hi,my data partition is full and the last days i'm confused about which method to follow in order to install more apps.One method is to use the Move to SD rom option for specific apps and also use link2sd or directorybind if needed but i also find some guides about repartitioning the internal card to increase datafs storage( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2353551 , http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887864 ).
So i would like to know the pros/cons of each mnethod in order to decide which one to choose
thanks in advance
Pros: your /data partition will be approximately 13gb
You have more space for apps
Your external sdcard will be detected as internal sd card (/sdcard instead of/extsdcard) so you can have 2/4/8/16/32gb storage
Cons:very big probability that you could brick your memory chip cuz you use .pkt files
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We all know there's about what 200mb of internal memory while some higher end models have up to 10gb internal space....i want to move all of my apps to exclude widgets/launchers...unless there is a way to move everything on my phone to sd card...i currently have a scandisk 8gb memory card, what partitions would ya'll recommend for a 8gb memory card, what script could I use and how could I tell that my phone was being ran from the sd card
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If you want to install a lot of apps, then I think you will want a 1GB or even a 2GB partition. And I suggest that you move apps and Dalvik cache to your SD card, basically leaving only application data on the internal memory. I'm using S2E for this; I don't have experience with anything else. You won't be able to choose which apps to move with this method; you will have to move them all. But they will work fine.
Did you partition ext3 or ext4 or just stay with ext2...im guessing my first move would be to backup my data from sdcard than partition a size, what about your swap ? Did you set it to 0...i just downloaded s2e, the only option I see is download cache, but I know this because I have no ext partition on the sdcard
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I used ClockworkMod to create my ext partition. It creates an ext3, so I just used that. I did set swap to 0. I think these were the steps involved:
- Backup SD card
- Enter ClockworkMod Recovery and choose to partition the SD card
- Select a size for the ext partition and choose 0MB for swap
- Reboot phone and copy data back to the SD card
- Use S2E app to choose what gets moved to the SD card (applications and Dalvik cache)
I appreciate it mech, I figured those were right around the right steps
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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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i followed a thread about increasing the internal memory of android and partitioned my sdcard and using link2sd moved all apps to that ext2 partition.
Now i have 77mb free in phone storage and 1.06gb in ext2 partition. i downloaded a game of 158mb but when i install it it says not enough memory and shows the memory of phone storage(77mb) but not of ext2 partition. any way to solve this problem? i partitioned my sd card just for that sake but it also didn't work :[...... plx help.....................
try this
try this thread! it works for my galay y duos s6102 and it should work with yours also
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i followed a thread about increasing the internal memory of android and partitioned my sdcard and using link2sd moved all apps to that ext2 partition.
Now i have 77mb free in phone storage and 1.06gb in ext2 partition. i downloaded a game of 158mb but when i install it it says not enough memory and shows the memory of phone storage(77mb) but not of ext2 partition. any way to solve this problem? i partitioned my sd card just for that sake but it also didn't work :[...... plx help.....................
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Negative.......
I did that but still the same problem........
btw that thread was about increasing performance and saving internal memory..... i want to install game of 150mb which i can't install because of low internal memory error.....
hello seniors, i am seeking help regarding making use of secondary memory partition... followed by a tutorial, i made 4-4 GB 2 partitions of my 8GB memory card in order to create extra internal memory, which was 1.77GB by default...
I have rooted my phone and also have installed Link2SD app... But the problem arises is that the app directly link any app installed to my SD card which is now cut down to 4GB instead of 8GB... but the secondary partition is almost empty and unused...
In app settings, if i choose link files to internal memory then my 1.77GB memory is consumed instead of the secondary partition...
so my question is how come i make use of that extra partition that i created??
in phone settings also there are options of writing new apps in either phone memory or external card... how can i access the secondary partition
So, I have a samsung galaxy young s6312, stock android 4.1.2 jellybean, rooted. Since the internal memory is very low, I use link2sd to link app files to my external sd card. Now I have created an ext2 partition of 1.5 gb to use with link2sd. but now the partition is full, and my internal memory is also full, because I have installed about 3gb of apps in my phone, half are in the second partition, and half are on my internal memory. so now I want to know if there is a way I can increase the size of my second partition. if I had enough memory, I would have moved the apps to my internal memory temporarily, but I don't have enough internal memory to move the linked apps to my internal memory. so is there any way to increase size of second partition without formatting it?? NOTE: I don't have any problem in formatting the first partition if necessary, but I can't format the second partition. NOTE: the sd card I use is of 8 gb...
Thanks...........
I have the same issue...
... so I'm disappointed to see that no one has replied.
I have a rooted LD-D520 with Android 4.1.2. Since I quickly ran out of memory I added an 8GB SD card and partitioned it with a 1.5GB ext2. I used Link2SD to them move over most all my apps. I don't have that many, but some of them have gotten so big (FB, Skype, etc.) that I now have only 5% free space on the ext2. I don't have much space left on the internal memory either, so I thought I'd try to make the ext2 partition bigger. (There's lot of free space on the SD card since I'm not using much of the other partition.) I tried using the MiniTool Partition Wizard, but even after reducing the size of the non-ext2 partition to create some unallocated space I was still unable to resize the ext2 partition.
Any suggestions? Is there an easy way to do this?