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Moving installed apps to a new and larger microsd card?

I am running Cynogen Mod 4.1.999.
I have 3 partitions on my stock 1GB microsdhc card.
I want to backup everything and move them to a new microsdhc card that I bought.
Is it possible to transfer the data in all the partitions to the new card without losing my installed apps? I have a friend who only transferred the files that he could see in Windows Explorer to the new microsd card but when he loaded it to his phone, all his apps were gone.
So is it possible to retain what I already have but on a new and larger microsd card?
Help is appreciated.

To move apps off of ext:
adb remount
adb pull system/sd/ %CD%\whateveryouwant
(this pulls everything off of the ext including dalvik which you can delete from the folder and puts it in your user directory. *C:\Users*)
to put back:
adb push %CD%\whateveryouwant /system/sd/
sdcard you just mount and put files into a folder and put them back.
it is not necessary to pull the swap partition.
Hope this helps!

make a ubuntu live cd, run it, mount sd, copy ext partition, put new card in make partitions in gparted since you are there and then copy files over, run fix permissions
simple

The easiest way to do what you're asking is to flash to Amon_RA's latest recovery. He's built-in "Backup and Restore Tool", which essentially does what Nandroid originally did and extended it to the ext partition of your SD card.
Run BART to backup your entire phone from the Recovery Console and you can then replace your SD card, partition it the way you want, and then run BART to restore your entire phone as well.

switching sd cards

i have a 2gb sd card in my phone now and just bought a class 6 4gb. my phone is rooted so i need to know how to transfer my info form the old card to the new one. if i put the new one in and just partition it wont i loose all of my data since its currently saved on the 2gb card?
thanks for the help

i think if u run recovery..(speakin runnin ravs recovery)
first..
back up sd card..
reboot to recovery
pull out old sd card
put new sd card format...fat+ext2+apps2sd
then switch ext2-ext3...
plug phone to computer
run adb shell ums_enable
put your bacced up sd folder in the sd card from your comp
wipe
wipe
run chose .zip from sd re flash your rom.. cyan/or whatever you choose
then run fix_permissions
fix uik
fix ext permissions
adb shell ums_disable on computer to unmount sd
restart and see if that works..
thats how i did mine.. i dont know if its politically correct but it worked for me!

A new SD card

My HTC Dream currently holds 4.2.5 cyan rom. I would like to change to a higher capacity SD card. Can I just plug in the SD card right away and start using? Is the 4.2.5 cyan rom installed to the phone storage or the SD card?
Do I need to first format the SD card before I use it and if so, format to what version?

are you using apps2sd? If you are not, just plug in the sd card and go. If you are, you are going to need to partition it and reflash more than likely. The rom is stored on the phone, but apps, if you are using apps2sd, is obviously on the sd card, as well as some other things that could prevent it from starting up after the switch.

Yeah using apps2SD, so how should i go about using this new SD card to my phone?

format your new sdcard and copy over all the files from the ext off the old card

Format to which format? Fat32 or?
Erm how do I copy over all the files from the ext off the old card?
Sorry, a noob here.

format the new sd card to have both an FAT32 and EXT3
to backup/restore, you can get an ext viewer such as paragons EXTfs (free) just copy and paste to the new sdcard

B-man007 said:
format the new sd card to have both an FAT32 and EXT3
to backup/restore, you can get an ext viewer such as paragons EXTfs (free) just copy and paste to the new sdcard
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Sorry, can I check with you, how to format the new sd card to have both an FAT32 and EXT3?
This application paragons EXTfs is a windows application?

Why don't you just format your new sdcard with the Amon_Ra recovery?
Just thinking out loud here and trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Here is what I would do:
Install Amon_Ra recovery (see my signature for the link)
Go to console and enter "switchrom -s YOURROMNAMEHERE"
Wait until it finishes then reboot back into recovery again.
Mount the SDCARD to your computer and copy the directories (to include the switchrom directory) then unmount the card. No need to unplug it yet from the usb port on the computer.
Remove the old SDCARD and replace it with your new (blank) one.
While in the recovery main menu select "Partition" and then "Partition SD".
This should make your FAT32/ext2 partition.
After that has completed mount the SDCARD to the computer and copy the old sdcard data to your new card (FAT32 partition).
Unmount the SDCARD and go to console again.
Type "switchrom -r YOURROMNAMEHERE"
After it has completed then you should now have your app and app_private directories on your EXT2 parition. If you need to convert ext2 to ext3 or 4 simply select those options from the partition menu in the recovery.
If you have anything else stored to your old sdcard's ext partition just adb pull those files. (adb pull /system/sd \backupdirectory)
I think that is probably the easiest way. Just my opinion/advice.

Binary100100 said:
Why don't you just format your new sdcard with the Amon_Ra recovery?
Just thinking out loud here and trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Here is what I would do:
Install Amon_Ra recovery (see my signature for the link)
Go to console and enter "switchrom -s YOURROMNAMEHERE"
Wait until it finishes then reboot back into recovery again.
Mount the SDCARD to your computer and copy the directories (to include the switchrom directory) then unmount the card. No need to unplug it yet from the usb port on the computer.
Remove the old SDCARD and replace it with your new (blank) one.
While in the recovery main menu select "Partition" and then "Partition SD".
This should make your FAT32/ext2 partition.
After that has completed mount the SDCARD to the computer and copy the old sdcard data to your new card (FAT32 partition).
Unmount the SDCARD and go to console again.
Type "switchrom -r YOURROMNAMEHERE"
After it has completed then you should now have your app and app_private directories on your EXT2 parition. If you need to convert ext2 to ext3 or 4 simply select those options from the partition menu in the recovery.
If you have anything else stored to your old sdcard's ext partition just adb pull those files. (adb pull /system/sd \backupdirectory)
I think that is probably the easiest way. Just my opinion/advice.
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I don't have adb installed, that's why.

bryant_16 said:
I don't have adb installed, that's why.
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Setup ADB on your computer
Use terminal and copy the directories on your ext
Maybe consider a root file directory application (I suggest SUFBS it's a paid app but very much worth it.)

How do you setup ADB?
Compared to the earlier method, which one will be faster and easier?
Sorry, a noob here.

Look. i'm not trying to be rude but you really need to read links like:
***Informative Links*** - Read before clicking "New Thread"
and if you were to do that instead of using the "noob" excuse (hard to be a noob when you've been using this forum since 2007... but whatever. Not judging.) you would come across this:
[HOW-TO] ADB for Dummies(How-To Learner's Guide)
So... yeah. I'm finished helping for the night. Good luck. No more spoons.

So should I use adb or?

Binary100100 said:
Why don't you just format your new sdcard with the Amon_Ra recovery?
Just thinking out loud here and trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Here is what I would do:
Install Amon_Ra recovery (see my signature for the link)
Go to console and enter "switchrom -s YOURROMNAMEHERE"
Wait until it finishes then reboot back into recovery again.
Mount the SDCARD to your computer and copy the directories (to include the switchrom directory) then unmount the card. No need to unplug it yet from the usb port on the computer.
Remove the old SDCARD and replace it with your new (blank) one.
While in the recovery main menu select "Partition" and then "Partition SD".
This should make your FAT32/ext2 partition.
After that has completed mount the SDCARD to the computer and copy the old sdcard data to your new card (FAT32 partition).
Unmount the SDCARD and go to console again.
Type "switchrom -r YOURROMNAMEHERE"
After it has completed then you should now have your app and app_private directories on your EXT2 parition. If you need to convert ext2 to ext3 or 4 simply select those options from the partition menu in the recovery.
If you have anything else stored to your old sdcard's ext partition just adb pull those files. (adb pull /system/sd \backupdirectory)
I think that is probably the easiest way. Just my opinion/advice.
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Hi there, is adb absolute necessary here?

Copying ext2 from one SD Card to another

Here's what I am looking to accomplish. I wanted a backup sd card just in the event mine goes bad. I ran a search with 'SD Card" in the title and read each thread. Here are my roadblocks.... I installed DiskInternals Linux Reader and although it let me copy the ext3 partition files to my pc, it does not allow me to copy them back to the new card. Partition Manager does not have a 64-bit free version. Installed Ext2 IFS for Windows, however, it refused to see my sd card when mounted. I used RA-dream-v1.5.2 recovery to do a Bart + Ext Backup and verified the ext-backup.tar is on my sd card. I was going to install ADB, however, it doesn't say it works on Windows 7 64-bit. I have already partitioned the new card and have everything copied to the Fat32 partion. How now is the easiest way for me to get the ext-backup.tar untarred to my ext3 partition on the new sd card? Please don't flame me as I have been reading threads since 10 this morning. Thanks for any help!

The best thing I've found for managing the Linux partitions is a GParted Live disc. Just download and burn to a bootable CD. Pop it in and reboot your machine and you're free to do pretty much whatever you want with your SD card partitions without having to worry about Windows getting in the way.

Appreciate it. Gonna try it now. Thank you!

Well, I did as instructed. However, it failed to "Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 57107. Any other way to accomplish what I am looking for?

any possibility that your USB port is flakey? Any way to try it on a differenty machine? I've got one PC that has USB problems and has been known to give similar kinds of error messages.

It seems fine for everything. It's a brand new Dell, only 2 months old. It was kinda freaky when I booted from the cd...lines of text scrolling on my screen for a couple minutes, lol. I was like...this better not be wiping my pc out Then at the end it just died on that error... The one thing I notice in reading threads...people keep giving console commands to do things on the phone using adb, however, I tried and it says adb isn't found... Here is an example. I can't believe there isn't an easy way to do this with so many folks rooted, etc.
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best thing to do is this while in recovery, use adb and type
Code:
adb shell mount /system/sd/
adb pull /system/sd/ system_sd_backup
turn off phone, change sd card, go back into recovery, then
Code:
adb shell mount /system/sd/
adb push system_sd_backup /system/sd/

ok so I have copied an EXT from one card to another and this is how you do it. You need to be using RA recovery. Go into your console from recovery and type "bart -e -s EXT" that will create a back up of your EXT in a folder called "bart" on the fat32 partition of your SD card. Plug your phone into your PC and copy the bart folder to the PC. Now take the SD card out of your phone and put in the one that you want to restore the EXT to in. Copy the bart folder from your PC to your new cards fat32 partition. Make sure you partition the new card so that it has an EXT partition on it and then go into the recovery console and type "bart -e -r" it will ask you to select which back up to restore. Input the number for the back up that says "EXT" and restore it.

Joe333x said:
ok so I have copied an EXT from one card to another and this is how you do it. You need to be using RA recovery. Go into your console from recovery and type "bart -e -s EXT" that will create a back up of your EXT in a folder called "bart" on the fat32 partition of your SD card. Plug your phone into your PC and copy the bart folder to the PC. Now take the SD card out of your phone and put in the one that you want to restore the EXT to in. Copy the bart folder from your PC to your new cards fat32 partition. Make sure you partition the new card so that it has an EXT partition on it and then go into the recovery console and type "bart -e -r" it will ask you to select which back up to restore. Input the number for the back up that says "EXT" and restore it.
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Worked flawlesly! Your help coupled with a PM I received from 'shadowch31' made this seamless. Thanks so much!

I tried to run the BART backup via console, but I keep getting an error message as following:
Storing app data...
tar: empty archive
Error occurred during storing of app data...
tar operation failed.
Do you have enough space on the /sdcard?
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I have about 4 times more free space on the SD card then my ext-4 partition is. What could be the problem?

SD card Blank or has unsupported filesystem.

hello every one,
today i had fased a strange prob. which i want to share with u all.
i am having google nexus 1 with cynogenmod 7 installed.
and having sandisk 8gb microsd card. and suddenly today morning it says that "SD card Blank or has unsupported filesystem." i took out my card and mount on my computer and take the entire backup of the data and format it. and incert it but still having the same prob. nothing happen, then i search on net i found on other threads that download the sd card formater and try it. i also tried the same but nothing happen, then on other thread it was mention that try to run chkdsk on computer, with /x comment.. i also done same but still prob. is same.
i am having 3 more micro sd cards of different brands and of different size i also tried them but giving same prob.
nothing happening.
i also open the terminal emulition in my phone and type the commmand mount -a but it says that /etc/fstab not exist.
tell me what i do ? even i am not able to do anything ...

Wow--that is tough to figure out and i am not good at this level of TS.
Sounds like you lost the mount point. It is in etc/fstab
Do you have a backup rom on pc that you can extract etc/fstab from or can you install that rom thru adb with no sd card--
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-rom-to-an-android-phone-device-without-sd-card/
Can you mount card thru adb--
adb shell
mount /sdcard
exit
Did you use full ersase on and size adj on when you formatted card.
Can you format and partition card outside of phone.
Also, when formatting and wiping for flashing new rom you may want to get Temasek's Format zips that include boot and system wipes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxfijcp6f6bf1me#1
Someone will have a better and more accurate answer soon--
Ken