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[Q] Partitioning SD, is there a clear easy guide?

after a few hours of searching and reading on xda and google, i understand the reasoning for aligning partitions on the SD card, but i just cant find a clear set of instructions on how to do so. I´ve read Sibre´s thread on partitioning, which mostly made sense but the calculations seems a little confusing. I have a 16gb class 6 SD card.
Currently my SD card is partitioned as Fat32 + EXT4 (1gb), which was done with gparted, aligned to MiB.
1: does anyone know of an easy to follow guide?
2: Is there an app (or command line string) that can show the details of an SD cards current partition configuration, and/or confirm if its correctly aligned?

i just use ext4 recovery... not the touch one, its still too large, i dont want to brick my phone... but the normal one it great!
this recovery will do all you asked for and all you need.

There is no reason to re-partition your SD card, unless you wanna use a ROM with DATA2SD (which needs an EXT-partition with 1,5 GB - 2 GB). For the rest of the ROM's your setup should be totally fine.
If you really need to partition your SD card, the easiest is to do it with recovery (my recommendations are 4EXT or RMD). The alternative should only be GParted, nothing else! Please do not use something like Rom Manager or Partition Wizard if you want to have the rewards of your SD card!

MatDrOiD said:
There is no reason to re-partition your SD card, unless you wanna use a ROM with DATA2SD (which needs an EXT-partition with 1,5 GB - 2 GB). For the rest of the ROM's your setup should be totally fine.
If you really need to partition your SD card, the easiest is to do it with recovery (my recommendations are 4EXT or RMD). The alternative should only be GParted, nothing else! Please do not use something like Rom Manager or Partition Wizard if you want to have the rewards of your SD card!
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Thanks for info. Im currently using MIUI-XJ D2EXT rom, but have been trying CM7.1 which seems quite laggy in comparison. Manu´s Kernel seems to give best performance, have also tried tiamat´s.
I wasn´t quite sure if the lag in CM7.1 was due to SD alignment, as i was using D2SD.

dsbnz said:
Thanks for info. Im currently using MIUI-XJ D2EXT rom, but have been trying CM7.1 which seems quite laggy in comparison. Manu´s Kernel seems to give best performance, have also tried tiamat´s.
I wasn´t quite sure if the lag in CM7.1 was due to SD alignment, as i was using D2SD.
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CM7 does not lag. Period.

bortak said:
CM7 does not lag. Period.
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bortak said:
CM7 does not lag. Period.
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Absolutely correct. Never lags.
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Swyped from my CM7.1 Desire using XDA Premium App

timmaaa said:
Absolutely correct. Never lags.
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Swyped from my CM7.1 Desire using XDA Premium App
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I can appreciate that others have a better experience on theirs with cm7, but not so in the case on mine. As much as i´d like to be using cm7 (as i really like the options), it doesn´t perform near as well as miui-xj d2ext on my desire. Possibly the D2SD is causing the lag.

CM7 in itself is a fast rom and doesn't really support any "xxx-2SD" that's why we say that the ROM doesn't lag.
Since the hardware limitations of our device, we are 'forced' to apply 'hacks' to get the most out of it. I haven't flashed/used any scripts but I do use S2E app on the market and haven't experienced any lag with CM7. Yes there is a possibility that the D2SD you are using is causing the lag.

Check out this excellent tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning

on cm7 i suggest a2sd ONLY, NOT dalvik/caches 2 sd, NOT data to sd, NOT a2sdx
simple a2sd using, oddly simple2ext, or one of the unofficial scripts given out in the CM7 nightly thread... (gingervillian uses darktremors a2sd, but even that causes lag with dalvik2sd)
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=OlegKrikun
if you use anything else you are likely to cause lag.

I've used ClockWorkMod Recovery for partitioning my sd-card. I'm running Runnymede AIO V4.0 SE now. No problems at all.

stankyou said:
CM7 in itself is a fast rom and doesn't really support any "xxx-2SD" that's why we say that the ROM doesn't lag.
Since the hardware limitations of our device, we are 'forced' to apply 'hacks' to get the most out of it. I haven't flashed/used any scripts but I do use S2E app on the market and haven't experienced any lag with CM7. Yes there is a possibility that the D2SD you are using is causing the lag.
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i tried S2E but i couldn´t get it to work, even after trying various options the data space didnt go beyond 140mb

S2e doesn't change change the data partition, its not meant to.
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[Q] HTC wildfire S best custom ROM

Hello guys please tell me the best custom ROM for
my htc wildfire S
for best performance and installing more apps

The amount of apps you can install depends on which you choose Link2sd or Data2sd. Choose link2sd if your card is of class 4 or less. Go for data2sd only if you have a good card..
Almost all the ROMs are good here...
Personally I prefer these according to their spec.
Sense 2.1 / GB2.3.5
Wildchild
hensemod
Mindhaxor GB2.3.5 The thread was deleted so sorry can't get you the link.
Sense 3.5/ GB 2.3.5
EQDKP 3.5
CM7
CM9 Alpha 3 Im using this currently.
Also these ROMS are also a go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515120
Hope it helped.

Very much interested.Thanks nice post

sukhjit321 said:
The amount of apps you can install depends on which you choose Link2sd or Data2sd. Choose link2sd if your card is of class 4 or less. Go for data2sd only if you have a good card..
Almost all the ROMs are good here...
Personally I prefer these according to their spec.
Sense 2.1 / GB2.3.5
Wildchild
hensemod
Mindhaxor GB2.3.5 The thread was deleted so sorry can't get you the link.
Sense 3.5/ GB 2.3.5
EQDKP 3.5
CM7
CM9 Alpha 3 Im using this currently.
Also these ROMS are also a go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515120
Hope it helped.
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Ya, it's really helped too, thanks for your simple and superb post,
Then which mobile can I chose means- HTC wildfire s or HTC explorer,
please direct answers just like above
Thank U
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thippesh said:
Ya, it's really helped too, thanks for your simple and superb post,
Then which mobile can I chose means- HTC wildfire s or HTC explorer,
please direct answers just like above
Thank U
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I have both HTC Wildfire S and HTC Explorer. I would still prefer Wildfire S over explorer. The only drawback of WFS is that the processor is slightly older.
But WFS has a good android development team but there is just a single ROM for Explorer.
Go for Wildfire S. Its worth it.

sukhjit321 said:
I have both HTC Wildfire S and HTC Explorer. I would still prefer Wildfire S over explorer. The only drawback of WFS is that the processor is slightly older.
But WFS has a good android development team but there is just a single ROM for Explorer.
Go for Wildfire S. Its worth it.
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Thank thank thank U......
Exactly that's what I'm looking.....
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Custom WFS ROM on S-ON?
Can I install HenseMod7 on my S-ON Wildfire S?
Im asking this because, in the steps for installing HenseMod7 there is some steps only of S-OFF devices... That means HenseMod7 is intended for S-ON devices too (S-ON means UNROOT too)
So my question is the HenseMod7 can be installed on my UNROOTED + S-ON Wildfire S?

painkalshafeer said:
Can I install HenseMod7 on my S-ON Wildfire S?
Im asking this because, in the steps for installing HenseMod7 there is some steps only of S-OFF devices... That means HenseMod7 is intended for S-ON devices too (S-ON means UNROOT too)
So my question is the HenseMod7 can be installed on my UNROOTED + S-ON Wildfire S?
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You need SOff or S-On with unlocked bootloader + root.

The Wildfire S has that really irritating low internal memory problem when on stock.
Use the Data2SD flashable ZIP included with most ROMs posted up there. You can use ROM Manager to quickly partition your SD card (but it formats it so you lose all data on it).
If you use a Sense ROM, then Facebook for HTC Sense will pump your ContactStorage with profile pics, so even if you do Link2SD (which doesn't link system apps), you might run into low mem after a few 1000 messages and syncing contacts with fb.

.theme prob
.guys i've downloaded some themes for this ROM alpha6.
.after applying these themes, nothing happens. i mean, icons are still the same.
.the only theme that worked for me is the outline theme for cm9.
.anyone with the same prob? thanks for the ROM though its great

MIUI V4 is the best Rom.

If your'e looking for a fully stable rom then cm7...but i prefer cm9 but it's not as stable as cm7

For daily use wildchild is the best. It can play games overclock and everything else so well with lots of free internal memory.

sukhjit321 said:
The amount of apps you can install depends on which you choose Link2sd or Data2sd. Choose link2sd if your card is of class 4 or less. Go for data2sd only if you have a good card..
Almost all the ROMs are good here...
Personally I prefer these according to their spec.
Sense 2.1 / GB2.3.5
Wildchild
hensemod
Mindhaxor GB2.3.5 The thread was deleted so sorry can't get you the link.
Sense 3.5/ GB 2.3.5
EQDKP 3.5
CM7
CM9 Alpha 3 Im using this currently.
Also these ROMS are also a go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683874
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515120
Hope it helped.
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in addition to this great post, you should also save what you want if you havent flashed your phone yet, and partition your SD card so that it will have a swap and apps partition that the phone will throw apps to instead of the phone memory by default. i have a 32GB sd card myself so it gets a 4096MB apps ext3 partition, and a 1025MB swap partition. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for better performance. by default, Android does NOT have a very large swap file, if at all. this all can be achieved by using the ClockWorkMod Recovery Image. Use that to achieve your partitions instead of using a PC.

cyberkeeper1 said:
in addition to this great post, you should also save what you want if you havent flashed your phone yet, and partition your SD card so that it will have a swap and apps partition that the phone will throw apps to instead of the phone memory by default. i have a 32GB sd card myself so it gets a 4096MB apps ext3 partition, and a 1025MB swap partition. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for better performance. by default, Android does NOT have a very large swap file, if at all. this all can be achieved by using the ClockWorkMod Recovery Image. Use that to achieve your partitions instead of using a PC.
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Don't U think 4096 is too much I have seen many user post that one can only have up to 2GB!

finance.resat said:
Don't U think 4096 is too much I have seen many user post that one can only have up to 2GB!
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Not when i have a 32gb card... plus, with an ext3 partition, i can backup that sd card in linux.
In other words, when you have the extra space, use it!

cyberkeeper1 said:
Not when i have a 32gb card... plus, with an ext3 partition, i can backup that sd card in linux.
In other words, when you have the extra space, use it!
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Mine also 32 GB. What's your booting time? Mine is pretty fast about 1 mins.

finance.resat said:
For daily use wildchild is the best. It can play games overclock and everything else so well with lots of free internal memory.
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What makes wildchild better than the others listed above? Also I've noticed that de-odexed roms are supposedly slower than odexed roms? Which one is wildchild and would an odexed rom run better on this phone with the low internal memory?
alexnica91 said:
MIUI V4 is the best Rom.
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What makes mui better than wildchild?
dotbugfix said:
The Wildfire S has that really irritating low internal memory problem when on stock.
Use the Data2SD flashable ZIP included with most ROMs posted up there. You can use ROM Manager to quickly partition your SD card (but it formats it so you lose all data on it).
If you use a Sense ROM, then Facebook for HTC Sense will pump your ContactStorage with profile pics, so even if you do Link2SD (which doesn't link system apps), you might run into low mem after a few 1000 messages and syncing contacts with fb.
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This is the EXACT problem I have with links2sd on the wildfire s I currently have.
However, everyone suggests, on this rom and others, that if you don't have a class 6 or above card, then don't use apps2sd or data2sd (are these the same?)
I have the stock 2gb card that came in the wildfire s and I believe it's a class 2 or 4 maybe? Is this going to be a problem with the stock card?
Also I think this has to be setup as a gold card or something? I can't remember how it works with this phone

WildChild mentions that he has odex and de-odex? Which one does everyone recommend? Odex has 117 mb free, de-odex only has 77mb free.
Also Wildchild only used app2sd, not data2sd.
Hensemod uses links2sd which is where the super slowdowns on my phone are coming from per above.
How would I use data2sd instead on either of these?
(I tested my sd card speed and it's 6mb a sec easy)

cyberkeeper1 said:
in addition to this great post, you should also save what you want if you havent flashed your phone yet, and partition your SD card so that it will have a swap and apps partition that the phone will throw apps to instead of the phone memory by default. i have a 32GB sd card myself so it gets a 4096MB apps ext3 partition, and a 1025MB swap partition. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for better performance. by default, Android does NOT have a very large swap file, if at all. this all can be achieved by using the ClockWorkMod Recovery Image. Use that to achieve your partitions instead of using a PC.
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Right... I tested many custom roms and finally stuck in stock sense with dust kernal and link2sd.... Pretty good and stable....
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[Q] Choice about ROM OF ELK759

Good morning,
I have a question to know which rom should I download, what with a2sd or the other? I have a "partition" sd-ext4 ...
Thank you.

since u have an ext4 sd card partition.....it is recommended u download the one wth a2sd to use that partition as a supplement for internal memory
remember after installing rom with a2sd to do a2sd install (y/n/y)..............
enjoy ur JELLY:good:

2012katas said:
since u have an ext4 sd card partition.....it is recommended u download the one wth a2sd to use that partition as a supplement for internal memory
remember after installing rom with a2sd to do a2sd install (y/n/y)..............
enjoy ur JELLY:good:
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and what rom r ya recommending for "a2sd install"
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I think the clue is in the OP

desarenezitic said:
I think the clue is in the OP
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hahaha my bad :banghead:
fixing laptop all day, me head is up my ar*e lol
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Lol, don't no problem, probably best to take it out of there when reading though
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2012katas said:
since u have an ext4 sd card partition.....it is recommended u download the one wth a2sd to use that partition as a supplement for internal memory
remember after installing rom with a2sd to do a2sd install (y/n/y)..............
enjoy ur JELLY:good:
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Thanks.
But i'm not sure because yesterday i've installed the one whitout a2sd and i have a internal memory more big ...
Sorry for my english and sorry if i've said stupid thing

djemeere said:
Thanks.
But i'm not sure because yesterday i've installed the one whitout a2sd and i have a internal memory more big ...
Sorry for my english and sorry if i've said stupid thing
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The non a2sd ROM uses INT2EXT automatically and will therefore make use of your ext partition for installing apps.
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well i feel init2ext slows down the device

HTC wildfire s - storage....

Hi all,
My wife has a wildfire s, but she has some problem with her storage. The phone say that she has no memory, but she has a sd card of 16gb.
So, how can I do?
To put my sd card to primary.
Please help. What can I do.
Thanks.
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R.ThierryHOX said:
Hi all,
My wife has a wildfire s, but she has some problem with her storage. The phone say that she has no memory, but she has a sd card of 16gb.
So, how can I do?
To put my sd card to primary.
Please help. What can I do.
Thanks.
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which types of warning she getting?
like wildfire s has low internal memory so she can't install much apps and all apps wont go in external card.

She get a popup that say "make more space" "move apps to sd card or phone storage" but when she do it, they don't give any apps to move .
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R.ThierryHOX said:
She get a popup that say "make more space" "move apps to sd card or phone storage" but when she do it, they don't give any apps to move .
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they wont move.its just a warning that space is low.
her phone is rooted? if yes then several things you can do to install more apps.
or if not, then you cant do anything.you have to sort out in low space.and she can't install much apps.you can see internal space in settings>applications>manage applications at bottom bar.

crossfire77 said:
they wont move.its just a warning that space is low.
her phone is rooted? if yes then several things you can do to install more apps.
or if not, then you cant do anything.you have to sort out in low space.and she can't install much apps.you can see internal space in settings>applications>manage applications at bottom bar.
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She is not rooted. But i will root it this week.
So can you told me what is those things i can do.
I'll root her wildfire s in some days. So can you told me how can i root it.
And need i to stay on stock rom? What is the best rom or kernel or whatever other things.
Thanks

I am using stock rom too.
There are many roms like cm9 which is ICS build and others are cm10 which are jelly bean builds..
You can find roms on android devlopement thread.
And for internal storage tweak first of all you need to partition your sdcard.
FAT32 :remaining
EXT3/EXT4 : 1 GB ll be enough
LINUX SWAP : 512 MB
linux swap partition isnt madatory except link2sd.but you hv 16 GB memory card so make that partition too.it works as backup RAM.its 512 MB because wildfire s has 512 MB RAM.
ALL PARTITIONS SHOULD BE PRIMARY AND YOU CAN MAKE THEM BY MINIPARTITIONAL TOOL ON WINDOWS.
There are many tweaks for internal memory link2sd,mounts2sd and int2ext+
Best one is int2ext+ but for that you need custom rom with init.d suppport..
Tell me if u need more help.good luck
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using Tapatalk 2

crossfire77 said:
I am using stock rom too.
There are many roms like cm9 which is ICS build and others are cm10 which are jelly bean builds..
You can find roms on android devlopement thread.
And for internal storage tweak first of all you need to partition your sdcard.
FAT32 :remaining
EXT3/EXT4 : 1 GB ll be enough
LINUX SWAP : 512 MB
linux swap partition isnt madatory except link2sd.but you hv 16 GB memory card so make that partition too.it works as backup RAM.its 512 MB because wildfire s has 512 MB RAM.
ALL PARTITIONS SHOULD BE PRIMARY AND YOU CAN MAKE THEM BY MINIPARTITIONAL TOOL ON WINDOWS.
There are many tweaks for internal memory link2sd,mounts2sd and int2ext+
Best one is int2ext+ but for that you need custom rom with init.d suppport..
Tell me if u need more help.good luck
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Okay thanks. And yes, i'll need your help. (Really need your help). By a step by step, what to do, what to download. just all about that.
And starting by what is the best method you suggest me to root the wildfire s, and what rom you advise me. All the best for it.
Thanks, many thanks.
You are my saviour.

R.ThierryHOX said:
Okay thanks. And yes, i'll need your help. (Really need your help). By a step by step, what to do, what to download. just all about that.
And starting by what is the best method you suggest me to root the wildfire s, and what rom you advise me. All the best for it.
Thanks, many thanks.
You are my saviour.
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haha.okay man dnt worry.
so for rooting.follow this tutorial:
http://www.htcwildfiresblog.com/2012/03/guide-to-rooting-htc-wildfire-s-235-s.html
in this tutorial first you need to make account from htcdev.com and then follow instructions on that page:
(IN TUTORIAL YOU FIND STEP 1,UPDATE YOUR BOOTLOADER BUT IF YOUR PHONE HAS LATEST UPDATE 2.26 ,THEN YOU DONT NEED TO UPDATE IT.YOU WILL SEE THAT INSTUCTION ON HTCDEV.COM PAGE)
then,
download rom manager from play store and install clockworkmod recovery.( its necessery to flash rom,mods etc)
and most important, after flashing custom recovery(clockworkmod) make backup of your current rom.because if you want to come back to your stock rom,it ll be helpfull.
about roms:
there are stable cm9 as well as cm10 roms.
cm9 is very stable,no major bugs except little lag on camera ( negligible) and camcorder record at 15 fps.
cm10 has some bugs but you can see jellyking rom on android devlopement page.people said its very stable.so you can use it if you want taste of jelly bean.
and there are another option like MIUI which has best UI. and sense 3.5 roms.
thats all.
i am using my stock rom because i like my sense best,stable,not a single bug and works good.

alternative custom ROM

hi im using currently mildwild 9.5 based on redux
and it crash a lot, so i need alternative ROM that will automatically save apps to my SD partition like this ROM i have - i dont like these app2sd never transfer everything on SD and i get low on space
any suggestions?

Night5talker said:
hi im using currently mildwild 9.5 based on redux
and it crash a lot, so i need alternative ROM that will automatically save apps to my SD partition like this ROM i have - i dont like these app2sd never transfer everything on SD and i get low on space
any suggestions?
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MW9.5 is very stable. How did you partition your SD card? Suggest you to wipe everything, re-partition if needed and flash. Everything should be working just fine.
Alternatively, you can try other MW ROMs like the one based on CM or oxygen. They're working perfectly too.
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dvsk69 said:
MW9.5 is very stable. How did you partition your SD card? Suggest you to wipe everything, re-partition if needed and flash. Everything should be working just fine.
Alternatively, you can try other MW ROMs like the one based on CM or oxygen. They're working perfectly too.
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dont know why my keep crashing... i get popup msg that something xperia has crashed and then force close option... (will update once i get msg again) and it happens randomly
MSG is : "activity xperia home (in application xperia home) is not responding"
how do i know which ROM has auto move to SD card?

How did you partition your SD?
If you want to know if a ROM has a2sd read the ROM post.
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chromium96 said:
How did you partition your SD?
If you want to know if a ROM has a2sd read the ROM post.
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i used 4ext to partition it
i wiped it all and used its partitioning used 512 MB and 0 for that other thing
it works well just rom sometimes crashes

Night5talker said:
i used 4ext to partition it
i wiped it all and used its partitioning used 512 MB and 0 for that other thing
it works well just rom sometimes crashes
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AFAIK this ROM is very stable. Try doing a full wipe and reflash.

chromium96 said:
AFAIK this ROM is very stable. Try doing a full wipe and reflash.
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can you link it cant find in search or full name

You are probably low on space because you are still on stock hboot.
Nandroid backup and change hboot using fastbout commands, search for guides. There are custom hboots posted in that thread if your search. Or just use something like cm7r2 hboot.
512mb is also quite small, you can use at least 1gb.
Check everything is working by installing another app like diskusage to browse all your partitions.

Night5talker said:
can you link it cant find in search or full name
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AFAIK= as far as I know.
I meant the ROM that you are running is stable, so its likely a problem on your end. Try doing a full wipe and reinstall it.
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