Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] [SD Card SWAP][THEORY][DISCUSSION] Swap SD Cards Pre-boot

[sandix]

I have been doing some research and found a couple solutions that might help users with limited space on their phones.

One is using Mounts2SD to swap the sd cards pre-boot, this requires that the user format the sdcard into ext(2,3,4).

I am currently writing a tutorial as I try this out myself to see if it actually works and if it does I will post a how to with a video on how to set it up.

I will let you all know in the next couple hours.


In the mean time, who can talk about other solutions with me?

 

[lost3odhi8o2]

I think that's it man I do however remember having to edit it to use the second partition so you could use the SD for storage still

 

[sandix]

Yeah I am working on that now, I am going to re-purpose my SD Card swap app to run pre-boot (using an sh script) and modify the mount points also.

 

[dhexcxr]

Have you figured this out yet? Since we can edit the ramdisk now ('cause Bump! allows modified kernels right?) we can add this to the init.rc to enable real init.d support:

service userinit "BusyBoxLocation" run-parts /system/etc/init.d
    oneshot
    class late_start
    user root
    group root

And then use one of many ext2int scripts.

 

[dhexcxr]

I've actually been looking at another kernel for my Nexus 7. When you flash it, it unpacks the kernel, modifies the ramdisk and repacks it, but I didn't wanna just try to modify their script to work on our kernel. I thought it was probably better to do it manually first.