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Hi all
ive been using A2SD and A2SD+ for a while now.
But the only way Ive ever been able to avoid a boot loop with any custom rom is is i use adb and parted to partition the SD card as per:
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
If I use any other method (including via my custom recovery image - Amon RA) my desire just gets caught in a boot loop.
I get the impression that others dont have this limitation.
Any ideas?
I used Amon_RA 1.7.0.1 R5 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721792 to partition my SD card and convert the Ext2 to Ext3. Works like a charm with LeeDroid 1.4c.
Did you convert to Ext3?
Hi Stooby,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, thats the same Recovery image I have installed, and Ive tried all sorts of things:
- leave as ext2
- convert ext2 to ext3
- convert ext3 to ext4
- repair ext partition
Also tried partitioning via clockworkmod / Rom Manager, same results
Regardless of whatever rom I use, the only way I seem to be able to get out of boot loop is partitioning via adb
Mods - I just realised I posted this in development - feel free to move it to a better home if you see fit.
subvertbeats said:
Regardless of whatever rom I use, the only way I seem to be able to get out of boot loop is partitioning via adb
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That's weird - I've never had any problems creating Ext2/3/4 partitions using that recovery.
FWIW, I was using Amon_RA's recovery roms back when I had my old Dream, and never had your problem with those either!
Hopefully, someone with more knowledge will be along soon to make a constructive suggestion or 2.
Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.
shav4life said:
Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.
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are you creating an ext 4 partition with gparted? i had the same problem with clockworkmod, the file exists error, so i tried with the unbuntu live cd (ext 4) and got the same error, i deleted the partition and this time created an ext 3 instead and all worked fine, maybe theres a problem with clockwork and ext 4 partitions
believe me i have tried 4, 3 and 2 and none of them seem to be readable. It's driving my crazy. Any idea why parted is not on my rom? or is it just my particular device having this issue?
Thanks,
I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam
gamgoum said:
I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam
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I have the same problem, can any one help??? I gave lots of money to buy that sd card but I cant use it the way I want :S
Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!
Keon91 said:
Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!
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Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.
duryard said:
Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.
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Have you got it working?
Yes Thanks. All sorted now
Need some pointers from anyone that may be able to help out... I'm a first time rooter/modder, and have successfully rooted and modded my Desire, but for the life of me can't seem to be able to partition my SD card - I thought that would have been the simplest part!
Here's the guff;
PC running Vista
HTC Desire
32GB SanDisk (a real one purchased from play dot com)
Rooted using Unrevoked
Running ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7
Running CyanogenMod 6.1.0 RC1 Desire
All working perfectly, no issues.
Then I got to the point where I need to partition the SD card with an ext partition to allow for a2sd. I've now spent four 2AM nights trawling and googling through the intermaweb trying to figure out how to do this with no luck.
I have had the card for a few months and have been using almost the whole 30GB of the card for storage on and off (transferring to and from in Vista), but I also recently ran verification tests to confirm that there are no bad sectors/issues with the SD.
I have unsuccessfully tried all of the following methods to partition the SD;
ROM Manager --> Partition SD Card --> 512MB ext, 32MD swap and the rest fat, along with a number of other combinations. I am using the premium version 2.5.0.7... ROM Manager goes through the process, looks like it's done it's thing and then reboots, but then doesn't actually create the partitions!
GParted Live CD. I boot using the live CD, but no matter what, the SD just doesn't seem to show up here for some reason - I'm not really sure exactly what state I should be putting the phone in to make it work here??
Android Device Bridge (ADB) using the console manager thing. I get issues with parted, but I think that was because it was needing the Amon-Ra recovery?
Amon-Ra recovery. I couldn't find the proper recovery to use, didn't know what to do with it, and then wasn't sure if I should be getting rid of ClockworkMod, so didn't manage to use this either!
The 'Quick System Info' app confirms the status as:
SD Card Storage: total 29.2GB, free 29.2GB
A2SD storage: "information not available"
Internal storage: total 148MB, free 44.48MB
System storage: total 250MB, 132MB
System cache: 40MB, 38.7MB
Any help would be super-duper appreciated, so thanks in advance for your responses!
I just installed a couple of apps (angry birds/XDA) and rebooted, now Quick System Info says:
SD card storage: total 29.2GB, free 29.18GB
A2SD storage: total 21.3MB, free 6.1MB???*****
Internal storage: total 148MB, free 40.1MB
System storage: total 250MB, free 132MB
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I had faced similar issues as well. I finally used ubuntu live cd that is a free to download bootable iso image and used gparted that is available in that.
gparted live cd did not detect my SD but it did in ubuntu. You can also use it to mount and see the contents of SD and resize if required. I recommend you download it.
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition to part my SD card.....
... actually setting up A2SD on CM6.0.1 alludes me....
I can't remember if cyanogen actually supports a2sd+ or not but make your fat32 partition FIRST then just make your ext3 and swap in ROM Manager
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Thanks for the replies! - will give the ideas a try next week when get home...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Any luck with this?
I _still_ can't get A2SD working with CM6.1
As Gparted live cd was not detecting my SD, I followed vpraveenis' suggestion and used Ubuntu live cd and the Gparted that comes with that - this finally picked up my SD where the Gparted live CD wouldn't.
It showed me that the 'partition SD card' option in ROM manager was actually working, as the SD card was already partitioned with a fat32, 512mb ext and 32mb swap.
I repartitioned it using the Ubuntu live cd Gparted with fat32, 1024mb ext4 and 32mb swap just to see it anything different happened. Same issue. a2sd didn't work.
bugmenot (cyanogen forum) advised that installing Darktremor A2SD fixed their issues so I tried that - this also didn't seem to make any difference.
Looking around now, there seems to be a number of users asking the same question and not getting anywhere.
Could this be a cyanogen mod issue? My understanding is that a2sd is included in 6.1CR1, so it should be working.
I'm currently trying to sort out some of the latest nightly builds so see if I have any luck there. Any other insights would be appreciated.
i faced the same problems with you, but i have solved it.
First, you need to download the unvoked 3.14 << which is the older version
then dl the RA-Desire-Recovery
Using the unvoked 3.14 to custom the RA-desire recovery. (connect the phone to computer)
then boot into the recovery by holding vol - and power and partition here.
Finished~~~~
Hi all!
As a last resort i'll be asking my question here.
I'm currently running the stock 2.2 rom with root access and clockworkmod recovery. I've had this setup for a long time now. Today i got my 8gb class6 card and i thought i'd change to a Desire HD rom for a change.
So far (5 hours into the process), i've only managed to what seemed the easyest: ..partition my sd card!
I currently have the following:
7gb fat32
1gb ext2
32mb swap
I have tried everything i could find but i simply cannot get this thing to upgrade to ext3 and then ext4. I do not have a card reader at hand so i'll have to do it within the phone.
The problems i'm facing after struggling for 2 hours to get parted working:
- no upgrade_fs script.
- tune2fs giving a unknown command error
I've been playing arround with this for about an hour when i switched to trying to install AmonRA recovery as i read this could upgrade your ext partition aswell. Problems i faced when trying to flash this were:
- unrevoked: internal error, unable to unlock nand.
- flash recovery app: error running command.
- flash_image commands: whole bunch of write errors and in the end a no space left error.
- rom manager: alternate recovery's greyed out, even after countless reinstalls and 'flash clockworkmod first' -tricks.
- fastboot: remote: vertification error.
- terminal app: flash_image not found.
And probably a bunch more i forgot..
I'm thinking of simply installing a RUU and do the whole rooting process again, and then installing amonra. For now i've recovered a clockworkmod backup i made and put back my old sdcard.
I hope there's someone that can help me!
Kind regards,
Jeroen
Use something like gparted or Easus or what ever it's called to partition the SD card.
GoogleJelly said:
Use something like gparted or Easus or what ever it's called to partition the SD card.
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Done this, but gparted only allows creation of ext2. The problem im having is upgrading it to ext3!
GParted allows to create all kind of EXT partition (including EXT3). Use the latest LIVE CD or USB version. I upgraded my EXT3 to 4 via GParted.
Sent from my customized HTC Desire using TTP
Oh i did not know that, i thought it only allowed up to ext2.
But dont you need a cardreader for that? Because i dont have one at hand right now
No, don't need a card reader. Best way is to boot into recovery and mount the SD Card. You can try via the Disk Drive option, but it gave me wrong readings (since the EXT partition was in use by the system), so not recommended.
Sent from my customized HTC Desire using TTP
Thank you!!!
I feel so stupid for struggling for hours yesterday. Only took me 5 minutes with GParted USB. Running the HD rom now!
I partitioned my SD with Amon Ra then selected ext2 to ext3, but it failed. When I moved the log to the SD card and read it on my PC it said there was no ext. I redid the partition, again with Amon Ra, then selected ext2 to ext3 and it worked. Just figured I'd let people know the ole try again method could work if you get here.
LostNomad311 said:
I partitioned my SD with Amon Ra then selected ext2 to ext3, but it failed. When I moved the log to the SD card and read it on my PC it said there was no ext. I redid the partition, again with Amon Ra, then selected ext2 to ext3 and it worked. Just figured I'd let people know the ole try again method could work if you get here.
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In a couple of weeks, you will be posting about ext not working properly.
Only partition your sd-card with 4ext recovery or Gparted.
I haven't found really good explanation on forum and most of post on this seems not to be answered so I'm posting to see if I can get this sorted.
I used Leedroid, InsertCoin, and now on GingerVillian now. All of them had same setting of 500MB ext partition. Problem is I always seems to get low internal memory no matter what ROM I use. Currently I have 394MB free SD-EXT and 16MB Internal.
I moved adobe flash to SD card which seems to free up space and Dalvik Cache is on SD-Ext.
So question is why even though I have lot of EXT space left is it not being used and is there way to make it use it more instead of internal memory?
jinius said:
I haven't found really good explanation on forum and most of post on this seems not to be answered so I'm posting to see if I can get this sorted.
I used Leedroid, InsertCoin, and now on GingerVillian now. All of them had same setting of 500MB ext partition. Problem is I always seems to get low internal memory no matter what ROM I use. Currently I have 394MB free SD-EXT and 16MB Internal.
I moved adobe flash to SD card which seems to free up space and Dalvik Cache is on SD-Ext.
So question is why even though I have lot of EXT space left is it not being used and is there way to make it use it more instead of internal memory?
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App2SD is flawed because of this, say you have an app 20mb, 15mb would be put on to the SD card and the rest go's to internal, so you will still use up space and in the end will have to start uninstalling.
Best way is to use a Rom with data2SD witch give's you 2gb internal memory.
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I have the same problem... I hate it , i have 1 gb for sd-ext3 and i cant enjoy it !
Any ideas ?
wska said:
I have the same problem... I hate it , i have 1 gb for sd-ext3 and i cant enjoy it !
Any ideas ?
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Data2SD RoM problems solved
One could also flash a new hboot which increases the size of the /data-partition. However you need s-off for this and it's imho riskier than flashing a rom with data2sd. Whereas i work with a2sd + cm7 hboot and i am very happy it.
Desire with Cool Sensation v7
Hi,
I have this problem too. but it is not our choice to choose the data2sd instead of app2sd because it depend on what the ROM support.
Previously I use App2sd+ from ModaCo ROM. I have 200+ apps and it take the internal memory nearly full but sd-ext space just half.
I tried the Data2sd for Desire is only SuperNova with HTC Sense and it work in 1Gb sd-ext. BUT it uses Sense 2.1.
I just try Sense 3 from Cool Sensation v7 ROM. I love it and dont want to revert back to previous Sense It have 3D home screen, cool weather animation, SMS secure lock. However this ROM still use app2sd. I cannot post to the thread, I dont have enought post count.
I try some other way to apply Data2sd into this ROM but I got boot loop.
After few days I use this ROM, my internal memory almost full (15mb free) for only 57 apps even the app2sd symlink-ed /data/app, /data/app-private, /data/dalvik-cache and /system/app into sd-ext!
Expert please help me and give me some idea.
Do I need to symlink /data/data into sd-ext manually?
Is it possible to remove app2sd in the ROM and install Data2sd? How?
Data2sd require busybox, init.d and ext4 kernel support. I think this ROM have all this thing.
HTC Desire
Hboot S-Off with Revolutionary
4ExtRecovery
Cool Sensation v7 ROM
8Gb Class 2 sd card with Fat32 + 1Gb ext4
And have some basic in Linux shell
I can 100% get my head around this either, although i did install some apps and i could really tell if it was on Internal or EXT4.
From my understanding, as far as the phone os, it thinks apps are on Internal and will decrease the size counter, but apps are on EXT4 if you use a file manager etc.. but even if all goes to EXT4, we still get that annoying LowDisk message was it get to 15megs...
I still was convinced, but i accidently decided i wanted to format my FAT32 partition, mainly to get rid of all the junk that on there since STOCK Rom. I used the Phone own Format SD Card option.
Well that was fun (NOT!!) it instead formatted the EXT4 and not the FAT32, when i rebooted all the loaded apps that were on EXT4 were now gone.
Phone still works, but one side effect of this is now i have like 270megs free....lol, granted no wallpaper, lockscreens etc,
anyway seeing as i screwed up and that im already S-OFF, im going to just go with CM7r2 HBoot.
Similar issue - I think?
Hi all, my first post here
So I have been working my way through all the error messages and guides and finally have InsertCoin set up. All is looking good except after Titanium Backup restored all my apps my internal memory is as full as before I rooted the phone, so I think I can safely say that the 2gb I partitioned off on my SD is not getting ay use at all? Is there a way I can check?
For the record I am running with AmonRa, and I used Revolutionary to get s-Off. The guide I followed to set up A2SD did not have me using any Terminal commands, so I am guessing that is an area for me to explore in solving this, here is the guide I used (near the end)
/myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-your-htc-desire
I used that method as i am on a borrowed mac and it just seemed easier. I
I am hoping there is an easy fix that someone can suggest.
hoads1234 said:
Hi all, my first post here
So I have been working my way through all the error messages and guides and finally have InsertCoin set up. All is looking good except after Titanium Backup restored all my apps my internal memory is as full as before I rooted the phone, so I think I can safely say that the 2gb I partitioned off on my SD is not getting ay use at all? Is there a way I can check?
For the record I am running with AmonRa, and I used Revolutionary to get s-Off. The guide I followed to set up A2SD did not have me using any Terminal commands, so I am guessing that is an area for me to explore in solving this, here is the guide I used (near the end)
/myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-your-htc-desire
I used that method as i am on a borrowed mac and it just seemed easier. I
I am hoping there is an easy fix that someone can suggest.
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To check if a2sd is working, open terminal emulator and type
Code:
su
ls -l /data
Output should say (for a2sd):
Code:
app -> /sd-ext/app
app-private -> /sd-ext/app-private
Additionally for a2sd+:
Code:
dalvik-cache -> /sd-ext/dalvik-cache
If it does not show this, a2sd is not working. So make sure you partitioned sd card correctly (fat32 + ext; both primary).
CallMeLaNN said:
Hi,
I have this problem too. but it is not our choice to choose the data2sd instead of app2sd because it depend on what the ROM support.
Previously I use App2sd+ from ModaCo ROM. I have 200+ apps and it take the internal memory nearly full but sd-ext space just half.
I tried the Data2sd for Desire is only SuperNova with HTC Sense and it work in 1Gb sd-ext. BUT it uses Sense 2.1.
I just try Sense 3 from Cool Sensation v7 ROM. I love it and dont want to revert back to previous Sense It have 3D home screen, cool weather animation, SMS secure lock. However this ROM still use app2sd. I cannot post to the thread, I dont have enought post count.
I try some other way to apply Data2sd into this ROM but I got boot loop.
After few days I use this ROM, my internal memory almost full (15mb free) for only 57 apps even the app2sd symlink-ed /data/app, /data/app-private, /data/dalvik-cache and /system/app into sd-ext!
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I used Cool Sensation v7 but didn't have this problem until I flashed the newer v9 (just noticed v10 has been posted today though). My internal memory was very low but I then flashed the Dalvik to sdext.zip from the Cool Sensation thread and then had 180MB internal free. Try that and see if it works. If it doesn't, have you aligned your SD ext using the .zip on the same thread? if not this could be why your having problems, though it didn't work for me.
Thanks for the ideas, I was a bit out of my depth with the Mac SU functions, so although i didn't get the desired feedback you suggested, but it could have been me. So anyway I found a Ubuntu machine and plugged in the SD card in an adapter and can see that there is a successful partition, and that the EXT partition seems to have some files and folders in it.
I have also just noticed that the SD cards partitions also appear in the Titanium Backup overview screen.
So i guess my problem is that the memory is just full! Maybe my expectations of extra memory after rooting were unrealistic. ?
For the Record, just to make sure my situation is normal, in Titanium I see
System ROM - 262MB (129MB free)
Internal - 158MB (15MB free) - is this just a section of system ROM above?
SD CARD - 13.8GB (11GB free)
SD Card (a2sd) - 1.9GB (1.5GB free)
@xybadog this is my update,
@hoads1234 just want to share with you,
I use Cool Sensation v7, the internal memory full can be solved by flashing the additional zip for stock hboot but I flash non stock hboot. Why?
After some studying, now I know why expert keep asking for my hboot. Hboot define the data partition. On the phone memory, it divided into system, cache and data partition. the hboot define the partition size. For stock hboot, you will only have 147Mb for HTC Desire. Whatever the custom ROM symlink'ed some data partition, we stuck on 147Mb. If you flash like CM7r2 hboot, you will get more room (300+Mb) on data but just enough for system. "Internal memory" is referring to data partition.
Now I still have 130Mb free internal memory after installing 90 apps without wiping any cache for about 2 weeks.
I dont have Ubuntu even I know how to use it. No time to install or make virtual machine. To partition your sdcard easily without linux, use 4ExtRecovery. It is CWM based recovery plus support for Ext4 and some features like partitioning, check for aligned sd-ext and mount as disk drive.
To check for your current internal partition. boot into recovery, and use ADB to run command "df -h". The /system /data and /cache is the thing you need to look for.
You could use the cyanogenmod rom, then install s2e app from market. That app is designed purely for use with cyanogenmod. I use this combo, I have a huge amount of apps installed and still 50mb of internal space free. No need for changing your hboot or using data2sd rom. Very simple fix
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okay thanks, I am still happy having a go with InsertCoin, so I will have a look at the hboot.
I think i read somewhere that i could do it just like adding a new ROM and copying a zip file across, so time for some more forum reading to work my way through this next step.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110921
okay here is my update, since in have revolutionary hboot, i tried to change to alpharev, so i could use their modified partition tables (found no reference of being able to do this in Revolutionary) - the folks on alpharev irc said not to, but didn't say why.
I did try and use the unrevoked tool to flash AmonRa across again, but this had a waiting for reboot error and may have failed. I have also reflashed my ROM again after a full wipe a couple of times. Not finding any improvements in memory, so will keep fiddling.
okay next question!
I tried the terminal emulator commands (once i worked out this was an app, and not the Mac terminal..) and got the following responses
app -> /system/sd/app
app-private ->
dalvik-cache ->
so am i guessing correctly that none of the apps i download are being sent to the SD partition.
Any advice to get app-private directed to my sd card?
hoads1234 said:
okay next question!
I tried the terminal emulator commands (once i worked out this was an app, and not the Mac terminal..) and got the following responses
app -> /system/sd/app
app-private ->
dalvik-cache ->
so am i guessing correctly that none of the apps i download are being sent to the SD partition.
Any advice to get app-private directed to my sd card?
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I suggest you use ADB instead of terminal emulator because easy to type in PC.
Install Android SDK make ADB shell to work and connected to your device. The shell is just the same what you need to do in terminal emulator.
To move app private and dalvik cache simply make symlink like this:
Code:
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/
rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
The first will move all contents, the second will remove the existing original dalvik-cache folder. and the third one will make symlink to point from original location to the sd partition.