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[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
i took a picture and there was no error. i went into settings > storage and there wher 2 options, phone storage & storage card.

anyways, i attached some screenshots of my internal and external, can you let me know what these mean? mnt, sdcard. sdcard 2, ext_sd? since im back on sense now, say if i download game will it now go to my 64gb sd card instead of internal like it did on jellybean? when i was on jb everything went to internal. anyways, i wiped internal and external like you said in amon ra, hopefully this fixes everything.

im guessing sdcard = my rezounds 10gb internal. sdcard 2 = my 64gb external sdcard. what is mnt and ext_sd? if ext_sd is my external sdcard why do i have two paths to it?

and i just installed a game i bought a while back, wanted to see where it installed: im confused on the numbers of internal, phone storage, etc. it says the game 40mb was put on sdcard but i dont see it. i dont want large apps and games left on my phones storage, id like to use my 64gb sdcard, reason i bought it.

do i need to partition my external sdcard or something? i dont see my ext sdcard anywhere below.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
with all apps they usually store in internal under system/data....if you want that pushed to external you have to get an app that does that like apps2sd....this is default for any android....also its showing the ext_sd while in sdcard because it mounts to it for lets say that apps2sd and some apps even require and make the directory if needed for easier transfering...if you notice in main root directory it only shows sdcard1 and sdcard 2 just like it should
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
should i partition my sdcard? like it is telling me to do.is app2sd the best for this?
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
You have a separate 1.7 GB partition that downloaded apps go to, that doesn't count against the 12GB or so of Internal SD. I wouldn't worry about moving apps to the SD card unless you're filling that 1.7 GB up. If you do fill it up, go through your apps in Settings and use the built in move to SD on any app that it's not grayed out on. Don't move any apps with active widgets or that start on boot.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I'll use that up quickly. I just installed this 40gb game for my son, it says the apk is 40mb and that's it located in /mnt/asec/. What is mnt, is that apk stored on my internal? And how can I get it on my ext sdcard if so? I bought some games that are 300mb+, some even a 1gb. I want to use ny 64gb ext sdcard, whole reason I bought it, want to keep internal free. I have like 12 games and 20+apps that will surely take up all my internal when I re d/l them. By the way I did go into settings and hit the move to sdcard box.
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
You can try the Move to SD option, it's up to the developer of the app to configure what can/can't move to SD using that option though. In the case of the app you listed, the .apk part is in the DRM protected app folder and that'll never move off the internal storage using the built in method. If you find that option isn't cutting it, you need to switch to using an apps2SD method where you can move everything.

/mnt is just the mount point for all filesystems regardless of what hardware they are on.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/mnt.html
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I did try the rezounds move to sd option. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I went into settings - device - apps. I believe the game is already moved b/c it has the "move to phone" button available.

When I click "move to phone" it changes to the ss below, now a "move to phone storage" button is available.

What do these storage terms mean, ex; USB storage app? What's the diff between move to phone and move to phone storage? Im guessing I need to try an apps2sd application, but which one? Could you recommend some, don't mind paying. Also, won't I need to partition my ext sdcard for apps2sd to work, just asking cause all these apps I see talk about partitioning your ext sdcard.

Btw, thanks for all the help I'm starting to understand this a lot better, much appreciated.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Apps in the Rezound exist in either the data partition (Phone storage) or the internal Storage (Storage)... apps cannot be moved to the SD card normally with the embedded Settings->Apps tool.

This is usually enough though, it is rare that you would run out space but if you were going to use something that moves the apps to the actual SD card, I would suggest Link2SD... it requires partitioning the SD card and making the secondary partition an Ext3/4 partition, it moves the data to the Ext3/4 partition of the SD Card and creates symbolic links back to the original places, even allowing Widgets and startup apps to be reside on the SD card. It does involve a little finesse if you have to factory default or install a new ROM though. I used to use it all the time on my old HTC Aria, which had about 256M for app storage and it worked brilliantly.
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
That's the one thing I wasn't sure of, is it using the Internal or External SD when doing the move to SD option, if it's Internal, forget what I said and just use Link2SD, should be a guide online how to use it.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Start here: http://www.link2sd.info and here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919326
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I read through the "What you need for linking applications:" from that xda thread. I;m going to follow it to the T, hopefully it'll work for my Rezound. Thanks for the info.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I'm trying to use that Mini Partition application but I have no idea what I'm doing, these directions aren't really detailed. I'm been trying to figure this out for hours now. I'm going nuts!
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
I always use Partition Magic or EaseUS Partition Manager, but why don't you just partition it in TWRP? It is under Advanced... Set the Swap size to 0 and the EXT size to whatever you want, I always used 2GB (2048) on my Aria but you could use whatever you feel is appropriate, and your choice of partition types and swipe to partition. Then reboot and setup Link2SD. Remember you will lose everything on your SD card, so make sure to back it up to a PC or something.

EDIT: I have not done this on the Rezound, so I am assuming it will work fine, but I don't know anyone who has done it on this device since the embedded space is usually more than sufficient.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
Ok ill use twrp just gotta flash it. For the ext do I select ext 2 3 or 4? Also, is the ext where the apps will be moved to? I have a 64gb card can I make the ext 15-20gb or higher?
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Use Ext3 or 4, in this situation you won't notice any difference in performance between the two, at one time 3 was considered to be more stable and I use it most of the time but I don't know if it makes any difference anymore. You will not run into the size limitations in those partition types, I believe its in the upper terabyte range . To make it easy and have nice round numbers I always do it in increments of 512 though, so 16384 would probably be appropriate and give you 16 gigabytes of space.

I gotta ask though, what do you need so much application space for? are you running thousands and thousands of apps? The reason I ask is most apps automatically move their data to the SD card if they are very large, like most games and the advantages you see by using a tool like this can be minimal if you're using lots of very large games.

EDIT: one thing to keep in mind that might be confusing the first few times you use this application, the objective is to link the applications, not move. It seems counter intuitive but if you move them you're defeating the purpose and not gaining much, you need to use the link options.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
When I get home tonight I will follow your directions on partitioning with twrp. You've been more than helpful, thank you.

To your ?. I use the phone and so does my son. I must of purchased 30+ games this month alone, and apps, well too many to count. I also use it to to store my 5000+ mp3s and movies for my son.

Edit: for example I just downloaded rayman fiesta run and the files it downloaded arent on my external. And when I JB all games were slow, lagged a lot. Now I'm back on sense everything is smooth.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
just curious...on JB roms....did you force gpu rendering in dev options.....it will cause that....i run avabel on jellybean....which need i remind you is a very power and graphic hungry game....and runs fine
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
5000 MP3's?!?! I used to go that, just uploaded them all (plus around 10,000 more) to Play Music and use the cloud now since I have WiFi 95% of the time when I play music.

Games will not use your EXTERNAL storage, but most of them install the core of app in the phones app storage area (the 2GB portion) and their data on the internal storage (the ~11GB area). Most of the ones I have do that, for example, Mechs Warfare takes about 80MB of storage in the app data partition, but uses about 450MB of internal storage.

If you have a lot of games that do this, Link2SD, Move2SD, and other similar tools may not help much, all they will do is move the application data to the external storage, but the app controls it's own data being installed on the "sdcard", which is the internal storage. In most of those applications there is no way to tell it to use the external card and there is no way to move the data without swapping mount points between the internal and external storage.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I went into twrp like you said. Advance >Partition. I get an error everytime, I think I messed my sdcard up by doing this. The error says:

I did like you said , I made

- swap size: 0

- file system: ext3

- ext size: 16384

After it failed, I rebooted my phone and went into settings > storage to see my sdcard, it went for 64gb to 40gb, ss below:

I then opened up mini partition tool and tried to fix everything by hitting the format button. This is what my sdcard says now after formatting, is my sdcard back to normal now? I dont know what the 29mb used is for. Anyways I followed your directions to the T and i still get that error above. I tried a few times, maybe me external sdcard can't be partitioned using my phone maybe it has to a pc/windows program.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
dont know if it will help but i always use ext4....also not that it is external sd thats giving the error in twrp...il almost curious if twrp doesnt support anything over 32gb...ill ask fly....also your format on the images does look good....and i do suggest trying link2sd or the other stuff acejavelin posted...may help in what your looking for but me and him are both right....no app even on pure from the store stock will save on external sd unless that device does not have internal sdcard (much older devices and some chinese knockoffs, all newer last few years devices do have internal sd though)
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Once you format the card, it will show a lower capacity... the "Storage" portion of settings will only show the FAT32 space on the SD card. So if you have a 40GB Fat32 partition and a 20GB Ext3/4 partition, the 20GB space will NOT show up in the Storage settings. Try using Ext4, it should work just fine, but the only app that will use it or see it is Link2SD, to see the free space on it you will need to open the app and see that information there.

I would use EaseUS Home (Free) edition and wipe all the partitions on the card, write/apply the table, then create a 40GB Fat32 partion as a primary partition, and a Ext4 partition of the remaining space as a primary partition... The partition will complain that this isn't a recommended setup but write/apply anyway. Put the card in the Rez and bootup, go to Settings-Apps and clear data on Link2SD and then open Link2SD, tell it the partition type and give it a few seconds to settle then try linking an application to partition, should be good to go.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
EaseUS Home Parition Master, I just downloaded it, could you give me an easier tutorial on how to use it to partition my card. I'm so new to this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I want to use at least 20-30GB for extra app/game space. I believe I formatted my card back to normal, I attached pictures above.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
[MENTION=4619964]xXezmacXx[/MENTION]... It isn't too difficult, but here goes:

1) Insert SD Card and make sure it is recognized by Windows

2) Start EaseUS and select Partition Manager

3) Highlight and Right-Click the current Fat32 Partition on the SD Card and click Delete and then OK

4) Click Apply (blue arrow) and wait for it to finish

5) Right click on the unallocated space and select Create Partition

6) Change Create As: to Primary and File System: to FAT32 (other settings are irrelevant), then set the size of the partition you want for "normal" storage. Click OK

7) Right click on the unallocated space and select Create Partition, acknowledge the warning window as Yes

8) Change Create As: to Primary and File System: to EXT3 (other settings are irrelevant), and click OK

9) Click Apply (blue arrow) and wait for it to finish (this step might take some time, wait for the confirmation that it completed successfully, it may appear to "stall" but be patient)

10) Put card into Rezound and boot up

11) Go to Settings->Apps->Link2SD and Clear Data

12) Press Home and start Link2SD

13) It has a configuration Wizard, I don't remember the exact steps but it will ask you the partition type, select Ext3, then you should be good to go.

Note that I have never done with anything by 8GB and 16GB cards and it has always worked fine, setting both partitions to Primary is the key, logical or extended partitions will not work.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
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Did this work?

I cleared the data liked you said, I even re-installed it to make sure, but it didnt ask me to select ext3 or anything, there was no wizard. I did a test, I clicked on the Toy Story game and Rayman Fiesta Run and clicked "Create Link". Did I do it correctly by the screenshots? I messed up and only used 25gb thought instead of dedicating 40gb for the partition. Where is the rest of external sdcard space, its still on sdcard2 which is now 34gb, right? I'm confused now on these storage locations like why sdcard only says 10gb, ahhhh im too noob for this lol.

I went into /data/sdext2 and get this. It seems like the .apks(4-20mb) get moved to sdext2 but the game data (400mb+) doesnt? If I can't move the game data than this is kind of pointless.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
I can't see the attachments in Tapatalk for some reason, but sounds like its working as I expected.

I explained most these things in previous post, Settings-Storage will only show the info on the Fat32 portion of the sdcard... Partitioning the sd card is not "normal" for Android, so some things might not report correctly. Also, as I said before, game/app data may not movable to the sd card at all since it's not part of the app really, but controlled by it and placed in /sdcard.

Once I get back to my PC tomorrow I can review the images better, but my guess is in your situation there isnt much that could help without taking more drastic measures.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I uploaded the scrennies to imagebam but your right i might have to just let this go.
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
I just installed a few paid games and now root explorer says I only have 8gb (sdcard) of space left. A few more games and I won't be able to install anything. I only have 8 games installed.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Pretty sure my suspicions were correct, the data is being stored by the app in the app in the standard location of /sdcard, which is the internal space and not much that can be done about that as the apps are in control of where their data goes.

The only other option would be to try to swap internal/external SD card in the mount tables, this is tricky in the Rezound since we have multiple mount points... there was a thread with recovery flashable ZIP mods here somewhere but I can't find it right now.

The other option might be to try a 4.2.2 based ROM, such as Beanstalk 1.300... many have the internal and external storage points swapped (/sdcard or /sdcard0 is the external card and /ext-sd or /sdcard1 is the internal storage), basically they use the external card for everything and don't use the internal at all unless an app is manually told to use it. Still won't change the issue that the app storage partition is ~2GB though.

Other than that, i am not sure how to help much more. :(
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
Do I need to do anything special now if say I want to move between sense, ics and jb roms? I'm still on stock root. Oh last thing when I do a backup in twrp, do I just leave the default settings as is or do I need to check extra boxes?

Thx
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
If you change roms, you'll need to reset up any link2sd stuff you've done (minus recreating the SD Card partition.)
[HTC Rezound] xXezmacXx:
Ok, so I just un-create the links I made. I don't need to do anything to my microsdcard, right, just leave the ext and everything as it was partitioned?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dantemudjin55:
Does anyone know if the cyanogenmod installer will support our SP?

Enviado de meu C5303 usando Tapatalk
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarkar1990:
It will be but will take some time.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imanesaurus:
After we get cm official released, and it should be. :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uberlaggydarwin:
Not yet.

CM is official. I'm not prepared to merge in a temporary kernel though so I'm waiting for Sony 4.3 source :)

Nobody can really answer your questions except for Cyanogen inc as community maintainers can't do much really :(

Woo 100th post :)
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imanesaurus:
So even we got cm official, that cyanogen installer will not supported our devices until cyanogen inc add our devices supported for those apps? :confused:

ok gotcha.

looking forward for it.

and waiting for your cm11 build. lol :highfive: :fingers-crossed:

Booom.. you got 100 post and thanked 1142 times. Very nice :D

totally different with me. LOL! :fingers-crossed:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
I'm hoping that someone here can help me.

At this point I'm not even quite sure where I stand so I will do my best to explain. I ended up at a point where I was forced to use odin to try to restore my phone. I had done this before so i didn't think this was a big deal.

I tried flashing (with odin) the package found here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1984436&highlight=odin

That was going along seemingly fine until it suddenly failed. I don't know if the cable came loose or what... Then I was at a state that told me to use Kies to try to fix the firmware. I found a post, I'm not totally sure where at this point... If it would be helpful I am happy to search and find it again, that said they used the pit file to reformat their phone and then were able to restore it. I downloaded and flashed the pit file found here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30547929&postcount=47

I was then able to get back into download mode just fine and my computer will recognize it, however, whenever I try to flash a restore package with odin this is all i get:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> root66_VZW_I535VRBMA2.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> aboot.mbn

It will then sit there forever (I think, I have left it for about an hour with no errors or progress)

Does anyone have any ideas?

If any more info would be helpful please just let me know.

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
Did you run odin as admin?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
Yes
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
Plz show a logcat using adb
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
Which part do you want a logcat of?

Also when I boot into download mode, "adb devices" justt returns "List of devices attached". Does this mean adb cannot see the phone? or am i doing something wrong?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
The part when you open odin and start identyfing device
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
I have never used adb before so I could be doing something wrong, but when I am in download mode I cannot get adb to recognize my phone at all (In fact I cant seem to get it to recognize it ever, even when I allow it to try to boot and I get a Samsung screen with the unlock icon and then the galaxy s III screen)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
And what if you boot im cwm and wipe data / cache / dalvik cache
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
I can't get into recovery mode.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
Plz follow this

http://www.androible.com/root-insta...-verizon-galaxy-s3-sch-i535-android-4-1-24-1/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
Trying to flash the bootchain give me:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> VRALEC.bootchain.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> VRBMB1_Bootchain.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> rpm.mbn

Everything I try to use seems to get stuck on the .mbn file
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
Last

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/67061-trying-to-flash-cm-on-d2vzw/

Or else i dont know i only own a s3 mini and s i9000
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
last? I am not sure that I can use the script in that post as adb cannot seem to recognize my device at any point.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
Than i dont know since you cant even boot recovery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
what did you mean by last?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robindebruin:
My last idea
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Macrodroid:
When I first tried rooting mine, I had issues with recoveries not working for me. Thought I bricked it cause download screen was all that I could get. Try this and see if you still can get the stock firmware to boot...

Power-volume down-menu... You should get a warning screen, press volume down again to reboot. It should reboot to the stock firmware (mine did anyways...). If it does, check root status, use ezunlock 1.2 to verify/unlock the bootloader and rom manager to install the latest cwm recovery. I've stayed away from the touch recoveries and have had no issues at all...

If you end up back in Download mode again, you'll have to Odin back with the stock firmware to get the stock recovery back and start over...

Hope this helps...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BattsNotIncld:
ODIN failures are sometimes caused by bad USB connections. Make sure you are using a high quality USB cable (like the one that came with the phone), and also attach it to a USB port directly on the motherboard of your PC. So if you're using a tower PC, hook it up to a USB port in the back. On a laptop, use the USB port adjacent to all the audio/video inputs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
I think that this is what caused the first failure, however it is not what is causing the failures now... Any ideas how to get odin to get passed this step?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fletcheroony:
My problem is that I cannot Odin the stock firmware. It always gets stuck on aboot.mbn and never actually completes the odin restore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 9wire:
Do any of the 4.4 roms have functioning theme chooser and/or xposed?