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app2sd?

I'm using warm donut, flashed to the phone.. before hand I was using haret until I felt everything was stable enough.
My SD card is still partitioned the old way, 7.4GB fat32, 512M ext3, 32M swap
Is there a way to enable app2sd with warm donut so I can get more room? it might just be the fun of something new for now, but watching the free space for apps going down way to quickly

lordcalin said:
I'm using warm donut, flashed to the phone.. before hand I was using haret until I felt everything was stable enough.
My SD card is still partitioned the old way, 7.4GB fat32, 512M ext3, 32M swap
Is there a way to enable app2sd with warm donut so I can get more room? it might just be the fun of something new for now, but watching the free space for apps going down way to quickly
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i second this, I would love to do apps to SD

I think it should be do-able now that we have the automount program that allows access sd card system and user simultaneously.

yeah you guys would love apps2sd...it's cool on my hero! im glad to see all of the android development going on here.

If you guys want to do Apps2SD, you'll need an ext2 partition on your SD for it. Native Android devices have had some trouble with Apps2SD, so it's just been rewritten by Chris Soyars and Cyanogen -- instead of the WesGarner method that had been used previously. I suggest using their code as it's battle-tested.
Here's the relevant code at github, as you can see it's been recently updated:
http://github.com/cyanogen/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/eclair/prebuilt/common/etc/init.d/
HTH

I have app2sd enabled in my eclair build.
If you want to use it you must have an ext2 parition on your sdcard. than use my spareparts app to enable. Reboot.. wait... and there you go.

Can we get this going in your build Myn?

mssmison said:
I have app2sd enabled in my eclair build.
If you want to use it you must have an ext2 parition on your sdcard. than use my spareparts app to enable. Reboot.. wait... and there you go.
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Did a search for spareparts and couldnt find a link to a download. Anybody have a link they could throw up that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance

aviking said:
Did a search for spareparts and couldnt find a link to a download. Anybody have a link they could throw up that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance
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It's something that's built into the build, for msi's eclair he's got some extra things built into it. But it's not something you can just download

mrono said:
It's something that's built into the build, for msi's eclair he's got some extra things built into it. But it's not something you can just download
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i have the apps2sd.apk but it doesnt work properly. like you said i think it needs to be built into a build somehow

mrono said:
It's something that's built into the build, for msi's eclair he's got some extra things built into it. But it's not something you can just download
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Thanks for the quick reply.
This is starting to be not worth it and I am thinking I am glad that I was able to try android on an older phone because I dont think I will be getting an android phone when I upgrade in 6 months. Getting it so I can load apps to the sd card is WAAAAAAY to much of a pain I have tried a couple of tutorials and still cant get it to work.

aviking said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
This is starting to be not worth it and I am thinking I am glad that I was able to try android on an older phone because I dont think I will be getting an android phone when I upgrade in 6 months. Getting it so I can load apps to the sd card is WAAAAAAY to much of a pain I have tried a couple of tutorials and still cant get it to work.
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All you need to do is create a ext2 partition on your card and install system to nand and data to ext 2 partition. You can create as big of a partition as you want.

incubus26jc said:
All you need to do is create a ext2 partition on your card and install system to nand and data to ext 2 partition. You can create as big of a partition as you want.
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Thanks for the super fast repsonse
I used gparted to create the partition and formated it to ext2.
The second part you are talking about install the system to nand and data to the ext2 partition. I have installed Myn’s Warm Donut - [RLS 4 - 03/16/2010] nand version and thats where I am at right now. Do I need to move the data folder to the ext2 partition that I created? If yes when I connect to my PC running windows 7 I cannot see the ext2 partition that I created with gparted.

aviking said:
Thanks for the super fast repsonse
I used gparted to create the partition and formated it to ext2.
The second part you are talking about install the system to nand and data to the ext2 partition. I have installed Myn’s Warm Donut - [RLS 4 - 03/16/2010] nand version and thats where I am at right now. Do I need to move the data folder to the ext2 partition that I created? If yes when I connect to my PC running windows 7 I cannot see the ext2 partition that I created with gparted.
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i think you will have to reinstall system and wipe data. Change the location of the data when your going to reinstall. sorry

aviking said:
Thanks for the super fast repsonse
I used gparted to create the partition and formated it to ext2.
The second part you are talking about install the system to nand and data to the ext2 partition. I have installed Myn’s Warm Donut - [RLS 4 - 03/16/2010] nand version and thats where I am at right now. Do I need to move the data folder to the ext2 partition that I created? If yes when I connect to my PC running windows 7 I cannot see the ext2 partition that I created with gparted.
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use the norootfs installer and set your data to NAND, hit data backup, then set your data to ext2 and hit data restore.
Windows can't read ext2 on it's own

mrono said:
use the norootfs installer and set your data to NAND, hit data backup, then set your data to ext2 and hit data restore.
Windows can't read ext2 on it's own
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there you go much better answer then mine. Thanks man

would using ext2 partions make the build run smoother?
what are the benifits over NAND?

are you sure you need to have your data on the sd card? I was running apps2sd with mssmison's v7 eclair, and both my data and system were on nand, only the apps2sd was using the ext2 partition. i don't think it cares where your data.img is, just as long as you have an available ext2 partition; correct me if I'm wrong.

tatnai said:
are you sure you need to have your data on the sd card? I was running apps2sd with mssmison's v7 eclair, and both my data and system were on nand, only the apps2sd was using the ext2 partition. i don't think it cares where your data.img is, just as long as you have an available ext2 partition; correct me if I'm wrong.
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yes that is correct. This is if your not using apps2sd

mrono said:
use the norootfs installer and set your data to NAND, hit data backup, then set your data to ext2 and hit data restore.
Windows can't read ext2 on it's own
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Ok making progress with your suggestion after 2 days of reading and failure -- lol.
I am now able to install apps to the sd card. However when I was trying all kinds of things to get this to work I made my 8GB sd card partitioned 6.5gb fat 32 and then made two ext2 partitions evenly split.
So do I need two ext partitions?
And as soon as I made the change and was able to install to the sd card I can no longer sync with my PC. Its not a huge deal because I took out the micro sd and placed it into an sd reader and my PC could still read it. So I am guessing that its something that I changed that is causing the phone not to sync with my PC.
Any thoughts

Apps2sd - Will this work

Hey guys,
I found this vid for G1 will this process work for HTC hero if not then how would I go about doing this on the Hero, please help

Not really...
Do you have a rooted phone ? Which rom are you using ?
If your phone is rooted you can try that guide :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253
There is a section for app2sd.

Why isn't it possible to make the official 2.1 rom which is rooted work with app2sd?

I haven't said that.. I just said that this method is not for the Hero...
I don't know for the official 2.1 rom rooted because I don't use it and it may be because app2sd isn't included..

yeah i know, that you didn't said it sorry, didn't wanted to say something wrong. But in every App2sd Tutorial i found so far you have to install the custom firmware to get app2sd... i mean is it something which has to do with the kernel?

Not really sure but see:
Setup Apps2SD
ONLY RECOMMENDED ON CLASS 4+ SD CARDS. Don't bother if you don't know what this is . GIYF.
Do this process after doing everything else! So make sure you have a working custom rom installed which supports Apps2SD. This is designed for VillainROM which doesn't use a swap, if your ROM does support swap ask for a recommended amount. Also note that the ext2 partition will be unreadable from windows or through android os.
1. Backup your SD card to your computer (very important as this process will wipe all the data on it)
2. Restart your phone into recovery mode (Home + Power)
3. Select:
Partition sdcard
Partition SD
Press Home
Swap-size = 0 MB
Ext2-size = 512 MB (recommended)
FAT32-size = Remainder
Press Home
4. Once complete Reboot system now and wait! This can take 20 minutes or so to complete, so just keep waiting!
(Optional - before reboot) - Under partition sdcard you can convert the ext2 partition to ext3 - "SD:ext2 to ext3" - however this isn't recommended as it can apparently wear out your sd card quicker. I believe VillainROM even supports ext4 as well so you can do "SD:ext3 to ext4" after the first one too. Though again this will typically just wear out your SD faster without providing any speed benefits.
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You don't need to install anything... App2SD is included in the rom you have dowloaded (if it is included of course)
Which rom do you have ?

2.1 Official HTC Stock rom with root... and no i don't wanna use a custom rom, because im happy with the stock rom

So it should be because the dev didn't include App2SD in the rom :s

Hmm okay im asking now like a noob:
do i need an apk which i install in the hero, so that i can do the adb-commands and get app2sd working?
do i need to switch the kernel, so that i can do the adb-commands and get app2sd working?
are both of the suggestions wrong and i would need something other than that?

My rom is: RoufianosV1.1-Clean - http://hero-roms.blogspot.com/2010/06/roufianosv11-clean.html
so it does have apps2sd included...

Manny- said:
My rom is: RoufianosV1.1-Clean - http://hero-roms.blogspot.com/2010/06/roufianosv11-clean.html
so it does have apps2sd included...
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Yes it has it ..
Apps2SD - 100% working
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Seelbreaker said:
Hmm okay im asking now like a noob:
do i need an apk which i install in the hero, so that i can do the adb-commands and get app2sd working?
do i need to switch the kernel, so that i can do the adb-commands and get app2sd working?
are both of the suggestions wrong and i would need something other than that?
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Hmmm I don't really know it sorry :s
However I don't think that there is an apk..Try to ask it to the dev who provide the rom..
Sorry

thanks man its working now btw, can i increase the fat2 to more than 512mb?

Yes you can but it will be useless because 512 Mb of apps is really huge !!

I agree, but the reason why i want to do it is because i only have about 108mb available internal space so i thought if i increase it above 512mb i should get more perhaps?

[Q]About FroyoMod

I flashed FroyoMod v2.6.3 a couple of months ago and haven't got time to learn how to configure its mods to its full potential. Actually I even didn't know what app2ext really was until today. So the sd-ext folder on my phone is still empty at the moment. Now I want to upgrade FroyoMod to its latest version and utilize all its features.
First, I would like to format my SD card and partition it to utilize app2ext. Another reason is because there are many unused files left by the apps I used before in it. So I want my phone to be like a brand new phone after the upgrading. Can any one give me a howto guide on this?
Except partitioning SD card for app2ext, what else preparation/tweaking do I need to do before/after flashing?

I don't have a sd card reader. Can I do the partitioning with my phone connected to my PC?

jerminhu said:
I don't have a sd card reader. Can I do the partitioning with my phone connected to my PC?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12361294&postcount=842
Sent from my GT-I9100

Thank you very much!
I did the partitioning after I upgraded to v2.9.3. Do I need to reflash my phone to make app2ext work?
Edit: I recall that Auto Memory Manager (AMM) was recommended to be used with Froyomod at that time to enhance performance. Do I still need it now? And what about the supercharger script?

jerminhu said:
Thank you very much!
I did the partitioning after I upgraded to v2.9.3. Do I need to reflash my phone to make app2ext work?
Edit: I recall that Auto Memory Manager (AMM) was recommended to be used with Froyomod at that time to enhance performance. Do I still need it now? And what about the supercharger script?
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Nope. Just reboot phone.
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Apps2SD or Link2SD? What is better for SGS running ICS?

I want to know before I go formatting and repartitioning my SD cards etc.
Do most people do this to their ext card when they run link2sd or internal card?

You don't have enough with 2 GB ?

I don't know what its better but, i can say that i use link2sd and i dont have any problem

Bubble-be said:
You don't have enough with 2 GB ?
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No its the fact that some of the larger ones dont allow for moving by apps2SD so was thinking of links2SD because they are typically symlinked from my understanding so the system doesn't know any different.

ArRoChO said:
I don't know what its better but, i can say that i use link2sd and i dont have any problem
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Yep same her used link2sd for a long time whitout probs!

I still don't understand why you would need it, but I also have used link2sd without problems on my G3. App2sd created a total meltdown on my previous phone.

i have a question: i can use link2SD with my external sd (with FAT32 file system)??

Bubble-be said:
I still don't understand why you would need it, but I also have used link2sd without problems on my G3. App2sd created a total meltdown on my previous phone.
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Exactly ^^^ when flashing new ROMs it wrecks the app icon link to the actual app even though the app is there and installed. It cannot be fixed except by reinstalling the app and re - moving the app to SD card again. I believe Link2SD you can just reinstall link2SD after flashing a ROM and then reconnect all the links to apps that are already installed and then they all start working again.
Thing is that I have partitioned the SD card and allowed for 800MB of space in FAT and the link2SD script doesn't work with my SGS now that I am on ICS

I use App2SD and it runs perfect..

Jarmezrocks said:
Thing is that I have partitioned the SD card and allowed for 800MB of space in FAT and the link2SD script doesn't work with my SGS now that I am on ICS
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Check the mountpoint and adjust the script.

[Q] some Q's about emanoN 5 before flash it...

i am about to flash emanoN 5 from my stock rom
but i have some questions before that :
1- my phone is S5570JPKS1 can i use it normally?
2- is it totally support Arabic write and read ?
3-is it has usb flash mounting ?
4- camera and multitouch are working well ?

This is europian version best worj on kpk firmvare and its the best rom for ur mini. Everything work just fine. Enyoj into ur new rom
Sent from my GT-S5570 using xda premium

hatem 5000 said:
i am about to flash emanoN 5 from my stock rom
but i have some questions before that :
1- my phone is S5570JPKS1 can i use it normally?
2- is it totally support Arabic write and read ?
3-is it has usb flash mounting ?
4- camera and multitouch are working well ?
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1) ya u can flash it witout any problems.
2) yes it supports full arabic
3) yes it has flash mount.
4) yes camera nd multitouch r workin well.
The rom is stable so Happy flashing.

i flashed it already and it is so fast an stable till mow
but how can i mount usb flash to phone ?
and i am already parted my sd card to fat32 and ext4 but it mount from the
normal internal memory ??!!
is it support that

i hat link to ext that
i want exactly something like that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398797
but for custom rom's
i hope to boot from the ext partion it self not just
mount it ?

Do an nandroid backup for safe.

hatem 5000 said:
i hat link to ext that
i want exactly something like that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398797
but for custom rom's
i hope to boot from the ext partion it self not just
mount it ?
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Well, we all know that Doc's method will not work on custom ROMs. A similar method is possible on custom ROMs and that is by using the Amarulz' script to mount the ext-partition as your internal memory. You can search it on the Dev Thread. But remember that using the memory card as your internal memory will result to a slightly slower performance on the applications.

there are so many scripts and app to do that like dt app2sd script, amuralz script, s2e script, link2sd app, and many more but out of them I like link2sd app because it allow me which app to move and which to not

thanQ all,
and i am begin to get used to ( link to ext) but still
feel some lag
and does any one know how to attach a memory flash
to this rom ?

I use emanonv5 works just perfect, my fav custom rom

SyAdmin said:
I use emanonv5 works just perfect, my fav custom rom
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how many apps do you install ?!
could you attach a flash memory ?