[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Aj.GaLaxY aCE:
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While installing rom people often ask for link2sd or s2e support

As of enabling Dark tremor app2sd is difficult for them....

I did an extensive research and came up successful in using and applying it....

I would like to share it here....

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Before beginning it is assumed that you have a custom clockwork mod recovery and a custom rom is installed on your device. Alternatively, if you are in a stock firmware/rom and want to partition your sd card please Install Clock Work Mod Recovery and Flash a Custom Rom on your device. Also since partitioning your sd card will erase all your data stored in sd card, it is recommended that you backup your data to your computer. Now that you have backed up your data please follow these simple instructions to partition your sd card and install Darktremor App2sd script on your android smart phone.

PARTITIONING SD CARD

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1. Reboot your device into Clockwork Mod Recovery.

2. Go to Advance>>Partition SD Card option on your recovery and select a size (for ext 3 partition). This will create an ext 3 file system partition on your sd card called sd-ext. The size of your sd-ext partition should be determined on the basis of how much apps and games you are going to install on your device.

i have 1 Gb sd-ext on 8 gb memory ...

3. Also, select swap partition size as 0 Mb (select 64 or more for gaming purpose)

4. [Optional] Format your sd-ext from mounts and storage>>fromat /sd-ext option in CWM recovery.

5. Reboot your device and open a terminal emulator or shell commander and type in the following command to make sure that your second partition (aka sd-ext partition) is mounted at boot.

mount | grep sd-ext

You should see the following code:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered)

INSTALLING DTAPPS2SD

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6. Now download Darktremor Apps2SD (link bottom) and copy it to your sdcard.

7. Reboot your device in CWM recovery and then mount your data and system by going to mounts and storage>>mount /data and mounts and storage>>mount /system options respectively.

8. Now go back to main menu and go to install zip from sd>>choose zip from sdcard option and select the dtapps2sd-2.7.5.3-beta04-signed.zip file you downloaded from above.

9. After the script is installed reboot your device.

That’s all. You have successfully installed Darktremor Apps2SD on your device ;).

Note that the device will reboot again after you reboot your device. This is just to move all your apps to the second partition (sd-ext partition) and is normal.

Also if you want to manage your Apps2SD settings you can either use commands in terminal emulator or download the APPS2SDGUI application from market and manage everything from there. One of the useful command can be a2sd help. Try it on any terminal to see the help file that comes with Darktremor A2SD.

How to check if Apps2SD has been installed correctly...

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The following information is for those who are still unsure of whether Apps2SD has been installed and if it is working correctly after root.

Open a Terminal Editor on your phone

When you have the client open, type "su" to gain super user access, and then hit enter. Now type "ls -l /data" and hit enter. You should see a few lines, a couple of which should read on the far right column:

dalvik-cache -> /system/sd/dalvik-cache

app-private -> /system/sd/app-private

app -> /system/sd/app

Notice the -> indicating symlinks and the 'sd'

You can also run: busybox df -h to check the /system/sd that the folder is being used

If this output is visible to you, then Apps2SD is working properly and you have installed it correctly. You will notice that by checking Menu > Settings > SD & phone storage, there is still some internal memory going down due to cache, other data, etc, but the main apps all go on the SD card given the above result. I currently have 29 apps installed (including Google Earth, which is 22.1 MB in size itself) and my internal memory currently shows 119MB of available space.

You can perform more extensive checks by executing the following command:

ls /system/sd/app (this will list all the apps which you have installed to the SD card)

CONFIGURING APPS2D

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open terminal emulator,, and type the following:

•	a2sd check : Checks a2sd status; displays information incl. where your apps, cahce and data are stored.

•	a2sd cachesd : Moves dalvik cache to sd-ext partition.

•	a2sd nocache : Moves dalvik cache back to internal storage.

•	a2sd data2sd : Move /data/data to /sd-ext/data .

•	a2sd nodata : Move /sd-ext/data back to internal storage.

•	a2sd remove : Moves apps back to internal storage and sets no a2sd flag.

or u can simply use app2sdgui to do things.. a help is given in app just proceed on installing the app and go to help menu :)

PRECAUTIONS: tips you should take in mind

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After installing Darktremor Apps2SD don’t move your apps to sdcard either from Manage Applications Settings or by using app2sd pro or similar applications because it will ruin all your settings and your script will not work :eek:.

Also you may notice that your used space in internal storage shown in Manage Applications Setting is not decreasing even after you install Apps2SD and you may think that the script is not working. But remember if you followed all the instructions from above and got the same results as explained above then the script is working. It is shown so because system is fooled to believe that the apps are in internal storage but in reality they are stored in the secondary partition we created (i.e. in /sd-ext/app folder) on your device.

HAPPY INSTALLING APP2SD script...

A2SDGUI link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elgubbo.a2sdGUI&hl=en

DT A2SD Version 2.7.5.3 Beta 04 - http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2sd/dtapps2sd-2.7.5.3-beta04-signed.zip

DT A2SD thread on xda : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715940

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