Is it possible to use only one partition(formatted as vfat) in sd card and mount it as second partition for link2sd?
Also is it possible to mount /data (or at least /data/app) to somewhere on sd card?
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I was using gparted to give myself some more ext3 space on my 16gb microsd card and I may have unplugged / unmounted my phone or something so the partitioning failed. gparted (and other programs) now only see 12gb of space on the card. Is there anything I can do to recover the 4gb?
Have you tried to delete all the partitions and fully format the sd card?
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Yeh, still 12gb.
And if you put your sdcard in a cardreader on a pc or laptop and run a tool like partition wizzard (or Something similar) is there a partition that says unallocated space ?
Penguinsfly1 said:
Yeh, still 12gb.
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I did this once as well
open the card up with Gparted again, delete all the partitions, unmount then remount the card, and you should have the full size in unallocated memory.
Is it useful or bad to format the internal storage with NTFS?
or better which file system is recommended?
I don't think android will read NTFS but I maybe wrong.
The recommended is FAT32 with 32 kb (Alocation unit size)
You are correct. However android will not read the partition if you format it ntfs. One of 2 things will happen
1. It will tell you it needs to be formatted and won't let you use it otherwise
2. It will just format it back to fat32 on its own
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bagofcrap24 said:
You are correct. However android will not read the partition if you format it ntfs. One of 2 things will happen
1. It will tell you it needs to be formatted and won't let you use it otherwise
2. It will just format it back to fat32 on its own
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I formatted my internal storage drive on my htc droid incredible to ntfs (comes with 8gb internal flash and 2gb external microsd)
I did this with windows However once you un-mount you will not be able to get into it in windows or your android os afterwards leaving you with minimal storage space left on your internal flash. SO DO NOT FORMAT ANYTHING INTERNAL TO NTFS I still have not been able to recover the space to use it. if anyone knows how shoot me a pm. this is more of a waring do not do than a request for help.
You should be able to reformat it back to default using recovery on phone
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I also want to format my internal storage but I don't know how to do it.Any help please.
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
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RakeshRaja said:
Hi
I am really tired by apps on SDCard is not working on Note 2 with Jeally Bean. If I install ICS or older version will that work?
I have root it with Odin
Regards
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I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
I think you really misunderstand what A2SD actually does.
If you consider a Note 1 running Gingerbread or ICS, it has 16GB of storage just like the Note 2, but was partitioned in such a way that the lions share of the additional space was on a partition that appeared to be an SD card to the OS and apps (the so called, internal SD card). When you used A2SD on the Note 1, it moved the bulk of the app from the smaller /data partition to the larger /sdcard partition, but it was still taking up space on your "internal" 16GB of storage, and not on the real "external" MicroSD card.
Fast forward to the Note II, the 16GB storage is not split in the same way, so essentially /data and /sdcard are on the same partition.
So, switching from JB to ICS won't mystically make A2SD available on your external MicroSD.
The best ways of achieving the effect you desire is either to "swap" the internal and external SD cards, or to use DirectoryBind in order to make specific directories on your external SD card appear as if they are on the internal storage.
Regards,
Dave
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How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
edit: Oh when I say SDCard I mean external SDCard not SDCard of phone.... [Sorry I am totally new to Android. Ex iPhone user.]
Rom toolbox also has the option of app2sd I dunno if you've tried that option or not.
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RakeshRaja said:
DirectoryBind works partially now.. as it just support "sdcard" folder.. while actuall data is on /data/ folder which is not supported by DirectoryBind and DB is not supported by developer anymore
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That's not true.
/sdcard can be changed to any prefix in the preferences.
- Frank
RakeshRaja said:
How can I "Swap" internal SDCards?
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http://leemn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/galaxy-note-2-swapping-external-sd-card-as-internal-memory/
I'm sure there's an XDA link/tutorial for this, but I couldn't find something "local".
Regards,
Dave
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I would like to add a question to this thread
Is there a way to get ICS on Note 2 GT-7100 by any chance? I use Game-Cih3 speed hack for almost every game as well other apps at times and GAME-Cih doesn't work on Jelly bean. Works on ICS and Gingerbread. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
My SD card is 2GB. I have one big partition (about 1.7GB) and another ext4 partition for INT2EXT scripts...
So, how can I make to have 2 partitions: one about 1.5GB and the other one 0.5GB?
I have to shrink bigger partition and extend the smaller one somehow...
And I don't have card reader.
With minitool partition you can resize partitions while saving their data (if all goes right-so do a backup anyway)
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Ok, but I heard that I need card reader or it'll brick the SD card... Is that true?
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
requirements: USB SD Card reader.
RonninDAMN said:
Ok, but I heard that I need card reader or it'll brick the SD card... Is that true?
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
requirements: USB SD Card reader.
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you can do a sd card partition in cwm recovery. it's in advanced options. just be sure to save all of your data first
lukas12153 said:
you can do a sd card partition in cwm recovery. it's in advanced options. just be sure to save all of your data first
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It will create another partition, so I'll have 3 partitions. That's not what i want.
R: [Q] How to do a repartition?
You can use a USB card reader or a MicroSD reader; for sure you can't use your phone as bridge for mounting sd card.
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OK, I think I'll buy it tomorrow... The cheaper one.
ItachiSama said:
You can use a USB card reader or a MicroSD reader; for sure you can't use your phone as bridge for mounting sd card.
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I use minitool partition while the card is in my phone. But now with my new pc I have a build in card reader.
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Alright, I just got my Asus Zenfone 2E from Wal-mart about four days ago and I've already rooted it on day three, to fix some issues with SD Card write and read permissions.
But my biggest issue is the emulated sd card, I thought that "Move to SD" meant moving the app to External SD card not Internal SD card or the emulated storage.
My question is, can I use root apps to move them to the real SD card for more storage space or use some kind of partitioning mod or app to redo the space to my liking?.
Thanks if you help me out, and I'm coming from a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Straight Talk) Phone.
cidlover said:
Alright, I just got my Asus Zenfone 2E from Wal-mart about four days ago and I've already rooted it on day three, to fix some issues with SD Card write and read permissions.
But my biggest issue is the emulated sd card, I thought that "Move to SD" meant moving the app to External SD card not Internal SD card or the emulated storage.
My question is, can I use root apps to move them to the real SD card for more storage space or use some kind of partitioning mod or app to redo the space to my liking?.
Thanks if you help me out, and I'm coming from a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Straight Talk) Phone.
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Link2SD is the one the you want.
Backup your SD card and make two partitions on it. One being the normal sd storage and one being the link to the second partition.
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Link2SD is the one the you want.
Backup your SD card and make two partitions on it. One being the normal sd storage and one being the link to the second partition.
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I'll do this after work tonight, does the second partition need to be a different File System like First one NTFS and the second Fat32?
cidlover said:
I'll do this after work tonight, does the second partition need to be a different File System like First one NTFS and the second Fat32?
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Depends on the ROM you use. My Resurrection Remix on Zenfone 2 needs Fat32 on both partitions.
However make sure you look at Link2SD guides as some say you can use Ext 2, Ext 3, or Ext 4 for the second partition.
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Depends on the ROM you use. My Resurrection Remix on Zenfone 2 needs Fat32 on both partitions.
However make sure you look at Link2SD guides as some say you can use Ext 2, Ext 3, or Ext 4 for the second partition.
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Using the stock ZenUI Rom from day one but I'll fire up EaseUs partition master on my laptop and see what I can use partition wise.
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Sorry for double posting but I just ran into a issue, I made a 10 GB Fat32 second part on my 64 GB card and then the rest was the first part. But moving Facebook back to the internal storage cause a RR (Random Reboot) and my two test apps, Astro and Amazon Underground, had the grey android icon with an sd card icon, and tapping on the icon pops a toast message saying "App not installed"
I'm using the true stock ROM WW_12.16.5.118_20151204 firmware, rooted and Xposed on 5.0.1
Edit: just learned that I never installed busybox after installing the true stock Rom on my ZenFone 2e. I think that's why it failed to link sometimes.