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Need help partitioning card.

Okay after many attempts and tries I've finally decided to ask for some help.
I originally partitioned my card with gparted. Everything seems to be fine but when I put my card into the phone it says that it's a wrong format and that I need to reformat. Anyone know how I can get past this? Or is there another easier way to partition the card?

don't know what gparted means... i'm assuming you're talking about goldcard, and if so, go into your recovery image (you said you have cyan's) and it has a format option in there...
btw, theres like 2 or 3 posts in this sub forum on the first page that answer your question... search a little bit better before you risk getting banned ><

Gparted is ubuntu's partition manager.
Your partitions should look like the following (mines a 8gb sdcard)
Linux swap (32mb)
Ext3 (500mb)
Fat32 (everything else)

ahh excuse my mistake... you may want to try a 40mb swap partition, i found that to be best without as much of a slow down

[How-to]Darktremors apps2sd on Froyo

Edit: I made some scripts that you can run from gscript lite found in market for free. This script will mount the last partition so your windows pc will see it. There is one for mount and one for unmount. Plug your phone in pc and run the mountsd script and your window should pop up on the pc with the folder showing the partition that your froyo rom is using. If you have your card partitioned differently then these instructions then you can just edit the mountsd script where it says /dev/block/mmcblk0p4. Change the 4 to the number of the fat32 partition that you want it to mount. http://www.multiupload.com/HNIKCP720C
If you want to copy from froyo partition to recovery partition try this
Conap said:
No need to stop being lazy but you gotta give me a minute lol...download script and run it in gscripts. In File Manager if you press the home button you will see sdcard and sdcard2. sdcard is the froyo partition and sdcard2 is the recovery partition of the card. I am sure you can get to it in astro too but don't have it downloaded to test. Just navigate to the root folder of the phone and it should have the sdcard2 directory. This will stick untill you reboot then you will have to run the script again.
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We all have seen that froyo doesn't like partitioned sd cards. After many attempts at partitioning my sd card for another project i'm working on I figured out a way to install the "old" apps2sd on Froyo. I know alot of people preferred the way it was done in 2.1. Froyo seems to use the last partition on the sd card at least untill the 7th partition which it stops looking after that. Amon's recovery works with the first partition on the sd card. So the solution is to put a Fat32 partition as the first partition then put your ext3 and swap partitions and then a 4th partition as fat32 for the phone to use when booted. The important thing to remember is to put any rom's you want to flash on the first partition. Your nand backups will also be stored on the first partition. Pictures, music, video's, stuff you download to the phone and any other normal stuff that uses sd card will end up on 4th partition. I will give instructions using a program called gparted. I think it is available for windows also. This should work with any type of partitioning software.
I will leave the original instructions at bottom of post but after a lot of partitioning my sd card for this project and the ubuntu/debian project and the DualRom project I've found that this method is a little better. I believe someone else linked to this method somewhere in this thread
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THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING OFF OF YOUR SD CARD
ok try this...boot phone into recovery...hopefully you have amon's recovery cause I don't think clockwork uses parted(not sure). Then type or copy/paste these commands:
adb shell
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rm 1
rm 2
rm 3
rm 4
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 2000
mkpartfs primary ext2 2001 2500
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 2501 2550
mkpartfs primary fat32 2551 7948
quit
Depending on the number of partitions on your sdcard currently it may say error after the rm 1,rm 2, rm 3, rm 4 commands. You can ignore them.
Then reboot your phone or copy the file you want to flash back on to card and flash it.
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PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN USING A FORMATTING PROGRAM THAT YOU ONLY REFORMAT YOUR SD CARD AND NOT YOUR HARD DRIVE
1. BACK UP YOUR SD CARD!!!!!!!!(this will erase all data on sd card)
2. Plug your phone into your pc and mount the sd card(like you would if transferring files from pc to your card)
3. Open GParted and on the bar at the top click Gparted then devices and choose the phone( should be the second in the list if you only have one hard drive and no other external storage devices connected)
4. On the gparted screen you will see the partitions of your sd card. There should only be one at the moment if you are already using froyo. Right click on all of the partitions and click unmount and then delete. This will delete everything on your sd. Please be sure you have backed up your card.
5. You should now have one line that says unallocated.
6. Right click on unallocated and click click new. It will bring up a screen that has size and type of partition sizes. The only things you need to change are the size and type. For the first partitions I used 2000mib in the new size box but I keep around 5 Nand backups and 10 to 15 rom's stored on my card at a time. If you do not do alot of nands and store alot of roms you could probably make this partition smaller. Then under file system choose fat32 from the dropdown menu and choose add.
7. Right click on unallocated again and click new. This will bring up the screen to chose size and file system again. Normally people use 500mb for the ext3 partition for apps2sd. You can adjust the number to fit your needs. Choose your size and then make the file system ext3 and click add.
8. Right click unallocated again and click new. This partition should be around 50mb and choose file system as linux-swap.
9. Right click unallocated and new again. This will be the partition you use for your media on your phone such as pic's or music. You will want to use the rest of the space left on your card for this partition. Choose fat32 for the file system and click add.
10. You should now see 4 sections listed. First and last should be fat32, second ext3 and 3rd linux-swap. If it looks correct you hit the checkmark button at the top of the gparted screen. It will make all changes to your sd card. You can then unmount your card and make sure your phone reads it. I reccomend taking 1 picture before copying the stuff you backed up back onto your card.
Remember to put your Nand folder and any roms onto partition 1 and all other stuff you backed up on partition 4. When your card is setup you can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715933 to get the zip to flash to install the apps2sd. Install apps2sd as per instructions on that thread.
I have apps2sd currently running on my phone with CELB3.2 and it is working fine. I set my card up on a linux machine with gparted.

you are the man Conap ...currently running your 3.2froyo, which BTW is smooth as heck....what I hate the most about froyo is there A2sd setup ....and you have just solved that problem

rvpartsguy said:
you are the man Conap ...currently running your 3.2froyo, which BTW is smooth as heck....what I hate the most about froyo is there A2sd setup ....and you have just solved that problem
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Well if you or anyone else that has windows test's this can someone report if you can access both fat32 partitions when you mount the phone in windows....

I'll be trying this ish later. Superb work conap. I'm on windows, I'll let you know how it goes as well
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I'm undecided if I'll try this, but if I do it'll probably more to see how it works under Windows than to use it myself.
I wish the best of both worlds, being able to have Widget apps installed to SD card, but not have separate partitions, and still be able to specify applications I want to remain in the phone memory, for speed.
No matter what, though, beautiful! Thanks for writing up the instructions!

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I'm undecided if I'll try this, but if I do it'll probably more to see how it works under Windows than to use it myself.
I wish the best of both worlds, being able to have Widget apps installed to SD card, but not have separate partitions, and still be able to specify applications I want to remain in the phone memory, for speed.
No matter what, though, beautiful! Thanks for writing up the instructions!
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I agree it would be nice to have the option to move specific apps back to the phone. But I have seen alot of people that prefer this way so I thought i'd write this up. I actually needed partitions for other things which is why I was looking into it anyway. I now have 8 partitions on my sd card and everything still functions correctly. I did find that Froyo would read the last partition on the sd card up untill 7 partitions. When I added an 8th partition it still looked at partition 7. In case any one was interested in more partitions just make sure the fat32 is last partition untill you have more then 7 leave 7 as fat32.

Conap said:
I agree it would be nice to have the option to move specific apps back to the phone. But I have seen alot of people that prefer this way so I thought i'd write this up. I actually needed partitions for other things which is why I was looking into it anyway. I now have 8 partitions on my sd card and everything still functions correctly. I did find that Froyo would read the last partition on the sd card up untill 7 partitions. When I added an 8th partition it still looked at partition 7. In case any one was interested in more partitions just make sure the fat32 is last partition untill you have more then 7 leave 7 as fat32.
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Do you have a 16GB or larger card? Wow!
Very interesting information, thank you!

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Do you have a 16GB or larger card? Wow!
Very interesting information, thank you!
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nope just stock 8gb...mostly small partitions for testing some ideas lol...i did find that the phone does not mount any more then 7 partitions(kernel limitation maybe) You can have more then 7 if you are useing your card for things other then the phone but for phone purposes 7 is the limit.

How do I plug my phone into my computer?

need help!!
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.

Conap said:
nope just stock 8gb...mostly small partitions for testing some ideas lol...i did find that the phone does not mount any more then 7 partitions(kernel limitation maybe) You can have more then 7 if you are useing your card for things other then the phone but for phone purposes 7 is the limit.
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Oh, okay! Nosey people (me) want to know. Hehehe.
workshed said:
How do I plug my phone into my computer?
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You're messing with me, right? The USB cable that came with your phone, that you can also charge your phone with???

ykhehra1 said:
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.
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You'll probably have to boot your Vista 32-bit installation DVD and run a Startup Repair. Or if the computer came with a recovery DVD that you hopefully burned after booting up the computer the first time, use that.
If you don't have any easier option, you can download Startup Repair-only burnable disc images from the EasyBCD website. Just google for it. Make sure and download the correct one (Vista 32-bit), and then you'll have to burn it to a CD and boot from it. Hopefully you're computer doesn't have any SATA or RAID setup that Vista doesn't include the drivers for, otherwise you'll have to download those and put them on a flash drive, and then you can load them from the Vista repair CD.
Good luck.

ykhehra1 said:
Hi I accidently run the 'makeboot' from gparted iso on my windows Vista 32bit HDD, before I read it will damage windows boot and can only run it on SD card.
Now I have not restarted my laptop, to loose every thing, I need help to correct it!
Please guide my, what are my options.
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There is no makeboot option on gparted in linux that i can see...if you think you have messed up the boot partition of your pc don't restart it till you fix it. Google should be your best friend on that one. I don't use windows so can't be of any help to you there....

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Oh, okay! Nosey people (me) want to know. Hehehe.
You're messing with me, right? The USB cable that came with your phone, that you can also charge your phone with???
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LMAO
What's a usb cable... is it that black thing with a square end??

Its g8 solution, good job! little tricky on windows, but worked at the end.

workshed said:
LMAO
What's a usb cable... is it that black thing with a square end??
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Ooooh, you got me. LOL!

ykhehra1 said:
Its g8 solution, good job! little tricky on windows, but worked at the end.
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Are you able to get both FAT32 partitions (partition 1 for ROMs and other flashes, partition 4 for everything else) mounted with drive letters under Windows?

is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious

asilentcivilian said:
is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious
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nevermind, i found the 2.1 dark tremor thread. i assume the same results apply to froyo with this.

asilentcivilian said:
is there an advantage to doing this? i'm just curious
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some people just prefer this way. this way actually stores the whole apk on the phone and save's more room then froyo. plus you can mount your sd card while still using your apps. I did this mainly cause I wan't partitions for other things on my phone personally. It just happens that it helps the apps2sd issue too...

[Q] How to Install/Run Android on ext2 partition !!!

I Created ext2 Partition on my sdcard now i dont know how to run android on it? can i use any rom by moving it to the ext2 partition ? if yes so how to run iy from winmo i know that windows mobile cant see the ext2 partition so how can i run Android from Winmo? is there a certain versions for this or any android rom will work . please help me in this guys .

Windows will not be able to read ext2. Your only use for ext2 is assign it to be used as a swap partition. Whenever windows sees any ext2 partitions it will ask you to format your SDcard.
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Seriously this is your 3rd post on this and they are all in the wrong forum. Spam?

xhanay said:
Windows will not be able to read ext2. Your only use for ext2 is assign it to be used as a swap partition. Whenever windows sees any ext2 partitions it will ask you to format your SDcard.
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i know that i need to know the steps to install android on ext2 partition . is any version works ! if yes so please tell me how to make it works.

What's the point of creating the ext2 partition in the first place? You don't need it. All you have to do is place the android build folder in your sd card and run clrcad and haret. Seriously, every build thread has the step by step instructions and they all say the same thing.
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mastajest said:
What's the point of creating the ext2 partition in the first place? You don't need it. All you have to do is place the android build folder in your sd card and run clrcad and haret. Seriously, every build thread has the step by step instructions and they all say the same thing.
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it gives more battery time + improving the performance, my friend has did it on his diamond and he says its much better than launching the Adnroid from the fat32

Mido said:
it gives more battery time + improving the performance, my friend has did it on his diamond and he says its much better than launching the Adnroid from the fat32
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haret will not boot android from and ext2 partition.

Mido said:
it gives more battery time + improving the performance, my friend has did it on his diamond and he says its much better than launching the Adnroid from the fat32
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Can't you just ask your friend how he did it then?

Why in the hell did you create three threads on this. What or you retarded or just stuck on stupid.

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johncmolyneux said:
Can't you just ask your friend how he did it then?
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after created the partition he installed a rom from neopeeks specially for this and he put the haret file into the fat32 partition and it works, no need to say i already tried this but it didnt worked.

mattfmartin said:
Why in the hell did you create three threads on this. What or you retarded or just stuck on stupid.
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well i will be retarded if i talked to you, why dont you shut your mouth and keep watching others instead of being such aggressive to others !!

Yosef said:
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what suppose this to mean ?

Mido said:
well i will be retarded if i talked to you, why dont you shut your mouth and keep watching others instead of being such aggressive to others !!
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Someones gotta keep you morons in line

is that how you made your 1374 post? stop stealing the thread ,anyway i will ignore your posts psycho.

Will you be my friend? Haha

Mido said:
after created the partition he installed a rom from neopeeks specially for this and he put the haret file into the fat32 partition and it works, no need to say i already tried this but it didnt worked.
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haret will look for the kernal in a fat32 partition, so even if you had an .ext2 partition (as I do) you will only have app data in there (apps2SD).
It may be possible to create an .ext2 partition and populate it with the system.ext2 data required for android, but I do not see anything else going in there. So, it would be pointless... then android would be reading from two partitions at once... seems slower to me.
What is you purpose for doing this? And I read the previous explanation which, with all 'due respect', makes no sense.
If you want it segregated from your other files, make two fat32 partitions.

right hears my $1 worth of a idea....
1st he has a diamond, the diamond doesnt have a memory card its all internal so yes it will have ext2 i think
2nd no point in going on about it and bad mouthing people.
3rd just get along with each other.

Dblfstr said:
haret will look for the kernal in a fat32 partition, so even if you had an .ext2 partition (as I do) you will only have app data in there (apps2SD).
It may be possible to create an .ext2 partition and populate it with the system.ext2 data required for android, but I do not see anything else going in there. So, it would be pointless... then android would be reading from two partitions at once... seems slower to me.
What is you purpose for doing this? And I read the previous explanation which, with all 'due respect', makes no sense.
If you want it segregated from your other files, make two fat32 partitions.
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im trying to do this only because my friend told me that Android on ext2 partition is running more faster he tested on both fat32 and ext2 and i thought that if its done to diamond so it must be done for hd2 but seems like its not yet.

A2sd help needed!

When I try to use A2SD commands I get "darktremor apps2sd may not have ran during boot cannot read a2sd.mountpoint"
Its saying my sd partition is not mounted, and no apps have moved to sd card
please help guys!

Have you partitioned your SD card correctly so that it works with a2sd?

Daz555 said:
Have you partitioned your SD card correctly so that it works with a2sd?
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I think so, I partitioned it Ext4. what else do I have to do?

Please list the exact partition config you have on your SD card. That way we'll hopefully be able to see the problem. Also please tell us which ROM you are using.

Daz555 said:
Please list the exact partition config you have on your SD card. That way we'll hopefully be able to see the problem. Also please tell us which ROM you are using.
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Ok I have an Ext4 745.20mb partition with 28mb used (I dont know what its used on)
Im using RCMix3D but I installed the A2SD script and I know its working because I can use A2SD Commands!

Repsys7 said:
Ok I have an Ext4 745.20mb partition with 28mb used (I dont know what its used on)!
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Sorry, you have an SD card with a single 745MB ext4 partition?
Can you post your exact SD card partition info - all partition sizes, file systems, and in what order they are partitioned.
Also, your ROM - have you asked this question in the relevant thread?

Daz555 said:
Sorry, you have an SD card with a single 745MB ext4 partition?
Can you post your exact SD card partition info - all partition sizes, file systems, and in what order they are partitioned.
Also, your ROM - have you asked this question in the relevant thread?
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Sorry what I meant was my first partition was 6.69gb and Fat32, Then I partitioned 750mb off as Ext4.

Data first and then A2SD partition second is usually the right way around but I am not familiar with your ROM. For example, does it support EXT4?
Might be worthing popping over to the thread for your ROM in the Development forum and asking around there.

Daz555 said:
Data first and then A2SD partition second is usually the right way around but I am not familiar with your ROM. For example, does it support EXT4?
Might be worthing popping over to the thread for your ROM in the Development forum and asking around there.
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Yeah I did data first, and yeah it does support EXT4.
The rom doesnt actually have A2SD in it, but I put it in myself so its probably no use asking in the rom thread.
I've tried everything, I've partitioned it on linux, gparted, minitool partion on windows, Clockwork recovery, none work.
Thanks for your help anyway!

[Q] A little EXT4 help please..pretty please with strawberry syrup on top!

Ok so I know the rule of not asking something thats been explained and I have spent the past two days researching this subject but I'm missing a few steps I believe.
So I am looking to put an EXT4 partition on my SD card and so far I have made it far enough to make a bootable USB with GParted which did allow me to format the stick in EXT4 however I'm getting an error that it needs a second partition so Im just a little bit confused.
I'm going to do more research and probably go back into GParted to see if I find any other options for EXT4 partitioning but if someone whos already done this could shed a lil light and speed this process up a bit I would be hella grateful!
Thanks in advance,

ESCO303 said:
Ok so I know the rule of not asking something thats been explained and I have spent the past two days researching this subject but I'm missing a few steps I believe.
So I am looking to put an EXT4 partition on my SD card and so far I have made it far enough to make a bootable USB with GParted which did allow me to format the stick in EXT4 however I'm getting an error that it needs a second partition so Im just a little bit confused.
I'm going to do more research and probably go back into GParted to see if I find any other options for EXT4 partitioning but if someone whos already done this could shed a lil light and speed this process up a bit I would be hella grateful!
Thanks in advance,
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from my understanding you need to create a linux swap file etc. you need to create 3 partitions one for swap and ext 4 then rest as is. after creating linux swap and ext partitions you then change properties of the ext 2 to 4. check in the hd2 forum for more info. i would use sdcard formatter to return sdcard to original values during format and then use gparted to create magic you are after.

Moving to General.
PS: Every Q? thread should be posted in General.