Root how do I Move the Dalvik Cache to the SD manually?

danaj · Mar 21, 2011

how do I Move the Dalvik Cache to the SD manually. I need more room.

lumberjack_ian · Mar 21, 2011

i just did this..

you need a2sd installed

in an emulator terminal:
su
a2sd cachepart

that should do it...

edit: this is off the top of my head, so after getting root access do "a2sd check" then read through what prints on the screen and it will give you the command to move the dalvik cache to sd card..."

Tokenpoke · Mar 22, 2011

Actually what you want is "cachesd"

Open terminal, type the following...
Su (enter)
A2sd cachesd (enter)
Phone will reboot.

Open titbu and gasp in amazement at your +170mb memory.

danaj · Mar 22, 2011

Yay! thank you so much, I did it. I feel special! lol

lumberjack_ian · Mar 22, 2011

yeah just ran a2sd check and there is no cachepart command... my bad, don't know what i was thinking

nuttmeg · Mar 22, 2011

danaj said:
Yay! thank you so much, I did it. I feel special! lol

make sure you dont move the MARKET to your sd card, cause if its moved to sd and lets say you switch cards, your market want work, than you might have to run a hard reset, or if you have a backup of the market you can just restore it.....just a peace of mind!!!!!!!

Anduiril · Mar 22, 2011

nuttmeg said:
make sure you dont move the MARKET to your sd card, cause if its moved to sd and lets say you switch cards, your market want work, than you might have to run a hard reset, or if you have a backup of the market you can just restore it.....just a peace of mind!!!!!!!

If you decide you are going to switch sd cards then make sure you put your cache back onto your phone. I forget the command but run a2sd help from your terminal emulator and it will be in there. It will also have the command to put your apps back on your phone.

Tokenpoke · Mar 23, 2011

Anduiril said:
If you decide you are going to switch sd cards then make sure you put your cache back onto your phone. I forget the command but run a2sd help from your terminal emulator and it will be in there. It will also have the command to put your apps back on your phone.

Nocachesd moves cache back but i don't know about moving apps back yet.

r0ckstarr · Mar 24, 2011

Tokenpoke said:
Actually what you want is "cachesd"

Open terminal, type the following...
Su (enter)
A2sd cachesd (enter)
Phone will reboot.

Open titbu and gasp in amazement at your +170mb memory.

It's that simple? That's all there is to it??? :eek:

Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

Tokenpoke · Mar 24, 2011

r0ckstarr said:
It's that simple? That's all there is to it???
Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

yep.

if you pull your card the phone wont work.

r0ckstarr · Mar 28, 2011

Tokenpoke said:
yep.

if you pull your card the phone wont work.

That's cool. I never remove the card anyways. Thanks.

Edit: Just did it. Phone is rebooting now.
Edit2: Done. 155mb of memory free. I must have some apps that dont support a2sd.

Tokenpoke · Mar 28, 2011

r0ckstarr said:
That's cool. I never remove the card anyways. Thanks.

Edit: Just did it. Phone is rebooting now.
Edit2: Done. 155mb of memory free. I must have some apps that dont support a2sd.

nah, just clean your cache. the only apps that shouldnt move are a few system apps that are really just data, such as lp and (hopefully) market. you should look at near 170+ megs after cache cleaning.

krazykaigh · Mar 30, 2011

So will someone explain to me, when doing all this modding and possibly wiping of SD card, what happens to apps that cost money. I do understand that modding to anything other than Eclair 2. means all apps will have to be installed?

If you copy sd contents to pc, then mod, then copy back to sd will apps work?

What I am concerned with is buying stuff like tasker and then losing it when modding.

krazykaigh · Mar 30, 2011

Tokenpoke said:
Actually what you want is "cachesd"

Open terminal, type the following...
Su (enter)
A2sd cachesd (enter)
Phone will reboot.

Open titbu and gasp in amazement at your +170mb memory.

Okay, I downloaded Terminal Emulator
then I typed the following:

Su (enter) ... phone stated terminal emulator granted superuser permission

a2sd cachesd (enter) ... phone stated a2sd not found

What am I missing?

r0ckstarr · Apr 1, 2011

Tokenpoke said:
nah, just clean your cache. the only apps that shouldnt move are a few system apps that are really just data, such as lp and (hopefully) market. you should look at near 170+ megs after cache cleaning.

Nope. Still the same. I used CacheMate.

Anduiril · Apr 1, 2011

krazykaigh said:
So will someone explain to me, when doing all this modding and possibly wiping of SD card, what happens to apps that cost money. I do understand that modding to anything other than Eclair 2. means all apps will have to be installed?

If you copy sd contents to pc, then mod, then copy back to sd will apps work?

What I am concerned with is buying stuff like tasker and then losing it when modding.

If you bought it from the market it will always be there. But you should be able to restore if you backed up after reloading your backup app from the market.

Anduiril · Apr 1, 2011

krazykaigh said:
Okay, I downloaded Terminal Emulator
then I typed the following:

Su (enter) ... phone stated terminal emulator granted superuser permission

a2sd cachesd (enter) ... phone stated a2sd not found

What am I missing?

You have to be running Icarus for this. It is the only ROM (that I am aware of that has this).

Anduiril · Apr 1, 2011

r0ckstarr said:
Nope. Still the same. I used CacheMate.

Did you move your Dalvik cache?

r0ckstarr · Apr 3, 2011

Anduiril said:
Did you move your Dalvik cache?

Yes.

Tokenpoke · Apr 3, 2011

r0ckstarr said:
Yes.

155mb still? something is left behind but i wouldn't worry too much if all is working. it's only 15mb and i doubt you will see too much more disappear since everything now goes to sd.

KOLIO · May 30, 2011

Tokenpoke said:
Actually what you want is "cachesd"

Open terminal, type the following...
Su (enter)
A2sd cachesd (enter)
Phone will reboot.

Open titbu and gasp in amazement at your +170mb memory.

I believe this was originally intended for ICARUS 1.1,but,any idea if this would work with CM7 ?

nuttmeg · May 30, 2011

KOLIO said:
I believe this was originally intended for ICARUS 1.1,but,any idea if this would work with CM7 ?

since cm7 has one built in, dont think that possible using this method all tho i havnt tested it, but icarus has a totally different setup than cm7, i might be wrong tho.

Gmash · May 30, 2011

nuttmeg said:
since cm7 has one built in, dont think that possible using this method all tho i havnt tested it, but icarus has a totally different setup than cm7, i might be wrong tho.

Spyder wrote that whole tutorial about using DarkTremors A2sd on cm7. Same thing.

KOLIO · May 30, 2011

So,as long as you have a partition on the SDcard, just typing in those two commands will safely move the DALVIK Cache to the SDcard on CM7 ?

danaj · May 30, 2011

what about CM6?

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