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Needed: Brave person - internal SD files needed

Pretty much my internal 2gb microSD card has died on me and i need everything off of it to relpace it with a new microSD card. i have a spare 8gb microSD and it would be a great help if somebody could get me these files and then help me partition the 8gb card correctly to work with the streak. ANY help is greatly appreciated because i dont have the money to buy a new Streak
Edit - All is working now. i ended up replacing the card and flashing all the .img files via fastboot. the original card just decided it didnt want to be dead anymore and is now working correctly too. If anyone is having the problem where recovery says to insert a microSD with an update.pkg file (and you actually have it in) the fastboot method is a workaround to flash and all should work back as normal after that

Should be possible without opening ones streak with ADB, maybe even with root explorer. I am at work right now, but if nobody has answered your call I'll see what I can do.
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gilrad said:
Should be possible without opening ones streak with ADB, maybe even with root explorer. I am at work right now, but if nobody has answered your call I'll see what I can do.
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im not the most tech savvy person around but i can follow directions pretty well. i found this thread
http://android.modaco.com/content-page/311538/hardware-hacking-this-puppy-input/page/80/
and was also linked to it on my twin thread at modaco but it doesnt seem like its going to work the way the stock one would also i still wouldnt have the correct files that are supposed to be on the card. the people on that thread are doing it for storage space. i just want it to work like stock but i only have an 8gb card.

Sorry I should have been more clear, shouldn't be too hard for the person who would help you to do it without opening their streak.
Actually, I would think that so long as you get the partitioning correct (you might have to simply ignore the extra six gigs of space), you might just be able to flash the default recovery and install a .pkg from there.
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gilrad said:
Sorry I should have been more clear, shouldn't be too hard for the person who would help you to do it without opening their streak.
Actually, I would think that so long as you get the partitioning correct (you might have to simply ignore the extra six gigs of space), you might just be able to flash the default recovery and install a .pkg from there.
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got it all working. thanks for the advice. check edited first post if you care to find out how

punkrckriot said:
got it all working. thanks for the advice. check edited first post if you care to find out how
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Did you get this to work at all? I am facing the same problem, except I was able to salvage the internal sd-card. I reformatted with the ext3 partitions, same size as before. My problem was that I somehow removed all files from the internal sd-card and my phone went dead, no qdl nothing. If you would please tell me how you fixed this problem.
Thanks

ebaul said:
Did you get this to work at all? I am facing the same problem, except I was able to salvage the internal sd-card. I reformatted with the ext3 partitions, same size as before. My problem was that I somehow removed all files from the internal sd-card and my phone went dead, no qdl nothing. If you would please tell me how you fixed this problem.
Thanks
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Go here and read step #12 in post #2. Worked for me when I upgraded my internal card. I installed the card blank and let the streak do the rest. Followed it up with a full Nandroid restore.
http://android.modaco.com/topic/336...l-sd-upgrade/page__view__findpost__p__1658941
kraz

Couldn't you just use qdltool?
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krazman325 said:
Go here and read step #12 in post #2. Worked for me when I upgraded my internal card. I installed the card blank and let the streak do the rest. Followed it up with a full Nandroid restore.
http://android.modaco.com/topic/336...l-sd-upgrade/page__view__findpost__p__1658941
kraz
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Agreed...mine died and refused to boot.
replaced with another blank old 8gb card an restored nandroid...instant reboot and working fine.

you dont need... just put a blank one and factory reset... I put to mine 8GB

Wp7 and sdcards.....be careful!!!!!

Well its my own fault but I thought maybe I can save some others the heartbreak of a damaged sdcard. We all know that wp7 reformats the sdcard when installing the first time. Also if you switch sdcards while phone is off or anything and then boot into wp7 you will fry your card.
I flashed wp7 just to see what it was all about blah blah. Decided it was time to return to android. Blah blah i stuck my android sdcard with all my backups, pics, work stuff back into the phone and rebooted to flash android back through nand . Somehow i let it boot back to wp7 instead of nand and it killed my card. Lesson learned. Keep your sdcard 10ft. away from Wp7 at all times. Don't switch out your wp7 sdcard till you are actually back in android just to be safe. Oh and backup your sdcard!!!!!!!!
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Though the information is greatly appreciated, why did you post this here? This is a test forum created to see how the site would react to adding sub-forums when the new forum layout project is started on Saturday.
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Thread moved to the correct forum and reopened.
Mark.

If for any reason your sd card becomes corrupt just use this program: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.

Thank you for this post, I was not aware that something like this can happen, and now I'll take precautions so it wont happen to me.

TheATHEiST said:
lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.
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Did you actually read the second paragraph????? Yes I read the read-me. That's how I knew to use a spare sdcard. Plus the read me states that the card will be reformatted upon first boot and if removed the phone will lose all userdata. Had nothing to do with stupidity. Has to do with a pregnant wife needing my attention and me letting go of the power button to soon. Stuff happens.
Now to be more helpful than negative......unlike the athiest with his stellar "I don't believe in God, but I sure think I am a God of android" bad attitude.
The sdcard wasn't reformatted. It was showing as being damaged. I was able to find a simple, free data recovery program that was able to recover most of the card.
I see this may happen often because after using wp7 you may be in a haste to flash back to android (wp7 is just sad IMO). Just wait till you are booted into android just to be safe. Also while fixing my mess up yesterday I stumbled on another problem.
Recently read a post about partitioning the sdcard for optimum use when ram builds came out. System -ext. for data and another for cache. I picked up this sdcard off the desk after finding my main card had been damaged. Then did a task 29, flashed magdlr, and Mdj's gingerbread. Inserted the sdcard and did first boot. To my surprise I had all of my apps pre loaded and I hadn't logged into Google yet so I knew it wasn't Google data backup that loaded my apps. So I went into root explorer and saw the ext. and then realized which sdcard I had slid in. There for a second I thought "WOW me and mdj have the exact same apps". Blah blah reformatted card and reflashed gingerbread. Done.
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Thank you....srry for the mix up.
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Thread moved to the correct forum and reopened.
Mark.
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Myself, and a few others, have manged to reformat the SD card in a single button press by puttinf it into a digital camera and using the format option. It shows the card as 200mb but after the lighting quick format reads the correct size...voila.

Thanks...good to know. I will try it today. It took 8 hrs. for that application to fix my sdcard so that the computer could read it. Though my phone still wont read it. Out of 3700 pics I recovered 98% of them, all of my work files and android apps. Got real lucky. Took another hour after that for the computer to copy them to another 16gb card. Made for a long night. Now when I get home I can reformat the bad card and use as backup.
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I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd

madu2 said:
I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd
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Do you have any suggestions for a good data recovery application. The one I used was free and easy to use but cost me about 4 he's of sleep. I know a lot of ppl experience sdcard corruption frequently maybe we can get it into a sticky that ppl will find before they reformat. I did not know till last night that it was possible to recover drives this way. I almost erased all of my families Christmas pics. PREGNANT wives don't like that kind of news. OF COURSE THE BEST WAY IS TO BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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Its on the table by the remote control!!!
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
edit:
figured it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10719128&postcount=6

vinbomb said:
okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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Just download and install SD Formatter 3 on your pc, run the program and in the options change FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to ON and leave it at QUICK FORMAT. Dont worry that it only shows the 200MB partition it will reformat your card and bring back its full size. It worked everytime for me.
Mark.

i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!

google samsung sd formatter. Format as FAT32 with overwrite enabled. It fixed my bad card when i returned to android
By the way, you have to mount the card via MAGLDR as it wont mount in android (it is detected in windows this way)

vinbomb said:
i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!
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have you bought the sd card from ebay? it might be fake. It happened to me too, bought a 32gb microsd, for about 20 euro, knew it was fake, but i just tried my luck. When the package arrived it got myself some brand new earrings, probably worth 2 bucks.

Bad internal SD card, I need help to replace it :)

Hello all, I need your help. I'm using dell Streak 5. The phone factory resets by itself, I know that the problem is bad internal SD card, I have some skills for opening phones, and replacing internal parts, so this is no problem for me, but still I need your help. I have several questions:
-Can I put micro SD 2GB or 4GB(I know this is maximum, do not want to edit system files tu accept bigger card) Class 4?....becorse I live in small country, I can't find SD card's with bigger class.
-Which class is the original internal SD card from 2GB?
-And the must imortant question, after replacing the new and formated(in FAT32 I thing) micro SD card need something special to do, or just need to do factory resset and wait for the phone to create partitions on the micro sd card? I am asking this question because my phone is running on latest official Froyo ROM 2.2.2. Is it necessary to instal custom rom, or I can be able to change the inner SD card running on official Froyo, with only factory resset? The data on internal sd card is not important to me, I do not need a back up, I just want my phone to accept the new card, becorse I spent 400 euros for my beloved phone. Thank you very much!

You need to search. This has been covered.
I will tell you that the internal sd card is not formatted fat32 as it is used in the phone.

marvin02 said:
You need to search. This has been covered.
I will tell you that the internal sd card is not formatted fat32 as it is used in the phone.
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Ok Thank you, I will replace my new internal sd card without formatting. I was searching everywhere and can't find someone that was replacing internal sd card on phone running on official 2.2.2 Froyo :S. I was found that on Streak with StreakDroid 1.9 Custom RoM is only necessary to do factory resset after replacing the new sd. I don't know if this procedure 'll work on my Streak with Official 2.2.2 ROM. So, can someone ansver me? Thanks .

Maybe Marvin02 or TheManii or someone more knowledgeable can step in but as long as you use a 2GB card, you'll be good with the stock ROM.
BUT this is the part Im not sure of, if you swap out for a 4GB card, then you do need to have installed StreakMod and StreakDroid, this is from personal experience. I changed mine out and had StreakDroid 1.9.0 installed. When I powered the phone up, it did all the work, I just had to wait.
Not sure if the same is true using a 4GB or larger card with stock ROM or any of the other custom ROMs

sdan87 said:
Hello all, I need your help. I'm using dell Streak 5. The phone factory resets by itself, I know that the problem is bad internal SD card, I have some skills for opening phones, and replacing internal parts, so this is no problem for me, but still I need your help. I have several questions:
-Can I put micro SD 2GB or 4GB(I know this is maximum, do not want to edit system files tu accept bigger card) Class 4?....becorse I live in small country, I can't find SD card's with bigger class.
-Which class is the original internal SD card from 2GB?
-And the must imortant question, after replacing the new and formated(in FAT32 I thing) micro SD card need something special to do, or just need to do factory resset and wait for the phone to create partitions on the micro sd card? I am asking this question because my phone is running on latest official Froyo ROM 2.2.2. Is it necessary to instal custom rom, or I can be able to change the inner SD card running on official Froyo, with only factory resset? The data on internal sd card is not important to me, I do not need a back up, I just want my phone to accept the new card, becorse I spent 400 euros for my beloved phone. Thank you very much!
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Hi, I've replaced my original internal 2GB microSD class 2 to 4GB class 10 without any problem (i think Dell Streak will accept any class).
* Download 'QDLTool3rd_20101022_GAUSB1A130500' and unzip to folder on desktop (google 'QDLTool3rd_20101022_GAUSB1A130500').
* Power Dell Streak on the first time with inserted 4GB internal microsd card and wait until auto format is done and display error message come on.
* Power off Dell Streak by remove the battery and re-insert it back after 5 seconds.
* Plug-in USB Data cable into your computer
* Press and hold the volume up button then insert Data cable into the Dell Streak.
* Goto your QDLTool3rd folder on your desktop and execute QDLTool.exe file and select RUN option (should you get driver error then Google search, install and start again).
* On completion your Dell streak will boot into android 2.2 with old Baseband.
From here you can update latest Baseband and flash Steven 1.9 or 1.91 or in my case Simple Streak 1.3 Beta4.
Should you require help PM me. Also check out my previous post for photo of my Dell streak with inserted 4GB microSD, working.

cdzo72 said:
Maybe Marvin02 or TheManii or someone more knowledgeable can step in but as long as you use a 2GB card, you'll be good with the stock ROM.
BUT this is the part Im not sure of, if you swap out for a 4GB card, then you do need to have installed StreakMod and StreakDroid, this is from personal experience. I changed mine out and had StreakDroid 1.9.0 installed. When I powered the phone up, it did all the work, I just had to wait.
Not sure if the same is true using a 4GB or larger card with stock ROM or any of the other custom ROMs
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Thanks for sharing your expirience, I ll be happy with another 2GB micro sd card, I no need 4GB. Only want my Strek to work without ressets. I 'll try with new 2GB Class 4.
awexdasome said:
Hi, I've replaced my original internal 2GB microSD class 2 to 4GB class 10 without any problem (i think Dell Streak will accept any class).
* Download 'QDLTool3rd_20101022_GAUSB1A130500' and unzip to folder on desktop (google 'QDLTool3rd_20101022_GAUSB1A130500').
* Power Dell Streak on the first time with inserted 4GB internal microsd card and wait until auto format is done and display error message come on.
* Power off Dell Streak by remove the battery and re-insert it back after 5 seconds.
* Plug-in USB Data cable into your computer
* Press and hold the volume up button then insert Data cable into the Dell Streak.
* Goto your QDLTool3rd folder on your desktop and execute QDLTool.exe file and select RUN option (should you get driver error then Google search, install and start again).
* On completion your Dell streak will boot into android 2.2 with old Baseband.
From here you can update latest Baseband and flash Steven 1.9 or 1.91 or in my case Simple Streak 1.3 Beta4.
Should you require help PM me. Also check out my previous post for photo of my Dell streak with inserted 4GB microSD, working.
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This mean that original internal sd card is only class2?.....I will change it with another 2GB Class 4 micro sd card. So I must run qdl tool?....is it possible to brick my Streak with this software? Thank you very much, if I need help I 'll PM you my friend. Thanks a lot.

This is the problem with not searching for and reading the existing threads on this topic. You are getting replies from just one or two people and not the benefit of previous longer discussions.
Here are some links:
Hardware Hacking the Streak – thread at MoDaCo, main focus is replacing the internal SD Card with a faster, larger card
How-to Increase streak storage up to 62 GB – an extension/continuation of the hardware hacking thread at MoDaCo
Changing Internal SD - thread here at XDA
While I have not done this replacement I would not recommend using the QDLTool as a first attempt.

sdan87 said:
This mean that original internal sd card is only class2?.....I will change it with another 2GB Class 4 micro sd card. So I must run qdl tool?....is it possible to brick my Streak with this software? Thank you very much, if I need help I 'll PM you my friend. Thanks a lot.
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Yes, the internal 2GB microSD is class 2 (mine is anyway). I can only tell you that I've ran QDLTool many times over and not yet does my Dell Streak Brick beyond repair (IMO, it's very hard to brick the Dell Streak unless it's hardware damaged). I've messed up my Dell Streak many times, including no power dead, no fast boot, no recovery and no response at all to any button being pressed, and so I though until I was able to recovered using QDLTool and fixed it every time.
FYi, I've removed 4GB microSD card from my Dell Streak and re-inserted the original 2GB microSd back and the Dell Streak boot up fine.
Please understand that this is my past experienced and results, in no way am I saying that the same result will be for your device.

I share my experience 2 days ago, I changed my internal microSD to a Kingston class 10 8GB card, the smallest I can find.
I did a full nandroid backup before removing anything.
Change the cards, power up and 2 partitions are automatically created, mounted at /cache and /data.
Boot to recovery and restored nandroid backup, all is well running Steve's rom 1.91.

I have a similar problem with my streak that I have just got, that it is stuck at the dell logo. When I try to run an update or factory reset it only goes half way through, and says error with e: cache.
I have done qdl but this doesn't work, tried different updates, roms etc with no success. I went onto the fastboot menu and did the engineering codes which seemed to imply a internal memory card fault.
So, my question is, if I replace the internal SD card, will this solve the problem?
I have searched various threads but cannot seem to see the correct solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
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spanner44 said:
I have a similar problem with my streak that I have just got, that it is stuck at the dell logo. When I try to run an update or factory reset it only goes half way through, and says error with e: cache.
I have done qdl but this doesn't work, tried different updates, roms etc with no success. I went onto the fastboot menu and did the engineering codes which seemed to imply a internal memory card fault.
So, my question is, if I replace the internal SD card, will this solve the problem?
I have searched various threads but cannot seem to see the correct solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
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My friend be strong and take a leap of faith. Since there is no available answer to your problem and your Dell is not working anyway, why not replace your internal microSD and then follow the method in my previous post and see (start with a 2GB or 4GB first).

awexdasome said:
My friend be strong and take a leap of faith. Since there is no available answer to your problem and your Dell is not working anyway, why not replace your internal microSD and then follow the method in my previous post and see (start with a 2GB or 4GB first).
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I think that if you replace the internal sd card it going to solve your problem. I'm still reading for this problem on Streak, and this seems to be a common problem for Streaks . Please find on google how to dissasamble your Streak is not hard, but be careful there is flax cable under tach panel! My Streak now is working fine after Factoruy ressets and clearing dalve catches on internal sd card.....so I do not know what to do now to change the card or not....

sdan87 said:
Ok Thank you, I will replace my new internal sd card without formatting. I was searching everywhere and can't find someone that was replacing internal sd card on phone running on official 2.2.2 Froyo :S. I was found that on Streak with StreakDroid 1.9 Custom RoM is only necessary to do factory resset after replacing the new sd. I don't know if this procedure 'll work on my Streak with Official 2.2.2 ROM. So, can someone ansver me? Thanks .
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I did, in Streak Q&A. I installed an 8gb card and it is working fine

netomx said:
I did, in Streak Q&A. I installed an 8gb card and it is working fine
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Only with factory resset, without nandroyd or QDL Tool?

sdan87 said:
Only with factory resset, without nandroyd or QDL Tool?
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Yes, factory reset. Didnt tried nandroid, but I read that it can be done.
Just remember to wait like 5 minutes for the first run!

So far I have been lucky fixing my memory cards with Ubuntu.You can install it along with windows or inside windows.I always have a computer with both OS's.

spanner44 said:
I have a similar problem with my streak that I have just got, that it is stuck at the dell logo. When I try to run an update or factory reset it only goes half way through, and says error with e: cache.
I have done qdl but this doesn't work, tried different updates, roms etc with no success. I went onto the fastboot menu and did the engineering codes which seemed to imply a internal memory card fault.
So, my question is, if I replace the internal SD card, will this solve the problem?
I have searched various threads but cannot seem to see the correct solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
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When you used qdl tool....are you sure you had the update.pkg and the matching bb ams file in the same folder as qdl....and the same update.pkg on your sd card.....and no other update.pkg or mbss bb in the folder/sd card except one set
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I am not an expert on the QDLTool but looking at the version that was available as 'repairtool' on StreakDroid there is no update.pkg in the zip file for that. I am no expert and have only used the versions of qdltool available from StreakDroid.
Also there is a thread in the dev section that indicates that the qdltool is married to a specific set of files unless you modify the code directly. This would mean to me that unless you make modifications to the code any files that did not come with the version of the tool you are using will not be used. Whether having additional files on the sd card or in the folder on your computer where qdltool resides will cause an issue I do not know.

im not an expert in the qdl either....but i remember when i first used it i had to download the update.pkg separetly and put it on sd card....i put a copy in the qdl folder along with the amss/bb file;this was back when the 305 rom came out,so from what i figuered,was the qdl tool is just pushing a factory restore...thats complete(not like just running a fr from streakdroid).....but it uses what ever update.pkg that you put on it.....it doesnt have a built in rom

netomx said:
Yes, factory reset. Didnt tried nandroid, but I read that it can be done.
Just remember to wait like 5 minutes for the first run!
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Thank you very much this information is very important for me

Help please...problems with my 8gb internal micro sd card

Hello all, i'm new and noob in the android OS and tablets and stuff, so i'l need a little help from you if you would like...i've got a dell streak 5 and somehow i managed to open it and mount an internal micro sd card 8GB class 10 and i installed a android 2.2 on it with the fast boot and qdl tool. now when i try to install some apps i always receive the following msg: sorry, there's not enough space to install this item. i have a 6.4 gb of free space so...what's the problem here? it is not formatted ? and if is not how should i do this?
please help

try to unmount the external sd and try again

U need to research which card are compatible with the streak... I think it only recognizes 2 or 4gb idr
But anywho, you can't just throw in a big card without even seeing if it'll work first..

cameronmfjay said:
U need to research which card are compatible with the streak... I think it only recognizes 2 or 4gb idr
But anywho, you can't just throw in a big card without even seeing if it'll work first..
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That's not true. I have an 8gb card on mine class 4 and works good.

Hardware Hacking the Streak – thread at MoDaCo, main focus is replacing the internal SD Card with a faster, larger card
How-to Increase streak storage up to 62 GB – an extension/continuation of the hardware hacking thread at MoDaCo
Changing Internal SD - thread here at XDA
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Thx marvin02

What I meant was he cant switch cards without prepping the new one and just expect everything to work..

cameronmfjay said:
What I meant was he cant switch cards without prepping the new one and just expect everything to work..
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I did it and worked. Obviously the internal card is just for apps... is he intents to use it as media, he has to make the hack on the link

well, thanks for your help, but i recall i'm a noob and i'm going to remain a noob until i can understand you language. do stuff like linux hack os not so simple for me. yes, i can do it with a proper tutorial or so...so, if you already did this, please take me step by step like a tutorial.
i'll really appreciate your help

Drakonian said:
well, thanks for your help, but i recall i'm a noob and i'm going to remain a noob until i can understand you language. do stuff like linux hack os not so simple for me. yes, i can do it with a proper tutorial or so...so, if you already did this, please take me step by step like a tutorial.
i'll really appreciate your help
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If you want the internal SD for apps, but open it, change you internal SD, and make a factory reset (NOT from the custom recovery, use the Dell screen).
Or do you mean to open your Dell?

Drakonian said:
Hello all, i'm new and noob in the android OS and tablets and stuff, so i'l need a little help from you if you would like...i've got a dell streak 5 and somehow i managed to open it and mount an internal micro sd card 8GB class 10 and i installed a android 2.2 on it with the fast boot and qdl tool. now when i try to install some apps i always receive the following msg: sorry, there's not enough space to install this item. i have a 6.4 gb of free space so...what's the problem here? it is not formatted ? and if is not how should i do this?
please help
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You didn't format it before inserting the new card? The internal sd should be ext3 like this:
Code:
/dev/block/innersd0p5 /cache ext3 rw,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,commit=99999,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/innersd0p6 /data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodiratime,errors=continue,commit=99999,data=writeback 0 0
I don't know how you could install the rom without having acorrect partition type on your sd card, though. Check to see using 'adb shell mount' on your PC. To format the sd card, you'd need a program like parted.
Hope it didn't misunderstand your problem.

yes, i installed android 2.2 without formatting the micro-sd card. if i'm correct, you'll need ext3 partition for the apps, not for the os. or it's done auto when i did this with the qdltool software.
i'll try something else and i'll post the result here

sd card and camera!

I just recently updated my htc hd2 from windowns 6.5 to android 2.3.2 and everything works perfect and the camera evens opens up but it tells me that i need to install an sd card to take a picture but i already have a 16gb sd card in thers sooo i dont know what to do??

stephanieb10 said:
I just recently updated my htc hd2 from windowns 6.5 to android 2.3.2 and everything works perfect and the camera evens opens up but it tells me that i need to install an sd card to take a picture but i already have a 16gb sd card in thers sooo i dont know what to do??
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If it's the same one you used with wm 6.5 it is locked and cannot be read by android.
You need to unlock it which is not that easy to do.
It seems that some nokia phones can unlock it, have a look here .
Best of luck with it.

shanman-2 said:
If it's the same one you used with wm 6.5 it is locked and cannot be read by android.
You need to unlock it which is not that easy to do.
It seems that some nokia phones can unlock it, have a look here .
Best of luck with it.
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The sd card is only locked with Windows phone 7.x. Windows mobile 6.5 uses the sd card as additional storage just like every other os. Just back up and format the card. Chances are is not seated properly or its going bad. Also make sure you're using a legit card and not some card you bought from ebay or amazon.
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hartleyshc said:
The sd card is only locked with Windows phone 7.x. Windows mobile 6.5 uses the sd card as additional storage just like every other os. Just back up and format the card. Chances are is not seated properly or its going bad. Also make sure you're using a legit card and not some card you bought from ebay or amazon.
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I know this is gunna sound stupid but if I take the SD card out wont it mess up how my phone is working with android?

hartleyshc said:
The sd card is only locked with Windows phone 7.x. Windows mobile 6.5 uses the sd card as additional storage just like every other os. Just back up and format the card. Chances are is not seated properly or its going bad. Also make sure you're using a legit card and not some card you bought from ebay or amazon.
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My mistake.

stephanieb10 said:
I know this is gunna sound stupid but if I take the SD card out wont it mess up how my phone is working with android?
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Did you perhaps format the whole card as EXT thinking "yes,ill have an extra 16gb internal space"? Because the camera is looking for a fat partition.

Sorry for my misleading post.
One thing you could try is formating your sdcard with sdFormatter v3.1 with your PC with format size adjustment on. If sdformatter cannot format it then it is more than likely gone bad. If it works then just try again in you phone.

please go to HD2 Android SD Development read tutorial and install another GB rom on SD card

anhnq said:
please go to HD2 Android SD Development read tutorial and install another GB rom on SD card
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I know you're trying to get 10 posts, but please don't give advice if it's going to be wrong. Only post on the threads where you have something useful to contribute, or go to the off-topic forums and do stuff over there.

stephanieb10 said:
I just recently updated my htc hd2 from windowns 6.5 to android 2.3.2 and everything works perfect and the camera evens opens up but it tells me that i need to install an sd card to take a picture but i already have a 16gb sd card in thers sooo i dont know what to do??
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Can you give me abut more information ie. Link to rom
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