Good afternoon guys, there have been a lot of SS roms lately and I want to try them out. The 8gb card I used is filled up with my backups. WHen upgrading to a 32gb card, is it as simply as copying over the stuff in my 8gb to the new card including the other stuff needed to flash the new roms?
Any tips on making this as painless as possible is much appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.
It's as simple as copying your old stuff over and inserting the card
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thanks chief. much appreciated.
Whenever I upgrade to a new/larger card, I prefer to make an image backup of my old card and restore the image to the new card (resizing if necessary). I use Acronis for this, but any image backup tool should work. Unlike Windows copy, this ensures that the file formats, hidden files, permissions, and everything else (except for the volume size) is exactly the same on the new card as it was on the old one. Whichever method of backup you use, don't forget to run h2testw to check your new card for errors before restoring your backed up files to it.
Once you've verified that all your important programs and data work with the new card, you'll be in a great position to make a nandroid backup (that you can always go back to) before trying out some new roms.
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Hi guys and girls.
i switched to android a while back now and have been really impressed. so much so that i have just bought myself a new 16gb micro sd card as an upgrade to the stock 2gb i recieved......
.... however now i have a problem. i have managed to copy all the files from my old micro sd card over except for what i imagine is the main one.... the data.img file. without this file i basically have to start all over again, re downloading all my apps, re setting all the settings etc and i lose all my messages and emails.
when i try and copy data.img to my hard drive it doesnt like it it comes up with the error I/O device error (0x8007045D)
googleing this hasnt really helped.
has anyone else had a similar problem? also how did they fix it?
if i cant copy my data.img file are there any other ways around having to redownload my apps and program my files etc?
thanks loads
Have you booted in WinMo to transfer these files? USB Mass Storage in Android isn't 100% functional and stable...
hi there,
yeah tried in android, winmob and using a microsd to sd adaptor in my laptop..
....and other ideas?
did the card you bought come with micro SD to SD adapter? that's what I use to copy files to and from my micro SD to my computer.
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Try this.
Try this... Zip the file in the native microSD card then copy the file on the new card and at last but not least unzip the file.
thanks for your replys
masta - ive got one of those too and its the first thing i tried... sadly no luck
stanley - yeah i tried this to no avail it begins to zip it then freaks out half way through..... good idea tho
any other thoughts guys?
Boot back up with your old card, run Android, and back everything up with Titanium Backup. Copy the newly created backup folder over to the root of your new card. It's the long road, but it will get you there. Then let it create the new data image in your new card and redownload Titanium Backup and restore your files.
Good luck.
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`Ok so I need to changed my sd cards and in the past I would use Bart to backup and restore my sd information and ext cache. However, I have 1.7 Amon (for some other reason I can't update to 2.0) Bart is not available.
My bootloader is locked. I need the steps to backing up my whole sd card and ext3 then to restore it on my new card. I have searched for this and I'm not finding the correct method I'm looking for.
BTW if I copy my sd card to the pc and try to transfer them to the new sdcard I get a error for like 71 files that say the name is to long to transfer. But, it doesn't show the full name so I can't find out what the files are. The all start with RES
Upgrade to 2.0 and Nandroid.
Lamar720 said:
`Ok so I need to changed my sd cards and in the past I would use Bart to backup and restore my sd information and ext cache. However, I have 1.7 Amon (for some other reason I can't update to 2.0) Bart is not available.
My bootloader is locked. I need the steps to backing up my whole sd card and ext3 then to restore it on my new card. I have searched for this and I'm not finding the correct method I'm looking for.
BTW if I copy my sd card to the pc and try to transfer them to the new sdcard I get a error for like 71 files that say the name is to long to transfer. But, it doesn't show the full name so I can't find out what the files are. The all start with RES
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Partition the new card.. take the old files, put them on the new locations. It's that simple. If Windows is too retarded to store the files properly, maybe you should look into tar or something like that for Windows, I'm sure it's available.
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Partition the new card.. take the old files, put them on the new locations. It's that simple. If Windows is too retarded to store the files properly, maybe you should look into tar or something like that for Windows, I'm sure it's available.
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Windows can't read ext partitions properly so that won't work for that part. A Ubuntu live CD would though.
Ok I will try those options again.
Semi Noob question.
I just am finally upgrading my SD card, bought a 16GB after using the stock since I got the phone. I had moved all apps to SD via Titanium backup, so...
1. Will copying the contents of the old SD over to the new one suffice or will other steps need to be taken after I put it in?
and 2. What is the idea setup as far as formatting goes, for Apps2SD, best performance, etc? Is there one way that's better than the others?
Worth noting that I'm on CM7 right now.
mikeybags said:
Semi Noob question.
I just am finally upgrading my SD card, bought a 16GB after using the stock since I got the phone. I had moved all apps to SD via Titanium backup, so...
1. Will copying the contents of the old SD over to the new one suffice or will other steps need to be taken after I put it in?
and 2. What is the idea setup as far as formatting goes, for Apps2SD, best performance, etc? Is there one way that's better than the others?
Worth noting that I'm on CM7 right now.
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1. Should be fine.
2. I don't know if ext a2sd still works but 512mb ext3/4 with the rest fat32 works for me. No reason for swap.
A2Ext can still be used, if you partition via recovery it will wipe the SD card, so do that before copying stuff.
mikeybags said:
Semi Noob question.
I just am finally upgrading my SD card, bought a 16GB after using the stock since I got the phone. I had moved all apps to SD via Titanium backup, so...
1. Will copying the contents of the old SD over to the new one suffice or will other steps need to be taken after I put it in?
and 2. What is the idea setup as far as formatting goes, for Apps2SD, best performance, etc? Is there one way that's better than the others?
Worth noting that I'm on CM7 right now.
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1. I would backup all the apps using titanium backup. I'm not too sure that moving them to SD is going to do it.
2. For Apps2SD, I have 512 megs ext 3 partitioned with no swap. I'd say go with ext3 because more roms are compatible with it...
I also upgraded from stock SD to a 16gb class 10 - all I did was copy all contents from one sd to the other. Everything worked right away.
Sure ain't like moving sd's in Symbian ... oh what a mess that was.
Hello to all,
I want to upgrade the microsd card I'm using in my Nook Color to a larger size. I am running CM7 off the internal space, rather than the external card. I am pretty newbie at all this, and I need to know if I can just copy the contents of my old card to the new one & have it work? Pics & stuff I figure are fine, but what about installed apps? There are several on it. Do I need to re-install them or will everything copy over fine? I know it would not work for programs, but I don't know about apps.
I looked though all the threads I could find, but everything seems to be for running CM7 off the card & moving the entire shooting match.
Thanks for any help you can give.
RSD
as long as you haven't done some weird partitioning or changed the format to ntsf or something, you should be able to straight copy.
Wow. That was fast!
Thanks for the info. Formatted FAT32 with no partitions at all, afaik, so it sounds like I'm good.
Thanks again!
Hello,
I am looking for some advice with regard to a speciifc problem I have with my HD2 which is running Android from SD using haret.exe etc to start the system from within Windows Mobile 6.5. The android files are currently held on a 8GB sandisk card. I have prefered this method of using android basically because I find it useful to remove the SD card and create a backup of the files onto my PC, which gives me peace of mind before installing new tryout software, just incase something goes wrong, I know I have the option to go back to a working system very quickly by reloading the files back to the SD card from the PC backup.
Recently I have been thinking that it might be easier if I could backup the files using the phone directly, so I decided to buy a 16GB card in order to partition it into two virtual 8GB drives and load my existing android os files onto one partition, whilst using the second partition to save a backup of android. I thought I should be able to create a backup of android from within WM6.5 instead of having to remove the card and rely on a PC all the time to do this job.
So, using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, I formatted and partitioned the new 16GB SD card, I used FAT32 for each partition and proceeded to copy my android files to the first partition of the new card. I installed the card into my HD2 and started the phone up which booted into WM6.5
From within WM6.5, I used the file explorer and could see both partitions appearing as separate SD cards, the first containing all my android os files etc, and the second partition was empty of course. Just as a test I thought I would try a copy and paste of a couple of files from the android partition to the empty partition, and this worked just fine. I thought to myself I am onto a winner here : ) Read on....
With that I decided to boot into android by clicking on haret.exe.
The system started to boot as normal and everything appeared to be going very very well. Booting completed and the system was ready to use..... Then I thought I would have a look around and see if it was running ok. OH DEAR.... It was reporting that it couldn't find the SD card, even though it had booted from it ! All my files and folders inaccessible and any programs that had been moved to SD card wouldn't start up or were missing from the list of installed apps. I still cant understand why the system has booted from an SD card that it cannot find once the system has booted......
This whole excercise was basically motivated by the need to be able to backup and restore the system from one partition to the other without the constant need to remove the SD card and do the job from a PC. (Constant removal of the SD card is starting to bother me incase I end up wearing the card slot out)
So basically my question is can this be done using my existing android install? (I wouldn't want to start again and install from scratch because the system is highly customised, and has took me a long time to get where it is now) I want to be able to have two partitions on my SD card, one which boots, runs android and holds all my files associated with android, and a second parition which I can use to create and restore a backup from within WM6.5.
This is not a desperate requirement, but I feel it would be a lot better than needing to rely on having my PC to hand all the time. This idea has come from my longstanding history of creating backups using GHOST and similar applications in Windows XP. I would like to do the same with my phone. Obviously I would still periodically make a backup to the PC for safekeeping but it would be more convenient to do it with the phone itself.
Any advice on where I am going wrong would be very useful. Also if you can suggest any other ways of making a strong reliable backup that makes an image of 'EVERYTHING' as is from within android directly, please let me know. I have had a look at Titanium backup, but not sure if it would make a mirror image of 'EVERYTHING' the way I would like to do it (like Ghost does in windows). The way I am doing it at present works fine, except for having to constantly remove the card and rely on having a PC about.
Oh by the way the android version on my SD card is Froyo 2.2 incase this matters (I have never bothered upgrading because it works and does what I need it to do)
Many Thanks
Tony
Brookbond said:
Hello,
I am looking for some advice with regard to a speciifc problem I have with my HD2 which is running Android from SD using haret.exe etc to start the system from within Windows Mobile 6.5. The android files are currently held on a 8GB sandisk card. I have prefered this method of using android basically because I find it useful to remove the SD card and create a backup of the files onto my PC, which gives me peace of mind before installing new tryout software, just incase something goes wrong, I know I have the option to go back to a working system very quickly by reloading the files back to the SD card from the PC backup.
Recently I have been thinking that it might be easier if I could backup the files using the phone directly, so I decided to buy a 16GB card in order to partition it into two virtual 8GB drives and load my existing android os files onto one partition, whilst using the second partition to save a backup of android. I thought I should be able to create a backup of android from within WM6.5 instead of having to remove the card and rely on a PC all the time to do this job.
So, using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, I formatted and partitioned the new 16GB SD card, I used FAT32 for each partition and proceeded to copy my android files to the first partition of the new card. I installed the card into my HD2 and started the phone up which booted into WM6.5
From within WM6.5, I used the file explorer and could see both partitions appearing as separate SD cards, the first containing all my android os files etc, and the second partition was empty of course. Just as a test I thought I would try a copy and paste of a couple of files from the android partition to the empty partition, and this worked just fine. I thought to myself I am onto a winner here : ) Read on....
With that I decided to boot into android by clicking on haret.exe.
The system started to boot as normal and everything appeared to be going very very well. Booting completed and the system was ready to use..... Then I thought I would have a look around and see if it was running ok. OH DEAR.... It was reporting that it couldn't find the SD card, even though it had booted from it ! All my files and folders inaccessible and any programs that had been moved to SD card wouldn't start up or were missing from the list of installed apps. I still cant understand why the system has booted from an SD card that it cannot find once the system has booted......
This whole excercise was basically motivated by the need to be able to backup and restore the system from one partition to the other without the constant need to remove the SD card and do the job from a PC. (Constant removal of the SD card is starting to bother me incase I end up wearing the card slot out)
So basically my question is can this be done using my existing android install? (I wouldn't want to start again and install from scratch because the system is highly customised, and has took me a long time to get where it is now) I want to be able to have two partitions on my SD card, one which boots, runs android and holds all my files associated with android, and a second parition which I can use to create and restore a backup from within WM6.5.
This is not a desperate requirement, but I feel it would be a lot better than needing to rely on having my PC to hand all the time. This idea has come from my longstanding history of creating backups using GHOST and similar applications in Windows XP. I would like to do the same with my phone. Obviously I would still periodically make a backup to the PC for safekeeping but it would be more convenient to do it with the phone itself.
Any advice on where I am going wrong would be very useful. Also if you can suggest any other ways of making a strong reliable backup that makes an image of 'EVERYTHING' as is from within android directly, please let me know. I have had a look at Titanium backup, but not sure if it would make a mirror image of 'EVERYTHING' the way I would like to do it (like Ghost does in windows). The way I am doing it at present works fine, except for having to constantly remove the card and rely on having a PC about.
Oh by the way the android version on my SD card is Froyo 2.2 incase this matters (I have never bothered upgrading because it works and does what I need it to do)
Many Thanks
Tony
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Android looks at storage (and cards and file systems) differently. Assuming you created the partitions okay, you would have to use the Linux mount command (sorry, more reading).
A simpler way to accomplish your goal would be to have everything in one partition on the card. Create a folder and call it "Backup_Folder" or some other name meaningful to you. You will be able to copy/paste in Windows or Android.
Having said that you might want to read more about NAND installations when you have time. It would likely run better and give you more choices. Although a learning curve, once mastered it is as simple and safe as what you are now doing.
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