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[Android Apps and Games] cb474:
Can someone explain how this app works (or not) in conjunction with CM 7.1's built in function for moving apps to the sd card (but only to the FAT partition)?

I've already moved a lot of apps to the sd card with CM's built in function, but was running out of space anyway. Can I go aheads and use S2E to move more of what's left on the phone to an ext partition? Or do I need to move apps back to the phone first (with the built in CM functionality) and then use S2E to move things to the ext partition? (Which I don't know that I could do, since there's already too much on the sd card FAT partition to move back to the phone.)

Or does this basically make the phone think what's on the ext partition is really in the phone's hardware memory? If then, for example, I enable S2E first and then use the built in CM functionality to move an app back to the phone, will S2E really automatically be putting it on the ext partition? So that in this way the ext partition is just a virtual extension of the phone's hardware memory?

Thanks to anyone for any further explanation.
[Android Apps and Games] DirkStorck:
The support of this app sucks....you can ask question and never get an answer! :(
[Android Apps and Games] highvista:
I just created an ext4 partition on my SD card and used S2E to move my apps and free up internal phone memory. I want from about 35MB free internal to 121MB.

Here's how it seems to work. Leave any apps you installed to the SD card via the built-in APP2SD functionality where they are. Once you have an ext4 partition on your SD card, install and run S2E. Choose which types of data to move to the ext4 partition. Then reboot your phone. The ext4 partition is mounted as /sd-ext, with directories/mount points for apps, dalvik cache, etc. The data existing on the internal /data/app, /data/dalvik-cache, etc, is moved to these new directories and the directories mounted within the /data file system structure of the phone. Thus, the phone is using the stuff on /sd-ext just as it used to use stuff within internal memory.

Any apps that you previously moved to SD card via the stock method are still on the FAT32 partition--that is, the part of the app that the stock method moved to SD. The part that the stock method left in internal memory is now on the /sd-ext partition.

If you move any apps back to the phone via the stock method and/or install any new apps, they remain in internal memory until you reboot the phone, at which point they are moved to /sd-ext.

Here is a web site that explains the process of setting up for and using S2E that helped me get going:

Using S2E

Hope that helps out! So far, everything is working fine for me. I'm running the latest KANG'ed verison of CM7.2 from temasek.
[Android Apps and Games] cb474:
Thanks for the explanation and the link to the article. That was how I was assuming it must work, but I wanted some confirmation.

I'm wondering, I already moved the various directories to my ext partition. But I didn't not check the mount as ext4 and set read buffer options. If I do that now is S2E going to reformat the ext partition on my sd card and erase the data there? Do I need to move data back to my phone first?

Also, I ordered a new larger sd card. Can I just create an ext partition on the new card and copy the data from the ext partition on the old card to the new one, using my computer (I'm running Linux, so there should be no problem mounting the ext partition on the sd cards)? Or will that confuse S2E (I know that partitions have unique identifying numbers, so even if they are named the same they may not be recognized).

Thanks for any more help.
[Android Apps and Games] Bec de Xorbin:
This is a free software so you really can't demand support.
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
Tried this on the medroid 7.2 (CM7) and all the checkboxes were disabled, tried rebooting twice/reinstalling.

Back on DT A2SD for now.
[Android Apps and Games] seities:
speed issue? ext3 or ext4?

I just found this great app after rooting and flashing my optimus t with CM7. I was using Dark Tremor's App2sd, and it worked fine without any issues. However, the data still gets lodged in the internal memory. It got near full within a few days, so I was looking forward to this, which moves everything to the sd card.

It does, but the phone seems to get stuck and hang a lot, so much that I get that dialogue asking me whether if I want to kill the process or not. It is the worst when I'm trying to download stuff from android market, and sometimes with input methods loading. Sometimes it behaves okay, but most of the time it's a bit of a drag.

I wondered, after going over some threads, whether if using ext4 for the sd card partition would make things faster? I just used clockworkmod to partition and format the sd card. Some say that is only ext3, and some instructions advises ext4. Will this be the root of my problems? Is there a recovery that formats sd card into ext4 and is as easy to use as clockworkmod? Thanks so much
[Android Apps and Games] gn_hanna:
format to ext3

i have the same issue

solution 1:

reboot into recovery via CWM

mount and

format sd-ext

reboot

solution 2:

format your sd-ext to ext3 partition using MiniTool partition or any tool

that's it
[Android Apps and Games] droidface:
excuse me, i wanna ask something about this app

1. which is better, ext3 or ext4? because i've got many errors when i used ext2

2. should i ceklist all of the option in s2e? because i've got many errors too when i ceklisted all of option in s2e

3. if my sd card's size is 4gb, which is the best partition for it? FAT or FAT32?
[Android Apps and Games] Bergonzini:
Upgrade sdcard

i want to upgrade my sdcard from 8g to 32g. I create a primary partition FAT32 (27g) and an ext4 at the end of the card (2g). I was copy all the data and the ext4, cp FAT32 -> New FAT32, cp ext4 -> new ext4.

But when i reboot the phone with the new sdcard the HTC Desire freeze at the bootimage... nothing happends.

I can see in the recovery, with the old sdcard i have a /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 and with the new sdcard i have /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 i guess this is the fail...

How can fix it? why the new sdcard had the *0p3 instead the *0p2?

Which step i need to upgrade to the new sdcard? Do i reinstall CM7.10 and s2e?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] KingCreole:
I would like it too
[Android Apps and Games] Bergonzini:
Mounting point system/etc/init.d/05mountsd

I found at system/etc/init.d/05mountsd the line

SD_EXT_PART=/dev/block/mmcblk${MMC_NUM}p2

This night i change i to p3 instead p2 and try to use the new sdcard...

News soon...
[Android Apps and Games] hal_9000:
I have a problem with S2E on a ZTE Blade. I'm testing the app and the first times I was able to move the apps to SD and back a few times, then I left them on SD for some days. Now I wanted to move them back to internal storage again but I can't do it because the option appears checked to select SD, but it's disabled so I can't unchecked it.

Does anybody know what's happening and how can I fix it?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] heinz gruber:
strange problem:

have cm7 newest version. format as sd-ext as ext4. then i start the app and choose mount as ext4 in options, select applications and reboot. now all aps are gone including the s2e app. what should i do? please help

edit:

i think the system could not mount the ext part. but why? i've tried it now four times and everytime all apps are gone.
[Android Apps and Games] uosiumen:
I'll join to the request of CM9 support
[Android Apps and Games] dazbys:
Best way to keep s2e during system update

Hi,

Where does s2e hook into things? If I'm doing an update of CM7 (say to 7.2 rc1), I probably don't need to format /system (but experience tells me its best to start with a clean slate as possible).

So if I format /system, or overwrite stuff on /system with update.zip, will s2e be unhooked from the boot process? Can I re-hook it in recovery before first boot of the new OS, like the CM9 a2sd install command does?

Thanks

Darren
[Android Apps and Games] classicrocker384:
I'll join to the request of CM9 support too!
[Android Apps and Games] peret2000:
Hello,

I have noticed that moving apllication data to ext partition has caused my phone slows down a lot.

I am not 100% sure the problem started when selectg 'Advanced Mode', because I also installed new programs (I was not prudent, and I did not take snapshots and checks after avery change) , but I am confident with that.

Also, WiFi started causing a lot of problems (it did not refresh networks).

Anyway, my question is: I was not able to unselect 'Advanced Mode' to put application data back again to the phone memory. To be more precise, I could unselect it, but nothing happened (after restarting several times, of course): application data continued to be in ext partition, and free phone memory remained the same.

Do you know how to come back to an original situation (moving application data from ext to phone memory)?

The only option I found was to restore a ROM Manager backup.

Thanks a lot

---------- Post added at 02:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:56 PM ----------

Trying to restore a backup, I have found an issue that perhaps is useful to know:

I have restored an old backup, made before I had my sd-ext partition created.

And I have restored it, once my sd-ext was created and containing apps, data, etc.

The restore process worked fine, but when I have tried to activate S2E, it has crashed.

I have repeated the process of restoring the backup, but previously, I have formatted the sd-ext partition, to start from scratch with S2E.

Then, it has worked.

My feeling is that ROM manager makes backup of all the partition. In my case, sd-ext partition was not copied (as it did not exist yet), so, when restoring, sd-ext has not been modified, keeping the data it already had. Then, when activating s2e, it has become confused, it was not expecting to have data in sd-ext.
[Android Apps and Games] cb474:
Yes, I'm wondering the same thing. What's the best way to upgrade from CM 7.1 to CM 7.2 with s2e running. Normally I would do a /system wipe, but is this going to mess things up?
[Android Apps and Games] CaptainMaki:
S2E problems with dalvik

I'm using Cyanogen 7.1 on HTC Aria.

I've tried to make S2E work for a couple of time until it was a success. Formatted the SD Card with Gparted, and moved only applications to the SD-EXT.

a couple of days ago I've got a message that the DATA folder is full, so i've tried to moved dalvik also to the SD-EXT. the phone has got into boot loop with the Cyanogen animation. Only wiping it all and starting over make it work.

Why can't I move the davlik cache to the SD-EXT and how can I change the size of the data folder to free some space from it? Can I move the data to the SD-EXT as well? it seems that anyway it stays the same size (184MB if I remember correctly).

my phone now is empty, but I had about 40-50 apps only on the phone when I've encountered the problems. Still plenty of space on the SD-EXT to go with.
[Android Apps and Games] alexctk:
hi guys

i've the s2e install and work for some time then after a while i get a random reboot, and the phone wont load all apps, forcing another reboot. i've a wilfire with cm 256 nightly, i've made a partition ext4 on g parted with 512mb and cache 128mb, iv'e tried in 2 different class cards, one class 4 and another class 8, both 8gb.

so i dont get it what i've made wrong....thoughts anyone
[Android Apps and Games] Jaani:
@OP CM9 support plzzzzzzzz :)
[Android Apps and Games] Limitless83:
The free version insn't compatible for me on google play

but the paid ones are ???

I've read about people who run it on CM9 GalaxyICS

:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] KingCreole:
For ICS in my Tattoo, I'm using Link2Sd. It's not exactly the same, but save a good amount of internal storage space.
[Android Apps and Games] malwarebyte:
Applications is greyed out and i've tried with ext3,ext2 and ext4 but always greyed out ? what can be reason of this ?
[Android Apps and Games] taaviu:
There is no paid version!! Its only empty donation apps. :)

But cm9 support would be nice
[Android Apps and Games] agismaniax:
my /sd-ext (512MB) with ext4 is not read by S2E. i've made that partition using 4EXT.

EDIT: work fine with another kernel.
[Android Apps and Games] michiganenginerd:
Question about Read Access.

From:

-- developer.android.com/guide/

-- topics/data/data-storage.html

Caution: External files can disappear if the user mounts the external storage on a computer or removes the media, and there's no security enforced upon files you save to the external storage. All applications can read and write files placed on the external storage and the user can remove them.

Is there something in place in S2E that keeps app/data associated with an application, or by using S2E are you enabling any app specific storage, to become shared?
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
Issues when usign S2E with Clockworkmod Touch 5.8.0.2

I spent quite some time to figure this out so here I am warning about the issues which took my sensitive data and quite some time.

When using Clockworkmod Touch 5.8.0.2 on my HTC Desire with S2E and enabling the "Mount as ext4" option in S2E, Clockworkmod can't mount the sd-ext partition anymore, the only solution is by downgrading Clockworkmod to a non-touch version in my case 5.0.2.0 (this solution will fix all the problems, and you can use S2E without worrying!) or by formatting sd-ext to ext3 (formating it to ext4 wont work, I have tested it!) and stop using S2E.

The big problem of Clockworkmod not mounting sd-ext is that it can't recover sd-ext nor restore it from a NAND backup which is, if you ask me, a pain in the back!

PS: It took me 5 min to write this yet to come to this solution it took a couple of hours. So I hope this will help some people.
[Android Apps and Games] mr_mufy:
I have the same problem.

But I have only the non-touch CMW 5.0.2.0

On the other ROMS this isue doesn't see.

I like this, but some times i need to backup my data, but on this way i can't.

And some times i lose all the data. I have to select the EXT4 Option to work around to prevent the lost files.
[Android Apps and Games] trueno2k:
S2E 2.0.1 not fully functional on CM9 on it's own

Hi all,

Anyone having problems with using the new version of S2E ( simple2ext ) app recently updated on the Play Store?... I've stuffed up my OMC last night and so had to reflash CFX today, but I'm having so much trouble setting up S2E version 2.0.1 that none of the original scripts that worked for S2E version 1.2.1 is working for version 2.0.1!... I've spent the whole morning and afternoon trying to figure out how to get this working and I've searched all over google most of the day with very little progress at all!... Only way Ive got it working was by installing version 1.2.1 first, setting it up for app2sd, rebooting, then installing S2E 2.0.1, but still the app isn't fully functional... As soon as I de-select one of the options ( ie. Applications ) and reboot that option is greyed out the next time ( after rebooting ) I launch S2E v2.0.1, and I believe it's something to do with S2E not recognising the right ext4 partition size ( see picture in spoiler )... I'm hoping the 10/05 version of CFX isn't the culprit in all this issue...

This is really really really annoying the hell out of me!... AND, I need some advice in showing me how I can get this to work?!... UNLESS, S2E v2.0.1. isn't programmed right, which means I just wasted a whole day trying to get a faulty app to work on my OMC!... NOT HAPPY AT ALL!... :confused: :mad:
[Android Apps and Games] Quacktop:
Same here, maybe the dev may upload the 1.2.1 version that works fine for me also on CM9. I don't have it anymore in my backup, because made a backup before the reinstall and backupped the new app.

EDIT: get it here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16256572&postcount=411
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
Well today I updated to 2.1.0 via Play Store and am concerned about a little change which hasn't become a problem, YET!

Why is now out of a sudden the "Applications" option greyed out (I have "Mount as ext4" enabled)? Now we can't move apps back to the main storage from sd-ext in case we want to. Disabling "Mount as ext4" would only unmount sd-ext and all the data will go sleep with the fishes, unless you have now changed the way this option acts when you disable it.

I also worry that when flashing a new CM ROM the "Applications" option would be greyed out thus having no choose to move apps to sd-ext anymore. I didn't tested it but I hope this won't happen :S
[Android Apps and Games] valexi:
Does not work!

I formatted sd-ext as ext4, but it just shows EXT: -- :confused:

What to do?
[Android Apps and Games] jankoboys6:
Thank you for resolving the problem mentioned in the quote with the new update so that the "Applications" option isn't grayed out anymore and is all back as it was before.

Now there is a new small graphic glitch present in the drop down menu. In the image below you can see how this menu now looks like. Nothing serious but still I would like to report.

Although I'm using Gingerbread this glitch wasn't present in previous versions so I'm sure there are problems on the apps side.
[Android Apps and Games] DualJoe:
Maybe your ext4 filesystem is not properly set up.

I have CWM 5.0.2.6 and its ext4 format is not compatible with S2E (when using 'restore' or 'format'). It will not boot up at all (i have all S2E paths linked to /sd-ext). It just hangs at the 1st boot screen if S2E is installed. When trying to install S2E on a clean system (with improper ext4) will lead to grayed out frontend errors. As a workaround i currently do it manually instead:

In CWM/ADB shell:

Create ext4 filesystem:

Mount ext4:

Extract ext4 backup:

In case you want to set up a real environment (for fix_permissions or something):
[Android Apps and Games] elndroid:
Hello

This application works on LG Optimus L3 (E400)? I can't move my app to SD card on my optimus L3.

Sorry for my bad english
[Android Apps and Games] ranger4740:
Hi, I have a HTC legend and have been using zeubeas unofficial cm9, upuntill beta 0 all the versions of s2e have been working well, zeubea has just made beta 1 and the newest version of s2e no longer works properly. After installing, reboot, can't select any options, only of select to mount ext 3 as ext4 then reboot, then can select the options, after rebooting the app it still keeps telling me it needs to reboot. Going to try and find the old version and see if that works.
[Android Apps and Games] ranger4740:
OK, I have discovered that version 1.2.0 of s2e seams to work so far with zeubeas beta1 when 2.2.1 doesn't.
[Android Apps and Games] 16v:
Have CM7 on LG P350 /Optimus ME and s2E 2.2.1 installed with ext3 partition.

EXT Partition is not shown in s2e?

Whats wrong?

i changed to 1.2.0 nothing new - same result.
[Android Apps and Games] mackstein:
Problem with S2E+CM 7.2 RC2 on NexusOne

I have an Ext3 partition, I just reset and fully erased my device and SD card and updated to CM 7.2 RC2.

When I downloaded the application only the "Download Cache" wasn't grayed out (meaning that's the only option available to transfer), even after several reboots.

Can someone please explain to me how it should work?

What have I done wrong...?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] clonesr1:
remove partition

I have purchased a tablet and am able to download most of the apps I would like there. I have liked the s2e as it has allowed me to load some many more apps on my desire than I could have hoped for. I have had time lag on a few programs which gets tedious.

I would like to remove the partition now and go back to the original internal memory. I have read through this thread and did not see someone describe the process to reverse the partition & s2e?
[Android Apps and Games] harleyhemant:
Hi

I use s2e on a Shenqi V4.1 (CM7.2) on ma Milestone XT720.

On one of the other versions of the same ROM, I could move Apps, App data and Dalvik to ma card but now, nothing is moving.

EXT3, swap and FAT32 on da same class 6 SD Card.

Ps: Full format of the card, re-partitioned, new flash of Rom :- No Change :(

What could be wrong?

Sent from my XT 1 Turbo
[Android Apps and Games] enskje:
How to do that widgets be supported, then app is in sd?
[Android Apps and Games] Oops...:
Widgets are supported as system treats sdext as internal storage, that means system "thinks" it's internal.
[Android Apps and Games] enskje:
How tobdo that?
[Android Apps and Games] Oops...:
If you enable for example applications to be moved to SD-ext, then all applications which were previously stored in internal memory will be moved to /sd-ext/app. New installed apps will automatically be stored in /sd-ext/app. Note that you have to chose INTERNAL storage, not EXTERNAL (which is the android way).

So to make the story short:

install S2E, enable apps and cache (I would not recommend to move data for performance reasons), and reboot. Make sure your apps are installed in INTERNAL memory. Then you should be fine using your widgets.
[Android Apps and Games] CaptainMaki:
I'm using HTC Aria with CM9 Mujenji, problem also occurred with CM7.1.

S2E works fine, but when I copy/download large files (200-300MB) to the phone the SD crashed. on CM7.1 it said SD removed and in CM9 it's just breaks the USB connection.

I've got a pretty good 8GB card original from sandisk:

http://www.sandisk.com/products/mob...crosdhc-and-microsdxc-uhs-i-cards-for-android

Any idea on how to solve this?

system is set to ext3 with 2MB read buffer.
[Android Apps and Games] poldie:
where is stuff stored?

I have S2E working on my HTC Desire GSM running CM 7.1 stable.

Should I still move apps to SD card? I've read not, but I've just experimented and if I use S2E and move apps to SD card then it takes up more space in Data and less on the SD card. It also moves stuff to the new EXT partition. If I don't move the apps to the SD card (but continue to use S2E) then the EXT partition is used less, regular SD card usage goes up and I have more space on Data.

What should I be aiming for here? Either way, with S2E, I have a lot more space in Data than before, but I'm not sure what exactly is being moved, nor where it should ideally live. If someone could briefly explain, that would be nice!
[Android Apps and Games] clonesr1:
bump
[Android Apps and Games] viktak:
Cannot move applications to SD on HTC Desire GSM

Hello All!

I am a new member on this site, but have been extensively searching it for a solution for my problem in the last 3 days.

I have a rooted HTC Desire GSM phone with a Sandisk 4GB SD card.

I installed the latest (7.1.0) version of Cyanogenmod and the latest version (I found) of the gapps (gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip).

Phone works OK so far.

I installed Link2SD and S2E to move everything possible to the SD card. However, Most of the options in S2E are greyed out (see attached screenshot).

On the other hand, in the following screenshot (taken in Link2SD) shows that the partitions are mounted:

I am not a Linux guru, but I have a Linux box where I created the partitions based on this page: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7279872&postcount=3 (I used the method with GParted).

Can someone with greater experience put me in the right direction? I have been trying to get this right for days now with no luck.

thank you in advance!

viktak
[Android Apps and Games] ranger4740:
Link2sd and s2e together doesn't sound right to me,

S2e puts apps and data to the ext partition and link2sd tries to put apps and data to SD card?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

sent from my legend using zeubeas cm9 beta2
[Android Apps and Games] CaptainMaki:
I'm having a problem with CM9 on HTC aria with Mujenji 06.14 ROM. It seems that S2E doesn't recognize the reboot:

this is even if I reboot several times. Any Ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] viktak:
Hi,

You are my saviour! After one week of trial-error, finally this fixed my problem.

I did not think of this, as I saw it in several places that these two apps are used together.

Thank you so much!
[Android Apps and Games] ranger4740:
Just want to confirm it is actually working now yeah?

sent from my legend using zeubeas cm9 beta2