I have formatted my SD card with an app that comes with Evil's ROM. Plus i have apps2sd program installed. When i install apps, some go to SD some to the phone. When i use apps2sd program and move apps to sd program tells me that they were moved. When i open Astro and navigate to SD\system\sd\app nothing is visible there. Also if i navigate there while sd is mounted on my computer, there is also nothing there. Shouldn't they show up there? How do i know for a fact that they got installed to sd and not to phone? Thanks.
You're confused between Apps2SD of Froyo and Apps2SD+ of EXT2/3/4. In both cases, Apps2SD is much more than a "program".
You can't mount EXT partition to your computer, so you don't.
There is no SD\...., there is /system/sd/apps.
To use the full potential of Apps2SD+, you need to avoid using Apps2SD completely - since there's no point in it. Means - ALL your apps should show as "on phone". They won't actually be on the phone, but the phone system doesn't know it.
Read some more on the subject.
Jack_R1 said:
You're confused between Apps2SD of Froyo and Apps2SD+ of EXT2/3/4. In both cases, Apps2SD is much more than a "program".
You can't mount EXT partition to your computer, so you don't.
There is no SD\...., there is /system/sd/apps.
To use the full potential of Apps2SD+, you need to avoid using Apps2SD completely - since there's no point in it. Means - ALL your apps should show as "on phone". They won't actually be on the phone, but the phone system doesn't know it.
Read some more on the subject.
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I am confused all i want is for my apps to go to my sd card so that i can have more free space on my phone
http://www.forceclose.com/questions/718/how-do-i-know-if-apps2sd-is-working
After you do that, if you see what's described - go to Settings / Applications / Manage, go to "SD Card", whatever you see there - press "Move to Phone".
That's it.
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I'm currently running cyanogenmod 5.0.8, and my 8GB A-Data class 6 SD card should be here soon.
I downloaded a program called swapper 2 and it seems to be working. When I get the new SD card should I stick with this program or do the partition method? Does anyone have experience with this program compaired to the other methods?
I also have Comp cache enabled too. Any thoughts on if I should use both or one?
For App2SD I noticed in the settings you can enable it there but its grayed out. I imagine once I put the new SD card in there it will partition the space for it then?
Thanks for the help. If you have any links to some good info that would be great too.
I think the general consensus is that utilizing a swap partition is much more efficient than creating a swap file on fat32, which figures. Just out of curiosity, does your homescreen reload?
EDIT: Just noticed your A2SD question, it's greyed out because you need to add an ext2/3/4 partition. That's for unofficial Apps2SD which is a hack-job, Google has implimented an official A2SD method in FroYo, however the developer has to specify whether you can Apps2SD-ify their app (I assume because their method moves the apk to the sdcard which can be shared with others, increasing the chance of piracy).
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I think the general consensus is that utilizing a swap partition is much more efficient than creating a swap file on fat32, which figures. Just out of curiosity, does your homescreen reload?
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Not sure what you mean by 'does your homescreen reload'. It usually does reappear when I exit an app, but sometimes all the icons/widgets are gone and I have to restart to get them back. Although this happened before I used swapper 2 aswell. doesnt happen very offten.
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EDIT: Just noticed your A2SD question, it's greyed out because you need to add an ext2/3/4 partition. That's for unofficial Apps2SD which is a hack-job, Google has implimented an official A2SD method in FroYo, however the developer has to specify whether you can Apps2SD-ify their app (I assume because their method moves the apk to the sdcard which can be shared with others, increasing the chance of piracy).
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Good to know that not every app can be put on the sd card. I didn't know that. When I get the new SD card and format a ~512mb ext4 partition; will it automatically move the apps to the sd card, will I have to reinstall the apps to move them, or is that grayed out option (app2sd in settings) allow me to choose (rather attempt, if the program allows for it) which apps to put to the sd card?
Thanks!
Njord0 said:
Not sure what you mean by 'does your homescreen reload'. It usually does reappear when I exit an app, but sometimes all the icons/widgets are gone and I have to restart to get them back. Although this happened before I used swapper 2 aswell. doesnt happen very offten.
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Yeah I mean when it has to redraw everything when it gets kicked out of memory. It used to happen every time I excited an app on CM5 and CM6 (nightly build), but now that I've added a 32mb swap file with swapper2 (it doesn't like my partition :'( ) they've all disappeared.
Njord0 said:
Good to know that not every app can be put on the sd card. I didn't know that. When I get the new SD card and format a ~512mb ext4 partition; will it automatically move the apps to the sd card, will I have to reinstall the apps to move them, or is that grayed out option (app2sd in settings) allow me to choose (rather attempt, if the program allows for it) which apps to put to the sd card?
Thanks!
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The ext/hackjob method will let you keep any apps on SD
I'm not sure if it will move them for you, but you can physically move the files yourself. It's just a couple of commands in the terminal in a reboot (wont get in to it now, it's 3AM and I'm tired, so I'll probably get it wrong ).
I would like to say that I've always used a partition. In the case that swap kills my SDCard, I would like it to be a certain fraction of the SDCard that dies, not a block here and a block there. I think that's more ocd, though.
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
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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.
i dunno why but i'm thinkn that my apps and downloads are saving to my phone and NOT to my storage card (which is where i want my stuff to be saved) is there anyway i can determine if this is in fact true? if it is going to my phone, how can i switch things to arrange for everything to go to my card???
Pretty sure on a stock phone all apps are downloaded to the phone, and cannot be changed. Froyo (2.2) brings the option to enable Apps to SD card. As far as downloads, there might be a way to download stuff to the SD card, not 100% sure though.
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Pretty sure on a stock phone all apps are downloaded to the phone, and cannot be changed. Froyo (2.2) brings the option to enable Apps to SD card. As far as downloads, there might be a way to download stuff to the SD card, not 100% sure though.
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sooooo......if this is in fact correct, what purpose does the sd card serve? i mean what can be saved to it? i thought that all the apps and music i got from the market while viewed/listened to on the phone were actually saved to my card????
i think u can use apps2sd if ur phone is rooted. but no one confirmed if they were able to copy apps to sd card once rooted.
Putting apps on the sd card requires much more than root.
With 2.1 youlll need an EXT partition - which will require a recovery image which we don't have ATM. And you'll also need a boot script to symlink the new ext partition to the /data/data partition.
with FroYo the app has to be enabled for apps2sd in the Manifest file - though CM6 I think can override and force it to the SDcard regardless of its manifest.
Downloading stuff from the browser to the SD card should be easy enough by going into browser > Menu > Settings - But I think it defaults to SDCard\Download\ anyways.
Hi Guys
I've followed Dark Tremor's flashing procedure and i can see a fair amount of A2SD storage using a Storage info widget....however when i install a program it doesn't seem to install it to the SD card...how can i tell what's going on?
You have to choose to install it to internal memory.
Thanks for the reply.....I don't get an option when I install an app tho?
What Rom are you running?
If you're using a custom ROM, use the ROM's Spare Parts and see if there is an option there to force everything to go on SD or on internal memory. If there is - choose "internal memory".
If not - just go to Settings/Applications/SD Card and move everything you find there back to the phone. Also look in DarkTremor's thread to find the switches you need to use when running a2sd to make the internal memory default storage location.
And understand that as far as the phone is concerned, you're moving nothing on SD card. EXT partition is not recognized by the phone as storage option, but everything that went to /data/app goes on EXT. Please spend the time and search the forums, the ways to check that DarkTremor's Apps2SD is in use were discussed many times and in many places.
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If you're using a custom ROM, use the ROM's Spare Parts and see if there is an option there to force everything to go on SD or on internal memory. If there is - choose "internal memory".
If not - just go to Settings/Applications/SD Card and move everything you find there back to the phone. Also look in DarkTremor's thread to find the switches you need to use when running a2sd to make the internal memory default storage location.
And understand that as far as the phone is concerned, you're moving nothing on SD card. EXT partition is not recognized by the phone as storage option, but everything that went to /data/app goes on EXT. Please spend the time and search the forums, the ways to check that DarkTremor's Apps2SD is in use were discussed many times and in many places.
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Thanks for the info...I did indeed search but didn't find an answer as concise as the one you just provided...thanks again.
First post. I have A7 Dex mod 1.41. Should these apps (Apps2SD or ApptoSD) move the selected app to external sd card automatically? After uninstalling the selected app from internal stg. I have to manually cut/paste to external sd card and reinstall. It must be easier than that.
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Yeah I have been trying to figure that one out too. I am using the free version. When I go to the list of moveable apps I do not get the option of moving any of them. If I hit the settings button I do get the option to "move all," but none of them move. I really dont want to move all of them anyway, just my less used apps.
How do you move them from the internal memory to the SD card? I did check a few other forums but couldnt find much.
Thanks!
The current kernel from the official firmware and the custom ones like Dexter one don't support app2sd feature.
Ytain
Apps2SD/ApptoSD
Ytain, Thanks for the info. ooorah