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[Q] partition manager

Hi,
I have get root by hand, and now i want to partition my sd card.
Is there partition manager for android, to split card from phone?

myandroidmarketacc said:
Hi,
I have get root by hand, and now i want to partition my sd card.
Is there partition manager for android, to split card from phone?
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If you download ROM Manager from the market, you can partition your SD card. Just keep in mind when you partition your SD card all of your files are deleted, so make a backup of SD card prior to partitioning, then restore after. Hope that helps.
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[Q] question about CWM backup

i have rooted my phone, and took backup with CWM. it creates a backup directory on SD card. Is it safe to move the backup directory from SD card to my PC? i have only 8GB card, and two CWM backup takes about 1GB. when it is time to restore, can i move back the directory to SD card and will it work?
thanks

abachhan75 said:
i have rooted my phone, and took backup with CWM. it creates a backup directory on SD card. Is it safe to move the backup directory from SD card to my PC? i have only 8GB card, and two CWM backup takes about 1GB. when it is time to restore, can i move back the directory to SD card and will it work?
thanks
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Yes you can do that

jersey_609 said:
Yes you can do that
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thanks. is there any chance of file getting corrupted during transfer? if so what can be done to safeguard it?

abachhan75 said:
thanks. is there any chance of file getting corrupted during transfer? if so what can be done to safeguard it?
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I've been transferring my backups to the computer since my g1 days and I have never had one corrupt I'm not sure how to make sure it doesn't but u could check the md5 before and after u move them

Recovery issues..

I made a nandroid backup and tried to restore it but it says it failed..and can't mount system or anything then phone won't boot up..help?
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What recovery version are you using?

Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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dblkspecial said:
Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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That's odd. I found that the Orange 4.0.1.4, as I recall, was very reliable and worked very well with backups and restores. I would suggest copying the contents of the SD card to your computer. Then I suggest running a chkdsk on your SD card. You would type the following into the command prompt (run as aministrator).
chkdsk F: /f /r /v /x
After it is done I would format the SD card as FAT32 with 32K sector size.
Then I would copy the contents that you copied off earlier back to your SD card.
I know this might not seem relevant, but at least it would take SD card corruption out of the equation. It doesn't take too long and its pretty easy to do this, you just need an SD card reader if you can't boot into your phone to mount the SD card.
If you still have the same trouble, I'm not really sure what do tell you. It seems that there is a problem with the SD card or reading the SD card. You could try to copy the contents of your SD card to another, different SD card and give it a go.

dblkspecial said:
Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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There's also a little blurb in the OP for CWM recovery that tells you a possible way around the sdcard mounting issues.

[Q] Error in recoving backup

For some reason, when trying to restore a backup (either from inside the rom manager app, or going to it in recovery), it keeps saying there is an error. Since i do a lot of backups to be safe, i move them from the internal sd card to my external to save space. When i want to restore, i move them back to the internal sd card. is this what is causing my problem? can i not copy them back to the internal sd card?

troysyx said:
For some reason, when trying to restore a backup (either from inside the rom manager app, or going to it in recovery), it keeps saying there is an error. Since i do a lot of backups to be safe, i move them from the internal sd card to my external to save space. When i want to restore, i move them back to the internal sd card. is this what is causing my problem? can i not copy them back to the internal sd card?
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Are you moving the blob file also.

No, just the backup file. I see the blobs on my internal SD and external SD with different dates. Is it OK to copy over the ones from my SD to my internal? Won't that try and overwrite either the blob folder or files themselves? Is this OK to do?

Need to move blob files - that's where actual data resides.
For future,I would recommend "backup to external sd) from cwm. Saves you from having to do this.
You can also restore from external sd as well
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epagib said:
Need to move blob files - that's where actual data resides.
For future,I would recommend "backup to external sd) from cwm. Saves you from having to do this.
You can also restore from external sd as well
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ding ding ding we have a winner!

I moved blob files to no avail. Well, looks like i'll just delete those backups. Luckily i dont really lose anything so its ok. Hey, definitely a good learning experience! .
Thank you guys for all the help, i'll definitely be backing up straight to my external from now on.

redirecting CWM backup folder

Like the title says, how do you relocate the backup folder of CWM? My internal sd card is getting full and I want all my back ups to go to my external sd card. I know there is an option on recovery to back up to external, but i want the regular backup to be saved automatically to the external sd card. help would be much appreciated

If you are trying to do that from within the app it will place backup on internal card. No option/setting for external card except in recovery.
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