OK, I am going from an 8gb sd card to a 16gb, but before I do I need to know if it will break root or if I just need to make the new one a goldcard as well or what in general. I searched for switching sd cards in the forum but it didn't give results so I'm asking here.
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the ONLY reason a goldcard is needed is for downgrading firmware. ROOT is WITHIN the OS and has NOTHING to do with the SDCard. you can freely swap sdcards at will
Cmrune said:
OK, I am going from an 8gb sd card to a 16gb, but before I do I need to know if it will break root or if I just need to make the new one a goldcard as well or what in general. I searched for switching sd cards in the forum but it didn't give results so I'm asking here.
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If you change your SD card nothing will happen except that you will loose your apps and photos in there. Root access has nothing to do with your SD card. Make a copy of the files and folders you want to preserve in your pc and then copy then back in your new SD card....
glevitan said:
...Make a copy of the files and folders you want to preserve in your pc and then copy then back in your new SD card....
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Ok, so a follow-up to that, and this may be a noob question but... Is there anything on the SD card that I have to have? I usually move ROM backups off the card to a computer, but lots if apps seem to make a folder in my SD card. As a rule, am I better off keeping apps in the phone memory if available? My SD cd card seems to be full of cr*p that i don't think I need but am afraid to delete.
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geologistguy said:
Ok, so a follow-up to that, and this may be a noob question but... Is there anything on the SD card that I have to have? I usually move ROM backups off the card to a computer, but lots if apps seem to make a folder in my SD card. As a rule, am I better off keeping apps in the phone memory if available? My SD cd card seems to be full of cr*p that i don't think I need but am afraid to delete.
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Nahh dont copy anything...just the backup and the titanium backup folder...that will do. With those folders you can restore all your missing apps with data...and have a backup of your rom just in case!! Is good to tidy up from time to time!
glevitan said:
Nahh dont copy anything...just the backup and the titanium backup folder...that will do. With those folders you can restore all your missing apps with data...and have a backup of your rom just in case!! Is good to tidy up from time to time!
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Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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geologistguy said:
Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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Back them up with the titaniun backup and the copy that folder into your new SD Card. Restore the missing apps and that's it. You need no more...
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geologistguy said:
Got it, thanks. What about apps, are they better off on the phone or should I move them all (widgets excluded) to the SD card?
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In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
Gizmoe said:
In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
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Thank you all. I moved all of my apps back to the phone. I had already culled many that I didn't use when I rooted and flashed a ROM last week. I made new backups and pulled them off the sd card for safe keeping and then erased the SD card. I put music and ringtones back and now I have lots of space and everything still works. Guess all of those other files were just clutter. Thanks again.
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In my experience apps don't do so well from the sd card. Leave them in the phone.
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I rarely have problems with apps on the SD. Maybe one or two out of 100.
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When I try to move apps to SD card it says not enough room eventhough I have plenty of room....I don't get it
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What rom? CM7 based? Do you have microsd card?
I'm running wepon rom. Lol I have a SD card 16g only used 500mb on it and I have 5g space on the phones SD card
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brentsalinas714 said:
I'm running wepon rom. Lol I have a SD card 16g only used 500mb on it and I have 5g space on the phones SD card
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Try cleaning cache and dalvik in clockwork recovery. also clear market data.
I may be wrong, if so someone will correct me, but on Weapon's rom and Stock rom's the Apps are moved to the Internal SD not the External SD. I think the CM7 is the only one that reworks the mounting to use the External for this.
One thing with the new 'superphones' it's really not necessary to move apps to sd. The g2x has 3 locations in which to store apps. The problem you are having I ran into awhile back. The issue is with mounting or improper format on your sd card. Always, when in doubt, reboot!
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I was wondering the best way to clean this up. I have no internal space left. thanks
rosevilletoyota said:
I was wondering the best way to clean this up. I have no internal space left. thanks
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Did you already move your larger apps to your SD card?
I have a crapload of apps and I still have 900mb of internal. cant imagine what you've got going on lol..
regP said:
I have a crapload of apps and I still have 900mb of internal. cant imagine what you've got going on lol..
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How much is a crapload in ur eyes?
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Just buy a class 10 memory card and move apps to that card.
Because it is class 10 the transfer rate of files will be much faster
rosevilletoyota said:
I was wondering the best way to clean this up. I have no internal space left. thanks
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Had the same issue. I am assuming you are familiar with titanium backup for apps and you know how to make a nandroid backup of your current setup from cwm.
Use the batch feature in titanium and backup your user apps to your SD card. Remove your sd card. Then boot into recovery and format everything including emmc. This applies to 2.3 Roms only. Plug in your sd card complete with the rom you want to use. Reinstall your favorite 2.3 based rom and restore your user apps.
If you need help, let me know. I hope you find this helpful.
If I go into recovery and then into wipe/format and then hit format sd card.will that just clean,clear my sd card?It won't clear,clean any other things off my phone just what's on my whole sd card correct?
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I'm just trying to clean everything off of my sd card.
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QUOTE=Mesaman2012;27715174]I'm just trying to clean everything off of my sd card.
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Hi,
Back up everything you need first.
It is probably better to format it on your PC if you can.
Make a select all/copy/paste to a folder on your PC.
That way you keep everything .
Format to FAT 32,and replace your important docs,pics,music,films,etc.
Put back in your phone,and android will replace all the files it needs.
Voila.
All I'm trying to do is clear a 2 Gig sd card that I only use to put roms on that I flash onto my phone.so basically I don't need to back up that stuff because I will never need it again correct?the roms,apps and kernels that I have backed up in in my 4 ext touch recovery will those be erased when U format my sd card?
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All I'm trying to do is clear a 2 Gig sd card that I only use to put roms on that I flash onto my phone.so basically I don't need to back up that stuff because I will never need it again correct?the roms,apps and kernels that I have backed up in in my 4 ext touch recovery will those be erased when U format my sd card?
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Hi,
Yes,the nandroid backups you have done will get wiped if you format the card.
They are in a folder called "clockworkmod"
These will all get saved to your PC when you plug the card into the PC,press select all/copy/paste to a folder on your PC.
Can I save my back ups by using titanium back up?are only by the previously way that you just mentioned?so basically whatever sd card is in your phone at the moment that you are doing a back up the back ups are saved to that particular sd card only?Because I only backed up roms,kernels when I had my 8 Gig sd card in my phone.I didn't do any back ups when I had my 2 Gig sd card in so since I'm wanting to clear my 2 Gig sd card completely nothin needs to be backed up because I never backed up any roms,etc with that sd card in my phone.so I go to go then just hit format sd card sibce I never did any back ups on it?Is this all correct?
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Can I save my back ups by using titanium back up?are only by the previously way that you just mentioned?so basically whatever sd card is in your phone at the moment that you are doing a back up the back ups are saved to that particular sd card only?Because I only backed up roms,kernels when I had my 8 Gig sd card in my phone.I didn't do any back ups when I had my 2 Gig sd card in so since I'm wanting to clear my 2 Gig sd card completely nothin needs to be backed up because I never backed up any roms,etc with that sd card in my phone.so I go to go then just hit format sd card sibce I never did any back ups on it?Is this all correct?
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Hi,
Yes,it looks like you are good to go.
Thanks buddy I appreciate you kindness.
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Hey sorry to bother but I could back up any roms,kernels,etc on astro file manager to? I just copy them onto astro file manager then go and format sd card correct.small qwestion once I copy them onto astro file manager where at do they go on astro?and if I want to use a Rom or kernel at anytime how do I transfer a Rom,kernel from astro to my sd card for it can be download onto my phone.
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If you decide to wipe sd card make sure your not on an aosp rom or aokp there is a bug which makes your device bricked for good... And just to be on the safe side back it up on the pc first and go ahead
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Do I have to do it on a pc.I don't have one.can it be done by my phone?
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Mesaman2012 said:
Do I have to do it on a pc.I don't have one.can it be done by my phone?
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Yes it can be done get on a sense rom and boot into recovery and wipe sd card but I think it will make you loose recovery not sure tho someone confirm before you go ahead..
Don't rush mate let's just wait for someone to confirm just in case..
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I completely understand.I will see if someone can verify if that will or will not happen.
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So if I don't have a pc how do I back up files using a sense Rom before I format sd card clean it all off?
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I can back up my roms and kernels on astro file manager or titanium back up correct.
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I can back up my roms and kernels on astro file manager or titanium back up correct.
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I think yes but instead use oi file and delete them manually thats what i always do and it kills time aswell
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Hi, you can format the sd card without booting recovery at all. Just go to the settings, then storage, and then format the sd from there. No worries of formating the other partitions.
Also, if you use file managers to back up your stuff, make sure you get it on another sd card, or the phone itself. If not, you will just lose it when you format
Hope I've helped you
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Hey that did help me out a lot.I appreciate that.
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Ok I have upgraded all the way to JB but went back to ICS because of some issues with JB.
I do my backups to my external SD card and I know that the format is different with ICS.
My External SD card shows that it has data on it but I cant seem restore from it with my backup software.
Would be really nice to get to what I have on there.
Thanks.
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Ok I have upgraded all the way to JB but went back to ICS because of some issues with JB.
I do my backups to my external SD card and I know that the format is different with ICS.
My External SD card shows that it has data on it but I cant seem restore from it with my backup software.
Would be really nice to get to what I have on there.
Thanks.
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The names of the paths to the Internal and External SD cards are different from ICS to JB. (And therefore, in reverse.)
JB puts the External SD in /emmc (or /storage/sdcard1) and the Internal SD in /sdcard (/storage/sdcard0)
I think these paths are swapped in ICS.
Change, in the options of your backup program (Titanium Backup?), the path of where backups are stored to the other path, and it should work.
(I had to do that to read a TiBu backup from ICS on JB.)
mikefarr said:
Ok I have upgraded all the way to JB but went back to ICS because of some issues with JB.
I do my backups to my external SD card and I know that the format is different with ICS.
My External SD card shows that it has data on it but I cant seem restore from it with my backup software.
Would be really nice to get to what I have on there.
Thanks.
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I think that my problem is application specific but if something comes to mind with anyone.
Oh the one application that I was trying to use was mybackup pro.
mikefarr said:
I think that my problem is application specific but if something comes to mind with anyone.
Oh the one application that I was trying to use was mybackup pro.
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Does that app allow you to change where it stores or finds its backups?
It does. I use mybackup pro and never have had any issues restoring from the internal sd. Never have tried from an ext sd though. (Don't use one)
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andros11 said:
It does. I use mybackup pro and never have had any issues restoring from the internal sd. Never have tried from an ext sd though. (Don't use one)
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Hit menu button and go to options. The first box should ive backup location. I use backup pro myself and back up to external since its 32gb works great. The app defaults to internal but can be change to any directory.
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Ok I have upgraded all the way to JB but went back to ICS because of some issues with JB.
I do my backups to my external SD card and I know that the format is different with ICS.
My External SD card shows that it has data on it but I cant seem restore from it with my backup software.
Would be really nice to get to what I have on there.
Thanks.
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Change the path on the software, where the apps are now located.
Hi,
I just got a HTC One SV and I've installed all of my apps on my previous phone to this phone. But there's a problem... Its running out of memory. I just cant seem to find any way of moving them to the sd card. It just moves it to phone storage and i only have 4gb of memory. My sd card is 16gb so ive got plenty of space on it. Please help me find a way of moving it to the sd card.
Thanks soooo much!!!!
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
old.splatterhand said:
You can try this mod: Swap your internal and external memory (sd card)
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Is there any way without a root?
I don't know.
baba1coolboy said:
Is there any way without a root?
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No, you need root. Unfortunately they made the rom in a way that keeps you from moving apps to the SD card.
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Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
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Isn't this made in Android since ICS?
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No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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Mikessv said:
No, there isn't an option to move to the actual sd card just between the internal storage and phone storage.
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I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
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I think you misunderstood me. This what you describe is since ICS, isn't it?
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I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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I might have, I'm not sure exactly what you meant ..I thought you were saying that it has been there since ics that you can't move programs to the SD card. They did bring that feature back in 4.2 though.
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Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
baba1coolboy said:
Ive contacted HTC about this and their saying that you can move apps to the sd card and are giving me lots of different things to try and do. I;ve just hard reset my phone and that hasnt made a difference.
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There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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There's no option to move apps to the actual SD card, just between the internal storage and phone storage ..they call the internal storage the SD card. I've talked to them on the phone too ..most of them don't know what they are talking about.
On a side note a lot of people have this problem with a lot of other phones.
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HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
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HTC have only just emailed me admitting that you cant move apps to the sd card. I dont really want to root (partly because im not so great it that field) but i reckon im going to do it one day or another.
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Yeah and even with root you will run out of space eventually
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