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[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
They can use your install-recovery.sh file but they must run the chmod command or use an app that changes the permissions to user: read/write/execute, group: read/execute, world: read/execute. Or just run the commands to create the mount script without the 1st line (the rm one). Everything else you have done was just to I could understand your device specificities.

EDIT: Your file will just work with FAT partitions. If someone else formats the 2nd partition with a different filesystem the mount command must be modified. Just replace vfat with ext2/ext3/ext4.

Thanks for the output. That location for /system is new to me. :D

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Maybe this is your problem. But I can't figure out why do you need Link2SD if your phone have 2GB of internal memory...
[Android Apps and Games] skj88:
Thanks. I will give them clear instructions. I was mostly wanting to make sure that their expansion card partition name will be mmcblk1p2 like mine. I wasn't sure if drive names are consistent on tablets of the same make/model. I wanted to save them the step of doing cat /proc/partitions if possible and it sounds like I can (I always like to make things easier for the next person, if I can).
[Android Apps and Games] AndrewRoid:
Thanks for your reply and help.

You're probably right, with so much internal memory I may not need to move the apps but I'd like to keep the internal memory free of apps if at all possible. I'll try your suggestion of creating links instead of moving the apps and see how I get on. If no luck, I'll just leave the apps where they are.
[Android Apps and Games] alexhdkn:
tl;dr.

I get the read only failure error when i install new apps or updated the older ones i have cm 1.8 on i5500 thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] parerepa:
hi, total noob here, just wanna ask, how do you back up everything on link2sd?:pthanks
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Look for /system/etc/install-recovery.sh or /system/etc/init.d/11link2sd, edit it and replace /dev/block/vold/179:<wtv> for /dev/block/vold/179:10 and /dev/block/mmcblk<wtv> for /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 and reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] Jarmezrocks:
Hi

Thank you for your reply. I have checked the script and the values that you are recommending are what are in the script?:confused:

#!/system/bin/sh
#added by link2sd
sleep 10
mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/block/vold/179:10 /data/sdext2

mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data/sdext2
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
That's odd! Try one of those mount commands in a terminal emulator to check if it returns any error.

That script is the /system/etc/install-recovery.sh one? Does your ROM have init.d support? If not, can you recook it and enable it?
[Android Apps and Games] ataraxist:
hi, i did a sd partition to ext4 but my SE W8 cannot view. can anyone advise me how i can remove the ext4 partition from my SD card? I tried the minitool partition and it just can't view the ext4 partition to enable me to remove it. Pls help and thanks alot!!
[Android Apps and Games] Jarmezrocks:
Surely does. OneCosmic ICS has init.d support. Has zipalign script and scaling scripts loaded in the folder already.

The script I loaded was the 11link2sd script from init.d

The script from install-recovery.sh is.....

is....exactly the same? Are they meant to be different or the same?
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Connect the SD card directly to your computer and use any partition application or try doing it with your phone custom recovery.

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The same. Those are the two ways that Link2SD uses to mount the partition at boot time.

Please try one of those mount commands in a terminal emulator to check if it returns any error. I can't figure out any other reason.
[Android Apps and Games] sancho21:
Does anyone know what are differences of Data2SD and Dark Tremor Apps2SD?* I wish I could post myself, but my posting is still under 10 posts.

Provided that my internal memory is 512MB, where my ROM is stored there and also my application data (left only 100MB for market applications),

1. What does default (Gingerbread built-in Apps2SD) Apps2SD provide?

2. What does Dark Tremor try to enhance? What the differences with the default one above. How much space that I could save (more or less)?

3. What does Data2SD provide? How much space that I could save?

I heard that:

1. Default Apps2SD sets: Application in SDCard, Data in internal memory, Cache in internal memory.

2. Dark Tremor sets: Application in SDCard, Data in internal memory, Cache in where???

3. Data2SD sets all three in SDCard and ignores internal memory totally. Instead, it move internal memory into SD Card. Some says that this can exhaust your SDCard much quicker than Apps2SD.

I also wonder, (given using default Apps2SD) why after I moved application into SDCard, the Application space is still not zero (still 516KB)? For example, Barcode Scanner

Initial information is:

Total = 1.08MB

Application = 1.08MB

Data = 0.00B

Cache = 0.00B

After moved into SDCard:

Total = 516KB

Application = 516KB

Data = 0.00B

Cache = 0.00B

Why is that? And, will Dark Tremor Apps2SD will make Application into zero?

I don't know if my assumptions are correct.

If any of you could post this question on the right thread, I would appreciate it.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
sancho21:

1 - native Apps2SD moves apk and lib to SD, leaving data and dex (dalvik-cache) in internal memory.

2 - DT Apps2SD moves every apk and dex to SD, leaving data including lib in internal memory.

3 - Data2SD just moves everything to SD.

We, Link2SD users, think bulk moving is dangerous so we use Link2SD which can move apk, lib and dex to SD leaving (for now) data in internal memory. The best part is that we can choose what to move.

That 516KB you see after using native Apps2SD is the dex file.
[Android Apps and Games] disastre_18:
Thanks for the great app. I'm wondering if there's a fix for "Mount Warning" on my Galaxy Y
[Android Apps and Games] ataraxist:
This app is GREAT!
[Android Apps and Games] dragondgold:
Hello, i am having problems whit Link2SD, its a great APP but i am getting some problems. I have a Xperia X8 whit MiniCM and nAa kernel both on their lastest version.

I had almost all my phone memory full, so i installed Link2SD, mount ext4 partition, reboot, and suddenly i have all my applications but internal memory is not full anymore and Link2SD shows me that all the apps are on phone memory but i see 2nd partition is used too, so whats wrong ? Are they on phone memory or on SD card ?

The sames happens every time i install an application it says it is installed on phone internal memory but it uses 2nd partition AND internal memory space.

Whay is that happening ? I took some screenshots i hope you can help me :)

You can see that i can move the app to SD card so it is on phone memory and it is not linked but it uses internal and 2nd partition memory.
[Android Apps and Games] kimbaduds:
Anyone.. Need help pls, i really like this app. i know how to install and set this up but 1 thing is bugging me. every time i reboot my phone (Power Off) and when i turn it on.. it shows mounting problem in my notifications. so link2sd tells me that i have to do a quick reboot in order for the linked apps to show up. it's really annoying. is there any solution to this?

Thanks in advance, Hope someone knows how to fix this :(

(Galaxy Y (Young) User) GT-S5360
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
I have been busy with my work and did not have time for Link2SD and the forum.

I have been preparing a site for Link2SD and it has a FAQ section as well.

http://www.link2sd.info

The site is a work in progress, please send your question/answer if you think that it should be in FAQ in the site.

Hopefully soon I will have time for Link2SD again and release an update.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
I found a solution (hopefully) for "Mount Warning" issue on Samsung GB roms and will implement it in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Yes Kierrok, Link2SD uses "df" to find free/used storage.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Your screenshots shows that the apps are not linked, so I bet your ROM has DT Apps2SD built-in and when it found the ext4 partition it moved everything to that partition.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
I tried to find an alternative but had no success. What about including a small busybox binary like titanium backup and use it?
[Android Apps and Games] kimbaduds:
Thanks for the info.. I will wait for your next release.. This really is a great application.
[Android Apps and Games] Nightshadow931:
I'm wondering, which part of the app stays on the internal memory once it's linked (with those 3 options checked) ?
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
If the app gathers up data, for example a RSS reader would gather up feeds to show, that does not move to the SDHC card. Everything else is moved if you've checked all 3 boxes.

Sent from my HTC Flyer P512 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Nightshadow931:
Is there anyway to move that to sdcard too ?

Cause iGo "installs" itself when you open it for the first time, and then it takes around 17mb on my internal memory.
[Android Apps and Games] azcv:
Yes.You can do it manualy with latest version of root explorer.Or you can wait for link2sd release with data linking feature.It will be released soon i hope.
[Android Apps and Games] mahesh14387:
Hello,

This is a godsend for my memory strapped Wildfire S. It works fine with the 2 GB card which was originally shipped with my phone. But not so good with my older 8 GB microSDHC card. I tried formatting the 8 GB through all possible software(Native Windows formatting, using Minitool, using SDFormatter). The applications get linked but after a restart, do not load up. There is no problem initially with recreating mount scripts. But after several restarts I get the error 'Invalid Argument'. I have tried by keeping the second partition as Ext 2, Ext 3, Ext 4 and FAT 32. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong while formatting. Please help. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jazzgu:
Hi ,

I have AcerLiquid Metal with Android 2.3.6 (ker 2.6/35.7-perf+) and link2sd 1.9.10 installed but the SD card with 2nd part cannot be mounted. I had use the minitool partition to format the 2nd part to Ext2 format and i have the partition size less than 1GB. Could somebody help?

jagu
[Android Apps and Games] bobjenkins29:
Links2SD not working

Hi. I have a rooted Pantech Breakout. I've linked nearly all of my apps, yet I still have very low internal storage. Even though the apps say "Linked -> SD Card" in red in Links2SD, DiskUsage is still showing them as being on internal memory. Can anyone please help?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Nightshadow931:
Thanks for your answer.

Could you explain me how to move it with root explorer ?
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
If you are talking about the GPS app that's because it's poorly written. The lib file, which is huge, isn't in the lib folder where it should be and therefore Link2SD can't find it.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Reboots everytime set to fat32

THERE ARE JUST TOo many posts to read!

but how do you set to fat32 without it having to reboot everytime???

obviously it can't be mounted.

I used the same partision program bullent suggested

both set to primary

I use galaxy y gingerbread
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
This is a known issue on Samsung gingerbread ROMs and will be fixed in the next release, please wait for the next version.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Yes, it is possible. I found the problem and will fix it in the next release.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] suhaibroomy:
I dnt know hows it possible but my link2sd suddenly stopped working after the update...it says can't create directory on sdext2...I tried to maually mount rw in sdext2 but without success.....pls help.me out..
[Android Apps and Games] dragondgold:
Is there anyway to return apps to internal storage ? Link2SD only shows me "Move to SD Card" option but it moves to FAT32 partition. How can i do to return the application completely to internal memory ?

Thanks you :)
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Make sure you have busybox installed and run the commands in this post.

It's a good idea to make a nandroid backup before you try this.
[Android Apps and Games] dragondgold:
Thanks you, thanks you, thanks you finally i solved my problem !!! Thanks you !!! :)
[Android Apps and Games] GeekDrop:
Sorry if I missed this, 63 pages is alot to dig through, but I'm having trouble giving the second partition (both are fat 32) a drive letter while it's plugged into USB in Windows 7.

I've tried Acronis Disk Director, Minitool, Windows built in disk management tool, and diskpart, all with no luck. The first 2 said the drive letter assignment (of the second partition) was successful but then automatically just reverted back to no drive letter. Windows tool gives an error saying it (2nd part.) needs to be refreshed (etc.) and doesn't show it as formatted, while Diskpart shows the 2 partitions but says the second one is not a volume, so it won't even show up when listing volumes to be able to give it a letter.

The first partition is fine and has a letter, and everything works fine when the sdcard is plugged into my Nook Tablet.

My guess is because both partitions are marked as Primary partitions?
[Android Apps and Games] bobjenkins29:
Can anyone please help? I can't install even the smallest apps.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Post a screenshot of the details of one of those linked apps. Like this one.
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
Hello,

Im just looking for a little bit of feedback. I am considering installing this on a phone I own. Unfortunately, the phone has a very low internal storage, so installing a few apps will cause the user data area to become full very quickly.

Can this app fix that? Or is this app just an alternative to App2SD really? Its just that I'm struggling to understand how this will benefit me. Unless it can take the app, and it's user data and store them, it doesn't really offer a solution to the low memory issue.

any feedback would be smashing,

cheers
[Android Apps and Games] tovExs:
im using it to
[Android Apps and Games] ioo7:
I love this app works well on my play, I use auto link option:)
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
AFAIK the only solution that moves data to SD is Data2SD. Link2SD can move everything but data, for now.
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
So, for a phone with quite low memory, would you suggest Data2SD ? I've read all this that Link2SD allows you to have 100s of apps on your phone, well, surely that only holds if your phone has enough internal storage to support the private data from each of those apps?

Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
What do you call "quite low memory"? My phone only have 200MB and with 90 installed apps I still have 120MB free. Some of them aren't even linked.

I don't like the concept of Data2SD because if I need to remove the SD or if it dies all my apps and data (including contacts) is lost.

With Link2SD I keep the really important apps in internal memory. Even with DT A2SD this isn't possible.
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
With link2SD you can move "more" of the app off of the internal memory of your phone. If the app has a library (.lib) that can be moved and the davlik (sp?) cache always. With the traditional app2sd you only get part of the app moved. Makes quite a bit of difference.

Sent from my HTC Flyer P512 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
Apologies, let me clarify. The phone has 512MB of Shared Memory. The problem is that it's packed full of bloatware. The first thing we're going to do is root it and TitaniumBackup the **** out of it and get rid of anything non-necessary and see how much space that frees up. That might be enough. But for example, at stock, the phone has about 7 apps on it at the moment and has a pretty poor 24mb of space remaining. That's appalling.

I guess I might be jumping to conclusion when I say Link2SD won't suffice.

I've tried the Data2SD on my own phone and it's very... hmmm, well it works but it's very hit and miss. Lots of files it wouldn't transfer to the virtual storage but let me do a bit more investigating.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Shared? As in all things are on the same partition? Are you sure about that?

My phone also has 512MB but it's partitioned. 200MB for /system, 200MB for /data, 64MB for /cache and some other smaller partitions. What really matters is /data size.

Of course some (a lot) of the space in /data has been taken by the dex files of all the bloatware and can be reclaimed when you delete it but if /system is in his own partition the space occupied by the apps will not be freed for /data.

You should root the device, install a terminal emulator and run this commands so we can understand how the internal memory is partitioned:

su

cat /proc/partitions

cat /proc/mounts

df
[Android Apps and Games] jimmykar:
hello..i want to ask you...

i have the new samsung galaxy y pro duos...i root the device..the custom rom is 2.3.6

now the problem with the link2sd is that the ext3 partition that i create ....and i link the apps there,ANY TIME that i reboot the phone ,it cant be mount!!!...

.....is some solution for this,or i must wait the new realease??

thank you about your answer!
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
Apologies, I think I expressed that wrong. Yes, it's fully partitioned I can tell you that now. I call it shared because 512mb internal memory used to be 512mb free memory, not 512mb partitioned into a ROM, data etc.
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Yes, some devices specs mention the whole ROM size instead of the free memory available for the user.

When you find out the real /data partition size you can better decide what to do.
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
If you get "mount warning" and need to perform "quick reboot" to use your linked apps after each restart wait for the new version; new version will fix this issue.

It will be released in next week.
[Android Apps and Games] Wojtekn:
After reboot link2sd will quick reboot do...

Hi,

everything work great i think only there is one problem when i will reboot my phone... there shows up an msg from link2sd mount warrning and when i click on it offers me to quick reboot :confused:

Can someone help me with this issue?

My Phone: HTC Sensation with Android Revolution HD 3.6.13

Link2sd with the second ext4 partition.
[Android Apps and Games] ioo7:
Its cool me too. Just go ahead and quick boot, it will fix it self, or thats what happend to me, just when it does ask u that do it, now every time u have to boot, it lets u do it so u dont have to turn off/on.
[Android Apps and Games] jimmykar:
thank you about your answer....well i must wait a week for the next update!!

pls dont forget to fix that problem ;)

i ll be waitting..

have a nice day!!!!!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
Firstly, well impressed with this software. I think it's great. There's a few apps that don't like it though, what do I do with those.

The main one at the moment is Sprite Backup I don't think likes it at all. It refuses to read a backup I made. However, when I load Sprite onto a different phone, it reads the backup okay. Can anyone provide suggestions?

If I remove Link2SD, whats the likelihood that it'll break when I put it back on.

Can anyone give a better way of getting the SMS onto the phone?
[Android Apps and Games] japert:
Hi, I've using Titanium back up Pro feature to Move apps to SD, and it has worked fine by me. So I wanna ask. What's the difference between movings apps to SD with the Titanium feature, and using Link2SD. Which one is "better", or faster or more reliable?.

My phone model is A motorola xt531 (fire xt)
[Android Apps and Games] Kierrok:
Link2SD FAQ

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I don't think Link2SD is the problem. Never tried that app but it has a lot of bad comments and some of them say exactly the same problem you have.

I use MyBackup to backup SMS, contacts, call logs, etc...

I've tried hundreds of apps and never found one that caused problems with Link2SD.
[Android Apps and Games] homo XDAus:
Question: Partition manager shows me 50 MB of link2sd partition are free, but link2sd says not sufficient disk space when trying to move a app. Are here bugs or erros known?

Also if I delete big linked2sd apps to free disk space, I still cannot move apps to sd. Do I have to unlink linked sd apps to correctly delete and update them?
[Android Apps and Games] bsoplinger:
I'd guess it's your phone's internal memory that there isn't enough space on and not the 2nd partition that's lacking.

Sent from my HTC Flyer P512 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] n756gkj:
request for L2SD boot-script generation to be made CyanogenMod "/sd-ext"-aware.

i've been using link2sd with marcusant v3 mtd/rom & samurai mtd/kernel.

for this config, the init.d script generation works as expected.

i've started exploring CyanogenMod7. for this ROM, it seems we need to do a simple init.d mod, as per:

http://blog.mx17.net/2011/08/howto-use-link2sd-with-cyanogenmod-703.html

to mount "/sd-ext" which, iiuc, is the AOSP standard (? or just CM?). easy enough, and it works.

of course, it doesn't survive wipe/reinstall.

any chance we might get an option in the selector screen, where we're already choosing format type (ext2,ext3,ext4 ...) to also ask TW- or AOSP/CM- based ROM, and then exec the correct script generation?
[Android Apps and Games] skezza:
I believe you are right
[Android Apps and Games] cookies!:
Hi

I've already installed Link2Sd on my GT540 and tried partitioing my 2BG sd card using minitool, using these instrcutions

however, when I click an app on link2sd it says 'second partition not found'

any ideas where I'm going wrong? Tried partitioning it so many times and in different ways, been doing both primary, first fat, second fat32 or ex2

:confused: Don't know why it's not working

Help please!

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] ioo7:
reboot from link2sd. FAT32, Hope that helped.
[Android Apps and Games] cookies!:
thansk, tried rebooting from link2sd, didn't work

when i check the partition again on windows mintool-it doesn't show

so i deleted it again and and made a Primary FAT one. when creating the second a pop up comes saying 'The new created partition cannot be used in Windows. Becuase Windows could only recognise the first partition on a removable disk. Continue?' clciked yes, made it Primary Ex2.

It then shows 3 partitions-third is unallocated of 15.07 MB

Pressed Apply. windows appears saying it is successful.

I take out the usb wire, phone says SD card blank or has unsupported file system. Do you want to format it? Pressed format nothing happens. Switched phone off and on.

Link2sd still shows 'symbolic link-second partition not found

/dev/block/mmcblko2 device not found'Storage info also shows that 2nd part not found

check minitool again, and back to square 1, only 1 FAT partition!:eek:

:confused::confused:where is it all goig wrong!

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] ChungHung.Chen:
Dear bakpinar,

I've found another strange behavior, perhaps another bug.

Android 2.3.7 / using "Androidify" for example.

Issue: App which does NOT support apps2sd but can be "move to SD" by Link2SD.

The scenario is simple.

Androidify is not support native apps2sd ( no Apps2sd icon in Link2SD ).

But I can use "Move to SD" by long-pressing menu and it actually been moved to SD ( /mnt/asec ).

The app is still working without problem.

Is this a bug in Link2SD or ROM ( CM7 )?

Chung-Hung Chen
[Android Apps and Games] bakpinar:
Dear Chung-Hung Chen,

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Link2SD moves any user apps to SD even though the app does not support moving to SD (requires root and Android 2.2+)

This is called "force move".

But, this can break some apps if they are not meant to be moved to the SD card (such as widgets, services, live wallpapers etc.)
[Android Apps and Games] Jesson_M:
Thanks a lot