About to get the Inspire and get right on with rooting, although I've been reading and not understanding how this goldcard works completely. I guess my concern is the errors some users are getting? Where they need to use another HTC device to get the right cid code or something? I dont have another HTC device, can I actually lock my device out? Please advise as I'll risk rooting only so far. Thanks, maybe I'm just blowing this out of proportion.
if you follow the instructions in the hack kit, you shouldn't have any issues. this was my first experience with creating a gold card and it went smoothly. just be patient and persistent.
I am also about to buy the Inspire. So can we use the bundled SD card for the gold card? or do we have to have a spare card for emergency restore and stuff?
You can use the card it comes with.
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Good question as I was going to use a spare one. I might as well use the one it came with. I'm about to begin. whats the worst that can happen?
gunnyman said:
You can use the card it comes with.
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I will probably keep a spare one around. Would you recommend that?
Thans
metaldood said:
I will probably keep a spare one around. Would you recommend that?
Thans
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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Oh okay. I have 1 8GB with me right now and I will get the one with Inspire. So is 8GB enough for the gold card so that I will keep it for .img file?
I will keep the spare in my phone.
Sorry I am a total noob in this. I come from iPod family
It will work with a 2 GB card minimum from what I read.
what does that mean? i have a 8 gig myself so just process for a goldcard.img? then save then use if needed?
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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Sorry to Bump this up,.
but i got a HTC Desire,.since 2010,
made a goldcard back then (4g microsdhc )
rooted ,.used several diffrent roms,. but im getting Low on space issues,..
so i bought this 16gb micro SDHC ,Backed up my rom., and now i want to put my backed up rom on this new 16GB card,.and use that for permanent,.
do i need to make a goldcard from this 16gb as well ? and if yes ,.how >? i cant boot with it because my rom is not on there,.i tried partitioning it in CWM recovery. and mounted the SD card put my clockworkmod on the SD card with the Backup,...
Restored,..but it stops and says cant mount sd ext.,...
then i tried mounting the SD card and start the Goldcard tool and tried making a Goldcard of it,.and tried the Restore again,...didnt work as well,..
now my problem got bigger,..as the 16gb card cant be mounted anymore,.or used in any other device ,like my wifes Tablet,..
any one can help me out on this ,
thanks in advance ,.
Mike130784 said:
Sorry to Bump this up,.
but i got a HTC Desire,.since 2010,
made a goldcard back then (4g microsdhc )
rooted ,.used several diffrent roms,. but im getting Low on space issues,..
so i bought this 16gb micro SDHC ,Backed up my rom., and now i want to put my backed up rom on this new 16GB card,.and use that for permanent,.
do i need to make a goldcard from this 16gb as well ? and if yes ,.how >? i cant boot with it because my rom is not on there,.i tried partitioning it in CWM recovery. and mounted the SD card put my clockworkmod on the SD card with the Backup,...
Restored,..but it stops and says cant mount sd ext.,...
then i tried mounting the SD card and start the Goldcard tool and tried making a Goldcard of it,.and tried the Restore again,...didnt work as well,..
now my problem got bigger,..as the 16gb card cant be mounted anymore,.or used in any other device ,like my wifes Tablet,..
any one can help me out on this ,
thanks in advance ,.
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The goldcard was only necessary to get past the very first stage of rooting. A goldcard is used to force the device into accepting a ROM that was not designed for the particular device (in the case of Inspire, you must install a DesireHD ROM to be able to continue with the rooting process).
Once you're rooted, the rooting process sets SuperCID in hardware so a gold card is no longer needed, even if you want to install a ROM not designated for your device.
In short, use your 16GB card just as you normally would (maybe save the 4G in case you ever need to root a different device).
Thank you for your fast reply.,
i understand the idea behind the goldcard beter now,.
Hello everybody, just received my Inspire earlier today and coming from a Vibrant I'm slightly lost in all this gold card set-up. I made my largest sd-card into a gold card without realizing and would like to make my small 2gb sd-card into one. How would you get rid of the gold card and make it into a regular sd-card?
Thanks in advance.
brandenk0 said:
Hello everybody, just received my Inspire earlier today and coming from a Vibrant I'm slightly lost in all this gold card set-up. I made my largest sd-card into a gold card without realizing and would like to make my small 2gb sd-card into one. How would you get rid of the gold card and make it into a regular sd-card?
Thanks in advance.
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You can still use the gold card as a regular sd card I believe...
ioft said:
You can still use the gold card as a regular sd card I believe...
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Oh ok thanks. Had originally wanted to just have a gold card for everything that I would need out for and just have my regular sd-card for everything else.
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I use my gold card as an an sd card, but after you root and s off you can take a the gold card out and use a regular sd card.
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Oh ok thanks. Had originally wanted to just have a gold card for everything that I would need out for and just have my regular sd-card for everything else.
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you won't hurt your phone just keeping it, you will not notice any difference. you can always make your 2g card into another goldcard the same way you made your first one.
Ok thanks for all the replies.
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ok, i rooted with buddy one click, got eng s-off, flashed to a custom rom and everything is perfect. No issues at all with the phone or card as it stands. My only question is all that was done using a 4 gig SD card that i used to make a goldcard. Can i now just simply pop in a 16 gig card and reboot the phone or do i need to make it a gold card first? and is there anything i need from the old card transferred to the new card before i do it?
mburke178 said:
ok, i rooted with buddy one click, got eng s-off, flashed to a custom rom and everything is perfect. No issues at all with the phone or card as it stands. My only question is all that was done using a 4 gig SD card that i used to make a goldcard. Can i now just simply pop in a 16 gig card and reboot the phone or do i need to make it a gold card first? and is there anything i need from the old card transferred to the new card before i do it?
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No, you no longer need the goldcard in the SD slot for the phone to operate. You can remove and save it in case you ever need a goldcard again.
Hey guys, I heard that I might need a microSD card to run cm7. Is this correct? If so, would a 16GB class 2 SanDisk be good enough?
Thanks,
Matt
I don't think that you HAVE to have a sd card, but if you want to have any apps on the phone it sure would help. The S4G doesn't have that much internal memory. I'm sure that memory card would suffice, but obviously the higher the class the faster and better.
1gb of apps is far more than enough. You'll need it to put the ROM on it to begin with.
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You just need the microsd card to flash the room since you have to put the zip file in it. After that it doesn't matter at all if you don't have an sd card when it come to running cm7.
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You just need the microsd card to flash the room since you have to put the zip file in it. After that it doesn't matter at all if you don't have an sd card when it come to running cm7.
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didnt you get a memory card when you bought the phone? in the box that came with mine i got a 8gb card in the phone.. that would be perfectly enough to install cm7 and have room for apps/games..
You'll need it initially for flashing the zip file and if you want to use Apps2SD to keep space on your phone free. I don't think it's "required" after the initial installation of the ROM. I'd recommend one, however to keep NAND backups.
Had the Sensation since launch and loved it from the start. But in August I got this mysterious SD card removed. And it would never detect the SD card again. No matter what I did. Removing it. Factory reset. The only solution that worked was it could detect any other SD card but that one. So I used my spare. And now it has happened again.
I cannot fix it and out of spares so I turn to you. Is there a solution for this?
In the event that there isn't a solution I'm fine with using my phone storage(Only used SD for music) but I cannot set the phone storage as the default for anything. It always says SD card needed.
But ony brothers Amaze he got the SD card error like I did. But his phone automatically switched to phone storage.
Any suggestions?
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Have you tried reformatting the sd card?
I don't have the connector for connecting the SD directly to the computer
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Weird situation, can't even reformat in your phone? See if anyone around has one to lend you and reformat it if possible!
I've Google searched the problem and s couple of other people have had this problem too. But no solutions.
Is there any way to make the phone storage the default storage??
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If it helps when I insert the SD card it says preparing. Then right after it says SD removed. And that's that
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If it helps when I insert the SD card it says preparing. Then right after it says SD removed. And that's that
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I got the same problem today and i can't use my sd-card
Edit: After connecting my card to the computer and fixing issues with the files on the card, my phone is accepting the card again
Will backup important files and format the SD Card for best performance and to get rid of old unused files.