Non usable SD Card - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have just installed LOS 14.1 on my GTi9100. Before I started the install I partitioned my SD card with a 5GB Fat32 partition and a 3GB partition with no file type which my previous rooted system required to extend internal memory.
When Lineage installed it repartitioned the SD card and now I have a card with 6MB Fat32 partition and a 29GB partition of unknown type which cannot be used for external storage. I removed the card and tried to repartition using Mini Partition Tools but I cannot resize or change the 29GB partition.
As I have no external storage I cant install your fix for addons file or anything else. I cant use it for camera image storage either.
In TWRP if I select re-partition it says I will lose all data and I don't know if I should do that?

Don't know if this still is relevant. But yes, almost every storage issue (for example not accessible, not visible) I had in my past only got fixed by a full wipe. I don't know all those tools existing out there for data recovery, but if you have a more or less recent backup it isn't that painful to wipe everything.

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How to create an sd-ext partition?

I am trying to create an sd-ext partiton so I can move applications and backup to that partition on my 4GB external SD card.
I've got ROM Manager 4.8.0.8 but when I select Partiton SD card it reboots and tries to reformat but I don't see anything on the Card just a LOST.DIR folder. I can't read the system messages when in Recovery mode cos it all happens so fast.
I tried via ADB and booted into recovery and selected the option to partition manually but still nothing. I reformatted the card with FAT32. Nothing.
Am I doing something wrong?
Just throwing something out there. Try rebooting into Clockwork Recovery. In CWR, go to Advanced -> Partition SD Card -> Select the size. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't reboot your device (If I remember correctly). Take a look at the log (Advanced -> Show log).
Hopefully this helps a bit.
Hmmm he's right,you have to flash cwm first.
If your device is not listed in rom manager,find cwm for your device on xda and connect your device to the pc in fastboot mode,extract the zip and copy recovery.zip to the folder where fastboot on your pc is and give the command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
after flashing cwm,do as suggested
Also,you can partition it by downloading Easeus partition manager on your pc and choose the ext2 partition as the second one and a size of 512 mb is enough in most cases
go into CWM and select advanced thn move onto partition SD card
it would ask u how much space to partition after that select swap size as 642 or above and wait for few minutes.... remember tot ake a backup of ur SD card as all the data would be cleared while partitioning
Thanks. The first problem was that the latest version of ClockworkMod Recovery 4.2 doesn't see my external SD card. No idea why. I used the 3.2 version which does see the external card and formatted the card first (after backing up!!). Then Advanced Partition SD card but I get a message saying : "Too many people have bricked their devices by doing this. Therefore this feature has been disabled."
I tried another Recovery Manager - Rogue Recovery and that showed messages saying it was formatting. I rebooted but when I looked at the SD card - nothing. However, I downloaded Easeus partition manager (looks good) and it showed that there is an sd-ext with a lost+found folder in it.
Is that normal? If yes then why didn't someone say that it would be invisible?!! If not, what happened?
Seems there are problems with the SD card. When I try to point TitaniumBackup to my SD card it sees the folders as Read Only. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18559 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18501. It was obviously a bit silly to call internal storage the same name as an external SD card. HD as in hard drive (I know its not) would be better. Or just Storage or whatever. NO doubt people have been accidentally formatting their internal memory instead of the card and that's why it was disabled in Clockwork Recovery. And by the way I'm using the hacked Android 4 - so the problem is still there even in 4 (Ice Cream)
The easiest way to get sd card partitioned is using Mini Partition Tool on PC.
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Now does cwm also do the ext partition? and if not what program would work well I have a 2gb sd card for my samsung admire and I want to make a ext partition so i can move some more files to it.And later get larger card up to 16gb and do the same.
Thanks,
Doug

[Q] CM10.2 SD card image file problems and no extra space showing up on 32GB card

So a long time ago I had CM7 installed and never updated and it was my first an only modification to my tablet. Since then my memory card died and I had to RMA it. I'm now trying to do this all over again and I'm finding some difficulties.
I followed the steps below from here:
SDCARD IMAGE: boot.zip *Updated BOOT contents (flashing_boot.img, etc..)
0d4738f80f12da03988b372be1812a57 *cm_acclaim_10.2.0-RC0_13OCT2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z (mirror)
flashable_expand_bootable_sdcard.zip
flash_format_data1_sdcard.zip
After burning the image and booting from your SDCard, boot into Cyanoboot menu and select “SDC Recovery“. In TWRP/Recovery, select “sdcard” location and select “flashable_expand_bootable_sdcard.zip”. This will auto resize the “data1” and “sdcard” partition on your card. You can do this manually using partition software like MiniTool or GParted. Initial boot time is around a couple minutes. If you are stuck at the booting animation for over 5 minutes, then there is a problem. Power off your device by holding down the power button and boot into “SDC Recovery” again. This time select “flash_format_data1_sdcard.zip” and reboot. When you get into home screen and the notification, say the “sdcard” is blank and ask you to format, do so. It will reformat the “sdcard” partition (Partition 4 on the SDCard) to Fat32.
62d37f5692c4002990590dec7047f74f *cm_acclaim_10.2.0-RC0_09AUG2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z
(contain only Google Play)
INTERNAL GAPPS: *Might need to go to advance > fix permission in CWM before flashing GAPPS
gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip (mirror)
gapps-core-4.3.zip (contain only Google Play)
gapps-4.3-20130726-signed.zip
SDCARD GAPPS:
*gapps-jb-20130813-signed-sdc.zip (mirror)
gapps-core-4.3-sdc.zip (contain only Google Play)
*gapps-4.3-20130726-signed-sdc.zip
*(required at least 450MB for SYSTEM1 partition or else GAPPS won’t get fully install
I burned the image then booted the nook. It went into android no problem. I then followed the next step with going into recovery and running the first listed file. No problem so I didn't have to run the next one. I started installing apps again from the Play store and ran into an issue with space. Apparently for some reason I'm getting stuck with 4 partitions on this 32gb sd card with 24gb being completely unused. I opened the mini partition program and noticed this partition wasn't active. I preceded to activate it and put it back in my nook. Now it just boots to stock Nook.
So apparently setting the last 24gb partition screwed things up. Do I have to start over again with the above mentioned instructions?
Finally how the heck am I able to use the full space on the sd card? With the above directions I'm only left with a couple 100mb on each partition. I don't even understand why there are 4 partitions on the sd card in the first place. I understand the BOOT partition but there should only be one other partition and that is what CM10.2 and anything else you put on/install should reside.
UPDATE
I did some digging around on the above link and found information about resizing the partitions.
Install 7-zip if you can’t extract the file.
Extract cm-10.1-2013xxxx-acclaim-HD-SDC.img from cm-10.1-2013xxxx-acclaim-HD-SDC-img.rar/zip
This is a 2GB image that can be burn to a 2GB or bigger microSD card.
After installation, DATA1 partition 3 and SDCard only has xxx MB.
Many will want to expand their SDCard if it is bigger than 2GB.
You need to use a partition software on your computer to modify your SDCard partitions.
Delete (P4, FAT32 SDCARD) and re-size (P3, DATA1) then recreate (P4, FAT32 SDCARD).
(P3 DATA1) If the label don’t show, it’s OK.
Yes, you can delete P3 DATA1 and recreate it. P3 DATA1 has to be EXT4 PRIMARY.
P3 DATA1, store your installed apps and apps data.
P4 SDCard, store your data, apps downloaded data.
You want to expand the last 2 partitions (FAT32 SDCARD) for more storage.
I've done that. Yet still get space problems inside android.
Looking up storage under settings I show to have the following:
Internal Storage
Total Space 26.05GB
Available 24.43GB
Apps 256MB
Cached Data 6.58MB
Then I have another Internal Storage listed
Internal Storage
Total Space 7.45GB
Available 3.5GB
This must be the actual Nook internal storage.
Pulling up the apps under settings and I show 1.6gb used 24gb free.
Why is it I don't have the access to the space for app installations?
scgt1 said:
UPDATE
I did some digging around on the above link and found information about resizing the partitions.
Install 7-zip if you can’t extract the file.
Extract cm-10.1-2013xxxx-acclaim-HD-SDC.img from cm-10.1-2013xxxx-acclaim-HD-SDC-img.rar/zip
This is a 2GB image that can be burn to a 2GB or bigger microSD card.
After installation, DATA1 partition 3 and SDCard only has xxx MB.
Many will want to expand their SDCard if it is bigger than 2GB.
You need to use a partition software on your computer to modify your SDCard partitions.
Delete (P4, FAT32 SDCARD) and re-size (P3, DATA1) then recreate (P4, FAT32 SDCARD).
(P3 DATA1) If the label don’t show, it’s OK.
Yes, you can delete P3 DATA1 and recreate it. P3 DATA1 has to be EXT4 PRIMARY.
P3 DATA1, store your installed apps and apps data.
P4 SDCard, store your data, apps downloaded data.
You want to expand the last 2 partitions (FAT32 SDCARD) for more storage.
I've done that. Yet still get space problems inside android.
Looking up storage under settings I show to have the following:
Internal Storage
Total Space 26.05GB
Available 24.43GB
Apps 256MB
Cached Data 6.58MB
Then I have another Internal Storage listed
Internal Storage
Total Space 7.45GB
Available 3.5GB
This must be the actual Nook internal storage.
Pulling up the apps under settings and I show 1.6gb used 24gb free.
Why is it I don't have the access to the space for app installations?
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I'm pretty sure you can. You go to Settings>Apps>Downloaded Apps, then you click on an app and hit "Move to sdcard."
Note that this does not work for all apps.
The other, more geeky way is to remap your internal partition with the external sdcard via /system/vold.fstab modifications. I suggest getting acquainted with Android some, learn how to use adb shell, then continue with this route.
The last time I had CM working before the sd card crapped I had full use of the sd card without moving things to the sd card. Apps installed to the full sized partition on their own.
So something must not be right somewhere. I also don't want the internal storage messed with as I also use this device for it's original intention.

Linked apps, sd-ext (second partition) and backing it up with CWM

Hi guys!
I have really particular question, which I have not found any answer to. I have my microSD card partitioned and I did backup of the system with CWM, but I have marked sd-ext option too. Now I have few questions:
1) So when I will format my microSD card and don't create new partition, then recover my earlier done backup of my system and sd-ext through CWM , will second partition (ext4) will also be recreated? or I should re-partition my microSD and then recover my sd-ext files through CMW?
2) When re-partition is needed, can I choose create ext2 and recover my sd-ext data which was on ext4? is it possible?
3) When I know that my backed up files on second partition was for example 4GB, and I still had 6GB free space (both give 10GB in total), can I shrink my newly created second partition to 8GB in total, and leaving 4 GB free space instead of 6GB before. Will it affect recovered through CWM files?
4) And lastly I would like to know when I copy microSD files to computer, files are only those from first FAT32 partition? When I wipe my microSD and copy these files back to microSD, I assume all my ext4 (second partition) files are lost? and then, all linked apps through link2sd will be broken (deleted?)? There is only one option to backup them and is it through CWM recovery with "sd-ext" option? or is there anything else?

sdcard0 Listed as 'Portable Storage'

In storage & USB the device storage says 1.27 GB Total used of 10.34 GB. However, Internal sorage says 797 MB used of 2.95GB, whilst sdcard0 is listed under 'Portable storage' and it says 283 MB used of 9.99 GB. I've had to subsequently format the external SD card to use it as internal storage because the internal storage is listed as portable. How to I change the sdcard0 to internal storage?
Help much appreciated,
Inf
Infiltrator2K said:
In storage & USB the device storage says 1.27 GB Total used of 10.34 GB. However, Internal sorage says 797 MB used of 2.95GB, whilst sdcard0 is listed under 'Portable storage' and it says 283 MB used of 9.99 GB. I've had to subsequently format the external SD card to use it as internal storage because the internal storage is listed as portable. How to I change the sdcard0 to internal storage?
Help much appreciated,
Inf
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Hi,
By any chance was your internal sd encrypted?
If you can access your internal sd via PC, backup all your files onto your PC then format your internal sd using recovery (listed as sdcard0 or internal sd) using the default settings if your are using CWM. Make sure that the filesystem is vfat or fat32.
Saber.
Infiltrator2K said:
In storage & USB the device storage says 1.27 GB Total used of 10.34 GB. However, Internal sorage says 797 MB used of 2.95GB, whilst sdcard0 is listed under 'Portable storage' and it says 283 MB used of 9.99 GB. I've had to subsequently format the external SD card to use it as internal storage because the internal storage is listed as portable. How to I change the sdcard0 to internal storage?
Help much appreciated,
Hi
Just looked into my storage (which is repartioned to 1 gb system and 4 gb data) an saw the following:
the internal storage is 3,94 gb (which must be data)
the rest of the sd0 is listed as portable storage 8,99 gb
also listed as portable storage is the sd1 (which i choosed as external storage on first setting).
so i believe the rest of sd0 (after having partioned) is just called "portable storage" .
in my thinking to make this portable sd0 to internal storage would mean to make it to data partition.
maybe i think completely wrong (and i dont know the size of your partitions)
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Sorry I've taken a while to get back. After a lot of trial and error I've realised that both the internal an external SD card partitions were corrupted. I relashed the pit files and reverted back to CWM recovery and reformated all partitions.
The only problem I faced after was after installing CM13 Gapps kept telling me that storage space was still insufficient, even though I had relashed the internal memory with a new pit file.
I've heard that you have to revert back to a stock ROM after flashing the pit before your increased storage is recognised for the installation of Gapps, so I've reverted back to a stock ROM and I'm soon to factory reset and reinstall CM13 to see if the increased partition size is recognised for the Gapps installation. If though I've tried installing Nano Gapps it's given me the insufficient storage error.
I'll keep you posted.
Infiltrator2K said:
Sorry I've taken a while to get back. After a lot of trial and error I've realised that both the internal an external SD card partitions were corrupted. I relashed the pit files and reverted back to CWM recovery and reformated all partitions.
The only problem I faced after was after installing CM13 Gapps kept telling me that storage space was still insufficient, even though I had relashed the internal memory with a new pit file.
I've heard that you have to revert back to a stock ROM after flashing the pit before your increased storage is recognised for the installation of Gapps, so I've reverted back to a stock ROM and I'm soon to factory reset and reinstall CM13 to see if the increased partition size is recognised for the Gapps installation. If though I've tried installing Nano Gapps it's given me the insufficient storage error.
I'll keep you posted.
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Hi
It does'nt make any sense at all to go back to stock-rom after repartitioning.
Please correct me If i am wrong but i think you are just trying and not following a proper guide for repartitioning and installing cm13.
Do understand your problem and provide help you could give detailed information which exactly Files you flashed in which order and which method.
You are also talking about cwm altough you need isorec recovery twrp 3..... in the process of flashing cm13. Besides in this recovery you can change with lanchons repit tool all repartition-sizes just as you like.
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Creating SD card type partition on internal storage

Hi,
As less and less phones have SD Card option, which is very usefull for storing backups, images and so on when flashing ROMs, is there an option for creating such partition on internal storage so I would not worry about it being deleted for example on factory reset, flashing rom?
So of let's say 128GB total internal storage, I leave first 64GB for all system partitions and I need to remap last 64GB to my own partition and if it where shown as SD card, that would be awesome.
Doable or not? And would it even survive ROM flashing?
Thanks!

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