Has anyone managed to get a NON-FAT partition mounted from their SDXC card?
I tried so many mods, tricks, and patches to get Link2SD running on anything other than FAT that I finally bricked myZ550ML. Since I can't manage to un-brick it after many hours of trying (separate thread), looks like like it's going back.
I'm trying to decide whether to get another one. Right now, I'm concerned that this phone may never support ext4 or F2FS (at least until Android M).
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I have a question, has anyone tried to implement EXT4 on the Evo? I'm coming from a G1 and I know I used to HAVE to have an EXT partition on my sdcard. So now I am wondering because I know there is a performance boost of some sort with it.
I was curious also since even on my Hero, some roms supported the EXT4. I did read, however, that EXT4 didn't really provide much for the use of the phone so nobody really bothered with it and just stuck with EXT3.
Well, first of all, hello everybody!, as you may see I'm fairly new.
So, to begin with the question I'll give you guys the description of my problem:
I've the stock, slow, 16 GB micro SD class 2 card that comes with the Xperia Play. I've been trying to save to get a nicer one, but they're very expensive here in Mexico.
Since a while ago I've been reading about the SD-Ext partition (I know, I know, Gingerbread now supports moving apps to the SD, but I want the widgets and also I want to install a linux distro on my phone and that partition would be convenient ), so I decided to make it, but since I have no other SD and the one I got is almost full (I could surely make some space in my SD but this idea has potential, I needed to try, also, I really enjoy complicating this sort of things ) I made a disk image of that partition with dd on linux. Went trough a lot of complications, but finally, with the help of CIFS Manager I managed to "loop" mount that image on the /mnt/sdcard folder.
My configuration ended like this:
/mnt/sdcard - Disk Image over WiFi (FAT ~15 GiB)
/mnt/sd-ext - /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (Ext2 1.5 GiB)
unmounted - /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (FAT 13 GiB)
unmounted - /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (Swap ~330MiB)
(I'll mount them once I solve this)
The only problem I've now is that my applications "installed" on that disk image are not available, they are on the app drawer, but it says "Application not found" (I ran ls on /sdcard and I could see every folder, even Android settings, on the storage section says that I've 14.83 GB of Total Sapce, clearly the image, not the actual SD).
And here it comes, the real question ... Is there any way I can reload/rescan my apps without rebooting so I can then move them to SD-Ext or any other workaround?
Thanks for your patience reading this
Additional info:
R800a
Stock ROM
DooMLoRD's DooMKernel v8 (for CIFS/NFS support)
FW .42
OK so I gave up, I wanted to use my phone and couldn't find a way to fix it, so I made some space, shrink, made new partitions etc etc.
As a matter of fact it was a nice way to see how much of an actual linux installation I can use on an Android, and I was very pleased.
If anyone is interested on what I did so far (I think I'm not the first man to accomplish something like this) I'll explain on later posts, if not, just let this thread die.
Hi,
I know this properly have been asked many times ind here before, but I hope someone can help me out anyway.
To solve the classic problem with "low memory", I tried to root and install CM7 to my phone. Which I did manged to do, also more then just one time. But I allways run into the memory problem later on. So I read a few more threads, which said that I just use S2E and A2SD together. I even installed A2SDGUI.
But know matter what I do, I allways sees the problem with "low memory" eventually, perhaps 4 months later perhaps sooner. To my understanding, this should not be a problem, when you use S2E and A2SD scripts. Which make me think that I haven't done it right.
So my wish is that someone can give me a detailed manual to follow, so I can get past the f...... memory problem, and especially how to test to se if it works.
My SD Card is a Samsung 16GB class 10 card. I know your not excited about class 10 cards, but I'l give it a go, and I'llthink I have a smaller class 8 at home.
I like CM7, but as CM is my first and only custom rom I have tried, I can't say I don't like the others. So I'm not bound to any version, I just want to get the newest possible version of Android, which is fully functioning.
Hope someone can and will help.
Pick any ROM you want, open the .zip file, go to /system/etc/init.d/ and delete the 10apps2sd script (it can be named like this or something very similiar), if there is no a2sd built then it's even better - dont do anything.
Now download - http://d-h.st/1vK , place it on the root of sdcard.
Wipe everything, make sure you have 1-1.5GB ext3 or ext4 partition (i suggest 1GB)
Flash the ROM, and then without leaving recovery flash the above a2sd script. ( http://d-h.st/1vK )
Voila, done you have 1 - 1.5GB internal memory. (depending on how big you ext partition is)
Keep in mind this script will keep all kind of app data on SD, so it might be slower (most a2sd scripts keeps /data/ partition on internal memory for performance reasons)
But since you're looking for a unlimited space it should fit you.
If you dont know how to flash a ROM, or ROOT then you need to read some flashing guides first.
Well I would like both when some app are on the internal memory, and other on the sd card. Cause some apps don't work well, when on sd card. So if there are a way to make this happen, it would be great. But that isn't the case is it?
Any I coming to try this.
It seems to be working, but when I through Titanium Backup restore a game (Big Business), I can't start that. It begins to load, and the switch back to startscreen. Then it switchs back and forth, before it eventually stops the game.
Is that because the backup is from another setup, with a2sd's?
Try to remove the application data and try again.
Nope, that didn't help
I was wondering if anyone could point me to a way to be able to use an ext4 formatted sd-card with a stock lollipop ROM?
I'm usually using CM which had this built in, but might have to revert to stock due to an annoying lag with a Bluetooth keyboard on cm.
Marshmallow uses encrypted EXT4 for Adopted Storage. With LP it shouldn't work at all. At least stock Note handles exFAT, which the custom roms don't. More annoyingly, the Note doesn't support USB to Go media with NTFS.
Thanks! That's a shame, so no way to get ext4 support even with one of the custom kernels? I tried searching, but didn't come up with anything conclusive (and the xluco kernel I tried didn't seem to help). I did try an app called ntfs mounter, which claims to Mount a range of formats, but it didn't seem to work either.
And it seems not even exfat would be a reasonable alternative? I'd like to avoid it anyway, as Linux support isn't great (and it feels wrong not to use ext4 if you're using Linux anyway). What I would need if I were to try the stock ROM is some way to have files larger than 4gb for my Linux chroot image...
Wondering if anyone has managed to figure out a way to get this working, or if I'm just missing something. I've tried everything I can find online, including a custom kernel (EX), (both) paragon NTFS mounting utilities, stickmount, a couple different TWRP-flashable .zip's, as well as miscellaneous other root apps that supposedly will mount NTFS, all to no avail.
Running 9.0, stock rooted + EX kernel and Magisk. And unfortunately FAT32 or other formatting isn't an option in my case. Any thoughts or advice or is this just a no go? Thanks!
Android doesn't support NTFS and is unlikely to ever support it. If none of the apps you've tried work then there isn't anything you can do except format the drive you want to use as FAT32. I know that isn't an option, but you don't havr many options here.
Paragon "works", but only in a couple of specialized file managers. There's no generic solution I've seen that simply mounts OTG as a directory. There is a Magisk package that claims to do this with vold, but it's only supported by an older Magisk version and doesn't support Android 9 yet.
ohlin5 said:
Wondering if anyone has managed to figure out a way to get this working, or if I'm just missing something. I've tried everything I can find online, including a custom kernel (EX), (both) paragon NTFS mounting utilities, stickmount, a couple different TWRP-flashable .zip's, as well as miscellaneous other root apps that supposedly will mount NTFS, all to no avail. Running 9.0, stock rooted + EX kernel and Magisk. And unfortunately FAT32 or other formatting isn't an option in my case. Any thoughts or advice or is this just a no go? Thanks!
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Android only supports FAT32/Ext3/Ext4/exFAT. Why is FAT32 not an option? It will support up to 2TB partitions and although it doesn't natively support encryption, it is possible to encrypt data on a FAT32 formatted partition. What is it you are trying to accomplish?
The OP likely has a device formatted as NTFS and doesn't want to go through the trouble of pulling off the data, formatting, and replacing the data. Unfortunately for him, he's going to have little choice but to fornat to be able to use it.
exFAT USB drive wasn't supported on my P2XL Pie, tested a few days ago. Had to format FAT32 through Android (since the only options were FAT32 and NTFS in Windows File Explorer).
i may be a little late to this thread, but
total commander from c. ghisler and
usb stick plugin (tc) from ferenc hechler
does that. it worked on Android 8 at least, on android 9 i have some troubles atm, i can only copy data to my expandable sd card storage, but maybe it's a bug on my hand, worth a shot.
there is a free version of the usb stick plugin as well and total commander was always free without ads