Hi!
I'd like to repartition my SD card to have a bigger space for my data and also a smaller swap, because now it's 512MB and it's just too big, I don't need that much. (I accidentally partitioned the bigger sized partition for swap, I wanted to make that size for my data)
I read some questions about this thread, but I don't know if I have to reflash my phone again or I can just repartition the swap and data sizes without any problem.
Any suggestions?
(ps: it's not a problem if I have to reinstall my apps if the system itself works after this procedure.)
Hi.. You don't need to reflash...
- Take a backup of your sdcard as well as titanium
- wipe data from recovery
- format sdcard from settings- sdcard n phone storage
- reboot in recovery and partition acc to your required sizes
- copy your files back to sdcard and restore apps
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Hi, i am very new here and ilack some of the basic info. so i have couples of questions. thanks very much for your answers.
1. what is the internal memory of the htc hd2? and when you partition your sd to fat32 and ext3, will the internal memory be the sum of the ext3 and the phone internal storage?
2. when you want to flash your hd2 with a new rom. do you need to format both partitions of your sd card (fat32 and ext3)
3. when i tried the latest ultimate droid rom, i saw the author posted the rom and another thing called the layout (3.0.2.4_magldr_150M_partitionLayout_30M_cache). what does this do?
4. how do you make the phone to move or install apps in the ext3. and how do you back up those data and apps in the ext3?
and again, thanks guys for helping me out.
1 internal memory, do you mean what's available after a flash? 260 Meg or so with the small cm7 roms (typhoon for example)
No, the internal memory wont show the sum of internal plus ext BUT it will work as if it is. Say you install a 20meg program, internal mem goes down 20 but back up 20 after a restart.
2 no, when you perform the wipes through cwm it takes care of the ext partition and the .android folder on the fat32 for you.
Some apps may put data on the fat32, in which case you can delete those if you want or if you have isues.
3 the layout (clockworkmod, or cwm) sets up the various partitions on your nand (internal) memory, boot, system,cache,data. Without the layout there would be nowhere for the rom to flash into.
The main point of interest in cwm is the system partition size, big roms need big system partitions, sense roms for ex. need 250meg or more, typhoon needs 130. Flash a big rom to small layout fails, small rom on big layout wasted space.
4 you don't, if the rom says ap2sd enabled or words to that effect, it does it automatically. You can test this by loading up some apps then browsing the SD card on a Linux PC
When you run backups and such, it just does it, the phone has no idea that some of the info is on the SD, it treats it as internal.
samsamuel said:
Say you install a 20meg program, internal mem goes down 20 but back up 20 after a restart.
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i dont understand why is that? so if the rom is apps2sd supported, it will automatically install apps to ext3. then it makes sense to me that the mem goes down, but then why it goes back up???
Example, 250meg internal plus 1gig ext partition.
internal memory shows as 250meg,, install 20 Meg app which goes to ext partition BUT the system displays internal mem as 230, , you reboot the phone and check again and internal memory shows as 250 again.
oh, thanks alot, i get it. but which backup solution is the best? and how does backup using clockworldmod work? does it make a backup file to sd card?
ljaypham said:
oh, thanks alot, i get it. but which backup solution is the best? and how does backup using clockworldmod work? does it make a backup file to sd card?
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Hi,
It depends what you want to back up.CWM backup will take a snapshot of your entire ROM system,data,settings,everything.A bit like a ghost image of a drive on your PC.
This way, if you install a new ROM and there is a problem,or you don't like it,you can RESTORE your original ROM and everything is back the way it was before.
CWM backup saves to the sd card.
If you just want to backup data,use something like Titanium Backup.
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?
I'm trying to understand the most convenient way to make a copy of an SD card that has an EXT partition on it. This would need to be done anytime you upgrade from a smaller to a larger SD card, so I have to believe a number of people on these forums have dealt with it.
This is what I'm expecting to be done... please confirm if it's correct:
Make a nandroid backup, stored on the old SD card
Copy the nandroid backup to PC
Install new SD card and partition it accordingly
Copy nandroid backup to new SD card
Perform a nandroid restore
At this point, everything should be as it was, with the larger SD card. Correct? I've also noticed an alternative that would probably work, that being a partition management program like EaseUS.
My 32Gb SD card arrived so I downloaded Mini-Partition to set it up. Then when I went to copy the EXT3 partition from my 8Gb SD card, the option wasn't possible. Apparently I can't copy it into a larger EXT3 space, only unallocated space. So, I removed the target EXT3 partition, making it unallocated, and then tried to copy and resize. Apparently the tool won't let you resize an existing EXT3 partition. I installed EaseUS to try this operation and encountered the same thing.
From what I've just experienced, I'm now thinking that if I try to restore a nandroid backup onto my new card, it will override the newly minted EXT3 partition with the smaller EXT3 partition.
Searching around turned up a lot of Ubuntu/Linux information, requiring one to boot up in those operating systems and execute a long series of commands to enlarge the EXT3 partition. I'd rather not go down that path right now. Is there some easier way of doing this? If not... then I'm thinking what I need to do is move as many apps having data I need to my phone, then just opt not to restore the EXT3 partition and go back to manually move apps to the EXT3 partition again.
* bump * .... anyone?
cytherian said:
* bump * .... anyone?
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What rom are you running?
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What rom are you running?
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Presently running CM7.2, which supports EXT3. I'm just not getting how I can manage the EXT3 partition. When I switch to a new ROM and wipe the system, then all apps installed on the EXT3 partition would be deleted, correct?
So, what this ultimately means is that each and every time I switch ROMs, the EXT3 partition must be wiped and applications manually moved back there. It's annoying, but I haven't found any other way around this.
is there some chance to swap internal memory with SD ? ive managed this on my Note 2 and it work like charm but same script dont work on charm
To do this your device have to be rooted
This method will mount the sd-ext partition as
data, which will make the internal memory becomes greater.
Stay knowing that the script will leave our phone slightly slow, but it's better to stick with the memory full quickly, then after flash wipe all data (Dalvik, date, etc.) do more than once to fix the sd-ext.
INSTALLATION:
1. Partition the sdcard;
- Backup all important data (eg files
Titanium Backup)
- Go to cwm recovery> Advanced> Partition sdcard
Skip the above step, if you have partitioned the sdcard
2. Download the Ungaze_v4b5.zip
3. Space on sdcard (do not extract it)
4. Go to recovery mode
5. Wipe system, data, cache, sdcard, sd-ext
6. Make flash ungaze
7. Restart
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!