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Root data2sd question
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Rastaman-FB
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best asking droidzone on his thread as tbh not alot of people use it here
Borat38
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I just switched to Starburst myself recently. Re: Data2SD script, just download the Tiny version. The W and X versions are more or less works in progress. One of them, I think the W vers., is unable to remember the date and time settings every time you reboot. Tiny solves this by requiring you to do a full boot into the home screen the first time you flash the ROM.
There are actually other ROMs that support Data2SD (LeeDroid, AuraxTSense, Oxygen, DeFrost, Pinky), but it's Starburst that was built specifically for Data2SD.
Starburst is my 3rd ROM (the first two being MIUI and LeeDroid), and I can attest to the speed improvement over the other two ROMs (not that MIUI and Lee were slow). And wow, imagine looking at Quick System Info and seeing more than 1 Gig free even after installing several dozen apps (because my EXT4 partition is 2Gig).
There are actually other ROMs that support Data2SD (LeeDroid, AuraxTSense, Oxygen, DeFrost, Pinky), but it's Starburst that was built specifically for Data2SD.
Starburst is my 3rd ROM (the first two being MIUI and LeeDroid), and I can attest to the speed improvement over the other two ROMs (not that MIUI and Lee were slow). And wow, imagine looking at Quick System Info and seeing more than 1 Gig free even after installing several dozen apps (because my EXT4 partition is 2Gig).
SUroot
Extreme Android User
Please do not use Data2SD on AOSP ROMS. Unlike Sense ROMS, AOSP does not cleanly unmount /data.
This means every time you shut down / reboot (SD card is unmounted WITHOUT unmounting the /data partition on it) even with Journaling ON, you risk catastropihic data failure.
Yes you can always nandroid restore data partition then update that with tiatanium, but its a lot of work every time you get data failure.
droidzone
Android Enthusiast
Dan,
We've solved the issue of problems on aosp roms by adding a journal on ext4. So far, we havent got any Data corruption problems, at least on recent code revisions. Tune2fs reports so far show clean unmount.
Borat,
a minor error in your post
Tiny version: Stable/Classic Data2SD version
Advantage: Unlimited memory
Disadvantage: System settings lost on each reboot
W version: Beta
Dalvik-cache is on Nand. So very fast. Also settings are not lost on reboot.
Disadvantage: On deodexed roms, Dalvik-cache may fill nand, leading to a limit in no: of apps that may be installed. But usually you got over 250 apps before you run into the problem.
Latest most advanced version (Recommended): Settingfix version/X1
Advantage: Dalvik-cache again shifted to sd, settings on Nand; so settings not lost
Disadvantage: Quadrant score not as high as beta
SUroot
Extreme Android User
Thing is, the problem isnt caused by data2sd it is caused by the rom, so I would be dubious of any fix that wasn't implemented within the rom.
But you say now tunefs is now clean?
droidzone
Android Enthusiast
Yup, at least for the first four or five reboots. Since I prefer Sense myself, I havent used aosp long enough to find out..