Guest Casper-vH Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 Ive just got a new 16GB microSD card. Id like to format it using my pc. I tried multiple programs, but I couldnt get them to partition it. Then I came across partedmagic.com. I created a BootCD and partitioned my SD card. (510MB EXT4, 14,3 GB FAT32). When it was finallly done, I rebooted my pc. My problem now is that windows wants to format the SD card, which would remove my partition. What do I do now?
Guest DarrellK Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 Ive just got a new 16GB microSD card. Id like to format it using my pc. I tried multiple programs, but I couldnt get them to partition it. Then I came across partedmagic.com. I created a BootCD and partitioned my SD card. (510MB EXT4, 14,3 GB FAT32). When it was finallly done, I rebooted my pc. My problem now is that windows wants to format the SD card, which would remove my partition. What do I do now? did you format the FAT32 partition while in gparted?
Guest Casper-vH Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 did you format the FAT32 partition while in gparted? No. Tx. Ill try that
Guest BigBearMDC Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 Hi What do I do now? You can format your SD-Card in Recovery Mode. Go to Partition SD-Card, use Swap 0MB, ext2 < 512MB and the rest is FAT. Then select ext2 -> ext3 upgrade. Greetings :) BigBearMDC
Guest twe Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 Hi You can format your SD-Card in Recovery Mode. Go to Partition SD-Card, use Swap 0MB, ext2 < 512MB and the rest is FAT. Then select ext2 -> ext3 upgrade. Greetings :) BigBearMDC Thanks for these settings. Was wondering though should it be shown under SD card & phone storage? Mine currently says available space 1,444MB for sd card and 86mb available on internal phone storage..... Is there a way to see if apps are being installed onto the sd card? [using the t-mobile style modaco rom v1.6]...
Guest BigBearMDC Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Is there a way to see if apps are being installed onto the sd card? [using the t-mobile style modaco rom v1.6] I don't belive so. My one is showing 99MB free space allthough i have a 512MB A2SD partition on my SD-Card. I think the only way is to go into Recovery Mode, enable USB-MS and open the ext partition under linux to see if the app folder on this partition is empty. OR you could just remove the SD-Card and see if the apps you installed are working :) Edit: do NOT remove your SD-Card. I did it a few minutes ago and it seems to cause crashes when you try to start applications even if you put the Card back into Device!!! Greetings, BigBearMDC Edited December 31, 2009 by BigBearMDC
Guest Casper-vH Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 I don't belive so. My one is showing 99MB free space allthough i have a 512MB A2SD partition on my SD-Card. I think the only way is to go into Recovery Mode, enable USB-MS and open the ext partition under linux to see if the app folder on this partition is empty. OR you could just remove the SD-Card and see if the apps you installed are working :) Edit: do NOT remove your SD-Card. I did it a few minutes ago and it seems to cause crashes when you try to start applications even if you put the Card back into Device!!! Greetings, BigBearMDC And if I put another SD card in, will it crash also? So do I have to reinstall my ROM or just all my apps if I want to use a new SD card?
Guest Dan Mullen Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 I don't belive so. My one is showing 99MB free space allthough i have a 512MB A2SD partition on my SD-Card. I think the only way is to go into Recovery Mode, enable USB-MS and open the ext partition under linux to see if the app folder on this partition is empty. OR you could just remove the SD-Card and see if the apps you installed are working :) Edit: do NOT remove your SD-Card. I did it a few minutes ago and it seems to cause crashes when you try to start applications even if you put the Card back into Device!!! Greetings, BigBearMDC The 99MB free space that the phone reports is just internal storage space - it's completely unrelated to your ext partition. You can just open an ADB shell and check that /data/app is a symlink to /system/sd/app. If it is, then apps2sd is configured correctly. List the contents of that directory to see your installed apps. # cd /data cd /data # ls -al ls -al drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 Sep 10 19:54 . drwxr-xr-x 12 0 0 0 Dec 27 01:01 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 1013 1000 14 Dec 20 14:04 StreamingPacketLost.txt drwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 2048 Sep 10 19:57 anr lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 14 Apr 19 1980 app -> /system/sd/app lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 22 Sep 10 19:57 app-private -> /system/sd/app-private drwxrwxrwx 1 1002 1002 2048 Sep 10 19:57 btips drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 Dec 27 00:40 dalvik-cache drwxrwx--x 1 1000 1000 2048 Sep 10 19:57 data lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 11 Sep 10 19:57 drm -> /data/local drwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 2048 Jun 18 2009 dropbear -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 32 Aug 1 2008 init.sh drwxr-xr-x 1 2000 2000 2048 Aug 1 2008 local drwxrwx--- 1 0 0 2048 Sep 10 19:57 lost+found drwxrwx--t 1 1000 9998 2048 Sep 10 19:57 misc drwx------ 1 0 0 2048 Sep 10 19:57 property -rw-rw-rw- 1 0 0 70 Dec 14 12:08 reboot.chk drwxrwxr-x 1 1000 1000 2048 Sep 10 19:57 system drwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 2048 Sep 10 22:13 tombstones drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 2048 Aug 1 2008 xbin #
Guest BigBearMDC Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 And if I put another SD card in, will it crash also? So do I have to reinstall my ROM or just all my apps if I want to use a new SD card? Unfortunately i think you'd have to reinstall the ROM. Maybe it would work if you Restore a backup. But then remember to make a nand AND ext backup. And restore both of them. Greetings, BigBearMDC
Guest Casper-vH Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 Im lost here. I went into recovery. Partitioned my SD card. Then I tried to load my files onto it using windows. But it cuoldnt read it, as it wanted to format the card first. So I copied my files onto it using linux. Then I tried to testore my Nandroid backup. But it errored, saying that my SD card isnt mounted. What do I have to do? (or what am I doing wrong...
Guest BigBearMDC Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Copy all the files stored on your Card to your PC using linux. Then format the card using Windows. Put the card into your Phone, go into recovery Mode and partition : partition sdcard -> Partition SD Then copy the Backup back on your SD Card using the USB-MS toggle feature of the Recovery Mode. When thats finished go into Backup/Restore and restore your Backup Good Luck :) BigBearMDC Edited December 31, 2009 by BigBearMDC
Guest Casper-vH Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 It worked! ;) Thanks for your help :)
Guest BigBearMDC Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Thanks for your help :) Never mention. Im glad i could help you ;) Greetings, BigBearMDC Edited December 31, 2009 by BigBearMDC
Guest DarrellK Posted December 31, 2009 Report Posted December 31, 2009 I don't belive so. My one is showing 99MB free space allthough i have a 512MB A2SD partition on my SD-Card. I think the only way is to go into Recovery Mode, enable USB-MS and open the ext partition under linux to see if the app folder on this partition is empty. OR you could just remove the SD-Card and see if the apps you installed are working :) Edit: do NOT remove your SD-Card. I did it a few minutes ago and it seems to cause crashes when you try to start applications even if you put the Card back into Device!!! Greetings, BigBearMDC Under Linux, the ext2/3/4 partition will mount alongside the FAT partition, just by plugging the USB and mounting from the phone, with the phone in everyday operating mode. You can then browse it in Nautilus or whatever.
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