hi
currently it seems that the only way to create proper partitions for dual boot is to use 2 different microSDs (eg 8GB + 16GB)
[Tutorial] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
[HOWTO] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913091
However, since we all flash the same image, wouldn't the partitions be the same ? Could someone please install WP7s on a small microSD and just upload a binary backup of the entire card (directly after flashing) ?
That would enable everyone to just restore that image to a bigger microsd in order to get a decent fat32 partition.
The filesize should be relatively small after compression and it would save a lot of messing around.
I second this notion. if anyone has an 8gb micro sd that would save a lot of us time, trouble, and cash.
I have four 8GB microSD cards but no smaller ones. It would be best if anyone here share his partiton copy using a 4GB microSD.
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I have four 8GB microSD cards but no smaller ones. It would be best if anyone here share his partiton copy using a 4GB microSD.
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im willing to contribute a 2gb image if someone hooks it up with an 8gb. Maybe someone else can do a 4 gb (my 4gb seems incompatible sorry!).
@dbshane:
how about you provide the 8GB one ?
@s14tam:
2GB ?
I'll take a go on the 16GB - I should be able to do that on saturday. After that we would only need to find someone with a 4GB card to make everyone happy.
Edit:
Does anyone know any "easy to use" windows-programs which the majority of users could use ? I don't really want to put the community through another Linux livedisc hazzle, if it's not necessary.
Edit2: my exams aren't giving me any rest... will take a while longer
please the 2gb one!
i dont really need higher than that
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The question is how to transfer my dual boot android and wp7 from my existing card 8GB to another one say 16GB. I was thinking of making of an image with acronis and restore it on 16|GB and later resize both partitions using partition software. Would it work? I fine that the 8GB card too small for my needs and I want bigger capacity.
transfer from small sd to big sd
I found out the answer myself. The answer to may question lies here in this thread.
See the section Two SD Cards Method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Hey guys, I searched for an answer all over but can't find it.
I just bought a Sandisk 8GB MicroSD card from j&r. I formatted it immediately and when I popped it in, it only shows 6.43 GB of space free. I know that the actual storage is always less than the advertised storage, but 1.6GB seems a bit much.
Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way to reclaim more space, perhaps with a different format (I formatted it as FAT32)?
EDIT: I went to Computer Management and found what the problem is. I have two partitions on my MicroSD card, one for 6.43 GB and the other for 977 MB of unallocated space. I can't seem to extend the 6.43 to encompass the whole card and I can't delete the 977 MB partition. Does anyone know why this partition might be there?
Thx in advance
Could be defective, or fake. What's j&r? Online store? I would return it, as a format should give you all the space available. So that number is it.
No, j&r is a reputable electronics store in NYC.
But I mixed up which card I bought yesterday. It was actually the 16GB one that I bought yesterday, the 8GB one came with my G2. I never really looked at the space or formatted it before today.
Anyway, I'll try and format it a couple of different ways and see what I get.
Is it possible there is a ext or swap partition on it? This would not show up under windows.
Thanks for the help guys. I used a great little program called the Minitool Partition Wizard to delete both partitions and create a single partition. Now I have the full 7.23 GB of space.
I just don't understand why I wasn't able to do that with Window's own Disk Management program.
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Thanks for the help guys. I used a great little program called the Minitool Partition Wizard to delete both partitions and create a single partition. Now I have the full 7.23 GB of space.
I just don't understand why I wasn't able to do that with Window's own Disk Management program.
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This solution works. I almost bought a new microsd card. :good:
Link to the MiniTool Partition Wizard is partitionwizard[dot]com
Hi,
I wonder if someone can help me, I've got WP7.5 install as a NAND installation, with Android 4.0.4 as a SD installation. Both work brilliantly, although I do have some slight problems.
Android won't detect an SD card installed, so I can't use some apps, that require an SD card to be present.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this, surely I'm not the only person in this position.
Cheers
I'm guessing it's because your SD has been formatted specially by WP, and Android can't read this. Your FAT32 partition is probably too small for anything to be stored in it.
The Fat32 partition is 1.6Gb.
Is it worth making that bigger, or creating another FAT32 partition?
Cheers
Hmm, I'd guess that you wouldn't have any more than 200-300MB free on your SD as read by SD Android then. I don't know how much an SD Android build takes up but the data.img is at least 1GB of that. As for increasing the partiton/creating a new one, I don't actually think that's possible without losing your data is it?
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I'm not too fussed about losing anything...
Here is what I have just tried without any success.
I have a 8Gb card partitioned like this.
1.*Gb
Primary, FAT32, (Android SD install)
2Gb
Primary, FAT32, (My hope would be that Android would see this as the SD card)
4Gb Other (WP 7 partition)
No luck unfortunately, any ideas?
Cheers
Are you sure you're using an 'unlockable' WP7.x ROM? If so, try formatting the storage card to normal and flash a Android build, see if it utilises the memory card like normal, if it does, then I would say that you're doing something wrong when setting it up.
Just double check each step of a tutorial (example: this one) twice and hopefully you'll only have to flash one more time.
Why do you have 2 fat 32 partitions ?...just use one fat 32 partition..in regular sd android....data image is used as internal memory and fat 32 part as sd card
I believe your second partition is not being recognised...make only one fat 32 partition you don't need two
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Finally!!! Those who use 64GB or bigger cards can use exFAT. I can confirm it works as I'm using it right now. No more 4,5GB file size limit! (tested writing 6,5GB mkv video to the card, worked without any issues) Writing big files to the card is about 10-11MB/s (when I was using fat32 it was 4-5MB/s). It's a shame that it doesn't work in CWM though (can't mount - gives me error). But I think devs will come up with solution for this quickly. At least Phil in his thread about Touch CWM said that he will provide fix when official LS7 will be released. So now you know and you can enjoy!
SMALL UPDATE:
If SGN says that your card is broken and needs formating than you should let it format the card. Mine was formated in Windows with SDFormatter application and still SGN gave me message that I need to format the card. After format in SGN it works as it should.
SMALL UPDATE2:
If you decide to buy a 64GB or bigger card for your SGN it would mean that it almost certainly would be SDXC micro exFAT formatted. In specification there is only said that card readers even if they are compatible with SDHC, might not be compatible with SDXC cards. And that would have been ok, but in my case my old SDHC compatible Imono card reader was destroying my SDXC cards! Who would have suspect it? It happened 3 times and I was able to use my card after I bought a new card reader certified for SDXC and whole operation of exchanging broken cards took almost 2,5 months! So be careful where you put you 60 dollar card into! Old reader might read the card properly but it can damage while writing stuff to it.
It's not really that important if you plan on using your card only with SGN. At least I don't have any issues with it now. But then there wasn't JB for SGN and so I was trying to use NTFS and so I needed a card reader.
waow very nice news thank you
So happy about this wait for the official update to come!
best news i heard today. thanks.
- post from SGN.
Does this mean we can use files larger than 4gb?
Well, it should. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT states that exFAT should be able to support file size of 16 Exibyte
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Finally!!! Those who use 64GB or bigger cards can use exFAT. I can confirm it works as I'm using it right now. Writing big files to the card is about 10-11MB/s (when I was using fat32 it was 4-5MB/s). It's a shame that it doesn't work in CWM though (can't mount - gives me error). But I think devs will come up with solution for this quickly. So now you know and you can enjoy!
SMALL UPDATE:
If SGN says that your card is broken and needs formating than you should let it format the card. Mine was formated in Windows with SDFormatter application and still SGN gave me message that I need to format the card. After format in SGN it works as it should.
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That's grt
squicky said:
Finally!!! Those who use 64GB or bigger cards can use exFAT. I can confirm it works as I'm using it right now. Writing big files to the card is about 10-11MB/s (when I was using fat32 it was 4-5MB/s). It's a shame that it doesn't work in CWM though (can't mount - gives me error). But I think devs will come up with solution for this quickly. So now you know and you can enjoy!
SMALL UPDATE:
If SGN says that your card is broken and needs formating than you should let it format the card. Mine was formated in Windows with SDFormatter application and still SGN gave me message that I need to format the card. After format in SGN it works as it should.
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Thanks for the good news!
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Quoting entire OP and spamming thanks without using the thanks button.
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Care about file size. SPEED was the problem!
Good you say about cwm and exfat. Need a second card with me then at work, to dl and flash new roms when bored.
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can i formate my internal SD to exfat??
will it work.. ??
I dont need SD card for my use.. Just need 1gb of the total space in it..
I didn't try that, but I'm pretty sure it's not possible, as exFAT doesn't come from Google and it's not open standard (I think Microsoft is selling liceneses for this). Even though Android on diffrent brands of smartphones is modyfied here and there to accomodate the devices and enhance user experience it's still Android and I've never heard that android is supporting exFAT. Even if what I say is wrong (I'm still half noobish so it's possible ) there would be no real benefit from using exFAT on internal sdcard (well apart from "unlimited" file size - like it would matter on 11GB of free space anyway ) as the system was designed for hotswapping/external devices and we have internal sdcard which can't be removed.
What's more I have better writing speeds on my internal card (12MB/s) than on external 64GB exFAT (max 10-11MB/s). I don't really understand what you mean by "I dont need SD card for my use.. Just need 1gb of the total space in it." You think that beacuse of exFAT you will have 1GB more space on your internal sdcard?
It said mine was broken,bla,bla,..reformatted, then week later said same thing!
Don't want to wipe valuable stuff or take it out all the time to back up
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I don't really understand what you're trying to get across here? If you put a 32GB+ exFAT format in your SGN, it will tell you the card is corrupt and ask you to format it (which you should do and which you also mention in your update), which will change it to FAT32 format, so you lose the exFAT format.
Am I missing something here?
Today received sandisk 64 gb sdxc. It was formatted exFat out of the box. I copied all data from old ed to new one. All work fine except clockwork. Clockwork can't mount exFat. Installed rom: Ultimate N7000 xxls7 v4. Kernel: Phil's v3.5
Guys,
The inbuild storage space is less for me. I have a 16GB class 4 sd card which is also full and i need more space. I am planning to buy a 64 GB Class 10 microsd card. Will note support the 64GB class 10 microsd card?
The post above yours sais it does.
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Well I just ordered a 64gb class 10 from amazon. Nice discount from $59 to $39. Will be testing as soon as I receive. You guys should take advantage of the deal too!!
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Thats grt.
Would be really helpful
I'm sorry but who needs 4+ gb files on their phone?
Just format your 64gb card using this tool! Regular windows fat32 format is capped at 32gb, but this tool will allow you to format the whole 64gb. This way you can have both 64gb storage and the card recognized by custome recovieries. Works great on my Note2 and S3.
Hey all. Have tried multiple MicroSd cards from different brands and I always have the same problems. It reads as corrupt, photos/music cannot be read or seen, and it happens every time. This happens whether I format it as Internal or portable. (Portable is preferred.)
My G5 Plus is rooted, and is on Android 7.0. Would appreciate some help, not having any luck with anything I do.
I'm rooted and running pure nexus and haven't had the first issue with my portable formatted 32gb card. Are you on stock rom?
My kingstone 32Gb works great on stock, check if your SDs are fake. There are several test apps to check this
If it's asking to, let the phone format the card, I don't mean internal vs portable but an actual physical reformatting of the card. Backup any data on it, let it format, restore the data and see if that helps.
My good quality SD card used on a previous phone would give me the corrupt error on some roms but not others, and other users weren't having the error with their cards that I was, so I finally just let it reformat once and haven't had the problem again on any roms or stock.
Wondering if it maybe has to do with size of card? You both are on 32gb, but I am running a 128. Thoughts?
It is very possible my card could be fake (ebay purchase), but why would it run fine in other devices? How can I check for fake? It reads as a 125GB or whatever it comes out to when formatted.
Don't know where to do just a normal format. I have formatted it as internal and portable (which I want) and the same problems always resurface.
Thank you all for helping.
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Wondering if it maybe has to do with size of card? You both are on 32gb, but I am running a 128. Thoughts?
It is very possible my card could be fake (ebay purchase), but why would it run fine in other devices? How can I check for fake? It reads as a 125GB or whatever it comes out to when formatted.
Don't know where to do just a normal format. I have formatted it as internal and portable (which I want) and the same problems always resurface.
Thank you all for helping.
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make a search over internet a generic site or in XDA a thread
They are used to flash the firmware of an old sd card (4, 8, 16 GB etc.) with a bigger one, so it will detect as a eg. 128GB but when you try to write more than 4, 8, 16 GB it fails. So i suggest to buy an original micro sd, you will pay more but it won't fail
massima said:
make a search over internet a generic site or in XDA a thread
They are used to flash the firmware of an old sd card (4, 8, 16 GB etc.) with a bigger one, so it will detect as a eg. 128GB but when you try to write more than 4, 8, 16 GB it fails. So i suggest to buy an original micro sd, you will pay more but it won't fail
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I will order a new card and test the one I currently have. Thanks so much for the help, bummer about the fake cards.