I'm using Shooter's ROM, everything is great so far.
I'd like to create an EXT3 partition for A2SD. I'm going to use Linux(Ubuntu) to partition the SD card.
When I did it on my Evo4G it was part of the recovery, Clockwork I think.
I found guides on SD partitions for other phones but none here yet.
Should I just use the suggested partition sizes and setup for the EVO 4G?
I have a 16GB card so I was thinking:
2GB Ext3 primary
14GB Fat32 primary, I understand effective partitioned size is smaller.
Also, should I be concerned about Swap?
Thanks in advance for the help guys
You might want to research this more, but I think that A2SD will only work correctly in Gingerbread if your partition is using EXT4, not EXT3... I'm almost positive about this, (and that's the way it worked with the OGEVO running gingerbread roms) but please check it out at least.
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Hi i have searched and cant find a clear guide, I have a 8 gig memory card and want to install apps to it. I can easily set a 3.8gig fat32 and 3.9gig etx3 partition but form this point on im lost!!
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IMHO, 3.9 gig as an EXT3 partition is way too big. It won't hurt of course, but it is rather a waste of space that could be better employed elsewhere.
512mb should be more than enough - indeed most Apps2SD guides I've seen seem to recommend this amount.
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Dave
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Where? I'm lost yet...
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I figured out where i was going wrong, I used the recovery image to format and part the 2gig that came with it and realised in gparted on linux that it had the LBA flag so i re done it, 6gig fat32 LBA, 1.4gig ext2 and 100meg swap when i booted the phone i then mounted the ext partition and it had already created a apps folder and moved stuff over!! This modaco rom is good!!
I know Froyo has built in apps2sd that allows you to save part of an app on your sd and the rest is saved on your phone, which is great for stock phones who have only had the conventional internal storage available in the past. I really like the Froyo roms that are out and have been using them daily for a while now. Is anyone working on an apps2sd for Froyo roms that will accept a partitioned sd card? Is this even possible on Froyo? If not I'll just unpartition my class 6 card and use it again. I've already formatted it 3 times and I'm afraid I'll corrupt it if I do it too many times.
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Developing a2sd for a ROM that already includes it would be redundant, yes? The question then becomes, "Do I want the benefits of froyo and not be able to partition my sd card, or stick with 2.1 and be able to partition the card?"
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I know Froyo has built in apps2sd that allows you to save part of an app on your sd and the rest is saved on your phone, which is great for stock phones who have only had the conventional internal storage available in the past. I really like the Froyo roms that are out and have been using them daily for a while now. Is anyone working on an apps2sd for Froyo roms that will accept a partitioned sd card? Is this even possible on Froyo? If not I'll just unpartition my class 6 card and use it again. I've already formatted it 3 times and I'm afraid I'll corrupt it if I do it too many times.
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Yes. Cyanogen and the team at Cyanogen(mod) are currently working on this for Cyanogen(mod) 6.1. Their goal is to have Froyo play nicely with Linux ext4 partitions.
No one has successfully done this yet, and CM6.0 isn't even ready yet. But yes, so you know, this is being considered and worked on.
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Developing a2sd for a ROM that already includes it would be redundant, yes? The question then becomes, "Do I want the benefits of froyo and not be able to partition my sd card, or stick with 2.1 and be able to partition the card?"
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Yes, you want the benefits. Cyanogen is not working on this mod because "it would be easier to switch between Eclair and Froyo ROMs." The reason that team is working on it is because Linux ext4 partitions are faster and more efficient than FAT32 partitions. Thus, the phone's performance is increased when running both apps and cache from a Linux ext4 partition.
So, just for the sake of discussion, here's a tangent... What I'd like to see if a way to convert /system/data/ to Linux ext4! THAT would be nice. I read about a way to re-partition your vital systems files, internal cache, and internal data paritions so that the vital files are contained on a partition that is almost exact to the size needed to run those files, so that the cache is a relatively small size, and so that data is the remainder. This is great, because it eliminates the need for Apps2SD and unties the dependence of your phone from your SD card if you use a lot of app space. To get this as well as the cache folder (hell, let's do the vital system files to) into ext4 would be amazing and would greatly improve your phone's performance!
You just made my night.
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pretty sure it's not the developers fault of tazzsensefroyobt. because for a while it was working great for me. ever sense i tried to use apps2sd on PlainJaneT2_V2.0. i keep having an error on tazzsensefroyobt saying sd card is not mounted.
used rom manager to format sd card. then trying to fix this reformated using windows
There is a reason for that - the method to get apps2sd on a 2.1 ROM like PlainJane has you create a second partition on your SD card,to create a location to hold the apps. Unfortunately, Froyo will not mount an SD card with more than one partition.
You'll have to do these things, I think:
- backup your SD card
- do a Nandroid+ext backup from PlainJane, in case you want to go back
- follow the steps to partition your SD card from before, but choose 0 bytes for both the ext2 and swap partition sizes. This will erase your SD card
- go into the USB-MS option from Recovery to copy files back over to your formatted SD Card.
- Now you can flash the Froyo ROM you want
worked beautifuly thanks
apps2sd
so if i want to get rid of apps2sd on a 2.1 rom and just use for 2.2 roms just format with 0 on both swap size and ext2 size
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so if i want to get rid of apps2sd on a 2.1 rom and just use for 2.2 roms just format with 0 on both swap size and ext2 size
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That's correct. For some reason I think that there is one of the 2.2 ROMs that actually will mount an SD card with more than one partition, but I could be wrong about that, and I can't remember which one it is. But if a Froyo or Gingerbread ROM will not mount a perfectly good SD card with more than one partition? That's why - it has more than one partition.
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That's correct. For some reason I think that there is one of the 2.2 ROMs that actually will mount an SD card with more than one partition, but I could be wrong about that, and I can't remember which one it is. But if a Froyo or Gingerbread ROM will not mount a perfectly good SD card with more than one partition? That's why - it has more than one partition.
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Froyo and higher will work with multiple partitions; it's just not real easy. The trick is that the SD card has to be partitioned in a certain way.
From memory of the thread that's in the Dev section (I think the OP was Conap), the first partition has to be FAT32, and would have to be large enough for any NANDs and ROMs you want to ever backup/restore and flash.
Any other partitions can be anything you want BUT with this one rule. If you have a total of four partitions or less, then the last partition HAS to be FAT32, and will be the partition that'll be mounted by the AndroidOS when it's up and running. The second part of this rule is that if you have MORE than four partitions then the fourth partition is the one that has to be FAT32.
Just like partitions 2 and 3, anything from 5 and on can be anything you want. Conap also developed scripts to mount partitions like the first FAT32 one, since it's nice to have access to it from the running phone from time to time (mounting it through USB from Amon RA or Clockwork Mod should still work as normal). I think he also made ways to mount these other partitions from Windows. My memory is fuzzy. I only tried once to make this work for me, but I wasn't really successful mounting the oddball partitions to the phone or to Windows, and I didn't try real hard - I didn't care enough to really try to figure out what I assumed I did wrong, since I believe other people were able to test it just fine.
This theory of operation appeared to be developed in conjunction with the dual-boot AndroidOS 2.1/2.2 ROM by TeamAndIRC (I think they're called), which includes Conap and others as members. I never tried the ROM.
I'm not positive if the limitation of the partitioning applies to all phones with 2.2 or higher, though. I've read some threads for other phones that officially ran 2.2 in which they mention partitioning to be able to use old style Apps2SD instead of the native one, and there wasn't any mention of any complicated partitioning scheme.
Does anyone know enough off the top of their head to verify this?
Hi, when i had a HTC desire, which had not a lot more internal memory than our phones, there was a script on one of the roms, DATA2SD i think it was called, after partitioning your card, the internal memory could go up to 2GB i think (well, on my 16gb card anyway), can this be done n our phones? and do any roms have this????
Two steps: 1) Format 2) Choose script.
First you need to format your SD card so you have a FAT32 partition (first primary partition) and an EXT partition as the second primary partition. I do this from the commandline, but the best option is to use CWM V5+ which automates this for you. Then there are several options for scripts which mount the EXT partition as a virtual internal /data/app/ directory
S2E is the recommended option if you use a cyanogenmod based ROM. It uses mount points.
A2SD is installed by default on ROMs that use ketut's kernel if I remember correctly. It uses a simple symlink.
Link2SD is available for multiple ROMs. It is the most "advanced" as it links individual apps rather the whole directory, but with more power comes less simplicity...
Ahh the Desire.....a phone that is still popular despite its age
Herpderp Defy.
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Hi, when i had a HTC desire, which had not a lot more internal memory than our phones, there was a script on one of the roms, DATA2SD i think it was called, after partitioning your card, the internal memory could go up to 2GB i think (well, on my 16gb card anyway), can this be done n our phones? and do any roms have this????
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there is a thread
1 guy did it
but its only for stock roms
and btw why the hell did u go from htc desire 2 sga lol
Hi all,
I was wondering today if it would be possible to resize the internal memory (emmc) of this phone in order to create an ext3 partition (on the emmc, not the SdCard) in order to put some apps there with link2sd ?
I know it's easier to make that on the sdcard but... correct me if i'm wrong but, emmc speed must be better than sdcard (even class10), no?
I thought it would be great to put the "big ones" (mostly games) on an ext3 partition and get benefits from high speed memory like emmc.
And restoring an ext3 partition with apps on it is way more quicker than restore apps with TIBackup, all roms testers know what i'm talking about.
But as i said above, i may be wrong all the way, could someone bring me the light?
Thanks for reading !
Not possible as far as I know. Internal EMMC is already a partition, you can't partition it any further.
What's the point anyway? IMO, link2sd is mostly useful on devices with little internal storage available. The Atrix has plenty...