[General Questions and Answers] Ganuke:
Hello,

New member to this forum having a problem as the title to this thread states. I searched around the forum some and the only threads that I found were in areas I would not be able to post & reply to just yet with my not having at least 10 posts total. First I will give some background and then lead to the problem I am having so as to provide as much info as possible that could help bring about the solution.

The background is that a little over a week ago I received a purchased overstock Motorola Droid X2. I wanted to ( and did ) go on a Page Plus monthly plan and, after some research, the Motorola Droid X2 seemed one of the best to use on Page Plus given the current limitation of no 4g phones permitted with that carrier.

I am generally not shy of trying things with devices to make them better and more to my liking. But my practice of this has mostly been with ios devices such as the ipod touch. I have had a Google Nexus 7 for several months now which was my first android device before now getting the Droid X2 smartphone.

Now for the more technical stuff, so pardon any wording I may get wrong as I am relatively new to learning the Android side of utilizing the tools created by great minds to bring about the best Android device experience :

Back to the Droid x2...... a couple days after getting it I decoded I wanted to root it. I had previously read about doing such things on Android devices after getting the Nexus 7 but figured I would leave that device as is for a while since it came with a latest Android version. So within a couple days of getting the Droid X2 I rooted it via my computer using a file called DX2Batchroot 2013.exe that was uploaded by someone known as SD Shadow. The root process for me went, seemingly, just fine with that file and method.

It was just after rooting the device :) that I was then looking to change up the recovery on the Droid X2. I thought perhaps to try and install the Clockworkmod recovery on this smartphone. I did some researching ( and as I see it now, likely not enough researching )...... and went with downloading Rom Manager from the Google Play market along with both the Droid X and Droid 2 recovery bootstrap apps also purchased from the Google Play market...... as the developer of Rom Manager states to get and use such recovery bootstrap apps with it. Neither of those recovery bootstrap apps made it to where I could use Rom Manager to install a clockwork mod recovery on my Droid X2. So I then purchased the premium version of Rom manager thinking that would do the trick to get clockwork mod recover on this smartphone. Well...... it didn't. I then did more researching on the Net and found that, apparently, Rom Manager does not work with the Droid X2 even with the recovery addons or in premium version. Some dollars lost now for apps I can't use with my smartphone and lesson learned.

It was then that I found and installed what would be a properly working bootstrap app that would change up the recovery on my Droid X2 and allow me to enter it. That file I downloaded, and have since deleted, I believe was named " MOTODX2 Bootstrap Signed.rar. " Now having a changed recovery I could get to ( provided I have the phone plugged in with an outlet charger ) the next day I started researching on what custom made roms were available for my phone. Since the Android version on my Droid X2 is 2.3.5 with a system version of 1.3.418...... it seemed the best custom Rom available for my smartphone at this time ( and without first having to try and get my smartphone on Android version 2.34 or earlier ) would be Eclipse 2.3.

From the start of getting this Droid X2 a little over a week ago I had been frustrated with the SD setup by where it seems the internal storage is partitioned in a 2 GB segment and a 4.35 GB segment ( the later being referred to as the media area within the applications area of settings. ) The 8 GB SD card I have inserted into my phone next to the battery under the back cover is nowhere to be found as present anywhere in any setting that I could find. It was after purchasing Rom Toolbox Pro from the Google Play market that I seen this smartphone has things listed in the directory as " sdcard " and " sdcard-ext. " The " sdcard-ext " being my inserted 8 GB SD card nowhere to be found in any phone setting of this smartphone.

So, when reading a post from the developer of the Eclipse 2.3 rom state that a SD card flip/flop ' feature would be included with this rom, I decided to download it and have it installed through the changed recovery that is on my Droid X2. So, with this phone plugged in to an outlet charger, I entered the changed recovery and proceeded to format / delete the data, then cleared the cache, then went into advanced to clear the dalvik cache. I then chose the recovery option to install Eclipse 2.3 rom from SD card. The install of Eclipse 2.3 appeared to go smoothly. once the phone was fully rebooted I looked around to get a feel for what things were changed from stock.

A part of that included seeing, within " settings / applications / manage applications " that the third panel now shows " On SD card " instead of the stock media area. I also see that this " On SD card " shows a total storage available as 7.59 GB meaning it represents the SD card I have inserted in my Droid X2. I also took a look at " settings / storage " which does show a heading " Internal storage " as being the 7.59 GB size of my inserted SD card and heading " SD card " as being the 4.35 GB size of the factory partitioned area. So I thought Great I will get apps of mine from the Google Play and Amazon markets finally on the larger 8 GB inserted SD card.

So I went back to " settings / applications / Manage applications / On SD card " on my Droid X2 and proceeded to click on apps I already had downloaded and installed on this smartphone choosing the option to " Move to SD card " with each one. It was after doing this with some of the larger sized apps on my Droid X2 that I backed out to the main " Manage applications / On SD card " window only to see that the left free size of my inserted SD card still showing the maximum of 7.59GB ...... Despite having just selected " Move to SD card " some of the larger sized apps on my smartphone. To check further on this I started Rom Toolbox Pro and went into the ' Root Browser ' section and then found that these apps were being placed into " sdcard-ext " within a folder named " .android secure. "

The problem is that within the directory the sdcard-ext is now actually the 4.35 GB of factory partitioned storage with my Droid X2 since I now have the Eclipse 2.3 rom installed that includes the flip/flop feature. So despite selecting to move apps to sd card which would now be my 8 GB inserted card this Droid X2 is finding its way to just move them to the 4.35 GB of factory partitioned space even though it shows as being named sdcard-ext. Essentially it seems the names of and total GB sizes of the factory partitioned storage and my inserted SD card changed ( flip/flopped ) but the phone is still going about getting newly installed and moved apps still on that 4.35 GB of factory partitioned storage space and not on my inserted 8GB ( Transcend brand ) SD card.

So that is the problem I am having. I want to install new apps and get already installed apps to my 8 GB inserted SD card. I thought installing the Eclipse 2.3 rom that has the flip/flop feature would be the answer. So what am I doing wrong ? Is there something else I should have done / installed in this process I described from start to finish to get apps to my inserted SD card ? What am I doing wrong ?

Also of note would be that within the main window of the Rom Toolbox app there is a tab named " Configure Apps2SD " with the options to select " Auto " , " Internal " , or " SD card. " I currently have it selected to " Auto. " Maybe I will try " Internal " ( with a smartphone reboot ) and if that does not work try the " SD card " option ( with a smartphone reboot ) next within the Configure Apps2SD section of Rom Toolbox Pro.

Any help on this in finding the solution to this problem I am having will be greatly appreciated. I know this is a long reading...... But I wanted to provide as many details of what I have done with my Droid X2 up to the point of still experiencing this problem I thought would be resolved after having installed the Eclipse 2.3 rom. ( Also should the developer of the Eclipse 2.3 rom read this...... In no way am I trying to cast blame on you or the originator of the flip/flop feature. I know it must be me that has done or am still doing something wrong. ) Just Ggrrrr that I still can't get my apps on my Droid X2 to my inserted SD card.

Ganuke