apps2sd

[Guest dwl99]

Does anyone have an idiot's guide on how to move the apps to the SD card on a rooted SF running the r3 ROM? Will a class 2 card be too slow to be reliable? Ta

Edited October 7, 2010 by dwl99

[Guest sipart]

Does anyone have an idiot's guide on how to move the apps to the SD card on a rooted SF running the r3 ROM? Will a class 2 card be too slow to be reliable? Ta

No apps2sd yet - sign up to get access to the kitchen (if you haven't already) and wait for the feature to become available - shouldn't be too long reading between the lines of Paul and co.

Edited October 8, 2010 by sipart

[Guest acolwill]

No apps2sd yet - sign up to get access to the kitchen (if you haven't already) and wait for the feature to become available - shouldn't be too long reading between the lies of Paul and co.

Yes there is....

A2SD for the ZTE Blade

[Guest pdauser92]

Yes there is....

A2SD for the ZTE Blade

Thanks for this - I've now regained around 80mb of internal storage :)

[Guest jobibear]

Does anyone have an idiot's guide on how to move the apps to the SD card on a rooted SF running the r3 ROM? Will a class 2 card be too slow to be reliable? Ta

I think you'll probably find help on a different thread.

[Guest sipart]

Yes there is....

A2SD for the ZTE Blade

Thanks - I was only a couple of hours this side of being wrong ;-) (and I've never heard of villainrom) - think the guy needs to hang out over here as the blade forum over there is a bit sparse - but useful :-)

[Guest 325i]

Thanks, the guide is really easy to follow if you have clockworkmod and rom manager installed. A couple of questions though,

1. Is that a new ROM that will be flashed on top of the modaco ROM or will it work in conjunction with the R3 rom? i dont want to loose the R3 ROM.

2. Im sure the SD has to have a ext3 partition for it to run?

[Guest G0DSPEED]

No apps2sd yet - sign up to get access to the kitchen (if you haven't already) and wait for the feature to become available - shouldn't be too long reading between the lies of Paul and co.

Bit harsh isn't it?

Seems an honest fella to me?

:)

;)

G

[Guest sipart]

Bit harsh isn't it?

Seems an honest fella to me?

:)

;)

G

Oopppps LOL - no offence (edited post ;-)

[Guest acolwill]

Thanks - I was only a couple of hours this side of being wrong ;-) (and I've never heard of villainrom) - think the guy needs to hang out over here as the blade forum over there is a bit sparse - but useful :-)

You've never owned a Hero or a Desire then :)

Although, if you've been around since 2007, you must have heard of NPRussell.. he's the founder of VillainRom

[Guest Paul]

Added A2SD as a test option to the r3 kitchen.

I have reformatted my card (using GParted on Ubuntu) with a main FAT32 partition followed by a 512MB EXT2 partition and it's working great. Note that the Blade kernel currently doesn't support EXT3/4, so it MUST be EXT2 at this time.

P

[Guest puj]

I made an ext2 partition and installed a2sd via the clockworkmod recovery, i still only see 30mb available though.

I am not sure what is wrong.

[Guest the flook]

I had to run

adb shell

a2sd check (this shows a2sd diagnostics)

and then a2sd reinstall to move all the apps to sd

to move them back i had to run

a2sd remove

warning though some widgets failed to load and had to be reinstalled

and when i put the apps back on internal storage some apps didnt work (like swiftftp, last.fm and a few others) and had to be reinstalled.

[Guest BigD18t]

Cant get this to work, ive set my main partition to fat32, and set aside 512mb to ext2 in gparted, but im not sure ive done it correct.

As it didnt actually show any space in the ext2.

[Guest selecta8998]

A2SD check on the dtA2SD script reports sdcard not mounted. Any ideas how I mount the ext partition?

[Guest the flook]

My main machine is running ubuntu, i used gparted on my kingston 4gb sdhc micro sd card to create two partitions, the primary partition was a 3gb fat32 partition and my secondary partition was approx. 1gb etx2 partition,

when i had my phone connected via usb and mounted the sd card both partitions showed up, but if your using windows im not sure if the ext2 partition will show in "My computer"

when i goto settings on my phone and then sd storage i can only see the 3gb fat32 partition,

but using the adb shell command, then a2sd check command it showed me that everything was correct and setup correctly, i just had to use a2sd reinstall command to tell the apps2sd application to move all my applications to the sd.

[Guest puj]

I had to run

adb shell

a2sd check (this shows a2sd diagnostics)

and then a2sd reinstall to move all the apps to sd

to move them back i had to run

a2sd remove

warning though some widgets failed to load and had to be reinstalled

and when i put the apps back on internal storage some apps didnt work (like swiftftp, last.fm and a few others) and had to be reinstalled.

when i run a2sd check, it says ext partition found but not mounted.

[Guest the flook]

when i run a2sd check, it says ext partition found but not mounted.

Are you sure its an ext2 partition? and its the secondary partition? ext3 and 4 i dont think are supported by the blade (or san francisco) yet

It does seem a common problem, and i have seen forum posts about it working but only after manually mounting the ext partition then running a2sd, but still reading about that as we speak

[Guest puj]

Are you sure its an ext2 partition? and its the secondary partition? ext3 and 4 i dont think are supported by the blade (or san francisco) yet

It does seem a common problem, and i have seen forum posts about it working but only after manually mounting the ext partition then running a2sd, but still reading about that as we speak

yea is ext2 and the second one on the card.

[Guest the flook]

yea is ext2 and the second one on the card.

Ok just for comparisons sake i am running r3 Superboot, r2 clockworkmod recovery, r3 MCR... With customised boot animation... What versions are you running?

If i remember correctly the command a2sd reinstall tries to mount the ext partition and then when its mounted will move all your applications across, i left the dalvik-cache on my internal memory (but you can always move it by typing a2sd cachesd) all of these can be typed in adb shell or even in a terminal emulator on the phone as su (anybody correct me if im wrong)

Edited October 8, 2010 by the flook

[Guest puj]

im running all the latest stuff except r3 of superboot, i think that might be the problem as this is one of the lines of the changelog "MCRi will now run-parts from /system/etc/init.d if found (adding possibility of A2SD, CacheDalvikCache etc. etc.)".

ill update and give it a try.

i tried terminal emulator but it said access denied for nearly everything.

[Guest the flook]

im running all the latest stuff except r3 of superboot, i think that might be the problem as this is one of the lines of the changelog "MCRi will now run-parts from /system/etc/init.d if found (adding possibility of A2SD, CacheDalvikCache etc. etc.)".

ill update and give it a try.

i tried terminal emulator but it said access denied for nearly everything.

thats more then likely as it would make sense to mount the ext partition using init.d, dont forget to use su to switch you to a user with rights eg su a2sd reinstall (remember su doesnt mean super user :) !)

Let me know how you get on with the update

Edited October 8, 2010 by the flook

[Guest puj]

thats more then likely as it would make sense to mount the ext partition using init.d, dont forget to use su to switch you to a user with rights eg su a2sd reinstall (remember su doesnt mean super user :) !)

Let me know how you get on with the update

i am still getting the same as before, still says partition not mounted.

when i used su i got permission denied.

[Guest xzyk]

i got mine working fine (posted on another thread http://tinyurl.com/33xv59u) but executing 'a2sd reinstall' crashed my partition and the phone would not reboot after, got stuck at the startup logo (not the green fella, but the other next one). I had to use clockwordmod recovery option to bring it back to life, which save me from having to do a complete re-flash.

It's not easy to get it on there and it took 'Quick System Info' a while to show the A2SD info, it keep saying 'Information not Available', but finally it picked it up, this is ofcourse before i did the a2sd reinstall command, now I'm having to re-install it again.

[Guest leetron1]

Can't get mount sd/ext to stick from modrecovery...run a2sd check: sd/ext found but not mounted..ext is ext2, 512MB, linux swap 14MB...can anyone help, please :)

First partition FAT32, as per guide>>

Edited October 9, 2010 by leetron1