As you may or may not know A2SD+ requires an ext partition on the SD card, this is a linux file partition and cannot be seen by a windows computer. If you insert a SD card into the phone without this partition the phone will cycle in a bootloop.
You will need ROM manager and Titanium Backup for this process.
1. If you do not have access to a linux computer, download a live CD. I used ubuntu 10.10.
2. Run the live CD and insert your sd card. Open the disk utility, unmount all partitions and then format the disk using to the master boot (whatever it's called). This first formation option is at the top of the disk utility page.
3. now click on the "bar" of memory shown (picture of the unallocated space). Now below this you will see "create partition". Click this and change the entire disk to FAT.
4. exit out of the live cd and restart in windows.
5. now on your phone (still with old SD card in it) make a Titanium Backup of all your apps and data. I didn't need to use mine but it's just incase something goes wrong.
6. now open ROM manager and make a Nandroid backup. This is like an image of your phone as it currently stands.
7. in windows, copy the contents of your SD card to a folder on your PC.
8. download a new ROM that doesn't use A2SD+.. (I downloaded the LeeDroid non A2SD+ version) and place it in the root directory of your SD card
9. Open up ROM manager, install rom from sd, clear data and wipe cache. Make some tea as this will take about 10-15 minutes usually. It will restart in your no non A2SD ROM.
10. Turn off your phone, insert the NEW SD.. power up and install ROM manager from the market.
11. Open ROM manager, and select the first option (flash clockworkmod recovery, or something similar. this will download the update.zip to your SD) Now select to partition the SD card the same way the old one was (512MB ext, 0MB swap usually). Leave the phone until it starts up again.
12. Now go to the folder on the PC where you backed up the old SD card, file the folder "clockworkmod" and copy it to the new SD.
13. Open up ROM manager and restore the backup you made at the start.
When your phone starts up, it will be as it was before, with a larger SD
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i have my rom on my external sd so that when I wipe data on my internal it wont erase it, but when I go to apply zip from sd card it give no option for external. Only when I go inside the internal I see the obvious folder for external sd, but theres no files. I dont want to transfer my rom to internal and then it disappear when I wipe system and data before I flash the rom.
oh yeah....v2.5.1.3 cmw
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i have my rom on my external sd so that when I wipe data on my internal it wont erase it, but when I go to apply zip from sd card it give no option for external. Only when I go inside the internal I see the obvious folder for external sd, but theres no files. I dont want to transfer my rom to internal and then it disappear when I wipe system and data before I flash the rom.
oh yeah....v2.5.1.3 cmw
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you will need the zip file to install your rom on the internal sd, it will not install from the ext sd....when you do a wipe of data it will not erase your int sd, believe me I have a ton of files on my inter sd, with lots of zip files of roms that I have install.
so what you have to do if you have already wiped and you are sitting on the red CWM...is plug the usb cable to your phone from pc, after you are in cwm go to mounts usb storage...hit that, you should see it the inter sd pop in your windows explorer, copy your rom to install over to your phone, then do your wipes it will not take the files away from your inter sd...then install your rom...
the only way to errase all the information from the INTERNAL SD, is going into CWM, advanced options, erase or delete all the information with the options on there
i just booted into stock GB and did a factory reset with a format usb. After it restarted, i put the rom on my internal. I wanted my internal to be wiped clean before i installed. You just dont know the crap left behind from old roms.
I think it's because of CWM is not mapped correctly. Correct me if am wrong.
My sd card is fried. I tried loading it on my pc with no luck. I am planning to go and get another one. However, will the phone still boot without the system files that were on the sd card? If not how can I fix it.
Thanks
"If your problem is that you cannot mount the SDCard (as opposed to being able to mount it but it is empty) I ran into something similar during my 2nd ROM flashing experience. I got into this state by doing a factory wipe from the bootloader screen (as opposed to doing it from recovery). This wiped my entire SDCard partition, even the filesystem on it. So when I booted into Android, it failed to mount the SDCard altogether, saying that it was corrupted.
I had to re-format the SDCard from Windows in order to recover, by doing the following:
1. Boot into recovery (for me was TWRP 2.1.8.1)
2. Select "Mount"
3. Checkmark "Mount SDCard"
4. Connect device to PC via USB cable
5. Select "Mount USB Storage" in TWRP
6. On the PC, find the SDCard's drive in My Computer, right-click on it, and select "Format"
7. Proceed with formatting the SDCard ("Quick Format" is fine)
8. Safely remove the USB storage from Windows
9. Reboot the device
Upon rebooting, the SDCard mounted fine, although all data was erased."
-denversc
Will this work for me if i get a fresh sd card and follow these steps?
yes, but, make sure you uninstall all apps from the sd card before you insert the new microsd
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yes, but, make sure you uninstall all apps from the sd card before you insert the new microsd
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Well, yes im hoping to get a new fresh sd card with nothing in it. Another thing, I removed the fried sd card and now the phone is booting. I hope it continues with a new sd card in it.
How to increse internal memory of Micromax Boltst your android device has to be rooted, if you have the Tecno P3 or N3 look here how to root them easily.
There is absolutely no way you can increase the size of your phone’s internal storage but you can allocate some part of your memory card for your phone to install applications to.
What you will need
Your android phone (must be rooted):cyclops:
Memory card (2Gb and above only)
A memory card reader (dont use a phone!)
A computer
Download and instal MiniTool from here to your computer
Link2SD application (should be downloaded on Google play store
Backup your memory card (copy all the data on it to a folder on your computer)
Steps to increasing your android internal memory
Step 1: Backing up your memory card:
before attempting this, make sure you have backed up all the files and folders on your memory card to your computer by easily coping the whole memory card and pasting into a folder on your computer.
Step 2: Partitioning your memory card:
connect your memory card to your computer using a memory card reader (dont use a phone and USB cable) and take note of the letter assigned to it by your computer on my computer page example (F, (D etc .
Open the installed MiniTool on your computer.
Right click on your memory card letter (example D:, F and click delete.
Now you will see the memory card showing unallocated space, right click on it again and select create as.
Select primary
If your memory card size is less than 2GB, select file system FAT. If it’s more than 2GB, select FAT32.
Now go down and reduce the size of your memory card on partition size so that there will be space on unallocated space (that will be your added memory, so you can choose any size you want)
Now, choose the unallocated space again and select Create as -> Primary
Now, choose EXT2 file system. You can let the whole space take over in this step.
Now click ok and click apply on the top menu.
Wait for it to finish and you have successfully partitioned your memory card.
copy your data backed up on your computer back to the memory card and insert it into your phone and boot it
Step 3: Configuring Link2SD:
Now open Link2SD which you have downloaded from Google play store on your phone
Link2SD will ask you to select the file system of your second permission, choose ext2.
Now click okay, the phone will ask to get restarted, click oka so it will restart itself.
A dialogue box will come up after the restart click okay
Now their is a funnel-like icon on the top part click it you will see different options choose on internal (see picture below)
Link2SD
Now tap the option key below, and select multi-select, then press the select all button. All of these apps will be selected.
Now still on the option key choose action then click create link
Select the three options (link application file, link dalvic-cache file,link library files) then click ok
Link2SD will then move all those apps and games then create a link with them from the second partition of your SD card. Touch OK when done
Now you are done but to make sure this happens every single time you install an app you should goto settings from the menu and click on auto link and then select the three options again and ok….thats done
You have now free of the low memory issue with your phone.
When you accidentally destroy an SD card with incorrect partitioning or the SD card pops out of its slot during S-OFF attempts, you may be out of luck. Until now.
I have discovered a way to fix a dead SD card. You will need four things.
1. A dead SD card.
2. Linux Knowledge.
3. Patience (depending upon how big your SD card is).
4. Linux.
THIS WILL DELETE ALL OF YOUR DATA
Create a linux boot disk. I recommend Ubuntu since that's what I used. Stick it in your computer and boot from the drive. Skip this step if you already have a linux box.
Next, you need to install GParted and have admin access on the computer.
The most common cause of an SD card is unallocated space from something.
Start GParted.
In the upper right hand part of the window, select your drive. Once that happens, you need to allocate the space. Click on "Device" then "Create Partition Table". Select the options you want. It is recommended that you choose "msdos" encoding.
Once the partitions are created you need to format it. Now this will format it with the permissions from the device you are using, so don't put data on it until you can switch back to windows.
Find a Windows machine that has permissions to format memory devices.
Format the device as a standard user or Admin user.
Put your data back on the card.
Enjoy!
Hello, I have Sony Xperia C2305 Dual SIM phone. I have the phone rooted and I have 8GB SD card on which I have moved all of my downloaded applications onto. I decided to use Link2SD to increase space for more apps and I took necessary precautions as well.
I made a complete backup of my SD card into zip format filesystem and stored it onto my computer. I have TWRP 3.0 recovery installed. I went to recovery mode and made a complete phone backup from there. (Everything including cache, NVRAM . . .)
Then, I used AIO: Apps2SD tool to partition my SD card into 6GB FAT32 and 2GB EXT4 partition as per some valid tutorial. It formatted my whole SD card before partitioning. It went smooth.
I pushed my previous SD card backup onto the newly formatted SD card (6GB) and unzipped it there including TWRP ROM backup, I setup before and restored the whole ROM. I had 100+ apps but unfortunately all those apps are in unstable form. I can see them in "Settings > Apps > Downloaded" section but I cannot use them. Those apps look like broken pieces.
One strange thing, I found is that I read "SD card apps data gets stored in .android_secure folder" but on my SD card .android_secure folder is empty and instead all apps data went into a simple folder called "Android" and unfortunately TWRP did not back it up during backing up. Therefore, it was a wise move to manually backup the folder. I restored the folder after it, I restored the ROM through TWRP recovery mode. However, BOOM! nothing happened as planned. Above problem came into being.
Kindly guide me if I can recover my previous ROM as neat and OK as I had before or If I cannot recover it then what other things I can do?
Thank you in advance!