[Q] Nandroid backups - Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have both a GT-N7000 and a GT-N8020 with almost identical apps and data loaded.
In fact, I store all my music, photos and documents on the external SD cards in both cases.
Can anyone tell me why a Nandroid backup on a Gt-N7000 is about 17MB and one of a GT-N8020 is over 2GB?
Where does all the extra data come from? Both devices are "16GB".
As far as I can tell, the Nandroid backup isn't including the ext SD card as I always get the message, "No ext SD card detected, no backup of ext SD card ..." or something to that effect. Just wondering.

Browse into the backups using any root explorers and tell me what's inside
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sacentre said:
I have both a GT-N7000 and a GT-N8020 with almost identical apps and data loaded.
In fact, I store all my music, photos and documents on the external SD cards in both cases.
Can anyone tell me why a Nandroid backup on a Gt-N7000 is about 17MB and one of a GT-N8020 is over 2GB?
Where does all the extra data come from? Both devices are "16GB".
As far as I can tell, the Nandroid backup isn't including the ext SD card as I always get the message, "No ext SD card detected, no backup of ext SD card ..." or something to that effect. Just wondering.
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I had the same problem with my External card. It was because it was formatted as exFat.
Formatting it as Fat32 solved it. Unfrotunately it seems that CWM doesn't recognize exFat cards.

Many thanks for the reply. This is puzzling because, if I interpret the Rom Manager message I'm getting, it's not backing up the ext SD card - only the phone and installed apps and a few other things.
I just did another Nandroid backup with the ext SD card removed and the backup size was exactly the same 2.0GB
sphere314 said:
I had the same problem with my External card. It was because it was formatted as exFat.
Formatting it as Fat32 solved it. Unfrotunately it seems that CWM doesn't recognize exFat cards.
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I just copied them all out in a reply to you but it doesn't seem to have been posted for some reason.
Here goes again. Obviously, it's the first three that account for most of the space. This result is the same with the ext SD card removed so I assume this is playing no part.
GT-N8020
system.ext4.tar.a 976562 KB
data.ext4.tar.a 25703 KB
system.ext4.tar.b 180595 KB
boot.img 8192 KB
recovery.img 8192 KB
cache.ext4.tar.a 194 KB
nandroid.md5 1 KB
cache.ext4.tar 0 KB
data.ext4.tar 0 KB
system.ext4.tar 0 KB
rahulsnair said:
Browse into the backups using any root explorers and tell me what's inside
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sacentre said:
Many thanks for the reply. This is puzzling because, if I interpret the Rom Manager message I'm getting, it's not backing up the ext SD card - only the phone and installed apps and a few other things.
Can you tell me how I format the ext SD card as FAT32?
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Actually, AFAIK, nandroid backup is normally used to back up all that's on your internal card (including app's data) and the resulting files total to a big storage size (well... it depends on what apps have been installed). So I'm not sure I've interpreted right your situation.
In any case (how to format the ext SD car as Fat32?) here's a possible answer.
If you have a card reader connected to your PC you can skip the SGS3 Easy UMS part.

That's my understanding too.
My GT-N8020 (Galaxy Note 10.1) is just a big duplicate of the GT-N7000 with all the same apps installed so I don't see how a Nandroid backup grows from 16.6MB on the small device to 2.0GB on the big one. This is with the ext SD card removed so this is playing no role in this.
sphere314 said:
Actually, AFAIK, nandroid backup is normally used to back up all that's on your internal card (including app's data) and the resulting files total to a big storage size (well... it depends on what apps have been installed). So I'm not sure I've interpreted right your situation.
In any case (how to format the ext SD car as Fat32?) here's a possible answer.
If you have a card reader connected to your PC you can skip the SGS3 Easy UMS part.
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sacentre said:
I just copied them all out in a reply to you but it doesn't seem to have been posted for some reason.
Here goes again. Obviously, it's the first three that account for most of the space. This result is the same with the ext SD card removed so I assume this is playing no part.
GT-N8020
system.ext4.tar.a 976562 KB
data.ext4.tar.a 25703 KB
system.ext4.tar.b 180595 KB
boot.img 8192 KB
recovery.img 8192 KB
cache.ext4.tar.a 194 KB
nandroid.md5 1 KB
cache.ext4.tar 0 KB
data.ext4.tar 0 KB
system.ext4.tar 0 KB
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Basically a nandroid back should be atleast 100 mb sunce this much data consists of the rom.the rest data depends on the no. Of installed app and data in ext partition. Here i see that your system backup.tar is like an elephant. You are using TWRP or clockworkmode recovery??
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CWM 6.0.3.1 that comes with PhilZ Touch 4.
The apps are all the same on both devices but I guess the ROM is so much bigger. The ROM is stock XXMBA7 .
rahulsnair said:
Basically a nandroid back should be atleast 100 mb sunce this much data consists of the rom.the rest data depends on the no. Of installed app and data in ext partition. Here i see that your system backup.tar is like an elephant. You are using TWRP or clockworkmode recovery??
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sacentre said:
CWM 6.0.3.1 that comes with PhilZ Touch 4.
The apps are all the same on both devices but I guess the ROM is so much bigger. The ROM is stock XXMBA7 .
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Try TWRP for your note and then backup.. I think twrp 2.2 . Just google it and ensure.
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[GUIDE] Format your new SDCard (especially 64GB) to FAT32

This is a very simple and quick guide to show you how to format your external SD Card to FAT32. It took me a total of about 4 minutes from start to finish to format my 64 GB SD Card to FAT32. The main benefit of this is that your SD Card will now be recognized in CWM. I could not get Windows to format my SD Card by itself, which I was I use the program mentioned below.
Step 1: Download and Install EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition
http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
Step 2: Insert your SD Card into your computer with SD Card reader and open up the partition program
Step 3: On the main screen you should see your SD Card. Right Click and select format partition. Put in Partition Label (Optional), Select FAT32, and select a cluster size. The smaller the cluster size, the less wasting there is of disk space. I chose 4kb. Then Click "Ok"
Step 4: The Format will go into Pending Operations. Now click "Apply"
Step 5: Profit! Your card should now be FAT32.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development or their programs. I am also not responsible for anything that may happen as a result of this guide.
Also you can just use this simple tool: fat32format
I have refrained from doing this to my 64 gig card because IIRC doesn't FAT32 prevent you from saving any file over 4 gigs??
jmorton10 said:
I have refrained from doing this to my 64 gig card because IIRC doesn't FAT32 prevent you from saving any file over 4 gigs??
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you're fine with exFAT as long as you don't want to flash a CM/AOSP based rom. Otherwise, you're just going to end up with a corrupt sdcard.
jmorton10 said:
I have refrained from doing this to my 64 gig card because IIRC doesn't FAT32 prevent you from saving any file over 4 gigs??
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That is correct however you might want to read this article: Team Epic: Why not exFAT?
Also CWM and TWRP can't read your SD Card properly until you format it to Fat32.
open1your1eyes0 said:
Also CWM and TWRP can't read your SD Card properly until you format it to Fat32.
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I realize that, but I have movie RIPs that are over 4 gigs, so I just let CWM write to the internal storage & then back it up to my PC.
jmorton10 said:
I realize that, but I have movie RIPs that are over 4 gigs, so I just let CWM write to the internal storage & then back it up to my PC.
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As of this moment, unfortunately, CWM doesn't support internal storage. There is one alpha build out there version 6.0.1.0 that I haven't tried yet, but so far every other version up to 5.8.4.9 either doesn't work properly or doesn't have an option for internal memory. In that case you may want to switch to TWRP and just use the internal storage there if you want to keep exFAT on your external SD Card.
open1your1eyes0 said:
As of this moment, unfortunately, CWM doesn't support internal storage. There is one alpha build out there version 6.0.1.0 that I haven't tried yet, but so far every other version up to 5.8.4.9 either doesn't work properly or doesn't have an option for internal memory. In that case you may want to switch to TWRP and just use the internal storage there if you want to keep exFAT on your external SD Card.
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huh? Every version I've installed was able to access the "internal sdcard". Backup/Restore works fine.
PJnc284 said:
huh? Every version I've installed was able to access the "internal sdcard". Backup/Restore works fine.
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What version are you on now? Try choosing to flash a zip file, anytime I have done that it errored out and went back, wouldn't let me read the partition. The only exception is version 5.8.4.9 non-touch which uses the external SD card as it's only memory option and even then you still need to reformat it as FAT32 to get it working. So far, no version of official CWM has supported internal SD card at all, the default was always external but only started working with 5.8.4.9.
EDIT: Just checked CWM 6.0.1.0 is the first version that not only shows options for both the internal and the external memory, but also works with both as well. But upon further checking it's not official CWM either, just CWM-based.
open1your1eyes0 said:
As of this moment, unfortunately, CWM doesn't support internal storage..
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The version I'm using (5.8.4.9) works just fine with the internal storage, I use it all the time & have done 3-4 restores from it also with no problem,
It also installs zips just fine, I do it all the time.
open1your1eyes0 said:
What version are you on now? Try choosing to flash a zip file, anytime I have done that it errored out and went back, wouldn't let me read the partition. The only exception is version 5.8.4.9 non-touch which uses the external SD card as it's only memory option and even then you still need to reformat it as FAT32 to get it working. So far, no version of official CWM has supported internal SD card at all, the default was always external but only started working with 5.8.4.9.
EDIT: Just checked CWM 6.0.1.0 is the first version that not only shows options for both the internal and the external memory, but also works with both as well. But upon further checking it's not official CWM either, just CWM-based.
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I'm using the kexec cwm right now listed as 6.0.0.8. Can't remember the other version number but it was the one included in the original root thread. Also didn't have an issue with the touch based kexec cwm that was linked with the first cm9 rom. Only errors related to flashing a zip file I've seen were corrupt downloads or flashing a kexec rom on a noncompatible cwm. Haven't tried the official one through rom manager but I tend to avoid that app anyways.
Just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, I just restored a CWM BU made two days ago from my internal storage (I figured worst case scenario I have to start over with all my apps)
The restore worked perfectly & it is definitely coming from the internal storage as CWM does not see my 64 gig card at all.
There is no way I am going to format a 64 gig card to a file system that limits me to under 4 gigs in file size, half the reason I bought that card was so I didn't have to worry about large file size.
jmorton10 said:
Just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, I just restored a CWM BU made two days ago from my internal storage (I figured worst case scenario I have to start over with all my apps)
The restore worked perfectly & it is definitely coming from the internal storage as CWM does not see my 64 gig card at all.
There is no way I am going to format a 64 gig card to a file system that limits me to under 4 gigs in file size, half the reason I bought that card was so I didn't have to worry about large file size.
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I find it very interesting that CWM is giving you an option for internal SD card. Please tell me which version you are using and the exact words you see. Perhaps a photo? I just flashed 5.8.4.9 non-touch and I see no such option for internal SD card. The only memory option there goes directly to my external SD card without even asking.
open1your1eyes0 said:
I find it very interesting that CWM is giving you an option for internal SD card. Please tell me which version you are using and the exact words you see. Perhaps a photo? I just flashed 5.8.4.9 non-touch and I see no such option for internal SD card. The only memory option there goes directly to my external SD card without even asking.
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I am using (5.8.4.9) non-touch version.
I could care less if its touch or non-touch or what it looks like as long as it works.
Mine has been backing up to the internal memory /mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup by default & never gives me the option to do it anywhere else.
When I first installed it, I was pissed that it didn't detect my 64 gig card not realizing at the time it was because of the file system.
I tried to find an option to BU to the card, but there was no way to choose it. At that point, I figured who cares really as long as it works.
I flashed the root66 ROM & immediately made a BU. I then restored it to make sure it worked before I went any further.
It worked fine, so from then on every few days I copied the BU's to my PC & didn't worry about it.
jmorton10 said:
I am using (5.8.4.9) non-touch version.
I could care less if its touch or non-touch or what it looks like as long as it works.
Mine has been backing up to the internal memory /mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup by default & never gives me the option to do it anywhere else.
When I first installed it, I was pissed that it didn't detect my 64 gig card not realizing at the time it was because of the file system.
I tried to find an option to BU to the card, but there was no way to choose it. At that point, I figured who cares really as long as it works.
I flashed the root66 ROM & immediately made a BU. I then restored it to make sure it worked before I went any further.
It worked fine, so from then on every few days I copied the BU's to my PC & didn't worry about it.
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Wow, I feel like a complete idiot. Apparently (and I have no idea how this happened) but my SD card got cloned onto my internal storage. So actually what's happening is that CWM 5.8.4.9 is by default to internal storage and in fact doesn't give you an option for external SD card at all. CWM-based 6.0.1.0 that I linked finally shows and works with both and so does TWRP but only when you format to FAT32. So ignore that I said CWM doesn't see internal storage, that was in fact it's default this whole time.
Format Int or Ext SD?
open1your1eyes0 said:
As of this moment, unfortunately, CWM doesn't support internal storage. There is one alpha build out there version 6.0.1.0 that I haven't tried yet, but so far every other version up to 5.8.4.9 either doesn't work properly or doesn't have an option for internal memory. In that case you may want to switch to TWRP and just use the internal storage there if you want to keep exFAT on your external SD Card.
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I fell upon this thread for 2 reasons
1. Insufficient memory downloading apps from GPStore ( 9/16GB Remaining on SD + 9/16GB Remaining on Enternal + 600MB Remaining on System)
-- I dont understand why that is happening.?!?!?
2. Is it neccesary to Format the Enternal memory (16GB)?
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open1your1eyes0 said:
Wow, I feel like a complete idiot. Apparently (and I have no idea how this happened) but my SD card got cloned onto my internal storage. So actually what's happening is that CWM 5.8.4.9 is by default to internal storage and in fact doesn't give you an option for external SD card at all. CWM-based 6.0.1.0 that I linked finally shows and works with both and so does TWRP but only when you format to FAT32. So ignore that I said CWM doesn't see internal storage, that was in fact it's default this whole time.
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@open1your1eyes0,
so what you are saying is:
- its NORMAL to see CWM in both Internal and External SD? Therefore, it does not matter which CWM I use to flash a ROM? CWM 6.x.x.x vs CWM Touch 5.x.x.x vs TWRP?
Like right now I am copying all my internal storage to my PC & external storage card(merging)
kuntri said:
I fell upon this thread for 2 reasons
1. Insufficient memory downloading apps from GPStore ( 9/16GB Remaining on SD + 9/16GB Remaining on Enternal + 600MB Remaining on System)
-- I dont understand why that is happening.?!?!?
2. Is it neccesary to Format the Enternal memory (16GB)?
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@open1your1eyes0,
so what you are saying is:
- its NORMAL to see CWM in both Internal and External SD? Therefore, it does not matter which CWM I use to flash a ROM? CWM 6.x.x.x vs CWM Touch 5.x.x.x vs TWRP?
Like right now I am copying all my internal storage to my PC & external storage card(merging)
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Only CWM 6.x.x.x will see both where as CWM 5.x.x.x will see only internal memory. But even if you use CWM 6.x.x.x, to work with external SD card it has to only be formatted in FAT32.
open1your1eyes0 said:
Only CWM 6.x.x.x will see both where as CWM 5.x.x.x will see only internal memory. But even if you use CWM 6.x.x.x, to work with external SD card it has to only be formatted in FAT32.
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do we have to format the internal memory? only the external - fat32, correct!
kuntri said:
do we have to format the internal memory? only the external - fat32, correct!
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Can't format it even if you wanted (device limitation) so yes, correct.
kuntri said:
I fell upon this thread for 2 reasons
1. Insufficient memory downloading apps from GPStore ( 9/16GB Remaining on SD + 9/16GB Remaining on Enternal + 600MB Remaining on System)
-- I dont understand why that is happening.?!?!?
2. Is it neccesary to Format the Enternal memory (16GB)?
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@open1your1eyes0,
so what you are saying is:
- its NORMAL to see CWM in both Internal and External SD? Therefore, it does not matter which CWM I use to flash a ROM? CWM 6.x.x.x vs CWM Touch 5.x.x.x vs TWRP?
Like right now I am copying all my internal storage to my PC & external storage card(merging)
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open1your1eyes0 said:
Only CWM 6.x.x.x will see both where as CWM 5.x.x.x will see only internal memory. But even if you use CWM 6.x.x.x, to work with external SD card it has to only be formatted in FAT32.
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kuntri said:
do we have to format the internal memory? only the external - fat32, correct!
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open1your1eyes0 said:
Can't format it even if you wanted (device limitation) so yes, correct.
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Thanks!
Also I followed thread using GScript to enable/disable MSU so that your PC will only read the External SD and not both Ext/Int Storage.
---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
One last question .. have you encountered "insufficient storage" while downloading an app? I manually pushed my apps2sd using TiBu and Links2SD and was still getting the same error. any suggestions?

CWM backups broken after installing CM9-RC2

After installing CM9-RC2, my backups no longer work in CWM. It keeps insisting that my SD card free space is 0MB, which is definitely not true. I have a 16GB card and there is a lot of free space on it. Has anyone else experienced this?
hedpe said:
After installing CM9-RC2, my backups no longer work in CWM. It keeps insisting that my SD card free space is 0MB, which is definitely not true. I have a 16GB card and there is a lot of free space on it. Has anyone else experienced this?
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There are some issues with the SD Card under CM9 (formatting over USB corrupts the FS, slow transfer speeds and possible corruption over USB, and if you try to format the SD Card using CM9, it will format the eMMC instead).
If you have a way to directly connect your SD Card to your PC without using the phone, back up any files the PC can read and format it directly with SD Formatter.
hmmmm, I don't have a microsd adapter to use that reformat tool. However, I'm not sure this is the only issue. I fear that CWM is trying to use /mnt/sdcard which seems to be broken in CM9. My /mnt/sdcard points to nothing. However, /emmc points to the actual internal storage and /emmc/external_sd points to my sdcard. In fact, there is only one file on my external_sd. It is /emmc/clockworkmod/backup where all of my CWM backups are. Also, if I take the external SD card out of the phone, CWM complains that it can't find any SD card and will not backup or restore anything.
i wonder if this is the same issue: http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2012-06-04/installing-cm9-encrypted-android-tablet
hedpe said:
After installing CM9-RC2, my backups no longer work in CWM. It keeps insisting that my SD card free space is 0MB, which is definitely not true. I have a 16GB card and there is a lot of free space on it. Has anyone else experienced this?
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which cwm version r u using
should be the ones listed in my 1st link in my sig
I highly recommend twrp 2.20 recovery to do the backups. You install the recovery using goo manager from the market. The with haptic button install open script recovery. This is much more reliable no matter how many times you flash.
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netomel said:
I highly recommend twrp 2.20 recovery to do the backups. You install the recovery using goo manager from the market. The with haptic button install open script recovery. This is much more reliable no matter how many times you flash.
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And TWRP is way faster than cwm, it only took 157 SECONDS to backup 1.3Gig of data compared to about 15 minutes for cwm!
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[Q] External SD Card Space

just flashed paranoid android 12, while i was doing that i made a backup of my old rom in CWM and it never ended up showing up on my SD card, after flashing my rom i opened up my SD card on my laptop and it seems to be that alot of memory is going to no where.. i highlighted everything in the folder and it says its all about 350mb and all my music is about 300mb. Before i open up the SD card it says that theres 500mb out of 1.8gb free. 1.8gb - 300mb = 1.5gb. Is it the backup that i cant see thats taking up all the memory? if so how would i make it show up? or is it something else?
That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
deathmaker06 said:
That is weird normally you should be able to see your backup as a folder. Mine is set under sdcard/clockwordmod/backup and the backup I got is 581mb and is very visible both to es file explorer and to my desktop pc. Something maybe up with your sdcard. I've had invisible files on a knock off 16gb MS Pro that I ordered from china. Fixed it by formatting the memory card a few times with the PC though.
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So if I just copied everything in there into another folder formatted it put it back in it should appear? And do you back up with cwm?
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I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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deathmaker06 said:
I do use cmw to backup. Also yes, I'm theroy as long as ur sdcard is not totally screwed over by bad blocks or something of that matter.
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So you boot into cwm>click back up and restore>backup right? And alright I'll try it out thanks
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how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
dodgefan67 said:
how did you install CWM? with NVFlash? there are different versions that support different SD cards (one internal only, the other external)
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I did use nvflash and it worked before just this time idk what happend when I open rom manager and click rename it shows up there
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[RESOLVED] How to resize my sdcard Partition.

Hi Guys,
I hv a 256 MB partition created on my Sdcard but want to increase it to 512 MB...Tried looking for an option in recovery mode but could'nt find anything.
Could you guys pls help me in repartitioning my sdcard.
- Have tried searching xda on the captioned topic but could'nt find any convincing post.
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Use GParted
Junior Einstein said:
Use GParted
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ThanX Einstein
will try & let you know...
Re: How to resize my sdcard Partition.
Hey Einstein,
I downloaded Gparted but found that i need to create a bootable image & than use it
Will it work if I drop my current ext & create a new partition with 512 mb using the good old CWM
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Re: How to resize my sdcard Partition.
You just repartition through cwm(tried it myself before). Just like a first time partitioning
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borchaniz said:
You just repartition through cwm(tried it myself before). Just like a first time partitioning
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Hi Borchaniz....i have a few queries...
1. How should i delete my current ext partition...could'nt find any option in CWM to delete the partition.
2. if i go ahead & direclty follow the first time partitioning process what will happen to my existing partition...wil that be part of my new sd-ext
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Re: How to resize my sdcard Partition.
Your SD card will be formatted, old partition deleted, new partition created.
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Just in case it isn't clear, you will lose all data on the sd card when you repartition. If you use gparted, you can accomplish the same thing, while preserving the data.
Re: How to resize my sdcard Partition.
DpAk007 said:
Hi Borchaniz....i have a few queries...
1. How should i delete my current ext partition...could'nt find any option in CWM to delete the partition.
2. if i go ahead & direclty follow the first time partitioning process what will happen to my existing partition...wil that be part of my new sd-ext
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Copy your all data from SD card.
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
This will delete all your old partitions from SD card.
Now reboot in CWM recovery and partition your SD card according to your need.
Restore your data.
Cheers!!!
Use minipartition tool from a PC, connect your phone as usb storage and it will resize your sd card partition without formatting.
Success
ThanX for the Help Guys...
I have successfully resized my partition to 512 MB using ClockworkMod Recovery. As mentioned by "upconvert"...old partition deleted, new partition created.
Would like to share my experience with the below tools...
GParted - Itz an 100 MB ISO file & after downloading got to know that it can be used only from Boot mode :bad:
MiniTool Partition - This one has a pretty neat UI & the setup is sized just 14 MB. The problem here was the Resize option didn't work for me. Not sure on the exact reason , maybe it requires the memory card to be connected using a card Reader & not as a USB storage.
Phone :- Lg Optimus One
ROM :- HoneyWizz by Kssood & Kukde
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DpAk007 said:
ThanX for the Help Guys...
I have successfully resized my partition to 512 MB using ClockworkMod Recovery. As mentioned by "upconvert"...old partition deleted, new partition created.
Would like to share my experience with the below tools...
GParted - Itz an 100 MB ISO file & after downloading got to know that it can be used only from Boot mode :bad:
MiniTool Partition - This one has a pretty neat UI & the setup is sized just 14 MB. The problem here was the Resize option didn't work for me. Not sure on the exact reason , maybe it requires the memory card to be connected using a card Reader & not as a USB storage.
Phone :- Lg Optimus One
ROM :- HoneyWizz by Kssood & Kukde
--> Hit Thanx if i Helped you by anyway
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I don't know why minitool partition didn,t work, I personally used it on a phone connected as usb storage. Maybe there is a problem with order of operations (delete one partition before resize the other etc. but i'm not sure).
Anyway I'm happy that you solved your problem.
rodem77 said:
Use minipartition tool from a PC, connect your phone as usb storage and it will resize your sd card partition without formatting.
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Can you provide a tutorial on how to do that? I have a 16 GB SD card. Out of the 14GB available, 13GB is my main partition. 1 GB is my app partition. I want to increase the app partition without formatting my SD Card.
Thanks!
MiniTool Partition Wizard 10 worked perfectly for resizing a 16GB to 64GB for the kids' Kindle Fire tablet. I initially cloned the 16GB partition to the 64GB using WinDiskImager32, then resized it afterwards.

help with creating partition

Hi
i saw that im can incrase phone internal memory by a partition
how can i'm do it?
beacause im saw a tutorial on cm11 post
and how much partiton size i can choose?
because im saw that im can do 512mb partiton
and 1024 mb partiton
and if i making partiton the apps will removed?
If you create a partition all the stuff on you SD card will be removed.
512 MB should be enough for most people IMHO.
You can create a partition by using Partition Manager.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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akiratoriyama said:
If you create a partition all the stuff on you SD card will be removed.
512 MB should be enough for most people IMHO.
You can create a partition by using Partition Manager.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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Hi
im want to make a partiton because im installed cm11 on lg p500
and cm11 has not enough mb in internal memory
im found that tutorial http://www.noypigeeks.com/android/tutorial-a-guide-to-link2sd/
if im do it, im can install many apps?
sorry about the english, im from israel
eran32 said:
Hi
im want to make a partiton because im installed cm11 on lg p500
and cm11 has not enough mb in internal memory
im found that tutorial http://www.noypigeeks.com/android/tutorial-a-guide-to-link2sd/
if im do it, im can install many apps?
sorry about the english, im from israel
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No probs
XDA is a global community and as long as your English is understandable you're good to go
That guide should work and yes a partition will allow you to install many apps.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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akiratoriyama said:
No probs
XDA is a global community and as long as your English is understandable you're good to go
That guide should work and yes a partition will allow you to install many apps.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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thanks man, im try it
From my experience if you want to partition your SD Card, it's best if you first backup all you SD Card data to other storage, and then partition it using Partition Manager or Recovery like CMW, and than you copy back your data to the SD Card. On some occasion (twice to be exact) I found that partitioning you SD Card using Partition Manager without backup and clean up/delete all partition before creating second partition will reasult in read only second partition on android.
ayrus02 said:
From my experience if you want to partition your SD Card, it's best if you first backup all you SD Card data to other storage, and then partition it using Partition Manager or Recovery like CMW, and than you copy back your data to the SD Card. On some occasion (twice to be exact) I found that partitioning you SD Card using Partition Manager without backup and clean up/delete all partition before creating second partition will reasult in read only second partition on android.
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I noticed that too.It rendered my SDcard unreadable on CM11.I had to use other phone running JB to format it.
Also doesn't partitioning memory card formats SD card before partitioning (Except gParted)
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eran32 said:
Hi
i saw that im can incrase phone internal memory by a partition
how can i'm do it?
beacause im saw a tutorial on cm11 post
and how much partiton size i can choose?
because im saw that im can do 512mb partiton
and 1024 mb partiton
and if i making partiton the apps will removed?
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You meant external (sdcard-ext2) memory? Then follow @akiratoriyama suggestion. Internal memory /data partition is fix, 200MB. And it's dangerous to repartition, AFAIK.
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sorry for the up
but im need help
i want to do it on my lg p500
but someone can give me tutorial that work?
because cm11 have not enough space in internal memory
Which ROM did you intent to use? And what version of android do u use?

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