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Any way to clone an SD card? (2 gig upgrade to 8 gig)

*I've spent a lot of time searching...all the answers I come up with involve copy and paste the folders...which is what I did...but windows doesn't show me my ext3 partition.*
I recently rooted my G1, formatted my 2 gig SD with a 32mb swap and 500mb ext3 and flashed cyanogen 4.0.1. I quickly realized that a 2 gig card was just not enough (now that I'm left with 1.1 gig...) so I purchased a class 6, 8 gig card
I plugged the phone in to my computer, copied all my files, put cyanogen recovery 1.4 on the 8 gig and booted to console, formatted the card to my 7200, 500 and 32mb partitions. Shut the phone down, stuck the card in my card reader and moved all the files that were on the 2 gig onto the 8 gig. Booted the phone...damn it...no apps!
Took a few minutes of head scratching before I remembered that cyanogen 4.0.1 does the apps to the ext3 partition! all my apps are on the 2 gig! *arg*
Is there a way to clone the 2 gig card to the 8 gig without messing up the partitions? or just copy everything from my ext3 to the new ext3?? I really don't want to go through and download all the apps I had again
I found some SD card clone software (sprite? IIRC) but that looks like its specifically for WM devices.

As I understand your SD are formatted to ext3. Best solution is download any live linux distribution (live = run from cd into ram without installing and changing anything) and copy files normally.

yeah all ubuntu iso's include a live os you can boot up in without it installing anything to your harddisk there you should be able to read ext3

Hadn't considered that...
Thanks for the help
unfortunately, even just sticking the 2gig card back in the phone none of the apps work the phone boots and I get a long list of "xxxxx encountered an error and must force close"
looks like its off to the market for me...
*sigh*

tsiah said:
unfortunately, even just sticking the 2gig card back in the phone none of the apps work the phone boots and I get a long list of "xxxxx encountered an error and must force close"
looks like its off to the market for me...
*sigh*
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Just for future reference....how does one go about backing up the ext partition of the SD card so if your current card has an issue you can stick the backup card in and keep running without having to download all your apps again??? I mean...if removing the original card, then turning the phone on with a new card in there caused it to "forget" the location of all the apps when the original card was installed...how does a backup card do you any good??

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4397141#post4397141
This thread appears to be the answer...If I ever have to get another card, I'll give this a try.

I use HDD Raw Copy, just use a partition manager to resize old partitions
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
Greetings

I've used GParted from Live USB Linux (I use PuppyLinux, but any other Live Linux with GParted would do) to copy partitions between sdcards / usb drives / hard disks. It's GUI based, very simple and does the job.
Just plug both the sdcards into your computer before opening GParted,
Once open, GParted would ask option to use only one device or all devices - make sure you select all devices.
After it loads all the devices, you can select the 2GB card, right click each partition, copy and select 8GB card and paste the partition there.
Please follow the partition order so that you don't change the order in the 8GB card.
Once all the partitions are done, you can resize the partition you want to make bigger on the 8GB to fill the card.
After configuring everything, click Apply and wait for GParted to do all the magic!

32gb SD card mystery

Hi Guys, I am sure someone on here will know the answer to this but I cant find it anywhere. I have a 16gb sd card in my lg 3d with no probs but its running out of disk space so I have bought a 32 gb which I understand the lg 3d can handle ok.
I used Win xp to copy the files over to the new disk which was fat 32 formatted by the phone. But when I insert the new 32 gb disk in the phone it says scanning media, but when I explore the disk all the files are gone apart from the dcmi directory, root directory files and one other directory but my video directory with films in them, the gameloft folder all gone ???
The pics & vids in the camera folder are all corrupt too ? can anyone assist as to whats going on here, when I put the card back in win xp laptop all files are the same as in phone as if its deleting certain files/folders when inserting, almost as if its resetting the disk each time its inserted.
Any thoughts or help on this appreciated. The 16 gb works fine every time its inserted ???
System is rooted with custom firmware \v21d feb 17 2012 which is awesome all round as a operating system for LG 3d, great battery life, 3g and fast.
Thanks
Paul

pgunning1 said:
Hi Guys, I am sure someone on here will know the answer to this but I cant find it anywhere. I have a 16gb sd card in my lg 3d with no probs but its running out of disk space so I have bought a 32 gb which I understand the lg 3d can handle ok.
I used Win xp to copy the files over to the new disk which was fat 32 formatted by the phone. But when I insert the new 32 gb disk in the phone it says scanning media, but when I explore the disk all the files are gone apart from the dcmi directory, root directory files and one other directory but my video directory with films in them, the gameloft folder all gone ???
The pics & vids in the camera folder are all corrupt too ? can anyone assist as to whats going on here, when I put the card back in win xp laptop all files are the same as in phone as if its deleting certain files/folders when inserting, almost as if its resetting the disk each time its inserted.
Any thoughts or help on this appreciated. The 16 gb works fine every time its inserted ???
System is rooted with custom firmware \v21d feb 17 2012 which is awesome all round as a operating system for LG 3d, great battery life, 3g and fast.
Thanks
Paul
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Did you wipe cache?
I had this problem 9 months ago but can't remember how I solved it..
Did you unmount / mount the card?
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This happend to me once before but on the htc magic not sure what caused this, soon after files got corrupted it failed. It was a sandisk 4gb card what i did was reflash the phone. Inserted the micro sd into the pc card reader used windows disk management, found the card right click delete volume then created new fat32/fat partition can't remember anyway inserted it back havent had that problem since gave the phone to my mom still runs.

Thanks for the replies guys, but I find it hard to believe that wiping the cache or reformatting the phone is the answer to this, as the 16gb once put back in works flawlessly, would it be the speed of the disk is there a minimum speed that the disk should be, it wasnt and expensive one and works fine in my asus tf101 but phones can be fussy about the speed of a card.
i did the formatting in win xp, I will try mounting & unmounting to see if it helps as it sees the card ok, just directories are not seen as if it deletes the big folders like gameloft but keeps the dcmi folder but the pics & vids become corrupt ???
Just seems odd that I can see the disk, and its correct size and some of the files on the disk but those big directories are moved by the phone when the scan is done after insertion??
Look forward to thoughts as to the removal of these files on insertion.
Thanks

Give This a try.

Thanks will do, should I unmount then remount before putting the gameloft folder back on??? as it just removes the big folders at the moment.
atb

Hi seems to have worked I formatted as 32bit, copied files using win xp, unmounted old sd card off lg optimus 3d and remounted new 32 gb card and after scan it all appears ok without deletion.
Havent rebooted as yet but will do soon to see if it erases then, but no news is good news. I will assume fixed.
Many thanks to all contributions on this thread.
ATB

SD card issues, pleas help

Ok so I have a authentic Sandisk 32gb class 10 sd card. I t has randomly started to not mount in my phones. And when it does I will get errors copying data to it and such. I have formatted it in exfat and fat 32 using both the phone utility as well as windows to format it. I even did the full format that takes forever. It seems to mount in windows just fine every time. I can copy files to it with no issues. But both TWRP and CWM give error about can't mount external SD card as does my rom I cam currently running. Does this sound like a bad sd card or is it an issue with my phone? I am 8 days past my return policy on amazon currently and it just now is giving me issues. Please help me trouble shoot this guys. I don't want to attempt an RMA with sandisk if I can fix something phone wise. I flash a lot of roms and such but I HIGHLY doubt that has anything to do with it. I even reflashed my recovery and tried different versions with no luck!
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Ugh. Any help guys? I have still been messing around with it and the card seems to function perfect under windows and passes all scans and such but will either not mount in the phone or has errors doing other things while in the phone
Update: I did more formats and reflashing recovery and still no luck. I copied the rom to the 32gb card with zero issues on windows. Tried to flash it on phone and twrp gave errors. Copied same rom to an old 2gb card I have and it flashed perfect. Is it my phone or is it the card? Card works perfect in windows. 2gb card works perfect on both! Is it possible for something on my phone jacked up that would make it only work with the 2gb and not the 32gb card? Scans never show a single issue in windows!!!!!!!!!!

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Ugh. Any help guys? I have still been messing around with it and the card seems to function perfect under windows and passes all scans and such but will either not mount in the phone or has errors doing other things while in the phone
Update: I did more formats and reflashing recovery and still no luck. I copied the rom to the 32gb card with zero issues on windows. Tried to flash it on phone and twrp gave errors. Copied same rom to an old 2gb card I have and it flashed perfect. Is it my phone or is it the card? Card works perfect in windows. 2gb card works perfect on both! Is it possible for something on my phone jacked up that would make it only work with the 2gb and not the 32gb card? Scans never show a single issue in windows!!!!!!!!!!
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What happens if you try the 32 GB microSD card in another phone out of curiosity?

[Disussion] Micro SD Cards SGS4 I9505 64 Gb

Recently went from SGS3 to i9505 as Samsung has left us not much space on the 16gb version I purchased a Samsung 64Gb class 10 SDHC card .... Welcome to my nightmare. ...
1. Could not restore via CWM recovery I would always get MD5 mismatch
2. Take a photo it would just dissappear after a couple of hours
3. Folder mount or LinktoSd would not work correctly
4. Media files would not play correctly become corrupt
The CWM not restoring was the worst its kinda like playing Russian Roulette .. So I dusted my 32 Gb card off cleaned it up .....No more problems.
I've noticed alot of people seemed to face the same issues with 64Gb cards . So I thought I would start this thread to see if we can find the common denominator with this issue
Please post your experiences with SD cards here. Should I just write that one off to experience and go buy another 64gb card ??
Which format is best SDHC or SDXC
Should we format exfat ext4 or fat32
Please post any information regarding SD Cards and what dramas you have had
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Micro SD on GT-I9505
GALAXY S4
Hello, i just have got a Samsung Class10 not (UHS1) micro SD Card 64GB. And i put it on my Galaxy S4.
All was ok, until I passed some archives from the Internal memory to SD and Recorded some videos, then it appeared a message Saying "Empty Memory Card or Incorrect File Format" and tells me to Format it. Even it says I need to Format when i connected the Micro SD on PC (I connect it Through a Printer SD port with SD Adapter).
Now Im afraid I will lose my recordings and files.
So Should i have Formated it before giving a use?
Well the other detail is that after formatting it, looks like it cant be readed, my printer gets stuck saying Loading Photos.*
So it isn't readable on PC after formatting it on my android device?
Then I tested it on my Canon camera and it reads.
Looks like its defective. Many files got corrupted or simply dissapeared. And if I try to read via card reader on pc it says that doesnt have format and ask me to format it. Anyways it cant be formatted, an error appears.
what should i do with this card?

SD Card is is broken ?

Hello Guys,
After installing several of customized ROM's Ive noticed that I can not remove anything from my sd card. Mover, I cant even format it. I tried everything including to put a sd card into adapter and tried to format it under windows. Still, nothing heave helped.
I've used every toutorial from the web without success. Im asking you kindly for an advice.

Use a low level formatting tool.
The only card I -had- use that on to make it functional again failed. It never ran right; never lost data but the phone randomly couldn't detect it forcing me to reboot.
If it won't format on the phone the safest course of action is to deep six it and get a new card.
The risk of losing a data drive unexpectedly outweighs the cost of the card! Use only name brand cards purchased from trusted sources. Use V30 or higher rated cards. The Sandisk Extreme is a good V30 rated card. I have the .5 and a 1tb ones. Slam it in, format, good to go. Zero issues.
Once formatted on the device, leave it there. Don't swap it around unless you format it with the new device first otherwise corruption is possible. Do uploads/downloads through the device to the card. Always format the card on the device before use. If it has a dismount option always dismount the card before pulling it.

To format an SD-card use
SD Memory Card Formatter for Windows/Mac | SD Association
www.sdcard.org

jwoegerbauer said:
To format an SD-card use
SD Memory Card Formatter for Windows/Mac | SD Association
www.sdcard.org
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Hello and thanks guys for advice's. I don't care about data. I just want to unlock it and use as before.
I sent pictures of the card in the attachment.

Hello,
Thx for advice's so far, but all these methods have failed. I can add a file , but can't remove it or format. I'm hopeless.

Łukasz1983 said:
Hello,
Thx for advice's so far, but all these methods have failed. I can add a file , but can't remove it or format. I'm hopeless.
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If you can't do a low level format the card is unrecoverable; trash. Sorry.
These cards can be damaged by ESD so keep the static down when handling them. If you can feel, hear or see static electricity there's more than enough to destroy the card. High G loading like a 3 foot drop onto concrete can cause internal damage as well.

Łukasz1983 said:
Hello,
Thx for advice's so far, but all these methods have failed. I can add a file , but can't remove it or format. I'm hopeless.
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Run an app like this
SD Card Test - Apps on Google Play
SD speed test tool! Micro SD, SDHC, SDXC support eMMC, UFS storage.
play.google.com
to confirm that your card is not damaged, and it is not fake ( not labeled higher than it is in fact ).

jwoegerbauer said:
Run an app like this
SD Card Test - Apps on Google Play
SD speed test tool! Micro SD, SDHC, SDXC support eMMC, UFS storage.
play.google.com
to confirm that your card is not damaged, and it is not fake ( not labeled higher than it is in fact ).
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Hi,
Heres the output:

If SD-card isn't write-protected
then you may dismount the drive ( from Settings->Storage ) and re-mount the SD-card what may fix the problem: Verify it by moving a file from internal storage to SD-card.

I can copy a file without any problem, but after restart, everything goes back to the beginning.
So if I copy file A, and delete file B (same folder - dload), after restarting the phone file B is back agaian in the folder, but there is no file A anymore in the folder. File A is gone.