Hello, I'm looking for someone who has a small-capacity Micro SD card (2 gigs max, but if no one has one I'd still like a tester with a 4GB card) to help me test a flashable zip with similar functionality to the G2x scrubber. I'm currently testing it by pointing it at my spare 8GB card and to quote the log file:
"8009023488 bytes (7.5GB) copied, 4024.829443 seconds"
Anyone up for math? That's about an hour. Now, in reality our phone's internals are going to be 3GB tops, since we know our app space is 1.5GB and that's going to be the largest amount of space.
So, now that you know my problem and have an idea of what I'm doing, here's what I'm looking for in full:
1. Obviously, someone with a 1,2, or even 4GB micro SD card they are willing to have erased for testing purposes.
2. The person will need to have ADB set up or Droid Explorer (shh, semantics) and know how to get the log file for CWM or willing to be instructed on how and what to do.
I've got 3 2gig cards. Also, I have droid explorer set up. I don't normally test due to the fact I'm too busy with my writing, but I have all that you need, so hit me up if want.
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Most of the testing is done at this point, I've got the basics of what I need now. If you happen to want a flashable zip which basically does a low-level wipe of a MicroSD card on a G2x let me know.
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I am willing to pay someone to partition this the right way. I spent over 6 hours trying to get this entire process to work and ......ZERO
I need apps to SD bad so I am willing to pay for someone's help
jaynoonan said:
I am willing to pay someone to partition this the right way. I spent over 6 hours trying to get this entire process to work and ......ZERO
I need apps to SD bad so I am willing to pay for someone's help
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has anyone contemplated selling pre-partitioned sd cards?? i don't have the funds to do this right now .. but just a thought
You know... that's not a bad idea. I would even pay to have my data transferred if I was to consider replacing my 8gb with a higher capacity card (like say... 16 gb). I was wondering if it would mess something up if I was to purchase a new card, partition it and transfer all of it myself. Unfortunately I am not too confident in myself because it was a pain in the butt to get it partitioned right the first time. There has to be someone in here with the knowledge and the funds available that would be willing to turn a quick profit.
8gb SDHC =<$20
Partitioning= $10
Data Xfer = $20
Total would still be cheaper then buying an 8gb SDHC at Best Buy and this person would be turning a 2x profit! P&H wouldn't cost any more then a first class stamp for U.S. too. Not a bad idea.
I would be ALL OVER THIS!
Binary100100 said:
Total would still be cheaper then buying an 8gb SDHC at Best Buy and this person would be turning a 2x profit! P&H wouldn't cost any more then a first class stamp for U.S. too. Not a bad idea.
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you might be on to something there .. provided those USPS people don't screw something up and "misplace" the envelope
send me your sdcard, and i'll do it for $5 =]
wish I had the know how to do it through a remote connection. "Put the money in paypal, plug in your phone and give me ten minutes"...lol
I was going to try to help with partitioning, but that seems to be the easy part then there's the adb stuff :/
sonikamd said:
wish I had the know how to do it through a remote connection. "Put the money in paypal, plug in your phone and give me ten minutes"...lol
I was going to try to help with partitioning, but that seems to be the easy part then there's the adb stuff :/
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adb? easiest way .. use linux (since it's the basis of android) .. let's say your sd mounts to the system as "sdd" .. you create two folders on your desktop as sdd1 and sdd2 to hold the files .. your first partition is FAT32 so you can just click-and-drag files .. from Terminal copy your EXT2 files:
sudo cp -a /media/sdd2/* /home/LucidREM/Desktop/sdd2
so now on your new card .. you unmount .. create a partition for FAT32 called "SDD1" .. you create the second primary partition "SDD2" for EXT2 .. then from Terminal:
sudo cp -a /home/LucidREM/Desktop/sdd2/* /media/sdd2
again .. your FAT32 partition is just click-and-drag .. this is how i did mine and it worked .. can't say how difficult or easy it is for anyone .. but it takes me about 2min .. i'd do remote server for someone but i tried once and found it difficult to navigate thru firewalls and internet BS via linux .. but i think that was also linux -> windows .. maybe linux -> linux would work better
Ahhh, I'm finally starting to understand the linux shell a little better, which it seems like adb is just an emulator for?
A few days ago I thought most the commands here had to do with moving the rom files around..guess not
Anyway, thanks LucidREM.
sonikamd said:
Ahhh, I'm finally starting to understand the linux shell a little better, which it seems like adb is just an emulator for?
A few days ago I thought most the commands here had to do with moving the rom files around..guess not
Anyway, thanks LucidREM.
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yea .. the adb is just a way to break into the shell of the phone and run commands via usb .. so you can still run commands on Terminal on the phone or Terminal on linux directly to the card via card reader .. adb is just the short way for users of windows to not have to deal with Terminal and/or the second OS
umm..
have you looked at all the threads about doing this?
if u REALLY you cant do it, i'd be willing to do it for you over logmein remote desktop connection, only thing i can think of, if you interested pm me
I'd be willing to do it was well via remote desktop.
Just pm me if you need it.
Takes two seconds to partition, then you could just throw in the modded JF, run the script and you're good to go.
So doing this via remote desktop, would I have to install anything new on my computer? Also I'm on XP, would that be a problem?
Just to give my advice...i had a lot of trouble trying to get my SD card partitioned and the apps moved to it....finally got it today...
Basically, I used a full version of paragon partition manager to create the EXT2 partition...I think one of the things I was doing wrong before MIGHT have been making the partition a logical disk and not a primary disk. It could also just be that I have no idea how to use the adb shell...its really starting to piss me off...
in any case, I used the Terminal emulator method, and it worked just fine...
what kind of sucks is that when you make the move, the android market doesn't think you have the apps installed anymore, so when you go to "my downloads" , all the apps you've downloaded and installed say "free" again instead of "installed"... this wouldnt be a problem if it werent for the fact that the phone now informs you of new updates for installed apps... you'd essentially have to go back through the apps you have installed, click on "install" again, and reinstall it. At that point, the phone acknowledges that you already have it installed and informs you that it will replace the version you currently have.
akhedraki said:
Just to give my advice...i had a lot of trouble trying to get my SD card partitioned and the apps moved to it....finally got it today...
Basically, I used a full version of paragon partition manager to create the EXT2 partition...I think one of the things I was doing wrong before MIGHT have been making the partition a logical disk and not a primary disk. It could also just be that I have no idea how to use the adb shell...its really starting to piss me off...
in any case, I used the Terminal emulator method, and it worked just fine...
what kind of sucks is that when you make the move, the android market doesn't think you have the apps installed anymore, so when you go to "my downloads" , all the apps you've downloaded and installed say "free" again instead of "installed"... this wouldnt be a problem if it werent for the fact that the phone now informs you of new updates for installed apps... you'd essentially have to go back through the apps you have installed, click on "install" again, and reinstall it. At that point, the phone acknowledges that you already have it installed and informs you that it will replace the version you currently have.
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I have tried the trial & the full version of paragon but no go on either of them. I tried the virtual machine & a live cd of ubuntu but I don't know how to use those so it didn't make sense to me. I have been down all those roads so having someone else do it for me is the only thing I haven't tried
if you've tried ubuntu live (too advanced?), maybe you'll have luck with puppy live(stripped down windows user friendly, what I used) The program you use in puppy is 'gparted' just make sure you know which drive you want to partition.
I had Unbuntu installed on my second hard drive and everytime I'd get both partitions set and good, then it would loop back to just being the card divied in half with no fat32 or ext2. I went at it for hours, until i screwed up and left my c: drive for the the drive instead of my SD card and partitioned my C: drive losing all my Windows data and programs. Needless to say, I'm really pissed and would pay to buy a pre-partitioned fast class 6, 8gig chip at this point.
Shaggy
Binary100100 said:
You know... that's not a bad idea. I would even pay to have my data transferred if I was to consider replacing my 8gb with a higher capacity card (like say... 16 gb). I was wondering if it would mess something up if I was to purchase a new card, partition it and transfer all of it myself. Unfortunately I am not too confident in myself because it was a pain in the butt to get it partitioned right the first time. There has to be someone in here with the knowledge and the funds available that would be willing to turn a quick profit.
8gb SDHC =<$20
Partitioning= $10
Data Xfer = $20
Total would still be cheaper then buying an 8gb SDHC at Best Buy and this person would be turning a 2x profit! P&H wouldn't cost any more then a first class stamp for U.S. too. Not a bad idea.
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I'd like to see where you can find an 8GB mini for less then 20 lol
jaynoonan said:
I am willing to pay someone to partition this the right way. I spent over 6 hours trying to get this entire process to work and ......ZERO
I need apps to SD bad so I am willing to pay for someone's help
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Are you using your phone or a printer, to partition your card??
I had issues with mine till a bought a reader.
5$ on Ebay
Mikey1022 said:
I'd like to see where you can find an 8GB mini for less then 20 lol
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I just got a 8GB Class 6 from NewEgg for $16, shipped. Works great.
Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!
iceshark said:
Dumped my buggy not impressive Galaxy s 4g today> (love Costcos 3 months policy) and picked up G2x. So far extremally impressed!
One question is the Costco phone guy handed my the 16gig micro SD card from the Galaxy as he said he had extras from dead phones. I said THANK YOU! and installed. However when using AppstoSd program it only see's internal mem, and Internal SD 5gs. It does not see or give option to move to my 16g Sd card?
My HD2 and Samsung worked great with AppstoSD. Am I missing something? I mean I guess the 1.2gig and 5gigs of internal is enough. But I like to also use the SD card for programs to not overload internal memory.
I have not rooted yet, will do that so I can get my Titanium backup working to see it I can do it with that.
Thanks!
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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...
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Can't be done, discussed endlessly in the corresponding O2x thread...
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Been all over that thread. This issue and the "phantom AT&T bands are two big issues on this device. However, there may be some hope at the CM end - not this item in the latest CM7 changelog"
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Change I6beb0077: Allow multiple shareable SD Cards by using getShareableVolumes() to get all the volumes that are shareable and allowing sharing/unsharing for all of them rather than just the hardcoded getExternalStorage calls.
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First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?
Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx
iceshark said:
First thank you for responding. I am not a newbie but have been rooting and testing my Hd2's for past year. My first non HTC phone in awhile was the vibrant s4g, it had its own problems with very low internal memory.
So I was excited this phone had 8 gigs plus now my 16 gig card. I have not been on these forums so I did not know it was a known issue Sorry.
So to clarify, there is no workaroud? But can I not just use root explorer and move files to the SD card? I understand apps to sd wont do it automaticly. But I plan to put my music and movies at least on SD... What would even be the use of the manufacturer putting SD slot on phone if you could not use it?
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What I have been doing is the basic copy and paste. I copy the app or video ect. from the sd card and paste it on the ext/sd card. If there is a faster oor easier way please let me know. I am rooted and this is the first phone I ever had with this kind of a set up with the sd card. I prefer the other way much better ala Nexus One.
player911 said:
Ira that is what I do. SD card = sdcard/external_SD
Or something to that effect. I plan to keep my apps2sd on internal and SD for straight storage and backups.
From the sound of it, the clockwork mod can access the microsd so at least backups will be off the device.
-sent from my LG 2Gx
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That is correct. In a file manager etc. you can locate your SD Card by going to the ExternalSD folder (path: SD Card/ExternalSD). The "SD Card" is actually the internal memory, and the "External SD" is the actual SD Card. When you plug your phone into a PC two different drives come up, one for the internal and one for the SD Card. From what I know you can't put apps on your actual SD Card. However music, pics, etc. all work just fine. I have all my music on my SD Card and everything else on the internal.
P.S. When opening the internal memory in a PC it will still have an ExternalSD folder, but it will be empty. I would advise not deleting it.
There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??
cyberchuck9000 said:
There's something like 1.5GB just for apps. What the heck are you doing to "overload" it??
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GPS maps will easily overload the internal SD card. If they let the map location be set, that would fix it, but most do not (yet).
Hey guys, as the title says my nexus one is telling me something worse than I have just about ever seen on my phone.... I have a 16GB SD card in my phone and I have about 10 gigs worth of photos and so on of my 1yo son that I unfortunately haven't backed up or anything and I can't bare to lose them as they are the only ones I have (Don't tell me,I know I shouldn't of kept them on a SD card in an everyday phone that gets extremely heavy usage. I KNOW!). Has anybody had the same problem as I have? Just to let you know I have 2 ext partitions on the card along with the FAT partition. These consist of a 1gig ext3 partition and a 512mb ext3 partition. So I don't know if that's the reason for the crash. Guys it might seem like a petty problem to you guys that have PC's (mine ended up getting thrown out of a window... Don't ask) to format them and use recovery programs but I just need to know if there is something I can do.
Cheers.
Stu
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I recently have heard that it is possible to replace the internal sd card in devices like i9003. There is an sd card integrated somewhere which is exactly like external sd cards we insert. I am curious if anybody has tried it before. i have this friend who tried this on his acer phone. he took the internal sd out which was 2gb and replaced it with 8 gb. and he also had another 16 and made the capacity 24. smart huh?
Just use SD swap, isn't it the same?
Cheers
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bscraze said:
Just use SD swap, isn't it the same?
Cheers
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I think he means that just like the external sd card the internal sd card is a micro sd card and can b replaced
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devilhell007 said:
I think he means that just like the external sd card the internal sd card is a micro sd card and can b replaced
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exactly! i will try to get it replaced via samsung service. i have a friend working there as a manager. I will see if he would agree having somebody replace it with higher capacity sd card..
blacknwhitebb said:
exactly! i will try to get it replaced via samsung service. i have a friend working there as a manager. I will see if he would agree having somebody replace it with higher capacity sd card..
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Lucky brat!!
Come on bro do a search in xda you will find how to swap them or later i can help u
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I didn't want swap. What is swap anyways. i would appreciate the information about its benefits
well, i talked to my friend at samsung service center and he leaded me to a tech. i talked to him and he said they couldn't do it for me due to the fact that it would be illegal. i am not sure if he understood me properly but anyways he told me to open it by myself and in case of encountering any problem i could send my phone to service and they could take care of.
Anyways, i found a video on the internet which shows how to unassemble i9000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9XNnjAcBc). i followed it and finally took the little black box out which i believe to be the internal sd.(if anybody watches the video, the black box is the one she separates and puts it by the screws) but, damn it, it wouldn't open. it is somehow fixed and one piece. i couldn't reach to the int. sd.
what a disappointment. So, the answer is my question is, it is not possible to replace the internal sd card with a higher capacity one. Could have been amazing though.. Imagine replacing it with 32gb, having another 32 as external and you have 1.5 on-board, there would come the 64 gb samsung sl.
Ps. What i mean with the internal sd card btw, is not the fixed on-board one, but the one which is seen as internal sd card on cwm and which i believe people use as swap.
I know bro it was my dream also. And i ask to my friend he is also working ın samsung center he said me the same thing as you heard what a pitty
blacknwhitebb said:
I didn't want swap. What is swap anyways. i would appreciate the information about its benefits
well, i talked to my friend at samsung service center and he leaded me to a tech. i talked to him and he said they couldn't do it for me due to the fact that it would be illegal. i am not sure if he understood me properly but anyways he told me to open it by myself and in case of encountering any problem i could send my phone to service and they could take care of.
Anyways, i found a video on the internet which shows how to unassemble i9000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9XNnjAcBc). i followed it and finally took the little black box out which i believe to be the internal sd.(if anybody watches the video, the black box is the one she separates and puts it by the screws) but, damn it, it wouldn't open. it is somehow fixed and one piece. i couldn't reach to the int. sd.
what a disappointment. So, the answer is my question is, it is not possible to replace the internal sd card with a higher capacity one. Could have been amazing though.. Imagine replacing it with 32gb, having another 32 as external and you have 1.5 on-board, there would come the 64 gb samsung sl.
Ps. What i mean with the internal sd card btw, is not the fixed on-board one, but the one which is seen as internal sd card on cwm and which i believe people use as swap.
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I did a quick look through and did not see any thing that looks like a micro sd. Which black box are you talking about? The one at 3:16? Thats the speaker.
Additionally I think that usually internal memory as well as our internal "sd" is a little chip that is directly soldered onto the board as this will need less space. Some time ago some people here noticed that they got more internal sd memory after their boards were replaced by the service center. What I am asking myself is: Why do these people get more memory if it was only a sd card which is easily replacable. That wouldn't make sense and so I think this is not possible on our phone.
With sd swap they mean a little software modification in a file called vold.fstab which "changes the paths" (so say it in an easy way) you can access your files in that way that:
- all files on your external micro sd card are found under /sdcard/ instead of /sdcard/external_sd/
- all files on your internal sd are found under /sdcard/external_sd instead of /sdcard/
appkiller said:
I know bro it was my dream also. And i ask to my friend he is also working ın samsung center he said me the same thing as you heard what a pitty
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Of course this would be "illegal" as your friends say. Have a modification done to your phones and after two days if it doesn't work anymore because of this you come back and claim for warranty.
As ı know the internal sd card is not the micro sd that can be replaced because the read and write speed is so high as u know It is about 25 mb/s read, and 15mb/s write. But in micro sd we can't reach this speed even in class 6
You are right.
The internal sd, let's call it internal memory, is inside the phone behind all the plastic on the board. If you take out your sd card and start your phone you will notice an empty "external_sd" folder on stock roms or respectively "emmc" on CM9, as long as your memorys aren't swapped. The micro sd card you put in your phone isn't part of it and thus is external.
So much confusion about this... *lol*
Yes I agree it is integrated to the motherboard and not with a slot that you can remove or replace I think swap is OK we shouldn't try replacing internal memory we can broke an awesome phone
But I must admit that I would like to look inside the phone, but I'm a bit afraid I could damage it...
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Taraen said:
But I must admit that I would like to look inside the phone, but I'm a bit afraid I could damage it...
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yes you are right I am an electronic engineer candidate I am so curious but we must be careful so much. It is a complex phone and very difficult to assemble it
Well a friend if me and I already opened a iPhone and repaired it with parts worth some EUR. There was no risk. But my SGSL is working and I'm not an electronic engineer. So you know more than me. I'm used to assembling computers but mobiles... No Thanks!
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The mobile things such as phone are really really complex. They include so many micro parts and so sensitive because of that if we aren't an expert we mustn't do anything that we are not sure what we are doing.
Well swapping means fooling the system into believing that the external micro SD card you put in your phone is actually the internal SD, when is its not and vice versa. Search the development thread for it
Cheers
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Hello all,
First of all I want to say thank you to all the devs that spend their time building & debugging these wonderful mods that I have been using over the years. THANKS!!
Now I understand, with ICS, there is a new type of file system that is more efficient in combining storage space for apps and data, but somehow messes with internal and external storage. I am not extremely familiar with details and that is the extent of my knowlege.
here is my issue: (if I suspect correctly this is because I dont have a micro sd card)
When I flash an ICS mod I am unable to take pictures, download anything, or perform any task that requires writing to internal storage. I have searched through the forums and found people with similar problems but I have not found a solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The only thing that is preventing me from going out and purchasing a micro sd card is my wheelchair (i was in a motorcycle accident recently).
Thanks!!!
You need to have a micro SD because the phones internal memory is not used the same way as in a stock LG rom. In order for your camera or apps to work correctly you need a micro SD card so it can save the information to it. The 8GB internal memory is not accessed at all, some roms may give you the option to save your pictures to the internal memory but it is not advised because that is where you Rom is stored, so if you get a corrupt file, your gonna get some unplesent results. You can purchase a micro SD card anywhere from $1-$30 online, ranging from 512mb-30gb, i suggest eBay, just make sure you buy from a reputable seller because there are many fake mislabeled micro SD cards on there. Gook Luck and Enjoy ICS
I wouldn't suggest eBay, too many scams, try Amazon also.
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Amazon ftw, Ebay can be a bit too risky as far as finding a reputable seller