Cant acces SD card after partition

[Guest Hakan54]

I have first fortmatted everyting. Then used superboot.

After that i installed Quick Boot, when starting my device in recovery mode i made partition.

Asking how much mb, first 32 and then 512 and at last the remaining bytes.

So, after that i installed vanilla, my phone is now clean and much faster.

But, when i plug my device to my pc, i can't get acces to my remaining bytes on my sd card.

My phone says that there is no sd card.

I know i can acces my phone's sd card by going to recovery mode, but how can i get acces without rebooting?

My English is really bad, sorry for that.

I hope someone can help me.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Hakan54

[Guest Azurren]

I have first fortmatted everyting. Then used superboot.

After that i installed Quick Boot, when starting my device in recovery mode i made partition.

Asking how much mb, first 32 and then 512 and at last the remaining bytes.

So, after that i installed vanilla, my phone is now clean and much faster.

But, when i plug my device to my pc, i can't get acces to my remaining bytes on my sd card.

My phone says that there is no sd card.

I know i can acces my phone's sd card by going to recovery mode, but how can i get acces without rebooting?

My English is really bad, sorry for that.

I hope someone can help me.

What did you format your sd card with originally? Fat32 fat16 or ntfs? This may be the problem as android devices use fat 32.

You only need to partition your sd card if you want to use apps to sd. An application which stores your apps in your sd card instead of on your phone. You do not need it to run the custom rom ;)

Edited April 9, 2010 by Azurren

[Guest Hakan54]

It says FAT32 when i go to recovery and enable USB-MS

http://tinyurl.com/y82ksp3

You can see at the picture above that itt says there is no card.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Hakan54

[Guest perljun]

...Asking how much mb, first 32 and then 512 and at last the remaining bytes..

Doesn't that mean he put a 32MB SWAP on his card?

[Guest Hakan54]

Doesn't that mean he put a 32MB SWAP on his card?

Yes i put a 32mb swap, it was default, so i thought...

If i undo that, will it then be fixed?

[Guest perljun]

Sorry, I'm new to this too but all the instructions said not to put a SWAP on the SD card when partitioning it. So my guess would be remove the SWAP and try it again but I think you lose all the apps installed on the 512 ext partition when you repartition.

[Guest not so humble german]

Yes i put a 32mb swap, it was default, so i thought...

If i undo that, will it then be fixed?

yeah, remove the swap partition. I had the same problem. I tried for hours to get the sd card working, countless flashs, reflashs, partitioning and formating tries later, I went without swap and the sd card was instantly recognized.

Just 512mb (more or less doesn't matter) ext2 and the rest vfat and you will be fine.

[Guest Hakan54]

yeah, remove the swap partition. I had the same problem. I tried for hours to get the sd card working, countless flashs, reflashs, partitioning and formating tries later, I went without swap and the sd card was instantly recognized.

Just 512mb (more or less doesn't matter) ext2 and the rest vfat and you will be fine.

But, swap comes handy when your memory is full. With the pulse is swap a good thing or not needed?

What i want to do is, add apk files into my microsd card and the install it with some apk installer, therefor i need acces to my micro sd card on my android.

So do i need swap on my pulse? Or can i still acces my micro sd with that swap.

[Guest not so humble german]

But, swap comes handy when your memory is full. With the pulse is swap a good thing or not needed?

What i want to do is, add apk files into my microsd card and the install it with some apk installer, therefor i need acces to my micro sd card on my android.

So do i need swap on my pulse? Or can i still acces my micro sd with that swap.

I haven't had the need for swap so far - and what is usefull about swap if you can't access the card?

[Guest perljun]

SWAP is not supported which is why the instruction says not to make a SWAP partition. So if you wanna use your SD get rid of the SWAP

[Guest Hakan54]

Thank you, so if i connect my microsd to my ubuntu and make a backup of my apps and then format the sd.

After partition the micro sd i will put the files back to my micro sd, will the apps still work?

[Guest perljun]

Don't see why not. Even if it doesn't, if you reflash the custom ROM all the apps coming with the ROM are reinstalled on the EXT partition. So just be sure to back up the apps that didn't come with the ROM.

Edited April 9, 2010 by perljun

[Guest Hakan54]

Thank you very much, it works now!