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Want to optimize my legend

Hi all!
I have a Legend recently rooted and running CyanogenMod. Great experience. Just starting play with and see how works.
My first problem is I put in to much rubbish during the process and just playing with new rom now want to optimize. I already have a 8 gb sd card.
how I should proced to made a clean instalation to be able to optimize as much as better and wich order shoud be done.
I gess to format the sd card and also ram from legend but...
wich is next step?
how many partitions and how bigger?
i would like to run the apks from sd insted of phone.
thanks a lot!

1Gb ext3 should be enough for moving apps too, since alot of apps won't even move, you'd have to install hundreds on the SD card to even get near filling it up.
You could always use Blayo's B.02 rom and use the data2ext to have ALL your /data on the SD card, this supposedly increases performance too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866849

TheLegendaryJay said:
1Gb ext3 should be enough for moving apps too, since alot of apps won't even move, you'd have to install hundreds on the SD card to even get near filling it up.
You could always use Blayo's B.02 rom and use the data2ext to have ALL your /data on the SD card, this supposedly increases performance too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866849
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I think you need a pretty fast SD card if your using data2ext as well for it to increase speed. Want to try, but I'm using the 2 Gb card that came with the phone

MaBlo said:
I think you need a pretty fast SD card if your using data2ext as well for it to increase speed. Want to try, but I'm using the 2 Gb card that came with the phone
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happy 2011!!
I have an 8 gb class 6. I think it is fast enougth
as I said I just put CyanogenMod rom and ams so newer in this world.
so have many "rubish" now i my legend so, need to prepare the sd.
as yo say need to made a 1gb partition but.. how i should do that, need to erease every thing and format it againt?
I didn't found any specific thead how to prepare the teminal for run apks on sd instead on it!
thanks!

MontseCat said:
happy 2011!!
I have an 8 gb class 6. I think it is fast enougth
as I said I just put CyanogenMod rom and ams so newer in this world.
so have many "rubish" now i my legend so, need to prepare the sd.
as yo say need to made a 1gb partition but.. how i should do that, need to erease every thing and format it againt?
I didn't found any specific thead how to prepare the teminal for run apks on sd instead on it!
thanks!
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you can shrink the fat partition and add an ext2 in front using a partition manager.
I have a 500 Mb partition on a 4 Gb card and have about 300 apps installed.
with still a lot of space free.

k.mooijman said:
you can shrink the fat partition and add an ext2 in front using a partition manager.
I have a 500 Mb partition on a 4 Gb card and have about 300 apps installed.
with still a lot of space free.
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that's fine, could you tell me how to do it?
thnaks!

MontseCat said:
that's fine, could you tell me how to do it?
thnaks!
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The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.

MaBlo said:
The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.
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Thanks a lot!!
I have some work for a while:..

MaBlo said:
The link to Darktremor A2sd is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719164
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This is better for CM
MaBlo said:
There is also a installation guide there. You can partition your sd card through recovery or Rom Manager.
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They're the same, ROM manager simply initiates fakeflash (recovery)
MontseCat said:
Thanks a lot!!
I have some work for a while:..
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Have fun

TheGrammarFreak said:
They're the same, ROM manager simply initiates fakeflash (recovery)
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Yes I know(you told me) What I meant was that there is a shortcut in Rom Manager to partition SD card. Don't know if that's the best procedure, but it worked for me.

MaBlo said:
Yes I know(you told me) What I meant was that there is a shortcut in Rom Manager to partition SD card. Don't know if that's the best procedure, but it worked for me.
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Well, I've told you again . And it's a fine way to partition the SD card, it's how I did it too

TheGrammarFreak said:
Well, I've told you again . And it's a fine way to partition the SD card, it's how I did it too
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Glad I was right about something, I'm new to this stuff. Learning every day

[Q] These is no storage left. wtf

Im using CM7 RC1 on wildfire, i have 800mb left on SD card, but now my programs cannot be moved to SD card, because it says no more storage left on SD card. And this problem is after i instaled CM7 RC1

And this is dev related..... how??
As for ur question, I have no idea.
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Just format your sd and try again?
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Maybe your partition is not big enough?

big enough. i say its 800mb free

Yes , You have 800 mb but on general partion.Check out how much space you have on ext partitions.
I check it in the easiest way without anyy software.I'm connectin WF to my TV and get in USB and there are few drivers to choose then check info about and here it is.
Or with some kind of software in PC

Internal 25mb free, External (SD) 837mb free.

I advice you to make a quite bigger Internal and then check out'em

vilks said:
Internal 25mb free, External (SD) 837mb free.
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Moving to SD does not move the whole app to SD many times. Internal memory is occupied too, maybe 25 mb is too less? What's the exact error msg that its giving?

Have the same problem.
As far as i know APP2SD doesnt use the ext partition (just the Darktremor Apps2SD does) - but the APP uses the Froyo/Gingerbread buildin function and just saves some amount of the Apps to the SD card.
Somehow it worked for me if i try it a 2nd time (or after restarting the device in begin - after it worked fine for me).
But sometimes if I install apps it also tells me - not enough space - and i have 37MB internal left - even the app is just about 500kb.... - anyway it also works if i just try agains ome seconds later.
Annoying - but perhaps also works for u

Formiak said:
I advice you to make a quite bigger Internal and then check out'em
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Could you also tell us how 2 make bigger internal !??! If I dont want to disasemble my device and replace a chip?
As far as i know u just can get bigger internal space by moving apps or systemparts to the SD card... and thats where he has problems.
(But yes many custom roms already do it a bit: dalvik cache,.. - but u need 2 reflash another rom.... not part of this discussin atm i think)

i didnt have any problems with 2.3 nightly 49# and other nightlys or even 2.2 roms. But with new 2.3 RC1 i have these problems. so im moving to other rom

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SDHC 8Gb SDcard not recognized

Hi there, new to this forum so can't post to development forum although I searched there. I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:
1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.
2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.
3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.
4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.
5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.
6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.
7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from ---www dot sdcard dot org--- but it did not make a difference.
So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).
I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.

Have you formatted it as primary

Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
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gizmo001i said:
Have you formatted it as primary
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Yeah sure, formatted as first primary partition.

aaa801 said:
Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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Don't think the SD card is faulty as I can mount, format and read/write to it via usb on a computer running both Windows and Linux.

lavero.burgos said:
I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
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What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.

I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.

jrohwer said:
What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.
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Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

ktmt said:
I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.
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Tried this, but it did not make a difference After trying to boot phone with newly formatted SD card, it just gets stuck at LG logo. When re-inserting the original 2Gb SD card it boots up just fine.

lavero.burgos said:
Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
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OK, so I tried formatting the card with TestDisk (under Ubuntu linux) but again it did not help. Place freshly formatted FAT32 8Gb SDcard into phone, switch on, and it gets stuck at LG boot logo Insert original 2Gb card (FAT16) and it boots just fine....
The 8Gb card seems just fine as I can mount it under Windows and Linux, copy files, read files, etc. all normal.
So I'd be interested to hear about your many "small alternative fixes"
P.S. Also tried Mini Partition Wizard (following ktmt suggestion) under Windows, but did not work either.

SAME thing happened to me what i did is flashes some kdz files in hope to freshen up the phone and it worked for me

I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.

Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
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Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
BE SURE, THAT YOU`VE INSTALLED THE LATEST CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY -
3.0.2.4 OR ABOVE + THE SWIFTDROID 2.3.3 V2.0 - BEFORE !!!
AND DO NOT USE WINDOWS7 TO TRY TO FORMAT YOUR SD-CARD - IT DOES NOT
WORK !!!
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- AT A MINIMUM SPEED-RATE OF 122 MHZ
- AT A MAXIMUM SPEED-RATE OF 852 MHZ
PLEASE DO NOT TRY HIGHER SPEED-RATES - BECAUSE YOUR PHONE WILL GET
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maybe, it can also be a "pressure-error", because there are some people reporting, that they had to use a little piece of paper to get more pressure to the sd-card-retention.

gizmo001i said:
I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.
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OK I'll try this, just need to get around to buying a class 6 card. I got similar advice on the Android Forums i.e. class 4 cards for large sizes (8Gb and up) being too slow for this phone.

I.me.myself said:
Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
........................................................................................................................................
Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
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This did not solve the problem, I think it's just the class 4 card being too slow.

I've similar problem. My brother and i have LG GT540. I've 16GB SD-Card and my brother has a 8 GB SD-Card.
In his phone 8 GB SD-Card doesn't work correctly but in my phone works fine. I didn't know what is damaged, his phone or SD-Card
In brother phone, SD-Card doesn't format correctly and after this process, phone won't mount SD-Card and i get notification that SD-card is empty or damaged ;/
I will trying my 16 GB SD-Card into brother phone.

Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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lavero.burgos said:
Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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When my SD card change to raw file system, i'm repairing her by EASEUS Partition Master

G3 Not booting with a 4gb micro SD card

So I was using Kyrillos' 4.1 non OC ROM and I wanted an app to take snapshots of my phone and downloaded picme... After installing it, it asked for superuser allowance and I gave it but the phone froze... I rebooted and it stuck on the booting logo (green android with a circle)... I tried taking out the micro SD and it booted fine. So my problem is with my 4gb micro SD. I formatted it both with windows and EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition but still it doesn't work. I even had EASUS to check my SD for bad sectors, but nothing... I flashed Kyrillos' new 5 beta ROM but still it freezes on the boot logo... It's weird because my SD card has only 1 partition and no bad sectors. Help please?

Try another sd?

Humpie said:
Try another sd?
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I did try the SD the phone came with but my non-working SD card is my bigger one... 4gb capacity. My point is that my SD card is usable on any other device except my phone until recently

clarkkov said:
Format your non working SD.
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I already did... In FAT32 and still nothing

clarkkov said:
Format it to ext. Kikiriki rom requires sd to be in the phone when flashing, it places swap and app2sd onto sd. This is one of the reasons you shouldnt use custom c#ap. If it does not work in ext, reflash kiki rom with this sd inside the phone. If it does not work after this, say good bye to your sd, kiki has fried its mbr.
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Who talked about Kyrillos' rom being crap... Sorry but it is way ahead of most ROMs... Even for Galaxy 3 the speeds are light fast and I never ever had any problems with the ROM again... Some people like to push their stuff to the limits and not get everything a company gives them. Do we have an official Froyo update from Kies yet? Nope! Hence the custom ROM

I got it working... I formatted it to EXT2 and then formatted it again on my phone, and my phone can boot with the 4gb sd... Thanks clarkkov !!!

[Q] 16Gb With Class 2 a NO NO if your using SENSE ROM????

Hello,
I am facing a really bad situation i have my 4Gb mem card with class 6 which happened to work like a charm on the HD2 with Sense ROM. But i happened to purchase the 16Gb class to the the ROM will not even boot up though i have tried all the processes of backup and restore new ROM install still no hope if I happen to replace the 4Gb Sdcard with the 16Gb card it does show me 14.8 GB installed with 1Gb if SD-Ext but there on the phone reboots.
Do you think i should buy another 16 Gb Card with Class 6 or some other inputs to get the 16Gb class 2 to get working. I wish not to settle down with 4 Gb when i have 16Gb doing nothing ...

I use a 16gb class 2 with a 1gb ext3 and it works fine.
You might want to reformat it and repartition it, maybe something went wrong.

huggs said:
I use a 16gb class 2 with a 1gb ext3 and it works fine.
You might want to reformat it and repartition it, maybe something went wrong.
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Thanks for your prompt reply lemme try it and i will update you as soon as possible..

ive been using a 16gb class 2 card since i had the handset nearly 2 years ago, never had any issues running android and sense with it

Richy99 said:
ive been using a 16gb class 2 card since i had the handset nearly 2 years ago, never had any issues running android and sense with it
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I would wish to know the partition size and the swap size you use and did you partition it form the AD Recovery 3.0.2.5 ???
Thanks in advance.

vikasraj said:
I would wish to know the partition size and the swap size you use and did you partition it form the AD Recovery 3.0.2.5 ???
Thanks in advance.
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i use a 1gb ext3 partition created by mini tool partition wizrd home, i dont use a swap partition

vikasraj said:
I would wish to know the partition size and the swap size you use and did you partition it form the AD Recovery 3.0.2.5 ???
Thanks in advance.
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It depends on the rom that you are using. I would think that a 1024mb partition with 0mb swap would work for you. Yeah you can partition it with 3.0.2.5.