Hello, been awhile...
I have a question concerning the internal storage the E739 has.
Currently it has about a gig more or less of internal storage, so here my situation. I recently have gotten a new phone, and want to hand this one (e739) down to my son. The thing is I do not have an extra SD card, nor money to purchase another. Is there any possible way to maybe partition some of that internal storage to an emmc mnt? I wouldn't need much just a little for some games (emulators, some of them require an sd card.), and place to save a few pictures so he can use the camera.
If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be very much helpful thanks.
P.S. I'm a little late for his birthday =[ wanted to figure this out by then, sadly it was yesterday.
EDIT* I prolly have my wording all wrong here, what I would like to do is partition an internal sd card in the e739's internal storage if that's possible.
Ok, with the lack of responses. Let me rephrase. Is there a way to install apps w/o an sd card, for apps that ask for an sd card?
I am trying to search on my own in google and here, as well as a few other places. All the results I'm getting are, move apps to sd card, increase internal memory with an sd card, etc. I kinda want to go the other way, and split up my internal memory. Or just have a way to trick apps into thinking my internal memory is an sd card because obviously I do not have one, nor can get one atm.
I have root, and can flash anything thats needed, I'm pretty used to all that stuff.
Nevermind! I have found a solution. I thank anyone who had tried to help me search w/o replying.
Here is a little guide I had found to Mount /cache as /sdcard. Hope it helps others.
Run Android Apps Without SD Card By Mounting Cache Partition
You did not get any reply to this question? What has happened to guys who help in q and a forums. I am really embarrassed to see this situation over here.
@op: sorry man, I did not see this thread or else a reply would have been a must from my side .
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13lack13ox said:
Nevermind! I have found a solution. I thank anyone who had tried to help me search w/o replying.
Here is a little guide I had found to Mount /cache as /sdcard. Hope it helps others.
Run Android Apps Without SD Card By Mounting Cache Partition
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Hey guys, just got an HTC hero. I'm loving it, but I want to know how I can run apps off the SD card. I've tried looking all over this forum, all over the web, but I honesly can't find an easy to do guide without the worry of screwing up my phone.
I rooted my phone with the virgin guide in the other forum, and I downloaded 3.1-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.zip from one of the guides that I found. I managed to install it, but I still wasn't so sure how to use app2sd, even if it was installed, so I went back to my nand backup and I'm just on my normal rooted HTC Hero again.
Before people get angry for not searching around etc, I have, alot. I'm just a bit cautious doing things when I am like 40% sure I am doing the right thing. Even Haykuro Apps to SD is hard to follow. The only thing I want to do is give my phone more room for apps.
Please help, thank you.
el-grosso said:
Hey guys, just got an HTC hero. I'm loving it, but I want to know how I can run apps off the SD card. I've tried looking all over this forum, all over the web, but I honesly can't find an easy to do guide without the worry of screwing up my phone.
I rooted my phone with the virgin guide in the other forum, and I downloaded 3.1-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.zip from one of the guides that I found. I managed to install it, but I still wasn't so sure how to use app2sd, even if it was installed, so I went back to my nand backup and I'm just on my normal rooted HTC Hero again.
Before people get angry for not searching around etc, I have, alot. I'm just a bit cautious doing things when I am like 40% sure I am doing the right thing. Even Haykuro Apps to SD is hard to follow. The only thing I want to do is give my phone more room for apps.
Please help, thank you.
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Modaco's ROMs have auto A2SD. All you need to do is to partition your SD card in the correct way. This you can do from the Amon-Ra recovery menu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124
I tried partitioning the SD card. 32mb for the swap part, and 256mb for the ext2 with the rest of the space going to fat32 for my files and stuff, but when i started attempting to install apps, i saw that the space in my internal storage was going down, and not the space on my memory card. did i do it wrong or something?
i've been trying to find partition guides, but none have helped so i just went with my gut. thanks.
el-grosso said:
Hey guys, just got an HTC hero. I'm loving it, but I want to know how I can run apps off the SD card. I've tried looking all over this forum, all over the web, but I honesly can't find an easy to do guide without the worry of screwing up my phone.
I rooted my phone with the virgin guide in the other forum, and I downloaded 3.1-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.zip from one of the guides that I found. I managed to install it, but I still wasn't so sure how to use app2sd, even if it was installed, so I went back to my nand backup and I'm just on my normal rooted HTC Hero again.
Before people get angry for not searching around etc, I have, alot. I'm just a bit cautious doing things when I am like 40% sure I am doing the right thing. Even Haykuro Apps to SD is hard to follow. The only thing I want to do is give my phone more room for apps.
Please help, thank you.
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el-grosso said:
I tried partitioning the SD card. 32mb for the swap part, and 256mb for the ext2 with the rest of the space going to fat32 for my files and stuff, but when i started attempting to install apps, i saw that the space in my internal storage was going down, and not the space on my memory card. did i do it wrong or something?
i've been trying to find partition guides, but none have helped so i just went with my gut. thanks.
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How did you partition the SD-card? It's important to make the FAT partition first.
shelnes said:
How did you partition the SD-card? It's important to make the FAT partition first.
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I tried starting again using this guide (can't post links, will PM)
Still.. when I install applications, the internal memory storage goes down and not my memory card. The only thing I didn't do on that guide was turn ext2 to ext3 on my computer because it didn't work, so I did it in the recovery system on android.
Thanks.
el-grosso said:
I tried starting again using this guide (can't post links, will PM)
Still.. when I install applications, the internal memory storage goes down and not my memory card. The only thing I didn't do on that guide was turn ext2 to ext3 on my computer because it didn't work, so I did it in the recovery system on android.
Thanks.
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Hi guys. I've reached my breaking point on the anemic app storage space on our handy dandy little device. So far I've avoided any real mods for this device because I didn't want to start a new habit of flashing on the regular (been there, done that, fun but sometimes time consuming). But right I can't install any large programs without having the constant low space message. So if the only real functionality I need is an extended app storage partition what method would be best to achieve that. Thanks in advance everyone.
dancnpete said:
Hi guys. I've reached my breaking point on the anemic app storage space on our handy dandy little device. So far I've avoided any real mods for this device because I didn't want to start a new habit of flashing on the regular (been there, done that, fun but sometimes time consuming). But right I can't install any large programs without having the constant low space message. So if the only real functionality I need is an extended app storage partition what method would be best to achieve that. Thanks in advance everyone.
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I think there is only one way: Urukdroid.
I thinks its the only way to extend app partition Try it
Okay follow up question, should I then get a ne SD card as mine is only class 2, or should I install on internal. Pros?cons? Again thanks
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Okay follow up question, should I then get a ne SD card as mine is only class 2, or should I install on internal. Pros?cons? Again thanks
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Install on sd card is better if you want more space on your tablet
But otherwise i prefer install on internal
There is a thread in here somewhere in which a fella found that gen8 devices keep a cache of old APK files. I cleared out that cache and it fixed all my maddening app storage problems. Look for that thread.
I tried finding the thread you mentioned with no luck, any idea what to search for?
I just spent a good 20 minutes searching and couldn't find it either.. weird. I'll see if I can't find the directory on my own when I get home.
Can you get a temp root? That's necessary.
Knowing there is an answer is half the battle.
I found .apk's in internal \Downloads directory and \system\APK. I didn't even have to use adb, just mounted the disks and used explorer.
I can confirm that deleting them doesn't hurt anything. However, there really wasn't that much and it didn't help my sort of storage issue.
I haven't tried this on my A101 yet, but Link2SD http://market.android.com/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD should work. You will have to create a second partition on your internal storage or SD card though.
I'm not able to get the Internal SD card to mount after installing the pre-beta cyanogenmod 7. Is there some setting I'm missing or something that I need to do in particular?
Prior to install I was on the alien build and everything worked fine. Now when I go to the root directory using RootExplorer it says 'the sd card is not currently mounted'.
I've had my atrix for a while and i'm not a complete noob, just not an avid poster. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: I have checked the storage menu and i do have 1.17GB of free space.
It can be found under /mnt/emmc. Unfortunately, I have to inform you for future reference that this is the wrong forum for such a question. Q and A exists for a reason, but I hope I helped.
Please post in the correct sections. Thread moved.
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It can be found under /mnt/emmc. Unfortunately, I have to inform you for future reference that this is the wrong forum for such a question. Q and A exists for a reason, but I hope I helped.
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Thanks for the help. I found that but how do I get, for example, Rom Manager or other applications to recognize that location?
Mr Clown, My apologies for posting in the wrong section.
nalomo said:
Thanks for the help. I found that but how do I get, for example, Rom Manager or other applications to recognize that location?
Mr Clown, My apologies for posting in the wrong section.
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+1 wondering the same
i would also like to know, as i have only a class 1 microsd card and it creates wakeup lag. if i take it out, there is no wakeup lag but my phone wont recognize the internal storage.
I think it varies by application. Some will let you browse there and set it as a default directory for things, but many will not. I have just gotten used to having duplicates of random stuff for now :S I think it is pretty unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Maybe someone will develop something like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034939
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/20724-nook-color-sdcard-and-emmc-swap/
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/27030-questions-on-5gb-emmc-just-hacked-nc/
That's for the Nook, but I can't see why someone couldn't do that for the Atrix. However, I would imagine it won't be our own CM7 team because their task is to port CM7, and thus they are following the CM standards.
I have this problem too, i dont hae a external SD Card
im used to the internal 16 gb as my memory
now iwth CM7 , the phone is lost, browsr wont download, titanium wont find the sd card, nothing is working
so is an EXTERNAL sd card a pre-requisite for CM7, i never knew this..
and if so, what does CM7 do with the huge internal memory if it saves everything to the external (atleast thats where apps see it)
My progress so far posted here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1490116:
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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
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I have not tried EXT2/4 and FAT/32 formats for the second partition - maybe someone could report on that and regarding >1GB data on it. I tried having 3 partitions at the same time FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3 but link2SD did not see any extra partition then.
When experimenting before changing partitions I unlinked apps first in order to not lose the apps and having to reinstall them.
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I have not tried EXT2/4 and FAT/32 formats for the second partition - maybe someone could report on that and regarding >1GB data on it. I tried having 3 partitions at the same time FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3 but link2SD did not see any extra partition then.
When experimenting before changing partitions I unlinked apps first in order to not lose the apps and having to reinstall them.
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does it work? i mean can we move installed applications to external sd card?
Linksd will link your apps to the SD card, but will occupy some of internal memory space a few kb's ..
kadji9 said:
Linksd will link your apps to the SD card, but will occupy some of internal memory space a few kb's ..
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what about cache for games? for example GTA3 needs approximately gigabyte of memory cache.
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what about cache for games? for example GTA3 needs approximately gigabyte of memory cache.
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I think they will go to SD card with link2sd installed,
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I think they will go to SD card with link2sd installed,
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oh no. they are not.
i read more forum and info and understood how to do this. you need to use apllication like LINK2SD, it also make games think that they are use usb memory. but in reality they are using SD memory. this program named GSCRIPT.
Sorry for my english.
guys guys, i think we need to work on one thread. We seem to be having two threads that are covering the same problem. two thread one problems aint gonna work.
Would it not be better to gather all information that is relevant to the problem and work together to achieve our aims.
I for one would love this to be sorted but having tried the link2sd and mounting a script within the mnt/sd I believe we need to re group and work this.
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kadji9 said:
Linksd will link your apps to the SD card, but will occupy some of internal memory space a few kb's ..
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Do you have the evidence to this, if so could you enlighten me on the steps to achieve this please.
D.
I use link2sd in my Htc, because it have only 100mb of internal storage.
With a microsd 16gb and link2sd i'm able to install every app i want, a currently i have 80 installed in my Htc With only 100mb of internal memory
kadji9 said:
I use link2sd in my Htc, because it have only 100mb of internal storage.
With a microsd 16gb and link2sd i'm able to install every app i want, a currently i have 80 installed in my Htc With only 100mb of internal memory
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I understand what you are saying but the htc and sony are two different beasts. The htc can use the external sd as storage but at present the sony can only use the sd for transfering data and it will not allow game data to be transfered.
THis is not the solution. Do you actually have a sony? If so you will know this being the case.
i installed Link2sd on Sony Tablet S, and it works very good. all programs now on external SD card. also i installed GScript and now all cache for games located on external SD. Also i made that OEM music player and Gallery open all files from SD card without any problem.
and else when i connect Sony Tablet with computer i can also see and use SD cards memory that inserted in tablet.
Are you saying that game data from lets say gameloft goto external sd card?
I have just re tried to install gta and I can confirm the data still goes to internal storage. What gscript did you use?
metroll said:
i installed Link2sd on Sony Tablet S, and it works very good. all programs now on external SD card. also i installed GScript and now all cache for games located on external SD. Also i made that OEM music player and Gallery open all files from SD card without any problem.
and else when i connect Sony Tablet with computer i can also see and use SD cards memory that inserted in tablet.
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Can you please post a tutorial?
diddy64 said:
Are you saying that game data from lets say gameloft goto external sd card?
I have just re tried to install gta and I can confirm the data still goes to internal storage. What gscript did you use?
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yes i said that. program name Gscript. there you must add new script and wrote there a way which should make a game think that it still works in internal memory but really it use sd cards memory. script make link to sd card folder.
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kadji9 said:
Can you please post a tutorial?
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i will try to write it later. but it difficult for me to write it on english. i wil try later.
Ok thanks just put it by steps it easier
Step 1: Install this.... etc... bla bla bla
Step 2: bla bla bla..
metroll said:
yes i said that. program name Gscript. there you must add new script and wrote there a way which should make a game think that it still works in internal memory but really it use sd cards memory. script make link to sd card folder.
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i will try to write it later. but it difficult for me to write it on english. i wil try later.
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Write in russian - I will translate. Thank you
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Write in russian - I will translate. Thank you
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on russian a have already wrote on russian forum. you really can translate it?
here it is:
link about how to install games on SD card (i used your instruction about Link2SD, THANX):
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=287902&view=findpost&p=11479078
and link for instruction how to move cache of games to sd card, how to make sd card visible on PC while connecting by usb cable, and how to make all media from sd card visible on OEM player, gallery and etc.:
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=287902&view=findpost&p=11482258
I was busy with something else and only noticed your post now - will summarize your second post in english soon - maybe tomorrow evening.
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What happened with this project guys?
Thank's good work!"
Hey everyone. So I've unlocked, rooted, and flashed a custom rom. After doing all this, it shows my SD card is only 10gb. I've tried a factory reset, and wiping internal SD, but it still only shows a max size of 10gb. Any knowledge on how to fix this? Or is it just fubar'd?
SchusterIX said:
Hey everyone. So I've unlocked, rooted, and flashed a custom rom. After doing all this, it shows my SD card is only 10gb. I've tried a factory reset, and wiping internal SD, but it still only shows a max size of 10gb. Any knowledge on how to fix this? Or is it just fubar'd?
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Mine to it has 2 partitions
SchusterIX said:
Hey everyone. So I've unlocked, rooted, and flashed a custom rom. After doing all this, it shows my SD card is only 10gb. I've tried a factory reset, and wiping internal SD, but it still only shows a max size of 10gb. Any knowledge on how to fix this? Or is it just fubar'd?
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I knew this would happen when people got their Prime day devices. I haven't received mine yet to start development but I can tell you this:
This would mean the system partition / recovery partition make up for the 6 GB in laments terms. This means the 10GB you see is for media, storage, and additional data storage, hence why it has a mini SD slot. I'd recommend an ultra 128GB sd card which you can buy here
Hope this helps.
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Mine to it has 2 partitions
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Slow down, do some research before flashing roms and gapps.
kobos311 said:
I knew this would happen when people got their Prime day devices. I haven't received mine yet to start development but I can tell you this:
This would mean the system partition / recovery partition make up for the 6 GB in laments terms. This means the 10GB you see is for media, storage, and additional data storage, hence why it has a mini SD slot. I'd recommend an ultra 128GB sd card which you can buy here
Hope this helps.
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Hey, my sincerest apologies for the lack of reply. I just found the email alert that someone replied. That makes sense. I have an external SD card in there now, I was just concerned I may have done something wrong. As my Note 2's internal SD card died (they suffered a defect which I had no idea about) and was a bit concerned I was on that path again.