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Root A2SD+ help to partition sd card

SUroot said:
You need to nandroid backup with your old card in

Copy card contents to PC

Put new card in, mount in Recovery as USB mass storage and partition card with Gparted.

Then copy contents back and nandroid restore.

Dont use rom manager. When you restore your nandroid backup, uninstall it.
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I have returned to try and do this as i was unable to get it sorted last time.

I have made a nandroid backup on the original card, copied contents to the new card. On booting into nandroid with the new card in i can select the backup, but it is unable to restore from it.

So, as before, cannot use titanium backup as the app does not show with new card in, and nandroid does not work properly.

I have been able to partition the new card, but copying vontents over does nto work either (no apps show up).

To be honest, I am quite happy to re-download all of my apps, even if i have to pay again! but I cannot even do this, as after booting the phone with the new card in, i do not even have marketplace on the phone!

Please can anyone offer any other solutions to upgrading a memory card on a rooted phone?

Thanks :-(
 
Am trying to re-do the partition now with Minitool Partition Wizard for another go.

Will post up the nandroid error once ive retried it (last time i tried was few months back).

Thanks for the reply
 
Hopefully I can save you time by telling you minitool partition wizard is a big pile of shit and if you used this before, it is most likely the cause. Use gparted. Either burn it to cd or follow my step by step virtual machine guide to get ready to use it.
 
OK Thanks,

I will try Gparted again then. Should I format the card in the phone first before making the partition? Or do it all in Gparted (in which case should i format it as Fat32 or NTFS..?)

Thanks
 
It needs to be FAT 32. You dont really need to format the FAT32, but if you're prepared to do so, you may as well. Just do everything in Gparted.

If you dont want to make a bootable CD or USB, although there are more steps, a virtual server may be better. See my VMware guide linked in my sig.
 
hi,

sorry to resurrect an old thread, just want to be sure I am on the right road.

I rooted my Desire mk1 few days back.

Used unrevoked, then clockworkmod recovery.


I stupidly did not run a backup at this time (Titanium or otherwise!)

I then installed AcesMod007 2.3.3 (Sense 2.1/3.0) which worked fine bar the absence of a lockscreen.
Second mistake, I did not partition the sd card, which was the cause of the no lockscreen issue.
What is the easiest way to resolve this? Bearing in my I seem to be running an old version of clockworkmod, that does not list the option to partition sd card?
I have ordered an 8GB class 4 sd card, so was thinking of just partitioning this, using gparted.
Apologies for the essay, just want to be clear in my own mind how I need to fix this

Thanks
 
Gparted in vmware, Not the easiest but it is the BEST.

Follow links in my signature (if it doesnt show below it only shows once per page)
 
SUroot said:
Gparted in vmware, Not the easiest but it is the BEST.

Follow links in my signature (if it doesnt show below it only shows once per page)
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thanks su,

what is the option after this?
Do I need to return to the recovery image then reflash AceSMod007?
 
Hi there,

I have a similar issue and have read the guide. Although I am having a similar issue that I was hoping someone could help/advise to the next stage? I admit I'm a newbie so don't have a full understanding, therefore, easily could have missed a stage etc.

Basically I have a HTC Desire, I have rooted it through unrevoked.
I have managed to partition the SD card using GParted through Ubuntu
I have managed to format the drive, wipe user data and flash Miui 2.1.6 (which I believe is an a2SD+ rom - correct me if I'm wrong?)

I have installed "quick system info" which shows my A2SD storage as total - 1.43GB, Free 1.32 GB
I have been installing apps, but these still seem to be using internal storage only - in fact I just had a message warning me that internal storage was full.

In order to "force" apps to use this A2SD storage should I be doing something manually, is or could there be something I've missed?

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
 
ngriffiths said:
Hi there,

I have a similar issue and have read the guide. Although I am having a similar issue that I was hoping someone could help/advise to the next stage? I admit I'm a newbie so don't have a full understanding, therefore, easily could have missed a stage etc.

Basically I have a HTC Desire, I have rooted it through unrevoked.
I have managed to partition the SD card using GParted through Ubuntu
I have managed to format the drive, wipe user data and flash Miui 2.1.6 (which I believe is an a2SD+ rom - correct me if I'm wrong?)

I have installed "quick system info" which shows my A2SD storage as total - 1.43GB, Free 1.32 GB
I have been installing apps, but these still seem to be using internal storage only - in fact I just had a message warning me that internal storage was full.

In order to "force" apps to use this A2SD storage should I be doing something manually, is or could there be something I've missed?

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
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apps still use internal storage and by default miui will not move the dalvic cache

if the miui rom is using the darktremor a2sd script that most miui roms use
open terminal emulator and type
su
as2d cachesd

it will reboot your phone and should have moved the dalvic cache to the sdcard


btw how many apps do you have installed.

you partition is rather large btw, that will never get used. 1gb is enough and even then that wont get full before the device internal data does (it doesnt move everything)

read our a2sd "root memory" faq
 
ngriffiths said:
Hi there,

I have a similar issue and have read the guide. Although I am having a similar issue that I was hoping someone could help/advise to the next stage? I admit I'm a newbie so don't have a full understanding, therefore, easily could have missed a stage etc.

Basically I have a HTC Desire, I have rooted it through unrevoked.
I have managed to partition the SD card using GParted through Ubuntu
I have managed to format the drive, wipe user data and flash Miui 2.1.6 (which I believe is an a2SD+ rom - correct me if I'm wrong?)

I have installed "quick system info" which shows my A2SD storage as total - 1.43GB, Free 1.32 GB
I have been installing apps, but these still seem to be using internal storage only - in fact I just had a message warning me that internal storage was full.

In order to "force" apps to use this A2SD storage should I be doing something manually, is or could there be something I've missed?

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
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depends which Miui, there are lots such as Miui XJ, Miui AU, MIUI US etc etc etc. Please clarify or better yet, link to the version you have.
 
I'm getting error "as2d: not found"?

I wouldn't say I had a lot of apps installed

tweetcaster
facebook
dolphin browser
dropbox
evernote
ebay
juice saver
you tube
 
No Idea what that Miui is, never heard of it. Most people who wan't English language Miui get Miui XJ from XDA so Thats all I can say. The FAQ doesnt say what a2sd it uses.

Sorry.

I would link to Miui XJ but XDA is down, due to the American government being a stupid bunch of whatevers.
 
su
as2d cachesd

in terminal emulator seems to have worked at least a little

I now have

A2SD storage - total 1.43GB, Free 1.26GB
Internal storage - 148MB, Free 58.6MB

so some of the internal storage has definitely transferred. Does this sound about right or with a different ROM would I be likely to see less internal storage used? Atm my main factor for ROM use is storage space (although obviously it being quick and user friendly is preferable!)

Again, thanks for all of your help - and apologies if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about - the truth is I don't really :-)
 
If a2sd commands work in terminal, then the ROM is using Dark Tremor, Liek Miui XJ is.

Dark Tremor by default doesn't move Dalvik Cache, so now it will be after that command.

Now your Dark Tremor is moving as much as any other a2sd script. Other roms wont change that.

There are other things to do that can increase the total size of "Internal Storage" however. You're probably wasting 100MB of /system storage right now for example. have a read of the root memory faq.
 
there is app in market from Dark Tremor ....which let u know if Dark Tremor scripts are there or not...
and allows further changes if the script is Dark Tremor's
 
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