Probably a dumb question but... hey..
My Hero still has the original 2GB card and I've now acquired a 16Gb replacement.
Can I simply swap them over?
Or do I need to do stuff first? I've backed up the phone's contents onto my PC. Anything else I should do?
Make a backup of the entire content of the memory card to the PC (the card acts like am external harddrive) and then dismount if from the setting menu and then format it (if you want) and then just replace it with the new card (format it if you want from the settings) and then just drag the backup onto the new card... what's the problem?
Usually, if you don't care about your files you can just swap the cards without even dismounting them.. this is *NOT* reccommended though...
But, when you dismount your card through the settings application you can remove your old card and just insert the new one..
If you want your files from the old card on your new card follow the instructions in the post before this one
Hi, thanks for the replies.
There is no problem, it's just something I hadn't thought about until late last night and having never done this on the Hero I wasn't sure whether any special formatting had to be done.
Now I know
Simples
Thanks.
worcester4x4 said:
Hi, thanks for the replies.
There is no problem, it's just something I hadn't thought about until late last night and having never done this on the Hero I wasn't sure whether any special formatting had to be done.
Now I know
Simples
Thanks.
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I tested it a while back on the original memory card myself so I know it works.
1. Connect the phone to your computer via the USB cable.
2. Mount the memory card as an external device, a notification will popup on the phone.
3. Now open the external device from the computer and copy everything to your computer.
4. Dismount the external device.
5. Settings > SD card and phone storage > Unmount SD card.
6. In that same menu choose Format SD card (if you want).
7. Power down the phone.
8. Remove the backcover and pull out the memory card.
9. Take the new memory card and put it in the device.
10. Power on the phone again. The phone will automatically mount the new card.
11. Again connect the USB cable and mount the memory card as an external device to your computer.
12. Now just copy back the backed up stuff you made in point 3.
13. Dismount the external device from the computer.
14. Mission accomplished.
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Hello everyone,
It my be simple but I'd better ask you.
I have got 2gb card in my HTC HD2 and now it is almost full with movies and applications (I have installed all app to my memoty card)
So, I'd like to change the card to 8 or 16gb.
How to copy everything?
Just simple drag and copy? or Do I need to install everything from scratch (Garmin,Shell etc)?
As my Mobile Shell and all stuff have been installed on my memory card, when I remove the card the phone will crash, won't it?
Shall I use "Format SD card" or I can format it using my Vista?
Thanks
Simply copy & paste all files from the old card to the new one on your PC should work fine (I did the same to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB SDHC). But do not delete the files in the old card so soon until you have tried and test all programmes after transfer. Better do a system backup before as well just to play save.
I formatted my new card on the device, but I think Vista can do the same. Just make sure you format it using the right "FAT" option (seach this forum for more details).
This is the procedure I have followed successfully in the past.
1. Attach the phone to your PC in "Disk Mode" NOT Activesync.
2. Create a new folder on your PC. Call it something like "SD-Card".
3. Copy all of the files from the sd-card to the folder on the PC.
4. Detach the phone, remove the sd-card and insert the new card.
5. Attach the phone to your PC in "Disk Mode" NOT Activesync.
6. Copy all of the files from the PC folder to the sd-card.
7. Detach the phone then do a soft-reset.
8. Everything should now work, but test!
Garmin wont work because it requires a card number, which changes in case of changing the memory card. It has to bi installed again to the new card.
Thanks for all answers.
Yes, I had to reinstal Garmin.
My HD2 came with a 2GB SD card with various stuff pre-installed particularly Co-Pilot which I haven't tried yet but intend to. I'm planning on purchasing a larger SD card at some point.
My question: What would be the best way to transfer what's already on the 2GB card to a new card?
Thanks for any/all suggestions.
ensure you are showing all system and hidden files, then drag everything off your old card, drag everything to your new card, job done.
samsamuel said:
ensure you are showing all system and hidden files, then drag everything off your old card, drag everything to your new card, job done.
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Thx for the reply.
When you say - drag everything off your old card, drag everything to your new card. - I would have to copy everything off the old card and store it on the phone somewhere until I insert the new card, then paste over to the new card? Is that what you mean?
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Thx for the reply.
When you say - drag everything off your old card, drag everything to your new card. - I would have to copy everything off the old card and store it on the phone somewhere until I insert the new card, then paste over to the new card? Is that what you mean?
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no, do it from the pc. Either use a card reader if you have one, or connect the phone to usb in hard disk mode, browse to it, select everything, drag (cut, paste, copy, however you preffer) into a folder on your desktop.
Swap the cards over, reconnect the phone with new card in, and reverse the process.
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no, do it from the pc. Either use a card reader if you have one, or connect the phone to usb in hard disk mode, browse to it, select everything, drag (cut, paste, copy, however you preffer) into a folder on your desktop.
Swap the cards over, reconnect the phone with new card in, and reverse the process.
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Thank you much appreciated. I now see what you mean.
no worries. Dont forget to show hidden and system files.
When you insert the new card into the HD2 and switch it on again - will it be automatically formatted? If not, or if you do it using the PC's card reader - what format is expected? FAT32? Thanks!
it will probably be formatted already, but i always format them myself, FAT32, just to be sure. If you are planning on playing with android on nand, you probably want to set up an EXT partition now, before you copy anything onto the card.
Up 2 now, I even have no idea what this nand thing is and how i recognize it if it stands beside me at a traffic light... Nope, I'll just use the FAT32 option, although I'd never do that on a windows system. But NTFS seems to not be an option for android, right?
I am going to swap my 2gb sd for a 16gb and want to know how to transfer the files correctly. It seems that the files I can see on my PC when mounted via usb, are only a fraction of the files I see via Root Explorer on the phone.
Whats the correct way prepare the new card, and transfer the files?
Thanks
mount the phone. Open the appropriate drive (2 should show). One us the internal for the os. The other is the 2 gig with avatar (sdcard/sd).
Copy to your desktop.
Get the new card with adapter mounted to pc now. Right click and format fat.
power off the phone after properly unmounting.
Swap cards in phone. Mount it again to pc. Move the avatar folder to new sd.
unmount. I would reboot. Make sure avatar works. if it didn't, you did not listen.
Thanks for the info
The way I did it is:
-put the new card in the phone
-format it using the phone (settings, SD Card and phone storage, format SD card)
-put the old sd card with adapter into PC
-mount the phone
-transfer files from old to new
So the only files that need to be transferred are the ones that show up when mounted/viewed on the PC? Are the files that I see on the card via Root Explorer when it is in the phone not needed? Are they just links or something?
Avatar is on the sd card (sdcard/sd)
Sdcard is the internal memory. Do NOT mess with that!
ah, so the sd card is actually the sd directory inside of sdcard...got it, thanks
I got the 16GB Card with my phone. I first(before first use) removed the SD card and re-inserted it. Then I started the phone.
The settings show "No SD Card". Also, the documents tab shows "SD card is full or missing". Its not detecting the 16 GB Card came with it.
When I plugged this 16 GB to my Laptop using a card reader, it works.
Also, when I inserted a 1 GB Card to the phone, it works.
Is there anybody who face the same?
Can anybody help?
First, is the phone connected by USB in Disk Drive mode when you're trying to look at the contents of the card? If so, the phone can't see the SD card when you're connected that way. If that's not the case, then follow these steps:
1) Put the card back in the reader on your PC, copy everything off the card into a backup folder
2) Put the card back in the phone, and use the "Format SD Card" option in settings-tools
3) Once it's formatted that way, connect the phone to the PC via USB, choosing the "Disk Drive" option
4) Copy everything back on to the card that you had saved in that folder on your PC
No. Its not connected to PC.
Also, I cant format the card when it is not detected by the phone.
Then still copy everything off it like I described, and then format it via the card reader on your pc instead of on the phone.
The stock cards in the HD2 are known to often have issues like this...if these steps don't resolve the issue then the next step is to probably just replace it.
Sent from my HD2 using XDA app
There are some weird WinMo bugs about storage card, have been around for years, and not fixed.
Look at your device with file manager. There may be a folder in main memory called "Storage Card", that isn't really the storage card, and the real storage card is now labelled "Storage Card 2" or something, so links to it won't work.
With file manager, rename the fake "Storage card" folder to anything else. (You can't delete it just yet.)
Then reboot the device. After the reboot, the real storage card should be named "Storage Card" again, and now you can delete the imposter folder.
I don't know if your problem is related to that one, but important to get that info out, for those not aware of it.
(Especially likely to happen on HD2, when connected to the computer with the disk drive option. When so connected, the real storage card cannot be read. Yet, if the system wants to save a file or cache to "Storage Card", it creates a new folder by that name. Later, when no longer connected to the computer, the real storage card is back, it has been renamed, as the new folder took its real name. To get it back right, follow the procedure above.)
Another possibility just occurred to me. Seems rather obvious, but it has happened to me.
Are you sure you have the card inserted correctly--all the way in?
The first time I reinserted the card after taking it out, booted up my phone, there was no storage card. I just had not inserted it correctly. That is very easy to do on this phone, you think it is inserted all the way, and it is not.
If you haven't experimented with that yet, you really should do so. Make sure the card is pushed all the way in.
i just bought a 16GB card, i moved every thing from the old 1 to this new 1 but not every files were moved and it seems to me that im not doing it right.
can some 1 please tell me what to do to be able to move everything on my old SD card to my new 1
thank you very much
khathaivu said:
i just bought a 16GB card, i moved every thing from the old 1 to this new 1 but not every files were moved and it seems to me that im not doing it right.
can some 1 please tell me what to do to be able to move everything on my old SD card to my new 1
thank you very much
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IF you have partitioned your SDcard you will either need a special program or need to use a Mac or Linux computer to copy the second partitioned section.
If you are using one partition just copy everything from the SD card to your Computer, then from the computer to the new SD card.
Remember to make hidden files and folders visible in Windows before you attempt copying, and move all the apps that reside on SD back to the phone's internal memory (if left on SD, their encrypted files might not work after copying).
sorry, im not really good with this stuff
if you dont mind, could you give me more detail instruction,
thank you
khathaivu said:
sorry, im not really good with this stuff
if you dont mind, could you give me more detail instruction,
thank you
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1.Make sure that Hidden Files & Folders are show on your PC.If not,appy it under My Computer>Tools>Folder Option
2.Connect your old sd card to your pc via a memory card reader or you can do it via Data Storagr mode on your phone using data cable.
3.Open old sd card(show as a drive on your pc) & select all the files on the sd card including hidden files too.
4.Copy selected files(whole files on the old sd card,ok) & paste it on somewhere pc your pc.
5.Now remove old sd card & insert new sd card to the card reader.Then open it.
6.Now move that old sd files to the new sd card.
That's all!