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[Q] Partitioning SD Card for Evo.

I haven't partitioned my sd card yet. I just wanted to get some info on this first. I am currently running CM7 and I'm aware that you don't need to partition to run this rom. I was thinking about trying MikG v3.00 or Decks and wanted to know if there were any threads on partitioning the Evo or any tips you guys could give me? Any suggestions? Once you partition your sd card do you tend to leave the set up as is regardless of using different roms? Does partitioning erase everything on your memory card?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

DoubleA319 said:
I haven't partitioned my sd card yet. I just wanted to get some info on this first. I am currently running CM7 and I'm aware that you don't need to partition to run this rom. I was thinking about trying MikG v3.00 or Decks and wanted to know if there were any threads on partitioning the Evo or any tips you guys could give me? Any suggestions? Once you partition your sd card do you tend to leave the set up as is regardless of using different roms? Does partitioning erase everything on your memory card?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Search is your best friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158993
After you partition you do (well I do) tend to leave things how they are. After you partition to do a nandroid you have to backup sdext now and when you wipe you have to wipe sdext to go to a new rom. Also partitioning will 100% erase it so have to backup to your pc
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Thanks for the reply that thread was very helpful. Answered a lot of questions.
Just 1 question though. If I partition my card, then decide I want to change to the swap or ext again. Will that delete the contents of my sd card ?
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DoubleA319 said:
Thanks for the reply that thread was very helpful. Answered a lot of questions.
Just 1 question though. If I partition my card, then decide I want to change to the swap or ext again. Will that delete the contents of my sd card ?
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Yes it will
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Is there any benefit at all to using a swap position?

xdanito said:
Is there any benefit at all to using a swap position?
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I actually i have no idea like I've partitioned my card 5 times and some times I put 0 swap and other times I put 32 don't know y tho
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Just partitioned mine recently, the ROM I'm using is running smoother now but it was fast to begin with
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Ok so i just partitioned my sd card using TWRP. Then I mounted my sd card and put the zip for MikG v3.0 on the root. I did a full wipe. Then proceeded to install the rom. But now it just says 'Unable to open zip file' It looks like its trying to load. I'm not sure what to do. Should I try another rom?
Any help would be much appreciated.

DoubleA319 said:
Ok so i just partitioned my sd card using TWRP. Then I mounted my sd card and put the zip for MikG v3.0 on the root. I did a full wipe. Then proceeded to install the rom. But now it just says 'Unable to open zip file' It looks like its trying to load. I'm not sure what to do. Should I try another rom?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Might be a bad download also get off of TWRP it leads to ALOT of problems I would suggest amon ra
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evo4gnoob said:
Might be a bad download also get off of TWRP it leads to ALOT of problems I would suggest amon ra
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Ok thanks. i just installed amon ra and partitioned and put MikG on my memory card. im about to install it. I was just curious about the 'toggle signature verification' option. What is it for?

Oops right post lol, sent me to a different post in the thread and lost me now back to the answer
Signature verification is for flashing signed and unsigned zips no need to enable it unless you need to flash a HTC signed zip with it off you can flash any zip in recovery signed or not

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i looked at the link and it didn't answer my question. if flashing a custom kernel do i need a swap partition?

uhcougars said:
i looked at the link and it didn't answer my question. if flashing a custom kernel do i need a swap partition?
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Only if you want to use SWAP, think of swap as extra RAM, so if ur short on RAM swap might help, but swap is slower than RAM, and your need a Kernel with SWAP support.
I currently am using Swap
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Amon RA SD card partition feature is very nice, if not I use ADB to manually create the partition.

usb mass storage issue
guys it seems that due to me flashing this rom, my usb mass storage has issues any help?

Could go recovery, go to other, then toggle USB mass storage
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[Q] Wiping for a Clean Slate

So I've been doing the whole ICS thing. And it's been fun. But I'm looking to go back to stability for now.
Also I purchased this phone second hand and it's always had remnants of the old owners files floating around on it.
So my question is. What is the best way to wipe the phone to a clean slate (obviously leaving my SD card in tact)?
Secondly, is there anything I have to do if I go from ICS to TDJ's 2.6?
Thanks for the help.

Dark side wipe.
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born2gethard said:
Dark side wipe.
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That doesn't do it. I've dark side wiped over 100 times.
Then I flash and still have old pictures and old program folders. That is not what I'm asking for.
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gorillaz1 said:
That doesn't do it. I've dark side wiped over 100 times.
Then I flash and still have old pictures and old program folders. That is not what I'm asking for.
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Everything u are talking about must be either on the internal or external SD. Darkside wipe removes everything on nand memory

icenight89 said:
Everything u are talking about must be either on the internal or external SD. Darkside wipe removes everything on nand memory
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So assuming it's the internal SD, what is the best route to clean that?
I'm basically looking for a total clean wipe.

gorillaz1 said:
So assuming it's the internal SD, what is the best route to clean that?
I'm basically looking for a total clean wipe.
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If you want a total wipe best way is to do this in recovery.
Go to mounts and storage
Format/data
Format /system
Format /cache
Format /emmc
DO NOT FORMAT SD CARD
Then flash the darkside super wipe followed by flashing the rom of your choice. Just remember to back up anything you don't want to lose from your internal memory and to have the superwipe file and rom you want to flash on your SD card.
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gorillaz1 said:
So assuming it's the internal SD, what is the best route to clean that?
I'm basically looking for a total clean wipe.
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Go to your Settings then go to Storage. Then format USB storage and will clean internal SD card.
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I suggest u first connect ur phone to computer and mount USB storage. Copy off all files that u may need from both internal and external, then right click and format both as fat32. Then reboot into cwm and dark side wipe, and flash whichever rom u like.

foreverloco said:
If you want a total wipe best way is to do this in recovery.
Go to mounts and storage
Format/data
Format /system
Format /cache
Format /emmc
DO NOT FORMAT SD CARD
Then flash the darkside super wipe followed by flashing the rom of your choice. Just remember to back up anything you don't want to lose from your internal memory and to have the superwipe file and rom you want to flash on your SD card.
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That's more of what I'm looking for.
SO just do that. Super wipe. Flash 2.6. HALLELUJAH BATTERY LIFE JESUS.

gorillaz1 said:
That's more of what I'm looking for.
SO just do that. Super wipe. Flash 2.6. HALLELUJAH BATTERY LIFE JESUS.
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If he helped u hit his thanks button

icenight89 said:
I suggest u first connect ur phone to computer and mount USB storage. Copy off all files that u may need from both internal and external, then right click and format both as fat32. Then reboot into cwm and dark side wipe, and flash whichever rom u like.
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So what does formatting both as fat32 do exactly? Or do you just mean that's the current format it is?

icenight89 said:
If he helped u hit his thanks button
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Calm down I do all my thanking at the end. It'll get there. I'm a thanker.

gorillaz1 said:
That's more of what I'm looking for.
SO just do that. Super wipe. Flash 2.6. HALLELUJAH BATTERY LIFE JESUS.
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Yep just do that and the phone will be all clean. I always do it that way when I'm jumping from different roms and when I just get an itch to wipe the phone clean but I always backup my titanium bu folder to either my desktop or SD card so I can transfer it back when I'm done and restore my apps
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Yeah I'm still trying to figure out what apps I really care to do that with. I wish the play store had a separate area for purchased apps and apps you've installed. It's annoying that I have to scroll through 50 billion apps sometimes.

gorillaz1 said:
So what does formatting both as fat32 do exactly? Or do you just mean that's the current format it is?
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Same thing as foreverloco suggested, just different method is all, his is easier if u don't need to backup much

I wish Apex worked on GB. I'm gonna miss that and Chrome Browser the most.

icenight89 said:
Same thing as foreverloco suggested, just different method is all, his is easier if u don't need to backup much
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Roger that.
So while I have a thread. I'm guessing AOSP ICS things can't be used with GB? Like if I wanted the AOSP ICS Lockscreen?

gorillaz1 said:
Roger that.
So while I have a thread. I'm guessing AOSP ICS things can't be used with GB? Like if I wanted the AOSP ICS Lockscreen?
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Not a chance brow sky, ics only. Use widget locker or go locker if u want aosp lookalike on gb. If u want the real thing, ics only

Figured. Oh well ill be patient. I'll miss the music controls on lock screen.
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When I DL adwlauncher ex from the store, where does the apk go so I can push it to system?
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nandroid

ok i have evo 4g every time i do a nandroid i can never go back to it i try to restore nandroid and it just sits in the white screen with htc evo 4g ive tried over and over again to no success.the nandroids are there on sd card but just cant seem to restore. amon ra recovery v2.3 rooted with revolutionary hboot is 6.16 something please someone help-

Are you sure they're not corrupted? You had enough space to create the backup? Also no use of invalid characters, such as spaces or asterisks?

Im pretty sure i did have space im thinking its my sd card i swapped it out for another one ima have to root my phone again.
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Swapping out the sd card does not mean you have to re-root. If anything, copy your sd card contents to a pc > format the sd card > copy the contents back; its common that the sd card can become corrupt. In addition, you can reflash your recovery.

Are you renaming the back ups? If so then this is your problem.
You can rename them as long as the original file name is intact and there are no spaces by placing your unique identifier at the end of the original file name.

No i dont change the name of them.
And the only reason i unroot and root again is because that what i have to do i put like stock and re root cuz if i dont do that and flash another from from usb in recovery it will flash but it loads everything from the previous rom there no other way i can think of doing.
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sasquatchotragavaca said:
No i dont change the name of them.
And the only reason i unroot and root again is because that what i have to do i put like stock and re root cuz if i dont do that and flash another from from usb in recovery it will flash but it loads everything from the previous rom there no other way i can think of doing.
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Are you partitioned? If so this is how you flash a rom wipe everything except sdcard make sure you wipe sd-ext. When you want to make a backup of that rom make sure you select System,boot,data,WiMAX,and sd ext. Then to flash New rom you wipe everything except sdcard wipe sd ext also. If your not wiping sdext that's causing the nandroid not to boot. If your talking about when you first flash a rom and all your apps and wallpaper from the previous rom ate still there that us because you setup your google account to backup and restore your settings when you sign in. To stop that flash a rom don't sign into anything go to settings>privacy and disable automatic restore and disable backup.
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evo4gnoob said:
Are you partitioned? If so this is how you flash a rom wipe everything except sdcard make sure you wipe sd-ext. When you want to make a backup of that rom make sure you select System,boot,data,WiMAX,and sd ext. Then to flash New rom you wipe everything except sdcard wipe sd ext also. If your not wiping sdext that's causing the nandroid not to boot. If your talking about when you first flash a rom and all your apps and wallpaper from the previous rom ate still there that us because you setup your google account to backup and restore your settings when you sign in. To stop that flash a rom don't sign into anything go to settings>privacy and disable automatic restore and disable backup.
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Yes it is partitioned ok i got the flashing and backup part ima save this. When i flash a rom i let it sit for a while and the part u say go to setting privacy is that on phone or gmail account?
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sasquatchotragavaca said:
Yes it is partitioned ok i got the flashing and backup part ima save this. When i flash a rom i let it sit for a while and the part u say go to setting privacy is that on phone or gmail account?
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That is on the phone. If its a sense 1.0 rom you shouldn't have to worry about that but everything else you have to do that
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evo4gnoob said:
That is on the phone. If its a sense 1.0 rom you shouldn't have to worry about that but everything else you have to do that
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Ok when i flash a rom ill make sure i check that. Thanku for your much appreciated help. If anything goes wrong is it cool if i pm u or something
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Flashing w/o SD card?

Hello guys, please go easy on me with this question. So I'm switching over to Verizon and was pretty set on getting the nexus. I currently have the gs2 with T-Mobile and am an avid flasher. My only concern now is since the nexus doesn't have an SD card, when you flash a new ROM how do you back up all your stuff without losing all of it when you wipe? Is it possible to do it all through the phone without copying the files to a computer? Thanks a lot. Really looking forward to joining the nexus side of the xda community! :beer:
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No need to worry because it doesn't wipe the saved data it works as if you have an SD card. Hit thanks if I helped.

bradley26 said:
No need to worry because it doesn't wipe the saved data it works as if you have an SD card. Hit thanks if I helped.
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^^This. the gnex has a virtual sd card which while flashing a rom, kerel, etc in cwm is not wiped.

Phew, that's awesome! Thanks!
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Just FYI, really...but I thought I'd throw it out there.
The newer recoveries do have an option to wipe the SD card.
Just...don't touch that?
Haha.
And the STOCK recovery does wipe the SD card when you do a "factory reset."
All of the custom recoveries wipe /data/ but ignore /data/media/ which is where your virtual SDcard is located...so you lost nothing that was on your "Sdcard."

[Q] RemICS-UX-Port By Team Dirt Installation Help!

Need help installing TEAM-D-I-R-T-RemICS-UX-Port-ICS-4-0-4. I used the recovery recommended in this roms thread and did the installation instructions which were basic download the rom using wifi, wipe everything except sd card, and last flash and enjoy! Problem is i complete flashing it and say everything went well so i power off and boot my evo up white HTC Evo 4G screen comes up and i wait until it loads the cool boot problem is there's no boot its just loads the white evo screen over and over tried doing it again and again wiping and flashing but no luck so i need step by step instructions because at this moment i am totally confused hope you guys can help thanks.

Whats your wiping method? Format system, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik?

You didn't partition your SD card
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death-by-soap said:
You didn't partition your SD card
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Yes, indeed i have never partitioned my sd card but i am afraid that i will f**k something up but are you saying if i do it will work??

CNexus said:
Whats your wiping method? Format system, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik?
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Yes, i wiped everything except any sd card stuff like the rom thread said.

Jounier11 said:
Yes, i wiped everything except any sd card stuff like the rom thread said.
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You need to partition or else it will boot loop
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death-by-soap said:
You need to partition or else it will boot loop
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Got a link for step by step instructions as to how i have never done this in the 1year that i have had my evo rooted and will i lose anything like music, photos, etc. from doing this.

Jounier11 said:
Got a link for step by step instructions as to how i have never done this in the 1year that i have had my evo rooted and will i lose anything like music, photos, etc. from doing this.
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Yes, unless you backup everything before hand. Its easy enough. Just move everything from your SD card to you computer, partition, and move it back.
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death-by-soap said:
Yes, unless you backup everything before hand. Its easy enough. Just move everything from your SD card to you computer, partition, and move it back.
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Ok, finished partitioning the SD Card right now i am in recovery in USB-MS mode and putting all the stuff i backed up from the SD Card back on so after that i just reboot and it should start right up without doing any boot loops right?

Jounier11 said:
Ok, finished partitioning the SD Card right now i am in recovery in USB-MS mode and putting all the stuff i backed up from the SD Card back on so after that i just reboot and it should start right up without doing any boot loops right?
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If all is well and properly formatted, yes. right up.
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death-by-soap said:
If all is well and properly formatted, yes. right up.
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Thank you very much i got the samsung galaxy III based rom working thank you for helping me
P.S. I Gave you some reputation thanks

Jounier11 said:
Thank you very much i got the samsung galaxy III based rom working thank you for helping me
P.S. I Gave you some reputation thanks
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Glad to be of service
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