Hi everyone
Is it possible to install app on a dedicated partition on my sd?
My scope is to not install everytime the same apps, but I can store them on the sd...
Is there a guide?
Thank you in advance,
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Hi,
not as far as I know. One could - having a rooted system - place part of it on the extSD using Apps like Link2SD for example. But anyway the app has to be reinstalled after a factory reset.
You could use Helium backup from PlayStore to easily backup Apps and App data from your internal SD and restore them after the system is reserved. Without root this app allows backups for all installed apps but system apps. Having a rooted phone you could backup system apps and settings as well.
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Is there a way to download apps and store them in sd card? Avoiding backup and re-download all the apps everytime I flash a new ROM?
You could try to copy them to your sd card from data/app with a file explorer app. I'm not sure though if this works on an unrooted phone.
My phone is rooted. I need to store locally due to the fact that I like flashing often.
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Use Titanium Backup from Market. Requiers Root. (you have, yeah. )
There you can backup all installed Apps within your settings.
And there are options to make a batch, so that you can backup and restore all apps at one time.
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alfa71omega said:
My phone is rooted. I need to store locally due to the fact that I like flashing often.
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fyi, even if you store your apps in sd card, when you flash another rom with full wipe, you need to download your apps back (still , even the apps is there in your sdcard).
My suggestion is , download Titanium Backup, and make backup every apps installed, because you can easily restore back your apps ( with data saved - this is important especially if you play angrybirds .. lol ) even if your apps install in the system or sd card. No need to redownload back.
Hawks556 said:
You could try to copy them to your sd card from data/app with a file explorer app. I'm not sure though if this works on an unrooted phone.
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What a meant is that you can copy your downloaded and installed apk files from this folder to the sdcard and install them again once you flash.
or you can use MyBackup root to backup your APP and Setting, when you reinstall the OS , you can use it restore your APP and Setting too.
hedayat7 said:
fyi, even if you store your apps in sd card, when you flash another rom with full wipe, you need to download your apps back (still , even the apps is there in your sdcard).
My suggestion is , download Titanium Backup, and make backup every apps installed, because you can easily restore back your apps ( with data saved - this is important especially if you play angrybirds .. lol ) even if your apps install in the system or sd card. No need to redownload back.
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The matter is that I log on Google automatically the phone download all the undreds apps bought and previously installed. Anyway i,
'd to stop all the download and download only "mybackup app" and restore the other apps. I'd like to download and store locally only mybackup, just to make easy the restore.
Okay so in Titanium Backup my free System ROM memory is 229MB. SD Card Maid says 211MB free. Im not sure why they both have different values but, can I make any of these unused MB converted to usable system space for more apps? I've tried making some apps system apps through Titanium Backup and that takes more ROM memory and makes the used internal memory less, but that just makes the apps unusable. Im using CM7 Nightly and CWM Recovery. Thanks for the help.
Well I probably found an answer in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855424 but if anybody has another suggestion .....
Sure you can. I recommend using Titanium Backup to uninstall system apps. Be sure to make a full backup using whichever recovery you currently are using jiust encase you delete something important. I removed apps related to live wallpapers, friend streams, twitter etc. Features I don't use. Hope this helps.
I forgot to ask. Do you have a SD-EXT partition set up? May want to look into that.
Removing system apps doesn't free up storage for installing user apps. You can manually move apps into the system partition if you want, but you have to redo that after that app gets upgraded. The other option is to play with MTD partition size as mentioned in the thread you found.
You can't flash the apps to system/data?
sednafx said:
You can't flash the apps to system/data?
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/system/app is where they'd go. You don't necessarily need to flash them there, you can use Titanium or a root-capable file explorer to move them. Some apps need some extra steps to work with their native libraries though. In addition the problem I mentioned of updates going back to /data/app instead of updating in the system partition, you also have to keep track of what you've moved in and do it again if you flash an updated ROM (without wiping).
bkrodgers said:
/system/app is where they'd go. You don't necessarily need to flash them there, you can use Titanium or a root-capable file explorer to move them. Some apps need some extra steps to work with their native libraries though. In addition the problem I mentioned of updates going back to /data/app instead of updating in the system partition, you also have to keep track of what you've moved in and do it again if you flash an updated ROM (without wiping).
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You are correct. Good points.
I don't have an SD EXT but I'll look into that. The link I posted helped alot. Thanks for all your help guys.
hi guys .. i don't know if this is a dumb question .. i am not expert at flashing custom roms .. in my titatinum backup info .. my system rom got 200+mb free and now i want to flash a custom rom but its size is 300mb+ ?? should i still continue or is there anything else to solve this??
Today I installed link2sd and create 2 partition and create link all of my apps. And got 80MB+ free space
Now my question is when I will update my phone (Suppose 2.3.5 or 4) what will happens to my linked apps (which i linked in now)
I already links Adobe Flash Player, Goolge maps and other apps to my sd card, if i update my phone all apps will remain linked? or come into phone memory? or deleted from phone?
Thanks
If your only updating then you won't need to wipe user data and you'll keep your apps on partition, all you'll need to do is relink them and reboot. If you change roms, like stock to cm7 or miui for example, you need to wipe the data and lose them(but not the partition). Use titanium backup or similar, restore link2sd first and remember to set auto link first...
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If your only updating then you won't need to wipe user data and you'll keep your apps on partition, all you'll need to do is relink them and reboot. If you change roms, like stock to cm7 or miui for example, you need to wipe the data and lose them(but not the partition). Use titanium backup or similar, restore link2sd first and remember to set auto link first...
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thank you
Hello,
I wanted to update my firmware, unfortunatelly my device was fully formated ... How reinstall all apps automatically from playstore ?
I can see my 156 apps in google playstore.... But reinstall them one by one would be very boring !
Thanks for your help.
Just open Playstore in computer...sign into playstore and click my android apps in the upper right hand corner...there you will see which all apps were installed on your device...jst keep pressing install and things will be installed on to your phone...!!
Hope this helps
kskendsup, that's exactly what he(everyone) DOESN'T want to do. He has 156 apps
I am in need of a similar solution, I just flashed and did a full wipe, but android/google play refuses to sync my apps like it did before.
Is there anyway to automate downloading and installing all the apps listed in "My Apps"? I do have root access.
/sorry for threadjacking
How about downloading an macro recorder or similar program on PC and make it press install in every app you have in play store.
And to prevent this from happening again, use titanium backup. You can even transfer your titanium backups to pc in case of full wipe.
For future reference why not get a backup program like Mybackup Pro or Titanium Backup? Titanium offers scheduled backups and has a lot of other features like only keeping 3 backups, or 1 if you prefer.
To reinstall most apps the simplest way I find is to login to my Google account, turn WiFi on and after a few minutes it starts to restore them. Remember to check the box that asks if you want it to keep your device backed up.
If neither of these are what you want then I don't know what you can do. I normally backup a ROM and the apps separately so I can always recover if an update to a ROM requires a full wipe.
Guys, if I format the CD card, do all system folders get deleted also? Or it'll just delete user data?
The formatting of the SD card means that everything will get deleted but i guess the important folders are made by system again which are required for the system to run...!!
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Guys, if I format the CD card, do all system folders get deleted also? Or it'll just delete user data?
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Formatting sdcard alone will not format system and user data (unless for some apps on asec).
Format system and wipe data thru CWM will delete them
kskendsup said:
The formatting of the SD card means that everything will get deleted but i guess the important folders are made by system again which are required for the system to run...!!
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Just asking to make sure the formatting won't brick my phone..
@dionas
I had and loved to use titanium BUT
When my all phone was erased by updating firmware, titanium has also gone !. So titanium isn't the solution in my case .
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cutt88 said:
Just asking to make sure the formatting won't brick my phone..
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Nah it wont brick..unless you totally wipe it through CWM and then no rom is loaded onto it, it would not start but thats not bricking it..!!
If you just normally format your SD card it means only your music n things like that will be deleted..no chance of bricking i guess..!!
Hello everbody,
I have some questions related to TWRP. What I am aiming for is trying out new ROMs to see which one suits best my needs. For that I need to do a full backup of my system. As far as I know this is what TWRP is supposed to do this.
I just did some tests and it turned out that this is not the case - I created a full backup using TWRP (checked all checkboxes in the backup creation window). This is the place to mention that I use Simple2Ext to move all user apps to sd-ext. So I assumed that TWRP will manage to restore the whole system as it backs up all partitions (incl. sd-ext). It seems though this is not the case - I just recovered a backup but the system contains only the system apps (Calculator, Gallery etc.) Not even Google Play Store. All user apps (including S2E) have an SD icon in the Apps settings and when I try to start an app from the desktop, it says App isn't installed.
What am I doing wrong? How can I make a full backup which I can restore and have S2E working? Is this possible?
Nytmarez said:
Hello everbody,
I have some questions related to TWRP. What I am aiming for is trying out new ROMs to see which one suits best my needs. For that I need to do a full backup of my system. As far as I know this is what TWRP is supposed to do this.
I just did some tests and it turned out that this is not the case - I created a full backup using TWRP (checked all checkboxes in the backup creation window). This is the place to mention that I use Simple2Ext to move all user apps to sd-ext. So I assumed that TWRP will manage to restore the whole system as it backs up all partitions (incl. sd-ext). It seems though this is not the case - I just recovered a backup but the system contains only the system apps (Calculator, Gallery etc.) Not even Google Play Store. All user apps (including S2E) have an SD icon in the Apps settings and when I try to start an app from the desktop, it says App isn't installed.
What am I doing wrong? How can I make a full backup which I can restore and have S2E working? Is this possible?
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It seems that it did a only-system-partition backup. Don't know if that's the only backup function with TWRP, but as it should be based on CyanogenMod recovery, it should support a full backupt (including every partition). I suggest to write in development thread.