Okay so here is what I want to do....I have CM7 on my emmc and CM9 on my SD card...I would like to share the extra space i have on my SD card with both CM9 and CM7...is that possible?
I have tried partitioning the SD card with 4 different programs....I can resize the partitions...not the Boot partition though....I have tried flashing the new.vold.zip over from this thread and that didn't work either...
worst case I would like to have a separate partition on the SD card that i can use as the SD card for CM7 and another partition for CM9...I do not want to have to repartition the emmc again, but if i have to i will...
okay....once again i find a solution rather easily after posting the question....
i was up until 4am last night trying to figure this out....
i apologize...
for anyone else who is trying to find a solution to this...just flash this .zip in recovery....it changes the vold.fstab file from sdcard auto to sdcard 4...
don't pay attention to what it says while flashing...i used the nc.orig.vold.zip from another post so it says restoring original...
but yeah...here's the simple solution...
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Can someone point me to a thread for setting up either or both of
Nookie Froyo or CM7 stable on a bootable microsd card. I wondered
about partitioning and which files systems were used on cards?
Do either come with CWR 3.0.2.x installed for targeting the card
instead of emmc? I have a sandisk 2gb card and a class 6 16gb card
available for targeting. Are the booted systems rooted? Can I image
the cards (via the windows image tool, or USB booted gparted image
tool) for backup or do I need to nandroid to the sdcard partition and
then copy the sdcard partition to windows for backup?
I still have to register the color nook, as the registration servers have
been down most of the day. Do I need to wait to boot the sd card
bootable until the device is registered?
thanks in advance
Followup got Nookie Froyo SD working
I searched both market and amazon app store and cannot find dolphin hd.
I find lots of add ons for HD but not the app.
rom manager says it installed CWR 3.0.1.0 but telling to reboot to recovery
doesn't work? Is it installing on the emmc instead of the sd card?
I'm confused about how rom manager would know the boot 'disk'
is SD not emmc and to manipulate SD not emmc? same for CWR?
thanks
more info -- RM did write CWR to emmc
how do I get CWR on the Nookie Froyo bootable?
how do I 'properly' shutdown Nookie Froyo (in the unix sense) so
it 'sync's and shuts down daemons, like unix 'shutdown -n' would?
Is there a rom manager & CWR that are SD card aware (knows
to write to proper sd card partition for what its doing)?
pointer to links if anyone knows?
CWR
this may help with CWR
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Made a SD Bootable CWR ....
but I wonder if the software is setup to update EMMC or SD (Nookie Froyo)?
How would one know? I'm guessing since the recover system is ram based
that one takes out the SD card after booting, and inserts the card to be
targeted?
Thanks for the pointer.
Hi,
I'm new to the scene and I wanted to try out CM7 booting from SD before I install it to the internal memory. I am having a problem pasting the CM7 zip file on the card. The instructions state "Put the file to the SD card (there is only one partition). Don't change the name of the file."
After I burned the installer image to the card it only shows up as having a capacity of 115mb. It is a sandisk 16gb card. From what I read I need to access another partition, but I dont know how to do this.
Could someone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
fujisd said:
Hi,
I'm new to the scene and I wanted to try out CM7 booting from SD before I install it to the internal memory. I am having a problem pasting the CM7 zip file on the card. The instructions state "Put the file to the SD card (there is only one partition). Don't change the name of the file."
After I burned the installer image to the card it only shows up as having a capacity of 115mb. It is a sandisk 16gb card. From what I read I need to access another partition, but I dont know how to do this.
Could someone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
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If you are seeing a partition named "boot" that is 115MB, that is correct. The CM7 zips are all around 95-97MB. You will not be able to see the other partitions in Windows without additional software (Windows only sees the first active partition on a drive).
(You will, however, see the storage partition (in your case ~13.5GB) if you use USB storage mode to connect your Nook to your PC once your CM7 SD install is set up).
Edited: Sorry, ignore me!
I posted in the wrong thread and couldn't find a way to delete my post!
Yep, the "only one partition" that you see is the "only one partition" that you need. Put the zip in there, put the card in your NC, and gogogo.
Thanks for everyone's reply. I was able to get everything working. I actually just had to rename the zip file to Update-CM.zip for everything to run correctly.
Thanks again.
Hey kids. I've just flashed to CM7 and i figure now is as good a time as any to FINALLY partition my SD card and use it like i should. Problem is, i've been moving apps to the SD card for months. No doubt there are remnants of app installations from prior ROMS. How do i go about cleaning out the dead weight before i backup the card and partition it?
You can backup your SD Card the reformat it with Windows in a card reader, put it back and partition it, boot up and the required files will write themselves, then move the stuff you KNOW you need back to the SD Card. Flash a new ROM or A2SD and you should be set
hello everyone, i backed up my files using the CWM recovery, this may seem like a simple question (im a noob) but where do the backed up files go? i do not see them on my sd card or on the nook (built in memory) can i delete the backed up files? or get to them? Also a member here told me to buy 2 sd cards is a good idea, one with all the info and the other empty for apps and music so i can keep the sd card in the nook without it going to CWM everytime i boot, but if i buy a new sd card do i need to format it? or just use it out of the box and into the nook, will my apps still work since the new sd card is empty and my files?
Android311 said:
hello everyone, i backed up my files using the CWM recovery, this may seem like a simple question (im a noob) but where do the backed up files go? i do not see them on my sd card or on the nook (built in memory) can i delete the backed up files? or get to them? Also a member here told me to buy 2 sd cards is a good idea, one with all the info and the other empty for apps and music so i can keep the sd card in the nook without it going to CWM everytime i boot, but if i buy a new sd card do i need to format it? or just use it out of the box and into the nook, will my apps still work since the new sd card is empty and my files?
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Always format new cards. And never use Windows format. Use this. A freebie. Windows format can corrupt uSD.
Your nandroid (CWM) backup will be in the Backup folder in the ClockworkMod folder. It should be on your uSD.
One uSD is enough as long as it's large enough to hold all you want to use. I've always used at least a 16Gb card. Always name brand (SanDisk). You really don't want to swap back and forth. As long as your nandroind is on removable memory you should be safe. Some people copy their nandroind backups to their desktop computers for safe-keeping. A bit OCD but not really a bad idea.
Ok very good info! But I use the nook color and I do not think I need to format the sd card?
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If you use the uSD as flashable CwMR, then you wouldn't want to reformat the card, otherwise, you have to recreate it once again if you want to do a backup or install.
what i mean is my new sd card do i put it in my nook and format it thru cyannogen mod setting? says umount and format sd card, cause if i put the same CWM on the new sd card everytime i boot it will take me to cwm
Android311 said:
what i mean is my new sd card do i put it in my nook and format it thru cyannogen mod setting? says umount and format sd card, cause if i put the same CWM on the new sd card everytime i boot it will take me to cwm
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Others have formatted their uSD cards in their NC's but as a general rule I don't. I know I sound like a one-trick pony but one needs to start with a good formatted card otherwise everything else is for naught.
The reason I ask is because I don't want to keep pulling out my SD card everytime I turn my nook on, so if I were to format the new SD card how would I do it?
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom
Either you confuse about CwM uSD or I (we) do not fully understand your issue.
1. If your uSD is a flashable CwM Recovery then it WILL BOOT into CwM Recover EVERY TIME you boot up with that uSD card plugged in. That's the way it is
2. If your uSD is for normal usage, you should NOT have any problem leaving the uSD card in the NC when booting up.
sorry i should have better explained, ok i get it now, my question in simple form is do i have to format the new sd or just simply pop it in the nook and go
So I am running CM7 off of an sd card in my nook color.(Using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904129 and I highly recommend). Win32discimager for some reason created a small partition just larger than the installer which remains on the card. I also have the android OS on the card that is taking up 1 gb partition. The rest of my 16gb micro sd card is labeled as the emmc for the tablet which is not what i intended. Now I cant load it up with my movies and videos like I had hoped.
Does anyone know:
Is there any way I can change these partitions on my card? (I have already tried EasuUS partition manager)
Where did the 1gb partition that android is on come from and why did the emmc get so large?
Is there any way to take the android image currently on my sd card and just putting onto the nook after I have already had it run from the sd card and then just formatting my sd card for storage?
There are probably newbie questions but I have tried to do my own research and havent found any certainties. Any help would be really appreciated.
posturize said:
So I am running CM7 off of an sd card in my nook color.(Using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904129 and I highly recommend). Win32discimager for some reason created a small partition just larger than the installer which remains on the card. I also have the android OS on the card that is taking up 1 gb partition. The rest of my 16gb micro sd card is labeled as the emmc for the tablet which is not what i intended. Now I cant load it up with my movies and videos like I had hoped.
Does anyone know:
Is there any way I can change these partitions on my card? (I have already tried EasuUS partition manager)
Where did the 1gb partition that android is on come from and why did the emmc get so large?
Is there any way to take the android image currently on my sd card and just putting onto the nook after I have already had it run from the sd card and then just formatting my sd card for storage?
There are probably newbie questions but I have tried to do my own research and havent found any certainties. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Ok, first you need to go to my tips thread linked in my signature and read in section B how the verygreen SD works. You will understand the partition structure a little better.
Now for your sdcard/emmc media storage problem, you have a setting wrong in CM7. Go to settings, CyanogenMod settings, Application and uncheck "Use internal storage". What that setting does is swap emmc and sdcard so that your real sdcard is called emmc and internal media storage is called sdcard. It is not default that way. Somehow it got checked.
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