Greetings XDA members ;
Few days ago, I was trying to format my sandisk microSD XC with a casual card reader through windows using exfat as the file system with unchecked Fast Format check box, so the process took over 5 minutes & i was in a hurry, i cancelled the process to get surprised that the memory can't be formatted either by my phone ( Note 2) or windows & when i try to format it shows a message " read only, check card... blablabla"
Showing that the file system is RAW
Anyone could give me any solution or + feedback please?
Thanks in advance.
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I am losing faith that this great community could help me :-\
I just want to add that even my sd is a RAW filed system but i found an app which can pull old files from RAW like recovery apps, so i guess it is not totally hopeless sd
TY
Your best bet would be to use a real formatting tool like gpart.
You can download it as a live CD or install within a Linux OS
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zacthespack said:
Your best bet would be to use a real formatting tool like gpart.
You can download it as a live CD or install within a Linux OS
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Thank you for your response, i will dig more about gpart & i hope i find the solution
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Please consider this request solved because i managed to replace it by new one from the reseller
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OK I was flashing the paranoid android ROM a few months back on my galaxy tab 2 7.0 3113 and I lost half of my compacity I am the type of person who downloads watches lots of movies and listen to alot music I would really like to have it back. any suggestions on how to fix it please hey buddy help anyone okay
Have you been making nandroid back ups ? How much is under "Misc" ? Looks around 700mb ? ( but the yellow maker is covering it up ):laugh:
Looks to me you need to do some house keeping to tidy up the storage space, easy enough to do.
What recovery are you using on the device ?
you've got OVER 2 gigs of app data folders on the internal there, open your file browser and look for folders of apps you've deleted and delete them, also remember YOU HAVE A MICROSD SLOT, you can add more storage for music and movies.
do any of your streaming apps keep a large "buffer", could try clearing app data.
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Have you been making nandroid back ups ? How much is under "Misc" ? Looks around 700mb ? ( but the yellow maker is covering it up ):laugh:
Looks to me you need to do some house keeping to tidy up the storage space, easy enough to do.
What recovery are you using on the device ?
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im using cwm and that would explain why i lost half of my storage space
im thinking there is a partition im missing that i cant find
i know its been a while but ive wiped the completly clean to the point the only thing that was on it was the rom
put still just the 4gbs
daniel644 said:
you've got OVER 2 gigs of app data folders on the internal there, open your file browser and look for folders of apps you've deleted and delete them, also remember YOU HAVE A MICROSD SLOT, you can add more storage for music and movies.
do any of your streaming apps keep a large "buffer", could try clearing app data.
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that doesnt explain why my 8gig tab 2 only has 4gigs usable
Its the system partition that eats up the rest, as far as I know. That is why only just under
5 gigs is available. The settings menu doesn't count the system partition as usable space.
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that doesnt explain why my 8gig tab 2 only has 4gigs usable
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That's just the way it is. Kind of like when you insert a 32gb micro sd card you automatically lose nearly 4gb down to 29.7gb.
If you've been making backups chances are the cwm folder has a nice size file well over 1gb
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Its the system partition that eats up the rest, as far as I know. That is why only just under
5 gigs is available. The settings menu doesn't count the system partition as usable space.
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ShapesBlue said:
That's just the way it is. Kind of like when you insert a 32gb micro sd card you automatically lose nearly 4gb down to 29.7gb.
If you've been making backups chances are the cwm folder has a nice size file well over 1gb
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I don't think trays how it works when I frost got it I believe the system file was around .5 to 1 gig maybe
So I doubt I would lose 4 almost 5 gigs from it
And I have and 8 gig microSD card now but I would love that 4 gigs back thats 3 movies...
Also I deleted a bunch a system files that no one ever needs so I have more free space
but damn I need it all back
saintextreme97 said:
Also I deleted a bunch a system files that no one ever needs so I have more free space
but damn I need it all back
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Get a bigger external sd card. Mine was down to 4gb from 8gb from the start even before I rooted
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ShapesBlue said:
Get a bigger external sd card. Mine was down to 4gb from 8gb from the start even before I rooted
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It has nothing to do with the external sd card my problem is I lost half of my damn internal memory doesn't anyone here realize that
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It has nothing to do with the external sd card my problem is I lost half of my damn internal memory doesn't anyone here realize that
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We've all lost half our internal memory. I could show you a screenshot of mine when I'm not on my phone
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ShapesBlue said:
We've all lost half our internal memory. I could show you a screenshot of mine when I'm not on my phone
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well then should i unroot and ask samsung whats up
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well then should i unroot and ask samsung whats up
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Rooting has basically nothing whatsoever to do with the problem. Why does everyone think that just cause u rooted ur phone/ tablet now becomes mentally retarded?
I would look around in the system files. I had the same problem, there was this file idk how the hell got there and was like 4 gigs. Just try to locate the file and delete it.
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Rooting has basically nothing whatsoever to do with the problem. Why does everyone think that just cause u rooted ur phone/ tablet now becomes mentally retarded?
I would look around in the system files. I had the same problem, there was this file idk how the hell got there and was like 4 gigs. Just try to locate the file and delete it.
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I'd love to find that file myself. It would free up a ton of space and yea rooting has nothing to do with it at all
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ShapesBlue said:
I'd love to find that file myself. It would free up a ton of space and yea rooting has nothing to do with it at all
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Pretty sure you can go to a folder browser then couldn't u sort all them by size by bigger sizes descending. So what i mean is the biggest files would show up on top. Then you could look around and see if one of the bigger files is not needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970961 here is another thread talking about pretty much the same thing. I agree with one of the posters, about just swapping the storage with the external sd card. I haven't personally had great luck with android 4.2.x, but there is a great script for p311x on xda that swaps them on ics and jb 4.1.x just fine. Its what I use, and also why im not running anything past 4.1.2.
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You could delete all the files you want from the system partition and it still wouldn't become usable.
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so basically this is a **** up on Samsungs end
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Pretty sure you can go to a folder browser then couldn't u sort all them by size by bigger sizes descending. So what i mean is the biggest files would show up on top. Then you could look around and see if one of the bigger files is not needed.
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I use a program which sorts files by size. It didn't find it so it must be hidden or similar
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ShapesBlue said:
I use a program which sorts files by size. It didn't find it so it must be hidden or similar
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So once again back to what I said before I'm going to un root flash stock firmware and reset download count and get a new tab from Samsung and see if I can't prevent it from happening again
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okay. so i have:
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7'' (8gb internal / 32gb microSD external) running Jelly Bean 4.1.1
1-. i rooted it
2-. partition the microSD leaving (1st partition with 28gb FAT32 / 2nd partition with 1gb ext2)
3-. downloaded Link2SD and linked to the ext2 partition
4-. linked almost every app (screenshot)
yet the info in "storage" says i'm storing everything in the internal memory (screenshot).
i linked "Fifa 12" to external SD and started downloading it (aprox 1.2gb) and while it downloads i can see how the free space from the internal storage goes down.
am i doing something wrong?, thanks in advance!
here i add a screenshot showing that partition i made (i did it fine as far as i know)
please...anyone? =(
danielmx said:
here i add a screenshot showing that partition i made (i did it fine as far as i know)
please...anyone? =(
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Naw you didn't do anything wrong. I'm still trying to figure this out myself. I have a 32gb sd card myself and it's rendered useless so far
Try this out. Maybe you will have luck with it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097
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ShapesBlue said:
Naw you didn't do anything wrong. I'm still trying to figure this out myself. I have a 32gb sd card myself and it's rendered useless so far
Try this out. Maybe you will have luck with it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097
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already did =(, no luck.
so we're stucked until someone modifies the Swap SD card mod for jelly bean?
i decided to add some videos and books manually to the SD card to at least do "something" useful with the tablet and now i get an error at the google play store.
i've had this thing for a couple of days and i'm sick of it. i should have go the nexus 7 32gb, only if i knew before...
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already did =(, no luck.
so we're stucked until someone modifies the Swap SD card mod for jelly bean?
i decided to add some videos and books manually to the SD card to at least do "something" useful with the tablet and now i get an error at the google play store.
i've had this thing for a couple of days and i'm sick of it. i should have go the nexus 7 32gb, only if i knew before...
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have you tried some script? i suggest mount2sd
i do not know if it works with JB but on old htc desire it has done the trick for some time!
danielmx said:
already did =(, no luck.
so we're stucked until someone modifies the Swap SD card mod for jelly bean?
i decided to add some videos and books manually to the SD card to at least do "something" useful with the tablet and now i get an error at the google play store.
i've had this thing for a couple of days and i'm sick of it. i should have go the nexus 7 32gb, only if i knew before...
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Yea I bet I will get the same error or issue your getting but I'm going to try it anyways
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097 this post has a swap that works up to jb 4.2.x I run it and it works on 4.1.x just fine, stock and Rome.
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I couldn't get it to run right ( I mean mount2sd). Kept hiding my apps and doing buggy stuff. Link2sd would at least move some pass over. I mean on 4.2.2. I only use the script above on pre 4.2
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ShapesBlue said:
Yea I bet I will get the same error or issue your getting but I'm going to try it anyways
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I had great results with that script. These shots are on stock, but I run it on ever Rom pre4.2 just fine.
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I had great results with that script. These shots are on stock, but I run it on ever Rom pre4.2 just fine.
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Is it possible to be flashed on P3100??
I already flashed Kkboot wih swap support, but it only mounts the external sdcard,,
I'm using sungsonic HD
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hooaah said:
Is it possible to be flashed on P3100??
I already flashed Kkboot wih swap support, but it only mounts the external sdcard,,
I'm using sungsonic HD
thanks before...
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Not sure about 3100. Only way is to try. I'm running sungsonic on my 3113 and it works like a charm
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danielmx said:
okay. so i have:
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7'' (8gb internal / 32gb microSD external) running Jelly Bean 4.1.1
1-. i rooted it
2-. partition the microSD leaving (1st partition with 28gb FAT32 / 2nd partition with 1gb ext2)
3-. downloaded Link2SD and linked to the ext2 partition
4-. linked almost every app (screenshot)
yet the info in "storage" says i'm storing everything in the internal memory (screenshot).
i linked "Fifa 12" to external SD and started downloading it (aprox 1.2gb) and while it downloads i can see how the free space from the internal storage goes down.
am i doing something wrong?, thanks in advance!
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Question: how did you partition your SD card? I've been searching around and have had no luck.
Try This http://www.computerbild.de/download/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition-5546547.html Mini Partition Wizard
I use the Complete Linux Installer app to install Ubuntu on Android 4.4 (Nexus 5). The problem is that I can barely do anything with Ubuntu since the file system is completely contained within the .img file and thus (per default) limited to 4 GB. According to Zachary Powell (developer of Complete Linux Installer), an option is to create an ext4 partition and install Ubuntu there. I found many instructions on how to do that on an *external* sd card. However, the Nexus 5 does not have an external sd card. I am thus wondering how one could create an ext4 partition? (The phone is rooted. Ideally, the procedure does not require to be an Android hacker for too long...)
There might be a way to do that.. Not sure. But I can tell you that's a very dangerous thing to do. That's how people end up with bricked phones. I guess ODIN used to repartition the phone but I'm not sure if it exists for the n5. I'd say beware and be careful....
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There might be a way to do that.. Not sure. But I can tell you that's a very dangerous thing to do. That's how people end up with bricked phones. I guess ODIN used to repartition the phone but I'm not sure if it exists for the n5. I'd say beware and be careful....
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odin is only for samsung devices. and i wouldnt partition the nand storage, or youll be trying to replace your phone.
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What he said
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Okay, thanks, that's good to know. I was also wondering about how 'dangerous' this is and it seems like 'very dangerous', so that's not an option (at the moment). I hope at one point they realize what potential a smartphone could have if they'd make it more like a real computer... (with Ubuntu's 'convergence' concept, my hope was that this happens 'sooner' than 'later', but apparently it's not the right time yet, at least not for medium-skilled hackers).
As the title says I'm trying to swap the phones internal memory with my 32gb Sd card but I can't figure how to do it. I tried the methods from stock ROM and CM but neither worked. If anyone can help here out would be much appreciated.
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Bump. No one really knows how to do this?
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Bump. No one really knows how to do this?
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No, because Omni is 2 months old (not just for our phone, it was made 2 months ago in general). Maybe some of expirienced devs can tell you, but ones who are not that expirenced can't explain you how to do it.
By the way, did you try with some methods that works on CM 10.2?
Well I don't really know how to do it. I tried this (it worked in CM) in build.prop and it didn't work in Omni.
persist.sys.vold.switchexternal=1
ro.vold.switchablepair=/storage/sdcard0,/storage/sdcard1
I will try to search around some more but I doubt I can find the solution.
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Well I don't really know how to do it. I tried this (it worked in CM) in build.prop and it didn't work in Omni.
persist.sys.vold.switchexternal=1
ro.vold.switchablepair=/storage/sdcard0,/storage/sdcard1
I will try to search around some more but I doubt I can find the solution.
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Open storage folder in system folder of root. And see if names are sdcard0/1. Maybe on Omni it is changed...
They are exactly like that.
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They are exactly like that.
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Read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2426804
By that, you cannot do anything... Unless you implement it in kernel.
P.S. And definitely from some other post:
Kernel for switching internal & external SD
Because vold.fstab is no longer used and has been integrated in fstab.aries (which can only be changed before compiling the kernel, as it ends up in the ramdisk), I made a special kernel version with switched SD cards.
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Guess that means I'm going back to a lower android because I doubt our devs will modify the kernel at this stage just for this since they have more important stuff. Thank you very much for that.
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I guess you can do it by an init.d script, re mounting partitions as you want after boot
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Well I probably have no clue how to do that but I'll dig around. I'm just glad there might be a chance for swap to work.
Edit: Well I managed to solve my storage problem in some other way. Will share here if some other people need this. I used FolderMount app from playstore for all my large games. Free version only supports 3 folder mounts (that means 3 large games/apps etc) but I already bought the paid version, that unlocks everything, since it really solves all my issues. I can now stay happy on OmniROM!
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Hello
I have partitioned my 32 GB external SD card to 4 partitions. The 4th one is 10 GB. I would like to install Kali Linux (Xterm) or Debian (LXDE) there. As long as I am concerned isn't 8 GB enough for these distros? So they will actually have no problem running on that partition right?
I am using Linux Deploy.
However I think I am using the wrong path.
Any ideas of what can I possibly do?
I will be grateful for any help
Thanks in advance!
(I know I happen to have Kali Linux for profile pic but it is just because I like the dragon. I am neither a wannabe nor a pro)
Edit: the partition is ext2
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Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. See if this helps you, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872752
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Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. See if this helps you, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872752
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Hi thanks a lot for the response! Its a big forum so it is hard to have an answer sometimes. I am checking it right away! I hope it explains how to install in seperate partition
Edit: It doesnt actually tell how to install to seperate partition. I may be asking way too much but I'd love to install it to my 4th partition. Any suggestions?
I typed in terminal emulator
cd /dev/block
But then i find mmcblk and other similar non directories.
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