I have 4G memory card and i enabled AP2SD, i want to replace the memory card to 8G.
How can I backup all my old card (with EXT2) and restore it to the new 8G card?
Is RA-Nexus 1.6.0 can do that? i see that there is option to backup +EXT in the new RA-Nexus.
thanks.
myakove said:
I have 4G memory card and i enabled AP2SD, i want to replace the memory card to 8G.
How can I backup all my old card (with EXT2) and restore it to the new 8G card?
Is RA-Nexus 1.6.0 can do that? i see that there is option to backup +EXT in the new RA-Nexus.
thanks.
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Yes, what you would do is create a Nandroid + Ext backup, partition your new card, copy over the contents of the FAT32 partition to your new card, and restore your backup.
Thanks for your help
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Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?
rosso22 said:
Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?
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do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.
samsamuel said:
do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.
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Thanks for that mate, I will try it when my card arrives tomorrow
Nice i needed to know this to 2gb is to small for a sens 3,5 ROM
Tried all the above.
I couldn't get in to CWM again. It worked when I installed my Hyperdroid ROM via SD.
I reflashed CWM, now my NAND android was gone!
I reflashed it, and it works now, but still it sucks balls.
Hi,
I have the DL DesireZ SD MAGLDR Android ROM for HTC HD2 on SD and LEO "Stock Desire" on NAND. I have been using the SD card ROM for about a week now and am happy with it. I would like to backup all apps + System Data & cache (of the sd card ROM) and restore the same to a higher capacity card.
Which would be the best way to do it? (I do have CWM installed through ROM Manager on the sd card ROM).
If I boot into another ROM from the same SD card, will it pick up the apps+data+cache from it?
Will the backup be created on on the sd card or internal memory? I'm not sure there is enough space on internal memory.
I apologise if my question has been asked/explained earlier on this forum. I did try to search for an answer, but was not very sure; as this is also my first stint at backing up.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Jiggy
If you plan on using the same build on the new SD card, then just copy the Data.img over. If you are changing builds, use Titanium Backup free on the Android market. This will create a copy of anything you need on a folder on your SD card, and you can restore this at any time.
sd roms live in their own folder. just move this folder to the other sd. all your information and apps are in data.img in that folder. but just in case use titanium backup.
all sd roms use their folders. so you can use more than one sd-rom naming their folders differently with very few problems.
Thank You Nigeldg and mutil for your prompt replies.
Really appreciate it!
Jiggy
I use Titanium Backup free, too.
You can choose "Backup all Apps + system Data" and restore them on every ROM you use.
I have just downloaded Titanium backup free - will be backing up and switching cards shortly.
I've switched the cards, and everything seems to be working fine. Thanks for the help, everyone!
The only thing is, the internal storage has not increased, even though I have increased the partition size of ext2, could it be because I've just dumped all folders on FAT32? Anyway, that's not a major issue.
Regards,
Jiggy
Hey guys!
I'm finally upgrading from a 1GB sd card to a 32GB
My Leo has a NAND android installed and the sd card has a A2SD partition with tons of apps and a fat partition with some stuff in it.
Is is possible to change the card and still keep it working without having to reflash the whole thing? The remaining ~31GB will be used to - if possible - expand the fat partition for music and such.
Thanks for the help!
into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.
fmmsf said:
Hey guys!
I'm finally upgrading from a 1GB sd card to a 32GB
My Leo has a NAND android installed and the sd card has a A2SD partition with tons of apps and a fat partition with some stuff in it.
Is is possible to change the card and still keep it working without having to reflash the whole thing? The remaining ~31GB will be used to - if possible - expand the fat partition for music and such.
Thanks for the help!
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Im about to face same issue, and here is what i plan to do:backup all apps and their data with Mybackup app from Market, copy all files on my pc(the best would be sending all apps on phone storage and only backup data- this will wor for SURE), turn off phone, put new sd, set partitions as they were with CWM(i mean same ext size) and copy all files on just created partition. I hope this will work, i'll have chance to check by myself in a few weeks.
EDIT: Seems like solution was posted while i was writing, but that assured me that i my idea was good
Cheers
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samsamuels suggestion seems the best way to go as long as your ext partition is mounted as(/at) "/sd-ext" there are other places where the ext can be mounted; link2sd for example mounts at /data/sd-ext2. But you'll know when you backup in CWM. A full backup will find the ext if its at /sd-ext and will back it up and you'll see it doing so.
Another option would be to backup the full card; FAT and ext partitions, either within a linux distribution; Ubuntu for example where ext partition is read as normal, or using an application within windows to read it link Linux Reader or Ext2explore, although I don't recall it being too easy to write back to ext while in windows.
Third option being to use something like Partition wizard which should allow you to simply copy the ext partition from one sdcard to the other. Haven't done this myself (yet) and not sure how the HD2 handles partitions that are not made by CWM but you should be able to wipe the new sdcard to unallocated memory then copy the ext and FAT partitions across then resize the FAT to the rest of the sdcard.
samsamuel said:
into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.
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Doesn't creating an EXT partition in CWM format the card? So won't the copying of the FAT32 files have to be done afterwards?
yea, hence
step 2 - via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
and
step 6 - via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
samsamuel said:
yea, hence
step 2 - via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
and
step 6 - via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
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Oh sorry, need to improve my reading skills
samsamuel said:
into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.
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Awesome post, thanks
BTW back in cwm when I repartition the sdcard, can I change the sd-part size before restoring the sd-ext part?
yea, that shouldn't be a problem.
Hi all.
I was given an HD2 running CM7 off NAND. It has a 2gb SD card in there, with around 400mb as ext3/ext4 partition.
I want to swap the 2gb for an 8gb card. Having not installed the ROM myself (and am not too familar with the process on the HD2), I'm unsure how to proceed.
Are there any files on the SD card that are likely to be needed for booting?
Can I just stick the new card in, use recovery to partition it and then remove the card - copy the old ext3/ext4 partition data over and it'll be happy?
Do I need to use recovery, can I just a Linux box to do that instead?
mr_arc said:
Can I just stick the new card in, use recovery to partition it and then remove the card - copy the old ext3/ext4 partition data over and it'll be happy?
Do I need to use recovery, can I just a Linux box to do that instead?
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assuming you don't have a linux pc that can read ext partitions, id do it this way..
into cwm - full backup.
2gb card into card reader (or mount usb storage in android - or 'mounts and storage - mount sd card' in cwm) - copy off your whole fat32 partition - make sure you have hidden files set to show in windows explorer.
8gb card into phone, back into cwm, create the new ext partition.
8gb card back into card reader (or mounts and storage - mount sd card in cwm) and copy the fat 32 stuff back to the card.
into cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore the sd-ext partition only.
Thanks for the reply.
I do have a Linux PC to hand, and the HD2 doesn't have CWM on it.
So in the end, I used GParted to create a partition table that looked like the existing card and then copied the contents of the old card over. Phone booted up fine
Hi. I have on my HTC HD2 android typhoon 3.7.0 Clk Cyanogenmod 7.1.0. installed. I would like to change memory card for one with bigger capacity. Problem is the partition on the SD card a2sd. With my EVO 3D I simply copied all files from the older card to a new one and everything is ok. This is not possible with HD2 because of the partition. Could somebody tell me how should I proceed with HD2 when I want to change the older SD card for a bigger one ?
backup the fat32
use cwm to perform a full backup
change cards
partition the new card
mount to usb
restore teh fat32 stuff,
do a cwm selective restore, choosing to only restore the sd-ext partition.
samsamuel said:
backup the fat32
use cwm to perform a full backup
change cards
partition the new card
mount to usb
restore teh fat32 stuff,
do a cwm selective restore, choosing to only restore the sd-ext partition.
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thanks