SD Card Question

[kp4c]

Hey everybody!

This is my first post in the forums. I just ordered the NC during the eBay deal and have been reading up aaaaaall day as to what I need to do to root it to HC when it comes in. One question I've had that I haven't been able to find an answer to is, "If I boot HC from an SD card, can I also put music/movies/pdfs/life on the card? Or will that mess with the booting?" I'm not completely oblivious to Androids (I have the Evo Shift), but I'm still in the learning process of understanding rooting.

Thanks!

 

[jamdmyers]

Welcome, and good luck on you new NC
If you are new to rooting and these types of mods I'd suggest you take
it one step at a time to get used the tools, there is still many quirks with Honeycomb that you may not be happy with, figure another month or so before that starts to lock in.

I started with NC and just Rooted, learned to use ADB(and abdwireless)
to push files back and forth. I then loaded Nookie(Froyo 2.2) on a SD card and set that up.

The reason I did this was I worked from a stable base, so if something didn't work it was probably me, now after a month of mods I'm comfortable following most directions in the forums and know what to expect from the tools.. just read up on each level (NCrooted/Froyo/HC) in these forums before you decide where to start and what you'd be comfortable with.. Good Luck

 

[Adontain]

I'll go back to searching for it, but it should be possible. IIRC all you need to do is use a partitioning software and make the space used by HC/Froyo/CM7 as one partition and the rest of the space another partition.

 

[EricWiz]

So, the short answer to your question is: yes.

But.... (you knew there was one right)

The card gets flashed with several partitions. There is an sdcard partition but it is hard to get to with windows. Hard being a relative term. Windows will only recognize the first partition on an sdcard, in this case the boot partition. To get things onto the sdcard partition, the best way is to use linux, which will see all the partitions. Barring that, you can use adb to push files to the card or you could email them to yourself and use the gmail app to download to your card.

I am no expert either but this has been my experience with booting from an sd card.

Hope that helps!

 

[EricWiz]

So, the short answer to your question is: yes.

But.... (you knew there was one right)

The card gets flashed with several partitions. There is an sdcard partition but it is hard to get to with windows. Hard being a relative term. Windows will only recognize the first partition on an sdcard, in this case the boot partition. To get things onto the sdcard partition, the best way is to use linux, which will see all the partitions. Barring that, you can use adb to push files to the card or you could email them to yourself and use the gmail app to download to your card.

I am no expert either but this has been my experience with booting from an sd card.

Hope that helps!

EDIT: the sdcard partition is kind of small on most of the images. Use something like easeus partition manager to resize the partition. Easeus at cnet

 

[kp4c]

Thanks for the responses.

So do you think it would be better to just to flash it to the on-board NC memory if I actually want to use files from an SD card?