Guest MindsEye Posted June 10, 2011 Report Posted June 10, 2011 I got a 16gb microSD and installed it, it has plenty of space on it but when i try to move apps to SD I am getting a "not enough space" message. I believe its trying to move them to the in-unit sd instead of my larger chip. Is thre any way to tell it to install to the larger chip by default.. I have looked all over but I cant find any such setting. Anyone know of a solution to this, and how can I tell it that when i want to move an app to SD i mean to the large one and not the internal one? I assumed that "move to device" meant the internal one, but it seems to not understand me.
Guest Panayioti Posted June 10, 2011 Report Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) I got a 16gb microSD and installed it, it has plenty of space on it but when i try to move apps to SD I am getting a "not enough space" message. I believe its trying to move them to the in-unit sd instead of my larger chip. Is thre any way to tell it to install to the larger chip by default.. I have looked all over but I cant find any such setting. Anyone know of a solution to this, and how can I tell it that when i want to move an app to SD i mean to the large one and not the internal one? I assumed that "move to device" meant the internal one, but it seems to not understand me. Download app2sd it tells you which applications that can be put on the sd. Also the memory card might be partitioned and if so you should make that partition bigger or just remove all partiotions all together.Also if says move to device it means the app is already on the sd . Edited June 10, 2011 by Panayioti
Guest premieral Posted June 11, 2011 Report Posted June 11, 2011 (edited) I got a 16gb microSD and installed it, it has plenty of space on it but when i try to move apps to SD I am getting a "not enough space" message. I believe its trying to move them to the in-unit sd instead of my larger chip. Is thre any way to tell it to install to the larger chip by default.. I have looked all over but I cant find any such setting. Anyone know of a solution to this, and how can I tell it that when i want to move an app to SD i mean to the large one and not the internal one? I assumed that "move to device" meant the internal one, but it seems to not understand me. i find link2sd more reliable than app2sd , it needs you to tell it what ext you created when you formatted the sd card and then a reboot but then it will manage all your apks. Edited June 11, 2011 by premieral
Guest beegee1962 Posted June 11, 2011 Report Posted June 11, 2011 I got a 16gb microSD and installed it, it has plenty of space on it but when i try to move apps to SD I am getting a "not enough space" message. I believe its trying to move them to the in-unit sd instead of my larger chip. Is thre any way to tell it to install to the larger chip by default.. I have looked all over but I cant find any such setting. Anyone know of a solution to this, and how can I tell it that when i want to move an app to SD i mean to the large one and not the internal one? I assumed that "move to device" meant the internal one, but it seems to not understand me. 1) You need to create an EXT2 EXT3 or EXT4 partition on the SDcard to use Apps2SD. You can do so in CWM or on a Linux machine. 2) The Android App2SD seems not to work correct. All it does is moving the apps to a folder on the data partition, not to the SDcard. I propose Link2SD as well, it works great with my ROM.
Guest dibbles Posted June 11, 2011 Report Posted June 11, 2011 1) You need to create an EXT2 EXT3 or EXT4 partition on the SDcard to use Apps2SD. You can do so in CWM or on a Linux machine. 2) The Android App2SD seems not to work correct. All it does is moving the apps to a folder on the data partition, not to the SDcard. I propose Link2SD as well, it works great with my ROM. I have never needed to create any partition on my SD card when using Apps2SD. It simply does what is states and moves what I need to that card. Links2SD works by you first needing to create a separate partition ion the SD card which is then a primary one and "hidden" from use, except to move your application / game to it. I have found that the Links2SD will move stuff that does not support being on the SD card and it works well (some things can't be moved by Apps2SD). However Apps2SD works fine and needs no partitioning, other than the access to the SD card to move stuff. Titanium backup can also move stuff over to the SD card.
Guest beepo666 Posted June 11, 2011 Report Posted June 11, 2011 Apps2SD just moves over stuff that it can to 'normal' SD partition that you keep your other stuff on. I've found quite a lot doesn't work after you do this, specifically games etc. Link2SD is very powerful and from what I can tell it uses symbolic linking (like desktop shortcuts but for Unix based systems) to trick Android into thinking an area on your SD card is actually part of the internal space. You need to create an Ext2,Ext3,Ext4 partition for this, which is much less scary than it sounds. I'm about to release a tutorial on this very subject if you can wait a bit and need a walkthrough.
Guest luckyluca Posted July 13, 2011 Report Posted July 13, 2011 How do you erase all partitions on the sdcard and create one or two 16gb partitions? CMW only seems able to create one up to 4gb at the time. Also how would you set the swap size? 512? Thanks Luca
Guest Yogimax Posted July 14, 2011 Report Posted July 14, 2011 How do you erase all partitions on the sdcard and create one or two 16gb partitions? CMW only seems able to create one up to 4gb at the time. Also how would you set the swap size? 512? For formatting and partitioning SD cards to be used in Android devices, I would always play safe and do it from a bootable Ubuntu distro as both OSs have the same base Linux. You can also choose the partition type easily this way (Ext 2 etc)
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