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[GUIDE/Video TUTORIAL] How to Partition SD Card for Android

How to Partitioning your SD Card for Android (not for APP2SD)
This guide is for:
* If windows mobile is your primary os on your phone (Windows Mobile is on NAND)
* SD Partitioning is for Haret.exe (vogue users probably dont use haret.exe anymore)
* This is not the Guide for Apps2SD.
* This guide was made primarily for those use windows mobile & Android
* This guide was made in complimentary of Jamezelle's hero android builds as hero would run slow without partitioning.
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You'll Need The Following.
* Partitioning Program
Gparted (FREE) Download here
Paragons Partition Manager
Partition Magic
Etc.
* A custom rom that supports Disk Drive Mode (Your Phone acts as a Flash Drive)
* About 15 Minutes.
Benefits of Android on SD Card:
*Great for Those who are scared to flash Android on Nand.....
*Great for those who want to use both Android & Windows Mobile
--->if you rely on Turn By Turn GPS which is on Windows Mobile
--->if you need to use a windows mobile Apps
--->if you prefer opera browser/opera mini on windows mobile
--->if you use Androids Latest Builds, but you need to use Bluetooth(in WinMo)
--->if you are a Microsoft Loyalist
--->if you have the time (Read some of these nonsense benefits, watched my video tutorial, and partition your SD Card)
Video Tutorial Here - Youtube Link
Hope This Helps

Nice work

*IF* your phone can be mounted in windows as a fixed (non-removable) drive, you can partition it within windows. My custom ROM gives me the option to mount as a non-removable device. You don't have to format as ext2, the installer did that for me, you just have to create two RAW 256MB partitions.
That said, this method is a lot easier, I just couldn't do it with my netbook!

Didnt know that you could jsut create 2 partitions of RAW unallocated partitions without formatting and the installer will do it for you.
You could still do it on a netbook if you download Paragon Partition Manager.
That is a windows program, so if you dont have a dvd drive you could use Paragon.
Also you could get a flash drive and make that flash drive bootable with Gparted.

nice video, very professional. Partitioned my 2gb card with Gpart and it couldn't have been easier, thanks
now for your next video could you show how to make a USB connection with the android vogue to win 7?

awaqeded said:
nice video, very professional. Partitioned my 2gb card with Gpart and it couldn't have been easier, thanks
now for your next video could you show how to make a USB connection with the android vogue to win 7?
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Lol thanks man.
Funny thing is i havent been able to get a USB Connection with windows 7... (cause i havent looked too much into it)
Ill try to find some time this weekend and figure it out.
And i hope i can fulfill your video tutorial request

Could you post some text instructions on the .conf file?
I have some questions regarding the performance factors of the different settings, like using compcache with a hero build. Is the backing swap for compcache using the 2nd ext2 partition? What are the options you need to enable to use that 2nd partition as swap? That's all I'm curious about, but feel free to expand.

intimidatorx31 said:
Lol thanks man.
Funny thing is i havent been able to get a USB Connection with windows 7... (cause i havent looked too much into it)
Ill try to find some time this weekend and figure it out.
And i hope i can fulfill your video tutorial request
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thanks, no hurry tho it's been mostly laziness on my part, I've read through the forums took lots of notes I just need to get it done
But the USB connection imo is the hardest part of switching to android on the vogue, at least so far.
I think i'll try out jamezelle's SenseTATTOO 1.0 that will give me the motivation to get it working.

Ha Ha Ooops
so i was up late last night so i figured i'd finally get around to partitioning my sd card for android and saw this post and figured cool. It was a great tutorial and if i had been a little more alert i would have probably paid attention more. I ended up wiping the hardrive of my computer totally unaware of what my stupid headwas doing. So it marked the end of my procrastination of upgrading to win 7. After i got everything back up and running I finally paid attention and was able to partition my card. thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. it was info i couldn't find with what little time i had. I just thought i'd let you know. that if your stupid like me maybe gparted is dangerous for you

thx for the vid.
Mac users: just use disk utility, pretty straight forward. back up your microsd first though, it wipes it.

StupidCid said:
so i was up late last night so i figured i'd finally get around to partitioning my sd card for android and saw this post and figured cool. It was a great tutorial and if i had been a little more alert i would have probably paid attention more. I ended up wiping the hardrive of my computer totally unaware of what my stupid headwas doing. So it marked the end of my procrastination of upgrading to win 7. After i got everything back up and running I finally paid attention and was able to partition my card. thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. it was info i couldn't find with what little time i had. I just thought i'd let you know. that if your stupid like me maybe gparted is dangerous for you
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HOLY CRAP!
Dang i feel sorry for you. Lost data is the worst feeling ever.
Im guessing you may have missed the step to choose your sd card.
Im glad your back up and running (ESPECIALLY WINDOWS 7 YEAH!!!!!!!!!)

When I load my burned G-parted live disc the autoplay screen pops up and asks me how I want to view pictures? I'm running win7 and burned the disk image using power2go.

Reddog80p said:
When I load my burned G-parted live disc the autoplay screen pops up and asks me how I want to view pictures? I'm running win7 and burned the disk image using power2go.
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I think you're "loading gparted while in windows 7".....Rather than bootin from Gparted.
You have to get your computer to boot from the cd.....
so you have to restart your computer with gparted in the drive.
Side Note:
Normally when you turn on ur computer, the computer boots from your hard drive. Your hard drive has windows on it; and therefore boots windows.
You want to have your computer boot from Gparted (off the cd) and not boot from your hard drive (Windows 7)
Solution:
You have to Restart your computer
Hopefully Gparted Gets loaded
If it doesnt its because the BIOS on your computer set Boot Priorities to Boot From the CD. This should definately work (100% sure).

lol ok thanks...I'll try soon.

And how do we "use" the multiple partition system?
Does it need a new data.img file?
Thanks!

it's for running android from a sd card, the installer will move files to the ext2 partitions for faster access and better performance

Well, the question was "how to", not "what it does"
But nevermind, found it!

i did everything with paragon..when i put my sd card on my kaiser tilt it wats to format..and then when i put it back in my computer it wants to format again.
I am using an micro sd adapter and paragon partition..
do i neccarly have to use EXT2? or can i just run it off formated fat 32

lggyxx said:
i did everything with paragon..when i put my sd card on my kaiser tilt it wats to format..and then when i put it back in my computer it wants to format again.
I am using an micro sd adapter and paragon partition..
do i neccarly have to use EXT2? or can i just run it off formated fat 32
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Yes you need it to be Ext2. Ext2 is something recognizable in linux.
Android recognizes this too and I believe it needs the Ext2. I think if you were to create 3 partitions of Fat32 it would not help the performance.
Android usually copies the files over to the Ext2 Partitions, and if it doesnt detect an Ext2, it wont copy any files anywhere; thus the performance isnt as great.
I had this problem when i was trying to format my sd card for the first time.
Everytime i would plug my sd card back into my phone my phone wanted to format it.
I figured out that i did the partitions wrong. I re did it (the method shown in the video) and i was able to plug it (the sd card) back into my phone with no error message.
So what im basically saying is you may have done it wrong.
I wish i could remember what i did wrong so i can help you correct it and do it right but it was a while ago i dont remember in great detail. All i know is when i tried it again (the correct way) it worked perfectly.
Here is a screenshot of what your card should look like. (may differ slightly in paragon's partition manager)

ok i have successfully made 2 ext2 partitions at the right size.
What all can i do with this?
Can i now install apps to my sd card?
What is the process of doing this?
Also, i can no longer get my sd card to show up on my computer with automount or sd split widget
Im running Myns rls4 on nand.

[GUIDE] Link2sd setup and installation

I can no longer support this thread. I apologize I will leave it here for people that may find it helpful.
Hey guys I have read several posts were people are having issues with some Roms with sense 3.0,etc.
This guide should help those experiencing the following issues:
1) Have apps on your sd card and icons for those apps on one of your home screens but when you reboot your phone the icons disappear or change to the green standard app icon. icon may or may not still open the app.
2) Mount SD card to a PC while the phone is on. After disconnecting it, the phone shows a message on the screen for preparing SD and afterward, the SD card can be browsed. However, apps that have been moved to SD do not show up in the app tray until the phone is restarted.
Important before doing any of this please note this process can render your SD card useless if you make a mistake. Please follow all steps completely and know that I am not responsible if you mess up your sd card
This process is done from your pc not phone! Things you will need:
1) your Incredible
2) Your micro SD card
3) A micro SD to SD card adapter - this if your dont know=
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4) computer im using windows xp
Here is what you should try:
1) Download Link2sd from the android market. Don't open it just yet your phone is not ready.
2) From your pc download Minitool partition wizard for your appropriate system. Install the wizard by following the instructions that appear when you download it. At the end it will ask to create a desktop icon check yes so you can find it easy.
3)Turn off your incredible and remove the micro SD card and place it in the adapter. Plug it into your PC.
4) create a new folder on your desktop and name it "sdbackup" or whatever you would like just remember were it is. Copy the entire contents of your micro sd card to the sdbackup folder you just created. This may take a while depending on the amount of files you have.
5) after backing up your sd card. Open the minitool partition wizard. You should see your sd card. Caution do not do anything with your c drive or any other drives listed under disk 1 Mine is under disk 2 labeled D:E1292
6) click on your sd card. In the left pane of the wizard choose format partition. choose FAT32 as your file system and leave cluster size and label blank. click ok.
7) click your sd card. In the left pane again of the wizard choose move/resize partition. On the window that pops up click partition size. uncheck the use extended data protection mode. type in the amount of megabytes or gigabytes you want your sd card regular storage area to be. In this guide im using a 1gb sd card. I typed in 700 to create a 700 mb regular area. Leave all other boxes alone. So if you have say an 8gb card i would type 7000 to give you roughly 7gb main. click ok. you should now see your main sd card and another one below it now with a *as its name.
first
second
third new partition created
8) ok almost there: Now on the new unallocated partition we just created ( one with the star as its name) click on it. At the top of the wizard click create. You will get a message saying the new created partition cannot be used in windows...... just click yes to continue. In the window that pops up pay attention click create as and select primary! click file system and select Ext3! Leave all other boxes etc alone. You will see the partition size that will be created. click ok.
message you will get:
Creating the partition:
9) Ok here we go.... In the top left of the wizard you should see a check mark that says apply..... Click it! You will get a message saying apply pending changes, disable power savers etc... click yes to continue.. do not let screen saver come on after this and do not allow computer to "sleep". Let the wizard do its thing. This can take some time depending on your system, sizes, etc. You get a dialog box to let you know whats going on. When the wizard finishes you will get a message saying apply all pending changes successful. Click ok...
You can exit the wizard now.
The wizard dialog box when you click the check mark..
10) place all your files back on your sd card. Find the folder you created with your sd backup in it. Select all files and copy them back to your sd card. Dont worry about the second partition as windows will only see the first FAT32 one.
Thats the partition link2sd needs now to set up link2sd:
1) place your SD card back in your incredible and reboot.
2) find your link2sd app you downloaded and open it. The program will load. A box will appear that instructs you to select the file system type of your second partition. Select Ext3!
3) Link2sd will do a few things and ask for superuser permissions.. When this box pops up click remember on superuser permissions!
4) Link2sd will tell you the scipt to mount the second partition was flashed (installed),etc.
5) it will then tell you to restart your phone to mount the second partition. Just do a normal reboot!
6) once the phone has rebooted go back and open link2sd again. You should get a whats new box with the changes to link2sd.
7) to check just to make sure it worked click menu/storage info it should look something like this.
Now you can use link2sd!
Enjoy please say thanks if I helped. I will try to answer any questions you have. This may be possible to do while the sd card is in the phone with it attached to computer but I did not chance this so wont be able to help in that area.

Yay!
Sense 3.5 almost here!

This' very useful information eraste!
Thank you

Truckin'Ain't4Sissies said:
This' very useful information eraste!
Thank you
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Your welcome just trying to do my part lol.

Not to be thick, but I believe I have run Partition Magic on other drives (for other than Android use). Can't you repartition the card on the fly (using the PC) without a complete reformat?

May be possible with this wizard. Skip the format step and everything else should go normal. One would start from the move/resise step. After editing what you want I however can't recall if this particular widget will format both when you apply changes. I'll look into it when I get some free time.
I put the backup and format step in just to make sure things go smooth. It should work without that first format tho...

Lost \emmc mount to PC
Eraste -
I found your guide tremendously helpful and was able to set up the ext3 partition without a problem.
Thing is, I cannot mount \emmc to PC, and I used to be able to.
I didn't lose it after doing this; I lost it on a prior ROM (Nils Business Gingersense 2.1/3.0 v3.0) after flashing a new kernel. After that, nothing I did, old nandroids, reflashing, restored it.
Now I'm on McSense 2.4 which is fairly close to stock OTA Gingerbread for the Incredible, and I have Links2SD running fine, and I have SD card mount, but I still don't seem to be able to get emmc to mount.
Any suggestions?
EDIT - Okay, it's 19 days later, I've wiped the system several times, installed two other ROM's ran Jermaine's/Tiny's ext4 mod which moves \data\data to ext4 and just plugged my Incredible back into the PC for the first time on this particular combination of ROM's and mods and, lookit that, mount to emmc has spontaneously returned. I'll never figure this one out. (Except that ext3 is still there, but Link2SD doesn't have anything linked at all right now, because I don't need the space without a 150mb limitation on \data\data on a Sense 1.0 ROM.

Help Me!!
have no idea how to stop memory back and was doing all the procedure like this in the tutorial and it does not work says that the installation script can not be created, could help me?

thumbs up for this!!
thank you (pressed thanks) for this step by step guide!! ive been looking for this for a while!!
what really helped was the screenies of the program on how the whole thing worked!!
tested on my old 2gb microsd= WORKED!! tested it with a newly installed app of course!!
will be trying it on my new 8gb microsdhc
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vico.ddl said:
have no idea how to stop memory back and was doing all the procedure like this in the tutorial and it does not work says that the installation script can not be created, could help me?
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try the "ext2" format option.. as all devices are compatible with it
hope that helps!!

you should decrease the size of the 2nd part because file store in there is so little, the main is half full

now that i have 2nd partition and link2sd, where should i start? i mean where should my app stored before creating link? and there are 3 files to be link, wich to be link?

thankss bro this very usefull ......nice:highfive:

Thanks for the guide, although i have trouble installing. Once I open link2sd (ext3 partition created n all) i select ext3 as secondary partition and i get "script cannot be installed" error, mount:mounting/dev//block/vold/179:2 on data/sdext2 failed: Device or resource busy
Any suggestions please?
Edit:solved by wiping and reformatting ext partition on pc

is there a way to manually do what link2sd does
like via shell

BM first.. will try it later after i buy 16GB SD.. thanks

Big thanks!! wonderful guide!

[MOD] native swap

hey guys im making this thread cus androidboss dint know how to do this and im mkaing it easier for him(might help others too so )
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DEAD SDCRADS PHONES LAPTOPS DESKTOPS AND ANYTHING ELSE
requirements
-windows computer
-phone with swiftdroid or any rom that supports inti.d boot scripts
-recovery 5.0.2.3
1. backup all sdcard stuff to computer.
2. wipe all data from the sdcard. after that use this to remove all partitions from sdcard( if you do not have any other partitions on sdcard skip to the end bellow the last picture)
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
the pics will look may look different cus im using a older version
mine looks like this
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to remove all the other partitions
when all is done click apply at the top lefthand corner. at the end after it refreshes make sure there is only one partition left . the FAT32 partition.
so now the card has no data put it in the phone and boot into recovery(5.0.2.3). there go to advance>partition sdcard>EXT size 2M(2M if you dont want a ext partition but if you want then the size is up to you )>swap size 256m
power down the phone and put back data into the sdcard. now enjoy swap
well this is my first thread so hope it helps!!

hahaha thank you
every much bs828 !!!
You helped me a lot!!!

Thanks a lot mate.
Edit: will use this on my girls gt540.
These typos was sent from my Nexus S [I9023]

custom rom??

I use this method more than 2 or 3 month, thats nothing new. Mur4ik Swiftdroid roms use this method, automatically find&use SD card's swap partition.
Before that, i made a video for my 2.1 Ultimate rom, how to partition SD card under windows to use swap&ext partition. (I use swapper for swap and joe's autoapp2SD in my ROM) Sometimes it not possible because compatibility problems between win&card readers but newer CWM recoveries able to partition cards.

yeah like i said androidboss did not know how to do this so i made this. others may also find is useful so why not make it public ??

bs828 said:
yeah like i said androidboss did not know how to do this so i made this. others may also find is useful so why not make it public ??
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hahaha!!!
yeah thanks !!!
i tried it today and it works fine!!!

should be useful if we we ever get ICS

hi, tnx for guide... folowing it i found out that me sdcard was formated like super floppy, maybe that was cose of sdcard unmounting.

LoL hope it helped

Just tried it, works like a charm

Im quite a newbie in this, how exactly does swap and ext porticions work and what do they do ?

the memory card you are using is in a fat32 format so by partition it to let say a ext3 file type you can store apps on it(if im not wrong the phone's memory is also ext3) swap works as addition external ram used to run apps

Where can I find recovery 5.0.2.3?
Sent from my GT540 using Tapatalk

jasper580 said:
Where can I find recovery 5.0.2.3?
Sent from my GT540 using Tapatalk
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lavero burgos' mediafire-folder
http://www.mediafire.com/?dc647azbpozp2#vhlcnb75m7yq7
always the first thing for me if i need something ;D

bs828 said:
the memory card you are using is in a fat32 format so by partition it to let say a ext3 file type you can store apps on it(if im not wrong the phone's memory is also ext3) swap works as addition external ram used to run apps
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thats true except the phones memory is yaffs2

I'm running CM9 Android 4.0.3
http://mikegapinski.androidus.pl/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-aosp/
I've done everything like the tutorial says, but I had older clockwork recovery 2.5 I guess something like that, and I've done the same thing in recovery selected advance>partition sdcard> EXT3 and selected 2gb then selected 256MB Swap, but when I run the OS and enter free in terminal it says swap 0.
What could have caused the problem?
Thanks in advance!

vita94 said:
I'm running CM9 Android 4.0.3
http://mikegapinski.androidus.pl/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-aosp/
I've done everything like the tutorial says, but I had older clockwork recovery 2.5 I guess something like that, and I've done the same thing in recovery selected advance>partition sdcard> EXT3 and selected 2gb then selected 256MB Swap, but when I run the OS and enter free in terminal it says swap 0.
What could have caused the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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look in root explorer (or any root file manager), in folder etc/init.d
if there isnt script called 07swapon, the swap wont active. and afaik, mike's ics doesnt have this script. u must add it manually.

Yes take 1 from any rom

How can I open *.img files so I can get the 07swapon file?
Can you give me the download link for swapon file?

[Q] how to increase ram by partitioning

Hi guys m running fusion cm9 beta and want to increase the size of ram with the help of swap size I want to know how to partition my sdcard and want to create 2nd partition as swap partition and which app to use to set the swapiness without moving apps to external

You are going to be dissapointed. Not possible...

It is possible I have done it on my galaxy mini about 2 months ago and every Linux devices ram can be increased

Increasing your swap space on any operating system does not increase your RAM. The OS might be able to start more processes, etc., but your RAM size remains the same.
The RAM in the Captivate is just that--RAM. Its size is fixed. All of your other solid-state memory is not RAM--it is behaving as file system storage.

dhlalit11 said:
It is possible I have done it on my galaxy mini about 2 months ago and every Linux devices ram can be increased
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well how did you do it for the galaxy mini? I can't see there being a big difference in how something like that would be done from one phone to another.
Also, are you sure that there was an improvement in how the galaxy mini performs?
I ask because google specifically designed android to not have a swap partition nor to use one.

DaNaRkI said:
well how did you do it for the galaxy mini? I can't see there being a big difference in how something like that would be done from one phone to another.
Also, are you sure that there was an improvement in how the galaxy mini performs?
I ask because google specifically designed android to not have a swap partition nor to use one.
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after creating swap partition the system thinks swap partition as ram and uses it for some background and foreground tasks it works great on mini
but the problem is I don't know how to partition sdcard through windows. before that I can partition through cwm recovery but in this mobile there are 2 SD cards so am fearing of partitioning internal one

dhlalit11 said:
after creating swap partition the system thinks swap partition as ram and uses it for some background and foreground tasks it works great on mini
but the problem is I don't know how to partition sdcard through windows. before that I can partition through cwm recovery but in this mobile there are 2 SD cards so am fearing of partitioning internal one
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You can probably google it. To do it, I'm pretty sure you use command prompt in windows
Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate

I don't see that actually improving your experience. Android manages the ram pretty efficiently since GB (even better on ICS). As Danarki said google design it without swap partition. The method used on your galaxy mini should work (mostly) for our i897. If it was a .zip file open it up and look at the code see what it did exactly. Just my 2 cents.

prbassplayer said:
I don't see that actually improving your experience. Android manages the ram pretty efficiently since GB (even better on ICS). As Danarki said google design it without swap partition. The method used on your galaxy mini should work (mostly) for our i897. If it was a .zip file open it up and look at the code see what it did exactly. Just my 2 cents.
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its not a zip file its a second partition of our sdcard and I want to know how to partition my external sdcard

I used Swapper from the Market when I tried your approach. The way I used my Cappy on stock GB the benefits seemed to fade over time.
I switched to SD Boost & SD Tools both before and after flashing Doc's Master ICS. Conclusion: speeding up disk i/o had a much more noticeable effect (especially on ICS) than RAM tweaking.
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If the kernel supports it...
Open android terminal emulator and cd to /etc... run
$ cat fstab
(it might be a variation of fstab... its vold.fstab on my transformer)
This will give you you sd card device name... i think it is referred to as 'emmc' rather than sdcard... sdcard is the internal memory... idk why they insist on this.. it's just confusing.. in short locate emmc not sdcard!
Run
$ fdisk
Delete the partitions and create 2 new ones... you'll need to change the type of the first partition to swap and the 2nd to Linux..then write the changes to the disk.
Run
$ mkswap
Then run
$ swapon /dev/emmc0 (not literal... device is probably different but it needs to be the first partition..which is 0)
Then for the rest of the card run
$mkfs.ext4 /dev/emmc1 (again not literal)
(or mkfs.vfat)
The kernel must support swap before swapon will work. I'd make absolutely sure that the external sd card is emmc... it is on mine but this might be different between roms... also, a higher class SD would make swap faster.
I don't see how trying swap could hurt anything....other than potentially deleting the wrong partitions. That's part of the beauty of Linux... messing with it to see what you can do. It's one of the reasons i love android.. i wish more of these android newbs would realize this and encourage poking around with the coolest part of android and give the information that was requested rather than reasons why its dumb or impossible. Nothing is impossible or dumb except the ones discouraging you.
If you want to hack around on your devices... do it!
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app

pierut said:
If the kernel supports it...
Open android terminal emulator and cd to /etc... run
$ cat fstab
(it might be a variation of fstab... its vold.fstab on my transformer)
This will give you you sd card device name... i think it is referred to as 'emmc' rather than sdcard... sdcard is the internal memory... idk why they insist on this.. it's just confusing.. in short locate emmc not sdcard!
Run
$ fdisk
Delete the partitions and create 2 new ones... you'll need to change the type of the first partition to swap and the 2nd to Linux..then write the changes to the disk.
Run
$ mkswap
Then run
$ swapon /dev/emmc0 (not literal... device is probably different but it needs to be the first partition..which is 0)
Then for the rest of the card run
$mkfs.ext4 /dev/emmc1 (again not literal)
(or mkfs.vfat)
The kernel must support swap before swapon will work. I'd make absolutely sure that the external sd card is emmc... it is on mine but this might be different between roms... also, a higher class SD would make swap faster.
I don't see how trying swap could hurt anything....other than potentially deleting the wrong partitions. That's part of the beauty of Linux... messing with it to see what you can do. It's one of the reasons i love android.. i wish more of these android newbs would realize this and encourage poking around with the coolest part of android and give the information that was requested rather than reasons why its dumb or impossible. Nothing is impossible or dumb except the ones discouraging you.
If you want to hack around on your devices... do it!
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thanks man will surely do it in future after backing up my data and you are right it's emmc but it's mount point is /mnt/emmc will it be a prob
please reply on this thread also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535360

Any new about this? Repartition or use some internal memory for system memory?
I am starting to get not enough memory when updating apps but when I check the app storage there is 45 MB free on Running, and 9 GB free on internal SD

Internal memory

Hi guys!!! Anyone can say me how much internal memory does the s3 mini has? I say internal memory for apps, the /data partition.... Thanks!!!

Here you go.
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LOL! You really think that i have not searhed it?
I searched it a lot, but it only says that has 4.5 gb for the user, but i dont know if this memory is for apps installation or an internal sd!!

blackknightavalon said:
Here you go.
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+1 :good:
migof said:
LOL! You really think that i have not searhed it?
I searched it a lot, but it only says that has 4.5 gb for the user, but i dont know if this memory is for apps installation or an internal sd!!
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Ok, chewed up and ready for quick digestion:
So 8GB version is leaving you with ~4,64GB for W/E you want to put/install there.
16Gb ver. should be ~12,64GB...
It's all clear if you read the specs and know how any smartphone is working.
Even more chewed up and ready to digest faster:
That is the internal system memory available to USER. Said that, it means you can use that potion of internal memory for purposes like storage or installations. If it does not suffice, toss in a 8/16/32gb MicroSD card and store photos/videos/music there thus leaving the internal memory for installations only. Do the same for the various caches etc, and clean up from time to time.
Cheers,
Fevv.

Ok, i don't understand you, or you don't understand me....
Yes, here are the specs for the S3 mini: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8190_galaxy_s_iii_mini-5033.php
But, here are the specs for the D3 (the phone that i have now): http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_3-4036.php
If you read says that has 16 Gb internal storage.... I will bring you some caps of my phone....
Here you can see my storage memory
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It has three storages.... The first is for apps installation (it's the /data partition), the second is to storage of photos, videos, etc (is the /sdcard partition), and the third is same as second (it's hte /sdcard-ext partition)
As you said, i can expand the S3 mini partition with a sd card, so i understand that you are talking about the /sdcard partition and it can be expanded with the /sdcard-ext partition, but i want to know how much is the /data partition size... If you say that i can install 4.65Gb of apk's, it's ok for me, but now i'm confused....
Here you can see the /data partition of my D3, 660Mb used, 348 Mb free, total 1Gb of internal storage for apps.... This is what i want to know...
Thanks...
Fevves said:
+1 :good:
Ok, chewed up and ready for quick digestion:
So 8GB version is leaving you with ~4,64GB for W/E you want to put/install there.
16Gb ver. should be ~12,64GB...
It's all clear if you read the specs and know how any smartphone is working.
Even more chewed up and ready to digest faster:
That is the internal system memory available to USER. Said that, it means you can use that potion of internal memory for purposes like storage or installations. If it does not suffice, toss in a 8/16/32gb MicroSD card and store photos/videos/music there thus leaving the internal memory for installations only. Do the same for the various caches etc, and clean up from time to time.
Cheers,
Fevv.
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migof said:
Ok, i don't understand you, or you don't understand me....
Yes, here are the specs for the S3 mini: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8190_galaxy_s_iii_mini-5033.php
But, here are the specs for the D3 (the phone that i have now): http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_3-4036.php
If you read says that has 16 Gb internal storage.... I will bring you some caps of my phone....
Here you can see my storage memory
View attachment 1845661
It has three storages.... The first is for apps installation (it's the /data partition), the second is to storage of photos, videos, etc (is the /sdcard partition), and the third is same as second (it's hte /sdcard-ext partition)
As you said, i can expand the S3 mini partition with a sd card, so i understand that you are talking about the /sdcard partition and it can be expanded with the /sdcard-ext partition, but i want to know how much is the /data partition size... If you say that i can install 4.65Gb of apk's, it's ok for me, but now i'm confused....
Here you can see the /data partition of my D3, 660Mb used, 348 Mb free, total 1Gb of internal storage for apps.... This is what i want to know...
Thanks...
View attachment 1845662
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But I do understand, just you pone a question in a way that seem a bit odd (NHF all the way) thinking all of them are the same when actually they're not
Your D3 is like my SGS II (My wife has a SGS III Mini) It has a dedicated system storage, then (USB) internal storage and also expandable external storage, am I right?
See this scr from my phone:
SGS III Mini has only one option available instead system and internal. It's all in one, thus you get something like this (MiscroSD is a secondary storage, and can be used as as internal memory on your D3, but not as a data partition on your D3, with an addition S III Mini can store huge potions of files/game/apk data on that one - like with huge games from the store - like your D3 is storing on SD and not EXT SD. IMHO - this is the way it should be):
and it's that proclamed 8Gb on S III Mini, or better said - what it has left in real time conditions of internal system memory so you simply have to accept the fact you can push it to that limit Simply means you have that memory to do whatever you want with it - be it apps/games or media :good:
See this scr from SGS III Mini compared to my SGS II if in need for more :
Cheers,
Fevv.

Thank you a lot!!!! Now i understand it!!! What you said was just what i need!!!
Solved!