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[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yadvani:
Partition Tutorial with Screenshots

1) Download Hiren's Boot Cd (search torrent sites). The screenshots I am providing are using Hiren's Boot CD 10.6

2) Boot from the CD

3) Choose "Boot Mini Xp/Windows" (sorry no screenshots: boot menu)

4) Once minixp is loaded, connect your milestone with memory card access.

5) Heres where the screenshots start :P

6) Mount your milestone by double-clicking "Mount Removable" on the desktop

7) Check My Computer if your SD Card has been mounted. Mine as per the image is E: FAT32

8) Run "HBCD Menu" from the desktop and you should get the below image

9) Run Partition Wizard Home Edition

10) This is my setup below

11) Like I mentioned before create three primary partitions in the following order: FAT32; EXT2/3; SWAP as per your size preference. Don't forget ext2/3 partition is used for applications and fat32 for media

12) Here is how you mark them active and primary

13) Apply the changes by clicking the green arrow or apply button

14) Once the operation is done, exit the app and then safely remove your disk

15) Hopefully if everything went well, your milestone will now detect the sd card. If not try restarting

16) If all went well restart anyways and then follow the above steps to adb into your device and install apps2sd. Don't forget to enable USB debugging for it.

Long post I know... tried to be as descriptive as possible.

have a good one
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yadvani:
When doing this step Type: sh install_use_busybox.sh (trigger installation of App2SD)

try Type: sh install_use_busybox.sh -f

to force the installation ..

also try this thread other people have faced similar problem

sorry can't be of more help .. try re-doing the steps..
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] desean:
just wanna add that this works on the Milestone XT720.

but i might add that the script doesn't remove the backups made so you have to manually remove the backups created by the script. the backup folders are:

/data/app-private1
/data/app1
/data/dalvik-cache1

thanks :)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] vaggoulas:
ok i did it!!! thx everybody!!!
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Glen L:
thanks for the instructions.

I cant get mine to work.

I have successfully partitioned ext3 and fat32

App2sd seems to be installed but everytime I install something it keeps installing it in the internal memory.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Glen L:
Im getting the same error

Happened after I did a factory reset and did another App2SD

Will donate to the one who successfully helps me install Apps2SD on my phone

thx :)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] shungun:
Did you reformat the sd card after your factory reset?

how are you partitioning your card? I used Gparted in ubuntu worked like a charm.

I believe you can use ROM manager too.

Are you running the script from your phone? or through ADB?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Glen L:
Yes I did format the sd card after doing the factory reset.

I noticed that when you do the factory reset /system/sd still exists

I am partitioning using Paragon's Partition Manager 9. (I've successfully used this software before when I installed Apps2SD on my G1)

I am running the script through ADB
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] shungun:
Ok does your internal memory drop even when you install huge apps like angry birds? because a few apps cannot be moved to sd card like swype and alike so try installing angry birds which i know for a fact can be moved to sd card and check if its still consuming internal memory.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Glen L:
haven't tried. Cant seem to reinstall Apps2SD after my factory reset.

I kept getting errors
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] shungun:
What kind of errors?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Glen L:
I kept getting these errors
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] ceryus:
Phone stuck at logo

Help please! I followed the installation tutorial and did everything from the adb shell...after i rebooted my phone its getting stuck at the motorola animation and after a while it just replays the animation in an endless cycle! Dont know what went wrong and would really appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Ceryus
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] kohroyston:
Hi,

I've faced that issue as well.

Use ROM Manager to fix permission and after reboot.

I'm able to proceed.

Hope it helps. I spent few hours trying to get it to work.

The apps2sd I used was the one someone posted XT 720 optimizer.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] qnguyen88:
Hi,

I had that problem, too. The only way to solve that problem is to flash your phone. This link will explain to you how to flash your phone.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] kousik:
But that means I have to flash with one of the ROM that is the optimizer script is for, right? For example, here in India even if the version number is STR_U2_01.1E.0 the ROM files are different for Southeast Asia and Central Europe. So if I flash my Indian phone with Central Europe's ... I have to get a heads up what all will change/stop working.

If someone successfully ran optimizers/app2sd on an Indian ROM, I'd love to know.

Else someone switched from Indian rom to central europe, and then got app2sd up, I'd like to hear if anything was broken during that process.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] sonicpisshat:
xt720 app2sd problem

ok i got app2sd installed into my xt720 but its telling me that i did not partition the card correctly. it says lets get it done now but if i move the slider the program force closes.

now i have my card set up as fat32 5 gb

ext3 1gb

swap 1 gb

i set ext3 as active. i know yall are on to better phones now but this was the best phone around where i live. sucks.

any suggestions as to what is causing this problem
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] spiderx_mm:
I'm not too sure it might be your case but just my two cents,

when you format and partition your cards, create one partition at a time. if you create all partition and click the apply button, the ext2 partition become mmcblk03 (instead of mmcblk02) and it gives me a lot of error.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] trajano:
minor tweaks

I don't think you need to use ext3 unless you're using the ext3.ko however even that is extra load on the system. Recovery on the SD card since it is so small is not going to take a long time.

Also the kernel does not support SWAP from what I experienced. You can tell by going to the shell and typing in free. There is no swap space.

At least this would free up 1GB for you.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] akshata_khan:
Ok now i have read atleast 15pages had a headache but still didn't understand how does App2sd work on my Xt720.Plz plz plz plz can some one tell me how will i make it work.I just have rom manager & app2sd installed on my phone memory.nothing else than that.no software for this installed on my computer as well.PLz can someone guide me.I am a complete noop to comp language.plz help me i need to get this working
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] momed63:
i followed the froyo jit mod for the xt720... it all worked fine..

but i jus found out my ram is just 256?!?! not 512?!

is this because i flashed the rom?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
according to the official spec on motorola page our phone is 256 RAM

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/X...ervices/Mobile-Phones/ci.MOTO-XT720-XW-EN.alt

MEMORY

8GBmicroSD, 512M ROM, 256M RAM
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] kousik:
I tried the latest version 2.7.9.1 of app2card on my XT720. Prior to use, I used gparted, shrinked my fat32 partition by 800MB and created a new ext2 partition in that space. Installed app2card, and ambitiously tried option 1 of installation. Failed and the phone got stuck in a reboot loop. Decided to try option 2 so booted without SD card. In the mean time forgot to do factory reset so a lot of apps started giving trouble (but that's my fault). Option 2 took several tries, maybe I rebooted my phone 10/15 times yesterday evening. Finally I could see the Apps Location: ext2 and could transfer my apps to ext2. Most of the applications started crashing, and had to use option of "Fix forced close" on them to get them up and running.

What didn't get fixed, ironically, is the Market. It kept crashing and continuing the crash still now. I reinstalled multiple times (via Titanium backup), tried fixing by app2card but nothing worked. Anytime I open a market:// link or try to go to an app, it says "com.android.vending" has stopped unexpectedly and gets out from there. (My only hope to is to hunt down .apk files in web and adb install them)

Anyone else faced Market crash (sic)? How was it fixed?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] catfx:
1. root your phone with universal androot

2. partition sd card (use card reader) with minitool partition wizard

2. download terminal emulator from market to your phone

3. run emulator, run those commands in post #5 in your phone

i got it done to my xt720. enjoy.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] kousik:
There was no going back. Instead of wiping out with a new ROM I fixed the problem. After several research, I finally uninstalled market ''pm uninstall com.android.vending" and rebooted. When it came up, restored the app from Titanium backup and at least it stopped FC. But it wouldn't work ... downloads were stuck. Some research told be because gtalk stopped working. I was thinking gtalk was getting FC'd and tried fixing it but was barking up the wrong tree. It couldn't read my google credential (when gmail etc did). After a lot of thinking (and trying different things) I finally deleted /data/system/accounts.db and rebooted. This time gtalk prompted for credentials and all is well it (and Market too).
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] chandanbs:
Hi folks..

I installed apps2sd after partitioning my 8 gb sd card (6.4 g for fat32 active primary, 1 gb for ext3 primary, 128 mb for linux swap primary). The process was successful. But, after a reboot, when i installed few apps, they still got installed under internal storage instead of sd card ext3.

Then i went to app2card 2.6.2 (the download link is somewhere in this thread), i repartitioned the sd card into the above 3 using app2card and when i rebooted, the OS didnt boot, and was stuck in welcome screen.

Then i removed the sd card, again stuck in welcome screen.

Then i did the following:

1. re flashed my rom to CE version.

2. kept the same sd card partitions.

3. installed univ androot.

4. installed app2card 2.6.2.

5. after this, the reboot took around 2-3 minutes, but i waited patiently, it rebooted successfully.

6. then i installed few apps.. and it installed all of them onto sd card. bingo..!!

So, my app2card installation was successful. my internal storage shows 108 mb free always.. (its atleast above 100 mb consistently.)..

I have 2 questions,

1. How can we move all the apps (pre-installed ones like youtube, gmail, maps, calendar, etc..) to sd card? is it possible at all?

2. after having installed app2card, can we still use rom optimizer ? has anyone tried this successfully to install custom build prop and froyo jit?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] kousik:
I think yes, but do you want to? What do you plan to do in the freed up space of internal memory? Do you store that many SMS or something. If you lose the SD card, basic apps on internal memory may yield an usable phone ... Anyway app2card (I am using 2.7.9) gives me an option to move apps around (Internal --> ext2 and vice-versa), and looks like it does the job (I have moved all my previously installed apps to ext2).

There is no conflict. I have successfully did both (in reverse order though). You may use the script to do it for you or apply the changes by hand (see my previous posts where I listed the diff that needs to be applied, and a change in the script which backs up all libraries it replaces for JIT, that way if you ever wanted to go back ...)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] chandanbs:
Thanks kousik for your reply. Is this new version of app2card can be safely installed over the existing 2.6.2 installation?

I think better not!!.. compatibility issues while restoring backed up apps using new version...

more details in here:

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-769803.html
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] jackfrost3821:
Hey I cant mark both ext3 and FAT32 as active. When I mark them active other is automatically set to none. So which one should I mark as active ext3 or FAT32??
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Gureiryu:
Hey, i have partitioned SD card to FAT32/EXT2/Linux Swap now for the adb i don't understand, i run the commands given, but there is no ANDROID folder in my C drive, and it just says unable to find batch file or whatever, im using COMMAND PROMPT do i use run? or did i skip a step? need help with adb.

EDIT-

Think i solved the issue, need to do it on the phone lol.

EDIT2-

Nevermind, still lost at the ADB part. v-v..............
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
They should both be primary partitions with the FAT32 being flagged as bootable.

Did you download the android SDK? thats where the ADB come from.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Gureiryu:
Okay i downloaded the android SDK, and JAVA stuff so like what do i have to do next? is there a guide?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
@ droidforums.net

At the bottom of the first post there is a word file that explains setting up the SDK. If I remember correctly the only discrepency I had with the guide was the path variable he mentions setting up was really "[drive]:\AndroidSDK\patform-tools\" not "[drive]:\AndroidSDK\tools\"

HTH
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Gureiryu:
EDIT3-

I successfully got it working but when i tried to install everything i got BUS ERROR SYNC, i hope it didnt brick my stuff
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
From what I've read that's pretty hard to do. Worst case scenario is probably you just have to flash back to the stock SBF.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Gureiryu:
Yeah i had to flash back, sooo like its been flashing the moto orb thing off and on for a while i understand 10-15 mins but is it supposed to flash like that? just trying to be safe
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
You flashed back with RSD lite? My phones been stuck in the bootloop before (after I had an SD card error) but not after a fresh flash of the stock SBF.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Gureiryu:
Yeah i had to flash back twice before finally getting it right, i got it running good now though thanks A LOT.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] baionia:
I have had teh flashing orb a few times but have still not been able to get it resolved any help is appreciated
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] :
Than that's a problem for me 'cause no site has stock SBF for The Netherlands.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] greenhorn_ong:
can't get adb to detect my device

Hi, i have tried to reinstall my drivers and was able to detect the ADB interface in Device Manager. However, in command prompt, when i type in "adb devices", still no device was detected. Anyone has a solution to this?? Thanks!
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] reaperzero:
get the motorola driver installer to clean and reinstall your driver it should work again after doing so
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] vesko321:
Anyone knows where to download any Gingerbread themes and how to install them?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] trajano:
Actually the pre-installed apps are located in /system/app and the /system partition is read only on normal operation. So there won't be much space gained from it. However, you can remove some apps that you may not want to run such as world clock which appear to take up some RAM when you look at OS Monitor

You can also remove apps you don't plan to use just to get a few second speed up on listing installed apps. However just be careful you don't delete anything you didn't mean to.

I suggest you have Open Recovery and make a copy of the /system/app folder to your SD card before doing anything like this.

I scripted the process on my phone for the most part so it does the job after a phone reset.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] gunzblaze007:
Hey guys,

I was mucking around with App2Card, finally got it was working for awhile until my phone froze. upon trying to reboot, i got stuck in a boot loop.

i'm able to get into the recovery menu, i've tried wipe data/factory reset, clear cache, but am still unable to get out of the boot loop.

what can i do now? :(

is there a way to boot into open recovery somehow? adb maybe?

also, i'm running dexter's froyo ROM (v1.2b)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yoppoyyoppoy:
Apps2sd

Heyy guys, I just installed apps2sd on my xt720 and everything was done sucsessfuly, however I was wondering how I would move apps to my ext3 partition?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] grahf23:
Volume up + power on not working for you?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] trajano:
The apps2sd script should have moved it already for you.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] gunzblaze007:
wow, thanks. i had no idea that was how to get into open recovery!!

thanks!!!
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] 3rdstring:
That could be an sdcard issue or a corrupt file. Try copying the openrecovery folder & zip file over the versions already on your sdcard.

HTH
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] davidab:
hi,

its working fine in android 2.1 but not working on android 2.2:confused:
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Mioze7Ae:
The android 2.2 ROMs for XT720 already have app2sd support. On Dexter's 1.3 you just have to create a ext partition on your sdcard and reboot. On the newer ones (khalpowers, bugfix-v3) you have to create and ext partition on your sdcard and also create the /sd-ext/app directory on the sdcard and then reboot.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] mintaeroboy:
i tried that on v4 rom but it doesn't find my sd card did all the things you say but doesn't work :(
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Mioze7Ae:
Maybe this will help: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1041080

berlin85 had the problem that he created extended partitions instead of primary partitions. The phone doesn't understand extended partition tables.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] bugnotch:
I've had app2sd successfully installed on 2.1. I could understand that the apps were actually getting installed on the ext3 itself. However the problem that arose was, the phone hung up each time, I tried to install an app manually/via market. Pulling out the battery was the only option all the time. Finally the phone enters bootloop and I had to flash the ROM back to stock. Is there any solution for this problem? Even the memory that the phone is supposed to free after all the apps getting installed from SD, isn't enough(53 on avg). Please walk me through this. Thank you.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] bugnotch:
Nobody ready to provide me a solution to my problem yet?? :( :(
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
@bugnotch save yourself the headache and upgrade to 2.2

then use Link2SD, it is sooooooo much easier and faster
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] bugnotch:
@AllGamer : Thank you for the suggestion mate. I had upgraded to 2.2 Dexter's Froyo, but the RAM was too less and I found a lot of things not working right for me. :( So I had to revert back to 2.1, which is a lot faster. The only thing is I can afford to run only a limited number of applications now. Anyway, atleast thank you for your reply!! :)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] Mioze7Ae:
I didn't notice this post before. I suspect you have filesystem errors on your ext partition so you need to run a fsck or reformat it. One option is to install the Androidiani OpenRecovery. It has a menu option to check and repair your ext partition.

There's also a small rebellion of users going back to 2.1 from 2.2 because of the performance problems in 2.2 (see eclair-strikes-back in the XT720 Development forum). ESBv2 was just released with app2ext support and automatic check and repair of the ext partition at boot (the safe preening). Extensive filesystem damage will still require manual fsck, though.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] bugnotch:
Thanx a lot Mioze7Ae...will try that out!! :)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yadvani:
out of curiosity

just wanted to know if i'm the only one that after i did app2sd my device seems to have low memory and my apps seem to close by themselves.

i have tried using different task managers and put those on ignore-list and yet they seem to close.

any suggestions?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] spiderx_mm:
the problem is with my SD card. Cannot mount the ext3.

finally, I use another 1 GB SD card and successfully done apps2sd.

but only 1 GB??? I can't do anything with it. :D so I format my problematic 8GB card with 1GB for Ext 3 and 128 Mb for swap. I dump the 1GB card ext3 files to the 8GB card and swap the cards.

it's working great.

but ... later :D I Fatory Reset the phone and all Apps2sd settings are gone. apps are installing in the phone again. arrghhhhh have to do it again with 1GB card.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] spiderx_mm:
Ok guys, I got a question. ... now Apps2SD is working on my phone, how can we know how much space is left in the app partition?
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yadvani:
make sure you have root, adb, su and busybox

connect your phone through usb debugging to you computer

open command promt

Type the following

adb shell

su

busybox df -h

you should get all the different partitions and one of them should be your ext2/3 partition usually /system/sd

if you don't have that and have /data/app then you don't have apps2sd or it is not working correctly.

all the information you need is there
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] spiderx_mm:
got it. Thanks a lot. I wonder if there's any app that can show it on the phone. :D
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] en0203:
just use root explorer, browse to /system/sd and u should be able to see the available memory on top :)
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] dsixda:
Or if you don't want to pay for Root Explorer, use Astro File Explorer instead. Browse to /system and press down on the 'sd' folder and select Details. It should show space remaining.
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] en0203:
same problem here, i think our ram are too small that's why its bot enough for multitasking. standby apps can be killed easily when memory intensive apps are loaded like browser, messenger etc. we seriously need swap support but unfortunately the stock kernel does not support linux swap :(
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] amjad_2020:
How to do it on 16GB sdcard ??
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] rhythmjhan:
I tried for hours and hours I just can't get it...

Can someone please help me...

I tried the Hiren's Boot thingy, all I keep getting was either Blank SD or Damaged SD... I did every single step and still nothing...

Then I thought Blank SD may just be the one... but when I did the command prompt thingy, all I get was error... Someone please help me...

Do refer to the pic I posted regarding my errors... :(
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] yadvani:
yes i encountered that after I had fiddled with my phone...

I fixed that by starting from scratch...restoring to factory settings, root and then apps2sd

and followed each step carefully cause every step is important..

btw make sure when you start all over again mark the ext2/3 partition active

refer to the steps I posted a couple of pages back its the same process for all
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] rhythmjhan:
yadvani :D

how do i know if apps2sd is installed?

I re-flashed my phone, did everything from the start...i completed the process...

But i don't know if I did it correctly :)

Can you guide me? Thanks
[Milestone XT720 Themes and Apps] spiderx_mm:
method 1

check your available ROM space. go to market and install some app larger than 1 Mb. check the ROM space again. if there's no decrease in size, then you may know that App2SD is working

method 2

power-off the phone, take out the SD card and boot the phone again. It will stuck at the first screen if App2SD is working.

You don't need to flash the phone to remove App2SD. Resetting to Factory default is enough.