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[Q] Partition Size for 4G SD card

I am helping a friend to root her LG P970 and I am thinking to flash boybe's cm7.
Should I make any changes to the SD card partition? If yes,
What is the best partition for a 4GB SD card in my situation?
Thanks!

Put the card inside phone and format(options > storage > format). This is the best option, I think.

No need to format the SD Card at all (unless you want to get rid of the junk from some apps you won't be using anymore), no need to create partitions... Just put boype's .zip file on the SD card. Then go to CWM and do wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition. After that in CWM go to install zip from SD card and choose boype's.zip. That's it.. ofc you have to be on a rooted OB with patched CWM.

[Q] Recovery sees my external storage as sdcard0

Hi guys!
Last week I flashed @bagyusz's 5.0.2 ROM. After that day i noticed something. When i connect the phone to the PC it only shows me external sd card.
And also i looked it on recovery and there was only one storage (sdcard0) and actually it was my external sd card. I think the ROM disabled my internal storage and recovery sees my external as main storage.
I can't access my internal storage and i want to install a new rom with PhilZ recovery. When i choose "clean for a new ROM" option, what will it delete? Will it wipe internal or external? nd i have important things in my external (photos, music, documents...) will it touch them?

dgnibrahim said:
Hi guys!
Last week I flashed @bagyusz's 5.0.2 ROM. After that day i noticed something. When i connect the phone to the PC it only shows me external sd card.
And also i looked it on recovery and there was only one storage (sdcard0) and actually it was my external sd card. I think the ROM disabled my internal storage and recovery sees my external as main storage.
I can't access my internal storage and i want to install a new rom with PhilZ recovery. When i choose "clean for a new ROM" option, what will it delete? Will it wipe internal or external? nd i have important things in my external (photos, music, documents...) will it touch them?
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Please Please PLEASE read Rom´s OP
In bagyusz roms internal storage is merged with /data partition so no media storage , so external sd card is only media storage
and in philz recovery option to "clean for a new ROM" just wipes data, cache,system it will NOT touch your external SD-cadr

The 5.0.2 of bagyusz rom has the feature of merging the internal storage and /data. You may search in his thread and find how to disable this feature, and that involves modifying framework.res. So if you're not familiar with android development, I propose CM11 nightlies for they've been enough stable for daily use. Lollipop is still in test now, you know.

internal storage wipe

Hi Guys
for a while i was wiping my internal storage before flashing a new rom. I would always use my sd card and dropbox so the internal storage wasnt a big deal to me. i decided to start leveraging the internal storage.
So my question is will not wiping internal storage in twrp before flashing a new rom affect the perfromance on my new rom even though i were to odin the stock fw right before? or is it a better idea to wipe internal ?

alher591 said:
Hi Guys
for a while i was wiping my internal storage before flashing a new rom. I would always use my sd card and dropbox so the internal storage wasnt a big deal to me. i decided to start leveraging the internal storage.
So my question is will not wiping internal storage in twrp before flashing a new rom affect the perfromance on my new rom even though i were to odin the stock fw right before? or is it a better idea to wipe internal ?
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This is a touchy subject because people will tell you both ways to do it. If you don't have a MicroSD card then you don't need to wipe the internal storage because you would delete the ROM you would flash.
The only community-wide acceptable answer for when you should wipe internal storage is when you upgrade from like Kit-Kat 4.0 to Lollipop 5.0 or Lollipop 5.0 to Marshmallow 6.0 and so on.
I have my own opinion about this, but every response you will get here will be an opinion so I won't add mine to the mix.

I9305

Hi,
It's my first time rooting/flashing and I have 2 questions
1) where on the phone should I keep the ROM and gaps files,
On the SD card or can I leave them on the internal memory?
2) using twrp (this is the installation not a ROM update) what wipes to i need to do, is cache and dalvik and data good enough ? Or also system and internal storage? (And will it not delete my nandroid backup and my rom and gapps?)
Thanks

Hi,
to answer your questions:
1.) save rom and gapps on external sd card. You can also save them on internal memory but when you wipe everything those files are gone too, unless you exclude internal storage.
2.) If you come from stock it is recommended to to wipe everything, even data and internal storage. You can move those files (rom, gapps) back onto internal storage in recovery. Nandroid backups should be saved either on external SD card or PC, not on the internal storage. One wrong wipe and your backup is gone.
If you want to flash a custom rom there is no need to root your phone - just flash a recovery and you'e good to go

To clean internal card?

Hello,
I believe I have a problem with internal memory card... Full wiping not working sometimes (says it cannot mount '/system'), and time to time new image installation stops on the extraction phase...
Is there any way to format internal card except TWRP wiping?..
Or maybe there's some other way to reliably clean up the intermal card?
Please advice.

Format from settings and just delete everything on phone. Let phone boot then Odin. Alternatively twrp has option to wipe internal, just be sure you have backup and new rom on external before you wipe.