When flashing for the first time, do you need to wipe the sd card as well as the phone storage itself or just the phone. Basically what I want to know is all of the contents of my sd card going to be lost.
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No, the SD card shouldn't ever get wiped. That's where your backups and the image you are flashing should be stored.
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I had some questions on ODIN if someone could enlighten me.
When I select re-partition... what is it really re-partitioning? Is it just the data or is it supposed to repartition the whole internal sd... cuz mine does not seem to repartition the internal sd.
If that does only the data... how would you re-partition the internal sd?
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I do know it wipes the area where you files system is stored. So if you have all kinds of lag fixes like oclf and voodoo and your also flashing roms like crazy. Its good to check re-partition so it completly wipes anything you may have done in the file system area.
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jmatic said:
I had some questions on ODIN if someone could enlighten me.
When I select re-partition... what is it really re-partitioning? Is it just the data or is it supposed to repartition the whole internal sd... cuz mine does not seem to repartition the internal sd.
If that does only the data... how would you re-partition the internal sd?
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Repartition should reformat your internal sd card... And it should put you back to [rfs] if you are, let's say, coming from vooodoo [ext4]. However, you do NOT need to have your SD card in when using ODIN, I NEVER have it in as I don't want my sd card to get wiped.
If you want to WIPE/FORMAT your sd card you can simply mount your phone to your computer and delete your phone's internal sd card folder
bobbbb said:
Repartition should reformat your internal sd card... And it should put you back to [rfs] if you are, let's say, coming from vooodoo [ext4]. However, you do NOT need to have your SD card in when using ODIN, I NEVER have it in as I don't want my sd card to get wiped.
If you want to WIPE/FORMAT your sd card you can simply mount your phone to your computer and delete your phone's internal sd card folder
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By internal sd I mean the unremovable 16 gb. Not the removable sd card.
I’ve tried re-partition but it does not usually wipe anything on the internal sd... is it supposed to?
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jmatic said:
By internal sd I mean the unremovable 16 gb. Not the removable sd card.
I’ve tried re-partition but it does not usually wipe anything on the internal sd... is it supposed to?
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If u want to wipe that...
Settings > sdcard and phone storage > format sd card/ phone storage click one and dine.
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Re-partition should only wipe out the internal data not the regular storage. Internal SD 16GB, and external SD will remane untouched.
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Re-partition should only wipe out the internal data not the regular storage. Internal SD 16GB, and external SD will remane untouched.
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so this means it will be safe to repartition even if i have my titanium backup on my internal sd right?
I had to order a replacement phone. Question I have is when I re-root and install titanium bu, will all of my information (apps and data) still be there? Or will I have to do everything all over again?
If you didn't save it on your external SD card or to your computer yes you have to download all over it again.
Save titanium back up folder to your external SD card or to your computer once in a while so if anything goes wrong u can just put it back on the internal SD card and just restore it.
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If you didn't save it on your external SD card or to your computer yes you have to download all over it again.
Save titanium back up folder to your external SD card or to your computer once in a while so if anything goes wrong u can just put it back on the internal SD card and just restore it.
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Thanks! I appreciate it.
So when I flash a back up or rom out is never able to mount the sd card. (I was wondering if its because after I installed the darkside rom it formatted it to ext-4.) Is this an issue? If so, is there anyway to format back to the sd card mount point, which I believe I've read is ext-3.
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Anyone have any issues with your SD card from your previous device not showing the files that are on it?
I know they are there because the card says 3 gigs free of 14....came from my Fascinate.
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It could be formatting issues with the Sd card. Also sometimes Sd cards won't work going from one device to the other. Try transferring/backing up your files from the Sd card to your computer than reformat the Sd card, transfer you're backed up files to the freshly formatted Sd card. Finally put the Sd card back into your phone and you should be able to access your files.
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and when you reformat the sd card(after saving to pc 1st), format to fat32 w/ active partition manager. not sure if youre rooted yet but this helps w/ cwm recovery. the exfat file system from windows and format sdcard feature w/ the phone gave me trouble.
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Anyone have any issues with your SD card from your previous device not showing the files that are on it?
I know they are there because the card says 3 gigs free of 14....came from my Fascinate.
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Got to mnt/SD_ext/
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Hey all i have a problem, i cant instal rom cuz in CWM my sd card is phone memory WTF! In file manager my phone memory is SD card.
Really need help bro's.
Its supposed to be like that. Its like the internal SD card of the phone. For me, it never wipes the internal SD card when I installed a custom ROM. But I always made a backup. If you want to put ROM on external SD card, you can do so. And when you search for the ROM, the folder should be labeled as external SD
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azas132 said:
Hey all i have a problem, i cant instal rom cuz in CWM my sd card is phone memory WTF! In file manager my phone memory is SD card.
Really need help bro's.
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CM made this swap mid ICS is I remember. Was this to mitigate the encryption bug wiping out the internal?
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