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[Q] Partition SD Card for AS2SD Mac OSX

First off, I've done quite a search amongst the forums for what I'm after without much success.
Basically I want to format my sd card so I can use A2SD before flashing Oxygen 2.0.2 ROM. I'm currently running 2.0 RC7 on a HTC Desire.
The catch is I use a mac and everything I've looked for and found hasn't been very helpful in explaining how to format my sd card outside of Windows. I do have VMWare running Windows XP, but can't boot into bios to make system boot from disc. Thus GParted is kinda useless (from what I've been read/informed).
Leaves me kinda in the unknown now about how to get this partition happening.
The only real info I found is from like 2009;
1)download the ext2fs plugin AND INSTALL !! (google it if you cant find it " how to partition ext2 on mac")
2)reboot
3)download the appstosd2 app
4)install on phone
5)open appstosd and select partition
6)let it do its thing
7)reboot phone
8)plugin usb
9)mount
10) you will get a error sayin that you need to first aid your disk press command I on your untitled partition or no_name partition
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Though I feel that is an outdated method and not suitable to my needs.
So does anyone have any help or advice on how to partition my sd card on a mac, or via Windows XP running via VMware? Would be greatly appreciated beyond belief.

Just run the Gparted iso in vm ware (new virtual machine) or a ubuntu distribution.
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php just get the Live disc and burn it or use your VMware Player an get Ubuntu running, open an terminal and apt-get install gparted.
Running XP doenst help you at all.

TheGhost1233 said:
Just run the Gparted iso in vm ware (new virtual machine) or a ubuntu distribution.
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I'm not very familiar/knowledgeable with VMware in-depth. I have my XP install and that's about the extent of it.
How exactly is one meant to run the Gparted iso in VMware?
I click "New Virtual Machine", "continue without disc" then I get to the installation media window with the 3 choices. I'm assuming I select the one related to an iso/image file (select Gparted iso) then the "Choose Operating System" screen and from there I don't know between the 2 drop down boxes I get.
Again, providing I'm even in the right area.
Probably also wise to say that I don't have the internet cap to just go and download Ubuntu sadly.

Would help if you would mention what options there are in the drop down menu. But you should choose something like linux or ubuntu.
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TheGhost1233 said:
Would help if you would mention what options there are in the drop down menu. But you should choose something like linux or ubuntu.
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Yeah I selected "Linux" in the first option and then "Ununtu" in the second. Gparted then loaded up.
So sounds as if I'm on the right path. Now just down to following a guide and doing what is needed.

Glad to see you've got gparted loading now. Try searching YouTube for gparted tutorial vids (there's a few) - this is how I learned to partition my card a few months ago and I found it way easier than reading written tutorials.
Hope this helps
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wildcardspv said:
Glad to see you've got gparted loading now. Try searching YouTube for gparted tutorial vids (there's a few) - this is how I learned to partition my card a few months ago and I found it way easier than reading written tutorials.
Hope this helps
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Shall do that shortly, might look to format this evening if I can stop using my phone for a bit haha.
Will scope youtube for some tutorials and see how I go, otherwise I'll probably follow this one which I was directed to in the Oxygen thread the other day.
http://www.t-mod.org/?page_id=94
Thanks for the help as well, appreciated.

Gparted isn't picking up my SD Card at all. I plug in my Desire, switch it to Disk mode from the notification bar and it's not picked up. Tried it all before loading Gparted up and also after it. Nothing.
And in my GB Oxygen rom I don't have the following option (connect to PC);
Settings > Connect to PC > Default connection type > Disk drive > Done
To do as needed to turn it on in my settings. :/
So now I'm kinda stuck.
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Tried putting sd card into a microSD adapter and into my card reader on my mac. Still not being picked up at all by Gparted. So I'm assuming something is wrong somewhere along the line and I have no idea what.
Only other idea have at the moment is to maybe format my SD card (which I've backed up) and then try again and see if it reads?

Do it with the card reader, make sure you mount the card reader in vmware and not osx.
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TheGhost1233 said:
Do it with the card reader, make sure you mount the card reader in vmware and not osx.
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It's okay I figured out what the issue was, all good now. Didn't have the usb drive enabled in vmware , rookie mistake.
Formatted card fine and all is good.
Thanks greatly for the help and time.

sd card not detected on phone or pc

Hey guys,
A friend of mine gave me his desire to root and flash a rom, while I was partitioning the SD card - everything went well (I used a windows app to create the partitions while the desire was plugged in in USB mode.
All went well until I disconnected it after the process was complete - now the phone nor PC detects the card.
What are my options?
Cheers

You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?

zedmarcus said:
You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?
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Using a card reader with the microsd adapter

Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.

rootSU said:
Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.
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Yup. Try that

OK this is unusual, I managed to boot into recovery and mount the SD and sd-ext without any issue - I even booted into a custom rom I flashed from SD, but I still can't get the phone to detect it when booted.

Corrupted fat-32
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Like rootSU said, try it with GParted in your pc and see if it can find it. If so, format it all and re-partition it.

OK I managed to get it fixed - seemed like an issue with the partition - I used recovery to mount USB storage (it worked) and I re partitioned it and it is now functioning correctly.
Cheers guys and thanks a lot everyone for their inputs !

What did you repartition with?
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rootSU said:
What did you repartition with?
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I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition ! very nifty app !

You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.

rootSU said:
You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.
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wow, that is rather fine print haha, I hadn't seen that there - I too have a feeling it broke cause of the app, but it did manage to fix it - hopefully I won't have to go through this again - if I have to I'll use gparted - Lesson Learnt !

I'll make it bigger

rootSU said:
I'll make it bigger
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I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum

BigMrB said:
I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum
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Way aye, but I dont want it to take over other things

hi. i've faced the same problem too with my galaxy mini.
but, when i mount usb storage it said that "unable to write to umslunfile (no such file or directory)" . and when i format sd card it said "error mounting sd card, skipping format".
my sd card cant detected by any phone or laptop. cant be formatted or mounted. what to do? please help me. there's so much important things there.

Hi there,
Ive been through the same issue just the other day and after read and try lots of things, i had to do something stupid but has worked for me... If you have a digital camera laying around, put your sd card and camera will do its thing..will prompt you asking if you want the sd to be formated... Thats it sd alive and hoping to receive runny rom in my case
hope this works for more people. Take care. Peace.
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Wildfire s Won't mount SD card?!!![solved]

My Phone was working perfectly with no problems! until yesterday i was out and the phone battery was about to die then the phone turned off then after i went home i plugged it in the charger and went to sleep today i turned it on and everything on it is deleted no contacts no msgs no apps and no sd card mounted!!!! im running cm7 on it and i used to use a program called simple2ext which moves everything from the internal memory to the sd-ext could it be this program that damaged everything ? tried to restart the device sd card wont mount only if i take it out while the device is running and put it back then the device recognize it!! please Help

could be a physical problem with the sd card? try another card if possible. if not then check to see if its a known problem with the rom.
copying your existing sd-ext to a new card:
you can make a backup image of your sd-ext partition using a linux terminal. (sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk2 of=/home/username/Desktop/phone-sd-ext.img) i think mmcblk2 is the ext partition. make an identically-sized partition on the new card (it MUST be partition 2). use the above command only switch the paths around.
you can also make a backup (making sure sd-ext mounts) and restore with the new card partitioned and installed. i use twrp2 and for backups i have to force-mount sd-ext before backing up

Have you tried the memory card in a PC? If you can, you could have damaged the formatting on the card (doubtful).
Have you tried another card yet, if so to what success? You may also want to try cleaning the contacts on the SD card with a clean cloth/shirt (i just use the bottom of my shirt) :good:

and it could also simply be an unclean filesystem. with the card inserted in a computer running linux, use terminal and run "sudo fsck -fy /dev/mmcblk2" (make sure the partition is unmounted)

or maybe the memory card isnt combatable?

-try use the card in other phone to see is if a problem with card.
-try use the card in a card reader to see if is a problem with card.
-try other card in your phone.
-try to clean the contacts of your card.
-try to clean the phone to sd card.
Try these steps:
-wipe everything twice.
-install superwipe tool.(this will clean your NAND)
-wipe again everything twice.
-install the rom.
I think these will solve your problem.
Here is the link for the superwipe: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598143
If i helped you, click "Thanks" button.Sorry for my English,i hope to understand what i am saying.Have a nice day !!

Matt-matt is likely correct here. Your phone likely died in the middle of accessing your SD and it corrupted the partition. Re-partitioning the card through recovery will be your easiest fix. But you'll lose all your info
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The problem is solved I had to format the SD card and repartition it in Linux and now It's working fine thanks everyone
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Alaadragonfire said:
The problem is solved I had to format the SD card and repartition it in Linux and now It's working fine thanks everyone
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what commands did you use on linux? im also having this problem

squidbutt said:
what commands did you use on linux? im also having this problem
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No need for commands just use disk utility and format it from there
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How to un-partition sd card if power button is broken?

So I gave my trustee old Evo to my wife and she killed it, power button is toast. Got her a used GSII but I want to re-use her SD card but it is partitioned using amonra.
So how can I unpartition it if I cannot use the power button?
Thanks

Raistlin1 said:
So I gave my trustee old Evo to my wife and she killed it, power button is toast. Got her a used GSII but I want to re-use her SD card but it is partitioned using amonra.
So how can I unpartition it if I cannot use the power button?
Thanks
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For you pc, I'm assuming you have an sd-card card adaptor or usb dongle thingy:
There's the mini tool partition wizard, but you'd need to buy the professional edition to merge partitions. If you're looking to just format the partitions the home edition is fine
or maybe EaseUS?

Robobob1221 said:
For you pc, I'm assuming you have an sd-card card adaptor or usb dongle thingy:
There's the mini tool partition wizard, but you'd need to buy the professional edition to merge partitions. If you're looking to just format the partitions the home edition is fine
or maybe EaseUS?
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I want to kill the partitions and just have one drive/partition on the sdcard.

Raistlin1 said:
I want to kill the partitions and just have one drive/partition on the sdcard.
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No sure if it recognises external drives but you could try EaseUS. The home edition is free and allows merging of partitions, but again not sure if it recognises external drives

Mini partition tool is designed for sd cards. I used it to create an ext partition. Yet I got a warning after it was finished saying windows would only be able to read a certain part of the drive witch is obvious its not fat32 or ntfs but my phone still couldn't detect the ext partition its weird
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mikey banner said:
Mini partition tool is designed for sd cards. I used it to create an ext partition. Yet I got a warning after it was finished saying windows would only be able to read a certain part of the drive witch is obvious its not fat32 or ntfs but my phone still couldn't detect the ext partition its weird
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Did you set the partition as primary memory type? If you left as logical(?), then it won't be recognised by the phone.
an enviousOG

Boot into a Linux distro or VM on a computer.
Then read the card with a card reader on the computer.
Reformat however you'd like using Gparted, etc.

I don't know about amonra but on clockworkmod recovery, I can use the soft keys (home button, menu, back, etc.) And it works like using the sound buttons and power button.
Devices:
Evo 4g: Cm7 or Jellybean
Evo Shift: cm7 or jellybean
Optimus S: AOSP (ICS)
Questions? I'd love to help!

Cannot copy anything to my sd card

Hello,
i recently bought a new sandisk ultra class 6 8gb micro sd card for my phone..but i can't copy anything to it....the drive shows in computer but when i try to copy something to it, it says "An error has occured. The destination you specified does not exist.It might be in an offline network location or an empty CD or DVD drive. Check the location and try again. "
Also, i received one adapter with it...through which i can copy stuff onto the memory card but the problem is that i can't copy anything on it directly when it is in my phone , i also formatted it twice but still no luckkkkkk
Do i have to use the adapter at all times?? is there any way so that i don't have to use the adapter??
Please Help.

There is no problem with your memory card, your phone software/hardware may has some problem.

finance.resat said:
There is no problem with your memory card, your phone software/hardware may has some problem.
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uh i don't think there is a problem with my phone, as my other 4gb card woks just fine....

Cwm format ?
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junxracr said:
Cwm format ?
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do you mean i should format in CWM or did i do format in CWM???
and also my phone wasn't rooted before....i mean when i used both of those memory cards....

its just doesnt work, there is a compatibility problem with some sd cards in wfs, you have to buy another brand of sd card it will probably fix your problem, but i think you should try the card before buying it in order to make sure there is no compatibility problem.

nmrcy said:
its just doesnt work, there is a compatibility problem with some sd cards in wfs, you have to buy another brand of sd card it will probably fix your problem, but i think you should try the card before buying it in order to make sure there is no compatibility problem.
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Agreed.
Better go with class 4 sd cards they are compatible with wfs
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ramcool789 said:
do you mean i should format in CWM or did i do format in CWM???
and also my phone wasn't rooted before....i mean when i used both of those memory cards....
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I had similar problem. I formatted my new class 10 with cwm in my phone, then used minitool to partition to ext4.
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console
install a console, part it with fdisk command and them format it with mkfs command