When ever I download a Rom, kernel, etc for my rooted Evo, it says to place it in the root of my SD card. The root is just the highest set of folders on the card right? Also, why do I have to put them there?
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It seems that Rom Manager wants to use internal storage but recovery wants to use my external SD card. When I back up my phone from Rom Manager it reboots into CWM and backs it up on the SD card. When I go back into Rom Manager to manage backups it doesn't see it because its looking in the internal storage. If I download a rom from Rom Manager it downloads it to internal storage and when it reboots to CWM it can't find the rom because its not on the SD card.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to work properly?
I am experiencing the same exact problem. I can not download roms to the external SD. It a freaking hassle to download and flash a rom on this phone. Any help is appreciated.
I am not even sure I can flash a rom with it. The couple times I tried it failed because I chose the rom through the /externalSD directory and thats linked from within the internal storage.
How is everyone else using it?
I copy the files from the internal and put them in the same directory on the SD card. For example the folder internally is /sdcard/clockworkmod.. i just move that directory to /sdcard/_externalsd/clockworkmod
that way when you reboot everything is already work CM is naturally looking for it. Yes.. it's a pain.
Alternatively.. when I had my G2 i got into the habit of just moving the roms to the root of the sdcard so it was easier to flash right from cwm (I rarely flash via rom manager). Nandroid backups HAVE to stay in the backup folder in the clockwork directory tho.
I found out with boat browser mini I set the download dir to /mnt /sdcard/_ExternalSD and my roms actually download to the root of my SD without errors. That's a start its a lot easier than hooking up to a computer and moving stuff around
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It seems that this would be a normal feature to come with such a product. It makes more sense to have access to the ext. sd card than not.
Maybe there is a very good reason for it? I.e. It can't be done?
ikarma said:
It seems that Rom Manager wants to use internal storage but recovery wants to use my external SD card. When I back up my phone from Rom Manager it reboots into CWM and backs it up on the SD card. When I go back into Rom Manager to manage backups it doesn't see it because its looking in the internal storage. If I download a rom from Rom Manager it downloads it to internal storage and when it reboots to CWM it can't find the rom because its not on the SD card.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to work properly?
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Same here.
This is a bit of a pain.
Instead of moving backup files across, I restore directly from the recovery screen.
As for ROMs I have to download them directly from my laptop and copy them the external SD card.
Not good.
hello everybody
I want to install ICS on galaxy tab plus but now i can't no long connect it to my pc via USB cable
Is anyway to install it wia external SD Card with cyanogenmod recovery ?
A stock ics?
Just use mobile odin apk...
I have samsung galaxy s3 (I9300). I don't have external SD Card in my phone. I have already rooted my phone and installed custom recovery CWM. I have gone through the steps of flashing Archi Droid ROM but it says to copy the files to root folder of SD card. As I don't have SD Card , is there any way to flash the ROM without SD Card ? Thanks, Alok
Hi,
You will need to register on XDA and ask for help in the thread you downloaded the rom from.
Good luck!
Hello,
I have a problem.. I need to install stock android in my galaxy ace.. Because odin didn't see my phone so i need install rom from sd card. Please help where i can find stock android 2.3.6 and how to install it from sd card..