spyder
Well-Known Member
First off, this is incidental, but make sure that the 'New' Card you get is a class 4 so it's 'Fast' Enough to handle you switching the Dalvik partition over to it. I say it's incidental because chances are very high that just the 16Gigs on the shelf are Class 4 and not something you need to worry about. I upgraded to a 4 then to an 8 before early on, before I even knew about the class 4 thing, and they were just right off the shelf, just a comment, but don't worry. It may say like "High speed" or something on the package.
Now, in the past I would have told you to use Linux partition the card, BUT through some problems I had and Tokenpoke doing some research. It was determined that IF the partitioning is NOT done on the phone, through ClockWork, it won't work, since the phone keeps track what the partition should be, so make sure to do the partitioning on the phone.
FIRST: Take the new card and go ahead and format the card, you can do that in windows, no problem
Second: Power off the phone, and Vol.up/Answer call/Power - Hold until ClockWork Recovery pops up, as you probably know will take 5-10 seconds.
After in CWR (oh when the phone is OFF, go ahead and put the new formatted card into the phone).
Now, while in recovery. You will go to the partition option and set it up as you like. I "THINK" That Tokenpoke told me something about trying to make the a2sd partition 1Gig or above caused problems. I'm sure he will see this and give some comments, so that will round off my comments and
you'll be good to go.
So, let's just say, you format it at 512 and 0. Now it has an EXT partition (Linux partition).
Now, using the computer, you can transfer over files or whatever from the old to the new.
BIG THING: REMEMBER-The stuff that "WINDOWS" sees is on the FAT32 partition, so all your pics, songs, etc.
IF you were using A2SD before 2 options: 1. Use Titanium backup before starting, batch backup all your apps, then just make sure to copy that folder over to the new card. 2. (Untested option), Using Linux (Ubuntu or something), Just Ubuntu you can boot from a CD and run the OS from a CD for just these simple tasks. That will be able to "See" the EXT partition and you can directly copy that right over.
ABSOLUTE WORST CASE HERE: Gotta reinstall the apps. I've done it alot, if you dont have many, the no biggie.
The use of Titanium Backup is probably the best option, easiest too. When you copy over stuff from the old to the new, just get that folder, then I'm pretty sure you can even do a 'batch' restore from Titanium and restore all your apps.
I'm sorry, I know this response could have been a little more tidy, I was working on it on and off for an hour kept getting pulled away. So I hope that it is still legible and makes sense to you.
The important thing is doing the partitioning, etc from CWR, not in Linux. Super long story short - I did that and the phone thought they should be the other size, and it got into a loop, I had to totally erase everything.
Then Tokenpoke confirmed that the phone keeps track and upon boot checks it against what you really have and if not, code loop, never to return...lol
It's def. not nearly as complicated as it may sound. Plus you have your old card to put back in and be back to normal if you make a mistake or something.
That thing I mentioned about making the a2sd partition over a gig messing things up and not working, was just part of a quick conversation we had on the subject, but really like 512 should be pretty good. You can try to go a gig if that's what you were planning and it's possible to have it work out.
As we were discussing yesterday, there are a couple "Versions" of this phone in terms of hardware (cost based, buying parts cheap here and there), so I don't know about this but there are some phones will produce different results as others with some things.
So go for it. I probably made it sound a bit more complicated that it really is.....just put that sucker in there, do the partitioning IN CWR, then copy the shit back on to it from the old, you won't be able to do that on the EXT partition in windows, if you have Linux, do that, if not, just before you start, batch backup your apps using "TITANIUM BACKUP" Free on the market. Make sure you copy over the Tit. bkup folder. Install Titanium backup. and after all is done and batch recover all your apps. assuming you have quite a few, otherwise, just install them again or whatever....
Good luck, again sorry, alot of babble, just a busy morning and kept coming and going....but if you have ANY QUESTIONS or have ANY PROBLEMS, just Post (Best so we can all see) or PM if it's somethign small.
OK...Good luck.....Jeff / Spyder
