So i have an LG tribute, actually a pretty good budget phone, but i have on major issue with it. 1.5gb of space. I can't deal with that, and no matter how big my sd card is, apps save to the phone itself. I decided to fix this by getting link2sd and creating a partition on my sd card. Once that was over, i booted up link2sd, and it gave me a choice of which partition i was using. No matter which one i put, when the phone rebooted, it gave me the same prompt. I can't get link2sd to mount my 16gb sd card's partition. Could anyone explain why this is happening. Im a bit new to the android scene, i'm rooted though if that helps.
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hey everyone. so if i partition the internal sd card what exactly am i doing? from what i understand, the g2x has 8gb onboard, 1.5 of that is for apps, and 5 goes to user data. the rest i assume is for android?
so if i create a 2gb partition on the internal sd, what am i changing and what does it do to the rest of the space? do i need to create the other partitions in windows later and format them?
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Ok, let me try to explain this one...
In three words, Don't Do It!!!
Your internal sd card is pretty much just that, it's a storage card built onto the phone itself. Now it is already partitioned, and allot!
Not only does this one physical card hold your "internal sd card" contents but it also holds your ROM, cache, all your apps, and even your recovery!
Even though it looks like these are separate drives they are all one physical card, your internal sd card.
Now if you try to add to this mix of partitions on this internal card you run the VERY HIGH risk of messing up the lines and sizes of these partitions. Many things in Android assume that some of these are a certain size or at a certain place, and if you mess with it all hell brakes lose!
Now people sometimes partition the external sd card because they want 2 different file types, like half fat32 (like a normal sd card) and half ext4/3 for apps it use in Linux.
Hope this helps!!!
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ok, well then i guess my question is more along the lines of why do we have that option in CWM Recovery and if i create a 2gb partition what happens? does it change the default 1.5gb partition so you have more room for apps?
dodgefan67 said:
ok, well then i guess my question is more along the lines of why do we have that option in CWM Recovery and if i create a 2gb partition what happens? does it change the default 1.5gb partition so you have more room for apps?
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I'm honestly not sure, I've only ever messed with these partitions manually when unbricking my phone. So if you do it, you have a fairly good chance of bricking the phone, but i don't know how Android will react.
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thanks, i was just curious, since CWM gives us the option, but ive never done it and until i can find a good reason to i probably won't even mess with it
but it just seems kind of bad having 5gb on the internal card going to waste, i have backups to my external sd, all my data is there too, so i probably won't even touch that 5gb...
Just be glad it's not the other way around
Ill take too much space over not enough any day!
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well true, but still would like to know exactly what happens if you choose to run that in CWM Recovery
seek and ye shall find
found a guide for CWM and from what i see that option puts a partition on your external sd card so it can be used to install apps on IF the rom supports that. it says it does wipe everything else off the card though so you need to make a backup. you can also put a swap partition on it as well
looks like it does not touch the internal sd card phone memory which is what i thought it did
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
Hi guys Really need some help...recently my device kept giving me problems such as mount a sd..even though i already have and sd card...
until 1 day i decide to format the sd card and delete everything in it...And put it back on my device...Funny things is my device still detects those files that ive deleted...any idea whats wrong ?
I think there is a partition in the table that looks as another sd
bonico said:
I think there is a partition in the table that looks as another sd
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I agree with this. The SD card is likely partitioned into several (at least two) partitions, and at least one of them still has the files you are seeing. I would open the card up in windows and see what you get. If you only get one mounted partition in Windows, go ahead and open the Admin Tools/Computer Management / Storage and you will likely see a previously hidden partition there that you can then remove, prior to reformatting the whole card.
Often these weird partitions are the result of the card manufacturers wanting a special partition for their "value added" software that comes on the card. Usually this is crapware, and the strangely formatted cards can cause problems just like what you are seeing. I've had this very problem with some offbrand thing I bought at OfficeMax, that came with "one click backup software" and it took me a while to figure out how to exorcise this demon.
Marc
I suggest only formatting your external sdcard as fat32. If there are still references to old files, you could also try formatting your cache partition.
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I agree with this. The SD card is likely partitioned into several (at least two) partitions, and at least one of them still has the files you are seeing. I would open the card up in windows and see what you get. If you only get one mounted partition in Windows, go ahead and open the Admin Tools/Computer Management / Storage and you will likely see a previously hidden partition there that you can then remove, prior to reformatting the whole card.
Often these weird partitions are the result of the card manufacturers wanting a special partition for their "value added" software that comes on the card. Usually this is crapware, and the strangely formatted cards can cause problems just like what you are seeing. I've had this very problem with some offbrand thing I bought at OfficeMax, that came with "one click backup software" and it took me a while to figure out how to exorcise this demon.
Marc
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I downloaded and i.stalled link2sd and bought the Plus version. Formatted my sd
Card with aparted. Made it fat 32 1st partition And the 2nd way ext4 and it
worked fine. I couldnt move apps2sd but it said i could use
link. Which i linked all my apps. When i restart my phone. It does
not load the partition on the sd card with all my apps on it so
my phone looks empty unless I remount link2sd every time.
And after I do remount I have to reboot again and it loads the 2nd partition.
And even when it finally loads the right thing. I have 1g of internal and 7g
of external space. But when i try to play say clash of clans when its linked. It wont
even get past the first black screen, google chrome wont even load up the home
page or anything. So I unlinked everything and now it runs seemless. i really could use
help with making this work cause I have 1.5g internal storage and its useless.
siyksoul said:
I downloaded and i.stalled link2sd and bought the Plus version. Formatted my sd
Card with aparted. Made it fat 32 1st partition And the 2nd way ext4 and it
worked fine. I couldnt move apps2sd but it said i could use
link. Which i linked all my apps. When i restart my phone. It does
not load the partition on the sd card with all my apps on it so
my phone looks empty unless I remount link2sd every time.
And after I do remount I have to reboot again and it loads the 2nd partition.
And even when it finally loads the right thing. I have 1g of internal and 7g
of external space. But when i try to play say clash of clans when its linked. It wont
even get past the first black screen, google chrome wont even load up the home
page or anything. So I unlinked everything and now it runs seemless. i really could use
help with making this work cause I have 1.5g internal storage and its useless.
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This may be a stupid question, but when you first set up link2sd and it asked you what partition you wanted to use you did choose ext4 right? And when you used Aparted you left enough space on 2nd partition? Sounds like something went wrong when first setting up link2sd. Might want to unlink everything, clear all caches, redownload it and start over. Then just link 1 app, reboot and see if it works. I set mine up with Aparted too and never had a problem.
Got a Tab10DUALC Sunstech tablet (RK3066 chip, 8 GB Flash NAND).
As I started to install some apps it quickly became out of space, checking storage settings I found out that internal storage was about 1gb full and Nand flash 5.26gb free.
So I started to search how to root it and after a lot of trials and errors I got to flash CWM and root it.
Now, I wanted to make a partition out of that 5gb non used space but when I tried that with CWM recovery (advanced, partition) despite having doing it correctly, when the tab restarted it all reseted back to the way it was, this is, no ext2 or whatever.
I've tried just about everything, Link2SD tells me there's no SD CARD 2nd Part. I went to recovery and mounted USB and tried partition it with Mini Tool Partition Wizard and while succeed, when restarting, the tab reported bad SD so made me reformat (Link2SD reported unmountable 2nd Part) so it all came back to the way before, no partition.
Could it be some safe measure or something that doesn't allow me to get this partitioned? I've tried just about everything and can't come up with any other ideas. I mean, I don't want to use my only mini SD card if I can help it, I just don't understand why I can't use that extra 5gb while running out of space on the internal memory.
I also tried moving a few apps to SD and got all kind of errors like not loading.
Thanks for any idea on how to fix this.
Got a Tab10DUALC Sunstech tablet (RK3066 chip, 8 GB Flash NAND).
As I started to install some apps it quickly became out of space, checking storage settings I found out that internal storage was about 1gb full and Nand flash 5.26gb free.
So I started to search how to root it and after a lot of trials and errors I got to flash CWM and root it.
Now, I wanted to make a partition out of that 5gb non used space but when I tried that with CWM recovery (advanced, partition) despite having doing it correctly, when the tab restarted it all reseted back to the way it was, this is, no ext2 or whatever.
I've tried just about everything, Link2SD tells me there's no SD CARD 2nd Part. I went to recovery and mounted USB and tried partition it with Mini Tool Partition Wizard and while succeed, when restarting, the tab reported bad SD so made me reformat (Link2SD reported unmountable 2nd Part) so it all came back to the way before, no partition.
Could it be some safe measure or something that doesn't allow me to get this partitioned? I've tried just about everything and can't come up with any other ideas. I mean, I don't want to use my only mini SD card if I can help it, I just don't understand why I can't use that extra 5gb while running out of space on the internal memory.
I also tried moving a few apps to SD and got all kind of errors like not loading.
Hello,
Try posting your question in the forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.