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New Micro SD CARD- Transfer

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.

New HTC HD2 user again :)

Hi I just wanted to say thank you to all of your hard work on this site. Both admin and developers. I didn't expect much when I bought this phone, I got very good price and it was brand new, so why not. Just got it 4 days ago.
Than I did some youtube and saw some pretty cool stuff, and here I am
Anyway, I tested out Android on SD and it was cool, I like it better than WM6.5 but camera could have been better. Feels like WM6.5 camera is better.
Now today I decided to try out Nand version. Omg it took me like 4-5hours, I know lots of information is already there, so I study, study and study. Decided to go with
[28 MAR][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroid-CM7-v1.0.4[a2sd+][CyanogenMod7 2.3.3][Tytung_R8.3]
Everything went smooth, except that I almost killed myself, it was not easy but it was fun. Lots of reboot on HD2 thou.
Anyway everything seems to be running fine and it feel smooth and good. About Ram I saw it list 411 but I guess it's correct because system use the rest.
Anyway sorry for making this long, I have one question. I tried to edit build.prop but without success. I tried and copy to memory and than to pc and edit there to make icon bigger. But when I tried to copy it over to root/system it fail. Same thing when I download text editor from Market and edit on phone, it can't save. How can I make icon bigger if I can't save the file?
Thanks for a wonderful site.

for editing build.prop you should get root explorer from the market or the internet.
then in root explorer go to /stystem and there is you build.prop
then click open in text editor and you should be fine

Taftus said:
Hi I just wanted to say thank you to all of your hard work on this site. Both admin and developers. I didn't expect much when I bought this phone, I got very good price and it was brand new, so why not. Just got it 4 days ago.
Than I did some youtube and saw some pretty cool stuff, and here I am
Anyway, I tested out Android on SD and it was cool, I like it better than WM6.5 but camera could have been better. Feels like WM6.5 camera is better.
Now today I decided to try out Nand version. Omg it took me like 4-5hours, I know lots of information is already there, so I study, study and study. Decided to go with
[28 MAR][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroid-CM7-v1.0.4[a2sd+][CyanogenMod7 2.3.3][Tytung_R8.3]
Everything went smooth, except that I almost killed myself, it was not easy but it was fun. Lots of reboot on HD2 thou.
Anyway everything seems to be running fine and it feel smooth and good. About Ram I saw it list 411 but I guess it's correct because system use the rest.
Anyway sorry for making this long, I have one question. I tried to edit build.prop but without success. I tried and copy to memory and than to pc and edit there to make icon bigger. But when I tried to copy it over to root/system it fail. Same thing when I download text editor from Market and edit on phone, it can't save. How can I make icon bigger if I can't save the file?
Thanks for a wonderful site.
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if you need any help with anything.. feel free to ask btw, try typhoon's gingerbread rom, no reboot issue

You need to make system R/W,its prolly in read only mode so you need to change it to read&write.

Thanks guys, I will play some more with the phone, haven't got time today. Just testing out some games. Since WM6.5 had very bad Market and barely any games. I tried not to ask to much, but do some research for my own, there's already so much written in forum. But sometimes it's kinda difficult to find the answer.
[email protected] Thanks, gonna try root explorer tonight.
Cheers!
PS: Have been having some issue, like sometimes I press back and phone freeze and stop responding. Suddenly it reboot itself. Happens 2 times.

Root Explorer works like charm!
Btw I see that Internal Storage is kinda small, it's like what 200mb or something?
Feels like some stuff that install, can't be remove to SD card. Wont this be a issue? I had a message told me that I have almost no space left :/
And btw games that I have for Android, like Angry Birds. Where does save games go? on SD card? Because I am receiving a new SD card on Friday and would love to use that one but don't wanna loose all save for my games.

Taftus said:
Root Explorer works like charm!
Btw I see that Internal Storage is kinda small, it's like what 200mb or something?
Feels like some stuff that install, can't be remove to SD card. Wont this be a issue? I had a message told me that I have almost no space left :/
And btw games that I have for Android, like Angry Birds. Where does save games go? on SD card? Because I am receiving a new SD card on Friday and would love to use that one but don't wanna loose all save for my games.
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well for me on this build most of the apps work while on sd card.
some apps btw don't work on gingerbread builds.
well for the SD card you can just copy all the files you have on there to your new one right? that way you definately won't lose anything

XthelordinatorX said:
well for me on this build most of the apps work while on sd card.
some apps btw don't work on gingerbread builds.
well for the SD card you can just copy all the files you have on there to your new one right? that way you definately won't lose anything
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I got 32GB Kingston yesterday, I copy all from my old card to PC, and than copy it over to new one. I had some problem at beginning, files wont install. But than I took new one out and reformat with SDFormatter, it seems to works fine now.
But unfortunately my saves files don't seems to work. I re-install Angry Birds but I have to start all over again.
Btw when you click on Apps button on homepage you get lots of apps/games, and you can make a new folder, and than customize it. But can you delete a folder call "All"

Taftus said:
Hi I just wanted to say thank you to all of your hard work on this site. Both admin and developers. I didn't expect much when I bought this phone, I got very good price and it was brand new, so why not. Just got it 4 days ago.
Than I did some youtube and saw some pretty cool stuff, and here I am
Anyway, I tested out Android on SD and it was cool, I like it better than WM6.5 but camera could have been better. Feels like WM6.5 camera is better.
Now today I decided to try out Nand version. Omg it took me like 4-5hours, I know lots of information is already there, so I study, study and study. Decided to go with
[28 MAR][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroid-CM7-v1.0.4[a2sd+][CyanogenMod7 2.3.3][Tytung_R8.3]
Everything went smooth, except that I almost killed myself, it was not easy but it was fun. Lots of reboot on HD2 thou.
Anyway everything seems to be running fine and it feel smooth and good. About Ram I saw it list 411 but I guess it's correct because system use the rest.
Anyway sorry for making this long, I have one question. I tried to edit build.prop but without success. I tried and copy to memory and than to pc and edit there to make icon bigger. But when I tried to copy it over to root/system it fail. Same thing when I download text editor from Market and edit on phone, it can't save. How can I make icon bigger if I can't save the file?
Thanks for a wonderful site.
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Simply download LCD density from market
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

But I already got my answer how to fix bigger icon
But thank you for the information.

By the way when I flash to newest version of Hyperdroid do I need to make new partition so it work with APP2SD+ to work with exern patition?

Guys I just change Rom to:
[12.Apr.11][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroidGBX-v12[GRI54-2.3.3][a2sd+][TytR8.3][INSANE SPEED]
And I did the same in clockwork I made 1gb partition and install Rom. But it doesn't seems to work
I install games and they seems to be on phone only, but not before when I use other rom. What did I do wrong?

Not quite sure what you're getting at. When you make a partition, the phone recognizes that partition as additional space, or just available space the phone has. In other words, partition space is phone space according to the rom. So your apps when installed to the partition should say they are installed to phone. Correct me if this is not what you wanted or trying to get at.

Kailkti said:
Not quite sure what you're getting at. When you make a partition, the phone recognizes that partition as additional space, or just available space the phone has. In other words, partition space is phone space according to the rom. So your apps when installed to the partition should say they are installed to phone. Correct me if this is not what you wanted or trying to get at.
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Sorry if I didn't explain correctly. What I want is the extra extern space. As you know HD2 have small intern storage. And on my last Rom I did partition 1gb before I install the Rom. And when I install apps/games they all went to that extern instead of phone's intern.
But I did exactly same thing with this Rom, but it seems that games/apps that I used on last Rom, they went on phone's intern instead of that partition I made. Is there anyway I can make sure there's a extern partition? Any program that I can check with?

HD2 rules!
This week I bought my 3rd hd2 (I bought them and sold them in the past) like you study a lot and finally flashed the nandroid and finally feel android running as it deserves
BTW for density I recomend using 217, its the natural dpis for our scren size & resolution.

Taftus said:
Sorry if I didn't explain correctly. What I want is the extra extern space. As you know HD2 have small intern storage. And on my last Rom I did partition 1gb before I install the Rom. And when I install apps/games they all went to that extern instead of phone's intern.
But I did exactly same thing with this Rom, but it seems that games/apps that I used on last Rom, they went on phone's intern instead of that partition I made. Is there anyway I can make sure there's a extern partition? Any program that I can check with?
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Some ROM's you have to turn on auto moving to SD card in the settings. Check there. Anything currently on your phone will have to be moved to the SD card via application manager.
You run any Linux? Easiest way to work with your SD card.
nac5000 said:
BTW for density I recomend using 217, its the natural dpis for our scren size & resolution.
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I love using 167! Puts so much more on the screen.

digiholic said:
Some ROM's you have to turn on auto moving to SD card in the settings. Check there. Anything currently on your phone will have to be moved to the SD card via application manager.
You run any Linux? Easiest way to work with your SD card.
I love using 167! Puts so much more on the screen.
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I can't find where I can setup it to move to SD card. Look everywhere in settings. No I use Windows 7, is there anyway to reformate SD card for extra extern without re-install Rom?

Taftus said:
I can't find where I can setup it to move to SD card. Look everywhere in settings. No I use Windows 7, is there anyway to reformate SD card for extra extern without re-install Rom?
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settings -> cyanogenmod settings -> application
That's where you turn on auto moving. Anything already installed will need moved manually via settings -> applications -> manage applications. Click on a program and choose "move to SD card".
Easy partition creation:
Reformat the whole thing in Win7 using default allocation size.
Boot into MAGLDR -> AD Recovery to enter CWM Recovery Mode
Once in CWM choose advanced, then choose Partition SD card, then choose the size of the partition (Maximum of 1024M recommended)
The choose 0 for the swap and partition away.
*Edit*
I saw you already did the partition trick with CWM. If you did that before installing HyperdroidGBX it all should work.

digiholic said:
settings -> cyanogenmod settings -> application
That's where you turn on auto moving. Anything already installed will need moved manually via settings -> applications -> manage applications. Click on a program and choose "move to SD card".
Easy partition creation:
Reformat the whole thing in Win7 using default allocation size.
Boot into MAGLDR -> AD Recovery to enter CWM Recovery Mode
Once in CWM choose advanced, then choose Partition SD card, then choose the size of the partition (Maximum of 1024M recommended)
The choose 0 for the swap and partition away.
*Edit*
I saw you already did the partition trick with CWM. If you did that before installing HyperdroidGBX it all should work.
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Problem is that I use:
[12.Apr.11][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroidGBX-v12[GRI54-2.3.3][a2sd+][TytR8.3][INSANE SPEED]
There's no cyanogenmod like last Rom I use.
My PC is Windows 7, hm so you mean I format SD Card first on my PC default setup? And than put it in to phone and boot in to CWM and than partition in there? Do I have to re-install my Rom?

Taftus said:
Problem is that I use:
[12.Apr.11][CWM ZIP]★★★★★HyperDroidGBX-v12[GRI54-2.3.3][a2sd+][TytR8.3][INSANE SPEED]
There's no cyanogenmod like last Rom I use.
My PC is Windows 7, hm so you mean I format SD Card first on my PC default setup? And than put it in to phone and boot in to CWM and than partition in there? Do I have to re-install my Rom?
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We are using the same ROM. Did you check in settings? Mine has the cyanogenmod settings.
And yes to the partitioning. That's how I did mine. Not sure if the ROM need reinstalled as I've always had my card partitioned before the install.

hd2 to gingerbread

Ok, i looked a bit and need to solidify this
I have a friend with an hd2. I have experience rooting and doing roms and themes on android.
I d/l MDJ_gingerbread_hd2_v 1.0 rar folder and the instructions seem quite simple.
am i missing anything? does the hd2 need to be rooted or anything before doing the install? didnt seem to mention that in the instructions.
thanks
edit - this is the route i am taking http://androidadvices.com/htc-hd2-steps-to-install-android-2-3-gingerbread-os/

is it an sd build or a nand build you going to be using?

it looks like sd because it says to put the contents of the rar on the sd root

chef2 said:
it looks like sd because it says to put the contents of the rar on the sd root
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Its an SD build which doesn't require rooting as d build should come pre-rooted...All u have to do is...
**Optional**Flash a custom WinMo ROM which has better support for SD android builds (this requres HSPL)...
Copy the included "data.img" file into the android folder..
Copy the android folder which now contains the "data.img" file onto d root of ur SD card.
Restart WinMo and immediately navigate to the Android folder on ur sd card.
Tap "clrcad.exe"...this shows no visible response but it actually did stuff.
Then tap "Haret.exe"....Android should then boot..
P.S. Running android off SD is so yesterday...u might want to consider taking WinMo off entirely to give android better performance...Hwever, if u don't then visit the android sd dev threads right here on xda for more build options..

no android boot

hi that is my problem.
i can't boot android
for 2 month had worked correctly then 3 days ago stop...
i don't want format because i don't want lose same sms.
there is a mode for restart android without format?
i click on haret or android,and appear the window android boot but the nothing...
sorry for english i m from italy,and thanks who help me,or also try

absolutely you need to format, or if not... which class, Brand, Spaces.

1.Copy from the micro SD card to PC "data.ext2" in a folder, give folder name "Backup" or whatever you want...
2.Format SD card
3.Copy new Android files to the root of SD card (as when doing a new installation)
4.Replace "data.ext2" with "data.ext2" from folder Backup
5.Eject SIM card
6.Run Haret

can you see the SDcard in the file explorer of WM?
sometimes I can't see the card in the file explorer.
if that is the case, just plug the card out and put it back, then you should be able to boot android.

@¨K¨ : can you see the SDcard in the file explorer?
@ furious84: i click on haret
i think he see otherwise how he can click on Haret?

15MA1L said:
@¨K¨ : can you see the SDcard in the file explorer?
@ furious84: i click on haret
i think he see otherwise how he can click on Haret?
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@ 15MA1L: can't you see your SDcard in your file explorer on your mini?
I have a shortcut in WM and I can click on it even if there is no SDcard plugged in (of course there is no reaction after), maybe furious84 has a similar shortcut?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2887329no coz he say also :"and appear the window android boot but the nothing..."

15MA1L said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2887329no coz he say also :"and appear the window android boot but the nothing..."
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you're right! stupid me

well guys thank-you for answering.
yes i can see sd from wm,other program installed on it are working.
if i backup the ext,i backup all of android?i mean sms,settings ecc...?
ps yes i have shortcut on the home,but o tryed from home,and also directly from sd but result was same

uhm...well i think i did something of stupid before read yours suggest...
i moved some files from device to pc(haret,system,data,fsck0000,and folder data in folder android),and then erase that files on device.
then i start new haret,without sim,and stat ok,but how a new installation,without old home ecc ecc.
so i pluged device with pc,and i copyed files,into device,but one for time,i mean copy one and boot copy another and boot,searching to have old things...but nothing....then...i lost all?
another question,i see there is a new release,of android,with froyo.it s that stable?which are good and bad?can have some pics of that?
sorry guys for long post,and thanks.

There is more than one version of android for hd mini. All are still in dev-stage.
I am using this one (google code release) and it works nice for me. Seems to be near to "ready for all day use"

[Q] SD Card/ROM App Problem!

Hey guys,
Firstly, if this is the wrong place to post I am really sorry!
My problem is, I bought an HTC HD2 it works great and I am currently running Android 2.3.7 from my SD card which is great.
However, I have only a few apps downloaded; Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc... But I am not able to update them as the phone says there isn't enough room on my phone?
I was wondering;
Am I able to move the applications on to the SD card so that there is plenty of room for updates? (I've barely used 1gb of 8, on the SD card)
Or is there an alternative way? I have deleted a load of rubbish off to try and make room but it keeps coming up with the notification 'There is insufficient room' etc... My Facebook is so out of date and slow its painful!
PLEASE HELP!
Cheers,
Mouunt

You need to increase the size of your data.img so you will have more storage space. Here is a link to how to do this, but it is for Linux so if you do not use Linux you can just make you a live CD or a bootable USB flash drive of Ubuntu just Google them to get info on how to do this. This will allow yu to use Ubuntu with out having to install it and it works much easier and better than in a vertual machine.
Now you can do this on Windows too but to be honest it has been a long time since I used a SD card ROM so I do not remember off the top of my head and I can not find a guide to point you to, sorry about that. But if you have to much trouble just contact me and I you can upload your data.img and I will resize it for you and then re upload it for you. I run Windows and Ubuntu on my laptop.

T-Macgnolia said:
You need to increase the size of your data.img so you will have more storage space. Here is a link to how to do this, but it is for Linux so if you do not use Linux you can just make you a live CD or a bootable USB flash drive of Ubuntu just Google them to get info on how to do this. This will allow yu to use Ubuntu with out having to install it and it works much easier and better than in a vertual machine.
Now you can do this on Windows too but to be honest it has been a long time since I used a SD card ROM so I do not remember off the top of my head and I can not find a guide to point you to, sorry about that. But if you have to much trouble just contact me and I you can upload your data.img and I will resize it for you and then re upload it for you. I run Windows and Ubuntu on my laptop.
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Thanks for the reply man!
Ummm, I'm a bit confused. With the link you attached which .img am I looking to download? And where do I put it? Within the ROM folder on the SD card?
Sorry I am new to this, but willing to learn!
Cheers

Mouunt said:
Thanks for the reply man!
Ummm, I'm a bit confused. With the link you attached which .img am I looking to download? And where do I put it? Within the ROM folder on the SD card?
Sorry I am new to this, but willing to learn!
Cheers
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You will have to take and either use the the USB mass storage function in Windows Mobile or use a USB SD card reader to copy the data.I mg file to your computer. Now like I said before it has been a long time since I used a SD card ROM so I do not remember the exact location you will find it but it will be in one of the folders that Android makes on your SD card when you first boot it up. Once you have the data.img copied to your computer follow the guide to make it bigger and then copy it back to the same place you got it from and replace the old data.img with it.