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Upgrading to larger SD card w/CyanogenMod installed - what steps are required?

To start, let me say that I feel like a complete idiot browsing the forums looking for an solution to this problem.
Situation:
- Bought rooted G1 from friend with CyanogenMod with included 2GB SD card. Installed EnochX custom theme.
- Wanted more room for apps/music/videos, bought a Class 6 8GB ADATA microSDHC card.
- Partitioned 8GB card as follows: 1.3 GB EXT2, the rest as FAT32. Copied data from 2GB card to 8GB card (in FAT32 partition).
What happens:
- Powered off phone, removed 2GB and insert 8GB.
- Phone powers up, shows the Enoch splash screen briefly, then the screen goes blank - it's backlit, but only black. Nothing. Waited a few minutes, no progress.
For kicks, I re-inserted my 2GB with all my apps ... none of which work, of course. Most of what I installed is gone, but my custom wallpaper and desktop shortcuts remain.
I would like to revert to what I had previously installed. Re-downloading the apps isn't a problem, but did I do something wrong in the upgrade process? From what I understand the 8GB should be working fine with CyanogenMod...
Again, please forgive my n00bishness ... 20 years experience with computers, very little with cell phones ..
EDIT - nvm, problem fixed itself ...

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Apps2SD#Upgrading_SD_.2F_Moving_data_to_new_SD
Everything you need to know and more. Remember to have AMON Recovery 1.5.2 so that the ext partition actually restores properly. Granted this method really isn't full proof. When I did it, I had to re-install half of my apps, which is a huge deal really.
Another simple method you could try is this, go to Recovery > Console > type "utility", then select the option to move apps to SD. Then backup all your stuff, then put in new SD, partition, then do the same thing, but restore apps from SD.

So I actually switched to a smaller SD card (so I can use my 16GB in my Nexus One - coming tomorrow!!). What I did was this.
1. Partition replacement card.
2. Copy files from the Fat32 partition of current card to replacement card.
3. Boot into recovery with current card.
4. Create a Nandroid + Ext backup.
5. Power off.
6. Swap cards.
7. Boot into recovery with replacement card.
8. Restore Nandroid + Ext backup.
9. Boot normally.
100% success, no FC's, no problems, all apps present and working.

[Q] SD Upgrade Problem?

I've got a problem with replacing the SD card. I searched for it and it seems like no-brainer. But I don't know what the problem is:
I bought a 16 GB Transcend to replace the SanDisk 2GB that came with my Liquid.
I have [Leaked]Froyo ROM. I had many apps on SD and some on the phone.
Here is what I did:
- I unmounted the 2GB card in my phone and turned it off.
- I put the new card and turned the phone back on.
- Then connected the old card with a card reader to my Mac. Also, connected the phone via USB and turned the USB storage on.
- I just copied everything from the old card to the new card and turned the USB storage off.
Now here's the problem:
None of the apps on SD are working! And they are not linked! It seems they are not installed.
When I tap their home screen icons, I get the error: "The application is not installed on your phone"
Also, only the apps on the phone are shown in applications.
I double tried the same process with formatting the new card in the phone, but got the same thing. I also copied the hidden folders as well. No luck with that, too.
Any suggestions? It is really driving me ...
BTW, I put the old card back and it is working just fine.

Problem Solved!
I finally found out what the problem was and upgraded my microSD successfully with all the applications working.
I decided to post the SOLUTION so it may help others as well:
The key issue is in the .android_secure folder on the SD card. Before this, I didn't know it is the place where Froyo puts all the apps that are transferred to SD.
Here are the steps that worked for me:
1) Unmounted the old SD and turned the phone off.
2) Copied EVERYTHING from the old card to my PC (I used a card reader).
**ATTENTION: By everything I mean all the files and folders including folders starting with "." (Especially .android_secure)
3) Formatted the new card (FAT32) using the Windows.
**FOR CAUTION: DO NOT use the phone to format the card. Because it makes a .android_secure and it will screw with the one you want to replace. [If you have done it anyways, just make sure to REPLACE the .android_secure folder]
4) Connected the new card to the PC and paste everything to it.
5) Put the new card in to the phone and turn it back on. BINGO! All should work without any problem.

Media scan hangs at 44%

Hi everybody!
Now that I finally have installed Gingerbread 2.3.4, I am facing another problem. After power-on or reboot the phone starts its media scan. at 44% it stops - and stays there forever, the progress bar won't go any further and stays at 44%. I have removed the external SD card to make sure it is not responsible for that error. I have formatted USB storage via the settings menu. That does not change anything. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to solve that?
Is there any app that performs some kind fsck to repair filesystems etc?
Cheers!

Do a full wipe and flash again the rom

Not again (((

I think it's the only thing that will work

Well, I fixed it - but I have absolutely NO clue how I did that.
- Removed external SD card (i didn't care about the SIM card)
- Flashed 2.2.1 - same thing, media scan got stuck at 44%
- Formatted USB storage via PC (regular, not quick format)
- Wiped cache
- Flashed some swisscom release of 2.3.4 - same thing happened
- Inserted external SD card
- rebooted
- Same thing
- removed external SD card
- NO PROBLEM! media scan DID NOT STOP!
- Flashed 2.3.4 again, as the previous one was the wrong swisscom one
- Same error again, stuck at 44%
- Formatted the external SD via PC (regular, not quick format)
- Rebooted
- NO PROBLEM! Even after a few reboots, the issue did not reoccur.
Concluding: The error initially occurred no matter if the ext SD card was inserted or not (even with reboots after inserting/removing the card) which made me believe it was the internal card. Although there seemed to be no relationship between this error and the external SD card, the problem was solved after formatting the external card. I have no clue how that worked out. I was sober btw...

[Q] ExtSdCard suddently empty

Yesterday my wife's GT-I9070 (CoCore r9 kernel, TWRP, stock JB) /ExtSdCard contents suddently disappeared.
ES File Explorer shows that the microSD card (SanDisk 32 GB) still has all of its content. No files/dirs listed, but space is partially occupied.
In fact, if I reboot the phone, card content reappears. But after some time (about 6 or 8 hours) it disappears again. A filesystem mount problem?
I was thinking about:
1) a complete backup of the SD memory
2) a full format of the SD using the phone
3) a restore of data.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks,
Leonardo.

fastleo63 said:
Yesterday my wife's GT-I9070 (CoCore r9 kernel, TWRP, stock JB) /ExtSdCard contents suddently disappeared.
ES File Explorer shows that the microSD card (SanDisk 32 GB) still has all of its content. No files/dirs listed, but space is partially occupied.
In fact, if I reboot the phone, card content reappears. But after some time (about 6 or 8 hours) it disappears again. A filesystem mount problem?
I was thinking about:
1) a complete backup of the SD memory
2) a full format of the SD using the phone
3) a restore of data.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks,
Leonardo.
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I had SD card unmounting problem on CoCore too. Mount it in settings again, and just in case backup it on PC (in case that the problem is faulty SD card).
Possible solution: create init.d script with command to mount SD card on reboot (it happen to me only on a reboot) or simply do it manually in the settings.

I think that the culprit is microSD card, not the kernel, because phone was running flawlessly with CoCore r9 since last August. Until yesterday.
First I removed card from phone (after two unsuccessful safe removal procedures).
I formatted the card on a Windows system (default FAT32 format). First try with default O.S. format procedure (right mouse key > format...) was unsuccessful ("could not complete formatting" message), so I used another tool (MiniTool Partition Wizard) and formatted it (NTFS filesystem).
Then I reformatted the card with Windows (FAT32), and all went O.K.
To be sure, I mounted card into phone and formatted it again.
Unmounted, connected to PC. I restored all files. Reconnected to phone, all seems to work. Rebooted phone several times without issues.
init.d script seems to be useless for my issue, because SD contents were disappearing not at reboot, but after a couple of minutes since last startup.
Finger crossed...

TWRP nandroid missing, internal storage displaying wrong numbers

Hey all,
So I unlocked my bootloader, got TWRP installed, updated to v6.6 the safe way, and converted to non-Prime from Prime. Before converting, I made a nandroid backup. Once the phone was all set up with the sim and SD Card in, I used MixPlorer to move the entire TWRP folder from the internal storage to the SD Card. It did it almost instantly, which was the first weird thing. Now I have 2 TWRP folders on my device, one on the internal storage and one on the external. Both only have .twrps in them. Also, my internal storage is reporting that I only have about 4 GB of storage remaining. I've only installed about 1 GB of apps, plus the system storage is still reporting about 4GB being taken up. So I believe I should have a lot more free storage. What I'm thinking happened is the nandroid didn't move, but is not being shown anywhere. I've tried enabling hidden items, but that only shows the .twrps.
Does anyone know where I can find my nandroid backup?