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Hey all,
In a bit of a pickle. I bought a new sd card that is faster than my previous 4GB and was wondering if there was a way where i could mount the partition and copy the data such as apps and caches from the 4GB to the new 16GB? The windows partition i'm not worried about. I loaded up my old Linux box with Ubuntu on it and when i try to open the ext2 partition it says that i don't have permissions. I tried to sudo it but still no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
easiest way to do it:
install amon ra's latest recovery
boot to recovery with your old SD card in the phone.
select the "go to console" option
type utility at the prompt
select the "back up apps to FAT" option
return to the main recovery menu
mount the sd card from recovery
copy the contents to your computer
unmount the card
remove the card and plug in the new one
partition the new card
mount the card
copy the files from earlier back onto the newly partitioned new card
unmount the card
go to the console again
enter utility again
select the "restore apps to EXT" option
reboot and you're done.
sounds like a lot of steps, but its really quite simple and gets the job done clean.
kusotare said:
easiest way to do it:
install amon ra's latest recovery
boot to recovery with your old SD card in the phone.
select the "go to console" option
type utility at the prompt
select the "back up apps to FAT" option
return to the main recovery menu
mount the sd card from recovery
copy the contents to your computer
unmount the card
remove the card and plug in the new one
partition the new card
mount the card
copy the files from earlier back onto the newly partitioned new card
unmount the card
go to the console again
enter utility again
select the "restore apps to EXT" option
reboot and you're done.
sounds like a lot of steps, but its really quite simple and gets the job done clean.
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Better yet use ASTRO FILE MANAGER to back-up apps on sd from ext 2 -3....copy files on fat32 to computer then re-copy to new SD card (after partitioning) and restore from Astro again...alot faster but both will work!
The reason why i did this way cause nandroid copies everything and might paste junk back to the new card that caused the issue in the first place! Clean start!!!!!!
Thanks kusotare & djdarkknight96.
You guys are life savers. I followed kusotare's method and it worked a treat. Now i have space and speed!
Cheers to you both!
Hey guys. I'm currently running this ROM, I've been using it for a few days and have had no problems but today, when I turned the phone off and turned it back on, it took ages to turn back on. Then when it did it all looked them same but was kept freezing etc., then up in the notification bar it said "SD Card Removed Unexpectedly" then my phone went crazy with FC's.
So I took out the battery and restarted the phone. Then, it would turn on and go to the lock screen but then it would reboot and be at a continuius* boot loop of the HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
So then I took out the battery again, this time I took out the SD card too and booted up and my phone was normal again. Obviously with no phone storage though as there was SD card in. Then after I just skipped the setup I put my SD card back in to my phone and went to the music player and all my saved songs on my SD card played. But no internal storage (I have the SD card partitioned with a 1GB Ext3 partition). Then with the SD card in knowing it still works I rebooted again, only to come back to the HTC screen again.
So basically, how can I fix this?
If I'm going to need to format my SD card is there a way I can backup what's in the Ext3 partition?
Thanks,
L.
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
Skellyyy said:
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
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It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
Digital Outcast said:
It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
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Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
Skellyyy said:
Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
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Unfortunately not that I am aware of. Where are the CWM files located on your SD card? Are they on the root or in a subfolder? Did you modify the path MAGLDR looks for the "AD SD" path? Are you using the latest CWM release?
Yep they're on the root of it. I think it's 1.12 I have ATM. How do I modify the path? :S
Nevermind. I tried re-installing and it worked on my 2GB SD. But the thing is, the files I want are on my 16GB that won't read lol. I'll try flash it on that now.
Tried to flash my 16GB. Says SD Kernel Open Failed in red letters? Works with my other SD card though? :S
Now I just tried with my 2GB and it's saying the same thing again.
Hi,
Very silly question, but dont know the answer, please help!
Recently installed Tytung's Jelly Bean rom ad and at the end of installation tells me the aroma installer
not to forget to et my sd boot folder to nativeSD.
I chose the sd-ext installation during setup so this step is essential.
Tried option 10 in CWM but don't know which directory to select.
I also have ext4 2Gb and fat32 partition on SD card.
Thank you for your help
pallosgabor said:
Hi,
Very silly question, but dont know the answer, please help!
Recently installed Tytung's Jelly Bean rom ad and at the end of installation tells me the aroma installer
not to forget to et my sd boot folder to nativeSD.
I chose the sd-ext installation during setup so this step is essential.
Tried option 10 in CWM but don't know which directory to select.
I also have ext4 2Gb and fat32 partition on SD card.
Thank you for your help
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Choose option 10, then 1, then 3 - a list of all the directories on your card appears, choose nativesd. Then set your boot preference to android sd.
boomboomer said:
Choose option 10, then 1, then 3 - a list of all the directories on your card appears, choose nativesd. Then set your boot preference to android sd.
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When I select option 3 and see all the directories there is no nativesd folder therefore I can't select it.
Any idea?
usually when you flash a NativeSD to EXT4 partition it will create a Folder in SD called "Native Folder", try the link below it might help
Sorry to hijack but the problem I have is that nativesd folder has been created, but when I attempt to set the directory in magldr it just blinks back to the first menu. I've read that this can be due to the type of sd card, but I've tried two different ones with the same result.
I partitioned the card on my sensation, using 4ext, the fat32 and ext4 partitions are primary and according to the instructions, but still no success - any ideas?
how about trying to format the card via PC?
give the link below a try it might help
Formatting on the pc got an unnamed brand 2 gb and very slow sd card to work, magldr recognised the folder structure and I was able to set the boot directory - but the ROM runs very slowly, as I would expect.
I next tried a 16gb x6 card, Kingston brand in exactly the same way but magldr still refuses to view the folders - is there a problem with Kingston cards?
boomboomer said:
Sorry to hijack but the problem I have is that nativesd folder has been created, but when I attempt to set the directory in magldr it just blinks back to the first menu. I've read that this can be due to the type of sd card, but I've tried two different ones with the same result.
I partitioned the card on my sensation, using 4ext, the fat32 and ext4 partitions are primary and according to the instructions, but still no success - any ideas?
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Try to Services - BootSettings - AD SD Dir - NATIVESD, then Services - BootSettings - Boot Source - Android from SD, then Reset
seregaprok said:
Try to Services - BootSettings - AD SD Dir - NATIVESD, then Services - BootSettings - Boot Source - Android from SD, then Reset
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It's at the AD SD Dir - NATIVESD stage where magldr simply jumps back to the main menu, I don't even get to see the folders on the card so can't choose the boot location.
On a non-brand 2gb card it works okay, but a Kingston brand gives this problem.
boomboomer said:
It's at the AD SD Dir - NATIVESD stage where magldr simply jumps back to the main menu, I don't even get to see the folders on the card so can't choose the boot location.
On a non-brand 2gb card it works okay, but a Kingston brand gives this problem.
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Try to install new CWM recovery
I have no idea if this problem is solved in the meantime, but when I try to select boot folder same thing happens. It's only with one of my SD Cards (Samsung 8GB 4).
The problem occurs after starting the phone or after rebooting it. Magldr does not find the SD Card and therefore can not select a directory. When in Magldr the SD Card is released and then pushed back into the slot, everything works fine - until next reboot or start of phone. I repeated this several times and behaving of Magldr everytime was the same. I use Magldr V 1. 13, there ist nothing else installed on the phone (no CWM). With a different SD Card everything works fine. I tried to check this on a different phone, because I thought that maybe the card slot is damaged, but my second HD2 behaved the same way. The problem SD Card made the same kind of problems, other cards worked well....
Hi, I have the same problem, and instructions in this thread doesn't help since I'm using CLK instead of MAGLDR.
How can I do this in CLK?
Felt 100 installations later I would think, there are MicroSD-Cards that simply do not work. There are lot of phenomena I even don't think about describing here. My Conclusio: Don't to use SD-Cards that have issues.
Hi guys, i know this has come up on here before and i've searched through all the threads but found only a lot of information which is of no use at all.
Ok heres the info on my phone:
HSPL 2.08
Task 29ned
2.15.50.14 Radio
CustomRUU
Magdlr
CWM and also tried TWRP
I've used windows format from recovery (usb mass storage) and also minitool partition starting with fat32 and 32kb sectors then ext3 partition but on mounting it only returns the following:
E: failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid Argument)
Error mounting /sdcard
so far tried fat32, ntfs, ext2, ext3 out of sheer desperation
Any help would be muchly appreciated but i'm assuming it might be the sdcard at fault i really don't know.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
Hi Dan
In minitool, did you set the primary/logical box to primary?
Why ext3?
Also what rom did you install, and what install method?
Robbie P said:
Hi Dan
In minitool, did you set the primary/logical box to primary?
Why ext3?
Also what rom did you install, and what install method?
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Thanks for your reply, yes both were set to primary, ext3 as that what lots of threads on here advised. Formatted to fat32 first. I can see it on my pc but can't mount it on the phone? Any ideas?
No rom on the phone yet as i can't get the zip files to be recognised as the sdcard can't mount so you can see my problem now.
Am now getting a new error message saying:
E: Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)
Thanks
Dan
Hi Dan, best to start afresh with your card. Use this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ to format it to fat32, and see if it shows up then.
I don't know of any latest roms using ext3, most use an ext4 partition on the sd card
Anyway, report back
Robbie P said:
Hi Dan, best to start afresh with your card. Use this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ to format it to fat32, and see if it shows up then.
I don't know of any latest roms using ext3, most use an ext4 partition on the sd card
Anyway, report back
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Ok i'm slowly getting somewhere, twrp didn't work, minitool didn't work, cwm didn't work so then i tried the new version of twrp and formatted it on the sdcard which can now mount sdcard on twrp.
The issue i'm having now is that adb doesn't list it under devices. I'm having to use adb sideload as because its been formatted on the phone it can't be seen on the pc? Not sure if thats as i don't have the hd2 drivers on the pc but its got hd2 toolkit installed. Either way i now don't have any way of installing from the rom zips I have.
Thanks
Dan
Hi Dan, I don't think Android Debug Bridge will work if you do not yet have android on your phone (unless it works from twrp). It seems you have magldr installed, can you use usb mass storage to transfer your rom to phone?
Also I do highly recommend using the sd formatter i linked to earlier, but i assume you do not have a card reader, hence doing all from phone.
Best of luck
I had this problem to fix
i installed everything then formatted card to fat32 using mini partition wizard and then did EXt4 and swap partition from Cwm Recovery and it worked just fine
Fix for unable to mount sdcard error
Neurom707 said:
I had this problem to fix
i installed everything then formatted card to fat32 using mini partition wizard and then did EXt4 and swap partition from Cwm Recovery and it worked just fine
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Just incase anyone has the same problem i had with the never ending unable to mount sdcard problem.
What this turned out to be was cwm would format the card but only a certain area, then if you format with windows it will again only format a certain area that it see with its own file system. Then minitools would have a strange arrangement of differing file systems and changing this by usb connection through magdlr kept creating these problems.
I was trying to use adb to connect the phone to the pc through usb drivers but in the end it simply wasn't worth the effort.
First I went over cwm with the latest version of twrp.
Then I went out to buy a new sdcard simply to get a sdcard to microsd card tool.
Reformat the sdcard (with minitool partition) once in the pc (using the microsd to sdcard tool) to fat32 or fat32 with an ext4 partition if yr doing nand and dataext. Both partitions need to be primary and make sure there are no other partitions on the card this may take a few goes as sometimes you get a random partition or I did anyway.
Then put your rom files on the sdcard using the pc.
Remove sdcard from pc and install in phone.
Boot phone into magldr and choose recovery and this will take you into twrp and simply choose install and find the rom file you want to install.
Don't worry if you have any problems in the rom install you can always go back into twrp and wipe the system which is the rom.
Hope that helps anyone who was experiencing the same issues.
Alternate workaround
I had the same problem others have above. I wound up using a different workaround, and was able to do it with just the phone, a USB cable, and a Windows 7 PC. No SD adapter was needed and there was no need to remove the microSD card from the phone.
I took a stock WinMo 6.5 TMOUS HD2, installed Black LK and TWRP and cleared everything (cache, etc.). Then I used Black LK (very similar to cLK) to re-partition the internal storage to accept my new Android ROM. All I needed at this point was to install the ROM. I tried to copy my Android ROM to a microSD card I had in another phone and then bring it over, but TWRP was unable to read the card. It also couldn't mount the card via USB.
I was able to use TWRP to format the microSD. Then TWRP was able to USB Mount the microSD, but when my PC dectected it, I received a popup indicating that I needed to format the SD before Windows could use it. I said "yes", and allowed Windows to format the card as one big FAT32 partition. It took a few minutes, during which I was a little nervous as there was no progress meter or anything else on either the phone or the PC to indicate it was working. But once it finished, Windows was finally able to access the microSD card and copy the .zip file for the ROM. Once that was complete, I told Windows to eject the microSD, then un-mounted it in TWRP. And, finally, TWRP was able to see the ROM file and install it to NAND from the microSD.
Anyway, thought I'd post it up in case anybody else runs into this and doesn't have a card reader or adapter.
Hi!
I have a N900W8 with cyanogenmod 11 snapshot 8 running. Recently I wiped all and did a clean install .
I am trying to install app to SD, but I don't know where to start, if I try to move an app to SD I don't see the ption to do it, like I did in the past with other android phones.
So I tried to repartition the SD with the phil recovery, ext size was 256MB and swap 32MB and partition type I selected ext3.
The first two option were suggested by clockworkmod ... I am not sure if the process worked, because the ext SD was not formatted at all.
Is there an option in cyanogenmod to put as default location to install the external micro SD?
Thanks
Is it real that cm11 does not support yet app to sd yet?
Please HELP :cyclops: