I partitioned using clockworkmod and now having trouble getting anything to install from the market. Is there a way to combine them and or any other ideas on how to fix this.
if you partitioned to anything other than 2048 and 0 it wont work
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After days and hours of searching and trial'n'error, im about to give up.
I installed DT's apps2sd script on my S5570 mini, and even though it frees up to 171 mb on my 178 mb internal storage, but for some reason it detects the apps2sd partition wrong in all custom roms I tried.
In one rom (emanoN) it detected my /cache partition/directory as sd-ext making it running out of space in 1-3 roms depending on size.
Due to the error with apps2d on this rom lately I then tried with CM7 to test.
In cm7, it detects the sd-ext with 206 mb partiton, even though its setup with 1GB ext4, and oddly doesnt move in size with installing apps. Again it runs out of space after installing a few apps again.
This is even though it should be tested and working on CM7.
Moving dalvik-cache and zipaligning app seems to work fine.
I tried partitioning using most guides online with either ext3 or ext4 without luck. With CWM and with ADB shell partitioning manually with blocks.
A2SD partlist and diskspace shows the partition is setup correctly.
Anything I overlooked and any ideas in getting this to work would be much appriciated.
I can confirm it actually intalls on the ext partition, but just shows it wrong, but before installing on ext partition, its downloads to /cache partition, which have to be cleared manually after an app install to get space for more apps.
The main problem here is im not able to install apps bigger than 20 mb, as thats the size of the cache partition..
Must be someone who got it working, who may know whats wrong?
Now I just need to get umount -l /cache and mount /sdcard/marketcache /cache into my boot..
Man, this is a timekiller..
Try S2E from the Market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=ru.krikun.s2e&feature=search_result
Thank you for the reply.. I tried simple2ext and I actually think this beats a2sd anytime, but it only works for CM.. and CM lacks an option I need for my phone..
But I guess im "stuck" at CM for now.. If you cant get the best, get the nextbest
Hello everyone -- like everyone always says, I did quite a bit of research before posting this, but I can't seem to find the right answer for me.
(I use Cyanogenmod 7 on my HTC Hero (Sprint).)
After using ROM Manager to partition my SD card (it says it successfully partitioned, and the phone boots fine), my phone won't recognize its new internal storage. Like when I go to "manage applications" it only shows my 156 MB, not the 512 MB like I expected from my ROM Manager partition.
The only other person I've found who said the same thing, after quite a bit of searching, said ROM Manager wouldn't work for him for some reason, but Amon_RA did.
So I flashed Amon_RA, partitioned the SD card that way too, and my phone still will not recognize its internal storage. I set the partition w/ Amon_RA to 700+ MB and rebooted but the phone again only says I have 156 MB of internal storage.
I would use ClockworkMod, but the highest level supported for the HTC Hero doesn't have the partition mode. And considering how the other two programs were unable to partition it, I feel like it's more a mistake on my end.
Am I making some dumb mistake on the last step? I don't know of many other options I can be messing up -- in the case of ROM Manager, I simply enter in my specifications (I've tried with no swap and small swap) and it does that fine and boots fine. My phone just doesn't recognize the internal memory.
I forgot to add -- when I go under Cyanogenmod's settings --> application settings --> the "Use internal storage" option is grayed out, saying "This device doesn't have extended internal storage."
Format the sdcard,Delete all of the partitions you have made and try again using clockworkmod (An older version would be nice thats what i use).Then make a partition through the recovery's menu set the swap size to 0 and select ext2/3
You can also try an ext-4 partition
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Format the sdcard,Delete all of the partitions you have made and try again using clockworkmod (An older version would be nice thats what i use).Then make a partition through the recovery's menu set the swap size to 0 and select ext2/3
You can also try an ext-4 partition
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Thanks for the reply! Clockworkmod's website says the latest supported version for the HTC Hero (CDMA) is 2.5.0.7 -- do you know of a version that would be safe for me to use that will also support partitioning? Also, I've read that ROM Manager simply uses Clockworkmod to partition SD cards, so would using Clockworkmod itself offer a better solution than my failed ROM Manager efforts?
After reading your post, I used the 2.5.0.7 CWM to format my SD card and Ext, then I flashed and booted Amon_RA again to wipe the partitions. I then used Amon_RA to partition my card (with no swap as you specified). And I used Amon_RA to upgrade my Ext2 to Ext3. After rebooting, my "Use internal storage -- This device doesn't have expanded internal storage" was still grayed out and the internal memory still showed me at 156 MB.
I returned to Clockworkmod to mount /sdcard and /sd-ext (which I had never tried before). Still no new internal memory, same checkbox grayed out.
Am I being a total idiot here? Thanks for any help in advance!
I don't mean to spam this thread, but upon returning to Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 to reformat the SD card and try again -- I find that it still offers me the option to mount /sdcard and mount /sd-ext.
Does this mean that my previous mounting didn't take? Maybe this is the source of my problem, that my phone won't let me permanently mount the /sdcard or /sd-ext. Any ideas along these lines?
Edit: I went back, formatted and re-installed partitions w/ Amon_RA (no upgrade from Ext2-->Ext3 this time though). After the box was still grayed out and my internal storage still 156 MB, I went back to CWM to mount /sdcard and /sd-ext -- then I simply rebooted CWM, and it STILL said I had the option to mount /sdcard and /sd-ext.
gjs16 said:
Thanks for the reply! Clockworkmod's website says the latest supported version for the HTC Hero (CDMA) is 2.5.0.7 -- do you know of a version that would be safe for me to use that will also support partitioning? Also, I've read that ROM Manager simply uses Clockworkmod to partition SD cards, so would using Clockworkmod itself offer a better solution than my failed ROM Manager efforts?
After reading your post, I used the 2.5.0.7 CWM to format my SD card and Ext, then I flashed and booted Amon_RA again to wipe the partitions. I then used Amon_RA to partition my card (with no swap as you specified). And I used Amon_RA to upgrade my Ext2 to Ext3. After rebooting, my "Use internal storage -- This device doesn't have expanded internal storage" was still grayed out and the internal memory still showed me at 156 MB.
I returned to Clockworkmod to mount /sdcard and /sd-ext (which I had never tried before). Still no new internal memory, same checkbox grayed out.
Am I being a total idiot here? Thanks for any help in advance!
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the version is ok
i think you should better use windows to remove partitions (with disk management)I dont know if the problem persists then try a different sdcard(maybe a friend's)
Hi,
I'm running Cyan 7 on Legend and having the same problem.
The option for 'expanded internal memory' is still grayed out, no matter what!
I tried using CMW to partition, it only gave me maximum 512 MB while I wanted 1 GB but whatever. That doesn't work.
I tried Ubuntu live CD to format and partition the card into 2 parts, first FAT and second ext3/ext4 -> doesn't work.
The last option is to use an app called S2E from the market. It does the job, but still isn't the official supporting of expanded internal memory from Cyan.
There's a tutorial how to manually partition the card. It mentioned using rm 1 command to remove the partition. However I found that it was impossible because the recovery was running on that partition and thus cannot remove itself.
Any other solution?!
Thanks guys!
For gjs16: mounting partitions in recovery are only in effect when you are in that recovery session; once you boot the phone the mounts are gone.
I was looking into this CM7/Use internal storage thing myself (I'm playing with my old Nexus One) which is how I came upong this thread. I think this option works "out-of-box" only on devices that have some internal flash in addition to an sd-card slot, like the Samsung Galaxy S (2 GB ROM for apps + 8/16 GB internal storage + sd-card slot).
So, this is just a guess but I think you'd have to play with the mount points, perhaps with symlinks, to make it work with a partitioned sd-card, so that CM7 recognizes the fs structure the way it is handled in e.g. SGS.
Edit. This solution worked for my NX1+CM7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18911182&postcount=1784
Just flash this right after flashing CM7 (and gapps if you want them). It mounts the sd-ext to /data so you can have all the space you need for your apps...
Hi,
I have a T-Mobile Vivacity a.k.a. ZTE Crescent rooted and running a new clean install of CyanogenMod9 ICS. Intallation of CronMod int2ext+ just results in a permanent bootloader (CM's cyan android man). No other patches/software present. The SD card is newly formatted with 1.3GB ext4 and 13GB fat32. I've also got a (redundant?) small swap on there.
int2ext+ breaks the system, and I have to reinstall CM9 clean. Can anyone tell me why this is, or suggest a way to make it work? I have read that the partitions must be to 1024 boundaries, but I have to accept what GParted offers. Should I be using CWM for that? My ClockworkMod is v5.0.2.7
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Hi,
I have read that the partitions must be to 1024 boundaries, but I have to accept what GParted offers. Should I be using CWM for that? My ClockworkMod is v5.0.2.7
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OK, so I went into CWM and partitioned the SD card from there. I see now what 1024 boundary means - I could set SDext to 1GB or 2GB etc (I used 1GB). Start again from scratch, and now it works as expected. Yipee! :good:
It seems that using a computer and GParted will not permit this int2ext+ to operate, whether it is the label of the partition or the boundary, I am not sure. However, I wonder if this infromation could be included in the Int1ext developers thread that I'm not permitted to post to?
Thanks for all the hard work devs do!
I've looked through the big development thread and haven't found a clear answer but has anyone found an app to sd solution that works?
This stupid SdCard / ExtSdCard arrangement is making me pull my hair out. I just realized my titanium backups weren't really backups since they were being stored on my internal memory.
I managed to change my backup folder and free up some space by moving all my backups to the SD card, but for some reason I cannot move apps to SD through Titanium or any other app I've tried.
Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a setting in titanium I need to change or is this just something we have to deal with forever short of flashing a custom rom?
SDCARD binary
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I've looked through the big development thread and haven't found a clear answer but has anyone found an app to sd solution that works?
This stupid SdCard / ExtSdCard arrangement is making me pull my hair out. I just realized my titanium backups weren't really backups since they were being stored on my internal memory.
I managed to change my backup folder and free up some space by moving all my backups to the SD card, but for some reason I cannot move apps to SD through Titanium or any other app I've tried.
Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a setting in titanium I need to change or is this just something we have to deal with forever short of flashing a custom rom?
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I've found the real problem, but not the solution.
My Relay runs ICS. It is rooted, and you have to root to even touch any of this. The phone has a binary, /system/bin/sdcard that controls the internal memory and your SDcard. now, I have found that if you are rooted, you can chmod this binary (or use rooted ES File explorer to remove all executable properties) so that it can no longer run, then reboot. then you can run, as superuser "mount -o rw,bind /mnt/extSdCard /mnt/sdcard"
Seems great... Except vfat doesn't like to be bound in such a fashion, and you quickly lose write access and it starts mangling your files.
vfat just doesn't seem to work for us in this case. I've changed mine back, and reformatted my SDcard to be NTFS and mounted with paragon NTFS/HFS, which has completely stabilized my filesystem. only problem is, I can't get this to mount -o bind worth a damn.
I'm toying with the idea of reformatting my SDCard part vfat and either part NTFS or EXT4. maybe I get get the phone to natively recognize ext4 for the sdcard (even if I have to create a script myself)
keypoints I've found in this process:
1. the sdcard binary only allows access to 1023 files at once on either the SDcard, or the memory block it is using as the SDcard. too many pictures in your gallery? so sorry... can't load them all.
2. the physical device for your sdcard is /dev/block/mmcblk1. the partitions are mmcblk1p* (starting with 1)
3. the phone will not allow the sdcard binary to be killed manually. removing the executable permission and then rebooting the phone seems to be the only way to get it to stop.
4. vfat is prone to errors, and android seems to love screwing with the card. getting off vfat seems to be crucial to this process.
As you've gotten no other replies, and this is a gigantic concern for me as well, I'm going to keep working on this myself, in the hopes that I can get the phone to actually use the SDcard the way we hope it can be used.
I am at my wits end here. I've searched for hours now, without getting any results. My problem is as the title says.
Right now I can't mount the System Partition (it's 0 MB) in the latest TWRP recovery. So I can't install any ROM, and my old one is already wiped.
I used to be on CM 11, with my sd-card partitioned in a way (forgot what way) that support mount2sd method of increasing /data size.
Now I want to upgrade to CM 12 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...dev-cyanogenmod-12-11-19-2012-alpha1-t2945587). Problem is, I lost my sd adapter to connect my micro-sd card to my computer. I was trying other methods of partitioning it. Ended up wiping everything clean, and erasing (all?) partitions on the sd card. I guess I now I've gone and done it. System doesn't wanna mount. All data is backed up, thankfully.
So can anyone please suggest what I should do now?
And on a side note, how to multi-partition the sdcard without PC?