Hey guys =)
would firstly like to say that this forum ROCKS!!
incredible knowledge database that has been invaluable to my pursuits so far
I have recently purchased a 16GB Micro SD card to replace the 2GB which originally came with the phone.
I tried inserting the card fresh but the device seems to bootloop and I found that I had to partition the SD card first then transfer all the data from the old card across.
Transferring the data is not a problem (mount the new card via USB in recovery mode and transfer) however I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually partition the card in the first place, as I used ROM Manager to partition it originally.
All the threads I have found are to do with Cyanogens ROM's etc and I am just dead stuck on getting any further with this!!
Could someone possibly link me to a guide or post a guide which I can follow, with all areas covered in a simple manner - THAT WOULD BE SWEEEET!!!
Here is the main guide I am using at the moment however I cannot obviously get past 4 or 5 as this is to with the partition which I cannot do using this method...
theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/how-to-switch-to-a-different-microsd-card-on-android-when-using-swap-hero-and-or-apps2sd
Any help is welcome and once again you guys are awesome, thankyou for the vast amount of knowledge in this forum!!
download a program called partition magic, i think it should do all that you are after.
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New G1 owner. Purchased this:
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No clue what it's running for Recovery though but I'm assuming the CM6 rom comes with one? I'm waiting for a response from the seller.
Now I want to buy a new 32GB Class 6 SDHC card for use with this particular phone. But I've noticed that partitioning the card is an important step during the installation of said ROM? How would I go about partitioning this new card without bricking my phone? I don't need any of the files off the new card since the seller mentioned that he had cleared it. What should I partition the card too? I've heard anywhere from 512MB to 1.5GB?
What are some applications that I should be aware of for this particular ROM? I'm very new to all of this and want to keep the phone running decently well. I've heard something about an application with the ability to run apps off the SD card to preserve memory? Would installing such a program be simple for someone as noobish as me? Or should I keep it simple and just install everything onto the phone?
Ok. Well first off you have a lot of reading to do. Hope you like to read. I can tell you that partitioning your sdcard is done through recovery mode. You need to get in there first. Also cm6 is a rom. It does not come with a recovery. That is totally different. It would be good to know what version you have. I assume amon ra 1.7.0 but it will tell you on the recovery screen. What values you set it to are up to you but you can just leave the values alone when your doing it and it will give you a starting point. The rom will tell you how to save your apps 2 sd. You have to read the first post to find that info out. Good luck and welcome to xda
Hey Everyone, first off. I love you all. You've made me LOVE my Vibrant and NookColor more than ever!
I have two questions.. (sry my search on the site wasn't working )
1. I had a 4gb microsd card that I used to put the Autonooter for NC on it. Now I'm seeing alot of updates with froyo and overclocking kernels and I want to try them out. But my 4gb card is frozen solid at 32mb, I tried formating a through windows, I read on another post that I cant find at all that theres a better program out there for fully formatting microsd cards back to the original state.. Does anyone know the program?
2. I've been reading daily on the updates for Froyo, Which one is the current most stable version?
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1. Put the uSD card back into your NC. Under the original (BN) Settings ---> Device Info ---> SD card : first unmount the uSD card, then format it. Then remove from NC.
2. Not my thing, no help, sorry.
Thanks for the help on the SD Card! First step done, alot more to go!
Okay, So I installed Clockwork Recovery and made a backup of my system. After I installed clockwork, My nook froze at boot, I figured out how to get into clockwork recovery and I am currently restoring my eclair.
I see alot of people using froyo, which build and what post did everyone do it from? I see alot of eMMC but I see a Development build.. I'm confused as to which one I should get.
Thanks!
So I have been searching for someone with similar problems for a couple days now and none of the solutions I've found have worked.
My Problem: I had my Nook rooted and had a bootable Nookie card and everything was all good, until I decided that I wanted to mess around a little more and get CWR on it and everything. Well, somewhere along the line things got messed up and I flashed back to stock(8Reboot, along with Power/N data wipe. So I am back to 1.0.1. I have tried re-rooting about 15 times now, both with Auto-Nooter 2.12.25 for 1.0.1 and also with upgrading to 1.1.0 and using AN 3.0. I have tried writing the image both with the Win32DiskImager and also under Linux, using different computers. All of the files are showing up after the write, but when I powerdown the Nook, put the SDCard in and then plug in the Nook cable, it just boots up as normal. I can't seem to figure out what is wrong. All of the other posts I've read have seemed to be fixed by using a different card reader or OS or wiping and starting from scratch at stock, but that isn't working for me. If I missed any details, just let me know.
Thanks so much in advance!
If I were you, I would think there's something going on with the SD card. I would use both of these tools to make sure that I do not have some weird partition setup...
Easeus partition manager (free), to see what weird partitions you may have..
SD Formatter - and do a full wipe
Google for both. Then burn your new image (download it again, or perform a checksum - if provided from your source)
I've had a few seemingly good cards act pretty flukey at times, and I just use those two tools.. with great success.
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If I were you, I would think there's something going on with the SD card. I would use both of these tools to make sure that I do not have some weird partition setup...
Easeus partition manager (free), to see what weird partitions you may have..
SD Formatter - and do a full wipe
Google for both. Then burn your new image (download it again, or perform a checksum - if provided from your source)
I've had a few seemingly good cards act pretty flukey at times, and I just use those two tools.. with great success.
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Thanks BimBoy, I tried using both of the utilities to no avail. No defects found in the Partition Man, and I formatted it with the SD Formatter. Re-Wrote the image, and another straight boot-up. I am using the supplied img out of the original author's post and everything, so I know it's the correct one. It's the same I used a couple months ago.
absoluthamm said:
Thanks BimBoy, I tried using both of the utilities to no avail. No defects found in the Partition Man, and I formatted it with the SD Formatter. Re-Wrote the image, and another straight boot-up. I am using the supplied img out of the original author's post and everything, so I know it's the correct one. It's the same I used a couple months ago.
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1 - This is the Development Forum, there is a big Sticky Post saying not to post questions or problems here, but instead to put it in the General Forum. But even better would have been to post in the thread from the "original author's post" that your refer to.
2 - Please post the exact name of the image file you are burning in WinDisk32Imager to create your bootable SD file. The most likely scenario is that it is an SD file, but not a bootable one.
3 - In your original post, you talk about doing things to your Nook and doing things to your SD card. Then after that, you keep using unspecific words like "it" and "that" so no one knows whether you are talking about your Nook or your SD card - for example "put CWR on it" could refer to putting CWR on your Nook or CWR on your SD card.
Please refrain from posting in DEv section if there is no development behind it.
Thanks
Hi,
I am a HTC OneX user and I'm pretty knowledgeable on rooting/flashing/etc, but my girlfriend has a Galaxy Ace and she's already filled the SD card (not surprising as it's only 2GB!)
I have a spare Samsung 16GB microSD HC and I want to put that in her phone, but I'm unaware of how I should format it for the Galaxy Ace.
Some time in the future I will put a custom ROM in her phone, so should I format the new SD card as EXT4? Also, how do I ensure that everything from her old card will be copied to the new card. Do I simply copy the entire directory structure of her old card to my laptop and then copy that across to the new card? Or are there other steps I need to take first?
For the future, I also need to understand what ODIN is and KIES and all these other things that are particular to Samsung. Is there a decent guide on XDA anywhere that explains all this? My girlfriend is NOT very technical, and I work on a cruise ship and so I'm not always around. Can anyone recommend a STABLE custom ROM that I can put on her Ace (I will do this at some time in the future when I'm back in the UK)? Stability needs to be the strong point of the ROM, as she will panic if there are lots of random FC issues and she'll probably blame me for everything! Ideally with any version of JB but a stable ICS would also do the trick (well, anything has got to be better than the stock Android 2.3.5 that she's running now - I can't believe her phone company actually recommended this to her!)
As you can see, lots of different questions but I hope someone can take the time to answer them for me.
Regards,
miles_muso
Hi miles_muso !
You could read this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635108
Good luck.
Sent from my GT-S5830
miles_muso said:
Hi,
I am a HTC OneX user and I'm pretty knowledgeable on rooting/flashing/etc, but my girlfriend has a Galaxy Ace and she's already filled the SD card (not surprising as it's only 2GB!)
I have a spare Samsung 16GB microSD HC and I want to put that in her phone, but I'm unaware of how I should format it for the Galaxy Ace.
Some time in the future I will put a custom ROM in her phone, so should I format the new SD card as EXT4? Also, how do I ensure that everything from her old card will be copied to the new card. Do I simply copy the entire directory structure of her old card to my laptop and then copy that across to the new card? Or are there other steps I need to take first?
For the future, I also need to understand what ODIN is and KIES and all these other things that are particular to Samsung. Is there a decent guide on XDA anywhere that explains all this? My girlfriend is NOT very technical, and I work on a cruise ship and so I'm not always around. Can anyone recommend a STABLE custom ROM that I can put on her Ace (I will do this at some time in the future when I'm back in the UK)? Stability needs to be the strong point of the ROM, as she will panic if there are lots of random FC issues and she'll probably blame me for everything! Ideally with any version of JB but a stable ICS would also do the trick (well, anything has got to be better than the stock Android 2.3.5 that she's running now - I can't believe her phone company actually recommended this to her!)
As you can see, lots of different questions but I hope someone can take the time to answer them for me.
Regards,
miles_muso
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You can format your SDCard as a normal SDCard in FAT32 format using windows or whatever tool that you usually use, just copy the same structure form the 2gb SDCard to your formated 16 GB SDCard I recomend you not create an ext4 partition or similar things if your SDCard, This will give you problems and slowdowns in the future... and yes, unfortunately the best for the Galaxy Ace is Gingerbread's Android version and the STOCK custom roms , but you can try CM7/CM9/CM10.1 and other stuffs, they are really amazing!! :good:
Thanks!
miles_muso said:
Thanks!
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You're welcome.
Good luck.
so lost!! please help!
hello there
i have the galaxy s3mini GT- 18190N
uk resident
carrier T-Mobile
android version 4.1.2
kernel version 3.0.31-1436784
ive had the phone for some time now and obviously internal space has became a problem so i looked around the net and it seemed that the first thing i must do was to root the phone....
i rooted with the main intention of being able to put my apps into my 32gb extsd card
secondly to perhaps upgrade the OS to say lollipop
thirdly to maybe try out some of these custom roms ive read so much about.
so i did root the phone using kingroot app, this seemed to help with the speed of the phone/reduced lagging and such but not with internal memory.
i then looked around for a solution and the general answer was to install link2sd and app2sd.
i installed both but had no joy due to no 2nd partition on sd card.
this led me to downloading rommanager (which apparently can create a 2nd partition on the etxSD) well this is when i realised my noobness knew no bounds, because for the life of me i cant seem to be able to do it lol
i looked around again and read as much as i could in regards to creating a 2nd partition on the extSD but again have not found a clear (complete and utter noob proof) guide to do this so am now stuck in limbo
ive read so much this last few days about flash/roms/internal sd/internal phone memory/external sd/nands/backups/backdowns/backflips ect. that i feel completely lost.
i understand this is probably a very tedious request to you more educated folk but what i would like to know is:
1 - can i return my phone to stock settings? (what it was like before i rooted) will this delete all the changes ive made and apps ive downloaded? and is this the best idea? to start all over again from scratch? if so how?
or can i download a custom rom that already has these settings? by settings i mean the ability to move my apps to the external SD? if so, how?
im really sorry for being a pain but my brains gonna explode.
please help
thank you
anyone that can help me please
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
Stefano Cappelletti said:
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
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hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
paddroid said:
hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
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You can create and manage partitions with your pc, you just need an adaptor and than you can use "MiniTool Partition Wizard Free" that is a free partition manager tool! :good: Right click on the partition and then "set active" (both partition are primary, but one fs is EXT4 and the other one is Fat32, set active the ETX4 one) :good: