I've noticed that after I've rooted I have issues with widgets. Do you have to have the relevant app stored to the phone instead of to the sd card for them to be available?
this has nothing to do with rooting. widgets can't be stored on the sdcard. they must be on the internal memory for android to recognize them
kokocabana said:
this has nothing to do with rooting. widgets can't be stored on the sdcard. they must be on the internal memory for android to recognize them
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Seems like a daft question but how do I know if my apps are on the SD card?
In the settings/apps/apps on SD no apps are listed but I have all my apps installed and more memory than before...
Anyone?
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This great little app will show what's already on SD + what can be moved to SD & will help you move it:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
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Hi guys. After rooting my phone and install leedroid's 2.2f i downloaded some widgets from the market, install them and everything worked perfect until i connected my device to the pc using usb drive to transfer some files. After that, widgets e.g. handcent sms unable to load. What might be the cause? If i install them again they will propably work. But i have to.do that each time i connect to the pc.
Phone: HTC Desire running leedroid.2.2f 4gb sd card with ext3 partition.
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I think your sd-ext is mounted while you mount your sdcard (this should not be) maybe you have activated external install of apk and u use Froyoy App2SD AND Sdext?
Move the widgets to internal storage if yes this should solve the problem!
You might be correct. Should i uninstall apps 2 sd?
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No. That will make things worse.
Go to app settings and display all apps installed to sdcard then move them all to internal storage (which will put them on the sd-ext partition.) Should solve your problem.
As far as I know widgets have to be installed on internal memory
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I moved all the applications that use widgets and the eidhets to the phone. Same problem. Thinking a full wipe..
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Did You do a restart afterwards? Otherwise it is clear, that the widgets still don't show up....
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I have an 8gb memory card but i am concerned with how much space is being used. I cleared cache, cleaned download folder, deleted alot of other stuff, and even deleted a few songs. Any idea how to get 1 or 2gb back?
Do you have any nandroid backups on your sd card. A few of them can easily take up a couple GB.
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have you tried mounting it on a computer and just looking through the files? post questions as to which ones you don't understand why they take up XX room and if they are safe to delete?
I've done this already and i still feel like i deleted something important to my system. Can you tell which folders are okay to delete?
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I've done this already and i still feel like i deleted something important to my system. Can you tell which folders are okay to delete?
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I might be wrong, and I'm happy to be corrected. The few file that the android system places on your SD card would just be put back the next time you reboot if you were to delete them.
If you have your SD card partitioned and use a rom with apps to SD and you were to delete files from the ext partition you could run in to problems.
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My G2 came with an offline car navigation software by htc. Its maps were "hidden" in /sdcard/.data
They were about 2Gb in size. I copied them to my harddrive - just in case - and then deleted them from the sd card.
The command
du /sdcard |sort -n
should also be helpful in finding out were your memory went.
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Hook it up to your PC and run WinDirStat.
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My G2 came with an offline car navigation software by htc. Its maps were "hidden" in /sdcard/.data
They were about 2Gb in size. I copied them to my harddrive - just in case - and then deleted them from the sd card.
The command
du /sdcard |sort -n
should also be helpful in finding out were your memory went.
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Is it okay to delete. Thanks in advance...
I've had this card in my rooted Droid 1 as well as a Archos 101 tablet and in both of those instances I've moved apps to SD as the internal storage on those is too small. Now that I'm going to be using this 16gb card exclusively on my rooted Evo 4G I have no reason to have space taken up by apps that won't be used or are on internal storage on this device. I want to find the folder and delete the contents to free up some space. I see one called /Android/data and another that is just /data both on the SD card. Either of these what I'm looking for? The former appears to have some older apps that I'm not using any longer but it also seems to have a couple that I'm currently using but haven't knowingly moved to SD card.
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With a system level file manager like Root Explorer, navigate to the /data/app folder and the /system/app folder.
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With a system level file manager like Root Explorer, navigate to the /data/app folder and the /system/app folder.
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I'm not talking about the current location of all my current installed apps. I'm talking about the location of apps when we move them to the sd card. I wish to locate those folders from my previous devices and delete them as all of my current apps on this device are on the device and not moved to the SD card so anything on my SD card in the way of apps should be from previous devices.
/mnt/asec and /mnt/secure/asec
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I'm not talking about the current location of all my current installed apps. I'm talking about the location of apps when we move them to the sd card. I wish to locate those folders from my previous devices and delete them as all of my current apps on this device are on the device and not moved to the SD card so anything on my SD card in the way of apps should be from previous devices.
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android 2.2 uses the .android_secure folder on your sdcard. for the native apps2sd. if you are using some other kind they use a ext2 or ext3 partition on your sdcard. you will need gparted or linux to see this type.
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android 2.2 uses the .android_secure folder on your sdcard. for the native apps2sd. if you are using some other kind they use a ext2 or ext3 partition on your sdcard. you will need gparted or linux to see this type.
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So basically if I have 3rd party apps that were installed to SD card from another device I basically need to backup the files I need to keep and format the SD card in order to delete them?
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So basically if I have 3rd party apps that were installed to SD card from another device I basically need to backup the files I need to keep and format the SD card in order to delete them?
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You could do that, but first, were you using some other type of apps2sd? Not the android native one that started in version 2.2? Dark tremor or any other flashable or aftermarket apps2sd that uses a ext partition on your sdcard?
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You could do that, but first, were you using some other type of apps2sd? Not the android native one that started in version 2.2? Dark tremor or any other flashable or aftermarket apps2sd that uses a ext partition on your sdcard?
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I would have used a combination of individually clicking 'Move to SD card' within some of the apps as well as SDMove (which I believe actually uses the same location as moving them within the apps themselves). I don't think I used anything else but I had that phone for 18mos so it's hard for me to remember for sure. On my current Evo I haven't moved any apps to the SD Card because there's much more room on the phone than my Droid 1 and I'm actually running into problems w/capacity on my external 16gb SD card. Hence the reason I'm trying to free up some more space from objects that are unnecessary.
Ok, so what you can do is just backup your music and pictures and whatever else that you know what it is and format the card. Then move everything back afterwards.
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Ok, so what you can do is just backup your music and pictures and whatever else that you know what it is and format the card. Then move everything back afterwards.
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I was hoping to avoid a format but sounds like I may not have much of a choice. I need to back up pictures, Mp3's, Titanium backup, Clockwordmod and a couple other folders and reformat. I was hoping it would be easier to track down all the loose ends though.
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I was hoping to avoid a format but sounds like I may not have much of a choice. I need to back up pictures, Mp3's, Titanium backup, Clockwordmod and a couple other folders and reformat. I was hoping it would be easier to track down all the loose ends though.
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Yea, what you could do is delete every folder on the root of the sdcard that you don't know what it is.
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I would have used a combination of individually clicking 'Move to SD card' within some of the apps as well as SDMove (which I believe actually uses the same location as moving them within the apps themselves). I don't think I used anything else but I had that phone for 18mos so it's hard for me to remember for sure. On my current Evo I haven't moved any apps to the SD Card because there's much more room on the phone than my Droid 1 and I'm actually running into problems w/capacity on my external 16gb SD card. Hence the reason I'm trying to free up some more space from objects that are unnecessary.
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If you moved them just using the Move to SD card built into Froyo (including apps like SDMove that just help you do that), you shouldn't need to reformat. That's only if you set up an ext3 partition.
Mount the card and view it from the computer (or use a card reader) and delete .android_secure. The real folder is hidden when the card is mounted on the phone.
Is anyone else concerned about running out of internal memory on their tablet? I right now have about 5GB free space. Of course I have a MicroSD card in the device for all my media but since you natively can not move programs onto the SD card everything is on internal memory. I still have several apps I would like to install including some big games and I am afraid I will have no space left. I know there are 3rd party apps that will move apps to the SD card but I am not looking to root my device at this time.
What brand is it? Btw you can use PC softwares like moborobo to install the apps to the desired location like sd card. Just google for it. It is very useful.
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What brand is it? Btw you can use PC softwares like moborobo to install the apps to the desired location like sd card. Just google for it. It is very useful.
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The brand of my tablet? It is a Galaxy Note 8.
Good. Try using the software recommended earlier. Its free and works like a.charm. also, if you are familiar with using ADB, you can set the default install location to SD. This will install the app directly to sd in majority cases and will also allow you to move many apps to sd which normally don't allow moving themselves to SD. Both the methods work.without root. If you need adb and the commands, feel free to let me know and I'll post them when I am near my pc.
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Good. Try using the software recommended earlier. Its free and works like a.charm. also, if you are familiar with using ADB, you can set the default install location to SD. This will install the app directly to sd in majority cases and will also allow you to move many apps to sd which normally don't allow moving themselves to SD. Both the methods work.without root. If you need adb and the commands, feel free to let me know and I'll post them when I am near my pc.
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I will take a loot at your suggestions.
sam214 said:
Good. Try using the software recommended earlier. Its free and works like a.charm. also, if you are familiar with using ADB, you can set the default install location to SD. This will install the app directly to sd in majority cases and will also allow you to move many apps to sd which normally don't allow moving themselves to SD. Both the methods work.without root. If you need adb and the commands, feel free to let me know and I'll post them when I am near my pc.
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Sd not external sd right???
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sam214 said:
Good. Try using the software recommended earlier. Its free and works like a.charm. also, if you are familiar with using ADB, you can set the default install location to SD. This will install the app directly to sd in majority cases and will also allow you to move many apps to sd which normally don't allow moving themselves to SD. Both the methods work.without root. If you need adb and the commands, feel free to let me know and I'll post them when I am near my pc.
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Please post it up. I am very interested. Thank you very very much
I only have 1.2 gigs left on internal memory.
I tried the moborobo and it only gave the option to move to sd. Not external sd which is what is being needed.
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