I am running out of space with the stock partition layout on my Droid Incredible 4G LTE. I am currently running the CM 10.2.1 ROM. I've flashed the TWRP recovery from here:
http://android.cmphys.com/fireball-partition-swap/
but I'm unsure whether I need to modify the partition layout, then flash the recommended ROM or flash the recommended ROM then modify the partition layout.
You need to do the partition swap then flash the ROM. :thumbup:
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Ok thanks.
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Hi folks. As the title suggests, how do I I setup an ext4 partition on Evo 3D GSM I have a 32Gb sd card in the phone with a lot of stuff on it that I don't want to lose either.
My Phone is:
S-OFF, HBOOT-1.49.1107, Jul 12 2011
and I have Clockworks mod on it.
The reason I want to do this is so that I can try out the latest version of mwakious3Drom.
Cheers
myevo3d said:
Hi folks. As the title suggests, how do I I setup an ext4 partition on Evo 3D GSM I have a 32Gb sd card in the phone with a lot of stuff on it that I don't want to lose either.
My Phone is:
S-OFF, HBOOT-1.49.1107, Jul 12 2011
and I have Clockworks mod on it.
The reason I want to do this is so that I can try out the latest version of mwakious3Drom.
Cheers
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Mwakious said himself that v5 Rom a2sd script works on v6. You have to replace the file from system/etc/init.d
V6 by itself has problems with a2sd, says he will fix for v7, no idea when that is.
4ext recovery has an option to partition an ext partition without losing your files on sd, although it didn't work for me.
You should have advanced/partition sd in cwm, it WILL ERASE ALL CONTENTS OF SD, so backup before you try.
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Well I did find a way to resize an EXT4 partition. I had a 256MB EXT4 partition but with the free paragon partition manager I was able to resize it to a GB. Only problem now is that I find my ICS is not seeing the EXT4 partition as internal storage before it worked with ROM I used but with ICS do I need to install some app or something to make it work?
I haven't tried any custom roms yet because frankly default jb is great.
I was wondering though, when you flash a custom ROM, will it use the application storage partition for your apps? Or will it want you to install apps on the roms partition?
The apps install on the individual rom's partition, because each romslot used creates a new partition that the rom recognizes as the only available storage space. This is the biggest reason some people opt out of using safestrap or bmm- the rom space is limited. They end up flashing over stock so they have all 8 gb, just as they would normally. Every app installed on each rom takes up space on the internal storage (a lot of redundancy).
timmytucker718 said:
I haven't tried any custom roms yet because frankly default jb is great.
I was wondering though, when you flash a custom ROM, will it use the application storage partition for your apps? Or will it want you to install apps on the roms partition?
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Safestrap (/BMM), creates rom-slots on your internal sdcard. A rom-slot has its own /system, /data partitions and is independent of any other rom-slot or stock slot.
Thanks fellas. I didn't think you could use a custom rom on the razr without ss or bmm because of the locked boot loader. Can you?
And it's lame how theres a different partition for apps. Internal storage and apps should share a partition like on other android phones I've used.
timmytucker718 said:
Thanks fellas. I didn't think you could use a custom rom on the razr without ss or bmm because of the locked boot loader. Can you?
And it's lame how theres a different partition for apps. Internal storage and apps should share a partition like on other android phones I've used.
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Locked bootloader means no flashable recovery.
And you cannot flash a ROM without custom recovery.
So the only way is Safstrap or BMM.
Its nothing different. Every android phone has these partitions.
/boot stores the kernel
/system stores the ROM
/data stores app and user data.
What SS does is create a copy of these partitions (like a virtual system) on the internal sdcard and set is to boot. Its the only way since the BL is locked.
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Hi, i'm just wondering why we don't repartition system partition etc. instead of trimming note 2 rom to fit our system partition. I've edited my partitions yesterday and have 1.5 gb on system, 4gb on data. That way we could have everything from that rom.
best regards
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Hi,
I just flashed my phone, using CM 11 to KitKat 4.4.4. Everything went smooth. However, I left 1 GB for data partition and the default size for system and cache. After installing a few apps I found that I have no more space, so I'm gonna repeat the procedure increasing the space for these partitions. My question is how big these partitions (data, cache and system) are in the stock ROM (in my case JellyBean 4.1.2? If I return to the stock ROM do I have to determine the partitions, or it is automatically?
Currently my RAZR has 2 slots used. Stock and Slot-1 with CM11. I want to install CM12 but do not want to get rid of CM11 just yet.
My Stock slot has a spare 2GB of data space, since i never use that slot anymore. I want to remove 1GB so that i can make a Slot-2 partition for CM12. Is there a way or is there an app that will allow me shrink the Stock data partition size from 3GB to 2GB.
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Currently my RAZR has 2 slots used. Stock and Slot-1 with CM11. I want to install CM12 but do not want to get rid of CM11 just yet.
My Stock slot has a spare 2GB of data space, since i never use that slot anymore. I want to remove 1GB so that i can make a Slot-2 partition for CM12. Is there a way or is there an app that will allow me shrink the Stock data partition size from 3GB to 2GB.
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You can make a backup of slot1, then delete the data partition then recreate it to the size you want then restore your backup