Hey i just got my new micro sd card whats the best way to backup everything on my old one and restore it to the new one? do i just copy paste everything? or do i have to format it in a specific way?
copy everything from the old card to a folder on your computer. Put the new card in the phone, format it from the phone, then transfer everything back.
thanks for the answer.!!
is that all you have to do ?? i am having snags getting phone to recognise the new card.... is there anything else I need to do ?
This is how I did it.just copied all files from card to card. Phone didn't have any problems recognizing new card
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If I change my SD Card and I am going to get a new SD Card with more space, will I have to re-install those ROMs, or can I just copy-paste and have them work?
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just copy and paste everything from card to card and you should be good to go..
You will need to format the new card, do a search on this topic to verify what format to use..
I wanted to free up memory by formatting the internal sd from the settings but im scared if i do that i will loose the operating system
And do i need to back up dcim photos?
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Cav3 said:
I wanted to free up memory by formatting the internal sd from the settings but im scared if i do that i will loose the operating system
And do i need to back up dcim photos?
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You won't loose the operating system. The Android system is not in the internal SD card, it has it's own place outside of the internal SD card.
Just be sure you keep a backup of the DCIM folder and whatever else you want to keep.
Hello,
My Desire S is running on rom BlindMIUI_v2.5.25 which I loaded June 5th of this month. Suddenly since 3 days back it is saying "Damaged SD card storage" and also saying "Format USB storage, erasing all files stored there, action cannot be reversed"
Please advise should I format SD card? Will this solve the problem. If I format then I will try to save files and then will do it and restore the file again.
What happen is that if I reboot is for few time the SD card comes again and for no reason I disappear without any notice.
Please help me if there is any solution.
Brgds
Looks like It's corrupted. A format should fix it. Connect it to your computer via a memory card reader or mount it in recovery and backup everything to your computer if possible. Then do a full format of the card (uncheck quick format in Windows). After that use the 'format sdcard' option in recovery and then copy the backed up data to the phone.
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format the sd card in a other format
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sashank said:
Looks like It's corrupted. A format should fix it. Connect it to your computer via a memory card reader or mount it in recovery and backup everything to your computer if possible. Then do a full format of the card (uncheck quick format in Windows). After that use the 'format sdcard' option in recovery and then copy the backed up data to the phone.
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Hello sashank,
Thanks for so prompt response. See I have just inserted another SD card and now phone does not get any SD card. It says "SD card is not available". From this it seems to me it is rom problem not the SD card. Am I correct? Should I change the rom and go for a newer version which is MIUI.us-2.6.8 or just a format will do?
Please advise.
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darkion2411 said:
format the sd card in a other format
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Hello darkion,
The phone is giving the option to format it. Should I do the format through phone or is there any other way to do it. Please advise me in details.
Would appreciate your help.
If your phone is giving an option to format it then use it. I find it strange that it didn't detect the other SD card too, but in any case if it's asking you to format it instead of just not detecting it then it doesn't seem like an issue with the card slot. So format it in the phone and see how it goes. Alternatively, go into recovery-wipe and format-format sdcard. I always use this for formatting my card as it works better then formatting it in the ROM itself, especially when my card gets corrupted.
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You should not forget to simply clean your sd-card and the slot in your device a little bit. This might be an easy solution, you should at least try it.
Or maybe you've already done .. ?
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sashank said:
If your phone is giving an option to format it then use it. I find it strange that it didn't detect the other SD card too, but in any case if it's asking you to format it instead of just not detecting it then it doesn't seem like an issue with the card slot. So format it in the phone and see how it goes. Alternatively, go into recovery-wipe and format-format sdcard. I always use this for formatting my card as it works better then formatting it in the ROM itself, especially when my card gets corrupted.
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Hello sashank,
What I did is I formatted it in the PC so as in recovery as you said in the earlier response. The phone give the option but it does not work so I could not formatted it through phone.
It seems like working now. Phone shows there is SD card and through file explorer I can go to SD cards file. But only thing is that when I go to SD card files through file explorer, it take few seconds to retrieve the SD card files which never happened before.
Thanks for all your help.
Ok, when you format it in the PC, if you're using Windows, choose a cluster size of 32k in the format window. It gives a better read and write speed, especially read speed. So the SD card shouldn't take that long to show files. In general you'll see the card is giving faster speeds, both on the phone and when transferring files from the computer.
Also there's another way to increase the read speed of the SD card in the phone, which is by setting a higher read ahead speed. If you want to know more you can search about it, but otherwise just install this app SD Speed Increase, set your read ahead speed to 2048kB and tick 'set on every boot'. You shouldn't feel any SD lags after this. This speed increase is only on the phone though, won't reflect if you're transferring files from a computer. You need to be rooted for this to work.
hi,
I have a 2gb card and there are many apps in it.I have another card in which there are some video files.So i want to ask if i un-mount my card and insert a new card then what will happen to my apps and games which are installed in sd card? there will be any problem? or i can simply change the card and after checking the files of my new card, i can put the original card back and everything will work fine?
non-rooted/stock rom
thx.
Copy the .android_secure folder to New sd
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but my .andriod_secure folder is empty.Is it alright?
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but my .andriod_secure folder is empty.Is it alright?
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Connect ur fone to pc and move .android_secure to the other sd card and also other folders if u want then insert the card back in the fone. And it will be better if u turn off the fone while changing sd card.
Hope this helps.
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