in recovery - it's the reason why I went to AmonRA as I have a 1GB partition for the RCmixHD ROM (which is awesome btw)

Thanks for the answer.
How do i flash amonRA over clockworkmod? do i use unrevoked again?

Using ROM Manager with clockworkmod I was able to partition my sd card. I also flashed desire hd rom on my desire. The partitioning process using rom manager is a bit wierd.. my 8gb class 10 sd card partitioned without hiccups, the 2 gb class 4 card did get through

Yeah but my problem is that ROm Manager doesn't let me partition my sd card because it says that i don't have clockworkmod installed even tho i have it...

il.fof said:
Yeah but my problem is that ROm Manager doesn't let me partition my sd card because it says that i don't have clockworkmod installed even tho i have it...
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Did you root your phone with unrevoked? If so then it must work via ROM manager otherwise it wont.
The directions to work on ROM Manager are this ones:
Keep in mind that first inside ROM Manager you need to select the option Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, and after that go to the SD partition option otherwise it wont work. And also remember you need to have the PREMIUM version otherwise it might not work
Now if you want to have more than a 512 mb you can use gparted. It is a livecd which means that can work on linux, mac or windows just reboot with the cd inside and is quite straightforward to use. Hope this helps.

i had this problem and here's what i did at the top of Rom Manager, it says Flash clockworkmod recovery. select it and select HTC Desire. then go to partition SD Card and select 512MB for Desire HD Roms. and a swap file of 32mb and it would simply boot into recovery and do the job. hope this helps

can't partition sd card

Hello ,
I have clockwork recovery. I downloaded ROM Manager then i press Partition SD card in ROM manager, choose ext size 256mb and swap size - 0 . Then OK . Phone reboots , but i dont partition SD card, just shows me android with exclamation mark . I can press any button and it brings me to clockwork recovery. But SD card is not partitioned. Why ?

Toggle signature verification in recovery. Can be found under install zip from sd. The use rom manager again.
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i did that, but it didnt help.

Clear download cache in rom manager, flash clockworkMod again and try again. If that does not work you need to use Gparted, there have been many instructions on how to do that the last couple of days.

Best method is amon ra recovery.
Install custom image using unrevoked.
With rom manager you can make ext of max 512 mb.
With custom recovery you can do much more.without using pc.
Even i have installed hd rom using same method.
Earlier my card was not even flasing .zip from root.
Now every thing is just fine.
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im doing 256mb with ROM manager but its still dont working

discovered a new solution .I disalbled toggle signature, but I noticed that after system reboot Toggle signature verification is turning back to enabled. So i pushed Toggle signature verification again and made it disabled and then just pushed restart recovery and now it made a partition .

I'm having a similar problem with my phone. I accidentally wipe all my partitions from my card and can't seem to create new ones. I tried with 4EXT and either have to wait half and hour with no results or have it tell me it worked but revert to no partitions once phone is rebooted.
Here's the weird part. I tried Gparted which has worked successfully for me in the past, but every time I create and apply my partitions my phone tells me my SD card is damaged and I have to format it again.
Any help or ideas?

Best solution for me was to remove the card and insert it into my Pc.
I then used Minitool Partition Wizard. :good:Bonus was that the data on my card was preserved!:good:

spile said:
Best solution for me was to remove the card and insert it into my Pc.
I then used Minitool Partition Wizard. :good:Bonus was that the data on my card was preserved!:good:
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Thanks.
This is bull**** though. That program (like all the others) told me it worked, showed me my partitions (even my old ones from Gparted I'd made the day before) yet once in my phone there's nothing. No extra space.

yh mini tool is useless. what 4ext recovery have u installed? coz usually 4ext recovery partitons sdcards perfect and aligns them perfect.
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jmcclue said:
yh mini tool is useless. what 4ext recovery have u installed? coz usually 4ext recovery partitons sdcards perfect and aligns them perfect.
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I'm using 4EXT at the moment. It's worked for me in the past but doesn't seem to want to work for me now.

hmm strange, u using the latest touch version? maybe reflash recovery mite sort it
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jmcclue said:
hmm strange, u using the latest touch version? maybe reflash recovery mite sort it
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It is strange. I'm not sure why it's being so stubborn. I am on the latest touch version. Where can I get reflash recovery from?

just click the 4ext recovery in my sig and download the updater app and just flash recovery from there
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Bricked?

Just tried to install the steel blue theme for cm 7.0 on my desire and i wiped cache then flashed from the sd rebooted and there was 'android' in silver writing for about 4 mins and then the screen just went black (and still is with just the orange charging light on and it doesnt do anything when i hold in the power button).

UPDATE
After clearing cache and factory reset in recovery and then rebooting im now in a constant boot loop. Wtf can I do?
Can someone PLEASE respond

Reflash your rom.
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TheGhost1233 said:
Reflash your rom.
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How?
I used ROM manager to flash the original rom so don't have one on the SD

ScRiVs said:
How?
I used ROM manager to flash the original rom so don't have one on the SD
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Reboot into recovery mode. Then Click on install zip from SD Card. Browse SD card and find the Clockworkmod folder click on that then you should see a zip file called recovery update. Click on it and let it flash the file. Once you it finishes it should take you back to recovery menu. If you downloaded the ROM it should be on your SD card. If not scroll thrpyfg menu and click on mounts. mount your device as a usb connect your computer transfer your ROM from your PC to your SD card and install.
Hope this works for you. If not post the ROM you're having issues with and what results are after trying steps above and I'll try to wall you through alternative.

Go into recovery and wipe everything....click on mounts and storage and format everything starting from boot,wipe cash partition,wipe dalvik cash,wipe...wipe wipe n double wipe...reboot recovery,mount the sd card and usb and start again

econcep said:
Reboot into recovery mode. Then Click on install zip from SD Card. Browse SD card and find the Clockworkmod folder click on that then you should see a zip file called recovery update. Click on it and let it flash the file. Once you it finishes it should take you back to recovery menu. If you downloaded the ROM it should be on your SD card. If not scroll thrpyfg menu and click on mounts. mount your device as a usb connect your computer transfer your ROM from your PC to your SD card and install.
Hope this works for you. If not post the ROM you're having issues with and what results are after trying steps above and I'll try to wall you through alternative.
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Mounted to computer through recovery as u said downloaded Leedroid because the rom i had was not on the sd card and it looks like it's STILL in the boot loop coz i clicked reboot after it flashed and now it's making an r2d2 noise and showing a loading screen then playing the noise and doing the same over and over again?
WTF?!?!?!?!

If you flashed a different rom you need to do a full wipe (data/factory reset and cache).

TheGhost1233 said:
If you flashed a different rom you need to do a full wipe (data/factory reset and cache).
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Thanks!
Although won't be sticking with leedroid as it doesn't seem customizable at all

ScRiVs said:
Thanks!
Although won't be sticking with leedroid as it doesn't seem customizable at all
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I beg to differ but you are entitled to your opinion. However, just to give you some insight, Leedroid is one of the more respected and hardworking developers. His updates are not weekly because he provides stable and highly reliable ROMs. Remember your problem existed prior to trying to flash Leedroid's ROM.
Now more likely than not there was a user error in the process. Did you format your SD Card FAT 32 with EXT3 partition? Do you have the update.zip on the ROOT of your SD Card if not Leedroid provides a link to the CWM update.zip file.
Did you unmount the device in recovery and did you properly remove device from PC (if using Windows unplugging the device without properly removing/ejecting will cause bad data blocks/errors on the SD Card).
And of course did you wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache before flashing Leedroid's rom? If you did all of these things the only other issue that you may be experiencing is that you must have USB Debugging enabled on the device.
Leedroid provide exception support for his ROMs and he also updates his threads in answering general questions and troubleshooting if any one is experiencing issues after flashing his ROM.

Desire rooting

Hello all I'm new to the desire which I bought on eBay a few weeks ago and now I want to install new ROMS. I have rooted my desire using unrevoked a few weeks ago but when I use clockwork recovery to partition SD card all that happens is it fails almost straight away so I have tried to root it again using same method and that also fails almost strait away. Would it be best to factory reset the desire then root it again? I'm running stock RUU 2.2
Also I want to flash a newer Rom so I can add lots more apps but I don't know which is the best to use so any help on this also would be great!
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If you have clockworkmod recovery and want to flash a custom rom you don't need to root again as nearly all custom roms are prerooted so when you flash the rom you will have root access already.
I would partition the card using a gparted live cd on the pc and then factory reset & clear dalvik cache from clockworkmod and install the custom rom zip from sd card.
You may want to make a nandroid backup in clockworkmod first.
There are loads of guides on partitioning your card and the thread for the rom will probably give you an installation guide.
As for the choice of rom you will have to try a few and see what you like. A few that I have used are CM7.2 gingerbread is AOSP(no HTC sense), runnymead AIO gingerbread with sense 3.5 (like the sensation) or nikez for ICS.
Good luck
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hans moleman said:
If you have clockworkmod recovery and want to flash a custom rom you don't need to root again as nearly all custom roms are prerooted so when you flash the rom you will have root access already.
I would partition the card using a gparted live cd on the pc and then factory reset & clear dalvik cache from clockworkmod and install the custom rom zip from sd card.
You may want to make a nandroid backup in clockworkmod first.
There are loads of guides on partitioning your card and the thread for the rom will probably give you an installation guide.
As for the choice of rom you will have to try a few and see what you like. A few that I have used are CM7.2 gingerbread is AOSP(no HTC sense), runnymead AIO gingerbread with sense 3.5 (like the sensation) or nikez for ICS.
Good luck
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Excellent! thanks for that this will save me some time! I assume I will need to flash S-OFF before I partition and nand backup?
Thanks for your help so far!

If you have successfully flashed clockworkmod and rooted with unrevoked you don't need to be s-off to flash a custom rom or perform backup from recovery.
The s-off applies to the internal memory of the phone not the external card. I personally remove the sd card and create partitions with the pc.
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As Hans moleman already said, i wouldn't recommend to partition your SD-Card via ClockworkMod because it produces known problems. If you have a card reader in your PC i would also suggest gparted or if you want to use a Windows tool use the MiniTool Partition Wizard.

andrhitm said:
the MiniTool Partition Wizard.
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Nooo... U suggested gparted to partition sdcard, leave it at that. MiniTool also is dodgy, does'nt align properly
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Best thing to do is first flash a custom rom. Making sure to clear all data when you do. Then download Ubuntu and Virtual Box. Install Virtual Box and create a new VM with the Ubuntu ISO. Navigate to the Ubuntu app store when it is installed and download GParted. Once that is done mount the sd card into the VM by clicking devices, USB and then the name of the card. Partition the SD card with Fat32 and a secondary of your choice (I use ext4)

wad92 said:
Best thing to do is first flash a custom rom. Making sure to clear all data when you do. Then download Ubuntu and Virtual Box. Install Virtual Box and create a new VM with the Ubuntu ISO. Navigate to the Ubuntu app store when it is installed and download GParted. Once that is done mount the sd card into the VM by clicking devices, USB and then the name of the card. Partition the SD card with Fat32 and a secondary of your choice (I use ext4)
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You can download a bootable gparted live cd image, so no need for virtual machine etc.
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[Q] HTC One X SD completely wiped clean

Hello all,
I unlocked my phone and rooted it. I tried to instal miui ROM, succesful but my phone got stuck at the HTC intro screen. Eventually, nothing worked like whiping cache etc. So i completely recovered my phone from backup (clockwork) from before unlocking and rooting. NOTHING, it just kept hanging at the HTC intro screen. After that i could not find any solutions online and i completely formatted the SD out of despare
Now everything is gone, backup and folders on the SD, EVERYTHING.
I can still go to the HBOOT menu and Recovery menu. My computer does find HTC device.
Can anybody help??

hi
use this, will work 100 %
http ://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/installing-the-htc-one-x-required-s-on-steps.16592/

Enter the recovery and mount the sdcard as an usb mass storage device, copy the rom.zip to the phone and copy the boot.img file from inside the rom.zip to the fastboot folder on the pc. Then you put the phone in the bootloader and flash the boot.img file with fastboot commands, enter recovery and perform a full wipe (except sdcard ofcourse) ....wipe data,system,cache,dalvik cache !
Then install the rom.zip and reboot

If u can go to recovery, use mount usb storage to connect to pc and put your custom rom in sd. Unmount and put in bootloader and flash the boot.img first and then go to recovery again and flash your rom.

Talking about help !

HTC One X SD completely wiped clean
hardcore4ever said:
If u can go to recovery, use mount usb storage to connect to pc and put your custom rom in sd. Unmount and put in bootloader and flash the boot.img first and then go to recovery again and flash your rom.
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Thanks for all the (quick) responses!
In recovery:
When i choose mount SD card, nothing happens, when i choose mount USB storage, i get an error E:unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
My computer only finds my HTC in devicemanagement when i get to the HBoot menu.
Help?

BRBullet said:
Thanks for all the (quick) responses!
In recovery:
When i choose mount SD card, nothing happens, when i choose mount USB storage, i get an error E:unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
My computer only finds my HTC in devicemanagement when i get to the HBoot menu.
Help?
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What recovery are you using. Try flashing the latest twrp and try to mount as usb storage.

Yeah its an old one
http://db.tt/Krlm4dPs
Flash this one first and try again

HTC One X SD completely wiped clean
BIG THANKS!!
My PC has found SD card now after flashing recovery v5.8.4.0! i will try to install a rom.

Don't forget the boot.img you have to flash !

HTC One X SD completely wiped clean
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Don't forget the boot.img you have to flash !
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Thanks! i installed ordroid ROM and flashed the ordroid boot img afterwards. Its all working fine now.
Thank you all for the great support! :good:

Nice !
CASE CLOSED !