I partitioned my SD Card to use the Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM. It is working BUT it SLOWED down my phone. LWP and transitions are chopppy. I have my SD card backed up already. I want to undo what I did.
What steps do I take to undo the SD card partitioning using Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM and go back to just having the Fresh 2.0d rom with a standard SD card?
sbuxhtchero said:
I partitioned my SD Card to use the Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM. It is working BUT it SLOWED down my phone. LWP and transitions are chopppy. I have my SD card backed up already. I want to undo what I did.
What steps do I take to undo the SD card partitioning using Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM and go back to just having the Fresh 2.0d rom with a standard SD card?
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What class is your SD card? If it's a class 2, that's probably the issue.
Depending on the a2sd you're using you can tell it to move your apps back to internal storage. If you don't know, or your a2sd doesn't make sure you have a backup of your apps (or just reinstall whichever).
To undo it, just repartition your card, using 0 for everything and the 'rest' for FAT. Yes, this will wipe your SD card completely.
Reflash your ROM, then restore from backup (Titanium, for example).
yeah apps2sd only really works with a class 6 sd card, i mean to work flawlessly, i have a class 2 and a class 4 both name brands and sometimes my phone is still choppy, but my buddy has same cdma hero with class 6 and his is like crazy fast.
Still need help
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What class is your SD card? If it's a class 2, that's probably the issue.
Depending on the a2sd you're using you can tell it to move your apps back to internal storage. If you don't know, or your a2sd doesn't make sure you have a backup of your apps (or just reinstall whichever).
To undo it, just repartition your card, using 0 for everything and the 'rest' for FAT. Yes, this will wipe your SD card completely.
Reflash your ROM, then restore from backup (Titanium, for example).
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How do I get the "rest" to FAT? It says remaining FAT32 and won't allow me to change it.
I follow these steps:
Boot into Android Recovery (RA-heroc-v1.6.2)
Choose Partition SD Card
Choose Partition SD
Press Home to confirm partition sdcard
Press Home to confirm 0MB swap size
Press Home to confirm 0MB ext2 size
Then it says
FAT32-size=remainder
Continue partitioning? Press Home to confirm or any other key to abort.
Since I can't change FAT32 to FAT I abort.
Is that correct?
sbuxhtchero said:
How do I get the "rest" to FAT? It says remaining FAT32 and won't allow me to change it.
I follow these steps:
Boot into Android Recovery (RA-heroc-v1.6.2)
Choose Partition SD Card
Choose Partition SD
Press Home to confirm partition sdcard
Press Home to confirm 0MB swap size
Press Home to confirm 0MB ext2 size
Then it says
FAT32-size=remainder
Continue partitioning? Press Home to confirm or any other key to abort.
Since I can't change FAT32 to FAT I abort.
Is that correct?
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No, that was fine, let it finish.
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No, that was fine, let it finish.
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I can't flash my ROM because it's not on the zip file after partitioning. What do I do now?
sbuxhtchero said:
I can't flash my ROM because it's not on the zip file after partitioning. What do I do now?
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yeah.. you are screwed!!!!
just kidding...
what what I have read.. you will need to use your SDK tool, which you used to root your phone. you will have to find the instruction to "push" the zip file to your sd card. then you can use recovery to load the ROM.
also.. maybe... just a guess....
take the SD card out.. use it in your computer and a SDcard reader. Copy the zip file to your SDcard. put it back in the phone. Try Recovery again.
not sure if this will work.
sbuxhtchero said:
I can't flash my ROM because it's not on the zip file after partitioning. What do I do now?
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smw6180 said:
Yes, this will wipe your SD card completely.
Reflash your ROM, then restore from backup (Titanium, for example).
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I told you in the first place it would wipe your SD card. You mentioned you had a backup I believe. So put the ROM back on the card and go from there.
Dan330 said:
yeah.. you are screwed!!!!
just kidding...
what what I have read.. you will need to use your SDK tool, which you used to root your phone. you will have to find the instruction to "push" the zip file to your sd card. then you can use recovery to load the ROM.
also.. maybe... just a guess....
take the SD card out.. use it in your computer and a SDcard reader. Copy the zip file to your SDcard. put it back in the phone. Try Recovery again.
not sure if this will work.
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Or just plug the phone in with your USB cable and transfer the ROM that way.
sbuxhtchero said:
I partitioned my SD Card to use the Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM. It is working BUT it SLOWED down my phone. LWP and transitions are chopppy. I have my SD card backed up already. I want to undo what I did.
What steps do I take to undo the SD card partitioning using Apps2sd built in the Fresh 2.0d ROM and go back to just having the Fresh 2.0d rom with a standard SD card?
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As i said: You said you had your SD card backed up.
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As i said: You said you had your SD card backed up.
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You're very quick to respond! After I wiped my card (which I knew would happen but just had an initial freakout) I turned off my phone and reloaded my files back to it, booted into recovery, wiped and reflashed. Good to go! Thanks for your help.
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Is there any reason to partition my SD card as anything but FAT32...
other than setting up Apps2D?
Am I missing out on anything with just a FAT32 partition?
What is the stock partition setup for the SD card?
\Thanks in advance. Rooting and flashing the Hero has been a great, enjoyable learning experience.
i regret to inform you i cannot answer your question. and i hate to jump on...but to undo a2sd, do i just have format my card?
mountaindont said:
i regret to inform you i cannot answer your question. and i hate to jump on...but to undo a2sd, do i just have format my card?
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You have to repartion everything to zero
do i do this from recovery?
Same way you partioned it
If you aren't using apps2sd then partition the whole card FAT32. There is not another option if you are using it in your phone.
Backup your sd card contents first. Changing the partition formats your entire card deleting the contents.
If you want to change a partition or an ext extension do it from recovery >> partition. To revert back to no partition you need to set the swap to 0 and the ext to 0.
In my experience setting the partitions to zero in recovery actually leaves a small ext partition on your card. I had one ROM that wouldn't boot as a result. The solution was to remove the card from the phone and re-partition it using Linux or a partition manager (I used Paragon Manager in a Win 7 64-bit environment). This way I was able to completely repartition the card to FAT32.... If you aren't having an issue loading a ROM, this step is not necessary, just set the two to zero in recovery >> partition as stated above.
mountaindont said:
i regret to inform you i cannot answer your question. and i hate to jump on...but to undo a2sd, do i just have format my card?
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Yes. Backup the contents of your card. Changing the partition formats the entire card. Put your crap back onto the card after you repartition.
danknee said:
Yes. Backup the contents of your card. Changing the partition formats the entire card. Put your crap back onto the card after you repartition.
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hey thanks man!
4SidedDie said:
Same way you partioned it
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its funny you say that, because while i havent used a2sd since. my g1, i know partitioning in recovery sets up a2sd.
i.never.did.it
idk how it happened, but when i installed treves last release, it just happened...search for the thread "major internal memory issue" it was quite the controversy lol
Hey guys. I'm currently running this ROM, I've been using it for a few days and have had no problems but today, when I turned the phone off and turned it back on, it took ages to turn back on. Then when it did it all looked them same but was kept freezing etc., then up in the notification bar it said "SD Card Removed Unexpectedly" then my phone went crazy with FC's.
So I took out the battery and restarted the phone. Then, it would turn on and go to the lock screen but then it would reboot and be at a continuius* boot loop of the HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
So then I took out the battery again, this time I took out the SD card too and booted up and my phone was normal again. Obviously with no phone storage though as there was SD card in. Then after I just skipped the setup I put my SD card back in to my phone and went to the music player and all my saved songs on my SD card played. But no internal storage (I have the SD card partitioned with a 1GB Ext3 partition). Then with the SD card in knowing it still works I rebooted again, only to come back to the HTC screen again.
So basically, how can I fix this?
If I'm going to need to format my SD card is there a way I can backup what's in the Ext3 partition?
Thanks,
L.
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
Skellyyy said:
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
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It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
Digital Outcast said:
It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
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Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
Skellyyy said:
Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
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Unfortunately not that I am aware of. Where are the CWM files located on your SD card? Are they on the root or in a subfolder? Did you modify the path MAGLDR looks for the "AD SD" path? Are you using the latest CWM release?
Yep they're on the root of it. I think it's 1.12 I have ATM. How do I modify the path? :S
Nevermind. I tried re-installing and it worked on my 2GB SD. But the thing is, the files I want are on my 16GB that won't read lol. I'll try flash it on that now.
Tried to flash my 16GB. Says SD Kernel Open Failed in red letters? Works with my other SD card though? :S
Now I just tried with my 2GB and it's saying the same thing again.
I partioned my sd card yesterday and I cannot find the rest of the data on my sd card, How do you un partition your sd card with amon ra recovery?
coocat said:
I partioned my sd card yesterday and I cannot find the rest of the data on my sd card, How do you un partition your sd card with amon ra recovery?
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Partitioning formats the sd card. You could try running recovery software designed for SD cards but I don't fancy your chances.
Are you saying you formatted your sd card and did not back up all the data first?
If you just want to unpartition--reformat fat32
There may be a possibility of getting your data back. As long as you don't write anything new to the card. Anything new put on the card would overwrite the old data that is in the same location, basically 'randomly' overwrite old stuff.
But if you haven't written too much to it, you could use some recovery programs to try and find your old files. Technically they are all still there, but their 'location' on the card is now unknown.
rugmankc said:
Are you saying you formatted your sd card and did not back up all the data first?
If you just want to unpartition--reformat fat32
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no i backed up all of the data, i just didn't know if formatting it would mess it up or not.
Thanks i formatted it and it works fine now
Great.
Had us scared.
As above, i partitioned my SD card in the past, and now im changing my SD card.
IS there a way to get all my apps from my old SD card to my new SD card?
Thanks!
eikcihc said:
As above, i partitioned my SD card in the past, and now im changing my SD card.
IS there a way to get all my apps from my old SD card to my new SD card?
Thanks!
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copy to computer then paste again?
Hanakie said:
copy to computer then paste again?
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how to do that?
eikcihc said:
how to do that?
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plug usb> open mass storage of ur sd card..copy everything then..
Hanakie said:
plug usb> open mass storage of ur sd card..copy everything then..
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i transferred everything frm my SD card but still cant work.
eikcihc said:
i transferred everything frm my SD card but still cant work.
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did u copy back to ur new sd card? did u format ur new card to FAT32? used to be worked..i done it once
Hanakie said:
did u copy back to ur new sd card? used to be worked..i done it once
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those 'phone' only apps cant be transferred...
http://androidforums.com/incredible...ard-best-way-move-data-old-card-new-card.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657448
i following this instruction while doing my transfer
--First make a nandroid backup of ur rom with old sdcard inserted.
--Then insert new sdcard and partition it .
--Then copy the clockworkmod folder on the root of old sdcard to the root of new sdcard.
--Then with new sdcard inserted go to recovery and restore the nandroid backup. That's all for restoring the sd-ext apps.
(Note: U can also use advanced backup of recent CWM recoveries to backup the sd-ext alone.)
Another way is install A2SD GUI from market and move all sd-ext apps to phone. Then partition new sdcard and move apps to sd-ext. This wont work if there are lot of apps.
And u can transfer the fat partition files from one card to another using windows pc. Doing so should also restore the .android_secure folder apps.
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Remember you cant access your ext partition form windows( inless you enable support for linux partitions dome how. Dont know if some thing like that exist). So try working with linux to access all partitions, copy every thing, pattition your new sd then copy back contents of ext and fat, as it was in old card
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Softwares like "linux-reader" can give u access to ext partitions on windows.
But I think u need to mount sd-ext from recovery. Since normal USB mounting as disk drive from android os will not mount sd-ext.
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Hi guys, so I backed up my sd card and went on a little quest. Never knew what this did so tried it out, went onto clockwork and did an sd partition of 1024mb. Turned phone on sd card worked fine, tried installing a big game but still it said not enough space when there is 2.5gb empty on sd card. So that failed I went onto MAGLDR and onto services and cleared sd partition. Now I turn phone on and it says no sd card and prompts me to format it on status bar, but then it still doesn't work. Tried mounting it via usb but still the sd card is not showing up. Has my sd card corrupted? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also some instructions on how to properly install apps 2 sd, as just moving to the sd card on settings doesn't fully move the app, some of it still remains in the internal and after installing 50+ apps it comes down to 20mb internal memory and says I have no more internal space.
Regards
Tenpin said:
Also some instructions on how to properly install apps 2 sd, as just moving to the sd card on settings doesn't fully move the app, some of it still remains in the internal and after installing 50+ apps it comes down to 20mb internal memory and says I have no more internal space.
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if a rom supports a2sd (typhoon, for example,) you do not have to do anything, it will automatically use an ext partition if it finds one.
If you choose 'move to sd card' for an app, it will be REMOVED from the ext partition, and placed on the fat32 partition (where it may not work), so DO NOT choose 'move to sd', all your apps should be set to internal, and the rom will put them in the ext partition.
Tenpin said:
Hi guys, so I backed up my sd card and went on a little quest. Never knew what this did so tried it out, went onto clockwork and did an sd partition of 1024mb. Turned phone on sd card worked fine, tried installing a big game but still it said not enough space when there is 2.5gb empty on sd card. So that failed I went onto MAGLDR and onto services and cleared sd partition. Now I turn phone on and it says no sd card and prompts me to format it on status bar, but then it still doesn't work. Tried mounting it via usb but still the sd card is not showing up. Has my sd card corrupted? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also some instructions on how to properly install apps 2 sd, as just moving to the sd card on settings doesn't fully move the app, some of it still remains in the internal and after installing 50+ apps it comes down to 20mb internal memory and says I have no more internal space.
Regards
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Well, i would start with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to format the sd card back to original. Then start from there.
samsamuel said:
if a rom supports a2sd (typhoon, for example,) you do not have to do anything, it will automatically use an ext partition if it finds one.
If you choose 'move to sd card' for an app, it will be REMOVED from the ext partition, and placed on the fat32 partition (where it may not work), so DO NOT choose 'move to sd', all your apps should be set to internal, and the rom will put them in the ext partition.
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And @samsamuel wouldnt he benefit more from data2ext? From my experiences, that puts EVERYTHING on the ext partition. just puting my two cents in, (its about all i got xP )
elesbb said:
And @samsamuel wouldnt he benefit more from data2ext? From my experiences, that puts EVERYTHING on the ext partition. just puting my two cents in, (its about all i got xP )
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Depends on what your needs are, .,,, running everything from the SD means much of the nand is unused, what's the point of that? Typhoon for instance,, 150mb system, say 20mb for cwm and boot, that's (round up) 200mb used out of 512,, nothing is gonna use the other 300mb, so might as well let the data use it.
Right I'm running this ice ROM off the nand: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441462
[22-04-12][ROM] Unofficial AOKP for HD2 [Build 33][4.0.4][tytung_ics_r1]
It does say apps2sd is possible on thread op, so would I just partition my SD card on clockwork to 1024mb then just install apps without moving them to SD manually? Is that really it?
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samsamuel said:
Depends on what your needs are, .,,, running everything from the SD means much of the nand is unused, what's the point of that? Typhoon for instance,, 150mb system, say 20mb for cwm and boot, that's (round up) 200mb used out of 512,, nothing is gonna use the other 300mb, so might as well let the data use it.
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True, thats why i dont use either, i have the Tmous version so i ihave about 760 mb of unused nand. Only way id prolly use a partition is if i got a lot of bad blocks, but i only have about 5 bad blocks right now in just my data partition.
Tenpin said:
Right I'm running this ice ROM off the nand: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1441462
[22-04-12][ROM] Unofficial AOKP for HD2 [Build 33][4.0.4][tytung_ics_r1]
It does say apps2sd is possible on thread op, so would I just partition my SD card on clockwork to 1024mb then just install apps without moving them to SD manually? Is that really it?
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Yes, yes it is just partition sd card using minitool partition or disk utility(linux) and you should be good, i dont believe you have to reinstall the ROM either because apps2sd is an init.d script which gets ran upon boot.