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From few days, i'm using Froyo 2.2 (froyostone) on my HD2 and now i have to install copilot on my sd card to load maps, but it always install on internal memory. Please help me. (in this build i can't connect via usb to change this with PC)
you have to understand how this whole process works...
Android is installed on the SD card, not phone memory. We're good on this point, right? But Android needs something to reference as "phone memory", even though its installed on the SD card. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the data.img file, right?
This file lives on the SD card. When you install an app, it lives in data.img (what Android thinks is phone memory). So yes, apps live on the SD card, just not in the way you are thinking.
I think I am right, but correct me if I'm not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7519634&postcount=1215
HotShotAzn said:
I think I am right, but correct me if I'm not.
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You're right but you've not answered his question, I think!
He's looking for a way for an app to be installed to the 'sdcard' not 'internal memory'. That is for the app to be installed in /mnt/sdcard not /whereever.
What he needs is this
I know that everything is on sd card but data.img has only 512mb, and some application use more memory. And bobjbain i've tried this one you show, but it doesn't working;/ but anyway thanks for the answers
Have a look at chainfires ADB Magic (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/chainfires-adb-magic/), it has a build-in packet install functions where you can define to install on sdcard.
Maybe this way is working for you. And you will get a really usefull tool as side-effect.
All you need is adb from Android SDK.
Dear all the rooting professors of mine ^^,
I have try many time, as if I run my android n windows mobile on the same SD card, the android system will try to make a lot of folder which make the card become messy can not organized, so when ever runnung the win mo again, very difficult to seek for so file on SD card, so, is there any method can make that solve?
I think of some possible solution,
1. make a partition for my SD card, then run the android from storage card n windows mobile files on storage card 2 but that make my android always restart , seems not stable.....
2. try to put android folder inside another folder i.e. sdcard\ABC\android to let the android make up floder stay inside the ABC, but android didnt run...
I cant think of any solution anymore, and i have surf around XDA but cant figure out how can it work .... hope all the lovely guys here can help ^^
cheers
Rose
rose5hill said:
Dear all the rooting professors of mine ^^,
I have try many time, as if I run my android n windows mobile on the same SD card, the android system will try to make a lot of folder which make the card become messy can not organized, so when ever runnung the win mo again, very difficult to seek for so file on SD card, so, is there any method can make that solve?
I think of some possible solution,
1. make a partition for my SD card, then run the android from storage card n windows mobile files on storage card 2 but that make my android always restart , seems not stable.....
2. try to put android folder inside another folder i.e. sdcard\ABC\android to let the android make up floder stay inside the ABC, but android didnt run...
I cant think of any solution anymore, and i have surf around XDA but cant figure out how can it work .... hope all the lovely guys here can help ^^
cheers
Rose
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You have to change the startup file to reflect the extra folder that you put the android folder in in order for it to boot.
do you mean if I have sd card\ABC\android for the HARET,
then I need to change the startup.txt ?
sorry to be annoying, but may I know how can I change the txt ??
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just copy and paste the whole android folder to your sd cards root, no any folder.... go to file explorer open up android folder look for CLRCAD. click on it and nothing is gonna happen but dont worry this is normal, make sure your keypad lights are on and run haret and let the magic work,,, oh make sure you turn automatic backlight of and kill all tasks in WIN MO settings before doing all this.... good luck .... >
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just copy and paste the whole android folder to your sd cards root, no any folder.... go to file explorer open up android folder look for CLRCAD. click on it and nothing is gonna happen but dont worry this is normal, make sure your keypad lights are on and run haret and let the magic work,,, oh make sure you turn automatic backlight of and kill all tasks in WIN MO settings before doing all this.... good luck .... >
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sorry matutemhn, maybe u got some misunderstanding on what I mean, actually I can run android on my HD2, however, I want it to be inside another folder , i.e. sd card\ABC\android\HARET.exe , then the files create by android system will not on the root of SD card and mess up my card ....will be more organize^^
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"rel_path=ABC/Android"
i think that would be the way you have to change the startup text for it to work the way you want it,,,,.,... ;0
matutemhn said:
"rel_path=ABC/Android"
i think that would be the way you have to change the startup text for it to work the way you want it,,,,.,... ;0
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hope that works cuz i hate all thet extra stuff android adds to my sd card too and if its possibe can we figure out a way for it to store the thumbnails. because after loading android winmo adds all of those thumbnails. to my pictures
wrecless said:
hope that works cuz i hate all thet extra stuff android adds to my sd card too and if its possibe can we figure out a way for it to store the thumbnails. because after loading android winmo adds all of those thumbnails. to my pictures
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Your SD card is going to pick up the pictures and ringtones no matter what folder you put them in.
i think that will be the right way if im not wrong, but i was checking my sd card just now and dont see any windows files on root of sd, all i have is android stuff..... wander where all the WINMO stuff is being stored,,,, anyone can tell me...?
matutemhn said:
i think that will be the right way if im not wrong, but i was checking my sd card just now and dont see any windows files on root of sd, all i have is android stuff..... wander where all the WINMO stuff is being stored,,,, anyone can tell me...?
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Well considering Windows runs off the system and Android runs off the SD card, that should give you your answer.
BTW @rose5hill We all now have a Q&A forum so that would be the place to ask questions like this or they will delete or move your post.
matutemhn said:
i think that will be the right way if im not wrong, but i was checking my sd card just now and dont see any windows files on root of sd, all i have is android stuff..... wander where all the WINMO stuff is being stored,,,, anyone can tell me...?
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lol the winmo files are on the phone's mem
motoman234 said:
Well considering Windows runs off the system and Android runs off the SD card, that should give you your answer.
BTW @rose5hill We all now have a Q&A forum so that would be the place to ask questions like this or they will delete or move your post.
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hahahaha... that was a dumb question, yes all files like music, pictures, ringtones will always be shared between both of the OS's no matter what folder you place them on and apps over winmo are installed inside of device's memory,,... right...?
motoman234 said:
Your SD card is going to pick up the pictures and ringtones no matter what folder you put them in.
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So is there no way to keep winmo from reading all of the (thumbnails.) example when i slide over to the pictures tab in winmo it says i have hundreds of pictures. All of the album art and any other little pictures android decides to save.
i know, just came out,,,......... wasnt thinking bout it...>> :?
matutemhn said:
hahahaha... that was a dumb question, yes all files like music, pictures, ringtones will always be shared between both of the OS's no matter what folder you place them on and apps over winmo are installed inside of device's memory,,... right...?
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oh sorry , so should i move my topic to other forums ? as this is the 1st time I start asking Questions here though..... sorry ^^
theres a new forum Q&A we can take all this kinda questions there,,,
ya. thats what i said//// reason why i said i was asking dumb question,,,, lol
I dont mind to see the android file from WM file manager, what I want is , the android-created-file will not show on the root of SD card, thus the SD card root will not be too messy .... will be more organized ^^
matutemhn said:
hahahaha... that was a dumb question, yes all files like music, pictures, ringtones will always be shared between both of the OS's no matter what folder you place them on and apps over winmo are installed inside of device's memory,,... right...?
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Right but you do have the option of installing on your SD card but you will not see the apps scattered all over the place from Windows apps being installed on the SD.
wrecless said:
So is there no way to keep winmo from reading all of the (thumbnails.) example when i slide over to the pictures tab in winmo it says i have hundreds of pictures. All of the album art and any other little pictures android decides to save.
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Sadly, I haven't found a way yet. The thumbnails get very annoying to flip through and trying to find a song in the middle of hundreds of ringtones is even worse.
rose5hill said:
oh sorry , so should i move my topic to other forums ? as this is the 1st time I start asking Questions here though..... sorry ^^
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Im sure a MOD will move it for you when they have time.
I try to put the rel_path=ABC/Android under the startup.txt ....but it stay at the HTC logo after press HARET.exe..... it seems not working or I am wrong in some part ?
So I tried using WP7 On hd2.
But I didn't like it as much as Android. So I reverted back to android. But guess what I only have 200mb on SD Card instead of 16gb. (I should have expected this I suppose)
Can anyone tell me how to restore my SD Card to 16gb? I am sure there are others who are curious as well.
Thanks
Try formatting the card, windows, winmo or android, try em, it might work.
Get an adapter, shove it in a camera and format it
cos wp7 creates an unknown format partition. use a partitioning program, see if you can delete the partitions (there will be two, one 200meg fat and one unknown format) then reset a new FAT32 partition for the full size.
Be careful in disk management, delete from the wrong disk and its hello to up-all-night-reinstalling-your-PC, hehe.
I've used geparted live cd...worked fine. You have to delete partition and re- format as any filesystem you want.
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Why's that? Because you didnt even bother to read the read me files like a tard??
Use some common sense ffs, Read info before doing anything like this.
It CLEARY states that WP7 creates partitions on your card and anybody with half a brain would know to re-format card after using a different OS especially one that creates partitions.
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While I agree that the OP is at fault for clearly not reading anything and just flashing (I read instructions and used a different SD card when I tried WP7 - it was VERY clear!!!), I don't see why you feel the need to be so offensive to him. That's just plain out of order man. Stop just dissing people. If you don't have anything constructive to say then just don't say anything.
This is a friendly forum. Be friendly.
TheATHEiST said:
Why's that? Because you didnt even bother to read the read me files like a tard??
Use some common sense ffs, Read info before doing anything like this.
It CLEARY states that WP7 creates partitions on your card and anybody with half a brain would know to re-format card after using a different OS especially one that creates partitions.
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Feel better about yourself after that?
Yup, I should have read about this before flashing but I had fun for a while and went back to Duttys Rom. However, I have 14gb of files and music on the card and a 200mb fat partition. Is there any way of at least retrieving the pictures and music before I reformat? Windows can only see the 200mb. Disk management shows the two partitions but won't let me delete the 200mb partition. Any suggestions?
I hope this guy doesn't treat his kids like that...."hey retard, go clean your room! It's the only way you'll learn"
The internet gives some people license to be morons unfortunately.
To the OP, I hope you get that fixed. If you find a way to fix it let us know which way worked for you in case we have to do the same thing to. I have a few SD cards but I don't want any of them to be rendered useless.
try using minitools partition wizard (home edition). delete both partitions so that each partition is displayed as a whole unpartitioned space and create a PRIMARY partition using fat32. your data was deleted when windows phone 7 was setting up for the first time. luckily i used another card but good luck
if you go bk to android leave a bit of space after when doing the primary fat32 and create a ext2 partition. its in the file system tab in the create partition bit
splinters69 said:
Yup, I should have read about this before flashing but I had fun for a while and went back to Duttys Rom. However, I have 14gb of files and music on the card and a 200mb fat partition. Is there any way of at least retrieving the pictures and music before I reformat? Windows can only see the 200mb. Disk management shows the two partitions but won't let me delete the 200mb partition. Any suggestions?
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how about using usb storage in wp7 to transfer the files?
SH4YD33 said:
how about using usb storage in wp7 to transfer the files?
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it wipes the card n formats it when win phone 7 first boots up.
Thanks everyone for their input. I managed to restore my SD Card. I am a happy android user. From my experience, I think android is far more stable than WP7. Android offers more versatility and customization. Again thanks.
Theres a fix for that just search
I couldn't find a way of saving the data so I lost it. Popping it in a camera formatted it perfectly. Won't be running wp7 again. Looks nice but too much hassle to get calendars etc.
To format the sd... put in the camera (mine for example is a nikon) and format it..
For me works well.
But I have another problem: in WP7 I have only some MB free.. so.. I can put in music if I have that little space?
My sd is 8GB...
dissa said:
To format the sd... put in the camera (mine for example is a nikon) and format it..
For me works well.
But I have another problem: in WP7 I have only some MB free.. so.. I can put in music if I have that little space?
My sd is 8GB...
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Well so far I haven't been able to figure out the usb data storage method for wp7 if one even exists... so the only way you can put music and photos and other files onto wp7 is through zune.. if you try usb mass storage in magldr you will only see 200mb but through zune you can transfer files to your 8gb sd card capacity.
zup2sky said:
So I tried using WP7 On hd2.
But I didn't like it as much as Android. So I reverted back to android. But guess what I only have 200mb on SD Card instead of 16gb. (I should have expected this I suppose)
Can anyone tell me how to restore my SD Card to 16gb? I am sure there are others who are curious as well.
Thanks
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to restore back yours 16 Gb, you must reformat your SD with SDformater Windows application.
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Well so far I haven't been able to figure out the usb data storage method for wp7 if one even exists... so the only way you can put music and photos and other files onto wp7 is through zune.. if you try usb mass storage in magldr you will only see 200mb but through zune you can transfer files to your 8gb sd card capacity.
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That is the problem. When I try to transfer just only a song Zune tells me that there is no enough space for the tranfer.
dissa said:
That is the problem. When I try to transfer just only a song Zune tells me that there is no enough space for the tranfer.
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I had the same problem...
What you need to do is:
In Zune, go to 'Settings'. Then click on 'Phone'. Next, click on 'Reserved Space'.
Make the reserved space about 10%. This should give you about 6.5 Gb on an 8 Gig SD card. It also gives WP7 a bit of 'extra memory' to work with.
For a first release, this is an awesome piece of work. A few things don't work, but on the whole I'm impressed. I'm going to test it for a month to see how it performs.
The main functions work - Phone, text, e-mail, music, video. And nearly all of it is automatically set up. Correctly too.
Worked for me. Plenty of room for syncing via Zune.
Enjoy.......
Thread update.
I am now working on providing tutorials for the following.
One card method - I am looking to improve this if I can.
Two card method - This is for micro SD cards over 8gb. There seems to be issues when using 16gb card with the one card method so I am now extensively looking into this to provide tutorial to make larger Android partitions than WP7 if you wanted (As WP7 takes the largest partition with the one card method)
Android SD Magldr Builds - More support and more intuitive tutorials for setting up all known SD Magldr Builds.
I am also looking into alternative ways to the above. I have lots of ideas and theories to improve speed, functionality, setup and configuring you PC/Laptop for convenience to performing the 2 card method, not just for now but for when you do this again in the future. For example, you may wish to install the latest WP7 ROM. The tools are already included in Windows operating systems later than XP. I am now experimenting this and so far, it looks good.
If there are any requests on what else I should provide support or tutorials for, the please feel free to leave you comments either by private message or through this thread.
Please be patient with me as I am trying out the above to make it as clear and hassle free as possible. I have learned a lot from Xda and this is my way of giving back and helping others.
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In this thread I have put together a tutorial on how to dual boot WP7 and Android using the one card method. To use Android, the build must be one that has been adapted to work via Magldr. Builds which has been kindly adapted by zarathustrax are on Post 2 so please show your thanks to him for taking time to convert them for us to use.
This tutorial presumes you already know your way around Magldr and know what buttons to press to select etc. If you need any help then let me know. I will help the best I can but cant always promise to be online. The tutorial recommends you use a SD card reader instead of Mass Storage in Magldr as Mass Storage is not always reliable.
1/ Download a WP7 and Android Build (Maglrd Build) you want to use.
2/ Run DWI.exe to install WP7 to your phone.
3/ Go through the setup and once it tells you that you have a new SMS which is welcoming you to WP7 go to Settings - About - Reset Your Phone and once phone restarts hold power to enter into Magldr.
4/ Remove SD card and insert it into the computer.
5/ I used Minitools Partition Wizard which you can get HERE, the Home version is free. Start the program and you will see two partitions on your SD card. Right click and delete the largest partition, this will leave you with Unallocated partition.
6/ Now right click the Unallocated partition and select Create. Leave 'Create As' as Logical and 'File System' as Unformatted. Under 'Size and Location', slide your Unallocated space to the right to roughly half the size of your SD card so the blank grey area is on the left. Click OK.
7/ Now click on Apply (The tick) and when it comes up saying Successful (This may take a while), remove your SD card and put it back into your phone and shut down Partition Manager.
8/ Boot up WP7 and go through the setup again. Once the message beeps again to say welcome to WP7, go to Settings - About and look at the 'Total Storage' and 'Available Storage'. These values should now be roughly the same.
9/ Hold Power button to restart and hold Power to enter into Magldr. Remove SD card and put it back in your card reader. Open Partition Wizard again, right click on the 200MB Other partition and select Delete. Right click on the new Unallocated partition and select Create. The File System should be Fat32 and set as Primary. Click Ok and Apply (The tick).
10/ When all the changes has been applied click OK and right click on the Other partition and select Modify and then Set Partition As Primary. This is important to run Android as well as WP7. If Partition were still Logical then once Android Build was loaded it would not recognise anything off your memory card . Put the SD card back into your phone and boot WP7 and exit Partition Manager.
11/ In WP7, go to Settings - About and double check the Total Storage and Available Storage to see if they are the same as before, they should be except the one should now be 200mb larger.
12/ Power off and insert SD card back into your card reader.
13/ This time start Computer or My Computer depending what version of Windows you are running. Move the Android Magldr folder to your SD card and read the instructions to set boot settings in Magldr. This time I will Boot MarkinXHDExtraClean Magldr Build but DL Desire Magldr build worked for me just as good as Nand. You can also use one of the builds in Post 2.
14/ Once Android folder has been copied, remove the SD card and put it back into your phone. When in Magldr, press the volume buttons up and down until you get to Services - BootSettings - AD SD Dir. For MarkinuXHDExtraClean Build the zImage and initrd.gz are on the main directory of the SD card so select <->. Always read the chefs installation instructions.
15/ You should now be in the main Magldr menu. Press vol buttons and select Boot AD SD.
Congratulations.......you know have WP7 and Android dual booting on your device. If this tutorial helped you, then please hit the Thanks button.
I'm beginning to turn this post into a collection of the builds that I've edited to work with magldr to dualboot with wp7. I am keeping these builds in my dropbox for quick and easy download... just right click the download link and select "save link as". I am just including the entire build for most of these for convenience, because some of the builds needed the init.rc file edited after the build was booted up once, as there were updates and files that get installed on first boot and the init.rc file was changed back to normal... so all the builds here have any updates or files in a root folder already installed, so they are all ready to go... just unrar and copy build folder to root of sd card, and be sure to tell magldr which folder to boot android from. Most builds include a new 1gb data.img or they create one on first boot, in which case it may take 5-10min.
All credit for the builds go to the chefs of each build... all I did was modify the init.rc file so it could be successfully booted with magldr. If any chef does not want me posting a download link of your build here, and would prefer I just post the edited files or not post anything about your build at all, please pm me and I will remove the link immediately. I am not trying to take credit for any of these builds... I am just trying to make it easier for people to install and run.
So, here's the builds:
JDMS- Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/JDMS.rar Build thread:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782301
HD2One 3.6- Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/HD2ONE.rar Build thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=885933
PhireMod SkinnyEvo 2.1 Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/phiremod_SkinnyEvo_v2.1MAGLDR_Edited.rar Build thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791835
Cedesmith's Desire HD2 Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/Cedesmith DesireHD2 Magldr.rar Build thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857261
EVO Carbon Remix 0.6 Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/Motoman234_EVO_Carbon_Remix_V0.6MAGLDR.rar Build thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839410
EVO Black&Blue Remix v0.4a Edited build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/Motoman234_Evo_Black&Blue_V0.4aMAGLDR.rar Build thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847631
Darkstone SuperRam Build and Sense RAM build Edited by LeTama This is not edited by me, but by Letama. I am putting links here for easy download for convenience and so all the edited builds can be collected in this one post. These builds will take a couple reboots sometimes before they fully boot up, but once you get them fully booted and going, they should boot up everytime afterwards. DS SuperRAM 1.5: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/DSsuperramMAGLDR.zip DS SuperRam SENSE 0.1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10979883/darkstone_ram_sense_magldr_sd.zip
Remember, to download, just right click link and select save link as.
I have more edited, and will be adding more to this post as I get time to organize the post and builds and make space in my dropbox. If you have requests on what builds I should add next, or have any questions, feel free to pm me. I have gotten most builds I have tried working well booting from SD with MAGLDR. ENJOY!
ALSO.... I've had a few problems recently with my computer corrupting some of my edited rootfs.img's... I think all of the one's listed so far are ok, but if anyone has a problem with any of them running, please pm me and let me know so I can fix it. I'm re-editing some more builds soon, so I will add the rest of the builds I've got running to this post soon.
Very nice tutorial and easy to follow. I had problems before when I tried it and almost gave up.
Thanks
I used the original posted guide to get mine working, albeit I struggled initially due to not reading it properly. If your new guide helps more persons to get WP7 and Android dual booting then that is great BTW I am using this CM7 Gingerbread build on my android partition and it works great, just need to follow the additional instructions in the install folder for getting it to boot via MAGLDR http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898831
aenedor said:
I used the original posted guide to get mine working, albeit I struggled initially due to not reading it properly. If your new guide helps more persons to get WP7 and Android dual booting then that is great BTW I am using this CM7 Gingerbread build on my android partition and it works great, just need to follow the additional instructions in the install folder for getting it to boot via MAGLDR http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898831
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Thanks for your feedback and I have to agree that with the original tutorial, I did struggle with it myself. Also it shows a few ways to do it. The one is a very long process copying one partition to another which dont apply for most people.
I posted this to try and make it clearer and easier to follow. I also focused on using only application for partition management where the original told you to use two.
Thanks for letting us know about the CM7 Gingerbread build. Most builds can be modified in a Linux Distro where just editing one line will make the SD build boot in Magldr.
Thanks so much for the guide and the Android Rom recommendation.
I got a question...
I got Android successfully booted, however under Android environment, it says no SD card is present. I'm using the DL Desire Magldr build.
Do I need to make another partition???
Any help is appreciated
Thanks!
out of curiousity,
Can the both of them share the same set of media files? or do you need two sets of it, one for the android partition, one for the WP7 partition.
Jackuuuuu said:
Thanks so much for the guide and the Android Rom recommendation.
I got a question...
I got Android successfully booted, however under Android environment, it says no SD card is present. I'm using the DL Desire Magldr build.
Do I need to make another partition???
Any help is appreciated
Thanks!
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You forgot to change the wp7 partition from logical to primary. That will solve that.
desperation52 said:
out of curiousity,
Can the both of them share the same set of media files? or do you need two sets of it, one for the android partition, one for the WP7 partition.
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No, they can't share files. WP7 only reads it's partition and android only reads it's partition.
That's why I like to use dropbox with both of them. I can keep music or files in my dropbox and access them easily from both OS's. There's several dropbox apps for both wp7 and android. It also makes it easy to transfer files to my phone without having to hook it up to the computer or take the card out or deal with zune. Use my referral link below in my signature to get an extra 250mb added to the initial 2gb you get for free when you sign up and install the dropbox app to a computer.
zarathustrax said:
You forgot to change the wp7 partition from logical to primary. That will solve that.
No, they can't share files. WP7 only reads it's partition and android only reads it's partition.
That's why I like to use dropbox with both of them. I can keep music or files in my dropbox and access them easily from both OS's. There's several dropbox apps for both wp7 and android. It also makes it easy to transfer files to my phone without having to hook it up to the computer or take the card out or deal with zune. Use my referral link below in my signature to get an extra 250mb added to the initial 2gb you get for free when you sign up and install the dropbox app to a computer.
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Thanks for taking time to answer the questions in my thread. I normally would have been around to answer them myself except I am doing a very long and painful task of backing up over 150gb off my hard drive before I restore my notebook to factory settings.
You answered them beautifully lol
Jackuuuuu said:
Thanks so much for the guide and the Android Rom recommendation.
I got a question...
I got Android successfully booted, however under Android environment, it says no SD card is present. I'm using the DL Desire Magldr build.
Do I need to make another partition???
Any help is appreciated
Thanks!
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The answer to the question and the how to is in the tutorial above. I have copied it for you for your convenience.
Make sure you have switched off your phone because you will loose info if you just extract the SD card in WP7, insert SD card into a card reader on your PC. In Partition Manager.....
'Right click on the Other partition and select Modify and then Set Partition As Primary. This is important to run Android as well as WP7. If Partition were still Logical then once Android Build was loaded it would not recognise anything off your memory card.'
Thank you I'll be trying it soon
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Thanks for taking time to answer the questions in my thread. I normally would have been around to answer them myself except I am doing a very long and painful task of backing up over 150gb off my hard drive before I restore my notebook to factory settings.
You answered them beautifully lol
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No problem... I was very active in the other dualboot thread, too. You did a good job writing this tutorial up, so hopefully there won't be too many people confused, but I'll be around to help answer peoples questions, too. I figure once a thread is public, it's up to everyone who knows to help everyone out who's having problems... that's what this community is about... plus the more people that get involved in problem solving, the more we find easier and better ways of doing things. It was actually hyellow and me that figured out that you need to change the partition from logical to primary when I was having the problem of not being able to mount the card in android. It was fun watching and helping the method that you have posted evolve over several days and get easier and quicker to do.
Also, I was thinking that I might collect all my edited SD builds (I've got almost every build working) in to my dropbox and post the links to them in the second post to make it easier for people following this tutorial to grab a build that's already edited to work with magldr. What do you think?
htc hd2 overheats when dual boots
I have dual booted my HD2 using an 8 GB and 16 GB SD card. I got everything up and running and the bottom one third of the HD2 gets hot and freezes or reboots every time . When I placed one rom on the device, the device runs normally. Can anyone advise what might be the problem and the solution.
Randy Hoover said:
I have dual booted my HD2 using an 8 GB and 16 GB SD card. I got everything up and running and the bottom one third of the HD2 gets hot and freezes or reboots every time . When I placed one rom on the device, the device runs normally. Can anyone advise what might be the problem and the solution.
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Can you provide a bit more clarity to your problem.
Does this happen with both the 8gb and 16gb cards? Also what build are you using when your phone gets hot and restarts or freezes?
I find it strange that it is fine when you are using either Android or WP7 without dual boot as you are using only one build at a time when dual booting. You are only gaining access to different partitions on your card, pretty much the same as you would if you have an EXT2/3/4 partition for data saving in Android. Do you still have the same problem if you partition you SD card for a EXT2/3/4 for data saving?
From what you have said the only possible reason is somehow your phone might have a problem dealing with partitions because in theory dual booting runs either one or another and shouldnt be different if you were using only Android or WP7.
Using Minitool's Partition Manager, you might also want to try formatting the Fat32 partition by right clicking on Fat32 partition, click on Format and choosing the cluster size to 32. Save these changes and try again.
The solution could be setting up Android to work properly. In DL Desire's build, there are quite a few options as to how you save your data. You have the save to Data.Img file which must be placed inside the directory for the build, and without going through every type there is also save to EXT2/3/4. You must alter the values in the Config.txt file for the build to know where to save data. Double check you have setup the Config.txt file correctly as you could be telling the build to save to EXT2/3/4 when there is not one. I dont know but it could affect the WP7 partition so it corrupts it and causes the above mentioned problems. Always read the chefs installation notes. Try installing MarkinXHD Extra Clean Magldr Build instead of DL Desire just to make sure.
Can anyone else throw any solutions to this problem?
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No problem... I was very active in the other dualboot thread, too. You did a good job writing this tutorial up, so hopefully there won't be too many people confused, but I'll be around to help answer peoples questions, too. I figure once a thread is public, it's up to everyone who knows to help everyone out who's having problems... that's what this community is about... plus the more people that get involved in problem solving, the more we find easier and better ways of doing things. It was actually hyellow and me that figured out that you need to change the partition from logical to primary when I was having the problem of not being able to mount the card in android. It was fun watching and helping the method that you have posted evolve over several days and get easier and quicker to do.
Also, I was thinking that I might collect all my edited SD builds (I've got almost every build working) in to my dropbox and post the links to them in the second post to make it easier for people following this tutorial to grab a build that's already edited to work with magldr. What do you think?
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I completely agree with the community sharing knowledge and that was one of the main reasons for me posting this tutorial. I am a strong believer in if you give a man a fish, then you have provided one dinner but if you teach that man to fish, then he has a lifetime worth of meals.
It would be very generous for you to share the builds you have converted to boot into Magldr as it would give people more options to what build they can choose to dual boot WP7 with. As a matter of fact, being certified in Microsoft, I was looking into doing this myself and was the next mission for me. I have limited Linux use but I am starting to sink my teeth into it and become fluent.
I post a video here if you like to follow by visualization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cUdB4_5f4
Hey which would be the best way to do this activate my phone when i get it then flash, or flash and activate the phone service after i install the Os's.
jab12 said:
Hey which would be the best way to do this activate my phone when i get it then flash, or flash and activate the phone service after i install the Os's.
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What do you mean by activate? Do you mean get your activation code? If so, get it anytime... you will need the activation code to use live services in wp7 anytime you flash a new wp7 rom. If you mean activate your cell phone service, that can be done at any time, also.
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I post a video here if you like to follow by visualization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cUdB4_5f4
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Thank you for the YouTube link to the same process as described in this tutorial.
I have watched the video and it does not mention that you have to change the Unfomatted partition from Logical to Primary. This is essential if you want to use the camera and to gain access to other files such as music from you SD card. Also in the video it is being demonstrated in Easeus Partition Manager. This is a good program but with it you cant change the Unformatted partition from Logical to Primary. This is the main reason I chose to use Minitool Partition Wizard. With this program everything can be done.
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Thank you for the YouTube link to the same process as described in this tutorial.
I have watched the video and it does not mention that you have to change the Unfomatted partition from Logical to Primary. This is essential if you want to use the camera and to gain access to other files such as music from you SD card. Also in the video it is being demonstrated in Easeus Partition Manager. This is a good program but with it you cant change the Unformatted partition from Logical to Primary. This is the main reason I chose to use Minitool Partition Wizard. With this program everything can be done.
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If you look in the description there is a link to the minitool and a description why you have to use the tool. The original thread is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Hello,
What's the working options for SD-Boot?
Best regards.
we already got android from nand boot...what's the point of using sd-boot?
i whant to mantain WinMo.
sputnick2005 said:
i whant to mantain WinMo.
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IMHO, SD build is not for daily use. Battery drains fast and SD card warms up and causes lags all the time.
BTW, you can flash back WM on any time, even without a PC, you just need a file
photimg.nbh with your WM ROM on SD card root folder.
Prepare a high capacity memory card.
You don't need to boot from SD anymore,booting from SD is not stable,it will slow down the speed.
I had been thinking of Dualboot,but it looks like still not available yet,but be patient,it might be available in the future.
So why not just use this ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677950
A lot of ROMs over there. Try it out! I'm using CM Scream,nearly perfect!
I recommended you to buy a high capacity memory card so you can install android apps to card instead of internal memory.They have a lot of FREEBIES for you to install compared to windows mobile.
Google search for original rom if you want to use back the Windows Mobile 6.5.3
No USB
Hi guys,
I have a problem with my phone's USB port, so is there a way to install the NAND version from SD card?? Without having an Active Sync connection to the PC??
Thanks
About usb connection
currently,it looks like quite confused.Anyway,you can use wifi to connect to your android instead.
Use AirDroid (FREE) It is really useful and easy!!You will like it!! USB is more trouble than it.
DominicTei said:
currently,it looks like quite confused.Anyway,you can use wifi to connect to your android instead.
Use AirDroid (FREE) It is really useful and easy!!You will like it!! USB is more trouble than it.
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Hey, thanks for the tip. It looks useful but only AFTER I get android My problem is that I want to install android, but don't have USB. I know there are SD card versions, but those are not good for daily use. The card heats up and there are a lot of breaks and freezes. So I'm asking if there is a way to install a ROM (Nand) from SD card.
Suggestion
USE:
CARD READER(MEMORY CARD TO PC)/ Connect your Windows Mobile to PC via WiFi (Download by using your Windows Mobile/Connect to PC) Remote Desktop or something like that??I never use it so I'm not sure.
Or do you have another Android in your windows mobile already?If have,you can download Airdroid and copy the files from PC to your MEMORY CARD and then uninstall the SD version of android then install the NAND android.(quite tricky)
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USE:
CARD READER(MEMORY CARD TO PC)/ Connect your Windows Mobile to PC via WiFi (Download by using your Windows Mobile/Connect to PC) Remote Desktop or something like that??I never use it so I'm not sure.
Or do you have another Android in your windows mobile already?If have,you can download Airdroid and copy the files from PC to your MEMORY CARD and then uninstall the SD version of android then install the NAND android.(quite tricky)
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OK, apparently I have a bigger problem Bluetooth isn't working either!!!
LOL,then you're gonna pray for your god sincerely and ask for help
DominicTei said:
LOL,then you're gonna pray for your god sincerely and ask for help
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For example, there is a way to flash a new ROM (WM) from SD. You extract the contents of the EXE file and rename the RUU_Signed.nbh to PHOTIMG.nbh and run bootloader. Isn't there something similar for the Android OS ROMs??? I'm sure it's more or less the same procedure.
Raffee.Parseghian said:
Isn't there something similar for the Android OS ROMs??? I'm sure it's more or less the same procedure.
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AFAIK, it's not possible. ROM requires some digital signing to run.
Even custom WM ROMs you could not install from SD for the same reason.