Guest simaomacaco Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 hi guys, (apologies for newbie questions but i guess others have similar queries) Anyway.. how can i set up my SD card for A2SD. I have rooted already. Formatted SD card. But format in windows create 1x primary partition. So how can I (step by step please) partition the card into 2 partitions. TY in advance.
Guest EddyOS Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 Asked the same yesterday, waiting on reply
Guest aslocum Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 just format the sd in recovery with the menu there (the menu from step2 in the root process) there is an option to format the card. just do "0" for swap, 512 or 1024 for ext2 and the rest is automatic fat32 (normal sd card space) then convert ext2 to ext3 (ext3 is safer beacause it is a journaled filesystem)
Guest EddyOS Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 So you can set to 1GB? thats what I wanted to do...
Guest simaomacaco Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 So you can set to 1GB? thats what I wanted to do... I am confused. If i format the card at that stage will i not delete the .zip files that i need on the SD card, i.e. r2-desire-modacocustomrom-withadditions-a2sd+-signed.zip "When this has completed, your device should be at the 'recovery' screen. Select the 'wipe' option, then select the option to apply an update zip from sdcard, and select 'rootedupdate.zip'. This will take a little while, so go make a nice cup of tea. When the flash has finished, reboot, and you are DONE! " Confused here?
Guest EddyOS Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) Flash the custom ROM and once done, reboot into recovery and then format the card OR Have a spare card like I have :) I'll use my GoldCard for the ROM and my 16GB card to setup for App2SD. Should work I assume!! Edited May 12, 2010 by EddyOS
Guest EddyOS Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) Taken from another site: 14. yada yada, step 2, yada, flash ROM... 15. Once flashing is over, select the "Power off" command. 16. Unplug your phone from the PC, and replace the GoldCard sdcard with your normal sdcard. * Remember to have backed up your normal sdcard before proceeding, as the next step will wipe all data from it. 1. Turn on your phone while holding the volume down button. 2. You will see HBOOT on the screen. 3. Use the volume buttons to move up and down and power button to select the RECOVERY option. 4. You will now see a red triangle on the screen, at this point plug your phone into your PC via your microUSB cable. 5. Double click on recovery-windows.bat inside the pushfiles_windows.zip folder you unzipped as part of the root process. 6. Using the optical trackpad select Partition sdcard > Partition SD 7. Select SWAP=0, EXT2=512 and allow the rest to be FAT32. 8. Select the SD:ext2 to ext3 option in this menu. 9. Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select Reboot system now. While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port. 10. And thats it! You now have a rooted Desire with apps2sd. Get in! Edited May 12, 2010 by EddyOS
Guest simaomacaco Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 Done. TY for help everyone.. custom ROM with A2SD+. Cool
Guest EddyOS Posted May 12, 2010 Report Posted May 12, 2010 And me, I assume App2SD is running but defo on the MCRr2!! Liking it!!
Guest ascot17 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 I have A2SD+ running successfully after rooting by phone with the r6 riskfree method. Can someone please explain the steps necessary to flash the MCR3.1 Rom and retain the A2SD+ settings? - Do I need to reformat the SD card again? - Will a Titanium Backup or Nandroid backup make reformatting unnecessary? - What is the difference between the 2 backup methods? Many thanks to anyone who can help.....
Guest rafa1282 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 Taken from another site: 14. yada yada, step 2, yada, flash ROM... 15. Once flashing is over, select the "Power off" command. 16. Unplug your phone from the PC, and replace the GoldCard sdcard with your normal sdcard. * Remember to have backed up your normal sdcard before proceeding, as the next step will wipe all data from it. 1. Turn on your phone while holding the volume down button. 2. You will see HBOOT on the screen. 3. Use the volume buttons to move up and down and power button to select the RECOVERY option. 4. You will now see a red triangle on the screen, at this point plug your phone into your PC via your microUSB cable. 5. Double click on recovery-windows.bat inside the pushfiles_windows.zip folder you unzipped as part of the root process. 6. Using the optical trackpad select Partition sdcard > Partition SD 7. Select SWAP=0, EXT2=512 and allow the rest to be FAT32. 8. Select the SD:ext2 to ext3 option in this menu. 9. Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select Reboot system now. While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port. 10. And thats it! You now have a rooted Desire with apps2sd. Get in! Bro you really helped me on this one
Guest Time Sheep Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 (edited) In fact you could just shrink the FAT32 partition to make room for the EXT3 partition you need. I did that... I mean, copy backup to PC, wipe, new FAT partition, new EXT partition, wipe/format both partitions and copy your backup back... Yawn. Copy backup to PC. Shrink FAT partition. Create EXT partition. Format (from device) DONE. ^^ Yes still take a backup, things can go terribly wrong when shrinking partitions... Although reading from a flash drive is 1000 times faster than writing to one, so a backup wouldn't be too bad, but putting it back again is unfortunately a pain in the *** OFC A2SD is a lot easier to set up if you have it in a ROM :lol: Edited June 29, 2010 by Time Sheep
Guest kay9jay Posted July 1, 2010 Report Posted July 1, 2010 MCR R20 im having problem with A2SD (low space warning). i am new to linux/android. i set up my sdcard using gparted on puppylinux. i didnt use clockwordmod/rom manager as it doesnt allow 1024mb for ext3... weird: clockworkmod recovery doesnt boot anyways. the partitions seem to work properly. /system/sd/app & apps are on sd (checked with Adb Shell). also, there are mmcblk0p* in dev/block. i am getting the low space warning and am not able to install more apps... A2SD bug??? maybe a poblem with the script 40a2sd ??? im a a novice i cant find it out. i have rebooted the phone several times already. maybe the script dont free up space on /data?
Guest as4m4df Posted July 1, 2010 Report Posted July 1, 2010 MCR R20 im having problem with A2SD (low space warning). i am new to linux/android. i set up my sdcard using gparted on puppylinux. i didnt use clockwordmod/rom manager as it doesnt allow 1024mb for ext3... weird: clockworkmod recovery doesnt boot anyways. the partitions seem to work properly. /system/sd/app & apps are on sd (checked with Adb Shell). also, there are mmcblk0p* in dev/block. i am getting the low space warning and am not able to install more apps... A2SD bug??? maybe a poblem with the script 40a2sd ??? im a a novice i cant find it out. i have rebooted the phone several times already. maybe the script dont free up space on /data? Look at the risk-free guide (http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/14-jun-r6-riskfreeroot-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-with-hboot-0-80-and-os-to-1-21-support/) and use the recovery image provided to partition. Specifically when you've downloaded the correct files from that guide: - In the terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat', './step1-mac.sh' or './step1-linux.sh' as appropriate. This step should get you to the recovery image to partition 1gb.
Guest kay9jay Posted July 1, 2010 Report Posted July 1, 2010 (edited) Look at the risk-free guide (http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/14-jun-r6-riskfreeroot-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-with-hboot-0-80-and-os-to-1-21-support/) and use the recovery image provided to partition. Specifically when you've downloaded the correct files from that guide: - In the terminal window, enter either 'step1-windows.bat', './step1-mac.sh' or './step1-linux.sh' as appropriate. This step should get you to the recovery image to partition 1gb. i am pretty sure the sdcard is formatted properly. i can access system/sd/app/ and see the files. there are plenty of apks in this folder. the problem is that it seems like MCR r20 keeps the SAME files on the data/app/ partition instead of moving the files. this makes the phone memory go down and also i cant install any other apps. Edited July 1, 2010 by kay9jay
Guest afiorillo Posted July 1, 2010 Report Posted July 1, 2010 i am pretty sure the sdcard is formatted properly. i can access system/sd/app/ and see the files. there are plenty of apks in this folder. the problem is that it seems like MCR r20 keeps the SAME files on the data/app/ partition instead of moving the files. this makes the phone memory go down and also i cant install any other apps. When in /data/app, try to enter pwd: you'll see that you are actually in /system/sd/app. Symlinks do that. ;-)
Guest steetiehj Posted July 2, 2010 Report Posted July 2, 2010 (edited) Taken from another site: 14. yada yada, step 2, yada, flash ROM... 15. Once flashing is over, select the "Power off" command. 16. Unplug your phone from the PC, and replace the GoldCard sdcard with your normal sdcard. * Remember to have backed up your normal sdcard before proceeding, as the next step will wipe all data from it. 1. Turn on your phone while holding the volume down button. 2. You will see HBOOT on the screen. 3. Use the volume buttons to move up and down and power button to select the RECOVERY option. 4. You will now see a red triangle on the screen, at this point plug your phone into your PC via your microUSB cable. 5. Double click on recovery-windows.bat inside the pushfiles_windows.zip folder you unzipped as part of the root process. 6. Using the optical trackpad select Partition sdcard > Partition SD 7. Select SWAP=0, EXT2=512 and allow the rest to be FAT32. 8. Select the SD:ext2 to ext3 option in this menu. 9. Go back to the Recovery Console main menu and select Reboot system now. While rebooting, unplug the Desire from the USB port. 10. And thats it! You now have a rooted Desire with apps2sd. Get in! I've followed these steps and all appears successful... I checked via astro file manager system/sd/ but there is no apps folder? so I thought something was up and followed the instructions above again.. loaded up the phone and the apps I'd installed had gone; so I assume they must have been on the SD card... is there any way I can check other than the system/sd/apps route as this isn't appearing? I have A2SD+ btw ~EDIT: I turned the phone off, removed the SD card, turned it on, apps gone... so that's answered my question :lol: ~~EDIT: I now get stuck in a loop when booting up because of LauncherPro Beta, so be warned if you have this installed on your SD card... Edited July 3, 2010 by steetiehj
Guest rafa1282 Posted July 3, 2010 Report Posted July 3, 2010 When in /data/app, try to enter pwd: you'll see that you are actually in /system/sd/app. Symlinks do that. ;-) I got the same problem and it seems to be that when you install apps directly out the apk...it storages it on the "data"part of the phone. I figured a way out to storage the apps on your SD, just follow this steps: 1 install your apps normally directly from the .apk file 2 Make a backup of your .apk app with the application "my backup pro" 3 After the backup is all set, delete de .apk app with an uninstaller. for example: "process manager" 4 After you deleted de .apk app. just restore it with the backup that you did with "my backup pro"and it will be on your SD. Thats the only way that seems to work for me. Hope that this helps you greettz
Guest rafa1282 Posted July 3, 2010 Report Posted July 3, 2010 MCR R20 im having problem with A2SD (low space warning). i am new to linux/android. i set up my sdcard using gparted on puppylinux. i didnt use clockwordmod/rom manager as it doesnt allow 1024mb for ext3... weird: clockworkmod recovery doesnt boot anyways. the partitions seem to work properly. /system/sd/app & apps are on sd (checked with Adb Shell). also, there are mmcblk0p* in dev/block. i am getting the low space warning and am not able to install more apps... A2SD bug??? maybe a poblem with the script 40a2sd ??? im a a novice i cant find it out. i have rebooted the phone several times already. maybe the script dont free up space on /data? I got the same problem and it seems to be that when you install apps directly out the apk...it storages it on the "data"part of the phone. I figured a way out to storage the apps on your SD, just follow this steps: 1 install your apps normally directly from the .apk file 2 Make a backup of your .apk app with the application "my backup pro" 3 After the backup is all set, delete de .apk app with an uninstaller. for example: "process manager" 4 After you deleted de .apk app. just restore it with the backup that you did with "my backup pro"and it will be on your SD. Thats the only way that seems to work for me. Hope that this helps you greettz
Guest dee163 Posted July 3, 2010 Report Posted July 3, 2010 Hello Which recovery method? power and down volume? power and back space button? I have root o/s but do not see the options you mentioned.just format the sd in recovery with the menu there (the menu from step2 in the root process) there is an option to format the card. just do "0" for swap, 512 or 1024 for ext2 and the rest is automatic fat32 (normal sd card space) then convert ext2 to ext3 (ext3 is safer beacause it is a journaled filesystem)
Guest ultraa Posted July 19, 2010 Report Posted July 19, 2010 "8. Select the SD:ext2 to ext3 option in this menu." Is it optional to do SD:ext2 to ext3 ? will a2sd work if i dont it ?
Guest katun79 Posted July 19, 2010 Report Posted July 19, 2010 (edited) I create an sd with "ROM Manager", you must have a rooted phone, and make a backup before or you will lost all your data. ;-) PS: You can create max 512MB of ext2/3 partition with this program, but using gparted I enlarged It up to 2GB :angry: Edited July 19, 2010 by katun79
Guest Michelle My Belle Posted July 19, 2010 Report Posted July 19, 2010 I create an sd with "ROM Manager", you must have a rooted phone, and make a backup before or you will lost all your data. ;-) PS: You can create max 512MB of ext2/3 partition with this program, but using gparted I enlarged It up to 2GB :angry: I'm just curious here but why do you think you need 2 GB of ext? :D MMB.
Guest bhups Posted July 21, 2010 Report Posted July 21, 2010 I have found that partitioning it in the following way works best: | ---------------- FAT32 ---------------- | ----- EXT (3/4) ----- | --- SWAP --- | FAT32 first EXT second SWAP last (but not necessary to be needed)
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