[HD2 Android NAND Development] reza416:
for people who need installation help or partition set up

since there are still people asking for more details on how to install and how complicated its to install & set up partitions on sd card, i've went back to F-bone's previous post which helped me install my nand and partition and added a little more details and links to Gparted and Panasonic formatter. thank F-bone for this!!

Ok here it goes - this guide describes the way I do it to install the NAND+3partitions variation.

1) Download v3.3 and extract it on your desktop.

2) Download Panasonic SD Formatter and GPARTED Live CD ISO (google)

Panasonic formatter link=

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html or

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/

Gparted live cd iso link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/ (120 MB!)

3) Shut down your HD2 and remove the SDCard - place the SDCard in a card reader and BACKUP your files (photos etc).

4) Format the SDCard in your laptop or PC using the Panasonic SD Formatter (Full Format)

Also, I have windows 7 and you can go to my Start/computer/SD card drive, right click and format: file system choose Fat32, allocation size, choose the highest 32kb or 64kb, uncheck quick so its full format. That will also do it and no need to download Panasonic if you prefer the windows tools.

5) Boot GParted Live CD (instructions on Gparted Live )

-the file you downloaded for Gparted live Cd Iso is an image file meaning you should burn it into a cd or a dvd in order to be able to use it. Do that by any program capable of burning image files ( nero is an example of such programs)

-after making the cd/dvd, place the cd/dvd in your cd/dvd drive and restart your computer, instead of loading windows, Gparted will load from the cd/dvd.

-next as you are entering Gparted you’re faced with 4 options, choose GPARTED LIVE(DEFAULT SETTINGS)

-next 4 more choices, choose don’t touch keymap

-next choose language, 33 for English. Type 33 press enter

-next, will ask you which mode, type 0(continue to start x to use gparted automatically) press enter

Now gparted is loaded,

on the main screen I will be your hard drive partitions, don’t touch anything of your pc partitions otherwise, you’ll possible lose your windows/personal file etc… important!!!

-So on top right, click and choose your sd card.

-when it loads you should see your sd card (Fat32 size 7540 Mb), right click, resize/move

- new window opens, type 1536 under free space following ( for example 7540 minus 1536) and press add ( I’ll add a screen shot)

-now you have two partitions, Fat32 size 6004 Mb & Unallocated size 1536 Mb.

-right click on Unallocated, click new(new box opens),set to primary and under file system select Ext4 then press add.

-now you named unallocated to ext4 so you got Fat32 and Ext4

-do the same process, right click on Ext4 click on resize/move, choose 512 under space following (1536-512) press add, now you have Fat32, Ext4(size 1GiB), Unallocated(size 512Mib)

-just like before, right click on Unallocated, New, set to primary under file system choose Ext4 and add.

-MAKE SURE YOU PRESS APPLY or none of these changes will take effect. After gpart will do its process you’ll have 3 partitions!!!

-At this point your SDcard has 3 partitions FAT32, ext4 1024MiB, and ext4 512MiB - EXIT Gparted and boot into Windows again.

6) Go to your desktop where you extracted the rom and open config.txt

7) Change gps_zone to your country's zone (=gr for Greece) - leave the rest of the settings intact for NAND+3partitions SDcard variation of this rom - save file.

8) Before you remove the SDcard from your laptop or PC make a folder Desire_DL and copy ONLY the config file you just saved to Desire_DL folder.

9) Safely remove the SDCard and place it in your HD2.

10) Turn on HD2 and HOLD power key to get into MAGLDR 1.11

11) Choose USB Flasher(option 4) and press phone (Green) key

12) Connect your HD2 to your computer

13) Go to your desktop and from the rom folder you extracted run Install.

14) Wait

15) Wait

16) Wait… it may take a while, since the rom will format ext4 partition(s).

17) Now that HD2 has booted do the basic settings and REBOOT again. DO NOT INSTALL APPS etc etc at this point

18) Now that you have rebooted for 2nd time you can do whatever you want - maybe do a 3rd reboot to see that everything is stable

NOTE: When the rom boots wait for a while before using the phone until various system services load in the background after the SD card is prepared... wait 30-40 seconds

hope this helps...