hi everyone,
As the title says, do we really need it? in my understanding, those are created bcoz the G1 doesnt have enough storage to run custom ROMs. I might be wrong though.
up until now, my sd card is just a normal storage without any partition. i cant find dalvik cache as well no matter what instructions im following.
Therefore i just want to make sure, does 32A really need them? and may i know what's the purpose of having then on the sd card.
Thanks in advance
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Heya..
I copied all my apps to my sd card...but im wondering how I can install and run the apps from the sd so they arnt in phone memory?
Can't find any info on this >_< i mite just suck as searching though
Thanks in advance
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anyone?
depends, if you have root, and if your on the T-mobile G1 or the Rogers HTC.
you should read up a bit more before posting, some of this stuff can be found very easily and you don't even specify which phone you have.
either case you still need to root your phone.
if your with rogers dream, than your stuck, it isn't possible yet
oh sorry.
i have a rogers htc dream rooted...so its nto possible? darn, any idea when it mite be available?
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hmm...didn't know it wasn't possible on the Rogers. I figured he could just root, partition and install the latest Cyanogen ROM
if you can install cyanogen's rom, you can just partition your sdcard to ext3 and cyans rom will automatically set up apps to sd
make sure the fat partition comes first
fat32, ext3 partition
make sure the ext3 partition isnt greater than 1.5gb
use the search function for info on the above
i read you can't use cynaogens roms on rogers though..something about incompatability?
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Howdy.
I'm kinda new to the whole scene, but I managed to root my tattoo and than flashed the modaca R3 with additions.
But somehow I'm not sure if app2sd is working at all. Do I have to prepare something like Idontknowwhat creating a folder named "APP" or so?
I hope someone can actually help me..
Greetings
Blo234 said:
Howdy.
I'm kinda new to the whole scene, but I managed to root my tattoo and than flashed the modaca R3 with additions.
But somehow I'm not sure if app2sd is working at all. Do I have to prepare something like Idontknowwhat creating a folder named "APP" or so?
I hope someone can actually help me..
Greetings
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You need an Ext2/3/4 Partition. This can be done in recovery but wipes your sd card, so back up first
Also, MoDaCo ROM only includes Apps2SD if you select it in the online kitchen. If you don't have access to this, my ROM (see signature) is also based on stock and has Apps2SD
Hope this helps
Okay. That problem seems solved.
But I still have one question left:
When are the apps saved to SD? Are only new ones affected or does this also work for updates?
Thanks
Blo
Blo234 said:
Okay. That problem seems solved.
But I still have one question left:
When are the apps saved to SD? Are only new ones affected or does this also work for updates?
Thanks
Blo
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If you have the correct partition, all Apps are moved to the SD the first time you boot with Apps2SD enabled, then all new apps are installed there
I also have a few questions about partitioning to get apps2sdd. If you partition the sdd does the gold-card get wiped as well, or it just wipes the user data? And is Windows still able to mount the sdd when it's an ext2/3/4 partition? Finally is it safe to partition when using a custom ROM? (using HCDR 1.5 atm)
Jack Hair said:
I also have a few questions about partitioning to get apps2sdd. If you partition the sdd does the gold-card get wiped as well, or it just wipes the user data? And is Windows still able to mount the sdd when it's an ext2/3/4 partition? Finally is it safe to partition when using a custom ROM? (using HCDR 1.5 atm)
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Yes, the goldcard will get wiped. Everything does, unfortunately.
Windows is still able to mount the Fat partition of the SD card when using an Ext partition.
And partitioning in recovery is independent of the ROM being used so it will be fine no matter which ROM you use (glad to know you're on mine though )
Hello. I am struggling with this for three days now. I can't seem to make it work. So I think I need a detailed how-to because obviously I am doing something wrong.
I am using this clockwork recovery image: http://android.modaco.com/content/z...27215/oled-tft-2-5-1-8-clockworkmod-recovery/
Then I go to clockwork recovery mode and create 1GB ext partition. Wipe everything from everywhere.
After that I install paul's alpha3 prebake.
What happens is I have 1GB less storage on my class4 8GB SD, but don't see the ext3 partition (where should I look for it exactly)
In normal use the only way you'll know if its working or not is if you run out of space or not.
To find your ext partition look in '/sd-ext' or '/system/sd', you might need a file explorer that can use root privileges, I use estrongs. If the directories 'app' and 'app-private' are there then its working.
If your still sure its not working double check that the prebaked version comes with apps2sd...not all do.
Thank you. I think the prebaked alpha3 version doesn't have the apps2sd scripts. I tried to install Darktremor Apps2SD 2.7.5.2 but it killed my OS and had to flash it again. So is there any specific a2SD that I can use with this rom?
OK. I installed the Japanese jellyfish ROM yesterday and everything works like a charm so I guess prebaked alpha3 didn't have the apps2sd scripts.
Thank you again for your help, mate!
what is apps2ext?
It basically gets some storage space from the SD card and lies the system that it's part of the apps section of the internal memory
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It basically gets some storage space from the SD card and lies the system that it's part of the apps section of the internal memory
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so it is basically like a different storage architecture for the SD card? Like we can have fat32, ntfs etc?
I am no expert here. From what I know - scripts create some symlinks so the app storage is actually placed on the sd, but the system doesn't know that and thinks it is still the old place. The path is the same, but it actually is something like a shortcut. The ext is probably because it needs to be linix partition or something...
This is what I think and it may not be true however
Well....I have some problem here and I don't know how to fix it.
I installed CM7 to my SD card using the Verygreen method and the size agnostic 1.3 image, and can boot into CM7, and also installed GApps, and can boot into CM7.
The only problem is that out of my 16GB, only 400MB or so is active.
I installed Mini-Tools Partition Wizard to try and make Partition 4 take up the rest of the space, but I don't know how to do it.
I can't seem to get the 4th partition to over write whats on Partition 2 and 3...partition one is obviously the boot partition.
I don't know what to do....please help!
OMG I'm an idiot.
I was looking at system space, and not SD card storage from CM7.
Been racking my brain for hours about this, and yeah...just complete fail on my end.
What do you try to do? R u all set or still need help?
Yeah I'm good thanks.
I was wondering why I was only seeing 400MB on the Nook Color, but I wasn't looking at the SD Card, I was looking at the internal memory or something.
I found all the space under storage and space.
Hi all. i've tried this partition sheme, just because my sd is too small.
My question is. Can i use any rom with this partition with the sd just for downloads and photos?
I've installed the last oneio aurora SP, and when I boot the device without the SD, i icon always appears saying that the sd is corrupted or something. I know this is because the rom dont find the emmc partition (the default 2gb internal). I just want to know if i can do something to prevente this to happening. Like delete the mountpoints or something.
thks in advance