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Is it possible to harm your NC by using the wrong SD when rooting?

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?

BrotherZero said:
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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/

robot8 said:
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!

[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......

[Q] No SD card access [CM7]

Hey guys,
I just lately updated my CM7 from an older revision of it, (I think the thread for development was removed? I couldn't find it again) and installed the latest galaxysmtd (whats an mtd?) package on my phone. Prior to that, anyhow, I had an SD card issue.
- The 'SD Card' of the phone was unavailable (total and current usage)
Internal SD card was almost full (shouldnt be, but whatever)
My external worked fine.
Now, I removed my external (I didnt want it to get accidentally formatted etc) and I formatted my entire phone, wiped everything etc., and restarted and now both my Internal SD Card, 'SD Card' and External SD Card (external should be like this because its not in anymore) are unavailable. My phone pretty much just said I have 0 memory.
How can I fix my SD Cards ...?

NargalaX said:
Hey guys,
I just lately updated my CM7 from an older revision of it, (I think the thread for development was removed? I couldn't find it again) and installed the latest galaxysmtd (whats an mtd?) package on my phone. Prior to that, anyhow, I had an SD card issue.
- The 'SD Card' of the phone was unavailable (total and current usage)
Internal SD card was almost full (shouldnt be, but whatever)
My external worked fine.
Now, I removed my external (I didnt want it to get accidentally formatted etc) and I formatted my entire phone, wiped everything etc., and restarted and now both my Internal SD Card, 'SD Card' and External SD Card (external should be like this because its not in anymore) are unavailable. My phone pretty much just said I have 0 memory.
How can I fix my SD Cards ...?
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First, as to your opening questions....Brother, if you are asking what MTD is the you have a LOT of reading to do. GO to the CM7 Dev thread and get started.
As to the SD card issue...you FORMATTED the SD card, that is erased it fully? That may help explain why it is unavailable.
What firmware are you running at the moment?

Haha, I would assume so.
My SD card(s) were not working previous to the format nor prior.
My phone is the Bell Vibrant I9000M
I'm using the CM7 06132011 Nightly (Todays)
and my kernel is 2.6.35.7-g2eb7780 [email protected] #1 (if that helps .. )
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So.. I google'd MTD etc., lol and MTD is a seperate partition?
Maybe thats why my SD Card isnt working.. its not on the right partition in the first place?
-> was looking here.

GingerDX v24 memory card problem.

Hey guys,
I just went through the process
of installing the gingerDX rom on my x8 with Stock kernal and baseband *****15. (i have CWM)
It seems to work fine, however i then noticed that it wouldnt pick up my memory
card at all, as in i cant mount my memory card but when i remove my memory card
it says "SD card removed please inserted a new one" which still doesnt work
when i reinsert it (i have also tried a new memory card)
I have already reinstalled the ROM done the full factory reset also.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Any chance you messed around with your SD card previous to installing the ROM?
Since you obviously managed to flash the ROM off of your SD card it seems as ClockworkMod was actually able to pick up the card.
What brand/class? There are a some rare cases where Gingerbread dislikes certain SDs or where the card was improperly partitioned/formatted.

B.Jay said:
Any chance you messed around with your SD card previous to installing the ROM?
Since you obviously managed to flash the ROM off of your SD card it seems as ClockworkMod was actually able to pick up the card.
What brand/class? There are a some rare cases where Gingerbread dislikes certain SDs or where the card was improperly partitioned/formatted.
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Yeah there is a chance that i have, but i undone everything.
Also its a Micro SD 2G.

[Q] How to transfer apps from the phone & sdcard 0 to sdcard 1 (external sd card)

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...