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[GUIDE] Link2sd setup and installation

I can no longer support this thread. I apologize I will leave it here for people that may find it helpful.
Hey guys I have read several posts were people are having issues with some Roms with sense 3.0,etc.
This guide should help those experiencing the following issues:
1) Have apps on your sd card and icons for those apps on one of your home screens but when you reboot your phone the icons disappear or change to the green standard app icon. icon may or may not still open the app.
2) Mount SD card to a PC while the phone is on. After disconnecting it, the phone shows a message on the screen for preparing SD and afterward, the SD card can be browsed. However, apps that have been moved to SD do not show up in the app tray until the phone is restarted.
Important before doing any of this please note this process can render your SD card useless if you make a mistake. Please follow all steps completely and know that I am not responsible if you mess up your sd card
This process is done from your pc not phone! Things you will need:
1) your Incredible
2) Your micro SD card
3) A micro SD to SD card adapter - this if your dont know=
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4) computer im using windows xp
Here is what you should try:
1) Download Link2sd from the android market. Don't open it just yet your phone is not ready.
2) From your pc download Minitool partition wizard for your appropriate system. Install the wizard by following the instructions that appear when you download it. At the end it will ask to create a desktop icon check yes so you can find it easy.
3)Turn off your incredible and remove the micro SD card and place it in the adapter. Plug it into your PC.
4) create a new folder on your desktop and name it "sdbackup" or whatever you would like just remember were it is. Copy the entire contents of your micro sd card to the sdbackup folder you just created. This may take a while depending on the amount of files you have.
5) after backing up your sd card. Open the minitool partition wizard. You should see your sd card. Caution do not do anything with your c drive or any other drives listed under disk 1 Mine is under disk 2 labeled D:E1292
6) click on your sd card. In the left pane of the wizard choose format partition. choose FAT32 as your file system and leave cluster size and label blank. click ok.
7) click your sd card. In the left pane again of the wizard choose move/resize partition. On the window that pops up click partition size. uncheck the use extended data protection mode. type in the amount of megabytes or gigabytes you want your sd card regular storage area to be. In this guide im using a 1gb sd card. I typed in 700 to create a 700 mb regular area. Leave all other boxes alone. So if you have say an 8gb card i would type 7000 to give you roughly 7gb main. click ok. you should now see your main sd card and another one below it now with a *as its name.
first
second
third new partition created
8) ok almost there: Now on the new unallocated partition we just created ( one with the star as its name) click on it. At the top of the wizard click create. You will get a message saying the new created partition cannot be used in windows...... just click yes to continue. In the window that pops up pay attention click create as and select primary! click file system and select Ext3! Leave all other boxes etc alone. You will see the partition size that will be created. click ok.
message you will get:
Creating the partition:
9) Ok here we go.... In the top left of the wizard you should see a check mark that says apply..... Click it! You will get a message saying apply pending changes, disable power savers etc... click yes to continue.. do not let screen saver come on after this and do not allow computer to "sleep". Let the wizard do its thing. This can take some time depending on your system, sizes, etc. You get a dialog box to let you know whats going on. When the wizard finishes you will get a message saying apply all pending changes successful. Click ok...
You can exit the wizard now.
The wizard dialog box when you click the check mark..
10) place all your files back on your sd card. Find the folder you created with your sd backup in it. Select all files and copy them back to your sd card. Dont worry about the second partition as windows will only see the first FAT32 one.
Thats the partition link2sd needs now to set up link2sd:
1) place your SD card back in your incredible and reboot.
2) find your link2sd app you downloaded and open it. The program will load. A box will appear that instructs you to select the file system type of your second partition. Select Ext3!
3) Link2sd will do a few things and ask for superuser permissions.. When this box pops up click remember on superuser permissions!
4) Link2sd will tell you the scipt to mount the second partition was flashed (installed),etc.
5) it will then tell you to restart your phone to mount the second partition. Just do a normal reboot!
6) once the phone has rebooted go back and open link2sd again. You should get a whats new box with the changes to link2sd.
7) to check just to make sure it worked click menu/storage info it should look something like this.
Now you can use link2sd!
Enjoy please say thanks if I helped. I will try to answer any questions you have. This may be possible to do while the sd card is in the phone with it attached to computer but I did not chance this so wont be able to help in that area.

Yay!
Sense 3.5 almost here!

This' very useful information eraste!
Thank you

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This' very useful information eraste!
Thank you
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Your welcome just trying to do my part lol.

Not to be thick, but I believe I have run Partition Magic on other drives (for other than Android use). Can't you repartition the card on the fly (using the PC) without a complete reformat?

May be possible with this wizard. Skip the format step and everything else should go normal. One would start from the move/resise step. After editing what you want I however can't recall if this particular widget will format both when you apply changes. I'll look into it when I get some free time.
I put the backup and format step in just to make sure things go smooth. It should work without that first format tho...

Lost \emmc mount to PC
Eraste -
I found your guide tremendously helpful and was able to set up the ext3 partition without a problem.
Thing is, I cannot mount \emmc to PC, and I used to be able to.
I didn't lose it after doing this; I lost it on a prior ROM (Nils Business Gingersense 2.1/3.0 v3.0) after flashing a new kernel. After that, nothing I did, old nandroids, reflashing, restored it.
Now I'm on McSense 2.4 which is fairly close to stock OTA Gingerbread for the Incredible, and I have Links2SD running fine, and I have SD card mount, but I still don't seem to be able to get emmc to mount.
Any suggestions?
EDIT - Okay, it's 19 days later, I've wiped the system several times, installed two other ROM's ran Jermaine's/Tiny's ext4 mod which moves \data\data to ext4 and just plugged my Incredible back into the PC for the first time on this particular combination of ROM's and mods and, lookit that, mount to emmc has spontaneously returned. I'll never figure this one out. (Except that ext3 is still there, but Link2SD doesn't have anything linked at all right now, because I don't need the space without a 150mb limitation on \data\data on a Sense 1.0 ROM.

Help Me!!
have no idea how to stop memory back and was doing all the procedure like this in the tutorial and it does not work says that the installation script can not be created, could help me?

thumbs up for this!!
thank you (pressed thanks) for this step by step guide!! ive been looking for this for a while!!
what really helped was the screenies of the program on how the whole thing worked!!
tested on my old 2gb microsd= WORKED!! tested it with a newly installed app of course!!
will be trying it on my new 8gb microsdhc
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vico.ddl said:
have no idea how to stop memory back and was doing all the procedure like this in the tutorial and it does not work says that the installation script can not be created, could help me?
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try the "ext2" format option.. as all devices are compatible with it
hope that helps!!

you should decrease the size of the 2nd part because file store in there is so little, the main is half full

now that i have 2nd partition and link2sd, where should i start? i mean where should my app stored before creating link? and there are 3 files to be link, wich to be link?

thankss bro this very usefull ......nice:highfive:

Thanks for the guide, although i have trouble installing. Once I open link2sd (ext3 partition created n all) i select ext3 as secondary partition and i get "script cannot be installed" error, mount:mounting/dev//block/vold/179:2 on data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy
Any suggestions please?
Edit:solved by wiping and reformatting ext partition on pc

is there a way to manually do what link2sd does
like via shell

BM first.. will try it later after i buy 16GB SD.. thanks

Big thanks!! wonderful guide!

[Q] How to fix internal SD-card after new BL install?

Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
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I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.

Espenol said:
Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.
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my friend,
if you read the OP in the AIOT, spyrosk has clearly stated this in option 4:
"Safety keys: If any of the “SD-Card fix” or “Enable Dual-Boot” step fails go to ToolkitFiles\tools folder and run the IntSD-MountFix.cmd or DualBoot-Enable.cmd accordingly. Attention: Both scripts are designed to run as standalone scripts also. The IntSD-MountFix.cmd is harmless "
Check this....if you are using the TWRP or CWM, flash a ROM using internal SD card, then you will know if it works.

SREEPRAJAY said:
my friend,
if you read the OP in the AIOT, spyrosk has clearly stated this in option 4:
"Safety keys: If any of the “SD-Card fix” or “Enable Dual-Boot” step fails go to ToolkitFiles\tools folder and run the IntSD-MountFix.cmd or DualBoot-Enable.cmd accordingly. Attention: Both scripts are designed to run as standalone scripts also. The IntSD-MountFix.cmd is harmless "
Check this....if you are using the TWRP or CWM, flash a ROM using internal SD card, then you will know if it works.
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I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|

Espenol said:
I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|
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Have you checked after you entered the recovery the first time(when the intSD Card fix in AIOT was with waiting for the device to enter recovery)...if you can flash a ROM from the internal SD and use it once boot is complete?

SREEPRAJAY said:
Have you checked after you entered the recovery the first time(when the intSD Card fix in AIOT was with waiting for the device to enter recovery)...if you can flash a ROM from the internal SD and use it once boot is complete?
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Not sure if I do this correctly but I try this now:
Quick format the disk that needs to be formatted according to my Windows 7, disk space of 4,6 GB i format in fat32 quick format, 4096 byte. Transfer tonyp paranoidandroid beta, as well as gapps and camera app to this disk. Unmount, flash paranoidandroid, then gapps, then launch and flash camera fix later from internal SD.
^ I tried the above and it failed when I start install paranoidandroid. It says:
Installing: /emmc/pa_p990-2.6-14-newbl-tonyp.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "p990" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "p990"
E:Error in /emmc/pa_p990-2.6-14-newbl-tonyp.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted
Hope that can help you pros find the fault?? I have no clue what to do when things aint working. I try to google but find different phones and different problems...
EDIT: I flashed again and changed to cwm v6.0.2.5. I try to install from sdcard, and it says E: Can't mount /sdcard/. I suppose that has to do with the internal fix not working. I can install my rom from external SD, and did so earlier before I formatted again hoping to get internal sd fix working. When I was running the ROM, it said my sd card needed to be formatted (which I presume was the external sd for some reason? I wont format that, too many files and too slow a card). Going to about phone in settings didnt work, then settings would crash, but the rest of settings appeared to work. Camera did not work as I did not have external storage it said. Dont think there is anything else I noted. I dont even know if this is relevant... But is there no other way to fix internal sd card? I tried restart PC and install apx drivers again, but the install is instantaneous as it is already on my PC.

Espenol said:
I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|
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I have done this 5 times after you reported this issue...each time it worked perfectly.
after you got this message 'waiting for the device to enter recovery', have you clicked on any key inserting the USB cable to the device? and then after inserting click on any key in PC.....thats it.
There is no issue with the AIOT as I have performed 5 times....absolutely perfect flashing without any issues....
Can you describe what you did one by one....maybe we can find the error.

Espenol said:
Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.
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There is another method you can use to fix your internal SD. Dont know if it works on the latest versions of toolkit, but expected to.
See the "IntSD-MountFix.zip" attached to the first post of the AIO toolkit thread.
Flash it after partitioning, when your phone boots into recovery for the first time. Then reboot recovery and wipe and flash the ROM. Thats it.
The need to flash this zip was eliminated by spyrosk in later versions of the toolkit, by including a script in the toolkit itself. But since that isnt working for you, use the zip.
If you are thinking of how to put the zip inside the SD card to flash it, there are various ways, such as mounting external SD in recovery(mount USB storage), putting in external SD through some card reader and then putting the external SD inside the phone, or using adb sideload to flash it.

Alright, thanks both of you. I didnt use that .zip file yet for fixing internal memory. As far as I can understand, the fix is for making internal sd card mountable on PCs and the like? I have my phone connected now, and can see both internal sd card and external sd card on my phone. Do I even need the fix then? If I now install it, will I have to set up everything on my phone again? I spent all last night customizing everything and getting it how I want it to be... dont wanna do that again..

what do you mean with setting up everything again do you mean with the system or the sdcard? if you mean sdcard then the sdcard fix wil reformat the internal sd.
By the aio toolkit the auto internal sdcard fix worked for me by the TWRP from tonyp 2.5 and 2.6

Ok, I wiped everything again and ran the zip. It said internal sd was fine -__- all this trouble lol. Now I have new questions that are unrelated to original question but still need answering.
1. I did the factory reset wipe, cache wipe and dalvik cache wipe, yet my phone still remembers WiFi password when I install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 and gapps. It connected straight to my wifi. How can that be? What did I forget to wipe? should I wipe that thing I forgot?
2. My phone is automatically downloading all the apps I installed yesterday. This is the first time it has happened in my 10 custom roms on my 2 phones. Why is it happening? I love it!!
3. How do I replace the settings.apk I have with a new one? Check paranoidandroid thread on o2x development to see what i mean. I tried to just install, but it has failed me. After failed install I couldnt open settings at all. I read somewhere that I should copy the new settings.apk to system/apps and replace the settings.apk that is already there. That failed though, when I tried to move it in file manager in root mode. What do I do? I wish I could just flash it in, but it is apk file and not zip sooo I probably cant...
4. What is the best camera app I can flash? I pretty much only use camera for Snapchat and the occasional pictures when climbing mountains and no other camera is available... Suggestions?

The internal SD fix was for fixing SD mount in ROMs, not on PC. And it says mounted correctly, after fixing the mount, so it has done its job.
Now for your new questions:
1.google account backs up and restores wifi password
2. Similar to 1. You checked the option "restore apps from my Google account" at the setup screen, so it installs your apps
3.use a root file manager to push it to system/app and set permission to rw-r--r--
4. Camera mods have been made by Jishnu Sur, feav and defcomg. You can find them and try them, then pick one which you like, it's a personal choice.

[Q] storage problem

I got my Sony Xperia ZR and was unable to move any of my apps to SD card. My SD card is currently working fine.THE only problem I am getting is that I the "move to sd card" button is not there. My ZR is updated into 4.4 kitkat and is rooted already. I downloaded the AppMgr III and it still doesn't work.I also tried foldermount and I can transfer apps data to sd card but after then my apps stop working and show an error message.please help if anyone knows how to fix it.

On foldermount make sure to "pin" the apps, the ?pin should be green like the screenshot:
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Where can I find this menu?

xConjo said:
On foldermount make sure to "pin" the apps, the ?pin should be green like the screenshot:
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I tried that but my Phone reboot everytime when I make the pin green.do you know why this is happening?

Lemmi1 said:
Where can I find this menu?
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It's an app called Foldermount, you can use it to "redirect" internal folders to your external SD card so you can have more space: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount&hl=es_419 It requires root
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I tried that but my Phone reboot everytime when I make the pin green.do you know why this is happening?
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Make sure you gave the app root access. Try re-installing it from playstore.

It's Not working!tell me can I move apps to sd if I install custom rom in my phone or can I change the instalation direction

soma cruz said:
I tried that but my Phone reboot everytime when I make the pin green.do you know why this is happening?
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Try the following and then use Foldermount. It will fix the issue. :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/orig-development/lb-definitive-root-remount-reboot-fix-t2317432

anthonythangaraj said:
Try the following and then use Foldermount. It will fix the issue. :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/orig-development/lb-definitive-root-remount-reboot-fix-t2317432
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Thanks a lot.my phone's rebooting problem has been fixed but the moving apps to sd card didn't fix Yet.can you please tell me how to do that?

As far as I understand, the Xperia ZR does not support this. Period. Something to do with the fact that it's internal storage is actually an external that's built into the phone and emulated to act as the internal. It might even be a limitation of KitKat, but I don't think that's likely. Your best bet is Link2SD (preferrably pro) for regular apps and games, and FolderMount for apps with obb files like Injustice, Gameloft games, etc. Link2SD can be somewhat confusing though, though it's a little easier if you have some basic experience with Linux or partitioning hard disks. I understand that there are some apps that do what Link2SD does, but automates everything and keeps it simple (I think simple2ext might be an example of this, not sure though). Native app2sd and AppsMgrIII and the like are out of the question, though.

soma cruz said:
Thanks a lot.my phone's rebooting problem has been fixed but the moving apps to sd card didn't fix Yet.can you please tell me how to do that?
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Check the following tutorial. I am using Folder mount to move obb files to Sd card. Working fine in all stock firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2413093

SirVer said:
As far as I understand, the Xperia ZR does not support this. Period. Something to do with the fact that it's internal storage is actually an external that's built into the phone and emulated to act as the internal. It might even be a limitation of KitKat, but I don't think that's likely. Your best bet is Link2SD (preferrably pro) for regular apps and games, and FolderMount for apps with obb files like Injustice, Gameloft games, etc. Link2SD can be somewhat confusing though, though it's a little easier if you have some basic experience with Linux or partitioning hard disks. I understand that there are some apps that do what Link2SD does, but automates everything and keeps it simple (I think simple2ext might be an example of this, not sure though). Native app2sd and AppsMgrIII and the like are out of the question, though.
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It does support it, at least for me. Maybe because I have installed the "KitKat SD Card Full Access" module on Xposed? that and foldermount makes a great combo.

Really? Damn. Partitioned my SD card for nothing. I'm not really sure what Xposed is; I guess I'm going to go find a tutorial for it now. Thanks for the heads up.
P.S. Why would you need foldermount if you have native apps2sd? Doesn't the native move obb files?

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Really? Damn. Partitioned my SD card for nothing. I'm not really sure what Xposed is; I guess I'm going to go find a tutorial for it now. Thanks for the heads up.
P.S. Why would you need foldermount if you have native apps2sd? Doesn't the native move obb files?
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Xposed Framework Is really useful and can be a really great complement in some roms (like the Stock one); It let you change the behavior of the system and apps without touching any APKs; so for example, I use it to force Inmersive Mode on apps that doesn't have this feature (I use it for games mostly, so I play at full screen ) and also I have the module named Kitkat SD Card full acces, that itself doesn't let me move apps to the SD, but if I understand correctly, this one let non-system apps gain acces to the SD Card (sdcard1).
I still can't move apps to the SD with that (from settings, also tried App2SD and link2sd and said that there was a problem because storage is being emulated) That's why I need to use FoulderMount and it's simple. select the source folder to mount (from Emulated/0 or sdcard0) and then thee destination folder (sdcard1/[whateverthenameofthefolderis]/) and that's it. there are tutorials (better explained) on how to use it too.

anthonythangaraj said:
Check the following tutorial. I am using Folder mount to move obb files to Sd card. Working fine in all stock firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2413093
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Thanks!it worked but I can only move game's obb file not the apps data.however I'm happy to move big game's file files

anthonythangaraj said:
Check the following tutorial. I am using Folder mount to move obb files to Sd card. Working fine in all stock firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2413093
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Thanks!it worked but I can only move game's obb file not the apps data.however I'm happy to move big game's file files

SirVer said:
As far as I understand, the Xperia ZR does not support this. Period. Something to do with the fact that it's internal storage is actually an external that's built into the phone and emulated to act as the internal. It might even be a limitation of KitKat, but I don't think that's likely. Your best bet is Link2SD (preferrably pro) for regular apps and games, and FolderMount for apps with obb files like Injustice, Gameloft games, etc. Link2SD can be somewhat confusing though, though it's a little easier if you have some basic experience with Linux or partitioning hard disks. I understand that there are some apps that do what Link2SD does, but automates everything and keeps it simple (I think simple2ext might be an example of this, not sure though). Native app2sd and AppsMgrIII and the like are out of the question, though.
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Link2sd need second partition of the sd card and I don't know how to do it.I tried so many times but it didn't work.

soma cruz said:
Link2sd need second partition of the sd card and I don't know how to do it.I tried so many times but it didn't work.
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If you're happy using Foldermount, then I suggest you don't bother with Link2SD. Partitioning an SD card is annoying and often messy. Also, it's not very flexible. You can't use any free space in the second partition for storage, which is just wasteful. Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant app, and a very clever workaround for the problem, but it's not a perfect solution.
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Xposed Framework Is really useful and can be a really great complement in some roms (like the Stock one); It let you change the behavior of the system and apps without touching any APKs; so for example, I use it to force Inmersive Mode on apps that doesn't have this feature (I use it for games mostly, so I play at full screen ) and also I have the module named Kitkat SD Card full acces, that itself doesn't let me move apps to the SD, but if I understand correctly, this one let non-system apps gain acces to the SD Card (sdcard1).
I still can't move apps to the SD with that (from settings, also tried App2SD and link2sd and said that there was a problem because storage is being emulated) That's why I need to use FoulderMount and it's simple. select the source folder to mount (from Emulated/0 or sdcard0) and then thee destination folder (sdcard1/[whateverthenameofthefolderis]/) and that's it. there are tutorials (better explained) on how to use it too.
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Oh, I see. So there's no way to get the native, Android inbuilt app2sd? Bummer.
The Xposed framework looks very interesting, to say the least. After taking a look, I've decided to go back to stock and just use this for my tweaks and such. How long I'll keep it like that, I don't know, but I'm definitely going to try it. Thanks for explaining it to me.

Memory problem when installing apps

hi guys,
i've a little big problem with my atrix HD: i've just installed the cyanogen 11 snapshot M10, after having done all the wipes, format system, data etc, after the reboot everything was fine, and i started reinstalling all the app i need, and there is the problem, apparently i don't have enough free space to download and install app... maybe there's something i don't know about the place where the apps are downloaded or something like that.. i've checked the play store cache, wiped it too but nothin changed... here a screenshot about the apps page, thanks in advance
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sliker90 said:
hi guys,
i've a little big problem with my atrix HD: i've just installed the cyanogen 11 snapshot M10, after having done all the wipes, format system, data etc, after the reboot everything was fine, and i started reinstalling all the app i need, and there is the problem, apparently i don't have enough free space to download and install app... maybe there's something i don't know about the place where the apps are downloaded or something like that.. i've checked the play store cache, wiped it too but nothin changed... here a screenshot about the apps page, thanks in advance
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What app is it failing on? What size was it? Were you on a previous version of CM11? Just trying to get some background before diagnosing. I do see that you are down to 500 MB, so if its a big download you very well may be running out of space. The phone has about 5 gigs of free space when on CM11 M10.

sliker90 said:
hi guys,
i've a little big problem with my atrix HD: i've just installed the cyanogen 11 snapshot M10, after having done all the wipes, format system, data etc, after the reboot everything was fine, and i started reinstalling all the app i need, and there is the problem, apparently i don't have enough free space to download and install app... maybe there's something i don't know about the place where the apps are downloaded or something like that.. i've checked the play store cache, wiped it too but nothin changed... here a screenshot about the apps page, thanks in advance
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for starters, did you make sure that you are seeing the right internal memory for that? remember, there's that sdcard1 and legacy folder that does take up room. advise you look through those, grab up what you need, put it under one folder and delete the other. also, if its saying that on installing apps, go data/app-lib, delete files corresponding to app, and reinstall app.

idontkn1 said:
What app is it failing on? What size was it? Were you on a previous version of CM11? Just trying to get some background before diagnosing. I do see that you are down to 500 MB, so if its a big download you very well may be running out of space. The phone has about 5 gigs of free space when on CM11 M10.
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the app is google chrome, even if is a bit big, i don't think is big enough to fill all the free memory :/ the atrix was running a CM 11 snapshot M7

palmbeach05 said:
for starters, did you make sure that you are seeing the right internal memory for that? remember, there's that sdcard1 and legacy folder that does take up room. advise you look through those, grab up what you need, put it under one folder and delete the other. also, if its saying that on installing apps, go data/app-lib, delete files corresponding to app, and reinstall app.
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do you think that's something related to the internal SD card? do the apks are downloaded in the internal sdcard?

sliker90 said:
do you think that's something related to the internal SD card? do the apks are downloaded in the internal sdcard?
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Can you post a screenshot from the storage page with the internal sd?

do you mean, taken with the file manager?

sliker90 said:
do you think that's something related to the internal SD card? do the apks are downloaded in the internal sdcard?
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Can you post a screenshot from the storage page with the internal sd?
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do you mean, taken with the file manager?
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data partition access requires the use of a file manager that gives you root access (like root browser)
The internal storage that I was referring to is something that is usually seen when ppl use philz touch recovery (media1 vs media0 in philz). this does create a situation where you have your storage from a previous version of android and a storage from a newer version of android. for example, if using CM (I'm on CM10.2, but should be able to be seen on any version), you have the CM version of file manager included. open that and go to storage. in there you'll see emulated, sdcard1, and usbdisk. emulated refers to that older internal storage while sdcard1 refers to the newer

palmbeach05 said:
data partition access requires the use of a file manager that gives you root access (like root browser)
The internal storage that I was referring to is something that is usually seen when ppl use philz touch recovery (media1 vs media0 in philz). this does create a situation where you have your storage from a previous version of android and a storage from a newer version of android. for example, if using CM (I'm on CM10.2, but should be able to be seen on any version), you have the CM version of file manager included. open that and go to storage. in there you'll see emulated, sdcard1, and usbdisk. emulated refers to that older internal storage while sdcard1 refers to the newer
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in the first photo, you can see the content of storage directory in my phone:
1-Emulated = it contains the directories "0" and "Legacy";
2-Sdcard0 = it's for the "Internal sdcard";
3-Sdcard1 = it stands for the "External sdcard";
4-Usb Disk = maybe is the partition mounted when i plug an usb drive in ?
I've a clockwork recovery installed.
So just to undestand, when i format the system, it creates copied directories in the internal storage?
However, this is a a new screenshot from the app section, as you can see, i can't install chrome in its stable release, but i can download and install the beta version....WTF?

sliker90 said:
in the first photo, you can see the content of storage directory in my phone:
1-Emulated = it contains the directories "0" and "Legacy";
2-Sdcard0 = it's for the "Internal sdcard";
3-Sdcard1 = it stands for the "External sdcard";
4-Usb Disk = maybe is the partition mounted when i plug an usb drive in ?
I've a clockwork recovery installed.
So just to undestand, when i format the system, it creates copied directories in the internal storage?
However, this is a a new screenshot from the app section, as you can see, i can't install chrome in its stable release, but i can download and install the beta version....WTF?
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My bad, I hit a 1 instead of a 0 on the sdcard part. but yes, from what you described in your most recent post and the pic attatched, that is what I am referring to. That Emulated folder is what you need to go through, and move any files you want to keep over to sdcard0 (easier to work with), then delete everything inside Emulated. That should free up space.
Which CWM do you have?
I'm looking into the Chrome app right now to see what's going on with it. even though I'm on CM10.2, I've got both installed correctly. What is it saying when you try to download it?

clockwork version: v6.0.4.8
error displayed: -24, i've googled it and i found it's about memory leak problem

sliker90 said:
clockwork version: v6.0.4.8
error displayed: -24, i've googled it and i found it's about memory leak problem
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I recently had that error with adobe reader. I fixed mine by doing what I said earlier in the data partition, as well as going through the main folders within the data partition (data/app, data/app-lib, data/dalvik-cache, data/data) and deleting anything corresponding to the app.

Rooted but need help with ROM

I rooted with TWRP on my virgin mobile phone. I wanted to get rid of the internal storage crap. I have 4 Gig internal storage it shows 2.8 of that being used in "other" storage. I really want to remove it to free up phone space.
I downloaded titanium backup but after uninstalling apps it reboots and eventually everything pops back in. I've also tried link 2 sd with slightly more success.
I thought if I could just make all new apps download to the sd that should help, but even though the terminal emulator says the sd is the primary storage it's still loading to the phone first.
If I install a new ROM will that get rid of all the other stuff and let me download to the SD?
Also, I haven't been able to get S-off to work yet, will I still be able to put a new ROM in?
I only somewhat know what I'm doing, I could use a lot of direction. Thanks
Oh also, I can't backup in recovery because it says I don't have enough storage space :/

Apriljoanne said:
I rooted with TWRP on my virgin mobile phone. I wanted to get rid of the internal storage crap. I have 4 Gig internal storage it shows 2.8 of that being used in "other" storage. I really want to remove it to free up phone space.
I downloaded titanium backup but after uninstalling apps it reboots and eventually everything pops back in. I've also tried link 2 sd with slightly more success.
I thought if I could just make all new apps download to the sd that should help, but even though the terminal emulator says the sd is the primary storage it's still loading to the phone first.
If I install a new ROM will that get rid of all the other stuff and let me download to the SD?
Also, I haven't been able to get S-off to work yet, will I still be able to put a new ROM in?
I only somewhat know what I'm doing, I could use a lot of direction. Thanks
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You unfortunately cant get the rest of the 4GB space back. The only amount of space you'll ever be able to get is a little over 1GB which goes down after a rom install... The reason for that is because HTC was stupid and on all the other partitions there's a bunch of unused space... There's about 10 partitions with at least 175MB FREE on all of them. Why HTC did that is beyond me and most other devs.. Now about getting rid of the bloatware crap, if you don't first install another kernel with write protection removed like this one Kernel write protection removed click here then every time you reboot it's all just going to reinstall itself. So in order to stop that you must flash the kernel in TWRP and then go back and remove everything you want to. Just be careful which stuff you remove but if I was you and you really should do this before doing anything, go back into TWRP and create a backup of your current system so if anything ever goes wrong you can simply restore it and be ok...
Edit.. The reason you can't make the backup in TWRP is because it's set to internal space... At the top after you tap INSTALL change it from internal to SD and then tap home and make your backup.

MrMike2182 said:
You unfortunately cant get the rest of the 4GB space back. The only amount of space you'll ever be able to get is a little over 1GB which goes down after a rom install... The reason for that is because HTC was stupid and on all the other partitions there's a bunch of unused space... There's about 10 partitions with at least 175MB FREE on all of them. Why HTC did that is beyond me and most other devs.. Now about getting rid of the bloatware crap, if you don't first install another kernel with write protection removed like this one Kernel write protection removed click here then every time you reboot it's all just going to reinstall itself. So in order to stop that you must flash the kernel in TWRP and then go back and remove everything you want to. Just be careful which stuff you remove but if I was you and you really should do this before doing anything, go back into TWRP and create a backup of your current system so if anything ever goes wrong you can simply restore it and be ok...
Edit.. The reason you can't make the backup in TWRP is because it's set to internal space... At the top after you tap INSTALL change it from internal to SD and then tap home and make your backup.
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Oh I see. Thanks for the info. I did set to the sd card but still got an error. I'm trying to format my card now to see if that helps. Do I partition it before backing up?
Also do I run the kernel before installing a new ROM? Or if I run the kernel do you think I'm fine to just keep the HTC one I have and be no worse off?
Eventually I'd like to be able to tether my phone but can't think of any other super special features I'd use

Apriljoanne said:
Oh I see. Thanks for the info. I did set to the sd card but still got an error. I'm trying to format my card now to see if that helps. Do I partition it before backing up?
Also do I run the kernel before installing a new ROM? Or if I run the kernel do you think I'm fine to just keep the HTC one I have and be no worse off?
Eventually I'd like to be able to tether my phone but can't think of any other super special features I'd use
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Well if you've never used the SD card with the phone and you don't have nothing important on it then yes I'd recommend you format it and TWRP can help with that in the WIPE section.. You can just flash the kernel now and you'll be fine but you'll need the kernel on your SD card so you can select it in TWRP... So first take care of your SD card so it works with the phone before flashing a kernel.. You'd be fine keeping the rom you have..
Edit: You are from the USA correct? Just making sure so I know if your phone is 32 bit and not 64 bit... I'm pretty sure you're 32 bit though since you have TWRP installed.
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Apriljoanne said:
Oh I see. Thanks for the info. I did set to the sd card but still got an error.
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What error was it that you got after you set it to the sd card? Do you recall?

MrMike2182 said:
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Edit: You are from the USA correct? Just making sure so I know if your phone is 32 bit and not 64 bit... I'm pretty sure you're 32 bit though since you have TWRP installed.
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What error was it that you got after you set it to the sd card? Do you recall?
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It was not enough memory error but I got it fixed.
YeYes US.
I got the backup done and have the kernel installed on my sd card. so close! Is it possible to flash without connecting to the pc?
Are there instructions to do it through the emulator maybe?

Apriljoanne said:
It was not enough memory error but I got it fixed.
YeYes US.
I got the backup done and have the kernel installed on my sd card. so close! Is it possible to flash without connecting to the pc?
Are there instructions to do it through the emulator maybe?
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Yes you don't need a PC to flash a kernel... What version of TWRP did you install? Because if you use the 2.8.7.0 version of TWRP and up, you can flash from right inside of TWRP all you'd have to do is select install and navigate to where the kernel is on the SD but there's a toggle button on the lower right after you tap install to change it from a zip file to an image file and you MUST fist change it to the image setting otherwise it will not "see" the kernel.img that's on the SD... If you don't have this version then open the play store and download Flashify and flash the kernel while the phone is on and then just reboot after flashing it but be warned Flashify only lets you flash 3 times a day unless you buy the pro version but since you only need to flash one thing "kernel", you'll be ok to use it if you need to and you also have to give it root permission before you can flash.

Yea turns out my twrp version didn't have the option. Well I think I got it done with falshify, the kernel version matches although the baseband version numbers differ
Hopefully I'm all set now!

Apriljoanne said:
Yea turns out my twrp version didn't have the option. Well I think I got it done with falshify, the kernel version matches although the baseband version numbers differ
Hopefully I'm all set now!
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The Baseband numbers are fine, they're not supposed to match.. As long as you can see that the kernel was flashed by going into settings and about phone there's info in there that will show you if the kernel was installed and another way to test to see if it worked is to uninstall or delete a few apps that are bloatware and then reboot the phone and if they don't reinstall themselves then yep you're good to go! I'm rather surprised that a woman is doing what you are because most guys are freaking clueless and want someone to hold their hand through every single step haha..
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Apriljoanne said:
Hopefully I'm all set now!
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If you need anything else, just let me know.

Lol well my husband tried to root it and couldn't figure it out so I had to do it
I screwed something up just now though. The apps like Facebook and chrome still won't move completely to the SD card. The partition looks good but they're still locked to internal memory even with the kernel.
I'm also running busy box so I'm not sure what's wrong.
And now I keep getting a pop-up that android.process.media isn't working :/ I'm about ready to give up I was able to download a few more apps but then something went wrong and now the play store gives a error message about usb storage... I'll probably have to run my recovery. No idea what I did wrong.

Apriljoanne said:
Lol well my husband tried to root it and couldn't figure it out so I had to do it
I screwed something up just now though. The apps like Facebook and chrome still won't move completely to the SD card. The partition looks good but they're still locked to internal memory even with the kernel.
I'm also running busy box so I'm not sure what's wrong.
And now I keep getting a pop-up that android.process.media isn't working :/ I'm about ready to give up I was able to download a few more apps but then something went wrong and now the play store gives a error message about usb storage... I'll probably have to run my recovery. No idea what I did wrong.
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Just go into TWRP and tap wipe and then wipe just the Cache and Dalvic cache... Some apps you cannot move because they really need to be on the internal storage to gain access to certain files. Go into settings and tap storage then scroll all the way down in there should be an option to install to the SD card make sure all the boxes are ticked. If the WIPE doesn't stop your problem then you'll need to restore but be a little more careful next time.. Try moving a few things at a time and reboot then wait a few minutes to make sure it doesn't throw any errors like that and if it does, at least you'll only have a small amount of apps to move back and go through to find out which one did it lol..

Yeah, I don't know what happened. I had link2sd and apps2sd and changed some settings. Next thing I know, bam, not working.
But I wiped and it is good so long as the SD card is not mounted. If I mount the SD card it throws the android error again. SO I am formatting the card AGAIN. Yaaaaayyyy. I think partitioning it on my phone wasn't the best idea. So I;m connected to a computer now, and figure while I'm here I will update the TWRP version and maybe install a new ROM for the hell of it.

Apriljoanne said:
Yeah, I don't know what happened. I had link2sd and apps2sd and changed some settings. Next thing I know, bam, not working.
But I wiped and it is good so long as the SD card is not mounted. If I mount the SD card it throws the android error again. SO I am formatting the card AGAIN. Yaaaaayyyy. I think partitioning it on my phone wasn't the best idea. So I;m connected to a computer now, and figure while I'm here I will update the TWRP version and maybe install a new ROM for the hell of it.
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The SD card has to be partitioned a certain way.. To use Link2SD you have to have 2 partitions one MUST be ext4 because that's what your phone uses as a format type.. The other has to be fat32 or similar... They both must also be set as primary.. I used Mini Tool Partition on the PC to format my SD card but you can find another one... If you don't format it correctly it isn't going to work. Also, a new rom is not going to help anything and unfortunately the stock rom is the best one to use for now because the others have problems.

MrMike2182 said:
The SD card has to be partitioned a certain way.. To use Link2SD you have to have 2 partitions one MUST be ext4 because that's what your phone uses as a format type.. The other has to be fat32 or similar... They both must also be set as primary.. I used Mini Tool Partition on the PC to format my SD card but you can find another one... If you don't format it correctly it isn't going to work. Also, a new rom is not going to help anything and unfortunately the stock rom is the best one to use for now because the others have problems.
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ext4? I was using this tutorial http://www.techinbuzz.com/how-to-partition-sd-card-for-link2sd-using-minitool/ it says for stock ROM to use ext2? That's what I did the first time. But maybe I will try 4 because I have yet to have it work without a hitch.

Apriljoanne said:
ext4? I was using this tutorial http://www.techinbuzz.com/how-to-partition-sd-card-for-link2sd-using-minitool/ it says for stock ROM to use ext2? That's what I did the first time. But maybe I will try 4 because I have yet to have it work without a hitch.
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Use ext4 for the HTC Desire 510... Most people on here trust me. When you tapped wipe in TWRP didn't you see it say formatting with ext4?

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Use ext4 for the HTC Desire 510... Most people on here trust me. When you tapped wipe in TWRP didn't you see it say formatting with ext4?
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Don't worry oyu have my trust I really appreciate all your help today.
I don't remember seeing it but it's possible. I've got it partitioned again with the ext4 this time. I did get 1GB of memory freed up on my phone so that's definitely a plus. If I can move all the apps I download from here on out to the SD card I think I will be able to use my phone quite happily now! :good:
Or I'll be back tomorrow with more problems hahaha either is possible

Apriljoanne said:
Don't worry oyu have my trust I really appreciate all your help today.
I don't remember seeing it but it's possible. I've got it partitioned again with the ext4 this time. I did get 1GB of memory freed up on my phone so that's definitely a plus. If I can move all the apps I download from here on out to the SD card I think I will be able to use my phone quite happily now! :good:
Or I'll be back tomorrow with more problems hahaha either is possible
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Lmfao... You should be OK now as long as you've set everything up the right way.. And you're welcome.
You should learn about Xposed and Xposed Modules because it will make things a lot easier and you can theme your phone to look just about any way possible. There's even a module for Xposed called Downloads2SD and works awesome!!
Edit... By the way, you can also use flashify to flash an updated version of TWRP if you want or you can just flash it via the PC like you did already... The updated ones make flashing much easier! Anyways have a great night.

Ugh still problems. Unfortunately android.process.media is the error I keep getting. It is only when I have the SD card mounted. Even after formatting and setting a new partition. It was fine, then once I installed Link2SD and mounted the script the error started again.
I checked in the folders under "Android" "data" there are the .com.etc... files and then one that says nomedia. I wonder if that's what is causing the problem. Not sure if those type of files are available somewhere that I can reload.
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I've formatted the card again and put it in fresh but once I try to download an app to it (straight from playstore, not using link2sd) the error came back. So I definitely broke something. Not sure what. I may try with a brand new SD card tomorrow and see if it will fix it but at this point I'm not optimistic since a complete format of the card from my computer didn't fix the problem. :[

Apriljoanne said:
Ugh still problems. Unfortunately android.process.media is the error I keep getting. It is only when I have the SD card mounted. Even after formatting and setting a new partition. It was fine, then once I installed Link2SD and mounted the script the error started again.
I checked in the folders under "Android" "data" there are the .com.etc... files and then one that says nomedia. I wonder if that's what is causing the problem. Not sure if those type of files are available somewhere that I can reload.
I've formatted the card again and put it in fresh but once I try to download an app to it (straight from playstore, not using link2sd) the error came back. So I definitely broke something. Not sure what. I may try with a brand new SD card tomorrow and see if it will fix it but at this point I'm not optimistic since a complete format of the card from my computer didn't fix the problem. :[
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Try to have the Xposed and Xposed Modules... First you need to install the wanam Xposed framework and then reboot and start using modules and there's tons of them... Go read how to install Wanam Xposed after you get that installed you tap download inside of the Xposed app and type downdloads2sd because this is much better than anything else because you don't have to format the SD card all you need to do is set where you want your downloads to go and reboot after setting it all up and then you're all done!!

Except now my SD card isn't working regardless so it won't help until I figure that out

Apriljoanne said:
Except now my SD card isn't working regardless so it won't help until I figure that out
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Just reformat the entire SD card but first delete the partitions you made and just make the whole card fat32 and try using the Xposed Module to download to the SD card.