[XPERIA X8 General] sandy4everyone:
Hi guys I was searching for a guide for installing and running app from SD card on my X8. Even though the search was a little bit tough and many methods were not working and some were confusing finally I managed to attain my goal. I am writing this tutorial to help those who are searching for the same.

First of all let me say I am not a expert in these type of tweak.

I am just sharing the method which worked on my phone.

Mine is Xperia X8 with "2.1 OS". "Rooted and Xrecovery installed"

Phone must be rooted and Xrecover must be installed else dont waste your time reading the things below.

"First of all please do backup your card"

The softwares which I used are the following:

1)MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v6.0 (This is free edition. It can be downloaded from their site)

2)apps2sd.zip ( attached below)

3)enableswap2_2a.zip ( attached below )

4)Link2SD ( Can be downloaded free from market)

First download and install Mini Tool Partition Wizard.

Connect your phone to your computer.

Run the partition wizard and you will see all the disks connected to your computer in it (Including your hard disk, memory card, etc)

Now right click on the picture that shows the space in your memory card and choose delete.

Now again right click in the same area as did in the previous step but this time choose create.

Choose it as primary partition with fat32 file system. Also mention the space you required for your memory card use ( This is the space that will be available for you to store your data not app).

Now Click ok.

Now you will see a new partition is formed in the image for your memory card. Now right click in the area where unallocated memory is shown and choose create. Some message will pop up showing "windows will not reg...or something like that" just press ok. As in the earlier case choose primary partition, fat 32 file type and space required. The space in this partition will be the space in SD card that will be used to save your applications. Make sure that 50 to 100 MB of space is left over. Now proceed as before and complete the second partition.

Now right click in the remaining space that is left over and click create. As in previous case, just click ok when the warning message pop out. Now choose primary type but in the option for fat32 we must choose linux swap and give all the remaining space.

Now press apply in top left portion of the software and wait till it complete its work.

Once this is done close Partition wizard and go to my computer and copy the files apps2sd.zip and enableswap2_2a.zip to the new partition which is visible there (Your memory card).

Now disconnect your phone. "Dont try to access your memory card now", just restart your phone and go to Xrecovery.

In Xrecover go to "partition" option and click on "mount sd card".

No go to main menu and select install from custom zip.

Now choose both the files "apps2sd.zip and enableswap2_2a.zip" one at a time.

Once this is done you must reboot your phone.

Now open the software link2sd.

It will ask for the file type of your new partition. Give it as fat32 and press ok.

That is it! you are done.

Now choose the software that must be transfered to SD card and press the create link button -> press ok.

Please dont try to transfer the system applications to your memory card!!!!

If you wand new application to be automaticaly installed in sd choose the option for the same from the settings of link2sd (Auto link in the settings window)

Hope this will help someone. Thank you for reading my thread.

"Do these things at your own risk I wont be responsible for any problem with your phone"