From few days, i'm using Froyo 2.2 (froyostone) on my HD2 and now i have to install copilot on my sd card to load maps, but it always install on internal memory. Please help me. (in this build i can't connect via usb to change this with PC)
you have to understand how this whole process works...
Android is installed on the SD card, not phone memory. We're good on this point, right? But Android needs something to reference as "phone memory", even though its installed on the SD card. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the data.img file, right?
This file lives on the SD card. When you install an app, it lives in data.img (what Android thinks is phone memory). So yes, apps live on the SD card, just not in the way you are thinking.
I think I am right, but correct me if I'm not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7519634&postcount=1215
HotShotAzn said:
I think I am right, but correct me if I'm not.
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You're right but you've not answered his question, I think!
He's looking for a way for an app to be installed to the 'sdcard' not 'internal memory'. That is for the app to be installed in /mnt/sdcard not /whereever.
What he needs is this
I know that everything is on sd card but data.img has only 512mb, and some application use more memory. And bobjbain i've tried this one you show, but it doesn't working;/ but anyway thanks for the answers
Have a look at chainfires ADB Magic (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/chainfires-adb-magic/), it has a build-in packet install functions where you can define to install on sdcard.
Maybe this way is working for you. And you will get a really usefull tool as side-effect.
All you need is adb from Android SDK.
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Hi, i am a new user for android OS. And one day i wants to install some apps in SD card, but doesnt now what to do first. i try to do something myself, but only thing that i do is split the SD card memory, and now some space from my sd card memory is not avaiable. Can so9meone can say what to do first... to install some apps in SD and install some unofficial 2.1 android version on tattoo.
P.S. - I am latvian and not know the English language perfectly, so maybe that is the reason because i dont understand what to do first...
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Hi, i am a new user for android OS. And one day i wants to install some apps in SD card, but doesnt now what to do first. i try to do something myself, but only thing that i do is split the SD card memory, and now some space from my sd card memory is not avaiable. Can so9meone can say what to do first... to install some apps in SD and install some unofficial 2.1 android version on tattoo.
P.S. - I am latvian and not know the English language perfectly, so maybe that is the reason because i dont understand what to do first...
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hi
im new too this is what i did
1.went to 4 shared and searched for .apk (files on the tatoo are .apk)got a posting with all of them too what i wanted ie document reader whcih is word XL PDf and note pad put them on my sd card and used the android installer ie i connected the phone to my pc used the android sync which has the android installer used the same to install the aps and stalled these apps i wanted on my Phone
i hope this helps u
u can also use the market programs on ur phone and brows using ur phone data connection and directly install what u want on ur phone
good luck
haree said:
hi
im new too this is what i did
1.went to 4 shared and searched for .apk (files on the tatoo are .apk)got a posting with all of them too what i wanted ie document reader whcih is word XL PDf and note pad put them on my sd card and used the android installer ie i connected the phone to my pc used the android sync which has the android installer used the same to install the aps and stalled these apps i wanted on my Phone
i hope this helps u
u can also use the market programs on ur phone and brows using ur phone data connection and directly install what u want on ur phone
good luck
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that doesnt help, i have a lot of apps already, but phone memory is too small for all apps and i need install some apps on sd card
crustyz said:
Hi, i am a new user for android OS. And one day i wants to install some apps in SD card, but doesnt now what to do first. i try to do something myself, but only thing that i do is split the SD card memory, and now some space from my sd card memory is not avaiable. Can so9meone can say what to do first... to install some apps in SD and install some unofficial 2.1 android version on tattoo.
P.S. - I am latvian and not know the English language perfectly, so maybe that is the reason because i dont understand what to do first...
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Download AppMonster or Astro from the market. These will allow you to copy apks to your SD card. But note, you can't run apps from your SD card, you can only swap them in and out of memory.
- Mark
brandmarked said:
Download AppMonster or Astro from the market. These will allow you to copy apks to your SD card. But note, you can't run apps from your SD card, you can only swap them in and out of memory.
- Mark
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thanks, but its some way how to run apks from sd card?
crustyz said:
thanks, but its some way how to run apks from sd card?
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Only with a script called apps2sd, but noone ever implemented it for tattoo...or at least AFAIK...
crustyz said:
thanks, but its some way how to run apks from sd card?
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Hi everyone
I just managed to boot android onto my HD2 and I'm loving it!
Question though: when i install applications from the android market, where do they get stored/installed? Is it in the SD card? Or on the flash memory of the phone... I couldn't seem to find a directory on my sd card that had all the applications I downloaded...
Thanks in advance!
they will get stored in the data file unless it needs some external access and then it will create a folder on the sd card
oh, do you mean that 1GB data.img file?
so it basically does just stay on the SD card then right?
i installed quite a bit of applications, but the data.img file still seems to stay at the same size..?
Yes, exactly. everything will be stored in the 1GB data.img. Unless you download additional stuffs through or within the application, then the application will create a new folder to store them.
To conclude, everything will be stored in your SD card.
great! thanks!
Installing apps
Since the topic is about installation of apps, i'd just like to ask a question about installing apps. I'm new to Android on hd2 and was wondering if they are cab files to install android apps like in WM. And also if there is, how do u install the apps as we can;'t access file explorer in android
Thanks
I'm using MDJ's FroYo Revolution 1.7 build (kern: 6.1) and was wondering how app installation works. When I install apps, do they go to the phone's built in memory? If so, would it be possible for me to move these apps to my SD card without messing anything up? Thanks in advance.
Android is currently run from the sdcard. Installed apps end up in the data.img file that gets created during first boot.
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Android is currently run from the sdcard. Installed apps end up in the data.img file that gets created during first boot.
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Exactly right, as Android cannot access the phones storage (until Nand rears it's head) the data.img on your phone is what native Android phones see as "internal" storage.
Is there any way to intall virtual sd card?
I cant intall any game of navigation....
That just makes everything so much clearer. Thank you for the replies.
First of i have the latest HyperDroid-CM7
I have also done this guide. How to format your SD card
But even so i STILL cant get my apps to work when they are installed on the SD card. Had the same problem on the former ROM i had. I dont know whats wrong. If i move the app to the phone it works just fine.
PS. have installed app2sd (dont know wich one just googled one)
some apps just have this problem those apps (like angry birds) just only work when installed on phone memory
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But even so i STILL cant get my apps to work when they are installed on the SD card.
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when you are using an ext partition, you dont choose to install to sd card, or use app manager to move them to sd card, , . Just leave them set to internal memory, and the OS will put them in the ext partition.
PS. have installed app2sd (dont know wich one just googled one)
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Your rom already has app2sd+ built in, (i think most do now, , note the +,, app2sd and app2sd+, not really sure of the difference, except the built in ones are +) you dont need to install it. It mentions app2sd+ in your roms second post, look out for that when you pick a rom, and you know it will automagically use the ext partition. No user input required.
If i move the app to the phone it works just fine.
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do that, move an app back to the phone, then use a filemanager to browse to the sd-ext folder, you will see the app is there, , on the sd card, in the ext partition, even though the system says it is installed internally.
Thank you all for the awsome replies i will stick to it as it is..
God i love this phone....
Edit. And this site (users)
Been searching for a while but am confused. Never needed to use my external SD on vibrant until recently. Now I have a question. I have two different ROM versions on my phone and I use ROM manager to keep them backed up and I use restore to go from one to the other.
The question is, now that I had to move some apps to my sd card (using Apps2SD), what happens when I switch ROMS by using restore?
Do I need two different partitions on the SD card, one for each ROM? If so how do I do this, and how do I know which partition each ROM will use?
I have read many warnings about partitioning using ROM Manager so I am kind of leary of using it.
Can anyone explain this to me? Never thought about it before because the Vibrant has so much memory available.
Thanks.
Any ideas?
I'm sure lots of people have done this before, just not me.
Can anyone explain this to me please?
Thanks in advance.
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The question is, now that I had to move some apps to my sd card (using Apps2SD), what happens when I switch ROMS by using restore?
Do I need two different partitions on the SD card, one for each ROM? If so how do I do this, and how do I know which partition each ROM will use?
I have read many warnings about partitioning using ROM Manager so I am kind of leary of using it
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I have NEVER heard good things about partitioning your SD card with ROM mgr. NOt sure why you would anyways. The internal is already partitioned anyway. That is why we have a phone marketed with 16gb internal but when you pull settings>sdcard it shows only 14gb. Where are the other 2gb at? There are already partitioned to put your apps there. Use Root Explored and go to /Data, /datadata/, /dalvik-cache and you'll notice that they are all the same size-nearly 2 gb. Viola!!!
As far as restoring. I don't use native App2sd but I know how it works. W/o getting too technical, it puts part of the app's apk (executable functions and data) in a folder called .androidsecure on your sdcard (if you want to view this folder, you have to plug into PC and make sure Hidden Files are viewable). Now to your question. Whenever I have backed up, I always see at the end when it is cycling through your partitons (/system, /data,...) it says something like "backing up .androidsecure"-file not found*b/c I don't use it is why it isn't found. So you can back that up if there is something in it, flash new ROM redownload your apps and move to App2sd, back up and when you restore it should restore the .androidsecure partition.
Sorry for the long response but you asked two questions there. Now for my question. How many friggin apps do you have to fill up everything and bleed over into the app2sd part too? Does your phone lag? How is battery life?
Using App 2 SD Pro
Perhaps I didn't give enough info, but I am using an app, called App 2 SD Pro, to move apps back and forth to and from SD card.
It shows Moveable = 98, on SD card = 17, and phone only = 98, so I suppose it have 213 if it is correct.
Thanks for the info about restoring. I will have to study your answer in more detail before I can give any more answers, or ask any further questions.
re download my apps
Part of your answer above was redownload my apps.
Don't want to do that. If I move some of my apps to the sd card using the app "App 2 SD Pro" and then do a backup using ROM manager, then restore another ROM using ROM Manager, which also has apps on the sd card, what happens to them?
I have done this and it seemed to me that some of the apps which had been moved to the sd card did not show up on the restored ROM.
This is why I asked about partitioning, maybe using one section of the external sd card for one ROM and one section for the other.