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[Q] Internal Memory question

So, I got my device s-off and rooted, was pretty excited when I had those stuff done.
But now,
Internal memory is still an issue, I read on xda like, removing the bundled or stock software comes with the phone won't make the internal memory get increased because those files are stored somewhere else that won't effect the total usable internal memory. Plus removing stock apps will stop using OTA updates.
So is there a trick that I can increase the internal memory of my phone? I already use the default save location setted to sd card, and moving apps to sd but it always leaves some files at internal memory.
I read somewhere like, I can make phone use my sd card's some part as internal memory, I saw a rom offering that but except that is there any program offering this without flashing rom?
And I have some knowledge about Linux, so I was wondering do I have a chance to use symlink command (symbolic link) to link my internal memory to sd card ?

Best way is to use a ROM with Darktremor Apps2SD preinstalled. I don't know whether it will work if you install it now.
The best alternative, in my opinion, is to format a partition of your SD card to ext3 with this guide and then use Link2SD.The partition can be as big as you want, but I believe that 500 MB should be enough.
It will earn you some space but not as much as the Darktremor Apps2SD will.

Thanks for the answer, I used the guide and Link2SD, but i am a bit confused here, I also use apps 2 sd program,
So for using less possible internal memory of my phone,
Should I install apps to phone memory and then link to sd card with link2sd
or
Install app in sd card (or move it with link2sd to sd card) then link?
Right now one of apps shown as Linked -> SD card. So is this the best scenario?
Because when I choose move to SD in Apps 2 SD, Link2SD says move to SD also, so it kinda like they conflict

To tell you the truth I'm not completely sure for what is better, but what I did was to first link all of them (application, dalvik & library if possible) and then move them to sd card with App2SD. I think there was a slight difference to the free space but nothing noticeable. Sorry, but I'm no expert, so everything I did was by trial and error!

[Q] How to format SD card to use as internal memory?

Hello All,
As we all know there a bit slight issue as far as the internal memory of Xperia Arc is concernend.. when I googled on how can we use our SD card to actually increase the internal memory so that we need not move the apps explicitly to the SD card, I came to knw that we need to create a partition on our SD card in ext4 format.. But I dint get the exact way of doing it... so can anybody tell me how we can do it? And does it need to have a custom ROM installed? Does it work on stock ROM also? Please help.. Thanks..

Try Link2SD or AD2SDX.

I tried Link2SD, but my problem was that after creating the new partition in FAT32, the phone won't mount the SD card, and keeps acting as if the SD card removed. When I deleted the second partition, everything went back to normal but without adding to the internal memory (which is the whole point)
I must have done something wrong but can't figure it out.

The second partition is the one that has to be in ext4 format and as logical so your phone will not try to mount it for storage purposes..
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Swap Internal SD with External card.

Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.

dorsefrith said:
Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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Install xposed framework and XinternalSD tweak

dorsefrith said:
Hello.
What I have:
- SM-P605 on android 4.4.2 - rooted
- 32gb SD card formated as FAT32
What is my Goal?
Around 12gb internal space for installation is for me not enough. I have external sd card 32gb and I want to use it as a place where I can install games and apps.
I have tried few applications which "move" game data but they do not move all the data only installation folder (Hearthstone- apps move only 58mb and game has over 2gb used space)
I saw some tutorial how to swap internal sd with external by modification of vold.fstab but it was only for older system versions(or I do not know what to change to make it work)
Tried to change install location by adb using command: adb shell pm set-install-location 2 but it do not work, games and apps still use internal memory.
I do not want to install any other rom since I like stock rom, but if anyone could help me in this problem I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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I have a 128 gb sd card and use the app root folder mount. The app basically does everything for you. It mounts the folder to the microsd card. If you google it and go to the xda forums youll find it and it explains how it works. I have at least 50 gb of game data stored on it and all my games work fine.

Change Android storage mount point

NOTE: This is pointless now.
Hi,
Do anyone know how to change the Android storage mount point manually without Link2SD or partitioning the SD card as EXT? I have a 16GB SD card and right now I need to install my apps on it. My phone is running the 15.4.A.1.9 (4.3) release.
Thanks for advance.

extremetek said:
Hi,
Do anyone know how to change the Android storage mount point manually without Link2SD or partitioning the SD card as EXT? I have a 16GB SD card and right now I need to install my apps on it. My phone is running the 15.4.A.1.9 (4.3) release.
Thanks for advance.
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If you mean you want it to use your sdcard instead of internal storage, just go to a terminal and run "mount -o bind /storage/sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard"
Note: You will need to run the command as root, then you can use Android's native app2sd to store apps on your sdcard

Any other way?
I tried the mount method, but everytime it says "device or resource busy" or whatever.
I heard that some modders in my country recompiled the Android framework in order to keep the SD card intact, while the internal storage becomes SD card. Can someone tell me how to decompile the framework, modify it and recompile it?

btw, nevermind, this post is pointless

why not support lg k10 sdcard format ext2 or exfat?

Hi
I format ext2 micro sdcard but not support lg k10 also formt exfat not support. Only support fat32
Does anyone know why it does not support?

I testd micro sdcard format exfat,ntfs,ext2,ext4 but not support only fat32 support for lg k10
Has anyone tested?

123xdagsm said:
I testd micro sdcard format exfat,ntfs,ext2,ext4 but not support only fat32 support for lg k10
Has anyone tested?
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On most phones only fat32 formatted sd card works. If u have a rooted phone and a partitioned sd card then u can use softwares like apps2sd to install apps on sd card in that situation if u partitioned your sd card in to formats i.e. one partition is fat32 ( main partition or partiton 1) and decond partiton can br any format only that app can recognise the second partition but your apps will be installed in it and work properly and your phone eill recognise only the fat33 partitiin. Im talking about phones generally and not only k10 cuz. Most of the phones only support fat32

waleeds1 said:
On most phones only fat32 formatted sd card works. If u have a rooted phone and a partitioned sd card then u can use softwares like apps2sd to install apps on sd card in that situation if u partitioned your sd card in to formats i.e. one partition is fat32 ( main partition or partiton 1) and decond partiton can br any format only that app can recognise the second partition but your apps will be installed in it and work properly and your phone eill recognise only the fat33 partitiin. Im talking about phones generally and not only k10 cuz. Most of the phones only support fat32
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my phone is rooted
but I have another phones base c
m rom and tablet I can use for microsdcard formatts exfat,ntfs,ext4
android is base Linux and must support most format
lg phones are limited
fat32 not support file size more then 4GIG
May be a way to work or install custom rom

123xdagsm said:
my phone is rooted
but I have another phones base c
m rom and tablet I can use for microsdcard formatts exfat,ntfs,ext4
android is base Linux and must support most format
lg phones are limited
fat32 not support file size more then 4GIG
May be a way to work or install custom rom
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How much is your sd card capacity ? On most samsung phones also it only recogbises fat32.u can still use that app if u want i will expalin how to partition sd card into 2 formats

waleeds1 said:
How much is your sd card capacity ? On most samsung phones also it only recogbises fat32.u can still use that app if u want i will expalin how to partition sd card into 2 formats
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Thanks
my sdcard is 32g
Yes, can create two formats, but it's some app only knows
If recognize sdcard more format support would be much better.
example
I want download file more than 4gig but can't because that's fat32

123xdagsm said:
Thanks
my sdcard is 32g
If recognize sdcard more format support would be much better.
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So this is the easier way to partition there is another way using pc but yiu should try this first.
First download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd
Then go to partition tool in it. There you will see a bar slide it to hoe much you want your main partion which is fat32 to be. I have attached an image thats the thing. But this is from the playstore app image because i didnt root my lg yet and did this before in samsung and dont have access to that phone. So you csn see in the pic. Uncheck the 2nd partiton (in the pic its checked but u have to uncheck it). So now you will have 2 partitions in your sd card but makesure u make the main partion fat32 or else your phone wont recognise the sd card. Now press yes after its done you might get a message to create mount script it will be writren what to do. Now it will ask to reboot phone after reboot go to storage and now if successull you will see your sd card for eg if u set main partiton to 16 gb then you will see your sd card showing 16 gb but dont worry. Now open the app and from there you can link apps to sd card second partion you can move whole games and apps. IM NOT RESPONISBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE OR SD CARD.
if it doesnt work or any other question feel free to ask

waleeds1 said:
So this is the easier way to partition there is another way using pc but yiu should try this first.
First download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.co.pricealert.apps2sd
Then go to partition tool in it. There you will see a bar slide it to hoe much you want your main partion which is fat32 to be. I have attached an image thats the thing. But this is from the playstore app image because i didnt root my lg yet and did this before in samsung and dont have access to that phone. So you csn see in the pic. Uncheck the 2nd partiton (in the pic its checked but u have to uncheck it). So now you will have 2 partitions in your sd card but makesure u make the main partion fat32 or else your phone wont recognise the sd card. Now press yes after its done you might get a message to create mount script it will be writren what to do. Now it will ask to reboot phone after reboot go to storage and now if successull you will see your sd card for eg if u set main partiton to 16 gb then you will see your sd card showing 16 gb but dont worry. Now open the app and from there you can link apps to sd card second partion you can move whole games and apps. IM NOT RESPONISBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE OR SD CARD.
if it doesnt work or any other question feel free to ask
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do you think that with this methode in set path download folder. for app ADM in the partition ext4 ?

123xdagsm said:
do you think that with this methode in set path download folder. for app ADM in the partition ext4 ?
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You mean set the download location to sd card by linking download manager to sd csrd if thats what you are saying then yes i tried that and it worked

waleeds1 said:
You mean set the download location to sd card by linking download manager to sd csrd if thats what you are saying then yes i tried that and it worked
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thanks for quick reply
my means set download location into second partition ext4
because my file is more than 4g
can?

@123xdagsm yes you can btw did you partiton it successfully? Btw in the settings you can set many setting like automatically link apps to sd as soon as you download it to your phone but i guess this phones mem is sufficient cuz i was on an 8gb device before and faced probs not on this on this i have so much space

waleeds1 said:
@123xdagsm yes you can btw did you partiton it successfully? Btw in the settings you can set many setting like automatically link apps to sd as soon as you download it to your phone but i guess this phones mem is sufficient cuz i was on an 8gb device before and faced probs not on this on this i have so much space
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Ok
I did not test it yet but sure test it

123xdagsm said:
Ok
I did not test it yet but sure test it
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So did u test?

K10 supports only FAT32 upto 32 gb without reformatting before it can use. If you put a 64 gb on k10 it will force you to reformatt it as FAT32. Exfat is 64gb and above and do not have limits on each file. While fat32 can carry 4gb per file.