Hello,
I'm trying to get A2SD working in my HTC Hero. I'm using MoDaCo Custom ROM 2.9. What I did was partition my SD card using a card reader and Ubuntu Linux (I used an application called GParted). I used the following partition table:
Patition 1: FAT32 (730MB)
Partition 2: Ext4 (512MB)
Partition 3: Linux Swap (32MB)
Then, I went to recovery mode and reinstalled MoDaCo. The installation went fine, and I have the impression A2SD is trying to use my Ext4 partition. However, the applications Google Maps and Google Sky Map (which I've just installed) crash almost every time, showing the following message:
"The application Google Maps has stopped unexpectedly."
I suspect the problem is either the Ext4 format (which I believe is new) or my SD card, which is a SanDisk 8GB microSD (class 2).
Do you guys think I should buy a better card? Or format it again? Is it OK to format the card in Ubuntu? Or is something else wrong?
Thanks a lot,
Tiago
I'm trying to reinstall the apps that are crashing, and that seems to be working. However, I couldn't figure out how to reinstall Google Maps. I uninstalled it, but I didn't find it in Android Market. Is there an easy way to install Google Maps?
I think what's causing the problem is turning the phone on without the SD card. The apps that were installed to the card disappear from the list, but if I restart the phone with the card in, the crashes start.
Does that make sense?
Check to see if you have swapper installed this is not needed in 2.9 and could be the cause of the crashing. For that matter nor is the Swap partition. Google Maps can be got here:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-google-android-apps-maps-jw.aspx
and yes starting the phone without the SD Card in will cause any apps on the EXT4 partition to dissappear.
If you reformat the card you will have to re install the apps anyway.
Thanks for the answer! I don't have Swapper installed. I was going to install it, but I'll follow your advice.
I ended up formatting the card again and reinstalling MoDaCo. So far, I haven't taken the card out and everything's working fine. I'm pretty sure what caused the crashes was the fact that I started the phone without the SD card. The apps in the card disappeard, but when I restarted the phone with the card in, the apps that reappeared were not functional (they crashed every time). Is this a known issue or were the apps supposed to resume working?
I guess the final advice is to keep the card in at all times...
Hi guys..facing a very annoying problem..yesterday i replaced my stock sd card with sandisk class 4 8gb card..therefore done a fresh clean install..formatted,wiped everything(phone & sd card) & partitioned card 512mb swap 0 via CWM & flashed MIks CM7 6.5.5..everything was working fine till then...after flashing gapps i rebooted & flashed DT A2SD Version 2.7.5.2-1..restored all user apps+data by TB..now the problem is when i open gallery it shows "sd not mounted or not present",file manager shows everything but can't delete any image or media files,apps are working fine,music is also ok..a2sd gui showing apps are in the partition...rebooting sometimes solves the issue sometimes not even usb connect & disconnect also helps..this thing is happening now & then....if u need any info plzzz reply here...plzzzz help guys any fix????
Format SD Card
i had this problem too..., then i formatted the card from recovery..., now, everything is working fine....
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you have to make sdcard directory r/w from root explorer. manually every time when the problem occurs.
Hi I was wondering if some one here could help me. I am running BE CleanRom ICS on HBoot 1.58 running the latest stock kernal. The phone shows no issues from from clean install. However when I try to restore my apps (approx 400) from my titanium backup set, the phone will be stable until i try to reset it. If I try to reset the phone once my apps are restored...the phone will bootup fine and then mount the SD card. I have a 64 GB micro SD card. It takes a while for the apps to load in the backround since I have majority of the apps installed to the card. However after a few minutes as the phone tries to load all the apps from the card, it will always crash.
I have logically considered that something was obviously wrong with the backups of my apps. So I tried to download all my apps fresh via Google play store again. I then moved them all again manually to the sd card. However I still get the same problem if I reset the phone. If I reset, the phone will try to load the apps from the microsd card after booting up and then after a while crash!
Is there any way to find out what is causing the phone to crash? I have tried different microsd cards as well. I have tried my older 32gb microsd card but get the same problems. Also I should note that when I was running older gingerbread version of cleanrom, after a reboot I would always get an error saying the HTC sense has crashed and needed to reload. But all that required was an 'ok' and the phone would relaod HTC sense and not crash into reboot.
I am hypothesizing that HTC sense 3.6 is crashing on reboot every time as it tries to load apps from the SD card. But I do not know how to confirm this. I have tried other roms including stock ics rom and meanrom 2.6 and have had the SAME issues with all these ICS roms. Is there any way to confirm that it is indeed HTC sense 3.6 that is causing the phone to crash while trying to load apps from the microsd card? And if so, is there any way to prevent or solve this problem?
At this point, I can NEVER reset my phone. If I do, I have to do a complete factory reset and then restore from my titanium backup to get my phone to previous state. This works fine until something FUBARS and my phone resets for whatever reason. Sometime it lasts for weeks without resetting....sometimes it happens numerous time a day. But everytime it resets I have to do a factory date wipe and then restore from my titanium backup and its a total pain in arse....
I would appreciate if anyone here could comment or offer any suggestions...
400 apps!!!!!!!!!!
That seems like an awful lot. Maybe having so many is causing the issue. I suggest maybe only loading the minimum you NEED as a test to see if it that's the issue.
Well maybe I should have been more specific. I have actually about 250 APPS, but when you count system backup and setting etc in Titanium backup it makes the total amount of backup items over 400.
But still I never had sense crashing on gingerbread? Why does Sense 3.6 crash on ICS and why can't I load that many apps from the SD card without it constantly crashing while trying to load? Is there a way to delay sense from loading until the SD card is mounted and all the apps are loaded into the app drawer? It makes no sense to not be able to install as many apps as you want....
I agree with you about installing add many as you can stuff in there. I was suggesting limiting them temporarily as a test.
Also, I wouldn't restore system apps saved from different ROMs as that can cause instability. Especially if you restore the settings from a GB system app to an ICS ROM.
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Hi thanks for your response. Yeah I did not restore any systems files from my old GB rom. I did a fresh install of all my apps and settings once I moved to ICS. I use my titanium backup files to restore to the same rom I made the backups from...
Also, I was messing around with autostarts to see if I could disable Sense from booting up, but that didnt work either. Basically it seems like if you have too many apps loaded to the sd card then the OS seems to fubar while trying to reload and causes reset boot. Its quite unnerving...
I'm going to mess around with some of the roms with sense removed to see if that solves the problem. Will report back to this thread to post back my results....
I think it is the 64GB card. My Amaze is doing the same thing and I found this thread via the search tool. I'm getting ready to try a format and start fresh. It started when I got the card, and pulling the card out for a few days I don't get the reboots.
So being a different phone, different ROM, and different apps, the only things in common are the same SDXC and reboots. If I find a better solution, I'll update you.
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Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
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St Veronus said:
I think it is the 64GB card. My Amaze is doing the same thing and I found this thread via the search tool. I'm getting ready to try a format and start fresh. It started when I got the card, and pulling the card out for a few days I don't get the reboots.
So being a different phone, different ROM, and different apps, the only things in common are the same SDXC and reboots. If I find a better solution, I'll update you.
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Hi thanks for you response. I actually already tried reverting to my old 32 GB card when I started having these problems and kept getting the same reset issues, so I'm not sure if this is a sd card issue or a issue with ICS or Sense on my device. I did not have the reset problem while using GB rom running the 32 SD card.
I don't get the reboots either if I pull out the card but then I dont have access to most of my apps! Trying to mount and remount the card doesn't seem to help either and causes the device to reset...
ramjet73 said:
Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
ramjet73
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Thanks ramjet for the suggestion! I will definitely try out Link2SD to see if that resolves the problem! You posts are like the bible around here and I appreciate you offering your help! :good: THANKS!
ramjet73 said:
Not sure what your problem is but you might want to consider installing Link2SD, which allows you to move most of your apps to a second partition on the SD card. This also has the advantage of not installing the apps on a fresh install until you create the mount script for the parition containing the apps, and also allows you to keep your apps across fresh installations without having to restore them. Just relink them to the partition on the SD card and they will all be "restored" in less than a minute.
There's a little work involved in backing up your SD card, creating new paritions, and restoring the SD card contents to the first partition, but 4EXT recovery can handle the partitioning and it's pretty easy to save and restore the SD card contents from a PC.
ramjet73
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Hi ramjet, I was wondering if you could help with setting up Link2SD? I was able to setup a fat32 partition on my 64GB card but when try to start link2SD i keep getting the "Mount script cannot be created" error when I try to select the fat32 partition? I went through the link2sd tutorial but couldn't get it to recognize the fat32 partiion. The link2sd faq states you have to be s-off for HTC devices and I am already s-off running hboot 1.58. I created the partitions using 4ext from scratch removing all partitions and creating new ones.. Do you have any suggestions? thanks...
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Hi ramjet, I was wondering if you could help with setting up Link2SD? I was able to setup a fat32 partition on my 64GB card but when try to start link2SD i keep getting the "Mount script cannot be created" error when I try to select the fat32 partition? I went through the link2sd tutorial but couldn't get it to recognize the fat32 partiion. The link2sd faq states you have to be s-off for HTC devices and I am already s-off running hboot 1.58. I created the partitions using 4ext from scratch removing all partitions and creating new ones.. Do you have any suggestions? thanks...
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Link2SD will automatically use the second partition on the SD card as the one it mounts to store the app files and data. I've got mine setup as a 1GB ext4 partition, but a fat32 formatted partition should work as well.
When you choose "recreate mount script" from the "more" options of the primary menu, it will ask for the format of the second SD partition and you need to select "FAT32/FAT16". That should create a mount script in the /system/etc/init.d directory that will get run on the next boot, assuming your ROM runs init.d scripts correctly. Which ROM are you currently using?
ramjet73
Hi I'm running BE Cleanrom ICS. I created the partitions using this 4ext guide. The following is my partition info on the 64 GB sd card:
partition // fs // capacity // free
system // ext4 // 787 MB // 141 MB
data // ext3 // 1175 MB // 588 MB
cache // ext4 // 107 MB // 96 MB
sd-ext // ext4 // 4031 MB // 3898 MB
sdcard // fat32 // 56780 MB // 39056 MB
If I select "ext4" on startup of link2sd when it asks me to select the file system of you sd card's second partition, then the mount script is successfully created. Does this mean it is selecting the "sd-ext" partition as the second partition? if so then maybe I've been confused the whole time?? The only thing is that I wish it was possible to create larger partitions than just 4GB....
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Hi I'm running BE Cleanrom ICS. I created the partitions using this 4ext guide. The following is my partition info on the 64 GB sd card:
partition // fs // capacity // free
system // ext4 // 787 MB // 141 MB
data // ext3 // 1175 MB // 588 MB
cache // ext4 // 107 MB // 96 MB
sd-ext // ext4 // 4031 MB // 3898 MB
sdcard // fat32 // 56780 MB // 39056 MB
If I select "ext4" on startup of link2sd when it asks me to select the file system of you sd card;s second partition, then the mount script is successfully created. Does this mean it is selecting the "sd-ext" partition as the second partition? if so then maybe I've been confused the whole time?? The only thing is that I wish it was possible to create larger partitions than just 4GB....
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That guide has you format the second SD card parition as ext4 so you should be good to go.
Start Link2SD and go to menu/storage info. The "SD Card 2nd Part." will confirm that your app parition is mounted correctly and give you the usage stats. Mine is allocated as 1GB with 182 apps linked to that partition and I still have 7% free, so I think 4GB should be more than enough.
I think it is always mounted as sd-ext regardless of which format you used. If you go to /data/sdext2 with ES File Explorer or similar app you can see all the .apk files that have been linked as well as the data and dalvik-cache directories.
Don't forget to recreate your mount script (you should be prompted after installing Link2SD) and relink your apps when you do a fresh install of a ROM to get all the applications you have installed linked to the current ROM. You also should backup the "SDext" partition whenever you use 4EXT to create a nandroid backup since that partition will contain all your linked apps and data.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
That guide has you format the second SD card parition as ext4 so you should be good to go.
Start Link2SD and go to menu/storage info. The "SD Card 2nd Part." will confirm that your app parition is mounted correctly and give you the usage stats. Mine is allocated as 1GB with 182 apps linked to that partition and I still have 7% free, so I think 4GB should be more than enough.
I think it is always mounted as sd-ext regardless of which format you used. If you go to /data/sdext2 with ES File Explorer or similar app you can see all the .apk files that have been linked as well as the data and dalvik-cache directories.
Don't forget to recreate your mount script (you should be prompted after installing Link2SD) and relink your apps when you do a fresh install of a ROM to get all the applications you have installed linked to the current ROM. You also should backup the "SDext" partition whenever you use 4EXT to create a nandroid backup since that partition will contain all your linked apps and data.
ramjet73
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Ramjet you are the man!:highfive:
Finally moved all my apps to the partition using link2Sd and no forced crashes after reset! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Everything is good to go now and I don't have to worry about reinstalling or restoring my device if it crashes! I have questions though about backups? When backing up user apps via Titanium...I am assuming it is only backing up the symbolic links correct? Even though the apps have been moved to the 2nd partition on the card, I still see the apps listed as on the phone in settings. Should you still use Titanium to backup user apps or is that a waste of time because it will only backup the symbolic links? I still will use it to backup my system settings and user apps. The reason I ask is because I use Titanium to make remote backups of all my settings and apps. Is there anyway to continue to do this using link2sd?
Thanks again for all you help!
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Everything is good to go now and I don't have to worry about reinstalling or restoring my device if it crashes! I have questions though about backups? When backing up user apps via Titanium...I am assuming it is only backing up the symbolic links correct? Even though the apps have been moved to the 2nd partition on the card, I still see the apps listed as on the phone in settings. Should you still use Titanium to backup user apps or is that a waste of time because it will only backup the symbolic links? I still will use it to backup my system settings and user apps. The reason I ask is because I use Titanium to make remote backups of all my settings and apps. Is there anyway to continue to do this using link2sd?
Thanks again for all you help!
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Titanium Backup (TB) will backup and restore apps fine with Link2SD installed, and the apps and data in the TB directory on the SD card are the actual objects, not the symbolic links. I consider the apps maintained by Link2SD in the second partition of the SD card as my primary backup for user apps, but do periodically delete all TB backups and make a full TB backup of all apps and data (system and user) just so I have a complete backup. Of course, I still have my nandroid backups as well, but if I accidentally uninstall something from Link2SD it's easier to restore with TB.
I've read that restoring all user apps from TB at once doesn't work because the Link2SD autolink isn't activated by a TB restore and the internal storage will overflow, but that's not a concern for me since I keep all my user apps in the Link2SD partition and never have to restore them all from TB. I think this may have been changed in a recent version of TB and/or Link2SD because when I just uninstalled an app and restored it with TB it was autolinked by Link2SD.
Just keep in mind that some formatting options, such as "format all partitions except SD card" in 4EXT, will format the sd-ext partitions so it's always a good idea to include them in your nandroid backups just to make sure you have a recent copy of the Link2SD apps.
BTW, one of the main advantages of Link2SD is that since it uses a separate partition on the SD card, the apps it links are still available when the first (usually fat32) SD card partition is mounted as USB storage. That's why the app manager thinks they are still on internal storage instead of the SD card.
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Hello! I just rooted and installed last stable cm-7 ROM on my Legend using this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26735943&postcount=3
I thought all my problems were over but unfortunetley I was wrong.
After I downloaded & installed some apps, I noticed that my internal phone storage space is keeping gettig
low, even when I move every app to SDcard after installing it. Setting the sdcard as install location by
"adb shell" was not helpful either.
I guess some data is still saved on the internal storage, no matter if I moved it to sdcard.
I tried to create a partition on my SD so it can be used as internal storage, using this tutorial:
http://forum.hackmyandroid.com/showthread.php?t=220&page=1
But after I created the partition, my Legend couldn't identify my SD at all.
Lucky, somehow I managed to do something so my Legend could recognize my SD again, but I remained with
some less space on my SDcard. In other words, I couldn't delete the partition properly. Weird...
Is there any solution for this issue? I don't mind getting a new Micro-SD but how I cause my internal storage
stop getting full?
Any ideas?
OK, so I tried to create a partition with ROM Manger, but I after it's done and device is rebooted, Link2SD still says "2nd partition not found"....
So, I created the 2nd partition.. all setted up... even get a notification from Link2SD after an app is installed says "appname linked to SD"
BUT, still internal phone storage is getting low... I'm helpless.. any ideas please...
Hey guys. As the title says, I've been having this problem since about 2 days ago and it happened after I was linking an app to my SD Card with Link2Sd. My device suddenly crashed and now every time I try to mount the card, it fails. Now my device also can't take pictures, can't download or save anything from anywhere except the Play Store. I tried factory resetting, formatting my SD Card and removing the second partition. I forgot to mention that only my device won't read my card. My PC and 2 of my friend's phones can read the card. My device is an SM-G532G, it's rooted and has TWRP. Would appreciate if someone knows how to fix this.
Thanks in advance ?
- AJ