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any solution to increase internal memory for Samsung Ace 5830!!
android version 2.3.4
Baseband version S5830DDKQ6
Make 2nd partitions then use link2sd...
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pyronia said:
Make 2nd partitions then use link2sd...
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how to create a 2nd partition is there any apps for it for doing so ??
draneesh said:
how to create a 2nd partition is there any apps for it for doing so ??
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yea der is a software "minitool partition wizard"...
but u can do it by cwm recovery mod...
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draneesh said:
how to create a 2nd partition is there any apps for it for doing so ??
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Use pc...google minitool....easy to use app...
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draneesh said:
how to create a 2nd partition is there any apps for it for doing so ??
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I highly recommend using CMW for making the partition. I've had some problems making them through my PC. With CMW you just set the amount of size you want it and wait till its done.
Then install S2E.
yea its better to make it by cwm and its very easy....
but make sure you have the backup of you sdcard before partitioning...
Hey ! I just googled about partitioning sd card and found that CWM may brick your phone.. is it true ?
balaji.s26 said:
any solution to increase internal memory for Samsung Ace 5830!!
android version 2.3.4
Baseband version S5830DDKQ6
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If your phone is rooted, follow these steps -
1) Download root explorer or file manager app from market.
2) Open the app
3) Go to system/app
4) Delete the following files
swype.apk
thinkdroid.apk or thinkfree.apk if you dont use thinkfree office(something like that, i dont remember the exact name)
youtube.apk
fmradio.apk and fmradio.odex
voicesearch.apk
voicerecorder.apk and voicerecorder.odex
etc..
Delete these files only if you dont use all these apps. Don't blame me later on.
tj_droid said:
If your phone is rooted, follow these steps -
1) Download root explorer or file manager app from market.
2) Open the app
3) Go to system/app
4) Delete the following files
swype.apk
thinkdroid.apk or thinkfree.apk if you dont use thinkfree office(something like that, i dont remember the exact name)
youtube.apk
fmradio.apk and fmradio.odex
voicesearch.apk
voicerecorder.apk and voicerecorder.odex
etc..
Delete these files only if you dont use all these apps. Don't blame me later on.
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But its not a permanent solution....
Prawesome said:
But its not a permanent solution....
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Yea, I know.. I just gave an easier solution.. If he wont use much apps den this can work as a permanent soln
Sent from my GT-S5830 using iOS ROM
Apps disappearing from EXT4 partition
Hi everyone. Since I see that at least part of this thread seems to be talking about Link2SD, I wondered whether anyone might be able to offer some insight into the problem I am experiencing.
Before that however, let me explain that I started off with an 8GB micro SD card with a 500MB EXT4 partition. I had been fast running out of space in the internal phone memory, and my SD drive itself was also filling up fast. When I installed Link2SD I managed to regain a considerable amount of free space on the internal memory.
The problem is though that once I had linked the majority of my apps to the EXT4 partition and backed up the device in that condition with CWM, once I rebooted the system all the apps that were linked had disappeared. However there are still some 244MB of files on the EXT4 partition that Link2SD says are in use, and I cannot delete them.
I then purchased a 16GB micro SD card from Samsung, and tried to restore the CWM backup to that card....my apps were missing apart from the few that remained on the FAT32 partition and in the phone memory....I should mention that this also happened before I installed the CM7.1 ROM.
Now things have really become problematic. I decided to remove quite a few apps, then download the latest version of Link2SD from the apps Market. But although there is now plenty of space on all partitions I keep getting the 'insufficient storage available' message, and I cannot install anything. I also did a CWM restore on the original 8GB SD card with the same result. This is why I cannot lay the blame fully on Link2SD, as there has to be a glitch somewhere in my installation.
FreeSpace [Root] shows the following on the 8GB based system:
Cache free space 20.7MB
Data free 16.6MB
Ext free 265.0MB
SD-card free 959.1MB
System free 48.2MB
So what gives? I really don't understand what's going on. I am running the latest CM7.1-RC1 Cooper-Grif ROM build number GWK74, with Kernel version 2.6.35.7-CL-562111 [email protected]#1 with all updates necessary. This is costing me more time than I can afford to lose on this, and I really need to find a solution once and for all, preferable without having to reinstall everything again from scratch, which is what I intend doing once the official Cyanogen Mod becomes available finally.
Thanks in advance, and apologies for the long post.
try this http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
and install S2E + FreeSpace
Deodex your rom using my tutorial !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21853516&postcount=1
Make partition in cwm yet easy but...it will format your sd...on minitool is better if u have lots of thing on your sd...
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I got some problems doing this. This is what I did:
I had many apps installed and moved to SD (8gb class 4), so I made a backup of the SD content.
I formatted it, and created 2 partitions (6.8gb and 515mb) using Minitool Partition Wizard. Both are primary and FAT32 (if I create the 2nd partition as EXT2 the phone says SD is damaged).
Moved my backup content again to the 6.8gb partition and rebooted the phone.
Looks like everything is right but Link2SD says "second partition not found".
What IM doing wrong?
Would Link2SD detect that 2nd partition if I flash my phone and I start installing apps now that my SD has 2 partitions?
IMHO from what I've experience, Link2sd does not accept fat partitions. I had the same problem.
Are you looking for the correct type of partition?
Start Link2sd>menu>More>recreate mount scripts and choose FAT32/FAT16
truth57 said:
Hi everyone. Since I see that at least part of this thread seems to be talking about Link2SD, I wondered whether anyone might be able to offer some insight into the problem I am experiencing.
Before that however, let me explain that I started off with an 8GB micro SD card with a 500MB EXT4 partition. I had been fast running out of space in the internal phone memory, and my SD drive itself was also filling up fast. When I installed Link2SD I managed to regain a considerable amount of free space on the internal memory.
The problem is though that once I had linked the majority of my apps to the EXT4 partition and backed up the device in that condition with CWM, once I rebooted the system all the apps that were linked had disappeared. However there are still some 244MB of files on the EXT4 partition that Link2SD says are in use, and I cannot delete them.
I then purchased a 16GB micro SD card from Samsung, and tried to restore the CWM backup to that card....my apps were missing apart from the few that remained on the FAT32 partition and in the phone memory....I should mention that this also happened before I installed the CM7.1 ROM.
Now things have really become problematic. I decided to remove quite a few apps, then download the latest version of Link2SD from the apps Market. But although there is now plenty of space on all partitions I keep getting the 'insufficient storage available' message, and I cannot install anything. I also did a CWM restore on the original 8GB SD card with the same result. This is why I cannot lay the blame fully on Link2SD, as there has to be a glitch somewhere in my installation.
FreeSpace [Root] shows the following on the 8GB based system:
Cache free space 20.7MB
Data free 16.6MB
Ext free 265.0MB
SD-card free 959.1MB
System free 48.2MB
So what gives? I really don't understand what's going on. I am running the latest CM7.1-RC1 Cooper-Grif ROM build number GWK74, with Kernel version 2.6.35.7-CL-562111 [email protected]#1 with all updates necessary. This is costing me more time than I can afford to lose on this, and I really need to find a solution once and for all, preferable without having to reinstall everything again from scratch, which is what I intend doing once the official Cyanogen Mod becomes available finally.
Thanks in advance, and apologies for the long post.
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Try s2e best app for CM roms,nearly perfect app, dnt have to link ur data again n again, it does its job without bugging u, try it u would love it
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Hi all
My Xperia Z goes into bootloop NOT after I have partitioned the sd card, BUT when I use link2sd to make SCRIPT? My sd card is sandisk 64GB, i have tried with a 2GB sd card but it worked?
yeah, I have the same problem. Luckily, without the sd card at boot the Xperia Z boots up just fine and once it's booted I can also put back in the micro sd and access all the contents. I "only" need to know how I can fix the boot with the micro sd inserted. Do I need to edit, delete or rename some file or script?
I have a "install-recovery.sh" (382 bytes and includes text with the information "added by link2sd") and a smaller "install-recovery.sh.ori" (38 bytes) file. The latter one I assume is the original one before link2sd created its script and wrote it into the "install-recovery.sh"?! I have no idea. But I guess since it is smaller and the file ending "ori" could indicate "original". Could I just delete the "install-recovery.sh" and rename the other one back to "install-recovery.sh"
Both of these files are under "system/etc". I don't have a "init.d" folder or at least I can't find it. I read somewhere that I need this for Link2SD to run properly. However, I don't want it to run, I just want it to remove completly.
The reason I'm into this trouble is, that my Xperia Z has only 3GB internal memory left and I have a 64GB microsd card which I assumed had still a second partition on it from a previous handset. So I downloaded Link2SD, started it and let it create a mounting script, after boot the bootloop occured. Now I know that there is no second partition and I wanna get rid of the script and loop. A simple deinstall of Link2SD was not enough.
I also have the CWM recovery for locked bootloaders installed, if that matters (this recovery works fine).
I've attached the two files. Maybe someone can look into them and tell me what's wrong and what I need to change in order for my phone to boot up with inserted microsd card.
Can someone share their original "install-recovery.sh"?
I would edit or delete the "install-recovery.sh" myself, but I'm really afraid to make things even worse than they are now, for instance no boot at all, deleted apps and data.
Can anyone please help me?
Edit: I found the solution!! After hours of searching I found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40471594&highlight=remove+link2sd#post40471594 with "lousou76s" posting.
I was quite scared to break even more, but then was brave enough to try it out.
I followed his steps exactly (although I did not have an "init.d" folder and therefore not the file in step one. But it didn't matter, I did what he wrote, inserted my microSD card again and it booted flawlessly! So glad I got this figured out. Stupid Link2SD.
Now I only have to find a way to cope with the limited internal space on my XZ and the fact that I have plenty of space on my microSD but can't use it for apps.
Same problem
After install link2sd and create the 2nd partition, I had the same problem. Reboot loop until take of the SD Card. Anyone managed to get Link2sd working?
Find a solution?
.LEONARDO. said:
After install link2sd and create the 2nd partition, I had the same problem. Reboot loop until take of the SD Card. Anyone managed to get Link2sd working?
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Ever find a solution?
Link2sd Xperia Z partition bootloop
Hello all,
I've encountered the same issue on my brand new Xperia Z. This is my 4th Android device, and I've never experienced any problems with Link2sd, until the Xperia Z. No matter what file allocation table I use to format the 2nd MicroSD partition, it just keeps getting stuck in the boot loop. Initially it gave me an unsupported file format (and invalid argument) error. Now (after I reflashed the newest unbranded ROM), there are no more error codes, but after Link2sd prompts to select ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, etc, regardless of which one I choose, it just keeps booting and getting stuck on the flashing Sony screen (and the only temporary workaround is to eject the SD card).
As mentioned above, I've tried various formats and file allocation tables, but to no avail. I also tried different micro SD cards (PNY, Lexar, Toshiba) in various capacities (from 8 to 64 Gigs), and still no go.
Apparently there are hundreds of reports online about this incompatibility with Xperia Z and Link2sd (specifically pertaining to the partition boot loop).
Could someone please point us in the right direction (so we can try and resolve this, once and for all)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time, guys!
Simple Fix that worked for me.
boychik said:
Hello all,
I've encountered the same issue on my brand new Xperia Z. This is my 4th Android device, and I've never experienced any problems with Link2sd, until the Xperia Z. No matter what file allocation table I use to format the 2nd MicroSD partition, it just keeps getting stuck in the boot loop. Initially it gave me an unsupported file format (and invalid argument) error. Now (after I reflashed the newest unbranded ROM), there are no more error codes, but after Link2sd prompts to select ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, etc, regardless of which one I choose, it just keeps booting and getting stuck on the flashing Sony screen (and the only temporary workaround is to eject the SD card).
As mentioned above, I've tried various formats and file allocation tables, but to no avail. I also tried different micro SD cards (PNY, Lexar, Toshiba) in various capacities (from 8 to 64 Gigs), and still no go.
Apparently there are hundreds of reports online about this incompatibility with Xperia Z and Link2sd (specifically pertaining to the partition boot loop).
Could someone please point us in the right direction (so we can try and resolve this, once and for all)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time, guys!
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This may not work for your situation, but it worked for me. After I rebooted device I got stuck in a bootloop at the MetroPCS screen of my SGH-T599N I rebooted into restore mode and used Wipe Cache Partition option (not sure if this was relevant to the fix or not) then rebooted the phone. I waited for maybe 5 minutes this time, and after a minute a screeen popped up with a % bar and for the life of me I cannot remember it was Android something. After this screen finished phone rebooted like normal and all was well. I even rebooted once more to check, no problems at all. Hope this helps.
Someone solved this???
HI,
same problem for me with my Xperia sp, sd card partitioned, as soon as i launch link2sd it asks to reboot the phone in order to apply the changes and the phone stucks on rebooting loop.
Anyone found a solution??
Donot let link2sd make a script partition...as i was on 4.4.4 i was able to mount my ext2 partition manually and move apps easily...i did not try on Lollipop yet
Hi everybody, I am currently trying to solve a problem with not having enough space for my applications on the N7000.
I consider myself a power user that uses many applications, and I do not really understand why a phone with 16GB internal storage and the possibility of an micro sd card, which I have allocates so little space to applications.
I have searched a lot on the internet and on this forum, and the only thing I could find was how to swap the internal memory with the micro sd card, which is not really what I would like to do. I trust more in the internal memory, and I prefer to have all my media (pictures, videos and documents on my micro sd card).
So the question is, can I increase the size of the data partition from 1.97GB to lets say 3 or even 4GB?
If yes, how could I do that?
Currently I am using 1.71 GB / 1.97 GB and I still get not enough space for applications when I am trying to update something like Facebook or any plus 20MB application.
Could anyone explain why this is happening?
I don't know any way to extend the internal data partition but in order to get more storage for apps I can recommend you the app Link2SD which uses a second partition on your external sd card. You can get it for free from play store and it's not really complicated. All you need to do is create that second partition on your sd card. I'd give it a try if I were you.
Sent from my revived Galaxy Note
This post explains how:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887864
You need at least noob knowledge of adb (ie copy-pasting commands).
The second command was
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rather than
parted /dev/block/mmcblock0
I've just done it on my Note.
giatros said:
This post explains how:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887864
You need at least noob knowledge of adb (ie copy-pasting commands).
The second command was
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rather than
parted /dev/block/mmcblock0
I've just done it on my Note.
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Hi Please can you help me with repartitioning my samsung gal gtn7000 internal storage for me ?
Thanks
Hi,
I have the Note GT-N7000 with Android stock 4.1.2 and i'm not rooted.
I have a problem with my 1,97 GB partition which is full.
Does this method require root ?
I ever use root + Link2SD on anothers devices. Which methode do you recommend for the note to free up space ? Link2SD or this method ?
Are there others solutions ?
Thanks
I would go for rooting, repartitioning and installing a new kernal that supports trim and a new up to date ROM. I chose this method for my wifes N7000 as being able to TRIM the emmc chips has really brought it back to life, almost no lag normally, just like when it was new. I installed the latest NightOwl (it's really just Cyanogenmod but with extra bug fixes etc). First you need to repartition as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642299 though I followed a procedure (as I had already installed CM11 I had to go back to stock first) called "How to re-partition Galaxy Note and install Android 5.1.1", there is a link to it on one of the XDA threads I mention in this post and it is on the net (sorry can't find link now). Then I flashed NightOwl http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note/development/rom-t2938649 . This Kernal & ROM are patched so risk of bricking is not any(much) higher than normal I think (though you do this at your own risk). Also being able to choose smaller GApps package further reduced bloat for me.
The only drawback is if you use the Samsung apps a lot you will not be able to install then on new ROM as you need the Samsung framework, but there are altenative apps for all of them, though I guess if you need to import actual data into new apps that may not always be possible.
Just make sure you backup all your personal files, like whatsapp photos etc that are stored on internal SD (sdcard0) as this will be wiped. Also your IMEI settings (with an IMEI app), address books, calender etc
No need to worry about ROOT as you can easily turn it on and off in developer options, I only turn it on when I need to run an app that requires it, then turn off again for added security.
Thanks for your answer, i will check the repartition method you linked.
I recently updated my moto g to lollipop, but now it seems that this 3 apps are now incompatible
link2sd: 2nd partition not mounting by any mean known by man
gl to SD: not working
Foldermount: Folder not mounting
what apps do you recommend to use instead, or how do i can use them again, thanks
so lost!! please help!
hello there
i have the galaxy s3mini GT- 18190N
uk resident
carrier T-Mobile
android version 4.1.2
kernel version 3.0.31-1436784
ive had the phone for some time now and obviously internal space has became a problem so i looked around the net and it seemed that the first thing i must do was to root the phone....
i rooted with the main intention of being able to put my apps into my 32gb extsd card
secondly to perhaps upgrade the OS to say lollipop
thirdly to maybe try out some of these custom roms ive read so much about.
so i did root the phone using kingroot app, this seemed to help with the speed of the phone/reduced lagging and such but not with internal memory.
i then looked around for a solution and the general answer was to install link2sd and app2sd.
i installed both but had no joy due to no 2nd partition on sd card.
this led me to downloading rommanager (which apparently can create a 2nd partition on the etxSD) well this is when i realised my noobness knew no bounds, because for the life of me i cant seem to be able to do it lol
i looked around again and read as much as i could in regards to creating a 2nd partition on the extSD but again have not found a clear (complete and utter noob proof) guide to do this so am now stuck in limbo
ive read so much this last few days about flash/roms/internal sd/internal phone memory/external sd/nands/backups/backdowns/backflips ect. that i feel completely lost.
i understand this is probably a very tedious request to you more educated folk but what i would like to know is:
1 - can i return my phone to stock settings? (what it was like before i rooted) will this delete all the changes ive made and apps ive downloaded? and is this the best idea? to start all over again from scratch? if so how?
or can i download a custom rom that already has these settings? by settings i mean the ability to move my apps to the external SD? if so, how?
im really sorry for being a pain but my brains gonna explode.
please help
thank you
anyone that can help me please
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
Stefano Cappelletti said:
I had your same problem twice. I just forgot to set the new partition "active".. Did you already check if the partition is primary and active?
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hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
paddroid said:
hey thanks for the reply!
erm.... how would i do that exactly?
ive downloaded rom manager and tried to create a second partition using that, but that doesnt seem to work either?
i am close to just giving up to be honest, got a 32gb sd card and it just sitting there gathering dust while my internal memory is sucked dry of any space.
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You can create and manage partitions with your pc, you just need an adaptor and than you can use "MiniTool Partition Wizard Free" that is a free partition manager tool! :good: Right click on the partition and then "set active" (both partition are primary, but one fs is EXT4 and the other one is Fat32, set active the ETX4 one) :good: