Root Official Root Thread

[n3azz]

Successfully rooted my Desire today and have done a full backup.
I think maybe a silly question.... but how do i know if my apps are installing to the sd card other than taking the sdcard out and seeing if any apps work?

 

[madnlooney]

Successfully rooted my Desire today and have done a full backup.
I think maybe a silly question.... but how do i know if my apps are installing to the sd card other than taking the sdcard out and seeing if any apps work?

i had about 130mb on internal memory with about 10 apps installed. instead of before i was down to about 10mb

 

[Pyr0x64]

you can run the command
ls -l /data
from an adb shell or from a terminal on the phone to check the symbolic links are present

after running the command, you should see a list, the items you are interested should have at the end:
dalvik-cache -> /system/sd/dalvik-cache
app-private -> /system/sd/app-private
app -> /system/sd/app

notice the -> indicating symlinks and the 'sd'

you can also run: busybox df -h
to check the /system/sd folder is being used

 

[medici999]

Im so confused as to all this?
Why will it be beneficial to be able to root you phone and have control over it?

Whats exactly is apps2sd?

Im scared of trying this incase it messes up completely!

 

[n3azz]

many thanks Pyr0x64, that worked and Apps2sd is working great.

 

[lekky]

closed now we have a subforum for this.