Does somebody know how to undo app2ext?
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eXtink said:
Does somebody know how to undo app2ext?
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If all you want to do is remove the automatic mounting of EXT partitions at boot, all you need to do is remove 05mountsd and 07app2ext from system/etc/init.d and reboot.
I know how to remove the app2ext script, but I also want my app2ext apps back into the internal memory
You need to copy it from ext2 partition to sdcard (all folders), then remove script files, and copy all folders back to internal memory to same folders (eg.: app-private to app-private).
You can use Terminal or adb shell for that. It should works.
Eg.
Open Terminal and type
# cp /sd-ext/* /sdcard/myapps/
(/sd-ext is your mount point for ext partition - type mount to find out which is yours)
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is there a way for me to backup my ext2 app partition on my sdcard with a windows machine? im running cyans 4.0.2 and i love it! but i would like to be able to backup the partition 'just in case' but i only have a xp desktop. thank you!
need to backup your ext partition?
the following commands will backup/restore your ext partition to/from a folder named sdbackup in your current directory. these must be run while phone is booted, not recovery.
to backup your ext partition: adb pull /system/sd/ %CD%\sdbackup
to restore back to sdcard: adb push %CD%\sdbackup /system/sd
When you star a thread with "How..." in the title you must start this thread in Dream Q&A sub forum !
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You can also use Ubuntu.
title sounds more like this thread would be instructions rather than a question.
Another way that does not require adb would be to enter the following in terminal emulator
Code:
cd system
cp -r sd /sdcard/(name of folder you wish to backup to)
Than just plug the usb into your windows box, mount the sd card, and copy the folder.
hcphs said:
need to backup your ext partition?
the following commands will backup/restore your ext partition to/from a folder named sdbackup in your current directory. these must be run while phone is booted, not recovery.
to backup your ext partition: adb pull /system/sd/ %CD%\sdbackup
to restore back to sdcard: adb push %CD%\sdbackup /system/sd
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Will this allow me to move my partition to a different SD card without re-installing all my apps (via nandroid)?
I stupidly set my ext2 partiton to 128mb now I want to make it bigger, is it possible to do this without losing my apps?
No, back them up then re-partition the whole sd card. They are located in /system/sd/app. Search for how to setup adb and pull them or search for how to copy files in linux and that will give you the commands if you want to do it from terminal so you can copy them to /sdcard/
Don't forget to mount the /system/ as r/w, again search how to do that.
Hi!
I flashed JP6 yesterday, and I want to do internet browser fix and One Click Lag Fix.
But when I copied libwebcore.so to /system/lib or Install EXT2 Tools, It always no free space /system/lib
Now I can only use update.zip to put the files into /system/lib, but OCLF still can not work.
Any help?
thanks!!
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I notice 2 things with JP6 (installed from Kies via registry mod). Not sure if everyone else is the same.
1. cp command is missing, but mv & rm are present
2. /system is mounted read only
So to make sure the internet browser fix works fine, you'll need to make sure your a.) phone is rooted, b) remount the /system as read write, c.) and then install busybox to use the cp command (if you're installing libwebcore.so by command line, otherwise you can use the file manager to copy files).
There is only about 10MB free space on /system with JP6 (with 803 pit, I believe).
Check this with:
df -h
Also, /system is mounted read-only so you have to remount it as rw before making any changes.
mount -o remount,rw /system
+1 and whenever I try to move an app to sd from the menu in settings>applications>manage applications>app name>Move to SD
It throws an error "Failed to move application. Not enough memory."
I wiped my entire phone clean and still it throws the same error. My internal memory (16 gb) has 10 gb free. The app that I'm trying with is Instant Buttons.
The dev has included move to sd option. Yet it does not work.
ive only got 300kb free in my /system partition on JP6. considering moving modules off to /data and adding it to the path to free up some space. its unworkable like this.
I have Xperia X8 with android 2.1 and I want to move apps in SD card. How do this?
Just use app2sd or link2sd .... U hv to root first of course ..
KR470S said:
I have Xperia X8 with android 2.1 and I want to move apps in SD card. How do this?
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Any custom ROM has native app 2 SD, plus you can follow
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345872
To create a special partition in your SD card to which you apps can be automatically move, plus the swap space that will give you more free memory.
There are two good guides about custom roms:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1333865
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222348
If you are new to this, it will take some time get used to these guides, tools, etc. But there are lots of fun on testing custom ROMs, overclock, benchmarks, different skins, launchers, etc.
A good start is the toolbox, from puppet13th post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117100
It is text only, different from SuperOneClick, a really great tool too, but toolbox can root your phone, install some modules (overclock, cypress / synaptics dual touch), and most important, the dual recovery: freexperia (or xrecovery... I don't remember) plus clockworkmod. Some ROMs are designed for the first one, but most recent ones are for CWM.
how do you partition sd card? i use to be able to do that until i formatted my sd card...now i forgot how to!
tohno said:
how do you partition sd card? i use to be able to do that until i formatted my sd card...now i forgot how to!
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I did this yesterday, following this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345872
I would prefer another way to repartition my SD, as Linux GPartED, that can easily resize partitions and add new ones. But I couldn't find the requirements for that and had problems a couple of months ago, when I tried to replace my SD and it was reformatted (don't know why) automatically, with no warning.
So I almost followed the thread:
1) backed up all my files (I just mounted SD and copied the files, as I didn't had sd-ext yet)
2) reboot into clockworkmod. I backup here is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!
3) mounted /system & /data, and unmount /sdcard
4) copied sdparted.txt to /sbin/sdparted (already rooted, otherwise it would not work)
adb push sdparted.txt /sbin/sdparted
adb shell chmod 755 /sbin/sdparted
5) As I was in a different ROM, MiniCM7 2.1.6, I didn't have parted, required by sdparted.
So I copied from GingerDX v21
adb push parted /usr/xbin/parted
adb shell chmod 755 /usr/xbin/sdparted
But if your ROM already have parted, you can skip this.
6) Now just run sdparted as mentioned in MarJar thread. I have a 8 GB SD, and I choose 512 MB for sd-ext and 256 MB for swap, leaving more than 7 GB for files. So mine was:
adb shell
sdparted -es 512M -ss 256M -efs ext4
(someone, somewhere, mentioned that ext4 would be faster. I saw some benchmarks for Linux telling the opposite... But ext4 jas journaling, so it should be safer)
Now you have a partitioned SD.
7) Copy userinit.tx from the thread to /sd-ext/userinit.sh. It will be automatically executed on startup and mount the enable swap:
adb push userinit.txt /sd-ext/userinit.sh
adb shell chmod 755 /sd-ext/userinit.sh
8) Now I would recommend, if you have installed your apps to your ROM, to mount the SD again and copy the files back to the SD. You can do it in clockworkmod, menu Partitions or something like that, choosing Mount SD Card.
I didn't, so when I rebooted the phone, the "Apps" (or whatever remained fromthem in /data) were move to /sd-ext automatically. But any previous ROM, as mine also, would keep files in SD. The result was the nothing was working. So I copied the files back to SD card and restored the backup I took in step 2 (that saved me ).
But if you restore the files back to SD before rebooting, I think you would be fine.
It worked gracefully for me after restoring the backup.
9) Reboot and enjoy.
Hello,
Sorry, not working like on sgs 3 and galaxy note 10.1. Dont apply now. I m working on a fix with vold.fstab, but format changes with jellybean.
Ported from scripts created originally for Galaxy S 3.
This script swaps internal and external sd storage from init.d.
- You must have a JellyBean Stock or Stock Based ROM
- Must be rooted to flash.
Attached to this post, you will find the CWM flashable zip.
This have zero chance to brick your device, but I cannot say if your SD card doesn't have any issues etc... so don't blame me for data loss or anything.
This script will NOT COPY DATA from your sd, so you will have missing data after you restart the phone.
The data is still on the original internal SD, so you'll have to copy it back to your bigger sdcard's root.
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
#extsd2internalsd is a modification that allows to switch internal sd to external sd and viceversa. With this you can use default internal sd only for app storage #and the external sd to store all apps resource and all others stuff. The resut is a very big increase of installable apps on gs3
#All credits to Mattiadj of xda forum for the idea and script and to mike1986 for the cmw zip.
#Script Modified for SgNote N7000 by aureusz
sleep 5
busybox mount -o remount,rw /
#Tries to mount as vfat
busybox mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard
#Tries to mount as exfat
busybox mount -t exfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:9 /mnt/sdcard
#If Sd has been mounted, mount internal SD as extSdCard, if not, do nothing, Android should mount it back as internal.
if busybox mount | busybox grep vold/179:9; then
busybox mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 /mnt/extSdCard
fi
Only problem is, if you use usb mass storage connexion, instead of mtp, it will swap back sd cards.
If you want to remove the script, simply delete the file 11extsd2internalsd from /etc/init.d/ with root explorer or a similar app.
Restart the phone and the problem should disappear.
I'll look into a fix for this.
Strange stuff happenning after first reboot (app2sd make apps disappear). Removing file and placing warning back
Aureusz.
Or you can simply switch mount points in vold.fstab
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Or you can simply switch mount points in vold.fstab
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The problem with this method is that, if you remove SDCARD, the phone will not mount internal SD back to it's place.
With this script, the internal SD will remount back to internal sd path.
I'm not sure, but that's how I understood it when I read the thread where they talked about this method.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I pretty much a noob at this.
aureusz said:
The problem with this method is that, if you remove SDCARD, the phone will not mount internal SD back to it's place.
With this script, the internal SD will remount back to internal sd path.
I'm not sure, but that's how I understood it when I read the thread where they talked about this method.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I pretty much a noob at this.
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The solution to that can be decompiling framework-res.apk and editing file storage.xml
Make removable flag true for both storage.
This may or may not work but worth a try.
neobuddy89 said:
The solution to that can be decompiling framework-res.apk and editing file storage.xml
Make removable flag true for both storage.
This may or may not work but worth a try.
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I'm definitely interested in all options regarding this issue, this has been a big hurdle for me on android with sd card slots, so I took to myself to fix it. I know it's easy to do in ASOP roms but, I missed some S-pen features.
Until now, people used bindings for some directories, for large games data, but this proved not to work for some apps, while this solution works for every app.
Spotify for example lost its synced library, because I think the service would check the synchro of the playlist at device startup, and the folders were not yet mounted... etc.. now, it's flawless.
EDIT : not so flawless, looking into modding fstab as suggested by neobuddy89
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Or you can simply switch mount points in vold.fstab
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Is it possible that you post the vold.fstab where the mount point is switched for internal and external SDcard? Thanks.
Re: [CMW, Init.d Script] Swap IntenalSD<->ExternalSD
any updates here?
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