Hi, i'm a newcomer.
I want to know how to create swap, ext ? Is it necessary ?
I'm using rom Hellmonger Edition .
Help !
trinhpct said:
Hi, i'm a newcomer.
I want to know how to create swap, ext ? Is it necessary ?
I'm using rom Hellmonger Edition .
Help !
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Hi See http://www.youtube.com/user/reverendkjr#p/u (Watch Linux Videos (2 part) and Den Khal Rom Video (2 part)) for how to create swap, ext........
Benefits - Swap brings stability to the phone, so you won't face force closes too often and ext partition let you install ur apps on sd card. Well its not compulsory it depends what you want from your XT720.
Is Swapping different from creating an Ext2 partition? I know how to make an Ext2 using partition manager, but I have no idea what is swapping, or how to do it.
creating ext2/3/4 partitions are for you to store your apps on your sd ext partition instead of your phone internal memory. many of the xt720 users use ext because of our low internal memory, which limits us to only a few apps which we want to keep on our phone. however, you can use link2sd instead, which stores the application on your sd card (on a second partition which can be fat32 or others like ext). you might wanna use link2sd instead of the rom's built in function to install apps on ext as it is easier to partition an extra fat32 than to partition ext.
i dont know exactly swap does, but i know you can get much more free ram as the system swaps the cache into the sd card or something. e.g. usually you get 60mb free without swap on, and when you activate swap, free ram can hit higher than 100mb so you can do more multitasking. however, to use swap on our phone, we have to plug our phone in to the computer and use command prompt or terminal and use adb to fastboot fjfalcon's boot.img. we cant flash the boot.img because of the stupid locked bootloader. to use swap, you also have to create an extra partition (called linux-swap) on your sd card.
hope this was helpful!
Can you help me how to enble it, i use Minitool partition to create 3 primary : Fat32, ext2, swap ... But when i use link2d, mount script error : mount scriptcannot be created - muont: Device or resource busy .. When i use A2SDGui ( on hellmoger rom ), swap is deactivated, cannot enble ... Help me. Thank for advance !
I don't think Link2sd is compatible with Hellmonger's ROM yet, it's still on the "to do" list. To use swap you have to fastboot (check out Reverendkjr's YouTube videos) one of fjfalcon kernels every time you reboot your phone.
eejin2 said:
i dont know exactly swap does, but i know you can get much more free ram as the system swaps the cache into the sd card or something. e.g. usually you get 60mb free without swap on, and when you activate swap, free ram can hit higher than 100mb so you can do more multitasking. however, to use swap on our phone, we have to plug our phone in to the computer and use command prompt or terminal and use adb to fastboot fjfalcon's boot.img. we cant flash the boot.img because of the stupid locked bootloader. to use swap, you also have to create an extra partition (called linux-swap) on your sd card.
hope this was helpful!
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Yes! that is exactly wat I was referring to. The sdcard internal storage thing is not an issue for me with my ROM, but I sorta have an addiction for constantly finding ways to better my phone. I am just wondering if creating a swap, or using applications like Swapper can help my phone. An increased amount of RAM can help multitasking and reduce lag right? By repartitioning, does all my files get erased? will it affect the rom that I am running?
i think i theoretically know how the apps2ext works cos i dont use it so i dont have first hand experience. but on hellmongers xda special final rc1, apps2ext should be already in place, but you have to create an apps folder in your sd-ext partition.
there is already tutorial made by another xda user reverendkjr on how to activate swap. if you already have the three primary partitions, there's actually nothing much left to do but to learn a little of how to use adb. to activate swap, you have to boot into fjfalcons custom kernel because the stock one doesnt support it, so you have to fastboot the boot.img. just search around the xda forums for the fastboot and download it. the video will show you what to do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu1EjoUGEgQ
you dont have to use any swapper app from the market. fastbooting into fjfalcon's kernel will activate swap automatically. the problem is that once you reboot normally after fastboot, the fastboot will be gone and you will boot into the stock kernal again. you can only activate swap when you are at your computer. swap wont affect the rom you are using. most roms around this subforum support swap if you fastboot your phone into the custom img.
swap will give you a lot more free ram and you will be able to do more multi tasking, but it will take up a very little bit more battery.
yes, to partition your sd card means that your info will be gone. you should just save everything in your sd card into a folder on your computer so that once you partition the sd card, you can just put them back instead of finding some files back one by one and saving it in the card. i'd do this if i were you anyway because some files on the sd card are required for us to boot into open recovery, so if they are missing, you have to do the "install system recovery" thing from the open recovery apk again.
trinhpct said:
I want to know how to create swap, ext ?
Help !
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Use xdl2.4pda.ru/937329/pwhe52.exe?000636ffb23196624e4c7d69000000004d9e4343117ca335f76a096de7f0f02e can't use links in my posts yet
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i dont know exactly swap does, but i know you can get much more free ram as the system swaps the cache into the sd card or something.
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Just to clarify for people who don't understand the concept behind swap. For a computer to run its processes and applications they must be loaded to physical memory from where they are managed. This happens on your computers RAM. So when you open an application the OS loads that application to your RAM which is a physical chip inside your computer. The more programs you open while multitasking more RAM gets used till it is full. The computer then either kills the least important proccess to make room for what you are doing then, or shifts your process in an idle state to a small temporary partition on your harddrive. This temporary virtual space in windows is called the page file, and in linux its called swap. The same goes for your phone which is basically a small computer.
When you activate swap, all your idle processes can be shifted to your swap while you run heavy or many applications. Increasing stability, and ability to not have your apps killed and started from scratch when you move onto to other tasks on your phone.
There has been much debate over the usefulness of swap on phones, but generally according to most people it increases the overall performance of the phone. Most users recommend having a higher class SD card for swap as your apps are written onto the swap partition and are thus limited by the read/write speed of your card. Also this process consumes modest amounts of battery.
The reason we need to fastboot for swap is because swap needs a custom kernel. A kernel is that basic program which communicates between your hardware and software. Because we have a a locked bootloader on our phone custom kernels cannot be flashed because the bootloader rejects them because of a signature mismatch which we bypass by fastbooting.
Hope that made sense
i only hav a class 2 sdcard and my phone doesn't experience any lag. so I should refrain from swapping since class 2 is too low rite
firzen_net said:
i only hav a class 2 sdcard and my phone doesn't experience any lag. so I should refrain from swapping since class 2 is too low rite
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You're phone performance and how you feel about it is all that matters , personally I also use the stock class 2 card and didn't have many problems when I used swap some time ago. I, however don't do any hardcore gaming and couldn't go throught the trouble of fastbooting every time so don't use it much now except for experimental purposes.
for the swap kernel right, where can i find the swap kernel compatible with hellmonger's edition?
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I used the recovery partition to create FAT32, ext2, and swap partitions on my sd card.
1) What size does it make each of these partitions?
2) What is each used for?
3) When loading the MoDaCo update.zip (and rebooting after first boot) after creating these partitions, what does it do with each of them? My free space on each seems to change, and I think it's loading some apps to the SD card? But not others?
4) How do you see how much space remains on the fat32 and ext2 partitions? Which one is shown in the SD card info settings page, and which one is used for USB mass storage mode? Neither seems to change much even after I install a bunch of >1MB apps.
Thanks for any help.
Also, what's taking up all my internal phone space? If the update.zip moved apps to the SD card, why do I only have 50 MB left of internal space?
jonnythan said:
I used the recovery partition to create FAT32, ext2, and swap partitions on my sd card.
1) What size does it make each of these partitions?
2) What is each used for?
3) When loading the MoDaCo update.zip (and rebooting after first boot) after creating these partitions, what does it do with each of them? My free space on each seems to change, and I think it's loading some apps to the SD card? But not others?
4) How do you see how much space remains on the fat32 and ext2 partitions? Which one is shown in the SD card info settings page, and which one is used for USB mass storage mode? Neither seems to change much even after I install a bunch of >1MB apps.
Thanks for any help.
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32 mb swap, 500mb ext2 rest fat32
swap is for linux swap if its used in the rom, ext2 is for your apps, and fat32 is for your storage
yes it loads all of your /data/app and /data/app-private apps on your sd card, your /system/app stays there
you can do a df -h under adb to see your free space
jonnythan said:
I used the recovery partition to create FAT32, ext2, and swap partitions on my sd card.
1) What size does it make each of these partitions?
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I believe it makes a 32MB Swap partiton, a 500 MB Ext2 partition and the rest fat32.
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2) What is each used for?
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The Fat32 is normal files like music, pictures, etc. The ext2 is used for apps2sd. Don't worry, 500MB is more than enough for this. The swap is used for bakcground applications so they run better without slowing the phone down as much.
jonnythan said:
3) When loading the MoDaCo update.zip (and rebooting after first boot) after creating these partitions, what does it do with each of them? My free space on each seems to change, and I think it's loading some apps to the SD card? But not others?
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The Fat32 it shouldnt do anything. Obviously you will have less space because the other partitions are taking some of it's space. It loads the apps onto your ext2 partition but not all of them. System apps such as the calculator, browser, phone, etc stay on the system partition because it's faster.
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4) How do you see how much space remains on the fat32 and ext2 partitions? Which one is shown in the SD card info settings page, and which one is used for USB mass storage mode? Neither seems to change much even after I install a bunch of >1MB apps.
Thanks for any help.
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Do you have Windows, Linux or Mac. I don't know about Mac but I know Linux can view ext partitions natively (obviously, it's the native filesystem). For Windows you might be able to load the disk management application but if that doesnt show it you need a partitioning application or any other application that can read ext partitions off an sdcard. Don't know any off hand except paragon partitioning manager 9.0 (8.0 never seemed to work with my sd cards)
jonnythan said:
Also, what's taking up all my internal phone space? If the update.zip moved apps to the SD card, why do I only have 50 MB left of internal space?
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See the above explanation.
nelson8403 said:
32 mb swap, 500mb ext2 rest fat32
swap is for linux swap if its used in the rom, ext2 is for your apps, and fat32 is for your storage
yes it loads all of your /data/app and /data/app-private apps on your sd card, your /system/app stays there
you can do a df -h under adb to see your free space
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That answers my questions, thank you.
I found another though. I unmounted my SD card via Settings to see if the apps would fail to work in an effort to try to figure out if they were actually installed there. Predictably, they failed to work, but the system didn't pick the card back up after I reinserted it. So I rebooted the phone with the SD card in.
Then everything died. The apps didn't come back, but the phone still had them listed and tried to launch them, resulting in force-closes. An ext2 repair didn't fix it, so I just went back to my last Nandroid backup and reapplied update.zip.
I learned that this is a Bad Thing to do, but I'm wondering if this was a fluke or is it generally inadvisable to unmount the SD card for this reason?
im a noob to the whole android thing.but how do i partition the sd card and create ext2?????
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I learned that this is a Bad Thing to do, but I'm wondering if this was a fluke or is it generally inadvisable to unmount the SD card for this reason?
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Since this is a simple symlink, if you reboot the phone without the target of the symlink being there, and the phone tries to use it...
The results are left as an exercise for the reader.
Now for anyone who asks why it isn't smart enough not to break... that's like asking why your car doesn't run if you take half the spak plugs out.
posguy99 said:
Since this is a simple symlink, if you reboot the phone without the target of the symlink being there, and the phone tries to use it...
The results are left as an exercise for the reader.
Now for anyone who asks why it isn't smart enough not to break... that's like asking why your car doesn't run if you take half the spak plugs out.
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Ah, but I'm asking why it still doesn't work once you put the spark plugs back in
It's not a big deal, I certainly learned not to do it.
jonnythan said:
Ah, but I'm asking why it still doesn't work once you put the spark plugs back in
It's not a big deal, I certainly learned not to do it.
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Because booting the phone with it thinking the app was installed but it not able to find it trashed other data structures.
BTW, people trying to do stuff with the SD card removed after putting the apps on the SD card is probably one of the main reasons it currently is root only.
The OS needs to be modified to handle removable app storage gracefully (not something that happens in a standard phone.)
So should you format the card prior to flashing Modaco's ROM so the system knows to install all the apps to the ex2 partition. Or can you format the card AFTER you have already flashed Modaco's ROM and still have the apps automatically install on ext2 partition? I only ask cuz I formatted after flashing the ROM and wanna make sure it's installing it on the ext2.
I formatted mine afterwards and it moved all my apps over to the sd card automatically.
How To Increase Phone Memory in Galaxy Fit? I had heard that there are some ways to make partition on SD card and use them as phone memory but dont know the procedure. Or any other procedure.
Please let me know.
wrong thread ask in general section..........thank you............
Moved to General...
Refer the guide in my sig...
You'll find everything...
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instead of using partitioning set install location 2 so that u can transfer most of ur apps on ur sd card and free up phone memory
works very well for me
abizerl123 said:
instead of using partitioning set install location 2 so that u can transfer most of ur apps on ur sd card and free up phone memory
works very well for me
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i know that....but if i want to use sd partition as phone memory then is it possible
buntymurarka said:
i know that....but if i want to use sd partition as phone memory then is it possible
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Its very risky man.. if u use the partition as phone memory, some system apps might get some error or something like that.. depends on your sdcard class, and its memory, etc..
Correct me if I'm wrong..
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cygnus39 said:
Its very risky man.. if u use the partition as phone memory, some system apps might get some error or something like that.. depends on your sdcard class, and its memory, etc..
Correct me if I'm wrong..
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Nothing wrong in partitioning...
Whatever system errors you might get may be rom dependant...
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a.cid said:
Nothing wrong in partitioning...
Whatever system errors you might get may be rom dependant...
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I know that too man..hehe
I think the op wants to move all the system to the partition ext..???
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System apps on sd ext?
Its there in fitdroid and maybe even razo
Even doc_chielvenerdi.org posted a modded memory hack for stock roms
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Moving the system apps to your memory card partition will cause you problems when you remove the memory card or connect the phone via a USB. They wont be available on your phone until the card is remounted. It is preferred not to have such conflicts with the system apps.
It is better to keep them where they are i.e. in the system. And if you feel your phone memory is running out you can always move other apps to SD Card but not the system ones.
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Moving the system apps to your memory card partition will cause you problems when you remove the memory card or connect the phone via a USB. They wont be available on your phone until the card is remounted. It is preferred not to have such conflicts with the system apps.
It is better to keep them where they are i.e. in the system. And if you feel your phone memory is running out you can always move other apps to SD Card but not the system ones.
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First thing, system apps aren't entirely stored on internel memory, most of them are stored in the system partition...though the user data part of system apps lies in the internel memory...
Even if they tried, they couldn't move the system apps to sd...
If you are referring to sd ext partition, there are a few hacks/mods which do allow you to put your entire internel memory in sd-ext...and if you removed your mem card, the system would behave as if it was its first boot, I.e. no user settings, clean install-like...
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a.cid said:
First thing, system apps aren't entirely stored on internel memory, most of them are stored in the system partition...though the user data part of system apps lies in the internel memory...
Even if they tried, they couldn't move the system apps to sd...
If you are referring to sd ext partition, there are a few hacks/mods which do allow you to put your entire internel memory in sd-ext...and if you removed your mem card, the system would behave as if it was its first boot, I.e. no user settings, clean install-like...
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Oh didn't know about the latter part.
THIS GUIDE IS TO SHOW YOU HOW TO INCREASE INTERNAL MEMORY OF ANY ANDROID DEVICE BY PARTITIONING
Note
This guide will partition your sdcard to make a part of your sdcard works like the internal memory that you can move your apps to it.
This guide will never increase the real internal memory (Storage in taskmanger) as it is impossible to be done.
First,
you have to do is to partition your SD Card and for doing this you have to: Download Mini tool Partition.
2- Install the application on your PC and connect your SD card to your PC with Card Reader.
3- Open Mini Tool Partition in your PC and when the wizards open click on your SD Card and select Delete option. !!!(Note: This will format your SD Card completely mean that it will erase your data permanently, so before doing this backup your data at any place in PC or other Storage device.) When the Formatting of your SD Card is completed then, you have whole of space of your SD Card as unallocated
4- then Right click SD Card and select create option. A popup box will open giving you options for making partition; select the partition as primary and file system as FAT if SD Card is less than 4GB or FAT32 if your SD Card is more than 4GB. Leave about 512 MB or more space (your choice) for creating the next partition.
5- Then select done and do right click on unallocated space of your SD Card and again click create option. Select Primary partition but change the file system to Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4. Note: (Ext2 is recommended as most ROMs work fine with it). Click Apply Changes and then process goes on for the few minutes and then partition is completed.
6- Install Link2sd from Google Play
On the first launch of the app, it will ask for root permissions and then, it will ask you the file system of the .ext partition that you had earlier made, choose the option as you had choose in the partitioning steps.
Sort the apps according to size and start linking them and then you have done your task.
Now you have your Phone’s Internal Memory+ Ext file size made by you in your SD Card. Now you can move your apps from your device memory to SD Card and simultaneously your device speed will also be increased.
I know there are many posts like this post but hit thanks button if you see mine first
Will this work for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
Notam said:
Will this work for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
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Likely yes, one my friends tried it on his galaxy tab and worked
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Nice guide.
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Nice guide.
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I'm so gonna to try this, thx!
OP should give credits to actual OP who took pain to create screenshots.
Also guys dont select storage as "external" in auto link. Link2sd dev recommends "internal" storage to avoid conflicts. Also I see this increases space in internal in storage info.
Ext2 fills up. You see widgets for all linked apps as phone assumes app installed as internal memory.
Also linking better than native app2sd or move to sd method and it retains apps in memory even if sd card is removed!!! during usb connection according to dev.
Read link2sd FAQ very helpful. :thumbup:
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But this process requires you to already have a bit of space on internal storage, and only then move the apps.
Also use FolderMount to move huge OBB and DATA files to SD card
I've been using FolderMount along with Link2SD. FolderMount allows you to also move the HUGE OBB and DATA files that large games often make you download (some up to 2 GB!!!) Link2SD does not link these large files (it links APK and other smaller files) so they work together beautifully. Together they are truly huge space savers! Just search for FolderMount on the Play store.
Cheers!!!
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I use the Recovery-ClockWork, go to Advanced > Particion SD Card.
already I have created a partition for 512 mb and I am using Link2sd. Is this now possible to extended the partition with or without loosing the data ?
Thats a good question. There is always a possibility to lose data stored in a partition when resizing any partition file system where it be Linux EXT2,3,4 or Windows Fat and Ntfs. Backup the data in there if you can before attempting it. I personally would use gparted since its already in all my installed linux distros already, but the free Minitool partition editor for Windows looks pretty awesome! It says it easily supports resize/move of partition without data loss so its possible. Just make sure you backup the whole card IE all data on both partitions just in case. Good luck.
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already I have created a partition for 512 mb and I am using Link2sd. Is this now possible to extended the partition with or without loosing the data ?
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Do I absolutely have to use a card reader for this? Can't I use the mount usb storage option from my phone? Either way, the card shows up as an external drive doesn't it?
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I can't wait to do this after I root my HUAWEI H881C. I got it a week ago and free internal space for apps and data is rather small at about(?) 512MB total. After factory installed apps and such I was left with about 384Mb to start with. I can be a app whore. I haven't download too many games on google play yet because of internal storage limits. Even with those limits I do have Doom, Quake 1, 2, and 3 installed off the SD card along with my dosbox, snes, sega, psx and n64 emulators and roms with no problems.
I have been using link2sd since abandoning Froyo. Now on cm10.2.
One thing of which to know and be carefull: Link2sd's Achilles Heel.
When flashing a new ROM on rebuilding the dalvik cache for any reason, all the linked dalviks (dex) must fit on internal storage. If one has linked more than can fit, internal storage will run out and crash bang. I have requested of the devs to facilitate treating this within link2sd but so far, has not been implemented so the manual procedure would be:
A. Prevention! If playing with experimental ROMs often, pull the /data/sdext2/dalvik-cache folder and see how big it is. Make sure that the internal space available is say 20meg more than this. No problem.
B. If not possible or simply must have all the goodies installed now, here it what to do:
1. Show linked apps in dex-size order.
2. Multiselect enough of the largest ones to meet the 20meg condition.
3. Remove them.
After flashing, rebuilding the dalvik cache.
4. Relink current dalvik. Now have lots of room again.
5. Restore the removed apps and data, relink them. Note: Titanium is your best friend!
'Twould be nice if a future link2sd version would warn us and if need be, do this for us
FYI I just did that very same thing just leaving the card in the phone and using the minitool. It seems to have worked just fine even with resizing the fat32 partition already there and creating a Ext2 out of the room I freed up.
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Do I absolutely have to use a card reader for this? Can't I use the mount usb storage option from my phone? Either way, the card shows up as an external drive doesn't it?
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Retro Gamer said:
FYI I just did that very same thing just leaving the card in the phone and using the minitool. It seems to have worked just fine even with resizing the fat32 partition already there and creating a Ext2 out of the room I freed up.
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Quick question - If you resize the partition which is already there, making space for a new one, will you lose all the data that is there in the card?
I answered that question in my last 2 reply posts. I just did this very thing without any problems or data loss, then went on to root my phone. It all took 20mins and I did copy my sd card contents to a dir in my PC just in case.
There is a always a chance for things to go wrong, but at the very least make a folder on your PC label cellback or something, connect your phone(with card) to PC & just copy all contents from your existing card in phone to that folder you made. Then in partition editor select the drive that is your SD card, resize it leaving left over space behind it. Use that free unallocated space to create a the new PRIMARY ext2 drive. Good luck.
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Quick question - If you resize the partition which is already there, making space for a new one, will you lose all the data that is there in the card?
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Clockwork Recovery
To partition, you don't necessarily have to use a 3rd party PC based partitioning tool.
If your phone is rooted, with Clockwork Recovery flashed, you can simply:
a)Backup your Sd Card on another device.(As warned, the process wipes the sd card clean)
b)Reboot your device into Recovery mode.
c)Select Advanced, then Partition SD Card
d)First menu lets you choose the size of the ext
e)Second menu lets you choose the size of the swap file.
When your done partitioning, you will have both an ext and a swap file, no 3rd party partitioning app needed.
You'll need an app like Swapper2 for the swap partition and the aforementioned Link2Sd for the ext
Hit thanks if this helps. :highfive::good:
Kris the wizz 15 said:
To partition, you don't necessarily have to use a 3rd party PC based partitioning tool.
If your phone is rooted, with Clockwork Recovery flashed, you can simply:
a)Backup your Sd Card on another device.(As warned, the process wipes the sd card clean)
b)Reboot your device into Recovery mode.
c)Select Advanced, then Partition SD Card
d)First menu lets you choose the size of the ext
e)Second menu lets you choose the size of the swap file.
When your done partitioning, you will have both an ext and a swap file, no 3rd party partitioning app needed.
You'll need an app like Swapper2 for the swap partition and the aforementioned Link2Sd for the ext
Hit thanks if this helps. :highfive::good:
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Thanks. When step d) is completed... what happens with the partition that was created... is mounted on the micro sd card, as a partition on itself?
I have another question. Is there an app/way to install directly to micro sd card, as if there is no need to move the apps later, because they go where is needed to in the first place?
Is there a way to move dalvik cache as well?
Hi there
I used to be an HTC HD2 owner, now that I switched to Xperia C, I found it very lacking in many terms.
I was able to get init.d support on it, but I couldn't get the most of it. because when I tried to get SD-ext support, I always ran into a bootloop. I don't have the knowledge required to edit kernels, and all my edits on the vold.fstab file either failed or just switched the device memory with the SD.
So here are some suggestions with explanations:
init.d support: it means being able to run scripts on boot. it makes us capable of changing processor speed, add tweaks..etc automatically every time the device turns on.
SD-EXT support: You have a big SD card that you don't know what to do with? create a new 8GB EXT4 partition on it, add a script to init.d folder and yo get a whopping 8GB device memory. Tried 4GB on the HD2 with no trouble.
Removing the "Device memory changed" message: having all of the above means we get enough device memory to have everything, so the automatic change of installation folder to the SD would be pointless. and if you have SD-EXT support, it's faster to keep all your apps on one place on the SD card.
I know the X C has less developers and is harder to make custom ROMs for it, but it has such great potential that if we have at least SD-EXT support, I'd keep it for a few more years.
If you have any other suggestion, let me know about it and I'll add it to the list.
I've been starting to look into adding ram to one of my devices by using an sd card. But, can you still use the rest of the sd card as regular storage at the same time? I keep all of my photos on my external, and ringtones, notifications, many things.
I'd love to figure out dedicating part of an sd card as ram, while still using the rest of it as regular storage
I looked around a bit, and I've seen YouTube tutorials about using sd as memory... But none mentioned using as regular storage at the same time.
Anyone more experienced who could share further info would be awesome or if there's some place better I should be reading, feel free to share that link with me too
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Can anyone help with this??
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Still need help with this... As far as my research shows, you can only see your sd card within your phone and can't use an sd card reader with your sd card as windows won't see it.
Is there some way to allow windows to see it as well as having it partitioned for ram??
I'd really really appreciate the help on this!!
If the first partition is fat32/exfat, both android & windows will recognize it. The 2nd partition can be the swap.
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Thanks for the reply
I did try that idea, but to put it into the phone, at least the rohesoft test program only saw the partition meant for storage. In this case I used a 16 gig (which is actually about 14 gig), I decided to set aside 2 gig for the swap, but that test program only saw the regular storage partition of about 12 gigs. How would I set it so that the ram program will see the second 2 gig partition as well? I tried them both as fat32, is that a bad plan?
I have a new observation... My phone, running 4.0.4 does not see any swap files. My tablet running 5.1.1 does see swap files, using the exact same sd card. First as fat 32 and tried 2nd as ext4. Is there another option that will work for ice cream sandwich??
I haven't tried it yet but would ICS see ext3 or ext2 better?
Officially can't get my phone to see the other partition at all!! I can get swapper to create a swap file on the *same* partition as I want to use for media only!! I thought the whole point was that only part of your card was dedicated to ram use?
To go into recovery and go into mounts and storage, it shows unmount sdcard, which means it is already currently mounted. That was why I thought maybe my tablet could see a swap partition but my phone could not. That theory is garbage now as they're both mounted. I can't even manually create a swap file on the 2nd partition in my pc cuz the computer won't see it except for in the mini tool !
I'm getting so frustrated. I'm so afraid to do so unpartitioned and run the risk of files like irreplaceable pictures deleting themselves in favor of ram space.
Is this just plain not possible??? Help....
I can't even see the ext3 in es file explorer, or even as a choice to have the roesoft tool manually create/test a swap file there
I'm running out of ideas that I have any clue at all of what to do. Could *really* use the help....