lordofthereef
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What, specifically, does this do?
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What, specifically, does this do?
evomattnc
Android Expert
Just allows you to move dalvik and apps to the sd card partition to give you more room on the internal because the rom is a hog
With Linux, you can create the areas required on a single filesystem - or multiple filesystems - or distribute them across multiple drives.
Once properly set up, it's just all folders and paths.
The same can be applied to Android, substitute sd card for disk drive in my example.
Tricky, but not too tricky to pull off. With the right screwing around, the area where your apps might normally go in rom for example, now go to a special partition (not Windows FAT-type that you use now for storing data) on the SD card.
Won't solve an insufficient ram problem though - and can make your phone unbootable if the SD card is messed up and the partitioning and linking wasn't designed right in the first place. (Oh, I'm just ever the optimist.)
novox77
Leeeroy Jennnkinnns!
my sdcard is quite full, so i wouldn't have room for a decent-sized partition. But A2SD should be doable.
my widgets were completely invisible; so were my app shortcut icons, so that was kinda crappy. I'll wait till the ROM gets cleaned up a bit more before playing with it again.
my widgets were completely invisible; so were my app shortcut icons, so that was kinda crappy. I'll wait till the ROM gets cleaned up a bit more before playing with it again.
widgets aren't working yet, other than the stock htc stuff (clock, friend stream, calendar etc) so the only running services I've got going other than the usual stuff is slideIT (the ROM doesn't have swype, and I can't get the apk from a different rom to load, which sucks) paypal, and tasker. right now it says I'm using 163mb of ram with 195mb free. the built in task manager says I have 405mb of memory, using 340 and 64mb free with tweetcaster, people, mail, settings, and messages running. there's a little x next to each so you can 'kill' the program so I killed everything just to see what was free and I'm left with 103 mb of memory.
also some things that may be of interest, this has a built in equilizer that can be adjusted for the phone speakers, headset, and bluetooth separately and there is a media share that can share the media on your phone over wifi with DLNA devices.
there's still a few things to be worked out, but it seems to be running really well for a first version. I'm excited
novox77
Leeeroy Jennnkinnns!
just remembered another thing about the ROM.
It's really difficult to trigger a long press on items on the home screen. Yes, the icons and widgets are invisible, but if you know where they are and you long press, most of the time, the ROM thinks you just want to do a short press. The trick is to keep your finger as still as possible when you long press. Any slight movement, and the ROM thinks you're not long pressing.
That's a tolerance setting that should be adjusted for the final release, IMO.
It's really difficult to trigger a long press on items on the home screen. Yes, the icons and widgets are invisible, but if you know where they are and you long press, most of the time, the ROM thinks you just want to do a short press. The trick is to keep your finger as still as possible when you long press. Any slight movement, and the ROM thinks you're not long pressing.
That's a tolerance setting that should be adjusted for the final release, IMO.
just a heads up if anybody is interested in trying this, a fix was posted this morning for the missing icons/widgets
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after flashing this, all my widgets show up, the carousel works, the animated weather works, gallery and weather app work. this is so cool. also, the dnla is integrated into the new music player, so when you're connected to a wifi network, there is an option to browse all attached media servers.
the only thing missing for me is that there's something hinky with the video player. some things work like youtube, but flash force closes the browser still and I now only get audio when I try to stream via vlc. but this thing is definitely going to be up and running soon.
oh also, I didn't know about this a2sd cache/data thing when I posted before...after doing that my available memory went from ~103mb to ~154mb, so I guess that's something you have to do in addition to creating the sd partition initially.
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after flashing this, all my widgets show up, the carousel works, the animated weather works, gallery and weather app work. this is so cool. also, the dnla is integrated into the new music player, so when you're connected to a wifi network, there is an option to browse all attached media servers.
the only thing missing for me is that there's something hinky with the video player. some things work like youtube, but flash force closes the browser still and I now only get audio when I try to stream via vlc. but this thing is definitely going to be up and running soon.
oh also, I didn't know about this a2sd cache/data thing when I posted before...after doing that my available memory went from ~103mb to ~154mb, so I guess that's something you have to do in addition to creating the sd partition initially.
evomattnc
Android Expert
Good to know i dl'ed this but had not flashed yet, guess ill dl again.
The partitioning just sets aside space on your sd card thats ext2/3 type, not fat32, so you can run apps and cache from the sd card instead of your internal memory. This frees up space on the internal. Evo users need to do this with these ports because they are made for phones with larger internal memory than ours. For some reason HTC saw fit to only give us 512m. These roms after being slimmed down are still in the 300m's as compared to say cm7 at 83m. They hog up all of our space. Then you add apps and dalvik on top of that and all of the sudden you are running low on memory and your phone starts acting poorly and you cant install anything else etc. Even moving the ones you can with the stock app2sd wont help much as it still retains a certain portion if the app on your internal memory.
To remedy this after you partition an ext2/3 you can now move apps to your sd card and utilize a symlink to effectively "fool" the system into thinking they are in the same place they always where (dark tremor a2sd will do ALL of this for you). You have now freed up all that space on the internal and the system is none the wiser. You can also use this partition to move your dalvik cache which is typically 60m or so and sitting in your /data partition to the sd card, thereby freeing up that internal space also. After this is all said and done you will likely have about 150mb free with these bulky ports.