What is the best or recommended partition format of SD cards when flashing Gingerbread based ROMs? I remember back in the day with Donut/Eclair based ROMs that you had to configure your SD card in a specific way (ext, swap) in order for the ROMs to work properly. Just curious if there's any specific way it should be done with Gingerbread based ROMs, because I haven't seen any threads saying how your SD card should be formatted/partitioned.
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Maybe I'm too cavalier (or just plain wrong) about such things, but I didn't do anything to my SD card when trying GB ROMs. But I also don't do ext partition, or apps2SD (aside from the "fake" built-in Android one).
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Hi, I just wanted to know which order I should install ROMs and Radios in. I want to install the latest radio because I have heard it can improve reception/increase battery life and I am going to finish installing MoDaCo 3.0 when I know which one to do first.
Also when partitioning an SD card using the AR Recovery loader (sorry if thats not what its called) do I have to change any values or are the default ones suitable. The reason I ask is that I bought a 4gb Class 6 card and want to use that instead.
Many thanks
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Hi, I just wanted to know which order I should install ROMs and Radios in. I want to install the latest radio because I have heard it can improve reception/increase battery life and I am going to finish installing MoDaCo 3.0 when I know which one to do first.
Also when partitioning an SD card using the AR Recovery loader (sorry if thats not what its called) do I have to change any values or are the default ones suitable. The reason I ask is that I bought a 4gb Class 6 card and want to use that instead.
Many thanks
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When I had a Windows Mobile Phone, I flashed the Radio first, and then the ROM. You would maybe have to look if it's described anything about the ROM and which Radio, I don't think it's any problem. Find also the best Radio for your area, I once flashed a US radio and got the worst signals ever.
And if your flashing the MoDaCo 3.0 I would partitioned the SD card after the default settings, but you loose 1gb then. And you loose all data, so therefor do a Flash of the ROM afterwards.
Regards
Fraction
OK well I've flashed the radio already. Now I'm going to put the MoDaCo ROM on my new SD card. Once I've done that I will Flash the ROM onto the phone.
Once this is done I will boot into recovery and partition the SD card. This I assume will wipe the SD card and if I follow the defaults (32MB, 512MB, Rest in Fat32) then I should have an OK setup?
I assume the values I have listed are the best values for partitioning but I don't know.
Also, what do you mean about losing 1gb?
Thanks
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OK well I've flashed the radio already. Now I'm going to put the MoDaCo ROM on my new SD card. Once I've done that I will Flash the ROM onto the phone.
Once this is done I will boot into recovery and partition the SD card. This I assume will wipe the SD card and if I follow the defaults (32MB, 512MB, Rest in Fat32) then I should have an OK setup?
I assume the values I have listed are the best values for partitioning but I don't know.
Also, what do you mean about losing 1gb?
Thanks
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Sorry I ment 500mb ish, From the total size of the sdcard, since 544mb goes to ext and 1,4gb is left for FAT32.
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For the App2sd function of Froyo 2.2, I had set default to install the applications to SD card and all the "Move to SD" button can work. However, I find that some application still use up the internal memory, e.g. 10Mbs application can only move 5Mbs to SD card.
May I know any different between the 2.2 App2sd and that of custom Rom?
Is the App2sd of custom Rom (i.e. the one need to create ext2/3/4 on SD card) can move all the whole application to SD card and will not use up the internal memory?
Thanks!
There are essentially 3 forms of A2SD:
1. Froyo A2SD - moves the application (from /data/app) to the FAT32 partition of the SD card. Does not touch the Dalvik cache (data/dalvik-cache) or the application data (/data/data).
2. Legacy A2SD - moves the application (from /data/app) to an EXT partition of the SD card. Does not touch the Dalvik cache (data/dalvik-cache) or the application data (/data/data).
3. Legacy A2SD+ - moves the application (from /data/app) and the Dalvik cache (data/dalvik-cache) to the EXT partition of the SD card. Does not touch the application data (/data/data).
Options 1 and 2 should be pretty much identical in terms of internal storage usage, and option 3 should save the most space.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that any attempt to move /data/data to SD card causes a lot of instability, which is surprising because I would have thought that the Dalvik cache would have been more problematic.
The long and short of it is that there is no way to stop applications from consuming storage if they use /data/data. A prime example is Google Earth, which still consumes a lot of internal memory regardless of A2SD because of the data in /data/data.
Personally, I use Froyo A2SD, with the fusecompress mod to compress the Dalvik cache in internal memory.
Regards,
Dave
kitkit1981 said:
For the App2sd function of Froyo 2.2, I had set default to install the applications to SD card and all the "Move to SD" button can work. However, I find that some application still use up the internal memory, e.g. 10Mbs application can only move 5Mbs to SD card.
May I know any different between the 2.2 App2sd and that of custom Rom?
Is the App2sd of custom Rom (i.e. the one need to create ext2/3/4 on SD card) can move all the whole application to SD card and will not use up the internal memory?
Thanks!
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legacy apps2sd that comes native in froyo, just moves the .apk to the sd card, and not all apps can be moved. apps2sd+ that comes with custom roms, creates a parallel file system identical to that of androids but on your sd card, then points your device to the sd card as the install location, this means alot less space is taken up on your device, some install data is sometimes still stored on your device but for example i have over 200 apps on my desire and some of them are quite large, rockplayer/nfs shift/ 5 or 6 gameloft games ect and i still have over 50mb free
Thanks for your reply, I have a clear concept of these two app2sd now
So i just root my unbranded HTC Desire with Android 2.2 (from holland)
I rooted with the unrevoked method. Link here
I wanted to root because i was in need of ROM, only had 15MB left and everything was already on my SD card installed the normal way.
also with the "forced install to sd" method i was still in need of more ROM.
Like in the post above i just want to have 400 apps installed.
So i need a custom rom.
Now i have notes that if i install a custom 2.2 froyo rom i may have difficulties with bluetooth or fm-radio and maby other problems.
I have also heared about htc releasing source codes and now it should be possible to work around or fix those problems i just mentioned.
anyways I am still n00b in this all and doing allot of research for now. I just want to have a rom that would be the same as what i have now(WORKING WITHOUT PROBLEMS AND NO BUGGES) but with the app2sd in it so that i can have 300 apps and still have free memory.
so could somebody tell me what to do? is there already a custom rom out that works perfect, or i should stick with my rom, or what about OpenDesire
Well hope somebody can help me out with some wisdom.
Cheers and thanks in advanced.
DesireDroid
nobody can help me out?
is there an custom rom that works with fm radio and bluetooth and camera and all and has the htc sense in it?
or should i figure out to make my own custom rom?
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nobody can help me out?
is there an custom rom that works with fm radio and bluetooth and camera and all and has the htc sense in it?
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Most custom Sense ROMs are fine.
The "issue" I think you are referring to is that Sense ROMs do not support the Bluetooth HID profile so cannot utilize a Bluetooth keyboard, whereas AOSP ROMs like CyanogenMod do support Bluetooth HID but the FM radio doesn't work.
Having said all that, I'd imagine that 300+ apps is probably an unrealistic target on any ROM due to the data stored in /data/data. It might be possible if the specific apps don't have much of a /data/data requirement, but in general I'd say it was unlikely.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
Most custom Sense ROMs are fine.
The "issue" I think you are referring to is that Sense ROMs do not support the Bluetooth HID profile so cannot utilize a Bluetooth keyboard, whereas AOSP ROMs like CyanogenMod do support Bluetooth HID but the FM radio doesn't work.
Having said all that, I'd imagine that 300+ apps is probably an unrealistic target on any ROM due to the data stored in /data/data. It might be possible if the specific apps don't have much of a /data/data requirement, but in general I'd say it was unlikely.
Regards,
Dave
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k having that said, i was thinking of buying a 16gb microsdhc class 6 card.
but, well i didn't know about the bluetooth HID , still is it hard to build up my own custom rom?
I mean, getting for example my current rom and modding things. or getting an official rom from htc and modding that?
try different roms and see which one is the best. Defrost, Opendesire, Aurax, or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775
all of them are great but the best depends on your taste and expectatives.
k making a backup now.
I think i go try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768703
I have a 4gb microSD card, so i read that to enable a2sd+ i need to repartition the sd card. can this be done from the phone? i got the clockworkmod recovery.
and shall i make it 1GB so i can install more apps? just thinking crazy.
"is this Rom Manager in the android market?"
Good morning,
i have a special question was not answered yet, despite it was asked in a couple of threads:
It is a common technique to use A2SD+ and Data++ Roms etc...
Considering that the Desire's internal NAND and the SD Card suffer from a constant "damage" on every writing cycle, they both have a certain life expecancy after which they will fail. As the desire is my only mobile phone, it should be as reliable as possible!
My question is now:
Which part (NAND vs SD) will fail earlier? Or, is it really smart to put parts of the ROM onto the SD Card (for example /system parts of the GingerSense 2.1 roms) regarding the device's reliability?
If i put only Games and non relevant .apks on the SD Card (like in Froyo's built in A2SD) and run the ROM from NAND, won't it be more reliable than a ROM that is distributed over the internal NAND and SD - EXT?
Thanks for reading!
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
Hi there!
I've got a problem with my HTC Desire sd card partition.
Every rom works fine, sd card also but it starts to force closing, freezing and randomly rebooting when I push apps to sd card using any of the A2SD scripts (except stock one). I mean, when I use roms which just need SD-EXT (such as MIUI or SpazeDog ICS) nothing seems to work uncorrectly but when I move apps all problems start. I tried many roms (MIUI, InsertCoin Sense, SpazeDog) and diffrent moving scripts (A2SD+ ; D2EXT ; and others which names i forgot) and it always caused reboots, FCs and frezzes when I pushed my apps. Can you guys tell me how to fix this problem, or is it just my SD card broken? I always partitioned card by 4EXT recovery, tried EXT3 and EXT4 file system, never made partition bigger than 1GB. My SD card is a Sandisk 16GB class 4.
Sorry for my bad english, Szotaa
An important thing is the method younused to partition your sd (a tool you used).
Also, it wouldn't be bad to buy faster sd card (class 6 or 10).
So, the solution for the problem would be using another partitioning tool? Is gpared a good choice?
Now I saw you used 4ext recovery, and it's the best tool. Gparted is the second best, but I think u need a new sd.
One more question, is your phone s-off? Some scripts need it to work properly.
Yes, my phone is s-off. So its a sd card issue. At the end could u tell me is supernova rom going to work properly, even on my sd card? Because i heard it is the stabliest d2ext ever made.
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Yes, my phone is s-off. So its a sd card issue. At the end could u tell me is supernova rom going to work properly, even on my sd card? Because i heard it is the stabliest d2ext ever made.
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Supernova recommend a certain brand of sd card to work with the rom. I cant remember it off the bat but it's stated on Droidzone's website/forum.
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Supernova recommend a certain brand of sd card to work with the rom. I cant remember it off the bat but it's stated on Droidzone's website/forum.
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Based on user feedback, we recommend a Transcend Class 6 for D2SD roms.