Currently I have a Droid Eris, and I've been using the SD card that came with it. If I get a different phone, in this case a Droid 2, that doesn't have an SD card, is it okay to just put the card from my Eris in the new phone? If not, what is the precautions and procedures do I need to take?
Thanks in advance.
I've tried Googleing this, and also searching XDA. I can't seem to find a definitive answer, but it seems like nothing bad would happen. Can anyone confirm?
Nothing bad should happen. You didn't mention what ROM you are using or if you're even rooted, but the only reason I mention this is if you are using a Froyo-based ROM and had moved some Apps2SD, then you might want to delete the "android_secure" folder which would contain those apps since that might confuse the Droid 2, which I assume runs or OTA updates to Froyo itself.
It doesn't sound like you've ever repartitioned your SD card, either, for instance with an Ext3 partition for 2.1-style Apps2SD use, but again, Froyo on any phone wouldn't like this AFAIK, unless you had it formatted a particular way.
If you never did anything fancy to your SD card like repartitioning or moving apps to your SD card, then you should have no problem whatsoever.
No matter what the case, nothing should cause any actual damage to either the new phone or the SD card. You could always back up your SD card's contents to your computer just to be safe, though. A good idea every once in a while no matter what.
I'm running KaosFroyo, and I do have some apps on the SD card. I planned on moving the apps back over to the phone, but I'll delete that folder as well. Thanks.
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Hi,
I am running Cyanogen 6.1 with APP2SD running, and have an 8GB SD Card with apps installed on it. I recently bought a new 16GB SD Card and was wondering how I duplicate the contents of my 8GB SD Card to the 16GB SD Card.
Any ideas would be VERY helpful.
I never tried, but I think it should be enough if you copy contents from the old one to the new one using a computer.
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Unless you are using the native Froyo Apps-to-SD and not the old solution, then you can't just copy the files on a computer. Using the old system the apps are stored on a completely separated partition to what is shown when you mount your SD Card.
You can probably access that partition if you are using Linux, but having never used the old Apps2SD I can't check it myself.
I thought that might be the case. Linux laptop here I come!!
I recently bought a 16GB card and my Hero started to lag and restart SENSE randomly
Please reply to know if you have this issue
Hi,
I haven't put the 16GB in yet, as I have Apps installed to my 8GB SD Card and didn't know what to do (good job I have a linux based laptop really).
Sadly (not for me, but you know what I mean...) my ROM doesn't have SENSE. I am running CyanogenMOD 6.1.0.
What ROM are you running, I may know what the issue is?
takuhii said:
Hi,
I haven't put the 16GB in yet, as I have Apps installed to my 8GB SD Card and didn't know what to do (good job I have a linux based laptop really).
Sadly (not for me, but you know what I mean...) my ROM doesn't have SENSE. I am running CyanogenMOD 6.1.0.
What ROM are you running, I may know what the issue is?
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I am running the villainrom12 with sense and i have overclocked it to 352/652
I'm such a dumbass... what "class" is the SD Card? And which elements of the ROM are laggy?
I noticed that this is a 2.1 ROM...
takuhii said:
I'm such a dumbass... what "class" is the SD Card? And which elements of the ROM are laggy?
I noticed that this is a 2.1 ROM...
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I have a class4 memory card, and when i am launching some apps htc sense just force closes and the app i wanted to open just quits, after it is happened several times, htc senses starts to force close again and again until phone starts to lag and then hangs up.
From what I understand, VillainROM12 is a SENSE 2.1 ROM. I can't understand why this would lag, other than the implementation of SENSE isn't the patched version with the LAG fix. Early versions of SENSE were terrible and HTC had to release a patch to fix the lag issues.
The force close issue could either be down to the app timing out or something isn't installed properly. I can't really tell without installing VillainROM on my phone (I have CyanogenMOD 6.1 which, in my opinion, is flawless). My ROM isn't sense orientated, it uses apps like Launcher Pro plus (I think it comes with ADW.Launcher by default) instead of sense. ADW does have a theme pack to make it look like HTCs SENSE app.
I would suggest a couple of things;
Check available RAM
Back up your SD Card and reformat it as follows;
EXT2 = 512MB (You can use more, but you shouldn't need to)
(DO NOT use EXT3 or EXT4, these partition types are kernel dependent, and will lower the life of your card, they are intended for large partitions of like 50GB upwards)
SWAP = 0MB
FAT = The rest
I use AmonRA Recovery 1.7.0.1 which has a very useful partition SD card feature, better than ClockworkMods anyway (Evertime I partitioned a card in ClockworkMOD the phone refused to boot). Unfortunately if you have any apps installed to the SD card you may lose them unless you move them back to the phone (If you go Settings > Applications then click on "On SD Card" this will give you a list of "moved" apps).
Again, if you HAVEN'T got any apps on the SD card this could be the problem, as you are using ALL your phones RAM to store apps in, so like a PC running low on memory, no RAM means poor performance.
Try checking available resources before re-partitioning your SD Card. If you can't see what memory is available to you, try an app ion the market place called App 2 SD Free by Sam Lu, it's free, and gives you a readout of exactly what memory is being used (it also gives you a list of apps you CAN move to the SD card). I'd use it for diagnostics for now, as I don't know if VillainROM12 comes with APP2SD installed by default.
Try these out and let me know how you get on. PLEASE make a nandroid backup first, this CAN restore your SDCARD if the partition goes wrong.
Please be advised that I take no responsibility for any issues that may occur. I have performed all these tasks on my HTC Hero with no problems though.
I have tried these things but nothing helped. I have done everything the same with same type 8GB card and there was no problem, i think that HERO just cant handle 16GB but HTC says that it can support up to 32GB.
Malismalis said:
I have tried these things but nothing helped. I have done everything the same with same type 8GB card and there was no problem, i think that HERO just cant handle 16GB but HTC says that it can support up to 32GB.
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I can't really comment until I format my 16GB car and put it in (should be arriving this morning). Have you thought about another ROM? SENSE is notorious for causing lag. The guys at VillainROM also make FroydVillain (I think the latest version is 1.7.2). This doesn't have SENSE though, and you will need to backup your setting/messages/apps/and everything else first.
Backing up settings is slightly different to a nandroid. I recommend Backup Everything, as you can select what you want to back up. The only problem is you usually need to re-download the app on your new ROM to restore stuff, even if you backup apps too.
Update: Take a look at this thread for other ROMs
Sorry I can't be of more use...
i just recently went to the gingerbread leak rom and it was working fine fir the past week. the message said, Damaged sd card, Sd card damaged. you may have to reformat....
and when i try to mount the sd card by connecting the cables, i press connect and nothing happene\s but the circle keeps spinning for like a hour. please help. i have many photos and work schol work stuff on the phone that i need to transfer to the computer.
Hate to tell you, but you're most likely out of luck. The Gingerbread leak is known to cause problems with SD cards, thats why many recommend using a spare SD card.
I've seen utilities that search corrupted SD cards for files, you might try some sort of tool for that and see if you can get anything off of it.
After this if you want to run Gingerbread, I'd recommned you switch to Cyanogenmod 7, MIUI (what I'm running currently, love the miui launcher), or OMFGB.
I'm not sure if this is related but I will say it anyway. On my Droid X I flashed GB and a week later my phone did the exact same as yours. Error on the phone stating the card was damaged and it needed to be reformatted. I tried to reformat and it would not work on the phone. I tried on my computer and it would not even see the card. I searched for hours and hours and it seems like other's had the same issue. The only way I was able to reformat was to stick the card in my Blackberry and reformat. For some odd reason it picked it up. I did buy a new card just in case and will keep this one for a backup. Always back up your card on your computer on a weekly basis if you can. I lost years of photos.
Anyways I know it's a totally different phone but how weird is it that we both and others had the same issue when flashing to GB. Try to reformat on your computer or even try a different phone if you can. Sorry if this does not help you.
Terry
Jinhoeric said:
i just recently went to the gingerbread leak rom and it was working fine fir the past week. the message said, Damaged sd card, Sd card damaged. you may have to reformat....
and when i try to mount the sd card by connecting the cables, i press connect and nothing happene\s but the circle keeps spinning for like a hour. please help. i have many photos and work schol work stuff on the phone that i need to transfer to the computer.
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Not to be to mean but there is a question and answer section for a reason.
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i just recently went to the gingerbread leak rom and it was working fine fir the past week. the message said, Damaged sd card, Sd card damaged. you may have to reformat....
and when i try to mount the sd card by connecting the cables, i press connect and nothing happene\s but the circle keeps spinning for like a hour. please help. i have many photos and work schol work stuff on the phone that i need to transfer to the computer.
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I second that this should've gone in Q&A... However, on your pc google 'piriform recuva' and download as this is a recovery utility that should be able to get back some of your data. You could also try formatting/mounting your card in CWR, I believe nitsuj had some luck restoring a fried card this way
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Actually, the SD CARD DAMAGED message always does not mean the sd card is damaged, it only mean the system can not access it.
Try to use a sd card reader on the PC.
Also, there is a huge, gigantic 1559247pt font warning written in red right at the top of the thread that warns you about the rom possibly frying your sd card....
Edit: my bad, I was thinking of the comm rom thread, but there is a warning at the top of the leak thread also.... I don't mean to sound like an ass, but it really helps to read the OP thoroughly before flashing anything
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Okay, I decided to make my class 10 32gb external MicroSD card the main SD card. However, I noticed that even though they are flipped now, when I install applications, it won't load stuff in the /sdcard/.android_secure directory. Instead, it's STILL loading it into the built-in SD card which is now mounted at /sdcard-ext.
If I move the information from the /sdcard-ext to /sdcard, it eventually breaks the apps and I have to reinstall them again, which causes them (when moved to the sdcard) to be still placed into the /sdcard-ext/.android_secure directory.
However, if I go back to the default Droid X2 configuration (internal SD card mounted to /sdcard and my 32gb class 10 external mounted to /sdcard-ext), when I then move the apps to the SD card, it places them into the /sdcard/.android_secure directory.
It seems with the flip-flop, there is still something "hard-coded" that causes app information to always be loaded onto the built-in internal SD card.
Anyone know why this is?
This is exactly why I find the flip flop to not really be necessary
BUT ....data from apps does get stored on the external...like caches...and when u extract wit root explorer for example
Well, after "Googling" what the .android_secure directory is for (it's because of using App 2 SD to move the apps to an SD card), I understand what the directory is for, but I'm still confused as to why it would put those files in the internal SD memory. I suppose so it has access to it even when the external SD card itself is removed, I guess.
In any case, I'm also finding under the new Eclipse 2.0 that performance is not what it was under v1.3. Not sure what it is, but games are very choppy. At first, I attributed it to possibly running the games off of the external SD card, but when I flip-flopped back to the stock configuration, performance was STILL bad, so I'm now wondering if it's related to the new Eclipse 2.0 ROM or something else?
I might go and reformat the SD cards and see if that fixes the problem.
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
ashclepdia said:
I am willing to bet that if u use v6supercharger that will fix ur choppiness in gameplay.
usually always has for me and others
Check the development sticky for a link.
Don't.be afraid. There are what looks.like VERY confusing directions but its actually quite simple to use if u use script manager to run the script...
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I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
iBolski said:
I actually already have it. It's one of the first things I use once I've flashed to a new ROM. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped.
I'm going to copy everything off of both SD cards (internal and external) and reformat them and then try to see if that works. Hopefully, it should as I've had the performance before. If that still doesn't work, I might SBF back to 2.3.4 and see if the performance issue still exists. I'm thinking it's possibly just an issue with having done so many copy and delete operations, that maybe a good format will fix the issue.
Once thing I did when going to Eclipse 2.0 was I couldn't get the stock recovery to find the update.zip file for the 2.3.5 update, so I instead used the BSR recovery instead to install the zip. Not sure if that's good or bad, but I had read somewhere that you needed to use the stock recovery, which didn't seem to work for me. I could never see the zip file even though it was there.
Strange.
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Did u have it on the external sd card?((and u were actually stock when u tried.to apply it?(rooted but no rom is fine..)))
I decided to SBF back to 2.3.4 and try the 2.3.5 update again. This time, it worked as far as finding the UPDATE.zip file. Not sure what happened before.
In any case, it seems like there is still an issue with performance, but I just found the 2.0.2 version of Eclipse on Nitro's twitter, so I'm trying it again to see if that might fix it.
Otherwise, I'm going to sbf back to 2.3.4 and then see if the performance is any better there. If it is, then I have to assume it's this release of Eclipse.
UPDATE: Well, on Eclipse 2.0.2, performance tanked. On stock 2.3.4 AND stock 2.3.5, performance is back to what I had before Eclipse 2.0 which was excellent.
I don't know. I like what Eclipse 2.0 has, but if it degrades performance, then I don't know if it's worth it. I'll try again later today. I've already wiped and reformatted both the internal and external SD cards and that hasn't helped either.
UPDATE #2: Okay, upon further exploring, I decided the performance hit had to be coming from one if not two areas: /system/built.prop and/or /etc/init.d/99tweaks. I removed 99tweaks first and that was the problem! I'm currently adding in each line, one by one and testing to see which is causing the performance hit. I'm also going to try and use the latest V6 scripts from Zep to see if that makes a difference.
Also, I diffed the v1.0.3 and v2.0.2 versions and there wasn't any differences except for the checking for the existence of a shell script file that it would execute and then remove.
I'll let everyone know once I find something.
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I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
Celeste8157 said:
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
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Well if you don't have any important data on the card then you could try to format it (maybe with a computer). How did you partition the card (I mean 1 partition, or more)?
I'm sorry. I really have no knowledge about these things, but I assume it has 1 partition. I partitioned it with ROM manager to make a space for apps. Which I don't use and never have, so I don't know why it forced me to do it.
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Well if you don't have any important data on the card then you could try to format it (maybe with a computer). How did you partition the card (I mean 1 partition, or more)?
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So, I'm going to format the card. I need it for my Atrix HD, which has NO space on it. Why is my Atrix 4G a much better phone than my Atrix
HD? It had tons more space and it is much quicker. But the HD has a bigger HD screen that looks awesome and that's why I prefer using it. I can't wait to get a new phone so I can root the HD and use the SD card for apps. Sorry. I went on a rant. Anyway, if anybody knows anything about the partitioning issue let me know. Thanks.
Celeste8157 said:
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
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Hi,
another forum recommended I register and ask my question here. I am not a techie. I don't know what I'm doing. This is probably a basic question, but with all the googling I've done, I can't find the answer!
Here goes, and please be easy on me:laugh:
My GS3 was running really slow, running down the battery, just in general not running as well as I remembered from a year before buying it. I decided to back it up, reset it and start from scratch. The phone has run AWESOME! One problem though; when it updated, it installed 4.3. Ever since, I can't do anything with my SD card. I get an error that the SD card is full, and if I look in the settings, it shows zero space on the SD card. If I plug it into my mac, it shows like 12gb of space.
I used to use Android File Transfer and that doesn't work anymore. I recently tried Airdroid, which works great for the internal storage, but tells me that my SD card is full.
Help!
PS I tried to post a link to a screenshot of what storage on my phone looks like, but since I'm a noob, I'm not allowed
When you upgrade to android 4.3 it will change your storage partition from sdcard0 to emulated/0 ... simply it will change its partition so all your old files will not be visible there but they are still in your memory... I suggest you find your old files and move them to new directory... There are many threads on how to find your old files.. Search
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