I have a 4gb sd card with partitions on it that I want to move over to my new 16gb card. how do I move all data over? I can see the fat partition when I mount it but what about the ext partition with all my apps? I have Alps installed via app2sd.
go download titanium backup off the market then backup apps pull all your files on the new card after you partition it then restore all apps
blaboy51 said:
go download titanium backup off the market then backup apps pull all your files on the new card after you partition it then restore all apps
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how much is that program?
ChillRays said:
how much is that program?
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free but you can donate to the developer after you download it
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free but you can donate to the developer after you download it
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Thanks, i'll keep that in mind.
blaboy51 said:
go download titanium backup off the market then backup apps pull all your files on the new card after you partition it then restore all apps
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Ok, I don't quite understand the above.
go download titanium backup off the market = Download Titanium Backup from the Market app on your phone.
backup apps = using Titanium, select 'Backup/Restore' at top, then using the Menu softkey select "Batch" then push the RUN button for 'Backup all user apps + system data". I'm not sure if this is the correct batch job to run... Then push 'Select All' then "Run the batch operation". This will take a moment or two to finish.
"pull all your files on the new card after you paritition it" - this is where I get lost. I have no idea what this means. There's several steps missing here:
- how do you partition it? What file system is used? How many partitions?
- how do you pull (put?) all the files on the new card? It's nonsensical.
- at what point do you copy all the files off the old card onto your PC?
"restore all apps" - I assume you use a batch job in Titanium Backup to do this?
douginoz said:
Ok, I don't quite understand the above.
go download titanium backup off the market = Download Titanium Backup from the Market app on your phone.
backup apps = using Titanium, select 'Backup/Restore' at top, then using the Menu softkey select "Batch" then push the RUN button for 'Backup all user apps + system data". I'm not sure if this is the correct batch job to run... Then push 'Select All' then "Run the batch operation". This will take a moment or two to finish.
"pull all your files on the new card after you paritition it" - this is where I get lost. I have no idea what this means. There's several steps missing here:
- how do you partition it? What file system is used? How many partitions?
- how do you pull (put?) all the files on the new card? It's nonsensical.
- at what point do you copy all the files off the old card onto your PC?
"restore all apps" - I assume you use a batch job in Titanium Backup to do this?
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you partition your sd card in your custom recovery image you should have if your phone is rooted, set up your partition ext 2 3 or 4 however much you want then the rest fat32 after that put your old card in your computer copy all the files onto your computer then put your new card in then copy all the files over to the new card put your sd card back in the phone then start up batch restore all apps and settings all done not that hard really if you dont know how to partition your sd card i dont know how you rooted your phone
Run on sentences gives me headache -_-
Heres how I did mine yesteday, went from stock 4gb to adata 16gb c6;
- Went into Ra recovery and did a nandroid + ext backup
- Toggled ms-usb, copied everything from my card to my computer
- Turned off my n1 then inserted my new card
- Went back into recovery, formated my new card with ext partition
- Enabled ms-usb again and copied everything to the new card
- Disabled ms-usb and then did the nandroid restore which also restores your ext partition
titanium backup rocks. thank you for whomever suggested it!
Hi all,
I just spent ages trying to figure out how to partition my SD card on HTC wildfire and configure it to have CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1.
WARNING, THIS TUTORIAL IS ASSUMING YOU ALREADY HAVE A ROOTED PHONE, DO NOT FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL IF YOUR PHONE IS NOT ROOTED & S-OFF. - I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR PHONE GETS BRICKED, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
WARNING, ALL DATA WILL BE LOST FROM BOTH SD CARD AND PHONE MEMORY - Backup all pictures / music by copying them to a folder on your computer.
Your apps will automatically be backed up (Providing you have updated your Android Market to Google Play)
Step 1 - Download these necessary files onto your desktop and put the first one onto the root of your micro sd card:
- http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-buzz.zip
- http://download.cyanogenmod.com/torrents/update-cm-7.1.0.1-buzz-signed.zip.torrent
- http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
Step 2 - Open Recovery Mode
- Hold down the power button and select reboot (if available) and then select recovery.
- If this does not show up, follow these steps below:
1. Turn your phone off.
2. Hold down the volume down button and the power button until the Revolutionary screen pops up.
3. Tap volume down once, (highlight the word recovery) and tap the power button.
Step 3 – Update The ClockworkMod Recovery.
- At the moment, you will have green text, and a black background. (This is version 2.5.0.1)
- This is the base version that your phone will run on, and does not support SD-ext for the HTC wildfire.
- Move your trackpad down so that you have "install zip from sdcard" highlighted. Tap the trackpad to select it.
- Now highlight and select "choose zip from sdcard"
- A list of files in your SD card will be shown.
- MAKE SURE THERE IS NOTHING HERE THAT YOU WISH TO KEEP OR HAVEN'T MADE A BACKUP OF.
- Highlight and select "recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-buzz.zip", which you saved to the root of your SD card.
- Confirm the install, and select "Yes - install recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-buzz.zip"
- A few lines of code will be shown, then everything will turn blue and the background will change.
- You now temporarily have ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.0
Step 4 – Clear Everything
- Here is where you must have backed everything up.
- Select Mounts and storage.
- You will see the following (if some say unmounts instead of mount, make them say mount by selecting them):
- Mount /cache
- Mount /data
- Mount /system
- Mount /sd-ext
- Format /boot
- Format /cache
- Format /data
- Format /sdcard
- Format /system
- Format /sd-ext
- Mount USB storage
- format everything on the page, they should all work, but
- You will get an error on the sd-ext (this is meant to happen so don’t worry)
- Now go back (tap the power button) and select “wipe data/factory reset
- And finally select wipe cache partition
Step 5 – Partition the SD card
- Scroll down, and select “Advanced”
- Select “Partition SD Card
- Choose your Ext Size (I recommend choosing half of the storage space that your card is.
- For a 256mb card, select 128M
- For a 512mb card, select 256M
- For a 1gb card, select 512M
- For a 2gb card, select 1024M
- For a 4gb card, select 2048M
- For a 8gb card, select 4096M
- any memory card higher than this will not be partitioned, the phone will not be able to read it properly, but I would recommend an 8gb card, and if you have any smaller than 1gb, I wouldn’t even bother wasting your time – but go ahead if you wish.
- Now it will ask you what Swap size you want:
- If you have a 256mb or a 512mb card, select 0M.
- If you have a 1gb or a 2gb card, select 32M.
- If you have a 4gb or a 8gb card, select 64M.
- If it asks to confirm, select yes, now wait for a few minutes (grab a drink – you’ve earned it).
Step 6 - Preparing CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1
- Once you’ve partitioned your card, Tap Reboot Recovery in the Advanced Menu.
- You will be back to the normal green text and black background.
- Scroll down to “install zip from sdcard”
- Select “choose zip from sdcard” Now there’s nothing on your sd card. If this has happened, then you know your card has been successfully partitioned.
- Take out the battery of your phone, and then the memory card.
- Put the memory card in your computer (you should also notice that the size has halved)
- Put the other two files from your desktop onto the root of your micro SD card.
Step 7 - Installing CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1
- Put the sd card back in the phone, and turn the phone on normally.
- You will automatically be taken to Revolutionary because you’ve wiped the phone
- Open up ClockworkMod Recovery again (by pressing the down volume key once, followed by the power button)
- You will still have the green writing and the black background (v2.5.0.1)
- Select “install zip from sdcard”
- Select “choose zip from sdcard”
- Locate “update-cm-7.1.0.1-buzz-signed.zip” and install.
- [OPTIONAL – GOOGLE APPS]
- Select “install zip from sdcard”
- Select “choose zip from sdcard”
- Locate “gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip” and install
- Go back, and select “reboot system now”
- Startup will take a little bit longer than normal, don’t worry, this is normal.
- Login with your Google account and follow the Startup process like you did when you got the phone new. (or similar at least )
Step 8 - Get Your Apps Back
- On your computer, visit https://play.google.com/apps
- Select install on every app that you want that you’ve previously downloaded from the market.
Step 9 – Get Pictures / Music Back
- On your default home screen on your phone, Tap Menu / Settings / Storage / Unmount SD Card.
- Put the memory card in your computer
- Copy the files from the folder that you backed up earlier on onto the card.
- Put the memory card back in the phone.
Step 10 – Install S2E (simple2ext)
- Open up Google Play on your phone and search for S2E and install the first one that comes up.
- OR visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.krikun.s2e on your computer and install the app through there.
Step 11 – Configuring S2E (simple2ext)
- Once you have the app installed, open up S2E (Doesn’t matter if other apps are still installing / Downloading)
- check every single box on the main app page.
- If some items cannot be highlighted, don’t worry for the minute, just highlight what you can.
- Now press the menu button within the app, and select “Settings”
- Make “Advanced mode” be checked
- Make “Extended partitions info” be checked
- Make “Set read buffer” be checked (and set the buffer size to 2MB)
- DO NOT MOUNT AS EXT4 OR SELECT IMPORT – EVER!
- Press back, and then tap the menu button again.
- This time, select the reboot option.
- Once the phone has rebooted play a few apps, open the browser send a text, etc… (Do anything that will use memory on your phone – Facebook’s a good one)
- Now open up S2E again, and the options that were not available earlier are now available, select them, and reboot again from Menu / Reboot within the app.
- CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE INSTALLED CYANOGENMOD 7.1.0.1 WITH AN SD-EXT.
If you ever want to see how much space you have left for apps, data, cache, etc… Download “FreeSpace” from Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.krikun.freespace
Hoped this helped guys,
I just feel this needs to be on the internet after the amount of time I spent fiddling with my phone, trying to figure this out.
source form htcwildfireforum.com
This link doesn't work - cyanogenmod one.
Gilbert_Sarip said:
Hi all,
Step 5 – Partition the SD card
- Scroll down, and select “Advanced”
- Select “Partition SD Card
- Choose your Ext Size (I recommend choosing half of the storage space that your card is.
- For a 256mb card, select 128M
- For a 512mb card, select 256M
- For a 1gb card, select 512M
- For a 2gb card, select 1024M
- For a 4gb card, select 2048M
- For a 8gb card, select 4096M
- any memory card higher than this will not be partitioned, the phone will not be able to read it properly, but I would recommend an 8gb card, and if you have any smaller than 1gb, I wouldn’t even bother wasting your time – but go ahead if you wish.
source form htcwildfireforum.com
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Do you really need to have a partition of SD card to exactly half?
For instance 512M is enough for 8Gb card.....
Also a 16gb class 10 card gives no problems at all when partitioned.......
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The_Warrior said:
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sorry about the link
Torrent:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/torrents/update-cm-7.1.0.1-buzz-signed.zip.torrent
huston8 said:
Do you really need to have a partition of SD card to exactly half?
For instance 512M is enough for 8Gb card.....
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it is up to you how many free space you want
I have 8g card and always have a 256mb partition set. Never needed any more than that. I also use custom mtd along side with various sizes depending on rom.
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i ever tray, with the thread ROM rempuzzle and luck,, you thread very helfull if any pic,
thank you very much, it's helpful guide
Awesome...... Thank you very much. Instead of installing update-cm-7.1.0.1-buzz-signed.zip, I had used SplashMOD_v2.0-Final which installed really smoothly without any problem.
Excellent!!
Indeed this is a very good tutorial, very in depth and more importantly actually helps you get the job done
awesome tutorial buddy
Problem with partition: Solved
Just mentioning for anyone that has problems.
I could select only a few options is S2E and I could not use extended partition. I could not add apps to this or mount from recovery.
Actually I formatted it from recovery and then it worked. Sorry if it is a step of the installation procedure that I did not see.
How does this partition works? My data space is completely free... If I need an app to run even if I removed the SD card how do I install this to the app data?
I have to try his one out .. thanks
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- For a 1gb card, select 512M
- For a 2gb card, select 1024M
- For a 4gb card, select 2048M
- For a 8gb card, select 4096M
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This not correct dude. size of 256/512 is nore than sufficient for wildfire.
I personally had 512/8gb but I had to format it to reduce it to 256.
Also the swap increases USB mount time very significantly. On cm9 I had to disable swap in order to mount it. Swap is not recommended for low end devices like htc buzz and I had read that it DAMAGES the SD card.
Plus swap enabled and disabled did not make a difference for me!
Last point:s2e is terribly slow. I recommend using cronmod script. It will mount SD EXT automatically at boot and ensure faster execution.
Sorry for bugging!
Also on step 6, where it says
"- Take out the battery of your phone, and then the memory card."
I think that there is a option to power off, not just shocking device in my opinion but ok...
I use link2sd which can show "storage use" ... no problems at all.
cm9
is this methode also helpfull on a cm9?
and does this patition works as internal memory
when some apps are moved to SD card, I always need to login again and again every time i start them up. (f.e. facebook, twitter, but also my agenda widget wouldn't work when moved. Will this solve the issue?
so I tried it with cm9. but there is something not working with s2e... I can't check any of the options in the main screen nor is there is an option "advanced" in the settings.
what did i do wrong?
in the log list of s2e i find the following:
Initialization...
Ext partition found: /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Use built-in tune2fs
Use built-in e2fsck
Setup read_ahead value
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 not mounted... Exit!
Gilbert_Sarip said:
Step 11 – Configuring S2E (simple2ext)
- Once you have the app installed, open up S2E (Doesn’t matter if other apps are still installing / Downloading)
- check every single box on the main app page.
- If some items cannot be highlighted, don’t worry for the minute, just highlight what you can.
- Now press the menu button within the app, and select “Settings”
- Make “Advanced mode” be checked
- Make “Extended partitions info” be checked
- Make “Set read buffer” be checked (and set the buffer size to 2MB)
- DO NOT MOUNT AS EXT4 OR SELECT IMPORT – EVER!
- Press back, and then tap the menu button again.
- This time, select the reboot option.
- Once the phone has rebooted play a few apps, open the browser send a text, etc… (Do anything that will use memory on your phone – Facebook’s a good one)
- Now open up S2E again, and the options that were not available earlier are now available, select them, and reboot again from Menu / Reboot within the app.
source form htcwildfireforum.com
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So this is the step where all doesn't go according to plan.
so I succesfully partitioned my sd. installed cm and installed s2e from your link.
but s2e doesn't work as described. In the main screen , there are no boxes to mark. also no option to reboot in the application. nor is there an advanced section in the settings.
is this an other application nowadays? or did I do something wrong? in my previous post I put the log I find in s2e after starting?
could someone help?
Odp: How to use a sd-ext on HTC Buzz (Wildfire)
s2e won't work with ics ); install darktremor script instead. then run it in terminal emulator and ur apps will be on sd ext.
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this is probably an easy question to answer but im not sure so i installed titanium backup and made a backup of all my apps and i moved the backup to my sd card and i flashed a new rom so all of the info was wiped and now i cant move it back onto the phone because i dont have enough storage and everytime i make a backup of 1 app to see where it backs up to it backs it up to my device storage so is there any way to move the back up i made before to the titanium app so that i can just put all my apps back on there the way they were supposed to be?
Yes, but I advise you to keep the backups on your external SDcard so they don't get wiped out later.
After each time you do a fresh ROM install: reinstall and open Titanium backup, go to menu, then preferences. Scroll down a bit to "backup Folder Location". You can either browse to it, or the easier way is to click "Detect" and scan "Whole Device". It will find the location of your backups, then just click "use the current folder"
painiac said:
Yes, but I advise you to keep the backups on your external SDcard so they don't get wiped out later.
After each time you do a fresh ROM install: reinstall and open Titanium backup, go to menu, then preferences. Scroll down a bit to "backup Folder Location". You can either browse to it, or the easier way is to click "Detect" and scan "Whole Device". It will find the location of your backups, then just click "use the current folder"
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sweet that worked thanks
I am just wondering, if it is safe to keep my backup i just made, on my external SD card? Its much bigger than the backups were for my old device, and its kinda taking up the rest of my internal storage right now...
But what i am wondering is if i do transfer it, will twrp see it successfully in recovery mode in case a backup is needed??
thanks
Hi there!
I'm on a G900FD with TWRP v3.0.2-1 , but TWRP is mostly universal for this level of modification.
TWRP will initially display only the backups in the default backup location. Backups are stored as a (typically timestamped, though any name will do) folder containing the backup images, a log and a settings file.
TWRP keeps its settings, backups and (maybe) themes in the ./TWRP directory in your internal storage. The settings files ( ./TWRP/.twrps , note the dot before twrps, use ls -a to find it) is always located in here, but the default location for backups can be changed from your internal storage to your external storage via TWRP's GUI.
To change default storage location, follow:
1: Reboot to recovery. Enter encryption pattern/PIN/passphrase if needed.
2: Tap Mount, then tap Select Storage. Note at the top of the screen, under the Mount title, is something akin to EMMC or Internal Storage or Internal, you get the idea. This will change in the following steps.
3: Tap the radio button of the storage you want to default to in the popup that appears, then press OK.
4: Verify that the display now reads SD card, External Storage, whatever.
5: Under Home > Backup, the Storage: line should now read External/ SD Card / whatever, instead of the Internal Storage variant.
6: Optional: Make a backup, just to see where it says the backup location is in the log.
To reverse modification, follow instruction again.
Do note that failure to provide the SD card, or failure to mount it, will result in TWRP defaulting back to internal storage, which may fail due to lack of space. Not a problem for me ( 128G SD card represent ), but something to think about.
To transfer the backup from the internal storage to the external, reboot back to Android, and use a file manager to move the entirety of the BACKUPS folder from INTERNAL/TWRP to EXTERNAL/TWRP . Without more information about your build, I can't provide paths to follow, but mine would be:
Internal Location: /storage/emulated/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/(SERIAL NUMBER)/(TIMESTAMP_OF_BACKUP)
External Location: /storage/(SDCARD GIBBERISH)/TWRP/BACKUPS/(SERIAL NUMBER)/(TIMESTAMP_OF_BACKUP)
Note that TWRP will require that each backup is located in the same directory as the serial number of your phone, so i.e. mine must be in:
/storage/98A4-1D0F/TWRP/BACKUPS/e6209199/2016-08-03--21-16-31
for a backup made on the 3rd of August, 2016 at 9:16:31 UTC.
If anything is unclear, feel free to reply!
Happy flashing!
Thanks! I'll have to give this a try when I've got some time tonight
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