I was wondering if its possiable to create a swap partion or modify the user conf somehow to use more for swap.. I partioned my sd card with a ubuntu desktop because the nand version of froyo isn't real good with gsm phones yet. Any way to get more memory out of it in this manner? Main reason being a lot of the apps can't be moved to the sd card.. don't know why that is but anyhow
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Just create a larger data.img. A swap partition won't do anything for the problem you're talking about.
Don't ask how to create a larger data.img. There is already a thread in this forum about it. It's easy to find it.
Thanks man
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I apologise if this a nooby question but I've searched and can't find anything. Is it possible to store the apps on the 16gb usb storage instead of device storage. I don't have a memory card cos i think the 16gb will be ample big enough.
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What do you mean? All your apps go on a different partition which is 2gb in size. I hope you are not talking about using apps2sd...
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Oh rite thanks for clearing it up. Just on my old phone (n97) the device storage was different to the usb storage. If i use up more of the device will the phone run slower? Sorry for the questions just want to try and get the best out of the phone, thanks : )
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well, the addiional 11GB of the internal memory is also mounted as "sdcard" (while the actual SD card looks like a standar folder on this partition called "external_sd"), but you won't be able to use it for applications via apps2sd... at least my stock rom doesn't allow this, that works only with the actual SD card.
Either way, the primary 2GB offers plenty of room except if you want to install the whole android market on it.
When I tried to install NavFree I got an error Not enough space.
Sorry if I sound very dumb, but how do I use a swap partition?.. I know its like a "ram extension", please correct me if Im wrong. Could you also give opinions to what size should I put as a swap partition? Im planning to buy a 8gb class 10 microsdcard. Thank you.
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Sorry if I sound very dumb, but how do I use a swap partition?.. I know its like a "ram extension", please correct me if Im wrong. Could you also give opinions to what size should I put as a swap partition? Im planning to buy a 8gb class 10 microsdcard. Thank you.
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Swap is Hard Disk space being used as RAM . When the system is low on memory , the applications that are inactive will get swapped to the Hard Disk . This allows more RAM to be freed for other applications and for a smooth experience .
Applications also have the ability to get swapped back and forth , so multitasking is not a problem
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Swap is Hard Disk space being used as RAM . When the system is low on memory , the applications that are inactive will get swapped to the Hard Disk . This allows more RAM to be freed for other applications and for a smooth experience .
Applications also have the ability to get swapped back and forth , so multitasking is not a problem
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thanks. can you give suggestions to what size should I allocate as a swap partition?.. i am planning to allocate 512mb as ext3 partition of sdcard. but I dont know about swap partition.
kesterpogz said:
Sorry if I sound very dumb, but how do I use a swap partition?.. I know its like a "ram extension", please correct me if Im wrong. Could you also give opinions to what size should I put as a swap partition? Im planning to buy a 8gb class 10 microsdcard. Thank you.
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A swop partition is for computers that do not have enough ram. As far as I known Android (linux) OS is very good in dealing with memory. I have not seen anything on XDA developers forum in relation to this question. Android does not need a swop-disk or partition.
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40mb swap is enough. swap is a backup plan: don't treat it like your actual ram.
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How much swappiness should be ok, using swap in apps2sd?
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How much swappiness should be ok, using swap in apps2sd?
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I recommend less than 50
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Thanks! May I ask some other questions, without going too much OT?
In apps2sdGUI there are several low memory settings, but how do they work? There's no explanation of what they do...
In the end, always on apps2sdGUI should I change the dalvik VM heapsize standard value? Is there any benefit from doing it?
Thank you!
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40mb swap is enough. swap is a backup plan: don't treat it like your actual ram.
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then how do I partition a sdcard for swap partition?.i know how to partition sdcard to ext*.. but I dont know about swap.
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then how do I partition a sdcard for swap partition?.i know how to partition sdcard to ext*.. but I dont know about swap.
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You can do it from pc using minitool partition wizard!
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you also can try with CWM Recovery 4.0.0.9 if u using CF-root..
Reboot into recovery > choose advanced > partition SD card > then pick ur sd-ext and swap size..
for me, swap work best at the minimum 32M, larger than that would be problem later
i tried partitioning.. i have 1g sd-ext and 32m swap.. i chech a2sd repair it said sd-ext not mounted. i tried mounting it manually in cwm but still it doesnt mount. then i tried a2sd install, but when i checked titanium backusd,, my system rom and sd(a2sd) is identical.. what have i done wrong?..
Dunno.. maybe you should try reflashing!
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maybe. or ill just do a nandroid restore. my system rom 42mb free become 12mb after a2sd.. lol
It's there a way to get the gameloft games to use an actual sd cards instead of the internal memory for the additional data? I'm running out of space too quickly. Thanks.
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Look for App2SD in the Market. This should have been in Themes and Apps, BTW.
That's not what I mean. Games and apps look to the internal memory, which is labeled sdcard. Our sd card seems to be labeled external sdcard. If an app needs to install extra data, I want to know if there is way to get it to install to the external sdcard?
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That's not what I mean. Games and apps look to the internal memory, which is labeled sdcard. Our sd card seems to be labeled external sdcard. If an app needs to install extra data, I want to know if there is way to get it to install to the external sdcard?
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Im wondering the same thing. The only way I've been able to solve it is to flash cyanogen mod and it has an option there. I moved my modern combat 3 data to the external sd after i checked use external and it worked And it kept my saved data
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Thanks I might look into that. This is the first Android phone I haven't needed to root or install another ROM on it.
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There is a couple workarounds for this situation. Easiest and best way I like to go at it is just download "gl to sd" from the market. Pretty simple directions, basically it allows you to dl your app then for all gameloft games like 9MM, MW3 etc..and even some other huge extra data games it lets you move the huge extra data download to your external sd card and play the games as normal. It You wont notice any difference in speed,graphics, etc... I've saved myself about 8-9gigs so far easily on internal sd. If your a heavy game player or even occosional but dont want to bother copying files back and forth etc.. Make sure you go with a 32gig ext sd card. My 16gig started filling up very quickly once I found this program .
Any questions with the app let me know, the instructions are a little vague, but if you read reviews ppl explain in detail in case any of it confuses you, but its really pretty easy.
Have fun!
I believe tibu has a batch operation that'll move to sd. Not sure if it move to internal or external tho.
Thanks this sounds promising.
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Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
it's proabaly what you want.
[TOOL] DirectoryBind - move data to external_sd (GameLoft, Shadowgun etc.) ROOT req.
Am a newbie to both xda and android:banghead:
I was wondering if any dev can solve one of androids limitation by developing something tat is ; the apps that are installed on SD card lose both the widget function and auto start on boot function... it will help all the android users and minimizes the limitation of android:thumbup:
Well it may also help Android to fight against iPhone
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Maybe I misunderstood but if you want to move your apps to sd card and keep your widgets working than you can use link2sd
Hmm link2sd would mean partioning SD card which formats the SD card and if we link the app can it auto start on reboot?
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im using link2sd right now, works pretty well.
> If your not an advance user, or you dont like scripts, use link2sd, basic and you'll get what you need, there is no best on this part, they all do the same. end of story.
S2E, Only works with cm7 and cm9
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I vote for link2sd; relatively simple and has the potential of infinite "internal" memory.
Also when you mount your sd card to a PC, the apps on the link2sd partition are not mounted with the whole sd card..
S2e does the same,relatively simple to do,partition sdcard than select which box you want ticked than reboot but I've heard its not good to select the data/data option but I've never had any problems..
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