Easy Instructions to Partition Your Android SD Card

Written by GtoRMan Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:59

The storage memory for Android phone is internal memory and the external one is an SD card. You can make use the memory storage to store many files like video or pictures files and even the downloaded files. Learning that the full memory may reduce the performance and speed of your phone, you must reduce the files especially the ones stored in internal memory. However, you are now given an option to improve the speed of the device by partitioning the SD card and navigate the applications to be stored there, including all installed applications.

Creating the partition of the SD card is easy. Before carrying out the process you should root the Android phone and this rooting process is different for every phone that includes Android operating system. First of all, back up all data or files contained in the SD card onto computer. If your PC runs linux that is based on gnome, you can partition the SD card using gparted but if your PC runs different operating system, you can use a gparted Live CD that is compatible in any operating system.

Furthermore, plunge your Android phone to the PC through USB cable or you can use card reader and insert the SD Card directly into it. Launch the gparted and in the upper right-hand corner you will find the drop down menu that displayed the SD card drive you should select. After finding the drive, right click on the visualization of the drive and select ‘unmount’ and select delete. This option will delete all files contained on your SD card.

Afterward, select ‘New’ button at the same window and click the FAT32 format. Through this process, you will need to determine the size of each partition by taking the maximum size of the SD card and subtracting out approximately 512MB for the applications and 32MB for the swap partition. While figuring out the 512MB partition, you can make further set up as an ext3 or ext4. After the total spaces have been partitioned, click ‘Apply’ instantly.

Besides the partitioning process through gparted above, you can as well take another alternative byusing sdparted.txt.file. You will still need computer to perform the partition. The steps are similar, after connecting the Android phone to computer through USB, boot the device in recovery mode. Then, find the adb.exe and AdbWinApi.dll you found in SDK folder on the phone system into C:\windows\system32 folder.

Open the command prompt and there are several commands you must enter which are: adb push /sdparted.txt /sbin/sdparted, adb shell chmod 755 /sbin/sdparted, and adb shell. Meanwhile, the following command partitions the SD card, the command is sdparted –efs.ext4. Continue the process by pressing ‘Y’ three times, first to confirm unmount all partitions on the SD card, the second to confirm the files deleting in the card, and the third is to confirm the card repartition. Lastly, click ‘Exit’ and restart the device.

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0 #1 2011-08-13 22:49

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