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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com and one of our viewers was watching a rom manager premium video and said he'd like a little bit more information about one of the options being the partition SD card that we talked about just briefly so let's go ahead and do that all right so first and foremost this is ROM manager premium it is available in the market it is not free though there is a free version that's kind of like a lite version of it that you can get it's relatively inexpensive and I highly recommend it you do need to have a rooted phone to be able to use the majority of the features on this so that having been said let's get to disclaimers partitioning your SD card is a destructive process meaning it is going to erase everything on your card so you have been warned now that having been said if you go ahead and copy everything off of your androids SD card onto your computer then you can go ahead and format and partition this SD card and get some of the other advantages so let's go ahead and do that first of all you can do this through the user interface by tapping on partition SD card it asks you the size of the ext that you want this is the basically where your SD card can function to get all of your your apps basically installed so the reader particularly said hey look I see that it has 128 256 and 512 for this partition can I do more than that and that's a good question I'll show you how to do that but let's go through how to do this using the user interface first so we'll say 512 say ok next is the swap size 0 32 64 128 256 now everywhere I've read you want to use 32 or 64 as your swap partition and no more than that some roms make use of the swap partition some don't so I usually go between 32 and 64 Meg but I don't do anything bigger than that just because of that choose okay and then it is going to warn you that it's going to wipe everything on the card and say hey if you want to continue now at this point we'd say ok and it would reboot into recovery mode and partition that SD card with all the settings that we've just set that doesn't answer our viewers questions so to do that let's come over here instead and reboot into recovery and we'll do this manually are we sure we want to yes we're sure we want to rebooting into recovery this way is quite a bit faster because you don't have to do the whole finger gymnastics to be able to get into recovery mode you don't have to remember that what that is because the app itself will just basically say hey reboot into recovery and it does that and you can see here now it's done that so let's go ahead and come down here to advanced and in advanced we have partition sdcard so we'll select that says ext size now I've got sizes from 128 all the way up to 4 gig so that's how you can get around the limitations of the UI I'm going to go ahead and set this to a thousand 24 megabytes or one gigabyte now you want to make sure that this is the right size for your card if you've got a 1 gig card you probably don't want to do this in this case I've got a 16 gig card in there so I'm going to select that my swap size I'm going to go ahead and make 64 megabytes and then down here you can see the status says that it is clockworkmod recovery version 2.5 point 1.3 and that it is partitioning the SD card and that I should wait now this is where you get to be very patient because this process is going to take several minutes I'm not going to subject you to that on camera so through the magic of TV we're going to go ahead and just skip all of that all right and about two minutes have passed you can see down here it says done and I'm back at my menu from here I can go through and partition it again if I want to or I can reboot so we go ahead and do that we'll go back to the main menu and I can reboot the system now that's all it takes to go ahead and partition an SD card now if I wanted to I can go through and just partition a whole bunch of SD cards so if I've got friends who have SD cards and have promised me that they've backed up all their data I can just go through here in assembly-line format them partition them and I don't have to worry about going into a command and typing in any keys or even running any of the special script files that have been out there so this makes it very very easy you're a little bit limited on your configuration but once you drop down into recovery mode rather than doing it through the UI it becomes very powerful a lot of those limitations aren't such a big deal anymore because you have more options to choose from so really really nice this is clockworkmod recovery what I showed you before was rom manager they the first one the image itself you're going to have to get specific for your device head over to pocketnow.com and do a search for your device with the words recovery image to see if we've documented how to get that and install it on your device for rom manager you can go ahead and grab that from the marketplace and actually then download and install clockworkmod recovery for your device as well really cool really powerful be careful make sure you get a backup first if you've got a tip you'd like to see leave a comment down below if you have some some more information about what partition sizes you like and why please leave those in the comments below our readers would love to hear your input on that so showing off custom partitioning of your SD card for pocket now I'm Joe Levi