Well i have 20gib of space still left but if i download a game and try to install it tells me i have i dont have enough memeory any ideas on how to fix would be great
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First, wrong forum, and memory on a sd card or internal storage?
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internal storage ,sorry on the wrong forum
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Swap the SDs usiing root explorer. Shouls solve your issue.
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Try looking for a folder called "LOST.DIR" this folder is like the "recycle bin" on windows systems and sometimes gets full of data that didn't get deleted properly.
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Its not my sd , and ok but i thought lost.dir was on my sd this is a problem with my internal storage and even if this is a problem with my sd card why are my apps being installed there instead of my internal and how do i fix that
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Swap the SDs usiing root explorer. Shouls solve your issue.
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What do you mean ?
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Its not my sd , and ok but i thought lost.dir was on my sd this is a problem with my internal storage and even if this is a problem with my sd card why are my apps being installed there instead of my internal and how do i fix that
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I'm unsure as to why that's the default behavior then and if its not lost.dir filling up with junk; then it could be a bad partition table on the SD or the similar info that's stored in some of the system directories may have some malformed information (loops and soft or hard links) that are preventing you from writing to "sectors" (there's other names for the physical bits that store the data bits that might be used for SD's though its a similar concept) if one of these is causing the issue with space not being available then a "re-flashing" of the system folders (flash your ROM and kernel if you don't know how to manually do this) and reformatting the card; first in a PC (choose the "Full" and slow way Not "Quick") and reformat the SD card again with the now re-flashed device... Warning though: backup everything on your device to a *different* SD card "nandroid" backup style and then backup everything that's on both SD cards to a computer first. This is because if it's a hardware issue with the space, then that card can't be trusted with your backups, and the formatting that I suggest will wipe both so it would be better to back it up before wiping
And on the subject as to why your device might be installing everything to your SD by default that (I don't think has been suggested yet... correct me if I'm wrong ) try taking a look though your "build prop" there may be a "one liner" in there somewhere that sets this behavior, kinda like "svc wifi preferred" caused me issues when that was set and I'm not big on WiFi so it caused all sorts of strangeness with my data.
So yeah it's been a few days; I've been working elsewhere on XDA, but, at least I came back for a minuet hope ya get it all sorted so life can go on to more fun activities.
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I am shocked that i cant seem to find any solution to this, even more so i am shocked that i haven't come across users that are even looking for a solution to this isssue. Anyways here is goes..
Our phones have an internal and external sd card. That great! actually it blows in my mind. I wish we didnt have internal sd because it just screws everything up when you are trying to do what i want to do. I have a 32gb external sd that i want to use as the main storage for nandroids, downloads, ti backups, and all or atleast most application external data. I have to keep deleting backups one after another because i my internal sd card is always full, and when it comes to my nandroids its a pain to have to move them from internal to external sd and then back when i want to restore (which it also causes issues for me and i get a md5 mismatch in cwm). There has got to be a way to use your exteral sd card as the main storage, CM7 has a solutions to this but it only works at boot so it doesnt mount the external as internal within recovery, which i can live with because cwmr 5.0.2.7 allows you to backup and restore to either the internal or external. The issue with this is no other rom does this so if i am on another rom besides cm7 then and i want to restore a backup that i did on my external sd with 5.0.2.7, i have to move the nandroid from external to internal to do so, and when you are moving it from one to the other on your phone it takes forever because it is usually 700+mb.
This whole internal sd and external sd is really pissing me off. This phone (which i truly love and is by far the best phone on my market) and my other phone, droid bionic are the only two phones that i have every owned that have had this issue. All other phones of mine (HTC) have never had an internal sd card.
If someone can come up with a fix or point me to a fix that will accomplish what i am looking for I would quickly pay (or donate) $30.00. Its not a lot of money but its enough to buy some accessories and for me, paying $30 is worth it. Again i need a fix that will work in recovery(cmr 5.0.2.7 does this) and at boot.
Edit. Nevermind, it seems the only way to fix this issue the way i need it is if we get the new cwm 5.0.2.7 recovery. Just waiting on entropy to try and get this in his kernal. Once he does that i will be donating again to him instead
Pretty simple, in recovery.fstab swap what internal and external point to, compile, flash, FIXED.
can you provide some instructions? What does this do exactly.
Thanks
Google "fstab" and "linux mounts" and you'll find an answer... but be careful because as there might be unexpected consequences...
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I'm not an expert, but when I first ran CWM the entire phone storage was unmounted and just internal storage. I had to mount it SD. Couldn't you just go to cwm and reverse that?
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Shammyh said:
Google "fstab" and "linux mounts" and you'll find an answer... but be careful because as there might be unexpected consequences...
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Well I dont know nearly as much as you, so googling those terms does not help. I appreciate the gesture but i am going to need some more help than that unfortunately.
Does anyone know the block id for sd-external?
did you take a look into fstab? it should be pretty apparent from there. if not, then just issue mount command from console - it prints out all currently mounted devices, including sdcard.
don't forget to send DG $30 for the hint
vladm7 said:
did you take a look into fstab? it should be pretty apparent from there. if not, then just issue mount command from console - it prints out all currently mounted devices, including sdcard.
don't forget to send DG $30 for the hint
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recovery.fstab? correct not vold.fstab, right? And what is the external sd mount id?
I just want to be clear that i want it to mount the external sd as internatal in recovery not just at boot so vold.fstab will not do that
Entropy just included a fix for this in his new kernel 111311. Just flash it and voila.
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Romee74 said:
Entropy just included a fix for this in his new kernel 111311. Just flash it and voila.
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Yes i know but thanks.
Only tested on stock rooted
tho the topic would indicate a general thread topic and not a development topic i honestly believes it goes here as i am taking it upon myself to figure this out or attempt to. if CM7 allows you to change default storage location to either internal or external storage then i believe it should be easy to figure out how to do it with any rom that is rooted. tho i may be completely wrong on that.
what i believe to be needing is the void.fstab file from the etc folder and the build prop from a cm7 user. basically if somebody could give me a copy of those files when they have the settings in cm7 set to internal and then when they have it set to external i may be able to figure out what needs changed. i remember reading in the cm9 thread that somebody changed line of code in those files to switch them around but i need to compare them. so if somebody could get me those files i would greatly appreciate it and will try to figure this out
Number 1 reason why i want this ability is my android folder for app/game data alone is 8.5gb. my gameloft one is like 5gb. would be a huge PITA to have to move data around all the time.
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If u can figure this out that would be great..I tried changing it around myself but cm9 isn't reading my internal storage no matter what I change around lol there has to be a solution
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Has anyone seen the sd flip flop mod in the droidx2 development forum wonder if it would work or if it can be modified to work for us
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could you provide a link please?
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Well just tried that mod and it did flip it but now my actual sd card can't be read. Flip it back and still can't read my sd card. Gonna do a nandroid to see if it will restore it then tonight I'll compare some things and see what's going on
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Ok I got then flopped and my phone reads the external as my default sd card but now internal won't show up at all. I'm on mobile so I can't upload the void file and the back up void file. I'll try to go to actual website on phone and upload it there
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http://db.tt/CH5IlMwI this is the backup of original void file on rooted stock
http://db.tt/uadyDfcK this is the void file with my edits
Look where it shows the lines about external sd card and internal sd card
Had to post links to dropbox since im on my phone and cant upload files.
This is only done on stock and this change will only read and mount your external sd card as your default card and internal wont be read at all. You will also get and error on boot about not being able to read something.
Any ideas or direction on how to get internal storage to be read would be great.
# external sd card
dev_mount sdcard_ext /mnt/sdcard-ext:none:lun1 auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc3 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
# internal eMMC
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 18 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0
I think it should look like this in void.fstab hope it helps.
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Yeah that looks like what it originally should be. I'm trying to get then to swap. A guy named shiffy on here has sent me a pm saying he was able to swap memory around. Was able to get phone to read the actual sd card as sd card but can't get internal memory to read at all as the sd card ext. Thinking it may have to do with being on the latest sbf.
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ok still can't access my internal storage and i noticed when trying to install Frontline Comando from the market i get an error that says cant access usb storage or sd card so for now do not do this till i can figure it out. also shiffy if you read this can you try to install frontline commando and see if it goes? pm me if you do. also you on sbf 6 or sbf 7?
IDK bud was mostly just shedding light on the mod never tried it my friend jrtduke has x2 told me about it figured was worth a look sorry it messed you up hope you can get things working again
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ok i gave up. sorry guys but i messed up my phone and i dont now diddly. so i'm going to go back to cm7. once shiffy is able to post he may share how he got his to work.
Success! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25812182
So I have this weird problem
I have a SD card inserted into my tablet and for a while it was working fine, but a few days ago it went funny
It mounts fine ie it shows in notification and I can access it via /mint/sdcard but it does not show any media in any app, is this related to ICS update? I'm running 4.0.5
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DarkhShadow said:
So I have this weird problem
I have a SD card inserted into my tablet and for a while it was working fine, but a few days ago it went funny
It mounts fine ie it shows in notification and I can access it via /mint/sdcard but it does not show any media in any app, is this related to ICS update? I'm running 4.0.5
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OK so I rebuilt the media database and it seems to be working again, will let you know if it happens again
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Is that the MicroSD card that you're talking about?
I use one exclusively for videos and using the Archos video app I have no troubles detecting it. Haven't used any third-party apps though.
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Is that the MicroSD card that you're talking about?
I use one exclusively for videos and using the Archos video app I have no troubles detecting it. Haven't used any third-party apps though.
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Yes the MicroSD
Stuff wasn't showing up in gallery, music, google music or videos
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My microSD card suddenly became read only... Don't know since when exactly, i think after official upgrade to 4.0.5
Tried to remount several times, yet still read only
Will try reformat, but since almost 24gb on it that's not the easiest solution..
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My microSD card suddenly became read only... Don't know since when exactly, i think after official upgrade to 4.0.5
Tried to remount several times, yet still read only
Will try reformat, but since almost 24gb on it that's not the easiest solution..
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Sounds like some trouble with the filesystem or data corruption on your card.
Try using a linux host and run some file system checks.
Normally it should be possible to fix it.
BTW, have you checked dmesg output if you insert the card into your Archos device?
Regards,
scholbert
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My microSD card suddenly became read only... Don't know since when exactly, i think after official upgrade to 4.0.5
Tried to remount several times, yet still read only
Will try reformat, but since almost 24gb on it that's not the easiest solution..
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I noticed this too. Apparently all firmwares after the very first release of ICS (So, not including that one) have this bug. Archos is not only aware of it, but apparently is said to have fixed it with the latest test firmware according to what an archos employee said over at archosfans forums. I'm about to install the test firmware to try it, and I'll report back in a bit.
Update: I can confirm that the permissions for the SD card have been fixed in the 4.0.6 TEST firmware. Which means all apps can now read AND write to the SD card again.
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VOODOOS!L said:
My microSD card suddenly became read only... Don't know since when exactly, i think after official upgrade to 4.0.5
Tried to remount several times, yet still read only
Will try reformat, but since almost 24gb on it that's not the easiest solution..
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Found this on the net and it worked for me (now have full r/w on SD card)
Simple solution for external sdcard write access on Android 3.2...if you're rooted
I've found a simple solution for gaining write access to the external sdcard (/mnt/sdcard2) on Android 3.2. The sdcard is mounted r/w, but the owning group is media_rw which is linked to the WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE permission. Unfortunately, this permission was not required for access to the external sdcard prior to 3.2 so most file management utilities do not request it when they run...meaning they only have read access to the card.
The simple solution, if you're rooted, is as follows:
1. Using a root-enabled file manager, navigate to /system/etc/permissions and make sure you have mounted the file system r/w.
2. Edit platform.xml and find the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
3. Add an additional group definition for this permission...<group gid="media_rw" />
4. Save the changes to the file.
5. Restart your tablet.
After this change, any apps that request the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission (which includes almost anything that access either of the sdcards) will gain group membership in both sdcard_rw AND media_rw, giving them r/w access to both sdcard filesystems.
It works for 4.0.5 too as that's what I'm running atm .
Psi.
Or you could just try to update to the test firmware. It runs stable and fixes the issue without needing to root or modify permissions. (And It still fixes it if you are rooted too, like I am)
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Thx a lot psiman24, i followed your instructions. using Rom Toolbox I was able to overwrite the file and now it seems to be working all fine again. Will wait for official release before installing 4.0.6
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Weird enough suddenly I found all my external SDCard files have all permissions like:
---rwxr-x
Why !?? This happens to every file I copy onto it.
I needed them like:
rwxrwxr-x
so far, the only rough and long way I found is through Aromafilemanager and PhilzTouch recovery.
Yet I have to change the permissions one file at a time.
Can anybody help?
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Thank you, I'll surely restart from the beginning and report back
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Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Which script could do that?
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
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@boomboomer
which filesystem do i have to use in formatting extsdcard 8gb via pc? exFAT / FAT32 / EXT4 / NTFS ?
moreover, in this post and following on dev rom thread, it seems it's a normal behaviour... am i missing sth?
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4
Fat32 is the normal filesytem.
If it's common to your rom then your chef is the best one to approach, he may have set a script or mod.
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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I read through about 7 pages of sd card issues on the s3 and thought i cant read anymore, so i thought i would just ask. I've just bought an s3 and i got my 64gb sd card from my old phone to my new one. Problem is i have data from other games in the SD and titanium back up files in the externel sd card. Seems the S3 has its own built in SD card and only reads from that. I copied my TB files from externel to the internel. Now the games still require Extra files although they are in the externel SD. So how in the world do i get it to read my Externel sd instead of my internel? I thought of copying the files but i have 16 gb internel, 64 externel so its not gonna work considering i have 39 gb left in my 64 gb one,
**UPDATE, Working MOD!**
Mattiadj has a working mod to make your S4's external sd card your internal storage while making your internal just a place for extra resources!
This is HUGE and it is working very well for me. This mod is not a "complete swap" where the two mounting points are just switched but it accomplishes the same goal! There are a few things you will have to get use to once you install this but nothing that can't be overlooked. Here a link to his thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468596. I suggest everyone try this out and give him any helpful feedback.
For now, Mattiadj's mod is the closest thing to swapping your storage and will may be the closest we ever get on 4.2.2 (it works great). With Android 4.3 officially coming to our devices soon their may be more possibilities for a "complete swap" on 4.3. Until then, I suggest everyone use mattiadj's mod. Thanks mattiadj!
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Hello S4 owners!
I know I'm not the only S4 user wanting more internal storage on their phone whether it be "16 GB" or "32GB". I've been doing a lot of research into swapping internal with external storage to use the micro sd card as device storage (e.g. 64GB sd card to replace 16GB internal storage vice-versa). I've done this technique on a previous device (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43024409) by modifying the vold.fstab file to swap storage mounting points. Since samsung released 4.2.2 on their devices the vold.fstab has been modified without anyone being able to figure out how to swap mounting points. The verizon release of android 4.3 may make modifying the vold.fstab more feasible but we will just have to wait and see.
For now, here are several routes I have looked into:
Modifying vold.fstab: There may be more code we can add but the current file only contains the mounting location for external storage and not internal storage. This makes it seemingly impossible to just swap lines of code. Someone trying to overcome the same road block: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2168489.
Modifying storage_list.xml within framework-res.apk: I have looked into how android mounts storage devices and it seems that 4.2.2 and earlier rely on the vold.fstab and storage_list.xml (http://source.android.com/devices/tech/storage/). I then began trying to look into the storage_list.xml located in the framework-res.apk and found these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27432510
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35792201
I tried modifying the storage_list.xml but when I swapped the "sdcard0" and "extSdCard" text in the file (after unpacking adn repacking the apk) my phone went into a bootloop. I understand that swapping two phrases in a file didn't have much evidence to support trying it but I had to find out what it did. Maybe someone can help with this. This example of a storage_list.xml file provided by google (https://android.googlesource.com/de...eworks/base/core/res/res/xml/storage_list.xml) looks much different from the extracted file I pulled which had a lot of random characters and null signs (using notepad++).
Using init.d script: I have found two people who have tried this for the S4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363670 This mod results in a lack of access to the internal device storage. (According to the posts)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1772234 This mod results in a successful swap (according to some posts) but is unstable and causes a lot of application crashes and glitches. The OP needs more testers, but the thread is still fairly active and could be a possible route. I have yet to test this.
I understand that there are applications such as forldermount and link2sd that provide options for freeing up internal memory but these options do not provide enough storage for me personally (and others I'm sure). ME7 gave us app2sd ability but that still doesn't relieve enough space. My goal here is to start more discussion to address this issue. Any ideas or comments on the feasibility for swapping storage mounts please post below. DON'T LET THIS THREAD DIE.
Thank You,
MetaMav
P.S. I uploaded my S4's (SCH-I545) vold.fstab if anyone would like to venture at modifying it for this purpose.
Cool
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Using external as internal would render lag spikes due to garbage collection.
Performance
previse said:
Using external as internal would render lag spikes due to garbage collection.
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I understand the caveats to swapping storage devices. We do not however fully know how performance impeding the modification will be until we find a fully functioning solution to test. I'm optimistic . My previous device handled swapping very well with not a lot, if any, noticeable performance loss.
It's a good idea. Wouldn't using something like Link2SD and/or Foldermount help in getting more internal space?
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maddog00 said:
It's a good idea. Wouldn't using something like Link2SD and/or Foldermount help in getting more internal space?
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You're right, they are fantastic ways of saving space. They do not however provide the ease of having a larger internal storage that everything is installed on by default. Many people also do not want to deal with having to make a link or special exception for every application installed. If I am not mistaken there are also certain app functions that may not work if moved to the external SD card. My goal is that through some discussion and help we can figure out how to make storage swapping available for the S4 like it is for so many other devices.
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You're right, they are fantastic ways of saving space. They do not however provide the ease of having a larger internal storage that everything is installed on by default. Many people also do not want to deal with having to make a link or special exception for every application installed. If I am not mistaken there are also certain app functions that may not work if moved to the external SD card. My goal is that through some discussion and help we can figure out how to make storage swapping available for the S4 like it is for so many other devices.
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But with that slight increase on complexity you get rather significant increases in performance due to the much higher random R/W of the internal storage. Keeping system and most apps on the faster internal is preferable.
You're on XDA man. If the choice is between a slight increase in complexity and a big increase in performance... I'd put my money on performance.
Side: you are very wrong when you say certain app functions won't work. With folder mount there is no difference as far as the app is concerned. These are links not app2sd.
You also don't have to make a link for every app installed. I have it set up to link the entire /Android/OBB/ folder. Set it once and done.
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But with that slight increase on complexity you get rather significant increases in performance due to the much higher random R/W of the internal storage. Keeping system and most apps on the faster internal is preferable.
You're on XDA man. If the choice is between a slight increase in complexity and a big increase in performance... I'd put my money on performance.
Side: you are very wrong when you say certain app functions won't work. With folder mount there is no difference as far as the app is concerned. These are links not app2sd.
You also don't have to make a link for every app installed. I have it set up to link the entire /Android/OBB/ folder. Set it once and done.
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Thank you for the corrections Metallice. In my previous reply I meant that moving apps via app2sd would prevent certain features from working such as widget functionality and listening for "boot completed" events. I did not mean that using applications such as Link2SD and Folder Mount would cause these complication. Those two apps are very viable solutions for saving space (I use them myself). Also, I understand the concern for performance but I haven't used a device with this mod where I noticed any noticeable performance loss when using applications.
At any rate, I want to use this discussion for making this swapping method work. Any input as far as what I compiled in the OP or possible modifications that could make this mod work on this device would be fantastic.
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I really enjoyed this mod on my S3. I have tried several methods to accomplish this myself with no success so far. Thanks for starting the OP!!
I hope we can come up with a working solution soon!!!
Hello and thanks for inviting me to this thread.
I have tried all possibile things I think! I use folder mount now but is really bad as it make my phone slow, hot and battery eater but... Do the job.
Anyway... I have made the switch but I have the problem of duplicates in gallery.
The only way to mount in correct way the external sd card into data/media/0 is with mount -o bind.
I have tried to mount vold file or block file with mount -t vfat umask and all is OK but some media files are not recognized by gallery!!! I can't understand why media files of what's app and of go SMS for example are not seen in gallery!
The only way to fix it is to bind the storage/extSdCard directory but... After we have two mount point for external sd and so duplicates.
Then I have tried another trick which works... So i have changed in vold.fstab the mount point of external sd card in usbDriveA and... Yes all is OK! Bind is OK! Zero duplicates! But.... Always there is a but... Since it is mounted sd USB drive, i have the notification for unmount always visibile and unmounting this became dangerous!
The best way to this swapping is to mount external sd in another folder different from /storage/extSdCard so I can do all I need with init.d script but when I change the mount point in vold.fstab to /storage/extSdCard2 for example, I have bootloop.
Any idea?
From universe with my gs4 snapdragon powered!
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mattiadj said:
Bump!!
Made it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468596
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This is AWESOME! I updated the OP.
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jr0324 said:
His thread is very clearly posted in the i9505 sub... has anyone tried this on vzw s4? Aosp/wiz results?
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I have tried this on my VZW S4 SCH-I545 and it works on my device. I think this mod only works for Touchwiz ROMs with init.d support (universal init.d app on the play store may be an alternative) but the OP has yet to receive enough feedback. I do not know if this works for the ocotocore version of the S4 but it should work for any Snapdragon 600 S4 carrier (not confirmed yet). Here are the specs of my device running this mod:
Model: SCH-I545 (Verizon Wireless, Snapdragon 600)
ROM: BoneStock ROM v1.1.4 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2384362)
Kernel: KTweaker 9/17 build (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2294083)
SD Card: 64GB SanDisk calss 10 (fat32) with a second 10GB fat32 partition for link2sd
Stay tuned for more information on the mod's main thread!
The init.d support factor would rule this out with ME7 and Safestrap - Rom slots, correct?
lazer9 said:
The init.d support factor would rule this out with ME7 and Safestrap - Rom slots, correct?
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I'm not sure, but I'd recommend trying the universal init.d app on the store play and see if that works with safe strap.
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MetaMav said:
I'm not sure, but I'd recommend trying the universal init.d app on the store play and see if that works with safe strap.
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I ran the universal init.d app from play store - ran the test - rebooted... Said I already had init.d support. Proceeded with your mod install. But I don't think it's doing anything different. Don't really understand the steps in your OP to verify. I'm using the extfat one.
lazer9 said:
I ran the universal init.d app from play store - ran the test - rebooted... Said I already had init.d support. Proceeded with your mod install. But I don't think it's doing anything different. Don't really understand the steps in your OP to verify. I'm using the extfat one.
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I've seen posts suggesting exfat may have some issues. I'd try formatting your SD card to fat32 and following the install guide very closely. Let me know if you get it to work or get stuck again. I got it to work with fat32.
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MetaMav said:
I've seen posts suggesting exfat may have some issues. I'd try formatting your SD card to fat32 and following the install guide very closely. Let me know if you get it to work or get stuck again. I got it to work with fat32.
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I may try that. I assume I could just copy everything to the PC from my ext card then format then copy everything back and give it another go? Is there something I should remove first since I have the extfat one installed now before resorting to flashing the FAT32 one if I go this route?
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I may try that. I assume I could just copy everything to the PC from my ext card then format then copy everything back and give it another go? Is there something I should remove first since I have the extfat one installed now before resorting to flashing the FAT32 one if I go this route?
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You should be able to just copy over to pc and reformat. You need to either remove the init.d script for this mod in your init.d folder before you flash the fat32 one or revert to a previous backup. Read the mod's main thread for details on this.
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