Is there any way to repartition the size of rom?
i want to combine all internal sd card space to the rom and make the external sd card as for the only one of sd card.
Can i edit the pit file to do that? and how?
thanks for your help
tommyhui said:
Is there any way to repartition the size of rom?
i want to combine all internal sd card space to the rom and make the external sd card as for the only one of sd card.
Can i edit the pit file to do that? and how?
thanks for your help
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You want to combine the internal storage and the usb storage into one storage space and the internal and external sd storage become just sd storage?
tknguyencsu said:
You want to combine the internal storage and the usb storage into one storage space and the internal and external sd storage become just sd storage?
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Yes
I would like to do this too, I know it is possible because my Motorola Xoom does this. I was surprised that the ICS update didn't reformat the internal storage to work this way.
The internal "/data" partition stores both application and "user" data and it is done by having a subfolder of the data partition mounted as the "internal sdcard" (/mnt/sdcard) by a special filesystem that strips all user permissions from the files.
That way as far as the OS is concerned all the data is on one unified partition so I could install 20G worth of apps if I liked, yet all the applications that download data or expect music to be on the sdcard have everything in the right place.
The extra sd card shows up as /mnt/external1
Mokubai said:
I would like to do this too, I know it is possible because my Motorola Xoom does this. I was surprised that the ICS update didn't reformat the internal storage to work this way.
The internal "/data" partition stores both application and "user" data and it is done by having a subfolder of the data partition mounted as the "internal sdcard" (/mnt/sdcard) by a special filesystem that strips all user permissions from the files.
That way as far as the OS is concerned all the data is on one unified partition so I could install 20G worth of apps if I liked, yet all the applications that download data or expect music to be on the sdcard have everything in the right place.
The extra sd card shows up as /mnt/external1
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I have tried to do this by editing the "vold.fstab" file in the etc folder. However I have not been successful. I can only switch between the internal and external sdcard.
Each time I failed I have to recopy the original vold.fstab file before the Note working again if I am lucky. Most of the time I have to reflash the rom again. You can get some information from the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454753
Thought I will share this simple and very effective method with all folks, I guess some of you might have known this method, I am sure there are other ways (via CWM which I tried few months back and ended up wiping my SD card data :crying, but I could'nt find a simpler guide like this one for "learner' like me
No need to delete any of your existing favourite apps to carve out space for a new one.No running out of memory issues.
All you need to have is:
A SD card of sufficient capacity (preferably,class 4 or higher)
A rooted phone
SD card reader (you can do the steps below with the SD card in the phone connected via USB)
A PC running Windows
BACK UP YOUR CONTENTS ON THE SD CARD TO A SAFE LOCATION IN CASE YOU NEED TO REVERT AGAIN. THE SD CARD WILL BE FORMATTED DURING THE PROCESS. NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU SKIP THIS STEP AND LOSE YOUR DATA !!!
Now follow these steps..
First of all,you have to partition your SD card.To do this,first search (via google on your PC) download & install Mini Tool Partition Wizard.
Connect your SD card to the pc (via a card reader/via phone).Your pc and the wizard will detect the sd card.
In the Mini Tool Partition Wizard,right click on your SD card and select delete. Take care that you do not mess with any other hard drive or partition on your PC and select only the SD card
Now,you will have whole of the space on your sd card as unallocated.
Right click on it and select create.
A popup will open,in that box,select the partition as primary,file system as FAT (if your sd card is below 4GB) or FAT32 (if your sd card is of more than 4GB capacity).
You can size any amount of the SD card for this partition ; this will be the SD card space in which you eill eventually store your music, photos etc. Make sure you leave about 512 MB or more space (upto 1Gb is good enough) for the next partition.
Select done.
Right click on the unallocated space and again click create.This time too,select Primary but change the file system to Ext2,Ext3 or Ext4 (Ext2 is recommended as most ROMs work fine with it)
Click apply changes and the process will take a few minutes, let it complete.
After it is done, search for link2sd on Google play and install the app on your device.
On the first launch, it will ask for root permissions and then, will ask you the file system of the Ext partition, choose the Ext partition that you created, accordingly.
Sort the apps according to size, do a multi-select and start linking them and voila, you can now Install more and more apps without filling your phone memory, thus the internal memory of your phone is increased to the size of the ext partition you create. Once done reboot the phone and enjoy using normally
Use common sense and move only apps that you have downloaded and installed, not system apps, launcher themes etc which are very much required in the phone memory
In link2sd settings select auto link for any new apps that you will install, in future.
Another super benefit ! When you turn USB storage on, all the apps on your sd will keep working and so well be the widgets
This method should work for all phones.
Enjoy !!!...
Many Thanks to Gaurav Gayhlan for the method posted in Droidiser
many many thanks
vijayar said:
Thought I will share this simple and very effective method with all folks, I guess some of you might.........................................................
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nice how-to mate. But may I suggest changing the title to something like "How to link2sd or install app on sd card"? I opened this thread thinking it was an how to increase the size of the /data partition
pls post video tutorial link..........................................
thank you.
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whyzee said:
nice how-to mate. But may I suggest changing the title to something like "How to link2sd or install app on sd card"? I opened this thread thinking it was an how to increase the size of the /data partition
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Thanks for the suggestion; I went with a simple title that people will normally use to search on Google or on this forum w.r.t this subject....like how I searched ...
But again this method is all about increasing space for the /data partition using sd-ext !
vijayar said:
Thought I will share this simple and very effective method with all folks, I guess some of you might have known this method, I am sure there are other ways (via CWM which I tried few months back and ended up wiping my SD card data :crying, but I could'nt find a simpler guide like this one for "learner' like me
No need to delete any of your existing favourite apps to carve out space for a new one.No running out of memory issues.
All you need to have is:
A SD card of sufficient capacity (preferably,class 4 or higher)
A rooted phone
SD card reader (you can do the steps below with the SD card in the phone connected via USB)
A PC running Windows
BACK UP YOUR CONTENTS ON THE SD CARD TO A SAFE LOCATION IN CASE YOU NEED TO REVERT AGAIN. THE SD CARD WILL BE FORMATTED DURING THE PROCESS. NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU SKIP THIS STEP AND LOSE YOUR DATA !!!
Now follow these steps..
First of all,you have to partition your SD card.To do this,first search (via google on your PC) download & install Mini Tool Partition Wizard.
Connect your SD card to the pc (via a card reader/via phone).Your pc and the wizard will detect the sd card.
In the Mini Tool Partition Wizard,right click on your SD card and select delete. Take care that you do not mess with any other hard drive or partition on your PC and select only the SD card
Now,you will have whole of the space on your sd card as unallocated.
Right click on it and select create.
A popup will open,in that box,select the partition as primary,file system as FAT (if your sd card is below 4GB) or FAT32 (if your sd card is of more than 4GB capacity).
You can size any amount of the SD card for this partition ; this will be the SD card space in which you eill eventually store your music, photos etc. Make sure you leave about 512 MB or more space (upto 1Gb is good enough) for the next partition.
Select done.
Right click on the unallocated space and again click create.This time too,select Primary but change the file system to Ext2,Ext3 or Ext4 (Ext2 is recommended as most ROMs work fine with it)
Click apply changes and the process will take a few minutes, let it complete.
After it is done, search for link2sd on Google play and install the app on your device.
On the first launch, it will ask for root permissions and then, will ask you the file system of the Ext partition, choose the Ext partition that you created, accordingly.
Sort the apps according to size, do a multi-select and start linking them and voila, you can now Install more and more apps without filling your phone memory, thus the internal memory of your phone is increased to the size of the ext partition you create. Once done reboot the phone and enjoy using normally
Use common sense and move only apps that you have downloaded and installed, not system apps, launcher themes etc which are very much required in the phone memory
In link2sd settings select auto link for any new apps that you will install, in future.
Another super benefit ! When you turn USB storage on, all the apps on your sd will keep working and so well be the widgets
This method should work for all phones.
Enjoy !!!...
Many Thanks to Gaurav Gayhlan for the method posted in Droidiser
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Very informative buddy should have posted this when i had samsung spica with its internal memory of just 170 mbs
gr8 job! keep posting more
great guide
thanks a lot mn for your excellent guide
vijayar said:
Thought I will share this simple and very effective method with all folks, I guess some of you might have known this method, I am sure there are other ways (via CWM which I tried few months back and ended up wiping my SD card data :crying, but I could'nt find a simpler guide like this one for "learner' like me
No need to delete any of your existing favourite apps to carve out space for a new one.No running out of memory issues.
All you need to have is:
A SD card of sufficient capacity (preferably,class 4 or higher)
A rooted phone
SD card reader (you can do the steps below with the SD card in the phone connected via USB)
A PC running Windows
BACK UP YOUR CONTENTS ON THE SD CARD TO A SAFE LOCATION IN CASE YOU NEED TO REVERT AGAIN. THE SD CARD WILL BE FORMATTED DURING THE PROCESS. NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU SKIP THIS STEP AND LOSE YOUR DATA !!!
Now follow these steps..
First of all,you have to partition your SD card.To do this,first search (via google on your PC) download & install Mini Tool Partition Wizard.
Connect your SD card to the pc (via a card reader/via phone).Your pc and the wizard will detect the sd card.
In the Mini Tool Partition Wizard,right click on your SD card and select delete. Take care that you do not mess with any other hard drive or partition on your PC and select only the SD card
Now,you will have whole of the space on your sd card as unallocated.
Right click on it and select create.
A popup will open,in that box,select the partition as primary,file system as FAT (if your sd card is below 4GB) or FAT32 (if your sd card is of more than 4GB capacity).
You can size any amount of the SD card for this partition ; this will be the SD card space in which you eill eventually store your music, photos etc. Make sure you leave about 512 MB or more space (upto 1Gb is good enough) for the next partition.
Select done.
Right click on the unallocated space and again click create.This time too,select Primary but change the file system to Ext2,Ext3 or Ext4 (Ext2 is recommended as most ROMs work fine with it)
Click apply changes and the process will take a few minutes, let it complete.
After it is done, search for link2sd on Google play and install the app on your device.
On the first launch, it will ask for root permissions and then, will ask you the file system of the Ext partition, choose the Ext partition that you created, accordingly.
Sort the apps according to size, do a multi-select and start linking them and voila, you can now Install more and more apps without filling your phone memory, thus the internal memory of your phone is increased to the size of the ext partition you create. Once done reboot the phone and enjoy using normally
Use common sense and move only apps that you have downloaded and installed, not system apps, launcher themes etc which are very much required in the phone memory
In link2sd settings select auto link for any new apps that you will install, in future.
Another super benefit ! When you turn USB storage on, all the apps on your sd will keep working and so well be the widgets
This method should work for all phones.
Enjoy !!!...
Many Thanks to Gaurav Gayhlan for the method posted in Droidiser
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Help please !!!!
I followed the above procedure and now i have linked to my partition to link2sd app.. when i connect my mobile to my PC it is not detecting the FAT32 partition..it opens the formatting dialog box .. How am i supposed to transfer data from system to my mobile.. PLSSS HELP ME... !!
about increase memory phone
i did this method and apps installed in my sd card really but also any app i download it from google play takes a space on my internel storage:crying:
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ashraf fahmy said:
i did this method and apps installed in my sd card really but also any app i download it from google play takes a space on my internel storage:crying:
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my words mean that for example i downloaded viber and before i download this program i went to see my internal storage i found it 25m.b. free on my internal storage and after i downloaded this program"viber" i opened link2sd i found it in my sd card and a lso opened my internal storage i found it became 19m.b. and i cant download a lot of apps because my internal storage of my phone became little so yr method cant benifit me. so what can i do to stop apps to take a space on my internal torage?
Hi i wanna now how can i fusion the "sdcard" with "sd-ext" in JB.. I've saw a lot of phones that the intrenal memory is the ROM memory for us and the microSD card is the sdcard partition .. so my finnaly question is how can we do that or make the ROM mem to be 8Gb and the sd card part to be up to 32Gb
i've been back with some explications of what i wanna do with munt points so let's start...
Firs of all i wanna make one partition of system storge and usb storage to one system storage (a normal partition for android phones) equivalent of 1.97+3.92=5.89Gb as internal mem. See partitions in the print screen
Then i wanna make the "SD card", actualy mounted as "extsdcard", the USB storgage in my case
For explaining you i have here a photo from a Vodafone Smart II (Alcatel v860) that has the partition management that i want
Brocky2011 said:
i've been back with some explications of what i wanna do with munt points so let's start...
Firs of all i wanna make one partition of system storge and usb storage to one system storage (a normal partition for android phones) equivalent of 1.97+3.92=5.89Gb as internal mem. See partitions in the print screen
Then i wanna make the "SD card", actualy mounted as "extsdcard", the USB storgage in my case
For explaining you i have here a photo from a Vodafone Smart II (Alcatel v860) that has the partition management that i want
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As far I know you can only swap places of external and internal memory. You cannot fuse it.
Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36613948
And on that image I do not see any fusion of internal and external memory. It just shows capacity of it. And it is swaped too, internal become external and external become internal.
yes because in that image the internal mem (in our case 8G = 6gb + 2GbROM) it's a single partition and ours is splitted in two the internal and usb storage and in the 2nd picture the sdcard from image is a 2Gb microSD card
Now you understand me
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yes because in that image the internal mem (in our case 8G = 6gb + 2GbROM) it's a single partition and ours is splitted in two the internal and usb storage and in the 2nd picture the sdcard from image is a 2Gb microSD card
Now you understand me
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No, you got it wrong. In second image there is 2GB internal memory that is transformed to be external. And extrenal with 32GB is set to be internal. And that is exacly what is done in this link I give to you.
P.S. And our phone is 8GB=4GB storage + 2GB app partition + 2GB for other system needs (ROM, RAM etc...).
P.P.S. Tell me again, what do you want to do? To make internal memory bigger?
i wanna intall a lot of games and apps that has the data folder in internal mem and the data is big like RF2013 or NFSMW or Asphalt 7 and more games and if i have 16 gb microsd card i wanna use it for this, music and movies
so tell me if its a way to reassamble that two partitions or combine the last two
P.S. I said 6Gb because in the earlier post you can see i calculate the sum of that first 2 partitions firs about 2 Bg like you say and econg about 4 Gb again like you said
Brocky2011 said:
i wanna intall a lot of games and apps that has the data folder in internal mem and the data is big like RF2013 or NFSMW or Asphalt 7 and more games and if i have 16 gb microsd card i wanna use it for this, music and movies
so tell me if its a way to reassamble that two partitions or combine the last two
P.S. I said 6Gb because in the earlier post you can see i calculate the sum of that first 2 partitions firs about 2 Bg like you say and econg about 4 Gb again like you said
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Short, and clear - use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36613948&postcount=1017
"changed memory" It will make your external SD to act like internal. And all data for stuff you install will go there.
I have a HTC one M7, 32GB, Running Lollipop, 5.0.2. This phone does not have micro SD slot.
When I try to restore an app using Titanium, it says there is not enough memory.
In the Storage option from the settings it shows: 22GB/32GB used.
I know part of this internal storage is emulated SD card to be used for the data, media and music and photos. and part of it is used by the apps. What is the size of each segment? and how can i increase the partition size for the app installation storage?
In my other phone, I could go to each app, and choose to MOVE TO INTERNAL or MOVE TO PHONE. (that one also without card slot). but in the lollipop there is no MOVE option under each app settings.
I also tried link2sd free and AppMgr III, and no good.
Thanks.
geek654 said:
I have a HTC one M7, 32GB, Running Lollipop, 5.0.2. This phone does not have micro SD slot.
When I try to restore an app using Titanium, it says there is not enough memory.
In the Storage option from the settings it shows: 22GB/32GB used.
I know part of this internal storage is emulated SD card to be used for the data, media and music and photos. and part of it is used by the apps. What is the size of each segment? and how can i increase the partition size for the app installation storage?
In my other phone, I could go to each app, and choose to MOVE TO INTERNAL or MOVE TO PHONE. (that one also without card slot). but in the lollipop there is no MOVE option under each app settings.
I also tried link2sd free and AppMgr III, and no good.
Thanks.
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About 25.5 Gb. The emulated sdcard share the same partition as your user data partition (/data). Emulated sdcard is located at /data/media/0
Ok guys, so I've been trying to increase my ram by using app2sd, but the issue is when I try to mount the second partition (ext4 btw, because I see that all the other storage in my phone is in that format by app2sd) I get the next message: "unable to determine su.d path, you can set the "su.d/post-fs-data.d/service.d" path in Settings and try again" honestly I don't know what to do here at this point, where is that directory? do I have to put it in internal storage or in the second sd card's partition? (I've seen that some "/data" directory has something to see about)
I'm trying to get that 8GB partition on the sd card run as virtual RAM by swapping it with some swapper app, or there's actually a RAM limit that I don't know, or can I just assign whatever amount of RAM that I desire as long I have a partition big enough? Also I tried with a 32GB partition on another SD card with the same result
I'm using Magisk systemless on a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900T, running Lineage OS 17.1 klte