yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Yes, you can move all your stuff back to the SD card if you like. HOWEVER, restoring from TB has proven troublesome for many. Worst case scenario, you will have to install app's 1 by 1.

That is why considering to partition should take place in your ROM Flashing Prep Procedures. It's so easy to do when you have to do a complete wipe and rather if you use it or not it'll be there(like old luggage).
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Ironically, I had the opposite. TB works great and MyBackup Pro gave me trouble to where some apps would FC, and I'd have to re d/l them to get them to work.

I think that the newer releases of TB address A2SD real well, because earlier versions were a nightmare.
[EVO 4G General] Slatter39:
How does this affect nandroid backups? Partitioned sd to same specs as above, did a nandroid and tried Viruses Synergy-Kingdom hybrid. Mind you i had Kingdom 6/23. Didnt really like the hybrid so tried restoring backup and got an error. Couldnt restore backup. Had to do a manual flash and apps installation all over again. Dont know if partitioning the sdcard had something to do with it. Any info?
[EVO 4G General] legendofakira:
I was not able to back up my system before I completed this process. Is there any way to get a rom onto my sd card now. I'm stuck in the h boot screen. My Evo is now a brick. Help please.
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
I don't know the exact script used for nand, however your 'disc image' has changed and it may not be recognized. This should be prevented by making a nand of a known stable-2-you ROM.:D
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
You are fine, it's not a brick!:D from the hboot screen, you can't get into recovery? Once in recovery you can use the MS-USB and copy a ROM from your HDD the the card.

What recovery are you using? If you can't get into recovery and sort it out with CWM, try AR: AmonRa 2.3
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
followed the directions to a T (set 2048 for ext-2, once w/ 0 swap, once w/ 32 mb), and can't get past white screen, any ideas? I waited for 30 minutes, thought that was patient enough.
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
What ROM are you running?
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
Tried both Synergy RC-1, and last night's nightley.
[EVO 4G General] Raistlin1:
I got a larger sd card for my Evo and I want to switch to the new one. How should I go about doing this? I would like to copy the currently partitioned card exactly how it is to the new card.

Can this be done or do I have to partition the new card and do a fresh install of my ROM?

Thanks
[EVO 4G General] Kushdawg:
swap

if i am flashing a Rom with a custom kernel do i need a swap size when partitioning my SD card?
[EVO 4G General] NxNW:
Only if the kernel specifically supports swap (and if you're not sure, it probably doesn't).
[EVO 4G General] ghostnj:
when i get to step 4 to "Upgrade ext2 to ext3" i get an error saying OOps... something went wrong! Please check the recovery log! but i don't see any recovery log
[EVO 4G General] roids87:
In amon ra, in the main menu, its either under other or development. There is an option to move recovery.log to SD. Then you can mount and transfer to your PC.
[EVO 4G General] mcwups1:
how do you undo a partition to get the full space available from an sdcard?
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Re-partition using 0 swap, 0 ext2, the rest for fat32.

:cool:
[EVO 4G General] nyroshan:
I have a2sd running on my evo(MikG 3.0), with Dalvik on sd-ext and so far it seemed like a2sd was fine, but now there's 416mb/915mb free on sd-ext, but internal memory only has 42/427 free. This keeps giving me the low warning notification, and i'm not sure why so much internal memory is being taken up.
[EVO 4G General] Pre-dawn raid:
Same thing happened to me. I have a 32GB Sandisk. Ignore the posts about your card being bad. All you have to do is do a long format on your PC/laptop first using a card reader and then stick it back into your Evo and it upgrades to Ext3 with no error message.
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
Don't ignore error logs, report them? logs can also be found on the SD card as well, and SD can be reformat from the device itself which would perfered method. menu>settings>sd&phonestorage>unmountSDcard then grey'd out "Erase SD card" will be available to use.

---------- Post added at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:31 PM ----------

Are you using armon_RA recovery as recommended in the OP?
[EVO 4G General] Pre-dawn raid:
Yes, that's another way to format our cards if a computer/card reader is not available. Point is, it wouldn't upgrade my EXT partition without being formatted first. I am using amon_Ra recovery and still got the Oops message.
[EVO 4G General] RascalDoc:
I'm copying everything to my pc and intended to wipe the card and repartition...... then realized if I don't set the partitions up exactly the same my nandroid won't work if I want it. How can I check my present settings so when I redo the partitions I set them up the same?
[EVO 4G General] dcharleyultra:
Run this command in a terminal emulator:

df -h
[EVO 4G General] RascalDoc:
type su <enter> first?

and then what does this do?

googled this... I found the df command... could not find what the -h switch does, nor whether I have to do *su* first. (I wouldn't run it without more knowledge as I remember when it was considered funny to tell someone "oh, just hit alt-F4, that will fix it.....lol" wasn't funny but it wasn't harmful either ..... And I didn't mean any implication to whomever answered me ... I do appreciate the input and assistance...
[EVO 4G General] RascalDoc:
guess I offended someone or asked a reallllly dumb question ... probably the latter I don't usually offend someone except face to face....lol ... Anyway I tried running tthis command and got *no such file or directory* for a response whether I typed su <enter> and then ran the command on the next line, or just ran the command by itself.
[EVO 4G General] dcharleyultra:
The command displays filesystem usage, and needs to be run as su.

Try df, with no switches.
[EVO 4G General] pr0xyw0rm:
I spent hours searching for the best way of partitioning my sd card. Finally I decided to install Linux in my PC and do it from there. It took me about 40 min to install Linux and partitioning my SD card. Very straight forward and without problems. Perhaps android OS is based on Linux. I might need it again.
[EVO 4G General] jrny99:
worked like a charm, I have available space 370MB internal storage. edit 10char
[EVO 4G General] KatNapPurr:
I'm too tired to read through all 40 pages, but, from what I understand, there is no way to make this work with root stock?

I updated to the newest version of root stock today, and I don't know what on earth the developer did besides add in all the junk I removed (some people like it, I hate it), but I had to remove all HTC Sense widgets and junk I didn't use (like friendstream) and on top of that I had to delete half the apps I had installed just to clear up space! :S

I've had too many problems with custom ROMs in the past, so that's why I stick to root stock. The only reason I rooted was to be able to delete a lot of crap that was taking up space on my phone....

I still need more space, though, and I have a 16gb memory card, only about 2/3 is used (a lot of pictures and music)
[EVO 4G General] dcharleyultra:
Which partitions do you need more space?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
If you're talking about my ROM, I directed you here and then posted that partitioning works fine with my ROM.

As far as 'adding in the junk', I didn't add anything. I just didn't remove anything, i.e. I kept it stock. I just made most of the junk uninstallable.

You can easily take out the APKs you don't want/need using 7zip prior to flashing.

If you want to know if partitioning will work on the ROM you're flashing, just look for "a2sd enabled" in the OP.
[EVO 4G General] jrny99:
10char
[EVO 4G General] KatNapPurr:
Ok, I know nothing about these things. I get that AmonRA v2.3 is a recovery, but how do I know if I have that?

my phone is rooted, but my brother rooted it for me, so I don't know what he did :P all I know is when I boot into recovery, I do have the option to partition my SD card... so how do I know if I have AmonRA?

Also, since I have to wipe everything, I'm guessing I need to back up all my apps and settings and such?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
When you boot into recovery, it'll say "RA-supersonic" or something similar at the bottom of the screen. That's how you know what recovery you have.

You can use a program like Titanium Backup or My Backup Pro to backup your app data. It's usually better to do a clean install of apps from the Play Store when flashing a new ROM.
[EVO 4G General] jrny99:
ok, I had partition my card as instructed. everything ok until i went to install a different rom. i did a full wipe and the sd/ext and phone went into a bootloop . i reformatted the sd card to fat 32 while my phone was connected USB with my pc. put classic rom and everything went good. i don't know if i erased my partitions but the phone still shows 354 free internal space. how do i check or see my partitions and see if they are there. i can ADB into phone.
[EVO 4G General] dcharleyultra:
su

Then

df

(In a terminal emulator)
[EVO 4G General] sortus:
Wow thanks for explaining that. Maybe ill do it now. Took a lot of the question marks away for me. Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] jrny99:
Delete me

10char
[EVO 4G General] IgottaT/A:
This will probably sound silly to some of you but try to remember, I'm a noob, lol. After I partition my sd card, can I bring it back to stock if I wanted to return to the factory ROM?
[EVO 4G General] NxNW:
It's a legitimate question.

Answer is yes, you can always re-partition your card back to the way it was. (Be sure to back up the entire contents of the card before you do - that process is just as destructive as the original partitioning process.)

Basically follow the same procedure only select a size of zero for the ext partition. That will result in the FAT partition occupying the entire card.

(Or you can always buy a new SD card...)
[EVO 4G General] agent071:
can't partition sd card

I have problem partitioning my 32 GB class 10 micro sd.

If I partition it with recovery, minitool sees fat32 partition, but ext partition is showed as "unallocated".

If I partition it with minitool, fat32 is good, but ext partition is showed as "other" and as full, no free space on it.

I have unsucesfully tried to find a solution anywhere. It's like nobody had a problem like this...
[EVO 4G General] shosky:
Partitioning My SD card

Please i need help. I just rooted my Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos and I've installed link2SD to move apps to my SD cards. But i still the problem of insufficient space on my internal memory. I learnt that i have to partition my SD card then install a2sd & swapper to be able to increase the size of my internal memory.

Please i just help on the step by step process i will take increase the size of my internal memory(in plain language, please). I don't even know how to do the partitioning. I will appreciate an urgent help from you guys. Thank you.
[EVO 4G General] the.emilio:
Well the guide here is about as step by step it can get. Mind you this is intended for the Evo recovery so verbiage may differ on your device/recovery.

Also, apps2sd does not increase the internal memory. It simply allows users to store and run the app from the SD. This will allow for less internal memory to be eaten up, not increase the overall size.

Best suggestion is to try to follow as close as possible, and flash a ROM that is not bloated with extra goodies. The extra apps and perks included in some roms does decrease the overall availability of internal memory to start from a clean install at initial boot.
[EVO 4G General] magi44ken:
I currently have CM7 gingerbread installed on my EVO 4G phone with DT A2SD and wanted to upgrade to 4.2.2. I need to repartition my SD card to 1GB. When I boot to Recovery mode, I do not see USB-MS option in the main menu. It have the CWM Recovery v5.0 installed. What should I do? If I format it in the Recovery using the Partition option in Reovery mode, can I still boot up my phone and then connect it to my PC to copy the rom and gapps to SD card to flash it?

Does one have to install the DT A2SD or Mount2SD in recovery mode? Or it can be done on the desktop when the phone boot?

Hopefully someone can help me. Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] jlmancuso:
Well if you are going to flash 4.4.2 first you need to flash the twrp in the development section. It also has mass storage mounting so you can transfer files.
[EVO 4G General] magi44ken:
Thanks for the help. With your information, I was able to figure out that CWM also have a mount USB storage option under Advance option. From there I was able to copy the files over to the SD card and then flash the ROM.

Quick question. How does A2SD determines what apps are automatically installed in that A2SD 1GB Ext3 partition? I notice some apps I have to manually move to A2SD FAT32 partition. Just wonder how it works.
[EVO 4G General] nyamatabright:
Hello. please i partition my memory and the partition for the link2sd (where link2sd links my downloaded apps) cant show on the phone, only the phone memory and de remaining external memory can show. help me to let them show.
[EVO 4G General] dexterd478:
102The internal sd card doesn't show up!!

When I had bricked, my phone I had panicked, in recovery, and began messing with partitions, and now I have the brick part fixed, yet when I check the storage in my phone(rezound running liquid smooth) I only have 2gb, on the phone, and the internal sd doesn't show up, I don't want to buy a huge sd card, so how do I unpartition an internal sd card.
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Are you installing with only the ROM on your SD?

Have you tried connecting your card directly to your pc and running error checking on it?
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
no, spent 45 minutes putting all my stuff back on, haha. evidently I missed something in reading the OP. How do you check for errors on SD?
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
We all miss some things, sometimes.

Using a Windows pc, right click the SD drive>properties>and I believe the tab is error checking. The process was posted yesterday in the Synergy thread yesterday. I'll link to it when i get home if you haven't found it by then.
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
no error, gone back over it twice, can't get anything to boot wtf?
[EVO 4G General] showbo:
Can someone tell me if a2sd is working properly? Here is my log/session output:

export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$su

# a2sd check

[ ] Apps2SD is launching...

__ _____

| \ |

| | |

|__/ | Darktremor Apps2SD 2.7.5.2-1 (2011-01-02)

[ ] GetProp Command = /system/bin/toolbox getprop

[ ] SetProp Command = /system/bin/toolbox setprop

[ ] Mount Point = /system/sd

[ ] Starting Apps2SD Check Program.

[ ] Checking for ext partition

Darktremor 2.7.5.2-1 Apps2SD Status Report

===================================================================================

Legend: []=Setting is correct

[]=Setting is correct, but not optimal.

[]=Setting is incorrect and needs to be fixed or option is not available.

===================================================================================

Block Device - [] Found

- [] /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

EXT Partition - [] Mounted

Mount Point - [ ] /system/sd

Partition Type - [] EXT3

Support EXT2? - [] Yes

Support EXT3? - [] Yes

Support EXT4? - [] No

Apps - [ ] Linked to SD Card.

[ ] No Apps2SD Flag File not found.

[] Programs run from SD card

To run from internal storage, type a2sd remove

Private Apps - [ ] Linked to SD Card.

[ ] No Apps2SD Flag File not found.

[] Private Programs run from SD card

To run from internal storage, type a2sd remove

Dalvik Cache - [ ] Regular directory.

[ ] Dalvik to /cache flag file not found.

[ ] Dalvik to SD flag file not found.

[] Dalvik runs from Int. Storage.

To run from SD card, type a2sd cachesd.

To run from /cache partition, type a2sd cachepart.

Swap - [ ] Partition present.

[ ] Swap partition: /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

[ ] No Swap flag file not found.

[] Swap starts.

To deactivate swap, type a2sd noswap

[ ] Note: Not all ROMS activate swap.

ZipAlign - [] Not running at boot.

To activate it, type a2sd zipalign

Dalvik Heap(MB) - [] 32m

Low Memory

Killer Settings - [] 1536,2048,4096,15360,17920,20480

Note: Values are in pages.

1 page = 4KB memory.

Values represent the following:

1st number = Foreground App

2nd number = Visible App

3rd number = Secondary Server

4th number = Hidden App

5th number = Content Provider

6th number = Empty App

[] For a list of commands that you can use with Apps2SD

Type: a2sd help

#
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Now after that, you want to type

a2sd reswap

That should kick it in, and you need to do that after every reboot, until we have a custom kernel that supports a2sd swap
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Are you using Amon Ra recovery? I would reload my recovery with the most recent Amon Ra and start from there. I know it seems like a lot but we have to start from the beginning, I want Synergy to work for you.
[EVO 4G General] showbo:
Here is what I get now:

export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH

$su

# a2sd reswap

[ ] Apps2SD is launching...

__ _____

| \ |

| | |

|__/ | Darktremor Apps2SD 2.7.5.2-1 (2011-01-02)

[ ] GetProp Command = /system/bin/toolbox getprop

[ ] SetProp Command = /system/bin/toolbox setprop

[ ] Mount Point = /system/sd

[ ] Creating /cache/dc

[ ] Symlinking /cache/dalvik-cache to /data/dalvik-cache

[ ] Starting Darktremor Apps2SD Version 2.7.5.2-1

[ ] Launching Apps2SD Start Program with reswap

[ ] Starting Darktremor Apps2SD in reswap mode

[X] Swap partition already active or rom does

not support swap partitions.

[ ] Activating Swap: /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 32201728 bytes

UUID=2a65016c-79e6-4b46-b721-53ded3fab8ec

swapon: /dev/block/mmcblk0p3: Function not implemented

[ ] Setting File System Ready property to 1.

#
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
yup, using Amon Ra, hell I just want anything to work at this point, haven't had a phone in two days now :confused:
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Well if you are willing to go all in, start with a new recovery and flash a older Ruu that we have root for. I'm not even sure of where to tell ya to look for the Ruu, but google is your friend. I can't be on as much as I like atm, but I will keep up with your progress with any help I can offer along the way.

Where are you gonna start?
[EVO 4G General] barry.bishop72:
flashed a new recovery, updated Amon, I got passed the white screen haha!!! keep you posted! Thanks for the idea of flashing new recovery!!!!
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Anytime my friend, good luck!
[EVO 4G General] ZuperBlahq:
so how do you go about reverting back to a non partitioned sd card? I want to lower the amount of partitioned space
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Step #3, 0 for swap, 0 for partition, rest is fat. This will remove the partition, start at the beginning and remember to back up your SD.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
That or use the setting in Settings to reformat the card
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
A re-format will not remove the partition.
[EVO 4G General] jensenwc:
any advantages to upgrading the ext3 partition to ext4?
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Actually, you don't want to do that.

EXT4 is not supported by DT A2SD and @ Dredz; Really? I thought it did. My bad. I should check my card, lol, I might have like 3 partitions now :D :D :D
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
When you re-partition your SD it will erase and format. The utility used by the phone wont really allow you to keep adding partitions on top of each other.

A format alone has no effect on partitions.
[EVO 4G General] GadgetViews:
which one is better? DT a2sd or CM a2sd?
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Better depends on end user experience, ROM choice, available kernels, etc. With Synergy, I use CM. It was baked in and with stock kernel, not a lot more it can do.

Ask me again after HTC release's the source and we get some custom kernels:D
[EVO 4G General] sanjsrik:
Help!

Everything went fine until until Step 4:

4. After the process finishes, select "Upgrade ext2 to ext3"

When I perform Step 4, I get "oops, something went wrong"

I tried to wipe anyway and it couldn't mount the extended partition.

Help.

Um, even weirder, I put the card back in the micro sd card reader on my pc and everything was still all there. Nothing formatted or anything. Any help would be most appreciated.

I'm baffled.
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
I've never seen that one. Hmm, what Recovery are you using? I recommend AR 2.3 :cool:
[EVO 4G General] sanjsrik:
This is my recovery log. I'm baffled...

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log

I:Set boot command ""

Move recovery.log to SD

Press Power to confirm,

any other key to abort.

Moving : .unmounting /sdcard
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
Ok, put your SD card in a pc and run a error check on it.

Get a fresh copy of AmonRa 2.3 recovery and flash that.

Try to partition again.

Report back here. :D
[EVO 4G General] wings9130:
I'm a little confused about this. If you partition your card you will get more internal memory but it will be used on the card on one of the partitions? Also if you start your rooted phone without your sd card will it still bootup properly? Also im wondering if it needs the rom file that is on the root of the sd card to bootup the phone with the custom rom properly?
[EVO 4G General] Dredz:
1st Q: The default A2SD in Syn moves dalvik cache to the SD Card and gives more internal space.

2nd Q: Your device should work without a SD Card.

3rd Q: If you mean the ROM installation zip, nope!:D
[EVO 4G General] Wire P. Snyder:
Maybe someone here can help me?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15607199&postcount=7 From the thread I started earlier yesterday. I just cant seem to get this to work. And I'm running out of Idea's. Some one want to shed some light my way? Thanks in advance.:confused:
[EVO 4G General] Wire P. Snyder:
A troubleshooter guide could be help of some. I'm having the damnedest time getting the built in A2SD or even the Modded DTA2SD from Synergy Updater to work.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Go read the reply I just put on your thread.

I bet that if you try it with another 2.1/3.0 ROM, it'll work
[EVO 4G General] GamerGuy80:
Help with removing ext partition

Ok my question is how do i remove the ext partiton, i have clockwork mod recovery and i have a 16gig memory card. In clockwork mod there is no option to remove the partition.
[EVO 4G General] sanjsrik:
Which is why the instructions cite AmonRa and not clockwork which, honestly, just doesn't work as well.
[EVO 4G General] GamerGuy80:
ok so i have to change my recovery to amon ra....so then when it say ext size do i put 0 and will that remove my ext partition
[EVO 4G General] sanjsrik:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15540951&postcount=54

Post 54.
[EVO 4G General] GamerGuy80:
thank you, but it seems this is not going to work. It seems there is no Amon RA recovery made for my tmobile g2 and there wont be one made...im going to have to figure a way to remove my ext partition by other means. too bad clockwork mod have preset sizes and too bad one wasnt 0. if anyone knows of another means to partition or remove partition without using recovery that would help....happy hunting to me.