Are there any current ROMs that don't require an external SDcard in the slot to download apps, etc?
[I tried the "cherry picks" ROM which already has the mounting points swapped, but an SD card was still required for dl'ing apps. Also the various hacks (e.g. persist.sys.vold.switchexternal=1, swapping mounting points...) on various ROMs from Succulent 10.0 - 10.1 to acclaim RC2-RC5 and nothing has worked.]
Maybe someone can kindly tell me why the dedicated developers working on Android for tablets (vs phones) don't modify the ROMs to use internal storage? When apps require an SD card there should be a way for the OS to 'trick' the app into using the sideloading partition, or even the main emmc as ext sdcard, no? The Cyanogen OS is such a great little OS except for this one fatal flaw. Is it really that difficult of a problem to address? (sincerely asking as I am not a programmer but wish I was!) Thanks for any insight.
remmian said:
Are there any current ROMs that don't require an external SDcard in the slot to download apps, etc?
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You might want to try Succulent's CM10.1 builds posted at http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/cm10-1-jellybean-android-4-2-2-for-nook-tablet-0218/ (look for extra sd-location tweak flash under heading "Flash this if you want your downloaded app data to be stored in EMMC (sdcard0)").
Two assumptions that I'm making:
This replaces the whole kernel?
Results of flashing it on, say, AOKP would be unpredictable?
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I know Froyo has built in apps2sd that allows you to save part of an app on your sd and the rest is saved on your phone, which is great for stock phones who have only had the conventional internal storage available in the past. I really like the Froyo roms that are out and have been using them daily for a while now. Is anyone working on an apps2sd for Froyo roms that will accept a partitioned sd card? Is this even possible on Froyo? If not I'll just unpartition my class 6 card and use it again. I've already formatted it 3 times and I'm afraid I'll corrupt it if I do it too many times.
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Developing a2sd for a ROM that already includes it would be redundant, yes? The question then becomes, "Do I want the benefits of froyo and not be able to partition my sd card, or stick with 2.1 and be able to partition the card?"
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I know Froyo has built in apps2sd that allows you to save part of an app on your sd and the rest is saved on your phone, which is great for stock phones who have only had the conventional internal storage available in the past. I really like the Froyo roms that are out and have been using them daily for a while now. Is anyone working on an apps2sd for Froyo roms that will accept a partitioned sd card? Is this even possible on Froyo? If not I'll just unpartition my class 6 card and use it again. I've already formatted it 3 times and I'm afraid I'll corrupt it if I do it too many times.
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Yes. Cyanogen and the team at Cyanogen(mod) are currently working on this for Cyanogen(mod) 6.1. Their goal is to have Froyo play nicely with Linux ext4 partitions.
No one has successfully done this yet, and CM6.0 isn't even ready yet. But yes, so you know, this is being considered and worked on.
Atamagaokashii said:
Developing a2sd for a ROM that already includes it would be redundant, yes? The question then becomes, "Do I want the benefits of froyo and not be able to partition my sd card, or stick with 2.1 and be able to partition the card?"
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Yes, you want the benefits. Cyanogen is not working on this mod because "it would be easier to switch between Eclair and Froyo ROMs." The reason that team is working on it is because Linux ext4 partitions are faster and more efficient than FAT32 partitions. Thus, the phone's performance is increased when running both apps and cache from a Linux ext4 partition.
So, just for the sake of discussion, here's a tangent... What I'd like to see if a way to convert /system/data/ to Linux ext4! THAT would be nice. I read about a way to re-partition your vital systems files, internal cache, and internal data paritions so that the vital files are contained on a partition that is almost exact to the size needed to run those files, so that the cache is a relatively small size, and so that data is the remainder. This is great, because it eliminates the need for Apps2SD and unties the dependence of your phone from your SD card if you use a lot of app space. To get this as well as the cache folder (hell, let's do the vital system files to) into ext4 would be amazing and would greatly improve your phone's performance!
You just made my night.
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I am having issues with external SD cards. I have 16 and 32 gb cards and every 2-5 days they become corrupted/damaged/blank. I have to format them and copy my backup files over at least once per week. I have had no luck finding a good solution for the SD card problems. I notice that my SD card will randomly mount / media scan / antivirus SD card scan when I unlock my screen. I assume this is causing the problems. I want to leave my external SD card UNmounted until i want to use it, then i will manually mount it under settings. My problem is when i leave it unmounted, Android will automatically mount it later when my screen is off. How do i change this so that the external SD will ONLY mount when i manually mount it in settings?
Not sure. Sounds like you just need to leave the card out or maybe get rid of that antivirus
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the antivirus isn't the problem, randomly whenever the screen is turned on, the micro SD re-mounts (it somehow unmounted when the screen was off)... when it re-mounts Android automatically does a media scan and my AV scans it like it just connected... over time the SD card fails or becomes corrupted so I have to format. I'm looking for a way to DISABLE Android from automatically mounting an external micro SD... I assume people on this forum are knowledgeable on Android coding... disabling this function shouldn't be that hard...
Backup your micro sd. Wipe it clean. Make sure you format it with fat32 and not exfat. Put sd back in. Profit.
i have tried that several times.... perhaps i need to re-phrase the question....
Can someone please copy and paste the code within Android that automatically mounts an external SD card when it is inserted while the phone is on. Please also include the file name and directory. Thanks!
Well the problem is it's clearly either a hardware problem in the phone or that sd card. Wouldn't it be less of a pain to diagnose that and just try several other sd cards, then you wouldn't even have the issue anymore.
i met same problem here, how did you get this right?
I am in the same situation please provide a fix if you got it fixed
ryvandal said:
I am in the same situation please provide a fix if you got it fixed
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What ROM are you on? Do you have this device? Some newer ROMs have the ability to control the media scanner running at boot, which likely was the cause for these older issues.
An example of a current ROM having this is ResurrectionRemix.
SteveMurphy said:
What ROM are you on? Do you have this device? Some newer ROMs have the ability to control the media scanner running at boot, which likely was the cause for these older issues.
An example of a current ROM having this is ResurrectionRemix.
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Rom is stock Android 4.4.
Does 4.4 have that feature? I am Rooted.
ryvandal said:
Rom is stock Android 4.4.
Does 4.4 have that feature? I am Rooted.
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Stock will not have it, you will need to install a custom ROM that includes the Media Scanner setting (there are KK ROMs that support it). Look around in the Development forum and see if one is to your liking; if the ROM has the feature they will often include it in the first post. The Ported forum also has much to choose, including the ROM I noted in my reply above yours.
I am currently running CM10a2.999999999 by DKZ on my Droid X2 and Link2SD (auto link enabled). I have been attempting to run several applications (JetSetRadio and Sword and Sworcery) but both games hang on launch. I have placed the folders that contain the stored .obb files I had prior to flashing to CM10 in /storage/sdcard1/android/obb/. I was wondering if this is an issue with CM10, the unofficial Droid X2 port, the wrong directory or something that I have to do in addition such as linking directories. I appreciate any support given.
Its possible that because the sdcards have been flip flopped you may need to place the obb files in /storage/sdcard0 and the proper underlying directories to get them to function properly. So even though sdcard1 looked like the internal memory its being treated as the external by the rom, and those apps may be using the way the rom was mapped for where to find certain files meaning sdcard0 while looking like the external is actually the internal for the purposes of the way the rom treats them respectively.
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Its possible that because the sdcards have been flip flopped you may need to place the obb files in /storage/sdcard0 and the proper underlying directories to get them to function properly. So even though sdcard1 looked like the internal memory its being treated as the external by the rom, and those apps may be using the way the rom was mapped for where to find certain files meaning sdcard0 while looking like the external is actually the internal for the purposes of the way the rom treats them respectively.
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I attempted what you suggested but to no avail. Thank you for the support none the less!
I am using Safestrap to install the CM10.1 nightly. I had to update from 2.11 to 3.11 to get it to work with the latest nightly. The Rom is working, but I'm confused about why I have so many partitions. I would like to consolidate as much as possible so I don't get confused about where things are. When running Disk Usage app, I have
1) App Storage 280/1007 free,
2) Storage Card 1280/8196 free
3)/storage/sdcard0 1280/8196 free
4)/storage/sdcard1 6078/15189 free (i think this one is my actual sdcard, it has my music on it)
2 and 3 look like they are the same thing. But they also have Titanium Backup information in it. So when I am backing up to sdcard, which SDcard am I backing up to? The actual sdcard, or the one created by Safestrap? Both have TB information in it, and a Camera folder. I'd like to be able to set it so that everything goes to the actual SDcard instead of the one created by Safestrap.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
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I am using Safestrap to install the CM10.1 nightly. I had to update from 2.11 to 3.11 to get it to work with the latest nightly. The Rom is working, but I'm confused about why I have so many partitions. I would like to consolidate as much as possible so I don't get confused about where things are. When running Disk Usage app, I have
1) App Storage 280/1007 free,
2) Storage Card 1280/8196 free
3)/storage/sdcard0 1280/8196 free
4)/storage/sdcard1 6078/15189 free (i think this one is my actual sdcard, it has my music on it)
2 and 3 look like they are the same thing. But they also have Titanium Backup information in it. So when I am backing up to sdcard, which SDcard am I backing up to? The actual sdcard, or the one created by Safestrap? Both have TB information in it, and a Camera folder. I'd like to be able to set it so that everything goes to the actual SDcard instead of the one created by Safestrap.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
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1) Is app storage shared between all of your ROMs (this can't be changed)
2) Is your internal storage (aka leftover space from the internal SD card from the above partition)
3) Internal SD card, same as above
4) External SD card, this is where your Titanium Backups are stored by default
Backup would 99% of the time go to external storage, if not then 2/3 aka internal storage. 1 isn't accessible to the user (normally)
I'm on Beanstalk 4.4.4 by patch_Adams.
Since I upgraded from a previous built (4.4.2) of the same ROM, I'm not able to move installed apps to SD card or to the media storage. Therefore, I'm limited to the 2 GB partition available as "internal storage". The ROM is great and stable and I like it, but the limitation of the app space is really irritating
I tried the following but no luck:
Link2SD
HandleExternalStorgae (Xposed Module)
SDFix
SwapSD
Changing the App permission of External-SD to rw
Other than that I have no complains with the ROM.
Any Ideas or suggestions would help.
Thank you
I too am having the same problems.
mimo_77 said:
I'm on Beanstalk 4.4.4 by patch_Adams.
Since I upgraded from a previous built (4.4.2) of the same ROM, I'm not able to move installed apps to SD card or to the media storage. Therefore, I'm limited to the 2 GB partition available as "internal storage". The ROM is great and stable and I like it, but the limitation of the app space is really irritating
I tried the following but no luck:
Link2SD
HandleExternalStorgae (Xposed Module)
SDFix
SwapSD
Changing the App permission of External-SD to rw
Other than that I have no complains with the ROM.
Any Ideas or suggestions would help.
Thank you
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Try Titanium Backup
Yes, I guess you are experiencing the same issue - more space needed on internal memory partition/storage.
There are few people who are trying solve this problem by finding expanding solution of the storage size.
Yes, I also tried all those apps(moving to SD) that you mentioned - NON of them work on KK.
Here is the topic I am still looking for anyone's answer/solutions.
[Q] Change internal memory partition?
I wish someone who have great skills on Android file/partition system could make us some kind of ZIP file to adjust this 2GB partition.
same issue and nothing interesting found around the web... Anyone? Do you have found a solution?
same goes here.. i got 12gb internal and 8gb sd card.. but can only use 2gb of them... i wonder if can move all the app to sd card.. it should be fine