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As I was getting low on my LG-P500 phone, I tried looking for some app2sd solution, doing the following steps:
- Backup all SD card content to PC
- Boot into recovery (CWM5.0.2.7)
- From recovery, create sd-ext partition
- From recovery, format the new partition
- From recovery, mount usb device, restore all SD card content from PC.
- Reboot device, installed link2sd and managed to link applications to sd.
Now link2sd seems to work fine- I tried linking quite a few applications and all of them work fine, no complaints. It only gave me an error with some apps which I have previously *moved* to SD using Titanium backup, but upon moving them to internal storage link2sd picked them okay.
However, I noticed that using file explorer, root explorer etc- they all show the sd-ext partition as empty, with size of 0 bytes??
Then, I booted into recovery and tried to mount the sd-ext partition, but I get an error message... (all other partitions I can mount/unmount just fine).
To be sure, after each reboot it looks like all the applications linked2sd work appropiately, so everything looks fine.
However, now I am concerned whether I can create (and restore, of course) nandroid backups- what will happen with all these apps linked to sd? Am I right that CWM may not be able to backup (and therefore restore) anything that is on this partition?
Am I going to lose all these apps and data? Does TiB backup these apps+data and be able to restore them fine to sd-ext? I'm asking about TiB as a mediocre workaround of restoring applications that were in sd-ext (and thus omitted by CWM backup). That is, after restoring nand backup- doing an additional restore from TiB??
Any help/insight is welcome
Ah, yes, some more info:
Phone: LG optimus P500
ROM: Lupohirps CM9 4.0.3 from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558213
Recovery: CWM 5.0.2.7 (By the way, whenever I try to flash 5.0.2.0 I get an error...)
that's weird since the app working. what ekstension do you have on sd card fat? fat32?
Can you open Android Terminal (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm) and issue these commands:
su
busybox ls -la /sd-ext/
busybox mount
If /sd-ext doesn't show up in mount, then it is not mounted.
Actually CM9 for P500 lacks file /system/etc/init.d/05mountsd (this file is responsible for mounting /sd-ext). IMHO You should ask ROM developer about sd-ext support.
If you want to test (and potentially restore your Nandoid backup or reflash CM9 afterwards) I can give you this script from CM7 (actually modified version that allows any ext version).
Your sd-ext files are actually in data/sdext2, not in /sd-ext.
Also Try using Amonra 3.0.6, overall it has better sd-ext support, I find it mounts and wipes things like dalvick cache inside the sd-ext partition as well , which is handy, unlike CWM.
Thanks for all your replies!
Sdcard file system is fat32. For the partition I have no idea as cwm didn't ask for any specific (e.g. ext2/3/4) and I haven't seen any way to get this Info...
Anyway, following this thread, I did find that all the app/data is in /data/sdext2- not sure what it means in terms of nandroid backup& recovery but it looks more reassuring..
As to RA recovery, I'm not in particular in love with cwm- it is just what I'm used to from other android devices I've been using. Actually on my htc mt4g I was using ext4 touch recovery and that one I really liked, but it is not supported in lots of devices. That phone was stolen, unfortunately. I'll give it a try, though.
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DavisNT said:
Can you open Android Terminal (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm) and issue these commands:
su
busybox ls -la /sd-ext/
busybox mount
If /sd-ext doesn't show up in mount, then it is not mounted.
Actually CM9 for P500 lacks file /system/etc/init.d/05mountsd (this file is responsible for mounting /sd-ext). IMHO You should ask ROM developer about sd-ext support.
If you want to test (and potentially restore your Nandoid backup or reflash CM9 afterwards) I can give you this script from CM7 (actually modified version that allows any ext version).
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Thanks! Looks likeb system/ cache/ data are all yaffs2, /mnt/Sdcard is vfat and /data/sdext2 is ext4. Not sure what all the output means (relatime, barrier=1, data= ordered etc. etc.)
So, can I figure out where the /data/sdext2 is physically stored? Is it actually the sd-ext/ext4 partition? Looks like must have, as its contents are way bigger than phone's 200MB internal storage...
Thank you all again
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jaibar said:
Thanks! Looks likeb system/ cache/ data are all yaffs2, /mnt/Sdcard is vfat and /data/sdext2 is ext4. Not sure what all the output means (relatime, barrier=1, data= ordered etc. etc.)
So, can I figure out where the /data/sdext2 is physically stored? Is it actually the sd-ext/ext4 partition? Looks like must have, as its contents are way bigger than phone's 200MB internal storage...
Thank you all again
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/data/sdext2 is the mountpoint for the ext4 partition thats on your sd card, physically its obviously on your sd card, but If you use linux, data/ is where the all partitions other then home partition get "attached"/mounted to, the 11link2sd script made by link2sd in yout init.d folder actually mounts it sdext2, the name means nothing, just something link2sd names it as.
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So Basically nandroid will not back it up under /data/sdext2 as the script runs after recovery, the best way to backup apps that are on the ext partion is back them up using Titanium Backup, as that saves the real apks, and when you restore all your apps, select link2sd to automatically move them to sd-ext partition.
Hi at all,
at first sorry for my bad english.
I had a similar case. If I made a backup with cwm 5.0.2.7, cwm cant mount/read the sd-ext.
In a other thread a user wrote, that cwm 5.0.2.8 had problems with the sd-ext.
And he does downgrade to cwm 5.0.2.0, and than cwm will work.
So, I did this:
I open the rommanager and choose the option "install Clockworkmod", now I choose the "LG Optimus One (old BB)".
But i have the new baseband on my O1.
The basis of this is, if you choose the new baseband in the rommanager, he will install cwm 5.0.2.7. For the old is it the 5.0.2.0 version.
Now, Rommanger made the installation with cwm 5.0.2.0. to my phone.
After this i go in to the recovery and made my nand-backup. It works perfekt!
No problems with the sd-ext, after I did this.
May be this will help.
Fietz said:
Hi at all,
I open the rommanager and choose the option "install Clockworkmod", now I choose the "LG Optimus One (old BB)".
But i have the new baseband on my O1.
The basis of this is, if you choose the new baseband in the rommanager, he will install cwm 5.0.2.7. For the old is it the 5.0.2.0 version.
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Thanks for the tip..
I have tried in the past to flash cwm 5.0.2.0 via Rom Manager, but I kept getting an error message, so I gave up.
Now I thought to give it a second chance, but as it fails to flash with Rom Manager (in the menu when I choose LG optimus one I don't get any choice between old BB or new or anything- it just reflashes 5.0.2.7) and from the "all recoveries menu I can only choose 5.0.2.0 but it gives an error message), so I downloaded the zip files from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523050 (including also Amon Ra 3.06) and tried to manually flash from recovery.
It flashed and showed recovery as "5.0.2.0" but nothing worked- every submenu that I tried to enter was black screen (with the CWM logo on background) and it gave me the creeps- I don't like being stuck without a functional recovery so I rebooted and flashed 5.0.2.7 again from Rom Manager.
I'll try to flash Amon Ra and see how it works.
[EDIT] flashed AmonRa 3.06 and it seems to work fine- able to mount/unmount all partitions including sd-ext, and it also has an option to check each of them in separate during nandroid backups.
A noobish question: it has also an option to include the ".android_secure" . Isn't this one a redundancy with sd-ext (e.g. contains all the apps/data that has been moved/linked2sd)?
jaibar said:
As I was getting low on my LG-P500 phone, I tried looking for some app2sd solution, doing the following steps:
- Backup all SD card content to PC
- Boot into recovery (CWM5.0.2.7)
- From recovery, create sd-ext partition
- From recovery, format the new partition
- From recovery, mount usb device, restore all SD card content from PC.
- Reboot device, installed link2sd and managed to link applications to sd.
Now link2sd seems to work fine- I tried linking quite a few applications and all of them work fine, no complaints. It only gave me an error with some apps which I have previously *moved* to SD using Titanium backup, but upon moving them to internal storage link2sd picked them okay.
However, I noticed that using file explorer, root explorer etc- they all show the sd-ext partition as empty, with size of 0 bytes??
Then, I booted into recovery and tried to mount the sd-ext partition, but I get an error message... (all other partitions I can mount/unmount just fine).
To be sure, after each reboot it looks like all the applications linked2sd work appropiately, so everything looks fine.
However, now I am concerned whether I can create (and restore, of course) nandroid backups- what will happen with all these apps linked to sd? Am I right that CWM may not be able to backup (and therefore restore) anything that is on this partition?
Am I going to lose all these apps and data? Does TiB backup these apps+data and be able to restore them fine to sd-ext? I'm asking about TiB as a mediocre workaround of restoring applications that were in sd-ext (and thus omitted by CWM backup). That is, after restoring nand backup- doing an additional restore from TiB??
Any help/insight is welcome
Ah, yes, some more info:
Phone: LG optimus P500
ROM: Lupohirps CM9 4.0.3 from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558213
Recovery: CWM 5.0.2.7 (By the way, whenever I try to flash 5.0.2.0 I get an error...)
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Hi, Jaibar
I have LG Optimus One with JB 4.2.2, CM 10.1.
Here what I have done in order to gain extra space on my internal memory. All the steps that you have followed are the same as I did. BUT! There are two important things that I have followed that had greatly helped to succeed:
1) For every 100Mb internal memory - NO MORE than 512Mb of SD card memory(for my LG I have separated 965Mb on the SD card)
2) INT2EXT+ works with EXT2/3/4 partitions BUT INT2EXT4+ works with ONLY EXT4 partition. After I have watched this short video, and this blog post I have been able to restart my phone with extended internal memory.
Believe me, for three days I have been flashing my phone, trying to find the correct way. At the end I have noticed that the problem was that I couldn't mount /sd-ext I thought that maybe following this two rules will help - and it did!
I hope that it will help! Good luck
This is a simple and effective (moves most space hogging folders from internal memory to sd-ext) APP2SD solution.
It moves the following things from /data partition to ext partition on SD card:
/data/app => /sd-ext/app
/data/app-private => /sd-ext/app-private
/data/dalvik-cache => /sd-ext/dalvik-cache
and creates symlinks to new locations in place of original folders.
Solution consists of 2 via recovery flashable ZIPs:
sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip - this updates/creates CyanogenMod 7/9 script that mounts SD card ext partition to /sd-ext so /sd-ext can be any ext version (by default it can be only ext3) and installs e2fsck. This must be re-flashed after each ROM update (unless you know that ROM will mount your /sd-ext out of the box).
to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip - actually moves folders to ext partition on SD card. This can be flashed only after first boot into ROM after wiping /data. It should be re-flashed only in conjunction with wiping /data and /sd-ext.
This mod requires ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on SD card.
Always make full Nandroid backup before flashing this mod or updating ROM with mod installed!
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything that may happen as a result of using this mod.
Installation/usage:
To install mod on a working ROM:
Flash sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip via Recovery.
Flash to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip via Recovery.
After updating ROM:
Re-flash sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip without booting into updated ROM.
After wiping /data from Recovery:
Delete moved folders from /sd-ext (in most cases you will want to do this by wiping /sd-ext from Recovery).
Boot into your ROM.
Re-flash to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip via Recovery.
This mod is tested with CyanogenMod 7 (7.1 by mik_os and 7.2 official builds) and CyanogenMod 9 by hephappy and Amon RA recovery 3.0.6.
If you are using Clockworkmod Recovery see this post.
+1
Is this mod developed by you?
DJoptimus-One said:
Is this mod developed by you?
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Yes
DavisNT said:
Yes
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Nice work, I'm surely gonna try
Keep up.
Good work here!! Really nice to see some REAL development here
Will try it and report soon.........
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Any feedback yet? Would love to give it a try :thumbup:
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FitAmp said:
Any feedback yet? Would love to give it a try :thumbup:
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Don't ask for that, try it yourself!!
nice work will try
Does this work on gb?2.3.3?
How to move app's ? Does this automatically moves it?
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Just flashed on cm9 weekly... so for so good
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Good work. Nice example of KISS approach - three symlinks + few lines of other code
dynamite33 said:
Does this work on gb?2.3.3?
How to move app's ? Does this automatically moves it?
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You can make full Nandroid backup (Nand backup in recovery) and try whether it works on your ROM.
This requires the following things:
ext partition on SD card (you must have partitioned your SD card)
ROM that supports init.d scripts
kernel that supports ext filesystem version that is on SD card
You can test all this by (making full Nandroid backup and) flashing sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip, booting in Android and issuing the following commands in Terminal Emulator:
Code:
su
mount
mount | grep sd-ext
If you see line like this somewhere in the output:
Code:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
then /sd-ext is mounted and you can proceed to flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
Apps are moved when flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
DavisNT said:
You can make full Nandroid backup (Nand backup in recovery) and try whether it works on your ROM.
This requires the following things:
ext partition on SD card (you must have partitioned your SD card)
ROM that supports init.d scripts
kernel that supports ext filesystem version that is on SD card
You can test all this by (making full Nandroid backup and) flashing sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip, booting in Android and issuing the following commands in Terminal Emulator:
Code:
su
mount
mount | grep sd-ext
If you see line like this somewhere in the output:
Code:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
then /sd-ext is mounted and you can proceed to flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
Apps are moved when flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
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Ok thanx a lot! Will try it.
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hi DavisNT
i use Link2sd now, and want to try ur script, can i remove link2sd and use ur script without problem and without losing my apps ?
GonDr said:
i use Link2sd now, and want to try ur script, can i remove link2sd and use ur script without problem and without losing my apps ?
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Try it, but remember to take full Nandroid backup before trying.
You can do this:
do full Nandroid backup from recovery
With Link2SD move all applications back to internal memory
delete mount scripts created by Link2SD (probably there is a kind of uninstall option in Link2SD)
install my mod
If you don't have enough space in internal memory, then it is possible to use Titanium Backup to backup and restore apps (however I am not sure whether Titanium Backup can backup data of applications linked with Link2SD - probably can, but I am not sure).
DavisNT said:
Try it, but remember to take full Nandroid backup before trying.
You can do this:
do full Nandroid backup from recovery
With Link2SD move all applications back to internal memory
delete mount scripts created by Link2SD (probably there is a kind of uninstall option in Link2SD)
install my mod
If you don't have enough space in internal memory, then it is possible to use Titanium Backup to backup and restore apps (however I am not sure whether Titanium Backup can backup data of applications linked with Link2SD - probably can, but I am not sure).
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I don't think that titanium can restore anything to sdext, it just saves anything, including linked stuff and if trying to restore everything together it will fail, if the total of backed apps is larger than internal storage...
However, if link2sd is installed, the later will start linking data/apps 'on the fly' as Tib restores them. That's why it is essential to install link2sd or similar before going to batch-restore everything.
I guess this script should handle it in a similar way? I'm going to try anyway.
My idea was backing up most of apps with Titanium Backup while using Link2SD, then removing them (and moving left apps back to internal memory, uninstalling Link2SD mount scripts) and restoring after installing my script (Move to sd-ext).
Move to sd-ext links all applications (and dalvik cache, but not application data and library files extracted to data folders) at once - Titanium Backup will restore directly to SD card
can you explain me what's the difference between this mod and d2sd ungaze?
thanks
mutia said:
can you explain me what's the difference between this mod and d2sd ungaze?
thanks
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If I correctly got what D2SD ungaze does, then it moves applications, applications data and libraries (/data/app, /data/app-private and /data/data) to SD card ext partition and leaves Dalvik cache (/data/dalvik-cache) on internal memory (/data partition).
While my mod moves and links applications and Dalvik cache (see first post in this thread for details), leaving all other folders (some system configuration and application data and libraries) in internal memory (/data partition).
Also technical implementation is very different from my mod. D2SD ungaze copies everything and links back certain things. It looks like D2SD ungaze also doesn't free space on /data partition.
DavisNT said:
You can make full Nandroid backup (Nand backup in recovery) and try whether it works on your ROM.
This requires the following things:
ext partition on SD card (you must have partitioned your SD card)
ROM that supports init.d scripts
kernel that supports ext filesystem version that is on SD card
You can test all this by (making full Nandroid backup and) flashing sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip, booting in Android and issuing the following commands in Terminal Emulator:
Code:
su
mount
mount | grep sd-ext
If you see line like this somewhere in the output:
Code:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
then /sd-ext is mounted and you can proceed to flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
Apps are moved when flashing to_sd-ext_patch-signed-vXX.zip.
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i flashed the first zip file, then made this test through Terminal Emulator and got a line similar to the one you mentioned (my sd-ext is type 3, and the info in brackets was a bit different).
then i flashed second zip file.
the free RAM space increased (which necessarily means that things were moved to the sd-card, right?)
i then installed an app - and saw RAM decreasing accordingly, plus - the sd-ext folder is empty
how can i know if it works ?!?
I have the latest stock Gingerbread ROM, AmonRA, ROQ kernel and I'm unsing link2SD.
I'm getting short of space on my data partition and I would like to recover some space from my cache partition (that is now 64Mb big).
Is there anyway to move some Mb from /cache to /data?
Possibly recovering a whole NAND backup.
I saw scripts for "Cusotm MTD Partitions" but they all looked for different phones.
Thank you very much
pdario said:
I have the latest stock Gingerbread ROM, AmonRA, ROQ kernel and I'm unsing link2SD.
I'm getting short of space on my data partition and I would like to recover some space from my cache partition (that is now 64Mb big).
Is there anyway to move some Mb from /cache to /data?
Possibly recovering a whole NAND backup.
I saw scripts for "Cusotm MTD Partitions" but they all looked for different phones.
Thank you very much
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u can't change internal partitions in p500. but u can change the size of SD-ext partition that link2sd uses to store apps. U can do that with the help of ur recovery. But remember that changing size of sd-ext partition will format ur whole sd crd. so make the necessary backups
Souron29 said:
u can't change internal partitions in p500. but u can change the size of SD-ext partition that link2sd uses to store apps. U can do that with the help of ur recovery. But remember that changing size of sd-ext partition will format ur whole sd crd. so make the necessary backups
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I'm running out of space in /data partition, /sd-ext is ok.
I see I can nandroid backup all partitions: can't I edit them somehow and then recovery them back?
BTW: I would use a Windows partition resizing software on the SD mounted in my PC to do what you meant, that should not lose any data
pdario said:
I'm running out of space in /data partition, /sd-ext is ok.
I see I can nandroid backup all partitions: can't I edit them somehow and then recovery them back?
BTW: I would use a Windows partition resizing software on the SD mounted in my PC to do what you meant, that should not lose any data
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when u backup ur partitions it just means u r backing up the content of ur partitions as a whole. So editing them won't do any good.
instead flash an app2sd script which moves dalvik cache to sd too. like this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668247
My dalvik cache is already on SD, using LInk2SD; the problem is the /data content; it would be great to move the data to SD too
I also used link2sd till recently and switched to S2E (simple2ext) from the market but I think it only works for cm7 and cm7 based roms.
If you use a lot of apps including games I would suggest making the ext partition 1gb when using set script.
Backup your apps with titanium backup, wipe the phone clean, flash the rom.
Install S2E, open it.
Press menu key and go to Settings, and enable “Mount as ext4″ (mandatory).
Close and reboot.
Open S2E again and select the folders you want to move to SD card. I recommend selecting Applications, Application Data and Dalvik cache. Leave Private apps and Download cache unselected.
Reboot and changes will take effect. (This reboot will be slower than usual as your dalvik cache will be rebuilt.)
Done.
Now you can restore from the titanium backup and you shouldn't have any more problems with space.
p.s.: don't backup or restore link2sd, it will mess with s2e
You mean it will move the /data folders too, in contrary to Link2SD?
pdario said:
You mean it will move the /data folders too, in contrary to Link2SD?
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Is it correct that, in the steps you listed, the old sd-ext partition is not needed? S2E won't read it, right?
pdario said:
Is it correct that, in the steps you listed, the old sd-ext partition is not needed? S2E won't read it, right?
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The sd-ext partition is very needed. that's where all your apps and data and dalvik cache will go. S2E works basically like Link2SD only it moves data as well, to the same place.
When I said wipe the phone, I meant formating the system, internal and ext partitions + dalvik cache so you have a clean slate and bug free installation.
Souron29 said:
when u backup ur partitions it just means u r backing up the content of ur partitions as a whole. So editing them won't do any good.
instead flash an app2sd script which moves dalvik cache to sd too. like this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668247
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Use the script mentioned here. it moves ur \data partition to ext. it will give u ample amount of storage. and remember that u should increase the size of ext partition only if u have class 6 sdcards or else ur phone will suffer serious lag
Sorry, I meant the content of the sd-ext partition before this upgrade: I have to reinstall all apps, I don't need the old installations in the sd-ext, right?
Thank you!
Please help me...I flashed the FlyROM V4 correctly but its stuck at boot animation...when i go to mount sd-ext..its shows "Error mounting sd-ext"..is that the problem? If it is..how to solve it?
Make Sure You Made A Sd-Ext Partition Correct, To Check Whether You Made A Partition Correct Or Not, Just Mount Sd-Ext In Recovery, If It Mounts Without Any Error Then Just Go Ahead, But If It Shows An Error, It Means You Didn't Make A Partition Correct. So Now What You Need To Do Is:
1. Don't Partion Your SD Card By Using Recovery.
2. Partition It Via "Minitool Partition Wizard" Manually.
3. Create A Ext 4 Partition As Primary.
4. Now, Install Yannou's Recovery (The One Which You Install While Rooting)
5. Finally, Mount Sd-Ext And Flash Any Sense 4 Rom..
Note: Don't Use CWM Recovery, It Never Mount Sd-Ext At Any Cost.. Use Yannou's Recovery Or Philz Touch Recovery Instead..
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thanks for replying here..i got the problem solved by just
1. removing old partitions
2. changing to philz recovery
3. making a new partition using philz and then flashing..
But now am unable to install any kind of memory script to increase internal memory..even after installing successfully .. the memory isnt increasing..what's wrong?
First open ur rom zip, navigate to system/etc/init.d and remove that 78mv2ext file and replace it with ur desired script and then reflash rom..
But do this at your own risk, if u get into a bootloop just reflash the rom with 78mv2ext script again..
Note: in sense roms, internal memory will always be 150 mb, but when you install apps its internal memory will not decrease as it decreases usually because of that Sd-Ext Partition you created..
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lol i didnt know internal memory is always 150mb..but it doesnt decreases..if its true..then there's no problem.
Hi guys,
I'll share some scripts (flashable) that I've made to help with xperia l internal memory shortage.
1. First one is the link2sd-enabler.zip: http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/UduJGjqJ/file.html.
For this to work you'll need a second partition on the external sdcard formated as ext4. So first partition is the vfat one, the second primary partition on the external sd card is the ext4 one. Currently I have a 8Gb ext4 second partition.
Installation procedure: prepare your external sdcard, flash the zip, install link2sd application.
2. Second is the 01link2sdmm: http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/9DSgorlH/file.html.
The link2sd application does not automatically link the oat directory of the application. This directory contains the compiled application in the form of an odex file. For big apps this file is pretty big. So this script will automatically link this directory to the sdcard second partition for the applications that are linked to the sdcard. This works in conjunction with the link2sd-enabler.zip script.
Installation procedure: put this script in the /etc/init.d directory with the proper permissions. This way it will run at boot. If you want to run this directly after you link an app you'll need to use automagic and make a rule to run this script after you exit the link2sd application.
Observations: This script is not needed if you switch the internal partitions because you'll have enough space to keep the odex file internally. It's your choice.
3. Third script is the mm-partition-swapper.zip: http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/eyRO7gLw/file.html.
This one will switch your sdcard and userdata partition on your current mm rom. This was tested on rr573 that I have installed, but it should work in other mm roms as well.
Installation procedure: Make sure you have enough space on the external sd card so the script will be able to save your current data partition files. Save the files that you need from your internal partition to your external sd card. Make a backup of your current rom from twrp in case something wrong happens. Format from TWRP the internal sd card as ext4. Flash the zip. If everything works ok then you'll have a rom with the internal partitions swapped and you'll have 4Gb of user data available (minus your space for the already installed apps).
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Very important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't try formatting the internal sdcard as ext4 with twrp version 3.0.2! It seems that his twrp version does not support this. I'm using twrp 2.8.7.0 by Barbarosa.
Observations: Twrp does not support backing up/restoring internal sd. If you swap partitions you'll have to backup your ext4 internal sd manually from within twrp connected through adb (with a simple tar command)
4. I think 256 ZRAM for the rr573 rom is too big so this zip will change this to 128MB:
mm-128Mb-zram.zip:http://www103.zippyshare.com/v/XjVAnXEl/file.html.
Please make a backup before flashing the swap zip and report if this worked for you.
Hope this helps,
Thanks.
cojocar.andrei said:
Hi guys,
1. First one is the link2sd-enabler.zip:
For this to work you'll need a second partition on the external sdcard formated as ext4. So first partition is the vfat one, the second primary partition on the external sd card is the ext4 one. Currently I have a 8Gb ext4 second partition.
Installation procedure: prepare your external sdcard, flash the zip, install link2sd application.
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I've been struggeling for quite some time to get the link2sd app working since I flashed MM.
I've done a clean install, flashed the zip, installed link2sd, but I still get a 'mount script error, Cannot create script, mount: no such file or directory.' Anyone got an idea what I do wrong?
thx!
mikelektro said:
I've been struggeling for quite some time to get the link2sd app working since I flashed MM.
I've done a clean install, flashed the zip, installed link2sd, but I still get a 'mount script error, Cannot create script, mount: no such file or directory.' Anyone got an idea what I do wrong?
thx!
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Check if you have in the /etc/init.d directory the 00link2sd script. For this script to work you need a rom with a working init.d (otherwise this won't work obviously...). If you have the script there, then check if you see a directory /data/sdext2 (if this directory is missing, but you have the 00link2sd script in the /etc/init.d directory, then this means you don't have init.d support in the rom). If you partition your sdcard correctly then the second ext4 partition of you sdcard should me mounted in the /data/sdext2 directory ... All these you need to check before installing the link2sd app...
Awesome! Thank you. I'll try this
cojocar.andrei said:
Check if you have in the /etc/init.d directory the 00link2sd script. For this script to work you need a rom with a working init.d (otherwise this won't work obviously...). If you have the script there, then check if you see a directory /data/sdext2 (if this directory is missing, but you have the 00link2sd script in the /etc/init.d directory, then this means you don't have init.d support in the rom). If you partition your sdcard correctly then the second ext4 partition of you sdcard should me mounted in the /data/sdext2 directory ... All these you need to check before installing the link2sd app...
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I have the init.d folder, but it seems the sdext2 folder was only created after I installed the link2sd app.
I tried doing it all over again, but it still doesnt work, same messages...
mikelektro said:
I have the init.d folder, but it seems the sdext2 folder was only created after I installed the link2sd app.
I tried doing it all over again, but it still doesnt work, same messages...
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Then your rom doesn't have init.d support. You need a kernel/rom (more precisely a ramdisk) with init.d support to use this ... The rr573 supports init.d ... Try it with this one ...
cojocar.andrei said:
Then your rom doesn't have init.d support. You need a kernel/rom (more precisely a ramdisk) with init.d support to use this ... The rr573 supports init.d ... Try it with this one ...
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Thx! Which do you recommend? I've tried several in the last two or three months. Now I'm running AOSP-OMS.
I ran slim, RR and CM 13 beta before without any problems, just the storage issue.
mikelektro said:
Thx! Which do you recommend? I've tried several in the last two or three months. Now I'm running AOSP-OMS.
I ran slim, RR and CM 13 beta before without any problems, just the storage issue.
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I've just told you. RR573. For a completely working camera on this one just replace a camera library... Search the rr thread...
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3. Third script is the mm-partition-swapper.zip: http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/eyRO7gLw/file.html.
This one will switch your sdcard and userdata partition on your current mm rom. This was tested on rr573 that I have installed, but it should work in other mm roms as well.
Installation procedure: Make sure you have enough space on the external sd card so the script will be able to save your current data partition files. Save the files that you need from your internal partition to your external sd card. Make a backup of your current rom from twrp in case something wrong happens. Format from TWRP the internal sd card as ext4. Flash the zip. If everything works ok then you'll have a rom with the internal partitions swapped and you'll have 4Gb of user data available (minus your space for the already installed apps).
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I use rom AOSP OMS . file zip working?
Brick and problem other ?
Thx you building script .
Thx advanced
I am on stryflex MM ROM and TWRP 3.0.2.
I formatted internal storage as ext4, then flashed mm-partition-swapper.zip.
Says that there is no ext4fs partition and I tried reboot recovery and my phone is dead now, can't turn it on...
I don't blame you, I blame myself for trying. But please help. Flashtool doesn't recognize flash mode.
Don't use this method. Not safe.
Option58 said:
I am on stryflex MM ROM and TWRP 3.0.2.
I formatted internal storage as ext4, then flashed mm-partition-swapper.zip.
Says that there is no ext4fs partition and I tried reboot recovery and my phone is dead now, can't turn it on...
I don't blame you, I blame myself for trying. But please help. Flashtool doesn't recognize flash mode.
Don't use this method. Not safe.
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Sorry to hear this. If the script gave you this error then the script did nothing to your phone. It just aborted the procedure because it did not find the sdcard formated as ext4. It must be the twrp version. I'm using twrp 2.8.7.0 by barbarosa. I think twrp 3.0.2 does not support formatting the internal sdcard as ext4. Most pobably the twrp version 3.0.2 formated something else as ext4 or whatever instead of internal sd... I did not know this. Sorry again...
Try to search the brick threads. If you still have a blue light when in flashmode I think you still have a chance to resurect it...
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I've modified the post to warn people of this twrp version. So, people, use only twrp 2.8.x.x to format the internal sdcard. I'm using 2.8.7.0 twrp version by Barbarosa. I don't know if other twrp versions support ext4 on internal sdcard.
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Thanks for the solutions. So now if I only need to swap internal sd and /data, i just need to flash 3rd script? I'm quite confusing about partitioning and memory stuffs
newguyknowsnothing said:
Thanks for the solutions. So now if I only need to swap internal sd and /data, i just need to flash 3rd script? I'm quite confusing about partitioning and memory stuffs
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You have to have twrp 2.8.7.0, then format internal sdcard as ext4 (wipe settings) and then flash the zip...
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Yes, formatting internalSD as ext4 is tricky. My recovery was broken. Probably formatted something else. It wasn't your script.
However I have no volume up button on my phone (fell out) - no fastboot. And just volume down button (flash mode) and a somewhat broken USB cable. Phone not recognized by flashtool at all...
cojocar.andrei said:
You have to have twrp 2.8.7.0, then format internal sdcard as ext4 (wipe settings) and then flash the zip...
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Ok thanks! One more question, If I somewhat want to undo this, I need to back up the current MM rom before flashing the script? Will the internal sd and /data automtically be swapped back when I restore the back up?
newguyknowsnothing said:
Ok thanks! One more question, If I somewhat want to undo this, I need to back up the current MM rom before flashing the script? Will the internal sd and /data automtically be swapped back when I restore the back up?
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After swapping the partitions your old backups of the rom will not work anymore (or probably they would just revert the swapping. Anyway if you want to restore a backup that's been done prior to swap it's better to format back by hand the internal sdcard to vfat and data to ext4)
For backing up a rom with swapped partitions you'll have to select the sdcard instead of data partition in the backup options... I did not try it yet...
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Option58 said:
Yes, formatting internalSD as ext4 is tricky. My recovery was broken. Probably formatted something else. It wasn't your script.
However I have no volume up button on my phone (fell out) - no fastboot. And just volume down button (flash mode) and a somewhat broken USB cable. Phone not recognized by flashtool at all...
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I don't know, sorry. You have to search the brick threads...
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I ran the the link2sd enabler script on my rr573, works like a charm now.
Thank you so much, I needed this!
Didn't swapped the storages yet.
The dream is real!
Congratulations.
Seeking a long time for a script like mm-partition-swapper.zip
Before seeing your post, I had already made the formatting of SD0 (ext4) to try to install Link2SD to work with SD0 without work.
I used the TWRP 3.0.2.
I could easy return the partition to FAT.
I intend to make a clean installation of ROM on my device to then install your mm-partition-swapper.zip script.
As both the "DATA" as SD0 are empty you still think need to format with TWRP 2.8.7?
No way to change this script without the data transfer?
Only formatting partitions and inverted mounts?
If not necessary then ok...but... please clear this my doubts.
Again without getting tired ... very thank you even for your script.