Hi. Quick question. I just wanted to know if it were possible to download and flash a rom WITHOUT an SD Card. If anyone could give me this answer and/or the steps through a guide or by telling me your method it would be greatly appreciated.
AaronTJ89 said:
Hi. Quick question. I just wanted to know if it were possible to download and flash a rom WITHOUT an SD Card. If anyone could give me this answer and/or the steps through a guide or by telling me your method it would be greatly appreciated.
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Internal or External SD? Your phone has an internal SD. Just flash from it.
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Welcome to the world of Android. "SD Card" in Android refers to a partition on the file system.
Simply put, dont need a physical SD Card, you can download everything to this virtual "SD card" - which is a partition on the file system. When you install new roms, you are usually required to wipe the "System" & "Cache" partition and etc... The "SD Card" storage partition remains intact.
The first thing I did after buying an Android device is run out there and bought an SD card because I thought in order to try custom roms, I had to have a "SD Card" because all the instructions said download to "SD Card". Now I am a bit wiser.
inspron said:
Welcome to the world of Android. "SD Card" in Android refers to a partition on the file system.
Simply put, dont need a physical SD Card, you can download everything to this virtual "SD card" - which is a partition on the file system. When you install new roms, you are usually required to wipe the "System" & "Cache" partition and etc... The "SD Card" storage partition remains intact.
The first thing I did after buying an Android device is run out there and bought an SD card because I thought in order to try custom roms, I had to have a "SD Card" because all the instructions said download to "SD Card". Now I am a bit wiser.
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Lol yeah, i'm so used to phones without internal SD (HTC Mytouch 4g SLide, Sidekick 4G) that it never occured to me that the internal memory was actually an SD...I feel so dumb after this lol. But thanks, I appreciate your help!..
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I am trying to figure out how to remove the ext partition on my sd card. I am using Amon_RA 1.8. I do not see the partition when I plug in my phone as "Disk Drive", but my 8gb sd is showing up as 6.2gb total storage. I still have more than half of it available, but I am trying to backup and re-format the sd.
Thanks.
thenewguy821 said:
I am trying to figure out how to remove the ext partition on my sd card. I am using Amon_RA 1.8. I do not see the partition when I plug in my phone as "Disk Drive", but my 8gb sd is showing up as 6.2gb total storage. I still have more than half of it available, but I am trying to backup and re-format the sd.
Thanks.
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in recovery select partition or something like that, then set swap and ext3 to 0mb. this will remove those partitions, will also wipe out your sd card too.
nenn said:
in recovery select partition or something like that, then set swap and ext3 to 0mb. this will remove those partitions, will also wipe out your sd card too.
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Thanks. I plan on backing up the sd and reformatting it anyway, so wiping out the data on the card isn't a problem.
Just another quick question though... If I want to start with a completely fresh card, can I just put my music folder, Ti Backup folder and zips on the freshly formatted card, or would I have to reload all the folders from before the format?
After flashing a few different ROMs, some of them install their own app folders and folders associated with some of the apps they include, that I no longer need. I don't want to remove anything that IS needed though.
i decided to make an ext partition on my sd card so i could move over even more application data over to external, however it didn't work to my liking so i decided to get rid of it and just stick with a full FAT partition instead. Except now my 8gig card only shows something like 3gigs and nothing i could find so far in windows or Linux allows me to see the ext partition to format and make FAT again... any ideas?
this was done with and I'm still running clockwork mod
if you have amonRA v2.3 as your recovery, boot to it and then select partition SD card. Place a zero for the SWAP, when promoted, zero for ext2 and the rest for FAT. Make sure to transfer the contents of your card to a computer or external drive before starting this procedure.
Update: I see that you're using CWM. You can select amonRA ( PC36IMG.zip) from my signature, place it on the root of your SD card and boot to the bootloader to install it.
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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone would be as kind to help me with a problem I am having with my phone or at least point me in the right direction. I currently have a rooted EVO 4G. Its one of the first generation EVO's and its been rooted from Android version 2.2. I have never had a problem with using any Roms before, but I recently lost my original SD card, (The card I initially used to root my phone) and for some reason unknown to me, the alternate card that I now use, does not allow me to install new Roms. In fact, every time I try to install a Rom with this alternate card, the instalation gets aborted, the exact quotes are:
E:can't open /sdcard/MIUI.us_supersonic_1.12.2_Eng_Deo_zipA_signed_naro k.zip(bad)
Installation aborted.
The thing is, when I had my original card (8GB), if I wanted to use my alternate card (32GB) I would flash a Rom using the original card, and after flashing, use the 32GB card for the storage space. So I am assuming this it is not really a phone problem, just maybe something that I need to do or download to my alternate SD card (32GB).
One more thing, I was recently able to install a HTC EVO Sense Rom using the alternate card (32GB) Unfortunately, I am not able to install any ASOP Roms on this card.
Thank You in advance.
Did you try formatting the sd card? Also, it's possible the card is just bad too.
sitlet said:
Did you try formatting the sd card? Also, it's possible the card is just bad too.
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When I first purchased the card, I initially partitioned the card using Rom Manger, but I don't think that I have specifically formatted the card. Is there a formatting instruction page that you can point me to, or do you have instructions of how I should go about formatting my SD Card?
You can either format the SD card while in recovery or when on windows. Just format it then throw roms back on the SD card then wipe wipe wipe and flash away.
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Hey everyone. Got an annoying problem.
So I just tried to install a ROM, downloaded the file onto my SD card. Went into recovery. I didn't see my external SD card under Install from ZIP
Usually I see install from SD card and install from external SD card.
I went into mounts to try to see if I could mount it. External_SD was able to be mounted but when I tried to mount SD card it wouldn't mount.
I also had a weird problem in the ROM itself. I couldn't see my external_sd card folder no more. When I go into a TW based ROM and select My Files from the app drawer, it shows the sd card and the ext_sdcard. But when I go into Root explorer, there used to be a folder in the root directory for ext_sdcard. Its not there anymore. I went into mnt/ and saw it there.
Did something happen to my recovery? I flashed CWM to the latest version and confirmed MD5.
Any help would be appreciated. I rather flash and save my ROM filed in my SD card and not internal memory.
Newest CWM Doesnt access the ext sd card. he said on his twitter he plans to fix it.
deepsix_69 said:
Newest CWM Doesnt access the ext sd card. he said on his twitter he plans to fix it.
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correct, for now all flashing to be done through internal memory only.
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TeamEPIC's recovery does access both. I've been using it. Trying another one as well just to see.
Thanks everyone. Thought I was going crazy.
TWRP for the win!
Do you know if your SD card is still good (or going bad)? It's a reasonably obvious question, but I had 2 SanDisk 32 GB cards go bad on me so I know the frustration. The /mnt/extSdCard in Root Explorer is a little misleading, I can create empty files in there without actually having a card in the slot. Something I discovered when I was troubleshooting my bad cards. Just a thought.
Hey everyone,
It's my first time rooting my Desire. I followed the "noob proof" guide, skipping the S-OFF step (figured I don't really need it if I'm just flashing ROMs).
I partitioned my SD card successfully (16GB -> 14GB FAT32, 1GB EXT4) using GParted and the card was working well. I made a backup and then flashed MildWild 5.0. Everything seems to be working fine except the SD card is not recognized. In Storage settings the "Mount SD card" option is grayed out and it says "Insert an SD card for mounting". I tried restarting the phone, reinserting the card, but that didn't work.
On a side note, when I partitioned the card first and ran stock rom I couldn't mount the card too, but the option wasn't grayed out, and after a restart it was OK - capacity and free space was reported correctly.
I guess it's a problem with the partitioning, but is there anything I could try before repartitioning the card again? This might be a logical way of dealing with the current situation (card is completely empty), but what if this happens again after using the phone for a while and storing all kinds of stuff on the card?
PS. I haven't tried to see if the card is visible in windows, because I don't have a card reader. I'll try GParted again tomorrow, but now I'm off to bed.
Thanks!
I had the exact same problem and fixed it by putting the card in a card reader, and running the "Scan drive for errors" tool in Windows. It found errors the first time, and I ran it twice to be safe.
Hi,
I managed to connect the card my PC by mounting USB storage in ClockworkMod recovery. I scanned the disk for errors but there were none. Unfortunately after rebooting the device still couldn't see the card.
Also while in recovery I could mount the sdcard and sd-ext, or at least appeared that I could - the lines changed to "unmount (...)" but there was no notification of successful or failed mounting.
What should I try next? Repartition with GParted (probably by mounting usb storage in recovery, otherwise it's not recognized there either) or try that with ClockworkMod? Or perhaps 4EXT?
Thanks!
OK, I tried partitioning the card again with GParted, but nothing changed. I am beginning to think something might be wrong with the card.
And after some reading I understand that partitioning with CWM isn't favored by most, so eventually I might try 4EXT. In that case, do I need S-OFF to install it? The question has been asked in the developer's thread recently, but no one has answer it and a few other threads seem to suggest that you don't necessarily need S-OFF, unless you would like to use some specific feature(s).
So do you need S-OFF to install 4EXT on the Desire or not?