Hi communtiy,
I don´t have enough app space on my Archos 101 G9 (HDD model)...
Android says I have ~100 Mb of 1,5 Gb free space for Apps! But my model has a 205 Gb HDD , soo there is enough free space on my HDD!
What can I do to make my app storage bigger?! App2SD don`t work I can´t move the Apps, and the Archos support sais it is for my security, and not a bug.
But who needs security ...
Is there an option to make my storage bigger (my tablet is rooted )?! It´s very important for me, because I need the app storage urgent
ThX ::Blocks::
::Blocks:: said:
Hi communtiy,
I don´t have enough app space on my Archos 101 G9 (HDD model)...
Android says I have ~100 Mb of 1,5 Gb free space for Apps! But my model has a 205 Gb HDD , soo there is enough free space on my HDD!
What can I do to make my app storage bigger?! App2SD don`t work I can´t move the Apps, and the Archos support sais it is for my security, and not a bug.
But who needs security ...
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Apps2sd will never work- this requires a separate partition (and currently we can't repartition HDD)
::Blocks:: said:
Is there an option to make my storage bigger (my tablet is rooted )?! It´s very important for me, because I need the app storage urgent
ThX ::Blocks::
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Maybe Links2sd will do but I've never tried it (Gen9 flash doesn't have problem with free /data space untill all flash memory is full- 8 or 16GB)
Dont work...
This dont work for me! Any other ideas?!
The problem is because even the huge size of hdd, /data/data is in flash. And every app you put on the tablet, the /data/data is growing.
a2sd isn't a solution, because hdd is slower than flash or sdcard.
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This dont work for me! Any other ideas?!
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...hm !...you better change it with Flash memory model ! DragosP2010 is right ...
Flash?!
My Archos has Flash too?! I thought this is a HDD model !
Well can i change something in Android to remove the 1,5 Gb limitation?! The
Archos Support said:
"Dear Customer,
The Android operating system provides for storage of apps a special storage area, prior to system memory. This memory area, the programmers have limited the Androidsystems intentionally, so that the units can not be overloaded. The HDD on the models in addition to the available memory is intended for the use of media content.
______________________________________________________
Certain apps provide more or less reasonable way that this limit can be circumvented. They allow for example storing apps on SD card. The price is sometimes very high, because the SD card is tied much slower than system memory. Also, some apps do not work more if you outsourced in this way. Under certain circumstances this may damage the system. Archos enters therefore recommends the use of such applications and is recommended from the limited available system memory to accept and to be regarded as a liability limit of the system.
Sincerely,
Archos Technical Support"
[Google Translation]
Soo there is enough space, but Arochos don´t allow the user to use it!
More Ideas?!
@surdu_petru
surdu_petru said:
...hm !...you better change it with Flash memory model ! DragosP2010 is right ...
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I don´t want to change because I love the huge space on my HDD
And even 64 Gb wouldn´t be enough for me!
You are wrong. It's an Android issue, not an Archos issue.
DragosP2010 said:
You are wrong. It's an Android issue, not an Archos issue.
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Nope. It's Archos who removed native Apps2sd from system. By default it's enabled.
Tapatalked from Xperia Arc S
Custom Rom!?
@surdu_petru
What´s about a custom rom, wich is modified for the HDD version?!
Is there a way to change the App storage values?!
Yes, it's possible, but I think will be almost unusable. Because the speed of hdd.
It's possible to mount under /data/data and/or /data/app with loop a file from /mnt/storage. But, I repet, the acces speed will be very very slow. So, we, wich have HDD version of tablet, must try to remain only with 1,5g flash. Or, change the original sata hdd with a new sata ssd which is thousands of times faster than a hdd.
...
Ok, i thought about changing my HDD to SDD, because of the speed and to avoid freezes in games and videos/music...
How can I change the mount path?!
First, you can try this (in a terminal console or after "adb shell"). Of course, first do a "su".
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/storage/test_loop bs=1M count=1024 (create a 1024 file)
2. mkfs -t ext4 test_loop
3. mkdir /mnt/loop
4. chmod 777 /mnt/loop
5. mount -o loop /mnt/storage/test_loop /mnt/loop
Now you have a new mount point of 1GB.
Let see how moving /data/app and/or /data/data to this.
But not now, because I haven't the tablet with me.
DragosP2010 said:
First, you can try this (in a terminal console or after "adb shell"). Of course, first do a "su".
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/storage/test_loop bs=1M count=1024 (create a 1024 file)
2. mkfs -t ext4 test_loop
3. mkdir /mnt/loop
4. chmod 777 /mnt/loop
5. mount -o loop /mnt/storage/test_loop /mnt/loop
Now you have a new mount point of 1GB.
Let see how moving /data/app and/or /data/data to this.
But not now, because I haven't the tablet with me.
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But every boot you have to create mount once again.
Of course, but all need to pack in a nice script to automate entirely process.
Above I did only an intellectual exercise, is quite up to something concrete and functional.
Ok thanks I will test it in the evening
And I will try to write a sh script!
Maybe this is the right way?!
1. Full copy of data/data or data/app
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/storage/data bs=1M count=1024 (create a 1024 file)
2. mkfs -t ext4 data
3. mkdir /mnt/data
4. chmod 777 /mnt/data
5. Delete app directory data [android don´t want that ]
6. mount -o data /storage/data /data/data [I think that won´t work ]
7. Your device is succesfully destroyed
Ah that can´t work like this... I´m just a noob
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Ok thanks I will test it in the evening
And I will try to write a sh script!
Maybe this is the right way?!
1. Full copy of data/data or data/app
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/data/app is enough
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2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/storage/data bs=1M count=1024 (create a 1024 file)
2. mkfs -t ext4 data
3. mkdir /mnt/data
4. chmod 777 /mnt/data
5. Delete app directory data [android don´t want that ]
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Android will make this directory again if it's not present.
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6. mount -o data /storage/data /data/data [I think that won´t work ]
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Rather mount -bind (just like it is done for /mnt/storage on flash models)
Of course, -bind is mandatory.
I would like to know if this worked for you and if it did can you walk me through it.
Ditto, I'm pissed off BC I just rooted it not realizing its limitations with speed for apps. You'd think it could pre cache and keep the static data on the drive. Sucks man :/
Ready to Test!
Okey guys, I`ve upgraded my G9 with a 128Gb SSD...
It`s a great success:
HDD = 12 Mb/s
SSD = 30 Mb/s
Now I need more information how to move my Apps...
I looked into the root/data dir, but it´s seems to be a link to my storage (root/mnt/storage --> storage)
There aren´t apps in this dir , my questions where are they?
Related
I set up apps2sd a couple of months ago and had about 120meg of internal memory free (up from 25ish). I've since upgraded to modaco 3 (from 2.8), and the free memory has been falling to below 40meg now.
Is there any obvious reason why this would be, and what I can do to solve it?
he who searches shall find answers...
I've done a search, and it looks like apps are being installed to the phone and not the sd card.
Is this easy to rectify, or do I need to repartition?
I've had a look at my sd card using ADB, and it is partitioned as follows
Model: SD SU16G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 512B 15.4GB 15.4GB primary fat32 lba
2 15.4GB 15.9GB 512MB primary ext3
3 15.9GB 15.9GB 31.5MB primary linux-swap(v1)
(parted)
I'm using Modaco 3.0, but my apps don't seem to be moving to my sd card. I tested it using the following information and this confirms what I thought.
To confirm whether A2SD is working properly from a terminal / ADB Shell type:
busybox df -h
You should see something along these lines below:
/dev/block/mccblk0p2 532.9M 67.1M 438.7M 13% /system/sd
The key is that you see one of the entries as /system/sd
This means that the phone is picked up your Ext2 partition.
Next if you see the above you can check that you setup the symlinks properly.
To do this type these cmds:
cd /data/app
pwd
The terminal returns /system/sd/app which means that the apps are now being saved onto the Ext2 Partition since the /system/sd = your Ext2 partition.
If it returns /data/app then the apps are still being installed onto the phone's internal rom.
Hope this helps, let me know if not.
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Hi guys i kno this is slightly off topic but i wanted to know if theres a way to check hw much my memory i got left on my ext2 partition cos im tryin to install the game iron sight by polarbit which is 16mb and im gettin out of space message but i still have 47mb of internal phone memory? Thanks in advance
edit: sorry disregard this post i used the above busybox df -h ang gt my answer my bad gt buttons for eyes lolz
Can anyone help?
I think my sd card is partitioned correctly, and I have modaco 3.0...
Sausageman said:
Can anyone help?
I think my sd card is partitioned correctly, and I have modaco 3.0...
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you quoted yourself a way to check if it is working or not...
kendong2 said:
you quoted yourself a way to check if it is working or not...
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It's not working, and I don't know why as I think I have all the right bits for it to work.
I was hoping that someone who knew about how it worked would be able to suggest solutions or diagnose the problem...
same for me too.
with modaco roms my a2sd isnt working. but when i install 2.01 roms a2sd works just fine.
btw how much space is occupied after 1st boot with a2sd in modaco 3.0 you are getting? i get 44 mb occupied after 1st boot.
and the old apps ?
I had installed Modaco ROM 3.0 with a SD card entirely formated FAT32.
Then... the apps resided in the real /data/app (physical internal memory).
I create partition ext4. The new apps resides in this partition (i.e on SD card).
Well.
And the old apps which resided really in /data/app?
If the system melds old /data/app and /system/sd/app (ext4) where are physically my apps?
If my old apps are physically in /data/app, how can I move it in sdcard?
dd
Hi there is a person on here who i have seen on there profile who has 238 mbs of space on there x10 mini/pro on here can you tell me how you did that as i have app2sd on and my internal spaces is running at 98 mbs of space now i would of wrote to that person but i cant find the page no more
and i think this would help allot of users out who struggling for more space on internal space for more apps on there phone
can anyone tell me what i can remove on my system what is not needed sony comapainon for example how is that removed and is that a big file must be
sumsy2010 said:
Hi there is a person on here who i have seen on there profile who has 238 mbs of space on there x10 mini/pro on here can you tell me how you did that as i have app2sd on and my internal spaces is running at 98 mbs of space now i would of wrote to that person but i cant find the page no more
and i think this would help allot of users out who struggling for more space on internal space for more apps on there phone
can anyone tell me what i can remove on my system what is not needed sony comapainon for example how is that removed and is that a big file must be
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Mate, you could write in a smaller font. I'm sure that anyone in here can read
Anyways, NONE can have 238Mb of free internal as the total amount of it is 220Mb.
However you could have more than 200Mb of free internal, if you move your dalvik-cache on your ext2 (as long as you have app2sd).
DaRk_dOg said:
Mate, you could write in a smaller font. I'm sure that anyone in here can read
Anyways, NONE can have 238Mb of free internal as the total amount of it is 220Mb.
However you could have more than 200Mb of free internal, if you move your dalvik-cache on your ext2 (as long as you have app2sd).
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and moving the dalvik-cache is just as easy as moving other folders?
like cut and paste?
no scripts or anything to tell the system where it's gone to?
sorry...absolutely no idea...
DaRk_dOg said:
Mate, you could write in a smaller font. I'm sure that anyone in here can read
Anyways, NONE can have 238Mb of free internal as the total amount of it is 220Mb.
However you could have more than 200Mb of free internal, if you move your dalvik-cache on your ext2 (as long as you have app2sd).
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hi sorry i did not relise it was that big i have resized it .alright i just saw a post that had 238mb of space on internal.
where would i find that file and how would i be able to put in my ext2 please
ozzy1212 said:
and moving the dalvik-cache is just as easy as moving other folders?
like cut and paste?
no scripts or anything to tell the system where it's gone to?
sorry...absolutely no idea...
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ozzy no mate, some scripting is involved..
issue these commands through adb shell:
Code:
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/
rm -r /data/dalvik-cache
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
In order to do this, you must have busybox installed (not the one from Titanium Backup) and a fast sdcard.
hi i have tried to get it threw adb shell and i cant get the first line to work any ideas i have busy box 1.7 installed
ive done it successfully fank you all
DaRk_dOg said:
ozzy no mate, some scripting is involved..
issue these commands through adb shell:
Code:
busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/
rm -r /data/dalvik-cache
ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache
In order to do this, you must have busybox installed (not the one from Titanium Backup) and a fast sdcard.
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well 1st boot, i got multiple duplicates of apps...
checked dalvik-cache and it has been moved to system/sd...
2nd reboot, all's well!
i've tried playing HAWX and AngryBirds and everything is as it should be...
Hmm, this sounds interesting, PM'ed you ozzy
Worked like a charm.
Unbelievable! I had like 20mb of memory left, I just typed that exact script in adb and now I have 100mb, amazing mate thanks a ton for this!
Re: 238mb internal space
sumsy2010 said:
Hi there is a person on here who i have seen on there profile who has 238 mbs of space on there x10 mini/pro on here can you tell me how you did that as i have app2sd on and my internal spaces is running at 98 mbs of space now i would of wrote to that person but i cant find the page no more
and i think this would help allot of users out who struggling for more space on internal space for more apps on there phone
can anyone tell me what i can remove on my system what is not needed sony comapainon for example how is that removed and is that a big file must be
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OK so yes i also have seen that person around, and same ive lost the page too. But i think what that person has done is move like 90% of apps in /system/app to /data/app which ends up being on sd with apps2sd. But i take no resposiblilty if you move something needed for boot or anything like that, i duno, and you brick phone.
Next, there are plenty of threads already asking this question and most of them with answers. Check these two out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830639
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848847
jeremyward420 said:
OK so yes i also have seen that person around, and same ive lost the page too. But i think what that person has done is move like 90% of apps in /system/app to /data/app which ends up being on sd with apps2sd. But i take no resposiblilty if you move something needed for boot or anything like that, i duno, and you brick phone.
Next, there are plenty of threads already asking this question and most of them with answers. Check these two out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830639
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848847
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No space is earned by moving anything from /system/app, or /system in general.
/system is a different partition and does not count on your internal memory.
Try to move /system/app to the ext2 partition.The only result you will get, will be a very laggy phone, that will make more than 4 minutes to boot properly and you are still left with no more than 210 Mb of internal.
So don't mess with /system.
Regards, D_d
I did the mod but now i have 76 MB of free internal memory, why ? Is for the app data ?? If yes , there is a method to put the data\data folder in sd ?
i typed in adb but i got stuck in SE logo.
10min before i made a backup using xrecovery and backup all data.
can anyone make a new post with a complete tutorial about it?
thanks anyway :-D
There is a sizable thread over i9003 forum about editing vold.fstab to swap internal with external sd. I guess they were more desperate as i9003 comes with very small internal storage. But even our "16GB" isn't enough for many of us.
I'm on 2.3.5, and I've tried editing the file using vim, and have failed miserably each and every time.
Unfortunately, the fstab file for i9003 differs quite a bit from the one for i9100. Here are what I've noticed:
i9003:
mount_deep
mbr_policy
i9100:
format_option
otg subsection
They also have different sysfs path and mount point.
Any knowledgeable person/people wanna jump in and make the magic happen?
does no one else see the value in this?
Sure I do
For instance I applied the idea from ownwhere (here) but in the most simple way just to test it.
I tested it with the gameloft dir.
So first I moved /sdcard/gameloft/ to /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft/
Then I created back an empty folder /sdcard/gameloft/
and then I mounted the external_sd/gameloft dir in it with :
mount --bind /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft/ /sdcard/gameloft/
I used Script Manager free version from market to run this script at boot time (added a baaad sleep 60 at the top of it to wait for the system to finish the storages checks).
And this works for me. It will help me to wait for a true external_sd / internal_storage swap mod...
I hope it will also help other people here in the same way as it did for me
sirnono said:
Sure I do
For instance I applied the idea from ownwhere (here) but in the most simple way just to test it.
I tested it with the gameloft dir.
So first I moved /sdcard/gameloft/ to /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft/
Then I created back an empty folder /sdcard/gameloft/
and then I mounted the external_sd/gameloft dir in it with :
mount --bind /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft/ /sdcard/gameloft/
I used Script Manager free version from market to run this script at boot time (added a baaad sleep 60 at the top of it to wait for the system to finish the storages checks).
And this works for me. It will help me to wait for a true external_sd / internal_storage swap mod...
I hope it will also help other people here in the same way as it did for me
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But you'd have to unmount every time you want to use usb storage, no?
I think I've tried all realistic combination/possibility of editing the vold.fstab file given my very limited knowledge. My conclusion is, someone with knowledge needs to try this
ln -s /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft /sdcard/gameloft ?
samaral said:
ln -s /sdcard/external_sd/gameloft /sdcard/gameloft ?
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Nope, doesn't work. Does symlink even work on FAT?
g2tl said:
But you'd have to unmount every time you want to use usb storage, no?
I think I've tried all realistic combination/possibility of editing the vold.fstab file given my very limited knowledge. My conclusion is, someone with knowledge needs to try this
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Hello
Yes I need to do this if i want to use usb storage on desktop computer with the default system option.
But you can use apps like multi mount sd-card lite (free on market) to mount sd-card(s) on desktop computers and keep them mounted on the phone (read-only).
This way I didn't get any mounting problems but I didn't test very much so perhaps this can lead to mounting errors later on.
Maybe you have already tried this ?
I get massive slowdonws when copying large files with that widget.
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Hi folks,
As you know, the Sony media and video player didn't show the mp3 and videos on the external SD card in his library.
Now my idea was to mount folders of the external sdcard into folders on the internal sdcard.
Solution:
I created a script for mounting photo, video and music folders from ext. sdcard to the corresponding folders on the int. sdcard. After successful tests, I implemented init.d support on my Tablet S for a 'autostart' solution at boot time and moved the script to 'init.d' folder. For me it works great and fulfilled my requirements 100%.
Enclosed the content of my 'automount' script:
#!/system/bin/sh
# need sleep 75 for right timing maybe you can reduce it to 30
sleep 75
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Music /mnt/sdcard/Music
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Video /mnt/sdcard/VIDEO
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2/Fotos /mnt/sdcard/Pictures
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Here you can find my [HOW_TO] for init.d support:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1505340
P.S.: If it do not work for you, try to increase the sleep value. If you have a 'fresh' system 30 should be enough ... if you use two or three widgets 'sleep 75' could be ok ... and so on ...
I hope that someone has the technical knowhow how to do this, that would be great to access extra memory
also one interesting thing in build.prop:
Code:
ro.separated.external.storage=true
Would you try what happened if you change to "false"?
I found the same entry ... but do not know what it mean.
Saw the same thing myself, but don't have an SD card with me, so I wont get to try till I get home.
But I guess the change of the mount point in the /etc/svold.fstab is particularly promising. I still waiting for a rating of a expert. No one here?
Changed that line in true, rebooted.
Openend up Poweramp and this had to scan my folders again.
Sd Card still there and working but nothing more I think.
Can't really see if there's anything changed.
I tried:
Removing nosdcard from ro.build.characteristics
Changing ro.external.storage.removable to true
Changing ro.separated.external.storage to false
I haven't been able to see any difference.
Things I looked at:
The stock video player won't recognize videos on my SD card.
Videos on SD card will play if I navigate to them using Root Explorer
I can move apps to SD card using Titanium Backup, and play them from the SD card.
Anyone have some tips on what else I can look for?
50% Solution
Hi guys,
I tried a other way (and more secure) from a hint in an other forum.
If you use the following command with adb or a app like "scripter" on your tablet,
you will mount the external card into the internal, but step by step:
1. create a new folder /external_sd under /mnt/scard/
e.g. with adb shell : mkdir -p /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
2. then mount the /mnt/sdcard2 to this folder
e.g. with adb shell: mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
3. now it is done and if you now refresh your media library, you will find all your media stuff on your media player.
Unfortunately you have to do the same after a reboot or switch off/on.
I am a little bit afraid to add this command line in init.rc or something else.
Do one of you have a proposal how we can make it permanent, without a risk?
obicom said:
Hi guys,
I tried a other way (and more secure) from a hint in an other forum.
If you use the following command with adb or a app like "scripter" on your tablet,
you will mount the external card into the internal, but step by step:
1. create a new folder /external_sd under /mnt/scard/
e.g. with adb shell : mkdir -p /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
2. then mount the /mnt/sdcard2 to this folder
e.g. with adb shell: mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
3. now it is done and if you now refresh your media library, you will find all your media stuff on your media player.
Unfortunately you have to do the same after a reboot or switch off/on.
I am a little bit afraid to add this command line in init.rc or something else.
Do one of you have a proposal how we can make it permanent, without a risk?
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I will check it for you if you want but after work, evening
These are good news
I am sure for you it is a "child's play", but I think helpful for all of us.
Please let me know if I can test something ...
THANKS IN ADVANCE !
-- Edit --
Maybe we can add this command to rescan media files after mount command:
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
pm enable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
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50%...............phew, getting closer, keep up the good work chaps.
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...cation-discussion-post-root-2.html#post149151
Maybe this helps?
Good find there. Wonder if the Vizio is similar to the Sony.
Link2SD
If you want app data to be moved to external sd Link2Sd works but with a few extra steps only. Here is how I manage this on mine.
Installed Link2SD on tablet.
Formatted external card (in my case a 32GB microsd in an SD adapter) on my laptop using EASEUS to have to PRIMARY partitions 1st in FAT32 and second in EXT3 formats.
At first Link2SD does not recognise any ext partition present and if I try to recreate mounting script on it telling it EXT3 format it says something like could not do, directory does not exist or similar.
Then after a reboot Link2sd warning pops up saying the sd card was not mounted at boot and therefore the system did not load apps on it. You have an option to recreate a mounting script (which I did not need to do as did it already previously) and the quick reboot option (which is different from the regular reboot in the way that it only restarts the android interface not the whole hardware) - so I do this reboot and after everything starts you can see the extra partition and use it.
So currently quick reboot is needed after every total shutdown of the tablet - thankfully I almost never shut down the tablet completely unless run out of battery completely or some other rare reason or testing like this one.
Also note that quick reboot sometimes gives a close/wait warning just after it is done - I always chose wait and everything seemed ok after that.
Make sure you give Link2sd superuser permission. I decided to leave out Lib out of the app data I link because I noticed that if I move data back to internal storage link2SD shows that libs are unlinked already/ I know there is an option in link2sd to relink libs at boot but I was not able to confirm if it works and they tend to take little space internally anyway.
Regarding extra partition size I tried less than 1GB and ca 14Gb. With bigger than 1GB partition it seems to recognise its size in link2sd but once you move more than 1gb data to it does not reflect the increase above 1gb but still seems to make the apps I moved before and after that work still.
I wonder if multi mount widget could help when combined with link2SD somehow. My guess best solution would be to make android mount external card early in its boot.
Hope it helps
I tried today several things ....
@ps3taker
that sound a little bit more complicated then my solution with app scripter and the mount command.
I tried today several things to get a "autostart" solution but unfortunately without success:
- App "autostart (root)" don't work on Tablet S
- Change in svold.fstab need sd card eject and insert to be mounted after rboot
- Change in vold.fstab need sd card eject and insert to be mounted after reboot
- Add mount command in init.goldfish.sh don't work
- Startup script tweaks can't work, no "/system/bin/playlogosnow" on Tablet S
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813309)
Someone additional ideas for a autostart option for the mount command?
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I did a little bit more investigations and find out, that after a reboot it needs a short time before the internal sd card is ready to use. Therefore it is senseless to search a solution during boot time. I guess this is the reason why the change in svold.fstab and vold.fstab didn't work.
That means we need a "autostart" App, as a Widget or a Virus scanner that mount the device and rescan the medias. Who is willing and to do that for us?
just create an init.d script and symlink the ext_sd folder to the desired folder on sdcard...
check if this device has:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
if it doesnt then check if the /init.rc (or other init.*.rc) files contain the text "install-recovery.sh"
if the text exists then just create the file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh which has the following at the top:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
followed by the symlink/bind code
and save file and give it 777 permission (chmod 777 /system/etc/install-recovery.sh)
that should automatically run the desired commands at each boot...
if the above is not possible then just create a GScipt script and execute it at startup
DooMLoRD said:
just create an init.d script and symlink the ext_sd folder to the desired folder on sdcard...
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Hi DooMLoRD,
symlink will not work - because of fat32 sdcard! We've got to use mount -o bind, it works without problem, about autorun thing - thanks - i've got to try it
br
condi
@DooMLoRD & Condi
I did exactly this in my tests before, with the "install-recovery.sh".
The file "/system/etc/install-recovery.sh" don't exist but the the "init.rc" files contains the text "install-recovery.sh".
So I created the file "/system/etc/install-recovery.sh" with the commands:
#!/system/bin/sh
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
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and give it 777 permission but unfortunately it dosen't work.
I guess the reason is the timing problem, that sdcard mount is not ready in this moment. I will try tomorrow add first the mount command for "/mnt/sdcard" in this file and will see what will happen.
Keep you informed.
thank you all for trying.
Could you please summarise what works currently please.
a) Do you manage to link apps to external sd as in rooted gingerbread?
b) or is it just for showing external sd media in the native player in a separate subfolder or something similar
c) do you manage to swap around external and internal sds, i.e. mnt\sdcard is now external as on gingebread and mnt\sdcard2 is the built-in/internal one
I think all of the above is useful but would like to know what's the initial plan.
Delete sdcard and mount extSdCard 16 gb as internal memory.
How to? i have small memory on Samsung b5330 2GB only, and i want to install more apps... and some games, how to delete sdcard i don't need it and mount the extSdCard as internal. Thank you
agentulxxx said:
Delete sdcard and mount extSdCard 16 gb as internal memory.
How to? i have small memory on Samsung b5330 2GB only, and i want to install more apps... and some games, how to delete sdcard i don't need it and mount the extSdCard as internal. Thank you
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Well, no reason to just disable it. You can swap them however, though with the limited available development for your phone, there doesn't seem to be any out of the box solutions. You'll either have to try an app like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext or follow a guide for say, an S3, and mod that to reflect the correct partition mounts and names for your particular phone and update. For some phones, a compatible kernel is needed for the swap. If that is the case for your phone, you are probably out of luck since there doesn't seem to be much of anything like that for you. Make sure to not only back up your phone, but internal and external storages before attempting this. Would also be good to be familiar with how to flash back to stock with Odin since that's about the only option you have to get back to normal if things don't work right.
NO problem
Is not a problem to do format with odin, i have root-it the phone, i have change some times andoid version on it, i don't care about apps, i have all apps on my pc. i tried more commands with terminal emulator.. no Lucky. i will try this app,
i try to modify "vold.fstab" but nothing changes except on start up, all apps has crashed. and i am sorry for my bad english.
I have a problem, now my extSdCard is same as sdcard folder, and sdcard folder has no changes. are the same... any ideea
Now finaly working, i have changed where normal i have to write path of internal name o /mnt/sdcard to extSdCard and for external i have write /mnt/sdcard now is working .. i have inverted the names.i have loot of memory now how to make the 2 gb of memory work as swap? or lass 512.. becouse i cant see it anywhere.:good:
agentulxxx said:
Now finaly working, i have changed where normal i have to write path of internal name o /mnt/sdcard to extSdCard and for external i have write /mnt/sdcard now is working .. i have inverted the names.i have loot of memory now how to make the 2 gb of memory work as swap? or lass 512.. becouse i cant see it anywhere.:good:
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Good job! As far as the swap - are you referring to virtual RAM swap?
es0tericcha0s said:
Good job! As far as the swap - are you referring to virtual RAM swap?
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Yes, Virtual RAM swap... i have made it on sd card
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/extSdCard/.swapfile bs=1024 count=94288
mkswap /mnt/extSdCard/.swapfile
chown root:root /mnt/extSdCard/.swapfile
chmod 0600 /mnt/extSdCard/.swapfile
swapon /mnt/extSdCard/.swapfile
But i can't find anymore the 2 gb sdcard, is only my ext sdcard working :laugh::laugh:
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Yea, not so sure about that part, unfortunately. I haven't had to do that manually before that didn't already have an established method for the particular phone. Glad the main part is working though!
es0tericcha0s said:
Yea, not so sure about that part, unfortunately. I haven't had to do that manually before that didn't already have an established method for the particular phone. Glad the main part is working though!
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Any ideea to overclok CPU and GPU seems my kernel isnt supoport this, how to make-it to support :laugh::laugh:
On my pc i did overclok about 30%
agentulxxx said:
Any ideea to overclok CPU and GPU seems my kernel isnt supoport this, how to make-it to support :laugh::laugh:
On my pc i did overclok about 30%
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That part will probably be pretty tricky because there isn't really any development for it, and almost certainly no source code to build the kernel yourself. Your best bet is to check out some other phones that use the same chipset that might have some development that you can kind of piggyback off of. These other phones would be similar: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdamaster&posted=1&cpu=a21654
It looks like the Galaxy Y Plus (i9001) has a decent little development community. The guys there would probably be more helpful with figuring out stuff to do since it has a similar processor. Might try to befriend a kernel dev there and see if they could give you a hand.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s-i9000/i9001-development