CM9 / ICS
I'm looking to find out how in the heck to install apps into the phone's internal SD partition.
To free up internal memory, I know you can format a microSD card into an EXT and FAT partition. Then you link apps using link2SD, freeing up more internal memory and storing most data on the microSD card, in the EXT partition.
I'd like to do exactly this, but with the internal SD partition acting as the microSD card. That is, format the internal partition into FAT and EXT, then use link2SD to link to the new EXT partition on the internal SD card.
Minitool Partition Wizard just will not do it. How is this possible? Is this even possible??
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for an example,
megatron rom requires format of ext partition on SD card.
is it really necessary?
from my understanding you are formatting for A2SD capability.
if I don;'t plan on using SD card as APP space, can I just skip the format step?
thx
Few Questions Rearding Micros SD
So That New Rom can b loaded. i think so
It is not necessary to format and partition your sd card just because a rom has a2sd
capabilities.
If you don't format sd card, a2sd will not be activated.
However, if you want to use a2sd, you will have to format & partition sd card as per instructions.
I have installed various roms (which instructs to format & partition sd card, since they have got a2sd in them) without partitioning my sd card, and have had no problems with them ... *touchwood*...so far
thanks,
I will keep it unformatted then.
Hi, is it possible to increase the size of the partition where the apps are located? in other devices like my iPad I can use the total amount of disk space for apps but in my Galaxy SII if I want to have lot of apps I have a small 2gb partition. Do you know a solution? I need more space for apps...
Thanks!
Are you talking about the internal or external (SD card) disk?
I think the internal disk space is fixed to a custom partition, but if you're using App2SD or any similar script with a partition inside the SD card, you can repartition that partition to fix your needs without problem with any partition editor (like GParted).
I'm talking about the internal memory of the SII ... In other gadgets like Apple we have the entire disk space to install applications if we like.
Do you know a method to increase the space of the app partition? I think that is not a great solution to depend of an SD card, we have a lot of memory on the phone. I don't know why samsung have limited to 2GB the data partition, I think is too small...
Any idea about resize the partitions of internal memory?
ferrnando said:
Any idea about resize the partitions of internal memory?
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Don't know if its possible atm...
What do you have installed that you need +2Gb for apps? Have you considered moving some apps to SD?
/data partition has 2Gb
/sdcard has 8Gb
Both partitions are from the internal memory so moving any app from /data to /sdcard won't affect your speed, since both are internal memory...
PS: Despite the name, /sdcard is internal and /sdcard/external_sd is the external SD Card mounted on the phone.
Hi! AzureusPT thanks for your help... The problem is when I try to move to Sd card a message appears saying that I have to insert an SD Card... so I think that is not possible to move applications to /sdcard internal memory.
Do you know another method?
ferrnando said:
Hi! AzureusPT thanks for your help... The problem is when I try to move to Sd card a message appears saying that I have to insert an SD Card... so I think that is not possible to move applications to /sdcard internal memory.
Do you know another method?
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sd card means micro sd card.. the /sdcard is the internal sd card w/c you can store data internally.. external sd card is your memory card.. the way android works is (or sgs2) has 3 partitions, 500+ for rom, 2gb for applications and tge rest for storage.. for games like gameloft which has huge amount of data, the installer itself is in thr 2gb partition while its data is stored in the 11gb + partition.. so no need to worry about running out of space
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Hi Guys!
I'm quite new like i said
and i saw a video on how to extend my internal memory by partitioning my sd card, but i'm not sure how to work Link2sd Properly
because when i download a app i go on link2sd it says on sd card but when i go to my actual internal memory theres changes towards it
so could you explain it to me
and explain what 'Create link' is
I also backed up my sd card before i did this and i put it back on but now i can't install the apps i used to have i.e tango & skype where can i delete the files of these on my sd card
by default apps are installed in the internal memory .
now you made a ext partition in your sd card
what link2sd does is it moves the application , data and dalvik cache from internal to your ext partition and creates a symbolic link in the internal memory
so when os searches the app in internal memory the link sends it to ext partition
the linking fools os which thinks that app is still on the internal memory ( due to the link ) but it is actually in ext partition
I hope this clears your doubt
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I'm running out of space in my data partition, looking to partition another sd-ext on the internal sd card on my galaxy s2.
Can it be done? If so, how?!
I do know how to do it through recovery on an external SD card... but no idea how or if it's possible to do it to my internal, which would be preferable!
I've seen ways to do it on the whole SD card using an Android phone, but have yet to find a program that can format it from a PC.
This is for a second partition to use with the Link2SD app.