Hey all,
In a bit of a pickle. I bought a new sd card that is faster than my previous 4GB and was wondering if there was a way where i could mount the partition and copy the data such as apps and caches from the 4GB to the new 16GB? The windows partition i'm not worried about. I loaded up my old Linux box with Ubuntu on it and when i try to open the ext2 partition it says that i don't have permissions. I tried to sudo it but still no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
easiest way to do it:
install amon ra's latest recovery
boot to recovery with your old SD card in the phone.
select the "go to console" option
type utility at the prompt
select the "back up apps to FAT" option
return to the main recovery menu
mount the sd card from recovery
copy the contents to your computer
unmount the card
remove the card and plug in the new one
partition the new card
mount the card
copy the files from earlier back onto the newly partitioned new card
unmount the card
go to the console again
enter utility again
select the "restore apps to EXT" option
reboot and you're done.
sounds like a lot of steps, but its really quite simple and gets the job done clean.
kusotare said:
easiest way to do it:
install amon ra's latest recovery
boot to recovery with your old SD card in the phone.
select the "go to console" option
type utility at the prompt
select the "back up apps to FAT" option
return to the main recovery menu
mount the sd card from recovery
copy the contents to your computer
unmount the card
remove the card and plug in the new one
partition the new card
mount the card
copy the files from earlier back onto the newly partitioned new card
unmount the card
go to the console again
enter utility again
select the "restore apps to EXT" option
reboot and you're done.
sounds like a lot of steps, but its really quite simple and gets the job done clean.
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Better yet use ASTRO FILE MANAGER to back-up apps on sd from ext 2 -3....copy files on fat32 to computer then re-copy to new SD card (after partitioning) and restore from Astro again...alot faster but both will work!
The reason why i did this way cause nandroid copies everything and might paste junk back to the new card that caused the issue in the first place! Clean start!!!!!!
Thanks kusotare & djdarkknight96.
You guys are life savers. I followed kusotare's method and it worked a treat. Now i have space and speed!
Cheers to you both!
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I tried to install the hero rom and went to format the sd card with paragon but for some reason it shows my whole sd card as ext2 and I try to delete the partition and format it but it never works. Is there anyway to bring my sd back to life?
right click on the partition and resize then reclick on the unallocated side and create partion fat32
HOGWILD said:
right click on the partition and resize then reclick on the unallocated side and create partion fat32
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I can't do that when I try to it doesn't list the sd as an option. I just have the delete partition ioption but when I remove and re insert my sd it still reads as ext2. idk if I fried the card this sux tho it was only like 3 months old..
Download gparted and boot into that.
Was having similar problems with my sd card. In order to get it to work I used the recovery cd in paragon and it finally read it correctly which allowed me to format it. The recovery cd is provided in paragon. Just go to the "Boot and Rescue" section and follow the steps to create one. Then just restart your computer with it in your dvd drive and it wil automatically boot to it, unless you have that changed for some odd reason.
And the sd card must be in a card reader other than the g1 (a usb reader will work). It just won't mount correctly through the recovery disc of you use your phone
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Was having similar problems with my sd card. In order to get it to work I used the recovery cd in paragon and it finally read it correctly which allowed me to format it. The recovery cd is provided in paragon. Just go to the "Boot and Rescue" section and follow the steps to create one. Then just restart your computer with it in your dvd drive and it wil automatically boot to it, unless you have that changed for some odd reason.
And the sd card must be in a card reader other than the g1 (a usb reader will work). It just won't mount correctly through the recovery disc of you use your phone
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Ok I will try that now and yes I've only used the sd card reader so hopefully that will work.thank you..will report back if it works.thank you
As the title states, my SD currently runs an EXT4 partition, however after reading around on these forums not all roms support EXT4 yet and most want EXT3 in order to work properly.. Upgrading EXT is easy im using RA Recovery Image, however how do you go from an EXT4 back to an EXT3?
don't quote me on this, but i don't think you can.
Although, you can easily just format your card then partition it again
meltus is absolutely right. the easiest way to do things is as follows:
boot into recovery
perform a full nandroid+ext backup (this is just for safety, if you feel secure, dont bother)
go to the console
at console, type UTILITY
choose the "back up apps to FAT" option
return to recovery
connect your phone to your computer
mount your SD card
backup your WHOLE SD card to your computer
unmount the sd card
partition your sd card through the recovery menu or the utility menu in console.
upgrade to ext3 through recovery or console utility menu if needed (i dont remember if ra's recovery does a straight ext3 partition)
mount your sd card when the partition is done
transfer everything back onto the sd card (which will be empty after the partition)
go to the console and bring up the utility menu
choose the "restore apps to ext" option
reboot normally.
total time: 5 minutes if you dont have much on your SD card, longer if your backup is a few GB. but this will ensure a flawless backup and restore without losing and having to reinstall any apps or having to reflash anything.
Can i go about doing this simply by going back into RA Recovery and selecting Partition SD card or will it screw it up since its already originally partitioned and its not a fresh card?
For instance if you have a clean brand new SD card u can go into RA Recovery and partition your SDCard Fat32/EXT and Linux Swaps all from the recovery menu... however if you have a card thats ALREADY partitioned, can u still do it using this method to redo everything or do u have to wipe it and get it back to a clean new card again first with no partitions
Hi,
I have a nexus one with Rom MIUI.
I have a sd card with these partitions:
3.16 GB -> FAT32
488 MB -> EXT 4
61 MB -> SWAP
I would like to migrate the sd card to one that I have of 16GB. What steps should I do to can migrate all.
Many thanks and sorry for my english!
Copy the contents of the card to a computer, partition new card and copy the backups to the appropriate partitions.
I'm going to assume your are running a custom ROM here, if your not, these directions may not work for you.
I actually just did this yesterday myself, so I can give you instructions on how I did it. I use CM7 with Apps2SD, and I'm assuming your MIUI is usind Apps2SD as well.
**With original SD card installed**1. Boot into recovery
2. Make a full backup (SYSTEM+SD-ext). The backup is stored on the SD card.
3. Now hook the phone up to your computer and copy the entire contents of the SD card to a folder on your computer (this can be done while in recovery or while booted into OS, it doesn't matter)
4. Shut down phone and remove original SD card and install new SD card
**With new SD card installed**5. Boot into recovery
6. Partition SD card the same as it was before (most common is SD-ext=1024, Swap=0, rest as USB storage, or whatever it's called)
7. While still in Recovery, mount the SD card as USB storage and hook the phone up to your PC
8. Take the files that you copied from your original SD card and copy them to the root of your new SD card (don't just drag and drop the fold you put the files in, but rather open up the folder and copy the contents of the folder over so that it looks just as it did when you had the original SD card installed)
9. This step can probably be skipped, but I did it anyway out of habit more than anything, but wipe and format SYSTEM, all CACHE options, and SD-ext, and BATTERY.
10. Still in RECOVERY, you'll want to select the option to RESTORE. It'll list all previous restores, just pick the latest one.
11. Once that is done, REBOOT SYSTEM and you should be up and running.
So i have Typhoon CyanogenMod7 (MAGLDR) running like a wet dream on my HD2, but the 2gb SD card is really a pain. So i found an 8gb from my Aino.
I have still not quite wrapped my head around how exactly everything is done, i get lost with all the partitions.
ANYWAY what i want is to use the new card without losing anything. What do i haveto do?
(My reply could take a while, so thanks in advance [really thanks])
boot into CWM, backups/restore, take a backup.
connect phone to PC, use CWM, enter mounts/storage, mount USB,
on the pc, copy off all the files found in the drive that shows up (thats the FAT32 partition)
((or use external card reader if you have one and prefer to do so, or from within running android, doesnt matter))
swap out sd cards,
again in CWM, advanced - partition sd card
re-mount USB, copy back on the FAT32 stuff
in CWM backup / restore, choose restore - advanced - restore sd-ext
restart phone, should work as if nothing happened.
Thanks a mil
Good afternoon all.
I improperly ejected my SD card from my tablet. I didn't unmount it first. Now the tablet can't see the SD card. When I put it in a card and insert in my laptop, Windows won't see it either. I had this happen before and was able to find a way to repair the SD card. I'll be damned if I can find it again. I don't care about the data so that's not an issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Steve
You need now to try (with no 100% of positive results) your damaged sdcard like this:
1 Install "Mini partition tool wizard" on pc windows (i prefer minipartitiontoolWizard v8)
2 Acquire yourself a good and sane sdcard reader to transform your sdcard on a pendrive.
3 plug the card reader with the sdcard inside and open Mini partition tool wizard
4 if your sdcard is not there on the listed found partitions, sorry, you need to buy another new.
5 if the sdcard is listed on the found partitions, yeah! Lucky!
6 select the sdcard partition, and go to menu from the mouse right-click, and select "wipe partition", a popup menu will prompt "fill with 1111 or fill with zeroes", choose fill with zeroes.
8 a little 2 hours for wait, your sdcard be deep cleaned.
9 after the wipe ended, select again, and delete the partition.
10 after deleleting , you can now create a new partition again.
NOTE : all the processes will recover your sdcard only if the mini partition tool wizard recognized your sdcard.
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