I saw you can do it through Amon_RA and apparently there is an option in CWM but it doesn't work. Is there any other way to do it? Also what are the advantages? Does it make the SDcard less cluttered?
GatorsUF said:
I saw you can do it through Amon_RA and apparently there is an option in CWM but it doesn't work. Is there any other way to do it? Also what are the advantages? Does it make the SDcard less cluttered?
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I think it is so you can use app2sd and put your apps there. For someone on an incredible, I can't imagine why you would want to do it since you have so much internal memory. I actually prefer for as much as possible to be on the phone and just leave my music, pics, etc on my SD card.
it appears to me that all my stuff is on the SD, and I am not partition or using apps2sd. The phone is about empty and my 2gb SD was full. I ordered and 8gb....
If I install Amon_RA simply to partition my drive, can I reinstall CWM? I cannot find CWM except for the one built into UnrEVOked. I like Rom Manager...
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Can't seem to find a definate answer......i have just rooted my phone again and tried a few custom roms.....do i need to format my sd card with Froyo to use Apps2sd?
Cheers.
jpopgt said:
Can't seem to find a definate answer......i have just rooted my phone again and tried a few custom roms.....do i need to format my sd card with Froyo to use Apps2sd?
Cheers.
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do you mean the new native froyo apps2sd or the old style? if you mean the new one no, the old one you just have to format your ext partition, unless you dont have one, then obviously you would have to format to create a new ext partiton
Thanks for the reply
I ment the native froyo apps2sd......
I have downloaded a few apps to try and none have the option to move to SD card....they are greyed out.
Does this mean they are not updated yet to sent to SD card or maybe i need to use other steps to do this?
Can you tell me a free app that can be used on SD card so i can try please.
Cheers.
i heard theres a problem with either htc's new kernel or the new build of froyo not letting you save apps to a sd card, try leedroids or udk's roms as they use older builds and kernels or try this app see if it works, just set the install location to external
Thanks!
I installed Leedroids rom and installed ModinstallLocation....when i check manage applications, there is option there now to move to sd card but after i click on it....it is still highlighted to move to sd card.
I think it is still installing to phone memory.
jpopgt said:
Thanks!
I installed Leedroids rom and installed ModinstallLocation....when i check manage applications, there is option there now to move to sd card but after i click on it....it is still highlighted to move to sd card.
I think it is still installing to phone memory.
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the froyo apps2sd is wank to be honest lol it takes as much space on your fone than your sd card, to check its working look in the android secure folder on ur sd card, if there are apk's there its working, you'll be alot better just using the classic version tho
just what it says in the title, when i reboot into recovery now, it cant see the contents of my sd card so i cant flash anything.
sd card contents are all there normally, i can browse them with astro.
partitioned sd card using rom manager and that is working fine, though not sure if it is ext 2 or 3, presumably its three.
any help will be much appreciated
Are you sure you're not browsing through root of the phone with astro?
Partitioning sd card also means deleting everything on it
djoni1980 said:
Are you sure you're not browsing through root of the phone with astro?
Partitioning sd card also means deleting everything on it
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Hi thanks for replying.
i can browse the sd card through astro as normal, so i can see all the folders etc and the zip files that i want to flash, but when i go into clockwork recovery it says that it cant see the sd card, or that it maybe full (which its not there are 3gigs left)
any thoughts?
sorry should also mention that i am familiar with rooting and flashing, had a g1 with cyanogen mod and then changed to the desire in april.
so whilst i'm not a complete noob at this the current problem has got me pretty stumped
why would the recovery be unable to read the fat32 partition if it can be read by astro?
also the ext partition is working fine for apps2sd.
update is i noticed that when i reboot into recovery it can still read the nandroid backups that i made, these are the only things that show up and they are in the folder clockworkmod.
no other folders show, this is very confusing
i didnt upgrade the ext when i partitioned it using rom manager, i just left it as whatever rom manager set it as, would this affect anything?
does rom manager do ext2 or ext3 and would this make any difference?
kinkade said:
i didnt upgrade the ext when i partitioned it using rom manager, i just left it as whatever rom manager set it as, would this affect anything?
does rom manager do ext2 or ext3 and would this make any difference?
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ok i've flashed amon ra instead as i was more familiar with that from the g1 so should be able to work it all out myself now
new member here, did u ever post a fix for this I have just found this post and i am having the same exact issue, any help would be welcome
Am I supposed to go back and erase all of my apps from internal storage after they are moved to the SD card? If so, how?
I just don't understand why I only have 200MB out of 1GB available. All of my apps are on the SD card now.
What do I need to delete out of the internal memory?
Any help is MUCHO appreciated.
tia
You don't actually have 1GB of usable storage space by default. It's split into partitions, and the user storage is only ~512MB or less (I can't remember how I saw what the internal storage was split up as...)
"ONLY 200MB"
How much do you need?
I get your point. You get the point of my questions though, right?
If you have a fast SD card, you can move the dalvik cache to the SD card and free up another 60 megs or so.
You'll never see most of that gigabyte on your phone. Ever. I think the maximum you're allowed for apps on the internal flash storage is 350 megabytes. Even with Apps2SD, I think the dalvik cache for all of your apps is still stored on the internal memory, which would occupy some space.
I don't know what the heck I'm doing is the problem. Once I figure it out, I'll post some stats for new guys like me.
I've formatted my card correctly. Now I'm just trying to figure out if I'm supposed to wipe my system and reinstall in order for the apps to get "moved over" or not. I'm curious as to whether My Backup Pro or Titanium will "restore" the apps to the SD card now that I'm formatted correctly.
I believe the "moving" is not really moving it happens on install. So yes starting fresh is probably the best way to go.
There is only like 350mb or so of user installable space. Depending on rom it could go up a little but its close.
Also remember, not every single portion of the app gets installed on the SD. Some files still need to be stored on nand, just less. Much less depending on the app.
Just make sure you have a decently fast sd card if you want to move dalvik there. class 6 or better imo. It will work with a slower card but it could slow things down.
Froyo requires ext4 partition btw. Not sure what rom your using.
^^ Thanks for the info. I'm using Fresh 1.0.1, which is good because I don't even know how to make Ext4. I'm using Amon RA to partition and the only upgrade option was from 2 to 3. I didn't see anything about 4.
I'll wipe clean and see what happens.
Oh, one more thing that your post made me think of. The whole reason that I'm doing this is so that I don't have to re-install apps every time I wipe and install a new ROM. I figured that the new ROMs would just find my apps on my SD card.
If this isn't the case then it is not worth it to me. Meaning, if I still have to re-install all apps each time I wipe the device there is no benefit to me.
So: is that the case? Do new ROMs just "find" the apps on the SD card?
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I believe the "moving" is not really moving it happens on install. So yes starting fresh is probably the best way to go.
There is only like 350mb or so of user installable space. Depending on rom it could go up a little but its close.
Also remember, not every single portion of the app gets installed on the SD. Some files still need to be stored on nand, just less. Much less depending on the app.
Just make sure you have a decently fast sd card if you want to move dalvik there. class 6 or better imo. It will work with a slower card but it could slow things down.
Froyo requires ext4 partition btw. Not sure what rom your using.
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Ok. So here is the situation. I am currently on CM7 Nightly builds. Everything works fine for me including saving every and any app to the SD card (which is pretty important to me.) However, for experimentation sake I wanted to try out Myn's Synergy + Godmode (since it was getting so much hype.) To be honest I wasn't so impressed with it, which is besides the point. One issue I noticed when I tried out different ROMS (Synergy, Kinged Kingdom & even Decks) all of them had problems saving apps to the SD card. I would keep getting the message "NO STORAGE SPACE AVAILABLE" Needless to say, this was enough to turn me off to these roms and go back to CM7 (where my app2SD is working perfectly)
After doing some research it seems that the only way to get app2SD to work properly on other ROMS was to partition my SD card through Amon-Ra recovery. This is where my actual question comes into play:
If I partition my card (I already backed it up to my PC) and then restore the files after partitioning through RA Recovery do you think my CM7 apps saved to SD card will work properly? If I decide to try another ROM again some time down the road will this partitioning of the SD card in RA RECOVERY enable me to save my apps to the SD card?
Another question in regards to the actual partitioning through RA RECOVERY:
I noticed there is an option to set SWAP SIZE. I have no idea what that is about and what size I should set it to. I have a 32GB card and am planning on saving the majority of my apps to the SD card.
I know this is a lot of crap to read through but if someone has some sound advice I would be indebted to you!
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I saw a reply and got all excited.
Amon-Ra
Not sure about the apps saved to clockwork recovery still working after you flash Amon-Ra but the swap size can be left a 32 or put down to zero. Ive tried it on both settings and it works. Here's a link that should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121538
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I have just partitioned my sd card through recovery mode, and when it rebooted, all my apps had gone, the icons are still there though. How can I get these back? Also my photos etc. I didnt backup the SD card properly, so cannot get them from a backup
Thanks in advance
when you say "I didnt backup the SD card properly", does this mean you didn't back it up at all?
partitioning wipes the sd card, so if you don't have a backup of it, then all your photos will be gone unfortunately. there's not much we can do to recover these. i'm guessing some of your apps were manually moved to sd card, which is why some of them have disappeared as well.
which recovery were you using? clockworkmod recovery for desire doesn't make the best partitions, also uninstall rom manager if you were using it. i would recommend repartitioning your sd card with 4ext recovery (requires s-off) or gparted, search for guides.
then reinstall your apps which don't appear through google play. if you're lucky the app data should still be saved, so things like game saves etc will still be there.
you also have to make sure you're actually using the new partition. i don't know which custom rom you're using if any? it may have an a2sd script built in, so when you reinstall apps they'll go to the ext partition. otherwise you may need to use terminal commands to activate it, or flash a separate script. check and search the rom thread...use another app like 'diskusage' to browse your partitions.
Thanks for your reply
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when you say "I didnt backup the SD card properly", does this mean you didn't back it up at all?
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I started copying the files over, but it didnt copy over all the files, not sure why.
eddiehk6 said:
partitioning wipes the sd card, so if you don't have a backup of it, then all your photos will be gone unfortunately. there's not much we can do to recover these. i'm guessing some of your apps were manually moved to sd card, which is why some of them have disappeared as well.
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I tried using a file recovery program, but could only recover a few files, is there no way I can recover files from a formatted card?
bigmaz said:
Thanks for your reply
I started copying the files over, but it didnt copy over all the files, not sure why.
I tried using a file recovery program, but could only recover a few files, is there no way I can recover files from a formatted card?
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Once information is deleted, you cannot recover it all back.