Hi
I want to remove app2sd and I tried with the app2sd remove tool but I can still see the app2sd partition with titanium backup.
How can I get rid of it? Even the repair button on Pc Companion didn't work
titanium backup will show that you have ext2 (or ext3) on your memory card, but it doesn't mean that you still have app2sd.
reflash your phone, to stock firmware.
i've been thinking about this too (possibility of removing app2sd), reason being : what are those free 177mb of internal memory good for knowing that, in my case, my apps occupy ~100mb of the ext3 partition?
ricav said:
i've been thinking about this too (possibility of removing app2sd), reason being : what are those free 177mb of internal memory good for knowing that, in my case, my apps occupy ~100mb of the ext3 partition?
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APP2SD is good for users who download a lot of apps, so they can't store them of their phone memory.
Your ~100mb are enough because APP2SD.
Cheers!
thanks
so, is there a way to remove or disable it other than reflashing?
i think wolfilein's script have an option to remove app2sd, however, mine got messed up, and gone eternal loop, so i just reflashed it
best thing you can do is, install xRecovery, and create a backup. so, if the script messed up, and you go the loop, you can at least go into recovery-mode and restore from backup. here's wolfilein's script, from the original thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804574
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Hey! I have a fast, dumb, question! What does each partition do? I wanna partition my new SD card through amon_ra 1.5.2 and it says swap size, ext2 and FAT32 size... what's what! and whats the recommended for an 8gb card class 4
swap is not needed necessarily, it is used to store stuff when ram is going low. fat32 is the part where your music, pictures etc are stored (the part that gets mounted on your pc when you want to copy files), and ext2 is the part where apps2sd stores the apps.
ext2 (or 3 or 4) and fat32 are the filesystems that are created on the partitions, that is why they are called this.
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swap is not needed necessarily, it is used to store stuff when ram is going low. fat32 is the part where your music, pictures etc are stored (the part that gets mounted on your pc when you want to copy files), and ext2 is the part where apps2sd stores the apps.
ext2 (or 3 or 4) and fat32 are the filesystems that are created on the partitions, that is why they are called this.
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i have 1028Ext2, 128swap and the rest is fat32! is that ok?
Shei77 said:
i have 1028Ext2, 128swap and the rest is fat32! is that ok?
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not sure about the order, but basically yes. you don't need swap, and your ext is probably big enough for >3000 apps (read: too big), but as long as you are happy you can leave it that way.
kendong2 said:
not sure about the order, but basically yes. you don't need swap, and your ext is probably big enough for >3000 apps (read: too big), but as long as you are happy you can leave it that way.
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really?Lol!
btw are apps supposed to take any "space"? In Modaco 2.9 i lost some internal space on all the apps i installed? is it supposed to take some memory from 100mbs of my htc hero internal memory?If yes, how to remove it, if not, omg modaco 2.9 was bad?
Also is having like 1000 apps making my phone slower? I dont actually have that many, i have 60 i think, if i remove some will it make it any faster?
Also, if i change my ext2 now to like 500mb will it delete any of my current apps or "break" anything?
apps take space from internal memory, search for "apps2sd not working", it is explained in these threads more than enough. you can move the dalvik-cache to the ext partition, then you won't loose any internal space. doesn't seem necessary, i have about 280 apps installed and still 16mb internal left. having the apps does not slow down the phone, only extends the time for first boot after flashing. apps only make the phone slower when they are running, which i control with autostarts.
if you change the ext size partition your apps will be deleted, as will be the rest of the contents of the sdcard. there ways to do it without deleting anything, but frankly, when you need to ask it would be too complicated. would be more effort than make a backup, copy the contents of your sdcard to pc, repartition, copy contents back and restore the backup. that's the way to go btw.
if you uninstalled some/a lot of apps you can regain a few mb by deleting dalvik-cache from recovery. first boot after that may take a while.
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apps take space from internal memory, search for "apps2sd not working", it is explained in these threads more than enough. you can move the dalvik-cache to the ext partition, then you won't loose any internal space. doesn't seem necessary, i have about 280 apps installed and still 16mb internal left. having the apps does not slow down the phone, only extends the time for first boot after flashing. apps only make the phone slower when they are running, which i control with autostarts.
if you change the ext size partition your apps will be deleted, as will be the rest of the contents of the sdcard. there ways to do it without deleting anything, but frankly, when you need to ask it would be too complicated. would be more effort than make a backup, copy the contents of your sdcard to pc, repartition, copy contents back and restore the backup. that's the way to go btw.
if you uninstalled some/a lot of apps you can regain a few mb by deleting dalvik-cache from recovery. first boot after that may take a while.
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so apps shouldnt take ANY internal memory? if they do i should move dalvik-cache from amon_ra or apps2sd?
autostarts btw?
how to remove dalvik-cache from uninstalled apps? aint it supposed to be auto-deleted when i uninstall apps?
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so apps shouldnt take ANY internal memory? if they do i should move dalvik-cache from amon_ra or apps2sd?
autostarts btw?
how to remove dalvik-cache from uninstalled apps? aint it supposed to be auto-deleted when i uninstall apps?
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they are supposed to take internal space, because they use some space from dalvik-cache. if you move the dalvik-cache to the ext partition of the sdcard then the space is not taken from the internal memory but from the sdcard, obviously...
check the market, with autostarts you can stop applications from being started automatically.
like i said, clear dalvik-cache in recovery image via the menu item and then wait a few minutes for the phone to reboot...
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they are supposed to take internal space, because they use some space from dalvik-cache. if you move the dalvik-cache to the ext partition of the sdcard then the space is not taken from the internal memory but from the sdcard, obviously...
check the market, with autostarts you can stop applications from being started automatically.
like i said, clear dalvik-cache in recovery image via the menu item and then wait a few minutes for the phone to reboot...
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may i ask, how can i move the dalvik-cache to my SD card? i actually want my apps to take NO memory AT ALL on my internal memory..
hey guys,
I've noticed TitaniumBackup starts to skip saving apps and also some data, which gets really hard to restore after rom changing.
Basically all this never happened before using apps2sd. So i wanted to go back and use internal memory. I have to say that I'm not able to use Titanium Backup to restore the apps to internal memory and just delete the ext3 partition...
so my question is it possible to move the saved apps from the ext3 partition to the internal memory again? somehow i think TitaniumBackup saved the app data correctly.
I'm going to own a new phone (DEFY) soon, and want to get this fixed before arriving :=) Searched the forums but didn't find this question anywhere else.
Appriciate any help,
thanks a lot :=)
cV
am i to stupid?
or doesn't anybody really know if it works? or not?
any help :=) would be great :=))
thanks!
the phone arrived.. changed sd card, forced titanium backup to do so.. but all apps gone ... ((
that's quite annoying^^
--- not the best way -- but solution
install ubuntu or another linux version (or virual machine)
ext2/3/4 partitions can be mounted.. the apps2sd partition contains an "app" folder...
all apks are stored within this folder..
at least you can install all applications from there (using file manger).. settings have been stored with titantium backup... :=)
any better way? feel free to post
Hi,
Sorry, noob. please help anyway... Did scour forum and googled. Nothing I could use.
I Recently rooted my old G1 and installed a supercsdiv4 remix. Like it.
The phone has supsetup4 as an app pre-installed. Linux swap and apps2sd are options.
I activated apps2sd in supsetup. Unfortunately, some root apps with presets will not work right when installed to SD card such as autokiller and SD card speed booster, etc... In short, their presets won't stick on reboot.
I tried to fix this on my own... not good... I unchecked apps2sd and rebooted and that hosed everything up, wouldn't ever boot again... had to reinstall ROM. Ok, then... how do install these apps that NEED to be in the phones memory - in the phones memory - and make sure they are not moved by the apps2sd of supsetup4 on reboot?
If I just uncheck the apps2sd box in supsetup4 without a reboot, then install the root apps, will that do the trick ?
Thanks,
B
brjoon1021 said:
how do install these apps that NEED to be in the phones memory - in the phones memory - and make sure they are not moved by the apps2sd of supsetup4 on reboot?
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Use Titanium Backup to convert them to system apps.
Thanks. That worked for most of the apps. I still can't get autokiller to behave for some reason.
Thanks, same for me!
Hi I was wondering if some one here could help me. I am running BE CleanRom ICS on HBoot 1.58 running the latest stock kernal. The phone shows no issues from from clean install. However when I try to restore my apps (approx 400) from my titanium backup set, the phone will be stable until i try to reset it. If I try to reset the phone once my apps are restored...the phone will bootup fine and then mount the SD card. I have a 64 GB micro SD card. It takes a while for the apps to load in the backround since I have majority of the apps installed to the card. However after a few minutes as the phone tries to load all the apps from the card, it will always crash.
I have logically considered that something was obviously wrong with the backups of my apps. So I tried to download all my apps fresh via Google play store again. I then moved them all again manually to the sd card. However I still get the same problem if I reset the phone. If I reset, the phone will try to load the apps from the microsd card after booting up and then after a while crash!
Is there any way to find out what is causing the phone to crash? I have tried different microsd cards as well. I have tried my older 32gb microsd card but get the same problems. Also I should note that when I was running older gingerbread version of cleanrom, after a reboot I would always get an error saying the HTC sense has crashed and needed to reload. But all that required was an 'ok' and the phone would relaod HTC sense and not crash into reboot.
I am hypothesizing that HTC sense 3.6 is crashing on reboot every time as it tries to load apps from the SD card. But I do not know how to confirm this. I have tried other roms including stock ics rom and meanrom 2.6 and have had the SAME issues with all these ICS roms. Is there any way to confirm that it is indeed HTC sense 3.6 that is causing the phone to crash while trying to load apps from the microsd card? And if so, is there any way to prevent or solve this problem?
At this point, I can NEVER reset my phone. If I do, I have to do a complete factory reset and then restore from my titanium backup to get my phone to previous state. This works fine until something FUBARS and my phone resets for whatever reason. Sometime it lasts for weeks without resetting....sometimes it happens numerous time a day. But everytime it resets I have to do a factory date wipe and then restore from my titanium backup and its a total pain in arse....
I would appreciate if anyone here could comment or offer any suggestions...
400 apps!!!!!!!!!!
That seems like an awful lot. Maybe having so many is causing the issue. I suggest maybe only loading the minimum you NEED as a test to see if it that's the issue.
Well maybe I should have been more specific. I have actually about 250 APPS, but when you count system backup and setting etc in Titanium backup it makes the total amount of backup items over 400.
But still I never had sense crashing on gingerbread? Why does Sense 3.6 crash on ICS and why can't I load that many apps from the SD card without it constantly crashing while trying to load? Is there a way to delay sense from loading until the SD card is mounted and all the apps are loaded into the app drawer? It makes no sense to not be able to install as many apps as you want....
I agree with you about installing add many as you can stuff in there. I was suggesting limiting them temporarily as a test.
Also, I wouldn't restore system apps saved from different ROMs as that can cause instability. Especially if you restore the settings from a GB system app to an ICS ROM.
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Hi thanks for your response. Yeah I did not restore any systems files from my old GB rom. I did a fresh install of all my apps and settings once I moved to ICS. I use my titanium backup files to restore to the same rom I made the backups from...
Also, I was messing around with autostarts to see if I could disable Sense from booting up, but that didnt work either. Basically it seems like if you have too many apps loaded to the sd card then the OS seems to fubar while trying to reload and causes reset boot. Its quite unnerving...
I'm going to mess around with some of the roms with sense removed to see if that solves the problem. Will report back to this thread to post back my results....
I think it is the 64GB card. My Amaze is doing the same thing and I found this thread via the search tool. I'm getting ready to try a format and start fresh. It started when I got the card, and pulling the card out for a few days I don't get the reboots.
So being a different phone, different ROM, and different apps, the only things in common are the same SDXC and reboots. If I find a better solution, I'll update you.
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I would appreciate if anyone here could comment or offer any suggestions...
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Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
ramjet73
St Veronus said:
I think it is the 64GB card. My Amaze is doing the same thing and I found this thread via the search tool. I'm getting ready to try a format and start fresh. It started when I got the card, and pulling the card out for a few days I don't get the reboots.
So being a different phone, different ROM, and different apps, the only things in common are the same SDXC and reboots. If I find a better solution, I'll update you.
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Hi thanks for you response. I actually already tried reverting to my old 32 GB card when I started having these problems and kept getting the same reset issues, so I'm not sure if this is a sd card issue or a issue with ICS or Sense on my device. I did not have the reset problem while using GB rom running the 32 SD card.
I don't get the reboots either if I pull out the card but then I dont have access to most of my apps! Trying to mount and remount the card doesn't seem to help either and causes the device to reset...
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Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
ramjet73
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Thanks ramjet for the suggestion! I will definitely try out Link2SD to see if that resolves the problem! You posts are like the bible around here and I appreciate you offering your help! :good: THANKS!
ramjet73 said:
Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
ramjet73
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Hi ramjet, I was wondering if you could help with setting up Link2SD? I was able to setup a fat32 partition on my 64GB card but when try to start link2SD i keep getting the "Mount script cannot be created" error when I try to select the fat32 partition? I went through the link2sd tutorial but couldn't get it to recognize the fat32 partiion. The link2sd faq states you have to be s-off for HTC devices and I am already s-off running hboot 1.58. I created the partitions using 4ext from scratch removing all partitions and creating new ones.. Do you have any suggestions? thanks...
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Hi ramjet, I was wondering if you could help with setting up Link2SD? I was able to setup a fat32 partition on my 64GB card but when try to start link2SD i keep getting the "Mount script cannot be created" error when I try to select the fat32 partition? I went through the link2sd tutorial but couldn't get it to recognize the fat32 partiion. The link2sd faq states you have to be s-off for HTC devices and I am already s-off running hboot 1.58. I created the partitions using 4ext from scratch removing all partitions and creating new ones.. Do you have any suggestions? thanks...
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Link2SD will automatically use the second partition on the SD card as the one it mounts to store the app files and data. I've got mine setup as a 1GB ext4 partition, but a fat32 formatted partition should work as well.
When you choose "recreate mount script" from the "more" options of the primary menu, it will ask for the format of the second SD partition and you need to select "FAT32/FAT16". That should create a mount script in the /system/etc/init.d directory that will get run on the next boot, assuming your ROM runs init.d scripts correctly. Which ROM are you currently using?
ramjet73
Hi I'm running BE Cleanrom ICS. I created the partitions using this 4ext guide. The following is my partition info on the 64 GB sd card:
partition // fs // capacity // free
system // ext4 // 787 MB // 141 MB
data // ext3 // 1175 MB // 588 MB
cache // ext4 // 107 MB // 96 MB
sd-ext // ext4 // 4031 MB // 3898 MB
sdcard // fat32 // 56780 MB // 39056 MB
If I select "ext4" on startup of link2sd when it asks me to select the file system of you sd card's second partition, then the mount script is successfully created. Does this mean it is selecting the "sd-ext" partition as the second partition? if so then maybe I've been confused the whole time?? The only thing is that I wish it was possible to create larger partitions than just 4GB....
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Hi I'm running BE Cleanrom ICS. I created the partitions using this 4ext guide. The following is my partition info on the 64 GB sd card:
partition // fs // capacity // free
system // ext4 // 787 MB // 141 MB
data // ext3 // 1175 MB // 588 MB
cache // ext4 // 107 MB // 96 MB
sd-ext // ext4 // 4031 MB // 3898 MB
sdcard // fat32 // 56780 MB // 39056 MB
If I select "ext4" on startup of link2sd when it asks me to select the file system of you sd card;s second partition, then the mount script is successfully created. Does this mean it is selecting the "sd-ext" partition as the second partition? if so then maybe I've been confused the whole time?? The only thing is that I wish it was possible to create larger partitions than just 4GB....
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That guide has you format the second SD card parition as ext4 so you should be good to go.
Start Link2SD and go to menu/storage info. The "SD Card 2nd Part." will confirm that your app parition is mounted correctly and give you the usage stats. Mine is allocated as 1GB with 182 apps linked to that partition and I still have 7% free, so I think 4GB should be more than enough.
I think it is always mounted as sd-ext regardless of which format you used. If you go to /data/sdext2 with ES File Explorer or similar app you can see all the .apk files that have been linked as well as the data and dalvik-cache directories.
Don't forget to recreate your mount script (you should be prompted after installing Link2SD) and relink your apps when you do a fresh install of a ROM to get all the applications you have installed linked to the current ROM. You also should backup the "SDext" partition whenever you use 4EXT to create a nandroid backup since that partition will contain all your linked apps and data.
ramjet73
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That guide has you format the second SD card parition as ext4 so you should be good to go.
Start Link2SD and go to menu/storage info. The "SD Card 2nd Part." will confirm that your app parition is mounted correctly and give you the usage stats. Mine is allocated as 1GB with 182 apps linked to that partition and I still have 7% free, so I think 4GB should be more than enough.
I think it is always mounted as sd-ext regardless of which format you used. If you go to /data/sdext2 with ES File Explorer or similar app you can see all the .apk files that have been linked as well as the data and dalvik-cache directories.
Don't forget to recreate your mount script (you should be prompted after installing Link2SD) and relink your apps when you do a fresh install of a ROM to get all the applications you have installed linked to the current ROM. You also should backup the "SDext" partition whenever you use 4EXT to create a nandroid backup since that partition will contain all your linked apps and data.
ramjet73
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Ramjet you are the man!:highfive:
Finally moved all my apps to the partition using link2Sd and no forced crashes after reset! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Everything is good to go now and I don't have to worry about reinstalling or restoring my device if it crashes! I have questions though about backups? When backing up user apps via Titanium...I am assuming it is only backing up the symbolic links correct? Even though the apps have been moved to the 2nd partition on the card, I still see the apps listed as on the phone in settings. Should you still use Titanium to backup user apps or is that a waste of time because it will only backup the symbolic links? I still will use it to backup my system settings and user apps. The reason I ask is because I use Titanium to make remote backups of all my settings and apps. Is there anyway to continue to do this using link2sd?
Thanks again for all you help!
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Everything is good to go now and I don't have to worry about reinstalling or restoring my device if it crashes! I have questions though about backups? When backing up user apps via Titanium...I am assuming it is only backing up the symbolic links correct? Even though the apps have been moved to the 2nd partition on the card, I still see the apps listed as on the phone in settings. Should you still use Titanium to backup user apps or is that a waste of time because it will only backup the symbolic links? I still will use it to backup my system settings and user apps. The reason I ask is because I use Titanium to make remote backups of all my settings and apps. Is there anyway to continue to do this using link2sd?
Thanks again for all you help!
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Titanium Backup (TB) will backup and restore apps fine with Link2SD installed, and the apps and data in the TB directory on the SD card are the actual objects, not the symbolic links. I consider the apps maintained by Link2SD in the second partition of the SD card as my primary backup for user apps, but do periodically delete all TB backups and make a full TB backup of all apps and data (system and user) just so I have a complete backup. Of course, I still have my nandroid backups as well, but if I accidentally uninstall something from Link2SD it's easier to restore with TB.
I've read that restoring all user apps from TB at once doesn't work because the Link2SD autolink isn't activated by a TB restore and the internal storage will overflow, but that's not a concern for me since I keep all my user apps in the Link2SD partition and never have to restore them all from TB. I think this may have been changed in a recent version of TB and/or Link2SD because when I just uninstalled an app and restored it with TB it was autolinked by Link2SD.
Just keep in mind that some formatting options, such as "format all partitions except SD card" in 4EXT, will format the sd-ext partitions so it's always a good idea to include them in your nandroid backups just to make sure you have a recent copy of the Link2SD apps.
BTW, one of the main advantages of Link2SD is that since it uses a separate partition on the SD card, the apps it links are still available when the first (usually fat32) SD card partition is mounted as USB storage. That's why the app manager thinks they are still on internal storage instead of the SD card.
ramjet73
Well, i tested this for some roms and its the same on all of them:
if i move apps that are app2sd-capable by native to sd (via settings -> apps), they work fine, they are still there after reboot.
but if i move apps (app2sd-capable by native or not) via link2sd (yes, moving via link2sd, NOT LINKING!!) or titanium backup, they are all there and working, but after doing a reboot
they're gone.
anyone else experiencing this? what can i do to resolve that? :silly:
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Well, i tested this for some roms and its the same on all of them:
if i move apps that are app2sd-capable by native to sd (via settings -> apps), they work fine, they are still there after reboot.
but if i move apps (app2sd-capable by native or not) via link2sd or titanium backup, they are all there and working, but after doing a reboot
they're gone.
anyone else experiencing this? what can i do to resolve that? :silly:
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Why are you using a2sd? This device has enough memory.
To answer your question: The a2sd scripts are meant for Android 2.3.3- or low-end devices. It's likely it won't work
enough memory? well, not for me
im talking about the "most normal" method of moving apps to sd, via settings -> apps -> move app to sd
this works.
but doing so via link2sd or titanium backup doesnt after performing a rebooot.
and im pretty sure i did so (via link2sd) on some other ics-driven devices i owned so im just wondering why it wont work on the dx?
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enough memory? well, not for me
im talking about the "most normal" method of moving apps to sd, via settings -> apps -> move app to sd
this works.
but doing so via link2sd or titanium backup doesnt after performing a rebooot.
and im pretty sure i did so (via link2sd) on some other ics-driven devices i owned so im just wondering why it wont work on the dx?
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Are they really gone, or do they just not work?
realCyphox said:
enough memory? well, not for me
im talking about the "most normal" method of moving apps to sd, via settings -> apps -> move app to sd
this works.
but doing so via link2sd or titanium backup doesnt after performing a rebooot.
and im pretty sure i did so (via link2sd) on some other ics-driven devices i owned so im just wondering why it wont work on the dx?
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Well, I'm not sure what you are doing with your phone but I have 50+ apps on it, 10+ games and some of them really big (like Real Racing 2 and NFS MW), none of them moved on sd card and I have 400mb of free space.
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Are they really gone, or do they just not work?
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they are gone from the app drawer and in settings -> apps they are greyed out and have this standard-android-symbol as icon.
when i check via titanium backup they are also not there, but titanium backup finds orphan data to delete, which are virtually useless remains from
those "former installed apps" if you wanna call them that
@nlooooo
its just about having the option do so. i had that on my previous phones and i would love to have that on the dx.
well, im thinking about using "normal" app2sd for apps that are movable natively and link2sd + sd-ext partition for apps that are not movable natively
i know its weird, but i like to keep my data partition as clean as possible
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they are gone from the app drawer and in settings -> apps they are greyed out and have this standard-android-symbol as icon.
when i check via titanium backup they are also not there, but titanium backup finds orphan data to delete, which are virtually useless remains from
those "former installed apps" if you wanna call them that
@nlooooo
its just about having the option do so. i had that on my previous phones and i would love to have that on the dx.
well, im thinking about using "normal" app2sd for apps that are movable natively and link2sd + sd-ext partition for apps that are not movable natively
i know its weird, but i like to keep my data partition as clean as possible
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You have to accept the fact that using link2sd and symlinking will slow down your phone.
I doesn't work because of /system write protection, so all sylinks made when phone is booted are deleted when phone is restarted, If you're able to make those symlinks in recovery it will work. You can try with script that disables write protection, but I'm still not sure why would you need any a2sd scrip.
While I had Desire I used a2sd scripts, but when I bought Incredible S I didn't have any need to use them anymore. The same is with DesX.
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You have to accept the fact that using link2sd and symlinking will slow down your phone.
I doesn't work because of /system write protection, so all sylinks made when phone is booted are deleted when phone is restarted, If you're able to make those symlinks in recovery it will work. You can try with script that disables write protection, but I'm still not sure why would you need any a2sd scrip.
While I had Desire I used a2sd scripts, but when I bought Incredible S I didn't have any need to use them anymore. The same is with DesX.
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apps moving to sd-ext works fine when using the write protection patch, tested that before, worked fine till i screwed my rom up because of some other stuff.
my problem is moving apps to sd, not linking them to a second sd-partition. i mean, if i move apps to sd via titanium even the apps that are definitely movable by "oldschool" app2sd are gone. thats the weirdest part i dont get.
so moving apps to sd via link2sd or titanium has to work somewhat different than doing so via apps -> settings or any "standard" app2sd app available in the market, doesnt it?
realCyphox said:
apps moving to sd-ext works fine when using the write protection patch, tested that before, worked fine till i screwed my rom up because of some other stuff.
my problem is moving apps to sd, not linking them to a second sd-partition. i mean, if i move apps to sd via titanium even the apps that are definitely movable by "oldschool" app2sd are gone. thats the weirdest part i dont get.
so moving apps to sd via link2sd or titanium has to work somewhat different than doing so via apps -> settings or any "standard" app2sd app available in the market, doesnt it?
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I've never used titanium for that, but link2sd is moving them to sd-ext, creating symlinks, that's why that's not working. Using native app2sd from OS moves only .apk files to .android_secure folder on fat32 partition of sd card.
nlooooo said:
I've never used titanium for that, but link2sd is moving them to sd-ext, creating symlinks, that's why that's not working. Using native app2sd from OS moves only .apk files to .android_secure folder on fat32 partition of sd card.
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no no, link2sd can move apps2sd OR/AND (if you have a second partition on your sdcard) can link them to sd-ext. it can do BOTH.
and as i said, LINKING apps works just fine when using the write-protection patch. but moving apps to "normal sd card partition" doesnt.
I have this problem before when using link2sd on my old phone.
Your second partition might be corrupt.
On which ext u created the second partition?
There are two you can choose, ext2 or ext3. If you created the second partition on ext3, when u open up the link2sd app choose ext3 at the first time, then all the apps u partitioned/linked on ext3will be visible again.
Ps. I don't think desire x need link2sd as 1gb is really a lot! Trust me u don't need it.
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again: i'm talking about moving (NOT LINKING) apps. link2sd can do that. and i have no second partition on my sdcard right now.
edited the first post and i hope noone will talk about linking apps anymore