[ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater
I wrote to sd card with v1.1 img then - safely removed sd
copied nookie-froyo zip to boot section.
I have only 2 partitions one 115mb and 7.** with no file system ( Mini tool PTH )
1 st. try had 4 partitions the middle two bad and last 5.5 with rom on that section after attempted to boot in nook. Got error that original image was not present.
used windisk32 .2 to write to sd
is class 4 8gb.
2nd try had 2 partitions one with boot img. and nookie zip. other partition 5.5 gb FAT
used hp to get disk "back" 1time 7.4gb, 2nd. time got back all but few kb's.
any ideas what I'm doing wrong ??
I'm having a little trouble following your post. However, the one thing jumps out at me. You are using an a tool designed to install CM7 (android 2.3) to install nookie froyo (android 2.2).
Try using it with one of the files it was designed for:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=encore
Thankyou
got it to boot CM7 and market
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So, I bought a class 6 4GB SD card for my T-Mobile, MT3g. I want to root it with the latest Cyan Mod 4.3.2.1 with the 1 click method (theunlckr.com) My question is do I have to manually partition my SD card for Cyan or is this necessary only for Hero ROM's? I f so what is the easiest/fastest way to do it? Understand that by using the 1 click method/ra recovery - this will partition my card automatically! Is this sufficient for Cyan or Hero? Or do I have to use the long partition method?
Thanks,
I used the same tutorial to root my phone. (Same one) Good website. Cyanogen's latest ROM as of now 4.2.5. http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ If you use Amon RA's latest recovery image you can partition your SD Card right from the recovery screen. You can format the whole SD Card and partion it with ext2. Then convert it to ext3 if you want on the recovery screen as well. To get a ext4 partition you'll have to use a UTIL called sdparted pretty simple after I got my phone to work with the AndroidSDK on my computer. Theunlockr also has a tutorial for getting the SDK to recognize your phone.
As far as using any "long method" I've used a number of different ROM's and haven't had a problem by just using the recovery screen options.
Version 4.2.5 is newer then Cyanogenmod 4.3.2.1? If I follow this from xda wiki:
Download the HTC Android 1.6 base image:
http://www.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=enomther/ROM/&file=HTC_ADP_1.6_DRC83_rooted_base.zip
Download the latest CyanogenMod ROM for your device:
http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/update-cm-4.2.3.1-signed.zip
Put all necessary files on your SD card
will I be all set?
corrupted my 8gb sdcard while converting file system & now showing eisa configuration
just was using stock froyo rom a2sd file system ext4, 2, 4, 2 and flashed cyanogen mod 7 alpha 6 then suddenly nothing worked. tried clockworkrecovery mode recovery and tried to go back to froyo nothing happend and system stuck at the boot image removed the sdcard and reflashed odin & started worked. inserted the card fs.convert was incomplete(i think corrupted) rectified it and again stuck at boot image. Removed my sdcard inserted in card reader and nothing found no data no format ideally showing eisa configuration.
anujsh said:
just was using stock froyo rom a2sd file system ext4, 2, 4, 2 and flashed cyanogen mod 7 alpha 6 then suddenly nothing worked. tried clockworkrecovery mode recovery and tried to go back to froyo nothing happend and system stuck at the boot image removed the sdcard and reflashed odin & started worked. inserted the card fs.convert was incomplete(i think corrupted) rectified it and again stuck at boot image. Removed my sdcard inserted in card reader and nothing found no data no format ideally showing eisa configuration.
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Download a partition manager in windows (minitool or easeus), insert your sdcard on a usb reader, and format it to fat32 & repartition through CWM recovery..
I'm running CM7 off of an SD card. I believe if I flash CWM Recovery from ROM Manager, it will flash it onto the eMMC ... is that correct?
Also, if I update the su binary from within Superuser apk, will it update it on the SD or eMMC?
Also, what would happen if I formatted SD from within CM7? Would it format the WHOLE SD or just the FAT32 partition that CM7 sees as the SD card?
My Nookcolor is not rooted or modified at all. I've never booted into the stock rom to be exact.
Thanks for the help.
JoshClarke said:
I'm running CM7 off of an SD card. I believe if I flash CWM Recovery from ROM Manager, it will flash it onto the eMMC ... is that correct?
Also, if I update the su binary from within Superuser apk, will it update it on the SD or eMMC?
Also, what would happen if I formatted SD from within CM7? Would it format the WHOLE SD or just the FAT32 partition that CM7 sees as the SD card?
My Nookcolor is not rooted or modified at all. I've never booted into the stock rom to be exact.
Thanks for the help.
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You are right, flashing from ROM Manager puts it on emmc. And flashing things from CWM recovery normally flashes things to emmc. There are special modified versions of CWM that will flash things to SD, but I'm sure you don't have one of those. If you are interested in getting one that you put on SD so that you can backup your system, etc, just search for alternate CWM recovery and my name. I posted a version. (Edit: look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22719241)
Updating su will put it on the system you are running at the time.
I think formatting the SD will format the whole card, if not at least your boot partition. I would not try it. You can put it in your PC and use partition software to format just partition 4 if you want just that sdcard partition cleared.
Though I'm fairly techy, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to rooting.
Last night, I bought a Sandisk 8g card from Radio Shack. It came with an adaptor and cost about $7. I'm not sure of the class.
I had to follow bits and pieces from various threads because most were either outdated or left out important info.
Anyhow, I popped the adaptor in my HP laptop and wrote the card image to disk. Then I downloaded the latest CM10 nightly from 12/22 and I had to use an older gapps file because the latest one made the keyboard disappear.
So far things are working well except I'm already running out of space.
What am I missing?
affirmwealth said:
Though I'm fairly techy, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to rooting.
Last night, I bought a Sandisk 8g card from Radio Shack. It came with an adaptor and cost about $7. I'm not sure of the class.
I had to follow bits and pieces from various threads because most were either outdated or left out important info.
Anyhow, I popped the adaptor in my HP laptop and wrote the card image to disk. Then I downloaded the latest CM10 nightly from 12/22 and I had to use an older gapps file because the latest one made the keyboard disappear.
So far things are working well except I'm already running out of space.
What am I missing?
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Boot into recovery by holding the n button while powering up. Choose recovery from the menu. When the recovery menu comes up choose format SD card. Process should fix remaining space on the SD card so apps can use it. Reboot when done.
I tried what you suggested, but when it boots into recovery, it runs a few commands and then just shuts down.
It never gave me an option to format.
I tried it again and it still didn't work, but this time I looked at the commands closely when it was rebooting in recovery mode and it said something about "your sd card appears to be formatted correctly".
So maybe that's why it didn't ask.
I was going to try to follow some instructions I found online about partitioning using Mini-Tool Partition Wizard but the instructions kind of fell flat because I couldn't understand them well enough to follow them.
I did see the Fat32 partition, which is the 4th partition, and it is 5.8 GB, but 0 used.
There are actually two Fat32 partitions...the other one is the 1st partition, and it is 204 mb, all used. That is where everything is and why my phone thinks I'm out of space but I don't know how to fix it.
Any ideas?
affirmwealth said:
I tried it again and it still didn't work, but this time I looked at the commands closely when it was rebooting in recovery mode and it said something about "your sd card appears to be formatted correctly".
So maybe that's why it didn't ask.
I was going to try to follow some instructions I found online about partitioning using Mini-Tool Partition Wizard but the instructions kind of fell flat because I couldn't understand them well enough to follow them.
I did see the Fat32 partition, which is the 4th partition, and it is 5.8 GB, but 0 used.
There are actually two Fat32 partitions...the other one is the 1st partition, and it is 204 mb, all used. That is where everything is and why my phone thinks I'm out of space but I don't know how to fix it.
Any ideas?
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in CWM recovery you did not see/select Advanced at the bottom of the first menu and Partition SD card in the second menu? Usually that fixes the fat32 partition for access.
In the CyanoBoot Universal Bootloader, the menu options are:
Internal eMMC Normal
Internal eMMC Recovery
Internal eMMC Alternate
SD Card Normal
SD Card Recovery
SD Card Alternate
When I select SD Card Recovery it says,
"Loading from SD Recovery"...
Then it goes into some Linux commands
Then it goes black.
The end.
Anyhow, I figured out how to expand the space in the first Fat32 partition using the Mini-Tool software...the only thing that bothers me is that all the instructions keep talking about the last partition but on mine the last partition is the second Fat32 section that has the 5.8Gb of space and you can't adjust it.
But I can adjust the first Fat32 partition and extend it out so that it takes up almost all of the 5.8gb.
affirmwealth said:
In the CyanoBoot Universal Bootloader, the menu options are:
Internal eMMC Normal
Internal eMMC Recovery
Internal eMMC Alternate
SD Card Normal
SD Card Recovery
SD Card Alternate
When I select SD Card Recovery it says,
"Loading from SD Recovery"...
Then it goes into some Linux commands
Then it goes black.
The end.
Anyhow, I figured out how to expand the space in the first Fat32 partition using the Mini-Tool software...the only thing that bothers me is that all the instructions keep talking about the last partition but on mine the last partition is the second Fat32 section that has the 5.8Gb of space and you can't adjust it.
But I can adjust the first Fat32 partition and extend it out so that it takes up almost all of the 5.8gb.
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You are not on a dual boot SD, you are on a single boot SD. It has the partitions set up so one rom can run there. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at section B. You will learn a lot about the card.
Sent from my HD+ rooted stock using Tapatalk
Using the Mini-Tool software to expand the first Fat32 partition to use up some of the unused space in the last partition was the answer.
I could have expanded it to take up almost all of the 5.8GB, but I left half of the space intact because I wasn't sure if it was needed for something or not.
I then clicked "Apply" and waited for it to process (reformat?) the sd card.
Then I also went ahead and updated to the next CM10 nightly while I was at it since the sd card was already open on my laptop.
After that I popped it back in to my Nook, booted in recovery mode, it went ahead and installed the newest nightly, and I'm off to the races.
Thanks for your help.
affirmwealth said:
Using the Mini-Tool software to expand the first Fat32 partition to use up some of the unused space in the last partition was the answer.
I could have expanded it to take up almost all of the 5.8GB, but I left half of the space intact because I wasn't sure if it was needed for something or not.
I then clicked "Apply" and waited for it to process (reformat?) the sd card.
Then I also went ahead and updated to the next CM10 nightly while I was at it since the sd card was already open on my laptop.
After that I popped it back in to my Nook, booted in recovery mode, it went ahead and installed the newest nightly, and I'm off to the races.
Thanks for your help.
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When you burned the SD image, did you use the rev 5 image from my updated installation instructions thread also linked in my signature? You need to because CM10 will display the wrong partition as sdcard (partition one instead of 4) if you use an older image. That may be why you were complaining about running out of space.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
Hi,
I have two Nook Color tablets that are running CM11 on SD. The SanDisk microSDs are 16GB each.
I have a constant problem that the space for Apps runs out. So I can't update apps or download any new. The only thing these NCs are used for are Apps. & web browsing. So I don't need alot of space for other tings like saving videos, music & files.
Is is possible to increase the size for the "volume" where the apps are saved?
Thanks in advance.
frav.se said:
Hi,
I have two Nook Color tablets that are running CM11 on SD. The SanDisk microSDs are 16GB each.
I have a constant problem that the space for Apps runs out. So I can't update apps or download any new. The only thing these NCs are used for are Apps. & web browsing. So I don't need alot of space for other tings like saving videos, music & files.
Is is possible to increase the size for the "volume" where the apps are saved?
Thanks in advance.
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You must be running some very large apps because the space is already generous. But yes, you can use partitioning software to change the allocation. But you need to start over fresh. Make the SD and boot once before adding the CM rom zip. Use partitioning software like MiniTool and decrease the size of partition 4 (from the front of the partition), then expand partition 3 to fill the space. That gives you less for media and more for apps. Then install the CM zip and gapps.
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Thank you for your information. I have now re-imaged (v1.3-largest-rev8c) the two 16GB SD-Cards with Win32diskimager, that i have for my two Nook Colors, installed "MiniTool Partition Wizard 9.0" & decreased the size of partition 4 [SDCARD(FAT32)] to 8.0GB. "Apply" on that & then start Resize partition 3 (Ext4) . But I can´t resize that one to use the unallocated space. Isen't it possible to resize an Ext4 partition?
Anyhow, My solution was to delete the third partition. Create a new Primary Ext4 partition. I diden't choose any Cluster size (1/2/4KB) more that let it be as "Default". This way I now have a 5.6GB third partition (for apps), instead of the default that had 1.9GB . I hope this helps me with my out of space problems. Installation of latest Nightly is running.
Unfortunately it looks like it diden't was successfull. The Cyanoboot only loops around now. It says "Loading..." then it gets black & after a while it start over again.
I suppose that the third partition wasen't empty. That't why it dosen't work for me.
Is it possible to re init that partition with data like the first run did? Or do we have another suggestion of partitioning program that can expand an existing Ext4 partition, in Windows, on a SD-Card?
I have now tried with "Paragon Partition Manager". Then it was possible to resize. But still the same problem with loop at boot after installing CM11.
Are there any limit of how large the third partition can be?
Hmmm... Now I have redone everything again, without any modifications to the partitions. But still the same problem, Cyanoboot just loops. Do we have a problem with the nightly? cm-11-20150405-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
The reason I told you to start over is an ext4 partition must be empty to be resized. And if you don't start really fresh your data will still be there. And by fresh I mean taking the card back to a full 16Gb and formatting it with a program like SDFormatter. Then you can reimage. And yes, you must not use new nightly on a new SD. You must start with CM11 CM11 or older. See my warning in the SD thread.
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Okay, so... is this a step by step procedure that would work?
SD Formatter to fully format the SD-card
Win32diskimager with "v1.3-largest-rev8c"
Boot once so partitions are created
Decrease the size of partition 4 (from the front of the partition), then expand partition 3 to fill the space
Add the CM zip and gapps to SD-Card
Install the CM zip and gapps
Then I have done a new try, based on below steps,
SD Card Formatter V4.0 , Full(OverWrite) Took almost an hour for 16GB
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html
Used "Win32DiskImager 0.9.5" to write "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.img"
SD-Card mounted in NookColor, start it up to create partitions & filesystem.
SD-Card back into PC,
Resize partitions 3 & 4 with "Paragon Partition Manager™ 14 Free"
Insert SD-Card in NookColor & start, to make sure it still boots.
SD-Card back into PC,
Copy...
cm-11-20141008-SNAPSHOT-M11-encore.zip
gapps-kk-20140105-signed.zip
... to SD-Card
Insert SD-Card back into NookColor & start it up, installation started to run.
After that the installation is finnished & that the NC it powered off. Power it up again & the CM11 will boot!
Success!
After first boot & configuration. I will update to latest Nightly, cm-11-20150405-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
Thank you for all help!
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After first boot & configuration. I will update to latest Nightly, cm-11-20150405-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
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When you install the nightly (or any zip after M11), you will get an error message during install but you can ignore it. It only causes a problem during the FIRST install to the card. That's why you need to begin with M11.