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[Q] Switching SD Cards NO Apps2SD

Hi, I have a G1 rooted with the SuperD 1.9.3 Rom, I never partitioned my SD card or anything like that. I want to upgrade my SD Card and partition it to get Apps2SD and keep the same Rom. I am not sure what steps to take...

lmt125 said:
Hi, I have a G1 rooted with the SuperD 1.9.3 Rom, I never partitioned my SD card or anything like that. I want to upgrade my SD Card and partition it to get Apps2SD and keep the same Rom. I am not sure what steps to take...
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Which recovery do you have? If you don't yet, make sure to upgrade to Amon_Ra latest. Once you have that, reboot into recovery, select partition card and follow directions on screen. This will wipe your card completely so backup anything you want to save. It will not affect your rom in any way. You may have to move your existing apps manually, not sure.

How do i know what recovery i have? Do I partition my current sd card or the new one?
So I do not need to reflash the Super D?

lmt125 said:
How do i know what recovery i have? Do I partition my current sd card or the new one?
So I do not need to reflash the Super D?
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You would boot into recovery and look to see which one you have, it will say it right on top. You will partition your new card. Absolutely no need to reflash your rom, it will recognize your ext partition and install all future apps in it automatically. As I said, I'm not sure about existing apps, you may need to move them manually.

It says Android Sysem Recovery Utility Build: JFv1.42 There is nothing that says Partition SD or anything like that... Now my rom is on my current sd card if I don't flash it to the new one my phone still knows what rom I have? Sorry about all the questions thanks for your help =)
I was thinking of doing this to install Amon RA's recovery img
I got it from another forum in here....
Copy recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
select console from the menu
#mount -a (this can give back an error if you don't have an ext partition, don't worry about it and just proceed)
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img

JF's recovery does not have that option because it's really, really, really old. We did not even have apps to sd back then.
Flash RA's recovery (directions seem right, I assume you got them out of RA's thread), you'll see the difference: many more options, etc
Good luck.

Ok, so I am going to do the following steps....
1. Flash Amon Ra's recovery image
2. Reboot phone
3. Get into recovery again
4. Back up my sd card on the computer, remove sd card from phone
5. Insert new sd card, partition sd card
6. Transfer files from old sd card including update.zip which is the rom
7. Reboot phone
Let me know if I'm missing something thanks for all your help!
I'm going to do this over the weekend...

Ok, so I got the new Amon RA recovery image but haven't done anything else...lol. So can you tell me if those steps are right? And why don't I need to flash the rom again...I currently have it on my sd card...I'm a bit confused

1. Reboot to recovery. Partition your card (I suggest 512mb for ext partition, rest is fat, follow instructions within recovery).
2. Upgrade ext to ext3.
3. Reboot (your phone will move your existing apps onto sd.) It may take a while to fully boot, just give it 10 min or so.
4. In terminal emulator type
Code:
su
fix_permissions
5. Reboot again.
5. Transfer whatever you had on your old sdcard (music, pics, etc) onto your new card.
As far as flashing the rom again.... why? Your OP says you want to keep your existing rom.
To check if your apps were moved:
In terminal:
Code:
su
ls /system/sd/app
ls /system/sd/app-private
ls /system/sd/dalvik-cache
Should give you print-out of what you have on ext partition of your sdcard (or you can use root explorer or whatever other file manager, I'm a bit old shool so I prefer terminal or adb)

5. Reboot again.
5. Transfer whatever you had on your old sdcard (music, pics, etc) onto your new card.
Okay in step 5. Reboot again do I just type in the terminal emulator reboot or reboot recovery?
Also when you say "transfer whatever you had on your old card..." Do I also transfer the file that says update.zip?
Sorry for all the questions, I should be getting my new sd card today and will try it out tonight.
Thank you.

You just type reboot.
It is up to you what you want to transfer onto your new card. I assume that update.zip is your current rom. If so, it's nice to have just in case but it will not make any difference in how the phone works. It's just an install file that you use once (unless, of course something goes terribly wrong and we all have been there ) but it's nice to have all tools needed on your card so you can quickly recover from any problems.)
BTW, with your new shiny recovery (RA1.7), you don't have to rename your files to update.zip. You can name them whatever you want (i.e Super-D1.9.3.zip, Recovery.zip) and, if you decide to reflash something, at least you will know what it is. Your new recovery will let you choose which file to flash so you can have more then one .zip file on your card if you want.

Ok so I still haven't gotten my new card! It should be here next week...Anyways I tried using switchrom to store my current just in case but I get this error Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
Any clues why I'm getting this do I need to have my phone connected by USB or something to a computer....?
Thanks hopefully I'll stop asking so many questions...I tried this solution but no luck
Originally Posted by siraf View Post
Guys, I just had this problem too .. at first i was so devastated. I'm glad i solved it.
I don't know if my solution is the ultimate solution or not but you guys can give it a try.
problem :
"E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)"
In the Android System Recovery, select "USB-MS Toggle". It will enabled/disable the feature. Do it one more round and it will solve the problem.

It's telling you that it can't mount SD card.
Back up all of your stuff from SD card, format it and try again, that's the only thing I can think of.

Actually, I just ended up doing a Nandroid Backup just did Nandroid not Nandroid +ext since I don't have this card partitioned...it is backed up!

Ok buddy its easier if you do the whole process through the sdcard
First you should backup everything on your sdcard and do a BART or NAN+EXT then partion your card and restore your BART or NAN+EXT and your good to go
If this does not work press my name and look at my threads because I ask this same quetion a while ago
Post again if this does not work
Sent from my HTC Dream using Droidfreeks's App

DroidFreek said:
Ok buddy its easier if you do the whole process through the sdcard
First you should backup everything on your sdcard and do a BART or NAN+EXT then partion your card and restore your BART or NAN+EXT and your good to go
If this does not work press my name and look at my threads because I ask this same quetion a while ago
Post again if this does not work
Sent from my HTC Dream using Droidfreeks's App
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Hi, I tried doing a Nan+ext backup but I got this error : Run nandroid-mobile.sh via console I also tried doing a Bart backup and it also said Run Bart via console...
So I just did a regular Nan Backup...I don't have my current sd card partitioned...should I partition it so I can do the Nan+ext I currently have a 2gb card and it doesn't have a class number.... Maybe I should format my card?
Thanks!

Ohh ok I see ur problem it won't let u backup nand+ext if you don't have a ext
since you backed up already go ahead and throw the nandriod and any other files on sd card to your pc the format your sd create the app partion and swap partion make sure u formate it ext3 or ext4 depending on what ur rom uses put the nandroid back on sd after format and restore post if it works or not
If this don't work just reverse the process put nad back on pc format card to what is was before then put nand back on sd and restore
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App

OK so I partitioned my current memory card =) and was able to succesfully do a nandroid +ext...so now when I get my new card I just have to go into recovery and do a nandroid restore and transfer all my files right? Thanks

Remember to partion your sdcard before transfer
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App

Ok so I tried switching my cards and formatted my new card,paritioned it, transfered the files from my other sd card, and tried to a nandroid restore...that's when I get the same error as before to do it from console.
I tried taking all the files out and repartitioning the sd card doing everything again no luck. Reflashed my rom and turned it on after it boots like normal I get a black screen. So just went back to my old sd card was getting force closes so did nandroid restore it said it did but would boot normal and get force closes.
So I reflashed my rom and reinstalled everything manually...from sd card as my market disappeared got it back after reinstalled it...
Any suggestions as I really want a bigger capacity memory card....=/

[Q] Very strange problem with i9000

Have recently purshased a used galaxy s wich have a very strange problem: it stucks on the Galaxy S boot animation.
I have tried several full wipe stock roms with the usual wipe data, wipe cache, dalkik... before and after flashing. Have also tried several kernels (speedmode, semaphore ...) without success. The animated S is there for hours....
I can go to download mode and recovery mode without problems..
What i noticed are 2 things :
1) When flashing froyo stock firmware the boot animation is displayed and it's music is played normally till the animated S...and stuck there.
When flashing a Gingerbread JVU stock firmware the animation hangs at the first frame and resume after about 30 seconds to the end (the animated S)
When flashing ics rom i get, after the boot animation, the unencrypted message....
2) In recovery mode i can access the internal sd card (by mounting the usb storage in cwm) but cannot erase any file ? Actually the deletion process is achieved normally but after rebooting and reconnecting the pc all my files are still there.
I have also tried to delete the sdcard files by using the ADB rm command: files are deleted BUT after rebooting they are still here.
I have spent 3 days trying to fix my phone without success.
Do you think my galaxy s is hard bricked
Help me please and sorry for my bad english.

Don't think youi are bricked. Suggest at the least you need to flash a new ROM over whats on the phone (can be the same one or a newer one).
If it wer my phone I would be upgrading to CM10 - Jelly Bean. Go to the deveplopment forum and find out how to get from where you are to Jelly Bean. If you follow the steps it is not very hard. Good luck.

I had the same problem with mine. Don't give up, just keep up trying to flash a Rom. Can you put files on your Sdcard with the Recovery? If yes, you can try to a ROM like Cyanogenmod. If no, i would download a 3 files rom (samifirmware) and flash it with odin. If it's still stuck after the flash with Odin go to the recovery and do a Full Wipe.
Hope something works for you Sry for my bad english P

Fredclotz said:
Don't think youi are bricked. Suggest at the least you need to flash a new ROM over whats on the phone (can be the same one or a newer one).
If it wer my phone I would be upgrading to CM10 - Jelly Bean. Go to the deveplopment forum and find out how to get from where you are to Jelly Bean. If you follow the steps it is not very hard. Good luck.
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Have flashed over what is in the phone 2 times without success (froyo ROM)

KUN1 said:
I had the same problem with mine. Don't give up, just keep up trying to flash a Rom. Can you put files on your Sdcard with the Recovery? If yes, you can try to a ROM like Cyanogenmod. If no, i would download a 3 files rom (samifirmware) and flash it with odin. If it's still stuck after the flash with Odin go to the recovery and do a Full Wipe.
Hope something works for you Sry for my bad english P
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Have already copied Cyanogenmod zip file to an external sd card (can't copy to the internal..) and flashed it succesfully BUT the problem remains : the phone stuck in the animated logo (S).
Have moreover flashed several 3 files ROM with ODIN (including and excluding PIT 512) and made full wipe with the recovery BUT still the same problem.

Eddy25 said:
Have already copied Cyanogenmod zip file to an external sd card (can't copy to the internal..) and flashed it succesfully BUT the problem remains : the phone stuck in the animated logo (S).
Have moreover flashed several 3 files ROM with ODIN (including and excluding PIT 512) and made full wipe with the recovery BUT still the same problem.
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If you have CWM format everything except bootloader at least 5 times or more before you attempt to flash a JVU with 512 PIT and repartitioned plus update boot loader ticked
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card, after flashing and reboot , insert them back
Tips before Flashing:-
Backup all your important files, contacts, SMS, game data, images etc to PC or Ext SD card. or make Nanadroid Backup If you have CWM
Backup your EFS Folder to PC or Ext SD card
Enable USB Debugging on Phone. Touch menu> Settings> Applications> Development>
Charge your battery to more than 50% before you attempt any sort of flashing.
Disable Samsung KIES when using Odin. Kill Kies.exe, KiesTrayAgent.exe, & KiesPDLR.exe using Task Manager on PC
Use only ROM and solution for your model and Wipe x3

KUN1 said:
I had the same problem with mine. Don't give up, just keep up trying to flash a Rom. Can you put files on your Sdcard with the Recovery? If yes, you can try to a ROM like Cyanogenmod. If no, i would download a 3 files rom (samifirmware) and flash it with odin. If it's still stuck after the flash with Odin go to the recovery and do a Full Wipe.
Hope something works for you Sry for my bad english P
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xsenman said:
If you have CWM format everything except bootloader at least 5 times or more before you attempt to flash a JVU with 512 PIT and repartitioned plus update boot loader ticked
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card, after flashing and reboot , insert them back
Tips before Flashing:-
Backup all your important files, contacts, SMS, game data, images etc to PC or Ext SD card. or make Nanadroid Backup If you have CWM
Backup your EFS Folder to PC or Ext SD card
Enable USB Debugging on Phone. Touch menu> Settings> Applications> Development>
Charge your battery to more than 50% before you attempt any sort of flashing.
Disable Samsung KIES when using Odin. Kill Kies.exe, KiesTrayAgent.exe, & KiesPDLR.exe using Task Manager on PC
Use only ROM and solution for your model and Wipe x3
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Have followed your advice without success. formatting system, cache, data was ok.
But when formatting sdcard i had this message :
" E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1(or /dev/block/mmcblkO). (Device or resource busy). Error mounting /mnt/sdcard/!"
Any advice?

Eddy25 said:
" E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1(or /dev/block/mmcblkO). (Device or resource busy). Error mounting /mnt/sdcard/!"
Any advice?
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look at specific error in My Android Solutions for a solution.
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card, after flashing and reboot , insert them back

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788850 try one of this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11337735&postcount=1

xsenman said:
look at specific error in My Android Solutions for a solution.
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card, after flashing and reboot , insert them back
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Ok. I think that it is time to give up : I have connected it to my PC and tried a full FAT32 format of the sdcard and at 90% progress i got this windows notice : "Cannot complete the formatting process. sd card unreadable and corrupted". So for me it is now clear : my sd card is dead...
Nevertheless i will put an external sd card and try to install firmware on it... If someone knows how, please advice.

Eddy25 said:
Ok. I think that it is time to give up : I have connected it to my PC and tried a full FAT32 format of the sdcard and at 90% progress i got this windows notice : "Cannot complete the formatting process. sd card unreadable and corrupted". So for me it is now clear : my sd card is dead...
Nevertheless i will put an external sd card and try to install firmware on it... If someone knows how, please advice.
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look at My Guides and Manuals for SD card partition, flashing with a broken SD card and Internal SD card problems

xsenman said:
look at My Guides and Manuals for SD card partition, flashing with a broken SD card and Internal SD card problems
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Have formated a 8GB sdcard like this : 2GB Ext4 and the remaining FAT32. After putting it inside the phone and booting IT WORKED.
BUT BUT after powering off normally the phone and powering it on back there were no more booting and it stucks again at the animated S.??

Eddy25 said:
Have formated a 8GB sdcard like this : 2GB Ext4 and the remaining FAT32. After putting it inside the phone and booting IT WORKED.
BUT BUT after powering off normally the phone and powering it on back there were no more booting and it stucks again at the animated S.??
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OK. Finally solved.
What i did is extracting initramfs , replacing mmcblk 0 strings by mmcblk1 and repacking the kernel. works like a charm with froyo but not withGB.

pls help. galaxy mini struck at startup screen.

My galaxy mini got struck at "galaxy mini gt-s5570" logo that come after samsung and in not starting up:crying:. Pls help me.
These are the things i did.
1.I rooted my phone. had superuser access.
2.I installed CWM v5.0.2.7 as instructed in http://yagyagaire.blogspot.in/2011/09/installing-clock-work-mod-recovery-in.html#.UPZey_KD_Sk
3.Then i installed a custom rom CyanogenMod 10 Nightly. version---: cm-10-20121020-UNOFFICIAL-tass.zip. as instructed in http://yagyagaire.blogspot.in/2012/09/cyanogenmod-10-20120831-nightly-major-update-of-android-4.1.1-for-galaxy-mini-pop.html#.UPZey_KD_Sk
4.Then i do a nandroid backup.Up to now my cell is good and working very well.
5.The internal memory of my cell phone is very less so I feel its good to partition my sd card.
6.I did partition as instructed in http://yagyagaire.blogspot.in/2011/09/how-to-partition-sd-card-and-install.html#.UPZc5fKD_Sk
8.After partitioning my mobile started well but all my sd card data is gone. I had made a backup of all my data in sd card and I have nandroid backup also saved as a backup in my pc.
9.Then i flash darktremor as told by yagyagaire. My mobile rebooted twice as told by him. But in second reboot it struck at galaxy mini logo screen.
10.I remove battery and tried to power on again but same thing happened. But my CWM recovery is well and good. So i dried data wipe/reset option in the recovery and reboot, but no use.
Pls help me. I will be very gratefull for your help.

when you partition your SD card, please make sure that you have backup in computer of all your SD card data, coz new partitions are created in SD card so it's obvious that all data will be deleted once!!!
and plz don't root and install Roms from other sites (as you have mentioned) coz it's very risky.... from now onwards use only Xda
for your solution,
download any Rom from computer, put it in your SD card using any card reader!! then put it in phone, go to recovery, do data and cache wipe, go to mounts and storage, do format data and system, than go to install zip from SD card, choose that downloaded Rom and install, than reboot!!!
it will be fixed
Sent from my GT-S5670 using xda premium

@op
flash the rom again and after that try link2sd
you can copy a rom to your sdcard through mount sdcard option available in CWM recovery
@ 2nd poster
it is not and outside website it is a tutorial blog written by a xda member "yagya"

[Q] SD Card can't be formatted nor add files to it.

Hi, all.
I have some problem on my previous sdcard (so sad :crying and it's broken.
Now i have a new sdcard (yeah...) and another problem appears!
I formatted my sdcard and it said that the sdcard formatted successfully, but when i mount my sdcard into computer, the existing files still there.
Whether i add some files into sdcard (for example: i just copied JB Mini ROM into /sdcard/John) and i rebooted my phone into recovery mode.
When i enter the recovery menu and want to install the ROM's zip, the file cannot be found. Then i copied JBMini's ZIP file once again into my sdcard once again. I mount my sdcard into my computer with "Mount USB Storage" in recovery. When i'm trying to install it, it says (bad) errors. Then i reboot my phone again and the files (JBMini ROM) dissapeared!
Can somebody help me?

If the recovery says "bad file" then that means that the zip is corrupted..
Retry downloading it/retransferring it to the sd card..

MatthewWu said:
Hi, all.
I have some problem on my previous sdcard (so sad :crying and it's broken.
Now i have a new sdcard (yeah...) and another problem appears!
I formatted my sdcard and it said that the sdcard formatted successfully, but when i mount my sdcard into computer, the existing files still there.
Whether i add some files into sdcard (for example: i just copied JB Mini ROM into /sdcard/John) and i rebooted my phone into recovery mode.
When i enter the recovery menu and want to install the ROM's zip, the file cannot be found. Then i copied JBMini's ZIP file once again into my sdcard once again. I mount my sdcard into my computer with "Mount USB Storage" in recovery. When i'm trying to install it, it says (bad) errors. Then i reboot my phone again and the files (JBMini ROM) dissapeared!
Can somebody help me?
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Hmmm...What ROM are you using? If you're using a custom one. Try getting back to stock Eclair 2.1 and check if it does the same problem. If so contact the shop where you bought the SD Card.

Man ...
You have a hard luck with SD cards!
see boot animation without rebooting

Gogeta said:
Man ...
You have a hard luck with SD cards!
see boot animation without rebooting
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Haha... I don't know anything.
Maybe i should throw this microSD from the uppest floor of high building, then go to the downstairs by stairs and get it back again.
It's not about corrupted ROM files or somewhat, but again, this is SD Card problem.
My sdcard have two partitions, FAT32 and ext4.
I had tried to format it from recovery, but it failed.
I had tried to format it from my mom's Blackberry (which is good in fixing corrupted sdcard, but failed with my first sdcard) and it couldn't finish the formatting process.
I had tried to open my sdcard on my computer and i format it and it said something like this : "Windows couldn't finish the format process" (My Windows 8 using Indonesia language)
I had tried to delete all partition from MiniTool Partition, but when MiniTool refreshed the devices list, that two partitions (FAT32 and EXT4) still exist.
What should i do now? I'm really confused with sdcard problems, what they (sdcard) wants?

Format the ext4 partition. Alfs kernel has that option in it's recovery. Then try again.
Note : Not responsible if your SD broke after this.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk 2

Looks to me like you've touched the write-protect switch on the sdcard.
Remove it and sllide the switch back again..

Try for a low level format
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MatthewWu said:
Hi, all.
I have some problem on my previous sdcard (so sad :crying and it's broken.
Now i have a new sdcard (yeah...) and another problem appears!
I formatted my sdcard and it said that the sdcard formatted successfully, but when i mount my sdcard into computer, the existing files still there.
Whether i add some files into sdcard (for example: i just copied JB Mini ROM into /sdcard/John) and i rebooted my phone into recovery mode.
When i enter the recovery menu and want to install the ROM's zip, the file cannot be found. Then i copied JBMini's ZIP file once again into my sdcard once again. I mount my sdcard into my computer with "Mount USB Storage" in recovery. When i'm trying to install it, it says (bad) errors. Then i reboot my phone again and the files (JBMini ROM) dissapeared!
Can somebody help me?
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try using a sd card reader and then delete the parrition and recreate it and the files should be deleted

phone always rebooting to recovery!

hey everyone,just now i was trying to make a swap partition on my SGS....i m using PAC rom from this forum...so normally i selected reboot to recovery and in CWM 6.0.3.0 i partitioned my external sd card by ext size 128 mb and swapp size 256 mb...after it was done i tried rebooting....but phone always rebooted into recovery!! :'(
i saw that my internal sdcard was also formatted...i dont know how!
i tried factory reset which started formatting \data but immidiately the screen blinked and there was nothing!
idk what to do now...please help...
PS. i already had a 2gb ext2 paritition (created from CWM only in some other device) which i was trying to delete actually.

Reflash boot loader
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