Hi everybody, I just rooted my phone to Cyanogen's 4.2.4 after a long hiatus of being.. a well, non-root user (had to unroot to get a fresh G1 from T-Mobile!)
Anyways, I'm contemplating using app2sd and creating another partition, but Cyanogen clearly states to use nothing less than a Class 4 SD card.
In that case, is the stock 1gb microsd card safe to use (my G1 came with a Sandisk 1GB)?
You can try using it but if its not stable you should revert. Stock is a Class 2 card
it works just fine trust me
been running apps2sd in cyan roms for months now with stock sdcard.
although if u plan on running games you might wanna get a faster card but for apps its good enough
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I want to root my phone but I don't have a card reader. I have the 2GB memory card that came with the phone. I have ordered a 8GB memory card (and reader). Is it ok if i root my phone now or should I wait til i get my new memory card? (I want to show off to all my friends with a hero build )
Thanks,
Jacob
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Wait... And the stock sdcard is 1 gb
I got a 2gb card with my phone.
Thanks anyway for your help.
Oh =/ Sorry for my ignorance
Well my memory card should be here Tuesday or Wednesday. In the mean time I'll prepare everything I need to root my phone.
Jacob_K said:
Well my memory card should be here Tuesday or Wednesday. In the mean time I'll prepare everything I need to root my phone.
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I used a 2gb sd card before I got my 8 and it seemed to work fine. The ext2 or ex3 only needs to be around 500-600mb. I had no problems. I believe that JAC has a rom that is made just for slow sd cards.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479
Clay
I rooted my phone just fine without a card reader and i used the stock 1gig card that i received. If you dont wanna wait you can root your phone awhile and when you get your new card just reformat and apply ext2 or ext3 whichever your prefference. Root has to do with the phone not the sdcard applying different roms has to do with the sd card but even the biggest rom is around 90mg which a 2gig card can easily handle need any help with root or applying roms pm me
hope this helps
you can root the phone with he stock sd card. I rooted my phone before apps to sd was even possible. just follow the process exactly and you'll be fine.
ok guys. i am running a rooted g1 with the 2.6.3 hero build. i am running it on the 1 gb sd card that the phone came with. the speed of the build sucks and lags because of the card. i am going to purchase a 4 gb or 8 gb class 6 card today to improve speed and will also get on a newer hero rom. my question is, when i put all the data that is on my old card to my new card will i still be on root, and will i still be on hero? will it be plug and play basically? will i have to reformat to fat32 or will it already be on there? one last thing..how do you partition the sd card? i will need to do this so i can jump to a newer build of the rom..
anything helps.
thanks,
Nick
The rom and root .... is based on the phone it's self, not the SD card.
You are best to install an Ubuntu live cd .... and use G-Parted to partition your SD card.
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I'm assuming you are already running apps2sd right now. So when you get your new card you will NOT be able to just swap them out. Best thing to do is format your new card (just like other poster said in ubuntu, look in my sig for tut) in 3 partitions fat32, ext3, and linux-swap. Then load up your hero rom on your sd card and flash away. And yea you will still be rooted.
I just got my "new" nook and tried to boot Froyo 0.6.8 from an SD card. It just gets stuck at the blue ANDROID_ screen. I tried Froyo 0.6.7 and redoing 0.6.8 but it never got past ANDROID_. I'm using a new Transcend 4GB class 6 card. I first tried writing it using WinImage and my laptop's built in card reader, but when that card didn't boot I tried using a USB card reader and Win32diskimager. The Nook came with 1.1 on it and I haven't done anything to the internal rom.
Any ideas? How long should it stay on the Android_ screen if its working?
Did you figure this out?
This sounds like the classic failure described with 16GB cards on multiple threads. There's a nice consolidated thread on cards that are known to work. I'd check that. I have froyo working beuatifully on an 8Gb class6 transcend card.
Most likely you have some glitch on the card. I would do a complete deep wipe of the card (e.g. using SDformatter, all options). Then reflash with win32diskimager, then expand the SDcard partition with EASUS
it should boot in a couple of minutes tops the first time round.
I looked at those threads about cards before I bought one and the Transcend 4gb, class 6 I got is one that seemed to work.
I haven't been able to get the nook to boot off any card. I tried doing the format suggested and tried another 1gb PNY card with the bootable clockwork. I've tried writing with the internal SD writer in my laptop and with a Kodak (sakar) usb writer and with Win32DiskImager and WinImage.
I suppose the USB writer I have might not be good, but I don't want to get another one without knowing its one that works. So far I don't know whether the problem is with the cards I'm writing or for some reason this nook won't boot off SD card.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I probably had a flaky 4gb card. Now it won't format or write whatever I do.
dumb Q, but is the 1gb card you ahve also flaky now too... in which case it might well be the reader?
Will your nook stock OS read the SD card? (e.g. throw some photos ont here and see if the nook will show them) that way eliminate the nook.
There's some older threads that suggest first formatting the SD card with the nook stock OS, but I've never needed to do that.
I'd persevere - there's definately some plusses of froyo over the rooted B&N (especially if you use adhoc networks a lot), and you absolutely need nookie froyo as a backup incase you fry something when you take the plunge to CM7 (which is phenomenal, despite being so early in its release)
The 1gb I borrowed seems ok. I managed to boot a card with a bootable clockwork on it. I didn't do anything to Nook stock OS yet. I want to be clear that I can recover if I do first. I did get another reader, but I think it was probably the card. I wasn't able to boot of the 1gb at first because I was making a mistake in unzipping the .tar.gz files.
Do you have any pointers of where to find out about how to use Clockwork recovery?
I am using 0.6.7 on a 8gb class 6 Transcend... it's working great, no issues with booting.
I just ordered a Nook Color from eBay with the $50 off... happy yes I am!
I've been with Android since the G1, now I have a droid... how come flashing ROMS and SD cards are so different? You have to put it internally on the Nook instead of on the SD card? Flashing off SD card causes problems? CWR doesn't work? Can anyone explain? It seems much tougher than my droid, just putting the file on my sd card then going to recovery and hitting update, or same with the gTab or Adam.
Unlike most phones, flashing a majority of ROMs (not all) for the NC wipes the Recovery -- ie, wipes it off the device.
So you create a Recovery SD card (the NC auto-boots into it) and then flash ROMs just like you would for a phone. Then take out the SD card when done with Recovery.
It wipes only the recovery correct? Not anything on the sd card? Ill search up how to make partition for recovery sd. Thanks.
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It wipes only the recovery correct? Not anything on the sd card? Ill search up how to make partition for recovery sd. Thanks.
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Yeah, it'll wipe everything on the NC only, and not touch the SD card.
Here's the thread for creating a 3.0.0.6 Recovery SD Card (needed for CM7 Gingerbread ROM):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240
See post #19 for detailed instructions.
For FroYo I believe you need to use 3.0.0.5, found elsewhere.
just ordered my NC off ebay too. i'm reading up all i can as fast as i can. coming from an evo where wiping is too easy, this is going to be a bit more complicated, i can't wait!!!
More complicated, maybe, but also much safer since you basically cannot brick an NC... No matter how badly you screw up the internal flash, you can always boot from SD to fix things.
I bought 3 Nook Colors yesterday and rooted every one of them and installed HoneyComb on one, all in less that 2 hours start to finish including downloading images and making the SD card. I made one SD card with CWR with images for the stock ROM, CyanogenMod 7 and HC eMMC v4. It all works flawlessly. This thing really is simple to manipulate. I had more trouble making a gold card and rooting my HTC Inspire!
Well I want to chime in on this too now because I'm new to this as well. What are the advantages/disadvantages of nookie froyo on the sd card vs flashing a rom to the internal?
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Droidicus said:
Well I want to chime in on this too now because I'm new to this as well. What are the advantages/disadvantages of nookie froyo on the sd card vs flashing a rom to the internal?
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well sd cards are slow and internal memory(eemc) is fast
if you install froyo/cm7/HC on your eemc it will run much faster vs running from sd card, running from sd card is good though if you want to try out a rom without losing your current setup
I'm planning on moving from a 2gb card to an 8gb card. I'm rooted, CM7 RC4 on emmc with Clockwork 3.0.1. Are there any root/system files that are typically stored on it that won't be tranferred easily by copy/paste onto the new card?
Not that I'm aware of. I haven't had any problems like that with the stock ROM or Nookie Froyo. Android OS will write those files directly, so unless CM made significant changes to the way Android writes system files, unlikely you'll see any issues. Cheers!
a few people report problems with class 10 sd cards. I have a class6 and class10. I've had a problem with one froyo build that i couldn't install on the card using my normal techniques. I was able to get it to run by setting it up on a class 6 and moving it to a class 10 later. my class6 is an 8gb and class10 is 16gb, so the size might have been part of the problem as the 16gb cards aren't as easy to setup using verygreens cm7 sd card prop instructions.
i'd say if you are concerned, get a 8gb class6, unless you are comfortable with resizing partitions and willing to monkey around a bit if you run into issues on a class 10 card.
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I'm planning on moving from a 2gb card to an 8gb card. I'm rooted, CM7 RC4 on emmc with Clockwork 3.0.1. Are there any root/system files that are typically stored on it that won't be tranferred easily by copy/paste onto the new card?
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I think you're referring to CM7 being stored on the internal, correct? if that's the case, you would be just transferring the user data stuff (and app data that is created from apps)you shouldn't have any problems transferring data from one to the other. I've done it a few times both with my nook and my droid.