I'd like to know if there's a program yet to resize sd card partitions from within Android like gparted.
I'm stuck on an old netbook for now and windows xp doesn't behave with 4.0+ android devices so I'd very much prefer to do it from within android.
I'd like to mention my phone is a rooted LG F60, with the stock rom because nobody cares enough about that phone to cook up some rom that is complete.
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Hello all,
Is it possible to create 2 partitions on your sd card? One for WinMo and one for Android. To keep it all separated.
It doesn´t have to be partition it may also be a trick or something. For the root in android begins in /sdcard and in winmo /sdcard/winmo. As long the 2 different systems are separated.
But a lot of searching, read something about linux swap and ext2 partitions(but i believe it's for real roms not ports). And that winmo won't see any multi partition sd cards.
Thx in advance
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You can simply create a folder called andboot and put all the android stuff in that folder and keep "winmo-stuff" in the root of your sd
wavesshock said:
You can simply create a folder called andboot and put all the android stuff in that folder and keep "winmo-stuff" in the root of your sd
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I know that, but a lot android apps are also creating folders in the root.
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I know that, but a lot android apps are also creating folders in the root.
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Yea they kinda need to.
You can try to do two FAT32 partitions, but I don't think Windows/WinMo will see/understand the second partition - even if it is FAT32.
So you'd be kinda SOL trying to boot Android if WinMo can't see the partition... It might work, if you kick haret off from one partition to boot on the other... but kinda odd.
The ext2 solution isn't really a complete solution as it also depends on a FAT32 partition - I assume Android would still create folders on it in other words.
Just use separate SD's, problem solved .
Got it
It worked.
I made 2 FAT32 partitions. Primary for Android and Logical for WinMo.
WinMo recognizes them both, in file explorer as Storage card(Android) and Storage Card2(WinMo).
When you install an app in WinMo you get 3 choices, internal, SDcard and SDcard2.
The only problem you got is that Windows(PC) don't recognize the WinMo partition(it will recognize in activesync mode). So you first have to put all you WinMo apps on the android partition. And copy them to the WinMo partition in WinMo.
AFAIK everything is working fine.
Android doesn't see the WinMo partition
You can also try it. (I'm not responsible if anything goes wrong)
- Did it with this tool.
- I put my sd card in my computer (don't know if it works when you do it through your phone).
- MAKE A BACK-UP CUZ EVERYTHING IS GONE AFTER THIS!
- Delete the whole partition.
- Make a new partition, first the Android one*. Adjust the settings what you like, but put the partition primary.
- Then the WinMo partition. Adjust the settings what you like, but put the partition Logical.
- Now you're done. Put all the files on the android partition.
- SD card back in your phone and reboot.
- Now you can move the WinMo files, on your android partition, to the WinMo partition.
*When you do the WinMo Partition first and the android second, android will not boot.
Cool, glad you got it working. I'm certainly not going to do it, but perhaps others might!
Hi,
I have read all the information pertaining to the rooting of the NT and that is fully understood, however I still have some questions unanswered.
When the SDcard is partionned to 70 mb is the rest of the sd card usable to upload files to? i.e. if I use a 16gb sd card will I be able to use the rest of the card to put files on? If not what is the solution to sideload other files if you have reached the capacity of the NT?
If this was already answered somewhere else, I apologize in advance as I did not see it.
Thank you for your help.
Nathalie
I believe making the rest usable is possible but it will likely be spotty at best.
The best thing to do is to convert it back to a regular, non-bootable, sdcard. Or if you only have windows, use a smaller expendable card.
There are two reasons for this. First, it's easier to keep them seperate. Second, the nook boots to sd by default so as long as you have a bootable sd card in your device you will have to eject it on bootup and put it back in. That seems like too much of a hassle to me.
Either route I think you will need to have a linux os in order to convert the card back. As far as I could see, windows did not even recognize the rest of my card and didn't have any tools to edit the partition table. GParted on linux however allows you to edit the partition table.
Any route you take will require you to wipe the sd card so be sure to make a backup of anything you want to keep.
It is always good to have a machine with linux distro like ubuntu the most common to use gparted, eather by creating a virtual machine on windows (VMware is very good), using a live CD/DVD of ubuntu (but its a slower), installing it with WUBI which will let you run Ubuntu within your current system (it installs as any other application on Windows and uninstalls same way) or by just installing it directly to a PC, that way you don't miss anything .
~ Veronica
Beating a dead horse with this one
See This Thread and I know there were others.
Veronica offerers some good advice regarding getting a Linux Distro up and running. Another is Unetbootin. See my latest post in the thread I linked above.
I Have been running CM7 and CM10.1 from sd card on my Nook Tablet 8gb and have been well pleased with results.
I would like to also run Ubuntu from sd card but all my attempts have failed as follows.
1 Using A.Outlers method as described tried both(linux and windows versions) on xda but disabling--deleting /root/recovery file as advised.
2 Using Ubuntu Arm pre-installed precise image to sd card.
3 switching boot scheme with above using cyanoboot from cm10 and the filled with bugs version, (I am weak in how exactly the boot partition can be modified and edited as I am used to grub editing which is pretty straightforward)
I at least get boot but no Ubuntu otherwise all I get is black screen and difficulty getting back to stock nook or cm10(jelly bean).
If anyone has been able to make this work please let me know how you were able to make it work.
As I said my nook is 8GB version and I am well versed in Linux and Windows as well as SD format and booting most OS from SD, USB, CD etc.
Maybe because my nook is not yet rooted ? or just not smart enough to figure it out !! HELP!!!!!!!!!
8 gb nook tablet android
After some digging realized the Ubuntu image is for 16Gb nook only, I've tried all Ubuntu schemes I could find using the Nook 8gb bootloaders that work with android on nook 8gb, cyanogen boot and a couple of others. I found a debian wheezy with 3.0.57 arm kernel but no luck on boot with JB cyanogen boot. not knowing boot parameters needed or even how to edit boot features makes this unlikely for me to accomplish. If I could get a basic boot I can build a linux version from scratch, more study needed and not much out there as far as tutorials or help. Pointers are requested.
I have a 16gb Nook Tablet that has firmware version 1.4.3 and I would like to run one of the CM roms internally. I am thinking about trying to run CM10 because from what I have read it has finally become stable (please correct me if I am wrong).
Over the last couple of months I have been skimming through this forum reading thread after thread trying to get a grip on the process. I have a 8gb class 4 Sandisk micro SD card that I would like to use for this. From what I understand I do not need to root the tablet first if I am going to flash a rom straight onto it.
So does anyone have a favorite method for going from a stock Nook Tablet to CM7 or CM10? I also wonder whether it is easier to use Windows or a linux OS to do this. I have Ubuntu on my Desktop and Windows 7 on my laptop so I can do either one. Also, how do you create a clone or image of my Nook and SD card so that I can revert back to them if anything goes wrong?
Edit: Do I need to repartition the NT hard disk like explained here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23272909#post23272909 or does that no longer matter once the new Rom has been installed?
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I have a 16gb Nook Tablet that has firmware version 1.4.3 and I would like to run one of the CM roms internally. I am thinking about trying to run CM10 because from what I have read it has finally become stable (please correct me if I am wrong).
Over the last couple of months I have been skimming through this forum reading thread after thread trying to get a grip on the process. I have a 8gb class 4 Sandisk micro SD card that I would like to use for this. From what I understand I do not need to root the tablet first if I am going to flash a rom straight onto it.
So does anyone have a favorite method for going from a stock Nook Tablet to CM7 or CM10? I also wonder whether it is easier to use Windows or a linux OS to do this. I have Ubuntu on my Desktop and Windows 7 on my laptop so I can do either one. Also, how do you create a clone or image of my Nook and SD card so that I can revert back to them if anything goes wrong?
Edit: Do I need to repartition the NT hard disk like explained here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23272909#post23272909 or does that no longer matter once the new Rom has been installed?
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Since you're new to flashing ROMs you might want to use this
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/
Its an SDC image. Just write to your SD card and you're good to go. Once you learn a little more you can internally flash. Flashing without knowing what you're doing may cause problems which could essentially reformat or erase internal partitions.
Edit: You can use whatever operating system you want. Ubuntu can read all your partitions though. Windows can only read some. But that probably won't matter if you're new.
Thank you so very much. That was incredibly easy. Now I'm going to spend the rest of the evening messing around with this and finding out what I should have been doing all along with this tablet.
I've just inserted ext4 formatted sdcard to my new Android pad (Android version 5.1) and it's immediately formatted it to fat32 destroying all the data. More than that, it wrote a lot of information on it making recovery near impossible.
Well, some data I could recover from backups, some not, anyway it's pain, nerves and time waste. The question is not how and whom to sue in fact. Although it might be a proper thing to do, since computer doing any unauthorized action is a users disrespect at least and real damage at most, like in my case.
The question is how to prevent such destructive action in future forever? (I was perfectly used this sdcard on android 4.0, GUI was asking to format it in tray, but manual mount worked perfectly, so I was feeling safe inserting my working card to it).
First off sueing is out of the question or did you miss the part of the Android tos that states you use the software as is with no warranty at all.
You can not assume something is gonna work across OS versions. Mainly when Google removed all SD card code from Android and any device that has a slot is all due to the oem.