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Replaced the stock 2GB miniSD w/ 16GB card. How can I manage where apps download?

Hello all,
I just replaced the stock 2GB external SD card with a 16GB and transferred the movie over to the new 16GB card.
I thought all the apps that I'm downloading would be saving to the external 2GB SD card, but surprisingly that's not the case? I thought by default it would save to the external storage card first.
How do I manage where I want my apps and future downloads to be saved? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
All I see under settings -> SD card and phone storage -> (it shows all the info, but only gives me the option to unmount the storage on both internal and external cards.
Also on the very bottom of that screen it shows: "Application storage...Available space...1.50GB"
Is this a partition within the internal storage on the phone where all the apps have been getting saved to?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Basically the Vibrant gives u 16GB or space, 2GBs of this is for Applications an such, while the 14GB partition is for media (music, movies etc).
When you install applications currently they will install onto your 2GB partition. Once Froyo (android 2.2) hits you'll be able to select if you want the apps to install onto your SDCard.
Once the modding scene picks up a bit more I'm sure A2SD will be available and also a 2.2 port prior to the official one.
Hope this helps!

oDeACoNo said:
Basically the Vibrant gives u 16GB or space, 2GBs of this is for Applications an such, while the 14GB partition is for media (music, movies etc).
When you install applications currently they will install onto your 2GB partition. Once Froyo (android 2.2) hits you'll be able to select if you want the apps to install onto your SDCard.
Once the modding scene picks up a bit more I'm sure A2SD will be available and also a 2.2 port prior to the official one.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks for the reply!
So basically right now we can't change the default settings of it saving to the partition space on the device itself? In my mind, "...hhmm there has to be a way around this...maybe?" LOL
I can't get the phone to mount on my PC or MAC. On the phone it shows as USB storage device connected and it also displays a window for me to mount or unmount....Nothing shows on the computer for me to be able to access it...hhmm
This is all so odd because my buddy has the old Galaxy i7500 and I'm able to plug his phone in and it mounts in seconds.
The only way for me to access the card is for me to use the SD adapter card and physically take it out of the phone every time..

In order to connect to a mac usb debugging must be checked.
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blackerwater said:
In order to connect to a mac usb debugging must be checked.
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Thanks blackerwater, forgive me, but where would I go to check that?

Settings>applications>development
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If i replace the 2 gig sd card with avatar on with my 16 gig class 4 should i part it with a ext 4 or just format it all fat 32 ??? I was thinking just fat 32 the whole card since the apps default to the internal mem ..

Really? Not to be a downer guys, but why is this in the Development forum? Can we move this over to General or Q&A please. Once the Development forum starts getting flooded there's no going back.

g1g said:
If i replace the 2 gig sd card with avatar on with my 16 gig class 4 should i part it with a ext 4 or just format it all fat 32 ??? I was thinking just fat 32 the whole card since the apps default to the internal mem ..
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I just reformatted it FAT32 all the way. Then I transferred both movie files of Avatar and it works perfectly.

rdude said:
Really? Not to be a downer guys, but why is this in the Development forum? Can we move this over to General or Q&A please. Once the Development forum starts getting flooded there's no going back.
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If the issue that this thread is referring to is indeed related to a development problem, would it not be proper for it to be here?
How do you move posts?

blackerwater said:
Settings>applications>development
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Perfecto. Thank you!

Thanks for the quick responce iunlock im formatting now ...

Also, it's best to keep as much apps on the system memory as you can. Accessing data on the SD card is slower than from the internal memory.

g1g said:
Thanks for the quick responce iunlock im formatting now ...
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You're welcome.

g1g said:
If i replace the 2 gig sd card with avatar on with my 16 gig class 4 should i part it with a ext 4 or just format it all fat 32 ??? I was thinking just fat 32 the whole card since the apps default to the internal mem ..
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No reason in creating an ext partition at this time since there is not much support currently for this kind of mod on the SGS. In the future i'm sure ppl will get this mod out there, but for the time being you should be good with Fat32.
Plus installing the apps on the internal mem is the best option for speed an such.

oDeACoNo said:
No reason in creating an ext partition at this time since there is not much support currently for this kind of mod on the SGS. In the future i'm sure ppl will get this mod out there, but for the time being you should be good with Fat32.
Plus installing the apps on the internal mem is the best option for speed an such.
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I hope it's sooner than later.

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

200 MB on SD card?

Can some one tell me what happened? I've installed android to nand memory and now my sd card only shows 200 mg of space, I took some pictures and now is full, where did my 16gb go? Can someone help me find a solution? Thank you for your help.

No one knows, since you provide 0 information. You can also just check it yourself by examining your sd card in your pc.
XDA-members are not some sort of magicians who can wave their magic wand and everything is fixed.

Eelkede said:
No one knows, since you provide 0 information. You can also just check it yourself by examining your sd card in your pc.
XDA-members are not some sort of magicians who can wave their magic wand and everything is fixed.
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thanks for nothing....here is the information, installed android on HD2 on nand memory like the instructions here now it shows 200mb, can someone really help me find out where the rest of the gb went?

can you link the instructions you followed to install nand? also did you partition your sd card correctly? you can double check to see how your sd card is partitioned by using this free program. if i had to take a guess it would seem you have partitioned your sd card backwards but there is little info to go by so its really a stab in the dark.

had wp7 installed before? wp7 formats all your sd card to some weird wp7 only format, leaving just 200gb as normal, readable space.

htccraze said:
can you link the instructions you followed to install nand? also did you partition your sd card correctly? you can double check to see how your sd card is partitioned by using this free program. if i had to take a guess it would seem you have partitioned your sd card backwards but there is little info to go by so its really a stab in the dark.
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thank you for your information, i did exactly as it says on the nand section, my phone had android installed on the sd card before.

samsamuel said:
had wp7 installed before? wp7 formats all your sd card to some weird wp7 only format, leaving just 200gb as normal, readable space.
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yes....i did install win7 before but i did not like it so I installed Android and now it shows 200 mb, you may be onto something, thank you very much for your help,

samsamuel said:
had wp7 installed before? wp7 formats all your sd card to some weird wp7 only format, leaving just 200gb as normal, readable space.
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Do you know how to fix it?

format your sd card with panasonic sd formatter in your pc.'cause i had the same thing before, and solved this way.

i would backup your sd card to your computer and then once you have backed it up format it with what ever partition manager you like. i personally use minitool 6 which i posted on post 4. then place a fresh copy of android on your sd and flash as normal. dont forget to wipe date/cache/delvic. i cant say for sure if this would fix the problem but i have noticed this simple process fix some of the problems i've had in the past.

minispider said:
thanks for nothing....here is the information, installed android on HD2 on nand memory like the instructions here now it shows 200mb, can someone really help me find out where the rest of the gb went?
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CAN you read?! I hope so! Guy...meanwhile we have in every section of OS's so many TUT's and explainings. When U've read or searched a little bit, the answer would bite you!

icke said:
CAN you read?! I hope so! Guy...meanwhile we have in every section of OS's so many TUT's and explainings. When U've read or searched a little bit, the answer would bite you!
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instead of wasting your time typing all your nonsense you could of have pasted a link...again...thanks for nothing, and a big thank you to all the great people on this thread who are trying to help me.

mutil said:
format your sd card with panasonic sd formatter in your pc.'cause i had the same thing before, and solved this way.
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thank you thank you...it worked, now i have 14.85gb of empty space, i owe u a beer!

low phone memory on G3

Hi ,
I use a G3 and have been facing a phone memory problem since i had the phone.I keep getting this warning often regarding low phone memory..th ephone becomes very slow...at times non responsive and dsnt let me install any new apps..I have Kyrillos' ROM 7on my phone and have a 16 gb class 4 sd card..can anyone suggest me a workaround on this....please???

sonijd said:
Hi ,
I use a G3 and have been facing a phone memory problem since i had the phone.I keep getting this warning often regarding low phone memory..th ephone becomes very slow...at times non responsive and dsnt let me install any new apps..I have Kyrillos' ROM 7on my phone and have a 16 gb class 4 sd card..can anyone suggest me a workaround on this....please???
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Create an ext4 partition on your SD card and use the kyrillos apptoSD script

Blackyx007 said:
Create an ext4 partition on your SD card and use the kyrillos apptoSD script
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Just to expand on what this user said. Use minitool partition wizard or go into recovery mode and make an partition. I'd say a 1024MB partition and a 256 MB Linux swap will be more than enough unless you want loads of apps which will in turn slow your phone down.

Smonic said:
Just to expand on what this user said. Use minitool partition wizard or go into recovery mode and make an partition. I'd say a 1024MB partition and a 256 MB Linux swap will be more than enough unless you want loads of apps which will in turn slow your phone down.
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i don't think swap is suggested for sd card class less than 6..

Fakso said:
i don't think swap is suggested for sd card class less than 6..
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I used swap on class 4 SD with no problems.
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Smonic said:
Just to expand on what this user said. Use minitool partition wizard or go into recovery mode and make an partition. I'd say a 1024MB partition and a 256 MB Linux swap will be more than enough unless you want loads of apps which will in turn slow your phone down.
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Hi,
Thanks for the update...just wanted to check what difference does it make..if i do this...will this make the phone work faster...or increase the phone memory ??

Create an ext4 partition on your SD card and use the kyrillos appt2SD script

I use a class 4 sd card, and the position works just fine for me.
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[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.