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What If I Upgrade My SD Card?

I'm using JacHero 2.7.3 superlite, and I have everything working properly. When I installed everything I had to prepare my SD card as outlined in the main post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479 I have the three partitions set up (fat32, ext2, and linux-swap). Currently this is all set up on a 4GB Class 2 MicroSD Card, and I plan on upgrading to a 16GB Class 2 MicroSD Card, so I wanted to know if I have to re-setup everything or not. Will I have to repeat this process? How do I transfer my apps onto the new card? I have a card writer. Thanks!

veesonic said:
I'm using JacHero 2.7.3 superlite, and I have everything working properly. When I installed everything I had to prepare my SD card as outlined in the main post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534479 I have the three partitions set up (fat32, ext2, and linux-swap). Currently this is all set up on a 4GB Class 2 MicroSD Card, and I plan on upgrading to a 16GB Class 2 MicroSD Card, so I wanted to know if I have to re-setup everything or not. Will I have to repeat this process? How do I transfer my apps onto the new card? I have a card writer. Thanks!
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You will have to partition the new card in the same process. Unless your computer can view all three partitions (or at least the apps/fat32 partitions), you'll have to re-install your apps.
Although, for the sake of your system running well, you should just re-install instead of just copying. Makes things run better no matter how much of a pain it is

Yes, you will have to re-partition everything with the new 16GB card, but you can backup all your apps by using adb to do:
adb pull /system/sd/app directory on computer\
then on the new sdcard, type in:
adb push directory on computer\ /system/sd/app
I believe push can be replaced by install to actually install the apks.
One question tho? Is there any reason you're buy a class 2 card vs a class 6 card? The speed increase you will see is really worth the price. For instance, the 16GB Kingston Class 2 card is $55 on amazon, but the A-DATA 16GB Class 6 is $49.95. Just something to think about...
link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g...class+6+micro+sd+16&sprefix=class+6+micro+sd+
After you've set it up once on your 16GB card you will not have to re-setup everything again if you choose to flash a newer ROM, the partitions will remain.
One more way of backing up all your apps: Download Backup for Root Users from the market and do a backup of all apks, then you will find all your apps under BackupRoot on your sdcard, just mount it, and copy everything. Then when you get your new sdcard, just put the directory back as it was on your old 4GB card and use Backup for Root Users to restore all the apks for you.

Can you use Nanodroid backup/restore to handle all the apps and settings if swapping cards?

h.nocturna said:
Yes, you will have to re-partition everything with the new 16GB card, but you can backup all your apps by using adb to do:
adb pull /system/sd/app directory on computer\
then on the new sdcard, type in:
adb push directory on computer\ /system/sd/app
I believe push can be replaced by install to actually install the apks.
One question tho? Is there any reason you're buy a class 2 card vs a class 6 card? The speed increase you will see is really worth the price. For instance, the 16GB Kingston Class 2 card is $55 on amazon, but the A-DATA 16GB Class 6 is $49.95. Just something to think about...
link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_g...class+6+micro+sd+16&sprefix=class+6+micro+sd+
After you've set it up once on your 16GB card you will not have to re-setup everything again if you choose to flash a newer ROM, the partitions will remain.
One more way of backing up all your apps: Download Backup for Root Users from the market and do a backup of all apks, then you will find all your apps under BackupRoot on your sdcard, just mount it, and copy everything. Then when you get your new sdcard, just put the directory back as it was on your old 4GB card and use Backup for Root Users to restore all the apks for you.
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I have to agree with this poster. You are taking a step back going from a class 4 to a class 2. You should really upgrade to a class 6.

[Q] Upgrading SD Card, what should I know?

I'm planning on moving from a 2gb card to an 8gb card. I'm rooted, CM7 RC4 on emmc with Clockwork 3.0.1. Are there any root/system files that are typically stored on it that won't be tranferred easily by copy/paste onto the new card?

Not that I'm aware of. I haven't had any problems like that with the stock ROM or Nookie Froyo. Android OS will write those files directly, so unless CM made significant changes to the way Android writes system files, unlikely you'll see any issues. Cheers!

a few people report problems with class 10 sd cards. I have a class6 and class10. I've had a problem with one froyo build that i couldn't install on the card using my normal techniques. I was able to get it to run by setting it up on a class 6 and moving it to a class 10 later. my class6 is an 8gb and class10 is 16gb, so the size might have been part of the problem as the 16gb cards aren't as easy to setup using verygreens cm7 sd card prop instructions.
i'd say if you are concerned, get a 8gb class6, unless you are comfortable with resizing partitions and willing to monkey around a bit if you run into issues on a class 10 card.

rphillipps16 said:
I'm planning on moving from a 2gb card to an 8gb card. I'm rooted, CM7 RC4 on emmc with Clockwork 3.0.1. Are there any root/system files that are typically stored on it that won't be tranferred easily by copy/paste onto the new card?
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I think you're referring to CM7 being stored on the internal, correct? if that's the case, you would be just transferring the user data stuff (and app data that is created from apps)you shouldn't have any problems transferring data from one to the other. I've done it a few times both with my nook and my droid.

[Q] Planning to change my SD Card.

Hello!
I'm planning to change my Xperia X8's SD Card.
I'm using Racht's custom rom, 2.2.1 CM Floyo v0.20, also found in XDA forums.
Of course, this offers the use of apps2SD.
Would it be ok if I just copy-paste the contents of my old SD Card to my new one?
Would I still be able to use (without any problems) the apps I transferred to my SD card from the phone storage?
In other words, will all my files (apps2SD transferred files also) in the old SD card still work if I just copy-paste them to the new SD Card?
Very sorry if my explanation is complicated.
Thanks!

Yes it should be fine.

How did the change of SD Card go?
Im about to do the same thing and was wondering i its possible to copy all contet from current SD Card to my PC and then copy it to the new SD Card.

jkolner said:
How did the change of SD Card go?
Im about to do the same thing and was wondering i its possible to copy all contet from current SD Card to my PC and then copy it to the new SD Card.
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Sorry for the late reply.
I haven't really changed it yet due to my busy schedule. Hopefully, I would be able to find time.
I'll keep you updated!

As long as you did not partition the sd card with extended file system or any other fs that only linux can detect, there should not be a problem.
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If you have partitioned your old SD card with ext3 partition you can use any Linux live CD to simply copy/paste to your new card

superuser_

is mandatory to have two partitions with the same floyo0, 25. a standard card does not work like a normal android 2.2. roms or they also use the second partition as root and do the first time and we have to install link2sd to transfer apps to the memory card.

multiboot option
if u haven't already changed sd cards try to get a class 6 sd card as there have been multiboot options released, cm6 on phone memory and cm7 on sd card. check out multiboot thread on x8 development. two roms on one phone, its all gravy my friend.

ASHLEY117 said:
if u haven't already changed sd cards try to get a class 6 sd card as there have been multiboot options released, cm6 on phone memory and cm7 on sd card. check out multiboot thread on x8 development. two roms on one phone, its all gravy my friend.
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how about a class 10 card? will it work on x8?

i think it will ok.

I changed from an 8 GB card to a 16. No problem at all. But my card doesn't support Multiboot. If you get a class 6 or higher you should be fine. You just need to copy a few files from the old card and it works fine.

I have just copied and pasted everything from one card to another, and it worked. It is great that now with rachts and doixhan's roms we have the support for app2sd!

Do you know if there is any way to test the speed of the SD directly from the phone? Thank you in advice!

I also am about to change out my SD card. I just upgraded from the stock 8gb card that I had partitioned which I did through ROM Manager to a brand new 16gb Class 10 SDcard
Is it also as simple as copying and pasting from my old SD card contents to the new one and boot it back up? Or would this delete the old ROM and stock ROM off of my SD card? I also wanted to know if I needed to partition this new card as well and if so, at what point do I do that?
I know this is probably really easy but I am new to flashing ROMS which is why I wanted to get a bigger and faster card! Thanks!
-Chris

I thought the lower number of class like class two was faster than say a class ten? I've been wondering this and saw this post. What do you guys think is faster?
Class 2 or 10?
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kylew1212 said:
I thought the lower number of class like class two was faster than say a class ten? I've been wondering this and saw this post. What do you guys think is faster?
Class 2 or 10?
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The class 10 is faster and more expensive......

SD card question

I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?

Raydee35 said:
I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?
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Not using windows explorer. But you can get the free program win32diskimager. It can read your card and write the image to your PC. Then you can write it to your new card.
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uSD Card Size
Hi,
I notice a lot of Rom images say will will work in a 4GB card.
Is there any problems using a larger card, like 8GB?
Thanks.
Everett1954

Yep. Use above method to put your image file on anything up to 32gig card; be sure you are using Sandisk brand, though. Small block read/write speed makes this the Nookers choice.

I just migrated from an 8gb to 16gb Sandisk card last night. I used win32diskimager to make an image of the 8gb card and then wrote that to the 16gb card. I then had to use a combination of Linux GParted and EASEUS partition manager to modify the partition sizes. I wanted to make more space available for apps instead of the 1GB (I upped it to 2GB), and expanded the CM7 partition to fill the remainder of the drive. I booted from the new card and everything seems to be working fine.

[Q] How to transfer all data in a hybrid TF card to a new card

Hi everybody:
Now I have installed hybrid CM10.1 on Nook HD in a 8G TF card. Then I would like to replace it with a new 32G card.
My question is how to transfer all the data, use the extra space and does not broke the system.
Thanks

Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thank you! It works.

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here

badger60 said:
If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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I had made an empty ".txt" file, then rename it to ".img". It may solve the problem.

badger60 said:
If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

attempt number 25
leapinlar said:
Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.

badger60 said:
OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.
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Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
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I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
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badger60 said:
I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.0 on Hybrid
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What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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I followed your advice exactly. It appeared to work the same way that it did with the working 8GB SDHC card. I still have a nandroid backup of the old card on my PC. It just doesn't work on the two higher capacity SD cards I have. I see that I am going to have to look through the list and find the exact model of a 32 GB card that someone got working. It works fine on the Sandisk 8GB Class 4 card. The two Samsung cards (class 6) of 16 & 32 GB capacity that I own don't work. They are OK for storage use, but trying to install Android on them was a waste of time. I tried so many times. I used your tutorials and others tutorials unsuccessfully. A bum SD card is a bum SD card. I am not exactly a newbie at installing ROMs on devices . I have been doing it on my HTC Desire HD for about a year ever since HTC abandoned us and decided to not give us ICS or Jellybean for our expensive devices. I have Venom DHD on my HTC Desire HD at the moment. I am waiting for my new Samsung Galaxy s4 to arrive this week.