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[Hero CDMA General] wolfscmb:
My Hero is alive again!!!

After searching and reading every post I could get my hands on I was still unable to get my phone to connect to the sprint network ... I saw on the various forums that it was due to a PRL update issue ... I tried to use the built in PRL update feature with no success ... then I tried to manually update the PRL but was unable to without a code from sprint (and I wasn't willing to try a hack to find it on the phone) so I called sprint this morning and after spending over an hour on the phone with them I was finally able to get the PRL to update ... once that happend my phone was super happy! :D
[HD2 General] rvashi:
Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't find anything useful.

I'm trying to figure out a way to always have the camera in GPS Photo mode. For obvious reasons that I want to geotag all the picture that I take in the camera...kinda like the iPhone and many Android phones. In those phones, there's an easy way to just enable or disable geotagging.

Any ideas??
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Hmmm...once I put the camera in GPS mode, it stays there until I manually change it, even through closing the camera and reopening it, and through soft-resets too.
[HD2 General] rvashi:
See that's exactly what I want but it keeps switching to normal mode. btw I'm using EnergyROM 23569 Cookie - May, 28th release, if that helps any.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
rvashi, what method are you using to put the camera in gps mode...are you doing it through the footprints tab? If so, there's actually a tweak to unlock that directly in the camera's settings, that's how I turn on geotagging.
[HD2 General] rvashi:
I start Camera and then select the GPS Photo mode from the settings button at the bottom. I think that's the same way you are doing it. But mine is not sticking to GPS Photo mode for some very odd reason.
[HD2 General] hector13mh:
Hello friend, did you find the way to automatically activate the initial photoGPS the camera?
[HD2 General] hector13mh:
Hi

Hello friend, did you find the way to automatically activate the initial photoGPS the camera?
[Hero CDMA General] cumptrnrd:
I've had these issues ever since I bought the phone, but basically the data over WiFi just seems inconsistent. When I first connect via WiFi, it seems okay, but then after about 10 minutes or if I open the browser, it will just stop working completely. Sometimes it will work again if I disconnect and reconnect, but usually I just keep it off. I was hoping the official 2.1 update would fix this, but I have the same issues. Any ideas??
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
Go into settings wireless press menu adjust the sleep setting to always on.

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[Hero CDMA General] ziggy682:
I have had problems similar to this with my phone the entire time I've had it. Yes, I discovered the "Always On" setting under wi-fi about two weeks after the phone came out.

I personally believe my phone just has some kind of hardware wi-fi problem, as it doesn't seem to be a common issue. My phone is actually slower on wi-fi than on 3G. I only get about 600 kbps down and 400 kbps up on wi-fi. Also, while running the Speedtest app, my speeds are very sporadic on wi-fi, and the little needle jumps all over the place.
[Hero CDMA General] cumptrnrd:
Thanks for the replies! I see the option. The wording is strange though... "specify when to switch from wifi to mobile data" Does that mean it would only use wifi for 15 minutes at a time then switch back to 3G? That is weird... Can't understand why you wouLd want to do that... Battery maybe...
[Hero CDMA General] Avalaunchmods:
your router. that makes a MASSIVE difference in speed and reliability.

great example, i had a dlink i would get great speeds, 5-10 mbps on speed test. but after 15 min of no use it goes into sleep mode where my phone cant turn it back on so i have to reconnect every time. i sold it

got a newer cisco. i get 69-100 kbps :( but it doesnt sleep. its all about settings. search the router ip (i.e. 192.168.1.1-linksys) mess with wifi settings. helpsss aloottt
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santacruzmofo:
The apps to sd fix being used for froyo is making the apps not showup in my home screen i did pm setInstallLocation 2 and started moving them via settings, applications, manage applications looks like they are getting smaller and not accessible any fix for this to work like apps to sd on cm

:confused:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikroN1:
Would be better to post in the thread from where you got the info don't you think?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=686588
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myplague:
if you read the thread where the info was from, you would have found out that some applications uninstall when using this method. I would just set the setting back to 0 and only move applications that acutally support apps2sd.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polo79:
are you using launcher pro? My launcher pro is doing that for some reason.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prophetjinn:
It's not an issue with Launcher Pro, it's Froyo and Apps2SD after you reboot they disappear. They're still in your phone because you can open them through market but the icons disappear from the launcher and launcher menu.
[HD2 General] bgolden84:
under the back cover just below the sdcard slot is a small yellow button if pushed it does a soft reset has anyone else seen or heard this

:D
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
its in the manual, , its called the reset button. :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
wow i got app2sd working on my telus milestone make sure that busybox is not installed on the system i mean when u use adb to install not busybox itself (from titanium etc) if the method does not work unroot then root the try it will work.

i did not create this i have just copied and pasted it i know alot of people need this so here:D

. App2SD Version 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?emhyw4tmkmh)

This revised version of App2SD is more refine. It moves cache as well as apps to MicroSD.

Steps to prepare for installation:

1. Unzip the downloaded file and you should see a folder "APP2SD Package".

2. Rename "APP2SD Package" folder to "app2sd" and move this folder to MicroSD. (place it in the root: MicroSD card/)

Next, simply connect the Milestone to your computer.

Ensure it is "Charge Only" for USB connection and USB Debugging mode for USB is turned on under Settings > Applications > Development.

Once you have the above checked, go ahead to launch a command prompt and perform the following:

Type: cd/ (to get to the root of your C: drive)

Type: cd /android/tools (to get to the folder of the Android SDK which i mentioned earlier)

Type: adb devices (you should see your Milestone serial number showing up. If you do not see serial number, it means there is no connection to your Milestone)

Type: adb shell

Type: su (make sure you do not see a prompt window on your Milestone. If you do, grant permission for it to access)

Type: cd /sdcard/app2sd

Type: sh install_use_busybox.sh (trigger installation of App2SD)

Type: y (to confirm that you want to install)

wait for the prompt to show you that App2SD is complete and a reboot is needed for it to take effect.

Type: y (to confirm reboot. You might notice that Milestone do not reboot by self which is normal)

Type: reboot (if you find Milestone do not reboot after you enter y as above mentioned)

Enjoy after the reboot... this works yes:D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
u can type ls -l /data to see if it works
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kittcoldfire:
hey I'm just about to do the apps2sd for my milestone and was wondering which partitions if any did you make for the SD card? thanks

I'm assuming it needs at least ext2 and I'm about to set mine up with ext3, just want to make sure so I don't screw anything up

also just wanted to say if you haven't overclocked your milestone, definitely do it, just did mine yesterday, running at 1ghz and it is so amazing, downloads are insane, browser is quick and menus and everything are perfect, eat that X10
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
haha ya i overclocked it but I do not go over 800mhz to risky plus gets pretty hot.

I made a ext 2 partion using unbuntu,.......partionmanager said it was partioned but would not work,app2sd did not see it. u can try it though but i recommend unbuntu let me know what happens:D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kittcoldfire:
so I got it all running, partitioned with ext3, it seems to be working but it didn't push any of my existing apps over to the SD card, do you know if there's a script to do this? Or do I have to uninstall each and reinstall them? (tested that way and they seem to go to the SD card then)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
ya uninstall reinstall had to do that too but hey it works:D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kittcoldfire:
I had to reinstall everything and i rooted and did everything exactly the same way as i did before, but now for some reason it won't let me install the apps to sd... here's the errors I get

warnning/system/bin/busybox'exists,use -f to overwrite

warnning'/system/lib/modules/ext2.ko'exists,use -f to overwrite insmod: can't insert '/system/lib/modulesext2/ko':File exists

mkdir failed for /system/sd, File exists

mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd failed: device or resource busy

sorry, mount sd ext2 fail!!!!!

what the heck does this mean? how can i fix this?

I partitioned the sd card as... (16gb) 14.something gb fat32, 1gb ext3, 32mb linux swap
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
busy box cannot be installed i had this error at first too .well u dont need linux swap so get rid of it what did u use to partion sd card i use unbuntu all other partioned card but it would not work only worked when i used unbuntu .unroot download open recovery 1.05(google it)root with open recovery and try again
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kittcoldfire:
yeah it's okay, this morning I sat down with it and put on my programming hat and went through the script and modified it enough to make it fix all the errors I was getting, so I've got it all done, nice 144mb of free space on the phone, and back to overclocked, and everything is running nice and smooth!!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
glad u got it working ...im I right about busybox causing the errors?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
did u hear the bootloader has been cracked:)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] geekygrl:
nevermind - got it working, just had to ensure the partition is made the correct way in Ubuntu!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DAGr8:
Hi apps2sd v1 is kinda old news and was much more complicated then that , are you sure your guide is complete for someone who hasnt done all that was needed to be done in previous version ?

Also I never applied this mod because I was wondering why there was a need for it .. with the 'davlik mem cache hack' I have tons of applications & widget installed , much more then I need in fact so yea you guys notice if the phone is faster or anything else after usin apps2sd ?

it s not , or I guess it all depends on what you call cracked , whatever has been done to it is useless for us practically speaking , truth is we are in fact very close ( talking of a few weeks maximum a the speed its currently going )to running 'roms' on our stone !!!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
it's faster with overclock module 4 sure plus i have tons of apps:D

the guide is straight forward just make sure u use unbuntu to partition

true but now no siginature is needed so custom roms on the way:D froyo was ported on sat to droid so we should get it in a few week heck maybe this week it is something worth doing now that we don't need no bootloader :p
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] geekygrl:
it is complete and works well, from what I can gather its just a script of the previous apps2sd so makes life a lot easier (with some obvious tweaks)

One part about it I do not like and am looking into how to change it is it goes and installs a heap of Telus libs/files in the OS as well as the UMTS/GSM files - nice to be able to do both Milestones at once, but a bit sloppy....time to tweak....

Just make sure the card is partitioned in a card reader and not via the phone in Ubuntu (its NOT unbuntu!!..lol) and there is no need for a swap partition.

And if you are not using gparted but the included 'disk utility' in Lucid, make sure you untick the 'Take Ownership' check box otherwise it will partition it for super user access only!

Took me 3 goes to get it done right :eek: but that was the only method of partitioning that would work for me with no errors :)

The only speed increase has been thanks to the Overclock module, just nice to see 140mb still free on the phone after installing many many apps - better than the 10mb I used to have free ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DAGr8:
Sorry dont get your hopes up but you are Wrong ... plain wrong

its not cracked

signature still needed

and Kexec aint workin yet either ..

Our best hope for custom roms is Kexec and it will most likely be up and runnin within a month ( fingers crossed )

This Forum is a great (1 of the best ) forum so unless you are able to boot something without signature by yourself please dont spread false information as others might think because it has been posted here its true .
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
ya i know the bad news :mad:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mischief4l:
So App2SD will not be listed under Settings->Applications?

When i do ls -l /data, what should i expect to see if it works? If it didnt work?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] PsyCl0ne:
I'm going to guess you will get a list of apps that would be in the /data part of your sd card. Assuming that you have correctly installed for the lack of a better word App2SD...

~PsyCl0ne
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Azrael24:
uhm....help? lol

I had the same error as you did earlier about the 'sorry, mount sd ext2 fail!!!!!' issue. I'm not a programmer, but can you please detail how'd you get around this problem? I use Windows 7, and have the milestone plugged in on 'charge only'. Am I missing a step here?

Please advise what the heck I'm doing wrong here and thanks. :]

Az
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] PsyCl0ne:
You actually have to format the SD card. Make a backup of everything on the card before you begin. Now what I did was I actually took my card out of the phone and plugged it into a card reader. Next I booted my computer with GParted (Can be found for free on the developers site at gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php) and basically all I did was create two partitions on the card. BTW MAKE SUPER SURE YOU SELECT THE SD CARD AND NOT YOUR HARD DRIVE. ALSO if you dont know whats going on please watch youtube.com/watch?v=xFx2r_n96k0

BTW in the youtube video, the author makes 3 partitions on his SD card you will only need to make 2. So for an example on my 16gb card I made one fat32 partition of 14.75gb and one EXT2 partition of 1.25gb and that was it. Good luck and please ask if you have any questions, its a lot easier to ask and wait then trying to crawl out of a s*it hole...

~PsyCl0ne
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] iamdata:
heres a article i found on how to partition the memory card.

after wastinig 2 hours wiping/ trying to get this to work.

im now trying this method for the partition.

http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] danbroken:
I did APP2SD procedure and it works perfectly in Milestone. Ext2 is mounted and all need directories are linked (I am linuxer). But I realize that the application manager Android only recognizes the partition /data size. So when /data partition reaches the end, The application manager denies the installation of new applications. Anyone have any tip to mod this, like cyanogen roms?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] satpanos:
Hello...If it is installed correctly and the apps have been moved to sdcard,you can try to empty "app1" and "dalvik-cache1" folders located in /data...They are not needed anymore...

adb shell

su

cd /data

rm app1/*

rm dalvik-cache1/*

Make a nandroid backup first...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] danbroken:
Yes, I did. I removed app1 and dalvik-cache1. Doing that, /data partition will have more free space, but /data/app and /data/dalvik-cache still with wrong size.

Sorry my bad english.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] chris_barsoum:
So i finally got this working on my telus milestone 2.1. For anyone wondering what I did, i used ubuntu gparted and disk utility.

First format the SD card on your phone, then boot up ubuntu and dont format it there, shrink it using Gparted and using the unallocated space create the ext2 partition. then start up disk utility and click on the ext2 partition, format it. make sure you uncheck 'take ownership'. after its done formatting make sure both partitions are mounted (still using disk utility).

after thats done run the commands.

Question for those who have it installed. I had some apps installed on my phone before i got this working; if i uninstall and reinstall them, will they install to the SD card, cause i tried that and my phone memory still decreased, but when i installed one that i didnt have on my phone it did install on the SD card. any help would be appreciated

thanks for the guide
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
oh snap did not know about this...wow this gave me 70mb more :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gemini002:
yes they will go to SD card it is normal for memory in phone to decrease exp ashphalt apk 13mb your phone memory is 150mb after install memory for phone may be 147mb or 146mb sometimes when i download an app it does not move at all.One time my phone was at 45mb i downloaded and installed and app afterwards my phone was at 60mb.put a big app like google earth see what phone memory is b4 and after install also in adb type ls -l /data u should see

app-->system/sd/app

app-private->system/sd etc :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] migalito:
I've been looking for this for a while. Thanks for sharing.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] plvt_florian:
first you have to make 2 partitions to the memory card.first to ext2 and second to fat32.you have to put the app2sd folder to ext2 partition not to fat32 partition. they forgot to say this.and after that you have to start windows and use the procedure in the first post.i had the same problem
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
Ok I just got apps2sd working on my Telus Milestone... VERY EASY.

First of all you need to create an EXT2 partition on your SD card (a microSD with Class 6 speed is best). You can use the Recovery Menu from an existing HTC Android device to create it, or use something like Paragon Partition Manager. Make sure your swap file space is 0 and your EXT2 partition is as big as you want it for apps (512MB to 1GB is ideal).

Then I just went into the G.O.T. OpenRecovery (see the stickies to download it), went into G.O.T. Modding Menu, then the Apps2SD Menu, then installed the Apps2SD Symlink Edition. It moved all my apps to SD card. (BTW the device needs to be rooted first)

The easiest way to verify this was to reboot, go to Settings->SD Card and Phone Storage and check the Available Space on the device. Mine went from 107MB to 164MB! Now when you install apps, this 164MB value does not change, because obviously it's now going to the SD card.

Or you can go to /data/app and see how much space is left in the folder (mine says 55.15MB used, 643MB free.. compared to only like 107MB free before).

I haven't tested extensively yet though, but installing and running apps from Market works fine.

P.S. I haven't lost my overclock or memhack stuff after doing this either, because /system/bin/mot_boot_mode was not touched (which some of the other apps2sd scripts may do).

PPS. The only problem I see is making Nandroid backups, since it only backs up the main memory. I don't see a Nandroid + ext backup or restore option. This is probably where you would need Titanium Backup to do the backups and restore.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zninja:
So did you format to ext4, or leave it ext2?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] -SAIUN-:
After trying this I get a "not enough memory, free up some space" type error whenever I try to install an APK. Phone memory free space is the same as before (about 20MB). Don't see an Apps2SD entry in the Application Settings either (not sure if there is meant to be one?).

G.O.T. OpenRecovery's version of Apps2SD just gives me an endless boot screen, and trying to do it all manually via ADB gives me a "not found error" when I try to set the busybox/chown permissions, so I'm about to give up on Apps2SD entirely.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] chris_barsoum:
hey to check if you got app2sd working go to the terminal emulator and type this

su (hit enter)

ls -l /data

if you see app -> /system/sd/app

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

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

that means app2sd is working

Then type

cd /data

rm app1/*

rm dalvik-cache1/*

that will free up your internal memory

if app2sd is not working

look for my previous post and you'll get it done, it should take you 20 mins tops
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] _anarion_:
Hi!

Did you guys really move /dalvik-cache to SD too? Is it stable ? I did that and many apps simply stopped working and I had constant FCs of everything. That persisted even when I moved /dalvik-cache back to /data or /cache... Had to do nandroid restore to clear it up.

Also, I have app2sd working fine: 174 apps installed on a 1gb partition but the problem I have is... I can't install more! Looks like the dalvik cache is the limiter now. Dalvik-cache moved to /cache is 99% used up. Wiping it results in full usage right after reboot. I can't install or upgrade apps because they can't be (de)odexed(?) in dalvik cache partition.

This is dissapointing and kinda defeats the purpse of app2sd...

Anyone have an idea about this? Maybe there is something wrong actually ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] eyesthruthelens:
Hi,

I need some help here on the app2sd usage.

I'm using Motorola Milestone aka Droid in US - rooted.

Initially I tried to create additional partition on the SD card using ROM Manager on my milestone phone. After trying for few times, I'm still not able to do that using my phone. I contacted a friend using HTC desire and using the ROM Manager on his HTC, he managed to create the ext2 partition on my SD card.

(Not sure why ROM Manager on Milestone not able to create the partition)

After prepare the ext2 partition, I install app2sd according to the steps listed in this thread..

Type: cd/ (to get to the root of your C: drive)

Type: cd /android/tools (to get to the folder of the Android SDK which i mentioned earlier)

Type: adb devices (you should see your Milestone serial number showing up. If you do not see serial number, it means there is no connection to your Milestone)

Type: adb shell

Type: su (make sure you do not see a prompt window on your Milestone. If you do, grant permission for it to access)

Type: cd /sdcard/apps2sd

Type: sh install_use_busybox.sh (trigger installation of App2SD)

Type: y (to confirm that you want to install)

wait for the prompt to show you that App2SD is complete and a reboot is needed for it to take effect.

Type: y (to confirm reboot. You might notice that Milestone do not reboot by self which is normal)

Type: reboot (if you find Milestone do not reboot after you enter y as above mentioned)

Enjoy after the reboot...

Successfully with no more error. :)

I thought everything will work fine and auto transfer my apps to SD card and free up my internal memory.. After reboot, nothing happen??

A question, how do I transfer the apps to SD card after I completed the steps above? Anyone can help?

Thank you.