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Hello XDA Developers.
I have hit a brick wall trying to partition my 8gb SD card for my MyTouch3g, and could use a little help, i can getting very frustrated and any help will be appreciated .
Questions:
1) Is there any way to partition the 8GB SD card on the computer, then just put it into the MyTouch3g?
2) How do i know what size partitions should be for my 8GB card?
I cannot get adb set up on the computer properly to do it, also many of the guides are for the G1 and involve typing things in the recovery console with the hardware keyboard.
I have googled for hours trying to find a guide specifically for partitioning with the Mytouch3g without using adb, but could not find one.
Side note: I rooted my phone using the 1touch method.
you can use Amon_Ra's recovery and it'll do it for you automatically.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/
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maybe dumb question, can i flash the Amon_Ra's recovery img after already having the cyanogen recovery img...or do i need to start with a clean slate?...and any advice if im using the stock 4gb SD card as far as partitioning/format for better performance?
i need help too...
please help a noob!!!
i'm in the exact same boat. using cyanogen 4.0.2 also and an 8gb sd card too.
please help...
Same
Yeah im worried about flashing another recovery image over the Cyanogen recovery image.
I rooted using the 1-touch method that auto installed Cyanogen Recovery image....dont know if flashing another recovery image would brick it or not
if you guys have the myTouch and unsure, unroot then root again using the Amon_Ra method on unlockr
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g/
I use Amon_Ra's recovery and I know it does the partition for me automatically, but how do I know what size my partitions are ? For example, there are some roms that require 96Mb's for Swap...Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanx to all the Devs for their hard and continous work on the G1 and MT3G....
unk2009 said:
I use Amon_Ra's recovery and I know it does the partition for me automatically, but how do I know what size my partitions are ? For example, there are some roms that require 96Mb's for Swap...Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanx to all the Devs for their hard and continous work on the G1 and MT3G....
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Did you ask this in every thread?............search please!!!!
Cyan's recovery should have an option to auto format your card
you can use Amon_Ra's recovery img without flashing it to your phone!
Just boot it, instead of flashing it.. and select the option to partition the sdcard and then reboot...
No changes to your phone... just a partitioned sdcard!
use the following commands with fastboot loaded on your phone (back + power)
fastboot boot your_recovery_img.img
Hope this helps
philicibine said:
you can use Amon_Ra's recovery img without flashing it to your phone!
Just boot it, instead of flashing it.. and select the option to partition the sdcard and then reboot...
No changes to your phone... just a partitioned sdcard!
use the following commands with fastboot loaded on your phone (back + power)
fastboot boot your_recovery_img.img
Hope this helps
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does this really work? first time i have seen this reported. Have you done it? If you have could u give me some more detailed instructions on how to do it. Please and thank you. If this is a totally noob request I apologize,I am new to this.
Follow this guide and you can partition the card how you like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535914
It really is easy to do, just try.
Here's what I am doing. I'm a complete noob and it took days and days of tinkering and reading through this site to refine this. I've done it multiple times now with experimental ROMs and it works great for me.
Put your SD card in your computer's reader, or a 3rd party reader device. Copy all the files to your hard drive in a backup folder of some kind.
Go get GParted at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
You can download the iso image. Use a program like http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn the iso image to a CD which will be bootable.
Once you have the Boot CD with GParted you can boot your computer up with it in the disc drive. Make sure your BIOS settings have the CD before your hard drive to check for boot sequence.
GParted will start up, I pick the defaults. It reads my SD reader with my 8GB Class 6 inserted. Make sure you select your SD card from the drop menu, the default is my computer hard drive which you don't want to touch!
I delete all the partitions on the card.
The first partition is your FAT32 and it will be the largest partition.
The next Partition you want to make is an ext2, ext3, or ext4 partition. I use ext3. I make this partition about 800 MB. This is where the Cyanogen ROM will copy your apps to automatically when it detects it.
The last partition is going to be a Linux Swap file and should be about 32 MB.
I've seen where some people use a 64 MB swap file but I think the general consensus of 32 is fine.
Once you are done, close out GParted and pull the CD out when it ejects your tray. When you reboot the computer without the CD in it, your Windows OS should boot right up like normal.
In Windows you should see the large FAT32 partition on your SD card. Windows won't see the ext3 or swap partitions. Copy your SD card files back to your SD card and eject the card.
When you put the card in your MyTouch3G, turn on the phone. Leave it alone when your screen comes up. The Cyanogen ROM will detect your ext3 partition and begin copying all your apps to it. At first it will look like you have no apps but they will begin appearing as they are copied to your SD card. It may take a couple minutes depending on how many apps you have.
The GParted CD is an easy way in the future to wipe out partitions on your card and set it up for you.
I have been attempting to get WP7 working on my hd2, but have given up as I just can't get the thing to activate. So I have been trying to put android back on, but nothing I try installing now comes out bootable. I've even tried putting it back to an official rom before installing (or trying to) android. whereas that rom works, the android install still fails to boot.
Anyone got any suggestions?
which rom are you trying to install? cwm or daf install?
cwm install, imilka's vision sense.
Hi,
I have HD2 with 3.03.0000 SPL, 2.15.50.14 radio, ROM 3.14.479.2 (04666) WWE.
I tried to boot SuperRAM_FroYo_V1.5.
Everything is ok, but when green HTC logo appears, phone is restarting to Windows... Can someone tell me what I need to do to boot Android ? I tried to search, but I dont find answer.
Thanks.
Looking into it farther, it's looking like when i try to install from clockworkmod recovery (3.0.0.5) that I have booting off my sd-card, the install goes far too wuick. it doesn't even create partitions or anything. Could it be the wp7 rom caused some areas of the phone to be 'locked' or something similar?
borda01 said:
Hi,
I have HD2 with 3.03.0000 SPL, 2.15.50.14 radio, ROM 3.14.479.2 (04666) WWE.
I tried to boot SuperRAM_FroYo_V1.5.
Everything is ok, but when green HTC logo appears, phone is restarting to Windows... Can someone tell me what I need to do to boot Android ? I tried to search, but I dont find answer.
Thanks.
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Same is happening with 1.42.000 & 2.15.14 radio.
SpiritWolf said:
Looking into it farther, it's looking like when i try to install from clockworkmod recovery (3.0.0.5) that I have booting off my sd-card, the install goes far too wuick. it doesn't even create partitions or anything. Could it be the wp7 rom caused some areas of the phone to be 'locked' or something similar?
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You have reformatted your SD Card to original size after using WP7, have you? If not, download Panaspnic SD Formatter and format your SD card using that.
Are you guys making sure you have right CWR system layout size for the ROM you're trying to flash? That's usually the problem if it won't get past the first Android bootscreen.
Task 29
Flash radio
Reformat sdcard
Flash magdlr1.13
Flash cwm recovery with correct partition size.150, 200mb etc.
Flash rom
Tbe task 29 and sdcard reformat should revers any possibilities of something still hanging around from wp7
2.15 radio
2.2miui stock via cwm
chrisgto4 said:
Task 29
Flash radio
Reformat sdcard
Flash magdlr1.13
Flash cwm recovery with correct partition size.150, 200mb etc.
Flash rom
Tbe task 29 and sdcard reformat should revers any possibilities of something still hanging around from wp7
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Only use this if just flashing the correct CWR partition won't work. There's also no need to reflash the radio. Task 29 only formats the NAND area.
Yeah, I did a full set of partitions on my sd card. not sure it was needed as wp7 didn't recognise the card.
Depends on which task 29 he finds in his search. Also if this is somehow radio related (seriously doubt) why not reflash it anyways, not gonna hurt. Since we dont know exactly whats wrong why not just redo eveything. Only takes about 5 minutes. And pretty much guaranteed to boot
2.15 radio
2.2miui stock via cwm
SpiritWolf said:
Yeah, I did a full set of partitions on my sd card. not sure it was needed as wp7 didn't recognise the card.
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Full set of partitions? Meaning you've got a FAT32 first partition and a Ext3/4 second partition? What CWR do you have installed though? It might be the wrong size for the ROM you're trying to flash. You can check what size CWR partition you have by opening the flash.cfg file (inside of your CWR folder) and find the line with 'system ya | 300' etc.
SpiritWolf said:
Yeah, I did a full set of partitions on my sd card. not sure it was needed as wp7 didn't recognise the card.
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Oh. Guessing u have a leo512 and partitioning sdcard for apps2 sd. Wp7 still got ahold of your sdcard and did something.
2.15 radio
2.2miui stock via cwm
Yeah. I have the partitions set up as follows
1. Fat32 13gigs (ish)
2. Ext4 1gig
3. Ext4 350mb
3. linux swap 150gig.
the version of my clockworkmod recovery thing is v.3.0.0.5 and is running off my sd card, not actually installed on the phone. This has all worked for me fine until i put wp7 on, now nothing seems to be working. sigh.
Running off your SD card as in the intrid and zImage file are in there? I suggest you just update your CWR to the newest version (1.3). It doesn't need those files to be copied to the SD Card and runs off NAND. In MAGLDR it has it's own menu too. (AD Recovery). For me, I just have a load of different recovery folders with different partition sizes but it's not needed. I suggest you download the 150M CWR and then just change the partition size to whatever is needed. You just change the System ya | -150- to whatever size is needed. It'll probably be in the first post of the ROM you're downloading.
SpiritWolf said:
Yeah. I have the partitions set up as follows
1. Fat32 13gigs (ish)
2. Ext4 1gig
3. Ext4 350mb
3. linux swap 150gig.
the version of my clockworkmod recovery thing is v.3.0.0.5 and is running off my sd card, not actually installed on the phone. This has all worked for me fine until i put wp7 on, now nothing seems to be working. sigh.
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You need to format your whole sdcard. Whatever your using to format isnt seeing everything. Some partition types are only seen by linux. What partition tool are you using?
2.15 radio
2.2miui stock via cwm
I used gparted to give it it's fresh lot of partitions
Have you tried what I said to do?
Ok, got recovery flashed in and running out of magldr. When it comes to partitioning the sd card, what is the advantage of 4 partitions over 3, as some rom threads say to partition 4, some say 3.
You mean an Ext3/4 partition? I honestly don't know and I just use an Ext3 partition as it's easier to do on XP. Both work though fine though.
Have you flashed your ROM yet?
[ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater
I wrote to sd card with v1.1 img then - safely removed sd
copied nookie-froyo zip to boot section.
I have only 2 partitions one 115mb and 7.** with no file system ( Mini tool PTH )
1 st. try had 4 partitions the middle two bad and last 5.5 with rom on that section after attempted to boot in nook. Got error that original image was not present.
used windisk32 .2 to write to sd
is class 4 8gb.
2nd try had 2 partitions one with boot img. and nookie zip. other partition 5.5 gb FAT
used hp to get disk "back" 1time 7.4gb, 2nd. time got back all but few kb's.
any ideas what I'm doing wrong ??
I'm having a little trouble following your post. However, the one thing jumps out at me. You are using an a tool designed to install CM7 (android 2.3) to install nookie froyo (android 2.2).
Try using it with one of the files it was designed for:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=encore
Thankyou
got it to boot CM7 and market
Hi,
Today i flashed with succes my first android rom Hyperdroid GBX v12, Gingerbread 2.3.3
But i missing sense in this rom so i wish an other rom with sense. I started to partitining my sd card but i get scared and flashed the same rom again.
1. can i flash each nand rom from sd card
2. if not is it possible to undo the partitining of th sd card
I'm so glad that i am windows free
arjanbannie said:
Hi,
Today i flashed with succes my first android rom Hyperdroid GBX v12, Gingerbread 2.3.3
But i missing sense in this rom so i wish an other rom with sense. I started to partitining my sd card but i get scared and flashed the same rom again.
1. can i flash each nand rom from sd card
2. if not is it possible to undo the partitining of th sd card
I'm so glad that i am windows free
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I didn't' get it! What scares you? You should partition your sd if its needed. Some ROMs, especially Sense, required SD Partition. If you skip this part the rom wouldnt boot. And the instalation is from SD!
First of all, don't be scared flashing a ROM. One of the only ways to brick a HD2 is by flashing the wrong radio.
Partitioning the SD card? Just use minitool partition manager or easeus partition manager (both work fine) and then create your Ext3 partition there. Just make sure you have the files on your SD card backed up to your PC as when you're partitioning, it'll need to format the card.
EDIT: to answer your questions...
1) it's only possible to have one android rom installed at one particular time.
2) it is possible to wipe the partition on your sd card to make it full capacity again. Search for 'Panasonic SD Formatter' and that works just fine.
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both of you thanks a lot for the quick reaction.
What scares me is that when i put a new rom at my sd card and flash it, is that enough or do i have to delete the old first???
And second, does it mather what kind of rom i flash there are to much to choose i think. i have a european model so i shouldnt choose the tmous models are all other roms save to flash?
What the heck i did it!!!!
No thinking just doing!!!!
but now its hanging on the start up
so back to the first flash who worked is there anyone who knows what i am doing wrong????
You should have enough space to have more than one rom on your SD card. Why it's looping on boot is because you have the wrong clockwork partition. In each rom it should be outlined as to what size you need the partition, then just reflash the right size clockwork from magldr/cLK.
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Skellyyy said:
You should have enough space to have more than one rom on your SD card. Why it's looping on boot is because you have the wrong clockwork partition. In each rom it should be outlined as to what size you need the partition, then just reflash the right size clockwork from magldr/cLK.
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do i need the panasonic sd formatter before doing this?
Nope you don't need to do anything to the SD card partition. It's the internal memory you're partitioning to make room for your ROM. Can't remember exactly but you can just edit one of the files that you've got in your clockwork folder to change the partition size or just go to the clockwork thread and download the partition size clockwork you need.
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Hi there,
I successfully flashed an Android 4.2.1 Native SD ROM on the HD2's NAND (TimeJelly). This is the procedure I followed (coming from a complete erase of the phone's NAND, as the result of a failed previous attempt, lol):
Flashed HSPL 2.08
Flashed Radio compatible with 576 MB of ram (12.xx.50.xx if I recall correctly)
Flashed MAGDLR 1.13
Flashed CWM 6.0
Flashed the ROM from CWM by choosing zip from sd card.
And everything is good and working. But, I used one friend's SD to flash (since I still don't have one)... Now, I'd like to swap out the SD I used to flash (I understand it did automatically create an Ext4 partition on it?) and use the one I'll buy tomorrow.
What do I have to do? Without the SD the phone will just refuse to boot, stucking at the green HTC logo. Do I just have to partition the new SD from CWM? Do I have to flash everything again? (Jeeeeez).
I understand the EXT4 partition would be used only for the data, since it is stated Data2Ext in the ROM's title. ROM is in the NAND with DATA2EXT (the exact option I chose during installation, second one).
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated
4l3xXx said:
Hi there,
I successfully flashed an Android 4.2.1 Native SD ROM on the HD2's NAND (TimeJelly). This is the procedure I followed (coming from a complete erase of the phone's NAND, as the result of a failed previous attempt, lol):
Flashed HSPL 2.08
Flashed Radio compatible with 576 MB of ram (12.xx.50.xx if I recall correctly)
Flashed MAGDLR 1.13
Flashed CWM 6.0
Flashed the ROM from CWM by choosing zip from sd card.
And everything is good and working. But, I used one friend's SD to flash (since I still don't have one)... Now, I'd like to swap out the SD I used to flash (I understand it did automatically create an Ext4 partition on it?) and use the one I'll buy tomorrow.
What do I have to do? Without the SD the phone will just refuse to boot, stucking at the green HTC logo. Do I just have to partition the new SD from CWM? Do I have to flash everything again? (Jeeeeez).
I understand the EXT4 partition would be used only for the data, since it is stated Data2Ext in the ROM's title. ROM is in the NAND with DATA2EXT (the exact option I chose during installation, second one).
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated
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If I understand correctly you want to move your sd content/installation to a new card, yes?
Go to the sd card thread in my signature and read post # 2. Specifically the part about backing up and restoring an sd card image.
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NYLimited said:
If I understand correctly you want to move your sd content/installation to a new card, yes?
Go to the sd card thread in my signature and read post # 2. Specifically the part about backing up and restoring an sd card image.
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Nono, I just installed a native sd ROM on the phone's NAND, and now it will simply not boot without an EXT4 formatted SD (because the /data partition is there, not on the NAND).
I repartitioned the SD from CWM this morning choosing 2 GB of EXT partition, and 2 GB of FAT32 partition, and everything is working. But, there's another problem. Whenever I reboot the phone, it will simply lose EVERY single setting, and it prompts me again to choose the language, google accounts ecc...
Any help?
4l3xXx said:
Nono, I just installed a native sd ROM on the phone's NAND,
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no you didnt, , a nativeSD rom lives in the EXT partition, If you installed a rom to nand, then its a nand rom. If you install it to teh FAT partition, its an SD rom, if you install it to the sd-ext, its a nativeSD rom.
I understand it did automatically create an Ext4 partition on it?
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no, you must create the ext partitions yourself.
Sounds to me like you have a nand rom, which is also using dataonext, , meaning teh rom lives on Nand, and the data partition is mounted onto the sd-ext, , in which case.....
into CWM - full backup
new sd card into phone
into cwm - create ext partition on new sd card
in cwm - selectively restore ONLY the sd-ext partition (you will need to have coppied over the fat32/clockwork/backups folder from the old card to teh new card)
reboot.
samsamuel said:
into CWM - full backup
new sd card into phone
into cwm - create ext partition on new sd card
in cwm - selectively restore ONLY the sd-ext partition (you will need to have coppied over the fat32/clockwork/backups folder from the old card to teh new card)
reboot.
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The SD card image backup would, essentially, duplicate a card in entirety, all partitions included.
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NYLimited said:
The SD card image backup would, essentially, duplicate a card in entirety, all partitions included.
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i didn't say anything about an sd card backup, i said do a full cwm backup, which includes the system, data, boot and sd ext partitions, and not the fat32 partition, and then restore only the sdext partition to the new card (after of course creating teh new ext partition on teh new card)
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