I am new to app2sd. So I partitioned my card and then restored everything that was on the SD part of it so that I'd have all my music and stuff after the wipe.
So what do I do now? There is no app2sd in the market or anything. I'm using Fresh 1.0.1. How do I know if app2sd is working?
I did a google search. Did not solve my problem somehow.
EDIT: I have 206MB of available internal storage on my phone. Is this right?
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Sorry to be one of those people that ask a question that has already been asked...but I can't seem to find the right answer.
I am running Cyanogen 4.2.3.1 and Amon Ra 1.2.3. I had a 1GB sd card and had it partitioned using Amon Ra partition method. Everthing was running fine, but i wanted a bigger sd card. Got a new 8GB class 6 and partioned that using the same method as the previous card. I had backed up my 1GB sd card to my computer and puth those files onto the new 8GB card. After doing this my phone didnt have any of the apps installed on the 1GB card. The market says thay are installed on my phone but my phone cannot find them. Please Help!
Thanks in advance.
Did you backup and restore your ext partition? Because that is where the apps are stored if you have the partition.
hey,first off did you install your apps from the sd card or download from the market place? because if it was on the market place i think you will have to re-download them again iam not sure,
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I rooted my Aria using Unrevoked's one-click method, and flashed ATTN's FR008 ROM. I currently have only the factory 2GB sd card. I dl'd APPS2SD from the market and have moved the apps that are eligible to the SD card. There are still many apps that are still on the internal storage. My internal storage usually hovers around 100MB free; for right now anyway.
How low can the internal storage get before performance begins to degrade? Would it benefit me to dl ROM Manager? I am not too familiar with the pros/cons and/or procedures for partitioning the sd card.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated! This is a great place for support and information and THANKS to all the dev's for all their hard work!!!
Perseids said:
I rooted my Aria using Unrevoked's one-click method, and flashed ATTN's FR008 ROM. I currently have only the factory 2GB sd card. I dl'd APPS2SD from the market and have moved the apps that are eligible to the SD card. There are still many apps that are still on the internal storage. My internal storage usually hovers around 100MB free; for right now anyway.
How low can the internal storage get before performance begins to degrade? Would it benefit me to dl ROM Manager? I am not too familiar with the pros/cons and/or procedures for partitioning the sd card.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated! This is a great place for support and information and THANKS to all the dev's for all their hard work!!!
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The internal storage you're seeing is strictly for apps and doesn't affect the operating system in any way. So no performance will ever be lost due to filling this up with as apps. To see "system"memory go menu> applications> running services. That's the one that affects performance.
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What is the deal with EXT/2 and etc...?
I haven't figured out what the deal with the EXT partition is yet. I got a new 8GB card and was gonna put it in but was gonna wait til I understood all that first.
Should I Do a nandroid backup..
copy all contents of current SD card to pc...
Insert new card...
Format/Partition new card...
Copy previous backup of SD card to new card...
I'm just a little lost as to the advantage of the partition.
Any info. is greatly appreciated!
Noob question sorry, Is there a point where the memory in the device affects its performance? Like if too much of the internal memory is used will the phone run slower? Or what is the point of this apps to SD.
Using DT's A2SD method involving an ext2, 3, or 4 partition on the SD card moves every downloaded and installed app (minus system apps) onto the SD card. The A2SD provided with Froyo only allows apps that have been updated to work with A2SD would be able to move.
Moving all of your apps to the SD card is essentially the same as Cyanogen's setting to move all apps to the SD card. However, with the partition and DT's A2SD, it mounts the SD card's partition during the boot process which allows widgets and Facebook sync to be run off the SD card directly. (ie. Facebook sync will always stay synced no matter how many times you reboot, widgets will not have a "Problem Loading Widget" bar on your homescreen after you reboot)
With the normal A2SD, the apps on the SD card will load last after your phone has already booted up ("Preparing SD Card" in the notification bar).
Plus, you would be able to move your dalvik-cache (and app data --> experimental) to the SD card's partition also freeing up more internal memory.
Perseids said:
I haven't figured out what the deal with the EXT partition is yet. I got a new 8GB card and was gonna put it in but was gonna wait til I understood all that first.
Should I Do a nandroid backup..
copy all contents of current SD card to pc...
Insert new card...
Format/Partition new card...
Copy previous backup of SD card to new card...
I'm just a little lost as to the advantage of the partition.
Any info. is greatly appreciated!
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The above steps are correct. If you want an ext partition you can do that through rom manager (will wipe sd card so back up to pc).
Unless you plan to run the DT a2sd you don't need an extension partition. Froyo a2sd moves the apps to the fat32 partition, the main partition of your sd card, not an ext partition.
I personally recommend using DT a2sd.
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vicmora5 said:
Noob question sorry, Is there a point where the memory in the device affects its performance? Like if too much of the internal memory is used will the phone run slower? Or what is the point of this apps to SD.
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you could fill your internal memory up to the point where there was no more room for apps to cache I suppose. But that's really it.
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Success, but need more help
Okay, I got my sd card partioned (512MB EXT, 64MB swap). I dl'd and installed DT's A2SD and the best I can tell upon reboot A2SD moved apps to SD card. The only way I can tell is using DriveWatch.
I am using GOLauncher EX and now the flipping in the tray appears to be greatly affected by the app being on the SD card. Is there a way to move selected apps back to the phone?
No there isn't.
BTW you can check if your apps are on your SD card by typing
su
a2sd check
a2sd diskspace
In the terminal emulator
Perseids said:
Okay, I got my sd card partioned (512MB EXT, 64MB swap). I dl'd and installed DT's A2SD and the best I can tell upon reboot A2SD moved apps to SD card. The only way I can tell is using DriveWatch.
I am using GOLauncher EX and now the flipping in the tray appears to be greatly affected by the app being on the SD card. Is there a way to move selected apps back to the phone?
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What you can do is delete go launcher then unzip the rom you flashed and put the go launcher apk into the /system/app folder and rezip it. boot into recovery, wipe cache and dalvic (don't wipe data), and then reflash your rom. DT a2sd doesn't move apps on the /system partition. This is what I do with launcherpro.
EDIT: you can try just pulling the go launcher apk via ADB and then removing it from the /data/app folder and then pushing the pulled app to the /system/app folder. This would be easier but I've had apps that FC after using this method. Some work, some don't.
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Great advice!. Seems there is always more than one way to skin a cat. I will give one of those methods a try.
I have installed and confirmed that Link2SD works. It is really simple to do. I've moved almost all of my apk files from the limited main memory to the internal sdcard and everything appears to be working wonderfully.
You can download the apk and find the instructions here.
I created a 1 GB ext2 partition on the internal SD. I did try configuring my microSD card, but the Link2SD app is only configured to look at /sdcard, not /sdcard2, so only the internal memory will work.
I'm excited to get around the limited memory issue and with Link2SD I don't have to wait until Froyo to install more apps on the S7.
Please be aware that this only creates a symbolic link to the apk file, so all of an apps files will not be on the internal SD. I was able to recoup over 50MB of space, YMMV.
Thank you my friend!
What a nice little work around! I partitioned 2GB for ext2 from the internal card. Works like a charm. Not only do you recapture app space, but I'm assuming all other apps can be installed then transferred to the ext2 partition, so I essentially have 2GB for app storage.
Has anyone tried move2sd which require's root, but doesn't require partitioning? It looks like a good alternative.
Thank you for the "fix"-great job.
How did you go about formating the internal 8gb SD card? I'd like to do this too
EDIT:
NVM, hooked it up to my ubuntu box, mounted internal for usb, used disk utility to formate a smaller FAT32, then formated a 2GB ext2
Thanks for the info, this worked w/o scripting and all that. Fantastic results too! Now if only I could get Qik to work... it will not stream my vids to their site.
The new version of link2sd supports moving the dalvik-cache as well. Also it seems to have better support for upgrading apps.
Apps disappeared after linking
After reading the comments here, I went ahead and installed link2sd to move my storage hogging apps to the ext2 partition of the internal 8 gb sd card. Everything went well until I rebooted. Basically half the apps (Angry Birds, Google Maps, to name a few) disappeared from the drawer. I have tried rebooting a few more times, but nothing is working. Any solution or suggestion would be helpful.
Thanks
im trying since hours to get link2sd to work on the huawei s7
i connected the device to the pc and made a 2nd parttion (ext2) on the internal sd card for link2sd.on a windows xp machine with minitool partition home.
but the s7 give me the message "internal sd card damaged".
plz can someone help? by posting a step by step instruction how to partitionate the internal sd card?
but r u sure it will work
like nothing will damage right
I have found that partitioning the internal sd card as fat32 instead of ext2 seema to work well. The post I read for partitioning suggested that fat was a better method. I havw performed this mod on 2 tablets using easeus partition master on my laptop and both tablets work great with link2sd. I havw no experience with minitools but easeus is a free util for windows. Good luck and post your results.
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hi
i have installed NexusHD2 froyo nand rom, but i am running out of storage, so i can't install more apps. How can i install the rom with more internal storage. ?
Well you can install App2SD from the market and move some of the apps/data to your SD card.
Alternativley you may be able to mod your rom in some way to use App2SD+ which means that apps/data is automatically moved to a partition on your SD card.
Or if you can enable Data2SD you can use the same partition as a extension to you internal memory which is much better.
but i have tried to move nearly all apps to the sd card but still i only have 30 mb left
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Quick questions about installing CM7 on micro SD card and market place using these instruction on your forum?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Does the market place and apps downloaded from the market stay on the memory card or dose it use internal memory? I ask because I want to keep warranty intact and if it is all on memory card and I can just pull it out and every thing still be stock with warranty in tact that would be great.
Thanks
ericjmense said:
Quick questions about installing CM7 on micro SD card and market place using these instruction on your forum?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Does the market place and apps downloaded from the market stay on the memory card or dose it use internal memory? I ask because I want to keep warranty intact and if it is all on memory card and I can just pull it out and every thing still be stock with warranty in tact that would be great.
Thanks
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Yes, everything runs off the SD, apps, data, system. So it doesn't touch your EMMC, besides cache of course, but that shouldn't be an issue. You can always wipe that with CWM Recovery