Hello everyone,
I recently got an HTC aria from AT&T.
After a few days I went ahead and rooted the phone.
At first I decided to try the liberated Aria (éclair) rom. It was a good experience. But just last night I decided to try another rom, so I went with Cyanogenmod 6.1.1.
While I was using liberated aria, I used rom manager to partition my sd card with the ext filesystem, so I could move some apps to it and open up some space from my phone's internal storage.
This space, while I never figured out how to move the apps, always showed in titanium backup.
With the move to Cyanogenmod 6.1.1, this partition doesn't show at all!, in fact my sd card is at 1.7 Gb!, it's like I lost an extra 0.25 Gb (which is the partition size I chose in rom manager before)... I tried partitioning in cyanogenmod with rom manager again, but then my sd card took another 0.25 Gb hit and went to 1.5 Gb!...
How do I get back to my 2Gb sdcard space? furthermore how I do partition the card such that I can extend my internal storage for apps?
Thanks
Andres
I use gparted on linux to do that. I'm not sure what OS you use, but there are live cds you could use.
But on gparted, you should be able to see all the partitions on the card and manage them as necessary.
In order to use the ext partition, you should darktremor's app2sd. Ext3 is the filesystem you should use, but ext2 works as well I believe.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4
thanks, I use Debian Squeeze on desktop and testing on laptop.
I just got gparted, but it says my external storage is only 1.7 Gb!
Like I said...the extra 0.25 Gb is no longer being mounted with the sdcard and it somewhere lost in the filesystem and/or apportioned to some obscure directory...
Hmmm... that is quite odd. I know some sd cards aren't actually what they state. My 8GB card only shows as 7.8GB for example.
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!) And see if it comes back somehow. I am not a sd card expert.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4
L551 said:
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!)
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thats what i'd recommend.
when you installed cm6, did you do a wipe data? did you notice if it said it was wiping the ext partition? i'd guess cm6 isn't noticing the space because it was partitioned separately from the rom install.
backup your important data, format the card, and try repartitioning it again now that you've got cm6 installed.
well I'm not entirely sure why it worked this time, but I was able to fully format the card. Now I'm back to 2Gb (well, really 1.84 Gb, but that's right)
The problem I think was that I was formatting with Rom manager, and it was ignoring the extra unrecognized space. What I did different this time, is that I went into settings > sd card & storage > unmount sd card > format sd card > mount sd card > sucess!
So this successfully formatted the whole card.
Thanks for your pointers
Unfortunately trying to partition it again failed.
I tried gparted and it successfully formatted a part of the card with the ext3 filesystem (while leaving the rest as unallocated -- at least this is what gparted said). Unfortunately when mounting the sd card on my phone it complained that the card had been damaged. So I had to reformat it, undoing the previous partitioning.
Then I tried rom manager again, but the way it works is by going into recovery and partitioning the card there. Unfortunately, clockworkmod recovery showed a warning sign ( triangle with an exclamation mark in it) above an android and froze there...I had to pull the battery out to reboot my phone.
I guess my oldish version of gparted (0.7.0) doesn't like the YAF filesystem (YAFFS). So perhaps when it partitions the card, it screws up the existing YAFFS partition. I'll try to use gparted again to partition the card fully, 256 Mb ext3 as extra app storage and the rest, I guess ext3 as well.
Andres
I finally did get it to work on both R012 and FR008 (as well as CM6.1.1 and CM7)
I formatted the sdcard with gparted (chose a 512 Mb ext3 partition with 32 Mb Swap). Then from android's terminal emulator (as root) I typed
Code:
a2sd check
and it enabled apps2sd using darktremor just fine. It became aware of my ext3 partition.
Phone: mytouch 3g 1.2 rooted
OS: ginger yoshi 1 RC7
SD card partitioned using recovery menu.
Ok, I have a rather large sd card and my computers are all linux. So naturally i wanted a very large ext partition on my sd card and a small fat partition for compatibility when i'm on someone else's computer.
The problem i have is is that within the phone, nothing can see the contents of the ext partition, despite app2sd apparently working (using ginger yoshi rc7).
I would really rather store things like mp3s and such in ext format but the card only seems to want to expose the fat partition to any apps.
Does anyone know what i can do to fix this ?
also, ginger yoshi says it supports ext4 but it's mounting my ext4 upgraded partition (all done in recovery) as ext2. suggestions?
Please forgive me for reposting this but I cannot find the answer and it's driving me crazy.
I am running a dual boot HTC HD2 with Windows Mobile 7 in NAND and Android on the SD card.
Windows Mobile 7 creates a dedicated and non-standard partition on the back half of the card.
Android is booting from a FAT-32 partition on the front of the card.
The partition table looks something like this for the 16GB Class 10 card I am using:
FAT-32 Partition from 0 to approx 7.3 GB set as primary.
Type 4 Partition from 7.3GB to the end of the card.
When running Android from a dedicated SD card the SD card can be found at /mnt/sdcard and everthing is hunky dorey.
However, when the Windows 7 partition is also on the card /mnt/sdcard is empty (there is nothing mounted there). All of the applications that look for an SD card cannot find it. I did find the entire contents of the SD card in /bootsdcard.
I tried creating a soft link between from /bootsdcard to /mnt/sdcard and that did not work.
Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks,
Mike
RE: SD Partitioning
ChitownWingMan said:
Please forgive me for reposting this but I cannot find the answer and it's driving me crazy.
I am running a dual boot HTC HD2 with Windows Mobile 7 in NAND and Android on the SD card.
Windows Mobile 7 creates a dedicated and non-standard partition on the back half of the card.
Android is booting from a FAT-32 partition on the front of the card.
The partition table looks something like this for the 16GB Class 10 card I am using:
FAT-32 Partition from 0 to approx 7.3 GB set as primary.
Type 4 Partition from 7.3GB to the end of the card.
When running Android from a dedicated SD card the SD card can be found at /mnt/sdcard and everthing is hunky dorey.
However, when the Windows 7 partition is also on the card /mnt/sdcard is empty (there is nothing mounted there). All of the applications that look for an SD card cannot find it. I did find the entire contents of the SD card in /bootsdcard.
I tried creating a soft link between from /bootsdcard to /mnt/sdcard and that did not work.
Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks,
Mike
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Hello...first save all data from FAT32 format. Then:
How to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on HTC HD2 with 1 SD card?
1. In WP7, go to ‘Settings’.
2. Then ‘about’.
3. Click on ‘reset your phone’.
4. Double confirm with ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.
5. Once phone restart, hold on power button. MAGLDR bootloader will be loaded.
6. Take out your SD card from phone and put it into SD card reader at PC.
7. Load Partition Wizard Home Edition.
8. There should be 2 partitions on your SD card (200MB on the left and another larger one on the right).
9. Delete the larger one.
10. Create a partition as ‘Logical’ with ‘Unformatted’ file system.
11. Make sure that the ‘Unallocated Space After’ is 0 MB and some space at ‘Unallocated Space Before’.
12. Apply the changes for pending operations.
13. Close Partition Wizard Home Edition.
14. Put your SD card back to phone.
15. Power on your phone.
16. Setup WP7 for the first time usage.
17. Power off it.
18. Take out your SD card from phone and put it into SD card reader at PC.
19. Load Partition Wizard Home Edition.
20. The ‘Unformatted’ partition should turn into ‘Other’ file system.
21. Delete the 200MB ‘Other’ partition.
22. Create a partition as ‘Primary’ with ‘FAT32′ file system.
23. Right click on the ‘Other’ partition and select ‘Modify’ and then ‘Set Partition As Primary’.
24. Apply the changes for pending operations. You should have 2 primary partitions (FAT32 and Other).
25. Close Partition Wizard Home Edition.
26. Copy SD MAGLDR Android into your SD card. Follow the guide here.
27. That’s all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Important: Make sure to make window phone 7 memory bigger than android (Partition Bigger)
Dual Boot SD Card Issue
Jerome.Ramos said:
Hello...first save all data from FAT32 format. Then:
How to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on HTC HD2 with 1 SD card?
1. In WP7, go to ‘Settings’.
2. Then ‘about’.
3. Click on ‘reset your phone’.
4. Double confirm with ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.
5. Once phone restart, hold on power button. MAGLDR bootloader will be loaded.
6. Take out your SD card from phone and put it into SD card reader at PC.
7. Load Partition Wizard Home Edition.
8. There should be 2 partitions on your SD card (200MB on the left and another larger one on the right).
9. Delete the larger one.
10. Create a partition as ‘Logical’ with ‘Unformatted’ file system.
11. Make sure that the ‘Unallocated Space After’ is 0 MB and some space at ‘Unallocated Space Before’.
12. Apply the changes for pending operations.
13. Close Partition Wizard Home Edition.
14. Put your SD card back to phone.
15. Power on your phone.
16. Setup WP7 for the first time usage.
17. Power off it.
18. Take out your SD card from phone and put it into SD card reader at PC.
19. Load Partition Wizard Home Edition.
20. The ‘Unformatted’ partition should turn into ‘Other’ file system.
21. Delete the 200MB ‘Other’ partition.
22. Create a partition as ‘Primary’ with ‘FAT32′ file system.
23. Right click on the ‘Other’ partition and select ‘Modify’ and then ‘Set Partition As Primary’.
24. Apply the changes for pending operations. You should have 2 primary partitions (FAT32 and Other).
25. Close Partition Wizard Home Edition.
26. Copy SD MAGLDR Android into your SD card. Follow the guide here.
27. That’s all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Important: Make sure to make window phone 7 memory bigger than android (Partition Bigger)
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That is exactly the procedure I followed to get the dual boot to work at all on 1 SD card. That is how I got the two partitions.
Android boots from the SD card and works (I am using it every day). Android just doesn't think that there is an SD card installed for A2SD or any other SD card function.
Should I reduce the size of the FAT-32 partition and create another FAT-32 or EXT partition?
Help please, this is driving me crazy.
You have to start all over. Just save your data on both OS's. You should have only 2 partitions in the end FAT 32 for android and Other for Window 7. Make sure that Window 7 partition has a larger partition size than android, otherwise you will have a lot of errors. Hope this helps you out. J
I've done that twice. Everything works in Windows 7 the only issue is for some reason Android doesn't see the SD card that it is booting from.
What SD card are you using? I am using 32g Sandisk Class2. Everything works perfect on mine with the HD2. Perhaps it's the SD Card?
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What SD card are you using? I am using 32g Sandisk Class2. Everything works perfect on mine with the HD2. Perhaps it's the SD Card?
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The card works fine for Windows 7 with or without the Android FAT-32 partition.
If the FAT-32 partition is the only partition on the card then Android sees the card correctly.
With both partitions Android (MCCMBoxmax V8.0) boots and runs from the card just fine with the exception that Android doesn't see the SD card that is was booted from. However, the card is mounted on /bootsdcard.
I even tried splitting the FAT-32 partition into a smaller FAT-32 partition and an EXT2 partition. That also did not work.
I have tried the following cards:
Samsung 16 GB Class 2 - MMB3R16GUACA-GE (replacement supplied by HTC)
Patriot 16 GB class 10 - PSFGMCSDHD10-BC
And like I said, both OS's work except for this one android glitch.
same problem for me...
Same problem for me too!
Additional info:
If i browse back to /sdcard i can see everything on my memory card. But there is nothing on /mnt/sdcard
Any help suggestions are much appreciated...
hemyl said:
Additional info:
If i browse back to /sdcard i can see everything on my memory card. But there is nothing on /mnt/sdcard
Any help suggestions are much appreciated...
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I had exact same issue on my previous dual boot setup on various cards and various roms. Prior to this I had no problems setting up a dual boot with WP/Android.
Okay, so this is probably not helpful, since I am very limited in my understanding, but others out there chime in if you know... I may be wrong but it seems that back when we only had Windows Mobile 6.5 with the ability to run Android from the sd card, it seems that there was this same limitation. I think that it is the case, because I remember in January when the ability to run Android from NAND first was released, I was all excited because we would finally be able to use our SD cards in Android correctly. In summary, I think it is due to running Android from SD... it doesn't recognize the SD card as an sd card because it treats it like the internal memory. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember that.
ealex134 said:
Okay, so this is probably not helpful, since I am very limited in my understanding, but others out there chime in if you know... I may be wrong but it seems that back when we only had Windows Mobile 6.5 with the ability to run Android from the sd card, it seems that there was this same limitation. I think that it is the case, because I remember in January when the ability to run Android from NAND first was released, I was all excited because we would finally be able to use our SD cards in Android correctly. In summary, I think it is due to running Android from SD... it doesn't recognize the SD card as an sd card because it treats it like the internal memory. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember that.
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However, the SD card works properly if there isn't a Windows Mobile 7 partition even when booting from the SD card.
Something about the Windows partition is messing up with the mounting of the SD card. I just don't know enough to figure it out.
load up a partition program and make sure both partitions are set to primary.
orangekid said:
load up a partition program and make sure both partitions are set to primary.
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I don't believe that the windows partition can be set to primary and still work.
However, I will try it. Thanks.
I got it working!!!
Here is what I now have on a 16 GB Class 10 SD Card
Partition # File System Capacity Type
1 FAT-32 3.91GB Primary (Android Boot Parition)
2 EXT-2 3.52GB Primary (Android A2SD partition)
3 Other 7.32GB Logical (Windows Mobile 7 partition)
Android boots and sees the SD card. Windows Mobile 7 boots and sees the SD card!!!!
For just two partitions make the WM7 partition primary.
Thanks thanks thanks....
ChitownWingMan said:
Here is what I now have on a 16 GB Class 10 SD Card
Partition # File System Capacity Type
1 FAT-32 3.91GB Primary (Android Boot Parition)
2 EXT-2 3.52GB Primary (Android A2SD partition)
3 Other 7.32GB Logical (Windows Mobile 7 partition)
Android boots and sees the SD card. Windows Mobile 7 boots and sees the SD card!!!!
For just two partitions make the WM7 partition primary.
Thanks thanks thanks....
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glad you got it working
ChitownWingMan said:
Here is what I now have on a 16 GB Class 10 SD Card
Partition # File System Capacity Type
1 FAT-32 3.91GB Primary (Android Boot Parition)
2 EXT-2 3.52GB Primary (Android A2SD partition)
3 Other 7.32GB Logical (Windows Mobile 7 partition)
Android boots and sees the SD card. Windows Mobile 7 boots and sees the SD card!!!!
For just two partitions make the WM7 partition primary.
Thanks thanks thanks....
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I installed WM7 on NAND, and Android 2.3.4 on SD Card. I followed the original steps as mentioned in this thread above, and have run into the same issue. That is, android is not able to recognize the SD Card. Now, my question is that can I just format (and delete) the first half of the sd card (the one that has android) .. and then create one Fat-32 and one ext-2 partition on that .. Will that work? I am trying to understand if I need to upset my windows installation at all ..
Also, I need to understand the role of Partition 1 and partition 2 above. I was of the understanding that the "Android" folder (ROM Files) should be loaded to the Fat32 partition. However, in this case it seems that the ROM files are kept in ext2 partition instead?
Thanks in advance, for your help
Can't get WP7 partitions created on reset
I have the US T-mobile HD2 loaded with WP7 7592 Green Mango with market place ROM and it runs fine on a 2GB Samsung card. I also have a class 4 Adata 32 GB card that I have a 14.4 GB FAT32 partition created for Android, and that runs without issue. I have tried a bunch of different ways to get it to dual boot but have had no success. I tried lots of ways including these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167659
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
and
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/24/h...roid-promises/
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTHRAUHZHlo
The main issue is that when I have tried doing the phone reset on WP7 NAND it doesn't seem to create the necessary partitions on the 32 GB card any way I try, and I've tried loading WP7 ROM with the 32GB card in the phone. But whenever I boot up WP7 with the 32GB card in the phone it says: storage card not working, so I boot up with 2GB card in phone, select reset and right before I click the the last confirmation I switch the cards, but after going into Magldr on boot up and putting card into PC the new partitions haven't been created. I also tried splitting the last part of the drive into a 203 MB Fat 16 drive located just right of FAT32 partition and then creating unformatted partition with remaining space. I have 2 card readers and 2 2GB cards and the 32GB card. Please tell me what I should try next. Thanks so much!
PHONE: T-Mobile US HTC HD2 (1024 Mb)
HSPL: 2.08.HSPL RADIO: Radio 2.15.50.xx
MAGLDR: MAGLDR 1.13 CWM v3.0.2.4 170MB recovery
WP7 ROM (NAND[http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1157535])
Android version I'm using[Copes_AOSP_SD_HD2_GB232-CM7_A2SD_(04-02-2011)]
Android version I'd like to use[miuiandroid-1.8.5_HD2-EN-PACK1_2.3.5]
if i have read this right, this is not a dual boot problem, but a "I can't get WP7 to work with my 32GB sd card" problem.
It may be your card is not compatible with WP7
32 GB WP7 Compatible Cards
I guess that's right, but I have looked through posts and not found any list of 32GB class 4 or higher cards that are compatible. It seems that a lot of people are recommending sandisk cards. If that is the brand I need to go with I can. Thanks for the correction.
Hi, i have sandisk 32 GB class 4 card which i used dual boot wp7 along with android gingerbread 2.3.7 sd version. 2 days before i have tried to install new sd version but after formating and re-partition i was able to run wp7 but when i power off my phone for seting up android partition using minitool partition wizard i have fail to resize the 200MB partition after deeply studying i have came to know that my htc hd2 did not change the file into system FAT16 , and it keep saying OTHERS, in minitool partition wizard . please see the attached picture
after reseting phone and reinstalling window phone 7.8 successfully when reboot phone it fectory reseting again and again
please help me why my phone is not changing the file system to fat16
Hello,
I have a problem with running roms using DataOnEXT or NativeSD.
For DataOnEXT it takes a long while to get booted but when it is booted it all seems to work (wizard etc.) but when I restart the phone everything is resetted. I have to re-enter the details for the wizard etc. Nothing is getting saved.
For NativeSD it sometimes keeps stuck at the loading screen but when it loads I get a lot of messages about processes that has been stopped and most of the times the phone reboots.
I have a Kingston 4GB Class 10 SD card.
My steps are:
I install HSPL 2.08
I install Radio 2.15
I run the task29 using HD2 Toolkit 4.3.1
I install MAGLDR 1.13 using HD2 Toolkit 4.3.1
I get the SD card and with the MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition I create 2 partitions (both primary). First one is a FAT32 partition with a 32KB cluster size. The 2nd partition is 1.5GB and is a EXT4 partiton.
For DataOnEXT I copy the rom to the sd card and then put the sd card back in my phone.
I run the HD2 Toolkit to install Recovery Version-TouchRC1 using 350MB or 400MB system size and a 20MB cache size.
I run the Recovery and install the rom.
For NativeSD I copy the rom and 4ExtRecovery 2.2.7 to the sd card and put the sd card back in my phone.
I start the phone and select the bootsettings and change it to 4Ext.
I install the rom using 4ExtRecovery, then restart the phone and change the bootsettings to NativeSD
That are the steps I follow. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. The roms I tried are: NexusHD2-JellyBean-CM10.1 V2.1, NexusHD2-JellyBean-CM10 V1.4a and the TouchWizMOD_v2.1.
try to use 4ext-recovery to partition your sd card instead of using minitool. i have same problem before.
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