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Root Force apps2sd with Titanium backup on Froyo!

G.Armour

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Force apps2sd with Titanium backup!
Make sure you have froyo, busybox, and of course root. Once in titanium backup, go to all your apps, long press on one such as flash 10.1 app and you can move it to your SD card! Note: not all apps can be forced to SD card, but most can!
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Although, I'm starting to see issues, such as apps that are on your SD card that have Widgets, once you reboot your phone, they vanish, with no way to get em back other than uninstall and reinstall em... hmmm maybe we should wait till this is more stable or cyan puts it out.. Oh and once I moved my apps to my SD, it slowed my Droid down.. I thought that was weird.

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Although, I'm starting to see issues, such as apps that are on your SD card that have Widgets, once you reboot your phone, they vanish, with no way to get em back other than uninstall and reinstall em... hmmm maybe we should wait till this is more stable or cyan puts it out.. Oh and once I moved my apps to my SD, it slowed my Droid down.. I thought that was weird.

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Are you seeing any adverse effects moving the flash file to the SD or any other apps such as games and dolphin hd?
 
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Are you seeing any adverse effects moving the flash file to the SD or any other apps such as games and dolphin hd?

Well, I'm not seeing any problems. I moved all of my games to the SD Card and everything loads fast, games still play really well, etc. The only thing I've noticed is that after closing a game, it seems to take a few extra seconds for the home screen to become responsive but I'm not entirely sure if that was in my head or not :D
 
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Yes.

I moved all over to SD card. After doing so, played around, forgot about it, went to bed. Woke up this morn, saw a post about disappearing after reboot. Well, rebooted, and all gone, wouldn't show up in App Drawer. Just went into settings and moved them back to phone, rebooted, back to normal. Only have one or two that have the option from Manage App area to even move over to SD card.
 
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Well, I'm not seeing any problems. I moved all of my games to the SD Card and everything loads fast, games still play really well, etc. The only thing I've noticed is that after closing a game, it seems to take a few extra seconds for the home screen to become responsive but I'm not entirely sure if that was in my head or not :D


Yeah, it's all in your head. haha. jk.
 
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Hmm - I haven't used TiBu to move apps, but have moved all but SetCPU of the apps that have Apps2SD enabled - and thus far I cannot get them to show in my LauncherPro. However, someone told me that I should go to manager applications and force close LauncherPro - until now I was just using the built-in restart.

So, I am off to try it again.

TBH, something like flash, while it does take a lot of memory, I want running from internal memory, just like SetCPU - with the slow Class 2 BUS speeds that the DRODI hardware is currently limited to, I only want apps on my SDCard that I don't run all that often, like TiBu and such.

SetCPU - I knew that was gonna be a problem as soon as I saw that it was enabled - so I left it in memory.

I think, though, that if you disable all profiles and disable the OC, then move it, then set it back up, it should work off the SDCard - but, like I said, ain't moving that one.
 
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What good is the extra memory? Can it be allocated for RAM or is it just empty space doing nothing? Moving data to and from the SD Card will take a lot longer than from the mainboard chips, so I would expect the phone to lag on apps loaded to SD. For most apps, I can't see the advantage. Maybe something like skyview or google earth or certain larger games...
 
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What good is the extra memory? Can it be allocated for RAM or is it just empty space doing nothing? Moving data to and from the SD Card will take a lot longer than from the mainboard chips, so I would expect the phone to lag on apps loaded to SD. For most apps, I can't see the advantage. Maybe something like skyview or google earth or certain larger games...

Phone doesn't lag when it comes to apps on the SD card. I have moved all games to the SD card (no productivity apps...bad idea IMO). Played a few of the games and it works just like it always did on Froyo...really fast! :) The only delay I've seen is when exiting an app that is on the SD card. Seems to take the phone 15-20 seconds to become responsive again.

As for the extra space...I think that just enables you to add more apps but that is a huge deal if you are dealing with 1 or 2 big games on your phone. I have had to be selective with what games I load on my phone cause I would run out of storage space.
 
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OK, by Google's own recommendation, if an application uses a widget, it should not be moved to the SDCard.

See this post: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/94946-moto-torch-lives-frf57.html#post901205

What good is the extra memory? Can it be allocated for RAM or is it just empty space doing nothing? Moving data to and from the SD Card will take a lot longer than from the mainboard chips, so I would expect the phone to lag on apps loaded to SD. For most apps, I can't see the advantage. Maybe something like skyview or google earth or certain larger games...

Extra memory allows for ease of phone use. Although the BUS is indeed limited to Class 2 (~2 MB/s) that is more than sufficient for applications of that range - it still takes a second to move that into memory, and the lag is no different than running a program off of your HD on your computer.

At the end of the day, Flash Memory is still faster than most of today's HDs, excluding, of course, SSDs. So the whole slowdown due to slower BUS speeds is really almost immeasurable.

Phone doesn't lag when it comes to apps on the SD card. I have moved all games to the SD card (no productivity apps...bad idea IMO). Played a few of the games and it works just like it always did on Froyo...really fast! :) The only delay I've seen is when exiting an app that is on the SD card. Seems to take the phone 15-20 seconds to become responsive again.

As for the extra space...I think that just enables you to add more apps but that is a huge deal if you are dealing with 1 or 2 big games on your phone. I have had to be selective with what games I load on my phone cause I would run out of storage space.

Or, big apps like Google Earth, Merck, Epicurious, etc....

That is AWESOME! Just moved most of my apps to SD. Didn't move any with widgets because of all your posts. I can now download all the apps I want!!

not all there will still be limitations.

I did a reboot and detach from market, but it still didn't work. It just might be that the last 4 things that I tried won't do it. Pretty strange, but I guess it can happen.

Perhaps those apps ahve it built in?

another small issue is that any app that I moved to SD, lost their icons on my home screen.

You have to force close your home app (Settings --> applications and sync --> Manage Applications --> find your home app, usually easy to find under the running tab - force close it and then let it start back up.
 
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