Hi,
Sorry if its a noob question..
In Optimus 2x if i am not wrong, the internal storage is partitioned to 2+GB as phone stroage n 5+GB as Internal phone storage that acts as internal SD CARD.
Is it possible to make the entire 8GB internal as internal phone memory instead of Internal SD CARD ?
If not is it a OS Limitation or Market Limitation ?
If yes, Is there any instructions link, to do it how ?
thanks.
barath
wow. what would you do with an 8GB internal Phone storage
Seems like a great idea would like to try it if it works
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peacekeeper05 said:
wow. what would you do with an 8GB internal Phone storage
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1. First the Reason is I can get 16 GB external for fairly cheap price.
2. I can move apps to external SD and utilize internal memory for loading games.
3. Games are downloading 600MB + data and filling the internal partitioned memory fast.
4. Management becomes much more easier.. i dont have to look for _EXTERnal folder everytime.
and many more..
barathn said:
1. First the Reason is I can get 16 GB external for fairly cheap price.
2. I can move apps to external SD and utilize internal memory for loading games.
3. Games are downloading 600MB + data and filling the internal partitioned memory fast.
4. Management becomes much more easier.. i dont have to look for _EXTERnal folder everytime.
and many more..
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+1..
I´d like that..
that would be nice indeed...
well.... i cant really see the use of 8gb phone storage... but its better than just wasting the space on /emmc like cm7 does....
gensplejs said:
well.... i cant really see the use of 8gb phone storage... but its better than just wasting the space on /emmc like cm7 does....
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Do you not have any music on your phone?
I keep all my music on emmc on cm7, i have 5gb of music so works quite nicely for me.
I use player pro music app and that picks up all music.
barathn said:
Hi,
Sorry if its a noob question..
In Optimus 2x if i am not wrong, the internal storage is partitioned to 2+GB as phone stroage n 5+GB as Internal phone storage that acts as internal SD CARD.
Is it possible to make the entire 8GB internal as internal phone memory instead of Internal SD CARD ?
If not is it a OS Limitation or Market Limitation ?
If yes, Is there any instructions link, to do it how ?
thanks.
barath
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hi
pls put ut question here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101123
thread CLOSED
Hi.
Im running miui rom in my optimus 2x.
I have 3 options to storge.
Phone storage about 1 gb
Sd card storge about 5 gb
And external sd card about 16 gb
The problem is that basically i cant use the external sd card for apps and games,
i try all the move to sd card apps on market and all of tham only move from my phone storage to my sd card, so basically i only have 6gb in my phone.
Is there anyway to move tham to my external??
Tnx.
hmmmmm...
on cm you have an option to do so (settings/cyanogenmod/applications/use external sd for media)
but i don't know if miui has it too. Try looking for something like that
I looked everywhere, there isnt an option like this.
If you don't mind me asking, are you really out of storage to install apps?
Because o2x has an app storage space of 1.5gb excluding the internal 5gb flash memory, and most heavy games will store their game data on the 5gb internal flash mem, and only the basic apk will resides on the app space.
Running out of storage space is really hard achieve since even the heaviest game only consumes like 100mb? Which is mostly stored in the 5gb space. Unless you have hundreds of high end games installed, then you can run out of space .
All the new games need to download between 400-900 mb each, so yeah i runnig out of storge
Alright then, my mistake.
Anyway, I read that to swap sdcard as _externalSD vice versa is via CM7, I am not really sure how because I'm not using it, but I definately read about it before and it is doable. Hopefully someone can help you on the how..
Cheers!
there is a script for miui to swap so your microsd to become /sdcard check the android development
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263311
Tnx alot, that fix my problems.
I've just downloaded Sims freeplay, but it downloads 600mb of downloaded data taking up a good portion of my internal SD. The game itself is installed to the external SD, just not the 600mb data.
I'm on my phone now so ive only been able to do about 15 minutes of searching. I've found app2sd, and link2sd, but as far as I know they don't transfer the android/data to the external as?
How can I do this?
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Plug into PC and turn on USB mass storage mode then find the folder you are looking for and just drag it from one window to the other
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Well I've already tried that. You mean creating "android/data" on my external SD and copying the folder to that directory? When I launch sims it says I need to download the data. I've also tried adding a shortcut with the same name in the internal SD directory just to see if it would go to the external SD, still no.
Some apps need to have data on the internal card for faster recall I believe
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bump.
Anything else? I have 1.2GB left on my internal SD, this is enough for the downloaded data of 1 or 2 big games, while my external SD has lots of free memory..
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Anything else? I have 1.2GB left on my internal SD, this is enough for the downloaded data of 1 or 2 big games, while my external SD has lots of free memory..
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You can't. The only ROM that will allow it is CyanogenMod.
OR until we can do data2sd.
It is possible to do this. Download an app called gl to sd from the market. It works great with transferring gameloft games to external sd. It can work with other games too but i've noticed it's more hit or miss with non gameloft games.
Hello,
I tried to use Directory Bind, but when my internal memory was about 9GB free and I had moved about those 9GB to external SD, I cant anything install to internal memory(it is necessary first to move it with directory bind).
So the result was, that all moved games and applications were in internal memory despite the phone shows me 9GB of internal memory.
So, my question and big problem is:
How can I move games and apps to external SD card?
Have you some method, have can I done it?
Would be very grateful.
smoke2 said:
Hello,
I tried to use Directory Bind, but when my internal memory was about 9GB free and I had moved about those 9GB to external SD, I cant anything install to internal memory(it is necessary first to move it with directory bind).
So the result was, that all moved games and applications were in internal memory despite the phone shows me 9GB of internal memory.
So, my question and big problem is:
How can I move games and apps to external SD card?
Have you some method, have can I done it?
Would be very grateful.
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You can use the app of "GL to SD" found in the market, it can help you to move the game data (not apps) from internal memory to external sd card. The theory of this app is used to simulate the external sd card act as a internal memory card, thus, you need to activate this app before playing the game that you moved. Importantly, a rooted device is required.
the stupidity of LG it not use the external sdcard option that provide by android
event we force it to use that option in console mode using
pm set_install_location
that stupid LG still install the app/game in internal sdcard
hosamuel01 said:
You can use the app of "GL to SD" found in the market, it can help you to move the game data (not apps) from internal memory to external sd card. The theory of this app is used to simulate the external sd card act as a internal memory card, thus, you need to activate this app before playing the game that you moved. Importantly, a rooted device is required.
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Thank you for reply. It only works for Gameloft games or any other games which downloading additional game data?
bullghost said:
the stupidity of LG it not use the external sdcard option that provide by android
event we force it to use that option in console mode using
pm set_install_location
that stupid LG still install the app/game in internal sdcard
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Please, can you write me a detailed instructions how to do it?
smoke2 said:
Hello,
I tried to use Directory Bind, but when my internal memory was about 9GB free and I had moved about those 9GB to external SD, I cant anything install to internal memory(it is necessary first to move it with directory bind).
So the result was, that all moved games and applications were in internal memory despite the phone shows me 9GB of internal memory.
So, my question and big problem is:
How can I move games and apps to external SD card?
Have you some method, have can I done it?
Would be very grateful.
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i found this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
but this from the galaxy's series forum anyone want to try it??
dfreake said:
i found this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
but this from the galaxy's series forum anyone want to try it??
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I think there are some people here who confirmed it working.
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smoke2 said:
Thank you for reply. It only works for Gameloft games or any other games which downloading additional game data?
Please, can you write me a detailed instructions how to do it?
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The app covers not only gameloft games, but also include of games manufactured by others. In the setup menu, you should tick the boxes of "sdcard/android" and " sdcard/data' under the item of "Add mounted folder". After exit the setup menu, click the " move the data" box and select which game you want to move to sd card. Finally, activate the game.
Sharpshooterrr said:
I think there are some people here who confirmed it working.
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No, Directory Bind is not working!
I writed it in first post!
My friend with 4X had the same issue.
smoke2 said:
No, Directory Bind is not working!
I writed it in first post!
My friend with 4X had the same issue.
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Could you have possibly missed a step in making DirectoryBind work?
The post above about GL to SD might be the only way then, though it's such a hassle to have to activate it each time you'll run an app with data stored in external SD.
Maybe its possible that I made some step wrong, but everything works fine until the 9GB amount of data moved to external SD card with 9GB free in internal memory.
It looks certainly like a problem with binding from internal memory to external SD card and I must had to do a factory reset.
A friend of mine with Optimus 4X started to use Directory Bind too, but had the same issue as me.
I never gave him a solution to use Directory Bind, so theres probably problem with compatibility...
Of course, I would be very appreciated for help how to use properly Directory Bind on Optimus 4x, because is so simple and comfort...
hosamuel01 said:
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The app covers not only gameloft games, but also include of games manufactured by others. In the setup menu, you should tick the boxes of "sdcard/android" and " sdcard/data' under the item of "Add mounted folder". After exit the setup menu, click the " move the data" box and select which game you want to move to sd card. Finally, activate the game.
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Where can I finally activate the game?
I cant see the option anywhere in the program.
smoke2 said:
Where can I finally activate the game?
I cant see the option anywhere in the program.
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In the app, you can press the android LED menu button at the lower right-hand corner, then you will see the setup menu.
After the step of moving data and exit the setup menu, you will also see the list of the game that you moved before, then you can activate the game.
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In the app, you can press the android LED menu button at the lower right-hand corner, then you will see the setup menu.
After the step of moving data and exit the setup menu, you will also see the list of the game that you moved before, then you can activate the game.
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Just want to clarify something. Did you mean earlier that every time you want to open an app that has the data stored in external micro sd, you'll have to activate GL to SD first?
Sharpshooterrr said:
Just want to clarify something. Did you mean earlier that every time you want to open an app that has the data stored in external micro sd, you'll have to activate GL to SD first?
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Activate the GL to SD means that the external sd card is mounted into internal memory card, thus, you just activate a game that you moved before in first time, then the other games are not necessary to activate in next time until if you unmount the external sd card by means of GL to SD.
hosamuel01 said:
Activate the GL to SD means that the external sd card is mounted into internal memory card, thus, you just activate a game that you moved before in first time, then the other games are not necessary to activate in next time until if you unmount the external sd card by means of GL to SD.
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Oh I get it. So this is a better and simpler solution compared to DirectoryBind then?
Sharpshooterrr said:
Oh I get it. So this is a better and simpler solution compared to DirectoryBind then?
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I can't compare which one is better because I have never used the method of DirectoryBind before. But for me, GL to SD was really useful when I used LG Optimus 2x which had only 5GB internal storage. SD Card can share the heavy load from the internal memory.
what our internal partition is it ext3 or ext 4 because i want to partition my sd card
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I have external SD formatted to FAT32 and GL to SD just now really works for me :good:
Some games you cannot move, but the most of them you can move.
Then you must games starting through the GL to SD app, because they are moved to external SD.
Im taking all back.
This application doesnt work properly on my Optimus 4X.
You can move everything on your external SD card, but it will take up same amount of space in your internal memory as on your external SD card memory.
So, its the same issue as with Directory Bind
Maybe Im doing something wrong? I have all of my external SD card formatted to FAT32.
smoke2 said:
Im taking all back.
This application doesnt work properly on my Optimus 4X.
You can move everything on your external SD card, but it will take up same amount of space in your internal memory as on your external SD card memory.
So, its the same issue as with Directory Bind
Maybe Im doing something wrong? I have all of my external SD card formatted to FAT32.
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I think you need to reset your device, I haven't your problem in 4x and previous phone 2x up to now.
Guys can u give me an apps that can move my games data to external SD card? i'm on topo's ICS build,my internal is my main card, i don't want to swap it to external as main,i only what to move my games data to SD card to save some space on my internal one.. anyone??
ok.! seems i find one GL to SD works like a charm for me to anyone want to try here it is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp&hl=en.. A BIG THANKS FOR ME.. wahahaha..
BTW if this thread seems annoying PLEASE delete this thread (OP,ADMIN,MOD).
vEget7 said:
Guys can u give me an apps that can move my games data to external SD card? i'm on topo's ICS build,my internal is my main card, i don't want to swap it to external as main,i only what to move my games data to SD card to save some space on my internal one.. anyone??
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i am one of who need this apps! but i think this is not good for the game need the tatiumbackup because when you try to restore the titaniumbackup data on your games, maybe doesn't work, because the titaniumbackup can't identifying the real file location of your data games!
read my second post,work like a charm,even if you change your rom,u can directly open the directory of the folder u put ur data on ur last rom..
vEget7 said:
Guys can u give me an apps that can move my games data to external SD card? i'm on topo's ICS build,my internal is my main card, i don't want to swap it to external as main,i only what to move my games data to SD card to save some space on my internal one.. anyone??
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i'm using it too...GL to SD it's perfect for gaming so far..but still it can use the game without mounting it