Have been able to root and unlock as well as install CWM v6.0.3.6. Currently running CM10.2, but my question is probably applicable to all of the ROMs.
I have a 16GB micro SD card that I've used in several phones, including my most recent Motorola Photon. I'm curious what everyone would recommend as to formatting the card and "starting fresh" if I wanted to dedicate the whole SD card to the phone (i.e., I will never remove it). What I mean specifically is that I want to dedicate the card to "add" to the 8GB that's already on the phone.
I guess what I'm asking is whether there is a way for the card to be formatted so that the Atrix thinks it's additional memory without realizing that it is an "external" SD card.
I would prefer to completely format the card as it's been used in other phones, and I want to re-install CM10.2 or maybe try ProBAM. I'm guessing generally the steps are:
1. format card based on what advice I get here
2. flash new ROM to phone
Update:
1. My phone memory was "full" even though I had very few apps. Turned out there were a bunch of "bp-dumps" being created--I presume they are like memory dumps when there is an error. I reflashed with Probam and so far things are okay.
2. I found this article that explains why one may to dedicate some card memory to SD-ext and a step-by-step of how to format. I note that I had to reboot once in between for the option of partitioning the SD-ext to show up:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/193297-everything-sd-cards-discussion-how.html
But it doesn't seem that Probam shows any change to the memory. I may have to reflash it a couple of times, as one of the posts suggested.
If anyone has anything to chime in with, I'd be grateful.
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Hello everyone,
I am new to the hero and just rooted my phone using kitchen. I wanted to get an 8GB card and wanted to know what the process was. I didn't want to mess anything up so how do I change micro sd cards. I did a search but was unable to find the answer.
Are you using apps 2 sd?
If yes there is a guide
If no, then copy your data to your pc.. unmount the card(or turn the phone off) .. insert new card, format... then copy stuff back.
cool, never used apps 2 sd. Thanks! Will wait to get a new rom after.
Just remember its a mounted filesystem, if you just took it out that would be like unhooking your computer's hard drive. Probably going corrupt some data.
So just make sure the phone is off before switching cards?
i just made that mistake last night, burnt up an 8gb card, make sure phone is off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don't need to turn the phone off. Right in SD Card and Storage Settings, there's a button to unmount the SD card. Hit that button, eject the card, then put the new one in and copy all the data back on via USB.
lv2bll said:
i just made that mistake last night, burnt up an 8gb card, make sure phone is off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You shouldn't have been able to burn a card doing that. Maybe confuse the filesystem on it. If worse comes to worst, reformat the sdcard.
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
Since there is an SDcard discussion. Every time I play music the songs glitch at the beginning of the track and sometimes mid song..but always at the start UNLESS the phone is awake, then it plays fine.
Could it be the class of the card or that the phone wakes up after the end of every track and glitches? I still have the stock 2 gig card and was looking to get a higher class / more capacity to swap if that is the case. if not I'll just stick to my ipod shuffle.. bleh.
vrundmc said:
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
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Nothing on the SD card is strictly necessary. Rooting and applying ROMs does not affect the SD card.
vrundmc said:
What items on the SD card are necessary? I did the root and there are two recovery images on there. I haven't done anything else besides rooting the phone.
Sorry dumb question, rooting doesn't change when changing cards right?
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Necessary? Nothing. The phone should run without the sdcard even installed. Some applications aren't going to like it not being there, like the camera.
New card partition question
Stock hero with new 8 gb card. Will be rooting and using fresh 2.0 and apps2sd. Question is: Do i need to partition the card first before rooting or will it happen on its own when i flash new rom? thanks
eydoc said:
Stock hero with new 8 gb card. Will be rooting and using fresh 2.0 and apps2sd. Question is: Do i need to partition the card first before rooting or will it happen on its own when i flash new rom? thanks
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No and no.
You only need to partition the card if you want it partitioned and partitioning it has zero to do with rooting or with applying a new ROM.
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No and no.
You only need to partition the card if you want it partitioned and partitioning it has zero to do with rooting or with applying a new ROM.
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If i want to run apps2sd do i need to partition the card?
Yes, you'll need a ext partition for a2sd.
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i am using the cyanogen mod and have been installing apps to my sd card thru "managing applications". However, i found out that not all of the data is being transferred and some are still left on the internal phone storage. As u guys alr noe, the milestone has very little phone storage, so my phone storage are still quite full at times.
I've seen threads regarding partitioning the sd card so to install the apps to it. Does this really work? I mean is it better than the one mentioned above?
Can someone help with this? I'm new to partitioning so can anyone help by giving step by step instructions, or simply just justify whether this whole partitioning thing works.
Thx in advance
You may give Titanium Backup a try - it can force-move apps from internal memory to SD and vice versa. Long-tap onto the app-> move to sd (or similar, got a german one )
//EDIT: partitioning the sd card is called "app2sd" - there're scripts for this, but with memhack etc. I have enough memory for the moment, so I don't use it
I was going to root my Nook with autonooter 3.0 and a 2GB Class 2 generic card that came with a cellphone, but then read somewhere that you should have above class 6.
1. Is it really not safe to root a nook with this card? I was under the impression that the card class only mattered for running the ROM from the SD(which I already tried, but got stuck booting up the first time, both with CM7 and froyo). And I've rooted a couple of ZTE Blades with this card without any problems.
2. If I run CM7 directly from an SD, it is possible to use the rest of the space on the SD that is over? Any guides?
3. Is it possible to restore an SD you've made bootable to a normal SD? Any guides?
1. :/ Don't trust it, class 2 is enough even to use rom on it (I used a 16Go class2 to boot on HC and had no lag, except lags due to the lack of native drivers)
2 & 3. Just have a look in the dev section you'll find what you need (even I highly suggest to use CM7 on nand)
They are some tutos and direct sd images prepared by nice devs ^^
1. Have you tried CM7 or Froyo from a class 2 card? Cause neither worked on my(froze when booting up the first time). But most importantly, if this card is bad/slow, can I harm my nook by trying to root it with this card?
3. I only found one link(which I can't post since my post count isn't high enough...) regarding restoring an SD-card back to normal
where it tells you to download HPs tool(HPUSBFW.exe) but it doesn't work on my computer. Tells me I don't have admin rights even though I have. Anybody know a workaround or any other tool I can use?
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1. Could anybody just confirm that it's safe to use an inferior SD-card while rooting. Don't have any others around now. All I need to know is whether I can do any permanent damage by using a generic class 2 card when rooting the Nook(I'm going to root it, not run the ROM from the SD, since that didn't work).
2. How to I restore a SD-card so that it works as normal?
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1. Could anybody just confirm that it's safe to use an inferior SD-card while rooting. Don't have any others around now. All I need to know is whether I can do any permanent damage by using a generic class 2 card when rooting the Nook(I'm going to root it, not run the ROM from the SD, since that didn't work).
2. How to I restore a SD-card so that it works as normal?
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1, Assuming that "inferior" SD card doesn't mean some dodgy card with corruption and bad blocks etc., it should not matter what card you use. No you won't do "any permanent damage by using a generic class 2 card when rooting the Nook".
2. Reformat your SD card before you do anything. If you're using Win, use this formatter:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
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1, Assuming that "inferior" SD card doesn't mean some dodgy card with corruption and bad blocks etc., it should not matter what card you use. No you won't do "any permanent damage by using a generic class 2 card when rooting the Nook".
2. Reformat your SD card before you do anything. If you're using Win, use this formatter:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
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1. Don't think it's corrupted, just ran comp in DOS comparing two 1.3gb files(the entire card is 2gb) and it seemed fine. Or is there a better way of checking your SD-card?
2. Thanks, that's was just what I was looking for!
I followed the instructions to put cm7 on a sd card and everything installed and worked well but things loaded a little slow. I bought a couple sandisk class 4 cards for mine and a friends nook because those are supposed to be better. well I cant get it to work now! the old card still works but when i insert the new sandisk and the penguin starts loading i get a bunch of i/o errors and the cm7 logo ends up looping and never loads up. ive searched for a while. any help is appreciated.
Sounds like your card got corrupted for some reason. Consider flashing a nandroid and just redoing everything.
thanks for the reply. I dont quite know what that advice means. haha
well, that means, if you have backed up your card somehow, you're going to have to reinstall everything and flash back your entire system.
Considering that you are on a SD card system, there are only 2 ways you could have done this back up, 1 is a full on image via winimage or made a backup (nandroid) of your system+data. The nandroid or backup made by cwm would have to be written to your fake "sd" card after you remake your bootable cm7, then you could reinstall that information, provided that you have backed up what's on your "fake" sd, you can just copy that back over.
I still have a working bootable sd card with nightly 102 on it. I tried 2 new sandisk cards and get the i/o errors. ive tried formatting and redoing the new cards at least a dozen times. using winimage and whatever that other one is called windisk32 or whatever. very confused as to why its not working and where to go from here.
Oh, that's odd. I wish I had a solution for you. At this point, it almost sounds like it's an hardware issue as opposed to your software/sd cards.
You got a friend with a nook color you can test your cards out on? If they work on his nook, maybe your reader is messed up, dust/water/etc?'
Sorry, not of much help at this point.
its really weird. they wont work on the other nook either. but the old one does. is there a best way to format an sd card? when I couldnt get them to work initially i started messing with the partitions in disk management. i generally just use the nook to format them.
Well, get easeus partition manager and collapse them all, so a slow format and then try to write the image.
I was able to load everything onto another card. neither sandisk worked... crazy talk.
Well, I think we've established that it's probably how you're writing to your sd cards.
So assuming your software is good (md5 checksums match), then it's a matter of hardware.
2 suggestions, use another computer and try to burn on that.
Use a different microSD reader/writing device (do you use a usb device or is it built in or is it a SD card that you slip the micro one into?)
I don't know whether this question has already been asked here but since I'm a newbie and this Droid 4 is my only Android phone (all others are Windows Phones), I'd like to ask this one:
I performed the partition of my phone's memory and split it 50/50 so that I could boot into the stock ROM if something would go wrong with CM11 updates. Not the wisest move since I'm not using that stock ROM at all
OK, the memory of my phone (where I'm running CM11) is running out so therefore I'd need to know:
1) Is there a way to modify the partition afterwards without losing any information from the memory of my phone?
2) Is there a way to move apps from phone's internal memory and SD card (a.k.a. sd card 0) to an external SD card (a.k.a. sd card 1)? I have 64Gb micro SD where I could move lots of stuff if I'd only know how.
And my apologies if this question has already been asked here.
try foldermount from playstore...
I'm fully aware of that app but it's not free.
Any other choices???
well i can only recommend Foldermount since im using it myself and the basic features are free and satisfy my needs fully.
but hey, the full version costs only ~2 dollars or so...