[MOD]App2External_SD (Fixed Duplicate files)

[IsHaunted]

Same for me. But look. I have asphalt and that takes up a lot of space.

My guess is Asphalt is downloading files to a folder that is in the internal sd card which is now the external sd card and not into the /data folder.

 

[MrGlowy]

/Data/Data

 

[MrGlowy]

Sepero over on the Motion side had created something similar to this. It had the duplication problem also, he fixed it though.
http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=665616

 

[jjrx3]

Seems like files are duplicated. I took one picture. Rebooted. Then there were two copies, one on SD card and the other on internal.

i was about to post the same thing. I doesn't bother me that much for pictures but music is going to be annoying.. i guess there is a trade off for using this

 

[Tokenpoke]

Of course they are. Has anyone actually looked at how this works? It's dirty, but effective.

 

[androidguy1991]

For those of you having issues. Wipe out the internal sd card and do a factory reset. Then install this mod and the apps data should get stored to the sdcard. The apps itself gets stored to the phone memory no matter what. All that changes is the app data getting stored to the sdcard. Hopes this clears up some issues.

 

[mutantchipmunk]

AWESOME!!!!! Downloaded some of my humble bundle games and i have TheBards Tale downloading (2.3gigs). I can now play good games on my phone thanks a bunch.

 

[MrGlowy]

+1 Humble bundle. I got the WB one.

 

[jjfad]

Sigh. I factory reset my phone, re-rooted, and did the mod again. But I am still getting the insufficient storage available error message. I have about 300MB free and I'm just trying to update little bit apps like YouTube, so I'm not sure why I can't update them with 300MB left (but that is a separate question from why the mod won't work for me because I would get this error message even when I didn't have the mod). I think I did everything right and the files are duplicating, because when I open up the gallery app I see two sets of photo albums for everything.

 

[thecdn]

If you have been using link2sd is there some kind of preparation/unlinking/deleting needed before installing this?

 

[jjfad]

I used to use link2sd. Unlinked everything and then uninstalled it, then reformatted the sd card and deleted partition. That didn't work so I just did a factory reset.

 

[dozyaustin]

So .. with the factory reset ... are the duplicate files sorted out?

 

[MrGlowy]

I was trying to install an icon pack last night, kept getting the insufficient storage message. I think thought maybe if I deleted the cache it would work. So i downloaded clean master. Then I tried again. It worked. I doubt that that's what helped. Because then I started getting the message again.

 

[elgecko]

I have not tried this myself.
But reading post #31 "The apps itself gets stored to the phone memory no matter what."
This sounds to me the only advantage is for people wanting games with large data files.
Since I have a tablet, I'll just continue to do it my messy way to get large data files onto my phone that are too large to download.

I've downloaded games on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. Used TiB to backup the app.
Copy the TiB files to folder on phone and data to the ExtSD of your F3. I believe you will have to make an empty folder in the internal storage of the F3 so it can link.
Restore the app using TiB.
Use GL to SD your game should show up there. Start game and enjoy.
Don't forget that you can also get more space by using Link2SD for the restored app as well.

 

[jjfad]

No more duplicates! Everything is fixed! =)

I don't understand. The steps #1-13 are all the same compared to the original (unmodified) post, so how did the issue of duplicates get fixed?

 

[mdgnys]

I don't understand. The steps #1-13 are all the same compared to the original (unmodified) post, so how did the issue of duplicates get fixed?

Ditto to this. Could you share how it has been fixed and/or what is different?

 

[androidguy1991]

Sorry guys, I didn't have time to do a complete update. OP Updated now.

I had to modify the script again.
Re-download 11extsd2internalsd
Start with step 7 if you already have this installed.

 

[Deleted User]

Everything worked perfectly. Only thing is that I had to rename the file by removing the .txt extension so that smanager could do its part.

 

[mdgnys]

Yep, same thing here as Permodius. Works beautifully. Not completely thought through question: would it be possible to just link the two /android/data folders; one on the external and one on the internal? Seems like that would work pretty well. Thanks for the great work!

 

[jjrx3]

thanks for the fix... had to do the process twice because it didn't work the first time for some reason.

 

[jjfad]

Well the fix got rid of the duplicate files...but unfortunately for me overall the mod still won't work. (E.g. I have "130MB" app space remaining and it won't let me install Facebook or any other app that is <30MB).

 

[Tokenpoke]

Well, I figured out how NOT to remove duplicate files, lol.

Just deleted all my pics by accident thinking that I could delete files directly through system settings/storage..... turns out its a bad idea.

Oh, this is working on the f6 too btw. Thanks man.

 

[IsHaunted]

Well the fix got rid of the duplicate files...but unfortunately for me overall the mod still won't work. (E.g. I have "130MB" app space remaining and it won't let me install Facebook or any other app that is <30MB).

It is more than likely working. As pointed out by the OP this will only store the app data on the sd card not the actual app. Seems any Android phone i have used around the 100MB mark is when the phones starts throwing low storage space messages and will not let you download another app.

 

[jjrx3]

Seems any Android phone i have used around the 100MB mark is when the phones starts throwing low storage space messages and will not let you download another app.

i wish it didn't let you download.. Ive downloaded apps and the find out that it couldn't be installed due to low space...

 

[IsHaunted]

i wish it didn't let you download.. Ive downloaded apps and the find out that it couldn't be installed due to low space...

This is true. I did try to download a game and it wouldn't because it stated something along the lines of "do not have enough space on external sd card for extra data" . Which it was actually referring to the internal sd card, because that's how i guess the F3 handles it.