Hi all !
I was wondering if it could be possible to install android on a second partion of the memory card so I can keep windows and all of its folder inside the primary partion while I can use the second partion to run adroid and let it create all its folder ont he second partition, Actually I got everything in the main root that is became a great mess !
Everything is possible of course, but I'd think you'd have to do a lot of modifying to do that. WinMo still initiliases Android, so you'd have to edit haret (and maybe other files too). Not worth the hassle methinks.
I do agree that Android clutters up your SD card. There should be some standards, like one big folder where all apps store their settings.
Search this forum for "partition".
what should I look ??
Hi all,
I am going CRAZY trying to find an easy way for me to create an EXT4 partition on my SD card.
Every guide i see tells me to burn a CD wich i cant because i dont have a burner, and then there's the risk of wiping my Hard drive when booting and using Gparted.
Then there are other guides telling me to have a rooted android and all kinds of other options wich i dont have...
Can ANYONE please point me in the right direction (tutorial) or just post a little guide in this thread on how to create an EXT4 partition the easy way...?
I really want to install a final rom for my phone but it's impossible without having a good SD card to save my apps to.
Really reaaaally THANKS in advance
Hi,
Have a look for Mini Tool Partition Wizard in google, it runs under Windows!
Regards.
wooshi said:
Hi,
Have a look for Mini Tool Partition Wizard in google, it runs under Windows!
Regards.
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As far as I can see it can only do EXT3 etc but not EXT4
Paragon Hard Disk Manager has the Ext4 option available, have never used it though
lukesan said:
As far as I can see it can only do EXT3 etc but not EXT4
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You're right, but most of nand ROM support EXT3.
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This whole partition thing is a mess. Ive read through numerous threads, been told to do this and that, download mini tools, gparted and paragon, oh and cwr. I really cant get my head around it at all. I currently stuck on the wp7 rom and reading what i have to do to get one of the new nand builds to work, i haven't got a clue. Before I used the gauner hd build (nand with a fat32 sd card).
It's not that hard...
And you don't need to burn GParted to a CD or DVD. You can also install it to a USB Flash Drive and boot off that.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
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This whole partition thing is a mess. Ive read through numerous threads, been told to do this and that, download mini tools, gparted and paragon, oh and cwr. I really cant get my head around it at all. I currently stuck on the wp7 rom and reading what i have to do to get one of the new nand builds to work, i haven't got a clue. Before I used the gauner hd build (nand with a fat32 sd card).
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I feel your pain.
Most of the time I have been lucky but when I made a human error, which is called a screwup, you loose alot of time. Now time is something most of us don't have lying around.
There is a build that I am now on which is good I must admit. The way to have the build on your HD2 is simple and straight forward if you follow what is on the page. No bothering with making 'special' partitions via the pc just via the HD2 and it just ... works.
I know the guy has been banned from XDA for copying builds, so I must be using someone elses build from here, hehe
Google 'mccm joon' and you will get to the page. The build is called MCCM HD V5.1 Data2SD.
I formated my sd card to Fat32 before I began and then I followed the very clear instructions in his thread.
Been working like a charm the last couple of days.
Never hesitate to ask for help if you are stuck and can't find a solution!
Thanks, I'll have a look. Ive managed to put the old gauner hd build on and formatted the sd card for now.
Thanks for the replies everyone
Booting from SD seems like the perfect solution i completely overlooked that option :O
I do think it's very weird that we can't manage our SD's (partitions) in windows with some normal program..
Thanks again!
Hello,
I have a question which I really can't find by using the search function. Currently I'm running a stock WM6 ROM on my HD2. I have been trying to use Android via the SD method on another SD-Card. Now I'm willing to merge back to one SD-Card with 2 partitions. One for WM and one for android. I've read how to do that, but...
I have tools installed on the SD-Card currently. If I partition the SD-Card and copy the data back to the WM fat partition, will the programs still run without have to reinstall them?
Thanks a lot,
Boschje
I haven't use winmo for so long, I've forgoten all about it! I've been with android from the time the first port came out! But to answer your question, I think you'll have to re-install them after you partion your card. In my opinion, forget winmo and flash android right to your phone!
Yes, I did see this sticky with links, but that is by no means a starting point for a total newbie, and by newbie I don't mean someone that's incapable of following instructions, as I've gone through several ROM's on my Pre, G1, myTouch 3G, EPIC 4G, iPhone/3G/3GS. I am just new to WP7 and that sticky doesn't really explain where to start.
Specifically, I am getting a used HD2 with WM6 on it and I want to end up with a dual-bool WM7/Android system on it. I just saw that was possible, but saw different combinations and different methods: WP7 on NAND & Android on SD and viceversa, etc.
Any tips would be appreciated.
First install hspl,than flash a good radio, then magldr,then clockwork mod and then flash a great android rom
Or for win phone stop at magldr and flash win phone ...i know its very short but you will have Tor search for a tutorial for each because there is much to say )).if there is a special question write me a PM
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jonas2295 said:
First install hspl,than flash a good radio, then magldr,then clockwork mod and then flash a great android rom
Or for win phone stop at magldr and flash win phone ...i know its very short but you will have Tor search for a tutorial for each because there is much to say )).if there is a special question write me a PM
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Short yes, but actually, that should give me a starting point, even though it did not explain which OS I should flash on NAND and which on SD or why, which sounds like one of the first things I need to decide. But yes, I guess I will need to do a lot of reading before knowing my path. Thanks.
Hi,
First of all you can't have WM7 and Android at the same time, or else, if you had a TMOUs you will find some tutorials to doi it.
I recommend you to search, you will find aht you are looking for.
At xda-developers.com first page you will find a link to how to do it... ok I give you a tip : http://www.xda-developers.com/android/complete-guide-to-installing-nand-android-on-hd2/
And I think this is not the correct forum to ask this
See you
ok lets clear this up, HSPL, radio, MAGLDR, flash WP7, then follow tutorial to install android as well
Ive not bothered, since i moved to WP7 from android you couldnt pay me to go back, but i think the process is basically, install WP7 with a working small SD card, take SD card and clone it to a bigger SD card and then install android on the SD, there are plenty of tutorials on all this,.
also to be clear, you MUST install WP7 to NAND, it uses the SD card as well, you cant use it just on SD, so if you want android its (or it was the last time i checked) NAND+SD for WP7 and a alternate partition for android.
OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
YOU ARE LAZY!
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ok lets clear this up, HSPL, radio, MAGLDR, flash WP7, then follow tutorial to install android as well
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You might have to flash a older original hd2 rom first(1.66....something).
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OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
YOU ARE LAZY!
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The man has got a point.
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OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
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Because I'm USING developers' work and asking them about it, like 90% of the users of this forum. Not everyone who posts here is a cook.
chumaj001 said:
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
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Definitely not joking and that thread (which isn't stickied, by the way) is hardly the starting point I'm looking for, since it starts assuming you already have Gingerbread on your HD2 and you know that's now how they come from HTC or your local carrier. See part 1 video for yourself.
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YOU ARE LAZY!
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No need for this.
caedanne said:
First of all you can't have WM7 and Android at the same time, or else, if you had a TMOUs you will find some tutorials to doi it.
I recommend you to search, you will find aht you are looking for.
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Searching is how I found out you definitely can have both.
It should be in general,
but just used two working SD cards it easy one for wm7 on nand and the other for Android on SD
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Your solution lies here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
if you want to run both wp7 and android it is possible but you will have to flash wp7 nand as uptill now it is the only way to flash wp7 on (nand) and android on your sd card that way you will have both the worlds..
So I have both WP7 and Android booting now (woohoo!), but I still have one problem left, as explained in this thread. Could you guys advise? Thank you.
Here's your problem.
it looks like you didn't have an SD card in your phone when you flashed WP7 or something, you should have like a 3.5gb "unknown" partition if u used a 4gb card the first time. Here's how are/were supposed to do it.
Flash WP7 with a smaller micro SD card than you plan on using (you have to use 2 micro SD cards for this to work, one "big" and one "small") let's use a 4gb for this example and a 16gb.
put your 4gb small microsd in the phone and flash WP7, load up WP7 for the first time and do some set-up.
turn off your phone
put the 4GB card into your computer's SD card reader, and open up that partition manager, you will see a 3.5gb partition. If you have another card reader put in your 16gb and copy the parition from the 4gb to the 16gb, if you don't have a card reader then copy it to your PC or any flash drive with more than 4gb, then take out the 4gb micro sd and put in the 16.
copy the 3.5 partition to your 16gb big card and when it's done, you should see like 11gb unallocated and 3.5 unknown and 200mb ntfs or something.
resize the 200mb as high as you can (11.5gb) or something), then reformat it to fat32.
copy your Android build to the new fat 32 and put the 16gb card back into your phone.
You should now be good to go. WP7 has 3.5gb of space and Android has 11.5 or something. Do not EVER start WP7 without this SD card in there or it will hard reset and you will have no space for WP7
I am finishing the entire process again. This time, I used a different guide for the partitioning. It's very similar, but I think there's one little step in this one that was excluded from the other one and it's critical. Specifically, I'm referring to steps 2, 3 and 7 of Method # 3. Basically, after you've done the partitions in step 4, you must let WP7 reset again. I actually forgot this and experienced the 10GB... 10MB problem again. At that point, I manually reset settings again and was able to get my exact total and available storage right after the phone booted back up. Right now, I'm booting up my Android OS for the first time, but I did boot up WP7 twice successfully, with the right storage amounts.
I've been running wp7 on my hd2 for awhile now and recently wanted to dualboot it to android.. looking at the guides I'm not quite sure about this, will using the partition managers format my data currently held on wp7?
I don't want to lose my texts or contacts and I don't want to have to call ms again for another activation code since I seem to have lost the notepad doc I saved it in xD
I may be wrong but I think it will remove what is on your card already. You can always buy a second SD card and use it to run Android from, just dont boot to WPY with that SD card in the device or it will format it for use with WP7.
how big is your card? you should at least be using a 16gig card if you want to DB, but 8gig is still fine BUT all your files/ data will be erased since you need to reset the phone. Alternatively just like what T-Macgnolia said, get a 2nd card & place the SD ROM there & boot from magldr.
this is what i followed - again yesterday - for my friends HD2's dual Boot system.
remember that the partition for Windows should be a little larger than that of the Andy.
http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/02/10/...hone-7-and-android-on-htc-hd2-with-1-sd-card/
as long as you do things right all will be OK but wrongly done You WONT boot into WP7 again as the partition will be corrupted.
What I do is Get another SD card & make an exact mirror/ copy of the one i use for WP7 so if one fails I still have a backup. Before proceeding though make sure that Both Cards do boot into WP7. check out the link below, it might help.