Bam82

Done! Am now using teppics ROM with power saving mods and Apps2SD+.
Quick system info shows A2SD storage Total: 458mb Free: 331mb

Looks like its working to me! woo hoo!

Should be happy now as Ive got what I set out to do but am already thinking of what I want to do next!

SUroot

Lucky.you. I've actually done all the modifications I want to do so need someone to invent more for me to do.

It's fair to say I'm addicted

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turbohobbit

Silly question: I partitioned my SD card to allow for A2SD+ and then flashed Teppic's ROM which all works fine. I now want to flash LeeDroid 2.2f, which even though is a Sense Rom will probably involve wiping to ensure a clean load. If I wipe the card, I know I'll lose the apps on it (I'll do a Titanium back-up first...) but will I have to repartitian the card too or is that done for good now?

UKseagull

turbohobbit, just thought it might be worth mentioning. I seem to remember reading that there's going to be a Leedroid 2.2g release shortly, you might want to hold off for a few days?

SUroot

You wont wipe the card. You will wipe data which will remove the apps from EXT partition.

Then do your (selective) titanium restore.

You can always try without wiping first (you can wipe from recovery, so if you get a boot loop, drop the battery out and boot into recovery).

No point holding off. 2.2g will flash directly over f when its out. I do this sort of thing on the bus to work quite often. No biggie.

turbohobbit

Cool, thanks guys. I'll take a backup now, try without wiping and see what happens...

turbohobbit

Looks like I'm in a boot loop. I've dropped the battery and booted into recovery. Presume I now choose "wipe data / factory reset"?

After that, do I have to reflash the rom or do I just restart?

SUroot

Jist restart.

turbohobbit

Cool, cheers. Yup, did that and it all went swimmingly.

safe_12345

I rooted my desire then partition my sd card using rom manager, the first time it didn't do it properly because once I flashed to leedroid 2.2f and used system info it said A2sd was only 15MB and 13MB free. Did it again right now and now its 458MB and free 347MB. Do I have to reflash leedroid? also how do I check if the SD card partition is ext3?
Any app out there that can allow me to partition to 1024MB?

Thanks for any help

SUroot

For a bigger partition you need to do it on pc. You don't really need it.

machmandp

just my experience

i flashed leedroid 2.2f and created 1 1gb ext3 part on my 16gb card

i have loads of apps for a change and managed to install flash and maps updates etc

Quick system info reports

A2SD Storage
Total 0.93gb , Free 513mb

internal Storage
Total 148mb, Free 64.61mb

so from my point of view it was well worth going to 1gb as 512 just wouldnt have been enough which was my only reason for doing it in the first place.

i know that i can get rid of some apps but now i dont need to

SUroot

Suppose it depends on the apps then

arcybarrios

hi dan! GREAT tut! I had done the partion thing but had no clue if it had gone through. So I downloaded Quick system info per your recommendation and voila!

Now, I do apologize beforehand if this has already been asked of you or in previous posts (i have not found one helpful after reading LOTS).

A step by step guide (just as you did with this thread) to remove stock/crap apps. I have a HTC mytouch slide with SLIDE-Reloaded v1 from xda's ROM bible.

I have had the phone for three weeks now so I am still a complete noob and learning lots by the day. The one thing that is annoying me is not bien able to get rid of the bloatware.

I have tried to toggle r/w on root manager and multi-select/delete and tried Titanium delete from the back-up restore tab with no avail!

Would this be a challenge or has it already been done? If so would you point me in the right direccion please?

Cheers

droidzone

Yup..
Check out the following for removing system apps:
Dan's guide here
Guide on Modaco (advanced)
Using Titanium to remove system apps (May not always work, but is the simplest)

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SUroot

Cheers DZ. Of course the best way now is to flash the AlphaRev 1.5 s-off hboot, buy root explorer, browse to /system/app mount as r/w in root explorer and simply delete them. As with all methods though, you need to be careful what you delete.

droidzone

Well, I love the method you suggested for me last time I had a problem with Google Maps..No need for S-OFF..i.e..Flashing the same ROM over the current ROM after removing the app from /system/app in the ROM zip..Followed by deleting the cache.

SUroot

Yeah that's good too. Mo help if you stay with the stock Rom though.

I need s-off for custom partition so may as well use it for deleting apps too

droidzone

Custom partition on the Internal memory?

SUroot

Yep. As per the specs in my sig

arcybarrios

Thanks droid! Readon some of the info now

Will the AlphaRv replace my current ROM or is this some software to assist in removing apps? I actually have Root Explorer (didn't know there was a paid version though) and that is what I tried initially. Toggled the r/o to r/w > menu > multi-select > selected apps > delete but that did not get rid of anything. As soon as the phone rebooted they were back.

I did the same with Titanium. >Problems > Backup/Restore >selected apps one by one > delete. Titanium would automatically restart my phone after each one (only tried it three times) but that did not get rid of the apps either (as droid mentioned above).

You I managed to hide the suckers with Launcherpro but that is cheating and not really deleting (which is my goal).

I love this sentence from your How to post:

This has been my exact same experience AND your post did not pop up in the 5 pages I scrolled through. Problem is you look through forums and although many posts come up, it is exactly what you say, people will write in responses to others as if everyone reading the posts is an expert. I am going blind of reading and reading and searching the how to's. This DOES become addicting though

SUroot

Alpharev is a custom Bootloader. Its what boots your Rom or your recovery. It is custom in that it ignores the security flag which is stored in radio nvram. On your normal rooted Rom, this will allow deleting of apps with root explorer. Otherwise they are replaced when you reboot.

CDMA rooted users enjoy s-off when they.root with unrevoked. GSM need alpharev.

droidzone

Dan, can you link me to any guides (here or on XDA) which explains how to actually calculate and choose MTD Partition size? Which guide did you use-Firerat's or daedelus82's? And how much space have you saved with this hack? I did find a few threads, but couldnt find a good enough explanation for setting the size..

SUroot

I used daedelus.

I looked in quick system info app, how much system space was used and set system a bit bigger.

I've got 260MB of 293MB data free

Eris Ed

Step 3 is SO important, even if ROM Manager says you have the current latest version of ClockworkMod. Trying to partition the SD card without flashing recovery will cause an error and you need to reboot.

You also need to flash recovery before you use ROM Manager to create a nandroid backup ("Backup current ROM"), and before flashing other .zip files (Super-Circle battery Icon) etc.

Last edited by Eris Ed; November 27th, 2010 at 04:50 PM.

madhatter1689

Thanks for this Dan. I rooted and am using the Leedroid ROM. Your advice was straightforward, easy to follow and appears to be working using the 'quick system info' test. Thanks for helping me out.

SUroot

No worries.

I noticed a lot of questions about this, both here and in ROM threads. I thought since I had a little knowledge on the subject, I would compile the FAQ to help people out.

JohnnyBravo1000

Dan, as you're already aware, I'm using LeeDroid2.2F with A2SD+. Am I ok to install apps using the .apk file rather than through the market? Will these still go where they are supposed to automatically etc?

Cheers mate.

SUroot

All apps will go as desire. However, you wont get the associated market links.

Any restore via titanium will restore the market link btw.

JohnnyBravo1000

Cheers mate.

Just thought I'd run something past you as it confused me a little.

I restored Angry Birds to my phone last night via Titanium. For some reason, it installed part of it to my SD card and part of it to my phone.

Is this because it was saved on both my phone and SD card previously?

Anyway, after reading your post above I decided to do a bit of experimenting. The market link wasn't restored for me, despite the fact I restored the app and its data via Titanium.

I thought this was strange, so I backed up Angry Birds via Titanium and uninstalled Angry Birds.

I then reinstalled it from the Market to see if it would show up. It didn't show up at first, but it did save some of the app to the SD card, which once again I moved across to the phone.

I then rebooted my phone and the market link was restored.

I then restored only the Angry Birds data and all seems fine.

I suppose I'm wondering why it installed part of the app to my phone and part of it to the SD card?

Edit: I've just downloaded the new Angry Birds Seasons game and this did the same. It downloaded part of the game to the phone and part of it to the SD card. Once again I naturally moved it to the phone.

Also, I assume there's no harm in me only transferring across only the app data to be used with a freshly downloaded version of Angry Birds in order to get the market link restored.

It's all fairly minor stuff, but I'm enjoying the odd bit of tinkering and seeing how things work if that makes sense? I guess that's how we all learn!

Last edited by JohnnyBravo1000; December 1st, 2010 at 02:56 PM.

turbohobbit

I cuerrently running LeeDrOiD 2.2f. I presume if I download and install AlphaRev 1.5 the s-off will stay in the HBOOT even if flash a new / updated custom ROM such as LeeDrOiD 2.2G (as and when it's released!).

Also, I presume I download AlphaRev to the root of the SD card, like with a new ROM?

SUroot

Not sure. what about other apps?

You havent used force to sd in titanium? Perhaps your rom has a default install location set somewhere in settings?

SUroot

Yes, only an RUU will remove (or manual reflash of an unmodified hboot - see alpharev site for details)

No, its a bootable CD.

JohnnyBravo1000

Nope. I haven't used force to SD in Titanium.
The smaller apps have been installing immediately to the phone (SD card partition) like they should.

Perhaps it's something to do with the size of the apps? As Angry Birds is quite large in size in comparison to your average app.

SUroot

Maybe angry birds is encoded to install directly to SD.

InfernalByte

[QUOTE=danfrance;1891277]There appears to be a lot of confusion about this, how to do it, what it is and how to check it is working.


How do I check it has worked?

Download "quick system info from" the market. It will show you an "a2SD" total size and free space.

If the free space is less than the total, the partition is being used for apps and it is working.[QUOTE]





Titanium Back Up (free) also tells you if a2sd is working. At the bottom of its homescreen there is now 3 horizontal meters, the very bottom one is a2sd, if it doesn't appear, your a2sd is not working.

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SUroot

Yes true. Is yours accurate? Mine shows an amount of a2sd and I dont even have a2sd anymore.

InfernalByte

I think so, I flashed the Firerat patches the other day and couldn't get them to work, Titanium Back Up gave me only Internal and SD readings. I then flashed Darktremor and then there were three. I did wipe Dalvik and a few other caches I'd never heard of though.

SUroot

But is the free / used space = to that in QSI?

If so, I'll edit and add it to the FAQ

Cheers

InfernalByte

My figures are accurate to within 100mb, but that's only because Titanium rounds things off to 100's. Sorry no screen shots, maybe someone else will confirm this. My point in the thread was is that it told me at a glance that my a2sd was working. Originally I thought it was working because my low memory warnings weren't appearing, unfortunately I didn't realize that this was because the new ROM was so much smaller than the old one.

SUroot

You have a 250MB /system partition that your ROM sits within. No matter how small the rom is, it will only make a difference within the system partition.

/data is a completely separate partition. You cannot use /system space as /data space.

Small rom does not mean more space for data / apps etc

so by not realising, you were in fact correct

InfernalByte

Ah of course, when we speak of flashing a ROM, we are in fact flashing onto or into RAM.

SUroot

Its all one physical drive. It has 3 partitions. Data is your stuff, system is Rom (read only memory) and then cache.

Then there is RAM (random access memory) as a separate unit of flash again

shadowy

Dan, I know you say that all apps should be moved from sd to phone before starting the procedure, but what would the consequence of not moving them?

I've got far too many than would fit in phone storage so I was hoping I could restore them to sd after flashing then move them to phone. Not possible?

SUroot

Try it, let ys know. Can't see it breaking anything

shadowy

Done. It was actually easier than I expected, when Titanium restored the apps they were automatically installed to the a2sd partition so I didn't have to move them...almost 60 apps installed and almost 95mb free

flyte

Running with Apps2SD+, I still have these apps appear on the "On SD Card" tab of manage applications:

Angry Birds - 1.90 MB
Tank Recon 3D Lite - 588 KB
androidVNC - 256KB.

Why are these apps on the "sd card" - shouldn't the script always move the apps back to internal storage?

Should I move these back to the phone?!

SUroot

No the script doesn't move them from sd. The script is older than froyo, so it wasn't possible to move them to sd at the time anyway.

Yes you should move them back to internal.

What Rom are you on? Perhaps you have an install location set?

On cyanogen based roms, you cam set internal, external or default. If apps are coded to external, then you may have to change from default to internal.

If you don't have this, just double check apps when you install them


Edit. Or do the pm installlocation back to internal memory as per the undo of Williamj thread

Last edited by SUroot; December 16th, 2010 at 01:00 AM.