Hello!
I'm a happy user of the Desire and have recently flashed to a new ROM. App2SD is something which has been very helpful for me. But I would like to have some apps on the internal instead of the SD Card.
Is this possible? To move an app from EXT3 partition to internal?
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Dear All Desire User, please help with this.
My Desire has been rooted and installed Apps2SD, and I have 8G Class 6 Cards.
For unknown reason, the internal memory has been drop like crazy from 120MB to 20MB when I have installed some apps. (Most of the software that I installed to the SD.) ... after the new ROM installed (LeeDrOiD V2.0).
Is that even I install some apps into the SD card , they still use some of the internal memory for some reason ?? Here is my setting ;
8G SD card in partition ;
EXt2 1024MB
FAT32 for 7G
current status :
internal memory : 20MB left
SD card still ahve 3G space left..
Please help and tell how to make use of the SD card....
Thanks
Don't move your apps to SD manually. Download the A2SD+ version of LeeDroid and it will automatically install apps to your SD card.
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thanks I will try... BTW... The reason why I move manauly bec. I want to keep some of the software in phone memory as the AUTO mount is very slow to mount some time... BTW, my SD card is EXT2 formatted.... and Can I just overwrite the MOD that you mentioned or I need to reinstall all over again... !?
Hey fellas,
I currently have T-mod leedroid 2.2d on my desire. Works fantastic.
My question is: can i simply backup my sd card onto my HD, then use Rom Manager and partition my sd card with 512mb and 0 swap then restore back the files to the sd card?
Will my phone restore to its original state?
Currently i have partial apps stored to sd with delvik in the internal memory.
Thanks,
Brendan
Quick question.
I am running CM7 ggingerbread6, I have a 16GB SD card, a 512mb partition, and apps2sd installed. I have, I believe, moved the apps I want from my internal storage to my SD card. When I use root explorer, however, no files are on my partition.
Why is this?
Where does apps2sd save moved apps?
How can I transfer apps from my sd to my sd-ext?
Thanks in advance!
Apps2sd uses a file structure to store apps on the sd card. IIRC not the entire app, only a portion.
A2sd (darktremor) places the entire app on the sdcard, in the ext partition.
Here is a starting point for your search.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_169478586398411&ap=1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708474&highlight=darktremor
I scanned thru the links you gave but can you tell me the main advantage of putting your apps on the SDcard? Is there something other than just having more free memory on internal storage? thanks
While on the topic of apps2sd, what's the consensus of having /data on the sd too (dt a2sd).
Hi all "I am new at this stuff so apologies for my ignorance in the following explanation"
I have a rooted desire phone with a 4GB class 4 SD card and clockwork recovery
The internal free phone storge was 51.2MB, and I decided to partitioned my SD card in order to free more space for the app. "which is 90% of them are on the SD card" and for using some custum room "I actually dont konw the use of partitionning in custum room" but that what I read
So, I partitioned my SD card using Rom Manager with 512mb ext and zero swap with no errors, after that I put all the app. back to the SD card with no problem and all app. run smoothly from the SD card
I checked the internal phone storge using "DiskUsage" and it was as follows
Data 147.6MB
Application 35.4 MB "some of this app. can not move to the SD card & the other I wanted on the internal memory like Astro"
System data : 61.0MB
Free space 51.2MB "which is the same as befor partitioned as well as all the above sizes "
And the SD card total space was 3.21 GB which mean that the 512 MB suppose to be ext. partion right now
The Qustion is where is the 512 MB that suppose to be ext. partion ? Should this partitionning prosses free the internal memory of the phone ? and what is the use of partitionning in custum room ?
It is kind of weird at first when your new to it all. Took me a few weeks to get use to it and understand how it roughly works.
When you partition your SD card so you have an ext partition, it won't actually show up as internal memory. The internal memory is being read off of the /data partition. To make it simple, the ext partition acts like it's "hidden" so to speak. To get it working you would need an A2SD script at least. Depending on what rom you have, the script could be an addon, where you have to flash it after the rom, or it would be built in so it's just up and running anyway.
You can check to see if the ext partition is working. Apps can see if it's working, just search around in the market. To get the apps onto the ext partition, you would probably have to move them, but don't use the moving feature in Settings > Manage applications.
Thanks for your reply
I actually didnt flashed any custom rom yet "I am planning to" and I am running the stock rom froyo 2.2 which have the move 2 SD card feature, and the only app. that I had in this matter is "Move 2SD Enabler" which with It I moved almost all the application that I want to the SD card "some app I cant like the maps"
But even after the moving of all app. the internal phone memory is the same
I mean I cant feel any deference after the partitionning
So How can I use this 512MB ext partition or when ?
and also are these free space on the internal phone healthy ? or may I suffer a space problem when I tried to flash a rom? and what kind of ext does the rom manager do ext.2 or 3 or 4 ? and does it matter when flashing a rom ?
Sorry for the dozen of questions
With most roms it comes with A2SD (there are other deviations of it but the same principle). This is a script which tells the rom to install apps to the ext partition on your SD card instead of the internal memory. Thus, you get more app storage.
When you have A2SD, only the apps get put on the ext partition. Other things like the data for the apps and the dalvik cache stay on the internal memory and will (eventually) fill up the internal memory. That's where d2ext for example comes in. (You can read about all this stuff in your own spare time).
Recovery/rom manager uses ext3 but you can upgrade it to ext4.
Hello All,
As we all know there a bit slight issue as far as the internal memory of Xperia Arc is concernend.. when I googled on how can we use our SD card to actually increase the internal memory so that we need not move the apps explicitly to the SD card, I came to knw that we need to create a partition on our SD card in ext4 format.. But I dint get the exact way of doing it... so can anybody tell me how we can do it? And does it need to have a custom ROM installed? Does it work on stock ROM also? Please help.. Thanks..
Try Link2SD or AD2SDX.
I tried Link2SD, but my problem was that after creating the new partition in FAT32, the phone won't mount the SD card, and keeps acting as if the SD card removed. When I deleted the second partition, everything went back to normal but without adding to the internal memory (which is the whole point)
I must have done something wrong but can't figure it out.
The second partition is the one that has to be in ext4 format and as logical so your phone will not try to mount it for storage purposes..
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