I recently purchased a 16GB (class 2, dont care too much about speed, and it was only $30) SD card to replace my old 4GB one. I ran into some problems trying to transfer all of my apps over to the new card (Apps2SD obviously). Heres my setup and what I did so far:
MT3G (duh), Red (it makes it faster, I swear!)
CM 4.2.15.1
RA-magic-v1.2.3G
The process so far:
- Backed up the contents of the SD card to my PC (Win 7)
- adb pull /system/app (desktop folder)
- nandroid backup
- remove 4GB and insert 16GB
- partition, swap, ext2 (recovery)
- convert ext2 to ext3 (recovery)
- reboot phone
- adb push [desktop folder] /system/app
- copy SD contents back to main partition. Reboot.
At this point I assumed the system would recognize the ext3 partition with all of the same apps on it. The pull/push went without a hitch. When I rebooted most of my apps didnt work, and only the on-phone apps showed up in the tray. Obviously it isnt ready the ext3 partition.
- Reboot to recovery. Run uid mismatches. Reboot.
Still no luck. I then accidentally ran an old restore point that did not get transferred over to the new card as I did nandroid after I backed up the files to PC. This didnt seem to change anything, as it was already broken.
- Re-insert 4GB. Copy nandroid backup to 16GB. Apply restore to 16GB. No help.
- Re-insert 4GB and restore to latest backup (step 3).
Everything is STILL broken. The apps dont work just like the 16GB card. NOTHING on the card has been changed, only copied to/from. The original ext3 partition is still as it was, and I erased no data from it in this process.
This is the point I am at right now. I cannot understand where I went wrong. I did some searching on the forums and couldnt find anything that could help this. I wanted to start a new thread because I'm really baffled at why it broke the functionality of my 4GB card as well.
Do I need to just install the rom fresh with the new card and reinstall all of the apps from scratch? I have quite a few apps, and the default 500MB partition is definitely getting its usage.
Thanks in advance for any help/tips you can provide!!
Answered this a couple of days ago and it worked for him.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6283301
Can anyone explain to me why when I have a 1Gb Ext4 partition on my SD card with only 367Mb used I am getting Low Storage warning when restoring my apps (143 of them) through Titanium Backup onto a clean HardDroid2 CM7 build with A2SD flashed and confirmed working? When I check it states 199Mb used, 13Mb free but when I use Root Explorer to look into SD-Ext I have App, Private App, Data, Dalvik, etc and all of the app APKs appear to be in there. Am I missing something here? I had the same issue for the first time a couple of days ago when I reflashed Hyperdroid - never had it before, and always do full Task29/fresh MAGLDR/fresh CWM/CWM wipe wipe wipe/etc for each new ROM so SD Ext is always reformatted too. It's driving me nuts
when you install an app, the size of that app gets knocked off the available space, but gets restored when you reboot, so try installing a few, check eth remaining space, then reboot, see if the reported space changes. (Ive never tested it myself, just repeating something i read)_
..also using app2sd and my phone mem seems to decrease also.
When i look into /data and /sdext i see in both the app folder with all apps installed.
but the used space seems to be bigger on the sd-ext.
...when you install e.g. Angry birds with 20 mb you will notice that your internal storage will NOT decrease to that amount: thats the reason why the data folder is smaller than the sd ext.
Seems so that parts of the apps are stored on the phone mem although we ve got app2sd with an sd ext.
Once i tried to delete that data folder, but then all apps stopped working.
In twyeens rom you can move your apps to sd, there was a fix some months ago, so that all apps runs fine from it also e.g. angry birds.
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So searching thru the threads here it seems that the only way to utilize the EMMC memory on the Nook Color is to repartition the NC so that it all looks like internal phone memory? Is this correct or has there been a way found to utilize both the EMMC memory area AND the SD card?
Not sure what you are asking specifically but you do not have to repartition the Nook to look like internal phone memory to use the internal memory.
1. You can use the internal memory stock or rooted and you can repartition the internal memory so that the system and data allocations are to your preference. Typical partitioning is 1GB system and 5GB data. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
2. You can install a custom ROM and the use of internal memory is the same as above with the standard being 1/5GB. Plus whatever size SD card you insert.
3. You can run a ROM on a bootable SD card where the ROM sees 1GB of the card as "internal memory" (also some space is used for the system and ROM) and the rest of the space on the card is seen as "SD card external memory." You can also mount the data partition of the Nook's internal memory so that the bootable ROM on the SD card also sees another data partition of 5GB. This is handy for items you want to appear to both the Nook's internal ROM and the ROM on the bootable SD card.
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I'm not clear what you are asking either. Before I repartitioned I had 1/5 and ran apps that I worried about load times on from eMMC. Stuff like flashlight or aldiko that I don't sweat that much I loaded from the SD card. Because I felt the 5 was going to waste I flipped it to 5/1. Now I ignore the loss of the 1, load everything I run to the 5 and have 32 to store books, movies, music or whatever on. (Technically I could make use of the 1 if I wanted to but it's not worth it to me.)
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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Except if you changed something in settings, the original installation place is the EMMC.
In case you fill all this space there, then you will have to start installing apps to SD.
For me there is no reason to install directly to EMMC, except if some app only runs from there and therefore should be installed only there (like widgets).
after the install of CM 7.2 the auto setting places apps in the 1 gig partition and apps2sd moves them to the 8 gig external card. the 5 gig EMMC partition is completely untouched.
If I fill up the 1 gig partition will they move to the EMMC? if not it appears this space will be completely wasted. I would prefer to use it as that frees up space to put music/media files on the SDcard for road trips.
I only leave apps on the internal memory I want to run faster. I noticed with my phone that once that spot start to fill up the phone runs noticeably slower.
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So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No and Yes. Unless you go to Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage
Then you will lose the SD card and gain the 5G. You can easily go back by unchecking it again whenever you want to. (That's why I did what I did with the partition swappy stuff.)
shadoes said:
I have 5 gig sitting there doing nothing in EMMC partition. I would like to be able to access this memory as well as the external 8 gig card i have in it. Right now the space on the EMMC partition never gets touched.
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It's there, you can put anything you want in it, the question is whether the apps you use can find the files you've stashed there. Some apps can, some can't.
BeyondPod (RSS feeds) lets you put its storage anywhere you want, so I moved that and my music into /emmc, and Music found the mp3s without me having to tell it anything. I don't buy many mp3s from Amazon, so I don't know how that interacts.
Also, I swap to /emmc, which is still an experiment in progress.
So will the nook start to auto install to the EMMC partition if I fill up the one gig partition? or is it just going to sit there unused.
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No, it won't do it automatically unless you always use it, like another poster suggested.
To further clarify, once the system partition is full that's it, the only thing else it does is tell you it's full. No rolling over, no starting to install elsewhere.
All Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application> check Use internal storage does is trick the NC into thinking the internal memory is an SD card. When you have that checked and are loading all your apps to the External memory by choosing Settings>Cyanogemod settings>Application>Install location>External you are loading them to the 5G.
The bad part about it is that you can only use one or the other, if you load a bunch of stuff to the 5G and then switch to the SD card, (uncheck the Use internal storage box), you won't be able to count on the stuff on the 5G to load properly. Same with if you load a bunch of stuff on the SD and change to the 5G.
*I've* chosen to repartition the system partition to 5G and the eMMC to 1G. 5G is so much more that I should ever need for apps it's ridiculous and because I have a 32G SD card I can just forget about the 1G.
I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.
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I suppose I should repartition but I don't want to have to wipe and reinstall everything.
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I waited till I had a genuine Sandisk class 4 16G SD. I know you shouldn't have to worry if you aren't booting from it but what the heck.
Oh and Titanium Backup is your friend. It'll even get your wallpaper back. The only thing I had to manually reload was the custom boot animation.
i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.
shadoes said:
i tried titanium with my phone and it failed horribly haha. but I will try it again. i would like to have access to that space. also need to try loading my mp3s to it via the PC. that may work as well.
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Download the latest Titanium and backup. If possible save the *.apk file to your SD Card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 Choose the "c" repartition option. After completing the repartition and format you will have a virgin install of whatever ROM you are running. Either install Titanium from the apk or download it again and do a restore, (note the amount of memory you have at the bottom). If I remember right you have to click install and done for every third party app you have but what the heck, it's better than setting there watching pixels burn. Once the restore is done look at the memory stats in Titanium again and note what memory got used. Reboot one last time and you are done.
As for the mp3's, I do all that kind of stuff through Samba. The only time I plug a wire into the NC is to charge it. I guess you could take the SD card out to do that but I've been given to understand we want to avoid taking that in and out where ever possible as well.
Another alternative to above Titanium BU tip is to sync your BU to Dropbox, zip it and after reinstall of ROM upload your zipped BU file into the SD folder Titanium makes when first installed, unzip, overwrite, and everything's there. I've never had trouble with this method. And it's fast...
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i am new to android os. few days ago i rooted my phone (y dyos) following tutorials on this forum. i installed cwm and took a backup. i also installed link2sd but somehow my internal memory started getting less and less with every installed app. i was getting a "2nd partition not found" remark in link2sd. so i went to cwm recovery mode and created a 2 gb partition.
but the 2 gb (out of 16 gb total) data i had as well as the apps installed are not showing anymore in menu or sd card. phone memory is as it was though. i dont know what went wrong.. pls help
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i am new to android os. few days ago i rooted my phone (y dyos) following tutorials on this forum. i installed cwm and took a backup. i also installed link2sd but somehow my internal memory started getting less and less with every installed app. i was getting a "2nd partition not found" remark in link2sd. so i went to cwm recovery mode and created a 2 gb partition.
but the 2 gb (out of 16 gb total) data i had as well as the apps installed are not showing anymore in menu or sd card. phone memory is as it was though. i dont know what went wrong.. pls help
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I'm assuming you have a 2gb primary partition formated to EXT2/3. You put link2sd in internal memory. Give it superuser privileges. From the menu you need to run the recreate boot scripts. Boot scripts won't do anything if there are no apps in your EXT2/3 partition. Apps linked to EXT2/3 will be reported as taking up space in internal for a few minutes after linking. Internal memory may also be taken up when lib and data are not linked.
You might have to master reset and reinstall all your apps so you can properly link them to the link2sd partition.
So I had my S4 (i9500) on Omega v10. I wanted to install a game but it wouldn't install saying there wasn't enough space. After checking the storage I found something weird happening. The phones internal showed 500mb available. From which Applications took 5GB and Misc took 2GB.... so i deleted all files under 2GB. It still showed device has 500mb left so i wiped caches etc to see if the number updates. no go.
So I full wiped and stuff from recovery and flashed Omega v11 hoping it would fix it. But to my surprise the internal has 8.90GB available (which I understand is normal) and then 4.90GB free....
Well then wheres the other 4gb? I looked at all folders through root explorer to see anything unusual but nope. System folder is about 2gb and internal sd after wipte is 3.90gb... I am at a dead end. What do I do?
Figured it out, seems like clockworkmod recovery was the culprit. It was backing up to internal sd card too. Those who have a similar issue check the files at /mnt/shell/~