Ok I've cooked a rom and enabled app2sd my card is partitioned to fat32 and ext3 now how to get app2sd to work any idea's.
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I've noticed the same thing, i was looking at Evil Eris in a very basic kitchen for personal reasons and noticed that A2SD was already installed. i created a 32 mb swap and 512 mb ext3. Yet when i go into SD Card through setting I do not see that ext3 partition, I also do not see it if I plug my phone into the computer. Kinda thinking the kernal might not allow it. Could somebody with more experience please enlighten me? Thank you
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Hello.
Can someone explain to me how to use a2sd?? What partitions i have to create (i have a 8gig sd card).
Thank you
A bit more digging here and you would have found http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512873
This thread details a few ways to partition your SD card. Once you have it set up a A2SD will do its magic, by itself, after a reboot.
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Or this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543985
Just make sure you do an EXT3 partition...I made it EXT4 the first time and it won't work...
Hi there.
I´ve searched this forum, but I didn't find a reasonable answer, which I fully understood.
I flashed Megatron a couple of weeks ago, with some enhancements, I did the regular survey, everythings working fine, except of A2SD or the SD card partition.
I've got low memory message all the time, and only when a few programs installed and most of them moved to sd card(if possible), I can't install more... It's really anoying.
Is the partition really working? And how can I find out?
Do you guys have any idea what could be my problem and how to fix that?
Thank you
instal void echo rom , its way better than megatron and no probs
You mean you recently installed it and all of a sudden you get a memory low error? Maybe the a2sd scripts failed to move /data/app to the sdcard. Just a hunch.
I mean maybe the a2sd card didnt function from the beginning... But I mentioned it after I installed applications.
And what happen with the a2sd when I unmount an SD card, or when I boot with a SD card mount problem(It happedn, I had to put it out and back on)?
Can I partiton that again without flashing a new rom? I tried that, using custom recovery, so I made a backup, then I wiped the ext memory, made a partition of: swap 0, ext 1024 and then I upgraded to ex3 and ext4... But when I booted up, there is the same internal memory, but less space on SD card.. So the partition is there, but mind not mounted....
is it possible to use an ext2 formatted sd card in my a101 to overcome the 4gb file-size limit of fat32 filesystem? i tried but my a101 doesn't seem to recognize the sd card...
thanks!
Yes, this is possible since FW 2.1.0.4.
Which version are you using?
I'm using the latest firmware, 2.1.08, rooted with archangel. what I did was I put my 32 gb sdcard into my phone, connected it to my win7 notebook and formatted it to ext2 with partition manager. put it back into my a101 and it wasn't recognised. what am I doing wrong? I reformatted it back to fat32 with my a101 and it works again.
is there any difference performance wise between fat32 and ext2?
thanks!
Yes, when ext2 starts to work it is very slow.
Look into the Uruk Droid thread where he states that ext4 is alot better and faster.
http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/changes_firmware_archos_android_gen8.htm
yes, but do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong that ext2 doesn't work?? I would at least like to try it...
I have 2 problems with uruk and ext4:
1. I don' want to install sde and void the warranty
2. ext4 is a journaling filesystem and as such not very suitable for removable media, as I've heard. or does uruk support the non-journaling version of ext4?
thanks!
It is your Loss if you don't want to get the big benefits of Uruk.
In Most countries Archos will have some problem to claim that loss of warrenty when you for ex. have a broken usb port.
It will only be a problem if you friy your cpu by overclocking.
But it is your decision.
1. Ext2 + Ext3 ( which is journaling support ontop of ext2 ) are working since 2.1.03.
Is there at least any message Printed on Your 101 when you insert the card?
2. Journaling is only a problem if you constantly change the sd and forget to "safe remove" the card otherwise the speed outweights the problem that ext4 might have.
Hi all. First of all let me say KUTOS to CyenogenMod for all their great work. I am now running ICS 4.0.4 on my LEO from SD with WinMo as the native which is what I had intended. I finally got it to run quickly and smoothly by formatting my SD card (16gig) with 15 of it as fat32 and the remaining 1gig as ext4. Prior to that, I had all 16 of it formatted as fat32 and although the OS installed and loaded ok it was very laggy. Finally formatting it with the ext4 partition sped it up quite significantly. I now have a question in 2 parts and was wondering if anyone could help shed some light? I am right now very low on storage space and was wondering if I was to reformat the card with 2gig on the ext4 partition, would it help increase the size of the system storage and 2nd part ... Can I root the OS and is Z4Root the utility to use for this ... Please Help
Thx in advance...
Hello, I just rooted my LwW last week into 4.1.B.0.587, using the rooting process from this forum.
Because mainly I rooted my phone because I want to make more internal, I partitioining my SD Card. It's Class 4 and having 16GB size.
The problem is, after I've partitioned my card using MiniTool (into 10GB of External FAT32, 4GB of Internal Ext4, and the rest about 400MB of Linux Swap) and have put it to my phone, when I open Link2SD and chose Ext4, it said:
Mount script error
Mount script cannot be created.
mount: No such device
Can anyone help me about this? Oh and I want to ask, is it okay if I didn't use the Linux Swap?
Fixed:
Changing the Ext4 into Ext2.
Try to reboot after error message ecountered. That problem should be solved. Maybe there was a system mistakes when Link2SD trying to make a script. Or you can choose Ext2.
Ps: for Linux swap, it's just as you desire, actually it's not needed. The Linux Swap can be useful for you if you have the swapper app, you need to configure how much free RAM treshold needed in other to keeping some free virtual space on RAM [correct me if I'm wrong [emoji14]] (but maybe after you reboot, you will noticed your phone becomes laggy for severall second *based on my experience [emoji12])