A2SD Works, but only on Market downloads?

[Guest Rich Cranney]

Hi there,

I'm currently using MCR r3 and have installed A2SD+ with an Ext 3 partition.

When I install apps from the Market, they download fine and install to the ext3 partition I have created and the Internal Storage memory on my phone stays at 130mb

When I install something like Navigon from a manual APK file, it installs but seems to go on the Internal Memory as it decreases to 111mb and when looking at the size of the install, it is 19.xx mb big.

Is anyone aware why this happens? Is it the A2SD+ ? Should I use A2SD on its own?

I've tried using and ext2 and ext4 partition also, but have the same issue, just wondered if anyone else had the problem.

[Guest jdouce]

reboot and check again :)

[Guest Rich Cranney]

reboot and check again :)

Aww, was thinking that would sort it, but it made no difference ;)

[Guest Rich Cranney]

Aww, was thinking that would sort it, but it made no difference :)

Has anyone else who has A2SD tried this? Is everyone else ok and its just me or has nobody noticed this yet? Can you let me know...

[Guest jdouce]

you coupld just manually move them from /data/apps to /system/sd/apps

[Guest afiorillo]

Has anyone else who has A2SD tried this? Is everyone else ok and its just me or has nobody noticed this yet? Can you let me know...

If /data/app is redirected to /system/sd/app, as of A2SD' work, there's no way for your APK to fill up the main memory.

You can check out that by issuing:

adb shell ls -l /data/app

You should see something like this:

lrwxrwxrwx	1 0		0			   14 May 14 14:08 /data/app -> /system/sd/app

Edited May 18, 2010 by afiorillo

[Guest pina]

some programs uses the phone memory to install, whether you have A2SD or not, f.e. navigon

Edited May 18, 2010 by pina

[Guest lbretth]

I have the same problem. I've got a 1Gb EXT3 partition which seems to be working fine. Symlinks for /data/app and /data/app-private are setup ok and I do have a lot of apps installed. However it still shows that I only have 18Mb of internal memory free. This is really annoying. Is there a way to fix this?

[Guest Rich Cranney]

you coupld just manually move them from /data/apps to /system/sd/apps

I could do that, but its pretty annoying having to do this everytime I need to install something

If /data/app is redirected to /system/sd/app, as of A2SD' work, there's no way for your APK to fill up the main memory.

You can check out that by issuing:

adb shell ls -l /data/app

You should see something like this:

lrwxrwxrwx	1 0		0			   14 May 14 14:08 /data/app -> /system/sd/app

I do see that, so that would mean it is working correctly yes? Yet when I install an APK from my memory card, it installs it to internal memory

some programs uses the phone memory to install, whether you have A2SD or not, f.e. navigon

Hmm, not always true, if I install Navigon from the market, it uses A2SD and installs on the memory card. If I use the APK, it installs to internal memory

I have the same problem. I've got a 1Gb EXT3 partition which seems to be working fine. Symlinks for /data/app and /data/app-private are setup ok and I do have a lot of apps installed. However it still shows that I only have 18Mb of internal memory free. This is really annoying. Is there a way to fix this?

Yes, this is same problem as me. I don't know if its just with Modaco rom or whether its a wider problem. Have you tried other roms and had the same problem?

Edited May 18, 2010 by Rich Cranney

[Guest boge]

Hmm, not always true, if I install Navigon from the market, it uses A2SD and installs on the memory card. If I use the APK, it installs to internal memory

Are you sure that the APK that you installed from sdcard is EXACTLY the same with the one that you install from the market?

[Guest Rich Cranney]

Are you sure that the APK that you installed from sdcard is EXACTLY the same with the one that you install from the market?

Yes, but its not just this APK, its a number of different ones.

Would that make a difference though as I would have thought when the apk file is installing, it would look to see where the install directory is and as that is redirected to the sd card, it would just push it there instead?

[Guest Rich Cranney]

you coupld just manually move them from /data/apps to /system/sd/apps

I was actually thinking about this just now, is there a way we can automate this on the phone? Say I run a script and it pushes everything from /data/apps to /system/sd/apps?

I have terminal on my phone, but was just wondering whether it was possible to do it within the phone or if I would have to do it via the computer?

[Guest Rich Cranney]

Don't know if this helps but I've found the following directories aren't mapped to the sd card...

/data/app-private

/data/app-cache

Is this a problem? If so, how can we push this to the memory card? is there a way?

[Guest afiorillo]

Don't know if this helps but I've found the following directories aren't mapped to the sd card...

/data/app-private

/data/app-cache

Is this a problem? If so, how can we push this to the memory card? is there a way?

So, that's the explanation to your issue: paid apps downloaded from the Market go to /data/app-private; if this directory isn't redirected to the SD card, here's your behaviour.

Search this room for PaulW21781's "update" (not "fresh"!) A2SD script and flash it (if you dare, given the rate of usb-bricking related deaths). It's strange that not all the directories are redirected for you.