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[Spike8585]

I don't think I would need much more space, but you can pick up a 4GB class 10 off ebay for $30.00.  
Would a class 10 chip improve the performance of the streak?  I mean "real world" noticeable difference?
If anyone has tested this, please post!
Thanks.

[DellStreakHacks]

courtlandre, on Jun 23 2010, 17:36, said:

Very cool!

yes it is....when will you let us know it you succeed or not? I can't wait to upgrade my dell streak

[Stephen Hyde]

should make you folks considering changing the internal microsd that you may have problems above 2gb as afaik android doesnt like data partitions larger than 2gb in size (i know this from my own porting work - nothing downloads in market etc on a partition larger than 2gb)

probly would need some edits inside the android source also is what im meaning

Edited by Stephen Hyde, 22 August 2010 - 07:57 PM.

[hyellow]

Stephen Hyde, on Aug 22 2010, 19:51, said:

should make you folks considering changing the internal microsd that you may have problems above 2gb as afaik android doesnt like data partitions larger than 2gb in size (i know this from my own porting work - nothing downloads in market etc on a partition larger than 2gb)

probly would need some edits inside the android source also is what im meaning

Do you mean that Android will not work with partitions larger then 2gb, or just won't see the files that are larger then 2gb?
I know on desktop pc's (windows) there sometimes are 2gb file limitations etc.

I now have a newly 8gb Class 6 msd and want to give it a try. is it just plug and play or do i need to to partition it like the first few posts mentioned?

and do i need to be in a linux environment to do so? I'm on windows.

[Stephen Hyde]

cant imagine it'll be plug and play and i mean android has problems whereby it thinks their is no free space if a partition is bigger than 2gb (i am porting android to a device and have had this issue myself even on froyo) android also doesnt support multiple sd mounts so before anyone suggests creating 2 partitions that'll not work either without hacks to android source (having this issue majorly here due to the device im porting having 32gb int memory + microsd).

hopefulyl that helps

feel free to give it a go tho and prove me wrong . iirc formating the partition as ext2/ext3 *should* work provided dells kernel has support for it

also i would love to know what class the internal microsd is if anyone fancys checking

Edited by Stephen Hyde, 29 August 2010 - 12:37 PM.

[Techneut]

Stephen Hyde, on Aug 29 2010, 14:35, said:

cant imagine it'll be plug and play and i mean android has problems whereby it thinks their is no free space if a partition is bigger than 2gb (i am porting android to a device and have had this issue myself even on froyo) android also doesnt support multiple sd mounts so before anyone suggests creating 2 partitions that'll not work either without hacks to android source (having this issue majorly here due to the device im porting having 32gb int memory + microsd).

hopefulyl that helps

feel free to give it a go tho and prove me wrong . iirc formating the partition as ext2/ext3 *should* work provided dells kernel has support for it

also i would love to know what class the internal microsd is if anyone fancys checking

Somebody else already found out the used card is 4 GB class 4; and only 2 GB of it is used.

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[Stephen Hyde]

sounds like dell have chosen to hope they can use the other half laster

[popetodd]

I highly doubt there is a 2Gb limit on that card slot, it uses the same controller as the external storage card and that one is 16Gb.

I have a 16Gb class 10 on order, I will install it with 2 partitions, one 2 Gb for the system and one with the rest when it arrives.
I will use a script to mount it as accessible storage ( I have already given the contents of that script earlier in this thread) using Autostart to load it at boot up. That should do it, if you have read this thread you know at this point the only issue we have been having is mounting at boot and I think I have found a bit of software to cover that.

[Amdathlonuk]

Very interesting......64Gb Dell, here I come!  

[Stephen Hyde]

popetodd, on Aug 29 2010, 15:47, said:

I highly doubt there is a 2Gb limit on that card slot, it uses the same controller as the external storage card and that one is 16Gb.

I have a 16Gb class 10 on order, I will install it with 2 partitions, one 2 Gb for the system and one with the rest when it arrives.
I will use a script to mount it as accessible storage ( I have already given the contents of that script earlier in this thread) using Autostart to load it at boot up. That should do it, if you have read this thread you know at this point the only issue we have been having is mounting at boot and I think I have found a bit of software to cover that.

didnt say on the card slot i said on the os. the card slot can likely take 32gb easily just like the ext card slot but the android os seems to have issues(unless dell edited it) with addressing partitions for 'system' and 'data' larger than 2gb

Edited by Stephen Hyde, 31 August 2010 - 09:28 PM.

[jamezwarner]

Miss post

Edited by jamezwarner, 31 August 2010 - 09:46 PM.

[Stephen Davidson]

Hello Guys,

So last night I took my Streak apart.  Ripped out the original 2GB card (confirmed 2GB) and installed a 16GB Class 10.  I created partitions 5 and 6 formating them as ext3 with labels cache and data.  The cache partition is 1GB and the data partition is 15GB.

So here is the issue.  Android won't mount them during boot.  I've tried restoring the OS and still they won't mount.  

Now the only thing I didn't do is copy the data from the old card to the new one.  

Next I'm going to try deleting the 15GB partition and recreating it as 2GB.  

Any other suggestions for how I can get this to work?  Oh, and does anyone know how to format partitions as yaffs2?

Thanks

[Asphytxtc]

Stephen Davidson, on Sep 1 2010, 15:14, said:

Any other suggestions for how I can get this to work?  Oh, and does anyone know how to format partitions as yaffs2?

I'm pretty new to this whole android malarkey but I think the tool you're after can be found here (Yaffs2 Tool)

http://jiggawatt.org...roid/index.html

I don't think you create yaffs2 filesystems in the same way as you "format" an ext3 fs for example.. I think this tool makes an image based on the contents of a directory if that makes sense?

Hope that's at least some help, im certainly following this thread with interest.. good luck!

Edited by Asphytxtc, 01 September 2010 - 02:54 PM.

[spences10]

Stephen Davidson, on Sep 1 2010, 15:14, said:

Hello Guys,

So last night I took my Streak apart.  Ripped out the original 2GB card (confirmed 2GB) and installed a 16GB Class 10.  I created partitions 5 and 6 formating them as ext3 with labels cache and data.  The cache partition is 1GB and the data partition is 15GB.

So here is the issue.  Android won't mount them during boot.  I've tried restoring the OS and still they won't mount.  

Now the only thing I didn't do is copy the data from the old card to the new one.  

Next I'm going to try deleting the 15GB partition and recreating it as 2GB.  

Any other suggestions for how I can get this to work?  Oh, and does anyone know how to format partitions as yaffs2?

Thanks

Great job chap - hope you get youre issues sorted

Imagine having 15gb data partition - you could store the whole android market on there !!

Well not really, but it would feel like it  

[Stephen Davidson]

Quick question,

Can someone post what the output of running the "mount" command looks like from an unmodified 2.1 rom?

Thanks

[Stephen Davidson]

Well after 8 hours of wrestling with this damn thing I'm no closer solving it.  Every attempt at getting the cache and data partitions to mount automatically with the larger card have failed.  

A couple of you in here seemed to indicate that it was working.  I've gone through the log files and it indicates there is an error with the size of the internal SD card.  The streak then fails over onto the MTDBLOCK7 device (firstboot partition).  The device boots and seems fine but nothing is working correctly.  I cannot install apps etc.  

Sadly I'm going to have to rip it open again and reinstall the original 2GB one.  Although maybe I'll try and find a faster Class 10 2GB Card.

Goodluck to anyone still trying.

[Stephen Hyde]

have you tried a 2gb partition and leaving rest unpartitioned to test

[Stephen Davidson]

I actually did a "dd" of the original drive onto the 16gb one to see if that would allow it to work.  No change.

[Stephen Davidson]

Well I'm back up and running with my 2GB card, but as luck would have it I ran dmesg to my sdcard before I replaced my 16GB internal.  I also ran it with the 2GB card and have found the issue with support for the 16GB card.

In the dmesg report it indicates that the 16GB card is being recognized by fdiskcmd as 16MB.  It then errors and continues to boot ignoring the new internal card.  

For this to work we either need a new fdiskcmd with support for larger drives or a hack to prevent fdiskcmd from reporting the error.

This is way above my level of expertise so we'll just have to wait for the kernel release and go from there.

If you guys have any ideas I'd be happy to try them.  I can also provide the logs if anyone is bored and wants something to read :-)

[popetodd]

Send me the logs!