[MOD]App2External_SD (Fixed Duplicate files)

[josephj643]

okay guys I have done everything correctly but when it comes down to the last part it says i dont have access permission what should i do

 

[josephj643]

okay im on step 11 and this is what i am getting someone please help

what should i do

 

[nobreak1970]

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FYI: the F3 will NEVER let us do the Apps2SD thing.
It's not supported period.

 

[nobreak1970]

nvm

 

[nobreak1970]

Seems that all the internal sdcard 0 is is a mirror of the data/app directory. Since App2sd will not work on the F3 this will not work period.
Until we can figure out how to not install apps to that directory this won't work for apps. It does however work well for general data storage such as pics, videos, ringtones and downloads. Just set your cam to save to sdcard0. Same with downloading apps in your browser.

 

[infowarz]

I followed the how to more than a few times.
One time it worked and I had 20GBs for internal BUT
Something happened the next time I rebooted this problematic phone. (Didn't do anything like re-partition...with the external_sd card....)
And all went back to the 86OMBs internal and the 20 GBs external_sd.. and not showing the EXT3 8GB hidden.

Worked until reboot.

I tried and tried the whole process a few more times, and NO swap, no more?

I do know one thing.... never buy another phone without at least 5GB internal FREE space, NEVER!

Looking for a new phone now.

 

[gherkaul]

I followed the how to more than a few times.
One time it worked and I had 20GBs for internal BUT
Something happened the next time I rebooted this problematic phone. (Didn't do anything like re-partition...with the external_sd card....)
And all went back to the 86OMBs internal and the 20 GBs external_sd.. and not showing the EXT3 8GB hidden.

Worked until reboot.

I tried and tried the whole process a few more times, and NO swap, no more?

I do know one thing.... never buy another phone without at least 5GB internal FREE space, NEVER!

Looking for a new phone now.

Did you remember to set smanager to run the script at boot? The script must be run anytime you reboot.

 

[infowarz]

Did you remember to set smanager to run the script at boot? The script must be run any-time you reboot.

Hey gherkaul thanks for reminder...

I set smanager right the first time that I had the biggy internal space.

Than phone did a hic-up and biggy internal storage toggled back to super tiny LG shrinking pretend a storage.

So right after I posted I redid the smanager extra step.... and BINGO the super duper storage was back in full glory....

Now for the "BUT" of that statement...
Pictures do not show just some weird looking ICON thingies. Lost all 30 pics. Weird!

Thanks again for the reminder.... tho...

I am not a "script" kind of noobe....
and yes I didn't run script on every reboot.

But I thought a "script" was supposed to run on every reboot all by its lonesome..... HUH?

IF (big IF) I had time and knowledge,
I'd write a script and cook it into a ROM so poof, noobs (like me) wouldn't stumble around having to re-run scripts that should be running at reboot anyway....
OR
IF (big IF) I had time and knowledge,
I'd write a script, that would run the script on reboot? LOL!

LG is at fault tho..... since they named their infernal,er ah internal, super tiny pretend a storage .... "sdcard0, or some named "sdcard," and most devs build their wonderful apks to run or store to in the "sdcard."

So most apps "store" to the internal tiny almost storage....anyway. One such apk is "camera."

IF LG really liked the people who buy their phones, LG would have named their infernal, er ah internal almost storage . . . "internal_sd" and left the sdcard named as "sdcard.' That would work for all, even for more sales.

BUT "NO" that would be to easy for us buyers, and all those who are NOT devs.

But now that all these FINE Custom ROMS are being cooked and working great....
I still have me eyes out for anything other than a LG. Ready to sale this "thing."

Thanks tho to you all here at this fine forum for trying to FIX the manufactures planned obsolescence (er ah add-o-less-ance?)

 

[gherkaul]

Hey gherkaul thanks for reminder...

I set smanager right the first time that I had the biggy internal space.

Than phone did a hic-up and biggy internal storage toggled back to super tiny LG shrinking pretend a storage.

So right after I posted I redid the smanager extra step.... and BINGO the super duper storage was back in full glory....

Now for the "BUT" of that statement...
Pictures do not show just some weird looking ICON thingies. Lost all 30 pics. Weird!

Thanks again for the reminder.... tho...

I am not a "script" kind of noobe....
and yes I didn't run script on every reboot.

But I thought a "script" was supposed to run on every reboot all by its lonesome..... HUH?

IF (big IF) I had time and knowledge,
I'd write a script and cook it into a ROM so poof, noobs (like me) wouldn't stumble around having to re-run scripts that should be running at reboot anyway....
OR
IF (big IF) I had time and knowledge,
I'd write a script, that would run the script on reboot? LOL!

LG is at fault tho..... since they named their infernal,er ah internal, super tiny pretend a storage .... "sdcard0, or some named "sdcard," and most devs build their wonderful apks to run or store to in the "sdcard."

So most apps "store" to the internal tiny almost storage....anyway. One such apk is "camera."

IF LG really liked the people who buy their phones, LG would have named their infernal, er ah internal almost storage . . . "internal_sd" and left the sdcard named as "sdcard.' That would work for all, even for more sales.

BUT "NO" that would be to easy for us buyers, and all those who are NOT devs.

But now that all these FINE Custom ROMS are being cooked and working great....
I still have me eyes out for anything other than a LG. Ready to sale this "thing."

Thanks tho to you all here at this fine forum for trying to FIX the manufactures planned obsolescence (er ah add-o-less-ance?)

Glad to hear I could help. One other thing to watch for is where apps download stuff to. Most apps will automatically download to the external sd. You now want downloads to go to the internal storage.

 

[cosmomorte]

This worked beautifully on my f6! Everything else like link2sd failed. I did a factory reset on the phone and reformatted the sd card. As far as copying and modifying the script I did everything using the Smanager ap.

I can finally play decent games besides Dead Route on my phone.. As far as duplicate files I haven't loaded any media files yet. If so, I'll be stuck listening to music on bandcamp and youtube.

Thanks to the author for finally giving a decent solution to this storage problem.

 

[stevostevo12]

step 12 I can't open it because it says"You do not have access permission over this file. Do you want to create a local copy and edit it or open file directly?"
Help! I'm so close!

 

[cosmomorte]

Just open it directly and you will see the toggles as mentioned in the directions

 

[cosmomorte]

After swapping my int/ext memory I removed the SD card to place the media files on it. After mounting and rebooting You have to re-root and re-install Super SU and then go back into Smanager and do the toggles again (repeating step 11 and 12), reboot the phone again. Re-root and re-install Super SU again and all was well. No duplicate media files and I DLed several huge games on my phone I wasn't allowed to before. Preferably Walking Dead game and GTA: Vice City. I just need to make sure my phone doesn't ever die on me. LOL

 

[jorge420]

Hello im all new to this android rooting stuf... so once my fone is rooted i do this steps and it helps so my storage on my fone increases with my sd card? Help!! Thanks

 

[neevale]

So part of the mounting script dont work on my device. Im useing a sgh-t599 but anywhoo I was able tofix one error Iin the script Iirlt was a simple nameing issue how my external sd is named. But another part does not work saying no such file or directory when I exacute it. The broken part is "mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/sdcard0 " any ideas?

 

[hyper_nova]

do I have to use smanager? are there any other apps I can use?

 

[Rust02945]

My phone storage settings still say 1.25 GB but on MTP and ADB it says 26GB, I dont know....

 

[Gxzn]

I followed every step correctly and everything works. SD shows internal storage and vise versa, but the problem I have is that whenever I try to install an app I get insufficient storage

 

[baringer3]

Stuck on Step # 7 - After downloading 11extsd2internalsd , if I try to open it in File Manager it says "File type not supported".
Also, on Step #7 where it says " copy to sd card" ... is that the internal or external sd card and which folder should I paste it to?

 

[coffinsupply]

does not work either, did all the steps. 1st partiton is fat32 2nd is ex4

 

[hyron]

sir will it work on LG P725???? Thanks for for your immediate reply!

 

[LogosA]

Whats the difference between the Uni-init.d v 1.0.apkhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933849
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933849
and the init.D emulator that Sandix included with his AdvancedStock8 AS7v22 Rom?

I don't want to install the Uni-init.d v 1.0.apk, if its going to conflict with the init.d emulator thats already included in the ROM.

 

[LogosA]

I decided to backup my ROM to try this script out

 

[LogosA]

I had some issues getting this script to install correctly so I decided to reread the entire thread, and the sister thread for Sdcardswapper. There have been alot of great tips, questions, and explanations in this thread. I edited the best answers, and placed them here. Im not the author of this script, thread, or these replies. If anyone thinks they were misquoted let me know. Hopefully, this reply will help a lot of people to make sense of this script and help to figure out exactly how to use it it properly.
Installation:

S-manager will not recognize 11extsd2internalsd.txt as a script, but as a text file, so rename the file and remove .txt at the end in order for S-manager to be able to read it as a script.

After you click the renamed 11extsd2internalsd file you get a dialog box saying "Open As", select "Script/Executable" from the top of the menu. The next screen will be where you set SU and boot options. Don't forget to save options before you exit then reboot.

What does this Script do?:

This mod puts what normally gets placed on internal (emulated) "/sdcard", on the REAL external SD card (Google created thsi confusion by having Android default treat /sdcard as internal in their Nexus devices), most apps were coded the same from then on. Normal apps (executables) still get installed in /data/app, which is part of internal storage (~1.24 GB limit on LG F3). Apps that use large amounts of data usually put it in another path (most games).

The whole point of this thing is to move the app data files automatically, nothing else. If you want to move anything else, you need to move the apk installations, which can be done with a app2sd application (linker).The program I recommend is to use link2sd, which will move the apk installations to your real external SD card

Link2SD FAQ's:

I've had programs crash with this mod.Better to stick with making a bigger partition for Link2SD to play with (like around 5 Gb or more).That app links data to ext4, which makes this mod obsolete IMHO.

I redid the link2sd and have it and this mod working together.I partitioned the sd card to have a 2 gig ext2 partition for the link2sd, and the rest is being used now as internal memory.

Even with this MOD, Link2sd is still needed to link the "/cache" folder, and possibly some other paths which particular apps use to store large amounts of data. But, the "/cache" folder is normally uses a ext2 partition so it performs faster. So, unless someone modifies this MOD to link to a "/cache" folder on a ext2 partition instead of a FAT32 partition, any linking could cause performance loss or data corruption issues.

When using Link2sd don't link/move Smanager or Link2sd, this will break the MOD script.Remember, the MOD mounts the sd card as the primary partition. The apps you install will still install to the real internal memory

Link2SD moves the installed APKs to a special formatted partition on the SD card, and transparently uses this as app storage; if you set it to link automatically you can almost forget it's there.This script simply swaps out the emulated SD card for your actual inserted external SD card.Together used in conjunction with each other they make the F3 seem like a new phone.

I used a 16gb card and did a 12.5gb Fat32 and 2.5gb Ext2. I still have yet to go over 400 mbs on my Ext2 partition.So you really don't need to allocate any more than 2gbs for your Ext2 Link2SD partition.
Warnings:
1) Do not set up Link2SD to automatically link anything. This really is only good to do if your using Link2SD with no other Mod.You want to manage what you install manually because its not good to always link everything with Link2SD while using this Mod, some things can and will break.
2) Do not use Link2SD to link any game.apk you install to your SD Card, use the default move to SD option in the app list in the settings menu. This mod will handle those files when you move them to the SD Card using the default option.
3) Do not use Link2SD to link any personalization apps (Launcher,SMS,Themes,Icons,Lock Screens), leave those on your internal.
I again repeat this step with great emphasis! Do not use Link2SD to link Smanager to your SD Card that App must stay on your internal memory at all times.

Based on fixes posted by people who had issues I adjusted the install instructions.
1) Download Uni-init v1.0.apk
2) Install like a regular apk and open it
3) Click on Activate and allow with super user
4) Click on Verify to make sure init.d is enabled
5) Reboot your device
6) Download any Root Browser you like from the play store
7) Download 11extsd2internalsd.txt and copy it to your sd card
8) Open Root Browser and copy 11extsd2internalsd.txt and paste it /system/etc/init.d folder
9) Rename 11extsd2internalsd.txt to 11extsd2internalsd (added)
10) Click and hold 11extsd2internalsd and set permissions and make sure everything is checked as far as Read, Write, and Execute
11) Download Smanager from the google play store and open and allow with root access
12) Go to /system/etc/init.d and click on 11extsd2internalsd
13) When you click on the file you should get a dialog box propmpt "Open As...". Select "Script/Executable" from the top of the menu.The next screen will be where you set SU and Boot options. (detailed description)
14) Save changes
15) Reboot

**I spent so much time reading these threads and collecting the best information, I didn't have time to try the installation again.So Hopefully now that Ive gotten some good tips, it will work this time**