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Hi guys , I have been using this handset since october, i have tried all roms till date and other tweaks , one thing i still couldnt get it is how to increase the internal memory.. the whole things is still a zig zag puzzle for me. if sumone can help me with step by step tutorial , will be gr8. i have tried creating partition in my sd card via cwm , bt in vain. infact ended up corrupting my card and got it replaced.
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Hi guys , I have been using this handset since october, i have tried all roms till date and other tweaks , one thing i still couldnt get it is how to increase the internal memory.. the whole things is still a zig zag puzzle for me. if sumone can help me with step by step tutorial , will be gr8. i have tried creating partition in my sd card via cwm , bt in vain. infact ended up corrupting my card and got it replaced.
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Create partitions using Minitools partition wizard. Create ext4(256-512) and linux swap(0-128) partitions. Switch off your phone. Put the SD card in, trboot into recovery and wipe data. And then reboot.
dhirend_6d said:
Create partitions using Minitools partition wizard. Create ext4(256-512) and linux swap(0-128) partitions. Switch off your phone. Put the SD card in, trboot into recovery and wipe data. And then reboot.
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Coul you just elaborate about the Linux swap file? Is it just like the virtual memory on the SD Card? Suppose if we have 16GB card and create larger EXT4 partitions, would we have to still create Linux swap partition of just 128MB?
For those who facing problem of low internel memory(ROOT REQUIRED)
No need to partition SD card
1) install the app
2) backup with titanium backup
2)uninstall the app
4) go to titaninium backup->Preferences->Restore Backup to->externel media
5) Restore the app with Titanium backup,,
by app2sd u can verify location where the app installed.
And your memory will never go low.. u can manage easily..
sanjay.july said:
For those who facing problem of low internel memory(ROOT REQUIRED)
No need to partition SD card
1) install the app
2) backup with titanium backup
2)uninstall the app
4) go to titaninium backup->Preferences->Restore Backup to->externel media
5) Restore the app with Titanium backup,,
by app2sd u can verify location where the app installed.
And your memory will never go low.. u can manage easily..
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Through this way without partition, i guess the apps would be installed in FAT32 partition of the SD Card which is comparatively much slower to EXT4.
mrn123 said:
Coul you just elaborate about the Linux swap file? Is it just like the virtual memory on the SD Card? Suppose if we have 16GB card and create larger EXT4 partitions, would we have to still create Linux swap partition of just 128MB?
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Recommended is 128 MB. 128 MB is more than enough. Swap basically is storage place which can be used as memory by the operating system when system RAM is low.
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dhirend_6d said:
Recommended is 128 MB. 128 MB is more than enough. Swap basically is storage place which can be used as memory by the operating system when system RAM is low.
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linux swap logical or primary?
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.
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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?
Hi
I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 which is rooted.
I installed Titanium hoping that I could move apps to my SD card but the option is not available.
I initially tried re-partitioning my card so I not have a fat32 partition and an Ext4 partition - still no joy.
I put an app folder on the Ext4 partition - still no joy.
I've tried App2SD and Link2SD - still no joy.
What is the easiest way to move an app onto the external sd card when using a rooted Note 10.1?
Many thanks
Note101Beginner said:
Hi
I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 which is rooted.
I installed Titanium hoping that I could move apps to my SD card but the option is not available.
I initially tried re-partitioning my card so I not have a fat32 partition and an Ext4 partition - still no joy.
I put an app folder on the Ext4 partition - still no joy.
I've tried App2SD and Link2SD - still no joy.
What is the easiest way to move an app onto the external sd card when using a rooted Note 10.1?
Many thanks
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Might this do the trick for you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888986
schnurrbidurr said:
Might this do the trick for you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888986
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It looks interesting but the main downside is that you have to move everything from internal to external storage.
In an ideal world, I only want to move 4 or 5 of the big apps/games as most are really tiny.
Note101Beginner said:
It looks interesting but the main downside is that you have to move everything from internal to external storage.
In an ideal world, I only want to move 4 or 5 of the big apps/games as most are really tiny.
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Just use: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
I'm currently using it myself, pretty easy. The only thing is:
You basically got 3 partitions on your note (i.e. 16GB version). 1. system (~4GB) 2. sdcard (internal) (~11,5GB) 3. sdcard (exernal)
If you look at an app in (I hope the following are the correct translations, I only got german) systemsettings/storage and tap on apps and then on a specific app, you'll have the sizes "total", "app", "USB-Storage for App", "Data" and "SD-Card". Everything in "App" is in the 2. partition,but you can't locate the data under /storage/sdcard0/, nevertheless it's on the internal sdcard partition, cause it can't be in the system partition. I have no clue where the data is, my guess is, that sdcard (internal) is just a part of the second partition. Anyway, the data under "App" can't be moved with DirectoryBind, cause you (or let's say I) don't know where exactly it is. The data under "USB-Storage for App" should be in /storage/sdcard0/Android/obb/<package name>, and that's the data you can move. Most of the big games, have their data in these directories (ie. GTA Vice City). So what you want to do with DirectoryBind is: Set target to the above mentioned path, and the location to a exact replica of folders on your sd card and select "move data". What directory bind does is the following: It sets up a pseudo file in the original location, which is just a reference to where the file really is.
I hope that wasn't to confusing.
Have fun.
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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THANKS
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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:
God is Original Developer
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!!!
War10ckJ0shua
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?
AualSciaespecially
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.
aashay960 said:
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 my wonder is "can i use ext4 format for my SanDisk 64GB sdxc class 10 ?"to make it as a storage memory for miusc , images and videos. Or should i use the ntfs or exfat or fat32.
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deutsh said:
Hi my wonder is "can i use ext4 format for my SanDisk 64GB sdxc class 10 ?"to make it as a storage memory for miusc , images and videos. Or should i use the ntfs or exfat or fat32.
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Hi,
Fat32 is universal partition for your music, ,video etc....
ext3 ext4 are used for android/unix/linux application storage...
be careful while partitioning you SD card...
read it before executing partiotion....
""forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/85809-tutorial-everything-you-wanted-know-about-app2sd-ext3-ext4-partitions.html[/url]"
-rkk
rkk253755 said:
Hi,
Fat32 is universal partition for your music, ,video etc....
ext3 ext4 are used for android/unix/linux application storage...
be careful while partitioning you SD card...
read it before executing partiotion....
""forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/85809-tutorial-everything-you-wanted-know-about-app2sd-ext3-ext4-partitions.html[/url]"
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Thanks for replying.
I don't want to partition the memory card i just want to format it as the best storage file system .
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deutsh said:
Thanks for replying.
I don't want to partition the memory card i just want to format it as the best storage file system .
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hi,
ok then use FAT32 is good enough for you...
-rkk
But think about the max. filesize with FAT32 (4 Gigabyte). If you don't want to use so large files, I would prefer FAT32 in all cases.
Good... But the question is : the ext4 working as fat32 as storage for files
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I think the best way is to try it, but I have read somewhere that ext should go, depending upon the android-version.
Accesing files via USB (in the phone) shouldn't be the Problem, but accesing via cardreader directly on windows did not (or rather not without special ext-drivers for windows).
Well, I think ext3 is the best option if you are going to have media files which are bigger that 4GBytes...
well... The other question is :what is the best for non-damage of microsd ?
I mean the card will minimize the ability to get a damage. What the file system type is best.?
Whith thanks
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hmmm, file system organization cannot damage your card, it is only a logic 1 or 0 on the electronics cells.
Maybe there is a difference between frequency of read/write operation. The more the bigger chance to damage a card... of course after a long, looooong time. I would recommend using ext3 as it's more scalable and stable than FAT32.
FAT32: File Allocation Table, 32-bit
Introduced: August 1996 (Windows 95 OSR2)
Directory contents: Table
File allocation: Linked list
Bad blocks: Cluster tagging
Maximum number of files: 268,435,437
Maximum file size: 4GB
Filenames: 8.3 or 255 characters, ASCII except for "'*/:<>?\|
Attributes: Read-only, hidden, system. volume label, subdir, archive
Ext3: Third extended file system
Introduced: November 2001 (Linux 2.4.15)
Directory contents: Table, tree
File allocation: Bitmap, table
Bad blocks: Table
Maximum number of files: number of bytes in volume/2^13.
Maximum file size: 16GB (1KB block) to 2TB (4KB block)
Filenames: 255 bytes long, all bytes except \0 and /.
Attributes: no access time logging, append-only, synchronous write, no-dump, h-tree, immutable, journal, secure-delete, top, allow-undelete.
Journal: metadata and file contents
There is no "best" filesystem, they are all optimized, to some extent, for different things.
Without lots more info, fat32 is relatively efficient and has far and away the best compatibility. For most users the compatibility makes it the winner.
Hi... I try the ntfs but.... But its incompatible with android.... So sad
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NTFS is an windows-filesystem, and is only write- and readable on windows. Yes. linux can read it, but needs secial drivers for that and isn't realy fast. It is the worst filesystem for android or linux.
Use fat32 and ready!
Its fast, its compatible, and can be used in/ with most devices. The only disadvantage for you will be the filesize-maximum (4 GB).
SaschaBr said:
NTFS is an windows-filesystem, and is only write- and readable on windows. Yes. linux can read it, but needs secial drivers for that and isn't realy fast. It is the worst filesystem for android or linux.
Use fat32 and ready!
Its fast, its compatible, and can be used in/ with most devices. The only disadvantage for you will be the filesize-maximum (4 GB).
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O.K. I'll take your advice but I have a little question "how could I protect the micro sdcard from damage ? I suffered from a damge of micro sdcard several times.
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Until now I never had an damaged sd-card. And if it will happen, I have an backup of my important data. So I simply will buy a new one and play back this backup. Nothing is forever.
EDIT:
Ok, this 64 GB-SD-Cards are not realy cheap, but under normal conditions it won't faile for a long time, whatever filesystem you will use.
Thanks for everyone ....indeed
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rkk253755 said:
Hi,
Fat32 is universal partition for your music, ,video etc....
ext3 ext4 are used for android/unix/linux application storage...
be careful while partitioning you SD card...
read it before executing partiotion....
""forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/85809-tutorial-everything-you-wanted-know-about-app2sd-ext3-ext4-partitions.html[/url]"
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hey buddy,
can u tell me i going to partition of memory card for music nd video i'll use FAT32 but second partition what should i do..ext3 or ext4 i ma using motorola g3 stock android is supported ext4 partition on android 5.1.1 or not cz plz tell me .
thanks in advance
shailesh406 said:
hey buddy,
can u tell me i going to partition of memory card for music nd video i'll use FAT32 but second partition what should i do..ext3 or ext4 i ma using motorola g3 stock android is supported ext4 partition on android 5.1.1 or not cz plz tell me .
thanks in advance
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Android supports Ext4 so I'd rather use Ext4 than Ext3
you can format it by Fat32
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Hi all,
I am wondering about the partitioning of my new external memory card manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
The very same manufacturer initially develop F2FS, the Flash Friendly File System for the Linux Kernel.
F2FS was expected to be the fastest F.S. for solid-state disks, eMMCs, and SD cards.
Initial tests confirmed it. Nevertheless posterior tests reveal that ext4 beats F2FS (...).
My guessing is that not enough research/test have been done in the matter.
Im going to set the following layout in order to test the speed for each partition:
1._ 34,7G EXT4 -> pictures, movies, backups, etc... AND/OR moved: APPs by hard/sym links; DATA by folder mount
2._ 65,0G FAT32 -> pictures, movies, backups, etc...
3._ 19,5G F2FS -> moved APPs by hard/sym links; moved DATA by folder mount
Depending on the results (specific for my phone and configuration) included in the reports from Antutu, A1SDBenmarch (possibly others too), I will most likely either:
1._ format whole microSD as F2FS -> roms,apps,data,pics,movies,etc; access using the phone (adb, usb, wifi)
2._ format whole microSD as EXT4 -> roms,apps,data,pics,movies,etc; access using any type of linux and many others
3._ format 32G as F2FS -> apps; format 64G as EXT4 -> roms,data,backups,movies; format 32G as FAT32 (any file smaller than 4G I want to be directly accessed from any device through any card reader using any OS)*
* I won't use fat32 as ext4 read/writes speeds are bit faster and i dont need to access the sd using any device
My goal is to format the external microSD card as F2FS and internal storage. F2FS is not only supposed to be better in performance but also it is supposed to expand it's lifespam
Note: Regarding partitioning the microSD in the computer, only linux will allow resizing F2FS filesystems; windows software doesnt recognize it yet, therefore it treats the partition as unformatted, neveertheless it's possible to move it.
Note2: there are programs that allow the user to mount linux partitions and read/write data on them.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005, rooted, resurrection remix 5.6 (current,next5.8)
Card: Samsung EVO Plus 128Gb microSDXC UHS-I Class 10 U3 Card
ROM: Resurrection Remix v5.6 (Marshmallow)**
S.Soft: Apps2SDpro: Linked -hardlinks/symlinks- apps to F2FS partition on ext.SD. App data (TuneIn Radio recordings) moved -foldermount- to F2FS partition on ext.SD.
** I am currently designing the multiROM layout which will probably include the current ROM, plus Resurrection Remix v5.8 (Nougat) kali and some others
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