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Hi all i recently got the tmobile g2 touch and i've rooted and installed modaco 2.2 core rom. i've even downloaded apps2sd2 nd have it installed yet when i try to create a partiotion thru it adjusting the slider to about 300mb it goes done and says reboot yet the reboot button is unresponsive so after rebooting agen myself it does the same thing again. Can ne1 tell me what im doin or if i have missed anything??
Thanks in advance.
p.s i only gt 23mb of phone storage left so need this to work thanx
fezy said:
Can ne1 tell me what im doin or if i have missed anything??
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Yeah, you missed the part of the MoDaCo ROM release notes that tells you that A2SD is installed as part of the ROM.
yeh but i dnt get that option when i boot in the recovery screen thats y i downloaded app2sd
fezy said:
yeh but i dnt get that option when i boot in the recovery screen thats y i downloaded app2sd
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That's 'cos it isn't an option - you have to repartition your card and then A2SD (built into MCR2.2) moves your apps when it detects the ext3 partition.
You need to partition your SD card using computer, the phone itself can only 'format' the card which is no good. As per http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/A2SD:
The SDcard will need two partitions, the first Fat / Fat32 & the second Ext2 For the Ext2 partition I wouldn't go higher than 1.5GB cuz you may run into some issues. I was staying around the 500MB / 750MB area & it was working nice. As all the guides I've read state not to exceed the 1.5GB Marker.
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Although a lot of guides say to use Ext3, Ext2 works fine for me. Remember, only newly (re)installed apps will be put onto the SD card- the old ones stay on the phone's own memory.
SquiffSquiff said:
Remember, only newly (re)installed apps will be put onto the SD card- the old ones stay on the phone's own memory.
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Incorrect if using MCR2.x; preinstalled apps are also moved.
Only if moving from an earlier Modaco ROM, everyone else has to wipe first. If Fezy had not partitioned his card first then his apps would be installed to internal memory and I don't think that partitioning the card subsequently will cause those apps to be moved to it.
Hi thanks for all replies your assistant is much appreciated. As i'm new to android (coming from symbian) I was doing so much research i ended up getting confused with all the stuff i saw. But just the day before yesterday actually realised what you just said. I had decided to manually create a partition on computer and did it up to ext 3 etc but thought it didnt work because again i tried to use da apps2sd application to move the apps ( i know "what a noob") and hadn't realised that the applications had alrdy transferred (i only realsied later when i saw 93mb of free phonestorage space) so i ended up doing it all again and as u can gess i lost all my applications lolz, but i had a backup created beforehand so it worked ou .
Thanks again for the help shluggity and squiffsquiff really appreciate it guys.
p.s all the preinstalled apps got moved first time hence me losing all the apps when i tried it again.
Hi guys. I've reached my breaking point on the anemic app storage space on our handy dandy little device. So far I've avoided any real mods for this device because I didn't want to start a new habit of flashing on the regular (been there, done that, fun but sometimes time consuming). But right I can't install any large programs without having the constant low space message. So if the only real functionality I need is an extended app storage partition what method would be best to achieve that. Thanks in advance everyone.
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Hi guys. I've reached my breaking point on the anemic app storage space on our handy dandy little device. So far I've avoided any real mods for this device because I didn't want to start a new habit of flashing on the regular (been there, done that, fun but sometimes time consuming). But right I can't install any large programs without having the constant low space message. So if the only real functionality I need is an extended app storage partition what method would be best to achieve that. Thanks in advance everyone.
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I think there is only one way: Urukdroid.
I thinks its the only way to extend app partition Try it
Okay follow up question, should I then get a ne SD card as mine is only class 2, or should I install on internal. Pros?cons? Again thanks
dancnpete said:
Okay follow up question, should I then get a ne SD card as mine is only class 2, or should I install on internal. Pros?cons? Again thanks
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Install on sd card is better if you want more space on your tablet
But otherwise i prefer install on internal
There is a thread in here somewhere in which a fella found that gen8 devices keep a cache of old APK files. I cleared out that cache and it fixed all my maddening app storage problems. Look for that thread.
I tried finding the thread you mentioned with no luck, any idea what to search for?
I just spent a good 20 minutes searching and couldn't find it either.. weird. I'll see if I can't find the directory on my own when I get home.
Can you get a temp root? That's necessary.
Knowing there is an answer is half the battle.
I found .apk's in internal \Downloads directory and \system\APK. I didn't even have to use adb, just mounted the disks and used explorer.
I can confirm that deleting them doesn't hurt anything. However, there really wasn't that much and it didn't help my sort of storage issue.
I haven't tried this on my A101 yet, but Link2SD http://market.android.com/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD should work. You will have to create a second partition on your internal storage or SD card though.
Hi all.
First of all, I apologize if my post already exist.
I have a prob with my sd card that can't be recognized with the achtojan ROM downloaded from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151933.
My sd card is configured to be using with link2sd (2 partitions, one with FAT32 that have almost all my datas and applications saved in it , and the other in ext2).
The question is, what can I do to make my sd card recognized with both FAT32 and ext2 because I wanna to use link2sd again, whether with this ROM or with any other ROM having this prob.
Thanks for your precious help.
Guantanamo said:
Hi all.
First of all, I apologize if my post already exist.
I have a prob with my sd card that can't be recognized with the achtojan ROM downloaded from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151933.
My sd card is configured to be using with link2sd (2 partitions, one with FAT32 that have almost all my datas and applications saved in it , and the other in ext2).
The question is, what can I do to make my sd card recognized with both FAT32 and ext2 because I wanna to use link2sd again, whether with this ROM or with any other ROM having this prob.
Thanks for your precious help.
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First of all nothing to do with development, second a few threads down is a simular topic if you had searched and 3rd why not take it to the Dev's thread of whose rom you are using, i am sure he not bite.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1177442
smartgardens said:
First of all nothing to do with development, second a few threads down is a simular topic if you had searched and 3rd why not take it to the Dev's thread of whose rom you are using, i am sure he not bite.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1177442
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Thanks for reply, but, the prob in the post you suggested to me isn't the same. And I won't format my sd card, because I've a lot of things in it, and it will be a hard work to copy all in my pc, and before all, I wanna to use link2sd with the ROM I use, whether if it will be the achtojan ROM or any other.
Please, if there is something that can i do, let me so. Thanks.
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Thanks for reply, but, the prob in the post you suggested to me isn't the same. And I won't format my sd card, because I've a lot of things in it, and it will be a hard work to copy all in my pc, and before all, I wanna to use link2sd with the ROM I use, whether if it will be the achtojan ROM or any other.
Please, if there is something that can i do, let me so. Thanks.
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Use mini tool data recovery this will repair your card without losing data, can be found here it's free for home users.
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
This might sound obvious but next time backup your sd card first before partitioning, even though it says it wont interfere with your data. I had the same problem but luckily i had a backup.
I think that you did not well understood my problem. The fact is that my sd card already works on another ROM without any issue, it has just to be detected with the ROM that I use at present, here it is.
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I think that you did not well understood my problem. The fact is that my sd card already works on another ROM without any issue, it has just to be detected with the ROM that I use at present, here it is.
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Look buddy i gave you the link and the answer you are looking for in my first post to you, do some searching and reading, here is the post in that thread that solves your issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15824115&postcount=12
also it applies to the same rom you are using.
Look dude, I saw you that there are big big big differences between the problem in the post you suggested to me and my problem. First : I have in my sd card 2 partitions (one in FAT32 with lot of datas and the other one in EXT2 for use of link2sd) and the sd card have to be detected, but the poste have just a problem with formatting his sd card. Second : my sd card already work with another ROM with no issue, if I reflash to the other ROM, it will certainly work with no prob of detecting. Third : I wanna to rest with the ROM I've flashed actually (I mean Achtojan's ROM) and fixing this issue if somebody can help without formatting the sd. That's all.
Thanks for your tries to help, but it seems that you don't understood my request the first time, then you tryed with something useless in our case. Anyway, Thanks for your tries again.
Why don't you just copy all your data to your pc, delete your partition, restore your data and then use the rom you want, why have you issue in formatting your sdcard?
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It is a known issue for ALL custom ROMs.
They actually mount the 2nd partition of the SD -if there are more than 1.
Being an ext2, it's not recognised by the system as storage space.
So if you want to use a custom ROM, Link2sd is a NO-GO.
You need to reformat your SD into a single FAT32 partition. That's the way it is.
Also, I have wrote this exact same post more than 10 times. So, the question has already been asked. Using Search is not always easy but it pays off eventually. Please make the effort next time.
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This is a general problem in EVERY 2.2+ ROM for X10
My guess is that the new vold (known also as "vold2") that manages the storage devices is not properly configured.
My_Immortal and me were the ones who tried to find an actual cure for the root of the problem, but both of us ended up PMing the devs
Try to write a nice message to Zdzihu, Jerpelea or even DoomLord(that guy surely has some knowledge as well) and cross your fingers
Till it's not fixed try to stay on 2.1 as the new Gingerbread update is on its way... hopefully.
oops, someone was faster than me... or I was just polite to let the girls be the first
i will again say what everyone else has said before.
link2sd has problems with custom rom's so far.
check my sig for details on how you can have multiple partitions and still get your card detected in custom ROMs
however basic problem is X10 checks the last partition (should be vfat) mounts it as /sdcard
link2sd takes /sdcard partition number and add's a 1 to it to get ext2 partition. (which could not exist)
on top of that xrec will take first partition as /sdcard when you boot to sdcard.
so thats a mess as of now.
i tried vold and other stuff also all in vain even tried contacting the dev behind link2sd asknig him to add a option to select partion but no reply so far.
hope this helps in solving your query.
In the droid forums, there are a thread that speak about this problem too, and many people searching solution managed something to make sd card detecting, but I am not very advanced in the subject, thus I cannot say about it more. Maybe that some of you who know a little more in the subject can find something useful for us there.
The thread in question is here :
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/cyanogenmod/129723-ultimate-apps2sd-thread.html
Thanks.
Guantanamo said:
In the droid forums, there are a thread that speak about this problem too, and many people searching solution managed something to make sd card detecting, but I am not very advanced in the subject, thus I cannot say about it more. Maybe that some of you who know a little more in the subject can find something useful for us there.
The thread in question is here :
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/cyanogenmod/129723-ultimate-apps2sd-thread.html
Thanks.
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thanks for the link
quick check suggests some modification at rom or ramdisk level might solve issue.
lets not jump to conclusion. if i do get some time off work this weekend , i will try and see what exactly is going on and can give you a response on that.
anantshri said:
thanks for the link
quick check suggests some modification at rom or ramdisk level might solve issue.
lets not jump to conclusion. if i do get some time off work this weekend , i will try and see what exactly is going on and can give you a response on that.
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even a "patch" in hw_config.sh file should do the trick... but i am not 100% sure
DooMLoRD said:
even a "patch" in hw_config.sh file should do the trick... but i am not 100% sure
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ohk sorry to OP first i am hijacking this thread
@Doom, just thinking out loud.
I don't have required tools till next 3-4 hrs
i just need to check how link2sd is mapping (once again last exercise was month back so forgot all of it.)
we can see what volume label he is using to mount the partition and can use hw_config.sh or a new file say /system/etc/init.d/99sd_ext2.sh just about anyname till it has 99 in front making it last item to run.
and add code to mount the partition we want to be mounted in our predefined location that should make it work.
Hope that can work. but will need to check and same as i did last time i will again have to go 3 partitions way.
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ohk sorry to OP first i am hijacking this thread
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No problem mate, take your ease. It can help a lot of people.
I've read little in the thread, but as I said it, I am not really very advanced in the subject, and I can make nothing . I can just say to you that with a buddy and the help of this subject, and after a lot of tries, we were able to make his sd card detectable on his phone (an HTC mytouch 3G slide), but I don't rememeber what we have done, and the solution was just temporary. In rebooting the phone, it was necessary to do all again from the beginning, which we were not able to make due to our limited knowledge .
As now, I hope that you or any other person can make anything useful for all people around here.
Thanks for your efforts.
PS : I've temporary returned to EWJET ROM that is already configured for use with a sd card parted. Maybe Erickwill can help too. Good Luck.
ohk a quick check
if something is mounted on /data/sdext2 then link2sd thinks it has found the second partition
what i did was
1) created a temporary img file 100 MB
2) did a loopmount of img file on /data/sdext2 folder
3) link2sd working.
(I know i am lazy i don't want to format my card just wanted to help all as much as i can.)
now this was test so what we are missing here
1) we need a way to automatically mount a pertition on /data/sdext2
2) we will still need 3 partition on sdcard as my last experiment was to check the same and we if want to use ext2 we need
vfat-ext2-vfat to the minimum.
last being your sdcard
first being your recovery sdcard
and ext2 partition used by link2sd
3) tried hw_config.sh as suggested by DooMLorD
even checked /system/etc/init.d/
they all seem to be executing well before sdcard gets mounted or not at all.
so this is where i am stuck and right now out of time need to focus on other tasks.
hope someone can find a way around to this.
NOTE : EWJET ROM are 2.1 rom if i am not wrong. 2.1 roms do support link2sd as of now its basically the problem of 2.2 roms.
I will try your method with the three partition, but I have a question, how to make the third partition detected in windows for copying all my datas in it.
The method with three partitions don't work too. I'm really confused now.
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I'm not able to get the Internal SD card to mount after installing the pre-beta cyanogenmod 7. Is there some setting I'm missing or something that I need to do in particular?
Prior to install I was on the alien build and everything worked fine. Now when I go to the root directory using RootExplorer it says 'the sd card is not currently mounted'.
I've had my atrix for a while and i'm not a complete noob, just not an avid poster. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: I have checked the storage menu and i do have 1.17GB of free space.
It can be found under /mnt/emmc. Unfortunately, I have to inform you for future reference that this is the wrong forum for such a question. Q and A exists for a reason, but I hope I helped.
Please post in the correct sections. Thread moved.
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It can be found under /mnt/emmc. Unfortunately, I have to inform you for future reference that this is the wrong forum for such a question. Q and A exists for a reason, but I hope I helped.
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Thanks for the help. I found that but how do I get, for example, Rom Manager or other applications to recognize that location?
Mr Clown, My apologies for posting in the wrong section.
nalomo said:
Thanks for the help. I found that but how do I get, for example, Rom Manager or other applications to recognize that location?
Mr Clown, My apologies for posting in the wrong section.
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+1 wondering the same
i would also like to know, as i have only a class 1 microsd card and it creates wakeup lag. if i take it out, there is no wakeup lag but my phone wont recognize the internal storage.
I think it varies by application. Some will let you browse there and set it as a default directory for things, but many will not. I have just gotten used to having duplicates of random stuff for now :S I think it is pretty unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Maybe someone will develop something like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034939
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/20724-nook-color-sdcard-and-emmc-swap/
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/27030-questions-on-5gb-emmc-just-hacked-nc/
That's for the Nook, but I can't see why someone couldn't do that for the Atrix. However, I would imagine it won't be our own CM7 team because their task is to port CM7, and thus they are following the CM standards.
I have this problem too, i dont hae a external SD Card
im used to the internal 16 gb as my memory
now iwth CM7 , the phone is lost, browsr wont download, titanium wont find the sd card, nothing is working
so is an EXTERNAL sd card a pre-requisite for CM7, i never knew this..
and if so, what does CM7 do with the huge internal memory if it saves everything to the external (atleast thats where apps see it)
Hello, well, I'm sorry if this thread shouldn't be here, I'm a new user =D. But well, I ask help please, I hope to find an answer.
See, I've rooted my phone, but I can't move the apps to SD. I partitioned the SD for using Link2SD and it recognize the partition ext2, but can't create the links for apps. I fixed the problem the SD for writing (I can copy, cute and paste from internal storage to SD and inverse? - Sorry, my english is basic and don't have enough megabytes for using an English-Spanish dictionary =D-). So, I think that LG made a good job locking the system. I found some apps for trying to solve the problem, but I think the system protects of they (like Force2SD, Final App2SD, etc.) because don't let me install them, it says that the device don't have enough memory, but does let me install other apps heavier, like facebook. So, the system doesn't give permissions for move apps although the device is rooted. For now, I read that my only salvation is installing a Custom ROM. But there is no ROM for my device until now . Someone knows another option for help me?
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Hello, well, I'm sorry if this thread shouldn't be here, I'm a new user =D. But well, I ask help please, I hope to find an answer.
See, I've rooted my phone, but I can't move the apps to SD. I partitioned the SD for using Link2SD and it recognize the partition ext2, but can't create the links for apps. I fixed the problem the SD for writing (I can copy, cute and paste from internal storage to SD and inverse? - Sorry, my english is basic and don't have enough megabytes for using an English-Spanish dictionary =D-). So, I think that LG made a good job locking the system. I found some apps for trying to solve the problem, but I think the system protects of they (like Force2SD, Final App2SD, etc.) because don't let me install them, it says that the device don't have enough memory, but does let me install other apps heavier, like facebook. So, the system doesn't give permissions for move apps although the device is rooted. For now, I read that my only salvation is installing a Custom ROM. But there is no ROM for my device until now . Someone knows another option for help me?
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I am having this same problem.
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oth0nielmx said:
Hello, well, I'm sorry if this thread shouldn't be here, I'm a new user =D. But well, I ask help please, I hope to find an answer.
See, I've rooted my phone, but I can't move the apps to SD. I partitioned the SD for using Link2SD and it recognize the partition ext2, but can't create the links for apps. I fixed the problem the SD for writing (I can copy, cute and paste from internal storage to SD and inverse? - Sorry, my english is basic and don't have enough megabytes for using an English-Spanish dictionary =D-). So, I think that LG made a good job locking the system. I found some apps for trying to solve the problem, but I think the system protects of they (like Force2SD, Final App2SD, etc.) because don't let me install them, it says that the device don't have enough memory, but does let me install other apps heavier, like facebook. So, the system doesn't give permissions for move apps although the device is rooted. For now, I read that my only salvation is installing a Custom ROM. But there is no ROM for my device until now . Someone knows another option for help me?
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I just figured it out, phone is rooted, card is partitioned, you can still only move very few apps to the card, but you can "link" them to the card, it is the option below the move to sd button. I went from having 400MB free to 750MB with the free app, and now have 1.2GB with the paid version. I am amazed!
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