Any way to get my information on my current micro to another micro without damaging root?
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Swapping microsds won't mess up your root access.
Zombies ate my Inspire
Swapping cards won't breath root. If you want to transfer info over just use the computer. Take everthing off of the old one, format the new one, then put everything back on the new one.
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thedailyl3af said:
Any way to get my information on my current micro to another micro without damaging root?
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SD Card content (your files) has nothing to do with rooting your device. Obtaining root may have involved flashing a file that you initially saved on the SD card-- that's it.
I swap cards in a straightforward, rudimentary way. I place one card in a reader on my pc and either put the other card in another reader or just leave it in the phone with "disk drive" as my "Settings-->Connect to PC" setting. I just drag whatever files I want, or everything, from one card's window to the other. I have never needed any more sophisticated method for 4/8/16/32/64 GB microsd cards over dozens of swaps.
mightydr said:
SD Card content (your files) has nothing to do with rooting your device. Obtaining root may have involved flashing a file that you initially saved on the SD card-- that's it.
I swap cards in a straightforward, rudimentary way. I place one card in a reader on my pc and either put the other card in another reader or just leave it in the phone with "disk drive" as my "Settings-->Connect to PC" setting. I just drag whatever files I want, or everything, from one card's window to the other. I have never needed any more sophisticated method for 4/8/16/32/64 GB microsd cards over dozens of swaps.[/QUOTE
just what I needed to hear ty and everyone else
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How do I format a 64g?
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Your computer will most likely want to format it exfat or ntfs. Go ahead and format it with exfat. Then place it in your phone. Then use your phone to format it again. I think you have to go to settings > storage > unmount the card > then format it. Then you can place it back in your pc or use a cable to copy all your files back.
Agoattamer said:
Your computer will most likely want to format it exfat or ntfs. Go ahead and format it with exfat. Then place it in your phone. Then use your phone to format it again. I think you have to go to settings > storage > unmount the card > then format it. Then you can place it back in your pc or use a cable to copy all your files back.
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^^Agoattamer speaks with wisdom.
However, I went the lazy route and just stuck my 64 GB microsd in my HTC Inspire (red) to format since I don't like opening/closing the Inspire's covers too much. The phone formatted the new card and it showed up as having 59.3 GB available, IIRC.
I always do a full format on a pc with all my cards first. I just want to make sure they are completely wiped clean first.
Inspire will most likely report the card as damaged and needing a format when you first insert it.
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I thought I had turned my sd card into a goldcard in my inspire but I must have done something wrong. during the downgrade part of rooting, bootloader was unable to find pd981im.zip ... now my sd card is jacked. rebooted the phone and now I am not able to connect the phone as a physical disk (option is not even there) and it says damaged sd card. Is there a way to bring the sd card back to life through the phone or do I have to buy a micro sd usb key or the likes to format it?
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,
Dkay
onelesssblues said:
I thought I had turned my sd card into a goldcard in my inspire but I must have done something wrong. during the downgrade part of rooting, bootloader was unable to find pd981im.zip ... now my sd card is jacked. rebooted the phone and now I am not able to connect the phone as a physical disk (option is not even there) and it says damaged sd card. Is there a way to bring the sd card back to life through the phone or do I have to buy a micro sd usb key or the likes to format it?
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,
Dkay
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Try going into settings>>SD & phone storage and unmount your SD card, then hit the "Format SD card". It's worth a shot, if not you could go buy a cheap 2 gig for the SD card adapter.
P.S. This section is for development, just a heads up.
You didnt make your gold card correctly some times it takes a few times to make it. As said before format and retry.
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If your ZIP file is named as posted -That is wrong
onelesssblues said:
........ pd981im.zip ...
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,Dkay
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You may have just typed your ZIP file incorrectly in this post, if not the
correct name is PD98IMG., there is no
number "ONE" it is the letter " i ". - Glenn
I used Bubby's one click GUI to make goldcard. But that's not the problem. When I try to add items to the sdcard after making the gold card and items will not stay on the card. So I looked for away to remove goldcard and I cant find any help anywhere. Thanks
Not sure what you mean, bit it sounds like you have one of the sdcards that's hard to make into a gold card. Format it and try again.
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I did format but they files stay right were they are.
stealitall said:
I did format but they files stay right were they are.
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Are you using the phone or your OS to format the SD card?
make sure you turned off fastboot, and on charge only mode
stealitall said:
I did format but they files stay right were they are.
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What files are you trying to put on there? Files unrelated to the rooting process? Are you done rooting?
If you are, just reformat it, as suggested. Or keep it after you root in case you need to root another inspire and use another SD card for your daily use.
I used some POS 4gb I had laying around gathering dust and it worked fine. After I was done, I put it in its little plastic storage case for a rainy day, and plopped the 8gb that came with the phone back in.
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I just saw that you tried reformatting and its still not cooperating. Did you format fat32 (full, not quick format) with it in the phone, via the OS, and did you "safely remove hardware" (unmount via OS) prior to disconnecting the phone from the pc?
Maybe try the HP USB Disk Format Tool ? ...with an adapter... not in your phone.
I just returned.. It was only a day old! Thanks all for you help..
Use a sd adapter , format it with fat32 and try again :d
Big problem. I have a Lexar 32gb sd card and today it seems to have went corrupt.
I noticed it when my ring tone change from a song to default. if i put the sd card in my PC and try to read from it it says card needs to be formated. Please tell me there is a way to recover the info on the card??? when i put the sd in the phone it says preparing then says safe to remove sd card.
TIA
JC
Hopefully just a format is all you need. I lost a 32g USB drive recently, and fortunately Corsair has great warranty service.
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My wife's sensation did the same thing, I had to take out the SD and put it into my SD card reader on my laptop, format it and then put it back in the phone. The phone then wanted to format it again which it did and now it seems fine.
By the way, the data was intact when I put it in my SDcard reader. I was able to back up the data before I formatted it.
He said he wanted to recover the files on the SD card, not how to get the **** thing working.
You might want to check if all of the connections are clean. If they're not, a format the ****-error is likely to happen. Pure alcohol might do the trick.
If it doesn't, you could search Google or the forums for terms like 'recover corrupted micro SD'.
Good luck!
Edit: Maybe this guide does the trick?
I've an other question. I made the mistake to format my SD card with CWM and now it's only a 4 GB card (it should be 8 GB). Does someone know how I can force format it to 8 GB (with Windows or Mac OS disk utility, I can't expand the size anymore, just reformat it) ?
you can use sdformatter, a great and simple tool for those types of things, or you can download easus partition manager, its free and pretty good software for drive management.
If you want to make a linux disc, such as Ubuntu, gparted is one of the best tools available for examining, repartitioning, flagging, and fixing disks. I believe you can just download gparted and boot it from a CD or flashdrive, but I think just downloading a linux distribution is easier.
I currently have a 16GB card which I used to install the fireware and Rom for my phone. If I switch to a 32GB card, would I need to go through the same process of installing my fireware and Rom or are these saved on the system memory?
Nope, no need to reinstall anything.
Think of the phone like an old PC. The SD card is just the 3.5 inch floppy disk. You can take it out but the computer still runs on the hard drive.
What you'll want to do is hook the phone up to your computer first, copy the entire contents of the SD card to a folder on your computer, then change to the new 32 GB card, then copy everything back to the new card.
The phone and your apps won't know that anything changed (other than seeing 16GB of extra free space)
Everything else will work fine. Your apps will find all your data in the right spots.
Unless you use app 2 sd
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I didn't know where to post this since it's not device specific.
The other day my GS3 displayed a message saying i can remove my SD card. I went to my file explorer app and I couldn't access my SD card. I took it out of my phone and put it in my pc, my computer made the noise to let you know you know it discovered a new device but then it notifies me that it failed to install drivers or software. I also tried it in my old GS Epic 4G running CM 10 and it gave me the same notification saying i can remove my SD card. So now I have an unmountable micro SD card and i would really like to recover the information off of it. I have run across a couple places that have said to format it then use recovery software but I don't know how to format a sd card that windows doesn't recognize.
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Your card probably died, so unless you have specialized recovery or forensic software that can image the card, you're SOL. You could also try taking to a data recovery shop and see if they can do anything for you.
You may be able to recover your data with a freeware/shareware program but they're usually limited to recovering only certain filetypes.
If you've given up already and just need to format the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool should be able to reformat the drive even if it doesn't appear in explorer.
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You may be able to recover your data with a freeware/shareware program but they're usually limited to recovering only certain filetypes.
If you've given up already and just need to format the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool should be able to reformat the drive even if it doesn't appear in explorer.
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Alright I'll try that
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