Apps on SD

[SUroot]

No worries. Baby steps

 

[Eris Ed]

Trying to familiarize myself with the idea of rooting and just A2SD+ in general but just reading this thread on the xda forums is daunting to me.

I know that feeling! I've been reading about rooting for about 2 months, mainly to create more storage on the SD card using a2sd+. It's only in the last week or so that I'm starting to feel like I understand the process well enough to give it a go. I have my own list of steps involved, with notes I add when I figure out new stuff.

Current plan is to root using UnrEVOked3 and flash with LeeDroid, which seems to be a good ROM for a2sd+. Still got a few details to figure out first

 

[SUroot]

If I wanted a sense Rom id probably go for teppic74 rooted stock. Linked earlier

 

[dinaro]

Yeah I was thinking of getting the pre rooted 2.10 strock froyo rom. But... if I just use unrevoked 3.21 to my existing stock froyo rom wouldn' that be the same?

 

[SUroot]

Unrevoked roots. You can then put the rooted Rom on. Rooting alone us not enough if you want a2SD+. You then need a custom Rom that supports it. Teppics Rom has an add on you can flash to get this.

 

[Evil Genius]

I've done williams guide to force appstoSD and still not really happy with the results.

care to explain what you meant here?

 

[dinaro]

Unrevoked roots. You can then put the rooted Rom on. Rooting alone us not enough if you want a2SD+. You then need a custom Rom that supports it. Teppics Rom has an add on you can flash to get this.

Ah, I thought rooting would allow A2SD+. But I guess I need to root, install a rooted rom like (teppics stock rooted rom or leedroid or whatever) then install A2SD+ separately?

@Evil genius

I did this...

http://androidforums.com/desire-tip...apps-sd-card-unrooted-device-noobs-guide.html

 

[LECTER]

73 apps, 214 MB internal memory free

Almost as many apps and 99% free with william's guide and not rooted!

 

[dinaro]

Almost as many apps and 99% free with william's guide and not rooted!

What's destroying my memory now is Google maps (10 megs) and the flash 10.1 updates (12.1 megs) and Rock player (5 megs) thats already 27 megs gone.

 

[SUroot]

Almost as many apps and 99% free with william's guide and not rooted!

If my internal memory was as small as yours and we installed all the same apps, I would have more free space than you and I would ve able to use all my apps and widgets fully with SD card mounted on my pc. Wink wink

As good as Williams guide is, its a poor substitute.for a2sd+

Ps done a wipe. 232MB internal memory free now

 

[dinaro]

lucky :/

 

[LECTER]

If my internal memory was as small as yours and we installed all the same apps, I would have more free space than you and I would ve able to use all my apps and widgets fully with SD card mounted on my pc. Wink wink

As good as Williams guide is, its a poor substitute.for a2sd+

Ps done a wipe. 232MB internal memory free now

Yeah but I'm still learning about rooting, ol' buddy!

 

[SUroot]

Yep it can be daunting. I put it off for a while myself.

 

[dinaro]

I don't even have that many apps and I'm 78MB used out of 147MB already :/

BUT, I'm getting closer to being comfortable with rooting and flashing a stock 2.2 rom (like teppics) and just applying the A2SD+ mod.

 

[MonsterLancer]

how do you pm another member?

 

[yenrod]

Can I just add to this;

- What are the benefits if any ?

Compared to...

- Staying as per factory issue

???

I'm happy with the space etc i've got - am not Rooted but wonder if it actually is that much of a benefit ?

Though I am gonna look into getting some Apps.2.SD asper the guide above !

 

[dinaro]

I just rooted and installed the A2SD+ mod and I gained almost 100megs of internal storage and I have WAY more apps that I did before. So, in a nutshell yes... it's a huge difference.

 

[SUroot]

You can do more space wise too, a2SD+ is just the start.

Then there's everything else rooting brings too

 

[garryknight]

how do you pm another member?

If you're looking at a post of theirs, you start off by clicking their name. Or you can search for posts by them in the Advanced Search, then click on their name. This takes you to their Profile. Underneath their avatar picture, you'll see "Send Message" with a drop-down arrow to the right. Click this and choose whether you want to send them a Visitor Message or a Private Message.

 

[yenrod]

You can do more space wise too, a2SD+ is just the start.

Then there's everything else rooting brings too

Which is ?

 

[Eris Ed]

Which is ?

There's a long list of features for each ROM on the XDA Forum. Some are very simple but others are quite significant, such as including Flash 10 in the ROM partition so it takes up no storage space.

For example, here's the feature list of LeeDroid 2.2e:


What you get :

• HTC Official FroYo Sense 2.2 FR91
• Base - HTC RUU 2.10.405.2
• Kernel 2.6.32.15-leedroid2.2f @snq-
• Optional O/C max frequency @1190mhz (using setCPU)
• Default governor & frequency - "Smartass" @245-998mhz
• Available CPU Governors - interactive, conservative, powersave, ondemand, performance & smartass!
• Interface to query/set cpu supply voltages for every frequency MORE INFO
• Increased read ahead buffer size to improve SD R/W performance("sdfix")
• Improved 2D & 3D Graphics performance ("GPU+")
• Reduced boot.img size (for those with bad blocks) Thanks snq-
• Cifs support & Manager
• Supports EXT 2, 3 & 4 for A2SD+
• A2SD+ Build de-odexed
• Non A2SD+ build odexed
• Non A2SD+ includes "mod install location" for FroYo A2SD (fat32)
• Zipaligned to improve RAM performance
• Bionic Nano command-line text editor support
• Bionic Bash command shell support
• Busybox
• Heuge APN List
• Quadrant benchamrks up to 1600!!
• Reboot options in power menu Normal/Bootloader/Recovery/Hot Reboot (thanks to snq-)
• Open VPN support
• Very fast, Clean & stable
• Video Capture, 720p & 480p
• All App's in market for all regions
• Track-Pad to wake & Unlock
• New superuser permissions 2.3.5
• Spare parts
• Adobe Flash 10.1.95.2
• Google Voice search & actions V2.0.1
• Launcher2 & HTC Sense
• HTC Get more widgets
• HTC Battery widget
• Voice dialer
• Google Desk Clock
• New Gmail V 2.3
• New High res Gallery 3D with pinch to zoom
• Google Car Home V2.2.1
• YouTube V 2.0.26
• Ad-Free + hosts
• Android IME + Voice input!
• DioPen IME
• HTC IME
• Android Genie Widget (News&Weather)
• Includes - Titanium backup & ROM manager.
• Lots of performance boosts!
• Supported Languages: English, Czech, German, Espanol, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Norwegian, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Portuguese, Croatian. < All tested! (some locals may only be partial as they will not be coded into all applications)

You get all these WITH the ROM, so no storage space it used. Everything sits in the system partitian.

 

[SUroot]

yeah.

Undervolt, overclock, cpu power profiles

Ultimately more control over the phone