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[lmarshall1995]

Hi all,

I just spent ages trying to figure out how to partition my SD card on HTC wildfire and configure it to have CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1.

WARNING, THIS TUTORIAL IS ASSUMING YOU ALREADY HAVE A ROOTED PHONE, DO NOT FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL IF YOUR PHONE IS NOT ROOTED & S-OFF. - I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR PHONE GETS BRICKED, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

WARNING, ALL DATA WILL BE LOST FROM BOTH SD CARD AND PHONE MEMORY - Backup all pictures / music by copying them to a folder on your computer.
Your apps will automatically be backed up (Providing you have updated your Android Market to Google Play)

Step 1 - Download these necessary files onto your desktop and put the first one onto the root of your micro sd card:
- http://download.cloc....0.2.0-buzz.zip
- http://download.cyan...buzz-signed.zip
- http://cmw.22aaf3.co...0828-signed.zip

Step 2 - Open Recovery Mode
- Hold down the power button and select reboot (if available) and then select recovery.
- If this does not show up, follow these steps below:
   1. Turn your phone off.
   2. Hold down the volume down button and the power button until the Revolutionary screen pops up.
   3. Tap volume down once, (highlight the word recovery) and tap the power button.

Step 3 – Update The ClockworkMod Recovery.
- At the moment, you will have green text, and a black background. (This is version 2.5.0.1)
- This is the base version that your phone will run on, and does not support SD-ext for the HTC wildfire.
- Move your trackpad down so that you have "install zip from sdcard" highlighted. Tap the trackpad to select it.
- Now highlight and select "choose zip from sdcard"
- A list of files in your SD card will be shown.
- MAKE SURE THERE IS NOTHING HERE THAT YOU WISH TO KEEP OR HAVEN'T MADE A BACKUP OF.
- Highlight and select "recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-buzz.zip", which you saved to the root of your SD card.
- Confirm the install, and select "Yes - install recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-buzz.zip"
- A few lines of code will be shown, then everything will turn blue and the background will change.
- You now temporarily have ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.0

Step 4 – Clear Everything
- Here is where you must have backed everything up.
- Select Mounts and storage.
- You will see the following (if some say unmounts instead of mount, make them say mount by selecting them):
   - Mount /cache
   - Mount /data
   - Mount /system
   - Mount /sd-ext
   - Format /boot
   - Format /cache
   - Format /data
   - Format /sdcard
   - Format /system
   - Format /sd-ext
   - Mount USB storage
- format everything on the page, they should all work, but
- You will get an error on the sd-ext (this is meant to happen so don’t worry)
- Now go back (tap the power button) and select “wipe data/factory reset
- And finally select wipe cache partition

Step 5 – Partition the SD card
- Scroll down, and select “Advanced”
- Select “Partition SD Card
- Choose your Ext Size (I recommend choosing half of the storage space that your card is.
   - For a 256mb card, select 128M
   - For a 512mb card, select 256M
   - For a 1gb card, select 512M
   - For a 2gb card, select 1024M
   - For a 4gb card, select 2048M
   - For a 8gb card, select 4096M
- any memory card higher than this will not be partitioned, the phone will not be able to read it properly, but I would recommend an 8gb card, and if you have any smaller than 1gb, I wouldn’t even bother wasting your time – but go ahead if you wish.
- Now it will ask you what Swap size you want:
   - If you have a 256mb or a 512mb card, select 0M.
   - If you have a 1gb or a 2gb card, select 32M.
   - If you have a 4gb or a 8gb card, select 64M.
- If it asks to confirm, select yes, now wait for a few minutes (grab a drink – you’ve earned it).

Step 6 - Preparing CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1
- Once you’ve partitioned your card, Tap Reboot Recovery in the Advanced Menu.
- You will be back to the normal green text and black background.
- Scroll down to “install zip from sdcard”
- Select “choose zip from sdcard” Now there’s nothing on your sd card. If this has happened, then you know your card has been successfully partitioned.
- Take out the battery of your phone, and then the memory card.
- Put the memory card in your computer (you should also notice that the size has halved)
- Put the other two files from your desktop onto the root of your micro SD card.

Step 7 - Installing CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1
- Put the sd card back in the phone, and turn the phone on normally.
- You will automatically be taken to Revolutionary because you’ve wiped the phone
- Open up ClockworkMod Recovery again (by pressing the down volume key once, followed by the power button)
- You will still have the green writing and the black background (v2.5.0.1)
- Select “install zip from sdcard”
- Select “choose zip from sdcard”
- Locate “update-cm-7.1.0.1-buzz-signed.zip” and install.
   - [OPTIONAL – GOOGLE APPS]
   - Select “install zip from sdcard”
   - Select “choose zip from sdcard”
   - Locate “gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip” and install
- Go back, and select “reboot system now”
- Startup will take a little bit longer than normal, don’t worry, this is normal.
- Login with your Google account and follow the Startup process like you did when you got the phone new. (or similar at least :-P)

Step 8 - Get Your Apps Back
- On your computer, visit https://play.google.com/apps
- Select install on every app that you want that you’ve previously downloaded from the market.

Step 9 – Get Pictures / Music Back
- On your default home screen on your phone, Tap Menu / Settings / Storage / Unmount SD Card.
- Put the memory card in your computer
- Copy the files from the folder that you backed up earlier on onto the card.
- Put the memory card back in the phone.

Step 10 – Install S2E (simple2ext)
- Open up Google Play on your phone and search for S2E and install the first one that comes up.
- OR visit https://play.google....d=ru.krikun.s2e on your computer and install the app through there.

Step 11 – Configuring S2E (simple2ext)
- Once you have the app installed, open up S2E (Doesn’t matter if other apps are still installing / Downloading)
- check every single box on the main app page.
- If some items cannot be highlighted, don’t worry for the minute, just highlight what you can.
- Now press the menu button within the app, and select “Settings”
- Make “Advanced mode” be checked
- Make “Extended partitions info” be checked
- Make “Set read buffer” be checked (and set the buffer size to 2MB)
- DO NOT MOUNT AS EXT4 OR SELECT IMPORT – EVER!
- Press back, and then tap the menu button again.
- This time, select the reboot option.
- Once the phone has rebooted play a few apps, open the browser send a text, etc… (Do anything that will use memory on your phone – Facebook’s a good one)
- Now open up S2E again, and the options that were not available earlier are now available, select them, and reboot again from Menu / Reboot within the app.

- CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE INSTALLED CYANOGENMOD 7.1.0.1 WITH AN SD-EXT. :-)

If you ever want to see how much space you have left for apps, data, cache, etc… Download “FreeSpace” from Google Play - https://play.google....rikun.freespace

Hoped this helped guys,
I just feel this needs to be on the internet after the amount of time I spent fiddling with my phone, trying to figure this out.

If you have any questions, just ask, but I’ve tried to be as thorough as possible (despite the fact that I’m 16…)

:-P

From
Laurence =]

[lmarshall1995]

I will be making a video tutorial for this on YouTube in the near future, so please subscribe my channel - http://www.youtube.c...rencemarshall95

[Kishan Thakker]

Has anyone tried this method for Configuring the sd-ext?

I tried but could not succeed.

It is working fine till step 7.
But in the last part of step 7, in restart to reboot option it is hanging on HTC logo.


I have HTC wildfire
8 GB SD CARD
CYANOGENMOD 7.1.0.1
Android 2.3.7
Clockworkmod 5.0.2.0

Please help .....

Kishan Thakker

[VGER]

Kishan Thakker, on 26 March 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:

Has anyone tried this method for Configuring the sd-ext?

Not exactly - I made a number of different choices:

1.) I installed the new version of ClockworkMod (v5.0.2.0) permanently, not just temporarily. Apparently, you really need to go through ADB to accomplish that (I had to - nothing else worked.)

2.) Partition sizes: I have a 16GB card. In spite of that, I chose only 1GB as SD-EXT (you could install 100 apps at 10 MB each on a partition like that - if you can even find so many this big!) For swap partition, I chose zero. This has been the recomendation in all tutorials I could find.

3.) Partitioning: This was a big one for me, too. I usually use GParted for my PC needs, but this time I just couldn't get it to work. I still haven't figured out why. Each time I created the partitons on the card, the card was no longer readable on the PC (neither on the phone). Finally, I used the ClockworkMod options to create the partitions (as described above in step #5), and this worked out all right.

4.) use SD-EXT: I intended to use S2E at first because it is specifically built for CyanogenMod. However, S2E either moves all apps to the card, or none of them. There is an alternative named Link2SD. With this program, you can select for each app if and what parts of it should be moved to SD-EXT. This works extremly well, yet you have to modify the default installation a little to get it to work with CyanogenMod.

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It is working fine till step 7.
But in the last part of step 7, in restart to reboot option it is hanging on HTC logo.

Apparently, one of the first things happening at boot-up is initialization of the SD-card. If the card is present, but cannot be read from (such as when the partitioning is bad), the process hangs. This happened to me in my first attempts, too.

Have you tried booting without the card inserted?


Regards

[lmarshall1995]

@VGER, The sd-ext sizes I said were just suggestions, so that's good to know that they worked with no swap partition.

I also tried GParted and had the same result - did not work, but then found out that you can use Clockworkmod for it, which is easier.

Also, you said you can update it permanently through ADB, can you tell me how you managed to do that because I've Googled that around and no such luck?

This tutorial was to try and keep it easy without the use of command prompts and such for less experienced users, but that's good to know that it's possible.

Also, @Kishan Thakker that's fine, it should take slightly longer on startup - Up to 10 minutes I found on some other tutorials on updating firmware!

Thanks for your feedback guys, much appreciated. :-)

[lmarshall1995]

Actually I found it on http://forum.xda-dev...1439467&page=3a

[LucidSomnia]

You can also do it from within rom manager, as long as you backup your sd card on your pc before doing so.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

[lmarshall1995]

LucidSomnia, on 22 April 2012 - 12:22 PM, said:

You can also do it from within rom manager, as long as you backup your sd card on your pc before doing so.

Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

That's providing that you have updated your ClockworkMod Recovery to 5.0.2.0, which you can do from within Rom Manager also. :-)

[eddykuhan]

hi,lmarshall1995
i just followed all the steps recomended by you and i had succsfully partition my 8GB SD card.but im facing problem at step 11..after configuring S2E i reboot..but its stucks at CM9 loader screen.when i take out my SD card cm9 successfully boots up.any idea what may cause this problem..

sorry for my bad english..ty in advance

Edited by eddykuhan, 22 May 2012 - 03:10 PM.

[ph0b0s]

I followed this tutorial and updated my Wildfire from 7.0.* to 7.2.0 (stable) with 8gb sd card.
I have used 1GB for sd-ext and 0MB for swap (I did't have sd-ext on my previous installation).

Is it smart to format /data and /system partitions?
I've done it, but now I have problems with wifi (I can't connect to networks which have WPA2-PSK (look here)).

A friend didn't do any formatting nor sd-ext stuff and his wifi on Wildfire works perfect.
He did only factory wipe and cache wipe with clockworkmod.


Has someone else had such wifi problems?

[marcellen]

I'm just not able to format from the recovery, and make the SD card readable from my PC, I'm getting crazy...

[mrsoje]

Done

[mrsoje]

I used part of this tutorial to change my SD card .
Did step 5. and then copy all data from old card to Fat32 partition and then did recovery from backup .
All went OK

[tolis]

VGER, on 15 April 2012 - 07:04 PM, said:

However, S2E either moves all apps to the card, or none of them.

that's true. Does anyone knows if after moving all apps to the ext with s2e, you can move some others as well at some other time?

[mrsoje]

tolis, on 20 August 2012 - 10:39 PM, said:

that's true. Does anyone knows if after moving all apps to the ext with s2e, you can move some others as well at some other time?

All app I installed after this are on SD ext

[alexctk]

hi guys great tutorial you made, nice job
i can add that, if anyone with problems with s2e, you can use 2SDGUI - Darktremor A2SD GUI on google play, works with me, althout there wouldnt have more updates, works great and its easy to work with.