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[Q] My SD Card cant make an A2SD Patition

Hey guys - i just bought an awsome SDCard, a 32GB class 10. just put it in ma HD2 trying to partition it in recovery mode - but after partitioning, the phone (through titanium backup) the phone only sees the fat32 partition and not the sd-ext partition. now i'v tried using PC Software to partition and the tutorials all over but that doesnt help either.
what am i missing? i need help

Hi,
Did you partition in CWM with 1024M and 0 swap ?

simple idea/rule of thumb; class 10 cards are **** and you don't notice an increase in file transfer due to the limitations of the phone itself

Install ubuntu on your windows pc using the wubi installer (google is your friend here), it's very simple to do. Once you have ubuntu linux installed, go into the software center and search for 'partition manager' or 'partition editor'. Then install it. It should be listed in system tools as GParted. Plug in your sd card thru a card reader or a digital camera or another phone, and unmount it in gparted. Then create a new ext4 (probably 1 gb/1024mb) all the way to the right side of the space shown for the card in GParted. Then when finished click apply changes near the bottom of the GParted window. Done
Your phone won't show you that it sees the ext partition, that's all done behind the scenes. The only way to know is to install apps, and watch the system memory in settings/storage. If your memory goes down significantly as you install apps, something has gone wrong. If it only goes down a little (maybe 1-2 mb) after installing a bunch of apps, then all is well and working properly.
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@ Malybru - no, my partition is 2048MB Ext - 256MB swap.
@huggs - that is strange because before i had an 8GB class 4 memory card - i had created a 1024MB partition and when i ran titanium backup - you could see the sd-ext partition below SDCard and Internal Storage
additionally, with the new cardz during every data wipe it skips the SD-ext saying that it cant find it - which never happened with the old card so thats why i believe that there isnt one

Weird. I've used quite a few different roms and have never seen the ext partition in storage settings. Wish I could tho.
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huggs said:
Weird. I've used quite a few different roms and have never seen the ext partition in storage settings. Wish I could tho.
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its not that you could see it in storage settings.. but you could see it in titanium backup and you can mount it in recovery mode

Oh, I didn't know that about Titanium, thanks. I'm gonna have to take a look, for curiosity sake if nothing else
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i'm facing a big problem - apparently if i install an application and reboot -the app is gone.. i've partitioned this darn card so many times and the partition still isnt recognized

Vylle said:
i'm facing a big problem - apparently if i install an application and reboot -the app is gone.. i've partitioned this darn card so many times and the partition still isnt recognized
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ok, i've realised that im not the only person who his having problems with A2SD on anything larger than 16GB.. i want to know if there is anyone who has successfully partitioned a 32GB Card with an ext3 partition.. I spent alot of money on this card and its really messed up that i cant use it!!

need help still

[Q] how do i put 2 partitions on my sd card

I have scoured and tried to no avail, so I called my mom and told her I was special (as per your awesome noob video), or possibly illiterate. I rooted my nc last week via the instructions I found here (TY!!) it works so great that my memory is full, so I downloaded apps2sd and link2sd and neither will let me transfer to my 16gb PNY sdhc, link2sd says it needs 2 primary partitions, I downloaded easeus, paragon partition manager, and sdk manager, none will let me create a new partition, I can delete, and create 1 partition only, I have tried through windows disk manager as well. I am running Vista 32bit, also have a laptop with XP SP2. Sorry if this question is stupid, any help is greatly appreciated!!

You have to shrink the partition already on there and then make another from the unused space.
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ok I went back to windows disk management and shrink is greyed out, so I tried paragon and got this message when I tried to resize:
Basic MBR Hard Disk 1 (Lexar RW047SDHC Reader USB Device) - Removable
Wizard could not find any adjacent partitions to work with on this hard drive. Note, hard drive must contain at least a pair of partitions that are located next to each other (two primary and/or two logical) to perform resize between.
Thank You Again!

Try using Easeus.
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I just checked EaseUs and it seems to work. You can re-size the existing to a smaller one and then create a new one with what is left over.

Most definitely helpful. Thanks!
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Sorry it took so long to get back,
Thank you for your replies, are you using the free version of easeus? on mine I have the re-size option for my hard drive but when i select the sd card it disappears

I think you have to right click the partition to see all the options. Is that what you are doing?
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I just tried right clicking and still no resize for my sd, I can (copy partition, change label, change drive letter, check-hide-format-explore partition, and view properties). I'm wondering if I perhaps messed up the sd card, it seems to be functional I can add/retrieve data from it and speed up my system. maybe the wrong file system? it is fat32 and says it has a 14.91 GB capacity. I'm generally pretty good with technology, rooting my nook was a breeze, but this is starting to make me feel pretty dumb!

Hmm, backup your sd card onto your pc abd then format the card in the nook and try again. Also make sure you are running easeus as admin.
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well looks like I'm about 50% there! using mini-tool partition wizard I managed to shrink the original partition down to 6.99 GB, but it wouldn't allow me to add another, it said I had to delete the first partition if I wanted to create multiple partitions, so I did but then when I tried to create the new partitions there was no option to create multiples so I ended up right where I started, so once again I shrank the partition and opened easeus and it keeps telling me I've successfully created the 2nd partitions but is still showing up as unallocated space and my nook wants to format it, won't let me do anything else with it, so I let it and tried again, but still nothing. Is it possible this cannot be done with a 16 GB card? I didn't think size really mattered with this kind of thing it should still be the same operation as a smaller card right?

Do you know of a program like link2sd or app2sd, that doesn't require a 2nd partition? I'm starting to think this is an unfixable user error!

Is this normal?

I recently had my 1 tb hdd on my sony laptop replaced with a 180 gig ssd. I let best buy do the switch because it was free and I figured why not. When I got it back with a clean install on the ssd there is only 95 gigs free. The c drive says 95 free out of 129 total. I knew I wouldn't get the whole 180 but why only 129? Just wondered if this is normal or not as this is my first ssd.

It's a matter of multiplication. 2 to the 10th power is 1024, so numerically you get a so-called 180 (or what not) but since the OS reads storage in terms of powers of 2, you get a different number.
Now, on the other hand, 130 seems way too low. I would say to go to disc management and see if there's another partition. Since this is a laptop, it likely has a recovery partition (unless you know your old drive didn't have one).
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Recovery partition is indeed the most likely reason. Disk Management will show you what the full size of the storage device (SSD in your case) is, as well as what volumes ("drives") it contains, and whether there's any unpartitioned space. It will also let you delete and resize partitions.
The easiest way to launch it on Win8 is to right-click the Start button (or hit [Win]+x) and select Disk Management from the menu, although you can also type "disk" into Start search and go to Settings, or type "diskmgmt.msc" and hit [Enter] immediately.

Thanks for the replies. I will check into the disc management.
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Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.

ROORnNUGZ said:
Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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Both of the recoveries should be safe to delete, yea, though you'll have to resize the main partition (not hard, but not really for novices either) to get it back on there.

ROORnNUGZ said:
Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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For the amount you gain I would suggest only deleting the 36 Mb partition. Do you really need the extra space?
One expands a partition by deleting the partitions that are not desired and then increasing the size of the active partition. It is not hard to do from the control panel. The only consideration is that to expand a partition, I believe the space has to be adjacent to the existing partition. This means that you may be limited as to which partitions can be retained and still provide a single space for your active partition.

Ok cool I think I will be safe to delete the 36 gig recovery since I have a recovery flash drive. I will look up some more info on deleting and expanding partitions. I'm no expert but I can handle following instructions so I should be able to figure it out. Thanks again.

Expanding a partition is trivial, although (as @stevedebi said) it has to be adjacent (specifically, it must be located directly before) a block of free space. Deleting a partition that is right after your C drive will easily let you expand the C drive. Just right-click the drive (in Disk Management) and select Extend (might be Expand, something like that; it'll be obvious). It will default to using the maximum available size; confirm that dialog and a few seconds late you will have a newly enlarged drive.

The recovery was located right after the c drive so I was able to expand the c drive but first I had to delete the recovery through the command line. I found some you tube instructions and it was easy.
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This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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link68759 said:
This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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Not sure about other systems, but my Toshiba has the option to make recovery media.
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I had already made a recovery flash drive using the sony software. This is what was used to install windows 8 on the ssd when it was put in. So I assumed that is as good as a recovery partition. Hopefully that is correct. I probably just can't use the refresh pc options anymore and would have to do a clean install with the flash drive. There is also still a 1.44 gig recovery partition that I left. So maybe that smaller one is made by windows and the larger one I deleted was from sony.

How do I move my CWM backup to a PC?

I made a backup in CWM. When I connect my N7 to a PC, I see every other folder except my backup folder. (I am showing hidden files/folders). Is it not possible to move CWM backups off of the N7?

Great now the backup isn't there and I have no space left. (Have the 8GB N7)

They should be stored in /clockworkmod/backup

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They should be stored in /clockworkmod/backup
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It is stored in /data/media/0/clockworkmod now. I think it ran out of room while backing up and didn't tell me. I couldn't find out what was eating up the space so I just had to wipe it.

You run out of space quickly with 8 GB. I've had an iPod touch 4g before I chose android. It was the 8 GB model. When ordering my nexus 7 I directly chose the 32 GB one..
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So I have heard... Even after a fresh SlimBean install I still have 2.3GB eaten up by who knows what...

Koush is working on a version which enables you to store / restore the backup files directly on your PC.
Otherwise you can use backup tools like my A.R.T. which enables you to do the same either in recovery mode or while the system is running.
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System Storage Issue - Nexus 7 32gig (2012)

So I thought I purchased a Nexus 7 32 gig, but after updating to 5.1.1 the storage is only reporting 5.3 gigs. Now I've been through all the post and have tried every way to clear everything, flashing, using TWRP, etc. with no success.
Now I'm wondering if the Nexus I have doesn't actually have 32 gig and that's the reason I've not been able to restore the system beyond the 5.3 gigs. Is there any reason that TWRP would report the incorrect storage size of 5.3?
When I access TWRP and go to "Mount", "Select Storage", or "Backup", they all report the Storage: Internal Storage (5330 MB). Does this mean that my Nexus 7 is not a 32 gig model?
Thanks,
Gene

@genegh most likely you flashed a wrong user.img which has only 8GB instead of 32GB, so the system does not see the rest of the storage. You can try to format the /data partition in TWRP, but I am not sure if it helps. Otherwise you need to get a 32GB user.img and you need to flash that.

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@genegh most likely you flashed a wrong user.img which has only 8GB instead of 32GB, so the system does not see the rest of the storage. You can try to format the /data partition in TWRP, but I am not sure if it helps. Otherwise you need to get a 32GB user.img and you need to flash that.
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Thanks so much for the quick reply, you have no idea how much it means to me.
While reading the other threads that were similar in issue, I noticed that they mentioned possibly using the incorrect user.img; however, when the member mentioned they got the image directly from //developers.google.com/android/images, most replies were that was the right place to go.
I've tried flashed several of the "nakasi" for Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) from google and have not been able to fix the problem. So, I thinking that the problem isn't in the image, but rather at a base level with the system. For some reason the system believes that is has only 5.33GB and I was hoping that somewhere in TWRP would be the ability to fix this.
I have no idea when it comes to android, I was using my PC experience to guide me by looking at TWRP interface to the Nexus BIOS. I don't know and am feel quite low .