Yesterday I root my Sony Xperia J.. I want to swap Internal with SD card(8gb), but I don`t know how..
I want to install apps to SD card..
Sony Xperia J
Jelly Bean 4.1.2
Takisamtija said:
Yesterday I root my Sony Xperia J.. I want to swap Internal with SD card(8gb), but I don`t know how..
I want to install apps to SD card..
Sony Xperia J
Jelly Bean 4.1.2
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Although this is possible, and many noobs here will do it, I cannot advise doing this as the risks of hard-bricking your phone are very high.
For example:
You do the swap and then factory reset = Hard Brick
or
You do the swap and then Wipe Internal Data = Hard Brick.
Either way it's not worth it, even with a class 10 sdcard you'll notice how much slower your phone becomes.
CtrlAltDelIrl said:
Although this is possible, and many noobs here will do it, I cannot advise doing this as the risks of hard-bricking your phone are very high.
For example:
You do the swap and then factory reset = Hard Brick
or
You do the swap and then Wipe Internal Data = Hard Brick.
Either way it's not worth it, even with a class 10 sdcard you'll notice how much slower your phone becomes.
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I couldn't agree more. A friend of mine has done it with his Ace. Hard bricked.
What I did( Ihave a 32 GB SD card, so yeah), was shrinking my Fat32 partition, and making an ext2 partiton of 2,5 gb. With the help of Link2SD you can move 99% of apps to this partition. I have 110 apps, and my internal memory has 1,2 GB left, and my phone memory 551 mb.
No performance loss, and even a little (may be placebo, I don't know) improvement.
Partitioning your SD card may decrease the the life time, but I find it very effective and handy.
Have a nice day!
MatsPunt said:
I couldn't agree more. A friend of mine has done it with his Ace. Hard bricked.
What I did( Ihave a 32 GB SD card, so yeah), was shrinking my Fat32 partition, and making an ext2 partiton of 2,5 gb. With the help of Link2SD you can move 99% of apps to this partition. I have 110 apps, and my internal memory has 1,2 GB left, and my phone memory 551 mb.
No performance loss, and even a little (may be placebo, I don't know) improvement.
Partitioning your SD card may decrease the the life time, but I find it very effective and handy.
Have a nice day!
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hello there sir, I'm interested in your way of doing this, so would you explain it in a more detailed way? I don't really get it...
what do you mean by 'shrinking my Fat32 partition' ?
and what do you mean by 'making an ext2 partition of 2,5 gb' ?
you also stated that your sd card is 32 gb, is this your internal SD card or external SD card?
what's the difference between link2SD from the other apps such as app2sd? and fyi i'm using titanium backup (not pro) and it CANNOT move the apps to my micro sd card (ext sd card)
thank you~
eryannda said:
hello there sir, I'm interested in your way of doing this, so would you explain it in a more detailed way? I don't really get it...
what do you mean by 'shrinking my Fat32 partition' ?
and what do you mean by 'making an ext2 partition of 2,5 gb' ?
you also stated that your sd card is 32 gb, is this your internal SD card or external SD card?
what's the difference between link2SD from the other apps such as app2sd? and fyi i'm using titanium backup (not pro) and it CANNOT move the apps to my micro sd card (ext sd card)
thank you~
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We're talking about the external SD here.
Storage is accessed by partitions. See a partition as a little chunk of code that defines how the storage is used.
A normal micro SD without any modifications will have 1 FAT 32 partition.
What you could do is using a tool like Mini Tool Partition Wizard(Windows only), to shrink the existing FAT32 partition, so there is unallocated space left. Every size is possible, but the unallocated space has to be smaller than the FAT 32 partition. Please note that a Class 10 SD is preferred, or at least Class 6. Lower classes can't handle the app loading very well, and the apps will sooner start to lag.
Now you can create a new partition, since there is unallocated space left. You will use Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4, it doesn't really matter, but Ext2 works 99℅ of the time, so use that one. These are all part of the Linux file system, as your phone memory is. Your micro SD will act like an extra phone memory. But it will be slower, since flash will always be faster than the maximum R/W speed of a SD card.
(Root access is required)
You now have 2 partitions, one FAT 32 and one Ext.... Insert the micro SD card in the phone and download Link2SD from the Play Store. Open it and it will prompt you that it has detected a second partition. Grabt Superuser rights. Select the kind, and let it generate the needed information. Reboot and you're good to go! You can now move any user app to the external SD.
(Way more extensive tutorials are available. Just Google: how to use link2sd? I'm on my phone now, so sorry)
Oh, and the difference between apps like App2SD and Link2SD, is that with the former you can only move apps to the internal SD, and not the external, micro SD. The latter does give you this option, but root is required.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any question!
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MatsPunt said:
We're talking about the external SD here.
Storage is accessed by partitions. See a partition as a little chunk of code that defines how the storage is used.
A normal micro SD without any modifications will have 1 FAT 32 partition.
What you could do is using a tool like Mini Tool Partition Wizard(Windows only), to shrink the existing FAT32 partition, so there is unallocated space left. Every size is possible, but the unallocated space has to be smaller than the FAT 32 partition. Please note that a Class 10 SD is preferred, or at least Class 6. Lower classes can't handle the app loading very well, and the apps will sooner start to lag.
Now you can create a new partition, since there is unallocated space left. You will use Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4, it doesn't really matter, but Ext2 works 99℅ of the time, so use that one. These are all part of the Linux file system, as your phone memory is. Your micro SD will act like an extra phone memory. But it will be slower, since flash will always be faster than the maximum R/W speed of a SD card.
(Root access is required)
You now have 2 partitions, one FAT 32 and one Ext.... Insert the micro SD card in the phone and download Link2SD from the Play Store. Open it and it will prompt you that it has detected a second partition. Grabt Superuser rights. Select the kind, and let it generate the needed information. Reboot and you're good to go! You can now move any user app to the external SD.
(Way more extensive tutorials are available. Just Google: how to use link2sd? I'm on my phone now, so sorry)
Oh, and the difference between apps like App2SD and Link2SD, is that with the former you can only move apps to the internal SD, and not the external, micro SD. The latter does give you this option, but root is required.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any question!
Sent from my C1605 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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You now have 2 partitions, one FAT 32 and one Ext....
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you explained it very well, but sorry sir, i'm still a lil bit confused about partitioning the sd card.. what do you mean by 'Ext' ? because the only formats i know are ntfs, fat32, and exFAT..
As the others above me said, it's not advised. But if you really want to swap the memories check this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...eria-sd-card-fix-remount-sd-internal-t1943643
eryannda said:
you explained it very well, but sorry sir, i'm still a lil bit confused about partitioning the sd card.. what do you mean by 'Ext' ? because the only formats i know are ntfs, fat32, and exFAT..
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With Ext I mean Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4. These are Linux file systems. Since Android is based on Linux, Android recognizes this Et2/3/4 partition as a storage where it can write data. A little help from link2SD is needed, but it works fine. If you're still interested, follow this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142844
It's quite easy to follow.
MatsPunt said:
With Ext I mean Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4. These are Linux file systems. Since Android is based on Linux, Android recognizes this Et2/3/4 partition as a storage where it can write data. A little help from link2SD is needed, but it works fine. If you're still interested, follow this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142844
It's quite easy to follow.
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Hi,
You guys saying about hard brick possibilities. I had swapped my External with Internal. Now after seeing your posts I am thinking of reverting back to normal. Would it cause any issues ? I am not sure how much it would improve the performance though. I am quite sure the lag I have sometime is because of higher RAM usage [I have more than 120 apps installed including games such as PES (more than 150 MB) utilizing 8 GB external as Internal] . I am on Xperia Miro
about my rooted xperia j st26i
Paduretu Ionut said:
As the others above me said, it's not advised. But if you really want to swap the memories check this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...eria-sd-card-fix-remount-sd-internal-t1943643
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hi, im not that good on the sony flashtool and i would like to know why my xperia j 11.0.A.3.28 gets rooted when i click on 'My ST26/Root/Force Emulator'. i dont need to download any rooting files it just roots with Force Emulator...
danieltaylorlevi1996 said:
hi, im not that good on the sony flashtool and i would like to know why my xperia j 11.0.A.3.28 gets rooted when i click on 'My ST26/Root/Force Emulator'. i dont need to download any rooting files it just roots with Force Emulator...
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If you see an app like Superuser or SuperSU installed, it means your phone is rooted...Download any root explorer app and copy the vold.fstab file (in that thread ) in root/system/etc then reboot.
Hi Guys I Swapped My Xperia J's External Memory With Internal & Now i want to revert back to normal.
Will it work if i flash stock ftf?
Thanks in advance
manthan29jamdagni said:
Hi Guys I Swapped My Xperia J's External Memory With Internal & Now i want to revert back to normal.
Will it work if i flash stock ftf?
Thanks in advance
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First, swap them as they were than flash stock ftf. It's highly possible to hard brick your J if you don't swap them back.
Good Luck.
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4
Dzepar said:
First, swap them as they were than flash stock ftf. It's highly possible to hard brick your J if you don't swap them back.
Good Luck.
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4
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Thanks for replying...Appreciate it ...but the problem is that someone else swapped the memories before...& I am not aware of the method by which he did that...nor I know about swapping them back..
I was hoping for some help on swapping back the memory to their original state..
manthan29jamdagni said:
Thanks for replying...Appreciate it ...but the problem is that someone else swapped the memories before...& I am not aware of the method by which he did that...nor I know about swapping them back..
I was hoping for some help on swapping back the memory to their original state..
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I never did this, but look Here you'll find answer.
Good Luck.
Hi. I have a ROOTed Sony Xperia M Dual. I have the root successful, i presume. I have tried to get link2ds app working, since my phone has little space for apps, typical. I have tried to do the disk partition and divide the SD card to two parts: Fat32 andExt4. All worked but after i used the link2ds app, phone restarts and does get stuck in bootloop. Only way to stop this and start phone is by removing the SD card, which I then must format.
Any help here, please?
(Only idea of a mistake i know could be that i dont have a usb card reader, so am using the aplication called AParted, and im creating one large Fat32 12GB and one smaller Ext4 4GB. Would using the Windows partition program Mini Partition tool or something help? I realy need help here, i need to start using my phone more). Btw, if there are any better working apps then link2sd, I am open to any suggestions...
Thank you
Good evening XDA developers
I'm sorry if I am double posting or reposting same/related topic again but I swear I've searched the forum for week now but I cannot find the answer so I've decided to post a new thread to seek for a good help.
Here's the situation for you to completely understand my need,
I've got this Sony Xperia Ray (2011) - received from my brother because he bought a sony xperia Z3.
I've modified it and install Xperia Overlay rom on it. But as we all know, Xperia Ray had a very few internal memory. I've tried to install int2ext script on it and successfully got 1 gig internal device, but upon installation of apps from the playstore. I still got "insufficient storage" error though the phone still got a 500 mb free.
Now here's what I think will work, I think maybe I can use link2sd together with int2ext. but I cannot try because I'm not good at scripting.
I got this 32 gb microsd (class 10), I partitioned it this way:
1st: fat32 - 23gb - use as external sdcard
2nd: ext2 - 1gb - use for int2ext script
3rd: ext4 - 8gb - plan to use for link2sd
Problem is I cannot mount link2sd on the third partition, could you show me how to modify 11link2sd file to force it to mount the script on the third partition?
Thank you so much..
Hi there,
You can ask for help directly in the Link2SD official thread here:
[APP][1.6+] Link2SD
Good luck