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[Android Apps and Games] eoinzy:
I totally wiped my HTC Desire and stuck on CM7 7.1.0 and have an 8GB SD card. I formatted it through recovery (Amon-RA) so I have a 1GB ext2 partition, 64mb swap and 7GB fat32.

Titanium Backup tells me this:

System ROM: 262MB (121MB free)

Internal: 158MB(14.1MB Free)

SD Card: 7.06GB (5.37 GB free)

SD Card(a2sd): 958 MB (872MB free)

So the numbers arent important, but Titanium is picking up some sort of external storage. The problem is, the phone keeps giving me a notification saying I'm running out of space (which is true, see Internal above). I thought S2E was meant to stop this!

Am I using it wrong? Do I need to reflash CM7 on top of this existing install?

PS, in S2E itself:

Up the top right it says:

DATA: 13MB EXT:783MB

then on the main part,

Applications: Checked, but greyed out (82MB)

Private apps: Not checked (4KB)

Application Data: Not checked, greyed out (42mb)

Dalvik Cache: Not checked (82MB)

Download Cache: Not checked (4kb)

Any tips on how to use S2E properly?
[Android Apps and Games] brigon:
@eoinzy

Tick Dalvik cache in S2E and reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] eoinzy:
Is that the solution though?

I thought the Dalvik cache was meant to be kept on the phone for performance, while the apps themselves were the ones we should be moving.

Will moving the Dalvik cache move the apps as well?
[Android Apps and Games] nrlatsha:
Ran fsck, no love, so I moved everything off the card, formatted within Ubuntu, moved everything back on and bam, still no love.

Any other thoughts? May have to move to another app. Cache is the only thing keeping me from installing lots of apps, I have a size of 110, used 109 and 580k free. SD-Ext has 3280 Mb free, with only 368 used.
[Android Apps and Games] brigon:
Moving Dalvik to ext is fine. It's moving app data to ext that can affect performance. Have you verified in App settings that no apps are installed on SD card using the Froyo method?
[Android Apps and Games] baseballfanz:
For the most potential use of S2E

you should have applications, private apps, dalvik cache and move cache to sd checked.

At least a ext3 imo.

you can change ext2 to ext3 our ext4 in amon ra without losing data.

Also the SD Card is your Fat 32 and SD Card (a2sd) is your ext partition.
[Android Apps and Games] flacoff:
I thought MIUI had apps2sd built in? it does work on the ASOP Oxygen rom
[Android Apps and Games] netbus:
Bootloop after resizing

Hy there,

I had resized the ext4 partition from 512MB to 1024MB.

Now my device doesn't boot up because it hangs in a boot loop.

What can I do?
[Android Apps and Games] ZDQ:
Since I had no luck with getting Dark Tremor A2SD scripts running on my Desire (GMS) with CM 7.0.3 I decided to try S2E ... It installed fine but I can't select any option except for "Download Cache" ... :/

The main S2E screen shows:

DATA: 20MB EXT:--

Applications: not checked, greyed out (15MB)

Private apps: not checked, greyed out (2KB)

Application Data: not checked, greyed out (24MB)

Dalvik Cache: not checked, greyed out (80MB)

Download Cache: not checked and can be selected (27MB)

I have 1GB ext2 partition ... any tips how to make it working ?
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
A ext3 or ext4 SD-ext is a must for s2e to work
[Android Apps and Games] ZDQ:
Just checked with GParted and I have ext4 partition ... S2E should work but for some reason it's not (een if I go into S2E settings and mark "Mount as ext4") and I'm running out of my internal memory space :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] zerofreedom:
i have problem...

when i reboot, all my app was lost..

tell why & solution...

thx before :D
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

same here, and the EXT partition is not longer available.

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] Kons90:
Guys I have problem. I have EXT4 partition on my microSD card, I installed this app but I can't click on options :/ Program didn't see my partition, why ? Maybe it's not mounted ? How I can mount them ? :(
[Android Apps and Games] DeTool:
Yeah Miui does use dt a2sd. This app is easier to use imo though. I did use it when I was on cm7. I tried it maybe 3 months ago on miui but couldn't get it to work. Maybe I'll give it another go.
[Android Apps and Games] ZDQ:
Thanks to some tips in CyanogenMod forum I was able to solve my issue with S2E app :D

Seems that problem was related to my ext partition, I created it once again using recovery and now S2E works as it should and I enjoy lots of free internal mem.
[Android Apps and Games] korro:
Hello.

I have problem with S2E.

After wipe S2E is able to see my ext (in title is showing free space). When i check option to move something to ext, it shows "--" next to ext in title.

What more can i do?

Edit:

On stable, experimental and nightly i have same problem.

After installing and reboot S2E is disappearing and i can't install anything "<app> could not be downloaded due to error..."

My sd was partitioned with Clockwork recovery 5.x.

Edit2:

After switching to RA recovery everything went smooth...
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Get a less generic card.. Cheap brands are very often slower than they are specced in general. They might meet spec a particular test but may be very slow in others. And sometimes devices handle SD cards differently than PCs.. I have two Kingston cards which work great on my computer when I try them but every type of phone I've put them in barfs on them.

AData.. Cheap for a reason.
[Android Apps and Games] 1seven:
This is very good advice. After having problems with several brands (Adata, WinTec, and at least one other I don't recall atm), I now will ONLY buy Sandisk, and I've never had trouble with one of theirs. Also, Sandisks often perform much higher than rated--right now my phone has a Class4 Sandisk which performs close to Class 8, and with much better random r/w speeds (see the Nook Color thread for that discussion.)

Another tip, only buy from reputable dealers--I pick them up at Newegg when on sale, or at Costco. There are counterfeit SD cards out there. Even if you're buying Sandisk, don't waste your time on a daily deals site, or a 3rd party on Amazon--you're likely going to get a defective, used, or fake card. Stick with the known dealers, a good brand, and you're unlikely to encounter any trouble. I learned this the hard way.
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
Has been thinking about buying another card for a while.

Is there any software that can be used to clone the ext4 partition? Can Ghost do that?
[Android Apps and Games] sweetpotatoz:
I tried to partition with ROM Manager with ClockMod Recovery 5.0.x

but failed then did the manual partition for my 16GB sd card

fat32 - the rest

ext2 (later changed to ext 4) 511MB (wanted to have 512MB but somehow cannot manage it)

linux swap 32MB

by looking at the S2E screen,

answered by momomok in thread #477 (thanks!)

when i clicked on information, then download a tool, freespace (screen capture)

data = internal storage

ext = ext4 partition of sd card

SD-card = fat32 partition of sd card

System = phone system ROM

-found that i can actually move not all, but each application through setting->application

thanks in advance ( I didn't browse through this thread yet, sorry if it was asked before.....and some of the questions is related to freespace not s2e)
[Android Apps and Games] 1seven:
Nandroid backup, include sd-ext.

When you replace the card, partition your new card like you did your old (I do this in recovery), then restore nandroid.
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
The top section of FreeSpace shows the amount of free space left. The two numbers are not related.
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
Good suggestion, I almost forgot that XD
[Android Apps and Games] Moe29:
sweetpotatoz

How did you partition your SD card ?
[Android Apps and Games] Menelkir:
Someone see the lots of files in lost+found (at least for me)? Its because every time you reboot, the system doesn't unmount the sd-ext properly so he create this files to fix some misbehaviours in filesystem. The good point is, your filesystem has been checked and fixed. The bad point, some files are marked as "no fixable" and moved to /lost+found, this files can be anything, including apks.

Anyone knows a good solution for this? Maybe a sync or unmount before the OS restart.
[Android Apps and Games] sweetpotatoz:
I tried using ROM Manager but failed

then I tried the manual partition using Android SDK through command prompt likes mkpartfs

Then I tried S2E to move apps to SD, but after I reboot those apps are gone.

I think the phone cannot mount the sd-ext properly.

Then I flashed my backup and using link2sd now with no problem.

*you can also try to partition your SD card in ClockworkMod Recovery mode.

please be note that partition will wipe all your data in SD card
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
Moving apps using settings -> application is not moving them to SD-ext... instead it will move using Froyo's method - moving to .android_secure folder on your SD...

You can't choose individual apps to move using S2E AFAIK...
[Android Apps and Games] prox4ion:
I've been using S2E for a few months without any problems. But recently I've moved Dalvik cache to sd-ext as well, and although it's probably a coincidence, all new apps that I install are going to internal storage and not /sd-ext/app anymore.

Anyone know of a way to fix this? Much thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] prox4ion:
Hmmm...maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. After installing Google Earth, I lose about 21MB of memory. Can anyone else verify that this is the case?
[Android Apps and Games] nomad4ever:
exception list for app data not to move to ext?

I'm using S2E about 1 week now and it really is a revelation for lack-of-space-plagued devices like the HTC Legend on CM7.

I tried all options to move stuff over, step by step, except private apps. But after moving App Data I also experienced slight lags sometimes, but only after a while. Especially my keyboad app (Ultra Keyboard) and SMS App (Handcent) take longer to respond and show quite heaevy lag from time to time, sometimes up to 5-10 seconds long, before new input is possible. That's somewhat annoying and wasn't there, before I moved App Data.

It would be nice to have an option to chose, which app data to move or not. For instance keyboard or SMS app data I would prefer not to move.

Would that be hard to implement? Other than that....great app and deserves each and every raving review and 5-star ranking it got (including mine) in the market. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] slatis:
One quick question, does s2e supports swap partition like a2sd? if not is there any other option different to a2sd?
[Android Apps and Games] imranaryan:
hi I cannot Setup S2E.. am using galaxy ace with CM7.1 nightly and some people claim to hae successfully setup S2E .. do i need to use A2SD script or its included in it.. i mounted as ext 4 and set buffer to 3 mb i have ext part but after eboot its not showinfg ext 4 partition please help
[Android Apps and Games] dandrumheller:
Is your ext partition the second partition on your SD card? No script required for S2E on CM7.
[Android Apps and Games] imranaryan:
I have

FAT32 - 13.7 Gb Primary

EXT4 - 1.01 GB Primary

what to do it is not detecting my Ext Partion
[Android Apps and Games] dandrumheller:
Probably a dumb question, but do you have mount as ext4 selected in the options for S2E? I believe this is necessary, but don't know for sure as I use ext3.
[Android Apps and Games] apisfires:
tick mount ext4, and reflash it back, dont wipe anything and will working....
[Android Apps and Games] danner_416:
I see most post in this thread,say to have around 1GB ext4 partition.

If this app move all apps & dalvik/app/cache to ext4,on sd card, is it not better to make ext4,partition 90% of sd card, then the rest fat32 or is it better the other way around?

I currently have link2sd running on my n1. my sd card is 16-GB and i have it set

up with 2.5-GB fat32 partition & 1.5-GB remaining as my apps are still on this

partition, have not moved them with link2sd app up to now. the rest of my partition is ext2/ quick system info shows this part of sd card as a2sd storage of free space is 12-gb. do i not format the partition the same way,except format

ext2 in to ext4?

as well do i need to name ext2 & ext4 different if i partition by pc with mini-tool

for CW & TB to recognize both partitions for back-up or leave them blank

in mini-tool options part.

sorry for noob questions
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
Can't really answer your questions. Just want to give you an advice: use Ubuntu/gparted/recovery (RA's recovery recommended) to partition your SD.
[Android Apps and Games] elililly:
CM7-Nightly

I'm using CM7-Nightly also I want to Updated the later Nightly. I can Update the Nightly without losing my Ext-APP with S2E?

Can anyone help me with this????

Thanks in Advance.
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
Apps will still be there even if you flash a new nightly
[Android Apps and Games] danner_416:
Thanks,momomok will DL gparted.Then do full wipe & flash and partition agan.

But i would like to know if my partition size is correct as my earlier post

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
There is only a need to have 2 partitions on your card (well, for most modern phones... some older ones with limited RAM may benefit from a swap partition, but with most phones, swap can cause worse performance). You need one for your apps (aka the ext partition) and one for everything else (the fat32 partition). There is no need to give your ext partition all the space on your card, because unless you plan on installing 10GB worth of apps, you will never use it and it will be wasted space. Most people are fine with a 1GB ext partition. Although, with me, I did find it to be a tad small (I am an app hoarder and have a hard time deleting apps -- even if I never use them), but utilizing Froyo's app2sd, I was able to not run into any space issues.

If I ever redo my sdcard partitioning, I may bump it up to a 1.5GB (on my 32GB card), but I wouldn't see a need for me to have more space than that.
[Android Apps and Games] danner_416:
thanks,bassmadrigal for the help. I as well find a hard time deleting apps, lol

If this script/app leaves your fat32 partition alone. The 2nd partition is where this app moves most of sd storage. I well have to make 2ext larger. as I have over 1gb of apps on cyanogen method now. I don't have alot of music and photos on my fat32 partition. so i take it the extra partition space will sit unused

for me if most goes to fat32 partition. Just checking if it is right move.(won't damage any back-ups i perform,or speed of phone to read sd card data)

thanks, again
[Android Apps and Games] dausjalil:
sad...no work on me...when i make partition from mini tool..then format in hp..after install s2e n freespace never get ext4 T_T why !!
[Android Apps and Games] momomok:
I would avoid mini tool...

Try to use Ubuntu (and its built-in tool to create a ext4 partition)

Gparted will do this job pretty nice as well

They all have bootable iso for downloading :)
[Android Apps and Games] lolobabes:
i did a fresh flash of cm7 today but for whatever reason s2e doesnt seem to work anymore, after I have configured the app then pressing reboot in the app nothing happens... any idea guys? ty
[Android Apps and Games] markbc:
After installing S2E, Problems loading widgets, or seeing S2E on

Hi (& Help please!! :confused:

I recently installed S2E on my HTC Aria (CyanogenMod nightly 222). S2E is fantastic and has provided new life for my phone! However, I do have one problem -it seems that S2E sometimes does not load. For example:

1. When I reboot or shut down then restart the phone, upon restart I usually get error message "problem loading widget" for the three desktop widgets I load (simple calendar/ battery circle/ fancy widgets).

2. Moreover, those widgets also no longer appear when I open the add widgets menu (add/widgets/ [name]

3. Finally, when I then open the apps drawer, neither the S2E or S2E Gold app icons appears.

OK, rebooting again seems to correct the problem, after a while S2E shows up in the Apps drawer, and the missing widgets re-appear in the "ADD WIDGETS" menu; but they still don't auto load -- I need to delete the hollow "problem loading widget" boxes and then re- add the widget to the desktop again).

I have tried fixing permissions (using ROM Manager) and even after doing that and rebooting I experienced the same problem ;-( Still had to reboot, then watch the apps menu slowly build to the point where S2E re-appears and I know I will be ok.

I checked SU and S2E had permissions, so what am I doing wrong, or how can fix this situation so that I don't have to reboot twice in a row and rebuild the widgets each time I turn off the phone?

I would greatly appreciate any advice or recommendations:

Not sure what info you might need, My phone's memory usage is as follows:

Item used/ size

- cache: 3 /40 mb

- data: 55/185 mb

- Ext: 225/457 mb

- System: 128/240 mb

- SD card: 12,857/29,689 mb

thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] prox4ion:
CM7.1 is officially released. Has anyone done the flash? What's the recommended way to upgrade with app2sd intact?

Update: I went ahead, used ROM Manager to download 7.1 and install it on my N1. Included the Google Apps and choose the default to wipe Dalvik Cache. It then did the flash and took a long time to reboot (5 mins?). Now I'm on 7.1. No problems so far.
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Make sure you don't have those apps "stored on the sdcard". If you are using S2E, every app you install on your phone gets installed to the ext partition. If you use the built in method to move apps to the sdcard, it will move them to the fat partition. This makes them inaccessible when the phone boots up initially.
[Android Apps and Games] markbc:
Thank you for the recommendation! . . . I had not thought of that aspect and will try to confirm the locations and move "back" to the proper location if necessary! :)
[Android Apps and Games] lolobabes:
Set it on the cyanogen settings to install to "internal" not automatic, by the way if you update cm7 with wipe data and cache does it remove the s2e script too? Do I need to reconfigure it and reboot? ty
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
It isn't necessary to have it set to internal. I have mine set to automatic. But then I have enough apps that 1GB was not enough for me, so it forced me to move some over using the Froyo method anyway.

And, if you wipe data, it will wipe S2E as that is where it is installed and configured. So, the first thing you will want to do is reinstall S2E from the market and re-enable all the checkboxes you want checked.
[Android Apps and Games] hitman72:
so can I update cyanogen without losing simple2ext function? With a2sd from recovery after flashing new versione of cyanogen I had to reflash a2sd too. help please (I love simple2ext, is the only program that does not corrupt my ext partition). thank you and sorry for my poor english. ciao
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
No need to do anything other than update CM. S2E will continue working as it is an app rather than something that needs to be added into the system.
[Android Apps and Games] Qvbc?!:
Hi all! I have cm7.1 and checked app and dalvik cache in s2e, but when I rebooted all widgets are corrupts and I haven't a lots of programs installed, including s2e, what I have to do?

Uhm... Seems work now (I had reflash rom, put in cm7 options - app - internal)
[Android Apps and Games] viniciuscordeiro:
Troubles

What did you do?

I installed CM7.1, sync my google account, installed S2E 1.2.0, and checked APP and DALVIK CACHE. First time when I click REBOOT inside S2E, software freezes, then I had to reflash and do everything again. After it's reboot and S2E and Android Market had gone...

Any idea to solve this? Nexus One just have 180mb free to install apps, I didn't install 20% of my apps and just have 30mb free...
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Make sure that you don't have Settings -> CM Settings -> Applications -> Install Location set to External. It should be set to Internal or Automatic. Then verify that S2E is installed to the "internal" or phone memory.
[Android Apps and Games] kisekio:
Hey guys, I just installed CM7.1 and am still not 100% clear on how Android manage the installed applications.

In the phone, there are Internal Storage (2GB), "Internal" SD Card (14GB), and a real External SD Card (which I haven't put in yet).

Which partition are all the apps/games actually being installed to in the phone?

If I'm not mistaken, the apps/games will install in the 2GB partition, and I have to "Move to SD Card" manually everytime, so that all of them will be moved to the 14GB partition. Is that correct?

Am I to expect issues with some apps/games because they are moved into the "Internal" SD Card? I don't really want to use up the 2GB partition.

I'm not planning to use "External" SD Card for installing apps/games though due to above reason. I will use it only for storing musics/pics.

I have the CM Settings -> Applications -> Install Location -> set to Automatic/Internal, if that matters.
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Anything with stock Android or stock CM will use the Froyo method of app2sd. It will move portions of the app to the "sdcard" which in your case would most likely be the internal sdcard. This does come with a limitation which will cause issues with widgets and system-integrated apps (like facebook and twitter). What S2E allows, is to move those apps to an ext partition (most likely on your external card, as I don't know if you would even have permission to partition your internal card). S2E makes the phone think that the ext partition is actually internal phone memory, so you don't run into any of the limitations of Froyo's app2sd.

Why don't you want to keep apps in the 2GB internal partition? That is what it was designed for.
[Android Apps and Games] viniciuscordeiro:
It was just for Internal... now S2E didn´t recognize my EXT partition... :/

Should I format and create partitions again?
[Android Apps and Games] goaliemn:
I went ahead and updated my EVO to CM 7.1 I installed the S2E app, moved dalvik cache and now I can't download anything from the market.. I've uninstalled it, went back to old backups of previous versions, even reflashed the rom and I still get download errors.. Looking back in the thread here, I see others had this happen with an older version of the app.. Is there a fix for this or some way to undo whatever it did?

Thanks

Mark
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
If you are using clockworkmod v3 or v5, that is most likely your problem. Both versions have been known to cause corruption of your ext partition. I would either revert to an older 2.5 version or switch to Amon_RA and repartition your card.
[Android Apps and Games] kisekio:
For apps, I'm still quite fine leaving them in the 2GB partition.

However if it comes to games, I prefer to install them in the 14GB partition.

I have another device with games which occupy 2GB pretty easily (I know I have too many games, my bad).

Also, for apps, I understand if it could cause issue by doing "Move to SD Card", but do you think there will be some issues if I do it for games?
[Android Apps and Games] bassmadrigal:
Ah, ok. I install a lot of apps, but I haven't surpassed 2GB just yet.

With S2E, it is either all of the apps or none of the apps. There is no in-between. If you are looking to selectively move complete apps to another partition, you may want to look into Link2sd (I think that is the name).

But if you are just wanting to use the Froyo method of "Move to SD" under the application in settings, that will work fine and shouldn't cause any issues with the games. The only things you don't want to do that for is apps that contain widgets, live wallpapers, or apps that directly integrate into the system (facebook, twitter, picasa, etc) as the sdcard is unavailable when the phone first boots into Android (remember the little message that says "Preparing SD Card for use" when you first get your homescreen loaded?). Anything that doesn't fit into the above categories shouldn't have any issues being loaded onto the sdcard.