So looks like my SD card is about to run it's life and I bought a new one to replace it. Now since I am rooted do I have to do anything or do I just transfer all the files on my SD card to the new one and thats it?
I would format it from the phone settings first. Even though it may be readable, this will ensure that the file system is what it should be.
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I have been looking for the last week trying to locate instructions (assuming there are instructions) for swapping out an sd card in the G2. My phone is rooted. Has clockwork recovery, has the CyanongenMod 6.4 Rom.
Can someone give me a brief run down on this? Do I have to re-root and reinstall ROM for sd card swap?
OR, can someone please just post a link to the page (if there is one) that will describe the Rooted, ROM mod'ed, overclocked, and whatever..., HTC G2 SD card swap?
Thank you! This will be really appreciated! Mainly because I am a full time criminal justice student about to graduate with not much time to spend 50 hours a day looking for this anymore!
Sincerely,
Paul
Do you just want to use a different sd card in your phone?
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No. Or I guess, yes. Im bumping the gigs from the stock 8 to 32
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mount the sd via flash reader or usb and copy all of it over to the new sd card then pop the new one in the phone and presto!
that simple really??? what about hidden files or roots????
Sorry I'm about to do the same thing and was wondering...
Any root and or system files are on your phone. You can swap sd cards freely. Just copy everything to your new on on a computer and your good togo.
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Root and all that is done internally on the phone, the sd card just has things on it like application data, or pictures or music. So as long as you transfer everything from the old sd card to the new one, you will be good
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Ok.
Another question in result of this answer, I already have everything backed up with titanium (I think that is what it is called) backup. Same with in clock work recovery. And now after all of these procedures, I copied the whole sd card top my hard drive. Can I put the new card into the phone and use the phone to format the new card so I can do away with a lot of junk that I would not necessarily know about.?Then copy the files I want back onto the new card?
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Correction. When I day junk, I mean not transferring the un necessary junk from the old card to the me card. And just format thee new one with nothing on it so it will work inthe phone.
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Really its an sd card just switch it out transfer any music or anything to the new one it don't need an entire thread
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What you need to do, is copy all the files from the old card into a file on your pc somewhere, unless you have a desktop that has a card reader on it.
Take the old card out.
Put the new card in the phone, format it. (menu/settings/sdcard/format)
Then open the files and transfer them into the new card that is mounted in your phone through usb. Or if you have a card reader on your desktop just drop and drag to the new card.
My question is, what class of a card do you need to purchase?
Dunno. It is a class 4, though. I don't think a class 4 will be a bad choice, given the card is rated at 4 mb/s. Something like that. I would think the C4 would be a relevantly fast enough card.
I wanted to let y'all know, I just transfered all over to the new card. Sorry for a dumb thread. I really didn't think it would that simple.But I guess some things are!
So I'm thinking of getting a bigger SD card as my current one is already full( I thought 4 gigs would of been enough :/).
Would switching to a new one affect my phone? I'm rooted and have cyanogen 6.1.1.
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Nope. I mean you might have some roms backed up on that
4GB card, like the one you have now on your phone but it will no way affect your phone, rooted or not. All your pictures, music, or whatever files you have on the sd card go with sd card. The rom is loaded on your phone, not on the sd card.
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Oh okay. Could I copy all the files from the old SD to the new one without affecting the back ups?
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Oh okay. Could I copy all the files from the old SD to the new one without affecting the back ups?
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Format the new sd card to FAT32 then transfer all the files from your old sd card to the new one and that's it good to go..
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Hi I'm pretty sure this won't be an extremely popular topic but just wondering how people go about formatting there sd cards do u just wipe everything save ur backups? Ur photos music? Anything and also is there anything important I shouldn't delete?? Just curious to see how everyone else does it thanx for being nice
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Well, you can use your phone to format it by going into settings and storage. You should back up anything you dont want to lose to your pc. I find that the most effective way is to connect the sd card to the pc either in your phone via usb or via a card reader. Then go to my computer, right click on it and hit format. It thould already be in the right file format(fat32) if im not mistaken. Then just place your pics and whatever else back on there and the android system will do the rest. Hope i helped!
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If you are working with a removable SD card I'd recommend HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8. (free)
I had an 8 Gb card sitting around for a while and I wanted to use in my daughter's new phone. I put the card in the PC and deleted everything. Then I thought just format the damn thing. It seemed to only think it had 40 Mb. Windows would not format it to anything over 40 Mb. I had to download the HP tool and it would allow formatting to the full 8 Gb.
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Not sure if this is the right place.. I just installed coredroid 1.2 and my sd card is not detected. Removed the sd card. Complete format then reinsert still doesnt solve the problem. I am able to use the card using a card reader. Any suggestions
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Hi I'm pretty sure this won't be an extremely popular topic but just wondering how people go about formatting there sd cards do u just wipe everything save ur backups? Ur photos music? Anything and also is there anything important I shouldn't delete?? Just curious to see how everyone else does it thanx for being nice
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It sounds like you are formatting an existing (previously used) card? Do you have some issue with the card? Or just switching between devices? Can't see it making much difference using the built-in Windows disk management tool to format, using the phone to do it, or some other method.
I think even switching between devices, I haven't bothered to re-format, just deleted the files manually and swapped the card into the new phone.
For new cards, I don't even bother to format. They are always pre-formatted to FAT32, AFAIK. So I just insert it in the device and go . . .
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It sounds like you are formatting an existing (previously used) card? Do you have some issue with the card? Or just switching between devices? Can't see it making much difference using the built-in Windows disk management tool to format, using the phone to do it, or some other method.
I think even switching between devices, I haven't bothered to re-format, just deleted the files manually and swapped the card into the new phone.
For new cards, I don't even bother to format. They are always pre-formatted to FAT32, AFAIK. So I just insert it in the device and go . . .
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how do you move apps to external sd card ? before there used to be option to move to sd card now i don't see that .. i had this problem ever since i upgrade to cm10 and now on aokp....
I use SDformatter.
It's better than just with right click and select format.
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if you have just one partition formated with fat32 on your sd-card, you can format it with windows-tools. if there is another partition (ext2/3/4) on your card, its not possible to format the sd-card completely with this tools and you need, as written above, an external tool like that from HP.
Beside this, i don't really understand why you want to do this, except you have a problem with your card...
i wiped my sd card with h.d.d low level format ! now i cant create right ext partition now . how can i do that ? i did everything with partition magic software . but not use .
If you have a Linux box and an SD card read use gparted. If you don't the best/fastest way is with a good recovery in an android phone
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My phones internal memory its almost full and i know that theres some stuff that i dont need and that i do need and my best option is to format it but my question is.. is there any important folders or files that i must keep??? Im not talkin about music or somethin because whwn i rooted my phone i got some new files in my phone.
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My phones internal memory its almost full and i know that theres some stuff that i dont need and that i do need and my best option is to format it but my question is.. is there any important folders or files that i must keep??? Im not talkin about music or somethin because whwn i rooted my phone i got some new files in my phone.
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Nothing is needed on external sd or internal sd when you root. You can format both internal and external sd cards after rooting with no issues after. Any files that are needed will be replaced after format.
I need some serious help. I have been trying to get this fixed for the better part of a year now and I give up. I can't access my SD card, by any means.
I can't download an app with rooted premission
I can't wipe from ANY recovery
I can't take it out and wipe on another device
I can't wipe it from my computer
I can't do ANYTHING to it, i can't even delete files off of it.
My 64gb sd card is rendered worthless, it's driving me insane. Can somebody please help me before I rip my hair out?
sounds like your sd card is write protected....or its gone bad....check your sd manufaturer to see how to disable write protection....try that first....if you can install another card and see if you can add, delete, or modify files on that card....next insert card in question into your pc and see if you can do the same on it...if not you may just have a bad sd card
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It's not a bad SD card. I had a android version on it and then when you install the new one, it ****ing puts your SD card on lock down.
Nothing can access it and the files on it before I installed the new android version work, I just cant put anything on it or take anything off.
ok...so you need to share previous andriod version...new version...how you took the update ota or flash....build version....kernel etc. Each rom has its own little quirks and requirements and you have not given any info for others to see what may be going on...what I'm hearing is that your sd worked before you took the update but does now work after the update...
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I am pretty sure I just updated from stock to cyanogen
gonna have to be alot more specific....we can't read your phone...without the details no one can begin to help you
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No matter what I put it, there is no write protection switch. It just keeps saying I need to turn it off or it's write protected.
I removed it from my phone, put it in a microSD card converter to SD. It is directly in my slot in a laptop. I downloaded programs to try to overwrite this and it still says write protected.
just a quick interjection...sd card write proection has been an issue for some time....especially sandisk cards....I had the same problem...could read not write...could not delete move or change any files on the card...all it said was write protected though I had never enabled this....bought a new card...copied the files from old card to pc (the only thing I could do with the card)...dumped those files onto the new card and reinserted....everything has worked fine since with no problems whatever. I will say that I did not buy another sandisk card.
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Mine is a samsung..
The situation is just ****ty.. the files on it work but some of them are corrupt and **** everything up. I cant listen to music because every other song crashes my phone and it has to reboot.
Just spent 60$ on a sd card for nothing
well its out here now and someone has your answer
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well its out here now and someone has your answer
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I hope. I've been working this for a long time intermittently . Just give up every time after a few hours.
You could try this app to check the card. There are plenty of counterfeit sd cards out there.
http://www.humanlogic.com/sdinsight/
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