[How to] Use sdcard for LG P500 internal SD - Optimus One, P500, V General

Low internal storage is a very common and biggest problem with our device.
Can anyone who is well-versed with mobile hardware try using this method as reference to develop same method for our device?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867988
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Hmm... this is quite interesting which i taught i want to show you guys this... screenshots taken from my streak 5 of course
When you guys see the red arrow pointing to what... you guys will know what i mean :victory:
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UPDATE:
While i was playing around today, i managed to get it like in the image below. See where the red arrow pointing at? Neat isnt it?
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p/s: Using 16GB Kingmax class 10 microSDHC for internal and external sd
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FIRST OF ALL:
You need to open the streak housing ... follow the link below and good luck.. be gentle and be careful .. just do it slow and steady and you will be ok ... no need to rush anything there ... :good:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell-Streak-Teardown/3512/1
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NEXT - SELECT APPROPRIATE USER TYPE:-
LINUX USERS:
Just follow this link > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24799755&postcount=65
WINDOWS USERS:
first.. get this... http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
make sure it is USB Image Tool 1.59 when you download...
next get gparted-live-0.13.1-2.iso
burn it to the CD...
- after you have extracted the usb image tool... open USB Image Tool.exe
- select the corresponding usb drive and click backup, save it something like streakinternal.img
- it will take some time to complete ( have instant noodle for the time being )
- once done... replace the sd card that you want to transfer the image to and click restore and select the earlier streakinternal.img
- again.. it will take some time to complete (you can have snack this time )
note: make sure the target sdcard is the same or bigger in size (obviously)...
- once completed...
- reboot your pc and insert the burned CD earlier... let it boot from it... just press enter to everything it ask until it fully loaded into linux environment
- gparted should already show your sdcard drive there... it should show /dev/sda1 and below it got two more partition /dev/sda5 (ext3) and /dev/sda6 (ext3)
- select /dev/sda1 and right click it and select move/resize
- there should be visual displaying the drive structure and on the right, there should be arrow, drag it to the most right, click ok
- now, select /dev/sda6 and right click it and select move/resize
- again, on it, there should be arrow on the right, drag it to the most right and click ok
- once all that done, click apply and it will start to do its work..
- let it completes it work and your sd card now should be able to be use as internal sd...
- your streak should be able to boot straight away.. no need to wipe cache or something like that...
- have fun having big internal sd
p/s: i wrote this based on my memory, i hope i dont messed it up
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POSSIBLE FAQ:
-- 01 --
Q - Will the method used gone if i do factory reset?
A - Nope. You can safely do it and the structure will be maintained.
-- 02 --
Q - Can i use more than 16gb card?
A - Theoretically, yes.
-- 03 --
Q - Can we use this as sd storage as well?
A - Sorry. We cant because it is formated in ext3, so windows see it as unformatted medium.
-- 04 --
Q - Cant we create shortcut in external sd to access it?
A - Sorry. We cant because symlink does not work on any windows formatted medium since external sd usually formatted in fat32
-- 05 --
Q - Cant we mount this at all?
A - Somebody has tried it before but since the internal sd never meant to be accessed externally, the support is pretty much impossible.
-- 06 --
Q - How can we access it and where is it located?
A - To access the space, you can use root explorer and wifi file explorer (anything similar will do) and it is located at /data from /
Therefore, you must be rooted to access it.
-- 07 --
Q - So, what the hell am i supposed to do with those huge extra GBs?
A - Well, you can brag bout it to your friends, saying it got this huge internal sd space and can install hundreds of applications or games and still got space left for more.
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MORE ADVANCED MODS.:
If you think having large innerSD is not enough, we could have larger /system dir and possible dual usb mount support by default (in the near future hopefully) for our streak 5.
Have a visit to the link below...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31643924&postcount=98
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Our streak 5 might be old but it is still competitive regardless
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app2sd Xperia X10? yeah, it can be manually!

Hey, have u tried "dalvik debug monitor" during playing HD games or apps with huge data in internal memory?
I think that debugging software is very important.
unintentionally, i've re-located the content of APK file to sd card.
I found it can be relocate.. when I watch the logs text that appears on the state of dalvik debug monitor.
and then, i drop off several data file from apk file to sd card.. yeah! actually, you must see the logs, where the location of data file and what file that can be save to the sd card..
then..re-build apk file and install it on your X10. It's works!
I've tested several games : Breakbreakers, The Sims 3 HD, NFS Shift.
Check this out :
Breakbreakers
Before : on internal memory stored : 18 MB.
After : on internal memory : 756 KB, sd card : 17 MB.
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NFS Shift
Before : on internal memory stored : 39 MB.
After : on internal memory : 869 KB, sd card : 38 MB.
The Sims 3 HD
Before : on internal memory stored : 12 MB
After : on internal memory : 1109 KB, sd card : 10 MB.
good
where this app ?
i need test this app on x10 mini
If you mean the DDM, its in the tools directory of the android sdk.
if you think theres a program that just moves programs on the sd card (and does all the work), you missunderstood the first posting.
The question is -> How?
i found dalvikvm on /system/bin
move this?
it'd be great if there was a step-by-step guide on how to do this properly i'd really like to free up some space and i'm sure some others would as well..
Nice one, how did you unmount the .apk files?
NVM found this:
"The apk is really just a ZIP file. Try renaming the file to whatever.apk.zip and open using your favorite ZIP utility. You should be able to view all the contents. Resources (such as images) can be extracted. The java code is compiled into a .dex file so you can't view the raw code, but there are utilities (like this one) to decompile it: http://dedexer.sourceforge.net/"
Now to see the logs and location of data files i need dalvik debug monitor, or can i use another way?
Hi men,
I try to do this but I can't find where data file are in ddx file...
Can we have more information widy?
can u help us by telling step by step procedure as i am noob to programing and this stuff. it would be grt help
anishbhatia said:
can u help us by telling step by step procedure as i am noob to programing and this stuff. it would be grt help
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800555
bro that i had tried app2sd script it doesnt work. when i use it the windows with option to install comes again & again or it shows option to update it doesnt restart the phone itself . how does u do it manually ????
i have the App2sd from the Xten Custom ROM you can find it if you search a little bit! i have installed the ROM and the last thing i've find out that the apps went to the SD not the internal memory! i changed the ROM i installed the Eminence ROM to just see if it was an error or not! guess what? it still have the App2SD even when i changed the ROM. try it and let me know after.
cheers
EDIT: Do Not Format Your SDcard if you do then do it before you install the Xten's ROM not after.

How to upgrade/replace the Micro SD card

Hi,
I am planning to buy a 16GB Micro SD Card for X10 Mini, need help on following
1. Can I buy any 16GB micro sd card (class 6 and above) will it work, or it has to be specifically from SE?
2. Once I have 16GB micro sd card, what are the steps to replace the existing card and its contents. Do i need to copy all the folders from existing micro sd to new sd card? What should be the format of SD card, fat, fat32, ext2/3/4 ? Kindly suggest.
Any other technicalities to take care off ?
Furthermore I would like to use APPtoSD either on 2.1 if its easy or else when 2.2 gets on, so do i need to prepare the new sd card specifically for this?
Thanks
1) don't know, I bought a 16GB online from sandisk and it works well, i can help if you can tell how to get the "class"
2) my sd is in fat32 as the old one so no problems here. I suppose that if you move from fat32 to ext* you need to handle permissions somehow. I use a linux distro and when I do this moves I use the command "cp -a" that preserves permission (doesn't matter for fat) and modification date so if some software relies on modification dates of files it doesn't screw up
Thanks,
Class is written on top of the card. See the attached image the 6 witten inside the circle shows the class.
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Does putting in a 16Gb card reduced the performance or increased the lags?
CM 7
I've looked around at a lot of places and haven't found a clear answer to this one yet.
I’ve read a lot of different posts about what the best way to do this is. Some say just copy and paste, some say you need to go into recovery mode and Format the SD to Fat32+ext2+swap first and then convert ext2 to ext3, and some say to use Titanium Backup, and there are other opinions too.
I’m really quite happy with the way the phone is set up at the moment and don’t want to mess things up. My X10 mini, has cyanogen mod 7, and clockwork mod. Some of the apps have been moved to the SD card.
Can anyone tell me the current best method?
Thank you ....
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I'm also very interested in how to do this.
Basically use whatever format worked for you with your previous SD card. Oh, another forum member from the x10 forums was told by a Sony Ericsson rep that SD cards above class 4 would not give any further speed boost, but that's for the X10. I think that the same should apply for the x10 mini. Higher classes makes for faster loading of media and games moved to SD card, but actual playing(i.e after it has fully loaded) will be no faster. It will make SWAP faster, though.
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I have tried a 32gb card but it dosn't recognise it
Anyone knows if the new Custom Roms / Kernel make the Mini Pro recognise a 32gb SD card?
Well I checked the original card that came with the phone and it was FAT. The new card was preformatted to FAT32.
I left the new card at FAT32 and plugged them both into a Windows PC and copied the whole lot over. This worked fine.
I suspect that the whole ext2 ext3 thing is to allow the phone to treat that partition as if it were internal memory. Useful if the phone memory is already full.
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I recently upgraded my sd card from 2G to 4G, I just copied and pasted files. This seemed to work but since the upgrade I am having trouble flashing roms in cwm recovery. I get an error saying zip (bad) installation aborted.
Not sure if it is related but one to think about.

SD Card freezes phone/stuck when trying to back it up

Hi,
Just this night I've been using my sdcard in a normal way, browsing internet, downloading files when suddenly my phone couldn't boot after flashing bootanimation (zip made by trusted developer so that's not the problem). Now when I connect my SD Card to the phone it will either say "preparing sdcard" forever or just simply freeze phone after few seconds. I tryed to connect it via working adapter with my PC to back it up... After copying few files sdcards unmounts from the reader... I've tryed on XP and it shows some command errors while trying to copy files in a regular way. I was ONCE able to flash few zips via recovery in order to make my phone boot up again it worked. Now I'm scanning my SD Card using Norton Internet security 2013 - Paid version - not cracked, and the sdcard seems to stay mounted to the PC. Unfortunately after trying to copy files from SD Card to PC it just freezes explorer.exe and unmounts itself...
Please help me, I really have some important pictures on this sd card
PS. 32 GB SanDisk Class 10 UHS-I (grey and red one)
PS. 2 I was using swap partition, maybe my sdcard went dead from constant reads and writes?
PS. 3 Using linux I managed to copy 81 MB... then any copying froze but ubuntu didn't... Damn, thats weird
It appears to randomly stop reading from SD Card as now it stopped at 153,1MB out of 422MB, all thumbnails of photos were shown properly though.
well first connect ur sdcard to an old mobile you have then connect mobile to computer
backup your data then use a partition tool to delete partition of sdcard then recreate it as FAT32 partition and try to put sdcard to your mobile again
if still, then wipe data/factory reseyt your rom
if doesn't work then let me know
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Well, connecting to an old mobile isnt an option as the SDCARD does the same thing even on xperia T which isnt that bad and that Xperia T never had this sdcard connected before.
I'd love to backup my data, but I can't
Full rom wipe and reflash fresh was done straight after getting problems with this sdcard.
Unfortunately it still doesn't work
I got the error I was talking about!
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EDIT: I'm trying to recover photos and movies (most important files) via BadCopy Pro, any other recommendations if it wouldn't work?
EDIT2: It seems that when I'm slowly copying data (scanning sectors) sdcard doesn't seem to unmount or do other crazy stuff, any other suggestions so I'll keep file names and structure? I don't care much about copying time, I can run copying going all night.
I've recovered like 90% of data. Afterwards I've tried to perform Low Level Format... But this goddamn sdcard had to eject just at the start, therefore partitions got deleted, I'm trying to rebuild bootsector with testdisk but it takes ages, even after looking at tutorials online it takes so long to rebuild bootsector, no idea why...
I just realised that im one of the "lucky" guys which have got faulty sdcard. It happens to small amount (they say) of sandisk ultra 32&64GB owners...
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hmm, tomorrow my summer vacation starts
add me skype : mohanad_ayman
and we'll talk about it and get a fix , cuz now i need to study
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The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
olokos said:
The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
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then use the warranty to change your card, when you buy something, you're supposed to get it fully working
Yeah, Ive already written to sandisk but their 2 final and most important messages were one in german abd second in english. Im glad that i have a private teacher which helps me in german and is getting me ready for FCE exam so he can translate german to normal language
Another problem is that this card was a gift on my name day and im not sure when it has been bought although i know where. Thats my problem now but you definitely cant help me with it.
Thanks anyway
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Device memory is full

Since I got the new version of 4.1.2 the device memory is completely full and I can barely do anything with the phone.
The apps are only taking 400MB and I have no idea what's taking the rest.
Please advise.
Thank you
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hi...
i had a similar problem on my sgs2 (with cm 10.1-20130710-NIGHTLY-i9100). it turned out to be a bug that was filling the folder /data/log with log files because of connection problems with the cellular network. the log files were using up more than 1 gb of space. if you have root you could take a look if that's using up your space.
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flipmess said:
hi...
i had a similar problem on my sgs2 (with cm 10.1-20130710-NIGHTLY-i9100). it turned out to be a bug that was filling the folder /data/log with log files because of connection problems with the cellular network. the log files were using up more than 1 gb of space. if you have root you could take a look if that's using up your space.
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I don't have root, but I tried to connect it to the computer and find this file - the file doesn't exists..
guyman20 said:
I don't have root, but I tried to connect it to the computer and find this file - the file doesn't exists..
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Seems /data partition is full. It's unaccessible without root.
I have looking similar situation 2 times, and solved with root magiic.
First time my external sdcars got a corrupted file with strange name - nobody knows how it was, but then media indexer gone mad - it consumes cpu for a days, and fill /data volume with kind of incomplete indexes.
Happy end was - to fix extenal sdcard filesystem, then clear media indexer data.
second case was caused with flickr uploader program. because of error in program (now it fixed) it writes a tons of data into log file, pllaced inside /data. Was fixed by removing program with all application data.
Both of that cases was fixed technically without a root, but first step was running "Storage Analyser" in root mode - to find folder with abnormal large size on /data partition.
iav said:
Seems /data partition is full. It's unaccessible without root.
I have looking similar situation 2 times, and solved with root magiic.
First time my external sdcars got a corrupted file with strange name - nobody knows how it was, but then media indexer gone mad - it consumes cpu for a days, and fill /data volume with kind of incomplete indexes.
Happy end was - to fix extenal sdcard filesystem, then clear media indexer data.
second case was caused with flickr uploader program. because of error in program (now it fixed) it writes a tons of data into log file, pllaced inside /data. Was fixed by removing program with all application data.
Both of that cases was fixed technically without a root, but first step was running "Storage Analyser" in root mode - to find folder with abnormal large size on /data partition.
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So can't I find such file by browsing through the computer? Won't it be visible there?
guyman20 said:
So can't I find such file by browsing through the computer? Won't it be visible there?
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Run check disk on ur computer.i had similiar problem before..
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guyman20 said:
So can't I find such file by browsing through the computer? Won't it be visible there?
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paranoidisc tell truth. I run a filesystem check and fix on my PC, because error was at SD card.
you still can run a check filesystem on a PC unil filesystem is FAT and volume can be exported via USB as block deice ("usb storage").
or u can try this method suggested by @esd from NeatRom
Install this on your PC
http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/
connect your phone in mass storage mode and delete it using unlocker.
Good morning everyone. I'm here.
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Sandisk Ultra 32GB Raw showing 31mb

Hello everyone. I really need help with this problem and would be very grateful if you helped me.
I accidentally took out my MicroSd card from my phone, when I tried to put it back in it wouldn't read it so I went ahead and plugged it to the computer, when I try to access it it says "The disk in drive H is not formatted. Do you want to format it no?" I always press no. 
Here's what it says in the Disk Management
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1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
Pugnaq said:
Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
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That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Skyhuppa said:
That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
Pugnaq said:
But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
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If you have,
1. digital camera insert it to check storage.
2. Old phone that can read 32gb microsd can repair it.
I use these native methods to recover my staff.
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