Root Changing roms using A2SD+

[Lmkt]

Hi there

First of all, I have recently taken the plunge in rooting/flashing roms and must say a big fat thank you to this community which has been of tremendous help.

I have installed LeeDroid 2.3c with A2SD+, but I figured that I don't really need Sense anyway so I'm planning on moving to a non-Sense rom.

So what happens with the A2SD+? I mean, I am obviously using it right now on LeeDroid and have apps installed on my SD card. What should I do to install another ROM with A2SD+ (I'm thinking SuperVillain or Defrost atm)? I already made a nandroid backup. Is it enough to just go into recovery, wipe everything, and install the new rom? what will happen to the apps on the SD card?



Cheers.

 

[Hadron]

Apps on the ext3 partition will be deleted when you wipe, same as anything on internal memory. They can be backed-up using Titanium and restored after you install the new ROM (or you can reinstall from the market and just restore their data using Titanium).

You don't need to do anything special for the ext3/A2SD+. The partition is there, so another A2SD+ ROM will just use it. So yeah, procedure is exactly the same as when you installed LeeDroid - recovery, wipe, flash, then restore user data/apps.

I'm assuming here that you wiped before installing LeeDroid, so know about restoring SMS etc. Don't restore system settings from Ti Backup, as that can cause problems when the ROM is different.

Edit: removed incorrect information (see later in thread)

 

[Rastaman-FB]

they will go too, when you wipe via recovery it also wipes sd-ext which is a good thing as the links would be different

use titanium backup to backup the apps you need


EDIT:

hadron has more indepth reply.
i was too slow at typing a small amount LOL

 

[Lmkt]

Thanks for the answers. However, I'm 99% sure about this but, everything else on the FAT partition of the SD card (e.g. my mp3's, photos, etc.) will NOT be wiped when using the clockwordmod wipe, right?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

correct unless you chose format

 

[InfernalByte]

I'm assuming here that you wiped before installing LeeDroid, so know about restoring SMS etc (which Ti doesn't do

Are you sure? My texts are restored (along with call history) and I don't think I use anything other than Titanium, Google might be doing it for me without my knowledge though.

 

[Hadron]

I'd never had texts restored, and had read somewhere that it didn't, so assumed that as this was consistent with my observation it was correct.

But I'm willing to stand corrected - maybe I've just been too cautious as to what I restore?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

you are corrected, i have restored messages with titanium

 

[Hadron]

Thanks guys - I've corrected my post