[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sagar_Patel:
Data to Sd-ext

Hi Scorpion85!!!

Greetings of the day from Sagar,

i would like to tell you that i have done all the modifications given below and my SGYD GT-S6102 with only 4 GB Samsung Class 4 SD Card is now running much better than ever, but before you follow my guidance, somethings must be cleared as below:-

Warning:-

Don’t claim if your device may be failed forever and you have to purchase new one cause it can be and if it does, none other than you will be responsible for it!!!

Definitely, your device will most probably become out of warrany!!!

I am and will not responsible for you and all the things happen in your life and you are agree with all of my terms and conditions!!!!

However, I am with some others, definitely responsible for all benefits you are going to get from my talk, blogs, write ups, articles, updates, suggestions, work and support!!!!

It is must to backup your whole android system using titanium back up and also CWM to apply the option of backup for NANDroid backup.

It is highly recommend that you first carefully read, understand and then follow all the instructions with patience.

You must gain patience while any operation is being performed.

Now, i would like to know that what actually do you mean by Data?? i meant that what kind of data you want to move to your sd ext?

if you meant to move application data to sd-ext, you will need to root your phone first of all and before root your phone and do any other system modification ever, it is highly recommend that first you take backup of your phone and SD Card using CWM/TWRP, Kies, super backup etc...and copy them to your pc.

Even after root your phone, you should take back up again through CWM/TWRP and Titanium Backup and copy them to your pc.

How to root your Phone?

First of all, in your android mobile, go to developer option and select the check box of usb debugging and also do checkmark in an option of installation from the unknown sources.

Download appropriate update.zip and unroot.zip in your SD Card to the root level instead of saving those in any folder. Files must from the same source and match your device.

Download embedded CWM in your SD Card to the root level from there or find appropriate. If your phone support, you can also download twrp from the mfg website. Go to twrp official site and check if your device supported.

Download appropriate stock rom.

For CWM Users: Go to boot recovery and select CWM.

Go to backup and recovery section.

Apply Backup option to backup boot image of your system data.

Back and reboot your device.

If you have downloaded twrp, then get the backup with twrp as same as mentioned above for CWM.

From the file manager, transfer the clockworkmod folder to your PC.

Again go to boot recovery and select “apply update from SD Card”.

Select CWM and select “install zip from SD” therein.

Go with “choose zip from SD Card”.

Select Udate.zip and wait with patience for successfully completion. (If you have selected right files for your device!!! Or ready for the annoying things going to be happen with you!!!).

After successfully completion, apply the option for reboot your device by going back.

When your device gets stability, you will see superuser icon as a modified and one eye banned android icon!!!

Download root checker to ensure that your device is rooted properly.

If root checker result says sorry to you for improper root installation, download appropriate and latest superuser and busybox.

Update both superuser and busybox if necessary / required.

Now run again the root checker and see if it says congrats for proper root installation or try until you get proper root installation.

Now, reboot and boot your device again. (You may have to do this several times until you are ready with eye candy configuration of your device with proper stability!!!).

Select CWM from “apply update from SD Card” and then select “install zip from SD” therein from CWM menu.

Go through the option “Choose zip from SD Card” and select latest custom Kernel you have downloaded and saved to the root of your phone.

Wait for the successfully installation and then reboot your device.

you can check again if your device still in proper and healthy root condition by root checker.

Next step is to install link2sd and root explorer pro/advance from play store.

To use link2sd and to move your application data to sd-ext, you have to make your phone to think that your sd-ext is actually internal memory of your phone, and to make this, you have to make partition of your sd-ext.

To make the partition of sd-ext, you have to download minitool or any other software in your pc that can do so.

Partitioning the SD-Card may wipe all your data and it can be formatted automatically through process.

However, minitool tries best to keep your SD-Card data as much as possible.

i will guide you to make not only the partition for which your phone may think that it is internal memory and saves all data in it, but also to make Swap partition that will increase the RAM of your phone.

How to use minitool?

Insert full charged battery to your Laptop or Start UPS with minimum of 1 an hour backup for your desktop.

Close internet access and do not run any other application that may interrupt this process.

If this Process will be interrupted during the execution of operation, your SD Card may be damaged permanently.

Insert your SD card and open minitool.

Under file system, find Disk 2 and right click on the partition to apply the option delete and do the same for each partition if your SD-Card have already more than one.

Now, you will have only one partition under disk 2 having unallocated total size.

Right click on it to apply the option Create.

Create As: Primary

File System: FAT32

Do not change any size, but just click on ok.

You will have FAT32 file system under Disk 2 as Primary type having total capacity of your SD Card.

Now, right click on FAT32 to apply the option move/resize.

Set the “Unallocated space after” for your new Swap Partition that is to increase the RAM i.e., Unallocated space after is an option that will show the size of your new Partition and Partition size shows the size that you will have remain to use as SD Card!!!

You can set the size by your choice/comfort.

e.g.Partition Size: 3275 = 3.20 GB to use as SD Card

e.g.Unallocated Space after: = 512 MB to use as Swap

Hit on OK.

Now, right click on unallocated file system to apply the option Create.

Click on Yes from the Warning Prompt saying that new partition cannot be used by windows and blah blah….

Create As: Primary

File System: Linux Swap

Do not change any other option, i.e., do not change size options.

Just tap on OK.

Now, to create Ext2 partition (that will be used to trick the phone as internal memory and to store apps in that manner), right click on FAT32 file System under disk 2 category and apply the option move/resize.

Set size of your comfort.

e.g.Set “unallocated space after” around 1064 MB = 1.04 GB for Ext2 file system, so that you will have remain around 2211 MB = 2.16 GB to use as SD Card.

Click on OK.

Now, right click on unallocated file system to apply the option Create.

Click on Yes from the Warning Prompt saying that new partition cannot be used by windows and blah blah….

Create As: Primary

File System: Ext2

Do not change any other option, i.e., do not change size options.

Just tap on OK.

Now, from the upper left side, click on the big icon of “Apply” and start the Process by clicking on OK type confirmation. Wait for Successfully Completion and you have all done!!!

Ok, after successfully completion of Partitioning SD Card, safely remove it from your pc and insert it back to your android phone.

How to use link2sd?

Open link2sd first time and select ext2 (or whatever external fat/ntfs primary partition you have created earlier to use link2sd tool).

Reboot your device when you prompt with message that ext2 script has been successfully mounted and you need to reboot your device to get started!!!

After reboot your device, open swapper and select SD card FAT partition with the size around 512 MB to enter in box and tap on the button “Save”.

Open link2sd again and from the upper right corner action menu, select “storage space” to see system space / storage.

Now go back in link2sd and from that upper right corner menu, select the option “multiple select”.

Tap on first menu among three to select all the apps and then click on last dropdown action menu to select the option “Create link” and then Select all those check boxes like create link, create dalvik cache link and create library link etc… when you prompt by “Create link” menu and proceed to next.

Wait for successfully completion.

Happily check the storage info from link2sd dropdown action menu.

Additional purely risky step to release the memory from internal storage is as below without any tests:-

Go back to link2sd and select that icon looks like filter and from it, select an option “on internal”, so that you will see the apps in your internal memory.

Tap on last action menu, apply the option of multiple select, select all by tapping on first menu among those three, then select last menu to apply an option of “Create link”, wait for successfully completion if possible.

If internal applications fail to link with ext2, download root explorer pro.

Open root explorer pro, tap on R/W instead of R/O.

Go to android/data and select three folders to copy them: apps, dalvik cache and data

Paste them into data/sdext2

Select apps from sdext2 and hold it on to apply an option of link this folder.

Link that folder in data/ and where there must be prompt to overwrite or replace confirmation, click on OK or YES when prompt so.

Do the same for dalvik cache and data folder from sdext2 and link them to data/ to replace/link.

Now if all works great, to become happily surprised, tap on that action menu in link2sd and select “storage info”….See the system space / storage and say happily….WOHOOOO…..Yes….WOW….OMG….

Now just forget about “not enough storage space” notification while downloading some interesting apps…

Do not hesitate ever for asking anything, i will try my best.

If these help you, Please do not forget to hit on Thanks.