In my a2sd, dalvik cache is on sd ext. Is that correct?
Yup. Absolutely. This helps save a lot of space .
However do NOT boot without the memory card as the app data is on the sd-ext and you'll get multiple force closes
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Could somebody PLEASE give me walk through of the holy grail here? I have rooted my aria and loaded cyanogen nightlies many times, but when it comes time to format and get a2sd working on a partitioned card I fail miserably. I seem to run into issues when the guides mention to go into recovery and partition the card. I am running clockwork and can't find the right partition menu. I tried a method involving adb and could not get a file to push, downloaded darktremor and got an endless htc screen boot loop, and at this point my phone may as well be a missile to my computer screen. I am a noob, but not entirely unfamiliar, just some sort of help getting to that last screen where I see lots of phone memory and can finally lay off deleting apps to add one.
Thanks and I hope someone is out there willing to help!
Can't give you a link from here, but I can encourage you to look for a forum that discusses Ext3 partitioning using a live ubuntu cd. You may have rooted using a similar method. I'll try to remember to send you a link when I get home. Search until then. Post if you find it.
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Why not just use Rom Manager to partition the card?
I tried that many times but it never worked. It always hung up on the ! triangle screen. I had no problems with the live cd method.
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Found the link...
androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/
I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.
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duckredbeard said:
Found the link...
androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/how-to-create-ext2-partition-14232/
I did this but went with ext3. I actually practiced with an older SD card until I got it right. The order of partitions is important. Fat32, ext, then lswap. Read around about recommended sizes. For an 8GB card I went with 6.5gb/1gb/32m.
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Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.
Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.
I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.
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I did it as a precaution. My SD is waaaaaay oversized and figured I could afford to waste 32mb.
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and I am running out of space on a 16 gb card. 12gb mp3s and 600+ pictures will do that.
attn1 said:
Skip swap. Should not need/use it on a 512K ram device.
Edit: I know specs say less - specs are wrong! Liberty has the same memory as the N1.
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thanks for this attn. i had seen posts about swap on other devices and wondered if it would help my aria. i'm glad i didn't try to set it up...
Thanks everone for responding. This is where I am with the partition. So when I put the card the phone and mount sd card it shows the same amount of memory in the phone (77.26) when I added a gig of ext2 in gparted.
Do I need to go back into gparted and charnge the ext2 to ext3? Or is this an issue where I need to change something in the phone I am missing. I did reboot after putting the card in.
You won't see any increased capacity there. What you will see after apps2sd is working is that the amount of internal used will go down. I had to reinstall apps2sd after I did the partition, even though darktremor's apps2sd came with my ROM. It defaulted to off because it saw no ext partition upon ROM installation.
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So I wipe data and flash a cyanogen nightly it will automatically pick up a2sdext and show the proper storage data?
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I haven't been in this position myself (always clean installs since using a2ext) but I believe if you have darktremor's a2sd installed and have ext on your sd card, but apps are still on the device, you can do:
su
a2sd reinstall
in the terminal app on the device and it will move all apps from device memory to the ext partition. not sure how this behaves if you have any apps on sd via the standard froyo method....
I don't have a problem wiping data, dalvik and cache since I backed up everything. Going to give it a shot here...
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Fwiw, I have been using this method up until this release candidate. Seems broken now.
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Ok, so I tried wiping data/cache/dalvikr then flashed cyanogen nightly 99 and it still only showed 138m internal memory. So then I tried downloading darktremor and flashing the zip from clockwork which gives me infinate htc white bootscreens. Then I tried wiping again and flashed the darktremor zip and then cyanogen 99 and the phone booted up, but when I check internal memory I am at 123m. Am I just completely missing something here?
You are likely seeing dalvik. If you have a good SD card, do su in a terminal and then a2sd cachesd. The phone will reboot.
That moves dalvik to SD as well.
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You are likely seeing dalvik. If you have a good SD card, do su in a terminal and then a2sd cachesd. The phone will reboot.
That moves dalvik to SD as well.
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Says a2sd not found. If anyone has any ideas, I am willing to start from scrap to get this running. BelacNongaw, how did you get yours running? If you don't mind I could try tracing the steps you took and that might work?
Did you type:
su
system/bin/a2sd cachesd
in terminal?
hey guyzz...
i found many posts discussing how to increase phone memory.....so here is the solution for it...
i found an app in the market to increase phone memory....
her is the link for that app...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seasmind.android.gmappmgr&hl=en
"THIS IS ONLY FOR ROOTED USERS".
I increased my space upto maximum extent.
"DONT FORGET TO PRESS THANKS IF I HELPED U"
It doesn't increase phone memory..
It frees up more internal memory..
they are two different things..
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Aspire is right. Do anyone have instructions on how to configure S2E or A2SDGUI?
Aspire is right. Do anyone have instructions on how to configure S2E or A2SDGUI?
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Yes do anyone have instruction how to use a2sd. And does theapplications working well on sd as in internal memory without any problem.
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Cmiiw..
To use A2SD aka DarkTremor, you should set partition on your sdcard first.
You can do that via CWM Recovery..
But backup your Sdcard first, coz the partition process will wipe all of your data..
Ya its actually frees the internal memory.sry for my bad english
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cygnus39 said:
Cmiiw..
To use A2SD aka DarkTremor, you should set partition on your sdcard first.
You can do that via CWM Recovery..
But backup your Sdcard first, coz the partition process will wipe all of your data..
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I do not understand. What is it the first? FAT32 or ext4?
FAT32 is primary sd card format
ext4 is partitioned sd card format
cmiiw
Hi all,
First aof all sry for crateing new thread,but i was nota ble to find any simiilar thread relate dto my problem.
I have a rooted atrix 2 bootloader locked!!
I m recently having issues installing applications.When i try to install any app,The install button is disabled clicking on it doesnt install or do anything.The cancel button is enabled though.
this issue gets fixed after i reboot the device.for some time the applications intall perfectly.But after some time i get the issue again.
Anybody have any idea whats wrong and is there any permanent solution??
Thanks in advance
Little more info please? What ROM? Pics? Are you defaulted to install on the SD card? Without enough room?
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Stock rom...
No not defaulted to install on sd card.
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Which version of Google Play Store are you running? You may need yo update with the newest version .apk file. Also, some applications are local storage only -meaning you are not able to move to your sdcard. Which size/class sdcard are you using, and have you tried clearing data and or wiping cache partition and/or Dalvik cache?
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Tried all versions of google play.
Sd card is sandisk 16 gb class 4
Its internal memory is 3gb free y do i need to clear cache?
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farzii said:
Tried all versions of google play.
Sd card is sandisk 16 gb class 4
Its internal memory is 3gb free y do i need to clear cache?
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Actually, try clearing the google play cache. Not Dalvic cache.
farzii said:
Tried all versions of google play.
Sd card is sandisk 16 gb class 4
Its internal memory is 3gb free y do i need to clear cache?
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clearing cache and dalvik is just one of those things that sometime magically fixes things. Like restarting your computer when it acts up. it won't hurt anything at all, you won't notice a speed hit at all. If you wipe dalvik cache the first boot after it will take for ever (a few minutes), but then it will be fine.
How to expand the low internal memory without changing the default rom?
I'd like to keep the default rom, but would like to use the sd card as much as possible. Embedded move2sd app doesn't move sufficient apps. Also it's very good if we can move other things (Like messages or even partitions) to sd too.
I just checked http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924054 , but what if I root my device?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932874
Use m2sd script ! Its very good ! But first u have to partition your sd card and make a ext partition either by recovery or minitool(windows). Also ext partition is not supported by stock rom/kernel so its better if u flash any custom rom/kernel.
Press thanks if helped
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As I like to keep the stock rom/kernel and it doesn't support ext as you said, Could you suggest other options?
If u wanna keep your stock rom/kernel the best method is by partitioning sd card to a secondary fat32 partition.....then use link2sd( its free download from playstore)
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link2sd will link your apps to sd, but if I remember correctly, it won't link your dalvik cache. And when you install a lot of apps, your dalvik cache would fill the entire internal memory, resulting in the low space error again.
If you really want to go with the stock kernel, you can get the kernel source from HTCDev, do the necessary work on it to get init.d working with sysinit exec method, compile the kernel, flash it, partition your sd with ext2/3/4 and then use mounts2sd to reverse mount /data/ to /sd-ext/, practically turning your ext partition to your internal memory.
I have 4.2 JB on LG p500. Before rooting I use to clear cache to gain some internal space but now when I'm doing this it decreases the space ,and when I have stopped clearing cache the internal space is increasing by the same amount as the cache.
I'm confused what to make of this. Can anyone throw some light on this? Thanks a lot in advance
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