After moving my apps to my sdcard, I noticed a significant degrade in performance. I believe it's that I don't have a high enough class sd card (I don't know my specific class only that it probably isnt very high) since the phone just seems very sluggish now.
Anyways I've been investigating how to move the apps back onto my internal memory and I haven't had any luck. I tried to follow MarcusMaximus04's instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512743 but everytime i try to mount data in the terminal it said the data was being used.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong and could anyone point me in the right direction as to what to do? or would it be easier just to wipe my phone, reformat the sd card, and re flash the firmware?
oh and I'm using JFv1.5 ADP
i had the same problem earlier and i just reflashed my phone and just moved my apps to sd, not the caches or the dalvik caches. since my memory card is a class 4 moving those made my phone really sluggish
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my phone is not reading my sd card..so i did a wiped and still my phone wont read the card.i did a factory reset and the same issue continues.i have jf.1.31v rc33.so my question is when you do a wipe or factory reset doesnt it suppose to erase everything??meaning the theme and auto rotate.i did the wipe and factory rest and my phone still has the theme and auto rotate even though i dont have droidsans tools installed.is it possible to restore the phone to factory settings through terminal or adb??
i have the same problem, my phone wont read my sd card. looks like something corrupted it.
try your sd card in something else, like another phone or a card reader, and if it still can't be read, then your cards ****ed
and, probably, yes. i imagine you can wipe your phone with adb or terminal but i have no idea what the command would be ><
Just reflash back to v1.41 Rc33 and that should erase everything.
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Just reflash back to v1.41 Rc33 and that should erase everything.
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His SD card doesnt work, he can't reflash.
my pc and laptop memory card reads the card.so im guessing its the phone.also i cant reflash if my memory card wont work on my phone.i was planning of using the dreaimg.nbh to go back to rc29 and then update it back to jf1.41 rc33.does anyone know the commands to terminal or adb to reset the phone??
Have you tried reformatting it?
yes.i formatted it many times now.i formatted in FAt and then FAt32.i dont know if that matters
I don't know whether this is related or not, but I completely lost the ability to get a data connection unless I was using WiFi.
I tried wiping and reinstalling, including different builds, but still no WiFi.
A little while ago, I was going to wipe again. I took out my SanDisc 8GB SDHC card, and put in the card which came with my phone, which had nothing but the latest update.zip on it.
When I went to boot into recovery mode, I got distracted, and didn't hold the buttons long enough. The phone started normally, and I had the edge symbol for the first time in two weeks.
I took out the 1 gig card, and put in the 8 gig card, and when I started my phone, no edge. I put the 1 gig card back in, and had edge again.
My phone was able to read both cards. On my 8 gig card, I have some photos, and backups made with Astro and My Backup, but that is all. (I also have never partitioned the card for installing the apps or caches on the SD card). On the 1 gig card, there is nothing but JF's latest ADP update.
Is there an app or something that is doing strange things to the SD card?
to my understand i really dont think so.specially that it has to do with the phone and its service...but you never know.
When I format my card by putting it in the slot my laptop has it doesn't wipe the ext partition... I say this because it's showing that the 2gig card is only a 1.27gig card. This can't be right?
Any help is appreciated.
What OS are you running?
Windows 7 (64 bit)
I don't have a card reader so I can't test it but try to right click on My Computer and select manage. Then go into Disk Management.
The problem is windows can't recognize ext partitions so it won't mount them
Otherwise look up a partition manager to run under windows. I always partition under linux or with dedicated tool you boot to off a CD. I am not sure a good one to recommend to run under windows. Maybe someone else can recommend one.
If you made a 4gb ext partition on an 8gb card, windows will now only see this as a 4gb card until you reallocate the ext partition.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I use Paragon Manager to modify the ext partitions. I am not sure if there is a legitimately free version of this program.
Thanks everyone. I'm downloading Paragon Manager now. I made my ext partition too big and want to put more music on there. I also feel like partitioned the card twice... I think I have an ext 2 & an ext 3 partition.
Again, thanks!
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mrcharlesiv said:
When I format my card by putting it in the slot my laptop has it doesn't wipe the ext partition... I say this because it's showing that the 2gig card is only a 1.27gig card. This can't be right?
Any help is appreciated.
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I use SdFormatter from this link: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Question:
Over the last few months I (like most people here) have tried several roms. I moved from the sdcard that came with the phone to an 8gb, no problems there.
The way I backup my sdcard is I make a folder on my desktop and literally just drag and drop the whole card over, hasn't let me down yet. When I switched I formatted the 8gb card and just copied my latest sdcard backup to the 8gb and everything works great. I am at the point where I have a lot of stuff on there from from things like apps I've uninstalled, etc. and I'd like to clean it up. I have everything I would want to keep backed up on my desktop.
So here is my question:
If I reformat my sdcard will the phone copy/install anything on the clean sdcard it needs to run?
If so then I'm thinking I could just copy what I want (nand backups, pictures, music, etc.)
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nebenezer said:
Question:
Over the last few months I (like most people here) have tried several roms. I moved from the sdcard that came with the phone to an 8gb, no problems there.
The way I backup my sdcard is I make a folder on my desktop and literally just drag and drop the whole card over, hasn't let me down yet. When I switched I formatted the 8gb card and just copied my latest sdcard backup to the 8gb and everything works great. I am at the point where I have a lot of stuff on there from from things like apps I've uninstalled, etc. and I'd like to clean it up. I have everything I would want to keep backed up on my desktop.
So here is my question:
If I reformat my sdcard will the phone copy/install anything on the clean sdcard it needs to run?
If so then I'm thinking I could just copy what I want (nand backups, pictures, music, etc.)
Thanks
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Yes and yes. I have cleaned house a few times by deleting everything off my 8gb card and bringing back just my pictures, music and backups.
If you are using an ext partition to store apps and want to delete this data, you will need to format this with a program that can handle this ext partition or the easiest way is through recovery (wipe ext partition). Otherwise, if you want to keep your apps on the partition you can just delete everything off the card through windows or even format it there.
Thanks Danknee!!
I thought that was the case but wanted to make sure.
I haven't had the need to use a2sd yet so that's not a problem.
One more question:
I've formatted and put everything I want to keep back. Should I just reboot or do I need to reflash DC!.0, the reason I ask is because there was literally nothing on the card after formatting (not surprising). So I put HTC Sync back in case I need it, will the phone build the file structure it needs as it needs it or should I do anything else at this point?
Thanks
You can just reboot. The SD card doesn't have anything on it that would be replaced by flashing anyway. Since you aren't using apps2sd, you could technically have two different SD cards that you swapped in and out. You would just need to unmount and remount them to prevent corruption during the swaps.
Apps save settings on the card, but these will be resaved when you use these apps again. Conversely, the apps you never use again won't be taking up any space now.
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You can just reboot. The SD card doesn't have anything on it that would be replaced by flashing anyway. Since you aren't using apps2sd, you could technically have two different SD cards that you swapped in and out. You would just need to unmount and remount them to prevent corruption during the swaps.
Apps save settings on the card, but these will be resaved when you use these apps again. Conversely, the apps you never use again won't be taking up any space now.
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Awesome, thanks.
I totally understand what you just posted... So HTC ships these phones with SOME files that you can't get back by reflashing? (ie. HTC Sync) just curious
nebenezer said:
Awesome, thanks.
I totally understand what you just posted... So HTC ships these phones with SOME files that you can't get back by reflashing? (ie. HTC Sync) just curious
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No, you can flash back to a stock sense ROM with no problems. What I meant was that you could actually use your phone with no memory card and it would be fully functional except that some apps couldn't save settings and data.
The SD card is completely optional and all the system files and system apk files are stored in your phone's internal memory.
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No, you can flash back to a stock sense ROM with no problems. What I meant was that you could actually use your phone with no memory card and it would be fully functional except that some apps couldn't save settings and data.
The SD card is completely optional and all the system files and system apk files are stored in your phone's internal memory.
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Sorry for the confusion... I understand the phone can operate sans sdcard. if I'm not mistaken I believe I installed HTC Sync on my pc from my sdcard meanin that if I deleted it without backing it up I would have to (Jeez, I just realized what a waste of time this is, but I'm in too deep to stop) get HTC Sync from another source, ie HTC's website?
LOL yeah, you are probably right about HTC sync. I downloaded sync from the HTC website anyway (to make sure I had the lastest version). Besides that, I can't think of anything else on the stock 2gb card that is irreplaceable..
hey everyone. so if i partition the internal sd card what exactly am i doing? from what i understand, the g2x has 8gb onboard, 1.5 of that is for apps, and 5 goes to user data. the rest i assume is for android?
so if i create a 2gb partition on the internal sd, what am i changing and what does it do to the rest of the space? do i need to create the other partitions in windows later and format them?
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Ok, let me try to explain this one...
In three words, Don't Do It!!!
Your internal sd card is pretty much just that, it's a storage card built onto the phone itself. Now it is already partitioned, and allot!
Not only does this one physical card hold your "internal sd card" contents but it also holds your ROM, cache, all your apps, and even your recovery!
Even though it looks like these are separate drives they are all one physical card, your internal sd card.
Now if you try to add to this mix of partitions on this internal card you run the VERY HIGH risk of messing up the lines and sizes of these partitions. Many things in Android assume that some of these are a certain size or at a certain place, and if you mess with it all hell brakes lose!
Now people sometimes partition the external sd card because they want 2 different file types, like half fat32 (like a normal sd card) and half ext4/3 for apps it use in Linux.
Hope this helps!!!
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ok, well then i guess my question is more along the lines of why do we have that option in CWM Recovery and if i create a 2gb partition what happens? does it change the default 1.5gb partition so you have more room for apps?
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ok, well then i guess my question is more along the lines of why do we have that option in CWM Recovery and if i create a 2gb partition what happens? does it change the default 1.5gb partition so you have more room for apps?
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I'm honestly not sure, I've only ever messed with these partitions manually when unbricking my phone. So if you do it, you have a fairly good chance of bricking the phone, but i don't know how Android will react.
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thanks, i was just curious, since CWM gives us the option, but ive never done it and until i can find a good reason to i probably won't even mess with it
but it just seems kind of bad having 5gb on the internal card going to waste, i have backups to my external sd, all my data is there too, so i probably won't even touch that 5gb...
Just be glad it's not the other way around
Ill take too much space over not enough any day!
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well true, but still would like to know exactly what happens if you choose to run that in CWM Recovery
seek and ye shall find
found a guide for CWM and from what i see that option puts a partition on your external sd card so it can be used to install apps on IF the rom supports that. it says it does wipe everything else off the card though so you need to make a backup. you can also put a swap partition on it as well
looks like it does not touch the internal sd card phone memory which is what i thought it did
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
Question: I have been trying to figure this out. When I first went to CM7 I didn't know about the SD and EMMC memory ordeal and just continued as normal. So after a while my SD was showing full and EMMC was barely used.
However... I shortly noticed that I was running low on SD space. NOTE: I swapped the 2GB microSD card for a 32GB microSD. Which prompted me to look deeper at what storage was what? I then found out about the switch in CM7 to use microSD as SD and internal as EMMC. Thus allowing me to use the 32GB microSD as the SD in CM7. Now here is the problem some apps had been moved to prior swapping EMMC/SD (now EMMC), now show up on EMMC but the icon is not correct and when I try to run it says it is not installed.
So if one can move apps from phone to SD, has anyone made an app to move from EMMC to SD? If not I could see people being interested in it. Unless there is an easy way to fix it I may have to get a list of bad app icons and re-install. Then figure out what to do with the EMMC stranded app files. My guess is if the system does not know its installed but the files are there it would just be wasting storage.
How should this EMMC be used?
Thanks for your help!
Ok here is how I fixed it. I changed setting back to us internal as SD. Moved missing apps (the ones that gave an error "Application is not installed on your phone." prior to me changing the setting) from internal SD to phone. Then I changed the setting back rebooted and moved apps back to the SD card.
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Got a Tab10DUALC Sunstech tablet (RK3066 chip, 8 GB Flash NAND).
As I started to install some apps it quickly became out of space, checking storage settings I found out that internal storage was about 1gb full and Nand flash 5.26gb free.
So I started to search how to root it and after a lot of trials and errors I got to flash CWM and root it.
Now, I wanted to make a partition out of that 5gb non used space but when I tried that with CWM recovery (advanced, partition) despite having doing it correctly, when the tab restarted it all reseted back to the way it was, this is, no ext2 or whatever.
I've tried just about everything, Link2SD tells me there's no SD CARD 2nd Part. I went to recovery and mounted USB and tried partition it with Mini Tool Partition Wizard and while succeed, when restarting, the tab reported bad SD so made me reformat (Link2SD reported unmountable 2nd Part) so it all came back to the way before, no partition.
Could it be some safe measure or something that doesn't allow me to get this partitioned? I've tried just about everything and can't come up with any other ideas. I mean, I don't want to use my only mini SD card if I can help it, I just don't understand why I can't use that extra 5gb while running out of space on the internal memory.
I also tried moving a few apps to SD and got all kind of errors like not loading.
Thanks for any idea on how to fix this.