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Guest hillmie87
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A total noob here, just got my desire yesterday and have been playing with root and custom roms.

I even semi bricked it, lol. but luckily i've restored it to original setting and fix all issues.

Now, I've decided to settle with AuraxTSense v7.9 Rom, and one of its features is app2sd.

From my undestanding, app2sd is superior than a2sd+, correct?

i've partitioned my sdhc memory card using paragon partition manager (around 6gb FAT32, and around 600mb for linux ext3).

But i'm not sure what I'm doing, and how to determine that app2sd is working on my phone.

basically, I understand what it's for, but i dont quite get how to use it.

anyone willing to help?

Guest hillmie87
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I've read your post before, and it is indeed informative.

However, after doing abit more research, i understand that phone memory should show higher available space than 98mb that i'm currently having, otherwise, my Apps2sd isn't working properly.

grr. i'm still confuse whether ive done this correctly or not.

Could anyone kindly write/point me to the latest method to get apps2sd+/a2sd+/apps2sd working on my htc desire?

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Could anyone kindly write/point me to the latest method to get apps2sd+/a2sd+/apps2sd working on my htc desire?
It's not that hard.

1. Format the card properly (FAT32 then EXT3 and no blank space in between <-- I learned that the hard way)

2. Install rom

3. Use Quick system info or similar to check that A2SD is working

You can use the last step to check if A2SD is working now.

Edited by bpivk
Posted
It's not that hard.

1. Format the card properly (FAT32 then EXT3 and no blank space in between <-- I learned that the hard way)

2. Install rom

3. Use Quick system info or similar to check that A2SD is working

You can use the last step to check if A2SD is working now.

he said he uses aura 7.9

- has a2sd+

- has unionfs system overlay so that the writeable part of system is in data too

Guest hillmie87
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3. Use Quick system info or similar to check that A2SD is working

You can use the last step to check if A2SD is working now.

thanks, i've checked using quick system info, and the a2sd is there, i've tried installing flashplayer 10.1.

before installing flash:

sd card storage: free 4.7gb

a2sd storage free: 475mb

system storage free: 107mb

internal storage free: 107mb

after installing flash:

sd card storage: free 4.7gb

a2sd storage free: 475mb

system storage free: 98.25mb

internal storage free: 98.25mb

which pretty much mean that my partition didn't work. I think... :P

A complete noob here. sigh.

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thanks, i've checked using quick system info, and the a2sd is there, i've tried installing flashplayer 10.1.

before installing flash:

sd card storage: free 4.7gb

a2sd storage free: 475mb

system storage free: 107mb

internal storage free: 107mb

after installing flash:

sd card storage: free 4.7gb

a2sd storage free: 475mb

system storage free: 98.25mb

internal storage free: 98.25mb

which pretty much mean that my partition didn't work. I think... :

A complete noob here. sigh.

no, that seems right, flashplayer stores a library

with 7.4 MB + other data to internal memory not to sd

root@localhost://data/data# >du -sh ./com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/libflashplayer.so

7.3M ./com.adobe.flashplayer/lib/libflashplayer.so

thats quite right and plausibile, data is stored in /data/data which is internal memory - only the programs themself go to ext partition

also

as i said before - aura has system overlay so keep in mind that you get always the same memory for /system and for /data free, but its only one time free - for you as you said 98MB free - which you can use for /system rw or /data rw, but where ever you store it, both directories will have the same amount less space available

Guest hillmie87
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ah, ok. cool. thanks for clearing the confusion guys. :P

Posted

Grab 'quick system info' from the market, that'll give you a breakdown of phone, apps2sd(+) and other usage.

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