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create an ext partition

Do you have an EXT2/3/4 partition?

You may need to create one from recovery....

Go into recovery -

1. turn off the phone (hold down power button and choose "power off")

2. (while the phone is off) hold down the home buttton

3. press the power button and then let go (don't let go of the home button)

4. after the phone vibrates you can let go of the home button

5. "Android System Recovery" should come up

Back up the sd card if you need anything off it (setting up an ext partition will wipe out your sd card - you will lose all info on it)

1. Plug your phone into your computer with a usb cable

2. In recovery use the trackball to move down to "USB-MS toggle" and click the trackball

3. Either a message will pop up that will allow you to browse the sdcard, or you will need to access it by going into "my computer" (xp) or "computer" (vista/win7) and find the drive in there.

4. copy anything you want to keep that is on the sd card onto the desktop of the machine you are on.

5. when you are done click the home button on the phone to end the USB mode.

Create a ext partition on the sdcard

1. while still in recovery use the trackball to go to "partition sdcard" and click the trackball

2. click the trackball in on "partition sd"

3. press the home button to confirm the wipe and partition

4. the next couple screens will just confirm what you want to do and give you a chance to make changes to the defaults. you should 95% of the time just take the defaults (continue to press the home button through the prompts) unless there is something special you were trying to do to the sdcard. When it finishes it will say "partitioning complete"

5. use the trackball to go down to "SD:ext2 to ext3" and click the trackball

6. press the home button to confirm (this will change your partition from a ext2 to an ext3 partition) - you could then up-convert from ext3 to ext4, but there are mixed reviews about this providing any faster speeds, and many people pointing out that this will shorten the life of the sdcard

7. push the back arrow button to get back to the main menu, and move the trackball up to "reboot system now" and then click the trackball.

(optional) Put your data back onto the sdcard that you backed up to the desktop of your computer

1. Plug your phone into your computer with a usb cable

2.

From recovery

plug phone into computer go into recovery and mount the sdcard by using the "USB/MS Toggle"

From booted android

plug phone into computer and on the pull down top tray bar click on "USB Connected" and then on the window that pops up click the "mount" button

3. Either a message will pop up that will allow you to browse the sdcard, or you will need to access it by going into "my computer" (xp) or "computer" (vista/win7) and find the drive in there.

4. copy the files from desktop back into the sdcard

5.

From recovery

unmount the sdcard by using the "USB/MS Toggle" and then go up to "reboot phone" and click on that

From booted android

pull down the top tray bar in the phone and choose "Turn off USB Storage" and then on the window that pops up click the "Turn off" button.

Viola!

see if the option for enabling apps2sd is now available (it better be after i took the time to write this :D) if so enable it

if you have already installed any applications you can move them over by either uninstalling and then reinstalling the application, or you can go into settings/applications/manage applications, and then choose the application (click on it) and then choose the "move" button, and it will move it to the sdcard.

Hopefully that works!

-AndyS-