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Switching Micro sd card after rooting

Hi there to everybody. i have a Tmobile G1 :
Installed Htc Hero Sense, Firmware version is 1.5. I have 1gb micro sd card on it when i root the phone. now i am replacing it with 8gb micro sd card.
every time i put the 8gb sd card on it, the phone keeps freezing and will not continue to boot up. i then returned the 1 gb sd card and the phone is working properly. how can i change the sd card to a bigger capacity without the phone freezing? do i have to re-root and restart the whole process on the phone? any help, guides will help. Thank you in advance.

......umm...lol..imma leave this one alone

just copy the content of the old sdcard, some Hero rom store some info there
it wont hurt to try it
also, did you have any partitions on the old sd?

partition your sd card and flash a 1.6 rom with auto a2sd

I did try to copy the whole contents of the sd card, but it does same thing, freezing and it wont boot up.

using 1 gb flash the Amon RA recovery image....and then do a Bart Backup...this backup will backup all your apps and also the rom..then put that backup file and put into the new sd card...and then go into recovery and do a bart restore....

Qjizzle said:
partition your sd card and flash a 1.6 rom with auto a2sd
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Um...partly true but you don't need to install a 1.6 donut ROM
TO OP
You have to repartition your SD card (~7400 MB Fat32, 512 EXT3, 96-128 Swap?) whichever you want.
If you want to reinstall all your paid/free apps, then you will have to back them up on your 1 GB card using a backup app (App manager, astro) or just use Mybackuppro if you want to back up everything (contacts, data, etc)
transfer the backupped files back onto your newly partitioned 8 GB card. Boot up the phone with the new card in it, and reinstall all your apps
OR the easier way (but you lose all your data)
Partition card
wipe phone/dalvik/ etc
fresh Reinstall

The old sd card appeared to be partioned.

you need to make sure your swap and ext. partition is the same size as the one you have on your old one. ex. if your 1gb have 96swap, 512ext. then your new one should have the same swap and ext size. rest goes to fat32. First thing you should do is do a nan + ext. backup using the recovery image. Then copy everything from the old SD card to the new SD card. Then do a nan restore. That should restore everything on your phone plus whatever is stored in the ext. partition. The likely cause of your phone freezing is because the stuff in the ext. partition is not there anymore.

mr2t32 said:
you need to make sure your swap and ext. partition is the same size as the one you have on your old one. ex. if your 1gb have 96swap, 512ext. then your new one should have the same swap and ext size. rest goes to fat32. First thing you should do is do a nan + ext. backup using the recovery image. Then copy everything from the old SD card to the new SD card. Then do a nan restore. That should restore everything on your phone plus whatever is stored in the ext. partition. The likely cause of your phone freezing is because the stuff in the ext. partition is not there anymore.
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what he said

when i got my mytouch coming from a g 1i simply did what the guy did above me and with amon_ra's recovery its very simply

The Unlockr.com has a tutorial thats very helpfull if you need a visual. I was a nubie once and visuals always helped.

Replacing Old SD card.

[Solved]Okay, I currently have a 2gb (don't even know the brand) MicroSD in my rooted Dream/G1. I am running SuperD 1.10.2. I have Apps2SD setup already. I just bought a PNY 4gb Class 4 MicroSD yesterday and I want to use it. How do i transfer EVERYTHING to it? And will I have to re-install all the apps that were installed on the 2gb card?
Thanks, xKr4zex

Krician said:
Okay, I currently have a 2gb (don't even know the brand) MicroSD in my rooted Dream/G1. I am running SuperD 1.10.2. I have Apps2SD setup already. I just bought a PNY 4gb Class 4 MicroSD yesterday and I want to use it. How do i transfer EVERYTHING to it? And will I have to re-install all the apps that were installed on the 2gb card?
Thanks, xKr4zex
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The possibilities.....
You could do it the hard way or the easy way.
Hard way is by using adb and do
command prompt
adb pull /system/sd /sdbackup/sd
and partition your new card using amon_ra recovery
then
command prompt
adb shell
mount -a
exit
cd c:\sdbackup
adb push sd /system/sd
and that should do it.
Easy way
Make a nandroid backup with ext,
save the contents of you sdcard (especially nandroid folder)
partition your new sdcard with amon_ra recovery with your desired ext partition,
restore your backups from your old card,
place new card in phone,
nandroid restore and reboot.
You should be good.

Thanks for the reply. I also wanted to know, if I already have apps2sd and Linux swap enabled, do I have to disable>power off>new card>restore>re enable apps2sd and Linux?

Krician said:
Thanks for the reply. I also wanted to know, if I already have apps2sd and Linux swap enabled, do I have to disable>power off>new card>restore>re enable apps2sd and Linux?
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You shouldn't have to re-do anything once your partitions are in place.
If your card is setup like FAT/SWAP/EXT3 (using EXT3 for example) for card 1 then as long as your partitions are FAT/SWAP/EXT3 for card 2 then everything should work just fine. Even if your swap partition is a different size it should be alright. The only thing is that if card 1 (old card) EXT3 partition is 500mb and if you are using 300mb of that card you need to have 300mb+ on card 2 EXT3 partition so that all of your data can fit on there after you do your nandroid restore.
I did this method personally when I went from a 8gb to a 16gb.
Old card was 8gb composed of ~7gb (FAT)/64mb (swap)/500mb (ext3)
New card is 16gb composed of ~13gb (FAT)/96mb (swap)/1gb (ext3)
I simply performed a nandroid+ext backup
Backed up my entire sdcard onto my desktop (including nandroid directory)
Put the new card in and repartitioned with Amon_RA recovery as posted above.
Restored the data from my backup that was on my desktop
Performed a nandroid+ext restore
Done. Very easy.
Just do it. You'll be amazed how complicated your making this.

I just did this this morning before seeing this thread and i did exactly as it says here. I only encountered one problem...My Music playlists didnt transfer how do i get those? I still have my old sd card with all the stuff in it by the way.

Thanks! Solved.

Krician said:
Thanks! Solved.
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kalpa11 said:
I just did this this morning before seeing this thread and i did exactly as it says here. I only encountered one problem...My Music playlists didnt transfer how do i get those? I still have my old sd card with all the stuff in it by the way.
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I think there are third party apps that will do that. I'm not sure what file that is exactly.

Any way to 'clone' current SD card?

Current setup is an N1 on 5.0.6, desire cam + OC/UV, 8GB class 4 SD, multiple apps on the SD card.
What I want to do is buy a class 6 16GB, as im not that far off running out of room if i put any serious amount of music on, and i do sometimes record for several hours (tennis) on the cam.
Is there any way I can literally clone my old SD card, including partitions, to the new SD card so I can literally slap it back in my N1 without having to reinstall everything etc?

Titanium backup.
Or android with ext backup.
And backing your fat partition to a computer then back to your new SD card

Henchman said:
Titanium backup.
Or android with ext backup.
And backing your fat partition to a computer then back to your new SD card
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RE the ext backup, where exactly does it save that backup to? Or am I thinking its only backing up the application partition?
Also, how do I manually reformat the new SSD into the app + storage format, really can't remember how I got to that menu, was it amon? Sorry another thing xD If I want to increase the size of my app partition, will that break anything during the restore? Cheers.

[Q] A2SD question, new SD Card

I have a HTC Hero running Nfinites .7 ROM with a 8Gig class 2 SD Card.
I just bought a 16gig class 6 card and would like to use it in the phone. This is the first time I have used A2SD, I understand how to format the new SD card to make it work but am curious about transfer from the old card to the new one for the Apps. Is there an easy way to do that?
I know for the music and other stuff in the normal part of the SD card will transfer just with my windows desktop but I know you can't transfer the linux stuff on a windows PC.
Is the easiest thing to do just to redownload all the apps with App Brain?

i know they have an option in recovery to move apps stored in ext partition but dont really know how to restore myself i get error while doig nandroid+ext backup during the ext part those are the only two options there I know there is a command using adb to backup and restore I'll look them up for you and repost here later on when I get home hope this helps

Least painful way of upgrading sdcard?

In a few days, I will get my new sdcard, a 16gb one. How should I go about switching it the easiest way? I run ICS and it's partitioned to 1GB ext4 storage.
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Copy and paste? You really don't need anything more.

I backup old card to pc (copy/paste as mentioned)
then use sdformatter outside of phone to format with full erase and size adjustment on
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28338566/SDFormatter 2.0.mht
this is a sure way to fully format card
then I put back in phone partition 1gb ext4 no swap
then copy back files from pc to card
don't know any easy way, but the best imo

If you're using SD-EXT partition and don't have access to Linux:
Complete nandroid backup in recovery (it will back up the EXT partition too).
Mount USB from recovery, copy everything from card to PC.
Power off the phone.
Remove the card.
Insert the new card.
Boot to recovery.
Partition the new card (1GB EXT4, no swap).
Mount SD in recovery, copy everything from PC to card.
Unmount card.
Full nandroid restore (it'll restore the EXT4 partition).
Reboot and you're good.
Just copying what's on your SD card to PC will leave you without booting OS and apps.
On Linux you can copy EXT partition contents to PC, and copy them to the new card after repartitioning. But if you were on Linux, you woudn't be asking...

Jack_R1 said:
If you're using SD-EXT partition and don't have access to Linux:
Complete nandroid backup in recovery (it will back up the EXT partition too).
Mount USB from recovery, copy everything from card to PC.
Power off the phone.
Remove the card.
Insert the new card.
Boot to recovery.
Partition the new card (1GB EXT4, no swap).
Mount SD in recovery, copy everything from PC to card.
Unmount card.
Full nandroid restore (it'll restore the EXT4 partition).
Reboot and you're good.
Just copying what's on your SD card to PC will leave you without booting OS and apps.
On Linux you can copy EXT partition contents to PC, and copy them to the new card after repartitioning. But if you were on Linux, you woudn't be asking...
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Agree, a little faster way will be to backup only sd-ext from recovery and restore only it to new card.
BTW, new card is good time to get rid of old junks in sdcard. Copy only whatever is required.

anubhav77 said:
new card is good time to get rid of old junks in sdcard. Copy only whatever is required.
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That is very true