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[Q] After partitioned my SD card, where the space had gone ?

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.

[Q] SD Card Problem

Ok, here's the thing.
I was trying to install LeeDrOiD V3.0.7 rom for my Desire and I followed the instructions.
And there was this step: "Flash This EXT 3 Alignment patch prior to flashing the ROM"
I've done all steps and I was stuck in boot screen.
But the main problem is that my phone can't mount SD card.
Before all this (two months before), I was doing step by step "Noob Proofing Everything Desire Guide" and I was doing partition of SD card using Gparted.
So I don't know if I messed up my SD card or what?
I can easily read card on my computer, but not on phone.
Can anyone help me?

same..
I have same this problem.. gparted, Leedroid and then cant mount sd card..
I cant find solution :/

i find somethings
look there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6641266#post6641266

Created swap partition and set it to 0 mb?
Which size has your ext3 partition?

I have 4GB SD card and when I used gparted i set 1GB for ext3.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

HELP PLEASE:
Cant update or download new apps from market to SD card.
I can only download & update apps on internal storage and then move them to SD... But If I have app on SD I cannot update or install app.. I always get - Installation Unsuccessful
I am using Leedroid NOA2SD 2.4.1. Tried to format SD card, unmount and mount SD.. nothing helps.
Titanium Backup:
Internal: 23 MB free
SD card: 1.29 GB free
SD card (a2sd): 1.90 MB free

after flashing this fancy alignment.zip you must reboot recovery and then flash the rom.zip
try it now, if it doesnt work you must re-do your sdcard
this can be done with android, boot up into any rom and go to settings>storage>format SD card - and it will restore whole sd as FAT32 (you will lose ext3)
so you need either other android phone or other SD so you can flash any rom to your current phone.
there is also an windows aplication that can do it (restore whole SD as fat32) but i dont know its name (and it is not anything alike gparted which unfortunately cant do it)

I've used SD Formatter 3.0 and I succeded in formatting SD card.
My phone can now mount SD card again.

mac - disk utilities - repair disk - might work if its just corrupted

[Q] New sd card and A2SD! Help

Hey guys, i had a samsung microsd 8gb class 2 card and i just got a 32gb lexar class 10 . i was on miui a2sd. i partitioned my 8gb card using rom manager (unfortunately), the 32gb is ALL fat32.
first, i copied my 8gb card to my computer, then transferred that to my 32gb. the card didnt work (phone stayed on HTC screen forever).
after a bit of fooling around, i backed up my apps+data to my 8gb sd using titanium, then i performed a factory reset of the phone. i then moved the dalvik cache back to internal memory and for some reason, the 32gb card worked in the phone.
then i decided to switch to mildwild rom instead of miui. the problem is, now when i open titanium with the 32gb card, NONE of my apps are shown. if i use the 8gb card, the apps are shown and able to be restored.
so can anybody explain this? and do i need to partition my 32gb for mildwild?

If your rom requires EXT partition, then obviously you have to create EXT partition on your new card.
via xda app

maybe you have an EXT partition in samsung card. You have to prepare partition on new card, do a nandroid backup with samsung card on, copy files to pc, paste files on lexar card and restore nandroid with lexar on.

If you were using MIUI A2SD then part of your 8GB will have a Ext partition. I suggest (no responsibility accepted) you partition your 32GB using gParted and use some kind of Linux OS to copy the files from the Ext partition of your old card to your new one. Failing that, do a nandroid back up on your 8GB and copy that over to your 32GB and restore. But be sure to have an ext partition of your 32gb because you need it for your MIUI A2SD.

[Q] Getting Ext SD Card to install apps

right now, I can't get my apps to install or move onto the External SD card of my S3 running CM10 or AOKP.
the only thing I have been able to do is run a mount script for my Rdio App so it thinks its putting all my data on the internal SD card and not the Ext SD card.
any idea, init.d script to somehting, can i partition my SD card differently?

move files without causing loss

Hello. I have I have installed on my S4 the rom hyperdrive RLS 10.2 and I have few questions.
1.-My phone showme a nag screen again and again : "memory storage left 2.8 GB" so, I see and have in "other files" the total 11.7GB , and view this "other files" , I see :
---Memory System 6.4 GB
--TRWP 3.21 GB
--TITANIUMBACKUP 1.27 GB
my question on this its: can I move manually this 2 folders from my memory to my External SD Card? and when I want to apply via restore ( If I need it ) the backup from TRWP the app can point to my External SD Card, where I left or move this backup ?
2.- I have two folders called "TRWP" one in memory phone and other in External SD Card... I dont know if in the past I copy from memory and past to External SD Card, so please can any tellme what its the last correctly backup?
thanks for all your repplys on this....

boni7010 said:
Hello. I have I have installed on my S4 the rom hyperdrive RLS 10.2 and I have few questions.
1.-My phone showme a nag screen again and again : "memory storage left 2.8 GB" so, I see and have in "other files" the total 11.7GB , and view this "other files" , I see :
---Memory System 6.4 GB
--TRWP 3.21 GB
--TITANIUMBACKUP 1.27 GB
my question on this its: can I move manually this 2 folders from my memory to my External SD Card? and when I want to apply via restore ( If I need it ) the backup from TRWP the app can point to my External SD Card, where I left or move this backup ?
2.- I have two folders called "TRWP" one in memory phone and other in External SD Card... I dont know if in the past I copy from memory and past to External SD Card, so please can any tellme what its the last correctly backup?
thanks for all your repplys on this....
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Yes, you can move TWRP and the Titanium Backup folder to your SD card. TWRP has an option up at the top that tells you if you're on the SD card or internal storage. Once you move those folders to your SD card, simply toggle that setting to the SD card and it will use your SD for your backups.
As for Titanium Backup, you'll have to manually set your backup location; just open the preferences -> backup folder location and point that to your SD card.