So i was searching the SGSII forums, and i was wondering what does these "ext4,ext3" do. I saw Ext4 on my friend's Galaxy Mini. Does this increase performance or something? Please explain
These refer to a partition on your sd card the numbers denote the type. Some rom's are not compatible with ext 3 or 4, standard is 2. You will want to make sure your rom is compatible, usually gingerbread supports 3 and ICS supports 4. This does aid in how smooth apps to sd is if you use it.
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Ext4 would be the quickest whereas some samsungs have a much slower rfs but it can be changed the ext4
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Well i have Official ICS on my phone, will ext4 work? And where i can get it?
Will it increase the I/O performance or something?
Thanks for the answers btw
Well, you will have to format your sd card into the format you want...but usually your phone should auto format the sd card or internal that suits it best...for me, my ROM is based on ext4, so my whole internal memory is ext 4...but sd card is still in FAT 32..sd card usually work bests in FAT 32...which is safer and guaranteed to work for most phones...frankly speaking, I don't really feel the difference...but should be faster...
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Is there a Fota Fix for this phone? My friend needs some more storage availibleavailible
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No. Use app2sd, link2sd or whatever similar. (Read the sticky posts.)
Is there a manual fix? And he doesn't have much space on his SD card
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Juls317 said:
Is there a manual fix? And he doesn't have much space on his SD card
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Then let him get a bigger SD card. No, there is no manual fix for limited RAM, it is impossible to fix it except by soldering more chips on the PCB. Use SD card for storage/cache; read the sticky posts and threads linked there.
Is there a mod out there that mounts the external,removable micro sim card as the internal sdcard, and the internal as the external? I have a 32gb class 10 SD card and at this point it is practically empty because all of my nandroids are on the internal SD. It would rock if someone could make this and inwoukd definitely donate to the person who is willing to help. It is getting annoying because I am already almost out of space on my internal SD. Thanks in advance
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I'm not sure how to answer your original question but you can move nandroid backups to your external sd card and if you need it, move it back later.
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Yes i know that, but that takes too way too long and it is a pain in the ass. But thanks
what would possibly warrant posting this in the dev section?
I swear someone did this for the international. Or it may have been another phone I have but I know its been done. But even the Dec who wrote the script.to join the partitions said he wouldn't use it on a daily driver. I think it was just more a proof of concept
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It can be done with CM7. There is a setting in there to swap the cards so that the internal will be emmc and external will be sdcard. Some people have accidently swapped them and didn't know how they did it or how to get it back to normal.
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RockRatt said:
It can be done with CM7. There is a setting in there to swap the cards so that the internal will be emmc and external will be sdcard. Some people have accidently swapped them and didn't know how they did it or how to get it back to normal.
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Good to know. What is the lastest cm7?
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jgrimberg1979 said:
Good to know. What is the lastest cm7?
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Nightly #2
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[MOD](recommended)Team Infernal Presents l Swap sdcard & Is Now Reversable l All Roms
This is a flashable zip i made for you to mount the microsd as /mnt/sdcard and the internal sdcard of this phone as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
Instructions:
Just flash it
Requirements:
HtcDev unlock
Custom recovery
Ps: I also posted this in general before because my thank meter was on 0 so i couldnt post in development
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Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
If the root method you are helping me with works you can just place the vold.fstab on system/etc yourself, glad to be helping
Linch89 said:
Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
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What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
Method320 said:
What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
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you can use it for everything once we get root
jose51197 said:
you can use it for everything once we get root
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As I stated, I can already use it for everything and Im still not rooted and still locked. I can move downloaded files to it, I can easily access anything on the SD card.
oh yes sir you can ''use'' it but all apps are automatically installed to the ''sd card'' (internal hard drive)
will reflashing undo the swap?
Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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i looked at the code, but i'm not enough of a linux guy to tell
Flashing the original vold.fstab will reverse this. So, yes, reflashing will undo it.
As soon i finish exams ill make a flashable zip to reverse it
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As soon as i finish exams i will make a flashable zip to undo this
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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The idea came up since we only have 4.5gb for ourselves with this you can have up to 64gb, if only we could spread the word
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I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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homers1 said:
I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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You can always copy everything from internal sd to microsd and everything will be fine no need to start over
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As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Hmmm this is nothing related to lag i really mean it, lag associated with sdcard is usually using swap
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brent372 said:
As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Not necessarily. Coming from the Nook Tablet forums, this has been an issue that has been debated for some time. When you want to write quickly to a card you are better off with a higher class. However, if you need to read from a card, i.e. running an app or a whole OS, or booting off of into a recovery, higher rated cards don't mean faster read rates. Some lower class cards have a higher read rate. There is a discussion about this in the Nook Color forums and is hit on sometimes in the Nook Tab forums, sorry I don't have a link though.
IMHO Sandisk class 4 have the highest performance for reading from. This may not apply though, once you go to a bigger cards; 16G or 32G - I've only had personal experience with 4G cards.
I got a 64g class 10 SD card for Xmas and want to move my apps to my SD. I've tried apps2sd from the play store (all of them) and it says something isn't supported or recognized (something along those lines). I did the mod with script manager swapping the internal and external storages which essentially gave me 60 gigs of internal and 10 gigs external but the gallery, camera and a few other things were sort of borked.
I was talking with a buddy that said apps2sd worked for him with his 32g class 10.
I have less then a gig of storage left on my internal just from apps (my music, pics etc are on my external).
Is this a 64g SD card thing or am I doing something wrong?
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Your friend is lying, most likely. That or its not apps2sd.
Not that you need that anyway. You need something to move the associated data, like DirectoryBind. Moving little piddly apps under /data/app isn't going to do much for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
adrynalyne said:
Your friend is lying, most likely. That or its not apps2sd.
Not that you need that anyway. You need something to move the associated data, like DirectoryBind. Moving little piddly apps under /data/app isn't going to do much for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Awesome! Thank you very much! :good:
Edit. Just read that thread and yeah its Gameloft type of games hogging my storage. Thanks again!
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I got a 64g class 10 SD card for Xmas and want to move my apps to my SD. I've tried apps2sd from the play store (all of them) and it says something isn't supported or recognized (something along those lines). I did the mod with script manager swapping the internal and external storages which essentially gave me 60 gigs of internal and 10 gigs external but the gallery, camera and a few other things were sort of borked.
I was talking with a buddy that said apps2sd worked for him with his 32g class 10.
I have less then a gig of storage left on my internal just from apps (my music, pics etc are on my external).
Is this a 64g SD card thing or am I doing something wrong?
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Check out the mod under android development that swaps the internal storage with microSD, so essentially your 64gb sd would be swapped with your 16gb internal, and all apps would go to sd by themselves.
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Haloman800 said:
Check out the mod under android development that swaps the internal storage with microSD, so essentially your 64gb sd would be swapped with your 16gb internal, and all apps would go to sd by themselves.
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Read what you quoted for the reason he isnt doing that...
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Read what you quoted for the reason he isnt doing that...
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Yeah... already did that and its a little buggy ATM.
Edit. Also if you go with that mod you kinda gotta stick with it.
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Yeah... already did that and its a little buggy ATM.
Edit. Also if you go with that mod you kinda gotta stick with it.
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BIG DISCLAIMER: DID WORK AROUND REQUIRES A KERNEL WITH INIT.D SUPPORT. GO GET PERSEUS HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35458451
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In this dropbox are two SD Card Swaps. One is for a card formatted in exFat and one for Fat32.
If you use TWRP you'll be fine with the exFat one because your card is most likely exFat already. If you want to use CWM go get a program that will format your SD card into Fat 32 and flash the Fat 32 zip.
NEXT DISCLAIMER: In the event that radios are leaked you may want to remove the swap before flashing. It will most likely screw something up. You can remove the swap by going into the etc folder, clicking on init.d and removing the file that is named similarly to the zip file
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BIG DISCLAIMER: DID WORK AROUND REQUIRES A KERNEL WITH INIT.D SUPPORT. GO GET PERSEUS HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35458451
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In this dropbox are two SD Card Swaps. One is for a card formatted in exFat and one for Fat32.
If you use TWRP you'll be fine with the exFat one because your card is most likely exFat already. If you want to use CWM go get a program that will format your SD card into Fat 32 and flash the Fat 32 zip.
NEXT DISCLAIMER: In the event that radios are leaked you may want to remove the swap before flashing. It will most likely screw something up. You can remove the swap by going into the etc folder, clicking on init.d and removing the file that is named similarly to the zip file
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Really?
You are the second person to literally not read this thread.
The OP DOES NOT WANT TO DO THE CARD SWAP.
You even quoted a post from him saying why he didn't want to.
i didn't see any priors threads to this so i am asking is this possible i don't see any options in the app managment section and app2sd card pro didn't work do custom roms have this if so i will be rooting asap. EDIT: Looks like i have found a way around it those of you interested in moving big data to sd card, app does require root but works flawlessly in my experience so far http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.slf.ListglApp
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i didn't see any priors threads to this so i am asking is this possible i don't see any options in the app managment section and app2sd card pro didn't work do custom roms have this if so i will be rooting asap
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It is there you may not have searched with the correct terms.
Apps2sd hasn't really worked in a while on a lot of phones. Least that I have owned.
If you flash a custom ROM you can do an SD card swap. So if you had a 32GB mem card it would become your "internal" and your 16GB would become the "external"
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I have been looking for a guide that is successful
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that is so lame how they did this some of these graphic intensive games have up to 2 gigs of sd data that was a really stupid move on samsung or googles part whom ever was resposible for this, i hope developers can find a way around this at one point
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that is so lame how they did this some of these graphic intensive games have up to 2 gigs of sd data that was a really stupid move on samsung or googles part whom ever was resposible for this, i hope developers can find a way around this at one point
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Could be worse...could own a nexus device and not even have the ability to use an external SD card.
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Could be worse...could own a nexus device and not even have the ability to use an external SD card.
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lol i just came from a sprint galaxy nexus but it just almost defeats the purpose of a sd card only for music i suppose lol
Though I haven't tried it yet, there are reports that directory bind works on the note 2 in a similar fashion. I hope this is true because the nand in the phone is much quicker than a card.
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Though I haven't tried it yet, there are reports that directory bind works on the note 2 in a similar fashion. I hope this is true because the nand in the phone is much quicker than a card.
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I can confirm that Directory Bind does work providing you're on a non-4.2 rom. Android 4.2's new multi-user feature causes Directory Bind to not properly mount apps to the external SD card.
Anyway, here's the link if you're interested. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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I can confirm that Directory Bind does work providing you're on a non-4.2 rom. Android 4.2's new multi-user feature causes Directory Bind to not properly mount apps to the external SD card.
Anyway, here's the link if you're interested. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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meaning anthing works so assuming stock jb rooted will work fine this will solve so many problems for me as my internal is already full
And that's what chaps my hid about our devices... In my apple days I hated deleting things to make room ... android could set themselves so far apart from them with expandable storage and they don't use it as they should
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exactly is this a os limitation is this somethjing possibly that some of our devs can work out in the future and do other newer devices have this issue or is it just the note 2?