Hi guys,
I'm planning to get a new SD card for my G1 to replace my current 4GB SD Card.
Currently, I'm running Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS and Apps2SD.
If I change to a new SD card, will anything be lost? or is there anything that I will have to take note of in particular?
Thanks!
weipingchong said:
Hi guys,
I'm planning to get a new SD card for my G1 to replace my current 4GB SD Card.
Currently, I'm running Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS and Apps2SD.
If I change to a new SD card, will anything be lost? or is there anything that I will have to take note of in particular?
Thanks!
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Yea same. i wanna use a 16GB cause my 4GB is almost full. and i dont want to lose all my apps i have installed from Apps2SD. cause ik in ubuntu when u mount it shows the the partition part of the SD card. but idk how i would transfer apps from my 4GB to my 16GB
You will lose all your applications on your SD card, which should be 98% of them. To prevent this from happening, go to the Market and download an application called Backup for Root, it is free. Check APK's and anything else you want and hit backup. The backup will be created on your (old) SD card. Take your SD card and put it in your computer and open it up, you will see that there is a new folder in it called Backup, copy the contents onto your computer. Put the new SD card, fully partitioned, into your phone. Go to the market and reinstall Backup for Root and also place the contents from the backup folder onto your new SD card, check all that apply in the application and hit restore.
Another option:
Using your recovery image, create a backup using Nandroid or BART (I use BART). The backup will be on your old SD card. Take that backup and put it on your computer. Put the BART/Nandroid backup onto your new SD card into your phone and through the recovery window restore it. Make sure your SD card is partitioned in the exact same way, I have not done this method before so be careful. However, if this method works it will ensure that all applications stay intact as opposed to the previous method where some applications just seem to break, it is inevitable.
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Hello,
I am buying a 16 GB Class 6 Micro SD soon, and i was wondering if there is anything I should do to it before putting it into my phone. Should I be worried, since the new SD card isn't partitioned, about accidentally bricking my phone? If so, what should I do to it before putting it inside of my phone?
Thanks.
1. you will loose all applications, they are stored on the sd card, so duh!. (lots of force closes)
2. you can't brick your phone by replacing an sd card.
If you want to use or already using apps2sd, you will need to partition the new card to have an EXT partition. This is where the apps will be loaded on the sd card. You can use the latest from Amon Ra (located here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=5666691) to partition the new sd card.
After rebooting from the partitioning, you will need to download all of the apps from the market again. Or you can backup using a rooted back up.
If you are not using any apps2sd currently, then you only need to ensure that the new card is formatted to fat32.
Thanks, so when I get the sd card I should just put it in, boot into recovery, partition it and then re-download all the apps and I'm done?
make a backup using what you like best (nandroid, switchrom, etc.) and copy all you fat32 to your computer.
put in new sd card, create desired partitions and mount to your pc so you can copy all your old files over (this will include your backup) then unmount and unplug from pc
restore backup and you will be right back to business as usual for the most part (may lose some passwords and other small things)
Thinking about rooting and installing cyanogen's latest rom but before I do I want to know what happens if I purchase a larger micro sd card in the future?
Is it as simple as copying everything from my sd card onto my pc and then transferring it onto my new card or will I have to reflash things and stuff?
Thanks in advance
yes, just backup to pc then new sd
if you're installing 5.0.5 cyanogenmod you may want to backup the sdcard first if you want app2sd
then in amonra partition the sd card with
swap partiton=0
EXT=512mb (or whatever size you want for apps)
fat32=remainder
then do the upgrade ext>ext2 ext2>ext3 ext3>ext4
then just put your backup from pc into the sdcard
only thing is amonra doesnt support the nandroid+ext for app2sd currently, but i believe is in the works. so would need to backup the ext and fat32 before swapping to new sdcard, depending how soon you're upgrading to new sdcard that is.
Cheers for that. Sounds simple enough.
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.
I only had a small microSD when I rooted. I ordered a bigger card. When I get the new one can I just copy the files from my original card to my pc and then copy them on to the new card? Maybe a dumb question..I am new to rooting.
I have Titanium backup,what do you recommend should be backed up?? I will have a 16gb card coming. Should I back up everything?? Thanks for any help you can give me. Great forum..I am hooked1
Yes, you can simply transfer the files from card to card. I do it all the time. You don't even need to employ titanium backup at all unless you are changing or reinstalling roms, or doing a factory reset and re-rooting. If you ARE doing that I would suggest doing the "Apps + Data" batch backup. This will restore applications in there exact state.
But if you are just swapping memory cards the only thing I would suggest is that you take advantage of any backup to-sd card features your apps might have before you copy files from one sd card to the other. Then you can restore anything that apps might save on your sdcard(which Titatium backup by the way doesn't save anyways).
I'm at my wit's end trying to get my Cappy to mount on either my personal MB Pro or my work PC laptop via USB. AT&T store I went to yesterday suggested a warranty replacement, but I want everything in order first.
Is there any way to do a Titanium Backup (have the Pro version) & save that folder w/o being able to mount the phone to my computer? If they master clear to fix it I wanna be able to restore easily.
Are you on a custom rom, how are you trying to mount?
You can buy an external sd, and move the titanium backup to it
Running stock JH7 rooted. Tried Dropbox with Root Explorer but couldn't get it to work with multi select. Then zipped without realizing Dropbox didn't support that haha.
Edit: How do I move to an external SD card without being able to mount?
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edtonn said:
Running stock JH7 rooted. Tried Dropbox with Root Explorer but couldn't get it to work with multi select. Then zipped without realizing Dropbox didn't support that haha.
Edit: How do I move to an external SD card without being able to mount?
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Put an SD card in the phone, run TIBU, use MyFiles to move or copy the TIBU folder to the external SD on the phone, remove the sd card from the phone, stick sd into computer of your choice and copy to computer.
There's no need to connect the phone to the computer directly as long as you have a computer that reads an sd card. For that matter there is no real need to copy them to the computer. When you get the new phone stick the sd card in the phone, copy TIBU folder back to internal sd card and restore.
mxracer101 said:
Put an SD card in the phone, run TIBU, use MyFiles to move or copy the TIBU folder to the external SD on the phone, remove the sd card from the phone, stick sd into computer of your choice and copy to computer.
There's no need to connect the phone to the computer directly as long as you have a computer that reads an sd card. For that matter there is no real need to copy them to the computer. When you get the new phone stick the sd card in the phone, copy TIBU folder back to internal sd card and restore.
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Worked perfectly. Hadn't even ventured into My Files because I was always using Astro/Root Explorer. Ironically, My Files made it much easier to differentiate external SD b/c of a different icon...knowledge for next time. Everything's backed up, unrooted & ready for a warranty replacement conversation (2nd so far).