Hi all. First of all let me say KUTOS to CyenogenMod for all their great work. I am now running ICS 4.0.4 on my LEO from SD with WinMo as the native which is what I had intended. I finally got it to run quickly and smoothly by formatting my SD card (16gig) with 15 of it as fat32 and the remaining 1gig as ext4. Prior to that, I had all 16 of it formatted as fat32 and although the OS installed and loaded ok it was very laggy. Finally formatting it with the ext4 partition sped it up quite significantly. I now have a question in 2 parts and was wondering if anyone could help shed some light? I am right now very low on storage space and was wondering if I was to reformat the card with 2gig on the ext4 partition, would it help increase the size of the system storage and 2nd part ... Can I root the OS and is Z4Root the utility to use for this ... Please Help
Thx in advance...
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Ok I've cooked a rom and enabled app2sd my card is partitioned to fat32 and ext3 now how to get app2sd to work any idea's.
byterunner
I've noticed the same thing, i was looking at Evil Eris in a very basic kitchen for personal reasons and noticed that A2SD was already installed. i created a 32 mb swap and 512 mb ext3. Yet when i go into SD Card through setting I do not see that ext3 partition, I also do not see it if I plug my phone into the computer. Kinda thinking the kernal might not allow it. Could somebody with more experience please enlighten me? Thank you
Hi there pals, after buying HTC Desire second hand I'd like to make FAT32 and EXT3 partitions... I burnt GParted and saw that those partitions exist, so no need for it...
EXT3 has 1GB (in gparted written that is 116MB used???) other is FAT32 - 8GB SD card from previous nokia 5800.
I downloaded every bigger application to test saving files, and from cca. 60mb's internal memory now I'm on 26mb's, obviously nothing goes on that EXT3 partition?
I wanna know how to make my phone install aplications on that EXT3 partiotion not internal memory which is almost full?
Thankful!
I'm using HTC Desire with OXYGEN ROM, some 8GB SDCard!
Kind of a newbie here so I apologize if this should go somewhere else.
I have searched and looked through other areas on the forums for anyone else having the same issue or a solution. I don't find much on microSD issues for the X10.
I'm wondering if anyone more experienced might know why after updating my X10a to X10i_3.0.1.G.0.75_GLOBAL-GGL GENERIC 1232-9897, the 16GB SanDisk Class 2 MicroSDHC is no longer recognized.
It worked fine previously.
I've tried formatting it FAT32 with default allocation size.
A 2GB card works fine.
Any ideas?
Get a free partition manager, than, format in FAT.
Thanks for the suggestion
I was able to make a 4gig FAT partition work but didn't want to loose the other 12GB.
I downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard and created a 14.83 GB linux swap file partition. When I put it back in the phone it recognized the whole partition as unreadable and formatted it automatically.
It works now. thanks for the reply.
hi guys,
I partitioned sd card ext with 1GB with FAT32 using mini partion tool
when boot ON the Phone & using with LINK2SD Main sd card & ext sd card showing the same size of 1GB ....
is the problem with ROM ??
I tried with another sd card but the issue is same
i'm using stock rom & 16 GB Sandisk C10 sd card
Pls help me......
Link2SD
The XPERIA X10i running GB 2.3 is a bit problematic with partitions.
The OS only mounts the first partition it finds and that's normally the second partition. Doh!!
The following patch may be of some help to you
SE2.3.3-link2sd-patch.zip
It is assumed you have formatted both partitions as primary.
Everybody should use Link2SD if they have an XPERIA X10, just because most quality class6/class10 cards have better read/write speed than internal flash and with a 1-2GB sdext2 partition more space too.
Considerations
I'd format the second partition as ext3 and 2GB if Link2SD is to be used, especially if a gamer.
I would only use a class6/class10 'quality' 32GB microSD card or greater.
Copy the contents of the /data/sdext2 partition to a NAS/external server
(1) I'd format the partition to be used with Link2SD as ext3 ( I've found on my builds I can't use ext4, but would, if I could ), just because it'll give better performance. In a gaming environment 1GB can be used up pretty quickly if libraries and data are linked too.
(2) The cost of quality class6/class10 microSD cards has really dropped in price now that extreme and extreme pro cards (50MB+ write) are all the rage. It's just a pain having to rebuild a working Link2SD environment onto a larger card at a later date, when a lesser card, no longer meets needs.
But given I'm using a 64GB card, I would say that.
(3) If you copy the contents of the second partition to a linux system /folder it makes a great recovery, as you only have to restore the Link2SD second partition and you get all your apps back, data and all. I copy my /data/sdext2 partition onto my NAS every now and then and it has saved my bacon a few times when microSD/SD cards have gone belly up.
Hello, I just rooted my LwW last week into 4.1.B.0.587, using the rooting process from this forum.
Because mainly I rooted my phone because I want to make more internal, I partitioining my SD Card. It's Class 4 and having 16GB size.
The problem is, after I've partitioned my card using MiniTool (into 10GB of External FAT32, 4GB of Internal Ext4, and the rest about 400MB of Linux Swap) and have put it to my phone, when I open Link2SD and chose Ext4, it said:
Mount script error
Mount script cannot be created.
mount: No such device
Can anyone help me about this? Oh and I want to ask, is it okay if I didn't use the Linux Swap?
Fixed:
Changing the Ext4 into Ext2.
Try to reboot after error message ecountered. That problem should be solved. Maybe there was a system mistakes when Link2SD trying to make a script. Or you can choose Ext2.
Ps: for Linux swap, it's just as you desire, actually it's not needed. The Linux Swap can be useful for you if you have the swapper app, you need to configure how much free RAM treshold needed in other to keeping some free virtual space on RAM [correct me if I'm wrong [emoji14]] (but maybe after you reboot, you will noticed your phone becomes laggy for severall second *based on my experience [emoji12])