I'm coming from the G1. You could run "cat /proc/mtd" to get the layout of the internal storage device.
It looks to me like the glacier is using /dev/block/mmcblk0 for internal, and mmcblk1 for the sdcard.
'fdisk -l' shows 60 partitions on mmcblk0... Is that even correct? Can someone give me the quick explanation of the how the Glacier is handling its internal storage device?
Thanks
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I'm coming from the G1. You could run "cat /proc/mtd" to get the layout of the internal storage device.
It looks to me like the glacier is using /dev/block/mmcblk0 for internal, and mmcblk1 for the sdcard.
'fdisk -l' shows 60 partitions on mmcblk0... Is that even correct? Can someone give me the quick explanation of the how the Glacier is handling its internal storage device?
Thanks
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You are correct mmcblk0 is internal and mmcblk1 is the sd. I discovered this when creating an ext partition, it seems that a2sd scripts rarely support it by default (a la g2). Also, clockwork doesnt seem to properly support sdext dalvik clearing, which is specifically a complication for regular ROM flashers.
I'm not sure about the exact number of partitions on the RAM/Internal storage blk.
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do i see a super wipe being built>?
I sure hope so! Used it regularly on my g1
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Looking into it...
It appears to be a complete rewrite at this point if I want it to actually be writing zeros to the disk at a low level. The statically linked 'erase_image' executable uses the /proc/mtd file to get the partition boundaries and that file is now blank.
I could probably toss together a script that will run "rm -rf" on all the mounts, but I assume anyone with 10 spare minutes can do that...
I will just need to do some more research into how the Glacier is setup. Unfortunately (for you guys) my baby is able to crawl now, so when I'm home I spend alot of free time chasing her around and keeping her out of the cats' drinking fountain.
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Looking into it...
It appears to be a complete rewrite at this point if I want it to actually be writing zeros to the disk at a low level. The statically linked 'erase_image' executable uses the /proc/mtd file to get the partition boundaries and that file is now blank.
I could probably toss together a script that will run "rm -rf" on all the mounts, but I assume anyone with 10 spare minutes can do that...
I will just need to do some more research into how the Glacier is setup. Unfortunately (for you guys) my baby is able to crawl now, so when I'm home I spend alot of free time chasing her around and keeping her out of the cats' drinking fountain.
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Very cute kid. She yours?
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Yea, i used it on my G1 pretty much daily with all the flashing that was going on at its prime. Great tool. Good luck man, looking forward to it.
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Very cute kid. She yours?
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She better be! I didn't pay all that money to have her genetically engineered in a lab for her to end up being someone else's kid....
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She better be! I didn't pay all that money to have her genetically engineered in a lab for her to end up being someone else's kid....
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lol, sorry, i tamper with all the samples and mix em up and it is now a coctail of samples the we implanted... you lucked out and got the same race!!!
michaelmcelveen913 said:
lol, sorry, i tamper with all the samples and mix em up and it is now a coctail of samples the we implanted... you lucked out and got the same race!!!
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You mean shes gonna stay that color?!?!??!
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i am willing to pay a dev to add ap2ext to a cm rom just pm me
Do you seriously need it on the G2? I've got 86 apps installed and I've still got 780MB free, and that's on a Sense ROM (which has considerably more bloat than CM does).
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Do you seriously need it on the G2? I've got 86 apps installed and I've still got 780MB free, and that's on a Sense ROM (which has considerably more bloat than CM does).
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that you not me i have over 230 apps on my phone , dont judge me , but i want what i want
Have you tried Settings.. Cyanogen Settings.. Applications.. Allow moving?
Then maybe you have to go into normal settings, applications, then move them to sd from there?
..sent from my CyanogenMod'd HTC Vision
Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670087
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Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=670087
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i tried DT A2SD a couple weeks ago with 6.1.1 and it didnt work but i didn't really look into it that much and just assumed it wasn't compatible but if someone can confirm DT working on CM6.1.1 i would really like to know thanks
wileykat said:
Have you tried Settings.. Cyanogen Settings.. Applications.. Allow moving?
Then maybe you have to go into normal settings, applications, then move them to sd from there?
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That's apps2fat, by far the worst method for storing apps. I'd rather keep them on my phone. It doesn't mount at boot like app2ext, can't store widgets, and something like 1/2 or 1/4 of each app (not to mention the dalvik, data, cache) is left on the phone. Aside from the data and cache, none of that is left on the phone with app2ext - and there's a way to move that stuff to the ext partition too. I had it on my slide - to not have it on the G2 is just sad and the 2 gigs of memory excuse is just lazy.
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That's apps2fat, by far the worst method for storing apps. I'd rather keep them on my phone. It doesn't mount at boot like app2ext, can't store widgets, and something like 1/2 or 1/4 of each app (not to mention the dalvik, data, cache) is left on the phone. Aside from the data and cache, none of that is left on the phone with app2ext - and there's a way to move that stuff to the ext partition too. I had it on my slide - to not have it on the G2 is just sad and the 2 gigs of memory excuse is just lazy.
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Couldn't agree with you more. I should do some reading on this and make it myself.
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elracing21 said:
Couldn't agree with you more. I should do some reading on this and make it myself.
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Agreed. I'd rather repartition my SD card and have the apps run off of a partition than have them on a FAT32 partition. I have the apps that start at boot still on internal memory. I'd love to see A2EXT.
Start a thinktank over in Development?
Well I'm no dev but go for it
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thatruth132 said:
that you not me i have over 230 apps on my phone , dont judge me , but i want what i want
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Hahahahahahah I just had to try this meatball.... can I ask you to post all these apps? Oh my god..it must take forever to find what u need. Hahaha. And isn't so much already built in now?
I'm all for freedom...sure yeah you the man for having all them apps..but don't we get to tease? Srsly restoring titanium must take half a day!
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That's apps2fat, by far the worst method for storing apps. I'd rather keep them on my phone. It doesn't mount at boot like app2ext, can't store widgets, and something like 1/2 or 1/4 of each app (not to mention the dalvik, data, cache) is left on the phone. Aside from the data and cache, none of that is left on the phone with app2ext - and there's a way to move that stuff to the ext partition too. I had it on my slide - to not have it on the G2 is just sad and the 2 gigs of memory excuse is just lazy.
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Big thank you for this....this is the moment where I realize why all widgets are broken......THIS IS IT!!!! Thank you man. I no longer check that move apps thing. ahh so nice to find a solution.
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androidcues said:
Big thank you for this....this is the moment where I realize why all widgets are broken......THIS IS IT!!!! Thank you man. I no longer check that move apps thing. ahh so nice to find a solution.
vision
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Well we had this issue when I used my slide. I have a guy in those forums that's working on getting a boot.img for CM 6.1.1 with app2ext activated so we can have it. All well have to do it replace the boot.img, flash an activator package and run a few commands. He's getting a G2 also so we'll see more a2sd stuff for the G2 soon (hopefully).
Great effin news! I'm starting to get worried regarding my memory. I really wish they would unlock the gb. Its kinda dumb that they save it for future updates yet I'm sure when we get gingerbread we will still have 1.28gb or whatever it shows on the phone.
Does anyone know if the real gingerbread update is suppose to unlock our memory since it IS THE UPDATE?
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Well no luck yet from my buddy (acejoker25000 in case you were wondering). Something is a bit funky about the G2 and (I assume) something to do with it's boot. Starting with CM 6.1, a2sd(ext) support was supposed to be built into the boot.img - maybe that's not the case for the G2, then again, doesn't Cyanogen use this phone? Wtf. Anyway, we may need to take apart the bot.img and edit one of the init files, repack the boot.img, and replace it in our roms then flash (also works with replacing the boot.img in a nandroid). Who's good at that? I've never gone that in depth.
Hey guys(mostly devs,would post in dev section but you know,it's not "right").
I was monitoring something that had gone haywire on my phone with OS Monitor and I found something rather odd.
The /cache partition on the Desire HD is roughly 300Mb,while ONLY almost 19Mb were used.Summing it up,it's more than 250mb of space going to waste.So I thought,especially when coming from a Desire(512mb nand anyone? ) and with all Sense 3 roms coming up,/cache could get smaller with some of the "wasted" space going to a slightly larger /system partition and mostly to a larger /data partition,which might be big enough for most,but for those of us that just forget their devices have certain limits,it would be cool.And in many cases A2SD won't be needed.
So?What do you say guys?If many of us gather we could attract developers' attention.Or at least I hope so!
Regards
Apostolis
Not possible to change partitions size so far on Desire HD. And wont be possible probably
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Not possible to change partitions size so far on Desire HD. And wont be possible probably
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Oh...And may I ask why is that so?HTC's security?If yes I think I'm a step closer to buying the Galaxy S 2 and not the Sensation...
Anyway,thanks mike!
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Not possible to change partitions size so far on Desire HD. And wont be possible probably
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It should be, it was done on the desire without even touching the bootloader, all it took was a script to modify cwm and the boot.img
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AndroHero said:
It should be, it was done on the desire without even touching the bootloader, all it took was a script to modify cwm and the boot.img
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Yep,that's what I was thinking,but the level of security on the DHD is far worse(Worse for us that is! ) than it is on the Desire.I wouldn't know,development isn't my speciality,so Mike will know better.If only you could clarify a little Mike...
Or we could contact Firerat.Isn't he the guy that started the whole MTD partition thing?
Wanna push that thing up!
Now on CM12+ i think its more interesting and four years later maybe someone knows a bit more?
Is there something new?
I found this thread in the cdma hero android dev forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754805
Also, this one in the Evo 4G dev forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855424
Which ultimately leads to this thread, which was the base for both of the threads above:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717874
And it got me thinking: who wouldn't want more app "/data" space? While we have the "Move to SD" option for a lot of apps, it would be nice to just have more space for our apps to begin with.
I would love to do this. Especially since I have over 300 megs of unused system space that could be re partitioned to data. Unfortunately, all those devices use mtd partitions, while our phones use emmc. So if it could work, it would require a huge rewrite of the code involved. And I'm not one hundred percent sure it could work even with re writing
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I have already tried it , FAIL. Worked well on my Hero.
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from what ive toyed around with and looked at...its going to be a heck of alot of work because your dealing with emmc partitions, and messing with emmc partition sizes are a pain in the face to do correctly without an some sort of a magical anti-brick spell or case...
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from what ive toyed around with and looked at...its going to be a heck of alot of work because your dealing with emmc partitions, and messing with emmc partition sizes are a pain in the face to do correctly without an some sort of a magical anti-brick spell or case...
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Lol,I guess I should consider myself lucky! I sent a pm to dev asking if it would work. No answer so far that was about 2 wks ago. I'm sure somebody a whole lot smarter than I might take up the cause.
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We may get some life breathed into this just yet. With the devs hot on the trail of rooting the Evo 3D, we *should* be able to piggy back off their work, since the Evo 3D uses the emmc partitions, as well.
not sure if anyone remembers me here but ive moved on the the motorola photon and gave my wife my hero which she wanted fully stock
unrooted.............. well today she finally cracked and begged me to fix her phone, so i rooted it and put cm7 on it with data2ext 1gb mod needless to say she is super happy and now is curious about the different roms and mods for her phone...... so looks like ill be lurking around here again..... wohoooo knew it had to happen sooner or later by the way anyone due for an upgrade soon i highly recommend the photon incredible phone does everything you tweak others to do straight out the box.... thanks to all the awesome devs here for opening my wife's eyes big smile here guys have a great one
what's data2ext mod? I googled it but didn't find anything on what it dose.
zeroshot said:
what's data2ext mod? I googled it but didn't find anything on what it dose.
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Its a set of scripts that change the mount points so that your data partition gets mounted to a ext2/3/4 partion on the sdcard instead of internal storage.
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what's data2ext mod? I googled it but didn't find anything on what it dose.
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allows you to have way more storage space gave my wife 1gb of app storage
o I did it that way before, didn't seem to be any different then apps on the sd.
Just seems more automatic and cleaner to me flash zip input code into terminal reboot and everything is all good
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I know we've all come across this at least once. Whether it's your Device or, your Girls. That Damm Pop Up saying " Low Disk Space " . I now have a solution for it that isn't as drastic as Re-Flashing the Entire Rom. Believe me I was surprised it would be this simple. Coincidentally it also resolved the other Pop of of " Insufficient Memory " . I would re-post it here again, but I didn't want to double post the same thing. So I'll Link you to my original Post.
SOLUTION TO LOW DISK SPACE ERROR MESSAGE
Sweet! I've actually never had it happen, but i'll keep this in mind. I'm actually a little curious so I might try it out just to see ...
Cool. Keep me posted
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Thanks for this, good idea for my wife's LG Optimus - her dialer storage is always eating up the most free space and there's only like 160mb to play with total. And she's tied to the thing all the time so getting it away from her long enough to flash a new rom and set up a2sd-ext is tough - this will be a lot quicker.
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Thanks for this, good idea for my wife's LG Optimus - her dialer storage is always eating up the most free space and there's only like 160mb to play with total. And she's tied to the thing all the time so getting it away from her long enough to flash a new rom and set up a2sd-ext is tough - this will be a lot quicker.
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Keep me posted on how it goes. I've had a few people try it on other Devices already with no issues .
I moved my dialer storage and it did next to nothing. Then i moved data for a couple games and it made a HUGE difference.
So ... be wise about what apps you move data for I guess, but I can confirm it works well with song pop lol
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I moved my dialer storage and it did next to nothing. Then i moved data for a couple games and it made a HUGE difference.
So ... be wise about what apps you move data for I guess, but I can confirm it works well with song pop lol
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It really just depends on how much data is there. Your dialer storage could have been so small it made no difference. I haven't had to worry about low storage on my doubleshot because we got almost 1GB for apps and I usually install about 200MB of apps and that's it. Some of the main memory hogs are games that need 300mb or more of additional data like gun bros ect. Angry birds also takes a chunk of space.
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It really just depends on how much data is there. Your dialer storage could have been so small it made no difference. I haven't had to worry about low storage on my doubleshot because we got almost 1GB for apps and I usually install about 200MB of apps and that's it. Some of the main memory hogs are games that need 300mb or more of additional data like gun bros ect. Angry birds also takes a chunk of space.
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Very true. But for most users Dialer Storage is Big. I still play the Hell out of Angry Birds. Sometimes the App Cahce gets as high as 50MB, and Data well lets not get into that. Since it's on the SD Card I don't much worry about it. But I always tell people to keep in mind that the SD Card Class has a lot to do with how the Apps perform form the SD Card.
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I moved my dialer storage and it did next to nothing. Then i moved data for a couple games and it made a HUGE difference.
So ... be wise about what apps you move data for I guess, but I can confirm it works well with song pop lol
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Kool thanks for the input . Yes moving App Data to the SD Card will free up a good amount of space. Just be sure your running at least a Class 4 or better SD Card.
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Kool thanks for the input . Yes moving App Data to the SD Card will free up a good amount of space. Just be sure your running at least a Class 4 or better SD Card.
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Yeah i got a 16 gig class 4 with a 1 gig ext partition. I'm not heavy with my volume of apps though. Outta curiosity i wonder how much would be freed if I move my angry birds too ... lol
Depends on how much App Data you have. I always look at how much is there before I make a decision to move it. Also gives me a good judge of what I gained. Just be aware that some Games slow down if you move App Data to the SD Card. But it also depends on the SD Card, and your SD Card read ahead. But you can always move it back.
Yeah I have no real need to move anything now. Was just curious to see. I'll look at it later when I get bored ... it'll gimme something to do.
I was having an issue with my phone running choppy occasionally and I started getting random reboots every once in a blue moon. Turned out to be my memory settings and nothing with my data storage. So I'm back to being completely satisfied with everything again.
I'm wondering how others have their read ahead speed set. I have mine at 2048kb because thats what I read was optimal. But when I experimented with v6 supercharger, it said I should set that to 1024kb instead. I also have a 16gb class 2 microsd with a 1gb partition. I'm no longer using v6. Just wondering.
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I'm wondering how others have their read ahead speed set. I have mine at 2048kb because thats what I read was optimal. But when I experimented with v6 supercharger, it said I should set that to 1024kb instead. I also have a 16gb class 2 microsd with a 1gb partition. I'm no longer using v6. Just wondering.
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Depends on your SD Card Class, and your Device. But I've found that 2048 works well for me my Device, and my particular SD Card. My partition is 2GB. I used SD Tools to check which read ahead setting was best for me.
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Depends on your SD Card Class, and your Device. But I've found that 2048 works well for me my Device, and my particular SD Card. My partition is 2GB. I used SD Tools to check which read ahead setting was best for me.
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Thanks! I checked and 2048 is best for me too.
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Thanks! I checked and 2048 is best for me too.
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Kool . Glad I could help.
Oh BTW peeps I know I misspell " Cool " all the time. It's intentional :silly: .
I'm running MikShift v2.1 with a2sd and when I long press on dialer storage in Titanium Backup it doesn't give me the option to move data to SD.
Do you get a minu that says "Special Features" at the top or does it say "Backup Porperties"? If it says "Backup Properties" try swiping to the screen on the right. The "Special Features" is what you want.
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Do you get a minu that says "Special Features" at the top or does it say "Backup Porperties"? If it says "Backup Properties" try swiping to the screen on the right. The "Special Features" is what you want.
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I went to special features, and it isn't there????????
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Depends on your SD Card Class, and your Device. But I've found that 2048 works well for me my Device, and my particular SD Card. My partition is 2GB. I used SD Tools to check which read ahead setting was best for me.
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How do I figure out what is the best setting from this? 16gb class 2.