Hi, if I want to replace my SD card for my phone flashed with the BacktotheFuture v2, and running Mango, will I have to reflash from scratch, or can I just do a hard reset? Mango appears to be larger than the memory capacity of the phone, so will I lose data if I do not reflash? Thanks!
BlasterNT said:
Hi, if I want to replace my SD card for my phone flashed with the BacktotheFuture v2, and running Mango, will I have to reflash from scratch, or can I just do a hard reset? Mango appears to be larger than the memory capacity of the phone, so will I lose data if I do not reflash? Thanks!
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I think you will loose everything if you swap the sd card.. Would like to know a way to backup but I think its not possible for now..
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Hard reset will do the trick, no need to re-flash. I swapped my 8Gb for 32gb just last week and it went perfectly well, but you lose everything, apart from installed .cabs. For example, if you installed devstorageunlock, then partitions etc, you will have the same on the new card, but whatever you had on the extra partitions will be gone, e.g. Android off SD and everything on that partition.
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Today it opened my phone and it shows my sd card as damaged and all the apps are crashing all over the place, so i reverted to a backup and same deal, i installed the stock htc hero rom and it worked fine, i did a wipe and installed modacos 3.1 again and it finished but all the apps started crashing again and it had all the apps that i had installed previously, how do i restore my phone to a clean stock version of modaco 3.1 without keeping all my apps installed!?
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Today it opened my phone and it shows my sd card as damaged and all the apps are crashing all over the place, so i reverted to a backup and same deal, i installed the stock htc hero rom and it worked fine, i did a wipe and installed modacos 3.1 again and it finished but all the apps started crashing again and it had all the apps that i had installed previously, how do i restore my phone to a clean stock version of modaco 3.1 without keeping all my apps installed!?
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Sounded weird, can agree with that. Are you using apps2sd? Try do a backup of your sd-card, format it, wipe and install ROM. Dont restore a backup or something.
Now copy ur files back to the sd-card and see if it makes any difference
Yeah, it sounds like your ext2 (or ext3/ext4) partition for apps2sd is corrupt. It may even be an issue with your SD card. SD cards are not optimized for ext2/3/4 partitions, and as I learned through running android on my Vogue, it's rare, but your SD card can become permanently damaged by using this filesystem on it.
If formatting your SD card like sinnadyr suggested doesn't work, I would re-partition the entire card, making your FAT32 partition smaller by maybe 512MB and have everything else the same size. This will obviously result in 512MB less usable space on the card, but at that point I don't think you'd have another option anyway.
(I may be off about the size of 512MB... I'm tired and drunk and can't be bothered to look up the actual size of the swap/ext2 partitions.)
If all else fails, try a new SD card.
Your Hero can be saved
Ok... I've had this... and this is how I solved it:
-save what you have to from sd to pc
-format sd
-partition from scratch
-reboot
-put what you saved previously back on
-done
sounds easy, but it actually took me AGES in between finding out and doing it.
In my case it was due to a combination of using a program to move the cache to SD AND mounting the SD card WHILE some app was doing something (APP2SD was enabled). All I know is I never used the cache to SD program again and 3.1 is now running smooth on my hero.
Good luck
Ciao
p.s. If the steps above do not seem to work just do all the Wipes, load another rom, play with it for 2 mins, then re-do all the wipes and start off. I know I'm being a bit confusing but trust me, problem will be solved eventually. Just make sure u have plenty of time when u start the whole process
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There's a guide somewhere how to repartition your SD card through ADB, this is what I did when the same thing happened to me and the partitions were corrupted.
Hi, I have a question
I have on my Leo DFT's WP7 installed with MAGLDR 1.12
I know that all user data in WP7 is stored on the SD card.
So my question is, what will happen if i flash one of the new custom roms without an SD card and then put it back on ? Will I keep my data ?
Thanks
You will loose all your data and the sd card will be reformatted by the install.
So if everything is working for you with the older DFT release, then you should probably leave it until the update from MS comes and you can back it up using Zune.
Tom_H_ said:
You will loose all your data and the sd card will be reformatted by the install.
So if everything is working for you with the older DFT release, then you should probably leave it until the update from MS comes and you can back it up using Zune.
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second that, as far as i can see there isnt anything on this "new" ROM that you cant get working on the original release so yup, i agree, wait for a major update and backup (hopefully we can) our settings etc
partial reason for this is that WP uses both the SD and the internal memory in a kind of RAID 0, thus you cant just take the SD card out on install and make it work on the new ROM, need to remember that the HD7 doesnt technically have removable media, so your not supposed to remove you SD card
Tom_H_ said:
You will loose all your data and the sd card will be reformatted by the install.
So if everything is working for you with the older DFT release, then you should probably leave it until the update from MS comes and you can back it up using Zune.
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I think you didn't get what I meant
The SD card will not be formatted as it won't be there on 1st boot.
I think that it won't be formatted after cause I did a small test:
I switched off my HD2, withdraw the SD card and switched on the phone. It was back to a stock WP7 as it was when I first flashed it.
Then i switched off the phone, put the SD card back on and booted into WP7. And it kept all my data.
So you don't think it will work the same way with custom roms ?
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partial reason for this is that WP uses both the SD and the internal memory in a kind of RAID 0, thus you cant just take the SD card out on install and make it work on the new ROM, need to remember that the HD7 doesnt technically have removable media, so your not supposed to remove you SD card
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That's what I wanted to know, thank you !
I will wait for the MS update then
My phone reset itself for no reason. It was laggy so I restarted. When it rebooted, all the apps I had installed wod force close (samsung default apps worked fine) and all my personal info was gone (phone nos, contacts, settings, etc).
When this happened first two times, i replaced my phone. Now it happened on the replacemwnt SGS.
I am thinking it may be the sd card (I am using an 8gb external sd I have from my previous Moto Mestone). I've been running for about a week with no reset since I took the card out from the phone. I would however like to use the sd card for the additional storage.
Anybody know if the sd card could have been the problem and maybe how to fix it?
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Anybody know if the sd card could have been the problem and maybe how to fix it?
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Yes, it sounds like this
Did you already try to boot the phone without the external-SD-Card being plugged in? Or just tried booting with another external SD-Card?
If not, copy over your data form ext. SD-Card to your PC and reformat the external SD-Cardwithin the system settings.
Maybe there are some system files from your Milestone left which SGS doesn't like
Installed Darky's rom. Do not seem to have that problem anymore.
Thanks
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Just looking for some help guys.
A few days ago my phone suddenly dropped from 20mb free space to 4mb and wouldn't stop giving me the warning about available space.
SO I remember this was an issue with people who upgraded to Froyo. So I decided to wipe my phone. after the wipe the phone started rebooting everytime I installed/upgraded an app.
So I loaded up RSD Lite and flashed Froyo on it and the phone now randomly reboots about every 2 mins. I even tried downgrading to eclair, but it just gives me errors when the flash is complete.
So just looking to see if anyone has any recommendations, or is my phone destined for that great recycle bin in the sky?
Hi!
Well, I belive that I may remenber a similar issue some months ago... I dont remenber well how I really fixed and I almost sure that it fixed by reflashing again with froyo, sine this is the only resource that I had to try it out... also seems that when You upgrades to Froyo is not possible to downgrade/return to a previous android version (and it seems that is not only in FlipSide, so seems the same for other Moto models...)
so, by the way, I may suggest... Remove Your SiM and SD memory cards, Put the phone in flash mode an reflash the froyo again, and also backup you personal files from Your SD memory card and erase everything from SD memory card (prefer reformat your SD card) and then when Your phone reboot normal and after an initial setup BEFORE recopy your personal files, AGAIN reformat WITH YOUR PHONE MENU OPTION Your SD card and do an factory restart... may sounds silly so lot of erase and wipes... but in my case, after this such harsh cleanning make my trouble phones working fine and stable again, and after that I restore again my personal files to my SD card.
Good luck and best regards!
xaser66 said:
Hi!
Well, I belive that I may remenber a similar issue some months ago... I dont remenber well how I really fixed and I almost sure that it fixed by reflashing again with froyo, sine this is the only resource that I had to try it out... also seems that when You upgrades to Froyo is not possible to downgrade/return to a previous android version (and it seems that is not only in FlipSide, so seems the same for other Moto models...)
so, by the way, I may suggest... Remove Your SiM and SD memory cards, Put the phone in flash mode an reflash the froyo again, and also backup you personal files from Your SD memory card and erase everything from SD memory card (prefer reformat your SD card) and then when Your phone reboot normal and after an initial setup BEFORE recopy your personal files, AGAIN reformat WITH YOUR PHONE MENU OPTION Your SD card and do an factory restart... may sounds silly so lot of erase and wipes... but in my case, after this such harsh cleanning make my trouble phones working fine and stable again, and after that I restore again my personal files to my SD card.
Good luck and best regards!
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THanks, I think you're onto something with the SD card. I remember months ago I had an issue with the phone rebooting if I had this one certain SD card in my phone. Thanks for the help and joggin my memory.
SCREEN HD2:
Storage card not working
Your storage cart has changed is
damaged or is non-compliant.
To fix this, turn off you phone and either
remove the storage card or replace it with
a new compliant card. Then you’ll need to
reset your phone to the original factory
settings.
To reset your phone, refer to the owner´s
manual.
I installed [19.7.2012][NT 8779 V1 18L 3La 3Lb]LEO_ML_51240101_R_5710902a_22515021 by ansar. Before I had this rom installed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953078. I had SPL-2.08.HSPL, Radio 2.15 and DFT MAGLDR Bootloader v1.13 installed. While using the HD2O© WP7 8779 (TANGO) The phone worked fine, I even was able to attain a activation code. (did it all in like 4 hours really late last night). So this morning I just flashed the one I said i installed 2nd above and thats when I started getting this problem. Ive tried the methods of the 1234 reset and things. So wondering if i have to go all the way back to stock 6.5 and work my way back again or if there is something that I can do. Because even booting up without SD card i still get the same error message.
did you format your card in PC before flashing new ROM?
sometimes behavior with SDcards is unpredictable... almost all problems in HD2 WP7 is related to SDcards...
dxdy said:
did you format your card in PC before flashing new ROM?
sometimes behavior with SDcards is unpredictable... almost all problems in HD2 WP7 is related to SDcards...
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0k so i was able to get past it by going into madglr and pressing reset. But unfortunently the phone won't recognize any of my 3 sd card. 2 are 2gb and one is a 4gb. Is there anyway to get it to recognize them?
-thanks
krinilssen said:
0k so i was able to get past it by going into madglr and pressing reset. But unfortunently the phone won't recognize any of my 3 sd card. 2 are 2gb and one is a 4gb. Is there anyway to get it to recognize them?
-thanks
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per other posts and threads...it's a hit and miss with sd cards. personally, i've never had any sd card issues using yuki rom, but roms from other chefs have caused sd card compatibility issues. there is something about the base wp7 rom by those other chefs which causes sd issues. i have used sandisk, 3c, topram, lex brands...no problems with yuki, but causes problems with pdaj, hd2o, and ansar roms.
and fyi...there's no need to format the sd prior to using with wp7. wp7 will reformat the whole card anyway.
another issue you may have with your sd card is if you used them with yuki. if this is the case, you need to reinstall base yuki, install devstorageunlock cab, unlock sd card, then you can use the cards with roms by other chefs.