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External to Internal sd swap

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Updated 8/17/13
This is for everyone that wants more internal memory for apps and games (that's if you have a large ext-sd like 32gb or 64 gb). I have noticed alot of people need the app to sd feature but can't use that anymore because google seems to think we don't need it LOL. Please follow all instructions.
EDIT: I found a video that will show you how to swap your apps and games to sd and it's very simple. You will be able to get your internal space back and play games and use apps stored on extsd.
EDIT 2: trazfer says that the foldermount app isn't very user friendly and he recomends using GL to SD (root) from the play store here is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
I'm leaving the YouTube video below for people to have two options which ever one works out best for that person.
Thanks to trazfer for the report :thumbup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj35r8cDW2k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
DISCLAIMER: You are responsible for what you do to your device not XDA or any of the app developers I linked to nor am I.
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Wow! Over a hundred views and not one thanks or comment. Is this not working for anyone? I'm enjoying the use of more internal space.
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It didnt work for me
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krazyace35 said:
MUST BE ROOTED
This is for everyone that wants more internal memory for apps and games (that's if you have a large ext-sd like 32gb or 64 gb). I have noticed alot of people need the app to sd feature but can't use that anymore because google seems to think we don't need it LOL. Here's what I did! I went here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933849 and downloaded this app to get init.d support (must have init.d support). Install busybox by Stericson from the play store and run busybox let the app load after smart install is loaded choose install and then normal install (do not choose smart install) then reboot. If you have the Uni-init v1.0.apk downloaded from the first link I posted just install it run the app choose activate when finished choose verify it should say success then just reboot. Go to second link below and install the Root External 2 Internal SD app and run it. Please follow all the instructions on play store for that app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext Please follow all instructions. After doing all of the above you can use your external sd as main storage. Enjoy
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Thank you for this. I will try this later and post feedback! :good:

It is also not working for me. it only shows 8 GB internal and 5 GB external although i have 32 GB extsdcard installed...

batman08 said:
It is also not working for me. it only shows 8 GB internal and 5 GB external although i have 32 GB extsdcard installed...
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OP updated!
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trazfer said:
It didnt work for me
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OP Updated yesterday! Should work for everyone let me know if it doesn't I will find another way.
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Did this work ok for anyone?
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Well foldermount is not user friendly. I find out GL to SD card(root) is much better and user friendly thanks btw
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trazfer said:
Well foldermount is not user friendly. I find out GL to SD card(root) is much better and user friendly thanks btw
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Thanks! I will add that to the OP.
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Now that we have CWM and a functional ROM can we move apps to the sd card
idk im wondering if this is possible ?

GL to SD
Some apps do work where you can transfer to sd card but some apps you can't, it's pretty cool for big games like asphalt

is this applicable in SM-T210? coz mine says my device doesnt support app2sd.

Moving app to SD functionality is built into my GTab 8.0

nykie29 said:
is this applicable in SM-T210? coz mine says my device doesnt support app2sd.
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I have the same issue issue as this gentleman, my SM-210R is not supported by app2sd. Is there any other way to transfer the apps on a rooted device?
thanks

fardok said:
I have the same issue issue as this gentleman, my SM-210R is not supported by app2sd. Is there any other way to transfer the apps on a rooted device?
thanks
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Sir. i have found a way to fix this issue that doesn't let us move apps to SD. i have found this Foldermount application which puts the Data or Obb files or anyfile in my Internal Storage into my SD Card Storage. if you still need a fix to this issue i may upload it here.

nykie29 said:
Sir. i have found a way to fix this issue that doesn't let us move apps to SD. i have found this Foldermount application which puts the Data or Obb files or anyfile in my Internal Storage into my SD Card Storage. if you still need a fix to this issue i may upload it here.
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Please do, this would help the community.

Foldermount is in the play store.
But if you need to mount more than 3 folders, you will have to pay
Still a great app. (I paid for the app)

[Q] [solved] ): where can I find the apk file I installed ??

I want to send the apk file on my friends mobile via Bluetooth ..
I can't find the apk files
Is these files are in my second partition if so ..! Then how I can find that ... ?? I am using
Cm10.1 ... And SD card having both fat32 partition.

sultan arshad said:
I want to send the apk file on my friends mobile via Bluetooth ..
I can't find the apk files
Is these files are in my second partition if so ..! Then how I can find that ... ?? I am using
Cm10.1 ... And SD card having both fat32 partition.
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we can`t know where you putted your apks,the default folder must be downloads,connect phone at pc and search them..

If you want to send apk of installed app, maybe you've to search in /system/app but i've never tried if it works
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darrrio said:
If you want to send apk of installed app, maybe you've to search in /system/app but i've never tried if it works
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No this directory for system app only. Can't find the user apps I installed from play store
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sultan arshad said:
I want to send the apk file on my friends mobile via Bluetooth ..
I can't find the apk files
Is these files are in my second partition if so ..! Then how I can find that ... ?? I am using
Cm10.1 ... And SD card having both fat32 partition.
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Here's a better way:
Use an app like "App Backup & Restore" from the Playstore. It will copy the apks to a folder on your SD card. You can then use a File Explorer to send those apks via Bluetooth. :good:

Try finding it in CM file manager.
I hope you find it!

immortalneo said:
Here's a better way:
Use an app like "App Backup & Restore" from the Playstore. It will copy the apks to a folder on your SD card. You can then use a File Explorer to send those apks via Bluetooth. :good:
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Hmm. Good but. I don't have enough memory : then what ?? I mean. I want to know that wheres the apk files actually place when I installed and after linking to SD card by link2sd :banghead:

Mordec13 said:
Try finding it in CM file manager.
I hope you find it!
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this isn't help full I just want to know the actual directory

sultan arshad said:
this isn't help full I just want to know the actual directory
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Try searching for it using a root explorer mate. :good:

(Requires root) open root explorer
Click home from options
It is in data/app :thumbup:
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Why can't your friend just install it from the play store?
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User applications are stored in /data/app
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sultan arshad said:
this isn't help full I just want to know the actual directory
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All your app's installed and linked using Link2SD are saved into your second partition you created as fake internal ram. This second partition is either EXT2 or EXT3, Linux format.

Thank all for replying :thumbup:

I find. The apk files. :thumbup:

najaboy said:
Why can't your friend just install it from the play store?
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Haha . His data plan exceed limit
But now find the apks thanks for answering :thumbup:

sultan arshad said:
Haha . His data plan exceed limit
But now find the apks thanks for answering :thumbup:
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Good to see u have found a solution! Now your friend can install them too. But I do hope u keep in mind that sharing apks of paid apps is illegal.
Please add [SOLVED] to the title of your post. :good:
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
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immortalneo said:
Good to see u have found a solution! Now your friend can install them too. But I do hope u keep in mind that sharing apks of paid apps is illegal.
Please add [SOLVED] to the title of your post. :good:
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
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Yeah I know. that's illegal and I am not sharing a paid app I just wanna know as I asked before. well thanks for your attention :thumbup:
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Help, accidentally deleted people app

Hi friends, I was trying a mod to get facebook to sync my contacts which required me to delete contact storage and replce contacts provider.apk in system/priv-app but after rebooting I was getting 'com.android.systemui has stopped' error so i had to go into recovery mode and delete contacts app completely from 2-3 locations like data/data, system/app to get my phone working again but now I am getting force close when I open people app.
I tried installing gapps but it doesn't have people app built in, plz help. And I am currently travelling so I cannot download ROMs and extract files as was suggested somewhere.
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himanshujdr said:
And I am currently travelling so I cannot download ROMs and extract files as was suggested somewhere.
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Well you'll have to. Its best to flash an entire rom. Lesson learned here I think. Dont mod on the go.
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Lesson learned indeed but isn't there a gapps package with people app?
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himanshujdr said:
Lesson learned indeed but isn't there a gapps package with people app?
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No, system apps are all in the rom, not in Gapps.

Hi,
Try to flash the zip in attachment (wipe Dalvik cache just in case) for Contacts.apk. If you have not a custom recovery extract the file, move it to /system/priv-app, set the correct permissions like the other system apps (rw-r--r--) and reboot.
I gues you are deodexed? Because here it's deodexed...
You still have ContactsProvider.apk or not? I put it in the zip file, delete it if you still have it in /system/priv-app.
Or if you have moved it in another locaton, keep it in the zip but delete it on your phone.
The next time don't forget to make a backup...

Here's 442 stock odex of you need it

Thanks, the odex zip worked, it didn't flash but i pasted the 4 files n set permissions and it worked.
Thanks a lot
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Does the CM install remove the Moto G ringtoned? If so, how do I get them back?

I think the stock had specific ringtones but I'm not sure. I didn't use it for very long.
Ideally I would like to have both the motorola and CM ringtones available.
thank you

Custom roms remove the stock ringtones. I asked this question a while back but no one answered so I guess it isn't possible.

It is possible as far as I know, just copy them from the system folder and put them in the new one, give permissions and they should be there when you reboot
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Alexmessy said:
It is possible as far as I know, just copy them from the system folder and put them in the new one, give permissions and they should be there when you reboot
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Thanks for your reply. Could you clarify this? I couldn't find the system folder in the file explorer.

hechadnebiphyh said:
Thanks for your reply. Could you clarify this? I couldn't find the system folder in the file explorer.
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do you have root? you'll need for accessing those files.
system root > system> media
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Found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540884
Inside you can find the downloads for the stock ringtones in case you already installed CM or dont have root. (MEGA link works fine)

Errrr.... FYI you can read /system.... Just copy the files. You can't modify however. (Without root)
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Pinned Music after Flashing

Just wondering if there's any workaround to this but obviously, whenever flashing a fresh new rom and fully wiping the phone, all music pinned to Google Play Music becomes unpinned and have to be repinned again which can be annoying if you're a rom junkie. I used to move around on roms more frequently but my library is just too big now and switching roms becomes this huge task.
I was just wondering if there was anyway at all to keep pinned music on Google Play Music on the phone after clean flashing a new rom? (Other than moving the music manually to the phone via USB ofc, I still want to use the cloud).
Thanks in advance.

Are you not restoring a titanium backup??
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rootSU said:
Are you not restoring a titanium backup??
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Restoring through TB doesn't restore the pinned tracks I don't think. I haven't tried that in a while but the short amount of time it takes to back up Google Play Music alone shows it doesn't work I think. Also, the back up size is much too small so I'm pretty sure that doesn't work :/

Oh does pinned mean "available offline"?
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rootSU said:
Oh does pinned mean "available offline"?
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Yeah that's what I mean. Making the music I have uploaded on my account available offline by pinning them and keeping that from rom to rom.

Where does it store it?
Maybe titaniums "backup external data" covers it?
If Not, I could probably write you a couple of bash shell scripts to run that would move it to and from /sdcard but may aswell manually the data.
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rootSU said:
Where does it store it?
Maybe titaniums "backup external data" covers it?
If Not, I could probably write you a couple of bash shell scripts to run that would move it to and from /sdcard but may aswell manually the data.
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I just tried the external data preference and the backups are still only 7MB total which is farrrr to small consideirng i've pinned 10GB+ of music. Anyhow, the problem is the pinned music does not show up in plain sight on the internal storage so moving them manually isn't really an option. Google Play Music hides/encrpyts it somehow I guess. I would hate to make you go through that, I'm sure someone has found a solution to this already hahahah

The0Code said:
I just tried the external data preference and the backups are still only 7MB total which is farrrr to small consideirng i've pinned 10GB+ of music. Anyhow, the problem is the pinned music does not show up in plain sight on the internal storage so moving them manually isn't really an option. Google Play Music hides/encrpyts it somehow I guess. I would hate to make you go through that, I'm sure someone has found a solution to this already hahahah
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Meh, it's easier than you think
I just pinned some music.
The files are not encrypted By the way.
They're stored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
Also the fact they're pinned is stored in a data base table data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/music.db in the "keepon" table
Im not sure if titanium backs up the databases but a simple set of scripts would be
Backup
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/* /sdcard/playbackup/music
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/* /sdcard/playbackup/databases
Restore
mv /sdcard/playbackup/music/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
mv /sdcard/playbackup/databases/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases
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rootSU said:
Meh, it's easier than you think
I just pinned some music.
The files are not encrypted By the way.
They're stored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
Also the fact they're pinned is stored in a data base table data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/music.db in the "keepon" table
Im not sure if titanium backs up the databases but a simple set of scripts would be
Backup
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/* /sdcard/playbackup/music
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/* /sdcard/playbackup/databases
Restore
mv /sdcard/playbackup/music/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
mv /sdcard/playbackup/databases/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases
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Well I'm sort of a noob when it comes to the deeper parts of android like writing scripts lol How would you suggest I go about this? Looking at music.db, it's 7MB which is the same size as the TB backup that was made so maybe TB IS the answer? hahah not even sure at this point...

You need the files too though. Not just the database
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rootSU said:
You need the files too though. Not just the database
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So this is basically impossible I guess? Sorry for all the questions! lol

The0Code said:
So this is basically impossible I guess? Sorry for all the questions! lol
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No, it's possible like I said. You just move the database and the files to the sdcard, flash a ROM then move it back
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rootSU said:
No, it's possible like I said. You just move the database and the files to the sdcard, flash a ROM then move it back
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Not quite able to copy it, not getting the option.

The0Code said:
Not quite able to copy it, not getting the option.
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Thats just your choice of file manager. I've moved the files out and back using root explorer. I've played them from the sdcard too. I've proved the concept. You just need to test for yourself and see what works best for you
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Here are some scripts. Really basic
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgbok8hlze0w2zq/ScriptManager.zip
Unzip them wherever and run them with script manager. You'll need give the scripts root permissions within script manager. It's free on play
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rootSU said:
Thats just your choice of file manager. I've moved the files out and back using root explorer. I've played them from the sdcard too. I've proved the concept. You just need to test for yourself and see what works best for you
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Here are some scripts. Really basic
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgbok8hlze0w2zq/ScriptManager.zip
Unzip them wherever and run them with script manager. You'll need give the scripts root permissions within script manager. It's free on play
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I am not using online Google music at all but what you did there is really good ?
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