how would one go about partitioning the sd card with the slide...
or the easiest way
but i looked how to do it with adb
but it says you need a g1 yadda yadda
would this same method work with clockwork recovery?
I think the easiest way is to download a live-CD or an installable USB pendrive image for Ubuntu or Parted Magic. Ubuntu has the added benefit of "wubi" that allows you to run Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. In both of those distributions, "gparted" is the application you'd use to set everything up.
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Hello world. I have xdandroid running on my tilt 2. Im using itt right now to psot this. Newayz, when i got to menu, storage there is no sd card listed I also cant seee my sd cccard when plugged into usbon my puter. However, if i go into terminnal and run df -h i can see that the sd card is the first mounted device mounted at /sdcard. I can also use the cd /storagecard andd then ls to see everything on my card. I need tto be able to acccess files from my computer on my phone to ggetg psfreedom running. Im running the latest stable build (updated through android launcher about 15 minutes ago) any help is greatly appreciated
USB mass storage won't work until we're able to unmount the SD - IE when we're not running Android off of the SD...?
You really need to learn how to use search my friend...
If you download Astro or some file explorer, you should be able to see what's on the SD card within Android. If not, you need to format your card again with the HP Tool, GParted, basically anything but the default Windows one.
If you're having psfreedom issues, post in that thread. I'd also recommend reading that thread.
Oh, and use search!
awesome thanks......no problems using psfreedom just didnt know if there was a faster way of putting files on the sd card.......like not booting into winmo to put files on it and then booting back into xdandroid.......would have used search but was on my phone with edge connection and didnt have the patience...........POSTING A QUESTION WILL BE MY LAST RESORT FROM THIS POINT ON XD.......thanks again
I am not sure the correct section to put this into, but here goes.
I have heard ways to install Windows from a USB stick. I was wondering since I do not have a USB stick big enough and also a blank DVD on hand if I could place the image onto my Android SD card and install/reformat my computer that way.
Thanks!
PS. Please move to correct section if need be.
I don't think you could because the computer hardware doesn't recognize the sd card as a mass storage device, the software does, if you get what I mean.
I don't think it's possible to write a Windows live disk to the SD card and use it to format the Windows installation.
This in theory could be done. The one issue you might have is your computer might not recognize the SD card as a bootable option. If you can boot to USB device it might work. Also it isn't as simple as copying a windows install disk to the USB there is work that needs to be done to get it to read correctly and install. If you google linux pen drive I think it has a option to copy the windows cd to the drive boot to linux and install windows.
Yes you can do it. Sd card readers are on a usb connection to the motherboard of a pc. You have to make the sd card a bootable disk though the same way you would for a flash drive.
Never done it with the epic but I used to run puppy linux off my winmo samsung blackjack 2 on a thin client wyse computer. It had a micro sd card in it too. You would need to use a linux distro to be able to properly create a windows installation on another form of media though. Good luck
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I know how to remove the partition using recovery, but I just got a replacement phone because my other one busted. The new one has gingerbread 2.3.3 and thus I am unable to flash a custom recovery. How can I repartition and format my SD card? Window's disk manager doesn't seem to want to remove the partitions..
If Windows isn't seeing it, then your best bet is gparted under linux. Try the live CD here:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
I haven't used it, just googled gparted boot disk
windows see it but wouldnt remove it... it was strange.
i tried that. repartitioned the SD card, copied my files back over. and for whatever reason my phone decided to format it again on its own and i lost everything.. boo. oh well ty anyways
hi. i wanted to partition my sd card with ext 2 for 1024mb. i used rom manager but that only went to 512mb, which was not enough for rcmixs v2.0. so i tried using gparted live. i did not have a spare cd so i used vmware. everything went as the video, but gparted could not detect the sd card, even though vmware was showing that it was connected. was i doing something wrong? i was also searching around and i found a post where there was another method. i had to get unrovoked 3.14 and a custom recovery image and part it in boot. would that work?
appologies if a thread on this matter existed, and if it does please direct me to it. thanks.
when I put my card in card reader slot on laptop I could't format/partition it. I suggest to partition you card while it is in the phone using GParted or Paragon Partition Magic.
Also with unrevoked 3.14 you can flash custom image recovery like AmonRA or RMD, they can make partition to 4gb
Thanks for the quick reply. I did mount using my phone, but gparted did not pick it up. I will try the recovery method.
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instead of vmware you may want to try virtualbox. That's what I use and never had problems with it. Otherwise, if you don't have spare CDs but have a flash drive, you may use it as a bootable drive using YUMI: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
thanks. i did the recovery method and my card is now partitioned... so thanks for your help. now hopefully rcmix s v2 will work.
it works!!
Is or has anyone thought of or tried this?
What I would like to do is use a terminal of sort to run an emulator on my phone to run grub4dos off my phones SD card.
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I'm confused on what you mean... our internal storage already mimics an SD card
So a home PC can run through "virtual memory" an environment where one can test USB Boot Devices. Qumeu is the program I am currently using to check my USB Flash drives with "ISO" files.
Essentially I run Qumeu and then I can see in a GUI my USB device and work with it.
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What i have going is as such:
2 partitions on my SD-Card. First partition is for my phones pictures, apps and roms ect... Second partition has my ComputerToolbox on it. Grub4DOS is the bootloader along with the ISO's i am currently using for troubleshooting a computer.
What I am currently doing is "removing my MicroSD Card" and then put it into a "Standard SD Card". I then place that Standerd sdcard into the computer which I would be fixing and run things as if I were using a USB for preboot repair/recovery.
What i find interesting is for Android Devices I have to remove the SD Card.
For my IPhone one can just plug the phone in through a USB and not have the issue of the computer "Read" the device as a usb device.
Any and all help is very welcome... Thankyou.
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