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Root HTC Desire rooted. What next? Confused!!

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Lins81

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Hi
I realise there are so many posts out there about this but with so much conflicting info I'm worried about getting it all wrong.
I have rooted my HTC Desire using instructions on this forum
[Guide]ROOTING HTC android 2.2.1 or lower with unrEVOked
I am now a bit stuck about where to go next.

My main reason for rooting my phone was due to the low internal memory so I want to move my apps to the SD card. I'm not really bothered about doing anything else. I am perhaps a little foolish for starting this without knowing where to go next but I'm here now so any help is appreciated!
I am unable to move my apps as the SD card needs to be partitioned
One thing I have learnt is not to use ROM Manager so I'm avoiding that. I have copied all files over to my computer so hopefully should be ready to go.
I don't really understand the whole Custom ROM thing. I'm not afraid of getting into it so long as I understand what I'm getting into!

I hope someone can help. thank you :confused:
 
Please see the rooting FAQ here, it's actually in my signature.
We can't really help with guides from other sites as well as we can with ours since the people of this forum made em.
(Mainly SUroot and Hadron if I'm not mistaken)
Unless the guide you used was ours then I apologise.

Im on my phone so I can't help much, to partition your sd use GParted, it's a Linux program but you can use it via a VM (Virtual Machine)
Once again, there's a guide on here.
Don't use anything else to partition it, like Partition Magic, it says it's partitioned but it's not done correctly, I know this first hand.


Once you read the sticky, we are usually happy to help.
Remember, there are no stupid questions.
 
hi

Thanks for the replies.

It was the guide that SUroot put up that I followed. I'm just concerned that if I go straight in for partitioning am I missing out a step with not putting a ROM on? Do I need to put a custom Rom on first?

I have read the stickys but by the time I get to the end I'm sort of blinded by it all! haha.
 
No, partition first. The rom needs to be applied later to exploit the partitions. You can have a partition on your sd card and it will not affect your current rom if it doesn't require a partition to function. However your sd card will be formatted during this process so back it up.
All it does is trick the phone to thinking there is more memory to use for apps, cache etc. Different roms can use it for different things.
 
You may have read my guide but its also the faqs you should read. The rooting faq but also the root memory one. They're all linked in the "all things root" sticky thread. Have a look. All your questions are answered there
 
OK. so I'm trying the Gparted instructions but I'm stuck on 17) 2.
I have installed Gparted and all was going well but I haven't got an option in the recovery list of MOUNT USB MASS STORAGE so I can't complete this stage.
any ideas??
thanks
 
Sorry. I figured out where i was going wrong. trying to do things too late at night!!

I have got Gparted running and was following the instructions in your guide 'if I wanted to, is there a step by step process'. I also had a look at the video link which would have helped but there was no sound for some reason.
anyway, I am now confused because in your step by step you have put right click on 'Fat32' and resize. In the video, the 'FAT16' was deleted and a new partition created. Which is the best to do?
Also, if the maximum size is 3758, what would be the recommended other sizes?

thank you :)
 
ok. Will do that but unsure what the sizes need to be. you said to press the up arrow on Free Space Following until you have the desired sizes but I don't know what the sizes should be? I may be being a bit daft so if I am I apologise!

also, when I then get onto choosing the EXT of my choice - again, what is he best to choose?

thanks
 
Thanks.

So this is where I am now.

unallocated 9.00MiB
FAT32 3.16GiB (used 1.23 unused 1.93)
Ext4 512MiB

Should I do something with the other unallocated one?
Also, I had a warning to say my SD card may not work. Presumably that's a standard warning?

Does this all look right?
 
Looks ok, as long as you made the Ext partition a primary one. Where does the warning appear, in Gparted? Never come across that before so i'd redo.

Also you're wasting some space with 9MB unallocated before the Fat32 partition, did you copy everything onto your pc including hidden folders like .android.secure folder? If so, you can use this space by deleting all partitions and repeating the process, exit Gparted/VMware and then copy everything back onto SD card from pc whilst still usb connected in recovery.
 
Thank you.

I couldn't seem to work it so I could use the unallocated part so decided I'd just go with what I had for now. However, after pressing OK to set the wheels in motion I get the warning/error 'Libparted bug found. Could not stat device /dev/sdb- no such file or directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Actually, I tried unplugging it all and starting again but now I can't even get the SD card to show up in the drop down menu of GParted so I've no idea what's happened now!!
 
Usually restarting the Gparted interface helps.

Gparted is tricky as to when to plug in.

You should boot into recovery and mount usb mass storage without plugging in usb. Boot Gparted and when it starts asking you about keyboard language, plug in the usb
 
wonder if this is why I'm getting some sd card issues? I just plug usb in, connect usb storage in recovery, then start Gparted VM - seems (or seemed) to work fine, message appears saying usb will be passed from host to vm and will be unmounted first. Gparted picks up sd card fine, and exiting VM host sys then picks up card ok as well.

Better have a go, do it this way, and reformat card again methinks.
 
Well. I've tried several times to restart GParted and connecting the USB when at the language screen. But all I can see in the devices is unallocated 512MiB which I can only assume is the HDD of the phone? There is still nothing else in the drop down list.
When using my phone I can still use the apps and stuff on the SD card so it's still there! Sometimes I can't see my pitcures but I suppose that would depend on whether I've rebooted by phone with the storage mounted or unmounted?
Is the next step to format my SD card or could there be something that I'm getting a little bit wrong.
 
In the first menu (GParted I think) you need to select the Device that is your SDcard. For me this was sdc - the program started on sda which was one of my hard-drives. DO NOT MESS WITH THOSE! Repartioning your windows drive will get old really quickly.

The list of devices has sizes in it - pick the one that matches the size of your SD card. Actually, it's usually a little-bit smaller, I have a 32GB card and it shows as 29.8 GB. Disk/sd-card manufacturers report GB and computer people tend to mis-name GiB. 32GB = 29.8GiB (32x1000x1000x1000 = 29.8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024).

Hope this helps.
 
This is what I mean though that there is only the one option in the devices drop down and it isn't my SD card! :confused:
 
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