Installed FLB mod 1.1 but apps2sd doesn't seem to be working ?

[Guest RJ84]

I've tried searching the forums but what I'm finding is too complicated for me(I'm surprised I was able to install the mod without destroying my phone!)

The problem is that the apps I'm installing are going to the internal phone memory and not the sd card.

I'm certain I've done everything right concerning installing the flb mod.

I just need to know what to do to make the apps/games go to the sd card ?

This seems to be the solution but i have some questions about it;

A2SD is enabled but my free space is still going down

Note: If you apply Darktremor Apps2SD and still notice internal storage is decreasing, this is due to the dalvik-cache not being moved. By default, Darktremor Apps2SD will not move the dalvik-cache on boot.

If you want to move the dalvik-cache to the sd card, type:

a2sd cachesd (move dalvik to sd card)

Make sure your SD card is at least a class 4 before doing this, otherwise you may run into performance issues, unless you move the dalvik to the cache partition.

You still have other caches (i.e. Browser caches) and other data being stored and updated in internal storage, so the number of free space will continue to drop, but at a slower rate (unless you are engage in heavy web surfing, tweeting or facebook socializing.)

Is Darktremor included in the mod or do i have to download it ?

Do i move davlik or cache or both ?

Where and how do i type 'a2sd cachesd' ?

Please help and thanks :(

[Guest Simon O]

A2SD is installed and enabled by default. Your free space will go down due to having dalvik on the device. This will leave you with around 40MB which will decrease as time goes on. This is absolutely normal and older versions of A2SD didn't even report this correctly which gave the impression of always having space. As you can expect, this caused problems.

To type any commands for a2sd you need to open the terminal application and type them in there. Make sure you become superuser FIRST by entering 'su' without commas first and press return.

[Guest RJ84]

A2SD is installed and enabled by default. Your free space will go down due to having dalvik on the device. This will leave you with around 40MB which will decrease as time goes on. This is absolutely normal and older versions of A2SD didn't even report this correctly which gave the impression of always having space. As you can expect, this caused problems.

To type any commands for a2sd you need to open the terminal application and type them in there. Make sure you become superuser FIRST by entering 'su' without commas first and press return.

First of all let me let me apologise for these questions;

how do I open the terminal application and where is it ?(is it the terminal emulator ?)

And I enter su where ?

Sorry, as you may be able to tell I'm not very technically aware! :(

[Guest RJ84]

I think I've done that right.

But does the fact that my internal phone memory has gone down by 3.5Mb after installing maps and voice search mean apps2sd is working correctly or not ?

[Guest Simon O]

First of all let me let me apologise for these questions;

how do I open the terminal application and where is it ?(is it the terminal emulator ?)

And I enter su where ?

Sorry, as you may be able to tell I'm not very technically aware! :(

Load Terminal Emulator

Type

su

then press return. A box called Superuser Request will pop up. Click Allow. Now type

a2sd check

and press return. This will give you the current status of a2sd on your phone. If you want to move dalvik-cache to your SD card then you need to be 100% sure your card is at least a Class 4 card or even a Class 6. If you are sure then type

a2sd cachesd

and press return. Allow it to do it's thing and the phone may reboot after.

[Guest RJ84]

Thanks for replies so far

99.9% certain I have done everything right but still losing phone storage to apps

[Guest RJ84]

I did this;

Type

CODE

su

then press return. A box called Superuser Request will pop up. Click Allow.

Now type

CODE

a2sd check

and press return. This will give you the current status of a2sd on your phone. If you want to move dalvik-cache to your SD card then you need to be 100% sure your card is at least a Class 4 card or even a Class 6. If you are sure then type

CODE

a2sd cachesd

and press return. Allow it to do it's thing and the phone may reboot after.

a couple more times and suddenly my phones memory went up to 69Mb(from 40Mb), strange, but now all the apps/games seem to be going to the SD card! :)

Thanks for the help

Edited August 1, 2010 by RJ84

[Guest totiadrenalin]

I did this;

Type

CODE

su

then press return. A box called Superuser Request will pop up. Click Allow.

Now type

CODE

a2sd check

and press return. This will give you the current status of a2sd on your phone. If you want to move dalvik-cache to your SD card then you need to be 100% sure your card is at least a Class 4 card or even a Class 6. If you are sure then type

CODE

a2sd cachesd

and press return. Allow it to do it's thing and the phone may reboot after.

a couple more times and suddenly my phones memory went up to 69Mb(from 40Mb), strange, but now all the apps/games seem to be going to the SD card! :)

Thanks for the help

You can do it other way.

su

busybox df -h

If you don't see a row that has /system/sd on it then the process didn't pick up your SDCard. I'd suggest you to re-install / re-format the card.

Next if you didn't perform a wipe we'll move the data over, run these cmds either via terminal / adb shell:

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

busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/ (optional)

busybox cp -a /data/data /system/sd/ (optional)

The last two cmds here are optional (they are to move the cache for each app) & some have reported issues when copying these over so if you are having issues I would leave these on the /data partition.

Once your done with the above, power off your phone

Reboot into Recovery mode.

Next enter these cmds:

mount data

rm -rf /data/app

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

rm -rf /data/data (optional)

ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data (optional)

rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache (optional)

ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache (optional)

reboot

Edited August 2, 2010 by totiadrenalin

[Guest totiadrenalin]

You can do it other way.

su

busybox df -h

If you don't see a row that has /system/sd on it then the process didn't pick up your SDCard. I'd suggest you to re-install / re-format the card.

Next if you didn't perform a wipe we'll move the data over, run these cmds either via terminal / adb shell:

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

busybox cp -a /data/dalvik-cache /system/sd/ (optional)

busybox cp -a /data/data /system/sd/ (optional)

The last two cmds here are optional (they are to move the cache for each app) & some have reported issues when copying these over so if you are having issues I would leave these on the /data partition.

Once your done with the above, power off your phone

Reboot into Recovery mode.

Next enter these cmds:

mount data

rm -rf /data/app

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

rm -rf /data/data (optional)

ln -s /system/sd/data /data/data (optional)

rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache (optional)

ln -s /system/sd/dalvik-cache /data/dalvik-cache (optional)

reboot

all this is done via the adb shell from your computer.

First you need to enable debuge mode in your settings.

and than open the cmd

and lead to the path where your android sdk is located.

type ( adb shell )

and then the rest of the commands as above.

Edited August 2, 2010 by totiadrenalin