Apps2SD - X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all!!
I have made a system image just in case with TWRP but I don't feel that I'll really need that. I have a 16GB Moto X Pure Edition and I have been running out of internal storage even with my 64GB SD card inserted and adopted as internal storage device. So I decided to use Apps2SD.
1) I installed the App
2) Then selected the Partition Tool (Adoptable)
3) Created 2 partitions. The first was adopted (31.766GB) and the second was ext4 (29.321GB)
4) Marshmallow OS said that the SD card is corrupt and can not be used and that I would have to reformat. But I was able to transfer apps over to the SD card and it works. This does not really clear up my issue of running low on Internal memory.
I have searched but I'm not having any luck.
I have ADB on my computer.
Please help.
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So I formatted my SD card as portable.
Ejected my SD card from the Storage & USB menu
Used "adb shell" to list my adoptable storage:
like this
$ adb shell sm list-disks adoptable
disk:179,64
disk:179,64 is my SD card that can be made adoptable, I want 60% as external SD:
$ adb shell sm partition disk:179,64 mixed 60
This erased the entire SD card, giving 60% as portable storage and the rest as adopted internal storage.
Rebooted my phone.
From Storage & USB menu, selected the SD card (internal) and chose Migrate Data. Only 6MB of data transferred
Here's a new screenshot.
My question is... how can I get some data from the Internal storage to the "Internal SD"?

m3kgt99 said:
So I formatted my SD card as portable.
From Storage & USB menu, selected the SD card (internal) and chose Migrate Data. Only 6MB of data transferred
Here's a new screenshot.
My question is... how can I get some data from the Internal storage to the "Internal SD"?
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In normal way, from "storage & usb menu" - at the end it is askng "do you want move data?"
I don't use adopted storage now, if I good remember you should go to menu internal storage(9.53gb) or internal sd(23.47) tap 3 dots and then "move data". It will move some apps and other data.
If you havn't root - apps you can move only from "settings - appilcations - app - memory".
App mgr III (play store) will show "movable" apps.
Multimedia etc. you can move between 23.47 and 35.79 with any file manager.

dzidexx said:
In normal way, from "storage & usb menu" - at the end it is askng "do you want move data?"
I don't use adopted storage now, if I good remember you should go to menu internal storage(9.53gb) or internal sd(23.47) tap 3 dots and then "move data". It will move some apps and other data.
If you havn't root - apps you can move only from "settings - appilcations - app - memory".
App mgr III (play store) will show "movable" apps.
Multimedia etc. you can move between 23.47 and 35.79 with any file manager.
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Thanks dzidexx
The reason I'm even doing this is because my phone has been super laggy and buggy lately and I think it is attributed to having such full internal memory. I went ahead and downloaded that "App Mgr III" app. That's a pretty handy to automatically find any movable apps without you having to search through each one individually. I cleared my Dalvik Cache and that cleared me up a bit. (Yes I'm rooted with xposed)
I pretty much had most of my apps that could be moved already done. There are a few that I can move but it won't be that beneficial.
Here's new screenshots:
After I wiped my Dalvik Cache:
The apps that I can move with App Mgr III:
Maybe I have just been using Lucky Patcher too much and it's hogging up memory for the Dalvik Cache.

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[Q] Internal storage

For several days I have the error message, that my internal storage is running out of space...
my tattoo's running with nFinityGB-0.93 and i've already moved as much apps as possible to sd-card... i cleared all cache-data with aCCleaner...
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is there any possibility to remove unused components of the rom? or any other way to reduce the data stored on internal storage?
Well, you could try Apps2Ext. It requires you to create two partitions on your SD card, one as Ext2 and the other as FAT.
You can repartition an SD card for apps2ext with ROM manager or clockworkmod recovery.
To use Apps2Ext, download Simple2Ext and run it. If the Memory card is properly set, it will move your apps and even your cache and data to the card ext partition freeing internal memory and allowing apps to run from the card.
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Well, you could try Apps2Ext. It requires you to create two partitions on your SD card, one as Ext2 and the other as FAT.
You can repartition an SD card for apps2ext with ROM manager or clockworkmod recovery.
To use Apps2Ext, download Simple2Ext and run it. If the Memory card is properly set, it will move your apps and even your cache and data to the card ext partition freeing internal memory and allowing apps to run from the card.
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Sounds great - thanks for the hint. I'll try it tonight, but I have one question left. I'm using the current nFinityGB, that also already provides the functionality to store apps2sd - is it the same or is it a different way of apps2sd?!
for me it sounds as if the difference is caused by the ext-partition?! currently i have no ext, so that only some data of the app can be stored on sd-card... with ext a deeper layer (osi) can be addressed?! is this correct?
thanks!
wormix500 said:
Sounds great - thanks for the hint. I'll try it tonight, but I have one question left. I'm using the current nFinityGB, that also already provides the functionality to store apps2sd - is it the same or is it a different way of apps2sd?!
for me it sounds as if the difference is caused by the ext-partition?! currently i have no ext, so that only some data of the app can be stored on sd-card... with ext a deeper layer (osi) can be addressed?! is this correct?
thanks!
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The current apps2sd in CM 7 releases is called apps2fat. This allow you to move bulky programs (.apk) into an external FAT storage, keeping data and dalvik cache in the internal memory. The reason being everything cannot be moved are the limitations of the FAT file system. And many apps that are moved to SD, especially widgets stop working properly.
Now, ext (ext2/ext3/ext4) is a linux filesystem and it supports all the requirements for apps to run properly with right permissions. Apps2Ext has an advantage that apps, data, dalvik cache, or everything can be moved into the ext partition. The phone assumes the ext partition to be an internal memory and all apps seem to run without problems. Even widgets on the homescreen work fine.
The only drawback is that, if any app is running from the ext partition (even in background), you wont be able to unmount the sd card. And it can be risky to remove card without unmounting. If u mount the phone as usb storage, only the fat partition can be used by the PC.
Other than that, Apps2Ext is a great tool. That way, if you have a 8GB card and format it to 1GB ext and 7GB fat partition, your apps will install in that ext area without messing up your data in fat and wont exceed 1GB storage in your SD card without notifying you.
Finally, Apps2Ext was called apps2sd when android was in 1.5 and 1.6 versions. From 2.2 onwards, apps2fat was made apps2sd. But you can install Simple2Ext from market and give the old Apps2Ext a try.
great explanation - thanks!

[FIX][TUT]Free some space to install apps on CM10 new layout

Hi,
I know everyone is facing the problem of low internal space after the change of layout......but if you notice the speed of processing has changed a lot.....BUTTERY SMOOTH.....
Remember this thread is indeed referring to external sd card and not the internal sd card which is glued to our motherboard........so please read this...
So here's a fix......
Step 1:
Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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Step 2:
Download the Home edition from this site( This tool is used for creating partitions.....we will create ext4 partition by using this on our external sdcard
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Install it
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FORMAT YOUR EXTERNAL SD CARD
Step 3:
Open the partitioning tool and then you will see some disk 1, disk 2, disk 3, and more depending on number of things you have attached to pc...Select the disk which resembles your external sd card( Do not select wrong disk as it can cause serious trouble to your computer)Well you can easily make out which one's the external sdcard by the memory space info....
I'm Partitioning my pen drive so that you can understand
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1. Right click on that disk and click Move/Resize....( a dialog box like this appears)
Move the slider from the right to left and choose the space you want as the unallocated space(This place is which 'link2sd' will use to store apps....)Then click ok....You will see that the two partitions are created
Primary
Logical( the unallocated space)
2.Right click on the unallocated space and click on create..........A dialog box will open.........Select the settings as same as in this picture(Size and location may differ)
Click OK...
3. Apply the changes by clicking apply button and let it complete the process and then a successful message will come and Voila It's done!!!!!
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Step 4:
Remove your sd card from card reader and put it in your TAB...Go to settings>>>>>storage and check whether the size of the external sd card has been reduced.....If yes....you have successfully done it!!!!
Open Link2sd app in phone>>>>>A dialog box will appear asking you for the partition>>>>>select ext4>>>>>Then select any big app>>>>click on create link and let it complete the process...
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Link2sd Google play
Hi if I already installed tbe apps will.this still work? Or do I have to reinstall all the apps for link2sd to work amd transfer the data to ext4?
Thanks
Sent from my GT-P1000 using xda app-developers app
Remove your external sd card from the slot and put it in a card reader....Putting it in a card reader is the only way...You cannot partition the external sd card if it's inserted in the TAB....Connect the card reader to the PC
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How VERY true. Sad for those who can't access to micro SD on the PC. My adaptor should be somewhere in an unknown drawer.
Seriously, I tried to mess with this procedure to get the additional partitions on the INTERNAL SD. Here, Microtool allows you to delete all Partitions, but when you apply the changes, they are simply ignored. Well, not quite, the content of the SDCard are gone. Fortunately this is not a problem, because the relevant parts of the OS reside on the fast, invisible section of the internal storage, at least IF YOU ARE USING THE NEW CM10 memory layout. So you can recover, if you saved your data.
There is a second problem associated with internal SD partitioning. Apparently there are some instructions in INIT.RC which force the internal SD to "FAT32 only". On every reboot you will notice that your reformatted internal SD is just re-formatted to FAT32. While the details (see thread on SGT II) are pretty well documented , I found the same behaviour on my SGT7. I did not dare to mess with my P1000 CM10 for lack of documentation, if the fix works at all here, it would requiere reassembling zImage which can be very dangerous.
Thanks for the HOWTO.
Worth mentioning: configure your Links2SD to Auto Link, and default Install location to Internal. Worth reading their FAQ on their website.
After flashing a new ROM, Link2SD will ask you to recreat the mount scripts (warning in notification bar), and one more reboot and everything is working again.
I will get screenshots on my next flash.
You CANNOT partition your sdcards throught the Tab's USB mount. The USB mounts the FAT32 partitions, not the whole sdcard, so you don't actually see the partition tables for either internal or external sdcards.
That's why this procedure if for the EXTERNAL sdcard (very cheap on ebay. US$13 for a 16GB Class 10 sdcard, or just a couple bucks for an 8GB Class 4 sdcard).

microSD card damaged?!

I've about 20gb of holidays photos and since I want to put them in my Android without reduce internal storage phone I bought from amazon 2 microsd XC-I 32GB (I've 2 galaxy note).
Every photo is about 1MB, so I first of all formatted sd with android in settings and then I connected the phone to pc and I tried to pass all photos. When transfer is finished I can see photos in gallery but when I reboot my phone a message appears "Your sdcard is damaged" and I can't do anything, only format another time my sd.
It's very annoying! I tried with both sd card, I tried to reduce photos size with irfanview or put photos directly in the card (with a computer card reader). Nothing worked.
So what could be the problem? How can I solve this issue?
I don't understand why a Samsung sdcard doesn't work with a Samsung phone. And it's not an old sd but latest samsung sd card.
Here is the card:
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mouse100 said:
I've about 20gb of holidays photos and since I want to put them in my Android without reduce internal storage phone I bought from amazon 2 microsd XC-I 32GB (I've 2 galaxy note).
Every photo is about 1MB, so I first of all formatted sd with android in settings and then I connected the phone to pc and I tried to pass all photos. When transfer is finished I can see photos in gallery but when I reboot my phone a message appears "Your sdcard is damaged" and I can't do anything, only format another time my sd.
It's very annoying! I tried with both sd card, I tried to reduce photos size with irfanview or put photos directly in the card (with a computer card reader). Nothing worked.
So what could be the problem? How can I solve this issue?
I don't understand why a Samsung sdcard doesn't work with a Samsung phone. And it's not an old sd but latest samsung sd card.
Here is the card:
Samsung SM-P9005 - Tapatalk
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You what.
Android settings -> storage -> format sd
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mouse100 said:
Android settings -> storage -> format sd
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OH crap my bad. I totally read your question wrong. Forgive me for that ><
Try putting it in your computer, formatting it as FAT32 (I believe that's the one), then transferring all of the photos directly onto the card, not passing through the phone.

Samsung galaxy S5 900f

Hello all.
I have since today problems with my pictures on the sd card. When I open the gallery app I can't see my pictures on the sd card. And when I open the camera app, I see in settings that the location of the pictures changed into phone storage (internal storage). So I changed it back into external sd card, and now when I take a picture it says : cannot save pictures on the sd card, the location is changed back to internal storage.
And when I open es file browser and go in my sd card Into the map of the pictures, I can't open the pictures, and I see this.
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The other files on my sd card like pdf files I can open.
Anyone can help me please ?
I am on xtrelite 1.3.2 rom with ktoonsez kernel. Everything worked fine before so I think this isn't the problem.
Greets ser
thesss said:
Hello all.
I have since today problems with my pictures on the sd card. When I open the gallery app I can't see my pictures on the sd card. And when I open the camera app, I see in settings that the location of the pictures changed into phone storage (internal storage). So I changed it back into external sd card, and now when I take a picture it says : cannot save pictures on the sd card, the location is changed back to internal storage.
And when I open es file browser and go in my sd card Into the map of the pictures, I can't open the pictures, and I see this.
The other files on my sd card like pdf files I can open.
Anyone can help me please ?
I am on xtrelite 1.3.2 rom with ktoonsez kernel. Everything worked fine before so I think this isn't the problem.
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There isn't enough information yet to tell what the problem is. You should try reformatting your SD card and see if that helps. Backup any files that you wish to keep, then reformat the card. If you have continued issues, download one of the SD card testing apps that will check for filesystem errors and do an extended read /write test of your card.
That would identify and fix the most common errors.
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Thank you for your response. I tyred too backup the files from the sd card to my computer. Everything went fine, except the pictures in the folder uCIM. I can't copy this files. Are my pictures lost now ?? Or is there a way to get the files(pictures) in the uCIM folder working ??
Greets ser

sdcard formatted as internal doesnt show correctly in system storage settings

I tried formating my sdcard as an internal storage using the ActivityLauncher app to get the format as internal storage option from this thread https://c.mi.com/thread-1637511-1-1.html
I am using non-rooted Redmi Note 7, 32/3 GB with 32GB SD Card, on MIUI 10. Details below.
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It seemed to be working because in File Manager, the memory size was increased.
But in Setting > Storage it didn't show the size properly. When I tried install applications or download some files it was filling up the storage and I still got Insufficient Storage Available error/warning, even though I thought I did have enough space available.
By googling, I learn that some of people also have this problem. (from the comment on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/cgpowr/use_your_microsd_card_as_internal_storage_no_root/)
So, these are my question.
- Any way to fix system storage display or bypass the storage checking when try to install applications?
- Any other way to format SD Card as internal storage that working with this model (non-rooted method)?
- Will updating to latest MIUI 11 fix this?
- Am I doing this wrong or something?
I also tried this with adb shell command, aiming to bypass the notification warning.
settings put secure sys_storage_threshold_percentage 0
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Thank you.
If I remember correctly, the sd card would not show up separately (as is the case in your second image) if it is succcessfully formatted as internal storage. As for the third image, there it always shows storage combined (internal+sd) even when the sd card is being used as protable storage.
So I would guess your sd card has not been formatted as internal storage.
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If I remember correctly, the sd card would not show up separately (as is the case in your second image) if it is succcessfully formatted as internal storage. As for the third image, there it always shows storage combined (internal+sd) even when the sd card is being used as protable storage.
So I would guess your sd card has not been formatted as internal storage.
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I guess so, then is there any method other than the ActivityLauncher trick that works on this model? I still can't find a wayto do this properly
what about this?

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