Hey, I just got a new larger and faster microSD card for my phone. I tried just doing a straight copy of the data from one card to the other, but it doesn't work. How do I do a copy that works like the old one does and keep my Fresh ROM intact as well?
couple ways of doing this...
#1. If you do NOT use a2sd
just mount your old sdcard to your computer and copy all the stuff into a folder on your desktop or something.
Then unmount the sdcard on your phone, replace with newer one, move everything back
#2. if you DO use a2sd heres what you do, or im guessing
First star on #1
Boot up into recovery and make a nandroid + ext backup.
Replace sdcard with newer one then partition it like you did to your older card
Move the nand backup you just made onto your new card
Nandroid restore it, then move all your other data onto your card
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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.
Hi all,
I currently have apps2sd on my X8 and I wanted to upgrade my SD card. How do i replace the card and copy over the current contents?
Ideally i dont want to have to re-install everything.
Thanks,
-c
I don't know if copying would work so here's logic. first copy everything on your SD card to your new one through your computer. Then delete the copied things from the old SD card. Plug in the new SD card, do a transfer of all apps from phone to SD, then unmount, plug in old, transfer as much apps as possible back to phone. Repeat until all apps have been transfered over.
Could I not somehow copy the ex2 partition and the normal parition and just boot with the new card?
There are basically two ways - get ubuntu, or get software that reads ext2 on windows
or find app on window that can clone ur sd..
I tried to do a backup of the sd card and I think I may have taken the card out whilst android was still running. When copying the stuff from the sd card, data.img would not copy, some error. Now when booting in Android it gets stuck on the circle boot screen. I would guess that the data.img got corrupted. What happens if I just deleted it, would android create a new one when booting? I am using android on sd card Core droid with 1GB data image. Will I lose settings/programs?
unfortunately you will lose your data. next time instead of taking off your card use usb transfer.
SHould I delete it and Android will recreate one?
delete all the files related to the rom. the best format the sd card.then put a new sd rom and flash from beginning. the rom will create a new data.img.if you arent using titanium backup (from the market) i recommend you to use it in the future for similar cases to this.
format your card and do a clean intall
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.
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.