My Phone's internal memory gets used up when i download some application from the android market(which is quite obvious) , but after it gets installed , the applicaion's setup file still uses internal memory along with installed files ..
is there any way clean up these downloaded setup files ..
Please please please help me .. i am running short of memory here inspite of APP2SD ..
i doubt it. its all in the apk file so i would assume that you couldnt separate the set up files from the actual application just because its really all one file. i mean you could use 7-zip and looked inside the apk file and you would see other files but you would still need the set up file to be able to install and set it up. right? besides i think this file would be very small anyway.
i agree with u that apk file can't be moved or deleted from mnt/asec/ ..
but i don't know why the downloaded setup file still uses the memory along with the installed files (apk and others) .. i mean either the setup file shud be moved to asec or it shud get deleted .. the application uses double space
and i have tested it too .. i used some apks stored in my SD card to install the applications .. and the space used by them was as much as expected .. (i didnt have ext 3/ext4 partition at that time to install them on SD card direct) ...
and when i downloaded the same app from market and installed it .. it used more memory!!
Now here's what i did to free up memory .. i downloaded all the required apks in sd card and used CWM recovery to factor reset and clean dalvik cache ,, plus i made a ext4 partition on SD card for A2SD+ ..
This way only nominal internal memory is used by apps ..
But this way i would never want to use android market to download and install apps .. thats why i need a way to clean my downloaded setup files and install the apps to SD card using A2SD+
When i Download something from the market the setup files often stay under the cache folder. You can delete them with root explorer or something like that to get more free space.
rauschkugl said:
When i Download something from the market the setup files often stay under the cache folder. You can delete them with root explorer or something like that to get more free space.
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thanks for the suggestion .. will try it
Hello everyone
First at all want thanks the valious information in this forum. For a newbie like me is superb.
Now I´m needing here some tips please.
I have a IDEOS S7 tablet rooted (with SuperOneClick), working in full with the SuperUser, I have root access through with Root Explorer.
I use Link2SD to change the apps from the internal memory to the internal SD card.
I have no partitions on internal SD (do not know how to do).
The question: When i install an application this one goes to the /data/app folder, but also some additional files of this application goes to the /data/data folder.
With Link2sd when I move an app to the SD internal card, only the file in data/app moves and the files/folders in the data/data remain´s there!
For example when I install an application with 11MB (adobe flash for example) and move it with the link2sd to the internal SD card never copies all the 11MB (only about 3MB are copied )..... I conclude that any app that I install, and moved to SDcard, I can never keep in the same internal memory free "measurement" of bytes!
Example, I have 136MB free before installing Adobe. After installation I get 125MB. I move the app to the internal SD and are moved only 3MB! The remaining (8MB) stay in the internal memory. So, i never stay again with the 136MB that I had before, but +- 128MB.
What is wrong? Can I move all files of an application or not? What am I doing wrong or is this just like that!!? Any suggestion please?
By the way how can I create a partition on the InternalSD card and what is the advantage of doing this?
Thank you for your attention
regards
pedro
Can close/delete this topic please, solved and done.
Thanks
pedro
I have been looking for something like this for a while. The flipout lacks internal memory and it soon becomes a problem if you want to have a good set of apps.
Here's what you'll need:
1. Rooted Flipout (I won't post instructions to this step, look for "Universal AndRoot")
2. Partitioned SD card (see below for instructions), depending on the method, you might need a phone with CWM to do this and ADB installed on your PC.
3. Download Link2SD from Market
So here are the steps:
1. Partition your SD card. There are many ways to do it. I will post two ways:
Use MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
My PC didn't like this tool and I wasn't able to use it. However, it should be quite easy, you just need to put your card in a card reader and build two partitions with the following characteristic:
First partition will be your main card partition, should be of the whole card size minus the extended partition you want to create
Second partition should also be fat32 (link2sd didn't like ext2 nor ext3 on the flipout, it only worked with fat32)
Use CWM. I personally didn't want to install it on the Flipout, so I used a Samsung Epic 4G for the steps. You should be able to use any phone with CWM to do it, put your SD card in the phone with CWM and boot into recovery:
adb shell reboot recovery
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 (open partition manager for SD card)
print (prints partition table)
Here you should have one partition table, starting at some point and ending at some point like 7969 if your card has 8GB. Take note of the End value as you'll need it.
rm 1 (deletes partition 1, this will erase all data on the SD card)
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7425 (creates a new primary partition, the second number should be the value you took note of in the last step minus the size in MB of your desired extended partition).
mkpartfs primary fat32 7425 7937 (creates the new partition for applications, starting at the end of the last partition and ending on the max size of the card. In this case I used fat32 as I couldn't do it with ext3 nor ext2, link2sd didn't like this format on the flipout for some reason).
The partitions are created and you should be able to go to the next step.
3. Reboot your flipout with the partitioned SD card, make sure to have link2sd installed.
4. Open link2sd, it will take a while, ask for root permissions (always accept and make sure to have Remember checked).
5. It will ask for the partition type, select fat32. If you are asked to reboot your phone you have everything setup, otherway please post your problem.
6. Once rebooted, open link2sd again and go to settings and configure. I don't like having all applications automatically linked as widgets and this kind of apps can fail if they are on the SD, so I have this setting unchecked. However this is a personal decision.
7. To move an app to the card, hold your finger on it and when the menu appears, press link and confirm.
8. To move an app from the card to the phone, hold on it and press unlink, check everything and wait for the app to be returned.
Further Tips:
Avoid moving apps to the SD that are use widgets or that run all the time like: messenger apps, alarm clocks, climate widgets, etc. I tried one or two without any failure but I feel they could be less reliable this way.
Don't remove your SD card if the phone is turned on, now it has a partition that is used by the system, if you remove it you could have issues, I would only remove the card with the phone turned off completely and not boot without the card.
I made some tests connecting the USB cable to the PC and using the phone in storage mode, the PC could see the primary SD card partition and the phone could still work with apps on the second partition, so it seems to be stable in this sense.
If you need to switch to another card, you would have to setup the new card in the same way; I don't know yet if backing up the second partition and restoring it to the new card will work. If your data is critical use some SW like Titanium backup to back up the apps that are linked, remove them completely and restore when you have the new card setup.
So, this has worked for me like a charm, the phone really seems stable and I have so far like 150MB of apps on the SD card. No need to have a newer Android version, it seems very stable.
Disclaimer:
Any process that involves rooting your phone and partitioning can potentially cause data loss and/or bricking your phone. Do this only if you are 100% sure of what you're doing, I will take no responsibility for any data loss / damage caused by this process.
If you have any questions I will be glad to help.
Hi great post above
I rooted my phone and I partitioned my sd card into 2 partitions , both FAT32 primary 3.7GB and when i open link2sd and select either ext 2 or ext 3 I get an error message
"Mount scrip error
Mount scripe cannot be created.
mount: no such device
ext 2 may not be supported on your device. Try FAt32 on the second partition"
Has anyone come accross this problem before ?
Hi,
When you open link2sd,scroll down and select fat32. I tried formatting the second partition with ext2 and ext3 wit no luck. Fat32 is working just fine.
Regards
Hi Thanks a million that worked great
thanks
hi i tried wat u told but after some time link2sd is showing failure that "cannot link readonly" can u help me
Your guide works great. Finally I can have all apps I like to have installed at once.
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[*]If you need to switch to another card, you would have to setup the new card in the same way; I don't know yet if backing up the second partition and restoring it to the new card will work. If your data is critical use some SW like Titanium backup to back up the apps that are linked, remove them completely and restore when you have the new card setup.
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I can tell some experiences with backups.
Before I had blur stock rom with link2sd and changed to deblur central europe rom. After reinstalling link2sd all apps where still gone.
And even after restoring all user apps with titanium backup they were restored to phone memory. I had relink them with link2sd manually and to batch restore with titanium backup twice because it broke down in the middle because phone memory was full.
Unfortunately link2sd is no magically way to have them backed up apps and to be independent from the rom. Titanium backup is still needed but that is fine. Nothing seams broken after restore with TI and relink with link2sd.
lovdanie, it's strange, had no issues with the tested phone yet, I partitioned 500mb and it has already like 200-250MB of apps linked and is working great, no issues.
One thing that could have happened is that you removed the SD card. Are you sure the SD card hasn't been touched or formatted?
bagers, it's not really a magical solution, it's just a way to get more space on a phone that lacks internal memory...
Regards
Just for some info.. under windoze try the "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition" makes partitions like charm..
Guys any one have links for disk partitioners? minitool is not a freeware as u have t buy it when you apply the partition. any one know a way roubnd this? please help
miniProBhashi,
That's why I always use CWM to partition the SD card. As I don't have it on the Bllur, I put the card on another phone I have with CWM and it always works... Maybe if you have a linux PC you could do the same thing...
Regards
Help
Hi, I just partitioned my SD card. When I open the Link2SD app, it did prompt me to select the file system of the SD card's second partion, however, after I select FAT32/FAT16, Link2SD could not gain root access, there's no pop-up of indicating me to select "Allow" on the Superuser Request. Now wot do I do. Please help, thank you...
Well, I would start checking the SuperUser app to see if there is some exception in there. If you don't have it, check out if your phone is rooted by installing some other app that requires root access.
If not, check the root method for your phone.
If it's the Motorola Flipout, download version 1.6.1 from this thread, install it and run it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747598
Regards
mschmiedel said:
Well, I would start checking the SuperUser app to see if there is some exception in there. If you don't have it, check out if your phone is rooted by installing some other app that requires root access.
If not, check the root method for your phone.
If it's the Motorola Flipout, download version 1.6.1 from this thread, install it and run it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747598
Regards
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My phone is Galaxy ace, and superuser doesnt prompt anything on start-up.
Tried rooting manually, doesn't work as well
Hi,
I would try on a Galaxy Ace forum to check for the rooting process and validate if your phone is really rooted. When you are 100% sure you have root you can come back to this post and we can check if there's some other issue...
Regards
Flipout problem
Done all u told...
Then this problem came..
Mount script cannot be created.
mount: Invalid Argument
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Done all u told...
Then this problem came..
Mount script cannot be created.
mount: Invalid Argument
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Hi,
Have seen similar problems when using ext filesystems. Are you 100% sure that the secondary partition on the sd card is fat32? It really should work on the flipout without any issues.
Remember that you need:
* Rooted flipout
* Partitioned sd card (secondary partition must be fat32)
* Link2sd opened and allowed to use root permission
If you are sure you did everything stated above, we can look at it with more detail. What tool did you use to partition the sd card?
root permission
hi,
i have installed Link2SD from Market to my lg optimus p500 os,gingerbird2.3.3,when i stared to move app to sd it asks root permission.
so pls guid me to activate root permission in my device
drnags said:
hi,
i have installed Link2SD from Market to my lg optimus p500 os,gingerbird2.3.3,when i stared to move app to sd it asks root permission.
so pls guid me to activate root permission in my device
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Hi,
It doesn't make much sense to use Link2SD if you're on Gingerbread as your OS natively can copy apps to the SD card (at least some of them). Just go to "Manage Applications", and select the app you want to copy, there should be an option to "Move to SD"...
If you still have some good reason to use Link2SD, you should first look in a forum for your specific device to find out how to obtain root (I cannot help because it varies for each device)... Once you have root access, I can help you out with this process.
Regards
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Guys any one have links for disk partitioners? minitool is not a freeware as u have t buy it when you apply the partition. any one know a way roubnd this? please help
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When I partitioned mine I used GParted Live. It's a Linux-based boot disk, but you don't really have to know anything about Linux to use it. Just download the .ISO and burn a CD, pop it in your PC and boot off it. Its free, graphical (not command line) and relatively easy to use. There is also an option there to set it up to boot live off a USB drive, but that's a bit more involved to set up.
gparted . sourceforge . net / livecd.php (sorry, it won't let me directly post links yet)
If you can burn a .ISO to a CD, you can probably figure it out. Just make sure you pay attention to which disk you are partitioning (look at the sizes) so you don't accidentally re-partition the hard drive in your PC.
EDIT: If there is anything you need to back up off the SD card, I would do that in Windows first, and then copy it back using Windows after. You CAN do this with GParted Live but there would be additional steps to mount / unmount the Windows partition on the PC that you want to copy to.
the bootstrapped recovery seems to be having a partitioning tool.
Maybe im wrong, haven't used it though
Hello, i tryed to swap the internal memory with the external memory using mount2sd app but now the rom don't boot and it blocked i must reflashing my rom..
is there a way to swap the internal to external memory with another app like mount2sd or is there a way to move all internal storage in the sd card?
or it don't work with the samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 edition tablet?
thanks for the answers
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Hello, i tryed to swap the internal memory with the external memory using mount2sd app but now the rom don't boot and it blocked i must reflashing my rom..
is there a way to swap the internal to external memory with another app like mount2sd or is there a way to move all internal storage in the sd card?
or it don't work with the samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 edition tablet?
thanks for the answers
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There's a app called (root) folder mount in market.Theres a free version or paid version.I use that to mount all my game data to my ext. Sd card.The free one let's you mount 3 folders, the paid let's you mount as many as you want.You can run it and go to app analyzer in it and it shows all the folders and how big they are.You click on what ones you want to move and it creates folders on ext.sd card and moves all the data.
It's very easy to use and you can swap out any folder you want.
There's a app called (root) folder mount in market.Theres a free version or paid version.I use that to mount all my game data to my ext. Sd card.The free one let's you mount 3 folders, the paid let's you mount as many as you want.You can run it and go to app analyzer in it and it shows all the folders and how big they are.You click on what ones you want to move and it creates folders on ext.sd card and moves all the data.
It's very easy to use and you can swap out any folder you want.
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Hello, thank for the answer, finaly i maked mount2sd to work i just needed to wait 10 minutes after reboot (its why i thinked it don't work itwas stuck at samsung logo)
But the problem is now the ext3 partition is hidden and don't appear in parameter/stockage but it work all data was moved in. Is there a way to make the ext3 partition visible in parameter/stockage? All partition is visible in titanium backup
Or i will try folder mount if it more simple, thank for the answer!
Have a nice day!
For some reason my apps are not being installed on external memory card . Riru storage redirect conflict caused this before . I disabled and removed . Got it working again . I did apply some themes . Well long story short I wiped system , cach , dalvik , internal , formatted data . My twrp backup is causing bootloop now . I used odin for stock firmware . Yet the Xinternal starts to work as I see in es file explorer then app gets installed on internal. Any suggestions ?
Update , I have made some progress. Luckily I had a copy of my TWRP backup on another memory card . I noticed it was larger than mine. So apparently some of my backup got deleted or corrupted . I used the other one and formatted and advanced wiped first . The backup now works . Still havent got the install to sd card to work again although regular downloads are going to it.
Update , I swapped memory cards to test for some reason google playstore is not installing on external card even though it was last week . Downloads are still going to sd , my files show internal memory as sd card . I installed aptoide and installed an app , it did go to the sd card . So I think its something to do with google playstore. I cleared cache and data from it , tried 2 diff versions and its still not installing to sd . So Im using root function of AppmangerPro111 to auto move installed apps to sd. .