fat32? how big should the allocation size be?
I want to no partitions, just want to try some froyo roms. previous sd card has partitions and windows won't remove those. so went with new sd card and after reformating in the phone, loaded sensikal rom and now it boot loops.
wtf?
reformatted the new card again. fat32, default allocation. reloaded sensikal rom. wiped, dalvik wipe, flashed rom.
it boots up, 3 skateboard guys, hangs for about 3 minutes then boot loops again into the 3 skater guys.
can't get anywhere with this phone! why can't i load some roms? what is it about cynagon type roms and froyo roms that i cannot flash to this phone? i thought it was the card being partitioned, but i have anew 8 gb sd card and no partitions and it still boot loops? is it my phone? please someone chime in and help. i am starting to f'ing lose my mind. wasting way too much time trying to get this phone to take.
i can load aloysius roms, evil eris roms. cannot load any cyn and froyo roms. also my nand restore doesn't work and i cannot restore anymore (was no problem before).
i think it has to be my phone. it has to be hardware related cause changing the sd card would have removed the only variable in this madness.
The sd should be formatted as Fat32 for froyo with no ext partitions. I don't know if this helps you, but I use the recovery partition to format. Go to the partition section in the menu and choose "0" for swap and ext partitions. This should format it all to fat32. I don't know if there is an difference in formatting to fat32 on your computer.
Oh, and is your phone charged well or connected to a power source? Sometimes low voltage can prevent you from flashing.
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crap. i flashed some new roms tonight,but decided to go back to my previous rom. did a nand back up before. now after nand restore the boot animation for aloysius starts and goes for about 5-10 seconds. freezes and then restarts again. i never seen it do this before and have loaded it several times.
its really random and freezes, starts over again, freezes etc.
have wiped, restored and same thing over and over.
your sd card may be corrupted, try mounting your phone sd card then running chkdsk in windows on the card; go to my computer --> right click sd card --> properties --> tools --> check disk for errors (or something like that, i use Ubuntu) good luck!
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your sd card may be corrupted, try mounting your phone sd card then running chkdsk in windows on the card; go to my computer --> right click sd card --> properties --> tools --> check disk for errors (or something like that, i use Ubuntu) good luck!
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Thanks Tereg,
I ran the disk check in windows and it said the disk is healthy.
still can't seem to flash any cynagon or froyo roms.
would a 16 gb sdhc sd card yield better results? My plan is to format the new card to fat32 no partitions and try loading a cynagon or froyo rom.
i did the engineering bootloader and now am running 1.49 s-off. i am rooted and can successfully run aloysius, evil eris, any of the vanilla roms. but any 2.2 or cynagon roms just either freeze during the boot stage or boot loop.
my phone runs great oc'd to 710 on aloysius v12. snappy, very little lag. i'm fine with this rom, but reading and seeing the screen shots of the froyo type roms i want to try them out. any other ideas what could be causing this on my phone? and if the sd card is healthy, what would be the next thing to look at? could the hardware on my phone be bad?
I tried all the froyo roms before discovering aloysius. Aloysius is faster by a mile and all your stuff will work. On froyo you'll lose camera and other stuff and get quirky odd crap happening. I'll never move off of aloysius.
Sent from my AloysiusEris on XDA App
Jp50 said:
Thanks Tereg,
I ran the disk check in windows and it said the disk is healthy.
still can't seem to flash any cynagon or froyo roms.
would a 16 gb sdhc sd card yield better results? My plan is to format the new card to fat32 no partitions and try loading a cynagon or froyo rom.
i did the engineering bootloader and now am running 1.49 s-off. i am rooted and can successfully run aloysius, evil eris, any of the vanilla roms. but any 2.2 or cynagon roms just either freeze during the boot stage or boot loop.
my phone runs great oc'd to 710 on aloysius v12. snappy, very little lag. i'm fine with this rom, but reading and seeing the screen shots of the froyo type roms i want to try them out. any other ideas what could be causing this on my phone? and if the sd card is healthy, what would be the next thing to look at? could the hardware on my phone be bad?
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Try Formatting the card, since any froyo or CM roms have apps2sd built in there may be an issue with the current partition.
The Froyo rom I'm using works great, and if you look at the cyanogen twitter page you'll see there is a camera fix now.
Sent from my CyanoTazz Froyo Eris using XDA App
this phone is really starting to piss me off.
i inserted the usb cable to mount the sd card as a disk drive. wouldn't come up under windows, the notification bar on the phone didn't show any options for usb charging or mount as disk drive. nothing. then the phone reboots.
- goes thru the boot animation for about 5-6 seconds. freezes, then starts back up again.
this has happened so many times before and each time the only way to fix it was to reflash the rom and reload all of my settings/wallpapers etc. nand restore won't work anymore either.
i have wasted so much time with this phone. most of it f'ing around with roms etc. but now i just need it to work as a phone and it won't even start up.
total noob
pretty sure it's not the developers fault of tazzsensefroyobt. because for a while it was working great for me. ever sense i tried to use apps2sd on PlainJaneT2_V2.0. i keep having an error on tazzsensefroyobt saying sd card is not mounted.
used rom manager to format sd card. then trying to fix this reformated using windows
There is a reason for that - the method to get apps2sd on a 2.1 ROM like PlainJane has you create a second partition on your SD card,to create a location to hold the apps. Unfortunately, Froyo will not mount an SD card with more than one partition.
You'll have to do these things, I think:
- backup your SD card
- do a Nandroid+ext backup from PlainJane, in case you want to go back
- follow the steps to partition your SD card from before, but choose 0 bytes for both the ext2 and swap partition sizes. This will erase your SD card
- go into the USB-MS option from Recovery to copy files back over to your formatted SD Card.
- Now you can flash the Froyo ROM you want
worked beautifuly thanks
apps2sd
so if i want to get rid of apps2sd on a 2.1 rom and just use for 2.2 roms just format with 0 on both swap size and ext2 size
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so if i want to get rid of apps2sd on a 2.1 rom and just use for 2.2 roms just format with 0 on both swap size and ext2 size
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That's correct. For some reason I think that there is one of the 2.2 ROMs that actually will mount an SD card with more than one partition, but I could be wrong about that, and I can't remember which one it is. But if a Froyo or Gingerbread ROM will not mount a perfectly good SD card with more than one partition? That's why - it has more than one partition.
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That's correct. For some reason I think that there is one of the 2.2 ROMs that actually will mount an SD card with more than one partition, but I could be wrong about that, and I can't remember which one it is. But if a Froyo or Gingerbread ROM will not mount a perfectly good SD card with more than one partition? That's why - it has more than one partition.
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Froyo and higher will work with multiple partitions; it's just not real easy. The trick is that the SD card has to be partitioned in a certain way.
From memory of the thread that's in the Dev section (I think the OP was Conap), the first partition has to be FAT32, and would have to be large enough for any NANDs and ROMs you want to ever backup/restore and flash.
Any other partitions can be anything you want BUT with this one rule. If you have a total of four partitions or less, then the last partition HAS to be FAT32, and will be the partition that'll be mounted by the AndroidOS when it's up and running. The second part of this rule is that if you have MORE than four partitions then the fourth partition is the one that has to be FAT32.
Just like partitions 2 and 3, anything from 5 and on can be anything you want. Conap also developed scripts to mount partitions like the first FAT32 one, since it's nice to have access to it from the running phone from time to time (mounting it through USB from Amon RA or Clockwork Mod should still work as normal). I think he also made ways to mount these other partitions from Windows. My memory is fuzzy. I only tried once to make this work for me, but I wasn't really successful mounting the oddball partitions to the phone or to Windows, and I didn't try real hard - I didn't care enough to really try to figure out what I assumed I did wrong, since I believe other people were able to test it just fine.
This theory of operation appeared to be developed in conjunction with the dual-boot AndroidOS 2.1/2.2 ROM by TeamAndIRC (I think they're called), which includes Conap and others as members. I never tried the ROM.
I'm not positive if the limitation of the partitioning applies to all phones with 2.2 or higher, though. I've read some threads for other phones that officially ran 2.2 in which they mention partitioning to be able to use old style Apps2SD instead of the native one, and there wasn't any mention of any complicated partitioning scheme.
Does anyone know enough off the top of their head to verify this?
Here's a simple guide/solution if anyone who have problems with their microsdcard
1.Blank Sdcard notification
If u have partition on ur sdcard and u switch from 2.1 to 2.2, u need to reformat the card. Because 2.2 does not need the 2nd partition.
When u had partition your sdcard on 2.1 rom and u get blank notification, please do a reboot. it will eliminate the meassge.
ps:i do recommend using ext2 as 2nd partition and use link2sd as u can manually select the apps, dalvik-cache files and the libs files
2.Unrecognised, Failed to read sdcard, damage sdcard and etc
Required a laptop/computer assistance
Please try this method before you try anything else. usually this will solve all the problem you facing
1.Go to my computer and right click on your sdcard icon
2.Select properties and then click on the Tools tab
3.Click on error checking/check now
4.Remember to tick on the automatic fix and then click start
this will required 10 to 20 minute, depending on the size of your sdcard.
3.Last resort
Format your sdcard using your x10 or pc.
if both method cant be using, re-partition your sdcard using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0. set it as primary and using FAT32
Sdcard reading and writing speed slow?
For non-rooted and rooted user
Mount your sdcard from your pc and use this Defraggler and defrag your sdcard. credit to 28spawn
For rooted user only
go to this thread increase SD card performance(new Flashable zips), credit to KInG GaME
PS:This troubleshooting method does not 100% will work but since it works for me most of the time, so i wanted to share out. Hope I wont offend anyone.
Mod, if this thread is useless, please delete it and sorry for the trouble.
Thanks for the thread. Tried it on my sd card because it shows blank sd card after I partitioned it into fat32 and ext3 for miui cobrato rom but it didn't work. Nice share anyway.
opps.. thanks for replying n reminding me. i forget to put tis. after u partition your card, did u reboot? btw, there no nd to do partition for 2.2 onwards
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opps.. thanks for replying n reminding me. i forget to put tis. after u partition your card, did u reboot? btw, there no nd to do partition for 2.2 onwards
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Nope, I only put in the partitioned sd card into the phone and started it. I partitioned using parted magic. But for MIUI roms, it's needed to partition into ext3 for the ap2sd+ to work.
same problem here. i just can't seem to get the sd card to work after flashing custom 2.2 or 2.3 roms. but the sd card work just fine on any custom 2.1 roms.
i'm currently on ThGo v1.5.5e. this rom works great.
I'm using EWjet 2.3.4x. I plugged the sdcard into my pc, used mini partition tool to reduce the size of fat32 partition and making 800mb of unallocated space at the end of disk. Then I created a new partition (primary ext3) of 800mb, applied and removed the sdcard from pc.
When I plug it on x10 it says that my sdcard is empty.
I already tried to reboot twice and it keeping saying that is empty.
Link2SD says that I don't have a second partition, but I created a 800mb ext3 partition.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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same problem here. i just can't seem to get the sd card to work after flashing custom 2.2 or 2.3 roms. but the sd card work just fine on any custom 2.1 roms.
i'm currently on ThGo v1.5.5e. this rom works great.
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can you tell me which solution u had tried?
henriquesteppan said:
I'm using EWjet 2.3.4x. I plugged the sdcard into my pc, used mini partition tool to reduce the size of fat32 partition and making 800mb of unallocated space at the end of disk. Then I created a new partition (primary ext3) of 800mb, applied and removed the sdcard from pc.
When I plug it on x10 it says that my sdcard is empty.
I already tried to reboot twice and it keeping saying that is empty.
Link2SD says that I don't have a second partition, but I created a 800mb ext3 partition.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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can u tell me which solution u had tried?
btw, i would suggest u try out ex2 partition because its more common for our phone to recognize it.
sorry for late reply. i tot this thread is dead. thinking wanna ask mod to delete it
well, i tried formating it to fat32 through windows and it worked. but what boggles me is that only some 2.3 roms can detect my sd card. thgo and ewjet works just fine. any miui roms and others doesn't seem to find the sd card. it just says sd card not present or unmounted sd card.
well, i had never tried using any miui rom b4 but from what i read, its best after flashing the miui rom, it it recommended to format the sdcard
Hi,
i've got a little problem with my new SD-Card.
Actually i'm using an ICS ROM for HTC Desire with reverse mount. With my old SD-Card the whole system got really slow and laggy although i tried several settings in the ROM. So i bought a new one (Sandisk Ultra Mobile Class 6 - 16 GB).
My old card has a FAT32 partition and a little EXT-3 partition for the reverse mount option. I've read that EXT-4 is maybe a bit better and faster and more reliable so i decided to format the new one as followed:
14 GB FAT32 primary partition
1.4 GB EXT-4 primary partition
I've formatted the new SD-Card in my PC with "Mini tools partition wizard". Everything went fine until then.
Then i made a NANDROID backup of my old system onto my old SD-Card and copied alle the files from the old to the new card (FAT32 only). Then i put the new card into the phone and tried to restore the system. It worked but the system acted really strange (i think because of the change from EXT-3 to EXT-4 file system).
So i wiped and cleaned everything and made a new install of the ROM with reverse mount activated. Everything seemed to be ok but when i started to install Titanium backup to get my apps back the phone reboots at the beginning of the installation progress (after download). I made three installs of the ROM but it's always behaving the same way. Is the new SD-Card broken or did i mess things up when formatting the card?
Thanks in advance for your help.
andrhitm said:
Hi,
i've got a little problem with my new SD-Card.
Actually i'm using an ICS ROM for HTC Desire with reverse mount. With my old SD-Card the whole system got really slow and laggy although i tried several settings in the ROM. So i bought a new one (Sandisk Ultra Mobile Class 6 - 16 GB).
My old card has a FAT32 partition and a little EXT-3 partition for the reverse mount option. I've read that EXT-4 is maybe a bit better and faster and more reliable so i decided to format the new one as followed:
14 GB FAT32 primary partition
1.4 GB EXT-4 primary partition
I've formatted the new SD-Card in my PC with "Mini tools partition wizard". Everything went fine until then.
Then i made a NANDROID backup of my old system onto my old SD-Card and copied alle the files from the old to the new card (FAT32 only). Then i put the new card into the phone and tried to restore the system. It worked but the system acted really strange (i think because of the change from EXT-3 to EXT-4 file system).
So i wiped and cleaned everything and made a new install of the ROM with reverse mount activated. Everything seemed to be ok but when i started to install Titanium backup to get my apps back the phone reboots at the beginning of the installation progress (after download). I made three installs of the ROM but it's always behaving the same way. Is the new SD-Card broken or did i mess things up when formatting the card?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Nobody knows something about that?
andrhitm said:
Nobody knows something about that?
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Ok i've solved the problem by myself. Thread can be closed.
I am new at rooting, this is the first device I have tried to root. I followed the thread for a triple boot CM7 , CM9 and CM10 (also stock OS) from Malloneem. I decided to only flash CM7 and CM10 to NT 1.4.3. Everything worked great, except during the initial setup of both CM7 and CM10 it will not recognize my WiFi. I have tried twice, after first time I wiped NT and reformatted the sd card and started from scratch. same result both times.
I read through the replies and noticed that someone else had the same problem. the response said to wipe the cache and it should fix the dalvik. I wiped both the cache then tried and then wiped the dalvik and had the same results. With the CM10 it says "turning on wifi" and stays there.
I am a new member to xda so I cannot post a reply to the original thread.
Any help would be much appreciated.
If I cannot get this to work is there another method where you can use CM10 and stock OS? (something that is extreamly easy to follow)
Bears85 said:
I am new at rooting, this is the first device I have tried to root. I followed the thread for a triple boot CM7 , CM9 and CM10 (also stock OS) from Malloneem. I decided to only flash CM7 and CM10 to NT 1.4.3. Everything worked great, except during the initial setup of both CM7 and CM10 it will not recognize my WiFi. I have tried twice, after first time I wiped NT and reformatted the sd card and started from scratch. same result both times.
I read through the replies and noticed that someone else had the same problem. the response said to wipe the cache and it should fix the dalvik. I wiped both the cache then tried and then wiped the dalvik and had the same results. With the CM10 it says "turning on wifi" and stays there.
I am a new member to xda so I cannot post a reply to the original thread.
Any help would be much appreciated.
If I cannot get this to work is there another method where you can use CM10 and stock OS? (something that is extreamly easy to follow)
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You can use this:
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2013...-1-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet-0110/
Write the image file to an SD card and you'll be good to go. You can use a repartitioning software to expand the partitions on your SD if you want. Use the instructions on the link I provided.
The SD card image will contain CM10.1 4.1.2. If you want to use a different ROM you can download the SDC version of any ROM ( has to be SDC!), place the zip on your SD card or internal storage. Boot into SDC recovery and installed the zip file. You'll need the GAPPS zip also (which has to be SDC also.)
Thank you for the help. My appologies for the redundant question but when I flash this ROM I will be able to bounce between CM10 and the stock B& N OS correct?
Bears85 said:
Thank you for the help. My appologies for the redundant question but when I flash this ROM I will be able to bounce between CM10 and the stock B& N OS correct?
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Yes. Because CM 10 will be on your SD card. Stock will be on your internal. If your internal partitions or anything is messed up ( maybe the reason you can't boot stock) you can tell from CM.
datallboy said:
Yes. Because CM 10 will be on your SD card. Stock will be on your internal. If your internal partitions or anything is messed up ( maybe the reason you can't boot stock) you can tell from CM.
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Thank you again. I have read throught the instructions on the link you provided and I am a little confused on the partitioning part. As I mentioned before this is my first time rooting anything. The instructions on the triple boot regarding the partitioning of the sdc were clear giving sizes for the newly created partitions etc., I didn't see that on this link (unless I missed it). Could you explain it so a newbie can understand it?
Thanks.
Bears85 said:
Thank you again. I have read throught the instructions on the link you provided and I am a little confused on the partitioning part. As I mentioned before this is my first time rooting anything. The instructions on the triple boot regarding the partitioning of the sdc were clear giving sizes for the newly created partitions etc., I didn't see that on this link (unless I missed it). Could you explain it so a newbie can understand it?
Thanks.
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Well is there any reason why you would like triple boot? You need a fairly good size SD card if you want three systems. I just provided the simplest way to run cm on the nook. Write the image to your SD card and it will make it boot able. If you want to triple boot then setup your SD card partitions like you had before, but you only need to install the zips as alt boots.
Again, you probably don't need triple boot. Cm10+ has everything you'll need.
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Well is there any reason why you would like triple boot? You need a fairly good size SD card if you want three systems. I just provided the simplest way to run cm on the nook. Write the image to your SD card and it will make it boot able. If you want to triple boot then setup your SD card partitions like you had before, but you only need to install the zips as alt boots.
Again, you probably don't need triple boot. Cm10+ has everything you'll need.
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No, I dont need the triple boot. Being a newbie I may have misread something (probably the case) but the link you gave me directed me to partition the sd card. it was this portion that was not clear to me. I was referencing the directions for partitioning on the triple boot thread as a comparison. The site you gave me said to partition the card but gave reference as to how big to make each partition. I don't need the triple boot.
My kid uses the NT to help read (read to me, etc...) I wanted something to get more of a tablet feel while keeping the stock system as well.
Thank you again. I appreciate the help. I will look at it again.
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No, I dont need the triple boot. Being a newbie I may have misread something (probably the case) but the link you gave me directed me to partition the sd card. it was this portion that was not clear to me. I was referencing the directions for partitioning on the triple boot thread as a comparison. The site you gave me said to partition the card but gave reference as to how big to make each partition. I don't need the triple boot.
My kid uses the NT to help read (read to me, etc...) I wanted something to get more of a tablet feel while keeping the stock system as well.
Thank you again. I appreciate the help. I will look at it again.
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On the iamafanof site you can scroll down there will be an SDC image. There is a difference between the image and the zips. All you need to do is download the SDC image, write it go your SD card using an file writer ( win32 disk writer will do) and your SD card will be ready to boot. Put it in your nook and and it will boot cyanoboot and should automatically do a SDC boot. It takes a little bit for the first boot to start ( usually 2 or 3 minutes)
Once you get your nook to boot cm I can tell you how to expand your SD partitions to hold more apps.
If you still have problems with WiFi it may be a different problem ( shouldn't happen).
If you need help or need a step by step guide I can find one or make one for you.
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If you need help or need a step by step guide I can find one or make one for you.
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Just in time, "hot off the press" (almost) step-by-step guide: http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2013...-2-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet-0416/.
For a more stable ROM build, use the CM10.0 image dated 12/31 in cm-10-20121231-NOOKTABLET-acclaim-HD-SDC-img.rar posted at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/.
datallboy said:
On the iamafanof site you can scroll down there will be an SDC image. There is a difference between the image and the zips. All you need to do is download the SDC image, write it go your SD card using an file writer ( win32 disk writer will do) and your SD card will be ready to boot. Put it in your nook and and it will boot cyanoboot and should automatically do a SDC boot. It takes a little bit for the first boot to start ( usually 2 or 3 minutes)
Once you get your nook to boot cm I can tell you how to expand your SD partitions to hold more apps.
If you still have problems with WiFi it may be a different problem ( shouldn't happen).
If you need help or need a step by step guide I can find one or make one for you.
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Thank you for your help. I worked and was simple. If you could explain the partitioning that would be great. If not, its working just the way I want it.
Thank you again!!
Bears85 said:
Thank you for your help. I worked and was simple. If you could explain the partitioning that would be great. If not, its working just the way I want it.
Thank you again!!
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You have 4 partitions on your SD card: boot, system, data, sdcard. Your boot partition holds the files the boot CM. This is where recovery, mlo, uboot, etc is. System holds files essential for the ROM to work.
The only two you need to worry about are data and SD. Your data partitions holds apps. That is when you download an app the files in the apk file are put there. This would be like your internal storage for any phone or tablet. SD card is like an external SD card for your phone or tablet. Its where extra data files, photos, music etc go.
Depending on what size of SD card you have determines how big you can expand your data or SD partition.
Using a partitioning software ( like GParted) you can change the partitions and expand them to the side you want. I have a 16 GB SD card. So I expanded my data partition to 4 GB, and the rest went to SD card. Its okay to delete data or SD partition to expand it, but don't delete boot or system because you'll have to reformat the card and write the image file to the card again ( and ain't nobody got time for that.)
datallboy said:
You have 4 partitions on your SD card: boot, system, data, sdcard. Your boot partition holds the files the boot CM. This is where recovery, mlo, uboot, etc is. System holds files essential for the ROM to work.
The only two you need to worry about are data and SD. Your data partitions holds apps. That is when you download an app the files in the apk file are put there. This would be like your internal storage for any phone or tablet. SD card is like an external SD card for your phone or tablet. Its where extra data files, photos, music etc go.
Depending on what size of SD card you have determines how big you can expand your data or SD partition.
Using a partitioning software ( like GParted) you can change the partitions and expand them to the side you want. I have a 16 GB SD card. So I expanded my data partition to 4 GB, and the rest went to SD card. Its okay to delete data or SD partition to expand it, but don't delete boot or system because you'll have to reformat the card and write the image file to the card again ( and ain't nobody got time for that.)
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This worked great!! thanks for all your help!!