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Thanks! Go through the steps that I posted and see if it makes sense. Even if it isn't the same as how you did it, I feel what I posted is a pretty logical progression. The question is if it will work or is there a better way.
 
Instead of typing it all out here's the info from Ocn's guide

it is recommended that you do this before trying to flash a rom.
so here are the directions on how to do it:
1.copy your content of the card to a computer because partitioning will wipe the card's content.
2.go into recovery and select partition your sd card
3.enter 32 for swap, and 1024 or 2048 for ext2, and do the rest for FAT
4.select upgrade ext2 to ext3
5.select usb-ms toggle and transfer your contents of your card on your computer back to the card.
6.go to the main menu and do a full wipe (min data, dalvik cache and cache)
7.flash the superwipe
8.flash the rom of your choice.
9.reboot

Instead of flasing a new rom you should be able to reload the nandroid you've saved and flashing superwipe won't be needed..

Hope this helps you out :)
 
I'm foncused :confused:
Are you suggesting that I nandroid backup my whole phone? Why would I do that? I'm not touching the rom, just the sd-ext. Why can't I just restore the sd-ext onto the new SD card?
Also, how do I put my original SD card back to "factory restore" ie not partitioned. I understand I can partition it and choose 0 for sd-ext but what do I do with swap.
 
This is what I think I did to my best recollection:
Power off the phone.
Take the old sd card out.
Put the new sd card in.
Boot into recovery and partition your new card like you did with the old one.
Power down phone.
Remove the new, now partitioned card.
Using the computer, transfer contents of old card to new card.
(Windows will not see the partition but the contents will move over)
Put the new card in phone.
Boot up the phone.
Using terminal emulator, type:
"su" (without the " " marks)
"a2sd reinstall"
"exit"

Profit!

Now before you do that, I really want to find my thread about this, when I did it.
I believe it was in the thread about Decks Reloaded...

I can look there later tonight as I have to leave work.:)

:D

Edit: @biker---I think he is wanting to upgrade his card, not his rom ;)
 
Mikestony said:
This is what I think I did to my best recollection:
Power off the phone.
Take the old sd card out.
Put the new sd card in.
Boot into recovery and partition your new card like you did with the old one.
Power down phone.
Remove the new, now partitioned card.
Using the computer, transfer contents of old card to new card.
(Windows will not see the partition but the contents will move over)
Put the new card in phone.
Boot up the phone.
Using terminal emulator, type:
"su" (without the " " marks)
"a2sd reinstall"
"exit"

Profit!

Now before you do that, I really want to find my thread about this, when I did it.
I believe it was in the thread about Decks Reloaded...

I can look there later tonight as I have to leave work.:)

:D

Edit: @biker---I think he is wanting to upgrade his card, not his rom ;)
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Thanks.
If you boot up a phone which originally had a2sd and now the card doesn't have it wouldn't that break all the apps. That's why I'm suggesting to nandroid backup the sd-ext and restore it before booting up.. This should also negate the need to use Terminal Emulator to reinstall a2sd.
Also, would I be able to use USB toggle to move the files back into the SD card from the PC?
Again this is all theoretically and may not be correct in real life.
 
kracked dude said:
Thanks.
If you boot up a phone which originally had a2sd and now the card doesn't have it wouldn't that break all the apps.
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Yes it will.

kracked dude said:
That's why I'm suggesting to nandroid backup the sd-ext and restore it before booting up.. This should also negate the need to use Terminal Emulator to reinstall a2sd.
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Thinking about that on my ride home (I do alot of thinking whilst I drive :) ) and that does seem doable:)
kracked dude said:
Also, would I be able to use USB toggle to move the files back into the SD card from the PC?
Again this is all theoretically and may not be correct in real life.
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Yes, you could, but I guess I like doing it from the computer....:)

So let's review yours and my thinking here:
1. make a sd-ext nandroid.
2. Power down phone and pull old card.
2a. Put contents of old card onto computer.
3. Put new card into phone.
4. Boot into recovery and partition new card.
5. Mount card with USB toggle (still in recovery)
6. Transfer contents from old sd card to new card.
7. Unmount phone (usb toggle)
8. Restore the sd-ext.
9. Reboot phone.

Sound about right? :)
 
Mikestony said:
Yes it will.


Thinking about that on my ride home (I do alot of thinking whilst I drive :) ) and that does seem doable:)

Yes, you could, but I guess I like doing it from the computer....:)

So let's review yours and my thinking here:
1. make a sd-ext nandroid.
2. Power down phone and pull old card.
2a. Put contents of old card onto computer.
3. Put new card into phone.
4. Boot into recovery and partition new card.
5. Mount card with USB toggle (still in recovery)
6. Transfer contents from old sd card to new card.
7. Unmount phone (usb toggle)
8. Restore the sd-ext.
9. Reboot phone.

Sound about right? :)
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Yes that sounds like my original post!
Actually now that you mention it I just remembered I can also do it straight from my computer since I just got a new USB card reader to replace my broken one. But still I might do it via USB toggle.

What about my old card? I would like to restore it to original factory condition... Can I do that with the partition card option in recovery?
 
kracked dude said:
Yes that sounds like my original post!
Actually now that you mention it I just remembered I can also do it straight from my computer since I just got a new USB card reader to replace my broken one. But still I might do it via USB toggle.

What about my old card? I would like to restore it to original factory condition... Can I do that with the partition card option in recovery?
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I believe so, yes. It should wipe the partitions. :)
 
Mikestony said:
Sorry, had to take care of some stuff:(
I think 0 for swap.
Scratch that...I just read the guide...set it at 32.
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I was also busy till now.
Which guide you referring to? The rooting guide? Isn't that talking about if I'm making an ext partition? So if I'm not would swap still be at 32? On a side note, what is swap?
 
Swap is confusing to me...all I know is, it is a small section set aside to be used for RAM.
Technically, I don't even think we need to use swap on the phone.
Here is something I found on swap fwiw:
Swap is, in short, virtual RAM. With swap, a small portion of the hard drive is set aside and used like RAM. The computer will attempt to keep as much information as possible in RAM until the RAM is full. At that point, the computer will begin moving inactive blocks of memory (called pages) to the hard disk, freeing up RAM for active processes. If one of the pages on the hard disk needs to be accessed again, it will be moved back into RAM, and a different inactive page in RAM will be moved onto the hard disk ('swapped'). The trade off is disks and SD cards are considerably slower than physical RAM, so when something needs to be swapped, there is a noticeable performance hit.
Unlike traditional swap, Android's Memory Manager kills inactive processes to free up memory. Android signals to the process, then the process will usually write out a small bit of specific information about its state (for example, Google Maps may write out the map view coordinates; Browser might write the URL of the page being viewed) and then the process exits. When you next access that application, it is restarted: the application is loaded from storage, and retrieves the state information that it saved when it last closed. In some applications, this makes it seem as if the application never closed at all. This is not much different from traditional swap, except that Android apps are specially programed to write out very specific information, making Android's Memory Manager more efficient that swap.
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Anyways, when you asked what to set for swap, I thought you meant what to set it at when partitioning the card.
If you are just formatting it, no need to set any.:)
 
kracked dude said:
Just following what seems logical in my brain.
So I went to TE and did a2sd check and it looks good. While there is saw something called zip align so that bring me to a new question, what is it and when would I use it?
TYVM
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Well, some roms come with zipaligning baked into them. If they do, you need not worry about zipalign. (On a rom's OP page, it should say in the changelog if the rom is zipaligned)

Again, I kinda suck at explaining stuff I'm not totally familiar with, :) so here we go with an informative link or 2 :D

http://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-...s-root/508027-my-zipalign-restore-script.html

The first 2 paragraphs explain it quite well. :)
 
I'm in need of some advice. My sister just called me that her nieces were trying to break into her phone (evo running mik) (she has a pattern lock) and obviously locked it up. Instead of going to the screen to use the Gmail password, it shows 2 boxes one says "no notification" and the other says "ongoing". Any thoughts? She already turned the phone off and on and didn't help.
 
Update I recreated it on my device, seems like the forgot password screen (where your supposed to put in email and password) isn't set up correctly. The box where your supposed to put in username says no notification and the box where your supposed to put in password says ongoing. Even if you put in the correct info and press OK (which says notification) it says checking and goes back to the screen. She can't get back to put in her pattern lock either.
 
Final update
I have her keep entering in her email and password until it finally worked. Dunno why the other times it want working.
But for future reference, I'm wondering if the following procedure will work. Go to recovery make nandroid backup and restoring the backup. Will that work?
 
kracked dude said:
Final update
I have her keep entering in her email and password until it finally worked. Dunno why the other times it want working.
But for future reference, I'm wondering if the following procedure will work. Go to recovery make nandroid backup and restoring the backup. Will that work?
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In other words, if she gets locked up again and the gmail thing fails...boot into recovery, make a backup, then restore that backup? I don't know, but I would think you'd be in the same boat again.
However, restoring an earlier backup would work, albeit everything added since the restore point would be gone. :)
That's my thinking anyways ;)
 
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