APPS2SD

[Guest bbawden]

Hi

I just installed the latest Beta of Firefox, from here.

I got a notification that the phone was running low on memory. I looked in storage and only had 9MB left of internal phone memory!

So I'm pretty sure that APPS2SD isn't working properly.

Can someone advise the best way to:

1) check whether it's set up properly

2) if not, the easiest way to get it working, preferably without having to do a wipe

I'm running MCR r9.

Thanks.

[Guest The Virus 2013]

Hi

I just installed the latest Beta of Firefox, from here.

I got a notification that the phone was running low on memory. I looked in storage and only had 9MB left of internal phone memory!

So I'm pretty sure that APPS2SD isn't working properly.

Can someone advise the best way to:

1) check whether it's set up properly

2) if not, the easiest way to get it working, preferably without having to do a wipe

I'm running MCR r9.

Thanks.

Do you mean the default Froyo App2sd of A2SD+ from the kitchen ?

If it's the second, just install Quick System Info from the market and check all your internal and SD memory.

Also, do you have an Ext3 partition ?

[Guest bbawden]

Do you mean the default Froyo App2sd of A2SD+ from the kitchen ?

If it's the second, just install Quick System Info from the market and check all your internal and SD memory.

Also, do you have an Ext3 partition ?

Hi

I selected the A2SD+ option from the kitchen.

I'm pretty sure I partitioned the card OK.

It's definitely not working properly, as I uninstalled Firefox, which was listed as around 30MB, and my internal memory increased by that amount.

I installed Quick System Info and it reports the following:

SD - Total:GB, Free: 5.96GB

A2SD - Total: 0.89GB, Free 628MB

Internal - Total: 148MB, Free: 34.51MB

System - Total: 250MB, Free: 62.3MB

System cache - Total: 40MB, Free: 19.5MB

So it looks like some stuff is going into APPS2SD.

Any ideas?

[Guest bbawden]

I just checked my partition in parted under abd shell, and I have a 1GB ext3 in position 2, with the remainder of the space as FAT32 in position 1.

That should be fine I think, so not sure why it's not putting the apps onto the SD card.

Maybe rebaking and reflashing would fix it?

Edited October 11, 2010 by bbawden

[Guest Calamity James]

I don't know if it helps, but I found that Firefox was using a ridiculous amount of internal memory, even with a2sd installed. Once I uninstalled it the problem went away, I haven't even considered trying Firefox since: http://twitpic.com/2kbxvl

[Guest bbawden]

I don't know if it helps, but I found that Firefox was using a ridiculous amount of internal memory, even with a2sd installed. Once I uninstalled it the problem went away, I haven't even considered trying Firefox since: http://twitpic.com/2kbxvl

It took up 30MB of internal storage, but shouldn't I have more than 40MB free by using A2SD?

[Guest michaffm1964]

It took up 30MB of internal storage, but shouldn't I have more than 40MB free by using A2SD?

Not all is moved by APPS2SD+, if Firefox uses huge libraries installed under /data/data as e.g. Navigon does, this will never be moved to SD card. Deinstall Firefox and you are fine :-)