I'm looking to reverse my Apps2SD until I get a 16gb class 6 sdcard. WIll the following work?
If I reboot into recovery.
Mount my sd card to back it up.
Format the SD card to regular.
Restore a previous non apps2sd nandroid backup.
copy my regular files back to SD.
THis will reverse it properly right ?
You might be good just to reformat the card and be done with it. Try this. Backup all your files on your fat32 partition. Using recovery, partition it to fat32 only. Then reboot. If that gives you a bootloop then do a nandroid restore. Just repartitioning it should work though.
Trying now. Will report findings...
Did not work.
Restoring from Nandroid now
All back to good now with the nandroid restore. I love backups!
What all will i have to do on a phone i install cyanogen then the dark dream theme (Non morph for now, as i dont know much about it) [[http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=549363]]
and then put a 8gb transcend class 6 microSDHC card into that that i will be getting for christmas.
(My gf had to have me give the money to my mom order it because she doesnt have access to a credit card lols. and i'm getting it this thrusday or friday, because as of the 2AM the 26th im in cambodia and need some time to load up my 8 gigs of space.)
I dont plan to APPS2SD until i get my 8gig card, and dont plan on backing it up until then, speedy replies appreciated, tyvm!
Also, what are the benefits of metamorph or the amon ra recovery over say not having it or the cyanogen one?
Because you have installed Cyanogen ROM you probably have a custom recovery installed such as CM-Recovery-1.4. Boot into recovery, you will see an option for backup, then place the SD card into your card reader. Copy the Nandroid directory from the flash card root directory. When you get your new card simply copy that folder back to the newly formatted (fat32) card, go back into recovery and use the restore from backup feature. Reboot.
BTW, just like when you flashed the rom, use Power+Home while booting up to get into the recovery console.
As long as you are not using apps2sd, this should fully backup and restore the applications.
You could also maybe get away with just copying the files from one flash drive to another and then rebooting, but file permissions might be all messed up - that I am not sure of.
If you have Amon_RA's recovery. Do a BART backup. It'll backup your apps on your ext as well. Copy the bart folder onto your desktop. Partition your new sd card. From there copy the BART folder into your new SD card and do a BART recovery. Voila.
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If you have Amon_RA's recovery. Do a BART backup. It'll backup your apps on your ext as well. Copy the bart folder onto your desktop. Partition your new sd card. From there copy the BART folder into your new SD card and do a BART recovery. Voila.
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Installed Amon_RA, very happy with that system, made the backup way fast, used a 64mb swappiness with 500mb or whatever for ext2 (upgraded to 3 then 4) installed the backup, took like 10 minutes, and between that and going from the stock 1gb microSDHC card to a class 6 8gig transcend, my phone goes like a billion times faster Really recommend it to anyone :] and the card was like 22$ with the shipping, 30$ without the free shipping :O
So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
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So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
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I recommend just writing an image file with winimage. Then writing it to a 8gb card, then using Easeus Partition manager to expand the last partition to full 8 gb.'
Do you boot from the SD card or eMMC?
If it's the latter, just copy the contents of the old card to the new one.
If it's the former, I recommend a fresh install; use a backup program (MyBackup, Titanium Backup) to back up your Apps and Data and then restore when you're done with the fresh install.
I'd like to do this as well.. in response to previous reply.. there are 4 partitions (boot, 2 other and last one with your data) do I have to create 4 different images with winimage or just for the first boot partition or does the winimage creates the image of the whole msd card?
The winimage will create a 4 gb image of your card on the 8 gb cards including existing partitions. What you'll need to do is get the largest partition to expand to the whole card. Assuming that the 4gb install on SD is the same as an 8 gb install if you did it fresh.
If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.
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If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.
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That's a good point, the Size-agnostic SD installer uses different partition sizes for everything except the boot partition depending on the size of the card.
I tried winimage first to see if it even worked. Which it didn't. I didn't try to expand the existing partition. It just booted as a normal nook. You would think this would be a easy process but.... Lol, always new challenges. Guess that's why I enjoy doing this.
Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!
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Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!
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I have done this several times, and I recommend downloading easus todo backup free. Then place both sdcards in a card reader, run todo backup and just copy the 4g to the 8g and expand the fourth partition right there in todo.
This applies especially if you want to copy to same size sd's, as you will not run into the usual image sizing issues.
Hope this helps
I don't know what you're doing wrong. before expanding the partition, make sure the sd boots, if it doesn't, then there's a problem with image being read or written as opposed to the partition.
I also had a problem with a new SD card not booting that I fixed by using the nook (that is the core nook OS) to reformat the card, then put the image onto the SDcard (shouldn't have changed anything as far as I know, but it did anyway).
Ok I tried this and it worked flawlessly. Used win32diskimager to "read" my 4gb sd with cm7 image. and then used "write" to 8gb sd card. It cloned 4 gb original image with 4 partitions and one unused partition of 4 gb. After that used easeus partition manager(latest version) to format unused pattition to fat32 and then merged with last partition of 2gb (move/resize) ..so now I have 6 gb of data partition which i can use to transfer files or move apps from nook's internal drive. The new 8gb card with cm7 image booted without any issues keeping my original settings of 4gb. One thing to mention that somehow it did not work on one pc with windows xp (kept getting write error on win32diskimager program)but worked on my laptop with windows 7.
That is exactly how I have done it in the past as I described in my first post. I don't know why a person would have trouble with it unless there was a format issue (i.e. ntsf, etc).
I tried to do a backup with CWM and it would not allow me to back it up on my external SD card. I got the error "error mounting /external_sd". So I tried doing the backup on my internal. I think it ran out of space and then failed. Now my internal is completely full and I do not know how I can recover my space. I would like to back it up on my micro SD. How can I fix these problems? Thank you.
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Hi,
I have tried a couple of cards in my Note 4 and they work fine within the OS and fine if i uses them in my PC - i can read and write to the cards but when i go into recovery i can't make a backup or install a rom from the external SD, i always get a message saying the card is read only and installs or backups fail?
I have formatted the card to all formats and it makes no difference.
Anybody got any ideas to to fix this as i am running out of space on my internal.
I have used Phils recovery and am currently using the latest version of TWRP.
Thanks for any help.