[Gen8 General] marclh1992:
Use with 2.0.54 only, root is not yet available with 2.0.71

disclaimer: swap IS evil, you don't want it! Swap is a dirty workaround for crappy hardware (well somekind of) ... Don't complain if you put a swapfile on your internal memory (the 8 or 16GB flash disk) and it will stop working. Swap read and write like hell, so if you want to try it, please use an external disk, like usb, or better: micro SD. And of course i'm not responsible for anything ...

a) download http://hitme.resetbutton.de/priv/swapfiles.zip

b) unzip it somewhere on your PC

c) pick what you want ... i prepared a 128, 256 and 512MB swapfile in it. It might be smart to start with 256MB

d1) connect to your PC and use the dropdown area (on the Archos notification bar) to enable file transfers

d2) on my system the sd card is mounted on windows as "removable disk" .. the internal is A101IT, so if you have a sd card use "removable disk"

d3) transfer the file (the size you want, or all) to your Archos device, as i said: internal memory might be a bad idea, use a sd card

d4) on a windows system use the "safe remove hardware" or whatever it's called and unmount the disk form the archos. After that, on the archos at the orange Android screen: click the button

e) use z4root to root your device temporarily ( you can find it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953 or google for z4root)

f) use the first option in z4root! a permanent root will not work (at the moment). If it's not working: enable USB debugging AND connect it to a PC

g) download a terminal if you haven't so far. Search in the market for "terminal emulator"

h) start the terminal and enter: su

at the first time you will get a request that you really want it. If you don't get it: root didn't work, happens sometimes. Power off your device and try again at e)

i) locate where you put your swapfile ... it should be /mnt/storage/sdcard, or if you don't have a sd card: /mnt/storage

j) go into the directory by typing: cd /mnt/storage/sdcard ... or cd /mnt/storage (without a sdcard)

you can list the content of the directory with: ls

k) type: swapon swap256

or the file you copied (swap128, swap256, swap512)

l) type: free

you should now see that you have swap memory

m) report back which file works best for you!

This will now work until you reboot your device. If you do: start again at e) .. of course you don't have to download z4root or the terminal again, so it's:

root with z4root

start terminal and enter su

goto the directory where the swapfile is (cd something)

swapon swap256 ( or whatever you used)

control with: free

done

WARNING: if you use a swapfile, which is described here, you can't use a usb connection to copy files without doing this:

start the terminal, enter: su

go to the directory where the file is ( cd /mnt/storage/sdcard or /mnt/storage) and do:

swapoff swap256 (or whatever you used)

This mini howto is for a swapFILE ... the advantage is that you don't have to make new partitions on your sdcard, but it might be a little bit slower than a swapPARTITION. If i have more time i will wikify this and extend it with the partition part ...

Credits go to http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=42718