I know it was discussed a lot, but since things are constantly being updated i can't get a hold of what is working at the moment. I will be brief.
16 GB SD card, First partition is primary 14 GB FAT32, second partition is ext3 1 GB.
I am using Cyanogenmod 7 7.2.0 RC1 on Motorola Milestone. I also have androidiani open recovery and kabaldan's mmcfix module installed.
After the partitioning was complete (in card reader) i returned the SD card in the phone and booted to open recovery where I formated all caches and factory restored CM7 everything is clean.
Questions:
1. When I launch File Explorer (the one within the rom) SD-EXT on root is empty, no folders or anything, but if I launch terminal emulator and cd sd-ext then ls there they are. Why?
2. I play couple of memory intensive games (like Dead Space and GTA3), but since I have only 256 mb ram they often crash (without error) when loading a level or saved game (yes I have chainfire3D). Will moving dalvik cache and cache to sd-ext help free more ram so I can crash less?
3. What is the point of moving dalvik and cache to sd-ext and where can I find a guide how to do it?
Thanks.
CeBits said:
I know it was discussed a lot, but since things are constantly being updated i can't get a hold of what is working at the moment. I will be brief.
16 GB SD card, First partition is primary 14 GB FAT32, second partition is ext3 1 GB.
I am using Cyanogenmod 7 7.2.0 RC1 on Motorola Milestone. I also have androidiani open recovery and kabaldan's mmcfix module installed.
After the partitioning was complete (in card reader) i returned the SD card in the phone and booted to open recovery where I formated all caches and factory restored CM7 everything is clean.
Questions:
1. When I launch File Explorer (the one within the rom) SD-EXT on root is empty, no folders or anything, but if I launch terminal emulator and cd sd-ext then ls there they are. Why?
2. I play couple of memory intensive games (like Dead Space and GTA3), but since I have only 256 mb ram they often crash (without error) when loading a level or saved game (yes I have chainfire3D). Will moving dalvik cache and cache to sd-ext help free more ram so I can crash less?
3. What is the point of moving dalvik and cache to sd-ext and where can I find a guide how to do it?
Thanks.
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1) The File Manager bundled with CM7 doesn't have ROOT access, which is required to read the files on /sd-ext. Try using Root Explorer, for example.
2) No, it won't. What will probably help you is to disable JIT (gives you more free RAM), install V6 Supercharger by zeppelinrox (reorganizes how RAM is used) and remove ChainFire3D (it only helps if you reduce the texture quality to 16-bits, otherwise it's just one more layer between your apps and the GPU).
3) The point of using sd-ext is to overcome the storage limitations of the Milestone (not its RAM limitations), allowing you to install more apps without using app2sd (which renders apps on the SD unusable when you plug the device to a computer).
I hope it helps (=
Disabling surface dithering also helps.
I tried 7.2.0-RC2 without V6 and it works great, plus no more side effects, like Maps "forgetting" pre-cached areas =D
Hi. I followed pontomedon's guide to partition my 8GB card with OpenRecovery (parted & tune2fs). So I got 1 GB ext3. And installed CyanogenMod 7.2.2.
But in the CM Settings "Use internal storage" is grayed out and says "This device doesn't have expanded internal storage". Has something gone wrong? What's the best way to confirm that SD ext is working?
If ext would work, would the phone's memory still be used fully first, and SD ext only after that, or how does it go? I've now set Install location to "Internal".
I've heard of S2E (simple2ext) app, maybe I'll try it next.
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What's the best way to confirm that SD ext is working?
If ext would work, would the phone's memory still be used fully first, and SD ext only after that, or how does it go? I've now set Install location to "Internal".
I've heard of S2E (simple2ext) app, maybe I'll try it next.
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Your storage as in FAT partition on sdcard is working?
You can "mount | grep sd-ext" and "df /sd-ext" to check if sd-ext is mounted and how much space it has.
sd-ext is treated as internal memory. All user installed apps are moved to ext partition. Internal storage (data) is used for app data (configuration, etc.)
Thanks. Why does it show it as ext4. 8% is used... I guess it's working after all. Now let's install some games!
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
Filesystem /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 1K-blocks 936666 Used 70298 Available 816397 Use% 8% Mounted on /sd-ext
I installed Root Browser Lite and it shows the installed apps in sd-ext, also Dalvik-cache for those apps is there, which is good I think.
how to format?
mantokoski7 said:
I installed Root Browser Lite and it shows the installed apps in sd-ext, also Dalvik-cache for those apps is there, which is good I think.
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Hi, my question is very close to this topic : when I try to install another rom I got all the old applications coming from the previous install. Is there a way to format the ext 2 in the same time we update or change CM?
Thx
Use -FuFu-'s MiniMod Recovery - it has an extended wipe menu, including ext-wipe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091787
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Use -FuFu-'s MiniMod Recovery - it has an extended wipe menu, including ext-wipe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091787
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I'm using 2ndBootOR . What is the differcnce between them?
bibile said:
I'm using 2ndBootOR . What is the differcnce between them?
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With 2ndbootOR you can use "wipe_ext2.sh" from MiniMod by -FuFu, or any other script. Just copy file to "scripts" folder.
FuFu's latest OR is based on the 2ndbootOR, so it does everything the 2ndbootOR does, but it also has additional scripts. So it really worth a try.
Thx I'll update my second phone (I have not seen these answers before)
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When I first tried unofficial CM10, I created a partition on SD card for it originally required that. In the system, it read internal memory as about 480 MB total. That seemed about right. But now however, I couldn't get that script to run on the official CM 7 via the flash able zip, and have been using S2E. it works, yet it only reads my internal memory as total 178MB. (only shifted apps to it, no data or cache etc.)
Do you know what is causing the difference and how to fix it? Secondly, I know there are instructions on how to remove S2E and install the AMARULLZ script (from CM 10), but if you use that with CM 7, I'd like to know briefly how you installed it / what you did differently, as it did not work for me.
Thank You.
Hi, I have 3 GB free from 4 GB of all and I can't install any app from some time. (I have installed 40-50 apps) The problem began when I format internal disk to f2fs and install new ROM CM 12.1. After this ROM i formated internal and all its partition to ext4 and install new ROM Carbon in my signature. In both of this ROM it happened problem when I fill some space on the disk and then I can't install any app. (Error message: Lack of storage space). Yet I have 3 GB free and app has only a few MB.
I don't know if it's error of Android 5 or some wrong formating of disk but I tip some error in Android because I formated disk back to original form and the problem persists. In Adroid 4 it was all OK.
Please help.
Here I upload screerecord about this: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/pibe42i0wkolxj7/AACkYjs7A_CCdM9uW-IK_h1za
I install new ROM - LiquidSmooth and I have this problem again. Before installation I formatted internal SDCard. Please help!
Problem solved. I formatted more times internal sdcard with different file systems and after installation new ROM it looks good and without error message.
Can you change the stock partition size on safestrap's stock slot at all? It shows two internal memory slots, one at 3.01gb and the other is 8gb. What is going on with that other 5gb and why isn't it used?
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Can you change the stock partition size on safestrap's stock slot at all? It shows two internal memory slots, one at 3.01gb and the other is 8gb. What is going on with that other 5gb and why isn't it used?
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Not 100% sure, but I believe the non-user 8gb is split between /webtop, /cd, /preinstall, /system, /data, /cache/. /webtop and /preinstall alone eat up 2gb of it.
And, no, it can't be changed. Our resident awesome developer gave it a try a while back, and found that apparently the bootloader checks at power-on to see if the partitions are all "correct". If they're not, it pops an error screen, and there's nowhere to go from there; it pretty much soft-bricks the phone until the stock configuration is restored via fastboot image.
If we had an unlockable bootloader, then it's possible that this restriction could be removed. However, we don't - based on some poking at it by another member, it doesn't even recognize commands to pull information for/enter an unlock code - so we're stuck with stock partition sizes and virtual slots.
If you really have no choice but to use the stock "slot", you might want to look into buying a big SD card, getting Link2SD, and devoting part of said SD card to it. If you're using KitKat, the built-in App2SD might be adequate, but for Lollipop/Marshmallow, the 3gb just...isn't enough. App2SD isn't effective enough.
Otherwise, get a decent SD card and write the internal 8gb off as system storage. Make a slot with a 4gb /data size (the biggest we can go), and 700mb-1gb /system size. Install a gapps package that contains anything you would normally go to the Play Store and download separately; this installs them to /system, leaving /data more free for downloaded apps.
For large apps, use App2SD where you can to shift part of them from /data to the internal 8gb.
If you don't plan on flashing new nightlies very often, you can get apps to convert other apps into system apps, storing them in /system as well. The problem here is that they'll be wiped out whenever a new ROM is flashed, so you'd have to devise some method of backing them up and flashing them after the new nightly (ZipMe might work).
Hi everybody.
I flashed CM13 with success inside the Unsued Partitions (aka Safe Slot), along with the OC kernel.
I tried then to see if I was able to actually use the phone day to day. I was immediately faced the issue of the small /data partition, which, with the pico gapps, starts with nearly 700MB used (first boot), more than half of the available storage.
The built-in "move to sd" option (only for some apps) doesn't move the biggest files to the external storage.
Is it possible to use the "adoptable storage" option for Marshmallow on the Droid 4? (obviously with a suitable sd card).
Will it encrypt the sd card partition by default?
Thank you very much for your help,
sweetsuicide
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Ok,
I found the time to test it out myself. Adoptable storage is indeed available in cm13, but it actually is of limited help: most apps WON'T move to sd. Is this the intended behavior or am I doing aometinf wrong?