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[Q] Apps in SD card and custom ROMs

Hi all,
I'm not sure if this has been asked before.
I'm using Virtuous Unity 1.31. Let say I have several apps installed and I move them (via manage applications) to the SD card. All works fine.
Let's say a new version comes out and I flash the new ROM, doing a full data and cache wipe in the process.
When I re-install all the apps, they'll be installed in the phone memory by default, and not the SD card. Does this mean that the app data on the SD card from the previous install is redundant, since the OS will presumably recognise the app in the phone memory. Is there any way to determine which apps were moved to the SD card and subsequently, free up the space?
Cheers,

Bump?
Any one with any ideas? Or is my original post confusing? ;p

endlesstrail said:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this has been asked before.
I'm using Virtuous Unity 1.31. Let say I have several apps installed and I move them (via manage applications) to the SD card. All works fine.
Let's say a new version comes out and I flash the new ROM, doing a full data and cache wipe in the process.
When I re-install all the apps, they'll be installed in the phone memory by default, and not the SD card. Does this mean that the app data on the SD card from the previous install is redundant, since the OS will presumably recognise the app in the phone memory. Is there any way to determine which apps were moved to the SD card and subsequently, free up the space?
Cheers,
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but your problem is that you want to restore your data app from sd card and your are not sure cause they are already in phone memory? Or something different ? Because if you only want to put your apps from phone storage in sd-card again you can do it, you'll overwrite the older same apps..

You can try the app in my signature (SD Maid) to free up space.

Hanisa said:
Correct me if i'm wrong, but your problem is that you want to restore your data app from sd card and your are not sure cause they are already in phone memory? Or something different ?
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Hanisa, my problem is that before I flash a new ROM, I usually do a wipe, which means when the new ROM is flashed in, it'll be "as stock" without any of my apps.
When I restore all my apps, either using Titanium Backup or the Android Marketplace, they'll be installed into the phone memory by default.
If for example I have Minisquadron installed and moved to the SD card before the wipe, when I re-install it, it will be in the phone memory by default. This means the data already on the SD card (before the wipe) is just wasted space.
Dark3n said:
You can try the app in my signature (SD Maid) to free up space.
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Thanks. I'll give it a shot and see if it works for me.

[Q]Apps in sd card

Ok so i finally installed kyrillos' rom 9.3
now i've searched around for how to install apps in SD and came across the app2sd scripts which are a little complicated then i thought. How can i install apps in my SD , is there any easier way to do that? like an app?
Also i would be installing quite a lot of stuff like 100+ games / programs etc. Got a 16 gig card so will be installing lots of apps. Will that make the phone slower or something like that?
I would appreciate any help i can get

You can try Link2SD. It's an app which provide the same feature as App2SD. I never use it though.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&hl=fr
There is also the G3MOD kernel which provides a customizable App2SD.

Thanks alot i'll try that out

Kyrillos already have hybrid app2sd which instal app directly to Ur sd card partition.. And consider it asp internal memory..
If u want to dump Ur data also in sdcard them instal kmapp and choose data also to be gone in sdcard... And enjoy
Sent from my GT-I5800 using XDA App

Hi!
I recommend you use Link2SD also. In options of the program mark checkbox "Auto link", then all newly installed applications will be automatically moved to SD card. Useful feature Link2SD is moving to SD widgets.

Thanks all of you guys.
I got apps2sd kyrillos' script working finally. The partition in the memory card was causing problems. Sorted out by making partition via the CWM.
working great now. Oh and btw there is an awesome ap called ZDbox which can help you move apps to the memory card aswell which is kinda neat too. But still i prefer kyrillos' awesome script which automatically does that. I had like 150mb and i install some programs and games and all it took was like 5 mb xD

Thugnificent1 said:
But still i prefer kyrillos' awesome script
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What about widgets? Can you move them with Kyrillo's script to sd card?

can you give me a guide to what you have done? also on kyrilllos' 9.3, installed some apps and running out of internal memory. i think my partition isnt working ( 4gb card, 1gb partition) properly.....

RoboD7 said:
What about widgets? Can you move them with Kyrillo's script to sd card?
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The apps2sd makes the phone think that external sd partition is part of the internal drive, so i assume it should make it work.
Skivit said:
can you give me a guide to what you have done? also on kyrilllos' 9.3, installed some apps and running out of internal memory. i think my partition isnt working ( 4gb card, 1gb partition) properly.....
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Backup your data from SD card, then format it from the phone. Then reboot into recovery menu (CWM) and scroll down to miscellaneous and from there use "make a partition" command and select 1 gb
simple as that. Then use the instructions given by kyrillos on this thread to install apps2sd script
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073000
i suggest apps2sd V2 unless you have a class 6 memory card.

[Q] Link2SD Problem

Hi,
After searching a lot here and other place, I didn't find the solution of my problem.
I have 8gb card.
1st break up
6GB - FAT32 - Primary
rest - FAT32 - Primary.
Link2SD is not able to mount.
Displaying in storage info as - "SD Card 2nd Part." Not Mounted.
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2nd try, with another breakup.
6GB - FAT32 - Primary
1.2GB - EXT2 - Primary
60MB - L.Swap - Primary
rest - Unallocated.
From Link2SD, I m able to see that sdext2 is mounted.
So for a demo purpose, I installed an application, The auto linking starts but get fails. Not able to create link /bla/bla/ - I/O error.
I did mount that location as RW with root explorer, no luck.
Please let me know what to do and how to resolve it.

Hi
What app did you use to format the sd card?
When i format my sd card using the cwm, i have to format the ext particion using easeus to ext2 particion, witch is the format that the stock rom suports, when i did that, i go to the app, select ext2 and reboot the device, that does the trick
Tell if it works for you
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psicop said:
Hi
What app did you use to format the sd card?
When i format my sd card using the cwm, i have to format the ext particion using easeus to ext2 particion, witch is the format that the stock rom suports, when i did that, i go to the app, select ext2 and reboot the device, that does the trick
Tell if it works for you
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using xda premium
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Hi psicop,
Thanks for your reply, I used MiniTool.
Please suggest how/what to do..

I partitioned my sd with CWM and used A2SD, and it works fine.
Maybe you could try to partition it with CWM?

Soeskip said:
I partitioned my sd with CWM and used A2SD, and it works fine.
Maybe you could try to partition it with CWM?
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Link2SD automatically moves all files in SD. Its seems better that A2SD. Correct me if I m wrong.
Also, please tell how to flash recovery to CWM ? I downloaded 1 click recovery and installed the v5.0.2.8 , at the time of flashing, it display failed.
Please direct me from where you did that...

Please help someone, my phone memory is full now... i can also add person to my gtalk or y! messenger....

Do you have clockworkmod recovery installed?
If so, partition your SD from there, and if I'm correct, go to Link2sd, and choose ext4 as partition format... worked for me after numerous fails with other tools...
Edit: search for a tutorial to install CWM. That's how I installed it...
Sent from my HTC ChaCha with CM9 using XDA app.

This might help: http://www.xperiablog.net/2011/12/12/link2sd-guide-never-worry-about-internal-memory-limits-again/

Apps in SD not working
I dunno if its relevant in this thread, but i couldnt find the answer anywhere else.
I partitioned my 8gb class 10 sd card and installed link2sd and all was fine. I created links for most of my apps and everything was fine, until I had to remove my sd card for some data transfer. Now my apps that were shifted previously are not working. For your information I use CM11 in my Galaxy ace.

Ram Shankar said:
I dunno if its relevant in this thread, but i couldnt find the answer anywhere else.
I partitioned my 8gb class 10 sd card and installed link2sd and all was fine. I created links for most of my apps and everything was fine, until I had to remove my sd card for some data transfer. Now my apps that were shifted previously are not working. For your information I use CM11 in my Galaxy ace.
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Seems like you have to reinstall them, dunno why but removing the card might have had created problems.

swashie said:
Seems like you have to reinstall them, dunno why but removing the card might have had created problems.
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The problem got solved, when I mounted the script again and did a reboot. When the phone boots, link2sd has to update all the links. There is an option available for this in the settings. Anyways thanks :good:

ROM erasing issue

I have Bumblebee 3.0 installed on my A110 currently and I've been facing certain issues with my SD card. (My camera would not click pics, because my SD was apparently full.) So, I figured.. Why not flash the SD card from 'storage' in android settings.
I want to install another ROM. Now I have a blank SD card and whenever I try to factory reset and wipe dalvik cache it shows me an error. It is not even allowing me to install another ROM. Although bumblebee's working fine now, I wish to change my ROM.
Any possible solutions?

chinmayshah said:
I have Bumblebee 3.0 installed on my A110 currently and I've been facing certain issues with my SD card. (My camera would not click pics, because my SD was apparently full.) So, I figured.. Why not flash the SD card from 'storage' in android settings.
I want to install another ROM. Now I have a blank SD card and whenever I try to factory reset and wipe dalvik cache it shows me an error. It is not even allowing me to install another ROM. Although bumblebee's working fine now, I wish to change my ROM.
Any possible solutions?
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i think you have a corrupt file in your sd card so fix it first
try to connect your phone to computer and see if it can recognize your msdc. if yes backup and reformat use sdformatter. if no take out your msdc and use card reader.
always backup files and use minipatition tool to recover data before reformatting
just trying to help i hope this works.

chinmayshah said:
I have Bumblebee 3.0 installed on my A110 currently and I've been facing certain issues with my SD card. (My camera would not click pics, because my SD was apparently full.) So, I figured.. Why not flash the SD card from 'storage' in android settings.
I want to install another ROM. Now I have a blank SD card and whenever I try to factory reset and wipe dalvik cache it shows me an error. It is not even allowing me to install another ROM. Although bumblebee's working fine now, I wish to change my ROM.
Any possible solutions?
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remove the SD card ..
Copy the ROM File to internal SD Card and try installing from internal SD
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WORKED!
revanth22 said:
remove the SD card ..
Copy the ROM File to internal SD Card and try installing from internal SD
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Hey. This worked. THANKS!!!

[Q] No space to install apps.

I have installed Cyanogenmod 7.2 to my Samsung Galaxy i5801 and it seems to be working OK, mostly. I am having to try to reinstall several of the apps I had previously but each time I try I get a message that there is insufficient space to install.
I have checked the reported space and it seems I have 0 internal storage and 14GB external storage. I have tried to change the storage location for downloaded apps to both internal and external with no difference.
Any suggestions for a solution? I have tried searching the forum and, although I see other posts asking similar questions there don't appear to be any answers.
Mike

You can try to reflash the rom or you can partition your SD card and use data2sd.

The problem with the install location is, that you need to have free space on the internal storage in advance.
The app is first downloaded into a container on the internal storage, and then installed (at least partly) to the internal storage. So you should have at least appSize * 2 of free space.
Another app you could try is Link2SD. It moves mostly everything of an app to the sd-card. But for that you need to partition your card. Just google for that app

TRIED Link2SD [ BUT NOT WORKING ]
Link 2 SD is best to Move apps to SD Card ...........
But in my CM 10 Its not Moving ....... can anybody help ????

xda Santhosh said:
Link 2 SD is best to Move apps to SD Card ...........
But in my CM 10 Its not Moving ....... can anybody help ????
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If you are using Marcellusbe's build then Link2SD should work. Just ignore the error and reboot the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31062543

I use marcellusbe's CM 10 only .....
I rebooted the phone ...
But it is not at all movig the apps to external SD

did you install the rom with odin? i had exactly the same problem, reinstalling the rom from clockwork mod recovery fixed it, or install the mtd version from recovery.