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hey everyone..
i recently got my hero an have been upgrading roms back an forth, but each time i wipe to update the rom i lose all my apps.. i was wondering if anyone could please help me get app2sd installed or show me a step by step process for it.. itd help heaps an be greatly appreciated!!
thanks in advance,
brett
I need help for this altso, dont realy understand how this works?
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How to install apps from MARKET to SD card, so we dont have to reinstall them each flashing
you need root! and a custom rom (MCR2.2 or 2.3 are my faves) these have apps2sd built in.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552591
p.s your thread should be in Q&A NOT the Dev section
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hi. i've partitioned my sd card as per the instructions on this website. prior to that, i'd installed the modaco rom version 2.2, which is meant to have apps2sd on it.
i thought that after partitioning my sd card my apps would automaticaaly get transferred to the sd card. but that doesn't seem to have happened. how do i go about making that happened. i don't want to reinstall the modaco rom, it should happen already shouldn't it?
also, where exactly is apps2sd on the modaco rom? i can't find it.
try booting your phone without the SD card in....are your apps still there?
apps2sd is built in to the rom, you dont need to run anything. It does it all by itself in the background.
thanks. I'll try that tomorrow. Before I do, just one other query. I thought that after partitioning the sd card, everything on it would get wiped. But the same folders (ther were only 2 before i partitioned it) are still there with the files in them!
which makes me think, did i successfully partition the card? there's no doubt that when i typed 'print' in the adb shell/ gparted after the partitioning process it gave a list of 3 partitions in the sd card. I basically followed the instructions to the letter. I won't be in a position to check again until tomorrow.
Just to be clear before I do something I may or may not regret, to get apps installed on the sd card, I need to partition it first, correct? Once it has been partitioned correctly, any app installations I do, say via the market, should go straight to the sd card? I'm running MCRv2.2.
Yes partition your card first. (FAT first, then EXT3 second)
they usually go to the SD card after a reboot i think.
AFAIK it is a script that is run during startup.
thanks alot for that.. i done a bit more research an have it all sorted.. cheers.. brett
good news. happy to help
as suggested earlier on this thread, i rebooted my phone without the sd card, and sure enough, all my applications/ widgets could not be loaded (except those that were already on the modaco 2.2 rom). rebooting again with the sd card in place, and everything is back to normal.
however, when looking on the sd card with astro file manager, i can't see a list of the applications anywhere. also, after connecting my phone to the computer, and then looking under 'removable disc' on my pc, i can't see the list of apps on my sd card then either.
so i guess what i'm asking is, how do you definitely know that apps2sd has kicked in. i've read on this and other forums that people have checked on their sd card and seen their list of applications. how does one do that? is what i've done above, namely booting my phone without the sd card in place and demonstrating that the downloaded apps don't work, enough proof that apps2sd has worked properly on my phone?
djdhrubs said:
as suggested earlier on this thread, i rebooted my phone without the sd card, and sure enough, all my applications/ widgets could not be loaded (except those that were already on the modaco 2.2 rom). rebooting again with the sd card in place, and everything is back to normal.
however, when looking on the sd card with astro file manager, i can't see a list of the applications anywhere. also, after connecting my phone to the computer, and then looking under 'removable disc' on my pc, i can't see the list of apps on my sd card then either.
so i guess what i'm asking is, how do you definitely know that apps2sd has kicked in. i've read on this and other forums that people have checked on their sd card and seen their list of applications. how does one do that? is what i've done above, namely booting my phone without the sd card in place and demonstrating that the downloaded apps don't work, enough proof that apps2sd has worked properly on my phone?
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You can't see them in /sdcard because that is your FAT32 partition of the card.
Apps2SD works by mounting an ext3 partition from your card, it is mounted to /system/sd/ normally I think. Have a look there with your filemanager.
The reason for having a separate partition for it is that Android requires the ability to set access rights and ownership to files for it work, and FAT32 does not support this.
if you load a linux live cd (i use ubuntu) and plug in your card reader, or mount your hero, you will see the two partitions (or 3 if you use swap).
Windows can't see ext3 partitions, but linux can, cos its great
yeah i had a look using astro file manager and went into system/sd but nothing is listed there.
anyway, now i have a whole new bizarre problem. most of my apps force close when i try to use them! for example, i open taskiller, and its fine while its running, but as soon as i select something to kill, a message pops up saying it has to force close. same with advanced task manager, shopsavvy, shazam, flixster movies and many others. i've turned my phone off and on, and rebooted a couple of times to no avail. phone calls and internet access still works fine.
all this has started since i tried booting my phone without the sd card. i've taken it out again and tried again, but still same problem. weird!
ok problem above solved! i uninstalled then reinstalled the applications, and then they work.
thanks for all your help guys.
i used to get that on my g1...un-install and re-install always solved it for me too!
happy hero'ing!
I am glad that there is a ROM that support A2SD, but i prefer to run the generic one, and if possible is there a code to make my generic pre-rooted rom A2SD abled?
I answered a similar Question a day or so ago here.... Just general stuff
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4655969&postcount=2
Dayz xxxx
Hi all,
My Desire is rooted and running Leedroid 2.2a with an ext3 partition on my SD card for my apps and cache folders, using the default apps2sd setup with the ROM.
I recently had to re-flash my phone because lots of installed apps went missing; some of them had odd names (the com.android.x.x names) and then it got stuck in a boot loop because it couldn't read the SD card until I formatted it, well actually I had to destroy the ext3 partition. Now I wonder if its because the apps folder is on the SD card/ext3 partition and if I connect the phone to my PC to copy stuff to/from in disk mode it un-mounts the SD card, losing the apps folder and the cache folder.
So far, since flashing, I haven't installed half as much crap on my phone, or dismounted the SD card, but I am worried that it will start to cause problems with the phone if I need to connect via USB/disk drive mode.
Has anyone else had these problems, or know of a 'safe' way to unmount the card without corrupting apps?
cyberguru said:
Hi all,
My Desire is rooted and running Leedroid 2.2a with an ext3 partition on my SD card for my apps and cache folders, using the default apps2sd setup with the ROM.
I recently had to re-flash my phone because lots of installed apps went missing; some of them had odd names (the com.android.x.x names) and then it got stuck in a boot loop because it couldn't read the SD card until I formatted it, well actually I had to destroy the ext3 partition. Now I wonder if its because the apps folder is on the SD card/ext3 partition and if I connect the phone to my PC to copy stuff to/from in disk mode it un-mounts the SD card, losing the apps folder and the cache folder.
So far, since flashing, I haven't installed half as much crap on my phone, or dismounted the SD card, but I am worried that it will start to cause problems with the phone if I need to connect via USB/disk drive mode.
Has anyone else had these problems, or know of a 'safe' way to unmount the card without corrupting apps?
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It shouldn't corrupt your EXT partition if you mount USB on your device.
AFAIK, if you mount USB, it will only mount the FAT32 partition, the EXT partition will still be available to Android.
Problem has occurred again. My battery went flat on Saturday so the phone turned off. Plugged it in on Saturday night, turned it on, and it stays at the "HTC" white background green text screen.
If I remove the card it boots fine. I mounted the SD card in Ubuntu and I can use the fat32 partition on the card, but the ext3 partition is empty, although if I right click on it and go to properties, it shows that there is 130mb in use on the partition. I cant do anything to the partition because Ubuntu throws some odd error about not being able to mount the partition because its in use, or some other paradoxical scenario...
Annoyed now. Anyone know of a fix? should I copy all the stuff I want off the card, repartition using gparted and try again? I used the ROM Manager app on the phone to prepare the card before. Could it have a bug?? the Ext3 partition is at the end of the drive space, after the fat32 partition. Should I make it the first partition?
Bit of a bump, but it seems I'm not the only one with this issue. Any help is appreciated...
I don't have the card with me now cos I'm at work so I cant do any more tests or try and find a solution.
Have you been able to find a resolution for this, I'm having this exact issue. While I suspect a reformat would address, I don't want to have to deal with this weekly.
No worries, you can mount them fine. but if you take out your sd card out of the phone and turn the phone on, it would turn on and go in a bootloop. but that was just for me.
This is used to happen to me. Stuck in HTC logo on white background. It turned out to be that my sd card was bad partitioned it corrupted.
I fixed it by destroyed all partitions and created only fat32. Then put it back to HTC Desire and had ROM Manager created new ext3 partition.
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I have been facing this issue ever since I started trying a2sd+ roms. I created a 1GB ext3 and apps will start disappearing every now and then. If I shutdown the phone and boot it again, then many apps will go missing.
I tried reformatting the sd, wipe and reinstall the rom but no use. Apps will keep disappearing on every reboot. At times all the installed application will be corrupted. i.e they will be listed in application manager as com.android.xx.xx with no icon. Some apps will have the icon and if i select them it will say the application is no longer available.
I have tried different roms with a2sd+ and still have the issue
I have tried different methods of partitioning.. Using acronis disk director in windows, using rom manager, using ubuntu live cd etc.. still the issue is present.
What makes it difficult is that sometimes the ext3 partition gets corrupted.. sometimes the whole sd ext3+fat32 gets corrupted, and I could not find what's wrong.
One final thing left to check is to try with a different sd card. If even that fails, then I have to go back to non-a2sd+ rom and live with low internal memory
Anyone faced this issue and found a solution, please share... I would be grateful...
I started having an issue today when I downloaded snes roms for my emulator. They would download and work great until I rebooted or file shared with cpu. Then they would suddenly disappear. Then I started noticing some of my apps that were stored on my sd card lost there picture and weren't installed anymore. That pushed me over the edge to unroot, format sdcard and start over but then I found out I had more problems. I can see and access the existing files on my sd card but I can't move anything else to it. Everytime I moved over unrevoked s-on and tried to flash it, it wasn't there. Two times it actually showed in recovery but then installation was aborted due to bad file (I downloaded it from multiple sources, including unrevoked).
Should I format the sdcard?
I'm lost, any help?
If possible, backup the sdcard, and then yes, try formatting it.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I've backed up my sdcard's content on my computer but I'm concerned that after formating I won't be able to move the files back. Could that be an issue?
Naw, you'll be able to move them back. You just have to copy them back over.
I tried formatting the sdcard and it didn't do anything. It gave me the warnings about erasing all the files and everything...
Using clockworkmod I tried to partition the sdcard and it had a similar result. It warned me that everything will be erased but when it booted back up everything remained and it's like nothing happened.
Is it possible that the sdcard has been locked?
Did you forward with the partition? Cuz it does warn you. And when partitioned, it should have nothing on it...so try running it again, or do it on a pc if available.
I don't have an adapter for my computer so it looks like I'll need to pick one up tomorrow. Thanks for the advice!
Oh and yes I went forward with the partition along with formatting the card. Both had zero effect. Nothing had been erased.
Hmm that's weird, but alright. And you can shoot me a message if you need anymore help.
I got to work today and swapped a co-workers sdcard into my phone and took a picture. It showed up on her evo proving that my phone still is properly writing files. The sdcard must have just crapped out. I'll be formatting it using my computer today so hopefully that will help.
Well I got a new SD card and everything works perfectly. Now my 8gb will just be my backup after I format it.
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Hi
I am having trouble with my SD Card on HTC Desire. The whole problem started this morning, so let me walk you through the whole thing:
I installed CM7 nightly # 24 last night. My phone was working absolutely fine before that. It was late so I just set ROM Manager to make a backup and install the new ROM, and went to bed. When I woke up, it had installed and was working fine. Then I dunno for what reason I had to restart my phone. And when I did, all hell broke loose!
The phone rebooted and gave the error message that there is a blank memory card in the phone!!! I restarted the phone a few more times, took out the card and cleaned it, everything, but it just won't recognize it. I went into recovery and mounted the SD card to connect to computer. But the windows (win7 x64) gave error message that the card has an unrecognized or corrupted file system. Since the only backup I had was on SD card itself, I realized that I was officially screwed.
So I formatted the card in the windows. And now it was showing the full 7.37GB size of the card. Meaning it had also somehow removed the 512MB sd-ext partition I had on it as well. But I said fine, no issues. I can reinstall all the apps and settings etc.
So I installed the CM7 RC2 just to be safe, and went into ROM Manager to make the ext partition. I set it to 512MB, swap size 0MB, and the phone restarted into recovery. It started the partition, but only after 3 or so seconds, it rebooted. I checked, but it hadn't partitioned the card! Weird...
I figured maybe there is a problem with the format Windows did, so I formatted the card once again from recovery. Just to be safe, I wiped everything and reinstalled CM7 RC2. But again, no luck with partitioning. Installed Nightly # 23 to get the latest patches and all, but again no luck.
Now I made a GParted USB boot drive, and tried partitioning with it. But GParted also wont partition it. There was this attention symbol next to the drive. I double clicked the drive and it showed this error in the next window. I took a picture of it from a friend's phone, attached below.
I also took a snapshot from within gparted, but it saved it at some /home/something location and I cannot find it. So if the attached image is not clear enough, or if you know where to look for that snapshot, please let me know and I'll post that. Its not in the boot USB drive or SD Card, and its not in my C: drive either.
I would really appreciate if someone could tell me what the hell is going on with my SD card, and how to fix it. Its a Class 2 card, about 6 months old, and I really hope it isn't dead.
Seriously? No one??
Use the recovery and not Rom Manager or use Gparted of something like Easeus.
I use partition wizard on the computer for partitioning
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Hi everyone, this is my first post but I have been lurking for a little while. Thanks to this forum I was able to unlock and root my phone (WFS European A510e running 2.3.5). I partitioned my 8Gb into 7Gb FAT32 and 1Gb ext2, and used Link2SD to free up some internal memory. All was well until about a month later when I began getting 'insufficient space' errors when trying to link new apps, even though it showed over 800Mb free.
And that is when I made the seemingly harmless move that set into motion the near demise of my phone! I tried to move a linked app to SD card. Immediately most apps force closed and displayed the 'missing app' android icon. Link2SD was gone so I couldn't try to undo it so I rebooted my phone but nothing changed. At start apps force closed again and a 'Damaged SD card' notification popped up. Being the cautious noob that I am, I had made a backup when I rooted the phone. I went into Hboot and through ClockWorkMod flashed the backup. When the phone rebooted it got stuck at the splash screen. When I put the SD card into a reader and plug it into the PC then the SD is visible for about 30 seconds before it crashes. I tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard to reformat the SD card. It says that it is completed successfully but when I remove and reinsert the SD card I see that it has not reformatted. The 7Gb partition seems fine. The 1Gb ext2 is 'unavailable'. When I try to format the SD card through CWM recovery then it says that no SD is found. I have cleared data, dalvik cache, and cache partition many times to no avail. I have also tried copying the backup copy from my PC to another SD card and trying to flash backup from that but I get a 'no files found' error.
I downloaded RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.13.401.3_Radio_47.23c.35.3037_7.54.39.28M_release_236989_signed and RUU_Marvel_S_HTC_Europe_2.26.401.3_Radio_47.23e.35.3038H_7.57.39.10M_release_261695_signed in an attempt to flash my stock ROM but when I try to open either RUU wizard I get a '5001' error.
And this is where I am now :crying: I'm so confused. I hope I haven't messed my phone up beyond repair. If anyone can help me figure this out I will be forever grateful!