I have Apps2SD and Data2SD and am thinking of changing my SD card for a higher GB and might as well go Class 10 too (although Class 2 stock is running fine so far).
Can I just copy old data to new card and it'll all be fine?
Should be.
just copy it over it will work well
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This is to all the noobs like me
First of all, big thanks to code28h4p for giving us all this wonderful ROM ! Its fast, smooth and sexy!
ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122198
Well when I first tried to partition the Sd card, I go errors that the SD card was spoilt on my ACE. I was bewildered, so I tried this method and it worked!!
1. Safely remove SD card.
2. Insert the SD card in the u D to SD converter provided by samsung.(Yeah you need to this, I was not able to format the SD card while it was in the phone and this is clas 2 card. BTW I am using the 2GB card provided by Samsung India with SGA.)
3. Using mini partition tools (http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html) partition into FAT (16 or 32 depending on SD card size) and ext 2.
4. Insert back the sd card, and run commands (refer the ROM post) in ADB or using terminal for android. Voila! A2SD is setup after a loooong reboot.
Guys AFAIK there are SD cards with classes 2, 4, 6,8 and 10. (may be higher classes, but I have not come across them.) Basically CLASS of the SD card indicates the data transfer rate of the SD card. Higher the class much better is the Data transfer rate. I would suggest you to go for a class 4 or class 6, 4 or 8 Gb SD cardif you just plan to use the 'a2sd cachesdreset' and go for class 10 (COSTLY!) 16 Gb SD card if you like to store a lot of media and if you want to use 'a2sd datasd' command as there will be slight LAG with lower clas SD cards.
The brands that I would recommend are : Transcend, Kingston which r available in India.
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i tought there some sd cards that doesnt support this?
could you have the list that support this?
hehe..anyways thnx for summarizing this method..
sorry also a newbie..hehe cant understand step2..T_T
hope screenies would be provided sooner..hehe
Maybe, someboby would hav problem with stock memory or low capacities memory. If, someone, will have problem, post you SD card.
dont know how to categorize classes of each sd card..
u have lists of classes?
mine was just tdk 4g..dont know if u know that brand..lol
btw..what are the recomended sd card classes and brands that will flawlessly suits this partitioning and ap2sd?
I had some problem with SD 4gb Class 4. Others, with class 6 or better didn't have problems. I don't know if all sd cards class 2 or 4 has problems, but some has.
@geraldgeron
Hi mate!
I feel all sd cards can be partitioned into partitions (sorry for the repetitiveness of the sentence ).
The 2nd step just states that you have to insert your sd card into the micro SD card to SD card converter that samsung (you can also get it from computer stores. just ask for micro SD to SD converter. It will cost 20 Indian Rupees = 0.3$ ) has provided. Then insert that converter along with micro SD card into a card reader on a laptop or the one that can be connected to the PC.
hey i'm new to all this and i guess i messed it up..
I have the sd card provided by samsung, 2gb one...i followed whatever u said...but in the terminal it says 'EXT partition is not mounted'
...what to do?
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Everything sorted out...I flashed it again with sd card inserted,......Thanks for the tutorial!
I've been looking around but can't seem to find the answer to this. I have rooted my NT with a 4GB SDCard. I would like to switch to a larger card. Can I turn off my NT, remove the 4GB card. copy everything from the card to a 16 or 32 GB card, and then insert the new card and restart the NT?
If that won't work, how can I do this?
Thanks,
Bob
Turn off NT, remove the 4GB card. copy everything from the card to a 16 or 32 GB card. Must be working.
If your using this sdcard to boot from, you are probably going to have to make that partition bootable as well. Usually the windows partition abilities are pretty limited so you'll have to use one of those free partition tools out there.
I'm not booting from the SDCard - so does that mean i can change the card by simply copying all the files to the new card?
Bob
Yeah just copy everything from the 4gb card to the 32gb card and everything will work just fine
I'm using CM7 + S2E, in order to make applications even faster, I've bought a new Sandisk original 8GB card from the mobile ultra line, which suppose to be fast.
even when I tried to install s2e, I had some problems, but it all finally worked out. Now there is a different problem, it seems that if I need to download a big file the card shows it unexpectedly removed. for example I've tried to install Sygic navigation software and it needs to download about 180MB of data and after 40MB the card shows this error.
It happens also when transferring large files to the card though USB cable.
can the card be defect? is it time for a new ROM (would love CM9, but waiting for a stable version), is it a setting I could change? would love to hear any idea.
I've tried different SD card (kingston 4GB), try to copy in root, and formatted the phone and try to copy without s2e installed , increased cache read SD to 8M with SD booster - same results. any ideas?!
Problem solved with replacing the current 8GB mobile ultra Sandisk card (class 6) with an ADATA 16GB card Class 10. Everything works perfectly.
I had the same problem. I solved it by reformatting the fat partition with a smaller allocation unit size I believe. Don't remember what the magic number was off the top of my head though.
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I'm wondering if there are known problems when partitioning 32GB (Class 10) microSD cards with multiple partitions?
I'm asking because I have the same problem with two 32GB cards from different vendors. I wanted to replace the 16GB Class 2 card I'm using in my HTC Desire for A2SD (M2SD to be exact) with a 32GB Class 10.
First I bought a Transcend 32GB Class 10 and partitioned it like
1. fat32 (30750MB)
2. ext3 (1000MB)
3. swap (250MB)
I had this setup running a few days when I noticed strange behaviour and sudden application crashes. In the output of dmesg I could see I/O errors when accessing the SD card. The SD card mount points where then mounted read-only (which caused the applications to crash).
I thought the card was broken and bought a new one (also 32GB Class 10) by SanDisk. I partitioned this card the same way as before and while copying backups from the first card onto the new one (on a PC) there were again I/O errors on the new card.
Either I have very bad luck or there are known problems when partitioning 32GB microSDs with multiple partitions? For the record I didn't have any problems with the old 16GB card (it had a fat32 and ext3 partition).
What's strange however is that when the 32GB card has only one fat32 partition (the default so to say) there were no errors when copying some dummy data onto it.
i don't know, but Swap degrade the SDcard.
Hi,
I currently am rooted and run CM. I want to switch my external card to a 64GB card. I did it and my S4 recognized it with no problem but my SU did not work. When I switch it back it worked just fine. IS there a process to safely switch to my new 64GB card?
I went into Clockwork recovery and saw a partition option but I don't want to partition it just format it to work.
Thanks!
Steve
Odd, it should work without any issues, but you could try transferring everything on the 16gig to a folder on your computer, and then transfer those files to your 64gig. That's what I did.