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Root [Boost Mobile] Does A2sd work with the warp??

I came from the prevail too. But apps are auto maticly pleased on sd card with the warp

Not automatically, although I think you're right that there's a way to configure it to do so. Out of the box, Warps uses its internal 4GB SD card/drive for storage, not the external microSD card that Apps2SD uses. A lot of apps make use of the external card for data storage, but the app itself installs on the internal drive on the Warp unless you tell it to do otherwise.

Personally, I leave them on the internal drive. In my experience, installing apps on an external SD card slows down the phone boot/start-up process and reduces overall system stability. One reason for that is that your phone may appear to be fully booted and ready to go for several seconds before it gets around to mounting the external SD card. Which means that any app installed on the external card that expects to catch "OnBoot" or other startup-related notifications doesn't get them, because as far as your phone is concerned the app isn't even present on the system at that point. Those missed messages can change app behavior and lead to stability issues.

That inability to participate in the boot-up sequence is why you can't -- or at least shouldn't--move widgets or your launcher or your keyboard to the external SD card. But I've seen stability problems increase on other phones even when I install just one, entirely innocuous app to the SD card, and finally gave up on even trying. Which was a real drag on my Droid Eris that only had 147MB of internal storage...

Phones with limited internal storage like the Eris were why Google added the ability to move apps to SD with the Android 2.0 or 2.1 release. But Google decided not to build that capability into HoneyComb or Ice Cream Sandwich, and I think they were right. As far as I'm concerned, A2SD was a noble but ultimately failed experiment.

Anyway, with nearly 3GB of app storage space available on the Warp, I wouldn't worry about it, not until you actually manage to fill that space. Actually, from what I've seen so far when I go crazy downloading apps, I'm not even sure you'd need to worry then--I doubt the Warp would go more than a few seconds at a time without rebooting if you actually had 3GB of apps installed on it.

(I know that some games download an extraordinary amount of extra modules and data after you install them, and if they store all that on the same drive as the API, there may be a reason to move them. Still, I suspect they would operate more smoothly if the developers did the right thing and coded them to automatically use the external drive for data storage.)

My advice. Root your Warp. Store your apps on the internal drive. Use Titanium or something close to back them up to your microSD card. (Make it a good card while you're at it--SanDisk will make you smile). Keep your video and photos and music on the card. Live happily with a stable phone.
 
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