To start, let me say that I feel like a complete idiot browsing the forums looking for an solution to this problem.
Situation:
- Bought rooted G1 from friend with CyanogenMod with included 2GB SD card. Installed EnochX custom theme.
- Wanted more room for apps/music/videos, bought a Class 6 8GB ADATA microSDHC card.
- Partitioned 8GB card as follows: 1.3 GB EXT2, the rest as FAT32. Copied data from 2GB card to 8GB card (in FAT32 partition).
What happens:
- Powered off phone, removed 2GB and insert 8GB.
- Phone powers up, shows the Enoch splash screen briefly, then the screen goes blank - it's backlit, but only black. Nothing. Waited a few minutes, no progress.
For kicks, I re-inserted my 2GB with all my apps ... none of which work, of course. Most of what I installed is gone, but my custom wallpaper and desktop shortcuts remain.
I would like to revert to what I had previously installed. Re-downloading the apps isn't a problem, but did I do something wrong in the upgrade process? From what I understand the 8GB should be working fine with CyanogenMod...
Again, please forgive my n00bishness ... 20 years experience with computers, very little with cell phones ..
EDIT - nvm, problem fixed itself ...
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Apps2SD#Upgrading_SD_.2F_Moving_data_to_new_SD
Everything you need to know and more. Remember to have AMON Recovery 1.5.2 so that the ext partition actually restores properly. Granted this method really isn't full proof. When I did it, I had to re-install half of my apps, which is a huge deal really.
Another simple method you could try is this, go to Recovery > Console > type "utility", then select the option to move apps to SD. Then backup all your stuff, then put in new SD, partition, then do the same thing, but restore apps from SD.
So I actually switched to a smaller SD card (so I can use my 16GB in my Nexus One - coming tomorrow!!). What I did was this.
1. Partition replacement card.
2. Copy files from the Fat32 partition of current card to replacement card.
3. Boot into recovery with current card.
4. Create a Nandroid + Ext backup.
5. Power off.
6. Swap cards.
7. Boot into recovery with replacement card.
8. Restore Nandroid + Ext backup.
9. Boot normally.
100% success, no FC's, no problems, all apps present and working.
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Yesterday I upgraded to cyanogen's 4.0.4, it said that i would have to partition my sd card(8gb) to allow the apps2sd to automatically work, a friend of mines recommended Paragon Partition Manager, i installed it, and partition my sd card, to ext 3 format, so i have about 1.3 gb of partitioned sd card and about a little over 6 gigs for music and videos. The cyanogen FAQs said that " 4. How do I set up apps-to-sd?
You need to create a second partition on your SD card in the ext2/ext3/ext4 format. Search the forums if you don't know how to do this. Once created, the ROM will move your apps automatically and new apps will be installed to the SD by default. " but it hasnt freed up any space on my phone, and when i download new apps, it still goes directly to the phone. Am I doing somthing wrong and should i consider reformating the whole sd card, partioning over again and adding a lower amount for apps and a linux swap partion also.
mrhalfdeadman said:
Yesterday I upgraded to cyanogen's 4.0.4, it said that i would have to partition my sd card(8gb) to allow the apps2sd to automatically work, a friend of mines recommended Paragon Partition Manager, i installed it, and partition my sd card, to ext 3 format, so i have about 1.3 gb of partitioned sd card and about a little over 6 gigs for music and videos. The cyanogen FAQs said that " 4. How do I set up apps-to-sd?
You need to create a second partition on your SD card in the ext2/ext3/ext4 format. Search the forums if you don't know how to do this. Once created, the ROM will move your apps automatically and new apps will be installed to the SD by default. " but it hasnt freed up any space on my phone, and when i download new apps, it still goes directly to the phone. Am I doing somthing wrong and should i consider reformating the whole sd card, partioning over again and adding a lower amount for apps and a linux swap partion also.
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You aren't meant to make one bigger than 1.5, yours is very close so it could be the issue.
A good way to check if its working is if space is being used up on the ext3. Go to Setting > SD > secondary partition.
Also try rebooting, you might find that your internal space increases afterwards.
If neither of those work then reformat and make a smaller ext partition. I'm struggling to fill up my 500mb, why anyone would need 1GB+ is beyond me.
also,i am noticing since i have done this partitioning, that if i have my sd card in the phone and reboot, that after the android boot screen, that my phone will go blank, and if i pull the card and battery out and reboot with no card in the phone will do fine.
mrhalfdeadman said:
also,i am noticing since i have done this partitioning, that if i have my sd card in the phone and reboot, that after the android boot screen, that my phone will go blank, and if i pull the card and battery out and reboot with no card in the phone will do fine.
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Hold on. Your phone will only boot properly without the sdcard. You should not remove the card when the phone is on, because it can bork your entire partition.
If I was you I'd wipe the card and start over, adding a smaller ext partition.
ahh shoot, ok then, i just formatted the partion back to fat 32, so you suggest me to just, re partition it in ext 3 and make it smaller to about 500 mb should i also make a linux swap?
and also, although i formatted it back to fat 32, it wont let me merge the files back into 7.3 gigs. or maybe i am not doing it right.
mrhalfdeadman said:
and also, although i formatted it back to fat 32, it wont let me merge the files back into 7.3 gigs. or maybe i am not doing it right.
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merge files? got no idea what you're talking about.
Just wipe all partitions on the card. Make one ~7GB FAT32, ~500mb ext3 and if you want 32mb linux swap. To be safe wipe your phone and reflash cyanogen mod.
yea well, i dont know what is going on with it, but i have wiped, and rebooted, now and it is still blank after the android boot screen, and the sd card is in it now. i dont know what to say now.
i have the same issue
The problem is the Recovery IMG
Try install this recovery image: RA-dream-v1.2.3 Recovery Image
The make the partitions again from the recovery console
Jesus, man...
I suppose because of lingering paranoia from the days of filling my phone up daily, I've always made an Ext partition around a gig. I've never, ever, ever even filled half of it.
Then again, since I don't usually listen to music on my phone I also Have a nearly 7 gig fat 32 partition that I don't often fill. Honestly, it's probably because I keep losing the damned jack adapter and I haven't seen the earbuds I bought with the jack attached in months.
I have so many 3.5mm headphones around and still, those damned adapters elude me.
having a few issues in this area as well, all is partitioned as reccomended within the recovery console, (~7Gigs'ish fat32 and a 500MB part on ext3...) apps to SD is still blanked out... weird from my POV, as it worked fine until i updated to CyanogenMod 5.0.7 test 5..
Can anyone reccomend a more stable "2.1" based Cyan rom? or is the 5.*.* series the first of its kind to utilize 2.1? sorry for veering off-topic, but i feel my problem may be the newest releas of CM as it IS a test build...
Any words of wisdom would be greaaaaatly appreciated. not new to this stuff, but the apps2sd thing i never bothered with untill now (i do so mu h reformatting and build testing its becoming a pain to re-install all my apps... as i refuse to pay for the MyBackup app lol)
~Dark
Ok, so my phone has only had CyanogenMod on it for 5 days, so I'm not really deep in this stuff yet.
I initially installed Cmod 4.2.11 and set up Apps2SD on an 8gb Class 8 card (7gb FAT32, 1GB EXT, 64mb swap). I then upgraded to 4.2.12.2 yesterday morning. All of these steps seemed to go by as smooth as silk.
Apparently at some point last night my phone locked up... when I went to use it this morning it was unresponsive, and I had to pull the battery to get it to reboot. Now, with the SD card inserted, I get the Tmo G1 logo, then the Cyanogen Android logo... then a black screen. With the SD card removed, the phone boots ok, but all of my applications are (obviously) missing.
Looking at the card on a PC, my FAT32 partition comes up fine, so I don't think the card is bad. Also, when I insert the card while the phone is on, the FAT32 partition comes up ok, but the secondary SD card values remain as Unavailable in the System Menu. (This may be expected, though, as the card was not present on boot.)
I know that you can't remove the SD card while the phone is on when using Apps2SD, and I didn't until there was an issue.
What is my solution? Is there a way to repair my EXT partition, or do I need to do the whole thing over? Also, I did not upgrade to EXT4; I couldn't get the commands to work, and it said optional, so I skipped it. Was this a mistake?
I would reformat your card again. I would just stick with Fat32 and ext3. you don't need swap for cyanogens rom.
Ok, great. Any idea what could have happened? It took me like two days to re-install all my apps, and I'd like to take whatever steps I can to prevent this from happening again.
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....
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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.
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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.
Basically setup:
N1 rooted
5.0.6 via kang
all 280 apps on sd card, 512mb partition. Got like half of it empty so dont need to expand if that makes any difference.
8GB class 4.
NEW 16GB class 6, so could someone talk me through step by step how to clone that SD card please [have titanium backup, and will buy the premium asap]. Also how to format the new SD card because I REALLY dont remember how I did it the first time.
Cheers
Just copy everything and put it back and run fix_permissions for the applications to work.
Format the card anyway you want, Amon_Ra's recovery image can do it from the phone too.
Will running it from Amon Ra erase the info on the card (i am sure it will)?
Also, how do I 'copy' from and onto the ext partition?
I use ubuntu.
Doesn't the recovery have a backup+ext? I believe it does. Think I used it once.
I'd back up twice, maybe three times since the last backup I made was an incomplete/corrupt backup.
Then just use USB mode to copy al your files onto the PC. Stick your new card into the N1 then format under settings.
Copy everything back onto the card from your PC. Go back into recover and restore.
I have a G1 with 8gb class 6 sd card. Had 128mb swap, 256mb ext4, remaining fat32 partitions. Have never had an issue with that setup since I got the card like 6 months ago. I've also had just about every rom on the phone at some point or another. Today I decided to switch from zx hero 1.4.4 to cm5.0.8 stable. Did the usual wipe all 5 etc.. Got into setting up the rom and as soon as I logged into my google account I got the "sd card damaged" warning in the notification bar. I figured no big deal, I'll just reformat the sdcard and all will be good. Reboot the phone, (amon ra recovery 1.5.2) and go to partition sd card. Run through everything, keeping the same setup I had. I prepared myself to restore my sdcard backup, but to my surprise all my files were still there. Tried to partition again, then rebooted to recovery. Check to see if my .zip files were there and they still were. THough this was odd, since every other time I've reformated I had to reload all my files. Wiped and flashed super d 1.9.3. Booted up, got the damaged sdcard error again.
Now i was getting concerned. Went into terminal and checked my swap partition. Still working fine. Checked my gallery, said no files. Opened the camera, said I needed an sd card to take pictures. I decided to mount the phone to my pc, and all of my files are there and work.
I also tried to repartition just now with paragon on the pc, with no luck. The computer sees the sd card, says its not formatted, but wont let me do anything.
Any input? I know this is a long post, but I'm just trying to figure out whats going on.