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Corrupted SD Card

I'm running CM 4.1.11.1 I think and just recently new apps wouldn't install, so I rebooted and all of a sudden all of the apps just turned into the standard icon and none of them said they were installed except for like 3 or 4 of them. I think the SD card is alright, but must have some kind of error in the ext filesystem as I can see all of the files on the FAT32 portion just fine. Do you guys know of any way to just fix the errors on the ext portion without reformatting it? Or do I have to kill all of the partitions and redo them?

You could use the repair ext filesystem option if you are running a recovery image that has it (Cyanogen 1.4 or RA 1.2.3) or just reformat the ext partition using gparted under linux.

Yeah, the repair ext thing didn't work. I think I may just have to clear off the entire card and start from scratch.

I got the same problem
then I backup all the apps up with: tar cvf /sdcard/backup.tar /data/app/*
then copy backup.tar to your desktop pc
then reformat your tf card and repart the partitions
when it's done,move it to your tf card FAT32 partition again
insert to your Phone
the install CM ROM
when it's done
enter the terminal or adb shell
cd /data/app
tar xvf /sdcard/backup.tar
(if it says read only filesystem something you can try reboot )
then check to make sure all the .apk files are under the /data/app directory
then type
fix_permissions
when it's all done reboot
if some apps' error
reinstall them
that's all I did
good luck to you ;-)

oh,I suggest that the size of your ext3 partition should under 400MB
that't the key to solve the problem I thought

[Q] Help w/ SD Format

Howdy, folks. Having a little trouble getting my SD card to format properly so I can take full advantage of the DL DesireZ ROM. I've read the instructions from F-bone, but still confused.
I've been twaddling around with the Gpartd disc, and can create a 1536MB partition, but when I then segment that to 1024, I keep getting shorted 1MB and wind up with a 511MB partition. I also recall when moving things around seeing a message about the MBR being missing, so I recreated it.
Is there any reason why the ext4 partitions must be at the end of free space, rather than at the beginning? Why do I keep having this 1MB segment floating around? Is that for the MBR, and if so, where should I place it?
Also, the capacity on the card is 16GB (the standard HD2 MicroSD card that came with the phone) but it's showing only 14.8-ish Gig. I presume that's because of the difference between the definition of 'gig' at 1000 and the actual 1024 size, and/or slack space consumed by the partitioning and formatting, but if someone could confirm, it would put my mind at ease.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

I followed the previous and for the first time it went smooth and the build rebooted with no bootloop after first boot.
Ignore the bit where it says what your size for fat 32 should be, that's for an 8gb card, just follow everything and you should end up with 13.4 fat32, I think that's what i had anyhow, all space on card used in 3 partitions
reza416 said:
since there are still people asking for more details on how to install and how complicated its to install & set up partitions on sd card, i've went back to F-bone's previous post which helped me install my nand and partition and added a little more details and links to Gparted and Panasonic formatter. thank F-bone for this!!
Ok here it goes - this guide describes the way I do it to install the NAND+3partitions variation.
1) Download v3.3 and extract it on your desktop.
2) Download Panasonic SD Formatter and GPARTED Live CD ISO (google)
Panasonic formatter link=
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html or
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Gparted live cd iso link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/ (120 MB!)
3) Shut down your HD2 and remove the SDCard - place the SDCard in a card reader and BACKUP your files (photos etc).
4) Format the SDCard in your laptop or PC using the Panasonic SD Formatter (Full Format)
Also, I have windows 7 and you can go to my Start/computer/SD card drive, right click and format: file system choose Fat32, allocation size, choose the highest 32kb or 64kb, uncheck quick so its full format. That will also do it and no need to download Panasonic if you prefer the windows tools.
5) Boot GParted Live CD (instructions on Gparted Live )
-the file you downloaded for Gparted live Cd Iso is an image file meaning you should burn it into a cd or a dvd in order to be able to use it. Do that by any program capable of burning image files ( nero is an example of such programs)
-after making the cd/dvd, place the cd/dvd in your cd/dvd drive and restart your computer, instead of loading windows, Gparted will load from the cd/dvd.
-next as you are entering Gparted you’re faced with 4 options, choose GPARTED LIVE(DEFAULT SETTINGS)
-next 4 more choices, choose don’t touch keymap
-next choose language, 33 for English. Type 33 press enter
-next, will ask you which mode, type 0(continue to start x to use gparted automatically) press enter
Now gparted is loaded,
on the main screen I will be your hard drive partitions, don’t touch anything of your pc partitions otherwise, you’ll possible lose your windows/personal file etc… important!!!
-So on top right, click and choose your sd card.
-when it loads you should see your sd card (Fat32 size 7540 Mb), right click, resize/move
- new window opens, type 1536 under free space following ( for example 7540 minus 1536) and press add ( I’ll add a screen shot)
-now you have two partitions, Fat32 size 6004 Mb & Unallocated size 1536 Mb.
-right click on Unallocated, click new(new box opens),set to primary and under file system select Ext4 then press add.
-now you named unallocated to ext4 so you got Fat32 and Ext4
-do the same process, right click on Ext4 click on resize/move, choose 512 under space following (1536-512) press add, now you have Fat32, Ext4(size 1GiB), Unallocated(size 512Mib)
-just like before, right click on Unallocated, New, set to primary under file system choose Ext4 and add.
-MAKE SURE YOU PRESS APPLY or none of these changes will take effect. After gpart will do its process you’ll have 3 partitions!!!
-At this point your SDcard has 3 partitions FAT32, ext4 1024MiB, and ext4 512MiB - EXIT Gparted and boot into Windows again.
6) Go to your desktop where you extracted the rom and open config.txt
7) Change gps_zone to your country's zone (=gr for Greece) - leave the rest of the settings intact for NAND+3partitions SDcard variation of this rom - save file.
8) Before you remove the SDcard from your laptop or PC make a folder Desire_DL and copy ONLY the config file you just saved to Desire_DL folder.
9) Safely remove the SDCard and place it in your HD2.
10) Turn on HD2 and HOLD power key to get into MAGLDR 1.11
11) Choose USB Flasher(option 4) and press phone (Green) key
12) Connect your HD2 to your computer
13) Go to your desktop and from the rom folder you extracted run Install.
14) Wait
15) Wait
16) Wait… it may take a while, since the rom will format ext4 partition(s).
17) Now that HD2 has booted do the basic settings and REBOOT again. DO NOT INSTALL APPS etc etc at this point
18) Now that you have rebooted for 2nd time you can do whatever you want - maybe do a 3rd reboot to see that everything is stable
NOTE: When the rom boots wait for a while before using the phone until various system services load in the background after the SD card is prepared... wait 30-40 seconds
hope this helps...
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bates_1974 said:
I followed the previous and for the first time it went smooth and the build rebooted with no bootloop after first boot.
Ignore the bit where it says what your size for fat 32 should be, that's for an 8gb card, just follow everything and you should end up with 13.4 fat32, I think that's what i had anyhow, all space on card used in 3 partitions
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Thanks for the post, but it didn't answer my questions. I read both Reza's and F-bone's posts and my problem remains - I have a 511MB (not 512) partition when doing it by their instructions.

BillTheCat said:
Thanks for the post, but it didn't answer my questions. I read both Reza's and F-bone's posts and my problem remains - I have a 511MB (not 512) partition when doing it by their instructions.
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makes no differennce, I had a 512 and a 1023

there is a special tool for format SD card in CWR
boot in Magldr
8. AD Recovery
select advanced
and then Partition SD Card.
you can choose basic settings ....
Works for me

croisade said:
there is a special tool for format SD card in CWR
boot in Magldr
8. AD Recovery
select advanced
and then Partition SD Card.
you can choose basic settings ....
Works for me
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That's for your basic apps2sd, some builds like the one we're running you need to use gparted to create one fat32, one 1gb ext4 and another 350mb ext4, CWM doesn't allow you to do that, just one ext3 so whatever size you select.

Wow. Ok, that's strange. Tried it again today and it worked fine. Wierd. Thanks for the input, guys.

[Q] HD2 & App2SD

Hello everyone,
I've an issue and I am looking for your advise & support. I've bought HTC HD2 512 EU with the following NAND specification:
Android ver: 2.2.1
Baseband ver: 15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14
Kernel ver: 2.6.32.15-saint.J_Rev.005-g009fade-dirty [email protected] #8
Build no: Desire HD Rev.10.XU
Software no: 1.72.405.3
aMAGLDR V1.13
The Issue: I wanted to install App2SD to be able to install apps in SD Card.. I followed this thread => http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926015 & followed Darktremor instructions here.. However, When I entered the MAGLDR menu /AD Recovery I found no CWM recovery mode "no boot source".. So what should I do next as Darktremor approach assumed that there is a CWM recovery mode to be able to format, partition and flash the App2SD, while I haven't!.. What should I do to make it work?
Thank you,

unzip attached file.put the folder you get to your sd card.in mgldr menu: services-boot settings-ad sd dir-find the folder and choose it. now you'll go to mgldr menu automatically now take the second choice:ad sd. so you'll go to ad recovery.(by this method you have to do all these steps each time in order to go ad recovery.so it is recommended to flash a recovery using daf and usb flasher.but this will erase your installed android rom.) and in ad recovery menu backup your current rom.because darktremors method doesn't go well with som roms.and know that it leads 2 extra reboots after you flash it.

mutil, thanks for the reply. I did as you mentioned.. got into the CWM successfully but failed to partition the SD correctly. After it said=> "Done..! partition SD successfully!" I got the screen full of errors like=>
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Falid to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache".
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't find misc
P.S: I choose partition size of 1024mb & swap of 256mb..
Update: I ignored those errors & installed the App2SD & rebooted but didn't notice any change! The available space on the internal storage still 201mb!.. SD card now reads 14gb, previously 15gb..

download a2sdgui from market. move dalvik cache to sd.this gives you some more space.i think a2sd will work for applications you install from now on.therefore i install it just after i installed a new rom.btw 256mb swap is high. you must know that it may harm your sd (but i also use 128mb swap in spite of its risk)

mutil said:
download a2sdgui from market. move dalvik cache to sd.this gives you some more space.i think a2sd will work for applications you install from now on.therefore i install it just after i installed a new rom.btw 256mb swap is high. you must know that it may harm your sd (but i also use 128mb swap in spite of its risk)
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Done!..
Thank you mutil...
About the swap, do you suggest me to redo the whole process again and limit the swap to maybe 128mb?.. I remember that swap partition is always double the mem size..
What is the max recommended ext partition size for the App2SD? because on the CWM you can make the partition up to 2048mb..

no just for that, it doesn't worth to redo everything.next time when you change rom you arrange it.i dont have much knowledge but the swap is said to harm sd-card.but as my experience it also improves speed.

Ext
If u want to install apps on EXT partition don't use App2SD,or A2ext use Data2ext.
Similar to a2ext, where data/app were stored inside your ext partition of the SD card, data2ext stores the whole /data inside your ext partition.
That means your internal storage will barely be used, and because nowadays some SD cards runs faster than your internal memory.
Instructions:
*This is a CyannogenMod version!Not tested on DHD Roms!
1.Make a Ext3 Partition via CWR
2. Flash data2ext_for_CM via CWR (attached) (DON'T FLASH IT ON THE FIRST BOOT OF ANY ROM!)
3. Go to your terminal emulator/adb shell to type data2ext --enable
4. Reboot
5. Go check your Ext storage via Titanium Backup(Your internal storage [220 mb~] will not be increased you must check the ext space from the Overview page of your Titanium Backup [SD card(a2sd):....mb(...mb free)])!

antonymilo said:
If u want to install apps on EXT partition don't use App2SD,or A2ext use Data2ext.
Similar to a2ext, where data/app were stored inside your ext partition of the SD card, data2ext stores the whole /data inside your ext partition.
That means your internal storage will barely be used, and because nowadays some SD cards runs faster than your internal memory.
Instructions:
*This is a CyannogenMod version!Not tested on DHD Roms!
1.Make a Ext3 Partition via CWR
2. Flash data2ext_for_CM via CWR (attached) (DON'T FLASH IT ON THE FIRST BOOT OF ANY ROM!)
3. Go to your terminal emulator/adb shell to type data2ext --enable
4. Reboot
5. Go check your Ext storage via Titanium Backup(Your internal storage [220 mb~] will not be increased you must check the ext space from the Overview page of your Titanium Backup [SD card(a2sd):....mb(...mb free)])!
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mmmm, will give it a try
Does it has a GUI?

plz,help for dual boot......

Guys , I m trying to dual boot my hd2.....but whenever I try to run android kitkat it says kernal fail to open........so plz help me

it wouldn't have hurt to give a little more information

Evilmegadroid, I have done all the process correctly to dual boot my hd2.....wp7 works good but whenever trying to boot android kitkat in maglder it says kernal fail to open....i m using mac4a by macs18max rom.....plz , help me....

Make sure you've set the SD dir to NativeSD.
10.Services => 3. AD SD Dir => select NativeSD

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Make sure you've set the SD dir to NativeSD.
10.Services => 3. AD SD Dir => select NativeSD
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Then 2. boot ad sd

....but there is no native sd option....i have selected 10.services then 1.boot setting then 3.ad sd dir then it shows my kitkat rom name 'mac4a' then 2. Boot ad sd......this is the process i hv done....plz tell me what should i do?

What's inside the mac4a folder? Also check file sizes

mac4a foldler contain extracted rom files i.e 5 flies boot , meta inf, mods, sdcard and system.......

mac4a folder size is 347mb.....m i doing it wrong?

plz reply fast. I m waiting for ur reply.

It sounds like you have extracted the zip and put it on your sd card, instead of installing the zip from recovery.
Have you created an ext4 partition on your sdcard?

finally u got my problem....yes, i have extracted zip file and put all the 5 folders on sd card...but not done ext4 .....plz help me.....explain the solution in detail.

plz, reply fast......

please, reply....still waiting

how to install zip from recovery? Plz help.

it is best to use minitool partition wizard http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html which you might have already. Be careful to identify which is your sdcard and which is your pc and/or hard drive, you do not want to delete your hard drive
Assuming you have FAT32 on the left and an "unformatted" partition on the right (which holds your WP7), you need to create a new ext4 partition from the fat32 partition in the middle, without touching the wp7 partition.
So delete the fat32 partition, then create a 2gb smaller fat32 (primary, default clusters) using the slider on the right
Then create the 2gb ext4 partition (primary, default clusters) in the middle.
Press the tick to actually start the process, or undo if you made a mistake.
You should then have 1st fat32, 2nd ext4, 3rd "unformatted" (it may say "other" for filesystem=wp7) all primary.
You then need to put an sd recovery on the fat32, such as https://goo.im/devs/Xylograph/Various/Recoveries/SD/
unzip it and put the folder with the files in it on your sd card.
put the rom.zip also on the sdcard do not unzip it.
put card in phone
magldr 10 services > 1. bootsettings > ad sd dir and select the recovery folder with the files in it
magldr 2 boot ad sd
install the rom nativeSD
after reboot, magldr 10 services > 1. bootsettings > ad sd dir and select NativeSD
magldr 2 boot ad sd
profit?
Please do not post your questions in the development section any more, people will tend to either ignore you or flame you.

thanks for reply....r u sure there r 3 partitions..? Bec from the video tutorial by dxdy there r only 2 partitions(unallocated and fat32)...and there is no recovery folder or files.....in that video he only copy extracted rom files to sd card.....is ext4 really important?

i have also done the way you said it except ext4 partion.... downloaded the recovery twrp 2.2.2.0 leo sd.zip extracted it and put that folder in sd card with rom.zip ...then selected ad sd dir but there is no native sd option....after selecting boot ad sd still getting same error. It says 'sd kernel open failed'....plz guide me

kalpeshchavan said:
thanks for reply....r u sure there r 3 partitions..? Bec from the video tutorial by dxdy there r only 2 partitions(unallocated and fat32)...and there is no recovery folder or files.....in that video he only copy extracted rom files to sd card.....is ext4 really important?
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Yes, for mac4a rom that you want to install, it must have an ext4 partition to install NativeSD.
The roms that dxdy was talking about are sd builds, which are now superceded by NativeSD.
You could just chose an [SD] build from http://forum.xda-developers.com/hd2-android/sd-dev if you don't want to run the risk of re-partitioning and losing your wp7, laptop or hard drive.

thanks alot for reply....as u said i have created fat32 of 1.69gb but dont show ext4 option it shows ext2 and ext3 so i selected ext3 of 1.45gb....will it make any difference? Can i continue with ext3?

[HOWTO] [L/M/N] Move /data to external SD the hard way

Hello, in this thread I'll show you how to move the /data partition to your microSD card in order to increase the storage space, and bypass the speed limits of our poor eMMC memory.
Disclaimer:
I'm not responsible for any data loss or any other kind of problems. Follow the tutorial and everything will be fine. In case of problems, reflash the boot.img of your ROM or reflash the whole ROM and you'll reboot to Android using the usual /data partition.
Pros:
more storage space
slightly shorter app loading times
Cons:
you cannot eject your SD card from your phone when it is turned on
Requirements:
a computer
some kind of adapter to put the microSD into the computer
a 16 GB (or higher), class 10 (or better) microSD
Any recent L (untested), M (tested) or N (tested) ROM and TWRP 3
these two zips: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=113749
Step 0: prepare the SD card
using your computer, shrink the only partition you have on your SD card and leave at least 6 or 7 GB of unallocated space. Be sure not to shrink too much the first partiton (which will continue to be used as a normal storage partition) because you'll have to store a nandroid backup in it! This is why I recommend you to use a 32 GB SD card. Then create a new partition using the unallocated space. If you're using Windows or OS X, create a fat32 partition, if you're using Linux, create an ext4 partition.
Step 1: patch the recovery and backup, then restore
In the AFH folder I posted in the requirements you'll find two zips. Download them and reboot to recovery, then take a nandroid backup of your /data partition and store it on your SD card (TWRP will automatically use the first partition of the SD card, the one with all your current content). Now flash twrp_fstab_patcher.zip. Power off your phone and then turn it on and boot into TWRP. Now go to Wipe > Advanced Wipe > select Data > Change Filesystem > choose ext4 or f2fs (as you prefer). Confirm and check that the Data partition has been formatted to the chosen filesystem. Restore the backup you've made.
Step 2: migrate the data of the internal storage
Reboot to Android and using a file manager that lists both of your SD card's partitions (FX works for me) and copy all the content of your internal storage (photos, music, app data etc.) to *2nd_sdcard_partition*/media/0.
Step 3: patch the kernel
Now you're ready for the last step. Flash kernel_fstab_patcher.zip and reboot. The end!
Warning: you need to reflash kernel_fstab_patcher.zip after you change/update ROM/kernel otherwise your phone will use the "old" data partition! Similarly, you must flash twrp_recovery_patcher.zip each time you update TWRP 3 (this doesn't happen very often).
Well, I hope I put all the needed info in this thread, I'll keep it updated with my latest suggestions etc. If you have got problems, report them. If you find something that doesn't make any sense in this post, tell me. Enjoy!