Hi,
every time i boot WP7.5 (Yuki) my Android partition is empty.
I saw that the WP partition needs to be bigger and i have now
1Gb Android and 2.5GB WP partitions but that does not change anything.
I use dev_extrapart cause if i do it on the PC then WP does not boot anymore.
And do i really need to always reset Windows (dev_storagelock) if i want to change files on the Android partition?
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Hi guys, just to let you know I installed WP7 (this rom) on my HD2 to test it out, and since I read that I would have to use a new nokia phone to format my microSD in order to recover it, I used a spare 1GB Kingston microSD without fear to lose it.
Thing was that now I flashed android back and I had this idea to format the microSD again using GParted (linux live cd/usb), and it worked... I had a 200 mb fat 16 partition and the rest an unknown one, so I was able to get rid of the unknown partition and expand the fat one.
Tutorial where I found about GParted (instructions not aplicable to this case)
Hope it helps.
Worked great for me too. Thanks.
Will this allow me to repatition?
I have WP7 working fine but I originally partitioned my 16gb card so I could install android but have decided to stick with wp7 for the time being, is it possible to expand the wp7 partition to make use of the partition space I reserved for android?
i.e can I delete the android partition and the expand the wp7 partition without looseing the data?
marcosxd said:
Hi guys, just to let you know I installed WP7 (this rom) on my HD2 to test it out, and since I read that I would have to use a new nokia phone to format my microSD in order to recover it, I used a spare 1GB Kingston microSD without fear to lose it.
Thing was that now I flashed android back and I had this idea to format the microSD again using GParted (linux live cd/usb), and it worked... I had a 200 mb fat 16 partition and the rest an unknown one, so I was able to get rid of the unknown partition and expand the fat one.
Tutorial where I found about GParted (instructions not aplicable to this case)
Hope it helps.
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M8...
You can do this with any partition tool in windows. (like Minitool partition wizard)
Nokia phone format is required ONLY for real wp7 phones (like hd7 etc) and not for hd2 runing wp7
More info here http://lifeinthefastlaneok.wordpress.com/
And here we have talk about this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022116
ShaGGy_UK said:
Will this allow me to repatition?
I have WP7 working fine but I originally partitioned my 16gb card so I could install android but have decided to stick with wp7 for the time being, is it possible to expand the wp7 partition to make use of the partition space I reserved for android?
i.e can I delete the android partition and the expand the wp7 partition without looseing the data?
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No you can't change the size of the WP7 partition
I am dual booting WP7 and Android the latest Cyanagen Magldr from the SD card. Before i installed android Windows saw its half of the 32GB partition without an issue. AFter this I:
I booted into android and set everything up,
Rebooted again into windows, verified again the partition was still there.
I booted back into Andriod installed a few apps then rebooted to setup windows
Once i booted into windows to continue with setup i checked the partition information and it only sees 176.53MB
I checked the partitions in easus partition manager and Both Partitions are primary with the windows partition a little bit bigger than the Android
How do I get it back without having to start over?
Is there a way to do this? I currently have a dual boot of WP7 in NAND and SD android. Not being able to share data is kind of a bummer.
If there isn't already a way, I am thinking of taking this on as a development project, is there anyone knowledgeable about writing applications to mount file systems that can point me to something I can start with?
Thanks
I think mounting the Wp7 partition in Android will be absolutely useless, from what i read about wp7 storage management, it seems that the SD Card partition is used by WP7 in raid mode, so data is shared and written across both nand and sdcard partition as if both were just one single storage memory (for faster operation)..so even if mounting the partition in android was possible we could not read the data from it (because it's not all there..) and if we copy files to the wp7 partition, the wp7 OS would not recognize it after reloading the sdcard...even worse we might even loose all the data from the original wp7 partition, because MS has blessed us with an inteligent OS autorecovery system..meaning if data is found to be different or corrupted in filesystem (raid system..actually) WP7 will automatically reformat the storage partiton to restore phone functionality. Remember those annoying WP7 resets?!
hypothetically if you could get an SD android build to read NAND somehow then it could read the full raid partition, but this is pretty unlikely.
how about the other direction? that is getting WP7 to read the FAT32 partition.
babablue said:
how about the other direction? that is getting WP7 to read the FAT32 partition.
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Seems like WP7 Couldn't read or write on FAT32 or every other File system. It's Awkward.
What the hell were WP7 Developers thinking?
they wanted to be like Apple.
Hi guys,
I'm cooking a WM6.1 ROM with a small set of applications using osKitchen Zero v1.33.5. This gives me lots of free space on the user partition. I have been searching for way to redefine the partition sizes and shrink the user data partition, but haven't found any information regarding this.
Does any one know how to do this or is it even possible?
Thanks
jlsaraiva
Any reason to shrink it?
The idea is to use the remaining space to create the android partitions and boot android with haret from the WM partition. Having both WM and Android on NAND.
Well, that's the thing you can't do via ROM. At least I think so. You need some extra storagemanager drivers.
sounds intriguing though at first - moving the ext2-partitions to nand and telling haret to look for them there instead on sd. you'd still have to boot winmo first, but android would be faster. "semi-nand-flash", kinda.
but thinking about it - not enough internal memory for two os on the x1.
Dont think this is possible just yet. Like your thinking of having two os on internal memory but especially with us poor EURO 512mb devices I dont think it could cope. It would also mean a resdign of haret.exe as it looks for android on SD card.
I striped out pretty much all non essential WM parts from the ROM and I get about 400MB of free space on the user data partition, which is enough to have xdandroid.
You would have to boot into WM first, but I wouldn't mind if it ment running everything out of nand.
No need to change haret. It would be just like we have now, running xdandroid out of the sd card. Only need to change the init script on initrd to mount the nand partitons instead of the sd card and change the init script on the rootfs filesystem. Both are not dificult to do. The only issue here is really "to be or not to be" able to resize the user data partition of WM.
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I striped out pretty much all non essential WM parts from the ROM and I get about 400MB of free space on the user data partition, which is enough to have xdandroid.
You would have to boot into WM first, but I wouldn't mind if it ment running everything out of nand.
No need to change haret. It would be just like we have now, running xdandroid out of the sd card. Only need to change the init script on initrd to mount the nand partitons instead of the sd card and change the init script on the rootfs filesystem. Both are not dificult to do. The only issue here is really "to be or not to be" able to resize the user data partition of WM.
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This could be a nice idea as you could in theory have android running on nand with out the limitations of either magldr or clk. You would be hard pushed to get a sense build running, but a gingerbread version would be cool! I assume you really have to strip down WM to get it to fit?
I remember looking into this a long time ago before magldr came out and found out some registery keys that could run hart.exe and clard.exe for you with out any user input. I'll see if I can digg them up for you!
I removed almost all EXT packages plus some microsoft apps like office, windows live etc...
But all this falls short if we can't resize the WM partitions.
I've been looking into re-partitioning the NAND on my Xperia X1, so I could increase the storage space when using a smaller rom, but I also have not found a way to do it.
I was originally hoping there was an app, either in Windows mobile, or android, that would work as a partition manager, but I have only found apps that will partition SDcards.
Another option I'm thinking of is using a linux partition manager in android, or using a full blown linux on my phone and using a linux partition manager that way.
I've also thought of using mtty, but I don't know any commands that will let me manipulate the partitioning.
I actually have no idea if any of this will work out, I don't know how the whole boot-procedure works, so I don't know if the bootloader expects the WM-rom partition to be at a certain address, or if it just goes to a certain partition, regardless of the starting and ending positions.
Hello everyone,
is it possible to partition the MAIN memory (I mean the phone memory, not sd card) to fit the build I'm using perfectly? Like setting best size for boot partition, for system partition etc..., in order to have more space available for data internal partition?
I've found http://www.enfeuman.com/2011/06/01/how-to-fix-abnormal-internal-storage-space-on-htc-hd2/
but I really couldn't find an option in CMR to partition main memory.
If this is possible, can anyone tell me how? (I'd like it for my NAND ACA GB2.3.7 build)
And is it necessary to wipe the whole phone and do (flash) everything over again?
matoflash said:
Hello everyone,
is it possible to partition the MAIN memory (I mean the phone memory, not sd card) to fit the build I'm using perfectly? Like setting best size for boot partition, for system partition etc..., in order to have more space available for data internal partition?
I've found http://www.enfeuman.com/2011/06/01/how-to-fix-abnormal-internal-storage-space-on-htc-hd2/
but I really couldn't find an option in CMR to partition main memory.
If this is possible, can anyone tell me how? (I'd like it for my NAND ACA GB2.3.7 build)
And is it necessary to wipe the whole phone and do (flash) everything over again?
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Wipe data
to set the partition sizes, try clk 1.6 and use fastboot commands to resize the partitions.
When you do this, you will have to re flash the rom.
Thanks, ill try that.
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