[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] copenhagen:
something to do in the meantime

okay so those of you who are itching for something to do ... lets experiment with creating extra partitions on our memory cards to improve the performance of our android installations. :) From this point on you are taking responsibility for your own actions... if you bugger something up its REALLY REALLY not my fault. and I'm just letting you in on my testing phase so nothing of significant interest to report at this time... yeah thats right... lol whats up with that.

prepwork:

first things first. you dont want to lose any data so lets get it backed up.

-boot up winmo. go into settings -> connections -> usb to pc -> and choose usb (NOT ACTIVESYNC)

-cradle your device and let windows install the drivers (if you dont have them installed already). open windows explorer and note that there is a new removable drive listed.

-browse to that removable drive and MOVE all the data off your sdcard to a safe location on your pc.

GREAT WORK! lol im being super supportive

nitty gritty:

-go here! http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html and download this freeware partition manager (i used it.. its good.. win based.) install and run it.

-locate your "previously noted" removable drive in the list and highlight it.

-right click and delete the partition (or icon at the top) this is okay to do cause you backed up all your sdcard data to your pc

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK mewah!

math time:

-so far from what I can see, the best config is to create 3 partitions in this order:

fat32, ext2, linuxswap.

-for my first venture with this - my math worked out (for a 16gb sdcard) as such:

fat32 = was roughly 13.8gb

ext2 = what size you want ur "internal device storage" to be (im using 1gb) = ~1024mb

linuxswap = the remainder which was about 128mb

your sdcard size may be different and you might only want 512 internal device storage and you may only want a 64mb swap file... so do your own math to help figure out what you want to do.

back to the nitty gritty:

-okay so you deleted the fat32 partition from your sdcard. right click it again and choose create (again there's a button at the top). adjust the slider (or type in) to the desired size for FAT32. choose fat32 in filesystem drop down. choose primary partition type. default block size. give it a label. click okay (or create or whatever the accept button says)

-now you will see a fat32 partition and unallocated labels associated with the removable device. right click the unallocated label and choose create. choose ext2 filesystem, primary type, default, label it EXT2. adjust the slider to reflect your "mathed up" ext2 size. accept/ok or whatever.

-and finally, again right click unallocated label and choose create. this time choose primary, linuxswap filesystem, default, and accept.

-click the APPLY button bottom left of main minitoolpartition window and let the computer write all the changes to the sdcard.

WAY TO GO CHAMP

copy data back to sdcard:

copy all the data you want back on your sdcard, I chose to reinstall android from scratch at this juncture. so far the install appears to be smoother and loads ALOT quicker then w/o the extra partitions... just observations at this point. so far so good. happy with results. will use more and post findings

** I told you at the beginning this was an experiment... so you were warned **