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Usually a NAND restore will overwrite the partitions it restores completely. Everything currently on the partition will be overwritten, and the exact same state from the backup will be restored. So wiping before restoring is not really necessary, as it will be completely overwritten anyway.
Instead it is usually recommended to wipe cache partitions ...
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I'm pretty sure that while adb push works to get the files there, it's not the supported way to get media files onto your Android device. This means that it doesn't set the flag that tells the Media Scanner that new media which needs it's meta-data indexed and added to the media library has arrived on your device.
One way to force the media scanner to ...
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I was trying to partition my sd card so that my rooted Samsung admire could access the Ext2 partition. I am using Link2SD to resolve my low internal memory issue. I bought a card reader and used Minitool to delete all partitions and rebuild them per my first post. For some reason it works using the card reader, but not using the phone connected by USB, ...
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Not sure this helps you 100% as I've never done this on the Nexus S but I did it on the HTC Desire, which the manufacturer gave a laughably small area for user installed apps. I follows this tutorial:
http://alpharev.nl/
Basically you're using fastboot to put a new hboot down. I suggest googling for more info about these; whether there's an existing one ...
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