Quick Q regarding SD Card Formatting

[Guest Janesy B]

I am selling my pulse and I formatted the SD Card. This resulted in the phone complaining that the SD Card is damaged. I used the patched recovery image to Partition the SD card, I set the swap to 0mb and the EXT3 to 0mb. I have the same space as I did before and the phone is behaving fine, I was just wondering if this was correct?

Edited January 21, 2010 by Janesy B

[Guest giorgitus]

I am selling my pulse and I formatted the SD Card. This resulted in the phone complaining that the SD Card is damaged. I used the patched recovery image to Partition the SD card, I set the swap to 0mb and the EXT3 to 0mb. I have the same space as I did before and the phone is behaving fine, I was just wondering if this was correct?

Same problem but i don't want to sell my pulse...

[Guest Daz555]

Same problem but i don't want to sell my pulse...

Depends on what you want to use the card for. If you are using one of Pauls custom ROMS and want to use apps2sd for example then you need an EXT3 partition for apps. Mine is partitioned like this:

Swap: 0MB.

EXT3: 512MB.

FAT32: Remaining space.

For the EXT3 partition you use the option in Recovery menu to create an EXT2 partition and then slection the option in Recovery to update it to EXT3).

If it is just a stock T-Mobile Pulse then can't you just use the format option in settings? I do not have a stock Pulse any longer so can't check for you I'm afraid. Someone else will no doubt be along soon to confirm.

Edited January 21, 2010 by Daz555

[Guest John Hamelink]

This is how I do it:

1. Plug in your pulse in recovery mode,
   
2. Open up a shell in adb (./adb shell),
   
3. Type "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0",
   
4. Type "print" and see what partitions are on your card,
   
5. For each partition, type "rm " and the number of the partition,
   
6. Ensure the sd card is labeled correctly by typing "mklabel msdos".
   

You now have a clean-slate ready to be formatted:

1. Type "mkpartfs primary fat32 0 " and the size of your card in megabytes (it will be specified in the "print" output from step 4).
   
2. Type quit
   
3. Type reboot
   

That should fix your problem for you :)

[Guest not so humble german]

This is how I do it:

1. Plug in your pulse in recovery mode,
   
2. Open up a shell in adb (./adb shell),
   
3. Type "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0",
   
4. Type "print" and see what partitions are on your card,
   
5. For each partition, type "rm " and the number of the partition,
   
6. Ensure the sd card is labeled correctly by typing "mklabel msdos".
   

You now have a clean-slate ready to be formatted:

1. Type "mkpartfs primary fat32 0 " and the size of your card in megabytes (it will be specified in the "print" output from step 4).
   
2. Type quit
   
3. Type reboot
   

That should fix your problem for you :P

I just shut down the phone. put the card in a reader and did:

cfdisk -z /dev/sdi

create new partition, set type to C0, write, quit.

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdi1