I have realme x2 pro with 256 Gb internal storage (android 9.0) without any sd card slot. I want to know how can i partition this into two partitions (one acts as normal internal storage and another as a backup storage space). So, in future, if I need to completely flash my android, the backup storage won't be erased.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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I do have a china GT-i9300 phone with ICS 4.0.4.
It has 512MB internal storage, 2GB SD internally, and I have a 32 GB external sdcard, by default mounted as sdcard2.
Now I did root it, installed a cwm recovery and flashed a rom labeled 4.1.9. (Still ICS 4.0.4)
Installing this rom does some changes to the storage space that I find useful.
It remaps the internal 2GB sdcard into phone storage, and my 32GB external card is mounted as sdcard. And my internal 512MB storage is now monted as sdcard2.
This is all good, but can anyone tell me ho this is done?
Can I do the same on any other android phone?
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!
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.
I was using my 8gb sd card as adoptable sd card(formated as internal) but I replaced with 32gb card and formated new one as internal. Now when I tried to insert sd card in pc it doesn't shows any drive and 2 drive one approx 150mb other approx 7.5 gb is shown in disk management. Both are shown as 100% free. But I didn't formated the 8gb card on device nor on pc. Is there any way to recover the data from that card? I don't have the device right now. I sold it to someone else
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The feature called Adoptable Storage allows the Android user to format an external storage media as permanent internal storage to be used with this specific Android device: Hereby Android formats and changes it’s FAT32 or exFAT format to ext4 or f2fs, it gets tied to this specific Android device. The key used to encrypt the data on the SD card is stored on the Android device’s internal memory.
So, it is not possible to mount the adopted storage to another device because of its encrypted nature.
jwoegerbauer said:
@prashantvrm
The feature called Adoptable Storage allows the Android user to format an external storage media as permanent internal storage to be used with this specific Android device: Hereby Android formats and changes it’s FAT32 or exFAT format to ext4 or f2fs, it gets tied to this specific Android device. The key used to encrypt the data on the SD card is stored on the Android device’s internal memory.
So, it is not possible to mount the adopted storage to another device because of its encrypted nature.
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Consider this scenario:
SDcard1 was used in mobile as adoptable
Then it was removed from the device and card was not formated and no device reset.
Then card with high storage capacity was inserted and this new card got formatted as adaptable and but still no device reset.
Now I want to use the old card in this device. Will the device recognize it as it was used there before?
Adoptable storage is a nightmare as cards fail regularly, as you have found out. With an unencrypted SD card, you could run chkdsk in Windows to repair the card. The only thing I am unsure of is if there is an equivalent in Linux. If there is, the card which has an ext4 file system could possibly be repaired.
Try iBoysoft Data Recovery. If a file is a recognizable format, iBoysoft will find it and recover it. (And take days for a decent-sized card.) Instructions are at the software Step By Step. (If each file is encrypted, it may not find anything, but if the file structure is encrypted, iBoysoft never looks at the file structure except to see how large the clusters are - and it can work without that information.
Hello,
I am trying to partition the internal storage to have a safe partition that will hold titanium backup files while formatting data in twrp (my device is encrypted and for every update I have to format data).
Is there an app to format internal storage? (I found a lot for SD card but not for internal storage)
Thanks for the help
Hello, I think I found a solution, parted
https://iwf1.com/how-to-re-partitio...ll-options-included-change-size-fs-type-etc/2
I will try to split my 256 gig internal storage into a backup partition of let's say 10gig abd leave the other 246 for data.
Will try it over the weekend