I tried to do a backup of the sd card and I think I may have taken the card out whilst android was still running. When copying the stuff from the sd card, data.img would not copy, some error. Now when booting in Android it gets stuck on the circle boot screen. I would guess that the data.img got corrupted. What happens if I just deleted it, would android create a new one when booting? I am using android on sd card Core droid with 1GB data image. Will I lose settings/programs?
unfortunately you will lose your data. next time instead of taking off your card use usb transfer.
SHould I delete it and Android will recreate one?
delete all the files related to the rom. the best format the sd card.then put a new sd rom and flash from beginning. the rom will create a new data.img.if you arent using titanium backup (from the market) i recommend you to use it in the future for similar cases to this.
format your card and do a clean intall
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Hey, I just got a new larger and faster microSD card for my phone. I tried just doing a straight copy of the data from one card to the other, but it doesn't work. How do I do a copy that works like the old one does and keep my Fresh ROM intact as well?
couple ways of doing this...
#1. If you do NOT use a2sd
just mount your old sdcard to your computer and copy all the stuff into a folder on your desktop or something.
Then unmount the sdcard on your phone, replace with newer one, move everything back
#2. if you DO use a2sd heres what you do, or im guessing
First star on #1
Boot up into recovery and make a nandroid + ext backup.
Replace sdcard with newer one then partition it like you did to your older card
Move the nand backup you just made onto your new card
Nandroid restore it, then move all your other data onto your card
I seem to be "missing" space on my SD card and I can't figure out what the eff is up. When connected to my PC it shows very little free space (less than 30MB) but when copying all the files to my pc or looking in properties it only has 700 used. I need to put one of my NAND images on it, help...
Here is what happened. I'm new to flashing roms/rooting so bear with me. Had Cyanogen 6.1 stable working flawlessly. Tried installing a theme and got it stuck in a boot loop. I recovered my Nandroid backup and since have been having problems. Mainly the market FCs and so can't get Titanium installed to restore my apps/settings.
I got bright and put my NAND backups on my desktop trying to free some space to make a new one. Bad idea, now there is still hardly and space and I can't load one of my old ones. Any ideas? Is the card dying or is this happened to some of you before? I ordered a new SD card, but it wont be here for a few days. I guess I could limp without all my apps/settings, but I'd prefer not to.
I would copy all of the contents of the SD card to your computer (recommended to do anyways), format the card, boot up the phone, then copy the contents of the SD card from your computer back to the phone.
When I switched SD cards to a 16GB, I tried copying everything to that right away before I had first installed it to the phone, and it wiped the SD card at boot. Lucky I had it backed up on my computer, so I just moved it over and no issue since.
That's my experience.
Hi all,
I currently have apps2sd on my X8 and I wanted to upgrade my SD card. How do i replace the card and copy over the current contents?
Ideally i dont want to have to re-install everything.
Thanks,
-c
I don't know if copying would work so here's logic. first copy everything on your SD card to your new one through your computer. Then delete the copied things from the old SD card. Plug in the new SD card, do a transfer of all apps from phone to SD, then unmount, plug in old, transfer as much apps as possible back to phone. Repeat until all apps have been transfered over.
Could I not somehow copy the ex2 partition and the normal parition and just boot with the new card?
There are basically two ways - get ubuntu, or get software that reads ext2 on windows
or find app on window that can clone ur sd..
Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?
rosso22 said:
Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?
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do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.
samsamuel said:
do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.
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Thanks for that mate, I will try it when my card arrives tomorrow
Nice i needed to know this to 2gb is to small for a sens 3,5 ROM
Tried all the above.
I couldn't get in to CWM again. It worked when I installed my Hyperdroid ROM via SD.
I reflashed CWM, now my NAND android was gone!
I reflashed it, and it works now, but still it sucks balls.
I've a strange problem with my hd2.
all files on SD card or EXT can't be deleted. after deleting it then boot it returns again. i tried formatting SC card and formatting also phone memory with task29 but again all files returned.
is there any program or any software can help me to format my Phone and delete all files?
ahmed_elshaer said:
I've a strange problem with my hd2.
all files on SD card or EXT can't be deleted. after deleting it then boot it returns again. i tried formatting SC card and formatting also phone memory with task29 but again all files returned.
is there any program or any software can help me to format my Phone and delete all files?
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Android creates a lot of stuff on the SD card, as long as the SD card is in the phone and the phone is being used you will have some files on your SD. If you format the card outside of the phone (e.g. with a card reader on a PC) you'll be able to delete everything, but as soon as you use it in the phone stuff will appear on the card again. In the EXT partition this will often be apps if you have an EU HD2 as there's not much internal storage. To be honest, it shouldn't be much of an issue at all seeing as normally these things don't take up much storage at all.
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Android creates a lot of stuff on the SD card, as long as the SD card is in the phone and the phone is being used you will have some files on your SD. If you format the card outside of the phone (e.g. with a card reader on a PC) you'll be able to delete everything, but as soon as you use it in the phone stuff will appear on the card again. In the EXT partition this will often be apps if you have an EU HD2 as there's not much internal storage. To be honest, it shouldn't be much of an issue at all seeing as normally these things don't take up much storage at all.
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thanks for reply.
the problem is that i can't update any file or even install any new rom on my phone. after restart every thing return to the last step. adding any file or software will be removed after restart.it seams that the phone is freeze on its last image. i want to format it and install new rom
I'd removed the sd crad from mobile and tried to format it on PC. but it said that the sd card is write protected.
who can i format it?