So I recently got the "almost out of space" notification and I realized that it says that I only have 2.7 gb total for my sd card (4 gb card). I remembered way back when i formatted a ext3 partition to it for apps2sd, but that was when i was running an older version of Fresh. I have since switched to CM6, and as best I can tell its not installing apps to that partition.
Gparted is saying theres only one partition available (2.7 gb), and is calling it unallocated space. Im not really keen on how android uses different partitions, so i had a few questions:
1. Can i backup all files on the card to my comp, format the card, then copy them back without losing any data/ apps?
2. Should i format it all as one partition (and if so what filesystem)?
3. Would formatting the card with a partition for swap benefit me at all?
Great question! I'd like to know too.
cerialphreak said:
So I recently got the "almost out of space" notification and I realized that it says that I only have 2.7 gb total for my sd card (4 gb card). I remembered way back when i formatted a ext3 partition to it for apps2sd, but that was when i was running an older version of Fresh. I have since switched to CM6, and as best I can tell its not installing apps to that partition.
Gparted is saying theres only one partition available (2.7 gb), and is calling it unallocated space. Im not really keen on how android uses different partitions, so i had a few questions:
1. Can i backup all files on the card to my comp, format the card, then copy them back without losing any data/ apps?
2. Should i format it all as one partition (and if so what filesystem)?
3. Would formatting the card with a partition for swap benefit me at all?
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Are you talking about the internal memory is getting low notification in the status bar? If so, that is not your SD, it's internal memory. Check in settings/storage and see what it says. I think the warning comes up if you go below 20-25mb.
Also, CM6-7 roms do not come with a2sd/firerats/data2ext/etc. You would need to do that seperately if you want.
The notification was from the card, and I dunno what its called, but when I check an app in the apps management setting theres an option to move to phone/sd card.
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Yesterday I upgraded to cyanogen's 4.0.4, it said that i would have to partition my sd card(8gb) to allow the apps2sd to automatically work, a friend of mines recommended Paragon Partition Manager, i installed it, and partition my sd card, to ext 3 format, so i have about 1.3 gb of partitioned sd card and about a little over 6 gigs for music and videos. The cyanogen FAQs said that " 4. How do I set up apps-to-sd?
You need to create a second partition on your SD card in the ext2/ext3/ext4 format. Search the forums if you don't know how to do this. Once created, the ROM will move your apps automatically and new apps will be installed to the SD by default. " but it hasnt freed up any space on my phone, and when i download new apps, it still goes directly to the phone. Am I doing somthing wrong and should i consider reformating the whole sd card, partioning over again and adding a lower amount for apps and a linux swap partion also.
mrhalfdeadman said:
Yesterday I upgraded to cyanogen's 4.0.4, it said that i would have to partition my sd card(8gb) to allow the apps2sd to automatically work, a friend of mines recommended Paragon Partition Manager, i installed it, and partition my sd card, to ext 3 format, so i have about 1.3 gb of partitioned sd card and about a little over 6 gigs for music and videos. The cyanogen FAQs said that " 4. How do I set up apps-to-sd?
You need to create a second partition on your SD card in the ext2/ext3/ext4 format. Search the forums if you don't know how to do this. Once created, the ROM will move your apps automatically and new apps will be installed to the SD by default. " but it hasnt freed up any space on my phone, and when i download new apps, it still goes directly to the phone. Am I doing somthing wrong and should i consider reformating the whole sd card, partioning over again and adding a lower amount for apps and a linux swap partion also.
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You aren't meant to make one bigger than 1.5, yours is very close so it could be the issue.
A good way to check if its working is if space is being used up on the ext3. Go to Setting > SD > secondary partition.
Also try rebooting, you might find that your internal space increases afterwards.
If neither of those work then reformat and make a smaller ext partition. I'm struggling to fill up my 500mb, why anyone would need 1GB+ is beyond me.
also,i am noticing since i have done this partitioning, that if i have my sd card in the phone and reboot, that after the android boot screen, that my phone will go blank, and if i pull the card and battery out and reboot with no card in the phone will do fine.
mrhalfdeadman said:
also,i am noticing since i have done this partitioning, that if i have my sd card in the phone and reboot, that after the android boot screen, that my phone will go blank, and if i pull the card and battery out and reboot with no card in the phone will do fine.
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Hold on. Your phone will only boot properly without the sdcard. You should not remove the card when the phone is on, because it can bork your entire partition.
If I was you I'd wipe the card and start over, adding a smaller ext partition.
ahh shoot, ok then, i just formatted the partion back to fat 32, so you suggest me to just, re partition it in ext 3 and make it smaller to about 500 mb should i also make a linux swap?
and also, although i formatted it back to fat 32, it wont let me merge the files back into 7.3 gigs. or maybe i am not doing it right.
mrhalfdeadman said:
and also, although i formatted it back to fat 32, it wont let me merge the files back into 7.3 gigs. or maybe i am not doing it right.
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merge files? got no idea what you're talking about.
Just wipe all partitions on the card. Make one ~7GB FAT32, ~500mb ext3 and if you want 32mb linux swap. To be safe wipe your phone and reflash cyanogen mod.
yea well, i dont know what is going on with it, but i have wiped, and rebooted, now and it is still blank after the android boot screen, and the sd card is in it now. i dont know what to say now.
i have the same issue
The problem is the Recovery IMG
Try install this recovery image: RA-dream-v1.2.3 Recovery Image
The make the partitions again from the recovery console
Jesus, man...
I suppose because of lingering paranoia from the days of filling my phone up daily, I've always made an Ext partition around a gig. I've never, ever, ever even filled half of it.
Then again, since I don't usually listen to music on my phone I also Have a nearly 7 gig fat 32 partition that I don't often fill. Honestly, it's probably because I keep losing the damned jack adapter and I haven't seen the earbuds I bought with the jack attached in months.
I have so many 3.5mm headphones around and still, those damned adapters elude me.
having a few issues in this area as well, all is partitioned as reccomended within the recovery console, (~7Gigs'ish fat32 and a 500MB part on ext3...) apps to SD is still blanked out... weird from my POV, as it worked fine until i updated to CyanogenMod 5.0.7 test 5..
Can anyone reccomend a more stable "2.1" based Cyan rom? or is the 5.*.* series the first of its kind to utilize 2.1? sorry for veering off-topic, but i feel my problem may be the newest releas of CM as it IS a test build...
Any words of wisdom would be greaaaaatly appreciated. not new to this stuff, but the apps2sd thing i never bothered with untill now (i do so mu h reformatting and build testing its becoming a pain to re-install all my apps... as i refuse to pay for the MyBackup app lol)
~Dark
Hi,
I was not able to find the reason behind partitioning the sdcard for nexus one.
I have just installed the CM 5.0.6 but I do not know whether I should parition the sd card or not.
Thanks.
You should just partition the SD card if you want apps2sd, or debian.
Why? Because it's formated as a single FAT32 volume by default, basically to store all your stuff (media, pics, data, etc...), but if you want Android to use it (linux, basically) you have to partition it and format your new partition as extX.
Hope it helped.
you don't have to partition. but, it allows you to do things like install apps to your sd card since the n1 doesn't have much available space to begin with.
I thought I was at least a little savvy about this stuff but I'm feeling a bit noobish. I have a SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 running Cognition 3.04 with the default Cog kernel and modem. This evening I was messing around with Clockworkmod and did the "Partition SD Card" option (512M ext, 32M swap) thinking this was going to partition my external (4 gig) sdcard. Instead, it appears that CWM actually partitioned the internal (16 gig) sdcard. Best I can tell it created a root partition using ext3 or similar fs and then formatted the remainder of the card as vfat. So, this leaves me with two questions?
1. What is the value of this? Obviously I'm not gaining any storage just by splitting up the internal card, and I would assume the downside is this limits the amount of apps I can install to the space on the root partition?
2) What's the easiest way to get back to single partition? I have CWM and TBU backups prior to formatting and run linux on my home desktop.
Thanks.
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I believe this is if you wanted to have APPS2SD if your internal ROM is full for apps. This way you could install apps on your internal SD card by fooling the OS into thinking the ext partition on your sd card part of your ROM.
At least this is what formatting the SD card with an ext partition was for on my previous android.
Ive personally never used APPS2SD because it just seemed more trouble if anything but this is an option for those who fill up the 2GB of ROM space that i believe android alots.
Hopefully that helped you out.
Installed CWR on an 8 GB SD Card. The card only used about 40 MB and the rest is hidden. Is there any tool I can use to reformat the SD card to get my full space back? If I try with Windows, I can only see the 40 MB partition. Under My Computer/Manage/Disk Management, I can see all the partitions, but cannot make any changes.
KararM said:
Installed CWR on an 8 GB SD Card. The card only used about 40 MB and the rest is hidden. Is there any tool I can use to reformat the SD card to get my full space back? If I try with Windows, I can only see the 40 MB partition. Under My Computer/Manage/Disk Management, I can see all the partitions, but cannot make any changes.
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I'm on the original 1.1.0 OS, Rooted and Overclocked, and this worked for me...
Put the card back in your Nook. Then go to Settings/Device Info/SD Card. Once there tap on Unmount SD Card and then Format SD Card. That should get you your full capacity back.
BUT! It will completely erase the card.
Do you want to keep CWR or erase it?
In any event, get Minitools Partition Wizard. If you want to preserve the existing CWR, resize the partition. If you don't, delete and recreate a partition that uses the whole card.
EDit: all good now only question is about LCD density does anyone know how i would be able to set it to a certain thing and save it after i reboot instead of having to reset it each and every time
I am running CM7.1.0 on my nook color off the SD card. I used the YouTube tutorial by the Crash Tech Dummies. Now I notice that I am only allowed only 1GB of storage on the SD card. I used partition wizard to increase the space on the 4th partition like I was instructed. I would prefer to install the apps to the SD card so I have already burned through the space provided. Bellow I have listed what I see in partition magic. Should I move the free space in the 4th partition into the first? Or should I load the cm7 onto the HD of the nook? I am a bit of a noob but I have gotten this far.
My 16 GB card partitions read:
G:boot 30.32mb used 118.69mb unused
*: 179.55mb used 283.25mb unused
*: 367.34mb used 597.50mb unused
*: 6.68 gb used 6.61gb unused
Any suggestions would be great…I don’t know what else to do.
Help me XDA Developers you my only hope…
Steve da Noob
First of all, what is "1GB of storage on the SD card" you're talking about?
Secondly, the 4th partition has nothing to do with holding installed apps.
votinh said:
First of all, what is "1GB of storage on the SD card" you're talking about?
Secondly, the 4th partition has nothing to do with holding installed apps.
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when i go into settings, apps, storage use, sd card it says 1.0 gb used 0.00 free...i was assuming this was referring to a section of the sd card. I also assumed that the 4th partition was being used by something do the fact that half of it has been used by something...
Steve
Quoting from VeryGreen's instructions
Partition layout for the SD cards depends on size:
Less than 600M - unsupported.
up to 1G cards gets: system of ~300M and data of the rest of space. No FAT partition
2G cards (more than 1G up to 1800M) gets: 300M system, 612M data, rest is FAT sdcard
more than 2G cards gets: 460M system, 975M data, rest is FAT for sdcard.
Your first partition is the boot, nothing else should go on here.
Your second partition is the system partition containing the OS and system applications
Your 3rd partition is the data partition used for downloaded apps. The space allocated is adequate for a decent number of downloaded apps but may get tight if you load lots of games. You can move apps to "SD" which is the 4th partition if you get tight on space.
Your 4th partition is the "SD" user data area. This can be used by apps for their working folders and is also where you put stuff like media (pictures, music, video). It is the partition that will normally get mounted as a drive on a PC when the USB is connected and USB disk storage is turned on via the notification panel.
You say the 4th partition has got 6.68GB data on already? That should start off fairly empty until you put stuff on there.
I do have music and pictures on the device that i uploaded so that's where the items on partition #4 came from.
When i try and move the applications to the sd card it tells me that there is not enough room on the card. Also when i plug in the nook to my computer without the sd card in it shows the applications on the internal hard drive. Should i try and move space from the 4th partition to the 3 and see if that helps?
Thanks,
Steve
WileECoyote79 said:
When i try and move the applications to the sd card it tells me that there is not enough room on the card. Also when i plug in the nook to my computer without the sd card in it shows the applications on the internal hard drive. Should i try and move space from the 4th partition to the 3 and see if that helps?
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I'm a little surprised it says there is no room available to move an app if the partition still shows 6GB free. Have you tried using Apps2SD app. This will show space available and is a convenient way to move stuff around. Another possibility is that you are trying to do this whilst USB connected to the PC. That won't work as the Nook software can't access the SD partition while it is PC mounted.
Currently you said there was nearly 600MB free in your 3rd partition where new downloads go. If so I wouldn't bother with trying to move stuff until you get tight on space there.
If that happens and you just need to create some more app space in the 3rd partition then you can use a partition tool on the PC like minitools to reallocate some of the space from 4 to 3 to give yourself more app space.
I tried the apps2sd and i get the same error. It sends me to the same place as i discussed above and when i tell it to send it to the sd card i get the same error. "failed to move application, there is not enough storage space".
I am not trying to move anything while i have the nook attached to my computer. the only time i really used that function was to add music and some pictures.
This is really starting to get frustrating. I do appreciate all your help.
Is another option loading CM7 to the nook instead of the SD card?
I only used the SD CM7 method for a short while and I don't think I ever tried to move apps to the "SD" so maybe there is an issue trying to do this.
I think you have two choices.
If you stick with SD then increase the data partition to give yourself more room for apps.
If you never want to use the B&N OS then the internal memory is the best option. The SD card then becomes a single partition user space card and you can certainly move apps to it. If you do this then also consider using the zip that increases the internal data partition to 2GB to give yourself more internal room for apps anyway.
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I only used the SD CM7 method for a short while and I don't think I ever tried to move apps to the "SD" so maybe there is an issue trying to do this.
I think you have two choices.
If you stick with SD then increase the data partition to give yourself more room for apps.
If you never want to use the B&N OS then the internal memory is the best option. The SD card then becomes a single partition user space card and you can certainly move apps to it. If you do this then also consider using the zip that increases the internal data partition to 2GB to give yourself more internal room for apps anyway.
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I think ill try adjusting the partition and see if that helps. Like you said if it doesn't ill look into loading onto the internal memory. I am not to impressed with the B&N software and i use the kindle software for my e-reading.
Is there a method you could recommend for loading it onto the internal memory? A step by step tutorial would help out lots. I am not familiar with the zip you are referring to.
Thanks,
Steve
WileECoyote79 said:
I think ill try adjusting the partition and see if that helps. Like you said if it doesn't ill look into loading onto the internal memory. I am not to impressed with the B&N software and i use the kindle software for my e-reading.
Is there a method you could recommend for loading it onto the internal memory? A step by step tutorial would help out lots. I am not familiar with the zip you are referring to.
Thanks,
Steve
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Yes. If you don't think you'll use the B&N then internal is the way to go. Especially if you use Amazon Kindle for your books.
The easiest method in my view is to use the Eyeballer Clockwork boot SD and use that then to flash the main ROM and gapps zips.
You can find the most straightforward instructions here but I would use the KANG MiRaGe ROM as the main OS.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/8208-guide-install-cm71-clockworkmod-to-emmc-all-nooks-updated101111/
The 2GB partition zip can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
This can actually be applied at same time as installing the OS and gapps. Put the repartition zip, the ROM zip and the gapps zip on the Eyeballer SD card then use the menus to flash repartition, ROM and then gapps.
If you also follow the advice to put ROM manager and flash clockwork to the internal as well then future updates become very easy and do not even involve removing the SD card.
Ive decided that the best solution is to install on the internal rather than the sd card. i think this will be less of a pain in the butt in the long run.
being new to android and coming over from apple (booooo) is there anyway to easy re-install the apps that i have already downloaded? I do have one that i did pay for.
Steve
easy way to re-install? hmmm, maybe not but I would suggest you make the backup for all of your apps first (meaning save all .apk files to somewhere else)
ok here goes nothing lol
Titanium backup would allow you to back up all your apps. If you save the Titanium back up folder (say onto a PC via USB) then after you have done the internal install then put the Titanium back up folder back onto the fresh SD card and you can restore the apps back from there.
everything seems to be working just fine...thank you all for the help and advice...
Steve