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[Android Apps and Games] ingelectronico:
New Feature suggested

Dear Krikun:

I installed S2E recently and I found extremely useful.

I just want to tell you some suggestion to improve the Data partition space saving.

It could be optimum to be able to move /data/data but only from some selected Apps. In this way we can choose to only move the data from biggest apps, whithout impacting the performance of all the other apps. For instance, I have 6 big apps, which consumes most of the /data/data space. These are:

- Skype

- iGo Myway

- Skyfire

- Facebook

- Adobe Flash

- Exchange for Android

As all these apps get information from Internet or the SD Card (iGo maps), so they are rather slow. I presume that moving the /data/data information from them to sd-ext will not impact significantly their performance.

I hpe you can consider this suggestion and thanks in advance

Javier Ponce Betti
[Android Apps and Games] aftours:
You dont need to use s2e.

MIUI has the D2W (Data2Whatever) and D2E (Data2Ext) Version. Both of them increase your internal memory in the phone. Also they´re supported by the MIUI Team.

Just try it. Works fine for me, but i dont like the miui design. so i want to move back to cm7.1 with s2e, but got some problems.

My Problem:

I installed cm7.1 and hab a sdcard with a 15gb fat32 partition and a 1gb ext3.

I checked the "applications" option an did a reboot over the powerbutton.

But now my nexus in hanging on the nexus x logo.

What should i do?
[Android Apps and Games] ivwonka:
This works great for me on miui. A2sd is not yet baked into miui for evo 3d.
[Android Apps and Games] zervic:
Hello, I have a question for you all. I have an HTC Aria running the latest nightly of CM7. I originally had dt's a2sd installed but recently tried S2E...twice. Both times, i am able to copy the data from dt, reflash CM7 and everything is good. But, once I reboot (second try) or if the phone fails (first try), upon getting the phone booted back up, it is a FRESH install of CM7. I.e. no installed apps other than what CM7 came with, no gapps, nothing. What is causing this and how can I stop it from happening in the future? Thank you in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
I don't believe this was ever the plan with S2E. If you want to move individual apps over, I know you can do it with Titanium Backup (although, it might be a premium only version). It is what I have done ever since Titanium Backup introduced it like 6 months or so ago...
[Android Apps and Games] thomasgatt:
I'm getting EXT: -- on my Nexus One .. Running CM7. I did a NANDROID backup, installed Alpha ICS, then restored back the NANDROID Backup from ClockworkMod but SD-EXT failed to restore so I had to restore only system and boot and start over. When I booted and installed the apps I couldn't see the EXT partition. S2E shows -- for EXT .. any help?
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
CWM3.x / 5.x?
[Android Apps and Games] thomasgatt:
CWM 5.0.2.0. both backup and restore
[Android Apps and Games] :
backup/restore doesn't work with ext4 and cwm3/cwm5. result is/will be a corrupted SD card ...

Sent from my Nexus One
[Android Apps and Games] thomasgatt:
So I have to re format my SD CARD to EXT3 and it will work if I backup/restore?
[Android Apps and Games] hagam:
need brief installation

Currently i'm running cm7 2.1.4 in x10 mini. I want to move apps to ext partition of sd card. i want to access moved files to sd card even when mounted to pc. will this app do??

If so then how to do it?

Please help me...
[Android Apps and Games] d12unk13astard:
link2sd is a much better option imho and it works for all roms.
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
S2E was designed for CM7, not CM9. I don't know if there have been any testing done to see if the compatibility exists for CM9, but from what you are saying, it sounds like it doesn't work yet.

But since you are running a newer version of ClockworkMod, I guess it could be corruption of the sdcard. Downgrade your ClockworkMod to a v2.x or switch to Amon_RA and repartition your card and see if that works. (Warning, repartitioning erases everything, so make sure you back up what you need)
[Android Apps and Games] Rimher:
Is there a reason why is it better than s2e?? I've been using s2e for the past 6 months and had almost no problems at all.
[Android Apps and Games] taodan:
Can't install or update apps

@csensitive: I had the same problems that you had. Did you have any problems with installing or updating apps from Android Market since using EXT3? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] KoolPal:
Hi all,

Using Amon RA recovery, I partitioned my SD Card as follows:

Swap = 0

Ext2= 2gb (2048)

Fat32 = remainder

Upgrade Ext2 -> Ext3

When I use S2E and select Information I find the following info:

SD-EXT

Size: 1830MB

Used: 106KB

Free: 1732MB

I am curious why I am unable to create a SD-EXT of exactly 2048MB?

Any tips?
[Android Apps and Games] taodan:
Which recovery do you use? Are you using EXT3? And do you have any problems with installing or updating apps from the Android Market? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Rimher:
No problems whatsoever. I'm using AmonRa's recovery and ext4. I was just asking why I should prefer Link2SD over S2E that has never failed me
[Android Apps and Games] taaviu:
Stupid question....but is this app working with MIUI roms too?

EDIT:Yeees...it works :)

Thanx

Sent from my MT15i
[Android Apps and Games] absolutab:
Same problem as #601

I have a HTC Desire with CM 7.1

When I try to update or install an app via market, it will download but when it starts installing, CM interface reboots (not the phone)
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Link2sd allows you to move individual apps. I prefer the simple easy route of using S2E (which moves all apps and doesn't allow you to move anything individually).
[Android Apps and Games] wind0zer:
s2e shows DATA:160mb EXT: --

a lot of times S2E showed EXT: -- I have wiped, rewiped, tried to label the ext partition to sd-ext, etc. The above hack made s2e work : )
[Android Apps and Games] kecikhebat:
i got same problem too.cant download or update thru market..btw,my solution is keep the download cache in internal..dont move it to ext..whenever i set the download cache to ext,it wont download from market..

Sent from public phone using 10cents.
[Android Apps and Games] aromero3:
S2E on HTC Sensation tries to format and mount phone partition

Greetings, I'm using S2E on my HTC Sensation running the CM7 Alpha 10.

Just to introduce the specifics on this phone:

All of the internal partitions start on mmcblk0, and the sdcard partitions appear on mmcblk1p1 (sdcard) and mmcblk1p2 (sd-ext partition)

When S2E is run, regardless of the options, generates the simple2ext. When simple2ext is executed by the system, it searches for the sdcard partitions on mmcblk. I manually edited the EXTPART variable to point from mmcblk0 to mmcblk1.

As long as I don't run the S2E app again, I should be fine. If this were my first run, I would have to have pre-formatted and pre-mounted the correct partition, run S2E app, patch the script, then restart.

Let me know if I can contribute any time towards fixing this, I hope this phone isn't the only model causing this issue, however, if these steps can help clear up what happens internally and save a few headaches. I'll be happy.
[Android Apps and Games] nth20:
how r u partitioning the sd card?

I use mini tool and have partitioned it fine. make sure you make a fat32 1st, 2nd ext2 & 3rd Linux swap (see attached image - Disc 2 as example). Thats the only way it works. Best of luck :)

Also, once s2e is installed, open s2e > menu > settings > select option 'Mount as Ext4'. I will not recommend moving applications and private apps, just move dalvik cache and download cache.

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[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Depending on your phone, putting a swap space on there can actually hurt your phones performance. The N1 is one of those phones. I think pretty much any phone with 512MB or more does not require a swap. Android is smart enough to manage the memory and performs better without a swap file.

Also, why would you not recommend putting apps and app-private on the ext partition? I have been doing it for almost a year without any issues. There is no noticeable slowdown in performance, and at one point, I had over 250 apps installed on my phone.
[Android Apps and Games] plutino99:
How to resize ext3 partition, or switch SD card

So I have a 256M ext3 partition used for S2E, which is nearly full. Since the phone's internal storage is less than what my app and data require, how do I proceed to switch to a new SD card. In other word, is there anyway to backup the ext3 partition and later restore to a different partition? Will two linux dd commands break S2E?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Easiest way is to just use Titanium Backup to back up your apps and app data to the fat32 partition on the sdcard. Then move that folder onto the new sdcard, set up S2E and restore all your apps.
[Android Apps and Games] smartcartman:
I have 1024 ext3 mount as ext4

Instantly getting 13x MB free space for my nexus one as internal memory

but it is decreasing over the time

I moved my application and dalvik cache to sd-ext

but not application data, private apps and download cache

And my application data is getting larger while I am using my phone (like browsing, youtube, facebook etc)

The (DATA - s2e) is getting larger. When I clear the data in browser or youtube or facebook, it will free some space from internal memory.

Shouldn't those data go to sd-ext ?

Am I doing all the things right actually ?

As at today, I just found out the option of "Applications" is grey out and it no longer allows me to move the application back to the phone but the Dalvik Cache is still available for moving around.

I am really worried there is something wrong with it ={
[Android Apps and Games] thunder2k:
Hi,

I've already done this, in fact the option is not grayed out any more, but when I check the Application Data option, It says moving from /data to /sd-ext. Reboot is required!

But also rebooting, nothing happens and Application Data are still in phone memory.

The same is for Download cache.

How can I solve this?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
You certainly have some misunderstanding

S2E can move 3 parts of your ROM to sd-ext

there are:

/app

/data

/cache

by default, S2E only allows you to move /app and /cache.

Why?

Because SD is not really good at handling random write / read of small files, enable moving /data to sd-ext will usually do more harm then good

if you really want to try it, you could go to S2E -> Settings -> Tick "Advanced Mode"

then reboot and you should notice an increase in phone internal space

And you could this updated libsqlite.so update zip (not my work)

It improves the performance when putting /data on sd-ext

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?v7d73txhkhhyruc

As for the greyed out "Applications", it simply means that the total size of your apps on sd-ext is greater than the available size on your phone

So S2E prohibits you from doing something foolish.... :P
[Android Apps and Games] nth20:
Moving apps to the sd-card slows the phone down if you use class 2 card which is generally bundled by the device manufacturer. For use with S2E a class 4 sd-card is required minimum. The ones who have higher class sd cards like 8 or 10, should see a performance jump by moving apps and app-private.

For normal sdcard users (2 or 4), I do not recommend moving applications and private apps, just move dalvik cache and download cache. should give you enough internal space without hampering on performance.

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[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Here is where I have to disagree with you based on my personal experience (which is the only thing I can really comment on). I have a class 2 32GB card with a 1GB partition (my brothers picked it up as a present for me letting them spend 2 months with me in Europe), and things still open up plenty fast on my phone. The only thing I haven't enabled is data2ext. Sure, maybe some loading times for games like Plants vs Zombies might be a bit slower than if I had it on internal, but I have too many apps and could never fit everything on the internal partition. Apps, I have 311MB on the ext partition and I have 128MB of dalvik on the ext partition. And application data is using 154MB of my internal memory.

Most apps still load instantly, and I never have freezes or stutters with my homescreen (using GO Launcher EX with transitions).
[Android Apps and Games] piercecn:
Any ideas on why my ext partition does not show up... Evo cm7
[Android Apps and Games] dgart08:
Make sure you have sd-ext/app folder in your root
[Android Apps and Games] smartcartman:
I got this work now

but I got a new problem as I just bought a new sd card

and I have to figure out how to move all those to work on the new card

I did an nandroid backup and backup in my pc

I put in the new sdcard into my phone and partition it via CW

It's fine.

Then I switch off my phone and put everything else into the new card

Done.

Nandroid advanced restore sd ext

When my screen on, I lost android market and all Google add-on

what happen = =

I saw my apps on my screen with a wrong icon

I can not download the Titanium or the S2E and I got no market in the phone

Am i following the right steps ?
[Android Apps and Games] leviathian:
Been using ur app for a long time, but never really got the chance to thank you until I found this post after registering to xda forums. Thank you very much. I've been using it since my Galaxy 5, and now on my Galaxy Ace ;)
[Android Apps and Games] junalmeida:
Trying S2E on latest MIUI rom, but it does not work.

When I change a setting it says: Moving from /data/app to /sd-ext. But seems to do nothing. If i reboot, the message is still the same.

Is that a log of what its trying to do?

I know that its designed for CM7, but I saw some saying that it works on miui too.

Miui have DT A2SD scripts, but i cannot figure out how to move data to sd-ext. My internal memory is full and this is freaking me out.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] josh36:
I've got CM7.2 (compiled & installed from source) and my sdcard (4GB) has 2 partitions: mmcblk0p1 - 1GB FAT and mmcblk0p2 - 3GB ext4. I've got 2 queries:

1. Is it possible to convert my fat to ext4 and have my CM7.2 (when it boots) to recognise it and not give me the "sdcard not recognised" message if I use this application?

2. Similar to 1 above: since I have Amon_RA (1.7.0-cyan) I remember that when I've had the 1st partition formatted as ext4 Amon_RA won't recognise it.

I've had quite a few zip update files in that partition, which were not visible when selecting the "Update from zip" option. I couldn't do Backup/Restore (nandroid) either.

Could this be rectified somehow so that I could have ext4-type partitions only on my sdcard and use it normally without having to use any fat ones?

EDIT: Forgot to ask: I wish to build the S2E .apk file from source, which I just downloaded from github. How do I do that?
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Android isn't designed to use an ext partition on the sdcard. ext support has been added by 3rd parties just for the use for app2sdext. Currently, no support has been added for Android to use the ext partition for general storage. You are required to have the FAT32. And the FAT32 partition has to be the first partition and the ext needs to be the second.
[Android Apps and Games] Glasofruix:
Help, i rebooted my phone and now it's like new again i have the impression that it does not take the ext4 partition and i lost the market. How do i fix that?

NWM, found an apk of s2e on the net, got it super user privileges again and it works, dunno what happened.
[Android Apps and Games] hajiborojobo:
i use linux for parted ext3 and swap,its working,for move to ext3 use app from market s2e,its works,after restart too works,but after night i lost all apps from ext3..i lost superuser,market,s2e,all apps..i dont know why..any idea?only dalvik cache and application move..cm 7.1 x8 ext3 and swap
[Android Apps and Games] sl8125:
Does moving dalvik cache to ext sloe down your processing speed? I currently only have apps on ext and everything runs smooth as butter. I am currently using 8mb class 6 SD card.
[Android Apps and Games] taaviu:
8mb??

Where did you get this card?

:)

But about s2e...no it isnt slow you processing speed :)
[Android Apps and Games] sl8125:
I got the SD card at Amazon. It was like 20 bucks but its like 2 years ago. Thx for the info I thought dalvik cache on SD might slow it down a little.
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
I think he was pointing out the fact you said 8MB instead of 8GB ;)

But I have noticed no appreciable slowdown when I moved the dalvik cache to the sdcard. The slowdowns typically happen when you move the actual app data to the sdcard.
[Android Apps and Games] wonderrx:
S2E and Moto OG Droid?

I am trying to bring new life to my old OG Motorola Droid for my Son to use.

Basically we run out of the usable space every 3 to 6 months even with very app that can be moved to the SD moved to the SD.

I came across info about how S2E could help me virtually move my apps to an ext3 partition on my SD card thus giving us more space.

I can get the app to open but they won't see the ext3 partition and I am out of my league on trying to figure out how to make them see it. I have spent about 10 hours testing things, trying different kernels, formatting and reformatting the card without any real success. Not sure if need to be entering some mounting commands or need a different kernel or even if something is wrong with my card or formatting.

I am running the latest CyanogenMod 7 nightly on OG Moto Droid

I am running Peter Alfonso's LV_V0.3 kernel (says it has ext3 support but would run anything)

I have formatted my SD card to have a primary Fat32 partition (15gb) and a Ext3 primary partition (1gb) that is listed second, did that in easus paritioner and also in gparted and did apply the partitions, I can see a second partition in Win7 Computer Management.

I have installed S2E everything is greyed out except the bottom item, it shows no details in the top right on the ext3 card.

I see the ext3.ko in the system/lib on the device

HELP WANTED! Ha!

Thanks in advance for your help and reading,

wonderrx
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Have you tried partitioning the card through recovery? I am wondering if the partition just isn't up to android's liking with the way you did it through the computer. And the default kernel with CM7 should have no problems reading an ext partition.
[Android Apps and Games] puncha1580:
Uninstall S2E and install A2SDGUI from the market.

That's the one you really need....

---------- Post added at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

Have you set both the partitions as primary, on Gparted?

And in S2E, have you checked mount as ext4
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
I haven't had issues with S2E but today I wanted to check my settings and every time I try to open the app. it FC's. I've send the error report. From the stacktrace, it's a NumberFormatException when trying to get the partition size. I haven't re-partitioned or made adjustments so :confused: Anyways, thanks for the amazing app. Hope you can sort out this small issue :)
[Android Apps and Games] cnber:
Im using s2e since this morning, the way i setup:

*Application - check

*Private apps - check

*Application Data -uncheck

*Dalvic cache -check

*Download cache -check

I leaves the "Application Data" blank as it slows down the phone for what I've read. It works well and easy to use but i encountered some problems.

1.can't download app from market, it force close (btw im using v1.2.0)

2. *Application - check <--- instead of green check icon it becomes a green box icon, it makes me think that sometimes is wrong? or is it normal?

TIA
[Android Apps and Games] wind0zer:
Try

labeling

the ext partition to "sd-ext" using minitoolspartition or easus because cyanogenmod looks for sd-ext if i'm not mistaken.

If you're using ext4 partition, edit ext3 to ext4 in /etc/init.d/

05mountsd

and set permission after saving.
[Android Apps and Games] Androidity3000:
I have S2E installed on my Nexus one. I am using an EXT4 partition. My phone has only used up 320mb (out of 1024) on the ext4 partition and I am already getting the low space error. I only have 13mb left on actual phone data. For the record, I only have apps checked to be moved, not private apps or dalvic cache or /data/data. Any help? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
You answered your own question pretty much. You have too much installed so you'll have to either remove apps or make the decision to move over /data/data or /dalvik-cache, or both:o
[Android Apps and Games] lsiden:
How can I verify that s2e worked?

How can I verify whether s2e has worked after rebooting?

I see that /cache/download and /cache/dalvik-cache are still present in their original positions. Can I wipe them?
[Android Apps and Games] dnsmo:
any chance you will make this work for cm9? i love your apps
[Android Apps and Games] jjjkkklll:
hey guys, after using ROM manager to cre a EXT4 den how? there's several option to choose such as 512 / 3xx /1xx size to swap / switch den another option of 1xx / 2xx / 3xx size of memory option come out. after choosing the most large number den reboot.

but yet nothing happen. can any1 help out?
[Android Apps and Games] geomad:
Hi.

I used s2e script to free some space on my desire ( CM7 ) , but i'm having some problems. I'm using a new HP 16GB class 10 sd card (write speed 11.2 , reading speed 30.9). First I moved everything in my 2gb ext3 , but I was having force close issues for many apps and I was unable to move apps to the fat32 partition thrugh app2sd app (not enought space). So I moved /data back to /data and these 2 problems were resolved. But I'm facing a new problem now. When I'm having a call and I take the phone away from my ear, most of the times the screen doesnt turn on until the other person hangs up (even if i press the power button). How can I resolve this? Also can I move /data back to ext3 , without having the problems I mentioned before?

Thanx in advance
[Android Apps and Games] wonderrx:
Thanks again for all of your help. I finally got it working. Most of the steps I took are in this thread, wanted to leave it in case someone follows my path:

droidforums.net/forum/project-elite/

137380-ext3-2.html

The droid runs OK, at least I got all of the games and apps on it.

For whatever reason the wifi seems to die after about 10 minutes and I have to turn it on and back off, by my son isn't really doing much interactive stuff with the internet.

Using gparted created ext3 1gb partition

Flashed CM7's last nightly, flashed gapps

Flashed the deprimed kernel

Flashed dta2sd zip

Once rebooted opened terminal

typed su then typed a2sd cachesd (move dalvik to sd card)

Thanks again for your help, lost my religion over this but glad I got it working. Once I got it going I didn't want to push my luck and go further with S2E.
[Android Apps and Games] DirkStorck:
Hi. I wonder what the correct procedure is when I want to update my ROM?

Do I have to do everything from the beginning (wipe, flash ROM, intstall app, restore Titanium Backup) or can I simply flash the new ROM over everything?

Thank you :)
[Android Apps and Games] DualJoe:
Anyone notice that the ext4 partition is always 'not clean' when the system is booted up (tune2fs -l /dev/block/mmcblk0p2)? I fixed that with 'e2fsck -fv /dev/block/mmcblk0p2' and its 'clean' in recovery mode but once i reboot into main system its dirty again.
[Android Apps and Games] CAL7:
Ver 1.2.1 is on the market. Just says German and Chinese support. Anything else?
[Android Apps and Games] taaviu:
Only translated....nothing more.
[Android Apps and Games] nth20:
use ext4. enable in the settings.

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