Root Question about moving to a new sd card and partitioning it.

[ZepTepi]

When moving to a new sd card and partitioning it should I do anything special compared to partitioning your current sd card?

I'm planing on copying my sd card, again, to my pc just before installing & partitioning my new card then copying my sd card data to the new card.

Did I plan that correctly?

 

[Rxpert83]

Sounds about right

 

[ZepTepi]

I'm writing this late at night after a long day so I apologize if I'm less than clear & concise. ;-)

This just occurred to me.....I copied my sd card to my pc before starting the rooting process. When I had unlocked the bootloader and installed recovery I mistakenly thought I was rooted though I had not yet flashed the su file to complete the process. At that point I used MyBackup app to reinstall everything I had backed up with it. I got the apps, contacts, pics, & texts back but my widgets don't work, my custom background, and some of my app data(like my time recorder app data) is not on the phone. Not sure why because I thought MyBackup copied everything from the phones memory where the data should have been. If I have downloaded apps like TB & Root Explorer to the phone, post root, will those still be there(along with the app data for those apps) once I copy the sd card backup to the new card?

Another thought....I'm still using my original sd card as I planned on moving to the new sd card right after I make my nandroid backup and backup my current sd card but how can I get everything from my initial sd card backup as well as everything from the current state of my sd card onto the new card. I can't put both copies on the new card can I? Do I even need to try? If I'm supposed to backup my sd card to my pc prior to partitioning the new card was there rally a good reason to back it up before starting this whole process?

These questions may or may not be worth asking at this point but I'd rather ask a.....silly question now than to wait until I've permanently lost data and THEN think "why didn't I ask about that before this happened!"

Now I'm off to bed! I'll be curious to see if this all sounds ridiculous come the light of day. jk

 

[ocnbrze]

I'm writing this late at night after a long day so I apologize if I'm less than clear & concise. ;-)

This just occurred to me.....I copied my sd card to my pc before starting the rooting process. When I had unlocked the bootloader and installed recovery I mistakenly thought I was rooted though I had not yet flashed the su file to complete the process. At that point I used MyBackup app to reinstall everything I had backed up with it. I got the apps, contacts, pics, & texts back but my widgets don't work, my custom background, and some of my app data(like my time recorder app data) is not on the phone. Not sure why because I thought MyBackup copied everything from the phones memory where the data should have been. If I have downloaded apps like TB & Root Explorer to the phone, post root, will those still be there(along with the app data for those apps) once I copy the sd card backup to the new card?

Another thought....I'm still using my original sd card as I planned on moving to the new sd card right after I make my nandroid backup and backup my current sd card but how can I get everything from my initial sd card backup as well as everything from the current state of my sd card onto the new card. I can't put both copies on the new card can I? Do I even need to try? If I'm supposed to backup my sd card to my pc prior to partitioning the new card was there rally a good reason to back it up before starting this whole process?

These questions may or may not be worth asking at this point but I'd rather ask a.....silly question now than to wait until I've permanently lost data and THEN think "why didn't I ask about that before this happened!"

Now I'm off to bed! I'll be curious to see if this all sounds ridiculous come the light of day. jk

not sure with mybackup as i never had tried it. you would not have been able to use titanium backup as that only works with rooted phones.

as far as your sd card contents you can move whatever files from the original and current backups (that are on your pc) to the new sd card as you like. not really sure what you are trying to ask.

 

[ZepTepi]

not sure with mybackup as i never had tried it. you would not have been able to use titanium backup as that only works with rooted phones.

as far as your sd card contents you can move whatever files from the original and current backups (that are on your pc) to the new sd card as you like. not really sure what you are trying to ask.

That's the only reason I backed it up with MyBackup initially.

My thinking in asking that was that there might be things from each of the sd card backups that I would want on my new sd card once I'm done with everything. I'm sure this is just me overthinking this whole process. I've had alot going on in my home & work life recently and I think I'm just exhausted. Not the ideal circumstances to be tackling something like this but it it what it is.

In the long run all that's important is that I don't brick this thing in the process, right.

It's all good guys. I do appreciate the help.

 

[ocnbrze]

That's the only reason I backed it up with MyBackup initially.

My thinking in asking that was that there might be things from each of the sd card backups that I would want on my new sd card once I'm done with everything. I'm sure this is just me overthinking this whole process. I've had alot going on in my home & work life recently and I think I'm just exhausted. Not the ideal circumstances to be tackling something like this but it it what it is.

In the long run all that's important is that I don't brick this thing in the process, right.

It's all good guys. I do appreciate the help.

bricking your phone is actually very hard to do. the only sure way that i know of to brick your phone is pulling the battery out while you are flashing radios. for sure your phone will be bricked, if you do that.

the only things that i see that might be important is some of the files that some of that apps save to the sd card. your phone does not really need the sd card to run. so whatever you want to have on the card will be up to you.