A partition is a division of either your internal storage or your sdcard.
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SD card partitioning? why? how?
I am going to install cm7 and it seems to me that is 'good' to partition my SD card.
I did some reading but I am not sure if ext partition will become accessible as mass storage when an Android phone ...
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Inconsistent UIDS and wiping a data partition
I've inherited my wife's Android phone (GT540) when she got a newer, shining one :-)
We think to have factory reset it (via the privacy option), and in fact it has finally stopped to refer to her ...
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How to restore my IMEI on Galaxy S if I don't have a backup of /efs?
I installed CyanogenMod 10 Nightlies on my Galaxy S1, coming from CyanogenMod 9.
On every reboot I get the message:
Warning! A problem was detected with your device. Your device IMEI number is ...
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What are the /firmware and /efs partitions on Samsung devices
This is specifically the Galaxy s3. Out of curiosity what are these partitions exactly. Are they part of the android OS or something lower level than that? If I were to delete everything in these ...
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Internal hard disk partitions (sda2) not showing in android system
I have a x86 system (Asus Eee Pc)having hard disk of 232 GB, in which 4 GB allocated for Android and rest I don't know where it is gone. If I open super user and running this command in android ...
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how to use ext partition in my android?
I partitioned my MicroSD card and created 1GB ext3 partition.
What is the next step so I can use it to make the performance of my android better? It seems to me that it is mounted into /sd-ext
What ...
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Apps missing after upgrading sd card
I have been searching for how to properly upgrade to new sdcard, and I did as this posts suggests. upgrade SD card.
But when inserting the new sd card several apps (not all) are missing. I had about ...
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How to switch sd cards when using a data2whatever (d2w) custom ROM?
I'm currently running MIUI XJ (Gingerbread 2.3.5) with d2w on my HTC Desire with the 4GB sd card it was shipped with, but as I found the joy of the occasional ROM-switch, I found myself running out of ...
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Can I format SD to FAT32 from FAT16?
I saw that my SD card is FAT16 formatted. In order to improve performance, can I reformat it as FAT32? What filesystems does Android support for external storage?
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Partitioned sdcard not working with link2sd
I have a 4GB SD card which is partitioned into 3GB and 1GB (Well it's not 1GB it's approx. 750 MB) (I used it through my phone 'cause i didn't have a reader and i used mini tool partition wizard) then ...
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How to partition SD card in HTC One X?
I was trying to create ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions on the SD card. I tried ClockworkMod recovery and it didn't work. Nothing seems to have happened.
I also tried using MiniTool and that also failed. I ...
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How can I view the Android internal partition table?
I've rooted my phone, put it in recovery mode, and have linked it to PC by adb shell. How can I view the list of storage devices and partitions? fdisk doesn't work.
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ROMManager does not backup my sd-ext
I am using rooted LG P500 running stock 2.3.3. Recently I partitioned my SD card using ROMManager in to three partitions (swap, ext and usb storage). I checked with Mini Partition Tool and understood ...
