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Hi Guys, just bought meself a new 16gb micro sd card.
How can I transfer or make an image of the old card to the new one? I have many installed applications on my old card, I don't want to go through the daunting process of having to reinstall every single application.
Any help would be appreciated.
Copy the contents of the old card to your computer, then write them back to the new card.
Everything should work just the way it did before.
as above, just copy everything to the new card, , , just make sure you have hidden and system files visible before you copy/paste them.
erosennin said:
Hi Guys, just bought meself a new 16gb micro sd card.
How can I transfer or make an image of the old card to the new one? I have many installed applications on my old card, I don't want to go through the daunting process of having to reinstall every single application.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Although you can transfer an image from one card to another its really not recommended for the stable running of the device especially after a ROM flash.
pa49 said:
Although you can transfer an image from one card to another its really not recommended for the stable running of the device especially after a ROM flash.
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Moving your stuff from one card to another has absolutely no influence on how the device runs. Unless the new card is defective, of course
Thanks guys, am abroad at the moment. The moment I get home, I'll try as you suggested.
Thanks again
kilrah said:
Moving your stuff from one card to another has absolutely no influence on how the device runs. Unless the new card is defective, of course
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That's just wrong!
You may get away with it but all settings and associations will be for the previous ROM and could be totally inappropriate!
WTF, we are on about moving stuff from one card to another.
Nothing to do with ROMs!
Your storage card is only for storage - ie it does not matter if you copy your files from (lets say) a smaller SD to a bigger one.
possible complications: having programs installed on the sd card.... here you could get error messages when you take the card out for the copy process. Nevermind them though as you take the card out, do your copying and then shove the new card back in....
after that just do a safety reboot and you should be fine
pa49 said:
That's just wrong!
You may get away with it but all settings and associations will be for the previous ROM and could be totally inappropriate!
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Then you obviously didn't read what the thread was about.. The guy just has a new card and wants to copy the contents of the old one to it. Nothing about ROMs, settings etc...
Put my old card into the comp, copied everything, pasted into a folder on the desktop then dropped it all onto my new card, put it back in the phone, turned it on and everything works fine
hollinshead said:
WTF, we are on about moving stuff from one card to another.
Nothing to do with ROMs!
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The OP mentioned installed apps on a mem card and excuse me but that DOES have something to do with ROMs.
Now you are wrong!
And before this goes any further you all believe what you want and do what you want because there's none so blind as those who will not see.
I shall not be posting further after those sort of comments, hollinshea!
pa49 said:
The OP mentioned installed apps on a mem card and excuse me but that DOES have something to do with ROMs.
Now you are wrong!
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No! A storage card is just that, a disk with a filesystem and files on it. If you copy the same files onto another card, there's no way the system can even see anything has changed, apps or no apps. It's not about deleting/adding stuff, just having exactly the same data.
We don't "believe" anything - it's just how it is.
kilrah said:
No! A storage card is just that, a disk with a filesystem and files on it. If you copy the same files onto another card, there's no way the system can even see anything has changed, apps or no apps. It's not about deleting/adding stuff, just having exactly the same data.
We don't "believe" anything - it's just how it is.
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+1 on this.
I need a little assistace please.
I have 16Gb card from day one with Leo, and installed over 80 apps on it, and many my docs settings and so on.
What would be the safest way to trasfer everything as it is to new 32gB card.
use somenthing like norton ghost? i thing just copy and paste wont work, and i would like to avoid that.
Thanx for any helpful advice.
Personally, I would use copy & paste. Either connect your device as a USB drive, or use a card reader. Copy everything from the root of the card to a folder on your PC, then swap the cards and copy everything back. It should just work - nice and simple.
johncmolyneux said:
Personally, I would use copy & paste. Either connect your device as a USB drive, or use a card reader. Copy everything from the root of the card to a folder on your PC, then swap the cards and copy everything back. It should just work - nice and simple.
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i got an error in few seconds...
some file reported an error, and copy process stopped...
it would be easy, i know, but i just does not work...there are (i guess) some 10000 files on that card, and chances are some are garbled.
so i would avoid filesystem alltogether and try to clone, and if that does not work, then c/p folder by folder if it does not go other way.
I connected my HD2 as a drive, copied the entire 16GB card to a folder on my PC, formatted the new card, copied everything back, absolutely perfect.
Yep, disk drive mode, or just put the card in a USB card reader. I just did that for 8-> 16GB swap. There's no "better" solution.
bRkiX said:
i got an error in few seconds...
some file reported an error, and copy process stopped...
it would be easy, i know, but i just does not work...there are (i guess) some 10000 files on that card, and chances are some are garbled.
so i would avoid filesystem alltogether and try to clone, and if that does not work, then c/p folder by folder if it does not go other way.
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I do hope you bought that 32 GB card from a reputable source.
Many fake 32 GB cards are sold on sites like ebay.
bRkiX said:
i got an error in few seconds...
some file reported an error, and copy process stopped...
it would be easy, i know, but i just does not work...there are (i guess) some 10000 files on that card, and chances are some are garbled.
so i would avoid filesystem alltogether and try to clone, and if that does not work, then c/p folder by folder if it does not go other way.
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No, the errors are probably due to the fact that your HD2 was running apps that are located on the SD and are 'locked' that way. So they will not be copied...
Just take the SD-card out, put it in a card reader of some sort and just copy & paste everything to a hard disk, and copy it to your new SD card. Should work 100%.
pa2ra said:
No, the errors are probably due to the fact that your HD2 was running apps that are located on the SD and are 'locked' that way. So they will not be copied...
Just take the SD-card out, put it in a card reader of some sort and just copy & paste everything to a hard disk, and copy it to your new SD card. Should work 100%.
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I have copied the entire card over to my new 32gb But when i restart my device I get blank white icons???? and they are all the programs that i installed on my previous 16gb??? why why why, !!!! do i have to reinstall every app i had on my 16gb ????
can anyone help?
Did you enable "show hidden files" in your file manager on your PC? Sounds as if you havent copied all the hidden files.
mrn2012 said:
Did you enable "show hidden files" in your file manager on your PC? Sounds as if you havent copied all the hidden files.
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yep ! I did indeed
reijkelhof said:
I do hope you bought that 32 GB card from a reputable source.
Many fake 32 GB cards are sold on sites like ebay.
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i bough it from sandisk dealer here in Zagreb. and guy is allso my friend from way back, so i got it at allmost factory price...about 70 euros.
SD card only works 2/16 gigs
Might be unrelated, but I could use some help with my microSDHC 16gig and 8gig
I've used a card reader and the phone itself via activesync to copy files. Once I fill up to past 2gigs of files, any additional music or video file no longer functions and weird symbols appear in my folders and I guess you call it "corruption"
I've formatted and scanned for errors and still the same thing happens.
What is up?!
Totallynewhere said:
Might be unrelated, but I could use some help with my microSDHC 16gig and 8gig
I've used a card reader and the phone itself via activesync to copy files. Once I fill up to past 2gigs of files, any additional music or video file no longer functions and weird symbols appear in my folders and I guess you call it "corruption"
I've formatted and scanned for errors and still the same thing happens.
What is up?!
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u got a fake micro sd card.
Totallynewhere said:
Might be unrelated, but I could use some help with my microSDHC 16gig and 8gig
I've used a card reader and the phone itself via activesync to copy files. Once I fill up to past 2gigs of files, any additional music or video file no longer functions and weird symbols appear in my folders and I guess you call it "corruption"
I've formatted and scanned for errors and still the same thing happens.
What is up?!
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hanissyazwan said:
u got a fake micro sd card.
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Yep. I had the exact same thing with a "8GB" memory stick, that turned out to actually be 1GB.
according to my knowledge, u can't copy like that, u need to hardreset your device and then using new microsd.
may be I am wrong, but it happen last time when I am using omnia i900. and it might be every sdcard has the different id.
or check with flash memory toolkit, it will show the information of ur micro sd
hendr1k said:
according to my knowledge, u can't copy like that, u need to hardreset your device and then using new microsd.
may be I am wrong, but it happen last time when I am using omnia i900. and it might be every sdcard has the different id.
or check with flash memory toolkit, it will show the information of ur micro sd
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Definitely not mate - you must have had a problem with something if you needed to hard reset to swap SD cards. One of the selling points of most up-to-date devices is "hot-swapping". Did you maybe have encryption switched on?
bRkiX said:
i got an error in few seconds...
some file reported an error, and copy process stopped...
it would be easy, i know, but i just does not work...there are (i guess) some 10000 files on that card, and chances are some are garbled.
so i would avoid filesystem alltogether and try to clone, and if that does not work, then c/p folder by folder if it does not go other way.
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You need TeraCopy, its free and great, replaces stupid windows crap copy function.
This may be in the wrong forum so mods please feel free to move it.
I am at work and needed some images from my Nexus's camera that were stored on the microsd card. I didn't have my cable with me so I removed the card from teh phone and inserted it in the card reader port on my laptop to copy the images. When I opened the sd card I noticed that all folders belonging to android were gone. All downloads DCIM everything. Most files that are just on the sd card without a directory are untouched. I put the card back in my phone to check for sure and everything is gone.
I'm currently using a recovery tool to try to get back my images and videos.... Hopefully I don't lose too much.
I have no idea why this would happen. Does anyone have a clue what would cause this? I have never had any trouble using a microsd card from a phone in my computer before.
Any clue how/why this happened and how to prevent it in the future?
Thanks!
Bad dismount. You probably pulled the battery without shutting down the phone first.
Did you try putting it back into the N1 to confirm lost files/folders, before further risk/modification from your computer?
HTCinToronto said:
Did you try putting it back into the N1 to confirm lost files/folders, before further risk/modification from your computer?
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Says so right in his post.
I have a lot of recoveries, and backups on my current SD card. I am going to replace it soon.
Before I do...Is it safe to assume you just do a huge copy, and paste it on the new SD card, then just insert in phone?
Can someone please provide some guidance?
Thanks a lot for any replies. I did a search as well, but only found for other phones, not sure if our MT4G has any quirks, that would make it different
Shouldn't be a problem. That's what I have been doing for years and nothing has screwed up.
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same thing I do. just make backup copies onto your computer and when you get the new card, format it, then put the files on there. easy as that
Thanks guys!
Is it normal when copying/pasting, SD from Desktop to MT4G, that .data, and .img for backups cannot be transferred?
I cannot seem to transfer those two data types into my new SD. All I am copying is old Restores, that I know worked good, but that type of data won't seem to go over
Anyone have this happen? Is it normal? I am worried I don't have recoveries that will work
Confirmed, recoveries do not work, I get MD5 mismatch. How can I copy these back?
I did what was said as copying old SD files to Desktop, but on paste to new SD card, would not transfer some files.
lion766 said:
Confirmed, recoveries do not work, I get MD5 mismatch. How can I copy these back?
I did what was said as copying old SD files to Desktop, but on paste to new SD card, would not transfer some files.
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I did this a couple of times ans had no problems you had with those two files. I suggest you reformat the card put the files in there again and upload a new rom. Flash clockwork recovery 3.0.0.6 then try to restore one of those nandroids.
Thanks for checking Lake, I will definitely try that! I hate the fact that I like so many ROMS that I switch back and forth every week. It's like a new phone every week! Minus the creaky buttons, ha!
uh oh, formatted card, now none of my backups will copy the .img or .data files. Oh geez
edit: quick format and format make a difference?
I did a quick, trying normal format now
Hi guys
Question, i bought a 32GB SD card.
Will it be possible for me to transfer my current Android (SD) version to the new card, without loosing my settings and programs?
Is this possible?
(Im sure it must be, as its an SD version anyway)
Just wanna make sure!
^^rac said:
Hi guys
Question, i bought a 32GB SD card.
Will it be possible for me to transfer my current Android (SD) version to the new card, without loosing my settings and programs?
Is this possible?
(Im sure it must be, as its an SD version anyway)
Just wanna make sure!
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Hi,
First and foremost,BACKUP YOUR CURRENT SD CARD.
Take the copy of current sd card and paste it onto new card(after correct formatting).
Put it back into the phone and boot it up.
Report back your results...
malybru said:
Hi,
First and foremost,BACKUP YOUR CURRENT SD CARD.
Take the copy of current sd card and paste it onto new card(after correct formatting).
Put it back into the phone and boot it up.
Report back your results...
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Thanks man!
I have tried it, and it kinda worked. It seemed like after i copied the files (all of it) to the new card, the OS became laggy.
I put my old one back, and it was all fine again....
Not to worry, ill just re-install again!
Just copy from the old card to the new one. Maybe only lose the time of shooting photos or similar.
For the lag´s of the OS, maybe your new card is another SD class more slow than the older.
^^rac said:
Thanks man!
I have tried it, and it kinda worked. It seemed like after i copied the files (all of it) to the new card, the OS became laggy.
I put my old one back, and it was all fine again....
Not to worry, ill just re-install again!
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your rom has not become laggy due to copying...it is because of the class difference there will be a number written on each of cards in a small circle please tell me that