A2SD problems

[Guest Naruc]

Hi

I know this has been posted b4, and I have read the earlier posts and tried the solutions there

I am running Modaco 3.0 on my hero with a 8 GB class 6 transend sdhc micro card...

its partitioned with a 7.5 (about) gb FAT32 partition and a 544 MB EXT3 partition

This was set up with partitions before I isntalled the Custom ROM from Modaco

After read some posts here and on XDA I figured out so mutch that it now should run the Applications on the SD card

Did a "adb shell ls -l /data/app"

I got this result

"lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 14 May 6 1980 /data/app -> /system/sd/app"

also did try to do folowing

adb shell

su

busybox df -h

busybox cp -a /data/data system/sd/

rebooted to recovery

mount data

rm -rf /data/data

ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data

but when continiued installing some apps the internal memory still went down its now on 108 MB

Please advice if posible, sorry for posting this in a new thread instead of bumping the old ones

Edited December 20, 2009 by Naruc

[Guest venturerider]

The first time you start up a new app, a new virtual machine is created for that app in the dalvik cache. That cache sits in internal memory (/data/dalvik-cache). That is probably why you are seeing the internal memory going down when you install new apps.

[Guest kendon]

and please search before posting, this has been covered multiple times. if you search you will find a very detailed explanation what the dalvik vm does, it is here on the board somewhere.

[Guest Naruc]

Yeah, I know, and as I wrote in my post, reason why I didnt post there was that I didnt want to bump any posts that where old...

So when I move the apps to the SD card the internal memory will still go down... I read posts where ppl has gotten a unstabel and even slow phone when moving the dalvik-chache to SD card... so I figured out that that might be a bad idea.. any truth in that?

if you guys want me to continiue this in another thread, I can do that... Just know that alot of forums is not that happy about old threads being bumped up again...

[Guest venturerider]

Why are you so concerned with internal memory? It is not the same as RAM. You don't need any great amount of internal memory to run your already installed apps. Unless you have so many apps that you can't run any additional ones?

Word is the performance hit with moving the dalvik cache to SD would not be so bad if you are using a Class 6 card.

[Guest kendon]

i have about 230 apps installed, this is what df -h says:

Filesystem				Size	  Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs					95.8M		 0	 95.8M   0% /dev

tmpfs					 4.0M		 0	  4.0M   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals

/dev/block/mtdblock3	170.0M	132.6M	 37.4M  78% /system

/dev/block/mtdblock5	165.8M	137.4M	 28.3M  83% /data

/dev/block/mtdblock4	130.0M	  1.5M	128.5M   1% /cache

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2	457.9M	222.3M	211.1M  51% /system/sd

/dev/block//vold/179:1

						  7.1G	  2.3G	  4.8G  33% /sdcard

still not full, and i don't claim that i need all these apps. so if it should run out of space i can just delete some of them...

sure there is a limit, but i think it is high enough for not having to worry about internal storage. ram is different, but since it is a linux os there is also no need to worry when free ram is going down, since the os won't free it unless it is requested and needed...

edit: you can free up a little bit by wiping dalvik-cache. i reclaimed 1 mb ;) first boot after wiping dalvik-cache takes a while, be patient.

Edited December 20, 2009 by kendon

[Guest Naruc]

I am not to conserned about the space, but want a phone that are as fast and stable as posible

What setup would you recomend ?

[Guest lemmingzappa]

I am not to conserned about the space, but want a phone that are as fast and stable as posible

What setup would you recomend ?

From what i've gathered so far, apps will run quickest from the internal memory. But the next best thing is running the apps from a class 6 card (the advantage being more space).

[Guest kendon]

I am not to conserned about the space, but want a phone that are as fast and stable as posible

What setup would you recomend ?

mcr with ext partition works fine. go for it.

[Guest clarkEEE1]

I have never noticed any differance in moving davlik to sd never had lag running apps with the latest rom and kernal I have moved allmy caches to sd infact using ta utility everything runs smooth.

[Guest Naruc]

mcr with ext partition works fine. go for it.

Ok I am a Newbie... whut is MCR?

[Guest Dan Mullen]

Ok I am a Newbie... whut is MCR?

MoDaCo Custom ROM ;)

[Guest Naruc]

Ofcourse... doh, ok I see my own stupidity now...

[Guest Dan Mullen]

Ofcourse... doh, ok I see my own stupidity now...

;) No worries