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SD Card Problem

After my first 8GB class 2 card starting playing up i bought a new 8GB class 6 whiched arrived this morning. I placed it into the SD card slot on my laptop and all was fine. I added the ROM's i wanted to flash to the SD and booted into recovery to flash them.
I partitioned both my SD cards using Paragon Partition Manager and now BOTH cards aren't being read by my SD card reader.
When i boot into recovery, then console and ums_enable it says windows needs to format.
When ever i try flashing a ROM i allways get the boot sceen hanging. Does anyone know any solutions onto fixing either one or both cards?
Thanks

try partitioning to fat32 within the phone and then formating using cm 1.4 recovery image

I've just managed to get it working and can get it recognised using ums_enable in console, but still ALL ROM's i install seem to just boot loop
alritewhadeva said:
try partitioning to fat32 within the phone and then formating using cm 1.4 recovery image
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I can't as all the ROM's i install boot loop, including the one i have installed now

apps2sd i dont get it...I DID MY SEARCH

Ok i see all these guides on how to install apps2sd...but they all say DONT DO THIS IF U HAVE CYANOGEN....
How do i get the apps2sd on cyan working?

spazoid said:
Ok i see all these guides on how to install apps2sd...but they all say DONT DO THIS IF U HAVE CYANOGEN....
How do i get the apps2sd on cyan working?
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Cyanogensmod already does this automatically you just have to partition your sdcard which amonRAs recovery is the easiest way to do this.

plasmadragon007 said:
Cyanogensmod already does this automatically you just have to partition your sdcard which amonRAs recovery is the easiest way to do this.
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+1 confirmed. I'm running the newest cyanogen and it works really well. you might want to go here though in order to up the sound a bit, mine seemed really low,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517745

m kinda new to this too.
I just bought a new 8gb class 6 SD card and I downloaded the new Amon-RA recovery and partitioned a 96mb swap and 512mb ext2, so will all my apps just go right on my sd card or do I have to do something manually?
Im running Cyan 4.2.6

Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage
You should see your SD Card, SD Card Secondary and your Internal Phone Storage.
It is automatic, if you have cyan and have a partitioned card you can d/load apps till your thumb hurts.

s15274n said:
Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage
You should see your SD Card, SD Card Secondary and your Internal Phone Storage.
It is automatic, if you have cyan and have a partitioned card you can d/load apps till your thumb hurts.
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Wait, so do I just follow the ext2 directions to get a secondary?
I'm cautious about doing this because I only have a 2GB Memory card. Should I play it safe and just buy a 4+GB memory card or not do it all? Or is it okay with just using a 2GB card?
All I want is more space for apps because I keep getting the low on memory error.

And from reading the guide on here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232
It says:
Congratulations! You now have a Fat32/EXT3 Partitioned SD Card with auto Apps2SD enabled. You can check if you have both partitions in Settings > Sd Card and Storage. Remember, this is Auto Apps2SD, that means the everytime you reboot it will move all your installed apps to your sd card AUTOMATICALLY!
I'm sure I've rebooted at least once since I got the CyanogenMod. So can someone please clear this up for me?

[Q] Formatting Micro sd

hi, i've been trying to format my microsd card and partition it to fat32 and ext4.
i have used paragon partition manager but its only v9 so its only able to partition to ext3.
subsequently i used gparted but i booted and did not detect my micro sd card at all, making it impossible to partition.
Any ideas/workaround? or other programs to do so?
Cheers

Search google for 'gparted'. Burn the image and boot it to partition for free. Used it myself to create fat32 and ext4. It works flawlessly
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MZWiZard said:
Search google for 'gparted'. Burn the image and boot it to partition for free. Used it myself to create fat32 and ext4. It works flawlessly
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i tried that but i have no idea why the gparted do not recognise my microsd card. all it recognise was the harddisk only, therefore its not even listed on the list on formatable memory slots

I am getting the same issue, I also tried Paragon but even that is not allowing me to create a new partition.
I starting to think it's my SD card, I got a 8GB Samsung Class 6 card.
I really want to apply this mimocan fix.
Update:
I tried it on my work machine and GParted worked, going to install samset 1.9b now.

I used Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 and it worked without problems.

When booted up in gparted you insert your sd card and after that you need to hit the "refresh" option in one of the menus, cant remember the exact name of the menu, but try it if you havnt.

I Probably damaged my SD Card while Partitioning

Hi there.
Lately i have tried flashing newer ROMs on my HTC Salsa. I have a Kingston 16GB Class 4 SD card installed into it. Yesterday experimenting with different sizes of second partition for using htc-data2sd-ext3.zip it looks that i somehow damaged my SD card.
I am using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home 7.5 for making partition. After i formatted the card last, it shows the card having 14.62 GB space. But does not create second partition saying that all the partitions should be deleted first. There is no other partition visible in MiniTool Wizard as well as on Windows Disk Management menu. Result : I cant create the second partition and cant flash data2sd_ext3.zip. Otehrwise I can copy data on the SD card and it shows OK and flashes the ROM as well but the same Memory problem .......
Any body faced this situation and has the remedy I will be greatly obliged.
Anotehr problem ,.... .i always experienced lag (slow response to applications) earlier when i successfully created partitions and flashed data2SD. Is that due to my Class 4 SD card (not faster)?
Please help in giving advice on making the speed of data reading faster. Thanks :fingers-crossed:

Lag yes, need a Bigger and higher class card. As for the partitions. That's odd. Did u apply all actions? Its possible the format didn't fully work. But still, that's not happened to me...
What size partition u making? I would only suggest 500mb or less on the class 4 if your experiencing lag issues.
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Try use Card reader instead mounting ur sd on cwm when formating the cards

Go.Bin said:
Try use Card reader instead mounting ur sd on cwm when formating the cards
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If you re read the first post he has stated he used minitool partition which can only be used on a PC with a card reader.
Mounting the SD via cwm and using that tool isn't generally thought of and not always possible. It wasn't for me anyway.
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Lag Issue
BigBearEvo said:
Lag yes, need a Bigger and higher class card. As for the partitions. That's odd. Did u apply all actions? Its possible the format didn't fully work. But still, that's not happened to me...
What size partition u making? I would only suggest 500mb or less on the class 4 if your experiencing lag issues.
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By several attempts I was successful in reformatting the SD card and making second partition again.
As for the lag issue, I read somewhere there are SD card booster programs. Do you have experience with anyone that is stable and works well to enhance the data transfer speed? Thanks

razasohail said:
Do you have experience with anyone that is stable and works well to enhance the data transfer speed? Thanks
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SD-Booster or SDSpeedFix from goggle play, all do the same job.
don't set any higher than 2048 unless you have a top spec class 10 sd the fine pick what u want.
sd-booster is inc in my own roms as stock.

Go.Bin said:
Try use Card reader instead mounting ur sd on cwm when formating the cards
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Yes I did exactly that. Never used CWM for formatting or partitioning.
Do u have experience using Link2SD application? I think this is creating problems and crashes. app2SD is much safer and stable application. What do u say?

I only use links2sd for Apks management only, so when I open the app up, u cancel the mount option. If y have accepted it and run data2sd you will have serious problems lol.
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64GB SD card usage

Hallo!
I think i am not the only one with such a issue.
I was using SlimWizz ROM and that was working with 64gb sd card just fine.
Then i tryed to use some other rom and the problem started - CWM doesnt see that card and now no one rom see it. When tryin 4GB card its all ok, but with 64gb no more fun
Any sugestions?
[EDIT]
Cyanogen mod nightlies 10.1 - doesnt see exFAT (i think all CM/AOSP doesnt...PA doesnt see exFAT as well and AOKP too)
[EDIT 2]
Now i am going to try TWRP 2.4.0.0 Touch Recovery witch is claimed to support exFAT on CM10.1 if so, then ill be very happy
Well now... I tried 64GB exFAT fomated with no success. Now i formated my 4GB card to exFAT ...card in unvisible Now will format back to FAT32 and see what then.

64gb cards can only be formatted on exFAT, a file system I think it's not supported by the recovery.
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Ok i found that Cyanogen mod and AOSP doesnt recognize exFAT.

Mateus said:
Ok i found that Cyanogen mod and AOSP doesnt recognize exFAT.
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you can format the card with fat32 and it should work,
check this thread

Yea... i formated it in CMD to FAT32 and all is ok
cmd->
format /FS:FAT32 E: [where E: was my SDcard]
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Formating takes ar really LONG time. about 4-5 hours

Mateus said:
Yea... i formated it in CMD to FAT32 and all is ok
Formating takes ar really LONG time. about 4-5 hours
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I'm not absolutely sure, because mine was formatted long time ago, but afair formatting was done by specialised Windows app (no DOS involved) and did not take that long, closer to few minutes I think

All GUI are just GUI for comands (/format)
And few minuter for 64GB ... not possible

Odp: 64GB SD card usage
Mateus said:
All GUI are just GUI for comands (/format)
And few minuter for 64GB ... not possible
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Yup, I know, there's command line beneath everything, it's that some apps use different commands, e.g. "quick format"...
Again - afair - in the other 64GB thread should have info on how-to

I allready did it and all work just fine
so no more problems bro!
thx

Mount 64GB SD
Hi,
Mount 64GB SD takes too long time. After a reboot, or disconnect after a Mass Storage session, even after the message "prepare SD card ... " disappear, when using root explorer to access it I must open/reopen a lot of times and waiting for the message "prepare SD card" appears again to be able get a real access. Is it normal ? Is there a mean to get rid of that problem ? Thanks.