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Root [ROM][AOSP]LOTK's Deck's ReLoaded .500 Philo RLS

Wow, I thought the whole discussion on The 500 page was to emphasize that dta2sd was baked in. Duh!

Now, how do I flash it and if I do, will it automatically move from phone to SD to EXT partition?
In the op of the rom, post 2(?) you will see 2 different downloads for DTa2sd.
Pick one, I use the beta version myself.
Download it and transfer to your sd card.
Flash from recovery.
Wipe cache and dalvik then flash.
then reboot.
It should move your apps to the sd ext. upon reboot.
If not, go into Terminal Emulator and enter this commmand.

a2sd reinstall

Presto! apps to sd done!:D
Double check in TB :)
 
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I did and here is what TiBU says:

System ROM: 367MB (232MB free)
Internal: 446 MB (217 MB) free)
SD card: 13.9 GB (13.8 GB free)
SD card (a2sd): 1.91GB (1.68 GB free)

I thought there would be much less stored in internal memory. This is with Dalvik cache moved.
hmm, that does seem like alot of internal being used.
My internal now is 448MB (331 free)
SD Card: 29.9 GB (25.7 free)
SD Card (a2sd): 1.91GB (1.32GB free)

I have approx 80 apps from the play store installed and also run dalvik from sd ext.

How many text messages do you save? Or, not sure if this is on internal but, email messages--gmail and non gmail? Or voicemail messages not deleted or saved?
 
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not sure what you guys are looking for really. 200mb of internal is plenty even if you have a2sd working. now if you start to get low space issues at some point then there is a problem. but really it looks like a2sd is working fine.
We're looking for everything to be stored on sd-ext:p:D :rofl:
 
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We're looking for everything to be stored on sd-ext:p:D :rofl:
well if you want to do that then look into boot manager:D you can have the entire rom on the sd card.

Now there is a concept!

I think what we really would like to know is which applications (besides obviously the OS) benefit from running internally. A Class 10 SD card would seem to me to be almost as good as running in native internal memory.

I will try MS suggestion about cache wiping, but as I just set up my phone with a reflash including DT a2sd this time, I doubt there is much to gain.
 
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Now there is a concept!

I think what we really would like to know is which applications (besides obviously the OS) benefit from running internally. A Class 10 SD card would seem to me to be almost as good as running in native internal memory.

I will try MS suggestion about cache wiping, but as I just set up my phone with a reflash including DT a2sd this time, I doubt there is much to gain.
Even a class 4 or 6 would suffice.
DTa2sd just tricks the phone into thinking the apps are on internal.
They run fine from either partition.
Just more internal space when the apps are on sd-ext.
 
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well the benifit really will depend on the class of the card. a class 10 is pretty fast and you will most likely hardly notice the difference in speed from internally or not. i think you guys are over analyzing a2sd. just enjoy the fact that it seems to be working and that you will never have ot worry about space again. i still have my og evo and i still have 150 apps on my card running mikg3.11 and it still has something like 200mb or so left!!!!!!
 
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Even a class 4 or 6 would suffice.
DTa2sd just tricks the phone into thinking the apps are on internal.
They run fine from either partition.
Just more internal space when the apps are on sd-ext.
well the benifit really will depend on the class of the card. a class 10 is pretty fast and you will most likely hardly notice the difference in speed from internally or not. i think you guys are over analyzing a2sd. just enjoy the fact that it seems to be working and that you will never have ot worry about space again. i still have my og evo and i still have 150 apps on my card running mikg3.11 and it still has something like 200mb or so left!!!!!!


Class 6 sdcard is recommended for the evo4g, not class 10. So if you're using a class 10 sdcard, you will not see the benefits of the read/write speeds of the class 10 because of the phone age. The newer phones, obviously see the class 10 benefit
 
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I heard that class 4 is top dawg for this phone according to rope on xda. I'm running a class4 32 gig SanDisk and have never had so much as a smidgen of a problem with it, nor have I heard of anyone else ever having a problem with em.
What does rope know! oooo, just kidding! He does know his stuff!!!!
I do have a class 10 but no issues with .500.
I did have issues with .44, but rope/Jamie fixed that with .500.
 
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Here we go. Put SD card in Win7 and Explorer offered to scan and fix, so I did:

Volume Serial Number is BA07‐5C55
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Unrecoverable error in folder \DCIM.
\TitaniumBackup\com.android.launcher‐42d0119466954cab95b941a0ef679cd9.apk.gz is cross‐linked on allocation unit
14355.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\clusb\Backup\companionlink2012‐11‐28.db is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14395.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\local‐image‐thumbsindex is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14418.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\local‐video‐thumbsindex is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14419.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\picasa‐thumbsindex is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14420.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\local‐meta‐cacheindex is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14422.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\Android\data\com.cooliris.media\cache\local‐image‐thumbschunk_0 is cross‐linked on allocation unit 14393.
Cross link resolved by copying.
File and folder verification is complete.
96 KB in 7 recovered files.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
13,618,376 KB total disk space.
376 KB in 39 folders.
879,888 KB in 551 files.
12,738,104 KB are available.

8,192 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,702,297 total allocation units on disk.
1,592,263 allocation units available on disk.

Now all seems to be fine with other programs that were failing before to find the SD card. No reformat or reinstallation or nothing else required.
 
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