Develop Bugs

Applications to your SD card ?

Hi guys,
sorry because this has probably been answered somewhere but I couldn't find it ....
So here it goes: I just installed Modaco's ROM and it works perfectly. Now I would like my apps to install directly on the SD card.
What I understand is that I need to create a EXT3 partition but I don't know what the hell that means, nor how to do it.
I just put my SD card in the hero, didn't format anything ....
Dould you give a step by step guide ? On how to create that EXT3 partition, how to use A2SD afterwards ? Also, what to do with the currently installed applications ?
Thanks
Geeum

Dould you give a step by step guide ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
how to use A2SD afterwards?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just use MoDaCo's custom ROMs. (It will do it automatically)

can app2sd work with official ROMs not rooted?

Hi guys I finally partitioned my sdcard to have an ext3 partition.
I thought A2SD was automatic but apparently applications don't go to the sdcard: my phone memory has changed after I installed an app ...
Here is what I get if I type the 'print' command on parted
Code:
(parted) print
print
print
Model: SD 00000 (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 8166MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 512B 7110MB 7110MB primary fat32 lba
2 7110MB 8134MB 1024MB primary ext3
3 8134MB 8166MB 32.3MB primary linux-swap(v1)
So I DO have ext3. Then I found this post that explains how to check if A2SD is working:
Thanks! Here is my way to check if a2sd is working:
Check if the ext3 partition exists (please see androidandme.com for details):
Code:
# mount | grep mmcblk0p2
mount | grep mmcblk0p2
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,data=ordered)
Compare available/used space on mmcblk0p2:
Code:
adb shell
# df
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 98520 0 98520 0% /dev
tmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/block/mtdblock3 174080 153460 20620 88% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 169728 27240 142488 16% /data
/dev/block/mtdblock4 133120 1160 131960 1% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 468331 11767 431579 3% /system/sd
Now install an app from the market (as suggested by fleming222) and again run "df". Compare the available (or used) space on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 with the first "df".
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is what I get (I can see on the first line that my ext3 is not listed ... weird)
Code:
/ # mount | grep mmcblk0p2
mount | grep mmcblk0p2
/ # df
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 98508 0 98508 0% /dev
/dev/block/mtdblock4 133120 1496 131624 1% /cache
HELP !

By the way I'm running MODACO's 2.6 custom ROM ...

Geeum said:
By the way I'm running MODACO's 2.6 custom ROM ...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The best way to do it if your not too good with the adb commands is to install the AMON recovery image for Hero.
It has all the options to create the correct sd card partitions from the recovery mode, then just install your custom rom and everything should work.
You will need to format your sd card so you may want to create a backup of it. And I would suggest that you wipe the phone clean as well. Once you install the modaco rom it automatically moves all of your apps to the sd card.
The link for the recovery image is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124
You will also need Instant Root (http://neilandtheresa.co.uk/Android/), which you should install first, it is an .apk file so you will need a file manager for your phone. It should pop up with a notification "instant root was successfully" or along those lines. (If you have a problem installing Instant Root make sure Settings>Applications>Unknown Sources is checked)
You should then place the AMON recovery image onto the sdcard making sure it is not put into any folders (root).
Instant root then allows for root access with adb shell using the following 2 commands:
1) adb shell
then
2) su
the icon should change from a $ to #.
Now flash the recovery image with the following command:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.3.img
That should do it, remove the usb and battery and once you have replaced the battery boot into recovery mode.
I ran the following commands in this order from recvoery mode:
- Wipe data + cache (factory reset)
- Wipe ext partition on SD-card
- Wipe Dalvik-cache on SD-card (NOT on /data !) [email protected] ALWAYS WORK
- Partition SD-card : 500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32
- Convert ext2 to ext3
- Installed ROM
Hope this helps

Hi and thanks for your reply. I finally sorted my problem, I was typing the commands from the recovery console, and now my ext3 shows:
Code:
# mount | grep mmcblk0p2
mount | grep mmcblk0p2
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=conti
nue,data=ordered)
I checked the space with df, and I can see it changing when installing apps.
However, so does the 'internal memory of the phone' in the settings panel; it keeps getting smaller as I install apps
Why is that ?

really want to do this but i find it all to hard and confusing

Geeum said:
I checked the space with df, and I can see it changing when installing apps.
However, so does the 'internal memory of the phone' in the settings panel; it keeps getting smaller as I install apps
Why is that ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think this is inevitable as the app uses some part of the phone memory for cache files etc (I am not 100% certain on this, just saw it written in an older post on the same topic).
I do not know if this is a coincidence but for some reason I have tried partitioning manually (the way your doing it) in the past and have recently used the AMON recovery image for partitioning instead. I notice that the recovery image tends to use less of the internal storage for each installed app, I don't know why but you could try it out yourself.

guys, i am using modaco's 2.6 rom. so if i just create partitions this custom rom will automatically install newly installed apps to the sd card. right?
but what if i already got many apps installed? will those be deleted while creating partitions?
is there any way so that i can backup the whole application folder and restore after creating partitions?
cheers

apparently if you do ext2 + swap + fat32, you can't do a Nandroid backup (it keeps giving errors). anyone got similar issues?

kazuni said:
apparently if you do ext2 + swap + fat32, you can't do a Nandroid backup (it keeps giving errors). anyone got similar issues?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
is it so? if so then that wud be a disaster.

[Q] problem with Ext on sd

Hi all!
I have space problem. I've installed AceSmod007 whit 512 MB Ext3 partition.
In data information i read:
9.71 MB available in data
7.20 MB available on system
412 available on Ext partition
Infact phone warns little free space. What should I do?
Thanks!

try moving apps to sdcard (settings>applications)

I tried. But it fills the fat partition. So now I have less in fat and much in ext.
The problem is that i can't install other apps because it fells that there isn't enaugh free space

how big is your sd card ?.
Im sure they recommend 1GB ext with this rom

After you flashed ROM all apps should be installed on ext, automatically. Try full wipe, wipe cache and flash ROM again

Finally I put cm7-r2 hboot and install the cm7 version of the rom with 1 GB Ext4.
It runs well

ferencz1 said:
try moving apps to sdcard (settings>applications)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ignore this.... If your using apps2sd its auto
Look up data2sd if you ever need even more room

Check if a2sd/a2sd+ is working:
Get connectbot from market, open it and enter:
Code:
su
ls -l /data
When you can see this:
Code:
app -> /sd-ext/app
app-private -> /sd-ext/app-private
a2sd is working. When you can also see this:
Code:
dalvik-cache -> /sd-ext/dalvik-cache
a2sd+ is working.
When you can see only the first output, it's unsurprisingly, your /data partition gets filled. This is done by dalvik cache.

[Q] A2SD+ with Runnymede V5 installed

I have installed the Runnymede rom of Sebastiaan yesterday. I chose for the A2SD+ script at the installation. But the script will not run right. My telephone tells me i have left 10MB of my internal memory.
I have installed this rom as following:
- installed 4EXT recovery
- Made a EXT4 partition of 1.5GB for my SD-EXT (the rest 6.5GB is for SD)
- Did make a full wipe
- Installed the rom
- Installed the SNQ kernel
- Started up the rom
Some extra phone information:
hboot 6.93.1002 (s-off)
cm7 hboot
Kingston 8GB class10 (1.5GB SD-EXT / 6.5GB SD)
I made no changes after i started the rom. Does anyone recognize what i am doing wrong?
If you need more information, please ask me!
Regards,
Niels

Open a terminal emulator on your phone and run
Code:
su
ls -l /data
Post the output here.

Here is the output:

Important ouput is this one:
Code:
app -> [B]sd-ext[/B]/app
app-private -> [B]sd-ext/[/b]app-private
So based on this output A2SD is working. What's missing is, that the dalvik cache is not moved to EXT partition of SD card. Check rom's thread if there is a script for this.

There is a script for that, i think that works. But the problem is solved with another solution. I choose at the installation of the new runnymede for A2SDX instead of A2SD+ so now i have lots of memory space.
Thanks for your help!

[BETA 0.2.1][04.01.12] ICS for Desire help

Hello guys,
I have installed the above rom by Sandvold, rom is running well. I have intermediate technical skills but have been out of it for a bit. The rom is working well, no issues, but the rom thread mentions a lot about apps2sd, etc, and running scripts. My appps allocation is as follows, 99mb used and 49mb free. Should I be doing something to dalvik cache, running a script to allocate more space or ensuring everything is installed on the SD card. I am posting here becuase they dont like posts such as this in that thread. I would appreciate a small tutorial about this situation please i.e. what I shlould be doing after installing the rom so that i can get maximum space free on my phone.
many thanks in advance.

moghm said:
Hello guys,
I have installed the above rom by Sandvold, rom is running well. I have intermediate technical skills but have been out of it for a bit. The rom is working well, no issues, but the rom thread mentions a lot about apps2sd, etc, and running scripts. My appps allocation is as follows, 99mb used and 49mb free. Should I be doing something to dalvik cache, running a script to allocate more space or ensuring everything is installed on the SD card. I am posting here becuase they dont like posts such as this in that thread. I would appreciate a small tutorial about this situation please i.e. what I shlould be doing after installing the rom so that i can get maximum space free on my phone.
many thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After flashing the ROM reboot into RECOVERY and flash amarullz script.

Goodwin_TJ said:
After flashing the ROM reboot into RECOVERY and flash amarullz script.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And make sure your SD card has a FAT32-partiton with rest available space and an EXT4-partition with at least 512 MB, better 1 - 2 GB. If you configure(d) your SD card with GParted, check that both partitions are primary.

moghm said:
I would appreciate a small tutorial about this situation please i.e. what I shlould be doing after installing the rom so that i can get maximum space free on my phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had the same problem as you do, and I found a script that made it work for me at least.
First off I wiped the whole phone clean, including the SD Card.
After that I formated the SD card like this (3965 MB card)
0 - 2909 fat32
2909 - 3933 ext4
3933 - 3965 linux-swap
How you do this is by going into the phone with ADB and do the following (Im using Windows7 so I used commandpromt):
Open commandprompt and type in "adb shell" (Assuming you have the requirments for this).
Once in you should se somethine like this "~ #" or "/ #". After this you type "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0"
This will give a prompt like this "<parted>", here you can type "print" and and see the exact size of your SDcard in MB and your current partitioning.
Decide how you want to partion your card (I used 1024 MB ext4 partion for my apps)
Remove your current partitions with "rm 1" where the 1 stand for the partition number. You should see thoose numbers when you type in "print"
When you removed all you can begin to create the new partitions by doing this:
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 2909
mkpartfs primary ext2 2909 3933 (You have to creat a ext2 partion first and then "upgrade it" to an ext4)
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 3933 3965
Type "print" again to make sure you have the correct sizes and all partitions you want, if you have then type "quit"
Now you have to "upgrade" the ext2 partition to an ext4. This you have to do in 2 steps.
First from ext2 to ext3. In the "/ #" promt type the following: "tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p2" where the 2 is for partition number 2. After this you should have a ext3 partition instead of a ext2.
From ext3 to ext4 you do this:
"tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
"e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
Now when you have the partitions right you can move on to installing the ROM on the phone.
First you should download the old files that is in the bottom of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10692249&postcount=1299
Extract the zip folder and send over the "A2SDKillerV5.zip" and "Data2SDInstallerV5_aosp.zip" to your SDcard.
From recovery install the ROM. When it is done, move back to the menu and do not reboot. Instead install the "A2SDKillerV5.zip" and when that is done reboot the phone and make sure it boots correctly. Take the "on first start" guide but do not login to your google-account. And do now download any apps or even go into market. After this reboot into recovery mode again.
When back in recovery mode, install the "Data2SDInstallerV5_aosp.zip". When its done you can reboot and you should have ~1GB to install apps on (Or whatever size you choosed)
Hope this will help you as much as it did to me
Kind regards Cykelstyre

CykelStyre said:
I had the same problem as you do, and I found a script that made it work for me at least.
First off I wiped the whole phone clean, including the SD Card.
After that I formated the SD card like this (3965 MB card)
0 - 2909 fat32
2909 - 3933 ext4
3933 - 3965 linux-swap
How you do this is by going into the phone with ADB and do the following (Im using Windows7 so I used commandpromt):
Open commandprompt and type in "adb shell" (Assuming you have the requirments for this).
Once in you should se somethine like this "~ #" or "/ #". After this you type "parted /dev/block/mmcblk0"
This will give a prompt like this "<parted>", here you can type "print" and and see the exact size of your SDcard in MB and your current partitioning.
Decide how you want to partion your card (I used 1024 MB ext4 partion for my apps)
Remove your current partitions with "rm 1" where the 1 stand for the partition number. You should see thoose numbers when you type in "print"
When you removed all you can begin to create the new partitions by doing this:
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 2909
mkpartfs primary ext2 2909 3933 (You have to creat a ext2 partion first and then "upgrade it" to an ext4)
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 3933 3965
Type "print" again to make sure you have the correct sizes and all partitions you want, if you have then type "quit"
Now you have to "upgrade" the ext2 partition to an ext4. This you have to do in 2 steps.
First from ext2 to ext3. In the "/ #" promt type the following: "tune2fs -j /dev/block/mmcblk0p2" where the 2 is for partition number 2. After this you should have a ext3 partition instead of a ext2.
From ext3 to ext4 you do this:
"tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
"e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
Now when you have the partitions right you can move on to installing the ROM on the phone.
First you should download the old files that is in the bottom of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10692249&postcount=1299
Extract the zip folder and send over the "A2SDKillerV5.zip" and "Data2SDInstallerV5_aosp.zip" to your SDcard.
From recovery install the ROM. When it is done, move back to the menu and do not reboot. Instead install the "A2SDKillerV5.zip" and when that is done reboot the phone and make sure it boots correctly. Take the "on first start" guide but do not login to your google-account. And do now download any apps or even go into market. After this reboot into recovery mode again.
When back in recovery mode, install the "Data2SDInstallerV5_aosp.zip". When its done you can reboot and you should have ~1GB to install apps on (Or whatever size you choosed)
Hope this will help you as much as it did to me
Kind regards Cykelstyre
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Much easier to install 4ext recovery.

I know I probably shouldn't be doing this but: When I was running a Gingerbread Rom the stock player found my music on my SD card. When moving to this rom, it refuses to find ANY music in the card. Downloaded some third party players like Poweramp etc and still it refuses to find my music. Don't know what to do now (Trivial I know but I really want to play around with the ICS rom but I do listen to music a lot so it's a hinderence that it doesn't work)

Zenamez said:
I know I probably shouldn't be doing this but: When I was running a Gingerbread Rom the stock player found my music on my SD card. When moving to this rom, it refuses to find ANY music in the card. Downloaded some third party players like Poweramp etc and still it refuses to find my music. Don't know what to do now (Trivial I know but I really want to play around with the ICS rom but I do listen to music a lot so it's a hinderence that it doesn't work)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is that with the latest one, 3.4?
I had the same problem with 3.3, but its ok with 3.4. I have my music back.
When going from 3.3 to 3.4 I cleaned the folders on my sdcard. I dont know if that helped, maybe worth a try though. Heres what I did
Mount usb in recovery, deleting all folders except the ones I wanted to keep, ie music, pictures, titanium backup etc
Full wipe
Install rom
My music came back

I thought that ROM had A2SD built in and you just needed to run an adb command to enable it?

I've flashed this ROM & followed the instruction in running the script in the command prompt rebooted all's well here!

[Q] [CM7] Can't install/update from market after flashing Alpharev partition table

Hi,
I am running CM7.1.0 on rooted and s-off HTC desire with DarkTremor app2sd scripts.
I just flashed the Alpharev CM7r2 partition table (moving also Davilk to sd-ext through App2SDGUI), but, even if I gained a lot of internal memory space, I am no more able to update/install new apps from Market due to an "insufficient storage available" error.
Can someone help me ? I tried also to wipe all and re-install from scratch CM7, but still getting the same error. It seems to me I cannot download/update apps with download size > of my /cache partition size, which is 5mb.
Many thanks to anyone helping me.

Ok, I found the problem.
The problem is that CM7 isn't automatically moving the /cache partition to the /data partition, which it should do since /cache partition is small (5 mb).
Thus, since market uses /cache/download to store downloaded .apk, it cannot store there apks bigger than 5mb.
To fix this I created a symbolic link with a folder inside my SDcard: this folder will act as the new market cache folder.
Here is the list of commands for users encountering my problem:
Code:
adb shell
cd /cache/
rm -R download
mkdir /mnt/sdcard/marketcache
ln -s /mnt/sdcard/marketcache download
chown -h system.cache download
Can someone explain me why CM7 didn't automatically performed this step for me ?
Thanks.

Just wanted to say thank you, because this also worked for me after I somehow screwed up the FAT32 partition on my SD card.
The only way to reconnect with the market was to make a symlink to the cache/download folder as you describe. (In fact, there wasn't a "download" folder at all under my cache partition -- which may have been part of the problem). But it's fixed now. A million thanks.
CM7r2 Hboot, GSM desire, running Mildwild 2.9.5 / Oxygen

I am happy it helped, that is why I posted the solution I had found.
Cheers

ghepardo said:
Hi,
I am running CM7.1.0 on rooted and s-off HTC desire with DarkTremor app2sd scripts.
I just flashed the Alpharev CM7r2 partition table (moving also Davilk to sd-ext through App2SDGUI), but, even if I gained a lot of internal memory space, I am no more able to update/install new apps from Market due to an "insufficient storage available" error.
Can someone help me ? I tried also to wipe all and re-install from scratch CM7, but still getting the same error. It seems to me I cannot download/update apps with download size > of my /cache partition size, which is 5mb.
Many thanks to anyone helping me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is another code(need sdcard extfs, runing in Android Terminal or under ADB shell in cmd):
Code:
cp -a /cache/download /sd-ext
rm -r /cache/download
ln -s /sd-ext/download /cache/download
reboot