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Guest h3dshot
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hi all, been getting alot of messages about low memory etc and i have a2sd installed but all of my apps are still on internal memory, i figured out that i dont have an ext partition, however clockwork wont let me create one :S i have an 8gb class 6 card formatted it twice on my pc as fat 32 and also tried formatting via clockwork mod, it formats fine, but when i try to format sd-ext i get the following error:

"(file exists)

error mounting /sd-ext/!

skipping format...

Done.

formatting SDEXT...

E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

(File exists)

error mounting /sd-ext/!

skipping format...

Done."

anyone know why/how to to solve this?

thanks

Guest Casterina
Posted

Follow the steps on the custom recovery image (AmonRA) and partition your sdcard from there.

Guest h3dshot
Posted
Follow the steps on the custom recovery image (AmonRA) and partition your sdcard from there.

thats a bit of a problem, i cant flash recovery images as my version of windows xp (illegal) wont seem to let me update drivers for the pulse and so i cant flash amon ra/ clockwork

Guest Casterina
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thats a bit of a problem, i cant flash recovery images as my version of windows xp (illegal) wont seem to let me update drivers for the pulse and so i cant flash amon ra/ clockwork

Woahhh urmm... Have you tried the Gparted program?

Guest h3dshot
Posted
Woahhh urmm... Have you tried the Gparted program?

no can you expand on that? :)

Guest h3dshot
Posted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535914 - Here is the tutorial for it.. but if you dont want to do that.. you should consider fixing the your illegal windows thing :) AmonRA is the easiest way to partition your sdcard :)

ok thanks :) anda genuine version of windows is expensive lol not worth fixing just to update drivers for my phone

Guest Casterina
Posted
ok thanks :) anda genuine version of windows is expensive lol not worth fixing just to update drivers for my phone

Haha yeahh :) or... you could try and find a legal version :)

Guest h3dshot
Posted
Haha yeahh :) or... you could try and find a legal version :)

mehhh too much work:D

Guest Casterina
Posted
mehhh too much work:D

Haha, but in the long run.. you get too partition your sdcard :)

Guest h3dshot
Posted
Haha, but in the long run.. you get too partition your sdcard :)

:) gparted confused the hell out of me. think ill borrow a friends laptop and reflash amon ra then partition that way

Guest Casterina
Posted
:) gparted confused the hell out of me. think ill borrow a friends laptop and reflash amon ra then partition that way

Hahaha yeahh :) Its confusing "/ i didnt understand it... Yeah, your better off getting it down on your friends laptop :)

Guest h3dshot
Posted
Hahaha yeahh :P Its confusing "/ i didnt understand it... Yeah, your better off getting it down on your friends laptop :)

done! ;) partitioned the sd card, with ext2 and swap aswell :) however when it rebooted half of the apps were missing and i couldnt find anything on my sd card which indicated they were stored there :S oh well i've reinstalled them and all seems to be working fine, pulse feels alot snappier :)

thanks for all your help

Guest Casterina
Posted
done! :P partitioned the sd card, with ext2 and swap aswell :) however when it rebooted half of the apps were missing and i couldnt find anything on my sd card which indicated they were stored there :S oh well i've reinstalled them and all seems to be working fine, pulse feels alot snappier :)

thanks for all your help

When you partition your sdcard, your sdcard gets formatted automatically. Yeah, its a lot faster with the a2sd ;)

Its nice to see on the internal memory i have like 60mb left, before i had limit the amount of apps which i download otherwise, i wouldn't have no memory left haha :)

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